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With the launch of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro this week, Apple became the only laptop manufacturer to offer both a high-speed Thunderbolt port and two USB 3.0 (USB SuperSpeed) ports for external peripherals.
By upgrading from the USB 2.0 standard to 3.0, the laptops offer 10 times the I/O bandwidth for external devices. That translates into markedly faster backups to external storage devices.
The Thunderbolt protocol offers even greater performance. On paper, Thunderbolt offers a 10Gbps transfer rate, compared with SuperSpeed USB's 5Gbps. Thunderbolt is 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0.
Thunderbolt can transfer a full-length, high-definition movie in less than 30 seconds. USB SuperSpeed would take about 70 seconds to perform the same task, according to Jeff Ravencraft, president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).
Based on copper, the Thunderbolt specification contains two protocols: PCI Express (PCIe) and DisplayPort. The Thunderbolt chip switches between the two protocols to support varying devices. DisplayPort offers HD display support as well as eight channels of HD audio. A Thunderbolt connector has two full-duplex channels; each are bi-directional and capable of 10Gbps of throughput.
Thunderbolt also offers up to 10 watts of power to a device. SuperSpeed USB is optimized for power efficiency. It uses only 1.5 amps of power for charging devices, or about one-third of the power of its predecessor Hi-Speed USB (v2.0).
Thunderbolt has the ability to serve as a transport for PCI Express (PCIe), something USB is incapable of. PCIe is a computer expansion bus standard, the main advantage being users who've already invested in PCIe-enabled devices can continue to use them.
One major drawback to Thunderbolt is the high cost of hardware because it is still a fairly new technology. For example, a USB SuperSpeed cable sells for around $3. A Hi-Speed USB (2.0) cable sells for about $1.50, and the chipset sells for less than $1, according to USB-IF Chief Technology Officer Rahman Ismail.
In contrast, a Thunderbolt cable sells for $49. Inteljust began shipping a lower-cost chipset, dubbed Cactus Ridge.
By the numbers
USB is among the most successful interfaces in the history of personal computers. Among PC and peripheral device manufacturers, USB adoption is virtually 100%. The USB installed base is more than 10 billion units, and those devices are growing at more than 3 billion a year. It's hard to imagine any external device interconnect technology that could challenge USB.
Jeff Cable, an official photographer for the USA Water Polo Team, who has covered three Olympics games, said the MacBook Pro's upgraded ports and retina display will make it the perfect machine for him.
"Not only with the processing power, the SSD, the amazing screen, but with the addition of USB 3.0 for fast downloading (using the Lexar Pro USB 3.0 reader) and two Thunderbolt ports for connecting [external storage]," he said. "I can't ask for a better tool."
Cable said having an internal SSD, as the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro now offer, is great for the speed, but it also highlights the need for a high-capacity, high-speed external device. "Shooting more than 100GB a day, a 512GB SSD won't last long," he said.
Forrester analyst David Johnson said Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 offer significant I/O performance boosts, but their real value will be seen when external solid-state drives (SSDs) hit the market.
"SSD performance potential will exceed what USB 3.0 can really leverage. There is one external SSD drive on the market now, but I'm looking forward to more because then it will allow me to meaningfully expand the capacity of high performance storage I can take with me on the road," Johnson said.
Computerworld tested the industry's first Thunderbolt-equipped external SSD backup drive, the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD, with a Thunderbolt-enabled MacBook Pro. The results were impressive.
Using a MacBook Pro equipped with a USB 2.0 port and a top-of-the-line thumb drive from Imation, Computerworld was able to transfer a 1.19GB file with 327 JPG images in 1 minute, 4 seconds. Using the Thunderbolt port and the Thunderbolt SSD, the transfer time for the same file was cut in half to 33 seconds.
A Time Machine backup to the Thunderbolt drive, which entailed copying 11.1GB of data and more than 300,000 files, took just 15 minutes, 35 seconds. By comparison, a Time Machine backup using an external hard disk drive and USB 2.0 took 48 minutes.
