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Honourable Mentions
Worker Co-ops, Animal Rights, Native Reserves, Leaving the Corporate State Behind, New Media, Gaza, Afghanistan, What the Frack?!, and more!
[in no particular order]
WORKER CO-OPS IN THE AGE OF DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION
The Harper government is presiding over the economic destruction of the country with "free" trade deals in the works between the European Union and Korea. More trade deals will mean further devastation for workers, less economic control, and hence less political control of our futures. A federal election is a distinct possibility next year and a discussion of viable economic alternatives is sorely needed in the political arena.
1) The history of worker co-ops - in Canada and abroad: the lessons of the Antigonish movement
2)The lessons from Argentina
3) By taking economic and political control of our lives, the entire political landscape could be transformed, perhaps moving away from a representative from of government to a participatory model.
4) The Slow growth/Transition town movement, in conjunction with a move toward worker co-ops, will help us lessen environmental damage.
5) The necessary role of unions in developing worker co-ops as part of the necessary revival of how workers organize themselves as a social movement rather than relying on the party system to represent our interests.
ALTERNATIVES WE CAN REACH FOR: LEAVING THE CORPORATE STATE BEHIND
How do we inspire people with a 'systemic' way into a better world (a transition plan), instead of beat them over the head with how fucked we all are?
The (Im)Possibilities of Winning with Coercion and Resistance
Why Central Planning failed
Parecon: An Methodology for an Anarchist Economy
Why Market Socialism Fails
Transition Strategies (Section) 1. Participatory Dual Power Strategy 2. Federated Participatory Co-ops
Reviewing the Federation Models: Especifismo, Platformism, Synchronization, etc.
Mutualism and Workers' Capitalism: Co-operative history
NATIVE RESERVES AND THEIR POLITICS
What is the current state and what can be done to ensure Canada's Reserves are healthy politically and culturally?
Native Casinos
Democracy on Reserves
Parenting on Reserves
Doing away with the Indian Act
Self-sufficient Reserves?
Reserves or No Reserves?
Urban Natives
Bullying on Reserves
Abuse on Reserves
Addiction on Reserves
END THE DISCRIMINATION: ANGIOPLASTY FOR ALL
MS patients are being discriminated against by not being allowed access to angioplasty as a treatment for their disease.
Canadians denied treatment that is accepted internationally
Why is denying angioplasty to MS patients discriminatory?
What level of certainty is required for a new procedure?
Can Zamboni's findings be dismissed as placebo effect?
If carotid artery angioplasty is permitted, why not CCSVI angioplasty?
What does Evidence-Based Medicine really say about RCTs?
Why litigation?
How is the litigation progressing?
THE GREAT DIVIDE 2011
In the early 19880's, a time when the dominant narrative in the United States was one of unity, Studs Terkel through an extensive series of interviews found the opposite. In doing so he profiled the advent of many of the institutions that shape the
current socio-political landscape of the neo-liberal globliazed economy, as well as the many (often community based) organizations fighting against them. The rift included mega-churches and wallstreet versus mill-town parish priests and farmers, as well as anti-war activists, law enforcement, community-organizers, drop-outs, young republicans and more! More important this profile prognosticates the advent of the financial crisis, the new-industrial division of labour, and a host of other issues.
This special issue of the Dominion would revisit the rift outlined by Terkel as well as apply this (somewhat binary) approach divisions in Canada (by no means immune or isolated from the Great Divide) and beyond.
Arguably every issue of The Dominion is about the Great Divide. That is, this might not be all that special a proposal for a special issue. However, revisiting Terkel's work which both explains and personalizes the distribution and competition for power in society is incredibly timely. The challenges and the issues in Reagan's America exist today. Wouldn't re-examining the rift of yore, versus today provide compelling reading.
Last, this Special Issue will examine the Great Divide by interviewing people on both sides, and perhaps even spanning the distance, of the rift. This will personalize and explain the challenges, issues, and perhaps point to some solutions.
WHAT THE FRACK?! THE FUTURE OF ENERGY RESOURCES IN CANADA
As fossil fuel resources become increasingly scarce, corporations are turning to ever more desperate, risky, and destructive ways to extract the scraps of what remains. What are the consequences for the health of land, water, air, and communities impacted by fracking and other desperate measures?
The recession (see this site for a breakdown of fracking issues and campaigns - http://forum.stopthehogs.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1020&sid=2d3d197b0a1...), nationalism and patriotism, energy independence, carbon desperation, islamophobia, climate change, free trade, NAFTA and Chapter 11, carbon capture, community control over resources and decision-making processes, access to information, corporate monopolies/dictatorships and threats to activists (like Irving in New Brunswick), environmental
racism/classism, greenwashing/"corporate social responsibility", modern slickwater fracking (relatively new process, untested); Dick Cheney and the safe drinking water act (U.S.); resistance to fracking
in different communities (Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta, BC); climate change; options and alternatives; carbon desperation and way of life; solidarity around Canada against fracking;
Considering the make up now of many larger Canadian cities it's perhaps difficult Why are talented artists going hungry in Canada ?
Why are talented artists struggling to pay their rent?
Because the media is too busy mumbling about USA / World politics than focusing on their own back yard ?
1... How many straggling artists are in your town / city ?
2... Do you know who your local artists are ?
3... Imagine a world without artists... no music, no clothing, no homes designed, no poetry, no graphic design, no no no...
4 ... What defines Culture ?
5... What is trad Canadian Culture (in each province) ?
6... How do we maintain trad Canadian Culture ?
7... Poetry (samples of short poem by Aldan Nowlan and young Spoken Word Artists
8... VIsual Artists (hot talented unknown)
HOW TO ORGANIZE THE REVOLUTION(S)
because most people who do activism do not have a full thought out 'tool box' for, or 'strategic thinking' on, all the different things/aspects they need to know in order to do activism effectively. basically, it's time has come to do something like this. the earlier the better.
Radical Peer Support; Effective internal communication (minutes, email listservs, phone trees, etc); How to run a meeting well; Structuring an organization (options and best practices); Human Resources approach to a group (volunteer 'job descriptions', intake interviews, exit interviews, skill sharing, 'professional development'/personal growth, making use of each individual's natural talents, etc); Marketing strategies; The importance of (mainstream) media engagement, and how to do it; Building independent media for movements; Lessons in setting up a media coop; Using social media tools ('case studies' of effective groups); Collaboration between NGOs and grassroots groups (pointers for both sides) and collaboration between groups in general; Engaging (marginalized) communities; Political base-building; Anti-oppression practice basics; Strategic planning; Doing things different than the same-old same-old (ie how to be creative in taking action); Building activist infrastructure; Lessons from the past; Accessing resources (funding and beyond); How to find and connect with what is going on in your community and afar; Assessing and measuring our effectiveness
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN CANADA
Why is "animal rights" a social justice issue? How are animals treated in Canada and why should we give serious consideration to them?
Fills a media gap:
Unfortunately, many who are otherwise progressive dismiss animal rights as a trivial or sentimental issue; The Dominion can help to bridge this gap and to draw attention to the many serious issues involved, not just the suffering and death of millions of animals but the links to global warming, human impoverishment and hunger, displacement, environmental destruction, pollution, human health problems, etc. There is a real need to put animal rights in political perspective and this special issue would help to draw those connections.
CLOUD SEEDING CHANGING OUR ENVIRONMENT
we are the brink of a paradigm shift in our relationship to nature and the environment. cloud seeding obscures the climatic impacts we are having and distances us from ecological feedbacks of which we are apart.
climate change, pollution, transportation, weather control.
YOU TOO, LITTLE EICHMANN, ARE AN IDIOT. INTENTIONALLY.
How are neo-hippies, trendafarians, and radicals on facebook dependent on mulleted bitumen tycoons, (or, Why anyone isn't bombing)?
Timliness:
The Personal credit crisis will be in full swing (a.k.a. bind them 2.0) . CNN will touting the virtue of austerity. The new ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico will begin to fester, warming the discontents of a nation --yet scapegoating BP (corpo-fetish) will bring little relief (especially as the fire of discontent is automotorized.)
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE COMING GREAT DEPRESSION
What can We the People do to counter the apparent complete domination of the US Congress by the the largest US banks and financial institutions.
The sub-prime mortgage crisis is only the tip of the continuing financial crisis. As the crisis develops more and more bail out money will be required to bail out the banks at the expense of the real economy and tax payers. The whole approach to save banks which were' too big to fail' is bankrupting the US and raising questions of the ability of European nations to protect their sovereign debt credit rating as they followed the US lead and tried to bailout their own national banks. The fundamental injustice of those who deliberately created the crisis being bailed out using public money is revolting. Yet the public is generally ignorant of the deliberate underlying cause of the current banking crisis and where it is leading.
Making The Global Financial Crisis the theme of the special issue may 'give permission' to other economists to publish alternative ideas of how to save the global economy.
LIKE OLD TIMES: FACISM RESURGENT
How can Canadians protect the cherished nature of our country if we don't accurately identify the dominant and growing threat to it? The first essential step to reverse Canada's current degeneration into a fascist police state is for the public at large to recognize the current metamorphosis for what it is. The Dominion News Co-op can play a vital role in that process.
- "From Peacekeeper to Warmaker: How Recent Federal Governments Have Overthrown Canada's Longstanding Values" (a story about Canada's participation in the illegal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the coup in Haiti, material support to America's wars in Iraq and Pakistan, fervent support of unfounded sanctions against Iran and Israel's unlawful blockade of Gaza, complete abandonment of UN peacekeeping missions, sabotage of climate change prevention treaties)
- "Freedom of Speech and Assembly, and Other Nostalgic Reminiscences" (a story about the government's suppression of dissent in this country e.g. Jason Kenney's illegal refusal of George Galloway's entry into Canada for what a court of law found to be purely political reasons fraudulently claimed as security reasons; the ongoing McCarthy-like persecution of Alex Hundert and his compatriots; the PMO's systematic monitoring and manipulation of requests made through the Freedom of Access to Information Act; etc.)
- "Militarism Gone Wild" (about the staggeringly corrupt plan to buy a $18 Billion fleet of F-35 fighters, which are manifestly the wrong weapon system for the wrong role being sole-sourced by the wrong process; and about how much education, healthcare, affordable housing, mass transit and/or income security that money could buy instead)
- "We're Doing Nothing Illegal Unless We Get Caught Doing It" (about the unanimous agreement by all sitting MPs to keep their collective $540 million annual expenditure of public money completely secret, despite the discovery of brazen fraud and embezzlement in other jurisdictions that have been properly audited, e.g. Nova Scotia, UK; also about the Office of the Attorney-General's lawful authority to conduct such an audit notwithstanding the resistance of MPs)
- "What if Canada Were a Single-Party State and We Didn't Know It?" (about steadfast Liberal Party complicity at every turn with the Conservative Party's radical legislative and executive agenda)
- "The Truth-Tellers: What Canada's Whistle-blowers Risk and How We Can Help Them Help Us" (e.g. Richard Colvin and others who've dared to tell Canadians the truth at great personal expense and still without effective legislated protection from retaliation by the government)
