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Aug 10, 2008, 07:37 AM »
Weightlifting Day 3 Preview: Zhang comes back
(BEIJING, August 10) -- Lifters in the Men's 62kg and Women's 58kg weight classes will compete for Olympic glory on August 11 at the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium.
Men's 62kg Weightlifting defending Olympic champion China's Shi Zhiyong and 2004 bronze winner Israel Jose Rubio of Venezuela both moved up to the 69kg category, while silver medalist Li Maosheng of China is not participating in the Beijing Games.
These vacancies clear the podium for new champion lifters, or returning ones, in the case of Zhang Xiangxiang of China. Zhang won the Men's 56kg Weightlifting bronze at the Sydney Olympics but did not compete in 2004. He will compete in the 62kg class this year, and is viewed as one of the best bets for China to claim a gold.
Im Yong-su of Korea is another medal favorite after lifting a total of 315kg to finish second at the 2007 World Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Other medal contenders are Pan-American champion Oscar Figueroa of Colombia, who settled for a fifth place at the 2004 Athens Games, and Umurbek Bazarbayev of Turkmenistan, who clinched a seventh-place finish in 2004.
In the Women's 58kg Weightlifting category, the biggest favorite is the defending Olympic champion China's Chen Yanqing, who came out of a two-year retirement in 2006 to set five world weightlifting records at the 15th Asian Games in Doha.
Thailand's Wandee Kameaim, the bronze winner of this category at the Athens Olympics, is another medal contender. She competed in the Women's 58kg weight class at the 2005 World Championships in Doha and won the silver medal with 236kg in the total. A year later she got stuck at 230kg at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and took the bronze medal.
Group C of the Men's 69kg category will also compete on August 11, but no medals will be awarded until groups A and B compete on August 12.
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Aug 10, 2008, 07:53 AM »
Long gets gold; Thai weightlifter wins 53kg event
Beijing, China (Sports Network) - China continued to impress in weightlifting at the Olympics, as Long Qingquan captured the gold medal in the men's 56kg class on Sunday.
The 17-year-old Long lifted a total of 292 kgs, barely ahead of Vietnam's Hoang Anh Tuan (290kg), while Indonesia's Eko Irawan (288) took the bronze.
Earlier in the day, Thailand's Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon won a weightlifting gold in the women's 53kg event.
Jaroenrattanatarakoon set an Olympics record with her 126kg lift in the second clean & jerk. She finished with a 221kg total after topping out at 95kg in the snatch.
Yoon Jinhee of South Korea and Nastassia Novikava of Belarus finished with identical 213kg totals, but Yoon was awarded the silver medal because of her lower body weight.
American Melanie Roach finished sixth at an American-record 193kg.
Long's medal was the second gold for China in weightlifting. Chen Xiexia won the women's 53kg event Saturday. Long had lifts of 132kg in the snatch and 160 from the clean & jerk.
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Thailand wins women's 53-kg weightlifting gold
BEIJING (AP) - Thai weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon gave a fortune teller part of the credit for her Olympic gold medal on Sunday.
Jaroenrattanatarakoon, who changed her name last year, won the women's 53-kilogram category with a total of 221 kilograms (486.2 pounds) and set an Olympic record in the clean and jerk.
South Korea's Yoon Jinhee finished in second place and Natassia Novikava of Belarus got the bronze.
The Thai lifter, who used to be known as Junpim Kuntatean, said a fortune teller told her to change her name last year to improve her luck, and it seems to have worked.
"I changed the name because I wanted to win the Olympic Games," Jaroenrattanatarakoon said. "I don't know if you believe in fortune tellers but she said that if I change my name I will win gold."
She was tied with Novikava after the snatch, but clinched the win with her first clean and jerk at 120 kgs (264 pounds), a weight than no one else was able to match.
After setting the Olympic record in her second attempt, she went for a world record clean and jerk in her third lift. But 126 kgs (277.2 pounds) was too much, and she gave up halfway through the lift, laughing.
"I don't mind that I didn't get the record. I just wanted a medal," she said.
Apart from the name change, the absence of Chinese lifters was also a big help. China has some of the top competitors in the weight class, including world champion Li Pin. But China prioritized other divisions because no country can send more than four women to compete in Olympic weightlifting.
"I'm lucky that China didn't send a lifter in this category," Jaroenrattanatarakoon said. "Then I would have had to be more careful."
Her total was 8 kgs (17.6 pounds) better than Yoon and Novikava. Yoon got the silver because of a lower body weight.
Novikava, silver medalist in the 2007 World Championships, had expected to do better than third place, and couldn't hold back the tears were as she stepped onto the podium.
"I am satisfied, but of course I wanted to get more than bronze," she told reporters. "At training sessions I lifted more than I lifted at today's competition."
Melanie Roach of the United States set an American record with 193 kgs (424.6 pounds), finishing in sixth place.
Jaroenrattanatarakoon's last name didn't fit on the digital scoreboard at the Beijing weightlifting gym, so it was simply abbreviated as J.
The first name roughly translates to "good girl," while the surname means "prosperous," said Boosaba Yodbangtoey, the president of the Thai weightlifting federation.
On Saturday, Chen Xiexia won China's first gold medal of the Beijing Games in the women's 48-kg category. Another dominant Chinese lifter, Chen Yangqing, is expected to defend her 2004 Olympic title in the women's 58 kg on Monday.
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Aug 10, 2008, 08:14 AM »
Arnold Olympian hopes for strong showing
Natalie Woolfolk takeson world in weightlifting
By Christopher Conroy and Theresa WIinslow
Natalie Woolfolk's journey to the Beijing Olympics began in the garage of her father's home.
A growth spurt had ended the Arnold resident's gymnastics career, and her father, Kirk Woolfolk, wanted her to try weightlifting so she'd have something new to do.
Ms. Woolfolk, though, said she didn't think she'd be any good at it. She turned out to be very, very wrong.
Mr. Woolfolk, the head strength and conditioning coach at the Naval Academy, said his daughter picked the sport up really, really fast.
"I didn't know she'd be an Olympian, but it was pretty obvious she'd be good at it," he said.
Ms. Woolfolk was a freshman at Broadneck High School at the time, he said, and by her senior year, she was already at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. She ended up completing her high school requirements there, with the hours transferring to Broadneck, so she was able to graduate with her friends in 2002.
"Before I knew it, I was making international teams and realized what I had the potential to do," she said.
U.S. Olympic weightlifter Natalie Woolfolk, of Arnold, works out
at the United States training facility at Beijing Normal University last week
in Beijing. Ms. Woolfolk holds all American records in the 63 kg weight class.
Ms. Woolfolk, 24, arrived in Beijing at the end of last month, the first day the Olympic Village was open. She has been training with the U.S. team at Beijing Normal University, and pretty much staying put there until after she competes Tuesday.
"It's quiet and away from the chaos," she said last week. "It's nice and relaxing. The U.S. training facility, it keeps me sane and not too nervous about competing. It's almost just like home."
One consequence of her schedule, though, is that she hasn't much time to see the sights. She plans to rectify that after the Games.
Ms. Woolfolk has seen plenty of other athletes, however. "It's crazy seeing all these athletes — the ones you've seen on TV, the ones you've looked up to. I almost feel unworthy."
Weighty issues
Ms. Woolfolk competes in the 63-kilogram (139-pound) weight class in both the snatch and clean and jerk. The snatch is just what it sounds like: snatching weights off the ground and lifting them overhead in one continuous motion. In the clean and jerk, the lifter first takes the bar to the top of the chest, then pushes it overhead.
Ms. Woolfolk's first chance to rank herself among the best in the world came at the 2007 World Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Placing seventh in the 63-kilogram clean and jerk and 21st in the snatch, Ms. Woolfolk returned home in late September with the realization that she could vie for a spot on this year's Olympic squad.
The 5-foot-3-inch, 135-pounder also came away with the confidence that her rhythm, form and technique were good enough to challenge the most dominant weightlifters in the world.
