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Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold.
The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a few years, it was a pop-culture sensation, and this year, on its 45th anniversary, "Dune" is one of science fiction's best-known books and probably the field's bestselling novel.
The mystery of why some works continue to speak to us is heightened with a book like "Dune": Frank Herbert's desert-planet epic not only remains popular and well-known, but this tale has anticipated many of our contemporary concerns. Its saga of dueling great houses, the fight for a rare resource and a young aristocrat's coming of age was set 200 centuries in the future. But it grapples with numerous issues pressing in the 21st: the fragility of the environment, the shortage of fossil fuels, the threat of religious jihad, the unpredictable effects of mind-bending drugs.
"It was the SF book that everybody in the mainstream culture was reading," recalls Northern California novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. "But it wasn't like Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle,' which was essentially a mainstream novel. Herbert was doing hard-core SF in the anthropological and world-building sense. People went for its huge back story taking off from [the prophet] Mohammed's life."
That the novel was planned and researched during the Eisenhower and Camelot years -- before widespread Muslim fundamentalism, OPEC, mainstream narcotics use and other issues that seem to inspire the narrative -- underscores the author's prescience. The book also helped galvanize the environmental movement: Set on a world far from ours, its rich description of a water-poor planet is credited by some as the inspiration for Earth Day.
Because of its huge following, fast-moving plot and opportunities for special effects, "Dune" has repeatedly attracted other artists -- it's been the source of a video game, a board game, numerous posthumous sequels and several adaptations. And though a 1984 film was widely considered a failure and two subsequent Sci-Fi Channel miniseries were made, Paramount recently selected a director for a big-budget movie.
The inspiration
"I am a political animal," Herbert said in a 1983 promotional interview. "And I never really left journalism. I am writing about the current scene -- the metaphors are there."
The novel was sparked when, in the late 1950s, Herbert flew to Florence, Ore., in a small chartered plane to write about a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to stabilize sand dunes with European beach grasses. The author was struck by the way dunes could move, over time, like living things -- swallowing rivers, clogging lakes, burying forests. "These waves can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave . . . they've even caused deaths," he wrote his agent, beginning an article, "They Stopped the Moving Sands," that was never published.
Despite his agent's indifference, Herbert dug in: He was fascinated by the project and superimposed the history of another sandy place -- including Arabs and Islam's Mohammed -- into an adventure novel originally called "Spice Planet."
When he hit his stride, Herbert was writing 70 pages a week.
At the time, science fiction was at the tail end of its Golden Age, dominated by brisk tales of interstellar war and planet hopping. Several icons of midcentury were doing major work -- Robert Heinlein, for instance, published his campus sensation "Stranger in a Strange Land" in 1961 -- but the field's energy was flagging, and the magazine market had imploded. (A 1961 fanzine was titled "Who Killed Science Fiction?") Herbert and his gargantuan manuscript were turned down by dozens of publishers but eventually accepted by Chilton, a small press known for auto manuals.
Herbert's story of young aristocrat Paul Atreides, along with maps, appendixes, glossary and epigrams ran to more than 500 pages. After almost two years, the book took off in 1967. The novel was a hinge between new and old, says Annalee Newitz, editor of science fiction blog io9.
" 'Dune' functions nicely as a transition between classic SF -- focused on space opera and astro-politics of the kind Isaac Asimov and other golden age authors wrote -- and the next generation," she says. "In the '60s, we saw a shift away from science fiction focused on space travel and space politics to anthropology. You aren't rushing between planets, you've landed on one and you talk about that one" -- including its biology and sociology.
Writers had imagined life on other planets and written of environmental catastrophe. But the scale of "Dune" was unprecedented, comparable, as Arthur C. Clarke said at the time, only to "The Lord of the Rings."
"The planet was something you could really feel," says Robinson, whose latest novel is "Galileo's Dream." "Herbert spent a lot of time outdoors -- you can see it in the writing, he's seen things you can only see if you've been there. It's physical and expansive."
Still, the novel's pulp roots show.
"Parts of it are almost poetic," says Rob Latham, who teaches science fiction at UC Riverside. "But the villains are comically ridiculous. Baron Harkonnen could have been played by Sydney Greenstreet or Charles Laughton, say -- 'swishy.' And I don't know what we're supposed to think of the eugenics. There are all sorts of half-baked ideas in there."
'A real mess'
Thanks to the novel's success, plans for a "Dune" film began as early as 1971, when producers wanted David Lean, whose "Lawrence of Arabia" is in some ways a precursor, to direct. Another early version would've enlisted Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí, Gloria Swanson, Hervé Villechaize and Alain Delon in a 10-hour epic -- before financing evaporated.
Today, the 1984 movie directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle McLachlan and Sting has gained cult status. An endless shoot in Mexico City and the dunes of Chihuahua engaged 1,700 people: As the costs stretched, Lynch's film was sliced to two hours, and he was denied final cut. Roger Ebert, not known for his vitriol, called the movie "a real mess . . . incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless." Lynch all but disowned the movie and rarely discusses it in interviews.
Herbert, however, deemed Lynch's baroque film "a visual feast."
The current adaptation comes from the wreckage of a project that was to be helmed by "Friday Night Lights" creator Peter Berg and with Charlize Theron as Jessica, Paul's mother. After considering Neill Blomkamp (political-SF sleeper "District 9") and Neil Marshall (low-budget hit "The Descent"), Paramount opted for Frenchman Pierre Morel. (Chase Palmer, a relatively unknown writer, will work with an existing screenplay by Josh Zetumer.)
Morel -- director of "Taken" and "From Paris With Love" -- has discussed his aim to make the film faithful to the novel, which he says he's read 10 times.
Optimists hope that the director can do for Herbert's book -- and maybe its sequels -- what Peter Jackson did with Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," finding a balance among action, story and ideas.
It could also, of course, be cheap. "If they want to reawaken it as a film franchise," says io9's Newitz, "it's hard to imagine that it would not just be action-packed, with a video-game tie-in."
Lasting effect
For a book that's enjoyed such critical and popular success and continued interest from Hollywood, the legacy of "Dune" is not especially clear.
It's not quite New Wave -- which developed in the late 1960s -- not an antecedent to cyberpunk, nor a precursor to the recent space-opera renaissance. "It's some kind of singularity," says Latham.
"Dune" both channeled and stoked a greater environmental consciousness in SF: Important later novels by Ursula Le Guin, John Brunner and Octavia Butler looked at planetary ecology.
The original novel's most evident influence is on the science-fiction tradition of world-building, for which it raised the bar considerably. Writers and scientists had been envisioning other planets for a century, but not this deeply: The rituals by which the Fremen, the planet's desert people, deal with water are especially well imagined.
Many consider Robinson's trilogy about the terra-forming of Mars the best-realized exercise in the form since Herbert's. Robinson calls "Dune" a big influence: The book showed him, he says, that "you could talk about the future of the wilderness. It gave me courage. I knew that people were willing to read at great length and that the world could be a character."
But Herbert's future vision of a galaxy with numerous populated worlds seems out of step with the deflated present. "The future," says Robinson, "doesn't look to be off-planet in any near-future time frame."
A less encouraging descendant of the original "Dune" novel is the large number of other Dune novels. The first sequel, the much slimmer "Dune Messiah," came out in 1969; Herbert published the sixth of the original series, "Chapterhouse: Dune," in 1985. And though Herbert died the following year, while recovering from cancer surgery, Dune's universe has been extended by his son Brian and journeyman writer Kevin J. Anderson.
