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Eid ul Adha (10 Dhul-Hijja) – the festival of sacrifice

Calf sitting in a field Animals are sacrificed and then distributed among family, friends and the poor

This is a four-day public holiday in Muslim countries.

The festival remembers the prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered him to.
Ibrahim’s sacrifice

God appeared in a dream to Ibrahim and told him to sacrifice his son Isma’il. Ibrahim and Isma’il set off to Mina for the sacrifice.

As they went, the devil attempted to persuade Ibrahim to disobey God and not to sacrifice his beloved son. But Ibrahim stayed true to God, and drove the devil away.

As Ibrahim prepared to kill his son God stopped him and gave him a sheep to sacrifice instead.
Celebrations

Ibrahim’s complete obedience to the will of God is celebrated by Muslims each year.

Each Muslim, as they celebrate, reminds themselves of their own submission to God, and their own willingness to sacrifice anything to God’s wishes.

During the festival Muslims who can afford to, sacrifice domestic animals, usually sheep, as a symbol of Ibraham’s sacrifice. (British law insists that the animals must be killed in a proper slaughterhouse.)

The meat is distributed among family, friends and the poor, who each get a third share.

As with all festivals there are prayers, and also presents.
Source: BBC

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Happy Eid ul Adha Muburak to All Muslims

Spotify has announced that its mobile phone app is now available on the Symbian platform, offering up the music streaming service to a whole host of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung handsets.

The service allows you unlimited music streaming on your mobile phone, as long as you have a premium account with Spotify, and that you are on a fixed data plan which allows you WiFi or 2.5/3 Ginternet access.

There are 21 Nokia handsets compatible with the Spotify app. Interestingly, a number of these (including the nokia-5320-xpressmusic nokia-5530-xpressmusic-nokia-5800-xpressmusic already use the Spotify app.  

Saying that, those with an nokia-n97-will be happy as the phone was left out of the Comes With Music Service, even though the handset is the company’s flagship device.

Other phones which can now access Spotify include the Sony Ericsson Satio and two Samsung devices: the GT-I7110 and samsung-i8910Christma comes (with music) early

“Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Spotify for Symbian,” says Spotify on its website.

“Symbian is the operating system used by a number of smartphones including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung… We hope everyone enjoys this early Christmas present!”

Currently Spotify is also available for the iPhone and devices on the Android platform.

To access Spotify on your mobile, click on http://m.spotify.com/ through your phone.

Or if you want to learn more about the service and see if you have a compatible handset, click here.

Users of the eBay auction site in the U.S this evening have been complaining of problems with the site’s search function.

According to the eBay System Announcements page, “Due to errors in some of our backend systems, members may be seeing different errors in Search.”

Some eBay users have contacted the Tribune, complaining the problem is especially affecting them because they have auctions ending during the time the search is not working.

On its site eBay recommends workarounds using the “Buy it Now” search or the “Advanced” search.

“Please note that we are working as quickly as possible to get this resolved,” according to the eBay site.

Users are complaining why ebay search down & Ebay Search not Working ? as many user are being effected due to this ebay outage

Egypt’s communications minister on Sunday announced the introduction of the first Arabic domain, in a step easing Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the world.

From midnight (2200 GMT), registration was to begin for the. misr country code top-level domain, Tarek Kamel told the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

“Now we can really say that Internet will speak Arabic,” Kamel said at the opening of the four-day conference, hours before the launch.

The announcement follows a decision by the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to end the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses, allowing Internet users to write an entire website address in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and several other scripts.

At present, all domain names — the part of the website address after the dot, as in .com and .org — end in letters from the Latin alphabet.

“The voice of developing world must be heard,” Sha Zukang, the UN undersecretary-general for economic and social affairs, told the Sharm el-Sheikh conference.

“Good and democratic Internet governance is a means of achieving development for all,” he said.
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Telenor is ready to buy 63 percent shares in Warid Telecom, Pakistan against USD 1.3 billion, as confirmed by sources close to the deal.

Dhabi Group will retain 7 percent shares in the company, while other 30 percent are with Singtel.

Warid’s spokesperson has not authenticated this news, while Telenor said that they don’t comment on rumors or speculations.

As per our sources, that are multiple in number, said that whole talks went through in a smooth way, especially when Telenor agreed on paying the value that was pretty acceptable for Dhabi Group. Final discussions went through last week in Abu Dhabi when Telenor’s top management was there to finalize the matters.

Sources further confirmed that buyout will remain under cover until certain requirements are met, including clearance of liabilities and certain amount of expense cut in Waird. Hard one, but a fact can be certain job cuts in Warid in next 2 weeks.
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Mashable has compiled a list of 10 most popular games on facebook.

With 11 million daily players and counting, Farmville is a virtual force to be reckoned with and it tops the chart as the no. 1 game in facebook. Here is the summarized list:

1. Farmville
2. Word Challenge
3. Mafia Wars
4. YoVille
5. Bejeweled Blitz
6. Zynga Poker Read more…

Here’s funny story, I hope this will make some effect

Man sues Axe, as unable to get girl (lack of ‘Lynx effect)

In what could prove to be a major marketing and legal embarrassment for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a 26-year-old man has filed a case against the FMCG company, which owns the Axe brand of men grooming products, for ‘cheating’ and causing him ‘mental suffering’. The plaintiff has cited his failure to attract any girl at all even though he’s been using Axe products for over seven years now. Axe advertisements suggest that the products help men in instantly attracting women.

Vaibhav Bedi, the petitioner, also surrendered all his used, unused and half-used deodorant sprays, perfume sticks and roll-ons, anti-perspirants, aftershaves, body washes, shampoos, and hair gels to the court, and demanded a laboratory test of the products and narcotics test of the brand managers of Axe. Vaibhav was pushed to take this step when his bai (maid) beat him with a broom when he tried to impress her by appearing naked in front of her after applying all the Axe products.

Where the fuck is the Axe effect? I’ve been waiting for it for over seven years. Right from my college to now in my office, no girl ever agreed to even go out for a tea or coffee with me, even though I’m sure they could smell my perfumes, deodorants and aftershaves. I always applied them in abundance to make sure the girls get turned on as they show in the television. Finally I thought I’d try to impress my lonely bai who had an ugly fight with her husband and was living alone for over a year. Axe effect my foot!” Vaibhav expressed his unhappiness.
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