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Vermont Country Store names new CEOBy Bruce Edwards
Staff Writer | February 13,2013WESTON — The Vermont Country Store has promoted Chris Vickers to president and chief executive officer, the Orton family announced Wednesday
A veteran of the retail industry, Vickers joined the company in 2010 as chief merchandising and marketing officer. Previously, Vickers served as vice president of merchandising at L.L. Bean. He holds a masters in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Colby College.
"Chris has done an outstanding job bringing new expertise and focus to our business, particularly in Merchandising and Marketing," said Eliot Orton, chairman of the board of The Vermont Country Store. "He is a natural leader and personally embodies the core values of practicality, frugality, family and community that permeate everything we stand for."
Vickers said he was honored to be a part of the Orton family business, "with strong values, that creates a tremendous emotional connection with its customers."
He said last year was one of the best years in the company's history with the company "well positioned for future growth."
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A Romanian woman killed her 8 year-old disabled daughter on Wednesday (yesterday)because she couldn't pay for her care, Libertatea newspaper reports.
Desperate about the 1,000 Euro unpaid bills for utilities, the 33 year-old Cristina N. living in one of Bucharest most poor quarters, put a pillow n her daughters mouth and nose and suffocated her.
The news shocked the neighbours but also the Police officers who responded to the emergency call of one neighbour.
Maria, 74 told journalists that Roxy, the little girl was suffering from a degenerative disease and couldn't move her legs. The neighbour says that the woman complained to her relatives and friends that she was desperate and unable to pay the debts and that she wasn't able to cope with the daughter's treatment any longer.
The woman was arrested and she will be evaluated by a psychiatrist before charges will be made.
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By the Fredericksburg Area Tourism Department
In 1714, the Stuart dynasty ended in England with the death of Queen Anne. George I, elector of Hanover, Germany, was selected to become the next ruler of England, thus beginning the long reign of the House of Hanover.
Hanover Street, named after the House of Hanover, was developed on part of a tract of land granted in 1671 to early Virginia settlers Thomas Royston and John Buckner. The street was one of Fredericksburg's original eight streets, when the city was granted its charter in 1728.
At times, a sense of things past seems to envelop tourists and residents who stroll quietly along Fredericksburg streets at twilight or drive through a countryside still scarred by the battles of the Civil War. Some swear that more than a general sense of the history of the place overwhelms them. At twilight, at midnight, or even at high noon, specters and shades of those whose place this was may return to their homes and habits to pray, to flirt, to dine, and to stroll, to fire their rifles and march in formation, or lie wounded in hospital beds, wearing uniforms of gray or blue.
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To what extent does a film adaptation affect our understanding of a novel?
Come and join the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) Medway and Gravesend Branch on this 6-week fortnightly primarily literature class; where we will use film adaptations to enhance our understanding of literature whilst appreciating the decisions made when adapting books for film.
The course will run fortnightly on Wednesdays, 10.15am - 12.15pm, from 24th September 2014. The fee for the course is just £52, but it may be completely FREE if you are in receipt of an income-related benefit.
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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was voted the greatest American novel of the 20th century in 2000. This is a novel of economy, where there is very little superfluous text and each sentence builds upon and enhances our understanding of the novel. It has also had numerous adaptations for both TV and Screen. Through contrasting adaptations we will be able to compare book and film and discuss our understanding of each. Scott Fitzgerald worked in Hollywood and wrote film scripts. Would he approve of how his novel has been adapted? What are the central themes of the novel and how are these reflected in the book and its film?
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Richard Harris was born on October 1st, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland with the birth name Richard St. John Harris to a farming family who had nine children total. He was a very good athlete and excelled at rugby as well as had a knack for literature. He soon developed an interest in the theater and after completing high school, he went on to study theater at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Following his education he went on to work on a number of stage productions in London.
He made a couple of television appearances on "The Dupont Show of the Month" (1958) and "TV Television Playhouse" (1958). Soon he was getting roles in such films as, "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" (1959), "The Night Fighters" (1960), "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "The Sporting Life" (1963) for which he earned an Oscar nomination and "Alive and Kicking" (1964).
Film roles were coming quite easy to him with appearances on, "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965), "Major Dundee" (1965), "Hawaii" (1966) and "Camelot" (1967). Even as his career progressed into the 1970's, he continued to get cast on successful films such as, "The Hero" (1971), "The Deadly Trackers" (1973), "Robin and Marian" (1976) and "The Wild Geese" (1978).
In 1990 he earned another Oscar nomination for his role on the film, "The Field" and his career continued to blossom well into the 90's gaining praise yet again for his best role as a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's film, "Unforgiven" (1992). In 2001 he starred in, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" gaining him a whole new generation of film fans. In 2002 he did a his final film role on a television movie called, "Caesar" playing the character, Lucius Sulla.
Harris spent the last twelve years of his life living at the Savoy Hotel in London. Richard Harris married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Elizabeth Rees in 1957 and they had three children before divorcing in 1969. His second marriage was to Ann Turkel in 1974, however they divorced in 1982 and never had any children together. Harris lost his life to Hodgkin's disease on October 25th, 2002 in Bloomsbury, London. His remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered at his home in the Bahamas.
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White House rides a wave of good news on the lawDid I miss something? Where is the good news? Where is the WAVE of good news? All I hear about is more and more failed exchanges, people dying, going to Mexico, outrageous waste fraud and abuse, and on and on? Is that the "good news" she is talking about?
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The GOP leadership has no intention of trying to repeal Obamacare.The GOP leadership has every intention of passing amnesty.Go team GOP! Rah, Rah, Rah!
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Hopefully they´re just keeping their powder dry until the next wave of price increases prior to November.
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The House leadership needs to go NOW (Boehner, McCarthy, Cantor, etc). The prior votes to repeal it was a joke and Boehner did not have the guts to defund it.
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I remember when a certain Senator from Texas wanted to "shut-down" the federal government and Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Graham, McCarthy, and Cantor were saying, "No! No! No! We need to focus on Obamacare."Looks like the mono-taskers have moved on to another mono-task--probably dictated by Rove.
