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That’s when Julie “made history,” announcing the first-ever winner of Celebrity Big Brother: Marissa earned six votes from Ariadna, Omarosa, James, Shannon, Keshia and Chuck, while Ross only managed to secure three from Mark, Brandi and Metta. |
Did the Celebrity Big Brother finale end the way you expected? Drop a comment with your thoughts on the winner below. |
The various unsolved mysteries in physics described above are no secret. The scientific community is fully aware of the challenges they face. The search for the solution to these problems has yielded many candidates, none of which can yet claim victory. What is remarkable, however, is just how little the field of cosmo... |
There are a multitude of contenders to the Theory of Everything throne. These include supersymmetry, string theory, M-theory and a number of others beside. There are many different varieties and flavours within each theory, with new hypotheses, assumptions, and extensions made at every turn when observations and experi... |
For example, in supersymmetry, a whole new range of particles is proposed to explain and unify three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force. However, experiments using the Large Hadron Collider have so far failed to find any evidence for supersymmetry. Rathe... |
Elsewhere we have string theory, which hypothesises that all the elementary particles of the SMPP are in fact variations of a single fundamental vibrating string, with different energies of vibration accounting for the array of particles that we see. The supposed elegance of string theory is that it apparently provides... |
In fact there are five different string theories which can be subsumed into a single theory, known as M-theory, if we assume an eleven-dimensional Universe. Extending from M-theory is the concept of new mathematical objects, such as the “branes” discussed earlier, which are said to be floating about and colliding into ... |
If this all sounds rather fanciful, it is because it is. It should be emphasised that no empirical evidence exists for any of these fantastical claims. String theory and M-theory are simply a case of one set of assumptions and conjectures stacked upon another. They are nothing but abstract mathematical models, theoreti... |
Such theories are completely untestable and are closer to the medieval discussions by priests about “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” than to genuine science in any meaningful sense. Yet despite these severe limitations, such theories are presented to the public as viable scientific ideas by well-known p... |
A growing number of scientific researchers and writers have become exasperated with the current state of affairs and having grown tired of the lack of progress made in the field of cosmology are calling for a radical overhaul. It has become clear to many that after centuries of hard work pulling ourselves up the side o... |
Others are less generous in their description of modern cosmological research, considering it to be little more than a rather expensive and time-wasting journey down a scientific dead-end. Jim Baggott, a well-known science writer and former academic, writes in his book, Farewell to Reality, about the growing gap betwee... |
In the opinion of Baggott and many others, current cosmological research has increasingly become completely theoretical in nature and is based entirely on the beauty and internal consistency of the descriptive mathematics, with little recourse to actual evidence or observations. Baggott describes such theories, dreamt ... |
“[W]hat does it matter if a few theorists decide that it’s okay to indulge in a little self-delusion? So what if they continue to publish their research papers and their popular science articles and books? So what if they continue to appear in science documentaries, peddling their metaphysical world views as science? W... |
The crisis in cosmology, however, is causing some within the field to fundamentally challenge the dominant paradigm. Amongst those who are seeking a way out of the current morass is Lee Smolin, a well known academic currently at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, who, in his book “Time Reborn”, argues tha... |
Throughout his book, Smolin explains how physicists ever since Newton have tried to represent the dynamism and change of matter in motion through the use of timeless and absolute mathematical equations and models which are necessarily simplifications and abstractions of infinitely complex processes and which thus lose ... |
“...physics is a process of constructing better and better approximate theories. As we push our experiments to shorter distances and larger energies, we may discover new phenomena, and if we do, we’ll need a new model to accommodate them. |
