Police investigate Hanukkah hate crime after thugs scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti across a synagogue, shops and cafes in London’s Hampstead and Belsize Park

• The Star of David and ‘9/11’ drawn on shops around Hampstead and Belsize Park
• It is understood that the numbers refer to a conspiracy theory over 2001 attacks
• The Metropolitan Police said it is ‘investigating a racially motivated hate crime’

By James Gant For Mailonline

Published: 22:24 AEDT, 29 December 2019 | Updated: 03:48 AEDT, 30 December 2019

Anti-Semitic graffiti found daubed across several shop fronts and a synagogue in north London has been condemned as ‘disgraceful’ and ‘senseless’.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sent a message of ‘love and solidarity’ to Jewish communities, while shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq also spoke out against the incident during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.

The Jewish holy symbol alongside the numbers ‘9 11’ was spray-painted in red and purple on several premises in the Hampstead and Belsize Park area, including South Hampstead Synagogue, on Saturday night.

The graffiti references an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are responsible for the 9/11 terror attack, and was found less than two hours after five people were stabbed at a rabbi’s home in New York. 

Anti-Semitic graffiti has been scrawled across a synagogue (pictured, South Hampstead Synagogue) and shops in north London overnight

The South Hampstead Synagogue in North London is pictured. Vandals scrawled graffiti on the side of it overnight

Police have said they are investigating the graffiti as a racially motivated hate crime after receiving reports of the vandalism at 11.30pm on Saturday.

The graffiti was seen being removed from shop windows on Sunday afternoon.

Mr Corbyn said on Twitter: ‘How terrible that Chanukah started with a message of hope and on this last day we face antisemitic graffiti in London and horrific stabbings at a party in New York.

‘We stand with all our communities facing hate. We send love and solidarity to Jewish communities around the world.’ 

The Star of David and ‘9/11’ were plastered over cafes and stores in Hampstead and Belsize Park

Ms Siddiq condemned the vandalism as ‘unbelievable, senseless, disgusting anti-Semitism at the heart of our community’.

She added: ‘I am in touch with Camden Council and Borough Commander (Raj) Kohli regarding clean-up and attempting to find these criminals – we must all stay vigilant in order to continue the fight against this hatred.’

And Sir Keir said: ‘I agree with Tulip. This graffiti is disgusting and we must stand with the Jewish community against antisemitism.

‘If you have any information about who may be responsible for this crime, please contact the Camden police on 101.’ 

It is understood the numbers are in reference to a conspiracy theory that tries to link Jews to the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001

The Board of Deputies replied to James Sorene’s tweet, posting: ‘This is a reminder that antisemitism is still with us’

Camden Council leader Georgia Gould released a joint statement alongside Sir Keir and Ms Siddiq, which said they were ‘horrified’ by the vandalism.

The statement read: ‘Camden is and always will be no place for hate.

‘We stand together with all of our Jewish residents and our whole community in saying these cowardly pedlars of hate do not represent Camden and our values.

‘We are proud to have a strong, vibrant Jewish community as part of our beautiful borough. (…)

‘This is not an isolated incident and we must all confront the rising tide of hate crime and antisemitism in the UK.

‘Now is the moment to find the courage to confront hatred and prejudice wherever we see it.’

Ant-semitic graffiti is cleaned off the shop Esclot on Hampstead High Street (left and right)

The Metropolitan Police said it is ‘investigating a racially motivated hate crime in the Hampstead area’

Inspector Kev Hailes said: ‘This is clearly a concerning incident and one we are taking seriously.

‘We have liaised with our partners in order to remove the graffiti and various inquiries are under way to find who is responsible.

‘Officers will be on patrol throughout the area in order to provide some reassurance to local communities. Please approach us if you have any questions or concerns.’

Police have asked anyone who saw anything suspicious on Saturday night to call them on 101.

The incident comes after five people were stabbed at a rabbi’s home north of New York on Saturday night.

A knifeman attacked a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, before fleeing in a vehicle at around 10pm, police said.

The attack appeared to be the latest in a string targeting Jews in the region, including a massacre at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey earlier this month.

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Most of the globe may possibly not have professional a white Xmas this yr, but ‘cosmic snowflakes’ were being noticed in space.

NASA’s Spitzer Room Telescope captured a spectacular picture of new child stars, glimmering as pink and red specks lined in a sample that resembles a snowflake.

Nicknamed ‘Snowflake Cluster’, experts think these toddler buildings are just 100,000 several years outdated and have however to ‘crawl’ from where they have been birthed.

