Though it isn’t air raid sirening on the news sites, so it might be something else.
Unless the article is regrettably incomplete, Mr. Pelosi failed to turn on the security system before retiring for the night. (Or the burglar having set off the alarm thought he could get in a few blows before making a break for it.). Is it possible that they don’t have a security system?
As ever, what hits you about these Pelosi pratfall stories is that two octogenarians with scads of grandchildren have arranged their lives so as to spend as little time around each other as possible.
Though it isn’t air raid sirening on the news sites, so it might be something else.
Neo has excused herself from having an opinion about Astrud Gilberto.
We went to Detroit for the NCAA basketball regional in 2008 (Davidson blew out Big Ten champ Wisconsin and lost to eventual national champ Kansas when the last shot missed).
Driving around downtown I took a wrong turn. Parts of the city looked like a war zone and Detroit lost. No exaggeration. It was shocking and frightening.
Hard to imagine it was the richest city in America once.
Let the cheating begin!
“More than 250,000 ballots have been mailed to Pennsylvania voters without their identities being verified, according to state data collected by election integrity group Verity Vote.
“Arizona, under state law, requires voters to have proof of citizenship, such as a driver’s license, on file in order to vote in state elections. That’s unlike most states, which typically use an honor system. If the state doesn’t have the records, the voter may only vote in federal elections and receives a special “federal-only” ballot.”
“Arizona is not the only state to make major election-related errors this cycle.”
“Earlier this month, Colorado’s Democrat secretary of state “mistakenly” sent “get out the vote” postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens. In Colorado, all registered voters automatically receive ballots in the mail, regardless of whether residents plan to vote by mail or in person.”
I wasn’t aware that noncitizens can vote in federal elections.
Regarding the Arizona “mistake”:
What happens now?
“Once county officials identify a voter who incorrectly received a federal-only ballot, the secretary of state’s office has instructed them to send a letter notifying the voter of the mistake, along with a new full ballot. County officials are also supposed to reach out via any phone number or email address listed in the voter file. If, despite those efforts, the voter still returns the federal-only ballot, the office has instructed county officials to set it aside and only count it if the voter never casts the full ballot.
For affected voters who weren’t yet sent a ballot, if they go to vote early in-person and are given a federal-only ballot, the state will have time to catch the ballot before it is counted. That’s because when voting early in-person, voters do not cast their ballots directly into vote-counting machines. Instead, they put their filled-out ballot into envelopes and sign them, just as they would do if they were voting from home. The counties will have time to separate these federal-only ballots before they are counted, and were instructed to wait to see if the voter casts a new full ballot before the polls close on Election Day.”
Here’s the problem. There would be two ballots potentially in the system. We are assuming the county workers have the integrity to pull the faulty ballot. Why should we assume that?
Here in Washington state, we rely on the integrity of the county workers to verify signatures on ballots. Once the signature on the envelope is accepted, the ballot is valid.
Here’s how the process works in Washington: This process is live streamed, but as you can see, you can’t actually see that the signatures match. Everything about our election hinges on trusting the integrity of the county employee!
Looks something like an area called “Indian Village”. Huge homes with all the internal bells and whistles you could and would build in a hundred-plus years ago. Pretty much “downtown”.
Could they be moved to the far burbs with appropriate lot sizes, they’d be worth ten times their current value.
Of course, that was some time ago and I only presume they’re still standing.
To get around, you’d want an armored version of Lyft.
Indian Village is mentioned in the video, is still there, and still has some nice homes, though mostly worth less than $500,000 according to Zillow. They haven’t renamed it Guardian Village yet.
Art Deco,
Astrud Gilberto is a treasure. Her unique voice and singing style were a perfect match for her husband’s compositions, as well as many other songs. There are minions of young women in their 20s and 30s today employing her technique of singing softly and in a slight, minor key. Not sure if they know they are emulating her, but Gilberto’s impact on jazz and rock is immense.
Interesting video.
I’m trying to think of a major, U.S. city more than 150 years old that doesn’t have a similar section of town. As mentioned here, regarding Detroit, some have several sections of town like this. Kansas City and Dallas are two cities that I know of that did a good job of restoring the neighborhoods with the mansions and re-gentrifying the area. St. Louis seems beyond hope. Baltimore? Likely beyond hope? Milwaukee? Probably can’t be helped. Cleveland? Cincinnati? Pittsburgh? Chicago’s west side, probably not, but tremendous progress was made on the south side in the ’90s and oughts. The future doesn’t look bright for Chicago, however.
