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QUINCY – The Church of Scientology of Boston has moved the center of its New England operations to a 14,400-square-foot space in Quincy Center.
The church signed a two-year lease for space at 1515 Hancock St., officials from the church's headquarters in Los Angeles confirmed Tuesday night.
"The Church is fully up and running at this location," church spokeswoman Linda Wieland stated in an email. "This is a temporary location while we complete the planning and renovations of our future permanent home in the former Alexandra Hotel in Boston's South End."
The church's offices, ministry and humanitarian programs are now housed on Hancock Street, Wieland said.
The Church of Scientology of Boston counts about 30,000 people across New England as its parishioners.
A controversial religion, the Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It teaches that technology can expand the mind and help solve problems. It claims millions of members worldwide, including celebrity devotees Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Scientology has faced allegations that it is a dangerous cult that brainwashes its followers and collects their assets. Its leaders deny that.
The church relocated to Quincy from Beacon Street in Boston's Back Bay. It plans to renovate a dilapidated landmark building on Washington Street in the South End of Boston into a 45,000-square-foot permanent headquarters, according to plans filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
The Hancock Street building that will temporarily house the Scientology church is owned by Quince Limited Partnership, but it is about to be sold.
Earl Cate, the president of Quince, said Tuesday that his building is under agreement to be sold, but a closing date has not been set.
The 4-story building, which was once the location of Remick's department store, is valued at $12.5 million by Quincy assessors.
In January, the Quince real estate company was locked in a legal dispute with the principal developer behind the $1.6 billion downtown redevelopment project, Street-Works.
Street-Works was going to buy the building for $12.9 million, but earlier this year, Mayor Thomas Koch cut ties with Street-Works, putting on hold the plans to create 3.5 million square feet of new residential, retail, office, entertainment and educational space by 2020.
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Lars Hörmander's father was a teacher in the small fishing village on the south coast of Sweden where he was born. Lars attended his first school in the village, then made a daily train journey to attend a higher level school in a larger nearby town. For the next stage in his schooling he had to move to Lund where he attended the gymnasium. There he was able to devote much time to studying university level mathematics, encouraged by a teacher who had been a research student of Marcel Riesz.
In 1948 Hörmander graduated from the gymnasium and studied at the University of Lund. There he was taught by Marcel Riesz who lectured to him on classical function theory and harmonic analysis. Hörmander was awarded a master's degree in 1950 and began to undertake research supervised by Marcel Riesz. After Marcel Riesz retired in 1952 Hörmander began working on the theory of partial differential equations.
Before completing his doctorate, Hörmander spent the year 1953-54 doing military service but he was able to continue reading mathematics during this time. His doctorate was completed in 1955 and he applied for a professorship at the University of Stockholm. Before a decision was made on the professorship Hörmander left for a visit to the United States where he spent time at the universities of Chicago, Kansas and Minnesota. He also visited the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (now the Courant Institute) which was directed at that time by Courant.
Back in Sweden he took up the appointment of professor at Stockholm from the beginning of 1957 which had been offered to him while he was in the United States. He continued to spend time in the United States, particularly at Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1962 the International Congress was held in Stockholm and Hörmander, as well as being heavily involved in the organisation, received a Fields Medal for his work on partial differential equations.
Garding, describing Hörmander's contributions that earned him the Fields Medal, writes in [2] of early contributions by Hadamard to linear differential operators which led to the first complete results by Petrovsky. He continues:-
... in a lecture in 1945 [Petrovsky] explicitly asked for a general theory of linear differential operators including those which do not appear in the mathematical models of physics. ... In his book on distributions Laurent Schwartz ... stated a number of problems about differential operators. Since then a rather comprehensive theory has been worked out. Many people have contributed but the deepest and most significant results are due to Hörmander.
In 1963 Hörmander made an arrangement which allowed him to spend the academic teaching year in Stockholm and spring and summer at the University of Stanford in the United States. However, he writes in [4]:-
I had barely arrived at Stanford when I received an offer to come to the Institute for Advanced Study as a permanent member and professor. Although I had previously been determined not to leave Sweden, the opportunity to do research full time in a mathematically very active environment was hard to resist.
Hörmander spent from 1964 to 1968 at Princeton but felt the pressure of a full time research position so returned to Sweden to take up the chair of mathematics at the University of Lund in 1968. However he returned for frequent visits to the United States, in particular to the Institute for Advanced Study and to Stanford.
In [5] Hörmander describes the direction of his research after the award of the Fields Medal. In particular he describes how the main areas developed which are covered by his four volume text The analysis of linear partial differential operators the volumes of which appeared between 1983 and 1985. This work updates his original book Linear Partial Differential Operators (1963) which contained the results which led to his award of the Fields Medal.
Hörmander describes in [4] the later stages of his career:-
After five years devoted to writing a four volume monograph on linear partial differential operators, I spent the academic years 1984-86 as director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm. I had only accepted a two year appointment with leave of absence from Lund since I suspected that the many administrative duties there would not agree very well with me. The hunch was right, and since 1986 I have been in Lund where I became professor emeritus in January 1996.
Hörmander's text, An Introduction to Complex Analysis in Several Variables, has become a classic dealing with the theory of functions of several complex variables. It developed from lecture notes of a course which he gave in Stanford in 1964 and published in book form two years later. Extra material was added to later expanded editions of the work which appeared in 1973 and in 1990.
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- All children 12 and under should sit in a rear seat, which, if there should be a collision, is much safer than the front seat.
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All seats sold today should carry labels certifying they meet or exceed Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213. Those made before January 1, 1981, do not meet this standard and should not be used. You can call the NHTSA auto safety hotline (800-424-9393) or check the Web site www.nhtsa.dot.gov to see if your used seat has been recalled.
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Michael and Amy McGrath to Charles Blanchard, lot 149, Walton Acres No. 3.
Samuel Morris (deceased) to Ruth Morris, metes, Cross Creek Township.
Charles Morris to Megan Boling, lot 144, Langfitt's Subdivision.
Kenneth and Marcia Miller to Christopher Ritter, lots 164-165, Overlook Hills.
Robert Soly to Devin Parsons, metes, Wells-Warren Township.
Tiffany Ward to Cara Colantoni and Adam Walter, lot 78, Buena Vista Heights (survivorship).
PNC Bank to David Clarke, lot 39, Lincoln Heights.
Stacie Beavers to David Clarke, part lots 1-2, Upland Park First Allotment.
William Takacs Jr. and others to Derek Hill, lot 70 and part lot 71, Robert Clark Second.
First National Bank of Pennsylvania to Michael Costlow, lot 26, Hiddenwood Estates.
Melvin Funk to Eric Sutherin, 0.622 acre, Island Creek Township.
Francis and Tamy Brennan Jr. to Francis Brennan Jr., 9.25 acres, Knox Township.
Housing & Urban Development to Ohio Smart Investors LLC, 0.5603 acre, Wells-Warren Township.
Holly Hughes to Jason Hughes, 1.5419 acres, Island Creek Township.
Fannie Mae to Thomas and Lori Galbreath, lot 42, Crestview Manor No. 3.
Annabelle Sudvary to Trevor Sudvary, 0.556 acre, Warren Township.
Annabelle Sudvary to Brenda Sudvary, lots 32-33, Vine Cliff.
Shawn and Becky Faulkner to Paul Faulkner, metes, Well-Warren Township.
