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Assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
I would like to know whether ordinary people like us with very little knowledge of Qur'an (like reciting) can learn Qur'an (i.e.reciting) from great imams like Saud Shuraim and Abdulrahman al Sudais
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
There are many great teachers of the Qur'an in the world with very high chains of transmission from the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah upon him and with great knowledge of the Qur'an. The honorable Sheikhs Shuraim and Sudais have degrees in specialized fields of fiqh and Islamic studies and do not specialize in teaching Qur'an. They are very visible to the Muslim nation since they are imams of the Holy Mosque in Mekkah, but they have great knowledge in many fields besides recitation. For example, Sheikh Shuraim is a judge on the judicial court in Mekkah.
The important first step for you or anyone striving to recite the Qur'an correctly is to find a qualified teacher in your area to help correct your recitation. As you improve and move up in understanding and applying tajweed in your recitation and have learned all there is to learn from the teacher in your location, you may consider traveling to learn more.
The most important thing as you improve your recitation and come closer to mastery is finding a sheikh with a high sanad (chain of transmission) and known for his/her mastery of recitation and tajweed.
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Island County is in the process of securing property in Oak Harbor for a regional crisis stabilization center and affordable housing complex.
The board of commissioners voted unanimously to purchase the seven-acre parcel located on North Oak Harbor Street.
The $1.1 million for the property came from the county's homeless fund and mental health sales taxes.
Another $4 million for construction of the center will be requested from the state's capital budget.
"[Rep.] Norma Smith is our champion of capital funding," said Commissioner Jill Johnson.
IF THE capital funding is secured, the North Sound Behavioral Health Organization will fund the operations of the facility. The county currently plans to use the front acre to build a center with between 6 and 10 beds that could be expanded to up to 16 beds, which is the maximum capacity allowed to receive Medicaid reimbursements.
The center would serve Island, San Juan and Skagit counties with mental health and chemical dependency crisis services.
Individuals could be only be voluntarily admitted and would receive temporary care.
"It's for people who are feeling they are in some sort of crisis…they feel they need to go somewhere where they're safe for a couple of days," said Jackie Henderson, director of Island County Human Services.
The maximum stay would likely be about two weeks, and care would include a discharge plan, she said.
The remaining six acres would be used for supportive housing for income-eligible individuals. The property is close to existing services such as Sea Mar, which provides chemical dependency services, and Compass Health, which provides mental health treatment. There is also a bus line and potential employment opportunities nearby.
"It's just the perfect spot,"said Johnson.
THE SALE of the property won't be complete until the feasibility studies are finished in January. Starting at the beginning of next year, the county will begin public outreach regarding the project.
"Just so nobody feels surprised and to address concerns, if there are any," said Johnson.
She said no one should be concerned about the safety of living near the facility because the individuals who would be served are already in the community but without access to the treatment and services they need. With this center, they will receive care instead of ending up on the street or in jail.
"I don't live here, but I would live here," she said.
She said the county will continue outreach as the project expands, and public input will factor into the decision about which type of supportive housing would best meet community needs. Johnson named veterans assistance and supportive recovery for mental health or chemical dependency as potential options.
"It's not that you just construct it and walk away, all these types of housing come with treatment," said Johnson.
ALL OF the services provided would be steps in the recovery process, but none of them would be intended to be permanent, she said. The goal would be to help people become as independent as possible.
The county will own the property and building, but will hire an outside behavioral health organization to operate the facilities. However, there are still a significant number of hurdles to overcome before groundbreaking can occur. Johnson said that, while she's excited about the project, she's still hesitant to get her hopes up too much.
Talks for a center like this began with Skagit and San Juan counties about four years ago. Originally, the idea was to have the facility near Sedro-Woolley, but Skagit county officials had been unsuccessful in finding a suitable property. Because of the lack of availability there, Johnson started looking in the Oak Harbor area.
Johnson credits Skagit County Commissioner Ken Dalstedt with keeping the project idea alive over the years, and the county is excited about the property she found instead.
"I don't know if it will get any better than this if we pull this off," she said.
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Sandia National Labs and its critics disagree over the danger posed by a toxic landfill to Albuquerque's drinking water
Think twice before drinking from your tap. According to recent studies by Sandia National Laboratories, 13 organic carcinogenic compounds have been detected in two monitoring wells in or near the labs' Mixed Waste Landfill, located near Kirtland Airforce Base. It's a discovery that doesn't sit well with local government watchdog group Citizen Action, who believes the contaminants could pose a health risk for Albuquerqueans.
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Irate citizens hurled verbal pitchforks at the administration and City Council during the Nov. 20 Council meeting.
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When we last rode the Trolley Named Folly, Mayor Martin Chavez and City Council President Martin Heinrich hit us with a massive tax increase to pay for a $270 million streetcar line along Central ["The Streetcar Railroad," Nov. 23-29]. But they weren't able to slip this massive project by without the public taking notice. So now they've promised to let us vote on it [read this week's "Council Bite" on page 8 for more details]. How considerate of them.
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I'm the last guy to stand up for Wal-Mart. Sure, they sell stuff cheap, but it's because they pay substandard wages, offer few full-time jobs, stiff employees on health insurance and force suppliers to sell below market or lose huge contracts. But I have to admit, I feel sorry for them for the grief they're getting from the radical Christian right over the company's ties to gay and lesbian groups.
