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The real "Monuments Men" and women are being honored at Washington institutions that played major roles in the protection and rescue of European treasures during and after World War Two.
The National Archives, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, and the National Gallery of Art are hosting free exhibitions and related programs highlighting their respective roles in saving Europe's cultural heritage.
(And now, you can read online the personal correspondence of members of the Monuments Men held in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art collection -- a 200-page project digitized recently by volunteers. The Smithsonian launched its massive Transcription Center on Aug. 12.)
These Monuments Men and women were in the U.S. Army's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section (MFAA). They included art curators, scholars, architects, librarians, and archivists from the United States and Great Britain.
They saved artistic and cultural treasures from being destroyed by bombs, and then by tracking down and recovering more than five million priceless works stolen by the Nazis. The Nazis stole much of this from Jewish families they sent to death camps, and hid the loot in salt mines, abandoned castles, and churches.
The massive looting ranged from art masterpieces like Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child" (Bruges Madonna); a full-sized cast of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais" that German soldiers had abandoned on a mountainside near Baden; the Ghent Altarpiece; Manet's "Wintergarden"; to billions of dollars in gold; and even a casket containing the remains of Frederick the Great.
- Exhibit "The 'Hitler Albums'—Meticulously Documented Plunder". Now through Feb. 19, East Rotunda Gallery
The Third Reich's Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was the main agency that systematically stole cultural treasures in Nazi-occupied countries. The ERR prepared many so-called "Hitler Albums" featuring the "best of looted art" for Hitler to view and select for his planned art museum in Linz, Austria, the Archives noted.
After the war, the U.S. Army discovered 39 of these albums hidden at the Neuschwanstein Castle, and turned them over to the Monuments Men. These volumes, now at the National Archives, served as evidence in the Nuremburg trials (click here for a video) to document the massive Nazi art looting operations.
The missing ERR albums were thought to have been destroyed during the last days of World War Two. But additional albums were recovered and donated to the National Archives, thanks to the efforts of Robert M. Edsel, President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, and also author of "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History", basis of the film.
An album on special display was donated by Edsel in 2012. All of the albums at the National Archives have been digitized and can be viewed online.
- Panel Discussion: The Monuments Men with Robert Edsel. Feb. 19 at 7 P.M., William G. McGowan Theater
Robert Edsel has dedicated years to painstaking research about the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, and has written several books including "Greatest Treasure Hunt in History". Edsel and a panel will discuss his books, the film adaptation, and the work of Monuments Men and women. Panel members include Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, President Clinton's special representative on Holocaust-era issues, and other experts from the National Archives, and the National Gallery.
(The National Archives launched the International Research Portal to Nazi-era records, providing digital access to millions of Nazi-era cultural property-related records through a single portal, for the first time ever, in 2011.)
- Exhibit "MONUMENTS MEN: On the Frontline to Save Europe's Art, 1942-1946". Now to April 20, Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery at the Smithsonian's Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
For the first time, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (SAAA) will present photographs, official records, maps, correspondence, and audio interviews that chronicle these extraordinary men's and women's actions.
The exhibit features:
- The 71-page "partial inventory" of more than 1,000 artworks stolen from museums and private collections, amassed by Nazi Germany's second in command, Hermann Goering for his personal enjoyment.
- Photographs and papers regarding the recovered stolen treasures including Michelangelo's sculpture "Madonna and Child" (the Bruges Madonna), the Ghent Altarpiece, and gold reserves valued at billions of dollars.
- Documents about other members. Rose Valland was a French art historian at Paris' Jeu de Paume Museum, where she spied on Nazis looters, and kept detailed notes, lists, photos of stolen artwork, and locations of their secret hiding places. Valland, whose character is played by Cate Blanchett, played a major role in saving an enormous part of Europe's art and culture.
The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art holds the personal papers and oral histories of key Monuments Men, including:
- George Leslie Stout, who was a well-respected art conservator and instructor at Harvard's Fogg Museum. His character is portrayed by George Clooney, who also directed and co-wrote the film.
- James J. Rorimer, an art historian, curator and eventual director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rorimer was the motivating force in developing the Cloisters. Click here for a video of Rorimer receiving a medal. His character is portrayed by Matt Damon. (The National Gallery of Art holds some of Rorimer's papers as well.)
- Walker Hancock, a sculptor whose bust of former President George H.W. Bush is in the U.S. Capitol, and other statues are in the Library of Congress and the National Cathedral.
- Thomas Carr Howe, an art consultant and arts administrator in San Francisco.
Gallery talks about the exhibition will be held on March 13 and 28 at 1 P.M.
- Exhibit "The Monuments Men and the National Gallery of Art: Behind the History". Now to Sept. 1, West Building Art Information Room
This display features World War Two-era photographs, documents, and memorabilia, many never before exhibited, that illustrate the crucial role the National Gallery of Art played in the creation of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) program; the Roberts Commission, founded by FDR in 1943 "for the protection and salvage of artistic and historic monuments in Europe"; and the experiences of real MFAA officers.
- Lecture "The Inside Story: The Monuments Men and the National Gallery of Art detailing its relationship with the Monuments Men of the MFAA". March 16 at 2:00 P.M.
Speakers will include National Gallery experts, and Lynn H. Nicholas, author of "The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War". It's the basis of the documentary with that title.
Twelve monuments men and women had been associated with the National Gallery of Art (NGA) before the war, and in later years, three held important positions at the museum.
One was WAC Captain Edith Standen, who dug up an ancient bronze cannon with her bare hands. The Nazis had taken the priceless cannon from Paris, where it had been since Napoleon captured it more than a century before, and buried it in Stuttgart shortly before the Allies arrived.
The National Gallery also held for safekeeping 202 masterpieces from Berlin museums, as ordered by the U.S. War Department. The museum displayed "the 202" that included paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, El Greco, Daumier, and Botticelli.
"For 40 days, the line often wrapped around the block. The exhibition drew in 964,970 people, an unprecedented number at the time," the NGA said in a statement. President Harry S. Truman dropped in twice; John D. Rockefeller, once. The 202 works were returned to Germany.
