December 12, 2016 Open Thread; Bahai Feast of Questions
December 12 is the 346th day of the year. There are 19 days left.
Today's number is 12
12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, making it a great base for a number system.
The base 12 number system is known an duodecimal or sometimes dozenal.
12 is the sum of two primes, 5 & 7
A polygon with 12 sides is a dodecagon.
A polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron.
Cuboids (cubes & rectangular prisms) have 12 edges
Regular icosahedrons have 12 vertices.
12 is magnesium
A year has 12 months
The 24 hour day is generally broken up into 2 - 12 hour segments, am & pm
There are 12 inches in a foot.
There are twelve basic hues in the color wheel
In craps, 12, is a double 6. It is called Boxcars and is craps (loses or craps out) on a come out roll.
Humans have 12 pairs of ribs
There are 12 Federal Reserve Districts
There were 12 kniggits of the round table
There are 12 signs of the zodiac
There were 12 Angry Men
The 12 bar blues is a popular musical format
12th Night is a comedy by Shakespeare
Title 12 of the US Code is BANKS AND BANKING
12 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Quirinius
Emperor Augustus was declared Pontifex Maximus.
Halley's Comet appeared.
12 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito
Caligula was born
On this day in:
1098 -- Crusaders of the 1st Crusade massacred the inhabitants of Ma'arrat al-Numan and then ate them.
1897 -- Brazil's first planned city was founded.
1901 -- Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal
1917 -- Boys Town, a home for "wayward" boys, was founded in Nebraska.
1948 -- Fourteen Scots Guards slaughtered 24 unarmed Malayan civilians & burned their village
1963 -- Kenya gained its independence
1964 -- Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of Kenya.
1991 -- The Russian Federation became independent of the USSR.
2000 -- The Supremes released the Bush v. Gore decision
Born this day in:
1745 -- John Jay, jurist and politician
1805 -- William Lloyd Garrison, journalist and activist, founder of The Liberator
1821 -- Gustave Flaubert, author and playwright
1863 -- Edvard Munch, painter and illustrator
1915 -- Frank Sinatra, singer, actor, and producer
1918 -- Joe Williams, singer and pianist (not big joe williams)
1938 -- Connie Francis, singer and actress
1940 -- Dionne Warwick, singer
1943 -- Grover Washington, Jr., singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
1944 -- Rob Tyner, singer, songwriter and bass player
1945 -- Tony Williams, drummer, composer, and producer
1953 -- Bruce Kulick, guitarist and songwriter
1957 -- Sheila E., singer, songwriter, drummer, and actress
1972 -- Hank Williams III, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Died this day in:
1889 -- Robert Browning, poet and playwrigh
1921 -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer and academic, made Cepheid variables into standard candles
1951 -- Mildred Bailey, singer
1985 -- Ian Stewart, keyboard player and manager, co-founder of The Rolling Stones
1987 -- Enrique Jorrin, violinist and composer, cha cha dude
1996 -- Vance Packard, journalist, author, and critic
1999 -- Joseph Heller, novelist, short story writer, and playwright
2007 -- Ike Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Bahai Feast of Questions
Kenyab Independence Day
So, for music
Frank Sinatra
Joe Williams
Connie Francis
Dionne Warwick
Grover Washington, Jr.
Rob Tyner
Tony Williams
Bruce Kulick
Shiela E.
Hank Williams III
Mildred Bailey
Ian Stewart
Enrique Jorrin
Ike Turner
Frank Sinatra
Joe Williams
Connie Francis
Dionne Warwick
Grover Washington, Jr.
Rob Tyner
Tony Williams
Bruce Kulick
Shiela E.
Hank Williams III
Mildred Bailey
Ian Stewart
Enrique Jorrin
Ike Turner
OK, what's on your minds?
Bonus tune(s):
Tony Williams with Miles Davis Quintet
Comments
Half-light outside.
The new several inches of snow are still quite blue, indigo. Relatively warm, 31F. I have wandered into hate speech on FB, not a good start to Monday. But it's from OZ, not here. Should it be comforting that it's an ocean and hours of flights to get to?
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.
Oz is indeed far away, though hate, like everything else
except peace, love and sanity, is getting globalized.
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 --
Morning el
We won't even go to the metric system - doubt we'll make it to base 12 no matter how much sense it makes!
I never knew about King Arthur's kniggits...and he had a dozen of them? I saw Arthur's hypothetical grave once (in Glasonbury)
And this (Glasonbury Tor) is supposed to be Avalon -
Thanks as always for the number fun!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Ah yes, site of the festival celebrating the suspected
underlying reality masked by the myth. Ah well, beats names like Aethelread (with many added diacritical marks) or some such.
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 --
A dozen dozen
is just plain gross.
Last night I completed my fifth dozenth year. Everyone flip me the bird.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Congrats on the magical six zero, another truly great
number base. including both 12 and 5 (hemi-decimal that it is).
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 --
Happy birthday ghotiphaze
and here's to many more.
Howdy
Just thought I'd make my first post here, joined yesterday. Looking forward to getting to know everyone.
But that's all we do: strike attitudes and imitate poses. We merely play at being Romans, and deceive ourselves, sometimes, into accepting the imitation for the reality. -- Robert Silverberg, Roma Eterna
Welcome and thanks for dropping in. I suspect that you'll
like the relative freedom here as compared to Daily Kos, and I suspect yu'll recognize some of our folks who migrated from there, as I'm sure I recognize your moniker.
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 --
Good morning!
