July 17, 2011

Sunnah Potong Kuku

Sila rujuk gambar.
ade yg kata sunnah ni palsu
tp ustazah kt skolah sy pnh ajar cmni gak
ade sape tau status yg btol?

Neville Longbottom vs. Matthew Lewis

July 16, 2011

SCIENCE OF BUILDING LEADERS

By ROSHAN THIRAN

I RECENTLY read about the ordeal of US Navy jet pilot Charles Plumb, whose plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile on his 75th combat mission. He parachuted out but was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He somehow survived the nightmare and now teaches leadership!

Years later, when Plumb was at a restaurant, a man came up and said: “You're Charles Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!

“How in the world did you know that?” questioned Plumb.

“I packed your parachute,” the man replied.

Plumb was taken aback by this man. The man looked at him and said smilingly: “I guess it worked!” Plumb quickly responded: “It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today.”

Plumb couldn't sleep that night as he thought about the man who possibly saved his life. He wondered if he had been nice to him when they were in the army. Plumb was a fighter pilot and the man was just an ordinary sailor so in most likelihood, he would not have thought much of the lowly sailor back then. Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor must have spent in the bowels of the ship, carefully entwining the shrouds and compacting the silks of each chute, holding in his hands the destiny of someone he didn't know. And he was thankful that he had someone in his team who packed his parachute so well that it worked.

This led me to ask myself, “who's packing my parachute?” Each day, there are numerous challenges in business and in life where we need the help and support of so many people to ensure that our “parachute” works when a pivotal moment arrives. It may be ensuring our powerpoint slides are perfect, or our proposals to a major customer is beautifully bound or just ensuring our products work each time.

Everyone is highly reliant on people in our teams to provide what we need to make it through the day. There is simply too much involved in running a business today to think you can do everything yourself. Yet, many of us never really think about our teams that support us or even show thankfulness to the different people that “pack our parachutes” daily.

Sir Richard Branson loves people and every part of his leadership is about people. He claims that “the people factor is the basis of many entrepreneurial successes and, because many business leaders discount it, innumerable failures results.”

Branson takes it a step further. The entire business model of his Virgin Group is centered on people. Branson built Virgin to become one of the biggest brands in the world simply by listening and caring for people. Early in life, he started his Student magazine because he felt that the big newspapers didn't care for students. He set up Virgin Records because he felt that big record labels didn't care for young people and their music as they charged exorbitant prices. He did the opposite and cared. He set up Virgin Atlantic because he was upset that people had such horrible service in flights and he cared enough to change it. He claims “having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”

In 1990, British Airways (BA) launched a secret campaign with a select number of employees they called “Helpliners” to hack into Virgin Atlantic's computer system in order to steal Virgin passengers. BA “Helpliners” went overboard calling Virgin's passengers telling them their flights were cancelled, which was a lie, and that they should re-book their flight on BA. This went on for months before Branson realised what was going on.

Branson sued BA, who settled the case, giving 500,000 to Branson, 110,000 to Virgin and a further 3mil in legal fees. What did Branson do with the money he won? He divided his compensation (calling it the “BA bonus”) among his staff and made sure everyone benefited from the “win” as a thank you for fighting hard for Virgin. How many leaders today are like Branson, sharing their “limelight” with the team?

Branson has developed a level of trust with his team by showing gratitude. Branson knows “who packs his parachutes” and makes time to acknowledge and recognise his employees. He shares that the secret to ensuring you continually show gratitude to your employees is by being a good listener, lavishing praise to your “parachute packers” for a job well done constantly and never openly criticising people.

He adds: “To be a good leader, you've got to concentrate on bringing out the best in your people. People are no different than flowers they need to be cared for and watered all the time if not they will shrivel and die. This is true whether it's a switchboard operator or the chairman.”

Do you really care about the people that “pack your parachute”? Or do you only care to the extent that they deliver on the workload entrusted to them. Employees aren't just resources working in the business; they are the business. An effective business is not the product, service, supply chain or its magnificent business plan. It ultimately boils down to the group of enthusiastic and passionate people called employees who carry out your well-designed business plan.

