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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988149195655755042018-03-02T08:17:23.139-08:00Wally WorldWalter firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-31033159774602204782012-05-02T11:55:00.001-07:002012-05-02T11:55:42.126-07:00Citrix Provisioning Server 6.1Currently deploying an upgrade of PVS 6.1 at work. Our current version of PVS is 5.1, which is EOL.
PVS 6.1 is a pretty significant upgrade. I especially like the new Maintenance/Test/Production lifecycle management features.Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-52541371896701224802012-04-26T17:13:00.001-07:002012-04-26T17:13:32.710-07:00AT&T HTC One X

Went to check out the One X at the local AT&T corporate store today (on Townsend near AT&T park.)

The white demo unit was dead but they were nice enough to charge it up for me.

Nice phone, striking design, very light. The screen is beautiful and it seems very fast and smooth.

It well be available May 6, and I'm thinking of picking one up and handing my skyrocket down to my daughter, but I'm not sure I can live with the fact that it only has 16G of storage and no option to add a micro SD card.

Decisions...

Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-23381241312608047062008-05-23T18:19:00.001-07:002008-05-23T18:19:18.780-07:00I do love a new toy
Just downloaded and installed this great new blogging add-on to Firefox.

It's called ScribeFire and so for it's great.

Might even get me to blog more than once every 2 years.

Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-14847280553744207172006-11-02T08:16:00.000-08:002006-11-02T08:17:21.801-08:00Check me at VoxIn my relentless pursuit of novelty, I've created a new blog at Vox, which is where my new posts seem to be going.

Check it out here.Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-68435323372569919392006-09-19T10:32:00.000-07:002006-09-19T10:33:52.023-07:00What be your pirate name matey?In honor of international talk like a pirate day, you can learn to talk like a pirate here, and learn your pirate name by filling out a short questionnaire.

 My pirate name is:

 Captain Roger Rackham

 Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

 Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-11802224877208558382006-09-16T11:19:00.000-07:002006-09-16T11:32:21.229-07:00Week in Review
Well, not a bad week after all.

Ainsley had her 4 week doctor's appointment. She's doing great, and now weighs 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Which means she put on 1 pound, 11 ounces in 2 weeks.

Bob, Rod, Milan (my Sox auditor) and myself got together for beer and appetizers at the Fault Line. Milan had to leave early (something about his wife being hungry) but a good time was had by all. I tried the Cask Conditioned, the Best Bitters, and the Stout and quite enjoyed them all. The tempura Ahi Tuna Rolls are most excellent, and the Calamari (something I don't usually go in for) was actually quite nice.
With all the trash talking, objectification of women, and general bad behaviour, I'm afraid it was a bit like a 3 hour Man Show (Milan excepted.)

My Sox audit went as well as can be expected, and although I have quite a to-do list, Milan was (as always) entirely reasonable, pragmatic, and not one bit pedantic.

Despite no longer working with Bob, I think I had lunch with him 3 times since the layoff. I expect this will drop off once he quits his lollygagging and obtains gainful employment once again.Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-66716462981276655802006-09-16T11:03:00.000-07:002006-09-16T11:10:23.854-07:00The Girl with Error Message EyesSaw this on Boing Boing

Intriguing example of accidental art / social commentary.
Apparently due to systems problems on Second Life, the textures for this models eyes are missing, and have been substituted with error messages.

It does seem that Second Life (and to a lesser extent the entire MMORG trend) are really beginning to resemble the virtual worlds written about by authors such as William Gibson.

I'm going to have to check out second life. Seems like a virtual Burning Man meets the Sims.Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-73282798445081915682006-09-11T07:49:00.000-07:002006-09-11T08:00:21.734-07:00Wake me when it's all overWhat a tiring weekend.
I'm writing this from the CalTrain, and struggling to stay awake.

Saturday we had a very nice 4th birthday party for Shealyn, my second child. She asked for a party at the park with her friends and to have a rainbow cake. She had both, although my wife and I were up until midnight frosting a rainbow on her cake. Anyway, a nice time was had by all and the party lasted almost 4 hours.

Sunday we were out and about with the visiting in-laws. They took Shea shopping at Toys R' Us for her birthday presents, and there was 1.5 hours of her exclaiming "Oh! Look at that!" in her sweet little voice. Several barbies and pegasus stuffed animals later and she was completely overwhelmed.

We finished off the evening with a nice dinner (and margaritas) at Left at Albuquerque.

Today is my birthday, and as a birthday present I have a Sox (Sarbanes Oxley for the blissfully unaware) Auditor in this whole week. Our auditor is a really nice guy, but when you are as behind as I am on compliance, it's a bit painful to see it all documented for managements review.

So, I think I'll just go to sleep on the train. Will someone please wake me when the week is over?Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-39364203723637286242006-09-07T11:42:00.000-07:002006-09-07T11:54:01.303-07:00Bye Bye Bob.Well, my close friend Bob (link) was laid off yesterday at our company.
He wasn't alone, as his boss and some European staff went as well.

I'm in the IT department, and had the unpleasant responsibility of shutting down his accounts and network access. I know I'm just doing my job, but it's tough.

