Early results: singer, Haiti vote to win

If the preliminary results are available, musicians Michel Martelly inherit laden with challenges a job.NEW: Receive streets fill with the cheering Michel Martelly SupportersMartelly 67.6% of the vote, preliminary results show runoff race against former first lady Mirlande Manigat took last MonthMartelly: "I represent the light at the end of the tunnel"

(CNN) --extravaganten carnival musician, the corners with Michel Martelly from former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat in a central presidential runoff vote last month, according to the preliminary results released Monday instead.

Martelly, 50, took during Manigat, 67.6 percent of the vote, 70, 31.5%, received after Pierre Thibault, spokesman for the Provisional Electoral Council Haiti.

After the roads around the Electoral Council in Pétionville the "tête Kale", filled with Martelly's spirited supporters, or bald head-Sung one of the Martelly's many nicknames.

The preliminary results was initially expected, announced last week, but was forced the Council to delay the announcement until Monday. Final results are scheduled to be announced April 16.

Martelly made a name as a singer "Sweet Mickey,", which sometimes from a bottle around straight potion and tore his clothes during performances.

But he shed his bad-boy image stage show to take care to educate his family and his children.

"My life on the stage was very different than it was at home," said Martelly after the elections of November last year in the violence.

Early December announced the Electoral Council Manigat had won but was missing the majority of the vote for a final victory needed. Jew Célestin first results put it in a runoff election with Government-backed candidate.

Haitian responded charge fraud as well as burning cars, tyres and Celestin's campaign headquarters in Port-au-Prince.

The candidate who claimed third place, Martelly, he had won more votes than Célestin and a review of the results by an organization of American States supported team, that conflicts.

The runoff vote was to take place March 20 and unfolded would peacefully in most cases amid concern that the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, disrupt a polarizing figure in Haiti, the vote. Aristide a low profile met in Haiti two days before the runoff, but so far held and no candidate support.

If the preliminary results, Martelly inherit laden with challenges as the impoverished country rebuild struggles after devastating earthquake last year and a cholera epidemic a job.

Martelly said in December that Haiti will go nowhere if the people have a President they can trust, a President who is honest.

"I been on the floor with them for 22 years," he said his musical career. "People know me." "I am the light at the end of the tunnel."Ross Velton, journalists Allyn Gaestel and CNNS Moni Basu to this report

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New results from GOCE: Earth is a rotating potato

Although they are not particularly like the comparison, scientists from the GOCE satellite team had to admit that new data shows the Earth of gravity field - or geoid - makes our planet a rotating potatoes look. After two years in orbit, ESA has a sleek and sexy GOCE satellite (gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation Explorer) sufficient data map collected gravity with unprecedented accuracy. While certainly not look has our world like a spinning bulb, this exaggerated view shows the most accurate model of the gravity on the planet as varies.

The geoid is nothing more than how the oceans would vary, there are no other forces besides gravity, on our planet.

"We have a homogeneous shot, a boring shot, it would", said scientist Roland pail at the Technical University of Munich, at the press briefing today speak GOCE. "But because of rotation, you might get a flattening of the Earth and we have topography such as mountains and irregular distribution of mass in the Earth's interior." "What we show here in General, is the gravity field of deviations due to inhomogeneous mass distribution on the Earth and the earth interior."

In this picture of GOCE gravity is strongest in yellow areas; It is most vulnerable in the blue. Credit: ESA

While satellite which operated gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) for 8 years, have been a previous gravity the most new data from the GOCE in about 14 months collected and it States where no data before.

GOCE can sense small variations in the pull of gravity on the Earth, and the data is to create an idealized surface bumps which traces gravity Crest care and is the form that take the oceans without wind, currents WürdeEarth rotation and other forces.

By comparison the sea level and geoid data, GOCE data on ocean currents and circulation, sea level change, ice dynamics revealed is, said Rory Bingham, of the University of Newcastle, which to understand heat transport and climate change.

But also of interest changing tectonic plates in earthquakes and magma is movements under volcanoes as GOCE data. Scientists search for the earthquake in Japan closely, how the data should show a three-dimensional look to what in the Interior of the Earth was going on. Although the movement can be observed directly from the space, you create a earthquake signature in gravity data that could be used to understand the processes to these natural disasters and to help them predict.

"Even if this Quake by large movements in the Earth, are on the height of the satellite the signals very small." But we should always still seem them in the data, "said Dr. John Bouman of the German geodetic Research Institute."

GOCE in orbit. Credit: ESA

"GOCE us dynamic topography and traffic patterns of the oceans with unprecedented quality and resolution, will be," said Professor Reiner Rummel, former head of the Institute for astronomical and physical geodesy at the Technical University of Munich. "I am confident that these results will be to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the world oceans."

"You could say that to its early conception of GOCE more like science fiction, was," said Volker Liebig, Director of ESA Earth observation programme. "GOCE has now clearly shown that it is a State-of-the-art mission."

Sources: GOCE press ESA press release briefing,

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