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#5, you know good and well it was the Democrats that wanted to shut the government down. You must write for the hill.com.
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Good news - what? My brother suffered a stroke last week. The hospital has yet to find his Obamacare provider - which I now call the Obama-Emmanuel Fly By Night Insurance company out of Chicago.
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"Enrollment in the exchanges beat projections"?? Seriously?? On what planet?? So sayeth the illiterate-leftists at the "hill"?? Got news for you little elise, unlike demonrats, Republicans CAN walk AND chew gum at the same time. Though of course the "hill" is in daily correspondence with GOP "leaders"....we´ll take our chances. Thanks for your concern..s/o. Let´s just wait ´til November, shall we?
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7 months after launch and the back end of the web site isn´t finished. We don´t know who is qualified for subsidies. We don´t know if the patients have found doctors who will take the payments. I suspect most people haven´t yet discovered what a deductible means. If I were in Congress, I would continue to ask questions but would let this sore fester a while longer.
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I agree with #3. No need to blab on about it all summer. People are having problems and telling their friends. The time for the GOP to go back to Obamacare is this fall when everyone finds out how much the price of their insurance (so called) has increased.
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The GOP made clear long ago they´re very happy with ObamaCare. Since Jan. 2011 John Boehner has refused to allow a standalone up or down vote to defund ObamaCare to come to the floor. The House has 100% authority on finances, can´t be vetoed by Senate or White House. Some in GOP in an attempt to get us to leave them alone have claimed O´care is ´mandatory spending´ but of course there´s no such thing. Andrew Breitbart might not have worked himself to death to give the GOP House a huge majority if he´d known what the GOP had planned for this country. The Chamber of Comm. and GOP want the same things the radical left wants.
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Nah, #6, I think it was Fearless Ted Cruz who wasn´t afraid of shutting the Federal Gov´t down. The French Republicans were afraid, very afraid. They are inept messengers with big, fat egos, i.e., Collins, McCain, Graham, Cantor, McCarthy, Boehner, and the rest of the FR who are happy moving to the left. Put a camera in front of them and they will condemn anyone who is conservative.When have the FR ever moved the country to the right? One instance? Silence from all who read this means there have been none. Meaningless votes to "repeal" Obamacare don´t count.
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It is the pattern of GOP leadership to never do anything bold and active NOW. They are always keeping their powder dry, waiting for a more opportune time which somehow never comes, or remember this one, winning by getting underestimated -- Those who still cling to the hope that Boehner and company will actually move to repeal Obamacare are dreaming.
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Who is it that schedules votes in the House? Oh, it´s Eric Cantor. I guess he´s not really in favor of repealing Obamacare.
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26 November 2014 6:27 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Superheroes, time travellers, aliens and zombies. Here's our pick of forthcoming Us geek TV for 2015…
Following on from our list of brand new UK geek-skewed TV shows to keep an eye out for next year is this gaggle of Us counterparts. There are film adaptations from 12 Monkeys to Scream, comic book adaptations including Daredevil and Dark Matter, and a host of original projects.
All of the ones listed below are as certain as certain gets in the world of Us TV commissioning, and as a bonus, there's a wee list of sci-fi and fantasy pilots to look forward to should they be picked up by their respective networks.
12 Monkeys
You'll find this one among our running total of movies currently being turned into TV shows, for obvious reasons.
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There are about a million smart and clever ideas packed into the runtime of Drew Goddard's brilliant horror movie The Cabin in the Woods, but perhaps the film's greatest is the coffee mug water pipe. Used by Marty, the pot head character played by Fran Kranz, the plastic and metal container looks like a normal thermos, but in reality it actually extends like a telescope and has a detachable hollow handle that can be reinserted in the bottom. To own one of these thermos bongs would be to own the best possible prop replica from The Cabin In The Woods - and the best news of all is that fans will soon get their chance to purchase one. While there's no actual mention of The Cabin In The Woods on their website - perhaps just for legal reasons - the company Iron Man Designs LLC has revealed that they »
11 November 2014 6:00 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The U.S. rights for the upcoming demonic truck horror-thriller Wrecker were acquired by XLrator Media from IndustryWorks Pictures up here in Canada. IndustryWorks will distribute the pic here in Canada and is handling international sales at Afm. The story follows best friends Emily and Lesley as they take a road trip to a music festival in the desert. Emily "borrows" her boyfriend's Mustang Gt to make things exciting, but the partying ends when they find themselves pursued by a seemingly psychotic truck driver, who forces them to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. With an unknown evil force bearing down on them and a long stretch of deserted highway ahead, their idyllic road trip becomes their worst nightmare. Wrecker stars Anna Hutchison (The Cabin in the Woods)...
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In 1983, viewers saw the tire-squealing rage of a jealous '58 Plymouth Fury in John Carpenter's Christine, based on the Stephen King novel. Three years later, King himself directed Maximum Overdrive, in which everything from pop machines to semi-trucks followed their own deadly agendas. Now XLrator Media is tossing their film reel into the ring of vehicle-centric horror films with Wrecker, due out next summer.
"Los Angeles (November 10, 2014) – XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights at the American Film Market to the demonic truck horror-thriller Wrecker from IndustryWorks Pictures, which is currently in post-production. XLrator Media will release the film in Summer 2015 on its acclaimed "MacAbre" genre label. IndustryWorks Pictures will release the film in Canada and is selling the international rights at Afm.
XLrator Media and IndustryWorks Pictures recently collaborated on the award-winning horror film and cult classic American Mary, which was produced by IndustryWorks Pictures and released in the U. »
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10 November 2014 11:00 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
The slasher movie, if we'll admit it to ourselves, is about our fears of teen sexuality. Whether you're a teen made nervous by your own hormones or a parent afraid of what trouble those hormones will get your kid into, the slasher-movie villain is your fears made flesh. But with the release 30 years ago this week (November 9, 1984) of Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street," the slasher film entered a new dimension.
