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You need to conduct a careful, thorough level survey of your house. Using a rope is completely inadequate. Even a stringline is not too useful for a settlement survey. There are three tools that work very well for an accurate elevation survey of a house.
The most common is a builders level, which can be purchased for somewhere around $500, or rented from most any rental store. You may need some instructions on how to correctly use the level, but they work very well. An alternative is a laser level, which can be fixed or rotating. I picked up a pretty good one for under $100 at a big box store, they work nicely, and they are easy to use. A third option is a fluid level, which can be purchased for typically under $500, or rented at some big box stores. The objective is to make accurate measurements throughout the basement, around the foundation both inside and out, and on the first floor. Measuring up from the basement tells you nothing, as has been pointed out the basement may be out of level. Once you have performed a careful survey of the whole house, you will be able to determine if the house is settling, and if so whether it is settling unevenly. You can also determine if the beam is level, and if not, how far out of level. A steel beam deflecting as much as you suggest would be catastrophic, and it seems unlikely. My guess is the rope technique was not precise. Advertisement |
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Overview ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge extends the set of texture wrap modes to include an additional mode (GL_MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE) that effectively uses a texture map twice as large as the original image in which the additional half of the new image is a mirror image of the original image. This new mode relaxes the need to generate images whose opposite edges match by using the original image to generate a matching "mirror image". This mode allows the texture to be mirrored only once in the negative s, t, and r directions. New Procedure and Functions None New Tokens Accepted by the parameter of TexParameter{if}, SamplerParameter{if} and SamplerParameter{if}v, and by the parameter of TexParameter{if}v, TexParameterI{i ui}v and SamplerParameterI{i ui}v when their parameter is TEXTURE_WRAP_S, TEXTURE_WRAP_T, or TEXTURE_WRAP_R: MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE 0x8743 (same value as MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE_ATI/EXT) Additions to Chapter 8 if the OpenGL 4.3 (Core Profile) Specification (Textures and Samplers) In section 8.2 (Sampler Objects) modify the second sentence of the sixth paragraph (reading "For example, if..") to read as follows: "For example, if TEXTURE_WRAP_S or TEXTURE_WRAP_T is set to REPEAT, MIRRORED_REPEAT, or MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE on the sampler object bound to a texture unit and the texture bond to that unit is a rectangle texture, the texture will be considered incomplete." 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MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE min(1-1/(2*size), max(1/(2*size), abs(coord))) Additions to the GLX Specification None GLX Protocol None Errors The error INVALID_ENUM is generated when TexParameter* is called with a target of TEXTURE_RECTANGLE and the TEXTURE_WRAP_S, TEXTURE_WRAP_T, or TEXTURE_WRAP_R parameter is set to REPEAT, MIRRORED_REPEAT, or MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_EDGE. Dependencies on EXT_texture3D or equivalent If EXT_texture3D or equivalent functionality is not implemented, then the references to clamping of 3D textures in this file are invalid, and references to TEXTURE_WRAP_R should be ignored. Dependencies on ARB_texture_rectangle or equivalent If ARB_texture_rectangle or equivalent functionality is not implemented, then ignore all references to rectangle textures. Dependencies on ARB_sampler_objects or equivalent If ARB_sampler_objects or equivalent functionality is not supported, then ignore all references to sampler objects and SamplerParameter* functions. New State Only the type information changes for these parameters: Update Table 23.14 (Textures - state per texture object) Get Value Get Command Type Initial Value (...) --------- ----------- ---- ------------- TEXTURE_WRAP_S GetTexParameter n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) TEXTURE_WRAP_T GetTexParameter n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) TEXTURE_WRAP_R GetTexParameter n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) Update Table 23.18 (Textures - state per sampler object) Get Value Get Command Type Initial Value (...) --------- ----------- ---- ------------- TEXTURE_WRAP_S GetSamplerParameteriv n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) TEXTURE_WRAP_T GetSamplerParameteriv n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) TEXTURE_WRAP_R GetSamplerParameteriv n x Z5 see sec 8.21 (...) New Implementation Dependent State None Issues 1. Should we include MIRROR_CLAMP for compatibility profiles? What about MIRROR_CLAMP_TO_BORDER? (And more importantly can all vendors support it?) RESOLVED. 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Hi, TL, Use the two-argument form of ArcTan: ArcTan[z] gives the arc tangent tan^-1(z) of the complex number z. ArcTan[x,y] gives the arc tangent of y/x, taking into account which quadrant the point (x,y) is in. Cheers, CO On Monday 05 January 2009 01:28:32 TL wrote: > Is there a function in Mathematica that would return the azimuth between > two points with known coordinates, 0 being North? > For example having A(0,0), B(1,0) - the azimuth should be 90 degrees > its like ArcTan[dx/dy], but I need the quadrant taken into account as > well and I need it to handle 90 and 270 degrees properly too > > /it doesn't need to convert the angles to degrees, rads is ok/ > > -- ========================================================== Curtis Osterhoudt cfo at remove_this.lanl.and_this.gov PGP Key ID: 0x4DCA2A10 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ==========================================================


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My original email address with my subs number was hacked and I explained this in my email which is why I couldn't give my number. But did give my delivery address. I also gave this info to the girl on the Tri World stand at TCR11.
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Just to let you know I received this months TW, still waiting for a reply and last months edition.
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That's the headline I wanted to see!
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Dec 3, 2012, 09:50 AM | #53 |
I read it every day, I will miss it.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:14 AM | #54 |
Same here and this is probably why it is failing, no one wants to pay for it. I think it is a good idea to have an iPad (or even tablet only) magazine/newspaper. I even kind of liked The Daily, looking past the conservative bias. I just don't see how it can make money. It's hard to justify spending money on something when its mostly readily available information from the web.
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Can't see how it will succeed while BBC exists really.
But yeah in the UK the murdoch name is pretty tarnished, especially with the whole NotW thing. And I know friends and family in the US generally stear clear of Fox related news sources.... |
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:21 AM | #57 |
Loved This Paper But Hate NewsCorp
I subscribed to the Daily and loved reading it every day... but the NewCorp Right Wing spin on it was too much for me to handle and I stopped reading it. Every day they were bashing the President for something and the editorials were even worse. I think there is a need for this and I think it can be profitable... but not NewsCorp...
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:24 AM | #58 | |
---------- Whose perspective though? I think people that want more in depth coverage with perspective will pay for it.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:30 AM | #59 |
I often see Android users asking this same question: "Why should we pay for something that we can get for free or really cheap?" Many Apple users already know the answer: "We pay for quality."
The Daily was not quality.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:31 AM | #60 |
Good riddance. Murdoch fail.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:35 AM | #62 |
news flash Rupert:
most iphone / ipad users are democrats. We tend to not gravitate towards FOX.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:38 AM | #63 |
What's needed...
Isn't a digital propaganda "news" outlet from Murdoch.
