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We would like to state that zakat can only be received by the asnaf (the eligible group of people) that has been stipulated by sharia. This is in accordance with the statement of Allah SWT in the Quran (which means):
"Zakat expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakat] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveller – an obligation [imposed] by Allah. And Allah is Knowing and Wise." [Al-Quran, Surah al-Taubah, verse no. 60]
The above verse stipulated the 8 groups of people who are eligible to receive zakat:
- Needy – One who has neither material possession nor means of livelihood; one who suffers and has no means to sustain his/her daily needs.
- Poor – One who has insufficient means of livelihood to meet his/her basic needs.
- Those employed to collect zakat ('amil) – One who is appointed to collect Zakat and the expenses incurred in the administration of Zakat.
- Muallaf – One who recently embraced Islam.
- Al-Riqab – One who is freeing himself/herself from the bondage or shackles of slavery.
- Al-Gharimin – One who is in debt and needs assistance to meet his/her basic needs.
- Fi Sabilillah – One who went to war for the sake of Allah or who strives in the cause of Allah for the betterment of the community.
- Ibnu Sabil – Stranded travelers on a permissible journey.
Can We Give Zakat to Orphans?
After knowing the eight asnaf that can receive zakat, thus it is clear that orphans are not included. Hence, merely being an orphan does not entitle him or her to receive zakat.
However, if the orphan is also among the poor and needy, then in this situation the orphan is eligible to receive zakat. As for giving zakat directly to the orphanage, we should first do our research in determining whether the orphanage is especially for the poor and needy orphans or others.
If the orphanage is for the poor and needy orphans, then it is permissible to give zakat. It should be distributed according to the asnaf set by sharia. The money from zakat should be used for food and drinks, education and daily needs of the orphans.
As for the development of the orphanage, there are opinions from scholars stating that only money from donations should be used, for construction of orphanages is not included as an asnaf for zakat. This is in accordance with the fatwa issued by former Mufti of Jordan Samahah al-Mufti al-'Am Dr. Nuh Ali Salman Rahimahullah (click here).
However, there are also opinions from other scholars that expand the meaning of fi sabillillah as not solely the act of going to war for Allah SWT's sake. Imam Fakhr al-Razi al-Syafi'e in his commentaries Mafatih al-Ghaib –also known as al-Kabirada Commentaries- states the opinion of al-Qaffal saying that some fuqaha ruled it permissible to give zakat for anything that would result in good deeds, such as shrouding of a deceased, building a fort or a mosque, all of these falls under the asnaf of fi sabillilah. [See Mafatih al-Ghaib, 16/113.]. Thus, giving zakat for the development of orphanages is permissible.
Hence, we suggest contacting Baitulmal to get more information and we encourage that payment of zakat is to be made through zakat centers, just as we have discussed before. Wallahua'lam.
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UCLA Bruins head football coach Jim Mora is more than just a regular Joe with a regular job, and far from the average white suburbanite slob. Now that we're done referencing that epic song, let's cut to the chase.
Mora got a bit, er, vocal with freshman quarterback Josh Rosen in practice earlier today and when asked about it by Jack Wang of the L.A. Daily News, he was blunt about it.
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If anything, he just said that he's an a-hole and proud of it. Now that it's out on the table, perhaps it's time for the Bruins to keep doing what they have under him, that is going out on the field and having fun at other teams' collective expense.
In three years under Mora, UCLA is 29-11 (18-9 Pac-12) and owns a bowl record of 2-1.
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Six local schools joined in 2017s 'Great Big Firth Beach Clean' as part of the Marine Conservation Society's Great Big British Beach Clean. This is double the number from 2016 and includes one of the secondary schools.
Volunteers from the Port will be delivering litter pickers, gloves and rubbish bags and we will collect all the rubbish at the end of the day. Every pupil participating in the clean received a 'Guardian of the Firth' badge and ruler to remind them of the event and the importance of keeping our Firth clean. (Volunteers don't have to feel left out – you can have these too if you would like.)
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Buyer Wants Art, Non-profits in Blue Lion Center
There's a new effort to fill a vacant building near 24th and Lake.
Many people have tried to revitalize the area. Now a plan is in the works to fill the old Blue Lion Center.
The Blue Lion Center has been vacant since 2012 when what now is Heartland Workforce Solutions moved to 57th and Ames.
Thousands of people have weighed in on what should fill the empty building.
Thursday, councilman Ben Gray said he met with the buyers of this building about their plans.
"There's an opportunity for commercial ventures. There's an opportunity non-profits to operate. There's also an opportunity for an arts space, and that art space is part of our culture and part of the heritage of this community," Gray said.
The art culture is something alive and well, right down the street.
The Union for Contemporary Art opened just three years ago at 24th and Burdette. It offers space for artists and free classes every Saturday for kids in the neighborhood. The Union also organizes community service projects, like neighborhood clean-up days, a community garden, mural projects and the North Omaha Tool Library.
Brigitte McQueen Shew started the Union. She says the non-profit organization has outgrown its current space. The Union moved some of its gallery to a building across the street.
"The building we're currently in, although we love being here, has become a hindrance to us in terms of being able to expand our programs," McQueen Shew said.
Now McQueen Shew wants to bring her art to the Blue Lion.
"In my heart, there is no better place for us to be," she said.
And the advocate of the arts believes the Blue Lion will help spur development along 24th.
"There's not exactly a ton of infrastructure, places for people to gather in this community, for example we don't have a coffee shop. there are very few restaurants where you can sit down and eat a whole meal," McQueen Shew said, "Whatever the Blue Lion is to become, or the work that we're doing at the Union right now, we're bringing people into the community so that they see that there are opportunities for businesses to thrive here."


