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La crise économique espagnole est liée à la crise économique mondiale et à la crise de la dette dans la zone euro. L'Espagne est, avec la Grèce, Chypre, l'Irlande et le Portugal, un des principaux pays européens touchés par cette crise.

En Espagne, la crise économique a été générée par une bulle immobilière ayant fragilisé le secteur financier et bancaire du pays, ainsi que bien évidemment le secteur de la construction. La crise économique espagnole a eu un impact important sur le chômage celui-ci montant à un taux de 24,4 % en mars 2012, tout en augmentant le taux d'endettement privé et public déjà élevés. La crise économique avait également des causes plus structurelles comme un déficit commercial élevé et récurrent.

Le PIB espagnol a commencé à diminuer au  2008, et le pays est entré officiellement en récession dès le trimestre suivant. Le pays a eu une baisse de 3,7 % en 2009, de 0,1 % en 2010, alors qu'il est positif de 0,7 % en 2011

Bulle et crise immobilière

La bulle immobilière espagnole a eu pour conséquence une augmentation des prix immobiliers de 200 % entre 1996 et 2007. Cela alors que le taux de propriété est de 80 %, encouragé par divers dispositifs fiscaux et par une législation favorables aux locataires. L'hypothèque est particulièrement développée en Espagne.
Le prix moyen au m² était à la fin 2008 de  €/m².
Entre juin 2007 et juin 2008, le nombre de constructions a chuté de 25,3 %, cette chute des constructions a touché en particulier la Catalogne avec une baisse de 42,2 %, alors que l'Extremadure, une région rurale n'a connu qu'une baisse de 1,7 %.

L'Espagne a également construit des infrastructures notables peu ou pas utilisés comme l'aéroport Central-Ciudad Real ou l'aéroport de Castellón-Costa Azahar ou encore le projet immobilier de Valdeluz qui malgré sa taille n'a été que peu occupé.

Crise bancaire et financière
Durant la crise économique, le secteur bancaire et tertiaires, s'est fortement concentré en Espagne, via des fusions de caisses d'épargnes, des nationalisations ou de systèmes institutionnels de protection (SIP). Les systèmes institutionnels de protection sont créées à partir de la mi-2010, ils consistent à une fusion financière partielles des entités.

2010
En janvier 2010,  est créé par la fusion de Caja España et de Caja Duero. Le 11 mai 2010, Caja de Jaén est absorbé par Unicaja. Le 17 mai 2010, les caisses d'épargnes ,  et  fusionnent pour aboutir à Unnim.

Le premier SIP à être créé est Banca Cívica en juin 2010, qui regroupe Caja Navarra, Cajasol, Caja de Guadalajara, CajaCanarias et Caja de Burgos. Le SIP Caja3 est créé en décembre 2010 pour regrouper Caja Inmaculada, Caja Círculo et Caja de Badajoz.

Le  juillet 2010,  est créé par la fusion de plusieurs caisses d'épargnes catalanes (,  et ). Le 21 septembre 2010, Caja Castilla-La Mancha est absorbé par CajAstur. Le 5 octobre 2010, Caja Guadalajara est absorbé par Cajasol. Le 3 novembre 2010, Caixa Girona est absorbé par . Le  décembre 2010, Novacaixagalicia est créé par la fusion de Caixa Galicia et de Caixanova, des caisses d'épargnes galiciennes. Le 29 décembre 2010, CajaSur est absorbé par BBK.

2011
Banco Financiero y de Ahorros est créé le  janvier 2011, en regroupant Caja Madrid, Bancaja, La Caja de Canarias, Caja de Ávila, Caixa Laietana, Caja Segovia et Caja Rioja. Le même jour est créé le SIP Banco Mare Nostrum qui regroupe Cajamurcia, Caixa Penedès, Caja Granada et Sa Nostra. Le 23 mai 2011, est créé le SIP Liberbank qui regroupe les caisses CajAstur, Caja Castilla-La Mancha, Caja de Extremadura et Caja Cantabria.

Le 26 septembre 2011, Caja España-Duero fusionne avec Unicaja. Le 30 septembre 2011, Unnim, Novacaixagalicia et  sont nationalisées via le fonds de restructuration des banques espagnoles.  Le 8 décembre 2011, Caja Mediterráneo est absorbé par Banco Sabadell.

2012
Le  janvier 2012 est créé le SIP Kutxabank regroupant BBK, CajaSur, Kutxa y Caja Vital. Le 26 mars 2012, Banca Cívica est absorbé par .

Le 9 mai 2012, Banco Financiero y de Ahorros, le SIP derrière la marque Bankia, est nationalisée, tandis que le 25 mai son plan de sauvetage est estimé à 23,5 milliards d'euros. Auparavant, entre février 2012 et avril 2012, les banques espagnoles ont déjà emprunté 144 milliards d'euros à 3 ans auprès de la BCE dans la deuxième opération LTRO. D'après l'économiste Jacques Sapir, en juin 2012, les besoins du système bancaire seraient de 250 à 300 milliards d'euros. Par ailleurs, d'autres banques pourraient également avoir des besoins non négligeables. Madrid ne veut alors pas d'aide européenne et prépare des plans dont l'un qui conduisait à impliquer la BCE est rejetée par cette dernière. Pour Nicolas Véron, les problèmes bancaires ne peuvent être traités de façon distincte des problèmes de dette souveraine.

Le 27 juillet 2012, Unnim est acquis par BBVA.

Le 9 juin 2012, les banques espagnoles ont bénéficié d'une aide qui pourrait aller jusqu'à 100 milliards d'euros de la part de la zone euro via le mécanisme européen de stabilité et le fonds européen de stabilité financière . Cette aide serait distribuée via le fonds de restructuration des banques espagnoles, elle n'est pas distribuée avant le 15 novembre 2012.

Le 28 novembre 2012, la commission européenne approuve un plan gouvernemental qui comprend la restructuration de Bankia, de NCG Banco et de , ainsi que la vente de Banco de Valencia à . Le plan comprend également un prêt de 37 milliards d'euros, ainsi que la création d'une «  » pour regrouper les actifs pourris, mais également la fermeture d'un grand nombre d'agences bancaires et la réduction du personnel bancaire.

Dette publique

L'Espagne avait au début de cette crise une dette représentant 36,2 % de son PIB, ce faible taux étant aidé par les taxes sur l'immobilier et par l'augmentation de l'activité et donc du PIB de par la bulle immobilière.
Le 15 juin 2012, la dette publique de l'Espagne représentait 71,1 % de son PIB, soit encore moins que la moyenne de la zone euro, qui avait une dette publique de 88 % de son PIB.

Déficit public
Le déficit public espagnol explose en 2009. Il s'élève à 11,2 % du PIB selon Eurostat, bien au-delà de la limite des 3 % du pacte de stabilité européen. Le gouvernement socialiste s'était engagé à le ramener à 3 % en 2013, mais S&P estimait « que le déficit public devrait probablement encore excéder 5 % du PIB d'ici 2013 ».

