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How the North West could become the UK's automotive heartland
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Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre has six project spaces in operation
Suppliers, developers and manufacturers in the region are at the forefront of automotive transformation
As an allegory for the automotive industry in the north of England, Carr Reinforcements is perfect. Based in an historic cotton mill on the edge of Burnley, in 1962 it won a tender from the Royal Aerospace Establishment to prove carbonfibre threads could be woven into sheets, thereby launching a new cutting-edge composite industry for which Formula One, the aerospace industry and many others owe a debt of gratitude.
Today, Carr Reinforcements is working on new formulations of carbon-weave based on basalt, an igneous rock that can withstand extreme high temperatures up to 1500deg C, properties that Mercedes-Benz is testing for lightweight and fireproof commercial vehicle battery casings.
This drive to discover breakthrough technology and develop new manufacturing techniques is very much alive and well in the north-west of England, a region not automatically associated with cars and car making.
In fact it is easy to overlook the North West's importance to UK automotive, despite employing 21,500 and generating £1.9 billion gross value-added to the UK economy each year, as the customary narrative focuses on the West Midlands and North East.
Yet car production in the North West in 2019 was around 199,000 units from the three main plants — JLR Halewood, Stellantis Ellesmere Port and Bentley Crewe. That's about 60,000 units behind the West Midlands, but given the general impression of Birmingham as the cauldron of British car making, the North West is broadly comparable. Draw a single boundary south of Cheshire, and include the North East in the equation and the north versus south balance falls decisively in the North's favour.
There's an interesting trend too, according to SMMT figures, which show that since 2011 the North West has received more investment in electric vehicle technology than the West Midlands (£2.8bn versus £2.1bn).
Projects contributing to this swing include Stellantis repositioning Ellesmere Port to BEV vans, Crewe lining up an electric next generation of luxury cars and Ford's gearbox plant on Merseyside receiving £250m for electric motor drives, while Land Rover's Halewood plant will be configured for EV production in 2024.
Opportunities like this are revving up organisations like the Northern Automotive Alliance (NAA), run by ex-Bentley engineer Paul Jones, working behind the scenes on behalf of technology companies and smaller suppliers to take advantage of this new inflow of funds.
Formed in 2004 as an off-shoot of regional government funding, the NAA went independent in 2010. Now counting 90 companies as members, it coordinates with Westminster's business and industry departments, universities, local authorities and the SMMT.
"The conditions are now here for us to build the auto industry in the North West. It's a matter of orchestrating everything together to move auto forward," said Paul Jones, chief executive of the NAA.
As well as technology breakthroughs, Jones lists four main drivers building the supply chain in the North West: post-Brexit trade friction, supply chain security brought into focus by Covid, reduction in carbon footprint and the switch to electrification. "Put all these together and there's a compelling case for sourcing more locally," he adds.
Move away from the glamour of the OEMs and their sprawling production facilities, and the North West is already home to a fascinating network of specialist engineering companies, especially at the cutting edge of electrification, materials and advanced manufacturing. None are household names.
One company operating at the cutting edge of the switch to battery electric is Emerson & Renwick (E+R) of Accrington, which makes the machines that make the machine – in this case battery anodes, cathodes and separators.
Its specialist products include coating and laminating machines, callandering and vacuum processing, all essential for rolling and coating battery anodes and cathodes to accuracies of 100nm (1000 times thinner than a human hair) and each machine costing in the region of £4 million.
Headquartered in Accrington, E+R is moving into a new R&D site in Burnley, from where manufacturing developments can be fed to customers like the UK's Battery Industrialisation Centre and BritishVolt.
The breadth of E+R's manufacturing expertise, gleaned over 100 years in business, is astonishing, including making cooling cores for car radiators, machines for solar panels, while it leads the world in hot-embossing of high-quality wallpapers.
Given the urgency for the UK auto industry to secure a local source of battery cells — the forecasted need for that has recently been raised to 98GW by 2030 — North West-based E+R is on the front row of the grid. "We are seeing demand really growing, especially for the battery and solar cell manufacturing equipment," said Nick Butcher, equipment development director.
In the modern-day equivalent of selling coals to Newcastle, E+R has even supplied battery making machines to China.
Yet next-generation batteries are already in E+R's sights as it plays a key role developing production-grade solid-state batteries, in consortium with the Faraday Institution and others.
There is also a project funded by the government's Innovate programme for high-rate lithium deposition battery anodes to replace graphite and silicon: absolute cutting-edge technology that would put Britain at the forefront of battery cell technology.
Moving on from manufacturing machinery, one of the big opportunities for automotive is to work with the NW aerospace industry, said to be the fourth-biggest aviation cluster in the world, and home to the new £20m Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre North West on the Salmesbury Aerospace Enterprise zone.
In a large open workspace, the AMRC has at least six major project areas operational, including the 5G Factory of the Future, set up around a car assembly line station for seat fitting as an experimental operation.
Using real-time data and computer modelling to find the most efficient assembly methods. 5G is essential to give real-time feedback to manage and monitor the process.
Major automotive OEMs are working with 5G like this, but there's an extra edge to the accuracy of the work at the AMRC as it is also being developed for efficiencies in high-tolerance, high-cost, safety-critiical aerospace manufacture.
Other projects include a collaborative robot arm to help a local manufacturer of engine valve springs position them for machining. "The clever bit is the camera, which can identify the valves even when they are lying in random patterns and position them correctly for machining," said PhD researcher James Valentine.
A third area of research is developing electric laser-welding for component fabrication of parts that would cost too much by conventional machining methods. "We're reducing the amount of machining by 90% and saving expensive material. But it's about the academic research, building up knowledge of the material properties, the temperatures, the energy use to develop a new manufacturing method," says the AMRC.
Another exciting project called Fast Step 3, and involving Bentley, is working on a new technique to recycle waste swarf from titanium machining to create a new supply line of the expensive material.
Autocar has previously reported on Lancaster-based OakTec and its founder Paul Andrews, especially his tweaked and rally-winning Honda Insight, but more recently his spin-off company Cage Technologies is making a real difference to air quality in London and the developing world, with clean-burn portable industrial generators that produce a fraction of the emissions of diesel units.
The secret to these generators is OakTec's clever, single-valve engine that can burn low-carbon gases like hydrogen, LPG and biogas with 95% fewer particles, CO and NOx than a diesel, verified by Imperial College.
Proven to work charging up a small electric car, like a Renault Twizy, Cage's generator can provide clean motive power for agricultural machinery and farm vehicles using biogas created from farm waste.
The engine has been developed by a team of engineers, including John Ravenscroft (better known as TVR's development engineer in the Peter Wheeler years), Jeremy Dale and Simon Hindle and features a high compression ratio for maximum Otto cycle efficiency, yet a cool combustion to reduce formation of oxides of nitrogen.
Autocar will come back another day to tell the full story of this clever engine, but in the context of the automotive industry in the North West, it is a parable for the ingenuity, skill and determination that's striving to maximise opportunities in the automotive industry and one day maybe challenge the West Midlands as the UK's largest car making region.
Weaving carbonfibre
There's a reassuring clickety-clack backing track to the factory floor at Carr Reinforcements (CR) as half-a-dozen weaving machines work ceaselessly to create the basic component of lightweight carbonfibre.
Burnley's best-kept secret was the first in the world to make the mat that, encased in a hardened resin, is the material that has underpinned every F1 racecar since the 1980s and is now a favourite material for everything from boy-racer spoilers to home audio speaker casings.
Each year CR turns out around 150,000sq m of material, says company director Eric Taylor, making it a key global player.
CR can make around 200 different patterns of weave and supply a wide range of colours. The biggest seller is the "two-by-two twill", valued because the even geometric pattern of the threads combines attractive looks with strong structural properties.
Setting up the machines is a labour of love, since the more complex patterns are fed by up to 700 reels of carbonfibre thread and take three days to set-up.
The automotive industry makes up 15% of CR's business (its biggest customer) followed by marine.
Notable projects include the carbon interior of the Ferrari F50, while Lotus and Jaguar Land Rover are significant customers today.
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Greg Wurth is a Grammy Nominated, Gold & Platinum award winning producer, working as Manager and Chief Engineer at L.A.'s Mothership Studio and Patigonia Studio. His credits range from Steve Vai and Tony MacAlpine to Tracii Guns to Jim Florentine & Don Jamieson, 2Cellos and Mary J Blige. He has been Steve Vai's Engineer for 10 years. A lot of his time is spent in the "Harmony Hut" studio in Encino, CA where they currently do all of Vai's projects.
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NTU Women's Lacrosse Trophy chase
Posted on March 2, 2020 March 2, 2020 by ntusport
Women's Lacrosse 1s have had a whirlwind season within the Women's Midlands Tier 1 league as they fight for a promotion into the next level of University Lacrosse. To add to an already strong season, they now also find themselves in the semi-finals of the Women's Trophy. This is the furthest the club has ever got within the knockout competition making this their biggest fixture to date. With the chance to be at a BUCS Big Wednesday final the team will need to dig deep as they come up against the University of Durham 2s, who previously knocked out the club's biggest rivals – UON – at a previous stage of the competition.
Position Team Played Won Drawn Lost Points
1 Nottingham 2 9 8 0 1 24
2 Nottingham Trent 1 7 7 0 0 21
3 Oxford Brookes 1 8 5 0 3 15
4 Warwick 1 7 1 1 5 4
5 Nottingham 3 8 1 1 6 4
6 Loughborough 2 7 0 0 7 0
In the Midlands Tier 1 league the team has had huge success having won 7 of their 7 fixtures, in all these games but one they have managed to secure over a 10-goal lead. The team's biggest rivals UON 2s posed more of a challenge, however the NTU Girls were still able to get a win in their away fixture against the other promotion hungry side. They are set to face off against the team once more this season at home in what is likely to be a league deciding game. UON 2s also sit on an undefeated record within the league, excluding the game they lost to the team in Pink.
The team have faced up against 3 sides so far in their Trophy campaign, an early walkover from St Andrews 1s in the opening round took them onto Durham 3s. Continuing the trend from the league, the girls defended the home ground with a 10+ goal win of 24-6. This fixture only adds to the build up of the semi-final as Durham 2s will look to get revenge for their defeated side. The quarter finals match was played away against the University of Leeds 1s ending 16-8 to NTU side advancing them into the semi-final.
Durham 2s will be no easy match as the side currently sit in a higher league than the girls in Pink and have won all 10 of their fixtures. However, within their league the side only scraped a narrow 8-6 victory against Leeds 1s in their second face off, the same side who NTU beat 16-8 in the Trophy to advance to the semi-finals. This demonstrates the serious potential the team has to advance to the final and we couldn't be more excited about it!
The match will take place Wednesday 4 March on the Clifton 3G pitch at 13:00. We encourage you to come and support the NTU side and watch some top-level lacrosse. Good Luck girls!
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Diskeeper is an institution in the defragmentation software arena. It was the first defragmentation software that I ran into many years ago and it continues to live up to expectations. Like everything Executive Software produces, Diskeeper is an excellent software utility that does what it says it is going to do, plus a little bit more.
When you run Diskeeper, you'll see a screen with two panes. The top pane lists all of your drives that are available for defragmentation. The bottom pane looks like a spreadsheet without the vertical lines-this is the details pane. From here defragmenting your disk is simple. Just right-click the drive and select Defragment. Figure 1 shows the results.
To schedule defragmentation you highlight the drive and, from the Action menu, select the Set It and Forget It menu; then, choose Disk Volume Scheduler. You can manually select the times you want the defragmentation process to run or you can choose Smart Scheduling, an innovative technique that allows Diskeeper to figure out just how often your disks need defragmenting. You can also schedule Boot Time defragmentation, which will defragment your system files (paging, MFT, directory consolidation). You can even control the priority that the process runs in by selecting Priority from the Action menu.
Another useful feature is Frag Guard, which runs as a service in the background to keep your system files defragmented at all times. Every time you write to the disk, Frag Guard will try to keep your MFT and paging files contiguous. To turn on this feature, just select Frag Guard from the Action menu and then enable it for the paging file and any volumes where you want to keep the master file tables defragmented (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Setting up Frag Guard.
I only ran into two problems. First, when I enabled Frag Guard, I noticed a small performance hit. It was well within acceptable levels but I did notice it. The second issue has been around for a while: Diskeeper is not as thorough as you might expect. Every time I ran Diskeeper, I had 11 fragmented files left over. I would have expected the software to defragment these files because they were not in use and they were not system files. No matter how many times I ran the process, the files remained fragmented. I have seen this behavior on other systems as well. The drive still gets sufficiently cleaned, though.
All things considered, this is a great piece of software. If you're in the market for a new defragmentation package, then you definitely need to consider Diskeeper.


