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A television news producer once told me he was trying to foster that notion in his reporters. What he didn't want was the opposite: Get it first, but get it right, but get it first.
The tension between first and right played out over and over in the early reporting on the shootings Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn.
A number of media analysts weighed in last week on the large number of reporting mistakes made on the day of the shooting. Among them were the shooter's name, the way he entered the building and the connection (or lack of one) between his mother and Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Some wrote it off as the new way of doing news. Bits of information and misinformation swarm through social media and the internet. Eventually the facts rise to the top. Readers should learn to expect it.
Indeed, these kinds of stories have always bred some amount of misinformation. On Sept. 11, 2001, reports mistakenly had bombs going off and additional planes crashing.
In the dozen years since, the pace of breaking news has created even more chaos. It's moved far beyond the pace of a daily newspaper, which gave reporters and editors all day to perfect a story. It's even quicker than in 2001, when 24-hour cable news channels tried to beat one another with report after report after report.
Nowadays, anyone with a cellphone can jump into the mix, pass along information, twist it, comment on it, analyze it and spit it back to the world through Twitter or Facebook – all at warp speed. Millions are on standby, demanding a new nugget of "news" every few seconds.
It's easy to say now we'd rather get it right than first. It's more difficult when the news is breaking.
Getting it right sometimes requires restraint, taking the time to verify information before publishing it. However, restraint is not generally rewarded in the news business. We all want to be the place readers turn to when they hear about an event. We earn that right by reliably having a story up when they come to us. When we don't, they go somewhere else.
Craig Silverman, who writes about journalism accuracy on his blog "Regret the Error," offered another thought last week. In addition to encouraging restraint, he urged journalists to be transparent about what they're reporting, what they aren't and why.
"Rather than remaining silent about what they refuse to report, or cannot verify, news organizations should be vocal about where they stand," he wrote. He suggested a news organization could have told its readers: "A Facebook profile is circulating, but we are not confident it is the shooter, and that's why we are not sharing it."
That questioning by a trusted source would help readers judge the information they're seeing elsewhere.
It also allows a newsroom to post something for hungry readers.
It worked for us two years ago after two large booms – origins unknown – cracked across the South Sound sky. With half a dozen reporters scrambling to determine the cause, we issued a breaking-news alert. It didn't speculate a cause, but said simply: Yes, we heard them, too. We don't know what they were, but we're working to find out.
Our online traffic soared with readers coming back to us, eventually learning they were sonic booms from airplanes racing to provide security for President Barack Obama in Seattle. Readers seemed to appreciate both our restraint and our transparency.
We must be vigilant about accuracy, even as we strive to be first. Our credibility is still our most valuable asset, especially in this new sea of information alternatives. When The News Tribune says it, we want it to be so.
The modern-day news ecosystem requires much of journalists, but it also requires much of news consumers. Beyond consuming information, they must judge its worthiness.
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"It goes back to first and second down," Freeman said. "When you look at it, when we're in manageable third downs we're a Top 10 team. We're extremely efficient, but if you ask a team and an offense to have to convert third-and-longs each series, more often than not you're not going to convert. It's something that's not our identity. That is not our offense. Obviously, it was a game where we were struggling to get into those manageable situations, but we went back and assessed our problems and [are] hoping to come out this week and make a difference."
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In most of these situations, a second appraisal is needed. Here is one of the problems that is showing up when a second appraisal is required on certain FHA loans, the borrower can't pay for it. The mortgage broker is prohibited for paying for it. Also, the lender doesn't want to pay for it. OK, who is left?
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I'll be the first to admit it's been a tough four years. Although I always try to maintain a positive attitude about business, frankly I've never had as bad of beating (financially in our business) in my 30 years at SnoWest as I have received during the past four years—with each of the four worse than the previous.
Don't even talk to me about hope and change.
And the prospects for the next four years don't look any better.
Sadly, it seems that no matter what we do in the "fly-over" portion of this country, we always tend to be that area where the sewage from those jets flying over gets dropped. That's not going to change.
It would be nice if the snowmobile population had a little better say about the direction this country is headed in. I did a quick look to see how key areas voted. What I found is interesting.
