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The Congress will be further diminished in the South if it ignores political developments in Andhra. The state government must show some spirit, writes Lalita Panicker.india Updated: Jan 15, 2013 23:03 IST
Gone but very certainly not forgotten — a rare occurrence in politics, but such was the personality of the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Sakshi TV, his son's homegrown channel showed YSR raining down blessings in the form of red dots on Jaganmohan Reddy for months after the leader's death. The enforcement directorate may be hot on his heels and has moved to attach a part of his considerable properties but Jaganmohan Reddy and his YSR Congress party is a force to reckon with even in adversity.
Jaganmohan Reddy's dazzling rise in politics is just one of the headaches for the Congress in the state. Once the party considered the state its stomping ground. But today that very ground is shaky to say the least for it. After the lacklustre reign, if you can call it that, of K Rosaiah, now duly rewarded with a governorship, the Congress installed what it thought was a dynamic youngish chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. But he has rivaled Rosaiah in anonymity, often seeming to be a bystander as political developments gather momentum in the state.
The main problem has been that of the Telangana agitation. Kiran Kumar Reddy should have been burning up the wires asking the Centre to come to a decision on this. Instead, he has kept spectacularly silent, as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has picked up and run with the issue. Time and again, the state has been brought to a standstill by Telangana agitators while the chief minister has remained almost comatose.
He had better wake up fast if he has to have even a fighting chance of delivering the state to the Congress in the next election. At the moment, this seems unlikely. The venomous remarks by the Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi will, hopefully, earn him some time in the clink. But, his party, led by his mild-mannered brother Asaduddin Owaisi, was till recently a supporter of the UPA. It pulled out of the UPA some months ago and is looking longingly at Jaganmohan's party. If this happens, Kiran Kumar Reddy is on a slippery slope with one foot on a banana peel.
It is true that YSR's act was a very hard one to follow. He had the ear of the Congress high command, he was a Santa Claus-like figure handing out sops to the dispossessed, he himself came from a minority so had the trust of other minorities, especially the Muslims and he was an astute political strategist. It was a gross miscalculation on the part of the Congress to have imagined that it could push aside the YSR legacy and begin afresh in the state.
There is no doubt that Jaganmohan Reddy is not pure as the driven snow. But he could have been handled a whole lot better. By pushing him aside, with his admittedly unacceptable claim to the top job, the Congress waded into waters it did not know how to navigate. Jaganmohan Reddy has been able to cash in on the nostalgia for his father in the absence of a credible leader in Hyderabad.
As for the periodic upheavals on the Telangana issue, the Congress handed this issue on a platter to the less than savoury K Chandrashekhar Rao, chief of the TRS. He had all but been written off in a previous election, but got a new lease of life thanks to the Congress speaking in many voices on the issue. Commissions and their recommendations are not going to buy peace on a volatile issue like statehood. But the Congress plunged into the fray with no thought on how to resolve the issue of Hyderabad, let alone other problems associated with a division of the state.
With this mess in Andhra, the Congress stands diminished in the South. Kerala has always chosen between the Congress and the Left, so there are no surprises there. The rest of the South has gone to other parties. It was Andhra which had the potential of returning a large contingent for the ruling party, but Telangana, the YSR Congress and the MIM seem to have rained on its parade.
The most inexplicable act of dithering in the face of grave provocation was the deafening silence after Akbaruddin Owaisi made his poisonous speech. The police wittered on about how the speech had to be translated. How much more lame can you get? The offending Owaisi then sailed off to London for treatment and had there not been the threat of an Interpol alert, he might have spent a few weeks frolicking in the snow before he came home a hero.
In fact, the paralysis of the state government did allow him to come home to a rousing reception and gave his followers the courage to damage public property. His more reasonable brother watched in silence while he tried to feign illness to escape the law. And now that he is in custody, we hear reports of tension in the city. This could have been avoided if he had been picked up even as his vicious words dropped from his lips and his lumpen supporters hemmed in. But as always, procrastination seems the thief of better sense and sound political judgement.
The fact that the Congress president is planning to deal with the Telangana issue brings some hope of resolution. But the first task of the high command should be to get the state government to signal its presence. Advertisements in newspapers will not do the trick. The state faces many development problems from failing agriculture to lack of drinking water. In enlightened self-interest at least, the state government should bestir itself. At the moment, it appears an opaque entity watching helplessly as political developments around it take on a life of their own.
Perhaps, the Congress needs a few blessings from on high like Jaganmohan Reddy got from the electronic version of his late father. At the moment though, such divine intervention does not seem to be forthcoming.


