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Bern, 14.12.2018 - On 14 December 2018, the Federal Council instructed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs to prepare, by the end of 2019, a simple federal decree enabling Parliament to decide whether or not Switzerland should sign the UN's Global Compact for Migration. This decision follows the Federal Assembly's wish expressed during the December session to be able to discuss this issue.
The Federal Council reiterated its position in favour of the Global Compact for Migration, which aims to strengthen global governance in that field and set out common parameters for regular migration, which should also lead to a reduction in illegal immigration. The Federal Council wishes to wait until the Parliament has debated the issue to take a final decision on whether or not to sign the Compact and it has thus taken the necessary measures to allow this debate to take place.
Switzerland will therefore abstain from voting at the UN on the resolution on the Global Compact for Migration and its representative will read a statement explaining Switzerland's preference to wait until Parliament has finished discussing the issue before taking a final decision.
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When I saw his take on the two latest Alpha vehicles, the Ghost Hawk and the Doom Cycle, I just had to repost them here…even with a few months of down time he hasn't lost his touch. The original threads can be found at JoeBattleLines, I've also linked them below just above the image galleries.
GeneralsJoes G.I. Joe: Resolute Reviews – BONUS!
Okay, I have a confession to make. I love these Resolute toys. I really, really, REALLY love these Resolute toys. I know everyone labels me a Hasbro fanboy anyway, so that probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but my love for these Resolute toys goes beyond my normal love for the normal cool toys.
While I am fired up for the Pursuit of Cobra items and I love what I'm seeing there, too, for some reason the look and feel of G.I. Joe: Resolute just has me on cloud nine. It's a little bitter sweet, because I'm not sure we'll ever see anything else from this awesome Resolute universe, but if this is it, it's a great last stand.
So that's a total of eight of the fourteen figures… I might even get the last six posted tomorrow. But I don't want to shortchange my "Review-A-Rama" too much!
Anyway, check 'em out above.
G.I. Joe: The Movie hits TODAY on DVD and Blu-Ray!
A scant twenty-three years after it's initial broadcast, the infamous G.I. Joe: The Movie hits retail shelves today on Blu-Ray or DVD. Produced by Shout! Factory, the movie finally rounds off the long awaited process many fans have gone through waiting for the entire collection of Sunbow features to be released to mass retail on DVD.
The '87 animated movie will forever be a point of contention and talking point among the G.I. Joe fandom, so don't miss your chance to own this DVD today.
GeneralsJoes will be reviewing this in its entirety very shortly, but trust me when I say it's worth a look. It holds up surprisingly well over two decades after it initially aired. Granted, I thought it was pretty damn cheesy back then, and these days I've learned to better appreciate the finer arts of Sunbow ham, but I still don't think you'll be disappointed. If for nothing else, Buzz Dixon's excellent commentary.
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Targeting these brain cells may aid weight loss
Written by David Railton on March 19, 2018 — Fact checked by Jasmin Collier
A new study in mice investigating a brain region that controls the animals' impulses to "feed or flee" may have implications for obesity and anxiety in humans, according to its authors.
What controls hunger? Researchers investigate.
We know that both too much and too little food can be bad for us. Too little? Stunted growth. Too much? Obesity. The latter can also open the door to diabates, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
Studies show that the brain mechanisms that are involved in feeling hungry are highly complex.
For instance, it seems that the nerve signals telling us when it is acceptable to eat are also fired from the same neurons that tell us when to run from danger.
This finding has led scientists to consider whether investigating this mechanism further might provide clues to new treatment targets for obesity or psychiatric conditions that are linked to anxiety.
The researchers behind the new study — from Imperial College London in the United Kingdom — set out to examine this brain mechanism, particularly in regard to a region of the brain called the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH), which has been a subject of interest in obesity research for a long time.
'Control switch' for feed-or-flee mechanism
In their study — which has now been published in the journal Cell Reports — the researchers used mice with neurons that had been genetically modified to be stimulated by a laser light.
This modification allows scientists to toggle brain regions "off" and "on" by focusing the laser on the required area. When they did this to the VMH, they discovered that a group of cells called SF1 act as a "control switch" for the feed-or-flee mechanism.
SF1 cells are normally very active when mice are anxious — such as when they explore a new environment — but the researchers found that SF1 activity "dampens down" when the mice approach food.
The researchers say that SF1 effectively switches the activity of the VMH from defensive behavior to "need to feed" when the animals discover food. But when the animals' guards were dropped while feeding, the VMH switched back to defensive after eating.
Further investigation showed that the researchers could manipulate SF1 activity in the mice. By making the mice more stressed, they found that they could switch the VMH back to defensive mode, which prevented the mice from being hungry.
When the team administered drugs to the mice to increase activity in their SF1 neurons, the animals were less likely to want food and stored less fat. Dampening down SF1 activity made the mice feel less anxious, but it also made them eat more and put on more weight.
"We have shown for first time," says study co-author Dominic Withers, of Imperial College London's Institute of Clinical Sciences, "that activity in this small population of brain cells acutely changes food intake. That hadn't been shown before."
Eating disorders and stress in humans
Withers and team believe that their findings could be relevant for studies of eating disorders and stress in human subjects.
"There's a long-standing recognition," he says, "that things like obesity are associated with altered anxiety states and altered emotions and depression, so it is a bit of a chicken and egg as to which came first."
Withers believes that small-molecule drugs targeting the SF1 neurons or other relevant "fine control mechanisms" in the brain may have greater potential than some existing treatments.
These are less precise in targeting and therefore have a greater risk of creating unintended adverse effects.
"At the moment we're only in the foothills of discovering how the brain works, particularly the appetite regulatory circuits. But when you start combining these new tools in the lab, we're really moving into a revolution in brain science."
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In response to the Allied forces handover of power back to Iraq on 30th June 2004, artist Lucy Orta staged a 'protest performance' at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The event was recorded in both image and sound and, for those wishing to participate in the statement, a protest t-shirt design is available for download.
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I have very fond childhood memories of sitting around the table with my mom and the other women in the family to peel garlic. Korean dishes tend to be labor intensive and all those banchan (side dishes) require a lot of hands for chopping, peeling, washing, etc. Cooking together is how the women bonded.
There are few Korean dishes that doesn't require garlic so growing up my mom and I spent a lot of time peeling it. I'd go so far as to say I'm an expert at it.
This week, we received a large bag of garlic from our CSA. It was way too much garlic for any two humans to consume so I decided to peel, dry and freeze it. Peeling garlic is a pain, especially when there's a lot of it to peel. But I rather enjoy the experience of sitting, watching TV and keeping busy. It's like knitting. Repeating the same movement over and over again. It also reminds me of being a kid and spending hours peeling garlic with women in the family and listening to their gossip.
A quick search on Google for "How to peel garlic" results in 8.5 million hits but when I have large quantities of garlic to peel, I still follow my mom's method.
The first step is breaking up the garlic so that you are left with cloves. Toss away as much of the peel as possible. Then take all the cloves and soak them in warm water. Let it sit for about 10 minutes.
To peel, grab a sharp knife. One that's small enough so you can keep it in one hand while holding the garlic in the other hand. Peel garlic on eat a time by first chopping off the bottom of each clove (the part that was attached to the bulbs). When running the knife through, catch the end of the peel then pull down. Once peeled, let it sit in colander to drain and dry completely.
My mom runs the garlic through food processor then wraps it in Saran Wrap to make garlic burrito rolls. You can also store the ground up garlic in Ziplock bag – like this. Then you just chops off however much is needed. I usually toss them in ziplock bag and freeze as is. Few minutes on the counter will defrost them and ready for cooking.
Here's a cleaver way to peel garlic. I think it would only work if you had large garlic.
This is my favorite way to peel if I only need few cloves. Whacking it under the knife is very satisfying and fun.


