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I've said before that being a father has made me a better person and a better economist. Over the summer, it taught me (in a very vivid way) that value is subjective.
My three-year-old son loves his stuffed panda, Gerard. Gerard was a gift from a friend; I didn't realize how much Gerard had cost, but it turns out that to get another, identical stuffed panda would cost us $36(!!). Over the summer, we were driving from Memphis to Great Barrington, Massachusetts where I would be spending a few weeks as a Visiting Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. We made a few stops along the way, including a stop at a McDonald's in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where I wrote this post. We stopped for the night in Hagerstown, Maryland. As we were getting everything ready, we made an important (and horrifying) discovery.
Gerard was missing.
And so it turned out that, as we were leaving the McDonald's in Harrisonburg, I had apparently placed Gerard on top of the car so I could buckle Jacob into his car seat. I had forgotten about Gerard as we sped off for Maryland.
With Google, it wasn't too difficult to find phone numbers for all the McDonald's locations in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Miraculously, someone who worked at the McDonald's we had patronized had found Gerard in the parking lot.
It was decision time. Gerard was safe, but he was about a 90-minute drive away. At $0.50 cents/mile for gas and depreciation, going to get Gerard would probably cost about $100 round trip, to say nothing of the inconvenience of driving when I would rather be sleeping, all else equal.
As all else was most definitely not equal, the decision was obvious: I hopped in the car, made the trip, and retrieved Gerard. According to a very narrow calculation, we could have gotten a very close substitute for Gerard for $36 plus shipping. As anyone with kids knows, though, it wouldn't have really been Gerard–and I wasn't about to lie to Jacob and say that it was. Suffice it to say Jacob was very happy to be reunited with the genuine article. So what is Gerard really "worth?" The calculation would certainly be different in a lifeboat situation, but on a normal day I wouldn't sell him to you for $10,000.
And now, the lesson in productivity: I thought "hey, I have a few minutes and a bit of inspiration; I'll write a blog post!" I did, but if I hadn't, I probably would have been more focused on what I was doing and saved myself the cost of going to get Gerard. I wouldn't have this story or the lesson, of course, but I do wish that hadn't happened.
Obligatory Disclosure: I've received no valuable consideration from McDonald's, Google, the manufacturers of stuffed pandas like Gerard, or AIER in exchange for mentioning them in this post.


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The Jacket (2005)
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.
Directed by: John Maybury
The cast includes: Adrien Brody (Jack Starks), Keira Knightley (Jackie Price), Kris Kristofferson (Dr. Thomas Becker), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Dr. Lorenson)
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The Mayans called. They want their calendar back.
12/21/2012 will be so uneventful that it'll make Y2K look like the Harmonic Convergence.
~Steven Sashen
I wasn't going to even write about 2012. Really I wasn't, mainly because the topic has already been covered so well by some of my fellow wags and social commentators, such as the above-quoted Steven Sashen. Like most of them, I've known about the 2012 hysteria for many years, long before it actually became hysteria. For that matter, I was hip to it long before the Y2K panic became a panic. I first became cognizant of 2012 predictions way back when the world was still recovering from the utter letdown that was the Harmonic Convergence (the latter of which I mentioned in passing, along with one of the countless "ascensions" related to the number 11, in an old piece I wrote for Skeptical Inquirer).
I knew about 2012 by virtue of having friends, and later clients, who were into New-Agey stuff and were fascinated with the Mayan calendar and the usual hodgepodge of ancient prophecies. One of my clients, who later became a friend, did some channeling occasionally, and some of her Guides told her all sorts of stuff about massive catastrophic changes coming in 2012. One told her the s--t would actually start hitting the fan some time in 2009, and it would just begin escalating steadily for the next three years, culminating in the Big Whatever of 2012.
In the past couple of years, as it became apparent that 2012 was the new Y2K, I toyed with the idea of doing a blog post about it. Other topics captured my interest more, though, and I let it slide.
But now comes the new disaster flick, 2012, which opened in theaters across the United States today. (It's fitting, I suppose, that it would be on a Friday the 13th.) So far the movie critics have been less than kind, although reg'lar viewers have tended to cut the movie a little more slack. I'm pretty easy on movies myself, and will probably see 2012 at some point after it comes out on DVD; I've enjoyed several of director Roland Emmerich's other works, and I adore John Cusack, despite the fact that he may have some woo-ish leanings himself. During yesterday's interview on CBS' Early Show, Harry Smith asked John if he had been aware of the 2012 hoopla before he got involved in the movie. John said yeah, he'd been into that stuff for years. Here's a link to the video of that interview, which has become famous in its own right for the fact that the f-word just sort of popped out of John's mouth (at about 2:45 into the video).
In the past several months I've been seeing some more acerbic commentary about this whole 2012 thing. I don't know if any of it will make a dent in the growing hysteria, but I applaud the writers' efforts nonetheless. In October, Mark Stevenson published a piece on the MyWay site about how disgusted many people of Mayan descent are about the 2012 phenomenon. Astronomers are pretty irate as well.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.
"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
Although 2012 does have some archeological significance, which Stevenson explains in his article, it's just not gonna be the end of the world as we know it.
More recently, on the h+ Magazine site, Mark Dery wrote a scathing piece, 2012: Carnival of Bunkum. He rips into 2012 "expert" Daniel Pinchbeck (whose asininity has had my pal Chris Locke at the Mystic B blog tearing his own hair out for quite some time now). Dery writes:
But the worst of the 2012 bandwagon, epitomized by Pinchbeck's lectures and writings, is the blithe cultural arrogance and staggering anthropological ignorance evident in the movement's appropriation of Mayan beliefs and history. In a discussion hosted by Pinchbeck's online magazine Reality Sandwich, the cultural theorist Erik Davis puts his finger on the minstrelsy implicit in the ventriloquization, by white, first-world New Agers, of the Maya. "[I]t seems to me that there is very little concrete sense of what 'the Mayans' (whoever that grand abstraction represents) thought about what would happen in the human world on 2012," he writes. "To my mind it is kinda disrespectful to the Mayans to force them into our own narrative."