For my latest entry in my kitchen gifts series, I decided to whip up a batch of lavender blue corn soap. This is the perfect gift for anyone who is not necessarily a big fan of the more seasonal soaps like my orange spice, peppermint hot chocolate, or pine and charcoal soaps (as if such a person actually existed...seriously, who doesn't love the warming scents of winter?). It's also an ideal gift for people to enjoy long after the holiday is gone; once all the other festive treats have been used, they can turn to this soap and the promise of spring.
Okay, I admit it: I got the idea for this soap after my favorite doughnut, a sinful blend of lavender and blue corn made by a local bakery. Blue corn has always struck me as a very New Mexican ingredient, so this soap always makes me feel like I'm gifting a little bit of the Southwest magic I live in. You can, of course, always substitute regular cornmeal if you can't find the blue kind. You don't have to get fancy with molds, either. You can simply use a muffin tin unless you want to get playful with your molds like I did with the soaps pictured.
For this recipe, I use a natural shea butter melt and pour soap base which I got here (remember how I like to keep my crafting simple? Well, a melt and pour solution gives you the fun factor of making your own soap without the more labor intensive and tricky ingredients like lye to work with). Make sure to buy the suspension formula for your soap base so that the blue corn is evenly spread out in your soap rather than sinking to the bottom. The lavender oil is an excellent antibacterial agent and nerve tonic, while the blue corn acts as a gentle exfoliate perfect for everyday use.
Chop shea butter soap base into half-inch chunks and place in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat for one minute and stir. Then continue to melt base in the microwave in 20-second increments, stirring between each heating until liquefied, about 5 minutes. Once the soap is melted stir in essential oils and blue corn. Pour into muffin tins (or other molds) and allow to set, about an hour. (You can speed this up by placing them in the fridge for about 20 minutes.) Remove soap from molds by gently inserting a butter knife around the edges of the muffin tin until the soap pops out. Wrap individually in parchment paper or tuck multiples in an airtight container. Store in a cool, dry place indefinitely. Makes about 6 small soaps or 4 medium sized ones. Enjoy!


