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All that glitters is not gold, they say. But all the gold in the world may come from astronomical events that send a lot of high-energy light out in space.

Researchers have new evidence that gold comes from the collision of neutron stars.

"We can account for all the gold in the universe from these collisions," said Edo Berger, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithson Center for Astrophysics.

Berger spoke about these results, submitted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, at a press conference July.

Neutron stars are the dead cores of stars; in the past, they had exploded as supernovae. The neutron stars responsible for the event that Berger and colleagues studied are each thought to be about the size of Boston, but with about 1.5 times the mass of the sun.

When these two neutron stars orbiting each other collided, at high speed, they gave birth to a black hole. Because the combination of the neutron stars is too heavy, the merged object collapses into the black hole.

Neutron stars collide because gravitational radiation steals the energy from their orbit, said Stan Woosley, astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. Each of these star cores is like gigantic atomic nucleus, he said in an e-mail.

"Smash two of them together at close to the speed of light and you can expect fireworks," Woosley said.

Berger and colleagues observed a short-duration gamma-ray burst, which they believe came from such a neutron star collision. The burst is a flash of high-energy light, and this particular one lasted for less than two-tenths of a second, which is why it's considered "short duration."

The burst was 3.9 billion light-years away from Earth -- that's pretty far, but it's still one of the closest gamma-ray bursts that scientists have spotted.

The gamma-ray burst left behind a glow that included a significant amount of infrared light. According to the scientists, the radioactive elements, produced when merging neutron stars spat out material, emitted this light when they underwent radioactive decay. That's because decay heats the matter that was ejected, Woosley said.

This infrared glow was a golden opportunity for scientists. It gave them evidence that short-duration gamma-ray bursts can come from neutron star collisions.

"This is our smoking gun connecting a short gamma-ray burst with the collision of two neutron stars," Berger said.

There is still the possibility that the particular infrared light that the scientists spotted was not the result of radioactive decay, but a different light that was produced along with the gamma-ray burst, Woosley said. But the story of how gold formed from the neutron star collisions, he says, "is almost certainly true."

Although the idea has been floated that gold comes from explosions of supernovae, simulations suggest that it's hard to produce gold that way, Berger said. Supernovae may contribute some fraction of gold to the universe, he said, but it appears that neutron star collisions are the dominant mechanism of producing gold in our universe.

Scientists believe that the material that the merging neutron stars flung out included gold -- a lot of gold.

Berger estimates that the equivalent of 10 moon masses of gold are created and ejected when two neutron stars merge. At today's market rate, that would go for about 10 octillion dollars, he said. That's a 1 followed by 28 zeros.
Platinum and uranium also come from this collision process, Woosley said. All of these elements swirl around between stars, as gases, and eventually become part of subsequent generations of stars, like our sun.

"The gold and platinum in our rings as well as the uranium in our bombs and reactors are little pieces of neutron stars that merged in our galaxy long before the sun was born," Woosley said.

This same gold from space became part of the formation of Earth and the rest of the solar system, including the sun.

Gold that was present in the Earth's formation sank to its core. But we have gold that can be mined closer to the planet's surface because meteorites brought it later, according to a 2011 study in the journal Nature. More than 200 million years after the planet was formed, a shower of meteorites hit and brought with them gold, which stayed in the planet's mantle.

Think about that the next time you wear a gold wedding band or other piece of jewelry. Now there's a fascinating thing about your bling.

http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/science/201308/111173.php

“Kadike hit maker, Chidinma Ekile will host this week’s episode of the Official Naija Top 10 chart. The singer, song writer who is the highest climber at number 3 will join MTV VJ Ehis in the studio this week to run through the top 10 chart.

Wande Coal ‘s “The Kick” still remains number one on the countdown, PSquare made their way to number one spot, jumping one place to number 2 and offering a stiff challenge to Wande Coal with “Personally”. D’Banj moves up to number 4 with ‘Don’t Tell” and Burna Boy jumps two places to number 6. 2Face’s “Rainbow” continues up the chart, moving one place to number 8, while DJ Xclusive also moves up on spot to number 9.

Timaya makes his debut on the Official Naija Top 10 this week, entering the chart at number 10 with “Ekoloma Demba”. Dropping out of the chart altogether this week is Iyanawith “Sexy MAMA” – a shock exit from last week’s number 2.

