Arís Celebration Choir – Requiem for a Soldier

Kamen and Musker‘s ‘Requiem for A Soldier’ from the mini-series  Band of Brothers.

Sung by a Kilkenny-based, all-female choir conducted by Veronica MaCarron.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice day on November 11.

Aris Choir

A GOBELINS graduation film by Nicholas Olivieri, Shen Yi, Juliana De Lucca, Varun Nair and David Feliu tells the story of a future where everyone is implanted with a device that generates the perfect virtual friend.

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While John Lewis and the other shops prepares to woo people with big-budget ads about inflatable shoes or a talking Christmas brick or whatever, the supermarket Iceland (it hasn’t gone away you know) takes the opportunity to draw attention to rampant deforestation and the global demand for palm oil, which is destroying orangutan habitats. Co-produced with Greenpeace, voiced by Emma Thompson.

“Banned” is a strong word, but it seems UK body Clearcast declined to clear it for broadcast due to its political messaging, in breach of the UK’s Broadcast Code of Advertising Practice.

And that”s why mum’s gone to Iceland.

FIGHT!

Iceland’s Christmas TV advert banned for being too political (The Guardian)

In the debut episode of the Wired Masterminds season, Jonna Mendez, former Head of Disguise at the CIA (an epic job title, in fairness), explains how masquerade is used in espionage. To wit:

With women, you have a broader range of what you can do. You also have one extra step: you can turn a woman into a man. I would mention that it’s almost impossible to turn a man into a woman. What we do is always additive — we can make you taller, we can make you heavier, we can make you older — we can’t go the other direction. You want to be the person that gets on the elevator and then gets off and nobody even remembers that you were really there. That is a design goal at the disguise labs at CIA.

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Did you stay up?

A big thank you to, clockwise from top left: Lucky Khumbula, Olga Cronin, Kevin Higgins, ‘Preposterous‘. Bernard Purcell, Neil Curran and celebrity accountant Vanessa Foran, our panel on last night’s Broadsheet on the Telly.

The show, produced by Neil, can be viewed in its entirety above.

Bernard, editor of  the London-based The Irish World, shared his thoughts on the current Brexit negotiations and backstops, elegantly schooling ‘Preposterous’ (who later apologised for his orneriness during the debate) on the finer points of the remain argument in the process.

Kevin, a legal advisor to the Tuam Home Survivors’ Network, shared his thoughts on the resignation of a survivor representative from Minister Zappone’s Mother and Baby Home forum.

And Lucky, of the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI), discussed employment in Direct Provision and his own four hour daily commute.

A little light swearing.

Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly

Yesterday.

Waterford city.

Yellow Hat Man writes:

Thought you may wish to know that the CBD flower café, Blooms, in Waterford, which sells smokeable buds have had their stock taken while the Gardai review the product for sale.

This happened about two weeks ago, and came shortly after a sellout first week or so in business. A message on their Facebook page [below] gives the full story, as they and their customers still wait….

Good times.

Blooms (Facebook)

Yikes.

Stephen McBride writes:

Taking shelter at Vico Road Bathing Place, Killiney [County Dublin] this afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Bracing.

This afternoon.

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

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Earlier: *puts up brolly*

Meanwhile…

This morning/afternoon

Irish Rugby head coach, Joe Schmidt gets ‘robed up’ before being presented with the Griffith College Distinguished Fellowship Award 2018 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Irish sport.

Previous recipients have included Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese and Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and John Hume.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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