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Erik Verlinde, the Big Bang and a new Explanation of the Universe
(background interview for the article in danish: http://ing.dk/artikel/114703-hollandsk-fysiker-paa-vej-med-forklaring-paa-moerk-energi-og-moerkt-stof)
The Dutch physicist and string theorist Erik Verlinde made quite an impression when he published a paper a little years ago in which he tried to explain how gravity, particles and even space itself can emerge from an entropic force. According to him, these phenomena are not fundamental things, but macroscopic effects of an underlying structure that is out of thermodynamic equilibrium.
Since Verlinde, working at the University of Amsterdam, published his ideas on arXiv.org in January, interest has grown among colleagues. Some have tried to carry further his ideas, others have been doubtful. Most have been cautiously positive because Mr. Verlinde is no Mr anybody in the circles of physicists. He has made important contributions to field theory and is known as a capable string theorist. Therefore, many theoretical physicists are now waiting for his next step, hopefully in the form of a more comprehensive paper before at the end of this year.
If Verlinde's ideas prove to be fruitful, theoretical physics and cosmology as we know it will surely be facing a grand paradigm shift. The universe will no longer be seen as a half-empty container harboring a few particles and forces, but rather as a stretched spaghetti or an amorphous sponge, trying to regain its equilibrium. According to Verlinde, it will become possible to explain dark energy and dark matter out of general principles and we would have to realize that entropy is the reason why large and small forces of nature act the way they do.
"My basic starting point is that the laws of physics that we use now in our descriptions of nature, are actually derived from something else," says Verlinde in this interview.
"If you start from a system, which you don't really know what is, just be general principles, you can still try to get a lot of information about it by probing it with some external parameters. Actually, the things we use in physics, like positions of particles, even the idea of a particle, or where matter is located – all those things are basically things we have introduced to describe nature, but indeed are more like macroscopic parameters by which we probe that system."
Verlinde's general principle is this: If you change these parameters in such a way that something happens to the amount of its information – a more precise way would be to say with the phase space associated with the system - then you will generate a force. Just by general principles.
"Our world, even spacetime and everything like that, eventually emerges from something, which has a underlying description, which has a lot of information associated to that. A priori you don't need mass, but of course, if you have a mass present, for instance in the form of a particle, things we observe as energy, then of course there is more information present. So there is actually a measure of information, which you can associate with that."
Nothing mysterious about entropy
This measure of information is entropy, which is basically the information we are not seeing. When a physical system maximizes its entropy it just means that we have to expect the worst of our state of knowledge. If we don't know the dynamics and the dynamics is very complicated, then we have to guess, and usually it is a good thing to guess the most probable state. Entropy by definition measures the probability, so the highest entropy just means the most probable.
"Since Einstein we have this very sharp separation between what spacetime is, which is sort of like a scene, on which particles can move. This is even what Newton had – well Newton had space and time separate and Einstein put that together. What Einstein showed is that space and time curve. And if you look at the mathematics he used, it looks very much alike the mathematics used for elasticity. It is precisely how you deform material objects. So the terminology he used – like energy and so on – is sometimes called stress which is sort of what you put into material. I think indeed what we are learning now, and I think my idea will lead to that, is that the distinction between what we call space and time and what matter is, starts to become more vague and eventually be manifestations of the same thing."
The first principles by which Verlinde expands his argument are to assume that there is something microscopically there, look at its phase space, that is the space of velocity (momentum) and positions, and apply an adiabatic argument.
"There is one thing I use which is called adiabatic invariance, which is, when you influence a system, you can get the reaction forced back on you. The most simple example would be if you take a harmonic oscillator which swings back and forth in a certain frequency. If you would change the frequency with an external parameter, very slowly, you will need a force to do that. What stays constant is not the energy but the volume of the phase space. It is some invariant you can use. In quantum mechanics it corresponds to letting the quantum state of the system really be the same state, but you change the frequency that means that the energy of the quantum state will change and this is what creates the back reaction. So this is exactly what happens with this atomic model. There is a general notion saying that if you influence a system of fast variables, using some slow variables, then the fast variables react back onto the slow ones. "
"Our world is made out of slow control parameters where we feel the reaction forces, i.e. the back reaction of other degrees of freedom that we are influencing when we change things. Then: how do you calculate those forces? Well, it can be very complicated. We have very little information about what is happening in this microscopic world. Then there is this principle, which tells you that if you just look at the volume of phase space, and how that is changed when you change the parameter, from that you can deduce what the force looks like. And the volume is what I call the entropy. It is the amount of information that is there. The general principle is that if you change the amount of information then there is a cost that you need to pay and that cost can be expressed as a temperature and then the back reaction as a result of that is the force that we see as gravity."
