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Dawn: Journey to the Asteroid Belt
The Dynamics of An Asteroid
Post by neufer » Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:25 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dynamics_of_an_Asteroid wrote:
[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]The cover of The Dynamics of an Asteroid,[/size] from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[/color][/b]
<<The Dynamics of An Asteroid is a book described by author Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Valley of Fear" (written in 1914, but set in 1888) when Sherlock Holmes, speaking of Professor Moriarty, states:
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
— Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear
Doyle also portrayed Professor Moriarty as the author of "a treatise on the binomial theorem", written when he was only 21 years of age. In addition to covering a completely different topic, it must have been quite a bit more accessible, since it got him a position as a chair of mathematics at a provincial university.
In 1809, Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote a ground-breaking treatise on the dynamics of an asteroid (1 Ceres). However, it was understood immediately and his method is still used today (see Gauss' Method).
Two decades before Arthur Conan Doyle's writing, the Canadian-American dynamic astronomer Simon Newcomb had published a series of books analyzing motions of planets in the solar system. The notoriously spiteful Newcomb could have been an inspiration for Professor Moriarty.
Since citation analysis does not look at a document's contents, only references to it, it can be applied to a documents such as Dynamics or Treatise that do not in fact exist. The list in the previous section shows 42 references to Dynamics and 27 to Treatise, which are a lower limit, since the list is not up to date. An online search, as of 2005, for these titles with author Moriarty, reveals 263 references to Dynamics and 209 to Treatise. These are very high numbers for any scientific paper, where the overall average is about 6 references. They are even more numerous when compared to other papers from the same era – by 1900, the Royal Society's Catalog of Scientific Papers already listed 800,000 papers from 3,000 journals. Most of these have been forgotten, and only a few are still referenced today, as shown by analyses of references to old scientific articles. The Dynamics of An Asteroid is among the select group of Victorian scientific works that are still remembered and referenced even today, despite (or perhaps because of) its fictional existence.>>
JPL: New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins
New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins
NASA | JPL-Caltech | 2015 Dec 09
[c][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8er_0yY1S1o[/youtube]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA [/c][hr][/hr]
Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. They include highly anticipated insights about mysterious bright features found all over the dwarf planet's surface.
In one study, scientists identify this bright material as a kind of salt. The second study suggests the detection of ammonia-rich clays, raising questions about how Ceres formed.
About the Bright Spots
Ceres has more than 130 bright areas, and most of them are associated with impact craters. Study authors, led by Andreas Nathues at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, write that the bright material is consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite. A different type of magnesium sulfate is familiar on Earth as Epsom salt. ...
A New Look at Occator
The surface of Ceres, whose average diameter is 584 miles (940 kilometers), is generally dark -- similar in brightness to fresh asphalt -- study authors wrote. The bright patches that pepper the surface represent a large range of brightness, with the brightest areas reflecting about 50 percent of sunlight shining on the area. But there has not been unambiguous detection of water ice on Ceres; higher-resolution data are needed to settle this question. ...
The Importance of Ammonia
In the second Nature study, members of the Dawn science team examined the composition of Ceres and found evidence for ammonia-rich clays. They used data from the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, a device that looks at how various wavelengths of light are reflected by the surface, allowing minerals to be identified. ...
Sublimation in bright spots on (1) Ceres - A. Nathues et al
Nature 528(7581):237 (10 Dec 2015 DOI: 10.1038/nature15754
Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer Solar System origin on (1) Ceres - M. C. De Sanctis et al
Dwarf planet Ceres: water vapor in Occator crater
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research | 2015 Dec 09
Brine Deposits Source of Ceres' Bright Spots
Planetary Science Institute | 2015 Dec 09
Re: Dawn: Journey to the Asteroid Belt
Post by neufer » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:50 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_%28spacecraft%29 wrote:
<<Akatsuki ("Dawn"), also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) is a Japanese (JAXA) space probe tasked to study the atmosphere of Venus. It was launched on 20 May 2010, and failed to enter orbit around Venus on 6 December 2010. After the craft orbited the Sun for five years, engineers placed it into an alternative elliptical Venusian orbit on December 7, 2015 by firing its attitude control thrusters for 20 minutes. By using five different cameras, Akatsuki will study the stratification of the atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and cloud physics.>>
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html wrote:
[b][color=#0000FF]Dawn has entered its 4th & final Ceres mapping orbit: LAMO[/color][/b]
Dawn Journal | by Marc Rayman
<<December 9, 2015 - Dawn completed ion-thrusting on schedule on December 7, 2015 and continues to be healthy and operating well in its new orbit. Over the last two days, the flight team has determined that the spacecraft did an excellent job in maneuvering to its planned orbit at an average altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers). The spacecraft is even closer to the rocky, icy ground than the International Space Station is to Earth's surface. The pictures will be four times sharper than the best it has yet taken. Dawn is so near the dwarf planet that its sensors will detect only a small fraction of the vast territory at a time. Mission planners have designed the complex itinerary so that every three weeks, Dawn will fly over most of the terrain while on the sunlit side. (The neutron spectrometer, gamma ray spectrometer and gravity measurements do not depend on illumination from the sun, but the camera, infrared mapping spectrometer and visible mapping spectrometer do.)
Obtaining the planned coverage of the exotic landscapes requires a delicate synchrony between Ceres' and Dawn's movements. Ceres rotates on its axis every nine hours and four minutes (one Cerean day). Dawn will revolve around it in a little less than five and a half hours, traveling from the north pole to the south pole over the hemisphere facing the sun and sailing northward over the hemisphere hidden in the darkness of night. Orbital velocity at this altitude is around 610 mph (980 kilometers per hour).>>
Post by bystander » Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:33 pm
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=251334#p251334
Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn's Closest Orbit
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2015 Dec 22
[img3="This image of Ceres was taken in Dawn's low-altitude mapping orbit around a crater chain called Gerber Catena. A 3-D view is also available.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA"]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files ... n-1041.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint. The new images showcase details of the cratered and fractured surface. 3-D versions of two of these views are also available.
Dawn took these images of the southern hemisphere of Ceres on Dec. 10, at an approximate altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers), which is its lowest-ever orbital altitude. Dawn will remain at this altitude for the rest of its mission, and indefinitely afterward. The resolution of the new images is about 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.
Among the striking views is a chain of craters called Gerber Catena, located just west of the large crater Urvara. Troughs are common on larger planetary bodies, caused by contraction, impact stresses and the loading of the crust by large mountains -- Olympus Mons on Mars is one example. The fracturing found all across Ceres' surface indicates that similar processes may have occurred there, despite its smaller size (the average diameter of Ceres is 584 miles, or 940 kilometers). Many of the troughs and grooves on Ceres were likely formed as a result of impacts, but some appear to be tectonic, reflecting internal stresses that broke the crust. ...
orin stepanek
Plutopian
Post by orin stepanek » Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:09 pm
Ceres; The little planet that glows on you!
Smile today; tomorrow's another day!
Re: Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn's Closest Orbit
Post by neufer » Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:12 pm
[b][color=#0000FF]3D anaglyph LAMO photo of Ceres' troughs [NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA][/color][/b]
bystander wrote: Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn's Closest Orbit
Among the striking views is a chain of craters called Gerber Catena, located just west of the large crater Urvara.
New Details On Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Post by bystander » Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:17 pm
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Jan 12
Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at Ceres.
Dawn took these images near its current altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres, between Dec. 19 and 23, 2015. ...
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
[i]Kupalo Crater from LAMO[/i]
[i]Messor Crater from LAMO[/i]
[i]Floor of Dantu Crater from LAMO[/i]
[i]Crater with Scarps in LAMO[/i]
Dawn: New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres
Post by bystander » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:56 pm
New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres
A colorful new animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
The movie shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials. Scientists believe areas with shades of blue contain younger, fresher material, including flows, pits and cracks.
The animated flight over Ceres emphasizes the most prominent craters, such as Occator, and the tall, conical mountain Ahuna Mons. Features on Ceres are named for earthly agricultural spirits, deities and festivals.
The movie was produced by members of Dawn's framing camera team at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, using images from Dawn's high-altitude mapping orbit. During that phase of the mission, which lasted from August to October 2015, the spacecraft circled Ceres at an altitude of about 900 miles (1,450 kilometers). ...
Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Mar 07
[img3="Ahuna Mons Seen from LAMO"]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20348.jpg[/img3]
[img3="Ahuna Mons Perspective View
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI"]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20349.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since then, the spacecraft has delivered a wealth of images and other data that open an exciting new window to the previously unexplored dwarf planet.
"Ceres has defied our expectations and surprised us in many ways, thanks to a year's worth of data from Dawn. We are hard at work on the mysteries the spacecraft has presented to us," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Among Ceres' most enigmatic features is a tall mountain the Dawn team named Ahuna Mons. This mountain appeared as a small, bright-sided bump on the surface as early as February 2015 from a distance of 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers), before Dawn was captured into orbit. As Dawn circled Ceres at increasingly lower altitudes, the shape of this mysterious feature began to come into focus. From afar, Ahuna Mons looked to be pyramid-shaped, but upon closer inspection, it is best described as a dome with smooth, steep walls.
Dawn's latest images of Ahuna Mons, taken 120 times closer than in February 2015, reveal that this mountain has a lot of bright material on some of its slopes, and less on others. On its steepest side, it is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) high. The mountain has an average overall height of 2.5 miles (4 kilometers). It rises higher than Washington's Mount Rainier and California's Mount Whitney.
Scientists are beginning to identify other features on Ceres that could be similar in nature to Ahuna Mons, but none is as tall and well-defined as this mountain.
"No one expected a mountain on Ceres, especially one like Ahuna Mons," said Chris Russell, Dawn's principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We still do not have a satisfactory model to explain how it formed."
