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Salah and the Worst Kind of Theft
The only sad part of finding the straight path is when you lose it. There are many ways to fall, but no fall is more tragic than a fall in one's deen. Sometimes it's a sister who decided to take off her hijab and live a different type of life, other times it's a brother who was once active in the community, but got caught up with the wrong crowd. But, with each story, somehow, somewhere along the line, our brothers and sisters fell so far.
Sadly, these stories are not uncommon. Sometimes we can't help but look at them and wonder: How? Why? We wonder how someone who was so straight could have gotten so far off the path.
In wondering this, we often don't realize that the answer may be simpler than we think. People fall into all types of sin, but there is one sin all these people have in common. There is one common denominator for every individual who lives a life full of sin. Whether that person was once on the straight path and fell, or whether that person was never on that path at all, one thing is for sure. That person had to first abandon, minimize, put aside, or ignore their salah (prayer) before they were able to fall.
If one is praying, but continues to live a life full of sin, that salah is likely only the action of limbs—not heart or soul. See, there is a crucial characteristic of salah that is often overlooked. Besides being a sacred meeting with our creator, salah is a protection of the realest kind. Allah says, "Recite, [O Muhammad], what has been revealed to you of the Book and establish prayer. Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing, and the remembrance of Allah is greater. And Allah knows that which you do." (Qur'an, 29:45)
When someone decides to abandon salah, they are also abandoning this protection. It is important to remember that this abandonment of salah often does not happen all at once, but rather in stages. It begins by delaying prayers out of their specified times and then combining one prayer with another. Soon it turns into missing the prayer all together. Before you know it, not praying becomes the norm.
Meanwhile something else is happening that cannot be seen. With every delayed or missed prayer, a hidden battle is being waged: The battle of shaytan. By abandoning the salah, the human being has put down the armor given to them by Allah, and has entered the battle field with no protection. Now shaytan can have full reign. Of this truth Allah says: "And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful – We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion." (Qur'an, 43:36)
So it should be of no surprise to anyone that neglecting salah becomes the very first step in the path to a lower life. Those who have fallen off the path need only to look back at where it began; and they will find that it began with the salah. The same is perfectly true the other way around. For those who wish to turn their lives around, it begins by focusing on and perfecting the salah. Once you put salah back as the priority—before school, work, fun, socializing, shopping, TV, ball games—only then can you turn your life around.
The irony of this truth is that many people are deceived into thinking that they need to first turn their life around, before they can start to pray. This thinking is a dangerous trick of shaytan, who knows that it is the salah itself which will give that person the fuel and guidance necessary to turn their life around. Such a person is like a driver whose car is on empty, but insists on finishing the journey before filling up on gas. That person won't be going anywhere. And in the same way, such people end up in the same place for years: not praying, and not changing their lives. Shaytan challenged them, and won.
In so doing, we have allowed him to steal from us what is priceless. Our homes and our cars are so precious to us, that we would never think to leave them unprotected. So we pay hundreds of dollars on security systems to keep them safe. And yet our deen is left unprotected, to be stolen by the worst of thieves—a thief who has vowed God Himself to be our relentless enemy till the end of time. A thief who is not simply stealing some carved metal with a Mercedes symbol on it. A thief who is stealing our eternal soul and everlasting ticket to Paradise.
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very well said, how true are the words of allah…
Great Article
SubhanAllah. Very insightful.
One of your most powerful pieces…incredibly moving subhanAllah..God reward you Yasmin!! <3
Masha Allah! This is just so true.
Great article!
subanallah spot on yasmin am a witness to this
This is so true. No doubt salah stops us from sins. It is a constant reminder about our origin.
Thanks for writing this and reminding us again that 5 times a day, for sure, we have the chance to change our mind and stop ourselves from transgressing against the limits set by Allah swt.
JazaakAllah !
Jazakallahu khairan Ms. Mogahed – you identify a real problem that many of us face, watching our friends drown.
If I could suggest an article that could piggyback off of this: How do you suggest how to deal with the emotions one might have when a friend of their's has drowned, and has turned their back on prayer and Islam?
There are a lot of us out here who have had friends leave this faith, and it leaves a hole in us. What is a wise way to approach someone having serious doubts? And if, audhubillah, they leave, how do we deal with the emotional trauma that has on us who remain on the path? There are so many feelings of, "I could have saved them", or "What if they're damned now", or "Maybe I should look at the doubts I have…?"
I think it'd be an incredibly useful discussion. May God increase you


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Ministers have come under fire from the House of Lords after bringing in Home Information Packs (HIPs) for all properties last Friday.
The House of Lords select committee on HIPs, led by the Labour peer Lord Filkin, criticised the Government for breaking a promise not to roll out HIPs before scheme trial results had been published.
"We had hoped the Government would have drawn on the lessons of the trials of HIPs in pilot areas and presented an analysis to Parliament before proceeding with the full national roll-out of the policy," said the committee's report.
A letter from the communities minister Baroness Andrews told members: "National roll-out will have been effected before any conclusions can be drawn from the HIPs trials."
The report also said "views among stakeholders continue to be divided… about HIP policy generally," and that "given this state of opinion… it will be important for the Government to keep the implementation of this policy under review".
HIPs, which include local searches and an energy efficiency rating, were compulsory for three- and four-bedroom homes by September.
The Government promised to publish results of trials held in Bath, Newcastle, Southampton, Northampton, Huddersfield and Cambridge before the scheme was fully rolled out.