Mike Sudvary Jr. (deceased) to Annabelle Sudvary, metes, Warren Township.
Lavonne Dellacoletta (deceased) to Norman and Brent Dellacoletta, lots 5-6, W. Lowrie Allen Subdivision.
Wanda Briggs (deceased) to Lori Schill and others, lots 168 and 170-171, Upland Park Second Allotment.
George Timcho (deceased) to Margaret Timcho, lots 15-16, Langfitt.
Thomas Zani to Natasha Plumly and Thomas Zani, lot 12, St. John Heights.
Howard Graham (deceased) to Shirley Graham, lot 144, Sunset Gardens No. 2.
Wendell Reese to Carolyn Clark, metes, Knox Township.
Carolyn and Jimmy Clark to Richard and Brenda Daniels, metes, Knox Township (survivorship).
Francis Homes LLC to Paul Montano, lot 107, Saltsman Fourth.
Madelyn Dile and Dorothy Dile to Frederick Hayes, lot 51, Steubenville Pottery Co.
Dennis Dylewski to Mary Savage, part lot 40 and lot 41, Altamont Subdivision.
Ronald Callender (deceased) to Michael and Sherri Malcolm, lot 97, Country Club Hills (survivorship).
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Bruce Clark, lot 10, David Spauldings First.
Mary Pulice and David Hilliard to David Hilliard, metes, Cross Creek Township.
Craig and Anita Petrella to Petrella Enterprises LLC, lots 128-129, David Spaulding Second; lot 36A, Waggoner & McEldowney; part lots 45-46, Simmons & Foster; and metes, Cross Creek Township; and metes, Island Creek Township.
John Grimes (deceased to Lyda Grimes and others, metes, Cross Creek Township.
Joseph Heatherington (deceased) to Frank and Claudia Holmes III, lot 252, Dixon Heights (survivorship).
Karen Keller to Jackie Schoolcraft and Rose Schoolcraft, metes, Springfield Township.
Housing & Urban Development to James Ludewig, lot 2, Original Mount Pleasant.
Joseph and Carolyn Glaub to Enterprise Liquids Pipeline, metes, Island Creek Township; and lots 7-28 38-43 45-51 and part lots 29, 37, 52-54 and 69, Riverview Place.
Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust to Bryan and Brittany Esarey, lot 42, Belvedere (survivorship).
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd' 1972 Dodge Charger SE - Charging AheadWritten by Johnny Hunkins on February 12, 2008 Contributors: Ashley Yoder Look for Kenny Wayne Shepherd's new '72 Charger SE project on Speed Channel's Hot Rod TV.
When we took the wraps off of rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd's '70 Duster in our March issue, he had just started work on a new project-a '72 Dodge Charger. In the April issue, we gave you a sneak peak of that car with a few morsels of info to tease you. Kenny's Charger is coming along nicely, and we recently had a chance to sit down with him for a quick interview.
The theme of unloved and forgotten cars is one we touch upon a lot at PHR, and Kenny's '72 Charger is along those lines. There once was a time when the roads were full of mid-'70s B-bodies like this one. We miss those days, and so does Kenny. "I'm trying to build a car that is reliable-one that performs, handles, and drives as well as a brand-new car. At the same time, it has classic styling. Also, I'm trying to generate some attention for the third-generation Charger, which I feel is one of those overlooked cars."
Work is progressing rapidly on Shepherd's Charger as the Hot Rod TV cameras roll on. All of the work is being done at Picture Car Warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, under the watchful eye of proprietor Ted Moser. Shepherd: "One of the things we're doing is modifying the floorboards to accommodate a six-speed Viper transmission. That's a lot of work. We smoothed out the keyholes on the car, and the side marker lights. We're also filling in the front bumper to eliminate the license plate recess. We're smoothing the bumpers, welding the bolts to the bumper, and grinding them down, then tucking them tight to the body."
All that work for a Viper transmission will be justified, as the '72 Charger SE will be packing one of Mopar Performance's new fuel-injected 392-inch all-aluminum Hemis. The Charger will be a rolling testbed for some very high-tech, yet streetable gear. The 392 Hemi fits that bill perfectly, with 525 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque at the flywheel. "All the wiring as well as the harness comes with the 392," says Shepherd. "The computer is preprogrammed from Mopar. It's really cool because it's a plug-and-play application."
Following through with the modern high-tech theme is a modern coilover front, and Viper independent rear suspension. "Matt Delaney, a good friend of mine, has come on board by gathering the right components, most especially for the suspension," says Shepherd. "These suspension pieces are from Reilly MotorSports. It's their AlterKtion frontend." For about $3,500, the AlterKtion front K-member kit converts '62-72 Mopar B-bodies from torsion bars, to a modern coilover double-wishbone design.
At the rear, a Viper IRS with factory 3.07:1 gearing will complete the mechanical update of the classic B-body. "This is a Viper rear differential. It's an aluminum housing, so it's light, but it's heavy-duty too. It can definitely take the abuse that the 392 Hemi can put out," says Shepherd. (Having featured many of Matt Delaney's prior Mopars in PHR, we don't even have to ask where Kenny got the Viper IRS idea from!)
From the beginning of this project, Shepherd has worked closely with Shannon Hudson of Redline Gauge Works. The two have shared a common vision for the Charger since day one, when they were initially running down leads for a suitable starter car. Hudson's area of expertise is custom gauges, which have showed up on more award-winning musclecars than we can count. Obviously, the finished Charger interior will feature Hudson's handiwork, along with requisite upgrades from Just Dashes (dash restoration), Year One (various items), and Kicker Audio (Shepherd: "This thing is going to have an awesome sound system!").
As work progresses, more equipment choices are being made. At this point, Shepherd has elected to go with TTI headers and exhaust tips, a custom MagnaFlow exhaust, modified 2008 Sebring convertible seats, BFGoodrich tires, and most likely custom Foose wheels.
We look forward to seeing how this forgotten classic turns out. We give Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his posse of Mopar freaks a lot of credit for taking on a '72 Charger SE. Prediction: The market for third-gen Chargers is going to heat up real quick come April-so get yours now. We know we'll be watching the Speed Channel on April 12, when this bad boy hits the small screen.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd's '72 Charger SE project gets underway at Picture Car Warehouse, in Los Angeles. Kenny (left) is assisted by his cousin, Jacob Smith (center), and friend, Shannon Hudson (right).Stripping off old paint from a huge Mopar B-body is back-breaking work. Kenny Wayne and Shannon are doing it the old-fashioned way-with DA sanders.The buildup of Kenny's Charger is being documented by the crew of Hot Rod TV. The episode airs on Speed Channel on April 12. Here's Kenny explaining the difference between '71 and '72 Charger side marker lights-and why he's planning on shaving them completely off the car.Shannon and Kenny attack the interior. There isn't a lot of aftermarket stuff made for the '72 Charger interior, so they plan on reusing what they can. Year One is supplying available parts wherever possible.Kenny "the cut-up" rejects the IP bezel after Shannon deems it unsalvageable. Shannon's specialty is custom gauge restoration, and he figures he can do a lot better with one of the salvaged IPs back at his place-Redline Gauge Works.It's Christmas time at Picture Car Warehouse, as Ted Moser (left) and Kenny examine new Viper rear suspension pieces, which will be integrated into the Reilly MotorSports IRS. It's never been tried before on a B-body, but RMS has been down this road before with E-bodies.Ahh, the real jewel of the project: the new fuel-injected 392-inch Hemi crate motor from Mopar Performance! With 525 hp on tap, it's so cool, Kenny's just got to write a song about it.The basis for the Charger's rear suspension will be the Viper's IRS. Kenny's pointing out for the TV crew that it's lightweight, yet bulletproof. Everything you want in a modern street-going musclecar.You may remember this Ben Hermance '73 Charger rendering from the November 2007 issue of PHR (Dream Car Of The Month). It's a concept called "Project Cannibal." No, Kenny didn't take inspiration from it or even know about it, but it's proof that great minds think alike. After Kenny explained to Shannon his idea for the Charger, Shannon mentioned that he'd seen the Hermance rendering. Key differences: Kenny's Charger will not be shortened at the nose, nor will it be chopped. The overall look will be similar, with matte-black graphics over a gloss black color coat and a thin red pinstripe. Stainless matte bumper trim is being discussed as well. Yeah, yeah, we know, "Blue On Black" is the obvious choice for paint. Forget about it. With Kenny's blessing, that combo's already been taken by Bill Goldberg's '70 Superbird project currently going together at Year One.


