Apart from the headphone socket, Apple's MacBook 12" has only one port for all i/o, including data & video, plus charging. Even that is the still-uncommon, USB-C.
Most users will require some sort of adapter to expand i/o. Apple has some, but unsurprisingly, they are far from inexpensive.
Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
USB-C, HDMI, USB 3.0 Credit: Apple
And, compared to the Marble USB-C docking & charging station, quite limited.
Marble USB-C docking & charging station Credit: MOFILY/Kickstarter
Compared to the nearest Apple equivalent, Marble adds:
1 more USB-C port
1 more USB 3.0 port
microSD card reader
60 Watt AC power adapter
10.5 Watt charging for your phone or other mobile device (x2)
Marble can also charge &/or expand the functionality of other devices, including laptops, phones & tablets.
Also available is the Marble DCS2 which replaces the full size HDMI port with micro HDMI & Mini DisplayPort.
Marble is not much larger than an Apple power adapter Credit: MOFILY/Kickstarter
More about the Marble USB-C docking & charging station on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2121748736/marble-a-portable-2-in-1-usb-c-docking-and-chargin?ref=nav_search/ Marble portable USB-C docking charging station Apple MacBook 12 inch expand USB-C HDMI DisplayPort USB USB-C USB A microSD charge 4x devices simultaneously built-in 60W AC 12" MacBook XPS13 9350 laptops new powerful USB Type-C port computer power data transfer input output i/o wired single USB-C port single port Marble ultra-portable 2-in-1 docking charging station designed work with USB-C devices Apple’s new 12-inch Macbook Dell XPS 13 9350 Samsung TabPro S Huawei Matebook Chromebook Pixel Marble’s port expansion function devices USB 3.1 port charging function USB 3.1 devices charging voltage device voltages: 5V 9V 12V 14.5V 19V Marble disabled charging function third-party chargers HP Spectre X2 Marble compact connect multiple devices USB-C ported laptop Macbook Dell XPS13-9450 Samsung TabPro S Huawei Matebook USB 3.0 high-speed ports 2 USB-C ports MSD 4.0 microSD card reader monitor extension ports HDMI Mini Displayport Marble 60W AC adapter chargers adapters smartphone tablet other devices Marble Marble charge USB-C port laptop devices AC outlet Marble multifunctional hub laptop power supply USB ports automatically switch from AC to laptop total maximum power output of 5V 1.5A USB bc1.2 specifications travel companion connecting laptop Marble much more powerful charger /
Shortly after the shut down of its last coal fired power station, South Australia’s electricity was being supplied by a mix of gas, wind & solar Credit: Renew Economy – reneweconomy.com.au
South Australia's last coal-fired power station was shut down at 09:40 on Monday 09 May, South Australian Local Time.
From my observations, "NEM Time", used in the "Live Generation" feed, is Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) +4 minutes to -1 minute. E.g. "10:20 (NEM Time)", in the diagram at the top, means between 10:16 & 10:21 AEST. / last coal-fired power generator South Australia switched off 520MW MW mega Watt Northern brown coal power generator last coal fired power station South Australia switched off last time Monday morning decarbonised grid Port Augusta switched Alinta Energy generation falling wholesale power prices renewable energy wind solar graph RenewEconomy Live Generation widget coal power station closed down coal-fired generator replaced by solar power strong community support 110MW solar tower storage facility built Coalition Labor indicated interest supporting solar tower technology growing need dispatchable generation wind solar PV rise above 50 per cent Port Augusta Mayor Sam Johnson Upper Spencer Gulf transform renewable resource centre tender South Australian government low-carbon technology solar tower contract existing gas-fired generation withdrawal last coal-fired generator loss of grid stability soaring power prices Australian Energy Market Operator no increased risk to reliability equipment failure gas-fired generator did not follow market instructions scare campaigns power pricing locking in high-priced contracts local retailers customers are paying twice what they need to pay price of electricity wholesale market $200/MWh jumps were replicated in most states National Electricity Market traders outages coal fired generation on maintenance 2,000MW Liddell coal plant in NSW offline for two months boiler tube leaks South Australia pricing more volatile withdrawal Alinta market dominated two major generation companies AGL Energy GDF Suez more than 60 per cent market share Australian Energy Regulator strategic bidding surges in spot prices market /
Many people who lose weight by dieting, find that they later gain it back. In some cases, ultimately reaching a weight greater than before the diet.
Commonly, this is attributed to the dieter returning to their pre-diet eating habits.
