The first video shows what happens when water droplets are applied to a superhyrdrophobic surface (in this case, paper rubbed with aerogel powder).
The second shows two 2-4mm droplets from the first experiment, now coated with hydrophobic material, (waterproofed water droplets) refusing to unify.
You there at the back. Wake up. There’ll be a test.
Thanks David O Donoghue
The Olympic gold medal winning (1500m,1956) Ronnie Delany brings the torch into government buildings on Merrion Street, Dublin.
Thanks Andy Sheridan
Will it be
1) A number of senior and mid-ranking officials at the Department of Finance?
2) The person whose job it was to spot these errors?
3) Nobody?
YOU decide.
TWO OFFICIAL reports on the €3.6 billion discrepancy in the Government’s debt figures have concluded there was duplication of effort between agencies, failures in communications and reporting, as well as lack of resources for key statistical work.
An internal Government report prepared for the Department of Finance and an external review carried out by consultants Deloitte and Touche have both concluded the responsibility for compiling the statistics should rest with one agency, the Central Statistics Office, rather than it being shared with the Department of Finance.
Lest we forget…
The secretary general of the department when the accounting error occurred, Kevin Cardiff, was rejected for the post of European Court of Auditors by a budgetary committee of the European Parliament by one vote in November last year. The European Parliament later overturned the recommendation by the budget committee to nominate Mr Cardiff to the post which carries a salary of €276,000 per year.
(Photocall Ireland)
Thanks Steven McCarthy
On Dame Street.
Thanks PT
The Hickmeister.
A Denis you can believe in.
Stephen Pierce writes:
Denis Hickie doing the Clanbrassil St. leg. Note the disappointed schoolgirls in the background, who had been chanting for a good half an hour, still waiting for Jedward!
“Is this a fire drill.?”
“The fire drill was yesterday.”
“Look. Yellow bus.”
FIN
A Rodders OD production.
Shot on location at the IFSC, Dublin, within the last hour.
An animated tribute to the oeuvre of Tim Burton by freelance animator Martin Woutisseth, three months in the making. An entry in the Concours d’Animation Tim Burton (voting is still open) organised by La Cinematheque Francaise.
