#gmt india

[gmtindiasposts]

Tissot Unveils 2 New Timepieces for Women’s Basketball Fans

Swiss watchmaker Tissot has partnered with the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. to launch 2 new Seastars models: Tissot Seastar Wilson WNBA Powermatic 80 and Tissot Seastar Wilson WNBA Quartz. These watches feature circular brushed dials, a screw-down crown, and other unique features. Click here to learn more about Tissot's two new sporty seastars.

#gmt india #tissot sporty seastars #best tissot watches #tissot seastar wilson wnba powermatic 80 #tissot seastar wilson wnba quartz

[ephemeral-clarity]

India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Sriharikota space centre.

The lander is due to reach the Moon on 23-24 August.

If successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

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#this is so cool! #it apparently launched at 9:05 GMT so like I missed the launch but that’s so fuckin awesome #space #astronomy #moon #india #rocket launch #isro #isromissions #isroindia #chandrayaan3

[13mtm80-designs]

World Time Zone Charts

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#Office supplies #business hours #world #time zone #Est #GMT #JST #chart #helpful #popular #usa #England #Europe #asia #china #Japan #india #brazil #south africa #work from home #stationery #business #my design #my art #queer artist #woman artist #autistic artist #small business #actually autistic #autismo

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

02/06/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; New Events calendar; A Safe Space Ship Event; Watch Parties; Reminders; Cast & Crew Sightings; Clowning; OLD SPICE!; Stats!; Market Research?; Articles; Personal Update; Love Notes; Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika

== New Events Calendar from SaveOFMDCrew! ==

More events happening throughout the week! Tumblr Post

Tomorrow is Cosplay Day! Show off your cosplay and OFMD-Inspired outfits with the hashtags: #WearFineThingsWell!

= New Upcoming Event: A Safe Space Ship! =

Sunday, February 11th - Star of India in San Diego, CA! Museum Hrs: 10 am - 5 PM 1/2 Price Tickets!

== Watch Parties ==

Today's WWDITS watch party went great!

Lots of people had fun pointing out our lovely characters from the show (Mads, Taika, Rhys)

It actually went so well the SaveOFMDCrew twitter got banned! It's back though! If you can, please be sure to follow their backup account in case it happens again.

== Reminders! ==

Muppet Treasure Island - Feb 7th 2024 4PM EST, 1PM PST, 9 PM GMT

Watch Party Hashtags:

#MuppetPirates

#AdoptOurCrew

#SaveOFMD

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

This was technically the 5th, but I don't think the excitement happened mostly today so I'm gonna throw it in! So Chaos Dad popped his head out yesterday just long enough to like Samba's BTS post on twitter and then also Samba and Rhys' little exchange.

And of course that triggered clowning since anytime Chaos Dad pops in we don our clown shoes. Thank you to @merryfinches for catching some of the discourse!

== Old Spice! ==

Well well well, we're back to polite menacing brands until they respond to us!

Looks like another Astroglide is starting up, the Crew is out there matching deodorants to characters. Thanks to @brainfugk for calling it out!

== Stats! Stats! Stats! ==

So close fam! Let's keep pushing that UK viewership if you have the time/spoons!

= Market Research Campaign about OFMD Potentially Going On? =

There's some speculation around the market research company YouGov potentially conducting research on OFMD. There's a big thread. Why is this important? Well this company works with streamers to measure viewership data, and if OFMD is in there...and someone's interested, that could be a good sign.

Some folks signed up, and if you're interested in doing so too, you can here.

== Articles ==

Some fun articles tonight, including Hard Drive again!

Joke Article: HBO Max Unveils Ominous New “Don’t Get Too Attached” Category

Our Flag Means Death and 9 Other Best TV Shows and Movies About Pirates

Our Flags Means Death fans get TV licence just to watch pirate show

== Personal Update ==

Some of you have heard, I got the COVID so I may be in and out over the next several days, I'm still trying to make sure I get to recaps though so don't worry! I'll let you know if I can't. Remember to mask up if you can and stay hydrated out there luvs!