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Dateline: England--Dedicated James Bond fan David Fearn has legally changed his name to all 21 official 007 film titles. The 23-year-old from Walsall, Stratfordshire, is now known as "James Dr. No From Russia With Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty's Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live And Let Die The Man With The Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View To A Kill The Living Daylights License To Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond." The 69-word name is the longest in the UK Deed Poll Service's history.
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Peter Taylor has not ruled out a promotion challenge after Bradford clinched only their third league win of the season over the weekend at Barnet.
The Bantams manager was under considerable pressure before taking his squad south. City had slipped to second from bottom in the table with one victory in eight matches, while the 2-0 win at Underhill was their first away success in the league this season.
Taylor said: "I've said to the players I'm looking for promotion not relegation and I still think we're very capable of kicking on."
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Lembeh Straits threatened
Posted 19 May 2006 - 09:21 AM
Thanks to Stephen Clark for initially publishing the link on diver.net
Pollution disputes muddy waters in North Sulawesi
by Jakarta Post
5th December 2005
Pollution disputes muddy the waters in N. Sulawesi Tb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta.
Alleged pollution in Buyat Bay has not been settled yet, but North Sulawesi has yet again become embroiled in an environmental dispute with a mining company.
A group of Rinondoran Bay residents are holding a week-long "road show" in Jakarta to protest the operations of British gold mining firm PT Meares Soputan Mining (MSM) on fears that it would pollute waters in the province.
"The company will dispose of their waste into the water. We're afraid it will threaten our health and our lives," said Hitsel Kasamu, one of the residents. Hitsel is the coordinator of the People's Alliance against Mining Waste.
About 10 Rinondoran Bay residents relayed their concerns to the National Commission on Human Rights, the House of Representatives, the Regional Representative Council, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Office of State Minister of Environment, the Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries and the British Embassy.
They claim to have received support from 10,000 residents who oppose the planned disposal method.
Hitsel said the residents have learned from the Buyat Bay case, which implicates U.S.-owned PT Newmont Minahasa Raya.
"The Newmont case shows that submarine tailing disposal (STD) will endanger our waters. Buyat people suffered illnesses that we are not familiar with. We don't want to follow suit," Hitsel said.
Rinondoran Bay is divided between North Minahasa regency and Bitung municipality. It is located some 200 kilometres from Buyat Bay.
The Anti-Mining Network (Jatam) estimated that MSM would dump 1.2 million to 1.7 million tons of waste onto the Rinondoran seabed.
"It would pile up six million to eight million tons of waste at the end of their five-year operation," Jatam coordinator Siti Maimunah said recently.
Ros Masedung, a resident of Batu Putih village in Bitung, said that most of some 36,000 people living around the bay were fishermen, who produced 4,000 to 5,000 tons of fish per month.
"If the waste pollutes the sea, I'm sure our catch will decrease and fishermen will lose their jobs," she said.
She also warned that mining waste would harm the rich biodiversity of Lembeh Strait, which has 25 diving sites.
A diving website says that the collection of fish at the strait include Ambon scorpion fish (Pteroidichthys amboinensis), stonefish, sea robins, stargazers, devil fish and even the weedy scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa), as well as at least seven different species of seahorses, pegasus, ghost pipefish and the endemic Banggai cardinalfish.
State Minister of Environment Rachmat Witoelar cautiously responded to the case.
"We will carefully study the case. We'll find out whether there are alternatives for tailings disposal other than STD," he said.
At present, only PT Newmont Minahasa Raya and PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara have obtained permits to apply STD.
MSM director Peter Brown dismissed residents' fear, saying STD was the best solution his company could find to dispose of its cyanide waste.
"We have studied other options such as land tailings, but geographically it doesn't suit Rinondoran soil. Moreover, it will be more costly because we have to prepare enough land area to bury the waste," he said.
Brown said the waste would be dumped at 150 meters below the surface and would settle at 800 to 1,200 meters.
He said before the government decided anything, MSM would go on with the project.
"We have the contract that allows us to extract the site. So, in the meantime we don't see any reason why we have to stop doing what we are doing now," he said, adding that currently MSM was constructing the mining sites.
MSM is owned by British-based Archipelago Resources and Austindo, and have invested about US$300 million in the country. The firm controls over 741,000 hectares of mining concessions in North Minahasa and Bitung that is estimated to produce 162,000 ounces of gold every year.
Posted 19 May 2006 - 10:26 AM
Rachmat Witoelar
Minister of Environment Indonesia
Jl. D.I. Panjaitan, Kebon Nanas, Jakarta 13410
E-mail: email@example.com
They've already screwed up alot with the mining from Newmont. Hopefully we will have an effect on the outcome of this struggle, which btw has already started since that article was published.
I'm sure many photogs here on wetpixel have been to North Sulawesi and understand the beauty and uniqueness of the place. So I hope we can help sway the Indonesian government from basically poisonning the water we'd be diving in, killing off the sealife and even the divers health would be endangered.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 19 May 2006 - 11:38 AM
email address is wrong; is there a typo?
