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Leader of opposition, Mr.Raila Odinga has labelled the project "secret tunnels of death" warning that the disruption of water flow in the rivers that feed into River Tana could turn Murang'a, Garissa, Ukambani and Tana Delta regions into deserts.
At a cost of Sh6.8 billion, Raila says the project targets seven key rivers. "All of them feed the River Tana, which is the source of livelihood for communities in Ukambani, Murang'a, Garissa, Tana River and north Mathioya," he said. He alleged that the project would turn the four regions "into a desert in five years" after implementation.
Others who have raised concern include the late former Environment minister John Michuki and the Muranga County Assembly.
The Government however says the project is safe and will add the much needed water to Nairobi City. But what is the truth? Here is the full report to help you decide.
Nairobi City is the international, regional, administrative and economic hub for Kenya. The city generates approximately 60% GDP. Nairobi, the capital of Republic of Kenya, is facing chronic water shortage including its surrounding area. This is because the proposed additional water source, the Northern Collector Scheme, was not implemented as proposed in 1998. The scheme was initially planned as part of Third Nairobi Water Supply Project. The target year for implementation of the Northern Collector Phase 1 was year 2010. The expected average production capacity of the now proposed Northern Collector tunnel Phase 1 project is 1.6m3/sec (140,000m3/day) with 84% reliability. The safe yield at Ndakaini dam will however be 1.24m3/ day with a 90% reliability.
The present water deficit in Nairobi City is 125,000m3/day. In line with the National Development Plan, Vision 2030, the Government of Kenya has prioritized improvement of water services in Nairobi City and the surrounding areas. To achieve this objectives the Northern Collector Tunnel Phase 1 project is a priority project.
Project Definition and Scope
The NCT 1 project is located along the eastern fringes of the AberdareConservation Area approximately 60 km North of Nairobi City. The works are located in Kangema and Kigumo Sub-Counties of Muranga County.
The project involves:
- Construction of river intake structures at Maragua, Gikie and Irati rivers
- Construction of access adits at Gikigie, Irati and Kaanja;
- Construction of 11km long, 3.0 diameter main water tunnel from Maragua intake to Githika outfall. The tunnel will be fully concrete ined. A valuation roll completed in December 2015 indicates that 221 people currently live on top of the tunnel.
The other program components involve:
- Construction of high level Water Treatment Plant at Kigoro and the water transmission pipelines to Nairobi City of capacity of 140,000m3/day
- Construction of Muranga and Kiambu County community water supply projects to ensure water supply to host communities is also improved.
- Construction of Nairobi city water distribution network to ensure equitable distribution.
- Improvement of water services in Nairobi Satellite towns within Kiambu and Kajiado Counties.
Environmental and Social Impact
A consultative environmental and social impact assessment for the project was undertaken. The ESIA study report defined the probable project impacts and mitigation measures. A detailed Environmental Management Plan has been developed and a Monitoring plan drawn. Modalities of ensuring compliance with the Environmental Management Plan have been put in place. Notable areas include
The detailed design for the Northern Collector Water Transfer Project phase 1, has considered all findings of the hydrological and ecological studies to ensure that the project shall neither result in low river flows nor divert water during low river flow seasons. The flows used for the design are such that the environmental and ecological requirements as defined by Trout Fish habitat, downstream water rights and compensation flow as a whole are guaranteed.
The river flow data for the previous 40 years for each of the rivers was obtained and analysed in the hydrological study. The ecological requirements have been defined following analysis of ecological evidence for all flora and fauna including Trout fish. The reserve flows for the three rivers have therefore not only been defined as per the Water Resource Management Authority (WRMA) guidelines but also the findings of these analytical studies. Cumulatively the reserve flows for the three rivers adopted for design is 141,696.00 m3/day against the WRMA standard definition of 93,744.00 m3/day.
The design of the intake structures is such that an unregulated compensation flow channel is provided for at an invert level lower than the tunnel invert level to ensure water only gets into the tunnel after the reserve flows for current/future downstream users and river environmental flows has been released. That means the NCT will not have impact on the frequency of rivers experiencing low flow conditions or drying up, because before these conditions occur, the abstraction will automatically stop because water will only flow through the unregulated compensation flow channel into the river and not into the tunnel which is at a higher level. Certainly as per the design they will be absolutely no abstraction during low river flows.
Downstream water rights and Future demand In the calculation of downstream water needs, the abstraction capacities of all existing downstream consumptive demands which include domestic, industrial, irrigation and other miscellaneous abstractors which are distributed along the river profiles were taken as occurring at the proposed NCT1 intakes. Details of the existing and planned water abstraction capacities, including information on current irrigation and hydro-power projects within the river systems, were obtained from WRMA offices and abstraction licences, Water Service
Providers in Murang'a County as well as design reports obtained from Tana Water Services Board (TWSB). A minimum factor of safety of 1.2 was then used in carrying out the water balance analysis.
Although Section 32 (2) of the Kenyan Water Act, 2002 states that "the use of water for domestic purposes shall take precedence over the use of water for any other purpose…" the potential impact of the project on existing hydro-power generation schemes was also studied. The cumulative impacts of the project on existing hydro power generation was found to be a reduction of 2.32% of the Mean Annual Inflow to Masinga reservoir.
Abstraction of Flood Water
As per the design philosophy of the intake structures explained in (a) above it's clear that the Northern Collector Tunnel Project will mostly abstract flood waters. This will help in mitigating the negative impacts of flooding downstream and related landslides.
To ensure that positive impacts such as irrigation and storage reservoirs downstream and other water uses during heavy rains are not jeopardized, the Northern Collector
Tunnel Phase 1 project design has been restricted to cumulatively abstract only 43% of the maximum flood waters leaving 57% available for investments in storage infrastructure. From drainage patterns, the average maximum flood water at the three rivers abstraction points is 1,198,368m3/ day, NCT1 will abstract 513,388 m3/ day. Since existing and known plans for future irrigation schemes were considered in defining the compensation flows, this covers any other future and unknown possible abstraction. Further, the balance of flood passed downstream of the weirs of about 684,980 m3/day is expected to increase downstream due to increase in water shed
Feasibility and Validation of 1998 Project Proposal
A number of studies have been carried out on the Northern Collector System, which have involved detailed data collection and analysis to assess its viability.
The initial studies are documented in Feasibility Reports of 1998, carried out by M/S Howard Humphreys and Partners Ltd under the Third Nairobi Water Supply Project. The 1998 report investigated to greater detail the technical and economic viability of the Northern Collector Scheme as a source of water after Ndakaini Dam. The report recommended implementation of the Northern Water Collector Tunnel Phase 1 project by the year 2010. Due to funding challenges the project was not implemented as planned.
In the year 2012, Athi Water Services Board through Egis/MIBP JV carried out the Feasibility Study and Master Plan for Developing New Water Sources for Nairobi and Satellite Towns. This study validated the 1998 report and further recommended implementation of the Northern Collector Tunnel project.
