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March 17, 2021
The current world speed sailing record of 121 kph (75 mph) was set in 2012, but a 40-person team of students and early career engineers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) is working to blow that long-standing achievement out of the water.
They have designed what they hope will be the world's fastest sailboat, which they're calling the SP80. Their goal is to achieve a history-making average speed of 150 kph (93 mph) over a one-way, 500-meter (one-third mile) distance during the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC)'s 2022 season.
Considering the SP80 is expected to go two or three times wind speed, it's not surprising that it looks nothing like a conventional sailboat. It doesn't behave like one, either.
For example, instead of sails for propulsion, the SP80 is outfitted with a kitesurf wing, which generates more power while helping the boat remain stable at high speeds. The SP80 also has ventilating hydrofoils — winglike appendages that hook the hull in the water to keep the boat from lifting out completely — that the team simulated and validated in Ansys Fluent. The hydrofoils are the only parts of the SP80 that actually enter the water.
Given the goal of setting a speed record, using a kitesurf wing was an obvious choice, according to Mayeul van den Broek, who co-founded the project with with Xavier Lepercq and kitesurfer Benoit Gaudiot in 2018. With that piece of the design puzzle in place, the team spent more than a year looking at different configurations. Much of their work centered around optimizing hydrodynamics to ensure that at top speed the boat and the hydrofoils would remain in contact with the water and not send the boat sailing into the air.
"We're making something new, and we need to learn how it will perform. Simulation is the perfect tool."
- Benoit Gaudiot
First, the team had to understand the effect of cavitation on the hydrofoil's lifting surface. Cavitation occurs when there are rapid changes in water pressure as the boat's speed increases, creating bubbles that lead to small, vapor-filled cavities on the top of the hydrofoil. The vapor bubbles cause instability, draft and vibration that impede acceleration.
Cavitation is a problem for conventional drop-shaped hydrofoil profiles, but it occurs less frequently with — and may even be prevented by — triangular-shaped ventilating profiles.
However, ventilating hydrofoils are not widely used and recent research into them is scarce. To determine if the profile really was the optimal shape for the SP80, the team combined experimental and numerical tests. Gaudiot, who will pilot the SP80 in its record-setting attempt, began by taking to the water to validate the hydrofoil concept at high speed.
"I had a real feeling of stability at high speeds," he said. "We reached more than 40 knots easily and without struggling to accelerate or stay on the board."
At this point, the team had already tested more than 20 different hydrofoil profiles using a cavitation tunnel and numerical simulation in Fluent. CADFEM, a leading provider for simulation-based engineering and an Ansys channel partner, advised the students and engineers throughout the simulation process.
To simplify the problem and avoid modeling the free surface, which can be very complex, studies began in 2D. The team then refined all the solver parameters before transposing the settings to a 3D model. Using Fluent enabled them to generate more than 500 simulations in record time. The results obtained from Fluent were fed into a neural network, making it possible to predict the performance of any form of hydrofoil.
The EPFL team is now testing a reduced-scale prototype of the SP80. Construction of the unique, futuristic craft is expected to begin in March 2021.
Gaudiot said that Fluent enabled the team to virtually test a very large number of designs and explore shapes they might not have thought of otherwise. Perhaps best of all, the group confirmed a performance gain of almost 20%, which translates into more speed.
"We're making something new, and we need to learn how it will perform," he said. "Simulation is the perfect tool."
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Through special events and acts of remembrance, we recognize the sacrifices our Veterans made.The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia provides an opportunity for youth to send postcards to express messages of thanks to those who served in the military. This learning activity allows youth to actively remember the sacrifices and achievements of Veterans.
Our postcards will be distrubuted to Veterans through the Center's Thank a Vet Program.
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§4-2C-1. Judicial Compensation Commission established; membership.
(a) The Judicial Compensation Commission is hereby established as an advisory commission to the West Virginia Legislature. The commission shall be responsible for studying the compensation structure for justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges, magistrates and any other judicial officer subject to election and which office requires the judge to hold a professional license to serve in that position. The commission shall also be responsible for determining and making recommendation as to the adequate compensation for those positions to ensure that highly qualified persons will be attracted to serve on the bench.
(b)The commission shall be comprised of the following five members:
(1) The Dean of the West Virginia University College of Law;
(2) Two individuals appointed by the President of the Senate; and
(3) Two individuals appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates.
(c) Any person appointed to serve on the commission pursuant to subdivisions (2) and (3), subsection (b) of this section shall serve for four years: Provided, That no public employee, elected public official, person receiving a pension from the State of West Virginia, member of the West Virginia State Bar or officer of a state or county political party executive committee established pursuant to W.Va. Code §3-1-9 may be appointed pursuant to subdivision (2) or (3) subsection (b) of this section to serve on the commission. The initial appointments to the commission shall be made by July 1, 2016. Upon expiration of any term, the person previously appointed shall continue to serve until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified to serve on the commission.
(d) A member of the commission is not eligible for appointment to a state judicial position as long as he or she is serving as a member of the commission.
(e) The members of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed by the Joint Committee on Government and Finance for reasonable expenses incurred in carrying out the responsibilities of the commission. Commission members shall be reimbursed at the same rate established for public employees.
(f) In the event of a vacancy on the commission, the unexpired term shall be filled in the same manner used to make the original appointment within sixty days of the vacancy.


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Have you checked out the August special yet? You might think that it's a long way until you have to have Christmas cards, but those of you who make your own know that the time to get started is NOW!
And you might think that this stamp set is only for Christmas cards.
Think again!
Check this out!
You like? It sure does make me smile! (especially when I show you the greeting inside.)
I think I may have found an addition to one of our latest favorite color combinations:
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- Berry Burst
- Whisper White
We're even sharing how we stamped the inside using the same set as we used for the greeting on the front (AND for yesterday's card too):
Color is SO important, don't you agree?
The inside and the outside of the card coordinate and use stamps from the Carols of Christmas stamp set. It all just flows!
Do you notice the little rhinestones? This dog loves a little bling so I only put them on the Dapper Denim flowers so that they'd pop!
And the new Emerald Envy Crinkled Seam Binding is so light! It won't add to the weight of the card.
I swear that I didn't sleep on that ribbon! It came that way!
Now about that Carols of Christmas stamp set. You can get it in a bundle with the coordinating thinlets (but we didn't use them today). You can get it next month, but if you buy it THIS month, we've got EIGHT project tutorials we'll include! (4 various ones and 4 dedicated to the Carols of Christmas stamp set.)
Here's a close look, but I'll share a shopping list a little farther down.
All our online shopping guests get a handmade reusable card in their mailbox AND at least 4 free project tutorials in their inbox.
Remember to use our current shopping code U6JW9ZSE when you're visiting our online store so that we can give you even more:
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College students graduate on average with more than $20,000 in debt by the time they earn their bachelor's degree. It costs them even more to get advanced degrees such as master's and doctorate degrees.
