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May 28, 2009

In which I agree with Conor Friedersdorf

Mark this date on your calendar:

Obviously whatever Republicans did in the last election was a failing strategy. It failed.

Right. They nominated a short, old, bald grumpy guy. Failing strategy. Voting for the bailout? Failing strategy.

Next time: No bailouts and no bald guys. But is the GOP going to pay me as a campaign strategist to tell them this? No. And it’s too short to sell as a book proposal. So there is no money in being right. The GOP “experts” spent $791 million to lose, when I could outline the “roadmap to victory” on a cocktail napkin.

Politics is a corrupt racket, I tell you. An honest guy like me hasn’t a chance.

May 28, 2009

Justice removes the blindfold

Good-bye impartiality, says Francis Cianfrocca:

Reading Sotomayor’s 2002 “wise Latina” speech gives us real insight into this nominee. In this speech, she clearly states that judgements derive not from an objective consideration of the law and the facts of a case, but rather are inescapably colored by the experiences, culture and gender of the judge. This isn’t even negotiable. It’s presented matter-of-factly as an axiom.

I have a distinct feeling that in today’s academic legal community, this is not even a contentious viewpoint. It’s just us non-legal experts (and presumably retrogrades like Scalia) who still think that it’s possible to start from the law and the facts of a case, and arrive at a judgment based on established principles in both. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Being that I’m trying not to take this seriously — for fear I might again succumb to another outbreak of Obama-Induced Tourette’s Syndrome — my question continues to be, what’s her problem with the North Bronx? Is there some kind of North Bronx civic association that could point out that she’s playing borough identity politics?

May 28, 2009

Hey, Ed: You’re wrong

You shouldn’t agree with Doug Kmeic, ever, about anything, because he is a lying liberal scumbag.

There is no such thing as “equality.” Never has been, never will be. U.S. laws on marriage are part of an Anglo-American legal tradition that far pre-dates the Constitution. To complain that these ancient laws impose an unjust “inequality” is to urge the abandonment of that tradition — which is exactly what you could expect from a lying liberal scumbag like Kmeic .

Please read “Feminism, ‘Equality’ and Gay Rights.”

UPDATE: Pundette is right. Generally speaking, what liberals propose, conservatives oppose. Let’s try to keep that in mind, people. We’re never going to get any gold stars for “plays well with others,” and we shouldn’t pretend to try.

UPDATE II: Gabiel Malor at AOSHQ:

Kmiec . . . is echoing a growing refrain from the more libertarian-minded: get government out of the marriage business. . . .
Look, you can’t have it both ways. Either marriage is important enough for soceity–most clearly represented by its laws–to encourage. Or it’s not. Taking away government recognition of marriage as it has been understood to operate for some time now can only ever be recognized as a retreat, a diminution in the status of marriage in the United States.

Well, first off, what Kmiec advocates is not a libertarian (or “libertarian-minded”) approach. Rather, the entirety of the gay rights agenda is egalitarian, demanding that two very different behaviors be treated as if they were the same.

The gay Left has seized upon an analogy to the civil rights agenda (particularly Loving v. Virginia) and have convinced many that homosexuals — as a class, or as a sort of behaviorally defined pseudo-ethnicity — are victims of prejudicial discrimination, as indeed they are, if you adopt the worldview of philosophical egalitarianism.

How many times have I urged readers to take a look at Friedrich Hayek’s book, The Mirage of Social Justice? The real problem with egalitarianism is not the means (which are often horrid enough) but rather the end, i.e., the impossible objective of “equality.” It can never be obtained, but even if it were possible, is it really desirable?

There are many egalitarians who like to think of themselves as “deep,” philosophical and sophisticated, and yet they have obviously never thought very deep about what “equality” would mean. Hayek did that, and did it in such a way that if you read what he wrote — and if you’re really a very thoughtful, pragmatic person — you immediately become very skeptical when people rail against inequality, or propose some “reform” they say will remedy social injustice.

All egalitarian policies ever do is to (a) replace one set of problems with another, and (b) empower those who enforce the coercive regime necessary to the egalitarian project.

If, in the matter of (a) you suppose that the existing ills you would eradicate is greater than the new ills you would create, then you may still favor the egalitarian project. Yet it is the problem of (b) that looms large here, since the swelling of the regulatory bureaucracy, and the inherent moral problem of coercion, are evils entirely distinct from whatever new evils you have created by the egalitarian reform.

Most people never think that deep. Their argument for any policy — whether gay marriage or the regulation of greenhouse gases or bailing out General Motors — is always simplistic: Look, here’s something bad, let’s fix it.

Yet public policy doesn’t work that way. There are always unintended consequences, many of which are unforeseen. Even long after the enactment of new reforms, it is often a matter of fierce debate what are the effects of these policies — to this day, for example, we’re still debating the legacy of the New Deal.

And I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m getting sick and tired of being treated as if I were an ignoramus by people like Doug Kmiec who imagine themselves fit to lecture me, but who obviously haven’t thought about the gay-rights agenda (or any other “progressive” agenda) in any critical way.

May 28, 2009

Ambition, Not Ideology

Because I am fundamentally unserious:

My opinions of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the most recent Iraq war, are nuanced. It is my staunch belief that no nation ever benefitted from military defeat and that the unquestioned invincibility of American arms ought to be the greatest security of our peace. Yet it is also my belief that Falkland’s great conservative dictum — “When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change” — might also be applied to Arab despotisms. If we wish to overthrow vicious dictatorships, why not begin 90 miles from Key West? Cuba is an island, our Navy is up to the task, the Marines are ready, and such of the occupation troops as were not content drinking rum and Coca-Cola with the local jiniteras could take their weekend R&R passes in Miami.
Free the Cohibas! (What are you, some kind of un-American?)
The reader apprehends at once that it has never been my aspiration to be a “senior policy adviser” to any candidate, nor do I aspire to a Cabinet post or a think-tank fellowship. Je suis un journaliste, if I may be permitted what Dreher calls “faggy French.” Others, alas, are not content merely to write for a living, but fancy themselves called to much higher avocations. It is this factor of ambition, not ideology, which accounts for the attacks of Dreher and Frum against Levin, and also against Rush Limbaugh. . . .

Read the whole thing, and keep one ear open for the sound of laughter.

May 28, 2009

‘What Erick is saying is very simple . . .’

“. . . Grassroots conservatives have been sold out for the last time.”

May 28, 2009

‘Tamen hic vivit . . ‘

Quousque tandem abutere, Catalina, nostra patientia? Quamdiu etiam iste furor eludet nos? ad quem finem effrenata audacia jactabit sese? . . . Non sentis tua consilia patere? . . . O tempora! O mores!”

May 28, 2009

Big Brother is here:

I don’t speak Obama and am having trouble getting a handle on this. “Office of Social Innovation” has an ominous ring.

Read the whole thing, people. She is not making this up. This is not a drill. It’s now law of the land:

The Social Innovation Fund was authorized in the recent Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The Fund will focus on priority policy areas, including education, health care, and economic opportunity. . . .
The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation will coordinate efforts to enlist all Americans –individuals, non-profits, social entrepreneurs, corporations and foundations – as partners in solving our great challenges.

Remember after the 2004 election, when all the idiot lefties were talking about moving to France or Canada? Well, now they’re turning us into France and Canada.

And you thought I was joking about this:

UPDATE: Honest, folks, I spent two decades in the newspaper business, a notoriously profane occupation, but I’m simply running out of obscenities to shout at my computer lately:

“While we do not want to rule any credible idea in or out as we discuss the way forward with Congress, the VAT tax, in particular, is popular with academics but highly controversial with policymakers,” said Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for White House Budget Director Peter Orszag.
Still, Orszag has hired a prominent VAT advocate to advise him on health care: Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and author of the 2008 book “Health Care, Guaranteed.”

This is a time for Effing Conservatives.