Jose Mourinho, one of the most successful football managers in the world, clearly believes that all jobs are important. When he was manager at Chelsea, he treated the cleaning lady with the same respect and gratitude as he did Didier Drogba, their star player. If one person was ineffective in his role, the whole team suffered and he would “lose”. He thus ensures everyone on his team showed gratitude to everyone in the “family” regardless of their rank or position.

As a leader, I am indebted and extremely grateful for the people I have the honour to work with daily. So how can I show my gratefulness? Simply say “thank you.” Treat your people with respect and acknowledge their commitment and contribution throughout the year.

Many of us say thanks once a year, probably at annual dinners. Research shows that for it to be effective, you need to say it often. “If you don't do it regularly you're not going to get the benefits,” says Prof Lyubomirsky. “It's like you went to the gym once a year. What would be the good of that?”

But as work piles up and deadlines loom, and it is easy to slip into barking mode. It is times like this when I remember a simple rule: Treat your people as if they were volunteers.

I know for a fact that the great people who work at Leaderonomics, the high-performers, can leave at any time. Their skills and expertise are in demand. So, it's not just about paying a competitive salary but also ensuring they know they are valued.

In our community work, the opposite holds true and you need to “treat your volunteers as if they are employees.” In many NGOs, volunteers are essential but are often overlooked when important decisions are made, causing feelings of being unappreciated and dissed.

The key lesson for us is to continually remind ourselves that everyone should be accorded respect and recognised for the contributions they make.

Research on gratitude indicates enormous benefits including health and happiness to the giver and optimism and energy to the receiver. Additionally, psychologist Dr. Robert Emmonsconcludes that those who offer gratitude are less envious and resentful, sleeping longer, exercise more and report a drop in blood pressure.

Psychologist David DeSteno found that “gratitude leads people to act in virtuous or more selfless ways.” This means that if you constantly show your gratefulness to the people that “pack your parachutes”, they in turn will be inspired to give more of themselves selflessly to your cause.

There are myriads of ways to show your thanks. The key is that you take the time to do so. It's easy to forget.

Henry Ford was named Fortune's “Businessman of the 20th century”. Ford was obsessed with helping people by ensuring that even the “poor” could afford cars. He ultimately succeeded by reducing the price of a car to an affordable US$950 per car (the cheapest in the world). While most people who sell “cheap” products will try to cut costs, especially wages, Henry Ford did the opposite he rewarded his employees by paying them the highest wages in the country. Everyone wanted to work at Ford. He went one step further. To truly thank his employees and show gratefulness, he cut their working hours from the typical 9- to 10-hour workday (back then) to 8 hours per day. So you got paid more and worked less.

When you thank employees, their confidence grows. Looking back, different leaders probably inspired and spurred you forward through encouragement and gratitude. You need to do likewise. Best of all, leaders who are grateful are never depressed. You can't be depressed and grateful at the same time.

Thankfulness is infectious. When you brighten someone else's day with a word of thanks, it puts a smile on their face. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz built his empire on this infectiousness. Starbucks was set up because Schultz's father was mistreated by his employer and he wanted to build a company that cared for every single employee, even part-timers that worked there. His philosophy was “Care more than others think wise.” His employees similarly got infected by his caring and positivity and either intentionally or unconsciously, started passing it back to their customers. Starbucks grew as a result.

Final thoughts

Is there someone in your team you owe a debt of gratitude to? Build an attitude of acknowledging and valuing the contribution of others.

People are the lifeblood of any company. They need to be thanked and celebrated every now and then. So, go say thank you to your troopers today. You would be surprised at what those two little words do for a person. Go on, be a thankful leader!

July 09, 2011

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info sharing... BERSIH 2.0

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what is BERSIH 2.0?
BERSIH started out as the Joint Action Committee for Electoral Reform, which was formed in July 2005, and the coalition’s objective was to push for a thorough reform of the electoral process in Malaysia.

The Steering Committee members of BERSIH 2.0 are as follows :

Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan, Chairperson
Andrew Khoo
Arumugam K.
Farouk Musa
Maria Chin Abdullah
Haris Ibrahim
Liau Koh Fah
Richard Y W Yeoh
Toh Kin Woon
Wong Chin Huat
Yeoh Yang Poh
Zaid Kamaruddin

source: http://bersih.org/

who is Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan?