Her Olympic training has been rooted in a series of cycles, with the most recent cycle leading up to Tuesday's competition angled toward maximizing her strength while maintaining her form.
"For this cycle, I needed to focus on getting stronger," Ms. Woolfolk said. "My technique has always been consistent, but it never hurts to get stronger in my sport. I've been doing tons of squats and pulls."
Still, even given all this, she doesn't consider herself strong. She attributes her success in weightlifting to power and technique, both of which she got from gymnastics.
Over the past six months, Ms. Woolfolk has consistently snatched at the 100-kilogram level, with her highest mark being a 105-kilogram pull early last year. That was set while Ms. Woolfolk was competing in the 69-kilogram weight class, however.
Woolfolk's highest 63-kilogram competition mark for the snatch is 100 kilograms, while her best in the clean and jerk is 118 kilograms.
When added together, that makes her highest composite mark a 228. Even if she equals that in Beijing, she'd fall more than 20 kilograms short of the marks set at last summer's World Games by Chinese and Russian competitors.
Nevertheless, Ms. Woolfolk refuses to be intimidated.
"I've been training for this opportunity for a very long time," she said. "I am ready to compete. I am strong and in shape, and I hope I give some people a run for their money."
Mr. Woolfolk, who left for Beijing on Thursday, also believes his daughter is prepared for the challenges of the Games. Ms. Woolfolk's mother and stepfather also will be in Beijing to watch her compete, and her fiance, Casey Burgener, is already there. He's a weightlifter, too.
"She has made it to the pinnacle of her sport," Mr. Woolfolk said. "It's a great honor. I think it finally set in in May, when the flag was draped around her shoulders."
Ms. Woolfolk, in turn, credits her father, who used to coach her, with much of her success.
"He's been there through my ups and downs, and he deserves this reward just as much as I do," she said.
Her plans after the Olympics aren't completely set, but she does want to do some European travel with Mr. Burgener before moving on to a job as a strength coach at the University of San Diego. She hopes to visit the Annapolis area for Christmas.
As for weightlifting, she wants to take a bit of time off after Beijing, and then re-evaluate her competitive career.
"I'll take it day by day," she said, quickly adding, "I love the sport."
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Aug 10, 2008, 08:38 AM »
No medal for Roach despite record performance
By Travis Pittman
BEIJING - She did it the way she always does - with a big smile and lots of confidence.
But the amazing Olympic journey for Bonney Lake's Melanie Roach came to an end Sunday without a medal, finishing sixth in the final of the women's 53kg weightlifting competition.
During the snatch portion, Roach made all three of her lifts and made it look easy, even smiling as she lifted 83kg over her head.
In the clean and jerk portion, she lifted more than twice her body weight, topping out at 110kg, pumping her fist each time after throwing the bar down in triumph.
But the combined weight of 193kg wasn't enough to put her on the podium.
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon of Thailand won the gold with a combined weight of 220kg. Novikava Nastassia of Belarus and Yoon Jinhee of Korea tied for silver with a combined 213kg.
Still, her combined lifts did set a new American record for the division.
Melanie's journey to this Olympic moment was more than eight years in the making. She was a standout gymnast at Auburn High School until injuries took their toll.
She took up weightlifting as part of her rehab and it stuck. She was a favorite to make the U.S. team going to Sydney in 2000, but a herniated disc ended that dream.
She gave it up and started a family with her husband Dan, a Washington state legislator. After giving birth to her third child, Melanie had the itch again and got back in the gym. Since then, she's consistently been one of the best lifters in the world.
Amazingly, she made her Olympic debut at 33. She is six years older than the next oldest competitor in the final round Sunday and nine years older than the gold medalist.
If she were to compete in London in 2012, she'd do it at age 37. So is retirement the likely option?
Dan says not necessarily.
"This was our goal but her coaches think she still can improve, so we'll go home and settle in and take family time, then make some decisions," said Dan.
In addition to her own training, Melanie has spent the past few years running her own gymnastics gym and taking care of an autistic son.
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Aug 10, 2008, 08:43 AM »
Chinese teen wins weightlifting gold
Long Qingquan, 17, won China's second Olympic weightlifting gold in as many days on Sunday at the Beijing University Gymasium.
Qingquan took gold in the 56-kilogram category by lifting 292 kg overall. He hoisted 132 kg in the snatch and 160 in the clean and jerk.
Qingquan, who had never competed internationally, only missed one lift. With the gold already secure, he was unsuccessful on a clean and jerk attempt of 164 kg.
The Olympic and world records set early in the decade by Turkey's Halil Mutlu were not approached.
The Chinese teen follows Chen Xiexia, who won gold for China on Saturday in the women's 48-kg class.
Hoang Anh Tuan of Vietnam was just tow kg back to take the silver. Eko Irawan of Indonesia won bronze.
Thai lifter changes name, wins gold
China may have had more medals on Sunday if it were not for a rule that limits competitors to four women per country, according to the gold medal winner of the 53-kg category.
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon won Thailand's first gold medal on Sunday, lifting a total of 221 kg.
The Thai lifter set an Olympic record with a clean and jerk of 126 and then was unsuccessful at 130, which was one kg more than the world record set last year by China's Li Ping.
"I don't mind that I didn't get the record. I just wanted a medal," she said.
The winner used to be known as Junpim Kuntatean, but changed her name last year to improve her luck after a session with a fortune teller.
Still, she said after her win that she felt fortunate her weight class was devoid of Chinese competitors.
The other two women on the podium were each eight kg back. Yoon Jinhee of South Korea took the silver, with Natassia Novikava of Belarus grabbing bronze.
Melanie Roach of the United States finished sixth.
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Aug 10, 2008, 08:49 AM »
China Weightlifter, 17, Wins Gold
China earned its second weightlifting gold medal of these Games when Long Qingquan, 17, won the men's 56-kg category with a lift of 643.7 pounds in front of a wildly supportive home crowd. It was the international debut for Long.
Vietnam's Hoang Anh Tuan of Vietnam claimed the silver with a lift of 639.3 and Indonesia's Eko Irawan won the bronze.
Long lifted 291 pounds in the snatch and 352.7 pounds in the clean and jerk, missing just one lift, his final clean and jerk of 361.6 pounds.
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Aug 10, 2008, 08:54 AM »
Haworth's Olympic finale?
By Adam Van Brimmer
Cheryl Haworth's retirement plans sound like those of her fellow twentysomethings. She's vague on the details and in no hurry to firm them up. "There are a lot of different directions I can go," she said with a shrug. "I'm looking forward to finding my niche and banging it out."
That search could start in weeks, not decades. Haworth is 25 going on 55 in retirement parlance. As most people her age toil in entry-level jobs, she works at her vocation's pinnacle. She's spent half her life there already.
And Haworth is ready to retire from Olympic weightlifting following next Saturday's competition in Beijing, China ... maybe.
Team Savannah lifter Cheryl Hayworth focuses on the bar
as she prepares for a work out at the Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting
Center. Hayworth is still getting back into shape following elbow
surgery in June. Photo by Richard Burkhart
"Yeah, I'm feeling tired. Yeah, my back hurts. Yeah, I'm going to retire," Haworth said. "It's easy for me to speculate about the day I say that. But I won't know when it is for sure until the time comes."
The Beijing Games are her third Olympics but not necessarily her last - even though she has nothing left to prove.
She's earned a medal already.
She's won world championships.
She's lived at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
Another Olympics means another four-year commitment to training. Another Olympics means another four-year delay for her art career. Another Olympics means another four-year wait for what she calls "a different groove."
"She's been talking for the first time about maybe going into this or getting into that, but I can't tell how immediate that is," said her father, Bob. "You'd have to get into her head on that. And good luck with that, because I've given up."
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Dec2-12, 11:11 PM | #103 |
Julian Barbour on does time exist
Sheaf: No, I wouldn't dare to tamper with the words of the great Muslim philosopher Omar Khayyam! See Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, quatrain No. 51.