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Something to get us started as the new year begins
This is the first time I have posted content that is not my own (well, except for posts that I have re-blogged from blogs I follow). I tweaked the content and added graphics for aesthetics and convertion from oral delivery to digital/textual format.
The author of this content (Assoc. Professor Joel M. Magogwe) is a colleague in the Communication and Study Skills Unit. He is a researcher of note and you can view some of his publications under his biography here.
This is a speech he gave at a conference for the Faculty of Business, and I find it resonating with someof the experiences we share as colleagues at different fora.
By Assoc. Professor Joel M. Magogwe
Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honour for me to deliver a keynote speech at this very important conference. Let me congratulate the Faculty of Business and Accounting for organizing this research conference, and thank them for allowing me to speak on productivity, a topic close to my heart. Today, as requested by the organisers, let me share a few thoughts with you about what can be done to improve your research and publication productivity. I assume that all of you here today would like to improve in these areas. Kindly allow me to talk about research and publication together because they go hand in hand.
The first objective of my talk is to motivate you as individuals and as an institution to re-examine your research and publication productivity, in terms of the four elements of productivity which are: mission, motivation, communication, and implementation. In his book "The Art of Productivity", Jim Stovall indicates that these elements constitute the engine of the Art of Productivity and that they must seamlessly fit into an individual's desire to reach his or her destination. The second objective of this talk is to suggest strategies that can help you to overcome research and publication challenges as individuals and as an institution.
Why should I talk about productivity?
The theme for this conference is "Towards a Diversified and Sustainable Economic Transformation" and the programme covers topics such entrepreneurship, technology and business solution which are all related to productivity. It has been found by scholars that productivity increases economic growth (Eifert, 2009; ILO, 2013). Currently universities in Botswana are being challenged to become torch bearers of the revolution as the country strives to become a knowledge based economy; and to address issues of high unemployment levels, income disparities, poverty and a complex cocktail of other social problems that exist in our society. As academicians in Botswana we are therefore challenged to use our research skills to find solutions to these problems and to educate our society. This inevitably calls for us individually and collectively to commit to increase our research productivity and to advance our own careers too.
Ladies and gentlemen, at this early stage of my talk let me operationalize the term productivity. Google defines productivity as the effectiveness of productive effort as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input. Applied to the academic context, productivity refers to the amount of research and the quantity of publications produced by each researcher and by the institution. Allow me to interchangeably use the terms productivity and output. According to Wootton (2013), research output may be measured by: i) publishing: peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, books, popular articles; ii) gaining grants; iii) supervising research students; iv) serving as a peer-reviewer (of grants and papers), examining PhDs, acting as a member of an editorial board; v) giving lectures and other presentations, especially as an invited (keynote) speaker; vi) contributing to national and international committees; and vii) filing patents. The list goes on. However, I would like to caution that when you design the productivity indicator for your department or University you should realise that one size certainly does not fit all when it comes to assessing research productivity because it varies by discipline and by type of publication.
Let me acknowledge that sometimes research is daunting and potentially discouraging for novice researchers in particular. Publishing is not easy or cheap. We often complain about lack of the time for writing papers; about lack of research funds; and about the rejection of our project proposals and papers by journal editors and reviewers. Sometimes we wonder whether reviewers and editors realize that English is not our mother tongue and that culture and context are different from theirs. Many obstacles impede our research and publication.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot think of immediate solutions to the above challenges, but I believe that persistence pays off and that any form of rejection can be overcome as far as the adage, "Where there is a will there is a way" is concerned. I believe that there is always a way to overcome challenges because I have seen grass can grow out of a pavement. Jia Jiang in his book Rejection Proof encourages readers to beat fear and become invincible. For one hundred days he subjected himself to different situations that gave him the opportunity to overcome rejection. His experiments showed that fear can be smashed in the face with a strong punch. Jim Stovall himself, a prolific writer who has published over thirty books; a columnist; and a speaker in the field of personal development is in fact physically blind. Many scholars here in Botswana have also managed to achieve the pinnacle of research despite experiencing the same challenges I have mentioned above. The same circumstances that defeat our productivity have been used by others as a springboard to greater and more significant things.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me now to move to the crux of my talk. As I have indicated, the first objective of my speech is to motivate you as individuals and as an institution to re-examine your research and publication productivity with regard to the four elements of productivity – mission, motivation, communication, and implementation. Let me first and foremost find out if this University has a mission statement. Does the institution have a research and publication mission? Please do not answer these questions now. Do you yourself have a research and publication mission? If so, does it resonate with the mission of this University? If not, do you understand the value of a mission? These questions are not meant to expose you but to help you appreciate the value of a mission statement.
Ladies and gentlemen the mission of this University among other things is to drive productivity and to continuously improve the quality and excellence of all its activities, including research. This mission shows that the University recognizes the importance of research. As important as it may be for organisations to have a mission statement that is truly meaningful to its staff members, it is even more important that individual staff members should have a personal mission statement that defines their personal and professional journey toward their own definition of success or productivity (Stovall, 2017). In other words, as individuals you should have your own mission that will take you to your ultimate research and publication journey and that mission should resonate with that of this institution. Otherwise you will find yourself on your University's mission, for which you feel no passion, energy or commitment. The importance of a mission cannot be over-emphasised ladies and gentlemen. I would like to borrow Jim Stovall's argument that "anyone who has ever achieved a degree of what we would call success has been on a mission. Their mission has been clear, concise, and easily stated". For example, President F. Kennedy gave the American people a goal in the 60's that he would put a man on the moon and bring him back to earth safely. His mission culminated with Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon and returning to earth safely.
