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I'll confess: I used to find God and feel sanctuary mostly in certain places.
Church. That was the certain place.
One certain building.
A certain kind of music.
Certain words, spoken by a certain person, in certain ways.
And as certainty has fallen away from my life, I have felt the loss of those certain things.
Slowly slowly slowly though, I've started to find God, to see Love, in new places.
Unexpected sanctuaries, the not-certain--these have become places of joy for me lately.
This week, I found God in blue skies.
I found God in hidden city gardens.
I found God at the Granada Theater, singing along with The Oh Hellos.
I found God in the embrace of my family.
I found God on my yoga mat, in deep breaths and deep gratitude.
If God is, as I was always taught, omnipresent, present everywhere, then this should be no surprise to anyone. But somehow it's been a surprise to me
Sanctuary, it turns out, is everywhere.
I just didn't know how to see it, outside the certain places.
And maybe I needed to leave the certain places, to find the sanctuary that is everywhere.
I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave, you are there.
If I ride the wings of the morning,
If I dwell by the farthest oceans,
even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
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So, what are we doing this year and why??
Just three races, that's it. A thing called The Northburn 100 in Otago, New Zealand, the UTA 100 come May and the CCC in August. I might be doing a night race later this week.
Why? Why do this? Obsession, boredom or fatalism? Self hate? I can not say for sure but I do know, that on the day I race, running, then plodding headlong into the unknown, doing something outside normal, it conjures a feeling nothing else can manage. Maybe Sky divers get it too and can keep at it all day, I do not know.
Running ultras on trails takes time to prepare and patience to enjoy. It makes the rest of life easier too. You start using the same tools, doing what you can, trying to find what works, then sticking to and improving on a winning formula.
I am quite late to all this, I used to think I was a 'lucky', soul who did not really have to try at life, it just worked out. It wasn't, I wasn't.
Since doing these events and admittedly for a time before, getting other parts of my life in order, I have started to do a little better. It's making a difference. To me, anyway. My family might disagree.
So 2016, it's only three races, 360 and a few km long with 20 500m + up, I think the same down? I hope the other side of life goes well for me, it's the main contest.
I plan to keep this page a little more up to date and even do some retrospective gazing at what went right and wrong in 2015. For my sake, to be honest.
And I'm still wearing silly shoes/sandals 🙂 and maybe some sensible ones.

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Simon Fayers, a member of our association since 2002, is putting his Frances 26, Shebeca on the market. He is only the second owner of the yacht since new. She is advertised through Boat Shed and the Barbican Yacht Agency with a reduced asking price of £20,950. However, Simon would be prepared to accept a sensible offer below that figure if selling direct to an association member or potential member. An Association Member might be able to buy SHEBECA for as little as £18,950 provided they deal only with Simon Fayers and do not involve the brokers in any way. Although Shebeca has just been lifted out of the water for the winter, Simon is willing to deliver her by sea to any South or East Coast harbour once a deal is done or organise transport by lorry, when the costs would be borne by the purchaser.
If anyone would like to strike a private deal with Simon then they should contact him by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and not contact or register with either of the brokerages mentioned above.
Frances 26 Built 1981. GRP long keel construction. L.O.A. 26' Beam 8' 2" Draft 4'. Head room 6'. Displacement 6800lbs. Ballast, lead encapsulated 3500lbs. Hull speed 6.5 knots. SSR 10362.
Latest survey October 2010.
Hull Epoxied 1997. Rudder re-sheaved and epoxied 2011.
Rigging etc Standing rigging 2014. Plastimo roller furling system 2014. Lazy jacks 2013. Spinnaker pole telescopic.
Sails 3reef mainsail 2011. Working jib, genoa, ghoster, cruising chute, storm jib, spare main. All in excellent condition. Plus original self tacking jib and boom if required.
Covers Sail covers, pram hood and canvas winter cover plus dodgers.
Engine Yanmar 1GM, new 1995 plus 40ltr stainless steel fuel tank 1995. New wiring 2010. Two 85Ahr batteries new 2015. New engine mounts 2012.
Anchors CQR 25lbs with 35 metres of 5/16ths chain. Bruce kedge 15lbs with chain and warp
Tenders 2 man plastimo, new 2014. Dinghy RYDS 235 with 2.2hp Suzuki available separately.
Navigation Lowrance HDS 5m chartplotter GPS, Link 8 AIS, VHF , 2013. Log and echosounder raytheon 2000. Plastimo steering compass. Marine FM/AM radio 2013. Barometer, hydrometer and clock.
Steering tiller autopilot Simrad, new 2015. Plus, Windvane self steering trimtab clearway.
Safety equipment 4 man valise rorc liferaft in service 2017. Plastimo lifebuoy and line, lifeline, jackstays, offshore flare pack, 2x whale bilge pumps, dry powder fire extinguishers x2 2015, fire blanket, blipper radar reflector, 2x hydrostatic lifejackets. Wooden seacock bungs, bolt croppers. Bosuns chair.
Galley Stove, Origo 3000 2 burner spirit stove on gimbals 2010. Whale fresh water pump, flexible water tank approx. 50 ltr, full set of cutlery etc. Stainless steel sink. Cool box.
Heads Jabsco new 2001, seacocks new 2001.
Miscellaneous equipment 8 fenders, warps, paraffin lamps, 6 internal DC lights, table and half size chart table, ensign with staff, plenty of lines, anchor ball and cone, new seat covers and curtains and lots more.
Tax status tax paid.
Shebeca is set up for single handed or short handed off shore sailing and in excellent condition afloat for 5 months of the year.
Price reduced to £21,500 18 January 2017
Price reduced to £20,950 8 April 2017
Association member price reduced 7 May 2017
Asking price for SHEBECA is now £17,500 if bought by a member of the association dealing directly with Simon; no brokers!


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New Statements Provide State-of-the-Art Transparency
Nationwide Energy Partners new multifamily customer statements provide state-of-the-art transparency to residents and managers.
In a world of burgeoning smart appliances, always-on media devices and multiple charging stations for tablets and phones, sometimes the first step to taking control of energy costs is just understanding utility bills. Property managers experience the same challenges as residents and condominium owners when they try to determine unit and common area energy costs.
That's why Nationwide Energy Partners has now reinvented the utility bill to show residents of multifamily units their patterns of electricity and water usage through understandable graphics and comparisons to the average cost in their buildings. These industry-leading customer statements offer residents more information and insight, empowering them to become more energy conscious and efficient.
The new Nationwide Energy Partners one-page bill shows:
A quick view of total charges, due date and easy access to customer service
Bar graphs with 12-month average daily costs for both electricity and water
A clear summary of monthly electricity and water costs for the apartment or condominium unit itself and separate costs for common areas
Monthly temperature average to help understand seasonal or weather-related usage
"Clarity and transparency set the new Nationwide Energy Partners utility statements apart from those of other multifamily service companies," said Mike Palackdharry, President of Nationwide Energy Partners. "That commitment to honesty and clear communications increases residents' satisfaction levels while saving time for property owners and managers."
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With 18 percent of the U.S. population living in multifamily communities, Nationwide Energy Partners is committed to helping to improve the resident experience through transparency, access to data, and energy innovation. NEP is uniquely positioned to provide energy efficiency solutions to the multifamily industry that was underserved before now.
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Exclusive: Robert Englund scares new nightmare for Gen-Y in 'Last Showing'
You thought you were safe from the nightmares on Elm Street…well not anymore!
The man of your dreams (Robert Englund) returns THIS HALLOWEEN — (YES 2014!) — to cause new nightmares for Gen-Y in new psycho-chiller 'Last Showing'.
I know I'm THRILLED!
Plot centers around Stuart Lloyd — a cinema projectionist 'Lifer' played by Englund who goes out exacting revenge on the new gen of movie-goers when he's laid off at the multiplex due to his outdated skill set.
Using CCTV cams, Stuart creates his own Horror film using real people he 'stalks' off the street for a very *special* midnight screening…
'Last Showing' was recently acquired by SONY Pictures Home Entertainment for a UK release — BUT: RUMOR HAS IT ALL U.S. territories have also been acquired — sooo…here's hoping this new nightmare SCARES AUDIENCES BACK INTO THEATRES.
I know I'm THERE!
Written & directed by Phil Hawkins — starring 'Horror Legend" Robert Englund (aka: Freddy Krueger) — Brit actors Finn Jones (Game of Thrones) & Emily Berrington (24, The White Queen) — 'The Last Showing' hits London screens as the OFFICIAL SELECTION AT FRIGHTFEST ON AUGUST 22ND (!!!) and world-wide screens on VOD August 25th followed by DVD in November -December.
*Frightfest 2014 runs August 21-25 @ ONE OF MY FAVE LONDON CINEMAS: Vue West End Cinema Leicester Square.
Until then…check out the sweet trailer:


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Abigail Wark wants to see your areolas.
But only if you are a participant in the Personal Genome Project, a research effort to find 100,000 volunteers as research subjects in the public domain — contributing data from their genomes, microbiomes, health records, tissues and more.
The project comprises 16 research groups that want to study different aspects of the data. Scientists from each group are meeting on Tuesday in Boston with a group of 150 volunteers whom the project's executive director, Jason Bobe, calls "omic astronauts," from the "ome" in words like genome. This is the fifth annual GET conference; the initials stand for genomes, environments and traits.
"We're prototyping a legal and technical infrastructure for sharing data," Mr. Bobe said.
The project started in 2005 with 10 volunteers, called the P.G.P. 10, including noted scientists like the psychologist Steven Pinker, the technology expert Esther Dyson, and the project's founder, the geneticist George M. Church.
Since then more than 3,360 participants have enrolled and the genetic data for more than 600 have been posted online. Ultimately, the data could be used to answer countless questions about the body; the immediate goal is just to collect the data.
Dr. Wark, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Tabin Laboratory at Harvard Medical School, studies variation in the human areola, the circular patch of differently colored skin around the nipples. "One of the wonderful things about a process like GET labs," she said, "is instead of asking single-trait, single-gene questions, we can say, 'Let's look at everything we can collect about breast biology.'
"We're casting a big net," she continued. "There's so little known about these questions that we're not in a place to target highly specific investigations."
Working with the Personal Genome Project, she has collected measurements and images of the areolas of 150 people so far. One initial finding is that the diameter of the areola seems unrelated to the number of areola glands — the small bumps in the skin surrounding the nipple.
Dr. Wark says that with data from more than 200 people, researchers will be able to look at which genes control that variation.
The project depends on volunteers' open consent. With the amount of data being shared, participants cannot be guaranteed of anonymity or privacy. While their names are not directly associated with their data, other information about them is, including birth dates, genders, ZIP codes, genomes and medical histories.
Because of the privacy concerns about this data, all participants must pass an entrance exam to ensure that they are informed of the risks of participation — for example, the possibility of discrimination in obtaining life or disability insurance. Because these participants have given such broad consent, researchers have leeway to ask them for follow-up data to conduct new experiments.
Once this data is in the public domain, it is there forever. Some of the risks mentioned in the consent form sound like the stuff of science fiction, like the possibility that someone could plant samples of synthetic DNA to frame a participant for a crime, or use the DNA to create human clones without a participant's knowledge.
But for Beau Gunderson, a software developer in Seattle who enrolled in 2010, "the benefit both for me having access to my genomic data and for the larger scientific community having access to a large pool of well-consented data made it seem like it was worth it," he said, adding that he was partly motivated by his mother's experience with breast cancer caused by a specific gene mutation.
"When somebody goes through something like cancer, you feel very helpless," he said. "There's the desire to help in some way."


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Washington Huskies
Spring is time to learn new faces on Huskies inexperienced offensive line
There was great benefit, Jake Eldrenkamp says, to playing the same position as former Washington Huskies left tackle Micah Hatchie.
Eldrenkamp's first season at UW was 2012, which is when Hatchie took over as the Huskies' starting left tackle. He never relinquished the position, starting every game that season, then again in 2013, then again as a fifth-year senior in 2014.
"To be able to play behind him, watch him, (and) have him be my mentor," Eldrenkamp said, "was unparalleled."
But it also meant that Eldrenkamp, a Bellevue High product, didn't get to play a whole lot.
That is likely about to change.
Washington's new-look offensive line, which lost four of the five players who comprised the starting lineup when last season ended, will rely heavily this season upon Eldrenkamp and similarly inexperienced players.
UW coach Chris Petersen will remind, constantly, that there is no depth chart this time of year — just a "seating chart," as he calls it. But Eldrenkamp has been at left tackle with the No. 1 offensive line throughout the spring, and seems the natural successor to Hatchie after serving as his backup all of last season.
The four guys lining up to his right might not look familiar, either, because what little returning experience the Huskies do have is usually unavailable. Dexter Charles, whose 30 career starts make him by far the most experienced lineman on the team, has been leaving each practice early to attend class. Coleman Shelton, a third-year sophomore who started seven games at right tackle last season, is currently resting his arm in a sling and likely won't practice this spring.
"It's a different culture," Eldrenkamp said. "Obviously we lost seven offensive linemen, so (we have) a lot of young guys. A lot of guys have played, though, so we know what it takes. The older guys have just got to bring the younger guys along."
UW's first-team offensive line (right now, anyway) typically features Eldrenkamp, Dane Crane (zero career starts) at left guard, Shane Brostek (zero career starts) at right guard and Matt James, a redshirt freshman, at right tackle. Andrew Kirkland, a third-year sophomore, has spent time at right tackle, too.
At center is Siosifa Tufunga, who played more last season than anyone in that group … but he played exclusively at guard, where he started UW's final five games. So he is adjusting to a different role.
Tufunga, a fifth-year senior from Long Beach, California, said he played some center earlier in his career, under the previous coaching staff, so the position is not entirely foreign to him.
It's just going to take some getting used to it again.
"It's a lot harder, because I've got a ball now in my hand," Tufunga said after Monday's practice at Husky Stadium. "It's all mental stuff. Just make sure the ball is getting to the quarterback on point and just getting calls down so everyone is on the same page."
Fourth-year junior Jeff Lindquist, one of three quarterbacks vying for the starting job, said Tufunga seems to be adjusting just fine to his new snapping duties.
"Even though he hasn't been playing center, per se, we've been around him quite a bit," Lindquist said. "So he's pretty comfortable.
"He works hard. Any little mistake or error that he has that day, it won't be there the next day."
Petersen said he evaluates players such as Eldrenkamp and Tufunga, who have a decent chunk of game repetitions, differently than he evaluates younger players who might not have actually played yet, saying that "for some of the young guys, it's just like, 'Are you heading to the right guy?' And you can see that very rapidly."
Considering what UW must replace, rapid growth will be required.
"There's just a lot going on with a lot of new, young guys," Petersen said. "And so we're getting close. At times it doesn't look like it, but you put the tape on, and you're going, 'Oh, we're closer than we think they are.' "


