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Read it again Johnny - this time with your tongue in your cheek. (Hint: There was nothing subtle about it.)
on a comment on The Center over 6 years ago
on a comment on Silence from the Obama campaign over 6 years ago
Obama is running for president of Ohio, to be sure. But not just Ohio. Also, not just Democrats - he already won that part. People who advocate that Obama run farther Left at this point instead of sticking to his proven winning strategy should let the obvious proven professionals determine the way forward. No disrespect intended.
on a comment on Throwing Hillary Under the Bus. over 6 years agoOf course I will vote for the Democratic Nominee.
I agree with this 123%! Clinton supporters have been very good about not calling Obama names like 'Another Bush', but they have been intellectually honest about pointing out the nearly 100% similarities they have in common. They were called names - and they have the absolute right to hold responsible every less than discerning person who picked Obama despite his obvious unfitness and absolute ruthlessness - for that name calling. Some people accuse Clinton supporters of undermining Obama even now, but is that true? If Obama isn't ready or able to win the GE, it isn't the fault of Clinton supporters! It may actually be proof that he wasn't ready - and that those who control the Party (in cahoots with the media and certain political websites) made the very blunder they were warned about.
on a comment on Silence from the Obama campaign over 6 years ago
BTW, the 'media' are not the only ones accusing Obama of flip-flopping. The netroots is doing their duty (their words) to make sure the candidate doesn't wiggle away from positions he now claims never to have taken.
If there is a conspiracy here, or if there are false accusations, then I suggest the problems are more broadly based.
on a comment on The Center over 6 years ago
I agree. As good Democrats, we should campaign on the issues that matter most to us in the deepest part of our being. The concept of the absoulute "right to choose" is one of the foundations of this Party from its beginnings. If there are fewer abortions, no matter whether that results from reductions in the available services from doctors or because of increased support for pregnant mothers' health care, jobs and job flexibility, day-care and universal health care, then the Democratic Party loses perhaps its most fundamentally important core principles.
The most important metric of the success or failure of the next Democratic President will be how much he or she can increase the number of abortions - and the quality of that success will be shown in the fraction of abortions chosen for non-medical reasons. The cherry on this banana split will be the shift from early to late term extractions.
comment on a post The Most Radioactive of Topics - Abortion over 6 years agoPrecisely the point.
It's radioactive.
Leave it alone.
comment on a post The Most Radioactive of Topics - Abortion over 6 years ago
Spotlighting the differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties' stance on Abortion Policy is a brilliant move. We ought to do that every chance we get.
How do YOU spell Landslide?
comment on a post DNC Convention in Chaos, says NYT over 6 years ago
I didn't know you owned this place. Do I need to earn some seniority before I can post? Should I email drafts so you can approve them? Is there like a Condo board I have interview with? I didn't see an application form, and as far as I can tell from what I read when I signed up - I haven't violated any rules.
Please clarify.
comment on a post Deep in the heart of Brooklyn over 6 years ago
I worry about this winter and its frozen people.
comment on a post DNC Convention in Chaos, says NYT over 6 years ago
Thank-you for telling Obama what he needs to do, and that he needs to do it quickly.
National conventions are not anachronistic, though. There important on many levels. (Christmas IS anachronistic in its insane commercialized perverted form - let's deal with that!)
National Political Conventions have a notorious reputation for wanton sex and lot's of drinking and such. Have the planners made rules for red white and blue condoms? Candy bowls filled with RU-486?
comment on a post Obama has already chosen his VP? over 6 years ago
Obama has already chosen his VP. But he will change his mind.
comment on a post 'Netroots' should be ashamed of themselves over 6 years ago
He should stop campaigning to Filibuster FISA and volunteer at an Abortion Clinic. Then he should go over to the House of Representatives and beat the crap out of Pelosi until she agrees to impeachment hearings.
Just for starters!
on a comment on Zionism is Dead, What Now? over 6 years ago
Sausage McMatso?
comment on a post Zionism is Dead, What Now? over 6 years ago
Pulled Pork on Matso?
comment on a post Obama latest words on abortion are still problematic over 6 years ago
Oh, goody.


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Could someone please tell my why everyone still thinks that Fukudome should still start off
the season as our starting right fielder. Wow he is horrible I would ship him out as soon as possible... With that i believe that he would make a great bench player given his defensive skills and also would make a plus pinch runner. He needs to be the guy giving the other two great team outfielders a day off In right and center . Lets not get into left field. THANKS JIM. This kid COlvin needs to be given the chance to play everyday I believe nothing bad could come out of this. I see no reason he should start any less that 150 games this year, as long as he can stay healthy. GO GET EM COLVIN


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Welcome to Sheikhy Notes, unique blog that features, videos and notes given by top traditional Muslim scholars. Scroll down for various topics, scholars, links, quotes and monthly archives or use search engine to find posts. DISCLAIMER: The notes are direct quotes or summaries and if I misquote, please correct me. Please source if you take notes or translations. Note that articles are copyright and cannot be copied without express permission. Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala knows best.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Dr Sulayman Nyang
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sira reviews
Nur al-Yaqin fi sirah sayyid al-Mursaleen/The light of certainty in the story of the master of Messengers
This is an excellent starter text with some good information and its recommended for learners of the Arabic language. So it is really worth going through for intermediate students of the Arabic Language. My only complaint is that the text is a bit brief and I wish it was longer.
Muhammad: Man and Prophet By Adil Salahi
The problem with this text is that it does not have the answers to the questions that I wanted answered. It was written for the sceptic Westerner but it fails to give definite answers to the questions that the text itself raises. So for me this text is better avoided for these reasons. However, I do feel that anyone writing 800+ pages on the subject of Sira should be praised but this skipped over many details that a text of this size should not have. Borrow don't buy. He seems to prefer strange opinions which I have never read before and sometimes he prefers to logic over historical reference.
Sixth Century and Beyond by M.Abdulla Pasha
This was a disappointing text that I was expecting a lot from but it did not deliver. It re-enforced a lot of Western stereotypes and this was something that was not wanted. The text does not deliver anything new in terms of the author's insight which was something that I was expecting but did not get.
As-Shifa by Qadi Iyad
This is the definite book of praise upon the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). This is an amazing book to read and is worth reading again and again. If you can read it in Arabic then go ahead and if you cannot then the English will do. They say that the sick are healed if this book is recited to them.
Muhammad: A Prophet for all humanity by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
This is an amazing book which is not a biography but examines the different aspects of his life (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). This book is ideal for non-Muslims as it a book aimed at outreach so give to people who want to study Islam or anyone who wants to study. You can get it quite cheaply and it's really worth purchasing.
Proofs of Prophethood by Sheikh Abdel haleem Mahmood
This is an interesting text that deserves to be re-read a few times. It is also a recommended text that could be read after M. Fethullah Gulen's text. There are lots of references and interesting points. Sometimes it reads like a text on his miracles. Worth buying.
Prophet Mohammad and His Miracles: From the Risale i Nur Collection By Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
This is not a Sira text but is a text on miracles using a logical approach. He also goes through some miracles and explains them to us. It is another text worth purchasing.
Sira Reviews part one
Friday, April 23, 2010
Imam Zaid Shakir
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
This is the way
This is the way
This is the straight way
A light is lit and I can see the thorns
I can see the difficulties
How can someone go down this path
They would have to be strong
How can I go down this path
Someone as weak as me
How could I follow him?
The one who went before us all
He went through things that wouldn't be able to bear
No burden is placed upon a person
More than he can carry
How much loss he bore
People he loved where killed, tortured and mutilated
Yet he saved nations
And his work has to be carried on
How could I
All I have is insincerity
The enveloped one, covered us in the mercy of Allah Ta'ala
If I could see him
If I could only see him
How happy would I be
What was I missing
I will follow you
I will follow you
This is the path
This is the only path
I will fall but I have to focus on my goal
He knew more than anyone before him or after him
Yet he was the most humble, dignified of them all
How I long to be where he is
How many nights I have waited to see if he would visit me in my dreams
The entire universe is honoured to have him here
I'll keep him in my heart where no one can see
Some won't understand and how lost would those be
Without the love of the chosen one
O Lord of the worlds how you have honoured me by making me
One of those who will be part of his community
How could anyone not see what you are
You allowed this path to be open for us all no matter what colour
Or what race we are
This is the path
The path of success
And this love increased until this heart beat
With your knowledge
How did I live for so long without this love
How did I survive when my heart was ruined without you
Please tell how this translates
I'll never know
I never knew what I was missing out on
I wonder how many others are like this
Say with lips what there hearts don't know
If only the hearts knew
What others know
He came to join people not separate
He was sent to save
He never came to condemn
He came to every living thing
How can it be that rocks and trees knew him
And some of us have forgotten
We have become rocks but without knowledge
We walk loud and tall but he never walked like that did he?
