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The release date for the PS5 is a hotly debated topic among gamers. The next-generation PlayStation may be ready as early as 2019 or as late as 2021, but experts and gamers figure late 2020 is the most likely time for the new game console to hit the market. Many updated games may be released for the PS5, too.
The CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) John Kodera made some comments that indicate it may be 2021 before the new PlayStation hits the market. Sony showed its exclusive PS4 games at the E3 showcase in 2018 and is now slowing down the development of any new PS4 games.
The slow down of PS4 games means it's almost time for Sony to develop and release the PlayStation 5.
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Sony's PlayStation game console, along with Microsoft's Xbox, are the most popular devices for gamers today. The PlayStation was descended from the Sony/Nintendo Super Disc, which was never released. In 1991, Sony introduced a streamlined version of the game called the PlayStation.
Sony's new design, the Playstation X (PSX) got rid of the cartridge port of the Super Nintendo and focused on CD ROM games. The hardware inside the console was upgraded to provide a more immersive experience. By the end of 1995, the PlayStation was the most popular video game console in Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
Sony has recently introduced the possibility of releasing the PlayStation 5 console shortly. There's no official release date yet, but the Fourth Quarter of 2020 is the most likely date. A fourth quarter/holiday season release makes sense, as it would debut the game console along with many other popular electronics.
However, we may get lucky and see it earlier, in the first quarter of 2020 or late quarter 2019.
Video game authority Marcus Sellars tweeted that third-party developers may have received development kits for PlayStation 5 early in 2018. While this rumor hasn't been verified, there's a distinct possibility the Sony in-house development team already had Playstation 5 kits. If so, a 2019 release may be on the horizon.
Michael Pachter, a video game industry expert, says that there is a chance the PlayStation 5 will be released in 2019, but it's more likely it will be released in 2020.
Sony has released its PS game consoles during the final quarter of the year with one exception. The original PS was released in September 1995 in Europe and North America, after it debuted in December 1994 in Japan.
The publication Digital Foundry doesn't expect the PlayStation 5 to be released anytime soon, but they believe that Sony will upgrade it enough to make the wait worthwhile.
The cost of the PS5 hasn't been established yet. The PlayStation 4 Pro was priced at $$, the same price as the original PlayStation 4. In 2016, the Playstation 4 Slim was sold for $$.
Until Sony makes an official announcement, it's anyone's guess as to the actual price. There's a good chance the new PlayStation will be around the same price as the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Pro.
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The possible technological improvements to the PS5 must be considered when discussing the cost and release date. The new PS will need a different process for making the main processor and incorporating more memory. The cost of a new system build is part of the reason the console may not be released until 2020.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Sony's CEO Kenichiro Yoshida stated that next-generation hardware is a necessity for PS5.
The current 16nm FinFET manufacturing process needs to be supplanted by TSMC and 7nm FinFET process. The new system will probably be tested on mobile phones or devices, and the first run may be overseen by Huawei.
It takes a year for a new system to become efficient enough for proper game console production. This fact makes mid-2019 the earliest possible time for the first run PlayStation 5 to be manufactured and delivered.
The HBM memory technology is available right now but may be too costly for Microsoft and Sony to use on the PlayStation 5. The GDDR6 memory technology is going to shift into major production soon, and its arrival coincides with the release of the new graphics cards from Nvidia.
The production of GDDR6 memory chips may take some time before it can meet the production demands needed by Microsoft and Sony. An improved memory and manufacturing process combination won't be available at least until mid- 2019, but it's more likely it won't be up and running for PS until 2020.
Sony will probably work with AMD for the next generation processor for PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox. Both companies will likely use components of the CPU and GPU encased in one chip to keep prices down and make future slim consoles easiest to produce and sell.
Sony has faith in the console generation and wants a break between each version of the devices. However, the real-world delivery of an x86 device with graphics created with AMD Radeon tech that won't sustain backward compatibility isn't a sure thing as of this writing.
Compatible technology for CPUs, even between x86 products, may not be possible right now. When we look at the System on Chip (SoC) technology that's available, we can get a good idea about the timeframe for the PlayStation 5 release.
AMD has optimized Ryzen CPU technology into an APU for desktops, and it is the PC equivalent to console processors. One 7nm Ryzen Core Complex (CCX) takes up the same silicon amount as a 16nm Jaguar cluster in current consoles.
The new Ryzen CCX capability means that a next-generation console could have 16 threads and eight cores. This new technology would be the console version of the desktop AMD Ryzen 7 placed in a console at a lower clock-speed.
The latest Ryzen CCX will change the console and how we play video games. Today's machines lack a certain amount of power because they were made with repurposed cores from the x86 that were geared to mobile devices.
The repurposed cores were the only tech available to Sony and Microsoft at the time the Xbox and PS4 were constructed. The next generation of machines will probably have CPU performance or a better version of an AMD Zen core.
The improved core in a fixed platform will make the games you play on the PlayStation or Xbox more sophisticated and realistic.
Sony has worked quite hard on perfecting VR for Playstation, so it's a given that this aspect of the game console will continue to improve. Sony patented a new virtual reality headset in October 2018 that can track the location of your fingers during gaming. This feature eliminates the need for controllers.
The patent is called Gaming Device With Rotatably Placed Cameras. The item is described as a device you wear on your hands. We're not sure if this wearable tracker will be a part of the PlayStation 5, but it's possible.
It's called Gaming Device With Rotatably Placed Cameras and describes a wearable device which is worn on the hands.
At the 2018 Bethesda E3 conference, Starfield, a single-player role-playing game, was announced as the first game for PlayStation 5. This next-generation game won't be released for a while, and it seems to be designed for Microsoft and Sony consoles.
The Last of Us: Part 2 and Death Stranding are a year or more away from final development and launch, and may be used with the PlayStation 5. Both games may be used for the PS4, but there's always a chance they'll launch later, on the next generation console.
Last of Us was released for PS3, only a few months before PS4 was launched, The game was ported to the PS4 a few much after the new version debuted. The same porting could happen with part 2 of The Last of Us if Sony's Naughty Dog isn't developed quickly.
The three-year game development cycle also suggests a Horizon Zero Dawn sequel may be in the works. The original version was released in 2017, so the next version should be due in 2020. The updated Horizon Zero Dawn will be much more advanced and fun for gamers on the PlayStation 5.
Ghost of Tsushima, by Sucker Punch, debuted at PSX 2017, and attendees at E3 2018 saw a stellar demo. We may see another version on PS4, or it might debut on PS4 and 5.
The remake of Final Fantasy VII will debut in several parts, and we may see the game on PlayStation 5 with improvements over the PS4 version. Some gamers may buy the versions for both games since FF is a perennial favorite. The game was first released by Square in 1987.
Other possible candidates for release on PlayStation 5 include:
DICE shooter
Call of Duty from Sledgehammer
The games mentioned above would likely be released in November 2020, around the same time as the new PlayStation. A FIFA 21 soccer video game will probably be ready by then, too.
A new Gran Turismo game is another possibility for the launch of the new PS console. The series has gone through several delays, but its director stated that he is thinking about a new game to succeed GT Sport. There's nothing official yet, but we might be playing GT 7 on the next Playstation upgrade.
