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- Ananda, India: Renowned for its Ayurvedic healing programs, yoga and meditation.
- Six Senses Zighy Bay, Oman: Located in the Musandam Peninsula, with mountains on one side, beach on the other.
- Spa Eastman, Canada: One of the country's top spas, and affordable, too.
Ah, the 21st century. Too bad no one's figured out an antidote. Wait a minute, some places have.
At these wellness retreats and spas, you don't just detox your body, your mind and emotions get a vacation, as well.
1. Simply Healing, England
Ever been tempted to try a juice fast, but not the type who suffers privation easily?
Simply Healing specializes in personalized juice detox programs at Alliblaster House, a retreat located in a 19th-century Georgian mansion, less than two hours from London.
The ambiance is smart but far from formal. Therapeutic treatments are among the best you'll find in the UK, the juices are delicious and filling and staff are kind.
Founder Vivien Kay is a keen traveler, and rooms are scattered with art and curios from her adventures. Walks in the surrounding countryside are glorious, too.
Five-day Essential Juice Detox plan from US$1,950; +44 (0)1403 822117; www.simplyhealingcentre.com
2. Ananda, India
High above the Ganges in the Himalayan foothills, this retreat is renowned for its Ayurvedic healing programs, yoga and meditation, daily vedanta (philosophy) classes, wellness packages and spa.
In Sanskrit, "ananda" means "bliss," and spa addicts worldwide rave about the magical qualities of the place -- the tranquil setting, crisp mountain air, lush scenery and view of the holy Ganges.
Clients are well catered for with excursions, safaris and whitewater rafting.
Five-night Wellness Experience package from US$600, per night; +91 1378 227500; www.anandaspa.com
3. Longevity Wellness Resort, Portugal
A combo resort and medical spa, Longevity Wellness Resort is located inside a nature reserve about 20 minutes and a world away from the touristy beach hub of the Algarve.
Nutrition, relaxation, beauty and anti-aging experts iron out the creases and you can take off for hikes in the hills, birdwatching trips and even excursions to swim with dolphins.
Themed retreats -- with titles like "Total Balance and Awareness" and "Personal Power" -- are also available.
Two-night Longevity Welcome Ritual from US$325; +351 282 240 110; www.longevitywellnessresort.com
4. Six Senses Zighy Bay, Oman
How many spas can you paraglide into? Zighy Bay's Bond-ish arrival option ranks as one of the coolest on the planet.
But it's not all adrenaline-charged. The resort is geared toward relaxation and repose, with a dedicated spa.
Located in the Musandam Peninsula, with mountains to one side and beach on the other, one could hardly ask for a grander setting. Equally tantalizing are the three-, five- and seven-day detox, fitness, de-stressing and adventure programs (with customizable options).
Five-night Sense of De-stress retreat from US$4,573; +968 26735 555; www.sixsenses.com/SixSensesZighyBay
5. Fordoun, South Africa
Dr. Elliot Ndlovu is a Zulu spiritual healer and director of Fordoun, one of South Africa's top-rated spas. The family owned place is located on a former dairy farm in the hills of Kwazulu Natal province's Midlands and surrounded by a working cattle farm.
Its motto is "Ubuntu," a Zulu phrase that roughly translates as "treat others as you would like to be treated."
The indigenous-themed treatments, walks, birdwatching, trout fishing and ballooning are all restful activities, but the star attraction is a session with Ndlovu, who a few years back traveled to the Oscars in L.A. to give readings to a bevy of A-list stars.
Two-night stress relief package from US$289 per night, based on single occupancy; +27 (0) 33 266 6217; www.fordoun.com
6. Kamalaya, Thailand
Kamalaya consistently garners rapturous reviews. It's on the island of Koh Samui and built around a cave once inhabited by a Buddhist monk.
That pretty much sets the tone. There's an impressive roster of therapists and visiting experts, as well as three different 14-day wellness programs, including ones devoted to stress and burnout and sleep enhancement.
Yoga, pilates, meditation, a library, swimming pool and landscaped gardens provide more ways to find peace and quiet.
Five-night Sleep Enhancement program from US$1,876; +66 (0) 77 429 800; www.kamalaya.com
7. Spa Eastman, Canada
In Quebec's Eastern Townships, an hour from Montreal, Spa Eastman is one of Canada's top spas and also one of its more affordable.
It's in a beautiful location, with unobstructed views of Mount Orford and some good hiking options. Aside from a selection of therapies, fitness offerings and guided walks, the spa specializes in "thermotherapy" with a Turkish bath and outdoor pools.
This is also one of the few spas to offer Watsu, a sort of warm water, balletic massage that is positively stupor-inducing.
Guests can attend lectures and workshops on the art of healthy living.
Two-night health and wellness immersion package from US$711; +1 (450) 297 3009; www.spa-eastman.com
8. Transformational Retreats, Costa Rica
These 10-day retreats in the hills above the Pacific coast, or at an eco-center deep in the jungle, are the only in the world that specialize in "neurofeedback."
The non-invasive therapy has been used with great effect to reduce anxiety and improve concentration, confidence and well being by monitoring brain activity in real time.
Those who've tried it believe it to be a hotline to the deep state of relaxed alertness one seeks through meditation and yoga. Perceptual shifts are a benefit, too.
The retreat also offers mentoring, yoga and meditation, hikes, fantastic fresh food, therapies, massage and the pristine silence of the rainforest.
Ten-day Be Brilliant retreat from US$7,200; +506 2787 4191; www.transformational-retreats.com
9. Gaia Retreat and Spa, Australia
Subtropical Byron Bay is home to this award-winning retreat and spa. Olivia Newton-John is one of its founders.
With just 19 bedrooms and views of the Pacific Ocean, it's a magnificent healing space.
The retreat attracts some of Australia's finest healers, therapists and fitness experts, and there's everything from hypnotherapy to sound healing, acupuncture and even tennis coaching alongside spa indulgence.
Stays are tailored for guests looking for a "personal, purpose driven retreat."
Two-night spa retreat special from US$1,186; +61 2 6687 1216; www.gaiaretreat.com.au
10. Amangiri, United States
Rising from the desert like a movie hideaway, remote Amangiri has welcomed some starry guests, including, reportedly, the Jolie-Pitts.
Located in the dramatic Canyon Point area of southern Utah, the spa was designed to blend into its sand and rock-strewn surroundings. Local Navajo culture and healing therapies have influenced the spa menu, there's a flotation room, fitness center, yoga pavilion (for private and group classes) and some good trails on the vast property.
Iconic Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks are easily accessible.
From US$1,109 per night; www.amanresorts.com


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Although this supper is made to serve two, you can double or triple the recipe so it becomes a family meal that's big on taste but still very healthy. If you'd rather not use vermouth, substitute unsweetened apple juice.
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Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 25 min.
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Sprinkle pork chops with salt and pepper. Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and place over medium heat. Add the pork chops and cook until browned on both sides and cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Transfer to 2 serving plates; tent with foil to keep warm.
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GLORY Press Conference Scheduled for Nov. 9th
- Written by Dave Walsh
Since the Glory World Series event this past weekend the rumor mills have been buzzing about Glory and what could possibly be going on. Last week a rumor started up that Glory had gone out and purchased OneFC, Singapore's hot commodity in MMA right now, but we've yet to hear anything concrete on that. So over the weekend from the Glory World Series event more rumors starting churning, and these were that the GLORY 4 Tokyo event, the big Heavyweight Grand Slam Tournament, is going to be delayed. The initial rumors were delayed or even canceled, but canceled didn't make much sense.
