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Transporting people and goods accounts for 27 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and approximately 70 percent of all U.S. oil use, at 13.5 million barrels of oil per day. Optimizing the accessibility and operational efficiency of the nation's transportation network can enable a more than 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, and at the same time increase the nation's economic competitiveness, enhance its citizens' living standards, and provide energy security. This can be accomplished by:
- improving communities so that walking, bicycling and public transportation are feasible, attractive options;
- building a highly inter-modal (water, rail, air, road, pipeline) transportation network enabling the most efficient mode(s) to be used for each trip and;
- using fuels and technologies that increase modal energy efficiency and reduce carbon intensity, such as vehicles powered by alternative fuels and electricity.
The world and the nation have changed since 1991. Energy security, rising fuel prices, climate change, and global economic competitiveness have become more urgent issues at a time when the U.S. transportation and infrastructure system has fallen into a state of disrepair. A 2013 Report Card by the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the United States an overall infrastructure grade of D+; roads received a D, bridges a C+, and transit a D. In order to improve the condition of U.S. surface transportation infrastructure to "Good," the report estimates an annual funding gap of $94 billion needs to be addressed. A robust and well funded transportation and infrastructure reauthorization is necessary for the United States to maintain its competitive edge and propel economic growth.
The convergence or "perfect storm" of energy, climate, economic, and funding crises points to both the opportunity and the need for a new federal approach to meeting our transportation needs. EESI is working with business, labor, environmental, housing, energy, and other diverse interests to develop a federal transportation policy that meets the nation's needs for the 21st century.
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- Fact Sheet: High Speed Rail Development Worldwide
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What Chefs Drink at Home
Hey Chef, what's in your glass?
Editor's Note: Bartenders may handle booze all day (and night) but we know quite a few chefs who can drink 'em under the table. This new series features chefs from around the country. We'll ask them about their favorite spirits, the bars they frequent, and more. Got drinking-related questions for these talented folks? Add them to the comments section below!
After a long, taxing stint in a hot kitchen, chefs like to come home and unwind a bit. Some dip into a stash of locally-brewed beer (or, you know, High Life.) Others are tea aficionados, and some collect wine for drinking at home.
And bourbon? Most of them like bourbon.
We asked 20 chefs what they drink when they're at home and off the clock. Here's what they had to say.
"I really like beer, especially bitter IPAs."—Michael Psilakis (Kefi, FishTag, MP Taverna)
"I like to drink Fernet Branca pretty much anytime, at home or out. It seems to be the one booze that I cannot go without." —Ben Bettinger (Imperial)
"When at home I drink Barbaresco, because it is my favorite region for winemaking, and at home you should have your favorite." —Adam Leonti (Vetri Ristorante)
"Tequila and Coors Light. A perfect combination!" —Brett Vibber (Roka Akor Chicago)
"I like Hendrick's gin with grapefruit soda. And straight bourbon. I don't go out a lot so I usually unwind with a few drinks at home. I'm also addicted to the small cans of Perrier sodas...the lime and grapefruit flavors are my favorites." —Michael Armstrong (Marble Lane at Dream Downtown)
"I drink a lot of 'monkey picked' oolong tea; it's good for the stomach and helps me relax." —Marc Marrone (LAVO Italian Restaurant, TAO Asian Bistro)
"Stiegl Radler Zitrone or Cynar with club soda. Both have bright flavors and are perfect nightcaps." —Bill Kim (BellyQ)
"I go for a good rye pale ale, a rosé, or a Malbec or Cabernet. Every once in a while I'll break into the Bulleit Rye or Blanton's Bourbon." —Greg Baker (The Refinery)
"Usually a glass or two of red wine, guaranteed to be amaro once the weather gets cold. I like Montenegro and Averna." —Harold Dieterle (Perilla, Kin Shop, The Marrow)
"There is always iced tea in the fridge as well as a six pack of High Life." —Chris Pandel (The Bristol, Balena)
"When I get home from a long day at the restaurant, I start with a full glass of club soda to relax and hydrate. I'm really into La Croix Grapefruit right now. And depending on how the day went, I'll sometimes follow this with a heavily poured Gin and Tonic—Fords Gin and Fever Tree Tonic only." —Braden Wages (Malai Kitchen)
"At home I drink a lot of beer. My wife Tiffany got me a kegerator when we moved into our house. It's so nice having a draft beer with no shoes on. As for cocktails, every season Tiff and I pick one alcohol to feature. The summer of rum was great, as was the winter of gin. Last year was the autumn of rye, but I think this year I'd like to get into some Madeira." —Kyle Bailey (Birch & Barley)
"As far as booze is concerned, I love ice cold vodka and big red wines. For non-alcoholic, I like shitty fruit punch or Steve Smith iced tea." —Gabriel Rucker (Le Pigeon)
"At home I usually drink local beer, Revolution Anti Hero IPA has been a favorite lately. Something about a cold beer and putting something on the grill on our patio just relaxes me to no end." —James O'Donnell (Michael Jordan's Steakhouse)
"At home, I'm always hoping I've got an inexpensive, chilled bottle of white wine on hand, something bright and crisp, such as an Alpine Jacquère or a Spanish coastal Txakoli Getariako. And when the fridge is bare, I'll usually ask my husband to make me a perfect Manhattan." —Gabrielle Quinonez Denton (Ox)
"An after work cocktail would definitely be an Old Fashioned. Whiskey is the nectar of the gods." —Gregory Ellis (2 Sparrows)
"Juice, water and beer. I love guava juice, without the high fructose corn syrup. Fiji water is my favorite. You will always find hoppy beers and Belgians in my refrigerator." —Justin Miller (Pizzeria Ortica)
"Always wine from my cellar (mostly French and Californian), craft beers (stouts and porters) and cocktails made from gin or bourbon. Margaritas in the summer." —Michael Kornick (DMK County Barbeque, DMK Burger Bar)
"After work I drink mostly beer. Oregon has some great beers and its a good way to wind down. I tend to drink Full Sail Sessions." —Jasper Shen (Aviary)
"Pints of milk because it keeps your bones strong, and Four Roses Bourbon because it makes me feel strong." —Sean Temple (Paulee)
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Pearl Jam's 'Lightning Bolt' Short Film Features Judd Apatow, Carrie Brownstein + More
Pearl Jam is gearing up for the release of 'Lightning Bolt,' their 10th studio album, with a new short film. The nine-minute piece was directed by famed photographer Danny Clinch and features interview clips with guests director Judd Apatow ('The 40-Year-Old Virgin'), 'Portlandia' star and Wild Flag vocalist/guitarist Carrie Brownstein, former New Orleans Saints star Steve Gleason and surfing champion Mark Richards.
Titled 'Lightning Bolt, A Short Film,' it also includes animated sequences by Andy Smetanka, Pearl Jam performance clips and footage of singer Eddie Vedder driving around the group's homebase of Seattle.
Arriving in stores on Oct. 14, 'Lighting Bolt' was produced by Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, the Killers), and is Pearl Jam's first studio album since 2009's 'Backspacer.'
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MENDOTA – Mendota Community Hospital is part of the American Heart Association-American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines – Stroke program.
The goal of the program is to improve the overall quality of care for stroke patients by improving acute stroke treatment and preventing future strokes and cardiovascular events.
Get With The Guidelines – Stroke was developed to help hospitals employ proven science-based treatment guidelines, including those developed by the American Stroke Association, American Heart Association, and Brain Attack Coalition. These guidelines address acute stroke management, primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases, secondary prevention of strokes, and the establishment of primary stroke centers.
Mendota Community Hospital is developing a comprehensive system for providing rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke when patients are admitted to the emergency department. This includes always being equipped to provide brain-imaging scans, having immediate access to neurologists who are available for consultation, and using clot-busting medications when appropriate.
The hospital also is increasing its efforts to prevent secondary strokes through the aggressive use of medications such as statins and anti-platelets as indicated in the secondary stroke prevention guidelines. Other methods include the treatment of atrial fibrillation and atherosclerosis and management of smoking cessation, weight, exercise, diabetes, and cholesterol.
Through the program, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association provides training and staffing recommendations, care maps, discharge protocols, standing orders, data-collection, and measurement tools. The program also facilitates creating and sharing best practices among participating hospitals.
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Committee meetings were held, and documents and reports provided, within agreed timeframes.
The senators' survey confirmed high levels of satisfaction with the provision of these services.