He walked unlike anything we could imagine
We need to dress like him
We need to wear that cloak and understand
The words coming out of our months
How can I explain in words what I can only feel
How can you understand unless you come close
We say that some people break the mould
When you where made there was no mould to break
You are the one and only
No one looked like you
No one talked like you
No one sat like you
No one ate like you
No one prayed like you
No one fasted like you
There is no one that this world has seen like you
I send one prayer to you and I get ten prayers send to me
It is only because Allah Ta'ala has honoured my tongue
By mentioning your name
He is the best of the best of the best
He went through test after test
That is the way
The way to Allah Ta'ala
You may have to struggle but that's part of the way
You have to struggle before you can have ease
How else can you know ease without struggle
Then how would you know love
Unless there was no love before
Then you can see the completion of this faith
Then you would begin to understand.
He never answered a bad word with a bad word
You replied in every tongue that you heard
You never interrupted anyone's speech
You let them finish then you would respond
Never pointed, you used your whole hand
You went when to heaven and conversed with our Lord
Another amazing thing after this
You came back
You came back to Earth to set us free
From the chains we wrap ourselves in
The chains of humanity
O person with no love
Plant the seed of this love
Then watch the tree grow
A great oak, it takes time to understand this
I hope those who don't, will
I hope to be one of those whose thirst will be quenched on that day
I hope to drink from the pool
I will never be thirsty after that day
There was a man who was happy to be tortured
Happy to be tortured to death rather than to have you feel a thorn
Everything connected to you is the great
But the title you were most content with was the slave of Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala
Your worship was perfect and sincere
How did I live without this love?
Some say it's a condition of faith
Others say without it you have no faith
He was veiled from some
He would enter a room at night and his face would radiate light
How could we not love you
Someone said if only he was the eyes of Abu Jahl
Eyes that saw you
I would be happy to burn in hell
To pay for this blessing
Know that lovers always use hyperbole
Have I alienated more of you?
A lover only cares for his beloved
He doesn't care what names that you call him
They wanted an angel to bring them revelation
They wanted a king who had power
They didn't want a man
What they didn't know is that you are the best of creation
Better than the angels
Even the angel of death asked permission to take your soul
He was better than all the mankind put together
No king would every be able to have people love him
Like people did you
You laid to rest all of your children
Except one
Yet we cannot find a single complaint
Even then you knew when Fatima would follow you
She cried because she did not want you to pass away
But when happy when she learned that she would join you soon
Who cries now?
We must cry because we miss you
We must cry
How many riches do we try to obtain?
We are led astray by own hands
You wished to live amongst the poor
You wished to be born amongst the poor
There is something wrong here isn't there
The only rich man in this world
Is someone who loves you
The only poor man is he who doesn't love you
That's true poverty
He remembered death
Unlike anyone
He loved people to be guided
So when they stoned him
And the angels came down ready to destroy the people of this town
He said no, he wished that out of their children, believers would come
What would you have done?
This is the path you must follow
This is the only path to success
It is set out for you
The beginning and the end of this has a core
That core is tawqa
O' you who desire to follow you, must have taqwa
Piety and fear
He never cast a shadow
Yet he could the light the world
The only reason we don't see the light of the other stars
Is because the sun is so close
Thats why when he walked, light surrounded him
His light (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was stronger than the light of the sun
How dare we fill our bellies until they burst
When he used to sleep hungry
How can we fight people?
When he was the first to make peace
How we have neglected his practice
We was sent to be obeyed by the permission of Allah Ta'ala
Why have we forgotten this
We draw closer to the world
With every step we take
The further we run from him
He gave away what we eat from
He feed the hungry
He protected the weak
We neglect the hungry and the weak
Where do we begin
To repair this
Where do we start
There are so much that we have to repair
Some of us desire to destroy this world
Have you actually tried to deliver it?
You are wondrous
You amaze me every day
I miss you more and more each day
All praise is due to Allah (mighty and majestic) who made it easy to love you
It's so easy how could anyone not
I have learnt that to live honourable in this world
There is only one way
Your way
So many of us are too busy to lend an ear and listen
Listen to his legacy
His legacy is the legacy of prophet hood
How dare you believe anything else!
We must open the books and learn from those who leant from you
This chain is unbreakable
We must link ourselves to it
I am awake but eyes have not seen beauty like you
If we lived, in this world, like you
We would conquer the earth
If we don't
Why do we make it so difficult for ourselves?
Why can't we change our condition?
Part seven
We must see progress
We must see our potential
We must understand
What we are
The one who migrated for the world will lose out
Yet the one who migrated for the deen
His reward will be, in line with what he gave up
We curse those who help us
We have everything we could ever want
Yet we complain, how wretched we are
So many in the world don't live like us
Poverty was his pride
Without any negativity
Why don't we live like him?
We live like animals
If we live any other way than his
Are we content with being animals?
Are we happy to disgraced?
It is time to revive ourselves
We still have time to put things right
Ask Allah (mighty and majestic) for forgiveness
Then follow the guided path
Where the night is like its day
So don't worry what they say
Stand firm
Walk, tread this path
Move forward
If we turn away we will be lost
And layers of darkness will enclose us
In a living prison
Where the only escape is death
Death is just a journey from one realm to the next
Some say that you pray for yourself
You should pray for Allah and that the highest calling
The rest of the positions are much lower
If you don't pray then you are your own worst enemy
Do you want your judgement to be as bad as possible
Isn't that what you are trying to say?
Part eight
He never said that his message was just for some
It was for everyone
Not just the chosen ones
We live in our bubbles and we are scared of the sound
When it will finally burst
There are parts of our culture that we should leave
We are at a dawn of a new age
That age will come shortly
We either fall or we rise up
Some will become disillusioned along the way
We may fall a long way
Clean yourself up and carry on along his way
Know tribulation will befall us all
In many different ways
But this when his way should become clear
We will know what do
We are not without guidance
Some who fall astray have neglected his way
He was never hopeless
He knew that Allah had already won
It just depends on you
What are you going to do
Are you going to go him?
And find your way back
Is it not time we were honest
To admit we are not happy and that we should try another way
This way is waiting for you
Waiting for your footsteps
It won't be easy but if you cry out
You will get help
Believe and stand firm
Don't listen to what they say
Listen to what he did
He didn't go to extremes
Follow the middle path
Don't debase yourself
With anything else
Every single hadith applies to you
Apply it if you can
Even if it is just once
Even if its only one thing
Perfect it and move forward
Part nine
I learn more about him everyday
And every day there is something new
There is so much that I cannot do
Because of my weakness
Why do we pretend to be who we are not
We scream yet there is no realisation
We make it hard for old friends and new
The only thing good about our claims is his name in it
We love but love is not enough and love is not the end of all things
Love means nothing without obedience
Love means nothing when it is just words
Do we want our words to be thrown back into our faces
Just because we claim does not mean we follow his path
Flundering and blundering in darkness
When the light showed us the way out
We chose to fall away
We chose to leave his love
We chose to walk another way
They said he had all the best characteristics of the Prophets (upon them peace)
They had an agreement to follow him
He was the one they all followed
He was the one they all loved
He was the one whose character they took from
O' Allah how you have blessed us with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
O' Allah; there is nothing like you, nothing overcomes you
Please allow us to see the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) with our sinful eyes
Even though we don't deserve it
O' Allah please forgive our sins and enter us into heaven
So we can see the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and see you
O' Allah the creator of everything you created his beauty
Without it the world wouldn't be the same.