== Love Notes ==

Alright lovelies. We've run out of Rhys videos for a few days so you're back to me being irritatingly loving at you! I saw this today on The Latest Kate's instagram and it reminded me of a few things I wanted to say. My brain is a bit covid-fogged so apologies if it's a bit wibbly wobbly.

We all struggle with so many little and big things in our lives. Whether it's mental health, self esteem, a physical ailment, love, lonliness, self-identity, family, friends, world conflicts, or anything, I could go on and on.

I know sometimes it feels like you are pushing so hard and you start making so much progress-- and then something, big or little stalls everything and you feel like you're having to start from scratch again.

I just want to send you a gentle reminder that progress isn't always linear. Just because you have lost momentum doesn't mean you've lost your progress. Every single situation is a learning opportunity and every time you run into a new hurdle, you learn from the last one.

You are wonderfully intelligent, kind, precious, complex people and no matter what you're dealing with, no matter how small or how big, you are moving forward and making headway bits at a time. Remember to be kind to yourself and don't beat yourself up for bad days.

We are so proud of you lovelies, remember that.

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Tonight's gifs are courtesy of the glorious, brilliant, talented, ever-enabling @celluloidbroomcloset from her post over here.

Ok, Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Goodnight all! <3

#daily ofmd recap #ofmd daily recap #ofmd daily recaps #daily ofmd recaps #rhys darby #david jenkins #taika waititi #our flag means death #ofmd #save ofmd #save our flag means death #save ofmd crew #adopt our crew

[beardedmrbean]

TOKYO -- A Japanese spacecraft touched down on the moon early Saturday, making Japan the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. But officials said they still needed to analyze the pinpoint accuracy of the landing.

Hitoshi Kuninaka, head of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said they believe that rovers were launched and data were being transmitted back to Earth. But there could an issue with the power supply.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). Japan follows the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India in reaching the moon.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

Japan’s spacecraft arrived on the surface of the moon early Saturday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the landing was a success, because the Japanese space agency said it was still “checking its status.”

More details about the spacecraft, which is carrying no astronauts, would be given at a news conference, officials said. If the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.

SLIM came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time Saturday (1520 GMT Friday).

As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that SLIM was on the lunar surface. But there was no mention of whether the landing was successful.

Mission control kept repeating that it was “checking its status" and that more information would be given at a news conference. It wasn't immediately clear when the news conference would start.

SLIM, nicknamed "the Moon Sniper," started its descent at midnight Saturday, and within 15 minutes it was down to about 10 kilometers (six miles) above the lunar surface, according to the space agency, which is known as JAXA.

At an altitude of five kilometers (three miles), the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters (165 feet) above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make a parallel movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said.

About a half-hour after its presumed landing, JAXA said that it was still checking the status of the lander.

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight spacecraft about the size of a passenger vehicle. It was using “pinpoint landing” technology that promises far greater control than any previous moon landing.

While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, SLIM was aiming at a target of just 100 meters (330 feet).

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA.

The mission's main goal is to test new landing technology that would allow moon missions to land “where we want to, rather than where it is easy to land,” JAXA has said. If the landing was a success, the spacecraft will seek clues about the origin of the moon, including analyzing minerals with a special camera.

The SLIM, equipped with a pad to cushion impact, was aiming to land near the Shioli crater, near a region covered in volcanic rock.

The closely watched mission came only 10 days after a moon mission by a U.S. private company failed when the spacecraft developed a fuel leak hours after the launch.

SLIM was launched on a Mitsubishi Heavy H2A rocket in September. It initially orbited Earth and entered lunar orbit on Dec. 25.

Japan hopes a success will help regain confidence for its space technology after a number of failures. A spacecraft designed by a Japanese company crashed during a lunar landing attempt in April, and a new flagship rocket failed its debut launch in March.

JAXA has a track record with difficult landings. Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched in 2014, touched down twice on the 900-meter-long (3,000-foot-long) asteroid Ryugu, collecting samples that were returned to Earth.

Experts say a success of SLIM's pinpoint landing, especially on the moon, would raise Japan's profile in the global space technology race.

