Fair play though, in fairness.
‘Caffeinated’ Jack Cantillion writes:
Having a seriously Christmassy Crafternoon.
Grafton Street.
Shoppers queueing for Nespresso machines this lunchtime.
No recessio there so.
Update: May actually be Nespresso fans availing of a quick ‘capsule’ (including free re-fill).
Like a disabled boss.
Kilkenny city earlier.
Thanks Peter Fitzgerald
What you may need to know:
1. This is the SECOND trailer in a week for the new Trek flick.
2. This one’s less Cumberbatch-centric, minus the Inception horns, and even
more kick-ass.
3. British actress Alice Eve plays Doctor Carol Marcus. Look, it means
something to Trekkies, all right?
4. All right, Cumberbatch might be playing Khan.
Release Date: May 2013
An award-winning and heart-breaking tribute to Laika, the first dog in space, by Avgousta Zourelidi. It’s a weepy.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
Huh?
Luciano writes:
A Californian flag flying on top of the Bridge Mills building in Galway this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcK9GZWUWqc
The cascade turns into a floating vertical column of ice crystals.
Wired quotes Chemistry Ph.D Joe Larsen of the Rockwell Science Centre in LA, who explains:
Some people claim that hot water freezes faster because a pot of boiling water can be thrown into the air on a cold winter day, and it freezes in mid air creating a shower of ice crystals. Whereas a pot of cold water thrown into the air comes down as large blobs of water. This happens because the hot water is so close to being steam, that the act of throwing it into the air causes it to break up into tiny droplets. (hot water is less viscous than cold water, listen to the sound it makes when you pour it in the sink) The small water droplets have a large surface area which allows for a great deal of evaporation, this removes heat quickly. And finally, the cooled droplets are so small, that they can be easily frozen by the winter air.
Now you know.
(Hat tip: James Dempsey)
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The slim, discrete and practical Lobster Mobile Telephone Case by Noddy Boffin – a modern appropriation of Salvador Dali’s Lobster Telephone (1938).
“I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone.” The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali (1942)
Plus we’ve just noticed that the word Nephropidae contains the word ‘iPhone’. So there.
“This is expected to allow the fear of suicide as a ground for abortion but may not provide for rape or sexual abuse, neither of which formed part of the X-case ruling.”
If this morning’s Irish Times is correct Ireland will still remain as one of the most restrictive countries in Europe (along with Malta, and principalities Andorra and San Marino) – as it still won’t allow for a termination in cases of rape or incest or where there is an foetal abnormality.
Such circumstances are covered in Poland, also regarded as highly restrictive.
Readers may know of a recent case there which bore a disturbing resemblance to Ireland’s X case.
It involved a 14-year-old rape victim, named as P, who obtained a certificate to say she had been raped which allowed her to have a legal abortion.
However, she was refused an abortion at two hospitals, largely down to harassment from pro-life groups.
From the BBC:
‘At one, a Roman Catholic priest attempted to convince her to have the child. Hospital management then issued a press release saying they would not perform the procedure, leading to her case becoming caught up in Poland’s ongoing debate about abortion. The girl then travelled to a hospital in Warsaw, but doctors there said they were under pressure not to go ahead with the procedure.
The court documents say the pair left the hospital “feeling manipulated and helpless”, after which they were harassed by pro-life groups and eventually taken in for several hours of police questioning. The authorities then accused the mother of trying to force her daughter into having an abortion and had “P” placed in a juvenile shelter. She eventually managed to go ahead with the termination in Gdansk, 500km from her home, after the Ministry of Health intervened in the case.’
Her case was taken to the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that Poland violated the 14-year-old girl’s rights by denying her access to abortion and also ruled against Poland’s authorities for wrongly accusing P’s mother of forcing her to have an abortion and placing P in a juvenile centre.
So, If Ireland doesn’t rule for cases of rape or incest, won’t we wind back up before the ECHR?
Anyone?
The ECtHR Rules Against Poland In Abortion Rape Case (Public Interest Law Alliiance)
Earlier: A,B,C And X-Mas