The item linked below paints a more complex picture:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-cant-lose-weight-on-a-diet.html?_r=0/ yoyo dieting yo-yo dieting dropping 129 pounds The Biggest Loser a new study reports participants burning about 500 fewer calories a day other people their age and size helps explain regained 70 percent of their lost weight diet industry reacted defensively participants lost weight too fast ate the wrong kinds of food diets do work study research in the long run dieting is rarely effective doesn’t reliably improve health does more harm than good problem neuroscience metabolic suppression several powerful tools brain uses keep the body within a certain weight range set point range varies from person to person determined by genes and life experience dieters’ weight drops burn fewer calories produce more hunger-inducing hormones find eating more rewarding brain’s weight-regulation system your set point correct weight for you 120 pounds drops to 80 starvation state of emergency get that weight back up to normal diets down Biggest Loser participants coordinated brain response dieters weight loss hard to achieve maintain severe obesity normal weight range severely obese women gaining the weight back over the next five years diet industry weight loss rarely sustained diet achieve permanent weight loss Biggest Loser diet plan previous study metabolic suppression had lost weight and kept it off for up to six years weight is lost slowly or quickly later regain different approaches diet plans provide the same calories different types of food similar weight loss and regain neuroscientist brain’s ability to fight weight loss experience my normal weight my goal maintaining that weight started gaining long-term studies dieters non-dieters obese men and women across ethnic groups childhood through middle age normal weight range female dieters experts argue dieting long-term weight gain genetically prone to gain weight more likely to diet test study researchers twins aged 16 to 25 dieters were more likely to gain weight non-dieting identical twins increase weight gain accounting for genetic background difference in weight gain fraternal twins dieters higher genetic tendency to gain weight study diet increased the odds of becoming overweight men women diets study likely to become overweight causal relationship diets weight gain tested by studying people external motivation lose weight boxers and wrestlers diet qualify for their weight classes genetic predisposition toward obesity 2006 study elite athletes weight-conscious sports three times more likely to be obese competed in other sports test rigorously researchers program weight randomized trial eBody Project online program to fight eating disorders less dieting prevented future weight gain program weight remain stable over the next two years peers intervention gained a few pounds dieting lead to weight gain dieting is stressful calorie restriction produces stress hormones act on fat cells increase the amount of abdominal fat fat is associated with medical problems diabetes heart disease overall weight weight anxiety dieting binge eating weight gain dieters early adolescence become overweight study adolescent girls who dieted frequently non-dieters binge repeated dieting research predict graduate school stress binge eating carton of ice cream box of saltines with butter urge to keep eating intense made myself sick stress out of control binge eating common mammalian response to starvation understand about weight regulation studies of rodents whose eating habits resemble ours mice and rats tasty food plentiful gain different amounts of weight genes that influence weight in people similar effects in mice stress rodents eat more sweet and fatty foods both laboratory and wild rodents have become fatter over the past few decades laboratory rodents learn to binge when deprivation alternates with tasty food dieters rats develop binge eating five days of food restriction followed by two days of free access to Oreos brief stressor eat almost twice as much stressor diets restricted binge on regular chow repeated food deprivation changes dopamine neurotransmitters in the brain govern how animals respond to rewards increases motivation seek out and eat food animals binge brain changes can last long after the diet is over dieting reduces influence brain’s weight-regulation system rules hunger to control eating modern environment marketers advertising supersizing all-you-can-eat buffet long-term dieters eat for emotional reasons because food is available dieters ignored their hunger exhaust their willpower leading to weight gain difficulty of long-term weight loss dieting health problems obesity heart disease diabetes our culture obesity uniquely deadly low fitness smoking high blood pressure low income loneliness better predictors early death obesity exercise study low fitness deaths obesity accounts fitness exercise reduces abdominal fat improves health weight loss overweight people exercising calorie restriction evidence dieting improves health sustain weight loss for years 2013 study obese overweight people diabetes dieters maintained 6 percent weight loss dieters heart attacks strokes deaths from heart disease control group researchers intentional weight loss no effect on mortality