Bob and I have been working together for 13 years, and it's certainly going to be strange not having him there to discuss movies, music, social issues, systems design, business process, symantics, and generally fixing all the problems of the world.

Also, without Bob's regular correction, I'm afraid my grammer is going to steadily devolve <g>.

Good luck Bob!

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I figured I had developed an electrical short, that is, until I hit a red light and saw that the cars thermostat was similarly in the red.

I managed to nurse the car into work, where upon popping the hood I could see water dripping from the top tank and could hear the radiator boiling away like a percolator.

I don't think I really want to try to get the car the 32 miles back to Morgan Hill to have my local shop look at it.

I guess I need to find a Sunnyvale shop.Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-670378081313478802006-08-28T20:31:00.000-07:002006-08-28T20:33:32.281-07:00PicasaWeb TestI'm also trying out Google's PicasaWeb. There is no question that Picasa is one of the best local photo managers, but the 250MB limit on PicasaWeb seems a bit stingy (especially considering the 2G Gmail limit.)

Check out PicasaWeb and Flickr and let me know which you like best.

Here is the Glass Beach album.

Glass Beach

Sep 10, 2005 - 34 Photos

Walter Williamshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-48663599167312749512006-08-28T16:57:00.000-07:002006-08-28T17:04:03.017-07:00Amazon S3Spent time over the weekend reading up on Amazon's new(ish) S3 (Simple Storage Service.)
Basically it's web based storage priced at $.15 / Gigabyte Month and $.20 / Gigabyte bandwidth. It's only accessible via their APIs (SOAP and REST) but a number of front ends have been created (including the S3Organizer Firefox extension.)

I think this as potential as storage and processing for the PACT project at work. I was able to create a proof of concept script that uploads files via http using the curl utility. I think this could replace the Autosubmit via ftp logic.

S3 combines very nicely with the new Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) service that just went into beta. It basically allows you to have on-demand computing (ala Sun Grid) for Linux systems. Storage is provided via S3 and computing is prices at $.10 / hour.

EC2 might be a solution for our data processing and analysis needs. We currently run some fairly heavy hitting (especially in memory use) R scripts to analyze the data and generate html based reports. The EC2 hosted systems could do the analysis and web serving.Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-47182009680859239272006-08-28T16:52:00.000-07:002006-08-28T16:56:36.675-07:00Happy Birthday HoneyHad an early celebration of Camille's birthday with the in-laws (brother, father, mother, sister) yesterday at PF Changs Oakridge.

The food was good, and the children (all 5) were on pretty good behaviour.

Cindy brought a delicious cake from the Buttery. I can highly recommend them.

Bella and and especially Shea were dissapointed that the carousel was closed for repairs.Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-46635032082644197862006-08-26T01:22:00.000-07:002006-08-26T01:24:04.170-07:00FlickrFinally decided to do something with the Flickr account I created months ago.
I've uploaded pictures from Disneyland (last year) and Mendecino.
Follow the "Flickr photos" link in the right side-bar to see them.Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-798814919565575504.post-58977948249121655862006-08-25T14:12:00.000-07:002006-08-25T14:16:11.983-07:00Inaugural Posting
First blog posting...

I'm happy to announce the birth of my new baby girl Ainsley Rane Williams on August 20 at 11:37 AM.

She was 3 weeks early (but still full-term, I can't really figure out all this pre/full term stuff) and was 5 lbs 15 oz and 19 inches long at birth.

She and mom are doing fine. She was born naturally but her mom was up and around two hours after the birth. She's an amazing woman.

Ainsley had a touch of jaundice and she had to go through 3 blood tests (poor thing) to check her bilirubin levels, but all is improving now.Walter Williamshttps://email@example.com