UPDATE II: Velociman says he saw this coming. But how does this fit with tax cuts for 95% and all that?

May 28, 2009

‘Were I China . . .’

“. . . sitting on some trillion dollars plus of Treasury bonds, I’d be nervous too. In fact, I’d be shortening duration like a madman, laying off anything but the shortest end of the T-bill curve and hedging like crazy, all the while doing my damnedest not to get caught so as to not ignite a stampede and risk getting trampled.
“Oh wait: They are.”

(Hat tip: WRSA.) UPDATE 11:58 p.m.: With some help from Instapundit, we are reminded that things only ever go one direction in the Magical Land of Hope from bad to worse: The bond market goes sideways, pushing up interest rates, and the DJIA loses 173 points.

UPDATE II: Linked at Protein Wisdom.

UPDATE III:Bond vigilantes“? Hmmm. Sound like extremists.

May 28, 2009

Goode Vibrations

by Smitty

Concur with Tigerhawk: the Goode Family was quite good. I’m going to be stingy and give it a B+, just so the don’t get complacent.

  • Dad works at the school, so there is much room for swipes at academia.
  • Mom is a stereotypical granola-head, staring entranced at a billboard in the supermarket with products shifting from the “good” to the “bad” column, and back.
  • The daughter, Bliss, seems the straight character.
  • The adopted son, hilariously named Ubuntu, is old enough to drive but seems to have some developmental challenges. Tofu overload?

The family is all vegan, including the poor dog, but the dog is really the canine equivalent of the Junk Food Junkie,

wiping out all the local fauna.
The show made some fun of the religious right, mocking father/daughter purity balls as just a little creeped out.
Given the left’s general non-capacity for laughing at itself, this series has excellent potential. The thought of a crazed, Andrew Sullivan-esque blogger character fulminating at the mouth over something inane could provide some quality belly-laughs, indeed.

May 28, 2009

URGENT: Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee endorse Marco Rubio in Florida

Carolyn Tackett has the complete scoop, via The Hill and CNN.

Check Memeorandum and Not One Red Cent.

Updates to come . . .

UPDATE 8:39 p.m.: Crap! Donald Douglas, TrogloPundit and Townhall beat me to this, while I was busy working the phones on another story.

Getting beat on my own beat? It’s really kind of embarrassing. Good scoop, guys. Congratulations.


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Cinema bosses snub film director Ken Loach over Ritzy strike support

by Judith Orr
Issue No. 2403

The Picturehouse cinema chain has refused to host a benefit showing of award winning film director Ken Loach’s latest film because he supports strikers in the chain’s Ritzy cinema.

Ken Loach, a Palme D’Or winner, is travelling to Cannes, France, to show his new movie  Jimmy’s Hall. No other director has been invited to show their films at the Cannes festival as often as Loach.

He told Socialist Worker, “Every film I do we have a small benefit screening for Bath City Football club at the Bath Little Theatre. It has a charitable foundation and a non league club like them hang on by their fingertips.

“The cinema takes a proportion of the cut but most of what we take on the night goes to the club and we have done it for years.”

This year was different. “This time they refused,” he said, “It’s because the cinema is owned by the Picturehouse chain which runs most of the arthouse cinemas including the very successful Ritzy in Brixton.”

Loach had heard that Ritzy workers had been taking action to win the London Living Wage backed by the Bectu union. “So I made a statement in support of them,.” he said. “Picturehouse was so mean spirited that it said you can’t have your benefit night.

“It’s only a small thing and raises a few hundred quid. The Watershed in Bristol, which is not owned by Picturehouse, has said they would do it, so we’ll have the benefit showing there.

“But it shows how vindictive employers can be and it’s a glimpse of the world of cinema you don’t normally see.”

Ritzy workers are set to strike from 5 pm on Wednesday of this week. Send solidarity messages to the ritzy strikers at [email protected] or visit their pages on Twitter and Facebook

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Vicious government policy revealed as deportations of rough sleepers ruled unlawful

Issue No. 2585

Poverty forces people on to  the streets

Poverty forces people on to the streets (Pic: Alexander Baxevanis on flickr)

Attacks on benefits are forcing European Union (EU) migrants into desperate poverty and should not be grounds for deportation, a court has ruled.

The government has used the fact of sleeping rough to show that someone doesn’t have “genuine and effective” residence in Britain.

This counts as an “abuse” of the EU's freedom of movement rules.

But this week three eastern European men won a High Court fight with Home Office ministers after being told they could be deported as a result of sleeping on the streets.

Latvian Gunars Gureckis and Poles Mariusz Cielecki and Mariusz Perlinski said ministers had adopted a policy on rough sleepers which was unjustified and discriminatory. Lawyers representing the Home Office disagreed and disputed the men's claims.

But a judge concluded that the policy was unlawful. Mrs Justice Lang, who analysed the case at a High Court hearing advised Tory home secretary Amber Rudd to “take stock”'.

The Home Office may now face claims for unlawful detention where it has detained individuals on the basis of its policy. Those who have been removed from Britain and face a 12-month re-entry ban may also be entitled to have that ban lifted and be readmitted.

The Home Office launched Operations Adoze and Gopik to remove rough sleepers even if they were working or had permanent right of residence. They specifically targeted people from certain countries.

A spokesperson for North East London Migrant Action said, “In reality, many homeless people targeted by the Home Office have fallen on hard times and are working but unable to afford accommodation."

Housing charity Shelter has welcomed the court ruling.

“People shouldn't be forcibly deported just because they're rough sleeping,” said chief executive Polly Neate.

Sleeping on the streets is an appalling and incredibly dangerous experience in which people are exposed to violence and ill health. It is no surprise that every year homeless people die bedding down on our streets and with an extremely cold winter upon us, this year will be no exception.

“Changes to benefit entitlements mean many EU migrants are now often left with nowhere to turn but the streets. Local authorities and charities should be doing all they can to help anyone who's sleeping rough to get off the streets and out of danger by offering appropriate help, including accommodation and legal advice when possible.”

Barrister Ben Keith, who specialises in immigration issues, said, “What Theresa May gives with one hand, by telling EU nationals they are wanted, the Home Office takes away with the other, trying everything to justify removing them.”

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COVID-19Loto-Québec and the Casino du Lac-Leamy team up with La Tablée des Chefs

COVID-19Loto-Québec and the Casino du Lac-Leamy team up with La Tablée des Chefs

Montréal, April 29, 2020 — Loto-Québec is once again partnering with La Tablée des Chefs through Les Cuisines Solidaires, a project aimed at helping people in need during the COVID-19 crisis. Next Monday, the Casino du Lac-Leamy will reopen its kitchens to prepare more than 16,000 meals to Moisson Outaouais every week. To help the Food Banks of Québec, La Tablée des Chefs recently launched Les Cuisines Solidaires, mobilizing the food industry and chefs across Québec in order to prepare more than 1,600,000 meals, and feed people in need during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

“We’re happy to welcome the Casino du Lac-Leamy into our Cuisines Solidaires project. Its infrastructure and expertise will enable the Casino to contribute significantly to the project’s overall output. Thanks to its support and that of the project’s other partners, we have surpassed the 1,600,000 meal mark,” said Jean-François Archambault, General Director and founder of La Tablée des Chefs.

“Loto-Québec is excited to take part in La Tablée des Chefs’s generous initiative and reopen the Casino du Lac-Leamy’s kitchens during these difficult times to provide thousands of meals to Moisson Outaouais and the most vulnerable among us,” said Lynne Roiter, President and CEO of Loto-Québec.

On April 17, Loto-Québec first collaborated with La Tablée des Chefs when it reopened the Casino de Montréal’s kitchens to provide 35,000 meals a week to those in need in Greater Montréal. In addition, Loto-Québec has chosen to give back to La Tablée des Chefs the amount of $1 per meal that it usually pays to participants of the Les Cuisines Solidaires project. Considering the number of meals supplied by the two casinos, this represents a contribution of approximately $150,000 a month.