And of course the person to write to about this is:
Rachmat Witoelar
Minister of Environment Indonesia
Jl. D.I. Panjaitan, Kebon Nanas, Jakarta 13410
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:52 PM
That's why I left, not very good for ones health.
Idiots... <_<
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Posted 19 May 2006 - 06:03 PM
Posted 20 May 2006 - 06:33 AM
I did some cursory Google enquiries to find some information, which I have included below, either quoted or linked with their original sources.
A good article (translated from Bahase Indesia) is here :
The article has some maps and pictures.
The name of the game is "submarine tailings disposal (STD)".
So here we have another meaning for STD that too is pretty nasty and worth fighting ;-)
The article mentions the company "Archipelago Resources PLC".
Here's the connection:
The majority shareholder in PT MSM was the Australian company, Aurora Gold. ...
Bad management brought Aurora Gold to bankruptcy and PT IMK was bought by Strait Resources-Australia. Toka Tindung was purchased by UK-registered Archipelago Resources in February 2002.
It goes on to say, that
Archipelago is a small mining company with an address in England, whose shares are owned by Australian businessmen....
MBendi lists the UK-based address :
Archipelago Resources
Tel: +44 20 7332-2070
Office Address:
190 Strand
United Kingdom
At Yahoo! Finance an Australian address is given:
Archipelago Resources PLC
Contact Information
Address: 17 Strome Rd. Applecross, Perth 6153, Australia
Phone: +61-00-618-9364-8301
Fax: +61-00-618-9316-3819
Its activites are described thus:
Archipelago Resources is engaged in the exploration and production of gold and other base metals. The company's primary holding is an 85% interest in the Toka Tindung Gold project (acquired in 2002) located in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Toka Tindung is expected produce 160,000 ounces of gold annually once it begins production in 2006. It has an estimated resource of 1.75 million ounces of gold. Archipelago Resources also explores for gold in Vietnam and the Philippines. The UK-based investment firm Ocean Resources Capital holds a 33% stake in the company.
The key people are
Managing Director: J. Colin Loosemore
Finance Director: Barry J. Casson
So it seems that it's these people we need to write to.
Mr Loosemore seems to have a longstanding interest in mining. He founded the Elkedra company, was its chairman many years, but resigned from Elkedra on 8.6.2004 (receiving a huge final payoff).
Elkedra has confined its interests to diamond projects in Australia and Brazil.
After his resignation he presumably started up Archipelago.
Found this at FinanzNachrichten.de
It seems banks never ask twice how business is conducted, as soon as it has a prospect of making money. With soaring gold prices, the prospects are very good indeed. So good in fact, that expired environmental permits may not be a good enough reason to stop this project.
Archipelago in May secured a 35 mln usd loan from NM Rothschild&Sons to finance the Indonesian project.
Indonesia is THE most corrupt country I have ever been to (lived there for 2 years at one time). (Never been to Nigeria, apparently that's worse there).
KKN (Korrupsi, Kolusi, Nepotismi) a great invention when you want to get things done with no questions asked.
With so much money behind the Toka Tindung project, we should all book our Lembeh holidays now and takes lots of pictures for posterity.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's volleyball team lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to Limestone College on Tuesday (Mar. 26) in the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium.
The Saints took control of the first set 25-17, but the Cobras came from behind to take sets two and three with scores of 25-23 and 26-24. Limestone would end up winning a nail bitter in the fourth set 25-23 to tie the match at 2-2, and then went on to win the fifth and final set by a score of 15-10.
Jared Geizer led the competition with 15 kills, while leading the team with two blocks. Luke Hansen was close behind with 13, while Ricardo Ferrer and James Joseph had nine kills each. Ricardo Ferrer lead the team with 44 assists along with two service aces. Ferrer leads that nation in service aces per set with an average of 0.59. Cooper Lyon had a team high 10 digs, and was second on the team with five assist.
As a team, the navy and yellow landed 61 kills, along with 56 assists, 34 digs, and four blocked shots.
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Hey, that's the name of the band!
Obvious self-reference not permitted.
(Hey, that's the name of the band!)
- funkycow and ethricdouble this'd this
Songs where the lyrics
Contain the name of the band. But not when they're actually talking about the band itself. Lyrics quoted (in caps) from Pornography by The Cure.
The The - This Is THE Day
"you were watching THE whites of your eyes turn red"
TheLoui_Tacceh and ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
My Dying Bride - Return to the Beautiful
"My Dying Bride
Through a rain of tears
The pity I fashion"
God - Fucked
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"And I got bored when I didn't have a band
So I started a band, man
We're gonna start it with a positive jam
Hold steady!"
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"That's when she said that we should do this all over
She wipes the blood from her mouth with her shoulder
Said, "I just need a little diet cola, or maybe just a little lifter puller.""
seems like a fairly clear self-reference
there are fewer examples of this than you'd think
All you do to me is talk talk
talk talk talk talk
all you do to me is talk talk
talk talk talk talk
all you do to me is talk talk
Oh wow, the word 'talk' looks really weird to me now
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The Cult - Sun King
Let me tell you people
Now, listen good
City crawling like a tired dog, yeah
Cult children in the house of the dawn, yeah
To be honest I cheated and looked that up assuming that they would mention the word "Cult" at some point. Also I hear it as "occult," which makes more sense, but lyrics sites have it as "cult" so who am I to argue!
