“Put the Blame on Mame” is a song by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, originally written for the classic film noir Gilda (1946) in which it was sung by the title character, played by Rita Hayworth with the singing voice of Anita Kert Ellis dubbed in, while Glen Ford looked and fumed.

Anita Kert Ellis has a Wikipedia page in which she is named Anita Ellis, nee Kert, that describes the behind the scenes of Gilda:

For her work in Gilda, her role in the film was by greatly underplayed and even kept secret by the producers who wanted fans to believe Hayworth was the singer. They went as far as to put Rita Hayworth’s name in the credit of the soundtrack instead of Anita Ellis. Hayworth also bore some resentment towards the studio for not allowing her to sing her own parts and the embarrassment it caused when she was asked to sing by fans who thought she was the voice of Gilda. There were claims made that Hayworth had sung the acoustic guitar version  of ‘Put the Blame on Mame’ but this was untrue. Ellis dubbed all of the vocal parts since both their voices could not be used, Ellis’s singing voice was too unlike Hayworth’s for Hayworth’s voice to be used in different parts of the film.

The iNews newspaper of 19 July 2022 reports on page 34 that elephant tusks and pangolin scales had been seized in Malaysia

Malaysian authorities said yesterday they seized a container of African elephant tusks, pangolin scales and other animal skulls and bones estimated to be worth 80 million ringgit (£15m).
The Customs Department said in a statement it discovered the contraband hidden behind sawn timber following checks on 10 July on a ship coming from Africa. This included 6,000kg of elephant tusks, 100kg of pangolin scales, 25kg of rhino horns and 300kg of animal skulls, bones and horns, it said.
Investigations are ongoing on the importer and shipping agent.
Ivory tusks, rhino horns and pangolin scales are believed by some to have medicinal properties and are in high demand in Asia.
The World Wildlife Fund said the illegal wildlife trade threatens the survival of many species and has led to a 60 per cent decline in population sizes of vertebrate species.

I looked up how much an average elephant tusk weighs, and its 23kg. So 46kg per elephant – which means that someone had killed 130 elephants to get that haul.

And around sixteen rhinos at 1.5 to 2.5kg per horn.

There is a huge variation in the number of scales on pangolins, varying with species, and an average of 0.47 kg per animal is very approximate, but let’s say 200 animals killed to make the weight of scales found.

Is that a lot? The United Nations page on pangolin scales shows that 69.3 tons of pangolin scales were seized in 2019. That’s 147,447 pangolins.

Given the temperature outside today, I looked up the definition of cooking, OU Torah says “The Torah forbids cooking on Shabbat. “Cooking” means making food edible by heating it to above 120° F (49° C).

Cooking includes:
You may not make soft food hard (such as cooking an egg).
You may not make a hard food soft (such as cooking meat).
You may not, in any manner, heat (to 120° F or above ) liquids that you will drink or foods with liquids-such as sauces and gravies – whether fully cooked or not.

A hypnagogic state is the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep.

A hypnopompic state is that which is the transitional state that occurs before you wake up.

During hypnagogia, people see what are referred to as hypnagogic hallucinations.

Old Posts Rescued

May 31 2012

Biggest holders of US debt are 1. Social Security Trust Funds ($2.67 trillion) and the U.S. Federal Reserve ($1.659 trillion) 

February 23 2011

Moles can dig 15 feet per hour in good soils

February 22 2011

Radiation emitted after just 50 minutes on a mobile phone increases the activity in brain cells

December 15 2010

Japan’s government agreed Tuesday to continue contributing $2.2 billion a year toward the cost of stationing American troops in the country. Under the agreement with the United States, Japan’s share will remain at the current 188 billion yen ($2.2 billion) through March 2016.

Novermber 19 2010

A Conservative peer has resigned as David Cameron’s enterprise advisor after claiming that most Britons have “never had it so good”

Sometime in 2010 

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Athens, Georgia, have reported for the first time that several species of Aspergillus niger, or black aspergilli, are capable of infecting corn and peanuts as endophytes.

The researchers also showed that, under laboratory conditions, these species produced mycotoxins that can cause Aspergillosis – an infection that gets in via the lungs and compromises various organs, particularly in people with suppressed immune systems, such as those who have had transplants.

According to an article in Quartz, about the series Miami Vice, Miami has one of the largest concentrations of Art Deco buildings in the world.

‘One of the largest’ – which cities are in the running for the largest?

The Architectural Digest lists these cities and doesn’t mention Miami at all except in the section on Mumbai where is states “Estimated by some to have the world’s largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami…”

Napier NZ
Shanghai
Mumba
Ashville NC
Durban
Casablanca
Melbourne
Cincinnnati
Valencia
Perth