Dery also talked to journalist Xeni Jardin, who does not claim to be an expert on or spokesperson for the Mayan people. However, her adoptive father is "of indigenous descent," and Xeni's work with his nonprofit organization in Guatemala to make things better for the poorest of the poor there has brought her in close contact with the Mayans. Here's what she had to say about Pinchbeck:
What makes me angriest about Pinchbeck's bogus, profiteering bullsh-t isn't so much him, but the fact that that many people are racist enough to believe any asshole white guy who declares himself an expert in Mayan culture. Did it ever occur to anyone to ask practicing Maya priests out in the villages? [...] It absolutely enrages me that while people I know in Guatemala, traditional priests, are struggling to figure out how to provide clean drinking water to their families, how to feed their communities, how to avoid being shot by the gangs and thieves that plague the roads more than ever---while they're struggling to survive and keep their communities intact, assholes like Pinchbeck are making a buck off of white man's parodies of their culture.
Of course, Native Americans have been hollering for years about the wholesale exploitation of their culture and religious traditions by New-Wage hustlers and their followers, the latest newsworthy example being James Arthur Ray's infamous Death Lodge. In fact, the Lakota tribes of North and South Dakota have just filed a lawsuit against James Ray, the owners of the Angel Valley Resort, the state of Arizona and the United States. Here is a PDF of the pleading. (And years before Sweatgate there were other disasters, not only with sweat lodges but with large-scale New-Wagey events such as the increasingly ludicrous Burning Man.)
But back to 2012. Despite the serious efforts of people such as Mark Dery and Mark Stevenson, people are going to believe what they want to believe. Almost certainly the silliness will continue unabated, and perhaps the best way to fight it is with yet more silliness. I kind of like Steven Sashen's approach. He has a mighty prophecy of what will occur on December 22, 2012, which is the day after the world is supposed to end.
...when the "planetary alignment" occurs, without the warned-about mayhem, here's how the 12-ers will spin it:
"YOU DID IT, HUMANITY! You made the shift in consciousness that we needed to avert disaster and have ushered in a new era in global connection and enlightenment."
One of his readers responded:
What's amusing to me is that there's pretty solid proof that the Mayan Calendar was created several hundred years after year zero. i.e., the makers extrapolated back to make things fit the way they wanted to. So year zero is completely arbitrary, just like year zero in CE calendars is arbitrary (seeing as how Jesus was probably born in 4 BC).
Here's my prophecy about 2012: The one thing the movie about it will accomplish, besides making big bucks at the box office, will be to finally bring the conversation even more into the mainstream. It will give the talking heads and the blogging hands something to talk about and blog about, and it will give the worrying public something else to worry about for a while, until the next trendy worry du jour comes along. End-timers of the New-Wage sort will come forward with still more products to help humanity through this "transition." (I wouldn't be surprised if Joe "Mr. Fire" Vitale, for example, came out with his own exploitation project – perhaps a moviemercial about "Hypnotic Marketing Secrets of the Mystical Maya." After all, he went to Peru last summer and got photographed looking deeply wise in Machu Picchu. That has to be good for at least one infoproduct. It would be just the thing to add to his world series of magickal offerings, such as the Russian Wish Dolly and the Polish Money Attractor.) Meanwhile, end-timers of the Christian fundamentalist kind will righteously assert that Jeezus H. Christ Himself said we don't know the hour or the day the world will end, but that in any event we shouldn't be listening to those pagan Mayans.
And the Whirled will just keep right on spinning.
PS ~ Here's the Wikipedia entry on 2012.
And here's the even more authoritative Uncyclopedia entry.
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what a sweet table setting.. romantic. we had pizza on paperplates in front of the tv tonight! lol!
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WOW! I love the table cloth. Beautiful color which attracted me:)ReplyDelete
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[from Physics Today, April 2012]
Commentary: Too many authors, too few creators
Philip J. Wyatt
Wyatt Technology Corporation, Santa Barbara, California
A few years ago, Robert Fefferman, dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago, made an interesting remark. He mentioned that Enrico Fermi, wanting to encourage individual creativity and innovation, required his PhD students to select their problem, solve it, and submit the results for publication in their name alone. Fermi also was aware that a multiauthor paper with one famous author might receive automatic acceptance rather than a thoughtful and thorough review. Many PhD students then and since have published their theses under joint authorship with their advisers. Unfortunately, the need among grant-seeking academics to publish and be cited often grew stronger, especially during federal funding cutbacks, the most recent example being the cuts in science budgets under President George W. Bush. When applying for government grants, an applicant team's record of many cited publications was important to confirm that the submitted proposal had significant cachet for continuing support. A vicious cycle began.
Over the years, publication lists were increasing. Some colleagues boasted more than 300 publications and one close to 800! The number of authors associated with each published article was also increasing; single-author papers had become relatively rare. Were Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, and other great scientists just lucky in finding simple ideas that one mind could understand and present? Or was technological creativity becoming so difficult that great teams of scientists were required to recognize and develop it?
Seeking answers, I made a cursory examination of some publication records of the last half century. I selected the eight publications listed in the table to the right and selected the first issue of each from January 1965 and from January 2011. To compare innovation over time, I included data on the first 100 patents issued to US applicants by the US Patent and Trademark Office during the corresponding periods. The data were gleaned from the office's weekly Official Gazette.
The results seem truly astonishing. Although the data sets selected are relatively small, they show the downward trend of individual creativity. Most of the papers studied were written by authors in, or associated with, academia. A few came from government laboratories and some from industry.
