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Purandaradasa
Purandara Daasar – Purandara Daasar was a great composer of Carnatic music before the time of the Trinity of Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri. His songs were not in unreachable Sanskrit, but instead he preached the Vedas to millions by singing in Kannada. He was the one who standardized the early lessons in music and has given us many beautiful compositions on Vishnu and Krishna. His works include many different types of compositions, from bhajans and geetams to kritis. Purandara Daasar is believed to have systematized the early music lessons – sarali varisai, janTai varisai, geetams and also chose maayamaaLava gowLa as the raagam to be used for these. MaayamaaLavagowLa is an appropriate raaga because it is symmetric and has gamakams, so that students learn the basic elements of Carnatic music along with some more advanced concepts. His songs are simple, and easy to learn. He composed many geetams and keertanais and songs in kannaDa known as "dEvarnaama." Because of his role in so many fundamental aspects of this music, he is called the Pithamaha (Great Father) of Carnatic music.
Our knowledge of Purandaradasa's life stems mainly from the compositions of Vijaya dasa who lived a hundred and fifty years after the passing away of Purandaradasa. This is taken as authentic since Vijaya dAsa is believed to be the incarnation of Bhrigu muni, and an aparOksha gyani (having mystical powers). Vijayadasa had great faith in and devotion for Purandaradasa. It is believed that Purandaradasa himself appeared in Vijayadasa's dream and bestowed on him the ankitha 'Vijaya Vittala'.
Purandara Daasa was born in 1484 in Pandarpur, an obscure village near Purandargarh near Poona. He was originally named Shreenivaasa (or Krishnappa) Naayaka. His father's name was Varada Naik. Purandara Daasa was considered an avatar of Sage Narada – when he was studying, he learned music as well. At 16 he married Lakshmibai, and four years later his parents died. Purandara Daasa had 4 sons and a daughter. He worked as a money lender, continued the family business, and became prosperous, but he was infamous as a miser. They said he earned much money and he lived only to earn it. An incident in his life, however, changed him and he gave away all his wealth. From then on, he composed and lived by the popular saying "we must swim across suffering, win victory over it." It is said that Lord Vishnu decided that it was time for Srinivasa Nayaka (Purandara Daasa) to give up his love of money and become a saint. So he came to him as a poor brahmin looking for money for his son's thread ceremony. Nayaka did not give him the money, but the brahmin visited his shop again and again, and after six months, Purandara Daasa gave him a collection of useless, worn-out coins to get rid of him. The brahmin went away unhappily, but knowing Purandara Daasa's wife was a kind woman, he went directly from Purandara Daasa's shop to his house. He told Saraswathi his story and how her husband had sent him away with nothing. Saraswathi wanted to help the poor brahmin, but felt helpless since she could not give anything without her husband's permission. When she explained her helplessness, the brahmin asked if she had something given by her parents (which, presumably, she could give without asking for her husband's permission). She agreed and gave him the diamond nose-stud that her parents had given her. The brahmin took the ornament straight to Purandara Daasa's shop. When Purandara Daasa became angry with the brahmin for coming back, despite his instructions to the contrary, the brahmin clarified that he was there not to beg, but to pledge an ornament and take a loan. Purandara Daasa was skeptical and asked the brahmin to show him the ornament. When he saw the ornament, he was confused because he immediately recognized it as the one belonging to his wife. When Purandara Daasa asked him about it, the brahmin told him that it was a gift from a benefactor. Purandara Daasa asked the brahmin to come the next day and locked the ornament away. When he saw his wife without her ornament he questioned her about it. She tried to stall him, but he insisted on seeing it immediately. He was angry because he thought she had given away a valuable ornament to a beggarly brahmin. Saraswathi knew that her husband would punish her if she told him the truth. So she decided to commit suicide by drinking poison. Just as she was about to drink the poison, she heard a metallic sound. Lo and behold, the ornament was right there in the cup. She could not believe her eyes. Her heart filled with gratitude, she bowed before the idol of Krishna and took the ornament to her husband. Purandara Daasa was astounded as it was the very same ornament that he had safely locked away in his shop. He quickly ran back to the shop to check. The box where he had safely locked away the ornament was empty! He was now completely and totally dumbfounded. He went back to his house, and pressed his wife to tell him the truth. She told him everything that had happened. After deep thought, this Shreenivaasa Naayaka came to the conclusion that the brahmin was none other than God Himself. He recalled all the incidents of the previous six months. He was disgusted with himself, and his miserliness. He felt that his wife had conducted herself far more decently and generously than himself. Since it was his love of money that had made him ill-treat the Lord, he gave away all of his wealth with the Lord's name on his lips and began to compose music.
Purandara Dasa had earned the name NavakOTi NaaraayaNaa, indicating his great riches. Then he began a new life with his family – his wife Saraswati, 4 sons (Varadappa, Gururaya, Abhinavappa and Gurmadhvapathi) and a daughter. Like him, his wife and children composed verses and songs. In course of time Purandaradasa came to Hampi and settled down with his wife and children. Every morning Purandaradasa went into the town wearing bells on his ankels and tulasi mala around his neck. He carried a tamboori in the hand and sang his Hari-keertanas sounding the tamboori with his fingers. He sang these songs to the accompaniment of tamboori and the bells tied to his ankles and went about the streets of the town. The people admired the listened to his songs. Purandaradasa accepted alms given to him during the wandering and led a life of renunication. He who had been called Navakoti Narayana now had willingly accepted the life of a saint and begged for his food. In 1525, Purandara Daasa became a disciple of the great Vyaasa Raayaa, who titled him "Purandara ViTThala," which became his signature, which he uses in all his compositions. Vyaasa Raaya praised him, saying "Among the devotees of Hari, Purandara Daasa is the greatest." Purandara Daasa expressed his gratitude by singing "My only refuge is the feet of Vyaasaraja. I was able to understand Purandara Vittala by his grace." The composer was also given the name Purandaropanishat and many other names. The title ViTThala refers to the Lord Vishnu, or Krishna.
Purandara Daasa is said to have composed 475,000 songs in both KannaDa and Sanskrit. PurandaradAsa adopted a simple, lucid KannaDa style with telling phrases and similes. He sang many rare ragas with among the most beautiful lyrics. He identified 84 ragas, including ragas such as kalyani, varali, todi, bhairavi, and saaveri, which are popular in use today. Tyaagaraaja's praise in "Prahalada Bhakti Vijayam" is for him and in fact, some of his famous songs are patterned after those by Purandara Daasa, such as Nanupaalimpa, based on Daasa's Bide ninnayya pada. Purandara Daasa also used a variety of musical types: kritis, keertanas – devotional songs, padams – a dance form using hero-heroine, plus many more rare forms. The verses he sang were his own compositiions on a variety of themes. Some of them described Sri Krishna's adventures in this world. Some others sang about God's kindness to man. A few more verses were simple compositions expounding the philosophy contained in the Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavadgita in simple words. In yet other verses Purandaradasa praises Lord Krishna affectionately. In some verses Purandaradasa has even made fun of the Lord. His songs which preached surrender to Vittala have an elusive fragrance, poetic fervour, extraordinary logic and cutting satire. His music was popularized by M.L. Vasantakumari.
The gods his songs adored: Sri Vittala (Krishna) of Pandarapura is associated with Bhakthi and Bhajan movement since the time immemorial. Sri Vittala is still being adorned by large number of devotees barring caste, religion, sex etc. Sri Purandara Dasa has continued this tradition by keeping his ankita or mudra as Purandara Vittala, and his songs praise this Vittala, meaning Krishna or Vishnu. His songs also praised Ganesha, Saraswathi and other gods and goddesses, but the themes always returned to Vittala.
