Open Thread for July 25, 2016, Puerto Rico Constitution Day
July 25 is the 206th day of the year. There are 159 days left.
So we're looking at 25 this Monday
25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors
25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9 & 16). Carpenters and others make fact of this property to draw large right angles, since this is a pythagorean triangle, with sides of 3, 4 and 5
25 is manganese
25 is the minimum age to get elected to the House of Representatives
I-25 connects Wyoming and New Mexico, but nobody is sure why
25, in Hindi, is Pachisi, the national board game of India. Ours in the US must be Monopoly, I guess.
25 BCE was Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silanus.
This was the 9th consulship for Caesar Augustus
The temple to Neptune was built on the Circus Flaminius. There was no temple to Uranus.
Rome surpassed Chang'an, China as the largest city in the world.
25 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa
Liu Xiu restored the Han dynasty in China, becoming Emperor Guangwu of Han. But, was he flying solo?
On this day in:
306 -- Constantine I was made Roman emperor by his troops. The earth and its peoples trembled with fearful foreknowledge of religious tyrannies to come
315 -- The Arch of Constantine was completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. This gave Napoleon Arch envy and thereby gave the world the arc de triomphe, which gave the US arch envy leading to the St Louis Arch
1593 -- Henry IV of France publicly converted to Roman Catholicism.
1603 -- James VI of Scotland was crowned king of England.
1609 -- The English ship Sea Venture was driven ashore in Bermuda, leading to a colony there
1755 -- Governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council deported the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians went to the Colonies & some later moved to Louisiana, becoming Cajuns.
1788 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor
1824 -- Costa Rica annexed Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 -- The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph was carried out (in London)
1898 -- The United States invasion of Puerto Rico began
1909 -- Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in an airplane
1952 -- The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico adopted a constitution.
1959 -- SR.N1 hovercraft crossed the English Channel in about two hours. (Bleriot took 37 minutes)
1965 -- Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival
1978 -- Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" was born.
1993 -- Israel launched a massive attack against Lebanon starting the Seven Day War.
2007 -- Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 -- WikiLeaks published documents about the War in Afghanistan
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Born this day in:
1165 -- Ibn Arabi (Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibnʿArabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī), Andalusian Sufi mystic and, to some, saint
1658 -- Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, friend of Alley Oop.
1844 -- Thomas Eakins, painter, sculptor, and photographer
1847 -- Paul Langerhans, pathologist, physiologist and biologist; discovered the Islets of Langerhans
1848 -- Arthur Balfour, soldier and politician; had a Declaration named after him
1870 -- Maxfield Parrish, painter and illustrator
1894 -- Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1902 -- Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author
1906 -- Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player
1924 -- Frank Church, lawyer and politician
1925 -- Benny Benjamin, drummer (The Funk Brothers)
1934 -- Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer
1935 -- Adnan Khashoggi, wealthy lowlife - see da wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi)
1941 -- Manny Charlton, guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band)
1942 -- Bruce Woodley, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Seekers)
1943 -- Jim McCarty, singer and drummer (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)
1946 -- José Areas, drummer (Santana)
1946 -- Rita Marley, singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers and I Threes)
1948 -- Steve Goodman, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1950 -- Mark Clarke, singer, songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Mountain, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep)
1951 -- Verdine White, bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 -- Ken Greer, guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Red Rider)
1955 -- Randall Bewley, guitarist and songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster)
1958 -- Thurston Moore, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth,
1834 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and criticCiccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars)
1966 -- Maureen Herman, bass player (Babes in Toyland)
1966 -- Lynda Lemay, singer & songwriter
1975 -- Brian Gibson, bass player (Lightning Bolt)
Duke of Argyll indeed
Died this day in:
1834 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher, and critic
1984 -- Big Mama Thornton, singer, songwriter, drummer, harmonica player, legend, subject of the July 19,2016 Evening Blues (http://caucus99percent.com/content/evening-blues-7-19-16)
1995 -- Charlie Rich, singer & songwriter
1998 -- Tal Farlow, guitarist
2003 -- Erik Brann, singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
2005 -- Albert Mangelsdorff, trombonist
2013 -- Steve Berrios, drummer
No Albatross, but
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Christian feast day of Anne
Christian feast day of Christopher
Christian feast day of Cucuphas
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
So, for music we gots:
Johnny Hodges
Benny Benjamin
Don Ellis
Manny Charlton
Bruce Woodley
Jim McCarty
José Areas
Rita Marley
Steve Goodman
Mark Clarke
Verdine White
Ken Greer
Randall Bewley
Thurston Moore
Maureen Herman
Lynda Lemay
Brian Gibson
Big Mama Thornton
Charlie Rich
Tal Farlow
Erik Brann
Albert Mangelsdorff
Steve Berrios
Johnny Hodges
Benny Benjamin
Don Ellis
Manny Charlton
Bruce Woodley
Jim McCarty, singer and drummer
José Areas, drummer
Rita Marley
Steve Goodman
Mark Clarke
Verdine White
Ken Greer
Randall Bewley
Thurston Moore
Maureen Herman
Lynda Lemay
Brian Gibson
Big Mama Thornton
Charlie Rich
Tal Farlow
Erik Brann
Albert Mangelsdorff
Steve Berrios
OK, Open Thread, everybody have at it, but play nicely.