Grant Shapps, the shadow housing minister, said: "Rolling out this scheme without any idea of the impact of this hopeless policy is irresponsible."

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By Chris Block
I finally had a chance to watch Rockford's 6-4 win at Milwaukee on Wednesday night.
Rockford reclaimed the top spot in the AHL Central Division with the victory over the Milwaukee Admirals. The IceHogs are now in Cleveland to face off with the Lake Erie Monsters this Friday and Saturday nights. For the Monsters, Friday and Saturday will mark their second and third games in as many nights as Lake Erie are hosting a rare three home games in three consecutive nights this week.
Marko Dano made his return to the lineup after missing the last 2 and 2/3 games with a head injury. He cleared his final protocol on Tuesday.
It was a weird game.
Rockford dominated the first period, scoring 3 unanswered first period goals. In the end, it was good they did because Milwaukee handled the IceHogs quite favorably for the next 40 minutes.
Ryan Haggerty, Tanner Kero and Mark McNeill picked up tallies in the 1st. Milwaukee scored first in the second period when Milwaukee utilized the stretch pass as the IceHogs were changing 3 of its 4 penalty killers. Vladislav Kamenev then wheeled in alone and beat Michael Leighton to narrow the score to 3-1.
Rockford allowed power play goals against in each of Milwaukee's 3 chances on the evening. That makes the IceHogs penalty kill 0 for its last 5 in attempting to kill off opponent's power plays. The Chicago Wolves were 2-2 in Rockford's 4-2 win in Rosemont last Saturday.
Later in the middle period, Vinnie Hinostroza, in his first game back with Rockford, scored twice in a 23 second span to further the gap to 5-1 IceHogs. Hinostroza's first came when he parked himself in front of the Milwaukee goal and redirected a Kero centering pass through backup Marek Mazanec. 23 seconds later, Cameron Schilling fluttered a stretch pass that met Hinostroza at Milwaukee's blue line and the Bartlett native buried that one with a forehand to backhand finish at 12:22 of the second.
Before those two Hinostroza markers, Rockford had managed just two shots in the initial 12 minutes of the second period. After he made it 5-1, the IceHogs would notch just 5 more shots over the final 27 minutes of the game.
Cody Hodgson scored his 3rd and 4th goals of the season, both with the IceHogs short-handed to get Milwaukee to within two goals again.
Two minutes after Hodgson did, Bryan Bickell scored at 8:04 of the third period on a one-timer from the left circle while Rockford was enjoying a 5-on-3 power play advantage.
Colton Sissons finished the scoring late in the 3rd when Kirill Gotovets accidentally kicked a loose puck to Sissons, who fired it past Leighton to get Milwaukee back within two again where the score would close.
–It was a rough night for Kirill Gotovets, who is one of the unsung players on this year's IceHogs. Gotovets doesn't play with much fear. He works hard and moves the puck well. Yet, on this night, he was fighting the puck and caught some unlucky breaks. Gotovets was out for all 3 power play goals against and directly involved in two of them, not to mention the Sissons even strength goal near the end of the night.
–Hinostroza had a lot of jump in this game. I doubt he'll be recalled to Chicago any time soon, but he certainly made a case for it. Rockford is a much better offensive team, and more dangerous, with him in the lineup the way he's currently performing.
—Mark McNeill has been wearing an "A" of late.
–With Dano back from injury, and Hinostroza demoted from NHL-Chicago, Dane Walters was a healthy scratch and Daniel Ciampini was optioned back to ECHL-Indianapolis. Nolan Valleau substituted in for Dennis Robertson in the only other change from the previous game at Rosemont on Saturday.
–With Hinostroza's return, Ted Dent was able to drop Kyle Baun to the third line, as we wrote about on Sunday. Jake Dowell had two new linemates on Wednesday as Garret Ross was dropped to his line since Dano was put next to McNeill. I'm not sure what happened to Rockford after that first period, but these lines give Rockford much better balance and allow them to push a better pace with handling and pursuing pucks. Milwaukee's still a really good team, though.
–Ted Dent's lines, pairs and specials on 2/24/16 in Milwaukee
Forwards [LW-C-RW]
56-Marko Dano / 28-Mark McNeill / 24-Ryan Hartman
44-Bryan Bickell / 10-Tanner Kero / 23-Vince Hinostroza
26-Garret Ross / 11-Jake Dowell / 27-Kyle Baun
17-Mike Liambas / 14-Chris DeSousa / 39-Ryan Haggerty
5-Cameron Schilling / 29-Ville Pokka
3-Rob Scuderi / 25-Jonathan Carlsson
7-Nolan Valleau / 2-Kirill Gotovets
49-Michael Leighton
35-Mac Carruth (backup)
C/RW-16-Dane Walters… D-20-Dennis Robertson…
D-15-Kyle Cumiskey (lower body, 2-3 weeks)… LW-22-Pierre-Cedric "PC" Labrie (lower body, day-to-day)… G-30-Mark Visentin (lower body, 2-3 weeks)…
Special Teams
Power play I: Bickell-McNeill-Ross w/ Kero & Pokka
Power play II: Dano-Hinostroza-Hartman w/ Schilling & Carlsson
PK forwards: Dowell-McNeill, DeSousa-Liambas
PK defense: Schilling-Pokka, Scuderi-Gotovets
One Response to "IceHogs reclaim 1st place in Milwaukee"
Where do you think Matt Fraser slots in if/when he catches up with the team? Would Dent skate him with McNeill and Hartman and hope Fraser catches fire a la Spencer Abbott?