Purandara Dasa was the first of the Haridasas, or "servants of Sri Hari" also known as Vishnu or Krishna. All the Haridasas composed in KannaDa, a language used primarily in Karnataka, but Purandara Daasa established the precedent of composing in the vernacular or common tongue. All Haridasas were servants of God and their songs included the following messages:
* God is easily approachable by all. * God is to be praised and constantly remembered as our benefactor.
* Realising the true nature of God's benevolence towards us and offering even simple worship within the means available to one is more acceptable to Him than ritualistic or pompous ornamentation without mental participation.
Some of Purandara Dasa's lyrics are really memorable. For example, he writes, Kendake orale muttuvudunte?… Do ants cluster around a hot coal? Another line goes, Hasida bekku hatthiya tindanthe.. Describing a hungry cat eating cotton. These lyrics make it clear that Daasa was a poet as well as a scholar of musical form.
His death: Scholars think that Purandara lived for about 80 years (until 1564). On the basis of the verse in the name of Madvapathi his son it is held that Purandaradasa must have passed away a year before the fall of Vijaynagar. Taking it as authentic, his death anniversary is celebrated on the New Moon Day, in the second fortnight of Pushya.
Mudra: Purandara ViTThala
Biography for Purandaradasa, purandaradasa, Purandaradasa Biographie
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2 Responses to Purandaradasa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ)
vinuth August 1, 2018 at 3:18 am #
purandara dasarau was born near shiwmoga not near pandarapur please correct it
chakri.garimella August 3, 2018 at 3:50 am #
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Charlotte nurses are stretched thin
Long Island Nets fall past Greensboro Swarm, 111-103. back to second place
No, you do not see double.
For the second time in three days, the Long Island Nets were unable to make enough defensive stops against the Greensboro Swarm, resulting in a 111-103 loss in a Sunday matinee.
Although Craig Randall II – who had consecutive 40-point performances behind him – scored three 3-point points of increasing difficulty in the final 1:54 of the game, the Nets were unable to string the required stops with one Emerge victory.
After the game, Long Island head coach Adam Caporn says "it feels terrible" that despite their offense, the Nets were unable to beat the hump while the clock was running.
"[So] frustrating, but it's up to the coaching staff, can't blame the playgroup [since] we're all in it together. We just missed a few very simple coverages and switched pick and rolls, "he continued.
On Friday night the Nets lost 119-114 to Greensboro. Caporn described the game as the "worst" [the Nets] was year round "to contain the ball, including defensive rotations and focus on the ball.
Caporn called correcting these issues the "key to the game" ahead of Sunday's rematch and called it the focus of her short training session on Saturday.
Once the ball was tipped, however, Long Island's limited training time became apparent. Defensive slip-ups were still widespread, if not as common anymore.
"Not what we wanted [but] better, "commented Caporn. "I thought the first half was pretty good, a lot better. [But] We had a stretch at the end of the third quarter where they only came in for a few simple layups. "
Josh Gray, who led the Nets with 24 points, eight rebounds and four assists, says the key to improving Long Island defense is working between games.
"Just quit the movie," says Gray, the team's veteran leader. "Let's see the flaws, let's see where our shortcomings are [are], and let's see where we as a team have to improve together. "
Not all of these errors fall on Long Island's list, however. The makeup of the team is one that thrives on the ground with multiple ball handlers at once, often sacrificing size on the defensive end of a multifaceted attack on the other side of the ground.
"We can definitely stagnate and just dribble the ball too much. We're not good at just playing together at the moment, "says Caporn.
"When you play with multiple ball carriers, you want the ball to move, which creates bottlenecks and multiple decision makers. So if we dribble too much and don't move it is not a good way to play. It's like trying to play face-ball when you're younger. "
Gray, being one of those "ball carriers", said he doesn't approach games with a "your-turn-it's-my-turn" mentality. "I go into every game with the same mentality; just be aggressive. I feel like if I'm not aggressive, I let my teammates down … my biggest thing is getting into the color and making my teammates better. "
After starting the regular season with 40-point consecutive games, Long Island striker Craig Randall II scored 22 points, four rebounds and six assists in 41 minutes on Sunday.
As a local tryout colleague (Gray joined the G League subsidiary of the Suns in 2016), the veteran said he gave Randall his advice: Never feel too aggressive, never feel selfish. Leave your mark in this league and just keep going. '"
For the future, Gray's message to the team is clear: "Just stay locked up. It's a new year, they broke the records and we're just trying to get into the playoffs and collect. " [a] good style of play in the course of the games and try to get as many wins as possible. "
The Nets are traveling to Mississauga, Ontario to take on their league teammate Raptors 905, the G League daughter of the Toronto Raptors, on Monday, January 9th. The game will air at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBAGLeague.com.
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A proposed deep space probe to Jupiter using the new engine (Credits: Los Alamos National Laboratory).
Scientists at NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory have tested a prototype of a nuclear reactor engine that may be used for future deep space missions.
The power generated by solar panels is reduced as a spacecraft travels farther from the Sun; beyond Mars the power generated by panels is not enough to keep a spacecraft on a desired trajectory. Nuclear engines could fill in the gap, playing a significant role in generating non-solar power for deep space mission.
The prototype represents the first test of a nuclear engine for spacecraft propulsion in the U.S. since 1965. The engine consists of a small nuclear source and a single Stirling engine, an engine design invented in the 19th century that uses hot pressurized gas to push a piston. The prototype produced about 24 watts of power, which is still very small compared to a deep space mission's requirement for about 600-700 watts of power; hence some development is necessary before this engine is ready to be used in any spacecraft.
Benefits of this engine seem to be promising; such a propulsion system would enable exploration of far planets like Saturn, Neptune, and their moons even when solar energy falls to a trickle.


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Face it. We all love excellence, especially when it's in ourselves. Seeing it on others, especially in an area we long for in ourselves but haven't yet achieved, can stir up envy, however.
You're the only one you need to beat. It's the pursuit of better, not your standing compared to others that shows excellence.
You're not them. You're different. Your calling is unique. It's never seen before or will ever again. Be you; they are already taken.
It's not a zero-sum game. Their excellence does not diminish yours; or the need for your contribution to the world.
You don't need to be best. Best is rarely achievable and never sustainable. Engage in the relentless pursuit of progress rather than perfection (a form of striving to be the best).
Gratitude transforms envy into inspiration. Seeing excellence in others informs you about what you desire in yourself, so be thankful for that insight. Their success can also stimulate your own creativity to build upon it.
Who do you envy? Write down the excellent things you see in what and how they do what they do. What can you imitate? BONUS: Write them a thank you note.
Has excellence got you down, Leary's blog post on the need for your contribution no matter what you see in others.
A quarter million words of inspiration, Leary's blog post on CJ Lyon's crazy writing output and how that affected him.
The relentless pursuit of better, Leary's blog post on why the pursuit to be the best is not such a bright idea.
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NHL On NBCSN: Jeff Carter has been the right addition for Penguins
By Adam GretzMay 4, 2021, 10:20 AM EDT
NBCSN's coverage of the 2020-21 NHL season continues with Tuesday's matchup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers. Flyers-Penguins stream coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. You can watch the game online and on the NBC Sports app by clicking here.
When the Penguins hired Ron Hextall to replace Jim Rutherford as general manager they were getting the complete opposite type of organizational builder.
Rutherford's approach was aggressive. Sometimes overly aggressive. Maybe even at times recklessly aggressive. He never met a trade he did not like, and if a roster move did not work out he wasted no time in reversing it and jettisoning that player. The result was non-stop roster overhaul and constant change. That is not always for the best.
Hextall's approach is far more methodical. Patient. It is not about the quantity of the moves, but the quality. If you get the right players, that approach can certainly work.
In his first three months on the job in Pittsburgh he has made only two moves to add to the roster, both involving former members of the Philadelphia Flyers. He claimed defenseman Mark Friedman on waivers to add some depth to their blue line, and he sent a couple of draft picks to the Kings at the trade deadline to acquire forward Jeff Carter.