A few years ago I read about a not for profit venture the CEO of Pulte homes was involved in, in Detroit (oh look, the Internet has an article about it: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2013/0219/In-Detroit-a-nonprofit-fights-urban-blight ). The idea is; work with the city on permitting, employ folks (even the homeless) in assisting with tearing blighted buildings down and recovering any materials (lots of cool iron, brick, wood and stonework in these old buildings) for resale and reuse then turning the land into greenspace and parks.
Makes a lot of sense. Even if a city like St. Louis lands some miracle, new, huge corporate tenant or has a start-up take off and explode in employee growth AND that company’s headquarters happens to be near or in one of the blighted areas (a true, longshot), most of the buildings are so disheveled it would cost more to get them up to code than to tear down and start over. Pulte and Detroit are smart to deal with the situation pro-actively.
Looks like Paul Pelosi’s attacker is a left wing loony nudist hemp jewelry maker. I guess that absolutely wrecks the “right wing extremist” narrative the dems & media were obviously praying for.
Nonapod, where do you see that about Pelosi’s attacker? The Daily Mail says he’s had some social media posts that sound “right wing,” not left. But whichever is the case, he’s crazy and this is unacceptable.
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis. He died today at home at age 87. The last of the original rockers.
If that is your music, you should see the live performance “Million Dollar Quartet”.
neo, thanks for the link to your Ipanema post. I don’t remember when I discovered your blog, but it must have been after that. I remember reading an article along with then and now photos of the garota de ipanema and being stunned to learn it was based on real events and the young woman was known. How odd that must have been for her when the song became so famous. I suppose there are worse things to be known for.
I love when filmmakers do little things in the background of movies that wouldn’t really be missed if they weren’t there. I really appreciate when people bother to do little things like that. One of my favorites involves “The Girl from Ipanema.” At the climax of the “Blues Brothers” when almost every human in the city of Chicago is pursuing them and Jake and Elwood have no escape, they hop on an elevator and the muzak from the speaker in the elevator is playing a very loungy version of “Girl from Ipanema.” It’s the perfect juxtaposition to the chaos they just left in the hall leading to the elevator and the chaos they will re-enter when they exit on the next floor.
Neat if sad video but why bother fixing them up?
It’s Detroit after all.
Same would be answer for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago or San Francisco
The latest eye roller — Astros manager Dusty Baker is ashamed of the game of baseball because neither of the teams in the World Series has any black players. One of those teams is his.
Here’s reality — very few black kids choose to play baseball. Period. Enormous numbers of Latin kids do. Lots of poor kids. But the black kids all want to play hoops. Or football. Although even football coaches will tell you that a lot of talented black athletes who could have been excellent at football chose basketball. [A college football coach who’s a friend passed on a conversation he had a few years back with an NFL scout buddy of his. He asked where all the good TEs were. Answer — playing in the paint for mid-major colleges.]
Yogi Berra once said if fans don’t want to come to the stadium you can’t make them. If certain kids don’t want to play little league baseball, you can’t make them. Blaming major league clubs for it is just another example of standard lefty blaming.
I have a dream. I dream that some day we will live in a society where people are expected to speak the truth and exercise at least some effort to be rational and moral.
}}} I’m trying to think of a major, U.S. city more than 150 years old that doesn’t have a similar section of town
Yeah, but Detroit has more of it than almost anyplace else.
It’s an exceptionally odd place to find it, but this, at Weather.com, has a lot of pix (I first encountered them at the “late” Retronaut site, which, while it still exists, seems to have been taken over completely by someone else who purged it of all history… why they wanted to take it over… who knows. If I had kept the URL, I might have been able to find it on the Wayback Machine, but, lacking that, it’s difficult.
The photos seem to be taken by two people, who have collected them into a book:
Currently available on Amazon for the low low LOW price of only $625.00…
Used ones are available for only $243!!
Picture 16, in particular, shows how criminal some of this abandonment is… look in the back. Those are shelves and shelves of BOOKS which have been abandoned.
Here’s another collection, with some additional pix.
The fourth pic, the East Side Public Library, again, shelves and shelves and shelves of books.
FFS, people, GIVE THEM AWAY. They can’t ALL be books no one would want — for FREE!