Dec3-12, 12:16 PM | #104 |
The words came to mind without their original punctuation and are so transcribed. The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on––nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it. One can well ask "why" the apparent connection between AFTERNESS, as in odtAa, and algebraic unswitchability. John Baez put in a related comment at Jeff Morton's blog (of the "I think this is cool..." sort) when they were discussing Rovelli thermal time idea. I'll get a link. The joking reference to "many-fingered time" was sly of Sheaf and a bit arcane. It is a modern hypothesis that a few people have explored. (Including Demystifier among others.) I think it comes in different versions. One picture (not Demy's) might be of a block universe past that grows forwards in time from many different points, in a sort of uncoordinated way. Sheaf must know a lot more about it than I. The idea would have baffled Mssrs Fitzgerald and Khayyam, I imagine. We don't really need to consider it here, since the thermal time construction gives us one unique universal time (which we can compare local and observer times to.) Here's link to Jeff Morton's blog post about TT. http://theoreticalatlas.wordpress.co...d-tomita-flow/ Here's the Baez quote from "Theoretical Atlas": ==quote== John Baez Says: October 30, 2009 at 12:08 am I think every von Neumann algebra has a 'time-reversed version', namely the conjugate vector space (where multiplication by i is now defined to be multiplication by -i) turned into a C*-algebra in the hopefully obvious way. And I think the Tomita flow of this time-reversed von Neumann algebra flows the other way! I know that every symplectic manifold has a 'time-reversed version' where the symplectic structure is multiplied by -1. This is equivalent to switching the sign of time in Hamilton's equations. I think it's cool how time reversal is built into these mathematical gadgets. ==endquote |
Dec3-12, 09:42 PM | #105 |
Thanks for the pointer to Jeff Morton's blog. It's a gem. And for translating Sheaf's post -- I didn't know about that particular gadget; all mathematical gadgets are most definitely cool, like Omar's stuff. The wonder for me is how so many of them are practical, as well!
Dec3-12, 10:12 PM | #106 |
I'm in general agreement about Jeff Morton's blog, especially the October 2009 post, and with the spirit of your remarks. I notice I got Jeff's location wrong, a few posts back. He was at Lisbon until recently but is now at Uni Hamburg. That's become a pretty good place for Quantum Gravity, as well as Mathematical Physics (Jeff's field). He could continue to be interested and well-informed about QG (whatever direction his own research takes) which would be our good fortune.
The only recent question no one has responded to in this thread is from H. Cow about the current situation in QG. It's changing rapidly, and strongly affected by what's happening in Quantum Cosmology, since that is where the effects of quantum geometry are most apt to be visible, in the aftermath of the Bounce, or whatever happened around the start of the present expansion. Since that is not the main topic of this thread, I would urge H. Cow to start a thread asking about that---and also take a look at my thread about the current efforts at REFORMULATING Loop QG. ===================== Getting back to the topic of TIME. I'd be very curious to know how a cosmological bounce looks in the general covariant Heisenberg picture----there is just one timeless state, which is a positive linear functional on a C* algebra of observables. An algebra [A] and a functional ρ defined on it which gives us, among other things, expectation values ρ(A) and correlations e.g. ρ(AB) - ρ(A)ρ(B) and the like. Taken together ([A], ρ) give us a one-parameter group αt which acts like the passage of time on the observables---mapping each A into the corresponding observable taken a little while later---a PROCESS that mixes and morphs and stirs the observables around, a "flow" defined on the algebra [A]. So if the theory has a bounce one intuitively feels there should be an energy density observable, call it A, corresponding to a measurement made pre-bounce. So that we can watch the expectation value of αt(A) evolve thru the bounce. In other words ρ(αt(A)) should start low, as in a classical universe of the sort we're familiar with, and rise to some extremely high value within a few ten-powers of Planck density, and then subside back to low densities comparable to pre-bounce. Now the state ρ being timeless means that it does not change. So the challenge is to come up with an algebra of observables which undergoes a bounce, when given the appropriate timeless positive linear state functional ρ defined on it. =================== Thermal time could be starting to attract wider attention. I noticed that it comes up in the latest Grimstrup Aastrup paper, "C*-algebras of Holonomy-Diffeomorphisms & Quantum Gravity I", pages 37-39 http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5060 G&A's reference [46] is to the paper by Connes and Rovelli: ==sample excerpt from pages 37-39== ...A more appealing possibility is to seek a dynamical principle within the mathematical machinery of noncommutative geometry. In particular, the theory of Tomita and Takesaki states that given a cyclic and separating state on a von Neumann algebra there exist a canonical time flow in the form of a one-parameter group of automorphisms. If we consider the algebra generated by HD(M) and spectral projections of the Dirac type operator, then the semi-classical state will, provided it is separating, generate such a flow. This would imply that the dynamics of quantum gravity is state dependent13 - an idea already considered in [46] and [47]. Since Tomita-Takesaki theory deals with von Neumann algebras it will also for this purpose be important to select the correct algebra topology. ... ... Hidden within the two issues concerning of the dynamics and the complexified SU(2) connections lurks a very intriguing question. If it is possible to derive the dynamics of quantum gravity from the spectral triple construction – for instance via Tomita Takesaki theory – then it should be possible to read off the space-time signature (Lorentzian vs. Euclidean) from the derived dynamics, for instance a moduli operator. ==endquote== I don't follow Grimstrup et al work at all closely, but note their interest. |
Dec4-12, 02:28 AM | #107 |
Dec4-12, 07:11 AM | #108 |
I won't be able to answer your post right away. John Baez is a teacher. I think he is using his comment to hint at how the Tomita flow of time is sensed or tasted from the algebra [A] and the function rho defined on it (that basically just gives expectation values of the observables separately and in combination).
The way the flow is constructed has very much to do with replacing i with -i. That is what the * operation of a C* algebra does. On a larger scale. The slow way to digest this business intuitively begins with thinking a little about the complex conjugate operation that takes x+iy into x - iy. It flips the plane of complex numbers over along the horizontal axis. Then you think about generalizing that to matrices. For a one-by-one matrix, well that is just a single complex number so you just take the conjugate. For a two-by-two that is 4 complex numbers and there is an analogous thing involving conjugates and taking the "transpose" of the matrix (exchange upper right and lower left entries. It's a swapping operation that, if repeated, gets you back what you had to start with---the mathematics term is "involution". The first thing the Tomita timeflow construction does is define a "swap" operator S that basically does the star involution in a very concrete way, analogous to simply multiplying one matrix by another: taking A --> SA, and where SA turns out to have the same effect as A*. And then Tomita analyzes S into two factors, one of which is self-adjoint. THIS IS A WAY OF TASTING THE ESSENTIAL FLAVOR OF TIME-REVERSAL. Squeezing the juice out of time-reversal. That is what Baez is trying to plant the idea of in the reader's mind, by making that innocentsounding observation. It is really important. The Tomita flow is based on that selfadjoint factor of S. In the usual notation this factor is called uppercase Delta Δ. This is vague and handwavy. I'll try to say it better later today. Here's a WikiP about an operation on matrices that is analogous to conjugate of complex numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_transpose You may be thoroughly familiar with this already but I'll try to supply detail for other readers who might not be. |
