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The Health Risk Communication Division (HRCD) at the APHC offers a variety of educational and consultation services to support the U.S. Army and various DOD agencies to facilitate effective dialogue with stakeholder audiences regarding health risk associated with environmental, biological, deployment, occupational, or other hazards.
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There's no arguing that cats can be incredibly cute. But is it possible for them to be too cute? The answer is provided in the videos below: absolutely not! Cats ---whether kittens or adults --- can be cute as well as experts in using those sweet personalities to lift our spirits. Where would we be without cute cats?
So if you need a cuteness fix, these are the video for you. Relax, grab a cup of coffee, and get ready to smile at the adorable cats in the following clips.
1. Kittens and goats and milk, oh my!
These three ginger kittens would be the stars of the show at Sunflower Farm Creamery...if it weren't for the fifty-three baby goats. Watch these two species interact in the cutest ways in the video below.
2. It's a kitten wrestlefest, and you've got front seats to the show.
Nola the rescue cat has her paws full keeping an eye on her rambunctious litter of kittens. They love to pounce and bounce and play, and they are too cute not to watch and adore. Check out how Nola's babies play in the following clip.
3. This cat loves her little kid.
How adorable is this video? This cat shows her love for her little friend by gently head-butting him and licking his face. It looks like the beginning of a life-long friendship. Watch these two best friends in this video.
4. Here's a cat who has her own masseuse.
This video is almost too cute to watch. A beautiful white cat lounges in the arms of her best friend, a Golden Retriever. The dog gently licks the cat's head and face while cradling her gently in his paws. Love truly transcends all species. Watch this clip and share the love.
5. A doll bed is the perfect sized toy for these sweet kittens.
Looking for over four minutes of kittens playing on and around a doll bed? We've got just the video for you then. Enjoy watching these three kittens wrestle with each other on the bed. It will make your day and bring your blood pressure down.
6. Does your cat have this much patience?
Not only is this cat cute in her outfit, but her seemingly infinite amount of patience is downright amazing. Watch this cat model at work in the clip below.


Gardening has been something my family has always enjoyed. It is relaxing, great exercise and cheap way to provide good, healthy food for your family with just a little effort and lots of love and care. It is a place that my daughter has loved since she was only a few weeks old and it has a very calming effect on her. There is something very grounding about feeling the earth between your fingers, smelling the beautiful aromas that come from your herbs and having the sunshine warm on your back you as you do it! It is a place to get back to basics and appreciate mother natures incredible work and reflect on the 'circle of life'.
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La saison 2013-2014 du Championnat du Burundi de football est la cinquante-et-unième édition de la Ligue A, le championnat de première division au Burundi. Les quatorze meilleures équipes du pays sont regroupées au sein d'une poule unique où ils s'affrontent deux fois au cours de la saison, à domicile et à l'extérieur. En fin de saison, pour permettre l'expansion du championnat à 16 clubs, les deux derniers du classement sont relégués et remplacés par les quatre meilleurs clubs de deuxième division (deux de la zone de Bujumbura et deux de l'Intérieur).

C'est le club de LLB Académic qui est sacré cette saison après avoir terminé en tête du classement final, avec trois points d'avance sur le tenant du titre, Flambeau de l'Est et huit sur InterStar. Il s'agit du tout premier titre de champion du Burundi de l'histoire du club, qui réussit même le doublé en battant Le Messager FC Ngozi en finale de la Coupe du Burundi.

Qualifications continentales
Le champion du Burundi se qualifie pour la Ligue des champions de la CAF 2015 et la Coupe Kagame inter-club 2015 tandis que le vainqueur de la coupe nationale (ou le vice-champion si la Coupe n'est pas organisée) obtient son billet pour la Coupe de la confédération 2015.

Les clubs participants

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Le barème utilisé pour établir le classement est le suivant :
 Victoire : 3 points
 Match nul : 1 point
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 Championnat du Burundi de football

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  Classements complets de la saison sur RSSSF

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St. Louis Employees and Carlos Martinez, Pitcher for the Cardinals, Donate Dental Supplies to Benefit Children in Dominican Republic
As a child, Carlos Martinez, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, didn't always have access to basic necessities.
"When I was young, we didn't have anybody to help me and my family," he said. "I knew as soon as I made it into the big leagues, I would return to my hometown to help struggling families like mine."
Martinez made good on that promise during a recent donation effort, with the help of UnitedHealthcare employees in St. Louis. The Cardinals' home opener marked the final day in a month-long giving campaign to collect toothbrushes and toothpaste for the starting pitcher's charity, the Tsunami Waves Foundation.
More than 500 toothbrushes and 220 tubes of toothpaste were donated, all of which will benefit children in Martinez' native Dominican Republic.
Martinez surprised employees at the St. Louis office with an unannounced visit to personally pick up the boxes of donated dental items.
"We are able to reach more children now because of the employees at UnitedHealthcare," Martinez said. "Words cannot describe my gratitude for UnitedHealthcare for the much-needed dental supplies. It breaks my heart to see so many young children suffer from tooth decay in my hometown."
UnitedHealthcare Volunteers Donate Care Packages to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin NICU
Small School in Nebraska Wins Big
UnitedHealthcare Supports Nebraska Neighbors After Historic Flooding

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This was my second Lord Commander Culln conversion, commissioned after I made the first one. I followed the same guidelines as before only really altering the cloak. I took this cloak from a Hector Rex Forgeworld mini (with a lot of whittling of the inside to make it fit). Even though it doesn't match the original artwork as closely I think I prefer this particular model.