Johnson said there are several laptop models that have USB 3.0, and Lenovo, Asus and Acer have announced plans for Thunderbolt support, but the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are the only computers with both ports, giving Apple a leg-up on competition.
The Acer Aspire Ethos, HP Spectre and the Dell XPS13 offer USB 3.0 ports. "The HP and Dell also have switched to the Mini Displayport standard, which looks like a Thunderbolt port but isn't," Johnson said.
One major advantage Thunderbolt has over USB 3.0 is its ability to daisy-chain peripherals. This means that as many as five peripherals can be added to the Apple Thunderbolt display, including a Promise Pegasus RAID array or a LaCie Little Big Disk, the first Thunderbolt-enabled external hard drive.
Because of the ability to daisy chain, one big selling point is that the user would only need one port, versus multiple ports for all Thunderbolt-enabled peripherals, including USB peripherals, into a Thunderbolt-equipped monitor.
Johnson pointed out that daisy-chaining offers users a cleaner desk with fewer cables, a cheaper alternative to a docking station, and a computer with a cleaner design.
"I've been using Thunderbolt for several months now with a MacBook Air coupled to an Apple Thunderbolt display and a Firewire 800 drive daisy-chained to the display. Thunderbolt has proven extremely stable for me and the Firewire 800 drive I have is very fast. The best way to describe it is in what it allows me to do with massive files like video projects and virtual machines," Johnson said.
Previously, it was not practical for Johnson to house a Windows virtual machine in VMware Fusion on an external USB 2.0 drive because it was "dog slow with USB 2.0 as the bottleneck," he said.
"With the Firewire 800 drive and the Thunderbolt display, the performance within the virtual machine is very good. It's not as fast as it is running natively on the SSD storage within the Mac, but it's quite usable," he added.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Teaching about ticks and Lyme disease
Teaching about ticks and Lyme disease
Deirdre Arvidson, a public health nurse with the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, talked with third-graders at the Forestdale School in Sandwich while dressed in a giant tick costume.
Professor Thomas Mather used a bagel to show size and visability of ticks.
When deer poke their head between two rollers to feed, like this doe and fawn at an experimental feeding station in Nantucket, their head, necks, ears, and shoulders are covered with pesticide to kill and repel ticks.
Residents concerned about tick-borne diseases gathered for a meeting about Lyme disease at the Dover Town Hall on Wednesday, April 10.
Tick identification cards were available at the Dover meeting.
Attendees picked up literature on ticks and tick-borne illnesses before the meeting in Dover. Dr. Sam Donta, an expert and controversial figure in the Lyme disease field, spoke at the meeting.
A bowling benefit was held in South Yarmouth to raise awareness and money for Lyme Awareness of Cape Cod.
Weston conservation administrator Michele Grzenda installed tick information boxes in Burchard Park.
University of Rhode Island graduate Chris Schuttert collected ticks in Kingston, R.I.
Friends Emily Hutcheson and Laurie Bent took a stroll in the woods near Hutcheson's Weston home.
A couple of minutes into Hutcheson and Bent's walk, they came across this deer and her fawn.


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English Rugby
Easter sets sights on England recall
ESPN Staff
September 24, 2012
Nick Easter has started the 2012-13 season in sensational fashion © Getty Images
Harlequins No.8 Nick Easter admits that he is keen on earning a recall to the England set-up but has revealed that he is yet to hear from boss Stuart Lancaster this season.
Easter was Harlequins' star of the show on Saturday in their match against the Leicester Tigers which sparked Quins boss Conor O'Shea to suggest that he is still the best No.8 in the country. Easter last turned out for England in the quarter-finals of the 2011 World Cup when they were coached by Martin Johnson.
Under Lancaster, Easter is out of the England set-up with the backroom staff focused on building towards the 2015 World Cup. They favour Gloucester's Ben Morgan at No.8 and it is likely that a series of injuries will have to occur if Easter is to force his way back into the reckoning.
