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#121
General discussion / Taisce na Tuaithe. TG4
June 01, 2011, 04:04:02 PM
Did anyone see this last night?  Caught the end of it when they were talking about Native irish speakers in Tyrone up to 50 years ago.  Never knew that the Irish language survived outside of the Gaeltachts up to that recently. 

#122
General discussion / What's that song?
May 30, 2011, 10:33:42 PM
There is an advert on TG4 advertising GAA matches with a great song in the background. It is a girl singing & it's kind of a rock song
#123
GAA Discussion / Watching out of Juristiction
May 26, 2011, 07:39:07 PM
This may be lost inside a thread so I'll highlight it. 

How do you watch RTE products on line if you are out of Jurisdiction (but not really as you are on the Island) or if you are on holiday abroad?

Quote from: Antrim Coaster on May 26, 2011, 06:00:28 PM
This might be a wee bit off topic but Im unable to access the Committee Room from the link provided above. I get the message displayed on screen stating that Im not in the proper territory to view the content. I know this has been queried before and there are ways around it. Contacted the service provider but I may as well have been talking to a brick for all the use they were. Any help would be appreciated especially as there may be a few games streamed on the RTE website later in the summer.
#124
General discussion / Veal or no Veal?
May 24, 2011, 12:18:37 PM
Was watching a River Cottage and the question was posed, Veal or no  Veal?

Always thought that Veal was from very young calves but its animals up to 6 months.  I wonder do people who refuse to eat Veal, eat Lamb?

The question to ask is what type of Veal it is.

There are five types of veal:

Bob Veal, from calves that are slaughtered when only a few days old (70-150 lb.) up to 150 lb.[2]

Formula-fed (or "milk-fed") veal, from calves that are raised on a milk formula supplement. The meat colour is ivory or creamy pink, with a firm, fine, and velvety appearance. They are usually slaughtered when they reach 18–20 weeks of age (450-500 lb).[3]

Non-formula-fed ("red" or "grain-fed")[4] veal, from calves that are raised on grain, hay, or other solid food, in addition to milk. The meat is darker in colour, and some additional marbling and fat may be apparent. Usually marketed as calf, rather than veal, at 22–26 weeks of age (650-700 lb).

Rose veal UK is from calves reared on farms in association with th
e UK RSPCA's Freedom Food programme. Its name comes from its pink colour, which is a result of the calves being slaughtered at around 35 weeks.[5]

Free-raised veal, The veal calves are raised in the pasture, have unlimited access to mother's milk and pasture grasses. They are not administered hormones or antibiotics. These conditions replicate those used to raise authentic pasture-raised veal. The meat is a rich pink color. Free-raised veal are typically lower in fat than other veal.[citation needed] Calves are slaughtered at about 24 weeks of age.
#125
Just something to think about.  It strikes anybody.

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=19133.0

If you see people collecting tomorrow it is most probably for this so give generously.

If you want to know more have a look at this website.

http://www.ms-society.ie/
#126
General discussion / World MS Day 25-05-11
May 18, 2011, 03:17:57 PM
Next Wednesday is World MS Day and if you see people collecting, give generously.

http://worldmsday.org/

There is not a lot more you can say but have a look at the above site.
#127
We all know why traffic may be affected this week.

Newstalk have a good summary of how we'll be affected this week.

http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/news/traffic-restrictions-published-for-queen-visit/
#128
It is hard to believe it happened.


The human cost of Soviet nuclear tests

   Articles / Culture
12.05.2011

source: New Scientist text: Tiffany O'Callaghan views: [542]
In his documentary After the Apocalypse, director Antony Butts visits Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, home to a Soviet-era weapon test site where 456 nuclear tests were conducted during the cold war.

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Butts explores the conflict between a pregnant woman whose own genetic deformity is believed to be due to radiation exposure and the head of the city's maternity clinic who tries to convince her not to carry her child to term. At the heart of their struggle is the legacy of nuclear weapons and how little we know about the long-term effects of radiation. On the eve of the London premiere of After the Apocalypse, Butts spoke to New Scientist.


What made you want to tell the story of the people of Semipalatinsk?