- "We Support The Troops That Support Our Extremist Agenda" (a story about how at least two retired Canadian military officers recently discovered that their privacy rights have been wildly violated by successive Liberal and Conservative governments in retaliation for having publicly criticized Veterans Affairs Canada's dismal treatment of injured war vets)
- "Wanted: Government Scientists Who Keep Their Mouths Shut" (a story about the recent and growing imposition of censorship by designated political commissars upon Canada's publicly-funded institutions of science and discovery)
- "We're Here to Help, Depending on Your Skin Colour" (a story contrasting (a) the Harper government's no-expense-spared dash to airlift Caucasian convicted criminal Brenda Martin home from a Mexican jail, with (b) the government's harassment and persecution of innocent Canadian citizens of colour abroad, e.g. Abousfian Abdelrazik, Maher Arar, Abdallah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati, Muayyed Nureddin, Omar Khadr, etc.)
- "If You Don't Know Who the Mark Is, Chances Are It's You" (a story about how the Harper government avoided the political price of bank bailouts by instead covertly bailing out Canada's banks through the useful intermediary of the CMHC, which accepted hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of toxic mortgage-backed garbage from the banks in 2008 and 2009 at the risk of taxpayers alone; Canada's government is now the world's largest sub-prime lender, but as intended, Canadians are utterly oblivious to this fact)
- "Judged By the Company We Keep" (how Canada's increasingly intimate military and political alliance with the world's most aggressive war machines [e.g. USA, UK, Israel] is endangering the security of Canadians rather than protecting it, by associating Canada with the routinely criminal actions of those allies in the minds of their surviving victims)
- "The Rule of Law: The Quaint Relic" (a story about how Canada's government declined to carry out its obligations under international law to arrest George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice at the border to face trial on credible allegations of organizing systematic torture and other crimes, and how our government has instead provided each of them with protected visitation in our country so as to be feted by Canada's own afficionados of lawless brutality)
- "Taxation Without Representation for You, Representation Without Taxation for Me Inc." (a story about whose interests are actually advanced by Parliament regardless of party in power; how large corporations in this country pay little to no taxes thanks to complex tax avoidance maneuvers that are considered perfectly lawful, yet these same corporations vastly disproportionate influence over the creation and degree of enforcement of the laws that affect their operations and profitability; and by contrast, the ever-growing burden of taxes and user fees imposed on ordinary citizens who are given no realistic opportunity to influence or even review draft legislation that affects us before it's enacted into law)
BEWARE MARCHEZ DES IDEES
How does have two official languages work to divide a national identity.
Language police = thought control.
More communications = less communication
Who's paying = who's receiving (Money talks talcs)
9 MONTHS TO MELTDOWN
How will fear of the end of the world be used by media and organizations to control and manipulate opinions, products, and social movements.
Other media will have started promoting 2012 End of World shows, specials, web-sites around the world will be up and running on Jan. 1 at 11:00 am (late start due to hangovers).
Additionally if you focus on fear there is sure to be fresh material come print time. You can even account/leave a slot open for such a likely occurence.
Should position you well for fall ratings battle. Everything will be end of the world after next summer. Jump start your issue.
NATIVE RIGHTS, NATIVE LANDS ERODING: INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION'S CANADIAN ENDGAME
What is the current Conservative Government's policy direction on native rights and how is it affecting the expansion of industry onto native lands?
The quality of native lives in Canada: is it improving? What is the future of the reserve situation in light of the Flanagan doctrine towards privatization of reserve lands and the individualization of the native economy? Are current, younger native leaders equipped to resist this shift, when social forces are pushing them further to assimilate and memory of life in the bush fades? Why is Canada still not signatory to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples? How is the Indian Act still very much alive and well in Canada - a look at the Barriere Lake Algonquin and the Minister of Indian Affairs use of S. 73 (?) to topple their elected leadership? More analysis of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement from a native rights perspective and in the voices of native leaders talking back to both industry and ENGOs? etc.
THE HARPER REGIME
What sort of effects has this regime and its adherents had on the social, political, economic and cultural landscape of Canada and beyond?
A Divided Left in the Face of a United Right (regards to a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition against a united minority Conservative Party)
Harpeconomics 101: Harper and Flaherty Economics
SPIRIT GUIDING CANADA BACK TO ITS ROOTS... ALONG THE WAY
in other words... strategies from the Dark Side... the Shadow side... the mystical, spiritual, religious, cosmic, zen, daoist! Yin-Yang philosophies from a varied public on what can be done to preserve the quality of life. Irregardless, perhaps of turning back the giant earth machines, the wells, the gas pipe lines.... Despite it all, what mystical, spiritual unactivities can permeate the world consciousness for peace, order and wholeness. Body mind and spirit?
The Dominion Goes Wild! Native, Tribal, or Primordial
The Dominion's Tribal Wisdom Issue.
The Native Way: Balancing Nature in 21st Century Canada.
THE NEW MARKET: HOW NEW MEDIA CAN HELP FUEL A NEW ECONOMY
I'll look at how new media opportunities are helping small businesses and organizations build a new economy.
The Dominion is already familiar with this model, but it needs to be explored more and discussed with the public in order to inspire people to invest in a new media infrastructure that is unbiased and objective.
The article / content will also explore how new media is fueling a new economy and how we need to assess different policy directions in order to stimulate - as opposed to limit - these opportunities.
- 20th Century Business: The Evolution of Marketing and the Creation of Want.
- 20th Century Media: Consolidation = Mass = Influence
- 20th Century Marketing: I am a person, not a Target.
- 21st Century Conflicts: The State of Media and Influence on Canadians.
- 21st Century Opportunities: Be the New Market.
- 21st Century Media: Fragmentation = Local = Protection of our communities
WHAT THE HELL IS CANADA REALLY DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?
Canada is due to end it's formal combat mission in July 2011. The Harper government has stated this, but will come under increasing pressure from the US and NATO to maintain a combat role of some sort. Having lost 152 soldiers with thousands more wounded, and having killed and wounded thousands of Afghans, it might be very timely to have a rigorous look at the entire mission from 2002 until now.
Canada's military mission: the dynamics of the CF in war and peace
Integrationist thinking leading to Canada's war in Afghanistan
NATO, the US and the new world order
Private contractors and mercenary forces in the Afghan war
Afghan history
History of the Taliban and Afghan resistance
Western media depictions of the war vs reality on the ground
Nature of the war since 2002 for all US and NATO nations
Potential outcomes of the war on Afghan society, women, and minorities
After Afghanistan, what?
CANADIAN BOAT TO GAZA
Breaking the siege of Gaza: by land and by sea, we sail until Gaza is free.
Why the siege must end.
Stories from Gaza (x2 or 3, at least)
Canadians with connections to Gaza.
I was kidnapped by the IDF.
We sail until Gaza is Free: the international Free Gaza movement.
This boat belongs to all of us: communities support the siege-busting Canadian ship.
Lifting the blockade within the broader struggle to free Palestine, BDS, etc.
Why unions oppose the blockade: Canadian postal workers in solidarity with Gaza.
Worker Co-Ops and other alternatives to corporatism
This is a critical issue that we need to explore to build alternatives to our predatory capitalist system. That said, all are great topics for discussion!
Voting for a Special Issue on "Co-operatives & Social Economics"
Submitted by deadpolaroid on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 00:31.
My vote here, for Honourable Mention is specifically aimed at the idea of a Special Issue on Co-op's and alternatives to corporate / capitalist norms of business.
Community / Social economies are where it's at!
It's the way of the future.
The TEA PARTY in Canada
Submitted by Eric Mills on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 17:57.
Rob Ford mayor of Toronto, Tim Hudak premier of Ontario (?), Stevie PM of Canada; the Wild Rose Party in Alberta, Action Democratique and successor in Quebec, the Saskatchewan Party ... where do these right-wing formations come from, and why do they succeed in Canada?
Too late to propose, but here are some suggested angles:
* Conservative ties with Republicans
* right-wing mass media (with Faux News North still to come?)
* Zionism as a driving force in Canada
* Stephen Harper is his own Karl Rove
* false Liberals, from throat-throttler Chretien through the Steamship Magnate to 'Torture Lite' Iggy
* weakness of labour and social dem movements
... and on and on (unfortunately)
What the frack!
Submitted by Frances Oommen on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 22:20.
Many communities in Canada are waking up to the fact that the environment and our abilty to grow food in the future are at risk in many areas of Canada. This is because the government and corporations are conspiring together to allow oil and gas companies to search for fossil fuels wherever they want to. Oil and gas companies are desperately trying to find the remaining scraps of fossil fuel energy remaining. Fracking is an extraction method wherby companies force chemicals, sand and millions of ltires of water repeatedly under the ground to crack open rocks in order to capture a comparatively small amount of fossil fuel in the form of shale gas, coal bed methane or oil. This process of "slickwater" fracking, has only been around for 10 or 15 years, and the regulations do not address the dangers of this modern process.
Resistance is strong and growing, and in 2011 will be at fever pitch.
I chose to live in Cape Breton where we try to live with a small ecological footprint, growing our own food and living with less. Only to discover recently that nearby in Lake Ainslie, Glencoe and Rankinville, the government of Nova Scotia and Petroworth are looking for oil or shale gas. We have done our homework and know what the future holds.
As Neal Mednick, President of Petroworth in a recent memo said, (of another exploration block in New Brunswick), that they are planning on puting up 32 wells a year for the next 30 years.
How can the Department of Energy promote and regulate oil and gas exploration? This IS a conflict of interest.
Canadians in BC, Alberta, Quebec, PEI, New Brunswick and now Nova Scotia are resisting the exploration and extraction of fossil fuels - instead they want their elected representatives to listen to them, for a change, and develop alternative energy sources and encourage all citizens to conserve energy and live with less.
LITTLE EICHMANN
Submitted by David Koch on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 22:47.
The entire "Little Eichmann" pitch was very funny in a too-real sort of way.
Submitted by Bobafet on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 21:06.
Seems to me this proposal expresses well and incorporates the zeitgeist of all the others. As a society, we do need to "wake up and smell the fascism" before the opportunity to prevent its ascendancy becomes a lamented memory. I vote to have this proposal elevated to the short list.
Voting for Workers' Coops
My vote on the Honourable Mentions is specifically for the Workers' Coops proposal, especially if it were broadened a bit to include alternative/autonomous economies, inter-community trade models, farming coops, etc.
I think that one has potential too. Crankin' up the rating accordingly.
Submitted by Ontario Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 19:19.
So the only one of these topics (main topics OR also-rans) which is actually timely i.e. happening this spring (as opposed to before or after), is the Canadian Boat to Gaza.
Submitted by Tami Starlight on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 19:02.
I am all for ALL the topics posted and I voted on all of them.
Yet, I am left with the stick in my craw, where there is a huge gap where LGBT issues are absent.
Why is this?
In conclusion, I feel we, as a media coop seem very linear and narrow when it comes to our focus on stories. Seems to be the same ol' suspects. However, I do not distract from the importance, I believe we could and should DO IT ALL.
Thank you/Merci
Tami Starlight - VMC