But despite this, Easter believes he can still cut it on the international stage and add to his 47 caps. "People talk about age but as Mark Evans, our former chief executive, said, it's not the registration plate, it's the number of miles on the clock and I came late into professional rugby so I am not burnt out mentally and my body is in good nick," Easter told Standard Sport. "I am still hugely ambitious and I believe that I am still improving as a player.
"I am also enjoying the way we play; challenging the opposition and being unpredictable. Perhaps, in the past, we have tried to play the off-loading game but didn't have the mix to be able to scrum, maul and kick. Stuart [Lancaster] has not said anything to me this season and all I can do is just carry on and play rugby."
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text: Monday, May 02, 2011 Increased Physical Activity Could Curb Preventable Deaths, Says WHO Physical inactivity is 1 of 4 risk factors that contributes to 80% of all noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The other 3 risk factors are tobacco use, the harmful use of alcohol, and poor diets. NCDs killed 63% of people who died worldwide in 2008. Cardiovascular diseases account for most NCD deaths, or 17 million people annually, followed by cancer (7.6 million), respiratory disease (4.2 million), and diabetes (1.3 million). Most of these deaths, almost 80%, occurred in low- and middle-income countries, dispelling the myth that such conditions are mainly a problem of affluent societies, says WHO. Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 reviews the current status of noncommunicable diseases and provides a road map for reversing the epidemic by strengthening national and global monitoring and surveillance, scaling up the implementation of evidence-based measures to reduce risk factors such as physical inactivity, tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and harmful alcohol use, and improving access to cost-effective health care interventions to prevent complications, disabilities, and premature death. According to WHO, this report, and subsequent editions, will provide a baseline for future monitoring of trends and for assessing the progress member states are making to address the epidemic. Comments Vital statistics for the uninformed about their health and how easy it is to prevent illness and death while increasing the quality of life more importantly. Posted by Orlando Walters on 5/4/2011 12:41 PM We have been working with a group of individuals in Honduras via PT's who are on a medical mission annually. We have been evaluating the health status and HRQoL in preliminary work and have identified some interventions to address areas of need. Does anyone know where to go for a grant to help pay for formal translation of HRQoL testing and further data analysis of this population? Posted by Jane L. Wetzel on 5/7/2011 7:30 AM


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Cartoon Network Enterprises and National Basketball Association Extend Co-Branding Partnership for Ben 10: Alien Force
Building on Successful Youth Apparel Line, Program Expands to Include Spalding for Hit Boys' Action Brand
Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced today a renewal and expansion of their co-branding partnership between the league and the hit boys' action franchise, Ben 10 Alien Force. The deal extension, which covers the 2009-10 NBA season, builds on the successful launch of a co-branded youth apparel line from Outerstuff which premiered at the 2009 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, and will expand to include a new line of co-branded basketballs from Spalding.
New designs integrating Ben 10 Alien Force characters with NBA league and team logos and mascots will be created for the apparel line, which includes long and short-sleeved t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies; while an all-new range of Spalding basketballs will also feature co-branded designs. The new product will debut at the NBA All-Star 2010 in Dallas in February, and will also be distributed at NBA arenas throughout the country, the NBA Store in New York City, on CartoonNetworkShop.com, the NBAStore.com and additional retail outlets.
"The long-standing partnership between Turner and the NBA is one that we value and that has provided unique opportunities across a variety of platforms and audiences," said Christina Miller, senior vice president of Turner Sports Strategy/Marketing/Promotions and Cartoon Network Enterprises. "Specifically in the kids space, this expansion of our relationship and program demonstrates the value and success of the program and the great synergy that exists between the
Ben 10 brand and the NBA and our respective audiences."
