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SXSW Special VR Event 'The Mummy' Info and Mini Review
SXSW kicked off officially today and the city of Austin and convention center is literally swarmed with people from all over the world. It's hard to decide what and where to go so Twitter can be very helpful. Yesterday, almost by accident I came across a post about some Virtual Reality activation for Universal's "The Mummy" starring Tom Cruise.
If you've seen the trailer then you may already know there is an exciting plane crash scene where the cast are literally floating through the rapidly descending plane. This Virtual Experience (VR) is a 20 minute How-We -Did -It video. In a day and age where CGI replaces so much, this action sequence (plane crash) has been shot using 90%practical effects according to the Universal release.
What happens and is it worth the effort?
You go to Ballroom B on the far side of the convention center. You can only go one direction so do not think you can save time and go from E straight to A and B. Seriously you have to walk around so be sure to adjust your schedule to accommodate the walk. Once there, you have 2 choices. If you pre signed up (info at bottom) you get an assigned time and go right in. If you didn't get a reservation you may wait in the standby line. The line on Friday was 30 people deep. They take 20 people every 20 minutes. When I arrived only 7 of 20 showed up… so the line does move.
Once inside, there is a brief film trailer with Tom Cruise discussing his dedication to one-upping himself in every film and that this Zero G action stunt is one of his most grandiose stunts to date. There are some very limited set pieces including a sarcophagus from the film to check out as well.
After the briefing you enter a very unique screening room. See pics. There are 20 open, half circle pods that you sit in. There are plenty of staff to assist you in donning the VR camera and Bose headphones so the change out is fast. As the video begins, it's the same video again. I couldn't believe that this was going to be the VR experience. I was almost willing to concede this was a huge waste of time and effort but then the VR kicks in and it's pretty spectacular.
I've seen a few VR experiences including the "Game of Thrones," "F/X's American Horror Story: Asylum" and "Interstellar." This one rates as next to best. "American Horror Story" last year at San Diego Comic Con was just incredible. This one is pretty worthy though.
The pod moves to help simulate some of what you will be feeling. The 20 minutes is a scenes from a separate camera crew that was in the jet when they filmed the zero G sequences for the film. They are actually in there with the film crew and cast and you get an unbelievable view of what it was like to be in that jet and how the stunts were performed (all by Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis).
Should you do it?
I would recommend doing this VR experience if you want a break from the conference meetings, or if you are in between films. If you have a limited amount of time and have never done a VR Experience then you should make a point to try it out. If you done them before and you have a tight schedule this may be something you can skip. It's also next to the Vimeo which has been relocated from where it was last two years. You may be able to screen a film or TV show and schedule this close to it.
How to Sign Up:
Here is the link to sign up. It opens everyday at 6 PM CST for the next day. It will list the day you are reserving on the page. Then you need to select how many people, there is only an option for 1, and then go to the bottom of the page to find the "next" button. A friend of mine missed out because he was on his phone and didn't scroll down far enough. He assumed it locked up. It will ask for your email. A confirmation for your time will come quickly to your email. You can only make one reservation a day per name and email. They do have a record at check in.


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By an odd coincidence, I stumbled upon a second question in as many weeks about power series, and once again the only way I know how to prove the result is by complex methods; once again, I am leaving it here as a challenge to any interested readers, and I would be particularly interested in knowing of a proof that was not based on complex analysis (or thinly disguised versions thereof), or for a reference to previous literature where something like this identity has occured. (I suspect for instance that something like this may have shown up before in free probability, based on the answer to part (ii) of the problem.)
Here is a purely algebraic form of the problem:
Problem 1 Let be a formal function of one variable . Suppose that is the formal function defined by
where we use to denote the -fold derivative of with respect to the variable .
- (i) Show that can be formally recovered from by the formula
- (ii) There is a remarkable further formal identity relating with that does not explicitly involve any infinite summation. What is this identity?
To rigorously formulate part (i) of this problem, one could work in the commutative differential ring of formal infinite series generated by polynomial combinations of and its derivatives (with no constant term). Part (ii) is a bit trickier to formulate in this abstract ring; the identity in question is easier to state if are formal power series, or (even better) convergent power series, as it involves operations such as composition or inversion that can be more easily defined in those latter settings.
To illustrate Problem 1(i), let us compute up to third order in , using to denote any quantity involving four or more factors of and its derivatives, and similarly for other exponents than . Then we have
and hence
multiplying, we have
and hence after a lot of canceling
Thus Problem 1(i) holds up to errors of at least. In principle one can continue verifying Problem 1(i) to increasingly high order in , but the computations rapidly become quite lengthy, and I do not know of a direct way to ensure that one always obtains the required cancellation at the end of the computation.
Problem 1(i) can also be posed in formal power series: if
is a formal power series with no constant term with complex coefficients with , then one can verify that the series
makes sense as a formal power series with no constant term, thus
For instance it is not difficult to show that . If one further has , then it turns out that
as formal power series. Currently the only way I know how to show this is by first proving the claim for power series with a positive radius of convergence using the Cauchy integral formula, but even this is a bit tricky unless one has managed to guess the identity in (ii) first. (In fact, the way I discovered this problem was by first trying to solve (a variant of) the identity in (ii) by Taylor expansion in the course of attacking another problem, and obtaining the transform in Problem 1 as a consequence.)
The transform that takes to resembles both the exponential function
and Taylor's formula
but does not seem to be directly connected to either (this is more apparent once one knows the identity in (ii)).
My colleague Tom Liggett recently posed to me the following problem about power series in one real variable . Observe that the power series
has very rapidly decaying coefficients (of order ), leading to an infinite radius of convergence; also, as the series converges to , the series decays very rapidly as approaches . The problem is whether this is essentially the only example of this type. More precisely:
Problem 1 Let be a bounded sequence of real numbers, and suppose that the power series
(which has an infinite radius of convergence) decays like as , in the sense that the function remains bounded as . Must the sequence be of the form for some constant ?
As it turns out, the problem has a very nice solution using complex analysis methods, which by coincidence I happen to be teaching right now. I am therefore posing as a challenge to my complex analysis students and to other readers of this blog to answer the above problem by complex methods; feel free to post solutions in the comments below (and in particular, if you don't want to be spoiled, you should probably refrain from reading the comments). In fact, the only way I know how to solve this problem currently is by complex methods; I would be interested in seeing a purely real-variable solution that is not simply a thinly disguised version of a complex-variable argument.
(To be fair to my students, the complex variable argument does require one additional tool that is not directly covered in my notes. That tool can be found here.)
Over on the polymath blog, I've posted (on behalf of Dinesh Thakur) a new polymath proposal, which is to explain some numerically observed identities involving the irreducible polynomials in the polynomial ring over the finite field of characteristic two, the simplest of which is
(expanded in terms of Taylor series in ). Comments on the problem should be placed in the polymath blog post; if there is enough interest, we can start a formal polymath project on it.
