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Maine Seeks Federal Court Review of Medicaid State Plan Amendment
AUGUSTA – Attorney General William J. Schneider issued the following statement today:
"The State of Maine, through its Department of Health and Human Services, submitted a proposed State Plan Amendment (SPA) to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on August 1, 2012. Maine proposed to amend its Medicaid State Plan to make specific MaineCare eligibility changes to three groups consistent with legislative directives effective October 1, 2012.
"Maine's standards in these areas still remain at or greater than the federal minimums with the proposed MaineCare eligibility changes.
"Maine asked CMS to review the SPA on an expedited basis and to approve the SPA by September 1, 2012. Maine explained to CMS that an expedited decision was needed so that Maine could achieve its budget savings as directed by the Legislature and achieve a balanced budget as required by the Maine Constitution.
"Although Maine explained to CMS that it preferred not to resort to the courts, Maine made it clear to CMS that Maine would suffer irreparable injury absent CMS's expeditious review of the SPA or CMS's commitment to pay Maine for its costs while the SPA was pending, which CMS could later recoup by adjusting Medicaid reimbursements to Maine.
"In a letter dated August 31, 2012 CMS indicated that it will not issue an expedited decision on Maine's SPA and did not address paying Maine's costs while the SPA is pending before CMS, foreclosing the possibility of advancing resolution of this issue without resort to litigation.
"The failure of CMS to take action in consideration of the State's critical time constraints is in effect a denial Maine's proposed SPA. Given the response from CMS, Maine has no choice but to present this matter to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Maine is filing a Petition for Review of CMS's failure to act upon Maine's request for the SPA. Maine is simultaneously filing a Motion for Injunctive Relief asking the First Circuit to: (1) order CMS to approve the SPA, or (2) order CMS to pay Maine's share for coverage of these three groups over and above the amounts Maine would pay if the SPA was approved on or before October 1, 2012.
"We anticipate that the First Circuit will resolve this matter expeditiously."
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Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.
Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow Audio Story ~ Audiobooks for Kids
This is the Tale of Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow, a Legend Story for Kids. It is one of the many adventures of Robin Hood. It is adapted and brought to you by Stories to Grow by.
In all the land, no one was better with a bow and arrow than Robin Hood. He lived with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest. That was the woods where the King kept his royal deer.
A few years before, King Richard had ruled the land. King Richard let people who were poor come into Sherwood Forest. They could hunt the deer to get food for their families. But the time had come for King Richard and his army to leave England. As soon as he was gone, his younger brother John took over the throne. Bad King John did not want anyone to come into Sherwood Forest to hunt the royal deer. From then on, anyone who was seen hunting the King's deer in Sherwood Forest would be put in prison!
Robin Hood did not like that one bit. He moved into Sherwood Forest. Dressed in green from his cap to his boots, the trees of Sherwood Forest could hide him as he hunted the King's deer. Sometimes other brave men came into Sherwood Forest. One by one they joined Robin Hood, and became his Merry Men.
Robin Hood and his Merry Men would hide when rich nobles and dukes passed through the woods. Then all at once, they would jump out and rob those rich men. Robin Hood would give the money to the poor.
The rich men who were robbed were not happy about it. They went to the King. They told Bad King John what was going on in Sherwood Forest. They said, "Something must be done about this!" The King put the Sheriff of Nottingham in charge of Sherwood Forest. It would be his job to catch Robin Hood - once and for all!
And Robin Hood would give the money to the poor.
But the man in green was too quick. His Merry Men would warn Robin Hood each time they saw the Sheriff of Nottingham or one of his guards in the woods.
So the Sheriff came up with a new plan. "I will call for a great contest," he said, "to find out who is the best in the land with a bow and arrow. The winner will go home with a Golden Arrow." The Sheriff said in a low voice, "If I know Robin Hood, he will not be able to stay away from such a contest. And when he comes, we will catch him!"
"Robin Hood, don't go to the contest!" said Little John. Of all the Merry Men, Robin Hood trusted Little John the most. "It is a trap!" he said. "When they see you, they will get you."
Robin Hood said nothing. He wanted to go.
"It is a trap!" said Little John.
On the day of the contest, ten fine bowmen lined up. The round target was so far away it was hard to see its black and red circles. One by one, each young man shot his best arrow. Some of the arrows landed on the target. None came close to the center.
The Sheriff turned to one of his guards. "Do you see him? Is he here?"
"No, Sire. Robin Hood has red hair. None of the ones who are shooting has red hair."
"That wimp!" said the Sheriff. "He fears me! That is why he stayed away."
Two bowmen were left. The first was William, the Sheriff's man. With care, William, took aim. His arrow landed at the very center of the target - a bull's eye! The crowd cheered for William.
It was time for the last bowman. His arrow sailed through the air, too. It landed right through William's bull's eye arrow, cutting it in half! In a flash, the bowman let go of two more arrows. Each one flew to where the Sheriff sat, pinning him to his seat, one arrow on each side.
The Sheriff did not know what was going on! Then the man in green pulled off a black wig and threw it on the ground.
"Get him, you fools!" shouted the Sheriff. "It's Robin Hood!"
But our hero jumped over the wall to a horse waiting for him. He was gone! Robin Hood had escaped!
This tale, "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow," is one of the many adventures of Robin Hood, the most loved hero in all of England. And one of the most loved heroes in the world.
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Riveting. Inspiring. Mysterious. Wondrous. Dive into the depths through the psyche of a group of college students undergoing sleep deprivation to discover the world beyond what the eye can see. Trippy Tran Films' debut feature film project "Obliquity: Imagery of the Unknown" is coming soon.
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Early in the morning, while most of us are grabbing a cup of coffee before work, a nurse is on the road. She helped get her own family ready for the day, and she is on her way to take care of your family. One of our billing specialists is on the phone, helping a patient make sense of what his insurance will pay for a recent treatment. And a team of doctors and nurses is preparing an operating suite for advanced robotic spine surgery.
The people of Hartford HealthCare are a team of 20,000 healers and helpers who serve all of us seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, in nearly 300 sites across Connecticut. They are working to build and sustain healthier communities, families and individuals. Much of their work is invisible – until you need them.
This page in the Connecticut Mirror will be a window into their world – and yours. Healthcare touches all of us. It gives us the power to stay well and gives us hope in the wake of illnesses and accidents. It's also a big investment for employers, government and families. In America, healthcare is far from perfect. It has many moments of real brilliance – including incredible medical advancements. But it can be uncoordinated and impersonal. And the overall cost of care needs to come down.
I want to use this space to begin a conversation about healthcare. I want to showcase the great work of the people of Hartford HealthCare and to shine a light on issues that come up in this world that touch your world. It could be a pioneering new treatment or the economic impact of healthcare in Connecticut. (Health policy issues may seem distant and abstract – but some directly affect your health, your wallet and the quality of life in your community.) I intend to contribute to this page along with some of the people with whom I'm privileged to serve.
Thank you for joining the conversation. Let's see where it leads.