About 420 miles (670 kilometers) northwest of Ahuna Mons lies the now-famous Occator Crater. Before Dawn arrived at Ceres, images of the dwarf planet from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed a prominent bright patch on the surface. As Dawn approached Ceres, it became clear that there were at least two spots with high reflectivity. As the resolution of images improved, Dawn revealed to its earthly followers that there are at least 10 bright spots in this crater alone, with the brightest area on the entire body located in the center of the crater. It is not yet clear whether this bright material is the same as the material found on Ahuna Mons. ...
ESO: Unexpected Changes of Bright Spots on Ceres Discovered
Post by bystander » Wed Mar 16, 2016 4:45 pm
Unexpected Changes of Bright Spots on Ceres Discovered
ESO Science Release | HARPS | 2016 Mar 16
[img3="Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso1609b.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
Observations made using the HARPS spectrograph at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile have revealed unexpected changes in the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. Although Ceres appears as little more than a point of light from the Earth, very careful study of its light shows not only the changes expected as Ceres rotates, but also that the spots brighten during the day and also show other variations. These observations suggest that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in the warm glow of sunlight.
Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only such object classed as a dwarf planet. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres for more than a year and has mapped its surface in great detail. One of the biggest surprises has been the discovery of very bright spots, which reflect far more light than their much darker surroundings. The most prominent of these spots lie inside the crater Occator and suggest that Ceres may be a much more active world than most of its asteroid neighbours.
New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight. ...
Daily variability of Ceres' albedo detected by means of radial velocities changes of the reflected sunlight - P. Molaro et al
Monthly Notices of the RAS: Letters 458(1):L54 (2016 May 01) DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw017
arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1602.03467 > 10 Feb 2016
Bright Spots & Color Differences Revealed on Ceres
NASA | JPL-Caltech | 2016 Mar 22
GRaND Seeks Subsurface Water Ice on Ceres
Planetary Science Institute | 2016 Mar 22
[i]This map of neutron counting data at Ceres was acquired by Dawn's gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND) instrument. The data comes from Dawn's low-altitude mapping orbit at Ceres, which is at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the dwarf planet. The color scale of this map is from blue (lowest) to red (highest). This data, based on number of neutrons detected per second, reflects the concentration of hydrogen in the upper yard (meter) of regolith. Counts decrease with increasing hydrogen concentration. A portion of the northern hemisphere of Ceres is shown. The pole is marked with a white line. The longitude is centered on Occator Crater. Lower neutron counts near the pole suggest the presence of water ice within about a yard (meter) of the surface at high latitudes.[/i]
New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters
Post by bystander » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:57 pm
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Apr 19
Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission.
In its lowest-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres, Dawn has provided scientists with spectacular views of the dwarf planet.
[img3="Haulani Crater in Enhanced Color
Ceres' Haulani Crater, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers),
shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim."]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ima ... 358_ip.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
Haulani Crater, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers), shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim. Smooth material and a central ridge stand out on its floor. An enhanced false-color view allows scientists to gain insight into materials and how they relate to surface morphology. This image shows rays of bluish ejected material. The color blue in such views has been associated with young features on Ceres. ...
The crater's polygonal nature (meaning it resembles a shape made of straight lines) is noteworthy because most craters seen on other planetary bodies, including Earth, are nearly circular. The straight edges of some Cerean craters, including Haulani, result from pre-existing stress patterns and faults beneath the surface.
[img3="Oxo Crater at LAMO
Oxo Crater is unique because of the relatively large "slump" in its crater rim."]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ima ... 360_ip.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
A hidden treasure on Ceres is the 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) Oxo Crater, which is the second-brightest feature on Ceres (only Occator's central area is brighter). Oxo lies near the 0 degree meridian that defines the edge of many Ceres maps, making this small feature easy to overlook. Oxo is also unique because of the relatively large "slump" in its crater rim, where a mass of material has dropped below the surface. Dawn science team members are also examining the signatures of minerals on the crater floor, which appear different than elsewhere on Ceres. ...
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Bright Spot
Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 June 29
[img3="The center of Ceres' mysterious Occator Crater is the brightest area on the dwarf planet. The inset perspective view shows new data on this feature: Red signifies a high abundance of carbonates, while gray indicates a low carbonate abundance.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/ASI/INAF"]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20694.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA's Dawn mission. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of two new papers about the makeup of Ceres. ...
At about 80 million years old, Occator is considered a young crater. It is 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide, with a central pit about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide. A dome structure at the center, covered in highly reflective material, has radial and concentric fractures on and around it.
De Sanctis' study finds that the dominant mineral of this bright area is sodium carbonate, a kind of salt found on Earth in hydrothermal environments. This material appears to have come from inside Ceres, because an impacting asteroid could not have delivered it. The upwelling of this material suggests that temperatures inside Ceres are warmer than previously believed. Impact of an asteroid on Ceres may have helped bring this material up from below, but researchers think an internal process played a role as well.
More intriguingly, the results suggest that liquid water may have existed beneath the surface of Ceres in recent geological time. The salts could be remnants of an ocean, or localized bodies of water, that reached the surface and then froze millions of years ago. ...
Bright Carbonate Deposits as Evidence of Aqueous Alteration on (1) Ceres - M. C. De Sanctis et al
Nature (online 29 June 2016) DOI: 10.1038/nature18290
Composition and Structure of the Shallow Subsurface of Ceres Revealed by Crater Morphology - Michael T. Bland et al
Nature Geoscience (online 29 June 2016) DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2743
Dawn Completes Primary Mission
Post by bystander » Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:50 pm
[img3="NASA's Dawn mission exceeded all expectations during its primary mission to Vesta and Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech"]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/up ... /11364.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
On June 30, just in time for the global celebration known as Asteroid Day, NASA's Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission. The mission exceeded all expectations originally set for its exploration of protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
The historic mission is the first to orbit two extraterrestrial solar system targets, and the first to orbit any object in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. On March 6, 2015, Dawn also became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around a dwarf planet.
An infographic highlights some of the accomplishments of Dawn's journey since launching in September 2007. Dawn has traveled 3.5 billion miles (5.6 billion kilometers) since launch, and has made 2,450 orbits around Vesta and Ceres. The spacecraft has returned about 69,000 images, combined, of both bodies.
Dawn's advanced ion propulsion system made it possible for the spacecraft to orbit two targets in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft has logged about 48,000 hours of ion engine thrusting.
Scientists have learned a great deal about these unique, massive residents of the asteroid belt through data from the mission. Dawn has revealed that while Vesta is a dry body, Ceres could be as much as 25 percent water ice by mass. Dawn also discovered many intriguing features at both bodies -- Vesta is home to a mountain whose height is more than twice that of Mount Everest, and Ceres has a crater called Occator with mysterious bright features that continue to spark scientific investigation.
[b]NASA[/b] wrote: Dawn to Remain at Ceres
Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | AGU | 2016 July 08
Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres. Most of these areas likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now. ...
Permanently shadowed regions do not receive direct sunlight. They are typically located on the crater floor or along a section of the crater wall facing toward the pole. The regions still receive indirect sunlight, but if the temperature stays below about minus 240 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 151 degrees Celsius), the permanently shadowed area is a cold trap -- a good place for water ice to accumulate and remain stable. Cold traps were predicted for Ceres but had not been identified until now.
In this study, Schorghofer and colleagues studied Ceres' northern hemisphere, which was better illuminated than the south. Images from Dawn's cameras were combined to yield the dwarf planet's shape, showing craters, plains and other features in three dimensions. Using this input, a sophisticated computer model developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, was used to determine which areas receive direct sunlight, how much solar radiation reaches the surface, and how the conditions change over the course of a year on Ceres. ...
The Permanently Shadowed Regions of Dwarf Planet Ceres - Norbert Schorghofer et al
Geophysical Research Letters (online 06 July 2016) DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069368
SwRI: Puzzling Paucity of Large Craters on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Puzzling Paucity of Large Craters on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Southwest Research Institute | 2016 July 26
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A team of scientists led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) made a puzzling observation while studying the size and distribution of craters on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Ceres is the largest object in the tumultuous Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Collision models predicted Ceres should have accumulated up to 10 to 15 craters larger than 400 kilometers (250 miles) wide, and at least 40 craters larger than 100 km (62 miles) wide. Instead, NASA's Dawn spacecraft found only 16 craters larger than 100 km, and none larger than the 280 km (175 miles) across.
Crater size and distribution offer planetary scientists important clues to the age, makeup, and geologic history of planets and asteroids. Ceres is believed to have originated about 4.5 billion years ago at the dawn of our solar system. It grew in size through a history of accretionary collisions of smaller bodies. Some of its largest siblings were subsequently incorporated into larger objects, such as planets. Today, Ceres and Main Belt asteroids remain as the leftovers of the planet-building process.
Although Ceres endured the most violent phase of the solar system's collision-prone past, images of its surface taken by the Dawn spacecraft showed plenty of small impact craters, but the largest well-defined crater is only about 280-km in diameter. This defied most models of crater size and distribution and is at odds with what known from previously imaged asteroids. For example, Dawn images of the asteroid Vesta, only about half the size of Ceres, revealed huge craters, including one 500 kilometers (300 miles) in diameter, covering almost an entire side of that asteroid. ...
The Case of the Missing Craters
Arizona State University | 2016 July 26
The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 July 26
The Missing Large Impact Craters on Ceres - Simone Marchi et al
Nature Communications 7:12257 (26 July 2016) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12257
Dawn: What's Inside Ceres?
What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Aug 03
[img3="This artist's concept shows a diagram of how the inside of Ceres could be structured, based on data about the dwarf planet's gravity field from NASA's Dawn mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA"]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/dawn/201 ... 867-16.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