It makes sense, then, that new college students would want to study a field in which they can expect to make decent money. What degrees turn into the highest-paying careers? Try earning degrees in some form of engineering. If that isn't your speed, you can shoot for degrees in physics, economics or computer science. They all turn into careers that, on average, pay quite well.
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McElroy Announces New Broken Arrow Campus
McElroy has announced the addition of a campus in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, expanding their current presence in the Tulsa area.
McElroy, designer and manufacturer of thermoplastic fusion equipment, has announced the addition of a fourth campus, to be housed in the recently purchased facilities occupied by Baker Hughes in Broken Arrow, OK.
"Our 68-year-old, second-generation family business has been blessed with significant growth since our last expansions in 2005 and 2013. Our existing campuses are operating at near or full capacity, and over the last 18 months our company leadership has worked toward acquiring a new facility to address our market growth while maintaining our commitment to this great community where we live," said McElroy President and CEO Chip McElroy.
In 2005, McElroy made a long-term strategic decision that all their manufacturing facilities would remain in northeast Oklahoma, and they have not waivered on this commitment. Currently, McElroy operates with approximately 300,000 square feet of plant and office facilities covering 47 acres across three McElroy campuses, all in the Tulsa area. In the last decade, numerous product evolutions, along with product expansions, mean additional facilities are needed to support manufacturing and final assembly operations.
"We are excited to announce McElroy expanding to Broken Arrow. They have a strong and longstanding reputation in our region for being dedicated employers and for providing innovative quality products. This is definitely a win for Broken Arrow and we are thrilled they will continue their upward trajectory in this facility. We believe they will be incredible partners with our community." said Jennifer Conway, President and CEO of Broken Arrow Chamber and Economic Development Corporation.
This new facility will provide an additional 193,000 square feet of space for McElroy operations, including a planned showcase assembly operation responsible for roughly 40% of McElroy's annual business. The extensive office space available at the new Broken Arrow Campus will allow McElroy to relocate all customer-facing departments while providing for future growth needs as well. Other McElroy facilities at 5124 South 100th East Avenue and the legacy facilities at 833 North Fulton will be repurposed to support other product families in the growing product line.
"Broken Arrow is a great city to do business in and we welcome McElroy. Our city continues to see growth and economic development thanks to announcements like this" said Michael Spurgeon, Broken Arrow City Manager.
"This acquisition will pave the way for our growth over the next decade," McElroy said. "It's exciting how well this industrial facility fits our needs, and we are equally proud to be increasing our investment and commitment to the greater northeastern Oklahoma region. We are passionate about this business, and care deeply about creating a great work home for the approximately 370 employees that we consider part of our extended 'family' and who make McElroy what it is today."


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Aug 19, 2021
By Gavin Day
After spending Wednesday campaigning in Quebec, Conservative leader Erin O'Toole crossed over into Ontario to talk about his party's housing plan.
The Conservatives say they can bring down housing costs by building a million homes over three years. They also plan to raise barriers for foreign investors looking to park their cash in Canadian real estate.
O'Toole says he welcomes foreign investment but says if they insist on investing in housing, that they should add to the rental housing stock in the country.
"The one thing I'm hearing across the country is people can't keep up with the rising costs of living," said O'Toole. "Wages aren't going up. Canad's recovery plan is all about getting wages up, getting people working, tackling rising prices and giving Canadians a break."
The Canadian Real Estate Association says the average home-sale price spiked 26% year-over-year in June to $679,000. Activity also rose 14%.
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#Chinas #Communist #Party #Congress #open #October
China's ruling Communist Party will begin its 20th Party Congress on October 16, state media reported Tuesday, a landmark meeting at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be anointed as the country's most powerful leader in decades.
The meeting in the capital Beijing is widely expected to see Xi reinstated as president for an unprecedented third term.
It will also see the unveiling of a new top leadership line-up, as Xi consolidates his grip on the party and his position as the most powerful Chinese leader since the country's founder Mao Zedong.
The congress — held every five years — will be an "extremely important conference", according to a report by state broadcaster CCTV on a Monday meeting of the country's 25-member Politburo.
Preparatory work for the conference is "progressing smoothly", the report added.
The event will see about 2,300 Communist Party delegates from across the country descend on Beijing in a highly choreographed exercise to pick members of the party's Central Committee of around 200 members.
The final meeting of the current Central Committee will take place in Beijing from October 9, the report said.
The Central Committee will then vote for the 25-person Politburo and its all-powerful Standing Committee — China's highest leadership body and apex of power, currently comprised of seven people.
Voting is mostly a formality — the pecking order of the Politburo and its Standing Committee is likely to have been decided well in advance.
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The congress comes as Xi faces significant political headwinds, including an ailing economy, deteriorating relations with the United States and a strict zero-Covid policy that has accelerated China's inward turn from the world.
He has also faced harsh human rights criticism from the international community over repressive policies in the northwestern Xinjiang region, which have seen an estimated one million Muslim Uyghurs detained in a sweeping crackdown ostensibly targeting "terrorism".
His decade-long tenure has also seen crackdowns on corruption within the party, which analysts say served to take down his political rivals, as well as the crushing of a democracy movement in Hong Kong and strict lockdowns on cities in the name of curbing the coronavirus.
Xi also ushered in an assertive "Wolf Warrior" foreign policy that has alienated Western democracies and some of China's regional neighbours, and pushed for closer ties with Russia while cultivating domestic nationalism to rampant levels.
He abolished the presidential two-term limit in 2018 — originally set up by former leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s to prevent another Mao-like dictatorship — leaving the possibility of him becoming leader for life.
Over the past year, Chinese propaganda has worked in overdrive to bolster Xi's legacy, diminish the achievements of his predecessors and further enshrine him in the highest echelons of the Communist Party.
Analysts predict that at this year's congress, Xi will be looking to shorten the name of his official political philosophy in the party constitution to the pithier "Xi Jinping Thought", putting him on par with Mao.
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Ayena Cossoun Johannes, Tremblay Louis E., Otis Martin J.-D. et Ménélas Bob-Antoine-Jerry. (2018). Comparing auditory, visual and vibrotactile cues in individuals with Parkinson's disease for reducing risk of falling over different types of soil. Somatosensory & Motor Research, p. 1-9.
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URL officielle: http://dx.doi.org/doi.org/10.1080/08990220.2017.14...
Introduction: Several researches have demonstrated the positive benefits of auditory and visual cueing in the gait improvements among individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, few studies have evaluated the role of vibrotactile cueing when compared to auditory and visual cueing. In this paper, we compare how these stimuli affect the risk of falling while walking on six types of soil (concrete, sand, parquet, broken stone, and two types of carpet).
