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Lesson 17: Hazrat Musa (A.S.) He to whom Allah spoke
At the same time as Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was born, two large tribes, the Copts and the Israelites, were living in Egypt. The Pharaohs, who were the rulers in Egypt, were Copts, but the Israelites were from the lineage of Ya'qub (Jacob), and had the name of Bani Isra'il. The original birthplace of the Bani Isra'il was Can'an, but after Yusuf (Joseph), from among these people, reached great rank in Egypt, they also came to Egypt and remained there. In the beginning, their number was not very great, but gradually they became more and more numerous until they became a social group in their own right, and they held great esteem.
But with the death of Yusuf, and also because of their inadmissible disobedience, they forfeited their esteem and glory. The Copts became their rulers and exploited them, and assigned arduous and difficult work to them, and did not hold themselves back from any kind of oppression and violence.
The monarch of Egypt, who was named 'Pharaoh' and was a Copt, had dipped his fingers in the blood of the Israelites and had so much power that fighting with him was out of the question. Due to excessive egotism he called himself 'god', and lead the people towards worship of him and to polytheism and idolatry.
Pharaoh was heedless of the fact that Allah was looking after the people with the light of His guidance, and he did not understand that it was the inveterate practice of Allah that whenever he set up a prophet, he delivered the people from ignorance, oppression and cruelty.
A soothsayer told Pharaoh that a child from Bani Isra'il would soon come into the world who would be a danger for his sovereignty. Pharaoh flew into a rage and gave an order without delay to cut off the head of every boy in Bani Isra'il, and to see that no male child remained to them.
In the middle of all this, Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was born.
When the fear of danger had gone, his mother, with all the love she had for him, placed her dear newborn baby into a box, according to Divine inspiration, and committed him to the waves of the river Nile, and the water took the box away with itself.
Pharaoh and his wife, at their residence on the banks of the Nile, were gazing into the river when they caught sight of the box with the infant, who was sleeping peacefully atop the troubled waves. When Pharaoh's wife saw that child's pure face, her heart was uneasy about casting him back into the river. She looked at him and liked him; her heart was seized with love for him, and she pleaded with Pharaoh to allow them to look after him in the palace and to consider him as their child. Pharaoh also became glad and hoped that his adopted child would one day be useful for him, and bring him some benefit.
The suckling infant would not accept to be breast-fed from any wet-nurse and this became a problem. In the end the mother of Hazrat Musa (a.s.), whose breasts were full of his milk, and who was looking for Musa came into the court of Pharaoh as a wet-nurse, took Musa to her bosom and suckled him.1
How amazing it seems - Pharaoh brought up his incomparable enemy in his own lap! And thus Hazrat Musa (a.s.) grew up and came to maturity, and God made him acquire his share of knowledge and wisdom. He saw all the oppression and injustice in Pharaoh's cruel administration; but, not only did he not participate in it, but also he suffered from seeing the injustice, and began to look for a remedy.
One day, as he was walking along, he saw one of Pharaoh's men struggling with a man of Bani Isra'il and tormenting him. As soon as the Israelite saw Hazrat Musa (as) he called him to help him. Musa rushed forward and struck the man of Pharaoh hard with his fist, and accidentally, as a result of his blow, the man died.
Hazrat Musa (a s) went far from that place, but the next day he again saw the same person from the previous day fighting with another of Pharaoh's men. Again this man called for Hazrat Musa's help, but Musa said to him angrily that he was a deluded person, i.e. that he was making a mistake by fighting with one of Pharaoh's men every day, which was dangerous for everyone. Then he went forward and pushed him aside. The Israelite thinking that Musa wanted to hit him, shouted at him, "Do you want to kill me, like the man yesterday?"
After these events, Hazrat Musa (as.) was anxiously on his guard, but it became clear to Pharaoh's people that the killer of that man was none other than Musa and therefore Pharaoh gave an order for the death of Hazrat Musa (as)
The officials began to hunt for Hazrat Musa (as) and he lived in fear and apprehension. A benevolent God-worshipper advised him that the sooner he left the town the better it would be, because the men of Pharaoh were seeking to kill him.
Unhappily, Hazrat Musa (a.s.) came out of Egypt and went towards Median, thus saving himself from the oppressors and seeking the friends of Allah.
O Lord, Deliver me from the unjust people. (28:21)
At long last Hazrat Musa (a.s.) entered Midian, and, in order to rest, he stopped beside a well. Around the well he saw many men who were watering their animals A little further away from the crowd of men, he saw two women who were standing waiting with their sheep. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) went forward to help them, and inquired the reason for their waiting. They said, "Our father is an old man of many years, and we have to give water to the sheep ourselves. Now we are waiting till the crowd goes away from around the well and we can quench the thirst of our sheep."
Hazrat Musa (as) went forward and watered the sheep. And the women resumed home. Musa, who was very tired and hungry and had no provisions with him, sat down in the shade and asked God to take away his hunger:
O my Lord, truly I stand in need of any good Thou would send to me. (28:24)
It was not long before one of these two girls returned. Walking very shyly, and said to Hazrat Musa (a.s.), "My father calls you so that he may give you remuneration for the work you did."
The Father of the girls was Shu'aib (a.s.), one of the prophets of Allah.
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) got up and went with the girl. On the way he asked to go ahead of her, and told her to direct him from behind because he was from a family (the family of the prophets) who did not cast their eyes on the body of a woman from behind.
And in this way he came to Hazrat Shu'aib and related his story to him Shu'aib consoled him and said, "Do not fear, again you have been saved from the talons of the oppressor."
The same daughter who had followed Hazrat Musa (a.s.) said to Hazrat Shu'aib (as), "O Father, please engage this man in your service, for he is robust, strong, trustworthy and honest."
Hazrat Shu'aib (a.s.) who was aware of Hazrat Muse's honesty and virtuousness, gave one of his two daughters as a wife to him. Musa made an arrangement with him that he would take sanctuary with Shu'aib for ten years, and that in that time he would carry out Shu'aibs work, especially being a shepherd and keep his flocks.2
At the end of the ten years, Hazrat Musa set out with his family towards Egypt. On the way, one cold and dark night, they lost themselves everywhere was dark. The road was indistinguishable in the wilderness. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) and his family remained wandering about. His eyes caught sight of a fire. He said to his wife, "Stay here, and I will go towards that fire, perhaps I will come across someone to guide us, or I can take an ember from the fire and bring it here."