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In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner structure: Dawn's own motion.
Since gravity dominates Dawn's orbit at Ceres, scientists can measure variations in Ceres' gravity by tracking subtle changes in the motion of the spacecraft. Using data from Dawn, scientists have mapped the variations in Ceres' gravity for the first time in a new study in the journal Nature, which provides clues to the dwarf planet's internal structure.
"The new data suggest that Ceres has a weak interior, and that water and other light materials partially separated from rock during a heating phase early in its history," said Ryan Park ...
A partially differentiated interior for (1) Ceres deduced from its gravity field and shape - R. S. Park et al
Nature (online 03 Aug 2016) DOI: 10.1038/nature18955
Dawn Sets Course for Higher Orbit
[img3="This artist concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft above dwarf planet Ceres,
as seen in images from the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech"]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ima ... _hires.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet.
Dawn has delivered a wealth of images and other data from its current perch at 240 miles (385 kilometers) above Ceres' surface, which is closer to the dwarf planet than the International Space Station is to Earth. Now, the mission team is pivoting to consider science questions that can be examined from higher up.
After Dawn completed its prime mission on June 30, having surpassed all of its scientific objectives at Vesta and at Ceres, NASA extended the mission to perform new studies of Ceres. One of the factors limiting Dawn's lifetime is the amount of hydrazine, the propellant needed to orient the spacecraft to observe Ceres and communicate with Earth. By going to a higher orbit at Ceres, Dawn will use the remaining hydrazine more sparingly, because it won't have to work as hard to counter Ceres' gravitational pull. ...
On Sept. 2, Dawn will begin spiraling upward to about 910 miles (1,460 kilometers) from Ceres. The altitude will be close to where Dawn was a year ago, but the orientation of the spacecraft's orbit -- specifically, the angle between the orbit plane and the sun -- will be different this time, so the spacecraft will have a different view of the surface. ...
Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
Post by bystander » Fri Sep 02, 2016 2:40 am
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Sep 01
[img3="Ahuna Mons: Ceres' lonely mountain, Ahuna Mons, is seen in this simulated perspective view. The elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. The view was made using enhanced-color images from NASA's Dawn mission.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI"]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ima ... _hires.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere. These are just two of many new insights about Ceres from NASA's Dawn mission published this week in six papers in the journal Science.
"Dawn has revealed that Ceres is a diverse world that clearly had geological activity in its recent past," said Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. ...
Ceres: The Tiny World Where Volcanoes Erupt Ice
Arizona State University | 2016 Sep 01
Ice Not a Major Factor of Ceres' Surface Features
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | 2016 Sep 01
Dawn Arrives at Ceres: Exploration of a Small, Volatile-Rich World - C. T. Russell et al
Science 353(6303):1008 (02 Sep 2016) DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf4219
Cratering on Ceres: Implications for Its Crust and Evolution - H. Hiesinger et al
The Geomorphology of Ceres - D. L. Buczkowski et al
Cryovolcanism on Ceres - O. Ruesch et al
Distribution of Phyllosilicates on the Surface of Ceres - E. Ammannito et al
Detection of Local H2O Exposed at the Surface of Ceres - Jean-Philippe Combe et al
Sulfur, Sulfur Dioxide and Graphitized Carbon Observed on Asteroid For First Time
Planetary Science Institute | 2016 Sep 01
Ceres: Sulfur Deposits and Graphitized Carbon - Amanda Hendrix, Faith Vilas, Jian-Yang Li
Geophysical Research Letters (online 31 Aug 2016) DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070240
New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher
Post by bystander » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:28 pm
NASA | JPL-Caltech | Dawn | 2016 Nov 18
[img3="Occator Crater, home of Ceres' intriguing brightest areas,
is prominently featured in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA"]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA21078.jpg[/img3]
[img3="This image approximates how the dwarf planet's colors would appear to the eye.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA"]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA21079.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this image on Oct. 16, from its fifth science orbit, in which the angle of the sun was different from that in previous orbits. Dawn was about 920 miles (1,480 kilometers) above Ceres when this image was taken -- an altitude the spacecraft had reached in early October.
Occator Crater, with its central bright region and secondary, less-reflective areas, appears quite prominent near the limb, or edge, of Ceres. At 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, Occator displays evidence of recent geologic activity. The latest research suggests that the bright material in this crater is comprised of salts left behind after a briny liquid emerged from below, froze and then sublimated, meaning it turned from ice into vapor.
The impact that formed the crater millions of years ago unearthed material that blanketed the area outside the crater, and may have triggered the upwelling of salty liquid.
"This image captures the wonder of soaring above this fascinating, unique world that Dawn is the first to explore," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Dawn scientists also have released an image of Ceres that approximates how the dwarf planet's colors would appear to the human eye. This view, produced by the German Aerospace Center in Berlin, combines images taken from Dawn's first science orbit in 2015, using the framing camera's red, green and blue filters. The color was calculated based on the way Ceres reflects different wavelengths of light.
The spacecraft has gathered tens of thousands of images and other information from Ceres since arriving in orbit on March 6, 2015. After spending more than eight months studying Ceres at an altitude of about 240 miles (385 kilometers), closer than the International Space Station is to Earth, Dawn headed for a higher vantage point in August. In October, while the spacecraft was at its 920-mile altitude, it returned images and other valuable insights about Ceres.
On Nov. 4, Dawn began making its way to a sixth science orbit, which will be over 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from Ceres. While Dawn needed to make several changes in its direction while spiraling between most previous orbits at Ceres, engineers have figured out a way for the spacecraft to arrive at this next orbit while the ion engine thrusts in the same direction that Dawn is already going. This uses less hydrazine and xenon fuel than Dawn's normal spiral maneuvers. Dawn should reach this next orbit in early December. ...
Dawn: Where Is the Ice on Ceres?
Post by bystander » Fri Dec 16, 2016 5:01 pm
Where Is the Ice on Ceres? New Dawn Findings
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At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy. Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed a dark, heavily cratered world whose brightest area is made of highly reflective salts -- not ice. But newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet. Researchers are presenting these findings at the 2016 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
"These studies support the idea that ice separated from rock early in Ceres' history, forming an ice-rich crustal layer, and that ice has remained near the surface over the history of the solar system," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Water ice on other planetary bodies is important because it is an essential ingredient for life as we know it. "By finding bodies that were water-rich in the distant past, we can discover clues as to where life may have existed in the early solar system," Raymond said. ...
Subsurface Water Shaped Dwarf Planet Ceres
Ice is Everywhere on the Dwarf Planet Ceres
Institute for Astronomy | University of Hawaii | 2016 Dec 15
Extensive water ice within Ceres' aqueously altered regolith: Evidence from nuclear spectroscopy - T. H. Prettyman et al
Science (online 15 Dec 2016) DOI: 10.1126/science.aah6765
Surface water-ice deposits in the northern shadowed regions of Ceres - T. Platz et al
Nature Astronomy 1:0007 (15 Dec 2015) DOI: 10.1038/s41550-016-0007
AGU: Ceres May Have Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
New Research Shows Ceres May Have Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
American Geophysical Union | 2017 Feb 02
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A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock – called cryovolcanoes – might disappear over millions of years.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft discovered Ceres's 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) tall Ahuna Mons cryovolcano in 2015. Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto, Europa, Triton, Charon and Titan, may also have cryovolcanoes, but Ahuna Mons is conspicuously alone on Ceres. The dwarf planet, with an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, also lies far closer to the sun than other planetary bodies where cryovolcanoes have been found.
Now, scientists show there may have been cryovolcanoes other than Ahuna Mons on Ceres millions or billions of years ago, but these cryovolcanoes may have flattened out over time and become indistinguishable from the planet's surface. ...
The vanishing cryovolcanoes of Ceres - Michael M. Sori et al
Geophysical Research Letters (online 24 Jan 2017) DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072319
Re: AGU: Ceres May Have Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
Post by Ann » Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:47 pm
Ah, poor ice volcano, I knew him!
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[b][color=#0000FF]Doom Mons with collapse feature Sotra Patera and flow feature Mohini Fluctus, the latter partially covered by dunes. Radar image by Cassini, 2007[/color][/b]
<<Doom Mons is the name of a mountain range and its eponymous peak on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. A putative cryovolcano (i.e., ice volcano), it is the largest mountain range on Titan by volume.
Doom Mons is named after Mount Doom, a volcano that appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, most prominently in The Lord of the Rings. The name follows a convention by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature that Titanean mountains are named after mountains in Tolkien's works. Coincidentally, prior to the naming of Doom Mons, a fictional mountain range of Titan already existed that carried the name "Mount Doom"; this was a major setting in the 1935 science-fiction tale Flight on Titan by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Weinbaum's Mount Doom was populated by hostile native wildlife such as "Ice-Ants", "Whiplash Trees", pterodactyl-like "Knife-Kites", and the hypnosis-inducing "Giant Titanian Cave Threadworm". The climate of Weinbaum's mountain is described as sub-Arctic, and it is constantly battered by howling ice-needle storms and hurricane-force winds.
Many Titanean "mountains" are little more than hills. However, some of these mountains rise to some several hundreds of meters high. Doom Mons is currently believed to be possibly the largest Titanean mountain range and with the eponymous peak one of the highest; the title of highest peak on Titan is thought to be held by the Mithrim Montes, which may have been formed by global contraction. Doom Mons is believed to be a twin-peak that rises 1.45 km above the relatively flat surrounding plain, and a probable massive cryovolcano. It has a 500-600 m deep indentation on its western side, containing a circular pit that is another 400 m deep.
Doom Mons is constantly bombarded with wind, rain and snow composed of liquid methane and ethane, hydrocarbon dust and organic smog and tholin haze; the summit of Doom Mons, however, appears to be mostly clear and ice-capped with water ice. The superficial features of Doom Mons are constantly changing, a fact which may be exacerbated by a sub-surface, briny ocean. The permanent hurricane at the southern pole of Titan probably causes an issue of constant erosion on Doom Mons, preventing the mountain from growing taller. Doom Mons is believed to have a total width about 60 km. Robert Brown of the University of Arizona, one of the controllers of the Cassini-Huygens probe, gave the following description of Doom Mons at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California:
"This mountain range is tall enough to produce streamers of clouds that extend far around the moon. You could call this the Titan Sierras. Several smaller ranges appear to be nearby, as does a circular feature that might be the crater from an ancient asteroid impact powerful enough to have punched through Titan's outer crust. I speculate that the mountains might be a chain of volcanoes that oozed up along cracks in the crust after the impact.">>


