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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Recipe: Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
3 small zucchini, grated finely
6 eggs
1 cup coconut flour or almond flour
1/2T baking powder (although the slice works well without it)
1T cinnamon
1/2 cup raw cacao powder (or unsweetened cocoa)
1/2 cup coconut oil or melted butter
1/2t salt (unless you're using salted butter, like I do)
Some chopped nuts and coconut flakes for topping
Optional - stevia or maple syrup to taste (or make available to add later upon serving, if desired)
1. Preheat oven to moderate - around 175 deg C.
2. Line and grease a muffin tray
3. Separate eggs, placing yolks in a large mixing bowl, and whites in a medium bowl for whipping. Whip whites until fluffy.
3. In the large bowl, combine zucchini, egg yolks, spices, and oil.
4. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Add flour mixture to zucchini mixture, and stir until combined.
5. Fold egg whites into batter carefully, then pour everything into prepared pans.
6. Sprinkle with nuts/flakes, and bake for at around 50 minutes, watching carefully for burning. The mixture's density means that it will cook quite slowly, but if you see burning happening before the muffins bounce back when prodded with a finger, turn the heat down to 100 deg C and allow the centre to cook slowly.
Serve warm or cold with cream, fruit, and maple syrup if desired. I enjoy them alone, although coconut flour can be quite drying in the mouth.
The review from the panel? "They taste just like normal chocolate muffins - though it's good to know they've got zucchini in them, else the green bits inside would be a tad concerning..." True. And scrumptious!
10 comments:
Oh, yum! These look incredibly delicious. Think I will try them out tonight. Thanks for the recipe.
- June 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Lindsay Cotter said...
Love the ingredeints! Definitely going to try these. Thanks!
- June 16, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Lauren said...
I made these this weekend and I think there is room for improvement, BUT I do like them and am glad to find a GF muffin that actually has texture like "normal" ones. I used less baking powder (1/2-3/4T) b/c a tablespoon seemed like a lot and I did add 1T maple syrup to mellow out the cocoa powder. The thing it needs the most, though (which I didn't add), is a bit of salt to bring out the flavor more. Probably 1/2 teaspoon would do. As they are right now, warmed up with a pat of salted butter, they're pretty darn tasty. Thanks for giving us a great base to experiment with!
- June 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Jezwyn said...
Oops, thanks for the point-out Lauren - I use salted butter but do add salt if I'm using coconut oil instead. So I should put that into the recipe.
I'm not aiming to create GF foods, but foods that fit into my diet without overly impacting my blood sugar since I'm insulin resistant, so the recipes have to be fairly basic and all sweetening garbage can be added later if you're a sugar addict.
I must admit, I don't use any baking powder if I'm making a batch that I want to partake in, since it's made with rice flour and I don't do that! And when I do use it, I don't measure, I just use what looks right for the amount of coconut flour. So I'll trust your judgement there.
- June 22, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Peter Lee said...
I have just started to eat raw cocao and found this blog post to be very good because it explains the benefits of eating raw cocao powder
- June 25, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Just made these using almond flour. Added 1 T of agave nectar and 1/4 t. of concentrated stevia....too much stevia. In the future will use maybe an 1/8 t. Also, they cooked in 30 minutes, making 12 muffins and a very small cake on the bottom of a bread loaf pan. I'd imagine this would make about 18 muffins total.
- August 3, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Jake - The Unruly Patient said...
These are fantastic! Thank you! I made them into small cakes. The best use of coconut flour yet!
- September 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Amy said...
These look amazing! I wish I could make them but I don't have an electric mixer or anything... I don't think I have the arm power to whip egg whites by hand, but I still really want to make these -- any suggestions? Is there a substitution I could make or anything?? Thank you!
- May 26, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Jezwyn said...
Hi Amy,
You could use baking powder to try to boost the fluffiness, or just go for non-whipped eggs and see how you go. The muffins will be denser perhaps, but still tasty. :)
- June 12, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Rachel Page said...
Next time I have a plethora of zucchini, I am so making these!
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
The other day a very dear friend commented that she had visited my blog and that my life seems so peaceful and productive. I felt like a sham, since in my own eyes my life is messy and chaotic and not as Waldorf-y as I like, but I guess one doesn't blog about that do they?
Since that conversation, I felt like I should post a few truths in the interest of full disclosure and hope that they make you chuckle a bit and maybe share something in your life that just doesn't make your blog that day- fair enough?
OK, I'll go first-
You know that pretty candlelit picture of the nativity scene I posted before Christmas? During dinner on Solstice, my sister in law Karina asked us if we smelled anything burning. I thought "oh that's just the beeswax candles" but got up to check and well.... the palm tree from the nativity set was smoldering from being too close to the candles. Yes, the OSTHEIMER palm tree was burning and the other one was starting to singe. In the true Buddhist tradition of detachment I told myself that our family enjoyed it so much while we had it that I wouldn't mourn it's loss... but also good ole American consumerism was in place when I also told myself that it's a kind of a good reason to think about replacing the set with a Buntspechte one next year anyway.
... all right, it's a really stupid reason- but I said I was going to be honest
We own a TV. Not just any TV, we're talking an old, enormous big-as-a-Volkswagon-parked-in-the-living-room television set. And we have cable. With premium channels. Showtime AND HBO. Ivan and I LOVE the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, we're mourning the end of the season for Dexter and are waiting anxiously for Lost to start up again. Otherwise, we find everything else on TV to be pretty craptastic. And did I mention that we only watch our shows after the kids are in bed... Am I sounding defensive enough?
The boys also have an uncomfortable familiarity with Thomas the Tank Engine. I should just spit it out that they worship that stupid train. I had let them watch the show before I started learning about Waldorf and all their friends were really into Thomas too. They used to be pretty obsessive about it and when I saw Matteo copying story lines from the show during his train play I decided to cut out as much as I could without bloodshed involved. So no more Thomas DVD's, clothing, toothbrush, plates and silverware. I've kept one book that was given as a gift and the wooden trains since I think taking those away would be akin to cutting off an appendage for the boys. We bought the boys a beautiful wooden train set for Christmas and so far we have been totally Thomas free for a week.
Most pictures of the kids involve bribary. Chocolate, cheddar bunnies, more chocolate... you name it. I'd do most anything for a good shot. That includes pictures of craft projects with the kids. They do enjoy doing crafts to a certain extent, but at 3 and 2 years old, they have the attention span of gnats.
And lastly, my crafting is more heart than skill. So deepest thanks to anyone who gets a gift I've made and has graciously not asked if the boys did it all by themselves.
I love that this life is a journey and we can keep trying to improve what we're not satisfied with. Life isn't always picture perfect and I hope that this post makes you laugh and think... "wow, I sure am doing better than this chick!"
xoxo- Marina
21 comments:
You're awesome! We hadn't had a TV since 1995 until 2008 - the year I needed a freakin' break. Now my 2yr old can recite every Thomas related train, episode and emotion of the various characters. Horrifying! Interestingly, he has recently lost interest in the videos in favor of playing with the trains we broke down and got him off eBay for Christmas (baby steps. baby steps.) I think the TV will be freecycled soon and since he has old-school trains (with hitches instead of magnets), maybe that fetish will pass soon, too. Sorry about your smoked trees :-)
- January 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Dear M,
You are a champion Mother. Be proud and give your self a hug..you deserve it. You inspire me to stay the course on my path as a mother.