I would bargain that The Daily suffered more from people being turned off by a corporatists liar than the idea of a digital news source. Now, at $50 a year, I'd be willing to get a subscription to the Financial Times or The Real News, but not anything Fox.... |
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:40 AM | #64 |
I pay about £0.50 per day for the BBC. I get TV radio internet. I don't get Ads of any other News corp BS. I wish he would close all this companies.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:41 AM | #65 |
The Daily Hack
Maybe when the UK police got after News Corp for hacking, the news value of the Daily decreased. Could not get all those inside scoops anymore.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:42 AM | #66 |
I was/am a subscriber. Mainly, because i wanted to support the concept. The publication is enjoyable but truly i probably only read about 20% of the issues, even in part.
Its hard to compete with free as everyone points out, regardless of the quality, at least as it pertains to many categories of products. Media/Content companies have to adapt to a world where paper will continue to trend down until its boutique only. They have to put out quality content based on a much lower cost structure and where the business model is about advertising, edutainment, product placement, advertainment etc. This means lower compensation across the industry, outsourcing, freelancing, less management, less vice presidents, less vanity spending by a business that has a history of controlling access to information and the benefits that once came from that.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:48 AM | #67 |
Im a subscriber of the daily. the first months were great. good content. on top of every news before anyone else. then Yahoo was first on the hot topics, then they changed the content, then they turn FOX-mental-news-way and now is garbage. I have it on my newsstand but I don't read it. waste of money, something happened. internal stuff.
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Dec 3, 2012, 10:58 AM | #68 |
Never understood it. I thought it was way too complicated to use when I tried if for free. I use flipboard for daily news.
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I have an iPhone and iPad and I'm a libertarian (no, not a Ron Paul fan).
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:05 AM | #70 |
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:08 AM | #71 |
I think the 100 million iPads out there are in the hands of more than just liberals. Rush Limbaugh hands them out to his listeners like candy.
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:16 AM | #72 |
I hated that I couldn't zoom or enlarge the text.
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:18 AM | #73 | |
Now if there were any real difference between democrats and republicans it would be more interesting
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:19 AM | #74 |
Don't know what to think. Pioneering digital magazines, cool. 'The Daily' offering any content I'm really interested in, no. Is there a chance for digital magazines to be successful, unknown...
I'm afraid the 'web' pretty much took over digital content long ago. Am I interested in digital books? Yes, very much so. But for 'magazines' or 'news'... I already have an endless supply of free (ad sponsored) resources on the 'web' I'm already comfortable with. Digital magazines and newspapers may just be a non-starter - I'm afraid they're way too late to the party, that ship has sailed. |
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Dec 3, 2012, 11:19 AM | #75 |
I don't understand.
I lean towards liberal (especially using today's definition), and I don't have a clue if The Daily leaned one way or the other. I'm aware of News Corp's slant, but they own a shietton of other media that I do enjoy, so that isn't a good reason. What I don't understand is how, as a 28 y.o. that does not read traditional paper news papers, but does keep up with the news (general, world, and tech), and owns two iOS devices (iPhone and iPad), I only ever heard about the Daily from MacRumors. I don't get it. Was I not the target audience? I'm not even saying that I would have paid for it, but if I AM the target audience, then how the frack was I supposed to buy into their product in this digital age if I was never even aware of it? It's no wonder to me that it failed.
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1. A First Glance at St. Thomas: a Handbook for Peeping Thomists by Ralph McInerny. Univ. of Notre Dame Press.
2. Guide to St. Thomas by Josef Pieper. Ignatius Press.
3. The Republic by Plato. Hackett Publishers. A very good edition.
4. The Right Way To Live: Plato's Republic for Catholic Students by Richard Geraghty. May be obtained from EWTN Religious Catalogue.
5. Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy by Mortimer Adler. Among other things, a good introduction to logic.
6. Rational Man: a Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics by Henry Veatch. Out of Print. (a popular account of the ethics of Aristotle by a Catholic philosopher familiar with both traditional and modern ethics.
7. Aristotle: a Contemporary Appreciation by Henry Veatch. Out of Print. A very good introduction to Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Logic.
8. A Summa of the Summa by Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press. An analysis of basic philosophical passages from the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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10. Making Choices: Practical Wisdom for Making Everyday Moral Decisions by Peter Kreeft.
11. Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed. A very good introduction to basic theology and philosophy.
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The recent attack on the Bardo museum and killing of foreign tourists has demonstrated that the challenge from the hardline Islamists remains.
India needs to shape the nature and scope of the projects the bank will finance to support the Asian Century and its own re-emergence as one of the two centres of gravity in Asia.
The US and other countries, including India, should open the floodgates of military and economic assistance to the Afghan state and help build the capacity and capability of its security forces and administrative machinery.
US authorities seem to be unusually reluctant to use air power to help the Iraqi authorities and their Iranian allies in the conduct of the Tikrit offensive. Why?
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ADB's yet another deferment of the decision on funding the DBD is a serious setback to Pakistan's relentless efforts to obtain funds for constructing this mega hydro-power project on River Indus.
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The collective silence of the guardians and the state-parties by no means signifies the NPT's good health, especially when they continue to emphasise upon the slow pace of disarmament and enduring pressures on the non-proliferation regime.
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The Modi's government determination to adopt a muscular stance on national security and its commitment to expedite defence modernisation are likely to translate into greater political and defence engagement with Israel.
There is a general feeling among analysts that while US government lawyers may have been satisfied that the CLNDA is compatible with CSC in light of explanations offered by the Indian government, this view is being reportedly challenged by nuclear industry lawyers.
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India's nuclear deal with the US is driven less by technology requirements than by the need to be integrated into the global nuclear community and gain access to uranium imports for fuelling its nuclear power expansion plans.
The 'Make in India' drive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers a way of improving the country's self-reliance in defence production. But for the MII to succeed in the defence manufacturing sector, the government needs to address some legacy issues.
The US will continue to do what it can for blocking rapprochement between India and China or Japan and China for it knows the danger of its loss of a dominant role in Asia. Despite all the distortions of time and space, the hard geographic reality of Asia will triumph just as it happened in Europe.
Saudi Arabia has joined the war against the IS and it supports more boots on the ground to tackle this challenge. Although it is employing all the options available to it, the success of anti-IS operations depends to a significant extent on the ground situation in Syria and Iraq.
If Greece defaults and walks out, the EU will be in crisis. Speculators will go for Spain and the EU will not be able to find the money to bail out a large economy such as that of Spain.
Sheikh Hasina has to ensure that the writ of the Awami League central leadership runs throughout the country, and elements like the Chhatra League are not allowed to derail accommodative and secular policies.
The IS frequently releases graphic videos of, for instance, beheadings, on social media. Once these videos surface, an ethical debate arises about the sharing of violent imagery and how these social platforms should deal with the situation.
If reports about the diversion of INR 13,000 crore from the capital segment of the defence budget to the revenue heads are true, it is an indication of the growing strain on the revenue budget.
It is time to see the relations between the re-emerging Asian giants less in terms of balance of power in Asia and more in terms of recognising mutual interests in shaping the Asian Century.
The present monograph traces the origins of the Pakistani state and the processes that encouraged the state-sponsored efforts to build a Pakistani nation, and seeks to isolate various problems associated with such nation-building efforts.