Dec5-12, 03:45 PM | #109 |
For math buffs fond of rigorous proof, the best paper I've found online about Tomita flow is this 1977 one by Marc Rieffel and Alfons van Daele
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repos...pjm/1102817105 Only selected parts of it are directly about Tomita flow, it delves into a bunch of related matters. The whole article is some 34 pages long. Pages 187-221 of an issue of Pacific Journal of Mathematics. It would be nice if someone could point us to a more concise, say a 10 page, treatment of just the T-theorem. Or could extract the essential line of reasoning from this paper. There is a short explanatory article commissioned by Elsevier's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, written by Stephen Summers. http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0511034 But it does not give proofs of the hard parts. It seems that Tomita-Takesaki theory is deep, non-trivial. It is easy to say and not difficult to grasp the general idea, but drilling down to logical bedrock takes effort. The original approach involved unbounded operators, one had to wonder if and where they were well-defined. Rieffel and van Daele work with bounded operators and take more steps---lots of lemmas. There's a Master's Thesis by someone named Duvenhage at Pretoria that takes essentially the same approach as Rieffel van Daele but could be helpful because it puts in more background algebra and analysis. To give an example of the kind of questions that come up, recall we have ([A], ρ) a *-algebra and a state---from which by well known means we get ([H], ψ) a hilbertspace with a cyclic separating vector which represent both the algebra and the state in a way familiar to physicists. Algebra elements A are represented as operators in customary fashion. Then a new operator S is defined by SAψ = A*ψ. How do we know this is well-defined? We are only told what SA does to the cyclic vector. And do we think of S as an operator on the hilbertspace or on the algebra? Both, but can this be done consistently? Then this operator S is resolved into two factors: S = JΔ, or in other papers S = JΔ1/2. How do we know we can do this? OK as operators on the hilbertspace. The first factor is conjugate-linear and a kind of flip or involution. It is its own inverse, J2=I. The second factor is positive and selfadjoint, as an operator on the hilbertspace. That means you can diagonalize it with positive real numbers down the diagonal, as learned in undergrad linear algebra class. And you can raise it to the it power to make Δit, which will be unitary. Then we define Tomita flow: αt(A) = ΔitAΔ-it. I guess that makes sense as operators on the hilbertspace, but how do we know that the flow actually stays in the original *-algebra? How do we know that αt(A) is still in [A]? This turns out to be a large part of the Tomita-Takesaki theorem: the statement that Δit [A] Δ-it = [A] If you take the original star-algebra and advance each item in it by the same time-interval t, then what you get is the same star-algebra. The time flow just shifts or shuffles or permutes the items among themselves. The fame of Tomita rests on the fact that he was able to show this, not all the stuff leading up to it, but this. So if you look at the kind of tutorial paper by Summers http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0511034 it is precisely this which you see as "Theorem 1.1" on page 2. This, and also a seemingly inconsequential fact about J. Namely that if you apply J front and back to every item in [A] it picks out for you all the items that commute with everything in [A], the so-called "commutant" customarily denoted with a prime, in this case [A]'. I have seen mathematicians make nimble use of this fact but its significance is not obvious, so I think of the content of "Theorem 1.1" as primarily Δit [A] Δ-it = [A] Delta, when turned into a unitary operator, stirs the pot without splashing any of the soup out. I supect that this Delta, which is the positive real heart of a "swap" or "reversal" operator, will eventually become part of our language because it encapsulates the intrinsic TIME inherent in a world (of observables) and a state (what we think we know about that world). And so whatever this Delta is eventually called, it will probably settle in to our collective awareness. BTW the Princeton Companion to Mathematics (page 517) points out that Δ = S*S which makes excellent sense and for economy of notation they don't bother to introduce the symbol Δ. They just use S*S, the product of the "swap" S with its adjoint S*. Minoru Tomita's work went unpublished for several years until discovered and made more presentable by Takesaki, whose name can be remembered by resolving it into "take saki". Alain Connes, in a 2010 interview, says "I am too young to have met von Neumann, but I was much more influenced at a personal level by the Japanese: Tomita and also Takesaki." The interviewer adds: "Minoru Tomita (1924) is a Japanese mathematician who became deaf at the age of two and, according to Connes, had a mysterious and extremely original personality. His work on operator algebras in 1967 was subsequently refined and extended by Masamichi Takesaki and is known as Tomita–Takesaki Theory..." http://www.math.ru.nl/~landsman/ConnesNAW.pdf |
Dec5-12, 09:15 PM | #110 |
Since we have this concept of a universal standard time it can be useful to compare other times with it. E.g. associated with an accelerated observer or with a location in the gravitational field.
Back in 1934 RC Tolman defined a local temperature of space associated with depth in a gravitational field, now known as the Tolman-Ehrenfest effect and it turns out that this temperature is the RATIO of the two rates: intrinsic Tomita time divided by proper time of a local observer. If ds is a local observer's proper time-interval and dτ is the corresponding interval of Tomita time, then the Tolman-Ehrenfest temperature is proportional to dτ/ds. So the temp is a comparison of ticking rates. The local temperature is high if Tomita time is ticking a lot faster than the local observer's clock. There is a connection here to the Hawking BH temp and the Unruh temp of an accelerated observer in Minkowski space. The details are interesting and tend to validate the thermal time (i.e. Tomita time) idea. I won't go into detail at this point (supposed to help with supper) but will simply link to a relevant article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2985 Thermal time and the Tolman-Ehrenfest effect: temperature as the "speed of time" Carlo Rovelli, Matteo Smerlak (Last revised 18 Jan 2011) The notion of thermal time has been introduced as a possible basis for a fully general-relativistic thermodynamics. Here we study this notion in the restricted context of stationary spacetimes. We show that the Tolman-Ehrenfest effect (in a stationary gravitational field, temperature is not constant in space at thermal equilibrium) can be derived very simply by applying the equivalence principle to a key property of thermal time: at equilibrium, temperature is the rate of thermal time with respect to proper time - the `speed of (thermal) time'. Unlike other published derivations of the Tolman-Ehrenfest relation, this one is free from any further dynamical assumption, thereby illustrating the physical import of the notion of thermal time. 4 pages btw the proportionality is hbar over Boltzmann k. If T is the Tolman temperature then T = ( |
Dec6-12, 03:07 AM | #111 |
Marcus: small queries. In one of your posts that I now can't find I'm sure you mentioned that self-adjoint matrices are the analogs of the set of real numbers. Is this (to me interesting ) statement just common knowledge, or have you a reference for it? And do you have a pointer to the "Master's Thesis by someone named Duvenhage at Pretoria" that you mentioned in post # 109?