This is the second element of productivity. Ladies and gentlemen, J.F. Kennedy and other successful men and women across the world, including Botswana, achieved their missions and goals because they were motivated to do so. Naturally, humans need some sort of intrinsic and extrinsic inducement, encouragement or incentive in order to get better performance. Intrinsic motivation means the desire, want or drive within a person to meet a need or to achieve a set goal. In the academic context, according to Horodnic and Zait (2015:1), "Many scholars have argued that motivation is central to a quality research culture at universities". These scholars believe that well-motivated instructors are likely to be productive researchers who contribute to their universities' international recognition, attract research funds and produce outstanding graduates (Horodnic and Zait (2015).
In The Art of Productivity Stovall indicates that motivation is the most individualized and personalized human trait. Therefore, it is up to an individual to determine the most effective way to stay motivated. In terms of research and publication, self-motivation is required for example when one's paper or project proposal has been rejected. We have to rise after we fall, dust ourselves off and start again. Stovall likens motivation to a shower. The shower you took yesterday has worn off today and you need to take another one. In a survey among Romanian academics, Horodnic and Zait (2015) found that scientists who took strong interest in their work were, as a consequence, more productive researchers; whereas those who were extrinsically motivated substituted their efforts toward pursuits that were more financially profitable. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen to become productive publishers you should motivate yourself to overcome the overwhelming challenges that impede your research initiatives.
This is the third and most important element of productivity because it is the direct link between motivation and implementation (Stovall, 2017). Communication is critical to productivity because it is one of the factors that influence motivation. Lack of effective communication leads to dissatisfaction and lack of productivity. Communication is vital in academics because it facilitates the transfer of knowledge and concepts as well as the exchange of feelings and ideas. It is also used for engaging with other people on our research and publication mission. To improve our communication we should avoid wrong, incomplete and false communication. Ladies and gentlemen, the consequences of poor communication can be catastrophic. On the other hand, effective communication is open, interactive and creates more avenues that can facilitate the art of productivity and build a bridge between motivation and implementation (Stovall, 2017).
Implementation is the fourth crucial element of the productivity equation. To discuss this element I am going to suggest methods that can be used to increase research and publication output. Let me hasten to point out that proper implementation does not come naturally to human beings. Implementation can be affected by lack of a mission and passion, lack of motivation, and lack of effective communication. Implementation can also be affected by lack of perseverance and lack of self-discipline (Stovall, 2017). What can you do now to address these issues?
Fight or flight?
First let me talk about what you can individually do to increase your research and publication output. Suha Evrhim talks about the brain function called amicdola found in reptiles. This is a fight or flight instinct which tells a reptile to swiftly decide to either flee or fight when in a situation that threatens its life. It quickly acts on the choice it makes without hesitation. Ladies and gentlemen, which of the two decisions is your amicdola telling you to choose between publishing and not publishing? If you have chosen publishing then why don't you fight aggressively and publish more and more papers despite the challenges you are meeting or the negative feedback you are receiving from the reviewers and editors? You should positively accept that negative feedback provides an opportunity for you to improve the quality of your paper. If your paper is rejected you should resend it to another journal which may accept it for publication. Journals are not the same. Take advantage of the internet and send your paper to open-access journals. Such a journal is good because it exposes your paper to more readers and give you more citations. However, checkout for those that are not genuine.
This is another avenue for increasing your publication output. Other avenues include building regional and international research networks with peers; attending conferences, seminars, colloquiums, and workshops. To improve self-citations you should try areas of research where there is limited output. Review research limitations and recommendations in journal articles and theses and look for potential areas for new research in your area. Your department can annually come up with a list of themes that address your departmental needs. To overcome shortcomings of small sample sizes you should use mixed methodology. The list goes on. But most importantly, ladies and gentlemen, you should write your research goals down and draw a time planner that will remind you about the number of papers you should publish per annum. Junior lectures can set themselves a target of publishing at least 2 articles per year; Associate Professor 4 articles; Professor 8 articles and so forth.
As an institution you should come up with a model that can be used to improve your research and publication output. According to Aithal (2016), such a model can give you an idea on how to involve students and staff in your institution's research and publication, and that the model should be curriculum and industry focused. Aithal believes that the quality of higher education depends on the ability of the institution in new knowledge creation; knowledge creation depends on the institutional research and publications by both faculty members and students; and institutional publication is measured by calculating its annual average publications.
Aithal's (2016) model comprised the following components: Organisational objectives and policies; supporting facilities such as a research centre, IT facilities, online databases; strategies for increased research productivity such as recruiting faculty members with research experience or passion; time for individual and institutional research projects; research and publications target for each faculty member; periodic national and international conferences; teams that publish in international journals, especially open access journals that will give your articles more readership and citations; promotions and increments based on productivity.
I find this model very useful and I would recommend it for any institution, perhaps with a few other components such as editing support (to overcome the language barrier), and recognition of mentoring, a very time consuming aspect of research and academics.
We raise our glasses to a year of great success
In conclusion ladies and gentlemen let me urge you to individually and collectively re-examine your research and publications productivity. As indicated earlier, according Stovall (2017), productivity is a process that begins with defining your own success, establishing a mission, evaluating your passion, creating motivation, and communicating. Align these with your institution's, ladies and gentlemen. Think outside the box. Go against the norm that research is a waste of time. You already have all the necessary tools, in the form of research skills. My greatest desire is to see you take action now and beat any form of rejection that impedes the publication of your findings. If not now, then when? If not you who is going to do it? My parting words are that perseverance and hard work is the key to successful academic research and publishing. I am looking forward to your success, and once you acquire the vision of your future which contains your definition of success, you will never be the same again.
Happy reading! Happy reading! Happy reading!


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The NY Times' Pulse by Karin Nelson featured a few items of note over the weekend: nautical stripes and a reluctant 'It' bag. Now while we wouldn't wear them together, these two items are definitely worth a second, mid-Monday glance.