Let denote the Liouville function. The prime number theorem is equivalent to the estimate
as , that is to say that exhibits cancellation on large intervals such as . This result can be improved to give cancellation on shorter intervals. For instance, using the known zero density estimates for the Riemann zeta function, one can establish that
as if for some fixed ; I believe this result is due to Ramachandra (see also Exercise 21 of this previous blog post), and in fact one could obtain a better error term on the right-hand side that for instance gained an arbitrary power of . On the Riemann hypothesis (or the weaker density hypothesis), it was known that the could be lowered to .
Early this year, there was a major breakthrough by Matomaki and Radziwill, who (among other things) showed that the asymptotic (1) was in fact valid for any with that went to infinity as , thus yielding cancellation on extremely short intervals. This has many further applications; for instance, this estimate, or more precisely its extension to other "non-pretentious" bounded multiplicative functions, was a key ingredient in my recent solution of the Erdös discrepancy problem, as well as in obtaining logarithmically averaged cases of Chowla's conjecture, such as
It is of interest to twist the above estimates by phases such as the linear phase . In 1937, Davenport showed that
which of course improves the prime number theorem. Recently with Matomaki and Radziwill, we obtained a common generalisation of this estimate with (1), showing that
as , for any that went to infinity as . We were able to use this estimate to obtain an averaged form of Chowla's conjecture.
In that paper, we asked whether one could improve this estimate further by moving the supremum inside the integral, that is to say to establish the bound
as , for any that went to infinity as . This bound is asserting that is locally Fourier-uniform on most short intervals; it can be written equivalently in terms of the "local Gowers norm" as
from which one can see that this is another averaged form of Chowla's conjecture (stronger than the one I was able to prove with Matomaki and Radziwill, but a consequence of the unaveraged Chowla conjecture). If one inserted such a bound into the machinery I used to solve the Erdös discrepancy problem, it should lead to further averaged cases of Chowla's conjecture, such as
though I have not fully checked the details of this implication. It should also have a number of new implications for sign patterns of the Liouville function, though we have not explored these in detail yet.
One can write (4) equivalently in the form
uniformly for all -dependent phases . In contrast, (3) is equivalent to the subcase of (6) when the linear phase coefficient is independent of . This dependency of on seems to necessitate some highly nontrivial additive combinatorial analysis of the function in order to establish (4) when is small. To date, this analysis has proven to be elusive, but I would like to record what one can do with more classical methods like Vaughan's identity, namely:
Proposition 1 The estimate (4) (or equivalently (6)) holds in the range for any fixed . (In fact one can improve the right-hand side by an arbitrary power of in this case.)
The values of in this range are far too large to yield implications such as new cases of the Chowla conjecture, but it appears that the exponent is the limit of "classical" methods (at least as far as I was able to apply them), in the sense that one does not do any combinatorial analysis on the function , nor does one use modern equidistribution results on "Type III sums" that require deep estimates on Kloosterman-type sums. The latter may shave a little bit off of the exponent, but I don't see how one would ever hope to go below without doing some non-trivial combinatorics on the function . UPDATE: I have come across this paper of Zhan which uses mean-value theorems for L-functions to lower the exponent to .
Let me now sketch the proof of the proposition, omitting many of the technical details. We first remark that known estimates on sums of the Liouville function (or similar functions such as the von Mangoldt function) in short arithmetic progressions, based on zero-density estimates for Dirichlet -functions, can handle the "major arc" case of (4) (or (6)) where is restricted to be of the form for (the exponent here being of the same numerology as the exponent in the classical result of Ramachandra, tied to the best zero density estimates currently available); for instance a modification of the arguments in this recent paper of Koukoulopoulos would suffice. Thus we can restrict attention to "minor arc" values of (or , using the interpretation of (6)).
Next, one breaks up (or the closely related Möbius function) into Dirichlet convolutions using one of the standard identities (e.g. Vaughan's identity or Heath-Brown's identity), as discussed for instance in this previous post (which is focused more on the von Mangoldt function, but analogous identities exist for the Liouville and Möbius functions). The exact choice of identity is not terribly important, but the upshot is that can be decomposed into terms, each of which is either of the "Type I" form
for some coefficients that are roughly of logarithmic size on the average, and scales with and , or else of the "Type II" form
for some coefficients that are roughly of logarithmic size on the average, and scales with and . As discussed in the previous post, the exponent is a natural barrier in these identities if one is unwilling to also consider "Type III" type terms which are roughly of the shape of the third divisor function .
A Type I sum makes a contribution to that can be bounded (via Cauchy-Schwarz) in terms of an expression such as
The inner sum exhibits a lot of cancellation unless is within of an integer. (Here, "a lot" should be loosely interpreted as "gaining many powers of over the trivial bound".) Since is significantly larger than , standard Vinogradov-type manipulations (see e.g. Lemma 13 of these previous notes) show that this bad case occurs for many only when is "major arc", which is the case we have specifically excluded. This lets us dispose of the Type I contributions.
A Type II sum makes a contribution to roughly of the form
We can break this up into a number of sums roughly of the form
for ; note that the range is non-trivial because is much larger than . Applying the usual bilinear sum Cauchy-Schwarz methods (e.g. Theorem 14 of these notes) we conclude that there is a lot of cancellation unless one has for some . But with , is well below the threshold for the definition of major arc, so we can exclude this case and obtain the required cancellation.
The Chowla conjecture asserts that all non-trivial correlations of the Liouville function are asymptotically negligible; for instance, it asserts that
as for any fixed natural number . This conjecture remains open, though there are a number of partial results (e.g. these two previous results of Matomaki, Radziwill, and myself).
A natural generalisation of Chowla's conjecture was proposed by Elliott. For simplicity we will only consider Elliott's conjecture for the pair correlations
For such correlations, the conjecture was that one had
as for any natural number , as long as was a completely multiplicative function with magnitude bounded by , and such that
for any Dirichlet character and any real number . In the language of "pretentious number theory", as developed by Granville and Soundararajan, the hypothesis (2) asserts that the completely multiplicative function does not "pretend" to be like the completely multiplicative function for any character and real number . A condition of this form is necessary; for instance, if is precisely equal to and has period , then is equal to as and (1) clearly fails. The prime number theorem in arithmetic progressions implies that the Liouville function obeys (2), and so the Elliott conjecture contains the Chowla conjecture as a special case.
As it turns out, Elliott's conjecture is false as stated, with the counterexample having the property that "pretends" locally to be the function for in various intervals , where and go to infinity in a certain prescribed sense. See this paper of Matomaki, Radziwill, and myself for details. However, we view this as a technicality, and continue to believe that certain "repaired" versions of Elliott's conjecture still hold. For instance, our counterexample does not apply when is restricted to be real-valued rather than complex, and we believe that Elliott's conjecture is valid in this setting. Returning to the complex-valued case, we still expect the asymptotic (1) provided that the condition (2) is replaced by the stronger condition
as for all fixed Dirichlet characters . In our paper we supported this claim by establishing a certain "averaged" version of this conjecture; see that paper for further details. (See also this recent paper of Frantzikinakis and Host which establishes a different averaged version of this conjecture.)
