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"LLANBEBLIG, a parish in the hundred of Is-Gorfai, county Carnarvon, 7 miles S.W. of Bangor, and 1 mile from Carnarvon, its post town. It is situated on the river Seiont and the south-western shore of the Menai Strait. The parish, which is very populous, includes the borough of Carnarvon and the townships of Bont-Newydd, Castellmai, and Treflan. The workhouse of the Carnarvon Poor-law Union is in this parish. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Bangor, value with the curacies of Carnarvon and Waenfawr annexed, £330, in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester. The church, dedicated to St. Publicius, is a spacious cruciform structure with several stained-glass windows. It contains a monument of alabaster to one of the Griffiths, and an ancient brass. The chapel of St. Mary, formerly the garrison chapel, is situated in the town of Carnarvon, in which the services are in English. The Calvinistic Methodists have two chapels in the parish." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
- Ebsworth, Jill. The Morrises of Ysgeifiog and Llanbeblig. Gwreiddiau Gwynedd/Gwynedd Roots 23 (1992), p. 8-13
- Jones, William H. Old Karnarvon : a historical account of the town of Carnarvon, with notices of the parish churches of Llanbeblig & Llanfaglan. Carnarvon : H. Humphreys, [1889]. 186p
Business and Commerce Records
Garreg Fawr Deeds 1810-1933 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"The Garreg Fawr Slate and Mineral Co. Ltd quarried a small pit in the parish of Llanbeblig from the early 1800s......."
Cefn Du Manuscripts 1878-1928 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Until 1928 the Cefn Du Slate Quarry, situated in the parishes of Llanrug and Llanbeblig, was one of the most important of the minor quarries of Caernarvonshire...."
|St John Evangelist, Waunfawr
|St Peblig, Llanbeblig
|Moreia Independent Chapel, Groeslon
|Caeathro Chapel, Caeathro
|Croes-Y-Waun Chapel, Croesywaun
|Groeslon Sunday School, Groeslon
|Waunfawr Chapel, Waunfawr
|Hen-Gapel, Caeathraw
|Roman Burial Ground (site of), Llanbeblig
|Tegannedd, Ty Capel And Sunday School And Vestry, Tegannedd
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Church History
Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.
Llanbeblig Parish and Carnarvon Borough; Statistics; Area 6792 acres; Population 4641 males, 5242 females, total 9883
Jones, G. O., papurau (papers) - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
- "Includes; ..... original material relating to the parish of Llanbeblig and its churches, 1921-1982, including lists of clergy and officials and statements of account, 1926-1982, annual financial reports, 1941-1945, and miscellaneous letters, 1921-1976; books and pamphlets, some by G. O. Jones, on religion and local church history, 1954-1980......"
Llanbeblig churchyard - on the Carnarvon Traders site
Plan of Caersalem Chapel (Baptist), Garnon St, Llanbeblig - on the People's Collection Wales site
- Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Waunfawr chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Sept 2011)
A view of St. Peblig's church, Caernarfon - on the People's Collection Wales site
Church Records
Description and Travel
- The transcription of the section for Llanbeblig from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833
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Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Llanbeblig has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Land and Property
Papers relating to the Treflan Estate 1889 July 13 - ca. 1970s - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
"Comprises transcript copies and photocopies of documents relating to the Treflan Estate, Llanbeblig and Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire......."
Gwynedd Family History Society have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarfonshire (under Parishes)
Part of the parish of Llanbeblig, County of Carnarvon - on the People's Collection Wales site
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Opportunity Commission
Contractor Shunned Blacks and Women for Jobs, and Harassed and Fired Two Women for Opposing the Discrimination, Federal Agency Charged
BALTIMORE - ACM Services, Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based environmental remediation services contractor, will pay $415,000 and provide comprehensive equitable relief to resolve a class race, gender discrimination and harassment lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. The EEOC had charged that ACM Services engaged in a pattern or practice of race and sex discrimination in hiring and also harassed two women based on sex, race and national origin and retaliated against them.
According to the EEOC's suit, ACM Services exclusively used word-of-mouth recruitment practices for field laborer positions with the intent and effect of failing to recruit black job applicants. The EEOC said that ACM Services also refused to hire black job applicants, or female applicants for field laborer positions. The EEOC also alleged failure to preserve employment applications.
The EEOC charged that ACM Services also subjected two Hispanic female employees to harassment based on sex, national origin, and race and engaged in unlawful retaliation against them because they opposed the harassment and discrimination and that the retaliation resulted in their terminations. The EEOC also alleged that one of the Hispanic female employees was subjected to harassment because of her association with black persons.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, sex and national origin. Title VII also forbids employers from retaliating against individuals who oppose discrimination. The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (U.S. EEOC v. ACM Services, Inc., Civil Action No. 8:14-CV-2997-PWG), after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to the $305,000 in monetary relief for a class of persons not hired or recruited because of race or sex and $110,000 in monetary relief to the two Hispanic female employees, the three-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit enjoins ACM Services from engaging in any future race, sex, or national origin discrimination or retaliation, and provides substantial non-monetary relief.
Among other things, ACM Services will:
The EEOC will be conducting a claims process over the next 35 months to identify eligible claimants and determine awards.
"It is well-established that diversity is good for business," said EEOC Philadelphia District Director Spencer H. Lewis, Jr. "We encourage all employers to take a proactive approach in ensuring that their recruitment practices and workplaces are free of discrimination."
EEOC Philadelphia Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence added, "We are pleased that ACM Services worked with us to resolve this lawsuit quickly and without engaging in protracted litigation. These affirmative measures will benefit all employees and applicants. All employers should consider proactive measures to foster equal employment opportunities for job applicants and workers."
Eliminating barriers in recruitment and hiring, especially class-based recruitment and hiring practices that discriminate against racial, ethnic and religious groups, older workers, women, and people with disabilities, is one of six national priorities identified by the EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan.
The EEOC Philadelphia District Office has jurisdiction over Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and parts of New Jersey and Ohio.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the agency is available at its website, www.eeoc.gov.

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Amitabh Bachchan's trademark deep baritone voice, tall, brooding persona and intense eyes, made him the ideal "Angry Young Man", setting him apart from the cluster of Bollywood's lover boys. However, his unconventional looks did work against him at the beginning of his Bollywood career, but he stayed around long enough to be become the icon of the Indian film industry.Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad in 1942, to Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, "the light that would never go off." Though his surname was Shrivastava, he replaced it with 'Bachchan', which was his father's pen name. Amitabh Bachchan studied in Allahabad at Jnana Pramodhini and Boys High School. He completed his education at Sherwood College in Nainital and Kirori Mal College in Delhi. His first job was in Shaw Wallace. Amitabh later worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm called Bird and Co., in Kolkata, a job he quit to pursue a career in acting.