At the instant, these stars trace a straight line, but as they experienced, they will drift away and ‘the snowflake design and style will be no much more,’ NASA mentioned in a assertion.

The newborn stars have been spotted hiding at the rear of a thick dust in a section identified as ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’.

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The freshly uncovered infant stars look as pink and red specks toward the heart and appear to be to have formed in often spaced intervals together linear constructions in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the sample of a snowflake.

‘Star-forming clouds like this 1 are dynamic and evolving buildings,’ stated NASA,

‘Since the stars trace the straight line pattern of spokes of a wheel, researchers feel that these are newborn stars, or ‘protostars’.’

A working day following snowflakes had been spotted in place, NASA’s telescope captured yet another incredible image of what appeared like flames ripping by way of the empty void. 

The picture highlights the Perseus Molecular Cloud, which is a massive selection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 mild-decades across.

The fiery glow is a end result of infrared radiation from heat dust and clusters of stars that ‘illuminate the bordering clouds like the Sunshine lighting up a cloudy sky at sunset.’

A working day following snowflakes have been spotted in house, NASA’s telescope captured yet another unbelievable image of what looked like flames ripping by means of the vacant void (pictured) 

The Perseus Molecular Cloud is household to an abundance of young stars and is positioned on the edge of the Perseus Constellation.

It has in excess of 10,000 solar masses of fuel and dust masking an space of dimensions by two degrees.

The infrared mild emitted from the gas and stars is invisible to the human eye but, Spitzer is created to seize the illumination of heat objects. 

To the ideal of this massive cloud sits a vibrant team of youthful stars regarded as NGC 1333 that is 1,000 mild-decades from Earth.

This clump of begins have been noticed by astronomers considering the fact that the mid-1980s, but beneath it lies clusters that nevertheless continue being a secret.

‘They seem to comprise stellar infants, adolescents and grownups. This kind of a closely packed mixture of ages is extremely odd,’ according to Luisa Rebull, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Infrared Science

‘Archive at Caltech-IPAC who has examined NGC 1333 and some of the clusters under it.’

The fiery glow is a result of infrared radiation from heat dust and clusters of stars that ‘illuminate the encompassing clouds like the Sun lights up a cloudy sky at sunset.’ The Perseus Molecular Cloud is residence to an abundance of younger stars and is located on the edge of the Perseus Constellation

To the suitable of this enormous cloud sits a shiny group of youthful stars recognised as NGC 1333 that is 1,000 light-weight-many years from Earth. This clump of begins have been noticed by astronomers considering that the mid-1980s, but beneath it lies clusters that continue to continue being a thriller

‘Although lots of stellar siblings may possibly kind with each other in restricted clusters, stars are normally transferring, and as they expand older they have a tendency to move farther and farther apart.’

Getting these types of a carefully packed mixture of clear ages would not in good shape with current strategies about how stars evolve.

‘This location is telling astronomers that there’s something we don’t understand about star development,’ said Rebull.

‘The puzzle offered by this area is one issue that retains astronomers coming back to it. ‘It’s a person of my preferred areas to review.’

Considering the fact that IRAS’s early observations, the area has come into clearer emphasis, a approach that is common in astronomy, claimed Rebull. 

New devices deliver extra sensitivity and new approaches, and the story becomes clearer with every single new technology of observatories. 

On Jan. 30, 2020, NASA will decommission the Spitzer Area Telescope, but its legacy has paved the way for upcoming observatories, such as the James Webb Place Telescope, which will also notice infrared mild.

The Spitzer-MIPS info applied for this image is at the infrared wavelength of 24 microns. 

Tiny gaps along the edges of this image not noticed by Spitzer have been loaded in employing 22-micron information from NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Study Explorer (Intelligent).

WHAT IS THE SPRITZER Space TELESCOPE?

The Spitzer Room Telescope – formerly recognised as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility – is an infrared cousin of the Hubble Space Telescope.

It is made up of a space-borne, cryogenically cooled telescope with lightweight optics that deliver gentle to sophisticated, massive-format infrared detector arrays 

It is able of researching objects ranging from our photo voltaic technique to the distant reaches of the universe. 

Peering back again into the early universe, it seems at young galaxies and forming stars.

The Spitzer Place Telescope – previously identified as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility – is an infrared cousin of the Hubble Space Telescope (artist’s effect). The band of mild in this graphic is the glowing dust from the Milky Way noticed at 100 microns

It is also utilised to detect dust disks all around stars, deemed an important signpost of planetary development.