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Question: My son is 20 mths old and having stye (infection with pus on both eyes). It will travel from his upper eyelid to lower eyelid. I saw a specialist but he does not seem to be recovering. This has been around for more than 8 months and we have seen the doctor three times. What should I do?
Answer: Stye is a very common problem in young children. It is a infection of the tiny oil glands of the eyelids, caused by a bacteria called staphylococcus aureus. If the problem is recurrent in an otherwise well young child, it is usually a hygiene issue. I would suggest looking into hand washing habits as well as whether the child likes to dig his nose and or rub his eyes frequently. Getting rid of these habits can decrease the incidence of stye. An antibiotic ointment can sometimes be given for the nose to get rid of staphylococcus aureus carriage in cases of recurrent stye.Frequent warm compress (using a warmcloth, to be put over the affected eyelid for about 10 min, 3-4 times a day) can also decrease the incidence, especially when the stye is forming.
Question: My 15 month old boy still never produced tears. Is this normal?
Answer: It is not normal for a 15 month old child to not produce tears at all. I would suggest that you bring your child to a paediatician or an eye doctor for a further check up.


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Johan Peter Friedrich "Fritz" (von) Paulsen (28. juli 1780 i Slesvig by – 6. juni 1843 i København) var en dansk officer og hofmand, bror til Friederich Nicolai Wilhelm von Paulsen.

Paulsen var søn af generalmajor Peter von Paulsen (1735-1815) og Anna Catharine Claudine f. Bertelsen de Cederfeld. Han ansattes allerede 1789 som kornet à la suite ved Slesvigske Rytterregiment og blev 1811 sekondritmester ved Prins Ferdinands Dragoner. Han avancerede 1813 til eskadronschef, fik 1827 oberstløjtnants karakter og udnævntes 1830 til virkelig oberstløjtnant. Derefter trådte Paulsen ud af den aktive tjeneste.

26. december 1832 ægtede han i Ljubljana Elise Sophie Charlotte Thorvaldsen (døbt 13. marts 1813), datter af billedhuggeren Bertel Thorvaldsen. Prins Christian Frederiks, den senere kong Christian VIII's, fraskilte gemalinde, prinsesse Charlotte Frederikke, der levede i et slags internat i Horsens, fik 1830 Frederik VI's tilladelse til at tage ophold i Rom. Paulsen ansattes nu hos prinsessen som kavalér og fungerede i denne egenskab hos hende indtil hendes død 1840. Dette år forfremmedes han til oberst à la suite og udnævntes til kammerherre. Parret Paulsen boede 1837-41 med deres tre børn Alberto, Carlo og Augusto på Corsoen 151 i Rom.

Fritz Paulsen tog 1842 sin afsked fra Hæren og tilbragte derefter resten af sit liv på herregården Lillerup ved Horsens, hvilken han havde købt 1825. Paulsen døde 6. juni 1843 i København. Han blev begravet på Assistens Kirkegård. Hans grav blev i 2009 gravet op og flyttet til et andet sted på kirkegården pga. udgravningen til Københavns metro.

Elise Paulsen indgik et nyt ægteskab og døde 17. september 1870 i Albano. Fritz Paulsens søn, pavelig kammerherre Federigo Alberto Thorvald Paulsen (1834-1921), har efterkommere i Italien.

Chiara Colonna har 1831 udført en kultegning af Fritz Paulsen (Thorvaldsens Museum), Albert Küchler har udført familieportrættet Oberst Paulsens familie (1838, ditto), mens Wilhelm Marstrand 1838 har udført en karikaturtegning af danskere i Rom, hvor Paulsen er gengivet.

Kilder og eksterne henvisninger
 Alexander Thorsøe, "Fritz Paulsen", i: C.F. Bricka (red.), Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, København: Gyldendal 1887-1905.
 Sofus Elvius og H.R. Hiort-Lorenzen, Patriciske Slægter I.
 Bertel Thorvaldsens Brevarkiv

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Science » Physics
The Best Books on the Big Bang
recommended by Dan Hooper
At The Edge of Time
by Dan Hooper
Before Einstein, how the universe began was a question for theologians, not scientists. Over a century later, we know much more, but not enough to do more than guess at what happened at the moment of the Big Bang and immediately after. Astrophysicist Dan Hooper, author of At the Edge of Time—a book that explores dark energy, dark matter and other things we don't yet understand—talks us through books about the Big Bang, and questions whether our entire understanding of the universe is about to be turned upside down.
The First 3 Minutes
by Steven Weinberg
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean M Carroll
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin
by Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S Thorne
1 The First 3 Minutes by Steven Weinberg
2 The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean M Carroll
3 How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
4 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
5 Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S Thorne
You're recommending books about the Big Bang, the moment 13.8 billion years ago when our universe began. I think pretty much everyone has heard of the Big Bang, but what some of these books, including yours, suggest is that we don't actually know that much about it. In your book you talk about "an informed guess" and say that all the laws of physics may have been different at that point. In his book, Sean Carroll writes, "it's a hypothetical moment that we know almost nothing about." Could you explain what's going on here?
When we look at the entire universe's history, most of it we know a great deal about. We know the universe has been expanding over the past several billion years and we can measure that. We know how galaxies and clusters of galaxies have changed and evolved over that time. We understand the laws of physics that made all that happen.
Going back, we can see in high detail and great precision the light that was released into the universe 380,000 years after the Big Bang. We've measured that so well over the last 50 years that we're entirely confident that the universe was like what we think it was like at that point in time. We also understand how and why it has evolved and changed since.
Going back even further, we can calculate, according to the Big Bang theory, how different kinds of nuclear elements were forged in the first seconds and minutes after the Big Bang. At that point the universe was so hot, it was like a giant fusion reactor. When we compare those calculations, those predictions, with the abundances of those things we find in the universe today, they match. So we're pretty sure that part is right too.
But when you go back into the first second, and the first fractions of a second, we don't have any way of observing our universe. We have to have some humility about that. We have to admit that it could have been very different than we currently speculate or extrapolate. I liked Sean's quote that you mentioned, because we know almost nothing about it, at least in a very confident way. Anything we say about the first fraction of a second of our universe's history has to be treated as speculative or an informed guess or something along those lines.
In one of the books you've recommended it mentions that this moment of the universe's birth was originally known as the "primeval atom." Is the Big Bang a good description of what happened?
It's not a great description. So the 'primeval atom' was a term Georges Lemaître used to describe it. He also called it the 'primeval egg.' But his idea was different. He imagined that there was empty space with one object in it, which had a mass equal to everything in the universe today. He said that, according to the laws of quantum physics, this thing would decay at some point, but you wouldn't be able to predict when, and before that happened, if there was only one object in the universe, you couldn't measure any distances because you need two things to measure distance and you couldn't measure time because no events happen. So that means there's no such thing as space or time prior to that. From a philosophical perspective, he was basically taking a positivist perspective that if you can't measure it, it's not real. Then, when that thing decayed, it produced all the stuff that's in the universe and that's where time began, according to him.