Takeshi Tsuchiya, aeronautics professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, said it was important to confirm the accuracy of landing on a targeted area for the future of moon explorations.

“It is necessary to show the world that Japan has the appropriate technology in order to be able to properly assert Japan's position in lunar development,” he said. The moon is important from the perspective of explorations of resources, and it can also be used as a base to go to other planets, like Mars, he said.

SLIM is carrying two small autonomous probes — lunar excursion vehicles LEV-1 and LEV-2, which will be released just before landing.

LEV-1, equipped with an antenna and a camera, is tasked with recording SLIM's landing. LEV-2, is a ball-shaped rover equipped with two cameras, developed by JAXA together with Sony, toymaker Tomy and Doshisha University.

JAXA will broadcast a livestream of the landing, while space fans will gather to watch the historic moment on a big screen at the agency's Sagamihara campus southwest of Tokyo.

#nunyas news #7th country not the 5th #US #russia #china #EU #Isreal #india #and now japan #unless we don't count hard landings

[mindblowingscience]

Japan will make moon-exploration history in the middle of next month, if all goes to plan. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced today (Dec. 5) that it's targeting Jan. 19 for the lunar landing of its robotic SLIM ("Smart Lander for Investigating Moon") spacecraft. The newly revealed plan calls for SLIM to begin its descent toward the moon on Jan. 19 around 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT; 12 a.m. on Jan. 20 Japanese Standard Time). Touchdown — which would mark the first-ever soft lunar landing for a Japanese spacecraft — is scheduled to occur about 20 minutes later. The 8.8-foot-long (2.7 meters) SLIM probe launched atop a Japanese H-2A rocket along with an X-ray space telescope called XRISM on Sept. 6. XRISM deployed into low Earth orbit, but SLIM began making its circuitous, fuel-efficient way to the moon. If all goes smoothly, SLIM will enter lunar orbit on Christmas Day, then spend nearly a month prepping for its technology-demonstrating touchdown attempt. Success would make Japan just the fifth nation to put a probe down on the moon, after the Soviet Union, the United States, China and India. This landing could also open doors for even more ambitious exploration feats down the road.

Conitnue Reading.

#Space #Moon #Moon Landing #Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency #JAXA #Japan

[upennmanuscripts]

Coffee With A Codex: Persian Herbal

Join us on Zoom every Tuesday at 12pm Noon EST / 5pm GMT to look at manuscripts from Penn's collection in an informal environment.

On November 15 guest host Shreve Simpson will show us LJS 278, an illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals. Written in Deccan, India, in Muḥarram A.H. 1004 (1595) or AH 1054 (1645).

The event is informal and everyone is welcome to attend.

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Find out more about the project and the manuscripts we've looked at in the past.

If you miss a week or you just want to know what Coffee With A Codex is about, you can watch recordings of past events on the CWAC YouTube Playlist.

#manuscript #herbal #persian #not medieval #but still very cool #india #illustrated #plants #illustrations #history of medicine #history of science #botany #plant life #history of botany

[bcacstuff]

Okay BCAC, where do you think Sam is right now? Asia? Europe? North America?

I got a lot of these kinda messages the whole week. Which I didn't post or answered. Since, I did share my theory, which I gave you all an extended explanation for. But I didn't chip him and I don't have a GPS app to follow him like these ClubOcean 'whale tracking bracelet' ads I get on FB.

Anyway, I sure think he was 'somewhere' last week. 😂 But I totally exclude North America as well as Europe. I still think he is/was in Asia given the sm activity times.

I also don't jump to conclusions when he's offline for some days, or comes back online at some point to say oh now he's here or now he's there. It takes a bit more time to figure out a pattern, and we've all seen this time the times of posting and being online were all over the place, and odd.

After he came back online on Sunday, the times very much still looked like Asia, and then I'm talking about the parts that have a timezone of GMT+5 to +6, so India, Nepal...

Consequently we saw him a lot online on Monday and Tuesday, beginning early in the morning and on Monday like 12 hours and Tuesday even from 8.30am - 23.00 (GMT) constantly with just a few times some hours between posts or other activity.