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Freida Pinto discusses new role in Guerrilla
Freida Pinto (TIBRINA HOBSON/AFP/Getty Images)
By: ReenaKumar
Indian actress Freida Pinto who rose to fame after she appeared in Slumdog Millionaire, has spoken about her role in new Sky Atlantic drama Guerrilla.
She plays Jas Mitra who is part of the revolutionary couple who take a stand amid the racial struggle of 1970s London.
Speaking about her character, Pinto said: "She's like a gentle ticking time bomb, it was a fantastic exploration of the unpredictability this character brings to the central plot line. "She has a lot of passion and drive but she's also naive at times and the consequences of all her actions and her decisions greatly move the flow of the story.
"She is definitely someone who needs to stand up for what she believes in and she's someone who needs to do things, as opposed to just talking about it."
Pinto's character escaped India with her mother because of a threat to their lives. Viewers later discover that her father is in a prison in India for being part of a popular and infamous communist group in West Bengal.
The actress added: "She's working as a nurse. A lot of the immigrant population did actually take up jobs as doctors, bus drivers and nurses very often below what their qualifications merited. Her relationship with Marcus (Idris Elba) has plateaued a bit even though there is an undeniable sense of love and respect they feel for each other.
"We do come into her life when she's first peaked into a sense of frustration and weariness at not being able to do more. The kind of frustration that can make you spiral down even further or motivate you to take some drastic action to gain a sense of purpose again. Either way, all decisions have consequences and Jas's decisions are certainly more explosive and almost unpredictable."
Guerrilla is available on Sky Atlantic and Now TV.