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The Truth Shall Make us Free, and Angry
By Bob Gaydos
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Donald Trump … a language barrier?
I wrote a column last week in which I said that the media's decision to give Donald Trump's core supporters the dignity of a legitimate-sounding political movement name was, essentially, a bunch of hooey. A lazy, cowardly way of saying that the folks most passionate about Trump's candidacy are bigots.
When you say Alt-Right, read it to mean the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, previously closeted fascists, anti-gays, and a bunch of woman-haters. The kind of people who, in previous eras stole land from Native Americans and slaughtered thousands of them. Who started a war to preserve slavery. Who had whites-only schools and bathrooms. Who herded fellow Americans of foreign descent into internment camps.
I thought it was a fair, truthful representation of what Americans have been subjected to for nearly a year now. Would that the major media had done the same for the past year. One reader suggested there must have been spittle on my laptop when I got through writing. Quite possible. I've been known to get a little messy when I'm angry. To me, one of the most disappointing aspects of this presidential campaign is that not nearly enough people are angry and downright embarrassed that one of our two major political parties has handed its presidential nomination to a congenital liar. A bigot. A misogynist. A narcissist. … There I go again.
Another reader noted a lot of "name-calling" in the piece. I don't know. It seems to me when I use words to describe the reality of what is going on, it's not name-calling, it's doing what Trump says he does. You know, telling it like it is; calling a spade a spade, a bigot a bigot. I think Trump's own words and actions legitimize every label I affixed to him. You can deny this if you want, but that merely puts you in line with the Republican National Committee, which is in bed with Trump, against its will but for its own selfish purposes. There are names for that, too.
Last week, Trump took his ego to Mexico to meet with that country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. After the meeting, Trump said they discussed the infamous wall he has repeatedly vowed to build on the U.S. border with Mexico, but he said the two men did not discuss his demand that Mexico pay for it. Pena Nieto disagreed. He said he "made it clear" at the beginning of the conversation that Mexico would not pay for any wall.
If somebody is lying here, I'm going with Trump. Just hours after his cordial photo op/meeting in Mexico, the candidate was in Phoenix giving as extreme an anti-immigrant speech one could imagine. A wall. Mass deportations of migrant criminals. "Extreme-vetting." "Ideological certification." David Duke, former Klan leader, called it "excellent."
Back in Washington, D.C., Priebus and his RNC crew were once again left trying to figure out how to put a positive spin on Trump's latest hateful broadside. Their decision was to say nothing because, really, what was there to say. The RNC has made its bed. Now it has to lie in it and about it. Week after week, it has been waiting for Trump to become more … presidential? No, that hope disappeared long ago. Perhaps simply more sane, more rational, more compassionate. Compassion would help. If Trump had any.
Cliche after cliche after cliche comes to mind. What you see is what you get. He is what he is. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Anything beyond that is merely ignoring the loud elephant in the room.
When this campaign is over and Hillary Clinton has become the first woman president in U.S. history — by default, if you wish — Priebus and his fellow GOP travelers will have a major decision to make.
Many Republicans who finally summed up the courage to say they cannot support a candidate with no redeeming social values to be the leader of this country are already trying to figure out where their party goes from here. Or where they go from here, if not with the GOP. For votes and power, they surrendered their party to the likes of the Koch brothers, Fox News and the fearful demands of the Tea Party fringe. Rich bigots lying to not-so-rich bigots.
Trump told them what they wanted to hear. Then he changed his mind. Then he said he never said that. Then he said, the greatest insult of all — that he was going to make America great again.
Listen, great isn't all it's trumped-up to be. When this election is over, I would rather be proud of my country again.
rjgaydos@gmail.com
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Alt-Right: Trumped-up Name for Bigots
Hillary Clinton … delivering a speech linking Donald Trump to bigots and racists
It's not enough that I've had to suffer through the most frightening, embarrassing presidential campaign in my lifetime and, perhaps, in the lifetime of this country, but now I'm being asked to grant legitimacy to the very ugliness that has marred this chapter in American history.
"Alt-right"? "Alt-right"? Are you kidding me? How about ugly, racist, bigoted, anti-semitic, hateful, ignorant, white people who want to blame all their perceived grievances on those who are different from them.
These are the people who never wanted the Civil War to end. Who didn't want schools integrated or teaching evolution. Who would welcome a return to segregated lunch counters. Who hate the day when Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus. Who brandish the swastika. Now they want to start another civil war, led by the biggest con artist ever to claim leadership of a major political party, Donald Trump.
Thank you, Republicans.
Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton referred to the most avid followers of Trump as the Alt-Right, a term now being used by mainstream media. With capital letters and everything. This is a collection of hate groups that have been festering quietly in the bowels of the Republican Party for years. Quietly, because even most Republicans are aware that these are not people who are interested in being part of an America that is open and welcome and full of opportunity for all people. These are Klansmen and neo-Nazis and Second-Amendment-spouting "patriots" who want the government to take care of their needs, but ignore the "freeloaders." Hell, to punish them.
And yes, I blame Republicans for letting this happen because they knew full well the kind of people they were cynically courting for votes and the kind of people they were playing to by refusing to cooperate on any initiative proposed by President Barack Obama. Is it a coincidence that he is our country's first black president and Trump has freed the racists from the Republicans' basement? I don't think so.
I'm glad Clinton spelled out in detail publicly what Trump and his followers represent. She should do more of it, while also spelling out her own alternatives to his fearful message. I hesitate to say that he stands for anything but himself because I think he makes it up as he goes along. He is a pathological liar, a bigot, a misogynist and has a sociopathic need to stir up fear and hatred among the "Alt-Rights" to hear their applause. He gave a scripted speech on how blacks — whose lives in America are a never-ending hell in his view — would be better off voting for him. He gave the speech to a group of white farmers in Iowa. Naturally, they applauded.
It is a sick relationship, enabled by cowardly leaders in the Republican Party who feared losing power and prestige by telling the "Alt-Rights": You know what folks, in this country we don't do things that way. We've come a long way from those days when skin color, gender, religion, nationality, sexual preference determined whether one was accepted as an American. And, by the way, we're not going to sacrifice our party's principles for the sake of a few votes based on hatred and ignorance. So, go find another place to hide.
But no Republican leader said that to them. Instead, they put Sarah Palin on a pedestal and questioned whether their commander-in-chief was really an American..
Alt-Right is not a political philosophy. Rather, it is a fear-based agenda of white supremacy that is being spread via social media. Their memes offer a message of lies and hate and almost a proud ignorance. Facts and science are irrelevant. It is definitely not conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican. It is fear and hate and white is right and Trump has given it a voice, thanks in large part to the shameless orchestration of Fox News and the cluelessness of all the other news media until it was almost too late.
Trump stole the Republican nomination through bullying, outrageous statements, headline-grabbing and the timidness of many of his opponents, Republican leaders and media commentators. No one had the guts to say he was nuts. Since many of them have belatedly caught on to him, Trump is unlikely to steal the election. In fact, he seems almost intent on losing because he knows he can't handle the job. It would be a major blow to his ego if he had to demonstrate his ineptitude publicly.
But he has given the cave-dwellers and hate-mongers hope and that is the real tragedy of this insult of an election. They now think they can spread their venom in public without repercussion because, after all, they've got a guy running for president of the United States of America for Pete's sake. If that's not legit, what is? And now, the media want to give them a legit name like all those other made-up ones — Neo-Con, Neo-Liberal, Far Right, Far Left.
Forget about Alt-Right. Call them what they are: racists and bigots. I say again, any Republican who hears what Trump and his most ardent followers say and sees how they behave and who still says he or she (really, woman?) supports his candidacy is no better than Trump. You are what you say you are. Presidents do not get to issue threats, insults and idiotic statements and change their minds every day.
Clinton has some serious issues to address, but they pale in comparison to what Trump represents. If you support Trump, know this: Your candidate is a fraud, a bigot, a callous, clueless, compassionless, misogynistic, self-aggrandizing bully who belittle veterans who died or were captured in battle and who mocks citizens with physical disabilities.
This is not all right in my America. This kind of "alternative" is unacceptable and does not deserve any special, pseudo-sounding, political movement name so that reporters, editors and columnists can have a shorthand way of saying bigots.
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Axel Richter (* 27. März 1956 in Höganäs, Schweden) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Eishockeytorwart, der von 1972 bis 1982 in der Eishockey-Bundesliga für den Kölner EC und Berliner SC spielte.

