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Hi y'all~ I've noticed that there is an international crowd on this website. How Cool! Where are you?
California, USA …...... Noon PST
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Upstate, NY
Blairsville, Pa. About an hour east of Pittsburgh
Near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Not very international but it works for me!
New York State.I was born in Brazil.
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Winnipeg, Manitoba
california, usa
Zoe and I are in the UK. Between Manchester and Liverpool in a little town called Newton-Le-Willows. We are moving both ourselves and PurelyRaw to the Charlottesville Virginia area sometime in the next few months.
Flagstaff, Arizona USA
Hi, I´m from Iceland.
I'm in Northern Virginia
Chicago, IL, USA
Zoe/Chris… will you have a store/restaurant in Charlottesvile? If so, we'll have another reason to visit that area when you move to VA.
forrestlyone, I think I saw that painting at the Corocran Building museum yesterday! Actually, I don't really know… it just looks similar to the one I saw there.
I'd also be interested if you will have a store or restaurant in Charlottesville..I know it would do very well there. I'd make the trip
Germin8…it's possible..I actually just took the picture from the internet..I haven't been to the Corcoran gallery in years..I need to go back. I just moved back to the Northern Virginia after being in Florida for 4 years..I look forward to going into DC again.
santa monica,cali
Ray and I are in Portland, Oregon. So beautiful this time of year! (noon at pst)
I'm Originally From Massachusetts. But now in Northern Virginia/ DC area!
Oslo, Norway :)
San Francisco, CA
near Portland, Oregon, USA
Noon PST
Courtenay BC, on Vancouver Island
Sacramento, California.
Santa Monica, CA… Moving to Portland in March!
Orange County, CA…but cool to see a few people in Virginia. My family's in the Richmond area.


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Kurtley Beale has retained the Wallabies No 10 jersey for the Test against France on Saturday, despite the return of Berrick Barnes.
Beale seems to have impressed Robbie Deans at flyhalf as he will play in the key position in Australia's opening fixture of their European tour. Barnes, who recovered from a lung injury, only finds a place on the bench.
Deans has also decided not to make any changes to the backline that started in the 18-18 Bledisloe Cup draw with the All Blacks in Brisbane in October.
Up front, lock Sitaleki Timani is rested because of a sore back, which sees Kane Douglas partner skipper Nathan Sharpe in the second row. Rob Simmons provides cover on the bench. Tighthead prop Sekope Kepu also gets a start with Ben Alexander injured.
Hooker Stephen Moore returns to action and is named among the reserves. He's set to become the most capped Wallabies hooker of all-time, eclipsing Jeremy Paul in what should be his 73rd Test.
Wallabies – 15 Mike Harris, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Ben Tapuai, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Nick Cummins, 10 Kurtley Beale, 9 Nick Phipps, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Dave Dennis, 5 Kane Douglas, 4 Nathan Sharpe (c), 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
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Again, you and everybody else have no clue what will happen in the offseason. You can guess all you want but you have no clue what is going to happen. But feel free to guess.Originally Posted by Eleven79
Thank you Nostradamus.Originally Posted by Eleven79
Again, you and everybody else have no clue what will happen in the offseason. You can guess all you want but you have no clue what is going to happen. But feel free to guess.Originally Posted by Eleven79
It's a guess backed up with fact, Wilcox is going to be very in demand this offseason which will jack up his price out of the Hornets range. Smith will retire or will sign with a real contender, he has no incentive to stay with the Hornets. So yeah, we're left with nothing but Devon Hardin. Reality sucks.
Facts are statements that are true. Guesses are statements that can turn into facts but arent facts until they can be proven which in this case is in the offseason sorry.Originally Posted by NIH
Wilcox will be back next season.
Just a hunch, the Hornets are smarter than that.
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Blind speculation at it's finest. The guy was getting 19 minutes per game on a lottery team and he's going to be in such high demand. That said, I don't see much drop off between he and Chandler. He averaged the same amount of points and 3 less rebounds in 12 less minutes per game. Tyson played 55% more than Wilcox! Fans getting caught up in the pretty dunks while the production is falling off...Originally Posted by NIH
Look at the bigs in FA, then come here and tell me he won't be in high demand.
Edit: I'd actually consider this a decent trade if we kept Wilcox, but the chance happening is extremely little.
You are correct. I wouldn't call it an "injury status" as much as I'd say he has long term issues that will cause his ability to consistently play and be effective to decline.Originally Posted by Al_Blaze
Do you guys remember how it felt to be hamstrung by Jamal Mashburn's salary while he sipped pina coladas in South Beach? In my opinion, TC is headed in that direction. If he plays out his current contract, he will continue to decline....much like Jamaal Magloire did. When big men have "wheel" problems, things get ugly fast.
Harvey will there be a follow up trade? or is this it?
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http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/DeVon-Hardin-225/Originally Posted by fullcourtpress
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HH, you always seem to give me closure...I'm not happy to hear about this for Chandler but it gives me an even greater peace-of-mind than before I read this post.Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
im glad we made this trade now that im watching the game...now we dont have to see anymore of marks...hopefully he wont play anymore
WOW, that's really unfortunate. I hate hearing news like that. I hope in the long-run he can overcome his challenges.Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
You do realize this is all hypothetical huh?Originally Posted by NBA Champs
No one knows of Tyson's future...its all positive spin and thinking glass half full...IMO
Sorry for the ignorance but what does MLE mean?
