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I think she's a beautiful girl and a skilled model. She has many great fashion spreads and ad campaigns. However, I happened to see a youtube video of her and before makeup, posing, lighting, retouching, etc., her face looks basically like anyone else's. She could have gone to school with me and I wouldn't have batted an eye. I'm not hating, merely wondering how much this of this business has to do with luck, timing, and oh yeah - being very skinny - versus anything else. After all, lots of people would look great with professional makeup artists, photographers, stylists, etc. surrounding them all the time. Do you think being a great model is mostly innate or mostly about being in the right place at the right time and practicing to get the right expressions/walk? It just seems like a lot of the high fashion models don't look much different than anyone else when you get right down to it...
Dec 04 12 08:35 pm Link
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West Hollywood, California, US
A ton of fashion models aren't pretty, they just fit the bill of 5'11, 125 pounds. Karlie is in that class. Some fashion models are downright ugly when you look at them. Modeling is something you can be good at but it's not a talent or artform.
Dec 04 12 08:41 pm Link
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Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Most great models have something unique, it could be the way they walk, the way they pose etc...
I think most photographers here would agree, that a natural in front of their camera is probably the best part of the job.
Dec 04 12 08:42 pm Link
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New York, New York, US
Not everyone who photographs well is traditionally pretty.
Not everyone who is traditionally pretty is photogenic.
Karlie photographs amazingly, "ordinary" face or no.
Dec 04 12 08:43 pm Link
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
The finished product of modeling, like campaign ads that you see of Karlie:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ogSQjynqHEE/T … /i28py.jpg
does go through a lot of editing and photoshop. Professional hair and makeup artists had a lot to do with how "perfect" she looks. Models aren't perfect underneath all the hair and makeup:
although most of them have strong features, bone structure, or something unique about their faces. This "something" might not be conventionally pretty, but it sets them apart.
To some extent, a successful model's career probably was influenced by who she knew, what connections she had, being in the right place at the right time, etc. To some extent, all careers in all fields are influenced this way.
To give credit where credit is due, though, more goes into modeling (or at least into great modeling, like everything, modeling can be done poorly or extremely well) than winning the genetic lottery and having pro hair and makeup. I think the ability to do this:
is a skill and a talent in itself. Not every skinny, pretty girl knows how (or can be taught how) to pose and emote.
Dec 04 12 08:54 pm Link
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Palm Springs, California, US
Pretty is boring IMO....
most great models have a natural statuesque physique that makes them look Alienesque and beautiful
Karlie Kloss has those unique looks and that make her beautiful
Dec 04 12 08:55 pm Link
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, US
Marie Marguerite wrote:
It's all of the above. Innate AND being in the right place at the right time AND perfecting the skill.
Dec 04 12 09:00 pm Link
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Los Angeles, California, US
She has a face that doesn't need all that much done to it to look great on film. She also has poise and confidence in front of a camera. She is the right size and has a great shape. She worked hard, paid her dues and got some breaks. That is why she is a successful model.
When you have all those things, you can be one too.
Dec 04 12 09:33 pm Link
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New York, New York, US
An attractive face/body does not necessarily make for a good model. I'd attribute more to confidence, poise, and uniqueness.
Dec 04 12 09:44 pm Link
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Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
I have to agree with you. She's a great model, don't get me wrong, but her look is a bit... I don't know. meh. It's not that she's ugly or anything, not at all.
But it doesn't matter what I think of her . the industry loves her and she has some great skills, and that's what matters.
Dec 05 12 04:27 am Link
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Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Some models tend sometimes to look worse than non-models prior to the mua session.
This seems to come from exhaustion, lack of food, drama and having tons and tons of make-up constantly applied up to 7 days a week, I've seen some very androgynous, grey and zombified looking women, suddenly turn into a gorgeous feminine star.
They aren't being paid to be beautiful in real life. Pretty women aren't often what is best for the light or lens, it's about two things mainly...
1. Bone structure.
2. Ability of that face to take different make-up/looks. Versatility.
If it was a beauty contest, you'd see a completely different set of winners.
Dec 05 12 06:12 am Link
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Fresno, California, US
I have worked with models that absolutely connect with the still camera that and create stunningly powerful images, but in person you just would never guess that they had that ability. I have also seen were model takes great stills but just has no presence on video. I have also seen beautiful women who just have no chemistry with the camera.
It is rare that you can get a model that connects in person, stills, and video. Cameras record in 2 dimensions so a face that might make dramatic and works well with the camera may not look the same in person.
Dec 05 12 06:21 am Link
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Lorton, Virginia, US
I think she is gorgeous. Very interesting look. I don't like pretty.
Dec 05 12 07:12 am Link
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Los Angeles, California, US
Pretty isn't what is necessarily desirable in a great editorial fashion model. A striking beauty which is unique and interesting is. Pretty is for glamour models and playboy.
There are a lot of pretty girls out there. You can see a lot of images of them on sites like MM. Boring.
Dec 05 12 08:58 am Link
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San Diego, California, US
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Dec 05 12 12:48 pm Link
Thanks everyone for your input - interesting discussion. I just happened to see a video of Karlie and her face looked extremely normal (which is what sparked my post), but I agree that she photographs very well.
Dec 06 12 03:46 pm Link
Also, I don't think I said the word "pretty" in my original post. It seems like some people thought I was saying she's not pretty - I don't think she's particularly pretty or not pretty - just average-looking before the glam and photos.
Dec 06 12 03:50 pm Link
Marie Marguerite wrote:
Everyone can look fine with all those things, but they still might not have that factor.