May all these celebrations of "The Monuments Men" in film and in real life heighten interest in restituting the many thousands of Nazi-pilfered artworks that have never been returned to their rightful owners, or heirs of owners.
The latest such discovery occurred in February and last November. Some 1,400 looted masterpieces valued at one billion Euros (about $1.37 billion) were found in November amid trash in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of an art dealer who helped Nazis sell stolen paintings.
In February, an additional 60 Nazi-looted artworks were found stashed in Gurlitt's Salzburg, Austria home, according to Austrian news reports.
He is the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, who dealt in stolen art with Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels. Hildebrand Gurlitt presumably bequeathed these paintings by Renoir, Picasso, Gauguin, Chagall, and many German expressionists -- what Hitler had called "degenerate" art.
It will take years, and probably court battles, to determine the rightful owners of these works and many other purloined ones. While Cornelius Gurlitt and many museums fight returning Nazi-stolen works, other museums -- especially American ones -- cooperate.
The National Gallery 14 years ago returned a 17th-century Flemish painting to the heirs of Marguerite Stern, the widow of a Jewish banker whose art collection was seized by the Nazis when they occupied Paris. The heirs sought to reclaim ''Still Life With Fruit and Game'' by Frans Snyders after reading about the painting on the museum's website.
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a shining example of how to handle this. The Kimbell had owned its only J.M.W. Turner painting for 40 years when it learned that "Glaucus and Scylla" had been confiscated by France's pro-Nazi Vichy government from Jewish art collectors John and Anna Jaffé .
The museum promptly restituted it to the family in 2006. When the heirs sold it a few months later at Christie's in New York, the Kimbell bought it again for $6,424,000.
For more info: National Archives, www.archives.gov, on the National Mall, Constitution Avenue and 9th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 202-357-5000, or www.archives.gov/calendar. Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, www.aaa.si.edu, Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, 1st floor, near the Kogod Courtyard connecting the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., 202-633-7940. National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov, on the National Mall, Constitution Avenue between Constitution Avenue between 4th and 7th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. Free. 202-737-4215. Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, www.monumentsmenfoundation.org, 866-WWII-ART.
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The new Russian foreign policy is "slog'ngrab." The revolving door government of Vladimir Putin slogs through global diplomacy while staging land grabs by referenda wherever there are high concentrations of ethnic Russians. The world can see it coming, but are they prepared to halt it?
The answer is no so long as EU nations remain dependent upon Russia for natural resources such as fossil fuels. The stumbling block for global freedom and emancipation is the petrol paradigm. Economies must shake that for good reasons:
- Petrol is not sustainable
- Compromising human rights is not acceptable
- Enemies of freedom are expendable
Consider each of these as explained in the list post with pictures.
A story by the BBC this morning wonders aloud about the strength of free world resolve against actions by Russia to grab land from pockets where ethnic Russians hold the majority. If Europeans lose their resolve, it will have implications for others following the Russian slog'ngrab model.
"Ukraine crisis: The weakness of Europe
In both Washington and Moscow I suspect officials are asking the same question of Europe: "How strong is its resolve when it comes to Ukraine?"
This week brought a reminder that Europe's economies are still struggling to emerge from recession, that unemployment remains stubbornly high and that there is growing discontent with the political establishment in many countries.
So on Sunday in France the far-right National Front made strong gains in the first round of local elections, even topping the polls in several towns and cities.
Last week in local elections in the Netherlands the anti-immigration party of Geert Wilders won in the city of Almere and came a close second in The Hague, with his supporters chanting they wanted "fewer" Moroccans in their city.
On Saturday there was violence in Madrid, as tens of thousands protested against unemployment, poverty and corruption.
Grit and spine
These are just the news fragments from an average week, but they serve as a reminder that politically many European countries are still worn down by years of economic crisis, with a mood angry and mistrustful of political elites.
It is against this background that Europe's leaders are being asked to show grit and spine in a crisis which just weeks ago they could scarcely have imagined.
Many of them will gather again on Monday in The Hague with their resolve once again under scrutiny.
The meeting was intended to focus on nuclear security, but it will be overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine."
1. Petrol is not sustainable
"America's addiction to oil is a threat to our national security, as well as our economy and our environment. This connection is important enough that the Sierra Club and the American Security Project have recognized the shared need to come together to talk about it:
TRANSPORTATION: The U.S. uses nearly 400 million gallons of oil every day moving people in automobiles, goods on freight truck, air travel, rail and transit. Of all the oil used in the United States, 70% is consumed by transportation. Cars and light trucks use nine million barrels of oil per day.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Of the imported petroleum Americans consume, 68 percent is supplied by countries at "high risk" or "very high risk" for instability. Oil dependence gives leverage and money to potential adversaries, and risking embroiling the U.S. state in endless conflicts abroad to secure access to oil.
ECONOMIC SECURITY: Americans send over $1 billion abroad every day to pay for oil, resulting in lost jobs and increasing dollars in the hands of foreigners who we increasingly rely upon to finance our deficits. The U.S. borrows money from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis, causing greater national debt and dependence on the goodwill of others to allow its economy to function.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is an example of what could happen again if we increase off-shore drilling. In the United States, burning fossil fuels for electricity and transportation is the largest contributor to global warming pollution. Transportation is responsible for approximately one-third of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions."
2. Compromising human rights is not acceptable
"Human Rights Principles
Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. They are universal because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background. Inalienable because people's rights can never be taken away. Indivisible and interdependent because all rights – political, civil, social, cultural and economic – are equal in importance and none can be fully enjoyed without the others. They apply to all equally, and all have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. They are upheld by the rule of law and strengthened through legitimate claims for duty-bearers to be accountable to international standards."
3. Enemies of freedom are expendable
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In response to U.S. sanctions regarding the annexation of Crimea, some Russian business have banned Obama, Pussy Riot, and Secretary of State John Kerry, while others have set out candy that can only be eaten by those who support the annexation.