Thank you
- January 4, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Stephanie said...
Can you do that? Bribe kids with popsicles and candies and such? I just always settle for the blurry ones.....
My son (now 7) doesn't like crafts. I've taken to coming up with different words for it!
Like "experiment". :) (I'm kind of kidding, kind of not.)
- January 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM
This was super funny in a reassuring way! It is always enlightening to read your blog (I just started reading it back in December) and today was no exception. I am sorry about your trees but I am in awe of your honesty and candidness.
Have a wonderful and joyous new year
- January 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Thank you, that was exactly what I needed today. Where did you find that beautiful wooden train?
- January 5, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- faeriefeig said...
love this post!
- January 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Tahara (Autumn Oak) said...
Great stuff Marina!...We ALL have these days and those times :-)...I love your blog and can tell that you love your family...We are all striving to get someplace we will never be...But the journey is the fun part...It's actually the only part :-)
- January 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Nicole said...
You've earned my love and loyalty by not only showing your "realness" but by also sharing that you are a fellow Lost fan. :p
Seriously, I have craft blogs that I no longer read because NO ONE is as darned perfect as the blogger would like to appear.
- January 5, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Nicole Spring said...
oh my goodness! thank you for sharing this! i needed it! im rigth there with you. we have..wait for it...
3 tvs in our house!! dh refuses to get rid of them. 1 in his office, 1 in the living room and 1 in our bed room. they are all covered with playsilks during the day and then when the girls are asleep i tend to have the living room one on for company. i'm right there with you!! i love your honesty!!
- January 5, 2009 at 7:44 PM
- Nicole Spring said...
oh and heck yeah!! not too much longer for lost to come back!! we'll have to talk about it after it airs!!i can't wait! *girly laughter*
- January 5, 2009 at 7:45 PM
- Marina said...
Wow, thank you all so much for the wonderful positive feedback! I had a fear that I'd post this and it would go over like a fart in church... followed by dead silence- so thanks from the bottom of my heart!
Just some quick replies-
Jumbleberry- those trains are evil aren't they? We thought we'd be ok just letting him have ONE train and the next thing we knew- one day we're standing in 100 degree heat amongst hundreds waiting for the *ahem* opportunity to ride on Thomas at "Day Out With Thomas"... but that's for another post. I love your blog, will you be my new BFF?
Stephanie- Why yes you can bribe children with sweets. At least mine you can. They think getting clementines is a big whoopty-doo, so when REAL refined sugar is involved- they're like putty.
Eva- We had the trains made by John Michael Linck: http://www.woodentoy.com/html/train.html
and Nicole S... SHUT UP!!! 3 really???? Love you even more *hugs*
Love every one of you who left comments, I feel like you're all my pals who I invited over for coffee and you didn't care that my house was a mess :)
Please keep visiting, it's great fun!
- January 6, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Emma said...
Thanks for posting this, Marina!
I love when bloggers show their "real" side once in awhile.
My biggest truths are:
I don't do cloth diapers like I should... even though I spent $300 dollars on them! I can never seem to get the smell out and it is just so much easier to dump a disposable. Someday, I will though.
My daughter watches Sprout. Sometimes it is for 15 minutes a day. Others, it is for an hour.
We bought Thomas train tracks to go with a dear Little Engine that Could train set we found for our little ones. LETC doesn't fit through the bridge though, so the two Thomas cars that came with the tracks get used more. If handmade things don't go under (wishful thinking!), I'd love to buy a few of the train cars that your boys have!
- January 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Thanks for the honesty! It's so easy to get intimidated by someone who looks perfect all the time! I really appreciate confession time once in a while. Although, a blog is a perfect place to highlight your successes---it's inspiring to others and a good place to look back when you're having one of Those Days.
And btw, you should see the ginormous tv in my living room. You can't hide it. I've tried. One step at a time!
- January 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- cat said...
i love it...haha shhhh....we have the exact same tv. LOL but no cable. although we did order our coupons for the digital converter boxes..;) my girls do know who dora is *sigh*, and a plastic and cloth baby doll is a must have for the 3 year old at night..;) however, the sun egg gifted to her from some gracious mama *wink wink* is now a must read every night and she even sits it up in her bed to look at the cover as she goes to sleep..:)
sorry about your blackened palms but thank you for your continued gracefulness and peaceful existence. you are a true inspiration marina...tv, thomas and all..;)
- January 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- cat said...
oh gosh..didn't even comment on lost...yeah..right there with you mama! i'm an addict..;)
- January 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM
- Nicole Spring said...
we love you marina!! seriously i feel like we could sit and chat for hours on ebd!
ok we need a lost tribe for us to chat about it..hmm where can we do that? <3
sorry im way OT huh?!
- January 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM
- Jen said...
Thanks for this post! I often feel like the master of deception with my blog. There's no account of me cursing at the dogs in the middle of the night for waking me up or stomping my feet at the 100th diaper change of the day. Or my embarrassment at little guy's use of a pacifier. Thanks for keeping it real! xoxoxo
- January 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- minipak said...
Well, even with your "truths," I still believe you and I live entirely different lives with me wishing I could get closer to your end.
My favorite line of yours from this entry was that your boys have the "attention span of gnats." That one made me laugh out loud. :)
Anyway, even though we have different styles, I think we are both kick-ass Moms, wouldn't you agree? :)
P.S. I counted the TVs in our house. We have 5: master bdrm, family room, guest room, dedicated treadmill TV, and Ali's office computer has a TV tuner in it. If you'd have asked in December, there would've been 6. We have since gotten rid of the one in "Grandma's room."
- January 11, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Marina said...
Emma- I've been verrry bad about using cloth with Luca Bean. I started with it and allowed myself disposables for night and when we went out and it's been a slippery slope ever since. I just cancelled the diaper service and bought some.. I refuse to give up, I'll send you positive cloth diaper vibes :)
Iyneya- Thanks for posting that insight! I hadn't thought of blogs that way, but I guess I do like thinking that there are days when I'm not sucking at housework or a mother and I have pictures to prove it :)
Cat- I can't believe you have that same dinosaur of a TV! You, Nicole x2 and I have to have our own Lost tribe! We should start a thread at MDC "Waldorf mothers addicted to Lost"
Jen- I've known you forever and think you are incredibly awesome. I love reading your blog to see what a wonderful mother you've bloomed into! About the pacifier, don't sweat it... Matteo had one firmly stuck in his mouth until he was 18 months and our babysitter "lost" it.
Minnie- I have learned so much from you, you are an awesome mom! I love that there is so much we can learn from our friends with different parenting styles.
- January 12, 2009 at 4:19 AM
ha, ha, ha....not about the palm trees, but about being real. i often wonder how i am doing and in a sea of super-mommie-dom it's nice to see what's on the other side of the veneer.
thanks for your honest. i think i like you more because of it.
mcm mom,
aka mommabeehilly
- January 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Lisbeth said...
Love your blog! It is very honest and
a lot like how I feel. I did not know
much about waldorf living, when I had my first child and it is difficult to
take away toys that are not good for the children...