"In the last few decades, as we've learned more and more about the early universe, we've been given more and more reason to think that we might have something substantively wrong in our theory of cosmology"
That's not what we mean when we talk about the modern Big Bang. What we mean is that we can measure that space is expanding and that the distance between any two points in space is getting larger as time goes on. In the past, the universe was smaller, and that means it was denser and hotter, and if you run that thing all the way back you find that, 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was in a very hot, very dense state. Sometimes when people use the word Big Bang, they just mean that state. Sometimes when people use the word Big Bang they mean the point where that state reaches infinite density and infinite temperature, at time T equals zero. I'm not going to argue about which of those usages is right. It's just a semantic question. They're both right and it's fine.
But it's not a great description of what really happened in either case. When people hear about the Big Bang, they're tempted to think of an explosion, something that happened somewhere in space. That's not what we mean. We mean something that happened everywhere simultaneously, a state that the entire universe, all of space, was in simultaneously. So, in a sense, the Big Bang is a misnomer, but it's the one we're stuck with it.
You don't want to suggest a new name for it?
If I were to try to rename it, I don't think the new name would stick and it would just confuse a lot of people, so I'll go with what we have.
Before we get to the books about the Big Bang, one more question: when you say the universe is expanding and we can measure it, how do we do that, in practical terms?
The first person to measure this was Edwin Hubble. He looked at a number of different galaxies and saw they were all moving away from us. Furthermore, the farther away from us a given galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from us. What we understand this to mean now is that the space between us and those galaxies is getting bigger, and it's not because we're at the center of something. If you were an observer in some other galaxy, elsewhere in our universe, you would see all of the galaxies near you moving away from you, too. This is because space everywhere is getting bigger.
Now, to be clear, it's not that all the stuff is moving into some unoccupied place in space. That's not the picture. All of space, the entirety of it, is expanding. There isn't any empty space that stuff is moving into, it's just that space itself is getting bigger as time goes on.
That's always done my head in. It's just really hard to understand, as a non-physics person.
Let me tell you a trick I use to try to visualize this, because it's hard for me to understand too. If I wanted to measure the size of this room, I would take a meterstick and I'd measure that it's, say, five meters across. Let's say I waited a while and then did it again and this time it was six meters across. I could interpret that same information in two different ways. I could say either the room is growing or my meterstick is shrinking. You can't tell.
So when we say the universe is expanding, you could visualize it as everything in space—including constants of nature like the speed of light—shrinking in unison together. That would look, to us, just like the universe was expanding. So you can think about it either way and it's not wrong. Probably what's going on is space is actually expanding, but we can't be entirely certain of that.
A quote from your book: "the more we study our universe the less we understand it." Is that really true?
I'm being a little poetic, but it does sometimes seem that the more we learn about our universe, the more certain puzzles and problems come to light that make us question how well we understand it. If you'd asked a cosmologist in the 1970s whether the Big Bang theory was a good description of nature, they would probably have said, 'Sure it is. Matter consists of atoms that we understand, the universe is expanding in a way that the theory predicts, all the light we see from the Big Bang looks about right and the ratio of different kinds of substances agrees pretty well. Yes, we understand the Big Bang.'
Then, in the decades that followed, we discovered that most of the matter isn't made of atoms, it's made of something else that we call 'dark matter.' We don't know how it was made or what it is. We just know that there's something out there in large quantities that doesn't reflect, radiate or absorb light.
We also discovered that the universe is expanding in a way that we can't explain without positing the existence of something we call dark energy. It exists everywhere throughout the universe and as the universe expands, it doesn't get diluted by that expansion but causes the universe to grow faster and faster and faster.
We also find that we live in a universe that's really uniform. It's homogeneous. If I look in one direction as far as I can, and then I look in the opposite direction, as far as I can, the universe basically looks the same everywhere. The only way we can understand that at the present is to hypothesize that shortly after the Big Bang there was an explosive burst of expansion—that we call 'cosmic inflation'—but we don't know how or why.
Lastly, if you take the laws of physics as we understand them, we predict that the early universe should have contained equal amounts of matter and antimatter and that these substances should have destroyed each other, leaving no matter behind at all. Instead, we have stars and planets and people and all these objects made of atoms. So that can't be right.
I would say that in the last few decades, as we've learned more and more about the early universe, we've been given more and more reason to think that we might have something substantively wrong in our theory of cosmology.
Before we get to that, let's go through the books you've chosen about the Big Bang. First on your list is The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg. Tell me why you've chosen this book as a good one to read and understand the Big Bang.
First of all, Steve Weinberg is arguably the most brilliant physicist of the last many decades. He's an absolute luminary. I've had the opportunity to meet and talk with him a few times and it's an incredible experience. He's a genius in every measurable way.
He also happens to be a really good writer and communicator. I've liked all of the books of his I've read, but I picked The First Three Minutes because it is the classic book about the Big Bang and the first three minutes of our universe's history.
"When people hear about the Big Bang, they're tempted to think of an explosion, something that happened somewhere in space. That's not what we mean."
The book describes the quark-gluon plasma that existed and how it underwent phase transitions and how different kinds of particles and energy transformed through this and eventually created light elements and nuclear fusion in the first minutes and seconds.
When I set out to write At the Edge of Time, I was giving myself the task of writing an updated version of The First Three Minutes, because it was written before we discovered a number of things about the early universe and about cosmology. As I carried out the task of writing it, my book evolved into something quite different, but that's really what motivated me: I felt that somebody needed to write the 21st century version of Weinberg's classic story.
Does most of it remain right?
When Weinberg was writing no one knew about inflation, no one knew about dark matter or dark energy. A lot has changed, but it's the same basic picture.
He writes at the beginning that he was a particle physicist, not a cosmologist, but that he couldn't resist writing the book because, "What could be more interesting than the problem of Genesis?"
The funny thing is that when he wrote that book, it was strange for a particle physicist to do cosmology. He was an outsider to that field and that was really out of the ordinary. Today, a lot of cosmologists are particle physicists. I'm one. I trained as a particle physicist and I gradually meandered my way through scientific subjects to cosmology, but I'm not rare. There are lots of us doing that today.
And is that because you need to know one to understand the other?
Particle physics played an enormous and important role in the early universe and there are lots of parts of cosmology you simply can't do without a background in particle physics. There are other parts of cosmology you can't do without being an expert in relativity. There are other parts of cosmology you can't do unless you're an expert in computer simulation. It's a multidisciplinary subject and takes many different expertises to do well.
Tell me about the next of the books you've chosen on the Big Bang, which is The Big Picture by Sean Carroll. This book is quite philosophical, isn't it?
Sean is a cosmologist. He and I have similar backgrounds, though he's a little more on the relativity side and I'm a little more on the particle physics side. I've always liked Sean's writing. I used to read his blog regularly and now I listen to his podcast. He's a really great science communicator.
His first books two books were about physics. The Big Picture is about physics and cosmology, but with a big dose of philosophy on top of that. I read a lot of philosophy and it's really refreshing to read a physicist writing about philosophy in a reasonably competent way. Most physicists think they're good at philosophy when they're actually terrible at it. That's why I thought The Big Picture really stood out. It's asking questions that philosophers of science might ask, from the perspective of a physicist who is also informed as a philosopher.
Can you give an example?
Sean writes a lot about the anthropic principle. This is an idea that goes back several decades, but stated in its simplest form it's that an observer will always find themselves living in a situation where observers are possible. It sounds uncontroversial and it's basically a tautology. It just has to be true by definition, but it actually leads to some really interesting conclusions.