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This is another "catch up" post from last year.
The very next weekend after our DDX test, we went to Medicine Hat for an agility trial. We trialed very little in 2012 - only a few weekends and usually just one day weekends. We trained in agility on and off over the spring and summer, but most of my concentration was going into training for draft.
We entered 3 things each day in Medicine Hat. Bosley only needed 2 qualifying runs for his ATCH - a Snooker and a Jumpers. You always hope you get those last needed Qs, but I know not to get my hopes up too high.
Saturday had an awesome Snooker course. I knew it was totally do-able for Bosley. We were going along good, only had a few more obstacles to go and I was feeling confident and then ... Bosley decided to practice his distance skills and take a jump that wasn't any where near our intended course. Tweet - off the course we went.
Jumpers was the last run of the day - I am never sure how we will do in jumpers because the times are usually very tight for us. They have been a lot better since I dropped Bosley to veterans, but still, he needs to have a nice steady run in order for us to make time. The course was tough (as all masters Jumpers courses are) and I wanted to get a but of extra oomph out of Bosley at the end of a long day. So, I had a friend hold him near the start line and I went and hid. I came back right as it was time to go to the line - I grabbed Bosley, who was super excited that I came back - dropped his leash and ran. Bosley was perfect! He got all the tight turns and the backside of the jump and I got all my crosses in where they needed to be. We easily made time for our 4th masters jumpers Q and the last one needed towards our ATChC.
Sunday came and I grabbed the course map for Snooker. My heart dropped - it was an awful Snooker layout - lots of distance and lots of tunnels. Bolsey does not like tunnels and the really slow him down. I was doubtful we could do it. Oh well, there are more trials, and we would give it our best shot. Bosley ran great, tunnel after tunnel combination. We were getting closer and closer to having enough points to qualify but I knew the timer was going to go at any second. The timer buzzed and we left the course. I was adding up our points in my head, still not sure if we made it. I couldn't wait, so I asked the scribe for my score sheet and added them up. We actually made it! Bosley earned his ATChC!
It took us 3 years from our first trial to our ATChC. That may not be very impressive to most agility people, but we trial very little - only a handful of times a year. Bosley is the 6th Berner to earn an ATChC and I believe he is only the second Berner male to earn this title. I am very proud of my big boy and the things he does for me. Bosley is a great partner, has taught me lots and I really couldn't ask for a better dog.


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A NORTH Wales girl who has battled through a string of life-saving operations had more major surgery in the United States late last night.
Special titanium rods fitted to brave Charlotte Speddy's ribs and spine were expanded in an hour-long operation at the Christus Santa Rosa Medical Centre in San Antonio, Texas.
The special rods were fitted to the five-year old girl from Gerlan, Bethesda, in a life-saving operation two years ago.
Charlotte's mother, Angela, said doctors were very pleased with her progress.
Speaking from the hospital in Texas she said: "The work they have done on Charlotte this time has straightened her spine even further.
"She's in recovery at the moment and feeling a bit groggy but that's only to be expected.
Charlotte's father, Steve, said the operation two years ago was a huge success.
"You could see a dramatic improvement in the curvature on her spine. It was down from 51 degrees to 19 degrees - a real miracle.
"It is a long haul, but it was and is her only hope," he said.
Charlotte was given just half-an-hour to live when she was born with several ribs missing and others fused together
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At first glance, it looks like a regular yoga class. Seven women in loose-fitting work-out garb form a semi-circle around instructor DeLona Campos-Davis as she talks in soothing tones.
"Shake out your spine," Campos-Davis says. "Let it go. Shake it out. Release it all." The lights are dimmed. A candle on the floor in the middle of the room flickers.
"Tonight's theme is balance," Campos-Davis says. As the women stretch their arms toward the ceiling, it becomes clear that there are technically not seven but 14 in the semi-circle. Each of the women is pregnant.
Campos-Davis has taught Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond for almost three years at the Hood River Sports Club. The weekly class has several moms-to-be who attended during their first pregnancies and have returned, now onto their second babies.
"It's a healthy form of exercise, even if people haven't been doing much exercise before they were pregnant," Campos-Davis says. Along with helping to increase flexibility, strength and balance, yoga can help with some of the "typical complaints" of pregnancy, she says — including back pain and aching hamstrings and other muscles.
"Yoga also helps people to relax and face some of the fears surrounding pregnancy, birth and becoming a mom," she says.
As she leads the class through typical yoga positions, Campos-Davis talks to the women about how certain poses — as well as focused breathing — can help with labor and delivery. She also encourages them to do the positions only as much as they feel comfortable.
"This can be intense," she says as the women crouch on their mats in Child's Pose. "Be gentle. If it feels tight, you might just hang out there and breathe."
During the class Campos-Davis gets up and walks among the women, keeping an eye on each of them.
"I try to modify it for everyone, depending on how they're feeling or how much yoga they've done before," she explains. "I really encourage people that if it doesn't feel good, don't do it." Campos-Davis eliminates any poses that involve lying on the stomach, or where the women will be lying on their backs for long.
A big part of the class, according to Campos-Davis, is helping women learn to trust their own bodies.
"When they go into labor, then, they can tune into that and know what's right for them," she says. "They also go into motherhood with a sense that they can listen to their body. You get so much advice, you have to be able to sort through what works for you, and this helps."
Campos-Davis, the mother of three boys, is particularly tuned into the needs of pregnant women. She practiced yoga through all three of her pregnancies — teaching through two of them.
For Janet Sjoblom, a family physician in Hood River, the Yoga for Pregnancy class was the first time she'd ever done yoga. She started going to the class when she was 16 weeks pregnant.