The Breton stripe top is back again, which Gwyneth called out in a recent GOOP newsletter. You can find Gwynnie's pick at Saint James ($115), or snatch up this blousy look-a-like from Steven Alan ($98).
The Boyy Slash bag is gaining popularity among the cool kids, and at $595, it's on the conservative end of a coveted bag's price range. If you want to try the snakeskin without shelling out too much, we suggest this simple black Carlos Falchi clutch ($132).


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4Q Earnings Season Might Look Bright
Earnings season is getting into full swing, and the message for media companies will be simple: "easy comps." Except for cable operators, media companies reporting results for the fourth quarter of 2002 will have easy comparisons with the same period of 2001, the three months immediately after 9/11. Those attacks, of course, hammered TV stations and networks as advertisers panicked and canceled ad plans.
But it has been clear for months that the TV ad market has sharply rebounded, so most segments of the TV business should post strong results as numbers come in. And, of course, 2002 was an election year, so political advertising gave TV stations a big bump.
Case in point: Look at Tribune Co., which posted last week. Revenues at the company's TV group during the fourth quarter seemingly soared 22% above sales during the same period in 2001.
But that means the company simply recovered the ground it lost in 2001. TV ad sales in the 2002 quarter totaled $339.5 million, much better than 2001's $278.8 million. But look back two years to 2000, when Trib's TV stations generated $332.3 million. So 2002 was just 2% more than two years ago. Not much to brag about.
Same with earnings. Trib TV's fourth-quarter operating cash flow zoomed 44% over 2001. But it was still 1% short of 2000's cash flow.
Suntrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Jon Jacoby expects Belo's station group to post a 22% gain in revenues and a 46% gain in operating cash flow. Hearst-Argyle's sales should rise 17% while cash flow should jump 33%. LIN Television should post similar gains.
For the most part, though, what investors and other media executives will be focusing on in round after round of earnings releases and conference calls is a better picture of the clouds looming over some major media players.
With Ted Turner and Steve Case out at AOL Time Warner, the next dramatic question becomes: Will Mel Karmazin's future at Viacom be resolved by the time of the company's earnings release on Feb. 12?
Or try these: Will Liberty trigger the breakup of its partnership in QVC with Comcast? And does Liberty want to buy out Comcast or sell its 43% interest?
"I don't see a lot of surprises," said Goldman Sachs media analyst Richard Greenfield. "Certain issues are going to be more important than the specific results."
Of course, if the Bush administration decides to invade Iraq, advertisers and investors are likely to be in such a panic that the best—or the worst—financial news is unlikely to matter.
Tribune Co. CEO Dennis Fitz-Simons contends that TV stations could find short-term benefits if the big networks go to full-time war coverage and reduce or eliminate commercials. "This could actually turn out to be a positive for the spot business as advertisers need to get their messages out. They might come to individual markets as the network marketplace tightens up for some period of time through lack of inventory availability as the networks go wall-to-wall."
The big exception will be cable. Some cable operators shocked long-time investors by losing subscribers during the first three quarters of 2002. The fourth quarter is traditionally their strongest for basic growth. Further declines will not be received well.
Investors are particularly interested in signs of what Comcast is accomplishing in turning around the newly acquired AT&T Broadband properties and whether Cablevision has resolved some of its operating problems.


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Spartanburg Herald Features Coach Nash
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By Todd Shanesy
Spartanburg Herald Journal Staff Writer
Longtime Wofford offensive line coach lands job as athletics director at Greenville school
Eric Nash stood at the back of a room last December and had tears in his eyes as he watched the official retirement announcement of legendary Wofford football coach Mike Ayers.
Some of that emotion, Nash admitted, was for his own uncertain future.
Nash had been offensive line coach at Wofford for 15 years, a career which began just one year after finishing as a standout player (three-time All-Southern Conference) for the Terriers.
"It was something I hadn't needed to deal with," Nash said. "Coach Ayers was always going to be there — until that day. And for the first time since I started a family, I was worried."
Nash's fears were realized. He wanted to follow Ayers as head coach at Wofford, didn't get the job and ultimately had to part ways with his beloved alma mater, details of which he did not want to share.
"It was disappointing," he said. "I'll leave it at that."
But less than two months later, a time spent praying and leaning on his Catholic faith, another door opened. Nash is the next athletics director at St. Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville. He has already been working with R.J. Beach, who will retire from that position on June 1.
St. Joseph's has been listed as one of the top 50 Catholic high schools in the country. The private school is on a 36-acre campus and includes a middle school as well. It is recognized by the Diocese of Charleston and accredited in athletics by the South Carolina Independent School Association.
"It's a great place. It's faith, academics and athletics. In a lot of ways, it's like Wofford prep," Nash said. "I believe that God does things for a reason. With how it all worked out, I don't think it was just by chance. I think God needed to give me a kick in the butt to come here. And I really appreciate it."
His office is part of a new wing, orange cones still blocking the entrance, and there is a smell of fresh paint. Pictures already in the hallway include some of Andre Stoddard, one of the most beloved graduates of St. Joseph's and now a standout running back for Wofford. Nash sat behind his desk and his voice seemed to echo throughout a room still void of decoration and character.
Nash, a former All-American who was actually born on the Fourth of July (1980), followed his older brother, Brian, to Wofford from Sharpsburg, Ga. Eric spent one year in graduate school at South Carolina, studying physics and engineering, before applying for the offensive line coaching position with the Terriers. He and his wife, Dr. Erin Nash, whose medical practice is in Landrum, have two daughters, Stella and Nora, and a son, Mills. They live in Inman.
"This was a great opportunity for me and my family," Nash said. "One of the attractive things to me is the thought of having my kids here someday. They go to Catholic school (St. Paul the Apostle) in Spartanburg and in not too many years, they'll be old enough to be here."