All you have to do is follow his way
We are happy with Allah as our Lord, with Islam as our religion
And with Muhammad (may Allah bestow upon him peace and blessings) as our Prophet.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
The Last Day
Are we bothered about it? I mean really bothered. Do we shake when we realise that all our faults will open for everyone to see and we will not be able to deny, do we? All those sins we committed in the darkness of the night will be exposed for everyone to see.
Are we thinking about it? Do we pause for a moment and think that this could be may last moment on Earth before I am about to be buried in it. Do I really want to die with all these sins weighting on top of me?
Are we asleep when our tongues move from sin to sin thinking that we are the 'saved' ones and that everyone else is going to be punished but not us, no, not our select bunch!
We are asleep. Really and truly we are asleep because if we were awake we would not think about the moment that we will resurrected and then be given our books. The book we have spent a lifetime filling with sins and we did not care. The book that we forgot about; the book we did not heed to write good in is given to us.
How can you complain now? You cannot edit it now; it is too late! What are we going to do then? What? Do you like to look at sins? It will make you feel sick but who did them? Are you ready to die? Think about it! At any moment of your life you will be taken out of this world not a moment of your choosing but a moment of His choosing. In fact the moment has been laid down and there is nothing that will change it. So what are you going to do? Change your ways or just go back to being the same as you were before?
We are not bothered are we? If we were then we would change our ways. We would think that this moment is my last and that's it! Game over! What are you going to do now? You cannot go back and do things again. This is it!
What makes me think, is that this world is the means to a final abode and someone who does not use the means, means that they do not care! If you do not care about your deen then you do not care about the day and if you do not care about the day then you are the living dead. I do not mean you are a zombie but you are a person who dreams about entering paradise and does not want to work for it. You are too bothered about other things that cause you nothing but loss. When you are about to do something; think is it going to benefit me on the day of judgement or not? If it isn't then don't do it! Leave it!
Would you like that you have done something worthy and then you are informed about its goodness? Or would you prefer that someone who inform you of your sins? Your choice , your bed and you have to lay in it. Make it a bed in paradise and not elsewhere as the alternative is unthinkable. Do you really want to take a chance and ruin yourself or do you want to be smart and prepare yourself for that day in the best way?
Al-Faqih Al-Bahir said, "If I knew with certainty that all my life would be one moment; then I would be agreived and I would fill it with righteous acts and obedience." (Nafahat Al-Arab p.264)
It's up to you...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Respecting the sacred word
This is something that we have touched on earlier but it needs to be re-itterated. We have to show respect to sacred knowledge and all that contains or bears sacred knowledge. This means books, papers, audio and of course scholars.
Respecting a scholar means let them finish speaking, never interrupt, showing humbleness in their presence, asking the right questions and showing them the upmost respect. For more details about this please see previous post.
Respecting religious materials is respecting anything with anything religious on it. It does not matter if it is Arabic, English, Urdu, Turkish, Malay or any other language. You have to respect it and treat it correctly. Some people think it is okay to place translations of the Quran on the floor, then refuse to pick it up when told to. If you are a Muslim and you need proof to show respect to the speech of God, then you better think again and wake up. How many things do we do without proof?
If you have respect to religious materials then this shows you are a good student. If you do not show respect then this makes me think that there is nothing good in that student of knowledge. The common person has an excuse because they have little knowledge but even then the common folk show the Quran a lot of respect.
Remember to never interrupt someone who recites a verse of the Quran, reads a hadith and then the speech of the companions etc. Let that person finish and disagree (if you must) with the opinion but do not interrupt the narration.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The role that Masjids/Mosques committees should play in our communities
We have a dire need for education in our Muslim societies not just in Urdu but in English and the fact that most committees favour Imams who come from 'back home' rather than anyone who can speak English is a major and serious problem that needs to be addressed.
How did we get to this?
When Muslims came to the West during the last century it was not to spread Islam but it was to escape their economic situation. So there was little in the way of knowledge amongst the people. Eventually people became concerned about their religion and this lead to founding Masjids.
Committees were made up of concerned people, some were religious and others were not. This meant that they did not understand that every community needs knowledge, Islamic knowledge.
They tried to envisage Islam as how it was 'back home' so they copied everything including the prayer times.
So these committees were based upon whoever wished to be part of it and when they decided that they needed an Imam. One was recommended and sent from their own country. The Imam is now thrown into cauldron of politics which does not truly understand. Yet how can any of this answer the question; what does it mean to be British and live in the west?
From this beginning we arrive to our time. In which we see the same families controlling the types of things that take part in the community. We build massive masjids which are just empty buildings which are not even close to being full at any time of the year. Yet so many committee members just want to build larger and larger Masjids, what is the point when most of them are unaware of the prayer and cannot recite the Quran correctly. Instead why don't we pay a good salary to a teacher to make scholars in our community, is this so absurd?
Many Masjids committees have people who are against Islamic knowledge. They either want only their people to deliver knowledge or they do not want these events taking place in the masjids. The list is a very sad one and each reason is illogical. Any Muslim who is against the teaching of Islamic knowledge wants Islam to die out! Not only that he is also against the way of the Prophet (may Allah bestow peace and blessings upon him) because his way was knowledge! He taught us how to pray, to fast, how to treat people, the Quran and all those things that so many of us take for granted.
What are we going to be like, if this knowledge is going to be lost? We receive reports of scholars dying all the time and who are taking their places? Is anyone taking their places?
We only allow specific people to teach and not others because we are not sure about them, this is absolutely pathetic. Committees who are against knowledge are an obstacle to Islamic knowledge. Do you want me to say it any clearer?
Scholars also have advisor roles which they need to play in assisting and not preventing the imparting of sacred knowledge. Many a time 'scholars' are obstacles to learning rather than assisting learning. Is it because we could be a threat to their existence by taking their jobs? Or would it be the simple case that we would leave those who have been misleading us all these years? Scholars who prevent the spread of sacred knowledge should be sent to an empty village to live out the remainder of their years because they are no good here.
What is the way out?
The way out is knowledge and it is a simple as that. Knowledge of Islam can help us solve so many problems in our communities. For example it is not permissible in Islam to force someone to marry someone else. So why do we have other peoples telling us that we cannot do this? We should already know this and we should not be forcing anyone into an unhappy marriage. Yes they are your children but look at their needs as well. For their sake as much as yours!
We need to do either one of two things, either we try to work with our elders and if they are ready and receptive. If they are not receptive then we need to think about forming our centres of learning or our own masjids. I would prefer to work with the elders because having their valuable input is something us youngsters need but if they want to stand in our way then other avenues must be sought.
We believe that many problems in our communities could be solved if the right knowledge was imparted by those who are living the knowledge. Words from people who do not practice their knowledge means nothing, at the end of the day. It is only those people who practice change hearts.
We really do not have the luxury of time and we need to speed up this process of founding teaching centres of sound Islamic learning in the classical tradition.
I am not discounting the elders in our communities because they are absolutely irreplaceable but they saw what they community needed in their time and we must do what our community needs in this time. Our elders are blessing and we would not want to be without them.
I do think that the Masjids we have now may not be put into full use until many, many years into the future.
There are some masjids who are attempting to address the problem of knowledge and may Allah bless them to continue.
We have identified key areas that need addressing after the knowledge issue is responded to:
1. Disenfranchised Muslims.
We have a significant number of Muslims who do not understand Islam. They need to be explained correctly what things are. This may be too late for some but for others this is may be just in time.
2. Islamic Outreach.
We are going to post something about this soon so read that. But for now, are people explaining Islam to non Muslims? Special classes are needed for those who enter Islam.
3. Women
They need to know their rights and so do we, because many of us have forgotten or we just plainly do not know.
4. Marriage
We have a large amount of Muslims who are unmarried. This is an issue that the Masjids could take a proactive role in. Many Muslims need counselling services which are unavailable in most places.
5. Other social problems
We have Muslims in myriad of social problems such as clashes with culture and living in the West. Solutions need to be brought to the table and implemented. We have drug addicts and alcoholics who are brushed aside in these communities. We need to help these people!
If one masjid cannot do this then why don't an area of people band together and do one part of this? Is that really asking for too much? Why do we need to rely on the government to help when we should cleaning up our own mess?