The Table Office is divided into three sections, as outlined in Figure 5. It is led by the Clerk Assistant (Table), who also performs duties as a clerk at the table in the Senate chamber, as do the two directors. Each of the sections contributed to the department's outcome by working towards the following intermediate outcomes:
During 2006–07, the office provided effective support for the Senate chamber by:
Staff worked towards increasing public awareness of the Senate and its work by:
Several of the staff in the office also contributed to project work to redevelop key information systems—ParlInfo and the Bills System—used to disseminate information about the work of the Senate.
The Table Office also supported Senate committees by providing the secretariats to three domestic committees and by liaising with Senate and joint committee chairs and secretariats to facilitate interaction between the chamber and those committees.
The cost of the Table Office in providing procedural and administrative support for the conduct of Senate business was $3.0 million ($2.4 million in 2005–06). The increase comprises in equal parts additional expenditure (by way of salary costs and costs related to the digital imaging project) and the attribution of higher corporate overhead costs.
Requirements for advice, statistics and documentary support for the Senate are determined largely by the sittings of the Senate. Specific factors include:
Previous reports have commented on the reduction in the number of sitting days below a long–term average of around 70 in a non–election year. This year, the Table Office supported the Senate on 62 sitting days, up from 58 last year, possibly confirming that the new average is about 60 days.
The full–time equivalent staffing level for the office was 17 (15.8 in 2005–06). In recent years, to help tighten staff numbers, the office has carried vacancies through long adjournments, but there were no such vacancies this year. The office remained staffed to meet peak work periods.
The Director, Journals and Notice Paper, continued to perform duties as Secretary to the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, funded under Output Group 3.
The Table Office provided programming and procedural support for the operation of the chamber, and met the needs of senators and others for accurate and timely documentation and assistance, by:
Staff also arranged for the presentation of documents by ministers, the Auditor-General and committees when the Senate was not sitting. This once exceptional procedure has developed into an increasingly useful avenue for the timely publication of material of interest to the Parliament. A total of 205 documents were presented in this manner during 2006–07. A variation on the procedure enabled the presentation during a non-sitting period of a private senator's bill, and its timely consideration by a Senate committee.
In September 2006 the office produced a new edition of the Standing orders and other orders of the Senate, to coincide with the restructure of the Senate committee system. This was published in hard copy and online, with annotations explaining the changes. The Senate Programming Officer also began assisting the Deputy Clerk in a project to produce an annotated edition of the standing orders by tracking historical changes to them.
An important role of the Table Office is the provision of advice to the Manager of Government Business and other senators to assist in the efficient conduct of the business of the Senate. During the year, the office advised on a range of matters, including:
Staff provided advice both in response to requests and proactively, and produced accurate, high-quality documents on or ahead of time. The 2007 senators' survey revealed that 56 per cent of respondents were satisfied, and another 40 per cent highly satisfied, with programming services, including provision of procedural scripts, broadcast captions and the Order of Business (the 'Red'), while 4 per cent were neutral. Similar results were recorded in relation to the provision of advice (see Output Group 1).
The office responded to the legislative requirements of the Senate and the needs of senators and others for related information by:
The charts in Figures 6 to 9 indicate the level of legislative activity in recent years and the effect this has had on the work of the office. The figures for this year are comparable to the averages in recent non-election years, although there was a noticeable increase in the number of bills that passed both Houses.
Figure 6 Senate legislative activity, 2002–03 to 2006–07
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Figure 7 Amendments moved and agreed to by the Senate 2002–03 to 2006–07
Note: The figures for amendments also include requests for amendments and proposals to omit clauses or items from bills.
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Figure 8 Running sheets, 2002–03 to 2006–07
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Figure 9 Government legislation introduced in the Senate, 2002–03 to 2006–07
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The government party majority, described in the 2005–06 report, continued to affect the legislative decisions of the chamber and influence the work of the office. Only seven non-government amendments were agreed to during the year, and there was only one legislative disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives. This again reduced the number and complexity of schedules and messages prepared.
Other business requirements remained at usual levels. Messages, third reading prints, schedules of amendments and assent prints of bills accurately reflected the decisions of the Senate, and the office met all deadlines for the preparation and use of those documents.
Bills Lists and Daily Bills Updates detailing the progress of legislation were produced in response to chamber sittings and distributed in accordance with agreed timeframes. A survey undertaken by the Table Office indicated that clients were satisfied with the provision of those documents in their current form in hard copy and online.
All bills and related documents were made available online through the Bills System, BillsNet and ParlInfo. Staff participated in two ongoing projects to redevelop these systems. It is expected that the projects will be completed in 2007–08.
According to the 2007 senators' survey, 50 per cent of respondents were satisfied, and 31 per cent highly satisfied, with support for the legislative process, including the provision of running sheets, while 15 per cent were neutral and 4 per cent (one respondent) indicated dissatisfaction. Although there were no related comments lodged with the initial questionnaire, interviews suggested '[i]t is generally accepted by senators that often the provision of running sheets is affected by the senators themselves and departmental staff act as best they can within these constraints'. The timely distribution of accurate running sheets remains a key goal for the office.
The office met the needs of senators and others for accurate and timely documentation and information by:
To meet the requirements of senators and others, the Table Office publishes the Senate's principal parliamentary documents online—both on the Senate website and through the parliamentary information database—and in hard copy.
The Notice Paper—the formal agenda of Senate proceedings—provides essential information on current and future business of the Senate and on committee matters. A full Notice Paper, comprising on average 210 pages, was published online for each sitting day and was also printed on the first day of the autumn and spring sittings. A printed Notice Paper—an abridged version averaging 58 pages—was published before each sitting day. The Notice Paper expands during the course of each Parliament as unfinished business accumulates and the number of unanswered questions on notice increases. During the previous reporting period, the full online version averaged 156 pages.
The Journals of the Senate are the 'minutes of the meeting' and record decisions made by the Senate. During 2006–07, proof Journals were made available online shortly after the end of each sitting day, and printed versions were distributed the next morning. Staff produced and published 62 proof Journals with an average of 27 pages, compared with 58 Journals averaging 26 pages in 2005–06.
After a prompt but thorough check of proof Journals and relevant source documents, final Journals were published and compiled into bound volumes.
All respondents to the 2007 senators' survey indicated satisfaction with the preparation of the Journals and Notice Paper (68 per cent satisfied; 32 per cent highly satisfied).
The office has produced the Dynamic Red as an in-house publication for three years and, in May 2006, completed a project to publish it on the Senate website for external users. The Dynamic Red provides real-time information on the progress and outcomes of business on each sitting day. This assists senators, parliamentary staff, government departments and agencies, and the general public to monitor Senate proceedings. Web usage statistics show that the application has established a solid external audience.
From July 2006, the office assumed responsibility for producing the Senate Daily Summary, a more considered summary of the previous day's proceedings in the Senate and in estimates hearings. The summary contains links to primary sources such as the Journals, bills before the parliament and committee reports.
The department made broad productivity gains by having the Journals and Notice Paper team produce both the Dynamic Red and Senate Daily Summary. The development of tools to transfer material directly from the Dynamic Red also improved the timeliness of publishing the summary. It continued to be an indispensable tool for those who work in, or observe, the Senate.
Statistical summaries of business conducted by the Senate were produced after each sitting week. A more comprehensive set of statistics was also maintained online, providing timely access to the most commonly sought statistics on the work of the Senate. Staff also produced two volumes of Business of the Senate, a publication which has for more than 30 years recorded statistics on the work of the Senate.
The office promptly met requests for statistics from senators, parliamentary staff and other clients. There continued to be significant interest in statistics comparing Senate business patterns and outcomes before and after the government assumed its current majority position in the Senate. In 2006–07, the Table Office produced comparative statistics on matters such as:
The statistics that the Table Office compiled on these and other matters were comprehensive, accurate and timely.
The 2007 senators' survey revealed that 55 per cent of respondents were highly satisfied with the provision of resources such as the Dynamic Red, Senate Daily Summary and statistical information, while 41 per cent were satisfied and 3 per cent neutral. No dissatisfaction was recorded.
Senators continued to use questions on notice—written questions to ministers concerning the administration of public policy matters—as an important accountability mechanism.
During 2006–07, staff processed 1,728 questions on notice—a record number for any year, eclipsing the 1,459 questions lodged by senators in 2003–04. Figure 10 shows the trend in the number of questions on notice in recent years.
Figure 10 Questions on notice, 2002–03 to 2006–07
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The Table Office ensured that questions on notice lodged by senators conformed to standing orders and were consistent in format and style. On sitting days, questions were published in both hard-copy and online versions of the Notice Paper. When the Senate was not sitting, questions were forwarded to relevant ministers and departments, and the online Notice Paper was updated each week to ensure timely publication. These questions were also printed in the Notice Paper for the first sitting day in the next period of sittings.