En 2010, le déficit public est réduit à 9,24 % du PIB (contre un objectif de 9,3 %), avec 5,7 % pour l'État (contre un objectif de 6,7 %) et 2,83 % pour les régions (contre un objectif de 2,4 %). En septembre 2011, le gouvernement espagnol annonce qu'il tiendra son objectif de déficit fixé à 6 % du PIB pour l'année 2011, alors que les déficits des régions est largement au-dessus des objectifs fixés par l'État (plus particulièrement pour l'Andalousie et la Catalogne).
 Toutefois, l'Espagne loupe largement son objectif en 2011 alors que le déficit public s'affiche à 8,9 %, dont 2,9 % du PIB pour les régions.

Notation
En janvier 2009, Standard & Poor's abaisse la notation de l'Espagne de AAA à AA+.
L'agence Standard & Poor's rétrograde le crédit espagnol de AA+ à AA, invoquant les faibles espoirs de croissance de ce pays, frappé de plein fouet par l'éclatement de la bulle immobilière et de la construction.
Le , Moody's abaisse la note de l'Espagne de deux cran de A1 à Aa2, avec une perspective négative.
Le , l'agence de notation Fitch Ratings dégrade la note espagnole de trois crans à BBB. Le , Moody's baisse sa note sur l'Espagne de trois crans à Baaa3. Standard & Poor's baisse sa note à BBB- le .
Pour les analystes, la dégradation de la note de l'Espagne est plus préoccupante en raison du poids de son économie dans la zone euro, nettement supérieur à celui de la Grèce et du Portugal car si elle devait demander l'aide comme la Grèce à l'UE, cela ne serait pas possible vu sa taille.

Austérité

En mai 2010, José Luis Zapatero annonce plusieurs mesures d'austérités, correspondant à 1,5 % du PIB, comprenant des baisses salariales des salariés publics, et un arrêt de la valorisation des retraites. En juin 2010, une réforme du droit du travail est votée. En mai 2011, l'âge légal de départ à la retraite passe de 65 à 67 ans.

À la suite des élections générales espagnoles de novembre 2011 remportées par le Parti populaire, Mariano Rajoy devient président du gouvernement et promet davantage d'austérité.

Le 30 décembre 2011, le gouvernement du parti populaire annonce des mesures d'austérités pour un total de 8,9 milliards de coupes budgétaires et de 6,3 milliards de hausses d'impôts

Le gouvernement espagnol annonce de nouvelles mesures d'austérité en  contenant des mesures d'économie totales de 39,5 milliards d'euros avec pour objectif un déficit public à 5,3 % (contre 8,9 en 2011) alors que l'objectif initial était de 4,4 %. Les budgets des ministères sont réduits de 17 % en moyenne afin de réaliser 27,3 milliards d'économie en plus de 12,3 milliards de hausse de prélèvement. Le budget estime la récession de l'économie en 2012 à 1,7 %, mais si les coupes budgétaires devaient entrainer une contraction plus importante de l'économie, le gouvernement ne pourra pas atteindre ses objectifs.

Le , le gouvernement espagnol annonce un nouveau plan d'austérité de 65 milliards d'euros et revoit ses objectifs de déficit public. Les mesures comprennent la hausse de la TVA de 18 à 21 %, et le taux réduit de 8 à 10 %, des baisses de subventions, des réductions d'avantages fiscaux, des réductions de dépenses dans les ministères et des privatisations. Quant à l'objectif de déficit, il est réduit à 6,3 % du PIB contre 5,3 %, puis 4,5 % en 2013 et 2,8 % en 2014.

L'Espagne durant la crise lance plusieurs plans de relance.

Chômage

Le taux de chômage est de 17,4 % en mars 2009 , près de 2 millions de personnes ont alors perdu leur travail sur cette dernière année, et près de 4 millions de personnes sont au chômage. Le taux de chômage passe à 20 % au premier trimestre 2010, et est de 24,4 % en mars 2012.
À la fin 2012, les salaires du secteur public sont coupés de 5 %, en plus de la suppression du  représentant 7,1 % du salaire public moyen. À la même époque, le chômage des moins de 25 ans est de 55 %, c'est le taux de chômage le plus important de l'Union européenne après la Grèce.

C'est dans le sud de l'Espagne, notamment en Andalousie, que le chômage est le plus important du pays, avec une moyenne de 33 %, soit plus de 1,4 million de chômeurs sur les plus de 8 millions d'habitants de la communauté autonome.

Contestation (grève, manifestation)

Les coupes budgétaires décidées par le gouvernement espagnol ont affecté l'éducation, la santé, la culture, les prestations sociales et de nombreux autres domaines publics. Ainsi, les Espagnols  constatent que l'État-Providence espagnol est plus fragilisé que jamais. Ils manifestent donc leur mécontentement durant deux grèves générales, ou bien à travers le mouvement des Indignés qui dénonce le fait que l'Espagne soit un pantin de l'Union Européenne et du FMI.

L'un des mouvements les plus connus est celui du 15-M. Il s'agit d'un mouvement spontané et diffus qui débouche sur l'occupation de la , à Madrid, le . Pendant des mois, les Espagnols  débattent sur de nombreux sujets, et la protestation se dilue dans des projets de quartier et autres initiatives.

Solde migratoire négatif
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Références

Bibliographie
 Nacima Baron, L'Espagne de la prospérité à la crise, Louvain-la-Neuve, Editions De Boeck, Collection Le point Sur, 170 p., 2010.

Grande Récession de 2008
Histoire économique de l'Espagne
Relations entre l'Espagne et l'Union européenne

