Estrogen plus progestin use linked with increased breast cancer incidence and mortality

Mar. 29, 2013 ? Estrogen plus progestin use is linked with increased breast cancer incidence. In addition, prognosis is similar for both users and nonusers of combined hormone therapy, suggesting that mortality from breast cancer may be higher for hormone therapy users as well, according to a study published March 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial, estrogen plus progestin was associated with an increase in both breast cancer incidence and mortality. However, most observational studies have linked estrogen plus progestin with more positive outcomes.

In order to determine the differences between the WHI trial and other observational studies, Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher and colleagues, looked at postmenopausal women with no prior hysterectomy with negative mammograms within two years who were either users or non-users of estrogen and progestin combined therapy.

The researchers found that breast cancer incidence was higher in estrogen plus progestin users than incidence in nonusers. Women who started hormone therapy closer to menopause had a higher breast cancer risk with a weakening influence as the time from menopause increased.

"Because survival after breast cancer diagnosis did not differ between estrogen plus progestin users and nonusers, the higher breast cancer incidence of those using estrogen plus progestin may lead to increased breast cancer mortality on a population basis," the authors write.

In an accompanying editorial, Catherine Schairer, Ph.D., and Louise A. Brinton, Ph.D., both of the National Cancer Institute, write that questions remain about whether the data analyzed from the WHI observational study resolves the differences in tumor prognosis and tumor characteristics when compared to the WHI randomized trial. They write that, "In general, tumors in estrogen plus progestin users in the WHI Observational Study were not significantly different from those in non-hormone users with regard to number of positive lymph nodes or tumor size, but were more likely to be well differentiated and positive for hormone receptors, findings which are similar to other observational studies." This, however, did not translate into a survival benefit. They recommend further analyses in this and other datasets of currency and duration of hormone use in relationship to tumor development to fully resolve the issue of tumor characteristics associated with estrogen plus progestin therapy.

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Fitness Tip: the forward reaching lunge - The Orange County Register

Think this exercise looks easy? Try a few.

Trainer Sarah Capsolas, who leads classes at the YMCA in Mission Viejo, has a background in yoga as well as P90X. So the forward reaching lunge, or dynamic warrior 1 as she alternately calls it, blends a little of both.

It's a "little athletic for yogic purposes of balanced movement," but it's one of many exercises that have crossed over from yoga.

It's very simple: Lunge forward with one leg, flexing the hip, and reach up with your hands. The belly will be over the thigh, the torso leaning toward the floor.

"This is going to engage the whole back body when you lift your hands over your head," Capsolas said. "If you were really great at it, you could do it with weights in your hands. It's a total body exercise, working the big muscles in the legs, the hips and the butt, the back, the back of the shoulders and the core to stabilize."

It's not necessary to keep that back leg straight, but bending it tends to let the shoulders stoop and the back bend too much. You want to keep the back straight.

"Generally, if people start bending that back leg, they start rounding their spine." Keeping the leg straight "helps people stay taller in the spine."

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Astronomers discover new kind of supernova

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Supernovae were always thought to occur in two main varieties. But a team of astronomers including Carnegie's Wendy Freedman, Mark Phillips and Eric Persson is reporting the discovery of a new type of supernova called Type Iax. This research has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is available online.

Previously, supernovae were divided into either core-collapse or Type Ia categories. Core-collapse supernovae are the explosion of a star about 10 to 100 times as massive as our sun. Type Ia supernovae are the complete disruption of a tiny white dwarf.

This new type, Iax, is fainter and less energetic than Type Ia. Although both types come from exploding white dwarfs, Type Iax supernovas may not completely destroy the white dwarf.

"A Type Iax supernova is essentially a mini supernova," says lead author Ryan Foley, Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the runt of the supernova litter."

The research team--which also included Max Stritzinger, formerly of Carnegie--identified 25 examples of the new type of supernova. None of them appeared in elliptical galaxies, which are filled with old stars. This suggests that Type Iax supernovas come from young star systems.

Based on a variety of observational data, the team concluded that a Type Iax supernova comes from a binary star system containing a white dwarf and a companion star that has lost its outer hydrogen, leaving it helium dominated. The white dwarf collects helium from the normal star.

Researchers aren't sure what triggers a Type Iax. It's possible that the outer helium layer ignites first, sending a shock wave into the white dwarf. Alternatively, the white dwarf might ignite first due to the influence of the overlying helium shell.

Either way, it appears that in many cases the white dwarf survives the explosion, unlike in a Type Ia supernova where the white dwarf is completely destroyed.

The team calculates that Type Iax supernovae are about a third as common as Type Ia supernovae. The reason so few have been detected is that the faintest are only one-hundredth as bright as a Type Ia supernova.

"The closer we look, the more ways we find for stars to explode," Phillips said.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope could discover thousands of Type Iax supernovas over its lifetime.

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Outsourcing Telemarketing Services for Win Solution

For many small and medium sized businesses, outsourcing telemarketing services is an important and necessary step. ?If you don?t have the manpower or resources to handle telemarketing in house, outsourcing your telemarketing can free you and your employees to focus on the important, day to day operations of your business. ?Outsourcing telemarketing services turns over that job to those people who specialize in it. ?Outsourcing can also save your business some money. ?It?s a win/win situation, right?

Well, it is a good option for many businesses. ?However, don?t overlook the fact that outsourcing does require some maintenance on your part. ?Outsourcing telemarketing services is not just a matter of hiring a company and walking away. ?You will have to do some follow-up work along the way.