Xi Jinping has already recognized the inevitable by stressing that China would adjust to the 'new normal' of lower growth and, to ensure stability, he has already cracked down on dissent and strengthened media control measures.
Why is the Pakistan military pushing for Military Courts when the country already has a fairly robust Anti Terrorism Act together with designated Anti Terrorism Courts set up specifically to try terrorism related offences?
Sirisena will be expected to restore both the institutional checks and balances which saw an erosion as a result of the 18th Amendment to the constitution and the faith of minorities in the pluralistic character of Sri Lankan society.
It is not clear what kind of democracy the BNP wants to restore in alliance with the Jamaat which does not believe in democracy. But the AL needs to proceed with caution in dealing with the ongoing protests lest it comes to be seen as an autocratic government.
During the Rajapaksa years, Sri Lanka experienced jobless growth, similar to the experience of many African countries where Chinese investment had increased exponentially in the last decade.
In the wake of the Sukma attack, it is apparent that the CPI-Maoist's weather- and surrender-induced operational frailty is a matter of the past.
Signing of the SAARC agreement is merely the first step in the process of regional energy cooperation. To make this initiative work, governments in the region need to synchronise their efforts on a range of technical, institutional and political issues.
Effective cybersecurity calls for a close partnership between the government in its role as custodian of the nation's security, and the private sector, in both roles of information infrastructure provider as well as the provider of many critical services.
It is necessary to adopt a pragmatic approach while framing a new policy that makes it simpler for individuals and firms to function as representatives of foreign and Indian companies without compromising on the need for probity in defence contracts.
With the conclusion of the parliamentary and presidential elections, based on a constitution that finely balances the country's Islamic heritage with the need for modernity, Tunisia has done what Egypt has failed to do.
Governments find themselves struggling to deal with the issue of cybersecurity. Given the current state of play in cybersecurity, it is not surprising that any discussion sooner or later ends up as a confusing mix of viewpoints on fundamental rights, privacy, law enforcement, human rights, globalisation and national security, thus leading to a gridlock.
To prevent the recurring violence in Bodo areas, establish a land record system, improve the presence of both the state civil administration and the law enforcement agencies, and collate credible data on the flow of migrants.
Unless fundamental factors such as vested political interests, economic compulsions and non-cooperation from Bangladesh are addressed effectively, illegal migration will continue to take place, fence or no fence.
The Islamic State is fast gaining support outside Iraq and Syria. Next on its agenda seems to be the North African region. However, is the ground fertile enough for the IS to find roots in Libya, Tunisia, or Egypt?
The Centre must reiterate its commitment to uphold the Constitutional provisions enshrined in Article 371, expand the scope of the Sixth Schedule, and empower the autonomous council institutions in the North-East.
It is difficult to visualise how the Russian offer to make LUH in India could be actualised unless the government invokes 'strategic considerations' for making it in India or signs an inter-governmental agreement for that purpose.
The military cooperation agreement between Russia and Pakistan raises two pertinent questions: What are the driving factors behind Russia's Pakistan strategy? And should India be concerned?
It will be in India`s interest to adopt a neutral posture vis-à-vis the contestants in the January 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential elections.
The 2014 edition of the air show tried to reinforce the Chinese theme of a rising, strong and technologically advanced industrial base to the domestic constituency, international arms market and adversaries.
Border trade is trade in local products of limited value by the people residing within a few kilometres on either side of the international border. Although the contribution of border trade in India's economy is negligible, it has substantial impact on its relations with its neighbours as well as on the people living on the border.
The PAC-3 missile defence deal is a win-win package for both the United States and Saudi Arabia in terms of both their bilateral relations and the enhancement of regional security.
Sultan Qaboos once observed that "while other Gulf Arabs prefer to get on a camel and go west into the Arab desert, Omanis prefer to be on a boat and drift towards India."
The trust and comfort factor in the India-Russia relationship still exists. Modi needs to find more diligent ways to reboot the relationship with Russia and make it more relevant for changing times.
India's Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act has emerged as an appropriate template that could rekindle the nuclear energy sector while also safeguarding the public interest.
Is India now looking at energy through the strategic prism? Its recent signing of the TAPI deal is certainly indicative of that.
It is necessary to evolve a long term strategy keeping in mind all the aircraft acquisition programmes, review the factors that contribute to determining the right numbers and begin the process of building a long term partnership with the private industry.
If the Sinhala opposition parties, the Tamil TNA, and the Muslim parties support the common candidate, there is a possibility that they may be able to defeat Mahinda Rajapaksa. But will these political forces come together?
Is the Eurasian Economic Union aimed at reincarnating the Soviet Union minus the Marxist ideology? While some in Russia assert that the term "union" symbolically harkens back to the Soviet Union, many outside Russia fear that it could be so.
The time has perhaps come to restructure, even partition, SAARC to make it more effective. This is something that might also be required to be done in the likely event that Pakistan fosters the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Despite the lessons learnt during the Kargil conflict, where artillery firepower paved the way for victory, modernisation of the artillery continued to be neglected. The recent acquisition of 814 truck-mounted 155 mm/52-calibre guns is a step in the right direction.
Given that marine police has been exclusively created for coastal security, it is imperative that the force is adequately strengthened and for this to happen, it is incumbent upon the respective state governments to recognize the severity of sea-borne threats.
The incident raises important issues. First, the role of honours and awards in such crimes, second, the impact of punishment on the morale of troops who undertake a challenging responsibility and last, its impact on the population of the disturbed area at large.
Replacement of the Avro is an approved requirement. Scrapping the on-going process could delay acquisition of the transport aircraft by at least a year or two as it would inevitably involve revisiting the qualitative requirements (QRs) before restarting the tendering process.
Escalation of tension has scarred relations between Japan and China. The fallout of this has been reflected in the trade and economic ties between the two. Stabilizing China-Japan bilateral relations is critical for peace in the East Asia and it has to be seen how this four-point agreement will translate into action.
This is the right time to raise a fundamental question about Obama's policy towards Syria: Is there a coherent, consistent policy, based on a reasonably accurate assessment of the ground realities in Syria? The answer is a definite no.
India-Australia relation is entering a new orbit and setting a path of strategic convergence. But there are equally other significant issues of cooperation that can bolster Modi's vision for inclusive development and better governance including Australia's successes at preserving its ecosystem, water resources distribution and renewable energy.
The government's 'Act East Policy' needs to legitimise the 'Indo-Pacific' concept. Interestingly, only a few months after the release of the 2013 White Paper, Australia released a Country Strategy Document on India which identified the Indian Navy as possessing the most potential for a close maritime partnership
The jihadi elements in Assam are making their presence very visible. Measures have been initiated to counter the menace of Islamic terror especially along the India-Bangladesh and inter-state borders following intelligence inputs indicating JMB's plan to spread tentacles in the state.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death will be a serious setback to Daesh as it is different from Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups that did not proclaim a 'caliphate'. As the history of Islam shows, the proclamation of a new 'caliph' can be problematic.
The Prime Minister must reach out to Myanmar in unconventional ways and remove any antipathy among the people who once, like other neighbours, had began to perceive India as a big military threat.