With the creation of Freddy Krueger (played indelibly by Robert Englund), who could kill teens in their dreams, the slasher villain proved there was no place that was safe, not even the subconscious.
In retrospect, the genre may have peaked with the release of this film; after all, how many other slasher villains since have been anywhere near as memorable? Unlike his predecessors, Jason Voorhees (of the "Friday the 13th" movies) and Michael Myers (of the "Halloween »
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5 November 2014 9:30 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
When's that comic book movie coming out, with the ant-sized man? This and all similar questions answered in our comic book movie calendar.
Comic book fans of the world - were you planning on spending your spare cash on anything other than cinema visits and DVD box-sets for the next six years? Well tough, because Hollywood has other ideas.
Ever since Bryan Singer's X-Men movie jump-started the comic book movie trend in 2000 (building on the stellar work of Richard Donner and Tim Burton in the decades prior), Fox, Sony, Warner Bros., Disney and Marvel Studios have all been repeatedly cashing-in on the resurgent popularity of capes, cowls and anything ending in 'Man'.
Now, the sheer size of the comic book movie-making world has reached a critical mass. There are now seven such films (at least) slated for every year between 2016 and 2019. There's also a few confirmed for 2020 already, »
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4 November 2014 10:39 PM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Two people were revealed to be returning for Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Joss Whedon's been talking about the spilled secret.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that two familiar faces will be turning up in Joss Whedon's 2015 Marvel blockbusters, Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Even though the names of two said people have been openly discussed online, we're calling in Daphne the Spoiler Squirrel on the off chance you don't know, and don't want the reveal ruined.
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3 November 2014 3:15 PM, PST | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
The Cabin in the Woods Horror References Video. GoodBadFlicks's Every Reference in Cabin in the Woods video is very interesting and entertaining watch, especially for fans of the Drew Goddard directed and Goddard and Joss Whedon co-written film. The film has many great moments and surprises but just missed the mark [...]
Continue reading: Cabin In The Woods' Horror Film & Monster References Video »
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3 November 2014 2:18 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
Strictly Come Dancing climbed to a new Sunday peak yesterday, overnight data reveals.
The BBC One show rose to an average audience of 9.72 million (39.2%) at 7.20pm, down slightly from Saturday's live show.
On ITV, The X Factor was down by nearly 100,000 from last week, dipping to 7.55m (28.9%) at 8pm (272k/1.1% on +1). ITV2's Xtra Factor entertained 568k (2.3%) at 9pm.
For the first time this year, it was beaten by Downton Abbey, which climbed over 400k to 8.03m (33.0%) at 9pm (307k/1.9%). Earlier, Keep It in the Family interested 2.63m (11.1%) at 7pm (113k/0.4%).
Earlier on BBC One, Countryfile appealed to 7.02m (33.7%) at 6.15pm, while Antiques Roadshow brought in 5.27m (20.2%) at 8pm. A Death in Paradise repeat was seen by 2.47m (10.1%), and F1 coverage attracted 2.51m (22.9%) at 10.35pm.
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31 October 2014 2:23 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
If you haven't yet given the horror flick The Cabin in the Woods a chance yet, it's available right now on Netflix Instant, and it's one of the best genre films of the past decade without a doubt. It uses familiar horror tropes while also giving them a reason to exist, and we don't want to explain any more than that if you're outside of the bubble of this film for some reason. Just take our word and watch it with some friends. Anyway, since the movie has been out for a coupe years, someone decided to dissect it a little further and focus on all the horror references made in the film, especially regarding all the monsters we see. Watch! Here's a guide to the horror references in The Cabin in the Woods from GoodBadFlicks: It's cool to see how intricately planned all of the horror elements of the »
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31 October 2014 12:36 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods is a hilariously brilliant film. I'm sure you've all seen it by now. If not, then tonight is the night to check it out! The movie is more than just a horror comedy, it's got a little bit of every kind of genre rolled into it. The movie is packed full of great references that you may or may not have noticed while watching the movie. Every time that I've watched this flick I've noticed something new. We have a video here for you to watch created by GoodBadFlicks that attempts to point out every singe reference in the movie. After you watch it, let us know if you picked up on all of these prior to having them all pointed out to you.
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31 October 2014 11:30 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Ask any horror fan worth their weight in blood and they'll say The Cabin in the Woods is one of the best horror films in the past few years. That's mostly because it's not only a horror movie. It's a satire, a comedy, a mystery and a sci-fi action film all rolled into one. Written […]
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Just about everything you need to know about Zombeavers is right there in the title. Zombie beavers (should) sound ridiculous, and so it's a ridiculous movie that follows, strangely capturing your attention for some 70-odd minutes of bloody shenanigans.
The story is lifted from a horror template: a group of co-eds are joined by their obnoxious beaus at a cabin retreat where toxic waste has infected some local rodents, and thus mayhem ensues. That's it. So it is with equal parts earnestness and absurdity that Zombeavers declares itself a feature film, dedicating itself to actual characters and a simple plot while trying to maintain a straight face with antagonists in the form of killer beavers.
It starts hilariously enough, as a pair of truckers exchange snappy, vulgar dialogue while not at all paying attention to the road. Rather, the driver isn't giving heed, and when an accident occurs, »
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The home of monster cinema, Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights continue a grand scare legacy…
Read about what happened when Den of Geek went along to this year's Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Orlando Resort, here.
In October 1991, Universal's latest horror release was little-loved sequel Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking. The studio that had dominated the classic monster era of the thirties and forties, immortalising the careers of Boris Karloff and Bela Legosi, was pushing a tired franchise through multiplexes stuffed with sequels to eighties slasher movies. But in its recently opened Orlando theme park, a seed was being planted that would grow into a worthy homage to Universal's cinematic roots: the annual Halloween Horror Nights.
