October 10, 2016 Open Thread, World Mental Health Day
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year. There are 82 days left.
Today's number is 10
10 is the base of the decimal number system. Since many others such as 12 make more sense, we must assume that it is because humans have 10 manual digits.
10 years is a decade, well, 10 anything, sort of, though "decad" also means a set or group of ten
To reduce something by 10 is to decimate.
10 is the sum of the first 4 integers
That might be why bowling is also known as ten pins
10 is the sum of the first 3 primes (2,3,& 5)
A polygon with 10 sides is a decagon
A crustacean with 10 legs is a decapod
A person with 10 or more vices is decadent (needs a citation)
10 is neon
10 is also Capricorn which is also a sea goat
A specific selection of 10 track & field events is a decathalon
10 yards is a first down in US football
The end zones in US football are 10 yards deep
The Rim of the hoop in roundball is 10 feet high
The highest score possible is often 10
Bo Derek may or may not have been a perfect 10.
10 High is a barely potable, but inexpensive, whiskey
The "10-Code", good buddy, is numerical shorthand used by cops, emergency responders, truckers and CW artists
Tennis has nothing to do with the numeral 10.
10 Years after is both a book and a band
10 cents (US) is a "dime", as in
Just One Thin Dime, one Tenth of a Dollar:
At some point it appears that there were Ten Thousand Maniacs
Title 10 of the US Code is ARMED FORCES
10 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Antonius
Claudius, the future emperor, of PBS fame, was born
10 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Silanus
Illyria was split into Pannonia and Dalmatia.
Ovid completed Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
Wang Mang outlawed the private purchase and use of crossbows
Hero of Alexandria was born
On this day in:
0680 -- The Battle of Karbala was fought
0732 -- The Battle of Tours was fought
1582 -- Nothing at all happened in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain; the date does not exist there
1868 -- Carlos Cespedes proclaimed the Grito de Yara, starting the Cuban war of Independence from Spain (aka 10 Years War)
1897 -- Felix Hoffmann discovered an improved way to make aspirin
1903 -- Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union
1911 -- The Wuchang Uprising, which led to the founding of the Republic of China, uprose
1913 -- Construction of the Panama Canal ended with a bang when they blew up the Gamboa Dike
1938 -- The Munich Agreement ceded the Sudetenland to Germany.
1963 -- The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect, partially, one assumes
1973 -- Spiro T. Agnew resigned as US Vice President. No big loss.
1980 -- El Salvador's FMLN was founded
2010 -- The Netherlands Antilles were dissolved as a nation, eliminating some YUUUGE US Corporate tax avoidance schemes.
Born this day in:
1684 -- Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter
1731 -- Henry Cavendish, chemist, physicist, and philosopher
1813 -- Giuseppe Verdi, composer
1877 -- William Morris, founder of Morris Motors
1898 -- Lilly Dache, clothes designer
1914 -- Ivory Joe Hunter, singer, songwriter and pianist
1915 -- Harry Edison, A trumpet player and composer
1917 -- Thelonious Monk, pianist and composer
1923 -- Louis Gottlieb, singer, comic, musicologist and bass player
1924 -- Ed Wood, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, had a plan from outer space
1926 -- Oscar Brown, singer, songwriter, playwright, activist and actor
1930 -- Harold Pinter, actor, director, screenwriter, activist and playwright
1935 -- Khalil al-Wazir, founder of Fatah
1941 -- Peter Coyote, actor, director, and screenwriter, member of the Diggers and the S.F., Mime Troupe
1941 -- Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni author and activist murdered by the Nigerian government as a favor to Royal Dutch Shell.
1946 -- John Prine, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1954 -- David Lee Roth, singer, songwriter and producer
1958 -- Tanya Tucker, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1979 -- Mya, singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
Died this day in:
0019 -- Germanicus, Roman general
0680 -- Husayn ibn Ali, Islamic religious leader, Muhammad's grandson
1659 -- Abel Tasman, merchant and explorer
1800 -- Gabriel Prosser, caught planning a slave rebellion in the US and hanged for it.
1837 -- Charles Fourier, philosopher and academic
1872 -- William H. Seward, lawyer and politician, committed Seward's folly.
1911 -- Jack Daniel, businessman, founder of Jack Daniel's
1913 -- Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, maker of swill and swill-lite
1963 -- Edith Piaf, singer, songwriter and actress
1964 -- Eddie Cantor, singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor
1973 -- Ludwig von Mises, economist and sociologist, a quack and a hack
1985 -- Yul Brynner, actor, no good rooskie
1985 -- Orson Welles, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
2010 -- Joan Sutherland, soprano and actress
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Mental Health Day
World Homeless Day
So, for music we gots:
Giuseppi Verdi
Ivory Joe Hunter
Harry
edison
Thelonius Monk
Louis Gottlieb
Oscar Brown
John Prine
David Lee Roth
Tanya Tucker
Mya
Jack Daniel
Edith Piaf
Eddy Cantor
Joan Sutherland
Giuseppi Verdi (Look, Ma, kultchure)
Ivory Joe Hunter
Harry Edison
Thelonius Monk
Louis Gottlieb
Oscar Brown
John Prine
David Lee Roth
Tanya Tucker
Mya
Jack Daniel(s)
Edith Piaf
Eddy Cantor
Joan Sutherland (More Verdi, a twofer)
Comments
By the time this posts I will be out of range of WiFi and phones
rendering it extremely unlikely that I will participate in the comments.