Some think these posthumous prequels and sequels have confused the legacy by dumping less serious books into the marketplace. "They've gone from something profound and thought-provoking," says Newitz, "to being something like candy, like the 'Star Wars' novelizations."
Whatever the book's influence and implications, the original continues to attract readers: It's sold an estimated 10 million copies. To Latham, it remains "a weird kind of in-between thing."
"It culminates a pulp tradition, with ridiculous villains and a pseudo-medieval empire set in outer space, and some bad writing," he says. "Then it has these '70s elements -- environmental concerns, drugs and mystical experiences. And somehow it managed to coalesce all of them."
Timberg blogs at www.themisreadcity.com/.


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Raise the school leaving age to 18? Teachers think it's a shocking idea. Geraldine Everett, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers, says:
"Here is a Government that has toyed with the idea of lowering the voting age to 16 in order to promote a greater sense of citizenship among our young people. Yet it proposes to extend compulsory education or training to 18, to compel the already disaffected to, in their perception, prolong the agony.
To make them conscripts is likely to reinforce failure, leading to even greater disaffection. Enforcement could lead to mass truancy, further disruption to other learners and staff, maybe even needless criminalisation if enforcement measures are imposed."
Of course, the commissars will not listen to the teachers. Piff! What do they know?
Instead they will impose yet another top-down half-baked Plan to tick yet another box- moving Britain up the league table of "educational participation".
But as we all surely know, truancy is already a major problem, particularly in the tough inner city schools where raising the leaving age will cause the worst damage. One pupil in five already plays truant. And there is no top-down government Plan that can fix it: Labour's much vaunted anti-truancy programme has already cost us £1.5bn but has been a total flop, with truancy hitting record levels (eg see this blog).
And what will it all cost? Ah well, the commissars don't really want to discuss that. The white paper Raising Expectations: staying in education and training post-16 bangs on at huge length about the supposed- though unquantified- benefits, but virtually nothing about the costs (cf the cost-free Newsom Report which ushered in comprehensivisation- see this blog). Last week, Schools Minister Jim Knight (yes, him again) would only say:
"We plan to raise the participation age to 17 from September 2013 and 18 from September 2015. This will not involve additional costs over current plans in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. We estimate that it will incur additional capital costs of £28.2 million in 2010-11 and £19.7 million in 2011-12, and additional training costs of £0.2 million in 2010-11 and £0.5 million in 2011-12."
So that's about £50m.
But of course there's much more. The Local Government Association tracked down some further figures (taken from the department's Regulatory Impact Assessment). They run through them, adding their own commentary:
- £593m pa once 'steady state' is reached- to include ongoing staff and running costs; but as is so often the case, the RIA "does not explain how this is calculated"
- £50m pa for "tracking, attempting to engage and enforcing the duty (including bringing any prosecutions)"; that doesn't sound nearly enough given that local authorities will need to hire Gomulka Associates to "enforce duties" on the North Peckham Estate, say
- £6.7m pa for Attendance Orders for young people failing to participate as part of a civil process; an amazingly precise figure, but again, "there is no explanation as to how this is calculated"
- £3.38m pa legal costs- many kids won't want to be enforced, so there'll be lots of criminal court action: legal aid costs between £0.25m and £0.7m, court costs up to £2.5m, plus £0.18m aid for disgruntled hoodies sueing local authorities; all amazingly precise figures that can't be worth the paper they're written on
- £90m pa on additional educational maintenance awards
- £121m for additional staff training- presumably that's training in fending off knife attacks armed only with a stick of chalk
- £81m on additional buildings, including strongpoint panic rooms for teachers
Tot it all up and you get to set-up costs of £202m and ongoing costs of £743.08m.
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A number of Israel Today readers contacted the publisher, Garnet Publishing, demanding an explanation. Garnet spokesman Dr. Nicky Platt responded by posting the following statement to the publisher's website:
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A prestigious international business award will be presented to one of China's most powerful sports business leaders during his visit to Daphne Thursday night.
Peter Tichansky, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), will be presenting the Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Award for Sport to Guo Jie, President of Worldteam Sports, at the home of United States Sports Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich.
Jie is in Daphne to receive an honorary doctorate from the Academy, which will be presented to him on the Academy's Daphne campus the following afternoon.
The BCIU is a leading business association established by President Eisenhower in 1955. This award has been presented to international business leaders for more than 25 years.
"Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Awards recipients represent the finest in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership on the world's stage and embody the pioneering view of commercial diplomacy established by BCIU founder President Eisenhower," Tichansky said.
Jie has been a key player in the business and politics of sport in China in recent years.
He is the inventor of Nine-Star sports shoes, the first sports sponsor of the 11th Asian Games. He helped purchase the first Chinese-owned Formula One racing team, and is a major partner of the NBA operations in China. He could also be called China's version of Nike founder Phil Knight, because of his chain of sporting goods stores, SportsCube, that has made him a major player in the sporting goods and sports sponsorship industry in the world's most populous nation.
For 10 years Guo successfully promoted and marketed the growth of Red Bull in Asia, and guided Worldteam to the first strategic cooperation agreement with the NBA in China. He also planned and organized the first Chinese yacht sailing that went around the world. He was involved in the agreement to hold the Italian Super Cup preseason soccer matches in China. The first such match, in 2009, drew nearly 90,000 spectators.
Along with being CEO of Worldteam, he serves as the senior manager of projects and international affairs in the Chinese sports industry, and Vice Chairman of the Tourism Association for the Fujian Province. He also serves on the board of directors for the Fujian National Tourism Group.
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- Nov 18:
- Deadline for flood victims to apply for relief in Superior extended to Dec. 9
- Nov 14:
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- Nov 6:
- Superior Chamber establishes relief fund for residents affected by floods
- Oct 15:
- Boulder County homeowner haunted by mysterious concrete block
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- Boulder area car buyers warned how to avoid flood-damaged autos
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- Road closures in Boulder, east county and surrounding area
- Closings, cancellations and re-openings post flood
- Boulder area canyons remain isolated
- Boulder County's major reservoirs holding steady, despite week's deluge
- Fifth-graders stranded at Cal-Wood near Jamestown return to Louisville
- Officials: Extensive road damage still being assessed
- Boulder County to provide community dumpsters for flood cleanup
- 234 remain 'unaccounted for', rescuers slowly gain ground
- Boulder remains under flash flood watch through Sunday afternoon
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- Football: No make-up date yet as CU postpones game against Fresno State because of flood
- East Boulder County emerges from a tough night of evacs, road closures
- Boulder to see some relief, but more rain in forecast
- U.S. 36 reopened in both directions between Denver and Boulder
- 181 'unaccounted for,' at least 3 dead in Boulder County
- Flood-related closures in Boulder County for Friday, Sept. 13
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- Flooding claims at least 2 lives in Boulder, Jamestown
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- 2nd Boulder flooding fatality was recent Centaurus grad Wesley Quinlan, friends say
- 100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems
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- Homeless people turned away from Boulder flood shelter
- Flooding prompts evacuations near Erie; community center to serve as shelter
- BVSD: Students at Jamestown's CalWood Education Center are safe
- Closures: Host of area roads closed, as well as CU, Naropa, Boulder Valley, St. Vrain schools
- Firefighter trapped by 'wall of water' rescued, suffers severe injuries
- Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record
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- 500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations
- Boulder flood: Live social media coverage of flash-flood emergency
Much of the town of Lyons was submerged Thursday after the St. Vrain River spilled over its banks and barreled through neighborhoods.