The mission is the fourth and final observatory below NASA’s Fantastic Observatories program.

This mission also incorporates the Hubble Room Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.  

It was released into orbit all over the solar, trailing guiding Earth, drifting in a benign thermal natural environment.

By employing this orbit, the spacecraft is capable to undertake an ground breaking “heat-start” architecture, in which only the instrument payload is cooled at start. 

By employing distinctive cooling in deep space, Spitzer is equipped to have significantly considerably less liquid helium than any previous infrared mission, which significantly cuts down mission development prices.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch will make history on Saturday when she clocks up 288 times in house in the longest single spaceflight by a girl

• Christina Koch will crack the file for longest solitary spaceflight by a lady
• On Sat., She will have expended 288 days aboard the Worldwide Space Station
• When Koch returns to Earth in Feb. 2020, she will have expended over 300 days 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

Revealed: 09:53 AEDT, 28 December 2019 | Updated: 10:18 AEDT, 28 December 2019

NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set to make historical past the moment once more.

On December 28, she will have been in space for 288 times, breaking the document for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.

When Koch measures again on Earth in February 2020, she will have invested much more than 300 days in place – surpassing previous Station Commander Peggy Whitson’s file.

In the course of her remain in aboard the Global House Station (ISS), Koch concluded 4 spacewalks and made headlines with her co-worker and very best buddy, Jessica Meir, by taking part the initially all-female spacewalk October 12.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch (pictured) is established to make historical past as soon as once again. On December 28, she will have been in place for 288 days, breaking the document for the longest solitary spaceflight by a girl

Despite the fact that 15 girls have carried out a spacewalk, each individual time they were being accompanied by their male colleagues.

In a additional than seven-hour mission outdoors of the Intercontinental Space Station, the women of all ages effectively finished their aim of repairing a damaged electricity controller that supplemented its photo voltaic network.

‘There are a good deal of people who derive motivation from inspiring stories from people who appear like them, and I consider that it´s an essential part of the tale to inform,’ Koch advised a NASA briefing in Houston in October. 

She ideas to enterprise back exterior two times a lot more in January, once again teaming up with Meir, to complete the installation of new solar array batteries for the station’s photo voltaic ability program.

All through her stay in aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), Koch (suitable) concluded 4 spacewalks and produced headlines with her co-worker and finest mate, Jessica Meir (still left), by participating the initial all-female spacewalk October 12

When Koch comes back again to Earth on February 6, she will have expended just 12 times shy in place as retired astronaut Mark Kelly who stayed on the ISS for a full of 438 days

When Koch will come back again to Earth on February 6, she will have expended just 12 days shy in house as retired astronaut Mark Kelly who stayed on the ISS for a whole of 438 times.

Even so, Whitson continue to holds the all-time US history with 665 times, but was completed over five distinctive flights.

‘It’s a large honor,’ Koch mentioned early Friday in an job interview with ‘CBS This Morning.’

‘Peggy is a heroine of mine who’s also been sort more than enough to mentor me as a result of the many years.’

‘You know … it is not so significantly how several days you might be up below, but what you do with each of these times. That reminds me to bring my best each and every one day.’

Koch retains a master’s in electrical engineering, is a veteran of many investigate excursions in Antarctica and Greenland, and aided design and style instruments at the Goddard Space Flight Centre for NASA science probes in orbit all over Earth and Jupiter, in accordance to CBS Information.

‘It’s a great time for human spaceflight mainly because I feel we last but not least identify that it is really not value going unless we go together, that it is crucial to not convert away any revolutionary plan, that all people has a position and everybody has a place at the desk as we go ahead,’ Koch claimed.

 

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Struggle of the electrics as Tesla Product 3 Functionality can take on Zero Motorcycles SR/F in zero emission drag race

• Drag race was held on a quarter-mile extend of road  
• Race was concerning a Tesla Design 3 Performance and a Zero Bikes SR/F 
• The Tesla four-door sedan  managed to briefly soar out in entrance of the bicycle
• But the motorcycle won the race many thanks to its considerably lighter weight 

By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com

Published: 07:17 AEDT, 28 December 2019 | Current: 10:28 AEDT, 28 December 2019

What happens when two high-powered zero-emission electric autos confront off towards every single other in a drag race?

Which is what an Italian car or truck journal tried out to locate out when it arranged a quarter-mile-extended drag race among a 4-door Tesla Model 3 Efficiency sedan and the Zero Motorcycles SR/F.