The fact that nuclear bombs were dropped out in a remote area of Kazakhstan is well known, but nothing had ever really been done about the elevated number of birth defects there. The story I was initially telling was quite simple - it was about the high rate of birth defects - but the more time I spent there I realised that it was more intense than that. When I interviewed the people in the Semipalatinsk Institute of Radiation, they told me that it was a deliberate experiment, which I found a bit shocking. And there is this huge bomb crater there; a herder had just set up shop 1.5 kilometres away and was grazing cattle there. It was this absurdist world that I had found.


There was also this doctor, Toleukhan Nurmagambetov, who thought that the only way you could sort out the birth defects common among this cohort of people - now 200,000 to 300,000 strong - with damaged genes from their parents who had been irradiated, is to genetically control who can have a child.


It's clear that the documentary is an examination of nuclear weapons and their legacy. Why did you choose to tell this story through the conflict between the pregnant woman Bibigul Balargazinova and the head of the maternity clinic Dr. Toleukhan Nurmagambetov?

The conflict shows that there is no right moral solution to deal with long term effects of nuclear weapons. Both take morally difficult views. Is having a child a privilege or a right? One in 23 children in Bibigul's village of Sarzhal, which is next to the test site, are born with a birth defect. At what point does this become an unacceptably high risk to expose an unborn child to? That's a very difficult question.


That said, I was very surprised that the radiation did die off as much as it had. They tested 456 bombs - 20,000 times the explosive power of Hiroshima - on this area. You go to the craters and sure, they're radioactive. But if you're a kilometre away from them, it's nothing. It's background level. When you have a nuclear war it's actually quite habitable afterwards, so in one sense it's not as scary as it's been made out to be. Yet in another, there's this other kind of fear - of long-term genetic damage.


In the documentary, you visit the Institute of Radiation Safety in Semipalatinsk and are shown just how quickly radiation levels drop off as you get farther away from the source. The head of the institute makes the point that, with current levels, it's very unlikely that the higher percentage of deformities among children born in the area is due to radiation exposure...

He's correct in saying that. The radiation is concentrated around the craters, but elsewhere there's not enough radiation to cause these birth defects. So what is the reason? That's where we get into controversial science. The epidemiological data that the Institute of Radiation Safety has isn't perfect, but it suggests that children of the cohort that got irradiated live on average five to seven years less than those from a comparable socioeconomic group in an area that wasn't irradiated. Is that due to the psychological stress, or, alternatively, could it be because of this obsession the locals have of protecting themselves from radiation with vodka?


There is this elevated level of birth defects; there's no getting around it. There is a folic acid problem there - the whole area has a lack of greens and folic acid deficiency is linked to birth defects. But the scientists and doctors I spoke with said that folic acid deficiency could not account for so many birth defects, especially now as they've begun giving out supplements to little effect. This is where the science gets difficult. You can talk to scientists who will say it's a load of rubbish, or others who will say that it's been proven that radiation damage can be passed on in mice but that we've got to prove it in humans. I think this is crucial to nail down.


Yuri Dubrova, a geneticist at Leicester University, has a freezer full of blood from all of these generations from Semipalatinsk, down the line. It's just sitting there waiting to be defrosted and analyzed when the time is right - and when the funding is there. I think the time is right now.


Do you think the issues explored in this documentary are particularly relevant now, in the wake of Fukushima?

I think Semipalatinsk is particularly relevant because it explores the harrowing consequences of radiation exposure. The Soviets tested nuclear bombs on their own people because at that time they calculated that nuclear war was inevitable. And now we have those results, and we should use the data, just as we use the data from Joseph Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz.


All forms of energy creation are going to kill people. Coal kills millions of people per year with particulate pollution. Before we get really scared about radiation we need to understand the science and make an analysis. Do we go nuclear power or not? Instead of the debate being idiotic nonsense of rhetoric and fear, we should honour these people and let their deaths and lives mean something.


What are the main things that you hope people take away from your film?

There are two main points I hope to make. One is about a post nuclear-war world - and why nuclear weapons are bad. The second is how paranoid people are about something they know nothing about. In the absence of knowledge, fear thrives. This is especially important because we must choose a new form of energy, and a lot of us are writing off nuclear power because of fear. We have this golden opportunity to say, well how scary is it? Let's give grants to these scientists and find out. Then we can choose to be frightened or not.

#129
General discussion / Balotelli feel good story
May 10, 2011, 06:49:06 PM
Just heard this story on 5Live.

http://www.thescore.ie/super-mario-balotelli-does-it-again-by-stepping-in-to-stop-schoolyard-bully-134191-May2011/

The papers (The Sun writes: "The striker questioned why the young lad was playing truant with his mum outside the club's Carrington training ground rather than attending school.



