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HelenDaly Baker
musician, theatre a few years after college (major: psych), electrics, electronics, hardware design for Artificial Intelligence supercomputers, Internet in the 80s. Currently studying plasma physics
Location Southern Rhode Island coastline
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
I'm from USA and have always loved film. I was so happy the day home movies were invented so I could watch them over and over. Most movies I like I watch at least 5 times and often over 10 times. I often find myself saying "How'd they do that?" or "If I made a film I would hope it would be as fine as this one". So I'm glad to have a chance to find out more....
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Ray Noble
Thanks for the good laugh, Ray! Quite appropriate at this point.
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I hadn't noticed. But I'll be watching now
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So were they from southern Ireland? http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/lao (source is from larla, above)
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fun hearing the differences. thanks, larla
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Marian O'Rourke
Yikes! Good thing we're not grading on the curve. I'd be at the tail end. Think I'll be following Marian, who is down this path well ahead of me. HelenDaly is anim dom. I keep my Mum's maiden name to remember the Irish half of me.
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HelenDaly Baker replied to HelenDaly Baker
Will try to upload Wood's other investigations. Part 1 is already on youtube.
https://youtu.be/W15Nsjs3pXI?t=7 Part 2 The Lost Years
https://youtu.be/cA4NLj-jJs4 Part 3 The Duty Of Poets
https://youtu.be/QPVf42vQhUc Part 4 For All Time
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HelenDaly Baker replied to HelenDaly Baker
Yes, he did go to primary school in Stratford and his teacher, John Cotton, was part of the Catholic education underground and was probably instrumental in Will's move to Lancashire (the aristocratic home (Houghton Tower) I mentioned). I uploaded Michael Wood's episode on those "Lost Years" onto youtube (I'm SueMCilli on youtube). I'll try to drop in close...
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
Michael Wood investigated Will's background a bit including visiting his mother's parental home. At least his mother's side was fairly well-to-do with all the accoutrements. Also, Will was sent away to school in aristocratic surrounds where there was most definitely a plethora of books at his disposal, and it was said that he was particularly fond of...
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Keir Fabian
Gosh, Keir. We had better not team up on a production. The actors won't be able to get a word in edgewise.
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I could go on, but perhaps it is unnecessary for me to tell exactly which images from BOTH I would keep. However, the shaking of Ophelia's arm before the release is particularly poignant and also Hamlet keeping his gaze on Ophelia to the last was terribly important to me.
One additional thought: I would be less concerned about modernizing language than...
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
Guess I'd make a muddle of Shakespeare because I was loathe to lose any of the important images in both. But if it were my name on the playbill, I would do it my way:
"O, young prince Hamlet, the only flower of Denmark,
He is bereft of all the wealth he had.
The jewel that adorned his feature most
Is filched and stolen away: his wit’s bereft him"
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Sue Fuller
I'm with you, Sue. I had no idea it could be this great.
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I was excited to learn about the many versions and delighted in comparing them. I hadn't thought about the fact that the advent of printing at the time both preserved and changed Shakespeare's words for us, his followers. It also started me wondering about whether and how much Shakespeare changed his own writings pre, during, and post performances. How...
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Although I thoroughly enjoyed groveling over every inch of the British Library's photos!
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I agree with your sentiments on the modern poetry, Roxana. I thought they were a crashing bore.
The fewer years are left in my lifetime,
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Thanks for the link, Jim. Delicious!
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Kevin McKervey
I'm also thinking that "How" is to be determined as well.
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HelenDaly Baker replied to Kevin McKervey
You said what I'm thinking!
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Yes, Fiona, that was a thought of mine, too. Women don't go out to lunch without a handbag. Did husband convince her to leave it at home that day?
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Wife's relaxed hands/possible drugging interesting thought.
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HelenDaly Baker replied to David Brown
I, too, was worried about all the foot traffic on the crime scene possibly obliterating evidence of a struggle at the car window and/or another car stopped in the middle of the road. hope that they will also inspect Mrs.' hand/arm for signs of the struggle to remove jewelry. What if she shot at him and he grabbed and returned fire?
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Add my gratitude, Ken!
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
He was read aloud in our home and I remember the rhythm and the music of it as I drifted off to sleep even before I understood the words. I feel so fortunate. As for the rest, I value any version I can access and am grateful to fellow class members for their pointers to more sources. I am thrilled that the people of the world will have ready access in forms...
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Time Team on Shakespeare: https://youtu.be/juOPIbI5DbA?t=3
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Christophe, Your comment about playing in a storm reminded me of this little tidbit: https://youtu.be/N_J97ZppHmc?t=698
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
the human condition
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I'm looking forward to finding out about the time taken for "weed and feed" ingredients to break down in the soil. About 9 years ago a "gardener" put some on our lawns and first it killed the bunnies, then the bees, then even the mature linden trees.
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Thank you. I didn't know this: mossy if undisturbed-lack of air spaces.
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There is a huge variety of soils around me. I live on terminal moraine from glacial times, so it is sand silt clay rocky/gravel with a rather thin layer of organic. It seems as though our woods grow rocks. One day, driving through old back roads, my elderly local companion said "notice anything different?". I hadn't but immediately did: there were no stone...
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I am currently studying plasma physics and have been learning new ways to work with plants and earth.
We have found a fast easy way to revert GMO seeds back to original genome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tU1A4k0ZPU We are growing plants about 1/3 faster with 80% less water, and no synthetic soil additives. We have also been learning about how much of... -
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Funnily enough, I was very excited about the floor. Skeletons are a dime a dozen. Of course, the general public, being lugubrious by nature and having little experience with the dead, probably would gravitate to the skeleton. For me, the floor is so much more sensational. To walk on the same surface which was used all those thousands of years ago would be a...
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during clothing production. That could be a reason for the wealth to afford many amber beads. As to the poor diet, my speculation would be that his people might have fallen on hard times due to climate irregularities. An example I might think of would be the 18 year time period where there was virtually no sun (around 1100BCE??). That would put a lot of...
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Broken collar bones are rather common in children even today because they fall down more than adults. Maybe it was a fall from a tree, or I believe that it can happen even just from putting your hand out to break a fall. The wear from walking and heavy lifting is interesting, depending on whether he was found only deep in the ditch or at the bottom. If at...
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to see what the romans were thinking when attracted to a site of earlier "ritual" activity and how they appropriated the earlier beliefs for assimilation into their world view.
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HelenDaly Baker made a comment
Although all stages of life/death and of eras are here for the picking, I would be most interested in the oldest region because we already know quite a lot about more recent eras. My first choice would be a trench from the edge of the Hat mound through the ditch including the edge of the entrance. I'd like the full range of information from the top to the...
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Interviewing locals for their passed down lore, too. What did Mick say? What they "know" is usually wrong but what they tell you is usually correct. I think I have that not quite right.
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Thank you, Robin. I am glad to learn of NMR and SMR, too.
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Trowel "scraping" techniques. Don't want to miss/destroy anything. Recognizing levels.
Knowing what do look for in the debris which you are pulling towards yourself. How to tell the difference between a potsherd and a lump of clay. Is it about watching for right angles (indicating a manmade thing)? How did those Time Team blokes recognize tiny little... -
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I want to expand on the basics I gained from watching all those years of "Time Team".
I live in New England and our archaeology is more mythology than reasoned hypotheses.
Much of it is British/Celtic and our Orgam samples are still interpreted as scratches made from plowshares. Our land preserves information which was wiped out when the Romans took over GB....