The MTV Base Official Naija Top 10: 9 August – 15 August 2013:
1. WANDE COAL – THE KICK
2. P SQUARE – PERSONALLY
3. CHIDINMA – E MI NI BALLER
4. D’BANJ – DON’T TELL ME NONSENSE
5. ICE PRINCE – VIP
6. BURNA BOY – RUN MY RACE
7. FLAVOUR – CHINNY BABY
8. 2FACE – RAINBOW
9. DJ XCLUSIVE – NO TIME
10. TIMAYA – EKOLOMA DEMBA

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/13/chidinma-hosts-this-weeks-mtv-base-official-naija-top-ten/

A yet to be confirmed information obtained from Yoruba Nollywood Star, Bukky Wright Facebook Page has it that, Nollywood stars Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme popularly known as Aki na Pawpaw are reportedly to be involved in a ghastly auto-accident on their way to Niger State to shoot a new movie.

The post claimed they are currently hospitalized and sort for Nigerians to pray for their survival.

If this is true, we also echo our voices to pray for the survival by God grace.

THE TEXT OF THE POST FROM BUKKY WRIGHT FACEBOOK PAGE READS:
PLEASE IF YOU IGNORE THIS YOU’RE HEARTLESS
These two Nollywood superstars [AKI & PAW
PAW] involved in a terrible car accident today
when they were traveling to Niger Stateto shoot a
movie.what a world!!!!
They are currently Hospitalized.
We pray that God should healthem AMEN.
PLS TYPE AMEN.
DON’T SCROLL DOWN WITHOUT TYPING AMEN
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South African women married to Nigerians, threatened to stage mass protest in Johannesburg to stop discrimination against them, their husbands and children.


Mrs Lindelwa Uche, the chairperson of the United Nigerian Wives in South Africa, UNWISA, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria during the launch of the association, Sunday, in Johannesburg.

Uche said that South African society did not take their marriage to Nigerians as serious relationships.
Some South African women married to Nigerians staged a peaceful protest in Johannesburg.

She said: “Our society does not take our marriages serious, they see our marriages as relations of convenience and perceive us as evil to the society.

“All of us are South Africans married to Nigerians living in South Africa, we decided to come together to fight against stigmatisation, discrimination, and humiliation, against our families by government departments and agency and the officials of the government, the community and our-in-laws.”

The chairperson said an earlier protest march by the members of the association had not generated any response from the Home affairs office.

“We protested against discrimination from home affairs officials in March this year, and since after that protest we have not received any response from the government. We felt before we embark on any further action we should come together and form an association registered by law.

“After the official launch of our association, our next action will be more than just a protest march to the city of Johannesburg home affairs office. It is going to be a protest where we will strip on the street of Johannesburg, so that people and government will know that there is an existing body and that we are not happy with the way our non South Africans husband and children are being treated.

“We also plan to carry our protest to Nigeria, we know that some South Africans also have businesses in Nigeria, if it is necessary we will take actions that will stop South Africa businesses operating in Nigeria. Indeed we are ready to go that far.

“We have been quiet for so long but we cannot can’t take it anymore, for the sake of the future of our children, we have to put an end to this discrimination.”

She said there was need for them to collectively tackle the issue of some Nigerians residing in South Africa being unfairly separated from their families due to pending residence permit that eventually lead to deportations.

“If we don’t stand up as daughter of the soil and fight discrimination against our marriages who will, if we don’t stand up and fight for the rights of our husbands when they are being violated and treated shabily by officials of the government and citizens alike who will.

“If we don’t stand up for our children when they are being called derogatory names like “Small lee kwere-kwere” or turning their natives names upside down deliberately by our community in the name of making them feel like aliens, outcast, and unwelcome, or even when their Nigerian aunties and uncles call them bustards, then their future is in jeopardy.

“If we don’t stand up when our countrymen and women, officials and in-law address us as paper wives, gold diggers, stupid and opportunist, who will do that for us, ” Uche queried.

She said the notion that all Nigerians are criminals must be corrected.

“We are in a country of law and order, if anyone is found guilty let the law take its course, we are not saying Nigerians

are good or bad, even in the South Africa society, there are criminals and indeed there is no country in the world that does not have criminals,’’ Uche said.

Ikechkwu Anyene, President of the Nigeria Union in South Africa (NUSA), said the association is a good initiative by the women who are suffering discrimination and humiliation because they are married to Nigerians.

“We at the NUSA have been working with them even before the association was registered as a body, we were with them when they carried a protest match to the home affairs office in Johannesburg,

“we will continue to support them to achieve their goal which is to put an end to discrimination by the government officials and their brothers and sisters towards them for being married to Nigerian.

