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È figlia di Antonio Maria Ferrari notaio, benestante e di Angela Maschio. Visse una felice infanzia nel benessere di Varese e della casa di Genova. Frequentò il collegio di Santa Chiara a Massa. Luigia è sposata, all'età di diciassette anni, al marchese Domenico Pallavicini, vedovo, senza figli (due gli erano morti), patrizio genovese quarantenne dalle finanze disastrose ma dal nome illustre.

Il matrimonio è organizzato dal fratello del marchese Francesco, religioso della congregazione somasca, in visita a Varese come predicatore. I notabili del paese invitavano spesso a pranzo i predicatori e in quest'occasione fu raggiunto l'accordo. Fu redatto un contratto nuziale da parte del notaio Leonardo Basteri in Varese.  La cerimonia si tenne nella cappella privata del Palazzo Ferrari il 25 ottobre 1789.

A Genova la coppia abitò nel Palazzo Brignole. Nell'aprile del 1791 nacque la figlia Angela Maddalena.  In seguito, l'ancora giovane donna, sentendosi in parte trascurata dal marito, si dedicò a feste e all'equitazione. Questo la portò al grave incidente che cambierà il corso della sua vita.
Parecchie amicizie superficiali e ammiratori svanirono e solo i più cari le furono vicini tra questi Tito Manzi, esule repubblicano, professore di diritto criminale all'Università di Pisa, che, pur non essendo fisicamente attraente, sopperiva con la sua intelligenza e cultura. Fuggito a Genova per sottrarsi ai numerosi processi intentati contro di lui, divenne, in seguito, uomo di fiducia di Giuseppe Bonaparte e di Gioacchino Murat a Napoli. Questo legame terminò nel giugno 1800, dopo la vittoria nella battaglia di Marengo, quando il Manzi dovette rientrare a Pisa per riprendere la propria attività.

Il 19 marzo 1805 morì il marito e Luigia si ritrovò vedova a trentatré anni. Seguì un periodo di lutto con maggior tranquillità e riservatezza. Dal 1805 al 1814 Genova passò sotto l'Impero francese e questo le portò la soddisfazione di vedere il padre Antonio nominato consigliere di Prefettura a Chiavari, Capitale del Dipartimento degli Appennini. Questo periodo di relativa serenità fu presto offuscato per la morte della madre. Nel 1810 morì anche il padre che nel frattempo si era risposato con una sua domestica, molto più giovane di lui, tale Angela Ghiorzo.

Dopo questi tristi momenti un incontro che portò un certo sollievo e gioia, almeno all'inizio, fu quello con Enrico Stefano Prier, cancelliere del Console francese a Genova.
Lei era pur sempre una donna affabile, molto cortese e di una comunicativa raffinata dall'educazione, egli, di alcuni anni più giovane, uomo colto, buon parlatore, di situazione agiata.

Si sposarono il 31 marzo 1818. Le nozze furono celebrate nella chiesa di San Pancrazio a Genova. Gli sposi abitarono nel palazzo Gio Carlo Brignole, poi s'istallarono in quello del Gazzo allo Scoglietto, adiacente alla villa Rosazza. I primi anni trascorsero felici ma, in seguito, amareggiati per la mancata nomina a Console cui il marito aspirava. Il Prier fece diversi viaggi a Parigi per pratiche inerenti al proprio pensionamento e Luigia sofferse lunghi periodi di solitudine poiché anche la figlia, sposatasi nel 1813 a Giovanni Agazzi, ricco possidente, viveva tra Varese e Borgotaro. Il loro rapporto fu anche amareggiato da contrasti sorti per la sua pensione vitalizia inerente al lascito testamentario.

La vita di Luigia Prier divenne sempre più appartata e solitaria. La vecchiaia la rese pia e benefattrice e la sua vita proseguì tra qualche visita a cimiteri e chiese e professando opere caritatevoli. Luigia Ferrari Prier morì sola d'affetti, causa una polmonite il 19 dicembre 1841 a sessantanove anni. Fu sepolta sotto la navata centrale del santuario di San Francesco da Paola. La tomba è oggi scomparsa.

Un'amazzone imprudente
A ventotto anni lei era una amazzone provetta ma imprudente. I fatti che portarono al grave incidente sono presi dal resoconto fatto dal generale francese Paul Thiebault, proprietario del cavallo in questione. Il barone Thiebault, a quel dì aiutante generale, e che fu a Genova più volte, e in specie al tempo del memorabile blocco, intorno al quale ha lasciato un'opera giustamente apprezzata.

Reduce da Napoli con l'esercito francese comandato da Étienne Macdonald, era caduto gravemente ammalato di malaria a Pistoia, e dovette perciò ritirarsi a Genova per rimettersi in salute, prima di tornare ai suoi uffici militari. Vi giunse verso la metà di giugno del 1799, mentre i francesi, combattendo con varia fortuna gli austro-russi, subirono la sconfitta nella battaglia della Trebbia (17-19 giugno). Poiché le sue condizioni, secondo le speranze, non miglioravano, in seguito ad un consulto medico, si decise a tornare in patria. Egli allora si preparò alla partenza, e fra le altre cose, mise in vendita i suoi cavalli.

La caduta da cavallo
La giovane marchesa avrebbe dovuto pagare un forte prezzo negli anni seguenti per aver lasciato parlare il suo orgoglio e la sua temerarietà trascurando tali consigli.