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Lyft's Guide to Outside Lands 2016
From August 5th - 7th, Outside Lands will be returning to Golden Gate Park for the ninth year. Which means thousands of boho-dressed music lovers will be swarming the streets of San Francisco. Not sure how to survive the weekend? We've got you covered.
Plan Ahead
Packing list: Be knowledgable about what's allowed on festival grounds. You can bring in an empty camelback or container, blankets, and binoculars. You can't bring in fireworks, lawn furniture, and selfie sticks (heartbreaking, we know). You can find the full list of what's allowed inside here.
Layers, layers, layers: You've heard it once, but we'll say it again. Layer up! Even on the sunniest days, the San Francisco breeze takes no prisoners.
Game plan: Lastly, go in with a game plan. J Cole or Duran Druan? Miguel or Kehlani? Feel free to add this moment to your list of "big life choices." You can also make a custom schedule each day so you don't miss any of your favorite artists.
At The Festival
Trade in your cash for a wristband: Avoid the stress of managing cash and get a festival wristband. Outside Lands is selling high tech wristbands that work the same way as a pre-paid card. Simply add credit to your account and use it at the festival.
Recharge: It's going to be a long weekend and you'll be constantly on the move. Don't forget to take a moment to find charging stations for your phone, as well as water stations to refill your bottle and take a quick break.
Don't limit yourself to music: We get it, it's a music festival. But one of the best parts about Outside Lands is the Bay Area cuisine and local art. So check out the vendors, sip on some wine, and appreciate the art.
Post-Festival Shows
Shoutout to #TeamNoSleep. If you're not ready to call it a night there are more artists to see at Outside Lands Night Shows. Check out the full lineup here.
Avoid the Crowd
Not a fan of crowds? Skip out on fighting your way through festival goers and enjoy Outside Lands from the comfort of your couch via live stream. Or if you want to experience the music in person (minus the thousands of people) you can listen to the performers from comfortable spots in Golden Gate Park. Marx Meadow Path and Bison Field are notable areas.
As the official ride share sponsor of Outside Lands, Lyft will be there to get you to and from the festival. So however you plan on spending your weekend, be sure to do it responsibly and ride with Lyft. Enjoy the festival and we'll see you there!
For all thing Lyft in San Francisco, follow us on Twitter at @Lyft_SF.


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In Windows 7 32-bit, in any browser (chrome, IE, firefox, opera) if I open a file picker either by using the main menu option e.g. 'open page' or 'save page as', or if a file picker appears from interacting with a website e.g. 'download pdf', then the entire browser instantly crashes and shuts downs. With Chrome, it then offers to restart, and all tabs are restored.
I've tried:
- disabling all addons
- shutting down all other programs
This is a recent issue. It only happens in browsers, not in other apps like MS Word or Notepad++. It may be due to the recent installation of some other software, but I don't want to uninstall everything just to find out - if someone can give me a clue as to what might cause this, I could hone in on the culprit.
I've recently installed:
- wuala (i disabled the file system integration)
- qq instant messenger
- hipchat
I'd be grateful if anyone could shed some light on why this is happening, or give me some steps to try and identify the issue.


