Ragusa Minerals Ltd ( (AU:RAS) ) has provided an update Ragusa Minerals Limited announced its decision to withdraw from the NT Project Tenement Farmin Agreement with May Drilling Pty Ltd This move may impact the company’s strategic positioning and operational focus potentially redirecting resources and attention to other projects which could have implications for stakeholders and the company’s future exploration endeavors Ragusa Minerals Limited (ASX: RAS) is an Australian company involved in projects such as the Burracoppin REE & Kaolin/Halloysite Project in Western Australia and the NT Lithium Project in Northern Territory The company is led by a seasoned board and management team with a track record in exploration focusing on maximizing shareholder value through strategic exploration and development See more data about RAS stock on TipRanks’ Stock Analysis page Disclaimer & Disclosure Report an Issue Ragusa Minerals Ltd ( (AU:RAS) ) has provided an update Disclaimer & Disclosure Report an Issue This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Caeli (“Chay-lee”) Jo Ragusa of Franklin TN was surrendered back to God on August 23 uncomplicated vaginal birth with the Melrose Midwife team at Vanderbilt She was loved unconditionally throughout pregnancy dreamed about regularly to be the best of friends by her 4-year-old sister and kissed frequently by her 2-year-old brother While Caeli was discovered to have multiple anomalies and a suspected Trisomy 13 diagnosis during pregnancy her parents’ most passionate goals were to protect her life and mitigate her suffering fierce finger grip and luscious cheeks were cherished during the hours she was alive She passed away just hours after being baptized as child of God by Fr whose name in Latin means “of heaven” was named by her parents before her conception and was created by God for eternity sooner than expected although our faith sustains us on this journey one day we will run to the gates of heaven to meet our Savior and our precious little girl again The visitation will be at 10 am on September 21 2024 at St Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in downtown Franklin A memorial mass will be held at 11 am presided by family friend Father Nathan Cromly of the Diocese of Denver and the St Arrangements are by Williamson Memorial Funeral Home Pallbearers will be Dustin John Ragusa and Daniel Johnson. Donations in Caeli’s honor may be made to Live Action https://www.liveaction.org/; Atlanta Morning Center https://giving.myamplify.io//app/giving/atlmc; and Trappist Caskets The family of Caeli wish to extend our sincere appreciation to Lena McMillan Vanderbilt maternal fetal medicine; Lauren Glass Jackie; Vanderbilt pediatric Palliative Care RN; Vanderbilt NICU team especially Regina Rhodes Bolster of the Cathedral of the Incarnation; Michelle of Snaps and Giggles photography; Dr Marty McCaffery of UNC Chapel Hill NICU; Be Not Afraid organization (https://benotafraid.net/about/) and countless family and friends who faithful in prayer continue to walk this journey with us Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Posted by larsonj on Friday, July 19, 2024 in News, Spotlight Andrea Mirabile, associate professor of Italian, has been awarded a Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities grant for his current project “Lucio Fontana: Immagini e parole.” Mirabile will be on research leave spring 2025 and will use the grant to work in archives in Milan It's Day 2 of our Sicilian Food Tour and today we are exploring the baroque city of Vittoria just 20 minutes away from the quiet fishing town of Scoglitti The two neighbouring areas are just 13 kms away and many Vittorians holiday in Scoglitti there is a rivalry between Scoglitti and Vittoria that runs deep But how does Vittoria compare to Scoglitti The day ends with a Michelin starred meal at Ragusa Ibla the stunning town that looks like a dream I am on day 3 of having no luggage and I have a personal reason to wanting to visit Vittoria - to shop While I love the simple charm of Scoglitti there are virtually no shops in which to buy clothes and the big city of sister Vittoria with its population of 70,000 has these aplenty "We only eat every second day on this tour," quips Carm. She is joking of course, because there has been non stop food and this theme continues when we reach Vittoria and alight at Massaro bakery. I am glad that I skipped breakfast at the hotel in favour of a scacce making class and tasting. Long time readers may remember when Carm came over to my house to show me how to make Scacce, the Ragusane specialty Described as something like a lasagne crossed with a pizza it's a semolina dough layered with tomato and onion baccalau as we are lucky enough to be visiting on a Friday Different versions of scacce exist and vary according to the area and the ones that we are seeing today are Ragusane's layered scacce Alina and Massimo run Massaro Pastaficio bakery which he inherited from his father Massaro had been running it for 53 years and it was his Massimo's mother's idea to make scacce 40 years ago Since then Massimo has expanded the range of scacce - on Fridays you'll find baccalau and calamari scacce and on holidays like Good Friday you'll find lamb and pea scacce The semolina based dough rises for 1 hour and is then rolled thin and then filled with tomato sauce or caramelised onions caciocavallo cheese and local ricotta cheese that is delivered fresh each day more sauce," Massimo says because the beauty of scacce is the fantastic dough to sauce or filling ratio They're wrapped up like a rectangular parcel and baked at 200C/400F for 20 minutes Then there's the Turkish Head scroll filled with spinach and ricotta These were traditionally sold around Easter but nowadays are sold all year round These start with the same dough as the scacce but are rolled even thinner and then filled with spinach and cheese or a variety of other fillings before being cut into three and then turned on their side and shaped into little turbans The name comes from the distinctive shape that is said to resemble the turbans worn by the Saracens My favourite is the spinach and raisins that is surprisingly sweet but somehow works (it is also a vegan pastry) Carm asks us if there is anything we want to try so we also try the Casatella a delicious star shaped baked version of the casateddi that we tried yesterday filled with sweetened ricotta and cinnamon considered a poor man’s dessert pudding made with fresh pasta semolina muscat grapes and topped with chopped almonds It's mildly sweet and has a comforting pudding texture to it There are also biscuits of this made in terracotta molds with more semolina added to them so that they have a thicker "I live across the road and I open the doors and breathe in every morning," says our local Vittoria guide Giovanni Next is morning tea and coffee at