Ministers provided 1,142 answers to questions on notice. Staff processed the answers, circulated them to senators and arranged for their publication in Hansard.
Questions and answers were processed accurately, within agreed timeframes and to the satisfaction of senators. Statistics on questions on notice were collated and published in the Questions on Notice Summary in August 2006 and February 2007.
During 2006–07, senators presented 136 petitions from 251,646 signatories. All petitions that conformed to the standing orders were processed promptly and presented in the Senate on the first sitting day after their receipt.
All respondents to the 2007 senators' survey indicated their satisfaction with the processing of petitions, notice of motion and questions on notice, with 52 per cent satisfied, and 48 per cent highly satisfied, with these services.
The Table Office processed all documents presented to the Senate during 2006–07 and recorded them in the Journals of the Senate and the Index of Papers Presented to the Parliament. Copies of documents were made available throughout Parliament House and publicly through our inquiries and documents distribution services.
The original documents were added to the records of the Senate. The record archives include all documents presented to the Senate since its first meeting in 1901.
The documents and inquiries workload depends largely on the number of documents presented to the Senate. One class of documents in particular—legislative instruments—continues to grow at a significant rate, a consequence of the enactment of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. There is no sign of the rate of increase abating. In 2006–07, more than 8,200 documents were presented. Almost 6,700 of these were instruments, approximately 30 per cent more than in 2005–06.
All processing, inquiries and distribution requirements were appropriately met, as reflected in the responses in the senators' survey. Staff respond to and record about 7,000 inquiries each year; in 2006–07 the figure was 6,756. Statistics maintained by the office record that 96 per cent of inquiries were dealt with within five minutes, further improving on the already high standards achieved in recent years. More complex inquiries are dealt with by staff in timeframes negotiated with clients.
The 2007 senators' survey revealed that 61 per cent of respondents were satisfied and 30 per cent highly satisfied with the inquiries service and document distribution, with 4 per cent (one respondent) neutral and 4 per cent (one respondent) indicating dissatisfaction. No comment explaining the reason for dissatisfaction was made.
A major initiative in the Office, now in its 13th year, is a project to copy, preserve and ensure access to the collection of all documents presented to the Senate. The project now encompasses two elements: first, to make digital images directly from the documents presented to the Senate since 2002; second, to create digital images from the microfilm record of the documents from the Senate's first century.
During 2006–07, staff scanned almost 8,000 documents and undertook associated preservation and indexing work.
While preliminary work has been undertaken on the conversion of the microfilm record, technical problems have continued to delay the conversion process, which is now expected to commence in 2007–08.
During the year, the Table Office provided secretariat support for all meetings and reports of the Selection of Bills Committee, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Staffing, and the Senate Publications Committee.
All meetings were held, and documents provided, within agreed timeframes.
The office began working towards implementing the recommendations of the Joint Publications Committee report on the Parliamentary Papers Series, involving the investigation of options for creating a permanent online repository of all documents in the series.
Factors influencing workload and staffing levels are set out above.
Information technology issues continued to be of considerable importance in the Table Office, and staff have been involved in projects to improve the infrastructure and applications used to facilitate its work. A project to provide appropriate backup and restart options for the main server supporting Table Office applications was all but finished in 2006–07. Projects to redevelop the Parliamentary information database and to update the online management of, and access to, legislative documents continued during the year. The fruition of these projects will improve productivity in the office and reduce the need for workarounds in many document management and publishing activities.
The 2007 senators' survey again revealed high levels of satisfaction among senators with the advice, documents and services of the office, comparable with levels reached in earlier surveys, and did not suggest any areas of major concern.
Particularly high levels of satisfaction—above 95 per cent—were recorded in relation to the preparation of records of business; the processing of procedural material, such as notices and questions; and the provision of procedural documentation and advice. More than 90 per cent of respondents were satisfied with the inquiries service and document distribution, while 81 per cent were satisfied and 15 per cent neutral in respect of support for the legislative process. Low levels of dissatisfaction with these last two areas were recorded (one respondent, in each case), but the associated commentary did not reveal any underlying difficulties.
The survey results for particular services and documents have been noted elsewhere in this section of the report.
The office also monitors its own performance—for example, by keeping track of response times for inquiries and surveying users of its bills information documents. This monitoring also indicated a high level of client satisfaction during 2006–07.
Finally, much of the work of the office involves direct contact with senators, their staff and other clients. This presents an ongoing opportunity for feedback about the office's services. Informal feedback continued to be very positive.
In 2007–08, the Table Office will continue its core work relating to the sittings of the Senate. In particular, staff will provide advice and produce documents to facilitate chamber proceedings and the legislative process; prepare formal and informal records of Senate business; process and archive table documents; provide inquiries and document distribution services; and support the work of committees.
A reduced number of sitting days is expected because of the election period, and staff will undertake a range of practical and administrative tasks associated with the end of one parliament and the opening of another.
The office will produce a revised edition of the Pocket Guide to Senate Procedures and the accompanying Brief Guides to Senate Procedure, as well as a new edition of the standing orders. More staff will become involved in the project being overseen by the Deputy Clerk to produce an annotated version of the standing orders.
Staff will contribute further to projects to redevelop ParlInfo and the Bills System, and the projects' implementation should yield tangible productivity benefits. The office will also audit and, as appropriate, update its other information technology applications to develop more intuitive database applications, improved document management and more direct online publication.
Further progress will be made on the digital imaging project, and a sample of the tabled papers archive will appear online as part of a pilot program to seek feedback.
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Editor's note: The story and photos below were submitted by Nou Samnang, a program officer for Heifer Cambodia.
Son Sinath and her family received the 2012 Golden Talent Award in Cambodia in a ceremony on December 28, 2012, in Dak Sorsor village, O'Mal commune, Battambang city, Battambang province. The joyful event was attended by self-help group (SHG) members, the commune chief, the village chief, project management committee members, Heifer Cambodia staff, Akphiwat Strey (AS) representatives, and the Agricultural Development Cooperative (ADC) advisory board. Through Heifer's Women Empowerment and Holistic Community Development project, Sinath's family received ducks, seeds and fruit trees to develop their homestead garden. They have used the knowledge, skills and experiences from Heifer's trainings to propel them forward, transforming their gifts into sustainable sources of income. Heifer International Foundation provided the $1,000 cash award, $200 of which was given to Sinath. The remaining $800 went to the SHG for a community benefit project.
Our community has reached great achievements over the past three years, after joining the Heifer project, working together to reach our goal and improve our families standard of living, said Lai Savorn, a community facilitator for the project and ADC leader. Our community members are very proud of receiving the GTA in the name of Sinath, who is also a part of the ADC. The award is an impetus for our community to work harder to develop our community resources. We will use this award to expand businesses in our cooperative.
This great award is an honor, not only for Sinath, but also for AS, the whole community and the local authorities of all levels who sacrifice for and support the Heifer-funded project implementation to be successful, said Thaong Thavrin, executive director of AS, to ceremony participants. I would like to express my deep thanks to Heifer for its partnership and support."
Chhem Ty, the community chief, gave a speech at the award ceremony. He said he was very inspired by the development, harmony and solidarity that the people in his community have achieved with assistance from Heifer in partnership with AS. Chhem Ty said that the ceremony was a testimony of the endeavors of the SHG members and womens empowerment, as well as the strong collaboration between local authorities and civil society organizations. He encouraged community members to work harder to receive even more successes.
My family is very happy to receive the award that we had never dreamed before, said Sinath. We always regard Heifer and the AS as our second parents. They help us to help ourselves through providing both material and mental support. My family will use this award to enhance our swine production and dry-season rice to get more income.
In July 2009, Sinaths family joined the Heifer-funded Women Empowerment and Holistic Community Development project. They received 10 ducks (nine female and one male), and a month later they were given seeds (string beans, morning glory, and eggplant) and fruit trees (mango and grapefruit). In June 2011, Sinath sold some of her ducks and chickens to buy two pregnant sows. One of her sows is still pregnant, and the other has produced 10 piglets. She found the animal management training helpful, especially in swine production, as she expanded her farm. In November and December of 2012 she earned 3,750,000 Riels, or about $940, from selling pigs and 200,000 Riels, or about $50, from selling poultry.
Sinath has completed her Passing on the Gift® (POG) obligation. In addition to animals and resources, she passed on valuable training, care and love to families in need. Beyond the POG, Sinath donated vegetable seeds and 10 chickens to her neighbors and contributed to a fund to help build a road and school in her village. I think POG was the best activity in my life," she said. "I was so excited and happy to pass on (the gift) that I cried."


