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Authorities issue warning as young girls vanish during 'cutting season'

Victoria Craw | News.com.au | 3 August 2015

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EVERY year around June, thousands of [mud] girls disappear from homes and schools for extended holidays never to return the same again.

It's a part of the annual "cutting season" where girls younger than 15 are sent to visit relatives only to have their genitalia mutilated using knives, scissors or pieces of glass and sometimes sewn up using thorns.

Now a new report on female genital mutilation (FGM) shows just how widespread the practice is with victims in every county across the UK.

Equality Now's Program Officer for Sexual Violence and Trafficking Anber Raz said while it's virtually impossible to get a handle on exact numbers due to secrecy surrounding it, there is no doubt it's happening to young girls today despite moves to ban the brutal practice.

"Summer generally is what they call the cutting season which also means that people have often taken girls abroad in the summer holidays to have this done," she told news.com.au.

"Of course we expected urban areas to have a high prevalence but we didn't expect it to be literally in every authority across England and Wales."

The report showed nearly five per cent of women in London's Southwark are effected by FGM, with highest estimates outside London found in Manchester, Slough, Bristol, Leicester and Birmingham.

It comes as he UK's International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone warned people to watch for young girls that went missing if they suspect if could be happening to them.

"This is everyone's problem. If a Londoner was concerned about a neighbour and a child ... she or he should have no hesitation in taking that to an authority," she told The Evening Standard.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can range from cutting off the clitoris to a process known as infibulation — where all external genitalia is removed and two sides of the vulva are sewn together. It's often done without anaesthetic as a rite of passage or form of sexual control rather than linked to a specific religion.

It's estimated there are between 100 million to 140 million victims around the world with rates up to 90 per cent in parts of Africa. It can have severe and lifelong consequences including chronic infections, pain and difficulty with sex and childbirth for life. The number of women who die is unknown.

In Australia, the NSW Government has taken a tough approach in cracking down on FGM, last year increasing the maximum penalty for performing the procedure from seven to 21 years.

It has also become a criminal act to take a girl out of NSW to undergo FGM, closing a loophole that previously let people avoid charges if they had taken their child overseas.

Despite this, a handful of people in NSW have faced court over the practice, including a Sydney father who had his then nine-month-old baby daughter circumcised while abroad in February 2012.

Immigrant Women's Health Service chief executive Dr Eman Sharobeem said it's virtually impossible to know how prevalent it is but she wouldn't be surprised if it's happening here.

"It's happened before and there's nothing from stopping it from happening again," she told news.com.au. "And in most of the cases it is actually the woman in the family who will take her daughter to undergo such a practice.

"They have many excuses: it's our culture, it will control her ability to have sex before marriage, we can protect her from her own desires, it is actually a part of being hygienic — there are many arguments around it."

Her clinic is focused on educating people about the dangers before it's done and she wants education embedded in the school curriculum so young girls can learn to say no.

"But this must happen on a primary school level because the primary school age is when the girls are taken for this barbaric practice," she said.

"And it is a barbaric practice. When you are cutting part of a human being without their permission and without their understanding of what's happening to them, this is a horrific act against humans ... Unless we have someone dobbing other people into the authorities we wouldn't know how many cases are out there."

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although the planet weighs the same as Earth, it is 60 percent larger in diameter, meaning that it must have a very thick gaseous atmosphere.

"This planet might have the same mass as Earth, but it is certainly not Earth-like," said David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It proves that there is no clear dividing line between rocky worlds like Earth and fluffier planets like water worlds or gas giants."

The team gleaned the planet's characteristics using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft. KOI-314c orbits a dim red dwarf star located approximately 200 light-years away. It circles its star every 23 days. The team estimates its temperature to be 220° Fahrenheit (100° Celsius), too hot for life as we know it.

KOI-314c is only 30 percent denser than water. This suggests that the planet is enveloped by a significant atmosphere of hydrogen and helium hundreds of miles thick. It might have begun life as a mini-Neptune and lost some of its atmospheric gases over time, boiled off by the intense radiation of its star.