overweight diabetics followed for 19 years diets improve cholesterol blood sugar other health markers short term gains may changes in behavior like exercising eating more vegetables obese people exercise eat enough vegetables don’t smoke die young normal-weight people meta-analysis results of multiple studies health improvements dieters amount of weight they lose diet dieting mindful eating paying attention signals of hunger and fullness judgment relearn eat brain’s weight regulation weight-regulation system commands chronic dieters eat when they’re hungry stop when they’re full less likely to become overweight more stable weight over time spend less time thinking about food mindful eating people with eating disorders binge eating learn to eat normally individual’s set point mindful eating reduce weight powerful tool maintain weight stability deprivation dieting happier dieting daily habits exercise meditation enjoy food worrying about it less /
Biography http://www.biography.com/people/david-attenborough/ BBC1 BBC2 landmark birthday Sir David Attenborough national treasure maintains his passion for work great natural history presenter Attenborough programmes BBC1 documentaries documentary national treasure TV image infectious laughter never meet your heroes charismatic compelling charming geriatric moments celebrate his birthday his famous voice space explorer specimens absolutely riveted by them land on the moon amazing new flowers strange little worm world of television listens intently yet politely to your thoughts superb communicator still fired up by the same tremendous curiosity powered his career the last seven decades contagious lust for life his trademark passion shows no sign of waning stellar career he continues to be commendably modest and grateful opportunities Sir David Attenborough Sir David Attenborough Sir David Attenborough Greatest Living British Icon viewers BBC2 The Culture Show play golf I’m fantastically lucky I’m more grateful than I can say that people still want me to do things presenting his first natural history programme program Zoo Quest Sir David Attenborough documentaries inspire successive generations his fans President Obama invited to the White House interview Sir David Attenborough future of the planet watching Attenborough documentaries Sir David Attenborough his magnetic sense of wonder the natural world how amazingly big unpredictable the natural world is the natural world complexity of the natural world behaviour of pufferfish and peacock spiders always new things to find out nine seasons of the landmark Life series the power of television to educate inform and entertain natural history filmmakers natural world is unbelievably amazing unimaginably varied quite beyond our comprehension over half of the human race is now urbanised we’re out of touch with nature our comprehension of the animal kingdom biological concepts altruism evolution environmental issues making impassioned and influential speech at the UN conference on climate change in Paris we are completely dependent on the natural world people have to change their behaviour what goes on in the natural world embrace conservation causes overwhelming evidence about climate change effect on the climate you have to look at the evidence and make a stand make more documentaries Planet Earth 2 BBC1’s you never tire of the natural world /
See in the dark? Not quite, but ISO 4,560,000 gives Canon’s ME20F-SH enough sensitivity to take video by starlight or the light from a single fire-fly.
Looks like a development of the sensor used to shoot the video above, has finally made its way into production.
Sensor in Canon’s ME20F-SH is around the size of a full-frame 35 mm sensor, but because the pixel count is smaller, each individual pixel is over 7.5 times larger & so able to gather much more light Credit: vidmuze.com
http://www.vidmuze.com/how-the-canon-me20f-sh-sees-in-the-dark// ISO 409,600 sensitivity see in the dark Canon’s latest high-end video camera ME20F-SH shoot a scene close to pitch black record full-res HD video camera 4,560,000 ISO light a portrait light emitted by a single firefly Canon camera’s remarkable low-light capabilities sensor’s 19-micron pixels 19-micron pixel 19 micron pixel HUGE two and four times the size pixels most other cameras more water light size of the pixels Canon full-frame sensor 1080p image shoot in 4K gets downsized to 1080p higher-res option ME20F-SH costs $20,000 for just the body no internal recorder viewfinder battery mount dope metal box new sensor Canon’s releasing kit heavy price tag pick and choose various components low-light camera Sony A7S II shot some head-to-head footage capturing the same scene same light well-built well built ME20F-SH entire body is all metal incredibly sturdy built-in neutral density filters infrared cut filter 2x and 4x teleconverter cine-style lock mount for lenses two HD-SDI ports great images in daylight serious filmmaking weighs only 2.4 pounds bit larger 4-inch cube sleek and light cube design various mounting points MOVI drone shape and space camera film northern lights bioluminescent creatures underwater dimly lit tunnels cities forests dark side of the moon ME20F-SH /
Does anyone actually believe that the skin is exempt from the damage that smoking causes to every other part of the body?