"So we have a general understanding that says that if you affect a system of fast variables by using the slow variable, then the fast variables respond back and generate a force. Our world is made of slow control parameters, where we feel the reactive forces - ie. the backlash of other degrees of freedom that we affect when we change things. The question then is: How do you calculate these forces? It can quickly become very complicated. We have very little information about what happens at this microscopic level and fast. Fortunately, there is a principle that tells us how these forces seem just by looking at the change of system volume in phase space. "
The holographic principle
This principle is called the holographic principle and is basically the idea that the maximum amount of information that can be put into a given region of space can be achieved by placing a black hole in it. And then the amount of information is proportional to the area of the surface around it. Some people say that it means, basically, everything that goes on inside that part of space can be mapped onto bits on the boundary. In Hollywood terms, this principle is formulated as 'everything can be projected onto a screen'.
"It tells you that if you just look at the volume of phase space, and how that is changed when you change the parameter, from that you can deduce what the force looks like. And the volume is what I call the entropy. It is the amount of information, that is there. The general principle then, is that if you change the amount of information then there is a cost that you need to pay and that cost can be expressed as a temperature and then the back reaction as a result of that is the force that we see as gravity."
So what physicists normally call a graviton is from your perspective an emergent phenomenon on a macroscopic level, right?
"Yes. We have not seen gravitons. We havn't even seen gravitational waves. Of course, most physicists, including me, believe that these things do exist in some form. But the analogy I like to make here is that even if we have an understanding of a solid in terms of an atom, you can also think of a sound wave go through it. If you quantize them you have phonons which is a very useful concept, because they are one way to think of a sound waves through a solid.
They are only an abstraction of the sound?
"Yes, if you quantize sound, you really think of particles with the same properties as photons that only transfer a certain amount of energy and so on. They have particle-like properties, but of course, when I think about sound waves going through a material, I don't think of particles."
You wrote: if the universe would be energetically in equilibrium, everything would be one giant black hole. How does that work?
"Well, we live in a world that has a cosmological constant. If you only would have a cosmological constant, then the universe would look like what's called de Sitter space. It means that the universe has a horizon, just like black holes. When we look out into space, we see that things move away from us. They are redshifted, meaning that their colours change. And there is a certain distance, which we call the horizon, where the colours really disappear and fade out and become sort of black. You can thus think of the universe being a black hole."
Isn't this just a function of our ability to see as far as possible?
"No, and in a certain way yes. In the way we use Einstein's equations there is really something what's called a horizon, very analogous to what a horizon of a black hole is. It is a place where the redshifts of a signal go to zero, or infinity, however you want to measure it. Everything slows down and you don't see any light coming from there any more."
How does this relate to the big bang?
"I think that my ideas eventually will do is to change our understanding what a big bang really means, and whether there really was a big bang."
How do you mean that?
"Well, part of my work still isn't finished, but I can tell you a little bit of what I have in mind. What I see is that... actually its the way I understand how matter can form from a black hole, or indeed how it can emerge from this de Sitter horizon. There is a lot of.. I don't want to call it matter, so let's call it 'stuff'... There is something there which is in equilibrium and then there are certain things which get out of equilibrium. Those are the things that we eventually will see as matter. So the matter that we see in the universe is actually an exception – it is the stuff that is out of equilibrium while most of it is in equilibrium. This is an idea which eventually will lead me to describing what is dark energy and dark matter – and ordinary matter. I believe that the dark energy is the stuff that is much closer to equilibrium, dark matter is a little further out of equilibrium, and the rest if the visible matter is even further out. So, normal matter is really the most out of equilibrium."
A bit of odd numerology
Is there anything that is even further away from equilibrium than the visible matter?
"Yes, that's radiation. In fact the funny thing, and an amusing numerology, is that if you take a gaussian distribution, a bell curve, then you have something called sigma, the width of the Gaussian. If you take one sigma as dark energy and two sigma as dark matter and anything beyond as ordinary matter, you are getting pretty close to what's being observed. We have around 68% covered by the first sigma, 96% gets you two sigma, but of course the difference is something like 28 %, and then there are four percent left for the rest. The fit that people make is something like 73% dark energy, 23% dark matter and then four percent of the ordinary matter. This means that we are in the tail of the distribution. The dark stuff is the normal stuff."
You started the paper with the analogy of a polymer and introduced the entropic force... so can one say that the whole universe is a stretched spaghetti which wants to curl back into its equilibrium state?
"Well, I wanted to compare normal matter to a little bead attached to the polymer, which is out of equilibrium. That's what ordinary matter is. There is something connecting the matter with the other stuff. So the spaghetti is something that is in between the dark energy and matter itself and may play the role of dark matter itself, because on n end it is attached to the matter. So the thing you take out of equilibrium is really – yeah on particle out of it... but anyhow, the other analogy is similar and could be used also."
We humans are normally taking space, time and gravity for granted as a priori things, and here you come and tell us that we only have emergent phenomena, like fractals on a sponge or something, and the only basic things are energy, states and probability distributions...