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I am looking for a proof or a reference of the following statement:
Let $f$ be a non-constant polynomial with integer coefficients. Then the sum $\sum \{1/p \mid f \text{ has a root modulo } p\}$ diverges.
I am pretty sure that I saw it somewhere before but I cannot remember and I failed to find it in number theory books. A possible routes that has already been suggested to me is actually showing that the sums of reciprocals for which f even decomposes into linear factors has positive density which should stem from Galois theory. I am however not an expert in Galois theory so that I would prefer a direct proofs or a reference.
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I downloaded Oracle Application Server 10g from this Oracle site. It has 4 .cpio files for the Linux installation. How do I unzip and install it on VMWare?
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I am interested in finding the latitude and longitude of a point on a map. How do I do so in Google Maps?
In Google Maps Labs are two features which can do that.
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LatLng Marker
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You can also just click the "Link" button on the upper right hand corner above the map. This will generate a link that will contain the latitude and longitude of the center of the map as a query string parameter call "ll".
There's a maplet extension you can add your "my maps" called "GPS Location" If you add that to your map and then click on a point. It will add a pin with the GPS info on it


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6 Dinosaurs We Just Found Out Had X-Men Powers
There are a handful of things you learn as a child that hold true all the way through adulthood: stoves are hot, you cannot ride the dog, and dinosaurs are awesome. Those are the only facts in life; everything else is subjective. But recent discoveries are shedding some shocking new light on our planet's resident badasses. Your heart fell a bit reading that, but don't worry -- we're learning that, if anything, dinosaurs may have been way cooler than we ever thought possible.
#6. Tyrannosaurus' Cute Little Arms Could Rip You to Shreds
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Tyrannosaurus rex was the Tyrannosaurus rex of the dinosaur world. You don't need metaphors when you've got a bite force in excess of the weight of an African elephant. A single nibble from T. rex makes your whole goddamn species go extinct. The only thing powerful enough to kill and eat a T. rex is another T. rex. Still, there's one thing that made every T. rex grow up to develop a nagging inferiority complex, and that's the relentless teasing all the other dinosaurs gave him about his itty-bitty arms.
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"Dude, it's how you use it."
Hey, you guys, T. rex is napping -- quick, tickle his ear hole and let's watch him try to slap it! And then we'd laugh and laugh, and he'd use those hilariously inadequate arms to rip us clean the fuck in two.
Though they were only slightly longer than an average man's, you've got to remember that a T. rex's arms were attached to nine salivating tons of pure, fabulous muscle. His biceps alone could curl 430 pounds apiece, and that's not even taking into account the fact that those guns had backup in the form of the friggin' nuclear weapons that were his chest and shoulder muscles. Paleontologists think that a T. rex's arms were powerful enough to help him push his enormous body up from the ground after sleeping, or to latch onto a female T. rex during mating. If they're strong enough to bone a T. rex with, those arms are more than strong enough to rip you apart like so much meaty Weetabix.
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In case he gets bored of eating you whole and decides to make kebabs instead.
#5. Sauropods Could Bring the Thunder (Literally)
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The apatosaurus was basically a slow-moving magnitude-4 earthquake. Paleontologist Philip Currie teamed up with Microsoft computer wizard Nathan Myrhvold to create a computer model of a living one, and together they found that the dinosaur's extremely long, tapered tail could be whipped at supersonic speeds -- a theory bolstered by the fact that the apatosaurus fossils they examined had an area of fused vertebrae near the end of the tail, indicating repeated stress. What does all this mean? Well, have you ever gone to a circus and seen a performer put on a show with a bullwhip? And do you remember the loud crack the whip made when snapped? That's because the loop of the whip breaks the sound barrier and produces a miniature sonic boom. Now, take that crack and amplify it by a factor of apatosaurus.
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This basically entails hitting multiply over and over until the calculator breaks.
Of course, other paleontologists say the bullwhip theory is a bunch of bunk, and to those paleontologists we say, "Shhh, it's better this way. Some truths are not meant for man."
But just in case they're right, we feel obligated to supply you with equally awesome backup information: Brontomerus, rather cruelly translated to "thunder thighs," is a species of sauropod recently discovered in Utah. It had a massive bone in the upper part of its hip, and where there's a massive bone, there are also massive muscles attached to it. If apatosaurus was the dinosaurs' answer to Indy, brontomerus was their Pele: While most sauropods looked like defenseless walking buffets of exposed neck meat, scientists believe that if you were to call a brontomerus "thunder thighs" to its face, you could have found yourself on the receiving end of a full-bore dinosaur punt, pictured here, in the single best paleontological rendering ever commissioned.
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#4. Crested Dinosaurs Were Musical
We've always dreamed that dinosaurs spoke in either blood-splintering roars or prim-and-proper British accents (our dreams are weird), but medical scans of fossil skulls have shown that parasaurolophus and its relatives had a more sophisticated repertoire. The bony crest on this hadrosaur's head formed a long resonating tube that connected to the nasal cavity -- kind of like a built-in didgeridoo that sounded off with a deep, somber note whenever the animal blew its nose. A team of researchers recreated the sweet dino-song of parasaurolophus via computer simulation:
The skull scans also showed that these bands of musical dinosaurs probably had the brainpower necessary to use these calls for communication (for mating, of course). We'll never know how advanced their musical talents might have been, but we're going to go out on a limb here and speculate that some lucky lady parasaurolophus was once serenaded by the fiercest saxophone solo this side of George Michael's Careless Whisper.