InMe have a field day with this one.
Ensturzende Neubauten's "Ende Neu" is pretty clever, really.
Rammstein milk it for all it's worth, too.
show me a word that rhymes with Pavement
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Hot Chip will break your legs
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Hot Chip will put you down
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Australian Gov't Chooses 'Consumer Advocate' For Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings: The Chairman Of The Copyright Council
from the um... dept
The group has an active role in influencing copyright policy in Australia, and this role sees it advocate strongly for the rights of the creative industries. For example, in a submission to the Federal Government's Convergence Review earlier this year, the Copyright Council argued that under proposed changes to Australia's Safe Harbour scheme, it was an important element that Australian Internet service providers should "adopt and reasonably implement policies to avoid liability for authorisation" of copyright infringement, "including termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the accounts of repeat infringers".That certainly raises significant questions about just how focused this group really is on consumers' best interests, rather than the legacy entertainment industry's best interests. The report at Delimiter notes that this guy, law professor Michael Fraser, has been involved in multiple other copyright-related issues, including running a copyright collection society:
Fraser also has an extensive background in copyright protection in general in Australia. He has been a director of the Australian Copyright Council since 2001, and was also a founder and CEO of the Copyright Agency Limited for 21 years. CAL is an organisation which seeks to collect copyright fees and royalties for copyright holders in Australia, including journalists (disclosure: Delimiter publisher Renai LeMay has received fees from CAL for re-prints of articles he wrote when employed by the Australian Financial Review).It's pretty cynical for the Australian government -- and others involved in these secret meetings -- to position themselves as being more open to "consumer advocates" when this is what they end up with. As Delimiter notes:
It's hard to see what bigger conflict of interest there could be in these talks, than for the chair of the consumer group attending the talks to also be representing the creative industries, and I feel very strongly that Michael Fraser must recuse himself immediately from attending the talks held by the Attorney-General's Department.Of all the possible groups representing consumer interests, the government just so happens to choose this one?
Fraser's defence in this case would no doubt be that he is attending the talks in his role as director of UTS' Communications Law Centre. However, it is my strong personal opinion that that it is impossible to separate Fraser's role at UTS from his other roles chairing both the Australian Copyright Council and ACCAN. This is the same person, after all.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- ARX (Algorithmic Research), provider of the leading CoSign[R] digital signature solution, has joined forces with Fastman, a leading provider of solutions and services for the OpenText ECM Suite, to create the CoSign connector for OpenText.
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by Eli Katz » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:25 pmI thought Immonen's work on USM was flawless.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:27 pmDid not see it, but generally everyone likes Immonen more than I do. Which isn't to say I don't like his work.
by Punchy » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:28 pmImmonen is the best artist to have worked on New Avengers as well, I think he really clicks well with Bendis.
by ****** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:25 pm
Yu was a better fit on the book while he was on it.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:43 pmLooking forward to S.P.A.C.E. small press comics expo this weekend but I was wondering where some names I usually see were, turns out some people who set up there regularly did C2E2 this year instead, which makes sense.
Still a lot of good talented people though:
by Eric Ratcliffe » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:12 pmCouldn't get my hands on a copy.
by ****** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:16 pm
Define "copy"?
I've had a "copy" since Thursday.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:23 pmUCUSM #155
Sporting one of the most misleading covers of all time, this book's true contents just seemed to meander all over the place in a ham-fisted display of giving Peter Parker everything he's ever wanted before--and we all know it's coming--pulling out the rug from under him next issue most likely. Maybe even killing him, I dunno. Everybody's doing it to boost sales these days it seems, from Brubaker to Hickman, and Bendis seems ready to follow suit. I admit one of my favorite things about the old Ultimate Spider-Man book was his rogue's gallery reinvented, so all of this internal monologue and talking left much to be desired as far as I'm concerned. There were some nice bits in JJJ talk but I wouldn't want to read a whole comic about it--the 10 or so pages were more than enough.
On to the art. I liked Samnee's backgrounds and layouts for the most part but not his Peter Parker or some of the more cartoon-y extras. That was Bobby Drake? From Ultimate X-Men? Peter is exaggerated as so scrawny and small of frame when out of costume that he doesn't look much older than Franklin or Valeria in 616 FF. It's done for effect, okay but I would say it's overdone for effect here. The linework in some of the faces seems heavy as well.
Next time I'd ask Marvel not to tease the Sinister Six on the cover and then give me four morons on roller-blades on the inside. Subtract a point from what would have been my score for that, making this a:
by Eric Ratcliffe » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:25 pm
PM me would you? I'm having trouble with the "sources" I usually use to stay with the review group.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:39 pmUltimate spiderman #155
I liked this issue, a lot. I haven't read the book since the mysterio arc sadly and it's great to return to see how Peter and his world haven't really changed too much. I think this is Bendis at his best, especially how he writes the scene between Peter and Jonah. There really is a lot to like about this issue.
I really hope they don't kill Peter, but with the way they ended it here it seems like it will really happen. Also who the hell is the blond at the end? Not Gwen, the other one?