Wisconsin also has a solid snowmobile presence with Ski-Doo having offices in Sturtevant and Yamaha having its R&D facility in Pleasant Prairie. Obama won
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NASHVILLE - August 2008 collections of the Tennessee Department of Revenue were $771,199,735, a decrease of $38,045,859 or 4.7 percent from August 2007 collections.
Sales and use tax collections totaled $564,579,666 a decrease of $7,272,476 or 1.3 percent from August 2007 collections.
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Consumer use collections were $1,720,817, an increase of $1,310,809 (319.7 percent) from August 2007.
Franchise and excise tax collections were $15,542,442, a decrease of $29,022,654 or 65.1 percent when compared to August 2007. Separately, franchise tax collections were $9,720,062, a drop of $6,737,741 or 40.9 percent from last August. Excise tax collections were $5,822,380, a decrease of $22,284,913 or 79.3 percent from August 2007.
Tobacco tax collections were $24,817,202, an increase of $7,030,664 or 39.5 percent over the collection of August 2007.
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Privilege tax collections were $16,655,228, a decrease of $9,114,894 or 35.4 percent compared to August 2007.
Gasoline tax collections were $49,549,650, a decrease of $2,523,688 or 4.9 percent compared to August 2007.
Motor vehicle registration tax collections were $18,960,468, a decrease of $1,878,301 or 9 percent compared to August 2007.
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A MAN with a medical condition which makes him forget who he is has gone missing.
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The 64 year-old Robert Dawe left his Whitchurch home at 10.30am to go and buy fuel and has not been seen or heard from since.
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JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Johnson of the University of California Davis School of Law says that Alabama's immigration law highlights the civil rights implications of the recent state immigration laws and, in the case of Alabama, show parallels with previous efforts to prevent desegregation...
The Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act (HB 56) includes a hodge-podge of enforcement-oriented immigration provisions. One provision, common to many modern state immigration laws including Arizona's legislation, is that local police who lawfully stop a person are required to verify their immigration status if the officer has a "reasonable suspicion" that the person may be in the nation unlawfully. HB 56 also includes a novel provision, Section 28, which requires public elementary and secondary schools in Alabama to determine if an enrolling student (1) was born outside the jurisdiction of the US or is the child of an unlawfully present alien and (2) qualifies for assignment to an English as second language class or other remedial program.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) challenged much of the Alabama immigration law on the ground that it was preempted by federal law and usurped the federal power to regulate immigration, as it has in Arizona and South Carolina. The district court enjoined four provisions from going into effect. An appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is pending, with a stay barring two provisions from going into effect during the appeal, including Section 28 (which the district court did not enjoin).
Alabama is not the first state to act with respect to the public education of undocumented elementary and secondary school students. For years, state and local governments have chafed at their obligations under Plyler v. Doe to undocumented schoolchildren. In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, an initiative which would have denied access to the Golden State's public K-12 schools for undocumented children. That strategy, designed to provoke the Supreme Court to revisit and overrule Plyler v. Doe, failed. A federal court enjoined the core provisions of Proposition 187 from going into effect. Tough budgetary times have offered Alabama an excuse for renewing in different form the challenge to Plyler v. Doe and the educational rights of undocumented students.
On November 1, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez sent a letter to Alabama school districts requesting information to ensure that the civil rights of immigrant schoolchildren, as well as others, are not adversely affected by HB 56. The letter states, in part, that:
It has come to our attention that the requirements of Alabama's H.B. 56 may chill or discourage student participation in, or lead to the exclusion of school-age children from, public education programs based on their or their parents' race, national origin, or actual or perceived immigration status, or based on their homeless or foster care status and consequent lack of documentation.
As you know, in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), the Supreme Court held that a State may not deny a child equal access to public education based on his or her immigration status. Noting the "pivotal role of education" in our society, id. at 221, the Court concluded that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional. Id. at 230. On May 6, 2011, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education issued guidance on the Federal obligation to provide equal educational opportunities to all children residing within your district.
As you know, in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), the Supreme Court held that a State may not deny a child equal access to public education based on his or her immigration status. Noting the "pivotal role of education" in our society, id. at 221, the Court concluded that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional. Id. at 230. On May 6, 2011, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education issued guidance on the Federal obligation to provide equal educational opportunities to all children residing within your district.