For the next month or so, Nash will continue learning from Beach, who has been at St. Joseph's since 2015 after 21 years at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville.
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He goes on to quote Henri Nouwen, (writing in Reaching Out):
"At least part of the reason for this lack .. is that we ourselves do not appeal to our fellow human beings in such a way as to invite them to become our spiritual leaders. If there were no students constantly asking for good teachers, there would be no good teachers. The same is true for spiritual guides. There are many men and women with great spiritual sensitivity whose talents remain dormant because we do not make an appeal to them. Many would, in fact, become wise and holy for our sake if we would invite them to assist us in our search for the prayer of our heart.
"A spiritual director does not need to be more intelligent or more experienced than we are. If is important that he or she accepts our invitation to lead us closer to God and enters with us into the scriptures and into the silence where God speaks to both of us… Often we will discover that those who we ask for help will indeed receive the gift to help us and grow with us toward prayer." (p 98)


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Meet the 68-year-old 10th-grader who knows a thing or two about never giving up.
Each morning, Durga Kami puts on his school uniform and prepares for another day of 10th grade. But not before he brushes his woolly, white beard.
Because unlike most 10th-grade students, Durga Kami is a 68-year-old grandfather.
Kami, a father of six and grandfather of eight, lives by himself in a one-room house in Syangja, Nepal. Photographer Navesh Chitrakar of Reuters followed Kami as he experienced a typical school day.
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Thinking of ditching Moment of Crisis in Day One
Re: Thinking of ditching Moment of Crisis in Day One
You can EASILY add in something that happens that basically forces the PCs into a MoC. And right when the adventure starts, too. No need to get rid of it altogether...although adding something in could somewhat be overkill since you could just as easily say "On the way here..."
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I was a little stricter on the first couple of adventures regarding the Moment of Crisis; in later ones I let it happen faster, since the players had caught the feel. I thought Tharkhold would've been harder, due to the comment about fighting not being enough, but they also said diverting from the mission counted, and the party stopped the Thralls at the statue/museum without hesitation (or slowing down; got to try the ramming rules for vehicles...), it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...
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Kuildeous wrote:So for that reason, I'm hesitant about removing that, but I don't know that I'd get anything similar in the other events I'll be running (Pan Pacifica, Orrorsh, Cyberpapacy, and Nile).
I think you have your winning answer. Trust the adventures.
Unless your players are just getting tired of starting with new Ords every time. In that case, skip the rest and get started on their real Storm Knight adventures (pillaging material from the remaining Day Ones, if desired).
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Brewery Tours
Fancy a tour and tasting at Wildcraft?
Ever wanted to visit a brewery and learn a bit more about how it works?
Done that but have an interest in the Wildcraft story? Come along to one of our tours and join us on the rollercoaster that has been the Wildcraft story so far. We will be honest.. As a microbrewery, there's not a massive amount to see but we make up for this with stories and most importantly, samples of all our beers, lots of them!!
Choose from the dates below (more added weekly) or if you have a group call us on 01603 278054 to discuss a time that would be good for you.
Please note, we have hit a season of events that means Mike is out of the brewery every weekend. Tours will resume in January, what better way to shake off the new year blues?


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After the 2.0 release we moved our entire development infrastructure to GitHub. Leaving JIRA and Bitbucket behind, it was an interesting experience that I want to briefly blog about.
Why to move
The first point I want to make is that we were _happy _with Atlassian's tools. Not overly excited but also nothing too serious to complain about. JIRA is often frown upon but apart from having two issues – being slow and being slow – it is a good system, well thought-out, usable, I would even call it simple. We were also happy with Bitbucket, its code reviews, team collaboration features etc.
However, VersionPress will open up to community development one day and it is a simple fact of life that the developer community, including WordPress developer community, is on GitHub. So we needed to move there and wanted to do it sooner rather than later.
JIRA -> GitHub Issues
his was probably the biggest change. While we used JIRA very "lightly", i.e., no deep issue hierarchies or dependencies, basically just as a glorified table of issues, the switch to GitHub Issues was still quite a change.
The main "issue" with GitHub Issues is that it might be too simple of a system. Don't get me wrong, simplicity is a great value, however, there's a balance and GHI might be crossing it.
For example, you typically want to have priorities for your issues. All traditional issue trackers have that but GHI don't. You can emulate that with labels but that's emulating – every project can do it differently so there's no consistency, GHI labels are sorted by name so maybe you should prefix priority labels with "priority: ", if you rename the labels later they will not be renamed in the issue history etc. Those are all small issues but make you think, unnecessarily.
After living with GHI for a couple of weeks, it is a good enough system. Some things took some getting used to and I still wish GHI labels were better implemented (proper renames, sorting, label descriptions etc.) but generally, it's OK.
One tip here: overv.io is a really nice layer on top of GitHub Issues. I especially like these three things about it:
- No lock-in. Everything is stored into GHI via the API, we can leave overv.io any time if we wanted to.
- Kanban board with manual sorting. Good for prioritizing work.
- Nice Markdown semi-WYSIWYG editor and generally the UI is very polished and pleasant to work with.
I wish those guys had a paid plan, I feel almost bad using this service for free 🙂
Bitbucket code reviews -> GitHub pull requests
What probably surprised me the most is that Bitbucket pull requests and collaboration features are probably a bit better than those on GitHub, despite the fact that GitHub built its reputation around it.
On Bitbucket, we worked like this:
- For a JIRA issue, someone created a feature branch for it and started hacking.
- When the code was ready, he opened a pull request on Bitbucket and invited other team members to do a code review. This automatically sent email notifications.