Lyons is "facing a 500+ year flood event," the town said on its Facebook page Thursday. It said the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued an advisory for residents to boil water for drinking, and it advised residents who are blocked in to "be prepared to be self-contained for up to 72 hours" and to try to help neighbors in need.
The Colo. National Guard Civil Support Team entered Lyons on Thursday afternoon with three 2.5-ton LMTV trucks carrying supplies and crews, according to Maj. Gordon Hunter.
About 7:30 p.m. the convoy rolled out of Lyons carrying about 10 people who were deemed unable to stay the night at the town's evacuation center, Lyons Elementary School.
Charles and June Stacy were among those brought to Longmont from Lyons. The Stacys, who were with a son who has special needs, said they still had family in Lyons.
"Our house is buried," Charles Stacy said.
June Stacy described the water rushing through the town as "roaring."
Private Ty Nicks, the driver of one of the vehicles, said water was four to five feet deep along the route into Lyons.
Lt. Camilo Perez said the roads were pretty much "wiped out." He also said there were three major river crossings, and that they were getting worse as the evening progressed.
After dropping off the evacuees with waiting ambulances and reloading with supplies, the three trucks turned around and headed back into the town, accompany by another three trucks.
Two SVVSD buses were staged at the roadblock, at the intersection of Colo. Highway 66 and 53rd Street, but did not appear to be used in the exodus.
Water and debris on roads prevented even emergency personnel from getting into town. Four Boulder County sheriff's deputies found shelter in a government building, Cmdr. Heidi Prentup said. Some residents evacuated to Lyons Elementary School or remained in their homes.
"We can't get in; they can't get out," Prentup said.
Residents on social media described Lyons as being divided by water into a series of islands. One person on Facebook said friends on Highland Drive were "trapped there and desperately need help."
The website of the Boulder Office of Emergency Management, boulderoem.org, was posting updates and alerts.
John Poynton, spokesman for St. Vrain Valley School District, said he attempted to visit Lyons Elementary early Thursday morning but was prevented by flooding from doing so. His understanding was that the only school employees at the school were a couple of Lyons residents who evacuated to the building and that town officials were operating the school as an evacuation site.
"It's been reported to me that there are approximately a hundred people there who will be staying there until it's safe to leave," Poynton said.
Xcel crews shut off all gas lines in old town Lyons, according to the town, and residents reported smelling gas. Other gas lines in town also had been expected to be shut off.
Residents in low-lying areas were told to head to higher ground after word came shortly after 2 a.m. that a dam had failed near Pinewood Springs and that floodwaters were headed down the canyon toward Lyons.
"It is the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen," said Sally Van Meter, who lives on a hill just outside downtown Lyons. About 10 neighbors had sought higher ground in her home Thursday morning.
Van Meter called 911 because neighbors said they heard someone calling for help. But homes she could see from her deck were completely surrounded by water and inaccessible except by boat, she said. Most of the town was submerged, including the Planet Bluegrass music festival ranch northwest of downtown, she said, adding that the St. Vrain River breached its north bank by 50 yards or more.
"Everyone's pretty much under 4 feet of water," Van Meter said.
Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said Lyons was completely isolated by water.
"It's crazy watching the river. The river is a few hundred feet wide now," said Brian Eyster, who lives on the south side of Lyons near Bohn Park. "There are Dumpsters coming down the river."
By 2 a.m., the St. Vrain River had breached its banks, and by 2:30 a.m., emergency sirens were sounding.
At about 3:15 a.m., Boulder County sheriff's deputies closed Colo. Highway 66 at 53rd Street, after water from the St. Vrain River began spilling over the highway near its intersection with U.S. Highway 36, just east of town. Highway 36 also was closed between Lyons and Estes Park.
Times-Call photographer Greg Lindstrom, who was at the intersection of Highways 36 and 66 at the time, said he could hear debris striking the bridge over the St. Vrain just south of the intersection.
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Digital Humanities has become quite the buzzword of the academy in the last few years as the community recognizes the new areas of inquiry opened by this field and methodology. In order to further explore this area, I am attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. It has been quite the whirlwind! Over 600 people have congregated to learn, share and make together over a week. Wide ranges of courses are offered in areas such as TEI, GIS, networks, mapping, pedagogy, gaming and project management. I enrolled in Data Mining for Humanists.
The course has been exciting and intense. We are rapidly exploring data mining techniques such as Bayesian classification and support vector machines. The instructor has paired this with a crash course in probability that has been key to understanding the probabilistic approaches such as naive Bayes. The only drawback is that we aren't programming along the way, which makes it difficult to move from the abstract to the hands-on. I hope we will work closer with the scikit-learn Python package we were asked to install before attending, as actually working through some data will help solidify the concepts.
On a side note, I began using IPython Notebook, which sits on your computer but runs on your browser. It allows you to easily edit, run and plot code. You can also share your notebooks easily. If you are using Python, I suggest exploring it!


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Want to escape the hustle and bustle of downtown Cali? Then the Zoológico de Cali is the place to be. This zoo is the best in Colombia and perhaps even one of the best in South America, not only because of its impressive collection of birds, reptiles, mammals, butterflies and fish, but also because the animal welfare standards are so high.
Armadillos, tigers, flamingos, cobras and of course condors, the national bird of Colombia: around 180 different animal species can be admired within the walls of the Cali Zoo. The animals are housed in a 10-hectare terrain with lush green gardens, lakes and bushes. Various walking trails lead to the animal enclosures. And although the zoo offers several cafés and restaurants, it is even more fun to bring a picnic. Spread a blanket on the banks of the Cali River - look for the designated meadows surrounded by flowers.
When the Zoológico de Cali first opened its gates in 1971 it had a paltry collection of animals, nothing more exciting than a few pigeons, ducks and llamas. These were housed in tiny dirty cages and received just the basic care and a minimum amount of food. Together with the local government, Zoológica de Cali foundation introduced major changes. The old cages were replaced with brand new accommodations, taking into consideration the original habitats of the different animal species. Special attention was directed towards the diet of the zoo animals to ensure this was completely aligned with their specific needs. When the zoo reopened again 10 years later, its number one priority was animal welfare. And in 2011, the zoo proudly celebrated its 40th anniversary with its impressive collection of healthy animals.
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The Cali Zoo is very easy to navigate: there are 5 sections for 5 different types of animals. The mammal section includes lions, bears and monkeys. Chameleons and crocodiles are found in the reptile house. The bird habitat is home to squawking macaws and toucans. Another fascinating exhibit is the 'mariposario', where more than 800 butterflies flutter freely. Here you also see how the caterpillars and cocoons eventually transform into butterflies. The Zoológico de Cali also features 9 freshwater and 10 saltwater aquariums with various species of fish and turtles.
In addition to being a tourist attraction, the Zoológico de Cali is also an important research centre. One of its main missions is to preserve Colombia's biodiversity, one of the most varied in the world. The centre has developed a successful reproduction programme for condors and so far it has produced 5 babies that have already been returned to the wild. The zoo also researches animal habitats in the wild, which will assist in the preservation of species.


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At the very beginning of the year, one of my friends asked a question on Facebook about the books people were reading. One of his friends said she had read this book and it was awesome. So I immediately put it on my list. I had no idea what it was about, and when I went to go look for it in the book store, I found it in the business section. Another business book? Okay….I'll bite!
The Go-Giver is not your ordinary dried up business how-to book. To me, it was more like reading Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", but for business. You get to follow Joe on his search for success where he winds up with this teacher who, over a weeks time, introduces Joe to different people who share with him The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success. It was such a fun book to read! As a matter of fact, it was so awesome, that I bought it for christmas presents for several people! I just had to share this gem!
