John Riley posted a very nice Quicktime VR Scene from Cartago, Costa Rica.
Daily Archives: April 5, 2005
Feingold Funding Political Travels with a Leadership PAC
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose name has become synonymous with campaign finance reform, is raising both his profile and thousands of dollars with his new leadership political action committee.
Feingold, D-Wis., is using the PAC to fund political travel, like his high-profile trip to Alabama last week, and to make contributions to fellow Democrats as he tries to help the party regain the Senate next year.
Eizenstat to speak at the UW 4.12
Stuart E. Eizenstat, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will give a pair of talks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday, April 12.
Eizenstat will discuss his book, “Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II,” in Room 7200 at the UW Law School at 1:30 p.m.
Then, at 3 p.m., he will speak on “Transatlantic Relations in the Second Bush Term,” at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Eizenstat’s talks, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the UW-Madison’s European Union Center, in collaboration with the Office of the Dean of International Studies.
IT Outsourcing Sprouts Up in Rural America
Aelera Corp. CEO Dustin Crane traveled to China, India and Armenia in a quest to buy or start up an offshore IT services company. After six months of searching, he returned to the U.S. and set up operations in the coastal city of Savannah and the smaller town of Fitzgerald, Ga., population 8,758.
McKesson Corp. CIO Cheryl T. Smith estimates that the $8 billion pharmaceutical distributor is saving $10 million annually in salary costs?a percentage of which is reinvested in IT innovation?after relocating its primary data center and about 75 IT jobs from San Francisco to Dubuque, Iowa.
Two fantastic examples of what’s possible. Unfortunatetly, it seems Wisconsin’s political leaders aren’t interested in laying the groundwork for the true high speed networks necessary for these type of opportunities to land here…..