Every reviewer did a code review and:
- Marked the code as OK – there was an "approve" button
- Added a line or commit comment
- Created a lightweight task directly inside the PR
- There was a PR overview page where one could clearly see which PRs are approved, which need further review, how many tasks are still open etc.
Very natural but some steps were surprisingly cumbersome to emulate on GitHub, e.g. 3a or the last one. Eventually, we found workflows that we are quite happy with, for instance, the "approve" button can be emulated with
@username inside the first comment and one can then see on the PR overview page which PRs are complete and which need further attention.
Wiki in GitHub is really simplistic and feature-wise much inferior to DokuWiki that we used before but I like that it's just a set of Markdown documents versioned by Git. I can pull the repo locally, make some edits and then push again – that is good.
Because we try not to depend on wiki too much ("issues over wiki"), it didn't make much sense to keep a separate system when almost everything else is now on GitHub, I just wish GH wikis would have search.
While I believe that Atlassian's (and possibly others') tools are slightly superior to GitHub, we are generally happy there. For now, we have made the docs repo public so if you spot some issue in our documentation, send us a pull request. In the future we will be opening up more of VersionPress.


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(Getting a stylish haircut, a smart pair of jeans and a "presentable" appearance are only
at most a month away; there are other things, like our grey cells, which we have been
grooming over the years, if not for decades. Why not attempt to make them lasting?)
You saw his dull hair, dishevelled
Atop his square and bland face;
You saw the melanin on his skin
From lying under the sun, bare-
You saw him grow beard,
Made you sneer as he neared.
You saw his lacklustre lips
Which he purses whilst anxiety grips;
You saw his glasses, discolored,
Gathering dirt from every line
Over which he brooded.
You saw him in clothes fit for a Bedouin-
Untrimmed nails, chisel teeth,
An unpleasant countenance-
And fashion miles away.
You thought he needed a makeover-
"Manicure and pedicure are no panacea",
He said, "for ignorance, the real malice,
And I've been training to reach out for peace."


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Do you accept credit cards?
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Please check the weather before purchasing wristbands. We do not give refunds. In case of inclement weather, wristbands can still be used for indoor activities.
What if I've purchased single-activity passes and there's inclement weather?
If you have purchased single activity passes and are unable to use your pass, we will provide you with a rain check to be used within a month's time. Alternatively, you can exchange the activity for an indoor activity of equal or lesser value (Laser Tag or Play Zone).
What shuts down during rain?
Go-Karts and Batting Cages must shut down during rain. They cannot re-open until the concrete on the track/in the cages is completely dry. If it's only raining, bumper boats and mini-golf can stay open.
What shuts down if there's lightening?
Unfortunately, just like at the pool, if lightening is spotted in the area, we must shut down all outdoor activities. We re-open activities as it is safe to do so.
I purchased roller skating/Laser Tag/etc. and then I change my mind, can I get a refund?
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How do you determine if an individual is tall enough for an attraction?
We have height markers at each attraction. The attendant at the attraction will determine if an individual is tall enough based on the height marker. There is no such thing as "close enough". State and manufacturer rules determine the height requirements for attractions. Height requirements are set for the safety of the individual.
If a child is not tall enough for laser tag, can they hold the phaser while I wear the vest?
No, it is not safe to have one individual wearing a vest while another holds the phaser.
Can I pay the full Play Zone price for a child under 3 years old/36" to play in the larger portion of Play Zone? What if an adult is with them?
Unfortunately, no. Manufacturer rules determine the age and height at which children can be in various portions of our play zone.
Can I leave my children unattended in Play Zone?
Children under the age of 3 or under 36" tall must be monitored at all times. Children over the age of 3 or 36" tall do not need to be monitored however you must remain on the premises while children are in Play Zone.
Does it matter what I'm wearing?
Yes. Acres of Fun is a family-friendly environment. Please refrain from wearing clothing referencing drugs, alcohol, "bad" words, or hateful/derogatory comments. Shoes and shirts must be worn at all times.
Play Zone: Everyone must wear socks. (These can be purchased for $1) Although shoes come off in Play Zone, please put them back on when exiting the Play Zone area.
Roller Skating: Everyone must wear socks. (These can be purchased for $1) Hats are not permitted to be worn while roller skating. Please keep in mind that the skating building will get warm while you are skating, but if you are only observing, you mind find it gets chilly.
Laser Tag: Slip on shoes are not recommended although they are permitted. If you want to look cool but stick out like a soar thumb, wear neon colors! Also, don't forget to lint roll those dark pants...
Batting Cages: Everyone must wear closed toed shoes. (Have you ever taken a foul tip to the toe? OUCH!) If you bring your own helmet, it must have a face mask.
Go-Karts: Slip on shoes are not recommended although they are permitted. Hair longer than shoulder length must be secured with a hair tie. (We have rubber bands available) We will ask that hats be removed.
Bumper Boats: Yes, shoes and shirts must be worn.


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I am proud to announce that I have been awarded the Two Bright Lights Editor's Choice Award for 2015. This is a real honour for me to be a Toronto award winning wedding photographer. My work had been selected to be featured 23 times last year! You can see all of our features listed in our Press section here.
Two Bright Lights has given this award to those whose "talent was continually recognized by the top print magazine, blog and ezine editors. Their hard work and commitment to getting published, places them among the top 5%, from a community made up of over 40,000 photographers and event professionals across 100 countries.â€
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KOTA BAHARU: The Super League match between Kelantan and Sarawak at the Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium in Kota Baharu was tied to a 2-2 draw on Friday.
Sarawak took the lead in the eighth minute through its import player from Australia, Makeche Ndumba.
Kelantan then equalised the score through its import striker from Macedonia, Blaze Ilijoski in the 43rd minute, who netted the cross from Jonathan Lucca.
