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That is admittedly not a fancy title for a very fancy hair style. Perhaps you have a suggestion for a better title for this lovely hairstyle?
Basically, it?s super simple?- you just part the hair and then hold it down. Use some braiding thread or matching yarn (as I did and you just ?sew? the hair together. Obviously you are not piercing your kids? scalp! but rather, you just weave a yarn needle under and over and under and over the hair all along the parted hair, picking up more hair as you go.
If you click on a picture below, it will show you a much bigger detailed picture.
? This style took me only 50-60 minutes on Sugar, and it lasted about a week and a half. If I do it again (and I will!) I will just do smaller parts and it will last longer. It?s also a nice break for the scalp and hair from braiding? there is no pulling at all with this style.
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Big Oil never thought it could compete with Hollywood on narratives, but Matt Damon?s anti-fracking movie may have given the industry an opening to get its message out. Promised Land, released on Friday, has been panned by critics and garnered a poor rating of 54 out of a possible 100 points gleaned from previews of 29 movie critics by metacritic.com (as a contrast, the movie Lincoln earned 86 points).
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Is Demi Moore leaning on fellow divorc? Russell Brand to get through her split from Ashton Kutcher?
Yes, according to The Sun. The British tabloid reported that the pair has recently bonded over the breakup of their marriages and a shared love of yoga.
The report suggests that the two stars might be more than just good friends, referencing a January 19 date to the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The New York Post, however, noted that Moore's rumored new beau -- 31-year-old restaurateur Harry Morton -- accompanied them on the outing, suggesting that the actress' budding relationship with Brand is likely a platonic one.
Moore announced her split from Kutcher in November 2011, amid reports of the "Two and a Half Men" actor's infidelity. He filed for divorce from Moore more than a year later in December 2012.
Brand filed for divorce from Katy Perry in December 2011 after just 14 months of marriage. The two finalized their split in July 2012.
If Brand and Moore are, indeed, taking comfort in one another post-split, then they wouldn't be the first Tinseltown twosome to do so. Click through the slideshow below to test your knowledge of other celebrity pals who banded together after divorce.
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A Miami paper says Alex Rodriguez (ARod) of the New York Yankees purchased human growth hormone (HGH) and other banned substances from a Miami clinic.
Major League Baseball says it is "extremely disappointed" about a new report that says records from an anti-aging clinic in the Miami area link New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez and other players to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs.
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The Miami New Times, a popular alternative weekly, said in a story Tuesday that it had obtained files through an employee at a recently closed clinic in south Florida that show Rodriguez purchased HGH and other substances.
"We are always extremely disappointed to learn of potential links between players and the use of performance-enhancing substances. ... Through our Department of Investigations, we have been actively involved in the issues in South Florida," MLB's statement said.
Rodriguez, the New York Yankees slugger currently recovering from hip surgery, has admitted using steroids from 2001-03 but insisted he stopped after that.
"We fully support the Commissioner's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. This matter is now in the hands of the Commissioner's Office," the Yankees said in a statement. "We will have no further comment until that investigation has concluded."
Other players named by the New Times as appearing in the records at Biogenesis include Melky Cabrera, Gio Gonzalez, Bartolo Colon and Nelson Cruz. Cabrera, the All-Star game MVP for the San Francisco Giants last season, was suspended 50 games in August for failing a drug test. The outfielder has signed with the Toronto Blue Jays as a free agent.
Colon, a pitcher for the Oakland A's, was also suspended 50 games in August.
Gonzalez, who went 21-8 for the Washington Nationals last season, and Cruz, who hit 24 home runs for the Texas Rangers, had not previously been linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
The Rangers said in a statement that after being contacted by the New Times late last week, they notified Major League Baseball. The club said it had no further comment.
Gonzalez posted on his Twitter feed: "I've never used performance enhancing drugs of any kind and I never will, I've never met or spoken with tony Bosch or used any substance."
The report said that the notes of clinic chief Anthony Bosch list the players' names and the substances they received, including human growth hormone and steroids. Several unidentified employees and clients confirmed to the publication that the clinic distributed the substances, the paper said. The employees said that Bosch bragged of supplying drugs to professional athletes but they never saw the sports stars in the office.
Any player found by MLB to use banned, performance-enhancing substances, is subject to suspension.
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One year after his last treatment, a six-year-old boy with recurrent neuroblastoma is in complete remission for his high-risk metastatic cancer. Doctors reported this case study in the January 2013 issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was funded in part by a joint grant from the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, Pierce Phillips Charity and Solving Kids' Cancer.
Current treatments for high-risk neuroblastoma patients include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, and immunotherapy. Less than half of the children survive in spite of the intensive and toxic standard therapy. Long term survival after a relapse is less than 5%.
Previous clinical trials in adult solid tumors have successfully used cancer-specific targets (NY-ESO-1, MAGE-A1, and MAGE-A3) to kill cancer cells. Now, scientists at the University of Louisville have used these same targets for neuroblastoma by creating a vaccine that causes the body's own immune system to attack the tumor cells. Dendritic cells are immune cells collected from the patient and grown in cultures after they are exposed to specific antigens. The dendritic cells "teach" the patient's T-cells to seek out and kill the cancer cells after they are returned to the patient through a series of injections.
Cancer treatment vaccines differ from other vaccines in that they treat active cancers or help to prevent recurrence. The principal investigator for this study, Kenneth Lucas, M.D., is the division chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at the University of Louisville Department of Pediatrics. The funding provided critical support to further Dr. Lucas' ongoing work to find new treatments for neuroblastoma and other deadly childhood cancers.
