Heavy hitting Irish TV Road Safety Ad

Heavy hitting Irish TV Road Safety Ad

wuzzlevideos (5 hours ago) Note from youtube
Look forward to having a DMCA takedown notice for this advert. I had the same advert in my uploads and I had to remove it yesterday night. Shame really, Lyle Bailie (the people behind the advert) are very silly for wanting to get rid of important safety messages.

My response

Fair point re DMCA, however, the ad was commissioned by the NRA, rational roads Authority, a Government Dept, paid for by taxpayers, eh me being one of them. SO the agency do not hold the copyright to it, or should not.

If I do receive a DMCA, it would make a mockery of what is being done here, promoting safer driving, Thats what the NRA are paying for, more exposure, to get the message across..

If the agency think about it, the ad gets more exposure, it becomes part of the conscious , ie a success in media terms, then they look good in delivering an effective product, it might actually win an award or two giving them some kudos, all the while getting across the message

Great White Sharks feeding on a whale carcass

I saw this on TV a few years ago and could hardly beleive my eyes. It was gripping, espacially when the idiot film maker decided to use the shark as a dingy... with feeding sharkes inches away! Gripping stuff

The Zimmers

Not sure I saw this first, but it was on TV.....

Photos from my week in Kerry

Photos from my week in Kerry, this photo is of Banna Strand, about half a mile form where i was statying. Click the title link to access my folder of photos

New TV Ad from the Irish Tourism Board

This is the new TV ad from the Irish Tourist Board. Failte Ireland. I'm actually quite impressed. It's well thought out, well edited, good soundtrack, not sure but it sounds like Snow Patrol to me, but I'm open to correction,

To put this ad in perspective, a few years the Irish Torust board was known as Bord Failte, - the Welcome Board... Cead Mile Failte ( a hundred thousand Welcomes). All was going well when the powers that be decided to rework a successful format, change the tourist board name and logo. A few logos later, none of which worked , or sparked the imagination and here we are today. A good ad and a million miles away from the twee ponytrap image of Ireland, peddled to genearations of Americans.

In fairness that image was one view of Ireland, at that time. i think this capturres a contempory Ireland, access to nature with modern acuhtrements. Anyone not from ireland might be surprised to see the Kite surfers and surfboarders....

America and Australia seem to think they have the franchise on surf related sports and who can blame them for being surprised, It is a well kept secret by default. The Surf community in the UK tends to be concentrated one the bit of the UK that dips its toe into the Atlantic , Cornwall, while the community here is dispersed in pockets all all along the west coast and as many surf here as play rugby. Dont think UK or Australia, or South Africa can match that...

Ok so youtube state you should not upload an ad without the permission of the company involved but Failte Ireland is a state company, and i a fully fledged tax payer, am giving myself permission to uplaod the ad. i hope you enjoy it and let me know if oyu have any thoughts.

Living Nostalgia

I recorded this off DVB. using EyeTV, BT Ireland are testing DVB trials and at the monemnt i only have acess to 4 TV channels. its quite a good service. Reception is clear and the facility to record and play leter is good. Playback quality is impressive, so leading into this video, i recorded, edited, comressed and laoded on to YT.... its the Angelus.....



still edidting so pls be patient

DVB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB
angelus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus

RTE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rte

GMA YouTube Video of the Week: Wedding Thriller Dance on ABC

good Job,,,, Fun had by all

My First book

I've created this book as a momento of a week spent with friends , in Kerry. Peter and I know each other for 25 yrs, Jennifer20, and the boys, since they were born. Connor(8) is Autistic and Fionn (5 and a half, the youngest) is my Godson. They think this is the first time they have had a group photo.

If you are an Art or Photographic critic, then you will be sadly dissapointed, This book is record of a family spring holiday (vacation) in County Kerry. Photos are delebratly not labled as it is for the family. I felt a simple format would allow viewers to browse and chat, and reminise. i'll do a podcast later and the first few pages are downloadable as pdf... not sure if there are restrictions , but I have none except , give credit where credit is due, and it is goverened by Karma copywright law.

Kerry 2007

Peter, Jennifer, Co...