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Er hatte 337 Bundesligaeinsätze im Tor und konnte sogar ein Tor in seiner Laufbahn selbst erzielen. In der Saison 1976/77 gewann er mit den Kölner Haien die Deutsche Meisterschaft.

Zeitweise spielte er in Köln gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Karl-Gustav Richter. Später wechselte er zum Schlittschuhclub Berlin (Berliner SC).

Von 1982 bis 1986 spielte er noch beim SC Solingen in der 2. Bundesliga.

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\section{Introduction}

Inflationary models continue to provide a good description of the primordial fluctuations whose imprint is seen in precision measurements \cite{Planck} of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Because slow-roll inflation requires the existence of very light scalar fields, pseudo-Goldstone Bosons (pGBs) \cite{pGB,pGBrev} provide among the best-motivated inflationary models, at least from an ultraviolet (UV) perspective.

pGB models generically involve two energy scales: the decay constant, $f$, and the scale, $\Lambda$, of the potential. For inflationary purposes these must be chosen to obtain an inflationary slow-roll, and this is typically accomplished in either of two ways. In the case of a  pGB corresponding to a compact symmetry, slow-roll occurs when the relevant field $\phi$ takes generic values and so slow-roll relies on achieving $f \roughly> M_p$ \cite{NatInf}. In constrast, in the case of a noncompact symmetry, slow-roll relies instead on the pGB field $\phi \gg f$, and not on the value of $f$ itself \cite{GL,LFInf}. In either case, obtaining observably large primordial tensor modes generically also requires $f \roughly> M_p$ \cite{Lyth}.