Pasticceria Stracquadaneo where we will also have a cannoli demonstration We sip crema cafes and espressos before Chef Mimmo shows us how to make the cannoli dough Sicilian cannoli dough always has wine added to it for flavour and texture Lard is also used to give the dough bubbles and crunch The dough is rested for 2 hours and then rolled into a log and cut into 30g or 1oz portions The same dough can also be used for crostoli/chiacharre The cannoli are filled with the lightest ricotta and dipped in nuts with candied orange Tour participant Dan from Ohio also fulfils his dream of filling a cannoli with the cream After this we get a break and I do some shopping for some clothes and I find what I need at Max and Co because tonight we are going somewhere special and my travelling clothes will not do as my luggage still has not arrived But the food doesn't stop and then it's time for lunch Aqua e Vino is one of Vittoria's best restaurants and is located in an elegant building The doors are flung open in this 24C/75F day showing the view of the church the red from Chiaromont DOP from Tonda Iblea (mountains) There is only one DOCG in Italy and it is made in Vittoria Our first course is a pesci plate with tiny mini calamari or capputeddi dusted in flour and deep fried - perfect for the white wine's minerality After this are two pasta courses: a grouper ravioli filled with shrimp clams mussels in a tomato sauce But my favourite is the paccheri Norma with soft melting eggplant cubes and a delightful tomato based sauce The pasta has the perfect al dente texture a Bianca mangiare that translates to "eat white" It is a Sicilian almond milk pudding thickened with cornstarch Others order the panna cotta with caramel sauce or the semifreddo and everyone shares and tries all of them That evening we depart at 6pm for the stunning town of Ragusa Ibla It is Golden Hour as the bus approaches the town and the warmth of the evening lights is reflected in the buildings The town of Ragusa Ibla is called the City of Nobles and is named after the Hyblaen mountains the lower old town is Ragusa Ibla while the other area is Ragusa Superiore The buildings that spans the space of almost a block used to be palaces for the nobles The old town is a wonderful place to take a stroll There are plenty of shops to visit selling testa de moro There are anything from casual cafes selling pomegranate and orange juice wine or snacky foods as well as places to have olive oil tasting and Michelin starred restaurants and boutique hotels We take a stroll around the cobblestone lined streets reaching the Duomo di San Giorgio Tonight our dinner is at Michelin starred restaurant Locanda Don Serafino with chef Vincenzo Candiano does not impose a dress code and accepts pets as long as they are given notice Still everyone is dressed up for the dinner and I'm glad that I have my new dress and shoes We are having the tasting menu which is €150 per person and consists of 5 courses It's a mix of seafood and meat and is the most comprehensive option We start with bread baked in-house and served with extra virgin olive oil that is presented to us with glove gloved service and cut at the time On a crispy cheese "fish" pastry is a dab of ricotta cheese There's also an ice cream stuffed bell pepper filled with potato onion and glazed in two colours of bell pepper caciocavolo cheese from Ragusa and salted ricotta cheese Every bite is delicious and textural from the crunchy crispy fish to the delicious "ice cream" with the soft The red mullet is cooked at a low temperature served with sand vinaigrette lime olive oil and carrots grown in a small town nearby The next course is a beef course where the beef tenderloin is shaped into little meatballs of roasted beef cheese and a cheese crisp finished with hot olive oil and garlic This is a wonderful course that you simply do not want to end as it delivers in both flavour and texture Next is a light pasta course made with house made black spaghetti with squid ink with roe at the bottom with a canella cheese with a srig of wild fennel It is finished at the table with roe and fresh sea urchin Every bite of this is divine although by now I am getting very full I have the words of Carm "Don't eat the bread!" ringing in my ears The last savoury course is the richest and is served with mustard sauce and mustard seeds chickpea and paprika powder and cremini mushrooms The lamb is so perfectly pink in the centre and I really love this witwh the chickpea hummus style spread The sorbet course isn't just a sorbet course it is a peach bellini sorbet with a citrus ganache pearl inside The main dessert is their homage or take on a traditional Savoia chocolate cake a traditional Sicilian chocolate and hazelnut cake with a brandy snap like decoration smooth and served wtih a quennelle of ice cream that gives it a refreshing quality There are four: a raspberry and mascarpone cheese tart and a surprise chocolate with orange cream a polite hush came over the table but by the end of the night we have fun with our waiter Daniel who playfully scolds us when we do something funny "Madam!" is a constant refrain before bursting out into a wide smile We giggle at everything including the slanting Coke glasses NQN and Mr NQN travelled to Europe as guests of Vietnam Airlines and NQN was a guest of Sicilian Food Tours but all opinions remain her own To book the Sicilian Food Tour follow this link If you use the code NQN when booking (please write it in the date field) then you’ll get a bottle of Cerasuolo Wine from Vittoria This cherry red wine variety is a blend of Sicily’s famous Nero D’Avola & Frappato worth $80AUD Vietnam Airlines offers 23 flights per week connecting Sydney Melbourne and Perth to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi Vietnam Airlines is continuing to add new routes having recently announced new flights to Milan https://www.vietnamairlines.com/au/en/home Ragusa Minerals Ltd ( (AU:RAS) ) has shared an update Ragusa Minerals Limited announced the acquisition of Geopolymer Industries Pty Ltd which holds interests in mining and exploration leases in Western Australia and New South Wales aligning with its Burracoppin Kaolin Project and enhancing its potential in developing low-emission sustainable cement technology for the construction industry expected to complete in the first half of 2025 involves issuing shares and performance rights to Geopolymer shareholders contingent on achieving specific milestones Ragusa plans a capital raising of $2 million to support its strategic initiatives Ragusa Minerals Limited is an Australian-based mineral exploration company with interests in projects such as the Burracoppin REE & Kaolin/Halloysite Project in Western Australia and the NT Lithium Project in the Northern Territory The company focuses on mineral exploration and development For a thorough assessment of RAS stock, go to