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Built in 2000, this retail plaza at the corner of Massillon Road and Town Park Blvd. and has between 1,525 and 4,500 SF of retail space available. Anchor tenants include Dairy Queen, Pizza Hut, Lengends Sports Pub and Grille, Huntington Bank and the West Side Bakery.
- Located within a mile of I-77 on SR 241 (Massillon Road)
- Metro bus service available
- Within close proximity to the Akron-Canton Aiport
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Every executive should master the art of storytelling. It is an essential skill when trying to explain concepts, ideas, and plans, so they unfold naturally and make sense to the listener. Telling a story is essential to everyone attempting to sell a product or pitch an idea. In all these scenarios, storytelling is an important […]
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Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts: how not to […]
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In some organizations, Pollyanna-like tendencies emerge whenever they plan new projects, leading to inevitable failure.
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Before I leave for the Bologna Children's Bookfair http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/home/878.html I wanted to show some of the promotional materials I made to take along. As I have visited the Fair last year, I tried to take into consideration what the publishers appreciated and what not. Not every one of them has the time to sit down for a portfolio interview so is't always good to have something with you to leave around for the art directors - they can get back to you after they return to their offices.
That's why I decided to print out these booklets. I printed out 60 pieces to leave to the publishers either after
the interview or only to take home to the art-director. Last year I had a package - a few samples of my work in a white envelope with a couple of stickers on it, and I think the envelope is not as good idea as it seems (not much to catch one's eye and trouble with opening and taking out all of the goodies). I believe this is a better option :-)
Of course, I made a couple of postcard designs. I printed 60 of each and plan to give these out and leave some at the illustrator's wall on Monday morning, together with a poster of my work. Which I haven't printed yet, aaaaah!
And at last, but not least, I made a portfolio. Actually two of them, as I didn't want to mix up the two illustration styles that I do. These are just plain A4 formats bound in a wonderful book-workshop here in Bratislava. Nice ladies, they always do such a wonderful job!
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It wouldn't be Italy without someone to cook the pasta or pizza or ravioli or lasagne etc. That's why the first enemy the Scotsmen encounter when they enter Italy is the chef.
The chef carries a pot full of spicy meat-a-balls to throw at the Scotsmen. They fire five meatballs in one shot, allowing them to damage several Scotsmen if they are too closely grouped. However, they can't throw as far as a Scotsman, and are slow to average in speed. They have high health for a ranged unit.
The Scotsmen also encounter gladiators throughout Italy. (Because the game takes place in all time periods at once for some reason). They are especially common in level 6 – Colosseum.
Gladiators are uniquely resistant to frontal ranged attacks because of their shield. Any projectiles that hit it bounce off harmlessly. It doesn't provide protection against exploding projectiles however, and it does slow them down somewhat, making them very vulnerable to the haggis catapult. They can do considerable damage in melee, so killing them before they reach your Scotsmen should be a high priority.


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WEST COVINA – One minute San Dimas High School pitcher Kortnie Clark was working on her second consecutive playoff shutout with a commanding seven-run lead in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The next minute she was scratching her hands in the dirt and fighting her emotions while trying to stop what would have been one of the greatest comebacks in Valley history.
Give West Covina credit for making the Saints sweat by scoring five runs and bringing the tying runner to the plate before Camille Herrera popped out to end the game and allow the Saints to escape with a 7-5 victory in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 5 playoffs Tuesday.
After the the Bulldogs scored a run and loaded the bases with two outs, Alyse Gutierrez hit a grand slam to make it 7-5 and bring Saints coach Don Pollard out of the dugout. Catcher Kayla Norrie then brought everyone together to settle Clark before making the final out.
"There's not much you can do in a situation like that," Pollard said. "She (Clark) was still worried about the (grand slam) two batters later. You can't do that; that's a great hitting team and you knew it was going to be a battle at some point. You just didn't think it would unfold like this.
"We were fortunate to score some runs early."
The Saints (20-7), hoping to advance to their fourth consecutive semifinal and second championship game in a row, will be on the road in Thursday's quarterfinals against either Beaumont or fourth- seeded Village Christian.
San Dimas took the air out of the Bulldogs early. Sara Moore led off the game with a double and Aleena Avalos doubled her home.
Clark, who had three hits, singled home Avalos and the Saints' Ashley Vinsonhaler drove in another run to take a 3-0 lead.
After scoring three more runs in the third, Norrie hit a solo homer in the seventh to make it 7-0.
"Getting off to the quick lead was crucial," Pollard said. "Kortnie got out of some jams early, then settled down and was fine before tiring a little in the end.
"You know, it was some finish. I'm sure the fans felt like they got their money's worth."
West Covina finished 9-8.
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Hello all! First things first, many thanks for your interest in #Brumhenge - I have had loads of responses so far so i'm hoping it should be a great evening!
So what exactly will happen on Sunday 21st June? By chance the setting sun will align with Newhall Street, Church Street and Livery Street. Standing on Colmore Row, one of the highest points in Birmingham, you will see the sun framed by the buildings, and the streets lit up with a channel of light.
I stumbled across this phenomenon last week when walking past Newhall Street and seeing the sun just peeping around the corner over the Jewellery Quarter. It then occurred that in a few weeks it should perfectly align with the street, so I thought I'd do some further research. It turned out that on the 21st, the sun will pass across the street just before sunset at approx. 21.15.
The meet will owe much to Manhattanhenge, which happens twice a year when the sun aligns with all the streets on Manhattan Island in New York. Newhall Street is not quite as long as the streets of New York, but we will get the added advantage of standing at the top of a hill.
I have done some research into the history of Newhall Street to check whether its orientation wasn't a coincidence. I found that the street was originally a tree lined avenue with elm trees leading to a large Jacobean mansion, called The New Hall, which stood around the modern day junction with Great Charles Street. This was built in the early 1600s, and perhaps the mansion was positioned by the Colmore family so that the solstice sun appeared directly down the hill?
So here are the arrangements. Meet at around 20.45 to 21.00 on Newhall Street at the junction with Colmore Row. The sun will be aligned with the street at around 21.15. Having looked at the weather the Met Office is forecasting sunny intervals between 18.00 and 21.00, with the BBC also reporting light cloud and then clear skies at 20.00. It looks like there is a decent chance we will see it, and if it clouds over, hopefully we will get a break in the clouds. I would recommend you keep check of the forecast during the day to see if there are any changes, especially if you are planning a special or long journey. Unfortunately I can't guarantee the weather but let's keep our fingers crossed!
REMEMBER TO NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN AS IT CAN CAUSE SERIOUS DAMAGE TO YOUR EYES! The sun will still be very bright at lowest point in the sky so I recommend you take the necessary precautions.
Feel free to share this blog with family and friends who think may also be interested in joining us. You can contact me at email@example.com.
Birmingham Mail have also written an article on Brumhenge here - http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/summer-solstice-sunset-lines-up-9436512
The Newhall Estate - http://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-n/the-newhall-estate-city-centre/
Two Years at Margaret Street - https://2yearsatmargaretstreet.wordpress.com/tag/colmore-family/
Manhattanhenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge


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Surprisingly enough (given the title), this post is not about weed. It is about far more important matters (besides, I just spent the last week and a half writing an essay on the classification of Cannabis, so you'll forgive me if I want to take a break from it for a while). This post is about Decency, Morality, and... well, not being a fan of paedophiles...