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CCRMA IPL Studio C User Guide
Users guide for CCRMA Studio C
Macintosh: Getting Started
All audio signals from the Macintosh are routed into the the Yamaha DM1000 digital mixer via an optical line out card. You will need to make sure system preferences on the mac are set to the right output, and also that the mixer has the right settings.
Start by getting any kind of a audio signal playing from the mac (I go with pandora or itunes).
Now Look at the mixer. Try selecting Layer Channels 17-32, and raise the first two channel sliders. If that doesn't work, read on...
Press the "Scene" Button on the bottom right of the Scene Access Section. From there make sure that "05 MAC PRO PLAYBACK" is selected. If not, use the scroll wheel to select this preset, and either press "enter" near the scroll wheel, or "recall" in the "scene memory" section in the bottom right corner near the screen.
Next, "Select Layer "17-32"", in the white area on the right side of the mixer near the scroll wheel., and raise channels one and two on the mixer sliders.
You should now be hearing sound. Please refer to "Troubleshooting Sound" if you are not.
The MacPro in Studio C has two displays for your use in addition to the main screen.
To activate the Samsung Flatscreen, use the Remote Control on the desk to power it up. This display is really good for video editing. It should automatically load.
The Wacom Tablet. Power on using the button on top of the screen. This screen Is a touchscreen table for use with the associate pen. This is really useful for repetictive tasks, like drawing patches in isadora. It too should automatically load as a display.
As a default, tapping with the pen is a click, holding the pen to the surface is dragging. The two buttons on the pen act as double click and right-click, recpectively.
To edit functionality for the pen, visit Apple Preferences => "Wacom Tablet"
If either of these are not working, please refer to "Toubleshooting Visuals".
Make sure to power off the displays before leaving the room.
Note: Sometimes, when the displays are off, the computer will still recognize them as operational, and it will allow the mouse to move thorugh to them. This can result in "losing the mouse". There is nothing in the bottom left of the main screen, so drag the mouse down and to the left to try to find it again.
The Studio C bundle is different than the rest of CCRMA in that it offers several additional options for video and audio production.
Adobe Suite. Includes: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (Image and Layout editing tools) Flash (Animation, interactive web) Fireworks, Dreamweaver (Web Design) After Effects. (Special effects, video, animation)
ArtMatic Voyager (3D Rendering and Animation Suite)
Final Cut Studio Includes: Final Cut Pro (Industry standard video editor. Useful for large projects) Motion (State of the art special effects / animation tool) Color (Color and special effect mastering suite for video) DVD Studio Pro Compressor (Easily create batch conversions of video files to any format) Sountrack Pro (Easily link final cut projects for audio mastering/mixing
Isadora (Realtime video processor, utilizing object-oriented programming. Exceptionally stable and very simply and powerful to learn. Fully customizable inputs/outputs)
Logic Pro (Mac's top of the line audio tracking software)
Max / MSP / Jitter (Realtime audio and video processor, utilizing object-oriented programming. Fully customizable inputs/outputs. Very cool)
MetaSynth (Fully customizable tour through virtual synth land, utilizaing architecture as a way to craft sounds)
Sibelieus (Notation and MIDI Software)
Snaps Pro (Powerful screen capture tool)
Making the Software Work
Final Cut: If final cut is quitting before loading, you need to trash your use preferences. Go to Finder => <<username>> => Library => Preferences
There are 4 files you need to delete: 1) com.apple.FinalCut.plist 2) Final Cut Pro User Data => Final cut prefs, prefs, obj cache, prof cache. Delet all of them.
Empty the trash, and the program should now open. (this has something to do with networked user preferences).
Set Scratch Discs: Make sure to select where you will be writing your captured video and renderings to. File => System Settings.
Isadora: Introduce several object on the canvas: Movie player, explode, OSC listener, and projector. Select File => Import media. Select a movie file, set horz siz and vert size on the explode object to five.
Select Window => Show Stages.
Now see what happens when you change th value coming ut of the osc listener. Imagine the possibilities of realtime video!
Use Policies
Make sure to turn of monitors, log out, and leave the room clean. Users with the room reserved ahead of time have preference to those who do not.


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Third-year Loyola University New Orleans College of Law student Alison McCrary has been selected as a 2010 Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow. The fellowship funds lawyers, advocates and organizers who initiate litigation, public education, grassroots organizing and advocacy projects that will have a measurable impact on a host of criminal justice issues. McCrary is one of 18 fellows to be selected nationwide this year.
The Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship is awarded each year by The Open Society Institute, a private operating and grant making foundation created and funded by George Soros, one of the world's richest men and most successful investors. He is the founder and chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC.
McCrary intends to use the two-year fellowship to create a program called the "Decriminalization of Culture Campaign," to monitor and challenge law enforcement practices that threaten the traditions of New Orleans' Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and Mardi Gras Indian tribes.
New Orleans has about 40 Mardi Gras Indian tribes and 90 Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs that perform in the streets of New Orleans almost weekly. More than 99 percent of their members are African-American. According to McCrary, tensions have arisen in recent years among these community groups and the New Orleans Police Department. The groups have launched complaints to city officials about police practices at second lines and group functions, parade permitting requirements and other issues.
"I want to create an avenue to challenge and improve law enforcement practices that criminalize these groups. These centuries-old cultural groups, which number almost 150 citywide, are persistent victims of racial profiling, police abuse, harassment, illegal arrests and intimidation," says McCrary.
The campaign seeks to empower grassroots movements within the existing organizations with the legal tools they need to protect their neighborhoods and cultural traditions and improve the groups' relations with police. McCrary hopes to inspire a greater respect for and protection of cultural bearers and spaces and recognition of centuries-long traditions. She also hopes to develop a model for defending the criminalization of cultural minorities that can be replicated around the country.
McCrary will draft manuals to inform group members of their rights when practicing their traditions on the streets of New Orleans and how community members can observe and document police behavior. She also plans to create trainer's handbooks, facilitate "know your rights" and observer trainings for members, host cultural sensitivity trainings, advocate for policy reform of discriminatory ordinances and practices and possibly bring litigation to enforce rights violations.
McCrary came to Loyola after working with the men and women on Louisiana's death row. As a law student, she has served as president of the college's Public Interest Law Group; as an Ella Baker Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York; as a United States delegate at the International Association of Democratic Lawyers Convention in Vietnam; and as an advocate in the slums of Brazil where she researched and documented the suppression of Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions, rituals and religious practices. In 2009, she received the Louisiana State Bar Association's 2009 Pro Bono Publico Law Student Award.
The Open Society Institute's U.S. programs aim to address threats to an open society in America, which it defines as "increasingly punitive national security, criminal justice and immigration policies; decreasing transparency and accountability in government; entrenched structural racism; enduring inequality; massive and growing rates of incarceration; and the eroding image of the U.S. in the world."
Since 1997, the Open Society Institute has awarded more than $15 million to Soros Justice Fellows as part of a broader effort to curb mass incarceration and ensure a fair and equitable system of justice in the U.S.


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24 Kan. App. 2d 810
No. 77,550
BARBARA HARMON, Appellant, v. SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellee.
Spontaneous "crazing" of opals, which is a natural physical process that often affects the stones, does not constitute "accidental direct physical loss" resulting in coverage under an insurance policy.
Appeal from Johnson District Court; GERALD T. ELLIOTT, judge. Opinion filed February 6, 1998. Affirmed.
Bruce W. Beye, of Overland Park, for the appellant.
R. Alexander Pryor and Edward L. Smith, of Kansas City, Missouri, for the appellee.
Before PIERRON, P.J., GREEN and MARQUARDT, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: This appeal arises from an action for damages filed by Barbara Harmon seeking recovery from Safeco Insurance Company of America (Safeco) under the terms and conditions of an insurance policy. Harmon argues the district court erroneously entered summary judgment in favor of Safeco. The district court found Harmon failed to prove that the damage to her opal jewelry was covered as an accidental direct physical loss.
The facts in this case are not in dispute. The interpretation of the coverage provisions of an insurance policy is at issue.
In 1994, Harmon purchased a homeowners insurance policy from Safeco. The policy contained a scheduled personal property endorsement or rider specifically covering certain opal jewelry. Harmon testified in her deposition that the opals were stored at home in a separate jewelry box, that she wore the opals an average of 5 to 10 times per year, that no one else wore the opals, and that she does not remember striking or dropping them.