In short people on boards should be ready to do more and if they are not willing to do anything then they should resign and let someone else take their place. The people who should be on the board are Muslims who are knowledgeable and have studied the religion rather than people who do not even know what breaks their prayer!
One of the main reasons why Islam was not established in America, when it came there in the 16th century, was because Islamic knowledge was not transmitted. Also due to the efforts of the inquisition who were as active there as they were in Spain.
They made sure that Muslims did not marry other Muslims and prevented them for teaching anything in Arabic. So Islam was not established soundly until recent times. Islam had all but died out for a hundred years that is why you might find people with Muslim names but who are Christians. Why because knowledge was not passed onto their children until they were just Muslim in name and then their subsequent offspring were just Muslim in name. Do you really want that for your offspring?
Islam has never, ever, ever been revived by anything else but Islamic knowledge. So all those who are calling to unity, love and anything else have failed and will continue to fail until they wake up to this.
If we do not make a serious effort to change our situation in these terms then we may see the dissolution of Islam in the next generation. You can see this already occurring as many good practices of our elders are all but gone. Then the only people teaching Islam will be those who are teaching a harsh type of bedouin Islam that no one wants but it will be accepted by people's children because there isn't anything else.
Is it not high time that we woke up?
Friday, April 09, 2010
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Sheikh Abdul-aziz Fredricks
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Have we contributed to the growth of far right groups?
After ending the call I began to think about what he said. The events that are played out on a world level were taken advantage of by the far right groups. They played on this fear then fed the public their nonsense. Then the following thought began to plague me, was it because of our lack of engagement of Islam in our communities? Had it contributed to the growth of these groups? For the first time in history these groups were having a greater impact and they were winning votes as well as seats in local councils.
They used to propagate fear and hatred about foreigners but now they openly attack Muslims. Another contributing factor was the growth of political apathy that had lead to resentment of the ruling party.
They also used badly reported localised events to drive their message home.
What was our reaction?
Like anything else, in this country, our reaction was minimal if anything. Other groups who are against these groups continued their opposition to them. These groups are mostly made up of non-Muslims. Local leaders did speak up but were their voices drowned out by the media and relegated to a line or two. Or was it the quality of the speakers who could not speak English fluently, so could not get their views eloquently across.
What is the solution?
The only solution is that we must engage in forms of outreach that are relevant to the countries that we live in not the countries that we come from. Some forms of outreach work in countries that we come from but do not work here. For example the Naat or Qasida gathering was an event that anyone could attend. This was relevant in places that we come from but not in the UK, as these events are held behind closed doors. So they do not have the same relevance that they would have if they were held in the Indo-Pak world.
We also need to have people who are trained to speak to the media.
We need to engage with religious societies and use interfaith gatherings to our advantage and not use them to discredit the religion. At the same time it does concern me that many people are not into faith so a large amount of the target audience is missed out.
We have deep social problems that need to be tackled and solved. These problems are swept under the carpet and are ignored. We have to show some courage and attempt to resolve our problems.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Wow, What a Bird!!
(The man agreed and whilst the bird was in his hand he said), "Do not lament what has been lost." The man let it go and it perched on the tree and said, "Do not believe something that can never be." Then when it reached the mountain and it proclaimed, "O unfortunate one, if you had killed me then you would have found in my belly two pearls, each one worth twenty mithqals."
The man bit his lip out of grief then said, "What was the third?" It replied, "Did you forget the first two? So how could I tell you the third? Did I not tell you not to lament what has been lost and not to believe something that can never be? I am flesh, blood and feathers; there is no twenty pieces in me! So how could there be two pieces weighting twenty mithqals in my belly!" Then it spread its wings and flew away.
This story can be found in many works of Imam Ghazali (may Allah be pleased with him) and others, this is from Nafhat Al-Arab/Breeze of the Arabs p.58.
One mithqal is about 3 grams in weight so the bird tricked the man saying he had sixty grams worth of pearls in its belly. Smart bird!!
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Sheikh Faraz Rabbani
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Fantastic fact or fiction? Reports are swirling that 20th Century Fox has finally settled on a cast for its reboot of the Fantastic Four. If true, Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Miles Teller will be suiting up to save the world on the silver screen in 2015.
The four are fresh faces, but their profiles are gaining traction. Mara appeared in American Horror Story and is currently part of the cast of House of Cards. Teller and Jordan recently worked together in That Awkward Moment, which was released January 31. Bell is in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, which was screened at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival.
Variety first reported that the Fantastic Four franchise would be rebooted in 2009. The next major development came in 2012, when Josh Trank was named as the director of the movie. Trank previously dabbled in the superhero world by directing Chronicle, a movie about three high school friends who discover they possess superpowers at a party. It was Trank's first time directing a movie, and Jordan was a part of the cast. Prior to that, Trank's only directorial credit was five episodes of The Kill Point.
In 2013, it was announced that Simon Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes, X-Men) would be the writer of the new script, and one month later, the release date was pushed from March 6, 2015, to June 19, 2015. Marvel's role is financial, and it acts as a producer, as well. The first Fantastic Four comic book appeared in 1961 and was written by Stan Lee. Although created by Marvel, Fox now owns the rights to the story.


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Disney's "The Jungle Book" Arrives On Blu-ray, DVD And Digital!
It's here! Disney's "Jungle Book" has arrived on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital!
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"Now for the first time ever on Blu-ray with glorious digital high definition, Disney's Jumpin' Jungle Classic has never looked so lush or sounded so good! Beloved characters, swinging music and new behind-the-scenes bonus features make this Diamond Edition Blu-ray a must-have for every family's classic collection!
Meet the most unforgettable characters and embark on a thrilling adventure with Mowgli as he journeys deep into the jungle and learns "The Bare Necessities" of life from happy-go-lucky Baloo the bear. Meet Bagheera, the wise old panther, and crazy King Louie, the orangutan. But watch out for the cunning tiger Shere Khan and Kaa, the ssssneakiest snake in the jungle!
Explore your family's wild side as you venture into The Jungle Book for extraordinary adventures and a heartwarming tale that celebrates the true meaning of friendship."
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Introductions by Diane Disney Miller and Richard M. Sherman
Alternate Ending – Mowgli and The Hunter
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This is such a classic Disney movie, and we are so happy that we have finally added it to our home movie collection! Plus, in addition to getting the great animated Disney movie, you also get some amazing bonus features that you'll wonder how you ever lived without!
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Creatine is a metabolite produced in the body composed of three amino acids: l-methionine, l-arginine and l-glycine. Approximately 95% of the concentration is found in skeletal muscle in two forms: creatine phosphate and free chemically unbound creatine. The remaining 5% of the creatine stored in the body is found in the brain, heart and testes. The body of a sedentary person metabolizes and average of 2 grams of creatine a day. Bodybuilders due to their high intensity training metabolize higher amounts than that.
Creatine is generally found in red meats and to some extent in certain types of fish. However it would be hard to get the amount of creatine necessary for performance enhancement as even though 2.2lbs of red meat or tuna contain approximately between 4 to 5 grams of creatine, the compound is destroyed with cooking. Therefore, the best way to get creatine is by taking it in powder form.
How does it work?
While there is still much debate as to how creatine exerts its performance enhancing benefits and increases lean muscle mass, it is commonly accepted by now that most of its effects are due to two mechanisms:
- Intra-cellular water retention.
- Creatine's ability to enhance ATP production.
Basically, once the creatine is stored inside the muscle cell, it attracts the water surrounding such cell thereby enlarging it. This super hydrated state of the cell causes nice side effects such as the increase of strength and it also gives the appearance of a fuller muscle. Some studies suggest that a super hydrated cell may also trigger protein synthesis and minimize catabolism.