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I voted yesterday. It was pretty damn exciting. Here I am with my Dad right after.....Yes, he is definitely tearing up. Haha! I love it.
That's all for now :)
Love you all!
P.S.: If anyone's interested in the shirt.....lemme know! I'll point you in the right direction.
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The Compensation Committee is a Special Committee of the Board. The Committee has oversight of executive compensation, works with the CEO to develop annual strategic goals for the President and CEO, reviews and evaluates the achievement of these goals, and sets the compensation of the President and CEO. The Compensation Committee has general oversight of the President and CEO and Leadership Team to ensure the alignment of organizational goals and compensation of the President and CEO and Leadership Team.
The Compensation Committee is composed of the Board Chair, Board Vice Chair-Chair Elect, the Immediate Past Board Chair and two additional Directors. The Board Chair serves as Compensation Committee Chair. Each of the two additional Directors are appointed by the Vice Chair-Chair Elect (who shall preside as Board Chair during the year for which the appointments are made), and serve a two-year term on a staggered basis. The two additional Directors will preferably have experience with board compensation committee issues. Compensation Committee meetings are held as needed and called by the Chair.
Caryn L. Beck-Dudley, Santa Clara University
John A. Elliott, University of Connecticut
Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, IE University
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Marquetry - How to make pictures and patterns in wood veneers
Marquetry - How to make pictures and patterns in wood veneers
David Hume | Stackpole Books | PDF | 82pgs| 12mb
Marquetry is the art of using the colour and grain of wood veneers to create a picture which is overlaid on to a solid background.
There are different ways of building up a picture from wood veneers but I have found that the 'window' method of cutting gives very successful results. I describe the techniques of this method on pages 20 and 21, and I use them in my step-by-step instructions.
I hope to show you that a newcomer to this craft can create interesting and exciting designs of his or her own. The book will also be, useful to those who are already familiar with marquetry, but who wish to progress beyond commercial kits.
Inspiration for a design can be taken from a variety of sources and you will derive hours of enjoyment and satisfaction from translating designs into finished pictures.
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Vice Dean Lin Goodwin Publishes New Book: Building BridgesSkip to content Skip to main navigation
Teacher Education at Teachers College
Vice Dean Lin Goodwin Publishes New Book: Building Bridges
Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike. However, the proliferation of communication channels in this digital era requires a fundamental re-thinking of the nature of literacy and the pedagogy of literacy teaching and teacher education.
This text brings together papers by experts in teacher education, literacy, and information technology to help chart a way forward in this complex area. Because of their background in teacher education, the authors are realistic about what is appropriate and feasible – they do not just jump on a technology bandwagon – but they are also able to provide extended examples of how to embed technology in the practice of teacher education. – Viv Ellis, Professor of Education at Brunel University, England and Bergen University College in Norway
Clare Kosnik (University of Toronto, Canada), Simone White (Monash University, Australia), Clive Beck (University of Toronto, Canada), Bethan Marshall (King's College London, UK), A. Lin Goodwin (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and Jean Murray (University of East London, UK) (Eds.)
Sense Publishers, 2016
You can get a free preview of the book here.


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So this year was the first year we were able to do our very own Christmas morning as a family. Since both our families are only 20 minutes away, we could do our own thing in the morning and also see our families later in the day! It was so fun to start our own family traditions with Angie. She's just now starting to understand everything about Christmas, so that made it even more fun! Her two big gifts from Santa were a tent with a tunnels, (if you look closely you can see Angie's head at the top of the tent!) and her train set. She loved both of them and didn't know what to play with first! It was great to watch the look of excitement on her face... it was priceless! Oh how I love Christmas!
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Institute of Engineering Research - Who we are ?
'IER' stands for "Institute of Engineering Research" – A professional body running under VTP Research Events and Education Private Limited [ Approved by Government of India under companies act 2013, CIN U74900TZ2015PTC021288 ].
IER is started to help student community and to inspire the young research minds. IER organizing high quality events like Conferences, Seminars & Training Programs which helps its participants to enhance their technical skills.
'No knowledge, No research' – IER is the right platform to the research community to gather much more knowledge. IER helping the student community to interact with their field experts, which leads them to the right research path.


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He learned from a source in the Islamic Dawa Party, Sunday, having a hand in the party is heading for a coup against the Secretary General of the Party Nuri al-Maliki and pave the way for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, or Party historian and dean of preachers Hassan inch for the leadership of the Islamic Dawa Party.
The source, who holds a senior position in the party's / scales News / that "the party's general conference scheduled for the coming months will be the objective of restructuring the party and choose a new secretary of the advocates of" revealing the existence of a "secret" agreement to elect Abadi or an inch of the General Secretariat of the Party and the formation of the Office political and Shura Council is a new escalation in which a number of supporters of the current prime minister. "
The source revealed that the condition of anonymity that "supporters of Ebadi advocates starting paving the internal ground to exclude al-Maliki from the post of secretary-general," stressing that "al-Maliki dominated the satellite channel prospects and refuses to be belonging to the Islamic Dawa Party, while the party leaders want to adopt a policy instead of First Deputy President of the Republic policy. "
This revealed a senior political source said, "Fakih Islamic Dawa Party, Sheikh Abdul-Halim al-Zuhairi split from the Secretary General of the Party and First Vice-President Nuri al-Maliki team and joined the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi team."
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for / scales News / "The Sheikh Zuhairi decided after a dispute with al-Maliki to join the team member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Dawa Party and the current prime minister Haider al-Abadi."
The source explained that "Zuhairi refused to participate emergency conference to lead the Islamic Dawa Party / Maliki wing to separate the number of party cadres" prominent "who were accused of being" traitors "al-Maliki at the formation of the current government / he said /". Ended 29 / d 25