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By: The National Academy of Science
In the beginning of letter it must be said that genetics is most advanced and undeniable source for the ethnic research It is the most precise science. I red all the genetic studies of Jews conducted in the last two decades however I just used here well known sources available on line. I am a medical doctor and I tried to use just sources which are using understandable language for people not involved in medical and genetic science
First today there are about 13.200.000 Jews around globe.
8.500.000 are Askenazi Jews while the rest is considered Mizrachi (eastern Jews ) and Sepharadic Jews.While they are majority of Jewish population in Diaspora they are a minority of Jewish population in Israel.where the Mizrachi and Sepharadi Jews are dominant.
While Khazars mythologists and anti-Semites were not able to spread their theories to non Askhenazi Jews and to deny their Israelite origin the genetic research mentioned below are focused on Ashkenazi Jews.
1) Efforts to identify the origins of Ashkenazi Jews through DNA analysis began in the 1990s. Like most DNA studies of human migration patterns, these studies have focused on two segments of the human genome, the Y chromosome (inherited only by males), and the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA, DNA which passes from mother to child). Both segments are unaffected by recombination. Thus, they provide an indicator of paternal and maternal origins, respectively.
2) A study of haplotypes of the Y chromosome, published in 2000, addressed the paternal origins of Ashkenazi Jews. Hammer et al. found that the Y chromosome of some Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are also common among Middle Eastern peoples, but uncommon in the general European population. This suggested that the male ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to the Middle East. The proportion of male genetic admixture in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to less than 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, with "minor contribution of European Y chromosomes to the Ashkenazim,"
3) A 2005 study by Nebel et al., based on Y chromosome polymorphic markers, showed that Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than to their host populations in Europe.Nebel concluded that jewish genetics is way much uniform and that the level of non Israelite contribution to Jews is extremely low in comparation to other nation and their non indigenous genetic makeup
Almut Nebel, Dvora Filon, Bernd Brinkmann, Partha P. Majumder, Marina Faerman, Ariella Oppenheim.
"The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East
Wade, Nicholas (January 14 2006)
more recent studies point to a significant female founder ancestry deriving from the Middle East. A 2006 study by Behar et based on high-resolution analysis of haplogroup K(mtDNA), suggested that the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, or "founder lineages", that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool" originating in the Near East in the first and second centuries CE.
Although Haplogroup K is common throughout western Eurasia, "the observed global pattern of distribution renders very unlikely the possibility that the four aforementioned founder lineages entered the Ashkenazi mtDNA pool via gene flow from a European host population."
4) In addition, Behar et al. have suggested that the rest of Ashkenazi mtDNA is originated from 150 women, most of those were probably of Middle Eastern origin.
Behar, M.; Ene Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Alessandro Achilli, Yarin Hadid, Shay Tzur, Luisa Pereira, Antonio Amorim, Lluı's Quintana-Murci, Kari Majamaa, Corinna Herrnstadt, Neil Howell, Oleg Balanovsky, Ildus Kutuev, Andrey Pshenichnov, , Batsheva Bonne-Tamir, Antonio Torroni, Richard Villems, and Karl Skorecki (March 2006). "The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event" . The American Journal of Human Genetics 78 : 48797. doi:10.1086/500307. PMID 16404693.
http://www.ftdna.com/pdf/43026_Doron.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-12-30
Using complete sequences of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), we show that close to one-half of Ashkenazi Jews, estimated at 8,000,000 people, can be traced back to only four women carrying distinct mtDNAs that are virtually absent in other populations, with the important exception of non Ashkenazi jews We conclude that four founding mtDNAs, Near Eastern ancestry, and can be described as a sovely Israelite mtDNA.
This mt DNA was not found in any non Jewish or Semitic people searched (Palestinians, Turks, Kurds, Slavs and others)
Wade, Nicholas (January 14 2006)
Behar, M.; Ene Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Alessandro Achilli, Yarin Hadid, Shay Tzur, Luisa Pereira, Antonio Amorim, Lluı's Quintana-Murci, Kari Majamaa, Corinna Herrnstadt
Jewish populations which have both cultural and physical uniformity, genetic studies have demonstrated most of these to be genetically related to one another, having ultimately originated from a common ancient Israelite population that underwent geographic branching and subsequent independent evolutions.
A study published by the National Academy of Sciences found that "the paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population", and suggested that Jewish communities have remained isolated from neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora Researchers expressed surprise at the remarkable genetic uniformity they found among modern Jews, no matter where the diaspora has become dispersed around the world.[
Hammer, M. F.; A. J. Redd, E. T. Wood, M. R. Bonner, H. Jarjanazi, T. Karafet, S. Santachiara-Benerecetti, A. Oppenheim, M. A. Jobling, T. Jenkins, H. Ostrer, and B. Bonné-Tamir (May 9 2000). "Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome bi-allelic haplotypes".
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97: 6769. doi:10.1073/pnas.100115997.
Moreover, DNA tests have demonstrated substantially less inter-marriage in most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions over the last 3,000 years than in other populations.
Even the archetype of Israelite-origin is also beginning to be reviewed for some Jewish populations amid newer studies. Previously, the Israelite origin identified in the world's Jewish populations was attributed only to the males who had migrated from the Middle East and then forged the current known communities with "the women from each local population whom they took as wives and converted to Judaism".
Research in Ashkenazi Jews has suggested that, in addition to the male founders, significant female founder ancestry also derive from the Middle East, with the current Ashkenazi population descended matrimonially from just four women, or "founder lineages", that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool" originating in the Near East in the first and second centuries CE
Wade, Nicholas (January 14 2006). "New Light on Origins of Ashkenazi in Europe". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/science/14gene.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Retrieved on 2006-05-24.
DNA analysis further determined that modern Jews of the priesthood tribe — "Kohanim" — share a common ancestor dating back about 3,000 years.
This result is consistent for all Jewish populations around the world. The researchers estimated that the most recent common ancestor of modern Kohanim lived between 1000 BCE (roughly the time of the Biblical Exodus) and 586 BCE, when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple. They found similar results analyzing DNA from Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews. The scientists estimated the date of the original priest based on genetic mutations, which indicated that the priest lived roughly 106 generations ago, between 2,650 and 3,180 years ago depending whether one counts a generation as 25 or 30 years,,
This mutations in DNA is used now-days as exclusive Israelite base for comperation with other ethnic groups.
• Karl Skorecki, Sara Selig, Shraga Blazer, Bruce Rappaport, Robert Bradman, Neil Bradman, P.J. Waburton, Monic Ismajlowicz (January 2 1997). "Y Chromosomes of Jewish Priests" ([dead link] Scholar search).
NATURE, Volume 385. http://www.familytreedna.com/nature97385.html
.• ^ a b c "Priestly Gene Shared By Widely Dispersed Jews". American Society for Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. July
The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrahim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E.
The National Academy of Science
non Israelite contribution to askhenazi jews.
There is no jewish race. Showing all the unbeatebale evidence of Israelite Ashkenazi and sepharadic which had less intermarriage than most of other europen nations we must also stress that there is a wey small but existing non jewish contribution in nowdays Ashkenazim Hamer pointed out that it can be about 12% of jenetic pole of askhenazim and about 2% of other Jews Nebel belived that this procentage is about 8,7% while other scientists agree about 12,5% of askenazi jews and abot 7,9-8,2% of owerall jewish population
The proportion of male indigenous European genetic admixture in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to around 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, and a total admixture estimate "very similar to Motulsky's average estimate of 12.5%."
Hammer, M. F.; A. J. Redd, E. T. Wood, M. R. Bonner, H. Jarjanazi, T. Karafet, S. Santachiara-Benerecetti, A. Oppenheim, M. A. Jobling, T. Jenkins, H. Ostrer, and B. Bonné-Tamir (May 9 2000).
"Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97: 6769. doi:10.1073/pnas.100115997.
Just to be clear THIS PROCENTAGE IS EXTREMLY LOW in comparation with other nations/
However it must be said that the ashkenazi levytes have many non jewish genes.Interestingly most of this genes were usally contributed to slavs while the turcik people have little in common with jewish genetics
The khazars-
Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who dominated the Pontiac steppe and the North Caucasus from the 7th to the 10th century CE. The name 'Khazar' seems to be tied to a Turkic verb form meaning "wandering".
In the 7th century CE, the Khazars founded an independent Khaganate in the Northern Caucasus along the Caspian Sea.
Jewish communities had existed in the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast since late classical times. Chersonesos, Sudak, Kerch and other Crimean cities possessed Jewish communities, as did Gorgippia, and Samkarsh / Tmutarakan was said to have had a Jewish majority as early as the 670s. Jews fled from Byzantium to Khazaria as a consequence of persecution under Heraclius, Justinian II, Leo III, and Romanos I.
These were joined by other Jews fleeing from Sassanid Persia (particularly during the Mazdak revolts) and, later, the Islamic world. Jewish merchants such as the Radhanites regularly traded in Khazar territory, and may have wielded significant economic and political influence. Though their origins and history are somewhat unclear, the Mountain Jews also lived in or near Khazar territory and may have been allied with or subject to Khazar over-lordship; it is conceivable that they too played a role in the conversion.
At some point in the last decades of the 8th century or the early 9th century, the Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism, and part of the general population followed. The theory that the majority of Ashkenazic Jews are the descendants of the non-Semitic converted Khazars was advocated by various racial theorists and antisemitic sources in the 20th century,.
Despite recent genetic evidence to the contrary, and a lack of any real mainstream scholarly support, this belief is still popular among groups such as the Christian Identity Movement, Black Hebrews, British Israelitists and others (particularly Arabs) It was first publicly proposed in lecture given by Ernest Renan on January 27, 1883, titled "Judaism as a Race and as Religion." It was repeated in articles in The Dearborn Independent in 1923 and 1925, and popularized by racial theorist Lothrop Stoddard in a 1926
Even if most of Khazars were converted (as they didn't) to Judaism they were attribute to less than 12% to Ashkenazi Jews. There were about 3.000.000 Jews in 8th century.
The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E.
Ashkenazim also descend, in a VERY small way, from European peoples such as Slavs and Khazars. The non-Israelite Y-DNA haplogroups include Q PROBABLY Khazar (2,5%) and R1a1 (typically Eastern European Slavic 10%).
(ALMOST TOTALLY) is one of the highest percentage of genetic uniformity and ancestors genes hereditament among any nation worldwide.
Knowing the makeup of Israeli population (Mizrachi majority and Askhenazi pop. we can say that Israeli Jews are absolutely Israelites today.
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EmptyBUCHEON, South Korea -- The sound and fury of gross-out gore, eardrum-ripping noise effects and a stable of clone-like starlets of plastic beauty signify nothing in "Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp," the alarmingly brainless and sloppily directed follow-up to "Death Bell," a supernatural slasher-thriller that became a summer sleeper hit in Korea in 2008. What the original lacked in budget, it made up for with a plot that gripped with challenging riddles and a surprise (albeit illogical) twist. The sequel by a different director, Yoo Sun Dong, has more cash to burn but couldn't even cobble a plot together beyond the basic premise of a pack of teenagers getting locked up and killed off messily in their high school.
Designed for a summer release like its predecessor, the film's themes of school bullying and cramming may entice post-exam students eager to give their over-drilled brains a vacation. The reputation of the first "Death Bell" could also stimulate broad interest from DVD distributors and genre festivals. Whether this lazy compilation of Korean teen horror, Japanese manga and "Saw" can continue to spin off a franchise like the "Whispering Corridors" series is a question mark.
It's summer break at an elite Korean high school, but the top students stay behind to receive intensive coaching for university entrance exams. Se-hee (Park Ji Yeon) didn't make the grades but her mother bribed the staff to let her join. Hauntings by the ghost of champion swimmer Tae-yeon (Yoon Seung Ah) give students the creeps but their first taste of real fear comes when they discover their head teacher Cha has locked every exit in the building and like Ten Little Indians, they meet a sticky end one by one.
Just as in "Death Bell," the students in the sequel witness their classmates' gruesome murders on a TV screen, with the speaker booming out a question that if answered incorrectly leads to their classmate's death. This time round, the mystery killer does not wait for the answers before executing the victims so the question, which is rhetorical anyway, gets forgotten along the way.
While the original mounted some inventive ways of killing, the sequel just resorts to crude blood-spilling, filmed in poorly lit, hellish camera setups. Only scene worthy of attention is when student Jang-kook is stranded on a corridor and repeatedly attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades. It has the Gothic, apocalyptic taste of "Mad Max."
Even though a full 30 minutes is spent on introducing the core students who had some entanglement with Tae-yeon, characterization is too insubstantial to build up any reaction, sympathetic or otherwise, when seeing them massacred later. Flashbacks simply confuse. Suspense happens on and off, and is mostly spoiled by scenes of students running around shrieking annoyingly.
The supernatural element which should be integral to the central mystery of the murders ends up as a sideline, with Tae-yeon's ghostly presence more of an excuse to show dripping nymphets in swimsuits. Her true relation to Se-hee is also revealed too early giving away much of the twist. The role of new trainee teacher Miss Park (Hwang Jung Eum) is also predictable.
Venue: Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Production companies: NEW presents a Core Contents Media
Cast: Hwang Jung Eum, Park Ji Yeon, Yoon Seung Ah, Yoon Shi Yoon, Kim Suro
Director: Yoo Sun Dong
Producer: Kim Kwang Su
Executive producers: Seo Dong-wook, Kim Kwang Su
Director of photography: Choi Young Taek
Production designer: Lee Shi-hun
Music: Kim Woo Khun
Editor: Steve M. Choe, Lee Jin
Sales: M-Line Distribution
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If you haven't already heard of Skylanders by now, then here is your chance to get in on the action!
Activision has launched Skylanders SuperChargers and it is a big hit this holiday season, making a great gift under that tree!
The world sits in peril, across all Skylands! Kaos, the new evil in town, is on the rampage and you and a super team of SuperChargers are going to save the day! With imminent doom on the horizon, your strong force of fantastic vehicles gets ready to kick some butt and save the day!
It is super fun, well worth the money you'll pay for it, and it will keep your children entertained for hours, with action figures that make the game come alive as they connect their characters to the game and see them pop on screen! These action figures are for play away from the console, too, so great for the imagination, and for collecting!
In SuperChargers you are going to see cars, planes and underwater vessels, which is an adventure in itself and the kids love the new scenery and playtime - the only catch is that you will have to buy some of these separately, which is going to cost you more money, but you can play the game without having to buy all of the new figures. It is beneficial to pick up the new figures, though and they actually make a good idea for stocking stuffer extras in their own right, or for birthday gifts later in the year for a game that keeps on giving!
In this game, any of your Skylanders can use your SuperChargers, but if you pair the right Skylander to the right vehicle, you'll get some interesting additions and changes to your vehicle! Skylanders isn't going to take away game play if you choose to use current Skylanders but is a game that keeps on giving if you decided to pair the game up with the new toys!
Skylanders SuperChargers is available NOW on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, iOS, Xbox 360, so there is plenty to choose from and hopefully something to suit your console! We had a chance to play this on the XBox 360 and it is just as good as any of its Skylanders counterparts.
I would definitely say that our tween and younger children are best suited to get the most from this game, but it is a game that the whole family can play and enjoy, adults and all! I definitely could easily waste the day away playing it, myself, if I didn't have a house to take care of and chores!
Here is a cute little Christmas Skylanders SuperChargers video to get you in the spirit!
Skylanders is available now in all good game stores and online across various stores! You can even follow the official Skylanders Twitter Page, for more!
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Hey everyone! This is a spin-off of the 365 tomorrows thread. Here is the question: If God came to you and said "I am giving you one more year to live, and I'm going to give you a disease, but I will let YOU choose the disease,"
1.) What disease would you choose to have, and why?
2.) How would you spend your last year of life?
I would choose to have cancer again, because it taught me so much about God and myself the first time around. I would spend my year reconnecting with people I have hurt, and ask their forgiveness, and I would accept apologies and forgive those who have hurt me. I would repent my lifetime sins to God and ask for his forgiveness and mercy. I would ask him to make my exit from this life as quiet, peaceful and painless as possible.