In order to hold up your end of the bargain as the outsourcer, these are some of the things that you must do:

1. Prepare job information list.
   Provide the information that the telemarketing service needs to do its job. ?You will have to give them some basic information to get started with. ?Make sure that you give your name and contact number to the telemarketing service, even if you are just casually looking for information online. ?They are trying to develop new leads, just like you are.
2. Tell them what you want.
   The telemarketing service cannot give you what you want from them if you do not make your needs explicitly clear. ?The importance of this point cannot be stressed enough. ?If you expect results from your telemarketing service, you must equip them to do their job by clearly outlining and defining what you expect from them. ?If you are looking for an increase in revenue, specifically state the number that you are looking for. ?If you want the telemarketing service to make a certain number of calls per day, say so. ?If you want a certain number of representatives to be assigned to your account, let them know. ?The most critical step in determining your outcome is clearly stating your goals and objectives.
3. Learn where to get access to your results.
   Telemarketing services keep track of all sorts of statistics related to your campaign. ?They will prepare reports on things like total increase in revenue, number of calls made, the increase in sales by demographic, and sales by customer service representative. ?All the reports in the world don?t do you any good if you don?t know where or how to get them, though. ?Find out if the reports will be sent to you on a regular basis. Some companies give you access to their database so that you can check the reports whenever you wish. ?Whatever the system for relaying reports, you should know what you are signing up for.

When you outsource your telemarketing services, you can save a lot of time, stress and money. You just need to do a little bit of work at the outset and some periodic follow up. ?The clearer you are at the outset of your relationship, the better your results will be.

Let the expert team at Forlex Sales handle all of your outsourced telemarketing activities. Our team is highly trained to meet the needs of every business owner. In addition to telemarketing, we also offer application verification, lead generation, prospect research, rapid inquiry response, live real time transfers, market research, and everything else you need to grow your business.

Forlex Sales was founded by a group of experts who specialize in marketing and information technology, so we understand how important it is to stay up to date with your information and your technology.

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Mate choice in mice is heavily influenced by paternal cues, mouse study shows

Mar. 28, 2013 ? Hybrid offspring of different house mice populations show a preference for mating with individuals from their father's original population.

Mate choice is a key factor in the evolution of new animal species. The choice of a specific mate can decisively influence the evolutionary development of a species. In mice, the attractiveness of a potential mate is conveyed by scent cues and ultrasonic vocalizations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Pl?n investigated whether house mice (Mus musculus) would mate with each other even if they were from two populations which had been separated from each other for a long time period. To do this, the researchers brought together mice from a German population and mice from a French population. Although to begin with all the mice mated with one another randomly, the hybrid offspring of French and German parents were distinctly more choosy: they showed a definite preference for mating with individuals from their father's original population. According to the researchers, this paternal imprinting accelerates the divergence of two house mouse populations and thus promotes speciation.

In allopatric speciation, individuals of a species become geographically isolated from each other by external factors such as mountains or estuaries. Over time, this geographic separation leads to the sub-populations undergoing various mutations, and thus diverging genetically. Animals from the two different sub-populations can no longer successfully reproduce, so two new species evolve.

To find out what role partner selection plays in such speciation processes, Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institutefor Evolutionary Biology and his colleagues conducted a comprehensive study on house mice -- the classic model organisms of biology. "To investigate whether there are differences in the mating behaviour of the mice in the early stages of speciation, we caught wild house mice in southern France and western Germany. The two populations have been geographically separate for around 3,000 years, which equates to some 18,000 generations," says Diethard Tautz. Due to this geographical separation, the French and German mice were genetically different.

The Pl?n-based researchers created a semi-natural environment for their investigations -- a sort of "Playboy Mansion" for mice. The research enclosure was several square meters in size and was divided up using wooden walls, "nests" made out of plastic cylinders, and plastic tubes. It also featured an escape tube with several entrances, which led into a cage system nearby. "We constructed the enclosure in such a way that all animals had unimpeded access to all areas, but thanks to the structural divisions were also able to create their own territories or retreat into nests," explains Tautz. "The escape tube was a control element. If the mice retreated to it only very seldom -- as was the case in our experiment -- then we could be sure there was no overpopulation in the central enclosure."

In this central enclosure, the French and German mice had both time and space to mate with each other and reproduce. "At first, all the mice mated with each other quite randomly. But with the first-generation offspring, a surprising pattern emerged," says Tautz. When the first-generation hybrid offspring of mixed French and German parentage mated, they showed a specific preference for pure-bred mates whose "nationality" was that of their father only. "There must be some kind of paternal influence that prompts the hybrid mice to choose a mate from a specific population, namely that of their father," concludes the biologist, based on the results of his study. "This imprinting must be learned, however, meaning that the animals must grow up in the presence of their fathers. This was not the case for the original mice, which were kept in cages for a time after being caught."

"We know that mice use ultrasonic vocalizations to communicate with each other and that particularly in the case of male mice these vocalizations can reveal signals of individuality and kinship. We believe that, like birdsong, the vocalizations of the males have a learned component and a genetic component," says Tautz. Therefore, French and German mice really could "speak" different languages, partly learned from their fathers, partly inherited from them. Individual mice thus have a mating preference for mice that speak the same language as they do.

The French and German mouse populations had evidently been geographically separated long enough for preliminary signs of species differentiation to be apparent as regards mating preferences. In addition, another aspect of mating behavior also sped up the speciation process. Although mice have multiple mates, the researchers found evidence of partner fidelity and inbreeding. The tendency to mate with relatives fosters the creation of genetically uniform groups. When both occur together, this accelerates the speciation process.

In a next step, Diethard Tautz wants to find out whether the vocalizations of the mice play the decisive role in paternal imprinting, or if scent cues are also involved. Furthermore, the biologist wants to identify the genes that are involved in mate selection.

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Bodybuilding.com - Strong Words, Vol. 1: New Titles In Health And ...

by Nick Collias Feb 27, 2013

Even the most computer-attached among us can usually point to a book or video that helped put us on the right path in fitness and strength training. Maybe yours was Arnold's New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, or a classic Robert Kennedy or Larry Scott title. Perhaps it was an obscure VHS that you wore out, or something you'd rather not admit to, but which still made you feel like you'd "gotten it" for the first time.