In 1995, Tom Tivol, a jeweler, viewed the stones and determined that they were "crazed." Crazing is spider web cracking or fracturing. Opals are composed of a small percentage of water. Because opals are a porous stone, the water evaporates, and as the stone becomes drier it can develop cracks or fractures. As a result of this crazing, the opals in question now have little value.
Harmon submitted a claim under her homeowners insurance policy for damage to the opals. Safeco denied liability, concluding the loss was excluded from the insurance policy. Harmon filed a petition for damages for Safeco's failure to pay her claim. Both parties filed motions for summary judgment.
The opals in this case were insured under Option E of Harmon's insurance policy. Paragraph 3 of Option E, entitled LOSSES WE COVER, stated: "We insure for accidental direct physical loss to the property described, except as limited or excluded." (Emphasis added.) As for the relevant exclusions, the rider related back to the exclusions in the general insurance policy which excluded loss caused by "a. wear and tear, marring, deterioration; b. inherent vice, latent defect, mechanical breakdown. "
The district court made the following findings. The experts agreed that not all opals craze. Harmon's expert testified in deposition that an opal can craze when it is struck at an angle or at a particular force. Harmon's expert also testified that crazing could possibly be caused by wear and tear, marring, deterioration, something inherent in the stone, or a latent defect. On the other hand, Safeco's expert testified in deposition that opals craze because they dehydrate and that crazing cannot be caused by a blow or striking.
Harmon's expert testified he was unable to determine the cause of the crazing in the opals in question.
In support of her motion for partial summary judgment, Harmon argued that Safeco knew or should have known of potential losses due to crazing and if it was the intent to exclude those losses, the exclusion provision should have so stated. Harmon contended that since Safeco did not exclude the loss, the policy must be construed as an unclear or ambiguous insurance policy and interpreted most favorably to the insured and coverage found to exist.
In its motion for summary judgment, Safeco argued that crazing was not a covered loss within the meaning of the insurance policy and the loss, if any, was an excluded loss within the meaning of the policy. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Safeco, finding Harmon failed to prove that her claimed loss was of a type included in the coverage provisions of the insurance contract. Specifically, the district court found that in order for there to be coverage under the insurance policy, there must be an accidental direct physical loss to the opals. The court could find no such evidence.
The question presented is whether the damage to the opals caused by spontaneous crazing is an accidental direct physical loss under the insurance policy.
Our standard of review for cases decided on summary judgment is well established:
|"The burden on the party seeking summary judgment is a strict one. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal we apply the same rule, and where we find reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment must be denied. [Citations omitted.]" Mitzner v. State Dept. of SRS, 257 Kan. 258, 260-61, 891 P.2d 435 (1995).
The district court recognized that Safeco's insurance policy did not contain a definition for "accidental direct physical loss." In such a case, unless contrary intent is shown, words in an insurance policy are to be given the natural and ordinary meaning they convey to the ordinary mind. See Kendall Plumbing, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co., 189 Kan. 528, 532, 370 P.2d 396 (1962). The pivotal word to define is "accidental."
The district court relied on Harris v. Richards, 254 Kan. 549, 867 P.2d 325 (1994), where the court interpreted the term "accident."
|"'The word accident does not have a settled legal signification. It does have, however, a generally accepted meaning, which is the same whether considered according to the popular understanding or the approved usage of language. An accident is simply an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event, usually of an afflictive or unfortunate character, and often accompanied by a manifestation of force.' Gilliland v. Cement Co., 104 Kan. 771, 773, 180 Pac. 793 (1919)." 254 Kan. at 553.
The definition of "accidental" in Black's Law Dictionary is very similar to that used by the court in Harris. Black's defines "accidental" as "[h]appening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to usual course of things; casual; fortuitous." Black's Law Dictionary 16 (6th ed. 1990). Safeco cites the definition of "accidental" from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.: "[a]rising from extrinsic causes . . . occurring unexpectedly or by chance." Safeco then cites Webster's definition of "extrinsic" as "[f]rom without. . . originating from or on the outside . . . originating outside a part and acting upon the part as a whole . . . Extrinsic applies to what is distinctly outside the thing in question or is not contained in or derived from its essential nature."
Harmon argues that even under the definition of accident set forth in Harris, it can certainly be argued that crazing is an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; is afflictive and unfortunate; and at times is caused by force. Harmon notes that the definition of accident does not require force, but that the critical event is often accompanied by a manifestation of force.
Harmon contends crazing causes a direct physical loss to opals regardless of whether it arises by the application of force or occurs spontaneously. Her expert testified it is impossible to determine what caused the opals to craze, but she contends the presence or absence of force is irrelevant. Harmon argues loss by crazing should be viewed within the broad, universal definition of accidental as an unintentional, unforeseen act causing loss to the stones. In this light, Harmon argues that although there was no intentional act causing the opals to craze, the trial court erred in requiring her to prove that intentional or unintentional force was the cause of the loss. She argues the loss to the opals was truly accidental and should be covered under Safeco's insurance policy.
In Chute v. North River Insurance Co., 172 Minn. 13, 214 N.W. 473 (1927), the court considered the coverage of an all risk insurance policy for a cracked fire opal. The subject insurance policy covered jewelry "'against all risks of loss or damage during transportation (including all risks of loss or damage caused by breakage, fire and theft) or otherwise.'" 172 Minn. at 13. With commendable candor, the plaintiff's complaint stated that the "'crack was due to an inherent vice in said opal and was not the result of outside force.'" The Chute court phrased the questioned presented as: "[C]an there be recovery for mere cracking arising from an inherent defect or tendency of the insured property and not at all from extraneous and fortuitous cause?" 172 Minn. at 14.
For supporting authority, the Chute court analogized the situation to marine insurance policies insuring against the perils of the sea. Within that context, marine insurers were not liable for loss or deterioration which arose solely from a principal decay or corruption inherent in the subject insured or from its proper vice, i.e., fruit rots, flour heats, or wine sours. In such situations, the subject loss is not from external damage, but entirely from internal decomposition. The Chute court stated: "It is no longer intolerable that the owner should receive pay where goods destroy themselves, but the law remains that he cannot get it under a contract of insurance that does not make it clear that such is the intent and such the indemnity purchased." 172 Minn. at 14-15.
The Chute court denied liability and found the insurance policy covered loss or damage from fortuitous and extraneous circumstances rather than warranty of the quality and durability of chattels. 172 Minn. 15-16. The court stated:
|"The loss arising from the cracking of an opal because alone of its inherent tendency to disintegrate cannot be recovered under an 'all risk' policy of insurance, even though it covers breakage, if it does not explicitly include loss arising from inherent weakness or tendency to dissolution of the article insured." 172 Minn. 13, Syl.
Harmon did not present any evidence that an outside force caused the opals to craze. She testified she did not remember striking or dropping the opals. Her expert testified there was no way to ascertain the cause of the crazing. The fact of the matter is, we do not know what caused Harmon's opals to craze. However, both experts testified that opals have a natural tendency, if not a predisposition, to craze. Therefore, absent some indication the crazing was caused by an outside force, we must assume it was caused by an inherent defect or tendency within the opals and not from an extraneous and fortuitous cause.
We decline Harmon's invitation to consider crazing within the "more universal" definition of "accidental" as an unintentional and unforeseen act. Harmon's position would allow claims for defects that are inherent in insured property, such as wood rotting, wine spoiling, and metal rusting.
The district court did not err in finding Harmon failed in her burden to present evidence that the damage to the opals was an accidental direct physical loss.
Harmon also contends if it was Safeco's intent to exclude the opals from damage due to crazing, then the exclusionary language should have been expressly included. Additionally, Harmon maintains if Safeco was unaware of crazing, then Safeco could not have had any intent at the time of contracting to exclude such losses. Harmon concludes Safeco's current position that all damage due to crazing is excluded is unsupported by the language of the policy and case law and clearly violates public policy.
"The interpretation and legal effect of written documents are matters of law upon which our standard of review is unlimited." Kansas Gas & Electric Co. v. Will Investments, Inc., 261 Kan. 125, Syl. ¶ 1, 928 P.2d 73 (1996). "Whether an instrument is ambiguous is a matter of law to be decided by the court. As a general rule, if the language of a written instrument is clear and can be carried out as written, there is no room for rules of construction." Godfrey v. Chandley, 248 Kan. 975, Syl. ¶ 2, 811 P.2d 1248 (1991). "Where the terms of a policy of insurance are ambiguous or uncertain, conflicting or susceptible of more than one construction, the construction most favorable to the insured must prevail." American Media, Inc. v. Home Indemnity Co., 232 Kan. 737, Syl. 4, 658 P.2d 1015 (1983).
|"To be ambiguous, a contract must contain a provision or language of doubtful or conflicting meaning, as gleaned from a natural and reasonable interpretation of its language. Ambiguity in a written contract does not appear until the application of pertinent rules of interpretation are applied to the instrument and there remains a genuine uncertainty which one of two or more meanings is the correct meaning. [Citation omitted.]" Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Old Hickory Cas. Ins. Co., 248 Kan. 657, 662, 810 P.2d 283 (1991).