Dopo aver fatto sellare e imbrigliare il cavallo con gran cura partì, accompagnata da un piccolo gruppo di cavalieri, forse ufficiali cisalpini della divisione del generale Gazan, verso la porta di Ponente, quella della Lanterna nelle Mura Nuove, a monte del faro, per provare le qualità della cavalcatura. Finché furono in città, andò tutto bene, l'animale sembrava obbedire alla giovane donna. L'illusione fu breve: non appena il piccolo gruppo arrivò al "Deserto di Sestri" una vasta pianura in riva al mare, il sangue caldo della bestia impetuosa sentì il vento della libertà e dopo aver provato invano con i suoi salti di disarcionare il suo cavaliere, si lancia in una corsa sfrenata. Distanziati i suoi compagni, Luisa poteva contare solo su se stessa per uscire da questo pasticcio.
Donna di carattere, prese rapidamente la decisione di mollare la cintura che la assicurava alla sella e di gettarsi a terra su una parte erbosa del terreno. In questo breve periodo purtroppo aveva giudicato male l'effetto della velocità e invece che sull'erba atterrò su di un sentiero ghiaioso battendo sullo spigolo di una pietra e lacerandosi la guancia e il ciglio sinistro in un modo così rovinoso che fu necessario, in seguito, ricucire i lembi della ferita perché si chiudessero. Fu quindi riportata a Genova tutta insanguinata. Le lesioni causate dalla caduta non furono certamente attenuate dal sistema di cure dell'epoca, ancora empirico in materia di chirurgia estetica, basta ricordare che era ancora sconosciuta la disinfezione delle ferite.

Il Thiebault ordinate le cose sue parti per Nizza via mare il 10 luglio.

L'incidente accadde il 30/6 o 1/7/1799

Nel mondo dei poeti e degli artisti
La menomazione fisica lasciatale dalla caduta non scalfì le sue attrattive: molti ammiratori la seguirono ammirando in lei qualità spirituali che la rendevano unica. Il dramma traumatico subito, il ricordo della sua splendida bellezza, celata ora da un velo che la rendeva anche misteriosa, fecero sì che diventasse una musa per molti poeti.
Il più conosciuto tra tutti fu il Foscolo: senza quest'aura di mistero di cui la marchesa si ammantava, avrebbe mai scritto l'ode a lei dedicata?

Con molta probabilità Foscolo conobbe Luigia ad una festa della "Genova bene" nell'ottobre 1799, quindi alcuni mesi dopo la caduta da cavallo e la sua bellezza leggendaria gli era stata solo raccontata. La festa fu tenuta dal cittadino Imperiale, ex- principe di Sant'Angelo, a Campi per celebrare l'ultima vittoria del generale Massena sui russi guidati da Suvorov. Si deve tenere anche presente che le testimonianze di quei giorni vogliono il Foscolo perdutamente innamorato, invano, di un'altra genovese, tale Annetta Cesena Viani alla quale dedicarono versi sia il Petracchi sia il Cerioni. Nel Pappagalletto il Cerioni accosta Annetta a una capinera, per la sua folta capigliatura corvina, amata in silenzio dal "fringuello dell'Adria" (Il Foscolo stesso).

Il 14 dicembre 1799 Angelo Petracchi pubblicò una raccolta di versi intitolata Galleria di ritratti, in cui cantava le lodi di ventuno bellezze genovesi tra cui Luigia Pallavicini. Giuseppe Ceroni, amico e fratello d'armi di Foscolo, pubblicava, nel marzo 1800, la sua Pappagalletto, nella quale paragonava a diversi graziosi uccelli una ventina di rappresentanti del bel mondo femminile, più o meno quelli che avevano ispirato Petracchi.  Anche in questo caso vi è Luigia Pallavicini presentata come una « candida colomba / ch'ha le piume scomposte et rabbuffate. / Ah, l'infelice d'alto ramo piomba / e ne porta le tempie insanguinate ».
Ecco la descrizione della giovane donna lasciata da Luigi Tommaso Belgrano nelle sue Imbreviature di Giovanni Scriba:

«Svelto ed elegantissimo il taglio del corpo. La chioma, tra bionda e nera, come la disse il Petracchi, e «a' nodi indocile» come notò il poeta di Zante, disposta nella guisa che dicevano alla Titus, e allacciata appena dalla classica vitta scende, in due cascate di ricci, sugli omeri opulenti e sul petto, che una serica veste color nanchino e a tutto scollo, con le risvolte alla Carmagnola, lascia scorgere a metà coperto da un candido velo. Dagli orecchi pendono sottili cerchioni d'oro; grandi e glauchi sono gli occhi, il naso aquilino, la bocca sorridente. Insomma basta uno sguardo a quel viso, perché s'intenda tutta la verità di questa strofa del Foscolo: «Armoniosi accenti – dal tuo labbro volavano, – E dagli occhi ridenti – Traluceano di Venere – I disdegni e le paci, – La speme, il pianto, e i baci».

Anche se Belgrano ha affermato di aver avuto il piacere di ammirare due ritratti della Pallavicini e di aver incontrato persone che l'avevano conosciuta personalmente, sembra si sia basato, per eleborare la sua descrizione, sul quadro di un ignoto pittore esposto attualmente alla Galleria di Arte Moderna di Nervi, a Genova, al cui inventario è scritto sotto il titolo Presunto Ritratto di Luigia Pallavicini, senza però che alcuna documentazione venga a confermare questa attribuzione.
Nella galleria di Palazzo Durazzo, in via Balbi, è conservato un busto marmoreo, opera di Lorenzo Bartolini,  con inciso sulla base il nome «Luisa». È registrato nel volume La Quadreria Durazzo di Piero Torriti come quello di Luigia Pallavicini.

Si ricorda anche l'esistenza di un busto di Donna Velata che la tradizione riconduceva a Luigia Pallavicini; di tale scultura, custodita anni fa in una collezione privata, si è persa oggi ogni traccia.