According to The Moscow Times, social media outlets are filling up with "a photo collection of" business-led "retaliatory 'sanctions'" launched in response to Western sanctions.
These include a photo of a bowl of candy with a sign in front of it "advising customers that only those recognizing Crimea's decision to join Russia may help themselves to candy." They also include a photo of a telecommunications business that has banned Obama from their premises and another shop that has banned Obama, the punk band Pussy Riot, and John Kerry.
A Russian cupcake maker now refers to chocolate cupcakes as "Obama" cupcakes and to chocolate and rum muffins as "Drunk Obama" muffins."

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When I read James Laube advising in a recent Wine Spectator column that "Many Washington reds . . . make for good alternatives to their counterparts from California," I could almost feel the heat of Paul Gregutt's blood boiling.
Gregutt is a well-known wine writer and authority in the Pacific Northwest and the author of the just published Washington Wines & Wineries: The Essential Guide. Gregutt is a partisan of Washington wine quality. I could easily imagine he might have claimed that many Washington reds would make good replacements for their California counterparts!
Frankly, he'd be right. Washington's wine industry is second only to California (albeit a distant second) in the number of wineries and amount of wine produced, yet many otherwise worldly wine lovers are still unacquainted with the high quality and consistency of wine being made there. The overwhelming market presence of California has left many consumers only vaguely aware that they make wine in Washington at all.
That's kind of okay for many of us in the Northwest who don't relish more competition when trying to snatch up those special lots of fine boutique bottlings from Washington's mostly small-scale producers. Yet at the same time, we realize the state's wines are owed more respect than they often get and are glad to see a book that helps in that cause. As Gregutt writes in his introduction, ". . .it is long past time for a critical appraisal of the state as a world-class winemaking region . . ."
Washington Wines & Wineries: The Essential Guide goes a long way toward fixing that.
For those who need the appropriate grounding, the book begins with a cogent history of Washington as a winemaking region, followed by a chapter on appellations, with some very nice maps. A look at Gregutt's "Top Ten Vineyards" is useful for consumers unfamiliar with the state's prime grape sources, helping characterize bottles with those vineyard names.
In such a "get acquainted" set of chapters, though, one might have hoped for more discussion of terroir in the AVAs. The importance of blends in Washington wines—in my experience they tend to outshine the single-vineyard wines—could have gotten more coverage as well. And for a state whose wine industry tagline is "Washington: The Perfect Climate for Wine," a deeper look at the climate itself—rainfall, temperature, growing degree days—and its effects on the vineyards and wines would have been welcome.
Still, Gregutt's well well-written examinations of Washington's wine basics will greatly help readers trying to put the state's wines into context. But the heart of the book for many consumers will be in the listing of winery profiles. Here, Gregutt presents his personal picks (which, for what it's worth, I think are exactly correct) of wineries using a vaguely sporting analogy: The Leaders, The Specialists, The Bench, The Rookies.
In selecting his chosen subset from among the state's 500-plus wineries, Gregutt has applied his own unique 100-point scale to each winery (not individual wines), allotting 30 points each for his scores on a winery's style, consistency, and value, with an additional 10 points for a winery's contribution "to the development and improvement of the Washington wine industry."
It is an intriguing concept that works well. "Style" would seem to be difficult since it is so subject to interpretation, as is the "industry contribution" category. But "Value" is an excellent—and too little discussed—variable for rating wineries, while "Consistency" is vital to any evaluation of a winery's overall character. Gregutt's well-explained approach is superb and more importantly, reliable and accurate.
One would wish, though, for a bit more. There are no vintage descriptions (is every Washington vintage perfect?), and there is no specific buying advice (which would seem to be needed for a wine book to be "essential"). This is not the book to take into the wine ship to compare the 2004 Andrew Will Ciel Du Cheval with the 2004 Andrew Will Champoux.
The book is also visually less than alluring once you get past the attractive cover. Black and white label shots are all the graphics you get, so readers gain no visual appreciation for the place or the people. The text—though extremely well written and full of Gregutt's not-shy personality—is dense and a tad imposing for the non-specialist. This is, rather than a quick read, a book to study, take notes on, and savor over time in order to absorb its considerable value.
For those who want to gain an education on the country's second largest wine region (as well as become infected by the author's enthusiasm for it), this is a seminal book. There is nothing else available today that explains from a local expert's point of view just why American wine buyers should look beyond California for great wine.
Paul Gregutt, Washington Wines & Wineries: The Essential Guide, University of California Press, 2007, $23.87 (hardback).
Cole Danehower is the co-publisher and wine editor of Northwest Palate magazine, a consumer publication covering the wine, food, and culinary travel bounty of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Idaho. He received a James Beard Journalism Award for his previous publication, the Oregon Wine Report; writes frequently about Northwest wines for several publications; and blogs as the Inspired Imbiber.
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Fresh new pop band EverYoung are set to release their debut single 'You Got Me'. EverYoung are two boys (18 year old Eyal and Jack) and two girls (Cherelle and Hollie, both 19) who met at school and have spent the last two years performing at schools, clubs and theatres around the country and writing their debut album. With more than 150 school performances under their belts, 26,500 (and rising) Facebook likes and 6,500 Twitter followers, EverYoung are now releasing their new single 'You Got Me'.
Their first TV appearance was on Live with Fern Brittonon Channel Five, and the group has already been interviewed on numerous local radio stations. "We are having such a great time and every experience is even better than the last." adds Cherelle.
The band will be spending the summer in the studio and performing at Pride festivals before continuing their schools tour in September. They will also be joining Matt Cardle at Live On The Square in Cheshire in support of the Andrew Flintoff Foundation.
She already has six top 10 UK club chart hits and a single with Snoop Dogg. Stacey is due to bring in new mixes later this year on top of that she has a UK/USA/Canada tour planned. Keep an eye out for gigs near you and the album launch winter 2013.