Methods: An instrumented Timed Up and Go (iTUG) test served to evaluate how audio, visual and vibrotactile cueing can affect the risk of falling of elderly. This pilot study proposes twelve participants with PD (67.7 ± 10.07 years) and nine age-matched controls (66.8 ± 8.0 years). Both groups performed the iTUG test with and without cueing. The cueing frequency was set at 10% above the cadence computed at the lower risk level of falling (walking over the concrete). A computed risk of falling (ROFA) index has been compared to the TUG time (total TUG duration).
Results: The index for evaluating the risk of falling appears to have a good reliability (ICC > 0.88) in this pilot study. In addition, the minimal detectable change (MDC) suggests that the proposed index could be more sensitive to the risk of falling variation compared to the TUG time. Moreover, while using the cueing, observed results suggest a significant decrease in the computed risk of falling compared to 'without cueing' for most of types of soil especially for deformable soils, which can lead to fall.
Conclusion: When compared to other cueing, it seems that audio could be a better neurofeedback for reducing the risk of falling over different walking surfaces, which represent important risk factors for persons with gait disorder or loss functional autonomy.
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|Article publié dans une revue avec comité d'évaluation
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|10 Janvier 2018
|Sciences naturelles et génie > Génie > Génie informatique et génie logiciel
|Département, module, service et unité de recherche:
|Départements et modules > Département des sciences appliquées > Module d'ingénierie
|falls, iTUG test, Parkinson's disease, cueing, chutes, test iTUG, maladie de Parkinson, repérage
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|12 janv. 2018 01:32
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Good job, Ria! Ria's Yukon adventure was three-fold. At the Yukon Regional PNT Finals, Ria was a member of the panel of judges and also gave two very successful performances. After the PNT event, Ria held her first ever major solo concert to a crowd of close to 400 (exceeding the expected turn out of 200) who cheered and sang with her.
Children in the audience could not help themselves from going to the front and even going on stage to join Ria, and even follow her throughout the hall as Ria went around the crowd as she performed. Ria has definitely sealed another title: she is a crowd darling wherever she goes! Our very young star has once again proven that she has the appeal to draw in tons of enthusiastic viewers not only because of her world-class performance but because of her down-to-earth charm and attitude.
Ria was also able to raise $297 for Make-A-Wish Foundation, her favourite charity, at the event. Way to go, Ria!
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I need to start this by saying how proud I am of my little chap. It was a bit daunting, inviting so many people to a party for a baby, everyone expecting to meet the new member of the family, how would he react? Would he be scared? Would we have to leave? In fact, to my relief, he was a perfect host! He had a nice power nap in the middle and cracked the most beautiful smiles. A social butterfly, dressed in red silk.
Traditionally in my husband's culture, the naming ceremony will happen on the 12 th day of a baby's life. The name is chosen based on their birth chart, by a priest of Vedic astrologer. There will be a small ritual and the baby's name is whispered into their ear, followed by a "welcome to the world" celebration. Rohan's name was selected before he was even born, so no astrological charts were studied, but he wasn't going to miss out on the "welcome to the world" celebration!
Nevertheless, Rohan's name is written in his stars. Rohan is a Sanskrit and Gaelic name, we were so happy to find a name we both loved which originated from both India and the British Isles. Funnily enough, he was born on the Christian festival of Ascension Day, a festival some of my family celebrate, and Rohan means "ascension" in Sanskrit.
It was wonderful to have members from both sides of the family with us (my mum and smallest sister came from England). I'm sure, as we live between two countries, this will be a rare occasion. We had fun decorating the stage with photographs of Rohan's first couple of months of life, his name in English and Devanagari (how did I do?), and all the clothes his family in England and India had lovingly knitted for him. We hired the same florist who decorated the hall for my baby shower (dohale jevan) and he pulled it out of the bag, once again.
First, a large brass weight dressed in Rohan's clothes was passed over, in and under the cradle a couple of times. It seemed like an elaborate symbolic ritual, but in fact this was just to make sure the cradle was safe. I placed him in the cradle, while his great-grandmother, grandmother and great aunts sang a folk song as he rocks back and forth.
The next ritual is a rare one. When a woman is blessed enough to become a great-grandmother ( panaji), flowers made of gold are placed on her head. This isn't a regular occurrence, so my mother-in-law struggled to find golden flowers. Thankfully she did, just in time. Grandma was over the moon. I want to take a gold flower back for each of Rohan's great grandmothers in England, when we visit.
Then we had the sweetest thing, Rohan's atya (his paternal aunt) and maushi (maternal aunt, my little sister) performed a dance together for Rohan (who had fallen asleep, but we'll show him the photos when he's older). My cousin-sister-in-law is a classically trained Kathak dancer, she is such an artist, and taught my sister a storytelling dance. The story of naughty baby Krishna stealing butter. Not only was it beautiful, I am so proud of my 14-year-old sister for being so brave, getting up on the stage and performing in front of so many people!
A Hindu naming ceremony can be compared to a Christening, and it was really interesting to see how many people gifted Rohan silver spoons and silver coins. This is also a Western tradition. I've seen several people in England request guests at their child's Christening to write a message to the new baby. We asked all of our guests to write words of wisdom for Rohan, and put them all in a jar. I want to add to the jar on his future celebrations and birthdays and give the jar to him on his sixteen birthday.
Oh, I feel emotional thinking about that!
It was a lovely evening, something I will hold in my heart forever. Thank you to everyone who came, and to those who sent wishes from a far. Welcome to the world, my sonshine.


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There was a point in the late '90s, just as the world prepared to welcome the new millenium, when it could be argued that Napster was as ubiquitous as Twitter is today. Everyone with a computer seemed to be using it, and the momentum behind the revolutionary file-sharing service seemed unstoppable as it swept up the entire music industry and forced us all – from the simple consumer to the presidents of record labels – to re-evaluate the way music is bought, sold, consumed, and, most importantly, shared.
And then the wheels fell off.
Proving to be the immovable object to Napster's unstoppable force, massive litigation slowed the file-sharing service's growth to a crawl in March 2001 when record companies won an injunction forcing it to limit the sharing of copyrighted material. Just a few months later, Napster finally collapsed under the weight of the various copyright-infringement lawsuits it had been fighting, and it eventually shut down in July 2001.
As one of the first peer-to-peer file-sharing services, Napster's rise and fall were equally meteoric, growing from a simple service that allowed a small group of computer programmers to share their digital music files with each other to a worldwide phenomenon with an estimated 80 million users at its peak – all over the course of just two frantic, highly publicized years. Its legacy, however, would be the dramatic shift in perspective it brought to the media industry regarding digital music, making it one of the earliest (and most prominent) shots fired in the digital revolution.
In his new documentary, Downloaded, filmmaker (and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-star) Alex Winter chronicles the early days of Napster through its unprecedented growth, legal battles, and final days with a mix of archival footage and interviews conducted over a ten-year span between 2002 and 2012. From the original Napster team and developers to the record company execs, lawyers, and musicians who found themselves caught up in the Napster storm, the interviews featured in the film offer a fascinating perspective on a cultural revolution that seemed to take everyone – including the Napster creators themselves – by surprise.