In 1969, Amitabh made his debut with Saat Hindustani, which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. After this came movies like Reshma Aur Shera, Parwana, and Anand in 1971. He made a huge impact with his performance in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand alongside Rajesh Khanna, winning him the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. His breakthrough as a lead was in the film Zanjeer (1973) which established his persona of the "angry young man" of Bollywood. Amitabh reworked the image of the Hindi film hero with major hits like Deewar, Sholay, Trishul and Don. He popularised the violent melodrama genre but had an equal flair for tragedies (Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Shakti) and comedies (Chupke Chupke, Amar Akbar Anthony) as well. His status as a demi-god was evident when the entire nation prayed for his recovery when he met with a fatal injury during the making of Coolie in July, 1982.
In 1984, Amitabh entered politics in support of long time friend Rajiv Gandhi. He contested Allahabad's Lok Sabha seat and won by a huge margin. Accusations of him being involved in the Bofors Scandal made him quit politics, although, later on, he was proved innocent. Amitabh returned to films with blockbusters like Shahenshah, Agneepath, Hum and Khuda Gawah. A series of flops in mid 90's and the collapse of his company, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. landed him in immense debts. He returned back to movies but with no success.
In the year 2000, he stepped up to host the television show Kaun Banega Crorepati and later was seen in Mohabbatein along with Shah Rukh Khan. Both these ventures proved extremely successful. Since then Amitabh has been on a roll. At sixty plus, with all the endorsements and accolades, he is a greater icon than he was at the height of his popularity three decades ago.
In recent past we have seen Amitabh doing vastly different roles in fims like Sarkar Raj, The Last Lear, Paa, Teen Patti and Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap.
He was last seen in Prakash Jha's Aarakshan in 2011, the film failed to do well at the box-office but Amitabh's role was widely appreciated.
(courtesy: www.koimoi.com)


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Jacob Anderson - Los Angeles Premiere for season 6 of HBO's "GAME OF THRONES" at TCL Chinese Theater - Hollywood, California, United States - Sunday 10th April 2016
Jacob Anderson - Premiere of 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 10th April 2016
Shots of a variety of stars as they arrived to the World premiere of the fifth season of 'Game Of Thrones' which was held at the Tower of London in London, United Kingdom - Wednesday 18th March 2015
Jacob Anderson and Aisling Loftus - 'Shopping , Seduction & Mr.Selfridge' Booksigning at Selfridges in London - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 14th March 2013
When Lloyd is released from prison, he finds himself confronted with responsibility as his girlfriend Jemma is pregnant and he knows that his criminal antics must stop if he wants to be a proper father. Unfortunately, his childhood friends don't seem to have the same ideas and when they rope him into an illegal money-making scheme, he is at odds to refuse. He and his five friends break into a derelict block of flats where they used to live as children in order to put together a pirate radio station, do some DJing, smoke some joints and have a party. However, things don't go according to plan when Jemma separates from the group and disappears and the gang can't find her anywhere though find themselves sensing a dark presence nearby. As much as they try and dismiss the idea of someone in the building, claiming to know it better than anybody else, the members of the group find themselves amidst a series of grisly and vengeful murders and they are soon doing everything they can to escape from the building while dodging several lethal traps. Will anybody survive?
'Comedown' is a British horror directed by Menhaj Huda ('Kidulthood') and written by Steven Kendall ('Capital Punishment'). With production credits from Gareth Wiley ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona', 'Cassandra's Dream') and Dominic Norris ('The Penalty King', 'Guilty Hearts'), it is likely to be a gripping thrill ride that will keep you spooked long after the movie ends. Released on DVD and Blu Ray on January 28th 2013.
Directed by Menhaj Huda
Continue: Comedown Trailer
William (Johnson) is a troubled rich kid in North London who strains against the success of his novelist mother (Dodds). Obsessed with suicide, he spends his hours in online chatrooms, creating one that attracts four members: equally bored rich kid Eva (Poots), shy and lonely Jim (Beard), needy Emily (Murray) and Mo (Kaluuya), who struggles with unwanted urges. But it soon becomes clear that William is a predator who's out to unsettle and derail everyone around him. Will they catch on soon enough to stop his nefarious plan?
Continue reading: Chatroom Review
Four pals go their separate ways for a fateful weekend. Shannon (Lovibond) is struggling with dark emotions as her parents split up, but her friends seem too busy to listen. Cass (Egerton) is flying to New York for an important audition and also to lose her virginity to an internet friend, but neither go as planned. Kerrys (Warren-Markland) is the loudest member of her boisterous family, clashing with her brother (Chillin) while her girlfriend (Fielding) cheers her on. And Jo (Roberts) is stuck working in the family shop through two eventful nights.
Continue reading: 22.214.171.124 Review
Jacob Anderson - Tuesday 17th June 2008 at Empire Leicester Square London, England
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It's 12:30 on a Sunday morning, and the organ has just teed up the closing hymn. Lunch is eminent; one song to go. With a low, hungry growl, you peel yourself up from the pew, and begin to sing:
'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty,
Early in the morning my song shall rise to Thee.'
'Morning?' you think to yourself. 'It's nearly 12:30.' You're so distracted by your growling gut that you don't register the faint whiff of confusion as you sing, in a small, hungry voice: "God in three persons, Blessed Trinity!" Suddenly, you blink confusedly. God in three persons? How can one God be three persons? But within a nanosecond, you've decided that 12:35 is too late to tackle a question that has vexed Christians for nearly two millenia. After all, there is a great deal about it that we just can't say!
In this post, however, I will suggest that there is actually a great deal to be said about the doctrine of the Trinity, and not (at least, not only) by the experts. The doctrine of the Trinity, after all, isn't some esoteric reason for theologians to pull their hair out. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is about the very identity of the God who invites us to know and love him. When it comes to handling the doctrine of the Trinity rightly, then, the critical thing is the desire to know and love the Triune God. In this post, we'll look at five critical questions that have helped Christians through the ages better know and love the Triune God. We'll focus on the more 'metaphysical' questions since these are precisely the ones rarely articulated in the idiom of loving and knowing the Triune God. (Just don't proceed on an empty stomach!)[1]
Here are the questions:
First, what is the difference between a substance and a person?
Second, how ought we to speak of the Holy Trinity?
Third, what exactly is a person?
Fourth, does the term person apply to God?
Fifth, what does it mean to know and love the Triune God?
- First, what is the difference between a substance and a person?
If we don't look at this question carefully, we risk veering off into one of many well-worn ditches of ancient heresy. Take, for example, two such historic heresies: modalism and tritheism (though this is more of a family of heresies). A good illustration of modalism, or the view that God only appears as different persons, is the analogy to a teapot pouring water into three cups, or the man with three different roles: father, son, and husband. On the other hand, there is the error of tritheism, which views each divine person as a distinct god. Here, the best illustration is the famous 'three leaf clover' image of St. Patrick.[2] Both fail in the same respect: they fail to answer this question about substance and person properly. And the chances are, if we don't look at the question carefully, we too will veer toward one of these positions (or another like them).