First I'll give you a really uncontroversial usage of the anthropic principle and then I'll give you a controversial one. The non-controversial one is we find ourselves living on a planet that has the chemistry and temperature to potentially support life. By definition we couldn't find ourselves living on a planet that couldn't support life, so we're not surprised that 0.00001 (etc.) per cent of the volume of the universe is a planet with life-supporting conditions, and we happen to be on it—even though it seems unlikely, when you put it that way.
The more controversial version of the anthropic principle is maybe looking at something like the strength of the electromagnetic force. We notice that if the electromagnetic force had been a little bit stronger or a little bit weaker, life couldn't exist in this universe. I forget the details, but I think if it were a little bit stronger than certain processes happen among nuclei that would cause stars to implode and if they were a little bit weaker, you couldn't have certain kinds of key stable atoms. The details aside, the basic idea is that this number fits the value you need for intelligent life—or any kind of organized life or biology to exist at all.
So some physicists have said this is probably because there are many universes, and in most of those universes life doesn't exist because this number isn't the right number. But of those many, many universes we of course find ourselves in one where things seem tuned to life. This doesn't require a designer or any theistic explanation, it's just something that we shouldn't be surprised about—in the same way that we're not surprised we live on a life-supporting planet.
There's a lot of interesting philosophy behind this question and Sean does a very good job of exploring those sorts of issues.
The need for some kind of existential therapy is also a strong theme in the book, isn't it? We're so small, the universe is so big, it's lonely, our life is pointless, we're just made of mud etc. etc.
Different people respond to these discoveries in different ways. I gave a talk earlier today where one of the questions I got in the Q&A session was, 'If there are an infinite number of universes or space goes on for an infinite distance (which it may or may not) then doesn't that mean everything is pointless?' I don't think I'd reach the same conclusion, but for him a profound sense of pointlessness came from that discovery. My advice to him was, 'Then you shouldn't think about it very much.' But I don't know. The psychology is really interesting.
What about you, are you just so fascinated by it all that that outweighs anything else?
I definitely get that sense of awe and wonder that people talk about when they're thinking about these sorts of things. I experience that profoundly, and not just at cosmology. When I learned about relativity or quantum physics for the first time, it was the most amazing stuff I'd ever encountered in my life. It really motivated me to become a physicist. So I get that.
I've never felt that by learning more about the universe things seem more pointless. I don't think the universe provides meaning, but human beings create their own meaning, when they value things. It's nothing about any law of physics, but the way that I feel about my friends and loved ones, the way I feel about fellow human beings, the reason I love certain kinds of music or some of the experiences I've had, you can't take all that away from me by saying there's a multiverse. That doesn't change that at all. Those feelings are profound and real. No fact I could ever learn about the universe would take them away from me.
Now we're at a book called How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. This is a collection of unsent letters to her mother, which suggests the book is quite accessible to the layperson. Tell me about it.
I put this book on the list because there's not another book out there like it. It is truly unique. I read it when I was a postdoc. I read a lot of popular science, but I read this book and thought, 'this is an entirely different genre of science writing!' It's very personal. She interweaves stories about her science and her science research from a first-person perspective with stuff going on in her personal life—her troubles with her relationship or when she feels depressed or lonely. That's all in the book. You understand more what it is like to be a human being doing science from this book than anything I've ever read. I still think it's profound. I occasionally go back and reread a chapter of it, also just to be inspired as a writer.
"I don't think the universe provides meaning, but human beings create their own meaning, when they value things."
She's also a brilliant scientist. The title of the book, How the Universe Got Its Spots, is of course a play on How the Leopard Got His Spots, and it refers to the light that was produced a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. When you look at maps of it, it's full of patches of hot and cold spots. She explains how the universe got those spots and explores the possibility that there might be an interesting topology to our universe. It might not be just a simple space that goes out in all directions, it might wrap around on itself in interesting ways. That's what she was doing research on at the time and she wrote this book about looking at data and trying to learn those things about our universe. It's a fantastic book.
Does she say in the title that she believes in a finite universe?
That was what she was exploring. Scientists very rarely say what they 'believe.' It's not a phrase we use very comfortably. She was certainly hypothesizing that we might live in a finite universe and was trying to devise tests to find out. I'd have to ask her whether she would use the word believe, but we all think it's possible. It's also possible it's not finite. We don't know. It's a totally open question.
Okay, now we're at Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time.
This is another classic, it had to be on the list. This is a book that came out after Weinberg's, but before the others on the list. It was one of the few books written about this stuff at the time. As with Weinberg, it's interesting to read a book by one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. Everybody knows Hawking's greatest contributions: understanding that black holes radiate light and other particles, that they contain entropy and all these things that no one imagined before him. Hawking and Roger Penrose also worked out the Big Bang singularity, the very moment of creation. To hear him describe some of these things with his own word choices, his own phrasing—not to mention his own personal biography and his disability—there's no other book like it.
He's quite funny, isn't he? There's a real personality behind the person who is writing this.
He's very witty and has a profound sense of sarcasm too. Given all the struggles he had in his life, you might expect him to have a somewhat darker outlook on things, but not at all. He's just witty and clever and always making a joke.
Is A Brief History of Time still accurate?
Certainly the stuff about black holes hasn't changed, though we've discovered more things about black holes.
He didn't discover black holes, did he?
No, but he was writing about them before we knew they existed. The idea that black holes could exist as a theoretical construct goes back to Karl Schwarzschild in the late 1910s.
But, in the 1960s, physicists started to take them seriously as something that might actually be out there and probably was out there. The Cygnus X-1 black hole was finally discovered in 1971. At the time Hawking made a famous bet about it and I forget if he won or lost that bet, but it was still a controversial question at the time.
Now we know of a large numbers of black holes. Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in the center. We've observed the gravitational waves of merging black holes. Black holes are no longer a questionable subject. But a lot of the stuff we think about black holes and how they work is exactly what Hawking wrote down back when he was a young scientist.
So in terms of iconic scientists, I notice you didn't put Albert Einstein's book about relativity on you list, the one he wrote for the general public.
Yes, he wrote a book called Relativity that he intended to be a popular discussion of it, but if someone were asking my advice about a book to get a feel for the theory of relativity at a non-scientific, non-expert level, I wouldn't pick that one. It's incredibly important historically to hear it from Einstein's own pen and there is something special about that, but there are probably more accessible ways to learn about relativity.
One of the problems with physics is that it's just so hard to understand.
There are tons of things in physics I don't understand. Tons of things.
So do you just have to accept that and move on?
Life is finite. You can learn a finite number of things in a finite length of time and I'm okay with that. I get to learn a lot of cool things and how disappointing would it be to find out you just learned the last thing! Now you know everything. There'd be nothing exciting to do ever again. That sounds terrible. I don't want to live in that world.
I think we're talking about slightly different levels of not understanding physics. Can I give you an example, because it came up in quite a few of these books? This is going back, so it's not even the 20th century, the more complicated stuff. It's Galileo dropping objects from the Tower of Pisa. I know he probably didn't actually do that…
Let's just pretend he did it that way.
