Monday Open Thread: July 9 is the day Millard Fillmore took office, how's that do ya?

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 5:00am

July 9 is the 192nd day of the year, there are 173 days left

Tis Setting Orange, Confusion 44, 3184 YOLD

Today's number is 9

9 is the largest single digit integer
9 is the square of a prime and is the second lowest such square

"Casting out nines" is a quick way of testing the calculations of sums, differences, products, and quotients of integers. It was known as long ago as the 12th Century. It is also the basis of a lot of "magic" tricks and puzzles. There used to be some based on the rotary phone dial too. Essentially, They are modulo 9 math.

A number is divisible by 9 if its digital root is 9. A number's digital root is the sum of its digits. If such sum is greater than one digit, then those digits are also summed, etc. Thus the digital root of 18 is 9 (8+1), and the digital root of 456 is 6 (4+5+6 = 15 and 1+5 = 6)

Now the fun:
1/9 = 0.11 followed by an infinite string of 1s
2/9 = 2 x 0.11 to infinity = 0.22 followed by an infinite string of 2s
3/9, of course, is 0.33 fol;lowed by an infinite string of 3s, etc.
This brings us to
9/9 = 0.99 followed by an infinite string of 9s, which is also 1. Back in the stoneage, a test of calculators and computers was to perform the operation (1/9)x9 and see if it returned 1 or 0.9999999 etc.

Conversely:
123456789 x 9 = 111,111,111
123456789 x 18 = 222,222,222 (because 18 = 2 x 9)
etc up to
123456789 x 72 = 888,888,888 (9 x 8 ) and
123456789 x 81 = 999,999,999 (9 x 9)

9 is the number of lives a domestic cat has
9 is the Jersey number worn by the inimitable Ted Williams.
9 is Fluorine.
9 is Organic: Five-digit produce PLU codes that begin with 9 are organic.
A 9 sided polygon is a nonagon, aka an enneagon
There are 9 justices on the US Supreme Courtallowfullscreen>

Title 9 of the US Code is Arbitration

9 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Crispinus
Nero Claudius Drusus died and Emperor Ping of Han was born.

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9 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Camerinus
The Rhine river was established as the boundary between the Latin- and German-speaking worlds, following the defeat of the Roman army, under the command of Varus, at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. (Varus again)
Italy adopted the Lex Papia Poppaea outlawing celibacy and childless relationships, unlike later under the popes, who favored celibacy, though still abhorring childless relationships. (Confused much?)
In China, Wang Mang founded the Xin dynasty, which lasted 16 years
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On this day in:

1401 - Tamerlane (Timur) destroyed Baghdad, killing 20,000.*
1789 - The French National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly
1816 - Argentina declared independence
1850 - President Taylor died and Millard Fillmore took over
1850 - The prophet Bab was executed for wrong thinking
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivered his Cross of Gold speech
1943 - The Allied invasion of Sicily began
1944 - US forces took Saipan
1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was issued
1962 - Starfish Prime failed to blow up outer space.
1986 - New Zealand legalized homosexuality
1993 - Canada passed the Nunavut Act

* The US totally failed to Destroy Bagdad, though it did kill a great many more people

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Born this day in:

1764 - Ann Radcliffe, author and poet
1819 - Elias Howe, inventor
1834 - Jan Neruda, writer, poet, and critic
1879 - Carlos Chagas, physician and parasitologist
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, composer
1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, admiral and historian
1901 - Barbara Cartland, author of sorts
1907 - Eddie Dean, singer and songwriter
1911 - Mervyn Peake, author
1927 - Ed Ames, singer, actor and Ames Brother
1929 - Lee Hazlewood, singer, songwriter, and producer
1929 - Jesse McReynolds, singer and mandolin player
1941 - Mac MacLeod, musician
1946 - Bon Scott, singer and songwriter
1964 - Courtney Love, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor
1975 - Jack White, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Died this day in:

1850 - The Bab
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist, 6.022140857 x 10²³
1880 - Paul Broca, physician and anatomist
1938 - Benjamin N. Cardozo, l;awyer and jurist
1974 - Earl Warren, jurist and politician
1977 - Alice Paul, suffragist and feminist
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress and author
1992 - Eric Sevareid, journalist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Pan-Galactic omphaloskepsis day.

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

Ottorino Respighi

Eddie Dean

Ed Ames

Lee Hazlewood

Jesse McReynolds

Mac MacLeod

Bon Scott

Courtney Love

Jack White

picture: Millard Fillmore, public domain

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Submitted by jobu on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 6:46am

The Splinter

Understand that we were a crowd of rational people. We knew that a home run cannot be produced at will; the right pitch must be perfectly met and luck must ride with the ball. Three innings before, we had seen a brave effort fail. The air was soggy; the season was exhausted. Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around a corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future.

Fisher, after his unsettling wait, was wide with the first pitch. He put the second one over, and Williams swung mightily and missed. The crowd grunted, seeing that classic swing, so long and smooth and quick, exposed, naked in its failure. Fisher threw the third time, Williams swung again, and there it was. The ball climbed on a diagonal line into the vast volume of air over center field. From my angle, behind third base, the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge. It was in the books while it was still in the sky. Brandt ran back to the deepest corner of the outfield grass; the ball descended beyond his reach and struck in the crotch where the bullpen met the wall, bounced chunkily, and, as far as I could see, vanished.