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One of the best-loved beach towns on the Catalonian coast, boho-chic Sitges has earned its tag amongst wealthy Catalans as the "St Tropez of Spain". Be it the azure waters, the 17 immaculate beaches, the period architecture, the thrilling restaurant and bar scene, the beautiful marina or just the welcoming, cosmopolitan vibe, Sitges is no ordinary Spanish sea-side town. Just 35kms from Barcelona, close to at least 6 international schools and with year-round cultural events including the famous international film festival, Sitges is an ever-more popular destination for expatriate families and those working in Barcelona who are looking for a great quality of life.
Price: €850,000
Beds: 4
Built size: 344m2
Terraces: 50m2
Pool: Yes
Set in a privileged position overlooking Sitges' chic marina and just 15 minutes walk to the town centre and 10 minutes walk to the beach, you will find this sleek and bright 4 bed, 4 bath, 457m2 deluxe property.
Set across 2 main floors and a semi-basement level, the ground floor comprises a spacious living room with large sliding doors out to the garden, where there is a large, contemporary patio area with decking and lush grass. A elegant dining room leads through to the contemporary fitted kitchen complete with central island and breakfast area. The kitchen leads to a stylish al fresco dining area complete with pergola and outdoor lounge area, which is sheltered enough to enjoy year-round. There is also one bedroom and a bathroom which is ideal for use as an office or children's play area.
Heading upstairs, you will find a master suite with dressing room, 3 further bedrooms and bathrooms and large terrace. On the basement level there is a games room, laundry and two private parking spaces accessed by a communal garage.
As well as a private garden of 260m2, this fabulous property enjoys a communal pool and large green area with trees.


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Avengers Assemble! Experience the first console videogame featuring characters and storylines from the blockbuster film The Avengers and sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron and more. Play as the most powerful super heroes in their quest to save humanity.
The game will be available in Autumn 2015 for the Xbox One all-in-one games and entertainment system; the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system for Microsoft; PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems; PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system; the Wii U™ system from Nintendo; Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system; and Windows PC.


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– A sketch plan is prepared reflecting the outcome of the meeting. A second meeting is then arranged to approve the conceptual design sketch and receive authority to proceed with further work. At this point a preliminary deposit is required to prepare final sketches, materials specification and builders quotes.
Materials Specification
– Depending on the style of the home, an appropriate specification is prepared detailing the materials to be used in construction.
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– A contract is now prepared confirming the scope of works and signed by both parties.
– Architectural plans are now prepared in accordance with our previous discussions and with the approved final sketches.
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– Hawkesbury Valley Homes can now submit the approved architectural plans to council on your behalf.
– All discussion with council are looked after by our staff ensuring smooth progress through this sometimes difficult stage.
– Now, together, we should be organising contracts with our preferred builder or the builder of your choice. Once the building contract is in place, there should be a smooth transition from council to construction.
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– Using our preferred builder draws on his previous experience to make sure your home is built to its unique specifications. We also provide ongoing liaison between you and the builder during the construction period at anytime you require.
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– Hawkesbury Valley Homes encourages the builder to exceed standard building practices to give your finished home a quality and appeal that will last a lifetime.
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– With each of our designs being unique, Hawkesbury Valley Homes endeavours to photograph and document each completed home. This provides us with continual quality control thereby giving each and every client an exceptional design and documentation service.
-Hawkesbury Valley Homes and its Directors are members of the HIA (Housing Industry Association) and the BDA (Building Designers Association) and continually update their skills through professional development programs.
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Well at least it is a bit colder now so the C-word is not as scarey as it was during the Summer months. She & Him are happy out though and raring to go.
As posted last month on the blog October 28th (release date has been pushed back a week) will see the release of A Very She & Him Christmas.
Preview 'The Christmas Waltz' below.