According to sources within Glory there was going to be a big announcement this week, tentatively on Tuesday. Now it looks like November 9th is slated to be the big announcement. So what exactly will this announcement be? Word on the street right now is that the Grand Slam Tournament will take place on December 31st in collaboration with the DREAM NYE event. This would come as a shock to no one.
As for some of the other rumors like purchasing OneFC or even K-1? Wait and see.


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Football historian LEIGH EDWARDS profiles every Arsenal player from 60 post-war League seasons.
England Youth winger Mark Flatts was a young member of George Graham's squad at Arsenal. He became a trainee at Highbury after graduating from the FA's National School of Excellence and signed professional in December 1990. Given his league debut in the Gunners' 1-1 draw at Sheffield United in September 1992, he failed to secure a regular first-team slot and was loaned to Cambridge United, Brighton, Bristol City and Grimsby Town. He made 16 Premiership appearances for Arsenal and had a trial with Torino before briefly joining Kettering Town in December 1996, subsequently playing for Bishop's Stortford.
Scotland international wing-half Alex Forbes starred in Arsenal's 1952/53 League Championship success. Starting with Dundee North End, he joined Sheffield United in December 1944 and moved to Highbury for £12,500 in February 1948. He featured in the Gunners' 1950 FA Cup final triumph and was a finalist again in 1952, scoring 20 times in 217 First Division games prior to joining Leyton Orient in August 1956. Later with Fulham and Gravesend & Northfleet, he returned to coach Arsenal juniors before emigrating to South Africa where he coached and managed various leading clubs. He now lives in Johannesburg in retirement.
Scottish centre-half Jim Fotheringham contested a first-team slot with Bill Dodgin while at Arsenal. Signing professional at Highbury in March 1951, he represented the Army during National Service and was given his League debut in the Gunners' 2-2 draw at Bolton in November 1954. He featured prominently as Arsenal finished fifth in the top-flight in 1955/56 and played 72 First Division games before being sold to Hearts for £10,000 in March 1959. Reuniting with Dave Bowen at Northampton Town in September 1959, his career was ended by injury soon afterwards. He died aged just 43 in Kettering in September 1977.
Goalkeeper Jim Furnell was ever-present for Arsenal in 1966/67. Initially with Burnley, he joined Liverpool in February 1962 and helped clinch the Second Division title that season. He moved to Arsenal in November 1963 and featured in the 1968 League Cup final, making 141 First Division appearances prior to joining Rotherham United in September 1968. Moving to Plymouth Argyle in December 1970, he starred in their 1973/74 League Cup run and 1974/75 promotion success. He was later their reserve team manager, then Blackburn Rovers' YDO and has since been FA Academy monitor for the North-West.
French international midfielder Remi Garde was an experienced figure in Arsenal's 1997/98 Premiership title campaign. Initially with Lyon, he helped them win promotion in 1988/89 and gained the first of six caps against Kuwait in January 1990. He joined Strasbourg in July 1993 and featured in the 1995 French Cup final, reuniting with Arsène Wenger after moving to Highbury in August 1996. The first non-British player to captain Arsenal, he played 31 Premiership games before retiring in June 1999. He was a pundit on French TV prior to rejoining Lyon as a coach, since helping to plot successive French title triumphs.
Versatile England Youth full-back Ryan Garry featured in Arsenal's 2001 FA Youth Cup final triumph. A former scholar at Highbury, he signed professional in July 2001 and was a regular member of the Gunners' U-19 and reserve squads. He also played in midfield, central defence and as a striker, making his first-team debut in Arsenal's 3-2 Worthington Cup third round defeat at home to Sunderland in November 2002. His only Premiership appearance to date was in place of Ashley Cole in the 6-1 victory over Southampton in May 2003 when Robert Pires and Jermaine Pennant netted hat-tricks in the FA Cup final rehearsal.
Versatile midfielder Steve Gatting was a valuable member of Arsenal's squad that reached three successive FA Cup finals. The brother of Middlesex and England cricketer Mike Gatting, he turned professional at Highbury in March 1977 and made his League debut in the Gunners' 1-0 victory at home to Southampton in October 1978. He netted five goals in 58 First Division games before joining Brighton for £200,000 in September 1981 and played in the 1983 FA Cup final. Ever-present in their 1987/88 promotion success, he later played for Charlton Athletic and Stamco. He has settled in Hove and his son Joe plays for Brighton.
England international striker Charlie George scored Arsenal's winning goal in the 1971 FA Cup final to clinch the 'double'. Locally born, he signed professional at Highbury in March 1968 and helped win the Fairs Cup in 1970. He was an FA Cup finalist again in 1972, netting 31 goals in 133 First Division games for the Gunners before being sold to Derby County for £90,000 in July 1975. Making his debut in the FA Charity Shield, he was leading marksman in 1975/76 and moved to Southampton in December 1978. Later with Nottingham Forest, Bulova, Bournemouth and Derby again, he is now a matchday host at Arsenal.
England Youth full-back Kerrea Gilbert played for Arsenal in both legs of the 2005/06 Carling Cup semi-final. He progressed through the ranks at Highbury and turned professional in July 2005, making his first-team debut in the Gunners' 3-0 victory at home to Reading in the Carling Cup fourth round four months later. Also featuring in the 0-0 draw with Ajax in the Champions League and FA Cup-ties against Cardiff City and Bolton Wanderers, he was given his Premiership debut in Arsenal's 1-0 defeat at Everton. He also began the 3-2 defeat at home to West Ham before sidelined by injury and is now enjoying a successful loan spell with Cardiff City.
Brazilian international midfielder Gilberto starred in Arsenal's record-breaking 2003/04 Premiership title triumph. Previously with Atletico Mineiro, he was a member of Brazil's 2002 World Cup winning squad and joined Arsenal in August 2002. Scoring on his debut to clinch victory in the FA Charity Shield, he netted the fastest Champions League goal at PSV Eindhoven in September 2002. He featured in Arsenal's 2003 FA Cup final success and scored in the 2004 FA Community Shield triumph. Returning from injury, he helped win the FA Cup again in 2005 and played in the 2006 Champions League final.
Centre-forward Peter Goring was a key figure in Arsenal's 1950 FA Cup final triumph. He impressed with Cheltenham Town before moving to Highbury in January 1948, scoring on his League debut in Arsenal's 2-1 win at Chelsea in August 1949. Leading marksman that season, he also helped the Gunners reach the FA Cup final in 1952 and win the League Championship in 1952/53. He switched to wing-half and had a spell as captain, netting 51 goals in 220 First Division games prior to joining Boston United in October 1960. Later managing Forest Green Rovers, he became a greengrocer in Cheltenham and died in December 1994.
Republic of Ireland U-21 midfielder Paul Gorman featured in Arsenal's 1983/84 Football Combination title triumph. A former apprentice at Highbury, he signed professional in October 1980 and made his League debut in the Gunners' 0-0 draw at Manchester City in March 1982. He played six First Division games prior to joining Birmingham City in June 1984, moving to Carlisle United in March 1985. Following a loan spell at Shelbourne, he joined Shrewsbury Town in November 1989 and briefly returned to Carlisle United in December 1981. Later with Gretna and Carlisle City, he has settled in Carlisle and is now a security officer.
Much-travelled striker Bobby Gould scored for Arsenal in the 1969 League Cup final. Initially with Coventry City, he was leading marksman in their 1966/67 Second Division title triumph and moved to Arsenal for £90,000 in February 1968. He netted 16 goals in 65 League outings before being sold to Wolves for £55,000 in June 1970, then played for West Brom, Bristol City, West Ham, Wolves again, Bristol Rovers and Hereford United. After coaching at Chelsea, he managed Bristol Rovers (twice), Coventry City (twice), Wimbledon (1988 FA Cup success), West Brom, Wales and Cheltenham Town.