Harmon does not explain what language of the insurance contract is allegedly ambiguous. She merely claims the policy is ambiguous as to the exclusion question. The district court rendered the proper conclusion that the absence of crazing as an exclusion does not render the policy ambiguous. Under Kansas law, the fact that an insurance policy does not define each term within it does not somehow make an undefined term ambiguous; ambiguity arises only if language at issue is subject to two or more reasonable interpretations and its proper meaning is uncertain. Home Indem. Co. v. Hyplains Beef, L.C., 893 F. Supp. 987, 991 (D. Kan. 1995), aff'd 89 F.3d 850 (10th Cir. 1996).
Although Harmon's argument is ingenious and interesting, on these facts, we find no ambiguity on the issue of coverage. Since crazing does not constitute accidental direct physical loss, the issue exclusion issue is moot.


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Cartman and the gang get a little more trailer love with these three new videos that highlight story elements and gameplay from South Park: The Stick of Truth. And yes, they're very NSFW.
The first video, featured above, is a TV spot with about 30 seconds of footage that shows us just a glimpse at the story behind The Stick of Truth. As you may or may not know, you'll be taking on the role of the New Kid who moves into town and joins up with the gang on their fantasy-fueled adventure to recover the fabled Stick of Truth.
The second video shows us a little gameplay in which your character explores the depths of the sewers and we're reacquainted with Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, and his wife. It would seem that the New Kid came calling at a bad time, since Mrs. Hankey celebrates Christmas every day with wine and muscle relaxers. Yikes.
Finally, we've got a scene in which a ginger kid warns the others about a strange substance that's turning hall monitors into something more... sinister. He changes in front of the crew and becomes a Ginger Kid Nazi Zombie. As Cartman said, "Ahh! Somehow that green goo makes ginger hallway monitors even lamer!"
Watch the videos above and await the release of The Stick of Truth on March 4, 2013 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


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Truly amazing. I can't add much that hasn't been said already, but one thing making me curious is the pace. We could be at that last piece next episode, or perhaps the next few episodes. Hard to tell. Our Casca is almost back.
I think there's going to be plenty of Griffith soon enough, and there's rightfully so much shine on Casca, Guts, Farnese, and Schierke in this episode that it almost distracts from the fact that soon they'll be informed about Griffith's character and current relationship to Guts and Casca in the most stark way possible.
As I already said the memories of Griffith's downfall are sure to make an appearance at the hellish peak
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It would be an apt time for a God Hand member to appear, since we know they can enter dreams and cast impressions onto different world planes, however this is just wishful thinking on my part.
Do you think that Farnese and Schierke can really get hurt a lot when they'll get around the eclipse and stuff (mentally speaking) or Danan would intervine somehow?
Do you think that Farnese and Schierke can really get hurt a lot when they'll get around the eclipse and stuff (mentally speaking) or Danan would intervine somehow? I'm scare of the upcoming episodes just because of that possibility.
I wrote a quick post a few eps ago, when we first saw the island, stating it all felt a bit underwhelming after such a long wait. What I've seen of 350 has me genuinely excited. It feels like we are on the threshold and it is just so exciting. These glimpses into the past are so wonderful and they renew the pain of Casca's tragedy. Despite the insane amount of worldbuilding and character development over the years, in the back of my head I'm always thinking let's get Casca fixed already! Miura has done a masterful job of laying the groundwork for the endgame of this saga and we are about to witness the joining of all the threads. This is going to propel the story forward with so much momentum that I think it will literally usher in a new era of Berserk. Thank you for the translation and all the great work that goes on at this site. As always, I appreciate all of you very much!
It's interesting, when Puck first proposed going to Elfhelm over 15 volumes ago, it was just to find a safe place since Godot's mine was destroyed, it wasn't suggested Casca could actually be cured there until much later, and so became about that. I wonder if Miura always intended it that way but wanted to reveal it in due time, or if, as the story progressed and expanded (say, for example, if he intended Elfhelm to be an earlier stop and stepping stone), he realized that the journey for a safe haven and Casca's recovery should be one and the same.
Do you think that Farnese and Schierke can really get hurt a lot when they'll get around the eclipse and stuff (mentally speaking) or Danan would intervine somehow?
I am kind of opposed to Danan directly intervening. I think I would rather see Schierke and Farnese achieve their goal without direct help from her. It's also possible that I'm completely misunderstanding exactly what's going on in Casca's dream.
Nicely said, and I think it's a fair to point out that after all this time there was almost no way Elfhelm itself, though it's appropriately fantastical and fun too, could live up to our anticipation, but that's because it was merely a destination for the journey, and the real end of that journey, the payoff we've been anticipating for much longer, 25 volumes, is what were seeing now.
I honestly don't believe he intended for the distance between trauma and cure to be so lengthy but he discovered how his story needs to unfold. I feel it shows a lot of courage to take one of your main characters out of the mix for so long because it serves the story rather than the expectations of the fans.
I remember all the negativity about the voyage across the sea and the term filler being thrown around with reckless abandon. I'm not trying to go down a rabbit hole but it is just so crazy that our patience is about to be rewarded handsomely.
I feel like it's Griffith, but I'm thinking Guts.
I also feel that the person the Casca-sprite wants to see is Griffith. It seems that the fragments of Casca also signify parts of her memories, and the part that's missing (the brand) indicates that mini-Casca is not aware of what Griffith would become.
Anyway, I should just explain that I didn't think that Griffith is more important to Casca's mind than Guts, just that at one point he was, and considering the missing piece, the Casca's sprite could be at that point. In retrospect, it probably wasn't the greatest idea.
Has anyone brought up the condition of this last sprite or any of them? I believe this last one will be very weak or even try to get away from the crew. Especially where we're headed.
I must have confused the sprite moving frantically with multiples for each memory, or parts of her ego.
I don't know, personally I found that Elfhelm squarely met my expectations. The island's just an island, sure (duh), but the giant cherry tree, the overwhelming diversity of elves and their crazy whimsical behavior is a perfect fit for what I imagined. I also think Danan is brilliant as the Sovereign of the Flower Storm, and the Great Gurus haven't disappointed either so far. Hell, even the young witches are cool, and I thought the introductory fight was pretty badass.
This is something I've often thought about in the past. What I'll say is that for as long as I've read Berserk, I've been convinced Guts would not simply drop her off and be on his way. It just felt inevitable that she would be cured. So to me the Skull Knight's words in volume 28 were only a confirmation in a sense (though I was still overjoyed to read it).
Yeah, one thing that's clear is he's not afraid of taking the time he needs to tell the story as he feels it should be. The biggest example of this is the Golden Age arc, which is probably one of the longest flashbacks ever told in a work of fiction.
For the record, there was no negativity on this forum. It's important to understand that the people who complained about the sea journey were morons.
whatever else happens here Elfhelm will ultimately be "the place we got Casca back," and what could be better than that?
It would be cool to know more about Miura's process, because the story is so big, complex, yet detailed and nuanced there's really so many different directions he could go.
I think what the constant or casual complainers don't realize is that Miura is weaving a much more difficult yarn than just Guts going around bashing stuff until he gets to Griffith, and that even they wouldn't care so much about the bashing without those things, which are what gives the story, even the mayhem, its depth rather than distracting or detracting from it.
imagine if instead of the Golden Age flashback the Black Swordsman had just gone on slaying more Snake monsters until he reached the evil bird guy (like some basically keep advocating for). I don't think I'd still be following. =)
Well, no negativity for the story, but definitely for morons.
I think what the constant or casual complainers don't realize is that Miura is weaving a much more difficult yarn than just Guts going around bashing stuff until he gets to Griffith, and that even they wouldn't care so much about the bashing without those things, which are what gives the story, even the mayhem, its depth rather than distracting or detracting from it. Well, no negativity for the story, but definitely for morons.
Anyway, regarding the actual story, I ask myself if SK could appear after Casca's ritual unfolds. He has his ways of climbing steep rocks, huge towers, flying his horse and appearing when least expected.
I do expect him to visit at some point.