The dude is like 26! give me a break, i'm sure we're gonna be seeing him for prob 8 more years whether he's "fragile" or not
Originally Posted by nolagobluehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nba_salary_capMid-level exception
A team is allowed to sign one player to a contract equal to the average NBA salary, even if the team is over the salary cap already, or if the signing would put them over the cap. This is known as the Mid-level exception (MLE). The MLE may be used on an individual free agent or split among multiple free agents, and is available regardless of where a team stands with respect to the salary cap. The Mid-Level Exception for the 2007-08 NBA season was $5.36 million. The MLE is $5.585 million for the 2008-09 NBA regular season.
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Considering out history with players like Grand MaMa, Monster Mash and BDiddy, I don't think you continue to gamble your future with knowledge of something like this about one of your players. I think you have to look at the what-ifs and like I said about the previous players, two of which not being too long ago...It makes the decision a lot less harder to make. Don't take the chance of putting a promising team in that type of predicament.Originally Posted by showstoppa618
Signing James Posey really came back to hurt this team in the worst way. When we could have easily signed someone like Matt Barnes for the MLE and resigned Pargo.
Now what are we left with? Chris Wilcox and Joe Smith. (Who both are gone after this season) I was for this trade when I first heard murmurings of it because of the inclusion of the first round draft pick. Now all the team is left with is some throw away scrub festering in the Euro-League.
This trade wasn't done to make a push for the playoffs. Nothing more than a salary dump to save money for some cheap greedy owner.
please man...Im so disappointed in this team.
they just look so boring and soft whenever I watch them play.
Cp to dwest, cp t dwest over and over and over again
Yeah, this team hasn't been nearly as fun to watch as last year.
Lets see what happens. Tyson Chandler isn't a big loss cause he was not gonna be the difference in the Hornets making it to the Conference Finals or NBA Finals. If they do get that far in the playoff it was gonna be done with or without Chandler. I doubt I'm gonna be sitting here coming April saying to myself "if Chandler was here the Hornets would've won this playoff series". Chris Wilcox is a solid player and he'll give the Hornets pretty much the same thing Chandler was giving them. Its all about the players around CP3 and DWest. That's what it comes down to. These guys have to help these 2 all stars. If not that Hornets aren't going nowhere and to be honest with you this supporting cast isn't dependable.
Regardless of the outcome of this game, it would take a miracle for this team to get deep in the playoffs. Especially after todays trade. The Thunder? Are you serious? The effing Thunder? I will continue to watch every game, but I am ot expecting much come Late April
As someone who gets to speak to a player on the team, I can say that not many will miss that Tyson is gone.
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Theodore T. Brewer, 26, 109 N. Melvin St., Kinston, Jan. 30, misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond: $500. Arresting officer: P. Bielby.
Theodore T. Brewer, 26, 109 N. Melvin St., Kinston, Jan. 30, misdemeanor simple affray. Bond: $300. Arresting officer: P. Bielby.
Bryan Stuart Arrington, 41, 130 Astor Ct., Goldsboro, Jan. 30, misdemeanor simple affray. Bond: $300. Arresting officer: P. Bielby.
Theodore T. Brewer, 26, 109 N. Melvin St., Kinston, Jan. 30, misdemeanor assault on a female, misdemeanor unauthorized use of motor vehicle. Bond: None. Arresting officer: P. Bielby.
Tierra Denise Hamilton, 30, 1627 Indigo Lane, Knston, Jan. 31, misdemeanor failure to appear/probation violation. Bond: $500. Arresting officer: S. Archino.
Larry Darnell Jones, 20, 18 Carver Ct., Kinston, Feb. 1, felony burglary/non-forced entry, felony larceny from buildings. Bond: $15,000. Arresting officer: J. Walker.
Elester Christopher Rhodes, 42, 1304 Pollock St., Kinston, Feb. 1, misdemeanor escape from custody or resist arrest, felony possessing/concealing weapons. Bond: $20,000. Arresting officer: C. Woodling.
Raymond Mondelli Jr., 47, 304 Thornbury Ridge, Easley, S.C., Feb. 1, misdemeanor driving while impaired. Bond: $300. Arresting officer: T. Moore.
Zamir Mattocks, 16, 1208 E. Shine St., Kinston, Feb. 2, misdemeanor breaking/entering, misdemeanor simple possession of schedle VI, misdemeanor possess drug paraphernalia.
Lorenza Sinclair Washington, 34, 306 Ash Avenue, Goldsboro, Feb. 3, misdemeanor resist/obstruct/delay. Bond: $500. Arresting officer: J. Hewitt.
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Mercury (pronounced ) is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen as its greatest angular separation from the Sun is only 28.3°. It can only be seen in morning or evening twilight. Comparatively little is known about it; the first of two spacecraft to visit Mercury was Mariner 10, which mapped only about 45% of the planet's surface from 1974 to 1975. The second is the MESSENGER spacecraft, which mapped another 30% during its flyby of January 14, 2008. MESSENGER will make two more passes by Mercury, followed by orbital insertion in 2011, and will then survey and map the entire planet.
Mercury is similar in appearance to the Moon: It is heavily cratered, has no natural satellites and no substantial atmosphere. However, unlike the moon, it has a large iron core, which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth. It is an exceptionally dense planet due to the large relative size of its core. Surface temperatures range from about 90 to (−183 °C to 427 °C, −297 °F to 801 °F), with the subsolar point being the hottest and the bottoms of craters near the poles being the coldest.
Recorded observations of Mercury date back to at least the first millennium BC. Before the 4th century BC, Greek astronomers believed the planet to be two separate objects: one visible only at sunrise, which they called Apollo; the other visible only at sunset, which they called Hermes. The English name for the planet comes from the Romans, who named it after the Roman god Mercury, which they equated with the Greek Hermes. The astronomical symbol for Mercury is a stylized version of Hermes' caduceus.