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Bibliografia
 Achille Neri, La caduta di Luisa Pallavicini, in "Giornale storico e letterario della Liguria", V, 1904, pp. 120-133.
 Barbara Bernabò, A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo, Sarzana 1988.
 Antonino Ronco, Luigia Pallavicini e Genova napoleonica, Genova, De Ferrari Editore, 1995 ISBN=88-7172-037-7.
 Raffaella Saponaro, Luigia Pallavicini e il suo mondo, in "Tricolore,supplemento Nord Italia", 25, maggio 2008, pp. 6-10.

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The center features a long outdoor deck at the back of the building. There, visitors can peer down into the water looking for the large air-breathing creatures, sometimes called "sea cows" for their habit of grazing on sea grasses beneath the water.
Fortunately, for the humans who love to watch them, 300 to 400 manatees congregate there each year, even though the power plant that used to send its warm water to the creek is gone. In the winter, manatees congregate where there is warmer water. Lucky visitors can sometimes spot a mother manatee and its calf.
Inside the center, visitors can learn much more about the manatees and other creatures. There are five aquariums, a touch tank, and a second-story observation tower. Visitors can take part in a variety of programs, including learning how seahorses survive with no stomach.
There are four staff members and 150 volunteers who enjoy meeting and working with visitors to the center. "I'm very proud because we really are for and from the community," center manager Rachel Tennant says.
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La ciudad fue fundada el 1 de octubre de 2004, luego de la fusión de los pueblos de Shinjō y Taima, del distrito de Kitakatsuragi.

La ciudad adoptó en 2009 una mascota oficial llamada Renka-chan, que es la personalización de una miko al estilo kawaii.

Geografía
Dentro de su territorio se ubican el monte Yamatokatsuragi, el monte Nijō y el río Takada.

Localidades circundantes
 Prefectura de Nara
 Yamatotakada
 Gose
 Kashiba
 Prefectura de Osaka
 Taishi
 Kanan

Demografía
Según datos del censo japonés, la población de Katsuragi se ha mantenido estable en los últimos años.

Ciudades hermanadas
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  Shinjō, prefectura de Okayama, Japón
  Tōma, Hokkaidō, Japón

Sitios de interés
 Katsuragi-shi Sumōkan
 Taima-dera (Tesoro Nacional de Japón)
 Museo de Historia de Katsuragi
 Shinjō-futazuka-kofun
 Castillo Nijō-san
 Santuario Katsuragi-imasuhonoikazuchi

Referencias

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DALLAS — Army investigators have identified the body of a soldier who vanished more than two months ago from a base in Texas, according to a lawyer for the soldier's family.
Remains found last week buried near Fort Hood belong to Spc. Vanessa Guillén and Army officials informed her family in Houston Sunday, attorney Natalie Khawam told The Associated Press. Guillén, who had been missing since April, was killed and dismembered by a fellow soldier who took his own life last week, federal and military investigators have said.
Human remains were found Tuesday near the Leon River in Bell County, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Fort Hood, during a the search for Guillén. An Army spokesman said earlier Sunday that they were still waiting for positive identification of the remains.
Investigators were unable to use dental records to identify Guillén because of the state of her remains and instead used DNA from bone and hair samples, Khawam said. Guillén's family received the information in the company of their priest, she said.
Army officials identified the soldier suspected in Guillén's disappearance as Aaron David Robinson. Cecily Aguilar, a 22-year-old civilian from a community near near Fort Hood, was arrested and charged with one count for allegedly helping hide the body of 20-year-old solider, according to a criminal complaint.
Guillén's family has said that they believe she was sexually harassed by Robinson and is calling for a congressional investigation.
Mayra Guillen said last week that her sister had spoken with their mother about experiencing sexual harassment, but that her mother has been too devastated to talk about it. From their text conversations, Mayra Guillen said she believed her sister was afraid during her time at Fort Hood.
Khawam said Sunday that military sexual harassment is "epidemic" and demands attention from Congress. "You can't turn a blind eye anymore," she said.
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A number of research analysts recently commented on the stock. TheStreet raised shares of Integra LifeSciences from a "c+" rating to a "b-" rating in a report on Tuesday, December 27th. Truist Financial increased their price target on shares of Integra LifeSciences from $52.00 to $58.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a report on Tuesday, December 20th. Morgan Stanley increased their price target on shares of Integra LifeSciences from $50.00 to $59.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a report on Friday, January 6th. JMP Securities lowered their price target on shares of Integra LifeSciences from $85.00 to $75.00 and set a "market outperform" rating for the company in a report on Thursday, October 27th. Finally, StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of Integra LifeSciences in a report on Wednesday, October 12th. They issued a "buy" rating for the company. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Integra LifeSciences presently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $58.33.
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Integra LifeSciences stock opened at $56.27 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86, a current ratio of 3.93 and a quick ratio of 2.91. Integra LifeSciences Holdings Co. has a 1-year low of $40.67 and a 1-year high of $68.29. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.70 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.59 and a beta of 1.14. The company's 50-day moving average is $55.68 and its 200 day moving average is $51.65.
Integra LifeSciences (NASDAQ:IART – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 26th. The life sciences company reported $0.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.72 by $0.14. Integra LifeSciences had a net margin of 11.05% and a return on equity of 16.41%. The company had revenue of $385.19 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $377.79 million. Research analysts forecast that Integra LifeSciences Holdings Co. will post 3.33 EPS for the current year.
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Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of medical instruments, devices, and equipment. It operates through the Codman Specialty Surgical and Tissue Technologies segments. The Codman Specialty Surgical segment refers to the company's neurosurgery business, which sells a full line of products for neurosurgery and neuro critical care, such as tissue ablation equipment, dural repair products, cerebral spinal fluid management devices, intracranial monitoring equipment, and cranial stabilization equipment, and the precision tools and instruments business, which sells instrument patterns and surgical and lighting products to hospitals, surgery centers, and dental, podiatry, and veterinary offices.
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use std::str::FromStr;
use controller::Reader;
use utils;