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The nearly instantaneous flow of information is a defining variable of the information age. Many leading companies have established a benchmark of implementing flexible and effective new technologies into their business plan, and just now many small businesses have been able to get out ahead of this trend and implement their own solutions. While it's true some companies can use this technology better than others, in regards to healthcare information, the seamless flow of information can literally be the difference between life and death.
In August of 1996, United States President Bill Clinton, in an effort to promote secure transfer of patient information, signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). At that time, HIPAA stated that the Secretary of Health and Human Services had to publicize official standards for the electronic exchange, privacy, and security of health-related information. It also stated that the Secretary of HHS had the responsibility of issuing regulations if the U.S. Congress didn't enact privacy and security standards by 1999. Three years later, HHS unveiled the official rules.
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Singer, Composer, Poet (Aquarius) – Soccorro Salomone was desperate, for not only was she poor but the blemish of being an unwed mother meant that her young son Ignacio did not have much of a future; his father, a certain "Corsini" had disappeared as soon as he found out that she was pregnant…one day she descended from the ancient mountain town of Troina, in Central Sicily and headed out with little Ignacio in tow, on horse carriage, to begin the long journey to Naples where she boarded a ship to Buenos Aires…she settled in the neighborhood of Almagro and began working long hours as a washer woman…when Ignacio was ten years old they moved to the country where the boy began working as a herdsman and ox driver…many years later, reflecting on those long solitary hours in the countryside, Ignacio Corsini, now a famous and successful singer would say, "birds taught me the spontaneity of their singing, in the great scenery of nature…to sing like them, naturally with no effort"…
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The JBG Companies has owned the 16-acre site of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel at 2660 Woodley Road NW (map) since 2005, and had big plans on the boards for the site.
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The original proposal would raze the hotel and deliver an additional five residential buildings to the site, totaling nearly 1,650 units atop over 1,000 parking spaces. Despite the entire property being put up for sale, JBG is still revising the application to alter the height and massing of the building on the North Lawn to make it more compatible with Future Land Use map plans and the nearby architecture.
"To better understand and weigh all available options for Wardman Park, we are going to be engaging in an active marketing process to sell the property, including the Marriott hotel," JBG said in a statement. "While the Marriott hotel has a long-term operating agreement with JBG, putting the property on the market will provide JBG and the community with a better understanding of all potential options for the future of Wardman Park."
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Fried Green Tomatoes said at 1:46 pm on Thursday September 29, 2016:
What a pity. I hope this isn't a final victory for NIMBYs, but given it's NW I wouldn't hold my breath.
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On the one hand, true. On the other hand, bollocks.
Bullseye Pizza Pan
Cheezza
christmas dinner pizza
Continuous Pizza Oven
Corrugated Pizza
cruncheroni pizza
Cylindrical Pizza
Doughdecahedron
Dried Pizza
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A long, possibly folded, conveyer belt for the continuous production of pizza. Flour, water, oil and yeast would trickle into a small mixing chamber, and then onto a thin, continuously moving conveyer belt where it would be rolled flat before slowly moving through a 'proving' section of the belt. As the strip moves along it passes through a baking chamber, is lightly brushed with olive oil, has tomato sauce spread on it, some pepperoni and mozzerella, and goes though a final bake, ultimately emerging on the moving belt at the mouth of the oven as a slowly moving, thin strip of delicious pizza which can be cut off to your preferred length.
I like the idea that the pizza you're just cutting off the end of the strip is connected to the uncooked dough at the other end. Also, for kitchen gadget fiends, you could make the mouth of the oven, where the conveyer belt emerges, look like an enormous tap, to give the impression you have pizza 'on tap'.
— hippo, May 20 2009
Conveyor Toasters http://www.valera.co.uk/cat.asp?catID=20
Kind of like these... but not. [Jinbish, May 20 2009]
Robot spinning pizza http://www-hh.mech....botics/index_e.html
The interaction with non-ridgid objects is solved. [loonquawl, May 20 2009]
Helical_20Pizza [hippo, May 21 2009]
Pizza vending machine http://www.youtube....watch?v=Di5HCuFQn-k
[fridge duck, May 22 2009]
i took this to be a continuous pizza oven, while in fact it is a continuous-pizza oven....
the former is baked & baking, the latter is probably only a reprogramming of existing hardware away, but nevertheless very nice. The pizza could have smooth transitions from 'Hawaii' to 'Carbonara'. [+]
— loonquawl, May 20 2009
I'm not qualified to answer your idea - (original as it seems) - but I Do know that glass windows are made this way for heat conservation.
What is your idea for the minimum length of this restaurant? (Assuming no Chicago deep-dish...) Two football fields? Three?
— Speed Razor, May 20 2009
I guess the length of the oven would depend on the intended meter per minute output. As pizza needs ~10 minutes baking, the oven would need to be 10meters long for every meter per minute output - With a normal oven of ~0.5 meters, this could achieve 5cm pizza per minute - perhaps the required dough-maker & toppings sprinkler could be sold as an add-on for normal ovens...
[loonquawl]: I'm glad that you're doing the math - (especially because [hippo]'s idea seems to have the seminole energy to be something big) - but //As pizza needs ~10 minutes baking, the oven would need to be 10meters long for every meter per minute output// doesn't ... make a lot of sense for calculating pizza rate. maybe I'm missing something?
Possibly i missed something - the thinking was thus: If you want one meter of pizza to come out every minute, this means the belt has to move the pizza by one meter every minute. If one spot of the pizza needs to be in the oven for 10 minutes, this means the belt-through-oven length needs to be 10 meters. If the belt is straight, this calls for a 10 meter oven.
Ah- i just got(?) the joke. You wanted to point out meter is not a metre? My first language is german, where 'metre' it is 'Meter', while 'meter' is '-zähler' so i tend to mix that up a lot. 'become' is another such pitfall: 'bekommen' means 'to get', while 'become' is 'werden'. Most of the time the closeness of the two languages is a boon, but then stuff like that happens...
You could do some sort of Yo! Sushi conveyor belt affair with this I'm sure.
Make a "smooth transitions" continuous pizza (a loonquawl pizza gradient if you will) and slice off strips as they emerge onto plates on a conveyor. Customers can choose between Siciliana, Pepperoni or cusp of Napoletana and Marinara.
— wagster, May 20 2009
Yes the conveyor belt would be pretty long. To save space, you may want to 'fold' it, so the pizza ribbon goes up and down as it goes through the oven part of the process. Of course, this would have to be combined with a high-addhesion tomato sauce to stop the pepperoni falling off.
There could be a number of doughy streams - like a veritable rainbow of Italian comestibility!
— Jinbish, May 20 2009
[21_Quest]: All the crusts you mentioned (with the possible exception of 'hand-tossed') can be made by machines (frightfully simple ones)
producing something 'hand-tossed' with a machine is philosophically tricky... , but technically baked (see [link])
I suspect dough would have to be made in batches, simply because kneading would be difficult to do in a continuous process (not impossible, just very difficult). It would be entirely possible, however, to have several different batches in process so they reach the final roll out as needed. Each one is extruded such that it joins up with the tail end of the batch before.
— MechE, May 20 2009
One of the restaurants I worked in (long ago) had a conveyer belt pizza oven.
I always thought it was energy wasteful because there were no doors on it.
I hope you don't mind, but this idea inspired me to post something related.
— Zimmy, May 20 2009
To address a few of the problems mentioned, firstly for the sake of both space and heat conservation the machine could be a spiral. Provided the pizza follows a uniform curvature all the way around, the barriers of the conveyor belt shouldn't hamper its movement in any way. Plus, as heat rises, the same energy can be recycled and thus reduce overall energy input. The beauty of this design is that as the pizza strip has a larger outer circumference, roughly triangular (/rhomboid?) slices can be cut from the pizza-tap area by means of a single slicer. Following on from [loonquawl]'s metre/minute output suggestion, my very basic calculations/assumptions for a pizza slice of length 20cm (edge to point) suggest you could probably get away with a spiral machine of diameter 100cm and height 3.2h, where h is the height of any given area of the oven at which pizza is cooked.
Depending on how pizza has to be cooked (is it due to being in the heated air? or is it to do with direct exposure to radiated heat?), the entire spiral conveyor belt may need only be contained within the one oven enclosure, making the contraption shorter still.
As for the problem of a constant dough input, I envision something along the lines of a sausage-making machine. By virtue of a dough reservoir, a continuous stream of the dough can be put into the machine as it works.
Edit: Read spiral as helical.
— fridge duck, May 20 2009
//To save space, you may want to 'fold' it// the human anatomy has a neat method in the intestinal system...
— po, May 20 2009
[fridge] - Excellent idea - I assume you mean 'helical' rather than 'spiral' though.
Back in my dim, distant past, when I delivered pizza for a living, I starting thinking along similar lines to fully automate the pizza production process.
My concept was more a high speed batch process rather than a continuous process, utilising a 'flash bake' oven to cook the pizza in ~30 sec or so.
My theory was to get a pizza from order to cut-and-boxed inside 2 minutes.
But I do like this concept. [+]
— neutrinos_shadow, May 20 2009
Apologies, helical was indeed the word I was looking for.
//To save space, you may want to 'fold' it//
"We have just folded space from Ix... Many pizzas on Ix. New pizzas."
Oh wow - helical pizza is an idea well worthy of its own posting!
— zen_tom, May 21 2009
So much so, in fact, that someone's already posted it (see link).
I can imagine that there are not too many geometric arrangements (even in four dimentions) of food or soap that have not been covered, at least once, in the 'bakery.
— 4whom, May 21 2009
Which side would like the topping on, Ian?
This would be good for storing pre-baked pizza on a large roll... similar to how carpeting is stored.
— Jscotty, May 22 2009
I'm picturing this in a high-foot-traffic area, and vary the pizza price by demand. The longer the line, the higher the price. That way the customer demand would be fit to the speed of production. At noon you'd have over-market prices. At 9am you'd charge a bit more than what the raw ingredients cost you. A large sign out front lists the current price. If you still can't attract customers at off-peak times, then slices are frozen for take-home sales.
— Worldgineer, May 22 2009
[World] - interesting, and if the queue ran alongside the machine, and the width of the pizza ribbon was such that the average distance between one person and the next in the queue was also the length of pizza that the average person would order, then the people queueing (it's rare for an English word to have 5 consecutive vowels) would follow 'their' bit of pizza from dough to delicious crunchy, cheesy goodness down the entire length of the machine.
And if the machine and line were set up that way, you could order toppings just like you'd order a sandwich - an employee would have toppings sitting in little bins, and you'd point to what you want. She would then place these ingredients on your slice before it enters the baking section.
Whoops...looks like we ran outta cheese today...
and the little boy sobs, " but momma, it always runs out when I want some".
"Don't be greedy son, you'll get some hot fresh sort of continuous cheese pizza tomorrow young sir. All that you can eat indeed."
— blissmiss, May 23 2009
+1 bun for the phrase 'pizza 'on tap' I just dissed the 'cylindrical pizza' but with the idea of a cylidrical continuous pizza coming from a tap and served like sausages might be interesting. ha!
— rossgk, May 31 2009
can I roll it into a ribbon and thinly slice the roll for a 20 foot pizza roll?
This device MUST be made. Immediately.
Have you any idea what it's like when the Borg Collective orders in pizza ? Just getting rid of the boxes is bad enough.
[8th_of_7] Atttractive as I found the idea of pizza-baking as a continuous, rather than a batch manufacturing process, I saw a problem in the fact that demand fluctuates. What could you do with your excess production at four o'clock in the morning? (Frozen pizza is, of course, unconscionable in principle.) The Borg Collective has solved that problem, with it's high and consistent consumption. (I assume you can supply continuous-feed matter transmitters to distribute product throughout the galaxy?)
— mouseposture, Aug 17 2010
bun for feeding the collective.
Greatest. idea. ever! XD
— mr_bigmouth_502, Aug 19 2010
think World has added the final logical step to this, you've essentially created the pizza version of subway and that can only be a good thing
— ComatoseSheep, Aug 20 2010
I always like to think battenburg cake is continuously extruded in a manner similar to this
— stupop, Jul 02 2014
So you have never been to a meeting of the Battenberg End Eaters? Their formal dinners make the Masons and the Burns clubs pale into embarrasment.
— pocmloc, Jul 03 2014