Section 28 is part of an omnibus immigration enforcement bill that is designed to make life so difficult for undocumented immigrants, many of which are Mexican, that they leave the state. From a civil rights perspective, Perez's letter expresses the concern that Section 28 might "chill" undocumented students from attending public school as guaranteed by Plyler v. Doe. The Alabama schools' much-publicized collection and reporting of data has alarmed immigrant students, lawful and unlawful. Absences are up, enrollments are down.
Students may be discouraged from attending public schools for fear of disclosing their, and/or their parents', immigration status information. They might well fear that if the information is collected and reported, then it might end up in the hands of immigration enforcement authorities resulting in their removal from the US. This fear among undocumented immigrant students and parents is not far-fetched given the harsh national debate over immigration and the record-setting deportations each year.
Alabama undoubtedly would deny that it has any desire to inhibit anyone from exercising their civil rights. Section 2 of HB 56 offers some indication of the legislative intent behind Section 28 stating, in relevant part, that:
Because the costs incurred by school districts for the public elementary and secondary education of children who are aliens not lawfully present in the United States can adversely affect the availability of public education resources to students who are United States citizens or are aliens lawfully present in the United States, the State of Alabama determines that there is a compelling need for the State Board of Education to accurately measure and assess the population of students who are aliens not lawfully present in the United States, in order to forecast and plan for any impact that the presence such population may have on publicly funded education in this state.
In the end, Perez has put Alabama on official notice that the US government will be watching Alabama and its treatment of immigrants and Hispanics. Oddly out of touch with US civil rights history, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has questioned Perez's authority to ask for basic enrollment information from the school districts. Such objections highlight for the nation the civil rights implications of the Alabama immigration law and remind people of the parallels between HB 56 and Alabama's strident at times, violent stand against African Americans seeking to desegregate the public school system in the 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunately, until Congress enacts some kind of comprehensive immigration reform or the Supreme Court makes clear what role the states have, if any, in immigration enforcement, the nation can expect state legislatures to continue to pass immigration enforcement laws like Alabama's.
Kevin Johnson is Dean of the University of California Davis School of Law and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies. Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity and civil rights. He is one of the editors of the ImmigrationProf blog.
Suggested citation: Kevin Johnson, Alabama Highlights Civil Rights Concerns in State Immigration Laws, JURIST - Forum, Nov. 12, 2010, http://jurist.org/forum/2011/11/kevin-johnson-alabama-immigration.php.


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Today was a "toughie," as my Elijah would say. We brought our oldest son to the hospital for what we thought was a routine surgery to peek on his left ear tube that didn't appear to be doing its job. We left the hospital with some unexpected news and with a much bigger surgery on our calendar. I am still in the stages of processing everything, but I feel like things will be ok. We have been through so much with our oldest boy. This is just another hurdle that we will all leap over together!
This past Saturday, before any of this went down, my boys and I spent the night at our dear friends' house. Before we made pizzas with the kids, I quickly prepared this delish little appetizer and the four of us adults consumed it, well, um, very quickly. Dee. Lish.
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1/2 cup canned artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
1/2 cup julienne-cut sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
1/4 cup pesto
Mix well and set aside.
Defrost 1 puff pastry sheet according to the package directions and roll it out onto the prepared baking sheet.
Place an 8-oz. wheel of Brie cheese (rind intact) onto the center of the pastry sheet.
Top the Brie wheel with the artichoke-tomato-pesto mixture.
Fold the pastry sheet up over the top of the cheese and toppings and pinch at the seams.
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Tax reform is a big topic and both do agree this is just a starting point.
Everyone here seems to agree tax cuts are needed...Republicans want to get rid of the food tax altogether...while the the governor is proposing to drop the tax another one percent -- a trend he plans to continue the following year. Delegate Bob Ashley stood up and called this session just fluff.
Another complaint from Republicans, they say there's no room for debate during this session.
It's not clear exactly how many days the session will last. Several committees are now reviewing the proposal but the majority of these tax cuts are expected to pass. There are 13-items outlined, 11 that specifically deal with taxes. Beyond the food tax, other cuts include breaks for the poor and elderly, along with several business tax cuts.


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I'm based in Houston, Texas. Energy capital of the world.
