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The 100 Best Jobs
All jobs aren't created equal. In fact, some are simply better than the rest. U.S. News 100 Best Jobs of 2013 are the occupations that offer a mosaic of employment opportunity, good salary, manageable work-life balance, and job security. Some careers offer just the right mix of these components—for instance, our top tier is filled with tech and healthcare jobs—but the list also includes strong showings from occupations in the social services and business sectors. Even construction jobs enter the fray this year. Read more on how we rank the best jobs, and check out our full list.
Sales Manager
A great sales team can catapult a company from obscurity to center stage. For this to happen, its leaders have to be as comfortable meeting new people as they are hiring and supervising. It's not uncommon for sales managers to be the central faces associated with their companies.
HR Specialist
More jobs overall means we'll need more human resources professionals, right? HR specialists keep a workplace running smoothly by training personnel, overseeing benefits, and managing evaluations. And there will be nearly 62,000 new positions created by the year 2020.
Where would we be without plumbers? (And goodness, what would we smell like?) These highly trained professionals install, inspect, and repair the pipes and fixtures that carry water, steam, air, and gas.
Real Estate Agent
Many of us have fond memories of buying a home. The person who helped us find that perfect domicile might resonate with us as well. Real estate agents analyze properties, meet new clients, and research housing markets with ease.
Glazing is where construction meets art. Be it tinted, stained, tempered, glass brick, float, polished plate, or another type, the glass that goes into a home, office building, storefront, or house of worship has been selected, cut, and installed by a qualified glazier. The Labor Department predicts opportunities will be best for glaziers who are trained and possibly licensed in several trades.
Art Director
An art director oversees all visual representations of a product or entity, ranging from ad campaigns to magazines, TV, film, websites, video games, and live performances. In the immediate future, this field will see the most occupational growth within advertising and public relations.
Customer Service Representative
Customer service reps perform a necessary (and often thankless) role in the business world: They field our basic—sometimes basest—concerns and complaints. Those interested should have plenty of patience and a knack for problem-solving.
Logisticians solve theoretical problems for manufacturing or retail businesses, sometimes proving indispensable in large-scale disaster-relief efforts. Their input can be life-saving. Logistician employment is expected to expand 25.5 percent by 2020.
Auto Mechanic
Gearheads, rejoice: Tinkering with cars is a respectable and profitable profession. The Labor Department predicts 17 percent job growth for auto mechanics from now to 2020, and that includes entry-level positions.
Bus Driver
This job is perfect for those who like to drive and appreciate limited supervision. Bus drivers may transport commuters and city inhabitants, drive road-trippers on a charter bus, or take children to and from school and on field trips. The Labor Department predicts 83,000 new positions for this occupation this decade.

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Layout of the Week!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Happy Saturday everyone! Beckie here with this week's Layout of the Week AND a weekly re-cap with important dates you might want to know!
As you might have already determined, I'm a sucker for a gorgeous photo! I've had my eye on several beautiful layouts already this week. But when I saw this one posted on Thursday, I knew right away this was the winner! I just LOVE the multiple photos included. Each one by itself would be truly stunning, but together, they tell me so much! I can see the gorgeous bush in full bloom backed by a brilliant blue sky. I can see that these beautiful flowers are loved for their simplicity, highlighted so well as simple arrangements in classic jars. For me, this is photo perfection! (And truly- the photos themselves are technically wonderful!)
The layout itself is equally stunning! note how well the light green papers perfectly pull out the gorgeous color in the dogwoods. The flourish stamps along the edge of the main photo add such delicate detail. The subtle punch of pink adds wonderful contrast and femininity. Overall – I think the entire layout is just perfect :)
Can you tell I love this? :) So here you go! congratulations to this week's winner of a $10 gift card to the shoppe: onraspberrylane for her layout "Dogwood"!
And now on to a quick re-cap of important dates and activities for you!
- Nicole posted this Easy-as-Pie template challenge! the winner will be announced on May 22nd so you still have time to enter for your change to win a $25 gift card to the Shabby Shoppe!
- I posted earlier this month about our search for new Shoppe Pre-Team members! Applications are due by 5/21 so there's still time to apply if you're interested! We've had some super talented applicants so far, so keep them coming!
- Finally, we recently introduced you to Sarah Cornish of My Four Hens Photography. Read our interview with Sarah and find out how you can enter to win a $100 gift card to Sarah's store!
And that wraps up this week at the Shoppe! Everyone have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you back here on Monday!


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One of the key myths of the American Catholic imagination is this: After 200 years of fighting against public prejudice, Catholics finally broke through into Americas mainstream with the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy as president. Its a happy thought, and not without grounding. Next to Americas broad collection of evangelical churches, baptized Catholics now make up the biggest religious community in the United States. They serve in large numbers in Congress. They have a majority on the Supreme Court. They play commanding roles in the professions and in business leadership. Theyve climbed, at long last, the Mt. Zion of social acceptance.
So goes the tale. What this has actually meant for the direction of American life, however, is another matter. Catholic statistics once seemed impressive. They filled many of us with tribal pride. But they didnt stop a new and quite alien national landscape, a next America, from emerging right under our noses.
While both Barna Group and Pew Research Center data show that Americans remain a broadly Christian people, old religious loyalties are steadily softening. Overall, the number of Americans claiming no religious affiliation, about 16 percent, has doubled since 1990. One quarter of Americans aged 18-29 have no affiliation with any particular religion, and as the Barna Group noted in 2007, they exhibit a greater degree of criticism toward Christianity than did previous generations when they were at the same stage of life. In fact, in just a decade . . . the Christian image [has] shifted substantially downward, fueled in part by a growing sense of disengagement and disillusionment among young people.
Catholic losses have been masked by Latino immigration. But while 31 percent of Americans say they were raised in the Catholic faith, fewer than 24 percent of Americans now describe themselves as Catholic.
These facts have weight because, traditionally, religious faith has provided the basis for Americans moral consensus. And that moral consensus has informed American social policy and law. What people believeor dont believeabout God, helps to shape what they believe about men and women. And what they believe about men and women creates the framework for a nations public life.
Or to put it more plainly: In the coming decades Catholics will likely find it harder, not easier, to influence the course of American culture, or even to live their faith authentically. And the big difference between the next America and the old one will be that plenty of other committed religious believers may find themselves in the same unpleasant jam as their Catholic cousins.
