4 grade 7 girls competing for the first time at state level. The youngest races are gr8. The private girl schools have just come out of their season so our girls were in a tough place.
Rowing Queensland had decided to have time trials and select kids into finals based on times. The good side of this was that each kid got to row a minimum of two singles races. Another benefit was that in the finals, the kids were competing against kids of similar ability. To me that part was great. It means you don't have kids this young finishing miles behind.
I'm on the fence wrt the time trial. I suspect kids at this age have difficulty with self motivation and I suspect they row harder and faster with a competitor beside them as they did in the final. The other negative was no spectacle. From an audience perspective time trial is boring.
Jemma got 9th in the time trial. This put her in the A final. In the A final she progressed to 4th. A great effort.
NiMh Wikipedia
1.2V/cell
Charge voltage is 1.5 Fast Charge -
Constant Current at 1C Fast Charge Termination -
Hard to do with delta V because the delta V is very small.
Typical charge control chips use a timer and battery temperature.
Slow Charge (0.1 to 0.25 C)- Not recomended
Because hard to detect the delta V and temperature rise not so predominate. Trickle Charge -
There seems to be differences in advice between battery manufacturers
Typically C/30
Panasonic advise a pulse of current when the voltage gets below 1.3V
(i'm not sure how this works given the normal cell voltage is supposidly 1.2 V). My Thoughts
If the battery is integrated in the product,
Measure current in and out of the battery to know who charged the battery is and then use time and temperature. I suspect that over time the capacity will reduce and so the maths in the CPU will need to take this into consideration.
2. Did the restore and delete my files thing
Setting>Update & Security>Recovery
choose "Remove Everything" 3 Install Microsoft Office 365
This was problematic. Turns out I have two microsoft accounts and the office 365 subscription is registered in the ....syndetic.onmicrosoft.com account. But one drive and other stuff seems to be registered to my personal account.
4 Install open source programs from Ninite.com
7zip
firefox, Chrome
Notepad++
Windirstat
K-lite Codecs
VLC
GIMP
Classic Start
PDF Creator
Foxit Reader
5 THUNDERBIRD
Downloaded & installed Thunderbird mail client. (Nitite.com)
On first run it pops up a wizzard a. Said no to create a new account b. Mail Account Setup
Your Name: Frank Thomson
Email_Address: frankt2010@gmail.com
password: xxx
Remember password ticked
It says looking up configuration editor etc etc etc
Configuration found in Mozilla ISP database c. Select the IMAP (remote folders) option. Click Done. And wow there
are my folder and it is busy trying to download all sorts of things.
Allow google authorisation
System Integration - Use thunderbird for default client for Email = Tick
Set as default
Show Menu bar
Right click up the top and select menu bar
d Fix the email address - Change to frank.thomson@syndetic.com.au
Tools>Account Settings
Account_Name: frankt2010@gmail.com -> left as is
Your Name: Frank Thomson
Email Address: frankt2010@gmail.com -> frank.thomson@syndetic.com.au
Reply-to-Address: (blank) -> frank.thomson@syndetic.com.au
e SIGNATURE
Tools>Account Settings
in the signature text box in the middle of the window, add:
Frank Thomson
Director
Syndetic Pty Ltd
4 / 20 Cansdale St
YERONGA 4104 Brisbane Australia
Tel +61 7 3255 8900, Mobile +61 414 329 164, Fax +61 7 3255 8901
f Fix default reply to behaviour -
Tools>Account Settings>
Select "Composition and Addressing", Then,
Drop down Box, select "Start my reply above the quote"
OK
g composition - blank line after paragraph
Tools > Options > Composition tab,
select General.
deselect "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph"
Now pressing Enter when typing a message will only create one line instead of two
h Address Book Synchronisation
Going to try tbSync.
Tools>Add ons>
Downloaded. Clicked Add in the popup. It said it had been added to thurnderbird.
Closed and restarted thunderbird.
had to install Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV 1.3 Requires Restart
Tools>Add ons>
gContactSync (Google Contact Sync)
Restart Thunderbird
Window popped up: "Welcome to the gContactSync Wizard"
Use an existing account....
Sign in.
Allow access
Address Book to synchronize:
Groups and Contacts to Synchronize: All groups and contacts
Pick the direction for synchronization: complete
Clear the box - skip contacts without an email address (to get all)
Tools>Addons > Extensions.
Under Zindus, click Options.
New window opens with nothing in he accounts box.