Stacey Jackson enlisted Spencer and his brooding stare to play a possessive businessman in the video for her new track, Pointing Fingers. Wearing a sharp suit and sitting in what resembles a 'red room of pain' (ooh) Spencer holds a Coco de Mer riding crop as he watches Stacey perform.
Binky Felstead also appears in the video, playing a sexy DJ in wet-look leggings who controls the track on her iPad.
She said: "It's was great fun to do the shoot except for one thing Spencer kept on whacking me with that riding crop that he had but I did managed to get him back with it at the end of the day."
The video was shot in New York in January and this is the first time that you can see the finished product. All we have to say is… Louise Thompson, you are one LUCKY lady.
Stacey said: "Spencer really was perfect for the Christian Grey style business role. He was strong, masterful and indignant when I started to defy him."
The band consists of:
Jake Hammarton - lead singer/rhythm guitarist
Jon Young - lead guitarist/backing vocals
Harry Mitchell - bass guitarist/backing vocals
Mathew Carman - drummer
The lads have been friends for many years and formed the band just over 3 years ago. They are all going into their second year at college studying music and music technology.
They have mainly covered indie/rock bands such as the Arctic Monkeys and have now started writing their own material, A London Particular and Settle for Less are the first 2 songs with a third in the making.
With more songs on the way they should be releasing their first EP in the near future.
In the recent B-Fest 2013 the lads were placed first in their category and were overall winners of the competition.
If you want to follow the band and keep up with gigs, songs and news
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- Rates: Rooms start at $225
- Official Site: HotelonRivington.com
- Telephone & Address: 212 475 2600 -- 107 Rivington Street
- Location: New York City, New York
There's a lot to like about the Hotel on Rivington. It's a tall building in a short neighborhood, which means you'll get great views. Many rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows, which means you'll get to take in a lot of these great views. And the hotel permits pets, which means your dog will be able to take them in with you. For all its cool and unique characteristics, however, the Hotel on Rivington has its fair share of shortcomings. Like so many New York City boutique hotels, it's underlit to the point of being dank and gloomy. Poor ventilation and limited window openings make the rooms feel vacuum-sealed and bone-dry. Ultimately, however, the good outweighs the bad; the Hotel on Rivington gets AM's approval.
When the Hotel on Rivington opened in 2004, gentrification had just started to seep into the Lower East Side from the north. It spread rapidly from there; the local art scene exploded, the Bowery Ballroom became one of the city's premiere music venues, and the emergence of the LES as New York's newest hip neighborhood was on. The Hotel on Rivington has obviously benefited, particularly as there isn't much in the way of local competition (though this is about to change, as hotelier Jason Pomerac prepares to open his own property on nearby Allen Street). And as a guest there, you'll benefit from the hotel's proximity to this suddenly cool neighborhood's bars and restaurants. Of course, hipsters abound in all these places, and hipsters in packs can become insufferable quickly. When they do, know that the Hotel on Rivington also boasts a pretty cool DVD library.
Certain bathrooms at the Hotel on Rivington have floor-to-ceiling windows, and are pretty spectacular for it. Certain others, however, do not. In these ones the gloomy lighting that plagues the hotel is at its dankest -- and hygiene efficiency is severely impaired for it. If you're cursed with such a bathroom, we suggest you do your final pre-exit face check in some other mirror before heading out for the night; there's just not enough visibility to catch embarrassing oversights like spontaneous nose-hair extrusions. Close inspection of the bathroom reveals potential motivation for the sour-mood lighting: Sloppy caulking on the tub suggests that perhaps there is further sloppiness to hide. Yet however hastily they may have been assembled, the design details in the bathroom are admirable -- and the variety of their origins is impressive. The floors are done in Bisazza tiles from Italy, the soaking tub is Japanese, and the bath products are from local New Yorker Paul Labrecque. The international spread extends into the bedroom, where Italian Frette linen covers Swedish Tempur-Pedic mattresses, and French India Mondavi footstools add further cosmopolitan character to the room.


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Some questions on terrestrial mollusks
What is the highest altitude at which live land snails have been collected? Land snails live at many high altitude mountains, including the European Alps and the North American Rocky Mountains. I wouldn't be surprised to find land snails at any altitude provided that the location is free of ice and snow for at least 2-3 months a year.
Are there any sinistral slug species? Despite the external apparence of a slug that may give the first impression that its body is symmetric, all slugs species that I know of have their breathing holes and genital openings on the right sides of their bodies. In that respect, they are like dextral snails. And just as one occasionally encounters a sinistral specimen of a snail species that is normally dextral, one may occasionally find a sinistral slug that has its breathing hole and genital opening on the left side of its body1. Moreover, there are many snail species that are normally sinistral. Are there also normally sinistral slug species?
Most (all?) sinistral snail species have shells that are taller than they are wide. Slugs have evolved from snails. Although some slug species have completely lost their shells, many species still have a small external or internal vestigial shell. There are also so-called semi-slugs, snails with shells that are much smaller than their bodies and into which they cannot withdraw. The shells of semi-slugs are always wide, not tall. This suggests that slugs have descended from snails with wide shells. And since sinistral snail species with wide shells are rare (absent?), this may be the reason why there are no normally sinistral slug species, or if there are any, why they are rare.
What is the smallest land snail species? The smallest North American land snails are probably Punctum minutissimum and Guppya sterkii. Pilsbry gave the diameters of shells of P. minutissimum as 1.5 mm or less and those of G. sterkii as 1.2 mm. The largest G. sterkii shells I have measured were 1.3 mm wide. The smallest European land snails may be Punctum pygmaeum and Truncatellina claustralis. The shells of the latter species are 1.5-1.8 mm long. Vagvolgyi2 noted that "Some species of the genus Ptychodon reach only 1 mm as adults, Charopa 1.2, Pronesopupa 1.3". Back in August, I had a post on miniaturization in animals and Tim Pearce commented that some adult diplommatinid land snails could be as small as 0.7 mm long. But I think this information, which came from a 1938 publication, needs to be confirmed with more recent work.
