Why Knot?
Via swissmiss.
37
Number name:
thirty-seven
Visual representation:
……………………………….
Roman numerals:
XXXVII
Binary form:
100101
Prime factorization:
37 is a prime number.
Residues modulo small integers:
(2,1) (3,1) (4,1) (5,2) (6,1) (7,2) (8,5) (9,1)
Quadratic residues modulo 37:
1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36
Primitive roots modulo 37:
2, 5, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 32, 35
Character code 37:
% percent sign
ASCII:
37 (hex: 25, octal: 0045, binary: 00100101)
Properties:
37 is an odd number.
37 has a representation as a sum of 2 squares: 37 = 1² + 6²
37 is an irregular prime (divides Bernoulli number B32’s numerator).
37 is the hypotenuse of a primitive Pythagorean triple: 37² = 12² + 35²
From Wolfram|Alpha
Juliette Grosset, née Chevalier
Dieu accueille en sa maison aujourd’hui, Juliette Grosset, née Chevalier.
C’est dans le quartier de Saint Jacques que sa jeune maman Jeanne lui donna le jour le 1er février 1915.
La grande guerre la priva de son père pendant sa toute petite enfance. Elle eut un frère Henri puis une sœur Marie Thérèse.
Devant la maison familiale s’étendait une vaste tenue maraîchère jusqu’au bord de Sèvres. C’est là que Juliette passa son enfance et sa jeunesse, dans une famille unie et chaleureuse. C’est là aussi qu’elle commença à travailler à 12 ans après avoir obtenu son certificat d’étude, au prix d’un renoncement qu’elle évoquera toute sa vie : elle aurait tellement voulu étudier.
Quand elle épouse Joseph Grosset en 1940, Juliette est une femme déterminée, courageuse, connaissant parfaitement l’art du maraîchage d’avant garde, entrepreneuse et commerçante. Ils seront maraîchers rue du Croissant, à Nantes, et à Maubreuil, à Carquefou, pendant de longues années, avant de se choisir un lieu de vie à leur convenance, à Carquefou
Juliette et Joseph ont eu le grand bonheur de vivre ensemble pendant 65 ans, avec leur deux filles Annick et Josette, puis 6 petits enfants et à ce jour 11 arrières petits enfants, qu’ils ont entourés d’attention et d’affection. Ce fut son grand bonheur de voir ses petits enfants et arrière petits enfants grandir, et elle suivit avec beaucoup d’intérêt et de fierté leurs réussites dans leur vie et dans leurs études.
Le souvenir de Juliette évoque pour nous tous son sourire rayonnant, et toute sa personne accueillante, soucieuse du bonheur de chacun, préparant de délicieux repas pour la convivialité et le partage.
Elle a entouré sa famille et ses amis dans la joie et dans les épreuves, visitant les malades et ceux que la vie laissait dans la solitude.
Si dans la vie de Juliette, le travail fut un maître mot, elle le réalisa non seulement avec courage mais aussi dans la dignité, l’honnêteté et le respect des personnes. Les employés qui travaillaient sur leur exploitation partageaient la table familiale et étaient respectueusement considérés.
Juliette aimait beaucoup les voyages, découvrir des horizons nouveaux, admirer des paysages, la mer, les Pyrénées en septembre, quand le travail d’été terminé, elle pouvait prendre un peu de repos avec Joseph.
La fidélité marque la vie de Juliette, fidélité de ses sentiments, fidélité dans l’amitié.
Son amie la plus ancienne, Anne-Marie, était avec elle dans la petite école de Saint Jacques ; jusqu’à ce jour elles n’ont cessé de se voir. Pendant sa longue vie, d’autres amitiés se sont construites. Quand à plus de 60 ans, elle emménage au Housseau, c’est une maison aux portes grandes ouvertes qui s’offre à de nouvelles rencontres.
Fidélité aussi dans ses convictions religieuses.
Quand son mari tant aimé s’en est allé, elle lui a dit adieu en restant à sa façon persuadée qu’il était encore là, pouvant venir la visiter; elle demandait de ses nouvelles, et ajoutait souvent : on a été si heureux ensemble, on s’est beaucoup aimé.
Elle a vécu ces trois années passées au Gué Florent, la maison de retraite toute proche à Orvault, où elle fut entourée de soins et d’attention d’une très grande humanité par tout les professionnels présents ; ce fut un apaisement pour elle et sa famille dans cette étape de vie souvent si difficile.
Sa longue vie arrivant à son terme, Juliette a eu la délicatesse de partir tout doucement, laissant ainsi à ses enfants le temps, jour après jour, de s’habituer à lui dire au revoir, rassemblant dans son regard ses ultimes forces pour recueillir leurs mots d’amour et de vérité.