1) Pembela dan Peguam yang paling kuat mempertahankan Lina Joy
2) Pendokong dan Penggerak IFC (Interfaith Commission)
3) Sgt pro kepada kes-kes murtad
4) Menyeru rakyat Sarawak buat huru-hara seperti di Tahrin Square
5) Dia adalah Pengerusi BERSIH 2.0 yang bakal diadakan pada 9 Julai nanti Dan dibelakangnya pula adalah Komander Mat Sabu dari Batalion 121 PAS PIS PUS.

source:http://www.sahabat-gunung.com/2011/06/siapakah-ambiga-sreenevasan.html

ANCAMAN DARIPADA 14 TUNTUTAN IFC TERHADAP UMAT ISLAM

1. Seseorang anak yang dilahirkan oleh ibu bapa Islam tidak seharusnya secara terus menjadi orang Islam.

2. Orang bukan Islam yang telah memeluk Islam hendaklah diberikan kebebasan untuk kembali ke agama asal mereka (murtad) dan tidak boleh dikenakan tindakan undang-undang.

3. Sebarang kes pertukaran agama orang Islam kepada bukan Islam tidak sepatutnya dikendalikan oleh Mahkamah Syariah tetapi dikendalikan oleh Mahkamah Sivil.

4. Tidak perlu dicatatkan di dalam kad pengenalan seseorang Muslim bahawa ia beragama Islam.

5. Orang bukan Islam tidak perlu dikehendaki menganut Islam sekiranya ingin berkahwin dengan Orang Islam,Orang Islam hendaklah dibenarkan keluar daripada Islam (murtad) sekiranya ingin berkahwin dengan orang bukan Islam tanpa boleh dikenakan tindakan undang-undang.

6. Seseorang atau pasangan suami isteri yang menukar agamanya dengan memeluk Islam tidak patut diberikan hak penjagaan anak.

7. Orang yang bukan Islam yang mempunyai hubungan kekeluargaan dengan seorang yang memeluk Islam hendaklah diberikan hak menuntut harta pusakanya selepas kematiannya.

8. Kerajaan hendaklah menyediakan dana yang mencukupi untuk membina dan menyelenggara rumah-rumah ibadat orang bukan Islam sebagaimana kerajaan menyediakan dana yang serupa untuk masjid.

9. Orang bukan Islam hendaklah dibenarkan dan tidak boleh dihalang daripada menggunakan perkataan-perkataan suci Islam dalam percakapan dan sebagainya.

10. Bibel dalam Bahasa Malaysia dan Bahasa Indonesia sepatutnya dibenarkan untuk diedarkan kepada umum secara terbuka.

11. Pelajaran agama bukan Islam untuk penganut agama itu hendaklah diajar di semua sekolah.

12. Program-program berunsur Islam dalam bahasa ibunda sesuatu kaum hendaklah ditiadakan. Program dakwah agama lain selain Islam pula hendaklah dibenarkan untuk disiarkan dalam bahasa ibunda masing-masing.

13. Orang Islam yang membayar zakat tidak sepatutnya dikecualikan daripada membayar cukai pendapatan dan wang Hasil zakat sepatutnya digunakan juga untuk keperluan orang-orang bukan Islam.

14. Sepatutnya Islam tidak disebut sebagai pilihan pertama masyarakat Malaysia seperti dalam soal pakaian menutup aurat kepada pelajar sekolah.

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HERE ARE SOME BASIC SPELL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS A ROOKIE MAGICIAN.