Aubrey got his comeuppance yesterday. At Chesapeake Energy's annual meeting in Oklahoma City shareholders showed their disgust with him and the board. Directors V. Burns Hargis and Richard K. Davidson received just 26% and 27% of votes. They will be among the four boardmembers soon to be replaced, along with Charlie Maxwell, who announced his retirement at 80. After just 85 shareholders attended last year's meeting, this year 230 showed up; 85% of total shares outstanding were represented by proxy. Among other moves, those shareholders voted to reincorporate the company in Delaware, which doesn't have Oklahoma's shareholder-unfriendly laws that Chesapeake helped put in place.
Cheryl Gustitus, a spokeswoman for Institutional Shareholder Services, reportedly said the day was the "high-watermark and one of the biggest protest votes ever registered at a U.S. annual meeting."
Shareholders are sick and tired of McClendon's antics like those detailed in a Reuters report published the day before: The Lavish And Leveraged Life of Aubrey McClendon. (It's a good read, and even references my cover story "America's Most Reckless Billionaire.") After the meeting Reuters columnists wrote that McClendon had received a "pistol whipping" and urged the new board of directors to separate McClendon from Chesapeake ASAP.
I disagree. I think they ought to give McClendon a chance to redeem himself.
Now I've been as vocal as anyone in criticizing McClendon's recklessness, starting with this piece back in 2009 where I urged Chesapeake partner BP to buy the whole company and save shareholders from McClendon.
Yet now that the tsunami of public opinion has engulfed him, now that he will at long last be governed by a competent board of directors, the contrarian in me is feeling almost … sympathetic towards the guy.
Yes, he's had longstanding conflicts of interest with his Founders Well Participation Program. Yes, he's likely breached his fiduciary duty to shareholders with his secret hedge funds and massive personal loans from the company's lenders. Yes, he's made some bad investments and leveraged the company up to its beady eyeballs. Yes, he's made shareholders pay for lots of lavish (but mostly immaterial) perks like plane rides and a beautiful corporate campus.
But contrast that with what this megalomaniacal micromanaging risktaker has built. A giant company with unparalleled assets that undergird the shale gas miracle that came out of nowhere to provide the U.S. with 100 years or more of clean-burning natural gas. McClendon has led the charge of this supply revolution. No one has grabbed more land or drilled more wells. No one has paid more money to poor farmers in the middle of nowhere who 10 years ago would have ever dreamed there was oil and gas under their fields.
McClendon is not just the quintessential wildcatter of his generation, he's the quintessential baby boomer — always wanting more, more, more and willing to borrow, borrow, borrow to get it.
The quote of the day for me yesterday came from Vincent Intrieri, who works for Carl Icahn at Icahn Capital. He called McClendon a "great oil and gas man," but said, "even great executives need vigilant oversight."
That oversight is already in effect. In a presentation to shareholders the company said it intends to "simplify the company" in shifting from " capture to harvest mode."
As a long time shareholder, I could not agree more with the writer. Aubrey, under shareholder scrutiny and with proper controls in place should be given the opportunity to lead our company to "greatness". We appear to be on the cusp of natural gas taking a major part in an energy revolution and Chesapeake has the ingredients to be a leader.
Can't help but picture J.R. Ewing as he glefully dodges another bullet seeking to remove him as head of Ewing Oil….:)
As well they should, the chairman has milked the company and he should be driven out along with ALL the board members… They are a disgrace to other companies and stock investors!
I think the articles author should take another course in investing 101. and boot Aubrey out way out and never have him run another company! This guy thinks what he is, takes what he wants and loses big time, but still thinks he is a genius…
"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." – Wimpy
Helman should focus on honor and integrity, not oil and gas that the tycoons think they own…
I have been in the oil and gas business in Oklahoma for many years and have watched many "Aubrey McClendons" come and go, although with much smaller degrees of egotism.
I agree with everything you said with one exception: There is a big difference between being a successful risk taker and a good manager. Long term value can only be created and preserved by good managers and savvy businessmen. Companies like Exxon Mobile grow because of executives who understand that protecting capital is just as important as growing it.
Companies like Enron, and perhaps Chesapeake, fail because they are managed by gamblers who never cash out, betting it all on the next roll of the dice, over and over. Aubrey McClendon could have cashed out a billionaire, and a hero time and time gain, but he just can't do it.
That is not the right man to put in charge of a company with its back against the wall because the bigger the stakes, the more likely he might bet the farm, and lose altogether.