He hastened towards the fire. And when he reached it, this voice called him from the direction of a tree.
O Musa, Verity I am Allah, the Lord of the World, (28:30)
I have chosen you as a prophet, so listen to what is revealed to you. I am the Unique God, and there is no god apart from I. Worship me alone, and establish prayer so that you may remember Me. The resurrection is sure to come...so that every soul may be recompensed as he strives. (20: 13-15)
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) had a staff in his hand, which he used as a crook and also to help him shake and pull off leaves from branches for his sheep. In this revelation, he was given the command to cast down his staff on the ground, and his staff immediately formed into a running serpent. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was afraid and started to run away. Because of his fear he did not even look back. But a call came to return him, "Don't be afraid, be calm".
His heart quieted and he turned back, and according to God's command he stretched out his hand and grabbed the serpent. Following the will of Allah, it changed back into a staff. He was then told to place his hand under his arm and then to pull it out again. When he had done this, he saw his hand bright white (but not ill).
A white-coloured light radiated from his hand, but in a way that did not hurt the eyes. These were the miracles of Hazrat Musa (a.s.); God had equipped him with these signs so that Pharaoh and his people would not doubt his prophethood These powers were granted to him so that they would not think that he was pretending on his own to be a prophet.
Then Allah commanded him to declare to Pharaoh that his Messengership had commenced.
At first, Hazrat Musa (a.s.) informed Pharaoh of his prophethood with sweet words and invited him to the worship of Allah and asked him if he wished to have a meritorious and clean spirit, if he wanted Musa to guide him towards his God.
Pharaoh asked, "Who is your God?"
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) replied, "My God is He who created the heaven and the earth. He it is who created all things."
Pharaoh became incensed at this, and turned towards Hazrat Musa (a.s.) and said, "I have no evidence from you of the existence of another god apart from myself, and as for you, Musa, if you do not worship me, there will be a punishment for you!"
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) replied, "If I bring you evidence from God himself for you, what will you say?"
Pharaoh asked, "What are they? Where are the evidence? Bring them if you speak the truth!"
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) threw down his staff, his crook, and it became a serpent. He place his hand under his arm and took it out, and it shone into Pharaoh's eyes with a pure white light. Pharaoh was amazed. On one side were Hazrat Musa and the God of Hazrat Musa and His signs; on the other side were his sovereignty and kingship, and his monopolistic command over Egypt and the Egyptians. Pharaoh's egotism kept him back from, submitting to Hazrat Musa (a.s.), but there remained the difficulty of the signs. He said to himself, "How will it be if I call him a magician and a sorcerer?" and it was with this fiction that he spoke to his bewildered votaries:
"Behold, Here is a magician who wishes to turn you from your lands and to usurp your place. What do you say? "
They said that he should invite observers and magicians so that they might prevail over him, expose his sorcery and disgrace him.
Pharaoh agreed, and at his commands all the old sorcerers who excelled at that time gathered together. In this huge assembly Pharaoh promised that if they prevailed over Musa they could have anything they wanted from him.
So with this juvenile idea that they could degrade Hazrat Musa and make him seem wretched, and thereby increase their standing with Pharaoh. They cast down their sticks and ropes on the ground With the magic that they performed, these sticks and ropes became snakes as if they were slithering about in front of people who were witnesses to this day of trial. Their mouths fell open in amazement. But Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was with God, or rather, better still, God was with Hazrat Musa (a.s.), and his turn came. He cast his simple staff down beside the multitude of spells and wizardry of Pharaoh's magicians, and everyone saw that staff turn into a ferocious serpent which circled round and swallowed all the fabrications of the sorcerers, as if you would have said there had never been anything there.
First and foremost, then, were the magicians who came to believe in Hazrat Musa (a.s.). All of them, with one heart and one voice, said, "We believe in the Lord of the worlds who is the God of Hazrat Musa and Harun."3
They fell down and prostrated themselves, and begged forgiveness for what they had done.
Pharaoh's rage increased He threatened them. But they, who knew the difference between magic and miracle better than anyone else, thoroughly understood that Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was not a magician, and that his power was the power of God, and for this reason they were not afraid of Pharaoh's threat. Pharaoh shouted at them, "How dare you believe in the God of Musa without my permission I will tear off your arms and legs; I will hang you from the branches of the date-palm!"
The wretched creature imagined that in their own beliefs people were also obliged to get his permission. The magicians replied, "We will not choose you over and above a God who created us; we will return to our God; we are the first group who believed in Musa; we hope for God's forgiveness. Whatever you want to do, do it; for we know perfectly well that this world does not last."
But this heated speech went without effect on the cold hearts of Pharaoh and his followers. Their own status and manifestation of power deceived them.
They captured Bani Isra'il; those women from whom there was no danger were left alive and were put to work. The boys and youths of that people were killed. Many times God demonstrated the weakness of Pharaoh's people, and made them despicable so that they would learn their lesson. Every time a calamity came, they sent a message to Hazrat Musa (a.s.) that if God would take the calamity away, they would believe in Him; but when the calamity was removed, they forgot their message, and committed another iniquity.
Pharaoh said to his own people, "Don't fear! Let me kill Musa. I worry least he take your religion away from you, and I am afraid that he will create a revolution in this country and bring about a disaster."
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) said, "I seek refuge with God from every rebel who does not believe in the resurrection."
In the middle of all this, a man appeared who, until then, had kept his faith hidden; heedless of the people, he raised his voice and said, "Do you want to kill a man who says God is his Lord? Do you not see the signs of the existence of God which he has brought with him?"
Pharaoh announced. "It is as I have spoken!"
Again this solitary believer warned people, saying that he was frightened that their fate would be the same as the fate of the people of Nuh, or 'Ad and Thamud that he was afraid they would end up in Hell and the Fire, and that no-one would be able to save them from the punishment of their God.
Paying no attention to this man's warning, Pharaoh thought about his own plans and said in mockery to Harun, who was his minister, "Build a large tower for me so that I may get to know the ways of heaven from the top of it. May be there I will capture the God of Musa!"
