THIS ONE IS A BEAUTY!
Great looking single signed baseball by former 2x World Champion Los Angeles Dodger...Willie Davis.
Willie began his career in 1960 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played for the Dodgers 1960-73, Montreal Expos 1974, Texas Rangers 1975, St. Louis Cardinals 1975, San Diego Padres 1976 and California Angels 1979. During his career, he played in 2429 games and pounded out 2561 hits (including 395 doubles, 138 triples and 182 HR's) in 9174 at bats for a .279 career batting average. Willie, whose nickname was "3-Dog", drew 418 walks, batted in 1053 runs and scored 1217 runs. Willie was a 2x NL All-Star (1971, 1973), was a 3x Gold Glove Award winner (1971, 1972, 1973) and was a member of the 1963 and 1965 World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Willie signed the sweet spot of this OML Allan H. Selig baseball with a blue ballpoint pen and he also inscribed, "3 dog", underneath the stitching to note his nickname.
William Henry Davis (April 15, 1940, Mineral Springs, Arkansas – March 9, 2010, Burbank, California) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Los Angeles Dodgers. At the end of his career he ranked seventh in major league history in putouts (5449) and total chances (5719) in the outfield, and third in games in center field (2237); he was also ninth in National League history in total outfield games (2274), and won Gold Glove Awards from 1971 to 1973. He had 13 seasons of 20 or more stolen bases, led the NL in triples twice, and retired with the fourth most triples (138) by any major leaguer since 1945. He holds Los Angeles club records (1958–present) for career hits (2091), runs (1004), triples (110), at bats (7495), total bases (3094) and extra base hits (585). His 31-game hitting streak in 1969 remains the longest by a Dodger. At one point during the streak, when the team was playing at home, the big message board at Dodger Stadium quoted a message from a telegram sent to Davis and the team from Zack Wheat, the team's former record holder, at his home in Missouri.
As a youngster, Davis moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was a three-sport standout in baseball, basketball, and track & field at Theodore Roosevelt High School. He once ran a 9.5-second 100-yard dash, and set a city record in the long jump of 25 feet 5 inches (7.75 m). Discovered by the Dodgers scout, Kenny Myers, Davis signed with the ballclub upon graduating from Roosevelt in 1958. While playing for Reno, he scored from first base on a single nine times in one season.
Davis played his first game with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1960. The following season he replaced the former All-Star Duke Snider in center field, where Davis stayed for 13 years. Widely considered to be one of the fastest baseball players of the 1960s, Davis had 20 or more stolen bases in eleven consecutive seasons. Davis's career-high in stolen bases was 42 in 1964. Along with Maury Wills, Davis put a lot of footspeed at the top of Dodgers' lineup, and this helped them to either win or tie for the National League title in 1962, '63, '65, and '66. Also, in 1962, these two players "set the table" for teammate Tommy Davis to lead the National League with 153 runs batted in (RBI) -- the only time that a Los Angeles Dodger has ever accumulated 150 or more RBI in one season.
In 1962, Davis batted .285 with 85 runs batted in, and he posted career highs in home runs (21), runs (103), and hits (171). In that same season, Davis and Wills set a National League record for stolen bases by two teammates in season with 136 (Wills with 104 and Davis with 32).
Davis batted a career-high .311 in 1969. His 31-game hitting streak that year, from August 1 to September 3, was the longest one in the major leagues since Dom DiMaggio hit in 34 straight games in 1949, and it broke Zack Wheat's franchise record of 29, set in 1916. In 1970, Davis batted .305, and he had another hitting streak of 25 games in 1971, ending with a 0.309 batting average and in double figures in doubles, 33; triples, 10;, home runs, 10; and stolen bases, 20. Davis also led the NL in triples in 1962 and 1970.
Davis was selected for the National League All-Star teams in 1971 and in 1973, batting a combined 3-for-3, with a home run off Nolan Ryan. Davis won a Gold Glove each year from 1971 to 1973. In the 1965 World Series, Davis set a record (since broken) of three stolen bases (including one during which he stumbled and fell, the pitcher hesitated throwing to first base, and Davis literally crawled into second base safely) in a single game. He led the league in put-outs twice, but also twice led the league in errors. Unfortunately for him, Davis committed an all-time World Series record of three errors on two consecutive plays in the fifth inning of Game Two of the 1966 World Series (the final game ofSandy Koufax's great pitching career), first by losing Paul Blair's fly ball in the sun for a two-base error, then by dropping Andy Etchebarren's fly ball one batter later and overthrowing third base, allowing Boog Powell and Blair to score. When questioned after the game, he said, "It's not my wife; it's not my life. It's just a game." In retrospect, the Dodgers did not score any runs in that game nor the last two games of the World Series as they were swept by the Orioles.
A convert to Buddhism, Davis constantly fingered his prayer beads and chanted before games. He played his final major league season with the California Angels in 1979, making two pinch hitting appearances in the American League Championship Series before retiring. In an 18-year career, Davis accumulated a .279 batting average with 182 home runs and 1053 RBI in 2429 games played. He also collected 2561 hits and 398 stolen bases. His total of 2237 games in center field ranks behind only Willie Mays (2827) and Tris Speaker (2690) in major league history. In addition to the Los Angeles records he retains, his club mark of 1952 games was surpassed by Bill Russell in 1984; Steve Garvey broke his records of 849 RBI and 321 doubles in 1981 and 1982 respectively. Garvey and Ron Cey passed his Los Angeles club record of 154 home runs in 1979; Davis' record for left-handed hitters was broken by Shawn Green in 2004.
Davis also appeared in several TV programs, including Mr. Ed, The Flying Nun, and Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. He also was a co-star of the Jerry Lewis comedy film from 1970, Which Way to the Front?. In a 1969 episode of Bewitched Samantha, attending a game at Shea Stadium to see the New York Mets host the Dodgers, remarks "Willie Davis just hit a grand slam!" The episode was filmed August 22, 1969, a date when the Mets coincidentally beat the Dodgers at Shea. In reality, Davis went 2 for 4 in the game, but did not hit a grand slam.
Davis was found dead in his home in Burbank, California on March 9, 2010, by a neighbor who sometimes brought him breakfast. Initial indications show that he most likely died of natural causes. Davis is survived by his two sons, Gregory and Casey, and two daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer.
Willie Davis an Arkansas native was voted #21 greatest Arkansas Sports Figure by Sports Illustrated. The list had the football player with the same name of the Packers listed, but he never even lived in Arkansas, this was a mistake and it was supposed to be William Henry Davis of baseball.
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with their own corporate physical desktops. Which solution will best suit Nether Tech's needs?
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engineer do to meet the requirements stated in the environment?
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set a policy to allow all client printers to auto-create for the domain group called Accounting Users.
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1999: Closing Time (Director)
1999: Closing Time (Screenplay)
1999: Closing Time (Producer)
2003: Forest (Cast)
2005: Before Dawn (Director)
2005: Before Dawn (Screenplay)
2005: Before Dawn (Co-producer)
2006: My One and Onlies (Cast)
2009: The History of Aviation (Director)
2009: The History of Aviation (Screenplay)
2009: The History of Aviation (Producer)
Bálint Kenyeres
Bálint Kenyeres was born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying Philosophy and History and Theory of Film, he graduated at the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in Film Directing in 2006.