The latter move is by far the most significant, and the one we want to focus on heading into Tuesday's game between the Penguins and Flyers.
[PENGUINS-FLYERS COVERAGE BEGINS AT 6:30 P.M. ET – NBCSN]
The Carter deal was a bit of a surprise because it really came out of nowhere. There were not any real rumblings that the two sides were a fit, and Carter's contract (he still has one year remaining after this season at a more than $5M per year salary cap hit) would have seemed to be an obstacle. But with the Kings retaining a portion of his remaining salary, it all worked out.
It is also working out for the Penguins on the ice.
In his first 11 games with the team Carter has proven to be exactly the type of players the Penguins needed to add at the deadline, checking off every box that everybody could have wanted for them.
At 6-3, 219 pounds Carter has the size and strength that Hextall and Brian Burke were adamant that they wanted to add.
But he also still has enough skill and speed to fit with the Penguins' style of play and not be a drain on their system. He may not be the elite finisher he was earlier in his career, but he can still contribute quite a bit offensively.
He also helps balance out the Penguins lineup even more to help give them four lines that are capable of scoring. That has been the biggest recipe for success for the Penguins in the Sidney Crosby–Evgeni Malkin–Kris Letang era. When their lineup goes three or four lines deep, they tend to do very well in the playoffs. When it does not, they tend to struggle. The addition of Carter down the middle gives them a quartet of centers that includes Crosby, Malkin, Carter, and Teddy Blueger, a quartet that might be as good as any other in the league.
Individually, Carter has been productive already scoring four goals and two assists in his first 11 games.
[Your 2020-21 NHL on NBC TV schedule]
He has also seemed to have developed a strong chemistry with Jared McCann, a duo that has been excellent together. In their time together the Penguins have posted dominant possession numbers and own a 9-4 goals advantage during 5-on-5 play with them on the ice. If that is foundation of your third line between the Crosby and Malkin lines, with a Teddy Blueger-led shutdown line playing behind it, your team is going to have a solid chance every night.
That depth, especially the way it looks since the trade, is one of the more surprising and encouraging developments for this Penguins team.
It has been so good that when neither Crosby or Malkin is on the ice during 5-on-5 play this season the Penguins have a plus-15 goal differential and score 2.61 goals per 60 minutes. That goal rate is nearly identical to what they score with Crosby (2.63) and Malkin (2.69) on the ice, with a very similar goal differential.
That sort of balance is key for success in the playoffs. No matter how good your top two players are you have to assume that they will not score every single game or control the pace every single game. You need other lines that can contribute. The Penguins now have that, and it has been even better with the arrival of Carter. In the past 11 games the Penguins have controlled more than 55 percent of the shot attempts and scoring chances when Crosby and Malkin are not on the ice, with a 17-9 goals advantage.
It has not only made the Penguins a team that can be competitive when its top two players are not on the ice, it has made the Penguins a team that can excel when they are sitting on the bench.
That had that sort of team during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons and used it to win two Stanley Cups. It has taken them a few years since then to find the right mix again but they seem to be on to something right now.
(Data in this post via Natural Stat Trick)
Adam Gretz is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @AGretz.


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Voters to be asked for ID in trials of system to combat electoral fraud
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Voters in five local authorities will need to show ID before they can vote in local elections next May, in a move aimed at combating voter fraud but which Labour and the Liberal Democrats have warned could disenfranchise thousands of people.
Voters in Woking, Gosport, Bromley, Watford and Slough will be asked to show ID at polling stations before being issued with a ballot paper, but the five local authorities are likely to trial a variety of systems, including showing photo ID or providing polling cards where individual barcodes could be scanned.
The Cabinet Office and Electoral Commission said details were still being finalised of what photo ID would be required, as well as a system involving non-photo ID, but both would be trialled to see which was more effective and efficient.
https://www.theguardian.com/po…ystem-to-combat-electoral
A long overdue reform in my opinion. There have been cases of vote rigging in many cities including London and Birmingham. Vote rigging in general and council elections was hardly if ever heard of up until a few years ago. And unfortunately it has be said the instigators and very often people resident here but who originally came from countries where vote rigging is prevalent. Tower Hamlets in London being a typical example a couple of years ago.
"Election fraud has been allowed to take place in Muslim communities because of "political correctness", a major report finds as it calls for unprecedented reforms to the British voting system.
In a report commissioned by the Government, Sir Eric Pickles the former Conservative Cabinet minister, today warns that the authorities are in a "state of denial" and are "turning a blind eye" to election fraud."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…muslim-communities-becau/
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So what would be the accepted form of ID?
Passport or Drivers licence I assume which is fine if everyone has them, I have neither and neither does my wife, and I can think of at least 5 other family members that don't either.
Young boys in the park jumpers for goalpost that's what footballs all about isn't it.
Worthing UK.
If this became commonplace I would assume that as part of completing the electoral register entry that the local authority could issue an accepted form of ID to those who are registered.
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I think its a good idea.
I see no reason to let illegal residents or voters have a say in how we run the country. And nothing to fear for legal voters.
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I know I'm going to have bricks thrown at me here, but I was in favour of Labour's ID card scheme which Blair almost brought in. They had spent the money on the system and had all the computers and database up and running. It shouldn't have been scrapped by Cameron.
I think its a good idea if you are asked to show ID when voting, but as per Ron's question, which ID?
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I know I'm going to have bricks thrown at me here
No of course not. Just two applied strategically.
My objection to such a card was not the ID card pre-se but the fact that just about any public servant would be entitled to demand to see it at any time together with the amount of information linked to it. Images of the Gestapo: "Your papers pleeez" and then being marched off to clink.
We've had too many laws bought in to deal with threats being abused by those in authority and far too many authorities being able to use/abuse them.
But councils and companies have so much data on us anyway, Christ knows how much data Google has us on from our web searches to wifi passwords, that I'm not too concerned about Blair's Orwellian ID scheme.
Look inside your wallet. Credit cards, bank cards, store cards, medical/library/council cards perhaps.
Blair's scheme never required the compulsive carrying of ID cards. What everyone was having a hissy fit over was the database. A centralised database.
Having had one hell of a time a once upon a time opening a bank account (I don't drive and didn't then have a passport) I would welcome a ID card scheme brought back.
When I vote. You say your name and that's it. A few times, my name had been wrongly crossed off the voter's list as the electoral officers had crossed off my name instead of family members who had voted earlier. That's just mistakes. But imagine the "mischief" that can be caused without proper ID.
Charles Clarke was on tv just before the politicians summer break and he was talking about "his" scheme and he regretted it got scrapped. I have to say, I agreed with him.
I remember a time when going to vote you were asked for to show the card that had been sent through the post, now they no longer ask for that, yet they now want to introduce being asked for ID to prevent fraud.
Yes. I would have thought they could have brought back showing and then the polling station retaining the polling cards as a first step. Although nowadays they'd need to be shredded in front of the voter to avoid any suspicion of wrongdoing by the authorities or conspiracy theories by the public. Of course it wouldn't stop fraud in itself but it would help.
Seems unnecessarily costly to me. I would like to see online voting.
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Well that would lead to a gigantic amount of fraud and probably a total disaster. Can you imaging hackers getting into the system on polling day?
I think we had a thread about that somewhere, but I am in favour of it.
It's getting to a time now, when most people have computers and are online, apart from a certain amount of people over 60 and even more past their 70s, so they need to be catered for.
Otherwise, it would be a far more efficient method than have hundreds (perhaps thousands) of polling stations up and down the country.