But the man who had a strong faith in God went on repeating his same warnings. He said, "Follow me! I will lead you to the right path, O my people! The life of this world is ephemeral; do not be proud of it. The next world is eternal; the next world is everlasting. All the deeds of man will be investigated. The bad deeds will be punished, and the good deeds will receive a reward The reward for good is eternal Paradise. O people, I call you to salvation, why do you invite me to the Fire?
"You want me to become an incomparable unbeliever in God and further to ascribe partners to him, but I call you towards God, Who in truth is bountiful and the master of power. It is God who will return all of us towards Himself
"All of those who see the truth and understand it but do not obey it will be in the Fire. There will be no tardiness; what I say will take place soon."
Pharaoh and his worshippers did not turn back from their way after this speech. God took the fearless believer under his own protection and increased the difficulties for Pharaoh's own men.
In the end God gave the command to Musa to take the oppressed masses out of Egypt by night. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) led Bani Isra'il out in the darkness. They set off in the direction of the Red Sea. In their hearts they feared least Pharaoh should pursue them with his might, and in fact that is what happened. Pharaoh set out in pursuit of Hazrat Musa with his army. Bani Isra'il saw that mighty force and became very uneasy. No solution could be found. On the one side was the sea, coast to coast there was water; on the other side was Pharaoh with his immense army. Musa sought refuge with God and he revealed to him that he should strike his staff on the water and take it off.
This staff became the manifestation of the power of Allah. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) struck his stick on the water. In an instant, a dry, smooth way was opened up. Ban Isra'il followed Musa on this way. The water on the two sides of the way was piled up like two walls, mound upon mound, and did not spill over. Bani Isra'il came out of the water, and Pharaoh came up to it with his forces. He was wondering what he should do: should he turn back or entrust his soul to the sea. In front of him he saw Hazrat Musa (a.s.) and his people; how had they set foot in the water and passed through it in safety?
But he did not have faith in the clear sign of the power of Allah. He commanded his forces to pass through the water in the same way as had Muse's people. All of them obeyed him and entered the sea. They rushed in to capture Hazrat Musa (a.s.) - peace be upon him - and his people. They were drunk with the wine of pride. All at once the walls closed in on them. The way became a well; the ocean enveloped them on all sides. Pharaoh, seeing himself without hope, became a believer, but it was too late. All were drowned in the sea, all were annihilated, and their memory obliterated.
The Qur'an relates the situation of the last moments of Pharaoh's life with exactitude. It says:
"At length, when he (Pharaoh) was overwhelmed with the flood he said, "I believe that there is no god except Him Whom Bani Isra'il believe in. I am of those who submit. (It was said to him) "Why now, Just a little while before you were in rebellion and you did mischief! This day we save you in your body,4 that you may become a sign to those who will come after you. But verily, many among mankind are heedless of the signs of our power." (10: 90-91).
Thus was Bani Isra'il saved from the sea.
If Hazrat Musa (a.s.) had become free from the spectra of Pharaoh and his oppression, there was now a grave concern for him, and that was the ignorance and propensity for dispute among the Bani Isra'il itself. On the other side of the sea they reached a people who worshipped idols, and Bani Isra'il begged Hazrat Musa (as.) to build an idol for them so that they might not be in any way, even in idol- worship, inferior to them. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) was very grieved by this and said, "How ignorant and unknowing you are? Do you expect me to look for another god apart from He who delivered you from the grip of Pharaoh?
God summoned Hazrat Musa (a.s.) to spend thirty nights for people in prayer. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) appointed Hazrat Harun (a.s.), his own brother, in his place for Bani Isra'il and recommended him to the people. After thirty nights following the command of Allah, he added to them another ten nights After the completion of these forty nights, the Torah was revealed to him, that it should be a guide at that time for the Jewish people.
However, as for Bani Isra'il, after they had been a few days without Hazrat Musa (as), the excuse of the idol seized them again. An impostor called Samiri took gold and jewellery from them and built a golden calf, in such a way that in special conditions, by its own contrivance, it emitted the sound of the calf. Then he said to the people, whose wisdom was only in their eyes, "This calf is the son of the God of Musa, it is your god, you must worship it."
The people had forgotten that God could not be in the form of a body, could not be in space and they, had forgotten that God must be their guide. Contrary to the teachings of Hazrat Musa (a.s.), they accepted as god the golden calf which had been built at the hands of Samiri, and which had no benefit or loss for anyone. They did not pay attention to the fact that it was an idol built by Samiri for them which merely made a cow-like lowing, and did not realize that if it were possible that God should manifest himself among them, He would proceed to guide them and lead them. It is clear that there is an enormous difference between guidance and leading and the braying of a calf.
Thus the Jews went astray and heeded not the advice of Hazrat Harun (s).
When Hazrat Musa (a.s.) came back and saw their great aberration, he became completely dejected and rebuked the ignorant people.
He told Samiri, "Now, you idol-builder who was built by God, what shall I do with you? That idol, I shall have it burnt and its ashes flung into the sea. And your True God is the only God, Who sees and knows everything that is, and there is no god apart from him."
And with these words he broke the idol into pieces and no trace of it remained.
The Divine words of Hazrat Musa (a.s.) had failed to have their effect; the people still looked for excuses, and renegade on their pledges. After Hazrat Musa (a.s.), they became less obedient to the Truth and to the words of God's prophets and His chosen ones. They remained heedless. They oppressed some people, and they killed the prophets. They even got to work on their own Divine Book, and altered it, and thus they created the Torah in its present form, whose imperfections are so great that one cannot call it a Divine Book.
1. Which two tribe were living in Egypt at the time of Hazrat Musa's birth?
2. Which tribe did the Pharaohs belong to?
3. Which tribe did the lineage of Yacub belong to?
4. Why did the Pharaoh order the entire babies head to be cut off from the Bani Isra'il tribe?
5. Why was the order given to kill Musa?
6. What happened when Musa reached the bush?
7. What happened when Musa threw down his staff?
8. What did Allah command Musa to declare to the Pharaoh?
9. What did Musa say when Pharaoh asked him who is you God?
10. What did the people immediately do when they saw the miracles Musa showed them?
11. What did pharaoh say to the people as a threat when the prostrated before Musa?
12. Who was Harun?
13. When Hazrat Musa went with his followers to the Red Sea what did pharaoh do?
14. What happened when Musa struck his staff in the water?
15. What happened when Pharaoh and his men enter the sea?
16. What did the imposter Samiri do?
17. What was the idol in the shape of?
18. What did Musa do when he saw what the people were doing when he returned?
19. What did Musa do with the Idol?
20. What did the people do after Musa's death?
- 1. Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar vol. 13, p. 38-40.
