Music "NOT Compatible" for and with Islam......Ayatollah Ali Khameini

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Iran’s “Supreme Leader”, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic and should not be practiced or taught in the country.

He said : “Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic.”

Khamenei’s comments came in response to a request for a ruling by a young follower who was thinking of starting music lessons, but wanted to know if they were acceptable according to Islam.

"It's better that our dear youth spend their valuable time in learning science and essential and useful social skills instead of music,” the Supreme Leader went on.

FIVE HUNDRED MILLION......HALF A BILLION....ONE TWELFTH OF WORLDS POPULATION.....one Facebook.....

FACEBOOK GETS 500 MILLION MEMBERS:

Mark Zuckerberg sure is popular.

Facebook, the online social networking site, has reached 500 million members, making its Web population equal to the size of the world's third largest country.

Birthed in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site's number of users has accelerated in the past year.

In January 2009, Facebook had 150 million members.

The company isn't suffering for ambition:

last month, Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO, said that the site would hit one billion users.

This fall, Aaron Sorkin will release a movie depicting the rise of the company.

The tagline? "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies."

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An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.

Holy HOLLYWOOD................

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Hollywood Sign Is Dedicated (1923)








The iconic Hollywood sign overlooking the community, which spells out its name in 50-foot (15-meter) high white letters originally said "Hollywood land".








It was erected as an advertisement for a real estate firm promoting a new housing development with that name.








Though not intended to be permanent, the sign quickly became an internationally recognized landmark, and the last four letters were removed in 1949.

The Music Industry’s 360 Deal = Rape!

The 360 deal reflects the fact that most of


musician’s income


now



comes from source other than recorded music.





These include live performance, merchandising and part time stints with “Staples or Starbucks”.




In the future these artists can get used to flogging whatever they can fit names on.





New Rules If you want a piece of pie , the record company demands 360 degrees of your arse.




You’re gonna be a star

Mark TWAIN.......................you too can become great..............

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By Mark Twain:




Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.




Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.

sinon fuller to acquire CKX........owners of IDOL franchise.....ELVIS & MUHAMMAD ALI likeness & image.......

CKX Confirms Acquisition Offer From Simon Fuller

"American Idol" creator wants to take over parent company of show's producer, 19 Entertainment

By Wrap Staff

Published: May 28, 2010

CKX, parent company of 19 Entertainment, which produces "American Idol," confirmed Friday that it has received an acquisition proposal from a group of investors led by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller.

The offer is believed to be for about $600 million, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

In addition to "Idol," CKX owns the rights to the names, images and likenesses of

Elvis Presley and

Muhammad Ali, and also operates Graceland.

It also produces Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."

The CKX board of directors is evaluating the proposal, "as well as other potential strategic alternatives," it said in a statement, has retained Gleacher & Company as its financial adviser and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as legal adviser.

CKX also said, "There can be no assurance that it will enter into any agreement with respect to any transaction, or as to the timing or terms thereof, including price."

Fuller left 19 Entertainment, of which he was CEO and founder, in January.

In May, CKX founder-CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities, including possibly buying CKX.

Fuller and partner Roger Jenkins, formerly of Barclays Capital, have amassed a $1 billion acquisitions fund, according to ABC News.

One Equity Partners, a private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase, also is eyeing CKX as a takeover target.

mick "rolling stoned" jagger.............

LBN-MUSIC INSIDER:

***Mick Jagger -- hawking "Stones in Exile," a documentary about the making of the Rolling Stones' 1972 album, "Exile on Main Street" -- told reporters in Cannes:

"We were young, good-looking and stupid then.

Now we're just stupid."

The album was mostly recorded at Keith Richards' villa in the South of France -- where the Stones had fled Britain's crushing income tax -- in a hedonistic haze of heroin, pot and booze.

"Nixon was in the White House and Watergate was going on, but we didn't know about it until later because we were down there making this album," said the rubber-lipped rocker.