TipRanks’ Stock Analysis page Ragusa Minerals Ltd ( (AU:RAS) ) has shared an update « Back Under the theme of Prendersi Una Pausa (Taking A Break) the 12th edition of Ragusa Foto Festival will be held next summer led by founder Stefania Paxhia and artistic director Massimo Siragusa the Festival has been an opportunity for discussion and exchange dealing extensively with the different languages of visual arts it is renowned for its support to young authors and for its attention to the Sicilian territory and the issues affecting the Mediterranean area the festival has recourse to the valuable support of a scientific committee composed of scholars and experts on different disciplines to enhance the contribution of a plurality of voices Exhibitions and training events revolve around a theme identified every year critics and cultural operators of the highest level The dialogue between different cultures in the Sea Between Lands represents the oldest of the peculiarities of the Mediterranean Antiruggine - An association with the purpose of territorial and cultural promotion of the Mediterranean area of Sicily by planning initiatives and events of international scope - organizes Ragusa Foto Festival a cultural platform intertwining tradition and modernity through the different languages of visual culture “Every pause is heaven in which I lose myself,” wrote Modican poet Salvatore Quasimodo starts precisely from these verses to offer thanks to the diversity of the gazes of the authors on display opportunities for reflection and new horizons in which one can lose oneself is the ideal setting to host the 12th edition of Ragusa Foto festival entitled Taking A Break We live in a time when the temporary has the upper hand over the permanent and we are unable to look clearly to the future The continuous tension generated by the speed that characterizes modernity has now become a significant aspect of life and is bringing about a profound transformation in the relationship between both human beings and humans and the environment to allow oneself the luxury of building deep relationships Breaking down one's defenses and getting involved in the emotions that life offers us There are various paths we can take to reverse a course to offer ourselves a new opportunity and to orient ourselves in these complex years a very effective tool to help us in the process of understanding reality is also the best language to show us ways and methods to invoke the need for change and to suggest other perspectives of life Among the exhibited artists are Antonio Biasucci and Mimmo Palladino and portfolio reviews with experts such as Benedetta Donato is confirmed as an important appointment in the panorama of contemporary photography which is going through changes that put it under pressure with increasing global crises and existential difficulties the spiritual dimension of the human being emerges as a central theme to regain a deep dialogue with one's humanity and with others which transcends different cultures and religious denominations As well as different social and economic statuses In a world that seems to value only appearance centered on technology and finance and affected by processes of globalization that are expressed in an anonymous and homogenizing culture it becomes indispensable to rediscover the value of ethics so as not to run the risk of losing the true meaning of life It is essential to become more aware of who we are and the direction where we would like to go in order to ensure greater social cohesion and to adopt more sustainable behaviors To restore centrality to the inner identity of man as an expression of a culture of listening and welcoming and a key element in counteracting loneliness and existential emptiness which will see the presence of many internationally renowned artists international reputation will offer interesting food for thought on the theme chosen for this edition: Beyond Appearance North Shore news powered by The Daily Item October 16, 2024 by Benjamin Pierce SWAMPSCOTT — Department of Public Works Director Gino Cresta announced two new employees who have joined his staff during the Select Board’s meeting Wednesday night The additions of Joe Ragusa and Cabot Dow bring the DPW staff to a total of 16 members Cresta noted how he is now responsible for hiring all 16 of the current members of the department throughout his 21-year tenure attended the Swampscott school district growing up and expressed his intentions to be a consistent presence with the DPW for years to come “Joe (Ragusa) came to the department highly recommended,” Cresta said “I’m not sure if I’ve ever received as many phone calls for a prospective hire than I did for Joe (Ragusa).” In his first three weeks as a DPW staff member Cresta said he has performed a number of services including repairing a service pipe leak on Bates Road Dow was chosen in favor of five other candidates Dow spent time living in both Swampscott and Marblehead during his youth and also attended Swampscott Public Schools “Cabot (Dow) has only been in the department for a couple of days Cresta named Dow’s carpentry experience as a potential asset he hopes to take advantage of Cresta and the Board honored one of its oldest Carl Eckman retired after 37 years of service with the department Cresta said Eckman’s “institutional knowledge” will be the biggest loss the department will face with his departure they’re the first ones to pitch in and do what’s got to be done,” Eckman said about the character of DPW workers Chair MaryEllen Fletcher presented Eckman with a citation on behalf of the entire Board She described the DPW as the department that “keeps Swampscott going.” Home / News / Article A new passenger and vehicle catamaran service to Sicily The newly formed company Ragusa Xpress’s service missed its latest deadline while the 51-metre catamaran started its latest round of technical checks in the Marina di Ragusa port this week a date has yet to be announced for when the promised daily crossing between Valletta and Marina di Ragusa will start It is reported that Paul Gauci the Maltese businessman behind the project and the owner of Pama and Pavi supermarkets has still not obtained all the necessary permits to start the long-awaited service The end of October has now been set as the new deadline for the start of operations Gauci acquired a 30-year concession for the Marina di Ragusa in 2022 a touristic port that mainly serves as a yacht marina from an Italian company that ran into financial difficulties Gauci bought an old catamaran to start providing a daily 45-minute scheduled 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Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.852810 Since these structures are elongated in the direction of the two nearby galaxies M96 and NGC 3338 they could be the remnant of a past gravitational interactions with the pair