The fall of the wall also coincided with the collapse of the USSR and end of the Cold War. Theoverall changes since 1989 have been largely a remarkable success with the majority of citizens in the former socialist countries not wanting to go back to the earlier economic and political system.
For the mantra to become an all-pervasive reality in defence acquisitions in India will be to multiply manifold the onset, frequency, range and depthof its industry engagements.
The Wagah incident is not going to wake-up Pakistan to the existential threat posed by jihadist terror groups. There is neither going to be any change in its attitude towards using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, nor its inimical attitude towards India.
The effort to set right the operating environment has to start with creating a mechanism to review the existing devolution of power comprehensively based on clearly defined principles and not in an ad hoc manner.
The US sees the establishment of the AIIB as an attempt by China to pull South- East Asian countries closer to its orbit and a soft-power play that promises economic benefits while refurbishing its image among its Asian neighbours.
This Brief analyses industry demands and reviews existing regulations in IT and defence procurement markets, culminating with suggestions on a possible way forward for reforms that can avoid adverse implications of industry demands, particularly in view of their potential conflict with important policies fostering indigenisation.
There is no single agency in MoD to deal with these issues holistically. Generally, matters related to administrative powers are processed separately for each service by the administrative wings concerned with little concern for commonality.
There is no single factor cited for motivating Central Asians to join ISIS ranks. However, the search for employment and earnings remain the main driver. More than 4 million migrants (Uzbeks, Tajiks and Kyrgyz) engaged in low-paid jobs in Russia are vulnerable to the jihadi network.
Widespread problems have made the operating environment 'dysfunctional and inefficient'. Some of this is on account of inscrutable issues like 'integration of the services with the MoD' or 'civil-military relations' but, in large part, the immediate problem lies with MoD's inability to resolve more mundane issues.
Bangladesh, India, China and Myanmar-Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) is a sub-regional grouping. The North Eastern states have shown keen interest in the BCIM initiative and are exploring ways for boosting cooperation in the services sectors like health, tourism, education, and transport and communication.
This Issue Brief examines certain provisions relating to intellectual property rights and transfer of technology in India's defence procurement procedures, together with suggestions on streamlining the same for achieving enhanced procurement efficiencies in capital acquisitions.
With the US determined not to commit troops, the military defeat of ISIS, at present, is therefore neither feasible nor imminent. Neither the so-called retrained Iraqi Army, nor US air power against this powerful and motivated force will be sufficient.
In the West, there is growing realisation that only boots on the ground can defeat or substantially destroy the Daesh. Unless a ground force capable of taking back the territories seized by the Daesh arrives on the scene, the advantage will lie with the jihadis.
While the ceasefire is a much needed respite yet it does raise two questions: What made the key players arrive at such agreements? Can these deals facilitate the initiation of a political dialogue in Ukraine?
Beijing's desire to manage the political process in Hong Kong stems from the 'one country two systems' model whereby it continues to retain its influence. It will not take much time for mainland to see a foreign hand in the islanders' pro-democracy movements.
The recent heavy firing by the Pakistani army is to gain public sympathy and providing it greater flexibility in the flawed civil-military relations. It is an orchestrated plan to provoke India believing that it can take such a risk of escalation in the back drop of its effective nuclear capability.
Given that the onus for settling the border disputes with Nepal and Bangladesh is on India, the Indian government has to demonstrate political wisdom in evolving political framework that would satisfy the national interests of both India and Nepal as well as win over the domestic opposition to the LBA.
The national aim should be to make India a design, development, manufacture and export hub. India must study the Chinese concepts of "leap frogging" of technology across several generations and "civilianisation" to exploit dual use technology.
Bitter last ditch battles are being fought by Kurdish men and women, including boys and girls barely out of their teens, against the Daesh. Some feel that to succeed, Washington must cooperate with the Syrian Kurds (YPG) as Kurdish fighters alone have proved willing and capable of taking on the Daesh.
While the government is widely seen as investor-friendly, investment decisions, however, are made on more tangible considerations – ease of doing business, security of investment and intellectual property rights, and returns on investment.
The Indian defence industry needs procedural clarity and simplification to be ingrained in the "Make" procedures, as the rules are presently silent on a number of important operational aspects.
The possible lifting of the sanctions on Iran will lead to a rush for a share of the lucrative Iranian energy pie similar to Myanmar's opening up last year. India cannot afford to be left behind.
The participation by the Saudi royal family in the US-led bombing of Daesh positions in Syria indicates Riyadh's implacable opposition to the mercenary group. Iran, however, has dismissed the air strikes as a "psychological operation", not a military one.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed aware about the nuances that underpin India's cultural and political obligations in Asia. By making Bhutan as his first visit abroad followed by a visit to Nepal, he has effectively invoked the deeper imperatives to revitalize India's national interests.
It all appears that the Indian army this time got clear orders to hold the ground and undo what the previous UPA government did – dismantled huts, bunkers and observation posts in exchange of PLA moving back from the Indian territory.
The background study looks at incidence of violence in the Kashmir Valley during the 2014 parliamentary elections and the correlation of violence to voter turnout. This study also lists out various actors responsible for violence and the trends in voting patterns from different regions of the Valley.
Can the two leaders go further and recognize the regional strategic interests of each other in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans? What about full support for India's membership of the Security with the two countries working together in that forum?
In the Chinese mind the settlement of the border issue with India cannot be divorced from regional, political and larger strategic issues. China has used the threat of intrusions across the LAC, as a part of its coercive diplomacy and it is too valuable an asset to give up.
During PM Modi's visit to US, one of the topics that is likely to be high on the agenda will be the still incomplete US-India nuclear cooperation by way of sales of nuclear reactors to India because of the Indian Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010.
The military gap between Indian and China is growing steadily as the PLA is upgrading the military infrastructure in Tibet to enable rapid deployment. China will stall resolution of the territorial dispute till it is in a much stronger position.
The orbit insertion scheduled for September 24 will be a landmark achievement. The Mars accomplishment could assist the global efforts towards the possible human colonization of the Red Planet and would automatically increase India's status.
The SCD is a template meant for guidance of the contracting parties but is not cast in stone. Every contract does not have to be its exact replica but it is not uncommon for the contracting officials of MoD and the vendors to get embroiled in protracted discussion on the wording of some of the clauses.
There is a view that the armed forces must ideally not be employed for disaster management. However, repeated instances have proved that the armed forces will continue to do the heavy lifting during such situations and therefore this role should be formalised and designated in a manner that efficiency can be improved and procedural voids filled.
What the Strategy for Defence Export tries to achieve is to create institutional mechanisms and establish clear-cut procedures within the overall ambit of the Foreign Trade Export for facilitating arms exports through export promotion/facilitation and export regulation.
Modi should talk to Xi and seek an interim boundary solution at least by having some sort of Friendly Pillars, call them Shanti Stupas along the border (almost 500 kilometers) in the Western Sector.
A determination needs to be made whether the paradigm within which India-China relations have come to be conducted is not unduly adverse to India, and therefore in need of a rejig, before proceeding further to conclude any political agreements anew, or reiterate previous understandings, during Xi Jinping's visit.
