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Enough of this MBA fast track to the business class. We need to open management up to people who are knowledgeable about and devoted to their companies and their industries.
One can only conclude that firms are hiring more and more MBAs because they see that those with the degree provide real value to companies.
We have reached the rebuttal stage of what has proved to be a delightfully feisty debate. Thank you to both Henry Mintzberg and Paul Danos for continuing to put forward their forthright views, and also to our guest contributor, Pablo Esteves, for reminding us that MBAs have a role to play beyond Western corporate boardrooms.
Our professors actually agree on some fundamental things. Both, for example, accept the importance of on-the-job experience when it comes to management. But Mr Mintzberg's position is that companies see an MBA as a substitute for experience. As a result they fast track business-school graduates before they have learned the lessons of real-world management, which is to the detriment of both firms and the economy. Mr Danos, however, says that while the tools learned on an MBA programme give employees the advantage over peers who lack that knowledge, they still pay their dues in the workplace before reaching the top.
An area on which they disagree is Mr Danos's fundamental belief in the market. He believes that firms will tend to act in a rational way. The fact that companies voraciously hire MBAs, therefore, is proof of their worth. Mr Mintzberg has a less rosy view of the market, pointing to failures such as subprime mortgages, chief executive compensation and the environment.
Mr Mintzberg accepts that MBA programmes were not solely responsible for current economic woes. However, he suggests that many of the things taught on MBA programmes perpetuate economic and social problems, including concepts such as shareholder value, human resources and leadership as an art that is distinct from management. Mr Danos believes this to be an old-fashioned view of MBAs. In the past few years, he says, programmes have made great strides in the way that they handle corporate responsibility and teaching leadership.
While he accepts the degree is not perfect, Mr Danos claims that Mr Mintzberg has put up no realistic alternative to the MBA. This is perhaps an area that we might consider further in the next stage of the debate. It would be interesting to hear thoughts from the floor on alternatives to the MBA or ways in which it might be improved. Further to Mr Esteves's contribution, we might also discuss whether the MBA will help or hinder emerging economies in their development—particularly as the degree is becoming more popular in poorer countries. We might also consider Mr Mintzberg's claim—refuted by Mr Danos—that holders of the degree have formed an old boys' network that bars others' entry to top-level jobs.
Thus far, voters have been split down the middle on the question of whether MBAs harm the economy. For each of the first three days of the debate 51% of you agreed with the motion and 49% disagreed. It will be interesting to see whether the rebuttals will prompt any of you to cross the floor. Don't forget that although you can only vote once, you can change the recipient of your vote as many times as you like before the debate closes.
Lastly, thanks must go to those who have contributed views from the floor, many of which have been insightful. It seems to be an area that arouses passions on both sides and it has been a pleasure to read them. I was particularly struck by the wonderful turn of phrase of one contributor, who wrote: "MBAs are strewn along the hallways of banks and consulting companies like litter along the roadside." Whichever side of the debate you are on, you have to agree it is a great line.
In my opening comments, I addressed a number of the points made by Paul Danos, as did he some of mine (we are old adversaries). So I will elaborate briefly on a couple of his arguments before I move on to what I see as our underlying differences.
Mr Danos refers repeatedly to leadership, for example when he claims that MBAs "accelerate students on the path to leadership". This, as I described in the first round, is the problem, not the solution: relatively untested people should not be on such a path at all, simply by virtue of being anointed in some academic institution.
His reference to "models for ethical analysis" expresses my concern far better than what I wrote last time. Imagine Jeff Skilling and the like having been taught such models. Where do business schools get this belief that because we add a course here and there, our graduates magically metamorphose into superior performers? If only George W. Bush had another course in leadership. If only Mr Skilling had signed that MBA "oath" promising to be good.
Mr Danos refers to "evidence", but his piece is about claims and beliefs. That's OK, because for the most part, my piece is too. So let's get into these beliefs—world views, if you like—that might explain our differences.
Mr Danos salutes markets, which he claims are "generally good at delivering value". Markets for bananas perhaps. But for subprime mortgages? Executive compensation? A planet that is being destroyed by what the markets dismiss as "externalities"? All such markets have certainly been delivering "value" for some people, but at the expense of many others. Likewise, the MBA market has delivered great value for many of the business schools and their graduates. But what about the rest of society?