What I don't understand is why a heavier object doesn't fall faster than a light one, when it's pulled down by gravity. I know air resistance confuses the issue—and I even watched the YouTube video of an astronaut on the Moon dropping both a hammer and feather. They did land at the same time, as predicted, but I still don't understand why that is. Hawking tries to explain it in his book, and I was thinking, 'I'm nearly there!' But I couldn't quite get there. Could you explain it to me?
So what Isaac Newton worked out in the Principia, his masterpiece (he had many masterpieces, but if you had to pick one, that would be it), is that the force with which, for example, the Earth pulls on an object is proportional to the mass of that object. His most famous equation is force = mass x acceleration. So in the force, there's a mass and in the m x a, there's a mass. So those divide out. You can remove them from both sides of the equation and now you have, on one side, just a number and that equals 'a,' the acceleration. So as far as gravity is concerned, that hammer and that feather are going to be accelerated towards the Earth in exactly the same way.
Now, like you said, there's air resistance so that complicates things. But let's say you did it in a vacuum where you've emptied all the air out, or on the Moon where there's no air resistance. When I drop that hammer and that feather, they'll just fall in unison together. They'll be accelerated in exactly the same way.
Another way to think about it is connected to something called 'the equivalence principle.' This was something Einstein thought about when he was constructing his theory of relativity. Physicists use the word mass to mean two different things. On the one hand, there's the quantity which says, 'the more mass something has, the more it feels gravity and the more it pulls on things gravitationally.' So big, heavy objects attract things through the force of gravity more than light objects. We call that gravitational mass. The second kind of mass is inertial mass. Something with a lot of inertial mass takes a lot of force to accelerate or decelerate.
"In 1905, Einstein introduced relativity and the first ideas of quantum physics. These things didn't just build upon Newtonian physics, they tore Newtonian physics to the ground"
What Einstein was concerned about is why it is that all the things with a lot of gravitational mass also have a lot of inertial mass. In fact, why does something always have exactly the same amount of gravitational mass and inertial mass? Why aren't there giant objects that are really hard to accelerate but that don't pull on things gravitationally? Or why aren't there things that are small and easy to accelerate that pull a lot gravitationally? But there aren't any. And Einstein worked out this is because all mass is is energy. And if you understand, as Einstein showed us, that all gravity is, is the geometry or curvature of space and time, then these two things have to be the same.
Now I don't expect that to make sense the first time you hear it. It's a lot to unpack. But that's the profound idea that was built at the foundations of Einstein's theory and, really, is the same thing that Galileo was messing with. He said a heavy thing and a light thing are going to be accelerated by gravity in the same way and for the same reason a really heavy thing is going to take a lot of force to accelerate, a light thing is going to be very easy to accelerate.
Yes, I think with physics you do have to reread things to fully understand. It's not a subject where the idea goes instantly into your brain and you turn to the next page.
I think everything worth understanding takes some going back and revisiting. I read a lot of things in fields that are not my own and all the best stuff I missed the first time around. It takes a while to get the best ideas.
Okay, so we're now at the last of the books on your Big Bang reading list. This is Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne who, like Weinberg, won the Nobel Prize in physics, and lots of other prizes too, by the looks of it.
This book is just plain fun. I said before that if somebody asked me for a book to learn about relativity, I probably wouldn't pick Einstein's: I would pick Kip Thorne's. This book introduces the basic ideas of relativity. He talks about how distances in space and lengths of time appear different or are different to different observers in different frames of reference. Then he talks about how gravity is really just the shape and geometry of space.
"If somebody asked me for a book to learn about relativity, I probably wouldn't pick Einstein's: I would pick Kip Thorne's"
Then he goes into the modern stuff about relativity, which is so weird and cool and different. This is stuff no one thought about in Einstein's lifetime. I'm talking about questions like, 'Can you build a wormhole that allows you to travel from one place in the universe to an entirely different place in the universe traversing a very short distance?' He talks about black holes a lot, and how time itself passes differently as you get near the surface of a black hole. It's all the stuff that you'll find illustrated in the storyline of a movie like Interstellar. Kip Thorne was involved in the writing of that movie, but he wrote it first in this book (not in a narrative sense, but in a popular science sense).
I read his book a long, long time ago and it's what made me love relativity. It's just such an incredible and vivid and exciting depiction of this strange thing that is the geometry of space-time.
Hawking mentions wormholes and time travel as well. Are those things possible, then?
We've certainly never seen a wormhole. If a wormhole existed and it was the sort of wormhole that allowed you to get from point A to point B faster than it would take light to get from point A to point B, that would basically be a time machine. Now, I think it is unlikely that wormholes exist in our universe. For one thing, if there were, and you could use it for time travel, then you'd run into various logical paradoxes like, for example, the grandfather paradox. If there's a time machine and I can use it to go back to a time before my grandmother met my grandfather, I can kill my grandfather and then he doesn't have any kids and therefore I'm not born so I don't go back in time. We're back where we started and you can see how this falls apart. So the self-consistency of our universe seems to prohibit backwards time travel. We can go forward in time. We know how to do that, it just involves travelling near the speed of light. If you do that, time travels differently for you and you can move into the future. But you can't go back. So, I suspect, if there are wormholes they function in some way that doesn't allow traditional time travel.
You mentioned earlier that you started writing your book, At the Edge of Time, to update Weinberg's book, but that it turned into something more. Can you explain a bit more about what motivated you to write it?
Right now, there's a culmination of mysteries in cosmology that need to be told as a coherent story. The mysteries I'm talking about are:
1. What's dark matter? We know it's there and makes up 5/6ths of the matter in our universe. We thought we had good ideas for what it is, but we've done the experiments to find those things and they haven't come up. So we haven't found it yet or at least we're not confident we have. That poses enormous questions about how it was formed in the Big Bang and that first fraction of a second.
2. We still don't know how matter survived the Big Bang. This is a story people have written about in books before, but not recently, to my knowledge, and it points to the same period of time that dark matter was formed in. I think there's a real chance these puzzles are intertwined and that whatever the solution to one might very well be the solution to the other. Exactly what the solution looks like is still unclear, but it's pointing to this first fraction of a second after the Big Bang where we don't have any direct observations. It's possible things played out really differently to what cosmology textbooks currently describe.
3. Third is the issue of dark energy. We don't know why space contains this energy that makes it expand at a faster and faster rate, but something about how the universe was set off seems to have that built into it. We don't know how or why. It is truly perplexing.
4. Then there's the whole issue of cosmic inflation. The uniform nature of our universe, its homogeneity, suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there was a burst of cosmic expansion where space tore apart from itself much faster than the speed of light. If that's true, we want to know why and how that happened and if that had anything to do with these other mysteries. Did inflation leave the universe in a state that gave it the right amount of dark energy or does it explain how dark matter was formed and why it is so elusive? Does it explain why matter beat out antimatter somehow?
We don't know the answers. Don't expect to read my book and get the answer in the final chapter. It's not that kind of mystery. But all that stuff together points to something being incomplete—or maybe just flat out wrong—about the way we're thinking about the first millionth/billionth/trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
So you're alerting people to the fact that there's still lots of stuff we don't know.
Yes, there's all this exciting new stuff to talk about, and I happen to work in an area where I know as much as anyone about these mysteries. I thought I could tell the story well, but there's also the narrative that these things might be interconnected. I really do think it's plausible, and perhaps even likely, that that's true.