Here then, without expressing it in such terms, we have a more dialectical – although not fully worked out – view of the Universe being presented by an established and renowned academic, cosmologist and theoretical physicist, a view in contrast to the timeless and absolute Newtonian paradigm, a view that represents a f... |
Such a view, as Smolin notes, means breaking with the old ideas of space and time, of laws and properties, and instead seeing things in a dialectical manner, by studying the interconnections and interactions of matter in motion with properties and laws that emerge as approximations from this infinitely complex and dyna... |
Key to Smolin’s criticisms of modern cosmology and the Newtonian paradigm from which it ultimately derives is the way in which an idealistic and mechanical use of mathematics, equations, and models has led to the “expulsion of time” from our understanding of the Universe and its infinitely complex and dynamic phenomena... |
But what Smolin is really hinting at with his talk of the timelessness of equations and the need to see evolving (rather than timeless and absolute) laws in nature is not so much the “expulsion of time” from modern cosmology, but the expulsion of change. |
In this respect, Smolin is unconsciously highlighting the most important aspect of dialectics: the concept of change. The understanding of the fact that things change, that the Universe consists ultimately and fundamentally, of matter in motion, is the philosophical and scientific key to unlocking the mysteries of the ... |
By reintroducing the concept of time, that is, change, into cosmology, Smolin arrives at many of the same conclusions as the Marxists. For example, Smolin correctly highlights the absurdity of the idea that the Big Bang represented a “beginning of time”. He notes the contradiction within mainstream cosmological thinkin... |
Whilst Smolin correctly highlights the philosophical limitations in the current cosmological models, in struggling against the idealism that pervades much of modern theoretical physics, and without a consistent dialectical materialist method at his disposal, Smolin bends the stick too far in the opposite direction with... |
This black hole “Universes within Universes” theory avoids the contradictions of the similar “eternal inflation” model discussed earlier, in that it has no recourse to quantum fluctuations or vacuum energy that allow for something to be created from nothing. Instead, we have a more dialectical concept of an infinite Un... |
Regarding Smolin’s hypothesis of an infinite series of Universes, however, it should be noted, as discussed earlier, that it is not necessary to posit the existence of “Universes within Universes” in order to overcome the contradictions involved with the concept of a Universe that is finite in time or space. Instead of... |
Smolin goes further with his black hole descendant theory, however, and proposes that this model of “Universes within Universes” can be extended to hypothesise the existence of “cosmological natural selection”; a model, which, in turn, can supposedly explain how the laws of nature do not simply emerge, but in fact evol... |
At this point, however, Smolin has crept into the land of idealism. In contradiction to his own earlier claim that properties and laws are emergent and that mathematical models are only an approximate abstraction of the real Universe, we are now asked by Smolin to consider the hypothesis that the parameters of our math... |
This analogy, by Smolin’s own earlier, more dialectical, argument, is false. The random mutation and assortment of genes in biological natural selection represent a change of physical things in a material reality. The parameters and constants that we use to define and describe our mathematical models of the Universe, h... |
Whilst correctly noting the flaws and limitations in the predominant mainstream theories and in the whole Newtonian method, in hypothesising his own model of “cosmological natural selection” to explain how laws “evolve”, Smolin has turned his own more dialectical and materialistic analysis on its head and has himself v... |
The laws of nature, however, are not material things and cannot “evolve”. In trying to overcome the idealistic and static timelessness of the Newtonian paradigm and reintroduce the concept of change into theoretical physics, Smolin has bent the stick too far in the opposite direction and arrived at his own idealistic t... |
Our understanding of the laws of nature will of course dialectically develop and evolve as we are able to further expand the sphere of social knowledge and discover and explain phenomena that emerge at different scales; but the essential and objective ways in which matter in motion interacts will always be the same at ... |
Despite the limitations of Smolin’s own theories, his criticism of the current state of cosmology represents an important step forward. By highlighting the fundamental philosophical problems associated with the methods being employed within the current cosmological paradigm, Smolin, and other similarly critical physici... |
