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Skip to comments.Is string theory in trouble?
Posted on 12/18/2005 5:46:34 AM PST by samtheman
Why are physicists taking the idea of multiple universes seriously now?
First, there was the discovery in the past few years that inflation seems right. This theory that the universe expanded spectacularly in the first fraction of a second fits a lot of data. Inflation tells us that the universe is probably extremely big and necessarily diverse. On sufficiently big scales, and if inflation lasts long enough, this diversity will produce every possible universe. The same process that forged our universe in a big bang will happen over and over. The mathematics are rickety, but that's what inflation implies: a huge universe with patches that are very different from one another. The bottom line is that we no longer have any good reason to believe that our tiny patch of universe is representative of the whole thing.
Second was the discovery that the value of the cosmological constant - the energy of empty space which contributes to the expansion rate of the universe - seems absurdly improbable, and nothing in fundamental physics is able to explain why. I remember when Steven Weinberg first suggested that the cosmological constant might be anthropically determined - that it has to be this way otherwise we would not be here to observe it. I was very impressed with the argument, but troubled by it. Like everybody else, I thought the cosmological constant was probably zero - meaning that all the quantum fluctuations that make up the vacuum energy cancel out, and gravity alone affects the expansion of the universe. It would be much easier to explain if they cancelled out to zero, rather than to nearly zero. The discovery that there is a non-zero cosmological constant changed everything. Still, those two things were not enough to tip the balance for me.
What finally convinced you?
The discovery in string theory of this large landscape of solutions, of different vacuums, which describe very different physical environments, tipped the scales for me. At first, string theorists thought there were about a million solutions. Thinking about Weinberg's argument and about the non-zero cosmological constant, I used to go around asking my mathematician friends: are you sure it's only a million? They all assured me it was the best bet.
But a million is not enough for anthropic explanations - the chances of one of the universes being suitable for life are still too small. When Joe Polchinski and Raphael Bousso wrote their paper in 2000 that revealed there are more like 10500 vacuums in string theory, that to me was the tipping point. The three things seemed to be coming together. I felt I couldn't ignore this possibility, so I wrote a paper saying so. The initial reaction was very hostile, but over the past couple of years people are taking it more seriously. They are worried that it might be true.
Steven Weinberg recently said that this is one of the great sea changes in fundamental science since Einstein, that it changes the nature of science itself. Is it such a radical change?
In a way it is very radical but in another way it isn't. The great ambition of physicists like myself was to explain why the laws of nature are just what they are. Why is the proton just about 1800 times heavier than the electron? Why do neutrinos exist? The great hope was that some deep mathematical principle would determine all the constants of nature, like Newton's constant. But it seems increasingly likely that the constants of nature are more like the temperature of the Earth - properties of our local environment that vary from place to place. Like the temperature, many of the constants have to be just so if intelligent life is to exist. So we live where life is possible.
For some physicists this idea is an incredible disappointment. Personally, I don't see it that way. I find it exciting to think that the universe may be much bigger, richer and full of variety than we ever expected. And it doesn't seem so incredibly philosophically radical to think that some things may be environmental.
In order to accept the idea that we live in a hospitable patch of a multiverse, must a physicist trade in that dream of a final theory?
Absolutely not. No more than when physicists discovered that the radii of planetary orbits were not determined by some elegant mathematical equation, or by Kepler's idea of nested Platonic solids. We simply have to reassess which things will be universal consequences of the theory and which will be consequences of cosmic history and local conditions.
So even if you accept the multiverse and the idea that certain local physical laws are anthropically determined, you still need a unique mega-theory to describe the whole multiverse? Surely it just pushs the question back?
Yes, absolutely. The bottom line is that we need to describe the whole thing, the whole universe or multiverse. It's a scientific question: is the universe on the largest scales big and diverse or is it homogeneous? We can hope to get an answer from string theory and we can hope to get some information from cosmology.
There is a philosophical objection called Popperism that people raise against the landscape idea. Popperism [after the philosopher Karl Popper] is the assertion that a scientific hypothesis has to be falsifiable, otherwise it's just metaphysics. Other worlds, alternative universes, things we can't see because they are beyond horizons, are in principle unfalsifiable and therefore metaphysical - that's the objection. But the belief that the universe beyond our causal horizon is homogeneous is just as speculative and just as susceptible to the Popperazzi.
Could there be some kind of selection principle that will emerge and pick out one unique string theory and one unique universe?
Anything is possible. My friend David Gross hopes that no selection principle will be necessary because only one universe will prove to make sense mathematically, or something like that. But so far there is no evidence for this view. Even most of the hard-core adherents to the uniqueness view admit that it looks bad.
Is it premature to invoke anthropic arguments - which assume that the conditions for life are extremely improbable - when we don't know how to define life?