Galaxy groups are more abundant than galaxy clusters, and most galaxies in the local Universe, about 55%, are found in group environments (Eke et al., 2004) The whole scenario of groups or clusters mass assembly is tricky involving many different physical mechanisms During the infall of smaller system in larger ones stars can be ripped out from the progenitor galaxies and some galaxies can also be totally destroyed the mutual interaction among galaxies can build up tidal structures such as tails bridges or tidal dwarf galaxies of baryonic matter stripped away from the outer parts of the interacting galaxies In this work we present new deep data of the LEO I pair The new multi-band images represent the deepest data available for this target These allowed us to map the distribution of the IGL and GCs and to study the physical properties of these tracers in the intra-group region In Section 1.1 we introduce the target and the previous studies available in the literature In Section 2 we present the observations and the data reduction In Section 3 we describe in detail the method used for the data analysis (i.e In Section 4 we illustrate the results on the intra-group baryons (diffuse light and GCs) in the LEO I pair NGC 3379-NGC 3384 and compare our results with the previous studies both on the observational and theoretical side in Section 5 we discuss our results and draw the main conclusions of this work The most recent estimate of the IGL amount in the LEO I group is provided by Hartke et al. (Hartke et al., 2020), using photometric and kinematic data of the planetary nebulae (PNe). They derived ∼ 4% as a lower limit for the amount of IGL, updating the previous estimate of 1.6% predicted by Castro-Rodríguez et al. (Castro-Rodríguez et al., 2003) also using the PNe as discrete tracers for the diffuse intra-group light foresees two phases: the red and metal rich halo was formed through in situ star formation and/or accretion via major mergers of massive progenitors while the blue and metal poor halo occurred through dissipationless mergers and accretion events The LEO I pair is a target of VEGAS, a multi-band u, g, r and i imaging survey, carried out with the Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope (VST). The VST is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope (Schipani et al., 2012) equipped with OmegaCAM, a one square degree camera with a resolution of 0.21 arcsec pixel−1. Figure 1 shows the sky-subtracted color composite g also visible in the field-of-view (FOV) SW of NGC 3379 is a background source and it is not part of the group Color composite (gri) VST image of the central regions of LEO I pair The two brightest group members are labelled in red on the image The point source depth at 80% completeness level is 24.38 mag used for the analysis described in this paper The black crosses mark the center of the two brighter stars in the field The two black arrows represent the direction of M96 and NGC 3338 being these two other brighter galaxies of the Leo I group The two galaxies that compose the pair are indicated in the enlarged panel shown on the right For the estimate and analysis of the IGL we use the g and r bands only since these are the deepest images with the most efficient filters of OmegaCAM On the sky-subtracted mosaic we proceed as follow: • the contamination from the foreground brightest stars in the field are removed by subtracting their models from the image (see Section 3.1); • the limiting radius of the photometry (Rlim) and the residual background fluctuations (see Section • the isophote fitting of the brightest group members out to Rlim (see Section 3.2) are performed to obtain the azimuthally-averaged surface brightness profiles and shape parameters; • the brightest group members have been modelled and subtracted out to their transition radius (Rtr) (see Section The tools and methods adopted in each step are described in the following subsections we built up the 2D models of the stars and subtracted them from both g and r parent images All the foreground/background sources and the companion NGC 3384 galaxy are accurately masked We found that Rlim ∼ 20 arcmin in both g and r bands the residual background levels are Ig ∼ - 0.52 ± 0.02 ADU and Ir ∼ - 0.90 ± 0.03 ADU in the g and r band In order to derive the amount and physical properties of the IGL we need to account for the contribution to the light from NGC 3379 and NGC 3384 we derived the azimuthally-averaged surface brightness profiles and then we performed the 1-dimensional multi-component fit to set the scales of the contribution to the light from the galaxy and IGL (Sec We built a detailed mask on the sky-subtracted and star-removed images of the foreground/background sources and of NGC 3384 The fit of the isophotes was performed using the IRAF task ELLIPSE by applying a median sampling and k-sigma clipping algorithm The combination of median sampling and k-sigma clipping algorithm has been shown to perform at best the fit of the isophotes rejecting deviant sample points at each annulus We derived the azimuthally averaged surface brightness color and geometrical parameters profiles in each band Top left panels: azimuthally-averaged surface brightness profiles of NGC 3379 in VST g (blue) and r (red) bands (top panel) and g − r color profile of NGC 3379 (bottom panel) Top right panel: azimuthally-averaged ellipticity (top panel) and position angle (bottom panel) profiles of NGC 3379 in VST g (blue) and r (red) bands The black dashed lines correspond to the Rtr (see Section 3.4) Bottom panels: radial profiles the B4 Fourier coefficient as a function of semi-major axis in VST r (top panel) and g (bottom panel) bands for NGC 3379 The vertical dashed line corresponds to Rtr beyond which the isophotes show a boxy shape (see details in the text in Section Top left panels: azimuthally-averaged surface brightness profiles of NGC 3384 in VST g (blue) and r (red) bands (top panel) and g − r color profile of NGC 3384 (bottom panel) Top right panels: azimuthally-averaged ellipticity (top panel)and position angle (bottom panel) profiles of NGC 3384 in VST g (blue) and r (red) bands Bottom panels: radial profiles the B4 Fourier coefficient as a function of semi-major axis in VST r (top panel) and g (bottom panel) bands for NGC 3384 In this case also the coefficient B4 gives an indication of the lack of a evident accreted component (see details in the text in Section 3.4) We are able to map the surface brightness profile of the BGG NGC 3379 down to ∼ 30 mag arcsec−2 in the g band and ∼ 29 mag arcsec−2 in the r band. We also provide the reliable g − r color profile of the galaxy out to ∼ 17 arcmin (i.e. ∼ 50 kpc) from the galaxy centre. The lower part of the top left panel in Figure 3 shows that the g − r color profile changes the trend at a radius of ∼ 4 arcmin (i.e Within this radius the color is almost constant whit