// Each line in the database file is a 'Record' that contains the following data to be read
// and serialized.
pub struct Record {
    // Unique (?) id given to each record.
    pub id: u64,
    // The payload of each record that is Base64 encoded and JSON serialized.
    pub payload: String,
    // Any necessary metedata needed to identify the record.
    // TODO Base64 encoded and JSON encoded?
    pub metadata: String,
}

pub struct Factory {
    reader: Reader,
}

pub type RecordResult<T, E> = Result<T, E>;

//TODO Add some factory traits here if necessary
pub trait RecordFactory {
    fn new(reader: Reader) -> Self;

    fn create(&self, data: String) -> RecordResult<Record, String>;

    fn create_from_enc(&self, data: String) -> RecordResult<Record, String>;
}

impl RecordFactory for Factory {

    fn new(reader: Reader) -> Factory {
        Factory {
            reader: reader,
        }
    }

    fn create(&self, data: String) -> RecordResult<Record, String> {
        let vec_of_data = utils::string_slice(data);

        let id_num = FromStr::from_str(&*vec_of_data[0]);
        let id_value: u64 = match id_num {
            Ok(value)       => value,
            Err(..)         => -1 // This is a failure value
        };

        Ok(Record {
            id: id_value,
            payload: vec_of_data[1].clone(),
            metadata: vec_of_data[2].clone(),
        })
    }

    fn create_from_enc(&self, data: String) -> RecordResult<Record, String> {
        let vec_of_data = utils::string_slice(data);

        let id_num = FromStr::from_str(&*vec_of_data[0]);
        let id_value: u64 = match id_num {
            Ok(value)     => value,
            Err(..)       => -1, // This is a failure value
        };

        let enc_payload = String::from_str(&*vec_of_data[1]);
        let payload = utils::decode_record(enc_payload);
        let enc_metadata = String::from_str(&*vec_of_data[2]);
        let metadata = utils::decode_record(enc_metadata);

        Ok(Record {
            id: id_value,
            payload: payload,
            metadata: metadata,
        })
    }
}

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fn test_create_record() {
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        id: 1,
        payload: String::from_str("payload"),
        metadata: String::from_str("metadata"),
    };
    let reader = Reader::new(&Path::new("tests/base-test.txt"));
    let factory: Factory = RecordFactory::new(reader);
    let output: Record = factory.create(input).ok().expect("Parsing failed.");
    assert_eq!(expected.id, output.id);
    assert_eq!(expected.payload, output.payload);
    assert_eq!(expected.metadata, output.metadata);
}

#[test]
fn test_create_from_encoded() {
    let input = String::from_str("5 cGF5bG9hZA== bWV0YWRhdGE=");
    let expected = Record {
        id: 5,
        payload: String::from_str("payload"),
        metadata: String::from_str("metadata"),
    };
    let reader = Reader::new(&Path::new("tests/base-test.txt"));
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    assert_eq!(expected.id, output.id);
    assert_eq!(expected.payload, output.payload);
    assert_eq!(expected.metadata, output.metadata);
}