We all knew the Dutch were a little strange, but nothing could have prepared me for THIS:
Is paedophilia not only legal, but actually condoned in the Netherlands? Are you honestly telling me that this isn't what it looks like? That this is just a harmless sing-song with absolutely no creepyness whatsoever? Why are those people clapping? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
In actual news, I'm writing a proper review at the moment, and I'm also quite far through No Country For Old Men now, having started reading it again last night when I finished my essay, so expect some slightly more relevent posts soon!
Thursday, 21 January 2010
The Dutch Legal System (text & incredibly disturbing video)
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- Anonymous22 January 2010 at 08:12
I agree - it's horrible, I couldn't watch even the first couple of minutes. Yuk! That's one of the problems with images, you can't un-see them afterwards - so why it's SO important that young people don't have access to disturbing images...[actually adults as well, but that's a different issue].ReplyDelete
All the Dutch people I have EVER met - I work with 3 of them right now, and have known many as friends over the years - are the most charming and kindly people and would have NOTHING to do with anything like this.
I can only guess that this is an elaborate spoof of some kind. Whatever, it's very sad...
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Apple has widely been perceived as a company that operates outside of the reseller channel. Its stores and web site sell directly to their customers and they have achieved meteoric growth without the help of the third parties that make the rest of the technology industry function. The prevailing belief in the industry is that there is no way to get to such a large market without the aid of channel partners -- that number in the hundreds of thousands.
The launch of the iPad gives us a good backdrop to examine if this is really true. Does Apple sell directly to customers or through the channel? Is there anything to learn from the recent success of Apple? I propose that Apple sells through the channel and there are some specific things that can be learned.
First, Apple has an awesome web site and some 300 or so stores that generate an average of $50 million in revenue per store. Apple generates more revenue per square foot than any other retailer – actually twice that of Tiffanies - the next most productive retailer. Despite this incredible performance, in 2011 Apple generated 15% of its revenue through its stores, it pales in comparison to revenue generated by iPhone sales of 45% -- three times that of its stores.
iPhones are sold by Apples new channel partners – the wireless carriers. If you add this to the sales by Apple's other partners: BestBuy (1,000 stores) and Walmart (2,500 stores) and it is starting to look like a significant portion of Apple's incredible growth is fueled by its channel partners.


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Nexus 40
2003 | Nexus 40: November 22, 1963 was created in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination and exhibited in the show November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Two clear acrylic Louis XVI-style armchairs rest on a dark oval acrylic base. The rear chair rests over a stylized presidential seal with 13 stars. Small mirrors attach to the chairs in locations corresponding to the path of the so-called "magic bullet" that passed through JFK and Gov. Connally. A red laser hits the first mirror and is reflected from mirror to mirror along the bullet trajectory.
The styling of the chairs is elegant and powerful, reflecting much of the aesthetic of the Camelot Era, an era that retains a cult-like fascination to the present day. Public fascination with JFK, his presidency, the Camelot era, and the assassination retains its intensity 40 years later. Nexus 40: November 22, 1963 explored, both through its form and its context within the exhibit as a whole, the creation of myth at the intersection of what we see, what we think, and what we believe.
Art Review: Warhol's Kennedy show mixes history and mythology, Barry Hanegan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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Three years have passed since The University of Arizona landed a major National Science Foundation grant with the charge to disband gender inequity within the academy while also promoting equity across campus.
The $3.3 million, five-year "ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Eradicating Subtle Discrimination in the Academy," carries a three-fold mission: to promote faculty diversity, create an equitable climate within the institution and to support women toward leadership roles and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
At the Arizona Health Sciences Center, physiology professor Heddwen Brooks received an ADVANCE award in collaboration with Dr. Janet Funk, assistant professor in the department of medicine, to explain what happens to kidney function with the loss of estrogen and other changes associated with menopause.
Research has already shown that the evolution of kidney damage is different in men and woman, but Brooks is curious about exactly why. Ultimately, Brooks hopes her research will lead to ways to reduce diabetic kidney disease and also find alternatives to hormone replacement therapy.
"We need to understand so we can then come up with better interventions and also treat kidney damage better," Brooks said, adding that she is using a model of menopause developed by Patricia Hoyer, a UA professor of physiology, pharmacology and toxicology. Brooks will begin her new ADVANCE-supported research next month.
She added that the ADVANCE grant is of particular importance because it will allow her to work in an interdisciplinary fashion with a team that will collect data necessary to lead to more large-scale research projects and to be able to eventually seek funding from agencies like the National Institutes of Health and American Diabetes Association.
"This grant allows new collaboration on things people haven't worked on before. This is a great opportunity to combine our ideas," Brooks said. "The collaborative effect of the grant, especially because it is for women, is unique. I have never seen a grant quite like this and, personally, I think it's a positive."
An ADVANCE award also helped pediatrics professor Anne Wright, and pathology director of research Mark Nelson, assess an intervention on faculty diversity in the UA College of Medicine to determine whether the intervention aided in the diversification of applicants for faculty positions.
The research project involved a search committee orientation that was created as a result of an ADVANCE grant. The research involved collecting data on the college's applicant pool and analyzing those who had been hired.
"Basically, there is a drop off in the proportion of women who go from medical students to assistant, associate and then full professors," Wright said, adding that this is a nationwide problem.
"One of the things I believe is if you can present data, data can change the way people think about things," Wright said, adding that her research continues.
"ADVANCE has done a lot in terms of dissemination of information to deans and department heads," she added, noting that preliminary findings indicate intervention has the potential to improve candidate pools. "If you can do careful research and communicate it to people, then you can change behavior."
The fist ADVANCE seed grant at AHSC, awarded back in 2007, went to Daniela Zarnescu, in the UA department of molecular and cellular biology and to Carol Gregorio, now head of the department of cell biology and anatomy, on "Fragile X Proteins and Translational Control in Cardiac Muscle."
Zarnescu said the grant not only allowed her to take her lab in a novel and exciting direction, but it also assisted her in making new contacts among the cardiovascular faculty at the UA College of Medicine. She said that as junior faculty member, she also appreciated the chance to collaborate with a senior researcher.


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As Oprah Winfrey accepted the prestigious 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, she reminisced about being a young girl who first saw Sidney Portier receive an Oscar many years ago.
Everyone loves a good joke and ladies especially love a man with a sense of humor.
A few months ago I was sitting at my granny's kitchen table reading one of my favorite mags, The Oprah Magazine ("O"), and there it was in black and white...
Alright, ladies, I don't know about you, but it's certainly time for me to hit the reset button!!!!! At 40 and this point in life, I thought that I would've had things ALL figured out. Not the case!
Never let your co-workers see you sweat unless your salary has the potential to swell. A study conducted at the University of York found that inlow-skilled occupations, an increase of 10 percent in the average performance of co-workers raises a worker's wage by almost one per cent.
On any given day most people spend at least seven hours working on a computer or staring at some handheld device. Sounds familiar? If so, you could be straining your eyes, which might eventually lead to dry-eye disease and/or digital eye strain.
For those of you dealing with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), researchers found that mindfulness meditation might be the relief you welcome because it was proven to reduce levels of stress hormones and markers of inflammation during stressful moments.