I Wonder if he comes to visit like you think it's gonna happen, if he's the one who's gonna be the incentive to make them leave or if some major event will arrive around the same time. It could be a classic cryptic warning or something of the likes. I'm not that good at speculating. Just a random thought about it.What's your take on it? (if you have one of course)Could it be possible or do you feel it more in a visit only appearance?
He definitely would only appear for a reason. Plot-wise there's no reason for him to just visit, have a talk with Guts, talk to the Elf Queen and see if Casca's OK, specially considering there's so much in the world going on. It also doesn't fit the character. I believe it'd most likely be related to their trip back to mainland, or even a possible danger going towards the island, if we stretch speculating a bit.
SK has nothing to say right now? I mean sure his former capital city has reappeared, his failed attack on Femto helped usher in a new world, Guts' lover is back ... but yeah, ... what's to say, really? Would be pointless.


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We've noticed a few blog posts asking why IE7 in Windows Vista displays a prompt to launch Notepad. You can see this prompt by right clicking on a webpage and selecting View Source. I want to explain why the prompt is displayed and also tell you how to turn it off.
As you probably already know from previous blog entries, Windows Vista includes an IE security feature called Protected Mode. Protected Mode runs the IE process with lower privileges and also helps protect against malicious webpages that try to automatically pass content to higher privileged applications like Notepad.
Before launching applications like Notepad that weren't designed to work with low privilege, Protected Mode displays the following prompt to get your permission. This prompt is designed for the worst case security scenario, which is a malicious webpage trying to silently elevate out of Protected Mode by launching an application or reusing one that you're launching. For example, in the scenario where you select View Source, a malicious webpage could try to silently pass its content to Notepad instead of the webpage's source code. This could be a dangerous scenario if there was vulnerability in Notepad
If you only browse to web sites you trust and you don't want to click through this prompt in the future, you can check the "Do not show me the warning for this program again" box before clicking "Allow". Checking this box and "Allow" will add the following entry to Protected Mode's elevation policy:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerLow RightsElevationPolicy{9F5511FE-4BB1-474D-B6ED-8877567E7F36}]
You can find more details on Protected Mode's elevation policy in the Protected Mode technical article on MSDN.
If you later decide that you want to see this Protected Mode elevation prompt again for Notepad or any other application you added to Protected Mode's elevation policy, either delete the registry key mentioned above or click "Reset…" in the Internet Options Advanced tab.
If you are looking for a better View Source Editor option than Notepad, install Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and add:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8Common7IDEVWDExpress.exe
to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerView Source EditorEditor Name
Thanks for reading!
Marc Silbey
Program Manager
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At San Francisco City Hall, officials are awaiting their moment in history, but they just don't know when it will come.
In the complex calculus of gay marriage in California, weddings could become legal within days. So City Hall is preparing for a possible crush of same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses and making contingency plans for demonstrations.
But it is also possible that this preparation is for naught and the future of same-sex unions will remain up in the air for months or longer.
CHRONOLOGY: Gay marriage in the U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take up the issue of gay marriage in California as soon as Friday morning. The moment has prompted nervous debate within the gay-rights movement about the best path to achieve gay marriage.
-- Maura Dolan and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times


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By Andy Warren,
I've written a couple articles recently (Professional
Development and
Time for
Training) about professional development topics. This time I'd like to go
into more detail about how use to books and magazines effectively, building a
library, and how to
talk your boss into funding some of the purchases.
When most people think of books and magazines they think "print". That is the
norm, but more and more you can get electronic versions of the content as well.
I don't find it as easy to read, but that's a personal preference. I think the
other thing people think is "money". There are quite a few trade magazines that
are free (none focused on SQL Server that I know of), but few free books. Again,
perhaps it's obvious, but you have to invest some money to take advantage of
books and magazines.
What do books and magazines have that web based sites like this one do not?
I'd argue that anything destined for print is better written and edited. I enjoy
web articles for their informal nature, how they focus on sharing ideas more
than they focus on presentation. A good editor can help an author render the
most technical and confusing subject both readable and interesting. The other
advantage they share - in print form - is easy portability.
I enjoy magazines because I don't know what the content will be. It's a lot
of fun to open an issue and see what the editor has put together in an issue,
especially themed issues like my friend Steve Jones puts together in our own SQL
Server Standard. Invariably I end up reading something that I think I otherwise
would not have, because it has an interesting lead, or I recognize the author,
or maybe just because it follows an article I wanted to read. Books on the other
hand are almost bought with a clear need or goal in mind. There is something
very nice about reading a well written book where the author steps you through
material in well thought out fashion. Note that I'm not saying all books meet
that standard!
Early in my career I bought my own books for two reasons. One is that I
preferred to build my own library. It's nice to have a set of books that you
know and can turn to when you're looking for an answer. The other is that at
that point my employer wasn't going to pay for it anyway! About six years ago my
boss finally got his boss to go along with ordering some books for the very
small team I was on, perhaps five employees total at that time. The deal was I
could order 8 books. Not bad, happily I go off to Amazon (and Fatbrain, remember
that one?) and order the eight books. But the next time he went off to beg for
bucks I proposed a twist. Get approval for x dollars instead of x books and I'll
make the most of the money. That agreement was reached and with some hard work I
will able to procure 14 books for the same amount (around $250 I think) by
buying some used books. Over the years we continued to invest here and there in
our library and when I finally became a manager, increased our spend to $250 per
quarter, buying a combination of new and used books to fill out the library.
It's fun to see a library grow. It's a very useful tool in many ways. It's
handy when you're stuck of course. It's very nice to be able to point younger
developers to books on a topic that they need to improve in, knowing that you
have a good selection on that topic. It's nice as a hiring tool too, prospects
see a hundred or so technical volumes plus magazines everywhere, they get a
sense that learning is encouraged if not required.
As a manager, I never had enough money to satisfy all the requests for books,
so I worked out a simple process to help me figure out what to buy:
From that I'd have a list of books and topics. From there I'd spend an hour
or two browsing Amazon and other sources, looking for used books first.
Sometimes it was a new book we needed and it didn't make sense to wait for a
used copy. A little back and forth time would usually yield more books than I
could buy, so I'd get the best assortment I could and then opt for the cheapest
shipping method. Never quite enough money for everything we wanted, but at a
$1000 a year in a few years you can have a nice library.
On the magazine side I usually paid for SQL Server Magazine, our own SQL
Server Standard, MSDN Magazine, and Visual Studio Magazine. Those where the core
magazines for where I worked, using a mix of SQL and .Net. I also had perhaps a
dozen more subscriptions to free magazines. It's a good idea to read at least
one news magazine like Eweek, and one geeky magazine like Wired or PC Magazine
to see what's going on in the broader IT industry.
Keeping track of this stuff was never easy or especially effective. Initially
we put routing slips on everything and passed them around, usually they would
all wind up on the desk of a couple people that were too busy to read them and
pass them on. Plan B was to email out the cover image and table of contents to
everyone when it arrived, those that were interested could come get it and fight
over it got it first. We made no effort to track magazines after that. I'm sure
we lost a couple occasionally but it wasn't worth any more effort than that. For
books we had a simple sign out card and maybe once a year we'd try to get
everything back on the shelf. We keep the books in an office where we could have
someone keep a loose eye on it so that no one ran amuck, but it really required
very little time to maintain. Once a year we'd purge out magazines that were
more than a couple years old, and we'd take a look to see if there were any
books that could be dropped (NT4 books for example were no longer needed).
I promised some tips on using these effectively, so let's do those now:
So how do you get your boss to pay for it? Sometimes you just have to ask,
but it helps to have a plan. You might try some of my thoughts about as the
basis of the plan. Try to address concerns the boss will have. Good talking
points are:
You can try sizing it to your team by asking for x dollars per developer, or
you can just do the flat rate thing. I'd try for $500 to launch with and include
the cost of the bookcase in that, then $250 a quarter. Get more if you can, take
less if that's all you can get. Separately I'd ask for him to pay for a few
magazines, maybe $100-$200 per year. That dollar range is usually possible for
either the manager to approve, or at most his/her manager to approve - doesn't
usually need the CEO to sign off.
If you can get it started, order as many of the free magazines as you can.
They'll add a little volume to the library and you never know what will appeal
to your peers.
I hope I've got you thinking about whether you're using books and magazines
as part of your own professional development program as well as whether your
current employer might support the idea of a central library. A little effort
might net some savings and some more learning resources too!
I could have sworn that my SQL Server Magazine seemed much smaller this month. When I pulled out la...
I've been busy working on the magazine among other things and am struggling a bit. I had quite a few...
