November 28, 2016 Open Thread; Hawaiian Independence Day
November 28 is the 332th day of the year. There are 33 days left.
Today's number is 28
28 is 4 x 7 (more later)
28 is the sum of the first (7) natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28
28 is also the sum of the first (5) non-primes. 1+4+6+8+9 = 28
28 is also the sum of the first (5) primes. 2+3+5+7+11 = 28
28 is the only known number that can can be expressed as all 3 of the above sums.
For example 36 is also the sum of the first natural numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8),
but not a sum of first primes or first non-primes. 10 is the sum of the first
primes (2+3+5) and natural numbers (1+2+3+4) but not the first non-primes (1+4+6).
28 is the atomic mass of Silicon
28 is the atomic number of Nickel
28 is the number of days in the average human menstrual cycle.
I28 is the number of days in February in a normal year
28 is the number of dominoes in a standard domino set
28 is the number of grams in an ounce
Holy Shit, Batman, 28 is 4 x 7! Accordingly, x/28, whenever x = 4n, is the same as n/7 which gets us back to the freaky repeating decimal (0.142857) discussed on the 7th, the 14th and the 21st. The decimal part of n/7 where n is a natural number not a multiple of 999,999 or 7 is the remainder x 0.142857 repeated on out to infinity. n/14 has similar rules, as does n/21, and n/28 which is, for example ...
1/28 = 0.0357142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely
2/28 = 1/14 = 0.07142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely
3/28 = 0.107142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely
4/28 = 1/7 = 0.142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely
5/28 = 0.17857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely
Title 28 of the US Code is JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE Study it well, young grasshopper.
28 BCE was the Year of the First Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa
The earliest dated record of a sunspot by Chinese astronomers was on May 10, 28.
28 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar
On this day in:
1520 -- Ferdinand Magellan's micro-fleet became the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
1660 -- Twelve Britons founded the Royal Society.
1811 -- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered.
1814 -- The Times (in London) became the first newspaper printed by automatic, steam-powered presses.
1821 -- Panama split from Spain and joined Gran Colombia.
1843 -- Hawaiian Independence Day; recognized by both the UK & France as an independent nation. Heh.
1893 -- New Zealand let women vote in a national election, becoming the first country to do so.
1909 -- Sergei Rachmaninoff debuted his Piano Concerto No. 3
1919 -- Lady Astor was elected to bew the first woman to sit in the House of Commons.
1958 -- Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon became autonomous republics.
1960 -- Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1967 -- The first pulsar was discovered
1971 -- Fred Quilt, a Tsilhqot'in First Nation leader suffered fatal abdominal injuries at the hands of the RCMP.
1972 -- Last Tango executions in Paris were carried out by guillotine
1989 -- The Czech Velvet Revolution
1991 -- South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia.
Born this day in:
1628 -- John Bunyan, English preacher, theologian, and author
1681 -- Jean Cavalier, Camisard (Huguenot) rebel leader
1757 -- William Blake, poet and painter, not much of a speller
1820 -- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, economist, and journalist
1866 -- Henry Bacon, architect, designed the Lincoln Memorial
1881 -- Stefan Zweig, author, playwright, and journalist
1895 -- Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor
1904 -- Nancy Mitford, journalist and author
1908 -- Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist
1910 -- Elsie Quarterman, ecologist and academic
1929 -- Berry Gordy, Jr., songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records
1932 -- Gato Barbieri, saxophonist and composer
1936 -- Celin Romero, guitarist
1943 -- Randy Newman, singer, songwriter and pianist who disliked short people
1944 -- Rita Mae Brown, author, poet, and screenwriter
1944 -- R. B. Greaves, singer & songwriter
1948 -- Dick Morris, political consultant, journalist, and author, pushed traingulation & 3rd way assholery
1949 -- Paul Shaffer, singer, keyboard player, and bandleader, Letterman foil
1950 -- Russell Alan Hulse, physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
1962 -- Jon Stewart, comedian, actor, and television host
Died this day in:
1680 -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, sculptor and painter
1680 -- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, painter and architect
1694 -- Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet and scholar, wrote awesome haiku
1794 -- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, general, instrumental in creating Continental Army
1859 -- Washington Irving, short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, pumpkin head
1870 -- Frederic Bazille, soldier and impressionist painter
1872 -- Mary Somerville, astronomer, mathematician, and author; first female appointed to Royal Astronomical Society
1939 -- James Naismith, physician and educator, credited with inventing basketball
1954 -- Enrico Fermi, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1960 -- Richard Wright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
1994 -- Jerry Rubin, Yippie founder turned stockbroker, businessman and capitalist sell-out
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Panamanian Independence Day
So, for music
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Jose Iturbi
Barry Gordy
Gato Barbieri
Celin Romero
Randy Newman
R. B. Greaves
Paul Shaffer
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Jose Iturbi
Barry Gordy - later, below
Gato Barbieri
Celin Romero
Randy Newman
R. B. Greaves
Paul Shaffer (and The World's Most Dangerous Band)
OK, what's on your minds?