"It was a tremendous help to me," says Sjoblom, who had her baby — a boy, Owen — on Feb. 23. "For me, pregnancy was not easy, but the things I learned in the yoga class really helped." She had some back pain and other issues that yoga helped alleviate, she says, and Sjoblom credits yoga with helping her get through labor quickly.
"Just having the support of the other women in the class also made a difference for me," she says. "I've recommended this class to patients of mine, but now I'm really a believer in it."
The Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond class is held on Tuesday nights at the Hood River Sports Club. Call the club at 386-3230 for information.
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Hi everyone and Welcome to my new followers! This is my card for Jitterbuggin' Sketch 27 - Yummy Christmas Treats! Sherri asked us to add our favorite Christmas treat to the sketch and add a little rickrack.
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Perseus posted a topic in Yu Jingguys i am always on fluff side. i need nice bases for my imperial army. do you have any suggestions for me ?
Antenociti posted a topic in Antenocitis WorkshopNew 70mm Base for the Badlands set: http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/badlands-70mm-round-base.html More (new) bases and a couple of scenery item today.
osirisblue posted a topic in CustomeepleDid the oriental pavement pack get discontinued? I love the bases, bought them a while back, but don't have nearly enough to fill out my Yu Jing force. Can't find them anywhere... This is a real shame if so, no one else has anything quite like them. I guess I could try and use them specifically for key/officer bases, but that's kinda disappointing. Or, if anyone knows where to track down a few more, specifically the 25mm I'd greatly appreciate.
macfergusson posted a question in Rules of EngagementHey guys, I've been out of the game for some time due to real life getting hectic. Trying to get back into it now and figure out how all the changes impact things! Had a question come up today that seemed really basic, but couldn't find a definite answer. If a camo marker is moving on its Active Turn, can it move through/past an enemy figure or marker? I know if a figure is moving, it can't choose to go base to base with a marker. If a marker is moving, it CAN choose to go base to base with a figure. If you have a figure moving through a marker, and the camo troop does not ARO, nothing happens (was this example only in 2nd ed?). If a camo marker is moving through a figure, are they forced to go base to base into an engaged state?
Gekko posted a topic in MiniaturesHeya. I'm going to need to transport some minis a few miles and I'm wondering what sort of magnets you folks use in the bottom of the bases? I'm thinking of magnetizing my morats bases (all infantry, no tags) to stick to a baking sheet so I don't chip them in transport.
Maliciousadvice posted a question in Rules of EngagementAssuming the bulleteer had a base size too big to fit on the stairs, would it be possible for it to end on the platform assuming the platform was big enough for the base? in otherwords, im wondering when the rule regarding ending movement on a surface large enough to accommodate your base size is checked. is this treated like a narrow gate? and nothing larger than an S2 can go through?
Golem2God posted a question in Rules of EngagementI was wondering if it would be alright to use 60mm bases instead of 55mm? There are not that many 55mm scenic bases on the market that I like but there are a couple in 60mm. Would an ITS tournament allow this or is it simply not allowed?
JSIVEY posted a topic in MiniaturesI am looking for some bases for my first set of Infinity figures and I am looking for a "subtle" base for them. By subtle I mean something that doesn't overshadow the work on the figures. I would like to use the Customeeple base tops for PanOceania and Nomads, but living in the U.S. makes them expensive and I don't know I want to wait for them to be shipped from Spain. My first question is: Is there a company in the U.S. that sells those base tops? I know several that sell other items of theirs but I've not seen the base tops. I am particularly interested in the PanO tops with the perpendicular lines. It's simple, but can be made to look like a warehouse, or the floor of a ship, or military base. Also, is there a large preference of resin or plasticard tops? Resin obviously is one piece versus glued pieces, but do people have a strong preference for one or the other? As I said, this is my first attempt at painting, but I prefer to buy good materials the first time around rather than having to go back again and again because of shotty craftsmanship.
Talon65 posted a topic in MiniaturesI recently picked up the Nomads Lunokhod Sputniks with the Crazy Koalas but only received one small base for the Koalas. The package shows two. Am I correct that I'm missing one?
Perseus posted a topic in TohaaLooking for an alien planet bases for tohaa. what are you using guys ? any advice ?
CG posted a topic in TohaaIf I buy a Nikoul, can I base him on a 25mm base to match his silhouette profile or do I have to put him on the base he comes with?
Perseus posted a topic in ALEPHHello.. I am looking for nice bases for steel phalanx Can you advice me any ?
Perseus posted a topic in NomadsAny body can advice me nice bases for corregidor? And want to convert a hmg intruder. Has anybody got a success on it ? Any pictures will be most welcomed.
Luisjoey posted a topic in ArcologiesMade with SPARTAN SCENICS starter set, for Geekopolis convention at CARACAS, VENEZUELA!
MascisMan posted a topic in MiniaturesIn Charno's post about making bases he uses this type of black perforated card/paper. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone know a place on line that sells these sheets? See pics below:
Severian posted a topic in Combined ArmySimple question - is yours bigger than mine? I very recently bought (new) a Med-Tech Obsidon Medchanoid, cracked open the clamshell, and found one of the new 25mm bases inside - the type where you have to cut the slit for the model's base-tab yourself. I'd expected a 40mm base - that's what it looks like the studio model is based on: http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/2011/miniatures/obsidon-medchanoid/ Though the studio model has some fancy basing that raises it up, so I checked a different source. I checked Penemue's invaluable unpacking thread (thanks Penemue) and it also looks like it should have a 40mm: http://penofpenemue.blogspot.ca/2013/04/unpacking-combined-army-medtech-obsidon.html I can't find any historic threads relevant to this. So... Should I be suffering from base-envy? Is it a simple mis-pack - in which case I'll just use a spare 40mm? Or have Medchanoids usually been packed with 25mm bases, and the one in the unpacking thread was unusual? Or has the standard base size been changed recently? Why do I care? I should explain - I'm more interested in scenarios than annihilation games - and in some scenarios, where specialists have to perform functions like entering through narrow gates, the base size can make a difference.