In the case study, one year after the patient's last vaccination, the tumors cells that were located in the boy's bone marrow disappeared and he now shows no evidence of disease.
The study includes children with sarcomas as well as neuroblastoma, and will be completed in 2013.
For patients with relapsed neuroblastoma, there are few promising treatment options in clinical trials. More effective and less toxic treatments are desperately needed.
"This research builds on five years of pre-clinical research, which identified three new immunological targets that are specific to this pediatric cancer," said Scott Kennedy, the Executive Director of Solving Kids' Cancer. "The case study highlights the potential therapeutic progress that can be made against neuroblastoma, and brings hope to patients and their families in finding a lasting cure."
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Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation
The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation honors the memory of Andrew McDonough, founded by Andrew's mom, dad and sister. The overall goal of The B+ Foundation is to "Do Good." Providing financial assistance to families of children with cancer, The B+ Foundation has awarded over $500,000 to hundreds of families from around the country in their time of greatest need. The B+ Foundation also sponsors research to find cures for childhood cancers and advancements in chemotherapy. Information about the Foundation and its activities can be found at BePositive.org.
Pierce Phillips Charity
The Pierce Phillips Charity was founded in loving memory of our son, Pierce Alexander in June 2011. Our mission is devoted to the eradication of pediatric cancer through funding research and to improving the lives of the children and their families who are battling this disease. For more information, please visit Piercephillipscharity.org.
Solving Kids' Cancer
Created by two fathers who lost children to pediatric cancer, Solving Kids' Cancer is committed to significantly improving survivorship of the deadliest childhood cancers. 100% of all donations are used to find, fund, and manage clinical trials and scientific programs to rapidly develop more effective and less toxic treatments. Solving Kids' Cancer is a 501(c)(3) public charity. To learn more, please visit SolvingKidsCancer.org.
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Solving Kids' Cancer
One year after his last treatment, a six-year-old boy with recurrent neuroblastoma is in complete remission for his high-risk metastatic cancer. Doctors reported this case study in the January 2013 issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was funded in part by a joint grant from the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, Pierce Phillips Charity and Solving Kids' Cancer.
Current treatments for high-risk neuroblastoma patients include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, and immunotherapy. Less than half of the children survive in spite of the intensive and toxic standard therapy. Long term survival after a relapse is less than 5%.
Previous clinical trials in adult solid tumors have successfully used cancer-specific targets (NY-ESO-1, MAGE-A1, and MAGE-A3) to kill cancer cells. Now, scientists at the University of Louisville have used these same targets for neuroblastoma by creating a vaccine that causes the body's own immune system to attack the tumor cells. Dendritic cells are immune cells collected from the patient and grown in cultures after they are exposed to specific antigens. The dendritic cells "teach" the patient's T-cells to seek out and kill the cancer cells after they are returned to the patient through a series of injections.
Cancer treatment vaccines differ from other vaccines in that they treat active cancers or help to prevent recurrence. The principal investigator for this study, Kenneth Lucas, M.D., is the division chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at the University of Louisville Department of Pediatrics. The funding provided critical support to further Dr. Lucas' ongoing work to find new treatments for neuroblastoma and other deadly childhood cancers.
In the case study, one year after the patient's last vaccination, the tumors cells that were located in the boy's bone marrow disappeared and he now shows no evidence of disease.
The study includes children with sarcomas as well as neuroblastoma, and will be completed in 2013.
For patients with relapsed neuroblastoma, there are few promising treatment options in clinical trials. More effective and less toxic treatments are desperately needed.
"This research builds on five years of pre-clinical research, which identified three new immunological targets that are specific to this pediatric cancer," said Scott Kennedy, the Executive Director of Solving Kids' Cancer. "The case study highlights the potential therapeutic progress that can be made against neuroblastoma, and brings hope to patients and their families in finding a lasting cure."
###
Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation
The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation honors the memory of Andrew McDonough, founded by Andrew's mom, dad and sister. The overall goal of The B+ Foundation is to "Do Good." Providing financial assistance to families of children with cancer, The B+ Foundation has awarded over $500,000 to hundreds of families from around the country in their time of greatest need. The B+ Foundation also sponsors research to find cures for childhood cancers and advancements in chemotherapy. Information about the Foundation and its activities can be found at BePositive.org.
Pierce Phillips Charity
The Pierce Phillips Charity was founded in loving memory of our son, Pierce Alexander in June 2011. Our mission is devoted to the eradication of pediatric cancer through funding research and to improving the lives of the children and their families who are battling this disease. For more information, please visit Piercephillipscharity.org.
Solving Kids' Cancer
Created by two fathers who lost children to pediatric cancer, Solving Kids' Cancer is committed to significantly improving survivorship of the deadliest childhood cancers. 100% of all donations are used to find, fund, and manage clinical trials and scientific programs to rapidly develop more effective and less toxic treatments. Solving Kids' Cancer is a 501(c)(3) public charity. To learn more, please visit SolvingKidsCancer.org.
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has resumed its search for alien planets after resting for 10 days to work out kinks in its attitude control system, mission officials announced Tuesday.
Kepler went into a protective "safe mode" on Jan. 17 after engineers detected elevated friction levels in one of its reaction wheels ? devices that maintain the observatory's position in space. Engineers spun the wheels down to zero speed, hoping the break would redistribute lubricant and bring the friction back down to normal.