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'wget', 'pca', and TLP users need to accept updated software license
By Gerry Haskins-Oracle on Feb 01, 2010
As the software license agreement terms were updated last week upon Sun becoming a wholly owned subsiduary of Oracle, customers who use 'wget' to automate patch downloads from SunSolve will need to login in once to SunSolve and accept the updated software license agreement before they can continue to use 'wget'. Please note that some popular patch automation tools such as Traffic Light Patching (TLP) and the 3rd party 'pca' tool use 'wget' and hence this notice is applicable to them too.
http://sunsolve.sun.com currently has the following message at the top of the SunSolve home page:
Alert: wget customers ~ Please log into SunSolve to re-accept the new Software License Agreement prior to running any wget scripts. You can also look under "Update Account" and refer to:
Step 5: Register for patch download automation
Check the box to confirm that you read the license and save the changes. Downloads will work as normal at this point.


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I have here a complex equation:
$$z^2 - (7+j)z + 24 +j7 = 0$$
How do we get the roots of this equation? I started using the quadratic formula $-b \pm \sqrt{ b^2-4ac}\over 2$, but it yielded too much complexity on it. Is there any way to directly attack this? Thanks.


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text: 15 February 2012 archive See all show photos ANNA SUI must have scored the coolest round-up of models for her dressing-up box, late-Sixties-inspired autumn/winter 2012-13 collection with Abbey Lee Kershaw, Lily Donaldson and Friday Gustavsson all walking the runway – and their smiles showed they were having a great time doing it. The reflection on the decade was more artsy than we've seen this season (other designers went for more literal translations in houndstooth and black Mod-ish styling), and Sui kept us guessing with browns, fuchsia, orange, bright aqua blue and lime green. Guests were cooing about the owl beanies and motifs on coats and there were some zany retro printed dresses with frilled bibs to keep the entertainment factor high. Some cosy dark red and pink bold stripped overcoats would be more sober with street tailoring (they were paired with neon pink tights on the runway), but there was no shying away from the long-sleeved, knee-length shifts that came in an array of eye-squinting oranges, reds and pinks. A cute bomber jacket in orange with brown sleeves and stripped cuffs would be an upbeat winter outfit when worn with the brown corduroy baggy shorts, and the Russian doll-style prints that had a magical edge. Which many of this season's key looks are fitted, narrow and unforgiving, the generous Sui gave us kaftans and smock dresses in those bold colours and clashing prints as eveningwear, except one which was a white and gold-spun gown that looked liked it had stepped straight out of the pages of a fairy tale. SEE THE ANNA SUI SHOW ARCHIVE Hannah Rand Continue reading Back to top