In addition, creatine provides for faster recovery in between sets and increased tolerance to high volume work. The way it does this is by enhancing the body's ability to produce Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). ATP is the compound that your muscles use for fuel whenever they contract. ATP provides its energy by releasing one of its phosphate molecules (it has three phosphate molecules). After the release of such molecule, ATP becomes ADP (Adenosine Diphosphate) as it now only has two molecules. The problem is that after 10 seconds of contraction time the ATP fuel extinguishes and in order to support further muscle contraction glycolisis (glycogen burning) has to kick in. That is fine and well except for the fact that as a byproduct of that mechanism lactic acid is produced. Lactic acid is what causes the burning sensation at the end of the set. When too much lactic acid is produced, your muscle contractions stop, thereby forcing you to stop the set. However, by taking creatine, you can extend the 10 second limit of your ATP system as creatine provides ADP the phosphate molecule that it is missing (recall that creatine is stored in the muscle as creatine phosphate). By upgrading your body's ability of regenerating ATP, you can exercise longer and harder as you will minimize your lactic acid production and you will be able to take your sets to the next level and reduce fatigue levels. More volume, strength and recovery equals more muscle (assuming nutrition and rest are dialed in).
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Neo-psychedelic pop band 14 Iced Bears was formed in South London in mid-1985 by singer/guitarist Rob Sekula, bassist Alan White and drummer Nick Emery. Soon after relocating to the Brighton area, White exited the group, with bassist Dominic Minques and rhythm guitarist Kevin Canham signing on to record their 1986 Frank label debut single "Inside." Roster changes continued to plague 14 Iced Bears over the course of a series of singles including 1987's "Balloon Song" and the following year's "Come Get Me" (the latter an early release on the famed Sarah label), but upon signing to Thunderball to record their self-titled 1988 debut LP, the line-up finally stabilized, with Sekula and Canham joined by bassist Will Taylor and drummer Graham Durrant. The album was a cult favorite both at home and abroad, leading to a brief flirtation with major label Geffen, but nevertheless 14 Iced Bears' next single, 1989's "Mother Sleep," again appeared on Thunderball; the company collapsed in the wake of the following year's "World I Love," however, and the group landed with the Borderline imprint for 1991's Wonder before disbanding. ~ Jason AnkenyPortions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation.
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I have a very simple way for any investor to make more income using a very easy and less risky means of adding a few stock options to your portfolio.
Before you stop reading, I want you to know that I'm absolutely serious. You can increase your income and not have a whole lot of trouble or complex trading schemes. I'll show you how to use stock options in their simplest and safest form, and I'll give you some great examples.
You might have never done anything with stock options. Or you might have bought some and quickly regretted it — and for good reason.
Mention stock options, and most individual investors will either draw blank stares because they have never bought them or they'll wince because they think stock options are only one-way recipes for losses.
There are very good reasons you might be in either group. Maybe you haven't made the effort to better understand the benefits of stock options. Or perhaps you waded on into the market and quickly lost money for your efforts.
Way too many folks lose money on stock options because they buy them. And I never want you to ever buy a single stock option ever. That's right: Never buy a stock option.
There's a very good reason for not buying. From the moment you buy them, options lose value every second until they're worthless at their expiration. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's look at the basics of options.
Optional ABCs
Options are securities that give the buyer the right to buy or sell a set number of stock shares in the market. Options come as either calls or puts. Calls provide the buyer with the right to "call," or buy, shares at a specified price for a specified period of time. Puts give the right to "put," or sell, shares at a specified price for a specified period of time.
Each option covers 100 shares of a stock, and they trade through any broker just like any other traded security.
The market sets up established dates for the expirations of calls and puts. Those dates tend to be throughout the year, typically coming due each month at the end of the third week.
The so-called "strike" prices, meaning the prices at which stock can either be called (bought) or put (sold), are also set up in the market, typically just below or just above the current market price for the specific stock — although some option prices can be well below or well above the current market.
The market price for a call or put is based primarily on three things. The first is any intrinsic value of the option. This means if the strike price for a call is below the current price for the stock, then the call would be said to be "in the money" and have intrinsic value equal to the difference between the strike price and the market price for the stock covered by the call.
For puts, if the strike price of the option is above the current market price for the stock, then the buyer would be able to sell the shares for more than the market. The puts would be in the money and have the intrinsic value of the difference between the strike and the market price for the underlying stock.
The second component for pricing options involves time value. The longer the term of the option, the more valuable the option is. So an option that expires six months from now is going to be priced more than one that is expiring this month.
The third component for pricing options involves the volatility of the market price for the stock. The more volatile the market for a stock is, the greater the value of the option to either control the buy price in a call option or control the sell price through a put option.
Don't Buy Any Options
Too many investors wade into the stock options market by buying options. These investors lose money as the time value elapses and the options expire.
These investors will buy a call on the speculation that the price of the underlying stock will go up enough so that a call might rise in value and perhaps have some intrinsic value, meaning, like I mentioned above, the calls have a strike price below the market price for the underlying stock.
Or by buying a put, the investor will speculate the market for a stock that will fall enough and do it quickly enough for the puts to be worth something before they expire.
The trouble is that both of these strategies really are pure speculation that depends on stocks moving in short amounts of time and moving in large amounts in that short amount of time.
Other investors try to get involved in options after being pitched on various strategies of combining calls and puts with various titles, ranging from strangles to straddles to collars and the list goes on. Most of these are rarely fully understood, and results tend to be the same: liberating you from your money.
Sell 'Em
Instead, I want you to learn how to sell options, not buy them. That's right: Sell them rather than investing in them.
Here's the deal. You don't have to buy puts and calls, as you can also sell puts and calls. And when you sell a put or a call, the market pays you the premium right up front. Then, if you sold a put and the stock goes down and the person who bought the put from you exercises the option, you must buy the stock at the agreed put price.
Or if you sell a call on stock that you won, you might have that stock called away if the market price goes above the strike price of the call option.
So, by selling a put on stock that you want to buy and own, you get paid to buy it at the price at which you want to own it. And for stock that you already own, you get paid by selling a call to sell the stock at a higher price in the future — a price at which you would be happy to sell.
Now, here's where I put together puts and calls.
I like to start by finding a stock that I like and want to own. Let's take as an example a stock that I've written about before, SeaDrill Limited (SDRL), which I last write about on June 19 in Your Ship Has Come In. SeaDrill, an offshore drill rig company that's very operational and financial risk-adverse, pays a nice, big dividend of more than 8 percent.
Now, the stock price is about $40. That's a good price for this stock that I think could go higher. But rather that just buying it, you can get paid up front to buy it at a cheaper price.
You can sell puts with a strike price of $38 and get paid about $1.25 per share to do it, with an expiration of Oct. 19. That means that for each put option, which covers 100 shares, you'd get paid $125 to potentially be put the stock at a price of $38 a share — $2 less that it's trading for right now.
If in October the stock price is $40 or more, you don't have to do anything. You keep the $125, and you can do the same thing all over again for the next few months. But if the stock dips a couple or more bucks, you get to buy it if you're put the shares at a cheaper price. It's like being paid to put in a limit price to buy the shares.
Now if you do get put the stock, that's great; you'll own a great stock with a great dividend. But it will get even better. Because once you own the stock, you can turn around and sell calls on the stock.
So again, let's say you own SeaDrill. You can sell calls for October expiration at a price of $42, $2 more than it's trading right now, and get paid $1 or more a share. If the stock goes nowhere or dips a bit, you will still own a great stock and get a great dividend, and you can turn around and sell another call on the stock for the following months.
Or if the stock goes up and your stock gets called away, that's great. You made $2 more on the stock and you also get to keep the extra $1 a share from selling the call.
And you can keep doing this over and over again.
Start with a great stock that you want to own. Sell a put at a strike price below the current market. Then if the stock doesn't get put, do it again. If the stock does get put, great; turn around and sell a call. If the stock gets called, that's great; turn around and sell another put.
It's that straightforward.
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With the Republican and Democratic National Conventions approaching some Lubbockites are packing their bags to go. But these guys aren't going in support of the candidates, rather to protect them.
Meet Biff and Mickey. Lubbock County's two bomb sniffing, weapon finding K-9's. Handlers and bomb technicians Sergeant David Turner and Deputy Chris Eppler travel all over the country with these specially trained labs, sniffing out every major event you can think of to keep the public safe.
"Just this year alone we were at the Super Bowl back in February, we were there a few weeks securing the staging area. We were at the Terry Nichols trial for a week this year. Biff and I just returned from the G-8 Summit in Georgia, protecting 12 of the most powerful men in the world."