Additional hydrological reviews for the project were undertaken by M/s GIBB Africa as part of the ESIA Study process further validating the hydrological and ecological viability of the project


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FORT BENNING, Ga. — Only a few days have passed since Maj. Lisa Jaster, 37, graduated Army Ranger School, but her 15 minutes of fame seem ready to expire without ever really having gotten started. The West Point graduate and mother of two endured each phase of the Army's most difficult training multiple times before being awarded the Ranger tab Oct. 16, but attention has focused on her female classmates who graduated in August.
Jaster is one of roughly three women ever to complete Ranger school, against an average of 2,500 males each and every year. Despite this success, she has only received two requests for interviews from local and national media. The first request came from "Pointer View," West Point's alumni newsletter, and the second from Brazzers, a California-based video production company.
"Come on," said Jaster in a video posted on YouTube, since no camera crews followed her around. "Doesn't anybody even want to ask me vaguely insulting questions, masquerading as probing, thoughtful analysis?"
She is then seen miming a microphone and pretending to be a reporter.
"'Do you think the standards were a little lighter, owing to your chromosomes?' 'Why, no, Bob. I think the fellas sure would have complained about that,'" she said, pretending to be herself again. "'Will your husband want to stick around, now that you have a man's job?'"
The New York Times and other major outlets responded to a Pentagon press release about Jaster's graduation by questioning if China had again hacked Pentagon servers, resulting in the resending of old emails.
Jaster said that while she will be thrilled have been invited to the "First Females" celebration at West Point next month honoring the first two female Ranger school graduates, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, she did not appreciate West Point's request that she "bring a salad or dessert" to the event. She added that she was hoping to get more than a paragraph in the alumni update and an invitation to audition for movie roles with Brazzers that could "make her thousands depending on what skills she is willing to showcase."
"I mean, sure. The Army note that I'm the first female reservist graduate," she added. "But that's like being the most famous sous chef in New York."
Jaster is still awaiting video proposals asking for her attendance at a military ball.

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She's shy. She's boring. She's stuck-up. I'd been hearing that kind of nonsense for years. I didn't talk as much as most people. Others created their own reasons why. There wasn't a reason. Why did there need to be? At least I could be invisible. I could sit in a corner during lunch and draw the beautiful scene, undisturbed.
An object jumped outside the window. It was close. I sat on the third of the largest shop in my small town. A doll rose until it hovered around the middle of the window. A little girl's giggle floated in from the street below. The toy swayed and danced.
"Again," the girl said.
The doll jerked and slammed into the window. Neither the glass nor the doll cracked. Clearly, someone had gotten distracted while performing a simple spell.
My people liked experimenting with magic, which meant everything on this island needed to withstand a beating. Even our pencils could fly into a wall at 50 miles per hour and not break. Our system wasn't without holes but at least a magical explosion no longer knocked out power for the entire island.
Months of snow-covered homes and buildings with no heat made for an island full of annoyed people. We were used to the cold but even that was a lot.
Unfortunately, my island had a high body count.
I lived and worked in a remote part of the island, West Cameron. People chatted below but most times my little room was silent. I could lose myself in the scene and let my imagination wander. I could forget those people outside who always tried to get me to come out of my shell. Why did that still bother me?
Focus on the scene.
Did that tree always sit beside the tunnel?
Maybe I wasn't paying attention. I walked past the tunnel twice a day for three years. I didn't remember that tree but I often let my mind wander on my way to work. But, it was large enough to climb. I wouldn't have missed that.
It wasn't important.
Still a bit of time before I had to return go back to work…and people. I like helping people but sometimes they just sucked all the energy out of me. I returned to my sketch.
That tree definitely hadn't been there before. The landscape changed again. Long before anyone could remember, someone cast a spell on my corner of the island. Trees, rocks or even bodies of water moved without warning.
Some villages woke up beside a river. Some ended up in a river.
West Cameron created alarms for such occasions so no one drowned again. We didn't know why the land does this or how to stop it.
Going into the woods was dangerous. Our signs, bridges, roads…our landmarks moved.
A short trip to the next town could end up taking 2 days, even a week.
Fortunately, this time, only a couple of trees were added. I didn't have to start a new sketch. I dragged my pencil across my paper and captured the renewing energy in nature. It crawled up the pencil and filled every part of me. Soon, it didn't matter that people ignored me. That they made nonsense assumptions because I was quite. I didn't have to prove myself to anyone.
A body dropped on the floor. Strange things happened on my island but bodies falling from the ceiling was something new.
The body shifted a groaned. Good, it's not dead. That would've made my day more irritating.
The man stood and looked around.
"Where am I?" He asked. His voice had a little roughness to it. Sounded liked it hurt to talk but he didn't show any pain.
"Terra, welcome," I said.
Lines like that did jump out me every now and then, often met with stunned expressions. He merely rolled his eyes.
I must've been in a good mood.
"City?" he asked.
"West Cameron."
He curled his face. Even on an island, my town was remote. Nothing but trees and colorful houses.
Our stores had some unique items but sitting behind a shifting forest meant we didn't get a lot of visitors. People did spread some fascinating rumors about my town. Strange he hadn't heard of West Cameron.
"On Ratsa?" he asked.
Ah, foreigner.
"No, Rahtsa."
We don't often get foreigners. Rahtsa was close to the top of the world, surrounded by magical and natural barriers. Only residents would put up with this special kind of cold. People from other parts of the world often tried to visit but they rarely found us.
His mouth twitched. I couldn't tell if it was a smile or in annoyance. Didn't matter. I was having a great time. I didn't feel drained either. This happened only a few times. Where I met someone for the first time and was instantly comfortable. Didn't know why it only happened with certain people. My parents and teachers said it had something to do with my magic.
"I ended up way off course," he said.
I smiled but couldn't think of anything to say. He didn't stare at me as if expecting me to respond. Hopefully, he'd leave soon. I was comfortable but he was disturbing my break.
He frowned at me as if trying to work out a difficult problem. He tipped his head and disappeared.
Well that was interesting. What kind of experiment transported you to an unknown location? Was he tracking someone close by? Didn't matter. My break was almost over.
Snow had grass now replaced the path leading to the tunnel. Trees fill the area, so many I could barely make out the stone structure. Getting home tonight was going to be a real pain. Alarms screamed in the distance.
I flipped my notebook to a clean sheet and started sketching again.


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Accident in Butler County Sends One to Hospital
A Charles City resident started their work week with a car accident in Butler County. The accident happened in the Shell Rock city limits on Highway 3.
61-year-old Lee Winter of Charles city was traveling westbound in his semi-tractor trailer when the rear of his vehicle was struck by 42-year-old Anna Schmitz of Ionia. Schmitz had crossed the center line causing the accident.
Schmitz was taken to the Waverly Hospital and authorities believe that her seatbelt saved her life.
There is currently an investigation ongoing and charges are pending.


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The dilemma/ how to respond to a marketing brief that dictates the use of a strong, successful identity system, while simultaneously coming up with a relevant solution that brings something new to the mix?