There were a couple of times in this book where I found myself crying from pure happiness. I found what I have always believed right here between two covers of a book! I have always been passionate about customer service, and that is what this book is all about. But it's so much more than that! What you learn in this book reaches far beyond business; you can apply these lessons to your personal relationships! It has certainly given me a refresher on my enthusiasm for service..especially since I have a new job as a cashier in the busiest lodge on Bogus Basin.
During our orientation for Bogus they talked about how we must anticipate our guests needs and smile and give them the best service. Of course, I took that to heart. I always do…remember, I'm passionate about customer service. But this book took it even further. Even though I'm "just a cashier" and taking money for things the guests have already decided they want, what more do I have to "sell" them? Well, it's my job to sell them on the best Bogus experience they can have…..whether its smiling from my register, making sure the dining room is clean, helping a mom with a screaming child, or just greeting them as they walk in. It's my job to provide them with the best and friendliest experience possible. Will I ever see a monetary return for that? Probably not. I get paid what I get paid. Sometimes someone will leave me their "change" for a tip. Sometimes someone will actually give me a tip..just for ringing up their food. But all in all, we don't get /take tips and I don't get commission. So where is the incentive? The incentive is in seeing their smiles and in knowing that I had some part in their fun time at Bogus. I love that stuff! And that is exactly what this book is about!
I also found some encouragement in this book…..to reach for my dreams and my goals. If I follow these steps (just doing what I already do), then taking the steps to reach my goals and my dreams should be easy..or at least a bit easier. *laugh* I feel like I am in the right place..both physically and intellectually. I couldn't have read this book at the beginning of the year and gotten as much out of it as I did now…everything happens perfectly. Wow…this whole 52 in 52 journey has been mind-blowing and perfect! This is no different!
As far as I am concerned, this book is so easy and enjoyable to read, it is a MUST READ for everyone high school age and up!!!! Doesn't make a difference if you are in sells, marketing, customer service, or a stay at home mom….pick up the book and read it!!!! You will get so much out of it!


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Words by Mr Jonathan Heaf
Throughout the summer, wherever you went in London, Mr Richie Culver's face was inescapable. Pasted onto hoardings and pinned from billboards in parks and tube stations, the blossoming artist could be seen on a poster, dressed in a wrinkly white cotton T-shirt, sleeves effortlessly rolled up to reveal armfuls of inky scrawl, his fingers linked into a bony lattice while his identifying black hat and long brown beard made him seem like some kind of hipster Jesus. It's true Mr Culver has a strong look, one that - despite these biblical references - he has made entirely his own. It's little wonder that other artists are so drawn to capture his spirit, a man who can look both resilient and susceptible in the blink of an eye.
It's peculiar seeing your face around town, especially when you get recognised. Some people think I'm more famous than I actually am - the poor sods!
The poster in question was a portrait of the artist by another artist, a painter named Mr Alan Coulson, and the image was used to promote this year's BP National Portrait Award. Mr Coulson's image of Mr Culver won the bronze medal. "When I first moved down from the North, years ago now, Alan and I worked in the same clothes shop," explains Mr Culver, a man born in Hull and unwaveringly proud of it. "He came to one of my solo shows, we got to know each other and he asked whether he could paint my portrait. He told me he was going to submit it for competition this year. I'm so proud of him. Of course, it's a little peculiar seeing your face around town, especially when you get stopped or recognised. Some people think I'm more famous than I actually am - the poor sods!"
Fame and art are strange bedfellows. There are times in Britain when being a successful artist - that is, a commercially successful artist - can somehow seem to diminish the value of one's work. Take Mr Damien Hirst, for example - the fact that he has become one of the world's most successful artists has somehow rendered all those ideas and all that creativity, well, distasteful. As if art shouldn't be a career so much as impassioned endeavour, and that when money changes hands or enters the equation this somehow devalues its authenticity. Mr Culver's art manages that rare thing of being both true (or at least honest), and commercial - as well as being aesthetically very pleasing. There's no doubt that he is on to something - a talent bred not from going to some fancy London art college or learning about technique, but a raw, instinctive talent that has bled directly from his own turbulent life experiences.
Notoriety has come to Mr Culver relatively fast - it was only five years ago that he started making art and having it exhibited. "I'm a 1990s child. I remember looking at people like Hirst and thinking they lived more like footballers - mouthing off and having his picture in the paper the whole time. It was appealing, especially having come from such a working-class background. But becoming an artist for me was never really a viable option - I worked in a caravan factory in Hull and London felt like a million miles away, know what I mean? But I had a lot of trouble and death in my early life; lost a lot of friends. I wasn't a musician or a writer and I needed a medium through which to jettison all this pent up emotion and sadness."
the work
"Richie Culver"
By Mr Alan Coulson. Oil on wooden board, 850x950mm, 2012 (© Alan Coulson)
"I Loved You Black with Gold"
By Mr Richie Culver. Household paint on canvas, 1,800x1,200mm, 2012
"Love Story"
By Mr Richie Culver. Pigment ink print on photo paper, edition of 10, 594x420mm, 2010
By Mr Richie Culver. Collage, 374x297mm, 2011
"Have You Ever Really Loved Anyone?"
By Mr Richie Culver. Black and white digital relief print on tempered glass and bronze mirror, 1,200x840x12mm, 2012
One of Mr Culver's earliest, and still one of his most successful, paintings is a canvas on which is written "I Loved You - You Just Couldnt See It" (sic). "This came from something that happened to me years ago. I had broken up with my girlfriend and I needed to do something drastic. I asked my friends whether they thought it would be a good idea to paint 'I loved you' on her house, above her bedroom window - everyone seemed to think it was a good idea at the time. It didn't work; I don't think she even saw it. And then I made this painting and it really seemed to resonate. Although I couldn't believe it when someone rang me up and said they wanted to buy it. I guess people see me as this sentimental, romantic artist figure - I have no problem with that."
For his new work, exhibiting in New York this autumn, Mr Culver will be showing photographs - one of the artist's first ever works was a collage of the runner Mr Jessie Owens that for a time could be seen in Tate Modern - and a series of more abstract paintings. Superstition may also feature as a theme in future work. "I've spoken so much about my own life and that really is where the vein of my art lies. But I've always been superstitious - I'm the sort of person who will see one magpie and have to stand and wait for 20 minutes until I see a second one. I have this idea of juxtaposing one superstition with another - like putting a penny underneath a ladder, as if they could cancel one another out. I like contradictions."
Romantic on the inside yet with a tough guy exterior, untrained yet so often masterful, Mr Culver is right - he's full of contradictions. He also knows how green he is to the art game, and despite this spike in initial success knows that longevity is ultimately key. "As I'm so new I do feel as if I have a lot to prove. I can feel things are changing and I feel privileged to be where I am today." One thing that won't change fast, however, is that beard. "Well, I have Alan to thank for that. It's now my thing. If it all gets too much I guess I can just shave it off and leg it back to Hull!"