Elle a exprimé son espérance d’être accueillie dans la maison de Dieu, et de retrouver ses chers parents, son époux, son frère et sa sœur.
Nous sommes là aujourd’hui pour l’accompagner et la remercier, assurés qu’elle demeurera dans notre souvenir pour son amour et son bel exemple de vie dans la dignité.
Par Josette Ghalimi, née Grosset
Tao Aidan Chang Ghalimi
Tao Aidan Chang Ghalimi was born earlier today, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 9:29 PM, at the nearby Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. He weighted 8 lbs 1 oz, and measured 20.5 inches. Tao, his parents, and his big sister Neige are all doing very well, and are happy to be together with their family and friends.
And here is more on Tao, and more on Aidan.
Put to The Test
I’ve been a self-proclaimed Stoic for less than 24 hours, and I’ve already been put to the test. As I parked my car into a tight spot, I badly scratched the left side. I bought the car new 5 years ago, and never had a single dent on it, at the exception of minor scratches on the right rims, which are almost impossible to avoid when parking close to the sidewalk. In less than 5 seconds, 5 years of love and care have been reduced to nothing. My shiny car is scratched. What did I learn from the experience? Do not get attached to shiny new objects, for sooner or later they will lose their luster. And whenever parking into a tight spot, use extra caution. Also, I’m really glad that I just scratched the car, instead of getting into an accident or injured anyone. After all, this is just a car…
Headlines
My parents are in town for a couple of weeks and watched Tuesday’s election night with a great deal of emotion. Yesterday, they went looking for a copy of the New York Times, to no avail. I tried buying a reprint online, but The New York Times Store seems to be down. So I went looking for a digital copy of The New York Time’s homepage, and found a low resolution screenshot on KONIGI. I then emailed its webmaster, Michael Angeles, who sent me a high resolution version. It’s not as sensual as a paper copy, but it might last a bit longer, and it’s definitely easier to share. Many thanks to Michael for his help.
Congratulations to Jeff & Dom
Jeff & Dom, May and I wish you a very happy life together.
And we made sure to vote no on proposition 8.
Cheers!
Listening to Eisenhower
Fourty seven years ago, a General, World War II hero, and two-term Republican President of the United States gave this remarkable address to the Nation. In light of recent events, I think we should listen to it again. Here is a transcript, courtesy of the Information Clearing House.
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation
January 17, 1961
Good evening, my fellow Americans: First, I should like to express my gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunity they have given me over the years to bring reports and messages to our nation. My special thanks go to them for the opportunity of addressing you this evening.
Three days from now, after a half century of service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on questions of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation.
My own relations with Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the nation well rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should go forward. So my official relationship with Congress ends in a feeling on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Throughout America’s adventure in free government, such basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and among nations.
To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.
Any failure traceable to arrogance or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us a grievous hurt, both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle – with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in the newer elements of our defenses; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research – these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
But each proposal must be weighed in light of a broader consideration; the need to maintain balance in and among national programs – balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages – balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between the actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well in the face of threat and stress.
But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise.
Of these, I mention two only.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system – ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war – as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years – I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.
So – in this my last good night to you as your President – I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.
You and I – my fellow citizens – need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nations’ great goals.
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America’s prayerful and continuing aspiration:
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.
Thank you, and good night.
The Visitor
Once again, Jeff Skoll and Participant Productions produced a great movie, this time about immigration in the United States. The Visitor is a poignant illustration of the toll a broken immigration process takes on people’s lives. Strongly recommended!
Ruber Band Gun
As a kid, I used to build some made of wood.
I would have given anything for a Metal Gear Solid though.
Father Pride
Neige is only 14 months old, but she never ceases to surprise me. Today, she picked her mom’s iPhone up, turned it on by pressing her little left thumb on the top button, then unlocked it by sliding her tiny right index across the bottom of the screen. In and by itself, such a feat is quite impressive, and is testament to Apple’s intuitive user interface. But what amazed me is that she did all this while standing up on the sofa, using her upper body to balance herself on this uneven and soft surface. And she only has three weeks of upright walking experience under her belt–or diapers shall I say. Neige: you’re making daddy very proud.
Keith Jarrett Concert
Tonight, May and I attended Keith Jarrett’s opening concert at the SFJAZZ Festival. He played with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, and the performance was absolutely fantastic. Jacques-Alexandre, Raphaele, and Ihab came with us, and sat next to a lady who attended Keith Jarrett’s every single concert since the early 70’s, including the legendary Köln Concert. Here is a truly dedicated fan…
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