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The Hartnell College Students In Free Enterprise Team (SIFE) returned to Salinas as winners for the second year in a row after being crowned champions in the Los Angeles SIFE USA Regional Competition on April 7, 2008. The event was one of 16 SIFE Regional Competitions held across the United States in late March and early April.
The winning Hartnell College SIFE Team at regional competition on April 7, 2008, in Hollywood:
Top, Back Row: Melvin Mendez, Joel Medrano, Miguel Corral, Ricardo Ruvalcaba, Alberto Elias, Tim Fuller, and Paul Fuller.
Second, Back Row - Dipesh Lad, Vanessa Velasco, Amanda Stefani, Marlinda Acosta, Jessa Elgar, Erica Soler, Juana Hernandez, Evelin Nava, and Esmeralda Magana.
Front, Seated - Robert Maffei, Samuel Moore Walton Fellow, Faculty Advisor; and, Peter Calvert, Hartnell Faculty
Not Pictured: Mark Cardona, Rick Wilson, and Erwina Pattison
Hartnell was one of 28 teams from California, Arizona, and Nevada competing in the Los Angeles Regional. Team competition consisted of a written report and a 24-minute live presentation of the team's year-long community outreach projects. Hartnell's projects reached a wide audience in the Salinas Valley, ranging from elementary school students--who were taught about the manufacturing process using a Lego assembly line--to migrant farm workers, who were taught about identity theft in a seminar conducted in both Spanish and English.
The team organized and presented nearly two dozen seminars during its one-day Business World Exposition last November, including presentations on increasing sales, networking, equal employment opportunity, credit card debt, and business ethics. The Expo offered the public the free advice and knowledge of 16 local business experts.
"We made a special effort to reach out to the entire community," said Hartnell business instructor Robert Maffei, a Samuel Moore Walton Fellow and the team's faculty advisor. "We offered free parking on the day of the Expo, placed advertisements in Spanish-language media outlets, and offered our workshops in English and in Spanish."
Winning their division of the one-day regional competition made them eligible to advance to the SIFE national competition, to be held in Chicago, May 13-15.
"These students have heart, soul, and talent……they just may be the best team I've ever had," said Maffei. "These students really learned how to pull together as a team."
For students, the competition was more than a lesson in business savvy.
"Competing in Hollywood was an experience of a lifetime," said Jessa Elgar, one of the team's members. "To me, it wasn't just about winning; it was about making sacrifices, being able to overcome obstacles and challenges, and seeing all the effort and hard work you've done as a team unfold. Showing people who we are and what we're capable of was a reward in itself."
The trip to nationals in Chicago will be expensive, and the SIFE team is already busy trying to raise funds to cover the approximately $10,000 expense. Maffei is hoping that area businesses will see how much SIFE is changing lives, both in the community and among team members, and will want to help out. For more information, or to help Hartnell SIFE get to Chicago, please contact Robert Maffei at 831-755-6744, or rmaffei@.hartnell.edu.
SIFE is an international non-profit organization active on more than 1,400 college and university campuses in 48 countries. SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that focus on market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills, and business ethics.


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MUSI 4378 (Dr. Kahler): Influence of Music On Behavior
Purpose: To acquaint you with materials in Cornette Library and available through Interlibrary Loan that will make research for your assignments easier.
Reference Sources
- Excellent place to start research.
- Provide background information.
- Include basic information sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, chronologies, and research guides.
- Encyclopedia of Special Education
- LC 4007 E53 2007 Ref.
- Comprehensive three-volume set.
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- ML 100 .N48 2001 Ref.
- Comprehensive 20-volume music encyclopedia.
- Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning
- MT 1 .H138 1992 Ref.
- Includes "Research Regarding Students with Disabilities".
- Historical Research in Music Therapy: A Bibliography
- ML 128 .M77 S65 2002 Ref.
- Historical treatment - published by the American Music Therapy Association.
Browse Shelves
- Look in general areas arranged by Library of Congress classification call numbers.
- Examples of areas to browse:
- ML 3830 - ML 3838: Literature on Music. Psychology.
- ML 3920: Literature on Music...therapeutic use of music.
- MT 17: Music in special education.
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- Cornette Library's online catalog
- Includes books, government documents, videos, journal titles, etc. available throughout the Library. Suggested searches include:
- a keyword search for your subject, such as music games.
- a general LC subject heading such asmusic therapy.
- an LC subject heading for a specific subject such as music therapy for children.
To determine the most appropriate subject headings for your search, refer to the red Library of Congress Subject Headings near the Reference computers in the Library or search the online Library of Congress Authorities Catalog.
- WorldCat
- Online catalog for libraries around the world.
- Lists Cornette Library books along with many more in other libraries.
- Search by keyword, author, title, or subject.
- Request books not in Cornette Library through the pre-filled Interlibrary Loan form. Allow at least two weeks for the books to arrive.
Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Articles
Provide current information
- Library shelves contain more than 1500 bound and current journals.
- Microform (film or fiche) available for dozens of leading newspapers, as well as other periodicals.
- Databases index articles found in journals and magazines.
- Citation only.
- Citation and a short summary of the article (abstract).
- Full text.
- General, covering many kinds of topics, and specialized, for specific disciplines.
How to Access Databases
- On-campus: In the library or HELC.
- Off-campus: Login with your Buff Advisor username (for example, js123456) and your Buff Advisor password (for example, buffaloes).