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Irvin Williams (March 18, 1926 – November 7, 2018) was an American gardener who was the longest serving White House head gardener, serving from 1962 to 2008. He was a key figure in the design of the White House Rose Garden.

Career

Williams began working as a government horticulturist during the Truman Administration and worked on a variety of projects, including many at the White House. He was made head gardener of the White House in 1962 and was almost immediately assigned to work on a redesign of the Rose Garden with Bunny Mellon, which had been requested by president John F. Kennedy. After Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Lady Bird Johnson directed them to continue the redesign, a process that was finished in 1965. During the redesign, Williams convinced the National Park Service to allow him to uproot magnolia trees from the Tidal Basin to be replanted in the Rose Garden, as Mellon believed they would complement the Jackson magnolia in the White House's south lawn. Williams described the tree as creating "an atmosphere" and "a structure of something living" outside the White House's living spaces.

In 1981 Nancy Reagan brought Bunny Mellon back to the White House to update her 1962 design, a process that again closely involved Williams. Under George H. W. Bush's administration Williams was instructed to use only non-lethal means to deter garden pests, including "fertilizer laced with Louisiana hot sauce" and peanuts "strapped to tree trunks" used to distract animals from freshly-planted flowers.

Williams retired from working at the White House in 2008 after 46 years as head gardener. Over the course of his career, he worked for nine presidents.

Personal life
Williams was born in Engle, West Virginia on March 18, 1926 to a farming family. He was married and had five children. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, his dog Pushinka was given to Williams by Jacqueline Kennedy. Williams died on November 7, 2018 in Reston, Virginia. While working at the White House, Williams began collecting items relating to his job and the White House. Much of his collection was sold in June 2022 at an estate sale, including eggs from the White House Easter Egg Roll signed by president Bill Clinton.

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John Kennedy on Trump's Mueller Slams: Tweeting Less 'Would Not Cause Brain Damage'
By Ken MeyerNov 15th, 2018, 9:01 am
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) gave an interview on Thursday where he faced a barrage of questions about whether Congress should do something to protect Robert Mueller in the event President Trump tries to interfere with the special counsel.
As Kennedy spoke with CNN's Alisyn Camerota, he started things off by expressing disagreement with Sen. Jeff Flake's (R-AZ) demand for legislation to shield Mueller until he concludes his investigation on Russia. Kennedy said he hopes Mueller isn't fired, and while he acknowledged the president's obvious anger over the investigation, the senator maintains the view that no real actions have been taken to endanger Mueller's position.
"People up here like to talk. You've got to watch what they do. The president has demonstrated acute frustration with Mr. Mueller's investigation. I'd probably feel the same way if I were in his shoes. But I know of no overt steps that he has taken to obstruct the investigation or to fire Mr. Mueller and given the way that people leak up here, I think we would have heard."
Camerota pushed back by invoking Trump's latest tweets, in which he declared that the Mueller probe is a "total mess," "a disgrace to our Nation," and "A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!" She also challenged Kennedy by having him consider the possibility that Trump could act on his frustration at some point by firing Mueller, and without any kind of Congressional protection, nothing could be done to save him before it's too late.
Kennedy stuck by his disagreement, saying Trump knows there would be "a sharp and immediate reaction" from Congress if he went down that path. As Kennedy said that the results of Muellers probe should be made public upon completion, Camerota continued to press him over Trump's tweets and the president's appointment of Mueller-opponent Matt Whitaker for acting attorney general.
"I have suggested to the president, respectfully, that tweeting a little less would not cause brain damage," Kennedy said. "But he likes to tweet. That's his prerogative. He's going to keep tweeting."
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The Australian Greens have today written to the Australian Federal Police asking them to investigate if any payments have been made to crews of boats carrying asylum seekers and if so what laws have been violated. An Order to Produce Documents motion will also be moved in the Senate today for the government to release all documents relating to any payments made.
"I have written to the Australian Federal Police today asking them to investigate if the government has violated Australian laws on people trafficking, people smuggling and money laundering," Greens spokesperson for Immigration Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
"The allegations must be dealt with immediately and the Greens will use whatever means it can, including the powers of the Senate to force the Government to come clean.
"Paying cash bribes to boat crews amounts to people trafficking. The Government does not have a mandate to break the law or a blank cheque to allow handing over wads of cash in the middle of the ocean.