Downloaded is available now digitally via iTunes, Xbox, PlayStation Network, Amazon, and various other digital and Video On-Demand services. It's currently opening in select screenings around the country, and will air on VH1 in 2014. Digital Trends spoke with Winter about the film and why the story of Napster is still so important today.
As someone who jumped on the Napster train early and followed some of these developments closely, this film was a trip down memory lane for me. How about you? Where does your connection with Napster come from?
I was really interested in emerging technologies going all the way back to the late '80s. I do a lot of effects-driven work in commercials and advertising and movies and stuff, so I've always been pretty technically versed. The Internet started creeping into my business as early as the late '80s, and by the early '90s we were using it for all kinds of things. And then I got kind of hooked on BBS and newsgroups and what eventually became this global community. Nothing really moved with any speed for a really long time, though, and then suddenly – almost overnight – Napster changed all that.
Yeah, I remember it seemed to come out of nowhere, and suddenly everything else I was doing seemed to be moving a lot slower.
You said you experienced it, and I'm not sure to what degree you used Napster, but it was a huge change from anything we'd been dealing with up until then. Suddenly we had a global community that moved really, really fast. You could meet people all over the world and the Internet was suddenly being used to connect millions of people at the same time, all together at once. That just didn't exist before to that degree.
"The thing is, it was just too early to tell a story about the beginning of the digital revolution during the beginning of the digital revolution. In many ways, the Napster story is still too early to tell."
Yeah, "weird" is a good way of putting it, frankly. It just felt kind of weird. Like, what the hell is this?
So for all of us it was an extraordinary moment in time – one that we knew was going to change a lot of stuff. And it did. So I kind of sought out the Napster guys back in 2002 and was very eager to find a way to tell their story. It just took a very long time to get that made.
Why did it take so long to make this movie? And what is it that makes this the right time for it?
Well, I wrote it originally as a narrative. It was written as a dramatic movie originally at a major studio and then it went into turnaround at that studio. So I just ended up walking away from it. The thing is, it was just too early to tell a story about the beginning of the digital revolution during the beginning of the digital revolution. In many ways, the Napster story is still too early to tell. Many of the significant issues around the Napster debate are still unresolved.
I know this film has been 10 years in the making, but how long did it take you to get all of the interviews you conducted for the film? They seem to cover a pretty long period of time.
It didn't take too long. Once I decided to make it as a documentary, it took almost no time at all. And it just seemed very right at that point. By then, people were very aware of downloading. The iTunes store had legitimized the notion of people paying for content, which was initially a battle cry from the other side for a long time, that no one will ever pay for anything again. But iTunes proved that wasn't going to be the case, and that people weren't necessarily all criminals – they just wanted convenience and would pay for that convenience. So the industry had settled down and they were ready to accept a story about it now.
Given how contentious this topic was back then – and still is now to a degree – how did music companies respond to you pursuing all of this and wanting to make a movie about Napster?
Most of the people on the record industry side felt like they never had their story told, so I think they were kind of eager on a certain level to explain the gray area. They knew my movie was about the gray, and that I wasn't interested in a black-and-white story. I think that was something that they realized and why they were open to helping that story get told.
Did it seem as if any of these record company execs wished they had done something differently back in the day? I've always felt like there was a great opportunity they missed out on with Napster, and I got the impression that some of the execs you interviewed were leaning that way, too.
I think the point the record labels were making with me was that they felt there were many circumstances that caused Napster to be something they couldn't contend with, and that there were many circumstances that caused the record industry to lose as much revenue as it did that were not specific to downloading. I think those were issues that most people were not aware of, and that some of the people I interviewed were eager to make clear in the movie.
"This was a big movement that was hustling along at its own pace and these guys played a very big part in that."
I think it's possible, but I think they have a very sensible understanding of everything, and that frankly, it was what it was. [Napster] was ahead of its time and there was no really no way anyone was going to do business with them. That was just the sad reality of it.
I was really struck by one of the later interviews with Sean Parker, in which he says they really did believe that the record labels would eventually work with them – that they'd have to work with them because of how big Napster had become. And then everything happened the way it did. The film does a nice job of showing how they were carried along in this wave, and battered against the rocks at times, but learned from it. Did it feel like they changed a lot over the 10 years you were making this film?
The important thing about a revolution is that it's bigger than you. And while Fanning and Parker may look back on it and think, "Maybe I wouldn't have gotten involved at all if I knew what a headache it was going to be," the fact is that they were motivated and inspired enough to seize on a vision they had that was very revolutionary and disruptive, and they had the ability to actually code and implement that vision. That becomes a force of nature that, especially at that age, you don't really argue with. To look back years later is almost irrelevant in terms of the revolution itself, because it did happen and they did do it. I don't think they look back on it and think this messed up the world or "I wish we'd never done this." Change doesn't occur that way. It takes courage and a certain amount of madness and recklessness to enact change. It just does. That's not to say every change is a good change, but what these guys brought about is something that consumers and a lot of people in various technology sectors and entertainment sectors and the government are implementing now in various ways. We've gotten into much wider uses of the internet now for transparency and the flow of information. This was a big movement that was hustling along at its own pace and these guys played a very big part in that.
So what about you? What did you learn while making the film?
Well, I knew a lot about the story and I'd done an enormous amount of research but one of the primary things I learned of was the level of anger that still exists all these years later. We have all these completely legitimate systems for moving information and media around online and consumers have clearly stated how they want to consume their content and their information – and the level of privacy and security with which they want to do so – but there's so much obstruction and litigation and resistance to all of these changes. And the changes aren't even in-process anymore. They already happened. We're living in the aftermath of this stuff, but unfortunately we're not living in a very practical reality because a lot of the stuff still hasn't monetized, and there's still a lot of resistance to these systems. That was shocking to me when I got down and dirty with a lot of the people involved. To see the level of rage that still exists for these systems, and also to see the level of technological misunderstanding … People just don't understand these technologies because they don't really want to. They just want them to go away. But they're not going to go away.
"Unlike Pirate Bay and some of these brazenly piracy-oriented services, Napster was … two guys who very much wanted to be part of the music industry."
Not at all, because I never viewed Napster as a piracy service and never used it as a piracy service. Unlike Pirate Bay and some of these brazenly piracy-oriented services, Napster was a failed business. Napster was two guys who very much wanted to be part of the music industry. They were very young and very naive from a business standpoint, but that's what they wanted. They talked about how they wanted to do a deal with the labels, and they knew they couldn't survive if they didn't do a deal with the labels. That was the story. I never had any reservations about telling that story. It's a story about a failed business. That's the Napster story. Sure, there are people who may not agree with that, but that's my perspective on it. And I felt like I had an obligation to tell the story as I saw it.