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Lebanese Garbage Crisis – Naharnet
Posted by Editor on Thursday, November 19th 2015
Shehayyeb: Negotiations to Export Waste to Kick Off with European Firms – – Naharnet
Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb revealed that negotiations with European companies to export Lebanon's garbage will kick off on Thursday, reported As Safir newspaper.
He told the daily: "The negotiations rely on very critical calculations and technical details."
The negotiations will be carried out with four firms.
"We are seeking to obtain the cheapest price with the best conditions," he added without disclosing the names of the companies.
"Exporting the waste should adhere to international laws that Lebanon is committed to," continued the minister.
"There are several technicalities that need to be agreed upon before taking the final decision to export the trash," he explained, such as the weight and nature of the waste.
The waste being addressed are those of Beirut and the Mount Lebanon region that are under the jurisdiction of the Sukleen garbage collection company, said Shehayyeb.
The export will take place over an 18-month period, which should be followed with the implementation of the waste disposal plan that he had devised.
A meeting was held on Wednesday between Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Shehayyeb, and the concerned technical committee to address the latest progress made in resolving the waste management crisis that erupted in July with the closure of the Naameh landfill.
The landfill was shut with officials failing to find an alternative to it resulting in the pile up of garbage on the streets of the country and the emergence of arbitrary landfills that pose health and environmental hazards.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194805-shehayyeb-negotiations-to-export-waste-to-kick-off-with-european-firms
Shehayyeb: My Trash Disposal Plan was Obstructed for Political Reasons – Naharnet
Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb criticized how his plan to end the country's garbage disposal crisis was managed, reported the daily An Nahar on Wednesday.
He told the daily: "My proposal was obstructed for political reasons, as well as reasons linked to various areas in the country."
"There are other causes that I will not divulge," he added.
Various municipalities had rejected the establishment of landfills in their areas as proposed by the minister's plan.
The country was plunged in a waste disposal crisis following the closure of the Naameh landfill without finding an alternative for it.
Progress had been made in setting up a landfill in the North and another in the South, but obstacles have hindered this plan.
Commenting on the possibility of exporting the waste, Shehayyeb replied: "We have not taken a decision on the matter."
"We are studying the health, legal, and environmental aspects of the proposals," he explained.
Media reports had spoken of the possibility of sending the trash to Syria or the Turkish part of Cyprus.
Exporting the waste to Europe is not possible because Lebanon does not have the means needed to turn the garbage into the standards demanded by these countries.
Shehayyeb and the concerned committee tackling the garbage crisis are expected to meet with Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Serail later on Wednesday to discuss proposals to resolve the issue, revealed al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Media reports on Tuesday said that the national dialogue conferees had agreed to "export the waste" and the need to "schedule a cabinet session" to approve this step upon the completion of the preparations.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194703-shehayyeb-my-trash-disposal-plan-was-obstructed-for-political-reasons
Dialogue Parties Agree to 'Activate Cabinet, Export Garbage' – Naharnet
Dialogue Parties Agree to 'Activate Cabinet, Export Garbage'
by Naharnet Newsdesk 2 days ago
The country's political parties agreed during a national dialogue session on Tuesday to "activate the work of state institutions, especially the cabinet," as reports said that they also decided to export the accumulating garbage as a solution to the waste disposal crisis.
"The conferees stressed the need to activate the work of state institutions, especially the cabinet, in order to address the pressing issues," said an official statement issued after the talks in Ain al-Tineh.
Condemning the deadly suicide bombings that hit Bourj al-Barajneh, the parties lauded "the sweeping national consensus on deploring it and the solidarity that was expressed by all political parties in the face of terrorism."
They also praised the efforts of security agencies, "which managed to unveil all the details of this crime and arrest the culprits in record time," underlining the importance of "maintaining coordination among them (security agencies) to preserve stability and foil any terrorist plots."
The next session will be held on November 25.
Tuesday's session was attended by Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun, who had sent a representative to many previous meetings, amid the absence of the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb Party.
According to information obtained by LBCI television, the conferees "discussed the issue of exporting garbage" and the need to "schedule a cabinet session" to approve this step upon the completion of the preparations.
"The session was very beneficial but things need patience," Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat told reporters after the dialogue session.
During the meeting, Aoun said that the new electoral law must ensure "fairness and proper representation" and must "rectify the flaws without any ambiguity."
"The war of terrorism has become global," he added, noting that "it must be confronted through a comprehensive plan, not partial solutions."
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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194669-dialogue-parties-agree-to-activate-cabinet-export-garbage
Report: Cabinet Unlikely to Convene until Breakthrough Made in Trash File – Naharnet
Prime Minister Tammam Salam is unlikely to call cabinet to session any time soon due to his fear of its failure given the lack of progress made in resolving the garbage disposal crisis, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper Monday.
Sources from the premier told the daily: "Any cabinet session hinges on progress in the trash crisis."
They stressed that Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb is continuing his efforts to resolve the issue and he and a technical team are studying various proposal on exporting the waste.
They have so far reached the legal, financial, and technical aspects of the proposals, they revealed.
Once they complete their study, Salam will call cabinet to session, said the sources.
Lebanon was plunged in a garbage disposal crisis in July with the closure of the Naameh landfill and the failure to find an alternative for it.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194525-report-cabinet-unlikely-to-convene-until-breakthrough-made-in-trash-file
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Don't let an upcoming license audit decide your agenda. Let lean management principles guide you.
Lean management seeks to add value and eliminate waste. A rudimentary idea that needs to be reflected in the way your company assigns licenses. Organize your assignment process and ensure that licenses are calculated and assigned according to real user needs.
To do so, implement one of the fundamental tools of efficient and effective action used in lean management, the 5S methodology. The five steps, normally applied to workplace organization, include: sort (Seiri), straighten (Seiton), shine (Seiso), standardize (Seiketsu) and sustain (Shitsuke).
1.Seiri – Sort out the licenses no longer required: A precondition for all further steps is the identification and elimination of irrelevant elements. Keeping in mind that licenses to active users / engines and/or interfaces need to be limited, this is the range for relative elements. Elements not belonging here should be scrutinized and eliminated.
2. Seiton – (straighten) Assign licenses as required by users: This includes the assignment of relevant license types that correspond to user responsibilities, i. e. tasks included in the user's specific job description.
It then becomes necessary to compare assigned licenses with each user's activity profile (which can be assessed by looking at transaction calls, for instance).
3. Seiso – Identify and eliminate exceptions: Sustaining an achieved condition (attaining "shine") requires real-time information concerning deviations from and exceptions to this condition.
In the interest of keeping up with the most recent trends, an organization's system data (user behavior, license assignments) provides the basis for a key-figure-driven "cleansing". Manual activities offer no viable alternative. The only feasible solution is an automated analysis that proactively alerts you to "impurities" (e. g. exceptions).
4. Seiketsu – Standardize assignment rules and -process: To ensure that the current condition is future-proof and will continue to be upheld, it is wise to establish rules and standards. These must be defined and implemented – from the process (e. g. how, and at what intervals key-figure-driven reports will be furnished) down to the detailed assignment rules and regulations (whether assignment is direct or indirect, i. e. via reference users and/or authorization roles).
5. Shitsuke: Achieve sustainability through ongoing correction. Sustainability and continuity don't just consist in attaining the current condition – but in improving on that condition, when necessary. Because one thing is clear: When changes are overlooked or disregarded, the disparity between licenses assigned and actual license needs becomes more pronounced over time. This means license assignment must be continually re-aligned with internal changes (such as employee turnover and job transitions within an organization) and external changes (such as legal norms).
The advantage to using the 5S methodology to prepare for an SAP license audit is that individual steps are not done manually; most can be largely automated. Incorporating real-time, automated usage analysis as a permanent feature in these individual steps forms the foundation for true need-based license management. For organizations in particular, it not only provides a reliable information base, but also a decisive edge in license negotiations. In addition to an organized foundation, company-wide standards – thanks to regular, automated analyses – ultimately result in sustainable license management. Intensive ad hoc activities before an audit that have only short-term effects, while tying up resources and messing up the "normal" agenda are now a thing of the past.