Over all: 8
by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:07 am
Sue Storm
by fieldy snuts » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:36 amOK, time to finally get to this. First off, the cover truly is misleading as we got no Sinister Six anywhere. The last page of #154 that hyped this cover truly did make it seem like the Sinister Six would appear.....I'd have even been cool with a flashback. We didn't get anything though.
The moment of the book definitely goes to he conversation with J Jonah Jameson. This version seems to be a more toned down, rational version of his 616 character that is able to admit when he's wrong. We've seen this side in 616 Jonah before but mostly in a rare private thought. This direction holds a ton of potential for the future, then I remember that this is leading up to a Death of Spider-Man event =/
That's what the rest of the issue feels like too. The way Peter reconciled with Kitty Pryde after effortlessly schooling Ultimate Rocker Racer, met up with everyone for a birthday party and professing his love for Kitty feels like everything is falling into place right before he bites the big one. While Bendis sometimes lets too much dialog choke up a book this was far from the case here and the book most definitely benefited from all these character moments.
Earlier in this RG thread I also see a debate has arisen that MJ and Pete were making babies. Don't see enough about that and I reckon a lot of you guys are trying to relate this moment with the Teen Titans Infinite Crisis special where Superboy banged Wonder Girl and died a week later in IC #6. The way he made a big deal about trying to win her back made it pretty clear that they were commenting about the kiss and where that stands between them. The day The Great One tries to ape a Geoff Johns moment is the day the world ends. Utter blasphemy.
Now onto the art. I liked Samnee's art in the Siege: Embedded mini and feel he stepped up further here. His art is pleasant on the eyes and while I had no problem with LaFuente like others here did it was refreshing not to see anime eyes in the book. The way I feel about Bagley's return next however is mixed. He left the book doing some pretty sweet work in the Warriors arc but I could not get into his recent DC stuff at all. We'll see if a return to this title changes my opinion.
Overall the book felt like it was tying all loose ends into one happy setting for Peter Parker, who has been to hell and back and left somewhere in-between for the entire Ultimate Spider-Man book. Either this will lead up to a Big-Time era for the character or Marvel truly is going to off the character which goes hand-in-hand with the feeling of closure I've gotten. Whatever the case, it's been a hell of a #155 issue ride with many highs and lows that I've enjoyed for over 10 years.
My score:
Story: 8.5
Art: 7.5
Overall: 8.0
by fieldy snuts » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:37 amWhen I started typing that I thought it'd barely crack 2 short paragraphs lol
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:59 amSupes-loving bastards!
How many times are you going to pay to read the same thing over and over?
(although the thing with JJJ was kinda novel)
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Today's post is a bit of a Board's Eye View swan song, as I am embarking on two new projects that take me off "the board" as they widen my "view" considerably. I will be helping David Steiner, dean of education at Hunter College and former New York State commissioner of education, establish a new Institute for Education Policy at City University of New York. We hope to make the Institute an important forum for issues facing K-20 urban education. I will also be helping Ann Tisch, founder and chair of The Young Women's Leadership Network, create a new and innovative curriculum for urban high school students. This too will be an exciting project, designed to bring essential twenty-first-century skills to our urban students.
What I hope to bring to both endeavors are some of the insights gleaned while serving on my small public district's board of education and writing for the last twenty-five months (this is my 400th blog post for Fordham, but who's counting?) about school governance...
The lessons of school board service do not quickly dissipate. My feelings about BOE service are similar to those of the new Bridging Differences interlocutory Pedro Noguera (taking Diane Ravitch's...
A knockout story in The Atlantic by education journalist Peg Tyre describes the wonderful turnaround of a Staten Island high school that the turnarounders attribute to a writing program. Yes, that's right, writing.
This comes at a time when there is some debate about the Common Core English language arts standards (see here and here, as well as The Atlantic profile of David Coleman, and just about anything our Common Core guru Kathleen Porter-Magee has written) and the first contracts awarded by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (known, mercifully, as PARCC) to write the ELA tests for the Common Core.
Tyre, who is the author of The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve and The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents & Educators Must Do, has a great grasp of these issues and tells us that the writing program increased pass rates for the English Regents exam from 67 percent to 89 percent and global history from 64 to 75 in just two years. It is the latter bump that...
It may not be a coincidence that the most valuable modern painting is Edvard Munch's The Scream and that new research suggests that the most effective merit-pay system is the threat of—Aaaaaah!!!—no pay.
Jay Greene takes on the issue in a wonderfully sassy post this morning headlined "In Chicago—Phony Merit Pay is Dead, Long Live True Merit Pay." He recognizes that the ink isn't dry on the deal hammered out between the Chicago Public Schools and the striking Chicago Teachers Union, but he suggests that it was a blessing (in disguise?) that CPS gave up on its attempt at "differentiated compensation" but retained the right to open new charter schools. As Greene argues, the former is "phony" merit pay and the latter is "true" merit pay:
I can't get enough of the Chicago teachers' union strike. Leave it to the Windy City to provide educators and education pundits with drama worthy of a reality TV series: interesting protagonists, things to fight over, edge-of-your-seat drama.
We thought it would be over in time to open schools this morning. But a 3 a.m. email blast from Whitney Tilson had the bad news:
Tilson said his "first thought" was sympathy for the parents and children. But his second thought?