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Espresso King Undercut as Brazil Currency Rout Spurs Bean Export
Credits: Isis Almeida, Whitney McFerron
Your morning espresso may soon be a little more Brazilian.U.S. processors of robusta beans used in instant coffee and espresso are buying from Brazil at an accelerated pace as they cut back on purchases from Vietnam, which grows almost half the world's supply. In Europe, imports of the beans also have surged. That's because farmers in the South American country, aided by a plunge in the value of their currency, are undercutting sales by the world's largest producer even as the price of the commodity drops.
While Brazil has long been the biggest producer of all coffee varieties, it mostly grows the higher-end arabica beans favored by Starbucks Corp. Vietnam dominates the market for the more bitter-tasting robusta variety. When political and economic woes sent the Brazilian real down 38 percent in the past year, the most among 24 emerging market currencies tracked by Bloomberg, that helped reduce production costs for growers and turbo-charged shipments.
"The depreciation of the real in the past two years is certainly providing an advantage to Brazilian robusta growers," said Keith Flury, head of coffee research at Volcafe, a unit of ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. "It's clear producers in Brazil have seen their costs fall more than growers in Vietnam, where the dong hasn't fallen nearly as fast."
Brazil's exports of conilons, as the nation's robusta beans are known, jumped 53 percent to a record 3.08 million bags in the first eight months of 2015 as a weaker real boosted earnings of the commodity sold in dollars, according to exporters' council Cecafe. A bag weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds). In Vietnam, shipments declined 31 percent to 969,000 metric tons, or 16.1 million bags, from January to September, the General Statistic Office estimates.
Even as robusta coffee futures fell 14 percent in London this year to $1,646 a ton — good news for importers — the price expressed in Brazilian reais jumped about 25 percent, which provided a boost for exporters. Vietnamese shippers weren't so fortunate as the commodity fell faster than their domestic currency, which slid 4.4 percent. The result was the value of the beans in Vietnamese dong dropped 10 percent.
U.S. Roasters
Brazil, which normally uses its conilons for the domestic industry, has stepped up shipments as output expands and local roasters switch to lower-quality arabica beans, Guilherme Braga, head of Cecafe, said in an Oct. 1 interview in Milan. Most of Brazil's robusta exports are being consumed by U.S. roasters or being sent to Europe to be delivered to the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London, according to Olam International Ltd., one of the world's top three coffee and rice traders.
"There's definitely been flexibility in the U.S. because U.S. roasters have always used conilons," Dwayne Schmidt, a senior trader at Olam, said in an Oct. 2 interview in Basel, Switzerland. "If you would ask European roasters if they'd use conilons instead of Vietnamese beans, they would tell you no, never will. But if they were offered $200 cheaper than Vietnam's, they might."
Brazilian Robusta
Exports of Brazilian robusta coffee to the U.S. jumped 56 percent from January to August, Cecafe data showed. Shipments to the U.K. more than quadrupled, and those to Germany tripled. Most of the beans delivered to ICE Futures Europe when the July and September futures expired were from Brazil, according to exchange data.
Swapping robusta beans from one producing nation to another is not always a matter of price, Giuseppe Lavazza, vice president and member of the board of Italian roaster Luigi Lavazza SpA, said in an Oct. 1 interview in Milan. A switch will depend on the characteristics of the coffee, he said.
Brazilian robusta growers may have "very low" costs of production next year if recent flowering materializes into a large crop, said Flavio Ribeiro, a broker at Flavour Coffee in Rio de Janeiro. Costs were held back this year by lower output, he said. Brazil's conilon production will fall 15 percent to 15.7 million bags in the 2015-16 season that's under way, Volcafe estimated in an August report.
Sensational Flowering
"Flowering was sensational and husbandry is very good due to relatively high prices," Ribeiro said by phone Sept. 30. "If we have a harvest that could reach 20 million bags next year and you divide that per hectares planted, then you will have a very low cost of production. If the real stays devalued, it will help even more."
Lower exports from Vietnam are also boosting domestic prices for Brazilian conilons, which soared to a record 359.65 reais ($97.57) a bag on Oct. 9, according to Cepea, a University of Sao Paulo research group.
"Brazil's conilon has the best of two worlds, with a good international coffee price and significantly more reais to the U.S. dollar," Michael Neumann, chairman of board of trustees at Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, a foundation that's affiliated with Hamburg-based merchant Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, said Oct. 1 in Milan. "That combination spells bonanza."
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-13/espresso-king-undercut-as-brazil-currency-rout-spurs-bean-export
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Growing up, a good portion of my summer (and spring, and fall...) was spent helping out in my family's rather large garden.
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Because of Winn-Dixie (film)
Because of Winn-Dixie
Wayne Wang
Trevor Albert
Joan Singleton
Luke Benward
Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Deirdre Slevin
January 26, 2005 (2005-01-26) (USA Film Festival)
Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2005 American family comedy-drama film adapted from Kate DiCamillo's 2000s book of the same name, with the screenplay written by Joan Singleton, produced by Trevor Albert and directed by Wayne Wang. It was produced by Walden Media and released by 20th Century Fox. The role of Winn-Dixie was played by two Picardy Shepherds, a rare breed from France. It stars AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Luke Benward, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Courtney Jines, BJ Hopper, Nick Price, Elle Fanning, Harland Williams and John McConnell.[1] The film premiered at the USA Film Festival on January 26, 2005 and was theatrically released on February 18, 2005. It received mixed reviews from critics and earned $33,589,574 on a $14 million budget. Because of Winn-Dixie was released on DVD and VHS in August 9, 2005, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
10-year-old India Opal Buloni has just moved to the fictional small town of Naomi, Florida with her father, a preacher.
While in the Winn-Dixie supermarket, she encounters a scruffy Berger Picard that is wreaking havoc.[2] Opal (not wanting the store manager to send the dog to the pound) claims that it is her dog and names it "Winn-Dixie". Winn-Dixie becomes friends with everyone he encounters, and so Opal makes some new friends in the process. She also rekindles her relationship with her father, and learns ten things about her mother, who abandoned them seven years ago. Opal describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his turtle shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, with whom he is still in love.
One of the people Opal meets is Miss Franny Block, a kind and somewhat eccentric elder librarian, who tells her many great stories, including one involving a bear. Opal also meets Gloria Dump, a blind recovering alcoholic with a tree in her backyard that has beer bottles hanging from it. She calls it a 'mistake tree' and the bottles represent the ghosts of all the things she has done wrong. One day, fed up with Winn-Dixie, the landlord of the Bulonis' trailer park, Mr. Alfred, orders the preacher to get rid of the dog. The preacher calls the animal pound to take Winn-Dixie away, but Opal begs her father to keep her dog. Unable to see his daughter this upset, the preacher tells the pound to return Winn-Dixie, claiming that he is not the same dog he called about.
Opal gets a job at Gertrude's Pets and befriends a worker there, Otis, a shy ex-convict with a passion for music. She also meets a young girl named Sweetie Pie Thomas, who is eager to get a dog like Winn-Dixie. Later, a thunderstorm comes and Winn-Dixie, being pathologically afraid of thunderstorms, runs away. While Opal looks for him, her father wants to give up and she blames him for the loss of her mother and Winn-Dixie running away. But her father explains that he tried very hard to look for her mother. He then admits that he believes that she is never coming back. Later they go back to a party and Otis starts to sing a song on his guitar. Winn-Dixie is heard outside howling along to the song. Everyone, while singing, lets him in and welcomes him back.
