Chris' Potato Salad Spanish Tortilla

Chris made an oil and vinaigrette potato salad (steamed potatoes (sliced before steaming), green onions, olive oil, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper) for Fathers Day. With the leftovers, she made a 'Spanish Tortilla"

To give you an idea of quantities, here is the list of ingredients for a Spanish Tortilla posted on the NY Times website:

INGREDIENTS

1-1/4 lbs.       potatoes
   1     each     onion
   8     each     eggs 
1/4     cup      olive oil

Chris used her leftover potato salad, in which the potatoes had already been cooked. The quantity was enough to fill the pie plate as shown above. Here is her process:

PROCESS

Arrange potato salad in pie plate
Heat @ 325F for 20 minutes
Beat eggs with salt and pepper (quantity based on personal taste)
Pour egg mixture over potatoes and let sit for 10 to 15 minutes
Bake @ 300F for 15 to 20 minutes

CHRIS' OTHER RECIPES:

Bacon Broccoli Frittata

USA COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Age

Using data from CDC's Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Sex, Age, and State and COVID Data Tracker (CDC publishes a weekly update on Wednesdays and the data date is shown on the graph. 

Number of people by age group who have contracted and died from COVID-19

Age group	Population	Cases	Cases per 100,000 age group population	Deaths	Deaths per 100,000 age group population
0-17	73,776,684	4,023,705	5,454	532	0.7
18-44	117,055,222	11,993,200	10,246	16,018	14
45-64	83,904,335	7,519,955	8,963	106,345	127
65-74	30,492,316	2,023,133	6,635	132,992	436
75+	21,938,877	1,648,079	7,512	340,853	1,554
TOTALS:	327,167,434	27,208,072		596,740

COVID-19 case and death percentages in tabular form:

Age group	% of Population	% of total cases	% of total deaths	% death / age group cases
0-17	22.6%	14.8%	0.1%	0.01%
18-44	35.8%	44.1%	2.7%	0.1%
45-64	25.6%	27.6%	17.8%	1.4%
65-74	9.3%	7.4%	22.3%	6.6%
75+	6.7%	6.1%	57.1%	20.7%
TOTALS:	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

One of the issues that has been raised during the pandemic is how to determine the 'true' number of people that have had COVID-19 and, consequently, how many have died from the disease. The BBC has published an article, Coronavirus, What is the true death toll of the pandemic?, which illustrates this conundrum.

BBC graph showing the reported Coronavirus deaths and "excess" deaths.

Here is the CDC's analysis of data illustrating excess deaths due to COVID-19 :

Graph used in Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19

ANIMATION: elongated inbetweens

On page 96 of his book, The Animator's Survival Kit, Richard Willams introduces elongated inbetweens. The pounding on a door is one example he uses.  In addition to including an elongated inbetween (Drawing 2, below), he also includes a couple of different timings for the animation.

Here are the three drawings used:

Here is the animation included the two extremes (Drawings 1 and 3) shot on twos:

Drawings 13 13 13

The elongated inbetween is included in the next animation and it and the extremes are shot on ones:

Drawings 123 123 123

The last animation, the inbetweens are shot on ones; the extremes are shot on twos:

Drawings 1 23 21 23 21 23 2

early animations

Here are the beginnings, hopefully, of my journey into animation.  They were inspired by Marisa Lewis' facebook group, Daily Sketching Workout (DSW).

DSW: a creature that only eats . . .

DSW: a waterproof outfit

DSW: finding a coded message

DSW: a letter sealed with wax

DSW: optical illusion

Doing these has made me aware of how little I know about animation, so I'm endeavoring to read Richard Williams' book, The Animator's Survival Kit.