Click Add
i. Thunderbird Calendar
Give up on Lightning. that seemed to have been installed automatically. "Removed" it.
Down load extension "Open Google Calendar" - It just worked. I did not even have to reenter my credentials.
j. Fix the Thunderbird Freezing Issue https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/mozilla_thunderbird_freezes.html Thunderbird goes inactive after 5 minutes of inactivity so if you've noticed that your freezing issue happens after Thunderbird has been idle, then here's a little-known fix. This also applies if you have very a lot of messages because Thunderbird is loading them after you've been inactive.
Go to Tools, Options, Advanced. Look for Config Editor at the bottom. Click on I accept the risk! when you receive the warning that you might void your nonexistant warranty. This change we're making can easily be reversed later.
Type in mail.db.idle_limit in the Search at the top. Note the value. If your value is set to 300000, then you need to add a zero so that it's 3000000. Another way of looking at it is if it has 5 zeros, you want 6. Double-click on mail.db.idle_limit to change the number and close when finished. No restart is needed.
7 Remove wakeup Password
Press Win+R, enter "netplwiz", which will open the "User Accounts" window.
Un Check the “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer” option and
click Apply.
Restart your computer and the system should not prompt you to enter your password at the login screen.
This is obviously less secure.
10 Remove Microsoft Teams
What a pain in the ass. Where did it even come from. When I boot my
computer up comes this thing wanting me to log into microsoft teams.
Sounds like google plus from a different multi national.
Start>Control Panel>Programs and Features>
Find microsoft teams.
Click uninstall.
ahh. Reboot just to be sure,
aghhh it's come back again and again
fixed here https://thomsoneu.blogspot.com/2019/03/stop-microsoft-teams-opening-on-startup.html
11 Install non Ninite programs
Adobe Acrobat Reader (Be very careful not to accept the dodgy spam includes)
E-Drawings Viewer. http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/
Screen Hunter http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm
12 Firefox (already installed with Ninite) fix fonts and colours
Right click in a blank part of the top bar. Choose Menu bar and Bookmarks toolbar.
Tools>Options>General> Default font=Arial
Tools(or click 3-bar menu top right) >Add-ons > Themes
and choose the Light theme (Click at the end and choose Enable)
Tools>Options>Home Home page = thomsoneu.blogspot.com
13 Network
Open Windows file explorer Connect to network(\\192. . . ),
Enter user name and password check the save box
map network drive
From the widows file explorer>Home tab>in the New area, drop down Easy access
(Why do they make it so hard).
Choose map as drive
Tick the box that says "Connect using different credentials".
13 OneDrive
The personal onedrive is already there by magic
To add a second work onedrive,
Right click the onedrive icon at the bottom right of the screen
Settings> Account> Add an account. more magic
11 XAMPP
Download and install
Run XAMPP & Configure PHP
Make these changes
post_max_size = 8M Unchanged
upload_max_filesize = 2M -> Changed to 8M
We ran two Come and Try Rowing opportunities.
The first was Saturday after the kenmore session with Kenmore providing the guidance.
The second was Sunday after the Brigidine session with Brigidine providing the guidance.
Saturday
6am-8am Perfromance
7am-9am Kenmore
9am-11am Come and Try.
We had 7 kids and some (about 3 I think) adults.
We had 5 quads on the water.
I think the coaches present were:
Ros, Marianne, Mike S, Dennis, Lance, Frank, Peter W, Jim Higgins, Stu Gill. Club Captain: Rebecca
Sunday
6am-8am Brigidine
8am-10am Come and Try Coaches that I remember:
Mel, Tanya, Dennis Taylor, Lance Moffatt, Caitlin Hockings, Gary Cowan, Cody Ellem,Frank Thomson. Club Captains: Xavier, Andrew, Caitlin
Preparing for the zombie apocalypse. I'm envisaging drowned learn to rowers sitting in boats rising to the surface and levitating up the bank. Nearby houses in Riverhills could be the first to go.
A beautiful morning for rowing.
The water was flat. no wind. not cold or hot.
patch fog. Ranged from no fog to quite thick fog. As I was driving through the fog I was imagining the story above.
NEW Ouch. And they can even shoot across the road.
22-08-2019 75 in 60 zone = 15k over 13-20k over = 3 points and $266
This will take my total to 7+3 = 10 of 12 max so I need no more speed fines until Sep 2020
This was on a Thursday going from work to Brigidine rowing via Calston st.
The speed van was actually on the other side of the road near the shops where subway is.
