Monday Open Thread; July 31 is Ka Hae Hawai'i Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 5:00am

July 31 is the 212th day of the year. There are 153 days left.

Today's number is 31

Today's number is 31

31 is a prime, and a Mersenne prime at that
31 is gallium
M31 is the Andromeda Galaxy
31 Flavors is Baskin Robbins

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zo, 31, ye typical Mersenne prime

Title 31 of the US Code is MONEY AND FINANCE.

31 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Octavianus
The Battle of Actium occurred

31 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Tiberius and Sejanus
One of the various years in which Jesus might or might not have been executed on April 6 or some other day.

On this day in:

1492 -- Ferdinand & Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain
1703 -- Daniel Defoe was pilloried for seditious libel
1932 -- The NSDAP won over 38% of the vote in German elections.
1938 -- Archaeologists found engraved metal plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1964 -- Ranger 7 transmitted the first close-up photographs of the moon to earth
1971 -- Apollo 15 crew got the first ride in a lunar rover
1991 -- The US and USSR signed the START I treaty.
2006 -- Fidel Castro transferred power to his brother, Raul.
2007 -- The British Army finally left Northern Ireland,

Born this day in:

1598 -- Alessandro Algardi, sculptor
1718 -- John Canton, physicist
1837 -- William Quantrill, terrorist turned war criminal, traitor
1860 -- Mary Vaux Walcott, the Audubon of botany
1875 -- Jacques Villon, painter
1912 -- Milton Friedman, right wing quack
1918 -- Hank Jones, pianist, composer and bandleader
1923 -- Stephanie Kwolek, chemist who invented Kevlar
1931 -- Kenny Burrell, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1951 -- Evonne Goolagong Cawley, tennis champ
1952 -- Faye Kellerman, mystery author
1959 -- Stanley Jordan, jazz guitarist, pianist and songwriter, plays guitar like a Chapman stick
1965 -- J. K. Rowling, author

Died this day in:

1726 -- Nicolaus II Bernoulli, mathematician
1784 -- Denis Diderot, philosopher
1886 -- Franz Liszt, pianist, composer and conductor
1944 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and poet
1966 -- Bud Powell, pianist
1986 -- Teddy Wilson, swing pianist
2012 -- Gore Vidal, novelist, critic, screenwriter, wise-ass, wit

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

-- Denis Diderot

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Ka Hae Hawai'i Day (Hawai'ian flag day)

So, for music 

Hank Jones
Kenny Burrell
Stanley Jordan
Franz List
Bud Powell
Teddy Wilson
Evonne Goolagong



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Hank Jones

Kenny Burrell

Stanley Jordan

Franz List

Bud Powell

Teddy Wilson

In honor of Evonne Goolagong

Bonus:
Hank Jones

Bud Powell, Mingus on bass

Teddy Wilson

Tags:

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Daniel Defoe

START I Treaty

Denis Diderot

Evonne Goolagong

Piano Day

Vote

Comments

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 5:59am

Happy Monday

subvert the dominant paradigm

peace

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 9:31am

Good morning, Eyo. Thanks for the JCY.

@eyo

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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 --

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 6:47am

Math is the universal language,

but it's Greek to me!

Mersenne prime
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mersenne prime Named after Marin Mersenne
Publication year 1536[1]
Author of publication Regius, H.
No. of known terms 49
Conjectured no. of terms Infinite
Subsequence of Mersenne numbers
First terms 3, 7, 31, 127
Largest known term 274,207,281 − 1 (January 2016)
OEIS index A000668

In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number that can be written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. The first four Mersenne primes (sequence A000668 in the OEIS) are 3, 7, 31, and 127.

If n is a composite number then so is 2n − 1. (2ab − 1 is divisible by both 2a − 1 and 2b − 1.) The definition is therefore unchanged when written Mp = 2p − 1 where p is assumed prime.

More generally, numbers of the form Mn = 2n − 1 without the primality requirement are called Mersenne numbers. Mersenne numbers are sometimes defined to have the additional requirement that n be prime, equivalently that they be pernicious Mersenne numbers, namely those numbers whose binary representation contains a prime number of ones and no zeros. The smallest composite pernicious Mersenne number is 211 − 1 = 2047 = 23 × 89.

Mersenne primes Mp are also noteworthy due to their connection to perfect numbers.