One can make a stronger "non-asymptotic" version of this corrected Elliott conjecture, in which the parameter does not go to infinity, or equivalently that the function is permitted to depend on :
Conjecture 1 (Non-asymptotic Elliott conjecture) Let , let be sufficiently large depending on , and let be sufficiently large depending on . Suppose that is a completely multiplicative function with magnitude bounded by , such that
for all Dirichlet characters of period at most . Then one has
for all natural numbers .
The -dependent factor in the constraint is necessary, as can be seen by considering the completely multiplicative function (for instance). Again, the results in my previous paper with Matomaki and Radziwill can be viewed as establishing an averaged version of this conjecture.
Meanwhile, we have the following conjecture that is the focus of the Polymath5 project:
Conjecture 2 (Erdös discrepancy conjecture) For any function , the discrepancy
is infinite.
It is instructive to compute some near-counterexamples to Conjecture 2 that illustrate the difficulty of the Erdös discrepancy problem. The first near-counterexample is that of a non-principal Dirichlet character that takes values in rather than . For this function, one has from the complete multiplicativity of that
If denotes the period of , then has mean zero on every interval of length , and thus
Thus has bounded discrepancy.
Of course, this is not a true counterexample to Conjecture 2 because can take the value . Let us now consider the following variant example, which is the simplest member of a family of examples studied by Borwein, Choi, and Coons. Let be the non-principal Dirichlet character of period (thus equals when , when , and when ), and define the completely multiplicative function by setting when and . This is about the simplest modification one can make to the previous near-counterexample to eliminate the zeroes. Now consider the sum
with for some large . Writing with coprime to and at most , we can write this sum as
Now observe that . The function has mean zero on every interval of length three, and is equal to mod , and thus
for every , and thus
Thus also has unbounded discrepancy, but only barely so (it grows logarithmically in ). These examples suggest that the main "enemy" to proving Conjecture 2 comes from completely multiplicative functions that somehow "pretend" to be like a Dirichlet character but do not vanish at the zeroes of that character. (Indeed, the special case of Conjecture 2 when is completely multiplicative is already open, appears to be an important subcase.)
All of these conjectures remain open. However, I would like to record in this blog post the following striking connection, illustrating the power of the Elliott conjecture (particularly in its nonasymptotic formulation):
Theorem 3 (Elliott conjecture implies unbounded discrepancy) Conjecture 1 implies Conjecture 2.
The argument relies heavily on two observations that were previously made in connection with the Polymath5 project. The first is a Fourier-analytic reduction that replaces the Erdos Discrepancy Problem with an averaged version for completely multiplicative functions . An application of Cauchy-Schwarz then shows that any counterexample to that version will violate the conclusion of Conjecture 1, so if one assumes that conjecture then must pretend to be like a function of the form . One then uses (a generalisation) of a second argument from Polymath5 to rule out this case, basically by reducing matters to a more complicated version of the Borwein-Choi-Coons analysis. Details are provided below the fold.
There is some hope that the Chowla and Elliott conjectures can be attacked, as the parity barrier which is so impervious to attack for the twin prime conjecture seems to be more permeable in this setting. (For instance, in my previous post I raised a possible approach, based on establishing expander properties of a certain random graph, which seems to get around the parity problem, in principle at least.)
(Update, Sep 25: fixed some treatment of error terms, following a suggestion of Andrew Granville.)
Here's a cute identity I discovered by accident recently. Observe that
and so one can conjecture that one has
when is even, and
when is odd. This is obvious in the even case since is a polynomial of degree , but I struggled for a while with the odd case before finding a slick three-line proof. (I was first trying to prove the weaker statement that was non-negative, but for some strange reason I was only able to establish this by working out the derivative exactly, rather than by using more analytic methods, such as convexity arguments.) I thought other readers might like the challenge (and also I'd like to see some other proofs), so rather than post my own proof immediately, I'll see if anyone would like to supply their own proofs or thoughts in the comments. Also I am curious to know if this identity is connected to any other existing piece of mathematics.
The lonely runner conjecture is the following open problem:
Conjecture 1 Suppose one has runners on the unit circle , all starting at the origin and moving at different speeds. Then for each runner, there is at least one time for which that runner is "lonely" in the sense that it is separated by a distance at least from all other runners.
One can normalise the speed of the lonely runner to be zero, at which point the conjecture can be reformulated (after replacing by ) as follows:
Conjecture 2 Let be non-zero real numbers for some . Then there exists a real number such that the numbers are all a distance at least from the integers, thus where denotes the distance of to the nearest integer.
This conjecture has been proven for , but remains open for larger . The bound is optimal, as can be seen by looking at the case and applying the Dirichlet approximation theorem. Note that for each non-zero , the set has (Banach) density for any , and from this and the union bound we can easily find for which
for any , but it has proven to be quite challenging to remove the factor of to increase to . (As far as I know, even improving to for some absolute constant and sufficiently large remains open.)
The speeds in the above conjecture are arbitrary non-zero reals, but it has been known for some time that one can reduce without loss of generality to the case when the are rationals, or equivalently (by scaling) to the case where they are integers; see e.g. Section 4 of this paper of Bohman, Holzman, and Kleitman.
In this post I would like to remark on a slight refinement of this reduction, in which the speeds are integers of bounded size, where the bound depends on . More precisely:
Proposition 3 In order to prove the lonely runner conjecture, it suffices to do so under the additional assumption that the are integers of size at most , where is an (explicitly computable) absolute constant. (More precisely: if this restricted version of the lonely runner conjecture is true for all , then the original version of the conjecture is also true for all .)
In principle, this proposition allows one to verify the lonely runner conjecture for a given in finite time; however the number of cases to check with this proposition grows faster than exponentially in , and so this is unfortunately not a feasible approach to verifying the lonely runner conjecture for more values of than currently known.
One of the key tools needed to prove this proposition is the following additive combinatorics result. Recall that a generalised arithmetic progression (or ) in the reals is a set of the form
for some and ; the quantity is called the rank of the progression. If , the progression is said to be -proper if the sums with for are all distinct. We have
Lemma 4 (Progressions lie inside proper progressions) Let be a GAP of rank in the reals, and let . Then is contained in a -proper GAP of rank at most , with
Proof: See Theorem 2.1 of this paper of Bilu. (Very similar results can also be found in Theorem 3.40 of my book with Van Vu, or Theorem 1.10 of this paper of mine with Van Vu.)
Now let , and assume inductively that the lonely runner conjecture has been proven for all smaller values of , as well as for the current value of in the case that are integers of size at most for some sufficiently large . We will show that the lonely runner conjecture holds in general for this choice of .
let be non-zero real numbers. Let be a large absolute constant to be chosen later. From the above lemma applied to the GAP , one can find a -proper GAP of rank at most containing such that
in particular if is large enough depending on .
We write
for some , , and . We thus have for , where is the linear map and are non-zero and lie in the box .
We now need an elementary lemma that allows us to create a "collision" between two of the via a linear projection, without making any of the collide with the origin:
Lemma 5 Let be non-zero vectors that are not all collinear with the origin. Then, after replacing one or more of the with their negatives if necessary, there exists a pair such that , and such that none of the is a scalar multiple of .