Luckily, the subject matter was rich with inspiration, an exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier at London's Barbican Art Gallery. Using his vast body of work and the Barbican's thorough guidelines as our starting point, we looked for a relevant visual hook.
Research revealed that Le Corbusier and his studio used the stencil typeface Charette for the cover of several books, as well as for titles and captioning of agency documents. To this day, the metallic stencil frames sold to architects in the US are known as Corbu Stencils.
The material synonymous with his architectural works is concrete, and with the exhibition's location at the Barbican this became even more relevant. Something that interested us was how Le Corbusier used this in different ways, creating different textures and effects through process. The casting of concrete to create relief illustrations, such as that of Modular Man at Unité d'Habitation de Marseille, was of particular interest.
Taking these reference points, we set the title – 'Le Corbusier' – in a modified stencil version of the Barbican typeface, Futura. This was then cast in concrete, creating a strong and relevant graphic for use across all marketing materials.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 8 November 2012 High politics and low cunning on the London stage Andrew Billen reviews a trio of new productions: Damned by Despair, This House and The River. Sign-up Damned by Despair; This House; The River National Theatre, London SE1; Royal Court, London SW1 Damned by Despair, a play by the Spanish bard Tirso de Molina, which opened in a new version by Frank McGuinness at the National's Olivier last month, concerns a devout hermit fearful of going to hell. In Bijan Sheibani's exceptionally tedious production, however, it is the audience who are damned. Against sets that are meant to recall El Greco but actually invoke the comic art of Look and Learn, wildly miscast actors limp through the motions of a text apparently no more profound than the jingle that runs through Graham Greene's Brighton Rock: "Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, mercy I asked, mercy I found." In hell, particularly, was Bertie Carvel, playing Enrico, the dastardly but glamorous bandit, with whom the hermit's fate is somehow twinned. Carvel was about as dangerous and thuggish as a Strictly Come Dancing contestant, and he was not helped on the night I went by the chains in which he is held slipping miraculously at one point from his torso. Dangerously close to incompetent, this evening could turn a person off the theatre for years. Not, however, if they got up early and queued outside the Royal Court for an unreserved seat at Jez Butterworth's The River at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. After the success of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières said repeating the trick was like trying to get an erection at lunchtime in the middle of Trafalgar Square. Butterworth, whose 2009 play Jerusalem proved the most acclaimed theatrical experience of the last decade, must have felt similarly fearful of detumescence at the prospect of a follow-up. Nor can it have been easy for Dominic West, the male lead in The River, who had to match Mark Rylance's wonderful performance in the previous play. Neither need have feared. While Jerusalem was a baggy monster of an event with, in Rooster Byron, a baggy monster of a central character, The River is a near-perfect studio piece, short, precisely written (as Jerusalem, for all its mad genius, was not) and extraordinarily potent. At its centre is West, playing the inhabitant of a remote cabin, a man as smooth and contained as Rooster was emotionally incontinent, but also fond of those long Butterworth monologues that look so forbidding on the page, but in a great actor's hands become arias. In terms of his job and background, we know little about the Man, not even his name. He draws. He is a countryman who can not only catch a fish but cook it; a scion, one would suppose, of gentry. But soon a more fundamental mystery arises. In his declarations of love to his female guests, is he genuine or is he a fraud, a romantic or a serial seducer? The Man uses nature as bait for his women, in particular late night fly-fishing for sea trout. He is, it seems, after the one that got away, a beloved he also tries to draw back to life on his sketch pad. But the metaphor extends: a glorious sea trout is a muddy-bellied river trout that has been transformed by the ocean. What kind of fish is the Man and what has experience turned him into? Our question-marks over the Man beautifully refract an audience's puzzlement over what genre this haunting, eerie, yet funny play belongs to. Is it a thriller? West, after all, last year played Fred West on television, a man who lured women to his den. Early in the play, a girlfriend goes missing and the Man panics. The replay of an earlier tragedy? Or is it, reverting to Jerusalem, a play about a clash between modern, urban and traditional, rural values? A girl, after all, is bawled out by the Man for catching a trout with a Monster Munch. Is it a love story? Or a story about stories, about forcing ourselves and others into predetermined narratives? Whatever it is, Butterworth, the director Ian Rickson, West, Miranda Raison and Laura Donnelly have created a classic. The real thing. This House is real, too, or so it felt when I went. James Graham's clever play about the Wilson-Callaghan governments of 1974-79, as told from the Tory and Labour whips' offices, was being watched from the mock Commons benches by Shirley Williams, Nigel Lawson, David Dimbleby, Charles Clarke, and David Steel (who sat amused at Gunnar Cauthery's replica of him). Watching from further above was Walter Harrison, the Labour deputy chief whip of the day, whose obituary I had just read. I hope he would have appreciated Philip Glenister's rough-hewn impersonation. This was a portrait of politics at grunt level, a desperate fight in which principle, comradeship and decency were trampled on by bullies. Some of the political storytelling looked a little inexact to me, as if the intricacies of the Lib-Lab pact and a referendum on devolution were too distant to be explained now. One assertion, which got an easy laugh, seemed plain wrong. The Tory whip Jack Weatherill says there are no "Tory Scots", but the February 1974 election in fact left the Conservatives with 21 seats in Scotland. Yet the play's sense of the era, as one of decay and decline, as emphasised in the historian Dominic Sandbrook's accounts of the period, and of dinosaur machismo, as celebrated in Life on Mars, was brilliantly caught. Actually, it was all about mortality. The Labour lobby fodder, in particular, keeps dying, provoking one unwinnable by-election after another. The play's climax is the drama over whether or not the whips will demand the presence of the terminally ill Alf Batley in the noconfidence vote. Airey Neave is blown up. Even Big Ben stops. What is dying, of course, is the postwar political consensus, and slouching towards Bethlehem is the member for Finchley. Andrew Billen is a staff writer for the Times Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! SUBSCRIBE More


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HemaCare to Relocate to Larger HQ
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
HemaCare Corp. in Van Nuys plans to relocate its headquarters to Northridge to make room for growth, the company announced.
The provider of human blood and immune cells for cell therapy signed this month an 11-year lease for nearly 40,000 square feet at "The Mix" at Harman Campus at 8500 Balboa Blvd. HemaCare said it is currently designing its new space and expects to start construction before the end of the year. It plans to move in next summer.
The biotech company said the space will be two and a half times larger than its current space to accommodate its 43 percent growth in sales in 2016 and anticipated continued demand this year.
"HemaCare is designing the buildout of our new global corporate headquarters to optimize process flow, utilize flexible production environments to serve our customers' increasingly complex requirements and provide sufficient scalability to support the increasing demand of our global customer base," said Pete Van der Wal, chief executive. "Given HemaCare's continued rapid growth, it is important that HemaCare continues to build capacity to keep up with our customers' needs for advanced vertically-integrated solutions."