The concept of 'person' was one of the most important developments in early Christian thinking. Two words, one in Greek (hypostasis, 'something that stands under') and one in Latin (persona, which referred to an actor's mask) both came to be synonyms for the concept of 'person'. There are in the Trinity three hypostases or personas, three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each term corresponds to another term that denotes God's nature, one in Greek (ousia, or being) and one in Latin (natura, or nature). These were roughly parallel terms for the concept of nature or essence. These extrabiblical terms were never meant to substitute philosophical constructs for biblical witness. Rather, they were the Church's effort to faithfully interpret who God had revealed himself to be, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
So, we have substance (ousia, natura) and person (hypostasis, persona)—but how are we to understand how three persons share one substance?
An important fourth century theologian, St. Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-c.395 A.D.), tackled this question. Sadly, Gregory has often been misunderstood as arguing that there are three independent beings in God, each with his own independent center of consciousness. This misreading of Gregory holds that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit share the divine nature like Peter, Paul, and James share the human one. But folks (as they say in my home state of North Carolina), that ain't right. As Lewis Ayres has shown, this view (which has resurfaced in a popular and weirdly pervasive view called social trinitarianism) was quite foreign to the Council of Nicaea, where the question of how to define person and substance was front and center. In fact, Gregory stressed that there was only one mind, one will, one operation, that was shared by each member of the Trinity in an undivided way.[3] This is what we call the principle of inseparable operation. In a nutshell, this meant that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit share one will, one operation—not three wills, or three operations. It is important that we see here that the doctrine of the Trinity does not teach three individuals, laboring cooperatively in all they do. That's social trinitarianism, and quite frankly, tritheism. It is vital to underline that the Triune God is one God, not three.
2. In that case, how ought we to speak of the Holy Trinity?
As St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) recognized, even the most precise and elegant human speech will trip over itself when talking about the Trinity. The same goes for the most precise and elegant human philosophy. When speaking about the Trinity, Augustine pared down Aristotle's ten categories of predication (substance, quality, quantity, relation, position, habit, place, time, action, and passion) to two categories only. Eight categories got the axe! The two remaining categories of predication – that is, of things we can say about stuff – were substance and relation. And even these needed to be refined of their usual, creaturely senses, so that we could say stuff about God rightly.
First, let's take a look at substantial predication. Augustine thought that substantial predication was appropriate, at the very least, because of Exodus 3:14: "There is at least no doubt that God is substance, or perhaps a better word would be being; at any rate what the Greeks call ousia. . . . And who can more be than he who said to his servant, I am who I am, and, Tell the sons of Israel, He who is sent me to you (Exod. 3:14)?"[4] For Augustine, substantial predication wasn't just saying that God exists; it was saying stuff about what sort of God exists: that he is good, just, merciful, loving, and so on. But these terms are not to be 'predicated' of each person in the plural, but of all the persons in the singular. 'The Father is great, the Son is great, the Holy Spirit too is great; yet there are not three great ones but one great one."
That's substantial predication, but let's also look at relational predication. While substantial predication says stuff about what sort of God exists, relational predication says stuff about the relations that distinguish the persons from each other. Before, the focus was on the one substance; here, the focus is on the three persons. Substantial predication referred to someone with reference to himself; relational predication refers to someone with reference to someone else. So the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all 'one great one' (substantial predication). And, at the same time, the Father is really distinct from the Son and the Spirit; the Son is really distinct from the Father and the Spirit; and the Spirit is really distinct from the Father and the Son. Boethius (c.480-524), a student of Augustine's, summed up this teaching this way: "the substance preserves the unity, the relation makes up the Trinity."
3. So what exactly is a person?
This is the question on which the whole fabric of Christian salvation hangs. If we traced out what one potential wrong answer to this question might mean for our salvation, we might ask the question this way: Does Christian salvation mean rescue, or obliteration?
Boethius, who we met a moment ago, in a work entitled Against Eutychius and Nestorius, wrote that a person is "an individual substance of a rational nature."[5] This definition, which was the definition that Thomas Aquinas had in mind when he got to the subject, comes at the end of a long argument against an ancient heretical group called monophysites. The monophysites held that Christ was formed from two natures, but also that he does not consist in those two natures. Rather, they said, Christ only had one nature; hence the name, 'monophysite.' The Catholics, in response, argued that both were true: Christ was formed from two natures, and he also consists in those two natures.
However, Boethius was dissatisfied with those who went to bat for the Catholics, so it was critical that he step up to the plate. Why? Because a monophysite Christ means a monophysite Christianity: that is, a Christianity that obliterates the human, just like a Savior whose divine nature obliterated his human one. This is A Clockwork Orange Christianity: the will is destroyed to solve the problem of being human. That is what was at stake for Boethius.[6] So in his argument against the monophysites, Boethius distinguished nature in four senses. The fourth and final definition is the one that concerns us.[7] Nature is the specific difference which makes a thing what it is. This is the definition both the monophysites and the Catholics were using. For example, one of the monophysites, Eutychius, argued that Christ did not consist in two natures because his divinity and humanity had united so much that they were now one new nature. In other words, the monophysites thought Christ's nature was neither human nor divine, but a third thing altogether. This is Clockwork Orange Christianity: as the divine obliterates the human in Christ, so the divine can only obliterate the human in us.
Boethius sees how problematic this is. So, with this definition of 'nature' in hand (i.e., the specific difference that makes a thing what it is), Boethius turns to define 'person.' 'Person,' Boethius insists, is predicated of a substance. And there are many kinds of substances: bodily ones (or not bodily), living ones (or not living). Some of those living substances are sensitive, and some of those sensitive, living substances are rational. Men, like God and the angels, are rational substances. But there's one more distinction Boethius makes. All substances can be either universal or particular; the universal ones can be predicated of other things, while the particulars cannot. The fact that people are named shows that they are singular, unique, particular. Essences subsist in particular things; persons are the things in which essences subsist. And so, Boethius finally arrives at his definition of a person: "an individual substance of a rational nature." (An individual substance, because it is unique and particular; a rational nature because it is a rational substance, as we have already seen, like God, angels, or men.) The only reason Boethius went into all this was to clarify the relation between substance (ousia, natura) and person (hypostasis, persona). This clarification was key if Boethius wanted to turn around and insist, as he did, that Christ is not only from two natures, but also consists in two natures. This affirmation is essential if we are to avoid a Christianity that obliterates rather than rescues.
4. Great – a person is "an individual substance of a rational nature." But does this term apply to God?
Well, have you ever found yourself, in the middle of a prayer, beginning a sentence with "Heavenly Father," and then ending it with, "Lord Jesus"? Praying to 'God in three persons' can be tricky business. Some surprisingly practical help comes out of the Augustinian tradition we've been discussing, especially through the medieval theologian, Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 A.D.).
But let's start, once again, with Boethius. In the fourth century, Latin theologians encountered a problem. They needed to translate the Greek word hypostasis into Latin, but its Latin equivalent was substantia. To use this word would have lost quite a lot in translation! So, Latin theologians had to find another word for hypostasis, and they duly chose subsistence. Boethius was the one who hammered out a series of correlations between Latin and Greek terms in Trinitarian theology that have stood the test of time. Many later scholastics – Albert the Great, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas – worked with Boethius's correlations: so, "the Greek work ousia corresponds to the Latin term essentia (essence); hypostasis corresponds to subsistentia (subsistence); and prosopon corresponds to the Latin word persona (person).[8]" The second was particularly important for Aquinas when it was time to think through whether or not the term 'person' applies to God.