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Profile: Hi my name is Rudy, but my middle name is William so people call me that because they know how much I hate my first name lol. I live in a huge household with my parents, my 3 year old brother and my 21 year old sister. I have another brother who is 19 but he moved out last year. He is also on the dailypuppy under Max&Chacha. In the household we also have our 8 dogs, Minnie, Princess, Oliver, Drake, Teddy, Charlie, Amber and Layla...Our 2 cats Jacky-Jack and Nidoran, our geckos Squibbles and Jester, our snake Tony Hawks and our 4 hamsters Gypsy, Oreo, Boo and Heroin. To be honest I never used to actually like animals until I met this girl (who happened to be an animal addict) and she would come to my house and be in love with them...Than I fell in love with her and I got my first hamster Gypsy to impress her (which worked lol) and than I just fell in love with hamsters and went out to get my second hamster Oreo and now I think that I'm pretty much turning into her! lol! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The dog story: It all started when we lost our rottie Enzo from old age.My mom couldn't face the fact of replacing him but the house was just so empty without him! After so long of trying to convince my parents along with my brother and sister, my parents decided it was time. We went out to get Layla, a pekingese. She was only 2 months old and she was just the sweetest puppy you can ever imagine! 2 years later my parents became more involved in their business and with school Layla was alone a lot. We got her a little brother who we named Teddy. At first they were fine together, they were both young and playful, than Layla grew more mature and Teddy just kept his inner puppy and annoyed the crap out of Layla. Anyway than a few years later my brother Max and I decided we really wanted to rescue this pitbull that we had seen on petfinder. My mom disagreed because she said pitbulls were one of the worse kind. My brother and I spent days making this HUGE presentation to show her to prove how sweet pitbulls actually are...From than we got our next dog Drake. My mom was so fascinated in the breed we got our second pitbull not long after named Princess. We decided that 4 dogs were just not enough and got our next pitbull Oliver and than came little Minnie. We recently added a new addition, Charlie, to our pack. He was just too cute to pass up! Anyways, we ended up with 7 dogs, it's a lot of work but all soo worth it in the end and I couldn't live without any of my babies. :)
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Hello! My name is Minnie! You might recognize me as I was on the daily puppy before but I wanted to get a fresh start now. I am currently 5 months old. My family rescued me when I was only 1 month old from a humane society. I was found in a huge garbage dumpster when I was only a day old and a woman took me in and bottle fed me until I was old enough to find a foster home. My current family took me in as a foster and took care of me and socialized me and a week before they were going to bring me back they adopted me. I am one of the sweetest pitbulls you will ever meet! I love to sleep on your lap and take long walks. I also enjoy the beach with my doggie brothers and sisters!View Profile
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Hi I'm Drake! I'm a tough guy. Ever since I was a puppy my former owners would participate me in dog fights. One day a cop was passing by and noticed all the cages behind a home and went to check it out, they arrested my former owner and took me and all my pitbull friends to a shelter. When we got there they fed us and than brought us in a room to check our behavior. Because of our past, 32 out of the 38 dogs were euthanized. The 6 of us survivors went to get vaccinated and we all found loving homes. I am such a sweet boy and I've never shown any problems because of my past. I live in the present and not the past which makes me a wonderful boy. I am scared of hammers and loud noises tough but I get along perfectly with my family and my doggie siblings! ~~~~~~~Ps: I came into my home when I was around 3 years old, my current owners dont know my birthday so he marked it as january 1st.View Profile
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Yo, yo, YOO!! I'm Teddy! Call me Ted! I am an 8 year old yorkshire but one thing for sure, I sure don't look like it! I am 100% puppy, inside & out. I love to play! I love just about anything, I am a huge listener and love to learn so tricks are my specialty. There is one thing that I hate and that is WATER! I am so scared of it I tremble like a nut when I get close to it! I love my sister Layla, even tough she hates me...I'm not too crazy of my bigger siblings tough.View Profile
***July 10 1987 - June 15 2000**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is a tribute to my first ever dog Enzo. (Enzo means house-ruler in old German) He was not only a dog but a friend, my best friend. When I was born, Enzo was already 5. He was always king of the house and the spoiled one of the home, yet he accepted a new baby into his home. He would sleep by my side and when something was wrong he would warn my parents with a small bark. He learnt fast. He learnt words like "ball" "toy" "bottle" and when someone asked him for it he actually went out to get it for us. When he turned 7 we found out he had cancer in his intestines. We were all devastated and thought he would never make it. He went into surgery and came out all smiles! He was so grateful for us and stayed by our side everyday. Enzo started to get sick but that never stopped him. He had lots of surgerys in his time and lots of vet visits, no matter what he always had a smile to his face. Each birthday, each easter, each christmas, was special to us because we never knew when he would leave us...I think Enzo knew that and always cuddled up with us when we were down and looked at us like as saying "it's going to be ok, i'm still here". We were home every day for him and always took care of him. His favorite doggie friends came over frequently to visit him and Enzo was spoiled rotten. Enzo enjoyed every second of it. When he turned 12 he went for his monthy check up for the cancer when they found it spread all around his body and that he didn't have much time left. When the vet said the words Enzo looked up at us and in his eyes he was telling us it would be alright. We went home and tried deciding what we should do. I was only 7 at the time but I already understood something bad was going to happen. Enzo and I spent the entire day in the sand box. He lay there next to where I was sitting in the grass and put his head on my lap. He was breathing so heavily, his eyes started to close, and suddenly the breathing stopped. We buried him in that exact spot along with his favorite toys and my little plastic shovel. That sand box is still there, this time my little brother goes and play in it, and our current dogs run around him and watch him and sometimes it feels like there's only Enzo there with him watching over him telling him he's alright. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rest In Peace. You're out of your misery now and I'm sure you're having a better life now with no pains, no surgerys, and no worries. We told you that you were an angel ;) Miss you boy!View Profile
Hi! I'm Charlie! I am an 8 month old mixed breed and I am pretty big for my age! My family had bought me after finding me on petfinder. My previous mommy died a month back and I found myself in the shelter. My name used to be Sparkle but my new family said it didn't suit me, and since I didn't know my name yet they named me Charlie which was actually my human-brother's girlfriend's idea. I'm a huge goof-ball and always up to trouble! I still don't understand how big I am and my parents say I think I'm a lap dog, which is true obviously! I'm only 3 pounds not 83 pounds as they say I am! I love chewing on everything from socks to walls and I LOVE to eat! Give me a bowl of food and I'll clean it up for you in a minute! Anyways enjoy my pictures!View Profile
Hi my name is Amber. I am 4 years old and found myself at the shelter when I was a year old and I had been a stray. I was so skinny when I was brought in and it took them 12 weeks to feed me back to normal weight. I was in the shelter waiting for my new family but nobody wanted me because of my breed and because I was older than the others. Fortunately a foster came to get me (the family I live with today). They fostered me for 3 months and they had decided on thinking of adopting me because I was such a sweet girl. Unfortunately the shelter called 2 days later telling my family I had found a home. I lived with that family for 2 and a half years and gave me back to the shelter because they wanted a small puppy instead of me. Fortunately for me it just happens my brother (willyboi) worked at the shelter I was at. He called his mom (now my mom too) and told her and they came to pick me up! I live in a family of 7 dogs not including myself but I love it here! I still get the attention I want and I have all my buddies to hang out with! I am a VERY hyper girl and I just love food and love to play! I also love to play with dogs and even cats! I know a lot of tricks already and I know what all my toys are and if you ask me to get one I will get the right one you asked for! I am a very special girl and am so happy I am back here!View Profile
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Real estate prices are way up, and obscenely large projects are all the rage.
Dubai's economy is roaring back to life, and so are the careless bets that got it into trouble.
Dubai's economy posted its best performance in 2012 since five years ago, growing 4.4 percent. By comparison, its GDP grew 3.6 percent in 2011 and 3.5 percent in 2010. The twin pillars of Dubai's growth were the hospitality industry and the manufacturing sector, which grew 17 percent and 13 percent respectively in 2012. In response, Dubai's benchmark index has rallied over 45 percent so far this year. Meanwhile, the emirate's credit default swaps, a measure of the riskiness of the economy, have dropped by over 50 percent in the last year.
The optimism has spurred a run up in real estate prices, which dropped 50 percent after the financial crisis. According to a Knight Frank report, property prices increased 21.1 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year. Studies conducted by Jones Lang LaSalle show that vacancy rates in the first quarter fell 400 basis points, while rents increased 4.6 percent year-on-year.
Recent mega-projects include the Mohammed Bin Rashid City, slated to become the world's largest shopping mall, more than 100 hotels, 1,500 luxury villas and an enormous public park. The City project will be part of the retail district announced last November by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Another example of overzealous investing: plans for a $1.6 billion luxury resort to be built on a man-made island, including plans to build the world's tallest ferris wheel, Dubai Eye.
Global property consultant CBRE has warned that Dubai's property market needs tighter regulations to maintain its status "as a burgeoning global business environment." But Dubai's real estate regulators don't appear concerned. Marwan Bin Ghulaita, CEO of the Real Estate Regulation Authority, has said that "a certain amount of speculation is acceptable. If we say 20 percent, or 10 percent [of the market] is speculation, it is always okay for the market, because there will always be first-comers." To curb speculation, real estate developers are securing at least 20 percent of the funding in advance, he said, and he added that investors must "do their homework."
Personal debt levels are also rising in Dubai and the other six quasi-independent emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. Personal loans increased 3.1 percent from January to April of this year, more than double their growth rate during the same period last year. The spike prompted the central bank to impose a three-month ban on "loan-shopping," the practice of transferring loans between lenders. Non-governmental organizations such as the Emirates Foundation have launched campaigns to improve financial literacy for the young.
Apparently, it doesn't take long to forget $100 billion in debt when the money comes rolling back in.
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Doug Krizner: You've heard 'em. From songs to sound effects, ring tones are a big business. Now companies are using promotional tones to ring up more sales. Curt Nickisch reports from WBUR in Boston.
Curt Nickisch: Say you're the head of a marketing campaign for a big retailer. Say you want to create buzz around your product by letting customers download ring tones.
Then maybe you should take a lesson from retail politics:
[ Ring tone: "Obama, Obama, oh!" ]
That's just one of the free ring tones created by Barack Obama supporters that you can download from his website. Soon after they went online, Jon Stewart's Daily Show made fun of the marketing.
[ Jon Stewart: Oh, yeah! You know, I'm sorry but novelty cell phone rings are not gonna get anyone elected president. ]
Right after the show, though, hundreds of people started downloading them.
To help users install them onto their cell phones, the Obama campaign hired the small Boston company mStyle. Tech Director Nick Bogovich says Obama has to be pleased with the more than 6,000 downloads so far.
Nick Bogovich: In the end, he's trying to sell you a vote. So, he's hoping you'll download the ring tone and you'll talk about it with your friends. If he gets one vote out of all of those downloads, that's a victory.
Normally, mStyle pushes ring tone jingles for Fortune 500 corporations, ranging from pizza companies to Big Oil.
[ BR ring tone: Say hey! Make the day a little better. Say hey! Make the world . . . ]
But Bogovich says more people are downloading Obama ring tones than many corporate ones.
Bogovich: It's a different play. Politicians like Obama or Clinton, Romney, sort of have more attention than pizza companies right now.
Larry Weber: We're seeing it all over the place: big companies making mistakes when it comes to social media and social marketing.
That's Larry Weber. He just wrote a book on "Marketing to the Social Web." He says too many companies are trying to force feed content. Weber says the Obama campaign's doing right by letting supporters create the ring tones.
Weber: You know, branding, in this day and age, is all about the dialogue you have with your customers. That's what the Obama campaign figured out. Engage first, get money later.
And Weber says that's what companies have to do now.
In Boston, I'm Curt Nickisch for Marketplace.