a value g − r ∼ 0.8 mag the color profile has a negative gradient with a g − r value ranging from ∼ 0.8 mag 1010L⊙ and Lr = 1.71 × 1010L⊙; 2) the average color g − r = 0.82 mag and the luminosity of NGC 3379 the radius beyond which the IGL plus diffuse stellar envelope of the galaxy start to dominate which is Lg = 4.44 × 1010L⊙ and Lr = 4.95 × 1010L⊙ In order to separate the contribution of the bright part of NGC 3379 from the outskirts we obtained the 2D model of the galaxy up to its Rtr ∼ 4.2 arcmin and subtracted it from the stars-subtracted images The 2D model is obtained using the IRAF task BMODEL having has input the outcome of the isophote fit out to the transition radius Left panel(Top panel) Three components model of the azimuthally averaged surface brightness profile of NGC 3379 out to ∼ 57 kpc in g band The red and magenta lines indicate a fit to the inner region with a two Sérsic profiles The blue line indicates a fit to the outer diffuse component (IGL) and the black line indicates the sum of the components in each fit The vertical dashed line shows the estimated value for Rtr (∼ 12.5 kpc).(Bottom panel) Δrms scatter of the data minus the model (see text for details) Right panel (Top panel) Two components model of the azimuthally averaged surface brightness profile of NGC 3384 out to ∼ 12 kpc in g band The red and blue lines indicate a fit to the inner region with a two Sérsic profiles The black line indicates the sum of the components in each fit (Bottom panel) Δrms scatter of the data minus the model (see text for details) For NGC 3384 (Figure 5, right panel) the best fit is reproduced by the combination of two Sérsic components, which model the brightest regions of the galaxy and an outer disk, for R ∼ 3 arcmin. The 2D model of NGC 3384 is derived and subtracted from the parent image, where the 2D model of NGC 3379 was also subtracted. The structural parameters obtained by the 1D fit, both for NGC 3379 and NGC 3384, are listed in Table 3 Structural parameters derived from the 1D fit of the azimuthally averaged surface brightness profiles of the LEO I pair seven report the effective surface brightness effective radius and Sérsic index for the two inner component of each fit whereas columns 8 and 9 list the central surface brightness and scale length for the outer exponential component derived from the 1D fit of the azimuthally averaged surface brightness profiles of NGC 3379 (see Section 3.4) The final residual images map the light in the stellar envelopes around galaxies plus the IGL component in the LEO I pair. This is one of the main results of this work and it is shown in Figure 7 for the g band the light from the background spiral galaxy NGC 3389 has also been modelled and subtracted Here we briefly summarize the main steps of the GC photometry The values of correction lie in the range of 0.3–0.6 mag (larger corrections for images with wider FWHM) The aperture and extinction corrected catalogs of each individual passbands are then matched using a 1.0 arcsec matching radius The final catalog of matched sources contains ∼23000 sources the background galaxies and the GCs in the area For each detected source, SExtractor also provides other quantities that we used to identify GCs: Elongation, FWHM, Flux Radius [see (Bertin and Arnouts, 1996), for a detailed description of these quantities]. We also measured the four and six pixels aperture magnitudes, to derive the concentration index (C.I.) of the sources which we also used to sort out GCs from the full matched catalog (Peng et al., 2011) To identify GCs from the final ugri matched photometric catalog we relied on the observed properties of confirmed GCs from existing studies and on the known properties of the GCs in the area (3-4) magnitudes and uncertainties in the r band,Col (5-6) magnitudes and uncertainties in the g band (7-8) magnitudes and uncertainties in the u (9-10) magnitudes and uncertainties in the i band 11) is the Elongation parameter from SExtractor defined as the ratio between the major and minor axis of the sources 12) is the Flux Radius parameter from SExtractor which is the radius containing half of the flux from the sources 14) is the Class Star parameter from SExtractor which classify sources 15) is the Concentration Index defined as the difference between magnitude at difference aperture in particular we did the difference between 4-pixel aperture magnitude and 6-pixel one (16-18) refer to literature classifications of globular cluster Tp stand for photometric,Ts stands for spettroscopy The full table is available at the VEGAS project web pages Upper panels: SExtractor output parameters in the r-band for the full sample of detected and ugri matched sources vs corrected r-band magnitude mr Black circles show the GCs from the master catalog left panel) vs mr and color-color planes (middle and right panel) are shown the isodensity contours of GCs from the master catalogs are also shown and the second isodensity contour (in blue containing ∼60% of objects of the master catalog) used for the final GCs identification we estimated σGCLF = 1.05 mag in the g band At the adopted distance of 10.23 ± 0.08 Mpc for LEO I which implies GCLF peak at mg ∼ 22.5 mag we select as GCs candidates the objects within ± 3σGCLF from the GCLF peak: 19.0 ≤ mr (mag) ≤ 26.0 mag Photometric and morphometric parameters adopted for source selections (3-4) magnitudes and uncertainties in the r band (7-8) magnitudes and uncertainties in the u band The final GCs catalog still contains unresolved contaminating sources matching with the properties of the GCs population we are interested in thanks to the large area covered by our images and assuming that any population of contaminants is basically uniform over the inspected area the GCs in the region will be analysed using background subtraction methods (Section 4.1) In this section we present the main properties of the IGL in the LEO I pair and the connection with the GCs population in the group, based on the deep optical images presented in this work. In addition, the photometric Rtr is compared with the kinematic transition radius found by (Hartke et al., 2020) by using PNe We cannot map the whole extension of this second stream since it partly overlaps with the residuals from the subtraction of the bright star located in this area (see Section 3.1) we are able to integrate the diffuse light contribution over a larger area and ∼1 mag deeper Figure 8 shows the density distribution of the GCs The overdensity of GCs candidates on the LEO I pair with respect to the background contamination reveals some surprising features The position of NGC 3,379 and NGC 3,384 are marked with cyan and magenta symbols and lines A dark-violet diamond shows the position of NGC 3,389 The green arrow shows the direction of the stream of GCs and diffuse light aligned with the direction of NGC 3,338; the dark-blue arrow