Merry Christmas Andrew and family! Your wife is a very lucky lady to receive such a thoughtful gift!
What do you think about Elise Stefanik stepping away from politics? It appears that our President endorsed her primary opponent. I feel another strong woman has been set aside (re:MTG) My wish is New York could become more honest, and more conservative. Did you see/hear Marley on WBEN with David Bellavia? She may become a more frequent contributor. But it appears her lawsuit is being ignored so far. God bless!
I’m just learning watercolor painting. It’s a very different beast from oil or acrylics. So far it’s a lot of brush stroke practice and paint versus water amounts. But hopefully at some point it will turn into giftable art. Your wife is lucky. My favorite gifts to receive are hand crafted items.
On another topic… even in states like Ohio, the voter rolls are a mess. I’ve been fortunate in my county to have dedicated BOE workers who care to clean things up when evidence is presented.
But I still have questions about the VoterID analysis you did. My main question at this point is if you used voter rolls that contained ALL the data (including the removed and dead voters) or if you did your very fine work using the publicly available SWVR or County Voter Rolls? If you used the latter, how did you deal with gaps in assigned voter IDs?
Finally… Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🎄
I had county rolls for NY and a couple from TX (Tarrant and Harris). Most states included the purged records, but not all. OH left out the purged/inactive records. I was told they delete such records completely, but it would look that way if they just filtered them out.
The counties have the purged records. The statewide files do not include them. We requested the files from all counties and got them for several of them but not for those where you found the algorithm.
I think it’s important to make sure there is no cheating in the midterms so President Trump’s agenda can continue full blast with afterburners engaged. I’m optimistic in this regard -- yet it’s bad enough when certain Republicans who were helpful to the cause might not be running again. Hopefully enough is falling into place. I don’t think we’re even out of the vestiges of the Biden economy -- isn’t it not until next year (2026) when President Trump’s Golden Age economic policies “kick in” in earnest? Finally, don’t forget all he has done in spite of the unrelenting (and often illegal) opposition tactics! Consider these two lists of DJT’s promises kept:
I guess that's an occupational hazard of working in that medium. It's not like photography where you can capture the landscape in a moment then retreat back to your warm vehicle.
That is one of the things I like about photography. However, it is very difficult to get a photo to look as nice as a painting. A little known fact about top level photography: it often involves a lot of post-processing.
Taking the photo might take a fraction of a second, but there is also:
1) Pre-production: deciding which equipment to use, where to go to get the photo, supplies to get you there, maybe an assistant or two, etc.
2) Taking the shot (click)
3) Days of "developing" the photo (adjusting exposure, brightness levels, etc)
4) Days of retouching: very careful edits like erasing distractind signs and telephone wires, selective exposure modifications to certain objects or regions of the image, etc.
To make a landscape painting, depending on size, usually takes me between half an hour to half a day. On rare occasions with large canvasses, I've had to rent a motel room nearby and spent up to three days on the same painting. Most often, about two hours.
For photos, I can spend a week or two deciding where to go and how to approach it. After the photo is done, at least a day, up to three to process it. So 2 hour average for paintings, 1 day for photos. Paintings are faster.
Merry Christmas Andrew and family! Your wife is a very lucky lady to receive such a thoughtful gift!
What do you think about Elise Stefanik stepping away from politics? It appears that our President endorsed her primary opponent. I feel another strong woman has been set aside (re:MTG) My wish is New York could become more honest, and more conservative. Did you see/hear Marley on WBEN with David Bellavia? She may become a more frequent contributor. But it appears her lawsuit is being ignored so far. God bless!
I’m just learning watercolor painting. It’s a very different beast from oil or acrylics. So far it’s a lot of brush stroke practice and paint versus water amounts. But hopefully at some point it will turn into giftable art. Your wife is lucky. My favorite gifts to receive are hand crafted items.
On another topic… even in states like Ohio, the voter rolls are a mess. I’ve been fortunate in my county to have dedicated BOE workers who care to clean things up when evidence is presented.
But I still have questions about the VoterID analysis you did. My main question at this point is if you used voter rolls that contained ALL the data (including the removed and dead voters) or if you did your very fine work using the publicly available SWVR or County Voter Rolls? If you used the latter, how did you deal with gaps in assigned voter IDs?
Finally… Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🎄
I had county rolls for NY and a couple from TX (Tarrant and Harris). Most states included the purged records, but not all. OH left out the purged/inactive records. I was told they delete such records completely, but it would look that way if they just filtered them out.
The counties have the purged records. The statewide files do not include them. We requested the files from all counties and got them for several of them but not for those where you found the algorithm.
I think it’s important to make sure there is no cheating in the midterms so President Trump’s agenda can continue full blast with afterburners engaged. I’m optimistic in this regard -- yet it’s bad enough when certain Republicans who were helpful to the cause might not be running again. Hopefully enough is falling into place. I don’t think we’re even out of the vestiges of the Biden economy -- isn’t it not until next year (2026) when President Trump’s Golden Age economic policies “kick in” in earnest? Finally, don’t forget all he has done in spite of the unrelenting (and often illegal) opposition tactics! Consider these two lists of DJT’s promises kept:
https://tinyURL.com/PromisesKeptTrump
https://tinyURL.com/PromisesKeptTrump2
Lovely!
Merry Christmas!
I guess that's an occupational hazard of working in that medium. It's not like photography where you can capture the landscape in a moment then retreat back to your warm vehicle.
That is one of the things I like about photography. However, it is very difficult to get a photo to look as nice as a painting. A little known fact about top level photography: it often involves a lot of post-processing.
Taking the photo might take a fraction of a second, but there is also:
1) Pre-production: deciding which equipment to use, where to go to get the photo, supplies to get you there, maybe an assistant or two, etc.
2) Taking the shot (click)
3) Days of "developing" the photo (adjusting exposure, brightness levels, etc)
4) Days of retouching: very careful edits like erasing distractind signs and telephone wires, selective exposure modifications to certain objects or regions of the image, etc.
To make a landscape painting, depending on size, usually takes me between half an hour to half a day. On rare occasions with large canvasses, I've had to rent a motel room nearby and spent up to three days on the same painting. Most often, about two hours.
For photos, I can spend a week or two deciding where to go and how to approach it. After the photo is done, at least a day, up to three to process it. So 2 hour average for paintings, 1 day for photos. Paintings are faster.