“The initiative is also to unite Nigeria and South Africa and indeed the whole of Africa, to see each other as brothers and sisters and to ensure that we stand by one another,” Anyene said.

He, however, advised the body to carry along all South Africans married to Nigerians irrespective of their tribe and geo-political zone and the tribe of their husbands.

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As part of efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Nigeria Police personnel to tackle terrorism and other contemporary security challenges the US Department of State, yesterday at the FHQ Abuja donated Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD) remote control robots to the Nigeria Police Force. The robots are capable of carrying out safe detonation of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and can demobilise explosives-laden vehicles among others. According to the press statement made available to LEADERSHIP, while demonstrating the capacity of the robots during a formal presentation of the equipment to the IGP, a Nigeria Police EOD robot technician stated that the device can locate and defuse suspicious and hazardous explosive items from remote places and is also capable of firing “disrupters” and delivering counter IED charges that can demobilize and render an IED safe. The IGP expressed gratitude to the donor and promised to put the robots to effective use across the country.

http://leadership.ng/news/250713/us-donates-bomb-disposal-equipment-nigeria-police#sthash.A2l1j8AK.dpuf

The federal government has unveiled a strategic framework aimed at accelerating youth development in the country in line with the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.

While revealing the framework, the minister of youth development, Mr. Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, said that the framework would provide support structure, monitoring and evaluation for all on-going employable and entrepreneurship development programme in the federal, state and local government areas.

He added that the ministry has started the process of institutionalizing a Career Assessment Programme (CAP) as a major component of the National Youth Service Corp Scheme.

The framework for youth development, according to the minister, is divided into four domains, including social mobilisation, leadership development, social media and youth employment.

The social media component of the framework is built around the thematic issues of the National Youth Policy as a critical platform of information, education and communication with the Nigerian youth.

There have been several documents by government designed to positively utilize the strength of the Nigerian youth. However, none of them appears to have brought the best out of them. The present administration will be hoping that the framework does some good for national youth development.
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/10/fg-set-to-use-social-media-to-communicate-with-nigerian-youth/

Can Exercise Hurt You?

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has deployed 3,000 personnel to ensure security before, during and after Eid-el-Fitr celebration in Kaduna State.

Briefing journalists yesterday, the state Commandant, Alhaji Zakari Ibrahim Ningi, said the measure was necessary to forestall breakdown of law and order in the state.

Ningi appealed to parents to advise their children to embrace peace and stability during the festivity which, according to him, serve as catalysts for development.

Speaking through his Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Oguntuase Michael Akin, the commandant warned miscreants against illegal acts, stressing that the corps would not condone any act capable of disrupting peace in the state.

In a related development, the NSCDC surveillance officers have foiled an attempt to vandalise a petroleum pipeline at Namaigero via Karji village in Chikun Local Government Area of the state.

Speaking at the scene of the incident, during an assessment visit, Ningi said his men would not relent in their efforts to protect public infrastructure.

He said the success of the corps in averting Namaigero/ Karji pipeline vandalism was made possible through collaboration of members of the public.

The commandant also disclosed the arrest of a suspect, identified as Atate Ilo, for attempting to vandalise petroleum pipeline at Daji-Rogo in Doka community of Kajuru council.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/nscdc-deploys-3000-personnel-in-kaduna/

Indication emerged yesterday that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may call off its ongoing strike before or soon after the Sallah celebration, as the federal government may have caved into the demands of the union by meeting about 60 per cent of what it is asking for.

This was the outcome of a closed-door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday and Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam; Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayat Rufa’i as well as some other ministers over the current industrial action being embarked by ASUU.

Other ministers who were at the meeting with the president on Monday evening included the minister of finance and the coordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu.

No official statement was issued at the end of the meeting, as Suswam, Okonjo-Iweala and Wogu declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting despite effort made by State House Correspondents to make them talk.

A reliable presidency source told LEADERSHIP that, at the meeting, President Jonathan directed Suswam and the ministers to do all they could to ensure that strike is called off by the union, saying that Jonathan was very worried that the ASUU strike was distorting the academic calendar, his immediate constituency

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Indication emerged yesterday that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may call off its ongoing strike before or soon after the Sallah celebration, as the federal government may have caved into the demands of the union by meeting about 60 per cent of what it is asking for.

This was the outcome of a closed-door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday and Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam; Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayat Rufa’i as well as some other ministers over the current industrial action being embarked by ASUU.

Other ministers who were at the meeting with the president on Monday evening included the minister of finance and the coordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu.