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Rachel Kendall is a writer and editor (ISMs Press / Sein und Werden) living in Manchester with her partner of photographic things and her daughter of much-messness. The house is full of junk, dead things (some stuffed, others skeletal), books, a toy tea-set, an Iggle Piggle, a few cameras, many films, stacking cups, a couple of stairgates and a clanger. She collects animal-feet brooches and loves the printed word.
HST talks with Rachel about amongst other things, her short story collection The Bride Stripped Bare, Sein und Werden and the Horror genre.
HST: 'The Bride Stripped Bare' is your second short story collection, the stories defy conventional storytelling, in the sense that the reader doesn't just take in the words, but they have to contemplate more, and work things out. Was it a deliberate intention of yours to engage and challenge the reader?
Isn't that every writer's intention? I think a reader wants to be challenged. I know I do. To spell everything out is insulting to the reader's intelligence, not to mention boring. By hinting, making suggestions, putting the idea that something may or may not be happening into the reader's mind you transport them into your world. It makes for a more personal read, I think, when you have to get involved a little in the feel of the story, its taste, touch, smell. They're the ingredients for an experience that is unique to each individual consumer of words.
HST: A number of stories in the collection present an alternative view to pregnancy, which despite dwelling into surreal waters, portrays feelings that are profoundly real. It was interesting to read in another interview you did that a lot of these stories were written before you gave birth; did these stories represent your own internal fears about this unique experience?
Yes, I think so. The thought of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood were always so alien to me, yet at the same time something I felt I had to experience. I want to experience things. I want to experience everything. How could I go through life without rising to the challenge of that which my physical self is made for (despite my nagging arguments to the contrary)? So, my weird obsession became a reality, which meant it was no longer something I had to get out of my system. Interestingly though, I found being pregnant the most 'unnatural' and alien thing I'd ever felt.
HST: One of my favourite short story writers Bernard Malamud once said "Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing". How do you go about revising and crafting a story, after you've completed a first draft?
Ah, now there's a writer who's been recommended to me on many occasions but I still haven't got around to sampling his fiction. I would have to say that I HATE revising my work. I do it; I edit till I have the thing pared down to a skeleton of its former self, but I don't enjoy it. For me the enjoyment comes from the flow of writing, and even the physical aspect of typing (or hand-writing. Before I used a PC to write, I loved pen and paper, the flourishes of hand-written text and would write till I had calluses. Now that I use the PC I love to type. I can touch-type and the feel of my fingers flitting over the keys gives me a strange pleasure). But yes, it's the stream of ideas, flowing faster than I am able to type, ideas and images falling over each other to get onto the page. Who was it who said ideas are like butterflies and it's the writer's job to pin down as many as possible? Probably Nabokov!
HST: Do you believe that we are currently living in a post-existential world, where we are now withdrawing from our own individual paths, falling into some brain numbing technological void that is beyond absurdity?
Post-existential? I wouldn't quite say that, but yes, I do feel like we're becoming lumped more as 'society' than as a collective of individuals. Because of everyone having to have the latest gizmo and everyone saving up for the next gadget and all of us losing our identities to a certain degree to the virtual world. I have no idea what technophiles are talking about half the time. I work with university students and they never show me what they have jotted down on a piece of paper. No, they bring this gadget out of their pocket and refer me to some text on a screen. As far as going beyond absurdity, on a personal level I have to agree with that. I feel like I am being left behind as the world skates into a new phase of being. A post-post-modern (or perhaps we'll end up full circle and be pre-past, or something) existence. But in reality, that's just me being out of my comfort zone. I don't think we're quite at a critical level of post-existentialism yet.
HST: I was reading a young relative some Grimms' Fairy Tales last weekend. It amazed me how strong these stories were, surviving centuries. Why aren't fairy tales as resolute as they once were? Why aren't they as dark?
I love those old, original tales. Stories of fingers being lopped off and girls dancing until their feet burnt. We have a copy of Struwwelpeter (a German children's book from 1845) (http://konkykru.com/e.hoffmann.html) which has various gruesome tales I expect are intended, like any other fairytale, to ensure kids stay on the right moral path. My favourite in that collection is The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb, about a boy who wouldn't stop sucking his thumbs until the scissor-man came along and cut them off. I guess these tales aren't as dark for the same reason we don't cane children anymore, or make them work or wash out their mouths out with soap. We're a society of parents and teachers and health workers who listen, discuss and reason rather than smack because we want our children to learn right from wrong not through fear but through understanding. So we have happy stories, or at least, less bloody ones! At the same time, though, sex and gore are on our screens and in our magazines and available to the younger generation more than ever now.
HST: Let's talk about 'Sein und Werden', through the experiences thus far, would you say that the journal has blazed the trail for writers to hurdle conventional guidelines, and produce works that bounce off set themes like a golf ball bounce off concrete, evoking more expressive writing?
I don't know about that. It's just a wee zine after all. It's a nice thought though. I do receive emails and letters of thanks for providing a podium for unconventional work, which is wonderful. And I know that having different themes cultivates a community of writers and artists all working towards one objective and I like the thought of firing up their creative community spirit.
HST: Tell me, what is 'Werdenism'?