While we're at it, just for grins, a hat tip to Barry Gordy:
Comments
I've seen two of today's birthdays in performance.
When I was a child, my parents took me to see Jose Iturbi at the Music Hall in KC. My mother excitedly took me backstage to meet Iturbi while my dad waited at the exit door. While we were backstage, another Iturbi fan, Harry Truman, shook hands with my dad as Truman left the building.
I saw Randy Newman at a bar a block off of Harvard Square during the height of the busing crisis in Boston. Newman was on the "Good Old Boys" tour, and played "Rednecks." Both my friend with whom I attended and I were from not from New England but from former slave states. Both of us knew the song.
As Newman went through the early verses, the crowd was laughing uproariously at the "college men from LSU" who "went in dumb, come out dumb too." Then Newman got to the last verse:
There was stunned silence from the audience. No one clapped, and Newman simply went on to the next song, no doubt having experienced the same reaction in other centers of enlightenment.
Sometimes silence is the perfect reaction, it means that
the audience is deeply affected, dumbstruck, suddenly realizing and thinking, etc.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hawaiian Independence Day — Lā Kūʻokoʻa
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hshk/events/event/la-kuokoa-celebration/
http://oiwi.tv/oiwitv/la-kuokoa/
http://unpo.org/article/1548
First came the missionaries; then came the businessmen; then
came the US Marines("we honor your service") and then the people of the nation of Hawai'i lost their independence and became an American colony. It's important to remember that Hawai'i had treaties with such countries as Russia and Japan and was recognized as a national entity on a par with the other signatories of the treaties.
The former independent citizens had their land stolen; they themselves became marginalized economically and politically; and became an ignored minority in their own country.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
That's the 'Merkin way. How else are we gonna spread
predatory capitalismdemocracy.That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
After two single-vehicle encounters with trees on my driveway
and then a branch falling on the roof of my parked car in the driveway, I have received a letter From Allstate cancelling my car insurance as of January. Humph. So they will lose my homeowners' insurance business as well. I have never been canned by an insurance company. Makes me huffy.
I recalled Randy Newman married to a McGarrigle sister, wrong, that was Kate to Lowden Wainwright. Their son Rufus Wainwright, also a singer, accepted the invite of Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard, to father her child. He was affiliated with someone else, but they had a daughter, born after Kate's death in 2010. See what rabbit holes I can do on Wikipedia? I find the latter story sweet, childhood friends from Montreal, hooking up on the advice of his mother.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
That's cold, especially since their rates are based on assuming
that a certain number of accidents and multiple accident insureds will happen. Hope you get a good replacement.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hoping for rain today
There's a good chance we'll get a rain today for the first time in three months. I sure hope that's right.
Thanks for the number fun el
Here's a song - "Twenty eight"
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PqGrfdAw90]
Hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good luck on the rain - we've had rain off & on for over a week
& things have greened back up now.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
North-East Aleppo has fallen
The bloody four year-long battle for Aleppo is almost over.
Thanks for the good news. Let's hope they hold it. That is
a war that rally needs to go away.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Looks like we here in western NC are getting rain too!
This is very good news as crews continue to battle to contain the Pinnacle Mountain fire just over the border from my county (Transylvania County NC). This fire which began as mishandled campfire in Table Rock state park has now burned over 10,000 acres and is still only 50% contained. Rain is predicted for later today, tonight and tomorrow. Hopefully the rain will help the crews control this wild fire.
edited to correct bad link
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
To have been
in Dave's audience that night for JB! Wow!
Long ago and far away.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march