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Become a Volunteer
Homeowners Associations thrive on volunteers and there are many volunteer opportunities available. The dedication and skills of volunteers are an invaluable commodity.
Which volunteer option is the right choice for you? Are you a born leader with fierce decision making skills? Consider a position on the Board of Directors. Was your home or vehicle recently broken into? Create a strong, active Crime Watch/ Block Captain Committee. Do you have a green thumb? Then the garden club, yard of the month or beautification committee is for you! Are you known for throwing outstanding parties? The Social Committee is a perfect fit for your talent.
Whatever your motivation, there's a place just for you. Volunteers are in high demand. Find out how you can help and make yourself at home!
Job Descriptions
Following is a summary of the role each officer may play on the Board of Directors; however, the board may elect to transfer some roles to the manager. For example, the manager may lead the meeting or take the minutes; however, the decision makers are the elected directors, not the manager.
The role of the President is that of a leader. The President typically presides over the meetings, keeps the agenda going and ensures sound decisions are made. The President leads discussions and ensures productivity. The President often signs legal documents such as loans and contracts and serves as a signatory for checks (payments).
The responsibilities of the President includes these actions in Kendall Pointe.
- Community Manager Liaison with CIA Services
- Leads Welcome Committee for new homeowners
- Recruits homeowners for Board, ARC, Social, and KGS Committees
- Monitors firstname.lastname@example.com email
Vice President of Internal Affairs
The Vice-President shall act in place of the President in the event of his/her absence, inability or refusal to act, and shall exercise and discharge such other duties as may be required of this position by the Board.
The responsibilities of the Vice President of Internal Affairs includes these actions in Kendall Pointe.
- Maintenance Liaison with CIA Services
- ARC Liaison
Vice President of External Affairs
The Vice-President shall act in place of the President in the event of his/her absence, inability or refusal to act, and shall exercise and discharge such other duties as may be required of this position by the Board.
The responsibilities of the Vice President of External Affairs includes these actions in Kendall Pointe.
- Kendall Gateway Study (KGS) Liaison
- Sheriff/Kendall County/City of Boerne Liaison
The Secretary is typically responsible for the minutes of the meeting; however, the manager is often assigned this task and the Secretary signs the acceptance of the minutes upon board approval. The Secretary may also sign various legal documents such as contracts.
The responsibilties of the Secretary includes these actions in Kendall Pointe.
- Social Committee Liaison
- Reviews and signs minutes at Board meetings
- Produces Newsletter
- Produces KPHOA Directory once a year
The treasurer serves as a signatory for checks and reviews the payables and financials. Management handles the daily operation of the financials; however, the treasurer serves as a checks and balance. The Treasurer also signs financial documents such as tax returns, audits or loans.
The responsibilities of the Treasurer includes these actions in Kendall Pointe.
- Financial Liaison with CIA Services
- Receives reimbursement requests and approves checks
- Conducts yearly Financial Review
- Monitors firstname.lastname@example.com
Committee Volunteers
Architectural Review
This committee reviews all home improvement applications submitted by homeowners requesting improvement to their home such as a new roof, paint or a pool. The Members must have an understanding of the governing documents as well as strong decision making ability. This committee is responsible to ensure submissions are in compliance with the general design aesthetic of the community and be able to work within time constraints.
This Committee plans and executes community social events. An ability to work within a budget and deadline is necessary.
What else might you like to do?
Crime Watch
This committee maintains strong communication between the residents and law enforcement. The Block Captains are responsible for maintaining a communications database of neighbors within a specified range. Communication and organization skills are necessary to ensure success.
This committee will oversee the general communications to the residents. This may involve either website administration or the publication of a newsletter. A nose for news, creativity, and strong written skills are beneficial for this crew.
This committee works with the contracted landscape company and Board to ensure the common area landscape is well maintained. The committee may assist with color and plant selection of seasonal installations or simply monitor the service provider to ensure the grounds are well maintained. The committee will communicate to the board should a need for improvement be necessary and work on design specs for new proposals. The committee may also assist with the spec preparation and interviews of new grounds companies if necessary. An ability to read and understand service contracts is necessary.
What do volunteers do?
If you like this community, if you want to make it even better, they can always use your help. Links to "job" positions are on this page, below:
Job Descriptions
Vice President of Internal Affairs
Vice President of External Affairs
Committee Volunteers
Architectural Review
Kendall Gateway Study
Yard of the Month
What else might you like to do?
Crime Watch
Our Management
This community employs a full service management company, C.I.A. Services, Inc., to provide professional community association needs. They handle all aspects of budgeting and financial management, watch over the facilities and contractors, deed restrictions, interpersonal relationships among neighbors and more. They train our key personnel and board members. Learn more about their capablilies and their responsibilities to us:
About C.I.A. Services »
Services »
Management Services »
Billing and Collections »
Financial Services »
Facilities Management »
Deed Restriction Management »
Administrative Expense Recovery »
Our Community Manager is
Kimberly Terry, 210-490-0000, or send an email.


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"Not succeeding as I know I could feels an awful lot like failing." I have struggled for years to comprehend how success and chronic illness can coexist, but texting those words to Hart Saturday night took my breath away. This puzzle has been Since my year-long reprieve from eating-triggered migraine attacks ended last spring, my mind has been churning particularly hard to understand what success means when I'm too sick to live up to my potential.
I'm not writing this for reassurance. I know my work is valuable and my words connect deeply with people. I see humbling comments from readers every day. Still, I want to do more. I have more to give. My body won't let me give it.
The first day of every American Headache Society conference, I eagerly pore over the schedule and abstracts. I'm so excited to see who is speaking and what I might learn. I know I may not make it to every talk, but love exploring the possibilities. I did that Wednesday night (following the Thai restaurant meltdown), then spent Thursday and Friday laid up. Time ticked by while I thought about the sessions I was missing and the people I wasn't getting to see.
By Friday night, I was a surly mess. That's when I wrote the first part of this post. This year has been difficult emotionally; the last few weeks have been especially rough. Missing the conference was not surprising given my health and San Diego's June gloom. But it hurt nonetheless.
I finally made it to the conference Saturday afternoon. It felt so good to be there and I had a great time catching up with people I know and meeting others I've known online, but hadn't met in person. I visited the exhibits and learned what products are in the pipeline for treating migraine and cluster headache. The eight hours I spent at the conference energized me and negated the difficulties of the previous few days. I left fully aware that I'm not succeeding in the ways I know I can, but was also cognizant of how much I'm doing despite significant physical limitations.
I haven't given up on realizing my potential. It's frustrating, but it's also tremendous motivation. I want to get better because I have so much to do in the world. On difficult days, not achieving as much as I'd like does feel like failure. When I step back from that emotional reaction, though, I can see that every little bit is progress toward my larger goals. Part of me despises having to celebrate my successes despite migraine, but the rest of me knows that my struggles make my accomplishments even more worthy of celebration.
I believe I will reach my goals one day. I have to believe that. Even if I don't know when it will be.

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Managing Your Money
College is a whole new time and experience for young adults. Between going to a whole new school, you may be living on your own, starting your first job, managing money on your own for the first time, and so on. This can be a scary thing, but it is very possible to do it correctly!
These easy tips will help you make the grade when it comes to managing your money:
This is incredibly important. List monthly income sources and then write down estimated expenses for the month. Use the Net Price Calculator to get an idea of what school will cost, but also think about costs such as school supplies, food, personal care items, and laundry. Then, try managing your budget and tracking expenses using an online tool like Mint.com, which helps you easily create and stick to a budget.
Is $30 per week for gas a "need" or a "want"? How much should you budget for food? After a few months tracking expenses, it becomes easier to distinguish wants from needs and put a plan into action. Some students give themselves a weekly cash allowance rather than carry a debit card, and when that week's allowance is gone, they wait until next week for more "wants".