Dec6-12, 11:52 AM | #112 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hermite The photo shows him with a dour scowl (having drunk some bad wine, or found a mistake in a proof by one of his students). He was the thesis advisor of Henri Poincaré and Thomas Stieltjes. The analogy is very nice. It is undergrad math, which is the longestlasting and most beautiful kind of math. You have to know what a BASIS of a vectorspace is (a set of vectors in terms of which all the rest can be written as unique combinations). It is a CHOICE OF AXES or a choice of framework. And a matrix is a way of describing a linear transformation by saying what it does to each member of some particular basis. I don't at the moment have an online undergrad linear algebra textbook link. There might be a Kahn Academy treatment. Many years ago we used a book by Paul Halmos. You can DIAGONALIZE an hermitian (self-adjoint) matrix by finding a new basis for the vectorspace in which the same linear map is expressed by a diagonal matrix. When you do this the numbers down the main diagonal (upper L to lower R) turn out ALL REAL. A POSITIVE hermitian or self-adjoint matrix is where the numbers down the diagonal turn out all positive real numbers. This means the linear map is just re-scaling along each of a fixed set of directions. No rotations no funny business. Just expanding a bit in this direction and perhaps contracting a bit in this other. There is a strong analogy between a matrix that is simply real numbers down the diagonal (and zero elsewhere) and the real numbers themselves. A selfadjoint matrix is like a bunch of real numbers applied in an assortment of specified directions. so it is the HIGHER DIMENSIONAL ANALOG of a real number. the beautiful thing is that the DEFINING CONDITION A* = A of self-adjointness is also analogous to the defining condition of realness which we can write as z* = z if you use * to mean the conjugate of a complex number (exchange i and -i, if z = x+iy then z* = x-iy) The only way a complex number z can have z*=z is if the imaginary part y = 0. Conjugation is flipping the complex number plane over keeping the real axis fixed, so the only way a number can have z*=z is if it is on the real axis. The business of diagonalizing matrices, or finding the right axis framework for a given linear map so that its matrix will be very simple comes under the heading of the SPECTRAL THEOREM. The "spectrum" of an operator is the list numbers down the diagonal when you put it in diagonal form. It's like analyzing some light into its different wavelengths, with a prism. You really know the beast when you know that list of numbers. I think calling it the spectrum is metaphorical, a kind of 19th-Century physicist's poetical flight of language. From a time when the most exciting thing physicists did was heat various chemical elements and separate out the colors of the light they gave off when they were hot. Determining the spectrum was the pinnacle act of analysis. We still have their word for the list of numbers down the diagonal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-adjoint_operator I can't recommend you go to Rocco Duvenhage's thesis. It is over a hundred of pages and you can get lost if you don't already know roughly what you are looking for, but I will put the link just in case I'm wrong and it actually is helpful to you or someone else. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/availab...ssertation.pdf Quantum statistical mechanics, KMS states and Tomita-Takesaki theory |
Dec6-12, 11:23 PM | #113 |
Paulibus and others: I hope the foregoing account of self-adjointness, the analogy with real numbers, and diagonalizing was not too elementary. I tend to want to cover a range of levels: the topic is interesting enough so I think people with all different backgrounds might want to read about it. So some posts in the thread can be at a basic level, others less basic. Here's a more advanced treatment which has the merit of being very concise. It is from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, edited by Field medalist Tim Gowers, a good math source book. I found a passage treating Tomita-Takesaki theory, and transcribed a sample excerpt
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOf...20math&f=false This is from page 517. ========quote Princeton Companion to Mathematics (2008)========== Modular theory exploits a version of the GNS construction (section 1.4). Let M be a self-adjoint algebra of operators. A linear functional φ: M → C is called a state if it is positive in the sense that φ(T*T) ≥ 0 for every T in M (this terminology is derived from the connection described earlier between Hilbert space theory and quantum mechanics). for the purposes of modular theory we restrict attention to faithful states, those for which φ(T*T) = 0 implies T = 0. If φ is a state, then the formula <T1, T2> = φ(T1* T2) defines an inner product on the vector space M. Applying the GNS procedure, we obtain a Hilbert space HM. The first important fact about HM is that every operator T in M determines an operator on HM. Indeed a vector V in HM is a limit V = limn→∞ Vn of elements in M, and we can apply an operator T in M to the vector V using the formula TV = lim TVn where on the right-hand side we use multiplication in the algebra M. Because of this observation, we can think of M as an algebra of operators on whatever Hilbert space we began with. Next, the adjoint operation equips the Hilbert space HM wtih a natural "anti linear" operator S: HM → HM by the formula [see footnote] S(V) = V*. Since U*g = Ug-1 for the regular representations, this is indeed analogous to the operator S we encountered in our discussion of continuous groups. The important theorem of Minoru Tomita and Masamichi Takesaki asserts that, as long as the original state φ satisfies a continuity condition, the complex powers Ut = (S*S)it have the property that Ut M U-t = M for all t. The transformations of M given by the formula T → Ut T U-t are called the modular automorphisms of M. Alain Connes proved that they depend only in a rather inessential way on the original faithful state φ. To be precise, changing φ changes the modular automorphisms only by inner automorphisms, that is, transformations of the form T → UTU-1 where U is a unitary operator in M itself. The remarkable conclusion is that every von Neumann algebra M has a canonical one-parameter group of "outer automorphisms," which is determined by M alone and not by the state φ that is used to define it. [footnote] The interpretation of this formula on the completion HM of M is a delicate matter. ==endquote== I like their expression for Δ, namely S*S. It makes sense because we know JJ = I so therefore S* S = Δ1/2 J J Δ1/2 = Δ |
Dec7-12, 03:38 AM | #114 |
Thanks for that full and clear reply, Marcus. My interest in the spectrum of a selfadjoint (Hermitian) matrix being regarded as the "higher dimensional analog of a real number "(as you put it) was provoked by Eugene Wigner's remark in his essay "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"(Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. 1 February 1960):
"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve". I think Wigner overstated things a bit; the supportive match between maths and physics is perhaps a bit less than a miraculous, wonderful gift. Looking at mathematics from the outside, it seems likely to me that the set of real numbers lies close to the heart of much maths. For me an interesting aspect of the real numbers is that they are commutatively symmetric under arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction; it doesn't matter where zero is located; numbers are like a line of labels that with impunity can be translated along its length. At the heart of physics lies the symmetry of the dimensions we inhabit. As far as we know, physics is ruled by the same mathematical laws everywhere and everywhen. That's why successful physics theories must be covariant. And why momentum and energy are conserved; because space and time have commuting translational symmetries. It seems to me that physics (an evolving description of physical reality) and mathematics (an evolving universal language used by physicists and many others) are founded on similar symmetries. Perhaps the close match between them is quite mundane and may yet come to be better understood (counting numbers were probably an abstraction invented to quantify resources, like goats. Real numbers and much else evolved from these humble roots.) Even the need for a spectrum of numbers to statistically quantify observations on a quantum scale can be understood, up to the mysterious finiteness of h. Now it seems from the work of folk like Barbour, Connes and Rovelli, that this statistical quantification promises a new understanding of time. Great stuff. An understanding of space may take longer; for practical purposes, it's what we can swing a cat in! |
Dec8-12, 11:56 AM | #115 |
Paulibus, one thing your post reminds me is that significant advances in physics have often been accompanied by maturing philosophical sophistication. E.g. early 20th century the role of the observer, and of measurement, no fixed prior geometry, nonexistence of the continuous trajectory, irreducible uncertainty. Taking certain philosophical (epistemic?) proposals seriously actually helped the physics develop in some cases.
So progress is not always "physics as usual". Sometimes a dialog with philosophy of science people is helpful. I suspect we will be seeing a General Covariant Quantum theory of Time emerge along lines suggested in this thread. A world (*-algebra) of possible observations and a state (defined on it giving correlations and expectation values) which expresses what we think the laws are, what we know from prior observations, what we predict deduce or expect. The laws and constants of physics are after all merely correlations among actual and possible measurements, involving--like everything else--uncertainty. They are "regularities" in the *-algebra (call it M for "measurements" if you like), and are embodied in the state functional, along with what we think has been observed. The state is an elementary mathematical object, just a positive linear functional ω: M → ℂ. I suppose that this model (M, ω) will replace the model consisting of space-time manifold with fixed geometry and fields defined on it, in part because the "block universe" picture has philosophical shortcomings: is incompatible with quantum theory. This last is the theme of a conference opening in Capetown in a couple of days (10-14 December). Main theme: ideas of time and challenges to block universe idea. http://prce.hu/centre_for_time/jtf/passage.html Abstracts of scheduled talks (scroll down to get to the abstracts) http://prce.hu/centre_for_time/jtf/FullProgram.pdf BTW we should also keep an eye on tensorial group field theory "TGFT", I just watched the first 50 minutes of Sylvain Carrozza's PIRSA talk: http://pirsa.org/12120007/ It was interesting. Also the last 9 minutes (64:00-73:00) where he gives conclusions, outlook, and answers questions. Most of the questions were from Dittrich and (someone I think was) Ben Geloun. |
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Dec8-12, 01:38 PM | #117 |
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0808 See also the thought experiment on page 12 of his earlier paper http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605049 You may have already looked at his "evolving/crystallizing" spacetime papers and would like to hear him present them in person. One of the points Ellis makes is that as far as we know the future space-time geometry is in principle unpredictable. As un-predetermined as are the times of radioactive decay, which conventional QM tells us are not pre-determined. Therefore the conventional block universe, extending into future with a predetermined spacetime geometry, cannot exist. I assume by "Avi" you mean Avshalom Elitzur, one of the other participants at this week's Capetown Time conference. |
Dec8-12, 01:43 PM | #118 |
Dec8-12, 03:10 PM | #119 |
(Greek roots: on- = being,reality; epistem- = knowledge) Anyway Ruta you said you wished you could hear Ellis' talk about the evolving block. I don't especially go for Ellis' proposed solution, but I like the clear way he describes the problem. This 2008 essay for wide audience communicates really well, and other readers of thread might enjoy it. It got the FQXi second community prize, right after Rovelli's essay. http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-f...contest__E.pdf ==quote Ellis page 2== To motivate this, consider the following scenario: A massive object has rocket engines attached at each end to make it move either left or right. The engines are controlled by a computer that decides what firing intervals are utilised alternately by each engine, on the basis of a non-linear time dependent transformation of signals received from a detector measuring particle arrivals due to random decays of a radioactive element. These signals at each instant determine what actually happens from the set of all possible outcomes, thus determining the actual spacetime path of the object from the set of all possible paths (Figure 1). This outcome is not determined by initial data at any previous time, because of quantum uncertainty in the radioactive decays. As the objects are massive and hence cause spacetime curvature, the spacetime structure itself is undetermined until the object's motion is determined in this way. Instant by instant, the spacetime structure changes from indeterminate (i.e. not yet determined out of all the possible options) to definite (i.e. determined by the specific physical processes outlined above). Thus a definite spacetime structure comes into being as time evolves. It is unknown and unpredictable before it is determined. Something essentially equivalent has already occurred in the history of the universe. According to the standard inflationary model of the very early universe, we cannot predict the specific large-scale structure existing in the universe today from data at the start of the inflationary expansion epoch, because density inhomogeneities at later times have grown out of random quantum fluctuations in the effective scalar field that is dominant at very early times... ...It follows that the existence of our specific Galaxy, let alone the planet Earth, was not uniquely determined by initial data in the very early universe. The quantum fluctuations that are amplified to galactic scale are unpredictable in principle. Thus spacetime evolution is not predictable even in principle in physically realisable cases. The outcome is only determined as it happens. ==endquote== An arxiv link to the same essay: http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0240 List of the 2008 time essay contest winners: http://fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/2008.1 |
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I can provide one pillow and one blanket. There is a washing machine that you can use—but you'll have to dry your clothes the good old way :-). It will be appreciated if you bring your sleeping bag/sheets, because I don't feel like doing the laundry every day. You can use my shelf in the fridge, that is usually pretty empty—except for a few beers :-)
I work at home, and my timetable is extremely variable, but if I have some spare time I will be pleased to show you around. - Public transport:
The U-Bahn (underground) station is one minute walking.