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Lyft's Got Your Ride to Sunset Music Festival
We are excited to be the official rideshare partner of Tampa's Sunset Music Festival! To make your festival experience more complete, we're providing Lyft rides to and from Sunset Music Festival.
Now festival-goers can celebrate responsibly. By entering code LYFTSMF18 in the Lyft app, new Lyft passengers will get $5 off 4 rides to and from Sunset Music Festival. Code is valid from 12AM on Saturday, 5/26 until 3AM on Sunday, 5/27.
To make getting to and from the festival a breeze, we've placed our pickup and drop-off location steps outside of the event exit on Himes Ave. We'll be offering free water, games, and giveaways at the pickup and drop-off location.
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Last December we produced a short film featuring Bal, a young homeless man living in a tent in Brighton. What happened next is remarkable…
Despite being homeless, Bal was holding down a job as an early morning cleaner and living in a tent. He came to First Base to keep clean and warm, to launder his clothes and to get advice and support.
After featuring in our film, Bal was invited for an interview with BHT's Accommodation for Work project and they subsequently offered him a place in the project.
He moved in on New Year's Eve.
I moved in with Accommodation for Work at the end of 2014 and slept in a bed for the first time in six months. Other homeless guys have told me they had trouble adjusting to sleeping in a bed again, but I didn't. The first thing I did was make the bed and fall asleep.
After being here for the first month my body relaxed from the survival mentality that homeless people have, and a few injuries surfaced from sleeping on concrete. I had low iron levels and had to eat loads of green vegetables to get better.
Over the year I have kept my cleaning job as well as passing two courses in Maths and English. I have also completed a work placement at Umi hotel through Business Action on Homelessness, where I got to experience working as a receptionist. I loved working with the public and got to build up my confidence in the workplace.
I've been here for 11 months and have noticed a vast improvement in my confidence and health. I am getting loads of support for my wellbeing, both physically and mentally, and am preparing to move on in the New Year, having saved up the deposit I needed to move on.
BHT has turned my life around and I thank everyone involved for their care and support in my time of trouble.
Bal's story is not an unusual one. We help over a thousand people just like him each year to find their way out of homelessness.
But now we need your help. Please donate to our urgent Christmas appeal for First Base Day Centre.
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You can't go wrong with a colorful medley of classic china and glassware, as shown with this tablescape. Photo: designenthusiasm.com
Colorful Style Tips and Recipes for Summer
Summer entertaining kicks off this week with Memorial Day, which means lots of upcoming cookouts, family gatherings and entertaining. It's an ideal time to update your living spaces with fresh colors and creative table styling. Here are some of our favorite ideas for incorporating red, white and blue in ways that are lively, yet livable.
The Melange Saffron Accent Chest is in a livable red finish that lifts your interiors all year long, adding summer's vibrancy to every season. And right now through May 31, 2017, the chest and all living room accent furniture is on sale at participating retailers for Memorial Day.
As functional as these accent bunching tables are, this accent furniture provides the perfect place for holding snacks and drinks–for entertaining and everyday living.
This clever arrangement features bandana-wrapped silverware in mason jars. The bandanas can then be used as napkins, and the mason jars make great drinkware. It works equally well with silver and plastic utensils.
The creamy white of the Sandcastle Dining Table and Chairs is a classic neutral, and gives you the freedom to get creative with wall color, rug and accessory choices.
Savory Summer Recipes
It's hard to beat the refreshment of a melon, berry and cheese salad like this one; here's the recipe:
Watermelon Feta Blueberry Salad
½ seedless watermelon, cubed (about 8-10 cups)
1 cup blueberries
¼ cup crumbled feta (can use reduced fat)
4 teaspoons mint leaves, chopped
1 lime, juiced
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons honey
¼ teaspoon sea salt
Combine the fruit, mint and cheese in a bowl. Whisk dressing together and lightly toss the salad. Serve immediately. Serves 4.
Firecracker Rice Krispie Treats
Offering a new take on an old favorite, Firecracker Rice Krispie Treats are easily made by adding food coloring during the melted marshmallow step. First, make a traditional batch with no coloring. Then, follow the same steps and add red food coloring to your melted marshmallow mix before adding the cereal. Note, it will take a lot of red coloring to make it appear red. Next, create a batch of blue in the same way—again, lots of food coloring, and some experimentation, to get the right color. Finally, cut the batches into squares of the same size and assemble into mini flag strips.
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Are you looking for something for the Bulldog lover that is unique, beautiful, and handmade? Our Bulldog Mug is decorated with our original Bulldog/floral design on both the front and back of this mug and accented with handpainted stripes on the rim and handle. This roomy mug holds 16 ounces of your favorite beverage and is very user friendly - it is made of stoneware for durability (so feel free to dishwash and microwave) and is decorated using only lead-free and food-safe glaze and decoration. It measures 5" tall and is approximately 3" in diameter.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a business methodology that integrates various operations of an organization. ERP extends almost into every aspect of business process like management, planning, product design, production, sales, marketing, customer support, finance, HR and Maintenance.
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The Lie People Tell Themselves.
I loved my Grandma.
I was there when she woke up from surgery. Both legs amputated from above the knees. Poor diet and a lack of exercise led to diabetes. She always wanted to exercise.
She didn't survive it.
She was old. It was too late. Sometimes getting started is the hardest part.
I know a landscaper. She she starts each day by putting her hands in the dirt and rubbing them together. As soon as her hands are dirty she smears dirt on her clothes.
She told me: "As soon as you get dirty it's easy to get to work".
Sometimes I run.
If I go a few days without running my legs feel like led. I know if I start I'll get through it. If I get through it I'll feel better. I've found the trick is to not think about it too much. Like Nike - "just do it".
I don't have to go very far. Even just a few minutes. A few minutes of running brings running back into my life. I like having running part of my life. I would hate to lose it.
There are people in my life who are important that live far away. I don't see them very much so my habit is to call them every couple of weeks and talk.
If I go longer than a few weeks it gets harder and harder to call. We have less to talk about the more time passes. I can feel them slipping away.
It's like i'm holding on to them as they dangle off the edge of a cliff. Don't let go. If I let go they won't be a part of my life anymore. I've got to be disciplined to hold on.
All I have to do is pick up the phone. Call them. Tell them I love them.
Getting started is the hardest part. I always feel better after I do.
What have you been putting off? Whatever it is just get started.
Getting started is more important than finishing. If you don't start you are never in the game. If you're not in the game you don't know if you would have scored or not. Get in the game.
Don't commit to finishing. You never know; anything could happen to stop you.
But if you don't start you'll never know.
The game of life is like stepping up to a plate in baseball. You can forgive yourself if you swing hard and strike out. But you'll never forgive yourself if you stand there and watch all the balls go by. You've gotta take your swings.
But life is better than baseball. In baseball you only get three swings. In life you get UNLIMITED swings. Every time you start something that matters you're taking another swing.
When you put things off you're letting balls whizz by.
Don't call your mom. WHIZZ - Eventually she'll be gone.
Don't buy that gift for your wife - WHIZZ - You might not get another chance. You might wonder whatever happened to the romance you used to have.
Don't tell you son you love him. WHIZZ - There will come a day when you'll wish you'd said it more.
Don't start exercising and eating right. - WHIZZ - Spend time at the dojo, running, or at the gym. Otherwise you'll have to spend time with the Doctor.
I know. It's hard to start.
But it's also hard to NOT start. When you put things off you don't realize you are making a decision. Procrastination is a decision. When you procrastinate you are saying NO.
People procrastinate because saying yes might hurt. Saying no might hurt too. So they try not to think about it.
But time always decides for you. Time always gives the same answer. Time always says NO.
I like my legs.
That's why I'm going for a run now.


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Medford Chamber of Commerce
Business Directory
To create and distribute a business directory listing every member of the Medford Chamber of Commerce along with their addresses, phone numbers and web addresses.
We designed the directory from front to back, including the cover design with photography of the major business districts in Medford. We listed every member of the Chamber of Commerce alphabetically, categorized by business type.
We also created profiles for businesses to showcase themselves. Each profile included a clean, structured format with space for two images (e.g. - company logo and store photo), contact information, and a few paragraphs about the business. We also made advertising space available throughout the directory.
As added incentive for residents to keep and use the directory, we included a comprehensive listing of important phone numbers, social scene listings and a map of Medford.
To market the directory we created a short web video, social media announcements, web banner ads, a press release, an information sheet and an ad price list. We then managed the print production and mailing of the directory to 15,000 households across Medford.