Even during the digital age, high-quality books and videos still set the bar when it comes to presenting comprehensive, well-sourced research and innovative training systems. In this new regular feature, we'll run down the latest promising new releases worthy of a place on your nightstand or coffee table. If you're looking for a way to turn your interest in training into a full-fledged education, they'll give you a good idea where to start.

Delavier's Anatomy for Bigger, Stronger Arms
by Frederick Delavier and Michael Gundill
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Price: $24.95

Who it's for: Anyone who believes a muscular physique begins with a strong knowledge of anatomy.

While definitely the most popular group of muscles for people to train, the arms are also the simplest, and they're arguably of much lower importance when compared to the muscles of the hips, legs, back, or core.

So I understand why legendary French illustrator Frederic Delavier, author of Strength Training Anatomy and a host of other titles, chose to focus on the arms in the second of his body part-specific training guides, after 2011's Core Training Anatomy. I just wish he'd hurry up and hit more body parts!

This book is chock-full of high-quality photos and illustrations done by Delavier himself. Demonstrating a deep practical and working knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics, Delavier and co-author Michael Gundill outline everything you need to know to build large, shapely arms.

A beginner can pick up this book and find the exercises, goal-setting guide, and arm workout programs they need to start their journey. Meanwhile, there is plenty of meat for the seasoned trainer, such as an impressive section on selectively training and understanding weak areas, common pathologies, and carryover into sport.

I have never seen a book that covered arm training at such a high level, yet was so simple to follow and beautifully illustrated. Anatomy for Bigger, Stronger Arms is without peer.
- Matt Biss

Anatomy For Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention
by Jay Dicharry, MPT, SCS.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Price: $14.95

Who it's for: Athletes who don't think "runner" needs to be a synonym for "weak" or "slouched".

The sport of running is at a crossroads. On one hand, the chorus of voices in the fitness community advocating sprints and interval training, and dismissing distance running altogether, has never been louder. On the other, extreme feats like ultramarathons are exploding in popularity.

In Anatomy for Runners, Jay Dicharry, the director of the SPEED Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab at the University of Virginia, offers an "approachable biomechanics text" outlining how one of the foundational human movements has devolved into "some crazy type of badge-of-courage sport in which you have to pound yourself into shape day-in and day-out until you emerge on top."

Lost somewhere among the endless miles runners are logging are basic ideas like form, conditioning, and risk assessment, all of which runners ignore at their own peril, Dicharry writes.

Stunningly, more than 80 percent of runners will sustain a running-related injury at some point in their lifetime, yet as he points out, the act of running itself has never been clinically proven to be bad for you. In response, Dicharry recalls his own checkered history with running and injury before laying out "how the musculoskeletal system responds to running, and how to optimize this relationship."

In a slim volume priced less than a bestselling novel, he offers up well-illustrated mobility and stability tests to assess form, corrective exercises to improve flexibility and strength?including weightlifting?and principled tips in regard to footwear, stretching, and trends like barefoot running.

While he seems to favor a minimalist or barefoot approach to running, Dicharry also grants that heel-strikers can run without injury, and offers recommendations to help them do so. That may seem a small concession, but by bringing them in, he succeeds in making Anatomy for Runners a necessary title for runners of all stripes.

Click here to read our interview with Jay Dicharry and see his exclusive strength training program for runners.
- Nick Collias

Power Speed Endurance: A Skill-Based Approach to Endurance Training
by Brian MacKenzie
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Price: $39.95

Who it's for: Enterprising home-CrossFitters who both sprint and go the distance.

Like Jay Dicharry, Brian MacKenzie treats running and other endurance sports as skills that should be developed strategically, rather than simply by piling on volume.

However, MacKenzie, the creator of the CrossFit offshoot CrossFit Endurance, goes far beyond biomechanics in Power Speed Endurance, laying out a total approach to preparing for endurance running, rowing, cycling, swimming, or triathlons. In a large and lavishly illustrated manifesto, MacKenzie goes into deep detail about strength training and conditioning, athletic technique, programming, and even nutrition and performance fueling.

In short, MacKenzie advocates preparation for distance rather than through distance. While long-distance training has a place in his programs, it is something to be worked up to in the long-term. In the short term, "stamina work is done at 80 percent effort or above," in the form of intervals, time trials, technique drills, and CrossFit AMRAP onslaughts.

The goal, he says, is efficiency: "First, master the skill of movement to improve movement efficiency; second, slowly add higher intensity workouts to build strength and test the limitations of your technique; then, once you can maintain technique with intensity, add volume."

A narrative of injury-prevention and overall health runs deep through Power Speed Endurance. Both MacKenzie and T.J. Murphy, who contributes the forward, detail how their experiences with traditional endurance training left them injury-ravaged and fundamentally weakened. CrossFit was their savior, leaving them able to both run a race and walk comfortably afterward.

At about half the price of a monthly membership to a CrossFit gym, MacKenzie's volume is a valuable exercise reference for anyone considering making the change to that system, or to CrossFit Endurance. If you're considering doing those systems on the cheap at home or in a standard gym, the volume is doubly valuable; he offers comprehensive 6-week and 12-week introductory programs, both general and sport-specific.
- Nick Collias

Raising the Bar: The Definitive Guide to Pull-Up Bar Calisthenics (DVD)
by Al Kavadlo
Publisher: Dragon Door Publications
Price: $29.95

Who it's for: Bodyweight-movement enthusiasts looking for new challenges on the cheap.

You'd probably recognize Al Kavadlo by sight if you've seen one of his 150 or so instructional YouTube videos. In each of them, this lean, tat-covered strength coach calmly explains and performs incredibly difficult bodyweight feats of strength using playground equipment in New York City's Thompson Square Park.