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Victoria's Secret catalogues have changed over time. Changed, a lot. In fact they went from soft and erotic-looking in the 1970s to a modern day production-line of unrealistic perfection. If we were to get scientific about it and lay out the last 10 catalogues in front of you, unlabelled, odds are you wouldn't be able to distinguish one from another.
But when you have a formula that works, sometimes its not worth deviating (just ask Coca-Cola, speaking of blind tests). Victoria's Secret's formula of impossibly fit, well proportioned, and generally enviable-looking women posing seductively (or sweetly, depending on the product sub-line) works for them without fail. But while changing a formula completely isn't always a good idea, making a few tweaks to improve it can be worth the risk. Having hit us in the face far too often with over-the-top (and completely unnecessary) photoshopping, have Victoria's Secret finally tweaked their formula to embrace a little bit of realism?
We noticed it with Barbara Palvin for their Designer range, and now in the brand's July 2012 look book. Sure, the models are still unattainably perfect by most standards, but there's at least a bit of natural light, some skin tone, some softness to the images.
If there was a lesson to be learned about making your photoshopping too obvious (the lesson being that the consumer relates better to models who don't look like they're made out of wax) then we hope Victoria's Secret have finally learned it.
An over-airbrushed Lindsay Ellingson in a 2011 Victoria's Secret look book; Erin Heatherton looking more natural for Victoria's Secret July 2012
Starring Doutzen Kroes and Erin Heatherton, you can view more of Victoria's Secret's July 2012 look book at the gallery above.


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Clostridium difficile is a toxin-producing bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions like bowel inflammation and perforation. C. difficile infections are almost always linked to medical care; individuals taking antibiotics or with recent medical care contact are most at risk.
The organism is responsible for 337,000 infections and 14,000 deaths every year. Although death is more common in the elderly, almost half of C. difficile infections happen in people younger than 65 years old. Infections can be recurrent and not respond to treatment. C.difficile spores can remain viable in the environment for long periods of time.
Spread of C. difficile infection can be prevented by hand washing, using antibiotics only when necessary, and effective healthcare environmental cleaning.
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As part of population-based surveillance, select counties report C. difficile cases to the state health department.
As a part of mandated hosptial reporting, most Oregon acute care hospitals report C. difficile laboratory reports to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
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Ok. So, a quick recap. I started my bees on 4/31 of this year. I have been feeding every week and added a second brood box 2 weeks ago. Everything seems to be fine.
I called my neighbor over who has about 10 hives to come check out my progress. He came over today and this is what he said: he said I only needed 1 brood box and not 2. Is that right or wrong?? I thought it was supposed to be 2 brood boxes then start with supers. He said I needed to remove the second brood box and replace it with a super???
He also said I didn't need to feed them right now and to make them go out and work. I can probably agree with that. He said to start feeding again at the end of July.
Now here is my MAJOR concern. When we removed the boxes I seen some brood that was open. It looked like white larvae and they were exposed. This was like in little groups. It was very unusual looking. Some of them looked like little white worms, and were not developed and were out of the cells. He took the hive tool and scraped them off. It was milky looking. It was small patches. What the heck was that????? It was like in between where the boxes were connected. Not on the frames themselves.
So if some of you can help me out with this stuff I would really appreciate it. I took off the feeders and felt really bad about it. LOL I so love to see them lick it up when I pour it in there.
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- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Queen Portage Room, Sundays through Thursdays ($99) or Fridays and Saturdays ($139)
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Bring back the Sunday drive—any day of the week—with an Escape to Lewiston, New York. This historic hamlet on the Niagara River is just a ten-minute drive, through vineyards and bucolic countryside, to the Falls. It's also home to antiques shops, spas, and golf courses—perhaps the perfect vacation combination.
Rev up for a one-night stay for two in a Queen Portage Room at the The Barton Hill Hotel & Spa, Sundays through Thursdays ($99) or Fridays and Saturdays ($139), or a two-night stay for two in the same room, Sundays through Thursdays ($169) or Fridays and Saturdays ($229).
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In the heart of the Niagara vineyard region, Barton Hill is a refuge for those seeking a natural antidote to city living. Not only are the rooms appointed with fine linens, a flat-screen TV, and an MP3 docking station, but this spot is also within minutes of the Niagara River and Niagara Falls.
The charming and historic Village of Lewiston has its own share of treasures, too. It was once the last stop on the Underground Railroad, called Freedom's Crossing. Today, Lewiston offers unique shops and antiquing, as well as a host of fine dining options.
Salute your personal style with a trip to the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls. Then, discover the boutique vineyards of Niagara Wine Country and sample award-winning varietals at more than 16 wineries. Golfers will want to make a trip to the links at Seneca Hickory Stick Golf, named the #6 Best New Course in America by Golf Magazine.
Retreat to the hotel and relax at the inn's holistic day spa. Our pick? The sports pedi helps to improve circulation and includes a scrub and lotion, a deep-tissue massage, exfoliation, and natural buffing.
You won't want to withdraw from relaxation as timeless as this. Grab it while you can—unlike history, Escapes this good tend not to repeat themselves.
"An elegant country gem in historic Lewiston, the Barton Hill Hotel is a shining example of rural splendor. From the outside it's a rambling old estate built like a French chateau, but on the inside it's the epitome of modern comfort."-- AOL Travel
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- Full Name: Michael Nelson Trout
- Age: 25 (August 7, 1991)
- Birthplace: Vineland, NJ
- Bats/Throws: R/R Ht: 6' 2" Wt: 235
- Draft: Round 1 (2009, LAA)
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- School: Millville, NJ
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- Full Name: Michael Nelson Trout
- Born: August 7, 1991
- Age: 25
- Birthplace: Vineland, NJ
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- Height: 6' 2"
- Weight: 235
- Draft: Round 1 (2009, LAA)
- School: Millville, NJ
- MLB Debut: 07/08/2011
Selected by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the first round (25th overall) of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Millville (N.J.) Senior High School. ... Named Angels' No. 1 prospect (3rd overall) by MLB.com prior to the 2012 season. ... Named Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America and The Sporting News in 2011. ... Made Major League debut on July 8, 2011 against Seattle. ... Hit first Major League home run on July 24, 2011 at Baltimore. ... Was MLB.com's No. 1 prospect entering the 2011 season. ... In 2010, he became the youngest recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award as Topps Minor League Player of the Year. ... Played in the 2010 All-Star Futures Game in Anaheim, going 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored for Team USA. ... Was named New Jersey Gatorade Player of the Year in 2009. ... His father, Jeff, spent four years in the Twins organization.


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My barbarian is doomed. He is absolutely—without a doubt—going to die one day. I don't know how or even when (though I have a few guesses as to when), but sooner or later the sword of Damocles suspended above his shaven head is going to drop and that will be that. I will not have a barbarian anymore because my barbarian will be dead.
When his end comes—and it will come—and probably before I'm finished playing with him, he will not show up in camp. He will not be able to revive his companion, run for his corpse to get his equipment back, and continue the fight. He will just be dead. This is a difficult thought for me to process, although as soon as I see my barbarian's health start to drop I panic, start chugging potions, and scramble to open a town portal to escape the fight so I can regroup. So at least some part of me realizes that there's a lot at stake here—nothing less than an investment of time that is slowly creeping higher and higher to an inevitable moment when it will all turn out to have been wasted as my barbarian's corpse rots on the floor of some dungeon.