Both kinds of pGB models can arise plausibly from UV completions, like string theory \cite{StrInf}. Within a string context the compact approach usually arises with $\phi$ an axion, and so with $f$ of order the string scale, $f \sim M_s \ll M_p$, where the inequality expresses how the string scale is lower than the Planck scale for weakly coupled strings. Noncompact models often arise when $\phi$ describes a modulus, such as an extra-dimensional shape parameter, for which $f \sim M_p$.

An important puzzle asks how larger values of $f$ can be obtained, and any successful enlargement of $f$ comes with a bonus: if $f \gg M_p$ then a small-field Taylor expansion of the potential (which relies on $\phi \ll f$) can be consistent with large-field inflationary predictions, such as observable tensor modes (which rely on $\phi \roughly> M_p$). The hierarchy $M_p \roughly< \phi \ll f$ brings the predictions of $\phi^2$ inflation \cite{PhiSqInf} to a wide class of pGB models \cite{Nem1}.

Two closely related proposals for obtaining large $f$ exist in cases where there is more than one pGB (which is fairly common for string vacua). In this case the low-energy scalar dynamics is controlled by the effective lagrangian
\begin{align}
   \mathcal{L} = \sqrt{-g} \left[ R - \tfrac12 K_{ij}(\phi) \, \partial \phi^i \partial \phi^j - V(\phi) \right] \,, \label{lattice}
\end{align}
where $V$ is the scalar potential and $K_{ij}(\phi)$ is the target-space metric. Although it is always possible to arrange $K_{ij}(\phi_0) = \delta_{ij}$ at a specific field point, $\phi_0$, in general this cannot be done everywhere unless the target-space geometry is flat (which is sometimes the case). In what follows we assume $K_{ij}$ can be transformed into $\delta_{ij}$, either because the target space is flat or because inflation takes place over a small enough region of it.

The mechanisms for obtaining large $f$ rely on a mismatch between the directions in field space that are preferred by the kinetic terms and the scalar potential. For example the basis which brings kinetic terms to diagonal form defines one set of directions. However, it can happen that the potential is simpler in a different basis, such as for axion models where strong interactions generate simple potentials for specific directions, which we call the {\em lattice} basis:
\begin{equation}
 V = \sum_i \Lambda_i^4 \left( 1 - \cos \theta_i \right) \,.
\end{equation}
Written in a basis with canonical kinetic terms --- the {\em kinetic} basis --- each term in the scalar potential contains a linear combination of the fields,
\begin{align}
   \mathcal{L} = \sqrt{-g} \left\{ \tfrac{1}{2} M_p^2 \, R - \tfrac12 (\partial \phi^i)^2 - \sum_i \Lambda_i^4 \left[ 1 - \cos( Q^i{}_j \phi^j ) \right] \right\} \,, \label{kinetic}
\end{align}
where the matrix $Q$ satisfies $Q^{\scriptscriptstyle T} K Q = I$. Alternatively, in the lattice basis, the complications lie in the non-trivial kinetic term.

The simplest way employing multiple fields to enhance $f$ is the assisted-inflation mechanism \cite{assisted}, such as used in $N$-flation \cite{N-flation} and related models \cite{AA1}. Here there are $N$ axions and the $N\times N$ matrix $Q$ is taken to be diagonal with eigenvalues $1/f_i$. If the slow-roll during inflation is along a `diagonal' direction in moduli space, then the effective decay constant for the inflaton is given by the Pythagorean sum $(f_1^2 + \ldots + f_N^2)^{1/2}$, which, when all the individual constants are equal: $f_i = f \; \forall i$, simplifies to  $\sqrt{N} \; f$.

Alignment can lead to even more enhancement in more complicated situations, such as:
 \begin{itemize}
  \item
 For a large number of fields $N$ based on a random-matrix-theory approach, Bachlechner {\em et al} \cite{Bachlechner1} point out that the eigenvectors of the kinetic matrix are overwhelming likely to align with the diagonals in moduli space. Intuitively this phenomenon, known as {\it kinetic alignment}, occurs because the $2^N$ diagonals far outnumber the $N$ basis vectors. Compared to N-flation, where the length of all diagonals is set by the Pythagorean sum,
this leads to a splitting of the diagonal lengths ranging from $\sqrt{N} f_{\rm min}$ to $\sqrt{N} f_{\rm max}$, where $f_{\rm min(max)}$ is the {\em smallest (largest)} of the separate decay constants. Inflation benefits by taking place along the longest diagonal.
\item
 In the case of two fields, Kim, Nilles and Peloso \cite{KNP} point out that super-Planckian decay constants can arise when the directions defined by the scalar potential in \eqref{kinetic} are sufficiently aligned. When this happens the `other' direction becomes sufficiently flat to allow inflation to proceed. We refer to this as {\it lattice alignment}. This can be re-expressed as an increase in $f$, which even for two fields can be very high.
\end{itemize}
One of the points of this note is to demonstrate explicitly, in the simplest case of two fields, how these types of alignment are related and how they can be usefully combined. To this end, we will first review the case of alignment in natural inflation, and subsequently generalize to other functions based on non-compact pGBs.

\smallskip

\noindent
{\bf Note added:} upon completetion of this manuscript, we became aware of the preprint \cite{Bachlechner2} discussing related isses.

\section{Compact case}

Here we recap natural inflation \cite{NatInf} for two $U(1)$ axion fields whose potentials arise from non-perturbative symmetry-breaking effects. Our goal is to highlight the role played by the two alignment mechanisms described above.

Once tuned to vanish at its minimum, the scalar potential can be compactly written as
  \begin{eqnarray}
  V &=& \Lambda^4 \left[ 1- \tfrac12 \cos(\vec\alpha \cdot \vec\phi) -  \tfrac12 \cos(\vec\beta \cdot \vec\phi) \right] \nonumber \\
  &=& \Lambda^4 \left[ \sin^2 \left(\frac{\vec \alpha \cdot \vec \phi}2 \right) + \sin^2 \left(\frac{\vec \beta \cdot \vec \phi}2  \right) \right]\,, \label{compact-potential}
 \end{eqnarray}
where we write the two fields as a vector, $\vec \phi := [\phi_1, \phi_2]$, and assume the scales $\Lambda_i$ are identical (as might be arranged with a discrete symmetry\footnote{Next to calculational simplicity, this has the advantage that the direction with the largest possible displacement also is lightest \cite{Bachlechner1}.}). Higher-order corrections such as
 \begin{align}
   \sin^4  \left(\frac{\vec \alpha \cdot \vec \phi}2 \right) \,, \qquad  \sin^2 \left(\frac{\vec \alpha \cdot \vec \phi}2 \right) \sin^2  \left(\frac{\vec \beta \cdot \vec \phi}2 \right) \,,
\end{align}
are suppressed as they come with higher powers of $\Lambda$, which is required to be order of magnitudes below the Planck scale.
The two `alignment' vectors can be parametrized by
 %
   \begin{align}
    & \vec\alpha = \lambda_1 \left[ \cos(\omega/2), \sin(\omega/2) \right] \,, \notag \\
    & \vec\beta = \lambda_2 \left[ \cos(\omega/2), - \sin(\omega/2) \right] \,. \label{vectors}
  \end{align}
Here we use the $SO(2)$ invariance of the kinetic term to absorb a irrelevant additional angle. The two quantities that determine the shape of this scalar potential are the ratio, $\lambda_2 / \lambda_1$, of the two lengths and the angle, $\omega$, between these two vectors. The resulting potential landscape is illustrated for two representative choices of parameters in figure 1.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-compact-equal}
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-compact-different}
\caption{The potential landscape \eqref{compact-potential} for $\omega = \pi/4$ and $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2$ (left panel) and $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2  /2 = 1$ (right panel). Darker colours indicate lower values of $V$.}
\end{figure}

The mass eigenvalues for this scalar potential are given by
 \begin{align}
  m_{\pm}^2/\Lambda^4 = \tfrac14 \left( \lambda_1^2 + \lambda_2^2 \pm \sqrt{\lambda_1^4+\lambda_2^4+2 \lambda_1^2 \lambda_2^2 \cos 2\omega} \right) \,,
 \end{align}
revealing a mass hierarchy for sufficiently small $\omega$:
 \begin{align}
 \frac{m_-^2}{\Lambda^4} = \frac{\lambda_1^2 \lambda_2^2 \, \omega^2}{2(\lambda_1^2+\lambda_2^2)} \,, \quad
 \frac{m_+^2}{\Lambda^4} = \frac{\lambda_1^2+\lambda_2^2}{2} \,.
 \end{align}
This hierarchy arises because when $\omega = 0$ the scalar potential only depends on one of the two axions, ensuring the orthogonal direction becomes flat. This is the lattice alignment mechanism of Kim, Nilles and Peloso\footnote{The generalization to more than two axions has been investigated by \cite{multi-axions}, while the embedding in string theory is the focus of e.g.~\cite{string-align}.} \cite{KNP}.