President Xi Jinping's visit to India is a new opportunity for infusing momentum in the bilateral relations. Economic dealings would be one aspect of the talks; but neither country can afford to bypass the sensitive security and strategic issues that dog their efforts to bring peace and stability.
China, like Russia, suffers from domestic terrorism (the Uyghur East Turkestan Islamic Movement). Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has put China on a list of countries accused of persecuting Muslims, thus making it a target for jihad.
As Australia and India have to deepen their security cooperation for a peaceful prosperous and stable Asia-Pacific region, both the countries will have to manage global nuclear commerce together.
The Assam-Nagaland border dispute is the direct result of the lack of success of the stakeholders in transitioning historical concepts of frontiers between neighbouring ethnic groups into mutually agreed upon updated delimited administrative boundaries of the modern state.
There is a great traction amongst western countries on building up a coalition to tackle ISIS, but the big question is which countries in West Asia would be able to synchronise western goals with theirs? While the US and its NATO allies, along with France and Australia have been assisting the Kurdish peshmerga, the list of Arab countries willing to work with the West-led coalition is unclear.
If Nawaz Sharif now plays his cards well - improves governance, makes his politics more responsive and inclusive, reaches out to opposition and his constituency, doesn't remain aloof and keeps the parliament and political parties as his back – he could well change the power equations for good.
The biggest takeaway for India from Prime Minister Modi's visit is Abe's assurance of $33.5 billion public and private investment and financing including ODA, doubling Japanese FDI and the number of companies in India over the coming five years.
As the Australian PM visits India, the future of the two countries relations hinges not so much on their strategic cooperation in the international sphere, as on how meaningfully can Australia help India deal with its enormous human development challenges, including poverty alleviation.
Under the earlier policy, the foreign portfolio investment in Indian defence industry was either banned, or capped at an arbitrary level for certain companies, causing a lot of dissatisfaction among several listed Indian companies which had pleaded their genuine helplessness in controlling such investments given their nature of flow.
The dominant challenges for Japan apart from China remain North Korea. The document expresses concerns on the launching of multiple ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan along with the possibility, for the first time, that the North Koreans may have acquired nuclear warheads.
Amidst the 'Arab Spring' nations, the most keenly watched and followed developments have been in Egypt. Being one of the largest Arab nations, lynchpin of peace treaty with Israel, key US ally and a nation of potent and modern armed forces, Egypt deserved the attention. And so, the success or otherwise of the Arab revolutions hinged on the success or failure in Egypt. However the transition in Egypt has been far from smooth so far.
There has been much speculation since 2011 about who is going to manage the proposed fund, how is it to be different from the already existing technology related heads in the defence budget, and how will the amount set aside for the purpose be utilized.
A sub-committee of the CCS must devote time and effort to make substantive recommendations to improve the structures for higher defence management, defence research and development, self-reliance in defence production and the improvement of civil-military relations.
It is possible, if there is political will, to find a negotiated settlement on the basis of a new constitution giving greater say to regions in foreign policy. In brief, the US should agree to a sort of Finlandization of Ukraine.
The army has quite patiently allowed Imran and Qadri to carry on with their protests and create a political condition unfavourable enough for Nawaz Sharif to approach the army for help. Thus like in 1993, Nawaz is feeling the heat even if the opposition is not united in their effort to dislodge his government.
There are logical reasons for India to suitably intercede with both its neighours to facilitate an agreement on the border. A mediatory role by India may not be unwelcome by Bangladesh and Myanmar as both have friendly relations.
In the short-term India needs to let the internal situation within Pakistan play itself out and see what emerges from the standoff. There is no doubt that Pakistan will have to be engaged but terms and manner will be dictated by the prevailing political and economic scenario in India, Afghanistan and the region including India-China relations.
These repeated incidents of border trouble and deaths bring into sharp focus the lack of serious border law enforcement. It is, therefore, critical that we do four important policy interventions fast.
The summit is seen as one of the major initiatives of the Obama administration towards the African continent and being the first US President to hold the largest event with the African head of states and governments.
In a recent judgment, the UN Tribunal has delineated the maritime boundary line between India and Bangladesh in the territorial sea, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf within and beyond 200 nautical miles (nm). Both the countries are pleased and hope to consolidate further their relationship.
The decision to commit US military power has been camouflaged in suitably humanitarian terms to give the impression that it was an effort designed to 'protect' the fleeing Yazidis and other minority groups.
The military has ridden roughshod over Pakistan's polity for most of the country's history since its independence. The Pakistani army, once described as a 'state within a state', is now being viewed by many as the state. In fact, the army and the ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate) together form the 'deep state'.
Prime Minister Modi has to think beyond the immediate circle and leverage the Himalayas as a bridge for India reaching out to wider Eurasian space the access to which has blocked by Pakistan. A way out could be to promote a regional market across the border, woven by a web of spiritual and commercial interests.
There now seems to be greater recognition of India's concerns on transfer of technology and not just about co-production but also co-development of next generation weapons. The larger objective for India, however, must be to reduce its dependence on import of foreign equipment and modernize its armed forces in the quickest possible timeframe.
The death toll from the Ebola virus in West Africa is a serious health concern for the world. There are around 45,000 Indians staying in the region infected by the virus and the real 'test' will be whether the government will allow infected Indians back into the country.
Realising the electoral significance of the issue the Congress seems to be engaging in a competitive politics with the BJP by talking of giving citizenship to even those migrants who came to India after 1971 but were persecuted in Bangladesh.
While India needs to vigorously pursue its endeavour for APEC membership, it is crucial for the policymakers to comprehend the geo-political allusions of this Chinese invitation, which is linked with India-China ties as well as their balance-of-power politics in Asia-Pacific.
Russia seems both happy as well as worried about US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Concerns about Central Asian security apart, now with the sectarian strife in West Asia flaring up, the Russian anxieties would heighten about possible spread of ISIS type assertion along its southern belt.
There is a growing sense that Putin, after what he did to Crimea, has prepared a fine blueprint for similar intervention in Central Asian states should it become a necessary case for protecting Russian interests in these countries.
In a three part series the author analyses Russia's strategic play. In this first part, the recently held military "snap inspection" drill by Russia involving 65,000 troops is examined and significantly the intent and purpose behind it.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence's figures reveals that the army's equipment modernisation is steadily falling. In 2008-09, the army spent 27 paisa of every rupee on capital expenditure. This fell to 24 paisa in 2009-10; 23 paisa in 2010-11; 20 paisa in 2012-13 and just 18 paisa in the last two years. Resultantly the army's ambitious plans to transform from a 'threat-based to a capability force' by 2020 are being consistently thwarted.
For all the grandstanding by the Pakistan army and the civilian government that Op Zarb-e-Azb was going to be against all kinds of terror groups based in NWA, no such thing seems to be happening. Clearly, this operation has been launched keeping an eye on the post-2014 situation in Afghanistan.
The recently concluded Afghan Presidential election, rather than facilitating crucial political transition, is mired in controversy. An early resolution is crucial both for Afghanistan and the international community. For Afghanistan, a peaceful and non-controversial transition would ensure the legitimacy of the upcoming government and push the twin processes of reconciliation and democratization forward.