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SUMMARY. Cognitive models of human speech recognition (HSR) can simulate complex over-time dynamics of lexical activation and competition but operate on idealized phonetic inputs rather than real speech. We report on DeepListener, a two-layer network with elements of deep networks, that processes real speech with high accuracy while demonstrating human-like activation and competition dynamics. We use a neural decoding approach to unpack distributed representations that the model learns. INTRODUCTION. McClelland and Elman (1986) introduced the tension between computational adequacy (model performance) and psychological (explanatory) adequacy (our ability to understand how and why a model works). Cognitive models of HSR prioritize psychological adequacy, while models used to perform ASR focus on computational adequacy. Leading models of HSR, whether connectionist or Bayesian, make the "temporary" simplifying assumption to use abstract phonetic codes or human diphone confusion probabilities as inputs rather than real speech, allowing models to remain simple. Leading ASR models use deep learning to engineer highly complex (many layers of many types), largely opaque systems that provide robust, high accuracy ASR deployable in the real world. Given the shared history of cognitive connectionist and deep learning models, we asked whether cognitive approaches could borrow aspects of deep learning to break free of simplified inputs without sacrificing psychological adequacy. METHODS. DeepListener receives 256-channel fast-Fourier transformed speech as input in 10ms windows. Inputs feed to a hidden layer of 256 long short-term memory units (LSTMs, often part of a deep learning pipeline for speech recognition). Target output patterns were random sparse vectors (10 elements "on" in a 300-element vector; a common simplifying assumption, given largely arbitrary form-meaning mapping). The network's task was to activate the correct output pattern for each word. Inputs were 1000 frequent words produced by each of 10 talkers, presented in random order in each training epoch. The model was trained with backpropogation through time (with recurrent hidden units). RESULTS. Lexical "activations" were calculated as cosine similarity of outputs to each word's defined pattern at each time step. A word was "recognized" when output-target cosine exceeded all other output-word cosines by 0.05. Mean peak output-target cosine was 0.91, while mean peak cosine similarity of the second-most similar word to the output was 0.75. After 20,000 epochs, accuracy was 95%. Predictors such as neighborhood and onset cohort density related to item-specific RTs similarly to how they relate to human RTs. Over-time competition dynamics (e.g., of onset and rhyme competitors) resembled that observed with humans. We borrowed a neural decoding approach from electrocorticography to identify spatiotemporal receptive fields of hidden units. Some units responded preferentially to specific phonemes or phonological classes (e.g., obstruents), while others had more complex response properties. These analyses allow us to begin to understand the inner workings of the model. CONCLUSIONS. Previous attempts to couple ASR and HSR approaches have led to interesting insights, but with low computational adequacy (e.g., very low accuracy rates). This is the first model with high potential psychological adequacy that can be been applied to real speech with high accuracy and human-like dynamics.


One important question that you'll likely ask yourself when searching for a piece of property is, "how much should I put down on a house?" The answer to this question isn't exactly black and white, and really depends on your personal situation and school of thought.
First and foremost, you need to decide what amount of money you're comfortable investing in your illiquid asset of a home. For some this may be a difficult decision, but for others it may be a choice made out of necessity. Either way, make sure you give it a lot of thought before writing that check.
If you choose to make a small down payment, you'll end up paying a lot more each month to make up the difference. And over the life of the loan, you will pay a lot more in interest assuming you hold onto your loan for a decent amount of time. Conversely, if you put down too much you may find yourself stretched too thin, living paycheck to paycheck to cover the cost of your mortgage each month.
That said, remember that the less you put down on your home, the more difficult financing the property becomes. In fact, these days many banks and lenders have done away with 100% financing because it has become too risky.
Additionally, it's more difficult (and expensive) to get your hands on a jumbo loan, so keeping your loan in the conforming zone could also sway your decision. Either way, if you put more money down, you'll enjoy a lower interest rate and a broader array of financing options. Just make sure you have enough money to make your monthly mortgage payments after the close of escrow.
If you do decide to come in with less than 20% down, you'll have to decide between a second mortgage or private mortgage insurance (PMI). If you choose to stick with one loan, you'll need to pay a little bit extra each month to cover the mortgage insurance premium (this is on top of homeowners insurance). But keep in mind that it recently became tax-deductible.
If you'd rather avoid the PMI, you can add a piggyback mortgage behind your first mortgage. Though rates are typically higher on a second mortgage, the loan amount will likely be small, making the interest rate and monthly payment less substantial. Use a blended rate mortgage calculator to decide if it's cheaper to hold two mortgages as opposed to paying PMI.
Tip: Recently some banks have launched loan programs where mortgage insurance is lender-paid, so make sure you're aware of all your options.
Regardless of how much you decide to put down on your home, make sure the funds you come up with are seasoned. Seasoned funds are typically assets that have been in a verifiable account for at least two months. That means a checking or savings account, or 401k or stock portfolio, to name but a few. Gift funds and "mattress money" will be problematic with the bank or lender, so make sure you set aside enough funds at least 60 days before you set out to purchase a home in your own, personal account. It'll save you a lot of heartache down the line.
Aside from down payment funds, you'll also need to come up with asset reserves to cover a specified amount of monthly mortgage payments. This requirement can vary by lender, but will typically be at least two months of principal, interest, taxes, and insurance (PITI). So don't blow all your money on the down payment, or you could blow the whole deal. And don't forget about closing costs, which will likely be 2-5% of the purchase price.
Finally, decide on a down payment that works for you. We're all unique and have diverse financial agendas and comfort levels. If you believe you can invest at a higher rate than your mortgage interest rate, a zero down payment may be best for you. But if you're the type who plans on staying put and paying down your mortgage to zero, putting more money down upfront would likely be a good idea.
Read more: How to buy real estate with no money down.


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That's how long the Dance Theatre of Harlem has existed.
In the half-century, the company has grown its vision for ballet into the 21st century.
At the helm is Virginia Johnson, who as artistic director has helped push the company into new directions since its inception.
Johnson is also a founding member of the company, where she also danced for 27 years.
The company was started in 1968 at the height of the civil rights movement by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook.
Mitchell created the company in New York City, after making history in 1955 as the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet. He was also the famed protégé of George Balanchine – the Russian-born dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the School of American Ballet.
Johnson says Mitchell started the company after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
Since then, the company has grown in its repertoire and risen in the ranks in the dance world.
The 17-member, multiethnic company performs a forward-thinking repertoire, including treasured classics, neoclassical works by Balanchine and resident choreographer Robert Garland, as well as innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet to celebrate African-American culture.
Johnson says the company will be performing four works at Popejoy Hall on Wednesday, April 17.
Johnson says the first piece is "Valse Fantasie" by Balanchine.
Following is Christopher Wheeldon's "This Bitter Earth," which has music from Dinah Washington.
And Ulysses Dove's "Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven." The show closes with a Garland piece.


Reuben Stone is out to dissolve the Lazy musician stereo type. For the past 5 months he has been working hard as a professional street musician in Melbourne, Australia. On the streets busking at sunrise and working on his debut 4 track and his new single, Twisted & Deranged (Released August 9th 2012), it has been an inspiring time for Reuben as an artist.


Come and join our community evening with a focus on discussing Steiner education for 14-18 year olds and our plans for an upper school at Greenwich. All welcome!