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Scholarships We Love: #YesWeCode Fund
By Lauren Stewart
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[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] We've got the scoop on the new #YesWeCode Fund, a scholarship fund led by The Iron Yard, Code Fellows, and We Can Code IT to promote diversity and inclusion in coding bootcamps (and subsequently tech). See what it takes to get the scholarship and why we love it.
In September 2016, Vice President Joe Biden helped announce the Tech Opportunity Fund, a $100 million scholarship program for women and minorities. Since the launch, The Iron Yard has been working diligently to bring new partners into the Fund, and just this month announced that the Fund was rebranded as the #YesWeCode Fund. The mission of the Fund remains the same– increase diversity in the tech industry by removing financial barriers and increasing access to quality tech education. The #YesWeCodeFund aims to connect over 100,000 underrepresented minorities with careers in tech.
Bottom Line: The Tech Opportunity Fund is now known as the #YesWeCode Fund! And applications are now open!
Three partner code schools: The Iron Yard, Code Fellows, and We Can Code IT.
Five community organizations: #YesWeCode, Climb Credit, Operation Hope, TechSquare Labs, and Opportunity Hub.
In addition to other bootcamps, Sam Kapila, Director of Academic Operations, Diversity & Inclusion at The Iron Yard, explains their collaboration with other community organizations: "After launching the Fund in September, The Iron Yard began conversations with #YesWeCode, an organization founded by Prince and Van Jones. Prince was deeply passionate about impacting change for people of color and providing them with access to tech and code education. He even held hackathons at some of his concerts. We wanted to honor that spirit, and also reflect the positivity of the opportunities this scholarship can create, so they renamed the Fund to the #YesWeCode Fund."
Applicants should start by applying to one of the partner schools (The Iron Yard, Code Fellows, and We Can Code It). After being accepted by the school, the students will need to request financing options including loans and scholarships from their school. Students will then receive a link to apply for the scholarship from the participating program.
The lending and scholarship options have different financial requirements, so The Iron Yard encourages students to explore multiple forms of financial support, and then choose the one they best qualify for. The scholarship process for all schools is exactly the same and administered by the Fund's partner, Climb Credit, and is a separate application from each school's admission process. They will verify that the student meets the requirements of the Fund.
So what are the requirements to qualify for a #YesWeCode Fund scholarship? You should:
Identify as a person of color or a woman.
Be accepted to their school of choice.
Meet the financial qualifications that look at income and dependents.
More info can be found on the scholarship process page.
First, we're always psyched to see partnerships between multiple coding bootcamps, so the collaboration between The Iron Yard, Code Fellows, and We Can Code It is inspiring.
Further, we all know that 18,000 bootcamp graduates enter the workforce each year, and those new developers can have a real, meaningful impact on the makeup of the tech workplace. Ensuring diversity and inclusion in coding bootcamps trickles into our workplaces, strengthens diverse perspectives amongst co-workers and boosts the efficacy of our teams. And beyond a moral imperative to boost diversity in tech, we know that more diverse teams actually perform better. As Sam Kapila of The Iron Yard puts it:
"As individuals and companies within the tech industry, we all have to hold each other accountable to update hiring and cultural practices. For example, there are studies that prove that having women and minorities in key product decision-making rules improves those products, and yet that is still not the norm. There are a lot of ways in which the tech industry can authentically promote a more diverse applicant pool, but we need to look at the whole system from access to education to mentorship and hiring and retention. Specifically to education, scholarships aren't the only way, but they can be a starting place to removing barriers to education."
What else can bootcamps and employers do to ensure that their applicant pools and graduating classes are representative of their communities? Sam offers a few suggestions:
"Mentorship by those in similar or next level roles can also be empowering. Representation matters and can be really inspiring. Hosting, participating, or sponsoring events that promote diverse groups (eg. diverse candidates at a job fair) or movie screenings for documentaries like CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap are important too. At the Iron Yard, every campus is hosting a screening of the documentary with panelists or meetup expos around the event. The conversations that happen after watching the movie with students and advisory board members or hiring partners is really important in helping impact change."
Want to learn more about The Iron Yard or this scholarship? Check out The Iron Yard on Course Report. Visit the #YesWeCode Fund website for more information: or reach out to info@yeswecodefund.com with questions.
Lauren is a communications and operations strategist who loves to help others find their idea of success. She is passionate about techonology education, career development, startups, and the arts. Her background includes career/youth development, public affairs, and philanthropy. She is from Richmond, VA and now currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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Camarma de Esteruelas () is a Spanish village and municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain, 35 km northeast of the city of Madrid and 5 km north of Alcalá de Henares. It belongs to the comarca of Alcalá.

Sights include the church of San Pedro Apóstol.

Schools
One school located in this village is the Evangelical Christian Academy (ECA). ECA was constructed in Camarma in 2002 to meet the educational needs of missionary children in the region. Another school located in the town is a bilingual elementary school called "Colegio Federico Garcia Lorca" with most courses taught in Spanish while Science is taught in English.
Recently, it was built a high school for the students that these year (2014) are going to be in 1st ESO. There's no name for it yet. Some years before all the students that want to go to high school had to go to a city near called Alcalá de Henares. The names of the high school are: I.E.S. Complutense, I.E.S Antonio Machado or I.E.S Marañón.

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Municipalities in the Community of Madrid

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New local author adds powerful distribution network for his new book.
Due to the demands of the consumers, local author Mike Winkler has placed his recently released novella "Wind Power...It Blows" on internet leading Amazon.com (copyrighted) to ensure maximum availability to any prospective readers worldwide.
The book itself was spawned by the idea that Fond du Lac County has become a hotbed for wind power development. Others counties in the State will likely refer to Fond du Lac as the textbook example of how certain areas are targeted because of the general ignorance of the public regarding the less obvious facts of wind energy developments as industrial installations.
The novella is available in both print and in E-book format.
Mike Winkler lives near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and lived in Germany for several years. He is a career member of the largest branch of the US military forces, currently serving as a member of the reserve forces.


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These tenugui (traditional Japanese handkerchief) were designed by the deepdigdug artists Kaori and Martin and were printed in Japan.
They are limited to 100 pieces and you can buy them exclusively during the exhibition and here on this website for 10 Euro only!


The high quality standard and the technology that has proved itself for many years also convinced the people responsible for this project, too.
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Q: Xcode Interface Builder Segue Animation I have added a few segues between different view controllers through the interface builder. However the transition animation is always the same (view is pulled up from bottom). How can I have different segues using different transitions like pulled in from the left or right. So far I can only seem to find results relating to building custom transitions where as I would happily use existing ones like the left/right transition seen when using the navigation controller.

A: you can use some predefined animations..
Just click the segue from the storyboard, and in the right side panel, click the show attributes inspector icon, and then you will see the dropdown for choosing animation like shown in the image below:

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Ahnenerbe (fulde titel: Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft "Das Ahnenerbe", forsknings- og undervisningsorganisation for forfædrenes arv) var en tysk organisation, der under det nazistiske styre skulle udforske den ariske races antropologiske og kulturelle historie. Organisationen blev stiftet af Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth og R. Walter Darré 1. juli 1935. I januar 1939 blev organisationen en del af SS.

Ahnenerbe stod bag en række ekspeditioner til bl.a. Bohuslän i Sverige, Karelen i Finland, Mellemøsten og Tibet. I 1942 blev Institut für wehrwissenschaftliche Forschung oprettet som en del af Ahnenerbe, og i dets regi blev en række lægevidenskablige forsøg udført på fanger i koncentrationslejrene.

Eksterne henvisninger
 Lars Schreiber Pedersen: "Damit die Dänen sehen, dass wir uns darum kümmern" (Fund og Forskning, bind 47; København 2008; s. 271-311)
 Lars Schreiber Pedersen: "Nationalsocialisten Herbert Jankuhn" (Fornvännen 106 (2011); s. 245-249)
 Nils Vollertsen: "Herbert Jankuhn, Hedeby-forskningen og det tyske samfund 1934-1976" (Fortid og Nutid 1989; s. 235-251)

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NEW DATE // Boney James
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Men Are From Mars – Women Are From Venus LIVE!
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Resource Library | this day in geographic history
Jan 15, 2004 CE: Spirit Rolls on to Mars
On January 15, 2004, the NASA rover Spirit rolled onto the surface of Mars.
The rover Spirit, here in an artist's rendition, took pictures of the Martian landscape, gathered soil samples for geological analysis, and assessed atmospheric conditions for more than five years
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On January 15, 2004, the NASA rover Spirit rolled onto the surface of Mars. For 90 days, the six-wheeled vehicle took pictures of the Martian landscape, gathered soil samples for geological analysis, and assessed atmospheric conditions. Spirit went on to function 20 times longer than expected, but on May 1, 2009, the rover became stuck in soft soil and has not moved since.
The rover is powered by solar panels and is equipped with magnets, a thermometer, a navigation camera, and a small drill for grinding samples of Martian rock. As of 2009, the rover had traveled almost 8 kilometers (5 miles) across the Martian surface. Spirit has made a number of important discoveries, including the existence of dust devils (small tornadoes) on Mars and the possibility that water may have existed on Mars at some point in the past.
to evaluate or determine the amount of.
atmosphere (atm)
(atm) unit of measurement equal to air pressure at sea level, about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Also called standard atmospheric pressure.
having to do with the physical formations of the Earth.
the geographic features of a region.
material that has the ability to physically attract other substances.
fourth planet from the sun, between Earth and Jupiter.
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) the U.S. space agency, whose mission statement is "To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind."
art and science of determining an object's position, course, and distance traveled.
natural substance composed of solid mineral matter.
vehicle that remotely explores a region, such as the surface of a moon, planet, or other celestial body.
top layer of the Earth's surface where plants can grow.
group of cells that converts sunlight into electricity.
device that measures temperature.
a violently rotating column of air that forms at the bottom of a cloud and touches the ground.
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Reg command allows us to delete registry keys and registry values from command line. This reg command can be used from batch files also. The syntax for the delete operation is explained below with examples.
If you want to delete registry key without being prompted for confirmation then add /f switch to the command.
If the registry key has space in its name, you can use double quotes as below.
ERROR: Invalid Argument/Option - '/f'.
Type "REG /?" for usage.
Type "REG DELETE /?" for usage.
I think it implicitly tries to use the current logged in user credentials.
Try doing net use to the remote host before running reg delete.
How can I delete remote registry with space path?
Did you try enclosing it in quotes like below?
You can wrap the value name also in double quotes to make it work with space. For example the below command would work for the example case.
C:\>reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run  /v "Test This"
Hi. What about a key that has quotes in the key name? I can't get it to work, I don't know how it expects me to escape the quotes.
ASUS laptop crashes on every boot. BSOD. tried f8, safe mode with command prompt; every option offered there starts and then returns to BSOD. MS repair says it "cannot make the necessary repairs". Repair report says: "Registry is corrupt" Fix: "Registry rollback". Laptop will not boot to CD/DVD drive, though I have used f12 to change boot config. The UBCD4WIN disk is useless there as well as all repair disks and Windows Repair disks. So I can't fix corrupted registry with commands.
So…I pulled the SATA drive, attached USB 2.0 interface cable, and am now trying to repair the registry from another windows (10) laptop. I open a CMD window and have the ASUS drive, (drive F) ready for the proper command sequence; if there is one. Or perhaps you know of a program on some website, that I can download to my Windows 10 laptop, that will do it for me.
Option 2: re-format the drive and re-install it, and hope that the computer automatically re-installs Windows 7?
Option 3: Fork over the money for a new windows 10 laptop?
As a follow up to the previous post; I found MSIEXEC and wonder if that command can be used to perform an automatic registry repair?
Thanks a lot for the fix and help. Will see if this error does not show again!
what if I want to delete multiple keys?