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No smoking,
No drugs,
Please also consider the following restrictions: - Other restrictions:
I am in the process of moving, so the situation is a bit complicated at the moment, I don't have my things all sorted out yet. But you try in any case ;-)
Family and close friends
Had great time on SummerCamp in Naxos 2008
She hosted me at her place, then we met at several parties
We met several times in Montevideo, in La Plata and in Rosario! Great times. :-)
We met at the Berlin weekly meetings, he helped me big time for my issues in Berlin
We met at the first Panamerican Summit in Rio
I met Uwe at a few CS meetings, happy to find him here! :-)
She hosted me in Pifo, then we always stayed in touch.
We met several times & had dinner at Kochi in January 2009
We met in several events in Berlin
We met in 2008 in Thessaloniki and at the Naxos Summercamp
We were neighbours in Berlin!
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Thanks to Piergi we had the best view thinkable on the yearly parade of cultures in Berlin. I had a great day, and most of it was thanks to him and his girlfriend. Thank you a thousand times and see you again soon!
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Friendly guy, was using GNU/Linux (at least in 2008), I hope we he'll be my guest some time!


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As the GOP controlled House gets ready to vote on a measure that will continue funding the government, the Republican National Committee is releasing a new web video that claims Democrats are blind to the country's "spending problem."
The 50-second web video highlights footage of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana all making a point that flies in the face of a Republican rallying-cry.
"It is almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem," Pelosi can be seen saying in the video. Her comments came from a television interview last month with Fox News.
"Does the country have a spending problem? The country has a 'paying-for' problem. We haven't paid for what we've bought," Hoyer says in an interview with CNBC, which also took place in February.
"I want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem," Harkin says in other footage from Capitol Hill.
The video concludes with text on the screen: "The first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have one."
The RNC spliced together the clips shortly after Congress failed to pass a deficit-reduction package to avert the forced spending cuts that went into effect last Friday.
While President Barack Obama and Democrats want to increase taxes--mainly by closing loopholes for the wealthy--as a way to help balance the budget, Republicans argue the deficit needs to be tackled through spending cuts, not more revenue.
"Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats simply do not believe that we have a spending problem," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. "Every day families across this country are forced to watch their spending and live within their means. There's no reason that shouldn't be the case in Washington."
Labeling Obama the undisputed 'Debt King," Priebus points to the government's $6 trillion increase in the federal debt since 2009. "Obama and his Democratic buddies in Congress are clearly not serious about our nation's economic problems."


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4 Clifton - Imagine waking up with these views Simply the best address in Youghal. Opposite the promenade and lighthouse where everyone else strolls to take in the views and take photos. You can enjoy the view throughout your stay. A short stroll into town or to the beach, you dont need to use your car.4 Clifton is one of just 6 Victiorian townhouses that were built to the highest standards over 130 years ago. After years of renovation and restoration we are now able to offer this fabulous luxury townhouse. 3 Clifton is a listed property in a heritage area.Read the reviews and most of the guests rave about the views from the front windows, particulary from the window seat on the main lounge. They are right, the views are spectacular - taking in the Atlantic ocean to the South, the hills and mountains of county Waterford to the East, the river Blackwater to the North and the beautiful river estuary right in front. The river meets the sea directly in front of the house, and many guests happily while away the hours watching the ebb and flow of the tides, the fishing and leisure boats drifting by and the wildlife. Maybe its the latter they they are particularly watching for, because on bright sunny days, when the sea is calm we have had multiple pods of dolphins cavorting right in front of us - its certainly a sight to see. Of course they are not there to give us a show, and they dont come on demand they are not tamed in any way and are hunting the mackerel shoals that are plentiful in summer months and which they have chased into the estuary. 4 Clifton - Luxury accomodation for all the family4 Clifton has been renovated to the highest standards to offer you luxury and comfort whilst retaining some of its original character.There are 2 spacious double bedrooms, 1 twin and a bunk-bedroom (perfect for kids). Bedrooms are fitted with solid oak furniture and other luxury touches. Double beds are queen sized. Beautiful linen is provided to wrap you in luxury while you go to sleep to the sound of the lapping waves beneath you.The huge lounge occupies the middle floor with double aspect windows, sofas beside the open fireplace and window seats to soak up the views and atmosphere. There is a large flat panel high definition TV, DVD and Video players, plus multichannel Sky TV available. Youll also find free wireless broadband internet access.On the ground floor the modern styled kitchen diner provides every essental luxury and the space to dine in style. The kitchen is equipped with a double oven and ceramic hob (all electric), dishwasher, fridge, wine cooler, toaster, kettle and Nespresso coffee machine (well supply some coffee - but you might want to bring some more with you). In the diner section there is an extendable table that will seat at least 8, plus an easy chair, window seats and flat panel TV - its another relaxing seating area (you are on holiday after all!).At the very top of the house is a full size bathroom, there is a toilet on the mid level and a separate power-shower room with toilet too.On the ground floor the utility room has both washing machines and tumble dryer - although you can get service washes in Youghal town centre if you cant be bothered.Outside there a huge patio, with seating for 8 . What a fabulous place for breakfast or for a barbeque. The house is approached by a easy paved slope and is elevated above the road affording fabulous views over the river and out to sea.4 Clifton is a 3 storey house, and there are 42 low-rise stairs to the top, arranged in 6 short flights of stairs. The stairs should present no issues for an able person of any age. Our children had no trouble with the stairs even when they were toddlers and were helping us prepare the house for guests: a stair-gate is included so that you can keep the stairs off limits if you wish. Older guests should have no problems, and of course they can always selec t the bedroom on the middle floor so that they dont need to climb to the top at all. However, we do not recommend 4 Clifton for the infirm. 4 Clifton - The best address in YoughalIn the days when the six Clifton houses were built Youghal was smaller town and these houses created the space, views and ambiance unavailable in the close confines of the town - they still do.Any yet the town is just a stroll away, no need to drive or for taxis, its just 1 minute stroll to the nearest pub and restaurant. You can stroll to all of Youghals main town centre attractions within 5/10 minutes.The nearest beach is a 1 minute walk away too, you are looking down upon it from the house. The main Strand beach is less just 1/2 mile stroll along the promenade. There are secluded coves even closer, great rock pools to explore and the diving rocks. To get to these you cross the road, walk 100 yards to the right and take the steps down to them.Shopping - well you can stock up in the large supermarkets in town including Tesco and SuperValu. But there is a really well stocked minimarket just a 1 minute walk away, beside the nearest pub, and the nearest beach, and a large grassy park for the kids to run around ( I guess you get the message - you dont need your car).Just 10 minutes walk (along the promenade) or 1 minutes drive to the brand new public swimming pool, gum, sauna, water slide complex. Its open 7 days a week, 3 pools to suit babies, new swimmers and competent swimmers. The gym is fantastic, with over 50 pieces of equipment, music and sky TV to divert you. Its open to all up to 10pm on many nights - pay as you go.