The logic of the anthropic principle requires the strong assumption that our kind of life is the only kind possible. Why should we presume that all life is like us - carbon-based, needs water, and so forth? How do we know that life cannot exist in radically different environments? If life could exist without galaxies, the argument that the cosmological constant seems improbably fine-tuned for life would lose all of its force. And we don't know that life of all kinds can't exist in a wide variety of circumstances, maybe in all circumstances. It a valid objection. But in my heart of hearts, I just don't believe that life could exist in the interior of a star, for instance, or in a black hole.
Is it possible to test the landscape idea through observation?
One idea is to look for signs that space is negatively curved, meaning the geometry of space-time is saddle-shaped as opposed to flat or like the surface of a sphere. It's a long shot but not as unlikely as I previously thought. Inflation tells us that our observable universe likely began in a different vacuum state, that decayed into our current vacuum state. It's hard to believe that's the whole story. It seems more probable that our universe began in some other vacuum state with a much higher cosmological constant, and that the history of the multiverse is a series of quantum tunnelling events from one vacuum to another. If our universe came out of another, it must be negatively curved, and we might see evidence of that today on the largest scales of the cosmic microwave background. So the landscape, at least in principle, is testable.
If we do not accept the landscape idea are we stuck with intelligent design?
I doubt that physicists will see it that way. If, for some unforeseen reason, the landscape turns out to be inconsistent - maybe for mathematical reasons, or because it disagrees with observation - I am pretty sure that physicists will go on searching for natural explanations of the world. But I have to say that if that happens, as things stand now we will be in a very awkward position. Without any explanation of nature's fine-tunings we will be hard pressed to answer the ID critics. One might argue that the hope that a mathematically unique solution will emerge is as faith-based as ID.
From issue 2530 of New Scientist magazine, 17 December 2005, page 48
Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University in California. His book Cosmic Landscape: String theory and the illusion of intelligent design is published this week by Little, Brown ($24.95, £14.33, ISBN 0316155799)
I've been doing reasearch for my doctoral on g-string theory. Now, if I can just find a school which offers that as a major...
According to my paycheck, inflation is bad.
John Kerry won the election in some alternate universe! Scary ;^)
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Why do we have to go that route? We still aren't certain that the universe collapses are we? And if it does and recreates forever then the universe we see today would be inevitable.
Have you checked the University of Phoenix, they seem to have a Major for everything.
Careful, that could lead to the conversion of singularity.
You are behind times..Kids in Middle School now meet that as standard requirements, no "doctor" required. Called self help lab.
It gets down to semantics. If you look at the bubble of stars we can see with our telescopes and call that "the universe", but consider there are other bubbles out there that we can't see, and call the whole collection of bubbles "the cosmos" (which I think is the way Alan Guth does it), then you get the idea. Other word-choices could be made to get the same idea across.
We still aren't certain that the universe collapses are we?Not certain, but things are looking bad for the Big Crunch. Our expansion rate appears (recent observations) too high, and with the cosmological constant (that Einstein himself predicted and then rejected but which now turns out to be there) it will be harder than ever for the measured mass to pull itself all together again.
Ping for when I'm smart.
LOL, when i am smart too buudy!
I'm convinced that string theory is nothing more than high-fallutin' BS invented by stoned graduate students.
"In any case, am pretty mystified by all these abstract goings-on in the physics world nowadays."
Me, too. I think there's a lot of BS out there now that serves merely to keep people publishing and hence their jobs. I'm going to laugh when the LHC fails to find extra spatial dimensions.
Doesn't the casimir effect prove a non-zero "cosmological constant"?
It's seldom "truth." It's theory which fits all known data. If the data changes, the theory is modified or a new theory is advanced.
Newtonian physics works just fine for many things. But it doesn't take in account the effects of relativity.
In some segment of the multiverse there's undoubtedly a "g-string university".
That is a cosmological battle - Big Crunch or Cold Empty Universe. In other words, will the Universe end in fire or ice (metaphorically speaking). Data suggests that (based on our current thinking), the universe will gradually drift away into nothingness.
Which reminds me of the Robert Frost poem:
Some say the world will end in ice,
some say it will end in fire,
And having tasted desire,
I hold with those who say fire.
Have you checked the University of Phoenix, they seem to have a Major for everything.
Little Rock, AR has a vast amount of information on file with respect to everything related to this subject ... in the Clinton Library.
In an infinite number of universes, surely there is one with flying monkeys!I can't get my head around infinity. I prefer to speculate (and all of this is in the realm of speculation) on the possibility of a large but finite number of other bubbles and also prefer to think of us and our monkeys (flying or otherwise) as unique in all the cosmos. But that's just my particular fancy and means nothing.
What is interesting is that people who "know better" (that is, those who can do the math) are speculating along the lines of this article.
the argument that we find the universe improbably friendly to life because we are alive in this universe is neither an explanation nor an argument, but merely begs the question.You are right. It's not an argument, or an explanation. It is a speculation. And to my mind, an interesting one. Frankly, more interesting than the supposition that a book written by the scholary members of a nomadic desert tribe a few thousand years ago actually specifies the dynamics of the universe.