As all the votes cast in the run-off election are audited and recounted under international supervision, the final outcome could be a close finish with winning candidate leading by a much narrow margin. However, the America-brokered agreement might open up several larger issues with huge social, political and security implications for Afghanistan. The process of constitutional amendment can only be initiated after the new parliament is formed in 2015. The country is likely to remain in a state of transition, perhaps for several years to come.
Democracies of the world have many similarities, notwithstanding the differences in the system of governance and the governmental structure. The decision making by the Higher Defence Organisation (HDO) and the government of the United States and India face similar challenges regardless of the threat perception and the role, size and the employment of the military.
The IAF must be rueing the day it agreed to tweak the proposed categorization of the proposal from Buy (Global) to Buy and Make. Since then the programme has been through a lot of turbulence.
The Declaration pushes for a more equitable norm and the New Development Bank is an interesting outcome. The initial subscribed capital of $50 billion dollars and the responsibilities of the functioning are to be shared equally among the founding members of the bank. While China will host the headquarters, the regional centre will be located in South Africa; similarly the first President of the Bank will be from India, the First Board of Governors from Russia and the first chair of Board of Directors from Brazil.
The basis for the development of ties between India and Brazil rests on trade and commerce. The regional powerhouses share a relationship that is gradual and progressive. However, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Brazil for the BRICS Summit can give a fillip to their bilateral association.
Israel argues that the Hamas does not recognize its existence, which, up to a point, is technically correct. But, a moment of reflection will show that recognition is exchanged only between states and that since Israel has prevented the emergence of an independent Palestine, it has no right to expect recognition from the other side.
All is not right with the Indian Higher Defence Organisation (HDO) became public knowledge, perhaps for the first time, after the Kargil War in 1999. There have been significant changes in the geo-strategic situation and the nature of threat faced by India over the years and yet little has changed in the higher defence management and the HDO of the country.
The Guidelines of 2012 have been under review for some time. While a drastic shift in the policy is unlikely, some changes in the policy, clarity about some of the existing provisions and simplification of the procedure seem necessary to make the policy work better.
China's announcement of a 10 billion Yuan ($1.6 billion) fund to finance the "maritime silk road plan" is a clear sign that it is serious about moving ahead with its stated plans. For India, it is instructive that the sales pitch of shared economic gains does not conceal the MSR's real purpose: ensuring the security of sea lines of communications (SLOCs) in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Given India's vulnerability to a rise in global crude oil prices as a result of its 75-80 per cent of its crude import dependency, the Iraq crisis could widen its current account deficit, while putting pressure on exchange rate, impeding government's fiscal consolidation goal and putting off any nudge on interest rates by the Reserve Bank of India.
The problems caused by climate change have been recognised as one of the greatest concern of this century. The subject is futuristic, relevant and multi-disciplinary with many stakeholders. The matter encompasses not only the health of the planet itself, but also that of nations and individuals.
The Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) is the organisation that is responsible for ensuring the quality of a wide range of military hardware at the time of their procurement. This is a very old organisation and has evolved over a period of time to meet the aspirations of its customers.
Over the years, the scope of SCO has widened to include the interests of countries beyond the Eurasian space. For India to capitalise on the SCO it must have a clear pro-active policy, otherwise it may risk becoming a focal point of criticism by the Central Asia states like the way India is often targeted by the SAARC members.
While the Finance Minister's budget speech struck the right chords, a closer examination of the 2014-15 budget, and its comparison with the 2014-15 interim budget, shows certain anomalies which are difficult to reconcile with some of the earlier statements made by the minister in his capacity as the defence minister.
Brazil will hold the 6th BRICS Summit of Heads of State and the Governments of BRICS from 15 July 2014 to 16 July 2014. It is a coalition of emerging economies providing alternative ideas of global governance.
There are speculations whether the present budget is sufficient to meet expenditure on big ticket items but one has to bear in mind that it is only the advance payment – generally 15% of the contract value – that becomes payable on signing of a new contract. Even if new contracts are signed for say INR 50,000 crore, MoD will require just about INR 7,500 crore for those schemes.
Boko Haram has recently emerged as one of the deadliest and most brutal terrorist groups with links to the global jihadi movement. The group is grounded in a region where it can tap into ethnic ties and take advantage of weak security environment, generic condition of lawlessness and socio-economic marginalization.
The editorial also intrinsically marks the return of the 'pro-Pakistan' lobby in the US non-proliferation community, and the American media, which was culpable in encouraging the many indulgences of the Pakistani military and nuclear establishment for many decades and facilitating favourable non-proliferation policies for Pakistan to effectively pursue a clandestine nuclear programme with technological aid from Western companies.
The author recounts his memories of the US military base at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, which was the hub for onward movement of about 15,000 troops and 500 tons of cargo a month to and from Afghanistan. The folding of the US base has not only put an end to the US-Central Asia saga but in effect the US overseas military presence is now retracted to the line of its power limits in Europe.
The government in Baghdad has lost control over a stretch of territory to ISIL. It follows that Iraq is at present inexorably moving towards dissolution. In any case, it will be a difficult if not impossible task to recover in full the territory under the ISIL and its associates.
On 3rd July 1914 nearly a hundred years ago at Simla, Tibet and India signed the Simla Convention that gave birth to the McMahon Line separating Tibet from India in the eastern sector. Much is made by some that the Simla Convention was not a legal document but from the time of the Convention till 23rd January 1959, the Chinese government never officially, in any document, ever challenged the McMahon Line.
There is no one nationalist Sri Lankan view. Among the Sinhalas, there are also the liberals who are quite realistic about their assessments and would argue that there may be a change in leadership in India, but the cornerstone of India's policy vis-à-vis Sri Lanka will remain the same. The Tamils, on the other hand, are unanimous in their view that India can and should play a major role in bringing meaningful political reconciliation to the country.
The Defence Minister made two significant points: one, the need for making a significant amount of the nation's resources available for defence and two, he talked about the slow pace of acquisition of defence equipment as the key concern. These are unexceptional statements of intent and the challenge would be to meet these objectives.
While the visit was proposed as a good will visit, some of the issues that have been bedeviling bilateral relations came up for discussion particularly, from the Bangladesh side, the conclusion of Teesta and the ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). The EAM assured Dhaka that New Delhi would conclude the LBA and is already in the process of building a consensus on Teesta.
The global thrust on economic integration has certainly accrued greater space to India that the non-alignment actually stands for. It allows India to reach out to both the US and China without fear of taking sides and draw in the benefits from both of manufacturing, investments, trade and commerce.
The proposal to relax the present cap on FDI in defence has expectedly drawn sharp reactions. Those who oppose argue that higher FDI is not required and, more importantly, it will not be in national interest, not the least because it will stymie the process of indigenization. This calls for a dispassionate analysis.
Surrounded by hostile neighbours, Israel has been overly conscious of its national security interests, a concern which has shaped its regional strategy right from its birth in 1948. It needs to evolve a dynamic regional strategy in tune with the changing regional dynamics or else could end up being more isolated in the region.