J.R. Ewing was a heck of a lot smarter than Aubrey McClendon, he (J.R.) didn't go public.
And J. R. had better writers!
I agree that McClendon ought to be given one more chance, but I really hate the circumstances under which this chance would be given, but those circumstances are rooted in what I believe to be the most major mistake that McClendon ever made, that is, to take Chesapeake public.
If McClendon had been wise, he would have raised money privately and kept the company private. That way, he would likely never be subject to the likes of Carl Icahn, whose interests are in the stock play, not the shale play. And the stock play is both irrelevant and parasitic to the shale play. You will note that none of the current discussion is about nor can it lead to any discussion about how Chesapeake can best perform in the natural gas business, its real business.
Sadly, I do not believe that this is going to end well for anyone. Worst of all, the development of shale gas as a national resource will be only a shadow of what it might have been if Chesapeake and Aubrey McClendon could yet focus their attention and energies on that instead of all the incredibly wasteful things required in a public company.
C'mon! Reap what you sew! You helped nail this rogue and now you want to give him another chance!? Whatever happened to journalistic integrity. Besides, you better than anyone else on the inside track should know that this leopard will definitely not change its spots. Those who were once megalomaniacs cannot revert to being mere employees. Even when he ceased to "own" the company he still tried to run it as if he did. No chance.


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Interesting article from a Brother's point of view.
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By Sondos Kholoki-Kahf, Staff Writer InFocus Magazine
"Sunni Arab Muslim parents invite correspondence for their daughter, 23, beautiful, very fair skinned, slim, educated, religious. Prefer doctor/surgeon/dentist/MD resident. Non-physicians need not apply; lawyers OK. Send picture and resume to email@example.com."
Faced with outrageous matrimonial requests like these, Jamal* believes he stands no chance in his mission to find a wife.
At 24, Jamal has already met two girls he thinks could have been "the one." The first candidate's parents refused Jamal's request because they thought he was too young. From there, Jamal hesitated to approach the second girl because he only had a bachelor's degree and had yet to find a job. That girl was married to someone else shortly thereafter.
"What those [experiences] did is give me a negative way of looking at myself," Jamal reflects. "Now the first thing I think when I see a pretty girl is, 'Man, I can't talk to her. I'm sure her parents have some engineer or doctor picked out for her,'" Jamal says.
Now working a steady job in the IT field, Jamal keeps a wary eye out for a potential wife. Although he feels disenchanted by the worldly demands of most parents, Jamal insists that marriage will protect him from haram (unlawful acts).
"It's very hard for young men to not dive into dating when it's so much more accessible and easy to do," he says. "We're expected to live like monks, and not everyone can do that. I believe that if it's this difficult to get married [now], then our kids and their kids are just going to give up on the whole thing and have relationships western style."
Working hard for the money?
Most scholars agree that if a man exhibits good moral character and religious practice, he should be accepted for marriage despite his current income, as stated in a hadith sahih (saying of the Prophet). Yet many scholars also warn against using marriage for selfish reasons.
Dr. Mazen Hashem, sociologist and researcher on Muslim communities in North America, advises youth to view marriage as a heavy commitment, "not extended dating."
"If you view marriage as just having sex in a halal way, this is not a good enough reason [to get married,." Hashem says,
Ammar Kahf, a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at UCLA and assistant imam at the Islamic Center of Hawthorne, agrees that the need to quench physical desires is not enough for marriage.
"The Prophet directed another hadith to men, that if a man does not possess the bare minimum to get married — financially, socially, physically, and emotionally — then they should fast," Kahf states. Fasting is a well-known technique to control one's patience and physical desires.
Nevertheless, Hashem believes it is unrealistic for parents to expect a young man to be financially stable straight out of college, and that parents should look to the individual's drive and potential instead.
"If a guy is just strolling in life, doesn't know yet what to do and is still young, he is not ready to get married," he says.
Accordingly, young men seriously studying journalism, education, and non-profit administration should have just as good of a chance of marrying from a respectable family as a medical student.
Imam Suhaib Webb, a scholar with the Santa Clara chapter of the Muslim American Society who is admired by many young American Muslims, is sympathetic towards this issue but offers realistic advice. "Today's sexual explosion is very frustrating, especially for single young brothers," Webb says.