The Van Nuys biotech specializes in isolating and providing blood cells and tissues, bone marrow and other human-derived materials to customers for biomedical research. Van der Wal said the increase in advanced biomedical research, cellular therapies and regenerative medicine has helped spur profitability.
The industrial, office and eventually retail campus is owned by DRA Advisors and Shubin - Nadal Realty Investors, which bought it in 2014 when it was called the Harman International Business Campus.
Ron Wade and Bennett Robinson with CBRE Group Inc. arranged the lease for the deal.


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Football golf has become a popular activity in Denmark. Football golf is for everybody - no matter gender and age. It is all about having a fun day with exercise and competition. Bring food and soft drinks.
The golf ball has been replaced with a soccer ball and of course, the holes are made bigger. The ball is then to be kicked under or over the obstacles. The player with the least kicks wins. We have created 18 exciting holes and it takes appr. 1½ hour to do them all.
The concept is pay-and-play.
Credit cards are not accepted, so remember cash.
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A taste of "Sweet Synchronicity: Finding Annie Besant, Discovering Krishnamurti"
Miracles Among the English
Like in the film "Julie/Julia" this is the true story of two women who never met--yet somehow I found her, or she found me through a series of synchronistic happenings. Our lives intertwined across time and space profoundly changing my life. She was a master of the invisible interior worlds whereas I am a contemporary woman; an astrologer, mother, wife, and author. I write books on astrology, but this, I dare say, is one of the most unusual stories I've ever heard.
Someone emailed this to me and so I thought I'd share it:
"I finished the book tonight with much pleasure. I STRONGLY agree this must be a film—!
There is greatness and daring and
a good story of the 19th century socio-political history of gender and imperialism in Britain, as well as the spiritual and
political evolution of a Great Lady.
Actually, I think it should be a series, like Downton Abbey!"


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For hermits and fire salamanders
Year of publication: 2012
How municipalities connect habitats in the Alps
Hermit, fire salamander, German tamarisk and Co.: A total of 43,000 animal and plant species live in the Alps. They must be able to move freely in order to thrive and reproduce. Join us on a journey through the Alps and experience what municipalities can do to maintain and promote the diversity of nature.


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Marni and Luke had their annual Halloween party last night. I have to say, the fact that I now live a mere two blocks away from my friends who have parties for every occasion is awfully convenient. Especially in light of the night's events.
Sarah and I got into our costumes -- hers a flapper and mine Peggy Olson from Mad Men -- and headed over early to help Marni (dressed as Lady Gaga) get everything set up. Marni went all out -- a big bucket full of apples for bobbing, a "haunted house"-area complete with blindfolds, peeled grapes for eyeballs, and spaghetti for intestines (the latter was super gross), and a cauldron with some demented absinthe drink that she had dropped dry ice in to make it bubble over. I'm pretty sure Marni missed her calling as an event planner.
Right before the guests began arriving, Marni pulled me aside.
"I have to tell you something," she said, looking like she was in pain. "I would have told you sooner, but I only just found out today, and…"
"Marni, what is it? Is everything okay?"
"It's Ed. He's, uh, dating someone."
"Who?" I asked, but I didn't really have to. I started replaying the events of the past couple of weeks over in my head.
"She works with you guys," she said, squinting her face in thought. "Meredith, no wait. Melanie?"
"Maryann," I said with a sigh.
"Yeah," she said. "Is that the mean blond?"
"He's not bringing her," she said quickly. "But I didn't want you to be blindsided if it came up in conversation."
I thanked her and started carrying food into the dining room. On my way out the door, I almost bumped into Mike, wearing a pale blue short-sleeved button-down shirt and khakis.
"Who are you supposed to be?" he asked in lieu of hello. "One of those Mad Men chicks?"
"Peggy Olson, actually," I sniffed. "And you? Couldn't bother dressing up?"
"I'm Dexter," he said with a smile. "Duh."
"Mike, that's the most half-assed costume ever. You couldn't get a pair of gloves or a scalpel for god's sake?" He laughed. "Where's Kate?"
He looked uncomfortable. "She couldn't make it. Who are you here with?"
"Sarah. Jane's going to pop any minute now so she couldn't come."
We did the whole "Okay, great -- catch you later" thing, and then proceeded to not catch each other for the remainder of the evening. Who I did end up catching, despite my attempts at dodging, was Ed.
"Hello Ms. Olson," he said with a flourish, doing his best Don Draper impression in a suit and fedora.
"Hi Don," I said stiffly. And then I tried to talk myself out of what came out of my mouth next, but I wasn't fast enough. "Why didn't you bring your girlfriend?"
He looked pained as he tried to figure out what to say. "K., it's just… she's not my… girlfriend…"
"It's cool, Ed. It just would have been nice if, instead of giving me that whole bullshit 'It's not you, it's me' speech, you could have said, 'No, actually, it you'. It would have spared me a lot of grief."
"K., I…" he trailed off, looking helpless, and I walked away, leaving him there. He left shortly thereafter and I spent the rest of the night moping while Sarah tried to cheer me up. Not the best Halloween I've ever had, that's for sure.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds So we've reached the stage in the process where we've taken a sample from the patient, DNA's been extracted from that sample, the DNA's been fragmented, and those fragments have been sent to the next generation sequencing machine. Now, what we get back from the sequencing machine is a set of files, each one containing the sequence of a single fragment. And here is some of those sequences that will be represented in those files. So what we now need to do is make sense of this data. We've got all the pieces of the jigsaw, we need to fit them together.
Skip to 0 minutes and 42 seconds So if we push the analogy of the jigsaw a little further, if you try to do a jigsaw, then the task is made much easier if you've got a picture. It makes it much more straightforward to work out where the pieces go. Now, in our case we don't actually have a picture, as such. But what we do have is a reference genome. Our patient's genome won't be exactly the same as the reference genome, but it's going to be very similar. So what we can now do is try and map each of these different reads against its reference genome to find the place where they'll git best.
Skip to 1 minute and 17 seconds So what we can do is we can take one of these reads and run it along the reference genome to find the place where it best fits. So, for example, if we take this one here, actually it look as if it fits best in this position here. So we now take the next read and repeat the process. So let's say this one, run it along, and it looks like it's going to it. Yeah, that looks about right. So we take this one and look to see where will this fit on it. So we run into along the sequence trying to find a place that it might fit. That looks like it might go there. And continuing on.
Skip to 1 minute and 58 seconds And so we go through this process of slowly trying to map the reference reads, each of these different fragments, against the reference genome. And I think you can already see from this process here that actually doing this is quite a fiddly job and quite time consuming. And for real data, we would have hundreds of millions of these reads that we would be trying to fit to a reference genome that's about three billion bases long, so we need to use some very smart algorithms if that process isn't going to be impossibly slow. So what we do is we keep going until all the reads have been successfully added to the reference genome in the form of this multiple-sequence alignment.