At first hearing, this scenario might sound implausible; and for good reason. The roots of the American experience are deeply Protestant. They go back a very long way, to well before the nations founding. Whatever one thinks of the early Puritan colonistsand Catholics have few reasons to remember them fondlyno reader can study Gov. John Winthrops great 1630 homily before embarking for New England without being moved by the zeal and candor of the faith that produced it. In A model of Christian charity, he told his fellow colonists:
We are a company professing ourselves fellow members of Christ . . . That which the most in their churches maintain as truth in profession only, we must bring into familiar and constant practice; as in this duty of love, we must love brotherly without dissimulation, we must love one another with pure heart fervently. We must bear one anothers burdens. We must look not only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren . . . We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each; make others conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So we will keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
Not a bad summary of Christian discipleship, made urgent for Winthrop by the prospect of leading 700 souls on a hard, two-month voyage across the North Atlantic to an equally hard New World. What happened when they got there is a matter of historical record. And different agendas interpret the record differently.
The Puritan habits of hard work, industry and faith branded themselves on the American personality. While Puritan influence later diluted in waves of immigrants from other Protestant traditions, it clearly helped shape the political beliefs of John Adams and many of the other American Founders. Adams and his colleagues were men who, as Daniel Boorstin once suggested, had minds that were a miscellany and a museum; men who could blend the old and the new, an earnest Christian faith and Enlightenment ideas, without destroying either.
But beginning in the nineteenth century, riding a crest of scientific and industrial change, a different view of the Puritans began to emerge. In the language of their critics, the Puritans were seen as intolerant, sexually repressed, narrow-minded witch-hunters who masked material greed with a veneer of Calvinist virtue. Cast as religious fanatics, the Puritans stood accused of planting the seed of nationalist messianism by portraying America as a New Jerusalem, a city upon a hill (from Winthrops homily), with a globally redemptive mission. H.L. Menckenequally skilled as a writer, humorist and anti-religious bigotfamously described the Puritan as a man with the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
In recent years, scholars like Christian Smith have shown how the intellectual weakness and fierce internal divisions of Americas Protestant establishment allowed the secularization of modern public life as a kind of political revolution. Carried out mainly between 1870 and 1930, this rebel insurgency consisted of waves of networks of activists who were largely skeptical, freethinking, agnostic, atheist or theologically liberal; who were well educated and socially located mainly in the knowledge-production occupations, and who generally espoused materialism, naturalism, positivism and the privatization or extinction of religion.
This insurgency could be ignored, or at least contained, for a long time. Why? Because Americas social consensus supported the countrys unofficial Christian assumptions, traditions and religion-friendly habits of thought and behavior. But laweven a constitutional guaranteeis only as strong as the popular belief that sustains it. That traditional consensus is now much weakened. Seventy years of soft atheism trickling down in a steady catechesis from our universities, social-science helping professions, and entertainment and news media, have eroded it.
Obviously many faith-friendly exceptions exist in each of these professional fields. And other culprits, not listed above, may also be responsible for our predicament. The late Christopher Lasch argued that modern consumer capitalism breeds and needs a culture of narcissismi.e., a citizenry of weak, self-absorbed, needy personalitiesin order to sustain itself. Christian Smith put it somewhat differently when he wrote that, in modern capitalism, labor is mobile as needed, consumers purchase what is promoted, workers perform as demanded, managers execute as expectedand profits flow. And what the Torah, or the Pope, or Jesus may say in opposition is not relevant, because those are private matters [emphasis in original].
My point here is neither to defend nor criticize our economic system. Others are much better equipped to do that than I am. My point is that I shop, therefore I am is not a good premise for life in a democratic society like the United States. Our country depends for its survival on an engaged, literate electorate gathered around commonly held ideals. But the practical, pastoral reality facing the Gospel in America today is a human landscape shaped by advertising, an industry Pascal Bruckner described so well as a smiling form of sorcery:
The buyers fantastic freedom of choice supposedly encourages each of us to take ourselves in hand, to be responsible, to diversify our conduct and our tastes; and most important, supposedly protects us forever from fanaticism and from being taken in. In other words, four centuries of emancipation from dogmas, gods and tyrants has led to nothing more nor less than to the marvelous possibility of choosing between several brands of dish detergent, TV channels or styles of jeans. Pushing our cart down the aisle in a supermarket or frantically wielding our remote control, these are supposed to be ways of consciously working for harmony and democracy. One could hardly come up with a more masterful misinterpretation: for we consume in order to stop being individuals and citizens; rather, to escape for a moment from the heavy burden of having to make fundamental choices.
Now, where do Catholics fit into this story?
The same Puritan worldview that informed John Winthrops homily so movingly, also reviled Popery, Catholic ritual and lingering Romish influences in Englands established Anglican Church. The Catholic Church was widely seen as Revelations Whore of Babylon. Time passed, and the American religious landscape became more diverse. But the nations many different Protestant sects shared a common, foreign ogre in their perceptions of the Holy Seeperceptions made worse by Romes distrust of democracy and religious liberty. As a result, Catholics in America faced harsh Protestant discrimination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This included occasional riots and even physical attacks on convents, churches and seminaries. Such is the history that made John F. Kennedys success seem so liberating.
The irony is that mainline American Protestantism had used up much of its moral and intellectual power by 1960. Secularizers had already crushed it in the war for the cultural high ground. In effect, after so many decades of struggle, Catholics arrived on Americas center stage just as management of the theater had changed hands -- with the new owners even less friendly, but far shrewder and much more ambitious in their social and political goals, than the old ones. Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox, despite their many differences, share far more than divides them, beginning with Jesus Christ himself. They also share with Jews a belief in the God of Israel and a reverence for Gods Word in the Old Testament. But the gulf between belief and unbelief, or belief and disinterest, is vastly wider.
In the years since Kennedys election, Vatican II and the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, two generations of citizens have grown to maturity. The world is a different place. America is a different placeand in some ways, a far more troubling one. We cant change history, though we need to remember and understand it. But we can only blame outside factors for our present realities up to a point. As Catholics, like so many other American Christians, we have too often made our country what it is through our appetite for success, our self-delusion, our eagerness to fit in, our vanity, our compromises, our self-absorption and our tepid faith.