Update: The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract which would allow classes to resume on Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports.
It's a testament to how peaceful labor relations have been in our schools that the Chicago Teachers Union strike has been front-page and prime-time news since Monday. A national Rorschach test on education: Everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Mother Jones weighed in. Like the guillotine, the strike focused the national mind.
The strike could be over soon—and many commentators predicted as much—but no matter when it ends, it offers us a chance to take the nation's pulse. And the following is a quick roundup of opinion from a few of our notable educators, pundits, and editorial writers; much of it quite good.
First stop, of course, should be the Flypaper's comprehensive list of stories, put together by a crackerjack team—Joe Portnoy, Pamela Tatz, and Ty Eberhardt. (As a former newsdesk guy, I can feel their pain—worth it, though, as the site proves.) And, of course, one of the best leads comes from our own Mike Petrilli:
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In a September 5, 2012, issue of the Portland [Oregon] Tribune an article titled "Schools beat the drum for equity" is nominally about equity in education but could just as easily be a story about the racial inequities of peanut-butter sandwiches and noontime drum classes for black and Latino boys.
Peanut-butter sandwiches are racist, the story explains, because not all cultures have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their food pyramid; specifically, the Somali and Hispanic cultures. The noontime drum classes are racist because they are targeted to black and Latino boys even though the principal says no one has been turned away, irate parents' comments to the contrary.
The principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland is the real focus of the article. Verenice Guiterrez is working hard to make sure that there is equity in education in her school and to improve education for students of color. She is doing so by following the guidelines of the Portland Public Schools, specifically of a program designed by consultant Glenn Singleton to eliminate racial educational disparity...
The teachers say they want more job protection and more money. The school-board president said there's "only so much money." The mayor says the teachers should have stayed at the bargaining table. And parents of Chicago public school students are left holding the bag. After weeks of negotiations, last night the Chicago Teachers Union called it quits, its president declaring, according to the Chicago Tribune, "No CTU members will be inside of our schools Monday."
Some 140 of the district's schools will remain open from 8:30 to 12:30, but without any of their 25,000 teachers, according to a CPS contingency plan. That leaves more than 500 schools empty in the nation's third-largest school district (serving over 400,000 students).
According to the Tribune,
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"We Don't Need No Education" by Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, in yesterday's New York Times is a succinct, and mostly compelling, argument for giving all our children a solid liberal arts education beyond high school.
Though I'm not sure that taking out after the "instrumentalist rhetoric" of recent reports like that of the Council on Foreign Relations (U.S. Education Reform and National Security) is appropriate, Roth is right to question those who wonder "why people destined for low-paying jobs should bother to pursue their education beyond high school, much less study philosophy, literature and history." I have written about the subject before (here, here, and here) because, as Roth argues, it's important. It's an education policy issue that, played out in the trenches, is very much a social justice issue, if not a moral one—and, I would argue, very much a national security issue. This was the point of my post on Earl Shorris's Roberto Clemente program for the poor; that the poor deserve a good education too. As Shorris wrote:
A couple of reports last week reanimated the debate about what to do with Catholic schools, which have been hemorrhaging students for the last couple of decades. The new challenge—"one of their most complex… yet," writes Sean Cavanagh in Education Week—is charter schools. One, by former RAND economist Richard Buddin, was published by the Cato Institute; the other, by Abraham Lackman, a scholar-in-residence at the Albany Law School, in Albany, New York, is not out yet, but was summarized by Cavanagh in the Ed Week story. Writes Cavanagh,
And Buddin, whose report is more broadly aimed at measuring the impact of charters on all private schools, says,
As both Adam Emerson and Kathleen Porter-Magee have already pointed out, Catholic schools were in decline long before charters came...
Perhaps it was coincidence, but New York City seems to have gotten the message of the Civil Rights Project (CRP) about discipline and has revised its student code of conduct to help keep kids in school. According to Al Baker in the New York Times students
This is great news, but try to find that in the code of conduct, officially titled, "Citywide Standards of Intervention and Discipline Measures: The Discipline Code and Bill of Student Rightsand Responsibilities, K-12," which is an eye-popping twenty-nine pages of small print and includes sections on "Promoting Positive Student Behavior," "Progressive Discipline," "Restorative Approaches," and "Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities."
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Iva Mae Smith, 74, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.She was born May 16,1937, near Rush Center, Kan., toCalvin and Elma Kershner. She was preceded in death byher parents, one brother, Aryln, and two sons, Craig andKyle.She is survived by her husband of 54 years, MartinSmith; one granddaughter, Jagan Smith; daughter-in-law,Teresa Smith of Wister; one sister, Betty Bishop ofOklahoma City; two brothers, Duane of Roca Blanc,Mexico, and Steve of Bowling Green, Ohio.She was a beautician and owned and operated her ownsalon for 20 years. For 35 years she co-labored with herLord and Savior Jesus Christ. She served in churches, wasPast President of Western Kansas Women's Aglow, waslicensed to marry and conducted many funerals. She wrotea book, "Victory Over Grief," and a teaching syllabus,"Healing the Broken Hearted to Become Trees ofRighteousness." For 17 consecutive years she traveled toRoca Blanca to teach and counsel with students at VictoryLatin America Outreach Mission Base, founded by herbrother, Duane Kershner. She was a teacher, mentor, counselorand a spiritual mother to many. This was her life andpassion.A memorial celebration of her life will be held at 10a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Harvest Time Tabernacle,3100 Briar Cliff, Ave., Fort Smith, Ark. In lieu of flowersdonations may be made to "Victory Latin AmericanOutreach 421 1/2 E. 30th, Hutchinson, Kan. 67502.Arrangements are under the direction of Lewis FuneralChapel, Fort Smith. To place an online tribute, go to www.lewisfuneralchapel.net.