Recently the Whiteboard spent a day at the Stamford Innovation Center, where we met with Peter Propp, the SIC's Vice President of Marketing, and Barry Schwimmer, its founder and Managing Partner. The occasion was a fantastic evening lecture by Brian Cohen, Chairman of New York Angels, which formed part of the SIC's ongoing series of popular events. We also wanted to hear the latest on the SIC's new coworking space, Workspace, and its InnovationEd program.
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Opinion: N.J. must rethink health care delivery system for state's residents
Updated: Mar. 31, 2019, 2:35 a.m. | Published: Jul. 14, 2011, 11:10 a.m.
By Times of Trenton Guest Columnist
JERRY MCCREA/ THE STAR LEDGEA hospital emergency room sign in a file photo.
By Laura Landy
The budget just adopted by the state of New Jersey underscores one clear reality: We can no longer afford many of the government expenses previously thought essential. In this emerging story, a critical fact is often overlooked: New Jersey has one of the most expensive health-care systems in the nation. Costs are among the highest in the country, yet quality is only average overall.
Interestingly, according to a recent report by the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, the cause isn't higher prices. The most important reason for the higher costs in New Jersey is greater health-care use.
Analyzing Medicare beneficiaries who had severe chronic illness, researchers for the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, a national database that documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States, found that on eight separate measures of use, New Jersey led the nation. Those measures included percent of decedents seeing 10 or more different physicians during the last six months of life.
The Dartmouth Atlas data divide New Jersey essentially into seven regions, and five of them are in the top 17 (out of 306 nationally) in Medicare expenditures per recipient: Newark (seventh), Hackensack (10th), Ridgewood (11th), New Brunswick (14th), and Paterson (17th). Camden (30th) and Morristown (41st) round out the New Jersey rankings. Similarly, the Commonwealth Fund's State Scorecard on Health System Performance ranked New Jersey 48th on avoidable hospital use and costs.
As a state, we're overusing our health-care system — spending too much for the value we receive in return. And we're on our way to using even more, as state officials review plans for additional hospital capacity in some regions. This fact isn't hidden from our health-care leaders. One high-level hospital executive recently commented, "In New Jersey, we just use the hospital too much."
With a health system we know we can't sustain, two questions seem inescapable: Can we deliver health care more efficiently? Can we achieve the three ultimate goals of health care: better health, better care and lower costs?
Fortunately, the answer to both questions is "yes," and the Rippel Foundation report, "When Being No. 1 Means We Have to Think Differently: The Future of Healthcare in New Jersey," helps point the way.
As part of the report, the foundation interviewed 25 health leaders across the state, asking what should be done about health care in New Jersey. Central to the recommendations that emerged was the view that New Jersey should engage in a statewide discussion of the future of health care. As one leader stated, "New Jersey has a 1970s health-care delivery system trying to deliver 21st-century health care."
Any future should start with understanding what people want and need. Innovation must be truly patient- or person-centered. Instead of asking citizens whether they want a hospital, what if we asked them what they really want? Their answer would likely be to stay healthy and to get the best medical care when and where they need it at a cost they can afford.
A system designed with this in mind would look quite different from our current New Jersey health-care landscape. Organizations such as Pitney Bowes, a global technology leader, and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers have shown that costs can be reduced and health improved by coordinating care, bringing care closer to people, and focusing on the small proportion of the population that uses a disproportionate amount of health-care resources. Yet, we have not systematically brought these insights to our communities.
New technology must also be considered. Like communications, health care is becoming mobile. Hand-held devices can now deliver ultrasound screenings and medical records, and phone applications are being developed to measure health status. Emerging models of care, such as specialized surgical centers that are disrupting the traditional industry structure, can often lower overhead and still deliver quality care. Outpatient services are growing, and the potential to monitor patient health from home will only increase.
Simply put, the industry is changing. It is time to start asking questions such as, "Is building more hospitals like building more Blockbusters?" or "What should a doctor's office in New Jersey really look like?"
But it may be only through the kind of distributed and coordinated health system many New Jersey leaders envision — with greater integration and less competition and inappropriate capacity — that we can eliminate the forces driving over-use and unnecessary care. Clearly, this requires new roles for providers, for hospitals and for our state's social service and support organizations. It also requires new roles for our citizens. And the changes are not easy.
We have the ability to realize better health, better care and lower costs — all at the same time. But to achieve all three, we have to start thinking about health care differently. And we have to engage the people of New Jersey, who are paying the bill — through their health insurance or their taxes — as it continues to skyrocket.
While this alone may not shift our medical culture of over-use, it is a critical first step. It's time to start the discussion. It's time to rethink health care in New Jersey.
Laura Landy is president and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation (rippelfoundation.org), a national health care-focused foundation based in Morristown.
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Maury Yeston's Music Comes Alive In The Terrific New Review Anything Can Happen In The Theatre
Michael Maliakel, Jill Paice, Robert Cuccioli,
Alex Getlin and Justin Keyes Photo by Carol Rosegg
Gerard Alessandrini is known for conceiving, putting together and directing reviews. First there was the award winning and longest running review Forbidden Broadway, then Spamilton and now there is Anything Can Happen In The Theater: The Songs Of Maury Yeston. Yeston's lush music and tight lyrics won two Tony Awards for Nine and Titanic. He was twice nominated for Grand Hotel and his off Broadway show Death Takes Holiday was nominated eleven times for the Drama Desk award. Yeston and Alessandrini met at the BMI workshop for musical theater when he took over after Lehman Engel died, Alessandrini also worked on Yeston's musical In The Beginning. What Anything Can Happen In The Theater: The Songs Of Maury Yeston, played at the Triad Theater on West 72nd Street, for only twelve performances and should seriously have a longer run. Highlighting the genius of Yeston's emotionally connected, yet intricate lyrics with his melodic romantic melodies, coupled with a superb cast, makes this show a no brainer to play for an extended run. It also shows different sides of Yeston's repertoire, which I thought I completely knew.
The show started out with the bouncy "Anything Can Happen In The Theater", written specifically for this show. Next up was "Shimmy" from Death Takes a Holiday and "Hollywood" from Grand Hotel sung by the adorable Jill Pace. I am surprised that "Hollywood" has not been overdone in cabarets or auditions, but if this show is given a longer run, I think this will make it into several singers books.
Robert Cuccioli, voice has really ripened and his "Love Can't Happen," from Grand Hotel, was gloriously sung.
Alex Getlin voice and emotions poured forth in the Yeston trunk song "Danglin." Ms. Getlin's simplistic approached allowed her vocals to show the depths of her desire over unrequited love. This song had a surprise country feel.
Justin Keyes, Michael Maliakel Photo by Carol Rosegg
Michael Maliakel, brought a boyishness to "I Had a Dream About You" from December Songs, while Justin Keyes brought a downright sexiness to the double entendre's of "Salt 'N' Pepper" from The Lottery. This another song that I am surprised is not sung to death, as it is seriously adorable.
Cuccioli added a tender subtle performance to "New Words" from In the Beginning. This father's lullaby to his new child is touching.
Robert Cuccioli, Jill Paice
Photo by Carol Rosegg
Nine was represented by the sexual "Call from the Vatican", where Ms. Paice channeled her inner Anita Morris. "St. Sebastian's" and "Guido's Song" had me wanting to see a production mounted with Mr. Cuccioli as Guido. This is a role he was born to play. Ms. Paice returned to sing "Unusual Way", with her clear bell like soprano and though it was done well, I would of rather have seen Ms.Getlin sing this song. Instead Ms. Getlin was given the tangoesq "Strange", which again she passionately sank into.
Mr Keys showed a different sides in "Halloween," and the operatic "I Stand Alone" from Goya. Mr. Maliakel, showed his light baritone in "Mississippi Moon" from The Lottery. He joined up with Justin Keyes for a male bounding moment with "You're There Too" from In the Beginning.
Mr. Cuccioli is back, coming from the back of the theatre to bring back Guido in "Only With You". He picks two women from the audience to amorously sing to and I was chosen. It was embarrassing, but I really had a chance to see how committed he is to the work. He really makes you feel as if you are the only one in the room.
While there is mostly solos, the choral work is thrilling especially in haunting "St. Sebastian's" and the closing number "Home" from Yeston's Phantom. Musical director Greg Jarrett, who also plays the piano, should be commend for this.
Alessandrini's staging focuses on the revolving relationships and allows Yeston's music to real soar and sink in. He has also brought out the best in his performers, who all shine.
Anything Can Happen In The Theater: The Songs Of Maury Yeston: Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd St.
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Ballydoyle Racing Stable in Co. Tipperary is acknowledged by many racing experts to be the finest training establishment in the world. Firstly Vincent O'Brien, and now his unrelated namesake Aidan O'Brien, have sent out horses from this tranquil setting to win all the major races in Europe and the USA. Vincent's son David also used the Ballydoyle gallops during his brief but spectacularly successful training career in the early 1980's.
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\section{Introduction}
\maketitle

Frustrated triangular-lattice Heisenberg and Ising antiferromagnets that are subject to external magnetic fields exhibit rich phase diagrams, including finite-temperature $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts phase transitions into magnetically ordered states~\cite{Starykh2015, Gvozdikova2011, Seabra2011, alexanderLatticeGasTransition1975, Metcalf1973, Schick1976}. The classical triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet in magnetic field, which explicitly breaks SO(3) symmetry, accidentally exhibits an extensive and continuous ground-state degeneracy that is lifted by thermal~\cite{Kawamura1984} and quantum fluctuations~\cite{Chubukov1991} via an order-by-disorder mechanism~\cite{Villain1977, Villain1980, Henley_PRL_1989}. In an intermediate field range, a collinear three-sublattice up-up-down (UUD) state is selected that spontaneously breaks $\mathbb{Z}_3$ symmetry (corresponding to the position of the minority down spin). This results in the stabilization of a one-third magnetization plateau both at zero and finite temperatures $T$. The magnetic transition at finite $T$ lies in the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts universality class~\cite{Seabra2011}. Similarly, the triangular Ising AF in a magnetic field develops long-range UUD magnetic order at finite temperature via a Potts phase transition~\cite{Metcalf1973, kinzelPhenomenologicalScalingApproach1981, qianCriticalFrontierTriangular2004}. At $T=0$ the transition requires a nonzero critical field value and lies in the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) universality class~\cite{nienhuisTriangularSOSModels1984,qianCriticalFrontierTriangular2004}.