Kavadlo's almost cartoonishly friendly demeanor and his focus on strict progressions make for a welcome contrast to the chest-pounding music video vibe of most other playground workout videos. He clearly wants to teach, not just show what he can do.

In Kavadlo's new DVD, Raising the Bar?a companion to the book of the same name?he lays out detailed progressions for a wide variety of pull-ups, dips, muscle-ups, handstands, and levers. He and his brother Danny (similar tats, but scowling rather than smiling) cover everything from the simple two-arm hang to advanced plyometric moves, ending each short lesson with a short freestyle exhibition showcasing goal movements like fist muscle-ups and behind-the-back clapping pull-ups.

The value of a guide like Kavadlo's is clear for anyone aiming for specific bodyweight goals like a one-armed pull-up or muscle-up. However, it's also valuable simply for preserving the idea that movements and skills, rather than numbers or body markers, are legitimate end goals.

This isn't a system that works if you do it once each week. It needs to be practiced and nurtured over years, but the ultimate reward isn't just strength or body composition. It's a new way to play.
- Nick Collias

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $35

Who it's for: Diehard fans looking for the final word on the Austrian Oak.

Being an avid bodybuilding fan for most of my life, I was as giddy as a Japanese school girl rocking a Hello Kitty cosplay at Comic-Con when this was finally published. Total Recall is a revealing look at some of the details of the Austrian Oak's life and career development, offering plenty of memories and anecdotes from his early life that even fans like me missed over the years.

Coming from a damaged post World War II Austria, Arnold views America as a beacon of success and strength and vows to get himself there. He goes unabashedly after what he wants, taking obstacles out of his path with his indomitable will like a heat-seeking missile.

Arriving in America with only a gym bag in hand, Schwarzenegger uses his determination and cunning to build an empire founded on bodybuilding, movies, and business. Many gritty details from his film-making and politics come to light in Total Recall, but predictably, much of the dirty laundry remains hidden, with only glancing mentions of some of the obvious scandals already known to the public.

Having spent more time than most learning about Arnold, this new addition to the Oak's library brings enough new content to make it a worthwhile investment. It is an enjoyable read but feels cautious?you can only wonder what was left out. Maybe instead of Total Recall: My Unbelievable True Life Story it should be titled Total Image Control: The Inspiring Parts of my Life Story.
- Matt Biss

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Linux Admin Tips, Tricks and Tools of the Trade

Here in the Linux community, most of us enjoy high-level debates about strategies and trends just as much as the next technology enthusiast does. At the end of the day, however, it seems safe to say that what we tend to relish most of all is a good ol' nuts-and-bolts discussion of the tools and tricks of the trade.

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Hennepin County Library News: April author events at Hennepin ...

April is a month of literary celebrations, including William Shakespeare?s birthday, National Library Week, National Poetry Month, and Children?s Day/Book Day. In April, Hennepin County Library invites area residents to visit their local libraries, discover books by new and favorite authors, and enjoy free author and other events.

Headlining April author events are Romanian-born poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, ?West Bank Boogie? author Cyn Collins, award-winning teen fantasy fiction writer Tamora Pierce, St. Paul Poet Laureate Carol Connelly, and poet and fiction writer Cass Dalglish.? Other headliners are Plymouth Reads author Diane Wilson, bestselling writer Theresa Weir (aka Anne Frasier), printer/illustrator?Gaylord Schanilec, Star Tribune reporter Curt Brown, organic cook and cookbook author Brenda Langton, and Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen.

For the complete program calendar and information about library locations, books and other resources available, and access to the catalog, go to?www.hclib.org. Library cards are free.

Thursday, April 4, 7?8:30?p.m.

Talk of the Stacks With Andrei Codrescu
Minneapolis Central Library
Pohlad Hall
Romanian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and National Public Radio commentator, Codrescu is internationally known for his satiric wit and biting political perspective. He will discuss ?life as a writer and 41 years of wrestling the muse? and read from his newest poetry collection, ?So Recently Rent a World,? which includes 90 poems and dozens of classics.?Books will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
A program of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Presenting sponsor: The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank. Additional support: Dorsey and Whitney LLP, MinnPost, Magers and Quinn Booksellers and the Marquette Hotel.

Saturday, April 6, 1?2?p.m.

Author Talk: Cyn Collins
Northeast Library
Local author Collins will read from her book, ?West Bank Boogie: Forty Years of Music, Mayhem and Memories.? You?ll hear about a vital part of the local music scene, and maybe share some memories of your own!?Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by Friends of the Northeast Library.

Saturday, April 6, 1?3:30?p.m.

Teens Know Best: Tamora Pierce

Southdale Library
For teens. Meet teen fiction legend Pierce and talk to other fantasy fans. Hear about Pierce?s famous fantasy series: ?The Tortall Universe? and ?The Circle Universe.?
This project is funded with money from Minnesota?s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Sponsored by MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency)?

Tuesday, April 9, 7?8:30?p.m.

Edina Reads: Carol Connolly
Edina Library
Location: Fireside Room, Edina Senior Center, lower level of the library.

St. Paul Poet Laureate and Kay Sexton Award-winner Carol Connolly will read with Cass Dalglish, a poet, fiction writer and professor of English at Augsburg College and director of Augsburg?s creative writing program.?Their reading is in honor of National Poetry Month.
Sponsored by Friends of the Edina Library, the Edina Community Foundation, Edina Senior Center, Friends of the Hennepin County Library, Edina High School, Edina Community Education and Edina Resource Center.

Sunday, April 14, 6:30?p.m.