Sven Saar is an experienced Steiner Waldorf class and upper school teacher and an advisor to the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship.
8:00 pm : Saying Yes to an Upper School at Greenwich: Trudy and Mirna talk about their vision for an upper school.
It would be helpful if you could let us know if you are coming by clicking on this link , otherwise just turn up on the night.
Christopher Clouder FRSA is a freelance speaker, activist and consultant. He was the founding Research Director of the Botin Platform for Innovation and Creativity in Education and is now developing a new program 'Living Together through the Arts' with them.
From 1989 to 2012 he was the founder and CEO of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education and chair of the Steiner Schools Fellowship in the UK. Before this he was a Steiner high school teacher for about 20 years. He is co-founder and a director of the Alliance for Childhood, an Associate of the Learning for Well-being Community in Brussels, member of the International Forum for Steiner Education, a visiting lecturer on many teacher education seminars around Europe and the mentor of the Steiner schools in Florence and Limassol.
He has lectured globally at international conferences on many educational and cultural themes as well as on Steiner Waldorf Education, written and compiled numerous books and articles. He sees his educational work as serving to build bridges between educational cultures, be they political, social, cultural or academic and creating a sense of solidarity, renewal and understanding for the benefit of children worldwide, especially through the Arts.
What jobs will our children have in the future?
Today's world requires people with tolerance, empathy, creativity and common sense. Joan will identify how these and other essential human qualities need to be developed strongly in childhood and how too much technology too soon can interfere with their development.
play. She was also a Waldorf early childhood educator and advisor.
While still in the womb mothers often discern character traits in their child. We are well aware that the child brings along more than the inheritance of their body's substance.
Through nurture we wield a big influence on how a child develops and if the attitude of respect and reverence for the child's uniqueness prevails we stand a good chance of facilitating their healthy development.
The Steiner curriculum like the practice of Anthroposophic Medicine is based on an understanding of the many delicate processes through which the child's uniqueness or individual spirit must find and establish its place within the body's inherited material.
Happy Child, Happy Home. Conscious Parenting Ideas talk.
Lou will explore inspiring ideas to build greater connection and joy into family life; what are the fundamental elements of childhood, and what do children truly need to flourish?
Lou Harvey-Zahra (a bestselling Steiner-Waldorf author) will share her practical 'Conscious Parenting' tips to help make family homes more harmonious, plus, every day, suggestions for making ordinary family moments extraordinary.
Lou Harvey-Zahra is a mother, Rudolf Steiner teacher, playgroup leader and popular parenting author with three books including the bestselling Happy Child, Happy Home and her latest book Creative Discipline, Connected Family (Floris Book). Lou presents in Steiner/Waldorf schools across Australia, UK, and LA. Lou lives with her family in Melbourne, Australia.
A wonderful opportunity to hear Lou speak in Greenwich - all parents welcome!
Lou's books will be available at the event £14.99 (cash only) and from all online sites and Steiner stores.
You are welcome to bring your child (or children). A creche is run in a kindergarten which includes some snacks and activities. Older children will need to attend the talk.
Teachers and parents of the school will be on hand to answer your questions.
Please fill in this form to book for the 18th March open morning.
Have you ever wondered how homeopathy works and how this system of medicine can support you and your family?
GSS welcomes you to our annual whole school parents evening!
This must attend event is a special time when all parents can meet with all teachers to discuss their child's progress.
Providing a framework for understanding the reasons why your children may have issues with learning and behaviour: the connection between an immature central nervous system and day to day function through retained primitive reflexes.
Bob Allen has been working for over 20 years with children who experience a wide range of symptoms such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, fear and anxiety, speech and language problems, emotional and social integration difficulties.
The object of the talk is to reassure parents that their children are not 'naughty', 'can't be bothered' or simply 'won't behave properly', but have blocks within the neural system that prevent them from reaching their true potential in terms of being able to relate and learn at an age-related level; they are already working many times as hard as the next child to keep up in these respects.
Developmental Therapy involves the use of movement, sound therapy and skin stimulus in order to trigger the central nervous system to complete its development, freeing the child to access their full potential.
Saturday 28th January 2017. 9.30 to noon.
You are warmly invited to attend the Classes 6-8 (equivalent to Years 7 -9 in Main Stream) Open Morning Experience. We hope it will answer any questions you may have about teaching and learning in classes 6, 7 and 8 and provide a glimpse into the many enriching experiences students have at this stage of their education.
There will be a presentation about the middle school, teaching demonstrations and a question and answer session to address any issues that you would like to raise.
Please fill in this form to book for the 28th January Middle School Open Morning.
Overview, aims and structure of the meeting.
Activity - singing with Maritza Bulcock.
An overview of middle school – Trudy Coutinho.
A presentation providing general information about the Middle School.
Choice of teaching demonstration related to Middle School Subjects.
Short introductions from any Guests (ex-Steiner Students or Parents) and related Q&A.
A workshop exploring successful ways in which to create boundaries for children without conflict.
Winny Mossman was a Kindergarten teacher at Bristol Steiner School for over thirty years. For the past ten years she has worked as a Teacher trainer, mainly teaching Creative Discipline, Classroom management, Painting, craft skills and early years Woodwork. In her role as a Trainer and Steiner Waldorf fellowship Advisor, she has visited many Steiner settings, mentoring teachers and students and has taught CPD workshops on Working with Parents and Colleagues, Meeting the needs of challenging children in the kindergarten and Creative Discipline in both Steiner Schools and mainstream settings.
Winny has a deep interest in working closely with parents and has led Parent Workshops in several schools and kindergartens.
Every parent and teacher wishes for the children in their charge to develop confidence and experience personal success in their lives. How can that be achieved without encouraging selfishness? Steiner Schools foster a sense of self-worth that is not gained at the expense of others, but with the help of supportive peers and loving teachers.
Sven grew up in Germany, did a full time training as a Steiner Waldorf teacher in the eighties and became a class teacher at the age of 22. He worked in the two oldest UK Steiner Schools, Michael House in Derbyshire and Michael Hall in Sussex, before taking a class one in Germany, near Lake Constance, in 2008. Throughout his career he also taught in the Upper School, specialising in History and Drama. His wife Margot is a teacher, translator and interpreter. They have just returned to the UK where they live in Gloucester.
All parents have questions about a healthy approach to protecting their children and preparing them for their own sexuality. This may be difficult as children could become sexualised at a young age, and parents have concerns on how to protect them from sexualising influences.
How can we prepare children for what feelings arise through their own sexual development and what influences may come to them from the world out there?
Dr Tessabella Lovemore will speak about some of the ways we can prepare children to be safe, as well as find their way comfortably into their sexuality when the time comes.


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Dannible & McKee, LLP is accepting resumes for experienced tax professionals. Our growing client base is allowing us to offer these dynamic opportunities at the staff and senior staff levels. The successful candidates must have a bachelor's degree in accounting, be NYS CPA eligible and have at least 2 years related experience. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package with excellent long-term career opportunities in a flexible work environment.
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Thousands of People in Sweden Get Microchip Implants, Replace Cash, Credit Cards
Over 4,000 people have now had the implant in Sweden
Thousands of people in Sweden are receiving microchips implants in their skin in order to replace credit cards and cash, according to reports.