I know that my barbarian is going to die because if I'm perfectly honest, I am terrible at playing Diablo II.


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The inaugural University of Colorado lacrosse spring schedule includes eight home matches and nine conference bouts, head coach Ann Elliott announced Tuesday.
The Buffaloes begin the season with a trip to Florida to take on Stetson and Jacksonville.
"I am looking forward to kicking off our season down in Florida against two solid teams in Stetson and Jacksonville," Elliott said. "To be able to go on the road early and play two teams in one weekend will be a great test for our program."
CU opens play against Stetson on Thursday, Feb. 13. The Hatters completed their first season with a 2-14 record, with both of their wins coming late in the season over Atlantic Sun Conference opponents Kennesaw State and Howard. All of Stetson's top five scorers are returning for their sophomore and junior seasons.
Next up for the Buffs is a matchup with another A-Sun team, Jacksonville, on Saturday, Feb. 15. In their fourth season of play, the Dolphins finished the 2013 season with a 13-6 record, including a perfect 4-0 conference mark. The Dolphins made their first NCAA Tournament last season, falling in the first round to then No. 13 Denver. JU welcomes 11 newcomers to their 2014 squad.
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After their road trip, the Buffs open home play on Saturday, Feb. 22 against Regis.
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posted at 4:01 pm on December 11, 2012 by Allahpundit
When I saw his tweet this morning, I wondered if he had oversold what happened. Nope. Not only does one guy start throwing roundhouses, another yanks him back hard by his jacket collar and seems ready to jump him before people around them step in. A third guy curses him out and looks like he's moments away from making a move of his own before Crowder backs off to cool him down. Why? Because the state decided they shouldn't be able to force people to join their organization as a condition of employment. I'm not sure why they're worried about that, frankly; given their tactics, who'd dare take a job working alongside these cretins while refusing to unionize? This is their version of an anti-RTW ad: If you're thinking of exercising your freedom of association, make sure you think carefully. And not a single Democratic pol will say a word about it, beyond the most perfunctory "of course I deplore violence but…" statement wrung from their press team.
Between Occupy and the unions, the left is the major purveyor of political violence in America today.
— Joshua Treviño (@jstrevino) December 11, 2012
You might see this clip on Fox News today. Smart money says you won't see it anywhere else. Exit question: When was "democracy" redefined to mean "doing whatever unions want"?
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Original post made by Joe, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Sep 4, 2012
Myself, I like that. I like spending my own money, how I choose, and when I choose.
The dollars flowing into both sides in the debate is even more fascinating. Look at the Prop 32 webpage from PBS station KCET in Los Angeles
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and you'll find that close to $28M have been spent opposing Prop 32, and of that $28M, $9.1M - about a third of the total - has come from the California Teachers' Union. A little math here (thanks to a teacher, by the way). The CTU has 325,000 members, so the $9.1M works out to $28 per teacher.
I wonder if this $28 per teacher was handled through payroll deduction?
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a resident of Country Fair
on Sep 4, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Yes, it's important to let corporations be responsible for the lion's share of political contributions, even if it means taking shareholders' profits and using them without their approval. Anything to make America's politicians more beholden to corporations is fine by me.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 5, 2012 at 12:20 am
I think it's important that employee union dues used for political purposes reflect the employees views. The only way to ensure that happens is by voting yes on Prop 32.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 5, 2012 at 9:58 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Nice to see John Burton posting as Joseph Goebbels above. He dared compare R's to Nazi's and now he had to leave the dem convention...go figure. Surprising, since his comments reflect mainstream (extremist, to the rest of us) dems views.
Regarding 32, anything that further reduces unions influence in politics is a good thing. It's a further castration of the growingly impotent union leaders and their blind allegiance to democrat politicians (and vice versa).
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 6, 2012 at 11:49 am
Hey public employee Goebbels, STOCK HOLDERS freely SELL their stocks every second of every day ! ! ! ! Very UNlike being a taxpayer held prisoner by public union employees, and the politicians they own.
Any person in such desperate shape that they are forced to join a union, should NOT be FORCED to paying $100.oo a month to union bosses to use for POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS to candidates the worker hates. Union should not have the right to withdraw political $$ from paychecks....EVEN voluntarily...because of the PRESSURE and THREATS to do it.
Free people should be able to vote and contribute voluntarily to those we choose.
What's sad, is that even with 32, the union thugs 'call' on the employees to be one of them politically, and threaten no promotions, etc.
Even 'voluntary' contributions to a union political fund should be anonymous.
I KNOW of a Pleasanton homeowner public union member who had a candidate yard sign for a day, and the thugs said it had to be removed....it was for a candidate who couldn't be bought.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Non-union jobs benefit indirectly from union shops with bargained contracts. Non-union jobs know that they must compete with union jobs for valuable employees. Forget about the few who make headlines spiking pensions which is truly few and far between and realize the many positive changes that unions have made in this country. From child labor laws, minimum wage, healthcare, pensions, overtime, the weekend, etc. Voting yes on prop 32 is saying yes that you want to hear one viewpoint from one side of the fence. If it passes that is all you will hear. Unions will not be able to politically be able to stand up for their workers. Hard working men and women from jobs in the trades, police/fire, teachers, hospital workers, etc.
If you want two sides to the issues vote no on prop 32. Don't be fooled by the billionaire CEOS from pharmaceutical, and oil companies. Vote no and send them the message you won't be fooled and want to hear both sides!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 7, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Groan... Oh pleeze! No oil or pharmaceutical co cares about the manipulation taking place in Pleasanton, Stockton, or Sacramento. This about the right of all INDIVIDUALS to participate freely without threats regarding their personal political wishes, activities, and secret voting.. EVERY UNION MEMBER has been given those same rights that have been violated BY unions, stealing from their members, and threatening individuals right to political participation.
Even MORE than interferring with 'doing' is the theft Prop 32 would prevent....taking the roughly $100. for political activities and contributions chosen BY UNION BOSSES....not the member from whom the money is taken,,,not only forced, but to candidates and issues AGAINST the wishes of the WORKER !! What an insane practice to 'defend'!!
HOW can you possibly say UNIONS would be prevented from "standing up for their workers"...simply NOT TRUE !!!First you, boss or lowly worker, apparently want to give YOUR money to the bosses to do their will. GREAT !Freedom's wonderful !There will be others intimidated into doing the same. There will be plenty of money! But those individuals that don't wish to make political contributions (not of their choosing OR none at all) MUST be given the freedom to exercise their individual rights guaranteed in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, (alto violated by unions in recent years).
You have a SHAMEFUL and INDEFENSIBLE position....you LOSE NOTHING. 32 ONLY ALLOWS FREEDOM TO OTHERS. THAT'S WORTH fighting for !!
a resident of Country Fair
on Sep 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Apparently it is difficult for some people to recognize that union leadership tends to be democratically elected by its union membership. If union members don't like the way leaders spend their union dues, they are free to wage a campaign to elect alternative leaders. It really is as simple as that.
What, so the disgruntled and churlish ones who think union leadership should be supporting Republican candidates find themselves in a (extreme) minority? That's what happens in any democracy. The fruitcakes find themselves on the outside looking in.