"We know that when we want to combine gravity and quantum mechanics, we have to give up the notion of space and time in some form, and the problem with most theories we have – even string theory – we write down the equations in spacetime. It is very hard to start up with something where you don't have it. Certainly this last year I have been thinking much more about that and I do have a feeling that I am making progress. You're right, after putting out the paper people started to discuss what's different from what Jacobson did, but I didn't even pretend that I have a full theory. I only had an idea, and of course there are some details that you might question. There are many questions it raises instead of answering. But for me those questions are challenges to make it sort of more precise. Some people dismiss it, which I think is really stupid, to be honest, because people how know about this subject should be able to realize that I have captured some important thing. I am not unhappy that some people call it controversial or even wrong. In a certain way it would be much worse for me if they said it is already done and it is trivial."
"But I have to admit one thing: the people that now have written about my work, are not the people who really understand the issues. So if you ask me: have the right people jumped on it, I would say no. There are a lot of things which have been written, which are totally wrong, and it make me feel a little uneasy about it. Because some people may say, 'well, Verlinde writes some simple equations, I can do that too'. But it is not the same thing. I added an idea, a concept, and I don't think anything really new has been added to my idea. One exception I want to make is what people are doing in the context of cosmology, because I started realizing now that that is really the area where my ideas will make most impact. In that sense it is good that I brought the paper out. Because you do get feedback, and it helps to give me ideas is what direction we need to think."
Any good theory should be able to predict things and allow falsification. What about that aspect of your idea?
"That's a good question. I think I have it in my conclusion. If you say that gravity is like thermodynamics, then what happens is that the normal thermodynamical laws apply, but statistical mechanics does more. It gives you the fluctuations around it. So it is in the fluctuations where you want to look. Now, in order to see fluctuations it is better to take signals where the leading part is small and the fluctuations large. If you have a very strong signal, the fluctuations are just tiny corrections on the big object. But if you have a tiny signal, the fluctuations can be just as large as the thing you are looking at. So, you want to look at situations where gravity is very very weak. This is the opposite of what people would do in string theory where you would want a very strong signal. It is indeed true that Einstein's general theory of relativity is needed to study very strong gravity, but there is an area there, where we have very weak gravity, and that's cosmology. So I have been calculating these fluctuations and they can be compared to observations. I have observational plots which match exactly my ideas. I cannot make a prediction, because these things were measured already, but there is an agreement with my ideas."
Can you give an example?
"Yes, it is about dark matter. What people have done is to look at the rotation curves of galaxies. In order to explain them, you have to put a halo of dark matter around it, that's the usual story. And people think then that dark matter is made out of these unobserved particles called wimps. They are particles that are weakly interaction with other mass. It is the most accepted theory. The experiments going on at LHC now are trying to find these particles and maybe explain dark matter."
"I don't believe it. At least I started to believe that it is not just another particle. As I said, the particles are the stuff which is out of equilibrium. Ordinary matter is just four percent and the rest of it is a completely different dynamics."
"So what I described in the paper are also some thought experiments that Bekenstein did near the horizons of black holes. What he did – he lowered a box into a black hole – at least as a thought experiment – and that's where he got his equations from, also the thermodynamics of black holes comes from that. Now, he also got bounds on the entropy. Actually the first equation that I have on the change of entropy as a function of the mass, that actually is his equation that he used. But I turned around his logic and got gravity from it."
"Now what I realized is that the horizons we have near black holes is very much like the horizons we have in cosmology, that is: The horizon of how far we can see. We can turn around the thought experiment and see the galaxies that behave like that. They are the boxes. The horizon that you see in cosmology is like what we have on the outside of a horizon of a black hole. You should think of a horizon in de Sitter space as the horizon of a black hole but with inside out reversed. But the near the horizon dynamics is the same as what you do in cosmology. The point is that black holes have a temperature, just like there is a temperature in cosmology. Now, what I can do is indeed compare that temperature and the number of bits that I think a galaxy should have and calculate what happens. I am currently discussing this with an astronomer and he is providing me with plots that agree with my ideas. "
An entirely different explanation
"In fact, it is not the same and the modified Newtonian dynamics. I think about it as fluctuations, which is something they didn't think about. So I think I have a theory of what they have been observing phenomenologically. More concrete: If you take the 1/r^2-law of gravity, and look at the centripetal force, which is the velocity squared over the radius, and equate them, then you would know what velocity these objects that rotate at the edges of a galaxy have. And one sees that it happens in a very different way than what one would have gotten from Newton."
"So, the usual explanation is that we are not seeing enough mass, and that's why they talk about dark matter. But there is another way, and that's to say that the actual law of attraction is somewhat different, or there is another way in which we have to write down the force law. That's actually what people start saying. Instead of F=ma, there is something going like F=ma^2/a_0, where a_0 is the cosmological acceleration and is given as the product of the Hubble constant and the speed of light. I get a similar thing from fluctuations, and it provides a theory for, why it might be so."
