Daily Entries for the week of
Sunday, October 31, 2021
through
Saturday, November 6, 30, 2021
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It’s Saturday, November 6, 2021
Welcome to the 1,271st consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Funeral of Felix Baran
Held in Seattle, Washington, November 1916, by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Everett Massacre, Everett, Wash.)
Special Collections, University of Washington, Social Issues Files Dc/i. neg. #11504.) - http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2018/18.html
Public Domain
File:Everett Funeral.jpg
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Commentary
Three household appliances that work. Got them all on Tues and Wed.
The first, a pizza stone bought to add extra crispness to a whole wheat crust that needs the help. It works.
The second, a holder for my laptop that raises and slants the keyboard. It works well for me, an older man with a bit of difficulty typing.
And finally, two Sonos speakers. They produce a great sound.
Life enhancements. Yippee.
My struggles to increase my fiber intake while not gaining weight (and a struggle it is) and simultaneously to free myself of chemical stool softeners are ongoing. Suffice it to say that I haven’t yet had to throw in the towel.
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Reading and Writing
Friday I shall start on the editing of the 98 pages that make up part two of my manuscript, which I’m estimating to be less than 350 pages.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
― Yogi Berra
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Mail and other Conversation
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This from a dear friend,
Dom, comment on your words:
Bizarro
Every ten days I seem to lose a night’s sleep. Just physically, sleep for an hour or two, wake up, and find myself too restless to get back to sleep. For many years I’ve dreaded that long night feeling wasted but awake.
How bizarre finding myself getting ready to sleep, hoping I wake up to one of these restless nights. Why? So I can get to my manuscript.
How bizarre. How bizarre.
It has happened to me too. Sometimes I have even found myself writing in my dreams. It is the muses. They are calling to you. A good sign for you.
Blog meister responds: I hope. I’m feeling really good about what’s coming out.
Not every day features glittering sunshine.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Thursday afternoon my friend Tucker and I had lunch at Abe and Louie’s. This is one of a handful of great Boston restaurants. It’s uniformly wonderful. So happy to see it jumping with business. We shared a Caesar’s Salad, a Lobster Savannah, and a 14oz Rib Eye, with steamed asparagus served as three separate courses. Then we shared a chocolate sundae, barely denting it.
Kudos to staff.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Gloomy day on Boston Common
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Short Essay*
The Everett Massacre (also known as Bloody Sunday) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, commonly called "Wobblies". It took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, November 5, 1916. The event marked a time of rising tensions in Pacific Northwest labor history.
In 1916, Everett, Washington was facing a serious depression. There was ongoing confrontation between business, commercial interests, labor, and labor organizers. There had been a number of labor-organized rallies and speeches in the street. These were opposed by local law enforcement, which was firmly on the side of business. IWW organizers had gone into Everett to support a five-month-long strike by shingle workers. Once there, vigilantes organized by business had beaten them up with axe handles and run them out of town. The Seattle IWW decided to go to Everett in numbers to hold a rally to show their support for the striking shingle workers.
Confrontation at the dock
On November 5, 1916, about 300 IWW members met at the IWW Hall in Seattle and then marched down to the docks where they boarded the steamers Verona and Calista which then headed north to Everett. Verona arrived at Everett before Callista and as they approached the dock in the early afternoon, the Wobblies sang their fight song "Hold the Fort". Local business interests, knowing the Wobblies were coming, placed armed goon squads on the dock and on at least one tugboat in the harbor, Edison, owned by the American Tug Boat Company. As with previous labor demonstrations, the local businessmen had also secured the aid of law enforcement, including the Snohomish County sheriff Donald McRae, who was known for targeting Wobblies for arbitrary arrests and beatings.