Boethius's definition of person ('an individual substance of a rational nature') might lead us to believe that he thought of the Trinity as a collection of distinct centers of consciousness, who relate to each other merely as members of a commonly shared nature. As we've already seen, this view was foreign to Nicene thinking, yet persists to the present day in what we've called 'social trinitarianism.' But Aquinas saw through the risks of the definition, and used the term, provided it was applied to him in a divine and not a creaturely way. Aquinas, reaching back to Boethius, argued that person refers to an individual, to whatever it is that distinguishes this one from that one within a common nature. What distinguishes the three persons within the Trinity, Aquinas says, is their relations of origin, or personal properties. What distinguishes the Father is his paternity; the Son, his filiation; the Spirit, his procession. And since these relations are the things that distinguish the Father, the Son, and the Spirit from one another, Aquinas defines the divine persons as 'subsisting relations.'
The upshot of all this is that the word 'person' really must be used of God in a divine and not a creaturely way. For example, I am a father of two children. But once, I was not a father. Paternity, therefore, is an add-on to my human person, however important it is to my identity now. But God's paternity is not an add-on; the relation of paternity (or filiation, or procession) subsists in God. So, while the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are really distinct on the basis of these relations, each is also identical with the essence of God. It's not that there's a fourth thing, some 'essence' floating around that they partake in.[9] Rather, the one God has no existence apart from his threefold subsistence as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So, to put some wheels on Aquinas's thinking about subsisting relations, we turn to our fifth and final question.
5. What does it mean to know and love this God?
The late John Webster remarked that God's acts introduce us to his presence. In other words, we meet the Triune God – Creator, Lord, and Savior – through his acts. One such act, Webster said, was that great act reflected upon by the colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards, and drawn from the riches of the Protestant scholastic tradition before him—"the eternal covenant of redemption in which the Father and Son design to execute saving work in relation to God's creatures."[10] This covenant worked out in the larger economy of God's glory. "God is the infinite ocean," Webster said, "into which his saving work empties itself."
When we reflect on God's creating, saving, and restoring work, we do not tidily divide these up, respectively, amongst the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Rather, we say, with Augustine, that the external works of the Trinity are undivided (opera Trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt). Instead of neatly tying certain actions to the divine persons, Augustine's insight helps us to see how, as our Creator and Rescuer, God's tripersonal being shines through his work: as the Father sends the Son to redeem his Church; and as the Father, together with the Son, sends the Spirit to sanctify her.
Even more wonderfully, there is a double dynamic to the Holy Trinity. In the divine missions, we see the relations of origin that constitute the Godhead: the Father eternally generates the Son, and the Father, with the Son, eternally breathes the Holy Spirit. This is the descending dynamic, but there is an ascending dynamic, too:
"The relations of origins also constitute the "whither" of the divine missions insofar as they provide the divine exemplars and goals of those missions: the goal of the Son's redemptive mission is to make us sons and daughters in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters (Rom. 8:29; Gal. 4:5); the goal of the Spirit's sanctifying mission is to embrace us within the fellowship of the Father and the Son, pouring out the Father's love into our hearts (Rom. 5:5), and awakening within us the Son's filial cry of "Abba! Father!" (Gal.4:6)."[11]
These five questions are helpful to ask, because they lead us to respond to God in worship. What is critical in the eyes of the Triune God, after all, is not an appetite for speculation about Him, but a deeper knowledge and love of him.
[1]I have relied on Scott Swain's wonderful chapter, 'Divine Trinity,' in Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic (Baker Academic, 2016).
[2] See Tim Challies' Visual Theology chart on the Trinity. If you're itching to waste time, check out Lutheran Satire's video mocking St. Patrick's bad analogy.
[3]Gregory of Nyssa, Letter 38.
[4]Augustine, De Trinitate 5.1.3, quoted in Swain, Christian Dogmatics, p.95.
[5]Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorium, 3.4-5.
[6] On this point, see C. Fitzsimons Allison, The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1994), pp.106-8.
[7]Ralph McInerny, Boethius and Aquinas (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012), pp.99-100.
[8]Gilles Emery, The Trinitarian Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. Francesca Aran Murphy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.112-3.
[9]The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) explicitly ruled out the idea of a 'quaternity,' or three divine persons plus a divine essence.
[10]See Webster's Kantzer lectures at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
[11]Swain, Christian Dogmatics, p.104.
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Having to deal with grief as well as the responsibilities of inherited property can be quite strenuous. It becomes even more of a challenge where things were not necessarily written in black and white and so you have to figure out how best to do it. You may need to deal with a family member and in addition, fulfill the requirements of the law that govern inherited property. This post will look into some of those issues and hopefully offer a way forward for your decision making.
First of all, it is important to be at peace with close family members. You definitely do not want to be at loggerheads over inherited property. Beverly Bird gives some options you would want to consider:
What Happens When You Inherit a House With a Sibling?
In a perfect world, brothers and sisters would be best friends, but it doesn't always work out that way. Even if it did, money can strain the best of friendships. If you and your sibling inherit a home, you have a number of options, but most depend on reaching an agreement between you regarding what to do with the property. Short of that, you might have to resort to the court system. Read more at SF Gate…
If you and your family members could agree on the way forward, it will be way better than letting other people decide this issue for you.
Perhaps an idea of what the tax laws require when it comes to inherited property will give you the impetus to chart the way forward. The following is information from the IRS that you should keep in mind:
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The arrival of a kitten in your life can be a joyful moment. You want to be sure that you're doing everything that you can for her long-term health.so here are some useful tips on how to raise a kitten which can help you both in your new life together.
As a Kitten
Be prepared for your kitten's arrival at home: cat-proofing your house is important to avoid potential dangers.
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- • Be aware that some common plants can be poisonous (e.g. Amaryllis, azalea, cyclamen, iris, oleander, narcissus, lilies are highly toxic to cats )
- • Keep cablesany electric cables as short as possible to keep your cat from playing with them or chewing on them
- • Check your washing machine or tumble dryer before staring it: cats enjoy snuggling in warm and soft places
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Kittens are completely weaned and ready to enter their new homes when they are between seven and nine weeks of age.They grow very rapidly for the first five to six months and their immune system will not yet be fully developed.
Due to the challenges of the growth period, kittens have different nutritional requirements compared to adult cats: they need more energy, more protein for growth and more vitamins and minerals (such as calcium and phosphorus for bone development), as well asspecial omega 3 essential fatty acids (such as DHA) for brain and vision development. For this reason, it is very important to feed your kitten with the right food. Only pet foods developed for kittens covering all their special nutritional needs should be considered.
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Grooming should be an essential part of your kitten's life. If your kitten learns while still very young it will become accustomed to it and the process will become easier with maturity. Regular grooming (twice a week) is recommended – especially for longhaired cats – to control shedding to get rid of dead fur and, helping prevent hairballs. Moreover, grooming can be an enjoyable moment for you and your kitten, strengthening the bonding between the two of you.
