Open Thread for May 23, Happy World Crohn's and Colitis Day.
May 23rd is the 143rd day of the year, there are 222 days remaining.
23 is:
The 9th prime and the sum of 3 consecutive primes; 5, 7 and 11
The atomic number of Vanadium
The number of chromosomes in a human sperm or ova (haploid)
The number of times that Julius Caesar was stabbed.
The 23 enigma is the belief that most incidents and accidents, events and happenstances, and stuff, are somehow directly connected to the number 23. Robert Anton Wilson, William S. Burroughs, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (fnord), Principia discordia, etc. Like this open thread, for example.
Title 23 of the US Code is Highways
The 23rd Amendment grants the citizens of DC the right to vote in presidential elections. DC is granted the lesser of the number of electors it would have if it were a state, or the number of electors allowed to the least populous state. Currently, that number is 3, either way it is computed.
23 BCE
Was the "Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Varro".
Was allegedly when Herod the Great built a palace in Jerusalem.
Had the usual problems with a plethora of gods, goddesses, demigods, prophets, seers, priests, priestesses and suchwhat running around loose; along with all of the concomitant auguries, sacrifices, soothsaying, prophecy and other nuisances that we find throughout antiquity.
23 CE
Was the "Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus"
This was the year in which the Greek geographer Strabo finally published his "Geography", a work describing the world known to the Romans and Greeks in Emperor Augustus' day. No similar works of similar antiquity exist.
Pliny the Elder, a Roman scientist and writer, was born.
Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty overthrew Wang Mang and ended the Xin Dynasty. Restored the Han Dynasty, he did.
Same old gods and shit.
On this day in:
1430 -- Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians.
1498 -- Girolamo Savonarola was burned at the stake in Florence
1829 -- Cyrill Demian was awarded a patend on the accordion.
1844 -- On the evening of the 22nd, a merchant of Shiraz announced that he was a Prophet. He is considered a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, so Bahá'ís celebrate the 23rd as a holy day.
1934 -- The Auto-Lite strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo".
1949 -- The Federal Republic of Germany was established.
1995 -- The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1998 -- The Good Friday Agreement was accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland.
2002 -- The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol was reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2012 -- Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts.
2015 -- The Republic of Ireland legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote.
So, Adam Lambert, really?
Born this day in:
1707 -- Carl Linnaeus, a botanist, physician, and zoologist
1834 -- Carl Bloch, a painter and academic
1848 -- Otto Lilienthal, a pilot and engineer
1910 -- Artie Shaw, a clarinet player, composer, and bandleader
1920 -- Helen O'Connell, a singer
1921 -- James Blish, an author and critic
1921 -- Humphrey Lyttelton, a trumpet player and composer
1925 -- Mac Wiseman, a singer, songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys)
1928 -- Rosemary Clooney, a singer and actress
1934 -- Robert Moog, a businessman who invented the Moog synthesizer
1943 -- General Johnson, a singer, songwriter and producer (Chairmen of the Board and The Showmen)
1967 -- Philip Selway, a drummer and songwriter (Radiohead)
1973 -- Maxwell, a singer, songwriter and producer
1974 -- Jewel, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
1982 -- Tristan Prettyman, a singer,songwriter and guitarist (23)
Died this day in:
1498 -- Girolamo Savonarola, a friar and preacher
1670 -- Ferdinando II de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany
1857 -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy, a mathematician and academic
1868 -- Kit Carson, a frontiersman
1906 -- Henrik Ibsen, a director, playwright, and poet
1934 -- Clyde Barrow, a criminal
1934 -- Bonnie Parker, a criminal
1937 -- John D. Rockefeller, a criminal businessman
1945 -- Heinrich Himmler, an infamous Nazi
1994 -- Joe Pass, a guitarist and composer
2008 -- Utah Phillips, a labor organizer, singer, songwriter and poet. Also a legend of sorts.
2013 -- Hazel Hawke, the 23rd Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia. His 23rd spouse? What?
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
World Crohn's and Colitis Day
World Turtle Day
It's Turtle Day! It's Turtles all the way down! Its -
Bob Dylan??