Dec 06 12 03:57 pm Link
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Bath, England, United Kingdom
Some of the prettiest girls are also the worst models....
And some girls who you wouldn't look twice at in the street are just amazing once they get in front of the camera.
Just my $0.02
Dec 06 12 08:18 pm Link
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K I C K H A M wrote:
I've never seen the word ordinary any where near Coco until here. On Modely Mayhem.
Dec 06 12 08:44 pm Link
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Dec 06 12 11:19 pm Link
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Los Angeles, California, US
K I C K H A M wrote:
I've never thought of the top fashion models as in any way regular, as others have written that the bone structure, etc., sets them apart.
Dec 06 12 11:46 pm Link
LA StarShooter wrote:
I think she's (Karlie Kloss) fantastic and completely irregular looking (in the nicest possible way). I'm just saying that I might know how OP feels when you look and someone and say, "Yes, they're amazing, but I just don't have the same attraction as everyone else."
Dec 07 12 12:32 am Link
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Florence, Toscana, Italy
The greater model I know aren't pretty. They can model.
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Boy, 15, To Appear In Court For The 8th Time
Basel Abu Maria was arrested on March 6, 2012, when a total of sixty soldiers in ten military jeeps raided houses in Beit Ommar at 2 a.m. He was taken by the soldiers without getting time to put on more clothes in the cold night.
This was of course a frightening event for the whole family. Basel's little sister was especially upset by the event, and is now scared at night, refusing to go to the toilet alone.
She and her other siblings talk about their big brother every day.
That same night, two other boys were arrested, with another three arrests taking place the following night. None of these boys have received a sentence, but are still imprisoned.
Basil is charged for throwing stones and for participating in demonstrations. But having already met in Ofer court seven times since being arrested, it is obvious Israel has nothing on him. This is a common practice being used by Israel to hurt families and so ultimately crush the popular struggle against the occupation.
Basel was, like most Palestinians, not allowed a lawyer during the first interrogation. In fact, he sees his lawyer only in court.
On May 9th, 2012, he will be back in Ofer court, for the 8th time! No one believes that the prosecutors have new evidence. At the same time, no one believes that this lack of evidence will lead to the release of Basel (as is the case in democracies).
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I'll always remember Kerry as the stunning blue eyed, dark haired sister of the groom from Natasha & Jason's Calgary wedding back in 2008, who also happened to be the lucky gal to catch the bouquet that night. Even back then I'd always thought she had such a unique beauty and it's absolutely fitting that she'd marry Christos, perfectly described in her wedding vows to him as "possessing the looks of a Greek god".
Their wedding destination of choice was Saint John Resort in Mykonos, Greece. The deep blue water against sapphire skies and white walled buildings offered an incomparable backdrop for an evening ceremony and sunset photoshoot. The wind was so strong that day it would often and unexpectedly whip Kerry's floor length veil into the air, and one time landing it into the pool beside the spot we were shooting. But no amount of tousled hair and dripping wet veil could pull Kerry & Christos out of the joy from just being together. I love, love, love that they soaked up every single moment of that day and it's so obvious that their happiest moments arise out of being with each other.
At about 1:30am, Christos surprised us all with a spectacular traditional Greek dance for his bride. Complete with acrobatics, crazy contortions and balancing tequila shots from forehead to feet, he had us all amazed and hollering for more.
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This week's Filthy Friday starts off with an artist I highlighted a few months back who goes by the name I.Y.F.F.E. and fully encompasses all things base music. Pronounced like "eye-fee", this relatively small artist already has a full arsenal of futuristic sounding base music, ranging anywhere from tap and dubstep to electro and even a bit of hard style. I.Y.F.F.E. has produced collaborations with artists such as ATLiens and Helicopter Showdown as well as releasing stellar remixes such as the one he did for Adventure Club's track "Gold". Yesterday he dropped a brand new single titled "Beat On Fire", a filling name given the intensity and power of the track. Like much of his work, it features elements of multiple different subgenres of EDM throughout, including trap, dubstep and electro and includes the vocals of Krime Fyter. I'm hoping for a lot more new releases from this guy very soon.
For the second song in this week's post I bring you an extremely unexpected collaboration between dubstep heavyweight Datsik and rap legend Snoop Dog. Datsik is easily one of dubstep's most talented artists around now a days and he has been at the top of his game for years. With his immense amount of success, he started his very own record label called Firepower Records which totes dubstep all-stars such as Barely Alive, Must Die!, and Terravita. Datsik has an tremendous music library full of two full length albums, eight EPs, and a plethora of stellar singles and remixes as well. When I first heard about this new collaboration of his a few weeks back I was initially quite skeptical. Datsik and other dubstep artists have worked with rappers in the past and had a lot of success with it, but I didn't think Snoop Dog would be able to translate into the EDM world, and especially not into dubstep. Boy was I wrong! This brand new original track is easily one of the best dubstep/rap crossovers I have ever heard! The song begins with a bouncy, classic west coast rap synth which sounds a lot like the intro to Snoop Dog's original track "West Coast ft. The Game and Xzibit". The intro fades and the force begins to build up into a bone shattering drop. The base line reminds me a lot of Excision's original track "Live Wire", and I'm sure this is where Datsik got a lot of his inspiration for "Smoke Bomb". Despite sounding very similar in a lot of ways, Datsik still managed to switch it up enough to put his own twist on it and add his own signature sounds to create a track that will surely be getting played out by dubstep artists around the world.