And then Turner and Biff spent a week at Mount Rushmore. In about two weeks this team will be leaving to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
"We'll have 12 ATF dogs, plus military and secret service dogs to help us do that. When we return, we'll be going to the Sturgess Motor Cycle rally in South Dakota," says Sgt Turner.
The schedule for Eppler and Mickey is also demanding. "This weekend I've got the All Star Games in Houston, helping to secure the areas there. And then I'll be going to the Republican National Convention in New York," Chris Eppler said.
But their work doesn't stop on the road. Both dogs are trained to work for their food, so everyday Turner and Eppler plant devices the dogs have to sniff out to eat. They also work Lubbock County and our surrounding 22 counties on a regular basis.
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms funded both dogs, with approval from Lubbock County Sheriff David Gutierrez.Their handlers say the K-9's are an invaluable tool not just to West Texas, but the Nation.
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could I get a good paint job for $4,500..cause I darn well know whatever car I get..the paint is not gonna be perfect.....a scratch here and there..a ping here and there..you get the idea....
Maybe. Will it be good? Maybe.If you do all the prep work yourself and just pay someone to spray it with some over the counter color, you "could" end up with a half decent "plain Jane" paint job.Is Earl Shives still in business?He would paint any car for $99.95.I was recently appalled when I read about a guy that had his 2012 mustang wrapped for 3K.Said he chose the wrapping route cause he couldn't afford a paint job.So nobody can paint cars these days for a reasonable price? Back in the mid 80's we did good paint jobs on cars for 500 to a thousand bucks.4500 bucks was a custom paint job.Looks like now days the paint job costs more than the car.I found out over here in Germany that it will cost me around 2k just to have someone spray my car.Everything else I have to do.Talk about easy money.If I let them do it all it may run in excess of 10k for a basic paint job.Only paid 7K for the car.Good thing I don't care about appearances,only performance.
The older I get,the faster I was.
I would think so. But theres alot of factors determine price. An now days paint ain't cheap. Try and find somebody that works at a bodyshop that does some one the side. Thats what i do. I work at a bodyshop and do work on the side. But you can't expect a show paint job but should be able to get a decent job. Hope that helps some.
chevycamaro99:could I get a good paint job for $4,500..cause I darn well know whatever car I get..the paint is not gonna be perfect.....a scratch here and there..a ping here and there..you get the idea....Theres not enough infomation in your post to answer your question. All you've said is its OK to paint over dents and scratches. Are you getting an Impala or a Chevette? $4,500 won't get you very far these days but it might get you what you want. On the side, I painted a 70 Chevy truck for $3,500 (labor only) a couple years ago.


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Fedor Emelianenko will be cut from the promotion following his loss to Dan Henderson at last Saturday's Strikeforce/M-1 Fedor vs. Henderson event.
UFC president Dana White -- a co-owner of Strikeforce parent company Zuffa LLC -- confirmed the news following the UFC 133 press conference on Thursday.
"He's being cut, yeah," White told the media. "Why? Do you think we should keep him?"
The loss was the third straight for Emelianenko after an unbeaten stretch that spanned nearly a decade.
His loss to Henderson came at 4:12 of round one. Prior to that, he had lost to Antonio Silva via TKO and Fabricio Werdum by submission.
"You guys thought he was the pound-for-pound best in the world, but I thought he was overrated for years," White said.
The 34-year-old Emelianenko (31-4, 1 no contest) said after the Henderson fight that he would take some time to consider retirement upon returning home to Russia, but if he chooses to return, it will be under a new promoter.
Meanwhile, Emelianenko remains contracted to Showtime, the premium cable channel that broadcasts Strikeforce fights as well as M-1 cards. It is possible he could continue to compete on Showtime under the M-1 banner, but he won't do so again with Strikeforce co-promoting.


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A landmark shooting range in Highland is working hard to re-open after a recent Superior Court civil judgment forced the range to make repairs and clean up lead on neighboring property.
Real estate developer Hal Woods filed the lawsuit two years ago on a claim that lead and bullets were leaving the Inland Fish and Game shooting range and entering his 22-acre property near Orange and Fifth streets.
After a civil trial in San Bernardino, Judge Christopher J. Warner issued a complicated 27-page judgment in favor of Wood's company Highland Fifth-Orange Partners LLC.
Since then, IFG has stopped shooting on the range so that it can make the necessary repairs and comply with the court's judgement. It also is appealing the court's decision.
"Shooting activities have been temporarily suspended while IFG performs regular maintenance and confirms that the facility is in compliance with the judgement," lawyer Marlene Allen-Hammarlund, who represented the range, said in a written statement.
"The club remains open for other activities and expects to re-open for shooting in the very near future," Allen-Hammarlund wrote.
For more than 60 years, IFG has opened its gates to shooting enthusiasts from Southern California and beyond, as well as law enforcement personnel and scouting groups who use its various pistol, shotgun and trap facilities.
The range operates on 40 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, which awarded the club an additional 20-year-lease in 2004.
The developer's property, which is located adjacent to and north of the range, is proposed for residential development. HFO is currently seeking approvals from the City of Highland to build 133 homes on the property.
HFO was awarded $1.4 million in damages to cover the cost of the lead clean-up. IFG must also pay rental value of $27,775 per month from December 2006 for its "wrongful occupation" of the property, according to the judgement.
In addition to the lead clean-up, Warner also ruled that IFG's shotgun range cannot operate without a 900-foot shotfall safety zone radius as recommended by the National Rifle Association and National Association of Shooting Ranges.
Lawyers for Woods' Highland Fifth-Orange Partners LLC said they tried to settle the case informally, by sending a letter to IFG in April 2007 and later offering to sit down and discuss the issues.
HFO was not aware of the lead when it closed escrow, their lawyer said.
"It took a long time to get to this point," explained the developer's Oakland-based lawyer Carl Ciochon. "Litigation was really the last resort from HFO's perspective."
The activities at IFG, which may have been safe 40 or 50 years ago, are no longer such as a residential and business community has grown up around the facility.
The cause of the lead on the developer's property was the shooting lines of the shotgun range, which measured about 600 feet, Ciochon explained. IFG had refused to take responsibility for the lead until four days before the trial, he added.
"We are gratified that Judge Warner has held them responsible for the harm that they caused, Ciochon said.
A hearing was set in October to determine if IFG has complied with the ruling.
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For those familiar with South Korea you often hear about how Koreans possess superior dexterity compared to other people due to their skill with chopsticks. Koreans skills with chopsticks are what is allegedly responsible for producing top professional female golfers, world class pottery, top table tennis players, master archers, and until recently even top stem cell scientists.
Well here is yet another reference to Korea's allegeded chopstick superiority:
John Gearhart, also a Hopkins researcher, said another impediment is that Hwang's lab has not shared enough details of its technology to allow other labs to duplicate it. And apart from technical acumen, few labs in the world have permission to do work that would build on the Korean report, he said.
Maybe some labs have tried and failed but kept quiet about it, Civin said, because the scientists "didn't feel like saying they weren't as good as the South Koreans."
Indeed, the technical expertise of Hwang's lab has often been mentioned as a crucial ingredient in its reported success. Hwang has attributed his lab workers' dexterity to lots of practice with steel chopsticks.
Visitors to Hwang's lab report "they have technical competence and abilities far beyond what most American labs have, and I think that's true," said Thomas Cech, a Nobel Prize winner who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "People have actually watched them manipulate these cells … and say they're really extraordinarily dexterous and skilled technically."
So if other scientists can't get such experiments to work, he said, they may conclude "I'm not surprised because I saw these people from Korea and they're so much better at manipulating cells than I am."
So how come the Japanese can't replicate the stem cell experiments if clumsy non-chopstick using American scientists can't replicate it? Maybe because it is a fake along with the rest of Hwang's work. Not being skilled with chopsticks is an even lamer excuse than the appeal to Korean nationalism being used before to defend Hwang's work.


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With development on all future projects now halted, Battlefield 4 developer DICE has released their sixth patch for the PC version, hoping to bring further stability fixes, bug squishes, and even a little jet rebalancing.