Weighing such a small planet was a challenge. Conventionally, astronomers measure the mass of an exoplanet by measuring the tiny wobbles of the parent star induced by the planet's gravity. This radial velocity method is extremely difficult for a planet with Earth's mass. The previous record holder for a planet with a measured mass — Kepler-78b — weighed 70 percent more than Earth.

To weigh KOI-314c, the team relied on a different technique known as transit timing variations (TTV). This method can only be used when more than one planet orbits a star. The two planets tug on each other, slightly changing the times that they transit their star.

"Rather than looking for a wobbling star, we essentially look for a wobbling planet," said David Nesvorny of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas. "Kepler saw two planets transiting in front of the same star over and over again. By measuring the times at which these transits occurred very carefully, we were able to discover that the two planets are locked in an intricate dance of tiny wobbles, giving away their masses."

The second planet in the system, KOI-314b, is about the same size as KOI-314c but significantly denser, weighing about four times as much as Earth. It orbits the star every 13 days, meaning it is in a 5-to-3 resonance with the outer planet.

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http://wakeup-world.com/2013/12/16/dna-evidence-debunks-the-out-of-africa-theory-of-human-evolution/

By Steven Strong  | Wake Up World | 16th December 2013

Scientific evidence refuting the theory of modern humanity's African genesis is common knowledge among those familiar with the most recent scientific papers on the human Genome, Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomes. Regrettably, within mainstream press and academia circles, there seems to be a conspicuous – and dare we say it – deliberate vacuum when it comes to reporting news of these recent studies and their obvious implications.

This article was inspired by a comment made recently by Australian historian Greg Jefferys. So before continuing a scientific assessment of DNA evidence, I will first open this discussion by outlining Greg Jefferys' comments.

The whole 'Out of Africa' myth has its roots in the mainstream academic campaign in the 1990′s to remove the concept of Race. When I did my degree they all spent a lot of time on the 'Out of Africa' thing but it's been completely disproved by genetics. Mainstream still hold on to it.

It did begin the early 90's. And the academics most responsible for cementing both the Out-of Africa theory and the complementary common ancestral African mother – given the name of "Eve" – in the public arena and nearly every curriculum, were Professors Alan C. Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann. In their defense, the authors of this paper were fully aware that genealogy is not in any way linked to geography, and that their placement of Eve in Africa was an assumption, never an assertion. In their seminal paper The Recent African Genesis of Humans, they even stipulated "that all humans today can be traced along maternal lines of descent to a woman who lived about 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa."

So how is it that their "probably" has morphed into our collective "definitely"?

Over time, even the two researchers came to discover that the research of Original Mitochondrial DNA was fundamentally flawed. Both separately conducted further tests on Mitochondrial DNA found within the blood of full-descent Original people, arriving at the same conclusion, both recanted their previous assumptions by acknowledging that Homo sapien sapiens originated in Australia.

Professor Alan Wilson came to Australia in 1987 and 1989 to personally supervise the collection of Original blood from a variety of locations throughout Australia. With a mutation rate of 70% from the samples analysed, which is manifestly higher than any other race, Wilson was compelled to admit that:

... it seems too far out to admit, but while Homo erectus was muddling along in the rest of the world, a few erectus had got to Australia and did something dramatically different – not even with stone tools – but it is here that Homo sapiens emerged and evolved.

Rebecca Cann was more expansive and specific in declaring that the Original "Mitochondrial DNA puts the origin of Homo Sapiens much further back and indicates that the Australian Aborigines arose 400,000 years ago from two distinct lineages, far earlier than any other racial group." The notions of a "far earlier" time frame when estimating when, and the existence of "two lineages" in Australia when grappling with who, are constant themes that can be found within many other reports investigating the make up of the genes and chromosomes of Homo sapien sapiens.

The very recent mapping of the Original Genome only reinforces the stance taken by both Cann and Wilson twenty years earlier, and highlights the inconsistencies and illogicality of any and every Out-of-Africa theory. A Danish genetic research team, led by Dr. Eske Willerslev, found that Original people came into existence at least 70,000 years ago, 40,000 years before both the European and Asian race first appeared. They assumed that because Africans made their way across the entire Asian continent and never stopped or settled, and remained in transit until reaching Australia "some 50,000 years ago." Once ensconced in this foreign land where they managed to keep "the whole continent to themselves without admitting any outsiders", their genes should be very African.