AnnaSophia Robb as India Opal Buloni
Jeff Daniels as "The Preacher", Opal's father, Mr. Buloni
Cicely Tyson as Gloria Dump
Luke Benward as Steven "Stevie" Dewberry
Dave Matthews as Otis
Eva Marie Saint as Ms. Franny Block
Courtney Jines as Amanda Wilkinson
BJ Hopper as Mr. Alfred
Nick Price as Dunlap Dewberry
Elle Fanning as Sweetie Pie Thomas
Harland Williams as Policeman
John McConnell, later Michael Jeter as Store Manager
Becca Lish as Gertrude the Parrot
Lyco and Scott as Winn-Dixie[1]
The movie based on the book was released in 2005. It was directed by Wayne Wang; produced by Trevor Albert, Walden Media, and Joan Singleton; distributed by 20th Century Fox; with music composed by Rachel Portman. It stars AnnaSophia Robb as India Opal Buloni, Jeff Daniels as "The Preacher", Opal's father, Mr. Buloni, Cicely Tyson as Gloria Dump, Luke Benward as Steven "Stevie" Dewberry, Dave Matthews as Otis, Eva Marie Saint as Ms. Franny Block, Courtney Jines as Amanda Wilkinson, BJ Hopper as Mr. Alfred, Nick Price as Dunlap Dewberry, Elle Fanning as Sweetie Pie Thomas, Harland Williams as Policeman, John McConnell as Store Manager, Becca Lish as Gertrude the Parrot, and two dogs, Lyco and Scott as Winn-Dixie.[1]
The film was shot on location in Napoleonville, Louisiana, USA. To make sure both dogs got on well with AnnaSophia Robb, who played Opal, she was brought in early to get acquainted with the dogs and give them treats. By the time shooting started, they considered her a "safe" area.[1] Winn-Dixie was played by multiple Picardy Shepherds, a rare breed from France. The DVD extra "Diamond in the Ruff" shows the two principal dogs, Scott and Lyco, but producer Trevor Albert mentions at 18:00 and 40:26 in the DVD feature commentary that, in all, four dogs were used. At 00:36 in AnnaSophia Robb's commentary "Meet Winn-Dixie" she mentions that the stunt dog Tasha jumped over the flour. The film's mouse was played by a rat. The choice was made carefully because while a mouse would have been preferable, rats are much easier to train.
Director Wayne Wang wanted to use Picardy Shepherds because he thought they looked similar to the depiction of Winn-Dixie on the book cover and would appear familiar to its readers. Dogs were brought from France when none were available in the U.S. (08:55 in the DVD commentary). The film, like the book, is set in Naomi, Florida, even though it was filmed in Louisiana. Consequently, the police car and uniform emblems depict the state of Florida rather than the state of Louisiana. The bunny that Ottis hands Opal (at around 56 mins) is a Netherlands Dwarf. They only get to be between 6 and 8 inches long. The last name of Opal and her dad, Buloni (mentioned in the dialog at 49:50 in the lunch meat joke), is shown on a sign to the left of the trailer door at 22:37 and elsewhere in the feature. In the scene from 10:45 to 11:03 where Winn-Dixie first arrives at the trailer, only the bottom edge of the sign is visible in the full frame version at 10:53 (when seen on a computer without "overscan" cropping) while in the wide screen version that edge is cropped from view.
This was Jeff Daniels and Harland Williams' second movie together; both had previously appeared in Dumb and Dumber (1994). The rat used for the beginning of the church scene is male, it then switches to being a female rat, and back again between shots. During the scene where the animals get loose, the same event is used twice. When Opal picks up the black and white rabbit to place in its pen, it is shown once as a close up of her [at 33:41 from behind] and once from a distance [at 33:58 frontal]. (This can be clearly seen in the full frame version, but not in the wide screen version at 33:41 where the wide screen cropping of the spherical 35 mm frames crop out the body of the rabbit. Consequently, it is a goof in re-mastering the full frame version from the spherical 35 mm negatives rather than a goof in the wide screen film. Of course, it could be argued that the rabbit got out again and needed to be put into the pen a second time.) In the scene where Opal brings Winn-Dixie into the church, when she gets up from her seat to get Winn-Dixie, there is a Bible and a purse on the chair beside her. After she returns from getting Winn-Dixie, there is somebody sitting in the seat beside her holding the Bible while the purse is on the floor between the two chairs. Opal's hair length varies throughout the movie, from a short blunt cut, to a longer, and uneven cut, and then back to short. When it starts raining, at the start of the garden party, all of the lights strung around start to flicker and go out. Except when you see everyone standing at the house, the lights to the right can be seen still on. Opal's hair changes from straight and flat to styled and blow-dried during the baseball game and party set-up scenes. The "mouse" Winn Dixie catches during the church service is a rat.
"Opal's Blues" – The Be Good Tanyas
"Won't Give In – The Finn Brothers
"Splish Splash" – Adam Schlesinger and James Iha
"Sunflower" – Alice Peacock
"The Clapping Song" – Shirley Ellis
String Quartet #17 ("Hunt")
"Butterfly" – Dave Matthews
"Sunrise" – Norah Jones
"Cabaret" – Emmylou Harris
"Glory Glory" – AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Courtney Jines, Nick Price, Luke Benward, Elle Fanning and B.J. Hopper
"Glory Glory" – Patrinell Wright and Gloria Smith
"Someday Somehow (Have It All) – The Beu Sisters
"Fly" – Shawn Colvin
"Amazing Grace" – Rachel Portman
Release[edit]
The film was released in cinemas in the USA in January 26, 2005, and was released on DVD and VHS in August 9, 2005, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 55% based on 121 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's consensus was: "An old-fashioned, if bland, adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's novel."[3] At Metacritic, the film holds a score of 54% based on 27 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]
List of awards and nominations
Young Artist Awards 2006 – Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actress – Best Family Feature Film – Comedy or Musical AnnaSophia Robb Nominated
^ a b c d Because of Winn-Dixie – IMDb Retrieved 2015-08-22
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^ "Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
^ "Because of Winn-Dixie". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
Because of Winn-Dixie on IMDb
Because of Winn-Dixie at Box Office Mojo
Films directed by Wayne Wang
A Man, a Woman, and a Killer (1975)
Chan Is Missing (1982)
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)
Slam Dance (1987)
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Smoke (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Anywhere but Here (1999)
The Center of the World (2001)
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Last Holiday (2006)
The Princess of Nebraska (2007)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
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Color of Change, Innocence Project call for Texas to posthumously pardon George Floyd
Gerald Goines, the ex-Houston officer who arrested Floyd, is currently facing charges on two murder counts.
Biba Adams |
On the first anniversary of his murder, Color Of Change and The Innocence Project of Texas jointly launched an online petition calling on Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to issue a posthumous pardon to George Floyd.
The petition calls on Texas officials to follow the recommendations of the Harris County Commissioners Court and pardon Floyd for a wrongful 2004 drug conviction.
Color Of Change and The Innocence Project of Texas jointly launched an online petition calling on Texas Governor Greg Abbott (left) and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to issue a posthumous pardon to George Floyd (right) on the first anniversary of his murder. (Photos by Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images and courtesy of Ben Crump Law)
Floyd was convicted on drug charges in Houston, Texas, and he spent 10 months in jail as a result. After new evidence came to light — revealing misconduct by the police officer who arrested him — the conviction was overturned but the charge remains on Floyd's record, even after his death.
According to the petition, Gerald Goines, the now-former Houston Police narcotics officer who arrested Floyd, "is currently facing charges on 2 counts of felony murder, as well as charges in state and federal court, for killing 2 people during a drug raid in 2019." Local news reports say its possible 69 people may have been wrongfully convicted from that single raid based on false evidence Goines presented.
Read More: Inside George Floyd family's meeting with President Biden and Congress
Harris County Commissioners Court approved a resolution in support of pardoning Floyd last month. They submitted the request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. But to receive an official pardon, the board must send a recommendation to Abbott for his signature.
"One year after nationwide protests shifted the public discourse on racial justice in America, the system has yet to provide closure to George Floyd's loved ones for another major injustice," said Scott Roberts, senior director of criminal justice and democracy campaigns at Color Of Change.
