VERMONT 3 AUG 2021 25,077-25,038 = 39 new cases 573 active cases 3 hospitalised, 1 in ICU 909 Tested 10 more Recovered Positivity rate is up (.3%) to 2.4%!
Just started G30 (we're at the bookstore reading) and did the last two times without subtitles. Amazing how much goes on in the lower quarterof the screen, and also how much better attention one pays without them. I know the script well enough at this point to supply what I'm not hearing. And so have time to pick up a lot of what Edwin would have called "business"--little things actors do to enhance performance. Think fingers and eyebrows a lot.
I'm beginning to think that when they were done shooting that had a three hour movie, which no one would let them keep, so a LOT if cutting was done, including into the normal space allowed a viewer to read print material, and length of street shots, etc.
NYT: Amazon Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices [Click] “A second union vote may be held at an Alabama warehouse, and new tactics by the Teamsters and other groups aim to pressure Amazon across the country.”
"A 2016 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office showed that about 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico came from the United States." ~ Heather Cox Richardson
How a Gecko From Africa Crossed the Atlantic Ocean [Click] “The African house gecko, one of the most widely distributed invasive reptiles in the world, may have moved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
How Dutch Brazil was lost - Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl › news › 2017/01 › ho... Jan 4, 2017 — Few Dutch people know that from 1630 to 1654 Brazil was a Dutch colony even though in the Golden Age events in Brazil were for years front-page ...
There is also giant hogweed to deal with: Video 1 [Click] Video 2 [Click] And it seems there is a species of hogweed that is out of control in Russia [Click]
It is interesting that the mature stems of both hogweed and poison hemlock have purple splotches, and the action of their saps is the same. Causes terrible blisters if it gets on the skin, is not washed off with soap and water, and late is exposed to sunlight.
There is also Poison Parsnip that acts the same (including being meanest in sunlight), but doesn't have purple splotches. It looks a lot like a yellow Queen Anne's Lace. Our Eldest is a Parsnip Warrior ... suits up and knows how to remove it safely.
Just saw the blister Reed got from messing with poison parsnip. Horrible. Nothing to mess with. Reminds me of the time I finally *really* dealt with the poison ivy. Every year it'd come up, every year it'd be back. and over the top of the gate. So covered myself with 55 gal garb bags and went to it, root was nine or ten feet long and tenacious. Gazillions of tough, hairy, clutching rootlets. Took a day. I won. It never came back.
Oh, gosh. Am embarrassed it took thirty times through to catch this one!!! In the scene in Kit's bedroom, after the walk, part of the time she has a lavender ribbon in her hair, and part of the time, magically, she has a small gold oval barrette, and then, *finally* as Kit is asleep and Juliet awake, thinking, the hair doodah is a peach colored flowered ribbon clear around her head!!
The continuity person should be shot. Or mebbe, if it takes thirty viewings to catch it, they're safe?
I know. That wasn't directed at you, just the ones that refuse to see what Biden *has* done, whether they're left or right. The right has ramped it up so high, we'll be lucky if Trump doesn't win next time. The *left* doesn't need to help him, eh?
Ah, but Trump can't run again. More specifically, he can't hold office. See the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Remember the cardiologist who outraged me by asking to pray with me? Turns out mine was not the only complaint on the subject. Now talks are being held with higher-ups I was told. Don't know what the outcome will be.
It probably never occurred to him that some sincerely, profoundly, religious people might consider prayer to be inherently immoral. Well, petitionary prayer anyway; I've heard it said that there are other kinds, although I am not convinced of that.
There are many kinds of prayer. Traditionally, there are "5 types of prayer":
Blessing and Adoration (Worship), Petition, Intercession, Thanksgiving, and Praise
Some say contemplative prayer, vocal prayer, silent prayer, etc..
But what matters is whether one is opening their heart in an outflowing of spiritual desire of some kind. I think it matters very little what "kind" one is using. Just being with good will is prayer.
I keep going back to Luke 11, although even the KJV is a little different from the version we were taught in Lutheran Sunday School. Later additions and embellishments I disregard as accretions. I grant that there are other ways, but I consider gratitude to be the basic religious emotion, and to ask for more than we are every day freely given without consideration of whether we deserve it or no impresses me as ingratitude. But that's just me.
i think the cardiologist's prayer may have been more like Charlotte's when she wanted to pray "over" Juliet. . . . That is, not prayer, but I want you to think it is. Or mebbe, I want ME to think it is. . . .
VERMONT 3 AUG 2021
ReplyDelete25,077-25,038 = 39 new cases
573 active cases
3 hospitalised, 1 in ICU
909 Tested
10 more Recovered
Positivity rate is up (.3%) to 2.4%!
Just started G30 (we're at the bookstore reading) and did the last two times without subtitles. Amazing how much goes on in the lower quarterof the screen, and also how much better attention one pays without them. I know the script well enough at this point to supply what I'm not hearing. And so have time to pick up a lot of what Edwin would have called "business"--little things actors do to enhance performance. Think fingers and eyebrows a lot.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to think that when they were done shooting that had a three hour movie, which no one would let them keep, so a LOT if cutting was done, including into the normal space allowed a viewer to read print material, and length of street shots, etc.
You have a keen eye!
DeleteUS Navy charges 20-year-old sailor with setting fire that destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard last July, reports say [Click]
ReplyDeleteMore here. [Click]
and here. [Click]
NYT: Amazon Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices [Click] “A second union vote may be held at an Alabama warehouse, and new tactics by the Teamsters and other groups aim to pressure Amazon across the country.”