- 2. Nur ath-Thaqalayn, vol. 4, p. 117.
- 3. Harun was the brother of Hazrat Musa (a.s.) With his loud clear voice he went together with Hazrat Musa (a.s.) everywhere and helped him in his work of delivering the Message.
- 4. Pharaoh was the general name for the rulers of ancient Egypt. The Pharaoh contemporary with Musa was called 'Ramses II' and his body was mummified. It was discovered in 1881 (AD) and is now in Cairo Museum.)


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Senator Roberts: Kansas Farmers and Ranchers Face Drought Emergency
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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, today launched efforts to ensure Kansas farmers and ranchers have access to all available assistance due to severe drought across the nation and much of the state.
"Lack of rainfall and high temperatures has had a devastating impact on the corn and soybean crops in Kansas," Roberts said. "Ranchers in Kansas are also facing severe hardship due to a lack of available feed caused by the drought. Nearly every county is affected by these severe conditions."
The USDA has allowed emergency haying and grazing of CRP lands to 91 out of 105 Kansas counties.
Senator Roberts has created a page on his website dedicated entirely to drought resources. It can be found here or at Roberts.senate.gov. It includes links to federal and state resources for those suffering from drought conditions.
Sen. Roberts also recorded an audio and video public service announcement (PSA) directing Kansans to call their Farm Service Agency (FSA) office for immediate assistance. The PSA can be found here.
"I urge farmers and ranchers to contact their FSA office and their crop insurance provider for immediate assistance. I have been in frequent communication with USDA officials and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and rest assured, we are all working together to provide you much needed assistance."
Sen. Roberts has fought to improve the safety net for America's farmers and ranchers. He's an outspoken advocate for crop insurance and has worked to strengthen the program in the Senate passed Farm Bill. Roberts also supported provisions for livestock producers included in the Senate passed Farm Bill to help in natural disasters like the current drought.
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A kayaker's first time out nearly became his last after a close encounter with a Great White shark.
Walter Szulc, Jr. was among the last to notice that beachgoers at Nauset beach in Orleans, Mass. were fleeing the ocean Saturday after a 12- to 14-foot Great White was spotted in the surf, WHDH-TV reported.
He told the station that before arriving at the beach he had teased his daughter about her fear of sharks. But in a scene reminiscent of the movie "Jaws," witnesses said they saw the shark's dorsal fin trailing Szulc by about 10 feet, according to reports.
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"So I looked behind me and that's when I saw the shark, it was pretty much right there, I got a glimpse of it. It was a good size and it had a fin sticking out, so I just turned and paddled," Szulc told the TV station.
The first time kayaker paddled to safety and the beach was closed for the rest of the day. The beach reopened on Sunday without incident or shark sightings, according to Boston.com.
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There is nothing like BIC® Evolution™ pencils…
These graphite and coloring pencils, this year celebrating their 20th anniversary, are made from an exclusive manufacturing process. They do not contain any wood and are highly resistant; they give children the opportunity to enjoy themselves by letting their imagination run free and also meet parents' satisfaction.To celebrate this birthday as it should, BIC® Evolution is launching two new references:
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Launch Radio Networks reports: Despite repeated assurances that their forthcoming "hiatus" is not a break-up, SYSTEM OF A DOWN reportedly acted like a band on the brink at the opening day of this summer's Ozzfest last Thursday (June 29) in Auburn, Washington, about 30 miles from Seattle. According to MTV.com, the members of SYSTEM arrived at the venue in separate tour buses. Guitarist Daron Malakian "seemed to be struggling to keep up with the rest of the band" and improvised lyrics during the first few songs of their performance. During the song "Lonely Day", while looking at vocalist Serj Tankian, Malakian crooned, "Such a lonely day, hanging out with the band/ This motherf***er, I can't stand."
A source at SYSTEM's record label told Launch not to read all that much into last Thursday's events, adding that the members have traveled on separate buses for a while now. Malakian himself recently said that the group's plans to take an indefinite amount of time off after Ozzfest don't spell the end for SYSTEM OF A DOWN. "I think when a band says, 'Hey, you know, we're not gonna shoot out records consistently for a little while,'people are gonna assume that we're breaking up," he said. "But people can call it whatever they want. We know what it is, and we're comfortable with that. If we were breaking up, we wouldn't be able to get onstage together on this tour."
Malakian is currently assembling a new group called SCARS ON BROADWAY and plans to record its debut album this fall. SYSTEM bassist Shavo Odadjian may participate and is also planning a collaboration with the WU-TANG CLAN.
Singer Serj Tankian will most likely continue to sign and develop artists on his own label, Serjical Strike, while drummer John Dolmayan is planning to launch an online comic book company.
SYSTEM and the rest of the Ozzfest lineup hits Phoenix, Arizona tomorrow (Friday, July 7).


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Parker is located in Douglas County and provides easy access to the Denver metro area's southern corridor where shopping, dining, entertainment, and business amenities abound. The city's recreational facilities include generous open space, numerous parks and trails, plus one of the region's finest recreation centers.
Residents and visitors enjoy swimming pools, a fieldhouse fitness center, and a wide variety of community events throughout the year. The community is dedicated to developing facilities, events, and programs offered by Parker's Recreation Department. The town is proud to be home to award-winning recreation facilities, and the city's goal is to offer a place for everyone to play.
Parker was founded in 1864, and its original residents included settlers, miners, and rugged individuals who settled the great American west. Parker is served by the highly regarded Douglas County School District, and Parker's vision is to be the pre-eminent destination community of the Denver metro area for innovative services with a hometown feel. The city is an area leader in economic and community development, and the town counsel strives to be at the forefront for services, civic engagement, and quality of life.
Parker's mission is to enrich the lives of residents by providing exceptional services, engaging community resources, and furthering an authentic hometown feel. Civic leaders promote a transparent government while supporting sustainable development and fostering a strong local economy.