Read More: Vernon Jones: 'Wish people recognized death of Jesus as much as George Floyd'
"From his wrongful conviction on phony drug charges to his untimely death at the hands of police officers, George Floyd's life holds too many examples of how anti-Black, violent and corrupt American policing can be," Roberts said. "A posthumous pardon would serve as an important recognition of the many ways the war on drugs has brutally targeted Black people and unjustifiably incarcerated millions."
Those who sign the petition will add their name to a letter addressed to Abbott that reads, in part: "Dear Governor Greg Abbot and Texas Parole Board, I'm urging you to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon. Mr. Floyd was falsely accused of a crime by a corrupt police officer who is now under investigation for his numerous crimes."
Read More: Nearly 80% of white Republicans say America has done enough to help Black people
"I'm counting on you to do what's right," it continues, "and remove this stain from George Floyd's and Texas's record."
In a statement, Cory D. Session, senior vice president of The Innocence Project of Texas, said succinctly: "All who seek Justice shall have Justice, even after death. An injustice to one is an injustice to all."
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Classic Storybook Fables
Including "Beauty and the Beast" and Other Favorites
By Scott Gustafson
Children and adults alike will delight in reading aloud these enduring and enchantingly told stories, richly illustrated and fabulously reimagined by award-winning artist Scott Gustafson. Stories include "The Little Red Hen," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," and "Beauty and the Beast."
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"An eye-catching collection of eight short stories which [Gustafson] retells in lyrical, accessible language. Lush paintings appear throughout, and Gustafson subtly tailors his images to the mood of each story. . . . Readers will be entranced by the striking attention to detail in the artwork accompanying these stories of love, cleverness, and just deserts. Ages 5–8."
"Sumptuous visual finery. . . . Agreeable fare for sharing on a lap."


Opposite Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo plays a bipolar father trying to care for two children while his wife goes away to school.
A seriocomic portrait of a family coping with one parent's mental illness, Maya Forbes' autobiographical Infinitely Polar Bear shares with many childhood memoirs a slightly rose-tinted view of its subjects. Forbes doesn't shy away from the hazards and embarrassments faced by two young sisters being cared for solely by their bipolar father (played with empathy by Mark Ruffalo), but she feels honor-bound to balance each scary memory with a happy one in ways one mightn't if not writing about parents one loves. By draping those happy scenes in Theodore Shapiro's aggressively cheerful score, she puts a finger on the scales, pushing us into sharing her view of a child-raising plan we might otherwise find fault with. The result is a feel-good picture that is a little less affecting than it might have been, but is entertaining enough that -- especially with Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana as the adult leads -- it stands a fine chance with mainstream moviegoers.
Ruffalo plays Cam, a man of many gifts whose manic-depression (as it's termed when we meet him in the late '60s) prevents him from achieving much or even holding down a job. Wife Maggie (Saldana) doesn't mind this much when they marry, creating an idyllic home in the Cambridge, Mass., area, but by the time they have elementary-school-age daughters, Cam's behavior grows erratic enough that they separate: He's institutionalized briefly, and when he's released the plan is that he'll live away from the family but see the girls often.
Maggie, unwilling to see her daughters be unchallenged in a public school but unable to pay for a private one, hatches a plan: She scores admission to Columbia Business School, where she can earn a degree in 18 months, then get a job that pays enough to manage private-school tuition. The problem is that Columbia is in New York City. She decides that Cam will care for the girls full-time in Cambridge, and she'll travel home on weekends to help out.
A few assumptions go unquestioned here. Is it worth splitting a family apart for a year and a half in order to send children to an elite school? Was there really not a business program anywhere in the college-stuffed Cambridge area that would admit Maggie, making the split unnecessary?
The one question the film does engage is the wisdom of entrusting young Faith and Amelia to the care of a man fresh from institutionalization. (The children are played by Ashley Aufderheide and Imogene Wolodarsky, a first-time actor who's the daughter of Forbes and husband-producer Wally Wolodarsky.) Cam fails many tests in the early weeks of the arrangement: He leaves the house while the girls are asleep, going out for hours to get drunk; he abandons housekeeping; he's so intent on trying to befriend neighbors in the family's new apartment building that he alienates every resident. His love for the girls is never in doubt, but even after some seeming steps toward responsibility, he's the kind of dad no child-welfare officer would tolerate.
Ruffalo makes the character sympathetic and believable, more often entertaining in his erratic behavior than troubling; the film needs the laughs his missteps offer. But the home Cam creates is, as his daughters angrily attest, a "shithole" they are ashamed of. The girls see how his pushy gregariousness is making others avoid the family; they beg their mother to return.
But before things get so bad that viewers seriously question Maggie's values, Cam has for the most part turned things around: Once-bullying neighbor children are charmed by his eccentricity, and even bouts of depression don't stop the girls from keeping the household running. The world is inarguably home to many families that thrive in conditions others would find outrageous, and from all appearances, Forbes' was one of them. But one suspects the happy ending was a bit harder to come by than Infinitely Polar Bear makes it look.


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Session Z33: Open Quantum Systems III
Focus Recordings Available
Sponsoring Units: DAMOP
Chair: Ricardo Gutierrez-Jauregui, Columbia University
Room: McCormick Place W-192C
Z33.00001: Unidirectional transport of light along an atomic waveguide
Ricardo Gutierrez-Jauregui, Ana Asenjo-Garcia
Optical isolators that permit transport of light in one direction and block it in the opposite are a subject of considerable interest. Motivated by a recent prediction to engineer the dispersion relation of a waveguide constructed from atomic components, the possibility to create directional transport in an open, collective quantum system can now be explored. In this talk I will review an idealized model for an atomic chain whose optical response is engineered to display directionality. I will discuss a scattering formulation where mode-to-mode transmissions are readily calculated to fully characterize the optical response. Once the conditions for directionality are established, I explore how to retrieve excitations efficiently from a directional chain. To finish, I will include the effect of imperfections that break the periodicity of the array and show that backscattering is suppressed even in the presence of strong noise for a directional chain.
Z33.00002: Double-driven Parity-Time (PT) and Anti-Parity-Time (APT) Symmetric Floquet Models
Julia Cen, Yogesh N Joglekar, Avadh B Saxena
In quantum mechanics, one of the key requirements for a system is that it must be Hermitian in order to have real energies and unitary time evolution. Over the past two decades, we have seen tremendous growth of interest in systems that are non-Hermitian, but PT-symmetric. This is due to the fact they have been found to possess real energies, although being open systems, hence generalizing the Hermiticity condition. More recently, there has been increasing interest in non-Hermitian systems with APT-symmetry, which has also been found in many contexts such as optics, diffusive systems, and electronics. In this talk, we will explore various types of single and double-driven time-periodic non-Hermitian PT and APT-symmetric Hamiltonians. Time-dependent systems are generally difficult to solve, but being time-periodic, we can resort to using Floquet theory for our models. PT and APT symmetries in the models give rise to transitions of PT-symmetry breaking and restoring, which as a result leads to observations of many fascinating and rich features and characteristics not seen in Hermitian cases. This could bring about new exciting developments to the probing and control of quantum systems.
Z33.00003: Protocols for cooling with reservoirs strongly coupled to a system
Azadeh Mazloom, James K Freericks
In conventional theories of reservoirs coupled to systems, the reservoir is infinitely large and couples with an infinitesimally small coupling to the system. This allows it to exchange energy without modifying the properties of the system, ultimately leading to thermal equilibrium. In quantum computing, we would like to design cooling qubits that rapidly cool a system. But, because we only have a small number of qubits available, we must couple the reservoir strongly to the system. An ion-trap simulator is ideal for examining this behavior. We consider the ions at the end as the reservoir and the ions in the center as the system. It is a transverse-field Ising model with long-range interactions, which creates a strongly coupled reservoir-system. Our protocol is to start the bath sites in a low-energy state, wait, and then reset them back to a low-energy state at specific times. We show that this procedure makes the middle system reach close to its ground state. The efficiency of such cooling strongly depends on the reset rate and the strength of the system-bath coupling. By looking into the average of the spin, both along the Ising coupling direction and along the field direction, we can optimally predict the reset times in order to evolve the system closer to the ground state.