That phase is now over and Kepler is back in action, though it will take time to determine if the problem is solved.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA's top expert on near-Earth objects says that new telescope systems are gradually getting a handle on potentially threatening asteroids. But comets? That's a completely different story.
Kepler began coming out of safe mode at 2:30 p.m. EST Sunday and started collecting science data again at 8 p.m. EST Monday, officials wrote in a mission update today. [ Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets ]
"The spacecraft responded well to commands and transitioned from thruster control to reaction wheel control as planned," Kepler mission manager Roger Hunter wrote in the update. "During the 10-day resting safe mode, daily health and status checks with the spacecraft using NASA's Deep Space Network were normal."
Kepler flags exoplanets by detecting the telltale brightness dips caused when they pass in front of their parent stars from the instrument's perspective. The telescope requires three functioning reaction wheels to stay locked onto its roughly 150,000 target stars.
When Kepler launched in March 2009, it had four reaction wheels ? three for immediate use, and one spare. But one wheel (known as number two) failed in July 2012, so a major problem with the currently glitchy wheel (called number four) could spell the end of the $600 million Kepler mission.
It's unknown at the moment if the 10-day rest period will bring wheel number four back into line.
"Over the next month, the engineering team will review the performance of reaction wheel #4 before, during and after the safe mode to determine the efficacy of the rest operation," Hunter wrote.
The wheel has acted up before without causing serious problems.
"Reaction wheel #4 has been something of a free spirit since launch, with a variety of friction signatures, none of which look like reaction wheel #2, and all of which disappeared on their own after a time," Hunter wrote.
To date, Kepler has discovered more than 2,700 exoplanet candidates. While just 105 of them have been confirmed by follow-up observations so far, mission scientists estimate that more than 90 percent of them will end up being the real deal.
Follow Space.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall? or Space.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook? and? Google+.
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When my husband and I toured a preschool last week, the owner told me that her husband, a classical musician, sometimes pops in to play piano for the kids. I assumed she was trying to impress us?what parent doesn?t want a little extra Bach in her child?s life??but then she explained, nervously, that she was telling us because she felt she had to. Might the occasional presence of a penis, her look implied, put us off from her preschool?
Should it? Our son?s current day care is run by a man, and our go-to date night baby sitters are named Matt and Eric. But the more people I talk to and the more things I read, the more I realize that many parents are uncomfortable, or at least much less comfortable, hiring men for child care positions, even if they have the same experience and qualifications. But is this cultural uneasiness fair? Is it based in fact, or is it the product of fear (of molestation, of male ineptitude)? Is it sexism?
There are, of course, good reasons to hire female baby sitters. Because they?re in demand, women typically have more experience than men do. And most of us were raised by women?not just our stay-at-home moms but also the women who dominated our day care environments and preschools and elementary schools, so it makes sense that we choose women to care for our kids. (Things haven?t changed much since I was young: In 2011, only 5.5 percent of U.S. child care workers and 3.3 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers were men. Male caregivers, jokingly/derisively referred to as mannies these days, have a hard time making a living.)
If you crunch the numbers on abuse, women are a safer choice, too. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report from 2001 (unfortunately the most recent statistics on baby sitter crimes), male baby sitters are three times more likely than female baby sitters to sexually abuse the children they care for. (When it comes to physical abuse, female baby sitters are more frequently implicated, but since most baby sitters are women, this fact isn?t surprising.) Actual baby sitter crime rates are low, though. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in 2011, only 0.4 percent of all child abuse perpetrators were day care providers or baby sitters. (And overall, child abusers are more likely to be female than male.)
Plus, many sexual abuse allegations against caregivers are false. In 1983, a mother accused Ray Buckey, a young man working in a preschool in California, of molesting her 2 ?-year-old son. The accusation landed Buckey in prison for five years, caused seven other employees to get indicted, and resulted in what was, at the time, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history. After interviewing and examining more than 400 children who had attended the preschool, doctors and psychologists diagnosed 384 as having been sexually abused. And then ? all charges were dismissed; as it turned out, the mother who made the initial accusations suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. But by that point, fears over ritual abuse were sweeping the country (and eventually the world), and between 1983 and 1991, the U.S. government investigated more than 100 U.S. schools and centers for allegations of satanic ritual abuse in what has been called a ?modern American witch hunt.? A study that analyzed 12 of the most famous cases found that, out of 22 defendants that were tried, 15 were found guilty. All but three of these verdicts were later overturned.
Not all parents are afraid of abuse, of course. Some simply don?t trust men to dote on their kids like women do, even as fathers take on a much greater child care role in many households these days. One dad, a friend of a friend, explained it to me this way: ?If my wife and I had doppelg?ngers, I'd feel better if our child was with doppelg?nger Katie than with doppelg?nger Brady; doppelg?nger Brady?would just be a little neglectful by comparison.? I get it: My son is about three times more likely to come home from the playground with a bloody nose if he goes with my husband than with me. At the same time, recent research suggests that daddy time is great for kids precisely because male parenting styles promote independence and risk-taking. In 2012, the London Early Years Foundation, a charity that provides child care services throughout London, interviewed its (mostly female) staff and found that 75 percent believed that male workers offer kids something that the female workers don?t, including different perspectives and, yes, better fantasy superhero play.??
