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[pete]

April 14th, 1932: John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton focus a proton beam on lithium and bust its nucleus. The era of accelerator-based experimental nuclear physics is born. Ernest Rutherford, who first postulated the concept of atomic nucleus in 1910, had called for "a million volts in a soapbox" to advance nuclear research. Working in a vacant room at Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. At the heart of the Cockcroft-Walton generator, a system of capacitors and thermionic rectifiers upped the voltages to 600,000 volts. It wasn't a million volts, but it proved sufficient.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0414

 

[therealjohnny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7345486.stm

TV host Mark Speight 'found dead'






The body of a man, believed to be missing TV presenter Mark Speight, has been found in a remote area of London's Paddington station, police have said.


Officers are treating the death as "unexplained" but have confirmed that the man had not been hit by a train.
Mr Speight, 42, disappeared last Monday, three months after the death of his fiancee, Natasha Collins, in the bath of the flat they shared in London.
Miss Collins' mother was devastated at the latest news, her spokeswoman said.
She asked for Carmen Collins to be given time to grieve in peace.
The BBC released a statement saying: "This is very sad news and our thoughts and sympathies are with Mark's family and friends.
"Mark was a hugely talented and very popular presenter for many years."
Video footage
The body of the man was found at about 1000 BST at the station.
Mr Speight's relatives have been informed of the discovery, police said, but a formal identification has yet to take place.

Mr Speight said in January he was "distraught" at Miss Collins' death

Video footage from CCTV cameras at the station is to be studied by officers as part of their investigation.
The presenter, who was the host of BBC children's show SMart until February, was reported missing last Monday when he failed to meet Miss Collins' mother as arranged.
He was recorded on a security camera entering Queen's Park underground station in north-west London.
Then, 22 minutes later, he boarded a train on the Bakerloo Line, which serves Paddington.
'Fragile state'
Relatives had made a number of appeals over the past few days, with his father, Oliver, urging him to get in touch and not to "give up" during his time of grief.



Mr Speight had been arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying Class A drugs following the discovery of Miss Collins' body at their St John's Wood flat on 3 January.
No charges were brought, however.
She suffered burns on 60% of her body from boiling water and had suffered a drugs overdose after taking cocaine, sleeping pills and alcohol.
A coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure at an inquest earlier this month.

Police had released CCTV footage of Mr Speight at Queen's Park station

Speaking on behalf of Mr Speight's agent, Billy Marsh Associates, Jan Kennedy said the discovery of the body at Paddington had left the company "absolutely devastated".
"Caring and compassionate in everything he did, Mark was truly gifted in life and we are proud to have represented him as a friend and client for almost 20 years," she added.
"He was blessed with a remarkable personality, great artistic talents and the wonderful warm ability to communicate those skills with people, especially children of all ages.
"With his sensitivity of spirit, coupled with his dynamic presence and natural enthusiasm, he was loved and respected by his adoring family, friends and colleagues everywhere in the media," Ms Kennedy said.

 

[pissypants]

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[therealjohnny]

the drums...they hurt my brain

 

[magicbastarder]

Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Thandie Newton have called on the world's governments to unit and bring an end to the bloody conflict in Sudan.

As part of the fifth anniversary protests over the continuing conflict, Damon destroyed a dollhouse and child's drawings to symbolise the shattering of young lives in the region.

He says: "After the genocide in Rwanda we all said never again. Today we need to demand protection for the most vulnerable.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/?jp=mhojqlojidkf&c=entertainment

 

[flashback]

 

[ernesto]

 

[Froog]

man pays 1.5 million for tape of marilyn monroe allegedly sucking off JFK.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2273741,00.html

 

[flashback]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators

...Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

Harsh.

 

[therealjohnny]

wow

i didnt see if he had s hit in all that time though?

 

[Wheels]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators



Harsh.

Jesus, that's excruciating. Here's more of the story

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/madness-trapped-in-elevator-car-30/

epilogue:

"He went home, and then headed to a bar. He woke up to a reel of phone messages and a horde of reporters colonizing his stoop. He barely left his apartment in the ensuing days, deputizing his friends to talk to reporters through a crack in the door. White never went back to work at the magazine. Caught up in media attention, which he shunned but thrilled to, prodded by friends, and perhaps provoked by overly solicitous overtures from McGraw-Hill, White fell under the sway of renown and grievance, and then that of the legal establishment.

He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to his litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, dragged on for four years. Eventually, they settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures.


He never did learn why the elevator stopped. There was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer has his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and he’s lost all contact with his former colleagues. Now, he’s also lost his apartment, spent all of his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. White is currently unemployed."



Jaysus.

 

[therealjohnny]

 

[flashback]

wow

i didnt see if he had s hit in all that time though?

No Barrys I think.
He does have a slash against the wall I think when he opens the doors up. Smart thinking there.

Arg, being trapped in a small metal box couldn't be any worse!!!... Hmm. Ohh, waitta second... I need to have a massive shite.
Haha ha. Oh man. That would have psychological consequences.


And now he's poor and jobless. Shite.

 

[flashback]

Something about this headline cracked me up.
"Drug boat haul enough for one spliff per person in UK"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/16/drugstrade.drugsandalcohol?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

 

[Mormon Nailer]

 

[guy of the tiger]

Well......?




what is it?

 

[nofriendo]

Well......?




what is it?

its a giant lightsaber....obviously!

 

[therealjohnny]

Arg, being trapped in a small metal box couldn't be any worse!!!... Hmm. Ohh, waitta second... I need to have a massive shite.
Haha ha. Oh man. That would have psychological consequences.
.

This guy should have said "It's like this doc, I was trapped in a lift and needed to pinch one off so I took out a can and squatted over it. Next thing I knew my arse had swallowed the whole can"

Hospital in trouble over rectal surgery video

 

[guy of the tiger]

its a giant lightsaber....obviously!

ahh....

 

[guy of the tiger]

ahh....

CHOOOOOOOOO!!!!