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Success Built on Trustby Richard Paige • June 30, 2014 Share:
Jared Lange '08 is all about efficiency.
The director of patient transportation for Crothall Healthcare at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, leads the support staff in being efficient, quick, and safe while moving patients from admission to discharge.
It's not just the logistics of smoothly moving a patient from surgery to rehabilitation, but finding ways to reduce the length of stay, lower the number of re-admissions, and improve patient satisfaction, thus decreasing costs for the hospital. That's no small task in a 900-bed facility.
"How we can be as lean and as quick as possible?" Lange asked. "From our recruitment to hiring to training and budgeting, we're paying attention to efficiently cutting costs."
While he had little idea that such things were an industry focus when he started in health care five years ago, it was an opportunity provided by a Wabash alumnus that opened doors for Lange.
Back in 2007, he was the first small business intern for Erik Ness '94, at Freight All Kinds, a freight brokerage firm based in Denver. Freight brokers are the bridge between farmer and seller, for example, organizing the transit in this instance from field to sales point.
One of Lange's responsibilities as an intern at Freight All Kinds was the shipping of the watermelons and cantaloupes for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores nationwide. He would negotiate the rate and ensure timely pick-up and delivery for each load, valued between $20-30,000.
Being the first such intern meant that Lange would learn as he went. To hear Ness tell it, Lange didn't have time to unpack before he was asked to move some freight.
"He walked right in and we put him to work, I believe, before he even unpacked his bags," chuckled Ness. "He had a really good sense of things. I recall that in about two weeks he was doing the work of most 25-year-olds. He was right in the middle of things."
Lange still believes the most valuable variable in those transactions was trust.
"It was the trust that an alum had with a current student," said Lange. "Erik not only trusted me, but gave me the ability to mess up, which I did at times. He said to learn from your mistakes and to always have a back-up plan. I try to pass those skills along to my employees today."
Lange credits Wabash with providing the launch pad for his success. The economics major and math minor knows that the long study sessions, critiques, and discussions that became part of the norm were the key to a bigger payoff.
"When I got out in the real world, I felt so much farther ahead of other young professionals in my ability to understand and solve problems and handle the work load," Lange said. "Wabash teaches us how to succeed."
Following his 12-week crash course in moving freight, Lange eventually turned his sights to the logistics of health care. "I thought that if I could get a piece of fruit from Arizona to New York, how difficult is it to get a patient from one floor to the next?" he chuckled, sarcastically.
He learned quickly that the process has its share of hurdles. Lange also found the connections made with patients by improving their experiences can be life affirming.
"The interaction with patients on a daily basis gives me a different perspective on life," Lange said. "I'm not doing anything clinically, obviously, but I have the ability to touch people's lives. If I, or my employees, can truly make one person's day because we care and have compassion, then it's a greater satisfaction."
Seven years after that initial internship, the connection is still paying dividends for Lange, Ness, and future Wabash Men. Lange has found success with Crothall Healthcare, while Ness, who now runs Commodity Transportation Services, currently employs six small business interns though Wabash.
"It's so cool to know that anyone who graduates from Wabash shares a connection, regardless of who you are and what you do," Lange said. "I'm grateful for Erik and people like Mike Dill '71 and Kelley House '90 for always reaching out. It makes you feel a part of something bigger than yourself. I couldn't tell you where I'd be without those connections."
The guy who helped Lange identify and pursue the small business internship, Schroeder Center for Career Development director Scott Crawford, feels there is no drawback to an internship.
"Students who complete one or more internships have a much easier time getting a job, or getting into graduate school, and are much more likely not to be pursuing their post-Wabash goals in the dark," Crawford said. "Employers often hire full-time talent directly from their intern pool, providing those students with offer options very early in their senior year. There is simply no downside to internship experiences."
Well, perhaps there is one. "I rue the day that I encouraged Jared to spread his wings and explore the world," said Ness. "I should have kept him. As a mentor, I told him to get out in the world. As a professional, I should have made him stay."
A Wabash Q&A
What is your favorite Wabash tradition?
Protecting the Bell and the interactions with alumni in that week. I also love Chapel Sing.
Success and failure are a part of life. To this point, what has been your favorite mistake?
Not taking advantage of all the opportunities I had at Wabash. In hindsight, I should have done more.
If you could cook one meal, what would it be?
I'm a regular old steak-and-potatoes guy from Indiana.
If you could give your 10-year-old self a piece of advice, what would it be?
Don't worry about others people's thoughts. Just do your own thing.
If you have a personal credo, what is it?
My father always said, "Just play hard and have fun." In the work world it's, "Do your best and have fun with it."
