NEW Improved Monday Open Thread: August 6 is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 5:00am

August 6 is the 218th day of the year; as well as Pungenday, Confusion 72, 3184 YOLD to discordians.

Six, the product of two primes and who cares. Regular 6 sided figures, hexagons, will tile a plane. That means you can arrange them so as to cover the surface with no blank spaces, like a honeycomb. A rhomboid hexagonally tiled surface measuring 11 "hexes" on a side is used to play the game of "hex". Each player tries to connect their pair of opposite sides by placing tokens on the hexagonal grid to form an unbroken connecting chain. Only one player can win, and one player must win. At any moment, there are a finite number of possible moves remaining before there is a token on every tile. The first player can always win.

It there were a winning strategy for the second player, the first player could simply make a random opening move and thereafter follow the proper strategy for the second player. As a bonus, if by chance the next correct move for them corresponds to the random move they already made, then they effectively gain a turn, being able to make the move that should follow that one.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in:

1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk. That's right folks, the Crimean Khanate, a subject worthy of a little history research if you are unfamiliar with Crimean history.

1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the US Constitution were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philly.

1825 – Bolivia gained independence from Spain.

1890 – William Kemmler became the first person executed in the electric chair. He was zapped with 1,000 volts AC for 17 seconds, but wes found to still be breathing. They then hit him with 2,000 volts which ruptured blood vessels beneath the skin, singed skin and hair around the electrodes and generated "a powerful stench".

1901 – Kiowa reservation land in Oklahoma was opened for white settlement, because why let them have it? It's not like it was ever relly theirs.

1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi and disappeared never to be seen again. As with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, many suspect that this was the "Rapture" long fortold, and that no others qualified to be taken.

1945 – The US B-29 "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This resulted in complee destruction of about 70% of the buildings and infrastructure and the immediate deaths of around 70,000 to 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injuries and radiation had killed another 20,000 to 96,000 people. Additional great numbers were maimed or injured. Suffering and deaths from the effects of the bomb continued for many decades.

1962 – Jamaica became independent from the UK.

1965 – LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Born this day in:

1619 – Barbara Strozzi, singer, composer and songwriter

1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet

1881 – Leo Carrillo aka Pancho, actor and conservationist

1902 – Dutch Schultz, business man and surrealist poet "A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kim."

1906 – Vic Dickenson, trombonist

1910 – Adoniran Barbosa, musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor

1928 – Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

1929 – Mike Elliott, saxophonist

1930 – Abbey Lincoln, singer, songwriter and actor

1934 – Piers Anthony, author

1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, guitarist and composer.

1937 – Charlie Haden, bassist and composer.

1942 – Byard Lancaster, flautist and saxophonist

1946 – Allan Holdsworth, guitarist, songwriter and producer

1969 – Elliott Smith, pop singer, songwriter, guiarist and Ginger Spice

Died this day in:

1637 – Ben Jonson, poet and playwright

1660 – Diego Velazquez, painter

1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, cornet player

1973 – Fulgencio Batista, US backed Cuban dictator

2004 – Rick James, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalilst and producer.

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Bolivian Independence Day
Jamaican Independence Day
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)

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William Kemmler

Leo Carillo

Ernesto Lecuona

Vic Dickenson

Adoniran Barbosa

Abby Lincoln

Baden Powell de Aquino

Charlie Haden

Bix

Rick James

picture: Hiroshima, 11/27/1945

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 6:57am

good morning el and c99

Thanks for the tip about shotwell in linux. Starting to migrate my pictures there. So many pictures in the digital world. I remember when the photos that didn't go in the scrap book would be destined to the shoebox, and it could hold a family's worth. I must admit I love the instant gratification of digital photos.

Got a gig in a couple of weeks with the old band. Rehearsal is today. Whenever I have to make the drive I'm reminded why I retired, but the gig is close to me...that's why I was invited. So new tunes to learn...that not a bad thing.

Last week we clocked in with 4-5 inches of rain...more like winter weather for us. I'm curious to hear from my band mates how the Appalachian Stringband festival in WV went last week. Hope they didn't get as much rain as we did.

Have a good day.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 8:54am

Good morning, Lookout. My pleasure on the shotwell. I'm glad

@Lookout
that it was what you were looking for.

Be safe on the drive and enjoy the rehearsal. Everybody's weather is crazy and I guess that is probably going to be the new norm. We diddled around jawing about how do we know the climate is changing and how do we know we're doing it and man cannot alter god's great scheme and now we get to see the effects. The petroleum and coal boys had a lot to do with that, but so did a lot of the proponents of at least one particular religion. The idea of at lest erring on the side of safety and caution since it won't really hurt anything to do so, of course, never gained any traction, like it never has.

Have a good one yourself.

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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 --

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 8:25am

Morning folks and happy OT.

Don't have a huge amount of time this morning, because I have to leave soon to head to the VA. Honestly, I hate having to leave the house, and I'm NOT looking forward to this, especially considering that it's a location I've never been to before, and have been trying to come up with a good excuse for hours to beg off. Ah well, still gonna go, but dammit, sometimes I hate jumping through hoops.

New Logos. Priam. And interestingly, he wanted to talk about his sons.

Just for the hell of it, some Indian/Scottish Bagpipe music, Because I need something joyful.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBf0UJIDsY0]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 8:56am

Morning, detroit. Sorry that it is hoop day, but it is what it

@detroitmechworks
is. Try to have a good day anyway, and thanks for the new logos.

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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 --

Submitted by jbob on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 8:32am

I went to ground zero at the dome in Hiroshima

it was very surreal for me to be standing there. The granite steps from the front entrance of a bank building with the "shadows" of three victims who were vaporized are in the museum are there.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 9:00am

Good morning, jbob. I can't imagine actually going there

and being there. I especially cannot imagine what my feelings and reactions would be, beyond the certainty that they would be profound. A good day for making aper cranes, but I forgot how somewhere along the road. Maybe a good day to re-learn.