Z33.00004: Locality of physical noise in quantum rigid rotors
Shubham Jain, Victor V Albert
Molecular rotational state spaces, modeled by infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces of quantum rigid rotors, present new grounds for encoding qubits with reliable error correction. They are, however, prone to noise induced by the environment via rotational friction and diffusion. As a step towards making qubits realizable through these rotor space configurations, we study the nature of noise introduced by a thermal environment in these systems. For the simpler setting of a planar rotor, we confirm that physical errors are local in the rotor's angular position and momentum phase space. Our analysis can be extended to the more general case of the completely asymmetric rigid rotor whose basis states are described by elements of the non-abelian group SO(3).
Z33.00005: Exact description of quantum stochastic models as quantum resistors
João S Ferreira, Tony Jin, Michele Filippone, Thierry Giamarchi
Diffusion is one of the most common transport phenomena at hydrodynamic scales, both in classical and quantum systems. Yet, how exactly diffusion emerges from the underlying microscopic theory in a quantum system is still an exciting open question.
In this talk, we present a new method to derive the transport properties of diffusive/ohmic quantum systems connected to fermionic reservoirs. The method is based on the expansion of the current in terms of the inverse system size using Keldysh formalism. We apply it to a large class of exactly solvable quantum stochastic Hamiltonians (QSHs) with time and space-dependent noise. These models confirm the validity of our system size expansion ansatz and its efficiency in capturing the transport properties. In particular, we consider three fermionic models: i) a model with local dephasing ii) the quantum simple symmetric exclusion process model iii) a model with long-range stochastic hopping. As a by-product, our approach equally describes the mean behavior of quantum systems under continuous measurement.
Z33.00006: Measuring the Earth's rotation using a chip-scale Brillouin laser gyroscope
Invited Speaker: Kerry J Vahala
Counter-propagating lightwaves within a closed rotating loop enable rotation measurement as a result of the Sagnac effect. And modern optical gyroscopes use long coiled optical fiber paths (fiber optic gyroscopes) or resonant recirculation (ring laser gyroscopes) to greatly enhance this effect. In recent years, the possibility of chip-based optical gyroscopes has garnered considerable attention. Such integrated optical gyrocopes could enjoy the advantages of integration and scalable manufacturing, and would offer rugged designs for operation in challenging environments. Compact or chip-based ring laser gyroscopes, passive resonant gyroscopes, and interferometric gyroscopes have been reported. Here we first review some of the enabling technologies of chip-integrated designs, overview recent results, and then focus on a chip-based laser gyroscope that has been used to measure the Earth's rotation. The sensitivity of the gyroscope is limited by fundamental noise sources that are discussed. Also, operation of the gyroscope near an exceptional point is possible and the features of this mode of operation are reviewed.
Z33.00007: Giant atoms in one-dimensional structured environments
Ariadna Soro Álvarez, Carlos Sánchez Μuñoz, Anton Frisk Kockum
Giant atoms (GAs) constitute a new paradigm in quantum optics in which they break the dipole approximation by coupling to light at multiple discrete points. They have been increasingly attracting attention for their ability to interact via a waveguide without decohering, which is why most previous work has been limited to GAs coupled to a one-dimensional (1D) continuous waveguide. Here, we instead consider GAs coupled to a 1D structured bath, e.g., an array of coupled cavities or a photonic crystal waveguide. This environment gives rise to a band structure, where atomic decay and interaction are highly dependent on the energy band to which the atoms are tuned. In particular, we study non-Markovian decay, time delay effects, formation of bound states and decoherence-free interaction, and we analyze how these phenomena are influenced by the number and distance of the GAs' coupling points to the bath.
Z33.00008: Criticality and phase classification for quadratic open quantum many-body systems
Yikang Zhang, Thomas Barthel
We study the steady states of translation-invariant open many-body systems governed by Lindblad master equations, where the Hamiltonian is quadratic in the ladder operators, and the Lindblad operators are either linear or quadratic and Hermitian. We find that one-dimensional systems with short-range interactions cannot be critical, i.e., steady-state correlations necessarily decay exponentially. For the quasi-free case without quadratic Lindblad operators, we show that fermionic systems with short-range interactions are non-critical for any number of spatial dimensions and provide upper bounds on the correlation lengths. Lastly, we address the question of phase transitions in quadratic fermionic systems and find that, without symmetry constraints beyond particle-hole symmetries, all gapped Liouvillians belong to the same phase.
Z33.00009: Non-reciprocal quantum interactions without real or synthetic magnetic fields
Yuxin Wang, Aashish Clerk
Non-reciprocal elements are a valuable resource in realizing scalable quantum circuits and networks. Conventional routes to non-reciprocity make crucial use of external magnetic fields or synthetic gauge fields (engineered, e.g., by dynamic modulation [1,2]). In the quantum case, the corresponding non-reciprocal interactions are ultimately described by a cascaded quantum-systems master equation [3,4]. Here, we discuss an alternate route to quantum non-reciprocity that does not necessarily require external magnetic fields (real or synthetic), and whose quantum dynamics is not described by a standard cascaded master equation. We show how an example of this dynamics can be realized in a regular circuit QED setup involving two cavities and a dispersively coupled qubit. We also show how this dynamics enables a number of new applications in quantum information processing, including a novel class of dissipative single- and two-qubit gates. Our ideas could be readily implemented in state-of-the-art superconducting qubit setups.
[1] K. M. Sliwa et al., Phys. Rev. X 5, 041020 (2015).
[2] K. Fang et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 465 (2017).
[3] C. W. Gardiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2269 (1993).
[4] H. J. Carmichael, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2273 (1993).
Z33.00010: Non-equilibrium scalar field dynamics starting from Fock states: Absence of thermalization in one dimensional phonons coupled to fermions
Md Mursalin Islam, Rajdeep Sensarma
We propose a new method to study non-equilibrium dynamics of scalar fields starting from non-Gaussian initial conditions using Keldysh field theory. We use it to study dynamics of phonons coupled to non-interacting bosonic and fermionic baths, starting from initial Fock states. We find that in one dimension long wavelength phonons coupled to fermionic baths do not thermalize both at low and high bath temperatures. At low temperature, constraints from energy-momentum conservation lead to a narrow bandwidth of particle-hole excitations and the phonons effectively do not see this bath. On the other hand, the strong band edge divergence of particle-hole density of states leads to an undamped ``polariton-like'' mode of the dressed phonons above the band edge of the particle-hole excitations. These undamped modes contribute to the lack of thermalization of long wavelength phonons at high temperatures. In higher dimensions, these constraints and the divergence of density of states are weakened and leads to thermalization at all wavelengths.
Z33.00011: Universal properties of dissipative Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids
Kazuki Yamamoto, Masaya Nakagawa, Masaki Tezuka, Masahito Ueda, Norio Kawakami
In recent years, open quantum systems have been actively studied both experimentally and theoretically, as exemplified by driven-dissipative systems and non-Hermitian (NH) quantum systems. In this talk, we demonstrate the universal properties of dissipative Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquids by deriving correlation functions and performing finite-size scaling analysis for a NH XXZ spin chain as a prototypical correlated model in one-dimensional open quantum systems [1]. Our calculation is based analytically on the field theory, the finite-size scaling approach in conformal field theory, and the Bethe-ansatz solution, and numerically on the density-matrix renormalization group analysis generalized to NH systems (NH-DMRG). Importantly, we uncover that the model belongs to the universality class characterized by the complex-valued TL parameter in the massless regime with weak dissipation. On the other hand, the discrepancy in the TL parameter obtained by NH-DMRG and the Bethe-ansatz analysis indicates that the model becomes massive for strong dissipation. Our results can be tested in ultracold atoms by introducing two-body loss to the Bose-Hubbard model with photoassociation techniques [2].