Who discovered that pulmonate snails are hermaphrodites? All pulmonate snails are hermaphrodites. I have written about the American naturalist Thomas Say, who, in an 1818 paper, gave dimensions for "male" and "female" pulmonate snails. Twelve years later, in his American conchology3, Say wrote that the snails in the then catchall genus Helix were hermaphrodites. It seems that sometime during the first decades of the 19th century it became established that pulmonate snails were hermaphrodites. I have done some searching and asked around, but haven't found out who first figured out that pulmonates were hermaphrodites. Was it Lamarck?
Are live land snails or their live eggs being transported over long distances by the winds? There are numerous records of live land snails that have been found on migrating birds, but in 1965 Rees4 wrote that "Direct evidence for the transport of minute snails [by hurricanes and tornadoes] is not yet forthcoming". Ten years later, Vagvolgyi2 speculated that very small land snails can be transported by air currents. But I am not aware of a published record of live land snails, their eggs, or even empty shells, that have been collected high enough above the ground to eliminate local wind-blown transport.
1. Reise et al. 2002. A sinistral specimen of the terrestrial slug Arion lusitanicus. Malakologische Abhandlungen 20:247-252.
2. Vagvolgyi, J. 1975. Body size, aerial dispersal & origin of the Pacific land snail fauna. Systematic Zoology 24:465-488.
3. Say, T. 1830. American conchology: or, Descriptions of the shells of North America. New Harmony, Indiana.
4. Rees, W.J. 1965. The aerial dispersal of mollusca. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 36:269-282.


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By David Dorf-Oracle on Feb 27, 2013
Amazon has been at the forefront of innovation in e-commerce, and that's because they are constantly looking for new ways, not to sell, but to satisfy customers. That's a key point. Instead of advertising products, they provide information and advice to customers either directly or via other customers. This helps people make better decisions about their purchases. Looking back, we can see Amazon has been a leader in many areas:
- 1995 - customer reviews
- 1997 - recommendations & bundles
- 1997 - 1-click ordering
- 2001 - look inside the book
- 2001 - where's my stuff?
- 2002 - free super saver shipping
The latest feature I've seen is the Customer Questions & Answers. On certain product pages, you can click on "Questions" and pose a question to other customers that have purchased the product. Apparently Amazon send the question via email to past customers that purchased the product and they are encouraged to reply with an answer. Shoppers can browse past questions and answers as well.
This emulates the physical world quite nicely. You see a product, like a digital camera, and want to know how many pictures it can take without a memory card. A current owner responds with an answer, and you are better positioned to make a decision. Its just like asking your co-workers and friends, except Amazon knows who already owns the product so they do the "matchmaking." Amazon claims 96% of the questions get answered, and 40% within two hours.
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Head coach Eric Hansen and the Arizona swimming team head to Austin, Texas for the Texas Invitational, taking place Thursday, Dec. 1 through Saturday, Dec. 3.
For the swimmers, the invitational serves as a chance to qualify for the NCAA Championships that will take place in March.
Arizona is led by seniors Cory Chitwood (Union, Ky.), Nick Hadinger (Tucson,,Ariz.), Kevin Munsch (Kent, Wash.), Cameron Owen (Fishers, Ind.), Luke Pechmann (Moorhead, Minn.), Austen Thompson (Chandler, Ariz.) and Kelley Wyman (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) on the men's side and Alyssa Anderson (Granite City, Calif.), Emma Darlington (Tucson, Ariz.) and Grace Kittle (Dallas, Texas) on the women's side.
So far this season, both the men's and women's relay teams have gone undefeated in every event. The team of Wyman and sophomores Mitchell Friedemann (Allenton, Wis.), Giles Smith (Baltimore, Md.) and Tommy Gutman (Jacksonville, Fla.) currently have the second-fastest time in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:26.69.
In 2010, the Wildcats accrued 14 "A" cut times and won 18 events during the three-day meet.
Competition will begin on Thursday, with preliminaries starting at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. - Fresno State senior defensive back Jonathan Norton was named on Tuesday as a nominee for the Burlsworth Trophy. The Burlsworth Trophy and presenting sponsor, the Springdale (Ark.) Rotary Club, announced 53 student-athletes to the 2013 list that includes standout players and national statistical leaders from every major conference in the nation.
The Burlsworth Trophy is given to the most outstanding collegiate football player who began his career as a walk-on. A walk-on is defined as a player who began his first season of participation with a Division I (FBS) football program without financial aid of any kind from his university's athletic department.
Norton, a Moreno Valley, Calif. native, has played in all nine games of 2013 season thus far and has been a key contributor to the 'Dogs and their undefeated season. Norton has registered 29 tackles with 26 being solo stops, along with three tackles for loss and one sack. He has also been credited with one quarterback hurry and two pass breakups.
One of Norton's two pass breakups this season could arguably be noted as one of Fresno State's top highlights of its 9-0 season. On Sept. 20 in front of a sellout crowd on national television against Boise State, Fresno State's defense was up against a 4th-and-6 at the Bulldogs' 49 with a minute remaining in the game. To preserve the win, Norton broke up Joe Southwick's pass as he knocked the ball out of Kirby Moore's hands to seal the Bulldogs' 41-40 victory. The win was Fresno State's first against the Broncos in seven years and it catapulted the 'Dogs into the AP Top 25 rankings for the first time since 2008.
The trophy is named in honor of Brandon Burlsworth, who walked on to the Arkansas Razorbacks in 1994, worked his way to being a three-year starter and was eventually named an All-American in 1998. Burlsworth was selected as the 63rd overall pick by the Indianapolis Colts in the 1999 NFL Draft but was killed in a car accident 11 days later. The Burlsworth Foundation was created in his memory and supports the physical and spiritual needs of children, in particular those children that have limited opportunities.
"The 2013 class of Burlsworth Trophy nominees are an outstanding group of young men," said Marty Burlsworth, CEO and founder of the Burlsworth Foundation and brother of Brandon. "They represent their schools well and embody everything that the Burlsworth Trophy stands for: hard word, dedication and a commitment to excellence."