A year earlier, Universal Studios Florida had opened after a bumpy few months of delays, rethinks, and set-backs. In its very early days, a more accurate version of »
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Genuinely horrific and deeply scary in a way that draws on the most primal of emotions. A horror flick with rare emotional and psychological resonance. I'm "biast" (pro): nothing
I'm "biast" (con): I'm not generally optimistic about horror movies these days
(what is this about? see my critic's minifesto)
I'm trying to remember the last time an actual, straight-up horror film frightened me. And… I got nuthin'. The Cabin in the Woods comes close, but that was scary in ways that were about undercutting traditional horror tropes. The movies that scare the crap out of me tend to be things like the nuclear-war nightmare-inducer Threads, or the lost-at-sea panic attack Open Water.
But now there's The Babadook, which is, basically, yer standard haunted-house flick with a bit of demonic-ish possession tossed in for spice. Except it's genuinely horrific and deeply scary. »
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He's been skewed by arrows in Middle Earth, beheaded in Westeros and drawn and quartered in medieval England, but do you know where Sean Bean hasn't met a sticky end yet? That's right – space. Alas, even the final frontier may end up as a resting place for the oft-killed actor now that he's joined the cast of Ridley Scott's The Martian.
Bean will reportedly play a Nasa flight director in the survival adventure, which was adapted from Andy Weir's book of the same name by The Cabin in the Woods co-writer/director Drew Goddard. Though some of you may be wondering just how Bean's character will wind up perishing given that he's safely back on Earth, rest assured the actor will find a way. After all, he has a reputation to protect.
All jesting aside, word has it that, in a refreshing change of pace, »
- Isaac Feldberg
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We have some casting news for you today. First up, Sean Bean has signed on to Ridley Scott's The Martian. Scripted by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) based on an e-book by Andy Weir, Matt Damon stars as an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and must figure out how to survive long enough for Nasa to rescue him. According to THR, Bean will play a Nasa flight director. It seems like a safe job, but I'm sure Bean's character will find some way to die. He'll probably choke on a donut or something. The film also stars Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Michael Pena and Kristen Wiig. The Martian opens November 25, 2015. Bean currently stars on the TNT series Legends and will next be seen in Jupiter Ascending and Pixels. Hit the jump for casting news regarding Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones), Ron Livingston (Office Space »
- Matt Goldberg
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With Halloween fast approaching, EW is picking the five best films in a variety of different horror movie categories. Each day, we'll post our top picks from specific group—say, vampire movies or slasher flicks—and give you the chance to vote on which is your favorite. On Oct. 31, EW will reveal your top choices. Today, we're kicking things off with demons. To the nonbelievers, demons are kind of funny—all horns and red faces, too unrealistic to provoke real scares. Then a legitimately terrifying, devil-centric movie—say, Paranormal Activity—comes along...and suddenly demons aren't so silly anymore. A »
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Why do I get the feeling that The Big Bang Theory writers are itching to have a movie marathon? Maybe because everything the guys thought of doing or made a plan to do in this episode ultimately led to movie chatter or the actual watching of movies. Upon Sheldon's assertion that he and his friends never brought any of their invention ideas to fruition because they got too distracted by the women in their lives, they decide upon a weekend science retreat. In his cousin's cabin in the woods, Howard suggests. Nope, Sheldon saw The Cabin in the Woods, so he's not going to a cabin in the woods.A hotel, perhaps? Naw, Sheldon saw The Shining. Big Bear, a house on the lake? "Did you see The Lake House?" Sheldon asks. "Time-traveling mailbox … like time that travels an hour and a half of my life down the toilet. »
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During the New York Comic-Con, Marvel unveiled the first photos and concept art from its upcoming "Daredevil" TV series, starring Charlie Cox as the title character, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk and Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple. Check everything out below. "Daredevil" follows the journey of Matt Murdock (Cox), who was blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City. The new show is produced by Steven S. DeKnight ("Spartacus") and Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods). It will be available exclusively on Netflix. Photos: (click to enlarge) Concept Art: (click to enlarge) »
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GIMP now allows you to pan out of the layer image border if you need to reach those corner places. This option is very helpful during selection and painting sessions.
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Without a doubt, the most significant change that GIMP 2.6 introduces is the use of GEGL (Generic Graphics Library). GEGL provides a new engine for GIMP and will eventually handle all the image processing tasks. The new engine will bring GIMP back alongside the big boys of the image industry. The support for higher bit depths (16, 32, and more) is a big plus, in that it opens up possibilities of native GIMP on HDR formats like OpenEXR and HDR and in support of various color profiles with higher bit depths, such as Microsoft's scRGB. That also means GIMP can find some use in the film industry, whereas up to now, CinePaint was the only open source alternative.
Higher bit depth is not the only advantage GEGL offers. GEGL's processing is based on what is called the graph-based processing framework. One of the major advantages the framework provides is the ability to cache data changes. Caching data changes in turn allows for non-destructive editing (or layer effects, as they are called in similar apps).
Also, all filters will be processed by GEGL, which will allow better quality in some operations than does the current aging architecture. By its nature, GEGL will also provide accelerated functioning while working on larger resolution images. This might also allow faster image updates to the screen. (Note that in this release, GEGL is disabled by default because it is a work in progress. However, users can enable GEGL processing from the colors menu.)
This fresh release of GIMP shows its changing face and showcases some of the new technology that will be the mainstay of the future GIMP. This version has an improved interface, making the work of the developers, usability experts, and the interaction designers clearly visible. If GIMP continues in the same direction, happier times await.
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As you now know, Todd Barry is a big fan of Chipotle, and hes not the only one that considers it one of New Yorks great restaurants. The Tex-Mex chain is just one of five joints (along with Tia Pol, wd-50, Hearth, and the Spotted Pig) that Momofuku lists as friends on its Website, and in this magazines profile of David Chang, he makes clear that it influenced Ssm Bar:
I tried to get a job at Chipotle when I got back from Japan, but they wouldnt hire me, he says. They knew what I was up to. Its easy to see the parallels between Ssm Bar and the Tex-Mex monolith thats invaded Manhattan. A lot of this is premised on what Chipotles done: Make affordable, good food, and do it with integrity.
We've noted that Bobby Flay is also possibly a fan of Chipotle (indeed Bret Thorn overheard him calling it "good food"). And we're sure Chang and Flay aren't the only ones. So when will Chipotles founder, Steve Ells, finally be nominated for a Beard Award?
