A promo for issue 2 of Guts magazine.
An Irish magazine demonstrating that it takes strong innards and a thick skin to openly articulate frailty with humour so that others might benefit.
FIGHT!
Previously: The Tracks Of My Tears
Thanks Ciaran
An outstanding, mildly informative, appropriately baked chronicle of the evolution of road surfing by Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini.
Tonny Hawk.
*sigh*
St Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2 earlier.
Snowy tweetz:
Solid work by the clampers this afternoon in D2. That’s a permanent contraflow cycle lane.
Where is the ball?
Nobody knows.
But you may recall the Lucozade conversion area by the Grand Canal Dock, Dublin?
A sweet ‘spot’ during home international rugby matches.
Bob Coggins writes:
Give the Lucozade Sport Conversion Challenge a go this weekend, A full-size rugby goal post is set up in the canal, and if you get a kick over the post, you’re entered to win tickets to this Sunday’s 6 Nations match against England in the
AvivaLansdowne Road Nua!And we’ve two balls signed by [Ireland scrum half] Conor Murray to give away. The first two (yes TW0) people to tell us where the ball is on this pic [above] gets the balls…
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm.
Previously: Can You Kick It
UPDATE:
Mark @ 3.24 and Helen 2.0 @ 3.25 grab the balls for correctly identifying E2 as the ‘spot’. Thanks all.
Last night.
The University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ste in Amsterdam writes:
It’s getting interesting here. the students have occupied another of the University of Amsterdam’s buildings after being evicted after 13 days from The Bungehuis (Department of Philosophy/Geesteswetenschap).They are now occupying the Maagdenhuis (Office of the board of management) a symbolically significant move as it was first occupied in the student protests of the 1970s. The mayor turned up last night at about midnight to talk to them. A fairly “keep calm” move with not promising or saying much of anything. If you’re into a bit of google translate this is their website. Their demands include
1. Democratic election of the university administration.
2. Investment should deliver not financial profit but quality in education.
3. Fixed contracts rather flexible appointments for staff.
4. An open debate on housing costs compared to cuts in education and research.
Gevecht!
Protesting Amsterdam students move to admin centre (DutchNews)
Cadbury announces 160 jobs to go between Kerry and Dublin. They will also cease production of Timeouts and pink snacks
— Ciara Ni Bhroin (@Ciarastweets) February 26, 2015
More as we get it.
A call card sponsored by the then single Time Out bar.
It later split into two separate bars promising and, in fairness, failing to deliver twice the pleasure.
McWilliams: “I found myself in Centra in Ballybrack buying biscuits and milk –” C Lynch: “We need to deal with the substantive, please.”
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 26, 2015
Economist David McWilliams at the Banking Inquiry this morning.
More as we get it.
Asked by Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath about critical articles shortly after initially describing the bank guarantee as a masterstroke, Mr McWilliams said if it had not been done, the banks could have been bust. But he said it moved towards being used not as an emergency measure but as a full payment mechanism in event of bankruptcies. Mr McWilliams said he told then minister for finance Brian Lenihan that more conditions should be added.
He earlier told the inquiry that the property and banking crash was incredibly predictable and absolutely preventable.
Mr McWilliams said he spent a decade warning that the property market would crash and money would fly out of the banking system.
He had a moral imperative and a patriotic duty to warn of catastrophe, he added.
The Irish banking system and by extension, the rest of the economy, was set up to fail, he said.
He said he believed hundreds of thousands of ordinary people would end up in negative equity and debt where their lives were destroyed due to the debt associated with the housing market.
The panic of September 2008 did not have to happen and was not pre-ordained, he added.
If there was no housing boom, there would have been no banking boom.
Bank guarantee should have been temporary, says McWilliams (RTÉ)
Meanwhile earlier….
Got a problem?
Odds against you?
Call the Predictor.
David McDreamy arrives at the Banking Inquiry this morning.
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Update:
From the close of proceedings:
Ciaran Lynch [Chairman, Banking Inquiry]: In your opening statement, you said you had published 2.5 million words.
David McWilliams: I have published 1.2 million words, and I have read nearly all of them during the past three weeks.
Lynch: “Excellent, because I have a question on them. Did you ever get it wrong?”
McWilliams: “We all get lots of things wrong.”
Lynch: “What did you get wrong?”
McWilliams: “Wow. This is a trick question.”
Lynch: “It is not.”
McWilliams: “While we all get lots of things wrong, I do not think I got anything wrong during the period we are discussing. I am an economic commentator. I am an independent economist and have never been paid by the State for advice.
Lynch: “I had many professions before I came here and I have got things wrong in those professions. It is not just politics.”
McWilliams: “Of course one gets things wrong.”
Lynch: “Give us an example of something you got wrong in 1.2 million words.”
McWilliams: “I get things wrong every day.”
Lynch: “Give us an example. In the 1.2 million words you have written about the economic crisis in this country, did you get anything wrong?”
McWilliams: “It is an unfair question. One gets things wrong every day and one hopes to learn from them.
Lynch: “In terms of getting things right for the future, what is your assessment of the Irish Government’s level of preparation for the banking problems that emerged in September 2008? How well was the State prepared? Are Irish policy making authorities better prepared today, particularly regarding the regulation of the property and banking sectors?”
McWilliams: “We were totally unprepared in 2008 because we had not listened to any of the warnings. I am not sure I see anything now that would prepare us again for such an eventuality. The most important thing is to be hyper vigilant on a sector which, if managed well, can serve the needs of the economy very well but, if managed badly, can lead to a financial catastrophe.”
Lynch: “Is there anything else you would like to add before we conclude?”
McWilliams: “No.”
Full transcript here
Oh it’s ON.
Cian O’Mahoney writes:
We are hosting a Game of Thrones Table Quiz next Tuesday evening in D|Two nightclub, Harcourt Street, Dublin. If you reckon you’re an expert on the Lannisters or Starks, know all there is to know about the Khaleesi and her dragons, or consider yourself a bit of an authority on the Night’s Watch, then this is your chance [link below] to show off your knowledge.
Questions will be on all the great houses of Westeros, plus all the locations and characters from the show.. This is being held to raise money for [non-profit caring for young online resource] SpunOut.ie and promises to be a great night….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5vcUPyL90]
What you may need to know:
1. This 14 minute short has nothing to do with the Power Rangers of your youth. It’s a dark examination of what would happen should a truce between Earth and the Machine Empire occur.
2. Haim Saban is morphing into the Green Ranger.
3. Director Joseph Kahn says he is not making any money from the short and uses original material so that’s cool. But it is really all about the Power Rangers though no?
4. Doesn’t the Blue Ranger’s antics remind you of Ozymandias from The Watchmen (2009) making his billions from Watchmen action figures but still kicking ass in secret? No? That’s probably for the best.
5. Where is Pacey. I guess he’s having an affair with his mentor Zordon. Dawson still has Joey issues.
6. Kahn is mainly associated with music videos and TV ads. The producer Adi Shankar is behind a string of other ‘unofficial’ shorts such as The Punisher: Dirty Laundry and Venom: Truth in Journalism [.
7. Lionsgate is in the middle of filming their own official Power Rangers feature. The franchise has been knocked for promoting violence. This short is not helping, in fairness.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Go Go Power Attorneys
Release Date: Available NOW
