Tuesday, May 22, 2018

OTI: notes:5/22/18

Open To Interpretation

Notes:...game on...on the radio...Richards on the mound, and in trouble...runners 1st and 3rd one out...base hit...run in...one nothing Toronto...line drive second out to Cozart...Blue Jays have half a line up of Calhouns...batters batting like 150!...ball skips off Young's glove....in right...where Calhoun usually is...Young in lineup for Calhoun...go figure...hmmph...Blue Jay 3-0..."and that one is blasted"....home run..."five nothing Toronto lead"....gloom...first inning of a long game of a long road trip...foul out to Young...oh...to bottom of second...missed first...Angels have had a bunch of games like this...back there against Boston and Yankees...Pujols ground out...Ohtani up...full count...walk...Simmons up...double play...hmmph...trying to find how the Olmec counted...the Mayans used dots and dashes, with a kind of stretched oval for zero...a binary system...Chinese had one of these too...all they have for Olmec writing is the Cascajal Block which was found in bulldozed pile of rubble at a building site...which is odd...a guess is the Olmec didn't have writing...then...the Inca don't seem to have had writing either...and they left extensive monuments and such too...I'm on a search/reach for binary writing counting systems...a binary writing system might be ogham...Trout with a lead off hit...Pujols up...Pujols hits an rbi single...missed how Trout got to third...Ohtani up...fc...grounded to third...Simmons up...there's a bunch of theories about what Ogham is...Simmons got an rbi...I think...Jays 5 Angels 2...

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A theory popular among modern scholars is that the forms of the letters derive from the various numerical tally-mark systems in existence at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

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runners at the corners for Jays..."Richards is in some trouble"...again...Young has been given an error for that missed fly ball in second inning...some consternation over Angels' errors of late!...

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Roman numerals, the Chinese numerals for one through three (一 二 三), and rod numerals were derived from tally marks, as possibly was the ogham script.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks

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ground to Cozart, and he gets runner going home out...one out...tally marks...K...score keeping!...Ishango Bone...

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The bone was found among the remains of a small community that fished and gathered in this area of Africa. The settlement had been buried in a volcanic eruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone

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hmmph...it has what may be tally marks on it...but that mention of the village being buried in a volcanic eruption reminded me of a diversion awhile back...more on binary things for sometime!...Angels up...got out of the mess...brb...

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An archaeological site on Jeju Island is being called Korea's version of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city which was preserved by volcanic debris. Discovered in 2006, a human settlement at the Hamori 105 formation in Daejung-eup, Seogwipo-city was confirmed to have been smothered by a volcanic eruption more than 5,000 years ago.

The Jeju Culture & Art Foundation collected volcanic materials that covered Hamori and sent it to an American research institute. The Foundation said Sunday that the U.S. researchers determined the debris to have come from an eruption at nearby Songak Mountain over 5,200 years ago.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1779217/posts

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another wild pitch by Richards...and self same Jay is on third--Donaldson--as back in second after wild pitch...he has two doubles...in hopping about islands to see what kind of boats they might have, I visited Korea...and found that curio of a volcano covered village there...two outs...Jay still on third...got the Jays out...Trout and Pujols coming up...

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Archaeologists working at Japan's Kanai Higashiura site have unearthed the remains of a Kofun-period warrior and infant — both of whom were killed in a volcanic eruption. The bodies were covered in a layer of volcanic ash that dates to the early 6th century.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5968201/5968201/archaeologists-at-pompeii-of-japan-site-find-a-1400-year-old-warrior-still-wearing-his-armour

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a curio!...Trout K...Upton and Pujols made out...on to bottom of 6th...Richards relieved...gave up five runs...one earned...wild pitched into trouble too...

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The 946 eruption of Paektu Mountain, also known as the Millennium eruption or Tianchi eruption, was one of the most powerful in recorded history and is classified as a VEI 7 event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/946_eruption_of_Paektu_Mountain

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that volcano I found looking about for giant volcanos...if I remember right...there are like 3,000 volcanos around Korea...Ohtani up...Angels got through the bottom of 6th...K...Simmons up...