Mr Jonathan Heaf is features editor of British GQ
For more information on Mr Richie Culver's upcoming New York exhibition see partistmanagement.com and richieculver.com


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Standard model
|Standard Model of particle physics
Large Hadron Collider tunnel at CERN
Sudarshan · Koshiba · Davis, Jr. · Anderson · Fermi · Dirac · Feynman · Rubbia · Gell-Mann · Kendall · Taylor · Friedman · Powell · P. W. Anderson · Glashow · Meer · Cowan · Nambu · Chamberlain · Cabibbo · Schwartz · Perl · Majorana · Weinberg · Lee · Ward · Salam · Kobayashi · Maskawa · Yang · Yukawa · 't Hooft · Veltman · Gross · Politzer · Wilczek · Cronin · Fitch · Vleck · Higgs · Englert · Brout · Hagen · Guralnik · Kibble · Ting · Richter
The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, which mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles. It was developed throughout the latter half of the 20th century, as a collaborative effort of scientists around the world.[1] The current formulation was finalized in the mid-1970s upon experimental confirmation of the existence of quarks. Since then, discoveries of the top quark (1995), the tau neutrino (2000), and more recently the Higgs boson (2013), have given further credence to the Standard Model. Because of its success in explaining a wide variety of experimental results, the Standard Model is sometimes regarded as a "theory of almost everything".
The Standard Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions. It does not incorporate the full theory of gravitation[2] as described by general relativity, or account for the accelerating expansion of the universe (as possibly described by dark energy). The model does not contain any viable dark matter particle that possesses all of the required properties deduced from observational cosmology. It also does not incorporate neutrino oscillations (and their non-zero masses). Although the Standard Model is believed to be theoretically self-consistent[3] and has demonstrated huge and continued successes in providing experimental predictions, it does leave some phenomena unexplained.
The development of the Standard Model was driven by theoretical and experimental particle physicists alike. For theorists, the Standard Model is a paradigm of a quantum field theory, which exhibits a wide range of physics including spontaneous symmetry breaking, anomalies, non-perturbative behavior, etc. It is used as a basis for building more exotic models that incorporate hypothetical particles, extra dimensions, and elaborate symmetries (such as supersymmetry) in an attempt to explain experimental results at variance with the Standard Model, such as the existence of dark matter and neutrino oscillations.
- 1 Historical background
- 2 Overview
- 3 Particle content
- 4 Theoretical aspects
- 5 Tests and predictions
- 6 Challenges
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes and references
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
Historical background
The first step towards the Standard Model was Sheldon Glashow's discovery in 1961 of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions.[4] In 1967 Steven Weinberg[5] and Abdus Salam[6] incorporated the Higgs mechanism[7][8][9] into Glashow's electroweak theory, giving it its modern form.
The Higgs mechanism is believed to give rise to the masses of all the elementary particles in the Standard Model. This includes the masses of the W and Z bosons, and the masses of the fermions, i.e. the quarks and leptons.
After the neutral weak currents caused by Z boson exchange were discovered at CERN in 1973,[10][11][12][13] the electroweak theory became widely accepted and Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering it. The W and Z bosons were discovered experimentally in 1981, and their masses were found to be as the Standard Model predicted.
The theory of the strong interaction, to which many contributed, acquired its modern form around 1973–74, when experiments confirmed that the hadrons were composed of fractionally charged quarks.
At present, matter and energy are best understood in terms of the kinematics and interactions of elementary particles. To date, physics has reduced the laws governing the behavior and interaction of all known forms of matter and energy to a small set of fundamental laws and theories. A major goal of physics is to find the "common ground" that would unite all of these theories into one integrated theory of everything, of which all the other known laws would be special cases, and from which the behavior of all matter and energy could be derived (at least in principle).[14]
Particle content
The Standard Model includes members of several classes of elementary particles (fermions, gauge bosons, and the Higgs boson), which in turn can be distinguished by other characteristics, such as color charge.
The Standard Model includes 12 elementary particles of spin-½ known as fermions. According to the spin-statistics theorem, fermions respect the Pauli exclusion principle. Each fermion has a corresponding antiparticle.
The fermions of the Standard Model are classified according to how they interact (or equivalently, by what charges they carry). There are six quarks (up, down, charm, strange, top quark, bottom quark), and six leptons (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino). Pairs from each classification are grouped together to form a generation, with corresponding particles exhibiting similar physical behavior (see table).
The defining property of the quarks is that they carry color charge, and hence, interact via the strong interaction. A phenomenon called color confinement results in quarks being perpetually (or at least since very soon after the start of the Big Bang) bound to one another, forming color-neutral composite particles (hadrons) containing either a quark and an antiquark (mesons) or three quarks (baryons). The familiar proton and the neutron are the two baryons having the smallest mass. Quarks also carry electric charge and weak isospin. Hence they interact with other fermions both electromagnetically and via the weak interaction.
The remaining six fermions do not carry colour charge and are called leptons. The three neutrinos do not carry electric charge either, so their motion is directly influenced only by the weak nuclear force, which makes them notoriously difficult to detect. However, by virtue of carrying an electric charge, the electron, muon, and tau all interact electromagnetically.
Each member of a generation has greater mass than the corresponding particles of lower generations. The first generation charged particles do not decay; hence all ordinary (baryonic) matter is made of such particles. Specifically, all atoms consist of electrons orbiting atomic nuclei ultimately constituted of up and down quarks. Second and third generations charged particles, on the other hand, decay with very short half lives, and are observed only in very high-energy environments. Neutrinos of all generations also do not decay, and pervade the universe, but rarely interact with baryonic matter.
Gauge bosons
In the Standard Model, gauge bosons are defined as force carriers that mediate the strong, weak, and electromagnetic fundamental interactions.
Interactions in physics are the ways that particles influence other particles. At a macroscopic level, electromagnetism allows particles to interact with one another via electric and magnetic fields, and gravitation allows particles with mass to attract one another in accordance with Einstein's theory of general relativity. The Standard Model explains such forces as resulting from matter particles exchanging other particles, known as force mediating particles (strictly speaking, this is only so if interpreting literally what is actually an approximation method known as perturbation theory). When a force-mediating particle is exchanged, at a macroscopic level the effect is equivalent to a force influencing both of them, and the particle is therefore said to have mediated (i.e., been the agent of) that force. The Feynman diagram calculations, which are a graphical representation of the perturbation theory approximation, invoke "force mediating particles", and when applied to analyze high-energy scattering experiments are in reasonable agreement with the data. However, perturbation theory (and with it the concept of a "force-mediating particle") fails in other situations. These include low-energy quantum chromodynamics, bound states, and solitons.
The gauge bosons of the Standard Model all have spin (as do matter particles). The value of the spin is 1, making them bosons. As a result, they do not follow the Pauli exclusion principle that constrains fermions: thus bosons (e.g. photons) do not have a theoretical limit on their spatial density (number per volume). The different types of gauge bosons are described below.
- Photons mediate the electromagnetic force between electrically charged particles. The photon is massless and is well-described by the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
- The W+, W−, and Z gauge bosons mediate the weak interactions between particles of different flavors (all quarks and leptons). They are massive, with the Z being more massive than the W±. The weak interactions involving the W± exclusively act on left-handed particles and right-handed antiparticles. Furthermore, the W± carries an electric charge of +1 and −1 and couples to the electromagnetic interaction. The electrically neutral Z boson interacts with both left-handed particles and antiparticles. These three gauge bosons along with the photons are grouped together, as collectively mediating the electroweak interaction.
- The eight gluons mediate the strong interactions between color charged particles (the quarks). Gluons are massless. The eightfold multiplicity of gluons is labeled by a combination of color and anticolor charge (e.g. red–antigreen).[nb 1] Because the gluons have an effective color charge, they can also interact among themselves. The gluons and their interactions are described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics.
The interactions between all the particles described by the Standard Model are summarized by the diagrams on the right of this section.
Higgs boson
The Higgs particle is a massive scalar elementary particle theorized by Robert Brout, François Englert, Peter Higgs, Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble in 1964 (see 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers) and is a key building block in the Standard Model.[7][8][9][15] It has no intrinsic spin, and for that reason is classified as a boson (like the gauge bosons, which have integer spin).
