Monday Open Thread; April 30 is International Jazz Day


April 30 is the 120th day of the year, there are 245 days left
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Setting Orange, Discord 47, 3184 YOLD
(for the discordians amongst us)


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Today's number is 30

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30 is
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30 is the sum of the first four square numbers: 1+4+9+16
30 = 5 x 6; half of the base for the decimal system x half of the base for the duodecimal system = half of the base for the Sexagesimal system (Sumeria, Babylonia). Distributive law at work. There is a lot here but I won't get into it.
30 is zinc
30 is reporter and editor code for end of story
30 is the minimum age to be a US Sentor

30 seconds over Tokyo was a book about the World War II "Doolittle Raid" written by Major Ted William Lawson which was also made into a movie

M30 is a globular cluster in the constellation Capricorn

There were 30 uprights in Stonhenge's Sarsen Circle

There are 30 variations in Bach's Goldgerg Variations

.30 caliber was both a machine gun and a carabine used by the US military

.30-30 and .30-06 were historically significant weapons (a carabine & a rifle)

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Title 30 of the US Code isMINERAL LANDS AND MINING

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30 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Crassus
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian, aka Augustus, became Roman Consul for the fourth time, captured Alexandria and annexed Ancient Egypt to the Roman Republic.
Cleopatra comitted suicide and Ptolemy XV Caesarion was executed, which ended the Ptolemaic dynasty, the last dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII, Ptolemy Caesar, Marcus Antonius Antyllus, and Hyrcanus II, king of Judea all died.
Eventual king of the Marcomanni, Maroboduus, was born.

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30 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Longinus
Phaedrus translated Aesop's fables
Nerva, an eventual Roman Emperor, and Poppaea Sabina were born
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On this day in:

1492 -- Spain gave Columbus a commission of exploration.
1598 -- Juan de Onate made a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.
1598 -- Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes
1789 -- Washington took the oath of office as President of the US
1838 -- Nicaragua bailed on the Central American Federation.
1871 -- The Camp Grant massacre went down
1897 -- J. J. Thomson announced his discovery of the electron
1900 -- Hawaii was made a US territory ruled by Sanford B. Dole
1904 -- The Saint Louis World's Fair opened, Louis
1905 -- Albert Einstein wrote his thesis - "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions".
1927 -- The first federal prison for women opened, in W. WA.
1939 -- The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opened
1945 -- Hitler committed suicide
1945 -- Soviet troops liberated Stalag Luft I releasing roughly 9000 US and British airmen.
1948 -- The OAS was formed
1963 -- The Bristol Bus Boycott took place
1966 -- The Church of Satan was formed
1975 -- Saigon fell and Duong Van Minh officially surrendered
1993 -- CERN announced that Web protocols would be free
2004 -- U.S. media released photos US troops abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, military and government officials feigned shock and surprise

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Born this day in:

1777 -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and physicist
1866 -- Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, dentist
1877 -- Alice B. Toklas, memoir writer, cookbook author
1896 -- Reverend Gary Davis, singer and guitarist
1910 -- Levi Celerio, pianist, violinist, and composer
1916 -- Robert Shaw, conductor
1917 -- Bea Wain, singer
1921 -- Roger L. Easton, co-inventor of the GPS
1923 -- Percy Heath, bassist
1925 -- Johnny Horton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1934 -- Jerry Lordan, singer and songwriter
1938 -- Larry Niven, author and screenwriter
1943 -- Bobby Vee, pop singer and songwriter
1945 -- Mimi Farin±a, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist
1947 -- Finn Kalvik, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1948 -- Wayne Kramer, singer, guitarist and songwriter
1953 -- Merrill Osmond, singer, bassist and Osmond
1969 -- Paulo Jr., bass player
1976 -- Amanda Palmer, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1981 -- Justin Vernon, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter
1982 -- Drew Seeley, singer, songwriter and dancer

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Died this day in:

0065 -- Lucan, poet
1883 -- Edouard Manet, painter
1900 -- Casey Jones, engineer
1936 -- A. E. Housman, poet
1945 -- Adolf Hitler, nazi
1983 -- Muddy Waters, singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, seminal chicago bluesman
1989 -- Sergio Leone, director, producer, and screenwriter
2016 -- Daniel Berrigan, peacenik, activist and priest

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
International Jazz Day
Global Day of Prayer (Western Christianity, US Congress)
Beltane (North)
Samhain (South)
Walpurgis Night

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Reverend Gary Davis

Percy Heath

Johnny Horton

Bobby Vee

Mimi Farina

Amanda Palmer

Casey Jones

Uncle Muddy


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picture Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947] (LOC); Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.; Library of Congress

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The Rose Breasted Grossbeaks are passing through.