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Film Streaming Services at Babson
By Patricia Berens | February 28, 2019
Did you know that Horn Library subscribes to a couple of movie streaming services that students, faculty, and staff can use for free?
Feature Films for Education focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.
Kanopy offers award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and many more. This is a great source for international films, documentaries, and educational videos.
And just for faculty: Swank Digital Campus lets you order from a huge selection of feature films for instructional viewing.
Find these movie platforms on the library's list of databases.
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The NetBIOS name acts as a session layer application identifier. For example, the NetBIOS Session service operates over TCP port 139. All NetBIOS over TCP/IP session requests are addressed to TCP destination port 139. When identifying a NetBIOS application with which to establish a NetBIOS session, the NetBIOS name is used.
An example of a process using a NetBIOS name is the file and print sharing server service on a Windows 2000–based computer. When your computer starts up, the server service registers a unique NetBIOS name based on your computer's name. The exact name used by the server service is the 15 character computer name plus a 16th character of 0x20. If the computer name is not 15 characters long, it is padded with spaces up to 15 characters long. Other network services also use the computer name to build their NetBIOS names so the 16th character is used to uniquely identify each service, such as the redirector, server, or messenger services. Figure 1.13 shows the NetBIOS names associated with the server, redirector, and messenger services.
When you attempt to make a file-sharing connection to a Windows 2000–based computer by name, the server service on the file server you specify corresponds to a specific NetBIOS name. For example, when you attempt to connect to the computer called CORPSERVER, the NetBIOS name corresponding to the server service is "CORPSERVER <20>" (note the padding using the space character). Before a file and print sharing connection can be established, a TCP connection must be created. In order for a TCP connection to be established, the NetBIOS name "CORPSERVER <20>" must be resolved to an IP address.
To view the NetBIOS names registered by NetBIOS processes running on a Windows 2000 computer, type nbtstat -n at the Windows 2000 command prompt.
The exact mechanism by which NetBIOS names are resolved to IP addresses depends on the node's configured NetBIOS Node Type . RFC 1001 define the NetBIOS Node Types, as listed in Table 1.27.
B-node uses broadcasted NetBIOS Name Queries for name registration and resolution. B-node has two major problems: (1) In a large internetwork, broadcasts can increase the network load, and (2) Routers typically do not forward broadcasts, so only NetBIOS name on the local network can be resolved.
P-node uses a NetBIOS name server (NBNS) , such as Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), to resolve NetBIOS name . P-node does not use broadcasts; instead, it queries the name server directly. The most significant problem with P-node is that all computers must be configured with the IP address of the NBNS, and if the NBNS is down, computers are not able to communicate even on the local network.
Windows 2000–based computers are B-node by default and become H-node when configured for a WINS server. Windows 2000 also uses a local database file called Lmhosts to resolve remote NetBIOS names.
For more information about WINS, see "Windows Internet Name Service" in this book. For more information about the Lmhosts file, see "LMHOSTS File" in this book.


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Among the most uncomfortable feelings is that of "not belonging." It is one of the forms of shame, for, when we do not belong or are "out of place," we feel exposed and inherently vulnerable. It is not a feeling that we sustain for any length of time without engaging in behaviors designed to make it go away.
Strangely, this is an aspect of ugliness (in its many forms). Just as we would likely argue about the meaning of beauty (as a word or concept), so "ugly" would come up for similar treatment. The etymology of the word is found in the Old Norse, ugga, "to dread." The "ugly" is something that doesn't belong and presents a dreaded challenge to the world around it. It is little wonder that we spend time being sure that we at least look like we belong.
I get the occasional phone call from someone who wants to visit the Orthodox Church for a first time. Among their questions will be concerns about proper clothing or proper behaviors. We want to visit, but we would prefer not to look like tourists or give offense. We do not want to be ugly.
All of this goes much deeper than mere social anxiety. Beneath it is a drive towards Beauty Itself that is rarely acknowledged. From St. Dionysius the Areopagite:
[God is Beauty.] This Beauty is the source of all friendship and all mutual understanding. It is this Beauty … which moves all living things and preserves them whilst filling them with love and desire for their own particular sort of beauty. For each one, therefore, Beauty is both its limit and the object of its love, since it is its goal … and its model (for it is by its likeness to this Beauty that everything is defined). Thus true Beauty and Goodness are mixed together because, whatever the force may be that moves living things, it tends always towards Beauty-and- Goodness, and there is nothing that does not have a share in Beauty-and- Goodness … By virtue of this reality all creatures subsist, united and separate, identical and opposite, alike and unlike; contraries are united and the united elements are not confused … By virtue of Beauty-and- Goodness everything is in communion with everything else, each in its own way; creatures love one another without losing themselves in one another; everything is in harmony, parts fit snugly into the whole … one generation succeeds another; spirits, souls and bodies remain at the same time steady and mobile; because for all of them Beauty-and-Goodness is at once repose and movement, being itself beyond both. Divine Names, IV, 7 (PG 3,701)
It is a commonplace in the Eastern Fathers (and some in the West) to recognize a triad of Truth-Beauty-Goodness. They are treated as virtually interchangeable, even if they can be distinguished. That which is true is beautiful and good. That which is good is true and beautiful. That which is beautiful is true and good. All of this is contained in God's earliest pronouncement regarding creation, "It is good." What God created is good and true and beautiful. Everything has its place and relation to everything around it and all have their beginning and their end in God, who is Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
A very essential part of this teaching is deeply affirming of that which exists. A few decades back, there was a popular lapel button that declared, "God doesn't make junk." As a bit of self-affirmation, it was quickly reduced to something trite. Nevertheless, it is true and a very intricate part of classical Christian understanding.
At our deepest core, we are formed and shaped according to the image of God. Not only are human beings created in such a manner, but all of creation has an existence that is good as well (and true and beautiful). In creation, things "fit." They have a "right relationship" with one another.
By virtue of Beauty-and-Goodness everything is in communion with everything else, each in its own way; creatures love one another without losing themselves in one another; everything is in harmony, parts fit snugly into the whole…
This inherent understanding is properly applied to how we interact with creation itself. There is no living within an ecosystem without having an impact. We were created to have an impact (as does the Sun, the Moon, the trees, and everything else). However that impact can become "ugly" when it so distorts the order of relationships that terrible disturbances occur. When fish die off from poisoned waters, or a species is harvested to the point of extinction, we have ceased to live as beautiful human beings and have become a source of ugliness. Sin is ugly.
We are able to "house-train" a dog, because its instinct is not to soil its own den. The training consists of making a dog think of the entire house as its den. In the Old Testament, there were commandments for ancient Israel regarding human waste and its separation from the camp in which they dwelt. This commandment was explained in terms of holiness (which is beautiful) rather than sanitation. When such a regard for beauty is ignored, people die, often in epidemic proportions.
Such practical applications of beauty are easy to understand. They can, however, be extended to much larger concerns. There are many faces of ugliness in our present world – all of them symptomatic of the sin that mars our lives. We should understand that the desire for beauty, in all its forms (including order, cleanliness, justice, health, etc.), is an innate part of our existence. This is not just our own existence, but that of the whole creation. Without intervention, nature constantly strives towards a state of beauty in which all of its parts relate seamlessly with one another. The Greek term for creation in this perspective is "kosmos." This is the world that is orderly and beautiful. (It is ironic that the artificiality of modern "cosmetics" has stolen this word for its own use).
I can imagine a criticism that would emphasize the evil and darkness that infect our world and argue that beauty, truth and goodness are mere fantasies and wishful thinking. The refutation of such an assertion is quite simple. There is no doubt about the character and ubiquity of evil in our world – but it is unnatural. The world in which we live is utterly driven and drawn towards wholeness, wellness and right order. Even in disastrous areas such as Chernobyl, animals and plants have not disappeared. Life refuses to disappear and tends towards adaptation and survival. Given time, all will be well.
Darwin's "survival of the fittest" seems to have suited the mentality of his own century. With European colonialism at its height, it was easy to assume that the strongest (the "fittest") were meant to rule the world, and there were plenty of leaders who cited his work as a justification for their projects of evil. It is a very weak theory and has nothing to say about truth, goodness and beauty, matters that seem to consistently triumph over the merely brutal.
Regardless of how we understand God's work in His creation, the goodness, truth and beauty of the Logos, and its manifestation in all created things, is inexorable. God is gathering all things into Himself (Ephesians 1:10). For us, this is also a matter of deep belonging. We were created for beauty, for truth and goodness. That which distorts our lives and drives us into the shame of an ugly outcast is being destroyed. It has no true existence and has no proper claim over our lives. You belong in the beauty of the world.
My beloved speaks and says to me:
"Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away…"
Song of Songs, 2:10
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Feinstein was born to a Jewish family in New York City on July 28, 1956. His father was heavily involved in the arts having been the General Manager of the Washington National Opera from 1980 to 1995 and was also the first Executive Director of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Feinstein has also written a sports-mystery series for young adults in which main characters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are reporting on major sporting events including the Final Four, US Open (tennis), Super Bowl, World Series, the Army–Navy Game, and the Summer Olympics. He currently has 36 books written.
Feinstein's book Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story was released in 2004. It is about the life and final days of Tom Watson's caddy, Bruce Edwards, who was diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.) Feinstein and long-time friend Terry Hanson engaged the William Morris Agency and commissioned a screenplay in conjunction with Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's production company, LivePlanet. In 2010, Caddy for Life was produced in documentary format for the Golf Channel.
On March 8, 2012, Feinstein joined SiriusXM's Mad Dog Sports Radio channel, teaming up with Bruce Murray for the sports talk show, Beyond the Brink, which aired between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm ET. However, Feinstein soon left the show by the fall of 2012, as he was offered a slot of his own show on the brand new CBS Sports Radio between 9 AM to 12 noon ET. CBS Sports Radio began 24/7 all sports talk on January 2, 2013. On November 14, 2014 during an interview on a Washington, D.C. radio program he announced that he had been fired by CBS from his daily radio show.
Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four: Winner of the 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category. Stevie and Susan Carol get caught up in a blackmail threat to Chip Graber, Minnesota State's best player, to throw the National Championship.
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the US Open. Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson solve a kidnapping and numerous crimes at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
^ Saxon, Wolfgang (7 February 2006). "Martin Feinstein, 84, Dies; Led the National Opera". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
^ a b "John Feinstein – Authors – Random House". Retrieved 2010-10-28.
^ "Going 'One On One' With Sports' Greatest Stars", Fresh Air interview with Feinstein on NPR (transcript), December 1, 2011. Audio download. Retrieved 2011-12-01.