Plymouth Reads: Meet Author Diane Wilson
Plymouth Library
Location: Plymouth Creek Center, 14800 34th Ave. N., Plymouth?
Wilson will speak about her book, ?Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past,? the 2013 Plymouth Reads selection. Discover, as she did, ?just how deeply our identities are influenced by the forces of history.??For details, visit?Plymouth Arts Council?s website?or call?763-509-5200.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Plymouth Library, Plymouth Arts Council and City of Plymouth Parks & Recreation.

Thursday, April 18, 7?p.m.

Author Talk: Theresa Weir
Ridgedale Library
Best-selling author of 23 books and numerous short stories, Weir (aka Anne Frasier) will speak about her new memoir, ?The Man Who Left,? and her previous work, ?The Orchard.??Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by Friends of the Ridgedale Library.

Saturday, April 20, 2?4?p.m.

Gaylord Schanilec?s Lac Des Pleurs

Minneapolis Central Library
Room Location: Doty Board Room
Schanilec is a Midwestern fine printer who works out of his studio in Stockholm, Wisc. as well as part-time on his boat, where he sketched fish and birds for his forthcoming book, ?Lac Des Pleurs.? He will share images from and the background and process in creating the book. Family members of Beverly Hogan, former Minneapolis Central staff, will donate a copy to Special Collections in her memory.
Sponsored by Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library.?

Monday, April 22, 6:30?p.m.

Author Talk: Curt Brown
St. Anthony Library
Star Tribune reporter Brown spent months researching materials and visiting sites where the U.S.-Dakota War and related events occurred for his August 2012 six-part series ?In the Footsteps of Little Crow.? Brown will talk about what he learned about this darkest period of Minnesota history.
Sponsored by Friends of the St. Anthony Library.?

Wednesday, April 24, 7?8:30?p.m.

Club Book With Brenda Langton
Southdale Library
For nearly 40 years, Langton has been one of the most recognizable guiding lights of Twin Cities organic dining. She will share her newest book, ?The Spoonriver Cookbook,? a tribute to her acclaimed Spoonriver restaurant and the Mill City Farmers Market, as well as her vision and philosophy.?Books will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
A program of MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency) and coordinated by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, is funded in part with money from Minnesota?s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Creative partner: A/B Geist. Media support: Minnesota Public Radio. Author escort: Around Town Agency.?

Monday, April 29, 6:30?p.m.

Author Talk: Joyce Sutphen
Maple Grove Library
Join Sutphen, poet laureate of Minnesota, for an evening of live poetry. She also will discuss how poetry enriches lives, and share stories about her role as poet laureate.
Sponsored by Friends of the Maple Grove Library.

For more information, visit or call your?local library?or contact the?Ask Us?service.

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Vatican blasts 'false' pre-conclave reporting

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.

Italian newspapers have been rife with unsourced reports in recent days about the contents of a secret dossier prepared for the pope by three cardinals who investigated the origins of the 2012 scandal over leaked Vatican documents.

The reports have suggested the revelations in the dossier, given to Benedict in December, were a factor in his decision to resign. The pope himself has said merely that he doesn't have the "strength of mind and body" to carry on and would resign Feb. 28.

On Saturday, a day before Benedict's final Sunday blessing in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican secretariat of state said the Catholic Church has for centuries insisted on the independence of its cardinals to freely elect their pope ? a reference to episodes in the past when kings and emperors vetoed papal contenders or prevented cardinals from voting outright.

"If in the past, the so-called powers, i.e., States, exerted pressures on the election of the pope, today there is an attempt to do this through public opinion that is often based on judgments that do not typically capture the spiritual aspect of the moment that the church is living," the statement said.

"It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave ... that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions."

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi was asked how specifically the media was trying to influence the outcome; Lombardi didn't respond directly, saying only that the reports have tended to paint the Curia in a negative light "beyond the considerations and serene evaluations" of problems that cardinals might discuss before the conclave.

Some Vatican watchers have speculated that because the Vatican bureaucracy is heavily Italian, cardinals might be persuaded to elect a non-Italian, non-Vatican-based cardinal as pope to try to impose some reform on the Curia.

While Lombardi has said the reports "do not correspond to reality," the pope and some of his closest collaborators have recently denounced the dysfunction in the Apostolic Palace.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, for example, criticized the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy. He made the comments Friday, the penultimate day of the Vatican's weeklong spiritual exercises that were attended by the pope and other officials. Ravasi, himself a papal contender, was chosen by Benedict to deliver daily meditations and on Saturday Benedict praised him for his "brilliant" work.

The divisions Ravasi spoke of were exposed by the documents taken from the pope's study by his butler and then leaked by a journalist. The documents revealed the petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism and even allegations of a gay plot at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.

The three cardinals who investigated the theft had wide-ranging powers to interview even cardinals to get to the bottom of the dynamics within the Curia that resulted in the gravest Vatican security breach in modern times.

Benedict too has made reference to the divisions in recent days, deploring in his final Mass as pope on Ash Wednesday how the church is often "defiled" by attacks and divisions from within. Last Sunday, he urged its members to overcome "pride and egoism."

On Saturday, in his final comments to the Curia, Benedict lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that have defaced God's creation. But he also thanked the Vatican bureaucrats for having helped him "bear the burden" of his ministry with their work, love and faith these past eight years.

The Vatican's attack on the media echoed its response to previous scandals, where it has tended not to address the underlying content of accusations, but has diverted attention away. During the 2010 explosion of sex abuse scandals, the Vatican accused the media of trying to attack the pope; during the 2012 leaks scandal, it accused the media of sensationalism without addressing the content of the leaked documents.

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Nate Silver, Microsoft researcher analyze Oscar voting: ?they provide for plenty of parallels to political campaigns?

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Nate Silver, Microsoft Researcher Analyze the Oscars

Nate Silver, famous for applying rigorous statistical methods to U.S. political elections, has focused his predictive powers on a somewhat more lighthearted topic: this weekend?s Academy Awards. ?The Oscars, in which the voting franchise is limited to the 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion?

