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	CNN Hagel backs Obama on ISIS strategy CNN With Obama facing criticism over what even a fellow Democrat called too much caution, Hagel sought to make clear that the President wants to ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com There are big holes in Obama Mideast strategy Washington Post PRESIDENT OBAMA again appeared to dismiss the conflicts of the Middle East at a fundraiser Friday, saying the region has “been challenging for ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Guardian Barack Obama and David Cameron seek coalition against Isis The Guardian Barack Obama waves as he disembarks from Air Force One in the UK to attend the Nato summit. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Bill O'Reilly: What President Obama should do with ISIS and Putin Fox News If President Obama does not -- does not formally declare war on Muslim terrorism, he is doing all Americans a great disservice. We need a send a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Prague Post Remarks by President Obama and President Ilves of Estonia in Joint Press Conference The White House (blog) PRESIDENT ILVES: Good morning. To begin with, I'd like to welcome PresidentObama to Estonia. It is a genuine pleasure and an honor to receive ... Flag as irrelevant
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	Obama's Talinn speech probably guarantees peace in our time RedState ⋅ streiff (Diary) In Tallinn, Estonia, Obama gave a speech pledging to defend the Baltic States. His record indicates this is empty rhetoric. Flag as irrelevant
	'Cut the Head of the Snake': Dem Senator Urges Obama to Hit ISIS Fox News Insider - The official blog of Fox News Channel. ⋅ Fox News Insider Bill Nelson (D-FL) is part of a growing list of lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, that are urging President Obama to order airstrikes on ISIS bases in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Very Credible 'Former Jihadist' Saw Barack Obama Kissing Muslim Claus In A Mosque On Christmas Wonkette ⋅ Doktor Zoom In a revelation that will be shocking proof to at least 12 or 13 wingnuts who were genuinely undecided on the question, we learn that Barack Obama ... Flag as irrelevant
	OUCH: Watch Jon Stewart Openly Mock Barack Obama and Russia Over Ukraine Crisis LibertyNEWS.com ⋅ Eric Odom Jon Stewart isn't known to lash out at Obama. Sure, he occasionally dangles a carrot or two, but Stewart is a liberal who prefers mocking those who ... Flag as irrelevant
	'Tough' Obama 'Wasted No Time' Issuing 'Fighting Words' NewsBusters blogs ⋅ Kyle Drennen After President Obama admitted on Thursday that he had "no strategy" for dealing with the ISIS terrorist network, on Wednesday, the network morning ... Flag as irrelevant
	Obama 'Appeared to Be Clear and Unambiguous' on ISIS NewsBusters blogs ⋅ Curtis Houck On Wednesday night's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams completely missed the mark on President Obama's mixed signals regarding how his ... Flag as irrelevant
	Obama Has a Strategy to End Extreme Poverty, Reduce Hunger and Suffering by Forcing Other ... LibertyNEWS.com ⋅ Eric Odom Obama's radical homosexual agenda is widely known here in America. The DOJ will actively attack any individual, business or organization who's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Joan Rivers Dead Two Months After Calling Obama Gay, Michelle a Tranny Prison Planet.com ⋅ admin Comedienne Joan Rivers has died just two months after calling President Obama gay and MichelleObama a transsexual, prompting a deluge of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Ukraine: Obama Doubles Do Moon of Alabama ⋅ b That "Obama wills it" may be the reason for the confusion about a Ukrainian presidential statement today on a ceasefire agreement that came after ... Flag as irrelevant
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	Obama's ISIS Strategy The Colbert Report - Comedy Central As ISIS violence continues, Fox News pundits bemoan Obama's unwillingness to rush into war. Flag as irrelevant
	38 percent: Obama ties his all-time low in Gallup's daily tracker of job approval Hot Air Exit question: Does Obama's sinking approval make an executive amnesty for illegals more or less likely? My gut reaction is to say “less likely,” of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Strengthening the NATO alliance: article by David Cameron and Barack Obama Gov.uk The Prime Minister and US President wrote an article for the Times about the need to work together to face evolving global challenges. Flag as irrelevant
	What President Obama should do with ISIS and Putin Fox News Video Rove on ISIS: Obama should have had a strategy years ago · 5:31. Obama: Our objective is to degrade and destroy ISIS · 4:52. Friend of Sotloff, Foley ... Flag as irrelevant
	New Poll Shows Record-Low Approval for President Obama, and These 8 Reasons May Explain ... ijreview.com It has been a rough summer for President Obama, who has faced quite a bit of criticism lately over how he's handled affairs both domestically and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Voters Strongly Oppose Obama's Amnesty Plan for Illegal Immigrants Rasmussen Reports Thursday, September 04, 2014. Most voters oppose President Obama's reported plan to unilaterally grant amnesty to several million illegal immigrants ... Flag as irrelevant
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While geophysics failed to provide evidence that Stonehenge featured a complete outer circle or sarsens, I short hose may have just done it.

In a recent piece in Antiquity, a quarterly review of archeology, the study of parch marks in the grass on the site suggest that there were likely two huge sarsen stones that have gone missing but would have completed the outer circle on the grounds of the famed Druid creation.

Stonehenge: Groundskeeper noted grass failing to grow

Owing to a hose that was unable to water certain areas of the site due to its length, a groundskeeper noticed grass failing to grow as strongly as in other areas notified archaeologists.

