Method(s): Spray Chaos Black, paint whole model Abaddon Black ( this can be done with a thin mix and just “slapped” on quickly), the reason for this is Chaos Black and Abaddon Black have a different finish and if we need to clean up any mistakes you would very clearly notice the difference in blacks. For armour edge highlight with Dark Reaper. For cloth paint Zandri Dust, wash with Agrax Earthshade and highlight with Screaming Skull. Base the puldrons and chest shield in Celestra Grey, layer Ulthuan Grey and highlight with White Scar, you can either freehand the chest shield or use a transfer, for all gold parts, base Retributor Armour and highlight with Liberator Gold, for all silver just base with Leadbelcher.
GRIM DARK: Once the model is finished cover the whole thing in AK – Streaking Grime . Allow to dry for 30 mins. Now with cue tips or a soft cloth wipe off as much as you can. this will leave all the grime in recesses and create a realistic used/worn look.
“It is defined as the point where high difficulty stops being a stimulating challenge and becomes merely f**king me about” – Zero Punctuation
Explanation:
This phrase has been lifted in its entirety from the review of “The Surge” by Zero punctuation,
In corporate terms, this is when you have finally reached the stage with any kind of stakeholder where you know nothing you can do or say will make them stop blocking your deliverable.
This could be a member of business for whom you are changing the way they have to work for an accepted reason i.e. New regulations
This could be a localised stakeholder where you are implementing a global project, and it will ruin their little empire.
This could be a technical staff member for whom you’re either taking control away from what they’re currently doing, or implementing a way that they suddenly receive oversight.
It is just a time where you have made every attempt to cater to someone’s needs, you have bent over backwards and they still just keep making stuff up in meetings.
You can see it in people’s eyes when you or they hit this moment, and it’s always a definition of professionalism as to how its handled. Do people utterly flip out and rage? or is it taken offline and hard evidence is presented that this person is an active hindrance to delivery (always a grim moment).
Anyway, I have met no better phrase for that moment of realisation that someone is just a blocker and holds no further use to the project.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.
So you are on a giant multi deliverable project, but there are certain shared resources that do tasks that are common to all streams, say they create users, or allocate database space, or do training, etc etc
And you need these people to do their work on your deliverable right now!. your deliverable might be important to the senior management, it might even be absolutely critical to the project. Unfortunately, EVERYBODY feels exactly the same way about their part in the project. and here is where the purpose of this tip is. That even though you might have the backing to put pressure on the shared resources, does doing that actually help the project long term, because yes you have your stuff over the line, but have just screwed up other peoples work plan, added extra pressure, and done nothing to help in return for the help you have received.
As a delivery manager it’s your responsibility to ask, “what is in the way of doing my work now?”. And in return for them raising your priority, go and speak to the people whose work you have just overridden, make sure that they understand that things have moved and the reason for that. Otherwise you just make life harder for other people, you can see this in the way that “go to” people start to hide from you, as you bring nothing but trouble and don’t clean up after yourself.
This can be done really simply, just the phrase: “Tell me who is blocking this and I will go talk to them”, It makes all the difference to the person who you are asking help from.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.
Welcome to Episode 6, as I continue trying to get a really good “Acid Sam” time 1, An “Acid Sam” 2 is 100 Kettle bell Snatches followed immediately by a standard “Acid Bath” fitness test.
Time: between 5 – 10 mins, with under 5 mins without the Kettle bell touching the floor as the strict challenge (see details).
Details: The proper details of the challenge ( taken from) + the no set down rule:
Begin by getting into position, Hike-pass the kettlebell back and snatch it overhead in one movement, ending with a straight-arm lockout.
You may swing and change hands as much as needed
You may set the kettlebell down and rest as needed
Acceptable hand-coverings for the test include: tape, socks, Dragon Skins™, and minimalist gloves (i.e. cotton gardening gloves). You may use chalk and reapply it during the test, if needed. You may not use belts, thick or padded-gloves, wrist wraps or any other equipment designed to support your body.
No Count Criteria
Not locking out the elbows.
Rebending the knees on the way up.
Failure to stop all movement at the lockout.
Pressing out the kettlebell to finish your lockout.
Touching the chest with the working arm or passing through the rack position on the way down.