shows the direction of the second stream of diffuse light; the ligh-blue arrow marks the direction of M 96 Lower panel: color density distribution (corrected for background contamination together with the combined fit to the entire population (black dashed line) although the field of the LEO I pair is relatively close and its GCs population has already been targeted by several other studies the availability of the large area high-quality VST images allowed us to identify several GCs system properties previously unknown Further spectroscopic follow-ups would be of great interest to confirm the existence of a direct link between the new features and the other galaxies in the region In this work we have presented new multi-band (ugri) deep imaging data for the LEO I pair of galaxies Thanks to the large covered area (3.9 deg2 around the core of the pair) and the long integration time we map the light distribution down to μg ∼ 30 mag/arcsec2 and out to 63 kpc from the BGG NGC 3379 and we provided a census of the GCs in this system The main goal of this work was to derive the amount of IGL and its color which are fundamental indicators of the formation history of the group The main results of this work are summarised below • The new map of diffuse intra-group light extends out to 63 kpc and presents two very faint (μg ∼ 28 − 29 mag/arcsec2) streams protruding from NGC 3379 and elongated toward North-West and South • The fraction of the diffuse light coming from the stellar envelope plus the IGL with an average color of g − r = 0.75 ± 0.04 mag • The GCs population stretches both from North-East to South-West and from North-West to South of the pair in the last case overlapping with the streams of IGL • The color distribution of the GCs appears clearly multi-modal with two dominant peaks at (u-r) = 1.8 mag and 2.1 mag inside an area of 30′ × 30′ They found three distinct kinematic regimes that are linked to different stellar population properties: • the innermost one, i.e. the “rotating core”, extends up to ∼ 0.9 arcmin and corresponds to the stellar population formed in situ and metal rich. We identify this innermost component with the first Sérsic (red curve) presented in the left panel of Figure 3 which also extends up to ∼ 1 arcmin; • the halo, from ∼ 0.9 arcmin to ∼ 7 arcmin, consisting of a mixture of intermediate-metallicity and metal-rich stars, formed in situ or through major merger events. The scales of this component are consistent with the second Sérsic (magenta curve) photometric component we fitted to reproduce the surface brightness profile of NGC 3379 (see Figure 3); • the exponential envelope, beyond ∼ 7 arcmin, composed mostly of metal-poor stars, which traces the IGL component, which turns to be consistent with the exponential stellar envelope found from our three components model of NGC 3379 (see left panel of Figure 3) where 0.7 ≤ g − r ≤ 0.8 mag at z = 0 a weak trend between the amount of diffuse light and the ETGs-to-LTGs ratio in groups and clusters of galaxies seems to be present Since the more dynamically evolved groups have the largest ETGs-to-LTGs fraction and the higher probability of tidal interactions a larger amount of diffuse light is expected for environments dominated by early-type galaxies The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author and EI worked on surface photometry and IGL propierties MM and MC worked on the GCs detection and analysis All other to the interpretation of results and science discussion The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher Authors acknowledge financial support from the VST project (P.I ALM acknowledges financial support from the INAF-OAC Hartke for the enlightening discussions about the comparison between kinematics and photometry This work is based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla Paranal Observatory within the VST Guaranteed Time 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I’m delighted to share such a good news story,” says the University of NSW child health specialist “The tears of sadness we used to have in our clinic when outcomes were pretty pessimistic have turned to tears of joy and happiness.” The McNamara family’s heartening story is a case in point When newborn Jess was first diagnosed with CF her devastated parents discovered the outlook was bleak “I’d never heard of cystic fibrosis,” Kellie sadly remembers “The scariest thing was that we’d just had our first baby and didn’t know anything about this disease it obviously wasn’t a good thing. “They gave us a book that said our child would die at around six months old but it turned out to be the wrong book,” she says “Then we were told Jess wouldn’t survive into her teens “I still remember grabbing hold of her in the surgery I felt I was losing her already with that diagnosis.” Luckily, Jess stayed pretty fit throughout childhood daily ocean swims and plenty of fresh air all combined to stave off the worst CF symptoms. she caught a near-fatal superbug that threatened to end her too-short life “You could see Jess going downhill fast She was rushed to hospital and the doctors said she would probably only last another six months … ” and we didn’t know what to do about it. She said she was tired and just didn’t want to be alive anymore.” Fast forward painful years as Jess’s condition steadily worsened Trying to keep well was killing me at the same time,” she says “My mental health was falling apart too.” Hearing about Trikafta’s extraordinary results vowed to do whatever it took to get the drug for their beloved daughter $21,375 a month is a lot,” smiles Kellie CEO of a not-for-profit family and children’s services organisation “The benefit of COVID — and there weren’t many — is that house prices went up so we were able to use that equity in our home to get a second mortgage.” “This is one of the greatest milestones we have ever seen in CF treatment.” Trikafta was so eye-wateringly expensive the manufacturer insisted they pay every month in advance before supplying their local pharmacy But the McNamaras’ death-defying gamble paid off. Within three days of her first dose of Trikafta towards the end of 2021 Six months later the drug was placed on the PBS for patients aged 12 and above due to the McNamara family’s ardent advocacy and a petition to Parliament from Cystic Fibrosis Australia. following two years of fertility and IVF struggles at last achieved her dream of starting a family with builder husband James Ragusa “Medical professionals say pregnancy is a side effect of Trikafta and let me tell you it’s the best side effect ever,” jokes Jess cuddling up to her beautiful boys at home in Saratoga on NSW’s Central Coast “All these babies are a great first-time statistic for CF-ers like me I’m really thankful to Cystic Fibrosis Australia for everything they do.” according to Sydney Children’s Hospital consultant Professor Jaffé “This