From 2006 he is a member of the European Film Academy.
The History of Aviation / L'histoire de l'aviation / A repülés története (2009, HU/FR, 35 mm, colour, anamorphic, 15')
Before Dawn (2005, 35mm, colour, Cinemascope, Dolby SRD, 13')
Before dawn, the wheat gently undulates on the hillside. Before dawn, people will rise and others will take away their hope.
Prizes & Festivals:
Selected for more than 100 film festivals, won more than 30 awards.
EFA 2006: Best European Short Film Award
Sundance 2006: Honorable Mention
Cannes 2005: Short Film Competition
Teleplay / Tévéjáték (2000, BetaSP, colour, 15')
Inspired by Harold Pinter's The Lover, this short film plays with actors, acting and actor's direction. A film within a film where a simple situation can quickly become threatening and absurd.
(Film school exercise not submitted to festivals)
Closing Time / Zárás (1999, 35mm, colour, 13')
A bar before closing time. A chess game after the determinative step.
56th Venice International Film Festival Short Film Competition
Selected for more than 30 international film festivals and awarded more than 12 times.
Hungarian entry for the 27th Student Academy Awards.

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'Assassin's Creed Pirates' Receives New Update!
Just recently Ubisoft announced that their hit iOS title, Assassin's Creed Pirates, has received its third major update since the game's release in December 2013. For players willing to travel far from the safety of commercial routes, a new area called La Boca del Diablo is now available to explore. This mysterious island is full of dark legends where players learn about the secrets of the island through a new story mission. In this new missions players can seek new treasures and diaries to unlock secrets about La Buse's missing treasure. The update also features new daily challenges that give players the opportunity to complete three challenges a day such as collecting books, sinking Merchant ships or completing Assassination missions to earn gold. Adding on, three difficulty levels are available for each challenge, which pay-out more or less depending upon which difficulty the player selected. For the full list of details check out the following list below.
New feature: Today's Challenges, each day you will have the opportunity to complete 3 different challenges. Each completed challenge will be rewarded with a huge pack of coins.
New Node: La boca del diablo, far from the main commercial routes, this mysterious island is swarming with dark legends and tales of recent horrors.
New Story Mission: Alonzo follows La Buse's riddle to a mysterious island.
New side missions, new hooks, new fishes to catch, new treasures and new diaries to find.
Interested? Assassin's Creed Pirates is available on the App Store for $4.99 by clicking here, however, there are also in-app purchases.
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Girlfriends Cyber Circuit interview with Jeri Smith-Ready
Posted: September 27, 2011 in Uncategorized
Tags: anthology, enthralled, girlfriends cyber circuit, interview, jeri smith-ready, shade, shift, smart chicks, tour
As promised yesterday, I'm pleased to present an interview with adult and YA author Jeri Smith-Ready, one of the contributors to the new ENTHRALLED anthology, edited by Melissa Marr & Kelley Armstrong.
First, she tells us a little about her story, "Bridge" –
In the world of the SHADE novels, everyone seventeen and under can see and hear ghosts, but no one else can. So when Logan Keeley dies and his eighteen-year-old brother Mickey blames himself, they can't ease each other's pain or reconcile their rage. Over the course of SHADE and SHIFT, Mickey sinks into a near-suicidal depression over Logan's death.
"Bridge" is the story, told in free verse, of how two brothers, with the help of a stranger, forge the chasm between them to find a lasting peace.
"A solid collection of stories…Sarah Rees Brennan's 'Let's Get This Undead Show on the Road' follows a vampire in a boy-band and stands out with its perfect blend of snark and sincerity. It's followed in a one-two punch by Jeri Smith-Ready's intense and earnest 'Bridge.'…This collection is ideal as a sampler tray for paranormal readers looking to pick up new authors to follow or to further explore the fictional worlds they already know. —Kirkus Reviews
A standout among the many paranormal-themed anthologies. — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (Recommended review)
What is your writing process like? Are you a plotter or a pantser? Do you schedule time to write each day or are you a spree writer?
I'm somewhere in between a plotter and pantser. I usually have a rough outline/synopsis before I start, but then I never look at it while I write the first draft. It's when I rewrite that I get super analytical, using spreadsheets and index cards and programs like Scrivener.
When I'm drafting, I set a word- or page-count or scene goal and I keep going until I'm finished. I don't necessarily start first thing in the morning, though. When editing, I set a kitchen timer to work a certain number of hours. I pause it when I take a break, even just for a few minutes. In the last week of each phase of editing, it's usually set at 12 hours, which means starting in the early morning and going until late at night.
What is the hardest part about the publishing process for you and how do you get through it? (For me, it's copyediting and sour cream and onion chips.)
First drafts, by far. To me it's like sculpting air. I get through it using a NaNoWriMo spreadsheet that tells you not only how many words you have to write today, but how many words you'll have to write EVERY day if you slack off. Fear is a powerful motivator.
We drop your hero or heroine on a deserted island. Quick, what are the three things he or she can't live without?
1. His guitar
2. Pizza
3. His girlfriend Aura, who would be the one to figure out how to survive and/or get off the island while Logan sat around playing guitar and whining that there was no pizza.
If your story were a film, who would you cast?
I'm really fuzzy on who I'd cast for Logan and Aura, so I'd say to Hollywood, "Surprise me!" But Zachary should be played by Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films). Have you seen him lately? He grew up into quite the hottie. And for Zach's dad Ian, none other than Craig Ferguson.
Are there any contests or upcoming appearances/interviews/etc. you'dlike to plug?
At 12:01 Tuesday, September 20, I'll be posting the lyrics to "Forever," the song Logan wrote for Aura in SHADE (before he died), the one he sang to her while she "slept" the night before his testimony at the trial. I promised I would write and release the lyrics if Zachary from SHADE received 5,000 votes in the final round of the YA Crush Tournament last month (he received over 21,000 votes in his second-place finish).
In real life, I'll be at the Baltimore Book Festival Friday, September 23, doing panels at 1:30 and 3pm, a reading at 2pm, then signing books from 4-6pm, at the Maryland Romance Writers pavilion.
Then I go to Seattle for the King County Public Library book festival, where I'll be appearing with the Smart Chicks 2.0 tour on Sunday, October 2, 1-4pm. Can't wait!
Jeri Smith-Ready has been writing fiction since the night she had her first double espresso. Her nine published books include two series for adults and the SHADE trilogy for teens, about a world of ghosts only the young can see, which concludes May 2012 with SHINE. Like many of her characters, Jeri enjoys music, movies, and staying up very, very late. Visit her at http://www.jerismithready.com, or on Facebook (www.facebook.com/JeriSmithready) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/jsmithready), where she spends way too much time. Logan himself can be found on Twitter @keeley_logan, as can his rival/"brother-in-pulp," Zachary Moore (@moore_zachary). The boys love to chat with each other and with their real-life fans.