In Dialectics of Nature, Engels analysed some of the most pressing and unanswered questions in the science of his day. Despite his own limited academic scientific knowledge, Engels, by consistently and thoroughly employing the Marxist method of dialectical materialism, was able to make revolutionary hypotheses on a who... |
For example, in his extract on The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Engels suggested that rather than it being a prior growth of the brain that enabled early mankind to develop tools, as was predominantly thought by evolutionary biologists and anthropologists at the time, the case was in fact th... |
Unfortunately Engels’ hypothesis was never taken up within the academic community and for years scientists searched in vain for remains of our early ancestors that indicated signs of a larger brain, but without any evidence of bipedalism (walking on two feet rather than four), developed hands (e.g. opposable thumbs), o... |
In relation to modern day cosmology, Marxism finds itself in the same position as Engels in the nineteenth century. We do not claim to have the mathematical tools or the great wealth of scientific knowledge and facts that the academic community of theoretical physicists has at its disposal. Nor do we claim to have all ... |
For decades, however, we have carefully followed scientific developments and have made important contributions towards the many debates that have emerged. The criticisms the Marxists have raised regarding modern scientific theories—in countless articles on www.marxist.com, as well as in books and pamphlets—are now bein... |
Most significantly, nearly 20 years ago, we published Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, which is striking for its perspicacity and anticipation of many of the questions being hotly debated today. These anticipations were possible due to a consistent application of dia... |
The limitations of the existing cosmological models are no secret. The problems facing physics are known to all those who are honest about their work and who sincerely want science to progress. What we can say for certain, therefore, is that the current theories do not represent the final word in science, and that a re... |
SAN DIEGO – Anthony Rizzo hit a tying double with two outs in the ninth inning and Javier Baez scored the go-ahead run on consecutive errors with one out in the 10th, lifting the Chicago Cubs over the San Diego Padres 5-4 Friday night. |
All-Star closer Brad Hand was one out away from his 25th save when Rizzo doubled into the gap in left-center to bring in pinch-runner Jason Heyward. Hand had retired Ben Zobrist and Ian Happ before hitting pinch-hitter Victor Caratini. Caratini was replaced by Heyward. |
After Pedro Strop (4-1) struck out the side in the ninth, Baez reached on an infield single to third base with one out against Adam Cimber (3-5). Baez stole second, took third when catcher Austin Hedges' throw sailed into center field and raced home when Manuel Margot bobbled the ball. |
Brandon Morrow pitched the 10th for his 21st save. |
Hedges had given the Padres a 4-3 lead on a single with two outs in the eighth. It was his third single. With Manuel Margot aboard on a double, Hedges took Carl Edwards Jr. the opposite way for the go-ahead run, with his soft liner landing in front of right fielder Zobrist. |
Kris Bryant, activated from the disabled list Wednesday, tied it at 3 with one out in the fifth when he smoked a grounder just inside first base that rolled into right field for an RBI double. It scored Albert Almora Jr., who reached on a fielder's choice and was awarded second on shortstop Freddy Galvis' errant throw. |
Travis Jankowski had given the Padres a 3-2 lead with a two-run home run to right-center, his second, with two outs in the second off Tyler Chatwood. Padres starter Clayton Richard was aboard on a single to center. |
San Diego took a 1-0 lead on Eric Hosmer's RBI grounder in the first, and the Cubs jumped ahead on Happ's two-run single after Richard struggled through the second. All-Star Baez hit a leadoff double and Richard loaded the bases with one-out walks to Addison Russell and Zobrist. Happ then singled to center to bring the... |
Neither starter was sharp. Richard allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits in six innings while walking five and striking out four. Chatwood went five innings, allowing three runs and five hits, with three walks and two strikeouts. |
Cubs: RHP Kyle Hendricks (5-8, 3.93) is scheduled to start Saturday night. He's coming off his best start of the season, when he allowed just an unearned run on five hits in in 8 1/3 innings. He didn't factor into the decision as the Cubs lost 2-1 in 11 innings. |
Padres: RHP Luis Perdomo (1-3, 7.09) is scheduled to make his third start since being recalled from Triple-A El Paso. |
