November 14, 2016 Open Thread; Day of the Colombian Woman

November 14 is the 318th day of the year. There are 47 days left. 

Today's number is 14

14 is the product of 2 primes, 7 and 2

Alrighty. If 14 = 7 x 2, then x/14 = x/(7x2). As we learned in last Monday's Open Thread, fractions of the form x/7 where x is a whole number not a multiple of 7 or 999,999 have an interesting property. For any even numerator x, x/14 will factor down to (x/2)/7, so even fractions of the form x/14 have the same interesting property. Interestingly enough, heh, for odd numerators, x/14 has a variant of that property. Last Monday = caucus99percent.com/... crossposted to www.dailykos.com/…

Briefly, the fractional part of x/7 is the number sequence 142857 repeated endlessly in that order from a varying but determinable starting point within that series. Thus 1/7 = 0.142857142857..., 2/7 = 0.2857142857..., 3/7 = 0.42857142857..., etc. 2/14 = 1/7 = 0.142857, etc. When x/14 has an odd numerator, the 142857 repeat kicks in, but not necessarily in mid series as it does with x/7. Instead, 1/14, for example = 0.071428571... and 3/14 = 0.214285714..., 5/14 = 0.357142857... etc.

14 is the atomic number of silicon

There are 14 days in a fortnight. I suspect that there are also 14 nights in a fortnight.

Cambrian animals of the genus Hallucinogenia (wikiCommons picture) had 14 legs.     

Title 14 of the US Code is COAST GUARD

14 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus.    Claudia Pulchra was born. She became the 3rd wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus. (Yep, that Varus again.)

14 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Appuleius.  On August 19, Caesar Augustus died. He was succeeded by Tiberius on September 18. He was also declared to be a god, but I don't know the date. Being a god was easier then - just die with a lot of fans. Augustus' grandson, Postumus Agrippa, was slain by his own guards on August 20, but that isn't why he was named Posthumus.

On this day in: 1851 -- Moby Dick was published 1889 -- Journalist Nellie Bly started her trip around the world 1910 -- Eugene Burton Ely successfully flew an airplane off of a ship 1922 -- The BBC began broadcasting 1957 -- The heat bagged many high ranking mafia leaders fleeing the raid on their "Appalachian Meeting" 1960 -- Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana 1967 -- Theodore Maiman received a patent for his ruby laser (the first laser) 1973 -- The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred 1991 -- Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to Phnom Penh 2008 -- The first G-20 economic summit began. It was long on hot air and short on real reforms.

Born this day in: 1567 -- Maurice, Prince of Orange, aka Maurice of Nassau who organized the Dutch rebellion against Spain and kicked ass. 1765 -- Robert Fulton, an engineer credited with inventing the steamboat 1797 -- Charles Lyell, geologist, premier proponent of extreme uniformitarianism 1840 -- Claude Monet, impressionist painter who liked water lillies 1856 -- Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott, activist & suffragette 1889 -- Jawaharlal Nehru, politician 1897 -- John Steuart Curry, painter and academic, liked Kansas 1900 -- Aaron Copland, composer, conductor, and educator 1906 -- Louise Brooks, 1908 -- Joseph McCarthy, nasty politician whose red-baiting style is making a modern comeback. 1922 -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, politician & diplomat 1929 -- Jimmy Piersall, bipolar baseball player and sportscaster who wrote Fear Strikes Out 1934 -- Ellis Marsalis, Jr., jazz pianist and educator best known for his kids 1935 -- Hussein of Jordan 1936 -- Carey Bell, singer and harmonica player 1936 -- Cornell Gunter, singer (The Coasters and The Flairs) 1939 -- Wendy Carlos, keyboard & synth player, also composer, went public in 1979 with the fact that she had had gender reassignment surgery; one of the early "celebrities" to do so. Much of her work is credited to Walter Carlos. 1943 -- Peter Norton, programmer and author, developed some utilities. 1947 -- P. J. O'Rourke, political satirist and journalist 1947 -- Buckwheat Zydeco, accordion player 1949 -- James Young, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Styx) 1954 -- Yanni, pianist, composer, and producer, alternative medicine to sleeping pills 1954 -- Anson Funderburgh, guitarist and bandleader 1954 -- Condoleezza Rice, liar, war-monger, war criminal who conspired to lie US into war against Iraq

Died this day in: 0565 -- Justinian I, Byzantine emperor, religious despot 1263 -- Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod, savior of the Kievan Rus, subject of Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. Now that NATO denies that there ever were Kievan Rus he might be declared a myth.   1687 -- Nell Gwyn, royal mistress & more 1716 -- Gottfried Leibniz, mathematician and philosopher, invented calculas 1746 -- Georg Wilhelm Steller, botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer  1817 -- Policarpa Salavarrieta, seamstress and revolutionary spy. Celebrated by the Day of the Colombian Woman. 1831 -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher, author, and academic 1915 -- Booker T. Washington, educator, essayist and historian 1972 -- Martin Dies, Jr., another red-baiting SOB (the HUAC was originally "The Dies Committee"). Modern role model. 2012 -- Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (The Chieftains)   

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Day of the Colombian Woman World Diabetes Day

So, for music we gots: Aaron Copeland Ellis Marsalis, Jr Carey Bell Cornell Gunter Wendy Carlos (switched on) Buckwheat Zydeco James Young Yanni Anson Funderburgh Martin Fay

Aaron Copeland

Ellis Marsalis, Jr

with Bradford

Carey Bell

Cornell Gunter

Wendy Carlos (for Kubrick)

Buckwheat Zydeco

James Young 

Yanni

Anson Funderburgh

Martin Fay (The Chieftans)

OK, what's on your minds?                                                                                        

Just for grins:   The original Wendy Carlos Switched on Bach (part 1) from the archive ((https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1)) The part you probably think of (if you remember this at all) starts about 6:22 [video:https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1]

(Sorry, looks like this won’t play here — it is “non-whitelisted” try the link below)

https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1

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Crossposted from caucus99percent.com