Another oft-mentioned ?reason? for avoiding mannies or other male child care workers is the very logical I just don?t get why a guy would want to do a job like that. In other words, there?s got to be something wrong with a man who wants to spend all day looking after other people?s kids. The implication here (apart from that men who like kids must be pedophiles) is that men don?t belong in child care, perhaps because they more naturally belong in other professions?more obviously ?masculine? career-oriented jobs.
This bias against men is a bias against women, too: It re-affirms the woman?s fixed position in society as much as the man?s. According to Indiana University sociologist Stephen Benard, dominant social groups are usually stereotyped as competent, intelligent, and confident, while subordinate groups are considered warm, kind, and caring. In our society, these two poles describe men and women. Since women are the ?caring? sex, we consider them to be the obvious choice for child care?but in doing so, we are (perhaps subconsciously) characterizing them as subordinate. And in fact, when men do work in preschools or day care centers, they usually get promoted to director positions much more quickly than women do, in what University of Texas sociologist Christine Williams calls the ?glass escalator? effect.
That?s not to say men working in child care have an easy time. ?As a male in the infant-toddler room, it seems as if I am held to a higher standard by the parents,? describes one part-time employee. Some say they are not allowed to change diapers, while others make sure they are never, ever left alone with children, because they fear that parents would get suspicious. But parents do sometimes get used to the idea. A few years ago, 4 out of 5 employees in one of the day care centers run by the London Early Years Foundation were men. (England and Germany, unlike the United States, are pushing to get more men into child care.) ?We wondered what the parents would do,? explains foundation CEO June O?Sullivan. ?There was a little bit of anxiety to start with, but once the parents got familiar with the team, they were fantastic.?
The best thing we can do as parents is to stay open-minded about whom we hire and also be thorough in our background checks of all potential child care candidates. For my part, I know I can?t control what my son thinks, but I can change what he sees, and I want him to see a world in which, yes, women and men can both hold high-paying executive jobs. But they can both teach preschool and baby-sit him, too. Matt and Eric are awesome.
In addition to the sources mentioned, The Kids would like to thank Susan Murray from San Jose State University, David Finkelhor from the University of New Hampshire, and Sandi McLeod from the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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The world is changing, despite the attitudes propelled by the gayphobic understanding of Sodom and Gomorrah stories, a higher proportion of the population is moving towards acceptance. Being a pluralist (respecting the otherness of others and acceptance of God-given uniqueness of each human), I am blessed to be connected with almost all of God?s creation.
As a member of the family of faiths, invite everyone to join the forum WorldMuslimCongress@yahoogroups.com , we are open to hearing all views, including difficult ones so we can learn and understand each other.
Gay and lesbians are a part of our society, indeed, Muslims need to come up with a better way of understanding God?s creation (49:13) and not reduce his wisdom to the size of our limitations.
The following comments contributed to the conversation, and we thank the following members; Dr. Javed Jameel, Mian Waheed, Rafiq Lodhia, Moazzam Syed, Khalid Faridi, Linda Barto, Khan Mohammad Hanif and Mike Ghouse. I urge you to read all the three threads to get a fuller view of the discussion.
Mike Ghouse, a Muslim committed to do his share of work in building cohesive societies, where no human has to live in apprehension, discomfort or fear of the other.
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Your statements below are difficult to understand, and as Muslims we need to grow up and learn to discuss and dialogue, and not jump to conclusions and condemnations.
The tyranny of rulers with Muslim labels pushed Islam out of the domain of doing good deeds that benefited humanity, and discouraged producing knowledge in science, algebra, math, medicine and other sciences, they kept screaming at them that it was the corrupt west that is getting away from Deen. Muslims barely have a few Noble prize winners; look at the others, where is the drag?
?Those dictators, monarchs and tyrants, wearing Muslim labels passed judgments against people who wanted to conduct a civil dialogue. These men wanted to shut out a civil conversation to learn,? God has so much knowledge in Quraan, yet we want to discourage who seek, and punish and condemn those who disagree with us, because we have the power? to beat up on those who disagree with us. .
When people are not capable of discussion, they resort to cursing, pushing, threatening others to obedience. That is not acceptable in civil societies; the purpose of dialogue is to find solutions and not pass judgments. The best one among you is the ones who understand and learn about each other. You seem to fail Quraan on this account.
There is no need for you to call people in our group to condemn where you disagree, and why should they? Why do you want to divide people? Instead, my friend, urge people to intellectually evaluate each value presented here? and let each one of us make up our own minds. Don?t ask a person to take sides that is politics my brother.
You are very capable of bringing wisdom to the table; instead of ?condemnations? this is not the kind of dialogue
Thank you
Mike Ghouse
Let me be blunt now.
I strongly and unequivocally condemn your acceptance/support for homosexuality.
I strongly and unequivocally condemn your persistent efforts to misinterpret Quran to suit your misconceived missions.
?I strongly and unequivocally condemn your efforts to bury the voice of the majority of Islam lovers under the weight of your mischievous convictions.
?Stop this! You cannot be allowed to present and interpret Quran the way you like. I totally reject you as one who has any right to talk of Quran. Quran cannot accept sins and crimes of gravest nature, the crimes and sins that devastate social order, family system and cause widespread mortality and morbidity.
I call every member to denounce Mike's attempts to legitimize all the vices prohibited by Quran in the name of Quran.
? I resign from the forum in protest from this very moment. I cannot stand to such blatant support of what is expressly declared Haram by God. My resignation will save you from a troublemaker from your point of view.