If government now pressures religious entities out of the public square, or promotes same-sex marriage, or acts in ways that undermine the integrity of the family, or compromises the sanctity of human life, or overrides the will of voters, or discourages certain forms of religious teaching as hate speech, or interferes with individual and communal rights of consciencewell, why not? In the name of tolerance and pluralism, we have forgotten why and how we began as nation; and we have undermined our ability to ground our arguments in anything higher than our own sectarian opinions.
The next America has been in its chrysalis a long time. Whether people will be happy when it fully emerges remains to be seen. But the future is not predestined. We create it with our choices. And the most important choice we can make is both terribly simple and terribly hard: to actually live what the Church teaches, to win the hearts of others by our witness, and to renew the soul of our country with the courage of our own Christian faith and integrity. There is no more revolutionary act.
Charles J. Chaput is the archbishop of Denver.
Ridiculous comment. Reductive to the point of disrespect. For shame. Engage the content, or don't engage.
Unlike Richard, I do not see the call as "do what the bishops tell you no matter what" but rather as a prophetic statement that we need to find stabilizing values that allow us to work together as a community as we seek better conditions for all men.
It is a suggestion that, once we emerge from the supermarket aisle and our exercise of choice regarding our detergent has proven to be less than what we want from life, we are invited to return to the Christian covenant to seek a better life that offers a greater level of fulfillment.
That which is enduring and timeless awaits us, even as that which is built on a foundation of sand crumbles.
Thank you Bishop Chaput for continuing to be a guiding voice of wisdom in these volatile and challenging times.
I am sure Archbishop Chaput would be the first to agree that you and every other human is free to "do and think and believe" as you please. Why, because unlike the dogs, cats and other animals of the world who operate on instict, we humans were given free will and the intelligence to use it by God. However, with free will comes much responsibility. I suggest you use yours to search the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Study and listen to the messages given to us by Jesus and to the early church fathers who were given the responsibility to continue that message. Archbishop Chaput is not asking you to tow the line and do as he says, he simply wants you and all Catholics to learn, live and speak the truth.
You know, when Humanae Vitae came out in the late 60's there was a real stir about the condemnation of birth control. I believe something like 80 % of the Catholics in the country ignored that doctrine. And what did the bishops do? Nothing. They retreated into a sort of uneasy compromise between their hard core doctrine and the overwhelming implicit rejection by the faithful.
It is clear that in recent years many bishops like Chaput have decided to take a new and arrogant approach and literally sweep out of the Catholic Church any member that didn't adhere to the strict line. I have personal examples from my own former Catholic parish.
I have searched for the truth all my life as I assume most visitors here have. I agree with many commentaries and disagree with many. And I am concerned with the current direction of the Church in addition to the direction of my own spiritual life.
It sounds like you think the bishops are just making it up as they go along, so why not join one of the thousands of Protestant groups that change their teaching to suit the disposition of their members?
Again, I'm not saying you should and I hope you don't, but I just can't see what keeps you on board given your opinions on the ontological nature of the Church.
As Cardinal Francis George makes clear in his book "The Difference God Makes", we as Catholics are not to seek to be liberal nor conservative, but Catholic.
Archbishop Chaput might be outspoken on right-to-life issues and against secular humanism, but he also has made clear that illegal immigrants are people too, and we must treat them humanely.
Wow, you mean a Catholic bishop offended you by saying that being a Catholic involves adhering to Catholic doctrine!? Well, that's gotta be difficult to hear. It's like a football coach telling a kid that he has to obey the rules of football in order to make the team or play in the game. How insensitive!
No, Archbishop Chaput is saying that as Catholics we must give religious assent to the teachings of the Catholic Church, and this was reiterated by Vatican II just as it has been taught by the Church for over 2,000 years. Obedience is a virtue.
Those here that don't think the current approach of the Church is different, dramatically different, than just a few decades ago are deluding themselves.
i worry, in turn, about my own ability to read essays fairly.
I'm in my early twenties, so you're right, I wasn't around when Vatican II was being implemented. However, I studied abroad in Rome for a semester and when I was there I was fortunate to hear him speak on several occasions. It was clear from not what the Holy Father said but how he said it that clearly showed that the Holy Father cares deeply about the flock entrusted to him by Christ. He speaks with a deep love and compassion in his voice far deeper than anything I've ever head before. He is very wise, compassionate, and grandfatherly. If Pope Benedict XVI was a cruel dictator, then why would he write his first encyclical on love, or why would he write his second and third encyclicals on hope and how human dignity must be the foundation of every economic system? Why would he write a series of books on the person of Jesus Christ?
Have you read anything Pope Benedict has written? If not, I would start by reading Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love) which can be found on the Vatican website here:
Deus Caritas Est is the best writing on the nature of love I've ever read in my life, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
"It was clear from not just what the Holy Father said but how he said it that clearly showed that the Holy Father cares deeply about the flock entrusted to him by Christ."
I'm in my early twenties, so you're right, I wasn't around when Vatican II was being implemented. However, I studied abroad in Rome for a semester and when I was there I was fortunate to hear Pope Benedict XVI speak on several occasions. It was clear from not just what the Holy Father said but how he said it that clearly showed that the Holy Father cares deeply about the flock entrusted to him by Christ. He speaks with a deep love and compassion in his voice far deeper than anything I've ever head before. He is very wise, compassionate, and grandfatherly. If Pope Benedict XVI was a cruel dictator, then why would he write his first encyclical on love, or why would he write his second and third encyclicals on hope and how human dignity must be the foundation of every economic system? Why would he write a series of books on the person of Jesus Christ?
Have you read anything Pope Benedict has written? If not, I would start by reading Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love) which can be found on the Vatican website here:
Deus Caritas Est is the best writing on the nature of love I've ever read in my life, and I hope you enjoy reading it."
Please Richard, out of Christian charity, read and comment about what is written by Archbishop Chaput in this article, rather then type a tanrum over some past injury.
Thank you Archbishop Chaput for your words... Be urgent in season and out of season right? Well done.
People like Richard need our love and prayers, and instead of attacking him with sarcastic and snide remarks, we should pray for him.
Richard, although I don't agree with your remarks, I respect you as a human being and I am sorry that you've had to put up with a lot of snide and sarcastic remarks in this discussion.