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 --
Wow. Going spelunking?
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I never heard Straight, No Chaser before. Love it. Thanks!
Straight No Chaser is one of Monk's most famous blues
compositions. He recorded it 4 or 5 times.
Most Thelonious Monk compositions are not in the blues form but Mysterioso and Blue Monk are also.
Thelonious Monk wrote his most famous compositions in the mid 1940's to mid 1950's and was content to rerecord these tunes from different angles and harmonies rather than record new material.
The album Mulligan Meets Monk still sounds good today and Mulligan himself has never sounded better - to my ears anyway.
Great to listen to; great to play - Monk was unique, almost a closed world after his bebop period when he helped create modern jazz(along with Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clark, and Bird)
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Thanks so much, duckpin. I also loved Padam Padam.
Piaf was quite the drama queen, wasn't she? But in a good way.
Edith Paif: Many critics think Piaf was influenced by Portuguese
fado music. Those who sing songs in this style are very dramatic and project suffering and world-weariness and tragedy. Yes, she was dramatic but there was a whole European(and Argentine) tradition of this cafe based style. I'm not a big fan but it's undeniable that Edith Piaf had a world wide impact. (Her life was pretty dramatic also.)
You're very welcome. Thelonious Monk may well be my favorite musician.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Indigenous Peoples Day
Vermont has joined South Dakota in celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day.
Sounds like a good idea to me. I also suggest that the national holiday be moved to election day in November to make election day a national holiday thus making it easier for working people to vote.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Thank you! I feel so out of the loop. I didn't realize today
was a holiday until you mentioned that! Columbus Day. One of those irritating days that no one really celebrates, except Murphy's Law, whatever office you really need today will be closed.
Definitely calling it Indigenous Peoples Day instead! If I was close enough and had today off, I'd go stand with the peoples at Standing Rock today.
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Thought the name
had been changed to Genocide of Indigenous People Day back in the 80s.
That's how long I've been calling it that.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
I was wondering who had been clever enough to kick this.
Today could also be known as Behead a Statue of Columbus Day because that happens a lot around now.
Just a quibble
on primes; one is the first prime so six is the sum of the first three primes.
I know, party, meet poop.
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
According to my vague memory and to Wikipedia, EL
is correct.
I vaguely remember that 1 is not prime because "itself" is 1 and the two numbers that make up the prime must be different, i.e., 1 and some other number.
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Remembering Dewey Decimal System. Ten!
Shout out to librarians. Thank you! List of Dewey Decimal classes
Ten
Sure would be nice if the world got a dose of mental health today!
Happy indigenous american day too.
Origin and Etymology of ten
Middle English, from Old English tīene, from tīen, adjective, ten; akin to Old High German zehan ten, Latin decem, Greek deka
First Known Use: before 12th century
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Happy World Homeless Day, World Mental Health Day, and
Indigenous Peoples Day! Thank you for this information. I'll try to work as many into this evening's Caucus Critters as possible.
Tennis scores are 15, 30, 40, game point. So from your second to your third point, you add the numeral 10. I wonder why? Because a game with only four points for the win sounds lame, but it's too strenuous to play much longer (barring a tie)?
Decadent comes from Latin for falling away, same root as decay. So it sounds like 10 teeth, but apparently not. Per dictionary.com.
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More Podesta Wikileak emails today, dumped within last 2 hours.
Coordination between Foundation, campaign and other affiliated "concerns". Not even code words other than a person I could not figure out: cvc. =Chelsea Victoria Clinton, nominal Foundation Director still?
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10,000 Maniacs and Verdi
Since you posted videos of both, I thought this would be appropriate.
Hey Jack Kerouac
The first tune called Kerouac, after Jack, was by Dizzy Gillespie in the 1940's. This was before Jack had published anything and was just a major fan of bebop. Diz said, "If Jack's in the house we know that there's at least one person listening to what we're doing."
I really like Natalie Merchant and don't think she got all the credit she deserved.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Too late.
I gave up on mental health years ago and am a better person because I did.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
More choreography in the bipartisan Washington waltz toward war
Key neocon calls on U.S. to oust Putin
Regime change in Russia? How much were we involved in
Great Britain, or Britain, whatever/whoever leaves and stays? I am sure the Russians will greet us with flowers/s
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scares the shit out of me, must be, because it's
mental health day, wished certain figures would become homeless as in "fired" ...
I was going to up-vote the thread, but ten people already
had and I didn't want to ruin perfection.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"