Laxx is another one dubstep's biggest new comers. Being signed to SKisM's Never Say Die Records since 2014, he has been slowly but surely gaining a lot of attention in the base music world ever since his first official remix was released; a rework he did on Must Die!'s track "Lazy". Shortly following that he released his first full four track EP titled "Step One" which really placed him into the spotlight. He followed the success of this EP with another one in late 2014 titled "Step Two", a sort of continuation of his first EP and then followed along this same path with two more EP's titled "Step Free" and "Step Three". Last week SKisM released a live recording of his B2B set with Laxx from EDC Las Vegas earlier this year which is jam packed with dozens of hardcore dubstep and trap anthems. The mix is easily one of the best I've ever heard, and one song that really stuck out to me from the mix was this new Laxx track titled "Twitch". Until it's release this past Friday, the song had been a highly anticipated ID that was being played out by a lot of big names in the base music world. But the wait and anticipation is finally over! Laxx's new track features a mixture of trap 808 base lines coupled with piercing high end synths and spine tingling snares. As the vocals state right before the explosive drop, "You just ain't ready" for this brand new Laxx.


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Most of us yearn for a life that is less hectic than the one we currently live. A simple life. But what does a simple life look like?
Each of us will have a different answer. Because we are in different stages of life. Because we have different priorities. Because different kinds of things bring us joy or stress us out.
All of which means any blog post, device, or strategy that claims it will help you simplify your life may—or may not—be of any use to you.
For some people, simplicity is about getting back to nature. They might be into organic gardening and homemade recipes for cleaning products. If that's what allows them to lead a more satisfied existence, great! I am all for connecting with nature, but making homemade laundry soap is not something that would simplify my life.
So what does simple look like to you?
By 'simple' I mean what would enable you to live closer to your values, with fewer distractions and obligations that keep you from spending your time and energy on what matters to you.
Simple could mean:
- Getting rid of the excess stuff that clutters your house so you can find the stuff you actually use
- Downsizing your home to reduce time and money spent on maintenance, cleaning, and organizing
- Cutting back on activities, memberships, meetings, or expectations
- Spending less time on technology so there is more to spend on people
- Quitting a high-stress, high-salary job for a lower-paying one that allows time for family, friends, and ministries.
- Keeping the job you have while delegating troublesome chores to someone else (via housecleaners, lawn service, premade dinners, etc) so you have time for family, friends, and ministries.
- Adjusting expectations regarding housecleaning, gardening, hospitality, decorating, etc. to realistic and maintainable levels.
- Finding simpler alternatives for activities such as exercise. (Is it simpler to swing by the gym on the way home from work, or scrap the gym membership and walk around the neighborhood? Will investing in a treadmill simplify, or add guilt?)
Which of those suggestions resonated with you?
Getting closer to your ideal 'simple'
If you haven't spent much time considering what your ideal simpler life looks like, here are some useful questions:
- What are the things I wish I could spend more time doing?
- If I did have time for the things that matter most, what would that lifestyle look like? Can I imagine myself there?
- What activities or responsibilities are keeping me from reaching that ideal picture?
- What am I willing to let go of in order to get closer to that ideal picture?
If you do have a pretty good idea of what simple looks like to you, what steps can you take this week to get a little closer to your ideal?
No matter how we define it, a simpler life is worth striving for. Isn't it?


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Today, we're highlighting our very own Loren Rhoads! When Loren first contacted me to contribute to Scoutie Girl, I was intrigued by her work. I honestly had never considered cemeteries as something worth writing about, but I've since found myself discovering the history and culture behind cemetery travel. Let's see what else Loren has up her sleeve…
- Do you consider yourself a visual artist, a literary artist, a combination of both, or something completely different? Why?
I don't know if I'm literary. Or an artist, for that matter. I don't know why I'm hesitant to claim that. I use words to paint pictures in my readers' minds.
- What is one of your favorite creative projects you've worked on?
I'm really proud of my book Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. It's a collection of essays about cemeteries I've visited on vacation, so in one sense, it's a memoir. Beyond that, though, it advocates for people to pay attention to history, art, beauty, nature, and community by visiting graveyards. I think these fragile relics are in danger of vanishing if we don't find a way to protect them. People protect what they love, so the book is part of my crusade to get people to visit cemeteries.
- How do you get inspired?
What a huge question! I push myself to try something new. Life is short and there are so many places I haven't gone, foods I haven't tried, and people I haven't met.
- When you're in a creative rut, what's the best way for you to get inspired?
When I get stuck, I go for a walk, preferably in Golden Gate Park or out at the ocean. Going somewhere with a predominant color – green, blue, foggy white – helps my brain to slow down and my imagination to open up. The repetitive motion of walking helps, too.
- Do you have a favorite place to work?
I work in my messy little office. It's really just a breakfast nook into which we've built a desk and drawers. I'm a paper packrat by nature, so there is always more stuff in my room than I can put away. Still, I'm comforted by having reminders of all the work I've finished and all the projects I have yet to complete around me.
- What's your favorite city?
San Francisco. I've been here almost 30 years and I keep falling in love with it.
- Ahead-of-the-game or a procrastinator?
I feel like I'm always reeling from one deadline to the next. To me, It feels like procrastination, because I will never get through all the things there are to do. A dear friend, who was an executive at Apple, explained that that's what being a professional means: there is always a new project looming behind the one you're finishing. You will never get through them all until you quit. I don't plan to quit any time soon.
- What's the hardest part about being creative and always having ideas floating around?
Not feeling guilty when you're not working. When you work for yourself, the work never stops feeling pressing. Still, it's important to take downtime and to be present in the rest of your life, outside work. All work and no play burns you out.
- Anything else you'd like to share?