You dont find my use of sarcasm prudent. I do. I have read First Things for over a decade now, and have kept my eye on the website when I can. I mention this to you as I think that a bit of bite in ones response is well within the style of the magazine. I am not as worried about Richards proximity to the Church as you are, but am more interested in engaging his ideas. These ideas better hold up to scrutiny in the public square (no kid glove treatment)-in other words: they better be true. Richard posts often enough, and I think that Richards message is getting awfully shopworn. (Come on, it was such a stretch to read Archbishop Chaputs concluding sentence the way that Richard did; I thought he needed to see a chiropractor.) I agree that Richard needs our love and prayer, (and I will heed your advice to pray for him and hope he would do the same for me), but I dont think it unloving to call someone out strongly when they are mistaken. The real problem as I see it, is Richards attempt to highjack an important message to all Christians in America today, and turn it into a squabble about the mean old authoritarian Catholic hierarchy who are not letting us have our spirit of Vatican II. Respectfully,
P.S. Thanks Ars - You put it a lot better than I, and are more gifted in being able to get to the higher things.
"And the most important choice we can make is both terribly simple and terribly hard: to actually live what the Church teaches, to win the hearts of others by our witness, and to renew the soul of our country with the courage of our own Christian faith and integrity. There is no more revolutionary act."
very chestertonian:
"readers will expect me, when I propound an ideal, to propound a new ideal. Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old ones. On the day that any copybook maxim is carried out there will be something like an earthquake on the earth. There is only one thing new that can be done under the sun; and that is to look at the sun. If you attempt it on a blue day in June, you will know why men do not look straight at their ideals. There is only one really startling thing to be done with the ideal, and that is to do it. It is to face the flaming logical fact, and its frightful consequences."
Most of you I suspect are honed into the words of the Archbishop which are magnificent, on their face. History is filled with authors, religious writers as well, who commit words to paper which we all admire. What does this mean? Every day people in all walks of life, at births, deaths, conferences, family reunions, memorials, etc. say words that are significant and eloquent. They are words. By their acts you shall know them or something to that effect. There are the abuse scandals, which are not so much about the abuse as about the bishops that knew, did nothing or worse.
To me, what this is about is Archbishop Chaput who is capable of this incredibly compelling commentary and at the same time setting up his legislative council for legal issues in his office and literally browbeating his flock into submitting to his political views and legislative agenda. You don't see that in this commentary, of course. But I urge you to just keep watching this Archbishop, carefully, and watch the emergence of his real agenda. You are believers, informed but able to separate the "wheat from the chaff."
I am terribly sorry that you have had bad experiences with Archbishop Chaput. If what you are implying is true then he will be judged accordingly by God, if not sooner.
Please do not extend your animosity of 1 bishop to Church doctrine, encyclicals, beliefs,... Many good and holy people, clergy and laity, have had a lasting input in further understanding and explaining God's revelation to us within His Church.
I suspect that Archbishop Chaput is representative of those Church leaders who are publicly and legislatively attempting to defeat the culture of death, preeminently and fundamentally manifested in the direct, intentional destruction of unborn human life. This presents a quandary for Democrats who have an attachment to their Catholic heritage.
I don't need to know Archbishop Chaput personally to know that he would support a candidate from any party who embraced Catholic social justice principals personally and pursued them legislatively, beginning with the very right to life itself.
Peace and God Bless, and may Christ be the center of your life.
Jesus gave the world the Church to lead us into brotherly harmony, peace, and moral propriety. The Protestant Rebellion has led us into a world of selfishness, me centeredness, and individualism in which men like Richard think that their thoughts are the apex of all truth and relevancy. Nothing could be farther from the Truth.
Those who will not listen to the Church will not listen to Jesus when He returns. There is a place in the universe for such people. It is called Hell.
Maybe Richard should read CCC paragraph 2477.
"The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice because they do not love."
It strikes me that one's position in these sorts of debates are an expression of whether one is oriented more towards principle or practice. We must of course integrate both, but that is precisely the difficulty.
Richard, what those of us who consider ourselves orthodox are saying is that we cannot ignore principle just because it may seem unloving or harsh or difficult. It is part of the depositum fidei. We believe that the church is guided by the Holy Spirit. We believe it is the one true holy catholic and apostolic church. If we cause scandal by not loving in practice, that is our own sinfulness and not faulty principle. The solution is not to change principles, it is to change our hearts.
"If the second to last sentence is not telling us to adhere totally to the teachings of the Church as announced to us by bishops like Chaput, I am not reading the erudite article correctly. Chaput is one of America's foremost "conservative" Catholic thinkers."
A bishop's job is, indeed, to announce the full teachings of the Catholic Church, and thanks be to God we have shepherds like Archbishop Chaput to do it clearly. You use the word conservative as a pejorative, when guarding the deposit of faith (the essence of conservatism) is precisely what a bishop is called to do. What troubles me is that what you said (quoted above) contradicts what you say here:
"You know, when Humanae Vitae came out in the late 60's there was a real stir about the condemnation of birth control. I believe something like 80 % of the Catholics in the country ignored that doctrine. And what did the bishops do? Nothing. They retreated into a sort of uneasy compromise between their hard core doctrine and the overwhelming implicit rejection by the faithful."
On the one hand, you paint a bishop who speaks clearly and incisively as an out-of-touch advocate for blind adherence to Church teaching (which, if you read the archbishop carefully, you would know that such a characterization is grossly inaccurate), then condemn bishops who don't speak out when there are clear violations of Catholic belief, on the other. It seems that he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Which is it?
Frankly, I am thrilled that Archbishop Chaput is a strong pastor who will brook no compromise of his duty. I am sick to death of prelates who have the consistency and firmness of fungus. Archbishop Chaput is responsible in the eyes of God for every soul in his archdiocese and beyond. That's a heavy burden. It would not go well for him in the great reckoning if he were to hide betrayal of the triune God behind the mask of compassion which leads so many self-indulgent souls to their own ruin. To speak the saving truth to all, whether it is easy or hard, is the duty of every Roman Catholic Cleric and to do so is the last full measure of Christian love. Archbishop Chaput in my eyes is one of the glories of the Roman Catholic episcopate.
Another Richard
How can we be sure of this? Because Richards says so.
I know I'm convinced.