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Uganda is a country that has been plagued by political instability, high HIV and AIDS prevalence, and a lack of access to contraceptives-despite high demand. The total fertility rate in Uganda is 6.7, which is the second highest in the world. The high rate of unmet need for contraceptives (41 percent), combined with Uganda's increasing rate of population growth (3.4 percent), continues to hinder economic development, deepen poverty, and detract from the achievements that have been made in the social sector.
Pathfinder first began to work in Uganda in the late 1950s, when it helped to establish the Family Planning Association of Uganda (now known as Reproductive Health Uganda). Throughout the ongoing 20-year civil war and the changing, and often challenging, political climate, Pathfinder programs strived to ensure quality family planning assistance to those in need.
Today, Pathfinder's programs address a wide range of issues, including the lack of availability of services in post-conflict settings, the limited capacity of district health services and local community-based organizations to deliver services, the intersection of population growth, health needs and the environment, as well as youth and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Through these programs, Pathfinder has reached some of the country's most underserved populations, including internally displaced refugees, women, youth, and the fishing communities on Lakes Victoria, Edward, and George.
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A key aspect of Pathfinder's approach to systems' strengthening is collecting evidence that enables public, private, and community partners to make informed health-related decisions. In Uganda, examples of the kinds of evidence we collect to range from the "percentage of HIV-positive women seen at clinics who report unmet need for family planning services" and the "number of children under 5 years of age who received vitamin A supplements" to the "number of targeted health units offering youth-friendly services in the area of reproductive health and family planning." Some illustrative data in Uganda suggests that, in a one-year period, Pathfinder projects achieved the following results:
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- 1,687 new adopters of family planning
- 27,370 HIV-positive women received HIV services that provided family planning.
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Pathfinder is a leader in community engagement and capacity building for family planning and reproductive health in Uganda. Pathfinder's community approach supports village health teams in their family planning outreach efforts, while continuing to equip selected health facilities with basic equipment that would otherwise not be available for service delivery.
Through the Ministry of Health and district health offices, Pathfinder has trained various cadres of the health service sector, from the community to the national level. Pathfinder has also trained trainers for health workers, peer educators, and village health teams on family planning, adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS integration, and child survival services. The trainers play a supervisory role to the trained groups and keep orienting the members that need support in terms of knowledge updates. Pathfinder is also promoting the use of data to improve evidence of effective programming by training health facility records officers/assistants, in charges and district records officers and biostatisticians in data collection, recording, verification, storage, and strategic use. To follow up and ensure quality after these trainings, Pathfinder provides supervision and on-the-job mentorship as key components of our comprehensive systems' strengthening approach.
As a result of our community training experience in Uganda, Pathfinder has taken a central role in chairing review sessions of the village health teams' national curriculum and is a member of a coalition to advocate for increased family planning commodities and supplies, on behalf of the Ministry of Health and major family planning donors.
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An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which as received rave reviews from scientists.
Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he has also been a hiking guide and bridge builder (when he slept in a jungle yurt).
In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. "Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."
Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.
Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.
Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment, working as a patent officer, though failed to achieve the Holy Grail, an overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos.
Now Lisi, currently in Nevada, has come up with a proposal to do this. Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi's work as "fabulous". "It is one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many years," he says.
"Although he cultivates a bit of a surfer-guy image its clear he has put enormous effort and time into working the complexities of this structure out over several years," Prof Smolin tells The Telegraph.
"Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi's theory," adds David Ritz Finkelstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. "This must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on something profound."
The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a "radical new explanation" for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong force, which binds quarks together in atomic nuclei; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay.
The reason for the excitement is that Lisi's model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.
But some are taking a cooler view. Prof Marcus du Sautoy told the Telegraph: "The proposal in this paper looks a long shot and there seem to be a lot things still to fill in."
And a colleague Eric Weinstein in America added: "Lisi seems like a hell of a guy. I'd love to meet him. But my friend Lee Smolin is betting on a very very long shot."
Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
What makes E8 so exciting is that Nature also seems to have embedded it at the heart of many bits of physics. One interpretation of why we have such a quirky list of fundamental particles is because they all result from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8.
Lisi's breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8's structure matched his own. "My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing," he tells New Scientist. "I thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"
What Lisi had realised was that he could find a way to place the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with notional particles, for example those that some physicists predict to be associated with gravity.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says. So far, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. "How cool is that?" he says.
The crucial test of Lisi's work will come only when he has made testable predictions. Lisi is now calculating the masses that the 20 new particles should have, in the hope that they may be spotted when the Large Hadron Collider starts up.
"The theory is very young, and still in development," he told the Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny) likelyhood to this prediction.
"For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online."
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Wow - this one resulted in an extended lunchbreak...
I downloaded the prepub and gave it a go. I'm a humble geneticist but even I could see he is using some relatively (by the standards if the area) straightforward mathematics to describe the fundamental particles and the 4 forces.
Definitely one to watch. I guess my only instinctive reservation in things like this is in what he says in his introduction. He states, "The mathematics of the universe should be beautiful. A succesful description of nature should be a concise, elegant, unified mathematical structure consistent with experience."
Well certainly it should be consistent with experience (i.e. empirical), but does it necessarily have to be concise and elegant. It could actually be messy and we try to impose order on it to make sense of it. I always feel this is like the weak theism of Einstein - "Raffiniert ist der Herrgott..." etc. It's a philosophical point.
Still, it will be interesting to see what the LHC has to say about the predictions. If they are borne out, look for posters of the E8 root system on pages 17 and 19 and popular science books with titles like 'The Snowflake Universe'...
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...look for posters of the E8 root system on pages 17 and 19 and popular science books with titles like 'The Snowflake Universe'...
And a packet of virtual ginger biscuits to the first person to derive E8 from the Kabbalah,
or vice-versa!
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Another aspect of E8:
"What's attractive about studying E8 is that it's as complicated as symmetry can get", observed David Vogan from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
"Mathematics can almost always offer another example that's harder than the one you're looking at now, but for Lie groups, E8 is the hardest one."