To my mind (and I'm not trying to win an argument, merely justify my own speculations), it makes more sense to toy with ideas of alternate big-bangs (in which some get the physical constants "right for life" and others don't), than to believe that a book written at the dawn of mankinds erudition correctly lists the technical specifications of our cosmos.
What would differ in those "anomolous" patches? Would they not conform to the same physical laws that govern this "patch?" Are we supposed to believe that Relativity extends to the very fabric of reality, and that Truth itself varies from locale to locale?
Would an intelligent observer from Tau Ceti IX see a universe governed by different laws, arising from completely different origins? Can we no longer rely on the assumption that certain values are immutable and universal?
Intriguing, but I suspect more of a parlor exercise than a physical reality.
Steady State (or any pop theory amounting to such) is an elegant mathematical way to commit the logical fallacy of "begging the question" by not addressing: What was the First Cause?
Remember: Nothing creates itself.
Remember: There is no such thing as infinity.
Q.E.D., Kalam Cosmological Argument, q.v.
That has to be the funniest ping I've seen!
It's like trying to reconcile where the interior of your house came from (if it's all you've ever known) if you have no understanding of anything outside your house.
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Shall we go after the M-theory and trash the string theory?
I'm a frayed knot
Schrödinger's cat.
Not certain, but things are looking bad for the Big Crunch. Our expansion rate appears (recent observations) too high,
I thought a couple of years ago scientists were puzzled by measurements that the expansion of the universe was speeding up, accelerating. This flew in the face of gravity which should decelerate the rate. I have not heard any contrary reports since. I'd settle for an answer on the driving force behind this acceleration as more useful than wondering if the universe is antropical.
Seems true. Nice turn of phrase, too. In my falsificationist persona, I suppose I am one of them.
I don't know that this is a straightforward Shroedinger case, but it does pose some intriguing questions.
A 'multiverse' in which every possibility happens blows Hell out of the experimental method, though.
the experimental method still works for events inside our universe, which are the only events we can see or test anyway
like i said, this is speculation, but i personally find it interesting.
Is string theory in trouble?Excellent.I'm a frayed knot
I thought a couple of years ago scientists were puzzled by measurements that the expansion of the universe was speeding up, accelerating.That's the way I understand it. It turns out Einstein was right when he predicted a cosmological constant. Even though later he back-tracked and called it "my greatest mistake".
How is the belief in alternate universes different than the belief in a deity?
The 'saddle' theory rings a bell, though. Make it a saddle that saddles the bottom and sides of the horse as well and you have a torus-like structure -- the old jelly donut theory.
Just watched the DVD Nova series on "The Elegant Universe" the other night. Very colorful and thought it presented some great models.
I can't add anything here, just making an observation.
I think space and matter only defines two aspects of the universe. Add time and you have a tri-universe, each aspect directly related and an emanation of the other.
So add them up and what do you get? Space + Matter + Time = 3 separate but unrelated units.
But multiplied, as Space x Matter x Time = the entire volume = 1 triuniverse.
> Is string theory in trouble?
It always had been hanging by a thread.
Cosmology theories have changed radically more than once
during my lifetime, and may do so several times more.
My, these physicists are full of themselves, aren't they? Somebody's pet mathematical model is in trouble, and that changes the very nature of science.
Only it doesn't. The nature of science is to destroy models like string theory. That is how progress is made.
What's more, the demise of string theory will have no repercussions at all outside a few esoteric realms of physics. Chemists, biologists, geologists, and engineers won't even notice it is gone.
"But in my heart of hearts, I just don't believe that life could exist in the interior of a star, for instance, or in a black hole. "
It doesn't seem likely to me, either, yet life has been discovered on earth in places that a few years ago would have seemed inhospitable, like undersea sulfurous volcanic vents, antarctic ice.
So I wouldn't rule out other places in the universe. We learn more surprising and amazing stuff every day.
On a slightly related note, I've wondered if at the most basic level we have just zeros and ones. In other words, maybe matter/energy exists in just on/off or left/right or whatever 2 states. Maybe all the subatomic particles reduce to 2 opposite choices at the lowest level. This idea appeals to me as a mathematician/programmer. Occam's Razor?
I would tend to agree but for a slightly different reason. If there are no other universes, that would tend to suggest that the event that created this universe was a one time event in all of eternity. It just doesn't have the right feel. The concept of eternity itself suggests that all things are possible and in some sense a concurrent reality.
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AUSTIN, TX—The Kor Group has formed a partnership with the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., who joins the development team as capital partner for Austin Proper Hotel & Residences.
Tuesday August 2nd, 2016 - 2:32PM
BETHESDA, MD—Hotel investment company Woodmont Lodging has closed on two hotels in a new partnership with Florida-based Waramaug LS Hotels, a private investment group focused on acquiring legacy-branded hotels throughout the United States.
Wednesday July 27th, 2016 - 9:09AM
SAN JOSE, CA—Lodging REIT Carey Watermark Investors 2, Inc., has acquired the 510-room San Jose Marriott for $154 million.