Mercury's density can be used to infer details of its inner structure. While the Earth's high density results appreciably from gravitational compression, particularly at the core, Mercury is much smaller and its inner regions are not nearly as strongly compressed. Therefore, for it to have such a high density, its core must be large and rich in iron. Geologists estimate that Mercury's core occupies about 42% of its volume; for Earth this proportion is 17%. Recent research strongly suggests Mercury has a molten core.
Surrounding the core is a 600 km mantle consisted of silicates. It is generally thought that early in Mercury's history, a giant impact with a body several hundred kilometers across stripped the planet of much of its original mantle material, resulting in the relatively thin mantle compared to the sizable core.
Based on data from the Mariner 10 mission and Earth-based observation, Mercury's crust is believed to be 100–300 km thick. One distinctive feature of Mercury's surface is the presence of numerous narrow ridges, some extending over several hundred kilometers. It is believed that these were formed as Mercury's core and mantle cooled and contracted at a time when the crust had already solidified.
Mercury's core has a higher iron content than that of any other major planet in the Solar System, and several theories have been proposed to explain this. The most widely accepted theory is that Mercury originally had a metal-silicate ratio similar to common chondrite meteors, thought to be typical of the Solar System's rocky matter, and a mass approximately 2.25 times its current mass. However, early in the solar system's history, Mercury may have been struck by a planetesimal of approximately 1/6 that mass. The impact would have stripped away much of the original crust and mantle, leaving the core behind as a relatively major component. A similar process has been proposed to explain the formation of Earth's Moon (see giant impact theory).
Alternatively, Mercury may have formed from the solar nebula before the Sun's energy output had stabilized. The planet would initially have had twice its present mass, but as the protosun contracted, temperatures near Mercury could have been between 2 500 and 3 500 K, (2 227 °C to 3 227 °C) and possibly even as high as 10 000 K (9 727 °C). Much of Mercury's surface rock could have been vaporized at such temperatures, forming an atmosphere of "rock vapor" which could have been carried away by the solar wind.
A third hypothesis proposes that the solar nebula caused drag on the particles from which Mercury was accreting, which meant that lighter particles were lost from the accreting material. Each of these hypotheses predicts a different surface composition, and two upcoming space missions, MESSENGER and BepiColombo, both aim to make observations to test them.
Mercury's surface is overall very similar in appearance to that of the Moon, showing extensive mare-like plains and heavy cratering, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Since our knowledge of Mercury's geology has been based on the 1975 Mariner flyby and terrestrial observations, it is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. As data from the recent MESSENGER flyby is processed this knowledge will increase. For example, an unusual crater with radiating troughs has been discovered which scientists are calling "the spider.
Albedo features refer to areas of markedly different reflectivity, as seen by telescopic observation. Mercury also possesses Dorsa (also called "wrinkle-ridges"), Moon-like highlands, Montes (mountains), Planitiae, or plains, Rupes (escarpments), and Valles (valleys).
Mercury was heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids during and shortly following its formation 4.6 billion years ago, as well as during a possibly separate subsequent episode called the late heavy bombardment that came to an end 3.8 billion years ago. During this period of intense crater formation, the planet received impacts over its entire surface, facilitated by the lack of any atmosphere to slow impactors down. During this time the planet was volcanically active; basins such as the Caloris Basin were filled by magma from within the planet, which produced smooth plains similar to the maria found on the Moon.
Craters on Mercury range in diameter from small bowl-shaped cavities to multi-ringed impact basins hundreds of kilometers across. They appear in all states of degradation, from relatively fresh rayed craters to highly degraded crater remnants. Mercurian craters differ subtly from lunar craters in that the area blanketed by their ejecta is much smaller, a consequence of Mercury's stronger surface gravity.
The largest known craters are Caloris Basin, with a diameter of 1550 km, and the Skinakas Basin with an outer-ring diameter of 2300 km. The impact that created the Caloris Basin was so powerful that it caused lava eruptions and left a concentric ring over 2 km tall surrounding the impact crater. At the antipode of the Caloris Basin is a large region of unusual, hilly terrain known as the "Weird Terrain". One hypothesis for its origin is that shock waves generated during the Caloris impact traveled around the planet, converging at the basin's antipode (180 degrees away). The resulting high stresses fractured the surface. Alternatively, it has been suggested that this terrain formed as a result of the convergence of ejecta at this basin's antipode.
Overall, about 15 impact basins have been identified on the imaged part of Mercury. Other notable basins include the 400 km wide, multi-ring, Tolstoj Basin which has an ejecta blanket extending up to 500 km from its rim, and its floor has been filled by smooth plains materials. Beethoven Basin also has a similar-sized ejecta blanket and a 625 km diameter rim. Like the Moon, the surface of Mercury has likely incurred the effects of space weathering processes, including Solar wind and micrometeorite impacts.
Smooth plains are widespread flat areas which fill depressions of various sizes and bear a strong resemblance to the lunar maria. Notably, they fill a wide ring surrounding the Caloris Basin. An appreciable difference between these plains and lunar maria is that the smooth plains of Mercury have the same albedo as the older inter-crater plains. Despite a lack of unequivocally volcanic characteristics, the localisation and rounded, lobate shape of these plains strongly support volcanic origins. All the Mercurian smooth plains formed significantly later than the Caloris basin, as evidenced by appreciably smaller crater densities than on the Caloris ejecta blanket. The floor of the Caloris Basin is also filled by a geologically distinct flat plain, broken up by ridges and fractures in a roughly polygonal pattern. It is not clear whether they are volcanic lavas induced by the impact, or a large sheet of impact melt.