I remember being a bit spaced out later that night. Maybe this was a unreconised precursor. I drove the Brigo bus back but stopped at Jndalee and had Mexican. Jemma was at a French dinner thing (& not rowing) Contacted Jemma to find out what time she would be back at the school only to find Megan had been driving extra seats and would bring Jemma home.
13-09-2019 Frank has 7 points accumulated out of 12
Period is 14/09/2016 to 13/09/2019
Offence date Expires Points
29/11/2018 2021 1 Brigidine Bus
02/03/2018 2021 3 Red light - I think this might have been Chris in the Tiida
25/09/2017 2020 3 Speed but I dont remember where
gf dropped me again. That's effectively 4 drops in about as many years. (2 ex wife & 2gf). Probably says something about me being fundamentally incompatible with.... .
Francis Lewis Altmor von Stieglitz, Frank or Old Frank was always a larrikin in the Australian tradition.
Born September 1883 at his grandparents home in Tasmania, his early years were free
and cheerful living on his parents’ sprawling property Wambo and around Chinchilla inQueensland’s Western Darling Downs.
With
four brothers and a sister (who died in infancy) Frank had the
quintessential late colonial upbringing. A natural leader of brothers
and cousins his flaming red hair proclaimed his lack
of time for authority. From school to war it stood out. While a boarder at the very formal
Toowoomba Grammar School he led a
protest over food an conditions. Climbing onto the steep pitched roof of
School House on fete day he threatened to disrobe when the guest of
honour, the Governor of Queensland, Lord Lamington
arrived.
Graduating from Grammar in
<<>> Frank enthusiastically embraced the hardy healthy life of pre war rural Queensland. He worked as a horse
breaker, drover, stockman and at one time ran a camel train on the Birdsville Track.
When excitement
was lacking he would go looking. From getting ahead of the big horse
flies by biting horses on the hock to joining the expedition gathered at
Jimbor House near Dalby to look for the missing Ludwig Leichhardt,
Frank did not lack adventure.
In 1914 the first world war broke out.
The family was rocked, first when his cousin
Thomas vS was killed at Gallipoli in August 1915. In March 1917 another
cousin, Robert vS, was killed in heavy fighting at NAME. In 1917 Old Frank
at the age of 34 enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force.
By 1918 he and all four brothers were fighting on the Western Front. In
the atrocious conditions Frank was said to throw himself
into the fighting with gusto, mirroring his all out approach to life.
Having
been in Australia since the 1820s, intermarriage had made Frank’s
family overwhelmingly British. They considered themselves loyal sons of
empire and were active members of the Church of
England. However ominously as the war dragged on public opinion
increasingly turned against all things German. Frank’s commanding
officer told Frank that if was captured the Germans would likely shoot
him as a spy, and ‘if we get sick of you mate, we might
do the same”. Bowing to pressure Frank travelled to London and traded
his historic family name for his mother’s very British “Thomson”.
Returning to the front, in
July 1918 he was badly gassed fighting at Le Hamel.With other wounded soldiers he followed
the miserable path of evacuation to England and a long fight to regain
some sort of health. There the grim period of recovery was lightened by
meeting Miss Flora Perry, a volunteer
physio nurse. Although the gas would eventually kill him, Flora’s
presence and the green English landscape spurred on Frank’s recovery. He
returned to Australia in 1919 and was discharged.
In
1920 Frank travelled to England and in June of that year married Flora.
Together they returned to Australia and took up a soldier block ‘Come
by Chance’ near Chinchilla. Four children followed
and for a time they managed. Four children (Edgar, Margaret, Lewis and
Norm) were born. However the gassing and vagaries of life on the land
closed in. Frank’s health started to fail. To augment their income Flora
worked in town selling sweets at the cinema
and other jobs. It was a reverse when they found rust in the wheat on
the farm. Soon after fire destroyed the house Frank had built, an event
Edgar recounted in a story published in The Bulletin.
By
the mid 1930s, too ill to work, they planned to live in Toowoomba and
made arrangements to purchase a house at 144 Mackenzie St. However with
Frank’s health fading they resided in the warmer
climate at Sandgate. Compounding the family’s situation finances gave
out forcing the eldest son Edgar to leave school at 15 to earn money for
the family as a stockman.
With
Flora and the children’s help Frank struggled on; closeness to family
helping to minimise the reality of dependence on others. Finally in
April 1938 the middle children heard Norm call for
help from the bedroom where Frank was reading to him. Frank had died.