The problem being, as they openly admit, such a premise is "based on a mixture of statistics and best guesses", and more importantly as Wilson and Cann came to realise, "we really can't put geography in there." Granted, they did concede that "the Aborigine occupation of Australia presents a series of puzzles" and especially so in relation to "the nature of their stone tools found in Australia" which "are much simpler than the Upper Paleolithic tools... at the same era." Professor Richard Klien (Paleoanthropologist Stanford University) highlighted the contradictory nature of the stone tool technology in Australia when observing that "I don't understand why they looked so primitive."

Basically this means that the people who invented and sailed the first boat capable of carrying many people over 100 kilometres of open sea, regressed markedly in technology once arriving on these new shores. Or perhaps in ancient days until quite recent times, no-one ever sailed to, but from, Australia, which would explain why the Original technology was so unlike anything outside their home base.

Noted by Dr. Savolainen from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, even the arrival of the only dog to reach Australia until the British invasion is an "enigma".

I would humbly suggest that proclaiming any genetic absolutes, when dealing with Australian history, is risky business and best left to the Original Elders.

What only complicates the convenient versions of history is the totally unexpected addition to the ever-expanding hominid family: the Denisovans. Just after the release of a paper on the mapping of the Original Genome from a piece of hair collected 100 years ago, the first news of a new species of hominid – called the Denisovans – reached the public arena. All evidence found – especially in relation to the mtDNA extracted from the little finger of a Denisovan woman believed to be 80,000 years old – widens the geographic boundaries and time-scales of this recurring "enigma". First and foremost, the resulting mtDNA of this sub-species of modern humans was compared against every race and tribe on the planet, and the closest genetic match was, as we would have predicted, the Australian Original people.

Thirty thousand years before the first Africans supposedly entered Australia, Original, not African, genes turn up in Siberia. The real issue at stake is that the Denosovans are considered a lesser species of early human, placed somewhere below Neanderthals, while the Original people, according to every model, are fully Homo sapien sapiens. So how is it possible that this regression took place? And did so, so far from home?

Some commentators proposed that this contact was not due to Original people sailing from Australia, but the Denisovans sailing to Australia. But alas, to for the Denisovans to have done so is in opposition to every accredited theory on the rise of Homo sapien sapiens, where they alone mastered the art of sailing to other continents in numbers large enough to genetically sustain their founding populations. Apparently, the Denisovans, who are well down the Hominid tree, were able to communicate, construct a boat of sizeable proportions, and navigate a successful voyage of thousands of kilometers on the open seas. This hypothesis just doesn't make sense. What does sound more logical was that Homo sapiens were actually sailing from Australia and bestowing wisdom, culture and genes, with the Denisovans gratefully receiving all of these gifts.

Now the plot thickens and unravels.

An article in the New York Times on 4th December 2013 lays claim to a "baffling 400,000 year old clue to human origins". On this occasion, humanity's indirect ancestry was traced back to Spain during pre-Homo sapien sapiens times, and once again Denisovan genes are at play. So it appears the same hominid who is most closely linked to the Original genes of Australia was wandering around the Spanish countryside some 400,000 years ago, well before any African Homo sapien could be claimed to have stepped in, on or outside African soil.

"Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans' biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries". The femur bone found in cave was analysed by Dr. Matthias Meyer (geneticist Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). When Meyer and his colleagues "drilled into the femur, they found ancient human DNA inside, just as they hoped".

But past this point, nothing went according to their script. Much to their surprise, the DNA they recovered – the oldest yet by over 100,000 years – "most closely resembles DNA from an enigmatic lineage of humans known as Denisovans", originally thought to be 80,000 years old and confined to the Northern Asian region. This finding was the cause of great consternation. "Everyone had a hard time believing it at first" Dr. Meyer said. "So we generated more and more data to nail it down". Not surprisingly, their further research only confirmed the original results.

As Meyer quite rightly observed: "right now, we've basically generated a big question mark".

