No ear plugs for these 'villai

Byline: Shane McGrath

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WHEN Eamon O'Brien pulls his players into a huddle at 3.30 tomorrow afternoon, will he issue them with last words of inspiration or ear plugs? Louth's lap of honour after being trounced by Dublin seven days ago ended cutely, with the few thousand Dubs' supporters still on Hill 16 lauding them with cries of 'championay, championay'. They were the people's winners, the men left with honour at the end of a cruel tale. And the story requires villains. If the public were Louth supporters last Saturday, then Meath have only their county-people on their side tomorrow. Right? Well, not quite. Cork and Roscommon lift the curtain on the second double-header of the weekend, and one wonders just how interested they will be in tipping boos all over Nigel Crawford and his team-mates.

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Meath are supposedly one of football's least popular teams, but booing has never been popular in Gaelic games. The rapid nature of hurling and football make jeering Rolex difficult but this is not a problem in soccer, where the pace of the game is slower and the easily-offended have time to make voluble their difficulties with a given player. Meath have been helped by the CCCC's scheduling, too. Were they sharing a bill with Dublin, then the most outlandish supporters in the land would certainly make a decent stab at bringing booing into football. But Meath will have no need of the ear plugs. They are not the country's most popular team, but what's new there? Same reputation, different reason.

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No end in sprite

No end in sprite

Luck o the Irish missing in Neil Jordan's messy Ondine'

Fairy tales, kidney failure, sexy underwear, ominous organ music, the misty Irish coast, drugs - mix them all together and what do you get? Ondine, an abject mess of a movie, oddly featuring several big names: its writer/director is Neil Jordan (Michael Collins, The Crying Game, etc etc), and it stars Colin Farrell (In Bruges) and Stephen Rea ( The Crying Game).

Colin Farrell plays Syracuse, a divorced fisherman and father of Annie (Alison Barry), whose kidney disease keeps her mostly in a wheelchair. Alison Barry is one cute kid, but she's given annoyingly wise lines and recites them like a homework assignment. Maybe she'll become a good actress in time, but she has Brand Cap a ways to go.

Out fishing on his Kid Clothing boat one day, Syracuse hauls up a beautiful woman (Polish actress Alicja Bachleda) in his net. After throwing up all the sea water she's swallowed, the woman says her name is Ondine, as in the mythological water sprite, inspiration for ballets, operas, statues and the like. With her eerie singing, Ondine brings Syracuse luck, as he catches load after enormous load offish and lobster.

Afraid to be taken to a hospital or be seen by anyone but her rescuer, Ondine takes refuge in Syracuse's late mother's remote cottage, where she's eventually spotted by Annie, who has acquired a motorized wheelchair and become mobile. Annie theorizes that Ondine is a selkie, a mythical half-seal/half-human being. Maybe she is. Or not.

Like a boat taking on water, the story becomes awash in ever more plot lines, what with Syracuse's boozy ex and her equally unstable boyfriend, Syracuse's relationship with the parish priest (Stephen Rea), the appearance of a mysterious dark stranger and a fatal accident. Looking at the lovely Irish settings would have provided some consolation - except that the film seems to have been shot through a murky blue filter.

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It's possible that filmmaker Neil Jordan had his heart in this project, but how to explain the participation of first-rate actors such as Farrell and Rea? Maybe we can blame economic necessity: Ireland, flush in the oil boom not long ago, appears to have hit the economic skids, like Greece, Portugal, Spain...

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ON Semiconductor Unveils Green

ON Semiconductor, a supplier of high performance, energy efficient silicon solutions for green electronics, together with Transim Technology, a provider of online design solutions for the semiconductor industry, has launched its interactive GreenPoint online design simulation tool for high-efficiency LED based lighting applications.

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The GreenPoint design tool is an interactive online design and verification environment that assists in accelerating the board design of solid state lighting solutions, the company noted. Utilizing a user's design requirements - such as LED configuration, voltage, current or switching frequency - the GreenPoint design tool automatically calculates optimum circuit configuration and selects appropriate values for inductors and capacitors. The resulting design is displayed as an interactive online schematic. The GreenPoint design tool then enables testing of the suggested solution using Transim's proprietary WebSIM technology. Essentially, it is a virtual online test bed that provides a variety of analyses, which enables engineers to test the performance of the solution.

Once the design has been verified, the GreenPoint Design Tool generates a Bill of Materials and a design report including simulation results, schematic and design data. ON Semiconductor's e- commerce tools are integrated with the GreenPoint Design Tool, which allows users to pick and choose vendor parts for a qualified bill of materials. Designs can be saved and shared for future reference and further modification in the user's secure and private workspace.

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"The market for solid state lighting continues to grow as new and traditional manufacturers look to capitalize on the performance, cost, reliability and efficiency benefits that LEDs offer over conventional alternatives," said Laurent Jenck, director of ON Semiconductor's LED Lighting segment. "The new GreenPoint design tool enables designers of new and emerging lighting applications to dramatically reduce development times by providing an easily accessible design environment from the convenience of their desks."

"We are very pleased to be able to partner with ON Semiconductor in developing a powerful online design tool to support high- efficiency LED-based lighting applications," said Birgit Knorr, president and CEO of Transim Technology.

ON Semiconductor is a supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions for green electronics.

GreenPoint reference designs from ON Semiconductor enable more efficient systems by establishing the feasibility of meeting energy efficiency standards with existing technology, and by setting performance benchmarks.

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Transim develops online design and support solutions for manufacturers of analog and mixed-signal products, microcontrollers, motor drives and other complex technical products.

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