Vaginal dryness isn't anything to be ashamed. It isn't solely related to how little sex one might be having or even one's age. On the contrary, many variables can come into play for old and young women.
Fellas, no matter how much she screams and hollers, understand that your woman might be faking it. At least that's what the numbers show.
Life can be hard and life can hurt. But life is also a blessing. There are teachable moments all around us and, as with all things, it's all in how you view the situation.


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What's in the box?
bell peppers
heirloom tomatoes
hot pepper
green beans
sweet corn
same as above, except eggplant instead of broccoli
no hot pepper
cherry tomatoes
Notes on the box...
If you got a cantaloupe that looks greenish and doesn't smell like a ripe, sweet melon place it on your counter for a few days to allow it to ripen more before eating. We had some members report that their melons were over ripe last week and in an effort to avoid that from happening again, we picked them slightly under ripe this week. Let us know if you have any problems with them.
We planted two more successions of sweet corn, but one became "overdone" and was no longer sweet and tasty, so we regretfully had to let it go. Total bummer as it was looking very beautiful... So this week there is less sweet corn in the boxes and it's the last of it for the season :(
Remember: DO NOT keep your tomatoes in the fridge! They will get mealy and the flavor will suffer. Store them on your counter with the stem end down (on their shoulders) as they are seen in the pictures above. Use the more ripe ones first. If you find yourself with more tomatoes than you can eat in a week, you can put some in the fridge if you plan on cooking them. You can also freeze whole tomatoes (core them first) for use in sauces and soups during the winter. Their skins slip right off as they are heated. They do take up quite a bit of freezer space, though!
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We hope that you can join us September 14th for our harvest party! We will begin tours and having fun at 3 PM and have dinner in the barn a little later (around 5 or 6). We will provide meat for the meal, please bring a side dish or dessert! We will also enjoy some music by our wonderful crew members and friends!
Tour the new farm, see where your food comes from, share a meal, enjoy a bonfire later in the evening! You are welcome to camp on the farm, if you wish, or there's a nice campground at Clear Lake just 6 miles from the farm!
To get to the farm from the Twin Cities- take 94 East to the Baldwin exit, go North on Hwy 63 until it becomes Hwy 46. Go North on 46 and turn Right onto Cty Rd A, turn left onto 95th Street. Our address is 260 95th Street, Clear Lake, WI. You can go through Stillwater if you don't like to drive the interstate, but the traffic is often backed up on the weekend. You can search "Turnip Rock Farm" in google maps to find the quickest way to us!
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The Republican National Convention is this week, and in honor of the proceedings, the Lillian Mongeau at the Hechinger Report looks at the party's education platform:
Last week, the Republican Platform Committee began to discuss what it thinks should be included in the "Great Families, Education, Health Care, and Criminal Justice" section of its 2016 Platform. Current points of agreement include the ideas that students are more likely to achieve academically if their parents are married heterosexuals, student data should be more private, and merit pay should be granted to high-performing teachers. The party also agreed to leave in wording that would encourage states to offer the Bible as an elective literature course ... The platform is supposed to be finalized and released this week, and so far seems to be focused on maintaining the party's traditional emphasis on teaching moral values in public schools. That would be a marked change of tone from the recent past for conservatives generally and Republican Party lawmakers specifically, whose ideas about restoring parental control and increasing market-driven free choice have contributed much to the current education reform movement.
There has been a lot of hemming and hawing among reform-minded Democrats, given their party's abandonment of some core reform principles this round, but they're not alone, apparently. The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, notices the shift and is appreciative. Here's Alyson Klein at EdWeek:
Earlier this month, NEA even gave its coveted "friend of education" award to the bipartisan duo that shepherded [ESSA, the new federal education law] through Congress, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash.And on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention here, the NEA took time to celebrate some of the GOP lawmakers who helped push the law through, at a small, afternoon reception at a swanky wine bar a short walk from the site of the convention. Lawmakers in attendance included Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois, John Shimkus of Illinois, Jeff Denham of California, and Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania—all GOP House members who supported ESSA's passage.
Klein and Mongeau are both looking at the future trajectory of the GOP on issues of education. The politics of education reform were always muddy, but it's even less possible to draw a partisan line on education anymore, given the rifts within both parties.
Moving from Cleveland to Baltimore, another officer involved in the killing of Freddie Gray was acquitted yesterday:
Prosecutors alleged that Rice, the highest-ranking officer of the six charged, had caused Gray's death by failing to secure him in a seat belt in the back of the van, where Gray suffered severe spinal cord injuries last year. Gray, 25, died a week after his arrest. His death sparked widespread protests against police brutality. Williams, reading from prepared remarks, said prosecutors failed to meet their burden of proving the charges against Rice beyond a reasonable doubt, instead asking the court to rely on "presumptions or assumptions" — something it cannot do. He said the court "cannot be swayed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion."
Here are some reactions to that decision, including one from Kaya Henderson, the outgoing chancellor of the DC Public Schools:
Denisa Superville looks at what continuous police violence means for educators and schools:
As the nation responds to the aftermath of another spate of high-profile police-related shootings, educators are wading, once again, into thorny issues of police violence, bias, and America's still unfinished struggle with race. Educators from superintendents to classroom teachers—despite most schools still being in summer recess—are preparing to discuss the tragic deaths and bigger issues of race and policing as students start to return to school over the next few weeks. For many, it's a repeat of the summer of 2014 when the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a series of national protests and helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement.
It is important to remember that, while all violence is deplorable, it's a completely different level of tragedy for children to watch A) agents of the state murder innocent Black people, and B) the justice system subsequently not hold those agents of the state accountable. Imagine what that does to a developing psyche? To help with that, Marianne Lombardo wants schools to teach tolerance and unity, and she shares some resources.
Finally, Jelani Cobb at the New Yorker looks at how violence begets violence:
There is no telling what thoughts inhabited the minds of the men who shot police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. On Sunday, those thoughts led to the death—the taking of three men, Brad Garafola, Matthew Gerald, and Montrell Jackson. But there is no denying the context in which those events occurred—the ambient frustration, the disbelief among those who dared to believe in the first place—is the same as the one that gripped Los Angeles twenty-four years ago. Their actions were not justifiable. Nor were those of Officer Dante Servin, who fired over his shoulder into a crowd of young people in Chicago after arguing with them over the volume of their music, killing twenty-two year-old Rekia Boyd. Nor those of Gescard Isnora, Marc Cooper, and Michael Oliver, the three New York Police Department officers who shot Sean Bell, who was unarmed, on the eve of his wedding and were acquitted of all charges by a New York State Supreme Court judge. We cannot reconcile the fact that Eric Garner's death was ruled a homicide but a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer who administered a chokehold before Garner expired.
The cycle will continue until we break it.


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I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified -- St. Paul, I Corinthians 2:2
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Respect Life Sunday Homily
With Habbakuk, we ask: Why?
Why can we never see the end of war?
Why are people so cruel to one another?
"Write down the vision," the Lord answers:
"The vision still has its time" to be fulfilled: "Wait for it."
What's the vision? Well, it's God's Vision—
as opposed to the alternative, which might be called,
"Doing it our way, without God."
Part of that Vision is not only the dignity of human life,
but also that a moral life means choices that involve sacrifice.
We Catholics seem so far out of step with the world
when we insist on protecting the unborn,
and keeping intimate acts between couples open to the gift of life—
meaning no contraception.