Ridgeview placed second as a team at last year’s Class 1A state finals meet. The Mustangs will be looking for similar success after qualifying 12 events to this year’s meet at EIU after winning the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Sectional Thursday evening. |
Making a return to state will be defending state champion Mason Barr in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, and the 4x200 relay team. |
Tate Walcott was a three-event qualifier last year, joining Barr, Ryan Benton and the graduated Kale Grunloh in winning the 4x200 relay. He was also fourth in the 200 dash and 10th in the long jump. |
The Mustangs won the GCMS sectional meet with six event victories while racking up 104 points. Dwight had 20 points and one athlete advance. Tri-Point was 13th with 6 points. |
Walcott and Barr will be advancing in three individual events and as two legs of the 4x200 relay. Walcott won the long jump by going 23-5¾ in winning the event by nearly two feet. |
On the track, Walcott won the 200-meter dash in 22.57 seconds in edging teammate Barr, who was runnerup at 22.89. Walcott was fourth in the 200 at state last year. |
Barr won the 300 hurdles and returns to defend that title after winning in 39.53 seconds at GCMS. Dwight’s Christian Williams was second at 41.72 seconds to advance. |
Barr also won the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.93 seconds. He was fourth at state last year. |
Walcott and Barr were part of the state-winning 4x200 relay last season and will be back after leading the Mustangs to first in the event at 1:30.97. |
Also on the track, Ridgeview won the 4x400 relay in 3:31.56 and was second in the 4x100 at 44.48 seconds. Walcott was runnerup in the 100 dash at 11.37 seconds. |
In the field, Jacob Donaldson placed eighth at state last year in the triple jump. He will look to place higher next week after going 43-3 to take second at GCMS. |
El Paso-Gridley came in second as a team and will be sending five representatives to state next week after competing at the Tremont Sectional Thursday. |
The Titans tallied 75 points for second with Tremont putting up 87 to win the meet. Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland was 12th with 12 points and Fieldcrest was 15th with 6. |
EPG’s best event was the 300-meter intermediate hurdles as freshman Kollin Schlipf won in 41.7 seconds. Logan Smith was second at 42.49 seconds. |
Jordan Shelton was the other EPG athlete to place first as he claimed the 400 dash in 53.01 seconds. |
Noah Smith took second in the 3,200 run in 10:04.01 to advance. In the field, Caleb Vargas was second in the triple jump at 40-1½. |
A few small motels and one luxury waterfront hotel are located within a few miles from Water Wizz, a water park for families in picturesque Westerly, Rhode Island. Located on a strip of amusements and restaurants, and directly across the street from Misquamicut State Beach, Water Wizz is a popular place to take a break... |
Located about one mile from Water Wizz, the Winnapaug Inn has a wide variety of accommodations ranging from standard guest rooms to a free-standing two-bedroom cottage. The Winnapaug sits on a pond and next door to the 18-hole Winnapaug Golf Course, which will keep your golfer happy while the rest of the family hits th... |
Also about a mile from Water Wizz, the Sand Dollar Inn offers air-conditioned guest rooms equipped with cable TV, double, king or queen beds and private baths. Families can book adjoining rooms, an on-site cottage with kitchen, living room, and bedroom, or an efficiency that can accommodate a family of five. There's a ... |
Located just a few blocks from Water Wizz and the beach, the Blue Whale Inn offers standard rooms and deluxe suites that can accommodate up to four people. The Blue Whale offers its guests two popular and complimentary perks -- a daily country continental breakfast and a nightly wine and cheese hour (including cookies ... |
The Ocean House is a grand Victorian hotel perched on the Atlantic coastline in tiny Watch Hill, Rhode Island, about three miles from the busier Misquamicut area. Once a summer home for the rich, the Ocean House sat empty for many years until it was recently restored by new owners. The Ocean House offers 49 guest rooms... |
McCormack, Evelyn. "Hotels in Westerly, Rhode Island, Near Water Wizz." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-westerly-rhode-island-near-water-wizz-43484.html. Accessed 19 April 2019. |
James Ingram, the Grammy-winning singer who launched multiple hits on the R&B and pop charts and earned two Oscar nominations for his songwriting, has died, according to a close associate. He was 66. |
Debbie Allen, an actress-choreographer and frequent collaborator with Ingram, announced his death on Twitter on Tuesday. Attempts by The Associated Press to confirm his death with Ingram's family or representatives have been unsuccessful. |
Ingram was born February 16, 1952 in Akron, Ohio. |