Today’s report of dangers:
ttps://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj.o2527.full.pdf
The FDA has been criticised for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people receiving Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, Maryanne Demasi reports
In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a potential increase in four types of serious adverse events in elderly people who had had Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine: acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, immune thrombocytopenia, and pulmonary embolism.1 Little detail was provided, such as the magnitude of the increased potential risk, and no press release or other alert was sent to doctors or the public. The FDA promised it would “share further updates and information with the public as they become available.”
Eighteen days later, the FDA published a study planning document (or protocol) outlining a follow-up epidemiological study intended to investigate the matter more thoroughly.2 This recondite technical document disclosed the unadjusted relative risk ratio estimates originally found for the four serious adverse events, which ranged from 42% to 91% increased risk. (Neither absolute risk increases nor confidence intervals were provided.) More than a year later, however, the status and results of the follow-up study are unknown. The agency has not published a press release, or notified doctors, or published the findings by preprint or the scientific literature or updated the vaccine’s product label. https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2527
From here:
Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
Powerful BMJ piece on FDA/CDC failure to study vaccine complications.
“Pfizer & Moderna clinical trial reanalysis by Fraiman & colleagues indicated the mRNA vaccines were associated with an additional serious adverse event for every 800 people vaccinated”
Without absolute numbers, a figure like “42% to 91% increased risk” is meaningless.
Just to take one example, you might have an incidence of a certain result that occurs 1 in a million times in an unvaccinated population. If it occurred in a vaccinated population 2 in a million times, that’s a 100% increased risk. But it would also be a meaningless figure that has no statistical significance.
In addition, the proper comparison would be to other vaccinations and their complication rate.
It’s kind of strange to think about the old mansions of Detroit. It seems that many of them were only inhabited for about a hundred years, which is almost a mere moment in the grand scheme of things.
I met him once as a friend of a friend. It was only later I realized he had that It, that visionary eye, halfway between de Chirico and Man Ray.
O god, the Southerners. We’ve had some great ones.
Totally Open Thread —
Does anyone else notice how dark, as in light intensity, current films/shows have become?
Recently I got an Amazon FireTV on sale for $200. You have to put up with a buncha Amazon nonsense, but OK, $200. It’s in the back bedroom, which is kinda bright daytime, and it seems to me the FireTV is a bit dim, but it’s not like I have glaucoma. I watch it on my laptop and it’s still dim.
In some cases, dim is near total dark. I can’t make out the visual plot. As in, at all.
But cue up an old B&W from the forties and, even if it’s midnight, Bogie and Bacall are totally lit.
My guess is that film people are saving money with the new digital film cameras which can dial in absurdly high ISO numbers which then allows the camera operators to record in natural light.
Perhaps they’ve also decided the big dark areas are sexy and cool.
Thanks for the links, ObloodyHell. Very Poignant. I spent my High School years living in the lower east side of Detroit. During my time at WSU I lived several blocks away from Brush Park in the Cass Corridor. In the 60’s there was a great deal of decay throughout the city. Several of my professors from Germany stated that parts of the city, even in those days, reminded them of Berlin after the war.
@ huxley > “Does anyone else notice how dark, as in light intensity, current films/shows have become?”
I have no idea WHY it is being done purposely, or accidentally, but it is a real problem watching segments that supposedly take place at night.
Sure, it’s “unrealistic” to have the actors VISIBLE, but makes it a lot easier to follow the story.
Especially since actors no longer enunciate their words so you can’t follow the dialogue either.
I have to caption just about everything these days, and that detracts from the cinematography when you CAN see it.
/rant
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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/10/28/breaking-home-invasion-at-pelosi-house-paul-pelosi-attacked-n650386
“Was Kari Lake in California? Can you prove she wasn’t? Katie Hobbs has no comment.”
From the OM News Network, for those who can’t be led.
Paul Pelosi apparently had a meeting with Harry Reid’s Gym Equipment https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11365447/Nancy-Pelosi-says-husband-Paul-violently-ASSAULTED-attacker.html
Or maybe it was Jusse Smollet’s MAGA attackers?
Though it isn’t air raid sirening on the news sites, so it might be something else.
Unless the article is regrettably incomplete, Mr. Pelosi failed to turn on the security system before retiring for the night. (Or the burglar having set off the alarm thought he could get in a few blows before making a break for it.). Is it possible that they don’t have a security system?
As ever, what hits you about these Pelosi pratfall stories is that two octogenarians with scads of grandchildren have arranged their lives so as to spend as little time around each other as possible.
Though it isn’t air raid sirening on the news sites, so it might be something else.
The DNC talking points haven’t circulated yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDeYwZGPbQ
Neo has excused herself from having an opinion about Astrud Gilberto.