I have a short memoir called All You Need is Morbid. It's about traveling with my husband to Japan, Paris, Prague, and Pompeii, poking into love hotels, medical museums, old graveyards, and hot new restaurants. It's about love and death and traveling with the perfect companion – and you can read it for free!
A big, huge thank you to Loren for sharing her insight and stories with us! You can read all of Loren's articles on Scoutie Girl, visit her personal website, her cemetery website, check her out on Facebook, follow her on Twitter, or peek at her Pinterest boards.


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Sylvester And The Magic Pebble + The Very Hungry Caterpillar + Madeline
Swimmy + Chrysanthemum + Corduroy
Where The Wild Things Are + The Napping House + Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel
The Boy Who Grew Flowers + Fredrick + Pinkalicious
Amazing Grace + Owl Babies + Thank You, Mr. Falker
A Chair For My Mother + Enemy Pie + Hey, Little Ant
Miss Rumphius + Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge + Shortcut
Blueberries For Sal + The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog + Guess How Much I Love You
Frog and Toad + The Polar Express + The Snowman
Fletcher And The Falling Leaves + Flotsam + The Legend Of The Indian Paintbrush
Owl Moon + We're Going On A Bear Hunt + The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, And The Big Hungry Bear
Henry's Awful Mistake + Wave + The Little Yellow Leaf
The Curious Garden + A Sick Day For Amos McGee + Lost And Found
Knuffle Bunny + Ish + Stand Tall, Molly Lou Mellon
So I went a little crazy with this list, but I could hardly help myself. Once I get started I just can't stop. In fact, if time allowed, I think I could keep going for days. Put me in the children's section of the library and it will be hours before I come out. There are just so many phenomenal picture books out there, and being an elementary school teacher and serious book lover, I've seen (and read) most of them all. This is a collection of my favorites.
They are the books I would absolutely recommend to a parent and without a doubt read to my students.
They are wonderful.
They are meaningful.
They are funny and encouraging and heartwarming and happy.
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Birdwatching and swamp walk activities are available daily at the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary just outside Kibale Forest National Park. The sanctuary is operated by the local community and demonstrates the positive effects that can be achieved by community tourism projects. Approximately 20 families benefit directly from tourism activities in this area. This project is part of UCOTA, the Uganda Community Tourism Association.


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One alternative to traditional range units that people should consider is a wall oven. If you don't enjoy bending over while cooking, wall ovens are great by allowing you to keep a better eye on the food without having to strain yourself. These ovens are designed to fit any kitchen regardless of the layout or amount of space, but it can be difficult to choose which one is best for you since there are many factors to consider.
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President Barack Obama, in my opinion, has grown into the visionary leader he is by living both sides,
the white and the ["colored"]. The country finally is getting its respect back as Mr. Obama works tirelessly:
1) not to blame the international and economic fiasco he was handed in every possible way on those that allowed it;
2) In not wasting time in playing blame games, the calm, cool, educated, teaching the nation by his own and the first family in general a fearless example of a Presidency set a course to make himself the best in United States history. The power to lead is the power to destroy. The power to lead is conversely to power to *create community*. Republicans can be a jealous of Secretary Clinton as they want, but they run on this very issue: it DOES take a village. Where would the 1% be without
our their golf and country clubs – oops I was living in a fantasy world for a moment – how unlike me! Plus I got to use the crossout feature online for the first time since May 2005.
This aspect of Mr. Obama's upbringing, as influenced by the two most important women in his life. First, his mother, Ann Dunham who provided a meticulous education which began with the significant discipline of waking each day at 4 AM to study the basics on index cards to know the lesson once at school. This allowed the young "Barry" to extend the horizon of what others has seen before.
I ask you to ask yourself: if your mom was a [white] woman from Illinois and your dad was a [black] man from Africa, throwing the obscenely irrelevant issue of the longitude or latitude of when the late Ms. Dunham gave birth, would you be inclined to run for and serve as the Commander In Chief of the United States? Me neither.
The whole issue reminds me of the song by Judy Collins, a noted New York City fixture in Carnegie Hill: Joni MItchell's BOTH SIDES NOW. I had the wish, as my websites show, to know exactly how fast the song was – as I was grooving on Judy – and I wanted to create a loop in my iTunes player for mood uplifting reasons. If you are reading this far – I know you do this, and if you don't, try it and if you have any problems don't hesitate to write me at firstname.lastname@example.com – I am lucky to pass on good news.
I went on the internet to find what the exact tempo of the song was – I could not find any type of objective or even guessed at real number or speed, as one would find on a metronome, anywhere. Below my signature is the list of sites that were secondary the clear thing I was looking for – the exact speed of the song.
"Clouds" has inspired essays full of adjectives, synonyms and shared meaning elements. Objectively the recording was measured as
meanspeed®-Carlton Speed Summary
File Kind=AAC audio file
Size=7.5 MB
Bit Rate=256 kbps
Sample Rate=44.100 kHz
Volume=-3.2 dB
average time per beat=~0.49342 seconds
corresponding tonal frequency=518.8 Hertz
median expected tempo/meanspeed=121.6 beats per minute
file type=mp3
I thereby took it upon myself to map the tempo out myself.
Songs within 1% of the speed of Both Sides Now
Cover Me, Bruce Springsteen
Papa Was A Rolling Stone, The Temptations
Some Kind Of Wonderful, The Drifters
Stuck With You, Huey Lewis and the News
Bad Girls, Donna Summer
Louie, Louie, John Belushi in 'Animal House'
Thanks, as always, for your time!