No official statement was issued at the end of the meeting, as Suswam, Okonjo-Iweala and Wogu declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting despite effort made by State House Correspondents to make them talk.

A reliable presidency source told LEADERSHIP that, at the meeting, President Jonathan directed Suswam and the ministers to do all they could to ensure that strike is called off by the union, saying that Jonathan was very worried that the ASUU strike was distorting the academic calendar, his immediate constituency

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Samsung has applied for US and South Korean trademarks for a watch that connects to the internet.

Samsung described Samsung Galaxy Gear as a wearable digital electronic device in the form of a wristwatch, wrist band or bangle in its application to the US Patent and Trademark Office.

A month earlier, it applied for a Samsung Gear trademark in South Korea.

In May Samsung registered design patents in South Korea that show a wristwatch with a flexible display.

The trademark filings are the latest sign that global technology companies are racing to apply mobile technology to wearable products such as watches and glasses.

President Goodluck Jonathan has stressed the need to bring an end to ethnic politics in the country.

Speaking at a reception held in honour of Tony Anenih, the president decried the inflammatory comments made by certain individuals, noting that Nigeria needs more nationalistic politicians like Mr. Anenih.

While noting that the celebrator enjoys unrivaled reverence due to his nationalistic outlook, President Jonathan said Nigerians can learn from Anenih because he has always been a nationalist.

He said: “We can learn from him because he has always been a nationalist.

“From him, let’s learn to sing the song of unity and use our cleavages for good and not to promote disunity. Some provocative statements have come from elder statesmen who witnessed civil war. But Tony Anenih has never made such statements, this explains why the hall is filled to capacity today,” the President said.

Anenih, giving the vote of thanks, urged the past and current leaders to learn to forgive one another.

He said: “The leaders are gathered here today and this is why we ask ourselves why can’t we forget the past and move forward. I must confess that I was thrilled that President Obasanjo came to the church.

“This is the kind of forgiveness leaders have to show for the country to move forward”. He said and called for support for the Jonathan administration.

“(Gen). Abdulsalami Abubakar and (Gen Ibrahim Babangida), (both former leaders), IBB are here, They can give us peace. I believe that if all of us here put our hands behind him (President Jonathan) and genuinely advise him, even our worst enemy – Boko Haram – will be afraid”.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/05/jonathan-urges-politicians-to-shun-ethnic-politics/

Japan launches talking humanoid robot 'astronaut' Kirobo into space
Kirobo, the world's first talking humanoid robot "astronaut", has been launched into space. It will act as a companion for astronaut Koichi Wakata and will communicate with another robot on Earth.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


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TOKYO (AP) — Japan has launched the world’s first talking humanoid robot “astronaut” toward the International Space Station.

Kirobo — derived from the Japanese words for “hope” and “robot” — was among five tons of supplies and machinery on a rocket launched Sunday from Tanegashima in southwestern Japan, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said.

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Tomotaka Takahashi, of the University of Tokyo, helped design Kirobo.

The childlike robot was designed to be a companion for astronaut Koichi Wakata and will communicate with another robot on Earth, according to developers. Wakata is expected to arrive at the space station in November.

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Takahashi wants Kirobo to act as a mediator between people and machines.

Robot designer Tomotaka Takahashi, of the University of Tokyo, advertiser Dentsu and automaker Toyota Motor Corp. worked on the robot.

The challenge was making sure it could move and talk where there was no gravity. Ahead of the launch, the 34-centimeter (13-inch) tall Kirobo told reporters, “one small step for me, a giant leap for robots.”

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Kirobo was among the cargo in a rocket launched Sunday from Tanegashima in southwestern Japan.

Japan boasts the most sophisticated robotics in the world, but because of its “manga” culture, it tends to favor cute robots with human-like characteristics with emotional appeal, a use of technology that has at times drawn criticism for being not productive.

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But Takahashi said sending a robot into space could help write a new chapter in the history of communication.

“I wish for this robot to function as a mediator between person and machine, or person and Internet and sometimes even between people,” he said.

JAXA said the rocket launch was successful, and the separation of a cargo vehicle, carrying the robot to the space station, was confirmed about 15 minutes after liftoff.



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Dis actress is only performing on my birthday party is not in the church. na wa oh

Thank you.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh! That cake make sense.

hahahahaahaahahaha papa rasy u don try but nah who we go ask.

ME !

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Thanks dear! it takes a man of wisdom to point out this. More grace

super story.

The goat nah baby goat abi nah matured goat ?

cute pix.

Abacha no plan good for Nigeria economy at all.

before or after ?