? In extreme anguish?
Dr Javed Jamil
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Here is a summary recap, the gay and lesbians are a part of our society, indeed, Muslims need to come up with a better way of learning and understanding God?s creation (49:13) and not reduce God?s wisdom to the size of our limitations in understanding the mysteries. May God guide us to respect all that he has created, Amen!
1.?? We have come a long way in learning and knowing about each other; respecting the otherness of others (Mecca peace treaty and the signature); saying to you is your Deen (Sura Kafirun)? respectfully, and listening to prophet delivering and explaining Gods wisdom - there is no compulsion in matters of faith.
2. ? Human rights are an expression of the God-given rights to breathe and to live. Everyone has a right to live regardless of what he or she does. The story of Prophet Suleman and how he denied food to a sinner, and how God took the powers back is told for a purpose;
3.?? Most of us believe that God has a hand in creation; all is created by him or her. We talked about Prophet Muhammad getting frustrated because people were not listening to him, God said to him, your job is to deliver the message and his was to give guidance. Allah did not permit the prophet to curse them to hell. The Quraan also tells that had he wanted, he would have created all of us alike.
4.?? The basis for hate towards Gays comes from the Sodom and Gomorrah story. The understanding comes from a population who hated gays, hated lepers, hated just about anyone who differed from the kings or the men in power.
5.? ?However, as we are learning and knowing about each other, as Quraan guides, we are seeing a better world, a lot more needs to be done though. Minorities are being accepted, a Black man from 17% of the population can become a president, or a Muslim from with a similar percent of the population can be a president in India. Prophet Muhammad said we are all created equal; no Arab is superior to the other and vice versa. We have accepted the rights of Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews and others to live their lives among the opposite majority we have come a long way. Prophets vision was a society, where a single woman can go to Damascus and come back to Madinah, unharmed. That woman represents the weak, the minority, and the one who is different. We have ways to go, but God willing, we will. We will learn to respect his creation.
6.?? Scriptures? Our inability to see the wisdom of God makes us reduce his words to smaller meanings. We have been misled about 4:34 (beating a woman) for 1400 years; we have been falsely injected with prejudice against Jews and Christians by messing with the translations of Quraan. Even the Arabic speaking Arabs like Ibn-Kathir and Ibn-Tamiyya have mis-led us. God wants us to create harmony among his creation which leads to peace; Islam.
7.?? ?All of us, followers of Bible and Quraan in particular and other scriptures in General need to focus on God?s wide universe and majesty. I received the following note from a Christian friend, and my understanding of God?s word in Quraan is similar, by the way the specific 6 verses in Quraan and Bible are identical.This is
not an attempt to continue the debate on homosexuality -- but a clarification of Jewish/Christian scripture that you quoted. You make reference below to the destruction of Sodom as a result of sodomy. That is misinterpretation. It was destroyed, in Jesus' words, because spirituality was totally lacking in every area. "For if the mighty (spiritual) works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day," Matthew 11:18-24.It's a well known fact that people often drink, take drugs and/or engage in sex as the
only way of releasing tension. Pray works better - that was Jesus' point.9.? ?I am not promoting Gay and Lesbian life style, it has always been there, and it will be there through the Day of Judgment. I am defending their rights in the pursuit of their happiness. It is a shame that fellow humans have to live in fear of the other on the basis of an understanding developed in a negative way. It suits most of us to bash and hate the others who are different, and we see the Bible and Quraan mis-interpreted that way.
10. ?Indeed, Muslims need to come up with a better way of learning and understanding God???s creation (Children is used in Christian world - Muslims don???t, as God is neither begotten nor begets).?
If you wish your name be not included, I will just used Initials.?
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Mike Ghouse
Muslims together building cohesive societies.
Thanks Mian Waheed for sharing this piece
Where it?s good to be gays and where it is not
Indeed a very good and passionate debate!
I agree, a new mouse trap is needed to help people find the right way. I also do not agree this is a genetic issue, rather an acquired life style.?
Yet, I would humbly submit that discrimination can never be an answer. And extrapolating a bit further, on this or any basis, killing of one citizen by another citizen can never be legitimized or tolerated.?
If any one ever has to be sentenced for such an unfortunate punishment, jurisdiction belongs to state and no one else. ?
All of us who feel very strongly about this subject (for or against) should only rely on peaceful means, coupled with humble, ?sincere and caring prayers - being the most important way.?
Let's nurture and preserve the humanity as a tribute to and for the sake of its Real Creator! With truth and nothing but truth - ?for His Blessings. ?
Moazam Syed
Salam
Homosexuality is indeed an abnormality. It's a strange logic that 'if someone feels its normal...". I wonder who doesn't feel that he is a normal even an extremist does that!
It did not always exist as claimed by some in this forum unless Allah didn't know about it when He reprimanded the people of Prophet Lut (pbuh). Why no one talks of counselling the homosexuals instead. Perhaps devil's work and promise that he will change even the khalq of Allah is proving true. And who shall be saved? He has no control over those who believe and fear the establishment of the day of Judgement.
The justice should not be confused with immorality of that act. No one believes that on disputes between a homosexual and a normal human the law should favour the latter just because of his normal sexuality instead of the cause or crime.