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While stories of exoplanet discoveries made by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have dominated the media in recent years, there are many other surveys for extrasolar planets taking place some of which were started years (and even decades!) before Kepler was ever launched. One of the better known ongoing exoplanet surveys has been conducted by a European team of astronomers operating the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search) spectrograph attached to the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile. Using precision radial velocity measurements, HARPS is able to detect the subtle variations caused by the reflex motion of the parent star as any planets of sufficient size orbit them.
In a recent paper submitted for publication in the peer-reviewed Astronomy & Astrophysics with Nicola Astudillo-Defru (Observatoire de Genève) as the lead author, the latest analysis results of HARP data for five nearby M-dwarf stars are described in detail. Among the new finds is a potentially habitable exoplanet found orbiting the nearby red dwarf GJ 273 or Luyten's Star located only 12.4 light years away (see "Habitable Planet Reality Check: The Nearby GJ 273 or Luyten's Star"). Another system described by Astudillo-Defru et al. is GJ 628 better known as Wolf 1061. Back in December of 2015, a team of astronomers led by Duncan Wright (University of New South Wales – Australia) announced the discovery of three exoplanets orbiting this nearby red dwarf they found using publicly available HARPS spectra including one, Wolf 1061c, that has some prospects of being potentially habitable (see "Habitable Planet Reality Check: Wolf 1061"). Because of the new results of Astudillo-Defru et al. along with updated information on the properties of Wolf 1061, it is time to take a fresh look at the potential habitability of Wolf 1061c.
The Star
Wolf 1061 (also known as BD-12° 4523) is a V magnitude 10.1 red dwarf located in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The star first came to the attention of astronomers about a century ago because of its relatively high proper motion of 1.2 arc seconds per year which suggested that it was nearby. As a result, it was included in the catalog of high proper motion stars compiled by German astronomer Max Wolf (1863-1932) of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory along with many other nearby red dwarf stars (see "The Real Wolf 359"). The best parallax measurements for this spectral type M3V star places it 14.0 light years from the Sun making this among the closest stars known.
As part of their effort to better characterize the properties of the exoplanets found orbiting Wolf 1061, a team led by Stephen Kane (San Francisco State University) started by refining our knowledge of the properties of the parent star itself. Kane et al. secured photometric measurements of Wolf 1061 in order to search for variations in brightness resulting from a variety of sources including surface activity modulated by the star's rotation. For these observations, Kane et al. employed the Tennessee State University's "T11" 0.80-meter APT (Automatic Photoelectric Telescope) located at the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona. Between April 2010 and June 2016, the T11 APT was used to acquire a total of 756 brightness measurements of Wolf 1061 on 464 different nights using a two-channel precision photometer attached to T11. Using a subset of the data from 2011 to 2013 which seem to show the most pronounced rotation induced variation in the brightness of Wolf 1061 (which was typically on the order of 0.02 magnitude), Kane et al. derived a period of rotation of 89.3±1.8 days – similar to the period found by others. This rotation period suggests that Wolf 1061 is in excess of five billion years old.
In order to measure the size of this star directly, Kane et al. observed Wolf 1061 using Georgia State University's CHARA (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy) interferometer array located at the Mt. Wilson Observatory on June 30 and August 3-4, 2016. Assuming a limb darkened disk, Kane et al. found that Wolf 1061 had an angular diameter of just 0.695±0.018 milliarc seconds. Using the best available parallax measurement, the actual radius works out to be 0.3207±0.0088 times that of the Sun – about 223,100±6,100 kilometers in conventional units and similar to earlier indirect estimates of this star's size.
Kane et al. then used the best published multi-band photometry of Wolf 1061 going back to 1954 in order to calculate the effective temperature of the star which they found to be 3305±46 K. Combined with the radius of Wolf 1061, this yields a luminosity of 0.01102±0.00027 times that of the Sun – somewhat higher than the earlier best values available. Other work estimates the mass of Wolf 1061 to be about 0.294 times that of the Sun. Wolf 1061 is fairly typical of the stars in our neighborhood (and very similar to Luyten's Star as well) even with the minor adjustments to its measured properties.
The Exoplanets
Because of its small size and relative closeness, Wolf 1061 has been the subject of increasingly sensitive searches for "unseen companions" such as exoplanets for decades. Up until recently, these various surveys had found nothing eliminating the possibility that Wolf 1061 was orbited by companions ranging from Jupiter-sized planets to brown dwarfs. However, recent analysis of Kepler data to determine exoplanet occurrence rates shows that gas giants like Jupiter are rarely found orbiting red dwarfs like Wolf 1061 and that sub-Neptune size worlds are much more common (see "Occurrence of Potentially Habitable Planets around Red Dwarfs"). A more sensitive search was required.
One of the methods that has proven to be sensitive enough to detect small exoplanets around nearby red dwarfs is precision radial velocity measurements. Small variations in the radial velocity of a star could indicate reflex motion resulting from an orbiting exoplanet. And since the mass of red dwarfs is so low and their planetary systems tend to have small orbits, radial velocity measurements can reveal the presence of exoplanets with masses as small as on the order of Earth's or ~1 ME. One of the radial velocity surveys that has been monitoring Wolf 1061 and other nearby red dwarfs has been HARPS. An early analysis by the HARPS team of 23 radial velocity measurements presented in a 2013 paper with Xavier Bonfils (Observatoire de Genève) as the lead author found some indications of a variation with a periodicity of about 67 days but the false alarm probability of 3.3% was too high to qualify as a reliable exoplanet detection.