"We had a very positive response from our fans when we launched the initial Ben 10 NBA collection and the expansion of this year's line with Spalding will help us continue to build upon a successful program," said Lisa Piken, Sr. Director, Apparel and Accessories, NBA Global Merchandising Group.
The first-ever co-branded Ben 10 Alien Force and NBA product that debuted at NBA All-Star 2009 sold out and continued to sell well across all other retail outlets. The success of the NBA All-Star line led to the creation of a co-branded NBA Finals line that launched in June.
The partnership between CNE and the NBA is an expansion of an existing relationship between Turner Broadcasting and the professional sports league which has lasted for more than 26 years, making Turner the league's longest continuous partner. Through an agreement with Turner Sports, TNT has been a broadcaster of NBA programming for more than two decades and has renewed its partnership through the 2015-2016 season, while it also manages the rights for the NBA's portfolio of digital businesses. In 2009, Cartoon Network and the NBA partnered to create a short-form television series, My Dad's A Pro, which premiered in the fall and follows the day-to-day life of Boston Celtics guard Eddie House and his seven-year-old son Jaelen. Additionally, in 2007, Cartoon Network partnered with NBA Cares, the league's social responsibility arm, to expand the network's Rescuing Recess program, whose mission is to create awareness about the importance of recess as an essential element of the school day. Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade is the national spokesperson for Rescuing Recess and together, the companies have pledged to enlist one million volunteer hours to rescue recess across America.
As a top-rated Cartoon Network original series for boys, Ben 10 Alien Force continues the Ben 10 saga and picks up the story five years later when 15-year-old Ben Tennyson chooses to once again put on the OMNITRIX and discovers that he can now transform him into 10 brand new aliens. Created by Man of Action and produced at Cartoon Network Studios, the third season of the Ben 10 Alien Force series recently debuted on Cartoon Network and currently premieres on Friday nights 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT) with replays throughout the week, and the live action movie, Ben 10 Alien Swarm debuted in November 2009 as the top-rated telecast of the day across both broadcast and cable with more than four million total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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The NBA reaches fans and consumers worldwide through the licensing and marketing of consumer products bearing the league's trademarks and player attributes. Over 200 licensees manufacture, sell and market NBA-branded products that are promoted worldwide and sold in more than 100,000 retail locations, in 100 countries on six continents. Major categories include video games, apparel, footwear, sporting goods and trading cards. Thirty percent of merchandise sales are generated from outside the United States. In addition to offering the most comprehensive assortment of NBA, WNBA and NBA D-League merchandise, the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City features multimedia attractions, a fully operational broadcast booth and an official half-court used for special events and regularly scheduled appearances by players, legends and celebrities. More than one million fans visit the NBA Store each year. NBAStore.com is the online destination for NBA fans around the world looking for exclusive team merchandise, memorabilia and unique gifts of every NBA, WNBA and NBA D-League team. NBAStore.com is visited by over 10 million visits each year.
About Cartoon Network Enterprises
Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) is responsible for building consumer products and merchandising programs for a wide range of brands by securing and supporting long-term licensing partnerships across all categories. As the global branding and merchandising arm of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, the division manages the consumer product programs for the networks' award-winning original programming, brands and characters including Ben 10, The Secret Saturdays, Chowder, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adult Swim and more. CNE also serves as a third party licensing agent through strategic partnerships with Nelvana Enterprises and Spin Master for the award-winning Bakugan brand, CAKE Entertainment and Fresh TV for the hit Total Drama franchise and the PGA of America for the youth marketplace.
Cartoon Network (CartoonNetwork.com), currently seen in more than 97 million U.S. homes and 166 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s ad-supported cable service now available in HD offering the best in original, acquired and classic entertainment for youth and families. Nightly from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET, PT), Cartoon Network shares its channel space with Adult Swim, a late-night destination showcasing original and acquired animated and live-action series for young adults 18-34.
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"This should be done, they say, not for the purpose of creating interdimensional portals or whatnot"
This is the SLOLE purpose for which desktop black holes should be used for!