This is a hard sell for many, including many Catholics.
But there's Vision at work here—wait for it…
If we go out at night, and we gaze at the stars,
are we not filled with awe?
Surely God has some design and purpose in it all.
Who can doubt this?
That Divine purpose is not only written in the stars, but even moreso in ourselves.
One reason we Catholics cannot agree
with our culture's values about human intimacy
is because they deny or at least muddle that higher purpose.
We are made in the image and likeness of God:
and when a man and woman come together,
they are never more like God—because at that moment,
they do what only God can do: create new life.
The problem with artificial means of family planning
is they redesign God's design.
God's design is that a loving act is also a life-creating act.
Natural Family Planning respects this.
But the whole mindset of artificial means of family planning
is that the life-creating part of us as a problem to be overcome,
rather than a blessing to be embraced with reverence.
As a priest, I am entrusted with an awesome power: I offer the Mass.
Through this sinner that I am,
Christ makes his saving sacrifice present,
and nourishes us all with his Body and Blood.
That awesome power and gift is not mine to control or redesign.
I don't even like to speak of it, but:
obviously I could misuse that power and gift.
I have to be under God's authority in this or I can do a lot of harm.
Well, as human beings, the life-creating part of us
is likewise an awesome power and gift.
And likewise, we aren't free to do with that gift just as we may please.
That's the Vision that our world ignores.
But, wait for it, it will have it's time.
Our world's values—how are they working out?
Are our families better off?
Are children better off when their parents never marry?
Is society better off?
I mentioned Natural Family Planning.
One of the striking things is that while it demands more sacrifice,
it also seems to strengthen intimacy.
Divorce is far less common for those who practice NFP.
Meanwhile, we cannot ignore the direction our society has taken.
After all, who is it that must be the prophet today,
calling people back from a path of ruin, to a path of life?
This is Respect Life Sunday; and we must speak up
against the destruction of the unborn
and we must cry out that we embrace both mother and child.
And if you think I'm wrong to draw a connection here,
I would point out that another prophet Pope Paul VI,
saw this coming; in his 1968 letter Humanae Vitae,
said that this would happen.
In 1987, yet another prophet, Pope John Paul, sounded another alarm.
Before long, "the researcher will usurp the place of God…
as the master of the destiny of others…" reducing human life
to it's worth as a "pure and simple instrument for the advantage of others."
Now, our tax dollars pay for research that involves the destruction of unborn children.
Even though there are alternatives that do not destroy early human life.
This isn't just about one issue, as some say.
It's about the Vision: who are we? Are we God's image or not?
If not, anything goes. Why care for the poor?
Why not exploit migrant workers?
Why not torture the enemy? Why not execute criminals?
Why not push people to die when they are suffering?
The world's vision that offered freedom ends up bringing despair.
We are nothing, and the world will better off without us.
God offers us a different Vision:
We are not only his image at our best,
but even when we're broken and marred:
God so loves us so much that he gave his only Son.
Life is worth living because even at our worst, we are his beloved.
That's our Vision. Wait for it. It will have its time.
4 comments:
- Jackie said...
You not only worked all the 'tough' issues in - but spoke about them in a truthful, holistic way so that people would begin to understand why the Church teaches like She does.
You are a faithful son of the Church. Thanks for being a good dad.
- October 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM
It must be very tough to talk about these issues so that adults are informed but youngsters are not too informed. I suspect that's why so many avoid such topics. It's hard enough within the family sometimes to deal with something like "what's adultery" with a 12 year span between my youngest and oldest.
- October 3, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- Wayne said...
Some fantastic thoughts I'm taking from this homily:
But the whole mindset of artificial means of family planning
is that the life-creating part of us as a problem to be overcome,
rather than a blessing to be embraced with reverence.
Reverence for the life creating part of us. That is the perfect word, reverence. It speaks not only of keeping it holy, but using it with great care. With great power, comes great responsibility and all that.
This isn't just about one issue, as some say.
It's about the Vision: who are we? Are we God's image or not?
If not, anything goes.
I've been struggling with the thought that this really can look like just one issue, but now I have the words that speak to my struggle and put it to rest. Thank you, Father!
- October 4, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Very good homily. Thoughtful with a kind tone yet challenging. I've read it several times since you posted it.
Tim Lang
- October 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM


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But perhaps Heartbreaker's greatest triumph is that even with its vast emotional scope, in a time when Adams would seemingly be best suited relying on the form he knows so well, he ventures into new realms…"
by john richen
There are few musical experiences in my life that could be characterized as "religious". And that's probably for the best seeing as too much religion is like too much anything else, dangerous. But a "religious experience" is how will always describe the first time I saw Whiskeytown.
It was a cool autumn evening in 1997. Playing Berbatis Pan in Portland, the band packed the place with a beer swilling mish mash of rowdies. Whiskeytown was late for the show. Really late. Something about their vans breaking down. When they finally showed up they were stewed. Not Replacements level stewed, but stewed nonetheless.
A quick and entertaining set-up ensued which involved: band members and some guy that looked like a mix between The Crow, Tiny Tim and Meatloaf stumbling about with patch cords and microphones; the dispatching of multiple shots of Jägermeister – whiskey for fiddler and vocalist Caitlin Cary; an earnest and successful request from the stage for a donation of some dried herbs by a lanky, green-derbied lead guitarist; and a heated argument about who got the coveted stage placement closest to the bar.
Then they were ready, more or less….
…a few thundering songs into their set front-man Ryan Adams shouts out "How about them Volebeats?" and sends the confused show openers back up onto the stage to play another song while Whiskeytown lines the front of the stage (after ordering more Jägermeister) proceeding to hoot, holler and jump up and down like a bunch of Boston frat boys at a House Of Pain concert. The crowd is confused but also, amused at this spectacle. However, they didn't lay down their bread to see the VoleBeats, so a cheer erupts as Adams and cohorts scramble back onto the intimate and debris littered Berbatis stage….
Now they were ready. Boy were they ready.
Leaning heavily on material from their first album Faithless Street and some unreleased numbers, Whiskeytown blew away any preset notions the crowd may have entertained of a Gram Parsons love-fest with Adams leaving most of his admittedly skillful ballads off the set list and revving up the more contemplative tunes with a sonic blast reminiscent of the Replacements or the Ramones. Even a poignant "Angels Are Messengers From God" paled in comparison to the bone splintering version of the Stooges "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" that saw mortal enemies Adams and original guitarist Phil Wandscher engaged in a guitar dual so intense Adams finished by torturing and mercilessly walloping the drum kit with his unfortunate Gibson axe over and over again.
And Caitlin fiddled on….
I wandered into the night pretty much reeling. Feeling the impact of this tremendous band who put on one of the most explosive small venue shows I had ever witnessed. Rarified air. Whiskeytown was a band on that edge.
In the years since then I have seen Whiskeytown in it's various mutations and they never have been able to duplicate the intensity of that night in October 1997. Maybe it was the room, Berbatis when packed is difficult to beat in Portland for sheer ambiance and energy. Perhaps it was the antagonistic synergy of Adams and Wandscher who parted ways shortly thereafter. ("I always hated that guy" Adams was rumored to later later quip.) Most probably it was just a harmonic convergence — the stars lined up right and the music just seemed to matter more that night. It happens you know.