So, for music we gots --
Artie Shaw
Helen O'Connell
Humphrey Lyttelton
Mac Wiseman
Rosemary Clooney
Robert Moog
General Johnson
Philip Selway
Maxwell
Jewel
Tristan Prettyman
Joe Pass
Utah Phillips
Artie Shaw
Helen O'Connell
Humphrey Lyttelton
Mac Wiseman
Rosemary Clooney
Robert Moog (his device)
General Johnson
Philip Selway
with Radiohead
Maxwell
Jewel
Tristan Prettyman From her first album, TwentyThree
Joe Pass
Utah Phillips (That's U Utah Phillips)
OK, it's open thread time, so go for it
Comments
GM, enhydra, OTers. Busy Week at Cuisine de AB
Been on a canning spree. So far we have...
4 pts. Orange Marmalade
4 pts. Grapefruit Marm.
4 pts. Lemon Marm.
7 1/2pts. Lime Marm.
4 pts. of Mint Jelly
Strawberries are supposed to come in this week. We may even find time to go over to Jersey to a U-pick-em strawberry farm. It's been a very long time since I did that. So much fun. The deal is you buy a tray of empty cardboard pint baskets. Then you go out into the field and eat strawberries until you almost get sick. Then you fill up your baskets, come back and pay for them. One way or another, it's going to be strawberry jam week at the Chateau.
Colitis: My nerves were so bad as a teen I had colitis for a while. TUMS - Don't leave home without them. Left Mom's forever and the colitis went away. Just a coincidence, right?
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mmmm, Marmalade.
Sure sounds good, AB. I don't can, but I love finding grapes, watermelon, and cherries in the stores now. Delicious spring/summer treats.
Probably not coincidence. There are many types of
colitis and some are definitely stress related. Even Ulcerative Colitis, the auto-immune version related to Crohn's Disease can seemingly be exacerbated by stress in some patients.
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 --
Ima Grapefruitin' Fool
1pt.
2 3/4pt.
6 1/2pt.
Got enough grapefruit marmalade to last until 2137.
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Good Morning, Please pay attention to John Crane Intv.
on Democracy Now and the article in Der Spiegel yesterday, I mentioned in yesterday's OT about John Crane, Thomas Drake, Snowden. It's all about how to protect Whistleblower. There is a new book out there and the author is also this morning on Amy's show.
Hertsgaard went to the Guardian and Der Spiegel to release this story.
Thanks for the tip
I'll try to catch Amy a little later. She's one of the best journalist around. Thanks for the heads up.
Greenwald had a new release last week of many more Snowden papers.
https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/
Plus some new info on the Drone Wars
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
These people are heroes not traitors!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This could be different
Unlike other whistleblowers, Crane is not accused of breaking the law. He doesn't have to play defense. He is accusing his superiors at the DoD Inspector General's office of breaking the law (and illegally firing him). This could finally open the door to legal repercussions for the illegal domestic surveillance.
My mother has been a classical organist
since before I was born...this was my introduction to the Moog synthesizer:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0HAWX1TSA]
Probably my favorite from the album, W. Carlos' track re-created here by Carey Meltz:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc51cnV6YJI]
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I fondly remember those "switched on" albums.
I wonder if they're still available as CDs or MP3s.
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 --
I don't know
I sure had a hard time even finding a You Tube video of the original. My mother still has the vinyl. We kids listened to those over, and over, and over. One of the Brandenburg movements was done so weirdly...magically creepy and spooky...we called it "The Monster Song". We probably wore it out.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I think so. I heard a Japanese station play them a year ago. n/t
Bob Moog
Bob Moog (pronounced to rhyme with vogue) died in Asheville, NC and that is the home of the Moog Foundation. Every year, there is the Moog Fest which promotes innovative music. It used to be held in Asheville, but I noticed that this year it is in Durham, NC.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I think there was a Moog festival in Trumansburg, NY
this weekend. Where his fabrication facility existed. Outside Ithaca, NY. I believe he was Cornell faculty. Been long enough here to be institutional memory. Early e-music. History that I am living.
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.
Got to work closely with Bob Moog for a couple of years
when he was employed as Chief Scientist for Kurzweil Music Systems in '85-'86. Matter of fact, he was the one that sponsored my application for membership in the IEEE. What a great guy- I really enjoyed that period of time. He was a walking encyclopedia of electronica!
He liked to be called "U. Utah Phillips"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR200805...
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
There's a reference to that buried in the OT -
The header for his music section:
I once met him at a small gathering at an acquaintance's pad in Mendocino.
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 --
I got to meet him too
...in Athens GA many years ago.