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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 --

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 2:05pm

A bit of a game changer this morning.

After nearly a year of incomplete document requests made by frustrated GOP lawmakers to the DOJ in the matter of Russian collusion and associated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, President Trump is going to yank the rope by Executive Order and declassify those Obama-era FISAs that were used to spy on his campaign and declassify the emails used in the collusion between FBI staff and Russian government contacts and UK intelligence to concoct a phony dossier on Trump in order to swing the election toward Hillary.

President Trump may be about to override Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein anTrump To Override Rosenstein, Declassify Remaining DOJ FISA Docs

d use his presidential authority to declassify several caches of information related to the DOJ/FBI's ongoing Trump-Russia counterintelligence operation.

President Trump may declassify: 20 redacted pages of a June, 2017 FISA renewal, "and possibly" 63 pages of emails and notes between "Ohr & Steele," and FD-302 summaries of 12 interviews - In reference to twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr and/or his wife Nellie, both of whom were working with opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-06/trump-override-rosenstein-decl...

Perhaps this will help fold Muellers tent and remove some of the corruption from the DC cesspool. Hopefully, the damage between Russia and the US may be repairable. There was a two-hour nuclear confrontation out there in the future with our name on it. The pre-extinction scuffle wouldn't have lasted any longer than that.

Nice timing on that move.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 08/07/2018 - 9:16am

Thanks, Pluto. It will be interesting to follow the spin

@Pluto's Republic
on that one.

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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 --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 3:01pm

History shows again and again

how nature points up the folly of man. Godzilla!
Blue Oyster Cult: https://youtu.be/jJoy_0dJEjY
Thanks for the NEW Improved Open Thread. cheers el

Five months before Hiroshima, on March 9 1945: Firebombing of Tokyo

... Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerated, and between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history.

The cluster bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi had been approved only a few hours earlier. Shitamachi was composed of roughly 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden-frame buildings. Setting ablaze this “paper city” was a kind of experiment in the effects of firebombing; it would also destroy the light industries, called “shadow factories,” that produced prefabricated war materials destined for Japanese aircraft factories.

The denizens of Shitamachi never had a chance of defending themselves. [...] The human carnage was so great that the blood-red mists and stench of burning flesh that wafted up sickened the bomber pilots, forcing them to grab oxygen masks to keep from vomiting.

The raid lasted slightly longer than three hours. “In the black Sumida River, countless bodies were floating, clothed bodies, naked bodies, all black as charcoal. It was unreal,” recorded one doctor at the scene. Only 243 American airmen were lost-considered acceptable losses.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-firebombing-of-tokyo-con...

... The majority of the 100,000 who perished died from carbon monoxide poisoning and the sudden lack of oxygen, but others died horrible deaths within the firestorm, such as those who attempted to find protection in the Sumida River and were boiled alive, or those who were trampled to death in the rush to escape the burning city. As a result of the attack, 10 square miles of eastern Tokyo were entirely obliterated, and an estimated 250,000 buildings were destroyed.

During the next nine days, U.S. bombers flew similar missions against Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe. In August, U.S. atomic attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally forced Japan’s hand.

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Japanese students create VR experience of Hiroshima bombing

The Japanese high school students are using virtual reality to transport users back in time to before, during, and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima 73 years ago today.

It's a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky.

For over two years, a group of Japanese high school students has been painstakingly producing a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima before, during, and after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago on Aug. 6, 1945.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 08/07/2018 - 9:19am

Tou hear little of the fire bombings because they were

@eyo
clearly attacks on civilian populations, massacres of enormous magnitude and war crimes of enormous magnitude.

how nature points up the folly of man. Godzilla! Blue Oyster Cult: https://youtu.be/jJoy_0dJEjY Thanks for the NEW Improved Open Thread. cheers el Five months before Hiroshima, on March 9 1945: Firebombing of Tokyo ... Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerated, and between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history. The cluster bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi had been approved only a few hours earlier. Shitamachi was composed of roughly 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden-frame buildings. Setting ablaze this “paper city” was a kind of experiment in the effects of firebombing; it would also destroy the light industries, called “shadow factories,” that produced prefabricated war materials destined for Japanese aircraft factories. The denizens of Shitamachi never had a chance of defending themselves. [...] The human carnage was so great that the blood-red mists and stench of burning flesh that wafted up sickened the bomber pilots, forcing them to grab oxygen masks to keep from vomiting. The raid lasted slightly longer than three hours. “In the black Sumida River, countless bodies were floating, clothed bodies, naked bodies, all black as charcoal. It was unreal,” recorded one doctor at the scene. Only 243 American airmen were lost-considered acceptable losses. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-firebombing-of-tokyo-con... ... The majority of the 100,000 who perished died from carbon monoxide poisoning and the sudden lack of oxygen, but others died horrible deaths within the firestorm, such as those who attempted to find protection in the Sumida River and were boiled alive, or those who were trampled to death in the rush to escape the burning city. As a result of the attack, 10 square miles of eastern Tokyo were entirely obliterated, and an estimated 250,000 buildings were destroyed. During the next nine days, U.S. bombers flew similar missions against Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe. In August, U.S. atomic attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally forced Japan’s hand. --- Japanese students create VR experience of Hiroshima bombing The Japanese high school students are using virtual reality to transport users back in time to before, during, and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima 73 years ago today. It's a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky. For over two years, a group of Japanese high school students has been painstakingly producing a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima before, during, and after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago on Aug. 6, 1945.

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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 --