But the hard truth of the matter is Ryan Adams really does have something special going on, it was obvious that night in his frenetic and fantastic performance; it is obvious from the purity of his songwriting skill demonstrated on Whiskeytown's Faithless Street and Strangers Almanac. Songs like "If He Can't Have You" or Strangers' "Avenues" have so much depth that I can't begin to adequately deconstruct them. Both are haunting, powerful indicators of an artist with a deep comprehension and respect for his musical influences. Who draws from them freely all the while forging ahead with his own interpretations. There is heartbreak and despair a plenty in Whiskeytown's body of work, but there is also a proud southern toughness coursing through it all. Adams' legendary brashness and defiance indelibly stamped this early work, and Whiskeytown's critical and underground credibility blossomed as a result.
Fall 1999
The dust has cleared after the final Whiskeytown "tour" and Adams is left with a finished but unreleased Whiskeytown studio album called "Pneumonia", hamstrung by the annihilation of Outpost Recordings by Seagrams – Universal. The band, what is left of it is in complete disarray. Adams reports the album will eventually be released, but Whiskeytown is done.
He falls into and then out of love…
…and on his latest, a solo record released on Bloodshot Records, that defiant swagger is gone. Adams sounds like he's had the chair kicked out from underneath him. Although the disc starts out ruggedly enough with with an humorous taped argument about Morrissey moving into the uptempo country rocker "To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)", things wind down significantly after that.
Aptly titled Heartbreaker, it is the musical diary of a painful breakup. Viewed as such, it is an exceptional piece of work, start to finish. Adams has been compared favorably to such musical cornerstones as Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, Paul Westerberg and Steve Earle. On Heartbreaker he shows you why, springing from one reference to another effortlessly and seamlessly. The Parsons influence on Heartbreaker is everywhere, and times uncanny, most obviously when he teams up with Fallen Angel Emmylou Harris in the moving "Oh My Sweet Carolina, " and Kim Richey "Come Pick Me Up" which may be the album's most triumphant moment. Richey's voice compliments Adams much in the same fashion that his old partner Cary's did/would, and the combination of the boozy harp, slow pickin' banjo and honky tonk piano place "Come Pick Me Up" among the most compelling tunes in Adams already admired catalogue.
What will no doubt shock long time Whiskeytown fans is the despair tinged "Why Do They Leave" or the unremitting sadness of "Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st)" or "Call Me On Your Way Back Home". While disconsolate songs about heartbreak are integral to music in general and country in particular, that trademark resiliency that marked earlier Whiskytown ballads is glaringly absent here. There is at times an air of hopelessness about these songs, and it won't process well with fans who viewed the brash young band as heirs apparent to the Replacements booze drenched crown.
While Heartbreaker is by no means a flawless record — the analogy and wordplay of "Damn Sam (I love a woman that rains)" seemed forced and ineffective — it is certainly rounded by the ease in which it incorporates the aforementioned influences. Like Westerberg, Adams is able to bare the demons in his soul in a way that would cause emotional carnage in other artists, and likely ruin their careers in the process. When towards the end of the album in "In My Time Of Need" Adams wistfully wonders "can you take away the pain of hurtful deeds?" you feel it where it counts. If you don't you're thoroughly polluted. You're a heartless bastard. You may as well be comatose.
But perhaps Heartbreaker's greatest triumph is that even with its vast emotional scope, in a time when Adams would seemingly be best suited relying on the form he knows so well, he ventures into new realms. "Amy" is a bordeline psychedelic throwback, with touches of John Lennon, Syd Barret and contemporary Elliott Smith all blended together. "Bartering Lines" sounds as much like vintage Fleetwood Mac as it does traditional roots oriented country.
In the end though it all sounds like Ryan Adams, albeit an Adams we don't really know yet — wearing wound on sleeve and letting the tears seep through his fingers and the hurt slip from his heart.
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I'm so happy to be back in Houston after a long summer vacation and what a better way to celebrate my return than by feasting during Houston Restaurant Weeks 2015.
This event is organized every year with two purposes. The first one is to help the Houston Food bank, by donating a part of the proceeds from each dinner to this noble cause. The second one is to offer the culinary community in Houston a chance to try new restaurants or go back to their favorite ones, by creating special menus for this event at more accessible prices and with the dishes that these places are known for.
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The number one place in my list is Peska Seafood Culture.
What separates Peska from all the other Seafood Restaurants, is the incredible variety of products they offer. Their philosophy is to have always available at least one product from each of the seven seas.
My favorite dishes were so many, that I couldn't choose just one, so here are a few of them:
Soft Shell Crab Tacos. A true explosion of flavors. The Soft Shell Crab comes battered and is drizzled with a soy and lime sauce and comes in a perfect homemade flour tortilla.
Branzino in Sea Salt. This delicious and delicate Mediterranean fish comes completely covered in coarse salt and then is filleted and cleaned by an expert tableside.
Sea Urchin. This was the first time I tried it and it was definitely an interesting experience. Its texture was a bit viscous and its flavor was a mixture of sea and iodine that's hard to describe and that you will need to try for yourselves.
The service was amazing thanks to Cristal Garcia who showed us she had a great knowledge about the menu, about the history of the restaurant and had a great vocation for service and knew perfectly how to make the diner feel special. We had an amazing time.
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2. Caracol
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4. Brasserie 19
5. Brasserie Max and Julie
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Sometimes you don't know what your passion is until it shows up in an unmarked box on moving day. At least that's how it happened for me! I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to do things that inspire you and encourage you to grow into your happiest self! There might be negative Nancy's out there that will rain on your parade and make you feel inferior for doing something they may not agree with, but forget them! There is only one YOU on this Earth and this is the only life you got! I watched Steve Job's Stanford commencement speech recently and it reminded me how lucky I am to have found what I love so early on in my life. Steve talks about the calligraphy class he took in college and how it inspired him to create the most beautiful typography for the Mac computers. If he had never taken that class, who knows what the future of computers would have looked like!
My two most favorite parts of his speech were:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
In a world full of smart phones and an extreme amount of mental stimulation, it is important to pause, reflect on those personal moments that have shaped who you are and run with the memories that made you the happiest you've ever been!


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The View from a Mountain
Jesus took with Him, Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There He was transfigured before them. Matthew 17: 1 - 2
When we find ourselves in the valleys of mental depression, God wants to lead us to mountaintops so that we can see our life in a clearer perspective. Our worship in God's house is such an experience, for the church is a spiritual Mount Zion set in the midst of our world. Outside of church, we often experience such vantage points when special occasions occur - a promotion in our work, recognition of services performed, the celebration of a birthday. And when we mark 25 or 50 years of married life or observe other anniversaries, we are standing on mountaintops; we can see from where we have come, where we are now, and where we are going.
High points in life, however, are not the only times when we can have a good perspective. Unpleasant experiences - sickness, loss, a deep disappointment - also can give us a better view of life, if we rise from the "dumps" and let God show us His love. These are pauses that refresh, moments when we can say, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help" (Ps. 121:1)
When God's people were about to enter the land of promise, He said to Moses, "Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession" (Deut. 32:49), What thrill it was for Moses to see the land from end to end!
Inspiration Point in Yosemite Park offers a spectacular view of the 7,500 foot high granite monolith called El Capitan and the Bridalveil Falls. There is an inspiration point in your life too. It is the upward look, the look to Jesus the Lamb of God, to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our salvation. He who gave His life for us and rose again is the high point in our lives.