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Q: calculate the ouptut of two operational amplifiers in a series i want to calculate Vs which is the output of this circuit

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
so i just want to equation that can help me find Vs.
please help me, because i have an exam tomorrow, and i am frustrated.
thanks in advance

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10 of the most popular foods – which have you eaten?
Food is a centre piece of our lives, and we're involved with it on so many levels – it's fuel for our bodies, it can be a hobby (you know who you are, foodies!), it's can be an expression of our life experiences, as well as a source of pride. We all eat food, and many of your fellow Canadians play a key role in producing and sharing food . From your local farmer, the chef at your fav new restaurant or your neighbour whose passion is her garden – food is all around us.
To coincide with this research on global attitudes to food, we'd like you to have a bit of fun with us – a taste test based on 10 of the foods that are strong favourites from around the world!
Have a look below. Which of the ten foods listed have you eaten?
Once you're finished, if you like we would encourage you to leave a comment below to fill us in on your favourite food. Or maybe you would like to issue a personal GROW challenge to our readers.
My challenge to you – share the survey above with your friends, and help Oxfam demand action from the G20 on rising food prices, so everyone has enough to eat –always.


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Philippine president likely to put police back in charge of drug war: Spokesman
Relatives of victims of extrajudicial killings show portraits of their loved ones during a Catholic mass against drug war killings at the Edsa Shrine in Pasig, metro Manila on Nov 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
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MANILA (REUTERS) - There is a "strong likelihood" Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will lift a suspension on police from his war on drugs, his spokesman said on Thursday (Nov 23), a move likely to alarm activists who accuse police of committing murder under the guise of drug busts.
Amid international concern over the staggering death toll and several killings of youngsters, President Rodrigo Duterte last month suspended police anti-narcotics operations for a second time and put the country's undermanned drugs enforcement agency, PDEA, in charge.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque reiterated Duterte's concern expressed last week that the drugs problem could intensify and gains might be lost with the Philippine National Police (PNP) sidelined.
"A decision will soon be made," Roque told a regular briefing.
"That's the president's call. If he thinks it (the war on drugs) must be returned (to the PNP) then it must be, the PDEA has been given enough time."
He added: "Effectively he has manifested already a decision to return it to the PNP."
Close to 4,000 mostly urban poor Filipinos have been killed in what police say are anti-drug operations. Human rights groups and political opponents say executions of drug users and small-time peddlers have been widespread, but police insist those killed were all dealers who put up violent resistance.
Police have rebuffed criticism and cite 117,000 arrests as proof that their policy is to preserve life. They also deny links to at least 2,000 mysterious street killings of drug users.
Roque said Duterte knew the police had flaws and would not tolerate abuses, but he still believed in them.
He suspended police in January and reinstated them five weeks later, arguing that drugs were pouring back to the streets.
It is unclear why he removed them again on Oct 11. His directive was to "bring order" to the campaign, but in angry, at times incoherent speeches, he suggested he was trying to appease the international community.
Duterte last week oversaw his biggest international summit yet but there was no known challenge from other leaders to his war on drugs, including from US President Donald Trump.
The volatile Duterte did, however, lash out afterwards about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling it an "insult" that he should express his concern to him.
Phelim Kine, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in Asia, said people should "brace for more bloodshed" and called again for a United Nations-led international investigation.
"Until that happens, the number of victims denied justice and accountability will likely only continue to grow," he wrote in a web posting.


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Q: Session variables not set from HTML form I appreciate anyone taking a fresh look as I am stuck with a seemingly simple functionality.
header.php has 2 search fields and a search button.
The form action invokes pagination.php that runs the query and paginates the results.
The problem is that the form fields are not stored in session variables. Only the form fields, session variables work in login script and with hard-coded values.
Here is the form from header.php (with some debugging statements):
    <form action="http://my1shop.uk/phpmarketplace/customer/pagination.php" method="post" class="searchform">

                    <input name="searchstring" class="textbox" type="text" placeholder="search string"/>
                    <input name="postcode" class="textbox" type="text" placeholder="postcode"/>
                    <input name="submit" class="submit" value="Search" type="submit" />
<?php
session_start();
//unset($_SESSION['test']);
$_SESSION['test']= 'Testsearch';

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$_SESSION['search_string'] = $_POST['searchstring'];
$_SESSION['zip3'] = substr($_POST['postcode'],0,3);
$_SESSION['test2'] = 'Test2';
}

?>
</form>

Here is the first part of pagination.php (before SQL and pagination):
<?php
//error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 'On');
include_once '../config.php'; // has session_start() in it

// find out how many rows are in the table
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM forsale_content";
$result = dbQuery($sql) ;
$r = dbFetchRow($result);
$numrows = $r[0];

// number of rows to show per page
$rowsperpage = 5;
// find out total pages
$totalpages = ceil($numrows / $rowsperpage);

// get the current page or set a default
if (isset($_GET['currentpage']) && is_numeric($_GET['currentpage'])) {
   // cast var as int
   $currentpage = (int) $_GET['currentpage'];
} else {
   // default page num
   $currentpage = 1;
} // end if

// if current page is greater than total pages...
if ($currentpage > $totalpages) {
   // set current page to last page
   $currentpage = $totalpages;
} // end if
// if current page is less than first page...
if ($currentpage < 1) {
   // set current page to first page
   $currentpage = 1;
} // end if

// the offset of the list, based on current page
$offset = ($currentpage - 1) * $rowsperpage;

$keywords = $_SESSION['search_string'];
$zip = $_SESSION['zip3'];
$search = $_POST['searchstring'];
//$keywords = $_POST['searchstring'];
echo "pagination:" . $_SESSION['test'];
echo "test2:" . $_SESSION['test2'];
echo "zip:" . $_SESSION['zip3'];
echo strlen($keywords) ;
echo "search:" . $search;

if( $keywords == "")
{
echo "
You did not enter a searchstring.
";
}

The result is "You did not enter a searchstring" and $keywords and $zip have no value (with error ON it says  indexes 'search_string' and 'zip3' undefined).
However 'test' has correct value and if "if (isset($_POST['submit']))" is commented out in header.php - 'test2' also gets a value. But not the other 2 variables where values should be assigned from the form on submit.
When I change form method to GET, I can see the field value picked up.
Have read all relevant articles, tried different browsers, checked for quotes, brackets etc. but ran out of ideas...


Editor's Note: Information about the lecture series can be found on the Web at http://www.phy.syr.edu/saturday/.
Scientific sleuths from Syracuse University's Department of Physics in The College of Arts and Sciences will present "The Case of the Missing Antimatter" Feb. 8 at 10:30 a.m., in the Physics Building's Stolkin Auditorium. The mysterious case is part of the Spring 2003 Saturday Morning Physics lecture series and is free and open to the public.
The lectures are designed for all those people who have ever wondered how the world around them works – or wanted to know what physics professors do when not teaching. The lectures include demonstrations, which help the lay audience understand the concepts that are being discussed, and a question and answer period.
"Missing Antimatter" will feature a presentation by faculty experts in experimental particle physics, who will explain how the research they are doing may someday further the understanding of a fundamental cosmological conundrum-why does the universe seem to contain all matter and almost no antimatter?
Presenting scientists will be professors Marina Artuso, Steven Blusk, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Sheldon Stone and J.C. Wang. Their research focuses on the decays of the charm and beauty quarks and on learning why these particles behave in different ways to their antiparticles. The answers they seek are crucial to unraveling the secrets of the physics of elementary particles and may someday help resolve the mystery behind how the universe was formed.


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Finally, Pay Thousands For Louis Vuitton 'League of Legends' Clothes
By Jordan Minor 12.10.2019 :: 3:36PM EST 12.10.2019
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'League of Legends' Becomes Mobile (and Console) MOBA
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Not that long ago Riot Games reached a settlement in its ongoing gender discrimination lawsuit. Collectively, women who work at the company or have worked in the company during the past five years will receive $10 million in restitution to make up for years of sexual harassment. We're happy for the victims but considering just how much money Riot makes through its massively popular MOBA League of Legends, to many the punishment just seemed like a slap on the wrist.
After all, imagine how quickly they'll make that money back through these pricey Louis Vuitton League of Legends clothes alone.
A few months ago, the luxury French fashion brand began its inexplicable partnership with the utterly baffling fantasy esport. Similar to their work with trophies in other sporting leagues like FIFA, Louis Vuitton designed the travel case for the World Championship Summoner's Cup trophy, the ultimate prize for pro League players. Louis Vuitton also designed some posh designer skins for certain champions.
But Louis Vuitton is best known for making real clothes in the real world. And they've extended their partnership with Riot Games into this arena as well. For as little as $170 you can now purchase items from LVxLoL: The Collection, all sorts of apparel that barely even seems video game related to the untrained eye.
You can get a Diamond Bracelet for $345, a pair of Archlight Sneakers for $1,140, a key holder and bag charm for $515, and a Leather Biker Jacket for $5,650. Wallet-melting stuff, although let's be real some people pay way more than this through in-app purchases alone.
For more on League of Legends check out Riot's upcoming plans for mobile spin-offs and new games in this universe. For more on classy nerd clothes, check out Michael B. Jordan's anime-inspired threads and these Red Dead Redemption 2 cowboy clothes.