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Screen-Cast: Introducing the FormattingAssembler Module
When transforming a WordprocessingML document into HTML formatted with CSS, the key question is: What is the exact formatting of the various tables, paragraphs, and runs in a document? If a run in a document is formatted with a particular font and size, i.e. Tahoma 12pt or Calibri 11pt, and if it is bold or italic, we want to know that, and we want to transform it to HTML/CSS as such.
But this question is not an easy one to answer. There are a number of aspects of the markup that add complexity. When the run itself is formatted with bold or italic, it is easy to find out. We just need to examine the w:rPr element of the run. However, the run might be formatted with a particular character style, and in order to find out whether the run is bold or not, we need to look at the style. Further, styles in WordprocessingML can derive from base styles, so in addition to looking at the style of the run, we need to examine the base style of the run's style. And if no character style in the style chain defines some aspect of formatting, we may find it defined in the global run properties.
We also, of course, want to find all aspects of paragraph styling, including indentation, and the white space before and after the paragraph. All of the same issues apply. Paragraph styles inherit from other paragraph styles. We also need to take global paragraph properties into account.
Tables are even more interesting. Table styles define formatting for various components of a table, including the first row, the last row, the first column, the last column, odd rows, even rows, odd columns, even columns, and the four cells in the corners of the table. Further, the styling for these components are applied in a specific order, and even more interesting, each component of a table style may be conditionally applied for a given table. And if that were not enough, table styles also can inherit from other table styles.
Numbered and bulleted lists add their own special challenges. We can determine the text of the list item using the ListItemRetriever class from PowerTools for Open XML. The run properties of the paragraph define the list item formatting, but number formats can override this. Further, a number format can refer to a character style, and the list item will take on the character formatting of that character style. And of course, that character style can inherit from another character style.
As I said, it takes some work to determine the exact formatting of tables, paragraphs, and runs. When writing a high-fidelity transform to HTML, we really want to accurately determine the exact formatting. But combining this fairly involved logic with the transform to HTML isn't a good idea. It is putting too much functionality into a single transform.
There is an easier way.
I've written a new module, FormattingAssembler, which transforms a WordprocessingML document that contains paragraph, character, and table styles into a new document that contains no styles. The FormattingAssembler module goes through all of the applicable styles, and assembles the appropriate and exact paragraph and run properties for every paragraph and run in the document. These assembled paragraph and run properties are directly applied to the paragraphs and runs of the new document.
Ditto for tables. In the new document, tables do not use table styles. Every cell in the table has cell properties that consist of the appropriate cell properties taken from the original table style, its base style, and so on. The FormattingAssembler module takes conditional formatting into account, of course. The resulting table, although it does not use a table style, looks identical to the original table that uses a table style.
Once we have transformed a document that contains references to styles into a new document that contains no references to styles, then writing the transform to HTML/CSS is a far easier proposition. The resulting HTML document will look very much like the original WordprocessingML document.
The following screen-cast demonstrates the FormattingAssembler module. It also explains some of the nuances of how it works.
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Dress - Sascha's Designs Manhattan in pink, choco, beige, plum and silver.
Skin - Love Me Skins Karen
Jewelry - Eclectica
Purse and Sweetheart Cake Mouthie
(There's also Sweetheart Cake on a heart plate as well as a transfer version for you to share...so cute. You'll find them at the
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text: Treatments are usually completed in a single to five days and patients can resume their normal activities immediately following treatment. 'Mount Vernon Cancer Centre has a strong reputation for cancer treatment, particularly using radiation, so it is excellent to observe their treatment arsenal strengthened with the purchase of a CyberKnife System,' said Euan S. Thomson, Ph.D., cEO and president of Accuray Incorporated. 'We are proud to become dealing with the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and so are happy with their recognition of the CyberKnife System's unique contributions in the treatment of cancer.In sharp contrast, the number of people newly diagnosed with the disease who had no related symptoms nearly quadrupled, according to the report. Most often, these silent cancers were diagnosed following removal of thyroid tissue for a benign condition. Meanwhile, 19 % of patients were diagnosed after a tumor was detected during an imaging test accidentally. And 27 % had been diagnosed following investigations of nodules not really associated with thyroid tumor that prompted doctors to order imaging tests of the throat, the study found. However, the study exposed that the proportion of sufferers who die from thyroid cancer tumor hasn't changed since 1935. We are facing an epidemic of analysis in thyroid cancer, said Brito Campana. Given that we understand where all these new situations are via, we can design strategies to identify individuals with thyroid tumor who can reap the benefits of our treatment without condemning additional patients to unnecessary lab tests, treatment, suffering and costs.


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I am a Year 7 student at St Pius X Catholic School in Auckland, New Zealand. I am in the SPX Nu'u Learning Space and my Teacher is Mrs Tui.
Monday, 9 January 2017
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Malo e lelei Macky,ReplyDelete
I completely understand. I would also feel quite nervous and a bit uncertain about what was going to happen to me in a new country. Fortunately, most people around the world speak, at least, a little bit of English and I have always found that people were more than happy to help you find your way in a foreign country.
In order to earn full points for this activity we are asking that you put your feelings and thoughts about travel into a poem. You can write any kind of poem that you like. It can be a rhyming poem like a sonnet or limerick, an acrostic poem or even a haiku. For some examples of poems, please go to this website:http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/other/
It lists a number of different kinds of poems and gives you some examples. I'll pop back again soon to read your blog and comment on your poem :)
Hey Macky,ReplyDelete
Great answer I to would feel scared especially if I can't speak to or understand any one around me.
Keep up the great work :)
Hey Macky,ReplyDelete
Good answer. I would feel scared because I wouldn't know how to talk with them or speak to them in their language.
Great Work and Blogging
Happy New Year
Hi there Macky,ReplyDelete
I would be scared too! But Don't worry I'm sure there are people there who understands and speaks English. Always remember to never be scared of asking.
Great work and I can't wait to see more of your postings :)
Hi Macky,ReplyDelete
My name is Madeleine and I live in Canada. I really enjoyed reading your blog! Your writing is thoughtful, emotional and heartfelt. I started to feel scared too, your writing was so powerful! I love your writing style, and make sure you keep writing and expressing yourself. Have an amazing day!
Malo e lelei Macky,ReplyDelete
I tell you what, I would pretty nervous too if I was standing in a new country and I didn't know the language or my way around. It's a good thing you packed your translator so you don't have to worry about that too much!
Have you ever been in a new country where you didn't know the language before? Generally people are pretty helpful and understanding when you get to a foreign country. If you're friendly, polite and try to give their language a go, then people are always willing to help out!
I'm looking forward to seeing your poem for this activity Macky, and I hope to see you back blogging with us soon!!
Until next time,
Guten Tag Macky!ReplyDelete
I can relate to your thoughts about this topic - I felt pretty scared when I arrived in Germany! Often you can find people who can speak a little English - but not everywhere! What I found though, was that non-verbal communication can be really helpful, and it is amazing what technology helps us with these days! Remember that trusty translator!
Looking forward to reading your poem!
Good work!