telosse posted a topic in MiniaturesSo I recently tried to base (for the first time) my minis, and prime them. Now, some kind of.. disaster.. had come. I based them using white glue + sand, then prime with spray Chaos Black. Somehow the sand fell off, and now I am tempted to just let it go and make some random base for now. Then I realize that the prime was not covering enough. Is there any tips? I sprayed from 30cm (I usually make short bursts from a bit closer, thus reducing some details / yielded grainy results). I have some pictures but I lost my camera cable so I will post them later on. The questions: 1. Regarding base, do I need to wait for the glue+sand to dry before priming? How long should I wait? I am guessing this might be my first mistake, since I wait only for a few minutes... 2. Regarding prime, what exactly the cause of grainy results? Is it because the prime or might be caused by the paint? 3. Regarding prime, after priming with black, there are some spots that are not covered (some metallic parts like can be seen, or only covered by thin dots of black paints). Is it normal? How was your usual coverage? For a consideration, here is an example of my old miniature (from my old collection): http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/088/a/5/Minis___Infinity___Shang_Ji_1_by_Telosse.jpg I am hoping to improve my skills, and learning to create some bases.
shinin-light posted a topic in NomadsWhat is the importance of base size in the miniature sight? I used to play using miniature bases to show the real sight possibility for both see other minis and be seen. Obviously if a model see another, the second one can see the former. Now i have a doubt about how to consider meteor zond base. I've bought the miniature this week and the transparent support seems to be builded exclusively for the "hovercraft" rappresentation. If the meteor Zond is behind a bridge who covers him but doesn't cover the transparent base, can he see behind the bridge?


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write what I did and when I did it. Sure, I'll include some of my
itinerary, but overall this is going to a more random, and probably very
long, entry, encompassing what I did, what I saw, fun facts, random
moments, and a whole lot more. Why is that, you ask? Well, there's a few
1*There was a whole lot of travel involved. In six days I went to:
2*I don't actually know a lot of what I saw. A lot of the tours I went
on during my SAS trip were so time crunched that our guides literally
just told us the name of the place, gave us 10 minutes to take pictures,
and then re-assembled us on the bus. We were given no other information
and I have no recollection of the names of a lot of places.
3*I learned more in India than I have in any other port. Gender plays
such a huge role in this society and I just have never seen anything
like it. I am so intrigued, and so interested, and I'm not sure how to
phrase a lot of what ran through, and continues to run through, my head
but I'm sure going to try to explain it.
Warning: If you don't like random, scattered thoughts, you should
probably stop reading now. The following will consist of some
chronology, some random bullet points, some random phrases, some
thoughts that probably don't make a whole lot of sense, and a whole lot
more of fun-filled writing. So this is your warning. So if your lame and
don't like wicked cool all-over-the-place thoughts, bye bye.
Because I made such a big deal of the randomness of this entry, I'm
going to start with a discussion on toilets. Yup, you read correctly,
toilets. Toilets are nice, right? Some are comfortable, many are clean,
and there's often a feeling of relief coming with a trip to one. But
sometimes we find ourselves in toilets that more or less make us want to
puke. While in America, this image is traditionally identified with a
roadside gas station. For many people on my trip (and my previous trips
in other countries), I have found this to be quite true. I have seen
people turn away because a toilet was too gross, or smelled too bad, or
didn't flush or lacked toilet paper. In India, I saw people wait in line
for 20 minutes to use the one Western-style toilet when there are 5 open
stalls with Indian-style bathrooms (google it). Honestly, a month ago I
would have done the exact same thing, but Ghana showed me the value of
any bathroom. I was the one who bypassed the line of western waiters and
pulled out my charmin to go for the Indian experience. Yes, the toilets
are disgusting, but the fact that they exist isn't something I forget.
The people of Senase live without this luxury, and even the dirtiest one
is a reminder of a small blessing. Of course, I much prefer the MV
Explorer for those more intimate bathroom moments, but toilets have
really come to be the defining factor of poverty for me. It's easy to
think of poor as no roads and no educations...but a toilet is a small
luxury I have realized is often entirely overlooked in dealing with
poverty. I'll use that Indian toilet, and I'll be thankful for it. The
people of Senase would be.
My big trip in India was a trip with Semester at Sea titled Agra and
Jaipur. While this mostly consisted of traveling, we did get some
site-seeing in. Here are some of the highlights:
-Gandhi's Tomb. This was SO, so cool to see. It is inside of this
massive park that is just filled with memorials and flower gardens and
important buildings. We didn't see too much of this stuff since we had
very little time, but the tomb itself is the highlight anyway. There are
two ways to see the tomb, from ground level or from above. For the
ground level, you have to take off your shoes before you can walk in.
Thankfully, I wore sneakers that day so I went to sock-mode and went in
with Dain and Kelsey. All of the edges are marked with scriptures in a
bunch of different languages that talk of Gandhi's amazing work and some
of his speeches. In the center is his tomb with a simple candle on top.
There were about 70 people there at the time, and even though it was
just a tomb it was a very awe-inspiring moment. The serenity of it all
mixed with the perfect, sunshine-filled weather and it took us a minute
before we even realized we were standing on hot cement. We ended up not
being able to go the upstairs part because we spent all our of time down
below, but it was worth every second. I know I didn't do it justice in
this description, but it's kind of a feeling I can't even attempt to
describe. Here is my apology now: there's a lot of this in India.
-A whole bunch of forts I don't know the name of. The highlights of
these were mostly bathroom experiences, Dain getting yelled at for his
tripod (see below) and sunburns.