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Yeah, that will fix the problem
The SEC is going to fix its officiating problems by… blaming the messenger:
Commissioner Mike Slive told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday that coaches who violate the conferences' ethics rules against criticizing officials in public will face a fine or suspension instead of receiving public reprimands when they first act up.
"It became clear to me after last week that I was no longer interested in reprimands and the conference athletic directors and university presidents unanimously agreed," said Slive, in his eighth season as the head of the SEC.
Well, I'm not an SEC coach and, frankly, Bobby Petrino, Lane Kiffin, and Dan Mullen are my least favorite coaches in the league, but when a quarter of your league's coaches think your referees are incompetent or worse—with commentators on television openly suggesting the refs are making calls to help Bama and Florida keep their national rankings—the problem isn't the coaches' airing of grievances, however whiny they may sound.
Instead Slive needs to get together with the other BCS-conference commissioners and assemble a new plan for refereeing big-time college football. With the BCS and regular-season television money that the conferences are raking in, the least the conferences could do is work together to produce a competent, national pool of refs to assign to regular season and bowl games, rather than the motley hodge-podge of officials that are used now.
Tags: College Football, NCAA, Southeastern Conference, Sports
Gotta love universities
Margaret Soltan links and excerpts reactions from SDSU and LSU students to their institutions' abilities to spend ridiculous sums of money on athletics salaries in the midst of budget crises.
# By Chris Lawrence @ 9:08 pm CDT « (0) (c: 3)
Tags: Academe, College Football, LSU, San Diego State, Sports
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
So it turns out that the Head Ball Coach was, after all, the man responsible for exercising independent judgment depriving Tim Tebow of his presumed rightful place as a unanimous first-team all-SEC selection. Now, on the world's hierarchy of snubs, this may rank slightly behind the Honduran army's failure to care very much that their de facto ex-president Manuel Zelaya is playing hokey-pokey with their border, but we can rest assured that ESPN was on the case with intrepid reporting not seen since BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan's exploits in foiling the Iraqi information ministry.
And ESPN remains on the case today, with columnist Pat Forde brazenly calling for coaches to fill out their own ballots or Let Someone Else Vote rather than spend their valuable time doing things that are more useful to society. We all know that voters in the other college football polls are devoted full-time scholars of the game, watching all 60 minutes of all 120 (and counting!) I-A (sorry, FBS) teams in action every week before painstakingly filling out their ballots without consulting anyone else or, heaven forbid, just recycling their ballots from the previous week with a few "bumps" based on watching the 5–10 minutes of highlights from an entire day that ESPN chooses to show on College Football Final between Lou Holtz's bouts of senility and live shots of the GameDay crew in a pitch-dark stadium parking lot surrounded by drunk, screaming teenagers. And if the college coaches can't uphold these fine traditions, well dammit, let's find someone who can.
Tebowgate
Why the American press shouldn't behave like Britain's
BBC Redux
# By Chris Lawrence @ 12:11 pm CDT « (0)
Tags: College Football, Honduras, Sports, Steve Spurrier, Tim Tebow
I am having some difficulty wrapping my head around the pseudo-controversy surrounding the all-SEC team. Here are the facts as presented by Chris Low @ESPN:
Coaches cannot vote for their own players.
Tim Tebow was not a "unanimous" selection, where "unanimous" is defined as getting 11 votes (see #1).
Jevan Snead got a vote. Presumably from Urban Meyer, who couldn't vote for Tebow.
Nobody else apparently received any votes.
Left unclear: can coaches abstain or cast a tied vote?
Also left unclear: is this supposed to be based on past performance or expected performance in 2009? Tebow clearly has the longer track record than Snead, but I have a mild feeling that Snead will be a more effective quarterback than Tebow in 2009.
Maybe Spurrier voted for Duke or something.
Tags: College Football, Jevan Snead, Sports, Tim Tebow
It's all about the O
EDSBS says the role of Ed Orgeron in The Blind Side will be played by… Ed Orgeron. This may be the first movie ever made about American football with English-language subtitles.
Tags: College Football, Ed Orgeron, Michael Oher, Ole Miss, Sports, The Blind Side
Bowled over
One picture is worth a thousand words. I was generally supportive of Croom's hire at the time, but—like The Orgeron—he failed to produce on the big stage. Or even, sometimes, on little ones.
Croom loss buried?
Progress and powder-blue helmets
# By Chris Lawrence @ 11:49 pm CST « (0) (c: 1)
Tags: College Football, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Sports, Sylvester Croom
Two games into the Houston Nutt era
So, we're now two games into the Houston Nutt era at Ole Miss and the record stands… exactly the same (1–1) as it did after two games of the Ed Orgeron era.
The similarities, though, seem to end there: instead of barely edging Memphis and losing by eight to Vandy the Rebels thumped the Tigers (admittedly, at home, and admittedly a Tiger team that this weekend just got beat by Rice, of all teams) and came within an arguably bogus pass interference call of a road victory against what appears to be the best team in the ACC this year (admittedly, not saying much considering the sorry state of the contemporary ACC), with the team missing two of the team's key defensive starters for most of both contests (Peria Jerry played limited time against Wake, while Greg Hardy remains out).
I don't know that Jevan Snead is going to make anyone in Oxford forget Eli Manning (call me back when Snead goes 28–28 in his first 28 pass attempts in a game), but he's already helped me wash away the memory of the likes of Micheal Spurlock and Ethan Flatt. And, for better or worse Nutt has brought back the high drama of Rebel offensive playcalling in a way not seen since the traitorous Riverboat Gambler was roaming the sidelines at Vaught-Hemingway.
Is this the year the Rebels get back to a bowl for the first time since the Second Coming of Manning? The schedule looks favorable, although I only see one likely road win for the Rebels at this point (at sputtering Arkansas). But with Jerry back and Hardy on the mend, the Rebels will be tough to beat at home and might even be able to steal a second win on the road to move up beyond the Poulan Weed-Eater bowl-of-last-resort level.
* Yes, I know the Poulan Weed-Eater Bowl no longer exists, but it's fun to type and represents the sort of crappy bowl game, usually held in Shreveport, the Rebels regularly attend.
# By Chris Lawrence @ 6:45 am CDT « (0) (c: 2)
Tags: College Football, Ole Miss, Sports, Wake Forest
ESPN are douchebags
Who in their right mind in Texas would rather see Oregon State vs. Penn State instead of Ole Miss vs. Wake Forest? Then again, maybe they're just trying to help the Longhorns cover up losing their team's best quarterback to Ole Miss.
# By Chris Lawrence @ 10:17 pm CDT « (0) (c: 5)
Tags: College Football, ESPN, Ole Miss, Sports
They're toying with me
An email subject header this afternoon from my inbox:
REMINDER: 2008 Ole Miss Football Renewal Deadline
Alas, I'm not one of those rich alumni who can afford to jet in from Laredo to Oxford seven or eight times a year. Or even once for that matter.
Tags: College Football, Ole Miss, Sports
What does this say about the CFL?
Win the Grey Cup (the equivalent to the Super Bowl north of the border) and weeks later you're willingly taking a job as second-banana on what is unquestionably the worst football team in the Southeastern Conference. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that Kent Austin is coming to Oxford (and, on paper, the Rebels should be better than they were last year), and you couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere in Saskatchewan, but damn.
# By Chris Lawrence @ 3:15 pm CST « (0) (c: 1)
Tags: CFL, College Football, Ole Miss, Sports
LSU/OSU in BCS Title Game
In case New Orleans didn't have enough damn LSU fans in town, they'll be out in full force for the BCS title game against Ohio State on January 7th, when thankfully I will be far, far away from the Crescent City.
Who could hate this outcome more than a Michigan fan? Not only does their archrival tOSU play for a national title, but now there's no way Les Miles backs out of his commitment to stay at LSU instead of going to coach the Wolverines. At least my loyalties will be less conflicted than a Michigander's: go Buckeyes!
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, College Football, LSU, Ohio State, Sports
Nutts!
Houston Nutt will be the next coach at Ole Miss. I figured there'd be a much longer process to fill the job; maybe I was projecting from my experiences onto others'. Now hopefully Nutt can get things back on the right track, we don't lose many recruits and the kids who can go to the NFL stay, and we can go from there.
Tags: College Football, Houston Nutt, Ole Miss, Sports
Quoted for truth, Ed Orgeron edition
Orson Swindle on the aftermath of O-for-8's firing:
This leaves the pesky question of who will take the Ole Miss job. Exquisitely timed as always, Ole Miss has fired a coach just in time to compete against Texas A&M, Michigan, Nebraska, and god knows what other larger, more monied programs will fire their coaches in the next ten minutes–not to mention the vacancies gaping after the guys who fill those positions leave their current positions.
Now I have to find a new tagline for the blog. Here's a bittersweet final tell 'em 'bout it, Joe-Joe! for the road.