The Higgs boson plays a unique role in the Standard Model, by explaining why the other elementary particles, except the photon and gluon, are massive. In particular, the Higgs boson explains why the photon has no mass, while the W and Z bosons are very heavy. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (mediated by the photon) and the weak force (mediated by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter. In electroweak theory, the Higgs boson generates the masses of the leptons (electron, muon, and tau) and quarks. As the Higgs boson is massive, it must interact with itself.
Because the Higgs boson is a very massive particle and also decays almost immediately when created, only a very high-energy particle accelerator can observe and record it. Experiments to confirm and determine the nature of the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN began in early 2010, and were performed at Fermilab's Tevatron until its closure in late 2011. Mathematical consistency of the Standard Model requires that any mechanism capable of generating the masses of elementary particles become visible at energies above 1.4 TeV;[16] therefore, the LHC (designed to collide two 7 to 8 TeV proton beams) was built to answer the question of whether the Higgs boson actually exists.[17]
On 4 July 2012, the two main experiments at the LHC (ATLAS and CMS) both reported independently that they found a new particle with a mass of about 125 GeV/c2 (about 133 proton masses, on the order of 10−25 kg), which is "consistent with the Higgs boson." Although it has several properties similar to the predicted "simplest" Higgs,[18] they acknowledged that further work would be needed to conclude that it is indeed the Higgs boson, and exactly which version of the Standard Model Higgs is best supported if confirmed.[19][20][21][22][23]
On 14 March 2013 the Higgs Boson was tentatively confirmed to exist.[24]
Full particle countCounting particles by a rule that distinguishes between particles and their corresponding antiparticles, and among the many color states of quarks and gluons, gives a total of 61 elementary particles.[25]
Theoretical aspects
Construction of the Standard Model Lagrangian
|Parameters of the Standard Model
scheme (point)
|Electron mass
|511 keV
|Muon mass
|105.7 MeV
|Tau mass
|1.78 GeV
|Up quark mass
|μMS = 2 GeV
|1.9 MeV
|Down quark mass
|μMS = 2 GeV
|4.4 MeV
|Strange quark mass
|μMS = 2 GeV
|87 MeV
|Charm quark mass
|μMS = mc
|1.32 GeV
|Bottom quark mass
|μMS = mb
|4.24 GeV
|Top quark mass
|On-shell scheme
|172.7 GeV
|CKM 12-mixing angle
|CKM 23-mixing angle
|CKM 13-mixing angle
|CKM CP-violating Phase
|g1 or g'
|U(1) gauge coupling
|μMS = mZ
|g2 or g
|SU(2) gauge coupling
|μMS = mZ
|g3 or gs
|SU(3) gauge coupling
|μMS = mZ
|QCD vacuum angle
|Higgs vacuum expectation value
|246 GeV
|Higgs mass
|125.36 ±0.41GeV (tentative)
Technically, quantum field theory provides the mathematical framework for the Standard Model, in which a Lagrangian controls the dynamics and kinematics of the theory. Each kind of particle is described in terms of a dynamical field that pervades space-time. The construction of the Standard Model proceeds following the modern method of constructing most field theories: by first postulating a set of symmetries of the system, and then by writing down the most general renormalizable Lagrangian from its particle (field) content that observes these symmetries.
The global Poincaré symmetry is postulated for all relativistic quantum field theories. It consists of the familiar translational symmetry, rotational symmetry and the inertial reference frame invariance central to the theory of special relativity. The local SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) gauge symmetry is an internal symmetry that essentially defines the Standard Model. Roughly, the three factors of the gauge symmetry give rise to the three fundamental interactions. The fields fall into different representations of the various symmetry groups of the Standard Model (see table). Upon writing the most general Lagrangian, one finds that the dynamics depend on 19 parameters, whose numerical values are established by experiment. The parameters are summarized in the table above (note: with the Higgs mass is at 125 GeV, the Higgs self-coupling strength λ ~ 1/8).
Quantum chromodynamics sector
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sector defines the interactions between quarks and gluons, with SU(3) symmetry, generated by Ta. Since leptons do not interact with gluons, they are not affected by this sector. The Dirac Lagrangian of the quarks coupled to the gluon fields is given by
- \mathcal{L}_{QCD} = i\overline U (\partial_\mu-ig_sG_\mu^a T^a)\gamma^\mu U + i\overline D (\partial_\mu-i g_s G_\mu^a T^a)\gamma^\mu D.
G_\mu^a is the SU(3) gauge field containing the gluons, \gamma^\mu are the Dirac matrices, D and U are the Dirac spinors associated with up- and down-type quarks, and gs is the strong coupling constant.
Electroweak sector
The electroweak sector is a Yang–Mills gauge theory with the simple symmetry group U(1)×SU(2)L,
- \mathcal{L}_\mathrm{EW} = \sum_\psi\bar\psi\gamma^\mu \left(i\partial_\mu-g^\prime{1\over2}Y_\mathrm{W}B_\mu-g{1\over2}\vec\tau_\mathrm{L}\vec W_\mu\right)\psi
where Bμ is the U(1) gauge field; YW is the weak hypercharge—the generator of the U(1) group; \vec{W}_\mu is the three-component SU(2) gauge field; \vec{\tau}_\mathrm{L} are the Pauli matrices—infinitesimal generators of the SU(2) group. The subscript L indicates that they only act on left fermions; g′ and g are coupling constants.
Higgs sector
In the Standard Model, the Higgs field is a complex scalar of the group SU(2)L:
- \varphi={1\over\sqrt{2}} \left( \begin{array}{c} \varphi^+ \\ \varphi^0 \end{array} \right)\;,
where the indices + and 0 indicate the electric charge (Q) of the components. The weak isospin (YW) of both components is 1.
Before symmetry breaking, the Higgs Lagrangian is:
- \mathcal{L}_\mathrm{H} = \varphi^\dagger \left({\partial^\mu}- {i\over2} \left( g'Y_\mathrm{W}B^\mu + g\vec\tau\vec W^\mu \right)\right) \left(\partial_\mu + {i\over2} \left( g'Y_\mathrm{W}B_\mu +g\vec\tau\vec W_\mu \right)\right)\varphi \ - \ {\lambda^2\over4}\left(\varphi^\dagger\varphi-v^2\right)^2\;,
which can also be written as:
- \mathcal{L}_\mathrm{H} = \left| \left(\partial_\mu + {i\over2} \left( g'Y_\mathrm{W}B_\mu +g\vec\tau\vec W_\mu \right)\right)\varphi\right|^2 \ - \ {\lambda^2\over4}\left(\varphi^\dagger\varphi-v^2\right)^2\;.
Tests and predictions
The Standard Model (SM) predicted the existence of the W and Z bosons, gluon, and the top quark and charm quarks before these particles were observed. Their predicted properties were experimentally confirmed with good precision. To give an idea of the success of the SM, the following table compares the measured masses of the W and Z bosons with the masses predicted by the SM:
|Measured (GeV)
|SM prediction (GeV)
|Mass of W boson
|80.387 ± 0.019
|80.390 ± 0.018
|Mass of Z boson
|91.1876 ± 0.0021
|91.1874 ± 0.0021
The SM also makes several predictions about the decay of Z bosons, which have been experimentally confirmed by the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN.