Werdenism is a bit of a nonsense word with good intentions. It was actually coined by Spyros Heniadis, the man who kick-started Sein in the printed form. I've always seen the zine as a kind of on-going multi-artist project where each piece of text and each image is an integral part of a whole, a machine, whose cogs are in constant revolution. 'Werden' means 'becoming' which suggests, in an existential sense, that we will never arrive. We are forever mutating, evolving, as individuals, and that is how I see the zine. For this reason there isn't a particular format I follow with the print issue. Sometimes it is A5 and saddle-stitched, other times it is A4 and clipped together. Often it is a raw, photocopied, b&w punk zine and other times it is printed at home and tied together with black lace. Tis a monster that lives and breathes.
HST: Last month I was at an art gallery that exhibited a collection of Diane Arbus' photographs. Portraying the so-called marginalized and deviant, however to me at least these people were a representation of 'normal', because they were people existing how they were, not hiding behind masks. Why do you suppose conservative British values encourage people to blend, and to conform into false expressions of themselves?
I don't know. It's not just conservative British values is it? I should think it's any Westernised society and goes back to your question 4 regarding the need to withdraw from individual paths. There are a number of other artists who have used themselves (bodily) to the same effect as Arbus did with her photos. The photographer Jo Spence, for example, documented the invasive treatment, including a lumpectomy and then a mastectomy, she received following a diagnosis of breast cancer. By showing her scars, her mammogram screening, her weight loss and sickness, her lack of a breast (the black-hole of culture's femininity), she openly confronts the horror that plagues all women, that of losing one's identity, one's sex appeal. Similarly Nan Goldin who, often on the receiving end of domestic abuse, photographed women in hostels baring their bruises, and men and women struck down with HIV and AIDs. And then on a different level you have 'Exquisite Pain' by Sophie Calle which records the very personal trauma of the breakdown of a relationship, alongside a collection of other people's worst memories, all which help her mental healing.
HST: You wrote an essay about House of 1000 Corpses for 'Butcher Knives and Body Counts', please tell me firstly why you decided to write an essay about this film, and also what ground the essay covered? (Is the essay available to read online?). I was enamoured by Rob Zombie's first two directorial efforts, but felt his remake of Halloween were two major steps backwards.
When I was invited to write an essay on my favourite horror/slasher film there was no doubt in my mind which film I would discuss. House of 1000 Corpses is such a wonderful box of tricks and Zombie continually pulls the gutted rabbit out of the hat with this one. I haven't seen the remake of Halloween because I watched The Devil's Rejects and yes, it's 'horror'ble and there are moments that turned my stomach, but it's lacking something. I'm not sure what. Perhaps I just crave more of a spectacle in my horror films, more theatrics. If anything I like to overindulge in films, whereas I prefer my reading material to be more subtle.
I found the formula of The Devil's Rejects quite sterile, like the myriad backwoods/red-neck/hill-billy-set films where good-looking and remarkably agile teenagers are hunted down and you know from the beginning which slightly less dumb guy or gal is going to outwit the 'monster'. In 1000 Corpses Zombie took the classic formulae and remoulded and remashed them into a spectator sport, a wonderfully glamorous, fun, silly, montage of old favourites. I mean, you have the dysfunctional family, the demented clown, the old curiosity shoppe and the murder-ride (an acknowledgement of our love of the macabre). You have cheerleaders, mutilation, philosophy, sex, the occult, evil doctors, lunatics, hybrids, inbreds and the foetus in a jar. What more can you ask for?
HST: Box Office horror films in the last couple of years have either descended into terrible remakes, or attempts to recreate the shaky hand held camera realism of the Blair Witch Project, with the obvious example of this being the atrocious Paranormal Activity franchise. It's proven throughout the last few decades that people like to be scared, why have creative horror directors thrived in the underground, but not been able to reach a mass audience?
You know, this craze of remaking old favourites really annoys me. Not just in the horror world but films in general. What also pisses me off is Hollywood, like a two year old kid, having to grab hold of anything good and prove that it can do it better. 'Let the Right One In' had only been running on our screens for two minutes before 'Let Me In' appeared. And there's the wonderful Russian vampire trilogy 'Nightwatch' which actually didn't make it any further than two films in before Hollywood entered and said they were going to remake it the Hollywood way. Why? It was perfectly good enough as it was. And even Asian horrors remade in Hollywood, American good-looking blonde girls cast in place of dark-haired Asian beauties, with the original director dipping his toe into American waters – even then the films are never as good as the original. Why? Because Asian horror (I'm thinking such films as The Grudge, The Ring, Dark Waters etc) is so linked to Asian culture… they know how to terrorise their audience with merely a look askance. A few torn off fingernails, a face concealed behind a black wall of hair, an intimated presence off camera. Why do these directors choose to join forces with 'Hollywood'? Is it to reach a bigger audience? Are we so afraid of reading subtitles that we have to have our decent horror films translated into a language (both discourse and culture) that we understand?
HST: The horror genre in film is unflinchingly confronting a number of extreme taboos, sometimes rather clumsily (The Human Centipede!). As an editor, writer and reader of horror, are you noticing a similar trend in literature?
I don't actually read much horror, apart from Sein submissions. I watch it. I'll always love to watch it (my second love, after literature, is film) with a mixed feeling of nostalgia and the constant surprise that I can still be repulsed after all these years, but your typical horror novel doesn't really do it for me. Murder fiction, lustmord, crime, noir, I like that class of 'horror', but not monsters so much, so I don't think I can really comment on that. I do agree that film is going to further and further extremes to engage the reader in a way it hasn't done for a long time, perhaps since the original science fiction movies of the 50s that shocked with special effects and played on the fear of nuclear war/radioactive fallout. I haven't seen The Human Centipede though I know it was recently mentioned in the news for reasons of censorship but even films like Saw and Final Destination, whose only premise is to shock in new and revolting ways, demonstrate how the film industry has hit a brick wall when it comes to tackling horror entertainment.