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs—hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn’t tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted “We want Ted” for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters. John Updike

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 8:49am

Good morning, Jobu, thanks for reading. Thank you for that

@jobu
great snippet from Updike: the momentous last at bat for the greatest pure hitter ever. As I recall, that was the winning run.

Understand that we were a crowd of rational people. We knew that a home run cannot be produced at will; the right pitch must be perfectly met and luck must ride with the ball. Three innings before, we had seen a brave effort fail. The air was soggy; the season was exhausted. Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around a corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future. Fisher, after his unsettling wait, was wide with the first pitch. He put the second one over, and Williams swung mightily and missed. The crowd grunted, seeing that classic swing, so long and smooth and quick, exposed, naked in its failure. Fisher threw the third time, Williams swung again, and there it was. The ball climbed on a diagonal line into the vast volume of air over center field. From my angle, behind third base, the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge. It was in the books while it was still in the sky. Brandt ran back to the deepest corner of the outfield grass; the ball descended beyond his reach and struck in the crotch where the bullpen met the wall, bounced chunkily, and, as far as I could see, vanished. Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs—hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn’t tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted “We want Ted” for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters. John Updike

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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 The Aspie Corner on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 8:39am

Left Anti-Communism: The Unkindest Cut

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng66jyv-KkI]

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 8:52am

Good morning, Aspie. For as long as I can remember a

@The Aspie Corner
large number of self-styled lefties and liberals have opposed communism, at least verbally, and quite vocally. That even included large numbers of self-descibed "socialists". Go figger.

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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 The Aspie Corner on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 9:29am

I'd expect the same from rising 'Socialist' star Ocasio-Cortez.

@enhydra lutris She talks big now, but give it until September-October. Guarantee she'll be on her knees apologizing to the far-right assholes who control both parties for her 'momentary lapse in judgment'. Bernie Sanders did the same in 2016.

Some on this site have even gone so far as to accuse me of being a purity troll or even a Bolshevik for wanting people to stand firm for something, but considering how quickly the capitulation comes after being promised little more than crumbs, I'd say my feelings are valid.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 9:08am

Morning to all.

Feeling great this morning despite the slings and arrows of mechanical malice.

If my SO doesn't need me, I'm looking forward to my solo Judo workout. Having the kids along is great, but it's SO much nicer being able to just concentrate on my own ukemi.

And thanks to the muses. Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, Urania, Polyhymnia and Terpsichore. Seriously, They've all been wonderful to me recently, (Judo has a LOT of dance like movements, I can't help but laugh at the world, it's been a joy rereading Aristophanes, My kids are playing music like never before, Etc... ) and I appreciate the hell out of their attention.

Thanks to everybody for supporting my work here through your comments and encouragement. It means the world to me.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ZNz_vLTR0]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 2:33pm

Good afternoon, detroit. Just back from our Monday walk at

@detroitmechworks
the lake and lunch. Great day, but warm and warming. Glad to read that you're laughing.

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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, 07/09/2018 - 9:35am

good morning all

Got the harvesting done early in the cool. Put on the wash before I went out, and just finished hanging it in the line. I've got a clothes line off the deck on pulleys so I can stand in one spot and hang out things to dry. I use a little fold out rack for small items.

The blueberries won't quit this year. There's a chickadee nest in one of the bushes and she will fuss at us the whole time we're harvesting. The turkey are beginning to help with the harvest too. The young ones will fly up into the bushes while the adults will work underneath. There's plenty this year for all. Some years we use bird netting to protect them. At this point i'm unsure how many gallons we've frozen but it is several.

Tomatoes are finally starting to crank up. Now just enough to keep us supplied, but soon to be more than we can eat. So we'll start canning. I've got a little camp stove we use on the porch to keep from heating up the house.

It is our busy season. With all the rain we've had things are really productive this year. Here's wishing you all a productive day and summer!

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

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 2:35pm

Good afternoon, Lookout, sounds like a productive day. We're

@Lookout
still unpacking, cleaning and stashing. A lot of stuff either bolted or wilted, but there are still some ripe apricots that the critters didn't get first, which is good.

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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 Alligator Ed on Tue, 07/10/2018 - 2:13am

Sadly, things done at life's end can overshadow all that came

Sadly, things done at life's end can overshadow all that came before.

The story of Millard Fillmore, as related on Wikipedia, is quite interesting about a man, currently assigned to the dust bin of American history. Unlike GHWB, W, and Bubba who do belong in the dust bill (or offal pile), his record was tattered primarily for the compromise of 1850 (which actually forestalled the civil war long enough for the North's resounding, but costly victory over the South), his engagement in the Know Nothing Party, and upholding of the Fugitive Slave Act.

What my dive into his history reveals that he was an excellent diplomat and negotiator. He avoided a possible prolonged war over Texas's claim of what is now New Mexico. He also avoided war with Britain and/or France and/or Spain over Cuba--a problem which almost provoked WW3 90 years later.
Had he been greedy, according to the likes of many current national politicians, he could certainly have enriched himself at national expense. Had he been more egotistical, he could well have won a full term as President, had he so chosen.