Shootout
More than 200 vigilantes or "citizen deputies", under the ostensible authority of Snohomish County Sheriff McRae, met in order to repel the "anarchists." As the Verona drew into the dock, and someone on board threw a line over a bollard, McRae stepped forward and called out "Boys, who's your leader?" The IWW men laughed and jeered, replying "We're all leaders," and they started to swing out the gang plank. McRae drew his pistol, told them he was the sheriff, he was enforcing the law, and they couldn't land here. There was a silence, then a Wobbly came up to the front and yelled out "the hell we can't."
Just then a single shot rang out, followed by about ten minutes of intense gunfire. Most of it came from the vigilantes on the dock, but some fire came from the Verona, although the majority of the passengers were unarmed. Whether the first shot came from boat or dock was never determined. Passengers aboard the Verona rushed to the opposite side of the ship, nearly capsizing the vessel. The ship's rail broke as a result and a number of passengers were ejected into the water, some drowned as a result but how many is not known, or whether persons who'd been shot also went overboard. Over 175 bullets pierced the pilot house alone, and the captain of the Verona, Chance Wiman, was only able to avoid being shot by ducking behind the ship's safe.
Once the ship righted herself somewhat after the near-capsize, some slack came on the bowline, and Engineer Shellgren put the engines hard astern, parting the line, and enabling the steamer to escape. Out in the harbor, Captain Wiman warned off the approaching Calista and then raced back to Seattle.
Death toll
A news headline on the massacre
The Seattle Star, November 6, 1916, Front Page
At the end of the mayhem, two citizen deputies lay dead with 16 or 20 others wounded, including Sheriff McRae. The two businessman-deputies that were shot were actually shot in the back by fellow deputies; their injuries were not caused by Wobbly gunfire. The IWW officially listed 5 dead with 27 wounded, although it is speculated that as many as 12 IWW members may have been killed. There was a good likelihood that at least some of the casualties on the dock were caused not by IWW firing from the steamer, but on vigilante rounds from the cross-fire of bullets coming from the Edison. The local Everett Wobblies started their street rally anyway, and as a result, McRae's deputized citizens rounded them up and hauled them off to jail. As a result of the shootings, Governor Ernest Lister of the State of Washington sent companies of militia to Everett and Seattle to help maintain order.
Question of violence
There have been many efforts to find the IWW, a self-described radical union, at fault for the violence. Other historians have placed blame on external forces, including that a private detective working as a labor spy had advocated violent action at an IWW meeting in Everett.
Aftermath
Upon returning to Seattle, 74 Wobblies were arrested as a direct result of the "Everett Massacre" including IWW leader Thomas H. Tracy. They were taken to the Snohomish County jail in Everett and charged with murder of the two deputies. After a two-month trial, Tracy was acquitted by a jury on May 5, 1917. Shortly thereafter, all charges were dropped against the remaining 73 defendants and they were released from jail.
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It’s Friday, November 5, 2021
Welcome to the 1,270th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Humphrey Bogart
Photo of Humphrey Bogart. The release at back says this was a new photo of him from the upcoming film Brother Orchid.
Published by The Minneapolis Tribune-photo from Warner Bros. - eBay front back
Permission details
Copyright not renewed
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Commentary
Hope for the Republican Party as it recasts itself away from Trump as next party nominee.
The weather in Boston has been spectacular. A little cool, but seasonal. Good stuff.
Still working on my yet another new diet. The juries’s out.
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Reading and Writing
Am editing Part Two of my manuscript, pp 74 to 172.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“A state without the means of some change,
is without the means of its own conservation.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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This from my son, Chris
Michael Gervais • 2ndEvery day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece.22h • 22 hours ago
This week’s conversation is with Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Consumer Business.
This conversation is important. Chris is defining, by modeling, modern leadership.
As the chief marketing officer, Chris runs #marketing across both the consumer and commercial businesses, which includes marketing for all Microsoft services and products, business planning, brand, advertising, events, communications and research.
As leader of the worldwide consumer business, Chris oversees the Consumer Channel Sales and Marketing team, Microsoft Advertising Sales and Microsoft Stores. These teams are responsible for driving revenue, growth and share across the consumer business.