HST: Going back to your own writing, you've written a novel titled 'The Blush', which takes place in Paris. What were your own reasons for visiting Paris, and does it annoy you that Paris is perceived cynically as a place where many artistic types travel to in hope of finding a trail left by the great and the dead?
I have always had a 'thing' for Paris. Yes, I know it's clichéd but I love the literature and films it has birthed, along with the great thinkers, the food, the wine, the language, the cafe culture, the attitude. I spent a summer there working on my novel and in a way it was that trail left by the great and the dead that brought me there as much as anything else. I wanted to see what the great French saw; I wanted to visit the graves of Man Ray, Colette, Proust, Piaf, along with the other non-French artistic types who were drawn to the city, such as Picasso, Henry Miller, Modigliani, Orwell. Paris is a seductress, and she will continue to seduce because of her past as much as her present, I think.
HST: Every morning before I head off to work I end up watching 'Inside the Actors Studio' whilst eating my breakfast. Towards the end of the show, the pretentious presenter James Lipton usually asks ten questions inspired by Bernard Pivot's use of the Proust Questionnaire.
I hadn't heard of this so I went online and ended up at Wiki. Interesting. I like Proust. I set myself the challenge a few years ago of reading all seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time. That was after some instruction from Edmund White and Alain de Botton. It was enjoyable. But I obviously had a lot more time on my hands then.
HST: Could you answer them for me?
(a)What is your favorite word?
I don't have a favourite word. Does anyone? I like lots and lots of words. I like the word 'lots' and 'word' and 'and'.
(b)What is your least favorite word?
That's a tough one. I don't think I have one. It'd have to be something like 'work' or 'money' or 'responsibility'. I dislike those things. However, it is not the fault of the word. The word is always good!
(c)What turns you on?
Music. Singing. Having the house to myself and dancing like my life depends on it. Lady Gaga is my dirty secret.
(d)What turns you off?
Emotional suffocation.
(e)What sound or noise do you love?
My two year old daughter singing.
(f)What sound or noise do you hate?
The sound of someone eating.
(g)What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck, without a doubt.
(h)What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Film director. I read a fantastic book, I see a beautiful skyline, I hear one side of a strange conversation and I think about how it might translate to film. I recently read Ian McEwan's Black Dogs and though the book didn't do much for me and actually left me a little disappointed, I had some great ideas for turning it into a horror film, and the effects I might use to superimpose the horrors of war, the tranquility of the south of France, the spirit of communism and the physicality of the beasts.
And if that failed, I'd like to be an architect. Buildings are sexy.
(i)What profession would you not like to do?
Podiatrist. Feet. No!
(j)If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
What took you so long?
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for people with disabilities have urged the federal government to require Kansas to quickly clear its backlog of Medicaid applications and to resolve problems with its application process as a condition for approving any renewal of its privatized program.
The Disability Rights Center asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a letter to force Kansas to document a "realistic plan" to eliminate the backlog and to notify all applicants of their appeal rights.
Kansas Department for Health and Environment disclosed last month that the backlog had been undercounted by thousands of applications. The number of unprocessed applications stood at about 3,500 people until the state acknowledged the actual figure was more than 15,000.
KDHE has battling the backlog since switching to a new computerized system to process applications.
"Ongoing delays risk depriving applicants of necessary medical care through no fault of their own," according to the letter written by Rocky Nichols, executive director of the Disability Rights Center.
Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services told The Topeka Capital Journal that the state is not required to inform people whose application goes beyond 45 days of their right to a hearing.
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2011 Predictions
Which projects, people, products, and events will capture our attention in 2011?
Rikki asks the Magic 8 Ball (actually, her Facebook friends) what 2011 will bring. Also, updates on Gnome and CeBIT.
New Year's might be my favorite holiday – no one expects any gifts, we all get a fresh start, and a toast and midnight kiss is encouraged. Best of all, New Year's is cross-cultural, celebrated by Linux users and their Windows-running friends alike. In the spirit of fresh starts and New Year's resolutions, I asked my Facebook friends to chime in with their 2011 predictions for the tech world. Luckily, my friends have strong opinions and are always eager to share them!
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Torvalds is not happy with the way Intel handled these two vulnerabilities.
LibreOffice Based CODE 3.0 Released
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Aramith Pro Cup TV Balls, Measle Cueball, Rasson Table, 4″ Pocket Size at the corners, 4.5″ on the sides
- Race to 9, alternate break
- If match goes to hill/hill(8-8) – the match goes to a Rasson Shootout, win by 1
Last 32, 16 Quarterfinals & Semi-Finals Matches Become Single Elimination:
- Race to 11, Winner Breaks
- If match goes to hill/hill(10-10) – the match goes to a Rasson Shootout, win by 1
- Race to 13 Winner Breaks
- If match goes to hill/hill(12-12) – the match goes to a Rasson Shootout, win by 1
CHALLENGE EVENT (Single Elimination):
Round 1,2,3:
- Race to 8, alternate break
Last 8 and Semi-finals
- Race to 9, alternate break
- Race to 11, alternate break
*All matches that are tied with one rack remaining will go to a Rasson Shootout, win by 1
Rules and Regulations
WPS reserves the right to refuse entry of any player.