On March 12, just one week after it closed its casinos, Loto-Québec donated several pallets of foodstuffs and supplies stocked in its warehouses to the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux and all 19 Moisson centres across Québec, in addition to donating $1,000,000 to the Moisson network.

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In this ten-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky above Washington, DC during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Arlington, Va. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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Comet of Origin 109P/Swift-Tuttle
Radiant Constellation Perseus
Active July 14 - August 24
Peak Activity Meteor Count Up to 100 meteors per hour
Meteor Velocity 37 miles (59 km) per second

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The Perseids, which peak during mid-August, are considered the best meteor shower of the year. With very fast and bright meteors, Perseids frequently leave long "wakes" of light and color behind them as they streak through Earth's atmosphere. The Perseids are one of the most plentiful showers (50-100 meteors seen per hour) and occur with warm summer nighttime weather, allowing sky watchers to easily view them.

Perseids are also known for their fireballs. Fireballs are larger explosions of light and color that can persist longer than an average meteor streak. This is due to the fact that fireballs originate from larger particles of cometary material. Fireballs are also brighter, with apparent magnitudes greater than -3.

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The Perseids are best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the pre-dawn hours, though at times it is possible to view meteors from this shower as early as 10 p.m.

Where Do Meteors Come From?

Meteors come from leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. When comets come around the sun, they leave a dusty trail behind them. Every year Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere and disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.

The Comet

The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Perseids originate from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the sun once. It was Giovanni Schiaparelli who realized in 1865 that this comet was the source of the Perseids. Comet Swift-Tuttle last visited the inner solar system in 1992.

Comet Swift-Tuttle was discovered in 1862 by Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. Swift-Tuttle is a large comet: its nucleus is 16 miles (26 kilometers) across. (This is almost twice the size of the object hypothesized to have led to the demise of the dinosaurs.)

The Radiant

Their radiant—the point in the sky from which the Perseids appear to come from—is the constellation Perseus. This is also where we get the name for the shower: Perseids. However, the constellation for which a meteor shower is named only serves to aid viewers in determining which shower they are viewing on a given night. The constellation is not the source of the meteors.

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Mother Glasgow…

This month I’ve chosen a charity close to my heart. Refuweegee is an organisation that uses the famous warmth & generosity of Glaswegians to support refugees. Their tag line ‘we’re all fae somewhere’ perfectly sums up why we should offer a helping hand to anyone who requires it.

You can donate to Refuweegee in a number of ways, a direct monetary contribution or you can put together a welcome pack. Refugees often arrive in Glasgow with very little & some basics to combat a new life in a new climate are indispensable. Add some Scottish treats & a handwritten welcome letter to complete your pack. Full details of suggested donations below.

Refuweegee welcome pack suggestions

Refuweegee are also currently in desperate need of toiletries. As I’m sure you can imagine hygiene basics are paramount for anyone. If you can donate any of the following they would be gratefully accepted.

Refuweegee toilet bag appeal

As we near Xmas lots of folk are giving more thought to charitable giving. I hope you will consider a gift to this wonderful organisation. No one knows what the future holds or when we might need the kindness of strangers ourselves. Humanity doesn’t stop at borders, our generosity shouldn’t either.

Smiling children with text we’re all fae somewhere

Power to the people…

If like me, you are firmly planted on the left of politics, you are probably despairing at the moment. Trump has been in power for 13 days & he’s already making terrifying changes. It’s easy to feel far away & powerless, especially when you have a disability. However, the truth is there is lots we can all do & it’s essential that everyone does what they can.

The most obvious sign of dissent are protests. Taking to the streets & making your opposition clear can be very powerful. I know this can be difficult & sometimes down right impossible for those with disabilities. The most important thing is not to feel guilty about missing protests. You have to put your health first. You can still engage with the movement by sharing details and pictures of marches on social media. If you can manage for 10 or 20 mins, go for that time only. Every little bit counts.

Another great way to combat Trump’s facist agenda when differently abled is to make strategic charitable donations.

Southern Poverty Law Centre is an organisation that fights intolerance. The monitor & inform the public of hate groups, help the most vulnerable seek justice, educate communities to reduce prejudice & much more. Racists & extremists are emboldened in the current climate, funding a group like this pushes back.

American Civil Liberties Union defends freedom of expression & equal rights for all. The first weeks of this new administration have already shown signs of hostility towards free press. Rumoured changes to laws protecting the LBGTQ community are very worrying. Now more than ever a group that can fight injustice through the courts is required.
Planned Parenthood Aims to provide affordable health & reproductive care to all women (& others who need their services). Along with vital access to contraceptives and abortion PP also offer sex education, sti testing,smear tests & breast exams. With a president on record as believing that people who have an abortion should be punished, this safe access must be preserved. The entirety of PP’s services save & improve incalculable lives. It is an essential organisation.

There are of course many other charities worthy of your support. From refugee orgs to LBGTQ rights groups, there are no shortage of worthy non profits. Anything you can give will help. If eveyone gave even 50p it would make a massive difference. Having said that, I know not eveyone has any money to spare. Again, you can help by sharing groups on social media & getting their message to a wider audience.

Try to engage with bigotry in your own friendship/family groups. Trust me I know how infuriating this can be. It hurts so much more to discover someone you care about holds these vile beliefs , but some folk can be saved from the dark side. Know your history & use it. There are so many similarities to be drawn between the period between the world wars & the period after the financial crisis. For example the conditions in Germany during the Weimer Republic helped to create an environment for Hitler to flourish in. Compare Trump’s strategies to that of Hitler’s, the parallels are frightening. Learn about American history, having an understanding of it’s story helps to illustrate what is so wrong about modern racism, xenophobia misogyny. Do remember it is also ok to withdraw. If someone stubbornly sticks with toxic views, you are entirely with your rights to ditch them

Share your message in as many forums as possible. Share articles & graphics on social media. Join local political groups, help distribute leaflets or raise funds if your health allows. Talk about your opinions on the ‘alt right’ on your blog or in your art. Make your voice heard in any way you can. Their is value in solidarity, it is massively comforting to know one is not alone.

Last, but absolutely not least, do not forget about what’s happening at home. Post brexit Britain is no picnic; hate crimes have seen a 40% increase since the referendum. Our government is purposely defunding the NHS & cuts in benefits for the most vulnerable members of society are ongoing. There is work to be done  here too. Write  to your Mp about important votes & any issues you feel are critical. Apply all of the suggestions above when fighting on the home front.

Finally, support local charities too. This month I’m turning my charitable attentions to Refuweegee. They are committed to ensuring refugees arriving in Glasgow receive a warm Glaswegian welcome. You can donate money or goods & even write a nice letter for our new arrivals.

Go forth & fight the good, inclusive fight!


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You get so moody
Most of the day
Bermuda Triangle
Whatever you say
We wondered what the point was
But now we know
We watch weeds grow, maricon
Never wonder why..

You are like stood as in
Most of the days
Tormented souls go their separate ways
Counting each block as we go
Distorted amp at the show..

Computers make me wet between the legs
Because I was attacked by a gizmo once
Do we just occupy segments of each other’s lives
Why do you hang out with me
When there’s several billion other options?

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The Importance of Mental Health: How to Take Care

The Importance of Mental Health: How to Take Care
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Mental health is as important as physical wellness. It is crucial at every phase of life, from childhood and adolescence, until the end of life. In today’s fast-paced world, mental health issues are pervasive. According to research, 20 percent of the population across the globe is suffering from one or other forms of mental illness.

There are various NGOs and organizations that support the government and promote mental health policies. WHO (World Health Organization) also recommends and aims to strengthen mental health policies across the globe.