"I havn't added that, but string theory has been around for 40 years, and I think that the predictions of string theory are not that impressive yet. So asking me, after writing a single paper, how to use it for predictions is a bit much."
Yes, that's true, but it sounds that you already know in which direction to go, namely where gravity is weak and fluctuations are large, so that one could hope to find some experimental or observational verification of your equations.
"Yes, that's right. But my idea is still not developed into something where I can say that I have a theory, but I think I am close to making a next step. And I don't know how many steps are needed. Remember that Einstein took 8 years from the equivalence principle to general relativity, and it took 25 years from Planck to a more or less finished version of quantum mechanics. So you never know."
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It used to be that if you had a set of speakers with Apple's 30-pin dock connector, that system would work with any i-device. Sadly, that's no longer the case, as many owners of older speaker systems have discovered.
I'm not talking about speakers with dock cradles that don't fit the latest iPods and iPhones. Most recent docking speakers use Apple's Universal Dock design, which means you can usually make your speaker system "current" by simply using the dock insert that came with your iPhone or iPod, or by buying the appropriate insert from Apple.
Rather, I'm talking about larger compatibility issues. Perhaps the most significant is that a few years back, Apple decided to modify the dock-connector port. Whereas older iPods charged via the dock connector's FireWire circuitry—remember, early iPods were FireWire-only—newer iPods, as well as the iPhone and iPad, charge and sync only over USB. Which means that if you stick your iPhone in an older iPod dock, there's a good chance the dock won't charge the iPhone—even if it has no problems playing audio from the phone.
At the same time, most current and older docking speakers aren't compatible with the iPad because an iPod/iPhone-sized dock cradle can't accommodate the iPad's large size.
As a result, many people have felt forced to buy a new speaker system specifically made for an iPhone, iPad, or recent iPod. But before you rush out and buy new speakers, consider using an accessory designed to let you use newer players with older audio systems. You may end up extending the life of your current speakers while saving quite a bit of money.
Dock-connector charging converters
When it comes to charging, the main problem for older dock-connector accessories is simply that Apple changed which of the connector's 30 pins carries power—the connector's audio features have been largely untouched. Thus, if an inexpensive accessory could reroute power from the older power pins to the pins your iPhone or recent iPod uses for power, you'd be able to get around this charging challenge.
A few vendors product just such accessories. For example, CableJive's $23 DockStubz is a tiny dongle that sits between your dock-cradle speakers and your iPod or iPhone, converting the charging circuitry while passing all other functionality through untouched. And if, for whatever reason, the speaker system's dock isn't providing enough power, a mini-USB port on the side of the DockStubz lets you connect a USB cable to provide additional power.
Scosche provides a similar dongle, sans mini-USB port, in the $25 Charging Adapter for iPod & iPhone, but the company's more appealing offering—at least when it comes to speaker docks—is the $40 iPod & iPhone Charging Adapter for Home Docks (available in white or black). This "Universal Dock converter," if you will, snaps into any Universal-Dock-design cradle and provides its own Universal Dock cradle on top, converting the charging circuitry along the way.
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As mentioned above, the biggest challenge for using an iPad with most docking speakers is that the iPad is simply too big to fit in the dock cradle. (Some systems that eschew the Universal Dock in favor of a bare dock-connector plug may let you dock an iPad, but the iPad's body will likely block the system's speaker drivers.) What you need is a way to extend the dock-connector so you can plug in the iPad without having to fit the tablet in the speaker system itself.
CableJive also has you covered here. The company's $26 DockXtender is a cable that, as its name implies, extends your speaker's dock-connector plug—by either two or six feet, depending on the cable you buy—so you can use the speakers with any iPad, iPhone, or iPod, even if the speaker system's built-in dock doesn't fit the player. You just connect one end of the cable to your dock and plug the other end into the bottom of your player—the cable passes through all supported dock-connector functionality. (The DockXtender is also useful if your iPhone or iPod is in a case that's too bulky to let you place the player in your speaker's dock cradle.).
RadTech offers a similar, but less-expensive, product, the Dock Extender Cable (19-inch, $15; 47-inch, $20). RadTech's offering uses slimmer and more-flexible cabling, but doesn't pass through all dock-connector functionality. Specifically, RadTech says it does not support audio input (for recording audio on your iPod, iPhone, or iPad) or S-video output.
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Unfortunately, there are some dock-connector issues with older speakers you won't be able to avoid. First, speakers designed for iPods and iPhones will charge an iPad very slowly thanks to the higher power requirements of Apple's tablet. (This is one reason why, unless you're trying to squeeze some extra life out of a really expensive older speaker system, it's probably not worth buying a charging converter and a dock-extending cable and joining them together to use your iPad with that system.)