For more information about the Burlsworth Trophy, visit www.burlsworthtrophy.com.
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Get your Memorial Day Weekend going with these top 3 Charlottesville day trips. Take a country drive meandering down a 2-lane rural scenic by-way, southwest or northwest of Charlottesville and let the mountain glories found there rejuvenate your spirit. And then along the way, stop in and enjoy Virginia's fine "local spirits".
2014 Memorial Day Weekend celebrations are embracing beer, cider and wine, usually in a beautiful natural setting with live music performed by local artists. Whether beer, cider or wine is your pleasure, the Charlottesville area has got you covered, with a great big side of 360-degree mountain views, and pastoral scenes.
If libations are not on your list of favorite things to enjoy, no worries! There's plenty of other ways to celebrate your Memorial Day weekend in and around Charlottesville. Grow your brain cells with a historic walking tour or take in an art show. Ride the Hatton Ferry in Scottsville or visit a local American castle. Pick strawberries or select other fresh produce at local farmers markets dispersed through the region. You can even attend a Mystery Dinner Theater, a local flea market or an antique car show.
But don't dally! The spring weather is fine and the mountains are calling your name. Check out these top 3 Charlottesville day trip itineraries.
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Top pick Saturday Memorial Day Weekend 2014 activities southwest of Charlottesville
Head out early on Saturday morning May 24, and experience the Hatton Ferry history in Scottsville. The hand pulled ferry runs April-October on Saturdays from 10:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and this piece of history is only $5 per person, or $10 per car load. Water levels of the James River impact the ferry's ability to operate. Since this Winter and Spring have been so snowy and rainy, water levels are great this weekend, so why wait until tomorrow, or later, to do what you could do today? Scottsville is a short, meandering, beautiful drive down Route 20 from Charlottesville, and if you bring a good map, think of the adventures you might have meandering your way back to Charlottesville from the other side of the "rivah". (There is a fully modern bridge back over the James River in Scottsville.)
After your historic Hatton Ferry experience, drop in on the Scottsville Farmers Market (9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) for fresh produce or a quick bite to eat before heading on over to Trump Winery for a touch of the rich and famous lifestyle. From 1:00-4:00 p.m., have a sip of Virginia, bask in the fresh rural air and warm sunshine, while experience a Virginia wine. Trump Winery, located at 3550 Blenheim Road in Charlottesville is open from 11 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (434.977.3895).
If all that hasn't tired you out too much, or if you need one more something to do before you call it a day, take the short drive back down Route 20 to Charlottesville, and enjoy another kind of local spirit: The Maplewood Cemetery Tour. The cemetery walking tour starts at 3:00 p.m. at the entrance to the cemetery located on Maple Street at 8th Street NE, and will either focus on the Interred at Maplewood or the Iconography in Maplewood. Tickets ($5) can be purchased online or at the start of the tour. Call 434.296.1462 for more information.
Night owl top road trip picks northwest of Charlottesville
So you got a late start today. Be the night owl that you are. Try a Jeffersonian favorite: cider. Hit Interstate 64 for 20 minutes or so, get off at Route 250 in Crozet, and head west looking for Route 151 where you will turn left. Keep on 151 for a while and Bold Rock Cidery will be a small barn on your left. From 1:00-4:00 p.m., Gary Randal will be playing acoustic at Bold Rock Cidery in Nellysford. Tastings, tours, live music and cider "for here" and to go could make for a great holiday afternoon. Bold Rock Cidery is located at 1020 Rockfish Valley Highway (434.361.1030).
Needing something to do after Bold Rock Cidery tasting? The turn off for Wintergreen Resort is not that much further up 151, and the resort's mountain location is perfect for Memorial Day Weekend celebrating. On Saturday drive up the mountain anytime 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. for a full day of activities: arts & crafts fair opens at 10 a.m. on the Blue Ridge Terrace; the Blues, Brews & BBQ festival kicks-off at 11:00 a.m.; and the kids can enjoy a Block Party from 1:00-4:00 p.m., while the adults listen to a full slate of music (Battle of the Bands). Wintergreen Resort is located off the Blue Ridge Parkway at 39 Mountain Inn Loop in Wintergreen (434.325.2200).
For evening entertainment, post Wintergreen Resort merriment, there are two choices: Devils Backbone Brewing or Wild Wolf Brewing Company. Both are located in proximity to Wintergreen, off Route 151, mere minutes apart. Both specialize in local micro-brews, offer mountain vistas, include outdoor patio seating and live musical performances.
At 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, Devils Backbone Brewing partake of a local brew, the sunset, and dinner while listening to a live performance of Chase's Lament. Devils Backbone is located at 200 Mosbys Run in Roseland (434.361.1001).
Or, drive a few more miles down the road, and you can enjoy The Tin Can Fish Band at Wild Wolf Brewing Company from 8:00-11:00 p.m., while having a late dinner and more local brews. Or just have the local brews and star gaze to the live music. Wild Wolf is located at 2461 Rockfish Valley Highway in Nellysford (434.361.0088).
Feel like staying a little closer to home and having a low key holiday while visiting an American castle?
Not feeling a big to do holiday weekend? Stay a little closer to Charlottesville home-base by taking the short jaunt up Interstate 64 to the Afton Mountain exit. Get your back road by-way fix with the short trek down Route 6 to Afton Mountain Vineyards. The views are impressive, and the road winds down Afton Mountain in steep switchbacks. What's at the end of the road, you say?
Afton After Hours at Afton Mountain Vineyards promises live music with Eli Cook, wine tastings, pizza from Blue Ridge Pizza Company and Southern Cajun from Delicious Dish food truck. Fantastic mountain views and a stellar sunset are probably on the agenda as well as the event starts at 6:00 p.m. and will run through 8:30 p.m., and the setting of the sun. Bring a picnic, lawn chair or blanket. Afton Mountain Vineyards is located at 234 Vineyard Lane in Afton (540-456-8667).