We went to Detroit for the NCAA basketball regional in 2008 (Davidson blew out Big Ten champ Wisconsin and lost to eventual national champ Kansas when the last shot missed).
Driving around downtown I took a wrong turn. Parts of the city looked like a war zone and Detroit lost. No exaggeration. It was shocking and frightening.
Hard to imagine it was the richest city in America once.
Let the cheating begin!
“More than 250,000 ballots have been mailed to Pennsylvania voters without their identities being verified, according to state data collected by election integrity group Verity Vote.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/brewing-election-integrity-storm-pa-over-250k-ballots-sent-voters
Other mistakes:
“Arizona, under state law, requires voters to have proof of citizenship, such as a driver’s license, on file in order to vote in state elections. That’s unlike most states, which typically use an honor system. If the state doesn’t have the records, the voter may only vote in federal elections and receives a special “federal-only” ballot.”
“Arizona is not the only state to make major election-related errors this cycle.”
“Earlier this month, Colorado’s Democrat secretary of state “mistakenly” sent “get out the vote” postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens. In Colorado, all registered voters automatically receive ballots in the mail, regardless of whether residents plan to vote by mail or in person.”
I wasn’t aware that noncitizens can vote in federal elections.
Regarding the Arizona “mistake”:
What happens now?
“Once county officials identify a voter who incorrectly received a federal-only ballot, the secretary of state’s office has instructed them to send a letter notifying the voter of the mistake, along with a new full ballot. County officials are also supposed to reach out via any phone number or email address listed in the voter file. If, despite those efforts, the voter still returns the federal-only ballot, the office has instructed county officials to set it aside and only count it if the voter never casts the full ballot.
For affected voters who weren’t yet sent a ballot, if they go to vote early in-person and are given a federal-only ballot, the state will have time to catch the ballot before it is counted. That’s because when voting early in-person, voters do not cast their ballots directly into vote-counting machines. Instead, they put their filled-out ballot into envelopes and sign them, just as they would do if they were voting from home. The counties will have time to separate these federal-only ballots before they are counted, and were instructed to wait to see if the voter casts a new full ballot before the polls close on Election Day.”
Here’s the problem. There would be two ballots potentially in the system. We are assuming the county workers have the integrity to pull the faulty ballot. Why should we assume that?
Here in Washington state, we rely on the integrity of the county workers to verify signatures on ballots. Once the signature on the envelope is accepted, the ballot is valid.
Here’s how the process works in Washington: This process is live streamed, but as you can see, you can’t actually see that the signatures match. Everything about our election hinges on trusting the integrity of the county employee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKRZfJjv38k
By the way, in Arizona there were 10,000 ballots sent out, not 1,000.
https://www.azmirror.com/2022/10/20/up-to-1000-arizona-voters-were-mistakenly-sent-ballots-with-only-federal-races-heres-why-and-whats-next/
Looks something like an area called “Indian Village”. Huge homes with all the internal bells and whistles you could and would build in a hundred-plus years ago. Pretty much “downtown”.
Could they be moved to the far burbs with appropriate lot sizes, they’d be worth ten times their current value.
Of course, that was some time ago and I only presume they’re still standing.
To get around, you’d want an armored version of Lyft.
Indian Village is mentioned in the video, is still there, and still has some nice homes, though mostly worth less than $500,000 according to Zillow. They haven’t renamed it Guardian Village yet.
Art Deco,
Astrud Gilberto is a treasure. Her unique voice and singing style were a perfect match for her husband’s compositions, as well as many other songs. There are minions of young women in their 20s and 30s today employing her technique of singing softly and in a slight, minor key. Not sure if they know they are emulating her, but Gilberto’s impact on jazz and rock is immense.
Interesting video.
I’m trying to think of a major, U.S. city more than 150 years old that doesn’t have a similar section of town. As mentioned here, regarding Detroit, some have several sections of town like this. Kansas City and Dallas are two cities that I know of that did a good job of restoring the neighborhoods with the mansions and re-gentrifying the area. St. Louis seems beyond hope. Baltimore? Likely beyond hope? Milwaukee? Probably can’t be helped. Cleveland? Cincinnati? Pittsburgh? Chicago’s west side, probably not, but tremendous progress was made on the south side in the ’90s and oughts. The future doesn’t look bright for Chicago, however.