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NEWBERRY — Joy to the World rang out and the date 12-12-12 will be fondly remembered as 53 Newberry College graduates walked down the aisle on Wednesday.
In his greeting Newberry College Board Chair Hugo Pearce told the graduates that their families and friends were "prouder of you than they can ever be able to express. Welcome to your first day of the rest of your life as a Newberry College graduate."
President Maurice Scherrens told the class they will always remember how they spent 12-12-12.
The graduate address was given by Newberry College alumni and professor Dr. Peggy Winder.
She gave the students three suggestions to improve their success.
The first was to never stop learning.
She said to be successful that learning is essential.
"Learning adds depth to our lives," said Winder, "the more we learn the more we will be able to make connections between the dots and to be more creative."
The second bit of advice is to not be afraid to take risk.
"Life itself is a risk," she said. "Don't be afraid to take a chance. Life is to short to wonder what if."
The final suggestion was for the students to never forget where they came from and she asked them to reflect on the past few years and compare where they were to where they are now.
"Never take anything or anyone for granted," she said. "God is the God of no mistakes and there was a reason you were at Newberry College."
She told the students the college's staff has hand a hand in molding them and to come back to the school for ballgames, recitals, plays and even Dopey's hamburgers.
"Today we celebrate you and your accomplishments. Strive to make a difference in the lives of others," was Winder's final words of wisdom to the graduates.
Scherrens told the graduates that each of them had a special story and that Newberry College graduates have carried their stories about the world.
He added the day was special to him because it was is first graduation as president of the school.
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In other news, Christmas is coming, you may have noticed. And apparently Santa's sleigh is a big brown truck. Love this guy!


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Durkin Takes Landslide Victory in 82nd District
The incumbent Republican representative defeated challenger Laura Reigle with 75 percent of the vote.
There will be a familiar face on the November ballot for the Illinois House's 82nd District. Incumbent State Rep. Jim Durkin won the district's Republican nomination with 75.4 percent of the vote, defeating challenger Laura Reigle. No one ran in the 82nd District Democratic primary, which means Durkin will be running unopposed in the general election, barring the appointment of a Democratic candidate. "We've got significant challenges ahead of us," Durkin said Tuesday night. "I'm honored Republican voters in the 82nd District have confidence that I'm the best candidate to represent their interests in Springfield." With the primary over, Durkin said the Illinois General Assembly now faces a month-and-a-half of tough discussions as they work…
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Congrats to State Rep. Jim Durkin on his reelection to the Illinois House. Laura Reigle has been exposed as a fraud, liar and fake Conservative who has no right running as a Conservative. She is a Democrat masquerading as a conservative. Guess what Laura you may have fooled the Lemont Tea Party but you didn't fool anyone else. The Lemont Tea Party is a complete failure for supporting you and your…   more ›


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Senior talent on display
From behind a sparkling silver curtain June 30 emerged Eileen Grant in a red jacket and black fedora, her left hand gloved in silver, dancing and swinging her hips to Michael Jackson's "Bad," while fellow residents of the Emeritus at Deep Run retirement home and community members laughed and clapped. Grant and other residents, volunteers and community members were participating in the first national Bring Your Talent contest, hosted by Emeritus Senior Living and part of elder care expert Dr. Marion Somers' tour with the 3in4 Association, a non-profit organization working to increase awareness about the planning for long-term care. The 50 city tour will end July 25 in Phoenix, A.Z. and the contest winner will be chosen from all the video submissions and taped tour stops by Aug. 13. The winner could receive a year of free rent or one of 11 week-long stays at an Emeritus community. Grant was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, N.Y. as Eileen O'Connor, the third-oldest of 10 children in an Irish family. During World War II she traveled with other dancers and comedians and pros such as Mel Brooks and Eddie Fisher entertaining the troops. "I loved it. I was doing it from the time I was this high," Grant said, lowering her hand toward the floor. "If you're a performer, you're born a performer." Grant's daughter, Shelley Damion, who attended the show last week but sat on the side so as to not to be a distraction, said she hoped her mother would win. "She's always been the most entertaining, even at parties," Damion said. "She choreographed my high school production of 'Bye Bye Birdie.' I think it was the best one we had ... I wasn't in it." Every Friday, Grant, who is a memory care patient, practices ballroom dancing with instructor Phyllis Harris, who helped co-choreograph her dance. "It's really exciting to see them come out of their shells," Harris said. "It's hard to watch them get older. . . She comes down when she feels like it." Harris was supposed to perform with Grant the day of the show, but because other entries dropped out, Grant had to perform before Harris had arrived. Filling in for Harris was Nick Nevi, the life enrichment assistant at Emeritus, and one of Grant's biggest fans. "She's got spunk," he said the day before the contest. "She's very talented. She's my hopeful. I know she could really knock the house down. . . She deserves one year rent free." Nevi said he hoped that if she didn't win, that one of the other Deep Run residents would. "When our residents do what they love it, rejuvenates them," he said. "I really admire our residents for doing this." The Thursday before the contest, Harris and Nevi made a video music video of Grant's performance in case she got nervous the day of or resisted because of her memory. Private duty caregiver Demetra White said she had seen the end of the videotaping. "When I saw her get up and these moves, she seemed so much younger, " White said. "My mouth was just open. If she doesn't win, I'll be surprised." During the practice, Grant pulled White onto the dance floor despite White's protests. By then, Grant had kicked off her shoes and was dancing barefoot with free-style moves, something White said Grant usually did. Old photos of Grant dancing and acting in the 1940s lined the walls of the dining room, where the stage was set for the performance on Saturday. In one or two, Grant's bare feet could be seen. Grant said she had learned to dance after attending dances with soldiers on Governors Island, where her older sister had a job. "It was the kind of music where we'd go dancing and the gentleman would swing me over his head, around his back and between his legs," she said. "I was young and had a wonderful time. . . It's been a lot of years, but I had a wonderful life. I loved the life I lived. Isn't that a song?" In her opening speech Saturday, Somers introduced herself as a girl from a rough neighborhood in East Harlem, N.Y., who grew up in a five-story walk-up filled with seniors. Somers said that there was always something to learn from her elders, especially how to live. "You don't get to be 80, 90, or 100 years old without knowing how to live," she said. On a trip to China, Somers met a 104-year-old woman who she asked to share with her one thing she'd learned. The woman responded, "Don't let the bastards get you down." "I asked the interpreter what she meant," Somers said. "What she meant was, your husbands and kids are going to do what they're going to do, just do what you can do." Having a balanced and steady approach to addressing long-term care is key, as it is to addressing life, she said. "I like to say that I have been blessed living with seniors," Somers said. "I live a very blessed life because I've learned not to get obsessed about the nonsense stuff, and when you think about it, most of it is nonsense." Somers went on to emphasize that everyone is a caregiver at some time in his or her life, whether it is for a little sister or for parents. "Three in four Americans will need long-term care at sometime in their lives, and we are not ready," Somers said. Sixteen percent of caregivers die before those for whom they are caring, she said, emphasizing the importance of being organized during the caregiving process. She went through an A-Z list of quick things for care givers to remember; among them: "Trust the elder you're caring for, and trust your basic caregiving instincts," and "Understand that being a caregiver requires patience." "Talking about elderly care is not a sexy subject, so to remind people is necessary," she said. "Nobody wants to talk about aging or maybe being infirm. 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By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 05/23/2013
Henrico has several fun family-friendly activities to offer this weekend – check out the butterflies at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, play games at The Armour House & Gardens and walk or run in support of the Autism Society of Central Virginia. If you're looking to celebrate Memorial Day, Rocketts Landing has fireworks and Sandston has a parade. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Raiders help 'Stir It Up!'