Also on Afton Mountain, on Saturday May 24, the general public has the rare opportunity to visit a local American Castle: Swannanoa. The grounds themselves, and the winding drive-way up to this old estate are beautiful, especially in springtime with the mountain views and cool breezes. Swannanoa is not in its hey-day glory shape, but the vestiges of the glory are still quite palpable. The palace and grounds will be open for public viewing (fee) from 11:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) at 497 Swannanoa Lane in Afton (540.942.5201).
To get to Swannanoa is not that tricky, but might take few tries. On top of Afton there is an old visitor center and hotel. Driving directions will get your there, but you would have to get off the interstate, and stay on the top of the mountain to get to Swannanoa. And then to get to Afton Vineyards, you would come back down to the visitor, take a short 5 minute drive down Route 250 East, and turn right onto Route 6 to wind down the mountain to Afton Vineyards.
Suggested Links
- Memorial Day holiday revels in beer, mountain air and wine: Friday, May 23
- Memorial Day 2014 Saturday celebrations zero in on beer, cider and wine
- The wine and beer continue to flow through Sunday May 25, Memorial Day Weekend
- Holiday draws to a close with a final round of drinks on Memorial Day May 26


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First chartered in 2004 as the Linux Foundation Accessibility Workgroup (LFA), the Open Accessibility (A11y) Group functions today within the Linux Foundation to establish free and open standards that enable comprehensive universal access to various computing platforms, applications, and services. Open A11y makes it easier for developers, ISVs, and distributions to support assistive technologies (AT). Assistive technologies enable individuals to make full use of computer-based technology despite variability in physical or sensory abilities due to illness, aging or disability.
AT enables individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read online text, for example, and provides the means for individuals who do not have the use of their arms and hands to write and correspond. AT also enable individuals who cannot speak or hear to participate on the telephony interfaces of today -- and will support their participation on the multimodal computer interfaces of tomorrow.
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Powerbook – iBook comparisson
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After two years with my iBook I thought it was time to upgrade. Both machines shown above cost roughly 1.5k Euros (incl. memory upgrade, airport and bluetooth and tax). And while the PB is obviously speedier and has a far superior keyboard it is questionable if this was a good buying decision.
The Powerbook gets considerably hotter than the iBook, has less battery life and wifi reception is close to unusable in many locations. The iBook G3 is super quiet. The fan goes on only after 1hr of playing DVD whereas the fan in the powerbook goes on after five minutes looking at webpages. Apart from writing mail the fan is almost always on.
The iBook fabrication quality unfortunately got worse with each incarnation and the one seen here has already the crappy plastic (opaque white). More recent iBooks have a better keyboard but poor trackpads.
This powerbook has an okay trackpad and the display has probably the standard of iBooks of late 2001 (which mean it is better than my previous iBook).
The powerbook is a thing of beauty. Even today the quality of the case is marvelous, but that doesn't help when you stay offline due to poor reception.
Maybe I should get a life instead of looking for a useable laptop.
The Nadi Temple – A Feast for the Eyes
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I have little text today, because I have a tonne of images to show to you. This morning I took a short bus ride to the Nadi Temple, as it is commonly called. My friend, Heather, suggested it to me, though her directions left something to be desired. Jump on a bus and you will probably be there in ten minutes:
Don't dally at the Baby Face Nite Club, or they won't let you in at the temple.
In fact, there are some things you should know before visiting. Prepare to leave your shoes at the gate. Do not eat any meat for breakfast. The man at the gate will ask you. Wear modest clothing, long trousers for men and a shirt that has at least short sleeves. I was dressed in my usual short-shorts and a tank top. This evoked a frown and a warning not to enter the temple itself, but, having paid the F.50 to enter the grounds and take pictures, I was otherwise treated politely. I'll save my breath by showing you a little summary casually ripped from a travel web site:
In 1994 this Hindu temple moved from beside the flood-prone Nadi River to the southern end of town where an evocative three-tower complex was finely created over a ten-year period by eight specialist craftsmen brought from India.
The Dravidian temple is dedicated to the deity Murugan whose statue, specially carved in India, is housed within the twelve-metre-high main pyramidal vimanam with a rectangular roof. The two towers at the rear of the temple with colourful domed shaped roofs are dedicated to Ganesh and Shiva.
Since I was not allowed to enter the temple, I decided to do my best from outside. Fortunately, the opportunities are superb:
My goal, from the first moment, was to try to grab shots that others might miss. If I have a "secret formula" this is it. These images have all been sent up to my server at 2,000 pixels, so if you click on any of them, you will get some good detail.
As I walk around I am constantly looking for amusing compositions:
The one above is crazy, but it works for me.
Another thing which I decided to do is to Photoshop without mercy. I wanted to get that "postcard" look which is just short of fake:
Fortunately, the light and sky were playing my game.
Even shadowed areas came through brilliantly:
The Canon G11 was strutting its stuff today. I have no complaints about any frame it gave me.
Walking around the temple, you can find plenty of treasure in the odd angles of the structure:
I could have stayed there all morning, but there were worshippers moving about and I was disgustingly under-dressed.
The details of the temple can keep you snapping until your battery runs down. Here's an example:
I have a dozen more in the folder, but you get the idea.
What I can't show you properly, since I could not go in, are the astonishing paintings on the ceiling of the entire temple. Here is one that I could, with a little standing yoga, get a shot of:
It's a bit distorted, but so was I while I was taking it. It took some fancy Photoshop tweaking to get it reasonably rectangular.
That's about it for me. My shoulders are getting sore from using the laptop on the bar here. It's the only place where I can get both a wireless connection and power. No beer for me until I figure out what's come unwired in my head.
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Morning MoneyBeat Asia: U.S. Stock Selloff Gathers Pace
Market Snap: At the New York close: S&P 500 down 1.43% at 1661.32. DJIA down 1.47% at 15112.19. Nasdaq Comp down 1.72% at 3669.27. Yield on 10-year Treasury slipped to 2.755%. Nymex crude oil up 0.4% at $107.33. Gold up 2.1% at $1,361.60/ounce.