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John Mulaney Tells Everything You Want to Know About His Time at 'SNL' in 10 Minutes (Video)
Former "Saturday Night Live' writer reflects on his time there in "Stories From the Show" segment
Brian Welk | April 8, 2020 @ 2:14 PM
John Mulaney has a lot of stories about "Saturday Night Live," from auditioning alongside Donald Glover to going to a Chicago Cubs game with Lorne Michaels, but a new video boils down every anecdote you ever wanted to know in just over 10 minutes.
Mulaney, a former SNL writer, sat down for "Stories From the Show" in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday, rattling off his entire experience with the show and his favorite memories from Studio 6H dating all the way back to 2008 when he first got a call from his agent at Endeavor to audition.
"The thing is, once you work here, you always work here. There's great comfort in being here and working for someone who you respect," Mulaney said in the video. Looking back, he even left some advice to anyone working there now. "Stay one year longer than you think you should…Was all that unusable?"
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Mulaney said that back in 2008 when he got the chance to audition, he performed four minutes of stand-up and even got some laughs from the crowd, even after hearing that they never laugh. Mulaney auditioned in a class that included Nick Kroll, Ellie Kemper, Donald Glover, TJ Miller and Bobby Moynihan, who ended up getting cast on the show. The video even has a brief clip of a young Mulaney dusting off one of his old stand-up routines about his favorite repeating characters on "Law & Order."
Though Mulaney himself didn't get to be a cast member, he did get a call from Seth Meyers and was offered a writing job, and he quickly found himself working closely with Bill Hader, Andy Samberg and more.
He also remembered his first time meeting Lorne Michaels, going into his office with just an orange T-shirt. "He said, you're from Chicago? And I said yeah. He said, well now you're here," Mulaney recalls. "And he said, 'Your family's in Chicago?' 'Yeah, I'm the third of four. I have two older siblings. And he said, 'I know everything about you.' I think he meant, I have met your kind many times."
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Mulaney would even later share a trip back to Chicago with Michaels and said it was like visiting the city for the first time, attending a Cubs game at Wrigley field and buying hats (why yes, there's a photo of them at the game).
Some of the other amusing highlights of the video include Mulaney talking about attending the "SNL 40" special on the day that his sitcom "Mulaney" was ending for good, and what it was like the first time Michaels asked him to host the show.
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'SNL' 5-Timers Club: Most Frequent Hosts, From Alec Baldwin to Will Ferrell (Photos)
In the world of sketch comedy, there is no fraternity more prestigious than the "Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club." Those who have proven their worthiness by hosting "SNL" five times are invited into an elite circle, where they don luxurious satin robes, smoke expensive cigars and, for their entertainment, watch current cast members fight to the death.
Alec Baldwin - 17
Not counting his many guest appearances to play guys like Donald Trump, Baldwin has hosted 16 times, passing Steve Martin's record in 2011. Martin was there that night to demand a surprise drug test.
Steve Martin - 15
The esteemed president of the Five-Timers Club was also the fastest to get to that milestone, hosting his fifth less than two years after hosting his first. In total, Martin has hosted fifteen times, most recently in 2009.
John Goodman - 13
Goodman ranks third on the all-time "SNL" hosting list with 13 episodes, behind only Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
Tom Hanks - 10
Hanks' fifth go-around as host in 1990 was what spawned the Five-Timers Club sketch. But now his most famous contribution to the series is definitely David S. Pumpkins. In April 2020, he also hosted remotely during the first "at home" edition during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.
Buck Henry - 10
From 1976 to 1980, it was tradition for the "Heaven Can Wait" director to host the "SNL" season finale. In total, Henry hosted 10 episodes, including a Mardi Gras special.
Chevy Chase - 8
The original anchor of "Weekend Update" hosted "SNL" eight times after being the first original cast member to leave in the middle of the show's second season.
Christopher Walken - 7
Walken was the first person to join the Five-Timers Club in the 21st Century after making his fifth appearance in May 2001.
Drew Barrymore - 6
Though we haven't seen her in a Five-Timers' robe, her portrait is in the club's luxurious quarters. She holds the record for youngest host ever, having appeared on the show at age 7 following the release of "E.T." in 1982.
Elliot Gould - 6
Gould hosted the show five times in the '70s, but his sixth appearance was his last after being blindsided by the sudden departure of Lorne Michaels from the show in 1980.
Danny DeVito - 6
Shortly after playing The Penguin in "Batman Returns," DeVito joined the club with an "SNL" appearance in January 1993.
Tina Fey - 6
Arguably the most famous "SNL" cast member among millennials, Tina Fey joined the Club in 2015 after a hosting career that included (and still includes) her famous Sarah Palin impression.
Scarlett Johansson - 6
The actress made her fifth appearance in 2016, and kicked off her monologue by putting on a Five-Timers jacket handed to her by Kenan Thompson. (She hosted again with then-fiancé Colin Jost in December 2019.)
Candice Bergen - 5
Bergen was the first woman to host "SNL" and hosted five times from 1975 to 1990.
Bill Murray - 5
After starring on the show in Seasons 2-5, Murray returned to host five times in the '80s and '90s.
Ben Affleck - 5
The man "SNL" once mocked for his film "Gigli" joined the Five-Timers club in 2013, shortly after winning the Best Picture Oscar for "Argo."
Justin Timberlake - 5
The pop star's fifth appearance in 2013 saw "SNL" bring back the "Five-Timers" sketch, as Timberlake's induction was celebrated with a brawl between cast members Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam.
Melissa McCarthy - 5
After a season of guest appearances as Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, McCarthy grabbed her Five-Timers jacket in Season 42.
The Rock - 5
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson hosted the finale of the 42nd season of "SNL"
Jonah Hill - 5
Hill's five appearances as host spanned a decade, with the first coming in 2008 and the fifth on Nov. 3, 2018.
Will Ferrell - 5
One of the most successful "SNL" alums of the '90s, Ferrell joined the club on Nov. 23, 2019. Among his most famous "SNL" bits were his George W. Bush impression and his recurring role as Alex Trebek on "Celebrity Jeopardy."
Paul Simon - 4
Technically, Simon only hosted four times, but he's been included in "Five-Timers Club" sketches since he was the musical guest on a fifth show. He also owns arguably the most emotional moment in the history of "SNL": his performance of "The Boxer" in the cold open of the first post-9/11 episode.
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Sites & Museums
Marietta House Museum
Marietta House Museum is dedicated to exploring, elevating, and transforming awareness of the interconnected relationships of the people and their descendants who lived and labored at Marietta.
As a public history steward, Marietta is committed to co-curating discussions, exhibitions, and programs with broad community input to promote universal social equity. Marietta interprets the historical architecture and landscape across Prince George's County, Maryland, through inclusive American history.
Marietta House Museum, in Prince George's County, is a community-driven historic site committed to nurturing social justice advocacy through understanding current social inequities and their historical origins.
Learn the History of the Marietta
Who Lived Here?
Multiple generations of the free slaveholding Duvall families and multiple generations of enslaved families including the Butler family lived at Marietta. Indentured servants and wage laborers also left their mark and their histories at Marietta for us to learn from, to commemorate, and to interpret for social justice conversations and advocacy. Their stories of achievements and afflictions compel visitors to ask what were the challenges and systemic constraints that shaped the lives lived?
Marietta House Museum was the tobacco plantation and family home of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Gabriel Duvall in Prince George's County, Maryland. The two-and-half-story Federal-style brick mansion, completed in 1813, stood in front of a row of outbuildings where multiple generations of enslaved individuals lived, including Thomas and Sarah Butler and their family.
As early as the late seventh century, the lands comprising this site witnessed the enslavement of Africans and African Americans until Emancipation in 1865 when the U.S. Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. Named to honor Gabriel Duvall's first wife, Mary Bryce Duvall, Marietta included slave dwellings, stables, a carriage house, law office, root cellar, wash house, ash house, and other outbuildings.
Today, Marietta House is situated on 25 acres of lawn and wooded areas with two County Champion trees, a small cemetery, and the original 1811 law office, tack room, and root cellar. The site where the slave quarters likely stood is recognized as hallowed ground.
Who did the Land Originally Belong to?
Marietta House Museum acknowledges the history and continued traditions of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, who hunted, farmed, and lived on this land long before Marietta House was built. As we consider the history of this place, take a moment to remember the many people who were forced to leave their traditional homelands.
Who was Gabriel Duvall?
Marietta was built for Gabriel Duvall, one of Prince George's County's most outstanding citizens. Born in 1752, Duvall pursued a career of public service which lasted for more than 60 years. After serving in several positions during the Revolutionary War, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates, the United States Congress, the Maryland Supreme Court, and as Comptroller of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. Soon after 1812, when he was appointed by President James Madison to the U.S. Supreme Court, Duvall began the construction of Marietta. Over the next 20 years, he developed the 325-acre plantation and constructed a substantial rear wing for added living space. He served on the Supreme Court until 1835; in January of that year, he retired to spend the rest of his life at Marietta, where he died in 1844. Marietta remained the residence of his heirs until 1902.
The Society of Mareen Duvall Descendants have relocated the family graveyard from its original location to the property at Marietta.
General Information About the Property and Museum
Marietta is a 2 1⁄2-story brick Federal house, begun in 1813, in a traditional I-house plan and is an example of a late Federal-style brick house. The main block is five bays by two, and the entrance is through the central bay of the south facade. Attached to the north of the main block at right angles is a two-story rear wing, built 1832, and attached to the west gable end is an L-shaped wing added in 1968. Marietta stands on terraced, landscaped grounds with two contemporary outbuildings: a brick law office and a stone and brick root cellar/harness storage room.
Marietta is open to the public as a Prince George's County history museum and offers exhibits, lectures, events, and programs covering 300 years of county history. Marietta is also home to the Natural and Historical Resources Division Library of County History.
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After a week and a day in police custody, Tommy Lee Sparta's management says the deejay continues to lose income.
The deejay's manager Heavy D tells Music News that Tommy has weekly bookings for events in Jamaica, Antigua and Russia.
The Montego Bay deejay was hauled in by law enforcement authorities last week Monday along with four others for alleged scamming.
Tommy Lee Sparta has not been slapped with any charges but remains jailed as police conduct their investigations.
Tommy is on the verge of recovery following a motor vehicle accident in Montego Bay which left him with a broken leg. The deejay had cancelled several events then.