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After hearing that Sepp Blatter, the footballing genius, was talking about altering the points system in the 2014 Brazil World Cup, I thought of some changes of my own...
It was not clear what changes Blatter was thinking of, if often isn't clear what he is thinking, but he mentioned the three points for winning and one for a draw being 'discussed'.
Changing those, seems ridicules. The three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss are the fundamentals of modern day football, carried out across all leagues all over the World, to change them for a World Cup seems fascicle.
It's said that he wants to change the points system so that the next World cup has more quality and competitiveness. I fail to see how giving more or less points for a win will accomplish this.
I'm not sure how the World Cup is going to be more competitive until the qualification is different, until then teams such as New Zealand and North Korea will continue to qualify, when teams such as Russia and Ecuador, do not.
But by altering the points system, you can try and make the World Cup more exciting; by rewarding teams who attack and score goals. I see two possible options for this, both of which... wait for it... take a leaf out of Rugby Unions book...
To make teams attack more, reward them for scoring more goals. Simples. This is the general idea for both possibilities I have conjured up.
Either, have an extra 'bonus point', when a team scores 3 or more goals in a game, hopefully meaning teams won't sit back when 1-0, or 2-0 up. Also, losing teams in 4-3 games will be rewarded in their losing efforts.
As goals are the main attraction of any football match, basically being what you watch it for, this would encourage more goals.
Also as teams may push for a 3rd goal to gain an extra point, it would leave them vulnerable at the back to concede. Leaving every viewer on the edge of their seat, gasping in excitement with every pass, tackle and shot.
However, when a team is 3-0 up, the same scenario with 1-0 score lines may be repeated, but at least you've seen more goals.
My second scenario, is very similar, but rewards teams for dominance of goals, with teams winning by a 3 or more goal margin getting an extra 'bonus point'. This would reward the team who are truly dominant and ruthless to their opposition, and encourage teams to attack, but making sure they are also solid in defence.
Obviously it would be one of the two ideas, not both, that would be madness and more points than any statistician cold handle.
So whichever of the two ideas above is most popular, i'll type up properly and send to Mr Blatter himself, and hopefully in the 2014 World Cup the 'Knoyle Bonus Point' will be in place...


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GATX Corporation ( GMT) Q42011 Earnings Call January 19, 2012 11:00 am ET Executives Jennifer Van Aken – Director, Investor Relations Brian A. Kenney – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert C. Lyons – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Analyst s Derek Rabe – Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc. Steve Barger – KeyBanc Capital Markets Paul Bodnar – Longbow Research LLC Steve O'Hara – Sidoti & Company Matthew Dodson – Edmunds White Partners Richard Fitzgerald – Jefferies Investment Advisers, LLC Kent Mortensen – Thrivent Asset Management LLC Zahid Siddique – Gabelli & Company, Inc. Kyle Joseph – JMP Securities Gregory Macosko – Lord, Abbett & Co. Presentation Operator
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Portfolio management also had a solid year. Asset remarketing results were improved and Rolls-Royce and Partners Finance had strong performance. In the coming year leases on over 20,000 rail cars are scheduled for renewal in North America. We expect the lease price index to be positive, likely in the positive mid-teens and for utilization to remain steady.We also anticipate continued asset remarketing opportunities and somewhat better demand at American Steamship Company. As we look to the year ahead, as noted in this morning's press release, we currently expect 2012 earnings to be in the range of $2.40 to $2.60 per diluted share. With that overview, I will turn it over to Brian. Brian A. Kenney Thanks, Jennifer. Between the press release and Jennifer's comments you should have a pretty good understanding of what drove our financial performance in 2011 and what to expect from an EPS perspective in 2012. So what I'll do is I'll briefly touch on a few strategic issues and then talk a little bit about how some of our GATX may change in 2012. As we have detailed repeatedly on prior earnings calls our rail strategy during the downturn was to add rail cars at the more attractive prices that were available in the down market. And then to keep lease term short, in order to capitalize on an eventual market recovery. And that growth strategy was successful and it culminated in the largest railcar order in GATX's history in the first quarter of 2011. It was also very because [towards] it's timing as the recovery in the rail market accelerated beyond our expectations in 2011. And that was just as we were taking delivery in the new cars under the new committed order [Audio Gap] cars that we added to the fleet during the downturn. Read the rest of this transcript for free on seekingalpha.com