Tags: deal, morganville vampires, new york times, publishers weekly, rachel caine, smart chicks, tour
You may already have seen it in Publishers Weekly, but just in case, I'm so pleased to announce that NAL has acquired three more novels in Rachel Caine's New York Times-bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series. Just in case you've missed out and want to get caught up, Morganville, Texas is a quiet college town populated and powered by vampires who've come to a sort of understanding with the human community—you abide by certain rules, swear fealty to a protector, make your monthly blood donations, and they won't snack on you. Except under extreme conditions…based on a very fluid definition of extreme. Unfortunately, the young residents of the Glass House, one of the Founders buildings with secrets and a resident spirit of its own, aren't terribly good about following the rules.
She's about to embark on the Smart Chicks Kick It Tour with other amazingly Smart Chicks Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Simone Elkeles, Kami Garcia, Ally Condie, Beth Revis, Margaret Stohl, Sara Zarr, Melissa de la Cruz, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Stephanie Kuehnert, Richelle Mead, Jeri Smith-Ready, Rachel Vincent…whew, the list goes on and on! The full schedule is here. This all leads perfectly into tomorrow's post, an interview with Jeri Smith-Ready, one of the contributors to the new Enthralled anthology which grew out of last year's tour!


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Published 1977 by Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., Somerset House in Cambridge, England, Teaneck .
Reproduced by permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum; microfiche edition copyright Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.
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What Would Life Look Like Without Advertising?
Posted by Matt Bluemink January 27, 2015
What would life look like without advertisement? This is a question that seems almost unthinkable to us in a modern Western society. Where would we be without the the golden arches of McDonalds or CocaCola's famous Christmas truck? Are we doomed to live in a world where even the world's premier football league is sponsored by a bank, and the meerkat from the Go Compare adverts is more famous than any one of the Eastern European leaders? What would Piccadilly Circus or Times Square look like without their seminal giant billboards pushing customers to buy a Sanyo camera or Samsung TV? Well almost 10 years ago one of the biggest cities in the world decided to find out.
São Paulo, Brazil, is now the 7th largest city in the world with a population of just over 20 million people. In September 2006, Mayor Gilberto Kassab passed a bill called Lei Cidade Limpa (the "Clean City Law") which outlawed the use of all outdoor advertisements. This was by no means a small scale operation. It wasn't just limited to the giant Bladerunner-esque billboards that bombard us with Big Macs and cans of Coke in Times Sq. Virtually everything that was put in a public space with intention of selling a product was to be taken down: billboards, shop fronts, taxis, buses etc.
"People had become more and more aware that pollution in São Paulo was one of its main problems" Kassab describes, "and by pollution we not only mean air, water, or sound, but also visual pollution." The issue of visual pollution was so prominent in São Paulo that within a year, around 15,000 billboards were stripped and all shop signs had to be scaled down or removed in order to avoid violating the new law. Even pamphleteering in public spaces had been made illegal. Fines, totaling somewhere in the region of £5m, were issued to rid the city of its polluted landscape.
Nine years on and the most important city in South America has remained free of the visual clutter that plagues the majority of cities around the world. Initially when the law was passed, it faced huge scepticism and there was an air of panic from city businesses and advertisement groups. Opponents were worried that the advertising ban would entail a loss hundreds of millions worth of revenue and over 20,000 people could potentially lose their jobs. Others argued that the city would turn into a bleak and desolate blend of concrete with the ads removed, which looking at some of the photos is quite understandable:
Dalton Silvanom, the one Councillor who voted against the law stated "I think this city is going to become a sadder, duller place […] Advertising is both an art form and, when you're in your car or alone on foot, a form of entertainment that helps relieve solitude and boredom." Perhaps unsurprisingly, Silvanom is businessman with ties to the advertising world, so he may not be the most impartial judge when it comes to the way adverts affect our public spaces. But there's also a bigger issue at play here: can advertising be seen as art when it's purpose is to sell the consumer a particular commodity?
German philosopher and critical theorist Theodor Adorno argued that "The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them". In other words, we've been coaxed into a world where we knowingly buy products that we don't need knowing full well that doing so will not contribute towards our happiness. So Adorno's point here is that we cannot just view advertising as a passive medium that just brightens up our cities and breaks up our television shows. It is an active, aggressive form of capitalist propaganda that is a blight on our cityscapes and used like a drug to keep us addicted to consumerism.
The advertisements of Times Square
Karl Marx's original statement that "religion is the opium of the people" may still stand true, but if religion is the opium of the people then, for the critical theorists of the 20th century, advertising has surely become our Heroin: a distilled and enhanced form of seduction that keeps us rooted in an ideology that we, as individuals, have no choice over. Indeed, the majority of adverts are not intended to inform us, or educate us, they are there to sell desire through dissatisfaction – visual media with such a goal, from Adorno's perspective, can surely not be classified as art.
So, Silvanom's argument that we should cling on to our over-advertised cities because they relieve boredom and provide us with enjoyment through their 'artistic merit' seems rather weak (at least from the above perspective). To imagine what life would look like without advertising maybe we should imagine a world where instead of CocaCola unashamedly telling us to 'Open Happiness' on the side of every London bus, we could see the work of an artist whose sole intention it was to produce something for the sake of the enjoyment of the viewer. Aesthetically I don't think many would disagree with adding more and more art to the city's blank grey walls. This could have an amazing cultural influence as well as bringing revenue into the city through tourism. It's seems São Paulo is the only one of the world's major cities that is on the right track:
One of the new street art pieces filling Sao Paulo
However, many smaller cities and towns throughout the world have been pushing to follow in São Paulo's footsteps. A few years ago locals in Bristol, a city famous for it's wide variety of street art (Banksy, of course being the most famous), instigated an online petition to get the council to ban all outdoor adverts. They called it 'Bristol: the city that said no to advertising'. Similarly in the US, Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, and a further 1500 towns across the country have placed restrictions on the amount of ads. Paris also recently decided to cut down their outdoor adverts by 30% and banned all ads within 50 meters of school gates.
Anti-consumerist street art in Bristol
Now, in summary, I'm not necessarily advocating a ban of all adverts, in fact I do think advertising is somewhat necessary in some cases. However, I also believe that if we keep heading down this road it won't just be football stadiums named after airlines that we need to worry about, everything could be bought or sponsored to sell us one product of another. So what would life look like without advertising? I doubt we'll ever be able to find out but it's encouraging that in São Paulo, and other places across the world, people are starting to take notice of it's negative effects rather than just accepting it as an inevitability of city living. And if we don't? Who knows, maybe we'll be planning trips to iCalifornia or Samsung Seoul in the future.
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Q: Finding coordinates of polygon in a canvas I have draw several polygons in a canvas. I am now interested in how to find the coordinates (vertices) of the selected polygon. I can find the selected polygon (region) using mouse coordinates, but I need to redraw it if it is selected, which is why I need its coordinates to do that.
A similar answer that I found so far is this one https://help.geogebra.org/topic/-solved-how-do-i-get-a-list-of-coordinates-from-a-polygon- using GeoGebra, but I am using HTML5 and JavaScript!

A: Once you draw something on a canvas, you can not get the coordinates of the object you drew unless you have some image processing algorithm.
Instead, you need need to keep the polygon object you drew on the canvas in memory and you need to define it's boundaries on the canvas.