In the preliminary seconds of the race, the Tesla, with its 450 horsepower and tons of torque, gets the edge.

A Tesla Model 3 Performance (still left) and a Zero Motorcycles SR/F took every single on in a drag race

In the preliminary seconds of the race, the Tesla, with its 450 horsepower and tons of torque, receives the edge

But the electrical, zero-emissions bike overtakes the Tesla and wins

Elon Musk’s development will get from zero to sixty miles for each hour about a 50 %-next more rapidly – 3.5 seconds – than the motorbike – 3.94 seconds.

But the bicycle, which is significantly lighter, catches up to the Tesla and finally overtakes it, winning the race.

Elon Musk’s creation will get from zero to sixty miles for each hour about a 50 %-second a lot quicker – 3.5 seconds – than the motorcycle – 3.94 seconds

But the bike, which is significantly lighter, catches up to the Tesla and eventually overtakes it, profitable the race

It is not stunning, while, contemplating the Tesla weighs 4,000lbs, which is just about 9 occasions as hefty as the 485lb bike. 

The MSRP of a Tesla Design 3 Performance is outlined at $56,990. A Zero Motorcycles SR/F will set you back $19,000. 

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Washing your trees throughout winter season can make your yard seem much more colourful, Royal Horticultural Culture claims

• Scrubbing down the trunks with soapy water can reveal trees’ real beauty 
• RHS polishes silver birches at its Rosemoor backyard in Devon to expose shine 
• Birches, Tibetan Cherries also have shiny bark that can be washed  

By Daily Mail Reporter

Released: 10:57 AEDT, 27 December 2019 | Updated: 10:31 AEDT, 28 December 2019

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Even 18-calendar year-olds need stringent bedtimes: Rest is vital for teenagers’ psychological and bodily progress, authorities explain to mom and dad

• The research was carried out by researchers at Rochester College in New York 
• Industry experts tracked 193 teens, aged 14 to 17, and their parents for 7 nights
• Observed a third of the mothers and fathers did not implement guidelines on pre-bedtime monitor usage

By Ben Spencer Healthcare Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Printed: 09:04 AEDT, 28 December 2019 | Current: 12:39 AEDT, 28 December 2019

Parents should set rigid bedtimes for youngsters – suitable up right up until the age of 18, sleep authorities say.

Obtaining enough snooze is very important for teenagers’ psychological and actual physical enhancement, but most moms and dads have specified up telling them when to go to mattress or hoping to restrict their use of electronic devices in the evenings.

But a examine indicates continuing to lay down rigorous bedtime guidelines even for older teens can have a major effect.

A analyze by experts at Rochester University in New York have observed that dad and mom really should established rigid bedtimes for young adults – correct up until finally the age of 18. (Inventory picture) 

Researchers at Rochester College in New York tracked 193 adolescents, aged 14 to 17, and their mom and dad for 7 evenings.

They observed that no bedtime restrict was set on 74 for each cent of the nights surveyed. 

A 3rd of the mothers and fathers did not implement rules on pre-bedtime monitor utilization and 48 for every cent did not curb evening caffeine use.

But the 16 for each cent of dad and mom who most continually enforced bedtimes noticed small children rest for an average of 6 minutes for a longer time every single evening – leaving them with a lot more daytime energy and much less depressive ideas.

Researchers explained to Rest clinical journal: ‘Parents who can appropriately generate and preserve bedtimes … enhance not only the prospect for more rest but also for higher … mental properly-staying.’

Impartial snooze pro Dr Neil Stanley agreed, saying: ‘Sleep is very critical in the teenage several years – for memory, development, expansion and psychological overall health. Getting a regular bedtime sets superior lifelong routines.’

The sleeping authorities identified getting sufficient sleep was important for teenagers’ psychological and physical enhancement. (Stock image)

 

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This 12 months looks to have been a political nightmare for the US, in accordance to a new chart based on research trends of 2019.

The calendar year started off with the document-breaking authorities shutdown and ended with ‘Impeachment’ as the most popular searched term.

Though most of the trends on the list are grave, ‘Blackface’, ‘Mass shooting’ and ‘Recession’, there are a couple of that brought us back to happier moments, these as ‘Baby Yoda’, ‘SpaceX’ and ‘Game of Thrones’. 

The chart demonstrates ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ and ‘Impeachment’ ended up equivalent in their one massive spike.

For impeachment, which was the most popular research at the close of the 12 months, the s optimum peak of Google desire transpired the week of September 22, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the impeachment inquiry.