I like to use this analogy, where I ask other physicists as a hobby, 'What do you think it would be like to be a physicist in 1904?' I picked that year because it's a point in time where physics seemed to be all wrapped up. We had this incredible paradigm of Newtonian physics, which just worked. There were a few questions that remained like, 'How do atoms work?' 'What's the nature of light? Why does it always travel at the same speed?' Mercury's orbit also wasn't quite right. We didn't understand how the sun worked, how it generated so much energy. People just thought of these things as loose ends that would all be wrapped up in the years ahead.
"We can go forward in time. We know how to do that, it just involves travelling near the speed of light"
But, in 1905, Einstein introduced relativity and the first ideas of quantum physics. These things didn't just build upon Newtonian physics, they tore Newtonian physics to the ground, to rubble, and then built an entirely new structure that has been the foundation of physics ever since. I don't know, but maybe we're in the 1904 of cosmology right now and we're going to tear down everything we think we know to the ground and build something entirely new.
Speaking of 1905, one comment I really liked in your book is how far we've come over the past century. You write, "In the first decades of the twentieth century, if you wanted to ask a question about our universe's origin or its distant past, the only people offering answers were theologians." Isn't it incredible that we've learned so much?
I think it truly is. In 1900 physicists would think it was a silly question to ask scientifically. 'What do you mean the origin of the universe? There's no such thing as that in physics.' They thought of space as a fixed, static thing that objects can move through. If you think of space that way, it can't do anything. Einstein showed us it was not like that at all: space can expand, it can contract, it can warp, it can curve, it can begin, it can end. And, for that reason, cosmology was conceptually possible after his theory came out.
Finally, I just wanted to ask a question about the tools of the trade of an astrophysicist, which you also write about in your book. There are telescopes, and you mentioned earlier Edwin Hubble's observation that the universe is expanding. Then there are particle accelerators like Fermilab (where you work) and the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Are those the kinds of things you're talking about when you say we can measure this or see that?
There is a big bag of tools but, yes, particle accelerators are incredibly important. They are our best way to learn what the laws of physics are, especially the laws of physics that dictated how matter and energy behaved in the first fraction of a second.
We also use a variety of telescopes. I don't just mean what most people picture as a telescope—a long tube with some mirrors or lenses in it. Sometimes we use things like that, but we also use telescopes that are on satellites. Some of them detect things that aren't even light, like neutrinos or cosmic rays. The ones that can detect light don't just detect the light our eyes can see, they detect X-rays and gamma rays and microwaves and infrared and UV radiation, all these things. We put all this information together in a coherent way that makes sense together, with just a few loose ends…
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Ambanis patrol power corridors as SC ruling approaches
With eyes firmly on the first of September, when the Supreme Court will start hearing the gas price dispute between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd and Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources Ltd, the two rival brothers continue to prowl New Delhi's power corridors.
After Anil, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, power minister Sushilkumar Shinde, and reportedly a few other powers-that-be on Wednesday, it was elder brother Mukesh's turn to do the rounds on Thursday.
Mukesh in his turn met Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar, and T K A Nair, principal secretary in the prime minister's office, according to reports. Of course, there was no official comment from any of the parties concerned.
Prime Minister Singh, meanwhile, has set up a panel with four cabinet ministers, along with various officials, to continuously monitor the government's stand on the increasingly messy dispute, according to an unattributed report in The Economic Times this morning.
The panel, comprising finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, law minister Veerappa Moily, petroleum minister Murli Deora and power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, is expected to co-ordinate government's response in the court case.
Deora had met the prime minister on Wednesday and said it was a ``satisfying'' meeting. ``The Prime Minister fully supported the stand of the petroleum ministry that has been taken in the interest of the people of the country,'' Deora said.


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Darling Valentines!! Have a wonderful week, Lea.
Love the little gift idea and so simple to do. I'm not sure I had heard the CiCi story, but enjoyed it. I never wanted to be a Grandmother or Grandma or Granny either. And I agree, save the knitting for someone else. Have a good weekend.
Love your answer to number 4 and couldn't agree more! Enjoyed hearing how you arrived at CiCi. I absolutely LOVE the Baxter family series. I read them years ago but just recently she added to it with the Baxter Family Christmas and I hear she is going to add even more. Those books at the time I read them had a huge impact on me. Just my favorite kind of a read. Hope the rest of your week is good!
I can teach you to make a roux from scratch!
I think I've read or listened to all the Baxter Family Series. Very good. Love the Valentine gift and also the story behind your name CiCi. My daughter chose the name she wanted us to go by for her son. Gigi and Papaw. We're both good with that.
Love how you came up with Cici. Your Saturday sounds wonderful to me!
One more comment I forgot to make was about the Baxter Family books. I read them years ago as she was publishing them and I could hardly wait for the next one to come out. I too felt like I knew them personally. Has she come out recently with a new recap or Christmas book about them?
I'd be CiCi too so I thought I'd change it up and use my first name but that would be PiPi and although I'm sure the grands would love it, I would NOT! Yes, Pinterest is quite intimidating - so many amazing ideas, so much potential for some of those Pinterest Fail photos you see!
So, I'm still a little confused by the CiCi if your name is Lea... Am I missing something. ha. I do love it though, however you got it. I could be a CiCi! Love the Valentines!
I will have to checkout the Baxter Family series. I like Karen Kingsley. I'm traveling down the HodgePodgelist visiting other blogs. Fun.
Oops. Looks like part of my comment was published. I hope you delete it. I like your Poppa and CiCi grandparent names. Wish I had thought of that one. It also seems that today in the Hodgepodge everybody wants to see and celebrate more kindness. So you really have enjoyed that whole series? I would love to find some good fiction to enjoy so I will check it out.
I hear you on Pinterest : ) I'm having too much fun planning a baby shower...so many fabulous ideas. I'm glad there are creative people out there who share ideas. I enjoyed the Baxter series too. Have a great weekend!
I agree with you -- kindness is in short supply these days, shockingly so.


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The organisers of The National Running Conference in partnership with Running Imp have confirmed Tony Craddock as a speaker.
Tony is director general at the Emerging Payments Association (EPA), the UK's most influential trade association in payments.
He founded the EPA in 2012 and it now boasts a community of over 130 members who share the EPA's vision for the UK to be the global hotspot for payments innovation. Tony is a lively public speaker and an avid networker, and he is passionate about the difference emerging payments can make to lives everywhere.
Tony will be leading a panel session entitled 'Emerging Payments: Now and the Future', which will be highly relevant on the agenda of this industry-leading B2B conference. The session takes place from 3.45pm-4.15pm and will cover topics including payment systems now and in the future, key benefits of the cashless economy, innovation technology, and frictionless payments and opportunities for sports businesses. The session will close with an expert panel discussion.
Tony certainly has plenty of experience public speaking as he regularly speaks and chairs at conferences, in addition to publishing books and white papers and enrolling payments leaders to join him in his mission to improve lives everywhere. He will be sharing his extensive payments knowledge with the audience at The National Running Conference, borne from a decade of working within the payments industry, championing payments technologies globally and supporting new innovations.