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Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on (update: video)

Just ahead of Huawei's press event, Huawei's treated us to an early viewing of its new 8.4-millimeter smartphone, the Ascend P2. With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera and a 720p 4.7-inch Gorilla Glass 2 Infinity Edge Display, it joins the likes of the Ascend Mate and D2 in forming the Chinese manufacturer's smartphone family in 2013. And boy, it's a slender, feather-light phone with a glossy backing that come sin both black and white. Design-wise, like those leaks, it looks an awful lot like those P1 phones we first saw at CES 2012.

Its notable feature is the highest-speed LTE connection seen so far in a smartphone, up to 150Mbps with support for LTE Cat4. We also got to play with Huawei's Emotion UI again, which can draw on the 1GB of RAM housed inside. There's plenty of storage, with 16GB ready to accept your photos and music. The right side houses a volume switch and a physical camera button -- these were a bit plasticky, but has a nice matte finish. The other side is where the power button belongs, with both the headphone and micro-USB charging port found there. Huawei's focusing on battery life here as well, with a 2,420mAH cell powering the Android phone and the promise of consuming 20-percent less power, thanks to the handset's display technology.

With the aforementioned Emotion UI, there's the same clipboard animation across homescreen transitions, matching those other Ascend models. Getting into screen performance, it reflected a fair bit of ambient light. It's perhaps not the best display we've seen from Huawei -- there seems to be a space between the surface of the glass and the display itself. The hardware feels light, but feels like we were often unable to keep hold of it. The buttons have the right amount of bite, although it would have been nice to see some premium materials used for these minor details. The design also reminds us a fair bit of Panasonic's Eluga smartphone. Perhaps due to the lack of exotic color options, the phone wasn't quite as appealing as when we first got our hands on its predecessors. We'll have a hands-on video up soon. If you're in Europe you can pick this up in Q2 for €399 ($526).

Update: The video now lives after the break!

Gallery: Huawei Ascend P2 hands-on

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US, NATO, mull Afghan troop strength after combat

BRUSSELS (AP) ? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a dispute arose Friday between the U.S. and German defense officials over whether that contingent would be an international force or an American one.

The conflicting accounts came as NATO defense ministers gathered here to discuss the endgame of the 11-year-old war in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has said that the last combat troops will leave Afghanistan on Dec. 31, 2014, leaving the bulk of the country's security in the hands of the Afghans.

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters Panetta had informed him at the Brussels meeting that the United States would leave between 8,000 and 10,000 troops in the war-torn country at the end of 2014.

But Panetta, speaking to reporters later, called de Maiziere's comments inaccurate.

Panetta, who will leave Obama's Cabinet when his successor is confirmed, told reporters that he and the NATO partners instead talked about ranges of options for the post-2014 troop force. And he said the figures reflected contributions that other nations would make, in addition to the United States.

"There's no question in the current budget environment, with deep cuts in European defense spending and the kind of political gridlock that we see in the United States now with regards to our own budget, is putting at risk our ability to effectively act together," he said. "As I prepare to step down as secretary of defense, I do fear that the alliance will soon be, if it is not already, stretched too thin."

His spokesman, George Little, told reporters that the range for an international force was 8,000 to 12,000.

"The reports that the U.S. told allies that we are considering 8,000 to 12,000 U.S. troops after 2014 are not correct," Little said. "A range of 8,000 to 12,000 troops was discussed as the possible size of the overall NATO mission, not the U.S. contribution."

Little said Obama had not yet decided on the size of the post-2014 force in Afghanistan.

"We will continue to discuss with allies and the Afghans how we can best carry out two basic missions: targeting the remnants of al-Qaida and its affiliates, and training and equipping Afghan forces," he said.

Panetta said officials are planning to leave troops in all sectors of the country as well as in Kabul. Pentagon officials have said the military has mapped out plans to carry on its mission of training and advising the Afghan forces and also leave a small counterterrorism force to battle insurgents.

When asked about troop numbers, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters that no decision had yet been made.

The Obama administration is considering a plan to maintain 352,000 Afghan troops for the next five years as part of an effort to maintain security and help convince Afghanistan that America and its allies will not abandon it once combat troops leave in 2014, senior alliance officials said Thursday. NATO officials are also widely considering that option.

Such a change, if NATO endorses it, could increase the costs to the U.S. and allies by more than $2 billion a year, at a time when most are struggling with budget cuts and fiscal woes. Last May, NATO agreed to underwrite an Afghan force of about 230,000, at a cost of about $4.1 billion a year after 2014. It costs about $6.5 billion this year to fund the current Afghan force of 352,000, and the U.S. is providing about $5.7 billion of that.

Panetta said Friday that he can defend that spending to Congress because it would give the U.S. more flexibility and savings as it withdraws troops from Afghanistan.

Maintaining the larger troop strength could bolster the confidence of the Afghan forces and make it clear that NATO is committed to an enduring relationship with Afghanistan, a senior NATO official said.

In private meetings with other defense ministers, Panetta warned allies that Washington's fiscal impasse will have repercussions abroad, as impending budget cuts force the military to scale back its training and presence overseas.

Many of his meetings, however, centered on the plans to wind down the war in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops over the next year and the transfer of security responsibilities to the Afghan forces.

According to an Obama administration official, the Pentagon plans to reduce the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to about 60,500 by the end of May; then to 52,500 by November, keeping a relatively stable number of troops there during the peak fighting season. The sharpest cuts in U.S. troop strength will come over the winter months as the remaining 20,500 leave after the main fighting season. There currently are about 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Panetta acknowledged those ranges of numbers on Friday, but also added that the U.S. would maintain the 34,000 through the Afghan elections, then withdraw the final combat troops toward the end of 2014.