Over 4,000 people have now had the implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, inserted into their hands.
The pioneers of the chips predict that millions will soon join as they vow to take it global.
"It's very 'Black Mirror,'" Swedish scientist Ben Libberton told The New York Post.
Similar to smartwatches, the chips will reportedly help Swedes monitor their health, manage bank accounts, credit cards, and even replace keycards to help them enter offices and homes.
The move is said to be a big step in eliminating cash.
The microchips were pioneered by former body piercer Jowan Österlun, who refers to the technology as a "moonshot" — and who told Fortune magazine that he'd been hit up by hopeful investors "on every continent except Antarctica."
"Tech will move into the body," the Biohax International founder told the mag.
"am sure of that."
NY Post reports: Österlund insists the technology is safe — but that has not stopped alarm bells from ringing, with some fearing a link to a doubling in cybercrime in the country over the last decade.
Libberton, a British scientist, based in Sweden, praised the "definitely exciting" potential health benefits of accurate health metrics taken from inside the body.
"Think if the Apple Watch could measure things like blood glucose," he told The Post.
But he also fears the mass of highly personalized data and how it could be used.
"The problem is, who owns this data?" he asked.
"Do I get a letter from my insurance company saying premiums are going up before I know I'm ill? If I use the chip to buy lunch, go to the gym and go to work, will someone have all of this info about me? Is this stored, and is it safe?"
Libberton added, "It's not just about the chip, but integration with other systems and data sharing."
And he fears Swedes are not giving enough thought to the potential dangers.
"People have shown they're happy to give up privacy for convenience," he said.
"The chip is very convenient, so could we accept our data being shared very widely before we know the risks?"
The trend coincides with Sweden's march toward going cashless, with notes and coins making up just 1 percent of Sweden's economy.
At the same time, the country has seen a dramatic decrease in some crimes — with just two bank robberies last year compared to 110 in 2008.
[RELATED] UK Company Set To Implant Microchips Into 'Hundreds Of Thousands' Of Workers


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Leaders' series: Exploring the sustainable future of air travel
As sustainability becomes more important to ensuring the longevity of…
2 November 2018 | By Michael Gill | Executive Director | Air Transport Action Group
As sustainability becomes more important to ensuring the longevity of the aviation industry, the Global Sustainability Aviation Summit brought together key players to ensure that the 2008 plan of action for combatting climate change was not in vain. Executive Director of the Air Transport Action Group, Michael Gill, provides an…
Sustainability tops the agenda at air industry summit
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The 68-year-old is under fire over her denials that she knew about the misconduct of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
She started the year leading the chorus of opprobrium against President Donald Trump, but 12 months on Meryl Streep, has become a target herself. The 68-year-old is under fire over her denials that she knew about the misconduct of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. She has worked on many Weinstein produced films and jokingly referred to him as "God" at the 2012 Golden Globes. Rose McGowan, one of #MeToo campaign's prominent advocates, criticised Streep over plans for actresses to wear black to Golden Globes in a silent protest against sexual assault. "YOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You'll accept a fake award breathlessly & affect (sic) no real change. I despise your hypocrisy," McGowan tweeted.
Sabo, a 49-year-old rightwing guerilla artist and former US marine claimed responsibility for the posters, which show Streep with a red stripe across her face and the text, "She knew."He added that he had conceived the campaign as retaliation for Streep using her latest film The Post to attack Mr Trump, who is facing accusations of his own by as many as 16 women who say he sexually assaulted them. Entertainment writer Ira Madison III wrote in a commentary for that Streep's denials rang true, arguing that the rough ride she has had over Weinstein is nothing more than a manifestation of the sexism inherent in show business. "Streep's claims that she didn't know are ludicrous and the kiss of death for her image in Hollywood," the bestselling author of The Kim Kardashian Principle said.
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Almawave S.p.A., an Italian company listed on the Euronext Growth Milan (Ticker: AIW) and part of AlmavivA Group, an Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language processing and Big Data services leader, has signed a binding agreement for the full acquisition of The Data Appeal Company S.p.A., with registered office in Florence and a developer of vertical AI analytics solutions and the tourism, fintech and location intelligence sector leader. The transaction overall is worth Euro 16.5 million,
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Molly Wood and Patrick Beja are on and we'll talk about YouTube's threat to block indie labels videos and how they could possibly think they could get away with it.
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TechCrunch reports that Facebook finally released the Slingshot app for iOS and Android. That's the app they accidentally published to the Apple app store back on June 9. The app lets you send photos and videos to contacts. The twist is the recipients can't see what you sent until they send you something back. Slingshot also doesn't store the photos and videos permanently.
Engadget passes along that sources tell the Wall Street Journal that AT&T has signed a deal to be the exclusive carrier in the US for a forthcoming Amazon phone. Amazon has scheduled an announcement for tomorrow morning.
Recode reports Apple agreed to settle a class action suit regarding ebook pricing. Plaintiffs had sought $840 million in damages but the details of the settlement were not made public. Apple is still appealing the court's ruling from last year that it violated federal and state antitrust rules. Payment of the settlement is contingent on the outcome of that appeal.
The Financial Times reported today that YouTube would begin blocking music videos from certain Indie Labels if they did not agree to new licensing terms that include provisions for a new music service YouTube is preparing to launch. Robert Kyncl, Google's Vice President and Global Head of Business at YouTube, told the FT blocking would happen in "a matter of days." Kyncl says record labels representing 95% of the music industry have agreed to terms. The remaining labels, represented by the rights agency Merlin are reportedly holding out for a better deal. The independent music companies association, Impala, is asking the European Commission for emergency assistance regarding the matter.
TechCrunch reports the Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector is now back on sale in the US after two months. The device was removed from sale April 3rd, due to safety concerns. A function that allowed users to wave to silence the alarm, could have prevented real alarms from sounding. That wave feature is now disabled.
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AndrewTerry posted the Privacy International article that the UK's GCHQ made public the fact that it monitors social network users in the UK on services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The policy was made public after a legal challenge by several civil liberties organizations. GCHQ justifies the surveillance based on the fact that such communications are considered 'external communications.' Privacy organizations worry that even text messages and email sent through such services could be intercepted.
melchizedek74 pointed out the Android Central story about an Indiegogo campaign for an Android 4.4-powered wireless router called Soap. The router works with an Android app to allow easier administration of the router and the devices connected to it. It can also replace hubs needed for home automation devices. Multiple Soap routers can also form a mesh network. The early bird price is $129 for the entry-level model on up to $229 for the top-end.
Inge_Aning submitted the Verge story that US Senators Patrick Leahy and Doris Matsui are proposing a bill that would requite the FCC to use its authority to prevent paid prioritization of Internet content by ISPs. The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would not solve the FCC's problem over how to justify its authority to enforce such requirements.
metalfreak submitted the Verge article that DARPA is developing anonymity tools to supplement and replace Tor as part of the Safer Warfighter Communications program. One project in particular called Service-Oriented Netcoded Architecture for Tactical Anonymity (SONATA), is decribed as a next-generation Tor. SONATA traffic is "mixed" at each relay in the network by randomly multiplying traditional packets by a constant and adding them together, while also switching up secondary markers that would identify traffic. DARPA is also investing in Cruveball a decoy routing system.