How We Got Here: Stocks suffered their worst losses in eight weeks as investors worried the latest round of economic reports may allow the Fed to pull back on bond purchases soon. Cisco Systems fell 7%, leading DJIA decliners, after announcing job cuts and a cautious outlook after the bell Thursday; while Wal-Mart's weak sales outlook did little to lift confidence. All S&P 500 sectors ended in the red, with consumer discretionary and technology stocks hit hardest.
What You Missed Overnight
Blue Chips Shed 225 Points: Stocks fell the most in a day in eight weeks as bond prices tumbled after stronger-than-expected economic data raised investor anxiety about a pullback next month in central-bank support for financial markets.
Judge Delays Ruling on AMR Bankruptcy: A judge declined to approve AMR's plan to exit bankruptcy through a merger with US Airways, citing the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against the deal.
Wal-Mart Deepens Retail Gloom: Wal-Mart's fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 1.3%, but sales grew more slowly than expected, as the retailer said consumers in both mature and emerging markets curbed spending.
Jobless Claims Lowest Since '07: The number of U.S. workers seeking first-time unemployment benefits fell by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 320,000, the lowest level since before the recession.
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China's Banks, Bonds Joined at the Hip: Critics point to China's bond market as an underrecognized risk as the country struggles to control surging lending amid a weakening economy.
Chinalco Weighs Peruvian Copper Mine: China's Chinalco Mining is close to appointing advisers for its plan to buy Glencore Xstrata's Peruvian copper mine, in a deal that could be worth about $5 billion.
GM Gives Assurances on Australian Operations: A General Motors executive said the auto maker is committed to keeping its Australian operations open after workers there agreed to a wage freeze. 37 min ago.
Singapore New Private-Home Sales Plunge: Sales of new private homes in Singapore plunged in July to the lowest level in more than 3½ years, after recent government curbs on property loans damped investor sentiment.
Citibank to Offer Insurers Access to Asia Branches: Citibank aims to use its extensive Asian branch network to capitalize on insurers' eagerness to tap a fast-growing market, with a plan to allow life insurers to sell their products through its branches in the region.
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How Dell's Earnings Play Into the Buyout Fight: Dell Inc.'s second-quarter earnings drop presents arguments for both sides in the ongoing buyout drama.
Bank M&A Shows Some Signs of Life (Small Life): Who says bank M&A is dead? The planned combination of two Michigan community lenders is among the latest in a string of small deals that have kept chugging along over the last year as such banks continue grappling with tepid loan demand, low interest rates, increased competition and mounting regulatory costs.
IBM Makes Latest Cybersecurity Software Deal: As corporations spend billions on attempting to protect themselves from cyber assaults, M&A in the companies helping to protect them continues to be hot.
Has the Dollar Become A Risky Asset? Investors who viewed the dollar as a haven for years are looking at the greenback differently.
Buy the Dips? Not Today: With stocks slumping, isn't it time for all those "buy-the-dip" folks to start touting how attractive stocks look at lower levels?


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Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, and public outreach events using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres. Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities. Recordings of events in these areas are all available On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA). PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.
The Dark Energy might constitute an observable fraction of the total energy density of our Universe as far back as the time of matter radiation equality or even big bang nucleosynthesis. In this talk, I will review the cosmological implications of such an \'Early Dark Energy\' component, and discuss how it might - or might not - be detected by observations. In particular, I will show how assuming the early dark energy to be negligible will bias the interpretation of cosmological data.
Abstract: Complete sets of mutually unbiased bases are clearly \'cousins\' of SICs. One difference is that there is a \'theory\' for MUBs, in the sense that they are straightforward to construct in some cases, and probably impossible to construct in others. Moreover complete sets of MUBs do appear naturally in the algebraic geometry of projective space (in particular they come from elliptic curves with certain symmetries). I will describe some unsuccessful attempts I have made to go from MUBs to SICs.
I present three realizations about the SIC problem which excited me several years ago but which did not - unsurprisingly - lead anywhere. 1. In odd dimensions d, the metaplectic representation of SL(2,Z_d) decomposes into two irreducible components, acting on the odd and even parity subspaces respectively. It follows that if a fiducial vector | Psi> possesses some Clifford-symmetry, the same is already true for both its even and its odd parity components |Psi_e>, |Psi_o>. What is more, these components have potentially a larger symmetry group than their sum.
As a means of exactly derandomizing certain quantum information processing tasks, unitary designs have become an important concept in quantum information theory. A unitary design is a collection of unitary matrices that approximates the entire unitary group, much like a spherical design approximates the entire unit sphere. We use irreducible representations of the unitary group to find a general lower bound on the size of a unitary t-design in U(d), for any d and t.
Abstract: Adapting the concept of Wigner functions to finite dimensional systems is no simple matter. Basic issues with existing proposals are that they are either over-complete in the sense that the degrees of freedom in the Wigner function does not match the degrees of freedom in the original density matrix, or that they work only for restricted dimensions, namely for prime powers. We propose a new way to define a Wigner function and associated quantum phase space for some non-prime power dimensions.
By definition, SIC-POVMs are symmetric in the sense that the magnitude of the inner product between any pair of vectors is constant. All known constructions are based on additional symmetries, mainly with respect to the Weyl-Heisenberg group. Analyzing solutions for small dimensions, Zauner has identified an additional symmetry of order three and conjectured that these symmetries can be used to construct SIC-POVMs for all dimensions. Appleby has confirmed that all numerical solutions of Renes et al. indeed have that additional symmetry.
One of the most challenging problems in theoretical physics today is the so called cosmological constant problem. While current observational constraints are consistent with the predictions of GR with a tiny cosmological constant, often referred to as the dark energy, it remains possible that it\'s the deviation of the law of gravity at large distance from Einstein\'s theory that resolves the puzzle.
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