- Sneakers, jeans, hats and headphones/earbuds are not allowed
- Players must wear dress slacks, dress shoes, collared shirt or polo tops (Ultimate Team Gear tops are acceptable)
Collared/polo tops are not required for ladies, but shoulders and torso must be covered
Dress shoes or dark one-color athletic shoes (no white soles, etc.)
- 1st violation of dress code will result in warning
2nd violation will result in a 1 game loss in the first set or race
3rd violation will result in disqualification
Dress code violations carry from event to event
- Players should arrive 30 minutes before scheduled matches
- If a player is not present at table after the match is called, 1 rack will be deducted per 5 minutes late
- After 30 minutes, the tardy player will be deducted 2 racks per 5 minutes late until time expires or match ends by racks
- All players must act in a professional manner at all times while at the event
- No dumping of matches will be allowed
If caught dumping, you will be banned from the WPS and reported to the WPA
- All players must make themselves available for interviews on the live stream and in the green room
- No Facebook live allowed on the streaming table but for all other matches you are encouraged to do so
- Balls must be racked in pattern shown
- Lag for break (when playing sets, winner of lag breaks set 1 & 3), lag for shootout
- Alternate break
- Rack your own with RYO Rack – opponent not allowed to check the rack
- 1/2 ball leeway on racking to get a tight rack and leeway must be above the spot.
- Break from within the break box lined on the table (box line is approximately 6 inches from side rails and runs from the head string to the head rail on both sides of the table)
- Must contact head ball first (the one ball) and 4 balls must hit a rail or you must pocket a ball
- If an illegal break occurs, the incoming player has the choice of:
- Playing the table as it lies
- Taking ball in hand in the kitchen and playing the table as it lies
- Re-racking and breaking
- Force the original player to break again
2 illegal breaks in a row will constitute a loss of game
- Scratch on the break, cue ball must be placed behind the head string and shot down table
First ball contacted must be outside of the kitchen
- Take what you make on the break
If you make one of each suit, you have a choice but the higher suit count determines your suit for play
- If you scratch on the break it is an open table, no matter how many balls were pocketed
- Playing stripes onto solids and vice versa is never allowed
- You cannot win or lose on the break with the exception of 2 illegal breaks in a row
- If a player pockets the 8 ball on the break, they can either play the table as it lies or choose to re-break
If there is a foul or scratch on the break, the incoming player has the same choice
- If a referee is racking, the player is allowed to check the rack and ask for one rerack but cannot touch the rack and must break after one rerack
- Jump Shots
- A jump shot with a jump cue can only be played when you come to the table after your opponent shoots
- You are only allowed 3 jump shots with a jump cue per match per player and if playing sets only 1 per set
(one extra jump shot will be allowed in the main even finals to accommodate the 1 per set standard)
- Unlimited jump shots with playing cue at any time
- Three foul rule in effect, all fouls result in ball in hand anywhere on the table except a foul on the break
- Slow play will result in a 30 second shot clock per shot
- Timeouts
- Two 3-minute timeouts per player per match are allowed and should be taken in-between sets if playing sets
- If timeouts are used, player may ask for an additional timeout in the event of an emergency
- There will be a 20-minute intermission after 2 Sets in the Finals of the Main Event
- It is a call ball and call pocket game
All obvious shots do not have to be called but kicks, caroms, banks and combos should be called
It is up to the non-shooting player to ask what is being played if the shot is unclear or the shot will be considered obvious and stand. Only the ball and pocket have to be called not how the shot is actually executed
i.e. If you shot your object ball into the opponent's ball which is blocking a pocket and both go in, that is a good shot
- On any illegally pocketed ball – ball in wrong pocket, accidentally pocketing a ball but not making the called shot etc. the incoming player can choose to make the offending player shoot again
- All decisions made by the Tournament Director are final
- When playing races, the shootout will come if the race is hill/hill and this shootout must be won by 1 shot
- When playing sets in a best of 3 match, the shootout will come in the 3rd set if the set reaches hill/hill
- In the finals of both events the shootout will be played if the sets are tied at the end of regulation play (2-2 or 1-1)
- In rounds 1, 2 & 3 of the main event the shootout must be won by 1 shot
- In the last 16, Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals, Finals of the main event and Finals of the challenge the shootout must be won 2 shots
- There are 5 different shots which will be marked on the table with the 8 ball always on the foot spot:
- Shot 1: Cue ball in hand in the kitchen choice of foot pocket
- Shot 2: Cue ball on head spot shot into the right foot pocket
- Shot 3: Cue ball placed in line with the first diamond on the head rail and first diamond on the side rail on the right side of the table and shot into left foot pocket
- Shot 4: Cue ball placed in line with the first diamond on the head rail and first diamond on the side rail on the left side of the table and shot into right foot pocket
- Shot 5: Cue ball placed in the center of the kitchen shot into left foot pocket
- Sudden death: Cue ball in the center of kitchen choice of foot pocket
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Conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos announces immediate retirement after cancer diagnosis
Spanish conductor and composer Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos is retiring following a cancer diagnosis. The 80-year-old maestro announced his intention to step down as chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday (04Jun14), as he went public with his health crisis.
He has also withdrawn from a string of upcoming summer (14) concerts, including engagements as a guest conductor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts.