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Parental leave merry go round: will employers cope?
Making new rights workable and minimising the impact on business is the challenge, says employment expert Caroline Noblet
Research from the Institute of Leadership and Management this week reveals that a quarter of new fathers take no paternity leave, citing a lack of support from their employers as the main reason why.
Yet it is the conveyor belt of legislative changes that this Government — and its predecessors — make to the rules of parental leave that underpins employers' difficulties around these issues.
Almost every year of this Government has seen a proposed tweak to the law here, but what employers need is a regime that is certain and simple to operate. Constant change is the enemy of business — employers can organise processes to deal with the prevailing regime if only it is left alone.
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Sturgis (Mich.) class of 2014 quarterback Chance Stewart picked up his first scholarship offer of the recruiting process earlier this month. Now, the 6-foot-6, 205-pound passer is looking to add to his list via college camps this summer.
"For sure I am going to Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Penn State," Stewart said. "Those are the four main ones I am going to, then I am thinking about Ohio State and Eastern Michigan too."
Stewart did not arbitrarily pick those four schools to camp with. He has seen strong interest from each of those programs this spring.
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"All four of them have been in the school to talk with me," Stewart said. "I have met with a couple guys from the coaching staff, so I definitely feel those four teams are the closest I've been with. They are showing me love, so I want to show them love by going up to their camps and showing well."
Stewart has already made campus visits to three of the four schools he plans to camp with. His most recent trip was to Ann Arbor two weeks ago.
"That went really well and I sat down with Coach [Al] Borges for an hour and a half," Stewart said. "He talked about what he has planned for the summer and what Michigan's plan is for the class of 2014 quarterbacks. He pretty much said if I go to their camp and light it up, I could leave their camp with an offer. I felt a good vibe leaving there."
Michigan State has also hosted Stewart on campus several times this spring. He will be accompanied by several teammates during his next trip to East Lansing.
"I am actually taking my whole team up there on the 15th for a 7-on-7," Stewart said. "Coach [Mark] Dantonio and Coach [Dave] Warner wanted to see me throw in person and run my offense. I am hoping with a good 7-on-7 and a good camp, I could land an offer from there too by the end of the summer."
Stewart was last in Madison back in the fall to see Wisconsin play host to Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium.
"The football stadium was sweet and the whole atmosphere and how they approach football is cool," Stewart said. "That's the kind of place I want to play at."
At Wisconsin, assistant coach Eddie Faulkner leads up the Badger's recruitment of Stewart. He is being recruited by quarterbacks coach Charlie Fisher at Penn State, and is looking forward to next month's trip to State College.
"I am going to make my first trip there at the end of June and I am looking forward to that a lot," Stewart said. "I have heard great things. I think I am going to stay for a weekend, actually. One day I will go to camp and the next day I am going to get a tour of the whole facilities and check out the campus."
Western Michigan became the first school to offer Stewart earlier this month. He lives very close to the Broncos' Kalamazoo campus and was excited to get on the board with offer No. 1.
"I was glad when coach called me and told me. The whole family was happy, actually," Stewart said. "It was nice to get that first one because that is what I have been working for. It was nice seeing Western showing love to guys around here."
Before Stewart embarks on his summer camp tour in an effort to add to his offer list, he will first focus on leading his 22-10 baseball team through the postseason. They play in the district finals this coming weekend, with Stewart playing third base and pitching for his team. He has a 5-2 record on the season thus far, and is not worried about quickly transitioning between throwing motions following baseball season.
"Last summer I had to do the exact same thing," Stewart said. "I really don't have that hard of a time transitioning between the two sports."


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Legacy Health System strives to create a legacy of positive health in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. A not-for-profit provider of health care services in Oregon and Washington, the health system operates about half a dozen hospitals, including Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital, all founded by a variety of secular – more... organizations. Legacy Health has more than 1,000 total beds and its facilities provide such services as acute and critical care, behavioral health, and outpatient and health education programs. It also operates home health, hospice, and research facilities; emergency transportation helicopters; and a number of regional clinics and labs.
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Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from that income – and is under investigation by the UK tax authorities.
Regulatory filings by parent company Amazon.com with the US securities and exchange commission (SEC) show the tax inquiry into the UK operation, which sells nearly one in four books sold in Britain, focuses on a period when ownership of the British business was transferred to aLuxembourg company.
The SEC filings, highlighted by Bookseller magazine, show that in the past three years, Amazon has generated sales of more than £7.6bn in the UK without attracting any corporation tax on the profits from those sales.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) refused to confirm it was investigating Amazon.co.uk, and its inquiries could be a routine audit. But Amazon's tax affairs are being investigated in the US, China, Germany, France, Japan and Luxembourg.
I should add I am quoted in the story – but for the record, this is Ian Griffiths story, not mine.
But let me flesh it out a bit. Amazon's accounts are here. The 2010 filing shows world wide sales of $34.2 bn. The UK sales are reported to be between 11% and 15% – so let's call it 13%. That's $4.4bn. That's at HMRC exchange rates just over £2.8 billion. The profit rate overall was 4.4%. So UK profit could have been expected to be £125 million and tax due at 28% £35 million.
In fact the Guardian reports that UK recorded sales were less than £150 million and profit and tax were negligible. That's becasuye all the sales came from Luxembourg – the Uk merely billed Luxembourg to ship the orders Luxembourg supposedly handled.
Now we all know that's nonsense: the order will go straight to Swindon and be shipped from there (now Jersey is out of the scene) and Luxembourg's involvement will be minimal – as the number of people in each location as reported by the Guardian shows is inevitable.
How can this happen? Because the UK's 'open for business' policy is to not ask questions on tax. We'll let a multinational do what it likes in its structuring to avoid upsetting them – inclduing letting them say that their sales really don't take place here when they very obviously do – dammit, they're even accounting for VAT on them here but still say they're not in the UK.
And then HMRC have the gall to say the corporate tax gap on avoidance is tiny – maybe £1 billion. I say it's £12 billion. That's because I sgtart with the economic reality of the accounts – as Ian Griffiths on the Guardian did. HMRC start with the tax returns – which are submitted after HMRC have allowed whole rafts of profit to be swept aside.
No wonder HMRC's data is laughably wrong – it turns a blind eye to the reality of the abuse hat is happening. And it's time that stopped, in the interests of us all.