-ELEPHANTS. This was technically Amber Fort, which is in Jaipur, but
I'll be honest, the highlight was riding an elephant to the top. I also
got to pet an elephant on the side of the road. India has a lot of
animals just roaming. Cows cross the street, goats are everywhere (like
we see cats and dogs), camels are a mode of transport and dogs are
watchguards. But riding the elephant was definitely the coolest animal
experience so far this voyage. And way cooler than the actual fort.
-McDonalds. McDonalds, a site to see, whaaa? But wait just a minute, in
India cows are sacred. So what does McDonalds actually serve? I had to
find out! The menu had a few chicken sandwiches, but also sold a bunch
of veggie products I had never seen at a McDonalds before! It was so
-The Taj Mahal. That's a pretty big staple of India and I don't think a
visit to India is complete without it. And i'm pretty sure that's the
first "site-seeing" most of you thought of when I said India. So that's
why it's in the middle of this list, because I promised spontaneity and
it just wouldn't fit to put it first. The security at this sacred and
historic building is so intense that literally only five items are
allowed in - cell phones and personal cameras being two of them, but
extra batteries and memory cards were not allowed, along with pens,
notebooks, any cosmetics, and pretty much anything else. Standing in
front of the Taj was simply unreal. Here is this image we have seen on
TV and in books for years and years, and there I was, standing in front
of it. Hands down this was one of the most out-of-body experiences to
date. I couldn't believe I was walking the path I had watched people
walk on a screen time and time again. It's a beautiful building and a
world-renowned site. And there I was, standing in front of it. I'm still
in awe.
TRIPODS. I promised that tripods would be below, so here it is.
Basically, for some reason I still have yet to figure out why tripods
are banned almost everywhere in India. Of course, Dain doesn't just take
that lightly and tried to pull it out to take group pictures at more
than one place. He got yelled at more than once and forced to put it
away at each location. Still, for anyone that knows Dain, it won't
surprise you at all that his "putting it away" was picking it up and
taking the camera off, promising to do it while walking and setting it
up in the next spot. At the Taj, security was so strict that it wasn't
even allowed in, but everywhere else had just told him he couldn't use
it when entering. At one location, the security guards told him more
than once to put it away so he broke it into the three pieces and asked
me to hold the tripod and the stand. Legitimately, we weren't going to
use it but we were already quite a bit behind our group and in a rush to
catch them that we just figured we would disassemble it on the bus. So
the security guard followed me for the next few minutes, just continuing
to walk around me and stare at me while Dain ran off through various
rooms taking pictures. I knew he was watching me, but I just figured it
was to make sure I didn't use it since I did have my canon around the
neck. However, when I walked up to Dain the guard suddenly came over and
started yelling to put it away now. The answer of we weren't using it
wasn't going to work again and he stood there until we put it away. This
was extra interesting because of the gender-definition of it. I was
watched, but not spoken to, because I am a female. India has A LOT of
gender dividing lines and discrimination, and it's quite funny how I
could carry a tripod but he couldn't.
DISNEY. Of course, nothing in my life would be complete if Disney wasn't
a part of it. In addition to taking pictures of Mickey's that I see
around (which I do in every port, here I even saw an article on tourism
to Orlando with a picture of main street in a magazine!), India was
extra special in Disney-terms for two reasons:
1*Dain and I are pretty much Semester at Sea DCP Campus Reps without the
perks, and convince people to participate in the future left and right.
We even convinced our friend Michael to apply in Ghana and interview in
South Africa. And in India, he found out he was accepted! He got his
first choice role of Bell-hop too which is a pretty small role so we
were so happy for him! He is unfortunately starting after Dain and I
leave for the summer, but hopefully we will have more fall trips there!
Some pretty common things of India:
-The India "smell." A few ports thus far have had a very particular
smell, a smell that I'll probably remember for the rest of my life and
think of with similar scents. One of these countries was Ghana. Another
was India. I can't really describe what it smelt like because it was
quite different, but I know most of us have an idea of the "smell" of an
Indian person in America, so try to multiply that times 1.2 billion
people plus the other cultural factors at work. All of the clothes that
I wore and everything that I brought has this distinct scent. And, no,
it wasn't all that pleasant but it was more bearable than Ghana's. I
never realized how blessed I was to live in country that smells pretty
and clean.
-Haggling. Haggling has been pretty common in the journey thus far. It
happened in Dominica, Manaus (in Brazil, but it didn't happen in Rio)
Ghana, Mauritius and now India. When I say haggling I don't mean like an
American flea market where someone says twenty and you say fifteen and
then it's a deal, I mean vendors grabbing you left and right and yelling
in your face, shoving products in front of you and causing a 5-10 minute
process just to buy something. Half the time I have left stuff I
probably would have bought otherwise because I didn't want to deal with
the process to buy one thing. For example, we went to a local bazaar in
India, and Dain and I (and by that I mean Dain while I sat and tried to
contain my uncomfortable awkwardness) spent literally almost 20 minutes
negotiating the price of some pants, a purse, and 2 shirts. I'm not
comfortable with arguing back and forth, and to be honest, I'm not very
good at it. I'd prefer a standard price, even if it's a little higher,
but alas, that's not how these countries work. It's crazy to think about
having to go day-to-day constantly negotiating prices, and probably
paying a different price all the time. I'm ready to just see a price tag
and know that is what I am paying. Though in India the vendors weren't
as aggressive as in Ghana (where we were literally getting pulled in
every direction), it was still quite extreme and I'm pretty thankful
that Vietnam will probably be the last port where this is such a big deal.
-Jewish stars. There were stars of David on a lot of religious
buildings. I don't understand the significance as this is a Hindu and
Muslim country, but if someone reading this wants to google it I'd
really love it:).