Accio	Brings an object to you
Aguamenti	Creates a gush of water from the tip of the spell caster’s wand
Alohomora	Opens locks
Aparecium	Makes invisible ink become visible
Avada Kedavra	The Unforgivable Curse; Kills your opponent; taken from “Abra Cadabra”
Avifors	Turns things into birds
Avis	Makes birds fly out of the end of your wand
Bombarda	Causes a small, locally contained explosion. To make a bigger explosion, one could use “bombarda maxima”
Colloportus	Closes a door and binds it so that it can’t be opened.
Confringo	AKA the Blasting Curse; Causes the item targeted to explode
Confundus	Confounds your target, or makes them temporarily confused
Conjunctivitis	Damages the eyesight of your opponent, making them seem to have pink eye
Crucio	The Second Unforgivable Curse, the Cruciatus Curse; Tortures your opponent mercilessly
Deletrius	Erases the last spell cast by a wand so that it can’t be discovered
Densaugeo	Makes teeth grow
Diffindo	Makes seams split open, severs an object into two pieces
Dissendium	Opens a specific passageway into a cellar, may be useful in other instances; may be only a password
Duro	Turns an item to stone.
Enervate	Mistaken spell. Changed to Rennervate. Used to wake up a stunned person
Engorgio	Makes an item larger, as in swollen
Episkey	Heals relatively minor wounds.
Evanesco	Causes an item to immediately dissolve away, as if it had never existed
Expecto Patronum	Creates Patronus
Expelliarmus	Disarms the target of the spell, such as knocking their wand out of their hand
Fera Verto	Transforms animals into water goblets!
Ferula	Binds a broken limb with a spling and bandages, tightly wrapped
Fidelius	Allows a secret to be hidden within the secret keeper’s soul; very powerful spell
Finite Incantatum	Stops any spell
Flagrate	Allows the user to write or draw in the air with fire
Flipendo	Also knows as the Knockback Jinx, pushes or flips something backwards
Furnunculus	Causes a person to break out in boils
Geminio	Creates a duplicate of an item (a twin, as in the zodiacal sign Gemini).
Homorphus	Man-Shape; makes a werewolf or person disguised as an animal resume their human shape
Immobulus	Immobilizes the target
Impedimenta	Puts up an impediment that slows down something or someone that is coming toward you
Imperio	The third unforgivable curse. Allows the user to assume complete control of another person
Impervius	Repels water from a surface
Incarcerous	Conjures up ropes, which then bind an opponent
Incendio	Lights a fire
Legilimens	Allows the user to gain access to another’s mind and memories
Levicorpus	Turns your opponent upside down and dangles them in thin air
Liberacorpus	“Liberates”, or frees a body that has been caught up by the levicorpus spell
Locomotor Mortis	The Leg-Locker Curse; locks an opponent’s legs together
Lumos	Creates light, usually by making the tip of the wand glow. More light can be created using “lumos maxima”
Mobiliarbus	Used to move a tree from one place to another
Mobilicorpus	Used to move a body from one place to another
Morsmordre or Morsmorde	Used to summon the Dark Mark
Muffliato	Causes a buzzing noise to surround a limited area so that those in the area can carry on a private conversation
Nox	Extinguishes light, used to douse the light created by “Lumos”
Obliviate	Makes a person “oblivious”, erasing their memories of an event
Orchideous	Conjures a bunch of flowers from the user’s wand
Petrificus Totalus	Total petrification; petrifies an opponent totally
Point Me	The Four Point Spell; makes the user’s wand act like a compass
Portus	Turns any item into a Portkey, which can then be used to transport a person or persons to another location.
Prior Incantato	Reveals to you the last spell that a wand was used to cast
Protego	Protects the user, and sends a spell back on an opponent
Quietus	Makes things quiet, used to muffle “Sonorus”
Reducio	Shrinks an item
Reducto	Blasts solid objects into pieces
Relashio	Releases something from being constrained or held
Rennervate	Was originally “ennervate”, but corrected by author; means to energize or wake up
Reparo	Repairs broken items
Repello	Repels something
Repello Muggletum	Makes an area invisible to Muggles
Revelio	Causes something that is hidden to be revealed
Rictusempra	Causes a person to curl up in laughter, as if being tickled
Riddikulus	Makes a boggart assume a “ridiculous” form, thereby making it funny instead of terrifying
Salvio Hexia	Unclear; seems to strengthen other protective spells, or to deflect any hexes cast toward a specific location
Scourgify	Used to clean dirt or other material off of a surface
Sectumsempra	Causes lacerations to appear all over an opponent’s body, as if they had been cut by an invisible sword
Serpensortia	Conjures a snake
Silencio	Makes the target of the spell unable to make any sound.
Sonorus	Amplifies the user’s voice
Stupefy	Stupefies an opponent, or knocks them insensible temporarily
Tarantallegra	Forces an opponent’s legs to dance uncontrollably
Tergeo	Scours something clean
Waddiwasi	Removes a stuck object, as in a wad of gum that is stuck in a keyhole
Wingardium Leviosa	Allows the user to make an object levitate