Quran exhorts people to continue commanding good and forbidding the evil lest they will be affected by the fitna whose victims will not be only those who indulge in sin/crime but others too. As Prophet elaborated this, if you don't stop people from damaging the boat, when it sinks everyone will drown with it not only those who are causing the damage. So Javed Jamil and others should continue to do just that and in his tolerance Mike has allowed this forum to be as humanly free as?possible. The progonists and the antagonists have similar freedom to enunciate their viewpoints.
One of the greatest things taught by Quran is Justice- adl- which must be maintained at all cost. And here it means civility even when criticizing the view point.
Wassalaam
Khalid Faridi
The Qur'an indicates house arrest, and then it says "...until Allah provides a better way..." (4: 15).? I think Muslims should be discussing what that better way is and how we can achieve it.? (I wrote extensively about this in my book Memoirs of a Hillbilly Muslim in a chapter entitled "Real Gay Rights."? See my website www.Lit-by-Linda.com.)? Muslims need to come up with a "better way" to help lesbians and homosexuals escape from their deviant lifestyle and lead normal, healthy, happy lives.Asalam alaykum,
Linda "iLham" Barto
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The best ones among you are the ones who understand each other, know each other. Once we know each other conflicts fade and solutions emerge.?God knows as individuals and groups we are in eternal conflict out of security needs, need to dominate and arrogance.
Rafiq,
thanks for sharing this video where Piers Morgan interviews President Ahmedinejad
Ahmedinejad has always responded well, but what Piers failed to ask was, "Mr. President, you sound good, but do you mean it? Can you allow us to investigate what you are telling is the truth?"? If he is telling the truth, he deserves to be applauded.
Javed,
I respect your take, that you have said everything that needs to be said, its your choice to be engaged or not. The issue is not going away, more and more members of fellow humanity feel a sense of relief that at least in some nations, they can live their life, as they feel.
You and I do not, and should not have the authority to punish a fellow human for their faith and personal behavior between two individuals. If we do, then where does it bloody end? Look at what is happening to each one of the people - among Muslims, Sunni, Shia or?Ahmadiyya, where there is Muslim majority run regimes, or any group, the Christians, Hindus and Jews are not free either.
As a Muslim, I would not let anyone become a partner with God and make decisions. No Muslim king, tyrant, dictator, Caliph has a right to punish any one's faith and personal practices, as long as they?are not robbing, stealing, physically or emotionally hurting, not breaking a contract, they can live their lives, the way that they are comfortable.?I wish all nations have the freedom that we have in the US, India, UK and other democracies.
We all need to stand up for freedom of individuals.
Religion is personal values, and not to force on others.
Jazak Allah Khair
Mike Ghouse
Dear Dr Javed Jamil and friends salam and rehmat.
Sir, its up to you what belief system you ascribe to whom you decide to hold as a final authority in the matter of DIIN (?????), its not my business. However when you quote verses in support of your opinion, you should not confuse reader by quoting half truth. Allah in verse?4:15?is giving guidance to men how to deal with women generally if they are found guilty of lewdness (?????????). The verse is gender specific. You've omitted the entire verse from your quoted translation and jumped to the preceding verse to 'support your argument'. And concluded 'if two men' are guilty of lewdness? However, you have now admitted your derived meaning is even debatable by scholars. All translator and commentators are unanimous that in verse?4:15?commandment is directed towards women. Even if for argument sake I accept your quoted faulty and questionable translation, you could not cite a verse that says men guilty of lewdness (?????????) as a last resort be executed!?
After reading your quoted translation, you will realise that it does not paint a fuller picture on the subject matter. Your meaning in isolation, with out connection to the former verse is incomplete and unclear. It is based on translator's personal opinion, no regards to context, totally contrary to Arabic language rules and uncorroborated by Qur'an. You quoted translation of verses 4:15-16 as follows:-
? ? ?"If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and
? ? ? amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful." (Qur'an?4:15-16).
The position with hadith followers is not to accept repentance and for sin of lewdness they must administer death penalty. How can you leave alone (homosexuals) when they are dead? Is the Qur'anic command and hadith punishment be the same. Is Allah right or inventor of hadith? Obviously, both can not be right???
The same mistake and method is applied by biased non-muslims to criticising Islam through half truths.The basic principle that I adhere as a Muslim.
1. The Qur'an is the Word of God, ultimate truth and final arbitrator on matters of belief and disputes.
2. God alone is the final authority on all matters. He shares His authority with NO ONE.
3. Muhammad pbuh is last Messenger, he followed commandment delivered to him and contained in the last revealed Book from Allah swt. He had no authority to cancel Qur'anic injunctions and substitute anything as a Messenger. Even hazrat Zaid did not follow his command because Zaid knew in his personal matters 'Muhammad the man', cannot enforce his authority. ?"Behold! Thou didst say to one who had received the grace of Allah and thy favour: "Retain thou (in wedlock) thy wife,... (33:37)
4. As far as Secondary and other source of 'Islam' is concern, I trust Allah's sure commandment by following His Qur'an. ?"Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other Than God, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy". (4:82)
Any material contradictory to the teaching of the Qur'an can not be from Allah or His messenger. The messenger was sent to convey Allah's message. If Qur'an says punishment for adultery is 100 lashes that is good enough for me. Some one says that adulterers should be killed for xy 'commandment' from 'Allah' that is clear-cut contradiction to Allah's command.
The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment". (24:2)
I do not believe, stoning to death for (?????????) adultery is from Allah nor do I think Muhammad had gone against revealed injunction.?
5. I will not be asked what people before me did. Allah would judge me on my own merit. How did I arrive at a certain beliefs. ? "That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case!" (2:134).