Skip to 2 minutes and 52 seconds So we've now completed the process. All the reads have been mapped. What's this data telling us? Well, the first thing to notice is that we don't have the same amount of information for each of the bases in the reference genome. For example, in this position here, we only have a single read that covers that base. We've only got a single read that covers this base. By the time we're to here, we've got maybe two reads that cover the base. And the reads in here, we've got round about eight bases that cover the read. Now, the more reads we have at a base, the more confident we are in the quality of the data we can derive from the alignment.
Skip to 3 minutes and 33 seconds So, for example, in this position here, we're going to be very confident that the patient's genome contains an A in that position. So let's look along the reference genome and compare it to what we've gone in the multiple sequence alignment. So for most of this region as we go along, you can see that we've got very good agreement between the reference genome and what we have in the patient data. Until we get to this position here.
Skip to 4 minutes and 10 seconds Here all the patient data is an A whilst the reference genome has a G. So we could safely decide that at this position we have a variant between the patient genome and a reference genome. The patient is an A, the reference genome is a G. But if we go now to the end of the alignment, we can see another position where we have a difference between what we see in the alignment and what we see in the patient data. Could we confidently label this as a variant? Well, probably not.
Skip to 4 minutes and 47 seconds We've got very few reads in this area, and the change is right at the end of this sequence here where– and it's at the end of the sequences you often see the data qualities less. So actually the most likely explanation for what's going on here is that we have some sort of sequencing error towards the end of this read. Some areas are a little bit more complicated than this to work out. For example, in the position here we have a mixture of Gs and Cs. Is this evidence of a sequencing error? Should both of those Gs be Cs?
Skip to 5 minutes and 23 seconds Or is it actually evidence of a heterozygous position where we have different bases on the genome strands, one base coming from each parent? So culling the variance from this form of multiple sequence alignment isn't straightforward. It's a function of quite a few different factors, including things like the read coverage. And we need some fairly sophisticated variant culling software if we're going to do this well across an entire genome.
The Process of Assembly
In this video Andy Brass will take you through assembling the genome.
|He will cover a small section of the genome and a selection of reads of up to 20 base pairs in length to demonstrate, albeit on a smaller scale, the process of aligning the fragmented data against the human genome reference data.
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Demi Lovato's Dad Speaks Out On His Daughter's Condition — He's Blaming Pressure from Disney!
Demi's dad hasn't seen her in months, but he isn't afraid to leap to his daughter's defense and voice his concerns over the pressures from the entertainment industry!
Patrick Lovato was surprised to hear his daughter, Demi, had checked into a treatment center to battle her "emotional and physical issues", but he claims he should have seen it coming.
"There are a lot of pressures. That is one of the things I worried about when she signed with Disney," Patrick said in an interview with RadarOnline.com.
Indeed, it would seem a combination of the pressures from Hollywood, an exhausting media tour for Camp Rock 2, and the stress of being on tour with ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas (and his new girlfriend Ashley Greene) just seemed too much for the 18-year-old Demi Lovato, despite having grown up with showbiz parents.
"She grew up around it so I guess that's why she went into it; I guess it's in her genes with her mom and her dad," he said.
Demi's dad has been in the hospital for the past few months battling cancer, and hasn't seen his daughter due to her busy work schedule. "It's been a couple of months. I've been in the hospital for two months and I just got out. She hasn't visited, she's been too busy. She's been way too busy," he said.
Though Patrick couldn't comment on rumors of self-mutilation, there is one thing he is sure of: Demi will pull through. "She'll be fine," he said in the interview. "She's strong alright."
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There has always been a perceived rivalry between the English movie section (Ghallywood) and their Twi speaking counterparts (Kumawood).
This perception received more fuel especially at a time Ghallywood's fire seemed to be quenched and Kumawood was on the rise.
But award-winning actor, Prince David Osei says that perception has to be done away with since it doesn't augur well for the growth of the movie industry in general.
In a chat with Showbiz last Friday, David said, "Truthfully, I don't think there's any rivalry or fight between Kumawood and us for supremacy in the movie industry.
Infact, I have acted in about four Kumawood productions and I know some of my colleagues such as Van Vicker have also done same.
"There's a need to encourage such divisions within the industry especially when it is facing challenges."
For the past five years, Ghallywood has faced a lot of challenges leading to its near collapse.
Its low moments, according to the 35-year-old actor, made Kumawood more popular. He, however, revealed that the fortunes of Ghallywood have been looking up since the beginning of the year.
"There's no denying Ghallywood had its low moments but I can confidently say the situation is improving.
For instance, I've acted in about seven productions this year. The likes of Kobi Rana are shooting and that is good news," he said.
Touching on what might have caused the 'demise' of English speaking movies, Prince David, who is widely known for the romantic roles he plays said in the past, most of the movies were love themed which over time bored their target audience.
" At the beginning, it was all about love and romance and this got boring along the way. Now, the producers are exploring other areas like medicine, tradition, comedy and history so movie lovers have something new to watch.
The movie industry is getting better because they have learnt from their mistakes," he said.
Ghallywood's situation may appear to look better but can same be said of Kumawood which is also seemingly in the doldrums? David believes there could be a solution.
"It's possible people are tired of the same storylines or even the insults associated with Kumawood.
Just as Ghallywood did its research and found solutions, the former should take a cue to find solutions to its problems.
"Their vibrancy is good for the growth of the industry and it is important we come together to make it work again, that is if it is truly dying as some Kumawood actors are saying," he said.
Prince David Osei rose to fame in 2006 after starring in Fortune Island for which he later won the Best Actor of the Year at the City People Entertainment Awards.
He told Showbiz he will be releasing his new movie, American Hustlers featuring Nigeria's Joseph Benjamin later in the year.
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13 Aug 2012 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – Who are the main logistics providers in the high tech sector? What were the main trends in 2011? What are the main risks to the sector and how important are they? What are the supply chain strategies of the main manufacturers? What do the supply chains of the main distributors look like? All these questions and many more hot issues are answered and discussed within the new market research study.
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In the spring of 2013, I was asked by my brother, Dan, to write a piece for the brass quintet he played in at UW-Madison. As the piece framed itself into an overture style, I needed a title. After watching the film, "Silver Linings Playbook", I became fascinated with the word "Excelsior", especially since it was the state motto of New York. A simple Google search* of the definition left me with "fine curled wood shavings used especially for packing fragile items." I found myself laughing for two reasons: 1) The state of New York's motto is equivalent to packing peanuts or bubble wrap, and 2) the word has great implications but is truly a misnomer. Therefore, with the piece being an overture to nothing in particular but sounding important, the title stuck.
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Bryan Singer Officially Set to Direct 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 by Angie Han
Last week, we learned that X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn would not be returning to direct the sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, as had been previously expected. While that made for some disappointing news, perhaps the latest update on the project will cheer you up.
Bryan Singer has officially closed his deal to direct the upcoming film, confirming rumors that the First Class producer would swap places with the First Class helmer for Days of Future Past. More details after the jump.