I would like to say much more, but my english is not that good;o)
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State senior guard Tim Frazier (Houston, Texas) has been named to the Wooden Award Men's Preseason Top 50. He is the second Nittany Lion in the last three years to be named to the preseason list, joining Talor Battle who was named prior to the 2010-11 season.
The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the Preseason Top 50 chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball media members. The list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who, based on last year's individual performance and team records, are the early front-runners for college basketball's most prestigious honor. Frazier was among nine Big Ten players named to the list, which led all conferences.
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Frazier, a 2012 First-team All-Big Ten selection, was also named the preseason All-Big Ten team. He returns for his senior campaign after leading the Big Ten in assists (6.2) and finishing second in scoring (18.8) and steals (2.4) during a superlative junior campaign that saw him lead the nation accounting for 58 percent of his team's offense. Also a Big Ten All-Defensive Team selection, Frazier was the only Division I player to average at least 17 points and six assists per game and set a Penn State season assist record with 198. The first Lion to lead the Big Ten in assists and just the third to lead the Big Ten in steals during the conference season, Frazier posted the seventh-best season point total in Penn State history and enters his final campaign needing just 30 points to become the Lions 30th 1,000-point scorer and 157 assists shy of eclipsing the career assist record of 600.
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Not The Perfect Louis Vuitton Artsy Replica But Good For Its Price!Categories:Louis Vuitton
The Louis Vuitton Artsy replica is quite a popular Monogram LV bag and even though the design is relatively simple there are some important details that make the difference between a decent replica and a great one.
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Don't you just love how the Internet works sometimes? One of my Facebook friends saw a photo of a LV Artsy bag on my profile and she told me she had just bought a Louis Vuitton Artsy replica herself just a few weeks ago. I asked her to send me some photos of her bag for you girls to see the quality of Joy's replica Louis Vuitton Artsy too.
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As I told her, this is a very decent-looking Louis Vuitton Artsy replica but not a perfect one. But it's probably one of the best choices for this price. If you choose something even cheaper, chances are you're not going to be very happy with what you get.
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Replica Bag Review: Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MMCategories:Louis Vuitton
The Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy is one of the most popular and beautiful handbags ever, one that has conquered the hearts of countless fashionistas and it represents a must bag for any self respecting modern city girl. The beauty of this designer purse consists in its elegant shape, fine choice of materials and glamorous lines. It is the perfect contemporary bag.
Being so loved and beautiful, the Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy is one of the most replicated bags on the market. Replica manufacturers are getting better and better at cloning this model and differentiating the original one from a fake can turn out to be a real challenge. Still, there are a few things that can't be perfectly imitated and I am going to present these things in my review so you can make an informed choice.
The below picture includes a replica and the original Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM. The fake bag in on the left while the authentic purse is on the right. As you can very well observe from the photos, the original handbag has a more elegant look, it stands more firmly and its charm does not hand out like the one of the replica purse. This is because the real LV Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM has the string of the charm made from a stiffer leather and is shorter.
The outside of the two bangs is totally different, this pointing out that the Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM replica bag isn't a very good one. The main cause for this is the leather used for crafting the purse. The material is very shiny and the embossing of the LV monograms into its surface is too pronounced, and these are cluttered and too close together. This makes it look very cheap and fake. The original one is made from a very stiff and quite matte leather and the mongram embossing looks more discrete. The type of leather used for making this bag is also the reason why the replica purse fails to stand tall by its own. You have to stuff it really well in order for it to have a shape similar to the original one- which doesn't need the same amout of stuffing for standing firmly.
Please also note that the handles of the original Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM bag are beautifully curved. Unfortunately, the replica purse does not have the same arched handles. These are straight looking, without any sort of shape.
The inside lining should be textile fabric of a dark blue color with brown vertical lines. The original bag has a very dark blue color lining while most replicas use a lighter one.
The bottom of the LV Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM has a crossed stitching which meet right in the center of one of the monogram fowers. The color of the stitching is also a dark blue. This very dark blue is called Infinity. In very bright day light it looks blue while in most type of normal light it looks black. The base also has 4 metallic studs, the feet of the purse. These are placed at the starting points of the crossed stitching and each stud cuts off a part of a monogram flower. For example, the top studs cut off the top part of he flower while the lower ones cut off the lower part of the flower. From this point of view, this Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM fake purse looks very authentic.
The Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM replica bag has gold hardware just as the authentic bag. All the zippers, charms, studs and rings that connect the handles to the body of the bag are made from solid stainless steel and are coated with gold plating. Every metallic part is engraved with the "Louis Vuitton" name. This makes the bag look very authentic.
Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM replica bag has its good and bad parts. Still, if I take a moment to balance them I realize that the bads weight more. The very visible parts of this replica purse like the material, the shape of the handles and the monograms are very poorely replicates while the more hard to notice details such as the stitching and the name engraved on the metallic parts are very well cloned. The problem here is that anyone can tell that this bag is a fake just by looking at its shinny leather and clutered monograms. So, from my point of view, this is a terrible fake and it should serve as an example for what you should avoid when buying a Louis Vuitton Infinity Empreinte Artsy MM replica bag.
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Replica Handbag Review: Louis Vuitton Artsy MMCategories:Louis Vuitton
The Louis Vuitton Artsy MM is a beautiful and very practical bag designed for assertive women. It has enough inside space that all your daily belongings can fit perfectly. It is spacious, sophisticated and chic so it is appropriate to any occasion and it can fit almost any outfit.
This bag has the same brown color monogram pattern and floral motifs on both sides. Exactly like all other LV models the monograms are very subtle, they have even spaces between them and they are placed in the exact same position. The leather this Louis Vuitton Artsy MM is made of is a very light and firm type with flat finish. It has a rigid texture but it feels smooth and delicate. This bag can stand by its own even if it is empty. Also we can talk about a particular shine of this leather that is only visible when there is a very bright light falling over it.
For the stitches of this Louis Vuitton Artsy MM there was used a much darker color especially for the threads to stand out. The handle is connected to the body of the bag with two gold rings that are embedded onto the leather and they are engraved with the LV sign; "VUITTON" on top, while "LOUIS" on the lower part of the ring. You can notice that the rings go through the flower monograms in both corners. To do this the monograms have to have the same position on all the sides of the bag. You need to pay a lot of attention of these kinds of details when you purchase a replica bag, especially a Louis Vuitton Artsy MM replica.
The upper part of the body makes a natural fold that gives the bag a very nice and practical appearance. This bag only has one handle that is made from very sturdy leather that allows it to stay curved without having to adjust it in any way. This is its natural position. The shape it has is of a natural and ample arch. Attached on one of the rings of the handle there is a thin string that has the same color as the handle. Attached to this leather string there is a key chain charm that has a golden ring with "LOUIS VUITTON" stamped all over it and a golden hook that has the same stampings.
The bottom of the bag is very interesting, it has four gold buttons that are evenly spaced and connected between them with some dark stitching. This gives us the impression of a very large "X". Of course this "X" is not created at random. It is feet to cut off the same corner of the same flower. The top studs come through the top corner of the flower, the bottom studs come through the lower corner of the flower and the "X" is intersecting in the center of the flower. You can also notice on the bottom of this bag that the monogram is not continuous; this is not an inaccuracy in the design of this replica bag. This also happens for the genuine Louis Vuitton Artsy MM.