Second, if your older speaker system wasn't designed with mobile phones in mind, it may produce static or buzzing when used with an iPhone or iPad, due to wireless interference. (Many of these systems will produce a warning message on your player's screen.) The only way to prevent this interference is to put your iPhone or iPad in AirPlane mode—or, on the iPad, to disable 3G.
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A leaked internal slide from Asus suggests that the cheapest model, the Tegra 3-powered Asus Vivo Tab RT, will retail at around £400—plus £140-odd for a dock. Elsewhere a Vivo Tab with an Intel Atom chip is rumoured to start at £500 and the 11.6-inch Asus Taichi, a dual-display Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrid, pegged at £1,300.
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2005 in review Silicon Valley is a different place these days. After years of dot-com fallout, 2005 saw tech companies regain their self confidence - a fact signified by rapacious M&A, guilt-free spending on marketing activities and bold strategic statements.
Here are the events that made this year what it was, and that will have an impact on the coming 12 months.
IBM's turns open source on self with Gluecode
There's a common misunderstanding in Silicon Valley that IBM loves open source. It does, just as long as open source furthers IBM's own business and doesn't compete against products like WebSphere. That logic saw IBM buy open source application Java application server start-up Gluecode and agree to fund the Apache Geronimo project on which Gluecode is based. The deal was significant for two reasons: first, it was IBM's entrance into this year's hot topic of charging for software as a service instead of charging per CPU. Secondly, it was designed to stop JBoss from building large market share at the expense of closed-source products like its WebSphere application server, which IBM would be forced to win back years from now.
Microsoft played nice with open source
We're not in Kansas any more when one of open source's harshest critics announces support for Linux in Windows Virtual Server 2005 and a Windows server integration deal with JBoss. What's going on? Microsoft demonstrated good business sense this year by toning down the rhetoric and recognizing if it continued to put itself outside of the open source market then it would lose business and - essential for Microsoft - developer mindshare. More than 20 per cent of Windows developers plan to build with open source according to analyst Evans Data, meaning that Microsoft could either work with people like JBoss and optimize Windows for the application server or it could see its developers drift away by using tools and server software from competitors whose products are optimized for JBoss. Shame Microsoft hasn't experienced the same moment of clarity on Office.
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WASHINGTON - What's due but not collected will soon be taken up if the U.S. Senate has its way.
Heavy on appeals for equal treatment, the Senate on Monday advanced a bill that would allow states to require online retailers to collect sales tax on every transaction -- something their brick-and-mortar rivals already do.
As the Senate voted 74-to-20 Monday to bypass committee work and begin floor debate on the Marketplace Fairness Act, lawmakers said the conflict helps define a 21st century driven by online growth. Insiders predicted a weeklong fight over what the Financial Times called "the most incendiary political issue in retail."
Since the advent of the Internet, consumers have been able to browse brick-and-mortar stores and get information on models, cost and efficiency. In a bygone era, several senators remembered, the cash register was the next logical stop. Nowadays, they lamented, customers abandon physical retailers and head straight home for their computers.
Unlike what happens at cash registers, current law requires Internet users to report online purchases, calculate in-state sales tax and pay it themselves. But virtually no one pays, and authorities hardly enforce the law. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has said the dodgers deprive the Volunteer State of $400 million annually.
The Marketplace Fairness Act would allow state governments the option to require out-of-state retailers to collect sales tax on businesses making more than $1 million in annual revenue.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has long sponsored and pushed the bill, which is supported by online titan and Chattanooga employer Amazon.
Opponents have been vocal, with lawmakers and large companies citing a bureaucratic mess to come. The online auction hub eBay said the bill represents "a new tax barrier in front of small businesses," and others have said the legislation would overwhelm businesses with unnecessary regulation.
"The requirement to calculate sales-tax rates, much less collect those taxes, for each customer becomes even more burdensome when considering the various state, city and county sales taxes that will be imposed across the United States," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wrote in the Washington Times last week.
Supporter and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said new software technology would aid business owners toward "a virtually seamless transaction."
The debate put Republicans in the strange position of endorsing the ability for states to engage in nationwide tax collection. Monday's arguments also inspired Democrats into using conservative talking points to express their opposition to the bill.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., lamented the idea of businesses having to lay off workers and hire "expensive lawyers and accountants" to keep track of tax codes.
"How does this grow our economy?" Baucus wondered aloud on the Senate floor. "How does this create jobs?"
Aided by a sign that blared the phrases "STATES' RIGHTS" and "10TH AMENDMENT," Alexander passionately defended the bill, saying it in no way imposes new taxes or requires states to do anything. Instead, the former Tennessee governor said, the bill simply allows states to decide whether they should collect what's already owed.
A two-term senator, Alexander said he trusts Tennessee's governor and Legislature" over "Washington politicians" to make decisions related to Volunteer State commerce.
Campaigning for re-election in 2014, Alexander has an unusual ally: President Obama.