And also the week of December 15th, when President Donald Trump became the third president in US record to be impeached.

Even so, Activity of Thrones policies supreme with the most significant uptick of them all in 2019.

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The chart was made utilizing facts from Google News Lab, which according to AXIOS, ‘highlights how public’s attention span was as the media darted from on significant issue to another’. 

The year kicked off with the government shutdown that started in December 2018 and ran into January of this year – the event lasted for 35 days, generating it the longest in historical past.

The partial shutdown was due to the Democrats rejecting President Donald Trump’s $5 billion invoice to fund his US – Mexico border wall.

As a outcome, funding for government companies expired, leaving roughly 800,000 federal personnel with no paychecks.

Trump signed the bill on January 25th to conclude the shutdown.

This year appears to have been a political nightmare for the US, according to a new chart based on research trends of 2019. The yr started off with the history-breaking govt shutdown and ended with ‘Impeachment’ as the most common searched term

The chart displays ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ (still left) and ‘Impeachment’ were very similar in their one big spike. ‘Greta Thunberg’ (ideal) acquired surges of desire in late September and mid-December, supplying her much more lookup fascination in the previous a few months

Even though ‘Government shutdown’ was a trending look for, ‘Mexico-US border’ begun to spark people’s curiosity and had an uptick in searches.

Following came the Green New Deal, proposed in February by New York Agent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which was a congressional resolution for tackling climate transform.

This craze took off in February and was preferred into March, as was the surprising term ‘Blackface’.

The trend was sparked when Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia came beneath fire in early February for becoming a single of two adult males in a photo wherever one particular was in blackface and the other wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

Also a well-known research in March was the ‘North Keara-Hanoi Summit’, which manufactured background as North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump met for the to start with time.

‘Brexit’ is up coming on the listing and seems to have a continuous flow of queries commencing from the starting of the 12 months right until the end, as did ‘Israel’.

‘SpaceX’ also began trending at the beginning of the yr, but had its largest spike between April and May when the agency was established to launch its Falcon Significant rocket for its next-ever flight.

Nevertheless, Activity of Thrones policies supreme with the premier uptick of them all in 2019. What may possibly not come a surprise is ‘the clearly show experienced a spike among April May well, whilst the exhibit was airing on HBO

What may perhaps not come a shock is ‘Game of Thrones’ getting a well known lookup about the exact time – it started its very last period on April 14th and ended it on May possibly 19th.

‘Venezuela’ was underneath a national disaster in the first section of the calendar year, gaining considerably notice on the internet, but trickled off the moment the protesting in the streets came to a halt.

‘IPO’ experienced a bump all around May perhaps, which is the same time both equally Lyft and Uber went general public on the New York Stock Exchange.

‘China-US trade war’, ‘Huawei’ and ‘Iran’ were three subject areas that stored a continuous search craze all over the yr, all with will increase around the summer months.

Then came ‘Robert Mueller’ from March to July and ‘Mass shootings’ was also a well known searched expression in between August and September – 53 Individuals died in 38 mass shootings in August on your own.

‘Recession’ was on most people’s minds around the similar time as ‘Hurricane Dorian’ ripped as a result of the Central Atlantic on September 6th.

Soon after this pure catastrophe, the US experienced human designed disasters.

‘Ukrain+Donald Trump’ queries appeared at the end of September and ‘Mark Zuckerberg’, although a popular look for through the 12 months, witnessed a spike in November when the Fb CEO was on trial for knowledge protection difficulties.

Just after all of the turmoil and hardships, the planet was blessed with ‘Baby Yoda’ on November 12th – it even conquer out ‘Royal Baby’ on Goggle’s 2019 Toddlers research lineup. The chart displays its greatest spike was in December and it seems to be continuing into the New 12 months

Right before Zuckerberg was the communicate of the town, ‘Greta Thunberg’ was the most searched.

The 16-calendar year-aged Swedish environmentalist traveled to the US in August and absolutely everyone was seeking her name to obtain out who she was.

Then there was ‘California Fires’ that was trending between Oct and November as flames engulfed areas of The Golden Point out.

And it appears quite a few persons have been looking ahead to the upcoming election, as ‘2020 pres. Election’ was steadily trending through the overall 12 months.

Immediately after all of the turmoil and hardships, the entire world was blessed with ‘Baby Yoda’ on November 12th – it even conquer out ‘Royal Baby’ on Goggle’s 2019 Infants search lineup.

The chart shows its optimum spike was in December and it seems to be continuing into the New 12 months.