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Australia: Lindeman Island Sells at Discount to Chinese Firm
One of numerous Australian private island resorts that have been put up for sale in recent years, the former Club Med property was just sold to a China-based company.
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The only Australian resort owned by France's middle-market Club Med has just traded hands for a lower-than-expected AUS $12 million, according to media reports. An aging three-star facility in need of a significant capital investment, the resort closed on January 1st, 2012 (link), and its brokers had been soliciting interest from a variety of different investment and hospitality firms, resulting in at least 200 inquiries and a dozen bids in the first offering alone. The successful bid came from White Horse Australia, a subsidiary of the China-based White Horse Investment Co.
The background of the purchaser will likely not come as a surprise to those who have been following the changing fortunes of Australia's tourism industry, which has been actively courting foreign investment, especially from Asia. It may turn out to be a match made in heaven between Lindeman Island and White Horse chairman William Han, who has long promoted Australian products and businesses within China, fostering economic cooperation in diverse sectors like tourism, advertising, and mining. The sale has sparked hopes that Queensland's lagging travel industry will be buoyed by an influx of Chinese investment.
Mr. Han said in a statement about the purchase that he intended to work hard to revive the ailing resort, which may not reopen for 12 months, or perhaps as long as several years. "White Horse is now examining how to reposition Lindeman as an attractive tourist destination, but the resort has been through some challenging times," he said. "We are looking closely at a range of options to reinvigorate the island but it will take some time to assess the best way to move forward."
It will take a large investment to transform Lindeman Island, but Mr. Han certainly acquired the property at a far friendlier price than Club Med, which had paid AUS $15 million for it in 1990, and spent millions more on upgrades. He also made it clear that any redevelopment would follow the eco-friendly trend in the region. "We are committed to resort developments that are in harmony with the natural landscape, with high environmental values," he stated.
As far as resort tourism is concerned, Queensland has had a rough go of it over the last few years, with a spate of natural disasters and a shaky economic climate resulting in empty hotel rooms throughout the state. White Horse's Lindeman Island purchase is the first Queensland resort to be snapped up by a Chinese company, and may herald the start of a new era in tourism for the beleaguered region – after all, Asia is expected to account for more than half of Tourism Australia's projected growth in the next ten years.
One of the brokers in charge of the sale, CBRE Hotel's Wayne Bunz, is optimistic about Queensland's future, and feels that its tourism slump has started to abate. "Investors see that the leisure market has got over the worst and the recovery is starting to take place," he said in a statement to The Australian newspaper. "The smart investors are the ones that are always ahead of the pack, and they are saying now is the time to buy."
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This is one of the most popular dining table models, which is suitable especially for small homes or homes with open space-studio type. The furniture company 'Eureka' is offering to its customers the retro extendable dining table model which can be produced from beech, cherry-tree, oak-tree or lime-tree.
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Q: Multi Column Vlookup and Place an 'X' where File Name and ID Intersect I'm trying to search for a workbook name and find any ID numbers in one of 13 columns, and if there is a match, place an 'X' in a cell on another sheet.  Since a picture is worth 1000 words, I'm posting a couple images to illustrate the point.
I have a small UDF that strips out numbers from alpha-numeric cells.  This gives me an ID number.  In a few cases, I do need an alpha-numeric ID, like LQ2.  Anyway, I want to look for these IDs in any row in 13 columns and get the workbook name from the same row.

Then, I want to match this against the same workbook name in another sheet, and if an ID is found in any of those 13 columns, put an x in the cell where the workbook name and ID intersect.

I tried to pivot the data, but I couldn't get it working.  I'm thinking that some kind of pivot solution should work.  Either a code solution or a formula solution would be great.  I'm trying to put together a VBA script that, hopefully, will get me close.  I'll post back when I have made more progress on this.
My thanks to all.
Quick update: I tried a double match, like this . . .
=MATCH($B2&C$1,'Tasks & Remarks Split'!$Q$2:$AC$966&'Tasks & Remarks Split'!$A$2:$A$966,0)

This is CSE-entered.  I thought it would pickup the matches, but it returns all #N/A results.  Something is off here, because I know there are several matches.  Can someone offer a tip?