Today, it starts to look more like his usual UK pattern, but I'm still cautious and keeping the Asia option open. And that's the best I can say about it. We can keep speculating, but we better hope he's gonna show us at some point. What I did notice, all he posts are reposting things others posted, even on Twitter!

Oh and to all the Anons sending me these messages about he's with this or that woman... stop embarrassing yourself please. It's obvious he's not and you don't make any sense at all.

[shitouttabuck]

hi nina what timezone are you in?

hiii i live in india which is gmt +5:30 (it is currently 1.12pm. and i am thinking about lunch)

#i tend to wake up v early and go to bed v early though! #what timezone are YOU in 👀 #ask #anon

[catdotjpeg]

Spain has refused permission for an Israel-bound ship carrying arms to call at the southeastern port of Cartagena, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says. Albares confirmed reports the Marianne Danica vessel is carrying a cargo of arms to Israel and requested permission to dock at Cartagena on May 21. He said refusing permission was consistent with Spain’s policy to ban the exports of all arms to Israel since the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October. “We have detected this ship, we have refused to allow it to dock, and I can tell you that this will be a consistent policy with any ship carrying Israeli arms and arms cargo that wants to dock in Spanish ports,” Albares told reporters in Brussels. Marianne Danica is carrying nearly 27 tonnes of explosive material from Madras, India, the El Pais newspaper reported.

-- "Spain denies port call for ship carrying arms to Israel" by Mersiha Gadzo and Maziar Motamedi for Al Jazeera, 16 May 2024 20:35 GMT

#palestine #spain #murcia #cartagena

[gmtindiasposts]

3 New Timepieces Are Added to the Polaris Collection From Jaeger-Lecoultre

Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris collection has expanded with 3 new watches: Polaris Geographic, Polaris Date, and Polaris Perpetual Calendar. These luxury timepieces offer unique travel time complexity, dual time functions, and other impressive features. The Polaris Perpetual Calendar features a gradient green lacquered dial with three sub-dials. Read here for more information about the new watches of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris.

#gmt india #Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris #best Jaeger-LeCoultre watch #luxury timepieces from gmt india

[thepastisalreadywritten]

2 September 2022

Fresh off its success at the moon, India is now headed for the sun.

The nation launched its first-ever solar observatory today (Sept. 2), sending the Aditya-L1 probe skyward atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 2:20 a.m. EDT (0620 GMT; 11:50 a.m. local India time).

The PSLV deployed Aditya-L1 into low Earth orbit (LEO) as planned about 63 minutes after liftoff, sparking applause and high fives in mission control.

"Congratulations, India, and congratulations, ISRO [the Indian Space Research Organisation]," Jitendra Singh, India's Minister of State for Science and Technology, said shortly after deployment on ISRO's launch webcast.

"While the whole world watched this with bated breath, it is indeed a sunshine moment for India," Singh added.

The successful launch followed on the heels of another big milestone for India: On August 23, its Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to land softly near the moon's south pole.

Chandrayaan-3's lander-rover duo are expected to conk out in a week or so, when the harsh lunar night falls at their touchdown site. But Aditya-L1's long journey has just begun.

A long road to a good sun-viewing spot

Aditya-L1 won't stay in LEO forever:

After a series of checkouts, it will use its onboard propulsion system to head toward Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a gravitationally stable spot about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet in the direction of the sun.

That destination explains the latter part of the mission's name. And the first part is simple enough: "Aditya" translates to "sun" in Sanskrit.

The 3,260-pound (1,480 kilograms) observatory will arrive at L1 about four months from now, if all goes according to plan.

But the long trek will be worth it, according to the ISRO.

"A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the sun without any occultation/eclipses," ISRO officials wrote in an Aditya-L1 mission description.

"This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real time."

Indeed, another sun-studying spacecraft is already at L1 — the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission that launched in December 1995.

(Several other spacecraft, including NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, are at Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2, which is a million miles from Earth, in the direction away from the sun.)