Walking through the Delhi airport, I couldn't help but hate it. It's
gorgeous, probably the most beautiful airport I have ever seen. But why
is that necessary? Here is a country that is starving and then an
airport that has clearly cost billions. Couldn't a run-down airport
sufice and those billions be put towards stopping the killings of
females or ending dowry?
-Gender. Gender is a serious problem in India. In this paternal society,
a woman is completely dominated by their father/husband/brother. When
entering buildings, we had to use separate entrances than men. There
were certain things that men couldn't say to us, and had to ask one of
the men in the group to pass a message on. Women are not allowed to wear
jeans, and instead must conform to the Sari or long skirts (tourists
wont be turned away if they have jeans, but they will be stared at), but
men can wear whatever they want. Women often are not educated, and
instead of little girls getting to play, they have to stay home while
their brothers get to run around. Women are forced to do the housework,
and are slaves to their husbands families until they produce a boy. For
families, a girl is considered a loss while a boy is the prize. The
girls family must pay a dowry (a female to male version of a brideprice
- high ticket gifts often costing up to 5 years salary that must be paid
from a woman's family to the man's upon marriage), and then their
daughter will leave them for their husband. Meanwhile, a boy receives
the dowry for his family and will stay at home when he gets married.
Therefore, female feticide (the aborting of a baby very late into the
pregnancy due to finding out the fetus is a girl) and infant killing is
far too common. Currently, the overall ratio in India is 125 males for
every 100 females, but in a country of 1.2 billion people, these numbers
are clearly very skewed in some areas. For example, in our port of
Kerola, the literacy rate is very high and the ratio of male to female
is 1 to 1. This is the most equal state in the country, and although
extremely impressive, it's important to realize that if the overall
country has a rate of 125:100, and this state has a ratio of 1:1, that
means its very, very worse in other parts.
As we were driving the streets in Northern India, I could see this
differences. I saw men everywhere, but women really were rare. I seemed
to grab more attention than Dain in public, and I often felt
uncomfortable with the men who approached me. When I did see women, it
was in inferior roles. For example, they were hosts at restaurants, but
the men were waiters; they were working the check in booth at the
airport but not security; and they stood behind the desk while the men
did the selling in stores. I saw a billboard in Delhi that was trying to
discourage female feticide. And although the government made Dowry
illegal in 1961, they still do nothing to stop it and females seem to
live in fear of paying for their daughters payment.
Oftentimes, if the dowry isn't paid the wives will be burned to
death in "accidental kitchen fires" and there is absolutely nothing to
be done about it. Fathers have been known to sell their kidneys or other
organs for dowry money, and yet the Indians that I talked to didn't seem
to think dowry was at all a problem. Our tour guide told us that dowry
was "a gift" and there was nothing wrong with it. Of course, he was a
male and his family would therefore be on the receiving end. I wish I
could have asked a female this question, but they are so secluded and
sheltered by their male superiors that they couldn't even speak to us.
Driving through India, I was consumed by the idea that if I was
born into this country, there are pretty high odds that I would have
been killed before I reached two (if I made it out of the womb at all).
We heard a story of a doctor that was just convicted after police found
7 full wells of female fetuses in his year. It reminded me of what it
may have been like to be a black person in the American South, where
entrances were different and inferior, treatment was worse and lynching
was completely acceptable.
Of course, the lack of women in India is causing a major
disruption. Because of the ratio of men to women, in some places where
hte ratio is highest the rape rate skyrocketing and the cosumption of
alcohol is a major problem. But the system of dowry is so large that it
honestly doesn't look like it is going to change. If the current
generation is 125:100, I can't imagine what it will be like 50 years
from now. And if the repression of women is this bad now, I can't
imagine what it will be like with an even higher number of males over
India was the most educational experience I have had thus far. Of
course, I learned so much about poverty and living with nothing in
Ghana, but seeing the way the males dominate this world was seriously
enriching. By the time I got back to Cochin, I had a whirlwind of
emotions. For me, this trip had nothing to do with the siteseeing. I
learned more from driving the back roads than the Taj Mahal could have
ever taught me. Of course, I'm glad I went to this amazing world
landmark, but truthfully, I am no longer a tourist. I am a traveler, and
India defined this for me.


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Gay Iranians Have a Surprising New Spokesperson
There aren't a lot of well-known gay Iranians out there. In fact, there aren't any. There are some within the expatriate Iranian community, but more widely?
That's all about to change with the reality TV show Shahs Of Sunset, which is set in Los Angeles, home to a huge Iranian-American population.
One of its stars is gay Persian Reza Farahan, and he is well aware of the responsibility which comes with being a 'first.'
He told AP:
"I have an important message, all the bling and Mercedes aside: I'm an openly gay Persian man. According to the president of the country I was born in, I don't even exist…"
That's a reference to Iranian President Ahmajinedad's infamous statement at Colombia University that gays don't exist in Iran, which was actually more like we don't have gays like you do in the West but which he doubled down on last year, telling CNN:
"My position hasn't changed."
"In Iran, homosexuality is looked down upon as an ugly deed. Perhaps there are those who engage in such activities and you may be in contact with them and more aware of them. But in Iranian society such activities, thoughts, and behaviors are shameful. Therefore, these are not known elements within Iranian society."
Farahan says that another reason he agreed to participate in the show is because he wanted his community to acknowledge the existence of gay Persians/Iranians.
Farahan told the Daily Beast that since the show debuted, he's received Facebook messages from closeted teenagers in Iran as well as hate mail from Iranian bloggers — one suggested he was "a fake gay" because it's trendy in Hollywood. But Farahan says, "I'm not backing down because of some blogger. That's not how I roll."
"I don't mind being stereotyped as materialistic. Middle Easterners have many stereotypes, and materialism is one of the better ones. We're usually viewed as evil terrorists, so if you're going to stereotype me I'd prefer it be because we love gold and Mercedes instead of Uzis," he says.