Thursday July 14th, 2016 - 9:02AM
ROSSLYN, VA—REIT Carey Watermark Investors 2, Inc.(CWI 2) has acquired the 154-key Le Méridien Arlington hotel, which is part of a mixed-use development that includes Class A office space and 136 residential units.
Wednesday June 29th, 2016 - 9:07AM
BOSTON—Henley Investments, a U.K.-based private equity real estate investor and a driving force behind the rollout of Waterwalk Hotel & Apartments,is expanding to the United States.
Monday June 13th, 2016 - 10:13AM
BETHESDA, MD—LaSalle Hotel Properties has priced an underwritten public offering of six million 6.3% Series J cumulative redeemable preferred shares at a price of $25 per share for gross proceeds of $150 million. The offering is expected to close on May 25, subject to customary closing conditions.
Thursday May 19th, 2016 - 9:30AM
NEW YORK—Savills Studley has strengthened its commercial real estate structured financing capability with the addition of Cara Leonard, an experienced hotel investment banking recruit, who will join the group's Hotel Investment Banking platform as senior managing director in Los Angeles. She will be part of Savills Global Hotel Group led by George Nicholas.
Thursday May 12th, 2016 - 9:21AM
ALISO VIEJO, CA—Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. has sold the leasehold interest in the 203-room Sheraton Cerritos for a contractual price of $42 million (or approximately $206,900 per key).
Wednesday May 11th, 2016 - 10:02AM
BETHESDA, MD—RLJ Lodging Trust has successfully refinanced more than $1 billion of debt consisting of a $400 million unsecured term loan, a $400 million revolving credit facility, $148.5 million in secured loans provided by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and an $85 million secured loan provided by PNC Bank, N.A.
Thursday April 28th, 2016 - 9:40AM
BETHESDA, MD—Tom Baltimore, president/CEO of RLJ Lodging Trust, is resigning from that post to become president/CEO of Hilton Worldwide's planned hotel REIT.
Wednesday April 27th, 2016 - 9:32AM
LAS VEGAS—MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP) has completed its initial public offering of 50-million Class A common shares, and the exercise in full of the underwriters' option to purchase an additional 7,500,000 Class A shares, at a price to the public of $21 per share for proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion, after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses.
Tuesday April 26th, 2016 - 9:21AM
NEW YORK—Las Vegas-based MGM Growth Properties (MGP), which had been a subsidiary of MGM Resorts International (MGM) and invests in casinos and resorts, raised $1.05 billion in its initial public offering Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Wednesday April 20th, 2016 - 3:41PM
RICHMOND, VA— The boards of directors of Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. and Apple REIT Ten, Inc. have approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will create one of the largest select service lodging REITs in the industry.
Thursday April 14th, 2016 - 9:17AM
MCLEAN, VA—Hilton Worldwide said it plans to spin off the bulk of its real estate business into a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) and spin off its timeshare business, Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV), as a separate publicly traded company.
Friday February 26th, 2016 - 9:13AM
IRVING, TX—FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated plans to appoint two new independent directors to its board of directors, who will then stand for re-election at the company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. FelCor also has entered into a letter agreement with Land and Buildings Investment Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor specializing in publicly traded real estate and real estate related securities.
Friday February 19th, 2016 - 9:58AM
NEWPORT BEACH, CA—Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) has secured a $33-million refinancing for Hampton Inn San Diego/Mission Valley, a 184-room, LEED-certified, select-service hotel in San Diego's Mission Valley West neighborhood.
Monday February 15th, 2016 - 12:22PM
ORANGE COUNTY, CA—A real estate fund managed by Ares Management, L.P. has made a strategic investment in Montage Hotels & Resorts. As part of the transaction, Ares will purchase a minority stake of up to 20% in Montage Hotels & Resorts. Ares also will provide up to $200 million in future growth capital to, with a strategic focus on the continued expansion of its portfolio of Montage- and Pendry-branded hotels and resorts.
Wednesday January 27th, 2016 - 9:26AM
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—Oregon-based Provenance Hotels got a multimillion-dollar infusion for seven of its owned and operated properties thanks to $236,750,000 of first-mortgage financing arranged by Sonnenblick-Eichner Co., based here, Hotel Business has learned.
Thursday January 21st, 2016 - 8:50AM
ARLINGTON, VA—Interstate Hotels & Resorts, a global hotel management company, has formed a strategic alliance with Palm Beach, Fla.-based Hospitality Funding, assisting Interstate's clients with their capital market needs for hotel projects.
Tuesday January 19th, 2016 - 9:57AM
PALM BEACH, FL—A joint venture comprised of affiliates of Chatham Lodging Trust and Cerberus Capital Management LP sold its interests in the Residence Inn by Marriott in Torrance, Calif.
Monday January 4th, 2016 - 10:51AM
PALM BEACH, FL—Chatham Lodging Trust, a hotel real estate investment trust focused on investing in upscale extended-stay hotels and premium branded, select-service hotels, has closed on a new, expanded $250 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility.
Monday November 30th, 2015 - 9:54AM
NEWPORT, KY—Banyan Investment Group and Investra Investments have purchased a Comfort Suites here.