If you've got an iOS device, you've probably noticed that if you stop interacting with your device, after a little while it will turn off the screen and go to sleep. This makes perfect sense for devices that are battery challenged at the best of times, but one side effect of this is that whatever app is running will also stop.
For many apps, this is fine, but what if you don't want your app to stop running? What if, like one project I'm working on currently, it is accepting input from the accelerometer and just because nobody is interacting with it right now, I still want it to record that accelerometer input?
One solution is to disable the device's idle timer programmatically. Not permanently of course, just while your app is doing whatever it is that needs to keep happening.
The iOS SDK provides an idleTimerDisabled property of the UIApplication class. As far as I can see, this is not directly exposed via FireMonkey anywhere, but this doesn't stop us. Just like on Windows and OSX, Delphi gives you access to the underlying iOS API.
A TUIApplication factory class, and a UIApplication interface are defined in the iOSapi.UIKit.pas file that ships with Delphi. Referencing TUIApplication.OCClass gives us access to the underlying ObjectiveC class, which we can then use to get hold of the shared UIApplication instance, using the sharedApplication class method.
Using the FM Messaging System for In-process Publish and Subscribe on Windows, OSX and iOS.


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Q: Как удалить элемент из выпадающего списка с помощью jQuery? Добрый день. Прошу помощи в решении проблемы.
Есть форма редактирования меню:
$menu =  '<select id="my_select" name="menu_text">
            <option selected>' . $row["menu"] . '</option>
            <option>1</option>
            <option>2</option>
            <option>3</option>
            <option>4</option>
          </select>' ;

В элемент <option selected> подгружается  значение из базы данных (ранее записанное туда одно из значений option 1, 2, 3 или 4). В итоге выпадающий список имеет вид, например:
3 (выбранное поле)
3
1
2
3
4

Задача: каким-либо способом убрать повтор элемента в списке, если он уже является загруженным в качестве <option selected>, т. е. в приведенном примере добиться вида:
3 (выбранное поле)
3
1
2
4    // пункт 3 отсутствует

Есть var a=$("#my_select :selected").html();
Как произвести сравнение с оставшимися элементами и удалить один из них при совпадении значения? Может быть, подход к решению должен быть другим?
A: Как-то так не получается?
<?php

$menu = '<select id="my_select" name="menu_text">';
foreach([1,2,3,4] as $item) {
    $selected = ($item == $row["menu"]) ? 'selected="selected"' ? '';
    $menu .= '<option '.$selected.'>'.$item.'</option>';
}
$menu .= '</select>';

A: Да, чуть-чуть иначе выводить:
$menu =  '<select id="my_select" name="menu_text">

            <option'if ($row["menu"]==1){echo "selected" }'>1</option>
            <option'if ($row["menu"]==2){echo "selected" }'>2</option>
            <option'if ($row["menu"]==3){echo "selected" }'>3</option>
            <option'if ($row["menu"]==4){echo "selected" }'>4</option>
          </select>' ;

А по правильному - у тебя должен быть массив с разделами меню, ты бежишь по нему и создаешь HTML-код выпадающего списка (как я понял, вы работаешь без MVC):
$menu_arr = array("0","1","2","3","4");
$selected = 3;
$menu_html = "<select><option></option>";
foreach($menu_arr as $key=>$value){
 $menu_html .="<option ";
 $menu_html .= ($value==$selected) ? "selected >$value" : ">$value";
 $menu_html .="</option>";
}
$menu_html .="</select>";

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Q: AnyChart Resource Chart How to add event listener for activities In researching the AnyChart documentation for Resource Charts, it seems as though you should be able to add an event listener for Activities, but I have been unable to get it working.
AnyChart Resource Chart demo
http://playground.anychart.com/api/7.12.0/core/resource/anychart.core.resource.Activities.labels_get-plain
AnyChart documentation ( specific to Resource Chart Activities )
https://api.anychart.com/7.12.0/anychart.core.resource.Activities#listen
Adding a listener event to the chart itself works as expected, but does not provide any data specific to the individual activity the user clicked.
I need to add the listener event to the Activities object so that when a user selects/clicks a specific activity within the chart, the listener event fires and returns data specific to that activity.
anychart.onDocumentReady(function () {
    var data = getData();

    chart = anychart.resource();
    chart.data(data);

    var currentActivities = chart.activities();

    // this listener event never fires for the activities object
    currentActivities.listen('click', function(e) {
        // expecting to get an event object specific to the activity clicked by user here
    });

    chart.container("container");
    chart.draw();
});

A: Version 7.13.0 that will be released next Monday/Tuesday will allow this. Here is a preview build:
chart.listen("pointClick", function(e){
            console.log(e.data);
})

http://jsfiddle.net/2f2wt553/2/
Previous versions do not have that.