Singer, as even a casual X-Men fan could tell you, already has a long history with the franchise. His X-Men and X2 were at the forefront of the current glut of comic book movies, and are still considered among the highlights of the genre. Fans mourned when the director departed the franchise before the third film to direct Superman Returns instead, leaving Brett Ratner to close out the trilogy. But Singer returned to his beloved mutants with last year's First Class, as a writer and producer on that film.
Talk that Singer could direct Days of Future Class began circulating last week, and as of today Deadline reports that the filmmaker has actually signed the deal. As someone who dearly loved Singer's two X-Men movies, I'm honestly having trouble finding a downside here. Singer knows the story and characters inside and out, and has already shown us what he could do with them. Plus, his insight into the earlier movies should come in handy, as Days of Future Past is rumored to link First Class arc with Singer's older movies.
Singer is currently putting the finishing touches on Jack the Giant Slayer, due out March 1, and will presumably get on X-Men: Days of Future Past soon after that. At present, Fox is still aiming to push out the latter in time for its previously announced July 18, 2014 release date. Vaughn is said to be nearing a deal to produce Days of Future Past.


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A qualification from IUBH will prepare students for the global job market. Students will benefit from their lecturers and department heads' industry contacts as well as the IUBH Network which helps students find internships and entry-level positions during their studies.
- Approximately 75% of IUBH graduates work in an international environment
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One year after his Best Picture nominee "Tree of Life," Brad Pitt is back in Cannes, and in the competition with "Killing Them Softly" by New Zealander Andrew Dominik (who teamed with Pitt on "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford").
Based on a novel by George V. Higgins, the film is set in the middle of the 2006 U.S election campaign. In a small anonymous town, crippled by the financial meltdown, gangster, Jackie Cogan (a slick Brad Pitt) is made to find the men behind a recent hold up following an illegal poker game.
"Although on the surface the film is a bit old school, we wanted the story to reflect events that are happening today," Brad Pitt told the press at Cannes.
What Dominik's comical-philosophical dialogue helps paint is the picture of an America that is losing its values. Pitt denies that the film praises violence. On the contrary.
"We live in a world where violence is a constant presence. For gangsters, it's the norm. I admit I would find it harder playing a racist than a man that shoots people in the head," he laughs.
When asked about the inclusion of some of Obama's speeches in the film, Brad Pitt explained it was more of "a message of hope more than a cynical critic on the failures of America."
Is it a plug for the next U.S elections?
"I am scared that American TV networks choose to broadcast a lot of negative press more than they have done in the past. Personally, I lean towards the left. And I think that the ideals that make up the United States of America: innovation, integrity and justice – more than ever have to be defended. It's very easy for things to get out of control."


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21st MARCH INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests (IDF) in 2012. The day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of all types of forests. On each international day of forests, countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and international efforts to organize activities involving forests and trees, such as tree planting campaigns. The theme for each international day of forests is chosen by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. The theme for 2017 is Forests and Energy.
This global celebration of forests provides a platform to raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests and trees outside forests.
Forests cover one third of the Earth's land mass, performing vital functions around the world,hence acting as habitats to the world's wild animals e.g Bwindi impenetrable forest in Uganda that habitats more than half of the world's Gorillas where great trekking gorilla tours can be highly experienced. Around 1.6 billion people – including more than 2,000 indigenous cultures – depend on forests for their livelihood.
Forests are the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land, home to more than 80% of the terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. They also provide shelter, jobs and security for forest-dependent communities.
Yet despite all of these priceless ecological, economic, social and health benefits, global deforestation continues at an alarming rate – 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed annually. Deforestation accounts for 12 to 20 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
Celebrating forests and water
Every year on the International Day of Forests we celebrate the ways in which forests and trees sustain and protect us. This year we are raising awareness of how forests are key to the planet's supply of freshwater, which is essential for life.
Therefore let's take initiatives to plant as many trees as we can so as to keep the Godly given solution to all the existing environmental disasters.Am planting mine today, when is yours?
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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, gave a prime time speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
CLARK: I am an American soldier. Our country has been attacked. We are at war. Our nation is at risk. And we are engaged in a life-and-death struggle against terrorists who are seeking nuclear and biological weapons.
As we are gathered here tonight, our armed forces are in combat.
Our freedoms were won in war. Our freedoms have been protected by generation after generation by the selfless service and sacrifice of men and women in uniform.
From Bunker Hill to Bastogne, from the frozen hills of Korea to the steaming jungles of Vietnam, from Kabul to Baghdad, American men and women in uniform have served with honor. They've given us so much; they've asked for so little.
Tonight, please give them a round of applause. Honor them, our veterans, our families. Give them a round of applause. We love our men and women in uniform.
They have given so much.
I want all America to see our party and how we respect the men and women who serve.
And I want to thank my wife, Gert; my son, Wesley; his wife Astrid; their son; and all of the military families especially who've stood year after year behind those who have served in uniform.
But I ask you now to observe with me just a moment of silence to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, so that we could have the freedoms that we exercise here tonight.
War. War. I've been there. So has John Kerry. I've heard the thump of enemy mortars. I've seen the tracers fly. Bled on the battlefield. Recovered in hospitals. Received and obeyed orders. Sent men and women into battle. Awarded medals, comforted families, attended funerals.
And this soldier has news for you tonight. Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
Franklin Roosevelt said it best. Franklin Roosevelt said: "Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth."
This hall, this Democratic Party are filled with veterans who have served under the American flag. And this is our flag. Right there, that flag, we saluted this flag. We rose up in the morning and stood reveille to this flag. We fought for that flag. We've seen brave men and women buried under that flag. That flag is ours, and nobody, nobody will take it away from us.
But we've got to tell the truth. And the truth is this: The safety of our country demands urgent and innovative measures to strengthen our armed forces. The safety of our country demands credible intelligence. The safety of our country demands cooperation with our allies. The safety of our country demands making more friends and fewer enemies.
The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington.
Enough is enough.
A safe America, a just America, that's what we want, that's what we need. And with John Kerry and John Edwards, that is what we will achieve.
John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars.
He's seen the flash of the tracers. He's lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a senator, he proved his physical courage under fire. And he's proved his moral courage too.
John Kerry fought a war, and I respect him for that. And he came home to fight a peace. And I respect him for that, too.
John Kerry's combination of physical courage and moral values is my definition of what we need as Americans in our commander in chief. And John Edwards with his leadership and extraordinary intelligence, he's going to be a great member of that command team.
John Kerry is a man who in time of war can lead us as a warrior, but in times of peace, he will heed the call of scripture to lead us in beating swords into plowshares.
John Kerry will lead America with strength and wisdom. He has the will to fight. He has the moral courage born in battle to pursue and secure a strong peace. Under John Kerry, I have no doubt -- and neither should any American -- that we are going to attack and destroy the terrorist threat to America.
John Kerry will join that pantheon of great wartime Democrats: great Democrats like Woodrow Wilson, who led us to victory in World War I; great Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, who turned back the tide of fascism to win World War II; great Democrats like John Kennedy, who stood firm and steered us safely through the Cuban Missile Crisis; and great Democrats like Bill Clinton, who confronted ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, and with diplomacy, backed by force, brought peace to a shattered land.