Chris joined Microsoft in 1991 as a marketing manager for the Windows Seminar Team.
In his 30 years at Microsoft, Chris has held a variety of leadership positions and oversaw the creation of new business opportunities and consumer experiences, including the transition of Microsoft Office on-premises products to Office 365.
He’s real. He puts others first. He’s open, honest, empathetic, and clear about who he is and what he values. The way he works from the inside-out accelerates empowerment, autonomy and agency for those he works with.
LISTEN: https://lnkd.in/gHhhf98p
Blog meister responds: Love that kid.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Wednesday night I had dinner with amost agreeable family, the Medianos, Lisa (my niece). David, Savannah, and Tessa, two remarkable young women, as well-read as can be found anywhere.
We have some olives and salumi, a plate of Lentil Soup, Roast Rib of Beef, a cheeseboard, and desserts buy Colette.
They generously brought three bottles of Barolo and a bottle of Rioja Riserva, both selections perfectly matched for our beef. We did them justice, especially considering we started with a bottle of excellent Prosecco.
Conversation never lagged, even after four hours.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
ducks at Halloween 2021
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Short Essay*
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (/ˈboʊɡɑːrt/; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Bogart began acting in Broadway shows, beginning his career in motion pictures with Up the River (1930) for Fox and appeared in supporting roles for the next decade, sometimes portraying gangsters. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936) but remained secondary to other actors Warner Bros. cast in lead roles.
His breakthrough from supporting roles to stardom came with High Sierra (1941) and The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Phillip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films. His most significant romantic lead role was with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942), which earned him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Forty-four-year-old Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall fell in love when they filmed To Have and Have Not (1944). In 1945, a few months after principal photography for The Big Sleep, their second film together, he divorced his third wife and married Bacall. After their marriage, they played each other's love interest in the mystery thrillers Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).
Bogart's performances in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and In a Lonely Place (1950) are now considered among his best, although they were not recognized as such when the films were released. He reprised those unsettled, unstable characters as a World War II naval-vessel commander in The Caine Mutiny (1954), which was a critical and commercial hit and earned him another Best Actor nomination. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a cantankerous river steam launch skipper opposite Katharine Hepburn's missionary in the World War I African adventure The African Queen (1951). Other significant roles in his later years included The Barefoot Contessa (1954) with Ava Gardner and his on-screen competition with William Holden for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954). A heavy smoker and drinker, Bogart died from esophageal cancer in January 1957.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
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It’s Thursday, November 4, 2021
Welcome to the 1,269th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Maggie Smith
Lady Violet in Downton Abbey
Maggie Smith, a younger version
Bizarro
Every ten days I seem to lose a night’s sleep. Just physically, sleep for an hour or two, wake up, and find myself too restless to get back to sleep. For many years I’ve dreaded that long night feeling wasted but awake.
How bizarre finding myself getting ready to sleep, hoping I wake up to one of these restless nights. Why? So I can get to my manuscript.
How bizarre. How bizarre.
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Commentary
My new sound system and new cell phone (the upgraded MS Duo) both arrived on Wednesday.
Republican without Trump. The nation’s getting back to healthy.
An idiom we hope is repeated early and often.
Progressives shooting themselves in foot. Feet. Several high-profile elections lost. Biden’s trip, tarnished. Not absolving Manchin. But easy to understand a man holding onto his Senate seat by the slimmest of margins, extracting compromises that will help his re-election. Losing is not noble, unless you’re a college sophomore.
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Reading and Writing
Finished my first rewrite of Part Two: pages 74 to 172.
Will be editing over the next few days.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
― Yogi Berra
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Tuesday night I shared a plate of meatballs and pork roast with my cousin Luaren.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Tequila Sunrise
Immediately before the sun peeked over
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Short Essay*
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE (born 28 December 1934), known professionally as Maggie Smith, is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in over 60 films and 70 plays. The recipient of several accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards (making her one of few artists to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting") in addition to seven BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards, she is one of Britain's most recognizable actresses, and was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the Arts, and a Companion of Honor in 2014 for services to Drama.