The lining of this bag is made from smooth light brown suede that is also very delicate. At the interior of this bag we can find a zipper pocket and two open pockets. On the zipper pull is engraved with "Louis Vuitton" on both sides in an imaginary circle. The side of this Louis Vuitton Artsy MM has two tags. One of them is the main brown leather tag. It is embossed with circled "R", then is the "LOUIS VUITTON" written on the first row and on the second one is the "PARIS" word. The stitching on the leather patch has a light beige color. You can notice the good quality of this replica bag because of the correct and clear stamping too. There are no bolded letters embossed on the tags. The second tag is not made of leather as we are used to, but from a textile fabric that says "LV" all around it in a circle. It also has two rows, one with "made in U.S.A" and another one with "of imported materials". This second tag has a light brown color no visible stitches.
This Louis Vuitton Artsy MM is a nonconformist fashion accessory with a terrific design. I have to admit that this is one of the bags I will always recommend and if you are thinking of buying one for yourself there is nothing else I can say but congratulate you.
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Getting Your Quarks in a Row
By Brian Hayes
A tidy lattice is the key to computing with quantum fields
A tidy lattice is the key to computing with quantum fields
The theories known as QED and QCD are the mismatched siblings of particle physics. QED, or quantum electrodynamics, is the hard-working, conscientious older brother who put himself through night school and earned a degree in accounting. QED describes all the electromagnetic phenomena of nature, and it does so with meticulous accuracy. Calculations carried out within the framework of QED predict properties of the electron to within a few parts per trillion, and those predictions agree with experimental measurements.
QCD, or quantum chromodynamics, is the brilliant but erratic young rebel of the family, who ran off to a commune and came back with tattoos. The theory has the same basic structure as QED, but instead of electrons it applies to quarks; it describes the forces that bind those exotic entities together inside protons, neutrons and other subatomic particles. By all accounts QCD is a correct theory of quark interactions, but it has been a stubbornly unproductive one. If you tried using it to make quantitative predictions, you were lucky to get any answers at all, and accuracy was just too much to ask for.
Now the prodigal theory is finally developing some better work habits. QCD still can't approach the remarkable precision of QED, but some QCD calculations now yield answers accurate to within a few percent. Among the new results are some thought-provoking surprises. For example, QCD computations have shown that the three quarks inside a proton account for only about 1 percent of the proton's measured mass; all the rest of the mass comes from the energy that binds the quarks together. We already knew that atoms are mostly empty space; now we learn that the nuclei inside atoms are mere puffballs, with almost no solid substance.
These and other recent findings have come from a computation-intensive approach called lattice QCD, which imposes a gridlike structure on the space and time inhabited by quarks. In this artificial rectilinear microcosm, quarks exist only at the nodes, or crosspoints, of the lattice, and forces act only along the links between the nodes. That's not the way real spacetime is constructed, but the fiction turns out to be helpful in getting answers from QCD. It's also helpful in understanding what QCD is all about.
Bring two electrons close together, and they repel each other. Nineteenth-century theories explained such effects in terms of fields, which are often represented as lines of force that emanate from an electron and extend throughout space. The field produced by each particle repels other particles that have the same electric charge and attracts those with the opposite charge.
QED is a quantum field theory, and it takes a different view of the forces between charged particles. In QED electrons interact by emitting and absorbing photons, which are the quanta, or carriers, of the electromagnetic field. It is the exchange of photons that accounts for attractive and repulsive forces. Thus all those ethereal fields permeating the universe are replaced by localized events—namely the emission or absorption of a photon at a specific place and time. The theory allows for some wilder events as well. A photon—a packet of energy—can materialize to create an electron and its antimatter partner, a positron (e–e+). In the converse event an e–e+ pair annihilates to form a photon.
QCD is also a quantum field theory; it describes the same kinds of events, but with a different cast of characters. Where QED is a theory of electrically charge particles, QCD applies to particles that have a property called color charge (hence the name chromodynamics). And forces in QCD are transmitted not by photons but by particles known as gluons, the quanta of the color field.
Yet QCD is not just a version of QED with funny names for the particles. There are at least three major differences between the theories. First, the electric charges of QED come in just two polarities (positive and negative), but there are three varieties of color charge (usually labeled red, green and blue). Second, the photons that carry the electromagnetic force are themselves electrically neutral; gluons not only carry the color force but also have color of their own. As a result, gluons respond to the very force they carry. Finally, the color force is intrinsically stronger than electromagnetism. The strength is measured by a numerical coupling constant, α, which is less than 0.01 for electromagnetism. The corresponding constant for color interactions, αc, is roughly 1.
These differences between QED and QCD have dramatic consequences. Electromagnetism follows an inverse-square law: The force between electrically charged particles falls off rapidly with increasing distance. In contrast, the force between color-charged quarks and gluons remains constant at long distances. Furthermore, it's quite a strong force, equal to about 14 tons. A constant force means the energy needed to separate two quarks grows without limit as you pull them apart. For this reason we never see a quark in isolation; quarks are confined to the interior of protons and neutrons and the other composite particles known as hadrons.
A theory in physics is supposed to be more than just a qualitative description; you ought to be able to use it to make predictive calculations. For example, Newton's theory of gravitation predicts the positions of planets in the sky. Likewise QED allows for predictive calculations in its realm of electrons and photons.
Suppose you want to know the probability that a photon will travel from one point to another. For calculations of this kind Richard Feynman introduced a scheme known as the sum-over-paths method. The idea is to consider every possible path the photon might take and then add up contributions from each of the alternatives. This is rather like booking an airplane trip from Boston to Seattle. You could take a direct flight, or you might stop over in Chicago or Minneapolis—or maybe even Buenos Aires. In QED, each such path is associated with a number called an amplitude; the overall probability of getting from Boston to Seattle is found by summing all the amplitudes, then squaring the result and taking the absolute value. The trick here is that the amplitudes are complex numbers—with real and imaginary parts—which means that in the summing process some amplitudes cancel others. (Another complication is that a photon has infinitely many paths to choose from, but there are mathematical tools for handling those infinities.)
A more elaborate application of QED is calculating the interaction between two electrons: You need to sum up all the ways that the electrons could emit and absorb photons. The simplest possibility is the exchange of a single photon, but events involving two or more photons can't be ruled out. And a photon might spontaneously produce an e–e+ pair, which could then recombine to form another photon. Indeed, the variety of interaction mechanisms is limitless. Nevertheless, QED can calculate the interaction probability to very high accuracy. The key reason for this success is the small value of the electromagnetic coupling constant α. For events with two photons, the amplitude is reduced by a factor of α2, which is less than 0.0001. For three photons the coefficient is α4, and so on. Because these terms are very small, the one-photon exchange dominates the interaction. This style of calculation—summing a series of progressively smaller terms—is known as a perturbative method.