Parker features the Parker Arts, Culture, and Events Center, a venue that hosts art exhibits, art classes, theater productions, and concerts. It is the official home of the Parker Symphony Orchestra, which was established in 1994.
The Cherry Creek Trail runs along Cherry Creek north and south through Parker. Popular uses include cycling, hiking, nature walks, and cross-country skiing. The Rueter-Hess Reservoir is located west of town and provides a variety of activities including fishing, hiking, and non-motorized boating. In addition, the Parker area showcases a variety of championship golf courses and residents are just minutes away from Castlewood Canyon State Park, a pristine wilderness area showcasing a dramatic canyon, towering pine trees, majestic views, and abundant wildlife.


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Contributing to a Health Savings Account
There's still time to make 2012 contributions to these versatile accounts.
Can I still make contributions to my health savings account for 2012? I'm wondering if the deadline is April 15, 2013, like it is for IRAs, or if I had to make the contributions by December 31?
It's not too late to contribute to a health savings account for 2012. You have until April 15, 2013, to contribute up to $3,100 for 2012 if you have individual health insurance coverage, or up to $6,250 if you have family coverage. You can contribute an extra $1,000 for the year if you're 55 or older.
To qualify to make HSA contributions, your health insurance policy must have had a deductible of at least $1,200 for individual coverage or $2,400 for family coverage in 2012 (the numbers are all slightly higher for 2013). Also, you can't contribute to an HSA after you sign up for Medicare, but you can still use money from the account tax-free for eligible medical expenses at any age. (See How to Make HSA Contributions After Age 65 for more information about the rules for forgoing signing up for Medicare in order to continue making HSA contributions.)
It's easiest to make the extra contributions if you buy health insurance on your own. In that case, you'd just add money to the account and deduct the contributions for 2012 when you file your taxes – like you would with a tax-deductible IRA. It can be a bit trickier if you have employer coverage and usually make pretax HSA contributions from your paycheck. Employers generally don't permit payroll-deducted contributions after year-end, says Will Applegate, vice-president of Fidelity Investments, which administers many employers' HSAs. But employees who want to contribute after December 31 can do so on an after-tax basis (similar to making a bank deposit) and can take a tax deduction for that portion of their contribution when they file their taxes, he says. Contact your HSA administrator for its specific procedure. "It will be much like how you would make a deposit to a bank account, which could be online or by mailing a check with a deposit slip," says Applegate.
Contributing to an HSA gives you a triple tax break. Your contributions are pretax (or tax-deductible), the money grows tax-deferred, and it can be used tax-free for out-of-pocket medical expenses in any year. You can use the money to pay your health insurance deductible, co-payments for medical care and prescription drugs, or bills not covered by insurance, such as vision and dental care.
You don't have to use the money by the end of the year. You can keep it in the account growing tax-deferred for future expenses, and you can even use it to reimburse yourself for the money that Social Security withholds from your benefits to pay for Medicare Part B. You can also use HSA funds for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage (but not medigap) premiums, or for a portion of your long-term-care insurance premiums. If you use HSA money for nonmedical expenses, you'll have to pay taxes on it (plus a 20% penalty before age 65).


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Kansas Housing Agency Seeks Loan Proposals
KSCB News - June 9, 2013 10:02 pm
A state agency is seeking proposals for using $2 million in state funding for rural moderate-income housing.
The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation program is open to communities across Kansas with populations of less than 60,000. The grants and loans are for building multi-family or single-family housing, to rehabilitate housing and to build utility extensions to support any new developments.
The housing corporation defines moderate annual income as between about $23,000 and $110,000, though those numbers vary with family size. The idea is to fill a gap for people who make too much to be eligible for federal housing programs, but not enough to afford market-rate housing.
KHRC will hold public meetings about the program this week around the state. Applications are due Sept. 6.


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http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=MahamudraIn the bone yard wrote: Dharma friends,
I would like to see these references where Mahamudra is supposed to be highest tantra.
Would you gentlemen please direct me?
You can see that Jamgon Kongtrul the great equalize Mahamurda with Dzogchen Semde. But perhaps this is what you mean with "lower tantra" you only practice Yangti?
In the Nyingma terma tradition Mahamudra is sometimes related to the completion stage of Mahayoga or Anuyoga but even so Mahayoga and Anuyoga is not lower Tantra.


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One of the biggest problems that companies face in their use of information systems is exchanging data from those systems with other companies. EDI was created years ago to solve the data-exchange problem, but it is costly and cumbersome to implement and to use. To use EDI, you must either buy expensive software or create your own, and you need a network to exchange data over. As the Internet has moved into a standard role, an increasing number of companies have started using Web services to exchange data. A Web service is a software application that provides some function to a remote system, usually across HTTP.
Public Web sites such as Nasdaq and various sports and news sites also share the data-exchange problem. Many users would like to regularly extract data from these sites, but to do so, they must resort to parsing the data from public HTML pages. However, HTML's tagging system provides no good way to separate data from formatting. If the page's structure changes, the user's applications must also change. However, you can use XML with Active Server Pages (ASP), ADO, and SQL Server to solve part of the data-exchange problem. Let's look at a sample system that provides a simple Web service to return data from SQL Server.
Data-Exchange Needs
Let's say that Company X must routinely provide product information to its customers in an electronic format. One of the most time-consuming processes Company X faces is generating a set of data for each of a few customers, with each customer wanting the data in a slightly different format. The customers can all handle electronic data, but each insists that the data be in a different, specific format such as flat files, XML streams, EDI formats, and so on.
Figure 1, page 46, shows an overview diagram of one approach Company X might take to automate the movement of data among the customers and vendors. The top of the diagram shows the requesting server issuing the data request through HTTP. This server or user submits a URL in the following format:
www.xco.com/secure/ReqProc.asp?CustID= ALFKI&PasswordRetrieveData=123BK23YY
The request-processing code takes the CustomerID field CustID from the URL and looks up that customer in the Northwind Customers table. If the customer's password in the Customers table (PasswordRetrieveData) matches the one submitted, the exchange continues.
To process the data, the ASP page ReqProc.asp extracts the data from the Products table in SQL Server and generates an XML stream. The ASP page then processes the XML stream by using the MSXML object and XSL Transformations (XSLT). The ReqProc.asp ASP page uses a particular customer's XSLT stylesheet to process the incoming stream from the database. Then, the parser sends the resulting XML stream as output from ReqProc.asp across HTTP to the requesting server.