Ed Orgeron: Megarecruiter
The legendary Ed Orgeron Hummer ad
# By Chris Lawrence @ 4:14 pm CST « (0)
Tags: College Football, Ed Orgeron, Ole Miss, Sports
Back to square zero
Rick Cleveland 1, Ed Orgeron 0. I guess Boone and Khayat think they can turn things around faster with someone else running the show; I'm not that convinced, but maybe they've got an ace up their sleeves.
To me, the quasi-obvious candidate is Mike DuBose, who's quietly turned around the Millsaps football program in what many people have perceived as a stepping-stone job back to I-A. If Mike Price had seen more consistent success at UTEP, he might be on the board as well.
Bizarre football news of the day
Since when do college football players issue press releases? More eye-popping:
Even after missing two games, Hardy still leads the Southeastern Conference in tackles for a loss per game and sacks.
That may say more about the general suckitude of SEC defenses this year than Greg Hardy's talent, but following in the footsteps of a legend like Patrick Willis as a freshman is hardly a small feat either.
The SEC is pretty wacky this year to begin with, considering the consensus best team in the league, LSU, keeps squeaking by teams it has no apparent business beating based on the team's on-field performance. (At least the paper tigers in other conferences which have flirted with the top of the rankings have been exposed, from Boston College to South Florida.) And I don't even pretend to comprehend what's going on in Lexington and (gasp) Starkville.
Trinity beats Millsaps with lateral frenzy
This is the second time I've seen Trinity beat Millsaps at home in the waning minutes of the game… although the first time back in 2004 was a tad more conventional than Saturday's example:
Yow.
Update: Timothy Sandefur asks, "is this how [football]'s really supposed to be played?" Well, no, but when you've only got two seconds left on the game clock, reverting to rugby is about the only option available other than the hail mary.
Tags: College Football, Millsaps, Sports, Trinity
Well, that sucked
Ugh. On the upside, I did meet a couple at the bar I saw the game at that gave me some suggestions for tourist stuff to do when Mom is here next week, so all-in-all I guess it was worthwhile.
Tags: Auburn, College Football, Ole Miss, Sports
Forty-two
If I can't get this ticket for the Ole Miss/Northwestern State game to sell for at least 42¢, I don't know what I'll do… I guess I'll probably just mail it to Frequent Commenter Alfie or something.
Tags: College Football, Northwestern State, Ole Miss, Sports
Clearly I am missing the booster gene
Perhaps I'm just too practically-minded, but I'm not at all sure what good would come from firing Ed Orgeron as the Ole Miss coach after three seasons, two of them with David Cutcliffe's players and hastily-grabbed JuCo guys. After getting oh-so-close to beating Florida and Alabama, and hanging in for three quarters against Georgia, I'm hardly surprised that the Rebels' collection of first-year starters and walk-ons couldn't hold it together against a Heisman candidate on a good team that was desperate for a win to save their coach's job—a team that regularly beat the Rebels under Tubby and Cutcliffe too, mind you.
Now, if Dickie Scruggs has a suitcase full of cash that he's willing to hand over to Bobby Petrino, and Petrino's willing to take it to come in and spend the next 2–3 years at the bottom of the SEC, that's one thing, but realistically I don't see who's out there who's going to do a better job than Orgeron. If the issue is play-calling on Saturday, toss Werner and/or get a full-time defensive coordinator to make the calls. But replacing Orgeron with some other coach plucked from obscurity, or one of the "hot" coaches from a lower-tier conference like C-USA or the Big Least, who likely won't even have Orgeron's recruiting chops, is just a recipe for more of the same.
We was robbed
Rick Cleveland points out that the SEC apparently uses a different definition for "indisputable" than the rest of humanity—not that we should have expected the competence of SEC replay officials to exceed the legendary incompetence of its on-field officials in the first place.
Tags: Alabama, College Football, Officiating, Ole Miss, Replay, Sports
Photos by request
Alfie, as one of my sole remaining commenters, requested that I post the following photo.
My other pictures from Saturday are here.
# By Chris Lawrence @ 12:32 am CDT « (0) (c: 3)
Tags: College Football, Florida, Ole Miss, Photos, Sports
Cox blows its chance at $22 (or more)
I found out last night that the faculty party I was planning to attend tonight was cancelled due to a family illness, so today I was left with the choice of whether to use my ticket to see Tulane play Houston or stay home tonight to listen to Ole Miss play Vanderbilt on XM. Then I found out the game is on pay-per-view… but apparently there's no way for me to order it, since Cox's sales office is closed after 5 on Saturday, the website only lets you sign up for a season subscription, Cox doesn't give me access to ESPN360, and the stupid cable box Cox gave me doesn't show it as a pay-per-view event.
So I'll be listening on XM 232 instead, and Cox just blew its chance to sell me the game (or upsell me to the GamePlan season package).
Tags: College Football, Cox cable, Ole Miss, Sports
You know, if someone had told me earlier in the week that Ben-Jarvus Green-Ellis would run for 226 yards and Seth Adams would pass for 305 today, I'd probably have been happy. But zero execution in the red zone and missed conversions = a loss to Missouri. I'd have consoled myself with a Mississippi State loss to Tulane, but no such luck, despite the game being tied at 17 at the half. What's even worse is I was sitting next to a kid, so I couldn't even shout profanities at the State fans or the referees.
So instead I consoled myself by seeing Superbad . That did the trick.
Tags: College Football, Mississippi State, Mizzou, Ole Miss, Sports, Tulane
Office empty
Instead of sleeping I emptied the office, mailed all the books I'm taking (I left a few desk copies, primarily intro and con law books, and some old college textbooks), and brought the rest of the junk home. Hopefully SLU doesn't come after me for the monitor that I bought and paid for years ago (when 19" LCD monitors weren't exactly cheap) but they stuck an inventory sticker on anyway.
Next project: start packing books, CDs, and DVDs around the apartment. Not sure how much I'll get done before I leave for State College on Wednesday morning, but I figure I ought to at least give it a try. I also have to make time for some NCAA Football 08 on Tuesday after I go and pick it up (All Pro Football 2K8 also looks tempting, but that will probably have to wait until after the move).
Tags: College Football, Moving, NCAA Football 08, Trivia, Xbox
Ding dong, the witch is dead
The NCAA has killed rule 3–2-5-e in college football, to the delight of gridiron fans everywhere, while recommending new rules changes that should both speed up the game and satisfy fans without reducing plays. A particular highlight is the NCAA following the NFL's lead by moving kickoffs back five yards to the 30, which should lead to more kickoff returns.
Tags: College Football, NCAA, Sports
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Dawit Gebremichael Habte, an Eritrean author and refugee, shared his story during Refugee Awareness week, exposing us to the realities of life as an immigrant. He left us with the message that context is always essential. His book not only discusses his experience in Eritrea during civil unrest, but his life in America and the complexities of identity.
During the talk, Habte set the stage by disclosing statistics, quotes, and media from what led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian war. To provide context about his life, we were taken through the emotional journey of how one becomes a refugee. Through accounts from imperialists, clips of tragedy, and a timeline of devastation, we tasted a hint of the grief that consumed him as he left his country as a teenager.
Habte's book, "Gratitude in Low Voices," envelopes his experiences. The reader travels along with him as he steals into Nairobi, feels his anxiety as he is arrested in Kenya, and treads in his uncertainty as he enters a new land. During his confession to us, he revealed that even when he was detached from his homeland, he still managed to upkeep his Eritrean pride by joining communities with other Eritrean immigrants and tending to his Eritrean roots.
Before his talk, Habte played the audience videos of traditional Eritrean culture. We watched music videos from Tigre and Kunama ethnic groups. Throughout the event, Habte was welcome to interacting with the audience and sharing the richness of his culture with us.
When asked about his adoption of an immigrant status, Habte mentioned he did not assimilate. He managed to emphasize the Eritrean part of his identity, and tacked on the American suffix.
Habte told us that while there were the difficult parts of his life, he had also experienced wonderful joys. He was sponsored to enter the United States, where he attended Johns Hopkins University and met some of his highly-esteemed mentors. The author shared a story about a mentor who promised him and his colleagues that she would be available for them, for anything. He doubtfully took her word, and landed a job working for her that was influential in his life.
Given the current state of the nation and heavy decisions regarding individuals of immigrant status in America, Habte's talk and the events of Refugee Awareness Week are not only on-time, but critical to transform UMBC into a place where meaningful conversations that uplift our differences and celebrate our commonalities can be held.
To truly understand where someone else comes from, we must allow others to have the floor and talk, uninterrupted, about their experiences. We must show them that here, they are safe. Here, they do not have to run for their lives.


