The Yamaha Venova – winner of the 2017 Good Design Awards in Japan – a modern update of the 177 year old saxophone that creates a similar tonal range with a minimalist branched pipe structure and fewer keys.
5 hours until #WebSummit opens for opening night. We're ready and waiting at the Altice Arena – watch live here: https://t.co/tTfvJUj6bj pic.twitter.com/ZdZTY302ND
— Web Summit (@WebSummit) November 6, 2017
This morning.
Lisbon, Portugal.
Yes, but are they happy?
Pic: Anne-Sophie
In Dublin.
Donal Moloney writes:
Have you noticed how big and plentiful address numbers are around the city recently? Took a few snaps over the last few days. Dublin doin’ a New York?
Anyone?/Fight!
Also: Name those SIX locations, anyone?
Rollingnews
Documents from Malta’s business registry reveal Bono’s hidden stake in Utena’s Ausra (Dawn) shopping centre in Lithuania (top). property developer Paddy McKillen
The 3,700-square-metre mall, which opened in 2006, was built by Eika, one of Lithuania’s leading developers. In April 2007, the developer announced it had sold the mall to an unnamed “foreign investor”.
The buyer was UAB Nude Estates 2, a Lithuanian company. Records show the company was ultimately part-owned by Bono, via a series of confusingly named offshore companies.
Between 2007 and 2012, UAB Nude Estates 2 was owned by a similarly named Maltese offshore company, Nude Estates Malta Ltd. Leaked registry documents show Bono is listed as one of three owners of Nude Estates Malta, along with a man named Robin Andrew Barnes and Patrick Gerard McKillen.
Mr McKillen is an Irish businessman who also co-owns a luxury Dublin hotel [The Clarence] with Bono and U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, also known as The Edge.
In 2012, ownership of the Lithuanian company was transferred to another offshore company, this time in the British Crown Dependency of Guernsey, called Nude Estates I Ltd.
It is unclear how large Bono’s investment in the Utena mall is, or how much it has earned him. In its 2007 financial records, the Lithuanian company, Nude Estates 2, stated its fixed assets were valued at 19.6 million Lithuanian litas, then worth about $10 million.
Bono used Malta-based firm to invest in Lithuanian shopping centre (The Guardian)
Paradise Papers: Inside Bono’s secret stake in a small-town Lithuanian shopping centre (ABC)
Header: Bertie Blenkinsop
Peter O’Mahoney writes:
Filmed a few of the lads working on a forklift the other night, thought ye might get a laugh! Pit stop (Kerry style)…
A short film by Bridge Stuart featuring a random dining chair spotted at the beach by a guy and his subsequent struggle to decide whether or not to sit on it.
An in-depth exploration of movie timeshifting by Minute Physics. To wit:
…how time travel functions in different popular movies, books, & shows – not how it works “under the hood”, but how it causally affects the perspective of characters’ timelines (who has free will? can you change things by going back to the past or forwards into the future?).
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams (left) with Mary Lou McDonald TD and Pearse Doherty TD
It’s time for the Shinners to choose
Between two incompatible views
They’ve been on the fence
For too long and hence
It’s a showdown they cannot refuse.
John Moynes
Rollingnews