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"This thoughtful, troubling film from Don Letts shows how a joyful movement became hijacked by thugs and bigots. To the point where even the title of this programme will be off-putting to some. But the precursor to all the hooliganism was a teen obsession with Jamaican ska. Kevin Rowland recalls, 'We saw the Pioneers, we saw Desmond Dekker and we loved them. It was completely multiracial.' And Letts is at pains to celebrate both the fashion before the fascism – reflected in increasingly ugly 70s archive – and the style revival."
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|Soy candles (dulce de leche scent), yummy loose tea, bubble bath bombs, and a soft colorful throw blanket.
No matter what gift you give a girlfriend at Christmas it needs to show that you care for them, and that you put time and thought behind it. Therefore, I put together a pampering package. My guy friend's girl, lives states away so they spend a lot of time apart, therefore it is important that she knows he is giving her a big hug through the cold months even though he isn't physically there. Everything in this pampering package brings warmth, and thought. Accompanied with a handmade card, this gift package will make her truly smile!


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130 Cuello Ct. Unit 102 [MLS] from Lisa Sells Ponte Vedra on Vimeo.
SOLD! This lovely ground floor unit in elegant Meditierra has been recently updated with hardwood floors, stone back-splash, fresh paint, new light fixtures and phantom porch screens. Featuring a flexible floor plan with 3 large sunny bedrooms, an open kitchen and Great room, large air conditioned storage room and two car attached garage. This condo feels like home! The gourmet kitchen has upscale stainless appliances including a Wolf 5-burner gas cook-top, oven and microwave, Sub-Zero refrigerator, granite counters and ample work space--perfect for entertaining. The master bedroom has 2 walk-in closets and an elegant master bath with a soaking tub, double vanities and walk-in shower. This unit is ideally situated with a private patio that enjoys eastern exposure and a wonderful view of the tranquil pond and natural areas. And just 1/2 mile to the beach!
From A1A & JTB (SR 202), go south on A1A. Take a righ on Mickler Rd. Meditierra is on the right and this unit is in the third building on the right (diagonally across from the community park). Unit 102 is on the bottom floor on the right.
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Our inaugural show will be Saturday, March 28, 2015. 8pm, at Pieter Space in Lincoln Heights. Want to buy tickets? Click here.
Showcase Description:
Join us on the evening of diverse short plays and "films-on-stage" from established and emerging female filmmakers and theater artists. From absurdist comedies to evocative dramas, the stories presented feature a range of voices, with an emphasis on originality and boldness. Participating artists are television staff writers, Tribeca award winners, celebrated comedic performers, all female-identifying creators with a new vision they'll be sharing for one night only.
The showcase is open to the public, but we invite potential producers—both film and theater—to search out new works here. We will have an in-depth program on hand, so you may contact our artists about their project—or yours—if you are interested in their work.
One Axe is a quarterly industry showcase and an incubator for new works from female filmmakers and theater artists looking to develop their pieces collaboratively. One Axe functions as a middle ground, filling in the gap between an MFA and continued professional success and operating as a launch pad for new, riskier pieces from established artists who wish to work with other women. We also welcome artists who are looking to make a jump from one creative profession to another within the film and theater worlds, with the central goal of flooding the market with viable, sharp, singular female stories and makers. Sponsored by Final Draft and a node of the Women's Center for Creative Work. Visit OneAxePlays.com for more information.
Spring Showcase Lineup Features:
Wendy C. Ortiz's "Spell"
directed by Meera Menon
Becky Thyre's "Sandbox"
directed by Sabrina Weisz
Anastasia Kousakis's "The Day After the Day After You Were Born"
directed by Leah Anova
LaShea Delaney's "Bet and Flo"
directed by Ashley Nicole Black
Melanie Kirschbaum & Alexandra Decas's "Smart"
directed by Tamar Halpern
Ariana Berkowitz's "Potty Mouth"
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Ok, I did not actually sit down for a chat with any arsonists (not even the amazing actors who play the arsonists, Kimberly Gilbert and Tim Getman), but I did have a fantastic conversation with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's Connectivity Director, Kristen Jackson, Civic Organizer Laurenellen McCann, and Literary Director Kirsten Bowen to talk about Woolly's incredibly trenchant production of Max Frisch's classic The Arsonists. One of the excellent things that we talk about is all the many events and conversations that Woolly is organizing around the show (including open rehearsals and design jams in the run up to technical rehearsals). There are post-show discussions after every show, not as talk backs, but as opportunities for audience members to talk to each other about what they thought. You can find all of these events at the Related Events page on Woolly's main show page for The Arsonists. Coming up next you can be talking Violence and Power with Collective Action for Safe Spaces Executive Director Jessica Raven on the 23rd of September and Complicity and Creating Dialogue with theatre practitioner Elena Velasco on the 30th of September, among others. The Arsonists is already in previews. It opens September 12 and runs through October 8, click here for performance dates.
It was truly excellent have this chat about a great production of play I love that absolutely speaks to our (all too interesting) times. I'm hoping to see you at some of these events, but if not, I hope you check out this production and fight on. #Resist


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Herndon, USA, January 25, 2017 – Blank Page Design Build of Northern Virginia has won "Best Of Customer Service" on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The interior remodel firm has served the Northern Virginia and DC Metro Area for over ten years with exceptional product and service in both commercial and residential developments. Blank Page was chosen by more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.
The Best Of Houzz is awarded annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Design award winners' work was the most popular among the more than 40 million monthly users on Houzz. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2016. Architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award. A "Best Of Houzz 2017" badge will appear on winners' profiles, as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.
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text: In 1890, Mitsubishi acquired Hashima, a coal mine island in the Nagasaki Prefecture. Since then, the fate of the isalnd became interwined with the history of Japan's early industrialization, colonial expansion, total war, and postwar high-speed growth. Hashima is also known as Gunkanjima or Battleship Island because of its eerie resemblance to a battleship. During its peak in the late 1950s, over 5,000 people lived on the island, making its population density the highest in the world. The 15-acre island was therefore a site for modern Japan's many modern engineering and architectural experiments, including Japan's first concrete building and rootop garden. During World War II, among those workers who died on the island were forced laborers from Korea and China. Nonetheless, life improved considerably after the war, and residents were able to enjoy many modern amenities. Some even boasted that the island had everything except a graveyard. In 1974, as coal was increasingly replaced by petroleum as the main source of energy, the mine was closed. As a result, the island has become a vast graveyard and a time capsule of the bygone era of industrial urbanism.