In principle, the same scheme can be applied in QCD to predict the behavior of quarks and gluons; in practice, it doesn't work out quite so smoothly. One problem comes from the color charge of the gluons. Whereas a photon cannot emit or absorb another photon, a gluon, being charged, can emit and absorb gluons. This self-interaction multiplies the number of possible pathways. An even bigger problem is the size of the color-force coupling constant αc. Because this number is close to 1, all possible gluon exchanges make roughly the same contribution to the overall interaction. The single-gluon event can still be taken as the starting point for a calculation, but the subsequent terms are not small corrections; they are just as large as the first term. The series doesn't converge; if you were to try summing the whole thing, the answer would be infinite.
In one respect the situation is not quite as bleak as this analysis suggests. It turns out that the color coupling constant αcisn't really a constant after all. The strength of the coupling varies as a function of distance. The customary unit of distance in this realm is the fermi, equal to 1 femtometer, or 10–15 meter; a fermi is roughly the diameter of a proton or a neutron. If you measure the color force at distances of less than 0.001 fermi, αc dwindles away to only about 0.1. The "constant" grows rapidly, however, as the distance increases. As a result of this variation in the coupling constant, quarks move around freely when they are close together but begin to exert powerful restraining forces as their separation grows. This is the underlying mechanism of quark confinement.
Because the color coupling gets weaker at short distances, perturbative methods can be made to work at close range. In an experimental setting, probing a particle at close range requires high energy. Thus perturbative QCD can tell us about the behavior of quarks in the most violent environments in the universe—such as the collision zones at the Large Hadron Collider now revving near Geneva. But the perturbative theory fails if we want to know about the quarks in ordinary matter at lower energy.
Understanding the low-energy or long-range properties of quark matter is the problem that lattice QCD was invented to address, starting in the mid-1970s. A number of physicists had a hand in developing the technique, but the key figure was Kenneth G. Wilson, now of Ohio State University. It's not an accident that Wilson had been working on problems in solid-state physics and statistical mechanics, where many systems come equipped with a natural lattice, namely that of a crystal.
Introducing an artificial lattice of discrete points is a common strategy for simplifying physical problems. For example, models for weather forecasting establish a grid of points in latitude, longitude and altitude where variables such as temperature and wind direction are evaluated. In QCD the lattice is four-dimensional: Each node represents both a point in space and an instant in time. Thus a particle standing still in space hops along the lattice parallel to the time axis.
It needs to be emphasized that the lattice in QCD is an artificial construct, just as it is in a weather model. No one is suggesting that spacetime really has such a rectilinear gridlike structure. To get rigorous results from lattice studies, you have to consider the limiting behavior as the lattice spacing a goes to zero. (But there are many interesting approximate results that do not require taking the limit.)
One obvious advantage of a lattice is that it helps to tame infinities. In continuous spacetime, quarks and gluons can roam anywhere; even with a finite number of particles, the system has infinitely many possible states. If a lattice has a finite number of nodes and links, the number of quark-and-gluon configurations has a definite bound. In principle, you can enumerate all states.
As it turns out, however, the finite number of configurations is not the biggest benefit of introducing a lattice. More important is enforcing a minimum dimension—namely the lattice spacing a. By eliminating all interactions at distances less than a, the lattice tames a different and more pernicious type of infinity, one where the energy of individual interactions grows without bound.
The most celebrated result of lattice QCD came at the very beginning. The mathematical framework of QCD itself (without the lattice) was formulated in about 1973; this work included the idea that quarks become "asymptotically free" at close range and suggested the hypothesis of confinement at longer range. Just a year later Wilson published evidence of confinement based on a lattice model. What he showed was that color fields on the lattice do not spread out in the way that electromagnetic fields do. As quarks are pulled apart, the color field between them is concentrated in a narrow "flux tube" that maintains a constant cross section. The energy of the flux tube is proportional to its length. Long before the tube reaches macroscopic length, there is enough energy to create a new quark-antiquark pair. The result is that isolated quarks are never seen in the wild; only collections of quarks that are color-neutral can be detected.
When I first heard about lattice QCD, I found the idea instantly appealing. Other approaches to particle physics require mastery of some very challenging mathematics, but the lattice methods looked like something I could get a grip on—something discrete and finite, where computing the state of a quantum system would be a matter of filling in columns and rows of numbers.
Those early hopes ended in disappointment. I soon learned that lattice QCD does not bring all of quantum field theory down to the level of spreadsheet arithmetic. There is still heavy-duty mathematics to be done, along with a great deal of heavy-duty computing. Nevertheless, I continue to believe that the lattice version of the weird quantum world is easier to grasp than any other. My conviction has been reinforced by the discovery of an article, "Lattice QCD for Novices," published 10 years ago by G. Peter Lepage of Cornell University. Lepage doesn't offer lattice QCD in an Excel spreadsheet, but he does present an implementation written in the Python programming language. The entire program fits in a page or two.
Lepage's lattice model for novices has just one space dimension as well as a time dimension; in other words, it describes particles moving back and forth along a line segment. And what the program simulates isn't really a quantum field theory; there are no operators for the creation and annihilation of particles. All the same, reading the source code for the program gives an inside view of how a lattice model works, even if the model is only a toy.
At the lowest level is a routine to generate thousands of random paths, or configurations, in the lattice, weighted according to their likelihood under the particular rule that governs the physical evolution of the system. Then the program computes averages for a subset of the configurations, as well as quantities that correspond to experimentally observable properties, such as energy levels. Finally, more than half the program is given over to evaluating the statistical reliability of the results.
Going beyond toy programs to research models is clearly a big step. Lepage writes of the lattice method:
Early enthusiasm for such an approach to QCD, back when QCD was first invented, quickly gave way to the grim realization that very large computers would be needed....
It's not hard to see where the computational demand comes from. A lattice for a typical experiment might have 32 nodes along each of the three spatial dimensions and 128 nodes along the time dimension. That's roughly 4 million nodes altogether, and 16 million links between nodes. Gathering a statistically valid sample of random configurations from such a lattice is an arduous process.
Some lattice QCD simulations are run on "commodity clusters"—machines assembled out of hundreds or thousands of off-the-shelf computers. But there is also a long tradition of building computers designed explicitly for lattice computations. The task is one that lends itself to highly parallel architectures; indeed, one obvious approach is to build a network of processors that mirrors the structure of the lattice itself.
One series of dedicated machines is known as QCDOC, for QCD on a chip. The chip in question is a customized version of the IBM PowerPC microprocessor, with specialized hardware for interprocessor communication. Some 12,288 processors are organized in a six-dimensional mesh, so that each processor communicates directly with 12 nearest neighbors. Three such machines have been built, two at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the third at the University of Edinburgh.
The QCDOC machines were completed in 2005, and attention is now turning to a new generation of special-purpose processors. Ideas under study include chips with multiple "cores," or subprocessors, and harnessing graphics chips for lattice calculations.
Meanwhile, algorithmic improvements may be just as important as faster hardware. The computational cost of a lattice QCD simulation depends critically on the lattice spacing a; specifically, the cost scales as 1/a6. For a long time the conventional wisdom held that a must be less than about 0.1 fermi for accurate results. Algorithmic refinements that allow a to be increased to just 0.3 or 0.4 fermi have a tremendous payoff in efficiency. If a simulation at a=0.1 fermi has a cost of 1,000,000 (in some arbitrary units), the same simulation at a=0.4 costs less than 250.