text:
\section{Introduction}

 Recently Horava proposed a quantum field theory of
gravity with the dynamical critical exponent equal to $z=3$ in the
UV region \cite{Horava:2009uw}. Though the spatial isotropy is still
assumed to be kept, the isometry between space and time is got lost.
The degree of anisotropy between space and time is measured by the
dynamical critical exponent $z$, \begin{equation} {\vec x}\rightarrow b {\vec
x},\quad t \rightarrow b^z t. \label{scaling} \end{equation} The theory proposed
in \cite{Horava:2009uw} describes the interaction of
non-relativistic gravitons at short distances, and recovers nearly
the Einstein's gravity in the IR region with some highly suppressed
higher-spatially-derivative modifications. Such a theory is at least
power-counting renormalizable in the $3+1$ dimensional spacetime.
Some solutions of Horava gravity theory were given in
\cite{Lu:2009em,Nastase:2009nk,Colgain:2009fe}. Since Horava gravity
has a very nice UV behavior, it has been applied to investigate the
physics in the early universe in
\cite{Takahashi:2009wc,Calcagni:2009ar,Kiritsis:2009sh,Mukohyama:2009gg,Brandenberger:2009yt,Piao:2009ax,Gao:2009bx}.
An interesting result is that the perturbation of the scalar field
with $z=3$ is scale invariant in the universe where the scale factor
goes like $a(t)\sim t^p$ with $p>1/3$ \cite{Mukohyama:2009gg}. It
may provide an alternative model to the inflation. But there are
still many open questions in this area, for example how to solve the
flatness problem without inflation. Other related works are given in
\cite{Horava:2008jf,Visser:2009fg,Horava:2008ih,Maccione:2009ju,Carvalho:2009nv,Horava:2009if,Volovich:2009yh,Kluson:2009sm,Cai:2009pe}.

In fact, the first field theory model exhibiting the above
anisotropic scale invariance (\ref{scaling}) has been known for a
long time. It is the so-called Lifshitz scalar field theory with the
critical exponent $z=2$, \cite{Lifshitz},
 \begin{equation}
 {\cal L}=\int d^2x dt \((\partial_t \phi)^2 -\lambda (\Delta^2
 \phi)^2\).
 \end{equation}
It has a line of fixed points parameterized by $\lambda$. Such fixed
points with anisotropic scale invariance are usually called the
Lifshitz points.  The Lifshitz scalar field theory and its
generalizations have been used to study quantum phase transitions in
various strongly correlated electron systems \cite{Quantumphase}.
Moreover the nontrivial gauge theories with the Lifshitz fixed
points in $(2+1)$ dimension has been discussed in \cite{gaugeL}. And
in \cite{Horava:2008jf} a different construction on the non-Abelian
gauge theories with $z=2$ in arbitrary dimensions was presented.

 In this paper we temporarily forget about the gravity and
only focus on the classical field theory at a possible Lifshitz
point with arbitrary dynamical critical exponent $z$ and figure out
the most general renormalizable actions for the scalar and the gauge
fields. Due to the anisotropic scaling, the power counting of the
fields is different from the one in usual field theory. As a result,
for a field theory with $z\geq 2$, it has the marginal terms with
higher spatially derivatives and also has more renormalizable
interactions. This leads to the modification of the dispersion
relation in the UV limit. And more importantly, due to the breaking
of Lorentz invariance, the speed of light at UV may turn to
infinity. The fact that the Lorentz invariance just appears as
accidental symmetry at IR provide a natural mechanism of Lorentz
symmetry breaking. As an application, the issue of time delays in
Gamma-ray bursts could be addressed in this context.

 Our paper will be organized as follows. The general
renormalizable actions for the scalar field and the gauge field are
proposed in Sec.~2 and Sec.~3 respectively. As an application, we
provide a possible explanation for the time delays in Gamma-ray
bursts due to the modification of the dispersion relation in Sec.~4.
The thermal dynamics and the size of causal patch in a FRW universe
for the field theory at a Lifshitz point are discussed in Sec.~5 and
6 respectively. Some inspired discussions are included in Sec.~7.

\section{The renormalizable scalar field theory at a Lifshitz point in $d+1$ dimensions}

In this section we will construct the most general renormalizable
action for the scalar field theory with a dynamical critical
exponent $z$ in $d+1$ dimensions. The spacetime is assumed to be
$R\times R^d$ with the coordinates \begin{equation} (t,{\vec x})\equiv (t,x^i), \end{equation}
for $i=1,2,...,d$. The spacetime metric takes the form \begin{equation}
ds^2=-N^2dt^2+g_{ij}(dx^i-N^idt)(dx^j-N^jdt), \end{equation} where $g_{ij}$ are
the $d$-dimensional spatial metric of signature $(+...+)$, $N$ is
the lapse function, and $N^i$ is the shift factor.  The field theory
is assumed to have a UV fixed point with the scaling properties
given in Eq.(\ref{scaling}). In the case of general $z$, the
classical scaling dimensions of the coordinates in the unit of the
spatial momenta are \begin{eqnarray} [t]_s=-z,\quad [{\vec x}]_s=-1,\quad
[\Delta\equiv\partial^i\partial_i]_s=2, \end{eqnarray} and the classical scaling dimensions
of the fields are \begin{equation} [g_{ij}]_s=0,\quad [N_i]_s=z-1,\quad [N]_s=0.
\end{equation}

The prototype of a quantum field theory is the theory of a single
Lifshitz scalar $\phi(t,{\vec x})$ whose dynamics is supposed to
be governed by the following action,
 \begin{equation} S={1\over 2} \int dtd^dx
N\sqrt{g}\[{1\over N^2}\(\partial_t\phi-N^i\partial_i\phi\)^2-\sum_{J\geq
2}{\cal O}_J\star \phi^J\], \label{rns} \end{equation} where ${\cal O}$ is an
operator which can be expanded by \begin{equation} {\cal O}_J=\sum_{n=0}^{n_J}
(-1)^n{\lambda_{J,n} \over M^{2n+{d-1\over 2}J-d-1}}\Delta^n, \end{equation}
here $\lambda_{J,n}$ are the energy dimensionless coupling constant.
The $\star$ product in Eq.(\ref{rns}) contains all possible
independent combinations of $\Delta$ and $\phi$ up to a total
derivative. For example, \begin{equation} \Delta^3\star \phi^3=c_1 (\Delta \phi)^3
+ c_2 (\Delta^2\phi)(\Delta \phi)\phi + c_3 (\Delta^3\phi) \phi^2,
\end{equation} where $c_1, c_2, c_3$ are the dimensionless parameters. For
simplicity we can assume $c_1=1$. Here we mainly work in the
Minkowski spacetime and then have $g_{ij}=\delta_{ij}$, $N^i=0$ and
$N=1$. From the kinetic term in the action (\ref{rns}), the scalar
field $\phi$ has the scaling dimension \begin{equation} [\phi]_s= {d-z \over 2}.
\end{equation} The case of $z=d$ corresponds to a very special field theory in
which the scalar field is dimensionless and the power of $\phi$ can
be arbitrary large. The action for the scalar field with $z=d=3$ has
been written down in \cite{Kiritsis:2009sh}. In general, the scaling
dimension of the coupling constant $\lambda_{J,n}$ in the unit of
the spatial momenta is \begin{equation} [\lambda_{J,n}]_s=z+d+{z-d \over 2}J-2n.
\end{equation} In order that this theory is power-counting renormalizable,
$[\lambda_{J,n}]_s$ is required to be not less than zero, namely \begin{equation}
n\leq {z+d\over 2}+{z-d \over 4}J. \end{equation} Therefore \begin{equation} n_J=\hbox{max}
\left\{n\in Z \left| n\leq  {z+d\over 2}+{z-d \over 4}J \right.
\right\}. \end{equation} If $z<d$, $n\geq 0$ implies $J\leq 2(z+d)/(d-z)$. If
$z\geq d$, there is no upper bound on $J$.\footnote{A similar result
was obtained in \cite{Visser:2009fg}. } For $J=2$, we have $n\leq
z$.