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When Google Reader left the cloud for the great RSS reader in the sky, I tried many of the replacement options, but only felt comfortable with InoReader. It uses the same API, so many of the third-party tools work out of the box. The developers are active and responsive to bug reports and community suggestions. I'm addition, they introduced some new and interesting features like rules (similar to email filters) and PDF generation from articles (e.g. for printing or archival).Sam from sometimes beautiful NJ
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It used to be the case that everyone had an email account on Hotmail Com sign up.
It was convenient and easy to use.
Originally founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California it was a welcome innovation to the online world.
The company would quickly switch hands in 1997 when Microsoft decided to acquire Hotmail for an estimated $400 million!
That's the fastest return on investment I have ever heard of!
Think about how insane this is:
You start a company today and flip it for $400 million one year later!
The internet really did skyrocket the economic opportunities available to people.
With more and more services becoming available online, people's lives were becoming easier and more fluid.
You could afford to send a message to someone halfway across the globe from the comfort of your own PC and you could do so for free!
Whenever something is free it's sure to draw in crowds.
Not only was Hotmail free, it was also a really terrific service!
Microsoft would later rebrand Hotmail as Microsoft Outlook which is why you don't see Hotmail around anymore.
It's not that it doesn't exist anymore, it's just that it has been rebranded as Outlook.
Same service, different feel.
Here's the truth:
There are some real strengths to using Outlook that you might find useful.
It's designed to feel up to date and modern.
The interface is clean and intuitive.
Who wold want an overstuffed or clunky email service?
No one, that's who!
Outlook helps you to stay organized by keeping tabs on what's most important.
One of the best perks to using Outlook is the fact that the same company that owns Outlook also owns Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Onenote.
If you find those applications useful then you'll be happy to know that all of these programs are easily accessible from Outlook.
Here are some more features to using Outlook that you might find quite useful.
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Windows Live Hotmail received great praise from PC Magazine for its incredibly great service.
The standard of excellence was raised by Hotmail's introduction to the online market and competitors were forced to step up their game as a result.
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Of course, Hotmail isn't what it used to be anymore.
The new Outlook has been plagued with bad rep lately.
Sources have revealed that the NSA allegedly has been permitted by Microsoft to access the chats and emails of users.
That's never good for user privacy!
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Outlook is really good at "sweeping" different emails into the appropriate folders.
This helps you to become more organized and to be able to locate specific emails based on their content.
Now isn't that convenient!
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For those of you who absolutely need more than one email address because of the work they do:
You will be happy to know that Outlook absolutely delivers!
You can create up to 10 aliases per year for a total of up to 10 email addresses!
This helps you to stay on top of your game!
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If you're using Outlook and already have a Microsoft Office account, then here's a pleasant surprise for you!
The two are integrated together so that if you're logged on to your Outlook account you can view and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files which are attached to emails.
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Skype is such a great communication tool.
You can actually initiate a Skype call to users directly from Outlook.
This incredibly useful feature allows you to hold a Skype call while still inside of your inbox.
Super useful!
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Manage your contacts with remarkable ease with the Windows Live People feature available on Outlook.
This feature allows you to keep track of your contacts' information and view the interactions you've had with your contacts.
Now, that's useful!
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Pull up a preview of files attached to your emails with Active View on Outlook.
You can even respond to a Facebook comment or accept a Twitter friend request right from your inbox with Active View!
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Keep track of all the useful events happening in your life with Windows Live Calendar.
You'll never miss another meeting ever again!
For those of you familiar with Windows Calendar on the desktop, this will be a very intuitive and familiar experience for you.
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Outlook was originally released by Microsoft on July 31, 2012 as a preview.
Microsoft branded Outlook as a new free mail service that pulls features from both Hotmail and Exchange.
For those looking at a business email client Outlook had a lot to offer them!
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Prior to Outlook was Windows Live Hotmail.
It was considered to be an excellent service by PC Magazine.
Some of its strengths included:
"Good junk email tools, free alias email addresses, and a clean, customizable user interface."
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Gmail's success prompted Microsoft to redesign an email experience from scratch.
They opted for the code name "Kahuna" for the new design as they wanted the experience to be much "faster, safer, and more reliable."
Two years later the program was completed and released to the public.
Things got hot really quickly when it was revealed by Root-Core in 2001 that Hotmail accounts came under fire.
Anyone could log into their Hotmail account and retrieve messages from another user's account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number.
Now, that's a firestorm of a security nightmare right there!
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In 1999, Hotmail's security was jeopardized when a security flaw revealed that anyone could log into any Hotmail account simply by using the password "eh."
At the time this was called:
"The most widespread security incident in the history of the Web."
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Microsoft made a good bet on Hotmail when they decided to acquire the service.
It's popularity continued to soar globally until it had become the world's largest webmail service at its time.
By February 1999, Hotmail had grown to over 30 million active users.
Emails are simply much more convenient than regular old snail mail without a doubt.
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By the end of 1997, Hotmail had attained 8.5 million subscribers thanks in part to its seed funding from the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
That's not even the insane part!
That same year, Microsoft would buy out Hotmail for $400 Million, netting each of its two founders $200 million for a year and half of work!
Has your mind exploded yet!??
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When the founders of Hotmail were deciding on a name, they ran through a myriad of possibilities all ending with -mail.
Eventually, they decided on HotMail noticing that it contained all of the letters in HTML.
Go figure!
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The idea of a web mail where you could send and receive messages around the world for free was such a powerful one that Hotmail grew faster than any media company in history!
Despite Hotmail's success, founder Sabeer Bhatiya maintains that he's no superhuman.
Just flesh and blood like any other human.
What are your thoughts so far?
Have you tried Hotmail (now Outlook) and if so what did you think of the service?
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Roger Arnebergh, L.A. City Atty., George Franscell, Asst. City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner and real party in interest.
Robert L. Meyer, U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.
Before DUNIWAY, CARTER and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.
The question presented is whether, in these circumstances, the order of the district court enforcing a grand jury subpoena is reviewable by way of writ of mandamus or prohibition.
Beyond question, the district court had jurisdiction to decide whether the subpoena demanded privileged material. Lampman v. United States District Court, 418 F.2d 215 (9th Cir. 1969), cert. denied 397 U.S. 919, 90 S.Ct. 926, 25 L.Ed.2d 100 (1970). That the federal grand jury had authority to issue the subpoena, Shillitani v. United States, 384 U.S. 364, 370, 86 S.Ct. 1531, 16 L.Ed.2d 622 (1966); Levine v. United States, 362 U.S. 610, 80 S.Ct. 1038, 4 L.Ed.2d 989 (1960), and had power to enforce a compliance with the requirements of the subpoena by an appropriate order, is well settled. Cobbledick v. United States, 309 U.S. 323, 327, 60 S.Ct. 540, 84 L.Ed. 783 (1940). The contention that the claim of privilege enjoys a special status in considering a petition for an extraordinary writ has been expressly rejected by the United States Supreme Court in Will v. United States, 389 U.S. 90, 88 S.Ct. 269, 19 L.Ed.2d 305 (1967). By undertaking to decide the issue of whether the material subpoenaed by the grand jury was privileged, the district court was acting within its jurisdiction and was not engaged in a 'usurpation of power', as that phrase is used in Will.