Banks usually cater to students by offering free checking and saving accounts, which allows students to avoid fees on withdrawals or fund transfers. Shop around to find a bank with convenient ATMs near campus so you aren't hit with out-of-network charges. And keep in mind that checks may take a few days to clear, so keep an eye on the account balance before spending against it.
College is a great time to start building credit (which is crucial for leasing an apartment, purchasing a vehicle, and even landing a job post-graduation), but it's easy for many to rack up a large amount of debt while in school. It's important to understand the difference between credit building and overextending. If you don't know, visit a business professor during office hours and ask!
College graduates tend to have a difficult time balancing student loan payments. Understand what the exact size of your student loan debt will be upon graduation, and come up with a plan for how you will pay it back.
Federal regulations require that students only receive financial aid for courses that apply to your major. KCTCS has implemented technology to alert you about your registered classes that are not financial aid eligible. This helps you select courses within your program and complete your degree or certificate on-time.
Learning the basics when it comes to money management now means you don't have to graduate with massive debt. Laying the groundwork for smart budgeting and spending habits in college will help you in the future. Just remember, YOU'VE GOT THIS!


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Website Design, SEO and Social Media for the Dallas / Fort Worth Texas Region
Building an Online Presence: Plan, Design, Execution, Manage
iComEx is your full-service, professional, website design and online marketing team, based in the northern suburbs of the Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area of North Texas. iComEx includes IT (information technology) managers, certified programmers, marketing specialists, content managers and other website design professionals that collaborate to help companies and organizations like yours establish, grow and improve a successful online presence. Applying proven, results-oriented techniques and industry best practices to every engagement, iComEx has been helping clients achieve success by attracting targeted traffic, delivering compelling content and converting visitors into prospects since 1999.
In our modern, connected world, a vibrant and successful online presence can be key to the growth of your company or organization. That's where iComEx comes in - by leveraging best-of-breed technology solutions, combined with creative design talent. iComEx works with you to: develop a plan to achieve your goals; design and create the solutions based on the plan; execute the launch of your new website design; manage the ongoing content management and SEO efforts; and monitor the results.
You are invited to learn more about iComEx, have a conversation with us, and let's see if we are a good fit to work together.


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Take a survey and make your views heard on a range of topics.
English football's equality and inclusion campaign, Kick It Out, is calling on supporters to share their views on discrimination as part of year's One Game, One Community weeks of action (18th-29th October), the findings of the consultation will help form a blueprint for tackling discrimination in football over the coming seasons.
The survey is open now and can be accessed at http://bit.ly/WuEulk
Make your views heard on a range of topics from how to improve reporting of abusive behaviour and enforcement in grounds, to combating abusive behaviour on social media.
In launching the survey, Lord Herman Ouseley, Chair of Kick It Out, said: 'At a time when discrimination is high up the football agenda, it is easy for fans and players to forget the great strides made over the last 20 years in helping to eradicate it. But there is still a long way to go. We are launching this important dialogue with football fans to help set out how we move forward to achieve a zero tolerance approach to discrimination in all its forms, at all levels of the game.'


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The Solutreans - First Americans May Have Been European
By Bjorn Carey, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 19 February 2006
ST. LOUIS—The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain.
This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago.
The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The tools don't match
Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little chance that people walked from one continent to the other.
Also, when archaeologist Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution places American spearheads, called Clovis points, side-by-side with Siberian points, he sees a divergence of many characteristics.
Instead, Stanford said today, Clovis points match up much closer with Solutrean style tools, which researchers date to about 19,000 years ago. This suggests that the American people making Clovis points made Solutrean points before that.
There's just one problem with this hypothesis—Solutrean toolmakers lived in France and Spain. Scientists know of no land-ice bridge that spanned that entire gap.
The lost hunting party
Stanford has an idea for how humans crossed the Atlantic, though—boats. Art from that era indicates that Solutrean populations in northern Spain were hunting marine animals, such as seals, walrus, and tuna.
They may have even made their way into the floating ice chunks that unite immense harp seal populations in Canada and Europe each year. Four million seals, Stanford said, would look like a pretty good meal to hungry European hunters, who might have ventured into the ice flows much the same way that the Inuit in Alaska and Greenland do today.
Inuit use large, open hunting boats constructed from animal skins for longer trips or big hunts. These boats, called umiaq, can hold a dozen adults, as well as several children, dead seals or walruses, and even dog-sled teams. Inuit have been building these boats for thousands of years, and Stanford believes that Solutrean people may have used a similar design.
It's possible that some groups of these hunters ventured out as far as Iceland, where they may have gotten caught up in the prevailing currents and were carried to North America.
"You get three boats loaded up like this and you would have a viable population," Stanford said. "You could actually get a whole bunch of people washing up on Nova Scotia."
Some scientists believe that the Solutrean peoples were responsible for much of the cave art in Europe. Opponents of Stanford's work ask why, then, would these people stop producing art once they made it to North America?
"I don't know," Stanford said. "But you're looking at a long distance inland, 100 miles or so, before they would get to caves to do art in."
Watch this VIDEO!
Summary: First Americans were out of Europe
More on our ancestors, the Solutreans …
Ancient America
The Pacific Ocean is bounded by America on its eastern side, stretching from 70 degrees North to 55 degrees south. As trade winds and equatorial ocean currents travel in a westerly direction, it would be foolish to assume that America did not play a part in the populating of the Pacific. Therefore, to ascertain the complexities of human migration in the Pacific region, we need to understand fully how America was populated.
It appears that there have been some gross inaccuracies and misunderstandings that have led scientists to accept an oversimplified model of human entry into America via the Bering land bridge during the height of the last ice age. No consideration to the possibility that ocean crossings played a significant part in the populating of the Americas, has been given. Recent studies of the tool kits of the first Americans suggest an entry from Spain and not from Siberia. Not only this, but paleolithic Caucasian genes appear to form the basal layer of the genetic makeup of many native Americans, helping to confirm a trans-Atlantic entry into Central America between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago. Recent discoveries of three 13,000 year old Cro magnon man skeletons in an underwater cave in the Bahamas suggests that the above is true and correct.
Almost all archaeology to date has been based on the discovery of sites that are above sea level. Sea levels rose to present day levels about 6,000 years ago, therefore there has to be a great deal hidden underwater prior to this event, distorting the picture of early habitation of our planet. Factors that determined human settlement 20,000 years ago were much the same as they are today, as a result the preferred sites for towns and cities would have been on the coast. The sea provided unhindered passage to other towns for trade (no mountains, canyons, powerful river currents, jungles, deserts or hostile tribes to interfere with ones passage). Not only that, but boats were the trucks of the olden days, transporting large cargoes for trade.
The availability and choice of food is also more diverse along a coastline, as both land and marine produce can be obtained. Temperatures are less extreme and the likelihood of life giving rain is also much greater. Therefore almost all ancient towns of any consequence would have been by the sea and so, the great majority of towns and cities prior to 6,000 years ago are all underwater from sea level rises since the last ice age.
Many megalithic monuments around the world are made from rocks that have been transported hundreds of kilometres away from their source, suggesting that large sailing boats were in use 6,000 years ago and possibly as early as 18,000 years ago. Boats were one of the earliest forms of communal transport invented by man, seaworthy boats would have expanded mans horizons immeasurably. As a result of him using the 'highways of the sea', his desire to determine where he was going, fueled a revolution in astronomy, mathematics, trigonometry and ultimately world trade. The Polar meltdown between 7,000 and 5,500 years ago talked about later in this chapter would not only have produced a rapid rise in sea level, but also, the iso static rebound would have caused subsidence of weak crustal areas such as the mid Atlantic Ridge, causing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, resulting in the devastation of coastal towns and the decimation of all seafaring nations around the world. Not only did it destroy the people of this time, but also much of the knowledge which they possessed.