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Most Australians seem to accept unquestioningly that Australia is one of the leading countries on earth. "We're the guys in the white hats. Other people are corrupt, not us. How can we be bad? We're Australians, for goodness sake!"
Well, as Robert Mugabe once (mockingly) quipped, Australians have convict genes. We picked up a thing or two about betrayal and crime from our abusive parent, Mother England. We've been doing Corruption long enough now that we've learned how to cover our tracks very well, so the system runs smoothly enough. Every now and then, someone gets caught and a convenient scapegoat gets roasted:
. . . but most of the time australian corruption stays safely concealed behind thick corporate walls, buried under sedimentary layers of creative accounting.
The difference between australia and Thailand is this – corruption in Thailand permeates every level of society from street-vendors to politicians: it's a chain of interdependent deals. Pull out one link and the entire chain collapses (think domino metaphor, pack of cards, etc). As a result, corruption is very difficult to eradicate (as Thailand's Surayud government is discovering) because it is necessary to prosecute everyone from the Prime Minister all the way through the long chain of deals right down to the street-vendor and the taxi-mafia. The folks at the top probably don't even know who the folks at the bottom are. Right, Mr Thaksin? Mr Thaksin? Hello? ....Hellooooo??
In Australia, on the other hand, corruption resides mainly at very high levels of business and politics, leaving the masses of workers struggling to work more hours to support the resulting top-heavy system…. the rich getting richer at workers' expense. At least in Thailand, everyone scores a few extra baht on the way. Maybe that's the price australians pay for having a convict background - we often tend to defer to (and naively trust) "THE AUTHORITIES". Social genetics are powerful, affecting everything from families to nations.
As a simple illustration of an Australian Who Dared to Question, here's a letter a FunkyPix2 reader wrote to the ATO last year:
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Summary: A talk which explores the biblical theme of judgment
The prospect of STANDING before God on judgment day is one of those Bible ideas that gets lots of bad press:
We either laugh it away (slide)
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Or the images are so horrible we push them to one side (slide)
The Word of God brings us BACK to out senses. WHY is final judgment necessary? WHEN will it happen? WHY will it happen? WHAT'S the purpose of judgment? These are some of the questions for us today. Then over the next few weeks we'll be looking at the OUTCOME of judgment which is either heaven or hell.
The Bible affirms that there will be a great and final JUDGMENT for believers and unbelievers. At this time each one of us will STAND before the judgment seat of Christ and hear the ANNOUCEMENT of our eternal destiny. It is most vividly described in John's vision in Revelation—Rev 20:11–15:
'Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done'.
It's a grand and solemn picture—the GREAT white throne—the DEAD rising—BOOKS opened—DEEDS exposed—JUDGMENT executed. As one commentator says, this is 'the consummate judgment, to which all previous judgments pointed and which is the climax of them all' (G.K. Beale, Revelation).
We ought NOT be surprised that there is a final judgment because the THEME of judgment runs throughout the Bible. You may already know that it BEGINS with the rebellion of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3.
When God made the world he LOOKED upon it and declared that it was 'it was very good' (Gen 1:31). It was good because it reflected the INTENTIONS of its Maker. The psalmist excitedly says, 'The heavens declare the glory of the God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands' (Ps 19:1).
As Westerners we treat CREATION as rather inert and lifeless. But the Hebrew mind is far more BUOYANT and much more poetic. Creation is ALIVE and designed to sing the praises of God. (To which all the gardeners say, 'Amen'). Ps 96:11, 'Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, [and all that is in it]; let the fields be jubilant, [and everything in them]. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy'.
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- Chef Scott Gooding serves up secrets to onion growers
- Onion growers gather in Sydney for annual conference
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You can read a lot from what the Apple iPhone will do, and surely there are a lot of glaring deficiencies. What can we read of them?
And what should we make of the iPhone's company on stage at this week's Macworld? Google, Yahoo, and Cingular. The best of the Internet, and arguably the worst of the cell and broadband wireless providers, albeit with some AT&T heft yet to be leveraged.
What this tells me is that Jobs and company are forging a bold stroke, and forcing a major confrontation. Ultimately, in the long run, would you as a business user and consumer rather have ubiquitous Internet access and VOIP, or the current piss-poor assemblage of mangled handset (but it's sleek and pretty!), hopscotch cell networks, analog-to-digital dreck, call drops and poor customer service, bad software, bad billing, and lack of integration to your PC and content?
The fact is that the needed convergence between handset makers, network providers, content aggregators, and software third-parties (including Microsoft, screwing around with Vista) have failed miserably — at least in the U.S. This has left a huge hole open through which Apple will drive the iPhone.
It's a longshot in the short-term, but if they succeed the cell industry will be soon shrinking rapidly into irrelevancy. All that wasted money! Too bad because all things will be Internet Protocol-based — the best true convergence. The Wi-Fi spots today will burgeon and blossom via new WiMax meshes, and later via satellite-based Internet canopies (for higher "roaming" cost, for sure). Your PC and iPhone (using the same guts and GUIs) will hop along an IP constellation, with certain "visitor" fees applied but no single-provider lock-in.