Craddock joins a first-class line-up of speakers already confirmed for The National Running Conference. Also speaking on the day are Nick Pearson, CEO of parkrun Global Ltd, Neil Venables, General Manager of Intersport UK & Ireland, Alistair Cameron, CEO EMEA of ASICS, Kate Dale, Strategic Lead for Campaigns at Sport England, Gareth Mills, Country Manager UK at Strava, James Robinson, Chief Commercial Officer of Limelight Sports, and Tony Post, CEO of Topo Athletic. International announcer, broadcaster and presenter Kris Temple is the event host.
The National Running Conference in partnership with Running Imp is the first B2B conference of its kind. It will see brands, retailers, race directors, official bodies and community sectors come together under one roof to share their knowledge, voice opinions and look at current and future trends in the running market. For any business related to running it promises to be an inspiring and insightful start to 2019.
Confirmed sponsors and partners for the event include Sports Insight, Runner's World, Running Imp, 2pure, England Athletics and Harrison Creative. Sutcliffe Insurance will be exhibiting at the conference.
Mike Seaman, director of The National Running Conference, said: "We are delighted to welcome Tony Craddock as a speaker to The National Running Conference. Tony has unrivalled experience in payments systems and it will be fascinating to hear his thoughts on emerging payments now and in the future.
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Nas' "Nasir" Album: Writing & Production Credits
Kanye West collaborates with Cashmere Cat, Benny Blanco, Mike Dean, and more.
Nas' 11th studio album and first in 6 years Nasir has arrived. The 7-track project is the fourth of five Kanye West-produced projects released in as many weeks, and the full production credits have been made available through Tidal and Spotify. At this time, we are reporting the current writers and producers listed for each track, though it is unclear if the credits are complete. Additional credits were released for Kanye West's Ye a week late, so it's possible that Nasir will have similar tweaks. Either way, the credits do reveal some interesting details on the production side of things. Cashmere Cat, who co-produced "Wolves" from The Life Of Pablo is present on two tracks, as is his frequent collaborator Benny Blanco. Other producers include Andrew Dawson, BoogzDaBeast, Evan Mast (presumably of Ratatat), and more.
Check out the credits below. Listen to the album here.
1. Not for Radio Ft. Puff Daddy & 070 Shake
Producers: Kanye West, Benny Blanco, Mike Dean, Cashmere Cat
Composers: Kanye West, Mike Dean, Nasir Jones, Basil Poledouris
2. Cops Shot the Kid ft. Kanye West
Producers: Kanye West, Andrew Dawson
Composers: Nasir Jones, RICKY WALTERS, Richard Pryor, Andrew Dawson, Kanye West
3. White Label
Producers: Kanye West, Mike Dean, BoogzDaBeast
Composers: Nasir Jones, Kanye West, Mike Dean
4. Bonjour
Producers: Che Pope, Mike Dean, Kanye West, Eric Danchick
Composers: Kanye West, Mike Dean, Nasir Jones, R. D. Burman
5. everything Feat. The-Dream & Kanye West
Producers: Plain Pat, Benny Blanco, Mike Dean, Kanye West, Cashmere Cat
Composers: Mike Dean, Kanye West, Nasir Jones, Terius Nash
6. Adam & Eve Feat. The-Dream
Producers: Evan Mast, Mike Dean, Kanye West, Plain Pat
Composers: Nasir Jones, Kourosh Yaghmaei, Mike Dean, Kanye West, Terius Nash
7. Simple Things
Producers: Kanye West, Mike Dean
Composers: Nasir Jones, Mike Dean, Kanye West
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FULL HOUSE FINALS AT WORLD RX GERMANY
Two days, four qualifying races, and a Monster full house in the semi finals. That is the headlining news after the second day of racing at round two of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at Hockenheim in Germany.As part of the ultimate circuit vs rally double-header, the World RX series touches down in support of the German Touring Car Championship – the DTM – and the action both on- and off-track has been epic so far. All four M-Claw backed drivers; namely Petter Solberg, Liam Doran, Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud have qualified through to the third and final day of racing, by making the top-12 cut of drivers for the semi finals. Reigning champion Petter Solberg gritted through a difficult opening day to finish Q1 and Q2 in an uncharacteristic seventh, having been plagued by mechanical issues. The Norwegian racer put in a scorching performance in Q3 to score maximum 50 points and top the timesheets. He was then forced out of Q4 after an impact with a rival on track broke his car's suspension, and also left him with engine problems. He will start on the second row of semi-final two.
Liam Doran continued to stun the crowds with another awesome performance at the wheel of his JRM Racing Mini RX Super car. Despite a minor technical issue with his car's handbrake, Liam finished his Q3 race in P4, before backing that up with a huge P3 overall position in his Q4 race. This ensured the British racer finished 4th out of 21 cars in the Q4 results, and the 40 points he earned pushed him up to P10 in the intermediate rankings. He is all set to line up on row three of the second semi-final.
The positive results continued at Hoonigan Racing Division, with Andreas Bakkerud and Ken Block having qualified for semi finals one and two respectively. Both drivers have had a rollercoaster of a weekend so far, battling mechanical issues almost as much as their on track rivals. Andreas will start on row three of the first semi final having placed 11th in the intermediate standings. Team mate Ken will take on semi-final two, after placing 12th in the intermediate standings, just six points behind Andreas.
The stage is set for an epic showdown at Hockenheim. Make sure you check out how it all goes down. Warm up is scheduled for 11am CET (10am GMT / 3am PST). Petter Solberg – 6th "It's unbelievably tough out there, and this season isn't going to be getting any easier. Every driver in the field is so strong, so we have to be smart and consistent if we are to get where we need to be. The car is fast and I am feeling good. Q3, we really showed our pace, I took maximum points, so that's great. Unfortunately in Q4 we had some problems. I had a collision with Loeb which broke the suspension on my car; it was a very big hit. We also had engine issues during the race, and the impact finished the car off. We would have qualified fifth overall in the intermediate if we had finished the race in Q4. The damage could have been worse if I had carried on to the finish, so it's better to minimize the problems. We will be ready to fight in the finals tomorrow, I am confident of that." Liam Doran – 10th "It's a mega feeling to reach the semis for the second event in a row and I think we're going into them in a much stronger position than we did in Portugal. I had a couple of issues with the car in Q3 and that meant I had to drive in a different way. But when the team put those issues right for Q4, I found a big chunk of extra speed with the driving style I'd chosen to adopt. That put us in P4 which was an awesome feeling. I think we've found some great speed at just the right time and it's a massive boost that I matched the times of the guys in front today. If I can carry that into the semis and drive just as hard tomorrow, you never know what could happen." Andreas Bakkerud - 11th "I think I managed to keep a good flow on the driving today, and keep it cool when I needed to. I was really just trying to avoid the battles, and get a clean run, but its hard you know?! I love fighting on track, and it's tough to resist getting drawn in. I had a driveshaft failure in Q3, which was such a shame because I made a strong start, and overall had really good pace. I didn't know Petter was so close, and I think I left a little bit too much of gap going into the joker, so he did what any other driver would have and dived down the inside. After that I just wanted to keep pace with him, and then the differential broke. It was like driving a 600bhp front wheel drive car! Its sounds crazy but I actually enjoyed it a little bit, as driving front wheel drive took me back to Super1600. I'm just stoked that we have both cars in the semis, and we can battle on again tomorrow. We all know how rallycross finals go, and it's going to get ugly tomorrow for sure!" Ken Block – 12th "It's been one heck of day – hard to describe really. It's been a rollercoaster ride. In Q3 I had a great battle with Robin Larsson, and I even felt like at points he was holding me back a little. Q4 was pretty solid too, considering there was a lot of fighting between other drivers in the race, I managed to keep it clean and bring the car home in one piece. However you look at it, it's a great achievement to have two cars in the semi finals after only the second event. We are still in development mode, but this really shows we are pushing in the right direction. Checking out the DTM during the morning before the racing this evening has been awesome, but I'm really just looking forward to getting back in my own race car for the finals!"