Wright et al. obtained a larger set of 148 publicly available HARPS spectra of Wolf 1061 acquired over 10.3 years for a new analysis whose results were announced in December 2015. Wright et al. had more spectra at their disposal than Bonfils et al. and employed a new data processing technique to extract radial velocity measurements from those spectra with a much improved signal-to-noise. Their analysis of the radial velocity measurements revealed the presence of not only the 67-day signal first hinted in the work by Bonfils et al., but two additional signals with periods of 4.89 and 17.87 days for a total of three exoplanets.
After checking their results for the possible effects of stellar activity or spurious signals from the window function resulting from data acquired irregularly in time, it was determined that Wolf 1061 was orbited by a trio of planets with MPsini mass values of 1.4, 4.3 and 5.2 times that of the Earth or ME going from the closest exoplanet outwards. Because the inclination, i, of the orbits to the plane of the sky is unknown, only the minimum masses or MPsini values are known. The middle exoplanet, designated Wolf 1061c, was even claimed to be a reasonable candidate for being a potentially habitable exoplanet (for a full discussion of this original claim, see "Habitable Planet Reality Check: Wolf 1061").
A new analysis recently accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics by Astudillo-Defru et al. has taken a closer look at an expanded set of radial velocity data for Wolf 1061. Astudillo-Defru et al. started with a total of 190 HARPS spectra acquired between June 2, 2004 and September 28, 2015. After rejecting three of these spectra because of possible contamination from the Moon located less than 25° away from the position of Wolf 1061, they also found the inner pair of exoplanets found by Wright et al.. However, a careful analysis by Astudillo-Defru et al. of all the possible Keplerian orbit solutions found that a fairly eccentric orbit with a period of 217 days provided a much better fit of the expanded data set than solutions with a 67-day period
The new parameters for the three exoplanets as taken directly from Astudillo-Defru et al. are summarized below in Table 1. Also included are the effective stellar flux or Seff values given by Astudillo-Defru et al. which provide a measure of the total energy these exoplanets receive from their parent star with the Earth's value defined as being 1.
Table 1: Properties of the Planets of Wolf 1061 from Astudillo-Defru et al.
|Mpsini (Earth=1)
|Orbit Period (days)
|Semi Major Axis (AU)
|0.15 (+0.13/-0.10)
|0.11 (+0.10/-0.07)
|Seff (Earth=1)
Since the inclination, i, of the planets' orbits with respect to the plane of the sky can not be determined from radial velocity measurements alone, only the minimum mass or Mpsini of these exoplanets can be determined at this time. The actual masses will likely be higher than these indicated values.
Potential Habitability
A thorough assessment of the habitability of any extrasolar planet would require a lot of detailed data on the properties of that planet, its atmosphere, its spin state and so on. Unfortunately, at this very early stage, the only information typically available to scientists about extrasolar planets are basic orbit parameters, a rough measure of its size and/or mass and some important properties of its sun. Combined with theoretical extrapolations of the factors that have kept the Earth habitable over billions of years (not to mention why our neighbors are not habitable), the best we can hope to do at this time is to compare the known properties of extrasolar planets to our current understanding of planetary habitability to determine if an extrasolar planet is "potentially habitable". And by "habitable", I mean in an Earth-like sense where the surface conditions allow for the existence of liquid water on the planet's surface – one of the presumed prerequisites for the development of life as we know it. While there may be other worlds that might possess environments that could support life, these would not be Earth-like habitable worlds of the sort being considered here.
The first step in assessing the potential habitability of the planets orbiting Wolf 1061 is to determine what sort of worlds they are: are they rocky planets like the Earth or are they volatile-rich mini-Neptunes with little prospects of being habitable in an Earth-like sense. Unfortunately, the only information currently available about these new planets is their Mpsini or minimum mass values. Their actual masses and the radii are needed to calculate these exoplanets' densities and get a handle on their bulk compositions. Given their tight orbits, direct imaging of these new planets will require a ten-meter class, space-based telescope with an advanced starshade – a piece of hardware that will likely not be available for decades.
There is the possibility that one or more of these planets have their orbits aligned by random chance to produce observable transits. Calculations by Astudillo-Defru et al. indicate that there are 3.3%, 1.4% and 0.2% probabilities that Wolf 1061b, c and d produce transits, respectively. Unfortunately, the six seasons of photometric data gathered by Kane et al. using the T11 APT has effectively eliminated the possibility that Wolf 1061b and c produce transits. While no transits of Wolf 1061d have been observed, the existing data are insufficient to definitively exclude the possibility this exoplanet produces them.
In lieu of this vital information on the density of these exoplanets, statistical arguments can be made about the probability they have a rocky composition. An analysis of the mass-radius relationship for extrasolar planets smaller than Neptune performed by Rogers strongly suggests that the population of known exoplanets transitions from being predominantly rocky planets like the Earth to predominantly volatile-rich worlds like Neptune at radii no greater than 1.6 times that of the Earth or RE (see "Habitable Planet Reality Check: Terrestrial Planet Size Limit"). While rocky planets larger than this are possible, they become more uncommon with increasing radius. A planet with a radius of 1.6 RE and an Earth-like composition would have a mass of about 6 ME. More recent work by Chen and Kipping with a larger sample of exoplanets suggests that the gradual transition of the exoplanetary population from predominantly rocky planets to volatile-rich worlds starts at about 2 ME.