used to be a disease where I was very experienced managing end of life for children with CF It was one of those things we had to be good at. “So if I say that in the past 18 years I have only experienced one death — about a decade ago — because of the latest advances in treatment it shows how the face of CF has completely changed. “Meeting parents whose baby has just been diagnosed many years ago those conversations would have been pretty pessimistic because the average age of survival was in the 30s. “But the discussions we have now are completely different around the vision we have that children born with CF today will live to old age and die of old age and just take a couple of tablets a day. we know lung damage begins within the first few months after birth in babies with CF The aim is to prevent this damage by starting treatment earlier. “The recent availability of Trikafta in children from two years old means it has the potential to reduce lung damage and have a lifelong effect improving morbidity and mortality.” That promise has sustained parents Ashley Hayes was diagnosed with CF after his birth in February 2020. “He got really sick 22 hours afterwards,” his mother explains emotionally from Sydney’s beachside Manly so we didn’t really know what to expect But he wasn’t feeding and had a really big tummy We knew something wasn’t right.” Rushed to ICU at Sydney Children’s Hospital day-old Heath went straight into surgery to remove part of his bowel That’s when CF was mentioned to the already shell-shocked couple. “We didn’t know what to do and stupidly Googled it,” says businesswoman Ashley “What we found was a lot of outdated information about the life expectancy of children with CF not something I’d wish on any parents But their outlook changed dramatically when they met Professor Jaffé and his team at the Children’s Hospital at Randwick but suddenly we felt everything was going to be okay. ‘Let me un-Google you!’ He told us the future was bright that the internet just couldn’t keep up with all the CF research and development going on. “The goal was to keep Heath as healthy as we could until Trikafta became available through the PBS,” says Ashley “I think he had six or seven general anaesthetics seven full admissions and 60-plus days in hospital in his first three-and-a-half years very lucky to live in a country that has some of the best most affordable paediatric care in the world.” Heath started taking Trikafta only weeks ago once it became available to his age group through the PBS in August It absolutely blows my mind that the medication costs a quarter of a million dollars a year,” marvels Ashley “I told Heath his first week of treatment was worth more than Mummy’s first car!” Unfortunately, recent data suggests Trikafta is unsuitable for up to 26 per cent of CF children with specific gene mutations or co-existing medical conditions. “It’s a huge win for the majority, but we are hugely aware of those people who aren’t eligible,” stresses Bianca Ferrari, 37, Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Community at Cystic Fibrosis Australia. “We don’t want to leave them behind We’re constantly doing what we can for them behind the scenes and there’s always new research going on.” Optimism is alive and well in Australia’s inspiring CF community and that’s all we ever wanted. “So many mums and dads fought and paved the way for us to be here today We never take it for granted that we had Heath at the right time to benefit from Trikafta.” Subscribe and be in with the chance of winning $25,000 cash or prize pack exclusive content via our monthly subscriber newsletter and Ruby Evangeline (Aaron) Ragusa; brother The memorial service is planned for Saturday Cremation was entrusted to Johnson Funeral Home Further details can be found on the Johnson Funeral Home website Sicily is not only a set for Il Commissario Montalbano The transposition of Andrea Camilleri ’s novels to the small screen has led to the vivification of that land made up of a mosaic of Baroque villages historic palaces and seascapes that tell centuries of civilization and culture So let’s see some of the places familiar to viewers of the Rai 1 series and find out where they really are and what history they have.The stories of the Commissario played by Zingaretti are set in Vigata a location that you will not find on any map of Sicily as it is a figment of the fortunate writer’s imagination including the fictional province of Montelusa of which it would be the capital Camilleri himself said that in reality Vigata would be Porto Empedocle Camilleri’s hometown in the province of Agrigento but most of the locations chosen for the filming of the Rai fiction are locations located in the province of Ragusa included in the UNESCO World Heritage list is one of the jewels of the late Sicilian Baroque which in the fiction becomes the Vigàta Commissariato is a perfect example of local 18th-century architecture The Quaestor’s room in Montelusa is actually the mayor’s room The town is distinguished by buildings such as the Palazzo Beneventano considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Sicilian Baroque for its sculptural decorations of masks and cherubs which houses a valuable 18th-century wooden nativity scene inside Its Baroque façade is embellished with twisted columns and statues while the interior holds remarkable works of art in the municipality of Santa Croce di Camerina in the province of Ragusa is known for the commissioner’s famous house overlooking the sea has ancient origins related to coastal defense is one of the icons of the maritime landscape Its beach and small harbor tell the story of Sicily’s seaside villages once inhabited by tuna and bluefish fishermen activities fundamental to the local economy since Greek times Ragusa Ibla is the symbol of Sicilian Baroque rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake that devastated the Val di Noto is one of the most significant examples of the Baroque style with its imposing facade and majestic dome noble palaces and scenic stairways of great charm are characteristic Sampieri beach is one of the most beautiful in southeastern Sicily but its most striking spot is the Penna Furnace Built in the early 20th century for the production of bricks the furnace was destroyed by fire in 1924 and has remained an extraordinary example of industrial archaeology ever since it is the factory in the episode “The Shape of Water.” Montalbano’s Sicily is a land of contrasts where the dazzling light of the Baroque meets the mystery of historic alleys and where the sea is the guardian of millennia-old tales The series has had the merit of bringing to the forefront an extraordinary artistic and scenic heritage making these places cultural pilgrimage destinations for fans of literature If you’ve ever wanted to wangle a dinner invitation from someone you hardly know you’ll