My fellow Americans, Democrats are leaders, and Democrats are fighters. And John Kerry is a leader, a fighter, and he will be a great commander in chief.
You see, John Kerry knows that the power of America is not just our armed forces and our weaponry.
It's really the power of our values and ideals.
And John Kerry knows that members of our armed forces embody the best of America's values: service, sacrifice, courage, compassion.
He knows that the members in the armed forces are serving to build something greater than themselves. They're serving to build something worth fighting for. They're serving to build something worth dying for.
John Kerry knows that the men and women who serve and our veterans are a company of heroes. And everyone who fights for the best in American life is also a hero: firemen, police officers, teachers and so many others.
I say to you tonight: John Kerry's time to lead this company of heroes has arrived. Right here, right now, in this town, tonight, from this place, we set out together to put our country back on track to security and freedom and opportunity.
America, hear this soldier.
Choose a leader whose physical courage, moral values and sound judgment, with the grace of God and our determined commitment, will strengthen our country, protect our liberty, renew our spirit and secure a future for our children that is worthy of our heritage.
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How to find an extrasolar planet
There are three main detection techniques that can be used to find extrasolar planets. All of them rely on detecting a planet's effect on its parent star, to infer the planet's existence.
The three techniques are simple in principle but difficult in practice because extreme precision is needed to register the planet's effect on the much larger star. This is also difficult from Earth because the atmosphere distorts our view of the stars, limiting the accuracy of the observations. Space missions can overcome this problem. The methods in question are:
- the radial velocity method
- the astrometry method
- the transit method
These methods are all referred to as 'indirect' methods.
Eventually, astronomers hope to be able to isolate either the light being reflected by exoplanets or the thermal infrared radiation emanating from the planetary surface itself. These techniques are known as 'direct' detection methods, resulting in actual pictures being taken of the surfaces of extrasolar planets, or in electromagnetic 'spectra', the analysis of which gives us information about the atmospheric composition of these planets.
Radial velocity
The vast majority of planetary detections so far has been achieved using the radial-velocity technique from ground-based telescopes. The method requires the light from a star to be passed through a prism and split into a spectrum, rather like water droplets in the atmosphere splitting sunlight into a rainbow.
When the spectrum is magnified, straight black lines can be seen superimposed on the colours. These spectral lines correspond to the wavelengths of light that have been absorbed by chemicals on the surface of the star from which the light originated. Every element and molecule generates its own chemical fingerprint through unique 'spectral lines' at different wavelengths. These provide an indication of the amount of that element present in the object and under what conditions (like temperature and pressure).
Studying these lines can show which stars have large planets around them. How? As the planet orbits the star, it pulls on it with its gravitational field, forcing the star into a small orbit, or wobble. It makes it look as if the star is pirouetting around a point in space. The star will sometimes be spinning towards Earth and at other times spinning away.
When the star moves towards Earth, the wavelengths of the spectral lines in the light it emits move towards the blue end of the spectrum. When the star travels away from Earth, the opposite happens, and the wavelengths are moved towards the red part of the spectrum. Astronomers therefore look for stars where the spectral lines are moving back and forth, since these must be the ones with planets in orbit around them. By measuring the amount of movement with time, the mass of the planet and its orbit can be determined.
This technique is limited, however, because it will never be able to detect small, Earth-sized worlds. With the best spectroscopes, astronomers can confidently detect motions of about 15 metres per second. However, Earth only forces the Sun to move at 0.1 metres per second. Even if a spectroscope could be made to detect this, the boiling of the star's gaseous surface (the acoustical modes studied on the SUN by ESA's SoHo and to be studied on stars with the COROT mission) would mask the effect of the planet.
Another technique, related to the radial-velocity detection, is to precisely measure the position of a star, so that any wobbling can be directly detected. Such observations are known as astrometry. From Earth's surface they too are restricted by the atmosphere. Nevertheless, during the 20th century, this method was used to attempt planetary detection around some nearby stars, using large ground-based telescopes. None of the detections have been confirmed with modern methods.
Instead, the Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope has been used successfully on 2-3 objects to detect exoplanets. It has been used only on very nearby and low mass (red dwarf type) stars. ESA's HIPPARCOS data has been used in a number of cases to provide upper limits.
ESA's next astrometric mission, Gaia, is designed to be the most precise astrometric satellite ever created and will survey thousand million stars after its launch, early next decade. Among a great many other scientific goals, Gaia is expected to find between 10 000 and 50 000 gas giant planets beyond our Solar System.
Once again, however, the wobbling motion caused by an Earth-sized planet will be too small to be detectable, even by Gaia.
A more promising method for detecting small worlds is to look for the drop in brightness they cause when they pass in front of their parent star. Such a celestial alignment is known as a transit. From Earth, both Mercury and Venus occasionally pass across the front of the Sun. When they do, they look like tiny black dots passing across the bright surface.
Such transits block a tiny fraction of the light. If a distant star were transited by the equivalent of Jupiter, it would cause 1% of the starlight to be lost from view. One gas giant planet, found by the radial-velocity method, has also been detected using the transit method from a ground-based telescope. Star HD 209458 was discovered to possess a 51 Pegasi b-like planet (a large planet orbiting its parent star in a tight circular orbit, also known as 'hot Jupiters') and subsequently seen to dim at precisely the time that the planet was predicted to pass in front of the star.
Through this method more than 10 planets have now been detected. By having both the transit and the radial velocity information, the planets orbit can be determined exactly, and the true mass and size of the planet can be found. Unfortunately, the transit method can only detect very large and gaseous planets from the ground. To detect 'rocky' Earth-like worlds we need to go to space. This will first happen with CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transit), due for launch in late 2006.
Direct detection and imaging
The ultimate aim of this research method is to make direct observations of planets around other stars, so that astronomers can analyse the light from the planet itself, determine the chemical composition and assess physical state of these distant worlds. This is an extremely challenging task.
At visible wavelengths, a star like the Sun will outshine a planet like the Earth by ten thousand million times. Why? Planets do not emit visible light, they simply reflect some of the star's light. If, however, astronomers move to longer wavelengths, such as the mid-infrared, the contrast between the star and the planet drops to a million, because the amount of infrared given out by the star goes down while the planet itself begins to emit.
This mid-infrared radiation, however, is most easily viewed from space. At Earth's surface, the signals can be swamped by the infrared waves our own planet gives out. Also, because planets and stars are usually close together, Earth's atmosphere smears their light into a single fuzzy blob. Astronomers have therefore devised techniques to work around these constraints and make direct detections collecting both visible and infrared light.
Doppler isolation
Orbiting its parent star, a planet's motion will alter the wavelength of light it reflects from the star. When the planet is moving towards Earth, the wavelengths of light are squashed. On the other side of its orbit, the planet moves away from Earth and so the light is stretched to longer wavelengths. This behaviour is known as the 'Doppler effect'.