Now, if the disgruntled fruitcake is so incensed by his union's use of dues, perhaps it's time to hit the road! There are a lot of "right-to-work" states where you can ply your "trade" - be it security guard, janitor, or pour drinks - for $4.50 an hour. Have at it!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 7, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Individuals should have the right to provide special needs for a family member,if they choose, and not contribute a PENNY toward ANY political issues or candidates. Thug that you are, you call an independent thinker a ""disgruntled FRUITCAKE". If there are 20 of your group of 100, they have the rights as Americans to not be victimized and forced to contribute to all the horrid partisan CA propositions that you either oppose or push...it's theft. Your thuggish 'fruitcake' remark shows you are UNABLE to be decent to your fellow workers...which demonstrates what I'm saying about this attitude that even makes prop 32 NECESSARY for workers to safely get back this constitutional right that unions have taken from them.
a resident of Country Fair
on Sep 7, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Typical fruitcake response. All soft and squishy and smelling of overly ripe rot. If workers don't want to work for a unionized company, they don't have to. Like I say, there's probably a "right-to-work" bartender's job awaiting someone in central Alabama. Knock yourself out. That $4.50 job pouring drinks awaits you.
In a democracy, majority elected representatives determine how much revenue to collect from citizens and how to spend it. This is true of unions as well. They are democratic institutions. Nothing thuggish about it. All you are doing is petulant hand-wringing. Without unions to counterbalance corporate power, we're reduced to fascism. Apparently that doesn't bother you. I'd bet you'd find some toe-picking cousins of yours in Alabam that would share your pathetic cries of victimization. How sad.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 7, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Locals are operated no different than how our government is democratically elected with terms, voting, etc. They are elected positions where majority rules. Why would you want it any other way?
If a member for some religious/personal/political reason wishes not to contribute to the political action committee they can opt out. They have that right. However, they must contribute that amount of money to a non-religous political non-profit charity which are pre-designated. This process is state law.
These individuals are not forced to contribute to the political process whatsoever.
To be clear. Everyone knows the expectation before they take any job. California is a closed shop state. That will not change. If you don't like it, you are not forced to take the job. Period.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 8, 2012 at 12:13 am
Goebbels, you don't seem to make a case for forced political 'donations' to people you hate. Why is that a condition of working. Belonging to a union has nothing to do with pay confiscation as a condition of working.
a resident of Country Fair
on Sep 8, 2012 at 6:17 am
Did you read James McCannon's response? Did you understand it? Did you read my above response? Did you understand it? Why do you persist in ignoring the facts?
I guess the very idea of democracy is just too intolerable for some, and too confusing for others. Sorry, but I'll not turn myself into a Pol Sci 100 textbook for the benefit of the ignorant. Your whines have been refuted. Time for you to bark up another tree.
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 9, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Goebbels...what an appropriate screen name. Union "democracy" and elections are on par with what they have in Russia. Nice try.
I'm always thankful for the disclaimer at the end of political ads that state the funding sources. Anything supported by public employee unions is an easy "no" vote.
a resident of Country Fair
on Sep 9, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Well, isn't that a strange brew? Would you mind explaining how union democracy in the US is on a par with Russia?
Also, I am of German ancestry, not Russian as you seem to be suggesting. Do not at all appreciate you disparaging my name.
Always willing to learn from others. Please do tell how democratic unions are like Russia. I'm sure you have something of great interest for us all.
a resident of another community
on Sep 10, 2012 at 3:32 pm
1) If you go to the Secretary of State's page the definition of Corporation is clear. It does not cover LLC, Partnerships, Insurance Co., Super PACs, individual billionaires, and multi-millionaire CEOs to name a few. Corporations don't use payroll deductions for political purpose. That's like saying, "we're going to crack down on counterfeiting by collecting all the 3 dollar bills printed." Sounds good however, counterfeiters don't print 3 dollar bills.
2) It doesn't stop any corporation from using unlimited profits to contribute to state or local campaigns. And the Supreme Court already confirmed that Corporations have the same rights as individuals and therefore, can contribute unlimited funds to any campaign. Corporations already outspend unions 15-1.
3) Labor rights aren't etched in stone. They were won through politics and collective bargaining. So if you're the 99% that have to work for a living say, "good bye" to, vacation leave, health insurance, 8 hour work day, minimum wage, work place health and safety laws, overtime pay, unemployment, child labor laws, meal breaks, nurse patient ratios just to name a few.
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Stock up on Red Bull: It might soon become more possible to stay out past 1 o'clock in the morning in Portland (without being crammed into someone's house party).
Port City Music Hall has applied for a city-regulated after-hours entertainment license that would allow its proprietors to host events and serve food and non-alcoholic beverages until 3 am. (Alcohol sales would still shut down at 1 am, as per state law.)
The late-night license (which costs $545 a year, according to city documents) would allow Port City to keep its doors open as a niche venue on otherwise slow nights, such as those when a big act performs at the State Theatre.
"On nights when I have a hard time drawing attention because of other shows in town I'd like to be able to offer some after-party themed event," says Rob Evon, general manager of Port City.
But not everyone is so gung-ho about the after-hours idea. While no one takes issue with Port City's application specifically, the Portland Police Department and members of the city council have expressed reservations about the late-night concept in general, citing concerns about drunk patrons and stretched-thin police resources.
"[P]ast efforts of other establishments to provide after hours entertainment have consistently proved problematic for public safety," police chief Mike Sauschuck wrote in a March 2 memo to city officials. "We believe that areas abutting after-hours establishments will encounter increased calls for police services, crimes of disorder and violence" at a time of day (or night) when the number of officers available is typically low.
Evon, who met with the PPD on Monday to discuss these issues, is confident that Port City can manage late-night crowds. "One of the things we're going to do is implement a cover charge that will really eliminate a bunch of the riff-raff that would typically go to those free after-hours parties back in the day," Evon says, referring to the oft-cited example of rowdy events at the now-defunct Zoots on Forest Avenue.
Police Commander Vern Malloch said Tuesday that PPD "concerns have been reduced significantly" after meeting with Evon.
The City Council will take up Port City's request at its March 19 meeting; before that, at its 6 pm meeting this Thursday, the council's subcommittee on Public Safety and Health and Human Services will consider the rule as a whole.
"I'm not opposed to the after-hours entertainment licenses in general," says subcommittee chair Ed Suslovic, who wants to issue a temporary moratorium (of about 30 to 60 days) on such permits until certain details are worked out.
He wonders how the police force can afford to keep extra officers on the streets, as well as whether venues will be required to give the city advance warning before after-hours events and how many such licenses will be available.
Currently, Styxx on Spring Street is the only venue with an after-hours license.
"If I was seeing big problems with the licenses I would be more inclined to support some changes," says West End councilor Dave Marshall, who did not want the matter referred to the public safety subcommittee, on which he also serves. "But we haven't seen any problems in the last six or seven years . . . police fear that sort of scenario again, where they have an unmanageable situation. I think we should follow these licenses closely and if we start hearing complaints we need to call people back in."
Evon believes after-hours events will serve as a "benefit to Portland as a music destination. Every major music market in the country doesn't shut down at 1 am."
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From Spain. Translated literally it means, "it makes my dick sweat." It is a term used to say, "I couldn't care less if I tried."
Dude 1: "You just spilled bong water all over the carpet, and your mom's on her way."
Dude 2: "Me suda la polla, guey."
Dude 2: "Me suda la polla, guey."
by Shitmoyer June 01, 2006


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Electrons dance to a quantum beat in the Hubbard model of solid-state physics
Brian Hayes
Mathematical models and computer simulations usually begin as aids to understanding, introduced when some aspect of natural science proves too knotty for direct analysis. Facing an intractable problem, we strip away all the messy details of the real world and build a toy universe, one simple enough that we can hope to master it. Often, though, even the dumbed-down model defies exact solution or accurate computation. Then the model itself becomes an object of scientific inquiry—a puzzle to be solved.