- Database citations not in full-text may be located in Cornette Library's online catalog, or the list of online journals.
- Use Interlibrary Loan to request articles inaccessible through Cornette library. Allow up to 1 week (3 weeks for books) for articles to arrive.
Which database?
You may browse the Subject Guide to databases for topics such as Education (General) or Nursing. For your first assignment, you will use two of the three databases listed below.
- International coverage of all areas of medicine. Has links to some full text articles. Database available as MEDLINE(EBSCO), MEDLINE(FirstSearch), and MEDLINE(PubMed).
- PsycINFO
- Behavioral sciences database indexing journals, books, and book chapters. Has some links to full text.
- Educational Resources Information Center. Online index of educational materials listed in Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Database available as ERIC(EBSCO), ERIC(FirstSearch), and ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education). Some items have "Linked Full Text". Newest items with an "ED" ERIC number have link "Full Text from ERIC". Some older items with an "ED" ERIC number are available in the Cornette Library on microfiche, even though the items are not listed in the online catalog. Those items list "Availability" as "available... on microfiche". The ERIC microfiche is located on the north wall of the Micro Room on the second floor of the library.
Most of our databases will include the logo with the search results. Clicking this link will open a popup window with at least one of the following options:
- One or more links to the full text of the cited article.
- A link to a pre-set search of the Cornette Library catalog for the cited item.
- A link to a pre-filled Interlibrary Loan request form for the article.
- A link to various help options.
If you would like more information about the feature, please see the tutorial Using SFX to Link to Articles.
Need Help?
- Ask at the Reference Desk (first floor) or Periodicals Desk (second floor).
- Call 651-2215 during the hours Cornette Library is open.
- Use the "Ask A Librarian" reference feature to make an e-mail request.
Interlibrary Loan
- Interlibrary Loan allows you to obtain books and articles not available in the Cornette Library.
- Items come from another library, generally at no cost to you.
- Requests can take about one week for articles and up to three weeks for books.
- You must fill out a request form for each item.
- Paper forms are in the ILL office on the first floor of the library.
- Blank forms are available online.
- Partially pre-filled forms are available online in WorldCAT, most Cornette Library databases, and the pop-up.
Citing Your Sources
Why must I cite the sources I use for research projects?
- To give credit to the author of the information you use.
- To avoid plagiarism (WTAMU Code of Student Life: Appendix I-Academic Integrity Code). Plagiarism is a serious offense that can result in a failing grade or worse!
- So that others can verify the information.
- To assist others in doing their own research.
American Psychological Association (APA Manual)
- Dr. Kahler requires you to use the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
- A copy of the sixth edition of the APA Manual is located at the Reference Desk.
- Additional assistance is available from Citation Basics.
Your Comments
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- Particularly helpful items?
- Please email Linda Chenoweth.
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Spironolactone for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
How It Works
Spironolactone is a diuretic, which gets rid of excess salt and water in the body. It also reduces androgen levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Why It Is Used
Spironolactone reduces androgen levels, which reduces male-pattern hair growth (hirsutism), hair loss, and acne for women with PCOS.
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About 70% to 80% of women with PCOS see a reduction in excess hair growth after taking spironolactone. It may take up to 6 months of daily use to be fully effective.1
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The summer's hottest movies feature amazing car chases.
Car fans will relish the unusual efforts Cadillac made to get its vehicles, such as the Escalade EXT, to makers of The Matrix Reloaded.
The Warner Bros. film, The Matrix Reloaded, sets new standards for car chase visual effects in what producer Joel Silver calls, "probably the most complicated car chase ever filmed."
Paramount Pictures' modern remake of The Italian Job—with little MINIs running amok on streets, sidewalks and stairs—refreshes memories of the 1969 classic The Italian Job, and is rekindling debate about the best car chases in movie history.
Video: MINI Stunt Driving
Universal Pictures' 2Fast 2Furious builds a new base of car chase fans among young drivers this summer, with its portrayal of cops, gangs and the "tuner" crowd in the fast lane.
With so much sudden attention on cars and car chases at the movie theater, filmgoers might be surprised to learn just how much work goes into getting vehicles for some of these fast-paced action sequences and how a car, truck or SUV becomes a movie "star" that gets beat up, crashed and shot.
Yes, even in these days of computer graphics, movie producers often use the real thing—real cars and a mix of real and stunt drivers.
Casting Call, of Sorts
Most times, Hollywood comes a callin'—to car companies, that is—as plans for a movie are confirmed. The movie folks make requests to use one or more of a carmaker's vehicles.
This is how Mitsubishi's Eclipse Spyder and Lancer Evolution came to be featured in 2Fast 2Furious, which is the sequel to 2001's The Fast & The Furious.
A cult film among young people who customize their vehicles and are in the "tuner" scene, The Fast & The Furious made a star out of actor Vin Diesel. In the sequel with Brian O'Conner sans Diesel, street racers again show off the performance and stylized bodies of their cars.
"Universal Pictures came and knocked on our door and said, 'We want you guys in our movie,'" said Greg Stahl, director of advertising at Mitsubishi Motors North America. "They were very interested in our brand because of our very young demographics and because we're very well known in the tuner crowd, and we're a multicultural brand."
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Mitsubishi provided 12 cars for shooting—four Eclipse Spyders, four Lancers and four Lancer Evolutions, Stahl said, adding that was the extent of Mitsubishi's costs.
Car buffs take note: The Evolutions in the film actually were pieced-together models, not true Evolution VIIIs, which only went on sale in the United States this year, according to Mitsubishi spokeswoman Janis Little.
Still, she said, stunt drivers were so impressed by the movie cars "they wanted to buy them."
Couldn't Substitute a Taurus
Sometimes, it's obvious which car should be in a movie.
Take the new MINI, starring in this year's The Italian Job.
Adapted from the 1960's film that showed police-driven Alfa Romeos struggling to catch robbers driving the original, inimitable MINIs, the new film depicts robbers trying to get their gold and escape in modern MINIs amidst the worst Los Angeles traffic jam ever.
In the movie, MINIs—the smallest car sold in America—careen down stairs, drive on sidewalks and weave through subway tunnels. Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton and Charlize Theron are among the actors.
"The car is obviously integral to the film," said Michael McHale, MINI spokesman. "They couldn't make the film with another car. It would be heresy."
Video: MINIs in The Italian Job
He said the only cost to MINI was providing more than 30 cars. Moviegoers, however, are likely to recognize only three MINIs—one red, one white and one blue.
Wachowskis Visit Detroit
The selection of Cadillacs for The Matrix Reloaded went a bit differently.
Due to a longstanding marketing agreement between Cadillac's parent company, General Motors Corp., and Warner Bros., the automaker can signal its interest in participating in an upcoming studio film, said Susan Docherty, Escalade marketing director.
"We looked at Matrix as a brand, and it was very edgy, very bold and very unexpected," she said. "It clearly had the ability to separate itself [from other films] and was able to develop a cult-like following . . . From a timing standpoint, we knew our product assault would be at its height at Cadillac and this [movie placement] gave us an opportunity to pull the whole story together."
She added that the CTS and Escalade EXT appearances are intended to demonstrate "how the vehicles perform and Cadillac's renaissance."
The creators of the Matrix films, brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, made the trip to Cadillac in Detroit to select the vehicles personally from among the Cadillac lineup, Silver said. "They had two [future] vehicles that the boys liked, the CTS and EXT . . . The cars had a sort of new feel to them when they saw them in 2000."
No Vehicles? No Problem
Car fans will relish the unusual effort Cadillac made to get the vehicles to the filmmakers.
Video: Cadillacs in The Matrix Reloaded
Since CTS was about a year from production, the movie cars wound up being culled from the ranks of CTS prototypes. They didn't necessarily stand up to all the rough stuff in the movie, Silver said.
"One of the first shots we did, we snapped the axle on the CTS," he said. "We jumped kind of a curb, and these weren't real cars ?and they really weren't designed for that kind of thing . . . We ended up doing a lot of repair work on those cars ourselves."
The EXTs were even more difficult for Cadillac to provide, because at the time they were needed for filming, they weren't yet in prototype stage.
David Schiavone, Cadillac product manager, wound up securing only two engineering prototypes as well as pieces of EXT sister vehicles, the Escalade and Chevrolet Avalanche.
It fell to Bill Deem, a former GM dealership mechanic who now has a vehicle prep business and is a stunt driver, to do the job of removing rear-end parts of Escalades and replacing them with rear-end parts of Avalanches. All the work was done in a Detroit area warehouse, with help from suppliers who custom fabricated some sheet metal components.
By Jan. 22, 2001, Cadillac shipped 14 CTS prototypes, 14 CTS interiors, 10 EXT prototypes and two EXT interiors to California. Another 50 GM vehicles were also provided as background vehicles, and filmmakers got engineering specs, math data and dimensional information about sheet metal components.
All in all, The Matrix Reloaded showcases GM's "largest product placement effort ever," the automaker said.
Another bit of car trivia: Many of the "extra" vehicles in The Matrix Reloaded were Oldsmobiles, a brand that GM is phasing out. If you don't believe, just watch how many Oldsmobiles are on the freeway in the film's big chase scene.
Finding That Roadway
While Cadillac was planning for its vehicles' starring roles, Matrix filmmakers were struggling to find the proper venue to shoot a freeway chase scene that lasts more than 14 minutes.
Much of the movie was filmed in Australia, but no freeways there matched what the creators had in mind. The Wachowskis are from Chicago, so Wacker Drive in Chicago was set upon as a good site. Some of Silver's previous movies had used Wacker for car scenes too.
However, Chicago's mayor "decided he wanted flowers along Wacker Drive, so [the city] decided to shut the road down and build these huge flower pots," Silver said. " . . . The very thing we wanted to do, he didn't want. He didn't want his city to look like it had this kind of place that is grungy and down and dirty type thing. He didn't want us to do it."
So Matrix officials cast about and wound up visiting a freeway section in the Akron, Ohio, area.
"They were looking at how they were going to prevent the cars from coming on the freeway, blocking the freeway out for [lots of] hours a day," Silver said.
Then it became apparent that each time the filming would need to start over again, "it would take 45 minutes to bring all the cars back to the starting point," he said.
Silver recalled that after that, Owen Paterson, production designer, said, "Why don't we just build you a freeway?"
"No one had thought of that before," Silver said.
So that's what they did—at a retired naval base in Alameda, Calif. The 1.6-mile span was built like a real freeway, complete with a median and on and off ramps. The concrete "had to be really poured properly, because the cars would go 60 miles an hour and if there was a problem, it had to be on real roads," Silver said.
The result: "You are seeing, on one hand, some of the most spectacular car chase footage ever put on film because of the amount of control we were able to bring by actually building our own freeway," Silver said. "And, on top of that, you have the most spectacular visual effects sequence inside this car chase . . . it's very intense."
More trivia: The estimated cost for the roadway was $1.25 a square foot. The sound walls on the sides of the freeway were, in reality, facades that after filming were taken apart and sent to Mexico for use in low-income housing, according to Silver.
What Automakers Gain
Many in the auto industry credit BMW with showing how modern-day automakers can get maximum leverage out of a Hollywood appearance.
In the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye, actor Pierce Brosnan's car was a BMW Z3—a car that hadn't gone on sale yet as the movie debuted. BMW officials set a target of 5,000 Z3 roadster pre-orders off its Z3 publicity, which included the film and other promotions.
In the end, the company ended up with 10,000 pre-orders.
How? As part of an all-out marketing campaign, BMW tied the Z3's role as Bond's new car in the film to a special edition Z3 in the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog, dealer movie premiere parties, even a press event in New York's Central Park where Brosnan drove up in a Z3.
However, each automaker sets different goals for its movie placements.
Cadillac's appearance in The Matrix Reloaded, comes as the luxury brand is trying to boost its image among young car buyers. What better place to be, Cadillac officials thought back in 2001, than in one of the Matrix trilogy movies? The first one, released in 1999, was a $450 million blockbuster that attracted a hip, young audience fascinated by the detailed, high-tech visual effects that set new standards for action filmmaking.
"I believe it will be a great connection for Cadillac," Silver said. Added Grant Hill, executive producer, "This is the ultimate Cadillac commercial."
Docherty noted Cadillac is quite selective about the movies where it gives filmmakers free cars. However, "we don't want product placement for product placement sake," she said, adding the intent now is to make sure car appearances are "strategic" and fit with Cadillac goals.
< Mitsubishi's Stahl said his company also is "typically very selective." 2Fast 2Furious got the okay for free cars because the film matches well with Mitsubishi customers who are youthful and multicultural, he said. Stahl was also aware the first Fast & Furious movie was successful at the box office.
"This is really the first movie we have ever done," he said, adding that in the past Mitsubishi "walked away from" some filmmakers' requests.
He predicted: "When we look back at this in three to five years, it will be viewed as a great case study . . . We think this is a great return on investment."
Ann Job is an automotive journalist and writer for T&A Ink media group.
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Let's make a promise to each other to do as little work as humanly possible today. Let's also make a promise to each other that none of us will watch Madonna's Super Bowl half time show.
Call me an old softy but I love Bananarama's "Cruel Summer". The workout montage from "Karate Kid" alone makes the song a classic. And for that reason alone I will love the new film "Snow White: Deadly Summer", a retelling of the classic story that has Snow White stuck in a prison camp where everyone is dropping dead. I realize this is a pretty big stretch on the whole Bananarama thing.
There are many reasons the poster for "Final Destination 5" should be banned but because it's too scary is not one of those things. But that's what's happened in the UK. Apparently the poster is too scary for kids and has been taken off the market where it had resurfaced to promote the release of the DVD. Silly I know but what I've always said is you can never trust anyone who drinks tea, let alone an entire country.
If your kid titles his "what I did on my summer break" essay "I Survived a Zombie Holocaust" then you might want to get him some help. If he wants to see the new movie "I Survived a Zombie Holocaust"... well you should probably get him help also but maybe let him check out this group of new stills from the flick about a zombie movie set that gets overrun with real zombie. But seriously, your kid might have some problems.
It's no surprise but that doesn't make it any less upsetting. Lionsgate Vice President Michael Burns recently sat down with CNBC (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write) and hinted to that fact that you'll most likely see a new "Saw" film in the future. He also announced the return of New Coke and the Apple Cube.
Here's a heartwarming story for the Holidays about a son who beat the crap out of his mom with his friends after she threw out their Bud Lite. I know what you're thinking, I'm going to make some awful comment about how she was asking for it. But 'Eff those kids. Drinking Bud Lite! They should go to prison for that.
I'm not up on the latest parenting techniques but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't bite your daughter's face as punishment. Even if she was drinking Bud Lite.
Elaborate deaths in 3D, this time with a twist!
I'm not sure who is excited about "Final Destination 5" right now. I sure as crap know 5 podcasters who are miserable about it's upcoming release. But for those of you looking forward to it's final destinations there's a whole boat load of new posters for your viewing pleasure. I think they might be in Russian though. I have no idea. What language uses a backwards 3 as a letter? I want to party with those guys.
I've beat the silly Italian accent into the ground when describing any sort of horror flick that's been put out by those pizza tossers so I'm going to take the high road on this one. "Morituris", which has a new trailer, is about a group of Roman soldiers who return from the grave to kick the cannolis out of anyone they come in contact with. Not going to lie it looks kind of bad ass. But I might just be fooled by the hot lix in whatever song is playing during the trailer. I'm a sucker for crappy shredding.
I'm positive that "The Darkest Hour" takes place in Russia although I didn't see any backwards 3's in the new trailer so I'm still kind of confused about the "Final Destination 5" posters. The movie doesn't come out until December but from the trail my spidey senses are all a flutter with excitement. It follows 5 tourists trapped in Moscow during an alien invasion of some sort of creepy weird light that turns everything into dust. I realize this sounds ridiculous but watch the trailer, you'll get strange tingles in new places too.
Never let it be said that the people at The Asylum don't come up with some of the weirdest crap to ever hit the straight to DVD selves. Their latest masterpiece is "2 Headed Shark Attack" which is about, as if you couldn't have guessed, a 2 headed shark that attacks a school-at-sea boat. No news on casting yet but they're shooting for a early 2012 release date. I can't wait for the sequel. I need to see a 3 headed shark attack.
I'm not a big pet person but you seriously have to be a cold hearted prick to kick a puppy so hard it's leg has to be amputated. I mean I can see a fully grown dog but a puppy? There's a special spot in hell for people like that.
And it looks like the puppy guy will have some company down there because here's a guy in Michigan who's facing 15 year in prison for stomping his girlfriend's Yorkshire terrier to death. Anyone else feel like eating a bag of Fig Newtons and crying uncontrollably right now?
There's a brand spanking new trailer for "Final Destination 5" out and hey did you know Tony Todd's in this one? So that's something, right? And it's in 3D. Tony Todd in 3D. Man this one is going to be awesome. And I didn't think I'd have anything to say about the new trailer. Thank god and baby Jesus for Tony Todd.
"Jeepers Creepers" mastermind and official NAMBLA member Victor Salva recently let out that if and when "Jeepers Creepers 3" happens it'll be the last installment in the series. Please Victor, say it aint so. He did come out and say that 3D probably wouldn't be an option for the film that's had a script for some time now and just can't seem to get off the ground. Let's keep our fingers crossed that things work out for the convicted sex offender.
If you're holding your breath for a "Zombieland" sequel you better have some pretty hefty lungs my friends. In a recent interview Jesse Eisenberg gave an update on the status of the follow up and it looks like other than some form of a script being worked on not too much else has happened. He does go on to say that all the actors are on board but the longer it takes the less interesting the film will be. Then he kicked a puppy and shot a bald eagle.
And because it's a slow day here's the trailer for a new Cuban zombie flick cleverly titled "Juan of the Dead". As you can expect it's a nod to Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's "Shaun of the Dead". And by nod I mean there's a cigar smoking mental patient in the corner giving himself whiplash he's nodding so hard. Ay caramba.
I'm pretty sure 30 years ago this was the theme of at least 12 movies but a Oregon man is under arrested after dressing up as a woman and sneaking into a woman's lock room to do a little peeping. Of course it turns out he's also a convicted sex offender which I'm pretty sure was never a plot point in any of those movies but it was a long time ago. I don't remember them that well.
And lastly here's a story about a man who apparently couldn't wait to get out of the porn shop he was robbing to sample the products because police found him hiding in one of the back closets going to town on a blow up doll. When the mood strikes I guess there's no stopping some people.
"Masks" is a heart warming little tale about an aspiring young actress who travels to Germany to be taught in a school that was once led by an insane instructor who killed himself after his techniques were banned. From what I can tell those techniques includes forcing people to scream after each other and then have an orgy while covered in blood. For your viewing pleasure a few images and a new trailer has hit the tubes and surprise surprise, it's bat shit insane.
"Yellowbrickroad" has absolutely nothing to do with "The Wizard of Oz" and most of all has no regard for spaces in between words. It does though sound pretty cool and the new trailer that's up looks pretty trippy. The movie focuses on a research group that uncovers a mysterious trail that an entire town went down and disappeared over 70 years ago. I hope there's munchkins at least. Those little fellas are adorable.
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Lastly, tune in to tonight's "Attack of the Show" on G4 to see the brand spanking new trailer for "Final Destination 5". Or don't actually. I'm not going to lose any sleep either way. I can't keep tabs on all you sickos.
Spectators at an Australian horse racing track were injured last week after one of the horses went buck wild and leaped into the audience. I know it's awful isn't it. What makes it even worse is that I can't find a video of it happening anywhere.
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With Christmas just around the corner it's time to celebrate the holiday season with a horror movie that shows a crazy Santa going around murdering the crap out of people. As luck would have it we have a new red band trailer for "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale", the Finnish flick that does just that. I feel so warm.
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Jun29-11, 11:43 PM
Current thoughts: Mass is generated by anomalous breaking of superconformal symmetry in the strong interactions, which is then transmitted to the charged leptons (origin of the shared 313 MeV scale) and also to the electroweak gauge bosons. The whole standard model may have a "Seiberg-dual" description in terms of an SQCD-like theory with a single strongly coupled sector, with the electroweak bosons being the dual "magnetic gauge fields", and lepton mass coming from "technicolor instantons" in the electric gauge fields (analogous to the origin of nucleon mass in QCD).
This is a transposition of recent ideas, due to Luty and Terning and collaborators, to the present context.
Jul3-11, 06:40 PM
PF Gold
Jul7-11, 04:39 AM
I hope to have something to say soon about where the constituent quark mass scale comes from, but meanwhile, "AdS/CFT & Compositeness in the SM" has a nice basic explanation of the idea of "partial compositeness" which features in these Seiberg-like models.
Jul22-11, 05:15 AM
Assuming the connection between the constituent quark mass scale and the Koide relation scale factor is real, it is surely being produced within QCD and transmitted to the leptons. And consider this: simple algebraic transformations of the formula above can bring a factor of 2 out of the squared term, so now we have "mass(lepton) = 2 . mass(constit.quark.) . (new squared term)". In your correspondence, the leptons pair supersymmetrically with mesons, i.e. a quark and an antiquark. So the "naive meson mass", assuming the u/d constituent quark mass scale, is of the order of 2 x 313 MeV.
In other words, one can imagine a sort of "Rivero-correspondence Standard Model Lite", in which all flavors of quark have zero current mass, in which they take on the 313 MeV constituent mass (because of QCD effects) in mesons and baryons, and in which the 625 MeV "naive meson mass scale" gets transmitted to the lepton "superpartners" of the mesons. If such a field theory existed, we could then think about modifying it so that the quarks have nonzero current masses, and so that the charged lepton masses are altered by the extra factor appearing in the Koide formula above.
Jul22-11, 10:28 PM
here is the chart I promised you.
Jul25-11, 12:54 AM
Something which has previously bothered me is that, if you were trying to make a "quark-diquark superfield" or a "lepton-meson superfield" - that is, if you were trying to apply the standard superfield formalism to this idea - it shouldn't make sense, because the two "components" (at least, in the quark-diquark case) aren't independent degrees of freedom.
But I wonder if you can get around this by just pretending that they are independent, and later imposing a quantum constraint? In fact, I wonder if this could be done to the MSSM? Until this point, I thought there were only two ways to realize this correspondence in terms of the MSSM: Either you have the MSSM emerging from something like SQCD, or you have an extra emergent supersymmetry within the already-supersymmetric MSSM. The reason is, once again, that quarks and squarks are independent degrees of freedom in the MSSM, but quarks and diquarks are not. So either quark-diquark supersymmetry is an emergent extra supersymmetry, in addition to quark-squark supersymmetry, or else the squarks are really the diquarks of a simpler, SQCD-like underlying theory. The idea of a "quantum constrained MSSM" - not to be confused with the parameter-constrained MSSM that is usually denoted by CMSSM; I mean a constraint whereby we project out part of the Hilbert space - would have to be a version of the latter possibility.
But the idea of quark-diquark supersymmetry emerging within the MSSM is curious. On the one hand, it seems like it ought to be well-founded, because QCD does unquestionably exhibit an emergent approximate quark-diquark supersymmetry - this is where the idea of hadronic supersymmetry came from. But adding another supersymmetry to the N=1 supersymmetry of the MSSM should produce N=2 supersymmetry - shouldn't it? - and N=2 theories can't be chiral. This seems like a question of authentic theoretical interest, independent of phenomenology: What happens when you examine hadronic supersymmetry in the context of the MSSM? Does it just break down because of the extra states?
edit: This is not exactly the same thing, but wow: Two papers on finding a Seiberg dual for the MSSM! (1 2 comment). Possibly in the context of a dual for susy SU(5) GUT. That is, you'd find a dual theory for susy-SU(5), and I guess you'd also find a dual description for breaking it down to MSSM.
The MSSM is criticized for having 120 parameters, but when you include gravity, most possible values of those parameters will probably prove to be unrealizable. So one might hope for a unique mechanism explaining the deformation away from exact supersymmetry (in which e.g. lepton masses would equal diquark masses, see comment #58) which may underlie the Koide formula.
edit #2: For the exactly supersymmetric form of the MSSM, reduced to a single line, see page 95 (equation 465) of hep-ph/0505105.
Jul25-11, 10:51 AM
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Jul25-11, 06:01 PM
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I just read the last confrontation between Motl and Woit... It is not worthwhile to try to comment on this at either blog (Woit actually censurates me and Motl allows posting but well, surely he just prefers to make fun of people instead of actually censurating, at least in my case). But it is worthwhile to read them, specially if you have in mind the perspective of the "wrong turn"... and that we know that the argument about the purity of hep-th fails, because it is almost impossible to find papers with an unbroken or midly unbroken susy, and well, Mitchell has practically revised all the arxiv for papers useful here, and only got a handful of them.
Jul26-11, 01:37 PM
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After all this LHC excitation, I am afraid i could go into hibernation for some period, but I want to say some words about this 313 GeV thing and how, to my regret, it could relate to extra dimensions. The point is that if we want quarks and leptons to stand in some symmetry group, the smaller candidate is SU(4), "Lepton number as the fourth color". The full group Pati Salam thing, SU(4)xSU(2)xS(2), is known to appear with 8 extra dimensions: it is the group of isometries of the manifold S5xS3, the product of the three-sphere with the five-sphere. It was argued by Bailin and Love that 8 extra dimensions are needed to get the charge assignmens of the standard model, but I am not sure if this manifold was used. Its role was stressed by Witten, who pointed out that the family of 7-dimensional manifolds that you get by quotienting this one via an U(1) action have the isometry group SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1).
I liked to think of this compactification as an infinitesimal extra dimension, partly because of the hint of F-theory, partly because thile the SU(4) group seems a need, I don't like to look at it as a local gauge group.
Again, this was well known lore of supergravity (and even in string theory) in the early eighties, but in the same way that the first revolution wiped gluons away, the second string revolution killed the research on realistic Kaluza Klein theories.
Jul26-11, 10:42 PM
I made a new thread for this 12-dimensional idea.
edit: Meanwhile I observe that we can get SO(10) (which contains both SU(5) and Pati-Salam) from 13 dimensions, as in S-theory.
Jul27-11, 03:52 AM
With the modern ideas (strings, branes, strings between branes, strings/branes wrapped around noncontractible submanifolds...), you can get Pati-Salam in other ways too. Maybe the boldest neo-Kaluza-Klein hypothesis would be to say that all of these modern possibilities arise from dualities applied to a very-high-dimensional theory that is pure Kaluza-Klein. E.g. T-duality can take a space-filling brane and turn it into a brane of codimension one. But that discussion belongs in the other thread.
In order to relate quark-antiquark and lepton supersymmetrically, I have also been looking at another idea from the Time Before Arxiv: supersymmetric preon theories. This is because it is quite difficult to get elementary and composite fields into the same supermultiplet. I know of one example of emergent supersymmetry involving composite fields, but all the components of the supermultiplet are composite. So it might be easier to have quarks and leptons already composite. There is a big literature on supersymmetric preon models, again from the 1980s. I won't list individual papers, but reviews by Volkas look useful.
A more concrete form of guidance, complementary to the Koide formula, is the fact that the pion mass is about the square root of the constituent quark mass. (I believe this has a derivation in terms of chiral perturbation theory, and also a holographic derivation.) The way I think about this is as follows. Suppose we consider the hypothetical "exactly supersymmetric" realization of the correspondence, in which particles and their superpartners are the same mass. So a lepton is trying to be the same mass as a meson, which has two constituent quarks, implying a natural mass scale of 626 GeV - and as I pointed out, you can rewrite the Koide formula so it's 626 GeV multipled by a phase-dependent factor (thanks to basic trigonometric identities). But at the same time, a quark is trying to be the same mass as a diquark - and here we get a direct contradiction, or a tension that has to be resolved. I'm thinking that this pion mass relation is a clue to how the tug-of-war on that side is resolved, even though a pion should supposedly pair up with a lepton. (I suspect the basic relations are actually between "operators" or "currents", e.g. that there's a relation between a quark current and a diquark current, and that the properties of the physical particles, like pion, eta meson, kaon, only exhibit an echo of the basic relations.)
I also found work on the idea that particle masses might be due to hypercolor instantons, which dates back to a paper by Weinberg, and which has contemporary correlates in string theory. This is what the reference to "technicolor instantons" in comment #55 was about; the idea is that the nucleons get their mass from QCD instantons, so if the Koide mass scale of the leptons is the same thing, there should be a picture in which the leptons are also getting their mass that way.
Jul27-11, 03:52 AM
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A new thread can be a good thing.
13 dimensions? Yep I noticed it was needed for SO(10) -and I will not ask for manifolds whose isometry group is E6,E7 or E8- and I was very afraid of this overplus of dimensions. :-(
Perhaps the rule that limits the max dimension to 11 applies only to the production of the gauge group. IE, we can put more dimensions but in order to produce a gauge group we are limited, from some consistency rule somewhere, to choose eleven of them.
Jul27-11, 11:16 AM
Jul27-11, 12:13 PM
this is the most beautiful chart ever. no matter what compton(172,182,364,1000) you always end up at interaction distance of 5468 with the energy of .00054858 . that is what is so special about the mass of the electron.
Jul31-11, 06:54 AM
I was looking at notes from a recent talk by Adi Armoni, and nearly fell over when something extremely simple jumped out at me. See pages 25 and 26. He's talking about work by Sagnotti on "Type 0 string theory". Apparently it offers a realization of hadronic supersymmetry in which a meson is a bosonic oriented string connecting a quark and an antiquark, and a baryon is a fermionic unoriented string connecting a quark and a quark; there is some sort of fermionic field along the length of the string.
So then it hit me: could such a model then incorporate a diquark as a bosonic oriented string connecting a quark and a quark? And what about its "partner", an unoriented string connecting a quark and an antiquark, with a fermionic field running between them?
Would that offer a way to place the leptons in a Type 0 string theory, in a way that extends hadronic supersymmetry?!
Having stated the very attractive idea, now let me state a few problems. First, it's unclear to what extent this model of open strings can possibly reproduce all the observed complexities of hadronic physics. Also, we don't see free diquarks in reality. But then, maybe we don't have to; what we need is a "fermionic quark-antiquark" that is stable and is actually a lepton. It's OK if a free "diquark string" is unstable.
arxiv:0901.4508 might be the best place to start, especially for the references - the two papers by Sagnotti, and also Corrigan-Ramond. arxiv:hep-th/9906055 goes into further stringy technicalities.
Jul31-11, 09:57 PM
My remarks were a little confused. But it's one of the confusing things about Alejandro's correspondence.
In theory, hadronic supersymmetry relates an antiquark and a diquark (quark-quark pair). In practice, what we see are similarities between a meson (quark-antiquark) and a baryon (quark-diquark). To obtain the baryon from the meson, we substitute the diquark for the antiquark.
Alejandro's extension of hadronic supersymmetry relates a lepton to a quark-antiquark pair. Unlike hadronic supersymmetry, there's no known dynamical significance to this correspondence (but this is why we are talking about the similarity between the constituent quark mass scale and the mass scale appearing in the Koide relation). It's just that the electromagnetic charges match up; by pairing quarks with antiquarks, you can make composites with charge -1, 0, and +1, which matches the charges one sees in the elementary leptons, "as if" they were superpartners to these quark-antiquark combinations.