Well, let's finish with the obligatory question about Bill & Ted. Are we any closer to seeing you and Keanu reprise those roles?
Hopefully, yeah!
So what's the latest update? And be honest with me: Is this a role you're even interested in stepping back into with everything else you have going on these days?
Yeah, absolutely. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out a good way into this story and we believe we've got one now. Because I believe we've got a great way into this story, it would be fun to make it. Me and Keanu and the writers are working on getting the story into shape, getting it financed, and getting it made. So, fingers crossed. We would like to see it get done.


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The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed head of Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts: minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal and Agatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island reliving the horrors of their heads-and playing right into the hands of a master manipulator. Collects HEAD LOPPER #1-4.


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Before I got into baseball I was—and I'm not at all ashamed to admit this—a huge NBA fan. As a kid college basketball was just something to watch to see who would get drafted and play next October. With that in mind, I hope my fellow NBA fans are enjoying this 2012 FInal Four slate, if for no reason other than to watch Anthony Davis do stereotypically Anthony Davis things for the Kentucky Wildcats. He's 6-7, because one of the things he does is be ridiculously efficient, with 11 rebounds, five blocks, and 15 points. He also did this:↵
He's a freshman. He won All The Awards. Some team is going to be very happy about winning the draft lottery, if I had to guess. And if you watch college basketball for reasons that extend beyond next year's NBA rookie of the year contenders, he's also doing some impressive things against the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals—the team you see there in neon orange, watching him go over that guy's back backwards.


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A conference was held by FARA at Whitehouse Hotel and Conference centre, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria on January 28 - 30, 2015. The event had participants from African region delegating on Innovation system Approach to Agriculture in Nigeria.
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With 27 other organisations and 15 social work experts, Article 39 has written to the Minister in charge of children's social care, Nadhim Zahawi MP, to urge him not to accept five recommendations in the fostering stocktake
The fostering stocktake was undertaken by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers. They made 36 recommendations in total, five of which concern the law (numbers 4, 6, 7, 8 and 33). If accepted by the Minister, the five legal recommendations would weaken children and young people's protections – affecting those entering care, living in care and leaving care.
Our joint letter can be viewed here (different site).
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Article 39
Association of Independent Visitors and Consultants to Child Care Services
Association of Lawyers for Children
Association of Professors of Social Work
British Association of Social Workers England
The Care Leavers' Association
Children England
Children's Rights Alliance for England
The Fostering Network
Howard League for Penal Reform
Independent Children's Homes Association
Legal Action for Women
The MAC Project (Central England Law Centre and the Astraea Project)
National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC)
National Association for Youth Justice
National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers
Napo: the professional association and trade union for Probation and Family Court workers
Parents of Traumatised Adopted Teens Organisation
Refugee Council
Siblings Together
Single Mothers' Self-Defence
Southwark Law Centre
South West London Law Centres
Dr Maggie Atkinson, freelance consultant and former Children's Commissioner for England
Dr Liz Davies, Emeritus Reader in Child Protection, London Metropolitan University
Brid Featherstone, Professor of Social Work, University of Huddersfield
Anna Gupta, Professor of Social Work, Royal Holloway University of London
Pam Hibbert OBE
Ray Jones, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Kingston University and St George's, University of London
Dr Mark Kerr, Managing Partner, The Centre for Outcomes of Care
Jenny Molloy, Author, Adviser and Trainer
Kate Morris, Professor of Social Work, University of Sheffield
Peter Saunders, Founder NAPAC
Mike Stein, Emeritus Professor, University of York
June Thoburn CBE, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of East Anglia
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Jane Tunstill, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Royal Holloway, London University
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Cameroon is expected to start mining diamonds next year.
Oscar Matip, the Director of Mines and Geology at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Technological Development told reporters on the 25th that "mining could begin a year from now.
The deposits were discovered in the Mobilong area in south-eastern Cameroon. The deposits are close to the borders with Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo, that are both well known for their diamonds.
The diamond output from the mine is expected to be 6 million carats per annum.
The exploration which was carried out by C&K Mining which is a joint-venture between a South Korean company and the Government of Cameroon. C & K is 80% owned by the Korean firm while to Government of Cameroon owns 20%. The exploration was carried out in 2008. The diamond reserves are estimated to be about 736 million carats. The diamond mining industry is also expected to provide over 3000 direct jobs. The mining project is also expected to boost the socio-economic status of the people living in the region by the construction of new roads, hospitals, transport, water points and schools.
According to Reuters the worlds biggest diamond miner Debswana has the capacity to produce 33 million carats per year.


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I have previously criticized Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her continued political comments in speeches to liberal and academic groups. While not unique on the Court, Ginsburg is something of recidivist in abandoning the long-standing avoidance of justices of political discussions. Indeed, justices previously avoided most public speeches where Ginsburg has readily embraced her public persona. Her latest comments occur on the eve of the start of the new term, a term with an array of major cases that arose from highly charged political conflicts over immigration, discrimination, and gun rights. In her latest comments, Ginsburg echoed comments by Hillary Clinton that sexism was a big part of Trump's victory. It is precisely the type of political commentary that has cast a shadow over the credibility of the Court in earlier controversies.
I have long been a critic of Supreme Court justices embracing the era of what I have called "the celebrity justice." Justices are increasingly appearing before highly ideological groups and inappropriately discussing thinly veiled political subjects or even pending issues. I have been equally critical of other justices, including the late Antonin Scalia, for such comments. She previously called President Trump a "faker." Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a notable recidivist in this type of conduct and does not appear to be deterred by criticism that she is undermining the integrity of the Court. She is back at it with a new interview with the BBC. Even after criticism for earlier comments, Ginsburg continued to publicly discuss the unfortunate times brought about with Trump.
Ginsburg, 84, has taken subtle and not so subtle shots at Trump, including expressing how the US is "not experiencing the best of times." She appeared to assure Democrats that the "pendulum" will swing back. In her appearance before an enthusiastic audience at New York City's 92nd St. Y, Ginsburg responded to a question from CBS journalist Charlie Rose on whether she thought sexism played a role in the presidential election results. The right answer is to say that justices do not, and should not, hold forth on political issues. Ginsburg, again, dove right into the political waters and said that she has "no doubt that [sexism] did" play a role and added "There are so many things that might have been decisive. But that was a major, major factor."
Hillary Clinton and her key aides have blamed the election in part on self-hating women who would not vote for Clinton — dismissing that women could have entirely independent judgment rejecting Clinton on the merits. Indeed recent polls show that Clinton would still lose to Trump despite his unpopularity with many voters. According to the New York Times, Clinton carried only 54 percent of the female vote against Donald Trump. However, nearly twice as many white women without college degrees voted for Trump than for Hillary and she basically broke almost even on college-educated white women (with Hillary taking 51 percent). Trump won the majority of white women at 53 percent. Clinton's continued criticism of women as being self-haters was denounced recently as itself a sexist argument. In an interview with Vox, Clinton said white women just do what men tell them to do:
"All of a sudden, the husband turns to the wife, 'I told you, she's going to be in jail. You don't wanna waste your vote.' The boyfriend turns to the girlfriend and says, 'She's going to get locked up, don't you hear? She's going to get locked up. Instead of saying, 'I'm taking a chance, I'm going to vote,' it didn't work."
