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Notes: game on...on the radio...Calhoun up...K...Ohtani on mound for the Angels...Fletcher pops out...another cosmic seashell for September 2018 Strada Easel contest...Trout up...1-2...don't know but the sports universe has stopped to see how Ohtani does coming back!...K...to bottom of 1st...all the time I've been looking at the Andean's stirrup vessels, I've been wondering how anyone could drink beverages from them...maybe they did...but it must have been difficult to clean them...and, and as it turns out, I learn they are flutes!...even more, partly filled with water, when they are rocked back and forth, the water sloshing around, they make sound too!...clips on youtube...I had seen odd openings in some Mayan figurines at Bower's Museum....ball one...97 mph...hit past Marte at 1st...it was fastball on outside of plate...Altuve up...Ohtani wouldn't have been in the swim with the other Angel pitchers if he didn't give up a lead off hit in the 1st!...98 fastball fouled off...liner to Young....one out...pop up...two out...0-1...and I had thought those in Bowers may be flutes...Mayan/Aztecs did have those jaguar flutes I went on about...the screaming skull ones too...3-2...W...two runners on...0-1...slider...1-1...2-1...3-1...3-2...K!...to top of 2nd...so, a connect somewhat between Andeans and Mesoamericans, but Mesoamericans didn't have the stirrup water flutes...Simmons lead off hit...Hernandez up, and up from minors, like most of the Angels!...Pujols gone to DL, Upton concused and on DL, Ohtani not batting...AL rules...Simmons and Trout the only regulars...one out...Ward K...another K...to bottom of 2nd...eesh...Ohtani bare hands a ground ball...ricochet to Simmons who tossed to first...1-6-3 ground out...
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According to Duran in The History of the Indies of New Spain, musicians were the first ones killed, followed by the dancers. The conquistadores destroyed all musical instruments they could find because “they were from the devil”. While advances continue to be made in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic carvings, the Maya sound code has yet to be deciphered (Cabrera 2005).
http://anthrojournal.com/issue/may/article/of-the-same-stuff-as-gods-musical-instruments-among-the-classic-maya
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that's grim...K...Maldonado up...Maldonado caught Ohtani while with the Angels...traded away to Astros...4-3 ground out...to top of 3rd...Marte with infield lead off hit...one out...Calhoun up...
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The scene features three percussionists – one on the huehuetl, another on the tortoiseshell drum, and the third on the rattle. Other vases (K206, K2025, K3247) illustrate sacrificial rites—identifiable through the depiction of blood, captives, and decapitated heads—performed to flutes, huehuetls, conch trumpets, and rattles.
same site
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then again, Mayans could be grimmer...2-2...grim, grimmer, grimmest...that might be the Chinese...they just dug up a step pyramid in China...W...Fletcher up...long fly out to center...Marte to third...Trout up...
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The pyramid and its surrounding settlement were fortified with ramparts and gates. Six pits containing decapitated human heads were found in the outer rampart.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6918-180823-china-step-pyramid
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well, that brings me to a thought I've been mulling...need to pick up 'echo chambers' first...2-2...Trout hasn't hit anyone in for awhile...3-2...likely they'll walk him...yep...W...Simmons up...Simmons has been hot...bases loaded...0-1...home run distance foul ball...foul pop out!...hmmph...to bottom of 3rd...
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In news media, echo chamber is a metaphorical description of a situation in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system. By visiting an "echo chamber", people are able to seek out information which reinforces their existing views, potentially as an unconscious exercise of confirmation bias. This may increase political and social polarization and extremism.[1] The term is a metaphor based on the acoustic echo chamber, where sounds reverberate in a hollow enclosure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
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hmmmph...Mystereons often go on and on about the ancients' understanding of acoustics....another aspect would be understanding of political 'acoustics'--what resonates in a populace...flutes have holes in particular places...commonly making for a pentatonic scale...think I have that right...looked up in google search, Hindu caste system...lead off walk...1-1...Ohtani's speed dropping off...1-2...and he's pitching off speed stuff...this is what happened in his game that was the last outing before the rehab...home run...Astros 2-0...sigh...Altuve up...0-1...1-1...he did get up to 99...1-2...4-3...Scoscia pulls Ohtani...Johnson comes in and gets the Astros out...to top of 4th...
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Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias,[Note 1] is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.[1] It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias is a variation of the more general tendency of apophenia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.[1] The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.[2] He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".[3][4] He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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...the Hindu caste system was like 'holes' in the populace...