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Prescott Association of Realtors Gives Charity Groups $4,000
Emphasizing that this past year has been especially difficult for charitable organizations, the Prescott Area Association of Realtors (PAAR) donated $4,000 to four local Quad Cities charities at the beginning of December. The donations were intended to help each organization with holiday assistance to those who had specific needs.
Jeff Bashaw, immediate past president of the association, explained that his group is committed to helping build better communities and providing a helping hand for community charities.
Each of these charities received a $1,000 donation: Mayer Meals on Wheels program; Chino Valley High School Family Resource Center; Mountain View Manor, a skilled-care nursing facility in Prescott; and the Prescott Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
PAAR Community Service and Outreach committee members said they wanted to have a big impact on diverse organizations in the greater community. The nonprofit trade association assists local Realtors in providing service and educational opportunities throughout the region.
CEO Amanda Creel also announced in December she would leave the group in mid-January. She has been with the association for four years but accepted a CEO position with the Birmingham Association of Realtors and Greater Alabama Multiple Listing Service.
More information is available at www.paar.org
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Turin, June 5th 2008. The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), is to hold an International Seminar aimed at improving management of knowledge of the interconnections between capital, crime, and conflicts. The Seminar will take place on the 16th of June at 5pm in Castello del Valentino, Turin.
The Seminar will see the participation of Mauro Falesiedi, a member of the Financial Crime Group at EUROPOL, Rico Carisch, Former UN Financial Inspector in the Democratic Republic of Congo/Sierra Leone and Loretta Napoleoni, author of 'Rogue Economics'. Lucia Goracci, correspondent for Italian television channel RAI 3, will moderate.
The Seminar will facilitate a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between capital, crimes and conflict. These three components are mutually reinforcing, and create a vicious circle which adds to the daily suffering of millions of people across the globe.
Conflict is interwoven with organised crime which manages arms trafficking, contraband of petroleum, diamonds, precious metals, trafficking of drugs and of human beings. War leaves in its wake, death, devastation, and an enormous quantity of arms. These arms, according to some estimates, cause a 25 percent rise in homicides in the 5 years following the end of a conflict. Half of civil wars that are resolved with a peace agreement are transformed into a new conflict within 5 years. Events of war, organised crime and terrorism interact and perpetuate the spiral of human tragedy.
Analysis of the complex interlinkages between capital crimes and conflicts can enable the international community to approach the problems with a clear understanding and crucially develop a clear path to counteracting these.
According to the Director of UNICRI, Sandro Calvani 'It is necessary to develop a stable and effective international system of security, based on an integrated analysis of the relations between capital, crimes and conflict.
The vulnerability of a single country in controlling its borders and the influx of illicit capital can become the Achilles heal for the whole international community. In this context the management of global security must be a shared international responsibility.'
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FRC publishes new accounting standard applicable in the UK and Ireland
The UK Financial Reporting Council ('FRC') has today published FRS 104 "Interim Financial Reporting". FRS 104 replaces the Accounting Standards Board ('ASB') Statement "Half-yearly Financial Reports" which was issued in 2007 and the ASB's Statement "Preliminary Announcements" which was published in 1998.
From an Irish perspective FRS 104 is obligatory for Irish issuers who don't apply EU-adopted IFRS and are required by the Transparency Regulations 2007 to prepare interim/half yearly financial reports. In Ireland, this primarily affects Fund and Debt issuers. For such issuers, the preparation of their interim/half yearly financial reports in 2015 will be the first time to apply the new UK and Irish GAAP. FRS 104 is effective for interim periods commencing on or after 1 January 2015 with earlier application permitted.
In accordance with its statutory function of cooperating in the development of accounting standards, IAASA has observer status at the meetings of the Accounting Council of the FRC (formerly known as the ASB). IAASA worked on the drafting of the Irish legal references required for the new standard.
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US election integrity depends on security-challenged firms
Oct 29, 2018 | News
It was the kind of security lapse that gives election officials nightmares. In 2017, a private contractor left data on Chicago's 1.8 million registered voters — including addresses, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers — publicly exposed for months on an Amazon cloud server.
Later, at a tense hearing , Chicago's Board of Elections dressed down the top three executives of Election Systems & Software, the nation's dominant supplier of election equipment and services.
The three shifted uneasily on folding chairs as board members grilled them about what went wrong. ES&S CEO Tom Burt apologized and repeatedly stressed that there was no evidence hackers downloaded the data.
The Chicago lapse provided a rare moment of public accountability for the closely held businesses that have come to serve as front-line guardians of U.S. election security.
A trio of companies — ES&S of Omaha, Nebraska; Dominion Voting Systems of Denver and Hart InterCivic of Austin, Texas — sell and service more than 90 percent of the machinery on which votes are cast and results tabulated. Experts say they have long skimped on security in favor of convenience, making it more difficult to detect intrusions such as occurred in Russia's 2016 election meddling.
The businesses also face no significant federal oversight and operate under a shroud of financial and operational secrecy despite their pivotal role underpinning American democracy.
In much of the nation, especially where tech expertise and budgets are thin, the companies effectively run elections either directly or through subcontractors.
"They cobble things together as well as they can," University of Connecticut election-technology expert Alexander Schwartzman said of the industry leaders. Building truly secure systems would likely make them unprofitable, he said.
The costs of inadequate security can be high. Left unmentioned at the Chicago hearing: The exposed data cache included roughly a dozen encrypted passwords for ES&S employee accounts . In a worst-case scenario, a sophisticated attacker could have used them to infiltrate company systems, said Chris Vickery of the security firm Upgard, which discovered the data lapse.
"This is the type of stuff that leads to a complete compromise," he said. ES&S said the passwords were only used to access the company's Amazon cloud account and that "there was no unauthorized access to any data or systems at any time."
All three of the top vendors declined to discuss their finances and insist that security concerns are overblown. ES&S, for instance, said in an email that "any assertions about resistance to input on security are simply untrue" and argued that for decades the company has "been successful in protecting the voting process."
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Many voting systems in use today across the more than 10,000 U.S. election jurisdictions are prone to security problems. Academic computer scientists began hacking them with ease more than a decade ago, and not much has changed.
Hackers could theoretically wreak havoc at multiple stages of the election process. They could alter or erase lists of registered voters to sow confusion, secretly introduce software to flip votes, scramble tabulation systems or knock results-reporting sites offline.
There's no evidence any of this has happened, at least not yet.
The vendors say there's no indication hackers have penetrated any of their systems. But authorities acknowledge that some election mischief or malware booby traps may have gone unnoticed.
Read the complete article at apnews.com
Frank Bajak is an Investigative Correspondent for the Associated Press.