The broader problem, as I will discuss in a forthcoming "electronic pamphlet", is that we live in a world that is increasingly out of balance, thanks to so many markets of entitlement.
Many people see the current economic problem in America as one of recession. Get past it and we shall return to business as usual. Business as usual is the problem. Private interests are undermining democracy, weakening society and now even threatening the economy itself.
I don't have to say much about the legal corruption of politics in America: the lobbying, the bribery, the use of private money in public elections, etc. As for society, check America's dismal rankings on such things as income disparity, social mobility and voter turnout.
Now the American economy is at risk. As I wrote in an earlier piece on this site, economists will not fix it because the fundamental problem is managerial. Narcissistic leadership and short-sighted management have trashed too many American corporations. Think about executive compensation that announces "As CEO, I am several hundred times more important than ordinary workers in this company", and "downsizing" that says "To hell with the culture: human resources are as dispensable as any other resources". A healthy enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of human resources. And a healthy economy is one replete with such communities.
Where have the business schools and their MBA graduates been in all this? They have vigorously promoted some of the very causes of the problem: "shareholder value" that destroys human values as well as long-term economic value; the label "human resources" that denigrates human beings; and leadership apart. In the schools, leadership is taught apart from context, and, as has been made popular by two articles in Harvard Business Review, apart from, and superior to, management itself. Is it any wonder that so many CEOs, having ridden that accelerated path to this kind of leadership, have been detached from what has been going on in their companies?
We don't need more individualistic leadership in companies and society. We need more "communityship": the engagement of people in their work and their world, to co-operate in driving constructive changes. Enough of this MBA fast track to the business class. We need to open management up to people who are knowledgeable about and devoted to their companies and their industries. One of them, frustrated by having to report to one uninformed MBA after another, wrote to me about how they all "wish to 'manage' me". She knew what was going on!
Business schools have hardly been alone in contributing to some of these problems, and they will hardly be the ones to resolve them. But if they could take a hard look at who they educate, how and for what purpose, the economy as well as society would be a lot better off.
The world of business is massive and growing in scope and sophistication. Leadership in business calls for an array of knowledge, skills and experiences; and there are many paths to business leadership. In his opening remarks, Henry Mintzberg argues that MBAs somehow block those who have "earned their managerial stripes" from making it to the executive suite.
Yet there is little data to support this. According to U.S. News & World Report, non-MBAs make up about 60% of the Fortune 500 CEO positions, certainly evidence that many paths to the top are open and that there is hardly "blocking" of the careers of non-MBAs.1 Considering the diversity of the companies in the Fortune 500, it is unsurprising that lawyers, engineers and people of other backgrounds would join MBA graduates at the top of the corporate ladder—and on the rungs immediately below.
I believe executives in companies generally act in rational ways. Since the 1990s, QS TopMBA.com reports, global demand for MBA graduates from the top 200 schools has grown by 15% annually. Unless there is systematic evidence that hiring managers are acting against the interests of their own company, one can only conclude that they are hiring more and more MBAs because they see that those with the degree provide real value to companies.2
Mr Mintzberg's chief argument is that on-the-job experience is superior to formal professional schooling because of the richness of context and immediate applicability of new skills. If one could create the ideal on-the-job managerial training experience this would no doubt be true, but that ideal is very hard to come by. To condemn MBA programmes because they do not match a conceptual ideal that is perhaps impossible to achieve is not a strong argument. If it were possible to create business leadership preparation that is superior to an MBA, why would corporations not regularly do this?
Given that most CEOs do not have MBAs themselves, Mr Mintzberg's assertion that MBAs succeed through an "old boys" network and the "capacity to talk a good game while moving quickly" is hard to digest. He portrays a static and compressed model of leadership practice, where MBAs are unleashed directly into leadership and are a "menace" to companies and society at large. In reality, leadership positions are earned over long periods of time, with the MBA as a starting point.
His secondary argument is that the growth of MBA programmes is somehow linked to examples of poor or unethical corporate leadership in recent years. Of course, some people have proven to be bad leaders, but there is no evidence that these were disproportionately those who attended business school.