Proof: We may assume that , since the case is vacuous. Applying a generic linear projection to (which does not affect collinearity, or the property that a given is a scalar multiple of ), we may then reduce to the case .
By a rotation and relabeling, we may assume that lies on the negative -axis; by flipping signs as necessary we may then assume that all of the lie in the closed right half-plane. As the are not all collinear with the origin, one of the lies off of the -axis, by relabeling, we may assume that lies off of the axis and makes a minimal angle with the -axis. Then the angle of with the -axis is non-zero but smaller than any non-zero angle that any of the make with this axis, and so none of the are a scalar multiple of , and the claim follows.
We now return to the proof of the proposition. If the are all collinear with the origin, then lie in a one-dimensional arithmetic progression , and then by rescaling we may take the to be integers of magnitude at most , at which point we are done by hypothesis. Thus, we may assume that the are not all collinear with the origin, and so by the above lemma and relabeling we may assume that is non-zero, and that none of the are scalar multiples of .
with for ; by relabeling we may assume without loss of generality that is non-zero, and furthermore that
where is a natural number and have no common factor.
We now define a variant of by the map
where the are real numbers that are linearly independent over , whose precise value will not be of importance in our argument. This is a linear map with the property that , so that consists of at most distinct real numbers, which are non-zero since none of the are scalar multiples of , and the are linearly independent over . As we are assuming inductively that the lonely runner conjecture holds for , we conclude (after deleting duplicates) that there exists at least one real number such that
We would like to "approximate" by to then conclude that there is at least one real number such that
It turns out that we can do this by a Fourier-analytic argument taking advantage of the -proper nature of . Firstly, we see from the Dirichlet approximation theorem that one has
for a set of reals of (Banach) density . Thus, by the triangle inequality, we have
for a set of reals of density .
Applying a smooth Fourier multiplier of Littlewood-Paley type, one can find a trigonometric polynomial
which takes values in , is for , and is no larger than for . We then have
where denotes the mean value of a quasiperiodic function on the reals . We expand the left-hand side out as
From the genericity of , we see that the constraint
occurs if and only if is a scalar multiple of , or equivalently (by (1), (2)) an integer multiple of . Thus
and is the Dirichlet series
By Fourier expansion and writing , we may write (4) as
The support of the implies that . Because of the -properness of , we see (for large enough) that the equation
and conversely that (7) implies that (6) holds for some with . From (3) we thus have
In particular, there exists a such that
Since is bounded in magnitude by , and is bounded by , we thus have
for each , which by the size properties of implies that for all , giving the lonely runner conjecture for .
The (presumably) final article arising from the Polymath8 project has now been uploaded to the arXiv as "The "bounded gaps between primes" Polymath project – a retrospective". This article, submitted to the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, consists of personal contributions from ten different participants (at varying levels of stage of career, and intensity of participation) on their own experiences with the project, and some thoughts as to what lessons to draw for any subsequent Polymath projects. (At present, I do not know of any such projects being proposed, but from recent experience I would imagine that some opportunity suitable for a Polymath approach will present itself at some point in the near future.)
This post will also serve as the latest (and probably last) of the Polymath8 threads (rolling over this previous post), to wrap up any remaining discussion about any aspect of this project.
I've just uploaded to the arXiv the D.H.J. Polymath paper "Variants of the Selberg sieve, and bounded intervals containing many primes", which is the second paper to be produced from the Polymath8 project (the first one being discussed here). We'll refer to this latter paper here as the Polymath8b paper, and the former as the Polymath8a paper. As with Polymath8a, the Polymath8b paper is concerned with the smallest asymptotic prime gap
where denotes the prime, as well as the more general quantities
In the breakthrough paper of Goldston, Pintz, and Yildirim, the bound was obtained under the strong hypothesis of the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture. An unconditional bound on , however, remained elusive until the celebrated work of Zhang last year, who showed that
The Polymath8a paper then improved this to . After that, Maynard introduced a new multidimensional Selberg sieve argument that gave the substantial improvement
unconditionally, and on the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture; furthermore, bounds on for higher were obtained for the first time, and specifically that for all , with the improvements and on the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture. (I had independently discovered the multidimensional sieve idea, although I did not obtain Maynard's specific numerical results, and my asymptotic bounds were a bit weaker.)
In Polymath8b, we obtain some further improvements. Unconditionally, we have and , together with some explicit bounds on ; on the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture we have and some numerical improvements to the bounds; and assuming the generalised Elliott-Halberstam conjecture we have the bound , which is best possible from sieve-theoretic methods thanks to the parity problem obstruction.
There were a variety of methods used to establish these results. Maynard's paper obtained a criterion for bounding which reduced to finding a good solution to a certain multidimensional variational problem. When the dimension parameter was relatively small (e.g. ), we were able to obtain good numerical solutions both by continuing the method of Maynard (using a basis of symmetric polynomials), or by using a Krylov iteration scheme. For large , we refined the asymptotics and obtained near-optimal solutions of the variational problem. For the bounds, we extended the reach of the multidimensional Selberg sieve (particularly under the assumption of the generalised Elliott-Halberstam conjecture) by allowing the function in the multidimensional variational problem to extend to a larger region of space than was previously admissible, albeit with some tricky new constraints on (and penalties in the variational problem). This required some unusual sieve-theoretic manipulations, notably an "epsilon trick", ultimately relying on the elementary inequality , that allowed one to get non-trivial lower bounds for sums such as even if the sum had no non-trivial estimates available; and a way to estimate divisor sums such as even if was permitted to be comparable to or even exceed , by using the fundamental theorem of arithmetic to factorise (after restricting to the case when is almost prime). I hope that these sieve-theoretic tricks will be useful in future work in the subject.
With this paper, the Polymath8 project is almost complete; there is still a little bit of scope to push our methods further and get some modest improvement for instance to the bound, but this would require a substantial amount of effort, and it is probably best to instead wait for some new breakthrough in the subject to come along. One final task we are performing is to write up a retrospective article on both the 8a and 8b experiences, an incomplete writeup of which can be found here. If anyone wishes to contribute some commentary on these projects (whether you were an active contributor, an occasional contributor, or a silent "lurker" in the online discussion), please feel free to do so in the comments to this post.
This should be the final thread (for now, at least) for the Polymath8 project (encompassing the original Polymath8a paper, the nearly finished Polymath8b paper, and the retrospective paper), superseding the previous Polymath8b thread (which was quite full) and the Polymath8a/retrospective thread (which was more or less inactive).
On Polymath8a: I talked briefly with Andrew Granville, who is handling the paper for Algebra & Number Theory, and he said that a referee report should be coming in soon. Apparently length of the paper is a bit of an issue (not surprising, as it is 163 pages long) and there will be some suggestions to trim the size down a bit.
In view of the length issue at A&NT, I'm now leaning towards taking up Ken Ono's offer to submit the Polymath8b paper to the new open access journal "Research in the Mathematical Sciences". I think the paper is almost ready to be submitted (after the current participants sign off on it, of course), but it might be worth waiting on the Polymath8a referee report in case the changes suggested impact the 8b paper.