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Lecture 3.02: The formation of small bodies
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Unit 3: Big questions from small bodies (week 1)
Lecture 3.01: Introduction to the small bodies16:33
Lecture 3.02: The formation of small bodies16:05
Lecture 3.03: The formation of terrestrial planets16:28
Lecture 3.04: The surface density of the solar system11:03
Lecture 3.05: An ode to comets5:49
Lecture 3.06: The composition of comets13:20
Lecture 3.07: Where do comets come from?10:51
Lecture 3.08: The formation of the Oort cloud15:14
Lecture 3.09: Meteorites and the beginning of the solar system11:53
Lecture 3.10: Types of meteorites: Chondrites11:50
Lecture 3.11: Types of meteorites: Achondrites13:20
Lecture 3.12: Asteroids and meteorite delivery19:21
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A question we should probably ask ourselves before we get started going
through the small body populations and talking about what they're telling us is,
why do we have these populations of small bodies to begin with?
We talked a lot about the formation of giant planets.
We haven't talked yet about the formation of terrestrial planets, but
we'll talk about that right now, too.
But, how in this process do these small bodies form?
Why didn't all these materials come together and
form their own terrestrial planet, or giant planet?
In fact, it's an interesting historical story that the first
four asteroids that were discovered, first one we discovered, Ceres in 1801,
the next three were discovered quite quickly over the next couple of years.
And it was recognized that these were strange things,
not like planets, not like the planets.
In fact, they were called planets at first.
But that these four things were on these tilted and elongated and
crossing orbits, unlike the other planets.
And they all sort of crossed each other, they were all in the same region of space,
unlike the planets.
And so the hypothesis, in the early part of the 1800s,
was that these things used to be a planet, and
they exploded, and this is the remnants of that explosion.
That idea has been popular for a long time.
In fact, you can still find people around who think that things like the asteroids
used to be a planet and exploded.
And that idea, although it's actually wrong in detail,
there are things about it that are actually a little bit correct.
There are things in the asteroid belt we'll talk about that used to be mini
planets that did get hit and exploded into pieces, and we see those pieces today.
But for the most part, it's not that things like the asteroid belt
were once planets and then got broken apart and they're no longer planets,
it's that they never had the chance to coalesce into planets.
And in this lecture,
we're going to explore the general reasons why that's true.
To do that, we have to go back a few lectures to when we were talking about
the creation of the cores of giant planets.
Then I'm going to walk you through,
I'm not going to go through the math again this time,
but I'm going to walk you through the ideas of what happens and see where
we go wrong from trying to make a big core which is definitely not a small body.
Instead, we only get these small bodies out there.
So, here's what happens.
Remember, we had dust all over the place.
That dust was slowly coagulating.
It would collide with other pieces of dust that would stick together.
They would get bigger, they would get bigger.
And eventually they got big enough, the chunks got big
enough that they had enough gravitational attraction that when something came along,
it would be gravitationally attracted there and come like this.
These would come here like this,
come like this, and they would grow bigger and bigger.
The bigger they were, the more gravitational attraction they have,
the bigger they got.
And, a very critical factor happened in through here is that the large ones
got slowed down, the small ones got sped up as they interacted with each other,
as they partitioned their energy together,
as the small ones got scattered around to high velocities by these big ones.
The big ones had to slow down, too.
So the big ones are going slow with respect to each other, and
if they're going slow with respect to each other,
they have a chance to then gravitationally combine, also.
So this was the process that we called runaway growth.
The big ones got bigger faster and collected all the material in their space.
And eventually, we got to what we had called isolation masses.
And these isolation masses were when you have basically collected all of
the material in your vicinity, and the next place you could get material is so
far inward towards the sun, or so far outward away from the sun,
that you don't have enough gravitational pull to get it.
And so, you are isolated.
So you can imagine in a simplistic view of the solar system
that we started out with all this dust and gas.
The dust started to coagulate, these bodies started to grow.
A few ones got to this stage of runaway growth and became isolated and
that there was a stage when there were hundreds of these isolation masses.
And these isolation masses are things like maybe a tenth of an Earth mass,
a hundredth of an Earth mass.
The actual mass that you get isolated depends on where exactly you are in
the solar system, how far away from the sun you are.
And outside at Jupiter's distance, these isolation masses are potentially
big enough to actually become the cores of the giant planets.
The other thing that you'll often hear these called, instead of isolation masses,
you'll hear the term oligarchs, for what these things are.
A term which I just kind of thought funny.
Now, a funny thing about these oligarchs,
these isolation masses, the tenth of an Earth mass.
A tenth of an Earth mass is bigger than every single small body we have in
the solar system.
So these small bodies, the region of, say, the asteroid belt,
the region of the Kuiper belt,
never got to this stage of having isolation masses, of having oligarchs.
Or, if it did,
it barely got to this stage of having these isolation masses or oligarchs.
So what happens?
How would you stop this stage?
Why would you not get to the stage where all the small bodies
are getting sped up and larger ones with very slow relative velocities are starting
to combine to the ever, ever bigger ones.
Well this stage, it's probably better to draw not a little
box of the solar system here, but to step back and look down
at the orbiting things in the solar system and think about what's happening.
So we're at a place in the solar system where we have the sun right here and
we have a bunch of bodies.
And before, I drew them going in all directions, but really what I mean is,
of course, they're all going around the sun.
And to have low relative velocities as you're going around the sun,
two things that are going to, when they collide,
they're going to collide at a very low velocity.
Or when they meet, they meet at a low velocity.
What does that really mean for things going around the sun?
What that really means is that they're in
circular orbits with no inclination with respect to each other.
Let's think about why it means that.
Let's first make circular orbits that are inclined.
When circular orbits that are inclined at the spot where those two orbits meet,
this object's going this way,
this object's going this way, they meet at a pretty high velocity.
They meet at close to the orbital velocity of these objects.
That's enough that the gravitational focusing, which takes
two things that are at low velocity and preferentially pulls them together,
gravitational focusing doesn't work very well.
They just move on past each other, they don't combine.
If you're down to zero inclination, if you are meeting each other,
you're almost going exactly the same velocity around the sun and
you meet each other at very low velocities.
The other thing that you need to have is very low eccentricity because if you have
two objects with large eccentricity,
I'm going to draw them here instead of drawing you pictures here.
If you have two objects with eccentricity,
here's an object that's going around the sun like this.
Here is an object that's going around the sun like this.
They're both very eccentric.
They meet in these locations.
And again, this one's going this direction,
this one's going this direction.
They have quite a high velocity of meeting,
same as in all these other locations.
If they are just on circular orbits, or
orbits that are really close to circular that are just right next to each other,
when they meet they're almost going at zero velocity.
So to have this gravitational focusing won't work.
To have this runaway growth work that leads to these oligarchs,
we need to have very, very pristine circular orbits.
Now, we didn't really talk about this when we talked about the giant planets.
But why do we have circular orbits to begin with?
The reason we have circular orbits to begin with is because all of this dust,
all of these smaller bodies are beginning to get formed in
an environment that has dust and a lot of gas in it.
And that gas, you can imagine, that gas is just kind of this
soup through which the dust particles have to continue to move.
And they want to move at the same speed as the gas.
If they move a little faster than the gas, they feel a headwind, they slow down.
They move a little slower than the gas, they feel a tailwind, they speed up.
And gas, well, gas is gas.
Gas doesn't have an orbit around the sun that's inclined or eccentric,
it's just a big mass that's going around the sun at the time, and
it's supported by pressure, it works in a very different way.
So these small particles are confined into the gas in that way, they're forced to
have that same sort of velocity, that same sort of circular orbit that the gas does.
And what that really means is that when things form,
they all form on very, very circular orbits.
It also means that when we're reaching that phase of runaway growth where
I say that the big objects are getting bigger and
are being slowed down by the small objects, by being slowed down,
what it really means is being put into very circular orbits.
The big objects have circular orbits.
The small objects are being strewn around to higher velocity orbits,
which really means higher inclination orbits and higher eccentricity orbits.
In general, that doesn't matter because eventually these big guys are so big,
they gobble up all the small particles anyway and they take over everything.
So we still haven't figured out a reason why that wouldn't happen.
Looking through the processes and looking through what's important,
there's one clear place that things could go wrong for
these things trying to become runaway, trying to become oligarchs.
And that is, it is critically important,
that these large objects are slowed down by the small objects so
that they can be on nice circular orbits that cross each other.
And that always happens.
If you have a sea of small particles, they will drain the energy out,
the orbital energy out these bigger ones.
But, this is not all that's going on in the solar system at the time.
And this is where things can go wrong.
Or, go right, if you like to have small bodies.
What happens if all this is happening here in this region here at the same time
that just outside this region here there was that snow line.
And remember what happens outside the snow line.
Outside the snow line suddenly cores,
which were starting to form, I shouldn't say cores.
Suddenly these runaway masses, these oligarchs,
these isolation masses that were starting to form have access to even more material
because they have access to ice.
Ice is now a solid material that will condense.
Before, it was just a gas inside of here.
So you start just get a sudden jump in the size of your isolation masses, and
they can form very quickly.
They form very quickly, they become cores of giant planets.
And let's say that in a relatively short amount of time, Jupiter forms out here.
Relatively short amount of time,
while we don't know the exact time that it took to form Jupiter, but
as we discussed before, it's something like from 3 million to 10 million years.
How do we know that?
We know that because that's how long we think that gas
still exists in disks around stars.
When we look around other stars, we see gas still there.
3 million years later, we see a little bit there.
After 10 million years, we don't see anything.
So we know that Jupiter must have formed in that period of time.
These things are still in this phase of trying to form together, and
suddenly there's a giant planet right out here at, let's say, 5AU.
We don't know exactly where Jupiter formed, maybe even a little bit closer.
Giant planet out there at 5AU, and what's it going to do?
Well, just like Jupiter does today for the small bodies.
Jupiter is the enemy of small bodies of asteroids, in particular, in
the sense that Jupiter is so big and the asteroids are so close to where Jupiter is
that they get gravitationally tugged by Jupiter every time they go around.
So Jupiter goes around once every this stage,
goes once around every about 12 years.
These asteroids go around much faster because they're closer in here.
Every time they go past Jupiter, they get a little gravitational tug.
And a little gravitation tug can be in many different directions and, for
the most part, they sort of average out and adjust causes these
small bodies to have eccentricities, to have inclinations.
In fact, to do the exact thing we said they can't do.
If you start to give bodies eccentricities and
inclinations, because you have a big body out through here,
you will break this process of gravitational focusing and runaway growth.
So imagine that the story is something like this.
All the bodies in the solar system are starting to form.
Everything is going through this process of getting bigger and bigger,
maybe even starting the process of runaway, maybe even starting the process
of isolation in a few places, and suddenly Jupiter appears on the scene.
When Jupiter appears on the scene,
things that are close to Jupiter get stirred up by Jupiter's gravity.
They no longer are on pristine orbits.
And when I say pristine orbit, I mean really, really circular,
right in the plane of the solar system.
They can't stay in that orbit, they get pulled by Jupiter, they get tugged,
they get pushed, and all of the bodies in them just get stirred a little bit.
And so they continue to have higher eccentricities and higher inclinations.
And when that happens, they cannot get bigger.
That runaway is broken.
The asteroids were never allowed to coagulate together to form a planet
because of Jupiter.
We'll talk a lot about the asteroids, we'll talk about the Kuiper Belt.
The Kuiper Belt is the exact same story.
The Kuiper Belt is, instead of right next Jupiter, is right next to Neptune.
Put the sun back here, here was Jupiter now, way inside here, and
we'll put Neptune out like this.
Kuiper Belt is all this material out through here.
It would have loved, I'm sure, to have been able to form into a planet, to
have been allowed to form into a planet, but it was just a little bit too slow.
Neptune is not nearly as massive as Jupiter, but because we're further away
from the sun, the relative effect of Neptune is huge on the Kuiper Belt.
So imagine all of these small bodies in the Kuiper Belt
trying to do what the asteroids are trying to do.
Trying to build up, to reach runaway growth, to begin becoming oligarchs,
to eventually combine together to form the core, if there was still gas around they
could have formed a core, and then had another giant planet.
Maybe the gas was gone by the time these got their act together and
started to form and they would've had to form a large icy planet, which would've
been sort of a fun thing to have had out there, but they never got the chance.
Neptune formed first and started stirring these things up into higher eccentricity
orbits, higher inclination orbits, and it broke that process of runaway growth.
And that's what we have left.
Now, this is the main reason why we have small bodies,
we have the small bodies in the asteroid belt.
We have the small bodies out here in the Kuiper Belt.
We also have comets that are much further away out in the Oort Cloud.
They formed in this same region, and
basically through the same process of these.
Small bodies you can think of really as failed planets.
If the small bodies had been left alone, if the giant planets of Jupiter and
Neptune, in particular, had never been around or had been able to get ejected or,
I don't know, imagine some crazy process, they weren't there.
They would have made a planet.
They would have made planets that were the sizes of the other planets
that we have around.
But because of the influence, the gravitational influence of all these giant
planets, the small bodies that were on the edge of where the planets formed and
inside where the giant planets formed just never had a chance to form.
In the next lecture we'll actually look instead at the terrestrial planets and
see, okay, if the asteroids were not allowed to form,
how can you form terrestrial planets?
It's a very interesting story.
And we'll see that next.