One unusual feature of the planet's surface is the numerous compression folds, or rupes, which crisscross the plains. It is thought that as the planet's interior cooled, it contracted and its surface began to deform. The folds can be seen on top of other features, such as craters and smoother plains, indicating that they are more recent. Mercury's surface is also flexed by significant tidal bulges raised by the Sun—the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17 times stronger than the Moon's on Earth.
Despite the generally extremely high temperature of its surface, observations strongly suggest that ice exists on Mercury. The floors of some deep craters near the poles are never exposed to direct sunlight, and temperatures there remain far lower than the global average. Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations by the 70m Goldstone telescope and the VLA in the early 1990s revealed that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles. While ice is not the only possible cause of these reflective regions, astronomers believe it is the most likely.
The icy regions are believed to be covered to a depth of only a few meters, and contain about 1014–1015 kg of ice. By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth has a mass of about 4 kg, and Mars' south polar cap contains about 1016 kg of water. The origin of the ice on Mercury is not yet known, but the two most likely sources are from outgassing of water from the planet's interior or deposition by impacts of comets.
Mercury is too small for its gravity to retain any significant atmosphere over long periods of time; however, it does have a "tenuous surface-bounded exosphere containing hydrogen, helium, oxygen, sodium, calcium and potassium. This exosphere is not stable—atoms are continuously lost and replenished from a variety of sources. Hydrogen and helium atoms probably come from the solar wind, diffusing into Mercury's magnetosphere before later escaping back into space. Radioactive decay of elements within Mercury's crust is another source of helium, as well as sodium and potassium. Water vapor is present, being brought to Mercury by some combination of processes such as: comets striking its surface, sputtering creating water "where none existed before from the ingredients of solar wind and Mercury rock" (both contain hydrogen and oxygen), and "reservoirs of water ice in small areas of Mercury's poles where local topography creates permanently shadowed spots in crater walls that might trap water over the age of the solar system". MESSENGER found high proportions of calcium, helium, hydroxide, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and water. The detection of high amounts of water-related ions like O+, OH-, and H2O+ was a surprise. Because of the quantities of these ions that were detected in Mercury's space environment, scientists surmise that these molecules were blasted from the surface or exosphere by the solar wind.
Sodium and potassium were discovered in the atmosphere during the 1980s, and are believed to result primarily from the vaporization of surface rock struck by micrometeorite impacts. Due to the ability of these materials to diffuse sunlight, Earth-based observers can readily detect their composition in the atmosphere. Studies indicate that, at times, sodium emissions are localized at points that correspond to the planet's magnetic dipoles. This would indicate some interaction between the magnetosphere and the planet's surface.
Despite its small size and slow 59-day-long rotation, Mercury has a significant, and apparently global, magnetic field. According to measurements taken by Mariner 10, it is about 1.1% as strong as the Earth's. The magnetic field strength at the Mercurian equator is about 300 nT. Like that of Earth, Mercury's magnetic field is dipolar in nature. Unlike Earth, however, Mercury's poles are nearly aligned with the planet's spin axis. Measurements from both the Mariner 10 and MESSENGER space probes have indicated that the strength and shape of the magnetic field are stable.
It is likely that this magnetic field is generated by way of a dynamo effect, in a manner similar to the magnetic field of Earth. This dynamo effect would result from the circulation of the planet's iron-rich liquid core. Particularly strong tidal effects caused by the planet's high orbital eccentricity would serve to keep the core in the liquid state necessary for this dynamo effect.
Mercury's magnetic field is strong enough to deflect the solar wind around the planet, creating a magnetosphere. The planet's magnetosphere, though small enough to fit within the Earth, is strong enough to trap solar wind plasma. This contributes to the space weathering of the planet's surface. Observations taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft detected this low energy plasma in the magnetosphere of the planet's nightside. Bursts of energetic particles were detected in the planet's magnetotail, which indicates a dynamic quality to the planet's magnetosphere.
Mercury has the most eccentric orbit of all the planets; its eccentricity is 0.21 with its distance from the Sun ranging from 46 to 70 million kilometers. It takes 88 days to complete an orbit. The diagram on the left illustrates the effects of the eccentricity, showing Mercury's orbit overlaid with a circular orbit having the same semi-major axis. The higher velocity of the planet when it is near perihelion is clear from the greater distance it covers in each 5-day interval. The size of the spheres, inversely proportional to their distance from the Sun, is used to illustrate the varying heliocentric distance. This varying distance to the Sun, combined with a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance of the planet's rotation around its axis, result in complex variations of the surface temperature.
Mercury's orbit is inclined by 7° to the plane of Earth's orbit (the ecliptic), as shown in the diagram on the right. As a result, transits of Mercury across the face of the Sun can only occur when the planet is crossing the plane of the ecliptic at the time it lies between the Earth and the Sun. This occurs about every seven years on average.
Functionally, Mercury's axial tilt is nonexistent, with measurements as low as 0.027°. This is significantly smaller than that of Jupiter, which boasts the second smallest axial tilt of all planets at 3.1 degrees. This means an observer at Mercury's equator during local noon would never see the Sun more than approximately 1/30 of one degree north or south of the zenith. Conversely, at the poles the Sun never rises more than 2.1′ above the horizon.
At certain points on Mercury's surface, an observer would be able to see the Sun rise about halfway, then reverse and set before rising again, all within the same Mercurian day. This is because approximately four days prior to perihelion, Mercury's angular orbital velocity exactly equals its angular rotational velocity so that the Sun's apparent motion ceases; at perihelion, Mercury's angular orbital velocity then exceeds the angular rotational velocity. Thus, the Sun appears to move in a retrograde direction. Four days after perihelion, the Sun's normal apparent motion resumes at these points.