6. The Messenger of Allah will not be called for anything but to testify against Ummah's conduct and when he will be told that they fell well short of Allah' commandments, The Prophet would say:? ?"O my Lord! Truly my people took this Qur'an for just foolish nonsense." (25:30)
I am trying to act on dictates contained in Allah's BOOK. If I am asked at The Judgment Day why didn't I follow so and so person and this or that ahadith. I will hopefully be in position to reply because - You alone my God is worthy of command and I didn't follow other source because it contradicted your supreme authority and WORDS!!!
May Allah guide me and help me follow His command.?
Hanif
Dear Mr Hanif
ASAK?
You are talking as if the translation of 4: 16 was mine. There is of course a debate about whom it refers to. Man and man, woman and man or woman and woman. The dominant view is that it refers to homosexuality. Others say it represents any two. But the Quran???s stand on homosexuality is so clear that anyone who talks of accepting homosexuality is a clear transgressor.
As I had made it clear that I am not a Qur???an-only protagonist, and I believe that understanding Qur???an requires several other sources, the most important of course being the Prophet???s own interpretations and explanations followed by those of his close associates. In my previous letter, I have also shown that we may require reading Old Testament to understand a few verses. Abraham wanted ???mercy??? on the people of Sodom because he feared that some innocents might also be killed. How exactly the conversation took place has been given in detail by Genesis.
As far as the position of Islam towards homosexuality is concerned, you can see it summed up in the following article:?
This will explain to you why I have advocated ???death??? as one of the possible options.
As you have deliberately chosen to neglect my questions regarding permissibility of institutionalization and commercialization of homosexuality in Qur???an, and Mike Ghouse is determined to keep the debate going, I now feel I have said enough. To repeat Mike???s oft-repeated words, ???To you your method of understanding things, to me mine.????
I don???t have any more time to continue debating with one who refuses to condemn homosexuality and accept that if mankind is to be protected, a concerted campaign against homosexuality is needed. I have repeatedly said that there is room for debating the nature of punishment, but there is no room for legalisation, social and moral sanction, and above all, commercialization of homosexuality. If you can understand this much, my position is vindicated. You can otherwise join the bandwagon of Mike who has completely forgotten the difference between normal human beings and sinners and criminals. If his argument is followed, even murderers and terrorists need compassion. ?He continues day and night to say that he loves Quran but is negating its position on almost everything that it speaks about, from the question of Halal and Haram to belief and disbelief.?
Javed Jamil
From: KHAN MOHAMMED HANIF ?
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 11:47 AM
Dear all and Dr Javed Jamil salam w rehmat
Dr Javed Jamil has quoted two verses from the Holy Qur'an but the conclusion he draw from them is absolutely misconstrued. Any one with basic knowledge of Arabic grammar will ?see it. I invite reader to open the BOOK and study the relevant verses and will know that these verses has no correlation with male perpetrators of homosexuality.?
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The word ??????????????????? is feminine plural relative pronoun and the whole verse is addressing group?of women. The theme carries on to the next verse, addressing group of women, among them two (or more) may be allegedly?have committed, an act of ???????????????????. I accept commentators has also referred it to lesbianism. I think the term is used here is more comprehensive, however, before arriving at a informed decision please consider the following.
The verse (4:16) is referred to two women because masculine dual relative pronoun ????????????????????? is used. To pin these verses on men is a deliberate attempt to mislead reader and it is contrary to Arabic grammar rules. Any such effort must be condemned, absolutely, as it amounts to ??????? tehreef.?
After the above explanation, I quote both verses, so reader can understand the actual context.?
4:15?- "AND AS FOR those of your women who become guilty of immoral conduct, call upon four from among you who have witnessed their guilt; and if these bear witness thereto, CONFINE THE GUILTY WOMEN to their houses until death takes them away or God opens for them a way [through repentance]".?
How would one get FOUR WITNESSES? If this act take place in privacy? Therefore, context is clear that it is a public law offence. Any such act if proven must be appropriately punished. The Qur'an, however, doesn't leave punishment for speculation and thus prescribes house confinement as a punishment.?
4:16?-"And punish [thus] both of the guilty parties; but if they both REPENT and MEND their ways, LEAVE THEM ALONE: for, behold,?GOD is an acceptor of REPENTANCE, A DISPENSER OF GRACE". ?The Question may arise, if after repentance the same offence is recommitted then what should be done. ?Allah has already answered it, confine them to the house!!!. Or any other appropriate arrangement that is thrashed out amicably between the family and the habitual offender.?
DR JAVED JAMIL sahib please explain to reader whom you have mislead that as a last resort homosexuals/Lesbians may be killed?
These verses deals with a wider social problem and not limited to lesbianism. Such acts those ultimately leads to prostitution, all such acts are PUNISHED even under the English law. So Punishment is not exclusive to Muslims. This is accepted sharia of many countries. Those reader who need further details on the issue can locate my article by logging to the following blog:
Sep 7, 2011 ??? Muslim Woman: Last amongst the Equals By Mohammed Khan Hanif (UK).?
What more can I say except express my frustration through Ghalib.??