Examining the Mpsini values of the exoplanets of Wolf 1061 derived by Astudillo-Defru et al. (and keeping in mind that the actual masses are likely to be larger), they all seem to exceed the 2 ME mass threshold found by Chen and Kipping indicating that they all have at least some chance of being mini-Neptunes. In the case of Wolf 1061b with an Mpsini of 1.9 ME, there is only about a 5% probability of its actual mass exceeding Rogers' 6 ME threshold above which the population of exoplanets is convincingly dominated by volatile-rich mini-Neptunes. This strongly suggests that the odds favor Wolf 1061b being a rocky planet. For Wolf 1061c with an Mpsini of 3.4 ME, there is only a about an 18% probability its actual mass exceeds Rogers' threshold. While this indicates that there is a fair chance that Wolf 1061c is a mini-Neptune, the odds of it being a rocky planet like the Earth are still improved compared to the Mpsini value of 4.3 ME originally found by Wright et al. in 2015 and the higher 30% probability that its actual mass exceeds Rogers' threshold. The odds seem to favor Wolf 1061d being a mini-Neptune considering its Mpsini of 7.7 ME.
Another important criterion which can be used to determine if a planet is potentially habitable is the amount of energy it receives from its parent star known as the effective stellar flux or Seff. According to the work by Kopparapu et al. (2013, 2014) on the limits of the habitable zone (HZ) based on detailed climate and geophysical modeling, the outer limit of the HZ is defined as the point where the addition of any more CO2 to a planet's atmosphere no longer raises the surface temperature sufficiently to maintain above-freezing conditions. For a star like Wolf 1061, this happens at an Seff of 0.24 which, according to Kane et al., corresponds to an orbital distance of 0.21 AU.
The inner limit of the HZ is conservatively defined by the runaway greenhouse limit where a planet's temperature would soar even with no CO2 present in its atmosphere resulting in the loss of all of its water in a geologically brief time in the process. For an Earth-size planet orbiting Wolf 1061, this happens at an Seff value of 0.93 which corresponds to a mean orbital distance of 0.11 AU, according to Kane et al.. For a more massive 5 ME exoplanet, the Seff for the inner edge of the HZ is 1.00 due to the compression of the atmospheric column caused by the higher surface gravity.
But since these exoplanets orbit so close to their parent star, their rotation states will be affected by tidal effects and, if the orbital eccentricity is not too high, they will likely become synchronous rotators with one side perpetually facing their sun. While at one time this was thought to be an issue for a planet's habitability, detailed climate modeling over the last two decades now shows that synchronous rotation is probably not an impediment to global habitability. In fact, it has been shown that slow or synchronous rotation can actually result in an increase of the Seff for the inner edge of the HZ owing to the formation of a reflective cloud layer on the daylight side. According to the recent work by Yang et al., the inner edge of the HZ for a slow rotator orbiting a star like Wolf 1061 would have an Seff of 1.60 corresponding to an orbital distance of just 0.083 AU. A more recent paper by Kopparapu et al. (2016) which takes into account the effects of short orbital periods on atmospheric circulation also suggests a similar Seff value for the inner edge of the HZ for a synchronous rotator orbiting Wolf 1061.
With these conservative limits of the HZ defined, it is immediately evident that Wolf 1061b with an Seff of 7.34 (almost four times higher than that of Venus) has no prospects of being habitable. Assuming it has a rocky composition, it is likely to be larger and hotter version of Venus. Wolf 1061c with an Seff of 1.30 seems to orbit comfortably inside the HZ for a slow or synchronous rotator. Kane et al., who were only considering the more conservative definition of the HZ of Kopparapu et al. (2013, 2014) for a faster rotating planet, noted that Wolf 1061c only brushes the HZ at apoapsis by virtue of its apparently nonzero orbital eccentricity. As a result Kane et al. conclude it is unlikely that Wolf 1061c would be able to support liquid on its surface – they may have come to a different conclusion if they included HZ modelling for synchronous rotators in their analysis.
The situation with the highly eccentric orbit of Wolf 1061d allows it to brush the outer limits of the HZ during periapsis. But, as noted by Kane et al. in their analysis, Wolf 1061d spends most of its orbit well outside of the HZ. Combined with the high probability that it is a mini-Neptune with a deep hydrogen-rich atmosphere capping exotic phases of ice that exist only under high temperatures and pressures, it is unlikely that Wolf 1061d is habitable in the conventional sense.
At first blush, it appears that Wolf 1061c has fairly good prospects for being a potentially habitable exoplanet. Comparisons with other exoplanets of similar mass suggest that it has a rocky composition and it seems to orbit fairly comfortably inside of the HZ of a synchronous or slowly rotating planet. But before we invest too much into the prospects of the habitability of this exoplanet, there are some potential issues which could complicate the situation. In addition to the some potential (but so far, untested) concerns about the habitability of any exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf, there is another more subtle potential issue related to orbital eccentricity.
As part of their study of this planetary system, Kane et al. examined the orbital stability and dynamics of these three exoplanets. Assuming that the orbits of the three exoplanets are coplanar and that their minimum masses correspond to their actual masses, Kane et al. found that the resulting system was stable for the 107 year length of their simulations. However, the massive Wolf 1061d in its highly eccentric orbit perturbs the orbits of the inner planets causing their orbital eccentricities to vary regularly over time. In the case of the Wolf 1061c, the eccentricity varies from as low as ~0.03 to as high as ~0.15 over a cycle with a period on the order of 17,000 years. While the current uncertainty in the measured eccentricity is too large to exclude a circular orbit, the dynamics of the system as simulated by Kane et al. dictates that it will have a substantial, nonzero value.