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The NYPD Is On Edge
Michelle Conlin,
A man walks past some fresh graffiti very near the site where two police officers were shot in the head in the Brooklyn borough of New York
(Reuters) - On December 13, as thousands of protesters mobbed the New York streets, Yuseff Hamm, an NYPD police officer, was monitoring the demonstrations from a mobile command unit near the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the protest drew near, Hamm and his fellow officers could hear the chants of the noisy throngs: "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now."
In his 13 years on the force, Hamm had never encountered demonstrators shouting out anything like that.
Nor had he ever seen anything like what happened one week later, on Saturday: a lone gunman, hours after warning on Instagram that he planned an attack in retribution for U.S. police killings of black men, gunned down two NYPD officers as they sat in a cruiser in broad daylight near a bustling intersection in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The officers, who were Hispanic and Asian-American, were killed by a 28-year-old black man, Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He had traveled to New York from Baltimore, where he had earlier shot and wounded his girlfriend. Brinsley fled and later used his silver semi-automatic handgun to take his own life by shooting himself in the head on a crowded subway platform.
"When you have a chant going on like that, and no one addresses it, and then a week later, these killings come to fruition, I'm shaken," said Hamm, an African American, whose usual stint is in the conditions unit in the 106th precinct in Queens. "The rhetoric that's going around, left unchecked, is very dangerous, and it invites people to do crazy nonsense."
he killing of the two police officers Saturday comes at a time when police in New York already feel vulnerable. A wave of national protests has targeted them for what demonstrators have characterized as their "aggressive" and "extreme" tactics. That includes the controversial "stop and frisk" program, in which thousands of black and Latino men were targeted for no ostensible reason other than the color of their skin.
Though the protests have been largely peaceful, tensions have been escalating, with people brandishing placards reading "NYPD KKK," "NYPD Has Blood on Their Hands" and "Speak Up Get Shot."
Defenders of the actions, however, say that drawing a connection between the protests and the police killings would be "misleading."
One of the movements leaders, the Missouri-based Ferguson Action Network, said in a statement: "Millions have stood together in acts of non-violent civil disobedience, one of the cornerstones of our democracy. It is irresponsible to draw connections between this movement and the actions of a troubled man who took the lives of these officers and attempted to take the life of his ex-partner, before ultimately taking his own."
The nationwide wave of protests, which have snarled traffic, clogged bridges and brought commerce to a standstill, started in late November after a Missouri grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the killing of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. A week later, a New York grand jury also declined to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed, 43-year-old black father of six suspected of peddling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
A police officer stands over activists, demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner, as they stage a 'die-in' during rush hour at Grand Central Terminal.
In the wake of those decisions, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose wife Chirlane is African American, said in a press conference that the couple has had to have painful conversations with their biracial son, Dante, about "how to take special care with any encounter he may have with police officers."
Police organizations immediately blasted the mayor's comments as anti-cop. On Saturday, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said, "The blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor."
That same night, as the Mayor arrived at the Brooklyn hospital where the two dead officers were taken, a line of patrolmen turned their backs on him, forming a line of blue in what observers called a dramatic show of disrespect.
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During his campaign, de Blasio criticized NYPD tactics like "stop and frisk" and the "broken windows" theory of policing, which focuses on cracking down on small crimes to prevent bigger ones. Both strategies flourished under de Blasio's predecessors, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg. Both Mayors oversaw a record drop in crime which transformed New York from the former murder capital of the world into the safest big city in America—and the preferred playground of the global elite.
But now, police say the tension between the NYPD and the Mayor's Office at City Hall is the worst it has been in recent memory.
On Sunday, police officers said that more and more of them were signing a new petition asking de Blasio not to attend their funerals if they should die in the line of duty.
"This is a very, very volatile time," said a 15-year narcotics vet who asked not to be named because police officers are prohibited from speaking with the press without department permission. "Any situation on either side in this city could really set things off. It really could."
(Reporting By Michelle Conlin)
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Q: Cannot reference css class in jquery dynamically added html table rows In jQuery, I created an HTML table dynamically and at the end, I add a click function to add a class from a loaded external css file.  In the Chrome javascript console, I can see the class added correctly but the style (colors) do not change. It's like the stylesheet elements do not exist.  I added a body style change just to prove it is in fact loading with the HTML page.
Here is the js function that creates the table:
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        $(this).addClass("hightlight");
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body {
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td.highlight {
background-color: red;
color: white;
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tr.highlight {
background-color: red;
color: white;
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li.highlight {
background-color: red;
color: white;
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    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    <title>Test of jQuery Ajax</title>
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A: The problem is that the elements to which you are binding the click event handler does not exist in DOM when the handler is registered.
Here's a similar question, and there's a good solution from Prestaul: How do you access newly appended HTML elements in jQuery

A: Use the click method in its delegated form.
You may rather use the .on() method like
$('#KenTest').on("click", "tr", function () {
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A: I am not sure how long I stared at this and kept missing the typo :/ The js had the class named "hightlight" and the css had the class named "highlight". Doh!