India continues its elusive search for peace in Jammu and Kashmir(J&K), in the face of Pakistan's proxy war and dissatisfaction among some sections of the youth in Kashmir Valley.
In principle there is nothing wrong in revisiting the doctrine but such revisions/reviews must be based on sound and valid reasons. The proponents of the doctrinal review argue that India's existing doctrine is ill-suited to deter Pakistan from using tactical nuclear weapons against India.
Myanmar's 2,276 km long coastline in the Bay of Bengal has the potential to provide the 'second coast' to China to reach the Indian Ocean and achieve strategic presence in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Especially transportation logistics to the 'second coast' from landlocked south west Chinese provinces like Yunnan have both economic and strategic benefits
Modi's visit to Bhutan is politically significant. After inviting SAARC leaders to his swearing in ceremony; his choice of Bhutan as the first country came as no surprise. Bhutan is also the only country where the bilateral relationship is free from tension and expectations from each other are also easy to attain.
New Delhi should work out an arrangement with the Rajapakse government wherein the rights of both the countries' fishermen are protected within the respective territorial jurisdiction. If this is not done, the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils, which different governments of India have endeavoured to promote as part of a decided long-term policy, will be compromised.
Before India once again goes down the path of wondering how it can rescue Pakistan from itself, some home truths about Pakistan – the state and society – need to be understood. The single most important home truth is that Pakistan's hatred for India far outweighs any fear or concern or even loathing it may have about the terrorism and extremism that the Taliban have come to stand for.
The arrests of the key Indian Mujahideen operatives has come as a major breakthrough in the fight against terrorism; however, there are a few causes of concern - such as lack of inter-agency coordination, growing radicalization in the society and the potential resurgence of the IM - that the government needs to urgently address.


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Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: All-Sex
It only seems natural that a slutty cheerleader would want to take on the whole team at once, doesn't it? That's precisely the premise of these three gangbang scenes, which don't offer much in the way of plot or dialogue before the girls find themselves surrounded by cock.
Taquila displays the best moves in this collection, including doing splits and "the booty clap." But she's much more impressive during a round of blowbanging, ass-to-pussy fucking and a juicy triple facial. Raven Sky shows the most "team spirit" of all these gals, at least up until the end when she unfortunately turns out to be a bit of a cum dodger.
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Facing the new face-to-face requirement for Medicare home health services
Did you know that Medicare will soon begin enforcing a requirement that a physician who certifies a patient as eligible for Medicare home health services must see the patient either within 90 days prior or 30 days after the start of home health care? If not, read on. If so, you may still want to read on for more information.
As an outgrowth of section 6407 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is requiring that a physician who certifies a patient as eligible for Medicare home health services must see the patient. The law also allows the requirement to be satisfied if a non-physician practitioner (NPP) sees the patient, when the NPP is working for or in collaboration with the physician. The provision was effective as of Jan. 1, 2011, but CMS agreed in December to delay enforcement until April 1, 2011.
The provision requires that, as part of the certification form itself, or as an addendum to it, the physician must document that the physician or NPP saw the patient, and document how the patient's clinical condition supports a homebound status and need for skilled services. As noted, the face-to-face encounter must occur within the 90 days prior to the start of home health care or the 30 days after the start of care. When a physician orders home health care for the patient based on a new condition that was not evident during a recent visit, the certifying physician or NPP must see the patient within 30 days after admission.
The new requirement includes several features intended to accommodate physician practices. In addition to allowing NPPs to conduct the face-to-face encounter, Medicare will allow a physician who attends to the patient but does not follow the patient in the community, such as a hospitalist, to certify the need for home health care based on their face-to-face contact in the hospital and to establish and sign the plan of care. Medicare will also allow such physicians to certify the need for home health care based on their face-to-face contact with the patient, initiate the orders for home health services, and "hand off" the patient to his or her community-based physician to review and sign off on the plan of care. Finally, in rural areas, the law allows the face-to-face encounter to occur via telehealth, in an approved originating site.
The American Academy of Family Physicians and others are advocating with CMS to extend the enforcement date to no earlier than July 1, 2011, based on confusion with and resistance to the paperwork obligations for physicians, still evolving policy interpretations and guidance on the part of CMS, and the simple need for more time to ensure that physicians and NPPs understand the rule. A decision by CMS on this request is still pending, so as of now, April 1, 2011, remains the key date.
CMS has made additional guidance available via an article (PDF download) on the Medicare Learning Network web site. Additionally, CMS has posted frequently asked questions and answers regarding this requirement in the Spotlights section of the Home Health Agency Center section of the CMS web site.
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Ski Sweater in Color Patterns
Summary A color stranded sweater knit in the round, holding a different color in each hand, and then steeked (cut) for the sleeves.
Additional technical information
- Located in chapter 3 (pages 50-63) of Knitting Without Tears.
- You will need about five 4oz skeins of knitting worsted for the background and about half as much for the patterns. For the accents, a 2oz skein will be enough, or an odd ball, if you have one.
- You will need two circular needles, a 16"one and a 24" one, of a size to give you a GAUGE of 5 stitches to 1"-something between size 5 and size 8, depending on how you knit.
- Includes information on how to carry colors, using two handed method for knitting with both colors at once, direction and diagrams for steeking the arm holes, as well as charts for color work.
Pattern description from Knitting Without Tears:
"This is the very simplest of all sweaters in regard to shape; you can let yourself go with the designs and colors in a quite untrammeled way. The proportions of a ski sweater are governed by the body width, so measure your favorite old sweater, and multiply the inches around by your GAUGE to determine the number of stitches to cast on. Don't omit to make a swatch."
From the back of Knitting Without Tears:
"Do you love to knit--and hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems and step-by-step instructions for brilliant, timeless designs."


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LinkedIn as publisher
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I'm drawn to LinkedIn now more than ever before. The rate of connection requests I've been receiving there has also been accelerating over the past few months. Maybe it's due to all the uncertainty of the publishing industry but I think there's more to it than anxious job seekers.
There are all sorts of terrific publishing groups on LinkedIn where opinions are shared and discussed. A good example is our TOC LinkedIn group; check out the stats here. We're rapidly approaching 20K members. If you're not a member you're missing a great deal of terrific industry banter.
You may have heard of LinkedIn's recent acquisition of Pulse. Although Pulse isn't my favorite news platform it's probably in my top five. It's the combination of LinkedIn and Pulse that intrigues me though.
Money matters most in book marketing
Why you should stop sweating over social media numbers
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site. In addition, researchers at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute found that less than 1% of fans of the 200 biggest brands on Facebook actually engaged. Less than 1%! These numbers (or the lack thereof) are staggering, yet not surprising. Just because you've got a lot of social media followers doesn't mean you're going to make a lot of money.


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SCMS is committed to providing a safe, challenging environment in which students working with teachers, parents, and other stakeholders strive toward achieving success as life-long learners so that students will be prepared to face the challenges of the future.