He appeared on Quincy Jones' 1981 album, "The Dude," which earned him three Grammy nominations and one win for best R&B male vocal performance for "One Hundred Ways." |
In a statement Tuesday, Jones called Ingram his "baby brother." |
"With that soulful, whisky sounding voice, James Ingram was simply magical ... every beautiful note that James sang pierced your essence and comfortably made itself at home," Jones said. "But it was really no surprise because James was a beautiful human being, with a heart the size of the moon. James Ingram was, and al... |
In 1983 Ingram released his debut album, "It's Your Night," which included the hit "Yah Mo Be There." The song, which featured Michael McDonald, became a Top 20 hit on the Billboard pop charts and won the Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal. |
Ingram also reached the top of the pop charts twice with the songs "I Don't Have the Heart" and "Baby, Come to Me," a duet with Patti Austin. "Somewhere Out There," Ingram's collaboration with Linda Ronstadt from the 1986 film "An American Tail," reached No. 2 on the pop charts. |
Ingram was also a talented songwriter: Alongside Jones, he co-wrote Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)," earning him a Grammy nomination for best R&B song. Ingram scored Oscar nominations for best original song with "The Day I Fall In Love" from "Beethoven's 2nd" and "Look What Love Has Done" from "Junior." |
Both tracks also competed for best original song at the Golden Globes. |
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan State is inviting Spartan basketball fans to watch Saturday night's Texas Tech basketball game on the video boards inside Munn Arena. |
There is no admission charge and the concession stands will be open. |
Doors open at 8pm for the scheduled 8:49pm tip. |
Security checks will be made. |
Ford Motor Company (“Ford” or “Company”) hereby incorporates by reference its news release dated January 23, 2019, which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto. |
The presentation and supporting materials are available at www.shareholder.ford.com. Representatives of the investment community and the news media will have the opportunity to ask questions on the call. |
Investors also may access replays of the presentation beginning after 11:00 p.m. the day of the event through January 30, 2019 by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (or 1-404-537-3406 from outside the United States). The Conference ID for replays is 6299017. |
All times referenced above are in Eastern Standard Time. |
Ford’s presentation materials dated January 23, 2019 are furnished as Exhibit 99.2 to this Report and incorporated by reference herein. |
After a lower court ordered unusual legislative contests this year to mitigate unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, the justices temporarily stayed the order. |
DURHAM, N.C.—The Supreme Court has a message for North Carolina voters: Don’t get too excited about those rare, off-year legislative elections quite yet. |
In late November, a federal court ruled that the state must hold unusual elections for the state legislature in 2017, in order to mitigate a districting plan that the court had ruled was an unconstitutional gerrymander. Consequently, the judges also ruled that the terms of state legislators in affected districts would ... |
The Court hasn’t taken up the case yet, but it issued an order on Tuesday granting a stay on the elections. In other words, the Court has not yet decided whether or not to hear the case, but in the meantime, while it makes a decision, the elections will not move forward. The order is unsigned. |
The elections could still happen—if the justices affirm the lower court’s ruling, or if they decline to hear the case, the stay would expire and the race would be back on. Otherwise, the Court could decide to make its own judgment. The Court in December heard arguments relating to a lawsuit over whether redistricting f... |
The lower court’s order for off-year elections, combined with the foreshortened terms for some representatives, were an unusual move for a court. The state had ordered that it needed more time to redraw districts that the court was giving it, but the judges rejected that argument. “This gives the State a total of seven... |
It is unclear what political effect elections might have. Off-year elections typically have very low turnout. The General Assembly has been the site of several pitched partisan battles, including two in the closing days of 2016—one a special session in which GOP lawmakers stripped the incoming Democratic governor of so... |
Donald Trump raised the threat of arrest during the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton on Sunday night. |
During the second presidential debate Sunday night, Republican nominee Donald Trump told Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton she would be put in jail if he becomes president. |
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