In the LifeHacker article below, some mention is made of e-cigarettes – implication being that they represent a way to avoid the damage to the skin caused by smoking. Point to note – it is the nicotine in cigarettes that causes skin damage (see the Mayo Clinic article below). Thus, while e-cigarettes are probably less of a threat to health than tobacco cigarettes, & may be of use in quitting, they are not a way to avoid damage to the skin.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/expert-answers/smoking/faq-20058153/ smoker smoking hot cigarettes age you prematurely will smoking really ruin my good looks whiten teeth professionally problem smoking is bad for me quit friends most of them are smokers socially easy inexpensive way to quit Miss Marlboro smoking stupid filthy expensive dangerous habit everyone around you at risk allow smoking enclosed public spaces federal law health of hospitality workers patrons convenience of smokers it’s good that you want to quit smoking is a self-destructive waste of money benefit social tough anti-smoking legislation improving your overall health reducing the risk of cancer giving up smoking definitely help to maintain your good looks recent study compared appearance 79 identical twins did and didn’t smoke graded for wrinkles Lemperle Assessment Scale twins’ environmental aging factors controlled Mann-Whitney test sunscreen use alcohol intake perceived work stress smoking twins looked significantly older identical genetic makeup smoking twins compared nonsmoking counterparts worse scores upper eyelid skin redundancy lower lid bags malar bags nasolabial folds upper lip wrinkles lower lip vermillion wrinkles jowls lower lid hyperpigmentation in the smoking group statistical significance transverse forehead wrinkles glabellar wrinkles crow’s feet lower lip lines accentuated by puckering statistically significant differences in scores greater 5 years’ difference in smoking duration twins who had smoked longer had worse scores lower lid bags malar bags lower lip vermillion wrinkles smoking affects middle lower thirds of the face cause noticeable differences in facial ageing make you look old before your time beauty youthfulness smoking hot extra wrinkles around the eyes look younger health to consider tobacco smoke toxic chemicals carbon monoxide cyanide carcinogens smoking one of the leading causes of preventable death globally female smokers lose an average 14.5 years total life expectancy non-smokers lung throat mouth cancer linked to heart attacks strokes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease emphysema fatal diseases quitting is a smart choice cold turkey required discipline willpower cut down in a consistent limited way bad habits reduce the habit reduce the variability in the habit effort toward self-control decrease in bad habits over time limiting cigarettes electronic cigarettes e-cigarettes helping people quit safe lungs tobacco smoke apps help quit smoking Quitbuddy Australian National Preventive Health Agency set goals highlight danger times read messages of encouragement friends and family hypnotherapist quitting tips /
Samsung T3 Portable SSD with a smartphone. Note USB-C socket. Credit: Photography Life
You may have read about the Samsung T1 Portable SSD on these pages some time ago. My final advice was to wait for the USB-C version – which has appeared in the form of the Samsung T3 Portable SSD – now including a 2 TB version.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-portable-ssd-t3-review/ fast small cheap pick two technology products portable hard drives Samsung’s new portable SSD solid state drive T1 faster fastest mechanical hard drive USB flash drive smaller portable hard cheap expensive Samsung T1 portable hard drive extended credit card shape portable mechanical hard drive laptop-grade solid state drive smaller than credit card smaller than the Seagate Seven engineering marvel Samsung T1 850 Evo solid state drives 850 Pro first portable SSD market Sandisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 traditional USB thumb drive T1 USB 3.0 flash drive blistering fast speeds 625MBps maximum SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard reach speeds 450MBps read write Samsung real world testing 250GB 500GB 1TB capacities a dollar per gigabyte for 250GB 500GB 1TB Samsung 5-inch microUSB 3.0 to USB 3.0 cable T1’s packaging three-year limited warranty expected service life laptop desktop PC setup software out of the box partition first boot up the T1 format for either Windows or Mac OS X fast flash drive Sandisk Extreme PRO Lexar Jumpdrive P10 benchmark benchmarked Samsung’s TurboWrite software firmware layer initially safe file transfers fastest flash segments distributing data single layer T1’s flash memory maximum speed moves files buffer slower larger capacity memory segments background real world test Samsung Portable SSD T1 average write speed read speed Samsung T1 Portable SSD encryption Windows Mac OS X PC initial software setup AES 256-bit encryption encryption strong your password your password security procedures secure portable hard drive most important files T1’s design dimensions smoothly rounded shape super small storage plug it into your PC included short-length microUSB 3.0 cable T1 Samsung SSD support Samsung’s Magician management software doesn’t support the RAPID performance-boosting mode Magician 850 Pro 850 Evo RAPID caches data system RAM transferring it back and forth improving small medium-size transfers portable drive USB 3.0 interface TRIM isn’t supported Windows Mac OS X not issuing TRIM commands USB 3.0 interface Samsung developing brute-force workaround SSD’s drive performance taper off as it gets full garbage collection a tiny bit slower over time T1 portable Windows boot drive password software T1 SSD Windows PC Mac log in unlock your hard drive encrypt your data external mass storage device hanging off a router password feature Samsung T1 solid state drive drives more expensive per gigabyte comparable performance USB thumb drive storage lowest cost-per-gigabyte flash drive solid state drive small enough as fast as the best SSDs initial price tiny USB storage drive ridiculously fast transfer speeds Samsung Portable SSD T1 /