To be sure, some of the executives that caused harm in the recent financial crisis had MBAs. Yet their rash acts were usually separated by decades of work experience from their time at graduate school. Indeed, it would be more logical to argue that it is the decades of experience that Mr Mintzberg deems so valuable that were formative to their flawed decision-making, rather than their classroom time in the 1980s or 1990s. Analysing the financial crisis and determining that it was linked to the expansion of MBA programmes in the 1990s is like concluding that Watergate and later political scandals were caused by the spread of university political-science programmes in the 1960s. Correlation does not imply causation. The fact that the majority of regulators and politicians who were asleep at the switch before the financial crisis had law degrees does not condemn all attorneys. The bad actions of a few do not taint an entire class of people.
In surveys of people who have both MBAs and work experience, there seems to be a high regard for graduate business education. A study of 4,135 MBAs who graduated between 2000 and 2011 by the Graduate Management Admission Council found that 92% said that their MBA education prepared them for leadership.3
When it comes to sensitivity to workers and to the environment, there is no systematic evidence that an MBA education causes negative effects, and I would in fact suspect the opposite to be true. Modern MBA programmes are replete with coverage of social responsibility and sustainability issues, and I believe that the graduates of today are far more sensitive to the potential harms of business for people in local communities and societies than ever before. Indeed, a 2010 study in the Academy of Management Learning & Education reported that companies headed by MBAs scored significantly higher on environmental practices than those run by non-MBAs.4
Mr Mintzberg and I agree that the MBA experience has shortcomings with regard to leadership training, but I disagree that he can demonstrate a superior practical alternative. I also believe that much of his argument is based on a condemnation of earlier educational practices that overemphasised narrow analytical thinking. The top programmes today are rich and varied, with ample coverage of context and strategies, and are attended by students who have significant work experience. Their classmates are diverse in ways and to an extent that is amazing and in fact could seldom be found in any one company. Many of Mr Mintzberg's criticisms would have had more validity 25 years ago, and in fact such arguments did lead to a number of reforms and improvements at business schools. He seems to have missed these or is ignoring them.
No amount of anecdotal reasoning can overcome the abundant evidence that for many people, spending time in a quality full-time MBA programme is of enormous value as a launching pad to a career in leadership in a diverse range of organisations. Well-educated and highly motivated young people from every culture are voting for MBA programmes with their feet—and the world's greatest companies are voting for MBA graduates with their job offers.
1 Menachem Wecker, "Where the Fortune 500 CEOs Went to School", U.S. News & World Report, 14th May 2012,
2 "QS TopMBA.com Jobs & Salary Trends Report 2011/2012", QS Intelligence Unit and Top MBA.com (joint publication)
3 "2012 Alumni Perspectives Survey", Graduate Management Admission Council
4 Daniel Slater and Heather Dixon-Fowler, "The Future of the Planet in the Hands of MBAs: an Examination of CEO MBA Education and Corporate Environmental Performance", Academy of Management and Learning, September 2010, Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 429-41.


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What's the point of the holiday season if you can't enjoy it with the one you love? So as Thanksgiving rolls around, check out the sexy couples who we think need to reunite under the mistletoe and over a turkey dinner. See if you agree!
The only thing better than ice skating, drinking hot cocoa, and wearing cute Christmas sweaters is doing all of it with a boyfriend or a girlfriend. And who is supposed to give Robert Pattinson romantic gifts if he doesn't have Kristen Stewart around!? The holidays are for coming together, so let's see who we can match up (for the second or third time).
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart & More Couples Reunite For The Holidays
Actually, two of our holiday wishes may already be coming true. First of all, a source told HollywoodLife.com exclusively that K-Stew "wants to cook Thanksgiving dinner for Rob. It's something that's been on her mind for a while now. She wants it to be extra special because she knows Rob will be leaving the country after Thanksgiving to begin filming Queen of the Desert." So mark Robsten off the wish list!
And then there's Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult, who broke up in early 2013 but have been making their reunion (which reportedly started in July) more and more public. The cute couple was last seen holding hands and looking in love as they snuck out of the NYC building where The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is filmed.
Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Need A Holiday Miracle
But the couple we'd most like to see making out beneath the glow of Christmas tree lights is Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. After a couple failed reunions over the summer, Justin and Selena have been completely apart. Justin has admitted that the breakup broke his heart, while Selena has subsequently been "hurt" by Justin's developing bad boy ways.
We need a holiday miracle! These two reunited last year over the holidays, going on a ski trip to Salt Lake City — we think it's about time they give it another shot.