I always enjoy your number fun, el. Couldn't add anything interesting to 23. You mentioned it is our haploid number of chromosomes, or numbers of pairs of chromosomes. However it led me to thinking, last week there was so many aspects of 16, not so many for 23. Are some numbers more powerful than others? Seems some numbers may lack quantity, but have more qualities? Anyway, I enjoy your number play. Thanks for the series.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I can't recall offhand if 23 is one of them, but many numbers
have page after page of abstruse qualities that most folks have absolutely never heard of. There are Mersenne Primes, Einstein Primes, Twin Primes, Sophie-Germain Primes and Safe Primes. (and many more). There are perfect numbers, fortunate numbers, p-smooth numbers and all kinds of other whatnot. I try to stick more or less to stuff that a goodly number of readers might possibly have heard of.
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 --
Evidently, you have not read the Illuminati Trilogy.
If you had, you would know more than you could possibly want to know about 23.
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.
Actually, I have, but I've forgotten most of it, no doubt
as a result of having seen the fnords. I think there is a reference in the OT above:
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 --
I've read it, too.
But heck, that was way back in the 70s, I think. A good read like da Vinci Code and Hitchhiker's Guide. But not enjoyable enough for a second read.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
I wish I had. I heard him a few times, on the radio
I suppose, but I never got out to see him.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
This was pure happenstance. As a result of
a long series of incidents and accidents (as the song goes) I wound up hitch hiking up to Mendo whereupon I stopped in to see a casual acquaintance who was a friend of my brother at their job to see if I could get a ride out to a nearby campground when her shift ended. I would up getting invited out to her place to join a handful of locals and Utah Phillips for an evening of drinking cheap wine and listening to Utah Phillips.
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 --
Those are the best!
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
John Oliver
I haven't seen this posted at c99. It is a great take on the craziness of primaries and caucuses.
It is about 15 minutes if you've got the time.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
the 23 enigma
is a corollary of the Law of Fives, which is never wrong.
Crohn's and Colitis
I have two bosses and one has Crohn's and the other has UC. My "gut health" was almost destroyed due to NSAIDS like Naproxen in just 5 years. Getting healthier since I quit NSAIDS and quit listening to the pill peddlers. Which is why I now work in a mmj dispensary.
Not scientific, but I'd have to guess that probably 80% of our recreational customers are actually medicating with it or using it as a means to get off big pharm. Smoking is just one way to medicate. Many who manage their pain, symptoms, cancer, diseases and such usually use feco/eco oils - fullly extracted cannabis oil, tinctures and medibles. So much we just don't know yet.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
I technically count as a "Recreational" customer
Because it costs about 400 bucks to get "Medical" status.
Fortunately though, I'm fine with flowers. Hell, If I had one more room, I'd grow my own.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Marijuana, Oregon: Welcome to the Future
We were shopping a couple of days ago, at this sort of newish place which combines 5 markets. It's on Southeast Sandy Blvd. here in Portland. I took my latte over to a table while shaz did the actual shopping.
Looking outside I saw a billboard and wow....I felt like I'd walked into a 60s movie about the future. As you all know, marijuana is now legal here. There are some restrictions but basically it's ok. Anyway, think about a 60s fantasy about what such a billboard of the future might look like, when marijuana would become another product, to be advertised in the style of the day. Well there it was....if I had one of them thar phones that takes pictures I'd upload it but instead I'll have to describe it.
Two photos, one of a cup, the other a bowl (on a white background). Of course they're kind of yuppie-ish ceramics, the kind you might have in your yuppie household, both filled to overflowing with the dope. Above them the text reads "Fill Your Bowl With the Best". Beneath them we see "Eastwood Cannabis sold here". I guess there's a dope store right below or next to the billboard.
For some reason the thing that struck me was the fact that there was a slogan.
So, folks retaliated against me for my snub...
by not informing me of the death of my Grandmother on Friday. Thanks mom. Had to hear from my aunt, and only because she's the executor of my grandmother's will.
Unfortunately this has the potential to get VERY ugly if my mom decides to push it. Grandma had a house on the coast in Carmel, that's worth at least a million for the view alone. (Right next to the Highland's Inn, so you get the idea...)
I've already decided if Grandma left me anything, but it comes down to a fight with my family to get it, I'm going to walk away. I don't need the stress.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Good day, EL and 99%'ers!
Nice day here in western NC. Sunny, breezy and with highs in the 70's. Unfortunately, we are looking toward the low 80's later this week. One thing about this area is that it never stays hot for very long.
Bob Swern had two diaries over at the other place on why Bill Clinton should not be anywhere near our economy. One was based upon Thomas Frank's recent article in the Guardian and the other was by Yves Smith. BBB tipped and recommended both!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy