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Skiing near Barcelona. Where to ski? Ski resorts and ski areas Updated January 2017 TWEET THIS PAGE Ski resorts near Barcelona. The 2016/17 ski season news. All ski stations near Barcelona including Baqueira-Beret in the Catalan Pyrenees and Grandvalira in Andorra are open but have not had a lot of snow so far this season. But all have snow cannons so many pistes are open. Book 1 day SKI bus ski pack to La Molina/Masella There are many ski resorts near Barcelona where you see snow and enjoy snowboarding and skiing. Barcelona is quite close to many Spanish and Andorran resorts near Barcelona that offer great skiing from the end of November until end March or beginning of April. The top ski areas that are popular for 1 day skiing trips from Barcelona are ski stations Masella, La Molina both about 1.5 to 2 hours from Barcelona in the Pre-Pyrenees mountain range of Spain. Also popular is the large ski resort Grandvalira in Andorra in the Pyrenees. Masella and La Molina are 2 hours from Barcelona by car or bus and La Molina can also be reached by ski bus or ski train from Barcelona. SKI bus ski pack to La Molina/Masella Grandvalira is 3 hours from Barcelona by car. There are more ski stations and ski areas both in the Catalan and French Pyrenees near Barcelona. The Catalan Pyrenees ski resorts near Barcelona have big and modern ski areas which are good value for money. Skiing near Barcelona can start as early as the end of November and continue up to mid April. All ski stations near Barcelona have many snow cannons on up to 50% of the pistes, so the skiing is great for day-trips or weekend trips even when there is little natural snow. To get a quick overview of the snow situation in the Spanish ski resorts and Andorra check out this webpage of Spanish ski resort webcams Book Andorra Snow day from Barcelona Book 1 day SKI bus ski pack to La Molina/Masella Book 1 day Ski trips to Pyrenees from Barcelona There are 14 alpine ski resorts near Barcelona in the Catalan and French Pyrenees mountains. The closest are ski stations of La Molina, La Masella and Port del Comte are in Spain and just 2 hours by car or train from Barcelona. Andorra is a separate country bordered by Spain and France and near Barcelona. There are two big ski areas in Andorra, which are also near Barcelona, called Grandvalira and Vallnord. The driving times for skiing from Barcelona to these resorts vary from just 2 hours to 3 hours. The biggest and best ski resort near Barcelona is Baqueira-Beret ski resort, which is just over 4 hours by car from Barcelona. Generally the skiing resorts close to Barcelona have great snow, uncrowded pistes and short lift queues. The Eastern pyrenees have 300 days of sunshine a year so when the snow has fallen generally the weather is sunny and nice for skiing. Prices are comparable to the Alps or a bit cheaper. The Spanish resorts have high altitudes and a low tree line, so there are many free ride trails and off piste runs to enjoy. Another benefit of skiing in the Pyrenees is that the pistes are much less crowded, so no morning lift queues. The after-ski scene is generally much quieter than the Alps. This makes skiing in Spain perfect for beginners, families and serious skiers. If you want a lively apres-ski scene, then the Andorran resorts are probably your best bet with many UK skiers and a lively nightlife scene, particulary in Pas de la Casa, which is in the Grand Valira area. Be aware that smoking is oddly enough still allowed in most bars and restaurants in Andorra, so while the skiing is good the after-ski can be cloudy! The ski season in Barcelona starts at end of November if there is enough snow. Generally many ski resorts near Barcelona are open before Christmas and many hope to be open in late November in preparation for the December "puente" public holidays in Spain on 6th and 8th December, so if you want some early skiing, then check our ski resort listings to see when the ski lifts are open and how many ski lifts are operational. All the big resorts have snow cannons throughout the resort, so you can still go skiing, even if the fields on each side of the piste are sometimes bare. Closest ski resorts to Barcelona The ski stations of La Molina, La Masella and Port del Comte are only 2 hours by car or train from Barcelona. They are fantastic for a day trip or even a half day trip. La Molina has a "ski-tren" package which includes train and ski-pas (forfait), which you can buy at Renfe railway stations in Barcelona. The skiing is excellent and if you can go to these ski resorts on weekdays, then you will have it all to yourself. At weekends it does get more crowded, but generally not as long lift lines as in the alps. Book Ski Day Trip to Masella/Molina from Barcelona There are many other very good ski resorts close to Barcelona and most are between two and four hours drive. The biggest and most exclusive resort near Barcelona is Baqueira-Beret who celebrate their 50th anniversay in 2014! Congratulations! Baqueira-Beret is too far for a day tour but has great skiing for longer stays. Baqueira-Beret is a around four hours drive time from Barcelona in "El Pirineo de Lleida" part of the Pyrenees. The Lleida Pyrenees has 6 alpine ski stations all near Barcelona which are are Baqueira-Beret, Boí Taüll Resort, Port del Comte and three stations in the Ski Pallers ski area which are Espot Esquí , Port Ainé and Tavascan.) The Lleida Pyrenees also has 5 nordic ski statons ( esquí nórdico) which are Aransa, Lles, Sant Joan de l'Erm, Tuixent-la Vansa and Virós-Vallferrera. If you are looking for a ski station with both Alpine and Nordic cross country skiing then Baqueira Beret is a very good choice. Tavascan has limited alpine skiing. Visit our ski directory to find a list of the skiing resorts near Barcelona. Each listing includes driving times, webcams, snow reports, piste maps, hotels and links to the ski station websites. Book 1 day SKI bus ski pack to La Molina/Massala Book Private 1 Day Ski Trip to Masella Useful Barcelona skiing websites Ski resorts near Barcelona. 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Writings Online
Find more online writings on and by Gandhi at
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Books by M.K. Gandhi
Compilations of Gandhi's writings
Books on M.K. Gandhi
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An Autobiography - The Story Of My Experiments With Truth
Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule
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compiled by Krishna Kripalani
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Mohan-Mala (A Gandhian Rosary)
by M. K. Gandhi, ed. by R. K. Prabhu
My Views on Education
by M. K. Gandhi, ed. by Anand T. Hingorani
Selected Letters
by M. K. Gandhi
Selections From Gandhi
compiled by N. K. Bose
The Gospel of Swadeshi
by M. K. Gandhi, compiled by Anand T. Hingorani
The Moral Basis Of Vegetarianism
by M. K. Gandhi
Towards New Education
by M. K. Gandhi, ed. by Bharat Kumarappa
by M. K. Gandhi, ed. by Ravindra Kelekar
Human Touch
All Men Are Brothers
Bahuroopee Gandhi
Gandhiji And South Africa
by E. S. Reddy (pdf)
Spitting at the Sun (Assassination of Gandhi : Facts vs. Falsehood)
The Making Of A Social Reformer: Gandhi In South Africa
by Surendra Bhana and Goolam H. Vadeh
The Encyclopedia of Gandhian Thoughts
by Anand T. Hingorani
Gandhi and Communal Problem
by M. K. Gandhi, compiled by Centre for Study Of Society and Secularism, India
Gandhian Values and 20th Century Challenges
by Dr. J. D. Sethi
Africa Needs Gandhi!
by Fr. Jude Thaddeus Langeh
Gandhiji's Vision Of A Free South Africa (pdf)
by E.S. Reddy
Mahatma Gandhi And Nordic Countries
by E.S. Reddy & Holger Terp
The Way To Peace: Mahatma Gandhi's Nonviolent Revolution
by Sanderson Beck
An Atheist with Gandhi
by Gora
The Sevagram Ashram
Gandhi, The Jews And Palestine
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by Uma Shankar Joshi
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by Jyoti Solapurkar
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by Madhu Dandavate
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by Stephen Murphy
Assassination Of Gandhi: The Facts Behind
by Chunibhai Vaidya
The Soul As It Is, And How To Deal With It
by Prof. Gilbert Murray
Mohandas Gandhi by Ellen Horup
by Holger Terp
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by Holger Terp
Mahatma Gandhi, The Missing Laureate
by Oyvind Tonnesson
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by Nelson Mandela
by Bal Patil
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by E. S. Reddy
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Surprise announcement | Deputy premier Dave Hancock takes over as interim leader
Six hours after giving a rousing speech to rural councillors, Alberta premier Alison Redford announced her resignation.
The announcement was a surprise to Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties president Bob Barss, but he said looking back at two days of meetings with the premier, she looked stressed.
"It was definitely a shock. Especially after meeting with her for the last two or three days, anybody could tell she had a lot on her mind," said Barss.
"I was probably not surprised it happened, but the timing was a surprise. She gave a good speech at our convention."
Redford gave no hint during the speech of the discontent within the party and her caucus that eventually wore her down and forced her to resign only two years after becoming premier.
"Quite simply, I am not prepared to allow party and caucus infighting to get in the way of building a better future for our province and for all Albertans," she said March 19.
"And that is why I am announcing today, with a profound optimism for Alberta's future, I am resigning as premier of Alberta, effective this Sunday evening."
Deputy premier Dave Hancock will become premier until the Progressive Conservative party elects a new leader within four to six months.
"It's been a strange day or two," Hancock said during a news conference after the PC caucus elected him interim premier.
Hancock said he encouraged Redford to stay on as leader, but in the end it was her decision to make.
"She had to make the decision she thought was right for her and for Albertans," said Hancock.
"I have worked very hard, as have members of the caucus, to encourage her to continue the good work she was doing, but ultimately it becomes an individual's choice and determination they feel they can effectively go forward."
Hancock, who is minister of ad-vanced education, said it's up to the government to carry on as usual, including passing the budget tabled March 6.
"I care very deeply about our province and our future," he said.
"I think Albertans want to know their government is in good hands, and we will continue to do the work of government."
Barss doesn't anticipate any problems dealing with government, provided the budget is passed and there is no cabinet shuffle.
"The budget is our concern," he said.
"If they get it passed, then we know our funding is in place for the next year or until the new leader."
He said everything went into a holding pattern when former premier Ed Stelmach announced his resignation but stayed on in the job. No one wanted to make any decisions.
Redford will continue to sit as a PC MLA for Calgary-Elbow. She was first elected in 2008 and became justice minister.


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on algebras over an operad, on modules over an algebra over an operad
on dendroidal sets, for dendroidal complete Segal spaces, for dendroidal Cartesian fibrations
In great generality, a homotopy limit is a way of constructing appropriate sorts of limits in a (weak) higher category and in general and in (∞,1)-category theory in particular, using some presentation of that higher category by a 1-categorical structure. The general study of such presentations is homotopy theory.
In classical homotopy theory, the presentation is given by a category with weak equivalences, possibly satisfying extra axioms such as those of a homotopical category, a category of fibrant objects, or a model category. Such structures are considered to present an (∞,1)-category, and homotopy limits give a way of constructing the appropriate sort of (∞,1)-categorical limits.
In enriched homotopy theory, the presentation is given by an enriched model category or an enriched homotopical category, and it may presents an "enriched -category" or be a more powerful presentation of a bare -category (notably if the enrichment is over sSet). In the enriched category theory context the appropriate notion is a weighted homotopy limit, which may construct "weighted -limits" in the presented "enriched -category" or may be a more powerful tool for constructing plain -categorical limits (in particular if the enrichment is over sSet). Note that as yet, no fully general notion of "enriched -category" exists; see homotopical enrichment.
Maybe the most commonly encountered setup for homotopy limits is that where the (∞,1)-category in question is presented by a simplicial model category. See also homotopy Kan extension, of which (globally defined) homotopy (co)limits are a special case.
As for ordinary limits, there are two ways to define homotopy limits:
with explicit constructions that satisfy a local universal property: the homotopy limit object "represents homotopy-coherent cones up to homotopy."
as derived functors of a homotopy Kan extension that satisfy a global universal property: the homotopy limit functor is "universal among homotopical approximations to the strict limit functor."
One of the central theorems of the subject is that in good cases, the two give equivalent results; see below.
Let be a category with weak equivalences and let be a (small) diagram category. Make the functor category into a category with weak equivalences by taking the weak equivalences to be those natural transformations which are objectwise weak equivalences in .
The ordinary limit and colimit operations on -diagrams are (as described there) the right and left adjoints of the functor , or equivalently left and right Kan extension along the unique functor to the terminal category.
The (globally defined) homotopy limit and colimit are accordingly the right and left homotopy Kan extension along :
The homotopy limit of a functor is, if it exists, the image of under the right derived functor of the limit functor with respect to the given weak equivalences on and the objectwise weak equivalences on :
The homotopy colimit of a functor is, if it exists, the image of under the left derived functor of the colimit functor with respect to the given weak equivalences on and the objectwise weak equivalences on :
Alternative definitions can be formulated at the level of the homotopy category one defines a localized version of the diagonal functor and define the homotopy limits and colimits as the adjoints of (at least at the points where the adjoints are defined). Here are the morphisms of diagrams whose all components are in . The above definitions via derived functors (Kan extensions) follow once one applies the general theorem that the derived functors of a pair of adjoint functors are also adjoint and noticing that is a morphism of localizers (and in particular that with the identity 2-cell is a Kan extension (simultaneously left and right)).
In the enriched case, this must be suitably modified to deal with weighted limits as well as enrichment of both and .
In particular, if is equipped with the extra structure of a simplicial model category and is an (small) sSet-enriched category we may also hope to equip the enriched functor category with the structure of a simplicial model category. There are two different "canonical" such structures:
the projective model structure on functors ;
the injective model structure on functors
(both of which have the same objectwise weak equivalences and are in fact Quillen equivalent). When these model structures exist (as they do when is combinatorial), limit and colimit constitute then two -enriched Quillen adjunctions
(All proofs and other technical details on this are at homotopy Kan extension.)
These present directly the corresponding adjoint (∞,1)-functors (as described there)
by precomposition with a cofibrant replacement functor (for the colimit) and a fibrant replacement functor (for the limit).
The local definition requires making precise the notion of a homotopy commutative cone on a diagram.
For the case of SimpSet-enrichment one elegant way to do so is in terms of suitable weighted limits as described in the example section at weighted limit: a homotopy commutative cone with tip on a diagram in an -enriched category is a natural transformation where the weight functor is not constant on the point, as for ordinary limits, but is given by .
The same idea works if we are enriched over a category that is not but is itself enriched over , such as topological spaces or spectra, since then any -category becomes a -category as well in a natural way. Finally, although a general model category need not be enriched over anything, it is always "almost" enriched over , and so one can still make sense of this using the techniques of framings and resolutions; see the books of Hirschhorn and Hovey.
Following the reasoning described in Example 1 of representable functor one then defines the homotopy limit of a functor to be a representing object for such homotopy cones, in the sense that we have a (weak) equivalence
of hom-objects (spaces or simplicial sets in the classical context; enriched hom-objects in the enriched context).
The global definition is formulated in terms of weak equivalences only, while the local definition is formulated in terms of homotopies only. However, in practical cases, derived functors exist because their input objects (in this case, the diagram ) can be replaced by "good" (fibrant and/or cofibrant) objects in such a way that weak equivalences become homotopy equivalences. The derived functor of at the input object is then computed by applying the ordinary functor to a good replacement of .
It then turns out that the "good" (precisely, "fibrant") replacement "builds in" precisely the right homotopies so that an ordinary cone on is the same as a homotopy-commutative cone on . Therefore, , which is the global homotopy-limit of , is a representing object for homotopy-commutative cones on , and thus is also a local homotopy-limit of . There is a dual argument for colimits using cofibrant replacements.
Formal versions of this argument can be found in many places. Perhaps the original statement can be found in XI.8.1 of:
(As was often the case with Kan's papers at that time, there are some details omitted from that treatment, but most are, as he claimed, quite easy to complete.) For another approach in an algebraic context, there is a description in Illusie's thesis.
An abstract version in modern language, with proof, can be found in
Another notable difference between the local and global definitions is that the global definition can only ever define the homotopy limit up to weak equivalence (isomorphism in the homotopy category), while in the local definition we could require, if we wanted to, an actual isomorphism
of hom-objects, rather than merely a weak equivalence. By analogy with strict 2-limits, we may call such an object a strict homotopy limit.
Frequently a strict homotopy limit does in fact exist, and can be constructed as a weighted limit in the ordinary (enriched) category in question. In such cases, the strict homotopy limit may be easier to compute with than an arbitrary homotopy limit merely known to have the up-to-weak-equivalence universal property. Thus, sometimes when people say the homotopy limit they refer mean a strict homotopy limit.
When a strict homotopy limit exists, an arbitrary homotopy limit may be defined as an object which is (weakly) equivalent to the strict homotopy limit.
It is noteworthy that the homotopy limit and colimit in a category with weak equivalences are drastically different from the ordinary limit and colimit in the corresponding homotopy category: the universal property of the full -categorical limits and colimits crucially does take into account the explicit higher cells and does not work just up to any higher cells.
This (obvious) observation is a very old one and can be seen to be one of the driving forces behind the insight that just working with homotopy categories misses crucial information, something which today is understood as the statement that a homotopy category is just the decategorification of an (∞,1)-category.
While the full theory of (∞,1)-categories is one way to impose the correct notion of higher categorical limits, there are other ways to deal with issue. Due to Alexander Grothendieck is the technique of using derivators for keeping track of homotopy limits.
Roughly, the idea of a derivator is that while the single homotopy category of a category with weak equivalences is not sufficient information, the homotopy limit of a diagram in is encoded in the homotopy category of that functor category (this is after all the domain of the plain 1-categorical derived functor of the limit functor). Accordingly, what is called the derivator of a category with weak equivalences is a collection of all the homotopy categories of all the possible diagram categories , as runs over all small categories. See there for more details.
Above we defined homotopy (co)limits in general. There are various more specific formulas and algorithms for computing homotopy (co)limits. Here we discuss some of these
The direct prescription for computing the value of a right or left derived functor between model categories is by evaluating the original functor on a fibrant or cofibrant resolution of the given object.
For the derived functors of limit and colimit
let for instance
be a cofibrant replacement for the projective model structure on functors, so that for any diagram the diagram is a projectively cofibrant diagram (see there for more details). Then the homotopy colimit is presented by the ordinary colimit on :
This is sometimes called the Quillen formula for computing homotopy colimits. Analogously with a fibrant replacement functor for the injective model structure, we have
Often, however, it is inconvenient to produce a resolution of a diagram. Because often all the work is in finding the resolution, while it is easy to evaluate the original functor on it. Therefore one wants ways to slightly change the setup of the problem such that the computation of the resolutions becomes more systematic. One such way is the use of derived (co)ends, discussed below.
Let a cofibrant replacement functor for (notice the opposite category) and one for . Let simplicial presheaf constant on the terminal simplicial set and its projective cofibrant replacement.
Then we also have the coend expression
where in the integrand we have the tensoring of the simplicial model category over sSet.
If happens to be a Reedy model category we can equivalently use in this expression also the Reedy model structures and and obtain the homotopy colimit as
This formula is sometimes called the Bousfield-Kan formula (see also Bousfield-Kan map). The coend is a weighted limit and this formula for the plain homotopy colimit can be understood the left derived weighted colimit which trivial weight (the underived weight is trivial, but becomes non-trivial after derivation – this extra complexity helps reduce the complexity for the replacement for the functor itself).
In detail, let be a monoidal model category and a -enriched model category (for instance as in the above discussion). Let be a small -enriched category. Then for a any given weight
we have a -adjunction
where the left adjoint is the weighted colimit given by the coend
(with the tensoring over in the integran) and where the right adjoint is formed using the cotensor over .
The crux now is that as varies, the left adjoint here is a left Quillen bifunctor
For details on this see Quillen bifunctor or around page 9 of (Gambino 10).
From the fact that this is a Quillen bifunctor and using the observation that for the trivial weight the weighted colimit reduces to an ordinary colimit, follows the above Bousfield-Kan-type formula for the homotopy colimit.
A general way of obtaining resolutions that compute homotopy (co)limits involves bar constructions. (…)
As a special case of enriched homotopy theory, we may consider model categories or homotopical categories that are enriched over a notion of -category as presentations for -categories. (Here we allow to also be of the form (n,r), with the obvious convention that and .) For example:
simplicial sets are models for -groupoids (-categories), so simplicial model categories are presentations for -categories. Of course, arbitrary model categories are also presentations for -categories, but simplicial model categories are easier to work with, and in particular easier to construct homotopy limits in.
A Cat-enriched category is just a strict 2-category, so a model 2-category or homotopical 2-category? is a presentation of a weak 2-category (or bicategory).
A )-enriched category is a Gray-category, and a model Gray-category? or homotopical Gray-category? is a presentation of a weak 3-category (or tricategory).
If is a category enriched over -categories and we are considering it to be an -category (which happens to be strict at the bottom level), it is natural to define a "weak equivalence" in the underlying ordinary category of to be a morphism that is an -category-theoretic equivalence. We call this the natural or trivial homotopical structure on . In certain cases (such as it can be made into a model structure, also called natural or trivial.
Since higher categorical limits are generally defined as representing objects for cones that commute up to equivalence, it is unsurprising that if has a natural homotopical structure, locally-defined homotopy limits and -limits coincide. For this is trivial. For it is proven in (Gambino 10) (particularly section 6). For it is proven in (among other places) Lurie's book, section 4.2.4. The case ought to be approachable in theory, but doesn't seem to have been done (probably partly because the general theory of 3-limits is fairly nonexistent).
On the other hand, we may also consider a category enriched over -categories with a larger class of weak equivalences than just the -categorical equivalences. Then presents an -category (its "homotopy -category") obtained by formally turing these weak equivalences into -categorical equivalences. Homotopy limits in with this homotopical structure should then present -limits in its homotopy -category. In the case this is also essentially in Lurie's book; for other values of it may not be in the literature.
It is important to note that homotopy limits and limits in the homotopy category are, in general, incomparable. A homotopy limit need not be a limit in the homotopy category, while a limit in the homotopy category need not be a homotopy limit.
It is generally true that homotopy products (and coproducts) are also products and coproducts in the homotopy category. Some other homotopy limits induce the corresponding notion of weak limit in the homotopy category; for instance, homotopy pullbacks become weak pullbacks in the homotopy category. However, even this is not true for all types of homotopy limit.
On the other hand, homotopy categories do not usually have many limits and colimits at all (aside from products and coproducts). An explicit proof that does not have pullbacks can be found here. But even if a homotopy category does happen to have limits and colimits, these need not be the same as homotopy limits.
For instance, every chain complex over a field is quasi-isomorphic to its homology, regarded as a chain complex with zero differentials; and between chain complexes of the latter form, quasi-isomorphisms are just isomorphisms. Thus, the homotopy category of chain complexes over is equivalent to the category of graded -vector-spaces. This is complete and cocomplete as a category, but its limits and colimits are not the same as the homotopy limits and colimits arising from its presentation as the homotopy category of chain complexes. In particular, chain complexes are a stable (infinity,1)-category, so every homotopy pullback square is also a homotopy pushout square and vice versa; but nothing of the sort is true in graded vector spaces as a 1-category.
let be a small simplicially enriched category
(possibly an ordinary locally small category regarded as a sSet-enriched category in the tautological way)
and let be an sSet-enriched functor.
There is a general formula for the homotopy colimit over in terms of a coend or weighted colimit in , using the following ingredients:
For a combinatorial simplicial model category as above and for any simplicially enriched category there is the projective and the injective global model structure on functors on the enriched functor category .
In the projective model structure the fibrations and the local equivalences are objectwise those of
In the injective model structure the cofibrations and the local equivalences are objectwise those of .
Each of these is itself a combinatorial simplicial model category, so in particular the small object argument applies in these using which one obtains cofibrant replacement functors
That is a simplicial model category implies in particular that it is tensored over sSet and that the tensoring functor
is a left Quillen bifunctor. By the properties of Quillen bifunctors discussed there, it follows that the coends over the tensor in the form
and in the form
both themselves left Quillen bifunctors.
for the functor that sends everything to the identity on the singleton set. This is the tensor unit in the monoidal category .
With the above assumptions and ingredients, the homotopy colimit over is given either by
or by
By the fact that the coend over the tensor appearing here is a Quillen bifunctor.
This is disucssed for instance in section 4 of (Gambino 10).
Let be the opposite category of the simplex category.
A cofibrant replacement of the terminal object in the projective global model structure on functors is the the fat simplex-functor that assigns to the nerve of opposite category of the undercategory of under
For instance prop 14.8.8 in
Notice that if takes values in cofibrant objects of , then it is itself cofibrant as an object of . In that case no further cofibrant replacement of is necessary and it therefore follows with the general formula and the above proposition that the homotopy colimit over is given by the formulas
This is famously the formula introduced and used by Bousfield and Kan (but there originally missing the necessary condition that be objectwise cofibrant). See Bousfield-Kan map.
Let in the above general formula be the walking span. Ordinary colimits parameterized by such are pushouts. Homotopy colimits over such are homotopy pushouts.
In this simple case, we have the following simple observation:
For as above, the terminal functor is already cofibrant in .
For as above, a functor is cofibrant in if
it sends both morphisms and to cofibrations
it sends (and hence also and ) to cofibrant objects in .
Since a coend over a tensor product where the first factor in the integrand in the tensor unit is just an ordinary colimit over the remaining , it follows that if is of the form of the above observation, then the ordinary colimit over already computes the homotopy pushout:
The dual version of this statement (for homotopy limits and homotopy pullbacks) is discussed in more detail in the examples below.
Here we consider special cases of homotopy pullback in more detail.
Let be the pullback diagram, so that limits over it compute pullbacks, and assume that is such that
satisfies * is fibrant for all ; * and either or is a fibration;
Conversely this means that on an arbitrary pullback diagram can be computed by finding a natural transformation whose component morphisms are weak equivalences and such that satisfies the above conditions.
For any pointed object with point the homotopy pullback of the point along itself is the loop space object of
One way to compute this using the above prescription by noticing that the generalized universal bundle provides a fibrant replacement of the pullback diagram in that we have
with all vertical morphisms weak equivalences and with the left bottom horizontal morphism a fibration.
More on that in the further examples below.
If is a pointed object, with point , then for a homotopy pullback of the form
the sequence is called a fibration sequence. The object is the homotopy kernel or homotopy fiber of . Since homotopy pullback squares compose to homotopy pullback squares, the homotopy kernel of a homotopy kernel is not trivial, but is a loop space object
As a special case of the above general example we get the following.
Let Grpd equipped with the canonical model structure. Write for a group regarded as a discrete monoidal groupoid (elements of are the objects of the groupoids and all morphisms are identities) write and for the corresponding one-object groupoid (single object, one morphism per element of ). Write for the terminal groupoid (one object, no nontrivial morphism). Notice that there is a unique functor . Then we have
To see this, we compute using the above prescription by finding a weakly equivalent pullback diagram such that one of its morphisms is a fibration. This is achieved in particular by the generalized universal bundle , where is the action groupoid of acting on itself by multiplication from one side. So we have a weak equivalence of pullback diagrams
and the homotopy limit in question is weakly equivalent to the ordinary limit over the lower diagram. That is directly seen to be which we just write as :
This example is important in the context of groupoidification and geometric function theory, as described there. A closely related example is the following: a functor is the datum of a toplogical space equipped with an action of . Then, whereas , see equivariant cohomology.
The above example generalizes straightforwardly to the case where the trivial inclusion is replaced by any inclusion of any subgroup of pretty much literally by replacing by throughout.
One finds
where on the right we have the action groupoid of acting on by multiplication from the left (first factor) and the right (second factor). (See for instance at Hecke category for an application.)
To see this, we again build a fibrant replacement of the pullback diagram. Following the constructions at generalized universal bundle consider first the groupoid given by the pullback diagram
As at generalized universal bundle one proves that the left vertical morphism is a fibration.
Now, notice (which was implicit in the above example) that since is a path object in a category of fibrant objects we have a section of . In the above pullback diagram this induces a morphism making the obvious diagram commute. Now, the latter morphism, being the pullback of an acyclic fibration is an acyclic fibration, so its right inverse is a weak equivalence. This way we obtain the morphism of pullback diagrams
which is objectwise a weak equivalence and such that the horizontal morphism on the bottom left is a fibration. By the above statement the ordinary limit of the lower horizontal diagram is weakly equivalent to the homotopy limit we are looking for. But this is manifestly the desired action groupoid:
This example, too, is important at geometric function theory.
Every simplicial set is the homotopy colimit over its cells.
Precisely: for sSet a simplicial set, let
be the corresponding bisimplicial set which in degree is the the constant simplicial set on the set of -simplices.
For the standard homotopical structure on , the homotopy colimit over is equivalent to the origianal :
in the standard model structure on simplicial sets.
Use the Reedy model structure . With the coend recipe for the hocolim discussed above, it follows that the hocolim is the coend
where is a cofibrant resolution in the Reedy model structure and in . But by the discussion at Reedy model structure – simplex category we have that
is always cofibrant in ;
a cofibrant resolution of the point in is given by .
It follows that the hocolim is given by
By the co-Yoneda lemma this is isomorphic to .
More generally with this kind of argument it follows that generally the homotopy colimit over a simplicial diagram of simplicial sets is represented by the diagonal simplicial set of the corresponding bisimplicial set.
This kind of argument has many immediate generalizations. For instance for the injective model structure on simplicial presheaves over any small category , or any of its left Bousfield localizations, we have that the cofibrations are objectwise those of simplicial sets, hence objectwise monomorphisms, hence it follows that every simplicial presheaf is the hocolim over its simplicial diagram of component presheaves.
For the following write for the fat simplex.
The fat simplex is Reedy cofibrant.
By the discussion at homotopy colimit, the fat simplex is cofibrant in the projective model structure on functors . By the general properties of Reedy model structures, the identity functor is a left Quillen functor, hence preserves cofibrant objects.
The coend over the tensor is a left Quillen bifunctor
(as discussed there). Therefore with its second argument fixed and cofibrant it is a left Quillen functor in the remaining argument. As such, it preserves weak equivalences between cofibrant objects (by the factorization lemma). By the above discussion, both and are indeed cofibrant in . Clearly the functor is objectwise a weak equivalence in , hence is a weak equivalence.
Let be the inclusion into the simplex category of all the monomorphisms (all the face maps).
This inclusion is a homotopy-initial functor. As a consequence, homotopy colimits of shape can equivalently be computed after their restriction to
See (Dugger, example 18.2).
The following is sometimes in the literature taken as the definition of homotopy colimits of diagrams of spaces. It is one of the earliest formulas for there.
Let be a category and Top a [{functor].
Define a simplicial topological space by setting
and using the obvious face and degeneracy maps: face maps act by mapping components of the coproducts of one sequence of morphisms to one obtained by deleting outer arrows or composing inner arrows. If the rightmost arrow is deleted, then the component map is not the identity but is . The degeneracy maps similarly introduce identity morphisms.
Let be a category and Top a functor. Then the homotopy colimit of is equivalent to the geometric realization of simplicial topological spaces of :
This is an application of the bar-construction method.
See for instance (Dugger, part 1) for an exposition.
Let be a topological space, write for its category of open subsets and let
a functor out of a small category such that
the canonical morphism in sSet out of the colimit
into the singular simplicial complex of exhibits as the homotopy colimit .
See higher homotopy van Kampen theorem for details.
the cotower category, a colimit of shape is called a sequential colimit. For a combinatorial model category it is easy to characterize the cofibrant objects in the projective model structure on functors : these are those cotower diagrams all whose morphisms are cofibrations and whose 0th object (and hence all objects) are cofibrant.
So given a cotower with such a property, its homotopy colimit is just the ordinary sequential colimit in .
Dually for sequential limits of a tower diagram.
A standard application for this is for instance the construction of the classifying space for reduced topological K-theory. See there for more.
See at lim^1 and Milnor sequences
Descent objects as they appear in descent and codescent are naturally conceived as homotopy limits. See also infinity-stack.
The local model structure on simplicial presheaves over a site serve as models for ∞-stack (∞,1)-toposes.
Here we discuss some properties of homotopy limits and colimits in such model categories of simplicial presheaves.
For two sites, a geometric morphism of sheaf toposes induces correspondingly an adjunction
of simplicial (pre)sheaves. One would like this to extend to a Quillen adjunction that recalls the fact that it came from a geometric morphism by the fact that the left adjoint inverse image functor preserves finite homotopy limits.
In particular, if and have the same underlying category but the trivial coverage, then the geometric morphism in question is the inclusion of a reflective subcategory which typically induces a Bousfield localization of model categories that models the injection of a reflective (∞,1)-subcategory of ∞-stacks into -presheaves. Here the morphism is -stackification and should preserve finite homotopy limits.
The following result says that a strong version of this statement is true, at least for the preservation of homotopy pullbacks.
Let be a geometric morphism of Grothendieck toposes. Let be the corresponding inverse image functor and let be its degreewise extension to functor of simplicial sheaf categories.
Regarded as a functor between the corresponding local injective model structures on simplicial sheaves on both sides
this functor preserves homotopy pullbacks.
This appears as theorem 1.5 in
The classical references are
More recently one has:
An introduction is
A general overview via universal properties is in the
Georges Maltsiniotis lectures, Sevilla (2008)
I, localizers, (pdf);
II, model categories, (pdf);
IV, summary on derivators (pdf)
is given a global definition of homotopy (co)limit as 4.1, p. 14, and it is discussed how to compute homotopy (co)limits concretely using local constructions. For instance the above statement on the computation of homotopy pullbacks is proposition 2.5, p. 15
A nice discussion of the expression of homotopy colimits in terms of coends is in
A collection of examples and exercises is in
See also
Homotopy limits for triangulated categories are studied in
Other references are
Philip Hirschhorn, Model categories and their localizations. Defines and studies (local) homotopy limits in model categories.
Dwyer, Hirschhorn, Kan, Smith, Homotopy limit functors in model categories and homotopical categories. Defines global homotopy limits in homotopical categories and computes them using local constructions.
Michael Shulman, Homotopy limits and colimits and enriched homotopy theory, math.CT/0610194. Constructs and compares local and global weighted homotopy limits in enriched homotopical categories. (a query on this paper is at Forum here)
Nicola Gambino, Homotopy limits for 2-categories (pdf), published as: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 145 (2008) 43-63.) Proves that homotopy limits in a 2-category with its natural model structure coincide with 2-categorical pseudo-limits, and hence give 2-limits.
Jacob Lurie, Higher Topos Theory. Lots of stuff about -categories, including the computation of homotopy limits (section 4.2.4).
Andre Hirschowitz, Carlos Simpson, Descent pour les n-champs. Probably there is some good stuff in here about homotopy limits and limits in -categories.
Beatriz Rodriguez Gonzalez, Realizable homotopy colimits (arXiv:1104.0646)
MathOverflow question: universal-problem-that-motivates-the-definition-of-homotopy-limits
Discussion in the context of the (infinity,1)-Grothendieck construction is in
A formalization of some aspects of homotopy limits in terms of homotopy type theory is Coq-coded in
Jeremy Avigad, Chris Kapulkin, Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Homotopy limits in Coq (arXiv:1304.0680)


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I am Tracy Luscombe, the genealogy and local history librarian of the McKinney Public Library System. Though this blog shows a contact of jcox that is only because the library's main blog site has the same contact for every blog. However, my real contact information is firstname.lastname@example.com. I plan to post to this blog weekly as 2010 progresses. This is a new skill for me so there will be a learning curve. Stay tuned - the idea is to bring more information about our genealogy and local history collection to you each week.
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Porterhouse for two – Review of Uncle Jack's Steakhouse
440 Ninth Avenue
Midtown West
212-244-0005 / unclejacks.com/newyorkcityrestaurants
If you want a free taste of Uncle Jack's Steakhouse , just visit their website and turn up your speakers. The music? Yes, that's a digitized rendition of New York, New York. You want a martini, baby? A steak cooked up real nice? Badda Bing! You want a joint with some real class? A place that doesn't look like the New York section of Disneyworld? Fuggetaboutit.
Everything about Uncle Jack's was probably a little gauche by the time Old Blue Eyes fled his little town blues. I knew what I was getting myself into, in other words, and just hoped that a ridiculous restaurant could cook ridiculously delicious steak.
Could it? Yes. The steak was more than adequate. Not Luger (or any number of restaurants that will cook high quality, dry aged porterhouse at 1800 degrees Fahrenheit) but good. Was the tenderloin a bit dry? Was it missing a certain depth that signals the very best aging? Perhaps, though 95% of the meat was flavorful, well crusted and pleasantly chewy. A B+ steak.
But with the porterhouse $45 per person, you had better serve a good steak. Some steakhouses may serve meat so outrageously tender, with flavor so rich and nutty, that other dishes merely take up valuable space. They're neutral if they're sides – almost like palate cleaners between bites of beautifully charred beef – and starters only coat the stomach in preparation for carnivorous ecstasy. Think caprese or raw oysters.
This happens to be exactly what me and my dining companion started with. The caprese was first, and though it isn't something that a tomato snob like me would normally order mid-winter, it seemed like a good first test. February tomatoes, uncouth as they are in an age of locavorism (it bears mentioning that the restaurant advertises serving "organic produce" grown on "one of Long Island's top rated organic farms") probably say something about the restaurant if they're actually good.
They were not so good – I put them to the side and ate only the decent buffalo mozzarella (it was real – nothing else tastes the same) and fresh basil. And this wouldn't have been so bad. But as if the chef were trying to compensate for lousy tomatoes, everything was covered in a joy-killing balsamic reduction that I had to carefully scrape from my basil leaves. The last time I tasted similar dressing was in the dining room of a nursing home. It was much better on iceberg lettuce.
Our fresh oysters, thank god, were not covered in sauce. I've never met an oyster that I didn't like, but these malpeques were more suited for $1 oyster happy hour than $3 steakhouse oysters. They were a bit muddy and I found myself hitting the lemon more than I'd usually prefer.
By this point I was watching diners around us eat steak and getting hungry. Baked clams were on the way but nothing was boding well for those. So the dish was ultimately a bit surprising – nothing about the cherrystones was noticeably off, even if they were a bit chewy. To my taste, clamminess should eclipse the breading, but by that point we had adjusted our expectations.
And this brings us again to the steak. It was heading out of the kitchen just as I scraped the final clam from its shell, so it arrived hot and on time. Everything arrived on time, actually, and I didn't spend a moment wishing for something that wasn't there. Perhaps I've been jaded by a city where restaurants can get away with high prices and mediocre service, but the attentiveness of the staff at Uncle Jack's was actually a bit over the top. Does this sound like a complaint? It isn't. I found the retro service fun; still, I'm glad that most restaurants don't maintain such a strict "no crumbs on the table" policy.
The staff was perfectly restrained while we enjoyed our tasty steak with sides of overcreamed spinach and watery mashed potatoes. Uncle Jack's has a fairly reasonable corkage fee for a steakhouse (as in, they have one) so I skipped a very overpriced list to open my 2005 Domaine Hauts Chassis "Les Chassis" Crozes-Hermitage . It was rich, fruity and satisfying – a pretty good wine for some pretty good steak.
One final word of advice for anyone who hasn't written off Uncle Jack's: skip the crème brulée. It's cold, crusty pudding and a terrible send off.
Imagine that inclement weather has you stranded in Penn Station. You're pretty hungry, it's a business trip – why not just expense a hefty steak, perhaps a cocktail? Uncle Jack's is only a block away, but I'd recommend something else. It's only a short walk to Keens, after all.


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September 4, 2005
The Justices pay tribute to William Rehnquist.
Of the seven who did make statements:
Those who noted his fairness: Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Ginsburg.
Those who said they'd lost a friend: Stevens, Scalia, Thomas.
Citing his leadership: Stevens, Kennedy, Ginsburg.
Mentioning his sense of humor: Stevens, O'Connor.
Noting his common touch: Kennedy, Ginsburg.
Noting his intellect: Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer.
Noting his dedication to judicial independence: Breyer, Ginsburg.
Paying tribute to his knowledge of the Court's history: Kennedy, Breyer.
Referring to him as "boss": Ginsburg.
No one said they "loved" him, but Justice Kennedy noted that "He loved his family," and Justice Ginsburg said she "held him in highest regard and affection."
Acknowledging his historical greatness: O'Connor.
11 comments:
- Yevgeny Vilensky said...
To have the two lone academics on the court, Breyer and Scalia (who are on opposing sides of most issues), commending him for his intellect says a lot. To all of those academics who argue that Rehnquist was merely a "Republican thug" and who complain that his opinions were intellectually vapid and unmemorable, take that. R.I.P.
- Mark Daniels said...
I find Souter's silence and the statement that he would remain so, intriguing. But I can't speculate with any intelligence on what it might mean. Can you?
- Charlie (Colorado) said...
"If you can't say something nice...."
- Charlie (Colorado) said...
On the other hand, the New York Times article quotes Souter about him. So I dunno.
- Paul said...
Oh boy, don't ban me.
First, may his soul, if we have one of those, rest in peace.
It drives me crazy to see government workers, praising government workers as if they had toiled for nothing, or very little. Or even members of the same profession heaping accolades upon him. Okay, he did his job well to varying degrees, that was expected. He was getting paid just like you.
Government workers remind me of Hollywood in that they give awards to each other like crazy, the truth is any number of people could have performed just as well given the chance.
There will be awards heaped upon him, medals, most given by other government workers, on and on. He did his job, that should be sufficient. He did it well, that's praise enough. Can we move on? I will agree that each member of government that has to go through the circus called "Committee" deserves a big bonus though. Anyone having to listen to Senators drone on and on deserves that.
This is in no way a personal attack on The Chief Justice, just a general rant he inspired. Government workers from the President on down heaping honors on a well paid, job for life, toadied to individual while awaiting their turn someday are tiresome. Go back to work please. - 9/5/05, 6:26 AM
- Deena said...
I agree with you that government workers often heap praise upon each other for little reason.
This case is a bit different: A human being died, and human beings that knew him well and worked with him are offering their eulogies for the man. It's not really a case of government workers slapping each other on the back. - 9/5/05, 4:18 PM
- AJ Lynch said...
Just read Dershowitz piece (in the WAPO I think). Dershowitz blasts Rehnquist and his article suggests Souter's father (a Stanford grad) may have felt Rehnquist and Stanford (in those times) was anti-semitic.
Certainly would help explain Souter silence. - 9/5/05, 5:44 PM
- dick said...
So Souter works with the man for 15 years or so and all the time thinks that the man is anti-semitic (hello, Ginsburg???) and for that reason he says nothing. Makes sense to me.
- Gary said...
Souter just wanted to score a lone dissent?
- AJ Lynch said...
Correction to my earlier post.
I screwed up, in the Dershowitz piece it was Breyer's father not Souter's who went to Stanford.
So i conclude by saying "never mind". - 9/6/05, 6:31 PM
- The Florida Masochist said...
What's with Souter? What's with bloggers with too much time on their hands? This reminds me of the backstabbing and attacks going on involving the Sheehan woman a month ago. Here is my blog post from then.
Grief is a personal process. It takes on many forms. Souter's silence just like Cindy Sheehan's protests can be just two such forms. Leave the people alone. You're diving into a cesspool otherwise. Is that what you want to be thought of?
Here is - 9/8/05, 12:20 PM


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Assemblymember Isadore Hall, III Named Legislator of the Year by the California State Sheriff's Association
Assistant Speaker pro Tempore Isadore Hall, III (D – Compton) has been honored as the 2010 Legislator of the Year by the California State Sheriff's Association (CSSA).
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FAI Member organisations are responsible for making arrangements in each country for a national competition, or similar process of selection, for young people resident in their countries. Some guidelines on how to organise this are also attached. We recommend that the prizes for winners of national competitions should include visits to sport aviation airports and museums, and if possible flights in light aircraft, gliders or balloons. Each FAI Member organisation may submit to FAI a maximum of 9 paintings (3 in each years of birth category). Address for Entries. All entries must be sent to Your Organising FAI Member Country by their deadline and not direct to the FAI. Only entries sent by FAI Members, and which arrive in Lausanne by the closing date of 1 April 2017, will be considered by the International Jury. All entries from FAI members (and not from individuals directly) must be received at the FAI Office by 1 April 2017 at the following address: Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Entries will be judged by an International Jury. The winners in each age group will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, together with diplomas. These medals and diplomas will be sent to the FAI Member organisations in the appropriate countries as soon as possible after judging is completed. The FAI delegates from the countries concerned will be responsible for arranging a suitable occasion for the presentation of the awards. Entries, once received by FAI will become and remain the property of FAI, which may use them for a variety of purposes. FAI Members are therefore encouraged to make good quality colour copies of their winners' work for public relations purposes before sending the entries to Lausanne.
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Less soap-operatic than the five previous sequels, "Saw 3D" gets down to gruesome business, torturing the viewer with disgusting setpieces that bring the pain as close to one's eyeballs as current technology will allow. At least for non-fans, the sole mercy shown by Lionsgate's latest "Saw" is that it's billed as the last and plays that way, wrapping things up without the threat of making another killing after this one. Grosses will be big, owing to the pic's gimmicky third dimension and to its fulfilled promise of taking torture porn — blessedly — to the end of the line.