Continental Oil Co. v. United States, 330 F.2d 347 (9th Cir. 1964), upon which petitioner relies, cannot be reconciled with Will v. United States, supra, the case which controls our decision. The panel in Lampman v. United States District Court, supra, 418 F.2d p. 217, another case upon which petitioner relies, found it unnecessary to inquire into the impact of Will on Continental.


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Tim McGraw and Steve-O Celebrate 10 Years Sober: This Week in Addiction and Recovery News
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Jackass Star Steve-O Celebrates 10 Years of Sobriety
Former Jackass wild man Steve-O is celebrating his tenth year of sobriety, according to People. Born Stephen Glover, Steve-O tweeted Saturday that he was deeply appreciative of his friends for helping him find treatment in 2008, singling out his co-star Johnny Knoxville. "Hard to believe it's been an entire decade since I've had a drink or a drug," the 43-year-old said. "I just can't put into words how grateful I am for [Johnny Knoxville] and the rest of the guys who locked me up in a psychiatric ward on March 9, 2008, where this journey began. Thank you, dudes, I love you." People added that Steve-O's record has been clean, save one notable exception in 2015 when he received a 30-day jail sentence for protesting SeaWorld.
Tim McGraw Opens up About Sobriety, Health Routine
Steve-O isn't the only one celebrating a decade of sobriety. Country superstar Tim McGraw hit the 10-year mark this month, People said, noting that he successfully swapped booze with exercise. In fact, his fitness regimen is as intense as it is intimidating: McGraw works out twice a day, up to two hours each time. (McGraw's exercise routine may actually be to blame for his recent collapse in Dublin, according to ABC News.) "Ultimately, it is really about how I want to be around for my kids. I want to be around to see how they grow up. I want to see what their lives become. I want to see what their kids look like," McGraw said of getting sober. "I felt like I had to change it. I felt like I had to change my life. And it wasn't like I was out doing crazy things, it was just that I was drinking too much. You know, some people might look at it and say—hey, I drank twice as much as that. But for me, it adversely affected my life and it was time to change it."
Are Prisons Keeping the Opioid Epidemic Alive?
An eye-opening Vox story questioned what role prisons play in the opioid crisis, arguing that the institutions are denying individuals the addiction treatment they desperately need—and that people are "dying as a result." The article points toward Rhode Island's "relatively new approach to treating opioid addiction in prisons and jails," which offers buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone to prisoners with "few strings attached." The state has "committed serious resources," Vox said, to make sure addiction medications are available "to all inmates who need them." What's more is that Rhode Island goes the extra mile with prisoners, ensuring that ex-inmates get connected to treatment and medications well after their release. (27 states don't offer any medication whatsoever to prisoners with opioid addictions, the story said.) While prisons are responsible for their inmates' health care, they are more interested in protecting their bottom lines by not paying for lifesaving interventions. This crosses a line, drug policy expert Keith Humphreys told Vox: "If [prisoners]had high blood pressure, [prisons]wouldn't be allowed to stop them from getting their blood pressure medication. You'd have to supply that. So if they are addicted to opioids, you should have to supply whatever medication they take for that."
Teens with Specific Mental Conditions Likely to Get Opioids
Young people with certain mental health conditions are more likely than others their age to receive large quantities of opioids and, therefore, find themselves in long-term opioid therapy programs. That's according to a brand-new study out of Indiana University in Bloomington, where Dr. Patrick Quinn and his fellow researchers discovered that the prescription of opioids increased for any adolescents struggling with mood, anxiety, mood neurodevelopmental, sleep, and non-opioid substance abuse disorders, MedPage Today reported. Researchers discovered that there were three primary opioids prescribed: hydrocodone, oxycodone and codeine. "Hydrocodone accounted for about 60% of opioids received among a little over 70% of recipients," MedPage Today said, "followed by a little over 20% of recipients receiving oxycodone and about 19% receiving codeine." Additionally, an editorial that accompanied the report advised next steps and best practices for pediatricians who might have patients transitioning to long-term opioid therapy. "Conducting clinical interviews and routine screenings to identify factors associated with substance use and mental health issues should be a starting point for pediatric practitioners," the editorial said.
Opioid Crisis Was Years in the Making
A special report released Wednesday by WebMD provides a comprehensive overview into the nation's opioid crisis, detailing what kick started it and what keeps it alive. When it's not providing a succinct look at the sobering statistics underlying the epidemic, it's an affecting primer on the people behind the problem. The WebMD report considers pain, which many have called "the fifth vital sign," and all of the critics who question how something self-reported became conflated with addiction treatment. The report also does something that many other reports do not: it provides hope. From healthier, safer and cheaper alternatives to opioids, the report also walks through statistics that show the epidemic may be abating, thanks to policy changes. "We need to find a middle ground," one expert said, arguing against the elimination of opioid prescription altogether. He added that physicians should be "deliberate and careful about prescribing [opioids]" which, more than anything, will help end the crisis once and for all.
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Paul Fuhr is an addiction recovery writer whose work has appeared in The Literary Review, The Live Oak Review, The Sobriety Collective and InRecovery Magazine, among others. He is the author of the alcoholism memoir "Bottleneck." He's also the creator and co-host of "Drop the Needle," a podcast about music and recovery. Fuhr lives in Columbus, Ohio with his family and their cats, Dr. No and Goldeneye.


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Third-place finish scenarios and tiebreakers for the last Champions League matchday
Even if Napoli failed to make it this far in the Champions League, there's still a lot of value in watching the last day of the Champions League group stage for the partenopei faithful. We bring you all the third-place finish scenarios in the groups to see who drops down to the Europa League to possibly face Napoli.
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Napoli's failure to reach the Champions League this season was disappointing, and no one would blame partenopei fans for not paying much attention to the competition since then. Napoli have had the all-important Europa League to follow, after all!
You didn't buy that either, huh? Yeah, that's OK.
Still, this last matchday in the group stage is important for Napoli. With Napoli having secured qualification to the first Europa League knockout round (and gunning for first place in the group on Thursday), this last matchday could have a relatively important impact on how the rest of Napoli's Europa campaign plays out.
Since the third place teams from each group drop down in to the Europa League, how these matches play out help determine some of Napoli's potential opponents moving forward. Of the eight "drop downs", four will be seeded with the Europa group winners based on how many points they won in their Champions League groups, and the other four are with the second-place Europa teams.
That's why it's so important for Napoli to get first place in the group; with eight high-end teams dropping down in to the competition, avoiding the theoretical best of them in this first knockout round is key to Napoli's chances of finding success in this tournament.
Four teams have already been confirmed as headed to the Europa League after Tuesday's Champions League results: Olympiakos, Zenit St. Petersburg, Anderlecht, and Liverpool. Of those, only Olympiakos is absolutely going to be seeded, as the points difference between the other three and some of the currently third placed sides in the four Champions League groups playing today is too small to guarantee places.