The use of XSLT is essential to making this process work. XSLT uses a declarative format to specify the parser's actions against an XML document or stream and the format of the output data. XSLT's flexibility is the key to exchanging data, letting you output different data formats from one incoming XML stream. (You can find more information about XSLT at http://www.w3.org/tr/xslt.)
Setting Up the Architecture
To begin, you need to create an architecture to support the application. You need to decide how to authorize access to the Web service and how to handle the various customer requirements, such as different output formats or security. Both of these items are easy to implement, and you can use this sample application with any version of SQL Server or ADO, even if they can't natively generate XML.
To control access to the service, I added a PasswordRetrieveData column to the Customers table in the Northwind database. This column stores a password for each customer who can access the service. If a customer entry contains no password in this column, that customer can't access the service. Of course, I could have placed the password in another table or used an entirely different approach to security. You can handle it in a way that works for you. For example, you can enter Company X in your Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Then, using the service, you can create functions to authenticate other applications by checking AD for their credentials.
Building the XSLT Structure
In this article's samples, I used XSLT to transform the data coming from SQL Server. If you do a Web search on XSLT, you'll find a huge amount of data but not much information. Almost all the XSLT data that I found was geared toward using XML and XSLT to generate HTML or XML that ends up in a browser. This article's sample application uses these technologies to generate XML in a stream format that an automated reader can process. Most work in the business-to-business (B2B) world involves XML streams that organizations use for exchanging data with other businesses.
Looking at the sheer volume of data about XSLT, you might think you need to be a rocket scientist or code junkie to make XSLT work, but you don't have to be an XSLT expert to get the job done with the minimalist, practical approach to XSLT that I show in this article. First, consider that XSLT builds on XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML files. An application usually specifies XSL files to a parser, which uses the file's XSL declarations and script to process XML data. You can think of XSL as a sort of controller that determines how to render XML. The result of the parser's XSL-to-XML process is an output file or stream that conforms to the XSL declarations and script.
You can work with XSL in a couple of ways. You can start by using Notepad or a text editor to generate XSL, then test the XSL in your application's code. But a better approach is to use a tool that lets you test the XML and XSL without accessing the database or having to run your application each time. Without one of these tools, working with XML can be exasperating because of its idiosyncrasies. For example, XML is case-sensitive. If you use a text editor to build XML or XSL files, you risk using incorrect case and thereby creating code that doesn't work.
XSLTester is an open-source tool that you can download from http://www.vbxml.com. Figure 2 shows this tool with the incoming XML in the left pane and the resulting XML after parsing in the right pane. To use my test XML with XSLTester, I created part of the ASP code for this article's application. This code generated an XML stream that I then saved to a file and used with the XSLT file. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5, I copied the XML from the output stream into XSLTester's XML Document window. I used this output as a working XML file for testing.
Next, I opened the Style Sheet view by selecting View, StyleSheet Document. I added Listing 1's XSLT code for the customer to this pane, then saved the stylesheet as ProductsALFKI.xsl. (ALFKI is the CustomerID for the test customer.) In the XSLT code, all XSL files are stored in XML, as Listing 1 shows. The XSLT code starts with the standard XML declaration, then declares the XSL namespace. The next code section does all the work of transforming the document. The match = "/" statement tells the parser to process all elements in the incoming XML. The next line outputs the starting <products> tag, which is the root tag for the output document.
Next is the for-each declarative block of code. The parser executes the statements in the block once for each element in the SELECT part of the statement. In this case, all Product elements under the Products root are selected. The code then outputs the Product tag for the current element.
The next few lines output each of the elements that have a product. The format is the same for each element. The first part of the statement outputs the element tag name. Then the value-of select statement selects the particular element to output and extracts its value. The closing element tag completes the statement. You can see the format in the ProductID statement:
<productid><xsl:value-of select="ProductID"/></productid>
For a ProductID with a value of 18, you'd get the output
The remainder of the script closes all tags, including the <Product> and <products> tags and the XSL tags.
After you create and save the XSLT code, you're ready to test it. You can use a tool like XSLTester to test and tweak your XML and XSL/XSLT code. When you're satisfied that the code is correct, you can implement it programmatically, as you'll see in a moment.
To test the XSLT code, click Transform on the XSL-Tester toolbar. XSLTester processes the XSLT against the XML file and shows the output in the Transform Output window. If your XML or XSL/XSLT code contains any errors, the Transform Output window reports them.
You can apply different XSLT files against the same XML and get different results. In the case of Company X, we need to output several different XML streams for different customers. In fact, we don't know how many streams we might need over time or in what formats.
To handle the various customer requests, the application uses a separate XSLT file for each user. The XSLT files are stored in the Web site's XSLTCustomer folder. Each XSLT file is named Productsxxxxx.xsl, where xxxxx is the CustomerID field. For example, the customer with the ID of ALFKI would have an XSLT file called ProductsALFKI.xsl. This filename separates the XSLT code for each customer, and the Products prefix separates the XSLT code for Products.
Listing 2 shows the XSLT for the CustomerID BOLID. The only difference between the XSLT files in Listings 1 and 2 is that Listing 2 doesn't have the <UnitsOnOrder> tag. As a result, the XML output for BOLID doesn't have a UnitsOnOrder element.
These two XSLT files show that you can tailor the output from a database without touching the database or any other code. Just change the XSLT file, and you can have a new format for each customer.
Creating the ASP
So, how do you tie the XSLT code and the ASP code together? That's where a standard ASP script comes in. In the sample application, I created a reference to ADO in Visual InterDev. This reference puts a metatag in the global.asa file referencing the ADO type library, allowing the use of ADO constants in my script. Listing 3 shows the ReqProc.asp code, which handles all processing and management of the data-transformation process. A customer simply passes in a URL to receive a custom-tailored XML stream.
The ASP code in Listing 3 begins at callout A by declaring some variables. I commented out the Response.Buffer property during testing. By default, Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 turns buffering on, which results in unclear error messages. During development, I usually turn off buffering in the page, then turn it back on by commenting out the line when I know the code works. Also, note that the code sets the Response object's ContentType property to return XML, instead of the default HTML, with the statement
response.ContentType = "text/xml"
This statement is important because the application is sending not HTML but a text stream.