Tuesday August 11th, 2015 - 9:38AM
NEW YORK—1 Hotel Central Park, the first New York City location of Starwood Capital Group's 1 Hotels, has opened at 1414 Sixth Ave., one block south of Central Park.
Thursday August 6th, 2015 - 12:28PM
ATLANTA—Hotel Development Partners (HDP) and funds managed by Ares Management, LP, have purchased three select-service hotels with an aggregate of 248 rooms in North Charleston, SC
Thursday August 6th, 2015 - 9:32AM
IRVING, TX—FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated has appointed Thomas C. Hendrick as EVP and chief investment officer.
Thursday July 30th, 2015 - 9:35AM
PARIS—LFPI has acquired Alliance Hotel Group from Lone Star.
Friday July 24th, 2015 - 10:59AM
CHICAGO—Geller Investment Co. has acquired a majority interest in the Waldorf Astoria Chicago.
Tuesday July 21st, 2015 - 2:39PM
ATLANTA—Noble Investment Group has completed a renovation of the Residence Inn by Marriott Charlotte SouthPark.
Tuesday July 21st, 2015 - 9:30AM
COVINGTON, GA—Royal Hotel Investment has broken ground on a 110-room, six-floor Holiday Inn Express & Suites here, about 35 miles east of Atlanta
Friday June 26th, 2015 - 1:17PM
MIAMI, FL—Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, LP, has closed the sale of the 120-room Hotel Indigo here in Miami's Dadeland submarket.
Monday June 22nd, 2015 - 10:45AM
AUSTIN, TX—Moody National REIT I, Inc. is under contract to purchase the Homewood Suites Austin for an aggregate purchase price of $14.2 million, excluding acquisition costs.
Wednesday June 3rd, 2015 - 10:25AM
PARSIPPANY, NJ–Wyndham Hotel Group has entered into an agreement with Corinthian Development Company to develop more than 15 new-construction Wingate by Wyndham properties in key markets throughout the U.S. and Canada over the next two years.
Monday June 1st, 2015 - 8:30AM
NEW YORK—Carey Watermark Investors—a non-traded REIT focused on the lodging industry—has selected The John Hardy Group to program manage the repositioning of the majority of its properties as they are acquired into the CWI portfolio.
Friday May 29th, 2015 - 11:45AM
PHILADELPHIA—Carey Watermark Investors Inc. has acquired a majority interest in the 299-room The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia in a joint venture with Philadelphia Hospitality Partners, L.P., the owner of the property.
Tuesday May 19th, 2015 - 9:02AM
BETHESDA, MD—The Meridian Group closed on the purchase of the Hyatt Regency Bethesda from LNR Partners LLC, with plans to reposition the hotel.
Wednesday May 6th, 2015 - 2:58PM
HOUSTON—Moody National REIT I, Inc. is under contract to purchase the Embassy Suites Nashville for $66.3 million, excluding acquisition costs.
Wednesday April 29th, 2015 - 1:22PM
BEACHWOOD, OH—Noble Investment Group completed a renovation of the Residence Inn by Marriott Cleveland-Beachwood here.
Tuesday April 7th, 2015 - 8:59AM
HILTON HEAD, SC—Wright Investment Properties' Hospitality Opportunity Fund I and its investment partner, Somera Capital Management, have acquired a second hotel on Hilton Head Island, which will become the Holiday Inn Express Hilton Head Island.
Monday April 6th, 2015 - 9:25AM
GREENWICH, CT—Starwood Capital Group has completed, through a controlled affiliate, the sale of the Ace Hotel London Shoreditch to Limulus Ltd.
Tuesday March 31st, 2015 - 9:05AM
ATLANTA—Noble Investment Group has acquired the Courtyard by Marriott New Haven at Yale University.
Tuesday March 31st, 2015 - 8:58AM
SANTA CRUZ SCOTTS VALLEY, CA—Arden Group, through its discretionary fund affiliate Arden Real Estate Partners II, LP, acquired the Hilton Santa Cruz Scotts Valley here.
Monday March 9th, 2015 - 1:58PM
BETHESDA, MD—RLJ Lodging Trust has sold a total of 24 hotels for approximately $240 million. representing approximately a 7.9% capitalization rate on the hotels' 2014 net operating income, including planned capital expenditures.
Wednesday February 25th, 2015 - 9:05AM
CHAPEL HILL, NC—Noble Investment Group has acquired the Courtyard by Marriott Chapel Hill here.
Tuesday February 24th, 2015 - 8:52AM
DALLAS—AWH Partners, LLC, has acquired The Westin Dallas Park Central.
Thursday February 19th, 2015 - 9:05AM
DUBLIN, OH—Waramaug Hospitality has completed a $6-million renovation of the 215-room Dublin Crowne Plaza here
Tuesday February 10th, 2015 - 8:54AM
ATLANTA—Stonehill Strategic Capital, LLC (SSC), an affiliate of Peachtree Hotel Group II, LLC, is looking to transact $500 million in fixed-rate permanent loans, floating-rate bridge loans, mezzanine debt, preferred equity and discounted note purchases this year.