Evidence that the outer stone circle at Stonehenge was once complete has been found, because a hosepipe used to water the site was not long enough.

Parch marks in the grass, in an area that had not been watered, have revealed places where two “missing” huge sarsen stones may once have stood.

The marks were spotted by an English Heritage steward who alerted archaeologists to their existence.

Stonehenge: Susan Greaney speaks to the marks’ importance

Susan Greaney, of English heritage believes this evidence that was first discover in July 2014, shows that there are indeed missing stones from the south-west quadrant of the outer circle.

“If these stone holes actually held upright stones then we’ve got a complete circle,” she said.

“It’s really significant, and it shows us just how much we still have to learn about Stonehenge.

“A lot of people assume we’ve excavated the entire site and everything we’re ever going to know about the monument is known.

“But actually there’s quite a lot we still don’t know and there’s quite a lot that can be discovered just through non-excavation methods.”

With ISIS rampaging across Syria and Iraq and Russia threatening the sovereignty of Ukraine, it’s easy to forget that many spend their lives trying to understand the significance of the monument that brings hundreds of thousands to visit each year.

Greaney went on to note that a hi-res survey of the area that was finished a couple of years back failed to show what was found by the “gardener.”

“It’s great that people who know the site really well and look at it every day were able to spot these parch marks and recognise them for what they were,” she added.

“We maintain the grass with watering when it’s very dry in the summer, but our hosepipe doesn’t reach to the other side of the stone circle.

“If we’d had a longer hosepipe we might not have been able to see them.”

Stonehenge: The man who saw the parch marks speaks

The person in question was Tim Daw who had a bit to say about his “discovery.”

“I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking that we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up.”

“A sudden lightbulb moment in my head, and I remembered that the marks were where archaeologists had looked without success for signs that there had been stone holes, and that parch marks can signify them.

“I called my colleague over and he saw them and realised their possible significance as well. Not being archaeologists we called in the professionals to evaluate them.

“I am still amazed and very pleased that simply really looking at something, that tens of thousands of people had unwittingly seen, can reveal secrets that sophisticated machinery can’t.”

Earth's New Address Is...a Tiny Part Of The Laniakea Galactic Supercluster

You have a new galactic address; astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified enormous supercluster of galaxies - dubbed "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian.

This discovery broadens the boundaries of our galactic neighborhood and establishes previously unrecognized linkages among various galaxy clusters in the local Universe. How big are are talking? The Milky Way galaxy alone has 100 billion stars. We think. And then there are 10¹² galaxies. So your address is now a lot bigger. Instead of being Earth, Sol, Orion arm, Milky Way, Local Group and Virgo cluster, you can now add Laniakea before Universe.

Superclusters are among the largest structures in the known Universe. They are made up of groups, like our own Local Group, that contain dozens of galaxies, and massive clusters that contain hundreds of galaxies, all interconnected in a web of filaments. Though these structures are interconnected, they have poorly defined boundaries.

A slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane -- an imaginary plane containing many of the most massive clusters in this structure. The colors represent density within this slice, with red for high densities and blue for voids -- areas with relatively little matter. Individual galaxies are shown as white dots. Velocity flow streams within the region gravitationally dominated by Laniakea are shown in white, while dark blue flow lines are away from the Laniakea local basin of attraction. The orange contour encloses the outer limits of these streams, a diameter of about 160 Mpc. This region contains the mass of about 100 million billion suns. Credit: SDvision interactive visualization software by DP at CEA/Saclay, France.

To better refine cosmic mapmaking, the researchers are proposing a new way to evaluate these large-scale galaxy structures by examining their impact on the motions of galaxies. A galaxy between structures will be caught in a gravitational tug-of-war in which the balance of the gravitational forces from the surrounding large-scale structures determines the galaxy's motion.

"We have finally established the contours that define the supercluster of galaxies we can call home," said lead researcher R. Brent Tully, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "This is not unlike finding out for the first time that your hometown is actually part of much larger country that borders other nations."

By using the GBT and other radio telescopes to map the velocities of galaxies throughout our local Universe, the team was able to define the region of space where each supercluster dominates. "Green Bank Telescope observations have played a significant role in the research leading to this new understanding of the limits and relationships among a number of superclusters," said Tully.

The Milky Way resides in the outskirts of one such supercluster, whose extent has for the first time been carefully mapped using these new techniques. This so-called Laniakea Supercluster is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains the mass of one hundred million billion Suns spread across 100,000 galaxies.

This study also clarifies the role of the Great Attractor, a gravitational focal point in intergalactic space that influences the motion of our Local Group of galaxies and other galaxy clusters.

Within the boundaries of the Laniakea Supercluster, galaxy motions are directed inward, in the same way that water streams follow descending paths toward a valley. The Great Attractor region is a large flat bottom gravitational valley with a sphere of attraction that extends across the Laniakea Supercluster.

The name Laniakea was suggested by Nawa'a Napoleon, an associate professor of Hawaiian Language and chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at Kapiolani Community College, a part of the University of Hawaii system. The name honors Polynesian navigators who used knowledge of the heavens to voyage across the immensity of the Pacific Ocean.