Mental health is our emotional and psychological well-being. It affects how an individual acts and how that person thinks. It includes:

  • Emotional feelings: For instance, a person feeling helpless or hopeless
  • Psychological feelings: For example, a person hearing voices or believing things that are not true
  • Social well-being or anxiety

Mood swings, behavioral changes, overthinking, excessive fears are some of the common signs and symptoms of mental health. If a person is suffering from mental health, there may be some change in their behavior or mood. If you see someone dealing with such issues, you must communicate with them and ask them to share their problems. Try to recognize the reason why they are feeling low. Dealing with mental health issues is not easy. There can be many factors which contribute to mental health complications, including:

  • Biological factors – It can be genetic, or because of hormonal levels change or brain chemistry.
  •  Life experiences – Any lousy experience, such as trauma or abuse, can also cause mental issues.
  • Family history of mental health problems – Such disorders include autism or significant depression.

Why is it important to care for your Mental health?

Mental health is essential because it is a vital part of life. It also impacts our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Mental wellness is as necessary as physical wellness. If a person is healthy and feeling good emotionally, that feeling of happiness will reflect in their job, or schooling, productivity.

Health plays an integral part in personal as well as professional relationship satisfaction. It allows you to adapt to changes in your life from time to time and cope with adversity.

According to a new study by the Mental Health Foundation, unhealthy eating also plays a significant role and contributes to mental health problems. According to the study, the mental illness cases due to an unhealthy diet has increased over the past 50 years.

Many mental conditions can be treated with one or other therapies. If you are suffering from mental health or someone you know is diagnosed with psychological issues, the first thing that you have to ensure is that you’re feeling fit mentally.

Make an exercise schedule, take a breathing space when you need to, remembering something you are thankful for or ensure that you’re sleeping well. These are some of the activities that can help you in boosting your inner peace and will provide you with emotional support.

How can you take care of your mental health day-to-day?

Various things can be done to cure mental health. Following are some of the therapies you can try to improve your mental health every day.

  • Eat a healthy and balanced diet.

Making the right nutritional choices materials is significant. It is more important than finding the right fit for our clothes. Proper nutrition is one of the keys to an active and healthier lifestyle. To optimize our brain function, we must eat healthy and nutritious foods. Include the following in your diet:

  • Fresh fruits and green vegetables
  • Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids (spinach, chia seeds, walnuts, dry fruits, nuts, fish, seeds, and eggs)
  • Protein-rich foods
  • Whole grains
  • Dairy or dairy alternatives

  • Manage stress

Stress is unavoidable. However, there are various things you can do to manage stress. Dealing with stress is not easy. But you can control it and live a relaxed life.

Here are some tips for triggering the relaxation response and dealing with the stress:

  • Practicing good breathing habits
  • Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and cigarettes
  • Sleep for 8 hours
  • Do some form of physical activity
  • Take time for your favorite hobby

  • Meditation

The benefits of meditation are unbeatable. Meditation is one of the best ways to relax or calm the disturbed mind. It reduces stress and also helps to control anxiety. It is one of the best ways to reduce stress levels and improve your emotional well-being.

It increases positive sentiments and has been linked to reducing depression, anxiety levels, and post-traumatic stress. Meditation is the key to real healing. It improves both mental health as well as physical health.

It also ensures better oxygenation of the blood circulating in our arteries.

  • Exercise regularly

It is crucial to do some form of physical activity or exercise to keep your body healthy mentally. Physical exercise helps in reducing the feelings of hopelessness that promotes depression. Exercise is beneficial and has physical, mental, and psychological benefits.

It is reported that people who exercise regularly feel a little less stressed. Therapists also emphasize the fact that individuals diagnosed with mental health should do indulge in some form of physical activity daily and avoid overeating. Even ten minutes of aerobic exercise such as a step class, swimming, walking can benefit you in reducing anxiety and depression.

  •  Talk to a professional

If you feel that your mental health problems are taking over you, the best would be to talk with someone. Talk to a friend or a relative. If you are not comfortable talking with them, seek professional help, and speak to a doctor. BetterHelp offers good solutions for stress-related mental health issues.

Get professional medical advice from a psychologist or a psychiatrist and find the personalized support you want to stay positive.

Remember, mental illness is common, and it can be treated. Don’t hesitate. Try to share your problems with your known ones first. Do not let the stigma pause you from asking for help or seeking treatment for your illness. Good mental health is essential, and it results in better physical health and improves productivity. It plays a crucial role in attaining a healthy and better lifestyle. Try the above things and cope with mental health struggles that you’re facing.

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She is a communication engineering graduate but a digital marketing buff who is fascinated by the best SEO practices and content strategies. She loves to make friends and explore places, and she chooses reading in her time off.

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Bath time can be a lot of fun for your little one and it can also give you an idealquality time to spend for you and your child. When it comes to making your baby clean, it should be a priority to choose what’s the best product for them. As a mom, you just want to give what’s best for your child’s needs. Knowing the type of shampoo, what are the ingredients and why should you choose that certain baby shampo oare probably the most challenging part that moms do because, we know it, there are tons of baby shampoos out in the market today!

When you choose a baby shampoo for your baby, you shouldn’t just grab any random shampoo and use it. Be aware of the chemicals that it might have. Choose the baby shampoo that is all natural, organic and allergenic. With that, you can just use a small amount to get your baby smelling clean and fresh without risking the health of their scalp.

These are the list of ingredients in baby shampoos that can cause of potential hazards:

  •  Fragrances. Its purpose is to make sure that the chemical smell is not present. The companies are not required to reveal what fragrance they are using so there might be unsafe and hazardous chemicals in them that is concealed as “fragrance”. It might cause rashes to your baby’s skin, eye irritations and in some cases respiratory problems. The best way to do is to choose a shampoo that is fragrance-free.
  • 1,4 dioxane and Ethoxylated Surfactants. This is never listed as an ingredient but according to the studies done by Environmental Working Group, there are 57 percent of the baby soaps containing it. So, just a little reminder that if you see the letters “eth” in your baby’s shampoo, it is certain that there is 1,4 dioxine in it. If exposed high level of 1,4 dioxane, it can irritate the eyes, nose, lungs and skin. Not to make you worrysome mommies ,this content actually evaporates very quickly also dilute easier in water.
  • Parabens. It can be seen everywhere including soap, shampoo, body wash, moisturizers and more. They are linked to health issues including skin irritation, hormone disruption and reproductive toxicity.

What type of baby shampoo should I use for my baby? The answer is: it depends. Baby’s skin is really sensitive especially the newborn. As for them, taking a bath everyday is not necessary at all because they don’t get dirty as much as the toddlers does. You could just put them to a sponge bath to cool them down and to make them feel relaxed.

Is your baby ready to take a bath daily? If so, you should choose the right shampoo for them. You can use mild shampoo for your baby’s sensitive skin which doesn’t contain synthetic fragrances, artificial colors or irritating preservatives that might irritate your baby’s scalp. You can also use natural baby shampoos that is made by natural ingredients so as you can keep chemicals be exposed to your baby

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Most satellites are launched to a mere fraction of the altitude at which geosynchronous satellites orbit.

How are geosynchronous satellites carried so high? Do they store a lot of propellant on board? Or do they keep their final stage longer than low-altitude satellites?

Altitude is part of the problem. Assuming you wanted to get to GEO from a circular, 700 km altitude orbit you'd first need to do a burn of about 2.24 km/sec along the orbital velocity direction to raise the apogee of the transfer orbit (the half-ellipse): enter image description here

The spacecraft wouldn't normally do it itself, the launcher upper stage would typically inject you into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) directly.