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text: Training > Swim How the 'Ocean Walker' swim stroke can benefit triathletes Swimming coach and long-distance record holder Adam Walker shares the stroke that enabled him to keep swimming when doctors were saying he should give the sport up Posted: 9 October 2014by Adam Walker Tags:advice, training, Oceans Walker, Adam Walker, technique, triathlon, swimming Tweet For the first instalment of a new series with British swim coach Adam Walker, we discover the 'Ocean Walker' technique, which made him quicker and let him swim the seven seas (literally) when medical advice said he should give the sport up... Where better to start than on the most important part of swimming… the stroke! It is essential to save energy in any triathlon and Ironman event as this endurance sport requires you to work a number of different muscle groups, demanding a lot out of your body. I have found from working with all abilities of triathletes that it is fair to say a high percentage admit swimming is their weakest discipline, and therefore concentrate more on the bike and the run. So what's the answer? Ok, swimming is arguably the more technical of the three disciplines and therefore may take longer to master, however with an efficient technique the rewards can be great and of course make a significant difference to your overall time. What's more, the psychological benefit of leaving the water in the lead pack can be invaluable. Seven years ago I took up endurance swimming after watching a movie on a plane called 'On a Clear Day' about a man who attempts to swim the English Channel. This movie inspired me to challenge myself to do the same, I swam it in 2008 and have done an additional six channels since. This included a 17 hour swim in Hawaii, and I was also stung by a Portuguese man o' war. On 6 Aug 2014 I became the first British person to swim the hardest seven ocean swims in the world, known as the Oceans Seven. My swim stroke was the conventional style of a high head and winding my arms, entering long and flat. I trained with this style for 18 months which resulted in a ruptured bicep tendon whilst swimming the English Channel. Having completed the swim I had to have two operations, unfortunately the surgeon advised me that the bicep tendon had attached itself to the supraspinatus, and they were unable to separate them. He advised me to give up swimming as the arm rotations would irritate it and cause more injury. He said "If you do another long swim you will have serious long term problems!" As it was not an option for me to give up due to the fact I loved the sportso much, I began studying the front crawl stroke, its motion and how to take pressure off the shoulder, limiting irritation as well as aiming to become more efficient and using less energy. At this stage I wasn't concerned with speed, I just wanted to find a way to prolong my swimming career if possible. Head position After many months of practice and video analysis I established that having a still head looking downwards is critical in the stroke: if it's not still you could zigzag and use up unnecessary energy employing muscles that you don't need. Also, if you immerse your head then your legs will come up if you are on your side – it's better to work with the water than lift your head up which takes energy, not beneficial when the head is the heaviest part of the body. Core movement I thought about other sports such as golf, cricket, bowling, tennis and cross country skiing – all use core stomach muscles to instigate the initial phase. Therefore it didn't make sense for me not to use rotation as part of the swim stroke. Rotating using core only and allowing the hips to push the arms forward instead of throwing over head had a number of big benefits: - Using fewer muscles- Less impact when entering the water- Reduced pressure on the shoulders- Stronger propulsion in the stroke - More length out of the stroke If I drive the arm/hand into the water, I am using my chest as well to do this, again more muscles used than necessary. Using the core also helped to keep my hand and arms as wide as my hips. If your chest dominates more often than not then they will drive into the centre line, particularly when you breathe. You will then have to push them out again in order to pull back which takes time and an added movement which is unnecessary. Also by driving them into the centre you have the potential to pinch tendons and cause friction which will eventually tether and cause significant damage (something unfortunately I know a lot about!!) Early arm entry Now, I was taught to enter the water as far out in front as possible in order to gain a good pull. However, if your hand enters the water early with a bent elbow and then extends under water this will be less resistance, which makes sense as there is less splash and will it take pressure off your shoulders. If you think about diving off a block in a race, they only allow you to go 15 metres under water, the reason being you are faster under water than you are on top of the water, therefore the sooner you get your hand and arm into the water the better. Recovery arm What I also found is that by holding the front recovery arm in place until the stroking arm is just about to enter the water provides me with constant momentum and aids with stability, which is necessary if you get knocked by a competitor or if a wave's about to hit you. This happened to me in the English Channel with my old stroke and flipped me on my back. Pulling In addition, pulling to your hip only is your 'power section' – beyond that it turns into your tricep with your power being significantly reduced and delaying the time needed to get your hand back in for the catch. Leg kick My leg kick is just enough to keep me afloat, nothing too vigorous as 70% of energy is used up in your legs and you don't get that benefit. The kick is a sideways kick as you are swimming hip to hip (never flat). By carrying out a simple two-beat kick I'm not wasting excess energy and am limiting the calories burnt. This is also important in colder temperature as the more kicking you do the colder you will get as you will burn more calories. My suggestion is to swim the majority of a triathlon with a two-beat kick, and then only on last 50 yards or so kick a little more to get blood flow into the legs in readiness for transition. The limited leg kick will serve you in good stead when you get onto the bike as they have had limited use. On my 17 hour Hawaii swim when I climbed out of the water, my legs were so fresh they didn't feel as if they had be used. This stroke, which my clients are affectionately calling 'The Ocean Walker' technique, has not only saved my swimming career but meant I was the fastest man on a 21-mile two-way swim in Windermere, and completed all seven channels including fastest British crossing of Gibraltar Straits one-way, and became the first British person to do a two-way crossing. I've had three operations in total on my left shoulder, I can't sleep on that side and I can't hold over 10 kilos of weight with a straight arm, yet with the 'Ocean Walker' stroke I can swim 17 hours and am 1:15mins faster over 1,500 metres and 5secs faster per 100 metres. In addition, what is also significant is my stroke rate has gone down from an average of 72 strokes per minute to 52 strokes per minute, showing that holding form in the stroke is generating more speed and I am saving 1200 strokes per hour! I am not pulling any harder than I did previously, actually if anything I am pulling with less power, showing the importance of body position and efficiency. What I have realised is the key to swimming efficiently is to make the water work with you. By being relaxed, getting body position right and reducing resistance you will go faster. The best athletes in the world are normally the ones who make it look effortless, use timing to their advantage and are efficient in what they do. Just look at Roger Federer (17 Grand Slam titles in tennis), Sun Yang (1,500m swimming world record holder) or Usain Bolt (100m world record holder). Adam Walker's Ocean Seven record: >>> Britain's Adam Walker describes "huge sense of relief" after swimming the seven seas - English Channel 2008 (finished 11 hours 35 mins)- Two-way Gibraltar Straits 2010 (finished 9 hours 39 mins) - Broke British Record one way and first Brit to swim back - Molokai Straits in Hawaii 2012 (17 hours 2 mins)- First British person to complete, stung by a Portuguese man o' war- Catalina Channel in US 2012 (12 hours 15 mins)- Tsugaru Channel in Japan 2013 (15 hours 31 mins) First British person to complete- Cook Straits in New Zealand 2014 (8 hours 36 mins) Saved