#130
General discussion / Noggin the Nog.
May 09, 2011, 04:13:25 PM
I see Noggin the Nog is on BBC4 tonight and tomorrow night at 7.30.  Was it surreal or just sh1te?

Or a cry to bring back Bosco on TV3 tonight at 9.
#131
General discussion / Gettysburg Address
May 07, 2011, 12:22:14 PM



Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
#132
General discussion / Osama Dead
May 02, 2011, 05:02:32 AM
Don't know why I turned on the radio and heard ths.  Lets hope it is true and al-Qaeda  just bedome a footnote in history.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden dead - Obama
Bin Laden is top of the US "most wanted" list Continue reading the main story
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Obituary: Osama Bin Laden
Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama has said.

The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation based on US intelligence, the first lead for which emerged last August.

Mr Obama said after "a firefight" US forces took possession of his body.

Bin Laden was accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.

He was top of the US "most wanted" list.

Crowds gathered outside the White House in Washington DC, chanting "USA, USA" after the news emerged.

Bin Laden approved the 9/11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died, saying later that the results had exceeded his expectations.

He evaded the forces of the US and its allies for almost a decade, despite a $25m bounty on his head.

His death will be seen as a major blow to al-Qaeda but also raise fears of reprisal attacks, correspondents say.

Mr Obama said he had been briefed last August on a possible lead to Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts.

It led to intelligence that the al-Qaeda leader was hiding in a compound deep within Pakistan.

The president authorised an operation to "get Bin Laden" last week, he said, and on Sunday a small team of US forces undertook the operation.

After a "firefight" Bin Laden was killed and his body taken by US forces, the president said.
#133
Just saw that this is on tonight.  Will it be on the iplayer?

21:45 Come All You Dreamers - Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott Live at Barrowland, Glasgow (R) Performances by Christy Moore, Declan Sinnott and guests from the Barrowland, Glasgow, in 2008. Including renditions of After the Deluge, Barrowland, City of Chicago, Ride On, Missing You and Back Home in Derry.
#134
General discussion / Ultimate Easter Egg
April 22, 2011, 03:27:39 PM
For the time thats in it.

I am thinking of an Easter Egg I'd love to get and it would be a Walnut Whip Easter egg i.e. an egg filled with the whip.  Don't know where the Walnut would go.  Included would be some dark chocolate fingers that you could use to take out the filling.

Are there any special eggs out there?
#135
General discussion / History 101
March 30, 2011, 01:41:05 PM
Can't believe they are seriously thinking of this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12903712

The US President Barack Obama has said he is not ruling out arming the rebels seeking to overthrow the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.

Don't they remember Afganistan?

And what does the Ivory Coast have to do?  They have had elections and the previous President who controls the army does recognise the result.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12646355
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12908004



#136
I'm surprised there has been no mention of this. 

21:00 Shankill Butchers (T) Stephen Nolan examines the murders committed by the Shankill Butchers, a gang of serial killers that operated during the dark days of the Troubles. The presenter looks at the evidence and conducts interviews, as well as returning to the area where he was brought up to ask how the criminals managed to evade the authorities for so long.
#137
I was wondering if there was anyway to watch it when you are not in the jurisdiction?  Was watching Hibernian Folk at the BBC Friday night and Sharon Shannon was on it.  She was playing a jig but I heard it from the other room and missed what it was called.  Anyone see it and do you know the name?

Great show.
#138
GAA Discussion / Gradaim GAA an Uachtarain
March 16, 2011, 06:16:11 PM
No fanfare but this is on TG4 tonight.

Apologies if this is a highlight program and the results are already known.

22:15 Gradaim GAA an Uachtarain Micheal O Domhnaill and Grainne McElwain present the ceremony from Croke Park, which sees awards handed out across the full GAA spectrum, including all four provinces, camogie, ladies football and schools sectors.
#139
Just heard this on the news.

For a company who want check in and everything else done over the internet, complaints had to be by Fax or letter.

Now you can drop them an email.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1366600/EU-orders-Ryanair-email-address-customers-complain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
#140
GAA Discussion / St Brigids can do it.
March 15, 2011, 01:26:43 PM
In the interest of balance.

Both teams have beaten quality opposition in the semis so hopefully it will be an epic. 

Enjoy the day.