Actor Geoffrey Rush has made a career out of playing eccentric characters. Long before his award winning performance as Lionel Logue in The King’s Speech, Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) or even David Helfgott in Shine (1996) there was his 1989 portrayal of Poprishchin in Diary of a Madman. Adapted fromRead… Read more »
Telstra has announced it will implement a 4G mobile broadband wireless network by the end of 2011. It is claimed this will provide similar data rates to ADSL wired links, with typical speeds being 20 to 30 megabits per second. This is using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, which is a low risk upgrade fromRead… Read more »
Background information for those just wandering into this legislative disaster: Last year, not to be undone by their other incredible feats of total ineptitude, some of our Illinois legislators passed a law under the cover of darkness to regulate and impose a fee on anyone trying to dump dirt in a hole. At least that’sRead… Read more »
In the lake behind Tura Beach (NSW) I noticed what looked like a bit of a jetty. But this was not connected to the land and one end sloped down into the water. On the land nearby I noticed what appear to be something of the same design lying on the ground. This was aboutRead… Read more »
From the TVW synopsis: “Anti-gang legislation is stirring debate over public safety and civil rights. Host Austin Jenkins interviews Attorney General Rob McKenna, and hosts a panel discussion with an ACLU representative, a police officer, and an ex-gang member.” Original post
Vienna, VA (Feb. 14, 2011) — C² Technologies, Inc. (http://www.c2ti.com/) today announced that it has been awarded a project with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to evaluate NSF’s Web 2.0 presence and use of social media for employee recruitment and to make recommendations for improvement. C²’s evaluation of the NSF Web 2.0 and social mediaRead… Read more »
One of my public health colleagues/friends in the area, Ann Houston Staples, recently caught my attention as I was looking at her status on Facebook. She did something that struck me as interesting – she started sharing her eating habits on the social network. Having a food journal is nothing new, but with the opportunitiesRead… Read more »
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, co-chairs of NAAG’s Intellectual Property Committee, wrote the following editorial, published in The Hill. Original post
Research Innovation in Government (02/03/2011) – Report provides a framework government leaders can use to create a climate of innovation in their organization. Tips for fostering innovation include: establishing a lab for testing new ideas; organizing a task force to identify barriers to innovation; rotating employees in the agency to spread ideas; training employees onRead… Read more »