improving the efficiency of these mills helps unleash energy reserves that can be an important stepping stone rural development. >> they haven't been on a paved road for hours. but for bal krishna und milan shrestha from nepal's center for rural technology, that's normal when they travel to the water mills they've upgraded. >> i'm glad we can drive most of the way today. often the mills are so high up in the mountains that we have to hike for days to reach them. >> at the end of the gorge lies the village of khopa chagu. it takes its name from the river, which flows directly from the himalayas. the village has around 2,000 residents. most of them earn a living from farming. they cultivate cereal crops, corn, millet and vegetables. they've had a new water mill for six years now. the aid organization helped upgrade it and funded half of the work. the owner dhan bahadur shows off the multi-functional mill. he's proud that he took the risk back then and took on debts to improve it. >> i was so frightened of going into debt, that i often couldn't sleep. i didn't know whether it would all pay off.

you will see that anyway however things developed by stunt will be one of the stepping stones between. europe where the ice has melted in certain manner that you will. you will have a new car group. that will be pretty soon perhaps within some two years ago iceland came up with something called the modern media and national have its legal framework to promote investigative journalism considering the fact that iceland and you yourself have become the victim of. leeks what's in it for iceland to promote such a legal framework well i wouldn't phrase it. the way you do with the dice on became a victim of italy but you publish your free will i mean you're talking to a guy who certainly saw a confidential report made by the. plaster on the pages of the media actually the league's group made the first trial run with documents related to iceland because they had some particular connection to icelandic individual but. in the end this resulted in this bill of legislation letters being proposed in the icelandic parliament about has been embraced to a certain extent by all sides of the house i me

basically this is a stepping stone for us. you can look at it you don't go straight to kindergarten maybe to university. maybe we would like to but that's not the way it works, so if you only have done a single family home, remodel projects, did you prux and you ask for financing for a nine unit project that is more units they laugh at you as you're walking out the door with your head down, so this is the only way by changing the rules. that's the only way we can produce five to nine unit projects in the city again. as i say i congratulate every one getting behind these projects. we know they're not built. now that we're back here we will see them being built again. it's a good thing for the builders and the homeowners and a general good thing for the city. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. elizabeth moore with shamrock streels company. we all know that these projects have declined since the passage of this legislation and obviously that results in reduced economic activity for the city, but specifically as a passionat

weapons would end up in because the objective that he stated was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone towards iran cares what exactly what he said. we should be working no less vigorously through our international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines it's essential that we develop influence with those forces in syria that will one day lead a country that sits at the heart of the middle east. well mitt romney basically suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to fulfill the goal of defeating. iran a blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to foreign policy that the us has had for many years. now on the has there been any reaction from the obama administration. while obama campaign calls romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly or i mean the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region saudi arabia card turkey which are providing which are p

so there was a lot of permanent housing coming on board and these rooms turned to be a great stepping stone to getting permanent housing. a lot of folks in the community who are chronickly homeless had all kinds of homeless, they had no id's, they had no benefits, so they needed a place they could feel safe, they needed a place they could keep their belongings without them getting stolen and there was a great starting point. over the years this model has worked pretty well and rooms have been added. today we have in 8 different private hotels about 250 stablization rooms so the program really expanded. and one of the neat things about these rooms, we don't need to do credit checks, we don't need to do checks about people's legal histories. there are literally places that are so low threshold we can have people get in these rooms off the streets. availability is always an issue but our current case management capacity at any give religion time is about 280 beds. right now we have the number of beds more or less we need to handle the population size we do. the ability to move people instantly

, to get to thaintothose careers so they caa certificate and they can go beyond and achieve a stepping stone so that they're not just stuck in a rut at a particular wage but they actually can look at increasing their wages and hopefully maybe even running their own particular business. >> jennifer marshall, we were just talking about education being the key to ending child brides. and here we have it in our own country, companies not paying workers, predominantly feel male, what they're owed under the law. >> first go back to rule of law and we need to make sure that's enforced. wage theft is illegal, and we should call it out just as we do any theft. >> does that surprise you, that it's going on, that it's this big a deal? >> well, it is a pretty rare problem still, and they're finding out because the labor department is scouting it out. there's a whole division, the wage and hour division that the labor department funded at 2 million-dollar that is tasked with enforcing this law. they seem by your report to be doing a pretty good job of exactly that. i think that's what we want to do. we d

weapons would end up in because the objective that he stated was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to iran iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously you are in an international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to feel the goal of defeating iran blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to foreign policy that the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they d