This time of year the sunrises from my windows can be spectacular.
Even if the sun makes it impossible to work on my desktop.
I have to draw the blinds for a couple of weeks.
Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for The Private Ear and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994), and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010.
On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985), and Gosford Park (2001).
Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Murder By Death (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting,[6][7] and starred as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
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It’s Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Welcome to the 1,268th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Sweet Earth Pizza
Before I added my stuff.
Wish I had centered the picture.
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Commentary
I bought a couple of household/personal items over the last several days.
A laptop holder, to angle the keyboard. The angle presents the keyboard to the user in a more friendly way. I got it 12 hours after ordering it online. It works.
I bought a pizza stone online. I got it 12 hours after ordering it. It works. It made the pizza crisper than a rack.
I’m expecting my new sound system on Tuesday.
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Reading and Writing
The manuscript is racing along. I should finish Part Two on Friday and then I’ll spend several days editing those pages before sending them out to my beta gang.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“We're lost, but we're making good time.”
― Yogi Berra
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I got an email from a friend who tells me of his walk through Tokyo, a scene he recreated using google maps. See the picture below in our community pictures section.
Blog meister responds: If I weren’t so engrossed in my manuscript I’d be jealous.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Monday night I had a chicken salad sandwich from the last piece of chicken from a soup I made some days back. I used whole wheat bread. Great for fiber.
Earlier in the day I had two eggs (but only one yolk) on whole wheat toast.
And three prunes with my chocolate cookie dessert.
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Friend’s Tokyo
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Short Essay*
Sweet Earth Pizza has caught my attention because my diet is driving me to drop white flour and replace it with whole wheat. Sweet Earth is the only whole wheat pizza that Whole Foods carries. A pity. But it works.
It is not as ‘delicious’ as the wheat pizzas we know and love, laden with cheeses and meats and oils. But delivering no fiber. And fiber is forcing its way into my diet. It’s not as delicious but as a health food I find it fabulous. And ‘delicious’ enough.
The Sweet Earth Pizza is artful. The ingredients are perfectly sliced and aesthetically satisfying. These are the basic ingredients: broccoli, mushrooms, brussel sprouts, cherry tomatoes, whole wheat flour, evoo, psyllium fiber, sea salt, vegan cauliflower herb sauce, zesty marinara, tomato paste, garlic puree, mozzarella-style cheese alternative, and, unfortunately, cane sugar. This is the essence of what my diet craves. So I love this pizza. To make the crust more appealing, I bought a pizza stone to add to the crispness, and it works well.
But I am not vegan so having replaced the white flour with whole wheat, I splurge. I add real mozzarella, real parmigiana, olive oil, and thinly sliced salami. It’s terrific.
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It’s Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Welcome to the 1,268th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Ludwig Wittgensteia
Portrait above on being awarded a scholarship from Trinity College, 1929.
Clara Sjögren - Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk (ISBN 978-1-448-11267-8)
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Commentary
New mainstays of my diet.
Whole Wheat Pizza: a real find. I’ll write about it tomorrow.
Whole wheat bread: toasted, is much better than white.
Melon and berries, eaten at 9.00am, 16 hours from my last major meal.
Leafy veggies, including broccoli rabe and baby bok choy, both of which I really love.
And, being aware that in shifting over to a more fibrous intake, I still cannot exceed my caloric intake has made me more aware of what I am eating.
And, relying on my increased intake of fiber, I’ve stop taking ANY stool softeners. Let’s see what happens.
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Reading and Writing
I am writing like a house afire.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“I never said most of the things I said.
Then again, I might have said ’em,
but you never know.”