This time, most of the heinous traps set by sicko Det. Lt. Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) put the screws to those beloved by Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery), whose book about having supposedly survived a near-death encounter with the notorious Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), Hoffman's former boss, is revealed to be bogus. But Hoffman is also after Jigsaw's wife, Jill (Betsy Russell), who nearly succeeded in beating the bad lieutenant at his own game near the end of "Saw VI." Other victims here include a gang of alleged racists, one of whom, Evan (Chester Bennington), has had his bare back super-glued to the seat of a car, and must tear off his own flesh in order to free his friends. The movie opens, grotesquely, with three members of a love triangle stuck in a storefront display, each one of them attached to a buzzing power saw. That "Saw 3D" is relentlessly repugnant will delight the franchise's fans and surprise almost no one. The best that can be said for the pic, gamely directed by longtime "Saw" cutter Kevin Greutert, is that it offers little in between the traps, which are more creatively vicious than they've ever been. Apart from these limb-pulling setpieces, tech credits appear fairly shoddy, as do any 3D effects that don't include flying viscera. The editing relies on lazy flashbacks, while the dialogue remains as horrific as the killings. Cameo turns by Bell and the first "Saw's" Cary Elwes help bring the series full circle while marginally improving the low quality of thesping that has been a trademark of the franchise since 2005.Saw 3D
A Lionsgate release of a Twisted Pictures presentation of a Burg/Koules/Hoffman production, in association with A Bigger Boat and Serendipity Prods. Produced by Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg. Executive producers, Daniel Jason Heffner, Peter Block, Jason Constantine, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Stacey Testro. Co-producer, Troy Begnaud. Directed by Kevin Greutert. Screenplay, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan.
Camera (color, HD), Brian Gedge; editor, Andrew Coutts; music, Charlie Clouser; production designer, Tony Ianni; art director, Peter Grundy; set decorator, Liesl Deslauriers; costume designer, Alex Kavanagh; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), Greg Chapman; supervising sound editors, Mark Gingras, John D. Smith; re-recording mixers, Keith Elliott, Andrew Tay, Mark Zsifkovits; visual effects supervisors, Jon Campfens, Tom Turnbull, Wendy Whaley; visual effects, Switch VFX, Rocket Science VFX, String Theory VFX; stunt coordinator, Shelley Cook; associate producer, Kaleigh Kavanagh; assistant director, Steve Webb; second unit director, Webb; second unit camera, Anton Van Rooyen; casting, Stephanie Gorin. MPAA Rating: R. Reviewed at AMC Southdale 16, Edina, Minn., Oct. 28, 2010. Running time: 91 MIN.
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Jill - Betsy Russell
Bobby - Sean Patrick Flanery
Doctor Gordon - Cary Elwes
Cale - Dean Armstrong
Gibson - Chad Donella
Joyce - Gina Holden
Evan - Chester Bennington
Suzanne - Rebecca Marshall
Nina - Naomi Snieckus


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Plain and dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor is overjoyed when she becomes Queen of England. After the misery of her childhood, when her father, Henry VIII, rejected her and her mother, Mary feels at last that she is achieving her destiny. And when she marries Philip of Spain, her happiness is complete.
But Mary's delight quickly turns sour as she realizes that her husband does not love her—indeed, that he finds her devotion irritating. Desperate for a baby, she begins to believe that God is punishing her. Her people are horrified at the severity of the measures she takes and begin to to turn against their queen, who is lonely, frightened, and desperate for love.
Rafael, a member of Philip of Spain's entourage, reluctantly witnesses the tragedy that unfolds as the once-feted queen tightens her cruel hold on the nation. As Rafael becomes closer to Mary, his life—and newfound love—are caught up in the terrible chaos.
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When you are feeling tired and lacking energy, then a cup of tea will help you to steal a moment and provide freshness with mind-blowing instant energy. Usually, people are addicted to the aroma, flavor and taste of tea; they fixed the time for a cup of tea in their daily routine and that is known as "TEA TIME." It is also served as a morning drink (bed tea) for nearly 2/3 of the world's population daily. In pleasant weather, you can catch people savoring a steaming cup of tea along with fried snacks. In fact, it is so popular as a cultural norm to offer tea to guests and visitors instead of alcoholic drinks in India. It is one of the non-alcoholic caffeine-containing beverage used worldwide and further gaining popularity as an important "health drink."
Plucking of Tea Leaves. Planting of shade trees in the tea gardens
to prevent the tea plants from higher temperature
A visit to Himachal Pradesh regions is made truly memorable by the endless rolling carpets of green, which are the tea gardens, and I was feeling enthralled and captivated at the sight of the huge tea estates. A majority of the tea factories are located within the premises of the tea estates of Kangra Valley and Palampur in Himachal and this is what accounts for the freshness of the tea. The process of tea production has a series of procedures and processes. The process starts with the plucking of tea leaves in the tea estates by female employees carrying a basket over the head and ends with the production of the ultimate tea.
The Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) belongs to the family Theaceae. This cultivated taxa is comprised of three main natural hybrids. They are:
(1) C. sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze or China type having biggest leaves
(2) C. assamica (Masters) or Assam type having smallest leaves
(3) C. assamica sub spp lasiocalyx (Planchon ex Watt.) or Cambod or Southern type having intermediate leaves
Tea is an evergreen, perennial, cross-pollinated plant and grows naturally as tall as 15 m. However, under cultivated conditions, the bush height of 60–100 cm is maintained for harvesting the tender leaves for even more than 100 years. Leaves are alternate, elliptic-oblong, 4-30 x 1.5-10 cm, (thinly) leathery, serrate, acuminate and young ones finely pubescent. The leaves of var. sinensis are rather leathery and stiff, dark green, 4-7 cm long, with a matte surface and indistinct marginal veins, while the leaves of var. assamica are softer, supple, lighter green, 15-20 cm long, often more pendant, with a glossy surface. The flowers are white in color and grow singly or in pairs at the axils. The fruits are green in color with 2–3 seeds.
Interestingly, this wonderful plant of tea began as a medicinal herb rather than a beverage. Despite the legends and all the beautiful myths, in the fourth century A.D. "Shen Nung" (from China) is the first person who drank tea, according to legend. However, this theory does not have any authenticity with records. According to some other authentic records, tea spread through the subsequent Han Dynasty (202 BC—AD220) as a widely used medicinal herb. After the Han Dynasty broke up, China underwent 370 years of disunity with different dynasties ruling different regions, known as the six Dynasties. Out of these six Dynasties, four are Tang Dynasty, Sung Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. During the Tang period, tea spread throughout China as a popular beverage. The aristocracy raised tea drinking to an art form.
In India during the year 1774, Warren Hastings sent a selection of China seeds to George Bogle, the then British emissary in Bhutan. for planting the same in Bhutan. But nothing seemed to come out of this experiment. In 1776, Sir Joseph Banks, the great English Botanist, was asked to prepare a series of notes and it was recommended by him to undertake the cultivation of tea in India. In 1780, Robert Kyd experimented with tea cultivation in India with seeds, the consignment of which was stated to have arrived from China. A few decades later it was Robrt Bruce in 1823 who discovered tea plants growing wild in Upper Brahmaputra valley. In May 1838 the first Indian tea from Assam was sent to England for public sale.
In India, there are many tea-growing regions. These regions are geographically separated, thereby producing entirely different teas both in style and in taste/flavor. These regions including Darjeeling, Assam, Nilgiri, Kerala, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Orissa, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya and in the adjacent plain areas of Dooars and Terai of West Bengal, out of these regions only three Darjeeling, Assam and Nilgiri regions are the main regions producing most of the tea from India.
In Himachal Pradesh mostly in Kangra valley and Palampur region, Orthodox teas are manufactured. There are too many Tea Estates under private ownership and under also the Government Organisation CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research).