If in your dreams you could have created one great piece of art – painting, song, sculpture, prose, etc. – by any other person, what would it be?
I'm an econ and math guy, so…(long pause) it would have been nice to have been a part of Woodstock, on-stage with a band.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?
Smiling and helping someone else.
If you could wish for one thing in your future, what would it be?
Good health. Be grateful and live healthy.


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The Disconnect: Accountability and Consequences Online
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Do we need more editorial control on the Web? In this brief clip, the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Seagate Technology, Stephen Luczo, argues that we do. He also cautions that digital media channels sometimes unwittingly lend a gloss of credibility to some stories that don't deserve it (as was recently demonstrated in the coverage of the Boston bombing). Luczo views this as a symptom of a broader breakdown among responsibility, accountability, and consequences in the online world. Is the much-vaunted freedom of the Internet diminishing the amount of substantive feedback that we get for doing something positive--or negative--for society?
Chad Raphael, Chair of the Communication Department and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University, responds to Luczo's comments:
"It's true that the scope and speed of news circulation on the Internet worsens longstanding problems of countering misinformation and holding the sources that generate it accountable. But journalism's traditional gatekeepers were never able to do these jobs alone, as Senator Joseph McCarthy knew all too well. News organizations make their job harder with each new round of layoffs of experienced journalists.
There are new entities emerging online that can help fulfill these traditional journalistic functions, but we need to do more to connect, augment, and enshrine them in online news spaces. Some of these organizations, such as News Trust, crowdsource the problem of misinformation by enlisting many minds to review news stories and alert the public to inaccuracy and manipulation. Their greatest value may be as watchdogs who can sound the alarm on suspicious material. Other web sites, such as FactCheck.org, rely on trained professionals to evaluate political actors' claims. They can pick up tips from multiple watchdogs, some of them more partisan than others, and evaluate those tips as fair-minded judges. We need them to expand their scope beyond checking politicians to include other public actors. The judges could also use some more robust programs for tracking the spread of info-viruses back to their sources, so they can be identified and exposed quickly. We also need better ways to publicize the online judges' verdicts.
If search engines and other news aggregators aim to organize the world's information for us, it seems within their mission to let us know what sources, stories, and news organizations have been more and less accurate over time. Even more importantly, aggregators might start ranking better performing sources higher in their search results, creating a powerful economic incentive to get the story right rather than getting it first.
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Palestinian officials from the Gaza Strip have distributed a set of carefully-staged photographs they say are evidence that the smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border are for milk and other essential goods, not weapons.
The photographs show masked Palestinian militants lifting jugs of milk and sacks of baby food from the entrance to one of the tunnels on the Gaza side of the border.
Israel insists that the tunnels, of which intelligence estimates indicate there are hundreds, are used to import small arms and advanced weapons like heavy mortar shells, anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles. The tunnels are also said to be the conduit via which the Palestinians receive the material used to build their Kassam rockets.
Hamas has acknowledged Israel's position by insisting during ceasefire negotiations last month that it would not agree to halt smuggling efforts as part of the truce.
"We cannot talk about stopping smuggling because it is something beyond our ability as a government and we did not give a commitment in this regard," Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told worshippers at a Gaza City mosque on June 25 as the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire was being finalized.
Egypt, too, has never tried to claim the tunnels were for anything other than arms smuggling, and has even made a show of closing a handful of tunnels and confiscating the weapons found inside for public consumption.
Also backing up the Israeli assertion that the smuggling tunnels could only exist for nefarious purposes are weekly and sometimes daily summaries published by the Israeli government of the quantities of humanitarian aid entering the Hamas-controlled territory. The Palestinians, say Israel, have no need to smuggle essential goods into Gaza because there is no shortage.
Between 100 and 150 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Israel and international aid organizations enter Gaza on a daily basis. Out of that number, the 50 or so daily shipments that enter via Gaza's central Sufa Crossing contain milk and baby food, according to the manifests.
The Palestinians, and in particular the Hamas regime in Gaza, have been accused of manufacturing a dire humanitarian crisis to elicit international criticism of Israel. So far it has worked, as mainstream international media outlets today routinely refer to the situation in Gaza as a disaster of epic proportions. Some have even gone so far as to parrot the Palestinian line that the situation in Gaza is a "holocaust."
Hamas and its supporters were briefly called out on their lie when in April they claimed that a shortage of industrial fuel had shut down Gaza's only electrical plant and plunged the area into darkness. Israeli officials immediately pointed out that Gaza receives the vast majority of its electricity from Israel.
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She might've had good intentions, but if a friend wrongly assumes she's in the bridal party, here's a way to let her down easy (without hurting her feelings)
It's wonderful to have supportive friends — not so much when they incorrectly assume a role in your wedding. Here's one example of an embarrassing situation that needs to be addressed in a delicate way:
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It's clear that you two have lots of good friends and you are very fortunate! There are several ways out of your dilemma. The easiest, of course, is to add her to the wedding party. But if you don't want that, you can ask her to perform an honorary function at your wedding, such as reading a poem, blessing, or religious text. Explain to your friend that you have selected a special function just for her, so she would "have more to do" than just walking down the aisle — and because you trust her to fulfill her task flawlessly.
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