As was the case with the Genome studies of Original hair, "the new finding is hard to reconcile with the [accepted] picture of human evolution". None of what they found fits into any traditional version of human ascension, and according to Dr. Luis Asauaga (Paleoanthropologist, Universdad Complutense de Madrid) this discovery demands that "we have to rethink the whole story".

And that last statement by Dr. Asauaga really sums up the case for the entire Out-of-Africa theory: it is a "story", it was never a fact. From the very beginning it was always a "probably" at best. But this is only one half of the story... all of the evidence we have presented relates to women's side of the genetic pool, and until the male's Y-Chromosome is factored into this ancient narrative, any "rethink" of the "whole story" is incomplete.

What really does reinforce Greg Jeffreys' contention that the genetic evidence is in stark contradiction to any Out-of-Africa theory, is that time after time the many Y-Chromosome papers released over the last decade stand united in their denial of any African input. And this is by no means a recent occurrence, as evidenced by a paper released in 1999 by Australian researchers Vandenburg and colleagues. As it was with other studies, the results were as inconvenient as they were unexpected. Vandenburg found that "Australian Y-chromosome diversity is surprisingly limited". In contrast with the Genome researchers' assumption that Australian was literally sealed off genetically until their land was stolen in 1788, Vandenburg made note of "two haplotypes unique to Australian Aboriginals". But if indeed Africans sailed to Australia and were immediately isolated genetically, this just should not happen – every Original haplotype should have close to an identical African match.

Further information added to the African inconsistencies, while also reinforcing an observation offered by Rebecca Cann in relation to mtDNA evidence that suggested the first Original Homo sapien sapiens were sourced from "two lineages". The results gathered "were compared with other worldwide populations" which "produced 41 unique haplotypes". Instead of an even spread amongst so many haplotypes, in Australia a far more intense clustering was present in that "most (78%) of Australian haplotypes fell into two clusters, possibly indicating two original, separate lineages of Aboriginal Australians". To that end, since at least two Original haplotype groups have no African counter-part, there can be no African involvement, mtDNA or Y-chromosomes in either of the "two lineages".

As such, a very recent paper on Y-chromosomes released in 2012, (Re-Examing the "Out of Africa" Theory and the Origin of Europeoids (Caucasians) in the Light of DNA Genealogy written by Anatole A. Klyosov and Igor L. Rozhanski) only confirms the denial of any African ancestry in Australia, and strongly supports the existence of a "common ancestor" who "would not necessarily be in Africa. In fact, it was never proven that he lived in Africa".

Central to results of this extensive examination of haplogroups (7,556) was the absence of any African genes. So lacking was the sampling of African genetic involvement, the researchers stated in their introduction that:

"the finding that the Europeoid haplogroups did not descend from "African" haplogroups A or B is supported by the fact that bearers of the Europeoid, as well as all non-African groups do not carry either SNI's M91, P97, M31, P82, M23, M114, P262 ..."

There are 11 more entries in this list of non-starters, all missing from both Europeoids and "all non-African groups," which obviously includes the Original Australians. With the Original people exhibiting an intense clustering into two groups, haplogroups not present in any African genes and an absence of dozens of African genetic markers, it is very difficult nigh on impossible to sustain any link between Africa and Australia.

The researchers are adamant that their extensive study "offers evidence to re-examine the validity of the Out-of-Africa concept". They see no genetic proof substantiating an African precedence in the Homo sapien tree, and maintain that "a more plausible interpretation might have been that both current Africans and non-Africans descended separately from a more ancient common ancestor, thus forming a proverbial fork".

We regard the claim of "a more plausible explanation" as a gross understatement, since there is absolutely nothing plausibly African turning up in any test tubes. In fact, the researchers made note of their repeated absence stating "not one non-African participant out of more than 400 individuals in the Project tested positive to any of thirteen 'African' sub-clades of haplogroup A".

The only remaining uncertainty relates to the identity of this "more ancient common ancestor". All that can be stated with confidence is that humanity's ancestor did not reside in Africa, but "probably" Australia.

When an Original Elder of high standing recently declared that "all peoples of the world come from us", it seems he had a large body of genetic science standing beside him.=

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/with-the-jewish-mind-and-the-chinese-engine-the-skys-the-limit/

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Interesting stuff. 