Among the activities featured at Stir It Up!, a fundraiser and awareness raiser held May 5 at Deep Run H.S., was the opportunity for youngsters – including this young fan pictured with player Raibonne Charles – to play catch with members of the Richmond Raiders professional indoor football team. > Read more.
Henrico Junior 4-H camp registration open
By Ben Panko, Special to the Citizen 05/19/2013
For parents looking to keep their kids outside and away from the video games this summer, the Virginia Cooperative Extension is still accepting registrations for the 2013 Henrico Junior 4-H Camp.
The camp will be held June 17-23, and is open to boys and girls ages 9-13. A total of 10 spaces for boys and 27 spaces for girls remain available, and registration is open until May 24. The cost is $230, which includes lodging, meals, programs, instructional materials and charter bus transportation. > Read more.
The camp will be held June 17-23, and is open to boys and girls ages 9-13. A total of 10 spaces for boys and 27 spaces for girls remain available, and registration is open until May 24. The cost is $230, which includes lodging, meals, programs, instructional materials and charter bus transportation. > Read more.
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Mother and son open new restaurant in Sandston
A new restaurant has opened in a well-known Sandston building.
The Sandston Kitchen will celebrate its official grand opening on Memorial Day, May 27. The restaurant is located in the site of the former Sandston Pharmacy at 2 West Williamsburg Road. It serves breakfast and lunch seven days a week and dinner Tuesday through Saturday. > Read more.
Whale of a treat
Ironfish delights with a variety of tasty catches
I was overjoyed to head back for another meal at Ironfish by Pescados, considered the Best New Restaurant in 2011 by both the Richmond Times Dispatch and Richmond Magazine. I agree whole-heartedly with their ratings. Since I first visited the restaurant for my birthday in January, I was waiting for the perfect special occasion to return. I couldn't wait another year, obviously.
Run by the same restaurateurs as Pescados Latin Caribbean Seafood in Midlothian and Eat in Oregon Hill, Ironfish offers the same unique dishes and top-level customer service. > Read more.
Veteran restaurateur set to open in Short Pump
Tran's Pho 1 Grill will serve Vietnamese fare
After nearly a year out of the restaurant industry, a well known 30-year Henrico restaurateur is ready to open up his fifth venture in Short Pump.
Paul Tran, along with his wife Ellen will open up Pho 1 Grill, a Vietnamese restaurant, in June in the Towne Center West Shopping Center.
Tran has been serving up Vietnamese food since the mid-'80s, his first being Que Huong on Rigsby Road. He also owned Mr. Chan's on Horsepen Road and Saigon Gourmet on Hull Street Road. > Read more.
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"Cottage on the Green" at Tan Tar A! Indoor Waterpark! in Osage Beach
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 12
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community TanTarA Estates
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vacation rental description
This property is geared to "FAMILIES" and "MATURE ADULTS Only".
You must be at least 30 years of age to rent this property.
This is our home at Lake of the Ozarks. It is located in Tan Tar A Estates. It sits right on the #4 green of Hidden Lakes Golf Course. This is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home.
OR you may rent as a 1 bedroom suite.
The home has been remodeled and beautifully decorated. Located on a cul de sac and just a short drive from one of two community pools. Lake access and most of Tan-Tar-A Resort amenities are available. The home can easily house more than one family with several children. It has one master bedroom with two queen beds, one bedroom with two queen beds and a third bedroom with 2 full size beds. The second and third bedroom share a bathroom.
Our home has a full kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher. Kitchen utensils, pots, pans, and dishes are all furnished.
There are two covered porches and one uncovered patio. The large covered patio off the living room has a table, chairs and large gas grill.
The living room has an HD flat screen TV with DVD player. All bedrooms have a TV. The third bedroom has Super Nintendo and many board games for your enjoyment. There is parking for 3 cars. There is a electric fireplace.
Electric Fireplace, and wireless internet!
This is a non-smoking and no pets home!
If the house is left damaged, smoked in, has items missing, or excessively dirty, an additional fee will be charged to your credit card.
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Last modified on 11-5-2012 at 3:46 AM.
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Jeff & Deb Cook 641-891-1692
house rental amenities
Some Tan Tar A Resort amenities can be included in your vacation experience (for extra $$). Here is what the resort has to offer: Miniature golf, bowling, arcade, fast food restaurants, two five star restaurants, golf cart rentals, indoor waterpark, horseback riding, spa, boat rental, jet ski rentals, parasailing, Tropic Island Cruises.
There are two pools available for your use (seasonal) free of charge.
The home sits on the #4 green of Hidden Lakes Golf Course which is a public 9 hole course nestled in the estates. Less than 3 miles away you can find 2 more public golf courses that each have an 18 hole golf course for your enjoyment.
activities and attractions in Osage Beach Missouri
Very close by you will find fine dining, fast food, grocery stores, antique shops, shopping malls, live theatre, and cinemas. Still need more. . .Osage Beach offers fun for the entire family with state parks, hiking, caves, picnic areas, natural springs, and the very best Missouri has to offer. Big Surf Water Park is only 5 minutes from your front door with a days worth of fun for the entire family!
TanTarA Resort was voted one of the best places to visit by Midwest Living Magazine.
vacation rental rates
May 23 - Sept 8 Rental Rate is $199/night plus tax
Sept 9 - May 21 Rental Rate is $139/night plus tax
OR just rent as a suite for the following rates.
May 23 - Sept 8 Rental Rate is $139/night plus tax
Sept 9 - May 21 Rental Rate is $99/night plus tax
We do not provide daily housekeeping however cleaning is available for an additional charge. Some guests choose a mid-week clean during their weekly vacation.
Towel, Trash and Tidy Package
- Make bed with existing linen
- Provide clean towels
- Take out trash
- Vacuum
- Replenish Paper Towels, Toilet Paper, Soap and Shampoo
Cost: $44 per day
Full Clean Package
Suite will be fully cleaned to quality standards with fresh linen, Paper Towels, Toilet Paper, Soap and Shampoo
Cost: $74 per day
Tax Rate: 8.475%
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Cancellation Policy: No refund of deposit if cancellation is within 30 days of reservation. If cancellation is prior to 30 days, a refund less a $25.00 service fee will apply. If cancellation is within one week of reservation, you will be responsible for the entire rental amount.
Jeff & Deb Cook 641-891-1692
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Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said last week he hoped to hit a home run as he sought to improve the team's roster after consecutive second-round playoff exits.
He certainly knocked one out of the park Wednesday afternoon.
The Lakers acquired veteran point guard Steve Nash in a sign-and-trade deal with the Pacific Division rival Phoenix Suns and solved one of their most pressing needs over the past few seasons while giving up four draft picks and about $3 million in cash.
Radio station KTAR 620-AM in Phoenix first reported the trade.
The picks will be first-rounders in 2013 and '15 and second-round selections in 2013 and '14. The 38-year-old Nash, a two-time NBA most valuable player, will make about $25 million over the next three seasons.
The Lakers can add Nash's salary by slotting him under the salary cap by sending the Suns the $8.9 million trade exception they acquired from the Dallas Mavericks in the Lamar Odom deal last December.
A Lakers spokesman did not immediately return phone calls seeking confirmation of the trade. The deal can't be completed until July 11, when the NBA's summer dead period is lifted and players can be traded officially and also sign new contracts.
"After talking with (Suns owner) Robert (Sarver) and (president of basketball operations) Lon (Babby), we've agreed that it's time for both of us to move in new directions," Nash said in a statement released via


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