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The HLPI applies the DCR mission of protecting and promoting the cultural resources of the Commonwealth by reaching out to communities and offering technical assistance for landscape preservation.
Heritage Landscape Inventory Program
The Heritage Landscape Inventory Program works with communities and regional organizations to identify document and prepare planning recommendations for the heritage landscapes that are vital to the quality of life, character, and history of our communities. Heritage landscapes embody connections between natural landscapes and human history and are often cited as special places that define the character of communities. These include historic gardens and parks, town centers, mill complexes, river corridors, farms, and scenic roads, to name a few. Participating communities have had their landscapes and recommendations documented in Reconnaissance Reports .
The HLI program guidebook Reading the Land was developed to assist communities statewide with the identification, documentation, and preservation planning for their own heritage landscapes. DCR staff is also able to provide technical assistance and guidance to communities who want to take some proactive planning measures for their heritage landscapes. DCR is also applying the Heritage Landscape Inventory program's methodology to the DCR parks system.
The HLI program has helped to foster relationships between local and regional advocates for natural and cultural resources. The most frequently recommended strategies from the HLI program have been compiled in Terra Firma #7 - Taking Action: A Toolkit for Protecting Community Character file size 1MB .
The HLI Program was the winner of the 2004 American Planning Association Public Education Award.
Heritage Landscape Atlas– The Heritage Landscape Atlas is an innovative tool for protecting the cultural landscape of Massachusetts. Developed as part of the Heritage Landscape Inventory program, the Atlas is an interactive, web-based mapping application that allows for both landscape-specific analysis and regional and statewide comparisons.
Historic Cemetery Preservation Initiative
The Massachusetts Historic Cemeteries Preservation Initiative was created in 1999 and was designed to provide cities and towns with the tools to preserve public historic cemeteries as cultural landscapes. This is a unique and threatened landscape type that requires a broad preservation approach to expand preservation beyond stone conservation and to include vegetation management, circulation features, buildings, fences and more. This is articulated in the Guidelines for the Preservation of Municipally Owned Historic Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, recipient of the 2000 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
In 2011 DCR re-issued the Guidelines on CD-ROM as part of Terra Firma 10 - Mourning Glory: Preserving Historic Cemeteries. Funded through an agreement with the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, the bulletin was released in conjunction with a Historic Cemetery Preservation Workshop attended by over 200 people from 8 states.


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Last week we participated in the Yes-Syr- A Marathon Performace at Jan Arnold Gallery, Museums Quartier Vienna where Syrian artist Osama-El-Siamant and his collective produced euro bills for six hours per day, seven days a week to highlight the the economic relationships of power, dependence and exploitation. In a painfully subversive way they visualise the dilemma of labour bans the refugees must endure in receiving countries, the red tape and xenophobia that prevents them from starting a new life in spite of all they have suffered.
The bills can be purchased for nominal value with all proceeds going to humanitarian organisations providing unbureaucratic direct aid to refugees and internally displaced persons.
please see more at www.janarnoldgallery.com and http://yes-syr.tumblr.com/
Through this powerful performance, the audience can connect and integrate with he artists on a personal level. Thanks to all the wonderful humans involved, we are proud to be a part of it.
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Download bricomath apk 1.0.3 free for Android smartphone
Posted by annurig in Puzzle | July 3, 2016 | 4 Comments
Apk file size: 13.0 MB
bricks and math, 12 levels
enjoy simple subtraction and addition in a logic way. Great for kids
you have to find the values of all bricks
any brick's value is the sum of the bricks that is touching at the base
see help in application
3 type of levels : static, missing - you will have to drag a brick to uncover a value, dynamic - bricks are moving
Whats new
Unlocked all levels in free release
incorporating adobe air
annurig part of our Puzzle and have average installs from 1000 to 5000. Last Update July 3, 2016. Google play rating is 77.3333. Current verison is 1.0.3. Actual size 13.0 MB.
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Daniel GHILENCEA
Bricomath Execelent logical game it requires perspicacity too
Radu Ghişoiu
Cool Nice math for kids
Lord Erica
Requires adobe air I keep my downloaded software to a minimun. If it cannot work with existing Adobe then it is not for me. Thanks anyway, looked promising...
katie folkard
I was loving the game till level 4 Level 4 was poor