In the UV limit, the operator ${\cal O}_J$ is dominated by  \begin{equation} (-1)^{n_J} {\lambda_{J,n_J}\over
M^{2n_J+{d-1\over 2}J-d-1}}\Delta^{n_J}, \end{equation} which takes the form
of \begin{equation} \lambda_{J,n_J} {k^{2n_J}\over M^{2n_J+{d-1\over 2}J-d-1}}
\end{equation} in the momentum space, where $k=|{\vec k}|$. Therefore the
stability of the field theory in the UV limit requires that
$\lambda_{J,n_J}$ be positive.

Without loss of generality, we assume \begin{equation} \lambda_{2,z}=1. \end{equation} The
effective mass term corresponds to $J=2$, namely \begin{eqnarray}
&&{1\over 2} \sum_{n=0}^{z} (-1)^n{\lambda_{2,n} \over M^{2n-2}} \phi \Delta^n \phi \nonumber \\
&=&{1\over 2} \sum_{2\leq n \leq z} (-1)^n{\lambda_{2,n} \over
M^{2n-2}} \phi \Delta^n \phi-{1\over 2}
\lambda_{2,1}\phi\Delta\phi \nonumber \\
&+& {1\over 2} \lambda_{2,0}M^2 \phi^2. \end{eqnarray} In the IR fixed point, the
mass square is nothing but $m^2=\lambda_{2,0}M^2$ and the speed of
light is given by $c=\sqrt{\lambda_{2,1}}$. Here we assume that the
Lorentz invariance of the field theory is recovered in the IR limit,
which requires $\lambda_{2,1}=1$. Now the dispersion relation for
this field theory can be written down by \begin{equation} \omega^2=m^2+{\vec
k}^2+\sum_{2\leq n \leq z}{\lambda_{2,n} \over M^{2n-2}}{\vec
k}^{2n}. \end{equation} For $z=1$, the last term in the above equation does not
exist and the standard dispersion relation is recovered. For $z\geq
2$ the dispersion relation is changed. The group velocity is given
by \begin{equation} v_g={k\over \omega}\[1+\sum_{2\leq n \leq z}n\lambda_{2,n}
\left({k\over M}\)^{2n-2}\]. \end{equation} In the UV limit $(k\gg M)$, \begin{equation}
v_g\simeq z \({k\over M}\)^{z-1}, \end{equation} which goes to infinity for
$k\rightarrow \infty$ if $z\geq 2$. It is not surprised because the
special relativity is broken down in the UV limit. In the IR region,
the speed of light is modified to be \begin{equation} c_g= 1+{3\over
2}\lambda_{2,2}\({k\over M}\)^2 + {\cal O}\((k/M)^4\). \end{equation} If $z\geq
3$, $\lambda_{2,2}$ can be positive or negative. As long as
$\omega^2$ is positive, the field theory is always stable.

Of particular interest is the case when $z=3,d=3$. In this case,
the scalar field could couple to Horava-Lifshitz gravity and
provide an alternative to inflation. Note that in this case, the
scalar field is dimensionless and renormalizability gives no
constraint on the scalar potential $V(\phi)$.

\section{The renormalizable Yang-Mills theory at a Lifshitz point in $d+1$ dimensions}

In this section we switch to the Yang-Mills theory with an arbitrary
dynamical critical exponent $z$ in $d+1$ dimensions. The gauge field
is a one-form in $(d+1)$-dimensional spacetime, with the spatial
components $A_i=A_i^a(t,{\vec x})T_a$ and a time component
$A_0=A_0^a(t,{\vec x})T_a$. The Lie algebra generators $T_a$ of the
gauge group ${\cal G}$ satisfiy \begin{equation} [T_a,T_b]=i{f_{ab}}^cT_c. \end{equation} The
Lie algebra is normalized to be Tr$(T_aT_b)={1\over 2} \delta_{ab}$. The
gauge transformations are \begin{equation} \delta_\epsilon A_0=\partial_t
\epsilon-i[A_0,\epsilon],\quad \delta_\epsilon
A_i=\(\partial_i\epsilon^a+{f_{bc}}^a A_i^b\epsilon^c\)T_a\equiv D_i
\epsilon. \end{equation} The gauge invariant field strengths are given by \begin{eqnarray}
E_i&=&\(\partial_tA_i^a-\partial_iA_0^a+{f_{bc}}^aA_i^bA_0^c\)T_a \nonumber \\ &=&\partial_t A_i-\partial_iA_0-i[A_i,A_0],\\
F_{ij}&=&\(\partial_iA_j^a-\partial_jA_i^a+{f_{bc}}^aA_i^bA_j^c\)T_a \nonumber \\ &=&\partial_i
A_j-\partial_jA_i-i[A_i,A_j]. \end{eqnarray}
Since the symmetry between space and time is broken down
for $z\neq 1$, we will write the action in terms of  the electric
field strength $E_i$ and the magnetic field strength $F_{ij}$. The
engineering dimensions of the gauge field components at the
Lifshitz point are
 \begin{equation} [A_0]_s=z,\quad [A_i]_s=1, \end{equation}
 and then the
engineering dimensions of the field strengths become
 \begin{equation}
[E_i]_s=z+1,\quad [F_{ij}]_s=2. \end{equation} Similar to \cite{Horava:2008jf},
we choose a natural gauge-fixing condition, \begin{equation} A_0=0, \quad
\hbox{and}\quad \partial_iA_i=0. \end{equation} In order to keep the unitarity, the
Lagrangian should contain a kinetic term which is only quadratic in
the first time derivatives of the gauge field. Here the only choice
is Tr$(E_iE_i)$. The action in terms of  the gauge field strength
$E_i$ and $F_{ij}$ could be of the form,
 \begin{equation} S={1\over 2}
\int dtd^d x
\[{1\over g_E^2}\hbox{Tr}(E_i E_i) - \sum_{J\geq 2}{\cal O}_J
\star F^J\], \end{equation} where \begin{equation} {\cal O}_J={1\over g_E^J}\sum_{n=0}^{n_J}
(-1)^n {\lambda_{J,n} \over M^{2n+{d+1\over 2}J-d-1}} D^{2n}. \end{equation}
Here $F$ and $D$ are the abbreviated denotation for the field
strength $F_{ij}$ and the covariant derivative $D_k$ respectively,
and $\lambda_{J,n}$ are the coupling with zero energy dimension.
Similarly $D^{2n}\star F^J$ also contains all possible independent
combinations of $D_k$ and $F_{ij}$. Now the scaling dimensions of
$g_E$ and $\lambda_{J,n}$ are respectively given by \begin{equation} [g_E]_s={z-d
\over 2}+1, \quad [\lambda_{J,n}]_s=z+d+{z-d-2\over 2}J-2n. \end{equation} The
renormalizable condition for $E_i$ is $[g_E]_s\geq 0$, namely \begin{equation}
z\geq d-2. \end{equation} For $z=1$, the gauge theory is renormalizable only
when $d\leq 3$. Since there is no symmetry relating the kinetic term
and the potential terms, we still need to find out the
renormalizable conditions for the potential terms. A simple way to
work them out is to rescale the gauge field $A_i^a$ to the canonical
one ${\tilde A}_i^a$ which is related to $A_i^a$ by \begin{equation} {\tilde
A}_i^a=A_i^a/g_E, \end{equation} and then the gauge field strengths become \begin{eqnarray}
{\tilde E}_i&=&\partial_t {\tilde A}_i=E_i/g_E,\\
{\tilde F}_{ij}&=&\partial_i {\tilde A}_j-\partial_j {\tilde A}_i-ig_E[{\tilde A}_i,{\tilde A}_j]=F_{ij}/g_E.
\end{eqnarray}
The action for the canonical gauge field is
\begin{eqnarray}
S&=& {1\over 2} \int dtd^dx\[\hbox{Tr}\({\tilde E}_i {\tilde E}_i\) \right. \nonumber \\
&-&\left. \sum_{J\geq 2}\sum_{n=0}^{n_J} (-1)^n{\lambda_{J,n} \over
M^{2n+{d+1\over 2}J-d-1}}{\tilde D}^{2n}\star {\tilde F}^J\]. \end{eqnarray} The
renormalizable conditions for the potential terms are
$[\lambda_{J,n}]_s\geq 0$ which implies \begin{equation} n_J=\hbox{max}
\left\{n\in Z \left| n\leq  {z+d\over 2}+{z-d-2 \over 4}J \right.
\right\}. \end{equation} For $J=2$, $n\leq z-1$. In order to recover the $z=1$
gauge theory in the IR limit, we set $\lambda_{2,0}=1$. On the other
hand, the UV stability requires that $\lambda_{J,n_J}$ should be
positive and $\lambda_{2,z-1}$ can be set to be 1 for simplicity.