The connection to large $f$ is clearer if we study the same phenomenon in the lattice basis. In this case, the kinetic matrix reads
 \begin{align}
  K_{ij} = \frac{1}{\lambda_1^2 \lambda_2^2 \sin^2 \omega } \left(
 \begin{array}{cc} \lambda_2^2 & - \lambda_1 \lambda_2 \cos\omega \\
-  \lambda_1 \lambda_2 \cos\omega & \lambda_1^2 \end{array} \right)  \,. \label{compact-kinetic}
 \end{align}
In a lattice basis the fields individually range over the square interval $-\pi \le \theta_i \le \pi$, and using the metric (\ref{compact-kinetic}) the longest distance in this fundamental domain is
 \begin{align}
    \Delta\theta^2 = \frac{2 \pi (\lambda_1^2 + \lambda_2^2 \pm 2  \lambda_1 \lambda_2 \cos\omega)}{\lambda_1^2 \lambda_2^2 \sin^2\omega } \,,
 \end{align}
 %
depending on whether one measures the length of a diagonal (-) or an anti-diagonal (+) in $\mathcal{M}_\theta$. As stressed in \cite{Bachlechner1}, at fixed eigenvalues, the field range is maximized by having the eigenvectors of $K$ align with the (anti-)diagonals. For the above matrix, such an alignment happens when $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2 = \lambda$, in which case the two eigenvalues of $K$ simplify to
 \begin{align}
  \frac{1}{2 \lambda^2 \sin^2(\omega/2)} \,, \quad  \frac{1}{2 \lambda^2 \cos^2(\omega/2)} \,.
 \end{align}
One of these diverges as $\omega \to 0$, showing how an $f_i$ can diverge without bound in the lattice-basis counterpart of lattice alignment.

This simple example highlights the following features:
\begin{itemize}
 \item
 In the kinetic basis it is the angle between the vectors in the scalar potential \eqref{compact-potential} that determines lattice alignment, and it is their length ratio that determines kinetic alignment. Perfect alignment corresponds to coinciding vectors with $\omega=0$ and $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2$.
 %
 \item
 In the lattice basis it is the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the kinetic matrix, $K_{ij}$, that determine lattice and kinetic alignment, respectively. Perfect alignment corresponds to an infinite eigenvalue in an (anti-)diagonal direction.
\end{itemize}

The inflationary analysis is particularly simple in the case of perfect kinetic alignment: $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2 = \lambda$. In this case, the potential (\ref{compact-potential}) can be written in the remarkably simple form
 \begin{align}
  V = \Lambda^4 \left[ 1 - \cos\left( \lambda \phi_1\cos\frac\omega2 \right) \cos \left(\lambda \phi_2 \sin\frac\omega2 \right) \right] \,.
 \end{align}
Moreover, the symmetries under the separate reflections, $\phi_1 \to -\phi_1$ and $\phi_2 \to -\phi_2$ in this case show that the single-field model appropriate to the bottom of the trough (for small $\omega$) is a simple truncation that sets $\phi_1 = 0$. In this truncation the effective potential for the inflaton, $\varphi := \phi_2$, along the trough's bottom becomes
 \begin{align}
  V_{\rm eff} \simeq \Lambda^4 \left[ 1 -  \cos\left(\varphi/ f_{\rm eff} \right) \right] \,, \label{eff-sin}
 \end{align}
with effective decay constant $1/f_{\rm eff} = \lambda \sin(\omega/2)$. This gives the $N$-flation Pythagorean gain (for $N=2$) of $\sqrt2$ when $\omega = \pi/2$, relative to the single-field case. In contrast, $f_{\rm eff}$ can become super-Planckian as $\omega$ decreases towards $0$. We have included the inflationary predictions of this model as a function of the effective decay constant in figure 2.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{joint-plot}
\caption{The spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ (evaluated at 60 e-folds) for the effectively single-field models \eqref{eff-sin} (dashed line) and \eqref{eff-tanh} (dotted line) as a function of the effective decay constant.}
\end{figure}

\section{Noncompact case}

The above makes clear that nothing about the alignment mechanisms relies on the periodicity of the potential, and so can be applied equally well to non-axion models, such as noncompact pGBs. We now use this observation to two ends. First, we use it to obtain observably large tensor modes for large- and multi-field noncompact models (for which alignment is not required to obtain the basic slow-roll). Second, we use it to obtain slow-roll for multi-field noncompact models for which the corresponding single-field model would not itself inflate.

Before turning to more specific models we examine a simple case to which more complicated examples often reduce. Consider a positive-definite scalar potential (tuned to be minimized at zero) that can be written as a sum of squares of the form
 \begin{align}
  V =  U^2 ( \vec \alpha \cdot \vec \phi )  +   U^2 ( \vec \beta \cdot \vec \phi )  \,, \label{potential-tanh}
 \end{align}
where the real function $U(\theta)$ is at this point arbitrary. This contains in particular the axion example described earlier as the special case $U(\theta) = \Lambda^2 \sin(\theta/2)$. In the models of later interest it is assumed there are (usually different) points where each of $U$ and $U'$ vanish: $U(\theta_0) = U'(\theta_1) = 0$.

Once the function $U$ is fixed, alignment is fully specified by the two constant vectors $\vec \alpha$ and $\vec \beta$, that we parametrize as in \eqref{vectors}. Again, the two relevant properties are the relative angle $\omega$ and the ratio $\lambda_2 / \lambda_1$. When this is so we immediately have four stationary points for $V$ of (\ref{potential-tanh}):
\begin{enumerate}
\item[(I)] when $\vec\alpha \cdot \vec\phi = \vec \beta \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_0$;
\item[(II)] when $\vec\alpha \cdot \vec\phi = \vec \beta \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_1$;
\item[(III)] when $\vec\alpha \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_0$ and $\vec \beta \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_1$; and
\item[(IV)] when $\vec\alpha \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_1$ and $\vec \beta \cdot \vec\phi = \theta_0$.
\end{enumerate}
at which point the potential's second-derivative matrix becomes
\begin{enumerate}
\item[(I)] $V_{ij} = 2(\alpha_i \alpha_j+ \beta_i \beta_j)(U'_0)^2$;
\item[(II)] $V_{ij} = 2(\alpha_i \alpha_j+ \beta_i \beta_j) \,U_1 U_1''$;
\item[(III)] $V_{ij} = 2 \alpha_i \alpha_j (U'_0)^2 + 2 \beta_i \beta_j \,U_1 U_1''$;
\item[(IV)] $V_{ij} = 2 \alpha_i \alpha_j \,U_1 U_1'' + 2 \beta_i \beta_j (U'_0)^2$,
\end{enumerate}
where $U_0' := U'(\theta_0)$, $U_1 := U(\theta_1)$ and $U''_1 := U''(\theta_1)$. Clearly $V(\hbox{II}) >  V(\hbox{III}) \,,  V(\hbox{IV}) >  V(\hbox{I}) = 0$ and so generically (I) is a minimum and (II) is a maximum while (III) and (IV) are saddle points.