Ya rab na voh samjhe hain na samjhaien ge meri baat, De aur dil unko jo na de mujhko zuban aur. Hanif
Dear Mr Hanif
It is you who is campaigning against me for something which I am not campaigning. I have made it clear several times that I am not campaigning for killing of homosexuals straightaway and have spoken of death sentence only as a last option in later phases. On the other hand you are campaigning against any punishment to the gays and instead advocating accepting their behaviour not only in private but also in public. As far as Islam is concerned, the options for punishment are very clear. Qur???an says:
If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful." (Qur'an 4:15-16)
Qur???an also prescribes exile, cutting of one hand and one leg and death as possible punishments for those that spread mischief.?
The Hadiths describe various punishments, which are well known, for different sexual misdemeanours.
Can you tell me if anyone has been punished in a Muslim country for homosexuality in recent years? Is there any news of discrimination against gays in Muslim countries? This is not because homosexuality is totally non-existent in the country but because it is considered illegal and immoral. The result is that the few who indulge in it do it clandestinely, and most of them, under the weight of social and moral pressures, sooner or later return to straighter ways. In West, what happened was due to the overwhelming role of economic fundamentalists whose only concern is the success of the market. This is why they simply did not let a sin silently remain at a low level in society but campaigned for its institutionalization. Their strategy has been simple. First talk of freedom of choice. Use ???compassion??? to defend sinners and criminals. Then produce figures to show that a considerable section of the population is already indulging in it with the aim of normalizing an abnormal behaviour. Then they would campaign for its legalization through the use of sophisticated logics and mischievous ???scientific??? reports. Once legalized, large scale commercialization would begin. This strategy was used for institutionalizing and commercializing almost all the social vices: adultery, premarital sex, promiscuity, prostitution, nudity and pornography and now homosexuality. The same is true for drinking and gambling. Each one became a big business with the result that sex is the most growing business today and within the sex market, gay market is the fastest growing. The line of the argument will be quite different when they are dealing with issues that do not support market interests. So promiscuity is promoted while polygamy is illegalized, abortion as such does not attract compassion but female infanticide is made a big issue. Killing of human fetuses in millions and millions oes not arouse compassion but death the murderers and rapists would.
This point, Mr. Hnaif is not what sort of punishment is to be given. The point is whether Qur???an can support legalization of homosexuality? Does Qur???an support its institutionalization and commercialization? Does Qur???an support gay marriages? If you are such a big expert and follower of Qur???an, answer these simple questions. The first need of the hour as far as Muslims are concerned, is to clearly and categorically state that homosexuality is a serious threat to mankind and must therefore be made illegal with adequate punishment to those who institutionalize and commercialize it. Once this much is done, the gay movement will lose its luster. The biggest success of the gay market has been the sanction of gay marriages with the right to adopt children, something which will ensure sustenance and growth in a big way. Poor children who would have otherwise had the bigger chances of growing as normal, will have to remain exposed to gay relationships throughout their period of growth. Obviously, a large number of them would grow into gays.
Regards
Javed Jamil
Source: http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2013/01/gay-and-lesbian-discussion-at-world.html
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Over the past decade, women with early-stage breast cancer have increasingly?opted for mastectomy over lumpectomy despite evidence that breast-conserving therapy plus radiation is as effective as removal of the breast.
This trend has seemed particularly prevalent among younger, more affluent women from urban areas. New research suggests such decisions may be particularly unwise.
Many women with breast cancer in one breast choose to have the other breast removed as well. Shown here, a microscopic image of breast cancer carcinoma. (Credit: Duncan Smith)
In a study published online Monday in the journal Cancer, researchers found that??early-stage breast cancer patients who undergo breast-conserving therapy ??lumpectomy and radiation ? instead of mastectomy may actually live longer.
?In light of the reports showing renewed interest in mastectomy, and because there have been few opportunities to observe long-term, treatment-associated outcomes in the general population, we asked whether the comparable survival outcome of BCT compared with mastectomy as seen in randomized controlled trials could be generalized to the non-clinical trial population,? wrote lead author E. Shelley Hwang, M.D., M.P.H., Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"There are lots of women who think the more [treatment] they do, the better they will do," she told HealthDay News. "This refutes that."
Source: http://shivayam0.blogspot.com/2013/01/online-surveys-surveys-for-cash.html
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1. Why is the salary information that dw simpson posts so different than the salary information that I see elsewhere? For example, when I look at lists of good jobs in the US it lists actuaries as having something like 80k median salary, but that doesn't seem to agree with the information posted on the dw simpson salary. The only explanation that I can think of is that the 80k doesn't include bonus whereas dw simpson does, as well as the fact that a number of actuaries never make fellowship, but is there anything else that could cause this discrepancy. I only ask this because it seems mind blowing that such a job exists that you can make mid 100s when you're 30 and work about 40 hours a week (and have it be a job that essentially no one has heard of). It just seems too good to be true.
2. How much math is involved in this profession? I am a math geek and consider it essential that a job I do consists of using a fair bit of math. I've heard that P/C maybe involves more math that other disciplines. Furthermore, I've heard that you use less and less math the further you advance in your career. Are both these things true? When compared to being a professor or engineer (two other jobs I am considering) is the amount of math used comparable? Are there an other jobs that I should consider as a math geek?
3. How much of a difference is there in the actuarial science programs of different universities. I've applied to Western, Waterloo, and U of T. I've heard that Waterloo has the best act sci program, but by how much? And why, specifically? Like, is it worth turning down thousands of dollars of scholarship from Western, for example, to go to Waterloo? If I wanted to go work in the States after graduation, is there a university of those three that's good in that respect?
Thanks in advance.
Source: http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=254932
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