Experimental Tea Processing Unit at IHBT, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
Here tea is manufactured for experimental purpose
Tea Plantations for Germplasm Collection at IHBT
I have visited The Palampur Co-operative Tea Factory Limited and reviewed the tea processing in the traditional way, which involve the following steps:
Tea Withering in Withering Tanks or Chambers (above)
Withering Tank (above)
Rolling Machine – After withering, Tea leaves are rolled by the rolling machine (above)
Manually Operated Tea Rolling Machines for rolling the withered leaves (above)
Hot Air Oven for drying the rolled leaves (above)
Automated Drying Machine to drying fermented leaves (above)
Sorting of the Fermented Tea Leaves (above and below)
Green leaves are plucked from the tea bushes and manufactured into "Made Tea" or "Tea" in the Tea Factories through a series of manufacturing processes. Made tea or Tea is classified into two types viz. Black Tea and Green Tea.
Green tea is different from Black tea since the fermentation of green leaves is arrested in manufacturing green tea.
Again black tea is of two types viz. Orthodox tea and CTC tea. Orthodox teas are manufactured with the help of an orthodox roller in the process of rolling while CTC machine/Rotervan is used in the rolling process in manufacturing CTC teas. "CTC" stands for "Crushing, Tearing and Curling."
A Sample of Orthodox Tea (above)
Apart from Orthodox, CTC and Green tea, another one which is known as "Instant tea" is also being manufactured in India and in a few other tea producing countries of the world, like Kenya and Sri Lanka. The factories for instant tea are separate and known as an Instant tea factory. The procedure for manufacturing Instant tea is different—the raw materials used for manufacturing Instant tea are green tea leaves and/or tea waste. The manufacture of Instant tea in India started since 1960.
Grading of Various Type of Tea (above)
Oolong tea is another type of tea, which made in a different manner. It is produced in a unique way including withering under the strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting. The traditional Oolong tea is brewed in a special type of pot known as Gaiwan and the final sip may vary according to the length of brewing time.
Raw Fermented Tea Leaves for Sorting and Grading (above)
Bagging of Tea (above)
The Scientists of the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh (a leading Institute engaged in research and development on Tea) says that the quality of tea is comprised of internal and external characters like aroma/flavor, strength, colou, briskness and character of the infused leaf. The quality of tea may vary between garden to garden, region to region and depend on the tea leaves, plucked at different times in a particular garden. The green tea leaves of the plant belonging to the species of Camellia sinensis has its natural "aroma." Tea manufacturers maintain the natural aroma in the made tea as far as possible. The quality of tea depends primarily on the nature and chemical composition of the plucked leaf, depending on the type of bush, the growing conditions and the kind of plucked leaf like coarseness and fineness, etc. Only careful and proper processing will bring out the full potential of the green leaf.
The grey color of tea leaves is not desirable as it denotes faulty manufacture. It plays an important part in liquoring properties. If it is absent, the tea is deprived of its fullest liquoring capabilities. A brown appearance, on the other hand, is often unavoidable with very "tippy" tea. The reason for this is the hair growth down the shoot, which has been picked for manufacture. The second leaf may have a quantity of hair insufficient to produce a golden appearance known as "tip" but sufficient to discolor the leaf to that of a brownish color. During firing this hair is affixed to the leaf and results in a brownish leaf appearance.
The main constituents of tea leaves belong to the polyphenol group, accounting for 25 to 35% on a dry weight basis. The polyphenols in tea mainly includes six groups of compounds, namely flavanols, hydroxyl-4-flavanols, anthocyanins, flavones, flavonols and phenolic acids. These compounds contribute to the bitterness, astringency and sweet aftertaste of tea beverages. Tea contains also favonols, mainly quercetin, kaempferol, myrecetin, and their glycosides. In black tea, the oxidation of polyphenols during processing leads to the formation of catechins and gallic acid complexes such as theaflavins, theaflavinic acids, thearubigins or theasinensis, and of proanthocyanidin polymers. Tea contains many amino acids, but theanine, specific to the tea plant, is the most abundant, accounting for 50% of the total amino acids. Chlorophyll, carotenoids, lipids and volatile compounds are not major constituents in a tea brew but they play an important role in the development of the aroma.
TEMPERATURE RANGE and RANGE OF pH FOR CULTIVATION
Temperature affects tea yield by influencing the rate of photosynthesis and controlling growth and dormancy. In general, the ambient temperature within 13°C and 28-32°C is conducive for growth of tea. Maximum ambient temperature above 32°C is unfavorable for optimum photosynthesis. Flushing commences from March with the rise in temperature. Winter dormancy, however, is the result of interaction of a short day length and low temperature. Tea grows well on high land, well-drained soils having a good depth, acidic pH in the range 4.5 to 5.5 and more than 2% organic matter.
Tea with Milk - Need Some creative inspiration? Try Indian Chai Tea. In India, all tea is called "chai." The most common method of brewing Indian chai involves tossing tea leaves (usually CTC) into a kettle of boiling water, simmering for a few minutes, adding milk and sugar, and once the milk boils, removing from the stove and straining into a pre-warmed teapot or mug. Indian chai sold by chai wallahs at train stations is usually made this way, and is very strong, milky, and sweet. The unglazed clay cup used for serving is then tossed from the train as you travel down the line. |
Masala Chai - This recipe is the same as the chai recipe above, but with the addition of spices such as cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, and so on. Many families in India have their own recipe, and grind fresh spices at home. |
Tea Latte - Usually a strong black tea is mixed with steamed milk and sugar, plus flavored syrups, such as almond and vanilla. But be careful that the syrup flavor doesn't overpower the taste of the tea. |
Tea Cola - After intensive research, the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) at Palampur, has developed value-added tea-based products, including a range of beverages with healing properties that are free from hazardous chemicals. Besides, it has also developed a technology for preparing wines from the orthodox variety of tea grown in large areas of the Kangra valley. The tea wine is produced by fermenting wild berries, and tea leaves are used for activation of yeast. As an alternative to cola brands, the IHBT has recently developed a 100% natural "tea cola" and is now looking to sell the technology to private investors. |
The Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur,
Himachal Pradesh.
The Palampur Co-operative Tea Factory, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
Photo from Gardens and Factory by Dr. Chandra Shekhar Gupta
Author: Dr. Chandra Shekhar Gupta (cshekhar)
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"Under the Dome" is coming to CBS this summer, the story of a small town that suddenly finds itself encased in a giant dome. Creator Brian K. Vaughn teases the outline of the show for SFX, which he says will have three distinct sections.
"The first section is fate. The second section is fear. And the third section is fascism. I won't say who is the fascist or what exactly that means, but I think you get the sense that things are going to go wrong very quickly under the dome, and we're going to need an iron fist keeping order," says Vaughn.
He also reassures fans that people who have read the book won't necessarily know exactly what's coming.
"There's sort of a perhaps slightly different explanation for the dome," says Vaughn. "I nervously pitched Stephen King what a different version of the ending might be … He said, 'I wish I'd thought of that.'"
"Which, I suspect, is just Stephen being kind," laughs Vaughn. "But he's been great."
Neal Baer, the showrunner, adds that the series can be seen as a parable for the times we're living in.
He tells Huff Post Live, "What does it mean for your town when you start to run low on food, fuel, medicine? What happens when the dome gets a little polluted when you're burning stuff for heat? It's not a big step to think about what that means for us, running low on fuel, running low on water, what about pollution."
"We can do a show that touches on these issues — that's why we call it a parable for our time without being preachy or pedantic."
It all leaves us wondering — what does a Season 2 look like? That's a little cart-before-the-horse, but CBS is not running "Under the Dome" as a miniseries, meant to only air this summer.
If it is successful, the show will be renewed for a second season. We wonder what happens then — will there be more story to tell? And if it doesn't get renewed, will Season 1 wrap up the story in a satisfying way?
"Under the Dome" premieres Monday, June 24 on CBS.