His hair cracks me up!

Fuifui Moimoi Source: The Daily Telegraph

BOASTING 108kg worth of pure Tongan muscle, Parramatta hardman Fuifui Moimoi has long been a hair-raising prospect for opposition defences.

But weekly visits to his local hair salon have lifted Moimoi's game - and cult status - to another level.

While the 29-year-old prop has been consistently damaging, his game-day hairstyle is now more unpredictable than Parramatta's early-season form.

Moimoi has sported dreadlocks, plaits, and even decorative yellow beads. But the real crowd-pleaser came last Sunday against Newcastle at Parramatta Stadium, when he risked a life ban from the front-rowers' union by packing into scrums with a hair extension.

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Dusty debris!

July 31, 2009: Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower won't peak until August 11th and 12th, the show is already getting underway.

Brian Emfinger of Ozark, Arkansas, photographed this early Perseid just after midnight on Sunday, July 26th:

"I used an off-the-shelf digital camera to capture this fireball and its smoky trail," says Emfinger. "It was a bright one!"

Don't get too excited, cautions Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "We're just in the outskirts of the debris stream now. If you go out at night and stare at the sky, you'll probably only see a few Perseids per hour."

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This will change, however, as August unfolds.

"Earth passes through the densest part of the debris stream sometime on August 12th. Then, you could see dozens of meteors per hour."

For sky watchers in North America, the watch begins after nightfall on August 11th and continues until sunrise on the 12th. Veteran observers suggest the following strategy: Unfold a blanket on a flat patch of ground. (Note: The middle of your street is not a good choice.) Lie down and look up. Perseids can appear in any part of the sky, their tails all pointing back to the shower's radiant in the constellation Perseus. Get away from city lights if you can.

There is one light you cannot escape on August 12th. The 55% gibbous Moon will glare down from the constellation Aries just next door to the shower's radiant in Perseus. The Moon is beautiful, but don't stare at it. Bright moonlight ruins night vision and it will wipe out any faint Perseids in that part of the sky.

Above: Looking northeast around midnight on August 11th-12th. The red dot is the Perseid radiant. Although Perseid meteors can appear in any part of the sky, all of their tails will point back to the radiant. Image copyright: Spaceweather.com, used with permission.

The Moon is least troublesome during the early evening hours of August 11th. Around 9 to 11 p.m. local time (your local time), both Perseus and the Moon will be hanging low in the north. This low profile reduces lunar glare while positioning the shower's radiant for a nice display of Earthgrazers.

"Earthgrazers are meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond," explains Cooke. "They are long, slow and colorful—among the most beautiful of meteors." He notes that an hour of watching may net only a few of these at most, but seeing even one can make the whole night worthwhile.

The Perseids are coming. Enjoy the show.

By Alisha Francis (The manager and journalist)

Kepler spots exoplanet

The news, once again is on! Check this pic out-
This is an exoplanet HAT-P-7 that was first spotted a couple of years ago. Then NASA's Kepler Space Telescope which was just launched this March, spotted it in it's first 10 days of data. It took much clearer images of this exoplanet which orbits its sun very close as you can see. The planet is a giant gas planet just slightly larger than Jupiter. Scientists are nicknaming it Hot Jupiter since it's a gas giant thats very hot since it's near the sun.

By Karuna Nair
Photo Credit:Kepler Space Telescope

TENNIS STARS TWINS!

Roger Federer posted the first public photo of his twin girls on the internet on Friday.

"It was very funny as both girls had the hiccups while we were trying to take a decent picture," Federer wrote below the photo on his Facebook account, thanking friends and fans for their warm wishes. "The girls and mom are doing great."

Federer and his wife, Mirka, are each holding one of the babies and smiling at them in the picture. Federer said it was taken by his father.

Charlene Riva and Myla Rose were born July 23 on what Federer said was the best day of his life.

The 27-year-old top-ranked tennis great married Mirka in April. He announced her pregnancy in March, but it was a well-kept secret that she was expecting twins.

Federer is not scheduled to return to the ATP tour until August 10 in Montreal. Mirka sat courtside last month when Federer won an epic Wimbledon final against Andy Roddick for his 15th Grand Slam title, breaking Pete Sampras' record.

Federer met Mirka in 2000 when they were competing for Switzerland at the Sydney Olympics. Mirka emigrated from Slovakia with her family to Switzerland as a child. After playing on the WTA Tour and retiring because of injury, she became one of Federer's managers.

Woman was waiting for 'new daughter'

Friday, August 07, 2009 » 09:02pm

A woman at the centre of the worldwide search for Madeleine McCann is claimed to have been waiting for a child to be delivered just days after the British three-year-old vanished.

Private detectives are hunting the mystery woman, believed to be from Australia or New Zealand, after a British businessman told them about a conversation he had with her in Spain just 72 hours after Madeleine vanished from a Portuguese resort on May 3, 2007.

Although investigators refused to reveal details of what was said, British newspapers on Friday said the woman had confused him with a man she was waiting for to deliver her 'new daughter'.

Unnamed sources claimed the businessman, who was in Barcelona partying with friends, spoke to the woman about 2am on May 7 as she paced anxiously outside a waterfront bar in Barcelona.

It is claimed that when he approached her, she asked him: 'Are you here to deliver my new daughter? Have you got her? Have you got the child?'

When she realised he was not a courier and did not know what she was talking about, she walked off.

'The man came to believe the woman had been expecting someone who was going to hand something over,' one source told The Sun newspaper.

'From what she said he took it to be a female child. She was very insistent he had her new daughter' - and where was she?

'He had no idea what she meant at the time but when he found out about Maddie's abduction he found it very suspicious.

'The woman seemed to be at the bar at an appointed hour, waiting for someone to show and hand over something.

'When she realised he wasn't who she was expecting, she quickly brought the conversation to a close.'

The man told investigators he strongly believed the woman had an Australian accent, but a friend who also heard their conversation thought it was possible she was a New Zealander.

Madeleine disappeared from her family's rented holiday apartment at Praia da Luz in the Algarve nine days short of her fourth birthday.

The private investigators, hired by Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, believe the toddler could have been taken by boat from Portugal to Barcelona.

They have released a sketch of the woman in question, based on the British witness's description, in the hope of tracking her down to question her about the girl's disappearance.

She is described as being aged between 30 and 35, of slim build and 'glamorous' appearance, similar to former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.

The woman had short brown hair and was about 157cm tall.

She wore expensive-looking blue jeans and possibly a pastel jumper.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the international hotline on +44 845 838 4699 or email investigation@findmadeleine.com

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