Boffins in America say they have worked out a method of creating small black holes in the laboratory for experimental purposes. They seem unconcerned at the prospect of possibly destroying the earth, creating a portal into a parallel universe where peckish man-eating dinosaurs rule etc. Many scientists, of course, have sought …
"This should be done, they say, not for the purpose of creating interdimensional portals or whatnot"
This is the SLOLE purpose for which desktop black holes should be used for!
Keep it up!
...inside the test-chamber.
can I have one of these mini black hole things in my bin?
The original Dartmouth BASIC time sharing computer and the computer programming language of the same name also came from there.
Darn black holes.
I can see it now --- "Master student claims, black hole ate my thesis" and similar shenanigans. Might sell home kits, to get rid of pesky inlaws and IRS inspectors.
/PH for obvious reasons.
"an array of superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUIDs, should be placed inside a magnetic field-pulsed microwave transmission line."
Well I mean it's obvious really.
It could be used to suck Brit cops' shotgun taser rounds right out of the air!
Have these idiots never played half-life??
"Because we can't yet take measurements from real black holes, we need a way to recreate this phenomenon in the lab in order to study it, to validate it." - why do we need this? are you trying justify having a job you planet threatening lab monkey
I think this is the same "Dartmouth" that gave us BASIC way-back-when. Ugh.
They deserve to get eaten by a black hole.
"You've compressed our lunches into a singularity for the last time! Salt him Dwight!"
Desktop black hole ?.....that'll be Windows then.
Maybe they could let us know a date for testing and I'll take a holiday, maybe to the moon for a couple of weeks. Just incase things don't go to plan.
Anyone with me, maybe double up to save costs?
Be afraid!
So how do they create the imitation parallel universe where peckish man-eating dinosaurs rule?
I for one (You know the rest...)
Surely Dartmouth is infamous for having unleashed BASIC on an unsuspecting world.
".......have sought to create desktop black holes for various purposes."
I'd have thought that the most obvious application would be extremely expensive novelty paperweights for the uber-wealthy. Ideally mounted on a tasteful stand made of platinum and mahogany for effect.
Doubles as a wastebasket too and sorts all those pesky problems with bin-diving tabloid journalists* into the bargain. What's not to like?
*Tabloid journalists will still be able to bin-dive, but only the once and any data they do find will remain secure.
It's worrying that they've named the devices after the description of the Lovecraftian horrors that will slip through their newly created wormholes to suck our faces off.
SQUIDs. A black hole made from calamari? It's not friday already is it?
"this is a different and more obscure Dartmouth located in New Hampshire, America."
That'll tell them - uppity lot!
bye bye everybody, bye bye.
What's the mass of the smallest black hole that would be self-sustaining if you just dropped it through the laboratory floor, that is, it would suck in material fast enough to counteract the Hawking radiation and keep on growing, till the whole Earth is a tiny black hole and all that's left of mankind is a few space probes waiting for further orders that will never come?
You know how you hate those geeks who technobabble on and on about "the singularity"? Let's give them a different kind of singularity!
I could do with a 'desktop black hole'. It would probably work better than this shredder which chokes if asked to do more than 3 sheets at a time. And would finally let me properly dispose of a growing pile of obsolete backup tapes that I wasn't allowed to wall up in the old fireplace in the office that was boarded up the other month...
Will they be able to build a black-hole equivalent to the Taser? Aim, fire, and watch the target be swallowed up. Bang! Gulp! Gone!
Where is the gibbering idiot icon when you need it? Troll will have to do.
I may well have been misinformed but the main thing I remember being told about black holes as a kid was that the smaller ones are more powerful than larger ones?
Don't they know that black holes in the universe are not collapsed stars! They are the remains or lack of, of civilisations that went too far! The stupid apes created something they didn't understand that destroyed them!
btw Americans and risk. Hitler was advised that an atomic bomb could set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere that could turn the planet into a cinder, the merkins knew of the risk, but what the hell, and now they are doing it again.