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Conservative Republicans and the "liberal media" have long been antagonists. But the presidential campaign and the performance of moderators at Republican debates have thrust this matter into national prominence. We explore the perceptions and realities.
Even mainstream Republicans are convinced the national press is slanted against their party. Does such a prejudice exist in Utah?
Pignanelli: "The press does not have a responsibility to be fair — especially to politicians … they only need to provide both sides" — Jay Shelledy, former newspaper editor.
The existence of a left-wing media conspiracy has evolved into ensconced GOP scripture, so any contrary declarations from me will be viewed as just heathen blasphemy. But I can play the victim card equal to any Republican because two major daily newspapers and alternative publications spent small fortunes of ink dissecting my political cadaver.
A partisan edge does not infect our local media. But what does occur proves the axiom that "politics abhors a vacuum." Major media outlets and other weeklies are fulfilling the role of an opposition political party to fill the void caused by shrinking Democrats. Most journalists view their mission as reporting the news and challenging the government — regardless of who is in power.
Although I still carry scars inflicted by various reporters, my firm is proud to represent the Utah Media Coalition and the Utah Press Association. These journalistic enterprises expend resources and efforts to defend open government and transparency. Our state is better for their presence.
Webb: Survey research consistently shows more reporters are liberal and vote for Democrats than are conservative and vote for Republicans. That's probably true in Utah. However, we are lucky to have two major daily newspapers in the Salt Lake metro area, one leaning conservative and one leaning liberal. Both papers do a nice job with balance and perspective in their news columns, although their selection and placement of stories demonstrate their differences.
Their house editorials and columnist proclivities are markedly different, with the Salt Lake Tribune reflecting the liberal political makeup of Salt Lake City, while the Deseret News mirrors the more conservative nature of the rest of the state.
I think it's great to have two papers with different perspectives. I need something to get enraged about as I eat my morning Cheerios. Tribune editorials often do the trick. Utah Republicans know they're going to get beat up by a Tribune editorial or columnist periodically, but the electorate is conservative, so it doesn't usually hurt them.
Is media bias just a figment of imagination or a true problem in American journalism?
Pignanelli: Republicans do a great job of providing nasty figures the press can easily disfigure (i.e., Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, etc.) Democratic wrongdoers tend to possess fun personalities that are difficult to attack and the lefty special organizations usually give them an undeserved pass — providing less fodder to the media. Usually, Republicans come across as meanies and Democrats as kindhearted folks. Remember, tearing down curmudgeons sells papers. Equally, journalistic attacks on happy conservative warriors well-liked even by political opponents (i.e. Ronald Reagan) rarely succeed.
So if Republicans want greater affinity with the media, they should smile and laugh more often.
Webb: Traditional news media aren't any more or any less biased than in the past. The bigger story is the fragmentation and democratization of information services. Using the Internet and social media, anyone can be a writer, publisher or broadcaster. All sorts of upstart news operations exist, including many conservative operations, and a lot of them are more partisan, biased — and often inaccurate — than traditional media.
Conservatives love to bash the news media but, in reality, the conventional media have less clout and power than at any time in many decades. During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson is said to have stated, "If you've lost Walter Cronkite, you've lost America." Today, no broadcast journalist or print pundit has nearly that power.
Last week's Fox Business Network GOP presidential debate received accolades for fairness in structure and questions. Was this in reaction to the "media bias" allegations?
Pignanelli: Politicos are amused with the recent angst over media allegations against Dr. Ben Carson and other candidates, since we know such inquiries are fostered by opponents. Last week's debate was one of the finest in television history, and the Fox Business Network and Wall Street Journal developed their approach to avoid criticism suffered by CNBC. Thursday's event should serve as a standard for all presidential discussions in the future. Americans are intelligent and insightful voters who crave policy deliberations and not pointless witch hunts.
Webb: I don't have a problem with candidates being confronted with difficult questions. Whacking the news media has become a standard talking point for conservative candidates because they know conservative voters love it.
Ted Cruz was obviously playing to the far right when he blasted CNBC moderators for asking "gotcha" questions. One of the moderators should have responded, "OK, senator, you managed to roll out your talking point bashing the media, now put on your big-boy pants and answer the question."


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Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, THE BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is the first journal of Black studies and research. In TBS, academics, activists, artists, and political leaders come to grips with basic issues confronting Afro-America, the diaspora, and Africa.
The journal has become a veritable who's who, with contributors such as Derrick Bell, John Henrik Clarke, Darlene Clark Hine, Carolyn Cooper, St Clair Drake, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Lewis R. Gordon, Patricia Hill-Collins, Robin D. G. Kelley, Julianne Malveaux, Manning Marable, Adolph Reed, and Hortense Spillers. We have published artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Katherine Dunham, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde, Max Roach, activists and political leaders such as Kwame Ture/Stokeley Carmichael, Angela Davis, Julian Bond, Amilcar Cabral, Nawal El Saadawi, Julius Nyerere, Bobby Seale, as well as US representatives Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, and Barbara Lee.
TBS has also featured interviews with Muhammed Ali, Maya Angelou, Arthur Ashe, James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Alex Haley, C.L.R. James, Jacob Lawrence, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Walter Rodney, McCoy Tyner, and Robert F. Williams. Among the writers we have published are Afro-Europeans Jackie Kay and May Opitz, African writers Dennis Brutus, Agostinho Neto, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka, Caribbean writers Rene Depestre, Nicolas Guillen, Nancy Morejón, Andrew Salkey, and US writers Margaret Walker Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Wanda Coleman, Jayne Cortez, Ernest J. Gaines, June Jordan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker.
In June 2012, TBS relaunched with new editors, and new active and advisory boards. It is now peer reviewed and published four times a year through Routledge (Taylor & Francis) since 2015. Partly because of the impact of TBS, Black/Africana Studies and its subdisciplines have become legitimate spaces of scholarly inquiry. However, a paucity of intellectual spaces focused on Black thinking remains. TBS is responding to the Black/Africana Studies revolution and its institutionalization of Black scholarship; the explosion of various forms of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies; vast changes in immigration patterns; the transformation to global capitalism, the end of Apartheid in South Africa; the election of President Barack Obama; and the burgeoning of a Black middle class alongside the metastasizing of an increasingly criminalized Black underclass.
The current revitalization of TBS's aims is largely an updating of its initial vision, though motivated to participate in a global Black intellectual and cultural world that has changed significantly since the journal's founding. TBS continues to engage and cultivate differential Black political conversations and cultural expressions from across the Black world while maintaining its core commitment to tough-minded thinking and an emancipatory project. Thus we welcome submissions (in English and in translation) from anywhere in the world as long as they meet the criteria articulated in our guidelines and in the journal's archives. But perhaps more importantly, we imagine ourselves as the forum for ideas and conversations that have yet to emerge.
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For my Mum's 70th birthday, my Dad bought her 70 red roses, in 2 batches of 35. I know, what a lovely gesture. The second of the 35 arrived on the day of her party, in the midst of a short summer rain shower. This meant they had that wonderful glistening look and were covered in shiny water droplets. So whilst my sister hunted for another vase, I grabbed my camera and took a few shots to capture this unexpected opportunity that my Dad and nature had just presented me with!