Two-dimensional (2D) spin models with continuous SO(3) symmetry on the other hand cannot develop long-range magnetic order at $T>0$ due to the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner theorem~\cite{Hohenberg1967, Mermin1966}. However, since discrete lattice symmetries \emph{can} be broken at finite temperatures, Potts universality can still occur via ordering of a composite magnetic order parameter that preserves SO(3) but breaks a lattice symmetry.
Phase transitions driven by vestigial order parameters that survive partial melting of a primary order have been widely studied in magnetic, charge density wave and superconducting systems~\cite{Chandra1990, Fradkin2010, Fernandes2019}.
Emergent $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts order was previously found in fully antiferromagnetic SO(3)-invariant spin models on the honeycomb, kagome and triangular lattice \cite{Mulder2010, Li2022, Little2020, Haley2020}, and it was also reported in coupled clock models~\cite{drouin-touchetteEmergentPottsOrder2022}, cold atomic gases~\cite{jinEvidencePottsNematicSuperfluidity2021}, twisted bilayer graphene~\cite{fernandesNematicityTwistRotational2020,caoNematicityCompetingOrders2021} and other unconventional superconductors~\cite{Hecker2018, Cho2020,nieChargedensitywavedrivenElectronicNematicity2022}. Here, we show that it also emerges in SO(3) symmetric magnets with mixed ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions defined on various stacked lattice designs. Our work thus largely extends the material space for the experimental realizations of this phenomenon.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Fig1_lattice.png}
\caption{(a) Stacked 2D lattice designs of SO(3)-invariant spin models with nearest-neighbor couplings [see Eq.~\eqref{Eq:Hamiltonian}]. They contain an AFM triangular layer (black, $J_{tt} > 0$) coupled to a sixfold symmetric FM layer (red, $J_{hh} < 0$). Different layers are coupled via bilinear $J_{th}$ and biquadratic $K_{th}$ interactions (green). Lattice designs from left to right are triangular-honeycomb, triangular-kagome and ABC stacked triangular.
(b) Unit cell of the triangular-honeycomb (windmill) lattice with couplings indicated.}
\label{Fig:lattice}
\end{figure}

We design SO(3)-symmetric spin models on stacked 2D lattices that exhibit emergent $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts phase transitions at finite temperatures. The models include nearest-neighbor bilinear and biquadratic exchange interactions, where the bilinear interactions take opposite signs on different sublattices. As shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:lattice}, the models contain a frustrated AFM triangular sublattice coupled to a sixfold symmetric FM layer. As a function of biquadratic coupling, our models effectively interpolate between Heisenberg and Ising models in magnetic field, yet in a fully SO(3) invariant setup. Recently, a number of stacked magnetic materials realizing the required lattice geometry and containing frustrated triangular layers have been found, including
triangular-honeycomb lattice materials K$_2$Mn$_3$(VO$_4$)$_2$CO$_3$ \cite{Garlea2019} and CsYbSe$_2$ \cite{Xing2019},
and stacked triangular lattice materials Fe$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$ \cite{Little2020, Haley2020} and CaMn$_2$P$_2$~\cite{Islam-arXiv-2022}. Stacking two-dimensional van der Waals magnets poses an alternative route to experimentally realize the proposed spin models~\cite{makProbingControllingMagnetic2019}.

\emph{Model.--} We consider SO(3) $\times$ SO(3) symmetric bilayer spin Hamiltonians of the form
\begin{align}
\mathcal{H}=\sum_{\substack{\langle i,j\rangle_{\alpha\beta}}
}J_{\alpha\beta}\mathbf{S}_{\alpha i}\cdot\mathbf{S}_{\beta j}+\sum_{\substack{\langle i,j\rangle_{th}}
}K_{th}\left(\mathbf{S}_{t i}\cdot\mathbf{S}_{h j}\right)^{2}.
\label{Eq:Hamiltonian}
\end{align}
Here, $\alpha, \beta\in \{t,h\}$ labels the different layers with $t$ labeling the AFM triangular layer ($J_{tt} > 0$) and $h$ referring to the FM coupled sixfold symmetric layer ($J_{hh} < 0$). We consider both signs of the sublattice couplings $J_{th}$ and $K_{th}$. The summation runs over nearest-neighbor pairs of spins on sublattices $\alpha, \beta$. In the following we focus on classical spin models for which $\mathbf{S}_{\alpha i}$ are unit-length vectors. For concreteness, we study the triangular-honeycomb lattice design (also known as the windmill lattice) shown on the left in Fig.~\ref{Fig:lattice}, but our general results apply to the other lattice geometries as well. While we include $K_{th}$ in the model, we show later that it emerges in a purely bilinear model from quantum and thermal fluctuations, reducing the requirements for the experimental realization of the model.
Finally, we note that the fully AFM version of the windmill model has previously been studied~\cite{Orth2012, Orth2014, Jeevanesan2015}.

\begin{figure*}[t]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Fig2_PD.png}
\caption{(a) Zero-temperature variational phase diagram for FM $J_{hh}$ and AFM $J_{tt}$ in the regime $|J_{hh}| \gtrsim J_{tt}$ as a function of $K_{th}$ and $J_{th}$. The phase diagram is obtained using a variational ansatz with three types of triangular spins (A,B,C) (black) and one type of honeycomb spins ($h$) (red) (see inset). Arrows illustrate classical ground states. The dashed white line is obtained from classical MC calculations for $J_{hh}=-J_{tt}=-1$. Colored lines correspond to one-dimensional cuts shown at finite temperatures in panels (b-c).
(b) $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts-nematic transition temperature $T_c$ as a function of $J_{th}$ and $T$ above UUD phase at fixed $K_{th}/J_{tt}=-0.3$ (dark blue) and $K_{th}/J_{tt}=-0.5$ (light blue). Other parameters are $J_{tt} = 1$, $J_{hh} = -1$.
(c) Potts $T_c$ as a function of $K_{th}$ for fixed $J_{th}/J_{tt} = -0.3$ (purple) and $J_{th}/J_{tt}=-0.5$ (red). Other parameters are $J_{tt} = 1$, $J_{hh} = -1$.
The star shows Potts $T_c$ in the Heisenberg triangular AFM in a magnetic field at the UUD point~\cite{Seabra2011}, and empty circles are Potts $T_c$ for the Ising triangular AFM in corresponding magnetic fields~\cite{kinzelPhenomenologicalScalingApproach1981, qianCriticalFrontierTriangular2004}.
(d) Potts $T_c$ as a function of $J_{hh}$ for fixed $J_{th}=-0.5$,  $K_{th}=-1$ and $J_{tt} = 1$. The values for Potts $T_c$ are obtained using MC simulations from the crossing of the Binder cumulant $U_2$ of $\boldsymbol{m}_3$.
}
\label{Fig:PD}
\end{figure*}

\emph{Zero-$T$ phase diagram.--} We obtain the classical zero-temperature phase diagram for FM $J_{hh} <0$ and AFM $J_{tt}>0$ assuming $|J_{hh}| \gtrsim J_{tt}$ using a variational ansatz that considers one honeycomb (h) and three triangular (A,B,C) sublattices [see inset in Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(a)]. This ansatz is well justified in the regime $|J_{hh}| \gg J_{tt} > |J_{th}|, |K_{th}|$. The phase diagram is shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(a) and a detailed discussion of the energies and the phase boundaries are given in the Supplemental Material~\cite{supp}.
Using classical Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, we confirm that the phase diagram is still valid at $J_{hh} = - J_{tt}$ in the regime $K_{th} < 0$ we are most interested in (white dashed lines)~\cite{supp}.
We also confirm that non-coplanar symmetric umbrella states are favored for $K_{th}>0$.
Since the honeycomb spins are FM ordered in this region, the coupling $J_{th}$ to the triangular spins acts similarly to an external magnetic field and the phase diagram thus resembles the one of the triangular Heisenberg AFM in a magnetic field~\cite{Chubukov1991, Starykh2015}.