A few years ago I read about a not for profit venture the CEO of Pulte homes was involved in, in Detroit (oh look, the Internet has an article about it: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2013/0219/In-Detroit-a-nonprofit-fights-urban-blight ). The idea is; work with the city on permitting, employ folks (even the homeless) in assisting with tearing blighted buildings down and recovering any materials (lots of cool iron, brick, wood and stonework in these old buildings) for resale and reuse then turning the land into greenspace and parks.
Makes a lot of sense. Even if a city like St. Louis lands some miracle, new, huge corporate tenant or has a start-up take off and explode in employee growth AND that company’s headquarters happens to be near or in one of the blighted areas (a true, longshot), most of the buildings are so disheveled it would cost more to get them up to code than to tear down and start over. Pulte and Detroit are smart to deal with the situation pro-actively.
Art Deco; Rufus T. Firefly:
Please see this.
Looks like Paul Pelosi’s attacker is a left wing loony nudist hemp jewelry maker. I guess that absolutely wrecks the “right wing extremist” narrative the dems & media were obviously praying for.
Nonapod, where do you see that about Pelosi’s attacker? The Daily Mail says he’s had some social media posts that sound “right wing,” not left. But whichever is the case, he’s crazy and this is unacceptable.
Oh, I see, Nonapod: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/10/28/press-conference-on-pelosi-attack-suspect-may-have-been-targeting-nancy-pelosi-attacker-ided-n650478
I think more information is needed.
Local area reporter Tweeted this:
My sources also name the suspect in this morning’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley.
He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester.
Things appear set to be bizarre for a while.
Ipanema it wasn’t, but a certain haunting melody was the perfect background theme for “The Insurrection”.
J6 Video With Sound
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis. He died today at home at age 87. The last of the original rockers.
If that is your music, you should see the live performance “Million Dollar Quartet”.
neo, thanks for the link to your Ipanema post. I don’t remember when I discovered your blog, but it must have been after that. I remember reading an article along with then and now photos of the garota de ipanema and being stunned to learn it was based on real events and the young woman was known. How odd that must have been for her when the song became so famous. I suppose there are worse things to be known for.
I love when filmmakers do little things in the background of movies that wouldn’t really be missed if they weren’t there. I really appreciate when people bother to do little things like that. One of my favorites involves “The Girl from Ipanema.” At the climax of the “Blues Brothers” when almost every human in the city of Chicago is pursuing them and Jake and Elwood have no escape, they hop on an elevator and the muzak from the speaker in the elevator is playing a very loungy version of “Girl from Ipanema.” It’s the perfect juxtaposition to the chaos they just left in the hall leading to the elevator and the chaos they will re-enter when they exit on the next floor.
re Jerry Lee Lewis – Somewhere over the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTm8D-f426o
Neat if sad video but why bother fixing them up?
It’s Detroit after all.
Same would be answer for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago or San Francisco
The latest eye roller — Astros manager Dusty Baker is ashamed of the game of baseball because neither of the teams in the World Series has any black players. One of those teams is his.
Here’s reality — very few black kids choose to play baseball. Period. Enormous numbers of Latin kids do. Lots of poor kids. But the black kids all want to play hoops. Or football. Although even football coaches will tell you that a lot of talented black athletes who could have been excellent at football chose basketball. [A college football coach who’s a friend passed on a conversation he had a few years back with an NFL scout buddy of his. He asked where all the good TEs were. Answer — playing in the paint for mid-major colleges.]
Yogi Berra once said if fans don’t want to come to the stadium you can’t make them. If certain kids don’t want to play little league baseball, you can’t make them. Blaming major league clubs for it is just another example of standard lefty blaming.
I have a dream. I dream that some day we will live in a society where people are expected to speak the truth and exercise at least some effort to be rational and moral.
}}} I’m trying to think of a major, U.S. city more than 150 years old that doesn’t have a similar section of town
Yeah, but Detroit has more of it than almost anyplace else.
https://weather.com/travel/news/modern-ruins-abandoned-detroit-photos-20130715
It’s an exceptionally odd place to find it, but this, at Weather.com, has a lot of pix (I first encountered them at the “late” Retronaut site, which, while it still exists, seems to have been taken over completely by someone else who purged it of all history… why they wanted to take it over… who knows. If I had kept the URL, I might have been able to find it on the Wayback Machine, but, lacking that, it’s difficult.
The photos seem to be taken by two people, who have collected them into a book:
https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Marchand-Romain-Meffre-Detroit/dp/3869300426
Currently available on Amazon for the low low LOW price of only $625.00…
Used ones are available for only $243!!