This was not the only catastrophic rise in sea level that early man has had to deal with; there were others - 14,000, 11,600, 8,200 and 6,000 years ago. It was after these events that we find the survivors taking an interest in swamp agriculture around lakes and on highland plateaus without fear of inundation. Such areas that were chosen were Lake Chad, Lake Titicaca, New Guinea Highlands, Highlands of Luzon, the Nile, the Tigris, the Indus, the Upper Amazon, the Mississippi, the Mekong, the Yangtze and so on. With these few survivors, they would have retained only the bare essentials and much of the old technology was lost or forgotten. It appears that archaeologists may have mistaken this regrouping of man after the final floods as the beginning of agriculture and civilization. Discoveries of cities around India, Yonaguni and an underwater city in 700m of water off Cuba indicate that archaeologists have grossly misunderstood their findings and have merely scratched the surface of human prehistory.
Dr Muck, an archaeologist, describes archeological sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Southern Carolina, dating back 15,000-18,000 years which demonstrate that the ocean-going Solutreans may have first entered America by sailing across the Atlantic.
The notion that Clovis originated in or spread throughout North America from a point of origin in the Northern Plains (within an ice-free corridor between the continental glaciers) is not supported by the distribution of finds. Clovis may actually have dispersed into North and South America from the Caribbean and Central America, much of which is now submerged, making it difficult to ascertain the exact time of entry into America.
The Clovis - Solutrean connection
Dr. Stanford, an archaeologist of the highest caliber, turned away from the Bering route and looked elsewhere for the first migration. His thinking evolved over three decades. In the '60s Stanford, like most of his colleagues, believed that Clovis came from Asia. It wasn't until the '70s that he began to believe that Clovis was a New World development and that evidence of pre-Clovis would be found in the Arctic. "But I wasn't seeing evidence," he recalls, "and after a while it started not to make sense. Everything I found in Alaska that was fluted was post-Clovis in age." There was no technology he considered pre-Clovis. He hoped at the time that once Siberia was opened up to Western scientists we would find the missing evidence. But the end of the Cold War didn't provide the solution for Stanford and his co-theorist, lithics expert Bruce Bradley. Stanford and Dr. Bradley independently looked at the evidence and arrived at the same conclusion. They inspected late-Pleistocene sites and scoured museum collections in Siberia, Russia, and northern China, seeking pre-Clovis technology. Instead, what they found was a totally different method of making tools and weapons.
The Clovis fluted point (right) is knapped from stone, flaked on both sides (bifacial) and shaped into a beautiful thin, flat killing instrument; the base is thinned and relieved into a concave recess so that the point can be securely hafted onto a foreshaft or shaft. The Asian upper-Paleolithic weapons that Stanford and Bradley found, however, were made using a microblade technology, where tiny blades struck from wedge-shaped cores of stone were inset into long, narrow rods of bone, antler, or ivory. When Far East craftsmen tried to make bifacial tools, the result was relatively crude implements (quite thick in cross section, compared with exquisitely thin Clovis points) and frequently bi-pointed.
Nowhere in Asia did Stanford and Bradley find the ancestor of the Clovis point. They reasoned that if the first immigrants were Asian, they must have brought with them their inset-microblade manufacturing process, in which case there must exist evidence of a transition to Clovis technology. So far, however, nothing resembling an intermediate form between inset microblades and a knapped biface has been found in North America.
Stuck at a dead end, Stanford and Bradley took up a fresh trail. The roots of Clovis, they reasoned, must lie in the Paleolithic Old World outside of Asia. They took up the search for a parent technology that specialized in making thin, flat bifacial projectile points, knives and other biface implements, and other artifacts of stone and bone similar to those of the Clovis culture. They found only one Paleolithic culture whose technology met their criteria, the Solutrean people. Named for the French town of Solutré, the culture spread across much of France and the Spanish Peninsula. They were highly efficient hunters. Full bellies gave them leisure time, which they used to decorate the walls of their caves with fabulous surrealistic paintings of bison and horses and ibex that continue to awe us today. They were carvers, too, for art's sake.
"They had the only upper-Paleolithic biface technology going in Western Europe," Stanford points out. They were the first to heat-treat flint, and the first to use pressure flaking--removing flakes by pressing with a hardwood or antler tool, rather than by striking with another stone. "In northern Spain, their technology produced biface projectile points with concave bases that are basally thinned," he notes, not bothering to say he could just as well be describing Clovis points. The pressure flakes Solutrean knappers removed are so long it's almost a fluting technique--"almost," he's careful to say, but not quite.
The parallels between Solutrean and Clovis flintknapping techniques seem endless. The core technology, "the way they were knocking off big blades and setting up their core platforms," he explains, "is very similar to the Clovis technique, if not identical." They perfected the outre passé --overshot--flaking technique later seen in Clovis, which removes a flake across the entire face of the tool from margin to margin. It's a complicated procedure, he emphasizes, that has to be set up and steps followed precisely in order to detach regular flakes predictably. The Solutreans set up platforms and followed the technique through to the end, exactly as we see in Clovis. "No one else in the world does that," Stanford insists. "There is very little in Clovis--in fact, nothing--that is not found in Solutrean technology," he declares.
Archaeologist Kenneth Tankersley of Kent State University seconds Stanford and Bradley's opinion: "There are only two places in the world and two times that this technology appears--Solutrean and Clovis."
On and on the similarities pile up. We find carved tablets in Clovis sites remarkably similar to Solutrean specimens. Both cultures cached toolstone and finished implements. Stanford and Bradley know of about 20 instances of caches at Solutrean sites; in North America, by comparison, according to Stanford, "we're up to about nine or ten." Just like Clovis knappers, Solutreans used flakes detached by outre passé to make scrapers and knives. Clovis bone projectile points bear an uncanny resemblance to ones made by Solutreans. When French archaeologists saw the cast of a wrench used by Clovis craftsmen at the Murray Springs site in Arizona to straighten spear shafts, they declared it remarkably similar to one found at a Solutrean site.
Proof that Solutreans were also mariners was in the discovery in 1992 of Le Cosquer cave near Marseilles by diver Henri Cosquer. Among the rock art figures are depictions of seals impaled by harpoons as well as flounder and halibut - deep-sea fish! Clearly Solutreans learned how to exploit marine resources, possibly in hide boats made from mammoth ribs. At some stage either by accident or on purpose, they caught the northern Equatorial current and favourable trade winds, to find themselves in the heart of a magnificent Archipelago of uninhabited islands. Here they flourished, discovering new plants, animals in abundance and minerals. These people have been called the Clovis hunters in America.
Dr Stanford and Dr Bradley point out the discoveries in genetics by researchers at Emory University and the Universities of Rome and Hamburg. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, normally contains four markers called haplogroups, labeled A, B, C, and D. These four are shared by 95 percent of Native Americans. Recently, however, the genetics team identified a fifth haplogroup, called X, which is present in about 20,000 Native Americans and has also been found in several pre-Columbian populations. A most interesting fact is that haplogroup X is also present in European populations but absent from Asians. The geneticists' research suggests the marker appears to have arrived in the Americas 12,000 to 34,000 years ago, not from Asia, but from Europe.
As well as the Caucasian Marker X in North America, the Araucanians of Chile also have significant Paleolithic Caucasian genes in them, most likely arriving from Spain between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago. It is common for them to have curly reddish brown hair and green eyes.