Don't you, HollywoodLifers? Check out all the couples we want to have holiday reunions and let us know if you agree!
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No I don't think that any of these stars should get back together. I mean its has to be a reason why they broke up in the first place,sometimes it's Better to be single then getting your heart broking.plus selena is a grown woman she need time for her self anyways! She is not a 16,17 year old girl anymore she has grown.
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I think they will get back if the have a enough time to but if not I think you will see them back together after their tours ends. selena going to be doing more movies which will give Justin enough. That most likely will happy If they do not reunite on Christmas It depends if they both of the same week off and how long it is. As Justin said Never say never.
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Gay League traces its origins back to a period in 1997 when a few men began posting in the original DC message boards. If it wasn't the individual user name, sometimes a variation on "queen", it was the style and content of the messages that let others know that some comics geeks were gay. In the long ago days of dial up access, bandwidth and storage wasn't what it is today. Many of the Queen Team's posts, that's how they started calling themselves, were deleted by the forums moderator sometimes considered at least over zealous if not biased for being off topic while other off topic posts remained in place. At times other posters tried to stake claim to the forums and make them unwelcoming to openly gay fans. Wait, that happens today!
Silver linings out of rain clouds and all that because those factors led to the idea to use email to talk about comics from a gay perspective. You could say our agenda was to recruit because the original tight knit group continued to grow as a listserv and at the same time with an eye on creating a home on the Internet. Today Gayleague also has an active Facebook community of both LGBT fans and allies.
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If there is one thing to take away from the 444-yard, four touchdown performance of San Francisco 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick Saturday night in a 45-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs, its that Kaepernick is damn good and his value in terms of fantasy football is about to skyrocket.
At least it should.
49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh was definitely onto something when he named the 2011 second-round draft pick the starting quarterback for the remainder of the season. I know this for sure, Alex Smith could not have done the things Kaepernick did Saturday. In fact, I daresay that if Smith were under center, we would be talking about a Packers – Falcons NFC title game this weekend.
But we aren't, we're talking about Kaepernick.
I realize that we are in the middle of the NFL playoffs and that fantasy football may not be at the forefront of your thinking, but it never hurts to do a little scouting. After all, fantasy football is all out war, so one should never miss an opportunity to get an edge.
Kaepernick should have been on your fantasy radar for next season well before this game. I actually rolled with him as my starter down the stretch on a couple of teams and was rather happy with the results.
The former Nevada standout took over for Smith during a Week 10 game against St. Louis and from that point on he averaged 18.9 fantasy points per game, which is more than enough production to justify him as a starting caliber quarterback for fantasy football purposes.
Yet, when considering only seven quarterbacks (Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Cam Newton, Peyton Manning, Robert Griffin III and Matt Ryan) averaged more than 19 fantasy points per game this season, and the 46 fantasy points he dropped on the Packers Saturday, then we can safely conclude that as a fantasy quarterback Kaepernick is elite.
For starters, running quarterbacks are becoming a trend in the NFL and fantasy football. Just take a quick look at the Top-5 fantasy quarterbacks of 2012 and you will find Newton and RG3, who each threw for under 4,000 yards and no more than 20 touchdowns, yet still were among just five quarterbacks to average more than 20 fantasy points a game.
Kaepernick, who is equally skilled as both a runner and passer, is more than capable of matching that production in 2013 and joining the class of elite fantasy quarterbacks as Newton and RG3 have.
However the difference between Kaepernick and the other elite quarterbacks is that the 49ers signal caller will come cheaper in terms of draft value. Because as good as he has been, he will likely stil be drafted after Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Newton, Ryan, Manning and possibly others such as RG3 (depending on health), Andrew Luck, Tony Romo or Eli Manning.
Fantasy football owners like to draft a sure thing and despite his impressive play recently, Kaepernick will still be a viewed as a bit of an unknown to some, which in turn will make him a tremendous value pick. So while the 2013 Fantasy season is nearly eight months away, file this until draft time…then pick Kaepernick and watch as you are handsomely rewarded for your superior intellect.
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This clay starts to dry immediately! You can't get in details because it is already dry and brittle. As soon as the moistness goes (which is about in 5 to 8 seconds), it immediately starts to become dry and brittle. This is the worst product that I have ever bought. Air drying clay is not worth it; if you want to work with clay buy the bake finish.