This way, when the user clicks on the canvas, you simply get the mouse coordinates on the canvas and you calculate which polygon was clicked by checking where you drew your polygon and checking if the mouse clicks enters the boundaries of this polygon.

A: Sounds like you are trying to solve a couple different problems:
1) Figure out which polygon the user clicked. As was mentioned, if you are keeping an array of your polygons in memory, and can implement an isPointInPath method, then you can loop through your in-memory polygons and check if any of them were clicked. Don't forget that to get an accurate check, you may need to take your given "mouse x" and "mouse y" coordinates (from a click event, for example) and subtract the canvas's page X and Y coordinate.
(See the SO answer How do I get the coordinates of a mouse click on a canvas element? for more detail.)
2) Once you've determined the user has clicked polygon P, you want to redraw it. You should be able to redraw it no problem, by simply redrawing the same polygon using the same coordinates as before (for example, you could change your strokeStyle or fillStyle to a different color to represent the selection).
If you want to make the polygon larger and in the same position, that's a different question - basically, you need to translate the canvas to the center of the polygon, then scale the canvas, then draw your polygon. If this is new to you, there's a tutorial available at http://codetheory.in/canvas-rotating-and-scaling-images-around-a-particular-point/ (uses images instead of polygons, but same concept).
Note that if your polygon is complex, even determining the right point to scale around may be difficult. The question "what is the center of a complex polygon" has several different answers; a simple answer is to average all of the polygon's point's X and Y values (Center X = avg(X), Center Y = avg(Y)). If that doesn't look right, there are more complicated approaches available in another SO question, What is the fastest way to find the "visual" center of an irregularly shaped polygon? .
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Cassia – 'Replica' | Album Review
Published on April 16, 2019 April 14, 2019 by Lucy Bower
Cassia prove good on Debut Album
It's not often that an album is able to transport you to the perfect heat of summer. Yet this was where I found myself after listening to the first song on Replica by Cassia. There's something about Cassia that makes you want to dance until you can no longer feel your feet. The trio transfers a hell of a lot of energy considering their size, it would be easy to mistake them for a large ensemble.
Featuring eleven of this band's jangly songs, Replica is a Bible for the summer. Their songs run parallel to the sounds of Vampire Weekend, with the Northern trio gaining support from Radio 1's Greg James and Huw Stephens. Made up of Rob Ellis, Lou Cotterill and Jacob Leff, their debut album is evidence that positivity is well and truly alive in new bands.
Cassia manages to put an optimistic spin on everything – 'Small Space' is the first song on the album; 'all the misfits put on their crowns' is a standout line and empowers those on the outskirts of society. Much like the songs that follow there is a lot going on, with this opening track making a strong foundation for the rest of the album.
Summer, Summer.
The expectations are high for 'Replica', the song that the album is named after. With a reggae vibe, it is the very definition of summer as the lyrics; "gold sunshine, replica gold", will bring the summertime sun to us even on the coldest of days. Speaking about the song itself, the band say how Replica "encompasses what the album is about for us" and shows how;"you can cultivate your own inner world to match what you want to see". 'Loosen Up' is another track following a reggae rhythm and quirky guitar riffs throughout. Keeping it short and sweet at 2 minutes 40 seconds, Ellis sings lyrics about – you guessed it – wanting to loosen up.
Although a few of the songs have already been released as singles, each one brings its own atmosphere. Even their best-known song '100 times over' has had a makeover, and Leff's drums have a real tribal feel to them. 'Freedom it is all around me' showcases their indie songwriting in an attempt to consolidate us with our fellow peers.
'Movers and Shapers' is a newcomer on the album. It is a full experience for our ears. Also, there's never an empty moment between the sun-kissed guitar licks and bouncing bass. However, what's most interesting in this song is the drums. Cassia experiments with different tones and rhythms to make Jacob Leff's task as challenging as possible. Despite all of this, they completely pull it off. The drums feature some of the most exciting and innovative rhythms out there.
With a reference to the golden sun in almost every song, Replica is the summer that we all deserve. This is a vibrant and upbeat album which can be played any time of year, not just in the warmth of summer.
Lucy Bower
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Beijing's Fad of US Dollar Bashing
(chinastakes.com) China has become the world's main battlefield in the challenge to the dominance of the US dollar. At a recent global think tank summit held in Beijing by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China's official think tank, voices for "international currency", and "global supervision" sounded frequently, and some scholars proposed a special global currency meeting during the World Expo in 2010.
"The world's economic organizations are globalized, while political organizations are regional, or at state level," stated the almost 90-year-old former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, pointing out a basic world contradiction at the meeting.
Robert Mundell, known as the "father of euro," said there was no doubt that all needed a single world currency.
A world currency would be the same as a super-sovereign currency. Zhou Xiaochun, governor of China's central bank raised the idea of super-sovereign currency in March this year, a direct challenge to the dominance of USD as the world's reserve currency.
Mundell said global politicians were constantly discussing a single-currency mechanism, and the time was coming to realize a globalized monetary system. Mundell has long advocated a world currency.
Many Chinese decision makers and economists think the current international monetary system dominated by the USD is the root of the crisis and needs a reform, a position that has some international consensus. People think differently, however, about how it should be reformed. Some think the international monetary system should be more diversified and more currencies should be involved in the system, while others say a global currency or super-sovereign currency should be established, issued and managed by the IMF or a newly established global central bank.
Vice-Chancellor Lawrence Lau of the Chinese University of Hong Kong contemplated the difference: "Shall we establish a single international reserve currency, or establish a diversified international reserve currency? Can we establish a super-sovereign currency?"
Lau analyzed several possible candidates for a super-sovereign reserve currency. Although many people prefer gold, Lau said the gold reserve is too low to satisfy a developing currency demand. As reserve currencies, the USD and euro are comparatively stable, and some think they can be combined into one currency. Whether this idea is feasible is an unknown.
Mundell once suggested combining the USD, euro, and yen into a "DEY," and making that a global currency. Recently he has said the RMB and pound would have to be added into the mix.
As for Zhou Xiaochuan's idea to develop the IMF's SDR into a super-sovereign currency, Lau said while the euro was also a super-sovereign currency, and European taxes were calculated in euros, we couldn't pay tax or buy a hamburger with SDR, for SDR was only a currency concept, and could not be used in daily life.
"It is a new problem whether there should even be a international currency. Which international organization should issue and supervise this currency?" he said.
Former US Senator Adlai Stevenson suggested the establishment of a new IMF to supervise the global monetary market.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said to solve the crisis, we need to reform the international monetary system and the USD should no longer be the world's only reserve currency.
Xiao Geng, a professor with Tsinghua University, thinks the root of global systemic risk comes from the lack of supervision over central banks. "We should learn from the WTO. It has been successful because it has restrained the rights of its members to formulate disparate trade policies. If a country wants to cut tariffs charged to one country, it has to cut it for all countries. This has guaranteed a stable global free trade environment." Xiao Geng said all countries should be required to transfer some of their rights in monetary management to an international organization.
Marc Uzan, Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, said "I think we should rebuild a new Bretton Woods system. Professor Mundell supports my idea. We're going to organize a global currency meeting, which is to lay a foundation for a global currency, during the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
Even while challenging the USD, however, Chinese decision makers are still uncertain whether the establishment of a global currency will meet China's interests. Zhou Xiaochuan's idea to establish a super-sovereign currency is fashionable, but in China the answer to the problem has not been cornered.