A good example is the Ising model in solid-state physics, which attempts to explain the nature of magnetism in materials such as iron. (I wrote about the Ising model in an earlier Computing Science column; see "The World in a Spin," September–October 2000.) The Ising model glosses over all the intricacies of atomic structure, representing a magnet as a simple array of electron "spins" on a plain, gridlike lattice. Even in this abstract form, however, the model presents serious challenges. Only a two-dimensional version has been solved exactly; for the three- dimensional model, getting accurate results requires both algorithmic sophistication and major computer power.
One step up from the Ising model—in terms of realism and complexity—is something called the Hubbard model. Again the aim is to describe aspects of solid-state physics, including various kinds of magnetism as well as certain conductive and insulating materials, and maybe even the high-temperature superconductors that have stumped theorists since the 1980s. As in the Ising model, the Hubbard model puts electrons on a simple lattice, but in this case the electrons are allowed to hop from site to site. The model also insists on a quantum-mechanical treatment of the interactions between electrons. These two features make the Hubbard model a much harder nut to crack.
Except in the special case of a one-dimensional lattice, the Hubbard model has defied exact mathematical analysis. And computer simulations of Hubbard systems become painfully slow with any more than a few dozen electrons. Calculations are so difficult that no one knows for sure whether various Hubbard systems are conductive or insulating, or what their magnetic properties might be. This situation has led to an extraordinary new strategy for solving the model: putting it to the test of experiment. Several groups of physicists have built macroscopic replicas of the Hubbard lattice out of light waves and trapped atoms. Thus we come full circle, creating a physical analog of an abstract model that in turn represents another physical system.
At the most superficial level, the antics of electrons in solids seem easy enough to comprehend. A substance is conductive if at least some of its electrons are free to wander about; when every electron is tightly bound to an atom, the material is an insulator. Magnetic effects derive from the spin of the electron, which gives rise to a tiny magnetic dipole moment, like that of a bar magnet. The strongest form of magnetism (ferromagnetism) appears when nearly all the spins line up in the same direction.
Going beyond this level of understanding is not so easy. What property of a solid determines whether electrons are nomadic or frozen in place? Why do electron spins in iron and nickel adopt a parallel alignment whereas those of zinc and copper remain randomly oriented? A useful theory should also make quantitative predictions. For example, how does conductivity or magnetization vary as a function of temperature?
This last question brings us back to the Ising model, which was devised to explore the thermal properties of ferromagnets. If you heat a magnet to high temperature, the magnetization fades away. Then, when you allow the material to cool again, it regains its magnetic properties at a specific temperature called the Curie point (1,040 kelvins for iron). The transition is abrupt: A graph of magnetization as a function of temperature shows a discontinuity—a sharp kink—at the Curie point. Evidently there is a sudden transition from thermal chaos to magnetic order.
The Ising model was designed to capture the essential features of this behavior. The model was invented by the German physicist Wilhelm Lenz and investigated by his student Ernst Ising in the 1920s, at a time when the quantum theory of solids was still in its infancy. They represented the spin of an electron by a simple arrow constrained to point either up or down. Interactions of the spins were codified in two rules. First, pairs of adjacent spins prefer to point the same way, either both up or both down; there is an energy penalty whenever nearest-neighbor spins are antiparallel. Second, thermal fluctuations tend to mix up the spins, flipping them at random; thus orderly alignments are disrupted when the temperature rises.
Ising hoped to observe a sudden onset of magnetization, as in real ferromagnets. He analyzed a one-dimensional version of the model, in which the lattice is merely a line or a ring. Disappointingly, he found no discontinuous transition to a magnetized state at any temperature above absolute zero.
Ising believed that this negative result would carry over to higher dimensions as well, but a decade later other physicists found hints of magnetization in two dimensions. Then in 1944 Lars Onsager confirmed these results with an exact mathematical solution of the two-dimensional Ising model; his equation showed that magnetization in the planar spin system does indeed jump discontinuously at a nonzero critical temperature. For three dimensions no exact solution has ever been found, but computer simulations give unmistakable evidence of an abrupt phase transition.
The Ising model has gone on to become a kind of model for models. The same abstract structure—a lattice of sites, nearest-neighbor interactions, a variable at each site that takes on two discrete values—has served to describe not only magnets but also dozens of other physical systems, such as alloys (where the up and down spins represent atoms of two different elements) and gases (where the two states indicate the presence or absence of an atom). Ising-like models have even made their way into the social sciences, where they describe phenomena such as the emergence of racial segregation in housing patterns.
Meanwhile, despite all these diverse successes, the Ising model has not proved entirely satisfactory for its original purpose—as a tool for understanding ferromagnetism. In this application the model has two major weaknesses. First, spins in the Ising model are rigidly pinned to the lattice sites, but it turns out that some degree of electron mobility is crucial to many magnetic phenomena. Second, although the Ising model was inspired by quantum-mechanical ideas, it incorporates none of the peculiar rules and regulations that the quantum theory imposes on electrons. The Hubbard model addresses both of these issues.
The stage setting for the Hubbard model is the same as that of the Ising model: a simple lattice with cubic symmetry—a cartoon of a crystalline solid. But the Hubbard dancers are more acrobatic. As noted above, Hubbard electrons can jump from one lattice site to another. (The range of motion is usually limited to nearest-neighbor sites.) The electrons also interact with one another, experiencing mutual repulsion whenever two electrons land on the same site. Finally, the choreography of Hubbard electrons is subject to a special rule, the Pauli exclusion principle, a definitive element of quantum mechanics.
Think of the Pauli principle (named for the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli) as a generalization of the commonsense notion that two objects cannot be in the same place at the same time. The quantum version says that no two particles can occupy exactly the same quantum state. If two electrons have the same energy, for example, they must differ in angular momentum or some other property. On the Hubbard lattice, the exclusion principle implies that if two electrons occupy the same site, they must have opposite spins. An obvious corollary is that no site can ever accommodate more than two electrons, since at least two of them would have the same spin.
With these facts in hand, we can get a rough vision of the Hubbard model in action. Suppose the lattice is two-dimensional, like a sheet of graph paper. Some of the lattice points are occupied by electrons; some of those electrons are spin-up and the rest are spin-down. Thus a site can have any of four occupation states: no electrons, one up electron, one down electron or a pair of electrons with opposite spins. An electron can hop to any neighboring site, provided the move is allowed by the exclusion principle.
There's one more essential element to introduce: the energy of the electrons. The exclusion principle requires that electrons with the same spin have distinct energies, which means there must be a ladder of available energy levels. If all the electrons have the same spin, they will necessarily fill all the rungs of the ladder from bottom to top. However, if half the electrons are spin-up and half are spin-down, they can be packed two to a rung, lowering the average energy level. This sharing of levels means that configurations with mixed spins can be energetically favorable.
On the other hand, the presence of both up and down spins also allows pairs of electrons to occupy the same lattice site, which incurs an energy penalty because of their mutual repulsion. For each doubly occupied site, the overall energy of the system increases by an amount designated U. Thus there is a subtle competition between the cost of populating higher levels of the energy ladder and the cost of overcoming electromagnetic repulsion.
What happens when we push the Start button and let the electrons hop around on the lattice? In general, this is a very hard question, but a few "corner cases"—where some parameter is set to an extreme value—offer clues. One such parameter is the number of electrons. For a lattice of N sites, this number must lie between zero and 2N. Nothing much happens with zero electrons, of course, and it turns out the same is true with 2N electrons: All sites are filled with paired electrons, and none of the electrons can move.