LCCC will host an inaugural fundraiser event, entitled "The Trustees of Inclusive Equity (I.E.) Awards Gala", on Tuesday, June 19th at our Old Walnut Street Atrium. This elegant Juneteenth celebration will feature honorees who have made significant local community impact in the areas of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Ralph de Chabert, Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Vice-President at Brown-Forman Corporation is the event's Honorary Chairperson. Bill Price & Angela Lee Price of Bill Price Broadcasting-PraizePower 1350 WLOU & The New Praize 104.7 FM will be master and mistress of ceremonies for the event. Special guest speakers will include nationally renowned sculptor, Ed Hamilton, who designed the I.E. Award trophy; and, Barry McNealy, a historian at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
This celebration is symbolic of the significance of date known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day – an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S., and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans throughout the former Confederacy of the southern United States. The event will mark the strides of many community and business leaders who continually work to promote upward mobility, self-development, respect for all cultures, and economic equity for all. Proceeds will benefit the mission and programs of LCCC, Inc.; which is dedicated to empowering families, equipping youth, and strengthening a model of self-reliance and service to the Russell neighborhood, Muhammad Ali Boulevard Corridor, and all residents in the surrounding communities and the city at-large. LCCC's Juneteenth gala presents the perfect opportunity for employers and leaders to recognize the hard work and dedication of individuals or teams who are making a difference through their innovative programs and dynamic leadership.
Mark Wheeler, Central Bank & Trust Co.
In addition to this year's selected I.E. Award recipients listed above, each of the award nominees will be recognized publicly during the gala.
The community is encouraged to join the Juneteenth celebration by coming out in support of the advancement of equity, diversity and inclusion in Louisville.
Tickets can be purchased on line or by visiting LCCC at 1300 W. Muhammad Ali Boulevard (40203). Email dgrant@lcccnews.org or all (502) 583-8821 for additional information.