The red haired Caucasian Paracas mummies of Peru is also proof that Caucasians were part of the indigenous culture of America. I also found that in 1892 the Easter Island scripts were deciphered by A. Carroll, M.A., M.D., but have been ignored. They are a detailed history of tribal conflict in South America, leading up to the exodus to Easter Island! They mention tribes from the ancient land of Tulapin (Turtle Island), the Eagle Clan and the Children of the sun or Ra. They were all Caucasians.
Genetic similarities between Europeans and American Indians
Archaeologists are just beginning to realize that to understand European prehistory, American prehistory must also be considered. The Solutreans of Spain are now believed to have crossed the Atlantic using the southern Equatorial current and entered the Caribbean and Central America between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago to become known as the Clovis hunters of America. Recent genetic findings suggest that the people now known as Gaelic speaking Celts (including Irish, Welsh, Scots, Basques and Berbers) are a remnant of a group of people who also left Spain between 1,8000 and 12,000 years ago and spent 6,000 years isolated from Europe before returning, bringing the Megalithic culture to coastal Europe.
Geneticist Prof Steve Jones, who recently published a book called Y - The Descent of Man, said;
"Genetics provided more reliable clues to the distant past than language did". He and colleagues at University College, London, have spent years creating a genetic map of the Y chromosome, which is passed by males from generation to generation. The results show that the Welsh are related to the Basques of northern Spain and southern France and to native Americans. He said: "There has been much less interbreeding in Wales than you might expect. Wales and Ireland have the most homogenous group of males of anywhere in the world, from the research that's been done so far".
He said; "The Y chromosome common among Welsh males was an ancient one. Most native Americans have the same one. Surprisingly perhaps, the genetics show that the Welsh are not related to the Cornish, despite the similarity of their languages. The Cornish are in effect Anglo-Saxons who for a time used a language that was hanging around. The genes of Scottish males betrayed considerable inter-mixing with outsiders".
James Wilson and Prof David Goldstein of University College London, with colleagues at Oxford University and the University of California, found that Welsh and Irishmen are genetic blood-brothers of the Basque people.
"The findings provide the first direct evidence of a close relationship between the people known as Celts and the Basques. The gene patterns of three races passed down through the male line are all strikingly similar, researchers concluded. Basques can trace their roots back to the Stone Age and are one of Europe's most distinct people, fiercely proud of their ancestry and traditions.
The team looked for similarities between the Y chromosomes (which are only carried by men) they sampled DNA from; 88 "Celtic fringe" individuals from Anglesey, North Wales, 146 from Ireland with Irish Gaelic surnames, and 150 Basques, revealing "remarkable' similarities. On the other hand, he and his colleagues compared Celtic and Norwegian populations and found them to be quite different.
The Celts carried the early Y chromosome, which provides the first clear evidence of a close relationship in the paternal heritage of Basque and Celtic speaking populations. "They were statistically indistinguishable', we also noticed that there's something quite striking about the Celtic populations, and that is that there's not a lot of genetic variation on the male Y-chromosome, We conclude that both the Basques and Celts are reflecting pre-farming Europe. Somehow these people have remained in isolation from the rest of Europe up until the Bronze age where their genes begin to indicate an influx of female genes from mainland Europe" said Prof Goldstein.
The other scenario is that these people were not living in Europe, but were in the Caribbean, the East Coast of America and on islands in the Atlantic.
Barry Fell, author of 'America B.C.' is an accomplished decipherer of ancient scripts and has managed to identify a great deal of Celtic, Phoenician, Iberian, Egyptian, Berber, Libyan and Viking scripts in America, indicating that a great deal of trade contact occurred during and after the Bronze Age, but ceasing around the time of the beginning of the Roman Empire. Apparently these great ocean navigators, after the destruction of Carthage, decided to withhold all information on navigating to the Americas from the Romans and by the end of the Roman Empire and the onset of the dark ages, much was forgotten about trans Atlantic navigation and the Americas.
Barry Fell has identified Ogham script in America, Ireland, Spain and Africa that goes back to at least 800BC. Early Egyptian scripts were used by the Micmac of North America right up to the arrival of Missionaries. He also identifies many early style Celtic Megalithic monuments on the east coast of America, in particular New England, New Hampshire, Vermont and Woodstock, they take the form of Dolmens, Phallic menhir, Men-a-tol, massive stone Druid's chairs, megalithic chambers, Solstice and Equinox viewing chambers and burial mounds. These all parallel similar structures in Coastal Europe, especially on the Dingle peninsular, Brittany and some sites in Spain. As usual, this work has been ignored by the Eurocentric 'No one before Columbus' fraternity.
Although Barry Fell did not go further than assert that most Celtic connections occurred around the Bronze Age. He was not aware of the more ancient genetic connections the Celts had with the proto-American Indians. With further studies done, more accurate dating of the Dolmens and other megalithic monuments will possibly show that some American megaliths may actually predate the arrival of Celts on the Dingle peninsular in Ireland, indicating that the Caribbean and America was the original homeland of the Celts.
Giant stone shark in the Bahamas (upper right) created in a similar way to the white horse of England (left), suggesting a distant cultural connection between these separate groups of laterally thinking people that created images only apparent from the air - supposedly for the spirits in the heavens to view - in effect a gift to the gods.
Read more at http://www.users.on.net/~mkfenn/page9.htm
Other good sites:
BBC Special Programme Stone Age Columbus (2006)
Stone Age Columbus - Transcript
Stone Age Columbus - Questions and Answers
Ancient Aryan History- 46713 reads
Found clovis style point
Found a clovis syle point in 1960 along with many arrow heads in stony creek excavated site contained pottery would like to show someone where it is
I got a copy of their book some years ago. It is very well written and informative.
Carolyn, do you know if this book has received any reviews or recognition ?


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Foam Systems
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Click to Learn What Congress is Hiding and the Truth About Natural Born Citizenship |
We have obtained a copy of the talking points memorandum put out by a lawyer for the Congressional Research Service to the Members of Congress back in April 2009 as to what to tell their constituents when they write to the Members of Congress and ask questions about Obama's eligibility. Now we know why all the answers coming back to constituents sounded like they were written by the same person and were full of the same obfuscations, omitted facts from history, and half truths & non-truths.
This internal memorandum to Members of Congress is the smoking gun that absolutely proves that every Member of Congress knew that Obama was never vetted by anyone or any institution as to his constitutional eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief of the military ... and yet Congress did NOTHING about it. This lack of vetting by anyone was detailed starting on page 19 of the Kerchner et al v Obama et al Complaint filed in Jan 2009.
This copy was obtained via the diligent and persistent efforts of a patriot going by the pen name of "Tom Deacon" who obtained it from a Senator's office. Now we know the talking points the DC insiders and politicians have been groomed with to feed to their constituents who have been asking questions about the eligibility issues. Thank you Tom. Here is the link to the internal memorandum:
Link to read or get your copy of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) internal Congressional Memorandum about the Obama eligibility questions issue:
The Catalog of Evidence - Concerned Americans Have Good Reason to Doubt Obama was Born in Hawaii:
Obama May be a "Citizen of the United States" but He is NOT a "natural born Citizen of the United States":
To read the Kerchner et al v Obama & Congress et al lawsuit Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on 30 Sep 2010 which is now scheduled on the court docket for discussion by the Supreme Court Justices in conference by them on 23 Nov 2010 see this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/38506403/Petition-for-Writ-of-Certiorari-filed-with-the-U-S-Supreme-Court-for-Kerchner-v-Obama-Congress
Update: YouTube video about this CRS memo find:
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The entire time I have been piecing this quilt, I've been bustingly excited about quilting it. Not that I didn't enjoy the piecing part - it's been the most fun I've had making a quilt ever, quite seriously. I didn't have all that much of a plan when I started quilting - I just knew I wanted lots of organic straight lines (free motion quilted of course!) with a few pockets of curvy designs. I started out in the yellow/ochre block of colour, slowly getting a feel for what I wanted to do. I've used two different yellow variegated 40wt Aurifil threads in this section - a darker thread in this area (until I finished the spool),
and then a lighter (orangey yellow) variegated thread for the rest of the yellow block and out into the low volume. Once I got into the low volume area, I hit my stride with the quilting, very much inspired by the grey Carolyn Friedlander print in the photo below.