The alignment discussion applies just as for natural inflation, as this is independent of the details of the scalar potential. Thus the matrix $K_{ij}$ has the same crucial property that its eigenvectors align with the (anti-)diagonals provided the lengths of $\vec\alpha$ and $\vec \beta$ coincide. Given such kinetic alignment, the eigenvalues of $K$ can be tuned using the angle $\omega$. One eigenvalue diverges as $\omega$ approaches zero, ensuring an effective `decay constant' (whose physical interpretation depends on the function $U$) that blows up. In the kinetic basis, this corresponds to an almost flat direction that develops as the vectors $\vec\alpha$ and $\vec \beta$ start to align.

When the function $U$ is (anti-)symmetric, one can restrict $\omega$ to the first quadrant without loss of generality. Furthermore, given kinetic alignment, it is consistent to truncate to either $\phi_1$ or $\phi_2$. Given that $\omega$ is in the first quadrant, the inflationary trough lies in the direction of $\phi_2$: for $\omega \to 0$ this direction is exactly flat, while for $\omega = \pi/2$ the two terms in the scalar potential have opposite orientation and $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$ have equal masses. Setting $\vec \phi = ( 0, \varphi)$, we obtain the effective potential along the trough bottom:
 \begin{align}
  V_{\rm eff} \simeq U^2 \left( \lambda \varphi \sin\frac\omega2 \right) \,,
 \end{align}
allowing the effective `decay constant' $1/( \lambda \sin\frac\omega2 )$ to be tuned in exactly the same way as for aligned natural inflation \cite{KNP}. Starting at $\omega = \pi/2$ one has an enhancement factor of $\sqrt{2}$, and this can be increased to arbitrary magnitude by alignment of the two vectors. Given a small-field expansion for the anti-symmetric function $U(\theta) = c_1 \theta + c_3 \theta^3 + \ldots$, for small enough $\omega$ the scalar potential is always dominated by the lowest-order quadratic terms, ensuring the resulting predictions are always those of quadratic inflation in this limit.

Another broad class of models with pGB inflatons comes from noncompact groups and leads to exponential potentials, of the broad form $V = V_0 - V_1 e^{-\phi/f} + \cdots$. It has been remarked that such an exponential series has two attractive properties: ($i$) the slow-roll conditions are {\em always} satisfied for sufficiently large $\phi$, regardless of the value of $f$; ($ii$) they can arise in compactifications where higher-dimensional lengths become the inflaton, and when they arise in this way the decay constant is naturally large: $f \simeq M_p$ \cite{BBarModuli,LFInf}. However large $f$ can still be useful since in these models it is a prerequisite for obtaining large primordial tensor modes. The next few examples explore several applications of the alignment mechanisms to such exponential potentials.

\subsection{Large tensor modes for exponential potentials}

We start with an example of a function that asymptotes to a plateau with exponentially suppressed fall-off for large $\phi$, but is anti-symmetric in $\phi \to - \phi$. One such a potential uses
\begin{equation}
 U(\theta)  = \frac{\Lambda^2}{\sqrt2} \; \tanh\theta \,,
\end{equation}
in which case the resulting hyperbolic scalar potential furnishes an analog of natural inflation. The corresponding single-field model was proposed in a different context \cite{conformal}, starting from motivations based on (super-)conformal symmetry breaking and are referred to as T-models.

Generalizing to two scalar fields as above gives
 \begin{align}
   V = \tfrac12 \Lambda^4 [ \tanh^2 (\vec \alpha \cdot \vec \phi) +  \tanh^2 (\vec \alpha \cdot \vec \beta ) ] \,,
  \end{align}
and the resulting potential landscape is illustrated in figure 3. With this example we have $\theta_0 = 0$ and $\theta_1 = \infty$ and so $U'_0 = U_1 = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \, \Lambda^2$ and $U_1'' = 0$. Consequently $V_{ij}(\hbox{I}) = (\alpha_i \alpha_j + \beta_i \beta_j) \Lambda^4$, $V_{ij}(\hbox{II}) = 0$ while $V_{ij}(\hbox{III}) = \alpha_i \alpha_j \, \Lambda^4$ and $V_{ij}(\hbox{IV}) = \beta_i \beta_j \, \Lambda^4$.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-tanh-equal}
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-tanh-different}
\caption{The potential landscape for \eqref{potential-tanh} with $U(\theta) \propto \tanh \theta$ and for $\omega = \pi/4$ and $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2$ (left panel) and $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2  /2 = 1$ (right panel). Darker colours indicate lower values for the potential.}
\end{figure}

The inflationary analysis is particularly simple for maximal kinetic alignment, for which $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2 = \lambda$ and we can take $\omega$ in the first quadrant. In this case one can again truncate to equate the inflaton with $\phi_2$, leading to the following effective inflaton potential
 \begin{eqnarray}
 V_{\rm eff} &\simeq& \Lambda^4 \tanh^2 \left( \lambda \varphi \sin\frac\omega2 \right) \nonumber\\
 &\simeq& \Lambda^4 \left( 1 - 2 \, e^{-2\varphi/f_{\rm eff}} + \cdots \right)^2 \,, \label{eff-tanh}
 \end{eqnarray}
where the last approximate equality applies when $\varphi \roughly> f_{\rm eff}$, with $1/f_{\rm eff} := \lambda \sin(\omega/2)$. The model's inflationary predictions are now easy to infer. For generic $\omega$ inflation takes place out near the plateau at $\varphi \gg f_{\rm eff}$, where the slow-roll conditions are satisfied because $e^{-\varphi/f_{\rm eff}} \ll 1$. Hence its properties are determined by the first, exponential fall-off term. This leads to a spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio that are given by the standard result for exponential potentials \cite{conformal},
 \begin{align}
  n_s = 1- \frac{2}{N} \,, \quad r = \frac{2}{f_{eff}^2 N^2} \simeq {\cal O}[( n_s -1)^2]\,, \label{Staro}
  \end{align}
at lowest order in $1/N$, and in particular $r \roughly< \mathcal{O}(0.001)$ which could eventually be observable, but not yet. By contrast, when lattice alignment occurs and the angle between the two vectors approaches zero, inflation takes place at smaller values of $\varphi/f_{\rm eff}$, for which $M_p \roughly< \varphi \ll f_{\rm eff}$ and so the long trough is effectively quadratic in $\varphi$. This then leads to standard $m^2\varphi^2$ predictions \cite{PhiSqInf}
 \begin{align}
  n_s = 1- \frac{2}{N} \,, \quad r = \frac{8}{N} = 4(1 - n_s)\,, \label{Quadr}
  \end{align}
modulo subleading corrections. In particular, $r \simeq 0.16$ is much easier to observe in this regime. Again, the inflationary predictions of this model as a function of the effective decay constant can be found in figure 2. Closely related interpolations between the above two predictions have been pointed out in \cite{DoubleAttractors}.

A similar argument also applies more generally to more generic two-field exponential potentials. For instance consider a class of positive potentials, $V \ge 0$, with minima tuned to lie at $V = 0$ (similar in spirit to the tuning done for axion potentials), but with a large-field asymptotic form
\begin{equation}
 V = V_0 - V_1 e^{- \theta_1} - V_2 e^{- \theta_2} + \cdots \,,
\end{equation}
where $\theta_i$ is large enough to neglect terms represented by the ellipses --- involving at least two powers of $e^{-\theta_i}$. Suppose also that $V_0$ happens to be much smaller than all of the other $V_i$, so that the $V = 0$ minima also lie in the large-field regime. In this case we may write
\begin{equation}
 V \simeq \frac{V_0}2 \left( 1 - \frac{V_1}{V_0} \; e^{-\theta_1} \right)^2 + \frac{V_0}2 \left( 1 - \frac{V_2}{V_0} \; e^{-\theta_2} \right)^2 + \cdots\,,
\end{equation}
which has minima when $e^{-\theta_i} = V_0/V_i \ll 1$. If $V_1 = V_2$ (as might be arranged through a symmetry), then (writing $V_0 = \Lambda^4$) this has the approximate form of (\ref{potential-tanh}), with
\begin{equation}
 U(\theta) = \frac{\Lambda^2}{\sqrt2} \left( 1 - A \, e^{-\theta}  \right) \,.
\end{equation}
Because $U(\theta)$ is not (anti-)symmetric, the trough obtained by alignment for small $\omega$ is not along the $\phi_2$ axis, and so the effective potential along the minimum is obtained using methods adapted to curved troughs \cite{TroughInf,AA2} rather than simply by truncation. Simpler, reflection-symmetric, exponential potentials can also happen, such as for non-minimally coupled scenarios like Higgs inflation \cite{HI}, when the exponential asymptotics are functions of $e^{-|\theta|}$ rather than $e^{-\theta}$ \cite{UA}.