Photo Feature on Kashmir, featuring in this first Part- Prang, Wular Lake, Gulmarg, Zeethyar, Khirbhavani and HariParbat.
Puja of Paadikamal (Lotus Feet) of Swamiji was performed with all fervor and devotion.
Kashmiri Hindu Community leaders paying tributes to Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray.


In conjunction with exhibition, "Marcia Hafif: A Place Apart," a conversation in honor of Marcia Hafif with Nancy Buchanan, Connie Butler, Michael Ned Holte, Jane McFadden, and Barbara T. Smith at Pomona College. Recorded on September 15, 2018.
"Gendering Memories of Iraq," a collective performance created by artist Hayv Kahraman. Performers: Vaneh Assadourian, Merjen Atayeva, Toritseju Danner, Sacha Elie, and Karina Fathi.
Performed on October 11, 2018 at Pomona College in conjunction with exhibition "Hayv Kahraman: Project Series 52."
In conjunction with, "Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco"
Adela Goldbard's monumental sculptures after being exhibited are completely reduced to ashes, utilizing gasoline and pyrotechnics. Her focus is criticism, and she burns the sculptures using an old Mexican custom that represents the triumph of good over evil. Currently, the artist is creating a microbus like those used for urban transport in Mexico. To cover it with papier-mâché, she is using newspapers brought from Mexico, with articles published under different journalistic perspectives.
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, Odisea Ocotepec (Ocotepec Odyssey), 2014. Excerpts from nine-channel video installation on view in upcoming exhibition, "Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco" opening August, 29, 2017 at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
A symposium convening national and international scholars and artists to examine the deep connections between the art and material culture of Haiti and the United States.
"The Crossing/La traversée: Art in Haiti and the U.S." is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Thornton F. Bradshaw Fund at Claremont Graduate University and is co-sponsored by the Pomona College Museum of Art, the Pomona College History Department, and Claremont Graduate University. "Restoring the Spirit: Celebrating Haitian Art" originated by the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, and is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena, California.
An excerpt from artist Michael Parker's "Jucerina" concert at the "R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona" book release party at the Pomona College Museum of Art on October 29, 2015.
Guerrilla Girls performance on February 5, 2015 in conjunction with exhibition "Guerrills Girls: Art in Action" on view at the Pomona College Museum of Art from January 20 – May 17, 2015.
Mowry Baden Demonstration and Talk on "Dromedary Mezzanine"
On January 22, 2014, artist Mowry Baden visited a Pomona College class to demonstrate and discuss his immersive, large-scale sculpture "Dromedary Mezzanine," which is on exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art from January 21 - April 13, 2014. For more information, visit the exhibition page.
From September 3 to October 20, 2013, the Pomona College Museum of Art presented "Project Series 46: Hirokazu Kosaka: On the Verandah." This was the first solo exhibition examining the early performative work of Kosaka from 1969-1974. This video includes footage of the exhibition, and video from the archery demonstration and calligraphy workshop that Kosaka gave on October 17, 2013.
On November 21, 2013, artist Krysten Cunningham offered a largescale weaving demo during Art After Hours at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
Charles Gaines on drums with noted musicians and jazz legends Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Terry Adkins on sax, Louis Lopez with electronics, Nedra Wheeler on bass and AJ Fanning on cello.
In honor of Karl Benjamin (1925-2012), esteemed professor at Pomona from 1979 to 1994. This video was produced in conjunction with the 1994 Pomona College Montgomery Gallery (now Pomona College Museum of Art) exhibition "Karl Benjamin: The Pomona Years." The video is narrated by Richard Chamberlain '56. The video was produced by Bob Bassett '64 and Janell Shearer.
A backstage look at 2011-12 "It Happened at Pomona" exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Video created by Donald Pollock, University of La Verne, and produced by Anthony Troli.
Artist conversation with Chris Burden.
Performance at Pomona - "Burning Bridges" by James Turrell '65 - January 21, 2012.
Performance at Pomona - "A Butterfly for Pomona" by Judy Chicago from Pomona College - January 21, 2012.
Performance at Pomona - "Preparation F" by John M. White - January 21, 2012.
Well-known art historian and art critic Thomas Crow '69 delivered the opening lecture for the Pomona College Museum of Art exhibit "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona."
This show is the first a three-part exhibition for "It Happened at Pomona," which is part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative in Southern California.
To celebrate the opening of the Pomona College Museum of Art exhibit "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona," Mowry Baden '58 and Hal Glicksman took part in a conversation moderated by noted art historian and critic Thomas Crow '69.
"Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona" is the first a three-part exhibition for "It Happened at Pomona," which is part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative in Southern California.
Judy Chicago: A Conversation With Her Younger Self.
On October 9 at Pomona College, renowned artist Judy Chicago performed a reenactment and response to a feminist lecture that Chicago originally delivered at Pomona College in 1970.
This special event celebrates Chicago's involvement at Pomona College and is part of the Pomona College Museum of Art's three-part exhibition "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973." Photo-documentation of her work "Snow Atmosphere" is on view until November 6 in "Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona.