You can see here how much that fabric inspired this quilting - and the texture is just amazing. Because many of the low volume fabrics I've used have a grid-type design in them, I have actually done virtually zero marking on this quilt - I've used the fabrics as a guide instead.
You can definitely see it on the lighter fabrics, but it's proven to be a real chameleon thread across the others. I felt this thread was a bit dark to use on the low volume areas though, so I switched to a variegated grey 40wt for the low volume section near the oranges.
Considering I only got this quilt basted last Wednesday, and I haven't really spent all that much time quilting it (about 15 hours I think?), I can't really believe it's almost half quilted. This quilt has stolen my heart, completely and utterly. It's my absolute favorite, and I see many more improv adventures for me this year!
You can see a few areas I've left unquilted - some of these I will go back and free motion quilt, but others I will add a bit of hand-quilting too. And some of them will be left alone, happily puffy among all that textured, tactile quilty goodness.


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Kick back and relax in this one of kind teak wood chair, recycled from an aged Bali fishing boat. Allow yourself to meld into the tropical hues of the Sizilian on warm summer days, while propping your feet upon the matching foot rest. Relaxation never looked so chic!


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Luca Toni's topping the charts again… only this time, it isn't very flattering. English tabloid The Sun just dished out another Top 10 list, regrouping the "Biggest flops" of this Summer's Euro championship tournament. The Italy striker tops the list, despite receiving a pat on the back from Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge.
"It's not [Toni's] fault if things didn't go well, it's Italy's" said Rummenigge. "He was only served well in the game against France, he made mistakes but also won the penalty which changed the match. Against Spain he was very criticised, injustly: I did not see a single good pass played to him in that game to even have a chance of scoring. He was all alone, and he was missing Pirlo." Still not enough for The Sun writers, and who can blame them? Going from 40 goals in his first season with Bayern to zero goals at Euro 2008 surely deserves some criticism…
Number 2 in the list is Chelsea and Czech Republic keeper Petr Cech, earning the spot thanks to his less-than-stellar performance vs. Turkey (Nihat Kahveci is still saying thank you). Completing the podium we find Barcelona and France defender Eric Abidal, who caused the penalty kick against Toni in the match vs. Italy, and the resulting red card that virtually cleared the road for the Azzurri's victory.
In 4th spot, title holders Greece (knocked out in the first round), followed by Thierry Henry ("the man whose star continues to fade") and Mario Gomez ("[Germany] were effectively playing with 10 men for their three group games"). At 7th spot are host countries Austria & Switzerland, for getting knocked out in the group stage "and barely raising a cheer from their own fans".
Completing the "best of the worst" list, Fiorentina and Romania striker Adrian Mutu (who probably still hasn't swallowed Buffon's PK save), France's Karim Benzema (a "wonderkid that failed to impress") and the host TV broadcaster (for the power outage during the Germany-Turkey semi-final).
Here's the full list with captions from The Sun article:
Nº10: The Host Broadcaster | |
A massive electrical storm in Vienna saw Germany's thrilling showdown with Turkey ruined for millions of armchair fans. At least 10 minutes of the rollercoaster semi-final was lost in the TV coverage, including Miroslav Klose's goal. |
Nº9: Karim Benzema | |
The France striker went into the tournament with a growing reputation as his country's wonderkid. Fans were told he was the hottest property outside Italy, Spain and England. But Benzema failed to impress during his two dismal displays for the hopeless French. |
Nº8: Adrian Mutu | |
The former Chelsea striker was tipped to pull up trees with underdogs Romania. And with a penalty against Italy, he was one kick away from sending his side into the quarter-finals. But Mutu fluffed his effort and Romania later tumbled out against Holland. |
Nº7: The Co-Hosts | |
Austria and Switzerland were both among the first seeds for the tournament as the host nations but they barely raised a cheer for their own fans. Austria bowed out with a single draw, while Switzerland's only points came against Portugal in a dead rubber following their own elimination. |
Nº6: Mario Gomez | |
Germany's route to the final was no mean feat — especially when you consider they were effectively playing with 10 men for their three group games. Gomez contributed next to nothing, with boss Joachim Low seeing sense in the quarter-finals to finally drop him. |
Nº5: Thierry Henry | |
The man whose star continues to fade must take some of the stick for France's disjointed campaign this month. Henry's goal against Holland masked an ineffective showing, with his deflection against Italy condemning his side to an early exit from the group stages. |
Nº4: Greece | |
It seems a bit harsh for the surprise winners of Euro 2004 to be here but defeat in all three group games was truly woeful. And Greece's arch-rivals Turkey rubbed the defending champions' noses in it by reaching the semi-finals with a series of thrilling comebacks. |
Nº3: Eric Abidal | |
Playing the world champions in a win-or-bust final group game is never easy, yet France did not help themselves. When defender Abidal chopped down Italy's Luca Toni for a first-half penalty and straight red card, it was au revoir Les Bleus. |
Nº2: Petr Cech | |
Leading 2-1 against Turkey with just two minutes left, Czech Republic had one foot in the quarter-finals— until Cech's howler. The Chelsea keeper horribly fluffed a routine cross for the equaliser, before an injury-time winner sent his side packing. |
Nº1: Luca Toni | |
The Italian hotshot came to the finals on the back of a golden season with Bayern Munich, notching 31 goals in the Bundesliga. But Toni endured a dreadful tournament, missing countless chances as well as looking like a man running through treacle. |
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Northwestern College Chapel | Minneapolis
In the summer of 1987 I preached a series of messages based on the character of Barnabas . I stressed first that he was "a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith" (Acts 11:24). Then I focused on his amazing gift for encouragement and developed five marks of a Biblical "leader-maker" (Acts 4:36; 9:27; 15:36-40). Finally I popped the bubble for Barnabas-worshipers with Galatians 2:13—"and even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity."
I entitled that last message, "The Weakness of a Great Man." One of my points was this: "Past experiences and past usefulness is no guarantee of future obedience." Once Barnabas was "filled with the Holy Spirit and faith." But in Galatians he was "out of step with the truth of the gospel."
I stressed what I believe to be an utterly essential truth—and all the more so for our lackadaisical age—that the Christian life is a race to be run and finished, a fight to be fought and won, and a faith to be kept to the end (2 Tim. 4:7). Life is war (Eph. 6:10ff). Vigilance is not optional. And the word of the Lord is again and again, "Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation."
While I was sounding this note on Sunday mornings I delivered two messages in the evening services on leadership and sexual temptation. There were of course reasons for this in our national life as you recall. Looking back now, the connection between the messages on Barnabas and the ones on sexual temptation were remarkably complementary.
The failure of Barnabas in Galatians 2 (though not sexual) sounded the alert for constant vigilance: no past successes guarantee future obedience. And the evening lessons spelled out the pitfalls in the path of Christian leaders, along with strategies for protection. My aim was to be as Biblical as possible.
My first title for these evening lessons went something like this:
"Ten Steps to Sexual Sin for Christian Leaders
and How Not to Take Them."
In giving the substance of the lessons here my prayer is that this Biblical expose of the deceitfulness of sin will intensify our vigilance and keep us pure for the greatest work in the world.