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Varna literally means type, order, colour or class[17][18] and was a framework for grouping people into classes, first used in Vedic Indian society. It is referred to frequently in the ancient Indian texts.[19] The four classes were the Brahmins (priestly people), the Kshatriyas (also called Rajanyas, who were rulers, administrators and warriors), the Vaishyas (artisans, merchants, tradesmen and farmers), and Shudras (labouring classes).[20] The varna categorisation implicitly had a fifth element, being those people deemed to be entirely outside its scope, such as tribal people and the untouchables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India#Varna,_Jāti_and_Caste
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I've gone on about the 'three estates'...medieval France...
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The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the medieval period to early modern Europe. Different systems for dividing society members into estates developed and evolved over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm
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lead off hit, then a hit by pitch...two on no one out Arcia up...wp...runners to second and third...fc grounder throw to plate gets Fernandes coming home...Marte up...fc sac...Astros 2-1...broken bat...'let's get crack'n'...wonderful pistachios...Young up...
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The Incas followed a strict social hierarchy system and according to this system, there were 4 main levels which were the Sapa Inca, The Royalty, the Nobility and the Ayllu. To know more about what each of these levels meant, you can read the following given information:
https://www.hierarchystructure.com/incas-social-hierarchy/
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I'm going down the 'list' of ancient hierarchical societies!...another walk...Calhoun up...1-0...K...that blue highlight link above takes one to more than one needs to know!...to bottom of 4th...Angels have been a couple clutch hits of blowing this game open!...Astros one out...Simmons scoops up a line drive...two outs...they all resemble one another...maybe strict pyramid like society is humanities natural state...Astros get a hit down the line...runner on second...Astros make out...to top of 5th...kind of a 'flute' with 'four holes'...kings, priests, populace, slaves...a political 'soundscape'...'soundscape' the word used to describe the Mayan's music...Trout up...2-0...another walk coming?...2-2...oh...a hit!...Simmons up...K...Fernandez up...pop up...to bottom of 5th...
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Because trumpets were not meticulously measured to be the same length to produce identical resonances, one may conclude that the instruments were designed with pitch interaction in mind rather than absolute tuning. As a result, beat frequencies and infrasonic phantom sounds (tones below the normal range of human hearing with frequencies less than 20 Hz; 144-139 = 5 Hz) were produced if more than one trumpet was played at a time (Cabrera 2005), creating sounds that were sensed, but not always heard. In Kerr illustrations (such as K594, K6317, and K8818) as well as on the Bonampak murals, trumpeters are always depicted in a group of other trumpeters while playing, never alone. As a result, wood and gourd hom-tahs must have been responsible for creating a background soundscape rather than a melodic line.
http://anthrojournal.com/issue/may/article/of-the-same-stuff-as-gods-musical-instruments-among-the-classic-maya
same as first site
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having played in high school band and orchestra, I kind of know what that's like, and can overlay it all on the day-to-day...day-to-day has a musical aspect...Astros wap one off the wall...missed a home run by inches...harmony...W...two on for Astros...no one out...thought to do search political harmony...another hit...bases loaded...lots of things on that 'note'...music terms get borrowed a lot for metaphors...sailing/ship terms too...
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First of all, men of Athens, it is necessary that you bring about harmony4 among yourselves for the common good of the State and drop all the contentions inherited from previous assemblies
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by saving the city have bestowed upon you the privilege of deciding afresh whatever you shall choose to do, and you must be of the opinion that, just as on board a ship, when some declare themselves for making good their escape by the sail and others by the oars, just as all proposals of both parties aim at salvation, so it is to meet a crisis created by the gods that the need has arisen.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0214:letter=1
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I dunno...political writing is always 'fluffy'...then and now...walked in a run...pitching change...Rameriz on mound...bases still loaded...fc throw to plate...one out...
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Honey bees have three castes: drones, workers, and queens.[45][46] Drones are male, while workers and queens are female.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#Sexes_and_castes
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When worker bees decide to make a new queen, usually because the old one is either weakening or dead, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This type of feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_jelly
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full count...3-2...foul ball...K...bees have kind of the self same two prong problem we do...one is reproduction, and the second is reproduction, reproduction of the hive...which is a noisy 'soundscape'!...6-3...to top of 6th...remember reading a scholar going on about bees, and he said not to draw parallels with bees and human society...Mormons seem to have ignored that...
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Nineteenth-century leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consciously created symbols to buttress their community. The most persistent of these pioneer symbols was the beehive.
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Beehive_Symbol
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Ward up...Astros 3-1...
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Like Zeus, the god Dionysus was raised in a cave and fed on honey. Today he is viewed as the god of wine, but his worship came earlier than wine, from the time when mead was the major alcoholic beverage. Even after wine took the place of mead, honey remained sacred to Dionysus. His followers had ivy-wrapped wands from which honey flowed. He was also credited with being the creator of beekeeping!
https://www.planetbee.org/planet-bee-blog//the-sacred-bee-ancient-greece-and-rome
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hmmph...is the famous 'pine cone' a bee hive?