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Property as Privacy: The Old Supreme Court Did It Better
by Alex Harris on September 11, 2010 · 3 comments
Up until I began doing my reading for this fall's Criminal Procedure: Investigation course, I largely bought the heroic Warren Court story of privacy and the Fourth Amendment.
The story is simple: The Supreme Court, concerned only with helping businesses through decisions like Lochner, had left people unprotected from warrantless searches and seizures. In decisions like Olmstead v. United States (holding that a warrantless wiretap did not violate the Fourth Amendment), the Court threw privacy under the bus. But, as with the First Amendment, Brandeis and Holmes dissented, presaging the arrival of the glorious Warren Court, which overturned Olmstead in Katz v. United States.
Though, unlike many FedSocers, I love the Warren Court and its expansion and constitutionalization of personal liberties both procedural and substantive, the heroic story just isn't quite right.
The tale has two problems. First, it lumps together the entire pre-Warren Court years as one big Bad Old Days of privacy. Second, it ignores the theories behind the decisions in pursuit of the results. The story's troubles are interrelated.
In fact, back in 1886 – in a case called Boyd v. United States – the Supreme Court explained a theory of the Fourth Amendment that would be extremely protective of privacy. Haven't heard of it? Neither had I. But its underlying message about the Fourth Amendment, which was hardly novel (indeed, the opinion traced it back to 18th century English cases), sounds like something a modern-day libertarian would write about privacy.
The case involved a statute requiring the owner of goods imported without paying the tariff to produce his records regarding the goods. This, the Court held, was an unreasonable search or seizure, in violation of the Fourth Amendment (and it compelled the defendant to give testimony againt himself, in violation of the Fifth Amendment). The reason was simple: the government had seized the defendant's papers, which were his property. This made the case unlike the government seizing stolen goods to return to their rightful owners; that is not a "seizure" that deprives anyone of property rights. (And, the Court held, it did not matter that the law in question was not technically criminal, because the penalty for refusing to produce the papers was a default judgment, by which the goods would be forfeited. Yet another way the old Court was more "liberal" than the modern Court, which blindly accepts the "civil" designation legislatures stick on their penal statutes in order to evade the Constitution.)
As subsequent cases such as Gouled v. United States made clearer, this holding did not apply just to papers, but to all property that was seized as "mere evidence" of the defendant's guilt (not because the defendant was not entitled to the property).
But, concerned with the mere evidence rule's effects on criminal investigations, the Court later weakened it and riddled it with exceptions. That trend explains the ruling in Olmstead, which had to explicitly limit Gouled to its facts. Olmstead faltered not because it refused to adopt a new conception of privacy but because it refused to adhere to the old. It held that, unlike a person's mail, "the wires beyond his house and messages while passing over them are not within the protection of the Fourth Amendment." Had the Court been true to Boyd, it would have noted that somebody owned those wires – perhaps the homeowner or perhaps the phone company, but certainly not the government – and the government searched and seized by trespass those wires by tapping them.
Katz came to the right outcome, but it should have arrived at restored Boyd to its full potential. Imagine what the Fourth Amendment would do today if it had. The Fourth Amendment would be no mere procedural protection, no simple rule of evidence, but a strong substantive limit on government. It may forbid, for example, net neutrality regulations that seize a company's wires in order to achieve some supposedly socially desirable end. It may constitutionalize the principle of intervening action enshrined in Sec. 230, since the government cannot search or seize the papers of someone who has herself done no wrong and thereby forfeited her right to them. Best of all, it would go a long way to establishing in the minds of judges, politicans, and voters the best legal conception of privacy – privacy through property rights.
I'm not hopeful for such a big change. (The last time the Court really changed the fundamental theory behind a constitutional provision was in 2004, with the Confrontation Clause. And that revolution did not have the sweeping change in outcomes I'd expect from adopting a property approach to privacy.) But it's interesting and useful to read cases from an era that got so much wrong to find one that came closer to getting it right than most legal scholars today.
Alex Harris / A graduate of Harvard College who wrote his senior thesis on the political philosophy of Robert Nozick and a student at Stanford Law School studying technology law, Alex Harris is actually one of the least nerdy contributors to the Technology Liberation Front. When Alex is not buried in law school work, he works as an Adjunct Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Prior to receiving that haughty title, he was a Google Policy Fellow, prolific blogger, libertarian lolcat creator, and lowly intern at CEI. Before that, Alex was a Koch Summer Fellow for the Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. He has been published in the American Spectator and writes for the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society's publication, Packets. Now, Alex spends more time with his iPhone than with people.
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PAUL M. SOUTHERN JR., M.D.; JAMES W. SMITH, M.D.; JAMES P. LUBY, M.D.; JACK A. BARNETT, M.D.; JAY P. SANFORD, M.D., F.A.C.P.
PAUL M. SOUTHERN JR., M.D.
JAY P. SANFORD, M.D., F.A.C.P.
An epidemic of St. Louis encephalitis in Dallas, Tex., in 1966 again showed the characteristic clinical and epidemiological features of this disease: the occurrence of encephalitis in elderly persons in urban areas during summer and early autumn. Headache, fever, nuchal rigidity, confusion, and tremor were outstanding clinical features. Prospective sequential clinical studies commonly showed isolated cranial-nerve dysfunction, pathological reflexes, and nystagmus. Cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis with a predominance of mononuclear cells and a normal cerebrospinal fluid glucose also were characteristic. Even though symptoms and signs suggestive of urinary tract infection were common, urine cultures for bacteria were usually negative. Electromyographic abnormalities and elevations in serum aldolase values were frequent and suggested diffuse, lower, motor-neuron dysfunction.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1969;71(4):681-689.