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Druglawed director Arik Reiss, left, and Rose Renton.
Every morning, Rose Renton asks her son Alex to help her be strong and continue fighting in his name.
Alex was a fit and healthy teenager, but died on July 1 in Wellington Hospital, after spending months in an induced coma in "status epilepticus", a kind of prolonged seizure, the cause of which remains unknown.
During her son's illness, Renton made headlines as she and her family pushed for and were successful in getting Alex to be treated with medical cannabis oil.
Renton says the treatment was too little and too late, but regardless, her life has been turned upside down since.
Somedays, she still cries all day about him.
Alex Renton died on July 1 after a battle that involved the groundbreaking use of medicinal cannabis.
"It helps with healing. Every tear you cry you know you will not have to cry that tear again."
Somedays, she feels directionless.
" I was so close to him. We all were really, we do have days that are really rough, as a family we miss him."
It's two and a half months since Alex died, time Renton has spent dedicated to fighting for a change in cannabis laws, both medical and recreation.
Renton will be speaking at the screening of the Druglawed film this weekend, and has been interviewed for its sequel due out in 2017.
What the film explores is close to Renton's heart, it looks at cannabis use and statistics through the world and in New Zealand.
"It explains how New Zealand got rolled up in a war on drugs philosophy," film director Arik Reiss said.
He said the film shows it is an "absolute waste of time" and money to enforce laws against cannabis use and prosecute those who use it.
The film documents prohibition and its effects and also looks at what happened when it was decriminalised, like in Colorado.
Reiss estimated about half a billion dollars was spent each year in cannabis prohibition in New Zealand.
Renton said prohibition was "destroying lives" and families.
"Cannabis should be a freedom of choice like alcohol, that's what we are advocating for. Those that choose pharmaceuticals have that right to choose, those that choose alcohol have that right, but the cannabis community, we are punished and made into criminals but we are not harming anyone."
She had been vocal in advocating for medical cannabis to be legalised, and wanted to see the same done for recreational users.
"The whole picture is out of balance and not working for New Zealand, economically or society based.
"I believe everyone needs that equality and freedom to choose, being involved in it in the last five months I really see the injustice in that. It's glaringly obvious to me that cannabis users should be left alone."
Renton said her views mirrored her son's, and both felt there was a lack of education about cannabis.
"We didn't believe everything we were told, we questioned the laws and the politics and what was going on. I guess that is a driving force, I taught Alex to question things. At least I could honour the life he did have, the short 19 years and follow through on that and see a change with these laws."
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Can machines be human or would something be lost in the singularity?
Updated Monday, 23rd July 2012
Would a future machine-stored consciousness lack the very things which makes people 'human'?
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Laurie Taylor:
If you're all sitting quietly - here's a rather wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson: Shirin K A Winiger under CC-BY-NC-SA licence under Creative-Commons license 'yesterday was tomorrow's last week' by Shirin K. A. Winiger
The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -
The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets do -
The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound -
The Brain is wider than the sky . Let's consider that first verse. Well it's got one obvious meaning and I'm just going to quote a meaning for that first verse:
"It is a celebration of the sheer scale of the brain, its ability to encompass the entire world…" and then the writer goes on, "But there is a twist in that verse. Not only does the brain include the whole sky, it also includes the mind - the 'You' or self that perceives the sky and can think about it. It is this mind that makes the brain wider than everything."
And those words of appreciation come from a new book by author and Sunday Times journalist Bryan Appleyard who enjoys their resonance so much that he's nicked the first line of that poem for his new book, the line The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky and its subtitled Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World .
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Bryan now joins me in the studio together with John Gray, the author of Straw Dogs and Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the LSE.
Let's just concentrate a little, Bryan, to begin with on that poem. Just expand on the meaning of it, why you love it so much.
Bryan Appleyard:
Well first of all I love Emily Dickinson and the extraordinary thing about her was that she lived this very sequested life in Massachusetts, one theory suggests she had epilepsy which was rather unrespectable at the time.
And I like it because it very quickly, in the first line almost, it gets you there, which is this mystery of how the mind seems to create a world, encompass the world and itself, which is obviously what human consciousness does.
The first two verses say the same thing in different ways, the third verse is much argued about. But sometimes I think it means one thing, sometimes another, but it's precisely about the balance of what it is to have a mind, it has consciousness.
This does introduce the whole idea of consciousness, -of our capacity for being aware of ourselves as something which is, or has been, inexplicable. This is what you call the hard problem of consciousness isn't it?
Yeah, the hard problem, I suppose in one sense, is simply how matter becomes mind in the first place; but it's also how having become mind it has become self-conscious - so there's a sort of double hard problem.
And I became very interested in this as an aspect of a wider issue which is in our time, and the reason we're so interested in it, is suddenly neuroscience has raced ahead of the other sciences in fashionability and that's primarily because of the FMRI machine which can track movements in real time of blood flows in the brain.
I had a FMRI scan as part of this process and it didn't work because I had to read that poem and I got no emotional response whatsoever.
Would you accept, the idea there's going to be a material basis for consciousness, I mean you may want to say that perhaps these MRI scanners can't find consciousness, can't stick a pin on it, as some sort of territory of the cortex, can't do that, but nevertheless, when an explanation of consciousness is produced - unless you want to say it's inexplicable - it is going to be a material explanation; it's one that's going to be do with neurons and cells and synapses and so on?
I don't know, is the short answer to that. I mean, personally, there's a perfectly logical reason for saying it's impossible - it's perfectly rational to say it's impossible for the mind to take a picture of itself, as it would be for a camera to take a picture of a film.
But I do know that what we're looking at now is very, very basic. I think Colin Blakemore said '- it's like looking at the cosmos through Galileo's telescope' - it's very, very primitive and we're not seeing fine detail at all. These are low resolution scans, effectively.
John Gray - are you a materialist in this respect?
John Gray:
No I'm not, at least I'm certainly more agnostic than I could be if I were materialist - and for some of the reasons that Bryan explains in his book.
I mean one important argument in his book is that reductionist programs in science - that's to say programs which aim to explain some phenomena or structures or things in the world fully and exhaustively by reference to something which is simpler or more rudimentary, a few elements or principles or ultimately maybe only one such element or principle - that those programs don't seem to work in lots and lots of contexts in that you can put together a number of simple elements and something completely different comes out in ways that can't be reduced in that way.
So it could be that mind or consciousness is like that, with respect to matter. I mean it might be that if there were no matter there'd be no mind. But it could still be the case that mind is not reducible to matter. And that's a sort of view that I would be inclined to think was plausible.
The reason you want to cite consciousness and draw our attention to the difficulty of explaining it or finding a material basis for it is because you want to do something to undermine the grandiose claims that are being made about what computers are going to be able to do.
Particularly you refer to this concept of singularity - perhaps you'd better explain what singularity means before you demolish it.