Monday February 2nd, 2015 - 10:57AM
NEW YORK—Michael Mueller, founder, president and CEO of boutique brand NYLO, has sold his interest in the company and stepped down from his decade-long position.
Monday February 2nd, 2015 - 9:23AM
DALLAS—Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.'s board of directors has approved the formation of Ashford Hospitality Select, Inc., a new privately held company dedicated to investing primarily in existing premium branded, upscale and upper-midscale, select-service hotels, including extended-stay hotels, in the United States.
Thursday January 29th, 2015 - 9:11AM
NEW YORK—Mark J. Rosinsky, former SVP/hotel iInvestments with The Dow Hotel Co., LLC, and Gary Isenberg, president of LWHA Asset & Property Management Services, have partnered and cofounded U.S. Lodging Investors (USLI).
Monday January 26th, 2015 - 11:17AM
PALM BEACH, FL—Chatham Lodging Trust has priced an underwritten public offering of 3.5 million common shares of beneficial interest (par value one cent per share) at a per share public offering price of $30, for total estimated gross proceeds of approximately $105 million.
Thursday January 22nd, 2015 - 9:09AM
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Habitat for Humanity is getting a $3.2 million donation from the people of Qatar for hurricane recovery.
Officials say the Lauderdale County chapter will receive $120,000 of that to help build two houses for families who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Executive director Fonda Rush said, even though it has been four years since Katrina hit, there are still families in the area that are still trying to recover.
Lauderdale County Habitat for Humanity has built and rehabilitated 14 houses that were damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Since 2005, Habitat for Humanity has built, rehabilitated or repaired more than 2,000 homes along the Gulf Coast.
Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses worldwide.


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Happy 20th birthday to Muir's Rowlands Lodge
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Residents and staff at a housing scheme in Chester which provides support for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and physical disabilities have celebrated its 20th birthday.
"I've not only enjoyed living at Rowlands Lodge but I am more independent," said Christine, who has been a resident since the start. "The years have flown by and I'm always happy to call it my home."
Since opening in 1994, Rowlands Lodge, which is managed by Muir, has supported over 62 people with a variety of disabilities, tailoring services to meet their individual needs.
Residents have their own personalised support plan from staff, who help them learn life skills and access other services within the community. Residents have earned certificates for completing courses in social skills, health and wellbeing, fire safety and food hygiene. Ruth Davies won this year's Rowlands Lodge Annual Cup, which recognises outstanding achievement by a resident.
Project manager Virginia Young has been at the scheme since day one and said the residents are the key to its success.
"Their enthusiasm and energy is a great inspiration to us all, it rubs off on the staff, making it a great place to both live and work," Young said. "We have had a lot of fun and it's always lovely to see ex-residents and how well they are doing. It's been an amazing 20 years and Rowlands Lodge will continue to build relationships that will enrich the lives of our residents."
Mark Pearson, head of housing and support services at Muir, said: "Rowlands Lodge has been a real success story for Muir. Everyone who visits the scheme always comments on the great atmosphere and you can sense that everyone enjoys living there."
Photo: Ruth Davies and Virginia Young.
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There are times in our lives when we simply get to the point that we say, "I can't take it anymore!" This depression is just too dark. This marriage is just too hard. The job I lost, the family member I buried, the junk I'm going through. And deep, down inside your heart you say, "I quit. I'm done." And though you may go through the motions on the outside, you've just had it. Your mind says, "I've got to trust God," but your heart says, "I've heard it all before and it's not working for me." You begin to drift - from people and from God. This series, drawn from Nehemiah, will help you overcome adversity and keep you pressing ahead no matter what.
What's the biggest problem you're facing right now? We all know that adversity is a fact of life. Learning how to make adversity work for you, however, will transform the situation you're facing from a curse to a blessing. Chip shares how you can turn adversity from a foe to friend.
What would happen if you began seeing your most difficult circumstances as a "friend" rather than an enemy? Chip shares how God can and will take your worst and use it for your best.
Has life beaten you down? Tough marriage? Job? One of your kids? Are you feeling like throwing in the towel and giving up? Before you make one more decision, hit the pause button on your life and join Chip as he shares how to face discouragement and find hope.
How do you keep moving forward when life keeps knocking you down? Chip revelas four important resources you have at your disposal right now to fight back when life hits you hard.
Few things in life are as painful as having a good friend or trusted advisor turn on you. Have you ever been there? Well, if you're facing opposition from those in your inner circle, join Chip and learn how to neutralize the opposition and bring unity back to the relationship.
Chip takes a look at how to face opposition when it comes from a trusted friend or adviser.
Ever had a situation that caught you off guard - that was so troubling, so painful, that you just stopped and said, "God - why? Why this? Why me? Why now?" Well, if so, join Chip as he shares some insight on how to navigate those times that make you say, "Why?"