"We believe that the Marketplace Fairness Act will level the playing field for local small business retailers who are undercut every day by out-of state online companies," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday.
The five remaining Republican senators from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama joined Alexander and Monday's majority in voting to begin debate on the bill.


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Hey guys, I'm really stumped. I have a chat program and figured it'd be nice to add sound alerts for new messages, but it's not playing sound at all now.
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"Walking Home arrives at a good time in Canadian urbanism. . . . If you've been intimidated by the confounding planning language in miniscule type used in those newspaper rezoning ads, Greenberg's guide to city building is refreshingly accessible and invites all of us to join in. . . . There's much hope in Walking Home."
—Shawn Micallef, National Post
"A book that feels hopeful and invigorating. . . . Smart, but accessible. And those that know little about planning history have nothing to fear, as Greenberg does the sweep through history picking up the usual suspects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Jane Jacobs on the way."
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monday 05 march 2012
On Friday morning, I received a nice email from Elsevier stating that, finally, one of my articles will be published. I don't really know what is the more irritating: The fact that it was accepted 2 years ago for publication, or the big spam at the end of the email promoting some totally stupid and useless stuff like certificates of publication.
Come on, Elsevier. I wrote this article back in 2009, and the peer review went fine so that it was accepted in early 2010. What is wrong with your publishing processes? Two years to get from the editor's desk to the printer is a bit long, isn't it? It is somehow disappointing to wait that much time.
Moreover, why would you think I would be interested in stupid gifts like a giant poster version of the first page, or a certificate of publication (at 35 euros each)? Sure I am proud of the work I did on this. But I am proud of the work in itself, not the way it is published. The fact that it took the shape of a journal article published by Elsevier rather than a technical report is just the same to me.
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OREGON — The Ogle County 4-H horse drill team will compete at 11 a.m. Sept. 1 at the Walworth County Fair in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
Team members are Logan Arvigo of Mount Morris; Teddy Beachum of Chana; Amanda, Ellie and Megan Braun of Pecatonica; Alison and Megan Poole of Polo; and Natalie Shaw of Mount Carroll. Team members range in age from 11-16.
Coaches are Erica Kurth and Allison Reed, both of Rochelle, and Linda Schreiber of Leaf River.
The team received first place in the equine division at the Leaf River Summer Daze Parade on June 1, and rode in Mount Carroll's Fourth of July parade. The team also opened for the rodeo at the Ogle County Fair on Aug. 1, and placed second in the Circle K-D Drill Team Competition in Sycamore.
The team practices at least once a week at the Ogle County Fairgrounds, 1440 N. Limekiln Road. Their alternate practice site is the Diamond G Ranch and Western Store, 4564 S. Knoll Road, Rochelle.
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The Obama administration is developing the first National Alzheimer's Plan to find better treatments for the disease and offer better day-to-day care for those afflicted.
A newly released draft of the overall goals sets the 2025 deadline, but doesn't provide details of how to fund the necessary research to meet that target date. Today's treatments only temporarily ease some dementia symptoms, and work to find better ones has been frustratingly slow.
A committee of Alzheimer's experts begins a two-day meeting Tuesday to help advise the government on how to finalize the plan.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer's or similar dementias. It's the sixth-leading killer, and is steadily growing as the population rapidly ages. By 2050, 13 million to 16 million Americans are projected to have Alzheimer's, costing $1 trillion in medical and nursing home expenditures.
The national plan is supposed to tackle both the medical and social aspects of dementia, and advocacy groups had urged that it set a deadline for progress.
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Step 1 - Tutorials
When you start playing Starfall Online, the first thing you will do - is going through tutorial mission and context tips. Please, don't skip it as it carefully tells you about all the main things in the MMO mode and also give a reward - Repair Drone. Still, if you got troubles or already know everything about the game - you can disable it: open console (~) and type "ToggleSFTutorial" to switch it off.
Step 2 - What can I do here?
Once you finish tutorials, you wonder what shall I do? In Starfall Online, it's up to you to decide - however, to get further in the Galaxy you need to complete faction missions, mine resources, build new ships and kill pirates. And here is the short list of the most common things you can do after finishing Tutorials:
Play a Survival mode to get used to battles - it's available in the Main Menu through QUICK MATCH tab.
- Choose an "easy" difficulty for a good start
- Here you should protect your base from enemy ships.
- You have a constant income of a resource, which you spend on warping in new ships and upgrading Control Points.
- Warp in new ships by pushing TAB and choosing ships.
- Capture Control Points and upgrade them - push on captured point and choose "Upgrade to"...
- If you get tired of enemy waves, open text chat (Enter) and type "GG" to surrender.
Go back to the Galaxy Map - push "Deploy" button.
Join a House(guild) or create your own:
- Right-clik on your Mothership and go to House registry menu
- Type a name and a Tag to appear next to your name on the global map.