by dolphins from a shark- North Channel Ireland to Scotland 2014 (10 hours 45 mins) More by Adam Walker Adam Walker's seven ways to improve your swim this spring Go confidently from pool to open water with Adam 'Oceans 7' Walker 10 tips to develop a positive mental attitude and stay focused For more information on the 'Ocean Walker' stroke and inquire about swim camps and 1-1 coaching with Adam, click here. Post a comment Like this, try these ... Chrissie Wellington on... How to increase swim speed and distance Sea swimming for beginners: how to swim in the sea How important is bilateral breathing for beginner swimmers? Blog: swimming with dolphins (and sharks) across the Cook Strait What to do if you mess up your sighting race-day Daily deals from top retailers 2 comment We'd love you to add a comment! Please login or take half a minute to register as a free member SHAUN WOMERSLEY 13/10/2014 at 17:50 Total Immersion springs to mind? Like Unlike 1 Liked this active vacances 27/10/2014 at 10:24 Re early hand entry; I don't doubt that there's an advantage to be gained from this but I think there's some twisted logic applied as to why it's done . Taking the analogy of diving off the block, the body moves quicker thru the air than thru the water. Once in the water, the body moves more efficiently under the water than on top due to disturbed hydrodynamics of swimming on the surface. So, rather than considering the resistance the arm generates in the water (which will be more than in air) we need to consider the lift it generates. The benefit of early hand entry & extending the arm underwater is most likely from the lift this produces (like a planes wing) so the swimmer doesn't have to/need to push down to keep the body on the surface and therefore can devote more effort to going forward... Probably. Like Unlike 2 Liked this


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A Meaty Adventureby Austin Manthey on Jul 6, 2012 • 2:27 pm No Comments
With the upcoming trip to Montana in mind, I have spent hours at the vise these past few weeks tying from sun up to sun down. While nymphs and dries have made up the majority of my tying efforts, I have become obsessed with large meaty streamers and mice patterns. I have made a few swaps with friends and now have a pretty good arsenal to search for some truly massive trout. My mornings and evenings will be filled with dry flies and droppers for the most part but on those in between stages, I'm busting out the 6 weight and the Meat Locker (as I dubbed my streamer box). Montana browns watch out, I'm gonna get you.


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Television loves nothing more than a good tale about an underdog hustler. Whether it's suburban moms selling weed, senior citizens selling sex toys, high school teachers selling meth or, you know, the occasional actual mafioso. Now, thanks to our first look at the latest Netflix series Girlboss it seems like we're finally getting a fashion-themed twist on the format.
The show, which is based on Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso's bestselling autobiography #Girlboss, tells the story of a young Sophia, played by Britt Robertson, as she makes her way from Dumpster-diving to a thrifting eBay clothes seller turning major profits—"You know how people flip houses?" Robertson poses in the new trailer. "Well, I flip clothes."—to the pioneer of her very own online fashion empire.
In the trailer, we catch our first glimpse of a feisty Robertson-as-Sophia making an unbelievable find at a thrift shop (and dispensing some harsh yet real advice to the store's clueless owner) and overcoming obstacle after obstacle. In fact, when it seems Sophia's eBay career is over in light of a few negative reviews and she might move home at the suggestion of her dad, the business-savvy upstart sets her sights on building her own retail platform from the ground up. She boldly declares, "I'll start my own site. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it'll be mine."
In addition to Robertson's lead role, the series has some serious star power behind it: Charlize Theron is an executive producer, and Kay Cannon, who penned Pitch Perfect, created the show. And it's no surprise that these female forces had to overcome Hollywood sexism, especially when pitching a series with the word "girl" literally in the title. Cannon has said that one unnamed network actually asked her and Theron to make the show "more for men," when considering their pitch.
In a similar vein, Robertson told Glamour earlier this month that being a "girlboss" means taking ownership of what you want in life.
"For me, [being a] girlboss is about being the boss of your own life," Robertson said. "At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?"
Ponder that sound advice while you wait for Girlboss to hit Netflix on April 21.
Related: [Young London Creative Erika Bowes On What It Means to Have "Girl Boss" Style](http://www.wmagazine.com/story/erika-bowes-sukeban-london-fashion)
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Thank you so much for having me on your blog today, Sarah. Book tours are a passion of mine and I'm thrilled to be able to share with your readers today.
When I created BLB Book Tours in January, my main goal was to simply help authors spread the word about the ebooks they were publishing. I had seen many tour sites in my blogging travels, but 99% of them only offered tours of physical books, not ebooks. Since many of my new favorite authors publish only ebooks, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a book tour service focusing on those books. After all, a book is a book is a book, whether printed or uploaded.
The first hurdle I faced was finding bloggers. I needed to find enough of them to make it worth while for the authors, but they had to be trust worthy at the same time. Reaching out to the blogging community, I was lucky enough to find twenty bloggers that I already knew and trusted. With their help, and a little planning, BLB (previously Book Lovin' Bitches) Book Tours was born.
Since going live on January 1st, BLB Book Tours has grown from those twenty bloggers to over eighty. There have been approximately 150 books submitted as tour candidates, and almost 100 book tours scheduled. Methods have been changed, new ideas implemented, and what used to be a very simple idea has evolved into a well oiled machine.
Coordinating tours for authors can be stressful, but is also extremely rewarding. The minute an author submits their book for tour consideration, I go to work. Compiling all of the book information, creating a sign up form for the team members, emailing bloggers to find participants, and scheduling the tour itself is just part of the work that goes into a tour. It can take weeks to fill a tour schedule and I'm continually working during that time. When the schedule is created, the tour is complete, and I get an email from the author telling me how much fun she/he had while touring, it makes all of the hard work worth every minute. Getting great testimonials like these is the best reward for me:
"Book Loving Bitches simply ROCKS! Every author understands that the best way to reach out to readers is through blogs. The passion and enthusiasm for books is unmistakable amongst the Book Loving Bitches. I found that the planning and scheduling was absolutely flawless. The bloggers were spectacular, and the readers that found my work were simply amazing! It is undeniable that the fees for this service are extremely reasonable. I look forward to my next tour with these amazing ladies (and gentlemen)!"
Jamie Magee, author of the Insight Series
Book Lovin' Bitches is great for authors that want to tour, but need affordable promotion. You will also have a chance to learn about your writing from readers, which is who you want to hear from anyway. I connected with bloggers who have already agreed to read my next book, and I know now what I can do better to give the reader more of what they want. I will be using Book Lovin Bitches again-hopefully very soon!
Natasha Larry, author of DARWIN'S CHILDREN
Operating BLB Book Tours is something that I hope to never quit doing. Working with fabulous authors and wonderful bloggers is a true joy for me, and seeing books get the attention they deserve helps keep the smile on my face. Hopefully, authors will keep signing up and bloggers will keep participating for years to come.
Thank you again for letting me share about BLB Book Tours, Sarah!
About BLB Book Tours:
BLB Book Tours specialize in Search Engine Optimized Blog Tours. Want to get your new book into the sights of thousands of readers? How about a backlist book that needs a little love and attention?