In Group E, one of Roma, Manchester City, and CSKA Moscow will make the drop. All three sides are on five points, with Roma and Manchester City playing head to head in Italy while CSKA tries to find a result against group winner Bayern Munich. Thanks to tiebreakers, Roma stand the best chance to advance, and CSKA's tiebreaker hold over Manchester City means that they'd take third if Roma and Bayern both win today.
In Group F, Ajax sits third on just two points behind giants Barcelona and PSG, but face Cypran side APOEL in Amsterdam to decide who actually finishes third. If APOEL can steal a win, they'd take third place away from Ajax. Group G also has third place up in the air; German side Schalke sits third on five points, and are heading to Slovenia to face Maribor, who are on three. If Maribor win, they take third place. If they draw, Schalke finishes third. If Schalke win, they'd finish the group on eight points, meaning that is Sporting Portugal can't beat Chelsea in London, the Portuguese side would finish third on seven points. If Chelsea and Sporting draw, Sporting head to the Champions League knockouts on tiebreakers over Schalke, and the Germans step down to the Europa league.
Remember Athletic Bilbao? Yes, we still hate them. They sit third in Group H with no chance of snatching third from Shaktar Donetsk, but if they don't win their home match against Belarusian side BATE Borisov, they won't actually finish third. The match is in Bilbao, but man would it be poetic to see them fail now. Not to mention the fact that BATE is an easier opponent should Napoli have to face them.
Who do you want to see make the drop to the Europa League for these matches? Who do you think Napoli needs to avoid?


"How do we get rid of the dark thoughts that are inside us, Mama?" "How do we remove them from our mind?" I was having a normal conversation with my daughter when she started this discussion. I was a bit surprised by her question. "I often think of frightening images and negative things and I feel so scared. I do my regular dua too but still it doesn't go," she said. I wondered what a child might be scared of. Could it be demon-like images that might creep up as nightmares or negative thoughts that might incite her to become a bad person? I wondered what the problem might be.
As a child, I was always scared to watch frightening images or movies or read scary books lest the images return as nightmares, and often they would. I can confidently say that if there was such a thing as a World Record for the most number of nightmares, I would've broken that record, subhanAllah.
As I grew older I was told that in order to end these persistent nightmares, besides the regular dua, I needed to give them an outlet. I had to unscrew the bottle that was holding them in, and boy was that a scary proposition.
Whether we are scared of real life trials, or we fear the future or we've simply concocted fears as a result of too much exposure to scary fictional characters, I can tell you that facing your fears is scarier than living with them. However, this is something that we must do to free ourselves from the darkness that does not allow a soul to heal or absorb any khair. It's only logical because your soul is so busy toiling against the negativity that resides within, that it hardly has any room to acknowledge any khair.
My daughter's simple question helped me untangle some complex feelings. It had been decades but despite art therapy (being a visual artist), thinking things through, reasoning and un-bottling my fears, I had still been living with many of them. Over the years I had pulled them out and faced them too, which was a horrible experience in itself and a topic I choose not to touch upon here. However, what I did not understand was why, despite going through this excruciating ordeal, these fears still raised their ugly heads every now and then like sinister silent serpents.
I told my daughter, "Imagine a vessel that we keep on filling with rubbish. Eventually, it begins to rot and stink, and then the rubbish starts rotting the vessel too. Do you think if we add fresh and pure things to it the stink and rubbish will go away? Even if you spray perfume on it, it will just have a superficial effect, which will be taken over by the foul smell. So what do you need to do to remove the bad odour?" Although I was asking my daughter, it was as if I was reasoning with myself. "Remove the rubbish and clean the vessel and replace it with good and pure things," she said. That answer was all I wanted to hear. It was there all along. I just wasn't working hard enough towards it.
Sometimes we need to confront the fears that we are holding on to, even though we're scared they might consume us if we come face to face with them, and let our soul heal, bit by bit. Allow the course of events to happen, follow your intuition and ask Allah for guidance with sincerity. Absorb the khair little by little and feel the mercy of Allah encompass you. This mercy was there all along because He says in the Quran that, "Indeed with hardship there is ease." This implies that ease always accompanies hardship even though we're too preoccupied to notice it. When we allow the khair to seep in like rain, our soul will be rejuvenated by the mercy of Allah and we will learn to breathe again.
Unlike in a fantasy world, we will still have our share of tests in this life but what will hold us up in the midst of these tests will be our tawakkal, which will eventually dominate the fear that used to reside within us.
Maria I love your page!!!
again . Remember that we must do our best and leave the rest on Allah.
Thank you for leaving a comment. True, we all are in the same boat. Indeed, reminders help us through our tests. This was also a self-reminder. I'm glad it helped, alhamdulillah. May Allah bless you, ameen.


According to the Bangladesh authority both the arrestees belonged to Ansarullah Bangla Team, which was recently banned by the Dhaka based government for various terror activities. Niloy Neel, which was his pen name in alternate media, fell prey to the religious fanatics on 7 August 2015 at his Dhaka residential flat. An active member of Ganajagaran Mancha, a social organization, Niloy was hacked to death by machete-wielding killers in front of his wife Asha Moni.
Bangladesh had earlier lost three bloggers namely Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman Babu and Ananta Bijoy Das in 2015, whose crime was to 'question the radical Islamists' in their blogs.
The relatively small south Asian country with a population of over 160 million, which is India's immediate eastern neighbor, emerged as a sovereign nation after a blood-soaked freedom struggle (Muktijuddha), where three million people lost their lives. It was finally born out of Pakistan in 1971 and its founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman introduced their nation as a secular democracy.
It is widely known that the present Sheikh Hasina led government in Dhaka has taken firm actions against the 1971 war criminals, but most of their fanatical supporters are still operating in the country with impunity.
Two Jamaat-e-Islami leaders namely Abdul Qader Molla and Muhammad Kamaruzzaman were hanged already for their war time crimes against humanity and a few more are facing capital punishment. However, banned militant outfits like Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Hizb ut Tahrir, Harkatul Jihad Bangladesh, Shahadat e-Al-Hikma and Jagrata Muslim Janata of Bangladesh remain active in the Muslim dominated country.
The steady rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also continues to be a major security concern for the populous country. Besides many organizations across the globe, the United Nations also condemned the killing of Niloy calling upon the Bangladesh authorities to investigate and 'bring to justice the killers of all previous slain bloggers'.
The UN in an earlier statement expressed apprehension that there seemed to be growing intolerances towards people peacefully expressing their views on various issues' around the world.
"Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as set out in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is the most basic right of all – the right to choose what to believe, to practice your beliefs, to share your beliefs with others in a non-coercive way, and to change your beliefs," said a statement issued by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) adding that it protects the rights of people of all religions and the right to have no religion. And this is increasingly under threat throughout the world, asserted the CSW statement adding that it is in all our interests to ensure that governments, media and institutions around the world speak out for individuals in jail or facing execution, support civil society actors on the ground working to defend freedom of religion or belief, and make it a priority to promote this most basic of freedoms.
Northeast India based media body Journalists' Forum Assam (JFA) also expressed serious concern over the continued attacks on atheist bloggers in Bangladesh and urged the authority to ensure justice for the victim families.