Finally, it is perhaps time to start working on the retrospective article, and collect some impressions from participants. I wrote up a quick draft of my own experiences, and also pasted in Pace Nielsen's thoughts, as well as a contribution from an undergraduate following the project (Andrew Gibson). Hopefully we can collect a few more (either through comments on this blog, through email, or through Dropbox), and then start working on editing them together and finding some suitable concluding points to make about the Polymath8 project, and what lessons we can take from it for future projects of this type.

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There is a new An Introduction to the XML Tools in Visual Studio 2005 whitepaper on msdn.com. For more information about XML and XML tools, visit the XML Dev Center web site on msdn.com. While the XSLT editor/debugger features are only included in the Professional and higher levels of Visual Studio 2005, the XML Editor is fully featured and included in all of the Visual Studio Express Products. We are working on some additional enhancements for the XML tools beyond what is in the beta. Below is a feature and summary list for what is included in beta 1.
This new XML Editor allows editing XML files with full XML 1.0 syntax checking, support for DTD's, and full XSD intellisense and validation while you type. The new editor also provides some useful integrated tools like XSD inference, DTD to XSD conversion and XDR to XSD conversion, and XSD based IntelliSense. The following features are available in this release:
- Editing XML - The XML Editor supports native XML rules compliance checking, schema based validation, auto-completion, IntelliSense, and document outlining.
- Validation - The XML Editor checks XML 1.0 syntax, and performs DTD, XSD or XDR validation while you type. Red squiggles are used to highlight any XML 1.0 well-formed errors. Blue squiggles are used to show semantic errors based on DTD, XDR or XSD schema validation. Each error has an associated entry in the error list. Double clicking on an error in this list would place the cursor at the location of the error. The error message displays in a tool tip when hovering the mouse over the squiggly.
- Auto-completion - Auto-completion takes place when the user selects an item from an IntelliSense drop down or invokes the word completion command (ALT-Right-Arrow).
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Concrete is prone to a variety of problems such as cracking, spalling, scaling, and crazing because of its moisture retention and porous properties. This regular wear and tear makes fixing a concrete roofing system important.
Here are the things you need to know and do when handling concrete roof issues and repair.
1. Find the exact location of the source of leaking
When your roof is leaking, chances are good that the real source of the leak is somewhere else. Fixing just the spot above the leak is only a short-term solution. So inspect not just the roof but also your plumbing lines like the drainage pipes to get to the root cause of the leak.
2. Waterproof your roof
Water leaks are among the most frequently encountered issues in flat concrete and concrete tile roofing. Cracks on the roof are the likely culprits, so a quick fix is to fill them with waterproof cement, sealant, or any caulking materials.
Even if your concrete roofing has no cracks, it is still at risk of leaks because concrete can retain moisture. So it is best to waterproof your whole roofing system. Here are the steps:
- Using a pressure washer, wash your whole roofing surface.
- Fill cracks with roofing cement.
- Apply a good primer and let it dry.
- Apply an elastomeric sealant to the cracks and to the whole roof.
- After 24 hours, apply a second coat of sealant.
3. Replace your roofing felt
You can repair leaks in concrete tiles by adjusting the position of the cracked tiles. Aside from that, do not forget to check below the roof surface. You may also need to replace old and cracked concrete tiles, re-caulk any exposed nails, and take out all the tiles and adjust their position.
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Gaithersburg, MD (PressExposure) November 21, 2008 -- DanceX 'Everybody's Workout' is a new brand of exercise videos that any average person especially those who are not fond of exercising on a regular basis can use to achieve their weight loss goals. It's enjoyable and more importantly it's easy to follow. Unlike most dance exercise videos which are marketed and created for 'fitness junkies', DanceX is a fun, new dance exercise video that caters to all ages, fitness levels and doesn't require years of dance training. DanceX is for anyone who wants to lose weight fast without the frustration of complicated and confusing dance choreography.
Rated as one of About.com's top 10 cardio videos, the DanceX fitness workout available from http://www.danceXfitness.com is the creation of Washington, D.C.-based fitness expert Kenn Kihiu. His new 'DanceX Total Body Cardio Workout' video features great music hits from around the world (Disco, Latin, 50's, Bhangra, Africa, Brazilian Samba, Irish Dance, Classical and Soul) and has dance moves everyone will enjoy, such as the John Travolta Point, Disco Rolls, Hug Me/Hold Me, Irish Kicks, the Twist and many others.
According to the charming and motivating Kenn Kihiu, "The only requirement needed is a heartbeat!" Kenn is well known for his high energy, sense of humor and passion for health and says that DanceX is for everyone including those with two left feet. "DanceX is for the ordinary person who is looking to get in shape, feel younger and have fun."
"It's such a great way to start the day," says DanceXer Marie Scott. During the DVD's easy-to-follow dance exercise workout, Kenn calls out the moves in advance so there's no memorization involved. The DanceX exercise videos are low impact, designed to improve aerobic capacity, muscle endurance and strengthen the core, while burning serious calories.
Workout enthusiast Rhonda Floyd says, "It's perfect for anyone who loves to dance. The DVD has awesome music and the workout is easy to follow and fun. Kenn Kihiu is so positive and very inspiring!" because he coaches and motivates viewers every step of the way.
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Two years had passed. Cimmeria had been rebuilt and was thriving. Lore lived there in safety with her husband. She passed on her wisdom and her visions to many villagers who were seeking guidance in their lives but that was when she wasn't busy with her two year old son Corin. He had her grey eyes but he looked just his father, with dark curly hair and tanned skin, and behaved like him in so many ways. Corin's father had been called away to take care of an uprising with one of the remaining cults after Khalar's defeat leaving Lore to care for the boy. She wasn't alone. Corin had two uncles and aunts to play with when Lore needed a rest or prepared dinner. Each night before she went to sleep herself she would always take a moment to herself to say a silent prayer for her husband to keep him safe and for a quick return. Her prayers were answered just a few months after Corin's second birthday. As the sun rose that morning Lore had awoken due to a pint sized barbarian toddler waking her in excitement. She held the little boy in her arms as they walked out of their home and towards the edge of the village. Somehow the both of them knew that Conan would return to them. Lore kissed her son's head with a smile.
"I have a feeling your father will return today." She spoke softly with a smile.
Corin understood father and return and a smile immediately spread on his face. There was so much of Conan in the boy and he looked more and more like his father every day. Corin clapped his little hands in excitement at the thought of seeing his father again. Lore smiled at this kissing his forehead before turning her gaze to the horizon. The sun slowly rose and over the horizon a singular figure appeared soon followed by a small company of barbarians. Lore's heart pounded in her chest as the party rode closer but as soon as she could begin to make out faces her lips broke into a smile upon making out her husband's face at the front.
As he neared his home he made out the figure of a woman holding a small boy in her arms. He grinned knowing that it was his wife and son awaiting him. He trotted ahead of his company to greet Lore and Corin. As soon as he was within running distance he dismounted his horse and sprinted towards them before scooping both his wife and his son into his arms hugging them tightly to him. Lore smiled hugging him back with one arm the other still holding their son. Corin hugged his father as tightly as his little arms could hold onto him. Conan released Lore to hug his son to him. He kissed the boy's forehead as Corin hugged him. Lore smiled at the two sliding an arm around her husband.