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Economics and Game Theory
Three-Period Life-Cycle Problem
Life Cycle Consumption Problem
Nonlinear Least Squares with Cobb-Douglas Production Function
Example 2: Nonlinear Least Squares with Constant Elasticity of Substitution Production Function
Example 3: Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Probit Model
Example 4: Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Logit Model
Example 5: Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Tobit Model (Censored at Zero)
Life-Cycle Consumption Problem with Assets
Life-Cycle Consumption Problem with Assets and Labor Supply
Game Theory: Basic Concepts
Electricity and Power
Optimization Methodology
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Mathematical Formulation
In this example, we estimate the unknown parameters of Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production functions with either additive or multiplicative error terms using Mizon (1977). The CES production function is a neoclassical production function that displays constant elasticity of substitution. In other words, the production technology has a constant percentage change in input proportions (for example, labor and capital) due to a percentage change in marginal rate of technical substitution.
This example uses the same optimization model as that in Example 1, except that the optimization is restricted by some CES functions rather than the Cobb-Douglas production function. We introduce two different forms of CES functions. The first one, which we call the MD model, has Multiplicative Disturbance (MD). The standard form with two inputs is
$$q_t = \phi[\beta k^{\rho}_t + (1 - \beta)l^{\rho}_t]^{\frac{1}{\rho}}\exp(\mu_t);$$
The second one, which we call the AD model, has Additive Disturbance (AD). The standard form is
$$q_t = \phi[\beta k^{\rho}_t + (1 - \beta)l^{\rho}_t]^{\frac{1}{\rho}} + \mu_t,$$
$\phi \equiv$ scale parameter, $\phi$ > 0
$\beta \equiv$ value share of capital, $\beta \in (0,1)$
$\rho \equiv$ the substitution parameter, $\rho \in (-\infty,1)$, and $\rho \neq 0$
$k_t$, $l_t$ and $\mu_t$ stand for capital, labor and error term at observation $t$.
And we define $\sigma = \frac{1}{1-\rho}$ as the elasticity of substitution in these production functions.
As its name suggests, the CES production function exhibits constant elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Leontief, linear and Cobb–Douglas production functions are special cases of the CES production function. That is, if the substitution parameter $\rho$ equals one, we have a linear or perfect substitutes production function; if $\rho$ approaches zero in the limit, we get the Cobb–Douglas production function; as $\rho$ approaches negative infinity, we get the Leontief or perfect complements production function.
In more general cases with more than two inputs, we denote the inputs as $V_{1}, V_{2}, \dots, V_{m}$, $m > 2$. Then the fitting constraints in the MD model are:
\[q_t = \phi[\beta_1 V_{1,t}^{\rho} + \beta_2 V_{2,t}^{\rho} + \dots + (1 - \sum_n\beta_n)V_{m,t}^{\rho}]^{\frac{1}{\rho}}\exp(\mu_t),\]
and, in the AD model, they are:
\[q_t = \phi[\beta_1 V_{1,t}^{\rho} + \beta_2 V_{2,t}^{\rho} + \dots + (1 - \sum_n\beta_n)V_{m,t}^{\rho}]^{\frac{1}{\rho}} + \mu_t.\]
We then need to estimate an unknown vector of $\theta = (\phi, \beta_{1}, \beta_{2},\dots, \beta_n, \dots, \beta_{m-1}, \rho)'$ with $m + 1$ elements, where $n = 1, 2, \dots, m-1$ and $m$ is the total number of inputs. Both the standard and general form of the CES production function in the MD model are included in the demo of example 2.
Similar to Example 1, we estimate the unknown vector of parameters $\theta$ by minimizing the Sum of Squared Errors (SSE) subject to the CES production function having either additive (AD) and multiplicative (MD) error terms. We report estimator of unknown vector $\hat\theta$, estimated variances based on the diagonal elements of the covariance matrix $\hat{V}_{\hat{\theta}}$, and t-statistics as well as p-values as we did in Example 1.
We have implemented a nonlinear least squares model with a CES production function and multiplicative error terms. Click here to experiment with the demo of Example 2. The implementation was inspired by Erwin Kalvelagen's work (2007) on econometric modeling in GAMS.
Multiplicative Disturbance
A printable version of the nonlinear least squares model with the multiplicative error terms is here: ces_md_gdx.gms for gdx input and ces_md_txt.gms for text input.
Additive Disturbance
A printable version of the nonlinear least squares model with the additive error terms is here: ces_ad_gdx.gms for GAMS data exchange (gdx) format input and ces_ad_txt.gms for text input.
Mizon, Grayham E. 1977. Inferential Procedures in Nonlinear Models: An Application in a UK Industrial Cross Section Study of Factor Substitution and Returns to Scale. Econometrica 45(5), 1221-1242.
Kalvelagen, Erwin. 2007. Least Squares Calculations with GAMS. Available for download at http://www.amsterdamoptimization.com/pdf/ols.pdf.
Greene, William. 2011. Econometrics Analysis, 7th ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Optimization Category (Linear Programing, Integer, MIP and etc.):
Nonlinear Least Squares
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The length on this coaster is stupidly short. I mean 1640ft is even shorter than Full Throttle! And that's known as a one trick pony! This coaster is gonna be that but better!
Looking forward to seeing this go up, the end of the layout seems a little lacking but I think the first few elements should be pretty fun!
nevermind, I guess it was the angle.
That drop looks so bizarre, can't wait to try this out.
I can't quite work out how it'll feel, sort 0g inverted drop perhaps?
I'm thinking hangtime, into zero g portion so you stay out of your seat. That's why they extend the shaping. If it was a more concise shape, you'd hit the positives earlier. I like it.
Some pretty shots in there!
Looks like a fun but short ride. Can't wait to try it myself.
Actually looks better than the intial layout suggested!


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Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) has suggested that a producer responsibility scheme for mattress recycling could be introduced in Scotland.
Chief executive Ian Gulland said the Scottish Government should consider adopting such programme, referencing a similar scheme in the US.
The world's first such scheme went live in Connecticut in May, and California and Rhode Island have plans to introduce one.
The Connecticut scheme is funded by a $9 (£6) levy on new mattress and bed base purchases. It supports a freely accessible collection and drop-off system to capture them at end-of-life. It is predicted to support hundreds of jobs.
Gulland (left) wrote in his blog: "We've researched it previously and the analysis suggests it would work in our system. Somewhat ironically, our work was used in creating the business case for the California scheme.
"It is not about shifting the financial burden from one place to another or hitting often arbitrary recycling rates.
Gulland's call came in response to environment secretary Richard Lochhead telling the Scottish Parliament he was looking for fresh initiatives to follow the introduction of the 5p carrier bag charge.
Gulland said he would propose the introduction of the mattress scheme ahead of the drinks deposit return programme, as ZWS was "seeking further evidence on its pros and cons".


Above are scenes from the McCurtain-Keota basketball games on Friday.
McCurtain girls basketball players gather with Elisha Lovell (back center) after the girls game. Jason "Wally" Lovell, husband of Elisha and father of one of the McCurtain players, Ashlie Lovell, passed away Nov. 26 and his funeral was on the day of the game.
Keota's Mariah Byrd (left) slaps hands with Lexi McClary (right) during player introductions.
Keota's Piper Reed bears down on McCurtain's Ashlie Lovell before Lovell goes to score.
McCurtain's Rachel Myers hits a three-pointer.
McCurtain boys basketball players charge out before the game.
Keota's Chaz Williams throws a pass.
Keota's Brandon Geer flies to the basket through contact from McCurtain's Bruce Mahnken.
McCurtain's Hagen Glenn turns to bring the ball up the floor.
McCurtain's Ethan Satterfield looks to pass.