A virtual book tour with BLB Book Tours can help! Since the creation of BLB Book Tours in January of 2011, over 100 authors have chosen us to help promote their books. Our dedicated team of high visibility bloggers is committed to helping your book get the attention it deserves. In addition, each and every blog post is supercharged to increase your book's visibility while on tour. With various sizes of packages and competitive pricing, BLB Book Tours is sure to have a tour package to fit your needs.
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In the name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful;
All the praise and thanks is due to Allāh, the Lord of al-`ālamīn. There is none worthy of worship except Allāh, and that Muhammad, Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam is His Messenger
Tn Arabic 'Zakāh' means: growth, blessing and purification. [See Lisān al-`Arab, 14/358; 2/399] While Sadāqah comes from the word siddiq (sincerity), i.e. it is a sign of sincerity of faith on the part of the person who gives it. [See Fath al-Qadeer, 2/399]
The Syar`ie Definition:
"Zakāh" means worshipping Allāh Subhānahu wa ta`ala by giving that which He has enjoined of different kinds of zākah to those who are entitled to them, according to the guidelines prescribed in syāri`ah.
Sadāqah means worshipping Allāh Subhānahu wa ta`ala by giving money [and deeds] without that being made obligatory in syāri`ah. The word sadāqah is sometimes used to refer to obligatory Zakāh.
The difference between Zakāh and sadāqah, it is as follows:
1 – Zakāh is enjoined in Islām on specific things, which are: gold, silver, crops, fruits, trade goods and an`am (livestock), i.e., camels, cattle and sheep.
With regard to sadāqah, it is not obligatory on any kind of wealth; rather it is what a person can offer, without any specific limits or guidelines.
2 – Zakāh is subject to the conditions that one full Hijri have passed since acquiring the wealth, and that the wealth meets the minimum threshold (nasab) and it is a specific portion of wealth.
Sadāqah is not subject to any conditions, and it may be given at any time, in any amount.
3 – Allāh has enjoined that Zakāh be given to certain types of people, and it is not permissible to give it to anyone else. They are the people mentioned in the verse:
"As-Sadaqāt (here it means Zakāh) are only for the Fuqara' (poor), and Al Masākin (the poor) and those employed to collect (the funds); and to attract the hearts of those who have been inclined (towards Islam); and to free the captives; and for those in debt; and for Allāh's Cause (i.e. for Mujahidun — those fighting in a holy battle), and for the wayfarer (a traveller who is cut off from everything); a duty imposed by Allāh. And Allāh is All-Knower, All-Wise" [Al-Tawbah, 9:60]
With regard to sadāqah, it may be given to those mentioned in the verse on Zakāh and to others.
4 – Whoever dies and owes Zakāh, his heirs must pay it from his wealth, and that takes precedence over the will (wasiyah) and inheritance.
As for sadāqah, there are no such obligations with regard to it.
5 – The one who withholds Zakāh is to be punished, as it says in the hadīth narrated by Muslim in his Saheeh from Abu Hurayrah (radiyallāhu`anhu) said: The Messenger of Allāh (Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) said: "There is no owner of treasure who does not pay his Zakāh, but it will be heated in the Fire of Hell and made into plates with which his sides and forehead will be branded until Allāh passes judgement between His slaves on a Day the length of which will be like fifty thousand years, then he see shown his path and whether it leads to Paradise or to Hell. And there is no owner of camels, who does not pay Zakāh on them, but a soft sandy plain will be prepared for him and they will be made to step on him. Every time the last of them has gone the first of them will return, until Allāh passes judgement between His slaves on a Day the length of which will be like fifty thousand years, then he will see his path and whether it leads to Paradise or to Hell. And there is no owner of sheep who does not pay Zakāh on them but a soft sandy plain will be prepared for him, and he will find none of them missing, with twisted horns or without horns or with broken horns, and they will be made to gore him with their horns and trample him with their hooves. Every time the last of them has gone the first of them will return, until Allāh passes judgement between His slaves on a Day the length of which will be like fifty thousand years, then he will see his path and whether it leads to Paradise or to Hell…" [This is recorded by Muslim (987)]
With regard to sadāqah, the one who fail to give it will not be punished.
6 – According to the four schools of law, it is not permissible to give Zakāh to one's ascendants or descendents. Ascendants include one's mother, father, grandfathers and grandmothers; descendents include one's children and their children.
Sadāqah may be given to one's ascendants and descendants.
7 – It is not permissible to give Zakāh to one who is rich or who is strong and able to earn a living.
It was narrated that `Ubaidallāh Ibn `Adiyy (radiyallāhu`anhu) said: Two men told me that they came to the Prophet (Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) during the Farewell Pilgrimage when he was distributing the Zakāh and asked him for some of it. Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) looked them up and down, and saw that they were strong and able-bodied. Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) said, "If you wish, I will give you some, but those who are rich or strong and able to earn have no share of it."
[Narrated by Abu Dawud, 1633; al-Nasā'ie, 2598; classified as sahīh by Imām Ahmad and others.]
[See Talkhis Al-Habir, 3/108]
Sadāqah may be given to those who are rich and those who are strong and able to earn.
8 – In the case of Zakāh, it is better for it to be taken from the rich of a land and given to their poor. Many scholars are of the view that it is not permissible to send it to another country unless that serves an interest.
But charity may be spent on those who are near and those who are far.
9 – It is not permissible to give Zakāh to kuffār and mushrikeen.
Sadāqah may be given to kuffār and mushrikeen.
Allāh says: "And they give food, in spite of their love for it (or for the love of Him), to al-Masākin (the poor), the orphan, and the captive" [Al-Insan, 76:8]
Al-Qurtubi said: In Dar al-Islam (the Muslim lands), a captive could only be a mushrik.
10 – It is not permissible for a Muslim to give Zakāh to his wife. Ibn al-Mundhir narrated that there was scholarly consensus on this issue.
But sadāqah may be given to one's wife.
These are some of the differences between Zakāh and sadāqah.
The word sadāqah may be applied to all kinds of good deeds. Al-Bukhari (rahimahumullāh) held in his Sahīh: "Chapter: every good deed is a charity" then he narrated from Jabir Ibn `Abdallāh (radiyallāhu`anhu) that the Prophet (Sallallāhu `alayhi wasallam) said: "Every good deed is a charity." [This is recorded by Al-Bukhari]
Ibn Battāl (rahimahullāh) said: "This hadīth indicates that every good thing that a person does or says is recorded for him as an act of charity".
Imam An-Nawawi (rahimahullāh) said: The Prophet's words "Every good deed is a charity" means that it is like charity in offering reward.
And Allāh Almighty knows best.
[Excerpted from Islam Q&A (Fatwa No: 9449)]


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Azim's Burger Shack, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail
When I was waiting for my STPM results, a looooooong time ago, I told my dad that I wanted a job. Like a real adult. So I went to the local McDonald's and was hired as their resident artist. I drew and painted posters for their promotional activities, and in return, I was paid a salary and rewarded with a burger meal of my choice. I was excited then about getting free Filet-O-Fish and McChicken sandwiches as mum and dad would never have let me consume those at home. Thankfully, my stint as an artist was short as I began my quest to become a bean-counter.