With growing computational resources and algorithmic innovations, QCD finally has the power to make sharp, quantitative predictions. An exemplary case is a recent careful calculation of quark masses.
The importance of these masses is noted in a review article by Andreas S. Kronfeld of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The two lightest quarks, designated u and d, are the constituents of protons and neutrons. (The proton is uud and the neutron udd.) Patterns among the masses of other quarks suggest that u should weigh more than d. If that were the case, a u could decay into a d. "But then protons would decay into neutrons, positrons and neutrinos.... This universe would consist of neutron stars surrounded by a swarm of photons and neutrinos, and nothing else," Kronfeld says. Since the actual universe exhibits a good deal more variety, we can infer that the d must be heavier than the u. Until recently, however, QCD simulations could not produce reliable or accurate estimates of the u and d masses.
Earlier lattice computations had to ignore a crucial aspect of QCD. Events or pathways in which quark-antiquark pairs are created or annihilated were simply too costly to compute, and so they were suppressed in the simulations. This practice yields acceptable results for some QCD phenomena, but pair-creation events have a major influence on other properties, including estimates of the quark masses.
Algorithmic refinements developed in the past decade have finally allowed quark-antiquark contributions to be included in lattice computations. The new quark-mass estimates based on these methods were made by Quentin Mason, Howard D. Trottier, Ron Horgan, Christine T. H. Davies and Lepage. They derive a u mass of 1.9 MeV (million electron-volts) and a d mass of 4.4 MeV (with estimated systematic and statistical errors of about 8 percent). Thus the uud quarks in a proton weigh about 8 MeV; the mass of the proton itself is 938 MeV.
I am intrigued by this result, and I admire the heroic effort that produced it. On the other hand, I confess to a certain puzzlement that it takes so much effort to pin down a few of the simple numbers that define the universe we live in. Nature, after all, seems to compute these values effortlessly. Why is it such hard work for us?
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While the Hampstead-based men's apparel seller still isn't confirming or denying reports that it bid on jeans designer Lucky Brand, part of Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc., company officials have announced they are considering acquisitions to spur growth. They have hired New York-based retail investment banking firm Financo LLC to help them explore options.
"It was getting out that we were being more open in the market about seeking something," Black said in an interview Monday. "The time was right to make it publicly clear what we were intending. We've always looked at that as one of many elements of strategic opportunity that we might take."
Jos. A. Bank, which operates 607 stores in 44 states, has been looking for acquisition opportunities, but it hasn't made any in its 108-year history. Rumors of an impending deal were stoked earlier this month when Women's Wear Daily reported that Bank was a bidder in an auction of Lucky Brand.
A spokeswoman for Fifth & Pacific said no public announcements have been made regarding sales of any of its brands, which also include kate spade and Juicy Couture, and declined to comment further.
Black declined to comment on the Women's Wear Daily report. He said "rumors" had raised questions about the company's strategy and prompted directors to decide during a board meeting to make the announcement about seeking acquisitions. Black also declined to comment on whether the company is negotiating any potential deals.
"We'd like to find an opportunity where we can leverage the management expertise we have and the assets of the company and where the combined enterprise represents long-term value for shareholders," he said.
Pursuing acquisitions makes sense as a way for Jos. A. Bank to grow as it looks to move beyond its deep-discount promotional strategy, said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of New York-based Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment banking firm. Davidowitz is not working with Bank.
Bank reported a sharp drop in first-quarter profits this month, and Black had outlined a five-step strategy that included boosting online sales, luring customers who wear big and tall sizes and continuing to open new full-line and outlet stores.
"Almost every retail company reaches a point where the strategy and approach has got to move on to continue growth and earnings," Davidowitz said. "They should have done this a couple of years ago. What they need is a business that could take off to provide the growth they need. They need a shot in the arm, and I believe an acquisition is the way to do it."
He said Bank's experience running a retail chain puts it in a strong position to operate a chain specializing in men's or women's apparel or other merchandise, a retailer with outlet stores or a purely online seller.
"The skill set is in running a very good chain, and those skills would apply to other products," Davidowitz said. "I think there will be a bunch of potential targets out there for them."
But he called an acquisition of rival chain Men's Wearhouse "very unlikely." The Houston-based retailer ousted its chairman and TV pitchman, George Zimmer, last week without explanation. "It's too big," Davidowitz said of Men's Wearhouse. "I don't think that is going to happen."
Mark Montagna, a senior analyst with Avondale Partners, an investment banking and wealth management firm in Nashville, said he is skeptical of Bank's announced plans.
Rather than a shift in strategy, he said, he viewed the retailer's announcement as a reaction to the company's annual meeting Friday morning, during which shareholders voted in a nonbinding action to reject pay packages for top executives and asked the company to use large cash reserves to offer a dividend or buy back some outstanding shares. The company's acquisition strategy announcement, released after a board meeting Friday, said it plans to retain capital not needed for operations to pursue potential deals.
"You have about a 1 percent chance that they find an acquisition," Montagna said. "The only logical thing is another retailer, especially menswear, because that's their expertise. I don't think Men's Wearhouse is up for sale, and Men's Wearhouse is trying to sell K&G [Fashion Superstore division]. I don't think Jos. Bank would have interest in that.
"I don't view this as being very serious, and I don't think they're going to find a suitable acquisition."
But Gilbert W. Harrison, chairman and founder of Financo, the firm assisting Bank in exploring acquisitions, said his client is "open to finding a profitable company with extremely good management, but where Jos. Bank can use the many resources that they have to aid in the growth of this company. They are looking at other types of retail companies" besides men's apparel.
He said it's a good time to pursue acquisitions because "the economy is growing again. We believe the consumer feels better about themselves, and that's the time in which you would make an effort to do something."


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This plugin provides an interface to the Syntax::Highligh::Engine::Kate which implements syntax highlighting rules taken from the Kate editor.
Currently the plugin only implements Perl 5 and PHP highlighting.
Once this plug-in is installed the user can switch the highlilghting of all Perl 5 or PHP files to use this highlighter via the Preferences menu of Padre.
This is a first attempt to integrate this syntax highlighter with Padre and thus many things don't work well. Especially, due to speed issues, currently if you set the highlighting to use the Kate plugin, Padre will do so only for small files. The hard-coded limit is in the Padre::Document::Perl class (which probably is a bug in itself) which probably means it will only limit Perl files and not PHP files.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- So, late Sunday night, as I was sipping a Saranac Big Moose Ale before bed, The Wall Street Journal broke what we, for better or worse, call news. Please, by all means, don't give TheStreet credit for the "scoop." In fact, speaking for myself, please allow me to distance myself from the WSJ report that Apple cut iPhone 5 component orders because of "weaker-than-expected" January-March quarter demand.The first thing I did after seeing the news was get in touch with TheStreet's tech geek and Apple ( AAPL - Get Report) authority Chris Ciaccia, who is headed to the San Francisco Bay area for Tuesday's big Facebook ( FB - Get Report) announcement, for his reaction:
After re-reading The Wall Street Journal article on iPhone demand, Apple cutting parts orders is the likely course of action, as the source (perhaps a Japanese parts supplier) is talking about the January to March quarter. It's likely the parts supplier (whoever it is), is seeing cuts in the January to March quarter because Apple's biggest quarter is the holiday quarter, its fiscal first quarter.