Little boy was uranium based and tested at the Trinity test
Fat man was plutonium based and never tested, or was it (German bomb already tested?)
I wouldn't mind betting this device bears almost exactly no resemblance whatsoever to a black hole of any kind. They've just distorted reality in their paper (i.e. lied) enough to confuse ignorant journalists into thinking it does - thereby hoping to make Dartmouth a little less obscure than it was.
After all, who's going to fund stuffing some squids up a waveguide unless you bullshit them a bit?
"an array of superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUIDs, should be placed inside a magnetic field-pulsed microwave transmission line."
Well I mean it's obvious really.
You owe me a new keyboard... thanks!
"You have a tiny black hole on your desktop. A teeny tiny black hole. Would you like to open it.?"
And hurt somebody with their home-grown singularities, I am going to suggest that the eggheads in question be fed the the inter-dimensional dinosaurs!!
This article seems to be saying that the scientists think they should do this because "We know black holes are dangerous matter-destroying/radiation emitting monsters in outer space, but theres a chance that they evaporate, and to make sure that they evaporate we need to create some of these here on earth. Of course, they may not evaporate, in which case we are all up crap creek without a paddle."
Next week I am expecting a grant request from Dartmouth on "Optimal stick modalities derived from the stimulation via prodding of malnourished ursine test subjects"
glad to still see the Half Life references.
Black Mesa. Tearing up time and space since 1998.
"My people practically invented black holes."
Can we start growing some TARDISes now, best to make sure your solar engineer doesn't get trapped inside the singularity.
Nobody could get past the curious about the desktop black hole stage.
"it would suck in material fast enough to counteract the Hawking radiation and keep on growing"
Well I like that we're doing experiments like this based on the idea that ANY of Hawking's black hole theory is actually correct, which we don't of course know.
How about we save the black hole experiments for when we can travel to another galaxy far, far away?
Imitation proves nothing!
This thing won't be a real black hole (which would first eat the desk it is on top of, then the planet and with it any experimental results (unless those are first beeped off into space before the event horizon can lock them in)).
Nope. It is an imitation. In other words it shares some properties with a backhole, not all.
It is surely the non-imitated properties (earth eating gravity etc) that really count when trying to investigate the Hawking radiation. Just having a heavy black thing on your desk (a canon ball or equivalent) won't cut it.
Ann one remember the high altitude nuclear explosion tests?
These injected a large quantity of fission debris into the ionosphere!!
What were they thinking...?
This is nothing new, my daughter made a black hole years ago. It's called her room, whatever goes in doesn't come out (except her of course, but she wears these strange clothes that seem to protect her).
Take your coffee mug. Let's call the gravitational effect it has on your keyboard Wcm (Weight due to Coffee Mug).
Compress the coffee mug until the atoms are so tightly packed that light cannot escape from the surface of it (you might need some kind of big vice for this step). What's its gravitational effect on your keyboard?
Wcm. Exactly the fucking same (blah blah blah minor second order effects etc - shut up, Hawking, you're distracting from the key point). Making something into a black hole does not suddenly increase its mass.
Hang on a sec...
These psuedo-black holes will be "much tinier" (failing English, clearly) than the real thing? Which bit of infinitely small, infinitely dense do they not quite grasp? I'm not sure you *can* make something smaller than a quantumn singularity....
nothing to see here, the government have been creating black holes for years, except they call them IT projects
These are the same people who gave us Jack the Bodiless and Abbadon (aka Marc Remilliard)
"Which bit of infinitely small, infinitely dense do they not quite grasp? I'm not sure you *can* make something smaller than a quantumn singularity...."
Smaller amount of mass, smaller event horizon, anything else?