A: I ended up doing a sumproduct against 2 criteria and if the count is >0 then put an 'X' in the cell.  It seems to work just fine.
=IF(SUMPRODUCT(--('Tasks & Remarks Split'!$A$2:$A$966=C$1)*('Tasks & Remarks Split'!$Q$2:$AC$966=$B2))>0,"X","")

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You will never get a new industrial sewing machine for under $400. But you can get some good machines that can sew denim for under $400. Here is 7 of them.
First of all, let me tell you one thing. If you are looking for a factory like machine to sew denim for under $400, you will be disappointed. If your job is just to do some hemming or alterations, any medium range home sewing machine should get the job done for you. If you are really into heavy duty denim projects, you will be better of buying an industrial sewing machine.
Which is the best sewing machine for denim ? Before answering this question, first let me warn you about the low cost heavy duty machines you get in the market. I have come across many so called 'Heavy Duty Denim Machines' that cost well under $150. To be honest, such machines are no better than low cost, plastic machines. To sew denim, you need a sewing machine with a powerful motor, heavy-duty construction, a leveling button on general purpose foot and walking foot in combination with the right needle and the right thread.
All expensive sewing machines are not good with denim, so you must be picky. There is no connection between the price and the ability of a machine to sew denim. In my experience, I have seen that Janome makes the best sewing machines that suits denim. I am not saying that there are no other brands better than Janome. Brother and Singer also have some quality machines that can sew denim. Here I am talking about sewing machines that cost under $400 only, if you are ready to go into the thousands (dollars) you can find better machines from Juki, Bernina, Viking, Pfaff and others.
Now let us have a look at the list of 7 best sewing machines for denim, which can be bought in U.S for under $400.
Literally the very best sewing machine for denim. Denim is like butter for this machine. However, some may dislike this machine as it is not a computerized one. HD3000 is a mechanical sewing machine with 18 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader and one-step buttonhole. Its heavy-duty construction makes it the best machine for denim sewing. It is one of the heaviest machine around. It weighs around 23.8 pounds, which denotes the quality of metal used for construction. You need sturdy machines to sew denim, and HD3000 is one of that kind. It really is one of my favorite denim machine. You don't need to worry about the durability factor at all.
Cons : There are only 18 built-in stitches on this machine. Being a mechanical sewing machine, it might not appeal to all.
Another machine designed for heavy duty fabrics. This one will be a better option for those who consider HD3000 as expensive. HD1000 is slightly inferior in features, when compared to HD3000. It comes with 14 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader and one-step buttonhole. This machine is as good as HD3000 when it comes to denim. Almost all parts, except some exterior parts are made of metal.
Cons : Again, this one also is a mechanical sewing machine. As far as beginners are concerned, it lacks a drop-in bobbin and 1-step buttonhole, which might affect the ease of use. HD3000 will be a better option in that case.
This is the one for those who love computerized sewing machines. This one costs the same as HD3000. It has 30 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader, speed control slider, start/stop button, one-step buttonhole etc. Janome 8077 is the best computerized sewing machine for denim. Even though this machine has a strong motor, it doesn't make a lot of noise. The feed system of this machine is exceptional. It never stalls. User feedback for this machine is also great.
Cons : The user manual requires some imrpovement.
This is the most expensive sewing machine in this list. PC420 PRW is a feature packed sewing machine. It is a computerized sewing machine with lot of advanced features like custom stitch, automatic thread cutter etc. It has 294 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader, start/stop button, speed control slider, 10 one-step buttonholes etc. It sews all kinds of fabrics with exceptional quality, not just denim. That is the reason why it features in our list of 'Machines You Can Buy With Your Eyes Shut'.
Cons : The price is on the higher side.
This is another sewing machine that has exceptional stitch quality. It works equally well on all kind of fabrics including denim. Singer 9960 is literally feature rich. As far as the features are concerned, there is no real competition to this machine. It packs a whopping 600 built-in stitches along with an automatic needle threader, automatic thread cutter, 13 one-step buttonholes, stitch elongation and mirror imaging etc. Electronic Auto Pilot option is also present. The selling point of this machine is its price. You won't get a better computerized machine for the price. It also features in our list of 'Machines You Can Buy With Your Eyes Shut'. You are rest assured of its quality.
Cons : Nothing much, except that the older machines had a bobbin jamming issue, which was resolved with a product upgrade.
All 5 sewing machines we discussed earlier costs around $300 or above. If your budget doesn't permit you to go that far, you can consider two inexpensive, but good machines namely Brother XR9500PRW and Singer 7258. These two machines are not overly expensive and are very good home sewing machines. These two machines are good for basic denim hemming and stuffs. Consider these two machines only if price is a real constraint for you. These are not denim special sewing machines by any stretch of imagination.
This has been voted as the best sewing machine for the money under $200. It has 100 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader, 8 one-step buttonholes etc.
This machine won the Women's Choice Award for the best home sewing machine in America for the year 2013. It is an excellent sewing machine with 100 built-in stitches, automatic needle threader, 6 one-step buttonholes etc.
I am sure that, your confusion is not over yet. So I will make it simple for you.
These are my personal recommendations. You are the one to decide which one is the best for you, I just tried to guide you. Hope it helps.


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After previewing the collaboration at SXSW, Vince Staples releases his new single, "Señorita," with Future and Snoh Aalegra. Future's hook actually comes from his own song, "Covered N Money," and is used as a sample on the new single. Nonetheless, the energetic record once again showcases Staples' insane lyrical ability and dynamic flow that has cemented him one of the best up-and-coming artists in hip-hop today. This single will be available to purchase on iTunes later tonight, but for now it can be streamed above.
UPDATE 5/5/15: Contrary to prior reports, Vince says that his debut album, Summertime, isn't due to drop on June 30.
I never said my album comes out June 30th.