Professor Vogan is presenting the results at MIT in a lecture entitled The Character Table for E8, or How We Wrote Down a 453,060 x 453,060 Matrix and Found Happiness.
No wonder E8 seems to have the God-like property of including
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Mathematics are definitely not my strong point and maybe I'm a bit thick, but first of all the article says:
Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.
Even better,
it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space
, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts.
Then it says:
Lisi's inspiration lies in
the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points
first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional.
Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
Am I missing something here?
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Post subject: Re: Theories of Everything
Pietro_Mercurios wrote:
Am I missing something here?
Well, yes, but I agree it
confusing to the non-mathematician.
(TBH, it's confusing to me, but I'm nowhere near as good a mathematician as I'd like to be!
As I understand it, the physical world can still be described by the 3 spatial dimensions (up-down, left-right, near-far) and the dimension of time.
But all the objects and interactions we observe in the universe are very complex, and need
much more
information to describe them fully.
So you can describe a room by its length, width and height. But a fuller description would include its temperature, and temperature is another dimension (mathematically speaking). And the temperature might be different in different parts of the room, so we have to use an even more complex description which includes the temperature at each point of the room.
Then there is the air in the room, and its composition. How humid is it (another dimension), how much CO2 and other gases does it contain, how much radioactivity, etc.
Then there are the walls. What colour are they? Are they patterned, and if so, how?
All these questions can have numerical answers, which must lie somewhere along a 'dimension' (from 'least possible' to 'most possible').
And so it goes on. (Let's not think about the carpet!) In other words, to fully describe a room, you need to specify the values for many, many features, and all these features lie along a mathematical dimension.
So (as I understand it) E8, the most complex representation of symmetry possible in maths,
encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional
. E8 therefore includes not only the 4 dimensions of space-time, but all the possible ways in which all the things in our universe can interact. So it encapsulates electromagnetic fields, gravity, and all the weird phenomena of quantum mechanics, as well as relatively simple things like the size and age of your patio extension!
I hope this helps
(and that I am not speaking out of my nether regions)
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I hadn't thought of the Kabalah similarity...so if the scientific mainstream won't use the LHC to examine this, then maybe a few well endowed celebs with a mystical bent could fund it?? I can see the tabloid headlines now - 'Neighbours in uproar as Material Girl builds super accelerator in English Countryside'
Also, I guess if you take the 'universe is a computer simulation' route then E8 has something to do with the data structure in the code. If every possible instance of space time is described by an E8 array then obviously the creator had access to offshore software development resources that would be the envy of the sub-continent.
One thing is for sure, if there seems to be any substance in this it will run and run...
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Are the colours representative of anything in particular? Or just there for clarification to make the diagram easier to understand? It reminds me of a cross between a mandala, a rose window in a cathedral and God's spirograph.
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jefflovestone wrote:
Are the colours representative of anything in particular? Or just there for clarification to make the diagram easier to understand? It reminds me of a cross between a mandala, a rose window in a cathedral and God's spirograph.
Well, the 'mandala' is just a two-dimensional representation of a set of relationships that exist in 57 dimensions, so presumably the different colours indicate which points are linked by relationships in dimensions 1, 2, 3,.... 57 respectively.
(This may be 'simple' to some physicists, but it may not be so to the man on the Clapham omnibus!
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Surfer Dude's Theory of Everything - The Movie
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 6:01pm GMT 21/11/2007
Hollywood is now chasing the "surfer dude," who last week electrified the scientific community with his theory of everything, so that his extraordinary story can be told in a movie.
Such a theory aims to unite Einstein's General Relativity, which explains how the universe works on very large scales, with that of quantum mechanics, which describes the world of tiny elementary particles.
Now, after a decade of effort, a candidate idea for such a theory has been set out by Garrett Lisi, 39, who has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii. In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards.
"Since I'm not in academia, I only publish papers when I think I've found something cool," he says. But the response to his ideas has been anything but. Yesterday, he said that the feedback triggered by an article on
has been "phenomenal."
"I have also received many emails of encouragement from the general public, which have been wonderful and completely overwhelming."
Meanwhile, a representative of a Hollywood film production company has been in touch with the Telegraph saying that "I loved the article and think it has great potential for a feature film."
And at least one major agent is scrambling to sell publishers a book that will tell the story of Garrett Lisi and his struggles to comprehend the cosmos.
The reason Lisi has captured the imagination is that he does not work in the scientific establishment. Backed by a little money from a privately funded research institute called FQXi, he has introduced his new theory of everything, based on E8, the most elegant and intricate structure known to mathematics - a complex pattern in eight dimensions with 248 points that was first found in 1887.
What Lisi realised was that he could link the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with new particles, some of which might be detected at the Large Hadron Collider, the new atom smasher that will go into action next year in Geneva.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says.
So far, the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. And it could be possible to test predictions. "How cool is that?" he says.
"It is futile to argue with nature, if she says your theory is wrong. This E8 Theory is mathematically and aesthetically beautiful, and so far it seems to agree with the physics we know. But it is a new theory, and not completely understood yet, and, of course, it may turn out to be wrong."
Ever since an article on his work appeared last week online on telegraph.co.uk he has become something of a celebrity and he admitted yesterday that he was finding the attention overwhelming - indeed he has refused to appear on television.
"I'm currently spending the bulk of my time corresponding with physicists, which I consider to be of prime importance. "
Although he spends most of his time working on wave theory, the video of him snowboarding was shot in Colorado by videographer Lowell Hart. Lisi says he will split his time this coming season between working on E8 Theory and snowboarding at Mt. Rose in Tahoe.
Cool indeed!
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As you were....
Garrett Lisi: This surfer is no Einstein...
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 22/01/2008
No Einstein...but behind Garrett Lisi's 'theory of everything' lies an amazing idea,
Marcus du Sautoy
Two months ago, the physics world was buzzing with the news of a new Einstein. Garrett Lisi, an unemployed physicist with no university affiliation who spent his time surfing in Hawaii, had come up with the Holy Grail of science: a theory unifying quantum physics and Einstein's theory of relativity.