~Yogi Berra
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Looking for an upgrade of my sound system and recommended to me from a source I have full confidence in are two speakers to operate as a stereo system:
Amazon.com: Two Room Set Sonos One SL - The Powerful Microphone-Free Speaker for Music and More - Black : Electronics
Blog meister responds: Looking forward to the installation.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Today is mop-up day in my refrigerator: chicken soup; 1 pork rib; bok choy; slice of pizza. Fun. And the Pats play at 4pm.
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Sun explodes on horizon
This time of year brings outstanding sunrises to me on a daily basis.
But I work on my desktop facing full into the sun so I must pull down the shades so i won’t get blinded.
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Short Essay*
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənʃtaɪn, -staɪn/ VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; German: [ˈluːtvɪç joˈhan ˈjoːzɛf vɪtɡn̩ʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considered to be one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era.
From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. In spite of his position, during his entire life only one book of his philosophy was published, the relatively slim 75-page Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung (Logical-Philosophical Treatise) (1921) which appeared, together with an English translation, in 1922 under the Latin title Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. His only other published works were an article, "Some Remarks on Logical Form" (1929), a book review, and a children's dictionary. His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. The first and best-known of this posthumous series is the 1953 book Philosophical Investigations. A survey among American university and college teachers ranked the Investigations as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy, standing out as "the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations".
His philosophy is often divided into an early period, exemplified by the Tractatus, and a later period, articulated primarily in the Philosophical Investigations. The "early Wittgenstein" was concerned with the logical relationship between propositions and the world and he believed that by providing an account of the logic underlying this relationship, he had solved all philosophical problems. The "later Wittgenstein", however, rejected many of the assumptions of the Tractatus, arguing that the meaning of words is best understood as their use within a given language-game.
Born in Vienna into one of Europe's richest families, he inherited a fortune from his father in 1913. He initially made some donations to artists and writers, and then, in a period of severe personal depression after World War I, he gave away his entire fortune to his brothers and sisters. Three of his four older brothers died by separate acts of suicide. Wittgenstein left academia several times—serving as an officer on the front line during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages, where he encountered controversy for use of violence, to girls and to a boy (the Haidbauer incident), during mathematics classes; and working during World War II as a hospital porter in London, no*tably telling patients not to take the drugs they were prescribed, and also later as a hospital laboratory technician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In the words of a friend and literary executor, Georg Henrik von Wright, he believed that
his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.
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It’s Monday, November 1, 2021
Welcome to the 1,267th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Front cover Nel blu, dipinto di blu
Front cover for Domenico Modugno's single "Nel blu dipinto di blu"
Domenico Modugno - http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/domenico_modugno/nel_blu__dipinto_di_blu___vecchio_frak_f1/
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Commentary
Last night I went to bed the way I always do.
Except that it’s 6.43am and I haven’t been asleep yet.
Since I’ve been working since 12.05am I don’t believe I will get a night’s sleep.
Twice so far I’ve laid back in my recliner. I rested well for 15 min and again for 40min. But no sleep.
All I can think is that I’m putting in too many hours on my desk top. I won’t tell be tonight since tonight I will sleep very well. I hope.
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Reading and Writing
Didn’t spend much time reading yesterday. I di work well on my manuscript. Got to page 134. Hope to reach p140 today.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
― Edmund Burke
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This from Coleen G of Room to Write:
Hey Dom,
A couple of other yummy ways to add fiber . . . instead of toast with an egg in the morning, my husband and I have been putting fried eggs and bacon or just a plain soft-boiled egg (or two) over a healthy handful of mixed greens (already prepared from the market) and then with the salt and pepper (and I usually like a little drizzle of olive oil) the broken yokes nearly makes a salad dressing of sorts and it's yummy. I also will sprinkle feta cheese if I don't have bacon or just throw in a slice of ham with the fried egg. An idea. My husband started doing it and now I've accepted it--since he's usually preparing breakfast. I miss toast sometimes, but it is good and I know it's better for me.