What every spacecraft has to do itself, however, is circularisation of the orbit once it reaches the geostationary altitude. This is done by doing yet another burn along the orbital velocity direction, but this time of 1.2 km/sec. You can think of this burn as trying to raise perigee altitude and circularising the orbit or matching the spacecraft's velocity to match the geostationary orbit's velocity. Any inclination changes are also done there to reduce the mass of the fuel necessary (the slower you go the less fuel you need to change inclination by some amount). enter image description here

And that's how you get to GEO. So the problem is, by the measure of delta-V, mainly due to altitude, less so regarding the velocity. The only problem is every spacecraft has to do the circularisation burn itself, which adds some complexity.

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Satellites are launched to a range of heights from about 160-1200 km (LEO) out to 33800 km (geosynchronous).

Altitude is not the challenge here. Orbital speed is the hard bit. From sciencelearn:

even though it takes nearly a million joules of energy to lift a 1 kg mass to an altitude of 100 km, it takes over 30 million joules of extra energy to give it enough speed to stay in orbit around the Earth.

Your last two sentences are correct though - the further out you want to go, the more propellant you need to carry, and you'll keep your stages burning longer. I know this sounds very simplistic, but it really all comes down this in the end: delta-V.

Have a read of the other questions tagged for useful information on speeds, launch types etc.

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  • $\begingroup$ I always liked that quote $\endgroup$ – Rory Alsop Jul 14 '14 at 20:18
  • $\begingroup$ This answer would be less confusing if altitudes were expressed in kilometers, as they (almost) always are in space engineering. $\endgroup$ – ChrisR Jul 18 '14 at 23:46
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As an example, Ariane 5 (large PDF: Ariane 5 user manual) generally delivers its payload in a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (an elliptical orbit with its highest point at geostationary altitude). From there, the satellite's own engines circularize the orbit.
It depends a bit on the rocket: the Ariane 5 ECA has a second stage that cannot be restarted, so it cannot do the circularization burn. With a restartable second stage, it's possible to push the satellite into its final orbit, but then you have to do another maneuver to remove the rocket stage from geostationary orbit.

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Tilghman Joins National Panel Examining Future of Higher Education

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Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University, emeritus, and professor of molecular biology public affairs, has been named to a national commission under the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that will examine how to better the delivery of higher education in the future. Full Story.


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Obamacare Turns 10: Where Does Health Care Go Next?

Date & Time Mar 04 2020 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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Speaker(s) Sarah Kliff, health policy journalist, investigative reporter, New York Times. Sarah will be joined in conversation with Heather Howard, Lecturer in Public Affairs and Director, State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS) at Princeton
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Sarah is visiting the School as part of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through Mentorship Program


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In this invited paper, we first address the differences between the uses of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) as light generating mechanism in Raman devices and as optical analysis tool in spectroscopy. Next, with respect to the light generating functionality of CARS, we briefly review the latest progress on CARS-based Raman wavelength converters in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and explain a new approach for boosting the efficiency of these converters. Finally, we show that the CARS process is also able to extract heat from a Raman-active medium and that therefore CARS can be used for reducing the heat dissipation in SOI-based Raman lasers.

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True Love with a Purpose

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Billy Atwell of Unshakable Self-Confidence.  In his podcast, I talk about how we need to realize we are really “true love with a purpose” and not the limiting beliefs we get from others in order to live courageously and authentically.

Take a listen and let me know what you think!

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Climate friendly cooking at Roskilde Festival

Startup company Heliac are solar specialists and have developed a stove that makes it possible to prepare meals solely with the rays from the sun. The solar stoves will be available for Roskilde Festival guests at the camping areas for 100 pct. climate friendly cooking.

Heliac’s core business is generating solar fueled energy in solar fields with low‐cost, high‐efficiency lenses, but at Roskilde 2019 the startup also provides climate friendly cookers for festival guests.

Heliac’s stoves are developed for people in third world countries that otherwise cook with open fires with subsequent negative consequences for climate and health.

Large scale testing at the festival

“We have tested our solar stoves in developing countries and the festival is an opportunity to test our improved product and its user-friendliness on a large scale. We know that many of the young festival guests are concerned about the environment and want to help us make a difference in developing countries,” says Akiko Ishibashi in an article for Innovation Fund Denmark. She is Project Manager at Heliac and sees the test as an opportunity for input, new usage and markets for their solar cooker.

Heliac’s core business is generating solar fueled energy in solar fields with low‐cost, high‐efficiency lenses. The startup has recently opened a large scale solar field in the south of Zealand generating approx one third of the local heating demand in the area. Many more are in pipeline.

About Heliac

Heliac has developed an innovative plastic foil which is a game changer for the solar power industry. The traditional solar energy panels use a system of mirrors to concentrate the sun which are expensive to produce. Heliac’s solution with plastic foil will change all that and recently their first solar energy system opened on the island of Møn consisting of solar panels made of normal window glass with the plastic foil underneath. The cost of producing the foil is half as much as the mirrors and the foil is a more effective catcher of rays. On Møn, Heliac’s solar plant is expected to produce approx. 25 pct. of the local heating demand.

Heliac has been a Spring Nordic portfolio company since 2015. Read more about Heliac here

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Geoff and John

My brother John Sproson and I came to the Stiperstones in September 1968, the day a horse called Stiperstones won at 20/1 and we didn’t back it.

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John has remained here ever since, always running his shop but also doing stints as landlord, chef, postmaster, and running other village shops.

I have left and returned to get a couple of degrees, teach at all levels from infants to further education, travel from Norway to Sicily and now try and keep the garden’s, and the recycling in order.

We have always liked to think of ourselves as athletes although the results pages of road running, orienteering, tri-athlons, fell running and mountain marathons may not back this up. And now with a combined age of nearly 150 we can still be seen in faded lycra cycling or shuffling across the hills.


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Dr. Ryan Straight is currently an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Arizona. Much like Angela, Ryan found himself in his current (dream) job via a strange and unexpected series of events and employment: in Ohio he worked at a pool supply company, cleaned clubs and parked golf carts at a country club, vacuumed and cleaned computers in dorm rooms, shelved books in library stacks, supervised a Circulation desk at said library, managed an undergraduate course catalog, tested and managed quality assurance on a universitywide student system, then moved to Arizona to build and delivered technology-focused workshops before stepping into his current role. In addition to his faculty position in Educational Technology, he teaches in the Informatics and Cyber Operations programs, teaches for the Honor’s College, is the UA South Faculty Fellow, and writes for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog.

Ryan holds a BS.Ed in Integrated Language Arts (a fancy and confusing way of saying he was licensed to teach 7-12th grade English but never ended up using that license because he went straight into…), an M.Ed in Cultural Studies in Education (during which he studied mainly inequality and religion in the US public school system), and a Ph.D in Instructional Technology (his dissertation focused on augmented reality mobile gaming, its educational uses, and potential pitfalls), all from Ohio University. He believes in both breadth and depth of knowledge and education, clearly. His current research interests focus mainly on postphenomenology, new media, and the philosophy of technology and its applications in curriculum and instructional design.

He lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife Adriana and their three dogs, Sofie, Menchi, and Chewie. In his spare time he attempts being a photographer (recently favoring his Lubitel 166B and Yashica Electro 35G film cameras), plays too many video games and watches too much 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. He has a fondness for cooking and an addiction to tattoos. You can find him online at his website, through the The New Professor podcast that he hosts, and his Twitter account. If you want to get bi-weekly photos of his dogs and other shenanigans delivered directly to you, sign up for his newsletter, “Read, Watch Woof”.

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Finally had a chance to do all of the little detail work on the War Walkers, models for Eldar machinery are usually crusted with little “soul-gems”, which have a long convoluted and ultimately irrelevant story justifying their existence. Mainly they look nice painted gold. Here’s the walkers with all of the basic painting done, just before they go in the dip.

I put a white coat on the Harlequin Dreadnought so his goofy grin would show up better. The next picture is of the walkers after the dip. I have a little pottery bowl of mineral spirits in the upper left and a scrap brush that I use to clean up drips and blobs that form under overhanging projections. I use a pottery bowl because mineral spirits dissolves plastic, found that out the hard way. I use the grips in the middle to dunk models into that big can of Polyshades.