Your family is proof of the abyssmal state of Catholic higher education. Why did your own children persist in forking out exhorbitant tuitions to have their kids taught basic dreck. Any serious Catholic has long known what is going on at Georgetown, Santa Clara, Boston College, the University of San Diego, Gonzaga (until lately?), etc.
However, I think things start to deteriorate at the Catholic High School level, or even earlier. Here in my town the local Catholic school promotes "tolerance" by celebrating the homosexual lifestyle via productions like "Rent". There was no crucifix on the wall of the Catholic elementary classroom my daughter briefly attended, but she was sure to start her day with a half hour of yoga taught by a Protestant teacher. Those are just two example. BTW, I yanked my daughter out of that farce of a Catholic school.
I know a good, faithful Orthodox deacon who wouldn't dream of allowing his son attend the local Catholic High School, and opts for a public education.
We have a very weak, low-profile bishop in these Catholic backwaters, however.
Catholic women abort at the same rate as Protestant women.
As far as Archbishop Chaput's article, I think we've known for some time that a new America is coming. In fact, it's been here for a while, if you ask me. Christians will continue to be marginalized and our beliefs will be criminalized with time. I really do hope this is not true, and that now I'm the one that is being paranoid! However, it seems to be the logical conclusion given the current of popular thought and law in the western world.
It's TOE the line, not TOW the line.
New America, indeed.
We live in a Democracy and our religious freedoms depend on this.
The Catholic church is not a democracy and never will be.
The people of the church struggle with this and I know, question the need to obey those that tell us what to do and how to do it.
We don't get a vote or a voice in how our religious life is being shaped. Many people, after seeing how the church has handled the child abuse scandal do not trust the church and see little reason for obeying a hierarchy that is corrupt and self absorbed.
I honestly don't see the Catholic church thriving unless there are changes and the Church has no reason to change and millions of reasons to stay the same.
Fortunately, the church will have to change.
It would be so much better if the church would lead the way.
I have no hope that it will. The change will come from the people the real church.
Naw. Let's give him a chance to get over his objectively disordered relationship with cheeseburgers first.
What a waste of ink. If you want to say "the Jews," go ahead and say it. Coughlin, Feeny, Williamson or Ratzinger would.
Agenda is usually used as a singular in English. Acceptable plurals are agendas and agenda in that order. If you think that you are more learned than Archbishop Chaput, I do not envy you.
I am, by the way, a professional Classicist. My first degree was in English. Bishop Chaput's usage is standard English. Your response indicates that you have some work to do on your English, to say nothing of your civility or lack thereof.
Ann: I'm still trying to figure out your point -- that Chaput is somehow an anti-Semite? Are you serious? Or is that the only crack you can think of.
One of the most interesting things about Chaput's writing is that it reduces so many of his critics to name-calling knuckleheads.
Btw, wouldn't it be better to ignore Richard et al? Why should discussion be diverted from what Chaput said to what he said?
P.S. Richard apparently has sought to criticize Chaput's character without evidence. This is in very poor form.
Diane, we live in a constitutional republic. Not a democracy
It's a different matter with employees, clergy, and volunteers in ministry under his wing. If there's any "browbeating", it must be with these appointed, or self-styled, leaders of the Catholic community. It's the bishop's duty to ensure that those who lead the faithful are real shepherds and not hirelings. And so it is totally appropriate that he should align the legal structures and other instruments of authority at his disposal to see that this is accomplished. What would one call a leader who failed to attend to the integrity of his institutions? The words weak, ineffective, effete, misfeasant, or hypocritical come to mind. By contrast, praise God that Abp Chaput does his duty!
To those with a loose grasp of the faith, to dissenters, to one who absorbed what passed for Catholic education during the early adult years of one who was an altar boy in the 1950's (as I was too), such discipline can sting. It can seem as if the Church, under such a leader, is changing in an ominous way, when what is really happening is that it is being restored to itself. It can seem like a prelate is imposing his legislative, political preferences when he calls the faithful not to cooperate in evil by, for example, promoting pro-abortion politicians.
Eternity is closing in on us. Let us watch and pray, and appreciate the truth when one is confronted by it.
Bishop Chaput is not the one sweeping those out of the Church who will not adhere to the teachings of the Magisterium or the particular Bishops. We who sin and reject the word of God and divine revelation by our own actions cast ourselves out into the street. For we sinners cannot exist in the Church in our mortally sinful state. Whether the Bishops or the Magisterium tell us this or not does not change that fundamental truth that sin is a rejection of God and full communion with Him.
What Bishop Chaput is doing is preaching and holding true to the Deposit of Faith and calling those in sin to return to the Church and hold to her teachings because in the end salvation is through Christ and His word.
As far as I understand it, democracy and republic are not mutually exclusive. Democracy literally means "strength of the people" which seems to mean that a democratic government would be one in which all people are permitted to participate, regardless of status. Interestingly, that would seem to imply that this country was not founded as a democracy.
The vast majority of Protestant churches have more open, democratic structures. As a result, they've fractured into so many competing "truths" that it makes no sense to count them anymore. Moreover, the laity have a great deal of influence over how religious life within the parish is shaped ... especially when the parish priest cedes his responsibility to guide and teach. In some parishes, that's been more of a detriment than a help.
Granting that, individually and corporately, the hierarchy has badly managed the "predator priest" problem, I still have to wonder what "change" you think is needed. Whenever someone makes reference to "the people [as] the real church", I immediately think of the "Good Church/Bad Church" meta-narrative dissidents try to impose on us, and I flinch. Sorry, the hierarchy is just as much part of the real Church as are the laity. Nor will the problem be solved by copying the Protestants ... "democratizing" the Church hasn't worked for them, so why should it work for us?
A change is needed: the Church needs to become more true to its traditions, its teachings and its beliefs, not "Catholicism and water". Part of the problem of the last forty years is that the bishops lost sight of their role as successors to the apostles, getting lost in administration and conciliation precisely when they needed to stand firm and speak loud. While there's no epirical numbers to point to, there's plenty of hearsay which suggests the parishes and sees that thrive are the ones that become more orthodox in their orientation, not less. In other words, mere "change" is not enough if it means just doing things differently. What's needed is authentic reform that remains true to the DNA of the faith.
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Thank you Bishop Chaput.
I pray every day that God gives his Church and it's individual members - myself most of all - the strength to do so every day. It is so very, very difficult and yet how wonderful our Catholic faith is for all of it's gifts.