And the AC that suggests smaller black holes are more "powerful", in a way, yes. From memory, the amount of Hawking Radiation emitted is inversly proportional to the mass of the black hole. That's why they need to create "small" ones, as astronomically created ones (at least recent ones) are too massive (as in too much mass) that the Hawking Radiation emitted is below the temperature of the microwave background radiation, so we can't measure it. If we could find an elusive primordial black hole, in theory we'd be able to meassure it, but distinguishing the final burst of gamma rays from any other event in the universe would be difficult, and you'd have to be looking in the right direction at the right time.
With a smaller one (we're talking about quantum mechanical black holes here), they'll disappear almost instantly, mimicing the death throws of a primordial black hole, and hopefully showing up a massive amount of energy/Hawking Radiation. In fact, the energy levels will be along the lines of the mass of the black hole. (remember mass/energy equivalency?)
Good luck to them.
I think a better description would've been 'renowned not-dead NHS user uberboffin Stephen Hawking'
But that's probably just me.
Squids? Black holes? The return of the Old Ones is nigh!
They are imitating something they cannot measure to measure it !!!
*Splodes !!!!!
Renowned uberboffin Stephen Hawking rolled past the array of superconducting quantum interference devices. He lunged for the nearest peer-reviewed paper he could see, one of his own. Grabbing the baffling text, the sixty-seven-year-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it slipped from the shelf and Hawking collapsed backward in a heap beneath his chair. A chillingly weird looking assassin loomed over him from the doorway chillingly. "Now you will die," the tall scarred killer said. Mr Stephen Hawking, 67, only just had time to see what the man was holding - a black hole! Only just time, that is, before being brutally black-holed to death by none other than the other man present in the room!
And that's basically what's going to happen.
Surely "famously-still-alive NHS-user robovoice uberboffin"? Then we'd also get the Portal references as well as yank-healthcare-debate-mockery, and that would be a triumph, and we'd be able to make a note - "huge success!".
Mine's the one with a Weighted Companion Cube in the pocket.


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In the off-season Kyle Busch received a letter at Kyle Busch Motorsports from 12 year old Kyle Savoie. In the letter Kyle tucked in his allowance of $5.00 and suggested that if other children followed his lead they could sponsor Kyle's Camping World Truck team for one race:
The message behind Kyle Savoie's letter was how dreams are important and to never give up on your dreams. He even sent us his five dollar-allowance with the letter in an effort to help support our KBM truck team. He suggested that if other kids followed his lead, they could serve as the sponsor for a race. In return, he suggested that we would put their names and school pictures on the truck. I obviously don't want kids to send us their allowances, but I loved the idea of recognizing kids for positive experiences and achievements by putting their name and picture on my truck! ~ Kyle Busch, Team Release (more…)


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Bill Dittmar of Newport News will work his third consecutive men's soccer College Cup (Final Four) this weekend, when the NCAA semifinals and final are in Hoover, Ala.
Dittmar, the longtime boys coach at Denbigh High, plans to start his 17th year as a Major League Soccer official in January.
Women's bowling:
Norfolk State junior Thea Aspiras was named the MEAC Co-Bowler of the Week after leading the Spartans to a 7-1 record at the MEAC Southern Divisional last weekend.
Aspiras and Maryland Eastern Shore's Megan Buja shared the weekly honor after the Hawks went 10-0 at the MEAC Northern Divisional.
Competing in her hometown of Chesapeake, Aspiras averaged 240.8 in four games on Saturday at the AMF Lanes. She rolled a tournament-best 257 to help No. 11-ranked NSU (25-13) close out the day at 4-0. Aspiras also competed in all four Baker games Sunday to help the Spartans finish with a 3-1 record.
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Closet Bedroom from Alvhem
Here's a good idea for small space dwellers looking for a place for a bed. In this Stockholm apartment (currently listed for sale by Alvhem estate agents) a living room closet was transformed into a second bedroom using paint, a wall-mounted bed frame, and some space-saving accessories.