"Physical needs are an important part of marriage, but at the same time, next to physical needs come the bills. Sisters have the right to ensure that her future husband will be able to look after her and her children's needs."
For those college students who have a solid idea of where they would like to end up in five years and possess good faith and moral character, but are still refused on the basis of their career path, Kahf believes that the implications will be devastating.
"I strongly believe that fathers doing this are committing a major sin," Kahf warns. "As the Prophet described it, it will be a fitna — a huge social problem that will never end."
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Tarek*,23, has been searching for a wife since his first year in college. With his parents' full support and a steady job under his belt, Tarek began meeting girls through relatives, friends, and online. None proved a match.
A few years ago, Tarek was perusing material in a masjid bookstore and saw a girl there he thought could be a potential candidate.
"She seemed to be waiting around the place almost as if she wanted me to say something, but I just didn't know how to approach her," Tarek recalls. "Was she interested, or was it just my imagination? I didn't want to make it seem like I was hitting on her because it would probably turn her off. It was mind-boggling and disappointing because I didn't know what to do."
Truly, Muslim men and women — especially those in the West — are missing opportunities to get to know one another in informal, yet religiously acceptable forums. With unplanned socializing out of the question, youth are scrambling for an alternative that will allow for careful interaction between genders.
Often times, men and women are completely separated to the point where they find it awkward to interact on a basic social level.
"We in southern California pride ourselves on our big Muslim community, but young singles don't interact much," Tarek said. "Isn't it strange that one friend of mine got married to a girl from Canada, and the other got married to a girl from the UK?"
Kahf acknowledges the absence of a social forum in current times.
"Traditionally, there was a forum facilitated through mothers, sisters, cousins, friends of the family, and was conducted in a healthy environment," Kahf says. "Many men here don't have such connections. Even a young college student who attends the MSA or a masjid once a week still does not find a healthy medium to find the potential wife."
Amazingly, one of the biggest complaints among Muslim women and men is finding quality within the quantity of available candidates for marriage. As one anonymous Muslim male puts it,
"Lots of times I felt like there were too few sisters to marry. The same four or five sisters would get recommended to me all the time. Sisters complain there are too few brothers, but I know so many brothers who want to get married. There are a lot of good sisters and brothers out there, but for whatever reason they're not connecting."
The lack of a social forum may be the biggest hurdle Muslims in America have to jump. Webb places the bulk of the responsibility of creating a forum on the current generation.
"I'm not thinking about finding a wife; your generation is living that narrative," Webb says. "Come up with ideas on how to find a spouse, and then ask community leaders, 'Can we do this?' These things need to be covered by the younger community, but with guidance from pastoral scholarly figures."
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
With all the challenges facing young men and women in their pursuit of a spouse, Nasreen Khan of Irvine understands the sheer importance of her role. Khan has been serving as a matchmaker for the Muslim community for more than 30 years
"There are girls and boys who may be suitable for each other, but they may not be aware so 'someone' has to introduce them," she says.
Fielding an average of four to five calls a month, Khan sees a trend among parents' requests: "Most parents want doctors, engineers, lawyers or computer experts who have very high incomes," Khan says. "The girls mostly want someone tall, handsome, good looking, or guys with charisma."
Khan is also dismayed at the worldly attitude towards marriage. In her experience, parents are the ones demanding more, thereby limiting the already waning spousal pool for their children. For example, according to Khan, about 90% of parents want their daughters to marry within the same culture, even though the girls themselves hardly care where the young man comes from.
In addition to maintaining that a potential spouse come from the same culture, parents make the process of finding a mate difficult for their children by "having extremely high worldly standards, not giving importance to religion and character, not willing to marry their children until they complete college, and refusing to accept the choice of their children," says Khan.
Khan estimates that 10% of couples she introduced to each other resulted in marriage. While that may seem like a small number, Khan reveals that many men and women reject proposals based on astonishingly trivial matters. For example, one girl refused an otherwise wonderful proposal because the boy was not tall enough. In another instance, a boy's mother refused a girl because her complexion was too dark.
"Most people perceive marriage to be just a social obligation rather than a religious one," Khan says. "I feel that our girls and boys, as well as their parents, need to be more aware and educated about the status of marriage in Islam, and take it seriously."
The long road ahead
Webb emphasizes that after identifying the problem, the Muslim community must make a joint effort to move into the solution phase.