Connection costs should drop away; advertising-oriented services will pick up the economic slack. The true cost will be in buying the best devices, and pay-per-view content. You know, the Apple way plus the Google way.
The trick, as Apple well knows is to provide enough stick and enough carrot to drag the users to this inevitability. The design and feature set of the Apple iPhone as described is that combination of stick and carrot, and that best describes its odd selection of strengths and weaknesses. If successful the iPhone could destroy massive global industries while advancing the newer Internet-based companies, largely to the users' benefit.
Because if the software-hardware-UI designs are so compelling, as they seem … And if the voice capabilities can be good enough to just keep up with an existing mediocre cell service ecology … And if Google and Yahoo can provide the compelling content and services (and ad-based financial support) … Well, then the tug of the user may be enough to drag the telcos and others in the colliding industries along — or into the dust. The iPhone may be able to finally push all the convergence over to the top to all IP/VOIP/OS X all the time, everywhere.
And so what remains to sew up are the essential missing ingredients: the VOIP and sufficient WiFi/WiMax mesh. I expect that Google will soon unveil a beta VOIP offering. If they were smart they would share it with Yahoo, but not MSN. You recall that Google collects cell phone numbers when one signs up for certain Google "free" services, such as Gmail? These call numbers are convertible.
While I have been less then wowed by VOIP as a replacement for a landline, I expect that VOIP on a mobile device such as an iPhone would be an amendable transition from cell service, as long as I have sufficient mobile broadband. Google has most everything in place to do VOIP right, and, by the way, integrate its advertising and location capabilities right in there. Talk about a killer application.
Cisco will do quite well allowing these networks to work together well. They should get out of the way on the iPhone trademark and focus on the iRouter instead. One should know when they are a pick and shovel.
One corporation missing but not unfelt on the stage at Macworld was Intel. My blue-sky musing here would be pie in the sky without Intel as a behind-the-scenes kingmaker. Intel forges together the disparate architectures of the end point with the mesh. I'm thinking of the massive investment in time, clout and partnerships needed to bringing about the continental WiMax capabilities for the major metro markets. Perhaps the governments would like to weigh in? Would general productivity be in the national interest?
If this all somehow works out in near the fashion I envision then the U.S. approach could spread around the globe. That's right, no G3. No G3 ownership! Auction it all back and write off the loss. It all goes IP, and the same BRIC countries that like Linux may also like state-managed WiMax. The once-nationalize telcos will follow, no doubt.So in June, vote with your dollars and drop your cell phone and pick up an iPhone. It's the Internet. It's the future.
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Professor Andy it is then. I am already taking bookings for his first lecture - 'Sweet Dough Buns and How To Stop Them Sagging.'
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'This afternoon,' I say. 'You and Primrose have front row seats, so you may want to wear something waterproof and wipeable as there is likely to be a fair amount of moist dough flying about the shop.'
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'I'll bet it has,' I say. 'Bloomin' rain.'
'Rain has nothing to do with it,' says Daisy. 'Custard more like.'
'Custard?' says I .
'Custard,' says Daisy. 'Primrose is determined to enter the World Custard Pie Championships this year and has been practising with her team which currently consists of herself and Tango Pete. She tried to get me involved but I said, 'No!' Just like that. Exclamation mark and all.'
(For the uninitiated and especially for Deanna who wanted to know all about quaint English traditions, the World Custard Pie Championships do exist and they happen in Kent every year about 3 miles up the road from where we live. They were about when I was a teenager, then they stopped for a few years during the season of Let's Be Sensible and Not Waste Good Custard, then they started up again about oh, eight years ago, I imagine because either there was a glut at the E.U custard lake OR people just wanted some silliness in their lives again because Gordon Brown was at or near the helm of the Good Ship Britannia and everything was sooooooo boring. But they are real. Really real.)
'So,' says Daisy. 'What are you going to be? What is your new job?'
'I shall read you the results of my test,' I say. 'Ahem...You should be a designer...'
'That's very relevant,' says Daisy. 'Given your recent start in learning to be a textile artist.'
'I know,' I say. (By the way, I have decided upon 'The Language of Fans,' but before you all get huffy because I rejected your suggestions, I haven't rejected them at all! Oh no! I have arrived at a cunning textile design plan which incorporates ALL your malarkey ideas, to wit I shall elucidate during a future blog - in the meantime, hang on to your boots!)
'So, I continue,' I continue. 'You are an artist. Creative juices are oozing out of you...'
'You'll be needing a mop and bucket, then,' said Daisy, wrinkling her beak ever so slightly in disgust. 'Or a soapy J cloth at the very least.'
'Do you mind?' I say. 'My oozing juices are NOT ending up down a drain. Now, where was I? Ah yes ...'You'd make as good a designer as an artist as long as you get to create something.'
'Have you completed your blanket yet?' says Daisy.