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I have a search form on every page that goes to a certain page to show the results:
The issue is that when I'm already on the results page and re-submit the form the page fails to load:
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if(isset($_POST['spsearch'])) {
$_SESSION['STCode'] = $_POST['STCode'];
$_SESSION['STSCCode'] = $_POST['STSCCode'];
$_SESSION['OrderBy'] = $_POST['OrderBy'];
$_SESSION['PCode'] = strtoupper(str_replace(" ", "", $_POST['PCode']));
$_SESSION['Distance'] = $_POST['Distance'];
$_SESSION['BName'] = $_POST['BName'];
$_SESSION['City'] = $_POST['City'];
$_SESSION['County'] = $_POST['County'];
$_SESSION['SrchPage'] = "0";
header("Location: my_results_page.php");
} else {
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != "") {
$action = htmlentities($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
} else {
$action = htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
Any ideas? I think it might be because it's sending the user to the page the form is included on already. Is there a way around this please anyone?
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<form id="search_for_sp" method="post" action="<?php echo htmlentities($action); ?>" onchange="toggle()">
As an additional note, when the page fails, if I click refresh - or highlight the url in the browser bar and click return - the page loads with the new content.
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What didn't happen this week? We saw the Windows 7 release, new Apple hardware, Barnes & Noble's ereader, the beginnings of major net neutrality legislation and more. It was so crazy, we thought we'd round up all the highlights.
• Windows 7: A Weekend Install Guide and More
• You Guys Had Some Wild and Crazy Windows 7 Launch Parties
• Japan's Windows 7 Whopper Is Real, and It's Horrifying
• Behold! The Saddest Example of Promotional Convergence Ever!
• Microsoft's First Retail Store Opens (Like Apple Store With More Colors)
• Windows Mobile 7 Screenshots Leak: Where's the Start Button?
• 38 Surefire Ways (Not) to Make Windows 7 Cooler
• 7 Reasons to Stick with Windows XP
• 27 Takes on Windows 7
• Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now
• Apple iMac Review: 27 Inches and Less Chin
• Unibody Apple MacBook Review
• Apple Magic Mouse Review
• Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Grow New Antennas to Get Faster and Stronger
• Mac Mini Updates: Faster Processors, More Memory, and a Dual Hard Disk Server
• 10 Things You Need to Know About Apple's New Stuff
Barnes & Noble
• Exclusive: First Photos of Barnes & Noble's Double Screen E-Reader
• Barnes & Noble's Dual-Screen Nook: $260, Eats the Kindle's Lunch
• Barnes & Noble Compares Nook to Kindle 2: Biased But Fair
• Live From Barnes & Noble's Nook Event
• 8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook)
• Barnes & Noble Nook Up Close: Yep, It's Real Nice
The Rest:
• FCC: We're Going to Make Net Neutrality the Law
• The Totally Predictable Cable Industry Response to the FCC's Net Neutrality Plan
• John McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" Seeks to Block FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
• Motorola Droid Unexpectedly Appears on Motorola's Site Ahead of Schedule
• Canon 1D Mark IV: The $5000 New King of Cameras
• Canon 1D Mark IV 1080p Night Vision Videos Are Simply Incredible
• Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Update Unlocks 1080p Video at 24FPS
• Nikon D3s Hands On Photos and Video: DSLR Night Vision Is a Beautiful Thing
• 48 Stunning Photos of Fall


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New Study from No Duh University Finds All Modern Pop Songs Sound Alike
In a paper published today in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Spanish National Research Council claim that pop music has become increasingly homogenized over the last 50 years, as well as "intrinsically louder."
"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," team leader Joan Serra, an artificial intelligence specialist, told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations - roughly speaking chords plus melodies - has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."
To study pop music's development — or lack thereof — Serra and his crew turned to the Million Song Dataset — "a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks."
They determined that not only do all modern pop songs sound the same, but they've also gotten much louder.
According to Reuters, Serra says his paper is the first to properly measure the so-called "Loudness War," which Serra defines as "a terminology that is used to describe the apparent competition to release recordings with increasing loudness, perhaps with the aim of catching potential customers' attention in a music broadcast."


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Tagged: religion
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
For those of you who've forgotten or perhaps even repressed your memories of high school English class, the line in the title is the cry of the power-hungry and all-around homicidal maniac Lady Macbeth, the female lead in Shakespeare's great tragedy, Macbeth. After having committed regicide so that her husband may become king, she becomes convinced that she cannot wash King Duncan's blood from her hands. Thoughts are soliloquized, guilt is manifested in madness, and archetypes are born.
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The Creator Inside Our Minds
Through humanity's existence there has been a backbone of culture, tradition and out of that has come religion. Since ancient times, humans as a species have devoted their time and mental capacity to a higher being that we cannot physically perceive nor interact with. There are varying viewpoints from different disciplines that try to explain the nature of this God and where he or she resides, if anywhere. While many have displaced intelligent design as a plausible theory, mathematics offers that there may be divine math behind our existence, theoretical physics has routinely said that particle dynamics can answer our questions, while biochemistry presents the primordial soup theory and DNA replication. However, there are people among us who claim to have had "mystical experiences" that put them in touch with this ever elusive God on a level experienced by few.
Now, neuroscience has something to say about this "God experience." Michael Persinger, a cognitive scientist at Laurentian University in Canada believes that God lives within our own brains, implying that these mystical experiences may be contrived. He has developed a neuroethological apparatus deemed the "God Helmet" that seems to induce the feeling of another being's presence to it's wearer. The device is modeled off of a snowboarding helmet and contains metal coils that cover the whole brain with a magnetic field when fully powered up. The subject puts on the helmet and then sits in a dark, comfortable room with eye coverings as the coils are activated. In the experiments, magnetic activity above the right temporal lobe elicits the most intense feeling of presence of other beings to the wearer. Persinger reports that 80% of the helmet's wearers experience presence of another being, or the so-called "God sense." The idea here is that the brain itself is creating the feeling of divine presence without the presence of the divine. Given Persinger's results, neuroscience says that we may have created our creator, and that the divine is nothing but a function of our own brain activity. Maybe those that claim to have danced with the divine simply have above normal temporal lobe activity. This research also sheds light on the more familiar feeling that someone is "watching you," which is essentially the same feeling of presence.
It is safe to say that we may never know if our creator resides inside our own minds, in another inaccessible dimension or walks among us. Until then, we can only investigate our own existence as a function of what we can observe or from what we can infer about information we have already obtained. For a more in depth exploration of the creator question, check out Discovery Channel's "Through The Wormole" narrated by Morgan Freeman (just follow the consecutive parts!).
An article about Persinger's God Helmet
The "Through the Wormhole" segment on Persinger's work
Wikipedia articles on the God Helmet and Persinger


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Student or Learner
Do you think the invention of fast food and prepared food benefits society? Use specific details to explain your answer.
Fast food and prepared food has quickly developed in many countries in the world such as United States and England. The number of people now use them has increased and the number of restaurants has raised a lot. In my point of view, since fast food and prepared food was invented, they has positively affected to society because of time, cost saving and wide variety of choices.
First, saving time is one of the most benefits of using fast food and prepared food. In todays fast-paced life, time has become important for many people from students to officials who have time limit. As a result, they need to buy fast food and prepared food that are ready to eat or easy to cook. Besides, cooking the meal takes them a certain amount of time to finish the meal and get ready to eat. There are added efforts and time consumed in buying the ingredients in store and washing the vegetables. All this makes eating fast food and having prepared food more preferably over cooking a meal for a busy individual.
In additions, cost saving gives fast food more favorable for people than other food prepared at home. If one lives alone, it is much cheaper to buy a meal in the store instead of cooking it at home. Also, some kinds of fast food like fries and burgers come pretty cheap. Their prices are appropriate to most people in developed country. Especially for students who have small amount of money, eating fast food has become popular option.
Moreover, fast food comes in variety of choices. People become enjoying fast food because they can easily decide whatever they want by choosing the proper options on the menu. Also, people do not concern much about health problem because they have many choices that are healthy. Salads, low-fat milk, fruit juices, bread made from wheat bread, for instance, are good for your health. Besides, fat content in fast food in many options are very low such as it is only 2 grams of fat in English muffin.
Fast food and prepared food has now become popular in many countries worldwide because of the advantages it brings to us. Saving time and money is the foremost benefit from using them. Also, it gives a lot of choices that make us more enjoyable. However, I think, we should reduce the dependence of fast food and prepared food to prevent from some negative impacts of using them such as influence of preservatives and creating a lot of garbage.
Please help me check this one. Thanks