In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity provided the explanation for the observed precession. The effect is very small: the Mercurian relativistic perihelion advance excess is just 42.98 arcseconds per century, therefore it requires a little over twelve million orbits for a full excess turn. Similar, but much smaller effects, operate for other planets, being 8.62 arcseconds per century for Venus, 3.84 for Earth, 1.35 for Mars, and 10.05 for 1566 Icarus.
The original reason astronomers thought it was synchronously locked was that whenever Mercury was best placed for observation, it was always nearly at the same point in its 3:2 resonance, hence showing the same face. This is because, coincidentally, Mercury's rotation period is almost exactly half of its synodic period with respect to Earth. Due to Mercury's 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, a solar day (the length between two meridian transits of the Sun) lasts about 176 Earth days. A sidereal day (the period of rotation) lasts about 58.7 Earth days.
Orbital simulations indicate that the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit varies chaotically from 0 (circular) to a very high 0.47 over millions of years. This is thought to explain Mercury's 3:2 spin-orbit resonance (rather than the more usual 1:1), since this state is more likely to arise during a period of high eccentricity.
Like the Moon, Mercury exhibits phases as seen from Earth, being "new" at inferior conjunction and "full" at superior conjunction. The planet is rendered invisible on both of these occasions by virtue of its rising and setting in concert with the Sun in each case. The first and last quarter phases occur at greatest elongation east and west, respectively, when Mercury's separation from the Sun ranges anywhere from 17.9° at perihelion to 27.8° at aphelion. At greatest elongation west, Mercury rises earliest before the Sun, and at greatest elongation east, it sets latest after the Sun.
Mercury attains inferior conjunction every 116 days on average, but this interval can range from 111 days to 121 days due to the planet's eccentric orbit. Mercury can come as close as 77.3 million km to the Earth, but currently it does not come closer than 82 million km from the Earth. Its period of retrograde motion as seen from Earth can vary from 8 to 15 days on either side of inferior conjunction. This large range also arises from the planet's high orbital eccentricity.
Mercury is more often easily visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere than from its Northern Hemisphere; this is because its maximum possible elongations west of the Sun always occur when it is early autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, while its maximum possible eastern elongations happen when the Southern Hemisphere is having its late winter season. In both of these cases, the angle Mercury strikes with the ecliptic is maximized, allowing it to rise several hours before the Sun in the former instance and not set until several hours after sundown in the latter in countries located at southern temperate zone latitudes, such as Argentina and New Zealand. By contrast, at northern temperate latitudes, Mercury is never above the horizon of a more-or-less fully dark night sky. Mercury can also, like several other planets and the brightest stars, be seen during a total solar eclipse.
Mercury is brightest as seen from Earth when it is at a gibbous phase, between either quarter phase and full. Although the planet is further away from Earth when it is gibbous than when it is a crescent, the greater illuminated area visible more than compensates for the greater distance. The opposite is true for Venus, which appears brightest when it is a thin crescent, because it is much closer to Earth than when gibbous.
The ancient Greeks of Hesiod's time knew the planet as Στίλβων (Stilbon), meaning "the gleaming", and Ἑρμάων (Hermaon). Later Greeks called the planet Apollo when it was visible in the morning sky and Hermes when visible in the evening. Around the 4th century BC, however, Greek astronomers came to understand that the two names referred to the same body. The Romans named the planet after the Roman messenger god, Mercury (Latin Mercurius), which they equated with the Greek Hermes.
In ancient China, Mercury was known as Ch'en-Hsing, the Hour Star. It was associated with the direction north and the phase of water in the Wu Xing. Hindu mythology used the name Budha for Mercury, and this god was thought to preside over Wednesday. The god Odin (or Woden) of Germanic paganism was also associated with the planet Mercury and the name Wednesday was derived from Woden's day. The Maya may have represented Mercury as an owl (or possibly four owls; two for the morning aspect and two for the evening) that served as a messenger to the underworld.
The first telescopic observations of Mercury were made by Galileo in the early 17th century. Although he observed phases when he looked at Venus, his telescope was not powerful enough to see the phases of Mercury. In 1631 Pierre Gassendi made the first observations of the transit of a planet across the Sun when he saw a transit of Mercury predicted by Johannes Kepler. In 1639 Giovanni Zupi used a telescope to discover that the planet had orbital phases similar to Venus and the Moon. The observation demonstrated conclusively that Mercury orbited around the Sun.
A very rare event in astronomy is the passage of one planet in front of another (occultation), as seen from Earth. Mercury and Venus occult each other every few centuries, and the event of May 28 1737 is the only one historically observed, having been seen by John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The next occultation of Mercury by Venus will be on December 3, 2133.
The difficulties inherent in observing Mercury mean that it has been far less studied than the other planets. In 1800 Johann Schröter made observations of surface features, claiming to have observed 20 km high mountains. Friedrich Bessel used Schröter's drawings to erroneously estimate the rotation period as 24 hours and an axial tilt of 70°. In the 1880s Giovanni Schiaparelli mapped the planet more accurately, and suggested that Mercury's rotational period was 88 days, the same as its orbital period due to tidal locking. This phenomenon is known as synchronous rotation and is also shown by Earth's Moon. The effort to map the surface of Mercury was continued by Eugenios Antoniadi, who published a book in 1934 that included both maps and his own observations. Many of the planet's surface features, particularly the albedo features, take their names from Antoniadi's map.
In June 1962 Soviet scientists at the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences lead by Vladimir Kotelnikov became first to bounce radar signal off Mercury and receive it, starting radar observations of the planet. Three years later radar observations by Americans Gordon Pettengill and R. Dyce using 300-meter Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico showed conclusively that the planet's rotational period was about 59 days. The theory that Mercury's rotation was synchronous became widely held, and it was a surprise to astronomers when these radio observations were announced. If Mercury were tidally locked, its dark face would be extremely cold, but measurements of radio emission revealed that it was much hotter than expected. Astronomers were reluctant to drop the synchronous rotation theory and proposed alternative mechanisms such as powerful heat-distributing winds to explain the observations.