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Risen - On GOG
Risen is the first game from the Deep Silver catalogue that will be made availabe on Good Old Games. You can get it now DRM free for $3.99 during the next 46 something hours fro writing this newsbit. After that it will be at the regular price of $9.99 again.
Already have it, but it's not DRMfree. Is getting DRM removed worth paying $4 or not?
IMO yes is written all over it.
If DRMfree Risen2 also gets such price, I'll also rebuy it on GOG. The core game, I don't need those pathetic DLC and don't want pay a dime for those.
Won't find time to play it but grabbed it anyway. For 3 that's almost stealing !
Shweet! I own it on GG, but grabbing it on GOG too to show my support. :)
Good that it is on GoG, will probably grab it at this price (and DRM free).
However, I am looking more towards the trilogy on GoG ;).
I mean… This is one of those "must play before dying" games. It's not a masterpiece, still it's something you just need to see and feel under your fingers. And then to catch yourself wishing for more of such stuff.
Find the time for this game!
Save yourself some dosh. :)
True, but cmon. Risen 1. DRMfree on GOG. No need to keep physical media any more. No fear of CRC error and whatnot. Cleaner room. Available anywhere, you just need your laptop and internet connection!
Sorry, but in this case I'm like:
have never liked the gothix I've tried. not sure why I would like this. $4 is very good for what it seems to be though.
Definitely going to pick this up; been wanting to play this game for a long time.
I agree that it's not as good as Gothic 1&2, but that might have something to do with the fact that those are two of the best open-world crpgs ever made.
Glad to see GoG expanding their catalog. :)
Risen 1 was a true gem. It was the true successor of Gothic 2. Also it has a much more realistic and fun combat mechanics. Also an optimum sized open world without making game content stretched thin. On the other hand Risen 2 was a mediocre game. Ridiculous combat system with a world design that follows console rpg formula. Also an uninteresting and unnecessary pirate setting. I hope with Risen 3 PB will return to its roots.
By the way signing with Deep Silver means we will see Sacred 2 and Dead Island games on Gog.
I'm speaking for myself here of course when I say I loved both Risen games to bits for different reasons. With Risen 2 I had a feeling that some things could have been done better (more companions with personal quests, more quests spanning different islands, more to do on/with your ship, Risen 1 combat) and I certainly did not feel that with Risen.
Nevertheless it's strange to see lots of commenters (not necessarily here) bash Risen 2 for the pirate setting when they were praising it pre-release for taking the initiative and changing the usual setting…
Anyway, this deal is great, and a good reminder that I need to replay Risen sometime soon. Wish I had fewer untouched games in my backlog (sorry joxer). =/
I agree, Risen 1 was really something special. Didn't find it on my own, I believe a few people from here turned me on to it. Even better now that it's on GoG!
Hey….that video above, is that Spanky from the Little Rascals?? =p
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Jalopnik auto reviewer, Robert Farago, told us we neglected to include the money shot of the Audi Q7 in our Frankfurt coverage. He's talking about the third row of seats, with legroom equivalent to a rucksack, that SUV owners simply must have these days. For this, we turn to the boys at Auto Spies, whom we failed to see in the Frankfurt crowd despite their great height. Sorry, guys.
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Duke Nukem Forever 'awfully sexist,' says Fox News
News outlet says Gearbox Software's M-rated action game "takes sexism to a new level"; Women's Media Center VP calls game's depiction of women "extremely harmful."
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In early February, Fox News slammed Bulletstorm, questioning whether it was the "worst video game in the world." Now, the Rupert Murdoch-owned news outlet is taking up arms against Gearbox Software's long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever, calling it "awfully sexist."
According to an article on FoxNews.com, 1996's Duke Nukem 3D--"which made millions for its developers and transformed the entire world of video games--depicted women as strippers and prostitutes." And now, according to Fox, Duke Nukem Forever is primed to "take sexism to a new level."
To illustrate its point, the story says the game opens with a scene where Duke is seen receiving implied fellatio from twins in school getups. This is where Women's Media Center vice president Jamia Wilson takes severe offense.
"It was offensive then and it's even more offensive now," she told Fox News. "These depictions of women are extremely harmful, especially to young women."
Specifically, the scathing article's main focus is on Duke Nukem Forever's Capture the Babe multiplayer mode. This game mode--according to the Official Xbox Magazine (via Eurogamer)--has players carrying a character, the Babe, around. If she yells, players are given the option to slap her.
Fox News also brought up the Entertainment Software Rating Board--which slapped an M for Mature rating on Duke Nukem Forever--and quoted group spokesperson Eliot Mizrachi.
"This game carries a Mature rating indicating that it's intended for ages 17 and up, and retailers overwhelmingly enforce their store policies requiring that M-rated games not be sold to a customer under that age without a parent's consent," he said.
A passage from Duke Nukem Forever's classification rationale statement reads, "A few sequences strongly imply sexual acts: two women appear to perform fellatio on the central character (e.g., raising their heads from his lap)--though there is no actual depiction of the sex act; Duke moans and leans up against the wall of a bathroom stall (furnished with a hole)--it is implied that a sex act (not depicted) occurs."
Duke Nukem Forever was originally pegged to debut on May 3, but just last week the long-in-development action game suffered a delay. The game is now due out internationally on June 10 and in North America on June 14. For more on the title, check out GameSpot's most recent hands-on preview.
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YOU might not think a C in maths is anything to cry about, but this proud father certainly does.
His son comes home and secretly sets up a camera in the kitchen.
He then calls his dad into the room and hands over the report card.
What follows has to go down as one of the most touching (and hilarious) displays of relief and pride ever captured on hidden surveillance and uploaded to the interwebs.
The son explains on his YouTube page that in England, you need to pass maths "to basically do anything in life".
A year earlier, he'd been sitting on an F, so you can understand Pop's relief.
"ive never been amazing academically and have struggled through out school , neither me or my dad or my teachers thought I was going to get my C, I know some of you might be saying, well an c is nothing but for me it was hard to get," he wrote.
And while we're on the topic of hilarious dads doing excellent things on YouTube, you've seen this man lip-synching to his daughter's temper tantrum, right?


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Employees injured on site during breaks are entitled to workers' compensation benefits.
Recent case: Cynthia worked as a customer service representative for Verizon Wireless. She was required to take a one-hour unpaid lunch period every day. Verizon allowed employees to stroll through the building for exercise during their breaks.
While Cynthia was walking one day during her break, she slipped on ice chunks that had fallen from a soda machine in a hallway. She hurt her knee, aggravating an old injury. She filed for workers' compensation.
Verizon argued that she wasn't working at the time she fell. The court said that didn't matter. She was taking a required lunch break, walking in an area where she was encouraged to walk and fell. That made her eligible. (Mintz v. Verizon Wireless, No. COA12-306, Court of Appeals of North Carolina, 2012)


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A photographic documentary of my kayaking and hiking adventures in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine!
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text: Hello Achim, Saturday, December 29, 2007, 9:22:40 PM, you wrote: > "I think we should jump, eax is zero and I don't want to get > redesigned." > It's all about natural selection, it seems. Heretics get burned in both > worlds. for me, natural selection is the Nature's process of thinking. if you need to solve some problem you know some ways to try it. these ways wasn't discovered by you, you just learnt them in the school. and their creators don't started from scratch - they used some previous, more general methods. but where may be the PRIMARY source of wisdom? it may be only natural selection - this process generates *random* ideas and check them against some conditions. it's even not important what are these particular conditions - anyway, this turns at the last end into the general mechanism of solving problems, which in turn leads into development of general mechanism that makes mechanisms to solve problems - it's human. their mind was created to solve problems of survival and reproduction (it's the particular problem solved by natural selection) but this mind was created so general that it was used as general mechanism of solving problems in any other areas. humans was just first creatures of n.s. whose mind becomes so general that it can be programmed to solve other types of problems. it's impossible to use bears to program computers, build bridges and teach students you can compare this to birth of programming languages - the first ones was created to solve particular problems but this idea turned out to be so useful that these languages was started to be used outside initial goal -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com


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UMIC and ACEP Meet with Brazilian FAA and USP Delegation- 14/01/2009
The ACEP Association for eCommerce in Portugal and the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) met a Brazilian delegation from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), which operates as a university based in São Paulo, and the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) following the interest shown by these Brazilian bodies in cooperating with regard to how civil society and the State have participated in eCommerce, eInvoicing and e-Business in general.
The Brazilian delegation included: Cláudio Lembo, Ex-Governor of the State of São Paulo, the Vice-Chancellor of the Universidade de São Paulo in charge of Research, José Roberto Neves Amorim Court of Appeals Judge of the São Paulo Court of Justice and Vice Director of the Faculty of Law at FAAP, Álvaro Villaça de Azevedo - Director of Faculty of Law at FAAP and Civil Law PhD, Fabiana Lopes Pinto specialist lawyer in electronic invoices public electronic accounting records in Brazil. Representing Portugal were the President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), the President of ACEP Association for eCommerce in Portugal and various company bosses with ties to ACEP.


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Migration Fest held at Lehigh Gap Nature Center
ELSA KERSCHNER/TIMES NEWS A quilt made by members of the Nature Center will be offered in a raffle to end during the 10th anniversary celebration in May 2013.
On May 12, 2013, the Lehigh Gap Nature Center will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. At the Migration Fest held Sept. 29-30 a new quilt made by members Donna Gasser and Kathie Romano was displayed and will be raffled May 5, 2013, at a celebration and open house. Romano did all the birds, said Gasser. For information email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Diane Husic gave an update on the Eastern Pennsylvania Phenology project. The cost was covered by an Audubon-Toyota TogetherGreen fellowship.
It tracks climate change through bloom times, birding, and bugs. It is a citizen-science project with input from many people and organizations.
"We have people go out and look at things to learn about climate-change adaptation," said Husic. "If you get a lot of people out looking, you learn more. The science measures the life cycle of plants, animals and microbes and details how the environment influences the timing of these events."
She said it is harder in fall when things are stopping then in the spring when something that was not there over winter is back
A goal is to get people outside watching and appreciating nature, said Husic. A second goal is to create a public database for regional phenology records.
The research can be followed at lgnc.org/research/phenology. To submit data email firstname.lastname@example.com.
She has 13,000 pieces of data, and reports back to the 1960s add another 200,000 pieces. Five counties were in the original plan but 18 are now included. The Kittatinny Ridge is a dividing point with warming from south to north. It also has the major contiguous forest in Pennsylvania.
The Louisiana waterthrush comes back 23 days earlier across the state - all birds are coming earlier, she said.
Nature Center Director Dan Kunkle said in the spring there is an urge for raptors to get to breeding grounds but in fall they leave when they are running out of food. There is no special urgency because the thermals are lasting later in the year.
Husic said it has been smart for municipalities to protect flood plains. With the predictions of climate change more water discharge will become common.
Other Saturday events were an identification of raptors program followed by a trip to Bake Oven Knob to watch hawks, a display of amphibians and reptiles and a craft table for kids.