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SCMS is located in the rolling hills of Smith County, Tennessee. Our school was established in 2002. We are a small rural school that takes pride in ourself and community. Mr. Mike Lytle is our principal, and Mr. Dusty Whitaker is vice principal.
Since our inception, our school has enriched itself with tradition. Our faculty, staff, and students all work hard and are proud of their achievements and they will continue to work hard in the future to continue the tradition. Everyone at our school believes in our mission statement:
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Description: Safety tips for handling a blowout or flat tire while driving on the highway. Discusses how to get off the roadway safely, precautions on the side of the road, and deciding whether to change the tire or call for help. From the National Safety Council (NSC).
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The glAppGrapher project
Updated 5/15/2004
Download Version 0.5 Distribution for Windows Now!
The glAppGrapher is an interactive graphical server that allows clients to indirectly render three-dimensional objects. It is intended to be a debugging tool for software developers who need to visualize aspects of their programs without turning their programs upside-down in the process. This server, in conjunction with a properly written client side, has the potential to:
Features as of v0.5
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News as of 5/15/2004
Version 0.5 is out for Windows users, and now available for download!
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glut32.dll - GLUT library for Win32
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Atlas Image Mosaic,
covering 10.0´ × 10.0´ on the sky, of the HII region
There is no optical counterpart to this radio emission region, due to its
proximity to the Galactic plane, its distance of 3.4 kpc (11084 light years),
and about 23 visual magnitudes of extinction
(Vallee & MacLeod 1990, ApJ, 358, 183), but it is obvious in the 2MASS
near-infrared image. The center of W48 is still heavily obscured, with dark
dust lanes running through it. W48 is at the edge of more extended molecular
gas cloud. The dusty nebula appears to be the site of ongoing massive star
formation. Image mosaic by S. Van Dyk (IPAC).
Atlas Image Mosaic,
covering 7.0´ × 7.0´ on the sky, of the carbon star
IRAS 06088+1909. Carbon stars are evolved stars, similar to the Sun,
which are nearing the ends of their lives, in the so-called asymptotic giant
branch phase. Many form dusty, carbon-rich envelopes, due to mass loss, which
makes the very red in color, especially in the near-infrared. IRAS 06088+1909
is a very dusty carbon star toward the Galactic anticenter (Jura & Kleinmann
1990, ApJ 364, 663). 2MASS is particularly sensitive to carbon stars.
Liebert et al. (2000, PASP, 112, 1315) report on several very cool carbon
stars in or beyond the Galactic halo, some of which are heavily dust
enshrouded. They conclude that 2MASS can be used to define a useful sample
of carbon stars at high Galactic latitude as tracers of the halo out to
distances comparable to the Magellanic Clouds.
In the 2MASS image, the fainter reddish "stars"
immediately east of due north and west of due south of both IRAS 06088+1909
and the bluer bright star to its northeast are known 2MASS "filter glint"
artifacts; known diffraction spike and persistence artifacts are also seen
associated with these two bright stars.
Image mosaic by S. Van Dyk (IPAC).
Atlas Image Mosaic,
covering 13.0´ × 13.0´ on the sky, of the galaxy IC 10,
a member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way.
IC 10 is a dwarf irregular galaxy; dwarfs are smaller, as their name implies,
and contain less mass than giant elliptical and spiral galaxies, such as our
own Galaxy. The irregulars have little ordered morphology, are typically
gas-rich, and show evidence for ongoing star formation, i.e., hot, blue stars,
HII regions, and dust. Including the Magellanic Clouds, there are 9 dwarf
irregular out of 35 member galaxies in the Local Group (van den Bergh 1999,
A&ARev, 9, 273). IC 10 is at a
distance of 500-660 kpc (1.6-2.2 million light years; Sakai, Madore, & Freedman
1999, ApJ, 511, 671) and low galactic latitude (b=-3.3°); the high
visual extinction to the galaxy leads to the uncertainty in its distance.
2MASS is not particularly sensitive to dwarf galaxies, due to their generally
low surface brightness. In the case of the Local Group dwarfs, however,
individual stars, e.g., bright carbon and asymptotic giant branch stars, are
resolved and measured by 2MASS.
Image mosaic by S. Van Dyk (IPAC).
Atlas Image Mosaic,
covering 7.0´ × 7.0´ on the sky, of the high-mass star
formation region NS 14, also known as RAFGL 5216, BFS 57, and BIP 14. NS
14 is the region to the south in the image (BFS 56 is the smaller star
formation region to the north). First identified by Neckel & Staude (1984,
A&A, 131, 200) as a bipolar nebula at a distance of 2.3 kpc (7500 light
years), NS 14 is excited by four stars closely packed toward the brighter
center of the nebula, in an ultracompact HII region. A dense dust lane, or
torus, bisects the nebula, giving it a bipolar appearance. Howard, Pipher, &
Forrest (1998, ApJ, 509, 749) recently imaged the region in the near-infrared,
studying the stellar population of the cluster. Click
here to obtain a color-color diagram for NS 14, based on 2MASS photometry.
Image mosaic by S. Van Dyk (IPAC).
Atlas Image,
covering 5.0´ × 5.0´ on the sky, of the planet Pluto.
In IAU Circular No. 7518, Sykes et al. (2000) report the detection and
photometry of Pluto obtained by the 2MASS Southern Facility on 1999 April
10.33 UT, at J = 12.78, H = 12.62, and Ks = 12.92.
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Give TNA wrestler "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels a chance to design his own tees, and his usual practice is to create elaborate movie-poster parodies. But with Comic-Con on the horizon, the obsessive comic-book fan has taken a catchphrase from recent WWE storylines and twisted it into a shirt suitable for all hardcore comic fanatics, whether they know who Daniels is or not.
Find out who at SDCC knows their shit and who doesn't by wearing this and counting the people who come up and ask, "I thought his name was Logan?"


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fake as hell summer over so da water fountain r off since last month fuck lie the brooklyn kid
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3:50 new york has the cleanest water..fucking idiot
Actually, some guys I know had one of those 5 gallon drinking water coolers full of vodka. Hot vodka tastes like shit.
When you find that water fountain let me know!
What did it shoot out yesterday morning?
Yeah let me know too..sounds awsome.
3:23 it is New York... the water fountains use city water, which is exactly like piss.
I've got a fountain for ya, but it ain't shooting out no vodka...
That would be shocking. And awesome.
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X-List: Easiest Games for Achievement Whores
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what about assasin's creed. you get achievements for just assasinating the people you are targeting
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What? Bioshock?... There must be something wrong with me because I've played it through twice and have only gotten about 710 pts.
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I'd argue that TMNT should be on this list.. You can play through the game in a few hours and have all 1000 points.
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how in the world does it take minutes to get all the gamerscore in avatar? maybe minutes if you include turning on the console and putting in the disc. It only takes like thirty seconds to get the achievements
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Yeah I know way too many people that go out of their way to rack up a high score. Common tactics are: #1Researching online to get every single point instead of simply enjoying yourself.
#2Allowing your little brother or sister "Or even your children" to share your gamer tag.
#3Becoming so obsessed with having the highest score that you begin to buy games just for the points.Posted: July 13, 2010 9:51 PM
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