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A thyrsus /ˈθɜːrsəs/ or thyrsos /ˈθɜːrˌsɒs/ (Ancient Greek: θύρσος) was a wand or staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and topped with a pine cone or by a bunch of vine-leaves and grapes or ivy-leaves and berries[1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrsus
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better fit if it is a beehive...honey meade and wine being Dionysus' thing!...Angels made out...to bottom of 6th...
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they had over 700 hieroglyphic symbols, and the honeybee hieroglyph could represent with a certain notation to mean a bee, the actual insect, but it also formed the syllable bit.
https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=15-P13-00046&segmentID=7
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Fletcher up...bases loaded...hit by pitch...Astros 3-2...Trout up?...Trout up!...1-0...two outs...1-1...line drive out...Angels star crossed of late with bases loaded!...to bottom of 6th...
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Egyptian hives were like because they are quite different from the kind of hives we have today.
KRITSKY: Oh, they certainly were quite amazing. They were these horizontal tube hives. They were made out of mud that was dried into large cylinder and then stacked on top of each other, very similar in the construction of the hives we still see used in Azerbaijan and Iran, for example.
same site
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that's something...but I'm not sure what...a dogear...
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One of things the traditional Egyptian beekeepers practiced, they would call the queen, make a little sound and the queen would respond. That would tell them if there was a queen ready to emerge or what was the status inside the hive. If that was the case then their beekeeping was much more sophisticated than we can appreciate.
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To me it's a very ancient occupation because it goes back to ancient Egypt obviously, but there's something that's kinship with us, humans and bees, that I find very alluring.
same site
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hmmph...another dogear...
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Piping is most common when there is more than one queen in a hive. It is postulated that the piping is a form of battle cry announcing to competing queens and the workers their willingness to fight. It may also be a signal to the worker bees which queen is the most worthwhile to support.
The piping sound is a G♯ (aka A♭). The adult queen pipes for a two-second pulse followed by a series of quarter-second toots.[4] The queens of Africanized bees produce more vigorous and frequent bouts of piping[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee#Piping
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Astros made out...Hernandez with lead off hit...Ward up...wp,,runner advances to second...what?...is that beep.....beep....beep beep beep beep?...there's youtube clips of this...for review...K...two out...K...to bottom of 7th...home run...Astros 4-2...
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It is clear the Inca, Aztec and Mayan civilizations had honey and collected it as a form of tax. (Inca Tax System) and (Mayan honey gods and uses)
http://ecobeebox.blogspot.com/2014/06/honey-bees-in-americas-myth-honey-bees.html#!/2014/06/honey-bees-in-americas-myth-honey-bees.html
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blogger trying to nail down if honey bees were in the New World before Columbus...a stingless bee was cultivated...maybe honey bees too...double off the wall...
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An ancient tradition of beekeeping on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula is on the verge dying out, due to cultural change and loss of habitat.
Long before Europeans introduced honeybees (Apis mellifera) to the Americas, Mayan beekeepers harvested honey from the log nests of stingless bees that inhabit the tropical forests.
https://www.livescience.com/3848-mayan-stingless-beekeeping-danger.html
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as a kid I collected 'H" bees...they had an H on their back and didn't sting...sling-shotted a lot of them too...used to sun themselves on the back of the garage in the evening...never see them now...but recently a bee hive was right outside my window in the ficus tree ...happy to see it, then it was gone...a mystery...something to do with the cats getting stung, I suspect...Astos make out...to top of 8th...two out...cats are wanton...yellow parakeet in the fridge waiting burial...as kids, if it moved, it was a target...cats and kids alike...dogs too...Maya goes nuts over opossums...Calhoun walks...Fletcher up...foul fly out...to bottom of 8th...deer in the Valley were always wary of movement...sounds too...not so much smells...though I've read hunters wear scents to mask human scent...met a hunter who gave up hunting to take up wildlife photography...in the snow that day chasing Hawks along the Merced...one by Ozone Beach in the leaning Cedar, which eventually fell over, and now I imagine washed away...another in the north shore of the Merced in the Cottonwoods just upstream from Chapel Bridge...I have pics, of the hunter too taking Hawk pic...Astros make out...to top of 9th...Astros have a closer...so not much chance down 2...almost rolled out to the beach this morning for the painting, but the thought of weekend Labor Day crowds too daunting...Trout up...wait for rollabouts until Tuesday...K...just not the Angels' night...Simmons up...grounder 4-3 first pitch...down two, first pitch swinging-analytics...Fernandez up...1-1...another 4-3...Astros 4-2...off to Arlington tomorrow night for the other Texans...
:)
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