Sexual Pitfalls and Strategies for Protection
1. PITFALL: Falling in love with the present world.
"For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica." (2 Timothy 4:10)
What is it about the world that leaders in particular are tempted to love? The answer of Jesus is clear:
- Acclaim and Prestige
- "Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and love salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts." (Luke 20:46)
Riches and Pleasures- ". . .but as they go their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature" (Luke 8:14).
Successful leadership generally exposes a person more and more to the alluring forces of prestige and makes an array of worldly pleasures more and more accessible (because of travel, higher salary, wider circulation, etc.).
PROTECTION: Think long and hard about the deadly poison of world-love.
"If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. . . The world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever." (1 John 2:15,17)
"Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." (James 4:4)
. . .and ponder the never-ending delights of the mountain spring of God's approval and fellowship and beauty.
"Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound." (Psalm 4:7)
"Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever." (Psalm 73:25-26)
The spell of sin's fascination is broken by the superior pleasures of the presence of God.
2. PITFALL: Loss of horror at offending the majesty of God's holiness through sin.
When David committed adultery with Bathsheba and put her husband to death, God did not confront David with the sanctity of marriage and the value of human life. He confronted him with the horror of despising God.
"Nathan said to David, 'Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? . . . Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and taken the wife of Uriah?'" (2 Sam. 12:7-10).
Are leaders under so much pressure to make people happy (lest they lose their crowds) that they forsake the message of God's holiness and sin's horror? And is the result that they gradually turn sovereign grace into powerless leniency, and then license, and then actually believe it themselves, and act on it, saying, "Where sin abounds grace will much more abound!"?
Is not a leader drifting to destruction when he no longer commends the gouging out of eyes as preferable to sin?
"If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell."
In other words, perfectly innocent and good things may need to be sacrificed for the sake of vigilance against sin. But this will not happen where a leader has lost his horror at offending the holiness of God.
PROTECTION: Meditate on the Biblical truth that all our acts are acts toward God and not just toward man.
"Against thee and thee only have I sinned!" (Psalm 51:4)
. . .and that God is so holy and pure that he will not countenace the slightest sin, but hates it with omnipotent hatred.
"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." (Hab. 1:13)
"The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness." (Prov. 15:9)
. . .and that the holiness of God is the most valuable treasure in the universe and the very deepest of delights to those whose way is pure.
"Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." (Psalm 29:2)
"The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel." (Isaiah 29:19)
3. PITFALL: A sense of immunity from accountability and authority.
"I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves preeminence, does not acknowledge my authority." (3 John 9)
When you fall in love with the prestige and power of leadership you gradually begin to secure your "gains" by developing a kind of immunity from accountability. And this immunity drifts into a sense of being above the ordinary demands of morality and integrity.
PROTECTION: Submit yourself to a council of Biblically minded, spiritually wise advisers.
"Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed." (Prov. 15:22)
In the churches of Paul the highest office was the elder, but, to the best of our knowledge there were no churches with just one elder, and provision was made for rebuking an elder who persisted in sin (1 Tim. 5:20). No one was above reproof. All were accountable.
4. PITFALL: Succumbing to itching ears as love of truth evaporates.
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own liking, and will turn away from listening to the truth." (2 Tim. 4:3-4)
Once the love of truth is weakened by the love for ears, integrity has no leg to stand on. Every manner of rationalization and compromise to meet the demands of the expanding audience take over. Difficult doctrines are omitted, moral and theological problems are oversimplified, man-pleasing teachings of health, wealth and prosperity become more attractive, and dishonest measures are condoned for the sake of the kingdom.
What does this have to do with sexual temptation? A mentality of relativism and expediency begins to govern the mind. This weakens all firm moral resolve. The audience is to be massaged—the itching ears are to be scratched. Why? To gratify the leader's pursuit of power and pleasure. And soon the same procedure governs sexual relations: anything is okay if you are satisfying an itch.
Scratching itching ears is a very warm and personal thing. So it is easy for such leaders to contrast their approach with the "cold" concern for truth. And so immunity from doctrinal criticism is created with a heavy dose of relational antibodies. The language of love and forgiveness and acceptance abounds—but for those who have eyes to see it is a camouflage to cover the abandonment of a love for truth.
"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved." (2 Thess. 2:9-10)
PROTECTION: Cultivate a love for truth, even in its smallest details, and turn a deaf ear to the desires of men to have their ears scratched with vague moralisms that massage them in their sin.
"Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, teach in truth the way of God." (Mark 12:14)
"He who is faithful in very little will be faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in very little is dishonest also in much." (Luke 16:10)
Most compromise with the truth begins in small things. I heard of one evangelist who lost all credibility with a third world helper because he criticized his counselors for not watching the audience after he had said that every eye would be closed.
"He who is dishonest in very little will be dishonest also in much."
5. PITFALL: A vanishing attention to Scripture.
This is not quite the same as #4. Here I have in mind the role Scripture begins to play (or not play) in the ministry of the word.
"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
It is the Scripture that reproves us when we are headed in the wrong direction; corrects and turns us in the right way; and then trains us how to stay there. It makes the leader complete and ready for every good work.
But in the ministry of many leaders it begins to take a back seat to storytelling, and social analysis, and family discussions and psychological diagnoses, and all kinds of things which in themselves are innocent, but which begin to usurp the priority of the inspired word of God.
The Bible begins to get token reference, exposition recedes, noble slogans (like peace, justice, kingdom, mutuality, grace, acceptance, wholeness) begin to replace specific sentences, contextual considerations diminish, moral generalities begin to replace attention to grammatical detail, and soon the Bible, in its pointed specificity, is not the authority. The ideas of man are.
Now what does this have to do with sexual temptation? The lusts of the flesh can much more easily exploit a fuzzy moral generality than it can a firm, precise, specific, Biblical prohibition. There is a hermeneutic that leads to adultery. Loose and sloppy handling of Scripture eventually leads to loose and sloppy living.
PROTECTION: Give yourself untiringly to the study, meditation and memorization of Holy Scripture.
"Strive to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15)
"On his law he meditates day and night." (Psalm 1:2)
"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee." (Psalm 119:11)
Here I speak not of sermon preparation but of what I call "going out to pasture"—resting and ruminating on the word of God. It is savoring for the sake of life, not seeking for tomorrow's text.
6. PITFALL: A growing disregard for the spiritual good of his followers.
An Old Testament refrain is that when the king sinned, the people were ruined.
"The Lord will smite Israel. . . and give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin." (1 Kings 14:15-16)
This incentive for a leader not to sin diminishes as a disregard for the people takes over. When leaders sin the people suffer. And when the leaders don't care for the people any more, that ceases to be a brake on their own lusts.
Right after saying that the scribes love salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues, Jesus says, without even starting a new sentence, that these leaders ". . .devour widows houses. . ."
The point is that the more we love the prestige of our leadership the less we will love the people we lead. And the less we love them, the less we will care what becomes of them. And so the vigilance to guard ourselves from sin FOR THEIR SAKE will vanish, and the consequences of sexual immorality will not seem as dreadful as it once did.
PROTECTION: Labor in praying and caring to stir up your heart to love all your people.
"May the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men." (1 Thess. 3:12)
"Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works." (Heb. 10:24)
Do not assume to quickly that you do not love your people. An amazing affection can be born in the disciplined and prayerful exercise of pastoral duty.
7. PITFALL: Disregard for the Biblical mystery of marriage.
"A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one. This is a great mystery, and I take it to mean Christ and the church." (Eph. 5:32)
The mystery of marriage is that God created it to be a drama of Christ's relation to the church. How we treat our wives is a dramatic statement of how we think Christ should treat the church. How wives treat their husbands is a dramatic statement of how they think the church should treat Christ.
The deepest Biblical meaning of marriage has to do with Christ and how he is portrayed to the world in the public drama of marriage. Therefore adultery is like casting Jesus Christ in the lead role of an X-rated movie. Therefore one long step toward adultery is to disregard the Biblical mystery of marriage.