However, in the last few weeks several physics blogs have uncovered a problem with Lisi's idea: it doesn't work.
But to understand why, it is necessary to explore the fascinating concept the 39-year-old based his theory on - symmetry.
Lisi was attempting to bridge quantum physics - which works for very small things, like electrons and protons - and relativity - which works for very large things, like galaxies and stars.
At the moment, we can't fit the two into one coherent model that accurately describes the world we see.
Yet the idea of symmetry is vital to both. Quantum physicists can explain the menagerie of fundamental particles we observe - quarks, gluons, fermions, bosons and more - as different facets of a symmetrical object.
Relativity, too, works so beautifully because of the symmetries that exist between space and time: Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 is essentially expressing a symmetry between mass and energy.
Symmetry is part of the language of nature: many animals and plants exploit symmetrical shapes as a way of standing out against the chaos of the landscape. Symmetry also underlies the molecular world.
Diamond gets its strength from its crystal structure, which binds the carbon atoms together. Viruses such as polio and HIV exploit the symmetry of the icosahedron, a 20-sided dice made up of triangular faces. Because of the simplicity of this shape, viruses find it easier to replicate.
It is also important in the arts. From the Moorish painters in the Alhambra, to Bach's work, symmetry is a crucial ingredient. Although we have been playing with symmetrical objects since the first dice were thrown, it is only in the last two centuries that a true understanding has evolved - thanks to French mathematician Evariste Galois.
Before his death in a duel in 1832, Galois created a language called group theory that shifted attention from the symmetries of objects to the ways they interact.
If I place a 50p piece on the table, I can count the number of symmetries by seeing how many times I can twist or flip it to end up with the same outline.
Just as the number seven is not a concrete thing, but a concept that can be applied to seven cats or seven cups, so Galois realised that the symmetries that describe the coin could describe those of another object.
This language, of talking about "groups" of symmetries, lets us prove that the vast number of designs on the walls in the Alhambra are examples of only 17 patterns.
One of Galois's most stunning breakthroughs was the realisation that there are fundamental symmetrical objects which act as building blocks for all others.
The first on his list were the rotations of coins with a prime number of sides - like the 50p piece (those with six, or eight, or nine sides were not "indivisible" - for example, the rotations of a 15-sided figure can be built out of the rotations of a triangle and a pentagon).
But there were others - the rotations of a football, for example, with its patchwork of hexagons and pentagons, are one of the atoms of symmetry.
The greatest achievement of 20th-century mathematics has been to complete Galois's project. We now have a list of all the building blocks of symmetry - but although they were christened "simple groups", they are far from it.
In particular, there are some very strange designs that don't seem to fit in, known as "sporadic" or "exceptional". The title of Lisi's paper - An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything - does not describe how easy his theory is, but refers to his use of one of these groups, called E8, as the key to his idea to unify quantum physics and relativity into a theory.
E8 can be thought of as the symmetries of a huge snowflake living in 248-dimensional space. Lisi believed that inside this he could bind the symmetries of the quantum world and relativity.
Unfortunately, the consensus, after investigation, is that it is impossible to use E8 in the way Lisi was hoping and produce a consistent model that reflects reality. Lisi has been riding a wave - but it is time to knock him off his board and recognise that we are still waiting for the next Einstein to span the gap between the symmetries of the very small and the very big.
Marcus du Sautoy is a Professor of Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford.
I guess that scuppers the film project, then...
Although, with a good script-writer, the rise from obscurity to fame and the fall back to obscurity could still make a good story...
(Are the script-writers still on strike?)
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Surfer physicist gets grant to study theory of everything
Last week, the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) announced it has awarded $2.7 million in grants to 33 researchers to study basic questions in physics and cosmology.
Among the grant winners was surfer/theoretical physicist A. Garrett Lisi (pictured), who made the news last year with an unpublished paper entitled 'An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.' Lisi will get $77,222 to work on his theory, which involves using a recently mapped 248-dimension mathematical structure called E8 to unify all the fundamental particles and forces, including gravity. In the last round of awards in 2006, FQXi gave Lisi $77,280 over two years.
A number of grants went out to theorists studying multiverse theories and quantum gravity. But two of the three biggest awards actually went to experimentalists. One recipient will look for changes in the universe's fine structure constant using the rare element dysprosium. Another laboratory test will aim to answer why we don't see quantum mechanical effects on large objects.
This second round of grants clears out the rest of the major money FQXi had to dispense in its first four years (it awarded $2.2 million at 2006).
At the moment, FQXi is financed by the Templeton Foundation. But as Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit notes, the foundation's future physics funding may be uncertain, as the organisation is under new management following the recent death of its founder, Sir John Templeton.
"We're actively looking for more funding," says FQXi scientific director Max Tegmark. This might include money from other sources, possibly with matching grants from Templeton.
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Lisi doesn't look like a surfer dude - he doesn't have long tousled blonde hair...
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Professor Stephen Hawking: Einstein had futile quest
Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and best-selling author
Jonathan Leake
PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking is to publish a controversial new book suggesting Albert Einstein's lifelong search for a "theory of everything" was probably a mistake.
Einstein is famed for his theories of relativity, published in his twenties, which described the relationship between time and space.
However, he spent much of the rest of his career in a failed attempt to reconcile such ideas with the behaviour of matter and energy at the sub-atomic level, now known as quantum theory. The same hunt preoccupies many physicists today.
In his new book
The Grand Design
, Hawking will suggest that the search for this "unified theory" is probably futile – a notion that will prove controversial with many colleagues.
One of his previous books, A Brief History of Time, became an international best-seller, and the new one is also expected to sell well.
Hawking said in a recent lecture, published on his website,
uk: "Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind. I'm now glad that our search for understanding will never come to an end."
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Surfer dude's theory of everything: the magic of Garrett Lisi
The Big Idea: Roger Highfield explains why Garrett Lisi, the surfer who drew up a 'theory of everything' to explain the universe, is a great role model for science.