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Will Voters Respond to a Message of Unity or of Division?
by Stuart Rothenberg July 2, 2007 · 12:05 AM EDT
For months, many commentators have argued that voters are sick and tired of partisanship and division. The years of Clinton-bashing by conservatives and Bush-bashing by liberals have taken a toll on the less polarized American public, and Americans are looking for a true uniter. At least that's what many observers are saying.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has gotten plenty of mileage from the message of bringing people together and crossing the deep ideological divide, which he first offered at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's a United States of America," he asserted.
OK, for argument's sake, let's just say that we all buy that analysis for the moment. If that's right, how can anyone possibly explain what former Democratic Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) is doing?
"The Washington establishment is trying to write us out of the campaign … they don't want people to hear what John Edwards is saying, because it will mean the end of big money's stranglehold over our government," wrote Edwards consultant Joe Trippi in a June 23 fundraising e-mail.
Two days later, Edwards' deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince wrote in an e-mail "The whole Washington establishment wants our campaign to go away, because they know that John Edwards means the end to business as usual." The e-mail goes on to assert that everyone from "Washington lobbyists and PACs" to "political mercenaries and the chattering class" oppose Edwards' presidential bid because he "doesn't play by their rules."
The e-mail says that "they don't want the American people to hear the message," adding, "They call him a hypocrite because he came from nothing, built a fortune while standing up for regular people … [and] has the nerve to remember where he came from."
Edwards is and has been running a classic "us versus them" campaign, built on class differences and economic populism. Candidates of both parties often run against Washington, D.C., but Edwards' message is bigger than that. It's far more class-based.
As such, the former Senator is running on an inherently more divisive message, which appears to strongly contradict the notion that America needs someone who can unify it. And that message isn't new to Edwards, the man who spent almost an entire election cycle talking about "two Americas."
Sure, I know what you are thinking. It's direct mail, Stu, you aren't supposed to take it seriously. Every candidate's direct mail is over the top. Those messages are intended to get people to reach into their wallets and open their checkbooks, not to discuss things in a measured, thoughtful or even rational way.
Sorry, but Edwards' campaign is using this "us versus them" approach more than in fundraising e-mails, and language like this, even in e-mails, contributes to the overall tone of our politics.
More than that, in this particular case, it's intellectually dishonest.
Take another look at the quote from above. Here is the full quotation: "They call him a hypocrite because he came from nothing, built a fortune while standing up for regular people during some of their toughest times, and — heaven forbid! — he has the nerve to remember where he came from and still care passionately about guaranteeing every family the opportunities he had to get ahead."
That's not why "they" call Edwards a hypocrite. It's not because he cares about guaranteeing every family the opportunities to get ahead. No, "they" (whoever they are) call him a hypocrite because he talks about helping people out of poverty but spends $400 of his own money on a haircut and built a 10,400-square-foot main house on 102 acres, with a total value at more than $5 million.
They also may call him a hypocrite because his new TV spot airing in New Hampshire is one of those feel-good "we're all in it together" ads that offers a very different message from his direct mail. The future of America "depends on all of us," says Edwards in the ad, titled "The Strength of America." "It's the American people," he says, avoiding any us versus them rhetoric.
Maybe you think it's unfair to compare the Senator's e-mails and TV ads.
Sorry, but I don't. Campaigns ought to be responsible for things they say, especially when we are talking about the written word or ads. While a candidate on the stump can make a slip or fail to consider the full implications of what he or she has said, consultants and responsible staffers have the opportunity to consider what they have written.
While Edwards talks about change, he, more than any other top-tier candidate in either party, uses the same divisive rhetoric and us versus them appeals that we've seen over the past decade (and actually, since William Jennings Bryan).
From a strategic point of view (and if he happens to have the resources to continue to deliver his message), Edwards may figure that this kind of message can motivate base Democratic voters. We'll see if he is right. At the very least, given the apparent conventional wisdom of voter fatigue with partisanship and confrontation, his gamble is an interesting one. Unfortunately, it isn't helping the tone of this campaign any.
This story first appeared in Roll Call, RollCall.com on June 28, 2007.