The source indicates Apple notified suppliers last month of the cuts, but unless demand just slowed to a halt, this doesn't make sense. Apple reports fiscal first-quarter earnings on Jan. 23, and we'll find out how many iPhones were sold in the holiday quarter, but one would expect that given the robust demand for the phone after it was released, demand is likely to slow from the holiday quarter. This is expected, as Apple sells more iPhones during the holiday quarter than any other time; this is a normal course of business, and likely not a sign of customer weakness.
Unless the WSJ is talking to Apple directly (and that seems highly dubious given the author does not have a track record for it), this seems like pure speculation at best.Logical. What irks me more than anything is the Journal's whole "people familiar with the situation" line. How thin and vague. But, because it's the Journal, practically every other media outlet rushed to get the story up. That's what the financial and tech media does these days. They're all largely cut-and-paste operations. One outlet "breaks news" and the mindless regurgitation begins. We give crappy reporting the opportunity to take on a life of its own and, quite possibly, move markets and impact perceptions. And that's exactly what it is -- crappy reporting. Even if this particular story turns out to be "correct," it will be the exception. Now more than ever, the media, particularly when it comes to Apple, throws out this type of tripe. It rarely sticks. And, when it doesn't, nothing happens. It's not like The Wall Street Journal will need to issue a public apology to Apple. So, if you have a hunch or a random "source," why not go with it? By the time you're wrong the world will have long forgotten your original report. If the stars align and you're right, you can take credit for being the ultimate newshound. What a business! And what do you get out of it? Not much beyond a Twitter feed that repeats, from different organizations, the exact same story, incessantly, for a solid 45 minutes. So, yeah, I think the story is trash. Complete crap.


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Arjen Robben has insisted that joining Manchester United is not an option as he is happy at Bayern Munich.
The appointment of Louis van Gaal as manager at Old Trafford has seen Robben linked with a summer switch to link up with his fellow Dutchman.
Robben has experience of the Premier League following a previous stint with Chelsea, but he has made it clear that he has no intention of returning to English football.
The 30-year-old signed a contract extension at Bayern in March to keep him at the club until 2017, and despite his admiration for Van Gaal he is not interested in a reunion.
Speaking to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Robben said: "Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period.
"And I cannot imagine that Bayern would want to sell me.
"I have only just renewed my contract and we are happy with each other. It would have been a different story had I been unhappy.
"I would have been open to a move then, because I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern. He has been very important for my career. However, fact is that I am very happy at my current club."
Robben will play under Van Gaal for the Netherlands at the World Cup this summer before the manager takes up his post at Manchester United, and the former Chelsea man feels he was the perfect choice to replace David Moyes.
"I think United did great to appoint Van Gaal," said Robben.
Robben's announcement that he is committed to Bayern comes just a day after team-mate Toni Kroos revealed that he expects to stay with the Bundesliga champions.
Kroos has also been mentioned as a transfer target for United, but he does not expect to be on the move this summer.
"I am expecting to play for Bayern Munich next season," said Kroos in a statement to BILD.
"There was a lot of speculation, but Manchester is and was not an issue.
"At this point in time I am fully focused on preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup."


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ZAGREB, Croatia, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Late entrant David Evans and qualifier Bjorn Phau had wins Friday that lifted them into the semifinals of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors tennis tournament.
Evans, put into the main draw after No. 7 Radek Stepanek withdrew with a foot injury, defeated third-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. He saved three break points in the first set and two more in the third.
He only converted two of his eight break chances but those decided the first and third sets for the win.
Phau, No. 358 in the rankings, beat Dudi Sela 6-4, 6-3 by finishing off five of his six break opportunities. Phau hadn't won an ATP main-draw match since last March until this week.
Top-seeded Tommy Haas got by Andrey Kuznetsov in a tight 7-6 (8-6), 6-4. Haas had the only break of the match -- that won him the second set -- and took just seven more (75-68) points in the match than Kuznetsov.
Fifth-seeded Marin Cilic, the defending tournament champion, gained a place in the semis with a 7-5, 6-4 win over No. 4-seeded Ivan Dodig. Cilic had two breaks in each set, which allowed him to take a 3-2 series edge over Dodig.
Phau and Cilic meet in the first semifinal with Evans and Haas following. Phau and Evans are both seeking their first ATP finals appearances.


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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung.
Girls in red and pink jackets skipped along streets festooned with celebratory banners and flags and parents pushed strollers with babies bundled up against the spring chill as residents of the isolated, impoverished nation began observing a three-day holiday.
There was no sense of panic in the North Korean capital, where very few locals have access to international broadcasts and foreign newspaper headlines speculating about an imminent missile launch and detailing the international diplomacy under way to try to rein Pyongyang in. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry toured the region for four days through Monday to try to tamp down emotions and coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally.
Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing U.S.-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile.
North Korea's own media gave little indication Monday of how high the tensions are.
The Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party newspaper, featured photos and coverage of current leader Kim Jong Un's overnight visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum to pay respects to his grandfather. There was only one line at the end of the article vowing to bring down the "robber-like U.S. imperialists."
Kim Jong Un's renovation of the memorial palace that once served as his grandfather's presidential offices was opened to the public on Monday, the vast cement plaza replaced by fountains, park benches, trellises and tulips. Stretches of green lawn were marked by small signs indicating which businesses — including the Foreign Trade Bank recently added to a U.S. Treasury blacklist — and government agencies donated funds to help pay for the landscaping.
Braving the cold, gray weather, people lined up in droves to lay bouquets of fake flowers at the bronze statues of Kim Il Sung and his son, late leader Kim Jong Il, in downtown Pyongyang. It's a scene repeated for every major holiday in North Korea, where loyalty to the Kims and to the state are drummed in citizens from an early age.
They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition. Cheers and screams from a soccer match filled the air.
"Although the situation is tense, people have got bright faces and are very happy," said Han Kyong Sim, a drink stand worker.
Monday marked the official start of the new year according to North Korea's "juche" calendar, which begins with the day of Kim Il Sung's birth in 1912. But unlike last year, the centennial of his birthday, there are no big parades in store this week, and North Koreans were planning to use it as a day to catch up with friends and family.
But while there has been almost no sense of crisis in Pyongyang, North Korea's official posture toward the outside appears to be as hardline as ever.
On Sunday, it rejected South Korea's proposal to resolve tensions through dialogue. North Korea said it has no intention of talking with Seoul unless it abandons what it called the rival South's confrontational posture. South Korea's unification ministry spokesman, Kim Hyung-suk, called that response "very regrettable" on Monday, but said that the South remains open to dialogue.
A top North Korean leader, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, also told a gathering of high officials Sunday that the North must bolster its nuclear arsenal further and "wage a stronger all-out action with the U.S. to cope with the prevailing wartime situation," according to footage from the North's state TV.
South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary committee in Seoul on Monday that North Korea still appears poised to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose how he got the information.
Many observers had predicted North Korea would launch the missile ahead of Monday's holiday, because similar past launches have come ahead of key national commemorations.