"I had to pray for a safe return for you my love."
"What you couldn't have seen it coming?" He joked. Lore laughed with him as his arm slid around her slender waist.
"I had no visions of your return smartass. I was worried."
"You? Worried? Never." He grinned as he leaned down to kiss her. She smiled against his lips stroking his cheek lightly before pulling away.
"Should I start telling the villagers to begin preparing for a celebration?" She asked as the three of them walked up towards the village; Corin still hugging his father.
"Yes. We feast tonight. The last of those cults has been vanquished. And…" His hand found its way to her ass. She flushed smiling and slapped his hand away as well as backhanding his bicep.
"Not in front of your son Conan!" She giggled. He chuckled and paused to lean down to whisper in her ear.
"I can think of a better way to celebrate." He grinned nipping at her ear in a teasing fashion. Lore laughed even more then leaned up to kiss his cheek and whisper.
"I know what you are thinking my love." She grinned kissing his cheek once more as they headed up to the center of the village.
Later that evening Corin had been put to bed in the other room. The boy was worn out after the festivities of the celebration that he easily fell asleep allowing his parents to go into the other room to do as they pleased. Lore grinned as she straddled her husband on the bed kissing him in a feral manner. He groaned kissing her back his hands squeezing her buttocks in need. He pulled away kissing down her neck once more. Her hands found their way into his hair entangling themselves in them.
"You know my love." She groaned as she felt his arousal through his clothes.
"Hm." He grunted now sucking on her neck.
"I long to have a child fill my womb again." She groaned. He grinned kissing her hard and pinned her to their bed.
"Then let me be the one to fill it with my seed." He groaned quickly stripping off her clothes. She smiled arching a bit assisting him in removing her clothes before she helped him dispose of his. It wasn't long before he was between her legs thrusting into her with need. He had needed the touch of a woman for months now. Lore groaned bending her knees a bit her toes curling at his roughness. He began to grind his sex into hers grunting in desire but he then pulled out of her before flipping her over onto her hands and knees. Pressing her shoulders into the bed beneath them he thrust hard into her one hand pulling at her hair the other gripping her hips as he slammed his against hers. Lore groaned in ecstasy at being handled roughly by Conan. He released her hair to slap her backside hard. She cried out in pleasure as he did this. He then gripped onto her hips his thrusts becoming even more feral by the minute. She always enjoyed it when he made her sore after sex. It had been too long for both of them so it didn't take long for either one of them to come to climax. As soon as Conan hit his he pulled her hips against his roughly holding her there so he could penetrate her deeply. He let out a small series of grunts as he spilled his seed into her. She groaned in pleasure as she hit her peak just as he held her there. She loved it when he held her to him especially when he would come inside of her. Nothing felt more natural and more arousing than having a man orgasm inside of her but not just any man. She only wanted Conan to come inside of her womb. She had given birth to one child of his and she'd be more than happy to have more of his children. There wasn't much of a reprieve between rounds for her for her husband had grown an insatiable need for sex. He flipped her back onto her back before kissing her hard once more. She pulled him close to her raising her hips to rub her woman hood against his sex. He groaned as his hand slid down to his cock stroking it to stimulate himself a bit so he could enter her again. Lore groaned as he pressed into her once more. He didn't even give her time to adjust before he began thrusting into her sex hard. Lore always felt good around him. Even though she had a child she was still tight around his length. He grunted his hands gripping her hips again as he thrust hard into her eliciting a pleasurable sound from her every time he thrust deep into her.
"Oh Conan! Harder!" she begged as her legs were pushed over her head. Conan wasted no time in responding to her request. He increased his pace and the depth of penetration. Lore moaned in pleasure as the bend of her knees rested against his shoulders. His grunts became more animalistic as his climax drew near, her breathing became more labored but she groaned rather loudly as she hit her peak; her muscles clamping around him. He grunted even more before burying himself balls deep into her once again filling her with his seed.
They kept up this feral act of lovemaking all night even after they were almost certain Lore would get pregnant from it. By dawn the both of them lay entwined with each other, both covered in sweat. Not once had Conan pulled out to come on her. He always felt that men should ejaculate inside of a woman. He was well spent and almost immediately fell asleep as soon as he cuddled up to his wife. Lore already felt sore from the night festivities but it was the good kind of sore. She curled up to her husband her head on his chest a leg wrapped around him. She pulled one of the furs over the two of them before she fell asleep contented with her barbarian.


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Ben Feller to leave the Associated Press
Ben Feller, the Associated Press White House correspondent who is leaving the beat and moving to New York, has announced that he will also leave the AP and pursue other opportunities, POLITICO has learned.
"Friday will be my last day with The Associated Press," Feller wrote yesterday in an email to his colleagues. "After more than six all-consuming years, I decided to leave the White House beat for the best reasons of all: the right ones for me and my family. We're headed to New York City, where my wife starts her new job next week. I am exploring options and entertaining different ideas about where I want to work next. It is refreshing to consider the best job for this time of my life. And to look forward to a life in which I can actually chase my son around after all these years of chasing two presidents."
The AP had hoped Feller might stay with the AP. In a memo to staff in late November, Washington by Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee said he was exploring his options, "including possibilities with news organizations including the AP in New York."
Feller is still in the hunt for his next gig. His wife, Elisabeth, is starting a new job as an editor at the New York Times.


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About Stone Creek - Montgomery
Part of the Cunningham Restaurant Group (CRG) family, Stone Creek Dining Company - Montgomery opened in August 2007.
Like all of the other CRG Stone Creek Dining Company locations, our Montgomery location blends elegance and comfort with incredible food and excellent service. The varied menu includes a wide variety of sandwiches, salads, seafood, pastas, steaks, chops and chicken. The luxurious decor and ideal location makes an ideal setting for business meetings, romantic evenings or family meals.
In addition to the innovative menu, you can choose from our extensive wine list or order from the full service bar. With a foundation of superior service and quality, our goal is to create memorable experiences for our guests - we look forward to serving you.
Our Montgomery locations offers convenient underground parking and is located across from the Montgomery fountain.
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Dining Style:
Casual Dining
American, Seafood, Steak
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Thursday, 11 am -10 pm
Friday - Saturday, 11 am - 11 pm
Sunday - 11 am - 9pm
Happy Hour: Monday - Friday, 3 pm - 6 pm
Cross Street:
NE corner of Cooper Road and Montgomery Road
Dress Code:
Casual Dress
Price Range:
$30 and under
Payment Options
AMEX, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Phone Number:
(513) 489-1444
Parking Details:
parking lot located underneath the restaurant
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Stone Creek Dining Company - Montgomery invites you to plan your next private dining or special event with us. Our event rooms blend casual elegance with a warm feel to create refined and luxurious dining spaces.
We offer multiple semi-private spaces and a fully dedicated private dining space upstairs. We have multiple dining packages flexible enough for any budget and can offer customized menus.