understand: Chris Ragusa’s Sunday meal is the holy grail of weekend feasting inherited recipes from his Italian grandmother and relishes cooking big dinners on Sunday afternoon Ragusa is better known as a contractor of fine homes in Massachusetts But recreating childhood dishes is very important to him and his family The kitchen of his Newburyport house was too small and lacked features that would allow him to cook efficiently The island couldn’t accommodate gathering comfortably at dinnertime with his wife there was the inevitable aftermath: spatters of red sauce The kitchen of the small traditional Colonial also didn’t flow gracefully into the living and dining rooms Ragusa hardly remembers how he managed cooking before The new kitchen is more than double in size The size of the island came close to doubling: The new island is eight feet square a beauty of walnut topped with SileStone in the style of Eternal Calacatta Gold—offering plenty of room for a casual meal added 800 square feet to the original home’s 3,000-square-foot footprint the Ragusas got bigger countertops and much more storage space “I essentially built very deep drawers,” Ragusa says These are 30-inch cabinets.” He also created a large opening between the kitchen and adjoining living room Ragusa often spread the preparation to the dining room table Dealing with one oven meant his planning had to be impeccable The new kitchen boasts a 30-inch-wide refrigerator and freezer both equipped for standard and convection baking The island has a built-in mixer lift and built-in TV both of which disappear with the touch of a button The extra room and upgraded features have dramatically lowered stress levels and workload for the cook the interiors of the space create an elegant creamy color palette; and artful details such as a mosaic tiled pattern over the stove are evidence of Hodges’s fine art background is an expansive raised patio for dining al fresco “We wanted a really accessible outdoor space,” Ragusa says This is a beauty of brick in a herringbone pattern Near the pool is a stone fire pit by longtime colleague Seth Donaldson and a DCS grill and serenity shine when Ragusa cooks his traditional Sunday dinner—especially for anyone who knows the labor involved in making Italian dinners from scratch Red sauce (or “gravy”) is on the stove for hours Ragusa prepares homemade meatballs and an entrée His uncle Michael and aunt Marsha bring Italian bread and “lobster tails,” crispy shells filled with cream pudding dough and sweet whipped cream and ricotta cheese While most cooks would blanch at the cooking this menu entails Ragusa considers this a basic Sunday dinner: “I like things simple.” And he always incorporates his grandmother Marian’s secrets Would Ragusa consider revealing one or two Newburyport The award announced yesterday by the White House Office of Science and Technology is “the nation’s highest honors for mentors who work with underrepresented groups to develop fully the nation’s human resources in STEM.” Gisele Ragusa (Photo Credit: Steve Cohn for USC) Gisele “Gigi” Ragusa was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science The award announced yesterday by the White House Office of Science and Technology is “the nation’s highest honors for mentors who work with underrepresented groups to develop fully the nation’s human resources in STEM.” Gigi is one 15 recipients of this award as a jointly appointed faculty with the Rossier School of Education and as Professor of Engineering Education Practice at USC Viterbi in 2012 She received all four of her academic degrees from USC (with a B.A in both business and liberal studies/education (with a minor in biology) degrees in Educational Psychology from USC Rossier) She joined the faculty of USC Rossier in 2002 Prior to joining us she was on the faculty of Pacific Oaks College and the California State University Professor Ragusa has received the 2010 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean’s Special Service Award the 2016 HENAAC’s Vanguard Award and the ASEE PSW Outstanding Teaching Award Professor Ragusa serves as the Director of Education for CREATE; and Associate Director for Education Assessment of a number of research centers She is also the chairperson of USC’s STEM Consortium which works across USC schools to improve access to STEM education and careers She also served served as the Director of Education in the Center for Energy Nanoscience Gigi’s research areas are in engineering education student-to-student and student-to-faculty mentorship and STEM literacy affect student achievement and pathways to STEM education and careers Her most recent areas of research include engineering creativity and innovation Gigi has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers such as: (1) inspiring STEM interest for elementary and high school students in under-resourced neighborhoods; (2) mentoring preservice and in-service teachers; (3) demonstrating leadership in fostering a culture of mentoring in STEM education at USC; (4) mentoring community college and university undergraduate students into STEM professions and graduate programs; (5) mentoring graduate student and postdoctoral researcher placement into academic positions; and (6) peer mentoring of community college and university faculty for advancement Gigi has mentored 457 pre-service teachers and 320 community college and university faculty members her outreach has impacted more than 7,500 K-12 students This is the third PAESMEM award given to faculty members at USC Viterbi Prior recipients have been Maja Matarić and John Brooks Slaughter The launch of a new catamaran ferry between Malta and Sicily has been delayed once again despite reports that the service will start in September the Ragusa Xpress service has now faced its second delay with the company citing permit issues for the earlier postponement Despite promises to start operations last month in September The operators said: "Our plan was to start operating earlier however there were some delays in permits That being said work is still ongoing and currently the vessel is in Marina di Ragusa for the installation of the car and passenger ramps." A spokesperson for Transport Malta said: “The vessel is currently planning to call at the port of Ragusa for a sea trial focused on testing the embarkation and disembarkation equipment the vessel has not yet commenced commercial operations.” The ferry is run by a company owned by local businessman Paul Gauci whose PG Group manages the Pavi and Pama supermarkets in an undisclosed multi-million euro deal in January 2023 a catamaran previously used by Virtu Ferries can carry up to 430 passengers and 21 cars with the crossing between Grand Harbour and Marina di Ragusa expected to take one hour and 45 minutes please register for free or log in to your account Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.