Solar flares, the coronal heating mystery and more

Once it's settled in at L1, the solar probe will use four three science instruments to study the particles and magnetic fields in its immediate surroundings and four others to scrutinize the sun's surface (known as the photosphere) and its atmosphere.

This work will help scientists better understand solar activity, including the dynamics of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), ISRO officials say.

Flares are powerful flashes of high-energy radiation, and CMEs are huge eruptions of solar plasma.

Both types of outburst can affect us here on Earth. Intense CMEs that hit our planet, for example, trigger geomagnetic storms that can disrupt satellite navigation and power grids.

(As a side benefit, such storms also supercharge the gorgeous light shows known as auroras.)

Aditya-L1 will also tackle the "coronal heating problem," one of the biggest mysteries in heliophysics.

The corona — the sun's wispy outer atmosphere — is incredibly hot, reaching temperatures around 2 million degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 million degrees Celsius), according to NASA.

That's about 200 times hotter than the solar surface, which is "only" 10,000 degrees F (5,500 degrees C) or so.

It's still unclear what is responsible for this startling and counterintuitive discrepancy.

(Why would it be hotter away from the sun's core, where the energy-producing nuclear fusion reactions are occurring?)

Aditya-L1 has other science goals as well. For instance, the mission also aims to more fully flesh out the solar wind, the stream of charged particles flowing constantly from the sun, ISRO officials said.

Aditya-L1 will measure the composition of the solar wind and attempt to determine how it is accelerated.

And Aditya-L1 will do all this work on the cheap:

The mission's price tag is about 3.8 billion rupees, or $46 million US at current exchange rates.

That's in the same ballpark as Chandrayaan-3

India's first successful moon-landing mission costs about 6.15 billion rupees, or $74 million US.

For comparison, NASA's most recent big-ticket sun mission, the record-setting Parker Solar Probe, costs roughly $1.5 billion.

This disparity should not be viewed as an indictment of NASA, however; labor costs are much higher in the United States than in India, among other differences between the two nations' economies.

Aditya-L1 is a coronagraphy spacecraft to study the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various other Indian research institutes.

#India #Aditya-L1 #Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) #Satish Dhawan Space Centre #low Earth orbit (LEO) #sun #Indian Space Research Organisation #Chandrayaan-3 #Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1 (L1) #Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) #solar flares #coronal mass ejections (CMEs) #coronal heating problem #heliophysics #solar wind #Parker Solar Probe #NASA #solar observatory #solar atmosphere

[driftershunt]

for the ask game:

🕗 ✈️ 🍝 🎶 <3

🕗 — time zone - Currently GMT+6 ✈️ — ever traveled anywhere interesting? - I visited India earlier this year! It was super interesting, though I got a bit confused by which language to use when I talked to people because I knew all three of the languages they spoke in that area LOL 🍝 — favorite food(s)? - Spaghetti bolognese, caramel custard (my mother's recipe Specifically, I can't stand other ones) and polao! 🎶 — favorite song at the moment? - 'You're losing me' by taylor swift!!

#ty for the ask!!!!! #asks

[cftulips]

𝙸𝙽𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚄𝙲𝙸𝙽𝙶 ... KATE  SHARMA

(   SIMONE  ASHLEY  +  WOMAN  +  SHE  /  HER.   )     dearest  reader  ,  i  am  ever  so  delighted  to  introduce  KATE  SHARMA  ,  the  twenty  six  year  old  miss  ,  known  among  the  ton  as  assertive  +  self-assured  but  their  foes  would  certainly  tell  you  that  they  are  more  blunt  +  stubborn  .  perhaps  that  is  why  many  seem  to  think  they  had  something  to  do  with  the  ongoings  around  the  ton  ,  but  here  they  are  anyway  !     (   lo  ,  27  ,  she  +  her  ,  gmt  +  10  ,  n/a.   )

𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨

full name : kate sharma . nickname/s : none . pronouns : she / her . age : twenty six . star sign : taurus . family : unnamed mother & father, mary sharma ( step mother ), edwina sharma ( half sister ) . home : india .

𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙

kate does not have many remaining memories of her biological mother as she had passed when she was still quite young . even growing up, her papa had not spoken of memories or stories of his deceased wife as the thoughts of reliving such happier times were too hard to relive through the grief. the only real mother she has ever known is mary . despite not being biologically related, mary cared and treated kate as though she was her own daughter.

when edwina was born, despite still being young herself, swore to do anything and everything within her power to make sure her younger sister lived a fulfilled life where she knew only love, not heartbreak. as the two grew up, kate always ensured that she was by edwina's side, looking out for her or teaching her what she knew.

when her papa died, she felt as though a part of her had died with him. she had lost before her biological parents. her only tie to any sort of biological family was edwina. kate had pushed her grief down and had strengthened herself to be strong and there for edwina and mary for whatever came next.

kate had always been fond of both literature and horseback riding. there were no other times that she truly felt carefree and free was when she was riding. nothing else mattered in that moment but the wind in her hair and against her face. if she was not riding, she could be found with her eyes glued to whichever book was currently taking residence in her hands.

marriage has never been something that kate had considered to be something she wanted. she knew it was expected of her but it was never something she actively sought out for herself.

coming to england to stay with lady danbury and be sponsored by her, kate has a large secret that she is keeping hidden from everyone; the true reason to why they have come to mayfair. she had been in contact with the sheffields and had organised an arrangement for them to provide edwina with a dowry and trust fund if she were to marry an eligible bachelor within the ton. this is kate's mission and she will not be deterred.

#hmintro. #°☆ 𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖 / musings .

[brian-in-finance]

IFTA Instagram Image modified by @brian-in-finance

Note 1: Ceremony Sunday

Note 2: Broadcast Monday at 9:35 p.m. GMT+1

IFTA ANNOUNCE CONTENT PARTNERSHIP WITH TIKTOK AHEAD OF 20TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS CEREMONY

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA), is proud to announce that it is partnering with TikTok as part of its upcoming 20th Anniversary IFTA Awards Ceremony taking place on Sunday, May 7th.

As part of the partnership, IFTA will host exclusive content from the past twenty years via #IFTA on TikTok. There will also be a special TikTok LIVE direct from the red carpet on May 7th hosted by popular TikTok creator and disability rights activist, India Sasha Atkinson. As part of the TikTok Live, Belfast native, Sasha, who has more than 500k+ followers on TikTok and is known for her straight-talking and down-to-earth sense of humour, will be speaking with some of the biggest names in Irish film and TV and sharing some fun behind the scenes footage.

IFTA TikTok

Photo: LinkedIn

India Sasha Atkinson TikTok

"We are delighted to partner with TikTok to bring the excitement of the IFTA red carpet to an even wider audience,” said an IFTA spokesperson. “The IFTA Awards are a celebration of Irish talent both at home and internationally, and this partnership with TikTok allows us to showcase that talent in a unique and engaging way."

A spokesperson from TikTok added: "The creative and engaging worlds of film and TV have captured the hearts of the TikTok community with actors, film makers and fans alike coming together to share their passion for film and TV in a uniquely TikTok way. It is our privilege to bring the TikTok community to the iconic IFTA awards ceremony to celebrate and recognise the outstanding work of the many talented individuals in the Irish film and television industry."

About the Awards:

The 20th Anniversary IFTA Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 7th, and highlights will be broadcast on RTÉ Two the following evening Monday, May 8th. The show will feature a range of categories celebrating the best of Irish film and television, with nominees for Best Film including The Banshees of Inisherin, Lakelands, Aisha, God’s Creatures, The Wonder and Róise & Frank. Comedian and actress Deirdre O’Kane will host proceedings.