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Florida Discount Air Conditioning HVAC Repair - AC Locators
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During this Spring and Summer season, AC Locators helped a countless number of homeowners save an average of almost a thousand dollars when replacing their HVAC systems. Now that Autumn is upon us and inventory is depleting, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find ways to continue to save homeowners $500 to $1000 or more on their air conditioning repair costs. That's why AC Locators is making one final offer of $500 or more off all system replacements while supplies last.
Us the following Online Coupon to save at least $500 when replacing your furnace or air conditioning system, or call us for details at (954) 464-6294.
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Published May 15th, 2006 As afternoon temperatures steadily rise into the unbearable range, many homeowners are facing a harsh reality.
Their air conditioners are exceeding their service-life and failing. Many fill themselves with the false hope that their system may only need freon - as though freon is a consumable like gas in a car. The ugly truth is, freon never leaves the system - and only escapes when a leak has formed, which is very seldom. .
An even uglier thruth is the fact that air conditioning and HVAC repair prices increased approximately 50% on January 1st of this year, when our government imposed more stringent regulations on the HVAC industry. SEER 13 is now the lowest legal efficiency level service companies are allowed to install.
But there's still a little hope out there. Licensed HVAC contractors are allowed to install the previous, less expensive units as long as they're available. One of the ways AC Locators saves its customers money is by finding SEER 10 units which saves their customers $500 to $1,000 or more.
Another way AC Locators saves their customers a great deal of money is by only advertising Online. Online advertising adds only pennies to the cost of each sale. Other companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year advertising on television, in the newspaper, over the radio and through the mail. In order to recoupe their advertising investment, they have to add up to $1,000 to each sale they make.
AC Locators also saves their customers a good deal of money by making many of their sales over the phone. Most companies send a high pressure "closer" on every sales call to intimidate customers into signing a big contract that has a huge commission built into it. If the customer feels the price is too high, they have to pay for an expensive service call.
AC Locators knows that systems are warranted for five years and usually last a few years past that. If a customer calls with a broken system that's over ten or fifteen years old, they're treated faily over the phone and quoted a nice low price. They make many more sales this way, they pass the savings along to their customers, the charge less for their services and in turn - make more sales than anyone else in the industry.
AC Locators are located in Buford near the Mall of Georgia and in Sugar Hill.
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Air conditioning HVAC repair costing consumers up to 50% more due to new gov. regulations
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ATLANTA - As afternoon temperatures recently rose above the comfort level - area homeowners tried turning on their air conditioning for the first time this year.
Most functioned normally, but for some it meant making a call to their local air conditioning and HVAC repair companies. When they did so - many were shocked to learn about the dramatic increase in repair costs. After January, manufacturers were required to produce units with a minimum of SEER 13 efficiency level.
Spring is a time of renewal, including renewed interest in our homes and yards. It is a time to assess what is usually our single biggest investment our home to see if it needs cleaning, repair, maintenance or maybe remodeling or redecorating.
For the next four weeks, the Home & Garden section will examine many facets of the home and yard. We begin with a glossary of terms that are commonly used but not necessarily understood in the home business.
Knowing these words and why they are important will empower you in caring for your home, whether you tackle jobs yourself or hire things done.
Bearing wall: A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight. If youre remodeling and want to open up your floor plan, you cant remove a bearing wall unless you make other arrangements.
Circuit: The path of electric current as it travels from the source to the appliance or fixture and back to the source.
Drywall: Panels consisting of a layer of gypsum plaster covered on both sides with paper, used for finishing interior walls and ceilings. Also called wallboard, gypsum wallboard and Sheetrock, a trade name.
Fascia: The flat, long piece of wood that hangs directly below the edge of your roof and prevents the rainwater from blowing back into your houses windows.
GFCI: An acronym for Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter, a small inexpensive device developed to prevent electrical shocks. These devices need to be tripped and reset every month.
New homes are built with GFCIs, and the National Electrical Safety Foundation urges people with older homes to have a qualified electrician install GFCIs in outlets that are outdoors, or in bathrooms, kitchens or other locations where products may come in contact with water.
Header: The beam perpendicular to joists, or the beams that support floors and ceilings. Headers are nailed to joists to make frames for a chimney, stairway, window, door or other opening.
HEPA: An acronym for High Efficiency Particulate Absorbing. A HEPA filter can (theoretically) remove from the air at least 99.97 percent of dust, pollen, mold, bacteria and any airborne particles with a size of 0.3 micrometres. Some vacuum cleaners tout HEPA filters.
The original HEPA filter was designed in the 1940s for the Manhattan Project to prevent the spread of airborne radioactive contaminants. It was commercialized in the 1950s and the original term became both a registered trademark and a generic term for highly efficient filters.
Joists: Beams that support floors and ceilings. They are supported at the ends by walls, girders or larger beams.
MDF: An acronym for Medium-Density Fiberboard, an engineered wood product formed by breaking wood into fibers, combining them with wax and resin, and forming panels by applying high temperature and pressure. Much of the wood trim and even doors inside todays new homes are made of MDF because it can be routed easily to look like carved wood. It has to be painted, though.
Large-scale production of MDF began in the 1980s. One contentious issue is the use of formaldehyde resins and the associated health risks. Thus, other resins are being introduced.
OSB: An acronym for Oriented Strand Board, an engineered wood product formed by layering strands (flakes) of wood in specific orientations. The wood has a rough and variegated surface with the individual strips lying unevenly across each other in the direction of their grain.
The finished product has similar properties to plywood, but is uniform and cheaper. It has begun to replace natural plywood in many environments. The most common uses are as sheathing in walls, floors, and roofs.
There is some debate over the environmental impact of OSB. On the one hand, it allows producers to use tree species that are otherwise unfit for standard veneer plywood or lumber, such as aspen or poplar. The production method uses almost all the wood of the harvested trees and both small, young trees and lower-quality, fast-growing species can be used. However, the manufacturing process requires the use of a variety of deadly volatile compounds including formaldehyde.
PVC: An acronym for Poly Vinyl Chloride, a plastic resin used to make all kinds of products common in construction, from pipes for water, sewer and venting to house siding. As siding, it is low-maintenance, less expensive than its rivals, resistant to fading, and is available in a wide range of colors.
But PVC can cause a rare form of liver cancer in humans, and although vinyl may be safe while it is on your home, some scientists believe that its manufacture and disposal is hazardous to our health and the environment because of toxic chemicals that are released.
P-trap: In plumbing, this is the P-shaped curl in the drain below the sink (and other fixtures) that acts as a water door, preventing sewer gasses from escaping into your home. A no-odor device, if you will. The curved portion holds water and traps sewer gas. Water and waste travel downward through the P-trap with no problem, while sewer gasses stay where they belong in the sewer below the P-trap.
The P-trap also can be a valuables-saving device. The same loop that holds back sewer gasses could save the ring you dropped down the drain as well. Unfortunately, the P-trap can also hold hair and soap scum and cause the drain to clog at the curve.
Now, according to a recent article by James and Morris Carey, someone has come up with something better the T-trap. It is shaped like a T and where an upscale P-trap will have an access hole for cleaning, the T-trap will have an access hole and a removable (and replaceable) filter.
Nothing can get past this improved trap. Jewelry, money, and other valuables cant be lost. The filter is intended to trap hair and soap scum as well, reducing clogs down the line that could be very difficult to clean and clear. With the T-trap, you open the trap, pull out the filter and anything that might be stuck in it.
R value: A measure of the capacity of a material, such as insulation, to impede heat flow, with increasing values indicating a greater capacity. The higher the R-value, the greater the insulating effectiveness.
For the Midwest, the Department of Energy recommends that new homes have a minimum value of R-38 value in the attic and R-15 in the sidewalls.
Determining existing R-value is based on the type of insulation material and its thickness. For example, the most common attic insulation in homes is fiberglass blankets or batts that are about 16 to 17 inches thick. The fiberglass has an R-value per inch of 3.2; the result is an insulation layer with an R-value of between 51 and 54.
Riser: Each of the vertical boards between the treads (horizontal surfaces) of a stairway.
Sash: The framework that holds glass in a window or door.
SEER: An acronym for Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, which is used in rating the efficiency of air-conditioners. It basically compares the amount of cooling produced to the amount of electricity used. A higher SEER is better because you get more cooling using less electricity, like the miles per gallon rating in a car.
After January, manufacturers were required to produce units with a minimum of SEER 13, but they can go up to 27.
Sheathing: Sheet material or boards fastened to the rafters or exterior stud walls, to which the roofing or siding is applied.
Shutoff valve: In plumbing, a fitting to shut off the water supply to a single fixture or branch of pipe. Every homeowner should know the location of their homes main water shut-off valve and how to use it. This is important because if there is a break in the line, or if your toilet is overflowing, youll want to shut off the water.
Some people turn off their water and drain their pipes when they leave home for the winter. Thats because if there is an extended power outage and their home gets cold, pipes could freeze and burst.
In addition to the main line, there are individual shut-off valves next to toilets, sinks and the clothes washer.
Soffit: The horizontal underside of an eave.
Subfloor: Plywood or oriented strand board (OSB) attached to the joists. The finish floor is laid over the subfloor.
Sump pump: A sump is a pit for collecting water that drains from around your home when the ground is saturated. This prevents pressure from building up around and under your foundation.
When the sump fills up, a float on the pump activates the pump, moving water out of your home and onto your yard.
If your home has a sump pump, it is good to know where it is and to check it manually every now and then to make sure it works.
If youre concerned about having the pump work even when theres no power to your home when an electrical storm knocks it out, for example you might want to purchase a battery backup for $150 to $200.
Stud: A vertical part of your homes frame. When mounting heavy artwork, mirrors and shelving, be sure to secure it to a wall stud to prevent damage. Locate a stud using a stud finder (available at hardware stores or home centers) or by tapping along the wall with a hammer.
Another trick is to locate an electrical outlet because electrical boxes are nailed into studs. You will find a stud on either side of the outlet and every 16 inches down the line. (Note: this might not be true if someone added an electrical box after the house was built.)
Vapor barrier: Any material used to prevent the penetration of water vapor into walls or other enclosed parts of a building. Polyethylene sheets, aluminum foil and building paper are the materials used most often.
Frost line: Depth to which the ground generally freezes. The footings for a home the lowest part of the foundation that supports the house must be below the frost line so that they will not be raised by freezing.