It is not hard to imagine what the response would have been to someone else dismissing female voters as just a bunch of clinging mindless voters following the directions of their men.
In the end however Clinton is a politician desperately trying to relieve herself of the primary responsibility losing to the least popular Republican ever to be elected in modern times. Ginsburg is a justice who is about to vote on issues that deeply divide this nation. With her continued refusal (despite prior expressions of regrets) from discussing politics, Ginsburg is undermining not only her own impressive legacy but the integrity of the Supreme Court.


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For Immediate Release
February 12, 2021
Rebecca McLeod, Public Health Director
Lisa Moore, Burke County Public Information Officer
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Burke County Reports Four Additional Deaths
Morganton, NC: Burke County Public Health was notified and is reporting the one hundred thirty, one hundred thirty-first, one hundred thirty-second, and one hundred thirty-third COVID-19 related and associated deaths in Burke County. The individuals: one in their 70's, two in their 80's and one in their 90's were not hospitalized before they died. Three individuals died from COVID-19 medical complications, and one individual died from complications related to their medical condition. To protect the family's privacy, no further information about the patients will be released.
"We are so sorry to continue to report these deaths and want to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of these individuals", said Burke County Health Director Rebecca McLeod. "The health of our residents is a top priority of Public Health and its partners. It is still vitally important to continue to practice the preventive measures with the 3 W's to help slow the spread of this virus, but it is important to remember that even if you receive the COVID-19 vaccine that you will still need to practice the 3 W's because the population vaccinated is still very low. We continue to ask residents to please stay at home when they are sick with any symptoms and not visit family, friends, events, etc. to reduce the chance of passing COVID-19 and other infections."
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All about what is in Orange County, North Carolina, for a genealogist.
Just a quick note… Found this on the NC Genealogy Facebook page and felt it was worth sharing here. It also has won an award from the North Carolina Genealogical Society for Excellence in Web Presence. Kudos to David M. McCorkle and his website.… Continue Reading "NC Land Grants Website"


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Victim reported that upon returning to her vehicle she observed that her rear window had been smashed. Nothing appeared to be missing.
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Reporting party states that she was house sitting her friend's home and when she went to check on the house she observed that the first floor, side room door was open. She observed that a bag containing two boxes of creams/lotions valued each at $300 was missing. Further investigation also revealed that the computer in this room was malfunctioning.
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Police were dispatched to a report of a domestic dispute. Upon arrival police meet the victim who stated that she and her boyfriend were engaged in an argument, during which he slammed a door closed on her fingers. He was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Running back Ahmad Bradshaw, tackle David Diehl and wide receiver Domenik Hixon were knocked out of the New York Giants' game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with injuries in the first half Sunday.
Hixon suffered a concussion after taking a hard helmet-to-helmet hit from linebacker Mason Foster following a 12-yard catch to the Bucs 4.
Diehl, New York's most versatile offensive lineman, went down with a right knee injury two plays. He walked to the locker room under his own power but he was ruled out minutes later.
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T-Mobile, Sprint announce possible delays for Samsung Galaxy S III
Samsung has seen tremendous success with its Galaxy S line of phones, so the company decided to expand that line with the Galaxy S III. Unfortunately, that success seems to have caused a problem for Samsung: both Sprint and T-Mobile announced today that their versions of the phone may see delays due to customer demand.
Sprint explained to The Verge what its customers should expect. Here is part of that release:
We are optimistic that we'll be shipping all Samsung Galaxy S III-16GB pre-orders this week and that they will be delivered by June 21 as anticipated. There is a chance, however, that we may be a day or two late. We anticipate shipping all Samsung Galaxy S III-32GB pre-orders next week. To check the status of your pre-order, please visit www.sprint.com/myorder.
T-Mobile is also facing problems regarding deliveries. "Customer demand will exceed the expected launch quantity available," the company said to TmoNews. T-Mobile didn't tell its customers whether their phones will ship on the originally-planned date; rather, the company stated that only 29 markets will see a launch on June 21st – and only "a limited amount" will be available online. The rest of the US will see a launch on June 27th, which is next Friday.
I hate to see delays for any device, but I do think a delay caused by popularity is better than a delay caused by the company itself. And, to be fair, these two carriers are promising availability everywhere for the week after the original launch date. At least it's not longer than seven days.
Do these two delays affect any of you?[The Verge | TmoNews]


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Last night I saw the news about one of our health department officials saying that firecrackers should (or ought to) be banned. He did acknowledge that would be a difficult thing to do, though.
The news then reported that some domestic and international flights were canceled due to smog, smog especially caused by all the smoke from exploding firecrackers last New Year's eve. Sigh, how embarrassing.
Personally, I have no problem with that. I imagine others will, of course, especially those who enjoy it.
I'd say limit the sale of firecrackers to private entities for "personal purposes" only, namely to light them and not resell them to individuals. Many malls around here do such especially and exclusively to greet New Years like recently.
Surely, firecracker businesses will object to that since it'll affect their bottom line. They may not make as much as they probably used to, but they can still make money selling only to "materially responsible" groups.
And of course, turning it into law and especially enforcing it will be difficult. I wish political will is sufficient, though political will can only do much if many people are especially stubborn about it.
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John Fitzpatrick
PhD Evolutionary Biology
Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2016
Stockholm University
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Evolutionary development of animal traits and sexual selection.
Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2016
Stockholm University
Research field:
Evolutionary development of animal traits and sexual selection.
Fitzpatrick's lab houses 3000 aquariums containing small fish such as halfbeaks and guppies. The experiments carried out here include studying the mating behavior and sperm of the fish.
The halfbeak produces live young, and makes a good subject for study, since it lives close to the surface, as Fitzpatrick explains on a tour of the laboratory:
"They're easy to monitor, and offer a good biological system for studying the interaction between males, and between males and females. Factors we are examining include competition between males, the importance of coloration and markings, and sperm quality."
The huge variation in colors and shapes displayed by animals arises as a result both of natural and sexual selection. Fitzpatrick's research team is studying both of these selective forces.
"Survival and reproduction are the two central driving forces in evolution theory. But it's no use surviving if you can't reproduce. Darwin realized this 150 years ago, and we're still struggling to understand how it all fits together. I think that what happens is a very powerful form of selection for reproduction."
Interaction between the individual halfbeaks is recorded in "the behavior room" with the help of very high definition cameras, and a 3D tracking system. The activities of the fish are then analyzed using special computer software. Their sperm is studied in the same way.