april 17th: cold and snowing this morning… took 5 matches to get that blaze going but its going and we're all fed and watered so she's Ford Fairlane style "aces high"! on the saturday morning movie: the mummy returns. that gal with the black hair and bangs and matching black clothing… good gravy. my old buddy Jazzy is into the story but i'm watching her! she's moving!
as for spring time on the island: the spring peepers are up full volume at night and its a wonderful sound this old boy hasn't heard in many moons. and our skies out there were filled with seagulls last week. the canada geese that were hanging around our front yard, they're gone. the pheasants have stayed. and the river, well she's running. grass is greening.
we have some major hurdles before we move in but! we are getting closer. soon i'll be posting a few pics of the old farmhouse brought back from the dead! and let me tell you she's a far way from last November 15th!
its work dudes. its hands on work.
but it also costs a heap of $$$.
april 24th: shelley took her shoes off and crossed the river today: barefoot. once over there she said what are you waiting for? so i jumped in there too, boots and all, and crossed that river. the manitou waters were fresh! and the water doesn't look like its boiling but there is extreme power there not to be fooled with. ah but it was beautiful, with the sounds of little girl voices echoing through the trees, the bright blue sky and our good thoughts all around, in thick with the cedars.
i cleared out the north side of the river over the winter so today i went to work on the south side: man that place over there is a hidden paradise!
our old buddy Morganski will be visiting soon and i look forward to seeing her down there by the waterfalls!
april 27th: the new bridge went in yesterday which means the well drilling dudes can come in today, which means we'll have the plumbing hooked up sometime very soon which means move in date is on our door step!!!
that is going to be sweet x 10!
i was out there last night: breezy!!! but clear and beautiful. the moon, old Nokomis was rising early and this boy wanted to walk by the light of her, through the fields and into our wilds out back.
i'm so happy we're getting this close!
may 2nd: sunday morning at the ranch, rain, mild and blue. one of our boys is dead.
may 19th: well we got those tough days behind us but still, you wonder why it had to happen to a good lad.
but life goes on, like my dad use to say: the world is going to turn, no matter if you're on it or not.
so here we are moving forward. that house out there in the country: we moved the furniture in yesterday so today we'll have ourselves a living room and dining room and hopefully some bedrooms! which means this weekend for dang sure, we'll be moving in. nice time too with the May long weekend coming on. the folks came and drilled a well, she's hooked up, power is on, mega clean up inside and out, dang it man its 6 months in the making but we are ready to roll on down that driveway!
what is very cool about this dealio is the kids: they love it out there. and a big sell for them is that river. every night we're down there i look around and i see kids playing down there, fooling in the shallow waters. its beautiful! of course every now and again they fall in but that can be expected. and that river is therapy! i mean big therapy. i've gone there many a time over the past 6 months with trouble brewin in the soul, those waters kinda wash it all away, down to micheal's bay, out to lake huron, down to the atlantic and long frickin gone!
and the cedar: very nice.
now how in the work world can you have a farm with no maples or oak growing near the house?
we still have our geese. and the back field is filled with bird song.
haven't seen any deer but they're out there.
i'll write a few more lines after we make the move.
and don't forget!!! its smoking hot these days weather wise. very nice. big blue skies and high temps., perfect for a long weekend at the river, bbq and all that fun stuff.
may 21st: we're moving in tonight! when i get home from work, i'm not coming back to the ranch, i'm going out to the farm!
wow. what a ton of work, and a ton more needs to be done, but she's good to go for now and so we're going.
perfect time for it too with the weather smoking hot, the nights are cool and the moon waxing! that old river is wiggling right on past my front yard and its going to provide hours of entertainment. shelley likes it, the kids like it, lets see how the folks from ottawa dig it.
the old dream come true thing going on here.
i'll post a few photos next week.


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Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by American artist Tom Friedman.
Tom Friedman relentlessly invents intricate objects out of a range of household materials, such as Styrofoam, masking tape, pencils, toilet paper, spaghetti, toothpicks and bubble gum. His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted, beautiful and playful. It connects to 1960s Conceptualism and Minimalism, although Friedman's vision and working method goes beyond these historical precedents, creating his own unique visual language.
Friedman's ability to transform common objects into something new enables him to elevate the ordinary to the status of art. In this exhibition of sixteen new works, an interest in process and material continues to be a consistent point of departure for the artist. For example, Friedman has created four Lucky Charm cereal boxes by deconstructing a single Lucky Charm box. Also included in the show is a vertical construction of consumer products with cut outs of famous faces and a vertical colour graded column of ordinary drinking cups stacked elegantly with pleasing precision. All of these works are informed by a centred internal logic that reveals the tacit systems at work in our daily lives through which we funnel our physical and mental realities. By investigating the relationship between the everyday and the art experience, Friedman's art offers indispensable insights into new ways in which to view the world.