It's troubling similar to the American fundamentalist idea of the rapture, which is in a certain couple of decades, 2045 I think, what will happen is our technology is increasing exponentially in this view, it will converge at some point in 2045, we'll build the last machine we ever need to build. [It] will be a hyper-intelligent computer which will be able to make itself more intelligent and that will sort-of solve all our problems.
Now in some versions we download ourselves, upload ourselves, into this computer and become effectively immortal, or it simply makes it medically mortal as we are.
This sounds very extreme and slightly crazy but in fact it's quite conventional thoughts in large areas of American Silicon Valley and so on, that we are indeed going to attain this machine consciousness.
And it underpins a lot of the way consumer computers are going, the way they're becoming more intimate to us, so in smart phones, GPS devices and everything, they're tracking us and sort-of borrowing our - stealing our - information. And I think that's a tendency that is the other side of the neuroscientific equation - these machines are closing in on us.
But in terms of solving problems, in terms of accepting data and interpreting data and producing solutions, we might be moving towards a stage where computers can do far more than they can at the moment, aren't we in some danger of, if you like, being almost Luddite if we continually say 'oh it's very well they can do that, they can run the world, they can manage us, they can do the economy, they can sort out the trade balance, they can manage all these - they can do all that but they don't have consciousness'. I mean, don't we sound a little bit old fogeyish, we're clinging on to this one little tiny bit of human difference that we've got, and we're saying 'look you think you've got it beaten, you think you're being clever, look at your wonderful computers, we've got consciousness'?
Wel,l it might not even be the consciousness which is what is lacking from the computers. I mean it may well be lacking and that might be crucial, as Bryan says, but it might also be the case that anything which can't appear in consciousness or which can't be broken up into bits of information by conscious beings, such as ourselves, is missing as well.
And one of the things I'm bothered about, which is also discussed in Bryan's books, is that many of the sources of human creativity are not conscious and many of the sources of the meanings in our lives come from areas of our mental life that are not conscious and in some cases perhaps can't even be made conscious.
So one of the oddities about this idea - which people who call themselves trans-humanists have taken up as a serious practical project of a higher type of intelligence embodied in a machine or in some further enhanced version of ourselves, that is designed by us, or perhaps in collaboration with the machine - is that anything which goes into that design - the design of a higher human being - would only be the part of ourselves that we can process as information, the parts that we can't will inescapably be missed out.
So we might end up with a being, a creature, a half-android half-machine, or whatever, which is in some senses superior to us - but it may lack the parts of ourselves that make our lives worth living.
And so we might then ask, having created it, why should we make way for it, if the life it leads is meaningless to us?
So you're talking about parts of the human character being excluded rather in the way they are when we're attempting to have a conversation on the phone with a computer which forces us - into yes, no [or] ridiculously restricted answers?
Yes, yes exactly.
But I mean this is on a grand scale. We're talking about emotion as well here, aren't we? We're talking about the way in which this notion of singularity or whatever pays no attention to the relevance or significance of emotion in our lives?
Well exactly, I mean you mention these call trees, as they're known, when you talk to them, you have no human communication with these things through the sort of unspoken cues, even the unconscious cues, because you're hearing tone of voice.
One of the reasons I wrote this book was I got so angry about one of these things - and I realised that what it was doing was desperately simplifying me so I could be machine readable. It was stripping away all the things - the things that John refers to - stripping away my personality in order to just to get me to buy something.
Yeah but if you're getting an insurance policy I don't know whether I want all sorts of aspects of my personality to come into it.
I mean I'd like it to get better, I'd like the phone system to get better but that's what I'm asking for, not for it to be abolished am I John? I mean aren't I complaining about its inefficiency rather than the idea that it would be quite nice to have machines...
But it's you, Laurie, who's complaining, not some future enhanced replica of you which sees nothing wrong in this tree system.
In other words what's complaining is a highly complex mixture of conscious/unconscious emotion, thought, immensely - and according to Bryan, I think he's absolutely right here, - and Emily Dickinson more complex than we ourselves can conceive, that's the key. In other words anything that we construct or design will be based - in terms of improved version of ourselves - will be based on our present limited understanding of ourselves.
Now even if having designed it that machine can then go on to design itself even higher, it would still have missed out what we haven't put into it.
Yeah, it might go off in a completely different direction and reject us.
Is it a question of either/or? I mean I can remember - if we go back to the 18th and 19th Century we find romantic poets objecting to progress on rather similar grounds to the ways you're talking: 'we're going to lose all the emotion, it's going to become a soulless world, getting and spending, we've laid to our powers'....
We do have the technical means.
Well you want to - I mean but David's saying that these are the trains arriving in the Lake District or an indication really that all was going to be - all the mystery and wonder of life was going to ....
Well they left us with a great legacy, we preserve our environment to a large extent - we have national parks and things - that was a great legacy of that position. So in a sense they won, I mean Ruskin was as powerful as Robert Louis Stevenson in that sense.
So I mean that legacy I think does feed through into what I'm saying and it's very important. And indeed one of the important points in the book is about art and the phenomenon of neuro-aesthetics where they're trying to use neuroscience to probe our reactions to art. Now it's not really working to be honest but...
It sounds like Huxley's phrase 'trying to prove the world is round musically', I mean it's really sort of incompatibility of spheres isn't it?
Bryan Appleyard, John Gray, thank you very much.
Actually my most recent attempt to use one of those call trees foundered this week. I spent half an hour on the screen putting in passwords, my mother's maiden name to get some insurance and then it said: 'We are unable to offer insurance as your property does not match the particulars of any existing property.'
There you go. Who said machines weren't logical?
This discussion was originally broadcast as part of Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday, 16th November 2011.
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Back in November, it was like the end of innocence. Deputy Prime Minister Åsa Romson famously broke down in tears as Sweden, the European country that has accepted the most asylum seekers per capita in recent years, announced it was ending its open-door policy.
After being overwhelmed by the daily arrival of up to 10,000 asylum seekers, this was the first indication that the political sands had shifted. Shortly afterwards, temporary border checks were introduced on the Øresund Bridge, linking Copenhagen and Sweden's third city, Malmo. The border controls extended into Denmark and the police later significantly reinforced border guard deployments in the south of the country.
The measures have significantly dented the number of new arrivals but the government is still preparing to pass a series of major amendments to Sweden's Aliens Act that will reduce prospective asylum seekers' access to full refugee status, permanent residency and family reunification.
While all these measures are being called 'temporary', they are Europe's new normal and Sweden's reputation as one of the few welcoming nations to refugees has taken a hit.
"Sweden has a history of accepting refugees that goes back a long time, and I think this is something a lot of Swedes, on both the left and right, are very proud of," said Martin Holmquist, foreign editor at the Fria Tidning newspaper. "The decision in November was pivotal in shifting the momentum from the left to the right wing."
The biggest sign yet that Sweden is in the midst of a sea change on refugee policy came in January when Home Affairs Minister Anders Ygeman declared that the government would deport between 60,000 and 80,000 rejected asylum seekers from last year's unprecedented influx.
His figures – based on Sweden's 55 percent approval rate for asylum decisions made in 2015 – fail to take into account the Swedish Migration Agency's huge backlog of applications. The cost and difficulty of tracking down and deporting tens of thousands of people also make it a wholly unrealistic proposition.