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Here, we identify the cosmogenic radiocarbon signal of 775 CE in a subfossil larch engulfed and killed by pyroclastic currents emplaced during the initial rhyolitic phase of the explosive eruption. Combined with glaciochemical evidence from Greenland, this enables us to date the eruption to late 946 CE.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116305017

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Simmons W...oh!...now I remember...found this volcano in the post about the missing eruption, the one that put weather into a dizzy in like the 1500s...another double play...heck...I don't think Ohtani will get another at bat!...to bottom of 7th...there are some serious contemporary concerns about this volcano...that for sometime...but, oh, I just find it is  volcano in the Iceland story today that I was reaching for!...

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To date the volcanic event, researchers analyzed ice core records from Greenland. As Sarah Laskow of Atlas Obscura explains, the ice cores showed clear evidence of both Eldgjá and the eruption of the Changbaishan volcano (also known as Mount Paektu and Tianchi volcano) in Asia, which is known to have occurred around 946 A.D. The team also looked at tree ring data from across the Northern Hemisphere, which showed that one of the coolest summers of the past 1500 years occurred in 940 A.D.—possibly because large quantities of sulfur were choking the atmosphere.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/violent-volcanic-eruption-may-have-spurred-icelands-adoption-christianity-180968566/#zmyZRs14ehUtyCYB.99
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good D and Rameriz sets them down...to top of 8th...

the story about the volcano today, which showed up in my google algo recommended news stories...I'm being helped in this by bots!...has an Icelandic poem that may allude to this eruption!...

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The team then consulted medieval texts from 939 and 940 that appear to chronicle the effects of the volcanic eruption. Accounts written in Ireland, Germany, Italy, China and Egypt describe bizarre and devastating atmospheric phenomena: a blood-red and weakened Sun, exceptionally harsh winters, severe droughts in the spring and summer, a suppression of the Nile’s flow. Climactic anomalies brought locust infestations, livestock deaths, dire subsistence crises, and vast human mortality.
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Maldanado whaps a double...Calhoun pinch hitting...weak grounder to first base first pitch...we are down three!...take a pitch!...Maldanado to third...sigh...Kinsler up...sac fly out...first pitch hitting again!...Trout up...made out...on to bottom of 8th...oh, the Iceland volcano Eldgjá  is what the Iceland saga goes on about...but it erupted near the same time as Paektu in Korea...the Greenland ice cores have the record...I think I found Japanese accounts alluding to Paektu, but I've lost them...the Iceland chroniclers were still writing in the old way, mythologizing a catastrophe into a fantastic tale...double play...
 
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“The poem describes how the revered pagan god Odin raises a prophetess from the dead,” the researchers write in the study. “She foretells the end of the pagan pantheon and the coming of a new (and singular) god in a series of portents, one being the rearing of a monstrous wolf that will swallow the Sun.”

“[The wolf] is filled with the life-blood of doomed men, reddens the powers’ dwellings with ruddy gore,” a translation of the poem reads. “[T]he sun-beams turn black the following summers, weather all woeful: do you know yet, or what? The sun starts to turn black, land sinks into sea; the bright stars scatter from the sky. Steam spurts up with what nourishes life, flame flies high against heaven itself.”

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fly out to the warning track...Calhoun corrals it...Upton up...took a strike...one ball one strike...

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As the study notes, the widespread adoption of Christianity in Iceland was a gradual process that took place throughout the latter half of the 10th century. But based on the Voluspá’s account of a volcano-like event that brought paganism to its knees, the researchers posit that the terrifying Eldgjá eruption may have pushed Iceland’s population toward a new, monotheistic religion.
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hmmph...that might be some modern mythologizing!...K...Pujols up...hard hit out...off the end of the bat...Ohtani up!...took a strike...high pop...'and that is how the ballgame ends'...gloom...
 
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The poem starts with the völva requesting silence from "the sons of Heimdallr" (human beings) and asking Odin whether he wants her to recite ancient lore. She says she remembers giants born in antiquity who reared her.
 
 
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