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Hurry up, pass, and ask questions later.
That's the latest fad at all levels of football. Let's call it the no huddle-spread offense. Coach Chip Kelly made it infamous at Oregon and recently with the Philadelphia Eagles, but it's even more unpredictable, exciting and interesting at the high school level.
I covered the St. John Bosco 52-31 win over Chandler (Ariz.) at the Mission Viejo Football Classic a few weeks ago. Both of the highly touted teams were in the no huddle-spread for most of the game and they combined to run almost 70 plays in the first half. That's nearly three plays a minute. The Braves fell behind but turned around to score on six consecutive drives to win going away against a tired Chandler team.
And that's the rub. The idea behind the no-huddle spread is that more offensive plays will create more opportunities for the defense to make mistakes, and thus allow more points. But it doesn't take into account your own defense. A good defense down the stretch is usually a well-rested defense. If a team runs three plays a minute and goes three-and-out, that doesn't leave much time for a defense to catch its breath much less make strategic adjustments.
Take the Wilson Bruins, for example. They also run the no-huddle spread and when I covered their game at Paramount late last month, I had to keep my camera running while frantically taking down statistics. But I didn't have to do it for long because Wilson only held the ball for about seven of the 24 first-half minutes. Meanwhile, Paramount was running the ball and chewing up yardage, momentum and the clock while slowly getting in and out of the huddle.
Obviously, this wore down the Bruins' defense. And can you blame them for being tired? They saw more than twice as many plays as their offense and it's much more taxing to play defense than it is to play offense. Why do you think ball control is so important in the postseason?
The football experts on television and the radio will bombard you with statistics when talking about the "new" offenses. But they will rarely follow that with an equally in-depth breakdown of that team's defense.
Next time you're at a local high school football game watching the no-huddle spread, keep an eye on three things:
1) Punching The Clock — How long is the defense on the field when that team is in the no-huddle? Are defensive calls less aggressive as the game gets longer, or visa versa? If they are, it might be the offense's fault.
2) Line Change — How many different defensive players get on the field? In that St. John Bosco game, the Braves ran out new defensive lineman whenever there was a stoppage of play, like a penalty or long incomplete pass. Chandler had much thinner ranks and looked exhausted in the fourth quarter when St. John Bosco ran away with the game.
3) Run Till You Drop — One way an offense can spare its defense is to run the ball, and the clock. Because of an injury to starting quarterback Jason Bonney, Wilson ran the ball at a 3-to-1 ratio in the second half against Paramount. The Bruins couldn't overcome a 22-6 halftime deficit, but their defense was much more stout in the second half.
I'm not saying teams shouldn't run the no-huddle spread. When it works, it's almost unstoppable. Get used to high school teams scoring 30 or more points in games with little to no fanfare. At the same time, keep teams like Poly and Bakersfield in mind. They're the two most successful high school football programs in California, and they run the ball as much as any team this side of De La Salle. And who's winning the championships?


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STILLWATER, Okla. -- The way Mack Brown tells it, Texas had Oklahoma State right where the Longhorns wanted it. The Longhorns were up one, OSU was driving, time had become a factor and the entire crowd against them. Yep, perfect position, said Brown.
"I told them that this was perfect," the Texas coach said. "We told the defense that if they held them to a field goal, we would win the game. We told the offense the same thing. You're going to hold them to a field goal, and you're going to win the game."
The defense did hold. But the offense very nearly didn't hold up to its end of the bargain. Texas faced a fourth and six in its own territory before David Ash hit D.J. Grant for a 29-yard gain. But once that first down was secure, Brown was secure in the win.
"Usually, in those one-minute drills that we've been so good at, if you make the first first-down, you get it," he said. "The first one is the hardest one. The crowd's against you, everybody is pumped up and the players were jacked up."
Speed thrills
Texas realized fairly quickly it could not keep up with the Oklahoma State fast-paced offense. So to counteract things, the Longhorns decided to speed the Cowboys up on defense as well.
"That's why we increased our tempo at the same time and tried to wear them out," Brown said. "Possession was the difference in the end. They couldn't score because they didn't have the ball. We weren't scoring as fast as they were, but we were pounding them and pounding them and our offensive line took over the last few drives."
Texas scored on three of its last four possessions and had 280 of its 440 yards in the second half.
Going deep
Typically it is Ash who gets the blame for not completing the deep ball. But against Oklahoma State the blame fell on Mike Davis' shoulders.
The wide receiver dropped a sure touchdown pass on what could be argued was Ash best pass of the night.
"He came to me after he barely missed that deep throw early in the first half and said 'Just give me another chance,'" Ash said of Davis. "So said I'd give him another chance, and he was in line. He was ready to make the play, and that was on him."
"I did my job and I beat my man and he threw a great ball and I made a play on the ball, but I dropped it," Davis said. "So I told him that it wasn't over and to put it behind us and give me another chance, and I'll make a play like I've been doing."
The play was a 32-yard pass down to the OSU 2 on the game-winning drive.
"I didn't throw him a great ball so he made the play for it," Ash said.
Ash was 4 of 5 for 70 yards on the final drive.
Three and out
Texas never held Oklahoma State to a three and out. But the Longhorns did hold the Cowboys to three points on three difference occasions and that turned out to be the difference in the game.
"We've said it all along, great offenses like theirs, you have to win in the red zone," said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. "They're too dynamic, they're too good and they're going to move the ball in between the 20s. There were a bunch of red zone stops, even the ones that we held them to field goals, that as the game was going on and keeping the score down, that were vital in the football game."
Two of OSU's four second-half scores were field goals. The Cowboys also missed a field goal in the third quarter.
By the numbers
David Ash's 30 completions were a career high. Ash went 116 pass attempts without an interception before he threw one on the first drive of the third quarter. That is the fourth longest streak in Texas history.
D.J. Monroe's 100-yard kickoff return is the fourth in school history.
Texas has outscored its opponents 49-3 off turnovers. The Cowboys managed a field goal off Ash's pick.Texas scored a touchdown following Kenny Vaccaro's pick.