Italian astronomer Giuseppe Colombo noted that the rotation value was about two-thirds of Mercury's orbital period, and proposed that a different form of tidal locking had occurred in which the planet's orbital and rotational periods were locked into a 3:2 rather than a 1:1 resonance. Data from Mariner 10 subsequently confirmed this view. The 3:2 resonance results from Mercury's eccentric orbit, as the Sun raises higher tides on the planet at perihelion which, combined with the planet's high velocity then, make the planet spin faster. This also means that Schiaparelli's and Antoniadi's maps were not "wrong". Instead, the astronomers saw the same features during every second orbit and recorded them, but regarded those seen in the meantime, when Mercury's other face was toward the Sun, as spurious.
Ground-based observations did not shed much further light on the innermost planet, and it was not until space probes visited Mercury that many of its most fundamental properties became known. However, recent technological advances have led to improved ground-based observations. In 2000, high-resolution lucky imaging observations were conducted by the Mount Wilson Observatory 1.5 meter Hale telescope. They provided the first views that resolved some surface features on the parts of Mercury which were not imaged in the Mariner missions. Later imaging has shown evidence of a huge double-ringed impact basin even larger than the Caloris Basin in the non-Mariner-imaged hemisphere. It has informally been dubbed the Skinakas Basin. Most of the planet has been mapped by the Arecibo radar telescope, with 5 km resolution, including polar deposits in shadowed craters of what may be water ice.
Reaching Mercury from Earth poses significant technical challenges, since the planet orbits so much closer to the Sun than does the Earth. A Mercury-bound spacecraft launched from Earth must travel over 91 million kilometers into the Sun's gravitational potential well. Starting from the Earth's orbital speed of 30 km/s, the change in velocity (delta-v) the spacecraft must make to enter into a Hohmann transfer orbit that passes near Mercury is large compared to other planetary missions.
The potential energy liberated by moving down the Sun's potential well becomes kinetic energy; requiring another large delta-v change to do anything other than rapidly pass by Mercury. In order to land safely or enter a stable orbit the spacecraft must rely entirely on rocket motors since aerobraking is ruled out because the planet has very little atmosphere. A trip to Mercury actually requires more rocket fuel than that required to escape the solar system completely. As a result, only two space probes have visited the planet so far. A proposed alternative approach would use a solar sail to attain a Mercury-synchronous orbit around the Sun.
The first spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA's Mariner 10 (1974–75). The spacecraft used the gravity of Venus to adjust its orbital velocity so that it could approach Mercury, making it both the first spacecraft to use this gravitational "slingshot" effect and the first NASA mission to visit multiple planets. Mariner 10 provided the first close-up images of Mercury's surface, which immediately showed its heavily cratered nature, and also revealed many other types of geological features, such as the giant scarps which were later ascribed to the effect of the planet shrinking slightly as its iron core cools. Unfortunately, due to the length of Mariner 10's orbital period, the same face of the planet was lit at each of Mariner 10's close approaches. This made observation of both sides of the planet impossible, and resulted in the mapping of less than 45% of the planet's surface.
On March 27, 1974, two days before its first flyby of Mercury, Mariner 10's instruments began registering large amounts of unexpected ultraviolet radiation in the vicinity of Mercury. This led to the tentative identification of Mercury's moon. Shortly afterward, the source of some of the UV was identified as the star 31 Crateris, and Mercury's moon passed into astronomy's history books as a footnote.
The spacecraft made three close approaches to Mercury, the closest of which took it to within 327 km of the surface. At the first close approach, instruments detected a magnetic field, to the great surprise of planetary geologists—Mercury's rotation was expected to be much too slow to generate a significant dynamo effect. The second close approach was primarily used for imaging, but at the third approach, extensive magnetic data were obtained. The data revealed that the planet's magnetic field is much like the Earth's, which deflects the solar wind around the planet. However, the origin of Mercury's magnetic field is still the subject of several competing theories.
Just a few days after its final close approach, Mariner 10 ran out of fuel. Since its orbit could no longer be accurately controlled, mission controllers instructed the probe to shut itself down on March 24, 1975. Mariner 10 is thought to be still orbiting the Sun, passing close to Mercury every few months.
A second NASA mission to Mercury, named MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging), was launched on August 3 2004, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. It made a fly-by of the Earth in August 2005, and of Venus in October 2006 and June 2007 in order to place it onto the correct trajectory to reach an orbit around Mercury. A first fly-by of Mercury occurred on January 14, 2008, and a second on October 6. A third is scheduled for September 29, 2009. Most of the hemisphere not imaged by Mariner 10 has been or will be mapped during these fly-bys. The probe will then enter an elliptical orbit around the planet in March 2011; the nominal mapping mission is one terrestrial year.
The mission is designed to shed light on six key issues: Mercury's high density, its geological history, the nature of its magnetic field, the structure of its core, whether it really has ice at its poles, and where its tenuous atmosphere comes from. To this end, the probe is carrying imaging devices which will gather much higher resolution images of much more of the planet than Mariner 10, assorted spectrometers to determine abundances of elements in the crust, and magnetometers and devices to measure velocities of charged particles. Detailed measurements of tiny changes in the probe's velocity as it orbits will be used to infer details of the planet's interior structure.
The mapper probe will carry an array of spectrometers similar to those on MESSENGER, and will study the planet at many different wavelengths including infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray. Apart from intensively studying the planet itself, mission planners also hope to use the probe's proximity to the Sun to test the predictions of General Relativity theory with improved accuracy.