Among the large list of fixes are a number of key changes, including normalising repair rates across all vehicles, a 25% increase for the Stealth Jet 20mm cannons and general handling changes to each of the jets available in-game. Fixes were also made to camera glitching, sound issues on certain graphical profiles and the long-awaited fix for the killer health in kill card not being correctly updated.
The full patch notes are available for viewing at the official Battlelog post here. A server update was also rolled out shortly after the client patch, enabling the Live Scoreboard for all game servers and fixes to five server crashes.
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REGINA — Crowds gathered around Wascana Lake throughout the day Wednesday as the Regina Police Service dive team worked to retrieve a submerged car.
By 6 p.m., when the red Audi A3 was towed out of the lake via the concrete ramp at the marina, there were only a handful of onlookers, who had little to see, only an asthma inhaler on the floor of the car and golf clubs that almost floated away.
Throughout the day, many observers at the scene wondered if anyone had been inside the vehicle.
"There's no evidence to indicate a body at all," said Les Parker, Regina Police Service media development officer.
"There was no body recovered or found."
Parker did acknowledge the possibility that a body could have been in the vehicle at some point and floated out, or the driver escaped.
Police were unable to confirm whether a body was in the vehicle while it was underwater because divers had less than a foot of visibility.
It's still unknown when the vehicle entered the lake, but the extraction process took over nine hours.
Police were dispatched to the scene at the corner of Wascana Drive and Quinn Drive near the Queen Building at 8:30 a.m. and worked with Regina Fire and Protective Services to locate the submerged car. There were tire tracks in the grass that indicated where the vehicle entered the lake.
Before 10 a.m., fire crews inside a zodiac about 10 metres offshore indicated they spotted a red vehicle underwater.
Parker said the situation was never treated as an emergency rescue and officers focused on investigating and extracting the vehicle.
The Audi had front bumper damage and scraped paint on the driver's side, near the headlights.
Parker said he was unaware of any reports of a stolen Audi hatchback but police will make contact with the registered owner.
"The next step is to investigate the car and, in the short term, they investigate on scene," Parker said.
The car will be taken to a garage for further investigation.


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19 November 2011 12:00 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Despite her young age, turning just twenty-seven in a few days' time, Scarlett Johansson already has a slew of major roles in her credits, along with a long list of awards and nominations to her name, including a BAFTA for her part in Lost in Translation, and four Golden Globe nominations.
Johansson is now set to make her feature directorial debut, The Playlist report, in an adaptation of Truman Capote's Summer Crossing, an early Capote novel that was published for the first time posthumously in 2005, having been set aside after a decade of adjustments following its conception in 1943.
"Taking place over the course of a hot summer in 1945 New York City, the story centers on the 17 year old Grady, from a well-to-do family living on Fifth Avenue, who enters a torrid affair with a parking attendant, winds up marrying him, and becomes pregnant"
Though I've not read any of Capote's work, »
- Kenji Lloyd
17 November 2011 7:27 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
She can act. She can record a rather strange album of Tom Waits covers. And now, she can direct, too.
Scarlett Johansson is adding another hyphenate to her business card to become an Actress-Singer-Director as she's set to make her directorial debut with "Summer Crossing," according to Variety.
"Summer Crossing" is based on a lost novella by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") set in post-wwii New York that centers on an 18-year-old girl breaking free of her rich smothering family to discover her own identity and sexuality.
What, doesn't she want to make a movie about the romantic pratfalls of twentysomething slackers like every other first-time director under the age of 30?
The "Avengers" star has quite a creative team backing her up on this endeavor, with Barry Spikings ("The Deer Hunter") set to produce and New York playwright Tristine Skyler set to adapt the screenplay. "Summer Crossing" was written by »
- Bryan Enk
10 November 2011 8:00 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
The subtitle of Werner Herzog's searing documentary Into the Abyss — A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life — sets up expectations for a film that is equal parts harrowing and uplifting. Yet as dutifully even-handed as Herzog's presentation is, it's nearly inconceivable to imagine the director's obvious appreciation for human life washing away the utterly shattering nature of the story at hand. It's this precisely downbeat message — that, no matter how treasured human existence can often times be, the dark will always overshadow the light — that I took away from the film. And it shredded me to pieces.
Comparisons to Truman Capote's seminal piece of true-crime storytelling, In Cold Blood, have already been noted by several critics, and the similar vibes are indeed undeniable. The crime at the center of Herzog's examination of the death penalty and its ramifications is apparently just as »
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7 November 2011 6:56 AM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Almost as soon as it was announced that J. Edgar Hoover would be getting a new biopic, speculation has been rife over how his relationship with Clyde Tolson would be portrayed.
Although there's no definitive proof either way, it's widely assumed that Hoover, long-term director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Tolson, his assistant director, were lovers. Director Clint Eastwood sparked concern that Hoover's story would be "straightwashed" when he told The Wall Street Journal that the script "didn't quite go down [the] road" of addressing rumors of Hoover's being closeted and a cross-dresser. (Eastwood later confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter that he included a scene showing Hoover wearing his mother's dress.)
Meanwhile, out J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black assured AfterElton that Hoover and Tolson would not be "de-gayed," saying "To think that somehow you're going to make a movie about somebody like J. Edgar and »
- John
1 November 2011 9:04 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Every Friday, encore showings of The Walking Dead Season 2 on AMC feature "Story Notes", which include trivia and behind-the-scenes information related to the episode. If you missed out on last week's story notes from episode 2, we have the full list of trivia items, fun facts, and quotes from the cast and crew.
Casting Notes
Pruitt Taylor Vince (Otis) was on The Mentalist, Deadwood, and won an Emmy for Murder One.
You may also know Lauren Cohan (Maggie) from The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural.
Scott Wilson (Hershel) was in the 1967 movie In Cold Blood and had a recurring role on CSI.
Character Notes
Jon Bernthal sees Shane and Rick as childhood pals that have been close their whole lives.
Health Notes
A-positive is the second most common blood type after O-positive.
Ampicillin is a type of penicillin that has been used to treat bacterial infections since 1961.
Director Ernest Dickerson got »
- Jonathan James
19 October 2011 1:44 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Director Bennett Miller is becoming something of a serial biographer about a particular moment in the lives of incredible, infamous and unusual people. He won an Oscar nomination for his film about the defining moments in the life of writer Truman Capote during the putting together of his non-fiction work In Cold Blood in 2005′s 'Capote' and most recently has re-told the story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's and his successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players in the Brad Pitt starrer 'Moneyball'.
For this next and third feature film, Bennett will tell the infamous and shocking true story of the murder of Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz in 1996 by his long-time friend.
The drama is titled Foxcatcher and our lead will be John du Pont, a seemingly harmless stamp-collecting, bird-watching multimillionaire and »
- Matt Holmes
5 October 2011 12:41 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
There is little room for error in George Clooney's The Ides of March, a political thriller that moves at a brisk pace and seemingly ends just when it could be beginning. The interesting thing about it is the ultimate takeaway considering none of the story's twists and turns are at all surprising. However, while you may feel as if you are one step ahead of the narrative, there is more to this film than just the realization that politics are dirty. When you first lay eyes on the starry-eyed face of Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), a young but veteran press secretary who finally believes in the man he's working for, you probably won't be ready for his character's shift in personality.
The Ides of March is definitely about politics, but more specifically it's about ideals. It's about what we believe in, or even better, whom we choose to put our belief in. »
- Brad Brevet
29 September 2011 7:13 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Steve Carell is going dark, folks. The actor has been set as the lead in Moneyball director Bennett Miller's long-in-the-works true crime pic Foxcatcher, per Variety. The film tells the true story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who built a wrestling training facility on his 800-acre Pennsylvania estate where he subsequently shot and killed Olmypic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz in 1996. Heir to his family's chemical fortune, du Pont locked himself in his mansion for two days after murdering his friend, and spent the time on the phone with negotiators. The authorities were finally able to lure the man out of his house when they shut off his power and heat. E. Max Frye (Band of Brothers) and Dan Futterman, who penned Miller's debut feature Capote, wrote the script. Miller is no stranger to the true crime genre, as he expertly captured Truman Capote's »
- Adam Chitwood
26 September 2011 1:26 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
George Clooney has given a list of his Top 100 films from 1964 to 1976, which he feels was "the greatest era in filmmaking by far." It's hard to argue with that, many of my favorite movies come out of that era. In an interview with Parade Magazine the actor and movie geek explained his list saying...