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There are five males and 2 females on the feeders now. The scarlet tanagers are also passing through filling the woods with their song. The summer tanagers reside with us and they've moved in too. Hope you all are having fun birding this spring!

...and this evening I hope you....
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout Thanks for the cheerful news and the mental images it brings. A most happy Beltane to you too, thanks for the great pic.

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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 --

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@Lookout

You are lucky to have all those Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and some Scarlet Tanagers! Out west here at 99.6 W. we are lucky to get one of the Grosbeaks each spring, and a Scarlet maybe every few years. Lots when we lived in Jersey though, birds so amazingly beautiful they will make someone see why you watch birds. We have nesting Summer Tanager around the yard, and Painted Buntings. I live for spring migration and breeding season. Fall is great if you are on a coast or major river/lake, but at a random inland site not so much. Just had my first
Cuckoo today (Yeller-bills here). Bird on.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

and now I find it has absolutely no fixable parts because of course. And the hardware store takes no returns without the original packaging that I already recycled. Caveat emptor, haha! I'd rather have a bag of groceries. Edited to add another Emily Litella: it is unbroken again, I tore it apart and rewired it so there is no switch. Speaking of recycling...

The new garbage service nearly destroyed my little can last pickup, ripped out the insert and left the shell. I called their customer service number, a robot eventually answered and told me the message box had not been set up by the user yet. wtf go teamsters

I have terrible karma here, there is death all around, everything is broken. Yes, it is still beauty on the outside, some preserved for those who can afford to visit. I wish I was just visiting, that would be cool. This would be a nice place to visit.

those who buy are crapified
no crap no peace
there is no switch

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@eyo
to suggest hotwiring around the switch, but I see from your edit that you did that. Consider getting a switchable outlet adapter for safety's sake.

Maybe call whomever hired the trash company and leave a message with them for them to forward.

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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 --

@enhydra lutris thanks, I have switched outlet strips everywhere, and I always unplug appliances when not in use. Hotplates scare the hell out of me. They are dangerous right out of the box, I guess that is why this one had an extra switch, it still turns off at the thermostat dial, which is not electronic and that makes me happy. It will never break until the little ceramic thingies or the metal wears out. Gosh I love analog stuff, more and more.

I'll keep trying the new service phone number, our city workers get pinched when I kibitz. They literally slammed a door in my face last time I tried giving feedback, it was great! So symbolic I had to laugh. Thanks goodness for humor, however dry. And thank you el for not slamming the door on my kibitzes. Cheers!

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I always love that pic of Billie and Mister.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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@Dr. John Carpenter
collection. Thanks for reading.

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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 --

just approved a project of ExxonMobil and Saudi to build the world's biggest plastics manufacturing plant. The toxic water will be dumped into Corpus Christi Bay. The home of the world's few remaining whooping cranes is there.
Expect babies born in that area to have some strange birth defects in the future.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp ....would rather try to piss us off about 'Migrant Caravans' crossing the border. Most 'Muricans probably can't make the connection that the reason they're coming here in the first place is because of what we're doing to them in their own countries.

We overthrow their governments to install puppet dictatorships so the 'Murican capitalists have easy access to resources, train death squads to subjugate or kill the population and people wonder why they migrate here?

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner They think it is because they wish to escape life in a "shithole country" and have no clue how they got that way.

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@on the cusp
death of petroleum as fuel as being just around the corner and are gearing up to have ample replacement uses operational.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner to it, but I will. TIme for the Monday walk up at the lake, at the moment.

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Most of what we "learn" from our mass media today warrants the same reaction and response, "so what?". Ms. Wolf teed off on the press and the prez? So what?

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@gjohnsit Thanks for reading.

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