Placing a hand on the knee or thigh.
Failure (strict challenge)
Failure on the strict challenge will occur if:
You Touch the kettlebell with the non-working arm, unless you are switching hands.
You drop the kettlebell rather than setting it down with control (at the end).
You run out of time before completing the required number of reps.
You set down the kettlebell on the floor before the end.
Snatch Test Requirements:
For the snatch test, the sum of both arms is scored. There are different requirements based on gender and age group (Only the Open ones are listed here). They are as follows:
Men’s Open Class:
Up to 135 pounds 18kg 100reps / 5 min
136-150 pounds 20kg 100reps / 5 min
151-165 pounds 22kg 100reps / 5 min
166-250 pounds 24kg 100reps / 5 min
Over 251 pounds 24kg 100reps / 5 min
Over 251 pounds (mad option) 28kg 100reps / 5 min
Women’s Open Class:
Up to 100 pounds 10kg 100reps / 5 min
101-120 pounds 12kg 100reps / 5 min
121-135 pounds 14kg 100reps / 5 min
136-200 pounds 16kg 100reps / 5 min
Over 200 pounds 16g 100reps / 5 min
Over 200 pounds (mad option) 18kg 100reps / 5 min
Acid bath
Details: The “Acid bath” is a standard fitness set which consists of the following:
For standards these all have to be done on the concept2 range of equipment.
Time: Men are supposed to do this under 6 minutes and Ladies under 7.
Progress and attempt times
This weeks was my first under 12min set (11.47), and as you can see from the video it was very ragged, I had to move 10 snatches to the end of the set so I could try and hold on the some of the timings, but this is still the way to go as the end time shows, I know you might think “just do it as fast as you can”, but you really do have to manage your energy levels even over such a short time or you screw it up.
the “pause” between sets needs a tiny bit of managing, so I’m doing a little shuffle
20 Snatches Off hand (0:58)
20 Snatches On hand (0:58)
15 Snatches Off hand (0:43)
15 Snatches On hand (0:43)
10 Snatches Off hand (0:29)
10 Snatches On hand (0:29)
5 Snatches Off hand (0:15)
5 Snatches On hand (0:15)
Transfer Over to Acid Test (10 seconds using the Kettle Bell time, 10 seconds using the Acid bath time) (0:20)
“Everyday has a headline story”, is something used in reference to traditional newspapers, and infers that no matter how much or little news happens in a day, there will always be something that is put in the biggest font at the top of the page. In stress terms this is another way of saying it doesn’t matter how hard you work, you will never be able to clear down everything. You just can’t do it, particularly in a corporate environment. If you managed to clear down the things that are genuinely ultra important, then other things will have their visibility raised, and then you get chased for those. That’s not to say that you don’t work your very best and you try and do good quality work, doing that will make a difference 1, but know from a pure stress management point of view, that you will never be able to clear all the decks, there will always be something that is the most important thing that day. I’m explaining this badly, so let me relate it to my own way of working. I have found a level I know that if I deliver at, then no one can look at my day, and not think I have not busted a gut. but there is a difference between busting a gut while doing your best versus putting yourself in a hospital or giving yourself Burnout 2, this is a level I can keep running at indefinitely with a bit “left in the tank”, I use that for genuine “Headline” tasks, but its not for daily use, it would kill me. As I’ve mentioned on other posts if you’re running at 100% all the time, genuinely 100%, Then you will not have any surge left in you should your work have a genuine crisis. So hold on to that as a stress management marker. Hold on to it, realise that not everything that is claimed as important, actually needs you to stop the press!!. ..Cough.. So this post is written with a certain target audience in mind, and that is normal corporate people that will work to a normal retirement age, However there is a sub set of people who it does not apply to, and that is the high burn jobs: Fighter pilots, Investment brokers, Surgeons etc. etc. . Such people have a far shorter working life and as such they are paid a lot more to make up for it, If you have a manager that is trying to get this level of performance out of you, then you should be paid at the performance level you are giving, as you are genuinely burning your self faster than you should.
To your personal sense of worth and job satisfaction if nothing else[↩]
And by Burnout I mean the real deal, not something that can be fixed with a 2 week holiday[↩]
