At precisely 13:13, a boy aged 13 was seen by the St John Ambulance team at Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival in Suffolk after he was struck by lightning, a spokesman said.

The boy suffered a minor burn and was taken to James Paget Hospital, where he is expected to make a full recovery.

Mariah Carey, Daughtry among headline acts for S’pore F1
By Satish Cheney | Posted: 11 August 2010 1805 hrs

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SINGAPORE : This year’s F1 night race in Singapore will see a star-studded line-up, including Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott, Daughtry and Adam Lambert.

They will be appearing on a mega stage at the Padang.

Joining them will be ‘old-school’ R&B singer and Grammy Award winner Raphael Saadiq, as well as singer-rapper Sean Kingston, who will be performing in other stages across the Circuit Park.

Fans of electro house music can also look forward to a world-renowned remix maestro with “Zouk presents - DJ Tiga”.

F1 fans can also expect adrenaline-charged performances from the Freestyle Trials Bikers and Brazil! Brazil!, the spectacular Italian showcases from Studio Festi and DIV4S as well as the testosterone-fuelled Chippendales.

Altogether, there will be over 300 performers spread across 10 stages throughout the Circuit Park.

Michael Roche, executive director, Singapore GP, said: “The entire Circuit Park is being transformed into an urban street party. The headliners on the Padang are just the start of the story.

“We have over 300 performers as part of a diverse mix, ranging from international deejays to aerial theatrical performances and from opera to even a Brazilian martial arts troupe. There truly is something for everyone on the 10 stages and in every part of the Circuit Park.”

Patrons can now choose to purchase either a three-day pass (starting from S$188) or a single-day ticket to catch the wide repertoire of acts at the Marina Bay Street Circuit from September 24 to 26.

Singapore GP will be releasing single-day Zone 4 walkabout tickets priced at S$38 for Friday (September 24), S$108 for Saturday (September 25) and S$128 for Sunday (September 26) from 9am on August 12.

- CNA/al

 

Using 35 years of Google-donated CPU time, a team of researchers found that every possible configuration of the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. Personally, I’ve almost got all the yellows on one side.

That’s right: every one of the Rubik’s Cube’s 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions can be solved in 20 moves or less.

That figure—the maximum number of moves it takes to solve the Cube using the most efficient algorithms possible—is called God’s Number. In 1981, it was thought to be as high as 52. By 2005 it was at 28. And now, using a program that can solve the Cube in 20 seconds over 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, it’s been proven to be exactly 20.

Of course, for the true Cube-heads, there’s plenty of interesting math behind the discovery. For the rest of us, there’s just the nagging knowledge that we’ve gone about 400 rotations too far. [Cube 20 via Slashdot]