Jenni Stavare, an asylum lawyer with Fridh Advokatbyrå and member of the board of the Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups (FARR), explains that statements like those made by Ygeman are more about "setting a tone for politics" than about real goals.
"It definitely has a lot to do with the political climate," Stavare argued. "We haven't been that country that has been at the forefront of keeping people out, or deporting people by force — that has not been our history — but we're slowly creeping towards that place."
Fears of a crackdown
Refugee rights groups fear that more deportations will mean more people being detained in the lead-up to their forced removal.
Sweden has been regarded as more progressive and sparing in its use of immigration detention than many of its EU neighbours, but the numbers of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants being detained has risen in recent years. More than 3,500 people were detained last year in Sweden's five specialised immigration detention facilities, compared to 1,742 in 2009.
Local and international organisations, including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, have expressed concerns about at least two detainee deaths.
In March 2015, an Iraqi man died while being moved from a detention facility to Stockholm's Årlanda Airport. A terminally ill Syrian woman also died in detention last year while awaiting a transfer to Bulgaria under the Dublin Regulation, which stipulates that asylum applications must be processed in the first country where they were registered.
The government has not made public any plans to expand on the 255 nationwide detention spaces currently available, but home affairs spokesman Victor Harju told IRIN: "It is part of [our] planning ahead to increase capacity."
Michael Flynn, executive director of the Geneva-based Global Detention Project, said there was "no way to avoid" higher detention rates if the government was serious about removing large numbers of people. "How many detention spaces does it take to deport 80,000 people in a year?" he asked.
A new blueprint for returns?
Further indications of a changing approach come in two new documents released by the Migration Agency outlining plans to reform how asylum applications are processed and how to handle those rejected.
The first, seen by IRIN, discusses shortening asylum processing times by identifying earlier on "manifestly unfounded" claims that are unlikely to be successful, before fast-tracking them.
"This will make the asylum process more efficient… but it will take some time for the effects to be seen," the agency noted in a February press release.
A second report deals with how the Migration Agency, the police, the prisons and the parole service hope to increase returns this year. One of the key aims of the plan is to "experiment" with interventions that would create "reduced incentives to remain, or greater incentives to leave the country, after an expulsion decision."
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Police officials have warned about a "substantial increase" in failed asylum seekers who "disappear" after receiving expulsion orders.
"The government has decided that those who get their applications turned down will not be able to get the daily allowance given to asylum seekers, nor be able to stay on in homes provided by the authorities," said Harju, adding that companies offering work to rejected asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in the so-called 'black' economy would also be targeted.
A bill that would reduce rejected asylum seekers' access to social services, including government-assigned housing and allowances, is expected to reach parliament "very soon," another home affairs ministry spokesman, Rasmus Lenefors, told IRIN.
If passed the new measures will make life much harder for people like Liridona, an Albanian asylum seeker who asked for her real name to be withheld.
Earlier this year, Liridona and her family came to Sweden after their father, a police officer, became embroiled in a dispute with a local gang. She says they received death threats down the phone and threats of sexual violence in the streets.
After applying for asylum in February, they were interviewed, processed and rejected within the space of just three weeks.
"One interview today, one tomorrow and one after that, and after a few days you get a decision? How is that possible?" Liridona asked. "The people working in migration here don't understand that people from [the Balkans] have real concerns and that their lives could be in danger."
While the family appeal the decision, their asylum seeker allowance has been cut, but they are still allowed to live in government accommodation. However, under the new proposals, if the appeal is rejected, they will have to move out.
Whatever happens, Liridona is emphatic that she will not return to Albania. "I don't want to do anything illegal — you have nothing when you are in a country illegally," she said. "But I am not thinking about going back to Albania for one second."
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10 Things About The Universe that nobody can Underestimate
The universe is a very strange place full of mysteries and odd possibilities that, while scientists ceaselessly try to figure them out, may remain complete unknowns forever no matter how advanced our civilization and our science becomes. So here are ten bizarre possibilities regarding the universe that we may never understand.
10. We May Never Know What Gravity Is One of the biggest mysteries in science is the nature of gravity. For something that we interact with constantly, we really don't know that much about it. Newton tried to tackle the issue but only came up with a general way of expressing how it behaves, but not what it is. And even then, Newton was very slightly off. Einstein took that further, but he himself spent his last decades trying to figure out just what gravity is, but again to no avail. Today, scientists know how gravity behaves in the framework of space and time and can predict it very accurately, but what the force itself actually remains an unknown. Ideas on this range from the existence of an elementary particle, known as the graviton, that mediates the force of gravity. Trouble is, gravitons have never been found, and there is doubt that they even exist. Another take on it is how Einstein described gravity, as a warp in space-time, or an inherent acceleration towards massive objects. The Trouble is this is an incomplete view, and again simply describes how it behaves. Not what it is. Perhaps the most strange aspect of gravity is that as far as a force of nature goes, it's incredibly, incredibly weak. Look around you. Just to hold you to the ground, you need the entire mass of planet earth to generate enough gravity to do it. Yet, we routinely defeat the force of gravity when we launch space probes. Why it's so weak adds to the mystery, and recent work to determine if gravity is weak because it's mostly leaking into other dimensions that came up negative. So gravity remains a great mystery, and while we may someday understand it's nature completely, there's also a chance that we never will.
9. Is the Universe Infinite? We live in a sort of bubble within the universe. We call it the observable universe, and beyond it lies more of the universe that we can't observe. This is a matter of the speed of light, objects beyond a certain point cannot be seen because the universe hasn't existed long enough for the light from them to reach us. One open question within cosmology is how much more universe there is beyond what we can see. Some think it's not that much, yet others think it could be substantial. But there is another idea, that it is infinite and if that's the case it introduces some very strange possibilities. In an infinite universe, it becomes plausible that if you travel far enough you will run into another earth, slightly different, with another you living on it. Still further and you may find another, against lightly different, and so on leading to a kind of physical, real alternate reality all existing within the same universe. Given that we will never be able to observe the entire universe due to the expansion of the universe, this question may remain forever open.
8. The Double Slit Experiment This strange aspect of our universe is one of those kinds of things that make sense when expressed in the mathematical terms of physics but appears counterintuitive to a human. But the double-slit experiment always yields the same result, having been performed thousands of times. It has to do with the dual nature of particles as both waves and particles. The idea is that you fire particles, say electrons, at a baffle with two slits cut into it. Behind the baffle is a wall. You will see on the wall as the electrons pass through the slits an interference pattern, indicating that the particle is behaving as a wave, much like an ocean wave passing under a pier. However, when you put detectors on the other side of the baffle and observe the particles the interference pattern on the wall disappears and becomes two slits indicating that the particle is acting like a particle, not a wave. In short, for all intents and purposes, the act of merely observing it changes the outcome of the experiment.