"Our community has become indicters instead of inviters," he says. "If you look at any problem in the life of the Prophet, there was always a communal solution to a problem. We need to function in that way of a support group."
"Rhetoric has to be created by active people in our communities," Webb continues. "We can't give one khutbah or speech and expect a solution. We need opportunities like workshops or town halls that, for example, enlighten parents how difficult it is to get married."
Little doubt remains that many "good" Muslim men and women exist, but the obstacles involved in finding Mr. or Mrs. Right currently seem insurmountable.
Between pressure to marry within a specific nationality and parents who require their future son-in-law to have a certain salary, Muslims — especially American Muslims — face a long road ahead.
* Names have been changed.
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Feb. 15, 2009, 11:49 AM »
Interesting article. There are many elements in this that i have experienced personally too.
That said, i knew the "Catch a fish in the sea" book had to have some sort of marketing drive to it.
Nasreen Khan is the author of that book, and here she is touting herself as the matchmaking expert.
Anyway, im going to posting a thread in this forum a little later today.
Would be nice to have a healthy debate in response to that.
Watch this space
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Feb. 15, 2009, 01:36 PM »
i totally agree,
but that dude wants to get married becuase he fears commiting sin, at least he recognises it. but then again that shows me and tells me he is a weak man. and what women wants to marry a man who is weak in his deen? not me thats for sure.
you cant really use that excuse alone "im afraid i might commit sin" becuase ok you are married and you'r human desires are beign satisfied, now what?? what about the other aspects of marriage? have he thought about them? upholding his duties as a man, as a husband and as a father? is he ready for kids? will he be a good fatehr teach them islam correctly? the asnwer is most likely no, he is so caught up with the idea of marriage beign a way to prevent sin that he hasnt thought about the other aspects, and what qualities to seek in a women.
Most mens criteria is, beautiful, slim, angelina joli look alike, can cook. islam and her deen, or character are usual found at the very bottom of the list. like that dude said when he see's a beautiful sister. why doesnt he look for normal sisters... we are all not drop dead gorgeous, some of us are average joes. but no men look at us becuase we dont fullfill their first criteria on the list.. being beautiful. perhaps if they rearange thier list they will find the perfect women. i dont feel sorry for these guys they do bring it upon themselves by looking for the wrong things in a women. its really that simple. i know sooo many sisters who are single and looking, they are strong in thier deen, happy and so kind, but they lack looks from what the western standards say, but i think they are naturally beautiful, they dont wear makeup or pluck thier eye brows they are natural what you get it was you see. but they are having a hard time finding a brother becuase brothers want to marry a model and looks is always number one. typical shallow men, they dont deserve these sisters they are too good for them
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Feb. 15, 2009, 09:52 PM »
I think it's kind of unfair to criticize brothers for their reasons in looking to get married. They do have needs whether these are physical, mental or spiritual. It is our nature as human beings to want a close relationship with someone of the opposite sex. Sure no sister is going to come out and say she has physical needs, but I'm sure it's there too a long with all the things attached to that. And we do have to admit the physical is extremely emphasized to bros especially living in western society.
Totally agree on your points about guys needing to rearrange their priorities!! If they did that my goodness we'd definitely have a very different marriage scene. But if even "good religious" guys are looking for angelina jolie I don't know what's going to happen to our ummah...
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And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
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Still in existence but converted in 2006 as a live performance venue.
Dillinger was shot there but he went to that theater because it was a hot night and the theater was air conditioned.
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In a calculated response to Baby Boomers reaching the age of 65, Glen Borkowski said the folks at the National Association of Home Builders decided to doff their caps in tribute by a launching a new training program for residential remodelers across America.
Borkowski, president of DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen in Orland Park, is a recent graduate of the Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist program (CAPS). One of his niche jobs involves modifying bathrooms for homeowners looking to stay put in their Golden Years.
He offers these suggestions to seniors looking to avoid making an unwanted trip to the nursing home:
1. Get rid of your bathtub.
"Eighty percent of all home accidents occur in the bathroom," Borkowski said. "If you slip and fall, is there anywhere soft to land in a bathroom? No. Do you use the tub? Would it make sense to put in a large, walk-in shower?"
2. Install support bars and grab bars in the bathroom. Don't fall victim to denial. You need those bars. Many new models are both stylish and functional.