Once again, thank you.
Turn off your TV's. I turned off mine 2 years ago and only watch EWTN on my computer. Amazing how much time I found to pray. This year I joined 3 prayer groups and I am applying to be a Stephan Minister. I am 62-it has taking me a long time to shut up and to start to really learn my faith and put prayer into practice. We all need to pray pray pray. I do believe that Mary is our way and that these are her times. She said to us of her son " Do as he tells you" I heard many years ago that the Catholic Church is like a yard stick with the contempletives on one end and the charismatics on the other. I have been on both ends of that yard stick and practice both forms of prayer and encourage prayer in what ever form the Holy Spirit leads one to. Prayer is an action. To love one another requires action. I think the Archbishop wants us to put our Catholic faith into action and demonstrate it.
It is shameful that some of the Catholic politians in congress have brought on the disillusionment of young people ( and in old people) because they do not walk the walk. I know I am disillusioned by them and wish the Bishops would be more public in admonishing them to put their faith into action and to write laws and policies that reflect the faith that is taught in the CCC. Unfortunatly we have a media that will not support Catholic ideals and comments. I had to watch the Pope on you tube because I was out of town and did not have my computer so I did not have access to EWTN. That is shamful also that my grandchildren could not see the Pope on regular TV and what was on the news was not the Mass or any thing in his own words- It was a commentater telling us what he thought was important- so irritating. As Catholics we are forced to our own TV and Radio and it is not part of the public access- when you think about it the public gets very very little of anything Catholic and what they do get is not positive, but the ugly side- as if only Catholics are sinners. So it is up to us to go and find and get our own info. I am reading much much more than I ever did and listen to Catholic Answers and go to Catholic web sites to learn. As we are all one body, when one member causes hurt we are all hurt. Again we need to pray from our hearts for the whole body. This week we celebrated Padria Pio's feast day- he prayed 18 rosaries a day. All saints prayed a lot. We are all called to be saints. I totaly agree with those comments before mine to pray. Please Pray. I am praying for a Catholic radio station. Praying, at the very least that is one action we can all do and need to do a lot of before it does become illegal to pray. If you have money to through around that would be good too, but prayer is the foundation. We are born in these times because we are the ones to pray for these times and do something about it- all I am sure of doing is prayer and being an example of prayer. ( I wish I could see all the text that I am typing the right edge is cut off from my view and I sure could use spell check- I am sure there are mistakes in this paragraph - sorry. Also I did not mean to sermonize, but all these comments seems to have brought that on- my intention was to encourage prayer) Archishop I continue to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for you. God Bless you.
Am I not correct in thinking that Paul had most likely offended a few people by killing thousands of Christians and yet his words and his teachings lacked nothing in divine inspiration.
Dear Richard, I have just discovered this column. I'm a revert who is experiencing that amazing passion to learn my faith for over a year now and I'm aware that while my zeal is essential, the delivery of my message is not yet a sure thing. I've always been able to write, but I am so very intense that speaking is not always effective. Calm, charm and humility.
Mostly I have always retained the directive to have the faith of a child. Since we know NOTHING that Jesus said was random or light I know that that was not capricious. A child has the heart to forgive, the desire to be given directions and the curiosity to pursue something with an open mind.
The messenger, like the American Catholic church, may have been riddled with fallibility, but the message is as divine as ever.
I have also been reading at thesestonewalls.com and to see serious, continually ATTEMPTED humility in this day and age is like water in the desert.
God bless you all and may God inform your hearts so that you lead as many souls to Christ as possible. Zeal!
My thanks for your love and sacrifice.
Archbishop Chaput is a shepherd in the best sense of the word, a priest cut from the same cloth as St. Francis de Sales, given to our time to wake us up and lead us out of the muck and the mire on to true heroic sacrifice as we witness to the truth of Christ. I have met the great Archbishop and he is very down to earth and very friendly. Most importantly, he is not afraid of anything. He strikes me as a man who daily considers the account he must give to his Savior one day when he answers for the welfare of His flock. I for one am glad this holy man has extended his reach beyond the boundaries of Denver! God bless you Archbishop Chaput! I bless your name and pray for you daily. Thank you for your courage. You give us hope and strength!
Funny, how generations can view the man's Catholic background as a turning point from discrimination in this country. I have always been embarrassed by the liberation theology the Kennedy generation has promoted. We will be much better off in this country once they die off, and stop this never ending need to elevate ourselves by social works and freedoms that never existed like a women's right to choose.
We are reaping what we have sown with this sixties crowd...Sorry illegal immigration is dumping on America Archbishop. We have a moral obligation to the ones who are here legally. Mexico's corrupt government is not our emergency. Their people can rise up like we did at the founding of this great
country. I suggest we help them then when they get the courage to do it.
Well done your grace, if only we had a prelate of similar quality in Scotland
"But yet the Son of man, when he comes, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" [Luke 18:8, http://www.newadvent.org/bible/luk018.htm]
Personally, I'm convinced that it's no coincidence that few go to the Latin Mass and/or the Eastern Rite Mass and demonstrate their deep love for God, our Blessed Mother and the Holy Mother Church...holy affection that is hard to perceive from among many 'Catholics'.
B) The Pre-Figuration of the current scenario about the few who will remain faithful to the Catholic Magisterium and defend the Church's teachings:
[1Maccabees2:7-14, http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1ma002.htm]
7 And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it is given into the hands of the enemies? 8 The holy places have come into the hands of strangers: her temple has become as a man without honour. 9 The vessels of her glory are carried away captive; her old men are murdered in the streets, and her young men are fallen by the sword of the enemies. 10 What nation has not inherited her kingdom, and gotten of her spoils? 11 All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a slave. 12 And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them. 13 To what end then should we live any longer? 14 And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.