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Show: Freedom Watch
Host: Judge Andrew Napolitano
Date: 10/21/2009
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Hello and welcome to Freedom Watch, your daily dose of raw liberty streaming live on FoxNews.com. I'm your Host Judge Andrew Napolitano, here defending freedom, defending your natural rights and defending your right to have a government that stays within the confines of the Constitution.
Congressman Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve is not only gaining enormous momentum, it's being joined by additional legislation introduced by senators Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, and Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee [S. 1803]. Ah, but their version waters down Congressman Paul's bill, omits audits of important area of the Fed's behavior and actually wipes out proper names of banks and other individuals. What kind of an audit is that?
While all this is going on, a so called conservative Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he won't let Congressman Paul "hijack the Republican Party".
Here we go again, it is now my pleasure to introduce the object of Senator Graham's wrath, one of American's great defenders of freedom and liberty today, congressman Ron Paul joins us from our nation's capital. He is, of course, the author of the New York Times bestseller "End the Fed". Congressman Paul, welcome back to Freedom Watch.
Ron Paul: Thank you, judge, good to be with you.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Thank you. I guess it was too good to be true to expect that a lot of liberal Democrats would be serious in their efforts of joining you and wanting to audit the Fed. What the heck are they trying to do in the Senate? What kind of an audit would it be if important parts of what the Fed does is not covered in the audit, and if they don't give the proper names of the people with whom the Fed does business?
Ron Paul: It doesn't do any good at all. I mean, maybe slight. But under the condition of canceling out what we're doing? Yes, it would be quite harmful to us. But, you know, Corker, I believe a Republican is doing it and I wouldn't write off all the Democrats in the House because they're not running the show. I think what this is representing is the effort by the establishment, by Wall Street, by Goldman Sachs, by the Federal Reserve, saying "Look, let's distract them from what a real audit would do." And I think that is what is going on right now. But we will not back down. We're going to demand that there be a full, honest audit on the Federal Reserve, or we shouldn't accept it.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: You know, there are a couple of ways to look at this. I remember when you were a lone voice in the Congress, almost literally standing totally alone and arguing that we all need an audit of the Fed. You now have more than half of your colleagues on your side. That's an enormous stride and it's due totally to your single minded dedication and, I might add, explanations to your colleagues and to the country of the need for auditing the Fed. That's the good side. The bad side is that they're afraid of an audit and they've gotten their allies in Congress to try and water it down so it will look like they're going along with the audit, but the fruits of their audit will be bitter and tasteless and dry and not revealing anything.
Ron Paul: That's right, it would be a distraction if anybody becomes satisfied with this. I think the most important part of my bill and the one area that the Fed seems to be most resistant to is the opening up of the books of what they do with other governments, other central banks and international financial organizations. I think that's where the real shenanigans go on and they don't want to have any part of this. So they're going to pretend that they're going to open up these lending facilities to some degree and say, "Oh yeah, we're finding out where this money went domestically".
And maybe we will find out a little bit more information. But that won't touch the foreign operations, because when you think about it when you can make a deal and promise money and loans to foreign central banks to get involved in the market and do some of your dirty work, I think they're propping up markets and who knows what kind of mischief they're involved in. So I think they're very, very determined to stop what we're trying to do and get these books open. But the more they obstruct the more they obstruct, the more attention we're going to get and the more the people of this country will realize how necessary this audit is.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Before I let you go, switching gears… what is Lindsey Graham worried about? What does he mean when he says "Ron Paul might hijack the Republican Party"?
Ron Paul: He's sort of giving me a lot of credit, isn't he? I can hijack the party? I'd like to influence the party. I'd like to suggest to them that they ought to follow up on what they claim they believe in. But this whole idea now… I guess he wants to have influence, too. But his views are quite different from mine. He supports Cap and Trade and he supports many big government programs. But he sees himself as a facilitator. He's supposed to give half of the pie away, and if the Democrats want a program, he'll give them 50% and he'll claim this as a big victory.
So he's approach is quite different, which he has a right to. But this idea that all of a sudden I am going to hijack the party? I think if you talk to the young people in this country who may well become the leaders of the country, and maybe Republicans, they ought to listen to what they are asking for. I don't think it's the policy of Lindsey Graham in any way whatsoever.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Congressman Paul, it is always a pleasure. Thanks for joining us at freedom Watch.
Ron Paul: Thanks you.


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Recently i was having this discussion with a few friends. Some think i'm crazy while others relate COMPLETELY. This is Glen's theory of stage fright. I believe that i get nervous 100% divided by the amount of players on stage. So… if there are 5 of us on stage, 100/5 = 20%. Yep. I get only a tingle of nervousness. If however, i'm doing a duet, 100/2 = 50%… i get a bit more of the jitters. If i'm going solo i carry 100%. Stands to reason right? If i'm in a 100 voice choir, i hardly get nervous at all… maybe 1%. See where i'm going with this? Actually… to be honest… hahaa i'm not going anywhere with this. This is just something i've noticed in myself over the years. About 20 years ago now i read a book called the Inner Game of Music. He asks the question "If you were to play a simple song like… happy birthday on the piano, would you get nervous? What about if you were to play the same song in front of thousands in a concert hall. Would you then be nervous? What changed? The song is the same and yet somehow we become more frightened at the thought of playing in front of other people. He then suggests:
Performance = our maximum potential – internal distractions
Our performance equals our very best less any internal head games and distractions. As teachers we push push push maximum output… we push skills, technique, repertoire. In the book he wrote, "Why not also minimize distractions?" Huh. Interesting. I've had very little time over the years being taught to perform… to analyze the stage… with the exception of Thomas Manshart. He said "You need to OWN the stage. You have been given the opportunity to interact with an audience… quite possibly to shock them, to make them pay attention to beauty… to sit at the edge of their seats." I believe that often as performers we are battling our wits than we are owning the stage – thinking about what we are communicating. A retired concert pianist here in town doesn't believe in recorded music. Hahaa he calls it "information sound". "Truly" he told me once "music is a moment in time where you, as a performer interact with an audience… something recordings will never do". Interesting. OK i'm blathering on now but i find i do find the concept of performance interesting… a topic we barely give air time to.