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Mosquitoes in Stamford Test Positive for West Nile Virus
Published August 1, 2017 • Updated on August 1, 2017 at 10:58 am
Mosquitoes trapped in Stamford have tested positive for West Nile virus, city officials confirmed Tuesday.
The mosquitoes were trapped at the Interval and Gaxton Road collection site on July 20.
The city's Department of Health is treating catch basins in the area to control the mosquito population.
No human cases of West Nile have been reported in Stamford this year.
Mosquitoes trapped in Greenwich, South Windsor, Stratford, Westport and West Haven previously tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to state officials.
Residents should take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites, such as covering bare skin and wearing insect repellent, especially during dawn and dusk hours.
Most people who are infected with West Nile virus show no symptoms, but less than one percent can develop serious, sometimes fatal neurological illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
West Nile virus has been detected in the state every year since 1999. Since 2000, there have been 131 human cases of West Nile in Connecticut and three fatalities.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Connecticut Agriculture Station, Department of Public Health, Department of Agriculture, Department of Pathobiology at the University of Connecticut are all involved in the Connecticut Mosquito Management Program. There are 91 mosquito trapping stations across 72 towns throughout the state.
For more information about West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, visit the Connecticut Mosquito Management Program website here.
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Quantum Logic Gates in Optical Lattices
Gavin K. Brennen,(1) Carlton M. Caves,(1) Poul S. Jessen,(2) and Ivan H. Deutsch(1) (1)Center for Advanced Studies, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (2)Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
We propose a new system for implementing quantum logic gates: neutral atoms trapped in a very far-off-resonance optical lattice. Pairs of atoms are made to occupy the same well by varying the polarization of the trapping lasers, and then a near-resonant electric dipole is induced by an auxiliary laser. A controlled-NOT can be implemented by conditioning the target atomic resonance on a resolvable level shift induced by the control atom. Atoms interact only during logical operations, thereby suppressing decoherence.
1998 PACS numbers: 03.67.Lx, 32.80.Qk, 32.80.Lg, 32.80.Pj
††preprint: Submitted to Physical Review Letters††preprint: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Any computation is constrained by the physical laws governing the machine that carries out the operations. Conventional computers operate according to the laws of classical physics, but an entirely new class of computers is possible using physical components that are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics [1] . At the heart of quantum computation is the entanglement of many two-state systems (qubits), which form the register of the quantum computer. The requirements for creating and maintaining such a highly entangled state seem to be almost contradictory: the qubits must be strongly coupled to one another and to an external field to produce the conditional-logic operations for quantum computation, yet coupling to other external influences must be minimized because it leads to decoherence. Quantum error correction [2] and fault-tolerant computation [3] promise to defeat the deleterious effects of decoherence, but only if the coupling to the environment is sufficiently weak.
Several physical realizations of quantum computation have been proposed. One of the most promising is based on storing each qubit in the state of an ultra-cold trapped ion [4] . Ions interact strongly via their mutual Coulomb repulsion, thus allowing unitary manipulation of the qubits' joint state to be achieved with lasers [5] . Because of their charge, however, the ions interact strongly with the environment, giving rise to decoherence channels from technical noise sources [6] ; possiblities for surmounting these problems are currently being explored [7] . Elements of quantum computation have also been implemented in standard NMR apparatuses [8] and in cavity QED [9] , but these schemes are at present difficult to scale to many qubits. Solid-state systems, including quantum dots [10] have also been proposed for realizing quantum computation, but the strong interactions that exist in a condensed-matter environment make decoherence a difficult problem. A recent proposal [11] to marry NMR techniques with silicon technology looks promising.
We propose here a new system for implementing quantum logic gates: trapped neutral atoms made to interact via laser-induced coherent electric dipole-dipole interactions. Such a system has two advantages: decoherence is suppressed because neutrals couple weakly to the environment, and operations can be performed in parallel on a large ensemble of trapped atoms, thus offering avenues for scaling to many qubits. The main source of decoherence is spontaneous emission, but this can be negligible if all manipulations are performed rapidly compared to the photon scattering rate. To see that this is possible, consider the following scaling argument. The photon scattering rate is Γ′=sΓ/2, where s is the saturation parameter, proportional to the excited state population, and Γ∼k3∣∣deg∣∣2/ℏ is the spontaneous emission rate, k being the wave number of the photon and deg the dipole matrix element between the ground and excited states. For atoms spaced at distances small compared to the optical wavelength, retardation effects are negligible, and the level shift arising from the near-field dipole-dipole interaction scales as Vdd∼⟨d1⟩⟨d2⟩/r312, where ⟨d⟩ is the dipole expectation value and r12 is the characteristic separation between the dipoles. For weak (nonsaturated) excitation ⟨d⟩∼√sdeg, so the ratio of interaction energy to scattering rate scales as κ∼ Vdd/ℏΓ′∼(kr12)−3. Thus, if the atoms can be tightly confined to relative distances small compared to the wavelength, one can induce a coherent dipole-dipole interaction with negligible photon scattering. The central point is that the coherent level shift can be enhanced substantially through tight confinement, while the cooperative spontaneous emission rate cannot increase by more than a factor of two (the Dicke superradiant state) over that of an isolated atom. In addition, since the resonant dipoles can be turned "on" and "off" at will, atoms can be made to interact only during the conditional logic operations and not during single-qubit manipulations or during periods of free evolution, thereby reducing coupling to the environment.
As a concrete implementation, we consider here the use of neutral alkali atoms trapped in a far-off-resonance optical lattice, periodic potentials created by a set of interfering laser beams in which atoms are trapped via the ac-Stark shift [12] . By detuning the lasers very far from resonance, photon scattering is greatly reduced. Through a combination of near-resonance Sisyphus laser cooling and resolved-sideband Raman cooling [13] , atoms can be prepared in the ground state of the potential wells. In a recent experiment, ∼106 Cs atoms were cooled in a two-dimensional optical lattice, with mean vibrational excitation ¯n≈0.01 [13] . Such atoms can be tightly confined, with an rms spread on the order of Δx≈λ/50 for reasonably deep wells, and are thus good candidates for inducing coherent dipole-dipole interactions. According to the discussion above, the ratio of the level shift to the linewidth is κ=C/η3≈500C, where η=kΔx is the Lamb-Dicke parameter and C is a number depending on the details of the geometry, to be determined below.
Consider a 3D optical lattice, detuned far to the blue of atomic resonance, with atoms trapped at the nodes thereby minimizing photon scattering, and which traps atoms deep in the Lamb-Dicke regime (see Fig. 1). The "transverse" beams confine the atoms in tubes oriented along the z direction and the "longitudinal" beams produce standing waves of σ+ and σ− light within each tube. The polarization gradient of the longitudinal fields allows the distinction of two "types" of atoms: those trapped at the nodes of σ+-polarized wells and those trapped at nodes of σ−-polarized wells. Central to our method is the ability to vary the lattice geometry dynamically: changing the angle θ between the longitudinal lasers' polarizations varies the distance δZ between the minima of these wells according to kLδZ=tan−1(tanθ/2). Two atoms trapped in neighboring wells can be brought into the same linearly polarized well by rotating the lasers' polarizations to parallel, adiabatically compared with the oscillation frequency in the well. For large detunings stimulated Raman transitions by the lattice lasers are suppressed and the atom maintains its internal state. Once in the same well, the atoms can be made to interact by applying an auxiliary "catalysis laser" that excites the atomic dipoles for a short time. A rotation of the laser polarization beyond 90∘ slides the potential wells by more than a quarter wavelength. A given σ+ atom can thus interact sequentially with all other σ− atoms, and an arbitrary entangled state within a tube can be created.
For each of the atomic types σ±, we define a computational basis, |1⟩±,|0⟩±, of logical one and zero (see Fig. 2),
|1⟩± ≡ |F↑,MF=±1⟩⊗|n=0⟩,
|0⟩± ≡ |F↓,MF=∓1⟩⊗|n=0⟩,
where F↑,↓=I±1/2 denote the two hyperfine levels associated with the S1/2 ground state and nuclear spin I (half-integer), MF is the magnetic sublevel, and |n=0⟩ is the vibrational ground state of the associated potential. Single-qubit operations can be performed via pulses that are Raman-resonant with one type of atom. Two-qubit operations involve conditioning the state of one atom on the state of the other. For example, a C-NOT can be performed in the following way. Two atoms are made to reside in the same well as described above, and a weak π-polarized catalysis-laser field, propagating in the x-y plane, is used to excite a near-resonant atomic dipole. If this laser is tuned to the ∣∣S1/2,F↑⟩→∣∣P3/2,F′max⟩ resonance, where F′max=I+3/2, a dipole is excited only if the atom is in the |F↑⟩ state (i.e., the logical states |1⟩±). The dipole-dipole interaction thus causes a shift only of the |1⟩−⊗|1⟩+ two-qubit state and has neither diagonal nor off-diagonal matrix elements between any of the other two-qubit basis states. If the σ− type acts as the control bit and the σ+ acts as the target, a Raman π-pulse on the shifted |1⟩−⊗|1⟩+↔|1⟩−⊗|0⟩+ transition achieves a C-NOT with the usual truth table. The polarizations of the Raman lasers and an external magnetic field ensure that the pulse does not drive any other transition. Once the logic operation is executed the state of a register can be read out as in the ion trap [5] , by applying first a sequence of Raman pulses to isolate the population of that register in the |F↑⟩ hyperfine state, and then detecting the amount of fluorescence on the cycling transition ∣∣S1/2,F↑⟩→∣∣P3/2,F′max⟩.
The dipole-dipole interaction is dependent both on the internal electronic states of the atoms, which determine the tensor nature of the interaction, and on the motional states, which determine the atomic wave-function overlap with the dipole-dipole potential. In the low saturation limit, the excited states can be adiabatically eliminated and the dipole-dipole interaction Hamiltonian between a pair of atoms can be written as Hdd=Vdd−iℏΓdd, where Vdd describes the level shift and Γdd describes the enhancement of the spontaneous photon scattering rate due to cooperative effects. For dipoles induced by the π-polarized catalysis laser, Hdd is diagonal in the computational subspace, with the only nonvanishing matrix element given by [14]
⟨1+,1−|Hdd|1+,1−⟩=−ℏΓ′c4g⟨f(r,θr)+ig(r,θr)⟩,
where cg is the Clebsch-Gordan coefficient for the transition |F↑,MF=±1⟩→|F′max,MF′=±1⟩. The functions f and g describe the dependence of the dipole-dipole interaction on the relative position of the two atoms: f+ig=ih(2)0(kr)+P2(cosθr)ih(2)2(kr), where hk are spherical Hankel functions of order k, and P2(μ) is the second-order Legendre polynomial. For small distances, f scales as 1/r3, whereas g goes to unity, corresponding to the full cooperativity of the superradiant state. The figure of merit is then given by κ≡⟨Vdd⟩/⟨ℏ(c4gΓ′+Γdd)⟩=−⟨f(r,θr)⟩/(1+⟨g(r,θr)⟩).
Though spherically symmetric wells maximize the radial wave-function overlap for atoms in their ground vibrational states, an isotropic relative coordinate wave function is orthogonal to the Y02 dipole potential. We thus consider an axially symmetric harmonic potential with two atoms in the vibrational ground state, each described by an elliptical Gaussian wave packet with rms widths x0≠z0. Figure 3 shows a plot of κ, calculated numerically, as a function η⊥=kx0 and η∥=kz0. Over the range of values shown, ⟨g00(r,θr)⟩≈1, i.e., full cooperativity. Given experimentally accessible localizations x0=λ/60 and z0=λ/30, corresponding to η⊥≈0.1 and η∥≈0.2, the figure of merit is κ≈−19.3. This is sufficient to resolve the level shift and perform a two-bit logic gate with reasonable fidelity. An approximate expression for κ, neglecting retardation effects, is
κ≈18√πη2⊥η∥[−2−3η2η2⊥+3(η3η3⊥+ηη⊥)tan−1(η⊥η)],
where η−2≡η−2∥−η−2⊥. Keeping η⊥ fixed and maximizing with respect to the ratio η∥/η⊥ gives κmax≈−0.017/η3⊥ for a ratio (η∥/η⊥)max≈2.18. The small prefactor stems mainly from the fact the relative coordinate rms in 3D is at least √6 times the rms for a single particle in 1D.
An experiment to characterize the performance of the quantum gate can be performed as follows. Consider the measurement of the C-NOT truth-table on an ensemble of identical atomic pairs. After the atoms are cooled and the control and target atoms are prepared in one of the logical basis states, the gate operation is executed, and the four populations of the logical basis can be read out as described above. We can expect the occupation of atoms in an optical lattice to be random. Atoms without the appropriate neighbor are in principle unaffected by the two-bit gate operation but generally will contribute to measured populations and reduce the apparent fidelity of the gate. The background signal from unpaired atoms can be removed if we carry out additional measurements on a sample without any paired atoms, as well as measurements where the gate is operated once, population flushed from a register, and the gate operated a second time before readout.
As a concrete example, consider Cs atoms with lasers trapping blue of the 6S1/2→6P3/2 transition at λ=852nm. Given intensities of 100 W/cm2 for all beams in Fig. 1 and detunings of Δ⊥/2π≈120GHz and Δ∥/2π≈2THz for the transverse and longitudinal lasers, respectively, we achieve the requisite localizations, η⊥=0.1, η∥=0.2 discussed above, corresponding to oscillation frequencies νosc,⊥≈200kHz and νosc,∥≈50kHz. For these parameters, photon scattering from the lattice produces a homogeneous linewidth Γ′lat/2π≈4Hz. The catalysis laser is chosen as a perturbation to the trapping potentials, e.g., |Vdd|/h=5kHz. Taking this field on atomic resonance and given a figure of merit κ=|Vdd|/Γ′cat=19.3, the required catalysis intensity is Icat≈0.1μW/cm2, corresponding to a superradiant scattering linewidth Γ′cat/2π≈250Hz. Though the level shift depends sensitively on the atomic localization, it is a relatively weak function of the laser intensity since η∼I1/4. These parameters should allow one to carry out a few logical operations with high fidelity.
Though optical lattices hold promise for producing entangled states of a few atoms, much remains to be done to implement even a rudimentary quantum computation. From the experimental side, one must develop a method for addressing and reading out the state of individual qubits, which are generally spaced closer than the optical wavelength. One possibility is to tag the atomic resonance to the position of a well by use of a gradient magnetic field or an additional ac-Stark shift as demonstrated in [16] . Alternatively, lattices could be designed with more widely separated wells through the superposition of many different wave vectors or the use of very long wavelength lasers (such as an intense CO2 laser [15] ). A major theoretical issue is the effect of atomic collisions [17] . For small interatomic distances the intense blue-detuned lattice fields will be resonant with a molecular potential which may lead to inelastic processes. Even for atoms in the electronic ground state, long-range molecular potentials can play an important role in atom-atom interactions for densities corresponding to two atoms in the same well. Though such interactions might be destructive for inelastic hyperfine-changing collisions [18] , elastic collisions might provide an alternative coherent coupling scheme with a lower decoherence rate [19] , especially in the region of a Feschbach resonance that can be tuned with a magnetic field [20] . Another important question is that of error correction. For example, in our scheme each 1D "tube" of atoms constitutes a separate quantum register acting in parallel with all the others. One might capitalize on this massive parallelism to increase the error threshold for fault-tolerant computation. Optical lattices are extremely flexible, with many experimental "knobs", allowing a wide variety of possible mechanisms for implementing the essential features of quantum logic.
We thank Paul Alsing and John Grondalski for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by New Mexico Universities Collaborative Research (Grant No. 9769), the Office of Naval Research (Grant No. N00014-93-1-0116), the National Science Foundation (Grant No. PHY-9503259), the Army Research Office (Grant No. DAAG559710165), and the Joint Services Optics Program (Grant No. DAAG559710116).
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Figure 1: Schematic of a 3D blue detuned optical lattice. Two pairs of π-polarized beams k⊥ provide transverse confinement, and the beams k∥ (at a different frequency) provide longitudinal confinement in σ+ and σ− standing waves. The solid (dotted) contours represent the resulting ellipsoidal potential wells associated with σ+ (σ−) polarization, separated pairwise by δZ, as a function of the relative polarization angle θ.
Figure 2: Schematic energy levels for the D2 line of a generic alkali in the presence of a small longitudinal magnetic field (not to scale). The computational basis states for atoms that follow σ± light are indicated. The catalysis laser ωc is near resonant for |1⟩± states. The transverse and longitudinal trapping frequencies ω⊥ and ω∥ are detuned very far to the blue of resonance. Unitary manipulation via Raman pulses connecting only the |0⟩+ and |1⟩+ states is shown.
Figure 3: Plot of κ, the ratio of the coherent dipole-dipole level shift to the total linewidth, as a function of the Lamb-Dicke localization parameter in the transverse direction, η⊥, and the longitudinal direction, η∥.