The combination of quark and antiquark is normally a meson. But we see that for quark-diquark symmetry, we can't speak of it as true in all imaginable contexts. For example, I don't think you can "substitute a diquark for a quark" in any meaningful way, if the quark is already part of a diquark. Indeed, hadronic supersymmetry is usually said to be an emergent symmetry, true because diquarks resemble quarks under certain circumstances (as substructures of a hadron), not because the fundamental theory is supersymmetric. It's only a very rare theorist like Sultan Catto who is trying to explain hadronic supersymmetry as a manifestation of a fundamental supersymmetry.
So the posited relationship between "mesons" and leptons is even more tenuous. As I said a few comments back, I suspect that if such a relation exists, it's fundamentally algebraic, and may be obscured to the point of invisibility in the actual mesons. Furthermore, the observable mesons already play a role in quark-diquark symmetry - you can substitute a diquark for one of their constituent quarks, and get a baryon with similar properties.
This was the genesis of my confusion about Armoni's talk. The "orientifold field theories", which arise from certain models in Type 0 string theory, exhibit a supersymmetry between a bosonic "meson" string and a fermionic "baryon" string. The meson-baryon relationship exists in hadronic supersymmetry, so I jumped to the conclusion that if we changed the sign of one of the quarks terminating these Type 0 strings, we could implement Alejandro's idea.
But in fact, Alejandro's idea applies directly to "mesons", i.e. to quark-antiquark strings, such as exist in "orientifold planar equivalence". So really, the more logical way to employ planar equivalence here would be to say that its "meson-baryon supersymmetry" actually corresponds to Alejandro's "meson-lepton supersymmetry"; and then we should seek to extend planar equivalence so as to include bosonic "diquark strings" which will be dual to fermionic "quark strings". This last step sounds problematic, to put it mildly. Maybe there's some other way to proceed. But I had to make this clarification.
Jul31-11, 10:46 PM
I also want to make some remarks about hadrons from the perspective of contemporary string theory.
Consider a stringy standard model such as appears in Barton Zwiebach's textbook. Other string models work differently to this, but this one allows me to make my point. There are several intersecting stacks of D-branes, and all the fundamental particles are open strings running between the brane stacks. There is a stack of 3 branes, one for each color in QCD. Strings between these branes are the gluons. There are also separate stacks of "left branes" and "right branes". Quarks are strings that connect a color brane with a left brane or a right brane. (There are also lepton branes, and leptons are strings connecting lepton branes with a left brane or a right brane.) Having left branes and right branes, and thus different strings for left-handed and right-handed quarks, is a way to have them behave differently, as in the real world.
Now consider what a hadron is. It's a bunch of quarks, bound together by the exchange of gluons. In the string model above, gluons are strings interior to the stack of color branes, and quarks are strings stretching from the color branes to the "handedness" branes. A hadron, therefore, is a "bundle" of two or three (or more) "quark strings", stretching between color branes and handedness branes, exchanging a lot of "gluon strings" at the color-brane end of the "bundle". A very approximate image might be a bouquet of flowers; each flower is a quark, the petals are at the "left brane" or "right brane", and the stems stretch down to the color branes - and that's where the bouquet is tied together, by the gluons. The important part of this image is the idea that a hadron is a bundle of quark strings, tied together at the color end.
This is a rather more complex model of a hadron than in the Type 0 string model discussed by Armoni. There, a meson is a single string, connecting two "quark branes", and not a bundle of two strings, connecting two separate brane stacks. This is more akin to the way mesons were described in the "dual resonance models" which ultimately gave rise to string theory.
This has big implications for how one might seek to realize hadronic supersymmetry, and its generalization to leptons, within string theory. The strings in the model from Zwiebach's textbook are superstrings, so at the particle level they correspond to superfields. That is, the "quark strings" that I mentioned, actually describe quarks and squarks. It's only when supersymmetry is broken that the bosonic and fermionic aspects of the string acquire different masses, and all those different classes of string become identifiable, at low energies, with just one or the other.
I haven't really studied Type 0 string theory yet, but although it's technically not supersymmetric, I get the impression that a sort of residual supersymmetry exists, and that the "meson-baryon supersymmetry" discussed by Armoni is pretty much the same thing as the coexistence of boson and fermion within a single string in ordinary supersymmetric string theory. The "baryon" is just the fermionic counterpart of the "meson" string.
But if we consider the "bundle" model of hadrons that arises in conventional string phenomenology, it's clear that the superpartner of the bundle is a much more complicated entity - that is, if it can be said to exist at all.
The bottom line is that the implementation of hadronic supersymmetry, and hence of its extension to the leptons, is potentially much more economical in Type 0 string theory than in conventional string phenomenology, because mesons and baryons could themselves be fundamental strings, and not "bundles" of fundamental strings. That perspective is part of what was abandoned by the "turn" of string theory mentioned in the title of this thread.
Aug1-11, 05:44 PM
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Still, I remember I visited works similar to Armoni's time ago. An idea was to get leptons via transitions between hadronic states, but lepton and baryon numbers get involved and block the way. Another was to think that this "1/2 spin in the string" of some models of baryons was to be interpreted not a a third quark, but as the superpartner, string-wise, of the spin 1 gluon. But then one needs to explain how two spin 1/2 particles get to exchange another spin 1/2 particle: fields must be always bosonics. On the other hand, just this problem could explain why the leptons are points: a spin 1/2 open string should always be a point, because only boson fields can be extended in space.
Sagnotti seems always to be near of something, but then he jumps elsewhere. I was very excited with his work with Marcus, where he got the SO(32) group as a consequence of open strings in the worldsheet, before the advent of the tadpole interpretation.
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