A statement released by Fruhbeck de Burgos reads: "After meeting with my doctors I have come to the following conclusion: I have to recognise publicly that I have cancer and that in this state of health and with deep sorrow I am not able to conduct at my standards and the moment to quit professional matters has come."
Fruhbeck de Burgos is known for his work with city orchestras across the globe, including Germany's Deutsche Oper Berlin, Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Canada, Bilbao Orchestra in Spain, the Vienna Symphony in Austria and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, Japan.
He is widely acclaimed for performances of Mozart's Requiem and Georges Bizet's Carmen, among others.


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Michael Jackson's Son Tells Jury He Gave Doctor Payments
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In 2013 I plan to make my sites a bit more SEO friendly. I get all sorts of emails from different companies from around the web wanting me to hire them so they can help me accomplish my goals. However, I am a bit of a do-it-yourself type of person, so when it comes to doing anything I always search online.
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text: Barack Obama delivers a speech on Wednesday at the end of a 22-hour visit to Brussels. The US president says Russia will not be pushed out of Ukraine's Crimea region by military means. Obama says that if the west stays united, Russians will realise they cannot achieve security through force


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Backward, British and bland?
Food memory is a shifty beast - is it really true that until 1950s post war migration, Australia slumbered under a blanket of bland meat and soft boiled vegies?
Perhaps our willingness to denigrate a previous generations' menu hides a far more subtle truth.
We examine the pre-migration food culture of the archetypal 'meat and three veg' through the eyes of a food historian.
Andrew Junor is working on a thesis called Backward, British and Bland?
Andrew and RN First Bite's Michael Mackenzie had a much longer conversation that included how convenience foods, kitchen appliances and feminism changed our perception of roles and menus, and you can download those topics as bonus audio below.
- Andrew Junor
- Phd student in Historical Studies at Monash University
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Howevever, the winter is an unappreciated time to head out to the Colorado plateau. Although night time temperatures can get a bit cold, the combination of white snow, red rock and blue skies are breathtaking. And almost anywhere you go, you're unlikely to encounter anyone else, giving you a sense of solitude.
Enjoy this photo gallery of Pangaea's winter expedition to the Colorado Plateau and pre-scout for the Grand Circle Expedition.


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A Celebrity's Helen Flanagan comes face-to-face with an ostrich and
declares: "What the f*** is that?"
The former Corrie star, 22, is seen taking on her third Bushtucker Trial
Cruelty Towers on tonight's show.
A teaser clip shows the blonde arriving to take on her task and being greeted
by show hosts Ant and Dec.
The boys ask Helen, who has already failed two trials, if she is feeling the
pressure to do better this time round.
And the actress admits that she has to give it her best now she has even more
mouths to feed after the two camps joined together.
She says: "I want to make a good impression with everybody else, but I'm
actually looking forward to it."
Helen then reveals that despite losing out to MP Nadine Dorries in the last
trial, she was proud of herself for giving it a go.
She declares: "I was really proud of myself yesterday, I know I didn't
win, but I gave it a really, really good go."
Ant then tells the ex-soap star, who played the Street's Rosie Webster, what
she can expect from tonight's task.
He says: "This is Cruelty Towers, this is our hotel, our hotel has a
reception and four bedrooms, the aim of the trial is dead simple, you've got
to make your way through the rooms collecting stars as you go.
"There are ten stars to collect, which means a possible ten meals for
"But you won't be the only guest checked in to the hotel, this is a
Bushtucker Trial, so there might be some jungle guests in there as well."
Helen is then seen heading into the hotel, which is filled with spiders,
snakes, the ostrich and even a crocodile, as Ant and Dec wish her good luck.
As the door is opened Helen is immediately greeted by the huge bird, and she
asks: "What the f*** is that?"
To which Ant relies: "That's an ostrich."
See the full trial on tonight's I'm A Celebrity on ITV1 at 8.30pm.


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Matrix Reboot and Venom Movie Date – Galactic Radio
Warner Bros. wants Star Wars type universe for The Matrix, NASA ordered to send humans to Mars by 2033, Sony surprises with Venom release date, Snapchat big with millennials and more news. Mark's got a movie minute, Gregor's here with the Pull List, Peter has an app review and Darryl's random fandom.
'The Matrix' Reboot in the Works http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/matrix-reboot-works-at-warner-bros-986292
'Trinity' will be the first interactive VR sci-fi TV show https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/14/trinity-will-be-the-first-interactive-vr-sci-fi-tv-show/
King Kong 1976 Movie Minute by Mark Krawczyk – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FIZJTFO?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=B00FIZJTFO&linkCode=xm2&tag=galacnetca-20
Congress just passed a bill that tells NASA to send humans to Mars by 2033 https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-just-passed-bill-tells-211600351.html
Enceladus's Buried Ocean Is Just Beneath the Surface https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/enceladuss-buried-ocean-is-just-beneath-the-surface/
Pull List by Gregor Sprague – https://pulllist.comixology.com/thisweek/
Sony Pictures Sets a Venom Movie for Next Year http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/826801-sony-pictures-venom-movie
'The Batman' Delayed as the Script is Rewritten From Scratch http://www.slashfilm.com/the-batman-screenplay-and-delays/
Hopper App Review by Peter Fischer – https://www.hopper.com/
Buying a Nintendo Switch is about to get a whole lot easier http://www.techradar.com/news/buying-a-nintendo-switch-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-easier
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At first, we thought Tom Brady simply didn't want to turn his cell phone over to Ted Wells. As it turns out, Brady allegedly destroyed it.