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/football/news/article/-/20359664/australian-born-player-josip-simunic-to-miss-world-cup-after-10-match-ban/

Needed some practice recording myself playing guitar and thought I'd do something to promote creativity in the process. Sound quality isn't great (audio is quiet, best listened to with headphones) as it is the first video I have made in a while and I haven't attempted any recordings for aeons.

Nevertheless hope you all enjoy some Celtic/classical guitar.

R! A.C.40

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsTlaHdQDWE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjsTlaHdQDWE

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Great story which a fellow creator posted on facebook about this battle in which Terre'Blanche and the AWB lead an assault to get squatting niggers off their farms.

http://www.volkstaat.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=872:the-battle-of-ventersdorp-1991&catid=57:awbeng&Itemid=101

Australia has been found guilty of almost 150 violations of international law over the indefinite detention of 46 refugees in one of the most damning assessments of human rights in this country by a United Nations committee.

The federal government has been ordered to release the refugees, who have been in detention for more than four years, "under individually appropriate conditions" and to provide them with rehabilitation and compensation.

Consistent with Australia's treaty obligations, the government has been given 180 days to assure the committee that it has acted on the recommendations and taken steps to prevent "similar violations in future".
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The UN's Human Rights Committee concluded that the continued detention of the refugees, most of them Sri Lankan Tamils, is "cumulatively inflicting serious psychological harm" and in breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The committee's investigation followed a complaint lodged on behalf of the refugees in August 2011 by Professor Ben Saul, of the Sydney Centre for International Law, who said the finding proved the "grave lawlessness" of Australian refugee policies.

"It is a major embarrassment for Australia, which is a member of the Security Council and often criticises human rights in other countries. Australia should do the right thing by respecting its international obligations and treating the refugees decently," Professor Saul told Fairfax Media.

The committee found that, whatever justification there may have been for an initial detention, the government had not demonstrated on an individual basis that the continuous indefinite detention of the refugees was justified.

"The State party (government) has not demonstrated that other, less intrusive, measures could not have achieved the same end of compliance with the State party's need to respond to the security risk that the adult authors (refugees) are said to represent," it said.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/australia-violated-refugees-human-rights-un-says-20130822-2sdxq.html#ixzz2csSkoaMe

More news from the astronomy newsletter:

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way Galaxy.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, are at the head of the gaseous stream. Since the stream's discovery by radio telescopes in the early 1970s, astronomers have wondered whether the gas comes from one or both of the satellite galaxies. New Hubble observations reveal most of the gas was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, and a second region of the stream originated more recently from the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team of astronomers, led by Andrew J. Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, determined the source of the gas filament by using Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph to measure the amount of heavy elements, such as oxygen and sulfur, at six locations along the Magellanic Stream. They observed faraway quasars, the brilliant cores of active galaxies that emit light that passes through the stream. They detected the heavy elements from the way the elements absorb ultraviolet light.

Fox's team found a low amount of oxygen and sulfur along most of the stream, matching the levels in the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, when the gaseous ribbon is thought to have formed. In a surprising twist, the team discovered a much higher level of sulfur in a region of the stream that is closer to the Magellanic Clouds.

"We're finding a consistent amount of heavy elements in the stream until we get very close to the Magellanic Clouds, and then the heavy element levels go up," said Fox. "This inner region is very similar in composition to the Large Magellanic Cloud, suggesting it was ripped out of that galaxy more recently."

"Only Hubble can measure these abundances," Fox said. "These abundances can only be measured in ultraviolet light, which Earth's atmosphere absorbs, and so the observations can only be done from a telescope in space."

Unlike other satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds have been able to retain their gas and still form stars because they're more massive than the other satellites. However, as they're now approaching the Milky Way, they're feeling its gravity more and also encountering its halo of hot gas, which pushes their own gas out. That process, together with the gravitational tug-of-war between the Magellanic Clouds, leads to the production of a stream.

Ultimately, the gaseous stream may rain down onto the Milky Way's disk, fueling the birth of new stars. This infusion of fresh gas is part of a process that triggers star formation in a galaxy. Astronomers want to know the origin of that wayward gas in order to more fully understand how galaxies make new stars.