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Back to Editorial
Workplace violence: A nurse tells her story
June 2018 Vol. 13 No. 6
Author(s): Lillee Gelinas, MSN, RN, CPPS, FAAN
It's not okay, and it is a big deal.
By Lillee Gelinas, MSN, RN, CPPS, FAAN
"Personal boundary violation is not part of our job description. That statement is powerful because boundary setting is a part of our job. I believe that if we fail to establish and maintain personal boundaries, then we've compromised the safe and therapeutic environment in which we're able to truly care and advocate for our patients. We have an obligation to stand up against that which is unsafe, and I believe that ending nurse abuse is critical."
That's how my conversation began with Karen*, an emergency department (ED) nurse who recently experienced on-the-job violence. I promised her that her story is not over. Nor is the story of thousands of nurses who have been harmed by patients while at work. The importance of the American Nurses Association (ANA) #EndNurseAbuse movement became very real for me the day I spoke with Karen.
Karen's mother and I are both nurse executives who frequently talk about the changing healthcare environment—some changes for the good and some disheartening, like the increasing trend toward violence in the healthcare workplace. Karen had always admired her mother's nursing career, and she couldn't wait to become a nurse herself.
Karen worked as a nurse extern for 4 years, volunteering in the ED and in other settings to get real-world experience before becoming an RN. She's the type of nurse I try to hire as frequently as I can because she's enthusiastic about the profession, worked hard to become a nurse, and strives to be the best she can be. But this shining star in the nursing universe has lost some of the glow after her experience.
Out of the blue, a patient hit her hard in the jaw while she was trying to perform an electrocardiogram. The violence was so unexpected that she immediately left the bedside in disbelief. Karen says she was "overwhelmed by my feelings of being hurt."
Karen says "it's the aftermath" that's so important. Being angry with the patient at first is easy, but Karen says, "I can't stress enough how much this event hurt my feelings, and I'm still not fully over it months later." The physical injury may have healed, but the emotional injury still stings.
Our role as nurses is to establish a trusting relationship with patients, and when that relationship is compromised after an assault, we may be left with a lasting fear for our personal safety. When you walk into a patient's room, you enter with a sense of confidence. But this type of event jars that confidence. Getting back to the level of how it felt pre-assault takes a long time and may require long-term support systems that healthcare facilities may not yet have in place.
In addition to ANA's call to action (read the American Nurse Today article), The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert to bring more awareness to the seriousness of the issue and outline seven actions every healthcare setting must implement to create safer workplaces. (Read the alert.)
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 75% of nearly 25,000 workplace assaults reported annually occur in healthcare and social service settings. But we know that number is grossly underreported because only about 30% of nurses report violent incidents. ANA President Pam Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, states the urgency best: "Abuse is not part of anyone's job and has no place in healthcare settings. Time's up for employers who don't take swift and meaningful action to make the workplace safe for nurses."
I agree. And Karen agrees. We add the following: It's not okay, and it is a really big deal.
Lillee Gelinas, MSN, RN, CPPS, FAAN
lgelinas@healthcommedia.com
*Name has been changed.
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2 thoughts on "Workplace violence: A nurse tells her story"
P. Crain Grosinger, RN says:
I was assaulted in 2015 while working inpatient behavioral health. It occurred in an area where there had been previous problems. In order to discredit me and a co-worker who came to my aid, we were fired. I was never given an opportunity to tell my story. I was blamed for the incident and reported to my Board of Nursing. My employer presented falsified documentation and lied. I spent $10,000 and over a year fighting for keep my license (which I eventually did). I suffered a head and neck injury which has caused me permanent difficulty. My four top front teeth and my glasses were broken. Compared to the emotional hell I went through because of my employer and the Board's "investigation," my injuries were nothing. Oh, the Board's investigator had just started her position and was a former associate of my employer. I live in a small state. My employer has a lot of clout and there is little protection for workers in any field. I never felt to alone.
Elizabeth Simon says:
Thank you for the editorial. A similar incident occurred early in my practice while I was performing a bedside cardiac assessment. Shock is probably the best way to describe my initial reaction. I took a step back, rubbed my jaw in disbelief and actually wondered out loud, "Why would you do that?"
Many years have come and gone and I no longer remember the answer, as if it could possibly have made any sense. I don't remember being angry, I felt, if anything a bit foolish that a 100 pound little lady well into her 80s, who was so sweet earlier in the shift, took me off guard, and hit me so squarely with such force. It did, however, make me realize that it was important to be vigilant in assessing the potential for physical violence at ALL times – even from those that might not fit the standard profile.
Looking back and having heard many similar stories from my colleagues that resulted in more significant injury (both physical and emotional), I realize that I was fairly lucky to learn such a valuable lesson for no more cost than both a bruised ego and jaw.


Faegre Baker Daniels advised long-time client Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. in connection with the company's agreement to be acquired by Mid-Atlantic Dental Service Holdings LLC, which operates as Mid-Atlantic Dental Partners.
Birner Dental was founded in 1995 and operates dental practice affiliates under the Perfect Teeth® brand throughout Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The company will continue to be based in Denver and will operate as Rocky Mountain Dental Services Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mid-Atlantic Dental Services Holdings, when the transaction closes.
Mid-Atlantic Dental Partners is a dental support organization dedicated to improving the delivery of dental services for dentists and their patients and a portfolio company of S.C. Goldman & Company, LLC.
The deal team from Faegre Baker Daniels, which has represented Birner Dental since 2001, included Douglas Wright, Jeffrey Sherman and Andrea Leider.
The sale became complete in Jan. 2019.


MSHR, Resonant Entity Modulator. Photo courtesy of the artist.
MSHR is the collaborative project of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy from Portland, OR, USA. The duo formed in 2011 during their involvement in the art collective Oregon Painting Society. MSHR explores ceremonial, cybernetic and cyborgian realms through interactive installation, analog synthesizer design, and ritualistic performance. Using blind probe-heads for hands, they feel out the space of the hyper-object chamber, exploring textures and searching for new hallways.


A peasant father sends his seven sons to fetch water for their sickly young sister but when he curses them for not returning soon enough, they turn into ravens and disappear. Many years later when the sister is grown up, she sets out in search of her brothers but that will be a long and dangerous journey.
This very gothic horror fantasy animation from the Third Reich is a masterpiece. It is based on one of the German fairytales by Grimm brothers and about 120 puppets were used during the production.


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Крістіонас Донелайтіс ( , Лаздінеляй — , Тольмінгнемен, Мала Литва) — литовський пастор і поет. Зачинатель литовської художньої літератури, представник реалістичного напряму. Автор першої класичної поеми литовською мовою — «Пори року» ( — рік), що вважається одним з головних творів литовської літератури.

Біографія
Народився у селянській родині, вільній від кріпацької залежності. Разом з Крістіонасом у сім'ї було семеро дітей — четверо синів і три доньки. Навчався у школі для бідних у Кенігсберзі, потім у Кенігзберзькому університеті, який закінчив у 1740 році. З 1743 року був настоятелем лютеранської парафії у Тольмінгнемені, до якої входило близько 30 сіл.

Під час Семирічної війни переховувався разом з парафіянами у Роментенському лісі від російських військ. Повернувшись в місто, Донелайтіс відмовився проповідувати хвалу російському царю. Після війни він відновив згорілу школу і допоміг у будівництві притулку для вдів.

Донлайтіс також займався створенням термометрів і барометрів та збиранням фортепіано і клавікордів. Крім того, займався оптикою і музикою.

Творчість
Твори Донелайтіса за його життя розповсюджувалися у рукописах. Донелайтіс також читав свої твори парафіянам. Збереглося 6 байок (видання 1824 року) і поема «Пори року» (в іншому перекладі — «Літа», видання 1818 року), в яких Донелайтіс викривав жорстокість пануючих класів, виступав проти соціальної нерівності, зображував картини життя литовських селян-кріпаків. Байки і поема написані гекзаметром. У байках Донелайтіс викривав несправедливість і беззаконня можновладців, експлуатацію селян. Поема «Пори року» складається з чотирьох самостійних у сюжетному відношенні частин. В ній показане життя покріпаченого села Малої Литви середини 18 століття.

«Поема вражає своєю епічністю, місткістю, осяжністю. Це — литовська етнологія, художній кодекс етичних, естетичних, моральних, педагогічних і соціальних законів народу; своєрідна Біблія і Катехізис литовців, де вони шукали і шукають відповідей на пекучі питання світлого розуму й гордої душі» (Дмитро Чередниченко, післямова до перекладу поеми «Літа»).

Українські переклади
 Чотири доби року. В кн.: Тичина П. Твори, т. 4. — , 1962.
 Літа. Переклад з литовської Дмитра Чередниченка. — К., Дніпро, 1989.

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Посилання

Литовські письменники
Литовські релігійні діячі
Пастори
Литовські поети
Випускники Кенігсберзького університету

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