The first two images are in the natural 'rose' red where you can see the real detail of the water droplets and the layers of the rose petals.
The next two images, I have added a Photoshop Autumn Filter, which I personally love. The darkening of the outer edges gives real focus to the brighter centre part of the image. Your attention is naturally guided to where I would like you to focus and enjoy the detail!
With this last image, I have taken the colour away with a black & white filter and made the contrast quite high. I love doing this, where I can because it makes the image look quite raw and adds so much texture. You really notice the layers of the petals and the difference between the light and dark areas of the image.
Until next time….
[Cannon 700D with standard 50mm lens. ISO-100, f/5].


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Anyone can invest in a SA REIT entity. Investment in the SA REIT asset class is typically suited for investors looking for stable growing income returns over the long term. It is a powerful diversification tool in a diversified investment portfolio and is suitable for local and international:
Investing in a SA REIT may be easier than you think. The JSE says that the minimum investment in a SA REIT is one share. Depending on the SA REIT, this could then be below R100. Investments can be made directly in a SA REIT via a securities account (online or using a stockbroker), collective investment scheme (Unit Trust) or Retirement Annuity that invests in SA REITs. The SA REIT Index can also be your investment to obtain exposure to the whole sector.
Shareholders of a SA REIT company won't pay Securities Transfer Tax (STT) on buying or selling SA REIT shares. South African investors will receive gross distributions from a SA REIT entity, without the 15% dividends tax being levied against the distribution. But investors will have to pay tax on the distributions at their applicable marginal income tax rate when they include it in their taxable income. Foreign shareholders of SA REITs will be levied a dividend withholding tax from 1 January 2014 – the current rate is 15% or the applicable double tax agreement rate could apply.
While SA REITs only became a reality on 1 May 2013, the listed property asset class has a rich history in South Africa.
The sector dates back to 1969, when the first two property funds listed on the JSE and was established to allow individual and institutional investors to invest in a diversified portfolio of investment grade properties on the same basis as if they had bought the properties directly.
The growing South African listed property sector was represented by two associations – first, from 1984 the Association of Property Unit Trusts, A PUT. Then, joining it from 2004 the Property Loan Stock Association, PLSA.
These two representative bodies worked together, and spearheaded the drive to introduce a best-of-breed REIT dispensation for South Africa. To formulate and steer the process, a working group was formed comprising representatives of the PLSA, invited participants from unlisted property loan stock companies, the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) and the Association of Property Unit Trusts (APUT).
It engaged stakeholder such as National Treasury and SARS, the JSE and FSB as vital contributors in aligning the new structure with easily recognisable and understandable existing global standards.
Instrumental in making the SA REIT sector what it is today – one of the most active and innovative sectors on the JSE – the two associations joined to become the SA REIT Association with the introduction of the SA REIT in May 2013, which placed the listed property sector on par with similar investments around the globe. The SA REIT ensures that the vehicle for the monetising and listing of property assets in South Africa is consistent with REIT structures internationally, making the sector more attractive for international investors.
The South African listed property sector has seen market capitalisation rise from below R5 billion in the early 1990s to approximately R6 billion in 2000, then soar to R24 billion in 2004, R200 billion in 2012 and R380 billion at the end of 2016.
In addition, volume traded in this sector has risen from about R600 million in 1995 to about R6 billion in 2004 and R165 billion in 2016.
Today there are 27 SA REITs for investors to choose from. And, an increasing number of these have diversified into property holdings in international markets.
Continuing its impressive track record of driving best practice for the sector, the first edition of the SA REIT Best Practice Recommendations for the sector were published by the SA REIT Association making it even easier for analysis and comparison of different SA REIT counters, and providing investors in greater transparency, consistency and comparability. This also plays an important role in attracting global flows of capital into the South African listed property sector.
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Creative Process
Hello, thank you for considering to work with Tirado.co.
We Strive to make more than a graphic for our clients. We try to help you find your identity.
When you (the client) take the time to fill out the questionnaire, we can both be certain that each other understands the project's goals and history. As a brand designer, it is my job to provide the perfect solution for your company and ask the right questions. And as a representative of your company, your job is to educate me on your company goals and needs the best that you can. For that purpose I've prepare a questionnaire to get the conversation started and cover the necessary bases to start. When you fill it out carefully, it also informs me that I am working with someone who cares about their brand as much as I will.
Again, thank you so much for choosing our experience, training, taste, and passion to bring your project to life. Take a look at our process below before we get started.
1. Foundation
a. Questionnaire
This is the most important phase of any project. It will ensure steady progress and remove the chance for the project to collapse by asking questions about the project goals and objectives in detail.
It will also keep us on check and ensures the objectives are met, and a project timeline is built.
This must happen on written form, not through Skype or phone. Both parties must have a clear understanding of the project goals written down to avoid clouding of expectations and objectives as the process moves along.
Cost of service/product is not discussed prior to this stage, since it is impossible to value the project.
b. Follow-up
After completion of the questionnaire, you will be contacted to discuss your answers and the project in detail, and take notes of special project requirements. From this stage we create a contract.
c. Contract Agreement
Once the contract has been reviewed and accepted, it is to be signed and returned along with the initial deposit. This is when you leave me the keys—in a sense—and also when the design process begins.
2. Preparation
Here, I spend time doing research on your target audience and competitors/heroes. Things that can help differentiate you from the rest, yet reach your goals and audience will be taken into consideration. At this stage your input will be procured in order to validate our research and your involvement is key. This will provide the foundation for the development of the brand.
3. Incubation
This is the process that helps me internalize your design. Initial ideas are explored and as the goals and research simmer in, they influence the direction of the design. Many iterations of different ideas are sketched during this time.
4. Intimation
Out of all the possible directions, I select two or three of the best concepts for further exploration and fine-tuning.
I may or may not procure my client's input during this point.
5. Illumination
This is when "The One" is found. At this point, a direction is chosen based on my expertise and the project's goals. A cleaned up version of the sketch is re-drawn with guidelines to adjust spacing issues, curves and angles. More or less, this is what the final will look like excluding some minor changes.
You guessed it, can't see it either. You'll see it soon.
6. Verification
The best idea and solution is consciously verified, elaborated and applied to all deliverables
The final sketch is scanned and traced using vector-based software. Any last minute adjustments or tweaks will be made accordingly.
Final Artwork
With the artwork digitally traced/reproduced, color is explored while keeping the goals, research findings and target audience in mind. Everything from size, spacing and alignment are all carefully considered based on the type of application(s) the artwork will be used on.
7. Delivery
Presentation & Deliverables
The final artwork is supplied along with a presentation documenting the creative process and pilgrimage of your new brand with every design decision that I made. Upon delivery, the final invoice will also be sent and the source file(s) will then be emailed after the payment has been made.


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By now, the general effects of smoking on health are well known. Did you know, however, that smoking can have a profoundly negative effect on your vision, as well?
At Advanced Laser & Cataract Center Oklahoma, our state-of-the-art eye care center, we believe that our patients need to understand all of the facts about how they can improve and maintain the health of their eyes. During consultations between our esteemed ophthalmologist, Dr. John Belardo, and his patients, a variety of topics are discussed in detail, including, in relevant cases, smoking and its effect on vision. In Oklahoma City, there is no eye care practice more dedicated to the thorough education and well-being of its patients than Advanced Laser & Cataract Center Oklahoma.