Another parameter is U, the energy of electrostatic repulsion for electrons at the same lattice site. If U is zero (no repulsion at all), the spin-up and the spin-down electrons form two independent populations, each of which drifts through the lattice oblivious of the other's existence. At the opposite extreme, if U is infinite, the repulsion is so great that no site ever holds more than one electron. In this circumstance electrons can move only when there is an adjacent vacant site; if the lattice is half full (N electrons, with no vacancies), the configuration is frozen solid.
Still another parameter, whose role I have neglected so far, is temperature. At a temperature of absolute zero, the Hubbard model is compelled to adopt the configuration of lowest possible energy—the ground state. Thermal agitation at higher temperatures allows the system to escape this fate. With warming, higher-energy states come within reach. At infinite temperature all possible configurations are equally likely, and energy differences between states cease to have any influence on the behavior of the system.
As a practical matter, interest focuses not on the extreme cases but on realistic values of the parameters. Physicists would most like to know what happens when the number of electrons is at or near half-filling (one electron per site) and when the repulsion parameter U is greater than zero but far from infinite. As for temperature, it is important to identify the ground state, but we would also like to know how the behavior of the system changes as it warms up from absolute zero.
The Hubbard model was invented in the early 1960s by John Hubbard, a British physicist who died young in 1980. Martin Gutzwiller of IBM Research in Zurich devised a similar model at about the same time, and investigators in Japan were also thinking along the same lines.
There were two main motivations for the model—two phenomena in need of theoretical explanation. One aim was to understand the mechanism of ferromagnetism. There had certainly been progress in this direction since the time of Lenz and Ising; in particular, a model developed in the 1930s by Werner Heisenberg adopted the simple lattice of the Ising model but gave a more realistic quantum-mechanical account of how adjacent spins interact. Still, the Heisenberg model left the spins stationary on the lattice, whereas the electrons that give rise to ferromagnetism in elements such as iron and nickel are not strictly localized; they can migrate from atom to atom. The Hubbard model allowed for such motion.
The second question addressed by the Hubbard model concerned electrical conductivity—or the lack of it—in certain crystalline compounds such as copper oxide (CuO). In most insulators, all the electrons are tightly bound to atoms or molecules, leaving no mobile electrons to carry a current. In the case of CuO, the theory of solids suggested there should be an ample supply of conduction electrons, and yet the material is an insulator. In 1937 Nevill Mott proposed an explanation: CuO fails to conduct not for lack of electrons but because the electrons can't get out of each other's way. The conduction band of this substance is like a crowded dance floor, where everyone desperately wants to keep moving but there are no vacant spaces to move into. By the 1960s the Hubbard model offered hope of better understanding such Mott insulators.
In recent years, the struggle to understand new high-temperature superconducting materials has intensified interest in the Hubbard model. The superconductors are layered materials whose components include copper oxides. Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University has argued that a two-dimensional Hubbard model can account for the transition to superconductivity in the copper oxide layers. This view remains controversial; on the other hand, the mere possibility of solving the puzzle of cuprate superconductivity has led to a frenzy of work on the Hubbard model and its variations.
The only exact solution of a Hubbard model applies to the one-dimensional case, where the electrons move back and forth along a line of sites. In 1968 Elliott H. Lieb, now of Princeton University, and F. Y. Wu of Northeastern University studied the behavior of the one-dimensional system at half-filling (N electrons on N sites) as the value of U is varied. At large U (strong repulsion), the system is an insulator; Lieb and Wu proved there is no transition to a conducting state at any U greater than zero. They also showed that the ground state of the linear model is not ferromagnetic but antiferromagnetic: The lowest-energy configuration is one in which alternate spins point in opposite directions.
Lieb and Wu got their results by exploiting special properties of one-dimensional systems. In particular, there is no way for one electron to exchange places with another electron except by performing a kind of do-si-do, in which the two particles simultaneously occupy the same site. Because of the Pauli principle, two electrons in the same spin state can never change their ordering along the line. These constraints, which simplify the analysis, do not hold in higher dimensions.
Forty years later, the work of Lieb and Wu remains the only rigorous solution to a Hubbard model. But there are lots of less-than-rigorous hints and clues from approximation methods and from computer simulations.
It is widely believed that the two- and three-dimensional models also have an antiferromagnetic ground state—a checkerboard of alternating up and down spins—when the lattice is half-filled. An informal argument in support of this view points out that a fully magnetized system has only one possible configuration, since none of the electrons can move; in the antiferromagnet, adjacent electrons with opposite spins can swap places through the do-si-do mechanism. Thus there are many equivalent configurations for an antiferromagnet, which lowers the overall energy.
Can a Hubbard model ever favor ferromagnetism? Yes. In the 1960s Yosuke Nagaoka of Kyoto University discovered a ferromagnetic phase that appears when two conditions are satisfied: the repulsive interaction U is very strong, and the number of electrons is just short of half-filled. A single vacancy (that is, N–1 electrons on N sites) is enough to make the difference! Ferromagnetism also emerges spontaneously in Hubbard-like models in which the electrons can hop farther than the nearest-neighbor sites. One such scheme was described in 1995 by Hal Tasaki of Gakushuin University in Japan.
What's intriguing about both ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism in Hubbard systems is that the orderly configurations arise even though the model includes no direct interactions between pairs of electrons that would tend to align the spins either parallel or antiparallel. This is quite different from the Ising model, where parallel spins benefit from an energy bonus. In the Hubbard model—and surely in real solids as well—long-range order comes from subtler correlations within the entire population of electrons.
The long-range correlations that make the Hubbard model interesting also make it hard to solve. One aspect of this difficulty is the vast number of possible configurations. On a 20-site lattice, 10 spin-up electrons and 10 spin-down electrons can be arranged in more than 34 billion ways. Yet this combinatorial explosion is not the main impediment to working out the fate of a Hubbard system. Other models in statistical mechanics also have huge numbers of configurations, yet various methods of analysis or simulation yield accurate results in those cases.
The real source of difficulty in the Hubbard model is the quantum entanglement of all the electrons. In the Ising model we can flip a spin at one site and consider only the local consequences—the change in energy between that spin and its immediate neighbors. In the quantum treatment of the Hubbard model, shifting an electron from one site to another can alter the state of the system arbitrarily far away. (The quantum state is defined by a wave function that can be smeared out over the entire lattice.)
Following the evolution of the Hubbard system by means of exact computations is all but unthinkable except for the tiniest models. It involves working with a matrix of size M × M, where M is the number of possible configurations. Michael Creutz of Brookhaven National Laboratory has experimented with a few such computations, reducing the storage requirement by tricks such as encoding lattice configurations in the bits of an integer. He was able to study a one-dimensional lattice of six sites—essentially a benzene molecule—with a matrix of 400 × 400 elements. But he points out that a two-dimensional lattice of just 16 sites would have some 165,636,900 configurations.
The problems of working with these large matrices go beyond mere demands for storage space and computing time. It turns out that the matrix is often "ill conditioned"; when the algorithm calls for computing a small difference between two large numbers, all accuracy is lost and the matrix fills with useless numerical noise.
But I should not leave the impression that computation is a lost cause in the Hubbard model. On the contrary, it has been the main source of insight over the past 40 years. No one algorithm has conquered the problem overall, but a toolkit of specialized methods have tamed many corners of it. For example, there are algorithms that perform well for values of N near half-filling, and other methods that work best when U is large. One strategy, pioneered by a group headquartered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, takes the counterintuitive step of replacing a large matrix with an even larger one—but the replacement matrix ameliorates the problem of lost numerical accuracy.