Callout B in Listing 3 shows standard ADO code for accessing the database. In the production application, this script (including the ADO code) will be a COM object that provides all the database support for the application. The CheckCustomer function at callout C verifies that a CustomerID is valid. If either the CustomerID or password is invalid, the function returns a value of false and the application doesn't return the XML stream. The code at callout D dimensions the main variables for the application and opens the Recordset. This code is generic for ASP and ADO.
The real work starts at callout E in Listing 3. For reasons that I address later, I chose to create the XML in script rather than use ADO or SQL Server XML features. The first step in generating the XML is to output the XML tag, which is the first line in callout E. The rest of the code in callout E loops through the Recordset and builds the resulting XML stream by concatenating the XML tags and the values from the Recordset.
The first line of code at callout F in Listing 3 stores the XML stream in the sourceFile variable. Then, the code creates the path for the XSLT file to use for the current CustomerID. The server object's MapPath method returns a physical path to the XSLT file, then instantiates the XML parser that will handle the XML stream. Next, the code sets the async property of the parser object to false to force synchronous processing of the XML document. (With synchronous processing, the parser processes the request completely before returning control to the program.) Finally, the code loads the XML stream into the parser object.
The next step is loading the XSLT file. First, the code instantiates another instance of the parser and sets the async property to false. Different naming conventions clearly separate the XML and the XSLT objects.
The code loads the XSLT file exactly like the XML stream, except that this time it uses the Load method because the XSLT code is in a file instead of a variable. The next line does the bulk of the work in the application by calling the transformNode method of the XML parser object (the instance containing the XML) and passing in a reference to the StyleSheet object. The variable sOutPut now contains the new XML stream.
To complete the XML output stream, the next line of ASP code prefixes the XML declaration to sOutPut. First, the encoding parameter specifies the character-set encoding of the XML to let the parser know how to interpret the data. Finally, the vbCrLf constant adds a line break in the XML output for readability.
The code at callout G in Listing 3 is the main body of the application. First, it retrieves the incoming CustomerID and passwords from the Request object. Then, the If statement calls the CheckCustomer() function to check whether the customer is valid and authorized to use the service. If CheckCustomer() is true, the code calls ProcessXML to extract the data from the database and generate the XML. Then, the code uses Response.Write to write the output. Listing 4 shows the HTML code of a simple test page I used during development to execute the Web service.
Custom Made
Let me point out two things about this article's example. First, because it doesn't use ADO or SQL Server to generate the XML, you can use this code with any version of SQL Server and with versions of ADO that don't have XML-generation features. Also, I've found that the database server is often the bottleneck in an application. Although SQL Server 2000 could generate the XML, putting the XML in the ASP code lets you run the service in a farm of servers without dragging down the database server. And, this code can generate data in many XML formats and even non-XML formats, which is a criteria of one of our clients.
Second, although the ASP/ADO code isn't the fastest way to do things, not every application needs to run the fastest. You can optimize the ASP/ADO code by placing it in a COM object, using stored procedures rather than SQL, and not returning Recordsets when you don't need them. Of course, with any application you must perform real-world testing.
XML and XSLT are powerful and easy to use in a data-exchange environment, and you don't need to be an XML or XSLT guru to use them. This solution isn't designed to handle large data streams for thousands of users, but it works well for smaller data streams and hundreds of users. And if you need to add a layer of security to the application, you can place the ASP file in a directory secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Using SSL encrypts the ASP code's output, so the receiver of the output must also use SSL when retrieving the data from the service.


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Yet Another Lawsuit to Hold up Atlantic Yards Project
Another lawsuit has been filed aimed at halting the Brooklyn development that includes a new arena for basketball's Nets.
Peter Williams says in his lawsuit filed Tuesday that he still owns the air rights over a lot that is part of the footprint of the Atlantic Yards project.
A spokesman for developer Bruce Ratner did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
Ratner plans an arena for the New Jersey Nets, who will become the Brooklyn Nets, plus 16 residential and office towers. The arena is to open in 2012.


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MOORPARK, CA – October 28, 2013 – Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ: CIMT), a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM software solutions for the toolmaking and manufacturing industries, today announced that it has granted 50 seats of its GibbsCAM® software to Boston University's College of Engineering. The software, which has a commercial value of over $725,000.00, provides Boston University students the ability to program a full range of CNC machine tools from importing CAD models to generating toolpath to verifying the part program with machine tool simulation.
Programming capabilities include 2- through 5-axis milling, 2-axis turning, mill-turn, multitask machining and wire EDM. The software also provides native interoperability with PTC Creo Parametric software, the college's CAD standard, enabling direct transfer of PTC Creo models to GibbsCAM for manufacturing. The GibbsCAM software will be used in both the traditional classroom environment and in Boston University's new, 20,000 square foot Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), where students of all engineering disciplines will learn about product development, from concept through design, manufacturing and delivery.
"We congratulate the Boston University College of Engineering on building its new EPIC facility with state-of-the-art technology," said Robb Weinstein, Senior Vice-President of Sales and Strategic Planning of Gibbs and Associates, a Cimatron Group subsidiary. "It is with great pleasure that we partner with Boston University to supply a state-of-the art CNC programming system for incorporation into their engineering and manufacturing curricula and the EPIC facility. In addition to being an efficient platform for manufacturing, GibbsCAM is also an effective tool for teaching and learning CNC programming and machining processes. We are confident that the College of Engineering will find GibbsCAM to be a valuable asset for educating the manufacturing professionals of tomorrow."
About the Boston University College of Engineering
The Boston University College of Engineering offers an array of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of engineering disciplines. Through its academic programs, world-class research and experiential opportunities, the College strives to create Societal Engineers who are prepared to use their engineering education to improve society.
About Gibbs and Associates and GibbsCAM
For over thirty years, Gibbs and Associates has been a leader in providing cutting edge CAD/CAM technology, while maintaining its signature ease-of-use and productivity. Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful is the guiding philosophy at Gibbs. Gibbs believes in empowering the NC programmer, machinist, and manufacturing engineer, not eliminating them. Gibbs' goal is to introduce manufacturers to new technologies and new ways of working that makes their machining easier and their businesses more profitable. To achieve this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use. Gibbs provides a total quality solution with the service and support that successful customers require.