[1Maccabees2:49-68, http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1ma002.htm]
49 Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now has pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: 50 Now, therefore, O my sons, be zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers. 51 And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have done in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an everlasting name. 52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reputed to him unto justice? 53 Joseph, in the time of his distress, kept the commandment, and he was made lord of Egypt. 54 Phinees, our father, by being fervent in the zeal of God, received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. 55 Jesus, whilst he fulfilled the word, was made ruler in Israel. 56 Caleb, for bearing witness before the congregation, received an inheritance. 57 David, by his mercy, obtained the throne of an everlasting kingdom. 58 Elias, while he was full of zeal for the law, was taken up into heaven. 59 Ananias and Azarias and Misael, by believing, were delivered out of the flame. 60 Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out of the mouth of the lions. 61 And thus consider, through all generations: that none that trust in him, fail in strength. 62 And fear not the words of a sinful man, for his glory is dung and worms: 63 Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his earth and his thought has come to nothing. 64 You, therefore, my sons, take courage, and behave manfully in the law: for by it you shall be glorious. 65 And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel: give ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you. 66 And Judas Machabeus, who is valiant and strong from his youth up, let him be the leader of your army, and he shall manage the war of the people. 67 And you shall take to you all that observe the law: and revenge the wrong of your people. 68 Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the precepts of the law.
C) It's impossible to remain faithful and 'have the testimony of Jesus Christ' and keeps the commandments of God if you are not with the WOMAN (Mary, the Mother of God), be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart and be among the 'rest of her seed' with whom the dragon will make the final war:
[Revelation 12:13-18, http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rev012.htm]
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the man child. 14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. 16 And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 18 And he stood upon the sand of the sea.
Because I am an ordinary lay Catholic, and not a theologian, I interpret the 'two wings of a great eagle' as the Rosary prayer and the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament while I am nourished with the Eucharist in the Extraordinary Rite [Latin Mass]
It is precisely because the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Jesus Christ, Who promised to be with us always and Who named Peter, the first Pope, the temporal Head of the Church, that the Church can claim these Truths.
At the same time, there exist many ideas proposed or promoted by various priests, bishops, or even the Pope that are personal opinions. One type of personal opinion might even be the way a society should implement the teachings of Christ. These various specific and concrete details are opinions and do not have to be believed or followed by Catholics and can be opposed without breaking communion with the Church.


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Peyton Manning came back down to earth with a bump in Atlanta as the Falcons intercepted him three times in the first quarter of a 27-21 win over the Denver Broncos.
Manning returned to action last week with a brilliant win over Pittsburgh, but his second game back was a sobering encounter as he made one of the worst starts to a game in his career.
His three interceptions in his first eight passes was the least number of passes he's ever needed to be picked off three times, while Knowshon Moreno also threw in a fumble to make it four turnovers by the Broncos in the first 15 minutes.
Matt Ryan and the Falcons pounced on the mistakes, with Michael Turner running in a short touchdown and Tony Gonzalez gathering a one-yard pass to make it 20-0 approaching half time.
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Cast: Dean Flynn, Andrew Justice, Jason Ridge, Brandon Monroe, Erik Hall, Jason Reynolds, Jean-Paul Roccard, Justin Burkshire, Kai Grant, Scott Tanner, Tony Masala, Tyler Kane, Tyler Saint, Vinnie D'Angelo
Director: Joe Gage
Screenwriter: Joe Gage
Executive Producer: Bruce Cam
Country: US
Length: 2 hr 37 min
Year: 2007
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On 09/16/11 at 11:00 AM the suspect entered the M&I Bank at 11612 E. Shea Blvd., presented the teller with a demand note. The teller gave the suspect an undisclosed amount of cash and he then left on foot through the parking lot.
Detectives and officers canvassed the neighborhood and the suspect was identified as Tyler Wolfer who lived in the apartment complex at 11105 N. 115th Street. On 09/17/11 at 3:00 PM Wolfer confessed to this and is being looked at as a possible suspect in two other bank robberies.
Wolfer was booked on counts of Armed Robbery.


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Below are a small selection of guest reviews from our previous clients:
The whole experience was easy right from the beginning of the booking . Villa Rosie Ref No: CRV919
The whole experience was easy right from the beginning of the booking . Villa Rosie is stunning , it has breathtaking views and has everything you could possibly need and found it so clean and fresh on arrival. Our family had an amazing time and had great fun in the lovely swimming pool and we all look forward to returning to Almunecar soon.
Many thanks Lee,Reham and family UK 03/08/2013
It is hard to find the words that will do justice to the beauty of Villa Calidad Ref No: BC0331
It is hard to find the words that will do justice to the beauty of Villa Calidad and the wonderful time we had in Almunecar.
And what a delight it was to rent Villa Calidad from Roy and Carol.
Right from our first enquiry to the end of our trip, we were promptly taken care of.
The villa was beautiful, comfortable, and clean, and had everything we needed – and more!
Situated on the side of a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea , we had a breathtaking view, but were close enough to walk down the hill to the beach and paseo (boardwalk). I enjoyed many morning jogs along the paseo to Almunecar and the other direction to secluded beaches. There were lots of charming restaurants, bodegas, cafes, shops, and supermarkets in Almunecar, and we found a lovely hidden beachfront restaurant where we enjoyed paella and seafood, just steps from the sea.
Villa Calidad is even more spacious than we had expected from the photographs, and each bedroom has a stunning sea view. It is very well designed and beautifully maintained.
When we weren't out sightseeing and enjoying the winding cobblestone streets in historic Almunecar, we had plenty to do at our villa in the sun – swimming in the refreshing pool on our terrace, reading on the lounge chairs by the pool overlooking mountains and sea, a game of billiards or darts, and later gazing out at the starry night sky and fishing boats or watching a movie.
Cooking was a joy in the very well designed kitchen, and we even had our own lemon tree right outside on the terrace.
We also enjoyed visiting the Alhambra in Granada, the old town of Malaga, and the Balcony of Europe in Nerja. The highways were spectacular, in excellent condition, and gave us great views of sea and mountains.
Carol and Roy were very helpful, even supplying excellent driving directions with photographs from the airport, and every detail was taken care of. The bottle of wine they gave us was a lovely way to welcome us to Andalusia .
It was the experience of a lifetime; very nostalgic to return to Almunecar after 41 years with my mother and two daughters.
We are already planning out next trip to Spain and highly recommend the Holiday Rentals 4U team. They went out of their way for us, always available to answer our questions before, during and even after our holiday.
It's so good to know a reliable company in Spain when booking from so far away across the ocean.
Muchas Gracias! Cathy Lumb Ontario Canada May 02nd 2013
The villa is spacious with all amenities you could need Ref No Voo1 Villa Panoramico
There were 3 generations of our family on board for the week and the villa provided the ideal platform for everyone to thoroughly enjoy the week.