To tune into the TikTok Live from IFTA red carpet, be sure to follow and tune into India Sasha Atkinson from 5.15PM on Sunday, 7th May

IFTA

Remember… ITFA Red Carpet at 5:15 p.m. GMT+1 Sunday on TikTok. Ceremony highlights at 9:35 p.m. GMT+1 Monday on RTÉ2

#Tait rhymes with hat #Good times #Outlander #Awards #Irish Film and Television Academy #IFTA #IFTA20Years #Host #Deirdre O’Kane #Royal Convention Centre #7 May 2023 #Dublin #RTÉ #Campaign To Shorten Awards Season

[pattie-remembers]

Pattie Boyd: ‘George and I nearly drowned in a riptide on our Barbados honeymoon’

February 22 2023, 12.00pm GMT

Barbados, where Pattie Boyd and George Harrison were caught in a riptide on their honeymoon

GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY

Pattie Boyd lives in London with her husband, Rod Weston, and their dog, Freddie. A Sixties model and now an acclaimed photographer, she was formerly married to Harrison and Eric Clapton.

I was three years old when my parents moved to Kenya to live with my grandparents. We had a beautiful, big rambling house. The garden went on into the wilderness, it wasn’t unusual to see giraffes and lions wandering in.

Growing up in Africa shaped me. I remember very clearly riding bareback on my horse through woodland. I got used to the unusual. Going to bed one night I heard a noise. Underneath the door was a snake, slowly slithering into my room. I was frozen, absolutely riveted, he was huge. I was nineyears old and I started screaming.

I was sent to boarding school in England when I was ten and it was quite a shock to the system. The other girls didn’t know what I was talking about. Africa was all I knew.

Boyd with George Harrison, in 1966

ALAMY

George and I nearly drowned on our honeymoon in Barbados. We stayed in the middle of the island and explored the north coast. One glorious day we went swimming and to my horror I realised that there was a riptide. I was swimming towards the beach and not moving. I realised that if we were to swim parallel to the shore, we might get away from the current. I was terrified. I remember Mick Fleetwood said to me once, it is a weird thing when you know you’re drowning, you start swallowing water and everything becomes euphoric. George and I finally made it to the beach and sat there panting. The waiters brought us sandwiches and we ate the whole lot in shock.

India with the Beatles was a magical time. We were in an ashram, surrounded by like-minded people. The maharishi kept insisting it was very important for us all to learn meditation, for us and for the world. He said things were going to escalate and get faster and meditation would give us the tools to slow life down.

The Beatles would sit on the ashram steps with their guitars, jamming together and singing. They wrote so many songs there, everything from The White Album. The whole vibe was gentle and calming and inspirational.

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Touring with Eric was new to me because I never went on tour with George and the Beatles. America was eye-opening. When Eric went on stage, the audience would stretch back as far as the eye could see. I used to sit on the side, drink in one hand, camera in the other. During the encore the audience would lift their lighters into the air and the whole auditorium would be filled with flickering lights in the dark. I love to capture beauty with my camera. It’s like anything fabulous: it’s not going to be there for ever.

Boyd with Eric Clapton in 1978

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Eric didn’t really like travelling otherwise. I think when you’re a musician and you tour, then the idea of travelling for a holiday is not high up on your list.

A place I’ll always love is Venezuela. I went in 1994 when I was single and discovering who I was again. I did a day trip to Angel Falls, eventually reaching the top of a mountain that looked down over an incredibly steep edge. The idea was to go hang-gliding, something that had never crossed my mind before. I said, “Blow that! I’m not jumping off this cliff!” Suddenly an elderly Indian lady ran past us and leapt off the mountain as we watched in horror. Well, we had to do it then, didn’t we? Clutching my camera to my chest, I jumped into nothing. I felt like a condor in the air — I was jumping to freedom.

Angel Falls in Venezuela

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Peru is a special place. I went there with a female shaman, and I knew I was going to take ayahuasca [a plant-based psychedelic drug]. Greedy me, I ended up doing it twice. It was amazing. We also knew that we would be shedding a lot, both physically and spiritually. Just before we started I noticed a huge snake curled on one of the eaves. Six hours later we walked out and I saw the snake’s skin lying on the floor. The symbolism was clear. I never did ayahuasca with George and Eric, they weren’t adventurous like that.

Growing up in Kenya helped me not to be frightened in life. I am excited because there are more things to see, more adventures, and I don’t like to repeat things, I don’t see the point. There is always something new around the corner.

Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures is published by Reel Art Press at £39.95 (reelartpress.com)

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