we knew we couldn't predict five years out but wanted a stepping stone and that's what the plan did and create a starting point. you have to start somewhere so it's a first draft. it was an attempt to articulate where we were going and the appendix was a lot of projects and and context. how are we going to get there financially? and i have done plans and sometimes they're dream documents on a shelf and ten years later and wonder why i thought we were going there. i think for me as an it professional these strategic plans are more meaningful and revisit them on a regular basis and is it still valid? is this where we want to go? and just like an investment plan. you wouldn't leave them there and five years later see where it's at and i think that is important and the department of technology i have to take my cio hat off and i know there is conversation around this bigger governance structure in the city and what the department of technology is doing. as you know the department has under gone like many in the city significant changes in the last five years. like so many departments it's b

one of the ways that my program stepping stone has had to adapt is we have so many clients who are hiv positive or have aids, that we have to be medication savvy. you know, many treatment programs will have kind of a blanket prohibition on psychoactive drugs or, you know, heavy-duty medications. we-we decided years ago that we couldn't- we couldn't hold to that. that our clients who either had co-occurring disorders and required psychoactive medication or who were on the various cocktails they needed as a part of their hiv/aids treatment really needed a treatment program that was very savvy about that. so we began to develop some case management services with funding from the hiv/aids side as well as co-occurring. and i think, as a result, our clients have a much better access to recovery because their medications are not being prohibited by the treatment program. john's point is well taken; it's not just individual with hiv/aids, it's people with co-morbidities that require medications or unique accommodations. and the programs have to be sensitive to it. and i think the hiv/aids popu

i don't feel satisfied personally about that, but it's a stepping stone as well to get into places that are way better, you know, in terms of the housing and urban health stock that we have. so it's an on-going process and we have left hotels, some hotels have asked us it leave because the clients we were bringing in were just too much for that environment and it didn't work out for them. we remain flexible about that and we're always looking for better and more diverse places. we started with 3 or 4 buildings and we have 8 now. for clients also one may not work out and we may have you go to another place. the other thing we've done, we have a little bit of muscle in the sense we have 55 units in a place. and to say to the owner, look, this must be fixed, otherwise we're leaving, and that's kind of where we're at with the civic center. that's one way to get the owners to improve the places that they have. the other thing is policy changes. when we first started, companion animals were mentioned earlier. a lot of these buildings did not take animals. so we said, look, out of our 40 units

chretien and alan gottlieb all these guys were instrumental in their always putting together stepping stones towards an any you. alan gottlieb was instrumental in the key a john christian was involved with now have. paul martin was involved with the s.p.p. of course stephen harper is also built a bird member and he is involved with the north american leaders summit so a lot of these time a lot of the times. these guys might not even necessarily understand how they're connected with one another but they're certainly carrying out the bidding of the steering committee right where you see madeleine albright colin powell henry kissinger on the steering committee said these think tanks i mean a lot of neo con has a lot of people who've been out of politics par still definitely directly influence and policy really quick to wrap it up though dan and the trainer were reminded that this is something that the mainstream media of course has doesn't touch and i'm guessing they see fox and why is this and what does it say that the media's silence can be bought it about thirty seconds ok well yeah that's j

association on alcohol, drugs and disability inc. and president and chief executive officer, stepping stone of san diego, san diego, california. dr. barbara l. kornblau, j.d., disabilities attorney and professor, school of health professions and studies, university of michigan-flint, flint, michigan. ed hammett, consumer advocate, marbury, maryland. dr. clark, how many people in the united states have a disability? that number is not exactly clear, but we estimate roughly 53 million people have a disability, and it may be larger because, again, it turns on new classification schema. but at least 53 million. john, how do we define a disability? well, a disability is really kind of a legal and an administrative term. and in some quarters you might be considered disabled, but by another jurisdiction you might not be considered disabled. but i use the term, often, physical sensory, cognitive, and developmental disability to really clarify what we're talking about. so, barbara, in terms of a real sense, so there are individuals who may have had accidents are now paraplegic, quadriplegic- in term

part of a game plan by the west to overthrow the regime in syria and in that way use syria as a stepping stone towards levanon and iraq and eventually russia and china the long term game plan is for the west gain control of all of middle eastern and central asian oil and to maintain the head you will win the of the united states over the whole world. now very briefly i can understand that it grounded the plane to prevent the militarization of the conflict what role do you think turkey plays in the syrian conflict as i said turkey is a cat's paw for nato and it's recklessly raising tensions here that in order to prepare the ground for a military intervention what turkey should be doing is defusing the situation it should be sticking it keeping its no out of the internal affairs of the syrian neighbor it should be doing what all the countries of the world should be doing and that is supporting the six point united nations six point peace plan for syria our i thought analysis there from ken stone anti-war activist thank you can't so much for your time. the leader of hezbollah has claimed responsi