He also told the Beast that "I would date an ex-con before I would date a Republican."
Watch Farahan talk about why he's doing the show on CNN:
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The Reclaimed Lands
These lands were once burnt and broken. They were scorched by fire and fouled by a dark miasma that hung over the land and poisoned all living things it touched. They were the Wasted Lands, and nothing lived here but the tainted creatures that served the Dark One.
But now, these lands have been saved. We assembled a vast army. An army of many races, and led it to battle against the fetid hoards, and their demonic masters. Once that victory was achieved, we sacked Castle Dark itself.
By then we knew we were not mere mortals. We possessed the… well, we shall say the spark that made us adventurers. Together our small party entered the bowels of the Castle, and passed into the realm of the Dark One himself, whose name must never be spoken. What happened in that place is not for you to know. When we returned we came back without a dear friend. But we came back with the head of the Dark One, along with his limitless fortune.
Years have passed, and the lands have healed. People have come to settle these new lands, and make them strong again. Forests have grown, seemingly over night. Waters that once ran red with corruption have purified, and the very rocks that once stood jet black, have softened to the natural hue of solid stone.
It was to be a time of peace. But peace is never earned, only borrowed. Our army has returned to their homes, and some old enemies (and a few old allies) see these Reclaimed Lands as undefended without an army.
They are correct that we do not have any army (for the moment), but they are wrong to think us undefended.
- Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi ,Court Mage to the Lord Michael


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IAS is organizing a large IAS 2016 Symposium named "Anitschkow Days", which is being held in St. Petersburg in June 2016, from the 2nd to 4th. They are now ready to accept both, original, as well as overview presentation, oral or poster ones.
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Twins who lived with mom bilked investors — authorities
Twins accused of investment fraud
Twin brothers living with their mother in New York were arrested and charged with stealing more than $2 million from investors, mostly through an account with Fidelity Investments.
Makara and Tsele Nkhereanye, 38, were indicted on multiple counts of grand larceny, securities fraud, forgery and scheme to defraud, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said today in a statement.
The brothers falsely claimed to be successful stock traders and persuaded more than 30 people to invest with them from January 2005 to June 2009, according to the statement. They are to be arraigned today in New York state court.
"Some investors were sufficiently taken in by what they believed to be monthly profits from their investment that they invested additional amounts, some even taking out loans to make their investments," according to the statement.
The men claimed to earn 10 percent to 15 percent a month through stock trading and guaranteed their victims wouldn't lose money, the district attorney said.
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"E-mail reports from the brothers would list profits as high as 23 percent for a month," the statement said. "Some victims received the reports monthly while others received them less frequently, but none of the reports ever showed the true state of the investor's funds."
The district attorney was alerted to the fraud by a Fidelity employee, he said. Fidelity closed the brothers' account in February after detecting trading that "was not consistent with the usual trading in which their customers engage," according to the statement.
The brothers opened a new account at TD Ameritrade to keep the fraud going, Morgenthau said. By then, the scheme was beginning to collapse because they were increasingly unable to continue to pay phony returns to their victims, he said.
The brothers lost money every year since 1999 except 2004 when they made "just over $5,000," the district attorney said.
In March, they allegedly convinced some investors that they had a new opportunity to buy gold and generate returns of about 100 percent, Morgenthau said. Some entrusted more money to the brothers, he said.
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The victims are mostly from the New York metropolitan area, with a few from Oregon and California, Morgenthau said. The investors heard of the brothers through word of mouth.
The men are natives of the southern African nation of Lesotho, Morgenthau said. Makara Nkhereanye graduated from Princeton University, and Tsele attended Stanford University, the statement said.
They live with their mother in Greenwich Village, the authorities said.


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Idom Merebrook, one of the UK's leading environmental consultancies is due to start their second phase of work on The Old Vinyl Factory site, in Hayes, Middlesex. Idom Merebrook has been working on the site since 2012, and both Kent and Derbyshire offices have been involved with The Old Vinyl Factory project, which is the former home of EMI and His Master's Voice.
The team has been retained by leading contractors Willmott Dixon as geo-environmental consultants for the Gatefold Building, and also by Purplexed LLP in a joint venture between Cathedral Group PLC and Development Securities PLC, as environmental consultants on the wider Old Vinyl Factory site.
Idom Merebrook's remit and scope of work has grown extensively over the last three years to support the developer's sustainability and environmental strategies, which have been a priority across all phases of the £250 million development.
The majority of the 17-acre site in recent years has become a dilapidated and run-down, however developers have drawn upon the area's rich musical heritage to create a vibrant and animated vision for the future. The regeneration project comprises 650,000 sq. ft. of business space, over 500 new homes, a multiplex cinema, 30,000 sq. ft. of family restaurants, cafés and bars, a green-energy production centre and 180,000 sq. ft. of vinyl themed public space.
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Also aptly named, The Groove is a long pedestrian walkway designed to link the town centre and railway station, and a statue of 'Nipper' the iconic terrier captured looking into an Edison Bell cylinder by artist Francis Barraud's in 'His Masters Voice' is to be reinstated back in his rightful home in a new plaza which will be named Vinyl Square.
The musical artistry and creative design sits on the site's sound environmental credentials established by Idom Merebrook's environmental engineering team, who have overseen the land remediation on the Gatefold site. They have also completed remedial strategy documents for the wider Vinyl Factory site, with the second phase of works due to start in May.
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In South Dakota a law was recently enacted where women seeking abortions would have a 3 day waiting period before getting the procedure done. Of course the pro-abortion crowd has an issue with this.
However I have to ask how this is any different from the 48 hour waiting period needed to purchase a handgun in South Dakota?
While I'm not a fan of guns purchasing a gun does not guarantee someone's death. An abortion does.