For fixed $|J_{hh}| \gtrsim J_{tt}$ and as a function of nonzero $J_{th}/J_{tt}$ and $K_{th}/J_{tt}$, the phase diagram contains five different phases. The symmetries that are broken in a particular ordered state are described by the order parameter manifold of degenerate ground states given in Table~\ref{tab:order_param}. First, $K_{th} < 0$ favors coplanar and collinear phases (UUD, V, Y, FM), while $K_{th} > 0$ prefers non-coplanar phases (umbrella). Our focus here is the $K_{th} < 0$ regime, in particular the collinear UUD region, which emerges at $0 > J_{th}/J_{tt}> -1 $ and sufficiently negative $K_{th}$. For small $K_{th}$, the system undergoes a sequence of transitions as $|J_{th}|$ increases from Y to UUD to V and finally to the FM phase. While we focus on FM $J_{th} < 0$ here, we note that the phase diagram for AFM $J_{th}$ is obtained by inverting the spins on the honeycomb lattice $\mathbf{S}_h \rightarrow - \mathbf{S}_h$.

\begin{table}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{*{2}{c}}
     \toprule
     Classical ground state & Order parameter manifold \\
     \midrule
     FM & SO(3) \\

     UUD & SO(3) $\times$ $\mathbb{Z}_3$ \\

     Y & SO(3) $\times$ U(1) $\times$ $\mathbb{Z}_3$  \\

     V & SO(3) $\times$ U(1) $\times$ $\mathbb{Z}_3$   \\

     Umbrella & SO(3) $\times$ U(1) $\times$ $\mathbb{Z}_2$ \\
     \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Order parameter manifolds describing the symmetries that are broken in the different classical ground states. Apart from the additional SO(3) symmetry, these are identical to ones found for the triangular Heisenberg AFM in magnetic field~\cite{Starykh2015}.}
    \label{tab:order_param}
\end{table}

\emph{Finite-$T$ phase diagram above UUD state.--} We use MC simulations to determine the finite temperature phase diagram above the UUD ground state. To obtain the phase diagram we simulate systems up to linear system sizes of $L=36$ containing a total of $N = 3 L^2$ spins, using periodic boundary conditions (PBC). The simulations use $10^6$ MC steps, half of which are discarded to let the system thermalize. Each MC step consists of a sequence of local Metropolis updates and a parallel-tempering move. We simulate $400$ temperatures in parallel, that are grouped into two logarithmically spaced sets between $0.05 \leq T/J_{tt} \leq 5.0$ and between $0.3 \leq T/J_{tt} \leq 5.0$. We choose two sets with different minimal temperatures to get a closely spaced coverage of the phase diagram around intermediate temperatures where we expect the phase transitions to occur as well as at low temperatures.

At finite temperature, only the discrete $\mathbb{Z}_3$ part of the UUD order parameter can exhibit long-range order since the continuous SO(3) degrees of freedom remain disordered. The $\mathbb{Z}_3$ breaking corresponds to a breaking of a discrete lattice symmetry, which is translational symmetry in this case, leading to a tripling of the unit cell. To identify the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ broken phase, we construct a composite $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts nematic order parameter
\begin{equation}
m_3 e^{i \theta} = -\frac{1}{2 N_p} \sum_{i=1}^{N_p} \left(\mathbf{S}_{Ai}+\mathbf{S}_{Bi}e^{\frac{2\pi i}{3}}+\mathbf{S}_{Ci}e^{-\frac{2\pi i}{3}}\right)\cdot \mathbf{S}_{hi} \,.
\label{Eq:order_parameter}
\end{equation}
The summation runs over all $N_p=2L^2$ triangular plaquettes consisting of three triangular and one honeycomb spin [see inset of Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(a)]. In the $T=0$ ground state UUD phase, one finds $m_3=1$ and $\theta = 0, \pm \frac{2 \pi}{3}$ corresponding to the three degenerate configurations, which are illustrated in Fig.~\ref{Fig:order_parameter}(a). Unlike the corresponding Potts order parameter of the Heisenberg AFM in an external field~\cite{Seabra2011}, this composite Potts nematic order parameter $\boldsymbol{m}_3$ probes the \emph{relative} alignment of triangular and honeycomb spins. To relate our results to the models in field, one can interpret the honeycomb spin direction $\mathbf{S}_{hi}$ as a spatially fluctuating coordinate system $S^z$-direction for the triangular spins. While the honeycomb spin correlation length $\xi_h$ remains finite at all temperatures, it becomes exponentially larger than the lattice scale when $T < J_{hh}$ and the resulting honeycomb magnetization that the triangular spins experience is a slowly varying function of position.

The transition temperature $T_c$ into the Potts-nematic ordered phase is obtained from the crossing of the Binder cumulants $U_2 = 2 \bigl(1 - \frac{\langle |\boldsymbol{m}_3|^4\rangle}{2 \langle |\boldsymbol{m}_3|^2\rangle^2}\bigr)$ at different linear system sizes up to $L = 36$. As a function of intersublattice coupling $J_{th}$ and fixed $K_{th} < 0$, the transition temperature $T_c$ exhibits a dome-like behavior, shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(b). Tuning $J_{th}$ acts similarly to tuning an external magnetic field in a triangular Ising AFM~\cite{Metcalf1973, kinzelPhenomenologicalScalingApproach1981}, yet in a fully SO(3) preserving way. While $T_c$ approaches zero smoothly as $J_{th} \rightarrow -1$, where the underlying UUD ground state changes into the FM state via a second-order transition, $T_c$ drops abruptly to zero when $J_{th} \rightarrow 0^+$. Numerically, we find that $T_c\to0$ for $|J_{th}|<0.005$.
In both limits, there exist domain wall excitations whose energy approaches zero that disorder the system (see Supp. Mat.~\cite{supp}).
While the behavior as $J_{th} \rightarrow 0^+$ may be indicative of a first-order phase transition, the related triangular Ising AFM in field is known to undergo a KT transition at small temperature and field with similar features~\cite{qianCriticalFrontierTriangular2004}.

The relation of our model to the triangular Ising and Heisenberg AFMs can be further studied by tuning the biquadratic coupling $K_{th}$, which tunes the ``Isingness" of the system. As shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(c), in the Heisenberg limit when tuning $K_{th} \rightarrow 0^-$ at fixed $J_{th}<0$, $T_c$ approaches the known value of the Potts transition in the Heisenberg AFM~\cite{Seabra2011}, which is indicated by the star for the case of $J_{th}/J_{tt} = -0.5$. Potts $T_c$ increases when $K_{th}$ becomes more negative and the system effectively behaves more Ising-like, while still being fully SO(3) invariant. For large negative $K_{th}$, $T_c$ saturates at a value that approaches the known transition temperature of the Ising AFM in field~\cite{Metcalf1973,qianCriticalFrontierTriangular2004}.

Being fully SO(3) invariant, our model allows for a new tuning parameter that is absent in the triangular AFMs in external fields: the lengthscale of spatial fluctuations of the magnetic field that the triangular spins experience. This lengthscale is given by the honeycomb spin correlation length $\xi_h$, which is controlled by the ratio $J_{hh}/T$. As shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}(d), $T_c$ decreases as a function of $J_{hh}$, or decreasing correlation length, and sharply drops to zero at $J_{hh} = -0.2$. Whether the universality class of this transition is first order or also of KT type like in the case of tuning the field strength, is an open question that deserves further study. We note that the drop in $T_c$ coincides with the position of a GS phase transition out of the UUD state.

\emph{Establishing Potts universality of phase transition.--} To further establish the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts universality class of the nematic phase transition at $T_c$, we perform detailed MC simulations at the parameter set $J_{hh}=-J_{tt}=-1$, $J_{th}=-0.3$, and $K_{th}=-1$. At $T=0$, this parameter point lies deep in the UUD ground state phase. We now consider linear system sizes up to $L=60$ with PBC and use $2 \times 10^6$ MC steps, the first half of which are again discarded for thermalization. We simulate $500$ temperatures in the range $0.02 \leq T/J_{tt} \leq 2.0$ that are spaced logarithmically.

In Fig.~\ref{Fig:order_parameter}(a), we show the order parameter phase $\langle \cos(3\theta) \rangle$ as a function of temperature for different system sizes $12 \leq L \leq 60$, where $\langle \, \cdot \, \rangle$ denotes the MC average. We observe a sharp transition from zero to one at a temperature that agrees with $T_c$ extracted from the Binder cumulant in panel (b). The transition demonstrates the ordering of the Potts-nematic phase $\theta = 0, \pm \frac{2 \pi}{3}$ into one of the three minima, illustrated in panel (a). In the lower inset of Fig.~\ref{Fig:order_parameter}(b), we plot the magnitude of the Potts-nematic order parameter $m_3$ versus temperature at $L=60$, which also undergoes a sharp transition, qualitatively consistent with the 2D $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts exponent $\beta = 1/9$. In the main part of panel (b) and the other inset, we show the Binder cumulant for different $L$ from which we extract a transition temperature $T_c = 0.76 J_{tt}$.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Fig3_order_parameter.png}
\caption{
(a) MC results of Potts-nematic order parameter phase $\langle \cos(3\theta)\rangle$ as a function of temperature for different system sizes $L=60$ showing a sharp continuous phase transition from disordered to $\mathbb{Z}_3$ ordered phase, where $\theta = 0, \pm \frac{2 \pi}{3}$ falls into one of the three degenerate minima. The gray vertical line indicates $T_c$ determined from the Binder cumulant $U_2$ shown in the lower panel. The inset illustrates the three degenerate configurations of the Potts-nematic order parameter $\boldsymbol{m}_3 = m_3 e^{i\theta}$ in the ordered phase. (b) Binder cumulant $U_2$ of $\boldsymbol{m}_3$ as a function of temperature for different system sizes $L$. The upper inset shows the Binder cumulant $U_2$ over the larger range of $T$. The lower inset shows the sharp onset of a finite magnitude of $\langle m_3 \rangle$ versus $T$ for $L=60$.}
\label{Fig:order_parameter}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Fig4_scaling_finitesize.png}
\caption{Finite size scaling analysis for (a) $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts magnetization $\langle m_3 \rangle$ (b) $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts susceptibility $\langle \chi_3 \rangle$ and (c) the specific heat $\langle c_V \rangle$ for linear system sizes up to $L=60$ unit cells using critical exponents from $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts universality class, where $t=(T-T_c)/T_c$. Black lines denote scaling functions extracted from a fit of the collapsed data. The MC calculations are performed at finite temperatures above the UUD ground state for $J_{tt}=1$, $J_{hh}=-1$, $J_{th}=-0.3$, and $K_{th}=-1$.}
\label{Fig:scaling_collapse}
\end{figure*}