Another--squash. Lots of fiber and easy to roast. We had acorn squash last night just split down the middle and olive oil on the two halves with salt and pepper and shoved it under the chicken thighs I was roasting and it was all ready at once. And now, I"m going to go a little crazy--but this is not normal for us, but last night I thought I'd try it because I find that while cauliflower does not inspire me, I try to find new recipes for it whenever I can. One I discovered months ago was roasting cauliflower florets with butter and frank's red hot for buffalo non-chicken. My kids and everybody loved it. The texture is like chicken, but cheaper and better for you. Anyway, last night I tried my hand at cauliflower rice. A little weird, I know, but you cut the core out of the cauliflower and then with the box grater you grate the flowers (it's tricky since they break) until it looks like a bowl of rice. IT's still raw . . . and then I put a couple tablespoons of olive oil in the pan, minced two cloves of garlic and sauteed that a little and then threw in the cauliflower "rice" and cooked . . . then threw in some chopped fresh chives and parsley from my garden. That was it. My kids weren't goo-goo over it, but they mostly ate it and said they would have liked it better if there was a sauce . . . so could be a great sub for rice with something on top of it. I actually thought it was better than I thought it would be.
Some food for thought--haha:)
Off to get the kids soon. Enjoy!
Cheers,
Colleen:)
Blog meister responds: Colleen’s voice is unique, in a wonderful way.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Saturday night I finished the never-ending pot of Bouillabaisse.
And I toasted a slice of Sweet Earth pizza. I focused on crisping the crust. It worked.
The pizza was delicious. I’ll describe it soon. And the health benefits are a dramatic improvement.
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Winter Street shady
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Short Essay*
"Nel blu, dipinto di blu" ('In the blue [sky] [as I was] painted blue' or 'In the blue-painted blue [sky]'), popularly known as "Volare" ('To fly'), is a song originally recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno. Written by Modugno and Franco Migliacci, it was released as a single on 1 February 1958.
The song spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in August and September 1958, and subsequently became Billboard's number-one single for the year. In 1959, at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards, Modugno's recording became the first ever Grammy winner for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Winning the eighth Sanremo Music Festival, the song was chosen as the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958, where it came in third place out of ten songs in total. The combined sales of all the versions of the song exceed 22 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular Eurovision songs of all time and the most successful Sanremo Music Festival song ever.
The song was later translated into several languages and recorded by a wide range of performers. The song is also used as the basis for numerous football chants.
Modugno was a great performer and was to the attention of American singer Dean Martin. The song would become a huge hit and the most well-known song that never won Eurovision.
‘Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)’ sold over 22 million copies worldwide!
The global impact of Modugno’s performance of ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu’ continued when it was recognized at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards. The inaugural Grammy Awards, then known as the Gramophone Awards, was held in two locations on 4 May 1959. A black-tie dinner and awards presentation was held at Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where the likes of Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin were present. At the same time, the Recording Academy members convened for a simultaneous function at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.
Modugno was nominated for three awards for ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu’: Grammy Award for Song of the Year as the songwriter, Grammy Award for Record of the Year as the performing artist and Best Vocal Performance, Male. He was successful in the first two categories, beating Perry Como with ‘Catch A Falling Star’, Vic Damone with ‘Gigi’, Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’ and Frank Sinatra’s ‘Witchcraft’ in the first and Perry Como with ‘Catch A Falling Star’, Peggy Lee with ‘Fever’, David Seville and The Chipmunks’ ‘The Chipmunk Song’ and Frank Sinatra’s ‘Witchcraft’.
Dean Martin was one of the first artists to cover the song, which was renamed ‘Volare’ and had parts of the song translated into English by New York lyricist Mitchell Parish. It was this release that would be responsible for the song achieving its mass appeal worldwide. Both the Modugno and Martin versions of the song charted simultaneously.
‘Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)’ has been covered by at least one hundred different artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Dalida, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Rydell, David Bowie, Oscar Peterson, Gipsy Kings, Frank Zappa, Il Volo, André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Cliff Richard and Barry White.