"We can perform many sophisticated analyses to study sperm quality. The techniques are the same as those used at infertility clinics to measure and evaluate the quality of human sperm. The factors we study include how quickly the sperm swim, their shape, and how varied they are – we can also examine DNA damage inside the cell."
Even as a child back home in Canada, Fitzpatrick was interested in fish. He spent many happy days fishing.
"I think it sowed the seeds of my future career. In my early research I studied salmon and their reproduction. It was great fun, and an excellent gateway to the science of ethology, i.e. the study of animal behavior."
After graduating in zoology, Fitzpatrick received a PhD from McMaster University in Canada. His research was carried out in Zambia on cichlids, a colorful perch-like fish, which, as he points out, is often found in aquariums in doctors' waiting rooms. Before joining Stockholm University in 2015 he had also researched in Australia and the U.K.
"Sweden offers a fantastic research environment for the study of evolutionary biology. Being able to build up a lab and a research team here is a dream come true."
"It's a privilege to be given this opportunity. It gives me the security to think bigger and aim higher. I can take the risk of really addressing unresolved issues in my field, and study them over a longer period."
A central question in sexual selection is how animals maintain the variation in their traits. Fitzpatrick explains:
"If production of bright colors attracts females, for example, why don't all males produce bright colors? We scientists know that evolution doesn't make changes for no reason. There's always a trade-off, and there are also numerous complicating factors involved in reproduction. We're trying to address all aspects of this reproductive complexity, to obtain a broader picture of the traits that really do influence sexual selection."
Another question they want to resolve is whether the method of reproduction plays a part in determining sexual selected traits and selection – whether species have been influenced by evolving from laying eggs to giving birth to live young, for instance.
The goal of the project that Fitzpatrick is conducting as a Wallenberg Academy Fellow is to gain a coherent understanding of sexual evolution throughout all branches of the animal family tree. In addition to laboratory experiments on specific fish, there is an extensive project to create evolutionary models based on large quantities of data.
"We have spent a year collecting a huge quantity of data on more than 4,000 species. The next project will cover 25,000 species. It's about understanding evolutionary transitions, specifically the evolution of sperm in various animal species. We are studying 400 million years of evolution, and how an individual cell type reacts over time. The next step is to understand how evolution acts on the whole animal."
Studies of this kind have been made possible in recent years by the availability of much more biological data.
"It's fantastic and exciting, but it also creates multiple challenges. We may be the first to try to answer these questions. So it's important to get it right, to know that the science and the analysis behind the results are solid," says Fitzpatrick.
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Translation Maxwell Arding
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(CLICK THE PICTURE) Good morning everyone. Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice! What a wonderful day and a wonderful time to be a child if God. WE NOW HAVE TO PUT IN THE WORK!
Let's eat.
Fruit bearing
Abiding in Christ
John 15:1-8 –
"I am the true Vine, and my Father is the Gardener. He lops off every branch that doesn't produce. And he prunes those branches that bear fruit for even larger crops. He has already tended you by pruning you back for greater strength and usefulness by means of the commands I gave you. Take care to live in me, and let me live in you. For a branch can't produce fruit when severed from the vine. Nor can you be fruitful apart from me. "Yes, I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him shall produce a large crop of fruit. For apart from me you can't do a thing. If anyone separates from me, he is thrown away like a useless branch, withers, and is gathered into a pile with all the others and burned. But if you stay in me and obey my commands, you may ask any request you like, and it will be granted! My true disciples produce bountiful harvests. This brings great glory to my Father.
It's Secret, the Indwelling Spirit
Galatians 5:16-23 –
I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to. For we naturally love to do evil things that are just the opposite from the things that the Holy Spirit tells us to do; and the good things we want to do when the Spirit has his way with us are just the opposite of our natural desires. These two forces within us are constantly fighting each other to win control over us, and our wishes are never free from their pressures. When you are guided by the Holy Spirit you need no longer force yourself to obey Jewish laws. But when you follow your own wrong inclinations your lives will produce these evil results: impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, spiritism (that is, encouraging the activity of demons), hatred and fighting, jealousy and anger, constant effort to get the best for yourself, complaints and criticisms, the feeling that everyone else is wrong except those in your own little group–and there will be wrong doctrine, envy, murder, drunkenness, wild parties, and all that sort of thing. Let me tell you again as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control; and here there is no conflict with Jewish laws.
It's Power, Holiness to God
Romans 6:22 –
But now you are free from the power of sin and are slaves of God, and his benefits to you include holiness and everlasting life.
It's Character
Romans 6:23 –
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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For the fifth year in a row, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library system has received the highest possible rating in the Library Journal's 2013 Index of Public Library Service. The five-star rating is given to the top U.S. libraries each year.
Heights Libraries has earned five stars in five out of the six years that Library Journal has published the ratings, starting in 2008. Library Journal is a trade journal that reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and has a nation-wide circulation of 100,000.
Libraries are categorized by yearly expenditure and rated on four criteria: circulation, visits, program attendance, and Internet terminal use (public computers). Heights Libraries circulation came in at 31.5 per capita in our service area, meaning that 31.5 items were circulated for every resident in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights service area. Visits per capita averaged 18.8, program attendance averaged 0.6, and public computer use came in at 5.2 per capita.
"This shows what we've known all along: people in our community are using the library regularly," says Heights Libraries Director Nancy Levin. "For many customers we've become that 'third place,' the place besides work and home where they like to be. We are always busy, and I don't see that trend reversing anytime soon."
Levin continues, "Our community depends on us more than ever for everything from free entertainment with books and DVDs and fun programs, to more crucial things like access to the Internet, employment and business resources, free computer classes, and facilities for important community events like the political debates sponsored by the area League of Women Voters."
Heights Libraries wasn't the only other Cuyahoga County area library receiving Star Awards; other area libraries to win are Cleveland Public (4 stars), Cuyahoga County (5 stars), and Lakewood (4 stars).
The entire State of Ohio did well in general, compared to the rest of the nation: Ohio was second only to New York State in terms of the number of libraries that received star ratings, 32 vs. 37, respectively. "One reason for this superb showing in our state is continued support for libraries from the state of Ohio," says Levin.
The entire report on America's star libraries can be found at Library Journal's website, lj.libraryjournal.com.