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Movement: Arrow keys
Use: Spacebar
Close/Open Menu: M
In Main Menu, use Arrow Keys
**Read FAQ Below**
1. HP Boost
2. Easier enemies and more XP
3. You can now see the Enemy HP
4. You can "rest" at the Shelter Area to gain full restore on HP/MP.
5. You will be fully restored before meeting the 1st Boss.
6. 1st Boss much easier
This is an RPG game where you play as Magus from Chrono Trigger.
The game itself is meant to be a continuous story from after CT.
Q: What does these diffrent Items do?
A: Tonic: Heals 30HP
Ether: Heals 15MP
Elixir: Heals 60 of each(HP & MP)
Q: Why can't I use items outside of Battle?
A: Well, you can use Items outside of battle. Just press M to open up the menu and the press on "Equipments" and there you have it.
Q: How do you fight when you are in battle?
A: You just need to choose what actions you want to do. Attack, Techs or Items. When it says "MISS" that's when the Enemy Miss (same goes for Critical Hit).
Q: Those imps are to hard. How do I defeat them?
A: Well, be sure to have the Raven Armor equipped (You find it in Viper Manor). It should make them miss a lot more. But they can still hurt you with their spells. Now that you can see the enemy HP it shouldnt be too hard. When the Imp has 50hp or lower he will start to heal himself. Thats your chance to kill him. So as long as you keep his HP under 50 he cant harm you (almost) at all.
Q: The Boss in the Castle is impossible! How do I beat it?
A: She is actually easier than you think. First of all you should be level 14 when encountering her (So be sure to train before the battle). The key here is to Spamm with Dark Matter (You'll get it at lvl 13). You should also have the "Raven Armor" equipped. Be sure to have the Elixir ready (It will save you for sure). When she starts to heal herself thats when she's weak, so finish her of with a Dark Bomb or something. But she can get multiple Magic Attacks, so watch out for her x3 Lightning.
Don't heal up before the battle. You will get full HP & MP automaticly.
Took me almost 2 months to do and I'm sorry for the file size (The music tends to take up a lot).
Good Luck!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Pretty Sweet
i killed magus with the frog guy in chrono trigger so ive never actually used him after i beat te game i never really touched it ne more except for doing the 12 diff. endings. any way kickass game a little 2 many random battles they seemed like they were attracted to him, way great game make other ones abut the chrono char. or sumthing i think im gonna go play it again :D
Rated 5 / 5 stars
It was awsome........
I've never played Chrono Trigger but my friend tells me alot about it...... The game was awsome.... Even though I have absolutly no idea who the characters are...... But it was still fun...... Beat the final boss with 2HP, 0MP, and no healing items..... heheh........
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
it was good
it was good but it was way to short and there should be more caracters and you should start at level 1
Rated 2 / 5 stars
wha the
that was *coughs* ...rubbish and anyway there were tomany battles and err i gt soo bred
Rated 1 / 5 stars
This SUCKED!!!
Dude, I can see that you put some serious time into this. I can tell, with random encounters and items and experience and all that good stuff being a part. Even part of the combat system being kept the same was good. Nice try.
Now take a look at Doreen fight, when she casts two spells at the same time. Boom Boom, and you drop a ton of HP. Was I supposed to somehow know that I was supposed to wander around and gain in these crappy fights for three days before I went into that fight? So that I could survive it?
Ice sphere, huh? Making up spells? Magus had fire 2, lightning 2, and ice 2, maybe you should use them. Dark bomb, fine.
Then there's the gates. You click once and they transport you. Not twice. ONce. Maybe fix that.
You besmirched the name of Chrono Trigger with this half-hearted attempt at a sequel(???), butchering the combat system (what, are all the enemies on crack? Almost nothing moved that much in the original, nor did many creatures have heal spells) and messing up the locations and such...
Here's some constructive criticism: spend another day refining the combat system. Spend another few days refining the gates. The storyline started out ok, but kinda fell apart when you just wandered around doing nothing for too long.


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This is done for an art-trade with ~blacksmiley, and this is her character Pun-K (his real name is Kevin).
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Peter C. Zerr, 87, Grainfield, died Saturday, July 13, 2013, at Hays Medical Center.
He was born Feb. 27, 1926, south of Park. He attended Spring Creek country school and graduated from Park Rural High School.