If you're in the middle of a tough situation and you have the distinct feeling that it's getting more "personal" by the day, join Chip as he explains the tactics Satan uses to discourage you. He'll give you the biblical, battle-ready tools to protect and defend yourself.
Facing difficult circumstances? Wishing you had a good plan to get yourself out of it, or at least through it? Chip gives you five ways to respond when difficult circumstances arise.
Whether it's the loss of a job, the loss of your health, the loss of a friendship, or the loss of a spouse or child, we all face circumstances that are hard, gut wrenching, and confusing. What do you do when you are faced with difficult circumstances? Chip gives you a step-by-step outline for confronting and disarming even the worst of times.
Chip shares what to do when you, or someone you know, experiences a tragic personal failure. It may seem hopeless, but Chip helps you with tools to find the way through the mess.
The most difficult of all situations for most people to endure are ones that come from their own choices. Personal failures. Selfish choices. Destructive decisions. How do you recover? There is a way, and Chip shares God's divine plan for providing forgiveness and restoration.
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35 people in Shiawassee County's Vernon Township should be back in their homes by 2 p.m.
They were evacuated yesterday after a Canadian National freight train headed eastbound derailed, spilling hydrochloric acid and forcing evacuations.
11 cars derailed a little after 6 p.m. on Thursday. One of the cars started leaking its contents, hydrochloric acid.
The train tracks were damaged by the acid.
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Baker's Dozing Podcast
May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Suffice it to say that GOP candidate for MA governor Charlie Baker leaves us amused and disdainful. For a bit of background, check Ryan's Shocker: Charlie Baker's a Liar. We got into his asinine attempts to try to prove the untrue…repeatedly. Fortunately for him, many voters will surely pass on any gubernatorial debates, wherein his […]
Treasurer Candidate Polito Podcast
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No candidates or podcasters were hurt in the broadcasting of today's show. GOP nominee for treasurer of the commonwealth and receiver general Karyn Polito joined us to say why she was interested in and qualified for the office as well as what she would do. Time note:Â She enters the show at 15:25. You are […]
Polito in Treasurer Trifecta
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We complete our chats with those who would be Massachusetts treasurer with Karyn Polito. Join us at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, May 19th for the live stream here. If you can't catch it live, listen later at that URL or here on Left Ahead. Polito has been in the House for nine years. She […]
Aggressive Treasurer Podcast
May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Steve Murphy joined us to describe his credentials and how he would take a more aggressive approach to being treasurer of the commonwealth. He and Steve Grossman are headed to the June 5th Democratic convention, with the likelihood that each will get the required 15% of delegates and face off in the September primary. The […]
Candidate for Treasurer Murphy 5/11
May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Part two of the MA treasurer candidates is tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/11, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Democrat Steve Murphy joins us to stake his claim on the office. You can listen to the live stream then. After the show, you can go to the same URL or return here to listen on demand. Murphy is a […]
Activist Treasurer Podcast
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 The avowed activist treasurer candidate, Steve Grossman joined us today. He has a very fresh and different take on the role of the commonwealth's money person. Listen in the hear his view of how that office should use the power of MA's money and a bully pulpit to the benefit of the commonwealth and its […]


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"College is already unaffordable for too many people," Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "If Congress doesn't act it will only get worse."
"The Republican plan would stick it to students," Reid said. "Passing the House proposal would be worse than doing nothing."
Reid said Congress should pass the Senate Democratic proposal that would freeze rates for two years, which is paid for by closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. He also pointed out that last year, which was an election year, Republicans supported keeping the interest rate down.
"We need to do what we suggest, that is keep the interest rates where they are," Reid said. "Unlike Republicans we won't abandon students when it's not an election year."


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- Converting type from Photoshop and Illustrator
- Creating shapes from text
- Using markers in animation
- Editing techniques for graphics
- Using type presets
- Animating type
- Exploring color correction tools
- Building animated textures
- Creating custom vignettes
- Understanding Lights and Material settings
- Adding dynamic transitions
- Rigging cameras for animation
- Working efficiently in 3D space
Skill Level Intermediate
Shape layers are one of the most underrated features in After Effects, if I do say so myself, because, really once you're comfortable with Bezier masks, there is no reason you shouldn't be working with shape layers. In this movie, I'm going to show you how to convert a mask path into a shape layer, and then create a transition out of repeating shapes of these snowflakes. Now, we're going to get specifically into building transitions a little bit later in this chapter. But for right now, I want you to understand how repeating shape layers function within After Effects.
So first thing, let's look at our composition. We have our Flakes comp, and in here there are two layers. Now if I check the source name here, you can see they both come from a Photoshop document. And if I highlight both layers and press M, you'll see that they both have masks. If you're not seeing the masks, like right now, you need to go to your View Options in the canvas and make sure that Masks is turned back on. I had mine turned off because of the previous movies I've recorded.