[1] K. Yamamoto et al., to be submitted.
[2] T. Tomita et al., Sci. Adv. 3, e1701513 (2017).
Z33.00012: Time-delayed quantum feedback using a lattice of dissipative oscillators
Xin Zhang, Sabine H. L. Klapp, Anja Metelmann
Time-delayed quantum feedback has been a commonly used controlling method in quantum systems. However, solutions to these systems have been difficult to obtain due to their non-Markovian nature. Here, we show that time-delayed quantum feedback can be introduced with a novel setup, which is composed of a lattice of dissipative oscillators. This approach provides a novel viewpoint of time-delayed quantum dynamics and gives us accessibility to unexplored regimes. Further, with more tunability, it could find applications in quantum information processing.
Z33.00013: Q-MARINA: Quantum Mapping Algorithm for a Resonator Interacting with N Atoms
Marina Radulaski, Marina Krstic Marinkovic
Tavis-Cummings (TC) cavity quantum electrodynamical effects in the low excitation regime are at the core of atomic, optical and solid state physics. The classical modeling of the open quantum TC systems is often limited to low-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Mapping this dynamic to a quantum circuit can expand the size of the system proportionally to the number of available qubits. We develop a gate-based quantum algorithm that simulates a system of two atoms in a resonant cavity. Subsequently, we devise a recipe for a quantum circuit that can model open quantum TC system of an arbitrary size.


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Transfers for senior police officers
Senior police officers will be changing places as the Sri Lanka Police effects a series of transfers across the service. The transfers come under the instructions of the Inspector General of Police, based on recommendations by the Ministry of Defence and the Police Commissioner.
A press release from Police Headquarters lists the transfers as follows:
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) transfers
C. D. Wickremaratne, from Police Headquarters to Padaviya; A. A. Wijetillake, North Central to Police HQ; P. S. K. Dayananda, Anuradhapura to North Central; L. C. Perera, Police Medical Division to Mannar; S. W. M. T. B. Samarakoon, Trincomalee to Kilinochchi; K. D. L. Dalapadadu, field promotion, Wanni East to Mankulam; U. P. Hewage, Sabaragamuwa to Sabaragamuwa Division (Additional); P. S. K. Vithana, field promotion, Moneragala Operations; R. N. Weerasuriya, field promotion, East to South Ampara; H. A. Hettiarchchi, Trincomalee East to Kantalai; A. N. S. Mendis, CID and Terrorist Investigation Department (TID) to Narcotics; N. Munasinghe, Wanni (West) to TID; Y. R. W. Wijegunawardena, Kalutara to Wanni (West); D. J. Gammanpila, Kandy to Central Province (East) Hatton-Nuwara Eliya; W. U. Fernando, Batticaloa Operations to IT and CCTV; L. M. Dayananda Bandara, North, Jaffna; R. P. S. K. Rajapakse, North Western (West) to North Western (East); S. S. Dayananda, Police Supplies to North Western (West); T. M. A. Senanayaka, Crime (Organised Crime); S. A. T. T. N. Wijegunawardena, Crime Records; H. K. S. Pinidiya, Administration and Personnel to Recruitment Division; M. P. Samaradivakara, Colombo (South) to Support Service (Supplies); R. S. P. Siriwardena, Support Services (Buildings); J. Abeysirigunawardena, South to Examinations and Training; L. A. Jayasingha, Examinations and Training to Police Academy; J. Kulathilaka, field promotion – Colombo North to Colombo South, and D. L. S. G. I. Peiris, field promotion, Traffic to HQ.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) transfers
E. K. B. M. Perera, Matale to Colombo (South); T. K. P. de Silva, Galle to Matale; S. A. T. T. N. Abeysiriwardene, Matugama to Kantale; D. U. Kumarasiri, Kantalai to Galle; K. T. A. R. Kasthuriratna, Gampola to Kandy; A. L. K. K. Atapattu, Western Province (North) Crimes to Director Tourist Sector; W. B. P. J. Perera, Chilaw to Colombo (North); K. E. R. L. Fernando, Jaffna to Director, Medical Services; R. M. L. N. Bandara, Kuliyapitiya to Jaffna (from August 15); P. J. K. S. W. Wickremesinghe, Police Training College Kalutara to Mannar; B. B. Ranaweera, Puttalam to Batticaloa; A. D. H. Bandusena, Avissawella to Puttalam; B. A. D. N. R. Padmasiri, Kuliyapitiya to Matara; M. G. Karunaratna, Police College Nikaweratiya – PA to DIG North Western (East); M. D. A. Wijesinha, Field Force HQ to Director, Navy Section; T. M. N. Hameed, Ministerial Security Division (MSD) to Director, Diplomatic Security; K. Arasaratnam, Criminal Records to Director, Criminal Records; A. R. Vidyalankara, Children and Women's Bureau to Director, CID, and M. G. W. M. Muthubanda, Director CID to Director, Children and Women's Bureau.
Superintendent of Police (SP) transfers
T. Ganeshanathan, City Traffic to Anuradhapura Division Traffic; R. M. N. Ratnayaka, Vavuniya to City Traffic; T. Y. Raj, Colombo (Central III) to Jaffna; P. S. R. Dayananda, Kankesanthurai to Colombo (Central III); S. P. Ranagala, Colombo (Central I) to Ampara (District I); K. K. A. P. Mapalagama, Akkaraipattu to Colombo (Central II); B. C. I. S. Wijewardena, Colombo (North III) to Trincomalee; A. S. Liyanapathirana, Colombo (Central) Operations to Colombo (North III); W. Gunapala, Moneragala to Avissawella I; R. A. C. de Silva, Colombo (North I) to Trincomalee; D. M. M. Pussella, Nugegoda II to Colombo (North I); G. N. de Soysa, Western Province (South) Crime to Nugegoda II; H. H. Chulasiri, Western Province Operations to Moneragala Operations; H. H. K. V. Mahagedra, Kandy III to Gampola; P. M. W. V. Ranmalawinna, Kantalai to Trincomalee; C. E. Wedisinha, MSD to Chilaw (from October 18); W. N. S. B. Wickremesinghe, Mannar to Director Human Rights; W. L. A. S. Priyantha, Batticaloa to Director Supplies Police HQ; K. M. Samarakoon, Anuradhapura I to Anuradhapura division; I. R. Jayawardena, Director, Fraud Bureau (from August 1).
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One of the most popular festivals of the summer months, Rhythmtree has today announced more acts set to play this July.
Friday night at Rhythmtree traditionally has a celebratory party feel and this year the excitement will be racked up a few extra notches. Alabama 3, the group named as "the best live band in the UK" by The Guardian, will be bringing their irrepressible mix of rock, dance, blues, country and gospel to our mainstage on Friday evening. With their huge crowd-pleasing hits like The Soprano's theme tune "Woke Up This Morning" and the dance classic "Ain't going to Goa" they'll be jump-starting a very special evening, followed by ambient dance masters The Orb who'll be bringing a full visual show and the Island's own favourites 77:78 who'll close the live programme on the ever popular Didg Cafe stage.
Sunday evening at Rhythmtree is set to be one big sing along as in addition to The Zombies, the main stage will finish with a crackling set from Liverpudlian Brit-pop favourites Cast with a long list of familiar top twenty hits peppering their sets including "Walkaway", "Guiding Star", "Alright" and "Flying".
There will be two new entertainment areas this year featuring cabaret, comedy, DJ's and Spoken Word. With over 130 performances across the site throughout the weekend, Rhythmtree goes from strength to strength and is regarded as the Island's top family-friendly weekend.