I like to do my model dips at the end of the day so that when I get up in the morning they should be dry and ready to be matte sprayed.

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Finally finished all of the bike rider, and a few extra passengers. They used a really small palette as they are intended to be a unit and I decided not to diversify their color schemes. I realize that uniformity is not a very Orky aesthetic, but I like the look of all the yellow.

Since they are bikers I used Abaddon Black for their gloves and boots as it is a semi-gloss and I liked the shine in this instance. Waagh flesh for the green skin, Flaming orange for the occasional decoration (hair, wristbands), Pig iron metallic dry-brushed onto weapons, goggles and gear, Big Top red for scarves and eye sockets, white for teeth, Mournfang brown (nice reddy brown) for belts and suspenders, and nice bright Flash Gitz yellow for their pajamas. Odd names I know, each company makes their own designer paints and unfortunately Games Workshop did a big makeover of their paint line a few years ago and changed all of the names. I have a mix of old and new paint names in my paint box and I’ve found this conversion guide very helpful to find the new names of the colors that I used to work with. Citadel Paint Conversion

This was very handy when I needed to replace my old Bleached Bone, an off-white color that I use for a canvas base, which is now called Ushabti Bone. At least it still has ‘bone’ in the title. Here are the riders being glued onto their vehicles;

This is pre-dip, and there are several Imperial Assault characters that are also almost done. Two of the bikes were actually two-seater Nobz bikes, that’s why that mek with a big gun is looking over that fella on the left’s shoulder. The guy in the lower right is a version two plastic rider, the other riders are all lead, I’ll glue his arms on after I have him seated. Those rolled up tarps on the front of the bikes were all done with bleached bone, the dip should darken and shade them nicely. Here’s everybody post-dip drying;

My son also finished four more of his boyz and they were able to join the queue in time for tonight’s dip. The Imperial troops will get a little white highlight work after they get their first coat of matte spray, can’t really paint directly on top of the dried polyurethane; too slippery. These should all be done by tomorrow night.

Painting the lizard

I realized that I’ve talked about my painting process for minis but hadn’t posted a step-by-step set of pics. So here goes. 🙂

I start by priming my minis black, which makes for a poor photograph, and I usually use spray primer. Why not white or grey or green? I use to prime them grey but the end result was kind of muddy and it was too much work to brighten details. So I started priming everything white, but then the end result can look bright but a little washed out and I had to go back in and add shading to give the paint job depth. My current favorite technique is to prime them black and then dry-brush a heavy coat of white on all of the raised surfaces.

The areas that I left black are ones that will get metallic paints applied to them. The metallics look better dry-brushed onto a black background. Next is to apply base colors to everything.

These are just base colors with no shading or highlights. For items like those turtle shell shields I made every effort not to let the green paint get into the cracks in the shells, I wanted those to stay extra dark. Now here is the part where I’ve become lazy in my old age; The next step is to dunk them into a glossy polyurethane stain and varnish and let them dry overnight.

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I’ve been using a Tudor brown stain and it has the nice effect of leaving a dark residue in any crevices and adding better depth to the colors. This is often referred to as, “the dip”. It can be messy so I keep a number of disposable brushes handy and some mineral spirits for cleanup. After they come out of the dip the stain often wants to drip and glob in the wrong places (under the jaws and tails) and I give them a quick hit with the mineral spirits brush to thin the globby areas. After this they get sprayed with a matt varnish coat, which knocks down the shine, I don’t like super shiny minis. Then they get their bases decorated with a little bit of white glue and some scenic flocking or sand.

They then get one more spaying of matt varnish to make sure that their basing material is protected and these little fellas are done!

For matt sprays the ones I see most often in game stores are Armory brand, about $3, and Army Painter brand, about $6. I highly recommend the Army Painter brand as the Armory brand seems to get cloggy and spitty. The Army Painter brand has been very consistent in it’s quality and I greatly prefer it, despite the higher price.

Muscle Milk! Grrr…

Horace and his sidekick Blue run across some ugly creepers at the construction site.

Muscle group

These guys leaped out of my Reaper Bones pile and crossed the painting finish line pretty quickly. They are, from left to right, a Ghast, a Flesh Golem, and a Clay Golem. I didn’t realize it was a Clay Golem until later, so now he’s just a misshapen body builder with thuggish minion written all over him. Nothing special in their paint treatments; black primer, white dry-brush, bronzed flesh dry-brush on the clay golem, rotting flesh dry-brush on the other two, chestnut ink wash (diluted 50%) on clay golem, brown paint wash (diluted 50%) on the other two. The Clay golem then received a couple of dry-brush highlights of 50/50 bronzed flesh and white. The other two received bleached bone dry-brushed highlights and then 50/50 bleached bone and white dry-brush highlights. I really wanted to accent their darker recesses, clothing folds and muscle depths, but didn’t want them showing up as stark black and white in the finished minis. Brown and off-white worked well for my purpose.

I usually have four or five brushes going at once with things being dry-brushed, highlighted and washed all at the same time. I keep my brushes pretty clean, I’m rinsing them constantly in clean water to keep the paint from caking and drying in the bristles, that’s an easy way to lose a good brush. Having all three of these guys on my table at the same time with similar treatments going meant that while one was drying I could be working on the next and just kept them moving. It only took a few hours before they were ready for a satin tudor polyurethane dip and a 24 hour drying period..

Then they got matte sprayed, and a little more highlighting, really soft, where things got a bit too dark from the poly-wash. Then another matte spray.

Ghast Flesh Golemclay golem

For Horace, who makes me think of Taurus from Interstate ’76, I looked up pictures of Superfly and decided I wanted a more flamboyant color scheme, so purple shirt and white pants. the white pants are about three layers of dry-brushed white as I wanted them to be pretty bright with minimal shading.

As for his pal Blue…I don’t know where he came from. He’s a metal mini that ended up in my pile and I didn’t have a clear idea as to what to do with him, so I painted him blue with a bit of bronze hair. My daughter looked at him and thought he looked more like a woman, his musculature sculpting is pretty strange.

In other news; A friend is sending me a Reaper Bones Cthulhu model to paint and play with. 😀

WordPress is very happy to inform me that this is my thirtieth post, I’m not sure why that’s special. They just seem to like inventing and then celebrating milestones, yay! I was going to talk about painting an iron golem, but it’s 30th post time so I’ll start with something else, I’m still going to talk about the golem but he’ll be farther down the page, just jump down to the pictures.

When I turned thirty the world had turned upside-down. I had been working that summer as a Scenic Design instructor at the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp, back when they still had a big theatre program. Fairbanks gets ridiculously hot (104 degrees+) so I ate a great deal of ice cream at a place called Hot LIcks-which was totally awesome-sauce! They made all of their own ice cream and had some amazingly good flavors like Alaska Blueberry and Prudhoe Mud-slide (extra double-chocolate) and they were a life-saver to me as I’m a serious heat weenie (it’s the ice in the blood).

My then girlfriend and now wife…sounds weird to write it that way, feels like we’ve always been married 🙂 … came to visit me at the camp and I got to show her around to places like Hot Licks and a spot where the pipeline passed close by the city and there was a little park there, I guess for viewing the pipeline, although there isn’t really anything to see…it’s just a big pipe.