The mission is named after Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, the scientist who first determined the nature of Mercury's spin-orbit resonance and who was also involved in the planning of Mariner 10's gravity-assisted trajectory to the planet in 1974.


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This page presents a guide to using the Parrot AR.Drone within ROS, using brown-ros-pkg.
You need a laptop with wifi, plus an AR.Drone. On the laptop, install ROS and brown-ros-pkg. To use the wiimote to control the AR.Drone, you will also need bluetooth on the laptop. (This guide was written at the time of brown-ros-pkg revision 1015, using Ubuntu 10.04 and ROS cturtle.)
To make the binaries needed to run, use rosmake to compile as follows:
rosmake drone_teleop wiimote wiimote_twist
Make the ardrone_brown driver:
roscd ardrone_brown ./build_sdk.sh cmake CMakeLists.txt rosmake --pre-clean
Connecting and Running
rosrun ardrone_brown drone_teleop.py
...using the keyboard:
rosrun drone_teleop drone_teleop.py
...using the wiimote (Move forward/backward/strafe with the nunchuck joystick, rotate with the nunchuck buttons, and move up and down with A and B. You will still need drone_teleop to perform takeoff and landing.)
rosrun wiimote wiimote_node.py # Pair the wiimote as instructed. rosrun wiimote_twist wiimote_twist.py
Try in this approximate order. If the AR.Drone physically crashes (propellers stop and LED lights under propellers all turn red), go straight to resetting the AR.Drone:


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Voted Airline of the Year 2011 and in 2012 in the prestigious Skytrax industry audit, Qatar Airways has won the confidence of the travelling public.
Travel by air has reached the point where it is now taken for granted in all corners of the globe. With a larger number of passengers and more choice available in the skies today, airlines looking to maintain or grow their position in the marketplace must provide high-quality service with ever-increasing efficiency.
In this highly competitive environment, Qatar Airways has achieved much with our phenomenal route expansion averaging 30% growth year to year and flying one of the most modern fleet of 134 aircraft in the skies today. Our global network currently spans key business and leisure destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America, with scheduled flights operating to and from our hub in Doha, capital of the State of Qatar.
Since the airline's relaunch in 1997, Qatar Airways has earned many awards and accolades, becoming one of an elite group of airlines worldwide to have been awarded a 5-Star rating by Skytrax.
I am delighted to say that Qatar Airways has achieved our main goal to be the best in the world and reach the pinnacle of the airline industry for outstanding in-flight service, superior onboard products, and operational excellence – a proud honour for me as Group Chief Executive, for my workforce, and for my country.
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Akbar Al Baker has been instrumental in shaping the development of Qatar Airways into one of the fastest growing and most highly acclaimed airlines in the world – named Airline of the Year 2012, for the second consecutive year, by global industry audit Skytrax.
Born in Doha, he is a graduate in Economics and Commerce and worked at various levels in the Civil Aviation Directorate before becoming Qatar Airways' Chief Executive Officer in 1997.
Mr. Al Baker has spearheaded the growth of Qatar Airways, which operated only four aircraft in a regional capacity prior to his appointment. Qatar Airways currently flies a modern fleet more than 130 aircraft to more than 140 destinations across six continents.
He is also leading the development of the multi-billion dollar Hamad International Airport project, which open its first phase in May 2014 and is now home to Qatar Airways.
Mr Al Baker is a member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Air Carriers Organisation (AACO), a member of the Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and is a non-executive Director of Heathrow Airport Holdings. AACO is the organisation responsible for the development of the airline industry in the Arab world, IATA is the world regulatory body of airlines, and HAH is the company responsible for the running and development of UK's largest airport.
A highly motivated individual, Mr. Al Baker has been a successful businessman in Doha for more than 25 years, holds a private pilot licence, and is also Group Chief Executive of several divisions of Qatar's national airline – these being Qatar Airways Holidays, Qatar Aviation Services, Qatar Duty Free Company, Doha International Airport, Qatar Distribution Company, Qatar Executive, Oryx Rotana Hotel and Qatar Aircraft Catering Company.


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Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience
Office of Student ResearchInterdepartmental Neuroscience ProgramNeurobiologyNeurosurgery: Epilepsy Surgery; Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery; Epilepsy Program; Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
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Epilepsy; Seizure detection; Development of intelligent brain-machine devices for treatment of neurological disease; Neural networks; Movement disorders more...
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- J.L. Gerrard, H.P. Zaveri, W. Kasoff, K.P. Vives, L.H. Hirsch, R.B. Duckrow, D.D. Spencer (2012) Expanding the intracranial montage does not increase IcEEG morbidity. American Epilepsy Society Meeting. San Diego, CA
- S. R. Patel, S.A. Sheth, M.K. Mian, J. Gale, J.L. Gerrard, B. Greenberg, D. Dougherty, E. Eskandar (2012) Human single-unit responses in the nucleus accumbens during a financial decision-making task. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT.
- S.R. Patel, J.L. Gerrard, E. Eskandar. (2010) Modulation of primate hippocampal local field potential during learning. Program No. 204.18. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting. San Diego, CA; Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.


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2009, Communications of the ACM
Alexandre Sacchi, Emerson Giannini, Regiane Bochic, Nicolau Reinhard, Alexandre B. Lopes
In this paper we examine how a well-orchestrated plan implemented by McDonald's/Brazil to offer free Internet access to its customers, many of them using computers for the first time, helped to decrease that country's digital divide. The digital divide refers to the division of a society into information haves and information have-nots. Eliminating the digital divide has been a long term project for many organizations. Sites such as the Digital Divide Network (http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/) list many projects that have attempted to provide "digital inclusion", where people have physical access to IT resources and enough proficiency to use them to increase their knowledge base. What McDonald's/Brazil has achieved is to unite these lofty aspirations with practical gains: increased profitability, access to exclusive data about its customers, and an improved infrastructure for its own information processing needs.