Now that I am older, and wiser, my consumption of fast food has decreased tremendously. It hasn't come to a halt yet, as I still like certain burgers like Burger King's Whopper Jr. and KFC's fried chicken (although even that seems to have deteriorated in quality). I have also, since, developed an appreciation for 100% beef burgers (instead of the unidentified meat patties that can be found in a lot of burger joints and supermarkets). My first experience was in the Philippines when I tried their famous Hotshots Flame-Grilled burger which I thought was absolutely wonderful.
So recently, I was checking out an awesome local site - Friedchillies.tv - which had featured the "Bestest Burger Stands in Malaysia" and I began salivating for a good Made-In-Malaysia burger. Not any factory-line burger at a fast food joint, but a made-to-order burger from Azim's Burger Shack.
I broached the subject with Pretty Pui. She asked me if I was pregnant. I told her I just wanted to have a burger at Azim's Burger Shack.
"Why Azim's Burger Shack?"
"Because they serve burgers made of 100% NZ beef patties, of course", I said knowledgeably.
"They're good for ya."
"I'd rather eat ginger wine chicken", was Pretty Pui's reply. I was still trying to convince her as I reached the crossroads near 1 Utama.
"Too late. We're almost there."
"We can turn around."
"Did you know their burgers are made of 100% NZ beef?"
After the intellectually stimulating conversation, we finally arrived at Azim's Burger Shack in Taman Tun. Azim's forms part of a cluster of stalls at the Rasta food court. This wasn't your run-of-the-mill food court. They had nice matching tables and chairs and green plants placed in strategic corners.
By this time, Pretty Pui had dispelled all ideas of ginger wine chicken as she gazed excitedly at the menu.
"I was told to eat the mushroom burger here", I offered.
"Who told ya? Some blogger, I suppose?"
"He calls himself the Connoisseur Extraordinaire." Okay, I added the Extraordinaire part, but it sounded grander than just saying Connoisseur.
"Hmmm", she dismissed me. "Well, I'm having the bratwurst and rosti."
While waiting for our main course to arrive, we ordered a plate of boiled cockles from another stall. The cockles, sufficiently boiled so that it wasn't overcooked and remained slightly bloody, were served with a concoction of chilli and peanut sauce. The chilli could have been hotter, but the sauce was, nevertheless, quite good.
The plate of bratwurst and rosti arrived just as we were finishing off the cockles. Rosti is made with grated potatoes and shaped into round patties. The rosti was delicious with the black pepper sauce and caramelized onions. There was nothing extraordinary about the bratwurst.
The mushroom burger, with its distinct layers of fried egg, cheddar cheese, sliced mushrooms, fried onions and 100% NZ beef burger patty, and sandwiched by a bun with a sprinkling of sesame seeds, looked quite inviting. The egg was extra; so was the bowl of mushroom sauce which I was advised to order. I ate the burger by dipping it into the mushroom sauce and taking tiny bites (I am, after all, a lady). The taste was heavenly; the 100% NZ beef burger patty was moist and juicy and full of flavour. Every bite that I took got me more and more orgasmic.
The coffee stall across the burger shack served coffee from all the states in Malaysia. Seeing the multitude of plastic and glass receptacles holding the coffee powder, I felt like a kid in a candy store, except that the "candy", in this case, was the same dull colour. After much deliberation and a disgusting conversation in broken Malay (on my part, of course), I got myself a hot cup of Kopi Kelantan and a lime juice. The coffee had a slightly smoky flavour which was quite nice. The lime juice, made from limau nipis instead of limau kasturi (calamansi) was thick and sweet. Perfect climax.
Azim's Burger Shack
Jalan Burhanudeen Helmi (Next to Balai Polis Tmn Tun)
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, KL.
Opens from around 6.00pm to about midnight.
Note: Check out friedchillies.tv (created by friedchillies.com) which showcased its first episode in February 2007!


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waahooo~~ its been an extremely extremely busy month over the new year from 2011 to 2012, I haven't really found the time to update our blog. Since my last entry was Narin & Kathy's pre-wedding in our local beautiful cameron highlands, so for this entry i'd like to share their big day. It is our honor to be capturing their very special day happening in EnO.
I just love their garden wedding, Kathy had put in a huge effort in prepping up for a rustic vintage garden wedding. Without further ado, here are some highlights of the day.


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Labeling Student 'Stuff'!
Is it just me, or is it really fun to print on lables?
I kind of love everything about it-the thickness of the paper, the vibrant colors on them, peeling them off and sticking them to my stuff. It's just FUN.
This year, I really got into it with the kiddos' notebooks. And folders. And backpack hooks. Everything got a sticky label.
I started with their homework folders. This is a splurge that is well worth it for me. I grabbed 27 vinyl folders from Target for about .80 each. This is their normal price-you should be able to find them year round in the school supply section. I labeled the front with the student's name, and then put a label on each inside pocket.
Students now have ONE folder for all our work. If it's homework or we're still working on it, it goes in the left pocket. If it's graded or a note home, it goes in the right pocket. Done and done!
After the folders, I attacked their notebooks. I know 'interactive notebooks' is the buzzword of the century, but we really do use notebooks for all subjects in our room. Maybe not every day, but they are def. used. So each student got a writing, math, social studies, science, reading activities, reading response, imagineering and tech time notebook. That's a lot of notebooks!
I made each label using a picture that goes with the subject area, and then typed the student's name on it. If you'd like a copy of all these labels, simply click here!
After getting the notebooks personalized, I attacked the backpack hooks. I wanted to make them usable year-after-year, so I just put numbers on them. Some of my students have already written their names on them (le sigh), but I suppose that just means I get to print more labels next year! 😉
These match the style of our desk nametages-if you'd like to use them for your own classroom, click here!
Each year, I have a 'giving tree' up at Back to School Night (post coming soon!), and I always put labels down as one of the items I'd like donated from parents. I have built up quite the collection of sizes and quantity. While expensive to purchase on your own, it's a great item to ask parents to send in when they ask what you need!
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And here are the rest of the pix from the journey!! I just love these although you might find them boring!! And all with my compact Lumix-DMC-FX 55 from a bus window zooming from SR to PP!! (And no knowledge of photography but with some help from Lightroom :-))
I've just added this post to Sue's wonderful blog "A Word in Your Ear" which has a weekly photo challenge! The word is 'journey' which is what this was!! A wonderful well travelled soul I recommend to drop by and have a look!!
This is why I love Cambodia!! Even though I live in a tiny city I still manage to miss all that you can see in these pics most of the time…because I don't leave the city often enough!! It's definitely a challenge. I've sometimes managed it in the past. Just leave the city for the day and leave all your troubled thinking crap behind you. It's all so different and peaceful and beautiful when you get outside. My headspace of thinking even softens out into the nothingness around me which is pure beauty and amazing creation of love and nature!! 🙂 🙂 🙂