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Rediff.com » Cricket » 'Underdogs' West Indies ready for Indian challenge
'Underdogs' West Indies ready for Indian challenge
December 03, 2019 22:28 IST
'It is about going out there and executing and believing in your talent, once you do that anything is possible.'
IMAGE: West Indies, the reigning ICC World T20 champions, will begin their tour with the three-match T20I series, starting with the opening match in Hyderabad on December 6. Photograph: Tom Dulat/Getty Images
Captain Kieron Pollard doesn't mind West Indies' underdog tag against India and said his team will look to focus on the basics to get a favourable result in the limited-over series beginning on Friday.
"We are coming up against a harder opposition, we would be the underdogs and that's fine but then again it is about going out there and executing and believing in your talent, once you do that anything is possible," Pollard was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
"There are boxes which needs to be ticked off, when you do that, most times you end up on the right side of the result."
West Indies, the reigning ICC World T20 champions, will begin their tour with the three-match T20I series, starting with the opening match in Hyderabad on December 6.
It will be followed by the second T20I in Thiruvananthapuram on December 8 and the third match is scheduled to be held in Mumbai on December 11.
The two teams will then meet in three ODIs in Chennai (December 15), Visakhapatnam (December 18) and Cuttack (December 22).
The West Indies team recently beat Afghanistan in the ODI series and Pollard said it will work harder to be more consistent.
"You must commend the guys on how they worked in the little period of time for the Afghanistan series. It was incredible and it augurs well for us as we go into the future," he said.
"Success is boring because you have to do same thing over and over again to be consistent and this is something the guys are willing to work on."
Pollard, who was left out of the West Indies team for some time due to differences with the previous Board, said he is looking forward to the challenge of leading his team against strong opponents like India.
"I was playing international cricket for a long period of time. I missed out 3 or 4 years. It is no secret what transpired in terms of my relationship with the board and whatever.
"Like you dream of playing for the West Indies but you don't dream of captaining West Indies. But something falls into your lap and again it's a challenge and I don't want to shy away from challenges," he added.
Pollard said he can share his experience with the young players in the dressing room.
"And they need the experienced guys also to guide them along so. You know, that's basically my job. In terms of trying to guide them and set them in the right direction."
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