- House members have their own chat, can build new bases and initiate attacks on enemy bases (can be not available in the current test version).
Great! Now you are a member of a serious organization.
Get quests
- On each planet, repair station, inhabited planet and Black Market you can see yellow quest markers.
- Dock with it
- Go to the according tab and accept a quest
- Now you can see a quest panel on the left and track its progress. Note: if you need to get something, you have to actually transfer all items to the quest NPC.
- Once you finish this quest or get all required items - come back to the location where you received this quest and complete it.
Fight several pirates to get to the next level:
- Go to systems which are not conquered by your faction - they have a different color or don't have color at all.
- Explore systems and find pirate fleets
- Right click on them to attack
Don't forget to take all the loot back to your Mothership!
If you get your ships destroyed
No worries - you can get them back - just come back to the shipyard and wait until they repair or do the following:
- While on the star system map, push a recall button - the last one in your action bar.
- If your ship has already repaired - just push a "Recall" button and don't move until it's done.
- If your ships are under repair - you should spend some IGC to rush repairing. Total recall cost is written next to Recall button.
If your ship gets a level up
You definitely won't miss it as it has a nice animation!
- Go back to your shipyard
- Open a ship which leveled up - notice it by flashing signs
- Open ship mod tree, using an icon in the top middle of your screen, next to the wrench
- Choose 1 modification - it gives you a certain small bonus. Keep in mind, that you need to invest several points into the first modification to get access to further modifications.
- Push confirm button and save all changes for this ship.
On level 16 you will be able to unlock and choose an Alpha mod - a special module or a big bonus to characteristics. Note that ships don't get experience from completing quests - they need to actually participate in the battle.
Mine resources
Here you might have reached level 2 and unlocked the new detachment: go back to your shipyard, in the bottom middle of your screen choose a new detachment. Hmm. Looks like you need to create a frigate, right? But to do so, you need some resources which you can mine in Rich Asteroid Fields.
- Make sure you have a Mining Module installed inside one of your ships - it's usually there by default.
- Find Asteroid fields which are not just grey, but include glowing things - these are Rich Asteroid fields. You can check how much resources they contain by using Left Mouse Button.
- Enter Rich Asteroid field using "Explore selected sector" button
- Find some asteroids flying around and get close to them - mining module will automatically scan them and reveal resources
- Activate mining module by pushing a hotkey or pushing its' icon and point to the asteroid to start mining.
- Once cargo of all your ships becomes full - get outside of the rim of the map and return to the Shipyard.
Build a new ship and customize it
So, now you might have enough resources to build your first frigate.
- Go to your Shipyard
- Push "Build new ship" button
- In the new menu, you can choose a frigate in the right list - usually it will be 4 first ships.
- On the right you can see required components - craft them and then push "Build" and ship building menu.
- Wait for construction to complete. Now you can open it by clicking on it.
- Add some equipment you got while completing quests and killing pirates
- Go to visual customization menu (top middle button near the wrench) and choose a custom color or skin - don't worry, all in-game purchases are free for now.
Craft and Disassembling
There are 3 types of items in Starfall Online - Defective, Normal and Improved.
Defective equipment can not be equipped to ships - instead, it can be disassembled. Well, all equipment can be disassembled, including Improved and Normal quality items. Disassembling gives you different parts of this equipment which can be used to craft Normal or Improved version of a disassembled item or other things: for example, there are parts which are used in any ballistic weapon crafting, parts for all energy weapon or only for antimatter equipment and etc.
When you disassemble defective items, you get some item experience and, with time, get a recipe of this item forever, saved in your crafting menu. For example, to learn how to craft Small Shields, you must disassemble 3 Defective Small Shields or 1 Normal Small Shield. So, while disassembling items, you learn to craft equipment and get components at the same time. However, Improved Equipment Projects can not be acquired this way and are still of a single use - you can only find it while traveling across the Galaxy.
- To create an item from a project, come back to the Shipyard and find "Craft Equipment" button
- Make sure you have enough rcomponents, PP and IGC to start crafting
- Start crafting. Wait for it to complete and then Acquire an item.
To craft items of another faction, like screechers weapons or Nebulords ships, you need their salvageable parts. When you destroy ships, you can see some salvageable parts dropping from it. To get them you need a Salvage module installed on your ship.
- Get Salvage Module: Buy it on a black market (marked with a hat&glasses sign on a global map), get as a reward or drop from enemies.
- Equip it to one of your ships
- Once you destroy an enemy ship, you can fly close to ship wreckage and activate Salvage module - small drones will start collecting it for you.
Get acces to new star systems:
By this time, you've probably got a huge "ACCESS DENIED" message and checked a context tip on warp gates. The matter is that to go deeper into space you need to complete faction quests.
- Faction quest is always displayed on the top of your Quest Log
- Faction quest rewards usually can be acquired on Motherships
- Sometimes you can get special missions - find their markers on the global map.