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http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/18517060/rare-documents-unveiled-by-state-library-of-nsw-showing-spanish-quest-to-find-australia/

More than 400 years ago, an explorer pleaded with the King of Spain to fund a daring expedition to a land he said he had discovered in the Pacific.

Pedro Fernandes de Queires said the great southern land he had found was full of spices, nutmeg and cinnamon.

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Queires named the discovery Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit), before sailing back to Mexico.

The Portuguese-born explorer then returned to Madrid in 1607 and began petitioning King Philip III of Spain.

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... King Philip III ignored his requests. [more ...]

Earth's gold came from colliding dead stars
Scientists estimate that the amount of gold produced during a recent short gamma-ray burst may be as large as 10 Moon masses.
by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
This artist's conception portrays two neutron stars at the moment of collision. New observations confirm that colliding neutron stars produce short gamma-ray bursts. Such collisions produce rare heavy elements, including gold. All Earth's gold likely came from colliding neutron stars. // Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.
We value gold for many reasons: its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, and its rarity. Gold is rare on Earth in part because it's also rare in the universe. Unlike elements like carbon or iron, it cannot be created within a star. Instead, it must be born in a more cataclysmic event like one that occurred last month known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB).

Observations of this GRB provide evidence that it resulted from the collision of two neutron stars — the dead cores of stars that previously exploded as supernovae. Moreover, a unique glow that persisted for days at the GRB location potentially signifies the creation of substantial amounts of heavy elements, including gold.

"We estimate that the amount of gold produced and ejected during the merger of the two neutron stars may be as large as 10 Moon masses — quite a lot of bling!" said Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A GRB is a flash of high-energy light — gamma rays — from an extremely energetic explosion. Most are found in the distant universe. Berger and his colleagues studied GRB 130603B, which, at a distance of 3.9 billion light-years from Earth, is one of the nearest bursts seen to date.

Gamma-ray bursts come in two varieties — long and short — depending on how long the flash of gamma rays lasts. GRB 130603B, which was detected by NASA's Swift satellite June 3, lasted for less than two-tenths of a second.

Although the gamma rays disappeared quickly, GRB 130603B also displayed a slowly fading glow dominated by infrared light. Its brightness and behavior didn't match a typical "afterglow," which is created when a high-speed jet of particles slams into the surrounding environment.

Instead, the glow behaved like it came from exotic radioactive elements. The neutron-rich material ejected by colliding neutron stars can generate such elements, which then undergo radioactive decay, emitting a glow that's dominated by infrared light — exactly what the team observed.

"We've been looking for a 'smoking gun' to link a short gamma-ray burst with a neutron star collision. The radioactive glow from GRB 130603B may be that smoking gun," said Wen-fai Fong from the CfA.

The team calculates that about one-hundredth of a solar mass of material was ejected by the GRB, some of which was gold. By combining the estimated gold produced by a single short GRB with the number of such explosions that have occurred over the age of the universe, all the gold in the cosmos might have come from gamma-ray bursts.

"To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we are all star stuff, and our jewelry is colliding-star stuff," said Berger.


(taken from the astronomy newsletter)

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I think it's only a matter of time before people find life out there in space. With all the hundreds of exo planets known to be the habitable zone of their orbit it seems quite unlikely that Earth is the only planet that harbors life. I wonder if scientists are correct in assuming that water is vital for life and that organisms can't develop via different physical and chemical reactions under different conditions. Microscopic lifeforms on Earth have been discovered that have evolved to have incredibly slow metabolisms surviving withought water and sunlight for thousands of years!

Interesting times ahead.

Information about measurements taken by curiosity on it's voyage to Mars.

http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/05/Radiation%20measured%20by%20Curiosity%20on%20voyage%20to%20Mars%20has%20implications%20for%20future%20human%20missions.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_nonsub_130607_Final&utm_content=

Interesting article from astronomy. It details the the process through which main sequence yellow dwarf stars, such as our own, go through as they are nearing the end of their lives. The object in analysis is this nebula in the consellation lyra which has formed a brilliant nebula as a result of this process. Read and watch for yourselves:
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/05/Hubble%20Space%20Telescope%20reveals%20the%20Ring%20Nebulas%20true%20shape.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_nonsub_130531_Final&utm_content=


'Our Sun is right in the middle ages, in a time known as the main sequence. It has already lived for 4.3 billion years, and will likely last another 7 billion years or so. At that point, it will balloon into a red giant star, and eventually collapse down into a white dwarf.'