\subsection{Flat directions from alignment}

In the previous noncompact examples alignment is unnecessary for slow-roll and instead is used to raise the inflationary scale and so enhance the production of primordial tensor modes. In this section we instead examine an example with exponential potentials for which alignment is responsible for the slow-roll itself. We do so to present a cartoon of how inflation using extra-dimensional moduli (such as the radius, $r_i$, of an extra-dimensional cycle) can arise in more complicated examples \cite{KMI}.

Extra-dimensional moduli can generically arise with exponential potentials because (for small curvatures) their energy usually arises in a derivative expansion, as powers of $1/r_i$. However the kinetic terms such fields inherit from the higher-dimensional Einstein action can be of the form $M_p^2 (\partial r_i)^2/r_i^2$, making the canonical field $\theta_i \sim \ln r_i$. Their origin from the Einstein action also ensures $\lambda_i \sim 1/M_p$ for these modes.

What is hard to get with moduli is a constant energy density ({\em i.e.} the term $V_0$ in the previous example) as $r_i \to \infty$, and so we instead explore in this section the choice
\begin{equation} \label{expU}
 U(\theta) = \frac{\Lambda^2}{\sqrt2} \left( e^{-\theta} - A e^{-2\theta} \right) \,,
\end{equation}
in the two-modulus potential (\ref{potential-tanh}). We again assume $A \gg 1$ so that the potential's minimum occurs at large fields: $e^{-\theta_0} = 1/A \ll 1$. In this case there is no slow-roll for generic values of $\omega$ since there is no asymptotic plateau out at large fields.

With this choice we have $e^{\theta_0} = A$ and $e^{\theta_1} = 2A$ and so $4\sqrt2 \; U_1 = -2\sqrt2\; U_1'' = \sqrt2 \; U_0' = \Lambda^2/A$, and the resulting potential landscape is plotted in figure 4. This shows the minimum at point (I) that is separated from the asymptotic falloff to zero at large $\theta_i$ by the maximum at point (II) as well as the two saddle points (III) and (IV). As $\omega$ goes to zero the trough running from the minimum to the saddle points elongates, eventually allowing inflationary solutions that roll down towards the minimum from the saddle points.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-exp-equal}
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{align-exp-different}
\caption{The potential landscape for the choice (\ref{expU}) with $\omega = \pi/100$ and $A=\lambda_1 = \lambda_2=1$ (left panel) and $A=\lambda_1 = \lambda_2  /2 = 1$ (right panel). Darker colours indicate lower values of $V$.}
\end{figure}

Although the potential along the trough is not in general well-captured by truncation onto $\phi_2$ it does become effectively quadratic (and so reproduce the inflationary predictions of quadratic potentials) in the small-$\omega$ limit.

\section{Discussion}

In this note we have highlighted the versatility of alignment for inflation. Two mechanisms have been discussed to facilitate inflation based on a number of compact psGs, i.e.~natural inflation: kinetic alignment, extending the possible field range, as well as lattice alignment, increasing the effective decay constant. We have elucidated the relation between these two in the simple case of two axions. Moreover, we have applied the same alignment techniques to a different class of inflationary models based on non-compact pGBs. While our focus has been on two specific examples, based on hyperbolic (in section III.A) and expontential (in III.B) functions, it is clear that the applicability of alignment in inflation far exceeds these specific models.

\section*{Acknowledgements}

We thank M. Cicoli, R. Diener, S. de Alwys, L. McAllister, F. Quevedo and M. Williams for useful discussions. CB's research was supported in part by funds from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. Research at the Perimeter Institute is supported in part by the Government of Canada through Industry Canada, and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Information (MRI).

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Created to honor the memory of Ann Kelsey, the fund will award one or two gifts of approximately $500-$1,000 to support a student conducting field- or lab-based botanical research that is linked to the Museum's Garrett Herbarium collections. Eligible projects can involve study of existing specimens in the NHMU collection or the contribution of new specimens.
Ann served the Natural History Museum of Utah for 23 years as the Collections Manager of the Garrett Herbarium. She was passionate about the importance of botanical collections, an inspirational colleague, and a tremendous resource for the botanical community. When she passed away in 2013, this fund was established with the many gifts made to the Museum in her memory.
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Senior sister Vicky Wykes and Sam Petridis, baby friendly lead nurse and neonatal sister
A BABY unit at a Shropshire hospital trust has been awarded a prestigious accreditation by a globally-renowned group.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital's NHS Trust (SaTH) Neonatal Unit has achieved the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative stage one accreditation.
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Robert I. Lappin, trustee of the Robert I . Lappin Charitable Foundation, whose mission is helping to keep our children Jewish, welcomed back the group from 2010. Traditionally teens write essays or thank-you letters to Mr. Lappin upon returning from the trip. These letters capture the passions of the teens as they experience the Jewish homeland, many for the first time.
"Please know that I have read every word of every letter and essay you have written and it warms my heart to know that you will stay Jewish and raise your children Jewish. That you will stay connected to Israel and remain part of the Jewish family whose mandate is to care for each other no matter where we are," said Mr. Lappin.
One result of Y2I was that DeGroot's Jewish world expanded and he actively sought Jewish community when he attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Active in Hillel and the Jewish fraternity, AEPi, DeGroot began a gradual journey that he says started with Y2I and has now taken him to rabbinical school, which he began this August. "Y2I was the spark and the catalyst for this journey," he said.
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Jan Masaryk (født 14. september 1886, død 10. marts 1948) var en tjekkoslovakisk statsmand, søn af Tjekkoslovakiets første præsident Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
Efter Tjekkoslovakiets oprettelse i 1918 var han ansat i udenrigstjenesten, bl.a. som den første tjekkoslovakiske chargé d'affaires i USA i 1919 – 1920 og ambassadør i London 1925 – 1938. I protest mod underskrivelsen af Münchenaftalen abdicerede han og søgte politisk asyl i Storbritannien. Fra 1940 fungerede han som udenrigsminister i den tjekkoslovakiske eksilregering i London, og han fortsatte på denne post i Prag efter befrielsen i 1945. Han var en fremtrædende fortaler for samarbejde mellem Øst og Vest.

I 1948 kom det kommunistiske kup, og Masaryk fortsatte på udenrigsministerposten, selv om han ikke var kommunist. Den 10. marts 1948 blev Masaryk fundet død iført pyjamas neden for sit badeværelsesvindue i Udenrigsministeriet i Černín-palæet. Der er stadig uenighed om, hvorvidt han selv havde kastet sig ud for at begå selvmord, eller om han blev kastet ud.

Kort efter opdagelsen af dødsfaldet overførte Indenrigsministeriet efterforskningen fra kriminal- til sikkerhedspolitiet, hvis undersøgelse fastslog, at der var tale om selvmord. Efterforskningen blev genåbnet ved foråret i Prag i 1968, men den nåede ikke at blive afsluttet, før Warszawapagtens invasion af Tjekkoslovakiet igen standsede den. Efter Fløjlsrevolutionen blev nye undersøgelser påbegyndt i 1993, og bøger om dødsfaldet har peget på den sovjetiske sikkerhedstjeneste KGB som skyldige. En ny politiundersøgelse konkluderede i 2004, at der var tale om et mord. Mange ikke-kommunistiske tjekker betragtede allerede i samtiden defenestrationen af Masaryk som et mord, hvilket kom til udtryk i talemåden "Jan Masaryk var et så ordentligt menneske, at han lukkede vinduet bag sig, da han hoppede ud."

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