The star is also pulled by the planet (see radial-velocity technique) creating a smaller Doppler shift in its own light but always in the opposite direction to that of the planet's light. If the intensity of light coming from the star and planet are plotted on a graph, they combine into a shape called the Spectral Energy Distribution. As the planet orbits and the star wobbles, the shape of the graph changes.
In principle, computer analysis would be able to separate which parts of the signal were caused by the star's light, leaving just the planet's signal for analysis. However, four-metre diameter telescopes do not collect enough light to make this technique work and no one has yet tried it with an eight-metre telescope.
When light is reflected by a planet, it is not just the wavelength that can be changed. Being a wave, each light ray oscillates in a particular direction. Light rays emitted by a star are said to be 'unpolarised' because the oscillation direction of each ray is random.
When light rays bounce off the planet, however, the oscillations are forced into a preferred direction because of the way the light interacts with the atoms and molecules in the planet's atmosphere. Light rays lined up like this are said to be 'polarised'.
Astronomical devices known as polarimeters are capable of detecting just polarised light and rejecting the unpolarised beams. New, highly accurate polarimeters are currently being made, in the hope that they will be able to pick out the faint polarised light beams coming from the extrasolar planets.
Nulling interferometry
The light from individual telescopes can be combined to simulate collection by a much larger telescope. This technique is called interferometry and was pioneered using radio telescopes. It is now being applied to optical and infrared telescopes.
This method relies on the wave nature of light. A wave has peaks and troughs. Usually when combining light in an interferometer, the peaks are lined up with one another, boosting the signal. In nulling interferometry, however, the peaks are lined up with the troughs so they cancel each other out and the star disappears. Planets in orbit around the star show up, however, because they are offset from the central star and their light takes different paths through the telescope system.
Ground-based nulling interferometers are also being developed around the world to perfect the technique. Eventually, sophisticated flotillas of spacecraft, such as ESA's Darwin mission, will use nulling interferometry to isolate the light from Earth-like extrasolar planets.
Seeing more with space telescopes
All of the previously described methods have made direct detections by isolating the planet's light from that of the star. A direct image would be one on which the star's light is totally separated from the planet. A team of British astronomers believe that by using 8-metre telescopes, they may be able to see planets in orbit around white dwarf stars.
When the Sun dies, it will first swell into a red giant star, engulfing the planets out to Mars. It will then shed its outer layers into space and the remains will shrink into a white dwarf star. The gas giants will remain in orbit and may even spiral outwards from the star, making them easier to see. White dwarfs are dim so the contrast between a gas giant and the star falls to a factor of a thousand. That may be low enough to bring them within view of 8-metre telescopes. Observations are now being scheduled.
Eventually, to take images of the surfaces of extrasolar planets will require much larger telescopes in space, working together as interferometers.


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The description applied when a player cannot see a straight-line path between the cue ball and the ball that is "on", because another ball that the player must not hit is obstructing the cue ball. This is called "being snookered". A player must attempt to get out of a snooker by playing the cue ball off a cushion or cushions and hitting the target ball before any other ball. If they miss the on ball, a foul is awarded against them.
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Scuba men chase Google van
TWO Norwegian pranksters have been snapped chasing the Google Street View van while wearing scuba equipment.
The men sat in deckchairs on the side of the road waiting for the van before giving chase with spears.
Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten tracked down the two pranksters who admitted they had insider information as to the van's whereabouts but never expected the media coverage the stunt has since received.
"It was meant in fun, but we never imagined it would get such a tremendous attention," Borre Erstad said of his and Paul Åge Olsen's new found fame.
Aftenposten also reported the stunt happened in Norway's previous summer but was not discovered until a new version of Google's Street View was launched this week, including images from Norway.


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Paul Pogba's world record 89 million-pound move to Manchester United is all the rave in the sports world right now.
Pogba, who had left Manchester United on a free transfer in 2012 to Juventus, returns to the club as they aim to return to glory, and his mother Yeo Moriba in an interview revealed the circumstances surrounding his first exit from the club.
Yeo revealed that the entire Pogba family had decided that it was best for Paul to leave the club after then manager Alex Ferguson had opted to call Paul Scholes out of retirement instead of giving him a first team chance.
"Ferguson punished him by not letting him play," said his mother. "He even cried in Ferguson's office for the way he was treated."
She revealed that Ferguson however came back to beg before he left, but the decision was already made.
"He came here by himself," said Yeo, laughing at the memory of Ferguson's visit. "The Red Devils' boss came to negotiate, but it was too late. We discussed together with his brothers and we all decided: he won't sign again."


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With Adam Mansbach's Go the F*** to Sleep making such a splash on the literary scene, Bad Teacher should take note of how candid, cynical humor about child care can succeed. Instead, the newest film from Jake Kasdan (Orange County and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) is more callous than amusing, more crude than clever.
Elizabeth, played by Cameron Diaz, is no Miss Crabtree: She comes to class hungover, she smokes weed on campus, she steals money from the class fund-raiser to put in her "new boobs" fund for breast augmentation. Her failures as a human, much more so than her failures as a teacher, make her equal parts an unbelievable and undeserving protagonist. Within the first 10 minutes of the film, she tries to hide the fact that she doesn't know her own fiancé's birthday, and by the time she has smeared poison ivy all over her school rival's coffee mug, you'll be wondering why you're supposed to care whether she has the inevitable epiphany and character change the film demands.
But change she does, the mechanics of which are more than a little shoddy. After telling a sad-poetry-wielding preteen that he's sensitive — "That's not a compliment," she adds — and that he'll never get the girl he's pining for, Elizabeth takes off her bra and gives it to him to show his buddies and bolster his rep. Harking back to Molly Ringwald's similar benevolent gesture in Sixteen Candles, this might have been pitifully sweet if Elizabeth weren't, well, his teacher. But we are to take this as a sign that Elizabeth is starting her transformation.
Bad Teacher's lack of restraint continually takes Elizabeth's impudence to ridiculous new heights: dry humping to completion with her rival's insufferable boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) or hosing herself down at the carwash fund-raiser, prompting a shot of one of her students with a hard-on. As if directed by the very pack of horny boys Elizabeth mishandles, the film frequently cannot control itself from toppling into an exercise in sex jokes and scatology. Each time a shot at genuine situational comedy emerges, the film opts for gross-out humor instead.
For instance, when the eager Miss Squirrel (Lucy Punch), Elizabeth's diametric opposite, tracks down the principal as he, ahem, tends to some business in the men's room, the awkward entrapment is funny enough. But the scene, unable to quit while it's ahead, ends with — how to put it delicately? — gratuitous, unholy bathroom noises.
The film falters this way for the full 90-minute runtime, Elizabeth acting out of line in her uninspired, hardened cynic's role. This is, of course, the premise. But unlike other tales of hilarious, jaded cranks finding their soft spot (Bad Santa comes to mind), Bad Teacher spends so much time making Elizabeth a one-dimensional miscreant, it leaves you rooting for anyone but her.
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