However, when I took my later to be wife there I was overcome with the urge to propose, apparently pipelines are inherently romantic to theatre technicians, but didn’t, because I’m a technician and I analyze everything to make certain of teh consequences. She did sense that surge of excitement in me though and quizzed me about years later, she had guessed correctly what was on my mind, but waited for me to say it, but that didn’t happen for eight more months. She went home and I thought it over and decided it was the right course for my future, but then I got a phone call about my uncle Hans. I say uncle but actually he was no relation, my family kind of adopted him when they met him out in the Aleutians before I was born. Hans was a German immigrant who grew up in post WW2 Germany and had fantastic stories of being knocked out at a bread riot…by a loaf of bread, German bread is much harder than American cake bread. Anyway, Hans kind of raised me when I came along. My Dad and I never really connected, he wasn’t a bad guy, just busy, and tired, then sick for a long time before he passed away almost 14 years ago. He was a great guy, I just didn’t really know him. Hans was a huge determining factor in who I am today though and before I turned thirty, before I got married, before I had my children he died quite painfully in the hospital. The phone call I received in Fairbanks was that Hans was extremely ill in Homer and was going to be moved to Providence in Anchorage, which was good because small town hospitals are the death for serious illnesses, and he was seriously ill. Hans had been sick for quite some time it turned out, but hadn’t been telling anybody about it. He had also been a hardcore alcoholic his whole life and had managed to wreck most of his body internal body functions, but you wouldn’t know it as he always seemed so robust, unlike my dad who always seemed tired. I finished my summer contract and got back into Anchorage just in time to see Hans and talk with him for the few days before he passed. He gave me some money at the hospital to go buy him some socks as he claimed the doctors had stolen his so he couldn’t get away. A few days later he slipped into a coma and died. And I turned thirty. He did leave me a great deal of money, which was an immense surprise, so I was able to pay off my student loans, which left me free of debt and in a position to look forward in life, instead of always backwards at the mountain of debt I’d been carrying. Hans loved kids, I wish he’d gotten to meet and play with mine.

Hey look, a bronze golem!

I was working away on him, close to being done, and noticed the cracks on the back of his kilt and thought they were an odd choice. I looked in the Reaper online mins catalog and it turns out he’s a stone golem…well, whatever. For this fella I painted him black and then hit his body parts with a dark bronze metallic paint, then dry-brushed a copper metallic paint on top of that as I thought that process would add more luster and depth to the metallics.

I also washed him with a chestnut ink to see what that would do, seems to have made him shinier.

A bit of leather for his armbands and belt andlots of white brushing so his kilt would be bright.

Then some sand for his base, still not quite happy with my desert sand basing, I think I need to brush in some better highlights on the sand bits.

Next up, some muscle-bound dudes and Superfly go toe to toe to toe. 🙂

Finishing bits

The past couple days I concentrated on getting through some pieces that were almost done, and have been that way for a while. The oldest of the lot is this Ork Warboss with a ridiculously large gun. ImageHe sat around with black primer and dry-brushed green skin base for over ten years. Next up is my new Lizardman Army Standard Bearer with Skink attendants.

He’s only been bouncing around my bench for three months so not too bad time-wise. Then, while I was waiting for different colors and basing glues to dry on the above two I started dry-brushing and washing colors onto my new Reaper Bones Earth Elemental;

One thing I forgot to mention on the Bones cyber-gorilla from last week was that the primer paint felt a little gooey until paint went on top of it. I made sure that the Earth Elemental got a nice soapy warm bath before getting primed and had no problems. This guy is enormous. Lots of little details and texture built into him, really fun to paint. I didn’t even notice the skeleton on his right shoulder until I started dry-brushing and then it just popped out at me, hey look what I found! I have no idea what that muscular blue dude in the third frame is, he wandered into my collection a long time ago and I just recently decided to paint him. I think he’s from some super-villain collection.

The finished Earth Elemental;

One of the many nice things about the Reaper Bones line is that they all come with an integrated base, many with interesting textural details. In this case I thought his base was a little small so I built a 60mm diameter base out of three layers of cardstock and added some extra rocks to the base.

Everybody here has been finished using the polyurethane dip and matt coat finishing method.

Tale of Two Skinks, part 2

Finally got back to painting after the wild rumpus of spring wound down. I’m an Auditorium Technician for the school district so I hop around designing lights and running sound for theatrical events, dance shows, concerts and recitals. Springtime is huge for us with every school doing their final productions of everything, and banquets, and speechifying evenings, and then all of the community groups come rolling in to do their performance. And I’m involved in a Historical Recrudescence Guild at the Renaissance Faire; I work as a woodcarver/carpenter demonstrating medieval carving and construction techniques and frightening small children with the disturbing and demented puppet heads I carve. But hey, that’s all calmed down so I can paint again and possibly get back to my papermodel designing.

When last we checked in on our intrepid skinks one had been primed white, the other black. The black primed one had then had a white drybrush applied to it’s raised surfaces. They both then had a nice coat of yellow laid on for their skin base. The first thing I noticed was that the white primed one was definitely brighter. I finished their other colors and dipped them in tudor satin polyurethane. They’ve been lightly sprayed with a matt coat in the following pictures but they do need one one more spray to even out the shine.

I like a lot of the color effect of the black primed with white drybrush, but to my eyes the white primed one is brighter. Simpler too as I have about sixty of these minis that I’ll be painting up and the black primed with white drybrush is pretty labor intensive. I’ll reserve that technique for more important minis; leaders, heroes, and special troops that I want to stand out from the rank and file.

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More Runts

My older brother and I have been churning through my pile of unpainted 40K Gretchin minis the past few weeks, he painted 15 and I painted 8 so that puts me up to 63 painted Gretchin. My goal is to finish all of the unpainted Gretchin on my table, which would put me over 100.

And what an absolutely useless army that would be. 😀

We both started from a black primer coat and did the skins in basic goblin green color; he did his solid and I dry-brushed mine on to keep the shading in the recesses. I went for solid color fills with a very small subdued palette-mostly browns, metal, little blue, little off-white. My brother used oranges, yellows, reds, metals, blue and purples with ink washes* (green, orange and yellow) to darken or brighten the base colors.

Once we both had our basic colors finished they were all dipped in Tudor Satin polyurethane stain, allowed to dry overnight then matt-sprayed to knock off the shine.

You can paint on top of matt spray as it is clear acrylic, can’t paint on top of un-matted polyurethane though-the paint slides around a lot.

Then they all received the same highlight mix; Equal parts white, green and yellow drybrushed onto the raised portions of the models skin. Then yellow dots for eyes, a little flock for their bases, and voila –

The rets of the Gretchin Horde will have to wait a bit as I am switching over to finishing some Lizardmen and some palm trees terrain.

*The inks that we use are from the original Citadel shipment to the USA in 1988. A little ink goes a long ways. 🙂

Red & Green (but not Christmas)

My brother are cranking out a bunch of Gretchin/Runts/Gobbos for a Warpath intro game this week and I wanted a leader for the rebellious Runts faction. I dug through the unpainted lead pile and found the Red Gobbo from GorkaMorka. The first pic is the completed base colors. I try to make sure everything is neat and clean at this point, haven’t done any drybushing or highlighting as he’s about to get dipped.

He gets dipped in tudor satin polyurethane stain and set aside for about 12 hours. I made sure to thin the dip on his scarf while the dip was wet with a brush dipped in mineral spirits.

Once he’s hardened and dry I flock his base, matt coat him to knock the shine off and seal the flocking, do a few highlights, and matt spray him again. You can paint on top of the clear acrylic spray, painting on top of the polyurethane sealant doesn’t work too well.

He’s ready to command his legion of Runts!

Hopefully I’ll have an AAR later this week with some thoughts about actually playing the Warpath rules and how they feel different from 40K.


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Many of these changes are based on reader feedback. We'd like thank everyone for all the messages you've sent and encourage you to continue providing your notes and suggestions, which helps us preserve SSD as a reliable resource for people all over the world. Please keep in mind that some feedback may take longer to incorporate than others, so if you've made a substantive suggestion, we may still be working on it!