The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. GibbsCAM also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. GibbsCAM is Compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Certified for Windows Vista. GibbsCAM's data exchange capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Program, is a Siemens Solution Partner Program-PLM for Solid Edge product, is a Gold Tier Partner within the PTC Partner Advantage Program and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product. GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers, including GE Fanuc, Infimatic, Siemens, Doosan Infracore, DMG / MORI SEIKI, Haas, Index, MAG, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Okuma and Tornos. Gibbs and Associates distributes its products worldwide through a network of international Resellers.
In January 2008, Gibbs and Associates merged with Cimatron Ltd., and is now operating as a wholly owned subsidiary. For more information about Gibbs and Associates and its CAM software packages, visit www.GibbsCAM.com or call 1-800-654-9399 (outside of North America: +1-805-523-0004).
About Cimatron
With over 30 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron Ltd., or Cimatron, is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM software solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time.
The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
Cimatron's shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CIMT. For more information, visit http://www.cimatron.com.
The Gibbs logo, GibbsCAM, GibbsCAM logo, Virtual Gibbs, and "Powerfully Simple. Simply Powerful." are either trademark(s) or registered trademark(s) of Gibbs and Associates in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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This press release includes forward looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such statements may relate to Cimatron's plans, objectives and expected financial and operating results. The words "may," "could," "would," "will," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," and similar expressions or variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's ability to control. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward looking statements include, but are not limited to: currency fluctuations, global economic and political conditions, marketing demand for Gibbs and Associates or Cimatron products and services, long sales cycles, new product development, assimilating future acquisitions, maintaining relationships with customers and partners, and increased competition. For more details about the risks and uncertainties related to Cimatron's business, refer to its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company cannot assess the impact of or the extent to which any single factor or risk, or combination of them, may cause. Gibbs and Associates and Cimatron undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
For more information, contact:
Ilan Erez
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Cimatron Ltd.
Phone: +972 73 237 0114
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Hailee Steinfeld Talks About 'Amazing Friend' Taylor Swift in Nylon
Hailee Steinfeld is making waves in Hollywood at just 17-years-old, equipped with an Oscar nom and now the cover of Nylon magazine's 'Young Hollywood' issue. Oh, and did we mention she's BFFs with Taylor Swift?
The '3 Days to Kill' actress recently shared some insight on her friendship with Swift, calling the singer an "amazing friend."
Steinfeld told Nylon (quotes via E!), "I always get the 'Tell us something nobody knows [about Taylor]' question. And it's like, we both respect each other tremendously, but we choose to keep our friendship out of the public eye. She's a really great person and an inspiration to me and many others."
Sounds like Steinfeld is a pretty great friend, too! We can respect the young starlets' wish for privacy, and we'll keep envying their shopping dates and hangouts from afar.
The friendship first blossomed a few years back when Steinfeld met Swift through fellow celeb Emma Stone. Since then, the duo has posted baking snapshots on Instagram, posed for photos together on a Red Carpet in L.A., and most recently grabbed a bite to eat in New York.
"We do just really random stuff when we are together," the young actress told E! News. "We just love to kick back, listen to music, watch TV, bake, watch movies and all of that kind of stuff."
All of which are regular activities for a normal teen, which is exactly how Steinfeld still sees herself.
"It is about being honest," she revealed to Nylon. "People live different lifestyles, and I always find an equivalency: If I'm filming or going to an audition it's [the same as] my friends going to school or dance class. I think everyone lives the same way and encounters the same sort of life."
Her cover photo on Nylon, where's she's sporting spring-friendly shades of leather and denim, might set her apart from most teens, but we're happy to hear Steinfeld is as down-to-earth as ever.


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Snir Receives 2013 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Award
Parallel computing expert and CS Professor Marc Snir, a major contributor to the Message Passing Interface, has been named the recipient of this year's IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
Snir is director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and the Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois, where he served as department head from 2001 to 2007. He is currently pursuing research in programming environments for high-performance computing.
One of IEEE Computer Society's highest awards, the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award is presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify Cray's creative spirit. The award consists of a crystal memento, a certificate, and a $10,000 honorarium.
Until 2001, Snir was a senior manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group responsible for major contributions to the IBM SP scalable parallel system and to the IBM Blue Gene system.
He received a PhD in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, worked at New York University on the NYU Ultracomputer project in 1980-1982, and was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982-1986, before joining IBM.
An Argonne Distinguished Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow, Snir has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel languages, libraries, and parallel programming environments.
Seymour Cray was a US electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that for decades were the fastest in the world. He founded Cray Research, which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry.
Previous Seymour Cray Award recipients are Ken Batcher, John Cocke, Glen Culler, William J. Dally, Monty Denneau, Alan Gara, John L. Hennessy, Peter Kogge, Kenichi Miura, Steven L. Scott, Charles Seitz, Burton J. Smith, Steven Wallach, and Tadashi Watanabe.
About IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading computing membership organization and the trusted information and career-development source for a global workforce of technology leaders including: professors, researchers, software engineers, IT professionals, employers, and students. The unmatched source for technology information, inspiration, and collaboration, the IEEE Computer Society is the source that computing professionals trust to provide high-quality, state-of-the-art information on an on-demand basis. The Computer Society provides a wide range of forums for top minds to come together, including technical conferences, publications, and a comprehensive digital library, unique training webinars, professional training, and the TechLeader Training Partner Program to help organizations increase their staff's technical knowledge and expertise. The Computer Society is the producer of Rock Stars of Big Data, the must-attend big data event of the year, and the personalized information tool, myComputer, now available at an introductory price. To find out more about the community for technology leaders, visit the IEEE Computer Society.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's latest ratings of public school performance will land with more of a thud than a bang this year.
That's because most elements of the 2011-2012 report cards for the state's 614 traditional public school districts have been delayed for months because of a statewide attendance tampering investigation.
The Ohio Department of Education plans to release two final elements of the report cards Wednesday: the overall performance index for each district and building; and the "value-added" measure that rates students' annual academic growth.
Ohio's performance index scale ranges from academic emergency to excellent with distinction. A traditional A-through-F scale is being phased in beginning next year.
Rankings for about 80 districts with apparent irregularities will be flagged as the department re-examines their attendance data.