Comments
A decent start today, odd for Monday
Garbage day for me means taking my $1.25-tagged bag down my 900' road to the can. I had set a mousetrap in the kitchen behind the rangetop and nailed one! So that corpse goes to landfill, with 2 weeks of garbage. I also recycle. And compost.
Just got FB notice that son has arrived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for a visit with girlfriend's family there. How to learn Mandarin 1-2-3. I think it's still today there.
Any plumbers out there? I have heard the chilling sound of interior dripping water from above. There is a bathroom there. My first idea to isolate the problem was to close the toilet intake valve. So far, no drip. I assume that means a flapper valve leak in the tank? I was trained a scientist, not a plumber or electrician!!!
That Uriah Heep cover: gorgeous locks!
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.
If the floor around the toilet is dry, then your guess is
probably right. After that it is up to your skill set, investigative ability and tools on hand.
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 --
poor Puerto Rico
our ill treated colony. Saw a great (sad) piece from teleSUR's empire files. It's about 30 min, but covers the history from Spain through the new over sight board. It's about a month old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe0mTxQJQHo
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yeah, not at all good for the puerto Ricans, especially when
you consider the vast amounts of money made by US corporations exploiting their labor.
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 all.
I seem to need my air conditioner all the time now. For the last few years in this area we've been getting rolling brownouts, where part of the town's grid will go down. I'm wondering if that is directly connected to the electrical needs of all that air conditioning?
If a brownout happened at the assisted living facility and lasted for a long time, it could be a very serious thing for some of the people who live here. It happened once but only for a couple hours. Even that short period of time caused this building to heat up quickly.
On the east coast, ConEd warned of rolling brownouts.
Not my utility but the shortages correlate with AC by the not-important non-industrial users. Why this never happens in winter may have to do with industries being able to co-generate some amount of heat.
Around here, I think that "elderly facilities" (awful, I know) can be listed somewhere at high-priority. Like people at home relying on electricity to breathe. I suspect that means only you are on a list, special. Not.
Situations will worsen. I have no AC, rely on tree shade and a hill.
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.
Air conditioning is often a cause of brownouts. In my area,
the utilities have beenrequesting remote control over people's ACs for years now. Their story is that they can turn them down a bit when they see usage reaching limits and thus prevent brown outs. A few years back, France suffered severe brown and black outs and it caused a lot of deaths.
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 --
DWS leaving her post means nothing, but this is still delicious
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/dnc-wikileaks-emails/index.html
Video of her being heckled here
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/757570293992787972
wyoming and new mexico
are connected so Cheney can drive to the brothel.
The Hairball, he is a temple to Uranus.
Henry IV converted so the stabbers wouldn't put big holes in his body. He didn't really mean it.
If the Acadians had moved to where Mozart was, we could have had magic flute gumbo.
I have the below Parrish on a wall. It makes it easier to get up in the morning.
HRC adressing Veterans of Foreign Wars live
Hillary Clinton Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton addressed the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She got an endorsement from a ret. Gen. Allen, apparently.
I have a hard time to follow her talk. She is so determined and tough minded ... looking and sounding. Way too sure of herself ... she has developed a thick skin like a rhinoceros she said... may be a little too thick to feel anything what a lot of folks are feeling.
Sigh. What a pity. I am so sad.
https://www.euronews.com/live
rhinos
are everywhere totally endangered. Their thick skin is helping them not at all.
Why does she have to go talk to a gathering of a bunch of old serial killers? Those people are so old and in the way they are barely visible in this universe any more.
Every day, her stupid campaign, it shoots itself right in the stomach.
I listened to her speech twice now and
at some points she sounded like Trump.
Ok, whatever.
These are some scenes from outside the convention center.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Looking forward to going home tonight,
making an Adult Beverage, and watching something other than the coronation. I understand that the Paint Drying Channel is having a puce marathon...
Jill Needs Help NOW in Kansas for ballot access, Deadline Aug. 1
I just got an email from Jill, and they need help NOW in Kansas getting signatures for ballot access. The deadline is August 1st. They need volunteers and donations to support paid petitioners. Please spread the word, especially to anyone in Kansas. Let any Bernie or Busters that are focused on the DNC Convention know about the situation. To donate to support a paid petitioner in Kansas, go here: https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/donate
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Unconfirmed report: Superdelegates are switching.
The KFS subreddit has a Facebook post from a California Bernie delegate claiming that 13 superdelegates are switching from Hillary due to Wikileaks revelations. This could be the start of something big, if true.
Great! They certainly should switch! If she won't concede to
Bern, just flat kick her out. Really afraid of Trump? Then vote for Bern.
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Superdelegates
Perhaps once they see the new poll from Nate Silver showing HRC losing to Trump by 13.4% they will realize that a vote for HRC is. Vote for Trump.
Liberal to the core.
Woot. Woot
Maybe we'll can put her head on a stick yet. Lord knows FB and Twitter are howling their asses off for her to drop out because she illegit
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