The administration officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the numbers publicly.

This is Panetta's fifth visit to Brussels for a NATO meeting ? a trip he never intended to take. Expectations were that defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, would be confirmed by the Senate last week and he would travel to the meeting.

Hagel's nomination stalled, however, as it got caught up in senators' complaints about the attack in Benghazi, which left four Americans dead, including the ambassador. There are indications now that Hagel has support from enough senators to be confirmed next week.

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Associated Press writers Don Melvin and Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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Moody's downgrades UK rating from AAA to AA1

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, talks with President of the EU rotating Council and Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan during the EU finance ministers meeting, at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan has voiced his opposition to any proposal that the European Central Bank should intervene to get the value of the euro down. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, talks with President of the EU rotating Council and Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan during the EU finance ministers meeting, at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan has voiced his opposition to any proposal that the European Central Bank should intervene to get the value of the euro down. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

LONDON (AP) ? Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Britain's government bond rating one notch from the top AAA to AA1 Friday, saying sluggish growth and rising debt were weakening the country's medium-term outlook.

Treasury chief George Osborne said the blow only redoubled his resolve "to deliver our economic recovery plan," based on deep spending cuts.

Moody's said "subdued" growth prospects and a "high and rising debt burden" were weighing on the British economy.

The agency said rising debt meant "a deterioration in the shock-absorption capacity of the government's balance sheet, which is unlikely to reverse before 2016."

It said, though, that "the U.K.'s creditworthiness remains extremely high," and its outlook was stable.

Moody's said that "a combination of political will and medium-term fundamental underlying economic strengths will, in time, allow the government to implement its fiscal consolidation plan and reverse the U.K.'s debt trajectory."

For the British government, the move was unwelcome but not unexpected. All three of the big rating agencies ? Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch ? had placed Britain's rating on negative watch, as the economy continues to struggle.

The Conservative-led government is cutting 50 billion pounds ($80 billion) in spending through 2015 in a bid to slash the national debt, which stands at more than 1 trillion pounds, over 70 percent of GDP.

Moody's said it expected that level to peak at just over 96 percent of GDP in 2016.

Public sector borrowing remains stubbornly high, and is forecast by the government's Office for Budget Responsibility to be 120 billion pounds for 2013.

Critics say the government's austerity policy has failed to kick-start the economy, which has been through two periods of recession since 2008.

The U.K. emerged from a nine-month recession in the third quarter, when GDP grew by 0.9 percent. But the economy contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.3 percent in the last three months of 2012.

Glimmers of good news for the government include a stable unemployment rate ? 7.8 percent in the last quarter ? and low interest rates.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond fell over the year from 2.29 percent in February of 2012 to 2.11 percent now.

Osborne said in a statement that the downgrade was "a stark reminder of the debt problems facing our country," with a debt accumulated over the years exacerbated by Europe's economic crisis.

"Far from weakening our resolve to deliver our economic recovery plan, this decision redoubles it," he said, promising to press on with debt-cutting.

"We will go on delivering the plan that has cut the deficit by a quarter, and given us record low interest rates and record numbers of jobs," Osborne said.

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'Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards'

Public release date: 22-Feb-2013
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It is only relatively recently that geoscientists have begun to consider how the Earth's crustal systems will respond to the rapid climate change that is expected in the next century.

Wiley is pleased to announce the publication of Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards, the most up-to-date resource on this new and fast-moving subject.

The book addresses a wide range of issues relating to the ways in which climate change may force geological and geomorphological hazards. The Chapters reflect an interdisciplinary field of research that is only now becoming recognized as important in the context of the likely impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change.

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards combines fully updated and revised papers resulting from a colloquium hosted by the Royal Society in 2009, with new material that fills in some of the less well covered or absent discussions in the original meeting.

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To speak to the editors or for a review copy of Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards please contact: Michelle Martella at Wiley
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About the Editors

Professor Bill McGuire is Head of the Benfield Hazards Research Centre, UCL

Professor Mark Maslin is Head of Department, and Director of the Environment Institute UCL

About Wiley

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.

Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and education. Our core businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising; professional books, subscription products, certification and training services and online applications; and education content and services including integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.

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It is only relatively recently that geoscientists have begun to consider how the Earth's crustal systems will respond to the rapid climate change that is expected in the next century.

Wiley is pleased to announce the publication of Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards, the most up-to-date resource on this new and fast-moving subject.

The book addresses a wide range of issues relating to the ways in which climate change may force geological and geomorphological hazards. The Chapters reflect an interdisciplinary field of research that is only now becoming recognized as important in the context of the likely impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change.

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards combines fully updated and revised papers resulting from a colloquium hosted by the Royal Society in 2009, with new material that fills in some of the less well covered or absent discussions in the original meeting.

###

To speak to the editors or for a review copy of Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards please contact: Michelle Martella at Wiley
Tel: +1 201-748-6145/ email: mmartella@wiley.com

About the Editors

Professor Bill McGuire is Head of the Benfield Hazards Research Centre, UCL

Professor Mark Maslin is Head of Department, and Director of the Environment Institute UCL

About Wiley

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.

Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and education. Our core businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising; professional books, subscription products, certification and training services and online applications; and education content and services including integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards
February 2013 326pp
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UN rejects damage claim for Haiti cholera victims

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The United Nations rejected a claim for damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families on Thursday, citing diplomatic immunity.

The claim was filed in November 2011 by the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a Boston-based human rights group that contended the U.N. and its peacekeeping force are liable for hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to adequately screen peacekeeping soldiers.

It cited studies suggesting that the disease was inadvertently brought to Haiti by a U.N. battalion from Nepal, where cholera is endemic. A local contractor failed to properly sanitize the waste of a U.N. base, and the bacteria leaked into a tributary of one of Haiti's biggest rivers, according to one study by a U.N.-appointed panel.