He married Blanche Richmeier on Nov. 16, 1948, in St. Peter. He was a farmer. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving during World War II.
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American English is not a difficult language to learn if the right approach is taken with the basics of the language. In beginning to learn this language it might be of interest to know that in grades 1 and 2 of elementary school a child learns 700 spelling words. In grade 3 there are an additional 915 words added to the language basics and then each year from grades 4-9 there are 1000 words per year that are added. By the end of the 9th grade a total of 6,615 words are in the vocabulary of the learner.During this same learning time, rules of the language are used to make use of the American English language an easy flow for the learner. Each student learns at a different level and at a different time so the value of knowing a simple system is primary to the success of the person trying to learn American English. That can be a child or an adult.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Turns 17 Today!
By Merrill Barr on March 10, 2014
As we all decompress from the season finale of HBO's True Detective, let us not forget that 17 years ago today, Buffy The Vampire Slayer premiered on The WB in a back-to-back marathon of 'Welcome to the Hellmouth' and 'The Harvest'. This revelation also makes our favorite slayer a senior in high school, and we all know how stressful that can be, especially when your town is located on a portal to the underworld.
It's funny to think how in just two decades, Joss Whedon went from the guy running one of the biggest cult hits to every grace television to the grandmaster of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and director of the third highest grossing movie of all time. Just go to show, never count out the underdog.
Happy birthday, Buffy. We'll plan something special for your 18th next year.
What's your favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode? Let us know in the comments below.
I just had a Buffy marathon and watched the whole series. The greatest episodes of course are Hush and Once More With Feeling. I will always have Spike's song stuck in my head!
Innocence Part 2, The first appearance of Angelus…Which is also Joss Whedon's all time fave Episode.
What's great about that show is that I don't have a fave character, they all stand out in their own individual ways…Angel was awesome too
Miss it so much
Favorite of all time for me has to be "Zeppo" because it's the best use of Xander's character.
Hard to pick just one but I would have to say THE BODY is probably up there. Such a great ep, really showed the emotional range of Sarah aka Buffy and the rest if the cast. Very moving subject matter.
"Hush" suge a truly wonderful episode forcing the actors to emote silently, often the lack of words can be more telling and revealing than any quip ridden speech
I have nothing but love for "Conversations With Dead People". Of course, "Hush" and "Once More With Feeling" have to be mentioned because they're so damned good. "Hush" might be the single most scary episode of Buffy. "Once More With Feeling" is excellent because musicals are always excellent.
I know what three episodes I'm watching tonight!
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No love for The Wish yet? Best episode of almost any television show. My personal favorite is Enemies from Season 3, but The Wish is bad ass all around.
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Beyonce is not one to share her private life with the world, but in a rare moment, the pop star has opened an intimate family photo album for all of her fans to see! See the pics and read on for all the details!
Beyonce has opened since giving birth to daughter Blue Ivy by sharing a family album on Tumblr — after keeping her life with Jay-Z private, even refusing to acknowledge their relationship for years.
The photo album includes images of her bottle feeding 7-month-old daughter Blue Ivy, playing on the swing with her husband, and posing with her sister Solange Knowles during various trips around the world!
How cute is it that Blue is wearing a Watch the Throne t-shirt, promoting her daddy's tour with Kanye West!
These photos come as Beyonce is about to star in a new documentary about her life and career.
What do YOU think of Beyonce's intimate photos, HollywoodLifers?
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Really, one of our favourite places in Bucharest, now as ever (and it has been around for more than 18 years: since 1996). Serving giant portions of great German sausages (all made on the premises) as well as pork knuckles, kraut and the like, they keep the prices down and their punters very happy. The Hunter Schnitzel is a favourite of ours. You usually need a reservation at weekends. Good place for a simple pint of German beer too.
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- Alex Romania, BucharestGreat food great beer always nice people around. My German colleagues like it and want to get back there every time they are in Bucharest.
13 May 2011 - Janus Germany, MunichI have been there many times. The atmosphere is great if you can tolerate the smoke from all the cigarettes. The food was , on a scale from 0-10, with 10 being the highest; probably 5-6 and even 7 depending on what you order. You cannot go wrong with Schnitzel. The meats/sausages are COOKED there, but certainly not MADE there. The beer is always fresh.As is usually the case, the patrons make or break any restaurant. They enjoy a very loyal and eclectic clientele.