7. Will the universe someday cease to exist? A great unknown within cosmology is what's eventually going to happen to the universe. In one view, it will simply go on forever until literally all stars burn out, black holes evaporate, iron stars form and all goes dark at some point but continue infinitely. This in itself opens up very bizarre possibilities of chance and infinite time, such as the formation of a Boltzmann brain, where random fluctuations, if given enough time will cause some kind of a consciousness to randomly appear in the dead universe out of nowhere. But it could alternatively be that the universe will someday meet an end. This debate is not settled within cosmology, and there have been many potential ends of the universe advanced, but two possibilities stand out. The first is if the proton is capable of decay. This is an unknown, but if they indeed do decay the universe will effectively end when they do, given that all matter in the universe will simply dissolve. Another possibility is that the universe itself is somewhat unstable in that it doesn't exist at its true vacuum state. If something were to happen within the universe that pushed some part of it to the true vacuum, the results would be disastrous. Expanding at the speed of light, the entire universe would be ripped apart as it moved to the true vacuum. This could dramatically alter how the universe works, such as how gravity functions, or how matter is structured. The universe as we knew it at least, would no longer exist and we very likely wouldn't survive it. Thankfully, the time frames for this to happen are very likely far longer than our species can exist within the universe.
6. What set off the big bang? Regarding the big bang, generally, the earlier you go in that process, the less it is understood by current science. Known as the Planck Epoch, when applied to the first moments of the big bang, the theories that physicists rely on to describe the universe, particularly Einstein's General Relativity, no longer predict what exactly happened. What can be done is somewhat informed speculation based on evidence of the Big Bang, such as the cosmic microwave background radiation, and there exist several scenarios that might someday prove to explain what exactly happened. One possibility comes from string theory and its variants, where the universe is suspended on a kind of membrane. When this membrane collided with another membrane, that impact set off the big bang. Others include that the whole thing was set off as a result of quantum fluctuations, or that the universe is one of many in a kind of multiverse where universes bud-like flowers on a tree off of other universes. Also, suggestions have been made that the universe is the other side of a black hole, known as a white hole where matter leaves the black hole. Whatever the case may be, because we have no way of seeing what happened during the Planck Epoch, it's entirely possible we may never fully understand what exactly happened.
5. Spooky Action at a Distance We often view the universe as a place of immense distance. Any two objects can be separated by almost unfathomable distances, so distant that they can't ever even observe each other. But that absolute concept of separation is not necessarily set in stone in the quantum mechanical world. In fact, separated particles can be connected to each other through a phenomenon of quantum mechanics over vast distances and influence each other instantaneously, so long as they had some physical interaction in the past that entangled them. Einstein called it spooky action at a distance and absolutely hated the idea, but the phenomenon of quantum entanglement is real and has been experimentally proven. Put simply, if one particle changes behavior such as its spin, the other reacts instantaneously, no matter how far away it is. Unfortunately, this behavior cannot be predicted, meaning that it can't be used to convey information, the universe does not allow information to propagate faster than light. Exactly how this occurs depends on what interpretation one holds of quantum mechanics, though ultimately we may never know exactly how particles do this. Just simply that they do.
4. 11 Dimensions of Space and Time Regarding our last entry, one of the ways quantum entanglement might work is that particles might not be connected spatially in the dimensions we perceive, but might be closely connected in another dimension that we can't perceive. While it's still very much up in the air whether other dimensions exist, or how many there could be, there are hypothetical possibilities, particularly within the realm of string theory. One interpretation involves 11 dimensions, ten of space, and one of time. The reason we do not see these other dimensions of space is that they are curled up, and thus imperceptible to us. But at the very first moments of the big bang, they may not have been and may have played a role. Whether this is the case or not, or whether other dimensions even exist at all, could remain open forever.
3. Time Travel Is Possible At Least in one Direction Is time travel possible? The arguments against traveling to the past are numerous, especially because it would violate causality. It's the old what happens if you go back in time and kill your own grandfather scenario. Would you cease to exist? But that's only part of the story of time travel, and it may not be as set in stone as you might think. Now travel to the future is easy, it's literally built into the universe and you're doing it right now as the clock ticks. Because of relativity, however, very high accelerations can affect time in a process called time dilation, that allows you, in your frame of reference, to travel into the future simply by accelerating. This is exemplified by the twin paradox, where one twin stays on earth, and another twin travels through space at relativistic speeds and when he gets back, he's no longer the same age as his twin. Even on smaller scales, satellites in orbit have to be corrected for minute amounts of time dilation. So, in short, if you go extremely fast in space, you will travel forward in time at a different rate than someone sitting hereon earth. Trouble is, if you go 500 years into the future, you have no way of ever getting back to your own time. Or do you? The answer is maybe, but it wouldn't be easy, and in all practicality is likely impossible. But this may not mean that backward time travel is strictly impossible in the universe. Hypotheses exist that under very special conditions, such as if you had a rotating cylinder of infinite length, or under certain conditions involving traversing a black hole or wormhole not through space, but time, might allow you to at least in principle travel backward. But, that we do not appear to see time travelers from the future visiting suggests we will never figure out backward time travel, or it's illegal, or we simply go extinct before we figure it out.
2. The Universe Will Someday Be Mostly Invisible In this option, we actually do understand what's happening, or least parts of it. But in the very far future, anyone that might exist very well may not understand the vast majority of the universe in the way we do. This is because as the universe ages and continues its expansion, everything but your local group of galaxies will be so distant that light cannot travel fast enough to make up for the expansion of the universe in between. Essentially a civilization existing in the old age of the universe will have no idea that countless other galaxies exist in the universe because they will be invisible. They may not even be able to determine that a big bang ever happened, or know anything about the universe as it is today. They may be able to study their local group of galaxies and glean some clues about the nature of the universe, but even worse an isolated rogue star system in the intergalactic medium might not even have that option available to them. They would essentially be marooned on their world until the effective end of the universe itself, never knowing very much about it at all. One. The Many Worlds Interpretation It's possible to take a completely different approach to the concept of parallel universes; different from the concept of a multiverse. In the 1950s Hugh Everett hypothesized that other universes could exist hovering, for lack of a better term, alongside our own, constantly splitting off from each other and that events in those universes may all have different outcomes. This leads to some strange ideas, such as that in a parallel universe the dinosaurs did not undergo a mass extinction event, and humans never evolved as a result leading to modern earth still dominated by dinosaurs, perhaps even intelligent ones. Other possibilities are well explored in science fiction, from everything from what might have happened if the allies had been defeated in world war II to evil alternate universe Spock with a beard. This may seem far fetched, and it is, but not the underlying reasons why Everett hypothesized the possibility.
1. Within Quantum mechanics is a question, one related to the double-slit experiment. Why does quantum matter behave so strangely? Why do particles take different forms? Niels Bohr hypothesized that these particles don't actually exist in any one state at all, but all possible states and that observing the particle forces it to pick a state. But that's only one take on it. In Everett's interpretation, when a particle chooses a state it actually causes a split in the universe itself, creating an entirely new universe branching off from another, explaining why particles can be measured in different states because they exist in all possible states spread across parallel universes. In the world of the big above the quantum level, this means that there could be universes in which you are dead or a very different person. Whether these parallel universes exist or not is an open question, and probably will never be answered as it doesn't seem possible we could ever detect or measure these other timelines. But this concept of collapsing wave functions can be taken to an even more profound level. Some have asked the question does the entire universe have a wave function? Would it even exist if it weren't being observed? It's hard to believe that would be the case, but it is a question, by its nature, we probably cannot ever answer for sure.
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