Now we can easily write down the dispersion relation for a free
gauge field theory as follows \begin{equation} \omega^2=k^2\[ 1+\sum_{1\leq n\leq
z-1}\lambda_{2,n}\({k\over M}\)^{2n}\], \end{equation} where $k=|{\vec k}|$. The
group velocity is \begin{equation} v_g={d\omega \over dk}={k\over
\omega}\[1+\sum_{1\leq n\leq z-1}(n+1)\lambda_{2,n}\({k\over
M}\)^{2n}\]. \end{equation} In the UV limit $(k\gg M)$, we have \begin{equation} v_g\simeq
z\({k\over M}\)^{z-1}. \end{equation} The speed of light goes to infinity for
$k\rightarrow \infty$ if $z\geq 2$. In the IR regime, \begin{equation} v_g\simeq
1+{3\over 2}\lambda_{2,1} \({k\over M}\)^2. \label{spdl} \end{equation} Here a
negative $\lambda_{2,1}$ is allowed as long as $\omega^2$ is
positive definitely for $z\geq 3$. In the next section the above
modified speed of light can be used to explain the time delays in
Gamma-ray bursts.

\section{An explanation for the time delays in Gamma-Ray bursts}

Recently the Fermi LAT and Fermi GBM collaborations reported that
the photon with energy $E_h=13.22_{-1.54}^{+1.70}$ GeV arrived at
the Earth is $16.54$ s later than the low-energy photon from GRB
08916C with measured redshift of $z'=4.35\pm 0.15$
\cite{grb}\footnote{In this paper, we use $z'$ to denote the
redshift.}. If the high-energy photon was emitted at the same time
as the low-energy photon, this delay may encode the information of
Lorentz symmetry violation
\cite{Ellis:2002in,Ellis:2005wr,Jacob:2008bw}. In
\cite{Ellis:2002in,Ellis:2005wr,Jacob:2008bw}, the dispersion
relation of the photon is proposed to be modified by the effect of
quantum gravity. Some other possible explanations were suggested in
\cite{Li:2009tt,Li:2009mt}. In Sec.~4 we saw that the dispersion
relation and the speed of light of the photon field at a Lifshitz
point was modified. This fact suggests a natural way to explain the
time delays in Gamma-ray bursts.

Here we would like to give a general discussion about the time
delays in the Gamma-ray bursts. Assume that the velocity of the
photon with physical momentum $k$ is given by \begin{equation} c_g(k)=1+\lambda
\(k\over M\)^\alpha. \label{cgl} \end{equation} This deformed velocity of the
photon implies that the the simultaneously emitted photons from the
source of the Gamma-ray bursts reach the Earth at different times.
In the FRW universe, the momentum of the photon is redshifted by the
expansion of the universe. The scale factor is related to the
redshift factor $z'$ by $a=(1+z')^{-1}$ and the speed of light at
the time of $z'$ becomes \begin{equation} c_g(k,z')=1+\lambda \(k/a\over
M\)^\alpha=1+\lambda (1+z')^\alpha \({k\over M}\)^\alpha. \end{equation} The
comoving distance between the source of the Gamma-ray burst and the
Earth is $x_c$ which is given by \begin{equation}
x_c=\int_{t_\gamma}^{t_k}c_g(k){dt\over a}, \end{equation} where $t_\gamma$ is
the time when the photon was emitted. If the high-energy and
low-energy photons were emitted at the same time $t_\gamma$, the
time delay can be easily obtained, \begin{equation} \delta t \equiv
t_{k_h}-t_{k_l}\simeq -\lambda {\delta k^\alpha \over
M^\alpha}\int_0^{z_\gamma} {(1+z')^\alpha \over H(z')} dz', \end{equation} where
\begin{equation} \delta k^\alpha\equiv k_h^\alpha-k_l^\alpha. \end{equation} For $\Lambda$CDM
model, we have \begin{equation}
H(z')=H_0\sqrt{\Omega_m^0(1+z')^3+\Omega_\Lambda^0}, \end{equation} where $H_0$
is the present Hubble parameter, and then \begin{equation} \delta t \simeq
-\lambda H_0^{-1} {\delta E^\alpha \over M^\alpha}\int_0^{z_\gamma}
{(1+z')^\alpha \over \sqrt{\Omega_m^0(1+z')^3+\Omega_\Lambda^0}}
dz', \end{equation} here $E\simeq k$ is the photon energy measured on the Earth
and $\delta E^\alpha\simeq E_h^\alpha$. In order to explain the time
delays, $\lambda$ should be negative. Here $H_0^{-1}$ is roughly the
same as the age of the universe, but $\delta t$ is only about
$16.54$ s, and hence $M$ should be much larger than $E_h$ if
$|\lambda|$ is not so small. The WMAP 5yr data \cite{Komatsu:2008hk}
indicates that $H_0=70.5$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$,
$\Omega_\Lambda^0=0.726$ and $\Omega_m^0=0.274$. Taking
Eq.(\ref{spdl}) into account, we have $\lambda={3\over
2}\lambda_{2,1}$ and $\alpha=2$. For $E_h=13.22$ GeV and $\delta
t=16.54$ s, we get \begin{equation} M \simeq 60 |\lambda_{2,1}|^{1\over 2} {1 \over
\sqrt{H_0 \delta t}} \ \hbox{GeV} \simeq 9.8\times 10^9
|\lambda_{2,1}|^{1\over 2} \ \hbox{GeV}. \end{equation} Usually it is expected that
$|\lambda_{2,1}|\sim {\cal O}(1)$ and then a conservative estimation
of $M$ is roughly not lower than $10^{10}$ GeV. It would be better
to take this result as the constraint on the scale of Lorentz
symmetry breaking in the Lifshitz gauge field theory, taking into
account of the fact that there exist possible astrophysical sources
accounting for the time delays of the Gamma-ray bursts.

Before closing this section, we need to stress that a negative $\lambda$ in Eq.(\ref{cgl}) implies
that the theory becomes unstable and ill-defined in the UV region.
However, for a field theory at Lifshitz point with $z\geq 3$ it is
a UV  well-defined field theory which can easily explain the time
delays in Gamma-ray bursts.

\section{The thermal dynamics of the field theory at the Lifshitz point}

It would be interesting to study the thermal dynamics of the above
field theories at Lifshitz point. From the discussions in Sec.~2 and
3, the dispersion relations for both the scalar field and the gauge
field are given by \begin{equation} \omega^2=m^2+k^2+...+{k^{2z}\over M^{2z-2}}.
\end{equation} The energy density at finite temperature $T$ is \begin{equation} \rho\sim
\int_0^\infty \omega e^{-\omega/T} k^{d-1}dk. \end{equation} In the high
temperature limit $(T\gg M)$, the dispersion relation can be
simplified to be $w\simeq k^z/M^{z-1}$, and hence \begin{equation} \rho\sim
M^{(z-1)d/z}T^{1+d/z}. \end{equation} Similarly,  the entropy density is found
to be \begin{equation} s\sim M^{(z-1)d/z}T^{d/z}. \end{equation} The above scaling behaviors
imply that the field theory seems living in a $d_s=1+d/z$
dimensional spacetime. For $z=d$, $\rho\sim M^{d-1}T^2$ and $s\sim
M^{d-1}T$. We see that the thermal behaviors of these field theories
are quite different from the ones of a relativistic field theory.

We are also interested in the equation of state of matter at the
Lifshitz point with $z$ in a FRW universe. Considering $[E]_s=z$ and
the spatial volume has dimension $[V]_s=-d$, we have \begin{equation}
[\rho]_s=[{E\over V}]_s=z+d. \label{rhoz} \end{equation} The metric of a FRW
universe is \begin{equation} ds^2=-dt^2+a^2(t) d{\vec x}^2. \end{equation} Taking Eq.
(\ref{rhoz}) into account, we have \begin{equation} \rho\propto a^{-(z+d)}. \end{equation} In
the FRW universe, the energy density of matter with the equation of
state $w$ goes like $\rho\sim a^{-d(1+w)}$. Therefore the equation
of state of matter at the Lifshitz point with $z$ is \begin{equation} w={z\over
d}. \end{equation} Obviously, when $z=1$, this is exactly the equation of state
of relativistic matter in a FRW universe. Since the energy density
$\rho\propto T^{1+d/z}$, $T\propto a^{-z}$. The temperature of the
radiation with $z>1$ decreases faster than that of the relativistic
matter in an expanding universe. On the other hand, the entropy
density $s\propto T^{d/z}$ and then $s\propto a^{-d}$. This is
reasonable because the entropy density is inversely proportional to
the physical volume $a^d$.

\section{The size of causal patch for the field theory at the Lifshitz point in the FRW universe}

In this section we will figure out a new length scale $L_H$ which
characterizes the proper size of a causal patch in space for the
perturbation mode with physical momentum $p$. Consider two
particles separated by a distance $L_c$ in the comoving
coordinates at the time $t$ in a flat FRW universe. The proper
distance between them is nothing but \begin{equation} L=a(t)L_c. \end{equation} If the
spatial comoving coordinates of these two particles remain
unchanged, the relative speed between them due to the expansion of
the universe is \begin{equation} {dL\over dt}=\dot a L_c=HL. \end{equation} On the other
hand, the propagation velocity of the message between these two
particles through the field with dynamical critical exponent $z$
is $c_g\sim p^{z-1}/M^{z-1}$. Therefore the size of the causal
patch $L_H$ satisfies \begin{equation} HL_H\sim p^{z-1}/M^{z-1}. \end{equation} At the time
when the perturbation mode stretches outside its causal patch, we
have $p\sim 1/L_H$ and then we obtain \begin{equation} L_H\sim
(M^{z-1}H)^{-1/z}. \end{equation} For $z=1$, $L_H$ is nothing but the Hubble
length. For $z=d=3$, it is the same as the one found in
\cite{Mukohyama:2009gg}.