Mounted to the wall, the bed frame leaves room underneath for storage baskets. A dark brown accent wall makes the space feel cozy, and two wall-mounted lamps provide enough light for reading. Against the wall, a double shelf offers just enough space for a glass of water and a book.
Although the bedroom doesn't offer much privacy, we think it's a good idea for a studio apartment or a one-bedroom that needs a guest bed.
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Never trade with money that if lost would adversely affect your life. One of the great dangers of this business is that over the years some rather unscrupulous people have portrayed foreign currency trading as a very lucrative way to turn a modest sum of money into a fortune with ease….If only you had their training or their system. "It's like having your own personal ATM machine", and other such outlandish claims of riches with ease. In fact I originally entered the Forex arena with just such beliefs. The reality is that trading foreign currencies is far from easy and is not best suited to everyone. Whilst it is possible to make a lot of money relatively quickly, it is also possible to lose part or all of your investment with the same speed.
Most people who are highly successful in any endeavour start off with a desire to do the work. As their knowledge of the subject grows, and their passion for the subject intensifies, they find that their level of success also increases.
It is rare indeed for anyone to achieve success in any field if all they entered that enterprise for was easy money. The only way to attempt to turn a modest sum of money into a large amount very quickly is to take some very big risks – not at all what Forex trading is really about. If you want to take some hefty risks, then it might be far better to go to the roulette wheel and place all of your money on Red or Black and then cross your fingers. I am not trying to persuade anyone to not trade the Forex market, but I do want you to be aware that there is considerable risk regardless of what trading system you may decide to use. On the upside, you can practice Forex trading with a demo account which is funded with "virtual money" and practice the craft in simulated real conditions. The charts will be live and real time and you can win or lose your "virtual money" in exactly the same way as if you were Forex trading for real, except that at the end of each Forex trading session you have actual not put any of your real money at risk. By practicing in this way, every "would be" Forex trader has the opportunity to see first-hand whether Forex trading would be suitable for them, and bear in mind that one's own personality, emotional control and level of self discipline will have a major impact on the way that one trades. The secret to success in this business is to have a solid and reliable system that you have learned to trust. Then you must follow it to the letter through both wins and losses, using strict money management principles, knowing that the system, over time, generally produces more and bigger wins than losses.
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The holiday shopping season is wrapping up, and poll after poll shows that consumers spent even less this year. But, despite the tight wallets, one gift category is expected to increase in sales this year: gift cards.
Holiday gift card purchases and use is on the rise, according to recent surveys by the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA) and the National Retail Federation (NRF). The NRF survey shows that 59 percent of respondents said they'd like to receive gift cards this year. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
The RGCA survey found 74 percent of respondents plan to give one or more gift cards this holiday season, and nearly 30 percent surveyed noted they planned on giving five or more gift cards. Overall, the number of gift cards consumers plan to purchase as gifts this year increased by 71 percent, according to survey results.
So why are gift cards so popular? Seventy-nine percent of consumers said they like to give gift cards because they know recipients will be able to get what they want. Additional survey results show that 70 percent prefer them for the sake of convenience. As far as types, restaurant gift cards are on top, with 57 percent of survey respondents saying they plan to give at least one this year.
"There is no longer a question that retail gift cards are the most coveted gift to give and get during the holidays, but consumers are being more deliberate about which cards they purchase, with 73 percent spending less on holiday gifts than they did last year," says Jennifer Tramontana, spokesperson for the Retail Gift Card Association.
Whatever your gift card plans this year, make sure you play it safe and follow these tips:
1. When you buy, make sure you get your gift cards from retailers you can trust, and make sure you know the policies.
2. Get a gift receipt. In the event you or your recipient lose the gift card, this will help speed up the replacement process.
3. Around the holidays, many retailers have special deals and incentives when using and buying gift cards – make sure you ask.
4. Gift cards don't have to be impersonal – combine your gift card with another small, personal gift or gift basket to give make it feel more thoughtful.
5. Most retail gift cards purchased from reputable retailers have no expiration date or fee.