A dialogue

Perspectives on Life, the Universe and Everything

ask for more,
ask for the dear symphony,
say I accept your words oh dear darling,
now put some random passionate love and lust,
let’s travel the world while sitting in each other’s arms,
let’s see the universe in a blink,
In each other we sink
fly to the sun,
Just as it sets in the sea
smile till we sleep,
laugh till we weep,
long each other’s body and soul,
the whole, nothing is left untouched

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All About Crazy Pasta Child

Oh dear!

Being Italian has always been a synonym of pasta eater.

Yes. It is.

Since that crazy of Marco Polo brought pasta from China, the destiny of Italy and Italians had been written.

In each country of the world if you tell you are Italian they will say to you pasta! With a biiiig smile!

Some years ago, it was worse because people also told you: ah! Italia! Pizza, spaghetti mandolino!

Well, there’s another problem: we speak a lot and we speak with hands, so we are considered pasta eaters and and also a bit insane.

In spite of all, I’m proudly:

Italian child (well…. Grown up child, that’s better)

Pasta eater

Speaking lover

Hands speaker

I can cook pizza but I can’t play mandolino, first of all because it’s an old instrument (I prefer electric guitar) and and also because his music is sad.

Proudly crazy pasta child because our country is a small little shining star in the world.

Call it ITALIA, call it boot if you prefer, but we still go on eating pasta and speak with hands!

And we are as famous as the pope!

A Big Year For General Electric Shareowners: GE Store, New Focus, Great Ideas

The LEAP engine, which took its maiden flight last fall, has 3D printed parts and components made from next-generation materials called ceramic composites.

GE’s industrial shift also brings benefits like the GE Store. “It means that every business in GE can share and access the same technology, markets, structure and intellect,” Immelt writes. “The value of the GE Store is captured by faster growth and higher margins; it makes the totality of GE more competitive than the parts.”

The GE Store allows the company to take FAA-certified alternators from its jet engines and use them to build better oil pumps. It can also use medical imaging technology to inspect subsea pipelines. “No other company has the ability to transfer intellect and technology as GE can through the Store,” Immelt writes.

A group of analysts who recently visited GE’s research headquarters in Schenectady, N.Y., seem to get the point. “Everyone shops at the GE store,” wrote Nigel Cole, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “We believe the cross pollination of technologies strongly endorses the conglomerate structure.”

GE has also taken its cue from startups and started innovating its product development process and working closer to customers. “We have put everything on the clock, launching a process called ‘FastWorks,’ based on the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley,” Immelt writes. “We are already seeing shorter product cycles, quicker IT implementation, and faster customer response than any of our competitors.”

Steve Winoker, Sanford Bernstein analyst, recently noted that these changes are what underpins the long view for investors in GE. “Our long term investment thesis is predicated on portfolio transformation, simplification, and cultural change—all of which are on track,” Winoker wrote.

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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