If you want to sip on the salty tears of a lifelong Clinton sycophant bitter that he's not getting his dream job in the West Wing, go to Peter Daou's twitter feed. He's having a meltdown over the Russians.
Thanks for dropping in, but I think I'll pass on the
spectacle. Sometimes I am up for shooting down the propagandists, but I have enough pity for the true believers to let them continue to live out their sorry-assed fantasies.
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 --
Saw a good show this weekend "Dell and Dawg"
I saw David Grisman and Dell McCoury at http://empac.rpi.edu/ Saturday night. They have been playing together for 50 years. Their first performance was at http://www.rpi.edu/ in 1966. They added a banjo and bass player for the second half of the show and played a bunch of the songs they had played at that first show there. It was truly something special to see and hear.
(edited so the links would show)
I know the perfect banjo player to accompany them,
but, alas, he's dead. Ah well.
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 --
They noted that the banjo player who was with them 1966 died.
We need to volunteer Bisbonian.
Good Morning, everyone.
Happy Monday!
12 days of Christmas.
12 eggs in a carton.
Thank you for the Open Thread, el.
Good morning OLinda, Thanks for dropping by.
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 --
Good morning, folks!
Happy 12/12!
Have a beautiful day!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Good Morning, RA, have a good one yourself.
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 --
Ian Stewart, the Pete Best of the Stones
heard here playing organ. Which would be worse? I guess Pete. Pete got kicked out, watched his old bandmates become rich and famous and they never talked to him again. Ian Stewart, deemed to have too big a jaw and thus not allowed in the photos, was demoted to roadie and session man. So he was there, behind the scenes, while his mates were being pop stars. I don't know. They're both weird stories.
Peter Green is definitely a weird story.
So he subs for Clapton in Mayall's band, then founds his own band that he names after the drummer and bass player. He leaves himself out of the name entirely even though he plays lead guitar, sings lead and writes a lot of the music.
So Fleetwood Mac starts being successful, and they run into the Grateful Dead, then Owsley. Peter Green, who grew up in a Jewish family, has a religious experience and begins wearing a crucifix. He takes Jesus's advice to the rich young man very much to heart, and tells Fleetwood that it's wrong for them to be making money from their music. Fleetwood informs Green that Green can do what he likes, but Mick will keep the money and not feel bad about it. (Could "Oh Well" be about this?)
Green drifts away from Fleetwood Mac and plays with other people. He also refuses to take money from work done with Fleetwood Mac, and decides to emphasize the point by showing up at his former manager's office with a shotgun because he doesn't want any royalty checks. Green ends up arrested and in a mental institution for this. (Naturally. Is there anything more insane in this society than not wanting to be rich? If he had taken the shotgun to get money, that would have been boys being boys.)
Green is released eventually and still plays, at least up until a few years ago.
[video:https://youtu.be/wKjfjO2Y1H4]
Thanks for the tale & the tune.
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 --
Conspiracy Theory time. Get
your tinfoil hat. Been catching glimpses here and there of the Fleeing Nazis series on one of the cable channels. I never seem to catch an entire episode (but if I could I would), but from what I can gather the series is about Hitler's apparent escape from the last days of WWII-Europe. They - show investigators - portend Hitler and a bunch of his top tier escaped to Argentina.
Now, for what it's worth, I believe Hitler offed himself in the bunker, his body soon after dowsed in gasoline and set on fire. But... but that still leaves a whole bunch of his top tier that have never been accounted for. They most certainly could have escaped to Argentina.
And maybe even the US Rockies (as the show suggests). Something about the Rockies reminding Hitler of his beloved Alps (assuming - as any conspiracy theory must - that Hitler was still breathing circa the mid '50s). I don't believe so, but it doesn't matter if his top tier carried on with the Fourth Reich, and moved operations to the U.S. Rockies - say sometime in the mid '60s. See where this is going? Didn't think so, but if the Fourth Reich has been here since the mid '60s (likely with US Gov't help), I believe we're now electing their kids and grandkids to public office, the Senate, Congress, and now the White House. Talk me down.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
We know, or knew, back in my day, that the US brought
assorted Nazis here. Geheln,some of his top aides, von Braun, etc. We also know/knew that others made it to Argentina, some with the help of Pope Pius XII, as did some of the Ustase'. Hitler, however, would've almost certainly died long-long ago from whatever was causing all of his post 1942 neurophysiological grief and issues.
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 --
yeah, I agree.
Hitler likely never made it out of the bunker. And, if by some miracle he did, he would have died long before 1950. Just thinking out loud that it seems like since G. Dubya was selected by the Supremes that this country more and more is being ruled by Nazis of the Fourth Reich.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Good morning caucus people
Thanks for the #!2 EL. My rash is leaving the premises. Yippie! I feel good as I knew that I would. Maybe backing off off the bizzarro internet partisan politics helped me heal. I sure like Ike Turner's music even though he was a right sexist woman abusing pig. James Brown was an artist who I could never quite appreciate as he was a real creepy dude even without knowing his backstory. I guess first hearing Ike with the Tina and the Ikettes enabled me to appreciate his talent. It's that old dilemma of can you separate the artist from his or her art? I don't like Wagner's music and I wonder if it's because a lot of it congers up the Valkyries to me. Have a great day everyone.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole....
it may indeed be that PP was never called asshole, but
the reason certainly was not because he was not an asshole.
which is something to think about.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Thanks for stopping by & providing the Ike & TIna. I know
what your mean about Ike. The whole blues art form is riddled with sexism, creepiness and misogyny, but then again ...
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 --