Our staff offers the same award winning food and excellent service you've grown to love while trusting us with your most memorable events. The private dining room has a max capacity of 49 people.
For private dining inquiries, please contact Ashley Schrier, firstname.lastname@example.com, or by phone at 513-489-1444.
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Stone Creek - Montgomery Ratings and Reviews
Food was good, but the server was pathetically in the wrong line of work. Completely not suited to be a server in a restaurant. We thought he was the water boy/bus boy because he never identified himself as the server. Took a LONG time before he offered to take our order or bring bread. Served soup without a spoon and by the time he came back to the table, it had been sitting too long. Never came back in general to check on food after we were served (crab cake wasn't cooked enough and was sent back through another server. Objected to bringing us bread because we hadn't ordered yet (not our fault - he never offered to take our order) (but... cocktails had been served, as well as a bottle of wine). Food was decent, but they need experience and trained servers.
We were seated very quickly even though the restaurant was quite crowded. Our server was very friendly & attentive without being overbearing. The drinks from the bar were outstanding; not watered down like so many other bars. We had the crab cakes which were delicious!
The service was exceptional and the food excellent! I LOVE this place for its food and ambiance! I hear they are moving the end of the year to anew location I hope the vibe remains the same. The carrot cake is the best I have ever eaten. The House Salad was fresh and substantial. Our server was very attentive.
First time having dinner here, although I have had a couple of lunches. The server was very warm and responsive to our requests. The food took awhile to come out, but that was acknowledged before we said anything and it was within a reasonable enough timeframe. Their menu is especially good for folks who have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. There are many choices.
This is by far my favorite restaurant in the Cincinnati area. My family eats here constantly. Their menu is amazing and can serve a wide range of customers. They offer amazing sandwiches all the way up to Lobster Risotto and Fillets. Their cocktails are outstanding, and their service is top notch.
I really like the atmosphere of Stonecreek. It was my first visit to this location. They were very accommodating to splitting plates and my husband's birthday celebration. The martinis were excellent as well.
A few of us ordered steaks and ordered them medium well temperatures....all of them were quite under and all 3 of us had to send ours back. Mine still was not correct after they took it back.
I would definitely go back to STONECREEK but I will probably not order steak.
My Caesar salad was great anchovies added this time. Seared tuna perfectly cooked. Our friends enjoyed salmon and halibut. The server was willing to substitute potatoes for rice which made him happy. One of our friends likes sweet wines and the muscat has been discontinued so she had a Riseling instead
one of my favorite restaurants ,it has a menu that can satisfy everyone/ ALSO, they are willing to "ADD/ DELETE vegetables that you want! I can't wait for them to move to their new location, since people seemed to object to the garage situation??? NEVER a problem for us, since Montgomery had close-by parking lots, or parking on main, or Montgomery road!
Stone Creek Dining is one of my favorite restaurants in "olde Montgomery"... they are willing to prepare the entrees with items that are NOT as prepared by the chef/ if someone had an adversion to an item, or medical reason could NOT have this dark green vegetable...Shawn was our server, and she was the best! In January,2018 will be closer to Camargo Cadillac... some people in the 12 years they have been in the Gateway Corridor, have loathed the garage parking situation... though we OFTEN park on Montgomery road directly in front of the restaurant, or a block away in the City parking on Shelly lane.
Our server seemed inexperienced. He wasn't knowlegeable about the wine and didn't offer to have the bartender or someone with more info to come and help us with our questions (basically simple questions at that). In general, he just seemed like he was new and wasn't ready yet to be out on his own... We've never liked the booths there because they are super uncomfortable so we requested a table with chairs. The food is good there and pretty predictable which is why we keep going back.
The restraurant was great to accommodate our large group. Our long table was by a lot of booths. I felt sorry for the other diners since we were so close to them. Service and food was good. Preorders some appetizers and was shocked to see they were $75/each! My mistake for not asking.
The level of consistency of this restaurant is impressive. In terms of the service, food quality and flavor, and atmosphere is what has continued to be what keeps me returning time and time again. My filet medallions with the lobster risotto was spot on perfect and went well with my peach martini. The iceberg wedge salad is always packed full of flavor with the blue cheese dressing and it's a dish that is easily shared. If it gives an indication of how well this place continues to perform I've had to stop going to The Chart house as the food and service has declined and the same can he said for Ferrari's. We hit the 1000 points with our VIP card and received a $100 gift card for our next dining experience. I've read some reviews that were very different than our experience here and unsure if there was an off night or some people have unrealistic expectations or simply don't understand what quality is. Years visiting this establishment and always spot on.
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Wal-Mart, which built its reputation — and a virulent opposition — on rock-bottom prices, has talked a lot lately about becoming...
Wal-Mart, which built its reputation — and a virulent opposition — on rock-bottom prices, has talked a lot lately about becoming a kinder, more responsible company.
But the retailing giant is finding that convincing the world it is "committed to change" and to keeping costs low is a tough balancing act.
On Monday, Chief Executive H. Lee Scott Jr. pledged to bring health insurance within reach of his 1.3 million U.S. employees.
On Tuesday, Scott called on Congress to raise the country's minimum wage from $5.15 an hour, saying Wal-Mart customers are "struggling to get by."
But on Wednesday, a leaked company memo revealed "bold steps" to rein in Wal-Mart's employee-benefit costs.
Among the recommendations: using more part-time workers, cutting life-insurance payouts, pushing spouses off health plans through higher premiums and trying to dissuade people not in good health from seeking jobs by, among other things, requiring cashiers to gather carts in Wal-Mart's vast parking lots.
What's more, 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart employees either are on Medicaid or are uninsured, the memo said.
That marked the first time that Wal-Mart has acknowledged that a significant number of employee dependents rely on public assistance.
In the health-care memo, whose contents were first reported in The New York Times, Executive Vice President of Benefits Susan Chambers wrote to Wal-Mart's board that its workers on average spent 8 percent of their income on health care — almost double the national average.
Last year, Chambers wrote, nearly two-fifths of those enrolled in Wal-Mart health plans spent 16 percent of the average Wal-Mart income on health care.
Chambers described Wal-Mart's problem: a work force that is older and less healthy than the national average, and a population that overuses the most expensive kinds of care, such as emergency-room visits, leading to a 15 percent annual growth rate in benefit costs.
Fewer than half of Wal-Mart's workers at more than 3,600 stores are covered by the company's insurance programs.
If not addressed, Chambers said, benefit costs would consume an incremental 12 percent of total profit by 2011, or $30 billion to $35 billion in market capitalization.
A Wal-Mart spokeswoman called that figure "unacceptable."
"We have to do better and we will," spokeswoman Sarah Clark said Wednesday. "But … that challenge isn't just limited to Wal-Mart."
Clark said the memo was not a final list of recommendations and was the result of a six-month study of employee benefits.
"Those are the things that we are looking at — how do you continue to provide the best benefits to employees and remain competitive?" Clark said. "There is a genuine desire to do just that at Wal-Mart, but we feel like we can certainly improve our offerings today."