In Fig.~\ref{Fig:scaling_collapse} we show a finite size scaling collapse of various Potts nematic observables using the critical exponents from the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts universality class $\alpha = 1/3$, $\beta=1/9$, $\gamma = 13/9$ and $\nu = 5/6$~\cite{Wu1982}. Different panels show the scaling plots of the Potts magnetization $\langle m_3 \rangle$, Potts susceptibility $\langle \chi_3 \rangle = \frac{N}{T} \bigl(\langle m_3^2\rangle - \langle m_3 \rangle^2 \bigr)$ and the specific heat $\langle c_V \rangle = \frac{1}{N T^2} \bigl( \langle \mathcal{H}^2 \rangle - \langle \mathcal{H} \rangle^2 \bigr)$ as a function of the reduced temperature $t=\frac{T-T_c}{T_c}$, where $N$ is the total number of spins.
We obtained excellent data collapse using only the leading scaling laws with exponents $\beta, \gamma$, and $\alpha$, respectively, without the need to include any subleading nonuniversal terms in the fit. We find the scaling functions (black lines) using a least square weighted regularization, making no assumptions about the scaling functions. This demonstrates that the nematic phase transition at $T_c$ lies in the universality class of the 2D $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts transition.

\emph{Biquadratic exchange from fluctuations.--} We now show that the biquadratic exchange $K_{th}$ included in the model in Eq.~\eqref{Eq:Hamiltonian} is automatically generated by quantum and thermal fluctuations in a purely bilinear model (i.e. a model with $K_{th} = 0$).
First, it is well known that quantum fluctuations to order $1/S$, where $S$ is the length of the spin, stabilize the UUD phase of the quantum Heisenberg triangular AFM in magnetic field~\cite{Chubukov1991, Starykh2015}. We can easily transform these results into an effective biquadratic exchange coupling $K_{th}^*$ appearing in our model that is of the form (see Supp. Mat.~\cite{supp})
\begin{align}
\frac{K^*_{th}}{J_{tt}} \approx -0.04 \frac{1}{2S} \,.
\label{Eq:effective_Kth_quantum}
\end{align}
Similarly, thermal fluctuations also favor collinear and coplanar spin configurations~\cite{Henley1989, Kawamura1984}, effectively inducing a biquadratic exchange term that stabilizes the UUD state. We determine the thermally induced $K_{th}^*$ in the classical model at $J_{th} \approx 0.5 J_{tt}$ by considering small fluctuations around the UUD, Y and V states. As shown in detail in the Supplemental Material~\cite{supp},
we perform a double expansion of the free energy in small $|J_{th} - 0.5 J_{tt}|$ and $T$, which yields
\begin{align}
\frac{K^*_{th}}{J_{tt}} \approx -0.9 \frac{ T}{J_{tt}}.
\label{Eq:effective_Kth_thermal}
\end{align}
Note that while the spin correlation function exhibits an infrared divergence at low temperatures, the free energy is well defined in the low-temperature limit~\cite{Chandra1990, Kawamura1984}. Using a temperature of $ T=0.05 J_{tt}$, we estimate a thermally induced $K_{th}^* \approx -0.045 J_{tt}$ that is comparable to the effective $K_{th}^* \approx -0.04 J_{tt}$ induced by quantum fluctuations for $S=1/2$. This puts the model in the vicinity of the Heisenberg limit in the phase diagram of Fig.~\ref{Fig:PD}.

\emph{Conclusions.--} We design and study bilinear-biquadratic SO(3) symmetric Heisenberg models on stacked lattices that exhibit emergent three-state Potts nematic order. The lattice designs consist of AFM coupled spins on a triangular sublattice that are interacting with spins on a FM coupled sixfold symmetric sublattice. These models can be regarded as SO(3) invariant generalizations of the Heisenberg and Ising triangular AFM in magnetic fields, and largely extend the material space to study emergent Potts nematic phases. Focusing on the example of classical spin models on the 2D windmill lattice, we show that while magnetic order is absent at finite temperatures due to the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner theorem, the system hosts a finite temperature phase transition into a state with long-range three-state Potts-nematic order above the $T=0$ UUD ground state. We relate our findings obtained using large-scale MC simulations and analytical theory to known results on the Ising and Heisenberg triangular AFMs in field. We also introduce a new tuning parameter to manipulate the Potts order that corresponds to the spatial inhomogeneity of the magnetic field and deserves further study. Finally, we show that biquadratic exchange couplings arise from quantum and thermal fluctuations in bilinear models, reducing the requirements for an experimental realization of these stacked spin models.

\acknowledgements
We thank P.~Chandra, P.~Coleman, R.~M.~Fernandes, R.~Flint, M.~Kornja\v ca, and J.~Schmalian for useful discussions. This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Ames National Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract No.~DE-AC02-07CH11358. V.L.Q. acknowledges support from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement via P.P.O.'s Cottrell Scholar Award.

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Construction began on Milwaukee County Stadium in 1950 with the hope of bringing professional baseball back to Milwaukee, but the stadium ultimately served as a multi-functional entertainment venue in the city's industrial Menomonee Valley. Its construction was unique among Major League ballparks in two ways: it was the first one to be erected with lights and the first to be financed wholly with public funding.[1] Home to the Milwaukee Braves (1953-1965) and Milwaukee Brewers (1970-2000), the stadium hosted three World Series (1957, 1958, and 1982) and was the site of Henry Aaron's final home run in 1976. County Stadium served as an alternate home field for the Green Bay Packers (1953-1994) and hosted major rock concerts, including the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and Paul McCartney.[2] The stadium was demolished between December 2000 and February 21, 2001, as the Brewers transitioned to their new home, Miller Park.
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^ Ballparks, 1871-Present, Atlanta Braves website, last accessed August 1, 2017.
^ Packers Chronology, 1919-2012, Green Bay Packers website, http://www.packers.com/history/chronology.html#1990, last accessed 2012; Dave Tianen, "The Stadium's Other Life: Through the Years, Not All of Ballpark's Hits Involved Baseball," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 30, 1999.
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A new poll this week has revealed that both our country's potential Prime Ministers have fallen out of favour with the public. It's hard to believe of the duo, who have the combined charisma of a fart in an elevator. As it transpires, a ComRes poll has revealed that only a mere 25 per cent of the public say they have a "favourable" view of David Cameron, while an even less inspiring 19 per cent say the same of Ed Miliband. The poll has left us querying how on earth this could be the case. The answer, of course, is that the two contenders argue their cases with the enthusiasm of a McDonald's Drive-Thru employee.
It's clear to any observer that there has been a correlation between the rise in what some might call "extremist" views (i.e. UKIP) and the increasingly watered-down, glazed-over, monotonous, toe-the-line speeches that are being apologetically scattered like stale breadcrumbs across the country by the two party leaders in the run-up to the election, devoid of any content more exciting or passion-inducing than a slightly blackened banana. That's essentially what mainstream UK politics is. Whereas as UKIP… Well, UKIP are banoffee pie, aren't they? Like mainstream politics, but with a fun twist of angry racism. In all honesty, it's never a good thing when Nigel Farage (whom the poll found to be favourable to 26 per cent), a man who legitimately looks like a finger puppet, is found to be more likeable as a politician than you, is it?
The place of passion and fire in a politician's arguments should not be overlooked. Consider any truly legendary political or revolutionary figure, who changed the face of politics in some way. Gandhi, for example. He wasn't one for mincing his words. Then consider Che Guevara. It's hard to compare Che with David and Ed, isn't it? He never got that cold, detached look in his eyes that you see in David Cameron's when he's giving a speech, where you think that he could quite possibly be mulling over the plot of the previous nights Holby City. And it's certainly difficult to envisage Ed Miliband touring South America on a motorcycle giving revolutionary speeches, with his hair billowing behind him. Although the image is hilarious.
It comes down to the fact that it's near-impossible to respect anyone who doesn't strongly believe in anything, as the poll demonstrates. The line-toeing in an attempt not to anger anyone has backfired dramatically on the two, who seem too scared to commit to anything, and it really comes across as condescending, as if they don't think they should reveal any complicated details to the plebs.
But is it really plausible for Dave to be shouting and screaming strong, well-defined arguments with some actual focus in this economic climate? Would it not unsettle the balance? Of course not. Strong leadership is respected in times of crisis. You never see indecisive firemen, or a slightly distracted bomb-disposal officer. In any case, they need to take a leaf out of Farage's book before he starts to become a real contender, which would be awful – both on account of his politics and the fact that he looks like a puppet.