Picture 16, in particular, shows how criminal some of this abandonment is… look in the back. Those are shelves and shelves of BOOKS which have been abandoned.
Here’s another collection, with some additional pix.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220710152103/https://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/01/detroit-in-ruins/
The fourth pic, the East Side Public Library, again, shelves and shelves and shelves of books.
FFS, people, GIVE THEM AWAY. They can’t ALL be books no one would want — for FREE!
Today’s report of dangers:
ttps://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj.o2527.full.pdf
The FDA has been criticised for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people receiving Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, Maryanne Demasi reports
In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a potential increase in four types of serious adverse events in elderly people who had had Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine: acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, immune thrombocytopenia, and pulmonary embolism.1 Little detail was provided, such as the magnitude of the increased potential risk, and no press release or other alert was sent to doctors or the public. The FDA promised it would “share further updates and information with the public as they become available.”
Eighteen days later, the FDA published a study planning document (or protocol) outlining a follow-up epidemiological study intended to investigate the matter more thoroughly.2 This recondite technical document disclosed the unadjusted relative risk ratio estimates originally found for the four serious adverse events, which ranged from 42% to 91% increased risk. (Neither absolute risk increases nor confidence intervals were provided.) More than a year later, however, the status and results of the follow-up study are unknown. The agency has not published a press release, or notified doctors, or published the findings by preprint or the scientific literature or updated the vaccine’s product label.
https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2527
From here:
Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
Powerful BMJ piece on FDA/CDC failure to study vaccine complications.
“Pfizer & Moderna clinical trial reanalysis by Fraiman & colleagues indicated the mRNA vaccines were associated with an additional serious adverse event for every 800 people vaccinated”
https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1585670629470212102
Lee:
Without absolute numbers, a figure like “42% to 91% increased risk” is meaningless.
Just to take one example, you might have an incidence of a certain result that occurs 1 in a million times in an unvaccinated population. If it occurred in a vaccinated population 2 in a million times, that’s a 100% increased risk. But it would also be a meaningless figure that has no statistical significance.
In addition, the proper comparison would be to other vaccinations and their complication rate.
It’s kind of strange to think about the old mansions of Detroit. It seems that many of them were only inhabited for about a hundred years, which is almost a mere moment in the grand scheme of things.
In other news
https://thepostmillennial.com/arizona-rules-in-favor-of-monitors-constitutional-right-to-oversee-ballot-drop-boxes?utm_campaign=64501
Re: old mansions
Clarence Laughlin, a New Orleans photographer, made gothic surrealism out of many decaying Louisiana landscapes/cityscapes.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/laughlin/laughlin_strange_situation_full.html
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/laughlin/laughlin_anatomical_full.html
I met him once as a friend of a friend. It was only later I realized he had that It, that visionary eye, halfway between de Chirico and Man Ray.
O god, the Southerners. We’ve had some great ones.
Totally Open Thread —
Does anyone else notice how dark, as in light intensity, current films/shows have become?
Recently I got an Amazon FireTV on sale for $200. You have to put up with a buncha Amazon nonsense, but OK, $200. It’s in the back bedroom, which is kinda bright daytime, and it seems to me the FireTV is a bit dim, but it’s not like I have glaucoma. I watch it on my laptop and it’s still dim.
In some cases, dim is near total dark. I can’t make out the visual plot. As in, at all.
But cue up an old B&W from the forties and, even if it’s midnight, Bogie and Bacall are totally lit.
My guess is that film people are saving money with the new digital film cameras which can dial in absurdly high ISO numbers which then allows the camera operators to record in natural light.
Perhaps they’ve also decided the big dark areas are sexy and cool.
Thanks for the links, ObloodyHell. Very Poignant. I spent my High School years living in the lower east side of Detroit. During my time at WSU I lived several blocks away from Brush Park in the Cass Corridor. In the 60’s there was a great deal of decay throughout the city. Several of my professors from Germany stated that parts of the city, even in those days, reminded them of Berlin after the war.
@ huxley > “Does anyone else notice how dark, as in light intensity, current films/shows have become?”
I have no idea WHY it is being done purposely, or accidentally, but it is a real problem watching segments that supposedly take place at night.
Sure, it’s “unrealistic” to have the actors VISIBLE, but makes it a lot easier to follow the story.
Especially since actors no longer enunciate their words so you can’t follow the dialogue either.
I have to caption just about everything these days, and that detracts from the cinematography when you CAN see it.
/rant