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Tetsuya Kakihara
Seiyuu Animedia unveils lineup for January 2023 issue
Hiroshi Kamiya and Tetsuya Kakihara grace the covers of Seiyuu Animedia's January 2023 issue.
Review | Tetsuya Kakihara "DON'T LET MI KNOW"
"DON'T LET MI KNOW" further explores the maturity that Tetsuya Kakihara has been bringing to his music through a set of cool performances.
Seiyuu Grandprix unveils lineup for May 2022 issue
The lineup for Seiyuu Grandprix's May 2022 issue is out. Takuya Eguchi, Tetsuya Kakihara Ise and more are featured in this issue.
Tetsuya Kakihara releases digest video of Don't Let Mi Fall in LOVE live tour
Kiramune released a digest video of Tetsuya Kakihara's ongoing live tour "Don't Let Mi Fall in LOVE".
Monthly TV Guide unveils lineup for January 2022 issue
Monthly TV Guide unveiled the lineup for its January 2022 issue. Tetsuya Kakihara is featured in this issue.
Tetsuya Kakihara to kick off Don't Let Mi Fall in LOVE live tour in 2022
The talented seiyuu and solo artist is back to touring. Tetsuya Kakihara's Don't Let Mi Fall in LOVE tour kicks off in 2022.
Tetsuya Kakihara unveils details on "DON'T LET MI KNOW"
Kiramune announced that Tetsuya Kakihara is set to release new music on his birthday. Get to know the first details on "DON'T LET MI KNOW".
Kiramune releases digest video of Tetsuya Kakihara × Nobuhiko Okamoto's "LOVE ENJOY"
Kiramune gives you a taste of Tetsuya Kakihara and Nobuhiko Okamoto's collaboration event held this past February.


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Kenocymbium is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie hangmatspinnen (Linyphiidae).

Soorten
De volgende soorten zijn bij het geslacht ingedeeld:
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Service Disruption 2020
In the second half of 2020 Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre will be moving to a new building on the Lambeth Palace site. This will mean that at certain times one or both of the reading rooms may be closed, may have reduced opening hours or that access to particular collections may be restricted. There might also be a delay in answering some types of enquiries. We anticipate that normal service will resume early in 2021. Information will be posted here as soon as it becomes available. Please check before you travel and contact us at archives@churchofengland.org if you have any questions.
Tuesday 4 June, 5.30pm (admittance not before 5pm)
Dr Jean-Pascal Pouzet (University of Limoges and CESCM, Poitiers): 'The Library of Richard Holdsworth (1590-1649): New Light on the Manuscripts'.
Richard Holdsworth – academic, preacher, theologian and bibliophile – bequeathed his entire library to the University of Cambridge, comprising more than 10,000 volumes (some 185 manuscripts, 215 incunables and 9,695 printed books). On its arrival in 1664, this amounted to a second foundation of Cambridge University Library, but it has barely been studied at all. This presentation offers a survey of current research on the collection, together with the first tangible results on Holdsworth's manuscripts, set within a broader frame of reflection about the process of bibliographic and bibliophilic creation. In association with the University of London research seminar on the History of Libraries.
All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://jeanpascalpouzetlambeth.eventbrite.co.uk, or email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org not later than Friday 31 May.
Tuesday 2 July, 6 pm (entrance not before 5.30 pm)
Judith Maltby and Alison Shell, 'Excellent Women: the tradition of Anglican female novelists'.
What do the novelists Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte M. Yonge, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rose Macaulay, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D. James have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This talk, given by the co-editors of the essay collection Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James (Bloomsbury) will explore the relationship between Anglicanism, fiction and women's writing, and be followed by a launch for the book.
All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://judithmaltbyalisonshelllambeth.eventbrite.co.ukor email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.orgnot later than Friday 28 June.
Monday 8 July, 4pm (admittance not before 3.30pm)
Annual General Meeting of the Church of England Record Society, followed by a public lecture by Professor Stephen Taylor (Durham University): Why study the history of the Church? Reflections on English history from the 17th to the 19th century.
All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://coerecordsocietylambeth.eventbrite.co.uk or email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.orgnot later than Tuesday 2 July.
Wednesday 17 July, 2.30pm (admittance not before 2pm)
Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by a lecture by Professor Nicholas Vincent: 'Translating Becket: New Themes, New Meanings in the Life and Afterlife of St Thomas of Canterbury 1170-2020'.
Professor Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia) has published widely on English and European history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, most recently on King John and Magna Carta.This lecture anticipates the 850th anniversary of Becket's martyrdom next year and will be accompanied by a display of related manuscripts from the Library's collections. This meeting, open to Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, will be followed by tea.
Friends should book in advance with Melissa Harrison, Lambeth Palace Library, melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org or telephone 020 7898 1400, not later than Friday 5 July. Please join the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/content/friends
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Random Friday Thoughts — March 2, 2018 | What's Peeps Thinking About Now? It's Probably Random!
I remember Ted Kopel and Nightline when it first started. It was more in depth than the National News at 6pm. I guess they thought the kids were in bed at 10:30 pm and they could take the gloves off and be a little more frank and honest about the intensity of the situation. I would stay up late to watch it.
Spring has sprung here Anthony. Temps are warming, the trees are budding and starting to leaf, and the robins are back. All in all, the old body is waking up and starting to plan the projects for this year. i hope the Spring brings you some happiness.
It's crazy to think of a time when we only had an evening national newscast on each of the three networks and they only had about 22 minutes of news time for national and international news!
Happiness is welcome in any season, but I'm just looking past spring and summer…. to new beginnings.
Good thoughts, once again. I remember watching Walter's news as a kid. Also enjoyed David Brinkley. I haven't seen ANY of this year's Oscar contenders, but that won't keep me from watching the Oscars. It's fun to see everyone trying to out do each other with their "bling" & fashion statements. Some of the speeches are heartfelt while others are a big bore! Yes, it is FINALLY nice to see the signs of spring returning to the Midwest! A HUGE flock of snow geese flew over the Burg a few days ago. It almost felt like night time had fallen…..the sky was so black! I sure wouldn't have gone outside without an umbrella that day! 😎 Stay safe & well!
Thank you very much for checking out my thoughts and sharing yours.
I'll definitely be checking out the winners very, very early Monday morning, but with my schedule, I don't get to watch them live.
Enjoy your weekend and spring.
You're too kind to think of that.