The villa is spacious with all amenities you could need. The 3 outdoor levels were ideal to relax in and the views from each were amazing. It was lovely to dine al fresco with the Med in view below.
There is a steep drive to the villa, however thorough instructions on accessing the villa are provided before arrival which are great and work weel.
The Managers Roy & Carol was extremely helpful both in advance of our arrival and on meeting him we were given useful tips about the local area.
We found Almunecar to be a charming town, with extremely friendly locals and a good choice of quality restaurants & vibrant bars.
We would very much recommend both villa & town.
Trevor O'Regan & Family 23/04/13
Everything was perfectly arranged… Ref No V001 Villa Panoramico
Hello Roy & Carol,
Just to let you know, we safely got home after a beautiful (10 days) April holiday in Villa Panaramico . We certainly come back to this beautiful location with its wonderful view. Everything was perfectly arranged including the extras for the long weekend stay of our children with grandchildren. Tip for other holiday guests: the little beach with its very nice restaurant Tito Yayo. The route description you send us was very helpful. Thank you for your services and hopefully we meet again.
Regards Dick ( Denmark ) 09/04/13
Did it meet the description ? Absolutely ! Ref No: H017
From the terrace of the apartment we had an amazing view Ref No: CR773
Stayed 29/07 to 12/08/2012
Hello Roy
and Carol
Thanks again for the fantastic service; we enjoyed our holidays at Almunecar.
1st The apartment first,
fully equipped very comfortable in a small residence very peaceful,
We were often alone at the swimming pool thinking that the swimming pool was
just here for us. From the terrace of the apartment we had an amazing view on
the city of Almunecar
and on the sea.
2nd The city of Almunecar
(5 minutes drive) or Nerja (15 minutes drive) with the
beach. We enjoyed to have a drink in the old centre of the cities on the
evening, eating grilled fish or tapas on restaurants.
Visiting Granadaand Malaga
from here was very easy.
It was very hard to leave the place after 2 weeks spent there.
We will come back for sure.
Thanks Roy and Carol of Rentals 4U for all.
Léa, Adèle and Bruno. From France
"Magnificent view and a lovely location" Ref No: PJ059
We had a wonderful holiday at the apartment in Almunecar, it is a nice apartment with a magnificent view and a lovely location with easy access to the pool ,that we could find just below the stairs.
All the necessities where available. a short walk to the beach and a 15 minutes walk to the town center. So in two words, wonderful holiday!
The service was excellent, everything is and was as promised by Roy and Carol,
So thanks Roy and Carol of Rentals 4U for this awesome holiday
Olivier & Family from Belgium
18/07 to 25/07/2012
Fabulous Holiday On Fuentes de Almunecar Ref No V005
We have had a 2 weeks holiday in Almunecar, at villa V005. The house was so perfect that it felt like our own home: everything we needed was available and all of high quality, a tasteful decor. The location of the villa is superb: breathtaking views from the lovely, quiet and private terrace, where we have spend many hours enjoying a glass of wine or played games with the kids. The pools were very nice and within walking distance and part of our daily routine to relax! Also enjoyed some nice restaurants in Almunecar, recommended by Roy. Thanks to the hospitality of Roy and Carol, we have had a perfect holiday and will certainly consider coming back once!
Thank you very much for making us feel at home in Almunecar!
Kind regards and hope to see you another holiday,
Jasper, Dineke, Laura, Emma and Renske van Lienden
09July to 23 July 2012
Fantastic Holiday On Fuentes Ref No: H017
"Amazing Views" Villa Calidad Ref No: BC0331
What a great week we had a incredible week in the sun!!
Villa Panoramico Ref No V001


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Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif on Wednesday unveiled Gitanjalishop.com, the latest innovative step taken by Gitanjali Group, the world's largest branded jewellery manufacturer-retailer.
Pertinently, Katrina is the brand ambassador for diamond jewellery brand Nakshatra.
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Today on the Final Word with Marc Bertrand, Felger reads some e-mails about the new rule about no pleasantries. The Dice-K era in Boston came to an end last night and the guys look back at the Dice-K hype. Finally, Felger and Mazz say a final farewell to Bobby Valentine.
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Thanks to Daily Squash Report for linking to Steve Cubs' video of James Willstrop and Nick Matthew at the 2013 British Nationals. Nick Matthew won the match in 3 to become 5-time British national champ. It's a rare treat to watch an extended squash video from the front wall like this. Enjoy: Update: Steve also […]
Well, since the most popular post on this site, by far, was my recent 2012 US Open equipment roundup, I suppose I'd better follow up with an equipment roundup for the 2012 Hong Kong Squash Open.
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The Carol Weymuller Open is a WSA World Tour event held at the Heights Casino Club in Brooklyn, New York. It usually gets a great turnout from the top women. The 2012 winner was Laura Massaro in 3 games over last year's winner, Raneem El Weleily. Recap from SquashSite. Check out this USTREAM channel for […]
Here are four videos from the quarterfinal match between Alison Waters and Nicol David at the 2012 Carol Weymuller Open. Alison upset Nicol in 4 games to reach the semis, where she lost to eventual champion Laura Massaro. Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4
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A dirt bike is a versatile outdoor sport vehicle that can perform many stunts. Many drivers take their dirt bikes through courses that challenge a different aspect of driving, such as jumping. Jumps on a dirt bike can be exhilarating, but getting the height you need will likely be a challenge if you're new to dirt bike jumping. With some fundamental techniques and a lot of practice, you will eventually be able to execute a perfect jump nearly every time.
Step 1
Spray paint a line across the jump, beginning at your starting position and following along the roadway. This gives you a guide to follow as you learn to jump. The line should follow the center of the roadway.
Step 2
Ride toward the jump at a steady pace. Once you perfect your technique, you can start to ride faster.
Step 3
Back off the throttle just as you reach the beginning of the up ramp.
Step 4
Accelerate just before your dirt bike leaves the up ramp to help power your jump.
Step 5
Accelerate again right before you land so that the dirt bike continues forward in a straight line, rather than veering off to the side.
Step 6
Land with your legs strong and your elbows and wrists held straight. This helps absorb the impact without injury.
Tips & Warnings
- Always wear protective gear when performing stunts on a dirt bike.
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