"The Awami League led government in Dhaka should show its sincerity in delivering justice for the victim families of slain bloggers at the earliest," said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua, adding that Ms Hasina, who is the daughter of Bangabandhu, must establish her credibility as a premier ensuring security to every Bangladeshi national who preaches for democracy and pluralism.
Nava J. Thakuria Journalist based in Guwahati, Assam, India.


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Q: how to count value of last column in repeater control in asp.net Look at the  below picture I want to count value of last column (cnt) I am using repeater control.
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Anyway, I strongly suggest you to not use dynamic or DataBinder.Eval and rather cast the .Data-property to a strong type! Otherwise, this will cause some fancy runtime reflection and will have an impact on the performance!


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Lubbock-Cooper ISD (L-CISD) is one of the fastest growing districts in Texas. For the past two decades, each new school that was designed to accommodate rapidly increasing enrollment only seemed to exacerbate the district's population growth. The new East Elementary School, designed for an enrollment of 750 students, is so different from earlier L-CISD school designs that extra attention had to be paid by PSC's design professionals to demonstrate how teaching might be conducted in this facility. Numerous charrettes with educators, administrators, trustees, and students were held to show that more was possible in the new facility than met everyone's imaginations.
The elementary school is designed around the 21st-Century school concept of learning neighborhoods. To integrate the learning neighborhoods within the school's educational environment, the building includes six classrooms per grade level that surround a collaborative hub. Each classroom has the capability to open into the hub by retracting another folding partition. This flexibility of space coupled with easily movable furnishings will give educators the ability to quickly and easily transform their environment to adapt to different modalities required by their students. The building's exterior and interior are purposely designed to be more inspirational and become a place where children want to come.
One of the interactive learning elements included in the exterior of the building is a historical timeline etched into the sidewalk that extends from the school's property. By working with the neighborhood developer, new opportunities arose to establish a pedestrian relationship between the school and its neighbors. The timeline serves as an interactive learning tool because it contains permanent placards with QR codes that can be scanned by students, parents or visitors who may walk around the school's site. The information linked to the QR codes can be changed by the district, so the timeline's subject matter can be updated on a schedule that supports the school's educational curriculum.
The school's interior incorporates bold pop-art graphics and decorations throughout the school's hallways, acknowledging that each surface in the school is a teaching opportunity or an element for inspiring the students' thoughts. The main entry's lobby is called the Discovery Center. Utilizing the idea that each wall surface is a blank canvas, designers planned for a series of projectors with images that can be stitched together to highlight different educational themes on the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling. Like the campus QR code timelines, the subject matter in the Discovery Center can be changed throughout the school year. The Discovery Center can be opened by the district after hours and on weekends, allowing the community to experience the 3-D volume as a visual educational production or by housing temporary exhibits similar to a museum.
L-CISD's East Elementary is designed to architecturally respond to the monumental shift in their curriculum toward differentiated education. East Elementary is the district's first structure to completely support 21st-Century education.
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Airport Authority Backs Down From Joint Use Statement
Officials of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority apparently were so convinced that joint use of a military base would solve the riddle of where to locate a new commercial airport that they thought they had the assistant secretary of the Navy reading off the same page.
The Airport Authority issued a clarification to a statement that Joe Craver, its board chairman, made in reference to a top Navy official in Washington, D.C., exhibiting an air of cooperation on the proposal that part of a local military base might be used to replace Lindbergh Field.
Craver's remarks were made Feb. 16 during a media briefing after he and other Airport Authority officials returned from meeting with Assistant Secretary of the Navy B.J. Penn.
Craver quoted Penn as saying, "We will cooperate with you." Although he made it clear that Penn hadn't actually committed to joint use of a base, he implied that the Navy official meant he'd give the Airport Authority a hand in finding a site to meet the county's future air transportation needs.
On Feb. 17, the Airport Authority issued a communiqu & #233;, or "follow-on," as it was titled, which gave a different version of the meeting in the nation's capital.
"Following the presentation, Assistant Secretary Penn said that there were three criteria he applied to all decisions: is this solution the best for the sailors and Marines, the Department of Defense and the country," the e-mailed release stated.
Joint use, Penn relayed after the meeting, wouldn't meet any of the Navy's criteria.
"Mr. Penn stated that all solutions presented seem to jeopardize (military) training and therefore he could not support any of the proposals," the press release stated. "He said he could not be teammates with the Airport Authority but would continue to provide information, as requested."
After reading and viewing news accounts of his media briefing, Craver admitted he was "uncomfortable" that he'd given a "mistaken impression" of what Penn actually meant.
"On Friday, we were saying to ourselves, 'Hey, just exactly what did he mean?' " Craver said. "So we asked Penn for a clarification of what exactly was his position. On Friday, I sent a draft of my impressions to him, and what we wrote (in the press release) was in his words. That came directly from him. And what he meant by cooperate with us was he'd cooperate by giving us information (on the base's operations)."
According to Airport Authority analysts, Lindbergh Field faces obsolescence in the next 10 to 15 years because of increased passenger and air cargo demand. The agency has a mandate to put a recommended site before voters in the November election. It has a deadline of Aug. 11 to get the advisory measure on the ballot.
The Airport Authority has pinpointed nine site possibilities, including four of the county's bases , Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, the adjacent Miramar East, North Island Naval Air Station and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County and locations in Borrego Springs, Imperial Valley and Boulevard are technically on the list, but aren't considered practical from a distance and cost standpoint. Expanding Lindbergh is also under review.
While local military brass had rebuffed the Airport Authority's joint use proposal more than once, officials nevertheless decided to plead their case with the assistant secretary of the Navy for installations and environment in Washington, D.C. It could still be possible to continue up the ladder to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, but Craver said he doubts that's going to happen.
Since Penn makes recommendations to Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter, who in turn makes recommendations to Rumsfeld, Craver said "you can't suppose" their reactions would be any different than Penn's.
"But it's up to the board. They'll make that decision," Craver said. "The military owns the bases here. That's a fact of life."
Restaurant Association Puts Money Where Heart Is:
The San Diego chapter of the California Restaurant Association gave San Diego State University a nice Valentine's Day present , a $15,000 check.
The donation, given to university President Stephen Weber and Carl Winston, the director of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program, was presented during a brief ceremony at San Diego State's campus on Feb. 14.
The money is part of an endowment fund earmarked for bringing faculty members to the program whose area of expertise is the restaurant industry.
Beresford Wall, the president of the association's local chapter, credited Young's Market and Humphrey's by the Bay with making the gift possible. In total the association has contributed about $185,000 toward a goal of $500,000 pledged to support faculty positions.
"Supporting education programs and investing in the future leaders of the restaurant industry is a priority of the San Diego chapter," Wall said.
San Diego State's 5-year-old Hospitality and Tourism Management program currently has about 425 students and has garnered approximately $10 million in pledged support from the private sector. Currently, the university has an enrollment of more than 33,000 students.
Send tourism and hospitality news to Connie Lewis via e-mail: clewis@sdbj.com. She may also be reached by phone at (858) 277-6359.
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