PROTECTION: Remind yourself repeatedly that your marriage is a living drama of Christ's relationship to the church. Let your thoughts about your spouse rise from the ordinary to the extraordinary by faith in the truth of Ephesians 5:32.
"This is a great mystery, and I take it to mean Christ and the church."
We simply must recover the wonder of this truth. Marriage has do with God, not just two people trying to be fulfilled. It is a mission of revelation to the world. It is an extraordinary calling. And adultery is an appalling desecration of the image of Christ and his church.
8. PITFALL: Compartmentalizing of the leader's life.
In the New Testament the leader's home life is an essential part of his qualification for church leadership (1 Tim. 3:4,12). In other words, the New Testament will not allow us to compartmentalize our life so that some parts of it are irrelevant to the issue of leadership.
One stepping stone toward adultery is the compartmentalizing of life that says, "Well, this area is really not at the heart of my ministry and so one sin in this area need not jeopardize my success in another.
PROTECTION: View everything—absolutely everything—as woven together by its relationship to the value of the glory of God.
"Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Cor. 10:31)
"Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." (Col. 3:17)
Would that every leader could explain to his people how to drink orange juice to the glory of God, and then be able to with all earnestness why this is not nitpicking. One area of life not done for the glory of God is a pocket of rebellion threatening to become a coup.
9. PITFALL: A sense of being above the necessity of suffering and self-denial.
Right after telling Timothy that as a leader he should "entrust [the truth] to faithful men who will be able to teach others also," Paul says,
"Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 2:3)
Generally, with successful leadership comes the possibility of avoiding certain kinds of suffering. There is more money, more people ready to do you favors, more expectation to go first class, more freedom to delegate work, etc.
Very easily the mindset emerges that it is indeed fitting for me not to suffer. Perhaps there is a high lifestyle appropriate for my position of prestige. Perhaps the perks of power are a good testimony to the goodness of God.
Gradually the leader begins to justify exorbitance of all kinds because he is doing his part for the war effort by being the public rallying point for God's cause. And so there is not need to live like a common soldier. He is so important in the church or the organization that he is above the ordinary demands of suffering and discipline.
PROTECTION: Never forget the promise: "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22). And never forget that the Son of Man had no place to lay his head (Luke 9:58). And develop a Biblical theology of futility and suffering, especially from Romans 8:17-30.
"Not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." (Rom. 8:23)
There is a crying need for leaders who say with Thomas, "Let us go up and die with him." We would do well to read the story of Raymond Lull the Medieval missionary to the Muslims of Tunis. He shared the Franciscan "mania for martyrdom" and gave himself to die when he was over 80. Let us listen to Elizabeth Elliot's voice of discipline, and ponder the title of her biography of Amy Carmichael, "A Chance to Die."
10. PITFALL: Giving in to self-pity under the pressures and loneliness of leadership.
The stronger the impulse of self-pity, the more inclined we are to reward ourselves with unusual treats. The more we pity ourselves for how hard life is the more easily we justify a little extra pleasure —even illicit sexual pleasure.
What goes on inside the head of a Christian leader when he is about to fall for the affection of another woman and commit adultery? I don't know. But perhaps something like this:
"Nobody else understands my pressures. Nobody else seems to feel for me in my loneliness the way she does. If any of them knew what I was going through in this leadership role, they would understand why I need this kind of embrace, I need this kind of "unconditional acceptance". I have borne enough of the burden of being everybody's spiritual example, I can't take it any more. And I don't care if they don't approve."
Self-pity is a subtle and deceptive power. It looks so meek and weak. But underneath is the partner of pride and a blind leader into the ditch.
PROTECTION: Embrace the essence of "Christian Hedonism"—the doctrine that no one who suffers the loss of any earthly blessing in the service of Christ will fail to be repaid a hundred-fold now (with persecutions!) and in the age to come eternal life (Mark 10:29-30).
In other words acknowledge that self-pity is unbelief in the promises of Jesus Christ.
Paul had reason to be self-pitying if anyone did. At the end of his life almost all had deserted him in one of his greatest hours of need. How did he handle it?
At my first defense no one took my part; all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the word fully." (2 Tim. 4:16-17)
The Lord—and he alone—must be our portion, or we will cave in to self-pity and all the sin it brings. This is the last defense against sexual temptation—or should we say, offense—the overwhelming power of the beauty of Christ, and the irresistible lure of everlasting fellowship with him.


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I was enjoying a walk downtown with my son recently, when I noticed something wasn't quite right. A man was emerging from the background of other pedestrians, trying to make eye contact. We kept walking.
"Excuse Me! Gentlemen! How much are you paying for your Cable TV right now?"
I could now see that he was carrying handful of glossy flyers for one of the monthly television subscription outfits – Dish network or Comcast or whatever. The same stuff that floods my front mailbox in far greater quantity than my ability to use it as kindling to start the woodstove on winter evenings.
"Nothing", we both said almost in unison, "We don't have TV."
"No TV? What about Netflix? Hulu? TiVo? Google or Amazon? We can beat 'em – first month is FREE!"
"Nope – none of it. Sorry, we gotta go but good luck with your work today!"
The solicitor was left slightly speechless. To be fair, my last line was a slight lie just for the sake of getting out of the sales pitch. We do rent movies from Google Play occasionally, but this mildly stressful street scene made me realize two things:
- Fuck, when are these slimy cable TV companies going to let up on their relentless burying of our world in their misleading "first month free" marketing campaigns? The level of promotion is always inversely proportional to the underlying usefulness of the product.
- Man, am I really that much of a weirdo, not subscribing to any of these things that everyone else seems to use? Am I depriving my son of a normal upbringing?
But this bit of introspection goes along very well with a few other things I've noticed over the course of this summer. I think of them as a contrast between Mr. Money Mustache and "normal" people, and I have been pondering them for a while, deciding if I should consider becoming more normal myself.
Should You Strive to be Normal?
Normal people seem to be on a constant quest for action and activity. They'll plan three lunches with friends for next week, and a weekend of drinking and motorboat riding. Every night they'll watch TV, and on special occasions they will go out for movies, concerts or dash off to the next state to catch a football game or an eclipse. A really successful normal person is almost never at home.
I can definitely relate to the desire for activity. I'm incapable of spending more than an hour on the couch or sitting at the beach. During vacations, I have to find physical work projects to keep myself happily occupied. I've discovered that even one day of zero productivity is bad for me: if I stop doing things, I stop wanting to do things, and pretty soon I'm just lazing around on the couch or taking 11 am naps. For me, inactivity leads to a depressive boredom.
Perhaps this is why normal people strive to keep themselves so busy. If you had a choice between "depressed naps on the couch all day" and "busy day including shopping, a lunch date, front-row Denver Broncos seats and then catching the late show at the movie theater", you might choose the second option.
And even if you don't have the time or the cash for a big expensive day like that, you might choose "A few hours of highly engaging strategy video games" or "Game of Thrones binge with my boyfriend" over the depressing alternative of Nothing.
Mr. Money Mustache's Shocking Abnormality
Only after carefully studying normal people have I realized my own abnormality. I haven't had TV service since 1999, and I only catch the most highly-recommended movies from friends about once a month. I love books, but only get through about one of those per month as well – there always seems to be something more pressing than sitting down on the couch to read.
I never understood the joy of watching other people play sports, can't stand tourist attractions, don't sit on the beach unless there's a really big sand castle that needs to be made, don't care about what the celebrities and politicians are doing, and while I definitely get into live music, it still only happens about once every few months in practice.