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/16350/what-kind-of-star-is-the-sun/#ixzz2Uv5wFPbS

[Racism is Cool!]

Racism is Cool!



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[Australian lawmakers sign anti-Semitism declaration]

Australian lawmakers sign anti-Semitism declaration

The Times of Israel | May 16, 2013

http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-lawmakers-sign-anti-semitism-declaration/

SYDNEY (JTA) – At least 50 Australian lawmakers signed the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism.

Joshua Frydenberg, a Jewish lawmaker from Melbourne, helped coordinate the signing on Tuesday by more than 40 of his partners from the Liberal National Party coalition in the House of Representatives.

"This is a fantastic result given the importance of the subject and the declaration itself," he said.

The party's leader, Tony Abbott, also signed the declaration. Some senators are expected to sign Wednesday.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard signed the declaration on April 23, saying anti-Semitism did not end with the fall of Nazism.

"It pollutes our world right now," she said. "In the face of anti-Semitism, there can be no bystanders."

Professor Stuart Rees, a longstanding Israel critic at the University of Sydney, blasted the signatories.

"The resort to charges of anti-Semitism regarding the worldwide criticisms of the internationally illegal policies of the government of Israel is an age-old technique to stifle any criticism of blatant human rights abuses," The Australian newspaper quoted Rees as saying Tuesday.

The London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism was launched in London in February 2009 by global parliamentarians who, among other things, resolved to "expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity."

Some 200 legislators from 40 countries are believed to have signed the London declaration.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/holocaust-study-to-be-compulsory-for-nsw-students/story-e6freuy9-1226532472597

The Jews are further stretching their tentacles to indoctrinate Australian youth about the holohoax. This is actually a initiative of the leading Jewish association in N.S.W. and they want this applied across Australia. Chances are, they'll have their way.

Funny video in this article.

http://www.channel4.com/news/racist-anti-semitic-violent-the-true-face-of-golden-dawn

Apart from the nationalist undertones, sugar coatings about wanting to preserve 'bio diversity' rather than the survival, expansion and advancement of the white race at all cost occasionally they do get things right. This should get tongues wagging.


http://www.natalt.org/the-anti-jerusalem-declaration/

Found this trash while browsing stormfront. Total farce, this study basically claims that higher rates of H.I.V. among latino and black men in the U.S. is due to evil whitey's relentless oppression forcing them to become stressed, get high and have unprotected sex. Liberal science for you. 

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/02/07/mental-health-burdens-contribute-to-hiv-in-gay-men-says-nyu-steinhardt-researcher.html

Supposedly this asteroid which will be visible later this month will cut through the region occupied by some of our Geosynchronous satellites, 1/14th as far away from us as the moon is. Astronomers predict it may be on a collision course with Earth in future decades.

http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2013/02/Small%20asteroid%20to%20whiz%20past%20Earth%20safely.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_NonSub_130208_Final&utm_content=

NASA's Mars Recconnaisance Orbiter and the Compact Recconaisance Imaging Spectrometer discover crater which could have once been a groundwater lake based on minerals found within the crater.





http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/01/Martian%20crater%20may%20once%20have%20held%20groundwater-fed%20lake.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_NonSub_130125_Final&utm_content=

Interesting stuff you get out of these astronomy newsletters. New things about the universe are constantly being discovered, like this for example: these asteroid belts correspond to the belts orbiting our own sun by ratio of distance. Mesmerising the way nature maintains this omnipresent symmetry at all levels. 

http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/01/Telescopes%20find%20evidence%20for%20asteroid%20belt%20around%20Vega.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_NonSub_130118-Final&utm_content=

Interesting story from 1943 about a damaged, Earth bound B-17 pursued by the German luftwaffe.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wings_of_an_angel_m7W8NXNsFsgsqcf5YKPGzO/0