"Many people have seen only the old, clunky stainless steel products," Borkowski said. "They don't want something that comes with a stigma attached to it—my house looks like a nursing home. That's where the industry has come a long way in the last 10 years. If you can show them products that are practical and more attractive, now you've got something."
3. Go with comfort-height toilets. Ease your pain. Are you knees weak? Does your back ache?
Typically, these toilets are raised 2-3 inches above old, standard models, Borkowski said. A little adjustment can make a big difference.
"They're easier getting on and off and easier on your back," he said.
4. Raise the height of vanity. You've heard the old saying, "Bigger is better." Well, here raising the roof is safer and more friendly way to accommodate an aging body.
"We always recommend raising these up a couple inches," Borkowski said. "Again, it just makes sense. You don't have to bend as much or strain yourself just to brush your teeth."
5. Lighting. The word here: You can't see the light until you add a light (bulb).
"This is a big deal," Borkowski said. "Every decade we age, starting at about 40, we need twice as much light to see the same things effectively. We put in lots of layers of lighting."


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I'm old school. I'm stubborn and I don't follow trends when it comes to parenting. We don't watch TV during the school week, we don't sit on the computer and play mindless games and there are no hats, cell phones or bad manners at our dinner table. So when my friends started asking me how much allowance I give my elementary school aged children I laughed, out loud. Why in the world would I pay my children to do the things needed to sustain the house they live in?
I did some research on the topic and it turns out, much to my surprise that there are a host of "professionals" that believe children should be paid, for example, 50 cents per week for each year of age. In this scenario my 7-year-old would get $3.50 per week. Others have suggested a dollar per week for each year of the child, in which case my 7-year-old would receive $7.00 per week. That works out to be $364 per year for my 7-year-old. $364.00 per year for what: vacuuming, dusting, cleaning their room, taking out the trash, setting the table?
This strikes me as utterly insane. Paying a child to keep up the house they live in is in my opinion nuts. Also, if you pay a child for doing chores they may come to expect to be paid every time they clear the table or bring in the trash cans from the curb. I think these things should be a condition of living in the house. These are the things we all do to be good citizens.
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A jewelry store owner says he was robbed of $100,000 in diamonds after he was distracted by who he believed was a customer. NBC10's Rosemary Connors speaks to the owner.
Police are on the hunt for thieves who they say stole over $100,000 worth of diamonds from a jewelry store in Mercer County, N.J.
Robert Tindall, owner of Tindall Diamonds and Jewelry on Washington Boulevard in Robbinsville Township, told NBC10 that a man came into his store by himself shortly before 6 p.m. Tindall says the man wanted to see an assortment of loose diamonds.
About 10 minutes later, Tindall says a man and a woman showed up who wanted to see some jewelry as well.
"She even said to me, when she wanted to look at earrings if I could put it on her ear," Tindall said. "I told her 'no' and that I wasn't comfortable doing that."
As the woman spoke with him, Tindall says the other two men swiped the box of loose diamonds, worth over $100,000. The three suspects then rushed out of the store.
"I knew something was stolen," Tindall said. "I rushed out and they almost peeled out without the gal. She started screaming and then they stopped and let her in the car."
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The first exhibition spaces created solely for screening films were known as Nickelodeon theatres.
From 1905 until around 1915, these small storefronts converted into theaters, charged five cents to see a film. Hence the "nickel" in Nickelodeon.
What's most interesting for us locally is that one of the first true Nickelodeon theatres was located on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh or, at the time, Pittsburg.
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According to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Nickelodeon was opened in 1905 by Harry Davis and John P. Harris.
It was open from 8 a.m. until midnight and welcomed around 7,000 spectators a day. There were no scheduled showtimes, customers would just line up, wait for the current show to end, and then enter the seating space as the previous spectators were escorted out.
Using the figure of 7,000 customers, that means the theater made approximately $350 a day. I'm sure that was an impressive figure for the early 1900s.
Seeing the success of the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street, others naturally decided to open their own small theaters, which led to Nickelodeons on every corner in the city. Their great success, in some ways, led to their disappearance. More and more people were attending the theaters, which necessitated bigger spaces. Small storefront Nickelodeons closed and large movie theaters, similar to what we are familiar with today, opened.
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