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NiER JB PS3-BHTPS3Sep 6
Description: Players will jump into the title role of the unyielding Nier as he begins his desperate quest to discover a cure for his daughter, Yonah, who is stricken with the deadly Black Scrawl disease. Armed with a powerful set of magical abilities as well as mighty swords and armor, Nier will do battle alongside a set of formidable allies against waves of dark enemies and giant bosses to discover the truth about the disease, his daughter and himself [POSITIONS OFFERED]
- Unbelievable Story Twists and Reveals: Immerse in an amazingly intricate storyline set in a world plagued by human anguish, buried secrets and a ravaging disease. With plot twists hiding around every corner, Nier's story needs to be seen to be believed.
- RPG Gameplay Injected With Action-Packed Combat: Battle ferocious and mysterious enemies by combining proven RPG-style gameplay, such as magic, character development and faithful allies, with action-focused explosive swordplay and combat.
- Powerful Magical Abilities: When his sword isn't enough, Nier can call on a remarkable array of stylish and powerful spells to augment his combat moves and overcome adversaries. As players progress, upgraded spells will help defeat ever-more-deadly enemies.
- Brutal Combat Moves: Face off against evil creatures and unleash brutal combat moves along with devastating combo attacks. Unlock an arsenal of devastating weapons, each with its own design and attack style.
- Formidable Allies: Travel with a dynamic party of allies and do battle against monstrous giants as a powerful and united party.
- A Dynamic and Stunning World: Travel across an unforgettable world filled with dynamic landscapes featuring the hauntingly familiar remains of modern society.
Release name: NiER.JB.PS3-BHTPS3
Size : 5.66 GB
Region: Europe
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Cavia
Release Date: 06.09.2010
Genre: Action RPG
More Info: IGN – Gamespot
NFO: Here
Torrent (Search) : NTi | TPB | iSO
NZB (Search) : Binsearch – NZBIndex


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Destiny no need to be sorry. I just quickly saw how the topic could easily explode while it was in the NN4 section.
When I said they do exist... they really do.
Here's my trunk-of-junk on remote issues... Just to give you an idea of what i meant by it could easily explode...
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Speaking of remotes -- a while back Nick said he was working on a mechanical shutter release adapter that would fit onto the NN3/4/5. I wonder how that's coming along.
Hi Bill.. emm, well thats technology for you... I really don't want a hahnel either.. since my own was a dud and so was my girlfriends; she sent it back too.. the only other option as far as I can see for this type of remote is the Phottix Hector but its expensive...but looks great.. HD too...
I am still saving up the postage for paying for you to send my your D3s to look after
On the other hand, I am hanging out to buy the new Nickon D4 when I win the lotto.. My new found friend in Japan has one.. She said its just awesome.. She also said the video and images are outstanding.. oh to be rich
Thanks for the info Bill.. I cannot believe they would all be duds.. From my last experience I will make sure I buy from a good dealer where I can get a refund or replacement.. Might even get an extended warranty on it... might be worth while for piece of mind..
Destiny ... Still your No. 1 Ninja
Well.. Pro Hart will be jealous with this... If I were you I would keep it as is just incase you become famous... Then it might be worth heaps.. Another mans junk eemm .... I mean.. another girls junk is other girls treasure... I collect Springs... Love springs... not the big ugly ones.. but rather the beautiful one.. :).. so.. keep the two aside for me at top... LOL...
PS.. I don't see any gigtube wireless remotes in that lot so things might be looking up.. Mind you.. I have yet to see Bills junk pile.. ;)
haha Believe it or not everthing in that pile works. I just made it look like junk for the shot. Some old and some new stuff in there.
No gigtube in that pile. The range I get with this gear is quite far. Let's just say I can control the camera beyond visual range.
mmm... farthest we've gone is about 1000 m or over 3000 ft.
I thought the Promote Control was the only remote that did HDR bracketing ? I am going to order one next week when I receive a deposit for the next job. Should be awesome to do 5, 7, 9, 11+ brackets!
(~$AU340 to my door from bhphotovideo.com)
PS I have a D90 too, awesomely well designed camera.
Remote for cameras is very helpful in so many works... its advanced...
An interesting project is described at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-camera-remote . Whilst it can do HDR exposure sequences, I believe the camera connection it uses cannot do short exposure times (at least not accurately).


