 Anantaya’ and ‘Darbar’, for both music composed and directed by Rudro Jayanta Bhagawati and conceptualized and choreographed by Pranaame Bhagawati with the students from the Amrapali Institute of Arts, Guwahati. Then forward, selected participants of 3rd Chimera 2018 performed their renditions and were very well appreciated by the public. Wamiel Pranaame Kashyap (Class IV) from St. Francis De Sales School, Narengi and Harshita Singh (Class VI) from Don Bosco School, Guwahati presented a duet Kathak dance recital, Upasna Barman (Class IV) from St. Francis De Sales School, Narengi presented a solo singing, Band of Jo presented a musical rendition with Assamese folk musical instruments and Sadhika Naorem (Class IV) from Army Public School, Narengi presented a western vocal rendition.
Rudro Jayanta Bhagawati, Chief Advisor of Amrapali congratulated all the participants for diligently portraying their artistic talents. He further adds, “I’m very much impressed with the talents that we have amongst us. These children are our cultural treasure and we will give them further platforms and scholarships from our end to encourage their potentialities.” The event was collaborated with Directorate of Cultural Affairs, Govt. of Assam, Directorate of State Museum, Govt. of Assam, District Administration (Kamrup Metropolitan), Gauhati Artists’ Guild, South Point School (Barsapara), St. Francis De Sales School (Narengi), Oil India Limited, Infinity Infotech Business Parks, Asomiya Pratidin, Amrapali Institute of Arts, Board of Applied Integrated Arts and Amrapali Rendition Magazine.
The 3rd Chimera 2018 is very warmly appreciated by parents and participating students. A platform of such stature is looked forward to with more added competitions and categories and it is indeed a pride that, an organization from Assam is been successfully creating ripples of success and affirmations with their visions and prospects and committedly working towards arts, culture and heritage.
The latest images are in from Saturn’s very own personal paparazzi, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, fresh from its early morning flyby of the ice-spewing moon Enceladus. And, being its last closeup for the next three years, the little moon didn’t disappoint!
The image above is a composite I made from two raw images (this one and this one) assembled to show Enceladus in its crescent-lit entirety with jets in full force. The images were rotated to orient the moon’s southern pole — where the jets originate — toward the bottom.
Cassini was between 72,090 miles (116,000 km) and 90,000 miles (140,000 km) from Enceladus when these images were acquired.
This morning’s E-19 flyby completed a trio of recent close passes by Cassini of the 318-mile (511-km) -wide moon, bringing the spacecraft as low as 46 miles (74 km) above its frozen surface. The goal of the maneuver was to gather data about Enceladus’ internal mass — particularly in the region around its southern pole, where a reservoir of liquid water is thought to reside — and also to look for “hot spots” on its surface that would give more information about its overall energy distribution.
Cassini had previously discovered that Enceladus radiates a surprising amount of heat from its surface, mostly along the “tiger stripe” features — long, deep furrows (sulcae) that gouge its southern hemisphere, they are the source of the water-ice geysers.
Cassini also used the flyby opportunity to study Enceladus’ gravitational field.
By imaging the moon with backlit lighting from the Sun the highly-reflective ice particles in the jets become visible. More direct lighting reduces the jets’ visibility in images, which must be exposed for the natural light of the scene or risk “blowing out” due to Enceladus’ natural high reflectivity.
The images below are raw spacecraft downloads right from the Cassini’s imaging headquarters in Boulder, CO.
Cassini also swung closely by Dione during this morning’s flyby but the images from that encounter aren’t available yet. Stay tuned to Universe Today for more postcards from Saturn!
As always, you can follow along with the ongoing Cassini mission on JPL’s dedicated site here, as well as on the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) site.
Views from Cassini are always appreciated – thanks for the update!
Traditional thought has it that moon’s like Enceladus were either formed by ‘left over’ accretion materials from Saturn’s formation or they are gravitationally captured objects, planetesimals that formed earlier and much further out, then were captured by Saturn.
Lately, interstellar rogue planets have been confirmed – lots of them – so might it be that Enceladus is one of these? Hard to prove – isotopic species analysis anyone? There are many suspect objects!
What if we later find that Saturn’s magnetic field actually captures enough anti matter providing the energy required for nucleosynthesis? And then we find this process at the magneto sheath charge boundary or equatorial plane. This is where solar wind particle accretion is ongoing and subsequently provides elemental hydrogen and ionized oxygen for water molecule formation. Eventually we find that many of Saturn’s moons are captured rocky objects covered with ice from Saturn!
Ongoing ring formation at Saturn is implied, of course.
I don't think washing off after 20 minutes will prevent against irritation? Any irritation that would happen would have already been triggered when the serum absorbs. It would be like swallowing a pill and then 20 minutes later rinsing your mouth out to make sure you didn't experience any side effects. It's probably more irritating to wash your face twice within 20 or 30 minutes (unless you're using micellar water or something). 

But anyway - that pill analogy holds true to its effectiveness. Rinsing your mouth out wouldn't make the pill less effective either.

In fact, you'd get the same amount of protection if you applied at night. I think I read that it's actually better to apply it at night (in terms of antioxident protection against UV rays). 

Plus, Vitamin C builds up in your skin with a half life of 4 days. So if you want, you can apply it on Monday in the AM, the afternoon, and before bed. This should be enough to saturate your skin and you don't need to apply it again until Thursday. (Unless you spend a lot of time outdoors. Then it's better to do it every day.)In September 2001, a series of protests by Shiv Sena over the handbook authored by Teesta Setalvad was staged.
An allegation made by Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani during attacks and counter attacks between Congress and BJP leaders in Lok Sabha on Wednesday has been refuted. In her statement in the Lok Sabha, Irani had criticised Don Bosco School, Matunga, for using a handbook for Class IV history teachers authored by activist Teesta Setalvad.
According to the administration of Don Bosco Boys School, the controversial handbook was discontinued way back on 2001.
After being criticised by opposition leaders for the manner in which the BJP government treated students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for “anti-national” activities, Irani flashed the handbook and quoted from it, claiming it created differences between students on religious and caste grounds.
Father Bernard Fernandes, principal of the school, claimed the handbook was discontinued in 2001. “These were no textbooks but handbooks. These books were used by some of our schools on an experimental basis for a year and were meant for teachers,” said Fernandes.
There are two Don Bosco schools in Mumbai — one in Borivli and one in Matunga.
In September 2001, a series of protests by Shiv Sena over the handbook authored by Teesta Setalvad was staged. The said handbook talked about Shivaji Maharaj being born as a shudra (untouchable) and his rise to fame and glory because he represented toiling peasants, spoke against injustice and battled against caste barriers.
The then principal of the school Father Bonny Borges justified the move to introduce the handbook citing that the idea was to provide progressive information about history.
Computation time is large, optimizations preferable but probably beyond the scope of this project.
Considerable work has been spent on improving the DISORT solver: Previously, the scattering phase function was provided to DISORT by means of its Legendre decomposition which required more than 10000 terms e.g. for the highly peaked phase functions of ice crystals. In many cases this caused low computational speed, huge memory requirements, and even numerical uncertainty because a decompoistion into more than 10000 Legendre terms is not trivial. Robert Buras managed to re-write DISORT so that the phase function is now provided directly to disort, using typically 500 angular grid points. The output of the modified DISORT has been extensively compared to unmodified DISORT and differences were negligible. With this development it is now possible to provide optical properties of clouds at much higher spectral resolution, including polarization.
A new binary format (netcdf) has been generated for the optical properties of aerosols and clouds. This format includes the phase matrix, Legendre coefficients, extinction coefficients, single scattering albed