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Title: Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 17 November 1863
Date: November 17, 1863
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00215
Source: Oscar Lion Papers, 1914–1955, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 1:185. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Tim Jackson, Vanessa Steinroetter, and Alyssa Olson
Nov 17, 1863
Dear friend1
I suppose Nelly has received a letter from me posting you up of my doings, &c. Any letters that come to me, up to Saturday next, please send on here. After that, do not send any, as I shall return Monday or Tuesday next. The weather here the last three days is very unpleasant, sloppy & thick. I was at the opera last night, Trovatore2—very, very good singing & acting—
I feel to devote myself more to the work of my life, which is making poems. I must bring out Drum Taps. I must be continually bringing out poems—now is the hey day. I shall range along the high plateau of my life & capacity for a few years now, & then swiftly descend. The life here in the cities, & the objects, &c of most, seem to me very flippant & shallow somehow since I returned this time—
My New York boys are good, too good—if I staid here a month longer I should be killed with kindness—The great recompense of my journey here is to see my mother so well, & so bravely sailing on amid many troubles & discouragements like a noble old ship—My brother Andrew is bound for another world—he is here the greater part of the time—
Charley, I think sometimes to be a woman is greater than to be a man—is more eligible to greatness, not the ostensible article, but the real one. Dear comrade, I send you my love, & to William & Nelly, & remember me to Major [Hapgood]3—
1. Charles W. Eldridge was one half of the Boston based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who put out the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. In December 1862, on his way to find his injured brother George in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Walt Whitman stopped in Washington and encountered Eldridge, who had become a clerk in the office of the army paymaster and eventually obtained a desk for Whitman in the office of Major Lyman Hapgood, the army paymaster. For more on Whitman's relationship with Thayer and Eldridge see "Thayer, William Wilde [18291896] and Charles W. Eldridge [18371903]." See Whitman's letter from October 11–15, 1863. [back]
2. Il Trovatore was performed at the Academy of Music on November 16, 1863, with a cast that included Medori, Mazzoleni, and Fernando Bellini. [back]
3. Ellen M. O'Connor wrote on November 21, 1863, that Eldridge "got your letter, & was delighted with it, he said it was worthy to be set in a gold frame—to which Wm. & I assented most heartily." [back]


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On reading books
I thought it might be advantageous to delineate how I myself read books. I don't presume to be a reader or bibliophile superior to all of our readers (I am certain that a number are quite superior to me!), but I believe it will be helpful to some who are perhaps looking for some instruction or direction in how better to read and to retain what they have read.
First, to me, the odour of a new book and sometimes even an old book is important. I exult in the smell of the paper when I remove the shrink-wrapping; and once or twice in my lifetime, I have read books entirely because of their pleasant door. No true bibliophile will snicker at this characteristic!
Second, when I first encounter a book I intend to read, I do what Mortimer Adler calls "inspectional reading." His book, How to Read a Book, is an outstanding work; and it is probably the definitive work in this field. By inspectional reading, I mean what some people call "skimming." I will read the table of contents, any chapter subheadings, the blurb on the back cover, the book jacket's inside and outside flaps (although I am careful here, since these promotional blurbs are not always an accurate description of the contents), and even glance over the index. The problem with people who skip the inspectional phase of reading, as Adler notes, is that they are forced to learn the book's general content while they are reading it. This is silly, unnecessary; and counterproductive. If you have a general ideal of the author's thesis, you are much more likely to understand his detailed, sustained argument. In short, you should know the writer's viewpoint and thesis before you start reading his book.
Next, I get a pen and straight edge (and sometimes highlighter) and start reading. When I encounter especially memorable statements, or those I intend to cite or refer to later, I underline them and put words and other notations (like stars) in the margin. I have never encountered a reader who marks up the text of his books as much as I do. There probably is somebody out there; it's just that I haven't met him. Not only do I underscore; I use brackets, carets, and braces; I annotate all four margins and I copiously turn down the edges (both top and bottom) of certain especially memorable pages. As a writer myself, I don't have time to spend thirty or forty minutes trying to locate a single passage or statement; careful underscoring, highlighting, and indexing solves most of that problem. I index by writing above (and sometimes below) the chapter heading within the text the most memorable and significant pages within that chapter, and a brief explanatory note. For instance, chapter 3 on a book relating to the Middle Ages may be titled, "The Problem of Nature and Grace in Thomas Aquinas." Below it I may write, "p. 74 – Aquinas and the 'nature of nature."' This would indicate that on page 74 is what I consider a memorable statement (or quotation) on Aquinas' definition or view of nature or creation. Whenever I am writing on this topic, I can always go back to this book, look at each of the chapter headings, and find this exact quote, generally within two or three minutes.
My wife Sharon once chided me when she saw how my marking had massacred a page, "Why do you do that? Now, nobody else will be able to read it!"
"Precisely," I responded. "This is my book. It is not meant for other people to read. Let them get their own copy.
This is also why I rarely read library or any other borrowed books – if I can't mark a book, I simply don't read it.
Footnotes are (presumably) written to be read and I do read almost all of them. I should say that I highly prefer footnotes to endnotes, unless the chapter or book is very short. Footnotes should be footed on the foot of the page they foot and not punted into the last few pages of the book. Some of the most important statements made in a book are found in footnotes, which is odd, since we would ordinarily think that the most significant statements should be right up there in the text. It doesn't always go this way, however, and he who skips the footnotes is potentially missing significant information. I should mention, too, that footnotes are also a great source of other books. Many of the books on my shelves are there because I saw the title first cited in some other author's footnote.
Many books I do not read straight through. If the course of a book begins to bore me, or if the writer needlessly digresses, I will suspend reading and go back to what I consider a more significant book. In fact, I am sometimes reading between ten and fifteen books simultaneously. Since I mark and index books so carefully and copiously, I have no problem quickly recovering the author's basic argument when I return to a book after having laid it aside. One unintended advantage of reading several books simultaneously is what Adler calls "syntopical reading." You can often relate something that you are reading in one book to another book. In a number of my books, I place in the margin the name of a particular author. When I go back to reread that page, it will alert me to a similar (or
contrasting) statement or argument by another author.
Because I so copiously mark and index a book, I usually have no need of a bookmark – I simply flip through to find where the marking and indexing stop! This does not apply, of course, to fiction, though (perhaps to my detriment) I have very little time for fiction.
I try to purchase hardback books, but if I have a choice between a hardback and a paperback in a title of whose significance I am unsure, I will generally buy the paperback. If, after reading it, I find it to be of vital value, I send it to Crawford Book Binding Akron, Ohio, to rebind it. At the time of this writing, the cost for high-quality rebinding is $8.00 per book plus shipping. This is often less than the difference between the hardback and paperback retail price of new books.
I have read thousands – perhaps many thousands of books in my lifetime; and if I were to read a book a day for the rest of my life, that would still be approximately 40,000 volumes. Like all bibliophiles, however, my books are old friends; and I would as soon part with heirlooms, automobiles, and houses as I would to part with my books. While I thoroughly enjoy, and benefit from and believe we Christians must exploit the Internet and websites and cyberspace technology; I do not believe electronic books (e-books) will ever replace actual, bound books. Their portability itself is irreplaceable – your battery never goes dead, and you never need to plug into an AC adapter!
We must inspire readers. Because of this, we must continue to stress reading and to produce words – books, monographs, booklets, pamphlets, website articles, and so on.
Reprinted from the Chalcedon Report March 2002 with permission (www.chalcedon.edu).
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