Sacchi, Alexandre, Emerson Giannini, Regiane, Bochic, Nicolau Reinhard, and Alexandre B. Lopes (2009), "Digital Inclusion With the McInternet: would you like fries with that?," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 113-116.


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The Graduate Reading Program of Harding University will begin the 2012-13 Young Adult Author Series Nov. 30.
Jack Gantos, author of the "Joey Pigza" series and "Dead End in Norvelt," winner of the John Newberry Medal and Scott O'Dell award, will be featured as the first presenter Nov. 30-Dec. 1. The event will be held on campus in Cone Chapel and Heritage Auditorium.
The series will pick up in January with Sharon Draper, author of New York Times bestselling novel "Out of My Mind." Chris Crutcher, author of the recently published "Angry Management," will speak in February. The series will conclude in April with Newberry Honor Award-winning author Cynthia Lord, author of "Rules" and "Touch Blue."
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The Springboks won the George Sevens for the first time ever when they downed New Zealand 12-7 at a packed Outeniqua Park.
The Boks also broke the drought by winning back-to-back tournaments after Dubai last week and fittingly captain Mzwandile Stick crashed over for the crucial score. Before that Gio Aplon was adjudged to have knocked the ball over the line after a cross-kick, but from the scrum the Boks forced a tighthead and Stick did the rest.
DJ Forbe's opened the scoring for the Kiwis, but a try late in the opening half by Renfred Deyzel brought the hosts back at 5-7. Stick then scored with three minutes to go and added the conversion.
"It's awesome to win here, we've struggled in the past in George due to the pressure," said Stick. "The support from the crowd was amazing and this was a very special one – our blood is green."
Springboks - Tries: Renfred Deyzel, Mzwandile Stick. Conversion: Stick.
The Boks reached the final via a convincing 21-7 win over Fiji.
The hosts dominated possession in the opening half and three tries was the result – to Ryno Benjamin (2) and Mpho Mbiyozo who barged over.
The Fijians scored a consolation score with a minute to go but the result was beyond doubt.
Springboks - Tries: Mpho Mbiyozo, Ryno Benjamin (2). Conversions: Stick (3).
Meanwhile in the qaurters, Man of the Tournament Robert Ebersohn was instrumental in the Boks' 17-12 victory over England.
Ebersohn scored the first try and set up the extra couple of scores. Ebersohn's offload inbetween two tacklers inside his own 22 was instrumental in the second score, while his 40m break set up captain Mzwandile Stick for the try that sealed the win.
The Boks led 19-5 and a late try from the English was mere consolation.
Springboks - Tries: Robert Ebersohn, Ryno Benjamin, Mzwandile Stick. Conversion: Stick.
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Gray's Long Ball Leads Baseball to Weekend Sweep at Barton with 11-7 Win in Series Finale
February 27, 2011
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WILSON, N.C. - Freshman first baseman Jon Gray hit a double and a home run to lead the Pfeiffer University baseball team to an 11-7 Conference Carolinas victory over host Barton College on Sunday afternoon at Nixon Field. The Falcons ripped 15 hits and swiped eight bases en route to the three-game series sweep. Pfeiffer moved to 8-9 overall and a perfect 3-0 in the league. Barton exited 4-11 overall and 0-3 in the conference.
Gray finished with three RBI on his two-run homer in the sixth and his run-producing double in the seventh. Senior Eric Shoemaker (Huntersville, N.C.) started the Falcons scoring with his team-high fifth homer of the season, a solo shot to left in the second.
Sophomore Jacob Yates (Blairs, Va.) continued his big weekend adding a pair of hits. Yates two-run single off the glove of the diving shortstop added two insurance runs in the ninth. Senior Hunter Boehme (Winston-Salem, N.C.) was 2-for-4 with a walk and a team-high three stolen bases. Boehme leads the visitors with 10 thefts on the season.
Trailing 2-0, Barton struck for four runs in the fourth to catapult into the lead. Junior Ryan Daughtry (Princeton, N.C.) started the rally with a triple in the right field gap. Sophomore Zac Crumpler (Wilson, N.C.) drove in Daughtry with a single up the middle and scored on a senior Jordan Smith (Longmont, Colo.) ground-rule double that landed inside the windscreen on the right field fence. After junior Chris Rawlings (Charlotte, N.C.) reached on a fielders choice, Smith came home on a double steal. Rawlings plated the final run after an error and a wild pitch.
Gray evened the score with his two-run long ball in the sixth. Pfeiffer regained the lead for good later in the frame on an RBI-single by Boehme. The Falcons then pulled out to an 8-4 advantage with three runs in the seventh. Five straight Falcons reached during the flurry.
Barton attempted a late rally with three runs in the eighth. Smith was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and senior Aaron Watkins (Newport News, Va.) tagged a two-run double through the left side of the infield.
For the second straight day, Falcon senior closer Luke Wilhelm (Lexington, N.C.) got out of a bases loaded jam with a pair of ground balls. Wilhelm then tossed a scoreless ninth to record his third save of the year. Senior reliever Ethan Marsh (Asheboro, N.C.) was credited with his fourth win after tossing three innings of scoreless relief.
Senior starter Hunter Meekins (Manteo, N.C.) suffered his third loss to no wins after allowing eight runs (seven earned) over 6 1/3. Daughtry, Crumpler and freshman David Gibbons (Wilson, N.C.) all had two hits for the Bulldogs.