In May 2012 BaBar Collaboration reported that their recently analyzed data may suggest possible flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics.[26][27] These data show that a particular type of particle decay called "B to D-star-tau-nu" happens more often than the Standard Model says it should. In this type of decay, a particle called the B-bar meson decays into a D meson, an antineutrino and a tau-lepton. While the level of certainty of the excess (3.4 sigma) is not enough to claim a break from the Standard Model, the results are a potential sign of something amiss and are likely to impact existing theories, including those attempting to deduce the properties of Higgs bosons.[28]
On December 13, 2012, physicists reported the constancy, over space and time, of a basic physical constant of nature that supports the standard model of physics. The scientists, studying methanol molecules in a distant galaxy, found the change (∆μ/μ) in the proton-to-electron mass ratio μ to be equal to "(0.0 ± 1.0) × 10−7 at redshift z = 0.89" and consistent with "a null result".[29][30]
Self-consistency of the Standard Model (currently formulated as a non-abelian gauge theory quantized through path-integrals) has not been mathematically proven. While regularized versions useful for approximate computations (for example lattice gauge theory) exist, it is not known whether they converge (in the sense of S-matrix elements) in the limit that the regulator is removed. A key question related to the consistency is the Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem.
Experiments indicate that neutrinos have mass, which the classic Standard Model did not allow.[31] To accommodate this finding, the classic Standard Model can be modified to include neutrino mass.
If one insists on using only Standard Model particles, this can be achieved by adding a non-renormalizable interaction of leptons with the Higgs boson.[32] On a fundamental level, such an interaction emerges in the seesaw mechanism where heavy right-handed neutrinos are added to the theory. This is natural in the left-right symmetric extension of the Standard Model [33][34] and in certain grand unified theories.[35] As long as new physics appears below or around 1014 GeV, the neutrino masses can be of the right order of magnitude.
Theoretical and experimental research has attempted to extend the Standard Model into a Unified field theory or a Theory of everything, a complete theory explaining all physical phenomena including constants. Inadequacies of the Standard Model that motivate such research include:
- It does not attempt to explain gravitation, although a theoretical particle known as a graviton would help explain it, and unlike for the strong and electroweak interactions of the Standard Model, there is no known way of describing general relativity, the canonical theory of gravitation, consistently in terms of quantum field theory. The reason for this is, among other things, that quantum field theories of gravity generally break down before reaching the Planck scale. As a consequence, we have no reliable theory for the very early universe;
- Some consider it to be ad hoc and inelegant, requiring 19 numerical constants whose values are unrelated and arbitrary. Although the Standard Model, as it now stands, can explain why neutrinos have masses, the specifics of neutrino mass are still unclear. It is believed that explaining neutrino mass will require an additional 7 or 8 constants, which are also arbitrary parameters;
- The Higgs mechanism gives rise to the hierarchy problem if some new physics (coupled to the Higgs) is present at high energy scales. In these cases in order for the weak scale to be much smaller than the Planck scale, severe fine tuning of the parameters is required; there are, however, other scenarios that include quantum gravity in which such fine tuning can be avoided. [36]There are also issues of Quantum triviality, which suggests that it may not be possible to create a consistent quantum field theory involving elementary scalar particles.
- It should be modified so as to be consistent with the emerging "Standard Model of cosmology." In particular, the Standard Model cannot explain the observed amount of cold dark matter (CDM) and gives contributions to dark energy which are many orders of magnitude too large. It is also difficult to accommodate the observed predominance of matter over antimatter (matter/antimatter asymmetry). The isotropy and homogeneity of the visible universe over large distances seems to require a mechanism like cosmic inflation, which would also constitute an extension of the Standard Model.
Currently, no proposed Theory of Everything has been widely accepted or verified.
See also
- Fundamental interaction:
- Gauge theory: Nontechnical introduction to gauge theory
- Generation
- Higgs mechanism: Higgs boson, Higgsless model
- J. C. Ward
- J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
- Lagrangian
- Open questions: BTeV experiment, CP violation, Neutrino masses, Quark matter, Quantum triviality
- Penguin diagram
- Quantum field theory
- Standard Model: Mathematical formulation of, Physics beyond the Standard Model
Notes and references
- ^ Technically, there are nine such color–anticolor combinations. However, there is one color-symmetric combination that can be constructed out of a linear superposition of the nine combinations, reducing the count to eight.
- ^ R. Oerter (2006). The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics (Kindle ed.).
- ^ Sean Carroll, Ph.D., Cal Tech, 2007, The Teaching Company, Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe, Guidebook Part 2 page 59, Accessed Oct. 7, 2013, "...Standard Model of Particle Physics: The modern theory of elementary particles and their interactions ... It does not, strictly speaking, include gravity, although it's often convenient to include gravitons among the known particles of nature..."
- ^ In fact, there are mathematical issues regarding quantum field theories still under debate (see e.g.
- ^ S.L. Glashow (1961). "Partial-symmetries of weak interactions".
- ^ S. Weinberg (1967). "A Model of Leptons".
- ^ A. Salam (1968). N. Svartholm, ed. "Elementary Particle Physics: Relativistic Groups and Analyticity".
- ^ a b F. Englert, R. Brout (1964). "Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons".
- ^ a b P.W. Higgs (1964). "Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons".
- ^ a b G.S. Guralnik, C.R. Hagen, T.W.B. Kibble (1964). "Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles".
- ^ F.J. Hasertet al. (1973). "Search for elastic muon-neutrino electron scattering".
- ^ F.J. Hasert et al. (1973). "Observation of neutrino-like interactions without muon or electron in the Gargamelle neutrino experiment".
- ^ F.J. Hasert et al. (1974). "Observation of neutrino-like interactions without muon or electron in the Gargamelle neutrino experiment".
- ^ D. Haidt (4 October 2004). "The discovery of the weak neutral currents".
- ^ "Details can be worked out if the situation is simple enough for us to make an approximation, which is almost never, but often we can understand more or less what is happening." from The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol 1. pp. 2–7
- ^ G.S. Guralnik (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles".
- ^ B.W. Lee, C. Quigg, H.B. Thacker (1977). "Weak interactions at very high energies: The role of the Higgs-boson mass".
- ^ "'"Huge $10 billion collider resumes hunt for 'God particle.
- ^ M. Strassler (10 July 2012). "Higgs Discovery: Is it a Higgs?". Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ "CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson".
- ^ "Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV".
- ^ "ATLAS Experiment".
- ^ "Confirmed: CERN discovers new particle likely to be the Higgs boson".
- ^ D. Overbye (4 July 2012). "A New Particle Could Be Physics' Holy Grail".
- ^ "New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson".
- ^ S. Braibant, G. Giacomelli, M. Spurio (2009). Particles and Fundamental Interactions: An Introduction to Particle Physics.
- ^ "BABAR Data in Tension with the Standard Model".
- ^
- ^ "BaBar data hint at cracks in the Standard Model". e! Science News. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ J. Bagdonaite et al. (2012). "A Stringent Limit on a Drifting Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio from Alcohol in the Early Universe".
- ^ C. Moskowitz (13 December 2012). "Phew! Universe's Constant Has Stayed Constant".
- ^ "Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing".
- ^ S. Weinberg (1979). "Baryon and Lepton Nonconserving Processes".
- ^ P. Minkowski (1977). "μ → e γ at a Rate of One Out of 109 Muon Decays?".
- ^ R. N. Mohapatra, G. Senjanovic (1980). "Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation".
- ^ M. Gell-Mann, P. Ramond and R. Slansky (1979). F. van Nieuwenhuizen and D. Z. Freedman, ed. Supergravity.
- ^ Salvio, Strumia (2014-03-17). "Agravity". JHEP 1406 (2014) 080.