Kane et al. make note of the eccentricity of the orbit of Wolf 1061c in their analysis since it brings the exoplanet into the more conservatively defined HZ during part of its orbit. However, there is a darker side to high orbital eccentricity: tidal heating. The regular flexing of a body in an eccentric orbit can warm the interior of that body as kinetic energy is converted into heat. In small doses, this can help maintain the habitability of a planet for much longer periods than other sources of internal heat like the decay of radioactive elements can. However, excessive tidal heating can cause large amounts of volcanic activity such as that we witness on Jupiter's moon, Io. In their study of the dynamics of the exoplanets in the GJ 667C system, Makarov and Berghea found that tidal heating of the potentially habitable GJ 667Cc would amount to 1.6X1016 watts or about a factor of 300 greater than Earth's current internal heat flow because of its high eccentricity and proximity to its parent star. This would be sufficient to render this exoplanet completely molten inside of 100 million years (see "Habitable Planet Reality Check: GJ 667C").
Assuming the measured orbital eccentricity of 0.11 for Wolf 1061c (a value which would be regularly exceeded because of interactions with Wolf 1061d, according to Kane et al.) and scaling the results from the similar sized GJ 667Cc, I estimate that the heat flow from tidal heating would be on the order of ~2X1016 watts. If this rough estimate for tidal heating is confirmed by future detailed calculations of the dynamics of the Wolf 1061 system, it could mean that Wolf 1061c is a sterile ball of molten rock despite orbiting inside of the HZ. Perhaps future measurements of this exoplanet might be able to confirm (or refute!) this hellish scenario for this otherwise promising potentially habitable exoplanet.
Before we totally write off the potential habitability of Wolf 1061c, however, it should be remembered that the actual planetary system of Wolf 1061 may differ significantly from that modelled by Kane et al.. The masses will likely be higher than the minimum values used and it is by no means certain that the orbits are coplanar, especially given the eccentric orbit of Wolf 1061d. Much more needs to be learned before any firm conclusions can be drawn about the orbital dynamics of this system and what role tidal effects might play.
With the new data about the Wolf 1061 planetary system from Astudillo-Defru et al. and the analysis by Kane et al., it seems that the prospects for the potential habitability of Wolf 1061c have improved in some key ways since the initial assessment made following its discovery by Wright et al. a year earlier. The Mpsini of 3.4 ME for Wolf 1061c is lower than was previously estimated increasing the odds that this exoplanet is rocky like the Earth instead of being a volatile-rich mini-Neptune. While the Seff has also increased somewhat to 1.30, this value still corresponds to being inside the HZ of a synchronous rotator. This differs from the conclusion of Kane et al. who did not consider HZ models for synchronous rotators in their analysis.
This somewhat rosier assessment of the habitability of Wolf 1061c does come with a caveat in addition to the usual predictions of habitability issues associated with orbiting a red dwarf. Because of the strong gravitational interactions between the inner planets and the outer one with its eccentric orbit, excessive tidal heating might adversely affect the habitability of this exoplanet. More detailed modeling of the dynamics of his system using more accurate data will be needed to investigate this issue. No matter what, the relatively nearby Wolf 1061c and its sister exoplanets will be excellent targets for future study helping scientists probe the limits of planetary habitability.
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Related Reading
"Habitable Planet Reality Check: Wolf 1061", Drew Ex Machina, December 19, 2015 [Post]
"Habitable Planet Reality Check: The Nearby GJ 273 or Luyten's Star", Drew Ex Machina, March 20, 2017 [Post]
General References
N. Astudillo-Defru et al., "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XLI. A dozen planets around the M dwarfs GJ 3138, GJ 3323, GJ 273, GJ 628, and GJ 3293", arXiv 1703.05386 (accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics), March 15, 2017 [Preprint]
X. Bonfils et al., "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXI. The M-dwarf sample", Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 549, ID A8, January 2013
Jingjing Chen and David Kipping, "Probabilistic Forecasting of the Masses and Radii of Other Worlds", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 834, No. 1, Article id. 17, January 2017
Stephen R. Kane et al., "Characterization of the Wolf 1061 Planetary System", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 835, No. 2, Article id. 200, February 2017
R. K. Kopparapu et al., "Habitable zones around main-sequence stars: new estimates", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 765, No. 2, Article ID. 131, March 10, 2013
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu et al., "Habitable zones around main-sequence stars: dependence on planetary mass", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 787, No. 2, Article ID. L29, June 1, 2014
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu et al., "The Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Synchronously Rotating Planets around Low-mass Stars Using General Circulation Models", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 819, No. 1, Article ID. 84, March 2016
Valeri V. Makarov and Ciprian Berghea, "Dynamical evolution and spin-orbit resonances of potentially habitable exoplanet. The Case of GJ 667C", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 780, No. 2, article id. 124, January 2014
Leslie A. Rogers, "Most 1.6 Earth-Radius Planets are not Rocky", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 801, No. 1, Article id. 41, March 2015
D.J. Wright et al., "Three planets orbiting Wolf 1061", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 817, No. 2, Article id. L20, February 2016
Jun Yang et al., "Strong Dependence of the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone on Planetary Rotation Rate", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 787, No. 1, Article id. L2, May 2014


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The six year old boy in Olot (Catalonia) who became ill with diphtheria died overnight at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona, a spokeswoman for the Catalan regional health authorities confirmed to The Spain Report by telephone.
He had not received anti-diphtheria vaccinations.
The young boy was admitted to hospital 28 days ago after it was confirmed he was suffering from the first case of diphtheria recorded in Spain since 1987.
An anti-toxin treatment was rushed to Barcelona from Russia but proved ineffective.
The boy's parents felt "terribly guilty" and that they had been "tricked" by anti-vaccine groups who convinced them not to vaccinate their son, the public health secretary in Catalonia said during a press conference on June 5.
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