hey peeps. i know this is short notice, but for anyone who can get to sheffield tomorrow night a new monthly goth/alt night is starting up. the bands confirmed for this months gig are http://www.myspace.com/tarana77 and http://www.myspace.com/silverwheeluk with DJ Banshee playing sets in-between. the event is at http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Sheffield/The-Stockroom/ which is 5 minuets walk from the train station near the Leadmill. the night starts at 8pm and goes on till late. it will be £3 on the door to cover the bands costs and all are welcome. the beer is cheap and the staff are friendly. it would be good to see some o;d friends again and hopefully make some more. phone for more info on 07747183106 or 07927047539.

A prehistoric complex, including two 6,000-year-old tombs, has been discovered by archaeologists in Hampshire.

The Neolithic tombs, which until now had gone unnoticed under farmland despite being just 15 miles from Stonehenge, are some of the oldest monuments to have been found in Britain.

Archaeologists say they will hold valuable clues about how people lived at the time and what their environment was like.

The discovery is also close to Cranborne Chase, one of the most well researched prehistoric areas in Europe.

“It’s one of the most famous prehistoric landscapes, a Mecca for prehistorians, and you would have thought the archaeological world would have gone over it with a fine tooth comb,” Dr Helen Wickstead, the Kingston University archaeologist leading the project, said.

From examining similar sites, archaeologists know that complex burial rituals were common at the time. Typically bodies would be left in the open air until the flesh had decayed, leaving only a skeleton. Then bones were put in special arrangements in the tombs.

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“The tombs were like bone homes for important people in the community,” Dr Wickstead said.

The tombs were discovered by Damian Grady, an English Heritage photographer, who flew over the area in a light aircraft taking aerial photographs of the land, looking for marks or features on the landscape suggestive of ancient monuments. One photograph showed two long mounds.

After discussions with colleagues, Mr Grady was left in little doubt that the mounds were the site of ancient tombs. He contacted Dr Wickstead inviting her to investigate.

After carrying out a survey of the land using electromagnetic detectors and ultrasound, Dr Wickstead created a map of what lay beneath the fields. She was able to identify the two tombs with troughs on each side, known as long barrows, typical of Neolithic burial sites.

Her team was also found artefacts, including fragments of pottery, flint and stone tools, close to the surface.

So far Dr Wickstead’s team have only used non-invasive techniques to figure out what lies inside the tombs, which are located on the land of a local female farmer.

Because the original surface of the land has been preserved beneath the mound, scientists will be able to examine it for traces of pollen and identify which plants and trees were common at the time.

Whether they are excavated will depend on local feeling, she says.

“We’re treading very carefully on the excavation issue,” Dr Wickstead said.

“We want to be sure that it’s what people living in Damerham village want. It’s their heritage.”

The Kingston University team are due to publish preliminary findings of their research in the journal Hampshire Studies.

Federal Debt Approaches 100% of GDP

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Even when The End of the American Century went to press in early 2008, the U.S. federal debt was reaching alarming levels, and was a central element of my forecasts of U.S. economic decline. At that point, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget projected the gross federal debt to expand to $10.6 trillion by 2009, constituting 72% of GDP.

Since then, the federal red ink has become a tidal wave. The OMB now expects the debt at the end of this year to be $12.7 trillion, and to expand to over $15 trillion by 2011, which would then be (at 97% of GDP) almost as large as the entire economy (see chart).

David Leonhardt of the New York Times, one of the few economists to have been tracking and raising concerns about the deficits, writes that erasing the deficits “will be one of the great political issues of the coming decade.” In his article “Sea of Red Ink” in the June 10 issue, he reports on a New York Times analysis of the composition of the debt accumulation over the last decade, “with the aim of understanding how the federal government came to be far deeper in debt than it has been since the years just after World War II.”

The analysis finds that the growth in the federal debt since 2001 comes from four main sources. The first, the business cycle (especially the 2001 recession and the current downturn) is the largest component, accounting for 37%. Another 33% of the recent debt comes from legislation signed by President Bush, including his tax cuts. Another 20% derives from President Obama’s continuation of several Bush policies, including spending on the Iraq War and the Wall Street bailouts. Only about 10% comes from new Obama policies, including the stimulus bill, and news spending on health care, education, energy and other areas.

Leonhardt sees little hope that the Obama administration can reduce or eliminate the deficits with “pay-as-you-go” government spending plans. The solution, he writes, “is no mystery” and involves inevitable tax increases and government spending cuts. These are political tinderboxes, of course, and pose a huge challenge to President Obama’s leadership skills.

{{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/z_UKfsWBWSE&hl=en&fs=1&co everybody its me again with yet another black hole. Ive not posted a black hole for a while but with the aver popular Download Festival, and for the first time in the UK the Sonisphere festival coming up i thought that t was about time i shared with u all the most perfect playlist the world has ever seen and show u some musick vids for my personal favarots. so off we go in no particular orderlets go...

Metallica, bullet for my valentine, linkin park, avanged sevenfold, airborne, silverstien, Atreyu, nightwish, nickelback, manowar, good charlotte, bloodpit, breaking benjamin, slipknot, marilyn manson, pendulum, dragonforce, papa roach, trivium, seether, iron maiden, 30 seconds to mars, lostprophets, tenacious D, Chris Cornell, apocaliptica, funeral for a friend, bullets and octane

hope u all like at least one of these bands. have a look at the music vids if u r interested.

THANKS FOR CHEKIN OUT BLACK HOLE

Here we are

wasn't going to put rod stewart up here

Hey guyyyyssss

 

 

so, yeah

You guys DEFINATLY need to check out a band called the Mars Volta

I'm at school right now so i can't post a link or anything, but I got to thinking about it and you're just the kinda people who could apriciate them

hey hey houdy helloooooo and welcome to yet another black hole in which i spend my childhood.... wow what am i thinking. anyway todays black hole is one that i like to call Atreyu this band isnt exactly the most well nown band in the world but they sure know how to rock       anyway enough from me and now to the band themselvevs..... i give you Atreyu  

tuesdays stress on thursday would like to introduce you to Vaults

 

hope you enjoy :)