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Here's a real Halloween horror story: The ex-Uber driver accused of killing eight people in lower Manhattan last Oct. 31 — saying he "felt good about what he had done" for ISIS after the bloodbath — will probably never see death row.
Sayfullo Saipov, 30, is slated to go on trial next October — roughly two years after he allegedly used a Home Depot rental truck to mow down dozens of New Yorkers and tourists in the name of ISIS. The act of terror also injured 12.
The feds say Saipov later requested that an ISIS flag be hung in his hospital room, where he was recovering after being shot by a cop. He also "stated that he felt good about what he had done," they said.
The Department of Justice is seeking the death penalty for the Patterson, NJ, resident, who allegedly chose last Halloween the attack because he believed there would be more people out on the street for him to harm.
But even if prosecutors get the judge's OK to pursue capital punishment, it's unlikely he will be put to death, according to Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Since 1963, not a single case in New York, either state or federal, has resulted in an execution in part because Empire State jurors often pass on the chance to impose the death penalty in favor of life in prison, Dunham said.
It's not for lack of trying. Federal prosecutors in New York have sought the death penalty close to 50 times since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988 — there hasn't been a state death penalty since 1972 — including 16 times in Manhattan federal court and 30 times in Brooklyn federal court, according to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel.
But in that time, there's only been one death verdict and that was for double cop-killer Ronell Wilson, who escaped death row in 2016 after a federal judge ruled he was too "intellectually disabled" to be executed.
Wilson, who killed undercover cops James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews during a gun buy-and-bust undercover operation on Staten Island, infamously stuck out his tongue at his victims' families when they applauded his initial death verdict in 2007.
Saipov has also been known to behave bizarrely in court, including telling the judge at a recent hearing that he's "not worried about this at all" because only God can judge him.
Alleged bike-path terrorist's lawyers use Trump's tweets in defense
"The judgments made here are not important to me because they are judgments of living things … not by Allah, made by weak minds," he told the judge in June.
Saipov's defense lawyers, who did not return a request for an interview, have argued against the death penalty, saying that Sessions' decision to seek death for Saipov may have been unfairly influenced by President Trump.
They cited Trump's tweets about Saipov calling for Saipov to be put to death — "Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY," Trump tweeted after Saipov's arrest — combined with the president's attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions. They said this combination of factors raises questions about whether Sessions wants the death penalty for Saipov to make the president happy.
Keeping Saipov alive might also prove to be the wiser choice, according to Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
Sentencing him to death will just "make him a martyr," Dershowitz told The Post.
"He will be forgotten if sentenced to life."
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Two coming-of-age films, both filmed in black and white, both released in time for awards season. Strap in, my friends, this calls for a Double Feature!
Belfast comes to us from writer/director/producer Kenneth Branagh, a semi-autobiographical portrayal of his own childhood in Northern Ireland back in 1969. Specifically, the film is heavily preoccupied with the notion of growing up in "The Troubles", back when Protestants were fire-bombing Catholic families with the intention of pushing Catholics out of Belfast.
Buddy (played by newcomer Jude Hill) is a young boy in a Belfast family of Protestants, but the family is still concerned about their beloved Catholic neighbors and there's reason to believe the Protestant gangs might come to see them as "against us". However, Buddy's father (played by Jamie Dornan) is a carpenter who often works in England, and there's a distinct possibility that he might be able to get the family to safer ground in some other part of the world.
Of course that comes with the significant downside that the family would have to leave the only home they've ever known, and the neighbors who all know and love each other. Not that their sense of community and family matters all that much when the taxman is breathing down their necks, there's a constant looming threat of arson and/or death, and the whole neighborhood is tearing itself apart along ideological lines. There's also the matter of the national army and law enforcement, whose efforts at protecting Belfast look strangely like an oppressive military occupation.
Oh, and there's the tiny little detail that their new home might not even be safer, given how Irish immigrants have typically been received in other parts of the world. (*ahem*)
The premise to C'mon C'mon will take a bit more explaining. Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny, a radio journalist on a massive nationwide project that involves interviewing various kids and teenagers regarding the state of the world, their anxieties for the future, and so on. Additionally, Johnny's mother passed away recently, causing a rift between him and his sister (Viv, played by Gaby Hoffman).
Our plot begins when Viv calls Johnny back to her home in the Los Angeles area. Long story short, Viv's husband (Paul, played by Scoot McNairy) was working a job in another city until he suffered some kind of psychotic break. So now Viv has to go deal with that mess, leaving her nine-year-old son (Jesse, played by Woody Norman) in the care of Uncle Johnny. As Paul's mental/physical health keeps fluctuating, Jesse is left with Johnny for a longer period of time, until Johnny has to get back to work touring the country for his radio journalism piece, taking Jesse along with him. Hilarity ensues.
The kicker here is that Jesse… well, I'm not 100 percent sure he's on the autism spectrum, but there's definitely something off about this kid. And given how his father turned out, there's a very real possibility that this is some kind of genetic thing. The point is, Jesse's a handful. He's got all these weird habits and peculiar ways of expressing himself. But the more time Johnny spends with his nephew, the more he starts to pick up that there's a method to the madness.
It bears remembering that Johnny and his colleagues go through the whole picture asking kids what they think about the future, their hopes and dreams, what they think about the adults running the planet, etc. As the movie unfolds and we hear from more kids, we start to see that children are indeed far more intelligent and perceptive than they're often given credit for, they simply don't know how to express their thoughts and feelings in a detailed or articulate way. This is most capably demonstrated in the Johnny/Jesse dynamic, as each of them gradually learn how to communicate in terms that the other will understand.
Both movies are clearly and explicitly about the various ways that adults can fuck up children, even and especially with the best intentions toward them. In both films, the young protagonist feels entirely helpless because they can't do a thing about all the drama surrounding their parent figures. (In fact, Buddy and Jesse both have to deal with biological fathers who are absent for long stretches of time.) But both films approach the concept from totally different angles.
Belfast stays tightly focused on the perspective of our ten-year-old protagonist. Hell, most of the characters don't even get names aside from their relationship to Buddy ("Ma", "Pa", "Granny", etc.). Buddy's just a kid who just wants to do well in school, impress his crush, and generally have a well-adjusted childhood. That turns out to be difficult when he's growing up in a goddamn DMZ.
Buddy doesn't always know what's going on with regards to his family's finances and dilemmas about moving. He has a rough time figuring right from wrong when his neighbors are all at each other's throats over which gods and preachers and scriptures they should be listening to. How can any kid have a decent childhood in the face of all this bloody and complicated shit he doesn't understand? More importantly, what are his parents going to do about it?
Belfast explores Buddy's mental state and development by putting us squarely in his headspace from start to finish. By contrast, C'mon C'mon shows Jesse's development through his relationship and interplay with Johnny. In fact, for all the film's lip service to the strength of family and community in Belfast, I don't think Buddy has a single relationship with any other character as potent or well-performed as the Jesse/Johnny relationship (except maybe Buddy's interplay with his grandfather, played by Ciaran Hinds).
Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman have such effortless chemistry that every line between them is positively crackling. Every second they have onscreen together tells me something new about both of these characters. It also helps that Mike Mills is an outrageously underrated filmmaker with such criminally underappreciated gems as Beginners and 20th Century Women. Mills has already proven himself more than capable of delivering family dramatic comedies with heart in abundance, and he brings more of the same in spades here. Though Branagh is a perfectly capable journeyman director, he doesn't specialize in that kind of interplay like Mills does.
(Also, much as I hate to say it, the impenetrably thick Irish accents do present a slight language stumbling block that C'mon doesn't have.)
A lot of that comes from the fact that while both films are all about young characters talking about their emotions and learning how to sort through their feelings, the two films take place fifty years apart and that makes a huge difference. Belfast takes place in a time when boys and men were expected to bottle up their emotions and work through the pain, to say nothing of attitudes towards girls and women that might be considered comically ignorant at best by today's standards.
Compare that to C'mon, in which these 21st century characters lean on more modern psychology. (No joke, there's a scene in which Johnny attempts to resolve a conflict by reading off a script he found online.) The characters are all much more open and honest about their feelings, and more effective about getting others to open up about their feelings. It's all done in a way that makes for deeper and more compelling character drama, especially when the characters are faced with the knowledge that they fucked up.
Case in point: There's one scene late in the movie in which Johnny and Jesse take turns literally screaming out their pain, reassuring each other that it's okay to feel sad and terrible in that particular scenario. It's funny, it's heartwarming, and it would never ever happen in Buddy's family.
It changes everything that Mills made the characters his first priority, while Branagh's primary allegiance is to the time and place of the setting. Before anything else, Branagh made a love letter to Belfast and a heartfelt tribute to all those who lived through The Troubles. It's elegant and beautifully made, but I'm sorry, I found the story set in modern-day USA to be more accessible.
Another slight problem is that Belfast tends to drag and meander quite a bit. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because what could we expect when we're seeing the whole world from a child's perspective? Moreover, as time passes and the citizens of Belfast get increasingly lax in their precautions against another raid, it leads to a kind of underlying tension with the ongoing question of when the next strike will come to catch this neighborhood unawares.
I might add that if the film kind of peters out, it demonstrates that a huge climactic event isn't always necessary for hitting rock bottom or precipitating any kind of change. There's a lot of good to go with the bad, such that the decision to leave Belfast is never clear-cut at any point in the film, nor should it be.
Even so, C'mon was always constantly working toward the moment when Paul would get better and Johnny would have to tearfully part ways with his nephew as Jesse got the all-clear to come back home. The entire plot kept relentlessly building toward that certain conclusion within a tightening time frame, thus it had a kind of momentum that Belfast — with its open-ended question of when or if Buddy's family will move — simply didn't have.
On the other hand, I've seen a lot of movies about the conflict of "should I stay or should I go?" and the trope has always been to stay behind and look after the protagonist's true home. Belfast doesn't go that route. Indeed, the film stops well short of condemning the many Belfast denizens who chose to leave in search of safer ground. It makes a compelling statement that however people may wander, their ancestral home will always be right where they left it.
Likewise, C'mon C'mon makes a very clear point of refusing to condone or condemn any character. It's openly acknowledged that Jesse can be a little shit, Johnny and Viv are both imperfect and potentially incompetent parent figures, and Paul is simply a trainwreck. Yet all of these characters are shockingly patient with each other, given numerous chances to teach each other and learn from their mistakes. And sure enough, they are often motivated to grow and to learn for the sake of their family.
When you show up at any time and for any reason, they have to take you in. That's what home is. That's what family is. And in their own powerful ways, both films demonstrate that superbly.
This brings me to the black-and-white presentation. In point of fact, Belfast is not completely in black and white. Indeed, the film opens with many crisp full-color shots of modern-day Belfast before transitioning to the black and white Belfast of 1969. And as the film progresses, we see plenty of movies and stage plays — the treasured escapist fantasies that take Buddy away from The Troubles — presented in full color. Thus the strategic use of color in a primarily black-and-white film has a clear and effective artistic point.
By contrast, I have no idea why C'mon C'mon was presented in black and white. It doesn't seem to be part of any artistic statement I can surmise from the film itself, and there's no reason it couldn't have been in any color. In fact, I'd argue that it should've been in color, as it would've done so much to make the different USA locales more distinct. For fuck's sake, there's one scene in which Jesse and Johnny march in a New Orleans parade. Why in the nine hells would anyone use black and white photography to shoot a parade in freaking New Orleans?! Without showing all the extravagant colors, why even bother?!
Both films are excellent, but I personally prefer C'mon C'mon. Though Jude Hill turns in a delightful debut performance, he can't possibly shoulder an entire movie on his own — certainly not like Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman carry the film together in a thoroughly riveting team-up.
More importantly, Belfast is quite clearly a semi-autobiographical work, extremely nostalgic and introspective in its design. The film is perfectly charming and stunningly photographed, don't get me wrong, but it's a slow burn and less patient viewers may have a problem with the long stretches where nothing happens. By comparison, C'mon C'mon is all about huge emotions and characters acting in unpredictable ways, which makes for a more consistently exciting and endearing picture.
Yes, Belfast has a stunning cast with the likes of Jamie Dornan, Catriona Balfe, Judi Dench, and Ciaran Hinds, all of whom turn in masterful work. Even Lara McDonnell turns in a suitably charming performance, making good after she was so terribly wasted in that Artemis Fowl misfire. But while Belfast had the larger and more star-studded cast, I never quite fell in love with their characters like I did with C'mon C'mon.
In the end, Belfast will get all the Oscar buzz and quite possibly a few nominations while C'mon C'mon will be overlooked and Mike Mills will once again be denied his due. Damn shame. Don't get me wrong, both pieces are beautiful works of cinema and well worth your time to sit through, just don't be surprised if you need a little more patience to sit through the Branagh picture.
Belfast, C'mon C'mon, Gaby Hoffman, Jamie Dornan, Joaquin Phoenix, Jude Hill, Kenneth Branagh, Lara McDonnell, Scoot McNairy, Woody Norman