Further reading
- R. Oerter (2006). The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics.
- B.A. Schumm (2004). Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics.
- Introductory textbooks
- I. Aitchison, A. Hey (2003). Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction.
- W. Greiner, B. Müller (2000). Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions.
- G.D. Coughlan, J.E. Dodd, B.M. Gripaios (2006). The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists.
- D.J. Griffiths (1987). Introduction to Elementary Particles.
- G.L. Kane (1987). Modern Elementary Particle Physics.
- Advanced textbooks
- T.P. Cheng, L.F. Li (2006). Gauge theory of elementary particle physics. Highlights the gauge theory aspects of the Standard Model.
- J.F. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B.R. Holstein (1994). Dynamics of the Standard Model. Highlights dynamical and phenomenological aspects of the Standard Model.
- L. O'Raifeartaigh (1988). Group structure of gauge theories.
- Nagashima Y. Elementary Particle Physics: Foundations of the Standard Model, Volume 2. (Wiley 2013) 920 рапуы
- Schwartz, M.D. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model (Сambridge University Press 2013) 952 pages
- Langacker P. The standard model and beyond. (CRC Press, 2010) 670 pages Highlights group-theoretical aspects of the Standard Model.
- Journal articles
- E.S. Abers, B.W. Lee (1973). "Gauge theories".
- M. Baak et al. (2012). "The Electroweak Fit of the Standard Model after the Discovery of a New Boson at the LHC".
- Y. Hayato et al. (1999). "Search for Proton Decay through p → νK+ in a Large Water Cherenkov Detector".
- S.F. Novaes (2000). "Standard Model: An Introduction". arXiv:hep-ph/0001283 [hep-ph].
- D.P. Roy (1999). "Basic Constituents of Matter and their Interactions — A Progress Report". arXiv:hep-ph/9912523 [hep-ph].
- F. Wilczek (2004). "The Universe Is A Strange Place". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 134: 3.
External links
- "The Standard Model explained in Detail by CERN's John Ellis" omega tau podcast.
- "LHC sees hint of lightweight Higgs boson" "New Scientist".
- "Standard Model may be found incomplete," New Scientist.
- "Observation of the Top Quark" at Fermilab.
- "The Standard Model Lagrangian." After electroweak symmetry breaking, with no explicit Higgs boson.
- "Standard Model Lagrangian" with explicit Higgs terms. PDF, PostScript, and LaTeX versions.
- "The particle adventure." Web tutorial.
- Nobes, Matthew (2002) "Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics" on Kuro5hin: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b.
- "The Standard Model" The Standard Model on the CERN web site explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces.
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2010
- WorldHeritage articles needing clarification from July 2013
- Articles needing additional references from April 2008
- All articles needing additional references
- Use dmy dates from March 2011
- Standard Model
- Concepts in physics
- Particle physics


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Thanks to Vernon for this post. Hopefully it should help if you need to load large amounts of test data in a development environment, however any feedback would be useful so please leave a comment to let us know how you get on. Also, the following instructions were written for MDM Workbench 8.5 and WebSphere Application Server 6.1, so some changes may be required for more recent versions.
These instructions assume you already have a working development and test environment:
- MDM test environment set-up by running DEST in the normal way
- MDM AIX files unpacked into directory C:\UNPACK
Set-up steps
Extract the artifacts from the distribution material
The Batch processor consists of a server side EAR file and a set of batch processor client artifacts. The EAR file and client material can be found in the unpack directory created by DEST, e.g. C:\UNPACK\MDM\installableApps and C:\UNPACK\MDM\BatchProcessor respectively, as shown below.
Set-up the Server
Install the MDMBatch.ear file for the batch processor on the Application Server, using the WAS Application installer. Using default values seem to work pretty well. Once the EAR has been installed bounce the server to make it available.
Set-up the client
- Copy the batch client directory from the unpacked distribution material to a new directory
- Switch to the directory C:\UNPACK\MDM and enter the following xcopy command, which will create a new working directory \ClientBatchProcessor:
xcopy batchprocessor\* \ClientBatchProcessor /s
- Switch to the .properties directory C:\ClientBatchProcessor\properties and review all the files
- The Batch.properties and Log4J.properties files must be updated, as described below
- Open file Batch.properties in an editor, and update the following lines:
- Locate the line defining the "ServerConfiguration.provider_url" and change the <PROVIDER_URL> to the URL for your server. The line should look something like this (make sure you use the right port number for your server):
ServerConfiguration.provider_url = corbaloc:iiop:localhost:2809
- Locate the line defining the "ServerConfiguration.context_factory" and change the <CTX_FACTORY> to the setting for your server. The line should look something like this:
ServerConfiguration.context_factory = com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory
- Open file Log4J.properties in an editor, and update the following lines:
- Locate the line "log4j.appender.file.File=<INSTANCE_PATH>" and change it to identify the location for any log files. I suggest something like this, which will store the files in a directory named "logs":
To complete the client set-up, you need to configure a script to launch the batch loader. This is described in the next section.
Configure runbatch.bat file
Download runbatch.bat and save it in the \ClientBatchProcessor\bin directory. This is a customised .bat file for invoking the batch loader on Windows. It has two settings which you need to customise for your system:
The location of your WebSphere server runtime, for example C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v61
The location of the batch processor client you configured above, for example C:\ClientBatchProcessor
You can either edit the runbatch.bat file to change the default settings, or you can use environment variables to specify the correct locations, for example:
Run the batch loader
- Start the Application Server, and ensure the MDMBatch application is active
- Switch to the client bin directory
- Invoke the runbatch.bat script. For example, using the following command, where TestPerson.xml is the source file containing the XML documents, and logs is the log directory (see note below):
runbatch TestPerson.xml logs
- When the command completes switch to the log directory to see the results
Details of the parameters are provided in the MDM Developers guide, but two parameters are mandatory. The first option defines the input file containing the XML documents, and the second option defines the directory for the log files.
Note: the log directory must exist. I suggest creating a "logs" directory in the bin directory.


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I couldn't take it any longer. Fatigued at the end of the work week and convinced my St. Louis Cardinals would not survive game six of the World Series, I turned the light off and was fast asleep by 11:15 p.m.
Early the next morning, Lori asked me who won.
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Dear Editor,
It doesn't take a very close examination of this week's The Springfield Sun to see an abundance of successful, high-achieving women on the pages.
It thrills me to see the recognition that Laurie Smith, Sister Claire McGowan, Jan Fattizzi and Pat Kirsch have received recently.
I've worked with most of these women on several occasions, and have been impressed by each for their many talents. Springfield and Washington County are undoubtedly a better place because of these hard-working visionaries.
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I have a serious topic to write on with the permission of my wife, Cindy. The reason I asked her is because it's related to her life and common throughout the U.S. The story is about Cindy's overeating problem.
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We are trying to gather information on veterans in the county, or relatives of residents in the county who are veterans, so that we can honor them in the Nov. 9 issue of the paper.
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They were printed next to the name of a cancer patient for whom we prayed. I flinched when I read them. No one is beyond hope--- not even those who appear to be victims in the last stages of cancer.
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Okay, so it was not a stormy but a dark night.
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It should be remembered as a proud moment for Washington County, regarding how the local, neighboring counties, state and national resources came out in force to search for Randall Chesser.
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Be not afraid.
— God
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You know what I mean.
It doesn't matter where you work or where you live in this old world. It's like everything has dropped off a cliff. Many families are nervously waiting to see what happens next, if it hasn't already.
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