Woohoo, you have to access to the next set of systems, in other words - Rings! Remember, that each next Ring requires other quests to be completed.
Quickly moving across the Galaxy and using Gates:
- To quickly move across the Galaxy, you can find Gates and use a special function available on them, allowing to warp to another Gates or drop off cargo. Careful: it requires IGC (in-game currency).
Gather a party
You are now ready for some serious adventures. Ok, let's gather a party:
- First of all, find a couple friends or allies and add them as friends using a special menu in the bottom right corner.
- Using the same menu, invite them to a party.
Attack pirate base
- Find a star system captured by pirates - it's painted in a pale red, blue or purple.
- Go to this system and find the base. You won't miss it - it's a big structure.
- Attack it using Right Mouse Button
- Inside the base, there are many things to do: kill bosses, destroy support stations which can be found across the map and then finally destroy the base which is usually in the middle of the instance.
Go to the Ranked mode to get some fun in a quick pvp battle!
Go to the main menu and push "Switch to Ranked Mode" button: here you can construct a fleet using a special set of equipment, creat a custom lobby and play with your friend or find an opponent for a duel.
There are two Ranked modes available now: Mothership mode and Domination. In both modes you need to capture control points and upgrade them - just like in Survival matches or base capturing event. Check a "Play a Survival mode" section at the beginning of this guide for more info.
Note: Mothership mode requires to defend the base and destroy it, while Domination - only to capture Control Points.
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Franchi Affinity Compact APG 20-gauge
In recent years, ammo manufacturers have introduced hard-hitting, high-density shotshells that finally make the 20-gauge a viable option in the turkey woods. If you're interested in less recoil without sacrificing a lot of performance consider carrying a 20 this year, like the Affinity Compact. It offers the same time-tested reliability of the Benelli Inertia Drive system (which Franchi shares a bloodline with) in a package that's about a full pound lighter than similar 12-gauge offerings. The lightweight aluminum alloy receiver and slim synthetic stock are covered in Realtree APG to help keep hunters concealed in the woods. Included stock spacers adjust length-of-pull, making the Affinity Compact a great entry-level turkey gun for young shooters, or anyone wanting a semi-custom fit. ($999; franchiusa.com)
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Harper in lineup day after being pulled out of game
Nationals teammates respect manager's decision to remove left fielder
WASHINGTON -- Just as Nationals manager Matt Williams said after Saturday's game, left fielder Bryce Harper was right back in the team's lineup for Sunday's game against the Cardinals. Harper was batting second a day after getting pulled to start the seventh inning for not hustling to first base on a ground ball back to the mound.
Harper's teammates continued to say they weren't surprised at what happened. Relief pitcher Drew Storen pointed out that the team had meetings on the subject before and during the season and agreed to the rules Williams enforced.
"I respect it, because you know what, you can't bend the rules," Storen said. "It is what it is. It's part of it, part of the game."
Kevin Frandsen, who replaced Harper in left field Saturday, described it as an unwritten rule.
"That stupid unwritten rule thing, it's not stupid, it's just how the game is supposed to be played," said Frandsen, whom the Nationals signed near the end of Spring Training. "So it didn't surprise me."
Frandsen remembers seeing the same type of situation occur while playing for the Phillies the past two years. In that case, it was veteran shortstop Jimmy Rollins who got in trouble with then-manager Charlie Manuel over a lack of hustle.
For example, Rollins was benched during a game against the Mets in August 2012 for jogging to first base after hitting a popup that was dropped. That prevented Rollins from having a chance to take second on the play.
"I just got to a place where it's a reflection on myself," Manuel said at the time. "It's a reflection on our team. It reflects on our organization."
Harper, on the other hand, is only 21. While there have been situations in which he might have shown a lack of hustle, there have been others in which he might have gone too hard on the bases or in the field, even resulting in injury.
It's a delicate balance for such a young player to find.
"It's part of the learning process," Storen said. "You hear it all the time about how young he is and for him to be learning and developing at the big league level, it's pretty tough to do. And he's got all the expectations and all the spotlight on him, so he's got a lot. He's done a great job."
There were no issues with Harper's hustle Sunday. He went 1-for-4 with a walk, running hard on both of his two groundouts in Washington's 3-2 win. He also picked up his first stolen base of the season in the eighth.
Williams said he had a good talk with Harper before the game.
"[I] just sat with him for a couple minutes at his locker and told him I'm confident in him and proud of him and he was going to have an impact today, which he did," Williams said. "He had an impact getting a hit, stealing a base and giving us another opportunity. [He] made some nice plays in the outfield. [He] did well."


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Luloff: a family, or group of people, living in the country, on land past from one generation to the next.
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Being the therd generation to live on the same land, with the same group of people (Luloffs), in an economical, and enviromentaly consious way.