In the second half, Ilijoski completed a brace in the 63rd minute by brilliantly netting in a pass from midfielder Wan Zack Haikal Wan Nor, catching Sarawak goalkeeper Mohd Iqbal Suhaimi by surprise.
However, The Red Warriors' joy was short-lived when Sarawak equalised the score eight minutes later through Ndumba.
Kelantan coached by K. Devan, and Sarawak, coached by former national coach Datuk K. Rajagopal failed to score until the final whistle, hence sharing a point from the match which ended 2-2.– BERNAMA


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When it comes to finding an appropriate title that describes what a recruiter does, the vocabulary in the English language falls completely flat. The term recruiter can take on many meanings depending on which profession it is being applied to in the moment.
For example, in collegiate sports, recruiting is used to funnel athletic talent onto a team that is guaranteed to lose its senior class each year to graduation. In the fine arts, such as musicians, actors, and performers, recruiting can be a talent agency constantly on the lookout for the next big star.
Hospitals recruit physicians and technicians, while nursing homes continuously recruit nurses often from multiple countries. There are recruiting firms that specialize in recruiting hospitality staff for five-star resorts and those that cater (pun intended) only to supplying sous chefs to small restaurants. Universities also use external recruiting firms for recruiting provosts, presidents, and other posts in academia. Law firms use recruiters. Cities, counties and municipalities use recruiting firms for heads of transportation, education, and other department leadership. Name 1000 specialties and I can tell you there are 10 search firms serving each niche.
As a founding partner of IRES, a talent acquisition firm soon entering its thirtieth year, I've sat in countless boardrooms, conference rooms and executive offices from mid-town Manhattan to Los Angeles, and Mexico City to Toronto including financial hubs of Europe. From this experience, I have come to realize even C-suite executives, and those comprising of their upper management teams, have little realization of how much expertise a capable executive search consultant possesses. It's not their fault as recruiting outside of the company is for most, like replacing the roof on your house: it's something many executives do not get involved with each year.
Here are a few of the skills my team and I must bring to the table in order to deliver consistent results:
Above all a professional executive recruiter MUST be knowledgeable with all Federal Compliance Laws affecting hiring including but not limited to:
So, there you have it! More than forty different underlying skills are necessary to be a successful recruiter (occasionally I perform those skills in one of 4 languages). The simple title of recruiter does a very poor job of explaining what a recruiter actually does. I'm thinking magician might be more apropos!
If you have made it this far I hope you have a better appreciation of the multitude of skills a competent talent acquisition and executive search firm must bring to bear on each hiring project.
* Our involvement on such issues is limited to helping identify the need for a CPA, Attorney, CFP or other dedicated professional.
As we've said in the last two years during 2016 and 2017, there's no point conducting a search unless you are prepared to provide a sufficiently generous offer likely to get someone to accept and resign. A meager 5% increase or even 15% is often insufficient enticement. What's generous defined as?
That's spelled out in our job offer booklet and usually equates to a twenty-percent increase at a bare minimum. More is better. Counteroffers are prevalent and should be factored into the offer and considered a given expectation. Just as is the case with certain real estate markets. It's important your job offer is set at a sufficiently high enough percentage point above someone's current salary so as to be counteroffer proof!
But why are there more counteroffers? Competition is fierce, with a national unemployment rate at 3.9 percent, a rate that is significantly low for executive ranks, and 6.7 million positions open nationwide, there is a clear disparity between the supply and demand of talented professionals. Because of this reality, companies will do anything to retain talent, which means plenty of counteroffers. So, how do you ensure candidates are not going to accept them?
A recent article that has made its rounds on LinkedIn (and eventually wound up on the Yahoo news' home page) which was promoted by their chief executive of hype and propaganda to shed light on what seemed to be a new phenomenon of "ghosting" in the workplace.
Upon reading, I discovered the first few sentences of the article made me believe this referred to no-show jobs where people are hired, but their 'ghost' so-to-speak, is the only part that shows up for the job – something that alludes to what we have heard about government and municipal positions, at times. As it turned out, after reading the article, it was not about that at all.
The term "ghosting" in reference to the workplace is just a new, catchy term coined for what those of us who are more experienced have known about for decades.
We used to call it many things such as "going radio silent" or "flaking out" but the issue was always the same: someone didn't show up for their interview and/or job. Usually this happens at lower levels below the $100k range, but the phenomenon has no limits on salary and I have seen CFO and COOs behave the same, although at much lower frequencies.
Whether it's called an interview "no-show", job "no-show", flaking out, vanishing, "going radio-silent", or the latest catch-phrase, "ghosting", the problem is all the same— it points to a lack of professional conduct. The old saying here still applies: everyone you meet taking the elevator up will be the same you meet on the way down. What might embolden someone to think they can casually disregard bothering to cancel an interview will come back to haunt (pun intended) that person later when economic times roughen up and her/his recruiter remembers their unprofessional, discourteous behavior.
The moral of the story here is if you don't want the job, call up and say so, it is much better than blocking the phone and spooking out.
Many companies we hear from each week remain oblivious to the fact that hotly contested talent in key cities from coast-to-coast have multiple opportunities and offers available to them. Between those multiple offers and counteroffers, the tug-of-war for talent is now in full swing. Only those companies with the right blend of perks, incentives, working conditions, fringe benefits, and compensation packages are going to stand any chance at winning the battle.
At times, even incentives and great working conditions may become insufficient if a company's hiring process is lethargic. The hiring process becomes critical as organizations herd candidates along from first interview to the offer and (hopefully) acceptance stage. Only the quickest and most efficient of those companies will claim victory .