As you can see here, we have two separate mask paths. Now if you go into Photoshop, there is a tool that will allow you to create custom shapes. And within that tool, you can actually load up a library of custom shapes, so sure enough, in the library, they had two Snowflake shapes. So I just drew those shapes and saved it as a Photoshop document. And since After Effects and Photoshop talk so well to each other, when I imported this as a layered Photoshop document, sure enough, we have our masks that came in beautifully.
But I don't want to animate masks; I want to animate shape layers. So let's go up to Layer, and create a new shape layer. Now, with your shape layer created, nothing's really happened in the scene yet. That's because we haven't copied our mask path into the shape layer. Now there is a little bit of a process to do this. So I am just going to go ahead and maximize our Timeline here a little bit, and expand the contents and the Transform options for our shape layer. So if you look at the Contents area, we have to add something first to create a shape layer.
Now since I know I'm trying to add a mask path, let's go ahead and create a path. Now, you notice Path 1 pops up, and if we expand the disclosure triangle, you see we have an empty path area. So let's scroll down to Flake2 and select the mask path. Notice I'm clicking not here, but here on the mask path. Okay? Go to the Edit menu and choose Copy. Then when you go up to your shape layer, make sure to select the path with a little stop-watch icon to its left. Not Path 1 up here, but literally the path with the stopwatch.
Now if we go up under Edit and choose Paste, it'll actually paste in the mask path into the shape layer. So let's turn off the visibility of layer 2. And you can see here, I don't have a bright yellow mask, because this is a shape layer path. Now if I go ahead and click off of the shape path, you see there is nothing there. That's because once we've added the path, we still need to add yet another parameter if we want to fill this, or if we want to add a stroke to it.
So let's go ahead and add a stroke. Now with the stroke enabled, what we need to do is adjust the stroke width, so we can see exactly how this is being drawn on. I am just going to click off of the stroke itself, and you can see now I've got this kind of fat snowflake. By all means, you can customize this. There are several options, in terms of adjusting the stroke width, as well as, how the caps are rendered. Notice if I change this to Round Cap or Projecting Cap, it slightly changes the edges of the scene.
We'll leave it at Butt Cap. And we can go to the Miter Join, and that's really what adjusts the joints of these harder curves. Notice if I choose Bevel and I click off, it's a slightly different look. I liked the Miter Joint look. It gives kind of a graphic bold flair, so we'll leave it like that. Let's make an adjustment to our Color setting. So just click in the white chip, and we can go ahead and choose any sort of cool tone. Let's make this a little more blue. There we go! Now let's do the exact same thing for our other flake.
Go up under layer, create a new shape layer, and again, we'll repeat the steps. Okay, so now Flake1 has been copied into the new shape layer. Let's repeat the same thing by adding another stroke, and with the Stroke Options, you guessed it, we can change the stroke width, just a little bit, and update the color to something different. So here we'll do like a darker blue for that one.
Okay, so now we have our two different snowflakes, and there set up as shape layers. And you're probably thinking to yourself, okay, well, you know I could have just used the Stroke effect and achieved a very similar look. And my answer to you would be yes, yes, you could have. But with shape layers you can add all kinds of extra fun and motion graphic-y goodness by going back to the Add button and adding repeating patterns. So let's go ahead and add a repeater.
When you add a repeater, notice it's automatically repeating the shape that we had selected. So let's go ahead and increase the number of copies. Just drag it out to anything you like. And if you click and drag to Offset, notice the Offset is what animates this repeating function across the number of copies. Now you're probably thinking, well, how do I determine what direction this Offset is going? Well, if you go to the Transform properties, specifically for the repeater, you notice by default, it's set up to repeat based on the position data, set at 100.
So the cool thing about this, if you keyframe this, you can create kind of a Superman-type animation here, where it comes in and gets set, and then shoots out the other side. You can adjust other settings as well. Here, let me go ahead and show you. We'll drag the position to the left, and let's adjust the End Opacity. Hey! There we go. That looks pretty darn cool. So if we go back to the Offset here, you can kind of see, we can create this sort of blazing snowflake that shoots across the scene. Okay, so repeaters with snowflakes give you all kinds of different options.
One of my favorite options is to go ahead and adjust the Scale. If we click on the Scale--check this out-- now instead of it just sort of repeating off to one side or the other, with the Scale option, it actually gives me sort of a faux 3D look. And if I zoom out on the canvas here, you can see exactly how this is set up. So now if I adjust the Offset, I can have the snowflake come in from the side and then shoot right off to the other side. So let's go ahead and keyframe that, so you can see what that looks like.
Set the first keyframe at about 46 for the Offset, and let's move our playhead to around 1 second. Now if we drag the Offset back to the left here, we can go ahead and make sure that this zooms right on by. Let me go ahead and bring this canvas up in terms of its size. And under View, let's go ahead and deselect Show Guides and set up a RAM preview.
So as you can see, when you animate a repeater, you can create all kinds of interesting effects. Now one last thing: if you really want to kind of take things up a notch, go ahead and play with Blur effects, and your Glow effects. But really, with shape layers, the possibilities are endless, especially when you consider the huge library of different vector shapes in Photoshop and Illustrator.


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