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June 18, 2002

lool @ MAANDEEQ how did I forget you girl

ofcourse I come to see you and your minyaro Kamila perform also

June 17, 2002

polygamy will be fine by me as long as i'm not involved. In other words if somebody is having four wives than good luck to him so long as i'm not one of them :rolleyes:

I know it's allowed but even the prophet(saw) didn't encourage it. And we have a choice to accept it or ask to be released, and I am feeling the later one

June 17, 2002

loool @ Kamila those are some funky maah maahyo

Wooow cartan and jamaal-11 you two are the only reason I visit the poetry section....keep up the good work .....and keep on bringing the best

June 17, 2002

Abdinur, bro you go first

than I will tell ya what I can't live without.

now why do I see every1 saying they can't live without their parents? :rolleyes:

I can't live without one thing and it's definetly not my extended family....I mean I love them and all but I can still be around if they are gone na'meen

June 17, 2002

looooooool that was off da hoook walaahi i'm still laughing

June 15, 2002

Reprinted with permission from eCLAL, the online journal of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.

A serious and inclusive discussion of the future of the Ground Zero site is now underway. The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York is in the midst of conducting an important series of open public meetings on various aspects of the planning process. From the sidelines I’ve been following this conversation and have been keeping a close eye on the growing list of proposals by architects, urban planners, and others offering up cultural centers, art spaces, memorial parks and business complexes.

What is conspicuously absent from these proposals is any attention to religious needs that might be associated with the site. Even the discussion of the victims’ memorial that is to be erected as part of any rebuilding plan for the site, has been framed in essentially secular terms. No proposals even for the quiet, understated ecumenical chapels one finds in hospitals. As one of the many chaplains who witnessed the events of the 11th, and volunteered with many other clergy to help deal with some of the spiritual and emotional crises that followed, I’m wondering -- Why has religion suddenly been thrust to the sidelines?

Religious groups and organizations were among the first to respond to the attack. Moreover, in the days following the attack, Americans flocked to their synagogues, churches and mosques in record numbers. I will never forget watching the televised services held at the National Cathedral and Riverside Church, both powerful expressions of our collective sense of grief and hope.

But while those services were articulations of America’s common spirit, they also spoke to our religious particularities. As an American I listened intently to all the clergy who spoke, but as a Jew, I cared most about what the rabbis had to say. I imagine that this was the case for Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and Buddhists, all who were represented in those services. America is great because we not only allow for the freedom of religion, but we have a public square that can encourage our religious diversity at the right moments.

For this reason, I would ask, why not build a mosque at ground zero? And a church, and a synagogue as well? Why not erect a vast inter-religious center on the premises as a supplement to the secular, cultural, and artistic elements that will figure in the blueprint for the site’s reconstruction? An inter-religious center could serve for educational purposes, and the religiously specific chapels could be used for baptisms, confirmation ceremonies, bar and bat mitzvahs, and even weddings of those whose parents or loved ones have perished in the attacks. It would be a site of healing for many. And just imagine what it would be like for American Muslims, and Muslim visitors from abroad to visit such a shrine.

Building a mosque on the site would also send a message to the Islamic world about America, and our commitment to the freedom of religion. At a time when many Muslims are being fed endless distortions about America and what we value, it will take more than a publicity mission by Muhammad Ali to change America’s image.

What traditional religious adherents in the Islamic world, and elsewhere fail to comprehend is the great irony of American church-state separation: The more secular the state, the more religious the nation. In America, religious faith is freely chosen and religious communities are strong. In an increasingly diverse world, America may hold the model that the world needs.

But would building an inter-religious center at Ground Zero help?

Maybe a few misguided Muslims would go there to praise Allah for his great victory in destroying the towers - but I imagine the vast majority of American Muslims would go to simply offer prayers of gratitude that Allah, in his mercy, has created a place called America, where both freedom and faith can flourish.

The perception of America’s role in the world is being redefined. In addition to being regarded as an economic and military power, we are now seen as a global police force attempting to root out terror. But America is a spiritual power as well and it is important that we do what we can to get this message out. Building an inter-religious center on the site of the World Trade Center could be an important step in this direction. It would be a living testimony to the American conviction that secularity and diversity are not the enemies of faith, but are rather the very basis of spiritual strength and religious renewal.

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I thought it was interesting article, hope ya enjoy it

June 14, 2002

very beautiful tips

June 13, 2002

Manala_garaad_baa? jazaaka laahu kheyra sis for sharing that with us...that's the most beautiful lecture

maansha allaah

June 13, 2002

lulla I agree with Ameenah and Ahlaan 150% hope that helps

p.s your topics are nice as always...keep it coming sis

June 13, 2002

Tue Jun 11,12:06 AM ET

By Peter Henderson

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. have punched holes about 6,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair in a piece of plastic, creating a novel form of data storage.

After six years of work the Zurich-based researchers say they can fit 1 terabit of data -- effectively the contents of a 100-gigabyte computer hard drive -- on a postage stamp-size piece of plastic.

The data takes the form of up to a trillion holes drilled by a precise and extremely hot nano-needle, the researchers said.

In the world of data storage, dominated by disk drives which hold bits and bytes electromagnetically and flash memory cards for Palm Pilots and digital cameras that use electrical charges, holding information in hole-punches seems old hat.

However, the company that preceded IBM set the world on fire 110 years ago by making computer punch cards.

"One of our slogans is back to the future of mechanics," said Peter Vettiger, leader of the project, called Millipede, in a telephone interview from Zurich. His holes are 10 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, and about 3 billion of them fit in a punch card hole.

He said that in the best of circumstances, including IBM deciding to continue the project's funding, consumers might be able to buy by late 2005 a mechanical memory chip based on the research that would hold 5-10 gigabytes of data.

Information, which would be translated into a binary arrangement such as zeros and ones in other computer memory systems, is broken is broken into dots and dashes that become holes and flat surfaces on the plastic surface of the new chip.

The plastic sits on a piece of silicon. Hovering above it are roughly 1,000 tiny phonograph arms, each with a needle on the end.

The phonograph arm is actually made of two different materials that conduct heat differently. At 400 degrees centigrade, one side expands more than the other, bending the arm and plunging the hot needle into the plastic, creating a hole with a lip on the side.

Subsequently, a second plunge just to the side of the first would heat the material and cause the initial hole to fill in, making it possible to rewrite on a chip.

To read data, the needle is heated about 100 degrees less, so that the arm bends but the tip cannot melt the plastic. The tip then measures the resistance between the surface and what's beneath it. A hole reads differently than a flat area.

Vettiger said that the technology was best for low-power, mobile situations, since the chip works fine at speeds that are much slower than competing technologies.

Even so, the nanotech punch-card was fast enough to supply information to a broadband network, for instance, IBM said. With more energy, the chips can transfer information faster, he added.

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How likely is for this project to succeed? if and when it's completed would you use chips that are slower than the competing technologies?.

I personaly think it would not pass the planing stage because every product has to be funded by somebody who is convinced of the likelyhood of the product competing in the market share....and punch holes don't sound promising to me.

anyway the questions is what you guys think of this?

June 13, 2002