There were great filmmakers—Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese—you go down the list of these insanely talented filmmakers all working at the top of their game and kind of competing with each other. Pakula, Sidney Lumet—I mean, you can just keep going down the list of these guys. And they were all doing really interesting films… That era [1964 to 1976] was a reflection of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug counterculture. All those things were exploding at the same time. And »
- Venkman
26 September 2011 12:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
[1] George Clooney may be among the most prominent of celebrities, a fabulously wealthy, incredibly successful man at the very top of the A-list. But it seems there's a side of him that isn't so very different from film geeks like us who watch his movies. (Yes, all of that was a long-winded way of saying "Clooney: He's just like us!") For a recent interview about his upcoming Ides of March, which Clooney directed, produced, and starred in, Clooney revealed his top 100 films from 1964 to 1976, which he believes to be "the greatest era in filmmaking by far." The list is definitely cinephile-friendly, if not especially surprising: it includes tons of major classics and a handful of somewhat lesser known gems, all across a very wide variety of genres. Read the top 100 after the jump. Clooney told Parade [2] magazine that of that 100, his top five favorites are All the President's Men, Network, »
- Angie Han
9 September 2011 5:22 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Ryan Gosling in The Ides of March
Photo: Columbia Pictures There is little room for error in George Clooney's The Ides of March, a political thriller that moves at a brisk pace and seemingly ends just when it could be beginning. The interesting thing about it is the ultimate takeaway considering none of the story's twists and turns are at all surprising. However, while you may be one step ahead of the narrative there is more to this film than just another realization that politics are dirty. When you first lay eyes on the starry-eyed face of Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), a young but veteran press secretary who finally believes in the man he's working for, you probably won't be ready for his character's shift in personality.
The Ides of March is definitely about politics, but more specifically it's about ideals. It's about what we believe in, or even better, »
- Brad Brevet
6 September 2011 1:06 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Into the Abyss, [Werner] Herzog's latest extraordinary documentary, looks at first like the kind of true-crime shocker you can easily find on cable television," writes Ao Scott. "It explores a particularly senseless triple homicide that took place in Conroe, Tex., a decade ago, and consists almost entirely of conversations with people close to the killings, including Michael Perry, who was convicted of killing one of the victims. He is interviewed as he awaits execution, and the ethics of the death penalty, which Mr Herzog avowedly opposes, is among the film's concerns. But Into the Abyss — which, Mr Herzog noted as he introduced a screening of it, 'could be the title of quite a few of my films' — is less a piece of political advocacy than a somber inquiry into familiar Herzogian themes of death, violence and time."
Also in the New York Times, Michael Cieply talks with Herzog and his producer, »
2 September 2011 7:12 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O'Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Given the popularity of baseball in Japan (did anyone else watch the country's amazing run through the most recent Little League World Series?), this move seems like a no-brainer. But now it's official: Bennett Miller's "Moneyball" will close this year's Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct. 30.
Miller's film stars Brad Pitt as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who introduced a revolutionary concept of paying less for run-producing, reportedly-washed-up Major League Baseball veterans in order to build a winning team. "Moneyball" is based on Michael Lewis's book "The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," an co-stars Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright.
Word on "Moneyball" is that Miller has crafted a rousing crowd-pleaser of a film that instantly will earn a place alongside Hollywood's best baseball dramas, from "The Natural" to "Bull Durham."
We »
- Sean O'Connell
2 September 2011 6:51 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Flannery O'Connor was never this grotesque but I do wonder what she would have thought of The Bleeding House. This independent grotesque mixes religion and blood in equal parts into a taut suspense thriller even as it neatly character studies victim and vile killer alike. Patrick Breen absolutely lights up the screen as Nick, a psychotic serial killer who may or may not have a conscience of some sort. The rest of the players here keep up just fine but it's Breen who lulls us into a trance with his lilting Southern accent and white linen suit. He's like some impossible Capote come to haunt us from Hell, wrongly inspired by the writing of his In Cold Blood. Faulkner comes to mind as well. The »
2 September 2011 6:34 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
There's basically no chance on Earth that a new documentary from Werner Herzog wouldn't be acquired by somebody, but I am a little surprised that it happened before the film even made its debut at Tiff. A press release announces that the film, Into the Abyss, has been acquired by Sundance Selects for North American distribution. (The original title was Gazing into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life, but it seems to have been cut down for the sake of brevity.)
Focusing on three death row inmates, two men and one woman, we've heard some (unpleasant) details on the subject matter, while interview clips surfaced online. It sounds like he's really going to examine this without shying away from the worst aspects, which he should absolutely do; it needs to present the truth of the matter, not a lighter version. I'm »
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29 August 2011 3:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Jack J. Hayes, who composed music for beloved TV shows Happy Days and Gunsmoke, has died at the age of 92.
Hayes also created music for Laverne & Shirley and served as orchestrator on a number of blockbuster movies, including Up, The Incredibles, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III, Taxi Driver and The Three Musketeers.
He also collaborated with Leo Shuken on music for classic films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Kill a Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.
Hayes was nominated for two Oscars - one in 1964 for adapting the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and another in 1985 for contributing to Quincy Jones' score for The Color Purple.
Hayes was born in San Francisco, California and is survived by his two children. »
28 June 2011 6:54 AM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Scott Wilson, Lauren Cohan, Pruitt Taylor Vince have been cast in The Walking Dead: Season 2. Scott Wilson, Lauren Cohan joining the cast of The Walking Dead: Season 2 answers the questions of who will play the Greene family, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) in Frank Darabont's AMC zombie TV series. Pruitt Taylor Vince casting quails conjecture on who will play Otis.
More of the casting of the Greenes and Otis in The Walking Dead:
Early into the new season, which returns in October just in time for Halloween, Rick Grimes and our brave band of survivors will encounter a farming family that has been ravaged by zombies. Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood, Monster, Junebug) will play Hershel Greene. "He is the patriarch of the family," says executive producer Gale Anne Hurd. "He's a veterinarian with a great sense of humanity and a very unique take on the Walkers. »
- filmbook
26 June 2011 4:23 PM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
This one is coming up late, due to Criterion jam packing a ton of releases on Friday, right while I was finishing up the original post. I think they wanted to mess with me, which is very funny. But being the premier (and only) site that gives you the best coverage of Hulu Plus movies, I don't mind taking the time at all. I'm hoping it has nothing to do with the recent shake-up going on that Josh just reported on the other day (here), and with Hulu wanting to be bought because of financial problems stemming from multiple sources, this makes one wonder what's going to happen to the Criterion Collection and their deal with Hulu. I'm crossing my fingers that whoever buys the service, be it Amazon, Google or Yahoo (who is the frontrunner), it doesn't ruin the deal in place for Criterion and its films. »
- James McCormick
25 June 2011 8:16 PM, PDT | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
We got some pretty Big big news to pass on to all you Walking Dead freaks. The critically acclaimed AMC series has finally cast two more popular characters from the comic book on which the show is based. Early into the new season, Rick Grimes and his crew of survivors will encounter a farming family that has been ravaged by zombies. Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood, Monster, Junebug) will play Hershel Greene. "He is the patriarch of the family," says… »
25 June 2011 11:37 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
And the survivor count continues for Season Two of the hit AMC series "The Walking Dead" as more casting news has broken this morning, and of course we have the lowdown for ya right here. Ready to meet the Greenes?
According to TV Guide, Lauren Cohan ("Supernatural", "The Vampire Diaries", "Chuck") has been cast as Glenn's (Steven Yuen) love interest, Maggie Greene, and veteran actor Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood, Monster, Junebug) has been cast as her father, Hershel.
"He's a veterinarian with a great sense of humanity and a very unique take on the Walkers," says producer Gale Anne Hurd. "Not everyone in his family survives. Scott was chosen because of his tremendous scope and gravitas."
In this latest season of AMC's "The Walking Dead" TV series, the survivors arrive at Hershel's Farm, where we will meet Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), a vet (as in a veterinarian); his daughter, »
- Uncle Creepy
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