'Almost,' says I. 'I reckon another couple of knitting evenings then I can start the sewing construction. I am thinking of making it double sided with a bit of wadding 'twixt the two sides, held in place with some strategically positioned and large fabric buttons.'
'Like a wool duvet?' says Daisy.
'Exactly,' says I.
'Are you working to a pattern?' says Daisy.
'No,' says I. 'I am making it up as I go along. Like a proper designer.'
'Oo-er,' says Daisy.
'You live your life like Michelangelo...' I continue.
'Hanging from the ceiling?' says Daisy.
'Painting men's willies?' says Primrose, who has just arrived, covered in custard and wanting to avail herself of the shower facilities.
'She won't be painting them grey, will she?' says Daisy.
'No,' says Primrose. 'Grey wouldn't like right at all. Not on a willy.'
'Unless it was a statue of that whale from that film called Free Willy,' says Daisy. 'That might work.'
'More black than grey, don't you think?' says Primrose.
'Can we compromise on a very dark grey Willy?' says Daisy, who is starting to enjoy this conversation far too much.
'For goodness' sake you two,' I say. 'I live my life like Michelangelo because I am constantly looking for the sculpture within the stone.'
Daisy looks at Primrose. Primrose looks at Daisy.
'What does that mean then?' says Daisy.
'Well,' I say. 'You know you have developed a penchant for fat balls?'
'Indeed,' says Primrose. 'In fact, I just offered one to Tango Pete but he couldn't quite bring himself to have a peck. Said it reminded him too much of home, whatever that means.'
'Well,' I say, conscious that this is a Sunday and I need to keep a rein on the saucy-horse before the hens gallop off with it and cause untold shock and horror. 'From the outside the fat ball looks like a ball of lard. Plain and uninspiring. But when you start pecking at it with your little chisel-like beaks what do you find?'
'Seeds and insects!' says Daisy.
'And they are the statue within,' I say.
Primrose looks at Daisy. Daisy looks at Primrose.
'Nope,' says Daisy. 'Still don't get it.'
I sigh. 'Anyway,' I say. 'The Facebook quiz says my ideal job would be a designer. And my back up options are architect or editor. And as I don't have a long enough ruler to be an architect, and I do enough editing in my current job as a teacher, I am going to be a designer/artist and make stuff!'
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The Itch of Life, as Opposed to the Spice.
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Well, people of the world, I am itching.
Not itching from poison ivy, not itching from a rash, not itching from dry scalp, not even itching from anticipation.
Okay, maybe it has a little bit to do with anticipation, but that still doesn't quite cover the sensation I am feeling. Yes, I am excited about "FUTURE" and this inevitable "moving forward" that always happens. Yes, I am anticipating change ahead. Yes, I am very excited about using my new Derwent Watercolor Pencils. All of that falls into itching with anticipation, but there's still more.
I am also itching for comfort. Itching for sameness. Itching for the seemingly un-attainable something that starts to form clearly in my mind and then disappears. Itching for the past tense to become present tense, and possibly future tense.
Is this itching a normal way to feel? Do we all itch about things? Do all of us have so many varieties of itch? Can I buy an itch cream to take care of my itch somewhere (maybe in the form of chocolate, or ice cream, or art supplies)?
Does the itch drive me, or does it hinder me? Can it do both at the same time? Is this itch sort of like a premonition, or a memory, or a divine message? What if I really do have a mosquito bite somewhere and I'm just pulling out all of this nonsense to explain something that I haven't seen?
Maybe I'm also itching a little bit from a scab starting to fall off. Maybe I'm itching for healing. Maybe I'm itching because I can't seem to leave my scars alone. Maybe I'm itching because other people keep picking at my wounds, even if they don't always realize how I got them or what damage they could cause by pestering them.
I feel so much pressure right now, and yet no pressure at all. Does that cause an itch?
I keep thinking that someday I will tame the itch! I will move forward into a glorious light where my life and how much I appreciate transcends the itch. Will I grow out of it? Is it hereditary? Does it spawn from life circumstances or how I was raised? Nurture vs. Nature? I never have liked that competition… I wish that people would see the harmony of nurture and nature combined. They are both wonderful things, you know. They are also both awful things.
Is the itch what makes my life interesting? Would I be driven totally mad without it (or even moreso mad than I already am)? Would I stop asking questions because the itch no longer fuels them, or would I be as curious and pensive as ever? Would my life become motionless, as if I were stuck? Would I go through the motions? Is the itch warning me that I am already starting to go through the motions? Would I have a purpose to live, if I lost my itch?
Maybe. Maybe not. Part of the beauty of life is not knowing, which probably means I will itch for the rest of my life because I am the sort of person who likes to know stuff.
In conclusion, I do not have one.
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I made 3 trays of lasagna, baked one for lunch, froze the other 2. A good use of an unexpected day off.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Bulk batch cooking
4 comments:
- Kathy said...
Lasagna looks delicious!
- Sunday, February 07, 2016
- CT Bargain Mom said...
Have you ever had a problem freezing and thawing the no-boil noodles getting all overly soft?
- Sunday, February 07, 2016
- CTMOM said...
CTbargain, no there have been no issues.
- Sunday, February 07, 2016
- meme said...
great idea for an unexpected day off! we had no school either on Friday - and now - no school today (Monday)
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