That's not a good look in the court of public opinion, but even if Brady didn't destroy the phone, there was no way he was giving it to Wells.
"The union doesn't want to create precedence here that could be turned around and used against them afterwards," CBS legal analyst Jack Ford said on CBS Sports Radio's The Doug Gottlieb Show. "As you know, this is a strange type of investigation. It's not what we've seen in a criminal case. The NFL doesn't have subpoena powers. There's nothing even truly that compels a player to participate in this. The player can say, 'Look, you want to come after me? Sure, go ahead. See if you can prove it. But you know what? I'm just not playing the game. I'm not going to be a part of it.'
"If I'm a union attorney," Ford continued, "I'm saying, 'Guys, we don't want to create something that's going to come back and bite us later, so no, you shouldn't have to turn over (your phone). There's no rule that says you have to turn over. We haven't negotiated it in our collective bargaining agreement, so you don't have to turn over those types of personal things.' And I'm sure the union attorney said, 'Can you guys 100 percent certain guarantee us that nothing from his cell phone leaks out. Well, of course they can't. Somebody in the office is going to say, You know how much money TMZ is going to pay me if I can get my hands on Tom Brady's photos?'
"So I would have a real concern if I'm Tom Brady and if I'm his lawyer and for other reasons if I'm the union lawyer. I'm just not so sure I'm saying, 'Look, we'll answer some questions, we'll help you along here, but you don't get to dive into everything this man has in his personal life.'"
Brady took to social media on Wednesday to profess his innocence and blast the NFL's decision to uphold his four-game suspension. Robert Kraft, meanwhile, issued a strong statement supporting Brady and pointed out that many NFL punishments get reduced on appeal – even when there is hard evidence. If that happens in other cases, Kraft argued, why didn't it happen in this one, especially when all the evidence is circumstantial?
That argument, however, is not a legal one.
"It's what you might refer to as a wink-wink argument, but it's not a legal argument because every case is different," Ford said. "You can't say, 'Well, because you cut Le'Veon Bell's (suspension), Brady's should be cut also.' And here's the other thing: I don't think Tom Brady would have agreed to anything. I think if they cut him to two games, you'd still see them running to the federal court, which I anticipate they're going to do anyway. I think if they cut him to one game, he probably would have said, 'I'm not taking this.' Because if he accepts it, he's basically saying, 'Okay, I did something wrong here. I'll take this and move on.' He could dress it up a little differently, saying, 'I'm going to take one for the team. I didn't do anything wrong, but I'll take the one-game suspension so we can have some certainty and we can move forward.' But that's not going to be his option."


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Pittsburgh PI Lupa Schwartz is out of his element, coerced into helping local police flush out a serial killer re-enacting the history of human sacrifice and martyrdom. Lacking the right skills to handle the case alone, he has been forced to give his chronicler a much larger and more dangerous role than her normal one as his Watson. Gamut Magazine reporter Cattleya Hoskin has covered Lupa's work on many occasions, but his dependence on her in this case is unsettling. Asked to help subvert the FBI's interference with the case, and further taunt the killer by using her media contacts, her professional ethics are stretched to the limit. With a killer bent on attacking religion by literally attacking the religious, Lupa and Cattleya face their hardest and most draining case yet. Relying on their individual strengths as much as each other, they're determined to put an end to the murders for good – even if it means crossing lines that should never be crossed.
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Baker Petrolite is the specialty chemicals division of Baker Hughes Incorporated. Baker Hughes is a leading provider of drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production products and services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.
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Hollywood Destines: European Directors in America, 1922-1931
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Three-time Christy award winner Karen Hancock completes her allegorical/fantasy series. Legends of the Guardian King book 4.
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Believed dead by all but the handful of supporters who rescued him from his Mataian enemies, Abramm Kalladorne has fled his homeland to the high mountains of northern Chesedh. Traveling under a new name with a group of bitter and increasingly desperate fellow exiles, Abramm hopes to reunite with his wife in Chesedh, where he will offer his services to her father in fighting the invading armies of the Black Moon. But with every step he is hindered, delayed, and diverted from the direction he desires to go, and it soon becomes clear Eidon has other plans for him.
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Travel companion(s) could be anyone from a friend to anyone from your family. And almost everyone looks out for one travel companion so that the experience of travelling is not only secured but also better. But not everyone is an ideal travel companion and choosing correctly could save a lot of unwarranted and unwanted situations. Here are some of the characteristics of an ideal travel companion while trying to be one or when you are trying to look out for one:
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Similar planning and schedules: Last but not the least is that you and your travel partner should have same or similar schedule. There is nothing like right or wrong schedule when travelling as long as it meets your requirements. That is why be sure that at the beginning itself two schedules are compared and amended wherever needed.


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Price transmission in the milk sectors of Poland and Hungary
Rapid and thorough changes have recently taken place in the dairy supply chain in the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. Growing concerns have been expressed that these changes may negatively affect farmers' relative position vis-a-vis the downstream industry, owing to market power exercised by the latter. This article investigates the price transmission mechanism in two countries from the region, Poland and Hungary, and contrasts the results with dairy market organisations specific to these countries. Using cointegrated vector autoregression and controlling for potential structural breaks, it is shown that Polish milk prices, unlike Hungarian ones, are characterised by short-term and long-term asymmetries. We discuss a number of potential explanations for these results, and consider, among others, differences between the dairy chain structures and the role of FDI.
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