The newest trick in the long struggle to master the Hubbard model is the idea of setting up experimental apparatus to mimic the model's lattice and its population of electrons. Standing in for the electrons in these experiments are atoms of an ultracold gas—so cold, and therefore so sluggish, that the atoms can be trapped by the feeble electromagnetic field of a beam of light. Three such beams crossing at right angles create a sort of three-dimensional egg carton, with periodic wells where the cold atoms tend to accumulate. The atoms chosen for the experiment are members of the same quantum-mechanical class as electrons (known as fermions), and so they are subject to the same quantum rules as the electrons in a solid; in particular, no two atoms in the same spin state can occupy the same site in the optical lattice. Furthermore, two atoms of differing spin that land on the same site experience a short-range repulsion, just as electrons do. Thus the stage is set for a full simulation of the Hubbard model. The optical lattice is typically a few millimeters across, and it holds tens of thousands of atoms.
Of course it's easy to talk about the principles of such an experiment; making it happen in the laboratory is harder—indeed, heroic. But in recent months three groups have reported successful results of such experiments. Two of those groups have found evidence of a Mott-insulator phase in the confined atoms. (The groups are led by Immanuel Bloch of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and by Robert Jördens and Niels Strohmaier of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.) The third group, led by Gyu-Boong Jo of MIT, has seen signs of ferromagnetic order in a gas of cold atoms.
There is something deliciously involuted about this turn of events: an experiment that illuminates a model that explicates an experiment. One interpretation is that the assembly of lasers and cryogenic atoms and other apparatus is acting as a special-purpose quantum computer, which can efficiently solve problems that would require exponentially greater effort on a classical computer.
This audacious approach to doing science—harnessing physics to do the work of mathematics and computation—surely has great promise; and yet I have a nagging reservation. As I said at the beginning of this essay, a mathematical model is an aid to understanding, not just an engine for producing answers. According to this view, the aim of the Hubbard model is not so much to determine whether certain kinds of solids have ferromagnetic order or Mott transitions or superconducting phases. What the model offers is hope of understanding where those traits come from—how the basic ingredients of the model combine to yield emergent properties. The cold-atom experiments seem less effective as aids to understanding: Even when they yield the right answer, we may not easily see why it's right. The experiments get their power from the same quantum mysteries they seek to explain.
The same complaint has often been made about ordinary computer simulations and about computer-aided proofs in mathematics. If the computer is just a black box, and we cannot follow along step by step from premise to conclusion, how can we pretend to understand the result? But these doubts about the legitimacy of computer-aided science seem to be fading, chased away by the spread of algorithmic thinking. Perhaps now we need to wait for a wider embrace of quantum thinking.
After the publication of this column (my 97th since 1993), I will be taking a one-year sabbatical leave from the Computing Science department. Although I have a long list of topics for columns that I'm still eager to learn about and write about, I also have other projects I've deferred too long. After a year's respite from bimonthly deadlines, I look forward to returning to this splendid soapbox in 2011. In the meantime, this space will be filled with fresh voices and viewpoints. For those who wish to follow my own ongoing adventures, I expect to continue posting occasional essays at bit-player.org.—Brian Hayes
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H ow often should I suger dust to maintain mite control and using a white bottom board with cooking spray what would be considered a high mite count?
H ow often should I suger dust to maintain mite control and using a white bottom board with cooking spray what would be considered a high mite count?
That's the guide I use to know whether or not to treat. As for details on sugar dusting, I don't know.
Try it. What could happen?
Head on over to Randy Oliver's site www.scienticbeekeeping.com for an interesting an informative article on dusting. Here's a link to chapter 1 of the article. http://scientificbeekeeping.com/powd...y-work-part-1/ There are 2 additional chapters to the articles. Good luck on your mite control if you decide to use it.
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Dusting once a week will not lower mite numbers according to Randy, so it can't be used as you're only form of mite control. You would also need open screen bottom boards, & drone comb removal. IPM
You can count mites when dusting a hive by inserting a dry white board before dusting, remove it 20 minutes later & see how many mites are on it. At this time of year if I saw 75 where I live I would get a little more aggressive in controlling the mites.
Mite thresholds very by time of year, & the climate you live in.
Last month I used Formic acid and tracked how the process went with these three episodes. D It's mites and yes using thymol or formic acid will kill off many bees the others will be better for it. http://todolisthome.com/get-the-hive...g-formic-acid/


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'Dr. Time' dies at EIRMC; fate of clocks unknown
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A well-known clock mechanic and collector from California died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center on Thursday.
The 60-year-old Sacramento native was in a medically-induced coma after being involved in a near deadly crash.
KXTV News 10 in Sacramento said Phil Paguio, also known as "Dr. Time," is considered somewhat of a northern California celebrity.
But as he lay in a hospital bed in Idaho Falls, his girlfriend in California sold his entire clock collection.
Paguio splits his time between his hometown of Sacramento and Billings, Mont., which is where he was last week.
According to the Billings Gazette, Paguio was fixing the courthouse clock on his trip up north. That's where he was involved in a head-on crash last week that landed him at EIRMC.
But while Paguio was in a coma, his live-in girlfriend, Julie Wilson, had been selling his clock collection piece by piece.
"And I said, 'What's for sale?' And she said, 'Everything bare to the wall, but primarily, what are you interested in? ' 'I'm interested in the clocks,'" said Don Boland, an antiques dealer. "'Me and my friend are interested in the clocks.'"
Boland bought $3,500 worth of timepieces from Wilson.
He showed KXTV News 10 the bill of sale, which identifies Wilson as an "executor" with the full permission of her boyfriend to sell the clocks.
But once Boland found out the backstory, he agreed to sit on the clocks and wait until he is able to speak with Paguio. Now that Paguio is dead, however, it is unknown what will happen to the clocks.
Wilson said she's given back the money in exchange for the clocks she sold. Those clocks are in storage.
Wilson told KXTV News 10 that she's struggling with expenses unrelated to Paguio's hospitalization, and that her boyfriend would understand.


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But, I still don't like that 1st round move. Eric Reid is a good player but they traded too far up and they did it simply because they put themselves in a position of having too many picks for their current roster to allow.
The mistake I felt they made was 1 that good teams often do, and that is in the thinking that because things are good now, they always will be. They should have traded some of their current picks for future picks in 2014 or even 2015.
In the near future, some of their biggest name players are coming to contract and the picks they traded away this year because they had to, would have been useful in the coming years when their young stars are virtually unresignable because of cap constraints. Having a good roster is a death warrant for the future. When Colin Kaepernick comes to contract in 2015(same year as Aldon Smith), for example, they will have to cut half their roster to resign him. Aldon Smithwill be a consideration for the highest paid defensive player in the league, barring injury or some other blight. Pat Willis is locked up for some years, but they have a lot of guaranteed money tied up in his restructuring, same for Bowman.
They are going to have to draft extremely well in the next 5 or 6 years in order fill in around the players I list above. That is why I think the picks they used to trade up to grabe Ried this year would have been more wisely traded for future picks.
I absolutely love all the players they selected, but they simply do not have the roster space for them right now(11 picks), and in the future when those big name vets come to contract, they likely will have more space and needs and could have used those picks.
Its is going to be interesting to me to see who gets cut from this team when they trim the roster down because it is either going to be some decent players or some of the lovely draft picks they selected above.


text: The new style which has the longer mag release and more aggressive slide serrations only comes with the black tenifer slide ansd usually black frame. Ive seen ONE with an od green frame on the google images. The other colors were primarily the old style (stubby magg release). Ive never seen the titanium slide in the new style. as far as I know its not even offered any more.