Even wholesome outdoor recreation can be hard for me: I enjoy a good hike, but I'd rather hike around as part of volunteering to build a new trail or put up a yurt on a friend's mountain property. I tried a day of wakeboarding with friends just recently and while it was a thrill to get up on that wave and swim around in the lake, my brain was calling me back to more productive (and less beer-soaked) pursuits the next day.
Instead of all this, I seem to get satisfaction only from making stuff. Or maybe a better description would be solving problems and making improvements.
If I'm visiting your house, we'll have a boring day if we play board games, but a great one if we rake the leaves and dig some trenches for an irrigation system. Even emptying out your closets so we can organize your stuff and maybe build in a few new shelves would rank higher than passive pursuits.
If you leave me alone for a day (unfortunately quite rare in my current family life), I'll have a joyful time rotating between carpentry, weight training, writing, playing around with instruments in the music studio, making lists and executing tasks from them.
Ok – Fine for You, Weirdo, but what does this have to do with Me?
It's already well-known that Mr. Money Mustache has unusual habits. They wouldn't work for everyone. But you'll note a few things that most of them have in common:
- they don't cost much to do (and some of them even generate money)
- most of them tend to increase your physical health
- they're also good for your mental health and sense of life satisfaction
So, if you already have plenty of money, you should go right on ahead and continue with the more expensive entertainment options. But if you have any use for more money, it could pay very well to at least consider some of the free or profitable things.
If your health and body are already exactly where you want them, it makes sense that you might continue your convenience-based habits like driving around in a car and hiring people to do the dirty work around your house.
Walking that 30 minutes a day on your lunch break is giving you exactly the physical results you want, right?
Or maybe not.
And if that's the case, it would seem logical to re-evaluate that leisure time.
And perhaps you already get plenty of mental work done: your to-do list is always completely checked off, tax return is always early, and you understand all your financial accounts perfectly and where the money is going. Easy! And if so, it makes sense that you'd take a break and relax with the TV news, or perhaps the Game of Thrones or the Xbox.
If not, it would only seem logical to shut off this stream of interruptions and open up space for something else.
But Mr. Money Mustache, I Enjoy These Things! Don't take them away from me!
This is probably the root of the problem, and the difference between an average life and a life of deep, radiant satisfaction.
It doesn't matter what you enjoy. It matters what's good for you.
I enjoy pumpkin cheesecake and key lime pie, but I only eat them a few times a year. I also like salads, but let's be honest, they are not on the same level as Pumpkin Cheesecake. My heart is beating faster just thinking about it right now. But I eat big salads twice a day.
Yet the salads deliver much, much more happiness, because they allow me to continue to run around and explore the world, climbing trees and jumping off rooftops, while the cheesecake would have me in stretch pants and an extra-wide golf cart seat.
It seems obvious when you put it in terms of food. But the same tradeoff applies with all sources of recreation and entertainment. You don't have to be as compulsive as me, but you do have to make some changes to your habits, if you expect your life to change.
Now with all this puritan advice properly laid down, we can all relax and realize that there are no absolutes – life is a balance. There is plenty of room in life for both productive and unproductive activities. The problem is that most people have the balance tilted too far towards the latter.
So if your life needs a boost, try giving up something you "enjoy", and replacing it with something that improves your life.


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Symposium spotlights clean-technology solutions
Through the Cleantech to Market program, scientists and students are working together to bring new, environmentally friendly innovations to the world.
January 10, 2014
In the atrium of Sutardja Dai Hall, a screen displayed real-time results as audience members texted votes they based on what they'd just seen on stage.
It wasn't a campus version of American Idol. The audience was voting on favorites from a spate of innovative, environmentally friendly energy technologies being developed and refined through Cleantech to Market (C2M), a unique collaboration of UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The technologies – eight in all – were presented to approximately 150 faculty and staff members, students, scientists and energy-industry professionals at the Cleantech to Market program's fourth annual symposium. Making the presentations were teams of graduate students who'd been working closely with UC Berkeley and Berkeley Laboratory scientists through the program. The students' goal: figure out how to take the scientists' work out of the lab and into the world via commercialization.
"The problem we're solving for the scientists is that they've been achieving technical scientific breakthroughs but not market breakthroughs," explains Brian Steel, co-director of the Cleantech to Market program. "Unless you can translate those breakthroughs into terms the market is willing to value, it becomes increasingly difficult to get the next research grant or keep your best scientists working on something."
C2M was launched in 2008 as a pilot program by the Berkeley Lab and the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative. It later expanded via a partnership with Berkeley's Haas School of Business, which created a Cleantech to Market course as part of its Berkeley Innovative Leader Development program.
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists submit low-carbon energy projects they've been working on, and those that are picked for the program are assigned to teams of Haas students working with graduate students from a variety of other campus schools. Each team then does exhaustive market research, identifying potential customers, investors and industry partners and addressing roadblocks to commercial development.
"UC Berkeley is perfectly positioned to do something like this," says Steel. "It's one of the preeminent research universities in the world. There's an amazing array of fundamental research going on, particularly in the clean-tech area. And the caliber of students here across a wide variety of programs is top notch. We draw from 20 programs, and this wouldn't work if half of them were substandard. But we can get world-class students in all these different disciplines."
Haas MBA candidates and Cleantech to Market participants Michael Lebow and Jonathan Lim say it was the chance to dip into that deep pool of talent that drew them to Berkeley in the first place.
"C2M was one of the key reasons I came to Haas," Lebow says. "The Bay Area has an incredibly strong cleantech scene, and Cleantech to Market offers a hands-on opportunity to get involved."
"The technology we were able to work with was fascinating, and the mentorship of [C2M program co-director] Beverly Alexander and Brian Steel was top-notch. However, the best part of the course was the team itself," says Lim.
This year's teams focused on such cutting-edge ideas as using tobacco as a biofuel and developing a "smart" window that adjusts itself depending on the weather. The audience voted on its favorites in three categories. The "People's Choice" award went to a team presenting a method for reducing the amount of gas vented into the atmosphere during "fracking" operations in remote locations. The "Rocked It!" award went to a presentation on a more efficient way of measuring power distribution, while "Game Changer" went to Lim's team, which had done a market-feasibility study for a solar-powered pump that could provide clean, low-cost drinking water in the developing world.
"The symposium was an incredibly valuable component of the C2M class," says Lebow, who served as team lead on the venting-reduction project. "The format of the class forced us to develop a pitch early in the process, while we were still in the research stage. This felt a little backward at the time, but proved to be crucial to our success. It taught us how important it is to start thinking about your message early on and how you must craft your story to deliver a clear message to your audience."
Haas MBA candidate Brett Foreman, team lead for the power-distribution system project, also cites the emphasis on clear, concise messaging as one of the most important takeaways from his symposium experience.
"The presentation allowed the team to practice developing a simple story about a complex technology and industry – a task not to be underestimated," he says.
According to Steel, the awards were a way to add some fun to the proceedings, but they can also portend future success. For instance, last year's "People's Choice" winner, a system for saving energy by optimizing the pressure in buildings' air ducts, incorporated under the name Slice Energy and went on to secure a $95,000 grant from the California Energy Commission. In fact, since UC Berkeley got involved with the Cleantech to Market program four years ago, 20 percent of the projects have gone on to be incorporated, raising $15 million in investments, grants, awards and revenue. And research and development continues on several other past projects thanks to millions more in grants.
Steel thinks the public presentations at the symposium have something to do with that post-Cleantech to Market success. The teams are coached extensively beforehand, with outside mentors from venture-capital firms and clean-tech companies coming in for critiques Steel calls "tough-love dry runs" that force the students to take a hard look at their presentation skills.
"Hopefully those are life lessons that they will carry with them whatever they do," Steel says. "Whether they're presenting a grant proposal to a committee or presenting to a board of directors, they'll remember what they learned here."


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