By Roger Highfield
Published: 7:00AM GMT 10 Nov 2009
[ video - vey pretty! ]
Of all the stories I've written in recent years, the most popular by far bore the intriguing headline: "Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything." It described how an American, Garrett Lisi, had unveiled a new way to unite the laws and particles of the universe, in a paper entitled An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.
I first picked up on the waves this unlikely figure was making in the scientific community when I read an article in New Scientist by Zeeya Merali. My take on the story broke in The Daily Telegraph in November 2007, and has since been viewed more than a million times on telegraph.co.uk. Only a few weeks ago, it was back at the top of the website's chart.
Hollywood wants to make 'Surfer Dude - the Movie' So why all the interest? Partly, because Lisi claimed to have found the answer to probably the most important question in science: how to find a coherent model of the universe that works on scales both very large (addressed by Einstein's theory of general relativity) and the very small (dealt with by quantum physics).
His take on it rested on an extraordinary mathematical object called E8, a complex shape described by a pattern of 248 points in eight dimensions, with a structure that, if written out as an equation in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. It filled 20 gaps in the conventional theories with new particles, which seemed to arise naturally from the geometry of E8. As soon as he spotted this, he declared: "Holy crap, that's it!"
The ideas were described as "fabulous" by Lee Smolin, of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. David Ritz Finkelstein, of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, added that "some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi's theory".
Much of the excitement was because Lisi's theory seemed to challenge string theory – the dominant contender for a "theory of everything", over which there has been a bitter intellectual war. Its proponents (mostly superstar theorists) argue that the theory, which relies on tiny, subatomic "strings" vibrating across multiple dimensions, is too beautiful to be ignored. But there are detractors, from Smolin, who launched a scathing attack in a book called The Trouble with Physics, to doubters, such as Steven Weinberg, a Nobel prizewinner.
However, the dude had his critics, too. Prof Marcus du Sautoy, of Oxford University, said it was time to knock Lisi off his board, pointing out the ways physics blogs dissected his work. He, and many others, remain unconvinced.
Yet even if Lisi is wrong – as is usually the case with attempts to erect such all-encompassing theories – the world needs more surfer dudes. Lisi's effort captured the public imagination because, though the then 39-year-old had a doctorate, he did not work in the establishment, but was backed by a little money from a privately funded research institute called FQXi. We need more independent spirits like him, and others outside the mainstream, such as James Lovelock, the maverick environmentalist.
Lisi is also a great role model for science, in that he shatters the stereotype of a nerd. While he worked on his theory, he spent most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he lived in a yurt. In winter, he headed to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he would snowboard. He was so attractive a figure that TV companies lined up to film him and literary agents scrambled to sell the story of his struggle to comprehend the cosmos. A Hollywood executive said there was "great potential for a feature film".
No wonder that today, Lisi says things are going "more or less fantastically well". He is now trying to use axions (theoretical particles proposed by the Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek) to describe how particles get their masses. And he is organising an E8 Theory conference with the backing of the American Institute of Mathematics. He feels like he, and others, are on "the right track", and hopes that some of the particles he predicts might be detected by the Large Hadron Collider, the vast atom-smasher that is about to go into action in Geneva.
And, as well as pursuing his theory, Lisi is working on a film about young scientists who combine cutting-edge research with adventure sports. He maintains his appetite for both physical and intellectual adrenalin, and tells me: "I've been spending every other day surfing or kitesurfing here in Maui." No wonder his peers are jealous.
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Dec 08 11MapleStory Video: KMS take on CWKPQ
Information has just been provided about the future patch. On December 15th KMS will have thief/pirate revamp. On December 29th the thief hero (Phantom) will be released.On January 12th a new town will come.
Also the trailer for the new Justice Update (Split into 3 parts will be coming)
There are 3 parts to it
Part 1: Thief & Pirate overhaul revamp.
Part 2: Thief hero Phantom will be released with awesome skills. Go thief.
Part 3: A new pq called Aswan Liberation will be released
Also game footage and commentary is now up. Skip to 3:48 to see the new skills
Spining cards? Prepared for thief stuff to skyrocket in price and thief hero be bandwagon. I love my thief classes. Phantom uses a new weapon called cane with his 2nd weapon being cards.
The way it works is that phantom receives 1 card for every critical. Phantom also has a link skill which increased your critical rate. This job shows how mobile thief is.
Important, Phantom has a skill which allows him/her to steal another character skill for a period of time.
What do you guys think? I wonder if this thief hero is going to be overpowered Will you make the thief hero class when its out?
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Dec 08 11MapleStory Screen: Crystal crimson nelde MapleStory Video: MMV Speak now
-point at Demon Slayer beginning video- Orca did mention she has a twin brother name Lotus <<<< Pirate Hero is one of the Black wing Commander that betrayed Black mage like Demon Slayer.
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zin125: Hmmm, are you sure Justice/Phantom is a new class? It looks like some type of add on to normal classes.. if not, that's totally unfair. They have the best of all classes..... WHATEVER! Shadowers, stay strong
you say it like the Legend update jobs aren't as unfair lol mercedes pretty much has the best skills from other classes just with flashier animations. DONT BE HATIN ON THE THIEF HERO! and plus the only reason phantom is guna hav hurricane or other class skills is probably guna be cuz of a card luck skill
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poid: oh my god please tell me he's not using freaking hurricane
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he used HEAVENS HAMMER TOO! -faints-
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I think Nexon still has yet to change the animations for some skills. I mean Huricane and H.Hammer have the same animations..
But overall most of the other skills don't seem that unique.
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as most people said phantom can "steal" skills but i think you can only steal from party members
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Also about his combo skill the one that he jump as a part of the combo to throw exploding stars or w/e , its nice how he steps like 10 steps back by using it , looks special and really like a phantom (close hit - jump back as he throws stars)
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Maybe its just plain L like the riuzaki from death note
Sounds epic too!
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funny how some think he will be able to continuously Use hurricane/ heaven hammer.....
I'm pretty sure they're going to put a cool down on it.
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