By Photographs by Michael

French 'safe sex' posters.

This is a recent promotion in France which uses really creepy but very well done photoshop pics that show the dangers of unprotected sex and contrcting AIDS. These are great. Enjoy !



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Electric therapy trial for heroin

Barry Philips, 24, from Kilmarnock, said Neuro-Electric Therapy, which sends electric pulses through the brain, had made him drug-free.

He said the treatment enabled him to come off heroin in only five days. The Scottish Executive is now backing further research into NET which was being discussed at a conference in Kirkcaldy on Friday. Ken Barrie, director of Alcohol and Drug Studies at Paisley University, said the treatment could be used as a first step.
However, drugs expert, Dr Laurence Gruer, director of public health science at NHS Health Scotland, urged caution, saying NET appeared to treat withdrawal symptoms rather than the addiction itself.

During Neuro-Electric Therapy (NET), self-adhesive electrodes are applied behind the ear. A pocket-sized stimulator is used continuously for six to 10 days and pulses an electric current through the brain to help stabilise its natural balance. NET is said to reduce cravings of drug users within one or two weeks.

Mr Philips said he had tried four times without success to come off heroin, using both methadone and cold turkey.

He said his withdrawal symptoms lasted for a much shorter period when he used NET and he had remained clean since the treatment in February.

Wider sample

"It was a lot faster than any other 'rattle' I've ever done," he said. "Within four days I was sleeping - a full night's sleep, which was really surprising. "Within five days I was really starting to get better and on the sixth day I never even needed the box - that was when I was feeling totally fine again. "I've not even thought about drugs - not just heroin, anything at all."
Independent drugs expert Professor Neil McKeganey, of the drugs misuse research centre at Glasgow University, said NET was worth a proper study. He said: "One of the reasons it's terribly difficult for addicts to get off these drugs is the cravings are very strong.

Heroin needle
Mr Philips said NET enabled him to come off heroin in five days "One of the benefits of NET, at least as it has been claimed, is that it allows addicts to cope with those feelings of cravings." However, Prof McKeganey warned that it was not a long-term cure and addicts needed continuous support to ensure they remained clean. He also said fundamental questions needed to be asked before making NET more widely available. Drug charity The Third Step carried out the trial with Mr Philips. Dr Gruer said the treatment was a first step but appeared to only deal with withdrawal symptoms.

"I think this is in the same ball park as acupuncture which produces some stimuli which stops the brain from feeling so raw and bad," he told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme. "We have to be rather cautious about being too optimistic about this particular approach. "It may help one or two people but whether it helps a large number is another matter."

'Early stage'
Mr Barrie told the programme: "It is worth pursuing anything that's going to assist people to make changes. This is clearly an early stage in the process. "We would also need to look further on into the processes, the social support, the psychological support, which people need in the longer term to cure their addiction."
The executive is giving support and advice to set up a clinical research project in an effort to see if the treatment is valid for a much wider sample of addicts. Mr Philips said he was positive about his own future. "I just hope it continues to be like this, back to feeling amazing again, waking up with a smile on my face," he said. Mr Philips was describing his experiences at a conference at St Bryce Kirk, Kirkcaldy, on Friday. Other speakers included Prof McKeganey and George Patterson, the widower of the surgeon whose work in the 1970s helped develop NET.

A Scottish Executive spokesperson said: "The first minister noted the anecdotal evidence of benefit of the therapy. "However, any decision on the way forward would have to be based on clear, scientific evidence of the treatment¿s biological effects. "The next step is that they should prepare a research proposal, which will then be considered by independent scientists.

"If they are convinced by the research proposal, then consideration may be given to a pilot."

Addicts brave withdrawal trial

Six heroin addicts agreed to spend the last week in a remote Scottish farmhouse in a trial of a controversial detox treatment involving Neuro-Electric Therapy to the brain.

NEUROELECTRIC THERAPY

NEUROELECTRIC THERAPY
A ground-breaking trial in Scotland is leading a growing number of experts to think there's a cure for addiction. NeuroElectric Therapy involves an electric current being applied to the brain and has been successful for 95% of heroin addicts who have taken part in trials