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I've read some of the GTD material by David Allan and it's something I'd like to implement. A lot of his material uses hand written notes and lists. This isn't an option for me since I'm totally blind. I'm looking for info on GTD setups that are mostly or completely electronic.
Ideally the setup would work on my iPhone since it's always on me, as well as have computer access from the command line since that's where I spend a lot of my time for my job. A bonus would be a way to have my information stored in an encrypted format but this is probably difficult to do with cloud based services.
If it would involve setting up a server of my own this is something I am comfortable doing since I work in the IT field. I'm not super comfortable with the privacy implications of storing all y tasks in a cloud based task management system but I probably don't have a choice. As requested in a comment a little about my technology setup.
I use windows computers with screen reading software. All of the windows computers have Cygwin installed to provide a UNIX like environment. I also use Voiceover on an iPhone. While I doubt it matters the iPhone is jail broken if that gives me more choices in software to use. For purposes of this question assume all iPhone and windows software is accessible. The truth is somewhat more complicated than that but I'd like to get a lot of ideas and having to do research then not getting enough information.


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Logger& g_logger() {
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So ostensibly (?) this is true regardless of whether a module compiled with a C++11 compiler included the thread headers, or spawned any threads in its body. You're offered the guarantee even if it were linked against another module that used C++11 threads and called the function.
But what if your "other module" that calls into this code wasn't using C++11 threads, but something like Qt's
QThread. Is atomic initialization of statics then outside of the scope of C++11's ability to make such a guarantee? Or does the mere fact of a module having been compiled with C++11 and then linked against other C++11 code imply that you will get the guarantee regardless?
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paralist package, and would like to know how I can typeset the counter.
What I mean is
\item I would like to typeset "a)" here.
I was trying to read through the documentation but couldn't figure out which macro stores the counter.
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I'm still trying to get some feeling about this question...
Given Jesse Peterson's answer to this question (he showed that $\phi\circ\phi\sim\phi$ is impossible), I suspect that the following is also impossible. But I'm unable to generalize his argument.
Let $M$ be a type III factor, and let $\phi:M\to M$ be an irreducible endomorphism (the relative commutant of $\phi(M)$ in $M$ is trivial).
Let $v_1$, $v_2\in M$ be isometries with orthogonal ranges summing up to $1$
($v_1^*v_1=v_2^*v_2=v_1v_1^*+v_2v_2^*=1$). Define $$\phi\oplus\phi:m\mapsto v_1\phi(m)v_1^*+v_2\phi(m)v_2^*.$$
Question: Is it possible to have $\phi\circ\phi$ conjugate to $\phi\oplus\phi$?
$$ \phi ( \phi(m)) = u \Big( v_1 \phi (m) v_1^* + v_2 \phi (m) v_2^* \Big) u^* $$


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Until the real earl appears. Richard Fairgrave had every intention of confronting his villainous twin who had robbed him of his name and title . . . only to discover that he had died. Quietly assuming his identity, Richard must now deal with a maddening desire for his ravishing inherited "wife"-- certainly a gold digger and possibly a murderess. And Christiana must deal with an unwanted new "husband" . . . and they both must figure out what to do before the ice melts.
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We have seen a property in an prominently Jewish area. It is owned by a Jewish lady whose husband committed suicide almost 8 years ago by overdosing with sleeping pills. We are not Jewish and the house looks good in terms of location. But if we will be reselling it after some years, will this information affect Jewish people's decision on whether to buy it?
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There are Jewish communities which have the custom that if a tragedy happened in a home, the current owners will move out.
This is based on the Rabbinic expression "one who changes his location changes his luck".
However, there is no reason for somebody else not to move into such a home. In Jerusalem - and other predominantly Jewish areas - such homes are occasionally put up for sale and do not stay long on the market.
Even if somebody would have a custom not to move into such a home, if it were owned by somebody else since the tragedy then it would be considered "safe", as they are not buying it from anybody related to the tragedy.
That said, you will always find people who are very superstitious and will refuse to even walk near such a home. This has no basis in Judaism, as far as I know.


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If you play the beta will you be able to access your characters in the full game when released?
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No, it will not carry over.
From the official FAQ
Historically, Beta characters don't carry over.
One of the reasons for wiping their characters database is to to give players the equal chance of Leveling, gearing and learning the game from scratch.
Not wiping their characters database would lead to overall unfair advantages given to the beta-tester players.
Also, the coolest names would be unavailable already


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I've got problems with installing PHP 5.5.13 (last stable build) on a CentOS 6.5 (64 bit) machine, through
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It is not a part of the CentOS, EPEL or REMI repos as far as I can see. I get 5.4.29 with either of those repositories.


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I'm having trouble understanding this phrase:
En blasé à qui on ne la fait plus, je réponds: (...)
The (...) is of course the narrator's response to someone else's question.
I'm having trouble understanding this phrase:
The (...) is of course the narrator's response to someone else's question.
There are several difficulties in this fragment, let's take them in order.
First, the preposition en in this context means roughly "speaking as …" (or sometimes "acting as"). It is followed by a quality which justifies the rest of the statement.
This use of the preposition en calls for more than just a noun afterwards: en pigeon, en syndicaliste, etc. feel weird to me. I suspect that this is because en has many meanings and with a mere noun the phrase feels ambiguous. En bon + noun is a common combination with this meaning.
This construct usually indicates an actual quality but can also a indicate a posture.
The adjective blasé, which is used here as a noun, means someone who's seen or practiced a lot about a particular topic. It is originally the past participle of the verb blaser. The verb etimologically meant becoming used to drinking a lot of alcohol, and generalized to becoming insensitive to anything through overexposure. The verb has become rare nowadays but the adjective is still common.
The idiom à qui on ne la fait pas means someone who will not get caught by a scam. Literally: "to which one does not make [the joke]."
The variant on ne [me] la fait plus indicates someone who might have fallen for the trick earlier in life, but who is now sufficiently savvy to notice and avoid it.
Thus à qui on ne la fait plus does barely more than reinforce blasé, which is necessary for the use of en blasé ... to be understood.
À qui on ne la fait plus simply means that the speakers is experienced enough to spot a trick of some sort. Isn't there an english saying about old dogs and tricks that can be repurposed?
Le Robert réserve une entrée pour l'adjectif blasé :
Synonymes :
Parmi les exemples :
et une citation que l'on pourrait retourner à votre narrateur :