02 February 2011 - gina dunsen USA/CA, Los AngelesI had never heard of this place. A classmate from Perry Hall Class of 1975 mentioned this on FaceBook and so I googled it to see what it is. Sausages made on the premises!!! sounds good.
21 July 2010 - Theresa Florida, Santa RosaThis is one of our families most favorite restaurants in Bucharest. The atmosphere is cozy and the food is great!
05 December 2009 - Volker Germany, BerlinI was with them when they started back in the 90´s and awas last5 ther in summer 2008 and I always feel like i m at home. I love their food and I can only say that i tis always freh prepared. Why would so many germans who live in Bucharest come there on regular bases if the food would be as bad as Deborah wrote.
01 May 2009 - Deborah Romania, BukarestGiven I've grown up in upper Bavaria and thus might be a bit of a snob, but I was appalled. I had the pork leg when I was there. Our theory was that it must have been deep frozen, they jugged it into the microwave and then deep fried it, otherwise you wouldn't get a crsipy skin with the fat layer underneath being fully intact (not melted). Except for a beer in the garden on a summer night, I surely will never go near their food ever again.
03 February 2009 - Per Finland, HelsinkiIt's great. We were here last night (friday October 10) and the sausages were as good as ever. It was even warm enough to sit outside. Every time we come to Bucharest we come here, it is the best of places.
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We ask Allaah to increase you in faith and piety and to help you to adhere to that which He has enjoined.
You should not hesitate to advise your colleagues and remind them about the prayer, rather that is what Allaah has enjoined. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
âLet there arise out of you a group of people inviting to all that is good (Islam), enjoining Al-Maâroof (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do) and forbidding Al-Munkar (polytheism and disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden). And it is they who are the successfulâ
Aal âImraan 3:104
âO my son! Aqim-is-Salaah (perform As-Salaah), enjoin (on people) Al-Maâroof (Islamic Monotheism and all that is good), and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief in the Oneness of Allaah, polytheism of all kinds and all that is evil and bad), and bear with patience whatever befalls you. Verily, these are some of the important commandments (ordered by Allaah with no exemption)â
Luqmaan 31:17
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: âWhoever among you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand (by taking action); if he cannot, then with his tongue (by speaking out); if he cannot then with his heart (by hating it and feeling that it is wrong), and that is the weakest of faith.â Narrated by Muslim, 49.
Not praying is a great evil, indeed it is kufr that puts one beyond the pale of Islam, according to the more correct of the two scholarly opinions, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: âBetween a man and kufr and shirk there stands his giving up prayer.â Narrated by Muslim, 82.
And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: âThe covenant that stands between us and them is prayer, whoever gives it up is a kaafir.â Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2621; al-Nasaaâi, 463; Ibn Maajah, 1079.
You should not even entertain the notion of not praying, rather you should hate that thought as you would hate to be thrown into the fire, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: âThere are three things, whoever attains them has found the sweetness of faith: when Allaah and His Messenger are dearer to him than anything else; when he loves a person and only loves him for the sake of Allaah; and when he would hate to go back to kufr as he would hate to be thrown into the fire.â Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 49; Muslim, 60.
With regard to the excuse that your colleague gives about his clothes becoming impure, the answer is that he can clean the bathrooms without his clothes becoming impure, and he can also set aside pure clothes for praying in. You should note that one who truly respects the prayer and understands its importance and the seriousness of not praying would not give such an excuse.
It is essential to advise this man and others, and explain the ruling concerning one who does not pray, and the obligation to offer prayer on time, and that it is haraam to delay it until after work or before going to bed, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
âThen, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up As-Salaah (the prayers) i.e. made their Salaah (prayers) to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times and have followed lusts. So they will be thrown in Hellâ
Maryam 19:59
Ibn Masâood said concerning al-ghayy (translated above as âHellâ): This is a valley in Hell which is very deep and has a foul taste.
And Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
âSo woe unto those performers of Salaah (prayers) (hypocrites),
5. Those who delay their Salaah (prayer from their stated fixed times)â
al-Maaâoon 107:4-5
Delaying prayer until its time is over is a major sin, and not praying at all is major kufr â we seek refuge with Allaah from that.
And Allaah knows best.
See also question no. 47425.
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