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As you may have gathered from yesterday's post, I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day. However, as a regular donor to the Abortion Support Network, who help women to access safe, legal abortion from Ireland and Northern Ireland, I couldn't ignore their appeal to help establish branches in Malta and Gibraltar, where abortion is (functionally) totally illegal. I have donated to the campaign here; please consider doing so if you are able to as well. If you can't donate, please consider my donation to have been given on your behalf as well. ♥ ♥ ♥

Crossposts: https://nanila.livejournal.com/1263389.html

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Hear ye, hear ye: on the evening of Tuesday 10 October, you can come to Imperial College London and meet some Cassini scientists and engineers. Well, OK, one engineer (that would be me). Imperial are hosting a Fringe event titled “A Space Odyssey” in celebration of the Cassini end of mission, and there are lots of things to see, including me reminiscing about Cassini operations whilst waving around tiny magnetometers, and do, including making your own thin film paper spacecraft. Read all about what's on offer here.

Book yourself a free ticket here.

If you come along, you can see this beauty without all the reflective glare:

Image of the 1/25 scale Cassini model in its newly procured perspex box for display at the Fringe.

In other space news, ESA have conducted a helicopter test on the radar boom that will be on the JUICE spacecraft, to ensure that it will be able to penetrate Ganymede’s ice crust. You can read about, and watch a video of, the tests here. (Synopsis: Big Metal Box and Poles get waved over fields in Germany, serious-faced blokes on the ground don’t seem to find anything funny about this, pfft.)

the weather today is stressed
Crossposts: https://nanila.livejournal.com/1134604.html

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My apologies that it took so long for me to follow up on this. The nominees for paid account time on Dreamwidth have been put into the virtual hat, and the Random Thing Picker has chosen the recipients.

These are:

12 months of paid account time for

perennialanna.
6 months of paid account time for

cosmolinguist and

lilysea.

Thank you to all those who participated!

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It's that time! I have DW points to give away, and so I'm offering:

One year of paid account time to one user
Six months of paid account time to two users

To nominate someone for either of these, please enter their username in the following poll. Other points to consider are:

I don't need to know, interact with, or have anything in common with your nominee, so please don't worry if they don't overlap in our Circles.
Self-nomination is absolutely OK. I won't know anyway, because the poll is anonymised.
Sharing this entry is absolutely OK.
If you would like to identify yourself as the nominator of a user (e.g. "I put in so-and-so's name") so that, if they're selected, they know their donor's name, you can do so in the screened comments on this entry. Please don't feel obliged to do this.
I will be drawing the three names out of a hat after the poll closes (next Friday 16 December).

One caveat: Seed Account users won't be included in this round of Seasonal Giving, as additional account time wouldn't be of use to them.

Poll #17775 Seasonal Giving 2016

This poll is closed.
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 18

I would like to nominate the following user for 6 or 12 months of paid Dreamwidth account time.

(All comments are screened. This entry is not cross-posted to LiveJournal.)

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[Cassini swag: 3 lithographs, a Grand Finale flyer, bookmarks, postcards, NASA stickers, Ring World DVD, info cards for Saturn/Titan/Enceladus/Iapetus]

A couple of weeks ago, I contacted JPL to ask to replenish my supplies of backlit Saturn lithographs. I was put in contact with a new outreach person, who promptly sent me a list (a list!) of available outreach materials, the existence of which I had not previously been aware. I looked at the list and said yes please, one of everything if that's not too greedy. I was expecting not to get all of it.

I was wrong. Earlier this week I received a message from Stores saying, "You have a package waiting for you." I dashed down excitedly to pick up my box. The Stores person looked at me and laughed. "You're going to need a trolley."

I don't have the time at present to assemble swag packs for people, but I can send out the postcards (on the lower right in the photo). They have a good deal of information on the back, so any message from me will be quite short. Would you like one? If so, please fill out the poll below. The answers are visible only to me. Alternatively, you can DM me. (

emelbe &

imyril: you do not need to fill out the poll.)

Poll #17283 Cassini postcards

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 15

I would like a Cassini postcard, please! Here is an address where it will reach me.

ETA 01/02/2016: I've closed the poll because I've run out of stamps! All the cards requested via poll response or DM on DW have been sent.

After this term is over I'll do another postcard round, and there will also be swag packs on offer although I'll have to be more selective with those or the postage could get prohibitively expensive.

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For teasery spoilers on why I'm asking this question, look at the tags on this entry. :)

Poll #17261 Freebies

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52

View Respondents

When you go to an exhibition or convention where people are handing out (branded) freebies, which of these are your favourites?

View Answers

Pens
32 (64.0%)

Pencils
11 (22.0%)

Keyrings
10 (20.0%)

Fridge magnets
18 (36.0%)

Stress balls
17 (34.0%)

Bouncy balls
11 (22.0%)

Bookmarks
12 (24.0%)

Stickers
18 (36.0%)

Something else I didn't list:

View Answers

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The nominees for paid account time on Dreamwidth have been put into the virtual hat, and the Random Thing Picker has chosen the recipients.

These are:

12 months of paid account time for

jena and

yifu
6 months of paid account time for

delight.

Thank you to all those who participated!

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This year, I have a little stash of DW points and hence I'm offering the following:

One year of paid account time to two users
Six months of paid account time to one user

To nominate someone for either of these, please enter their username in the following poll. Other points to consider are:

I don't need to know, interact with, or have anything in common with your nominee, so please don't worry if they don't overlap in our Circles.
Self-nomination is absolutely OK. I won't know anyway, because the poll is anonymised.
Sharing this entry is absolutely OK.
If you would like to identify yourself as the nominator of a user (e.g. "I put in so-and-so's name") so that, if they're selected, they know their donor's name, you can do so in the screened comments on this entry. Please don't feel obliged to do this.
I will be drawing the three names out of a hat after the poll closes (next Friday 18 December).

One caveat: Seed Account users won't be included in this round of Seasonal Giving, as additional account time wouldn't be of use to them.

Poll #17166 Seasonal giving, Part 1

This poll is closed.
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 9

I would like to nominate the following user for 6 or 12 months of paid Dreamwidth account time.

(All comments are screened. This entry is not cross-posted to LiveJournal.)

the weather today is slightly less dead

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Mia has made one of her recent pieces available on Redbubble to purchase on a number of items. “Aswang, at Night” is an incredibly powerful image wrought from many hours of work with ink and watercolour.

I've ordered a set of 16 postcards. If you would like me to send one to you, please provide an address that will reach you, either by leaving it in the poll below or in a DM. Please note the following. First, I’m happy to send outside the UK as I have a stockpile of international postage. Second, if you provided your address in one of the previous postcard polls, you don’t need to leave it again. Just say, “Yes, please” or equivalent. If you need to check whether or not you've left me your address before, links to my previous postcard posts for "When Dragons Speak" and "Princesa" can be found by looking at the free stuff tag: DW and LJ.

It usually takes several days for a Redbubble order to reach me, so these will be going out over the next two to three weeks.

Poll #16560 Aswang, at Night

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 4

I would like an aswang postcard by Likhain. Please send it to this address:

the weather today is pleased

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Postcards
I received more requests for dragon postcards than I had postcards! Never fear, I have ordered another pack and will be able to fulfill all of them. I’m sending them out slowly in batches as I have a chance to write them.

Crossposting question
Is anyone else finding that, if they edit an entry that’s been cross-posted from DW to LJ, it re-posts to LJ instead of modifying the previous entry? I’m getting grumpy about it, as I usually have to edit entries 3-4 times after initially posting because I’ve forgotten a tag or spot a grammatical error.

Beautiful sky rock

kaberett, did you see the cover of this week’s Nature? It is gorgeous. From the Nature web site:

The Esquel pallasite — arguably the most beautiful meteorite ever discovered — consists of centimetre-scale gem-quality crystals of the silicate mineral olivine embedded in a metallic matrix of iron-nickel alloy. The pallasites are thought to originate from a ~200 km radius parent body that separated into a liquid metal core surrounded by a rocky silicate mantle shortly after the birth of the Solar System. High-resolution magnetic imaging of the iron–nickel matrix of two pallasites (Esquel and Imilac) by James Bryson et al. reveals a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body, encoded within nanoscale intergrowths of iron-rich and nickel-rich phases. This record captures the dying moments of the magnetic field generated as the liquid core solidified, providing evidence for a long-lasting magnetic dynamo driven by compositional convection. (Esquel image from Natural History Museum, London.)

I have a paper copy of the issue if you would like me to post it to you.

Birds
As mentioned in my post about the long-tailed tits (DW/LJ), I received a new lens for my dSLR for Christmas and have been keeping vigilant watch on the bird feeders so I can rush out with it when the light is good (not a common occurrence in January). I’ve been posting selected shots to

common_nature, but wanted to put a record of them on my personal journal for safekeeping as well.

( Birds, birds and more birds )

Cat and boy

Telstar and Keiki napping together on a spare room bed. Telstar has decided he definitely prefers infants to toddlers. Especially toddlers who chase him around gleefully shouting, “No, Teldos!”

Crossposts: http://nanila.livejournal.com/989747.html

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Sauntering Vaguely Downward

Into the land of lowered expectations

Seasonal Giving, the Lupercalia edition

Space news: Cassini and JUICE

Seasonal Giving, Part 1, Follow-up

Friday's Unscientific Poll: Seasonal Giving: Part 1

Friday's Unscientific Poll: Cassini postcards

Friday's Unscientific Poll: Freebies

Seasonal Giving, Part 1, Follow-up

Seasonal Giving, Part 1

Postcards, Round 3

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