ReplyDeleteOld Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before Greek mathematician Pythagoras [Click]
ReplyDeleteWow! Well, we knew the Babylonians were skilled mathematicians, didn't we?
DeleteAnd they had need of accurate surveys, too.
DeleteTens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones, satellite imagery shows [Click] Actually, it could be a lot more.
ReplyDeleteMexico to sue U.S.-based gunmakers over flow of arms across border [Click] High time, I think. But maybe they had to wait for US legal precedent to evolve.
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Delete"A 2016 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office showed that about 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico came from the United States." ~ Heather Cox Richardson
How a Gecko From Africa Crossed the Atlantic Ocean [Click] “The African house gecko, one of the most widely distributed invasive reptiles in the world, may have moved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
ReplyDelete"Minor" error, of a sort common in the NYT: Brazil was not ruled by Holland.
DeleteThe NYT often makes this sort of error? [shaking head] Well, I guess the idea is that Holland ruled Manhattan so it must have ruled everywhere.
DeleteThey frequently make errors in historical as well as scientific matters.
DeleteNope, not an error. . . .
DeleteHow Dutch Brazil was lost - Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl › news › 2017/01 › ho...
Jan 4, 2017 — Few Dutch people know that from 1630 to 1654 Brazil was a Dutch colony even though in the Golden Age events in Brazil were for years front-page ...
Well I'll be damned; I stand corrected.
DeleteAs do I.
DeleteI tell ya, every time I read this blog I learn something new. And, that would make a dandy quiz question. Thanks, Puddle.
DeleteIndeed, Cat. (Gonna use it in a quiz? Hope so!)
DeleteRigs sit idle and jobs go unfilled in Canadian oilfields as workers walk away from volatile job market [Click]
ReplyDeleteHot outside; about 105F.
ReplyDeleteWoke this morning, it was 66 degrees in the house. Need to close the door at night, I guess.
ReplyDeleteToxic invasive poison hemlock is spreading into US parks and backyard gardens [Click]
ReplyDeleteThere is also giant hogweed to deal with:
Video 1 [Click]
Video 2 [Click]
And it seems there is a species of hogweed that is out of control in Russia [Click]
It is interesting that the mature stems of both hogweed and poison hemlock have purple splotches, and the action of their saps is the same. Causes terrible blisters if it gets on the skin, is not washed off with soap and water, and late is exposed to sunlight.
It seems they ARE related. [Click]
There is also Poison Parsnip that acts the same (including being meanest in sunlight), but doesn't have purple splotches. It looks a lot like a yellow Queen Anne's Lace. Our Eldest is a Parsnip Warrior ... suits up and knows how to remove it safely.
DeleteYikes! 5 poisonous plants to watch out for...
Deletehttps://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2021/08/03/indiana-poisonous-plants-poison-hemlock-cow-parsnip/5412839001/
Just saw the blister Reed got from messing with poison parsnip. Horrible. Nothing to mess with. Reminds me of the time I finally *really* dealt with the poison ivy. Every year it'd come up, every year it'd be back. and over the top of the gate. So covered myself with 55 gal garb bags and went to it, root was nine or ten feet long and tenacious. Gazillions of tough, hairy, clutching rootlets. Took a day. I won. It never came back.
ReplyDeleteOh, gosh. Am embarrassed it took thirty times through to catch this one!!! In the scene in Kit's bedroom, after the walk, part of the time she has a lavender ribbon in her hair, and part of the time, magically, she has a small gold oval barrette, and then, *finally* as Kit is asleep and Juliet awake, thinking, the hair doodah is a peach colored flowered ribbon clear around her head!!
ReplyDeleteThe continuity person should be shot. Or mebbe, if it takes thirty viewings to catch it, they're safe?
This is why we watch things over and over again.
Delete/ducks/
I am totally going to watch it again and look for this! 😀
DeletePuddle, as regards the vaccine donation: I just report.
ReplyDeleteI know. That wasn't directed at you, just the ones that refuse to see what Biden *has* done, whether they're left or right. The right has ramped it up so high, we'll be lucky if Trump doesn't win next time. The *left* doesn't need to help him, eh?
ReplyDeleteAh, but Trump can't run again. More specifically, he can't hold office. See the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3:
DeleteNo person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Remember the cardiologist who outraged me by asking to pray with me? Turns out mine was not the only complaint on the subject. Now talks are being held with higher-ups I was told. Don't know what the outcome will be.
ReplyDeleteIt probably never occurred to him that some sincerely, profoundly, religious people might consider prayer to be inherently immoral. Well, petitionary prayer anyway; I've heard it said that there are other kinds, although I am not convinced of that.
DeleteThere are many kinds of prayer. Traditionally, there are "5 types of prayer":
DeleteBlessing and Adoration (Worship), Petition, Intercession, Thanksgiving, and Praise
Some say contemplative prayer, vocal prayer, silent prayer, etc..
But what matters is whether one is opening their heart in an outflowing of spiritual desire of some kind. I think it matters very little what "kind" one is using. Just being with good will is prayer.
I keep going back to Luke 11, although even the KJV is a little different from the version we were taught in Lutheran Sunday School. Later additions and embellishments I disregard as accretions. I grant that there are other ways, but I consider gratitude to be the basic religious emotion, and to ask for more than we are every day freely given without consideration of whether we deserve it or no impresses me as ingratitude. But that's just me.
Deletei think the cardiologist's prayer may have been more like Charlotte's when she wanted to pray "over" Juliet. . . . That is, not prayer, but I want you to think it is. Or mebbe, I want ME to think it is. . . .
ReplyDeleteCould be, all right.
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