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Morgana's Chamber presents NYC's ONLY appearance of author LaSara FireFox!
Wednesday 5 Oct at 7p we have author LaSara FireFox, author of "Sexy Witch" presents a workshop entitled "Elements of Attraction: Magickal Techniques in Flirting." This is a FREE event! Copies of "Sexy Witch" will be on hand for autographing following the workshop. Please be considerate and do not bring books purchased elsewhere. If you plan to attend the workshop but do not wish to purchase a book, we ask for a $5 donation. We expect this workshop to be jammed so please call the shop soon to reserve your space.
Elements of Attraction: Magickal Techniques in Flirting
How do people pull attention towards themselves? Why do some people get noticed when they move a muscle, and some never get noticed at all?
In this workshop facilitator LaSara W. Firefox will assist you in exploration of the energetics of attention and attraction, and help you learn techniques for creating interaction with the flow.
You will learn simple techniques that posses the power to align your presentation with your desires, and learn how to create the fertile potential for attraction in interaction.
Facilitators warning: Dark Arts: not for the faint of heart. And remember, if you use this tech against someone (i.e., without their consent, without taking into account the larger picture, or in any other way unethically), it may very well bite you in the ass. Hard.
LaSara FireFox is a family traditions Witch and an ordained Pagan Priestess who has been developing and facilitating workshops on sexuality and spirituality for nearly fifteen years. She has contributed to newWitch, Hip Mama, and Penthouse and has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and on Sony Picture Television's "Life and Style," Playboy TV's "Sexcetera, and the Canadian program "SexTV." Sexy Witch, a guidebooks of rituals and spells for boosting sexual self confidence and body awareness, is her first book. Visit her website at: http://www.lasara.us/
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And by first impressions, let me specify, I mean first impressions using this particular device. I have used the Motorola 3412, 6412 and the Pace Vegas TDC-575D dual tuner DVRs on Comcast cable before. So I am
painfully very familiar with the user interface and such.
I switched to the Moto 3416 from the Pace Vegas which had a very nasty bug in that it randomly froze/crashed at the end of playback of previously recorded programs. Comcast/Pace denial aside, this looked like a sneaky file system bug. But what do I know? I'm just a dumb user :-)
The Motorolas look and feel the same. The Pace Vegas is a different pizza box, but only slightly smaller. They have some differences in features and interface, hightlighted in the Pace Vegas blog.
My experience so far has been as expected. The extra hard disk space (160gb) is a nice boost going from 80gb but also a nice boost going from 120gb (33% more). It was so exciting to be able to stop playback without having to cross my fingers hoping it wouldn't crash this time (with the Pace Vegas).
At times it has the notorious remote delay, although so far it seems to have been better than the 3412/6412. But then again, I just got this one and the hard disk is barely 20% full. So I should give it some time before making any general comments on this.
No issues with On-Demand so far. Each time I was able to quickly get to On-Demand, watch or browse around and exit gracefully. Be sure to check out On-Demand, a number of series premieres are available there such as the new reimagined Bionic Woman and Journeyman. Also for SciFi fans, there are two 15-minute features on BBC America's Torchwood, along with the already aired episodes.
I noticed a couple of minor issues, twice the audio disappeared from the live tuner, but changing the channel brought it back. I believe this is a known Moto issue and it's not a big deal because I believe the recorded program has the audio intact.
The other issue I noticed was last night when watching a recording of Heroes from NBC-HD, the signal got pixelized and some fractions of a second were lost. Not sure if this was my connections, the signal, the DVR, the local station, etc, etc. I'll check with other HD programs first.
I am also going to be starting two posts that will be updated throughtout. One of them will be a daily update blog log of any issues or other observations or gossips :) The second post will be a list of how much disk space programs from different channels takeup. This will be a good reference so you can plan ahead your recordings.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
First impressions on the Moto 3416 DCT I
And by first impressions, let me specify, I mean first impressions using this particular device. I have used the Motorola 3412, 6412 and the Pace Vegas TDC-575D dual tuner DVRs on Comcast cable before. So I am
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I have been collecting Lexar SDXC 2000x UHS-II/U3 SD cards, which claim to have read speeds "up to 300MB/s." These cards use an extra set of pins on the back to achieve such fast transfer speeds, but there's a catch: your cameras and card readers must be compatible with UHS-II in order to take advantage of the increased speeds. Without explicit compatibility, these cards perform no better than inexpensive SD cards.
Some high-end cameras, like the Sony A7R II, can't take advantage of fast SD cards. In this SD card speed test, the Sony never exceeds 35.27 MB/s, which means that cards like the Lexar 633x UHS-I/U3 SD card, which are less than half the cost, work just as well (and also support 4K video in Sony cameras like the A7R II and RX100 IV/V). This Lexar UHS-I/U3 card is starting to be hard to get, but Sony's equivalent card is a few dollars more and also works well.
I am currently on assignment in London capturing about 200GB a day in still images. Copying and backing up such large amounts of data is a huge pain, and the built-in SD card slot in my MacBook Pro was getting an average of around 45 MB/s when reading from the 2000x. Switching to the $8.95 Kingston Digital MobileLite G4 USB 3.0 card reader, which supports UHS-II cards, tripled my read speeds to 140 MB/s (2000x SD card) and 100 MB/s (1000x SD card). This turns 75 minutes of copying into 24 minutes—an amazing time savings for a $9 dongle!
The Lexar SD card reader that comes bundled with 2000x-speed cards is also supposed to be even faster, and the standalone Lexar SR2 card reader is supposed to be the fastest, but it's relatively bulky when used outside of the Lexar Workflow Hub, in which it was designed to dock.
If you're using fast media cards, make sure you have the right accessories to take advantage of them!


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Solid strategy forms the foundation for our best event, programs and campaigns. There are often many moving parts to a strategic plan and our big picture approach helps achieve synergy between them all, while dovetailing with your business processes in order to secure results. Our team of strategic partners is an integral part in the execution of our client's events, programs, and campaigns.
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I'm just going to put it out there: I'm prejudiced. Now, before you go getting your panties all in a twist, I'm not talking about the Donald Sterling type of prejudice, or even the Mark Cuban type of prejudice. I'm talking about garden variety prejudices, the kind every single human being on the face of this earth has.
We are all prejudiced in one way or another. We all have preconceived notions, feelings of like or dislike for someone or something, especially when it is not reasonable or logical.
I have a prejudice against stupid people. By "stupid," I'm not singling out people with "low" IQs as measured by those inane tests we all took as children before educators wised up and realized that there is more than one type of human intelligence; I'm not singling out people who don't live up to their full potential, that full potential being some arbitrary measure; I'm not even singling out people who just aren't that ambitious. I'm talking about "stupid" as defined by the people who write dictionaries.
If you look up the word "stupid" in the dictionary, there are at least six different meanings:
(i) lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull;
(ii) characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question;
(iii) tediously dull, especially due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party;
(iv) annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio;
(v) in a state of stupor; stupefied; stupid from fatigue;
(vi) Slang. excellent; terrific.
My particular prejudice is against those people who fall into the "foolish" and "senseless" category, the "inane" and "pointless" category, or the "annoying or irritating" and "troublesome" category. I'm talking about people who wouldn't know their own limitations if those same limitations bit them in the rear end. People who cannot read their native language (whether English or something else) with enough comprehension to find their way out of a paper bag are annoying and irritating. People who overestimate their capabilities without empirical evidence of same are foolish and senseless. People who stick to their interpretation of events and ideas without any basis for same are tediously dull, lacking meaning or sense.
In other words, stupid people drive me crazy. I want to shake them until their teeth rattle and they can see common sense and logic. I want to make them see that simply WANTING or DEMANDING that something be a certain way won't make it so. I'd rather walk the earth knowing that their particular brand of stupidity and lack of comprehension has been magically erased as if by one of those disturbingly perfect pink rubber blobs on the end of a pencil. Dealing with people who are foolish, senseless, inane, pointless, annoying, irritating or troublesome is just, well, troublesome, and it leaves me stupid from fatigue.
Thank you for allowing me the space to rant. We can all now return to our regularly scheduled lives.


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Second Sunday Dinner | MIDTOWN
Every second Sunday of the month
7:30pm – 8:30pmCategory: Connect Event
Come grab dinner with the OSNY Midtown crew after the service on the second Sunday of every month. We will walk to a restaurant in the neighborhood and eat together following Sunday night service.
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Food Bank of Virginia Peninsula
Website: {{http://www.nnfoodbank.org}}
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and self-reliance through education.
The Food Bank warehouse/office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. Our volunteers hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Wednesdays are 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.). While the Food Bank has no minimum requirement of hours to be met, we do ask that all volunteers fill out an application prior to beginning any work assignment.
Contact Information
Maria Quigley
Volunteer Coordinator
757.596.7188 ext. 154
Donna Tighe
Food/Fund Drive Manager
757.596.7188 ext. 101
9912 Hosier St.
Newport News, VA 23601


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text: Couscous is very nutritious and it has twice the amount of nutrients found in pasta. According to historians, couscous originated from North Africa. It is a staple dish in some countries in Europe and the Middle East. It is usually served with meat or as a side dish. It can also … [Read more...]