Eye Conditions Associated with Smoking
Smoking increases the risk of numerous disorders and diseases, including the following vision conditions:
- Macular degeneration: According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, smokers are more than twice as likely as non-smokers to develop macular degeneration, a condition in which the central part of the retina that is responsible for the perception of fine details begins to deteriorate. People with macular degeneration can experience distortion of or even blind spots in their central vision.
- Cataracts: Smokers who smoke 15 or more cigarettes per day face roughly three times greater risk of developing cataracts than non-smokers. The connection between smoking and cataracts is particularly well known; the more you smoke, the higher the risk that your natural crystalline lenses will become clouded and eventually require surgical removal.
- Glaucoma: While there is no known direct link between smoking and glaucoma, there is a proven link between smoking and diabetes, high blood pressure, and cataracts – all of which are risk factors for glaucoma.
- Dry eye syndrome: Smokers are more than twice as likely to develop chronic dry eye syndrome as non-smokers. The good news is that dry eye syndrome often resolves fairly quickly once smokers give up the habit.
- Diabetic retinopathy: Smoking doubles the risk of diabetes, and dramatically increases the risk of comorbid diseases once diabetes has set in. Among these comorbidities is diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease in which the blood vessels of the retina change. They may swell and leak, or they may seal off entirely. In some cases, new, abnormal vessels may even grow on the surface of the retina.
How to Avoid Smoking-Related Eye Conditions
The number-one step you can take to avoid smoking-related eye conditions is, not surprisingly, to stop smoking. We understand that this is not easy, especially if you have been smoking for a long time. However, with each year that passes after you quit smoking, your urge to smoke will decrease, as will your risk of smoking-related eye conditions. There are plenty of resources available to help you kick the habit, and your eyes – and the rest of your body – will thank you for doing it.
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novemberocean asked: do we know how many dice does Laura actually have? has it ever been quantified?
Keep in mind that these are just the REJECTS of a single episode (Ep42, in this case). Considering how many are brought in and discarded and traded and sent in by Critters… Yeah, we don't think we're ever going to be able to nail that number down.


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One of the youngest architects to win an RIBA contest has not been paid for 18 months' design work on a new footbridge which has now been shelved.
Dane Tim Nørlund Jensen of Norlund Architects was just 23 when his design was chosen in January 2008 ahead of more than 100 other schemes for the pedestrian link over Sheffield's busy Parkway dual carriageway.
However, project backer Yorkshire Forward (YF), working alongside Rotherham Council and Sheffield City Council, has effectively canned the winning proposal, blaming a spiraling budget for its decision.
In response, Nørlund said he couldn't give a final cost estimate for the footbridge, designed with engineers Ramboll UK, as 'no final location had been decided by the client'.
Furthermore, despite having worked on a 'series of design amendments and changes requested by the client', Nørlund claims he has not been paid. He told the AJ: 'All I've been paid is the £7,000 competition honorarium – the same as what the other shortlisted teams got.'
Nørlund saw off a shortlist of five, which included London's Satellite Architects with the Elliott Wood Partnership, DLG Architects and Arup Associates.
Explaining the decision, David Custance, assistant director of property and urban renaissance at YF, said: 'The Parkway Bridge is currently undergoing a design review as a result of the increased costs for the original structure.
'The current economic downturn and subsequent prioritising of investments have resulted in different options for the bridge being considered.'
He added: 'We will continue to work alongside both councils to ensure a solution is found which meets the needs of residents and businesses alike.'
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Saddam Kickbacks Earn Oil Exec Prison
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Texas oilman David Chalmers was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday after admitting to paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Iraq in connection with the U.N. oil-for-food program.
Chalmers, 54, and his two corporations, Bayoil Supply and Trading Ltd. and Bayoil USA Inc., were sentenced in federal court in Manhattan. Chalmers and his companies were ordered to forfeit $9 million dollars.
He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in August, weeks before he was due to go on trial with Texas oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt. Wyatt was sentenced to a year in prison in November for his role in the oil-for-food scandal.
"I feel horribly remorseful for this," a sniffling Chalmers told U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. "Because others were doing it I thought it was OK. But I was wrong."
Chalmers' lawyer told Chin that Chalmers deserved a lighter sentence than Wyatt, who met directly with Saddam Hussein and became the most prominent figure jailed over the scandal.
Chin disagreed, saying Chalmers had agreed to buy many more barrels of oil than Wyatt that represented "money that should have gone to the Iraqi people."
Prosecutors said they could prove Wyatt paid at least $200,000 in kickbacks, compared to Chalmers, whom they said played a leading role in corrupting the program by agreeing to pay at least $9 million while other oil companies refused.


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I have been a very negligent blogger lately. I used to be a scrapbooker, then I became a digital scrapbooker and then I became a blogger and gave up scrapbooking completely. And now I've been sucked into Facebook - it's where I post daily photos and little snippets about our lives. But the problem with Facebook is that I can't print it and keep it in our home. So I need to either go back to scrapbooking or keep up better on my blog. The disadvantage of the digital age - it is sometimes intangible.
Also, Brynn really likes to read my blog and is always getting after me about my lack of recent blogging. So here's a little catch up post just for you, Sis.
I just realized that I Facebooked about Brynn's birthday, but never blogged about it. We have a tradition in our family that we celebrate birthdays with friends one year and the next year with family. This was our family year and the kids all got to pick something fun to do as a family. One of the things Brynn wanted to do was decorate her own cake.
She picked the colors and decorated it all by herself, I thought it was really pretty.
Something that Brynn's been up to lately is volleyball. Betty has been teaching a volleyball camp to the 5th and 6th grade girls and they had their game on Friday. It was a very short game, but we were proud of her and are excited that she is liking volleyball so much.
Jenna and Dallin came to watch Brynn's game and he made her this poster:
How sweet is that?! He's a good guy, that Dallin.


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Arnold's competiveness was legendary in his heyday, but he didn't let this blind him to ways that he could improve his approach in the weight room. After all, he wasn't just after size. He was after "maximum aesthetic development of the entire physique," as he wrote in "The Encyclopedia." He learned plenty from the bodybuilders who stood alongside him in the gym, but also from coaches of the previous generation. This included not only Joe Weider, but also his longtime rivals, like Dan Lurie and Vince Gironda.
Today, Gironda is sometimes portrayed as a relic, a cantankerous iconoclast who kicked people out of his gym, demanded strange technique on staple movements like dips, and wouldn't let his lifters perform squats. But Arnold knew that "the Iron Guru" had something to offer him, and when he began utilizing some of Gironda's ideas, he writes, "I went from simply having huge pecs to having first-rate chest development."
But Gironda's influence was perhaps most greatly seen in how Arnold trained shoulders, and the lateral and rear delts in particular. Gironda was a great proponent of the lateral raise, but recommended performing it a specific way, with the rear part of the dumbbell higher than the front, as if pouring water from a pitcher. This helped to focus the stress on the lateral delt and made it harder to cheat by using momentum. His unique take on the rear delt flye, performed while facing backward on an incline bench, gave the same level of isolation to the rear delts, which were a weak spot for Arnold in the early days.
Keep these tips in mind today when you superset lateral raises with upright rows, another Gironda favorite. On Friday, do the same with the superset of rear delt flyes.