Flora
never remarried. With Frank’s death she relocated with the younger
children to Toowoomba and lived there until her death in 1989. My Father
Edgar continued on the land and by age 19 was
the head stockman on Millungera Station near Cloncurry in Queensland’s
Gulf Country. He in turn fought for Australia in the second war,
suffering his own share of injuries.
The
events of WW1 had a profound impact on the family. The war resulted in
my Grandparents meeting, marrying and building a large and close
family; yet that same war resulted in
the loss of family members, and the mental and physical injuries to
others, particularly my Grandfather, Old Frank. We remember him and
thank him for such strength in adversity.
Vic grew up in Western NSW to a farming family outside
Forbes. War broke out while Vic was still at School. At the age of 17 Vic took
part in a Cooee march to Armidale and upon turning 18 enlisted and underwent
training before finally being ‘shipped out’ in June 1918.
The ship presented a less than satisfactory transport ship
where the food was so bad that Vic and many of the troops swam ashore while
taking on supplies in South Africa.Vic
and the rest of the men were soon, bundled back onto the ship to continue the
journey to England.
No sooner had Vic made it to England and the war ended. Soon
after the armistice Vic who had been training as an accounts clerk before
enlisting spend the next couple of years traveling around the UK settling the
debts, on behalf of the Army, of Australian soldiers that did not return.
Marcus in the fin review
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Not
many summer jobs require an eight-stage application process with
psychometric testing and cocktail events to put candidates’ social
skills to the test, but that’s just what thousands of law students are
now enduring. From left, graduate lawyers Ginia Kouznetsova, James Soussa, Madeline Connolly, Marcus Thomson and Michelle Lee. Nick MoirIt
is "clerkship season", meaning wannabe corporate lawyers are
undertaking written applications and questions, testing, long interview
rounds with partners, HR and senior staff, one or two social events,
coffee meet ups with buddies, and even office tours in their quest to
get a clerk position at a top corporate firm this summer.
These jobs are the most common way to gain graduate employment at these firms.
But
there’s concern among applicants and law firms alike about how tough
the process is on students, many of whom are juggling applications for
several firms alongside university and even exams.
“It’s really
stressful for the student. It’s not designed to be that way but the
volume of applications and the pressure the students put themselves
under means it is,” Ashurst’s head of graduate recruitment Joanne Dean
said.“It’s
absolutely a stressful time for everyone," former Gilbert + Tobin clerk
and now graduate lawyer Madeline Connolly said. "There’s a limited
amount of spots and you’re up against your friends.” Law firms, too, feel the pressure at this time of year, as they compete for the best candidates.
“Law
is the only industry I know of where we all get together and compete
for the same applicants,” Ms Dean said. “So the process is high-touch,
because we’re super competitive with everyone else.”
Ms Connolly said that she was aware in the process that “as much as the firms are interviewing me, I’m interviewing them”.
The
cocktail nights, for example, are partly about the firm selling itself
to the students as they are about students impressing their potential
employer, Ms Dean said.
'Genuine conversations'
“By the cocktail party at the end, we know who we’re chasing and who’s going to get an offer from every firm.”
Ms
Connolly proves the truth of this; fielding offers from several firms,
she said that the cocktail night was what sold her on Gilbert + Tobin.
“I
really clicked with people at the firm, and had really genuine
conversations with the junior lawyers there,” she said, adding that she
made some great friends through her clerkship program.
There’s a
benefit to firms and candidates alike in maintaining calm throughout the
process, as both agree that it is ultimately personality that
determines what offers the HR department makes.
“Once you get to
an interview stage, it’s about a cultural fit, and that’s not a
reflection on students’ achievements,” UNSW law school careers adviser
Siobhan Ryan said.
“The innate personality, you can’t change
that,” Ms Dean added, explaining why determining how a candidate will
fit in at the firm is a focus of the application process. “You come
across as fake and that’s not successful.”
While demand for
clerkships is not slowing, Ms Ryan believes that law students need more
exposure to other pathways into legal careers.
“They’re an
over-emphasised pathway and students don’t realise what else they can
do,” she said. “From the outset, that is the goal, that is the medal for
high-achieving law students. But there’s so many other options that may
be better for that particular student.”
Each year Brigidine runs a dads and daughters night. It's basically a music quizz night with a dinner. Luckily there are those amongst us who have the knowledge to answer the questions.
The quizz people basically had to have questions about current music and dad music. The kids would look blank and the dads would say " I remember the song. No idea of the next line"
Club captains
A beautiful morning for rowing.
Jemma
Performance Squad