Cholera has sickened nearly 500,000 people and killed over 7,750 people since the outbreak began in October 2010, according to the Haitian government. About half the people in the country of 10 million have no bathroom at all and sanitation access is the worst in the Western Hemisphere.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the United Nations informed representatives of the claimant of the U.N. rejection on Thursday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called Haitian President Michel Martelly to inform him of the decision "and to reiterate the commitment of the United Nations to the elimination of cholera in Haiti," Nesirky said.

Brian Concannon, the institute's director, said that after 15 months, the rejection was a single sentence, based on the world organization's immunity, which said the claims are "not receivable" because they concern "a review of political and policy matters."

"Our case is about the U.N. dumping contaminated sewage in Haiti's waters that has caused thousands of deaths," he said. "Under this definition, any harm that the U.N. does to anybody would be a matter of policy."

Concannon told The Associated Press: "We're disappointed because the U.N. is passing up a chance to stop cholera's killing, and to show leadership in promoting the rule of law."

Mario Joseph, lead attorney for the victims, added: "It is disgraceful that the U.N. will not even consider compensating the thousands of families who have lost their children, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters due to the UN's wrongdoing."

Concannon, a co-counsel for the victims, said the institute's next step will be to go to a national court to seek compensation for the victims, "but we haven't decided which one yet," possibly in Haiti, the United States or Europe.

The institute was seeking a minimum of $100,000 for each bereaved family and $50,000 for each cholera survivor.

When the compensation claim was filed with the secretary-general and the claims unit for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti in 2011, Concannon said he hoped the U.N. peacekeeping force would create a lifesaving program that would provide sanitation, potable water and medical treatment. He also said he wanted a public apology for the victims.

In December, Ban announced a $2.27 billion initiative to help eradicate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, and vowed to work aggressively to secure donations for the ambitious but still mostly unfunded 10-year plan.

Nesirky said Thursday that the secretary-general "again expresses his profound sympathy for the terrible suffering caused by the cholera epidemic, and calls on all partners in Haiti and the international community to work together to ensure better health and a better future for the people of Haiti."

Associated Press

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NASA, using Kepler space telescope, finds smallest planet yet

NASA scientists have discovered a faraway planet that's smaller than Mercury ? far tinier than they expected they could find when they launched the Kepler space telescope nearly four years ago.

The hot, rocky world orbits a sun-like star that's about 210 light-years from Earth. Astronomers are excited about it because it's smaller than any planet in our solar system, said astrophysicist Thomas Barclay of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

"This is the smallest exoplanet that's ever been found," said Barclay, lead author of a report on the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Nature. "We're breaking new ground here."

From its perch in space, the Kepler telescope trains its lenses on more than 150,000 stars in the Milky Way and searches for the telltale fluctuations in a star's light caused by a planet's passing orbit. A primary goal of the mission is to look for Earth-like worlds that orbit within their stars' "habitable zones" ? planets that might be able to maintain liquid water on their surfaces and, perhaps, sustain life.

Kepler has performed its job well, thus far detecting 2,740 possible planets in its designated patch of sky. Subsequent analysis has confirmed that 105 of those candidates were actual planets.

Most of those have been significantly larger than Earth, and are believed to be gassy or watery in composition. Small rocky planets are more difficult to spot, Barclay said, in part because they obscure such a tiny amount of light from the stars they orbit. Natural variability in a star's light can be confused with a planetary signal.

But Kepler-37, the star that hosts the small planet, made the detection work easier by being bright and "quiet," Barclay said. In fact, the scientists were able to see a clear-enough pattern of dips in its light to distinguish three separate planets orbiting the star.

Subsequent analysis ? using images from ground-based telescopes and sophisticated computer modeling ? helped Barclay's team confirm that the sightings were real, he added.

The smallest of the three planets, known as Kepler-37b, is about the same size as Earth's moon and takes just 13 days to complete an orbit. Its neighbor, Kepler-37c, is about three-quarters the size of Earth and completes an orbit in 21 days. Both are probably rocky planets, Barclay said.

The third planet in the system, called Kepler-37d, is about twice as big as Earth and orbits in 40 days. It is likely to be a gassy, Neptune-like planet ? but very hot, Barclay said.

All three bodies are closer to their host star than Mercury is to the Sun, and none of them would be suitable for supporting life as we know it, Barclay said.

But their discovery is still "really good news" for the search for habitable worlds, he added, because it demonstrates that the Kepler telescope is sensitive enough to find Earth-sized planets with longer orbits "in the not-too distant future."

Because the Kepler-37 planets are so close to their star and orbit it so quickly, scientists were able to observe dozens of light dips associated with their transits. Planets orbiting at greater distances don't pass in front of their star as frequently, so it takes longer for researchers to accumulate sufficient data to study.

Barclay said he doesn't expect the telescope to find many more planets as small as Kepler-37b, however. They're just too hard to see.

"There's a limit to how small a signal you can detect," he said.

Caltech astronomer John Johnson, who was not involved in the research, said that scientists planning the Kepler mission never thought they would find such tiny worlds. "I don't think anyone would have been taken seriously if they had said, before Kepler launched, that we'd find planets as small as Mercury," he said. Mercury is slightly larger than Earth's moon.

The telescope has revolutionized astronomers' notions of our galaxy as a place that must be "teeming with rocky planets" that seem to be "a natural outgrowth of star formation," he added.

Indeed, Kepler has been so prolific that many space enthusiasts have become blas? about exoplanet discoveries just as scientists are closing in on finding truly Earth-like worlds, Johnson said.

"Every one of these detections was unimaginable in 2008," he said. "Every one of these is super-important."

eryn.brown@latimes.com

Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/qcGDvr0GhVQ/la-sci-small-exoplanet-20130221,0,4749761.story

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