As of January 2016, 49 Mersenne primes are known. The largest known prime number 274,207,281 − 1 is a Mersenne prime.[2][3][4]

Since 1997, all newly found Mersenne primes have been discovered by the “Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search” (GIMPS), a distributed computing project on the Internet.

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

Heh, what's in a name. Sejanus' history would seem to live

@HenryAWallace
up to your apt observation.
Sadly, the superscript property didn't copy, so the quoted material is even more farfetched an crazy than it should be. That may be a feature, we'll have to see.

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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 --

Submitted by dkmich on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 8:07am

Good morning everyone....

Beautiful morning. Hope everyone is well and peaceful. Ah, sweet serenity.

I am trying to resolve a host (several) of issues that are non-life threatening and feel like a mountain to climb because people are a royal pain in the ass. OMG if the species had a brain instead of a skull stretcher, life would be so much easier. The populations' prescriptions for anxiety medications would shrink to zero.

Have a nice day.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 9:43am

Good morning dk. Sorry to hear of your problems and wish

@dkmich
you success in vanquishing them. The gret con "man is a ratinal animal" started long before the greeks, it is satisfying, but hollow. If we were, why then all of history?

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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 --

Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 8:27am

another lovely morning in the SE

a cool 62 degrees and clear weather. What a garden this year. It is so interesting how things like weather vary from year to year.

Next weekend is the big (world's largest?) yard sale in our neighborhood. http://www.127yardsale.com/
http://www.discoverlookoutmountain.com/yardsale.shtml
I'll mostly stay hidden during the traffic onslaught, so I'm trying to get all my errands done early this week. Tuesday Trade Day tomorrow will be a ghost town (other than some produce vendors) as everyone saves their goods for the higher priced yard sale event.

So funny how citizens do triple back-flips to acquire more stuff they don't need. "More is better" fuels the madness of our capitalist consumerism. Make their junk your junk...and round we go.

Hope you all have a good day!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by randtntx on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 9:04am

Glad your'e having lovely weather.

@Lookout Today I am hoping for a dip in our temps to double digits instead of the triple digits we have been having. A cool front in the high nineties would be a respite. It has been pretty brutally hot for a while now.

It looks a bit like a wreck around here with all the plants dry and crispy. I'm trying to keep up with the watering without going overboard. We have absolutely no green lawn which is fine with me and it will come back with the first rains.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 9:47am

Ain't that the truth.

@Lookout

So funny how citizens do triple back-flips to acquire more stuff they don't need. "More is better" fuels the madness of our capitalist consumerism.

We have so many in real need, yet the purveyors of the unnecessary dominate th economy because the needy have limited wherewithal with which to enrich their coffers.

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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 --

Submitted by randtntx on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 9:20am

Good morning all.

Today we get to kiss July goodbye. Just two more months left of blistering heat in south TX.

A good rule of thumb eyo

subvert the dominant paradigm

primarily because it is so very destructive.
As Lookout indicated somewhere else,

We need to drive this conversation

Have you ever tried to have a conversation with someone that is really important and they just keep trying to deflect and change the subject so the can avoid the whole topic? Happens to me all the time.
People always trying to blow smoke in my eyes.

Submitted by smiley7 on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 11:56am

Good late morning el...

Thanks for the wine tip, trying to learn more as our region is becoming a significant wine-growing area with Xmas tree growers flipping to vineyards.

Thanks for the OT and especially the note accompanying Friedman's birth, dangerous quack, indeed.
Have a good afternoon!

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 1:44pm

Good morning, randtntx. The end of July here means that we can

plant stuff again. May - just basil, June - nuthin, Jul - just squash. That's our dead zone for planting, which, of course, generates a slow eriod for harvesting on the other end.

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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 --

Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 1:57pm

Voting machines pwned

There was a hackers' conference this weekend. Voting machines and voting tabulators were brought in to see if they could be hacked. All were hacked. Hackers were even able to install windows media player and play songs on one of them.

https://gizmodo.com/every-voting-machine-at-this-hacking-conference-got-...

One fault of the article is that it assumes that hackers would be foreign entities. Of course if you are a company that makes the machines, it is even easier to rig votes. As we all know, this will likely receive little attention from NPR and the corporate media because they have a vested interest in pretending that we have a functional democracy.