Last Big Sail of the Season...
"The Cut" is that flat area between the two sailboats.
The view on the way back through Malletts Bay
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Better information: Governor’s statement [Click]
ReplyDeleteJosh Marshall: What Really Happened Today [with the continuing resolution] Isn’t Complicated [Click]
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Just finished watching "Out of Africa"--a thing I need to remind myself to do at least yearly.
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Not familiar with it; can you give me a pointer? Is it a movie? A documentary?
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OK, now I remember reading about it. Just didn't remember the name.
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A movie based on a book, a novel I think.
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ReplyDeleteOut of Africa (film) - Wikipedia
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Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Odd--I misplaced my reply ^^^^^ Hadn't had my first cup of coffee.
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I was already familiar with Isak Dinesen and the film show tremendous respect for her writing.
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Paired Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
And here I thought such things were a rather lame invention of SF writers.
DeleteFrom Scotland to Canada, a totem pole finally returns home [Click]
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New, [inexpensive] malaria vaccine backed by WHO [Click] As memory serves me, it is for falciparum malaria, which is more dangerous but less common than vivax malaria. Given my background in medicine I continue to be puzzled by the news media’s regular failure to make the distinction.
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P.S.: There are four different types of malaria that afflict humans.
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DeleteMost Americans get to be safely and blissfully ignorant of this. I only learned how many maladies there are on the planet when friend joined the Peace Corps and had to have a big batch of vaccines before leaving for Ghana.
Vivax malaria was introduced to North America by emigrants from (then swampy) southern England. There is good reason to believe it weakened native resistance--may even have killed significant numbers. By the time of the Revolutionary war the swamps in southern England had been drained and malaria largely eradicated; and the King's German troops had never been exposed. At Yorktown most of the British troops (I disremember the fraction) were not fit for duty because of malaria, while the American troops were long since "seasoned."
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Yellow fever was a mild childhood disease in West Africa, but became a deadly epidemic disease in the Americas. And the last I heard it still hadn't been determined where syphilis originated--just that it spread quickly in Europe after Columbus returned.
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I'm not sure what "seasoned" means. Vivax malaria infection doesn't prevent reinfection. I had malaria three times in the 1940s, while it was still endemic in the southern US.
DeleteAs I understand it, the colonists meant by "seasoned" that one had enough exposure to malaria that one wouldn't be killed by reinfection. Newly immigrant colonists who survived one or two infections would probably be mostly OK; quite a few didn't survive.
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Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised [Click]
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Trump shows up for NY fraud trial. [Click] I am surprised.
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So were the CNN talking heads.
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ReplyDeleteWow!
Here’s another not-to-be-missed epistle from Heather Cox Richardson
Well, Gen. Milley does whitewash a lot of past US armed forces behavior. [One of the first things that comes to mind is that Black US troops were forbidden to take part in the Paris victory parade in WWII, despite their prominent role in liberating the city from the Germans.] But the current state of the armed forces is another matter.
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ReplyDeleteSupreme Court declines to consider longshot bid to disqualify Trump from running for president
Well, well, the Supremes are not for the People.
what. a. shock.
It is none of their business The Costitution is quite clear
DeleteIf memory serves, this case was based on the Fourteenth Amendment's prohibition of insurrectionists holding public office in the U.S. and, yes, it is quite clear.
DeleteAlthough what is not clear is: 1. Whether the Capitol riot qualified as "insurrection" within the meaning of an amendment that assumed armed rebellion. 2. Whether anything Trump did amounts to aiding and abetting that insurrection. It will be up to a coutt to decide.
DeleteBeijing’s mixed messages leave businesses ‘questioning’ investments in China [Click] Listing foreign stocks on Chinese exchanges
ReplyDeletehas become impractical, as has listing Chinese stocks on foreign exchanges— among other difficulties.
—Alan
Headline noted: Trump Looks to Capitalize on Fraud Trial
ReplyDeleteSo what doesn't he try to capitalize?
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“Kevin McCarthy needs to look at himself in the mirror and ask if he wants to be an adult, or a Republican,” Gaetz said.
ReplyDelete~ Andy Borowitz 🤣
Trump, Eric and Donald Jr. are going to testify in the civil fraud case. [Click] What could possibly go wrong?
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I found the name vaguely familiar but couldn't place it until the article I read told me she was the head of Emily's List.
ReplyDeleteNew York Magazine: What Was Trump Tower? His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion. [Click]
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A couple of days ago our old kitchen timer wore out after only about 40 years-- wouldn't tick or ring. So I found a similar one on Amazon for a reasonable price and delivery the next day. It arrived as advertised and I gave it a try in the evening. I was pleasantly surprised by how much louder it was than the old one, and commented on it--but my sweetie complained that it was much softer--she could hardly hear it! Naomi was there and pointed out that it was pitched lower, so better for me because of my almost life-long high frequency hearing loss. So tomorrow Miyoko and Naomi will go shopping in person at a kitchen supply store. (I wonder if someone might make a kitchen timer with a miniature klaxon instead of a bell. . .)
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Good luck, Alan. When my old one died, I was never able to replace it with one I could hear. Gave up after 4 or 5 replacements. . . .
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See it: Defendant Trump's court appearance on video as N.Y. A.G. vows ‘no one is above the law’ [Click]
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