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Let's have $N_1=p^a$ where $p$ a prime number and $a$ a natural number. If we want to find all numbers from $1-N_1$ which are not divisible by $p$ we have to subtract all multiples of $p$ from $N_1$. The multiples are $1p,2p,...p^{a-1}p$. From this we conclude that the numbers not divisible by $p$ are $p^a-p^{a-1}$ or $N_1-N_1/p$. Let's have the product of two primes $p^a q^b=N_2$ where $b$ a natural number. Now we have to find which numbers from $1-N_2$ are not divisible by $p,q$. In order to do so we have to subtract from $N_2$ the multiples $N_2/p$ and $N_2/q$. Now we have $(N_2-N_2/p)-N_2/q$, but some numbers are multiples of $pq$. We can subtract these multiples from $N_2/p$ or $N_2/q$. Let's subtract them from $N_2/q$, giving $N_2/q-N_2/pq$. The last result has to be subtracted from the first term $(N_2-N_2/p)$. So we have $(N_2-N_2/p)-(N_2/q-N_2/pq)=F(N_2)$. So the number $F(N_2)$ is counting the numbers from $1-N_2$ which are not divisible by $p,q,pq$.
We obtain the second term by applying the ABROZ technique. This works as follows: we multiply the first term by $1/q$ and we obtain$ (N_2-N_2/p) 1/q=(N_2/q-N_2/pq)$. Let's have $N_3=p^a q^b f^c$ where $ f$ a prime number and $c$ a natural number. We know how to get the first two terms and now have to obtain the third term which contains the multiples of $f$.
We again apply the technique, multiplying the two terms by $1/f$. So we have $(N_3-N_3/p)-(N_3/q-N_3/pq) 1/f=N_3/f-N_3/pf-N_3/qf-N_3/pqf$. To find $F(N_3)$ we subtract from the two terms the third term.
So we have: $F(N_3)=(N_3-N_3/p)-(N_3/q-N_3/pq)-(N_3/f-N_3/pf-N_3/qf-N_3/pqf)$.
We can continue this process indefinitely. The last equation can also be written as $F(N_3)=N_3[1-1/p-1/q+1/pq-1/f+1/pf+1/qf-1/pqf]$. The result inside the bracket can be obtained by multiplication of the three primes as follows: $(1-1/p)(1-1/q)(1-1/f)=[1-1/p-1/q+1/pq-1/f+1/pf+1/qf-1/pqf]$.
So we have $F(N_3)=N_3(1-1/p)(1-1/q)(1-1/f)$. We can make keys when$ F(N)/N$ is minimum or maximum.
My first question is: when is it easier to attack RSA, when $F(N)/N$ is minimum or maximum? Secondly, in what other areas of mathematics can we apply the maximum and minimum ratios?


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Are there resources for programmers with little to no graphics design talent, but still want to make good-enough graphics for their own programs? I'm interested in both 2d and 3d computer generated graphics techniques, as well as free graphics repositories.
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You just need to read this: http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/12/how-to-bootstrap-your-indie-art-needs.html
If you have the money, invest in yourself: buy a drawing tablet. Personally, I am a terrible artist, I just can't make good graphics, but it sure didn't help that I was stuck trying to do things with my mouse, sloppily drawing lines or clicking pixel-by-pixel. I can at least roughly sketch something that works, and my Wacom Intuos4 is amazing for that (but surely overkill if you ask a professional). The Wacom Bamboo tablets are "entry-level" consumer models with slightly less accuracy, but they start at $69 (Wacom store; you want one with a pen, not the $49 touch model) and would be just great. So if you are able to somewhat draw things by hand, try getting a tablet - it won't improve your art skills unless you work at it but it can at least make it easier for you to make crappy programmer art. :)
Seems to be a little vague.
1 is probably the best if you have plenty of time. It gives you an advantage for any future projects you do, and gives you a wider skillset.
2 is better if you need them to be higher quality, but exactly what you want. May take a while to find someone, without paying them.
3 is the quickest by far, but it isn't great because you have to make do with what you find.
If the game is good enough and web-based, you can release it without "proper" graphics and no-one will complain.
Desktop Tower Defense is a good example of this.
If it makes enough money you will be able to hire a team of professional artists to revamp it. But you might find the users still prefer the original version.
For 2D I know there are people that use existing spritesheets and pixel over their own graphics. Whether it's ethical is a debate in its own, whether your pixeling skills will make it look halfway decent is another, but you at least got your animation cycles covered.


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Feb. 28, 2008 -- While the presidential candidates are busy debating how to reform health insurance, a group of experts says it's going to find out what makes Americans sick before they ever get to the doctor.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is launching a new commission designed to get to the bottom of racial and economic health disparities and to find out why even Americans with good health insurance have poorer health than people in other countries.
"For reasons that don't appear to have much to do with health care, there are big gaps between how healthy we could be and how healthy we are," says Mark McClellan, MD, a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank and co-chairman of the commission.
The group says it wants to influence the health care debate by putting hard reasons behind what a lot of data already show -- that nonmedical factors like income, support from friends, education level, and where you live have a big impact on how healthy you are.
"All of these factors have a bigger impact on whether we stay healthy than visits to the doctor," says McClellan, who directed both Medicare and Medicaid and the FDA.
"This commission couldn't have come at a better time politically. We are having a national debate about health care," says Anna Greenberg, PhD, senior vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a polling company that issued a report on Americans' obstacles to health.
The commission says it wants to examine real-world issues, such as grocery stores in poor neighborhoods without a good selection of produce and workplace attitudes that discourage exercise and encourage stress.
David Williams, PhD, the commission's staff director, says the effort will "look beyond our traditional comfort zones."
As an example the commission distributed a map of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Using data from a University of California San Francisco study, it showed that life expectancy in wealthy Montgomery County, Md., is 81.3 years. That's compared to an average life expectancy of 72 for residents of the District of Columbia, just nine miles away.


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Because few things are more annoying than a stoplight that doesn't even know you exist.
Behold the "reference wheel." It's simply a wheel mounted to a block of wood so the wheel can stand vertically.
The Caltrans suggested "reference wheel" to use for traffic signal calibration is a 20″ BMX wheel. Below is Bob Sutterfield's "AB1581 loop detector test rig." He built it from a castoff 20″ wheel and a scrap piece of wood. The traffic engineer simply places this wheel vertically over the detector in the pavement, adjusts the sensitivity controls, then tosses it in the back of his work truck with his safety cones and tools.
The image is Bob Sutterfield's.