For a $(d+1)$-dimensional FRW universe dominated by the matter with the equation of state $w$, the scale factor grows up as
\begin{equation}
a(t)\sim t^{2\over d(1+w)}.
\end{equation}
If $w<-1+2/d$, the universe is in an inflationary phase.
The Hubble parameter decreases as $1/t$ if $w>-1$. In order that a perturbation mode is generated within the causal patch and stretches outside the horizon in the future, we should have $a(t)>L_H(t)$ for a sufficient large t, which implies
\begin{equation}
w<w_c=-1+{2z\over d}.
\end{equation}
For $z=1$, a causally generated quantum perturbation can stretch outside its causal patch and be frozen to be a classical perturbation only in an inflationary universe. But for $z>1$, it can happen even in a non-inflationary universe. Since the scalar field with the dynamical critical exponent $z$ has dimension ${d-z\over 2}$, the perturbation of such a scalar mode with $z=d$ is expected to be scale-invariant even in a non-inflationary universe. That is why ones claim that the inflation is not necessarily required when the field theory at a Lifshitz point with $z=3$ is called for in our $(3+1)$ dimensional universe. However, even though the horizon problem in hot big bang model might be released due to the super-luminosity in the UV region,  the flatness problem can be solved only in an inflationary universe. It is premature to claim that the Lifshitz field/gravity provides an alternative model to inflation.

\section{Discussions}

In this paper we constructed the most general power-counting
renormalizable actions for the scalar field and the gauge field
without considering the detailed balance condition. These field
theories at long distance reduce to the field theories with the
Lorentz invariance intact, but the symmetry between space and time
is broken down at short distance for $z\geq 2$.  Since only the
kinetic terms which is quadratic in the first time derivatives are
included, the field theories are still unitary. In this paper we
assumed that the space is isotropic. One can generalize them to the
cases with anisotropic space. Here we only proposed that the spatial
derivative operators like $\Delta^n$ appearing in the action, where
$n$ is an integer. Maybe some terms with fractional power of the
differential operator $\Delta$ could be included as well
\cite{Calcagni:2009ar}. But the physical meaning of these terms is
not well-understood.

In the original Lifshitz scalar field theory and its generalization
to non-Abelian gauge field and
gravity\cite{Horava:2008ih,Horava:2008jf,Horava:2009uw}, one may
impose the detailed balance condition to fix the potential. In these
cases, the ground state wavefunction of the theory reproduce the
partition function of a relativistic theory in lower-dimension. This
fact may suggest that the theories with the detailed balance
condition have quantum critical points. In this paper, for
generality, we did not impose any kind of the detailed balance
condition. As a result, even if we only consider the interaction
terms with the marginal dimension, the theory is just classically
scale invariant and may not be scale invariant quantum mechanically.
Obviously a careful investigation of RG flow and quantum criticality
would be a very interesting issue.

In \cite{Kachru}, the gravity duals of the anisotropic scale
invariant field theory have been constructed. It would be
interesting to investigate the gravity duals of the theories
presented in this paper.

\vspace{1.4cm}

\noindent {\bf Acknowledgments}

The work was partially supported by NSFC Grant No.10535060,
10775002 and NKBRPC (No. 2006CB805905).

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Home Interviews Vintage Interview Unseen: Nalini Krishan
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Between 1999 and 2009 Lightsabre.co.uk brought news, fanfic, podcasts and much, much more to the masses. Lightsabre closed its doors in 2009 and as such, a handful of interviews went unpublished on the site, so here is our 154th interview, with Attack of the Clones actress Nalini Krishan.
Lightsabre – Nalini, welcome to Lightsabre.
NK – Thank you so much Mark! It's such a pleasure to be talking to you today!
Lightsabre – The world of Star Wars is enormous but the Jedi are a very special part of the Star Wars world. How does it feel to be a part of such a phenomenon?
NK – I never knew when filming this movie what was in store for me. I just had no idea, it blew me away from having action figures, travelling the world, being a Jedi, certainly has a lot of benefits! Not to mention the loyal fans. I am so glad I am a part of it and it has opened up many doors and I see the world a bit differently now that I am part of this phenomenon.
Lightsabre – You first appeared as Barriss in Attack of the Clones, fighting against the Separatists in the Geonosis Arena. That must have been an amazing experience?
NK – Yes on set it was very confidential, I was not sure who I played and just what her purpose was, but I remember being on set doing these awesome fighting movements, working with Nick Gillard. It was a fascinating experience and the stunt work on set was amazing to partake in too. Once the movie was release it was amazing to see just how it came together and the place of a Jedi in the Star Wars universe. I suppose you could say it all came together.
Lightsabre – How did you get the role as Barriss?
NK – My agent called me and said they wanted to see me, I did a fitting and I actually just got the part, no audition necessary. I guess I was lucky, I just had the look they wanted.
Lightsabre – Tell us a little bit more about Nalini Krishan. What are your hobbies and passions away from acting?
NK – I am quite religious, I am studying to be a missionary, so I can travel the world and assist with poverty stricken countries. I love travelling all over the world, still have much to see yet I am getting there slowly…I love reading, spending time with family and friends and currently writing a couple of different books.
Lightsabre – Were you aware of the Star Wars movies before your involvement in Attack of the Clones?
NK – Yes I was a big fan of the first three movies, I use to watch them all the time and was accustomed to Star Wars and the movies.
Lightsabre – Barriss had scenes filmed for Revenge of the Sith that sadly didn't make it into the final cut. How did you feel when you heard that Barriss wouldn't make it past Order 66 and Revenge of the Sith?
NK – I was disappointed, and to be honest, Barriss is very special; I am not just saying that because I played her character. But I could learn a lot from this character. She is calm, composed, focused, very strategic, loyal, very fast, is a healer – can alter the mind and heal it as well, and she is a great fighter…it's hard to believe with all these talents, not to mention tandem fighting that she could have died so easily. It was a huge disappointment.
Lightsabre – Away from Star Wars, what other projects are you working on?
NK – I have a role in the Benvenuti family however that has not come into fruition yet and as well as natures guard. The acting market in Sydney has opened up again so trying to get back into the acting here, but also preparing to move to LA so I can start acting over there.
Lightsabre – Which of the myriad Star Wars characters do you feel the most affinity for?
NK – I am not sure why but I really like to Darth Vader, I suppose because I had a fascination with him as a child and he was so mysterious and I felt sorry for him when he revealed he was the father, and I know I am not supposed to say that either seeing as he is on the dark side and I am on the good side!Lightsabre – Unlike the original trilogy which really only had Princess Leia in a female role, the prequels are littered with strong female characters. Where do you feel Barriss ranks in that list of powerful female characters?
NK – To say she ranks first would be bias, but I see her and what talents she has, and her biography is impressive, from being an orphan, being brought up in the Jedi council, to becoming a master Jedi, I would say she is one of the strongest Jedi's. I would rank her second only because her master Luminari taught her so much and Master Unduli probably ranks first!
Lightsabre – After your Star Wars experience you must have travelled a lot and seen many places at conventions and events. How far afield has Star Wars taken you?
NK – The longest trip I took was early this year to Italy, 35-40 hrs of travelling from Australia to go to Torino and Rome for conventions. It was amazing to go to Italy and see a small part of it, I have been to other parts of Europe but I was living in London at the time so the travelling was relatively short and USA as well being 15-20 hrs of flying. But it's all worth it just to see the fans!
Lightsabre – Are there any projects, past present or future, that you would love to work on?
NK – To be honest, I am a huge Twilight fan and I love vampires, I would love to have worked on that, or any vampire movies…I would love to work on alternative films. I find movies like "the air I breathe" "eastern promises" fascinating and I see the acting it encompasses and wish to do more projects like that if I could, but then again I love thrillers too!
Lightsabre – What lies ahead for you in the future?
NK – That's only a question God can answer, but hopefully more acting and also a move to LA in the next year or two to pursue the acting in a different direction.
Lightsabre – It's been a great interview, and thanks for being our guest. Just one final question. Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli and Aayla Secura are all called before Master Yoda and told of a top secret mission that must be carried out. He is unsure which one of you to send and wants you to identify your best skills and assets. After Luminara and Aayla have spoken you are ushered forward, but what skills do you identify?
NK – I would say Barris's loyalty, determination, her skills as a tandem fighter are second to none, but most of all its her Jedi mind tricks, she has been known to heal people with mental illnesses and persuade with the mind, what better talent or skill to have?
This interview was originally conducted for, but never published on Lightsabre.co.uk.
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