One large insurance company we're aware of makes a great example of a company that rapidly hires and on-boards individuals faster than the competition can blink. In fact in several cities ranging from Northern California, to Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas to Florida, they have hired rapidly while the competition lost out. Stringing along talent through unnecessary or lengthy interviews, or arduous profile testing procedures, is likely to dissuade rather than persuade. We've observed a few cases this year where the individual candidate decided he/she is worth much more just from making it to the offer stage suddenly increasing their salary requirement beyond the company's budget. Another example of the pitfalls of a protracted process.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate dipped down to 3.9% this past April, 2018, read more on CNN Money.
That is the lowest rate since 2000. Why is this important to executives currently hiring? Because, while our niche-specific talent searches always focus on small talent pools, record low unemployment always translates to more competition fighting for that same, limited talent, even if your targeted talent is already employed. This makes recruiting even more challenging, which means you need IRES at your side more than ever.
Think of this labor statistic as inviting guests to a pool party but the pool is a small plastic kiddie pool. Imagine all your competitors standing in the kiddie pool shoulder to shoulder because that tiny pool is now your talent pool. The standing-room only guests? That's your competition.
Many companies have been asking: how do I get the most out of this shrinking talent pool?
There are several ways you can do this:
Choosing a recruiting search firm can be a daunting task, but it is necessary when you are searching for talent while your competitors are also doing the same. Recruiting search firms, like IRES, are able to take your needs and assist you in finding the pain points through their extensive knowledge and behind-the-scenes expertise on what you are up against. With over 27 years of experience in the industry, IRES knows how to press the hot buttons and find those candidates that you need and want.
Recruiting talent is hard and knowing the baseline of your target candidate helps to ensure that they speak to you. These candidates are heavily recruited all the time, so it is up to you to convince them to make the move. Find out how to create that unique selling proposition and see what the exact salary increase percentage should be and how to gauge the probability that the offer will be accepted or rejected with this helpful special report.
One of the biggest challenges when searching for that perfect candidate is standing out when the candidate is inundated with calls and is being heavily recruited by all of the other competition. The higher demand of the candidate, the greater the need for you to streamline your hiring process and ensure that you don't lose someone that can be the best fit for the role you are trying to fill. The hiring process is usually done at a lax pace, but when you are searching for those target candidates you need to make it more like a relay race hitting every mark quickly until you give them the hard offer. How can you ensure that they will even take your offer? Make sure it is counter-offer-proof! These candidates that have chosen to go through your process and get to the finish line even though they are being heavily sought after. Do you think they are going to jump ship and take a chance if your offer is only a small step above what they are already making? No, these candidates need to see that making a transition is going to pay off and will need to see that drawn out before they sign on the dotted line.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is said to be the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years; and it's also the strictest in the world.
Europeans will be able to tell companies to stop profiling them, and will have greater control over what happens to their data. The new laws will make filing abuse complaints much easier, which will result in hefty fines for companies that misstep.
Companies blatantly breaking the rules can face fines that are equal to $24M or 4% of their global turnover (whichever is greater), which will put small organizations and large global organizations on the same playing field. Here are a few important considerations for American companies:
Ensuring your organization's compliance may not seem urgent, but avoiding the fines and bad publicity will undoubtedly be worth it in the long run.
Read more on this topic at EUGDPR.org, Fortune Magazine, and The Drum.
Baby Boomers are retiring at a rate of 10,000 a day. Is your company ready to move skilled talent into those critical roles?
With the rapid rate of change that the business world is experiencing, it isn't enough to simply replace baby boomers. What does a successful succession plan look like? This question will be answered differently by every company, but here are two important points to focus on:
Planning is Key. Gain a comprehensive understanding of what knowledge and skills your baby boomers who are leaving in the next two years can pass on. Equally important is finding the right people to pass it on to. The knowledge and skills that upcoming retirees possess is too valuable to not be shared with more than one individual. You should allow 2 years for a transition period.
Allow Budget & Bandwidth for Mentoring: While your organization may be focused acutely on the financials, don't forget the payoff of a successful skills transfer. Making your baby boomer feel that he or she has the support and bandwidth to mentor the key individuals you've identified (above) will create an environment of teaching that can't exist in a purely results-driven scenario.
Read more on this topic at Forbes, Refresh Leadership, and HBR.
Self-Managed versus Expert Recruiting
Whenever I hear of a VP or any other senior manager being told by internal human resources to 'self-manage' your search I think of the time I tried to install my own home irrigation system.
The instructions called for making my own diagram, zone chart, then having tools to dig ditches layout the piping, install the central control system … and … well …. I gave up and called an expert. The few thousand dollars I spent spared me many months of wasted weekends, as well as avoided my experiencing the prospect of slicing through my own gas line (which I almost did once which would have blown myself and the house up along with me). 10 years later I still derive the benefits of that one single payment to an expert that made it look all too easy.
Expert Recruiting Consultants Pay Their Own Fees
As Red Adair, the famous international oil well firefighting consultant, once stated "If you think a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur".
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional for the job, wait until you hire an amateur" – Red Adair
We are proud to be celebrating 25 years servicing the Insurance Industry and providing insurance recruitment to our loyal clients. We thank all our Clients and Previously Placed Candidates for putting your trust and confidence in us, year after year.


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Working in a realistic style, Martha Jane Spurlock paints subjects ranging from Americana and the cowboys to the American West.
"I have a real appreciation for the Old West and like to think I capture the Western lifestyle in each painting I create," she says.
Each painting reflects countless hours of in-depth research and planning required before she begins to paint. Her paintings of real subjects in authentic situations tell a story – a recreation of American history and heritage.
She was recently honored to paint portraits of America's service men and women who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Faces of the Fallen" was displayed at Arlington National Cemetery.
Martha's paintings are part of many prestigious collections and have been represented in many major exhibitions.


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