For the millennials out there, the song was also featured in the 2003 ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie’ in a scene in which Lizzie, played by Hilary Duff , is escorted on a Vespa through Rome by Paolo, played by Yani Gellman. Their sightseeing ride is accompanied by a cover of the song by Vitamin C. Yes, that’s right, the artist behind the popular 2000 song ‘Graduation (Friends Forever)’.
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It’s Sunday, October 31, 2021
Welcome to the 1,266th consecutive post to the blog,
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Generation Timelines
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Commentary
So many things to do.
They take away from my writing.
A surprise coffee invite.
A repairman, dishwasher. He must return when parts are in.
Made a medical appointment.
Prep breakfast and eat.
Prep dinner and eat.
A haircut.
The bank.
Post t the blog.
Several emails.
Buy some Frascati for cooking. And Wild Turkey for Old Fashioneds.
That was all before 2.00pm.
To quote John McEnroe: “You’ve got to be kidding.”
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Reading and Writing
You’ve got to be kidding. Very little.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do;
but what humanity, reason, and justice,
tell me I ought to do.”
― Edmund Burke
Speech on Conciliation with America
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This from me to my son Mino re: a case of wine he recently brought me.
Hi sweetie,
I loved the Chateauneuf du Pape, lost my notes.
The Arcese was fun. I store the wines behind my desk and one day, from my armchair, I hear a loud ‘pop’. Then the flow of liquid. I get up to investigae. It seems the wine had fermented after the bottling and the pressure built up and popped the cork. I drank what was left. Fun.
The Tres Picos is a well-built, rich, concentrated red. Lots of fruit, berries, firm in mouth. Excellent.
As was the Chianti Classico, an excellent illustration of a quality Chianti.
The wines shared a commonality: all worth the money paid.
Thank you.
Love
dad
Blog meister responds: This is a regular occurrence. The wines are always good. Some are spectacular. The shared experiences priceless.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Friday night I made St Louis Ribs and baby bok choy.
Into my wok, [use any pan,] I put a bit of chicken stock, soy sauce, and hot sesame oil (just a bit; this is a hot item.) I steamed the bok choy. Delicious. And fibrous – a good thing.
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Short Essay*
Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially also known as zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years. Most members of Generation Z are children of Generation X.
As the first social generation to have grown up with access to the Internet and portable digital technology from a young age, members of Generation Z have been dubbed "digital natives", even though they are not necessarily digitally literate. Moreover, the negative effects of screen time are most pronounced on adolescents compared to younger children. Compared to previous generations, members of Generation Z in some developed nations tend to be well-behaved, abstemious, and risk-averse. They tend to live more slowly than their predecessors when they were their age, have lower rates of teenage pregnancies, and consume alcohol less often, but not necessarily other psychoactive drugs. Generation Z teenagers are more concerned than older generations with academic performance and job prospects, and are better at delaying gratification than their counterparts from the 1960s, despite concerns to the contrary. Sexting among adolescents has grown in prevalence though the consequences of this remain poorly understood. Meanwhile, youth subcultures have been quieter, though have not necessarily disappeared.
Globally, there is evidence that the average age of pubertal onset among girls has decreased considerably compared to the 20th century, with implications for their welfare and their future. In addition, adolescents and young adults in Generation Z have higher rates of allergies, higher awareness and diagnoses of mental health problems, and are more likely to be sleep-deprived. In many countries, Gen Z youth is more likely to have diagnosed intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disorders than older generations.
Around the world, members of Generation Z are spending more time on electronic devices and less time reading books than before, with implications for their attention span, their vocabulary and thus their school grades, as well as their future in the modern economy. At the same time, reading and writing fan fiction is of vogue worldwide, especially among teenage girls and young women. In Asia, educators in the 2000s and 2010s typically sought out and nourished top students whereas in Western Europe and the United States, the emphasis was on low-performers. In addition, East Asian students consistently earned the top spots in international standardized tests during the 2010s.
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