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Two stupid polls out of the UK: here's the first.
It's very annoying — I voted, but it won't show me the results. If you find the same absence of feedback, I guess you'll just have to bash homeopathy blindly. (Reports coming back are that it's currently about 50:50.)
Here's another one, even dumber, promoted by some quack homeopath who thinks she's being cleverly contrarian.
Should pharmaceutical drug treatments be publicly funded by the NHS UK?
No 80.22%
Yes 19.78%
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text: [Federal Register Volume 78, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2013)] [Notices] [Pages 7860-7861] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-02264] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Initial Research on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the preliminary plans of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a longitudinal cohort study of adverse health effects related to military deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, to include potential exposure to airborne hazards and burn pits, and to take related actions to promote the effective monitoring and assessment of deployment-related exposures and potential health effects of deployments. The planned actions are based in part on VA's review of the analysis and recommendations in an October 31, 2011, report of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concerning the potential long-term health consequences of exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Paul Ciminera, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20420, telephone (202) 461-1020. (This is not a toll-free number.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 31, 2011, at VA's request, IOM issued a study titled, ``Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan'' (IOM report). The IOM reviewed a wide range of data sources including peer-reviewed literature on the subject of respiratory exposures in general, information on types of materials and quantities burned during burn pit use in Iraq and Afghanistan, and analyses of ambient air sampling collected by the Department of Defense (DoD). IOM concluded that there was limited but suggestive evidence of an association between exposure to combustion products and reduced pulmonary function, but inadequate or insufficient evidence of an association between exposure to combustion products and cancer, respiratory diseases, circulatory diseases, neurologic diseases, and adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes in the populations studied. After careful review of the IOM report, the Secretary has directed the Veterans Health Administration to conduct a long-term prospective study on all adverse health effects potentially related to military deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, to include health effects potentially related to exposure to airborne hazards and burn pits. In addition, the Secretary has requested participation by DoD in VA's proposed study, joint participation in long-term cohort studies for every future major deployment, priority staffing in support of the VA/ DoD Environmental Exposure Data Transfer Agreement (DTA), and continued collaboration on a Joint VA/DoD Action Plan to address clinical and research issues associated with deployment. Additional efforts include inviting DoD to support a joint VA/DoD post-deployment health annual symposium to disseminate lessons learned to health care teams (and other stakeholders) and bring key subject matter and policy experts together to guide joint strategic research plans on post-deployment health related issues. VA intends, in conjunction with DoD, to establish clinical evaluation protocols for exposure to burn pit emissions and other airborne pollutants encountered by servicemembers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and conduct research on the long-term health effects of exposure to burn pits. Background. This IOM report was not required by law. It was requested by VA in response to increasing concerns about the long-term health of U.S. servicemembers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan who may have been exposed to potentially hazardous materials from open burn pits, which were commonly used for waste disposal. Specifically, VA asked IOM to examine potential exposures and long-term health risks arising from exposure to smoke created from open pit burning of solid waste and other materials in Iraq and Afghanistan. Using the Joint Base Balad (JBB) burn pit as an example, IOM was asked to evaluate the long- term health risks based on a review of a wide range of sources such as epidemiologic studies conducted either by or under the auspices of VA or DoD; other available epidemiologic literature on populations exposed to similar hazards; as well as relevant environmental studies, relevant toxicologic studies, veteran-specific clinical/pathologic studies, and the effects related to short-term peak exposures, as well as chronic exposures. In addition, IOM was asked to make recommendations for epidemiologic research initiatives for VA and DoD to further study potential long-term health effects. IOM first assessed the types and quantities of materials burned during the time of pit use and analyzed air monitoring data collected at JBB during 2007 and 2009. It then examined anticipated health effects from exposure to air pollutants found at JBB and studies of health effects in similar populations with similar exposures, grading the quality of those studies as key or supportive. IOM then performed a synthesis of key information on potential long-term health effects in military personnel potentially exposed to burn pits and developed design elements and feasibility considerations for an epidemiologic study. IOM concluded that there is limited but suggestive evidence of an association between exposure to combustion products and reduced pulmonary function in the populations studied. Pulmonary function tests are frequently used to diagnose respiratory disease, and changes can be observed in the absence of clinical symptoms or disease. However, this IOM finding focused on pulmonary function, not respiratory disease, and noted that further studies, including longitudinal studies, are required. The studies conducted to this point have been limited in scope and duration, and many focus on non-veterans in other [[Page 7861]] (not completely similar) settings, including firefighters, residents living near incinerators, and incinerator workers. IOM also concluded that there is inadequate or insufficient evidence of an association between exposure to combustion products and cancer, respiratory diseases, circulatory diseases, neurologic diseases, and adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes in the populations studied. As previously noted, IOM relied on peer reviewed studies of surrogate patient populations (firefighters and incinerator workers) because there were limited studies, long or short term, of servicemembers exposed to burn pits or similar contaminants while in an operational area. VA believes such studies would be helpful in properly assessing affected veterans for compensation purposes as well as for medical evaluation, treatment and follow up. The following precursor actions will facilitate such future studies: (1) Development of a standardized post-deployment evaluation protocol. VA and DoD believe that the post-deployment evaluation of servicemembers and veterans with respiratory complaints should be standardized across the Departments. VA recognizes that burn pits may not be the main cause of any long-term health effects related to deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Military operations in these areas also expose servicemembers to other air pollutants, predominately particulate matter (PM), which might be associated with long-term health effects, particularly in highly exposed or susceptible populations. Developing a standardized screening and diagnostic evaluation protocol will facilitate appropriate assessment and medical care as needed. VA intends to work jointly with DoD to develop expert consensus on these evaluation protocols. (2) Development of validated exposure assessment instruments. VA will continue to work in a supporting role with DoD to attempt to develop exposure assessment instruments for use in both research and clinical evaluation. This will aid in identifying any health outcomes potentially associated with burn pit emissions by identifying sources of exposure as well as the chemicals associated with burning waste and other pollution sources. Accurate assessment of exposure potential requires identifying possible toxicants, detailed deployment information, duration of deployment, job duties, and in the case of burn pits, the distance from the burn pit and whether the individual lived and worked upwind or downwind from the burn pit. VA relies on DoD to provide these confirmatory data, and is actively pursuing a Data Transfer Agreement (DTA) to include more specific data elements. (3) Supporting an integrated DoD/VA clinical informatics system. VA recognizes that assessment of health outcomes is best done collaboratively using the clinical informatics systems of DoD and VA. An integrated VA-DoD electronic medical record is the optimal solution. The issue of integration is being addressed through several ongoing initiatives. The VA-DoD Deployment Health Work Group is sponsoring a DTA that will enable DoD exposure data to be transferred to VA. In addition, VA plans to link outcome data with self-reported questionnaire data from DoD's Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which includes a large veteran population that deployed in support of current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. VA is working to embed personnel in the MCS office to conduct joint research and provide VA medical record reviews of conditions self-reported from veterans participating in the MCS. To address the need for further study of the long-term health effects of exposure to airborne hazards (such as pollution and burn pit emissions) in Iraq and Afghanistan, VA intends to take the following steps: Design appropriate studies. The long-term health effects related to exposure to burn pit emissions should be assessed. Early markers of respiratory disease, via measurable changes in the respiratory system, should be examined through a research-based physical examination component of a broader research program. As a first step, VA intends to develop research goals and objectives, structures, and establish essential study design features. Existing research studies, such as the Million Veteran Program, the Cooperative Studies Program, the Gulf War Veteran studies, the MCS, and the National Health Study for a New Generation of U.S. Veterans, will be evaluated to determine whether any of these can be used to support burn pit exposure studies, or whether modifications to these studies may be necessary to meet the overall goals of a research plan. In 2005, DoD formed the Joint Particulate Matter Work Group to investigate the composition of PM across USCENTCOM. The Pulmonary Working Group was established in 2010 to investigate reports of specific respiratory conditions found in returning veterans. VA and DoD continue to collaborate and support ongoing activities that may be leveraged in the study of long-term health effects related to exposure to airborne hazards such as burn pit emissions. Establish an independent oversight mechanism. VA intends to establish an independent oversight committee to provide guidance and to review specific research objectives, study designs, research and evaluation protocols, and results from burn pit emissions research. VA has established independent advisory bodies that could potentially provide the required level of external oversight. These bodies include standing review committees that provide peer review for VA researchers. The committees should include external subject matter experts recruited from academia, internal VA experts, and experts from other government agencies, and should be modeled after the National Institutes of Health's Center for Scientific Review. Conduct a cohort study. VA intends to work jointly with DoD to develop and conduct a cohort study of veterans and servicemembers to assess potential long-term effects related to burn pit emissions in the context of other ambient exposures. This will likely involve a population-based prospective study that includes baseline and repeated clinical examinations with sufficient follow up to address the potential long-term health effects of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as potential burn pit exposure. Signing Authority The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or designee, approved this document and authorized the undersigned to sign and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register for publication electronically as an official document of the Department of Veterans Affairs. John R. Gingrich, Chief of Staff, Department of Veterans Affairs, approved this document on December 26, 2012, for publication. Dated: January 29, 2013. William F. Russo, Deputy Director, Office of Regulation Policy and Management, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs. [FR Doc. 2013-02264 Filed 2-1-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8320-01-P


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