The leadership may have shied away from doing that because reports of a launch drew too much scrutiny and prompted U.S. and South Korean forces to go on alert, said Kim Jin Moo, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in South Korea. The North may choose instead to launch it once tensions have calmed down a bit, he said.
"I think they didn't launch the missile because they may be worried it would be shot down," Kim said, adding that later "North Korea may abruptly fire the missile early one morning."
Kerry, during his trip, warned North Korea not to conduct a missile test, saying it will be an act of provocation that "will raise people's temperatures" and further isolate the country and its people. In Tokyo on Sunday, Kerry said the U.S. was "prepared to reach out" but Pyongyang must first lower tensions and honor previous agreements.
North Korea has also pulled workers from the Kaesong factory complex on its side of the Demilitarized Zone, the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement, in a pointed jab at South Korea. South Korean-run factories provided more than 50,000 jobs for North Korea, where two-thirds of the population struggle with food shortages, according to the World Food Program.
North Korea has issued no specific warnings to ships and aircraft that a missile test is imminent, and is also continuing efforts to increase tourism.
Associated Press writer Eric Talmadge in Pyongyang and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report. Follow Lee, AP's bureau chief for Pyongyang and Seoul, at www.twitter.com/newsjean.


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Ga. runoff: Nasty, brutish and long
Republicans in Washington got the result they wanted in Georgia: Two candidates viewed as the strongest contenders to keep a Senate seat central to the fight for the majority.
But the runoff between Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue will be nasty, brutish – and long. As in the lengthiest in the state's political history — a nine-week intra-party slugfest at a critical moment in the battle for control of the Senate.
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The "good part" of a longer contest is that it allows campaigns to restock their respective war chests for the runoff, said Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Republican who lost a three-week runoff in 1996 for the Senate GOP nomination.
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"The bad thing is it's nine weeks, and it's really a third race," Isakson said Tuesday. "Now you got a runoff that is the length of some general elections — endurance-wise, organizationally and cost-wise, it's really going to put a burden on whoever is in it."
Republicans will have a choice between Kingston, an 11-term congressman who has the backing of the likes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Sean Hannity — and Perdue, a first-time candidate who boasts of turning around Fortune 500 companies and being an "outsider." The winner will take on Democrat Michelle Nunn, who has yet to be tested after skating to her party's nomination Tuesday night.
Both the 59-year-old Kingston and the 64-year-old Perdue carry considerable assets and risks for the GOP. With Perdue, Republicans have a wealthy candidate with the ability to self-fund his campaign and no voting record to have to defend. He can argue he's out to fix a gridlocked Washington, potentially neutralizing one of Nunn's central selling points. And like his Democratic opponent, whose father was a popular senator, Perdue has a last name famous in the Peach State: His cousin, Sonny Perdue, was a former two-term governor of Georgia.
( WATCH: Primary victory speeches)
But as a first-time candidate, David Perdue has committed gaffes on the trail. Plus, his critics say his business record and deep pockets will allow him to be portrayed as an out-of-touch elitist.
As a longtime congressman, Kingston has a strong fundraising network in Washington, the fervent backing of the business community and the demonstrated ability to win even in Democratic years. He has conservative bona fides that he can use to unite the party.
But his conservative voting record on issues like Medicare could be used against him in a general election, and his longtime service in an unpopular Washington give his critics on the right and left ample ammunition.
( Also on POLITICO: Self-funder Wolf trounces Pa. governor field)
The two men have engaged in a bare-knuckle fight over the past several weeks — with Kingston questioning Perdue's Republicanism and business acumen and Perdue comparing Kingston to a crying baby causing the mess in Washington.
The runoff is bound to intensify those differences.
For the first time, a Georgia Senate runoff will be nine weeks long — rather than three weeks as it has historically been. That's due to an Obama Justice Department lawsuit in 2012 arguing that the three-week runoff disenfranchised overseas and military voters.
The nine-week race ahead of July 22 is certain to not only be a bruising affair — but also entirely unpredictable. It will force the two candidates to run full-fledged campaigns. They'll launch hard-hitting ads against one another and barnstorm to Republican strongholds mainly in Northern Georgia, courting the small set of activist voters who traditionally dominate runoff elections.
( Also on POLITICO: Insurgent GOP groups embrace McConnell)
That recipe could produce a stronger candidate for the fall, or it could drain the eventual nominee of critical resources for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
The primary race was unpredictable from the start. Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, two fiercely conservative congressman once viewed as the most likely to get into the runoff, petered out at the end of this campaign. And even in recent days, it appeared that Perdue had begun to shed support after he suggested to a local newspaper that raising revenue was an appropriate way to cut the deficit. (After his GOP critics pounced, he reaffirmed his opposition to raising taxes.)
The third place finisher was Karen Handel, the former secretary of state who tapped into the Sarah Palin wing of the party and had gained momentum in recent weeks after Perdue seemed to knock her educational background. But she failed to raise enough cash to compete with Kingston and Perdue in the expensive Atlanta media markets.


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Dr. Melissa DeNiel serves as the orthopedic surgeon for Ferris State University Athletics and is presently in her 19th year of providing the medical service to FSU student-athletes.
Dr. DeNiel, who started at Ferris State in August 2000, is currently an orthopedic surgeon with Spectrum Health after a stint at Michigan Medical PC Surgery Specialists in Grand Rapids. Prior to her recent positions, DeNiel became American Board Certified in Orthopedics in 2002 and then became board certified in sports medicine in 2007. She completed her orthopedic residency from 1993-99 followed by a fellowship in Orthopedic Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy in 1999-2000.
A native of Green Bay, Wis., DeNiel received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Loyola University in Chicago, Ill., in 1988. She was a member of the Ramblers' NCAA Division I women's basketball team during her freshman season, but suffered a career-ending anterior cruciate ligament in her knee. Following a number of surgeries, DeNiel was redshirted for a season and changed her career focus to attending medical school.
DeNiel would go on to earn her M.D. degree in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis.
A 1984 graduate of Bay Port High School in Howard, Wis., DeNiel was a standout in both basketball and track. She received All-Bay Conference basketball honors in both her junior and senior seasons along with being tabbed the Metro Player of the Year and earning team Most Valuable Player accolades in both campaigns. An academic all-state selection in basketball, DeNiel competed in track and presently holds the school record in the 300-yard hurdles. She also placed fourth in the state meet for 300-yard hurdles and participated in the 800-yard hurdles at the state finals in her junior year.
The daughter of Alice Hansen of Green Bay, Wis., DeNiel has two brothers and three sisters.
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Exclusive: Mah-Jong on CD-i
>> Friday, August 22, 2008
A few weeks back we showed you some original jananese CD-i game covers; including the announcement that a Mah-Jong game actually exists. It has the same mysterious flavour as Golgo 13 which was covered here before, but unfortunately we didn't have any material to prove it. Now our fond member Alan_UK brought us the news that he owns an original copy of Mah-Jong on CD-i! Alan: "It is the basic game of Mahjong which is extremely popular in the Far East. It will only play on NTSC cd-i players. It is entirely in Japanese but the person who I bought it from translated some of it for me. The scans are of the front & back covers, and some stickers which were included." Alan will present you more information including a review and hopefully some screenshots here at Interactive Dreams, but in the meantime you'll have to wait and enjoy the cover! More info soon!