How to: Delete Your Data Securely

On a *nix operating system, we recommend using sfill to securely delete anything left in the free space of your drive. Secure-delete is available for Debian, Mint, and Ubuntu but is not installed by default, so you’ll probably need to install it using your distribution’s package management software (sometimes known as a “Software Manager”). (If you use RedHat, Fedora, OpenSUSE, or Mandriva, and know how to use alien to convert packages from deb format to rpm, you can find the deb for secure-delete here.) The article explains what to do once it's installed.

How to: Use OTR for Mac

An issue was found with Adium notifications on OS X; they are logged by default, meaning there is a record of Adium chats even if logging is turned off. The article now explains how to disable Adium notifications so they will not be logged by the underlying operating system.

How to: Use OTR for Windows

While Pidgin's download page uses "HTTPS" and is therefore relatively safe from tampering, the website it directs you to to download the Windows version of Pidgin is currently Sourceforge, which uses unencrypted "HTTP," and therefore offers no protection. That means that the software you download could potentially be tampered with before you download it.  The article expands on the level of this risk, based on your threat model.

How to: Use PGP for Linux, How to: Use PGP for Mac OS X, How to: Use PGP for Windows PC

If you use two-factor authentication with Google (and depending on your threat model you probably should!) you cannot use your standard Gmail password with Thunderbird. Instead, you will need to create a new application-specific password for Thunderbird to access your Gmail account. See Google's own guide for doing this.

Additionally, we flagged that in October 2014, the GPG Tools team, who package GPG for the Mac OS X platform, announced that they would soon be charging for GPGMail, the part of their package that lets you use GPG with Apple's Mail application. Because our PGP guide for Mac explains how to use GPG with Thunderbird, it doesn't require that component. You can just use the zero-cost part of the GPG Suite. In addition, all of these tools are "free software" in the FLOSS sense that you are still allowed to freely examine, edit and redistribute GPG Mail's underlying source code. For more information, see GPG Tools' own FAQ on their decision.

How to: Use RedPhone (Android), How to: Use TextSecure (Android)

Several of you asked why RedPhone and TextSecure cannot be downloaded without signing up for Google Play.  In the guide, we explain that to prevent tampering or data collection by third parties, it would be better if this software was downloadable outside of Google's "Google Play" app store. Unfortunately, for now, these programs use some of Google's infrastructure for software updates and for "push" notifications, which requires using their store ecosystem. You can read more about the creators' reasoning for this decision here.

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  • Open Whisper Systems (makers of RedPhone and TextSecure) recently announced an agreement with Facebook's WhatsApp to include compatible encryption in its proprietary Android client; we hope to document this alternative shortly.
  • Detekt is a new malware detection tool, aimed at protecting activists and others targeted by illicit state surveillance.
  • EFF examines what security protections popular messaging services provide.
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Reports indicate that Balmoral and Maywood Park aren't quite out of the horse racing business just yet.

According to a notice posted by the Illinois Harness Horseman's Association, Maywood and Balmoral Park were granted licenses by the Illinois Racing Board to operate their OTB’s and their intertrack facility in 2016.

However, the auction for the tracks' assets has yet to conclude. Bids for Maywood and Balmoral Park and all of their assets were due in their attorney’s office by last Friday. Three bids were submitted, only one met the qualifying criteria. That bid was on the Balmoral property alone.

As a result, attorneys for the racetracks and the riverboats motioned the court to allow them another two weeks to negotiate with the lone qualified bidder and to find more interested buyers to stimulate the bidding process. That motion was granted and the new auction date has been extended until Monday, December 28.

Balmoral has put together this video tribute to its 89 years of racing history.

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Former Stanford President and current chair of Alphabet Inc. John Hennessy held a talk on Tuesday about his new book “Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey.” The event, held at CEMEX Auditorium, focused on the lessons Hennessy gleaned as Stanford’s 10th president.

Hennessy has held various roles at Stanford over the past 40 years: Beginning as a faculty member in 1977, he went on to become Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Dean of the School of Engineering, Provost of the University and — from 2000 to 2016 — President of Stanford.

Isaac Stein, former member of the Stanford Board of Trustees, moderated the night’s discussion. Stein described Hennessy’s book as “lessons on leadership and its traits, illustrated with stories from his own career and life journey.”

While his book focuses on 10 traits, Hennessy’s Tuesday remarks centered around only four: humility, empathy, collaboration and storytelling. Hennessy shared several anecdotes from his tenure as University president.

Hennessy said the book, in which he draws on his experience developing the new program and finding ways to foster future leaders, was written with Knight-Hennessy scholars in mind, .

“I felt like I needed to organize my own thoughts and get my own experience organized and say what really mattered and what was secondary,” Hennessy told The Daily in a pre-presentation interview. “There are a lot of things in the book that draw on my experience in Silicon Valley starting companies, but they tend to be events that occurred in companies much earlier.”

While discussing the power of leaders in society, Hennessy admitted that there are some challenges with the generation of emerging leaders, including a lack of focus on positive mentors.

“Maybe we need to have more stories about the successful leaders,” he said. “Instead of having the relentless focus on the messes and the disasters that occur, maybe we need to help develop better role models.”

However, Hennessy made it clear that he believes in the role of universities as institutions that have the ability to foster such change and cultivate successful leaders. Hennessy detailed this belief in students and faculty in describing his “upside-down pyramid” perspective regarding the role of a university. In his model, the president and the deans are at the bottom of the pyramid with the primary purpose of supporting the faculty and students.

Hennessy also noted the need for universities to step-up as innovators in society. One area he mentioned in particular was that of artificial intelligence.

“Universities are the institutions to think about those problems,” Hennessy said. “They have the scholars and the long-term perspective. They are not burdened with conflicts and other business concerns that any corporation is trying to balance. This technology is moving very fast, so universities need to step up.”

Gunnar Mattson, a prospective Knight-Hennessy Scholar, noted the interdisciplinary nature of Dr. Hennessy’s conception of leadership. He appreciated Dr. Hennessy’s “uncommon” description of leadership as “[transcending] into many different things as [Dr. Hennessy] talked about empathy and humility, for example.”

One audience member asked Hennessy how his answer to the perennial Stanford-application question, “What matters to you and why?” has changed over the years.

“What mattered to me early on was my research and my teaching, and what mattered to me later was different because it was shaped by my experiences,” Hennessy said. “Over time, [I came] to the view that what really matters to me is that the University can continue to serve its current students and faculty and future generations of students and faculty.”

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UY Saga 8 cover process

I turned in the cover art for UY Saga 8. Ink and watercolor on approximately 11×17, 4-ply, cold press Strathmore Bristol board.

This book will contain UY Books 29 (Two Hundred Jizo), 30 (Thieves & Spies), and 31 (The Hell Screen). Major featured characters are Kitsune, and Inspector Ishida. I rough-pencilled this idea with a 2H 3mm mechanical pencil, then determined the vanishing points for the building perspectives.

I reinforced the pencils using a B 5mm mechanical pencil, adding details to the building. This will be a night scene so I had Inspector Ishida carrying a lantern in the rough, but thought it was too distracting and eliminated it.

The borders were inked with a 3.5 technical pen and characters inked with a Koh-i-Noor Art Pen (now discontinued), using black Platinum Carbon Ink.

The background was inked with the same pen. If this was to be black and white art, I would have used a thinner pen nib to reinforce the perspective, but I figured I could do that with the color.

Pencil lines erased using Sakura SumoGrip eraser.

I cut out a mask to cover the borders, foreground and figures.

The background was watercolored with mainly browns and blues. I wanted a very limited neutral palette, using spots of brightness for effect.

Then the foreground was colored.

The mask covering the figures were removed.

More work on the central figures.

The final mask in the foreground was removed and bright scarlet was used to indicate a pool of fresh blood.

The mask protecting the borders was removed, and the cover is finished.

As with the art for all the UY Saga books, there will be a banner at the top covering 2.5 inches of the art (including Nezumi). However, the entire art will be used for the hardcovers.

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