To some Wal-Mart watchers, the difference between what Wal-Mart says and what Wal-Mart does makes perfect sense.
"I don't think the DNA of Wal-Mart has changed at all," said HSBC Securities analyst Mark Husson, returning Wednesday from an analyst meeting at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
"It's like a religious cult," Husson said. "It has a low-cost gospel to bring to the country and sees it as a divine duty to do that, and nothing is going to get in its way. It will do what it has to do and say what it needs to say to get there."


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Hebrides islands. It comes from Suibhne, an old Gaelic forename which probably means good-going or well-going. The Gaelic form of the surname is Mac Shuibhne.
McCunn Early Origins
Skye and Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas), where they were originally a branch of the MacDonalds of Clanranald. But although the MacQueens held lands of Garafad on the Isle of Skye for several centuries it is likely that the first MacQueen was the Lord of Knapdale in Argyllshire who held Castle Sween.
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McCunn Spelling Variations
Spelling variations are a very common occurrence in records of early Scottish names. They result from the repeated and inaccurate translations that many names went through in the course of various English occupations of Scotland. McCunn has been spelled MacQueen, MacQueon, MacSween, MacSwene, MacSweyne, MacSwan, MacCunn and many more.
McCunn Early History
McCunn Early History
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our McCunn research. Another 271 words (19 lines of text) covering the years 1411 and 1743 are included under the topic Early McCunn History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
McCunn Early Notables (pre 1700)
McCunn Early Notables (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the Clan from early times was MacQueen of Pall à Chrocain, a legendary Highland deer stalker popularly believed to have slain the last wolf Tarnaway Forest in the province of Morayshire in 1743. Apparently, he received a message from his chief, the Laird of Clan Mackintosh, that a black...
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McCunn In Ireland
McCunn In Ireland
Some of the McCunn family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 148 words (11 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The Great Migration
The Great Migration
Numerous Scottish settlers settled along the east coast of the colonies that would become the United States and Canada. Others traveled to the open country of the west. At the time of the American War of Independence, some remained in the United States, while those who remained loyal to the crown went north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. The highland games and Clan societies that sprang up across North America in the 20th century have helped many Scots to recover parts of their lost traditions. Research into passenger and immigration lists has revealed some of the very first McCunns to arrive in North America:
McCunn Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
Contemporary Notables of the name McCunn (post 1700)
Contemporary Notables of the name McCunn (post 1700)
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The McCunn Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The McCunn Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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September 16, 1998
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By Joyce Goldstein.
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By Gil Marks.
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By Marcy Goldman.
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or many Jewish families, the menu for Rosh ha-Shanah dinner, from the chicken soup to the honey cake, is set in stone, and has been for generations.
Nonetheless, you can count on new cookbooks to appear just before Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year celebration, which begins this year at sundown on Sunday, ushering in the High Holy Days. The older generation probably needs no help preparing the chopped liver or the chicken soup, but publishers are hoping a younger generation now taking to the stove will want a recipe for hallah or some new menu ideas, or, for that matter, the precise requisites for Rosh ha-Shanah or other holidays.
This year "Cucina Ebraica," by Joyce Goldstein, might inspire a dinner that strays from the tried and true, with its recipes for Italian Jewish dishes from a culinary tradition that dates to Roman times. Will there be howls of protest if kreplach, the meat-filled pasta similar to wontons, are replaced with stroncatelli, a kind of handmade pasta that Ms. Goldstein, a chef and former restaurateur in San Francisco, suggests for Rosh ha-Shanah?
Perhaps. But the cook can expect only compliments for the chicken roasted with orange, lemon and ginger; the gratin of potatoes and ripe tomatoes with garlic and parsley (better done on top of the stove than in the oven), or the quinces in spiced sugar syrup. This is a well-researched cookbook, which traces the history of the Jews in Italy as well as the evolution of their cooking.
Though quite a few Sephardic recipes appear in "The World of Jewish Entertaining," by Gil Marks, the book is more practical than innovative, explaining, for example, how to prepare a small holiday dinner or a buffet reception. Though the focus is on Jewish holidays and cooking, it offers useful information for anyone who ever wondered how much in the way of crudites or wine you need for 40 people or how to tackle meatballs, mashed potatoes and vegetable slaw for 80.
Marks' Rosh ha-Shanah recipes for mock chopped liver made with mushrooms, veal roasted with figs and plum tart are worth adding to the repertory. In general, though, I found that his fish dishes, like the Moroccan yellow fish and the baked fish with vegetables, needed less than the specified cooking time.
"A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking," by Marcy Goldman, is filled with clearly written recipes for items as varied as rugelach and rye bread. The rich, spice-laden New Year's honey cake, in particular, was excellent, as were the honey-butter squares, easy-to-make cookies. Ms. Goldman, a professional baker and food writer, offers some very good tips about baking with honey. I was also intrigued enough to try her recipe for topping a plum tart with shredded dough, made by grating frozen pie dough, and was delighted with the results.
The recipe in the Goldstein Italian Jewish book for an unusual, delicious carrot tart makes a perfect Rosh ha-Shanah dessert. Carrots are sweet, to guarantee a happy year, and the Yiddish word for carrots, mehren, has another auspicious meaning: to multiply or increase. But the next time I prepare the tart, I might freeze the dough for the top crust and shred it, instead of rolling it out. It's something I might do for any fruit tart, no matter the occasion.
Adapted from "Cucina Ebraica," by Joyce Goldstein
Time: 2 hours
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for rolling dough
2 cups sugar
Pinch of salt
14 tablespoons (1 3/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, diced (margarine can be substituted)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 pounds carrots, peeled and coarsely grated (7 to 8 cups)
6 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger.
1. In a bowl or the container of a food processor, combine flour, 1/2 cup sugar and the salt. If using a food processor, whirl ingredients briefly to blend them; add butter, pulse until mixture is crumbly and transfer to a mixing bowl. By hand, cut in the butter with a pastry blender or two knives to make a crumbly mixture.
2. Beat 1 egg with the vanilla, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon cold water. Sprinkle this mixture over the flour mixture, and stir and toss lightly with a fork until the mixture can be gathered together to form a ball of dough. You may have to add a little more water. Divide dough in two slightly unequal portions, flatten each into a disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
3. Combine carrots and remaining sugar in a heavy saucepan. Stir in a couple of tablespoons of water. Place over medium-low heat, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is thick and jamlike. You may have to add a little more water to prevent the carrots from scorching. Stir in the ginger, and remove from heat.
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a lightly floured board, roll out the larger portion of pastry and fit it into a 9-inch pie pan. Spoon in the carrot filling. Roll out the smaller disk of dough, and place it over the filling. Trim edges. Beat remaining egg with 2 tablespoons water, and brush some of this egg wash on the edges of the pastry. Press the two layers together, and turn them under to form a slight rim. Crimp rim with your fingertips, or press with the tines of a fork to make a pattern. Cut a Star of David in the center of the tart, and brush the surface of the pastry with remaining egg wash. Tart can also be finished with a lattice crust on top.
5. Bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a rack, and cool fully.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings.
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