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CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – Two John Jay High School juniors have been invited to participate in New York State Sen. Greg Ball's Student Advisory Council as a result of their leadership and ethics.
Sydney Glenn and Daniel Fulop were named to the council after filling out an Outstanding Student Youth Award application. The students were required to write an essay pertaining to ethics and leadership. One to two students were selected from participating high schools, according to the school district.
The council meets once a month to discuss various school programs. Glenn and Fulop meet with approximately a dozen other students from around the state to share ideas and integrate programs, the district said. The meetings take place at the state district attorney's office in Brewster and will continue throughout the 2012-13 school year.
Ball said he started the council to create more student involvement with their local communities and boost their interest in politics.
"When I was a student I so wanted to get involved but felt my elected officials were unapproachable," Ball said. "I really wanted to change that perception once elected and it's so important that we encourage our youth to get active and involved in our communities. Even more exciting is all the great ideas that they generate. These (students) are impressive future leaders."
Glenn and Fulop each have unique interests and backgrounds.
Fulop is the vice speaker of Campus Congress, of which he's been a member since the 10th grade. He is also a member of the Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and is the only student member of Spirit Builders, an organization that builds ramps and other structures for people in need, the district said. He recently built a 90-foot-long wheelchair ramp that traversed a stream. During the summer, he takes part in the Appalachian Service Project, providing community service to people in that region. Also a varsity swimmer and varsity tennis player, Fulop hopes to enter a pre-med program after graduation, the district said.
Glenn, a scholar athlete, is a member of the varsity volleyball team and is captain of the varsity basketball team, where she was named to the All-League team, the district said. She also volunteers her time coaching recreational basketball and led her team to the playoffs this year. She participates in the Young Scholars Architectural Program and hopes to study architecture and/or engineering in college, the district said.
Ball said he appreciates the input that students such as Glenn and Fulop provide in their roles as Student Advisory Council members.
"Whether it's working with them to craft legislation taking on bullying in schools, or bringing them up for a mock session in Albany, it's a real pleasure working with them," Ball said.