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Are there limits to genealogical research?
Part of the complication of a discussion in this area, is the issue of the infamous genealogical "brick wall." Anytime further research is characterized as a brick wall, there is an unspoken assumption that some kind of further research involving hitherto unavailable records, will continue to extend the pedigree. The literature is replete with anecdotal examples of researchers finding the long lost relative. I have no reason to doubt that there are circumstances when additional records become available or a different research approach leads to an extension of an existing line. Often, the brick wall situations involve looking for the wrong person, or in the wrong place or at the wrong time. However, by looking at research as always open ended, you could argue that given the proper circumstances, someone really could extend their family line all the way back to Adam.
Back to the question, is there a practical and reasonable end to research? Or can all barriers be overcome? Let's start with a common problem, lack of identity of a father (or even a mother) of a living person. Suppose, the individual was born out of wedlock, and in a not too uncommon case, the father is not identified in any birth record, either because the mother refused to disclose the father or because the mother may not have known who the father was. By the way, I deal with this issue regularly. But, you say, you can still research the mother's line (back to Adam or whatever). But does the identity problem really stop any further research? There may be circumstances where this obstacle to obtaining information has been somehow resolved, through DNA testing or whatever, but what if the paternity issue is more than a few years back in the past? There have been a few highly publicized cases where paternity has been "proved" historically by DNA or other means many years after the fact. But, absent a prominent historical figure, it is unlikely that anyone would commit the resources needed to overcome the lack of historical data.
So, does the lack of identity of a father for a child constitute a practical or even a reasonable limit to further research. My conclusion would depend on the circumstances. In most cases, unless there is a breakthrough in record availability, the lack of identify is a limit to the extension of that particular line. A similar issue exists in the past, depending on the area of the world, with the recordation of maternal surnames. If the mother's family was not recorded, there may be a practical or reasonable end-of-line situation. In some countries, such as China and Japan, records do exist back thousands of years, but in Western Europe, information on individuals, other than royalty, are extremely scarce before 1000 AD.
What I see as a problem with the failure to come to a reasonable end to genealogical research, is that the family doing the research may become fixated on the brick wall problem to the exclusion of any other research. In some cases, it may be realistic to acknowledge lack of identity of a wife's parents, as a reasonable limit to the extension of that particular family line.
Some apparent end of line situations are very likely solvable. For example, the immigration problem, that is, tying the immigrant to his old world country or origin. Although difficult at times, this is an area where additional information may actually help determine the place of origin.
Can I avoid the whole issue by merely tying into one of the diverse royal families and thereby gain the requisite pedigree (again back to Adam)? Well, yes, they did have descendants. But, the old royal pedigrees are not substantiated for the most part. An individual may get some satisfaction from believing that they are descended from royalty, but that is not real genealogy. (My opinion).
What then is real practical limit to records that can be used for constructing a pedigree? No, I do not believe the old Court House burning problem is a practical or reasonable end to research. Yes, records have been lost, but the last time I checked, courthouses were not the only place records were kept.
Yes, there are practical and reasonable limits to the extension of family lines. At some point, all lines reasonably end. Looking at the time, the place and the actual availability of records in general will give the researcher an opportunity to determine if the time and effort might be better spent on other family lines.
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"Can I avoid the whole issue by merely tying into one of the diverse royal families and thereby gain the requisite pedigree (again back to Adam)? Well, yes, they did have descendants. But, the old royal pedigrees are not substantiated for the most part. An individual may get some satisfaction from believing that they are descended from royalty, but that is not real genealogy. (My opinion)."ReplyDelete
It's an incorrect opinion. You've confused two things. I don't believe in lines going back to Adam either. However, I can verify using modern genealogical standards, my line back to medieval royalty and that royalty back to the early dark ages (about 400-600 A.D.). So it is real genealogy and real history.
The real question is where does genealogical research end as a practical and reasonable endeavor?
As a response to the following article and the real question above.
The real question is where does genealogical research end and history takes over?
BIOLOGICAL-Genealogical primarily indicates biological relationship; BLOOD-BASED KINSHIP, ancestral heredity. Establishing the presence is in part found upon showing actual physical/hereditary connections (THE FAMILY TREE) between ancient ancestors and their descendants.
Their are two type of genealogies found in ancient literature. The LINEAR genealogy gives a single (1) line of descent from an ancestor. The SEGMENTED genealogy, of which Genesis 10 is one, describes more than one (1) line of descent from an ancestor. It was used for different purposes including POLITICAL, LEGAL, DOMESTIC AND RELIGIOUS purposes. It emphasized group interrelations over against individual relationships.
For my own family history (not professional), when I have the luxury of years to do it, I tend to focus on the other family lines when I hit a brick wall. After a few years I go back to the brick wall ancestor, and new records have opened up or I get new ideas from the things I've learned and sometimes break through.ReplyDelete


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Twenty-five years ago I had a dream, a daydream, if you will. A dream shared with many of you. I dreamed of a special kind of computer, which had eyes and ears and arms and legs, in addition to its "brain." I did not dream that this new computer friend would be a means of making money for me or my employer or a help for my country - though I loved my country then and still do, and I have no objection to making money. I did not even dream of such a worthy cause as helping the poor and handicapped of the world using this marvelous new machine. No, my dream was filled with the wild excitement of seeing a machine act like a human being, at least in many ways.
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Akutabe, a detective, summons devils to solve the troubles of his clients. One day, a low class devil Azazel Atsushi is summoned by Akutabe and is used harshly by him and his assistant Rinko Sakuma. (From ANN)
It's a dark comedy with strong sexual references, language and violence. Not usual my type of entertainment but it was surprisingly funny.
The sexual theme is there mostly because the demon, Azazel, is a demon that incites lust.
Kugimiya Rie got boned in this episode... I couldn't believe it. You'll have to watch it to understand.
Also there's an OVA of this, it's more hilarious than the TV series so far imo.
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Yeah, this is actually pretty funny. I haven't watched the OVA, but I was curious, so I watched the first TV ep. Rie got owned. And the ending paves the way for this series to be funnier than I had hoped for.
So it sounds like the OVA is something I should take a look at?
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Well, after watching two episodes, I have to say that this has been quite the enjoyable (but predictable) ride so far! I doubt it'll be that popular because it seems to have a villain of the week format and more of a gag situation, but it looks to be slowly shaping up into a solid series anyways.
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The series is based on a manga- however the manga is a gag manga, thus giving it less of a proper overall storyline and more of oneshot story lines. Which I find to be rather enjoyable myself.
If you're looking for the manga- it hasn't been translated yet. I'm hoping with the anime coming out someone might be interested enough to translate however.
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It took me a little bit to find this episode that wasn't cut into only 15 minutes but I did. The two new peoples power is freaking hilarious, as is the fact that the demons tail came off like a lizards.
I have to wonder about the guy who is currently being eaten by a demon, but he'll probably be alright in the end. Or not.
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Great article Rick,
It is great to be a able to get a little more insight in to some of the more comprehensive integration options available that larger retailer are starting to utilise as the retail industry continues to move forward.
I also believe that for smaller independents, well placed and simpler installations e.g. iPads linking to company websites and social channels. This can enhance the in-store customer experience by providing touch points that customers can identify items that they had previously seen online but can not remember the name of but they can remember their online user journey to find it.
its a great article... interesting stats..
What some retailers need is a better form of trend analysis to help them avoid some of their awful merchandising and buying decisions.
Sadly, it seems that lemming-like fad-following beats creative fashion curation anytime nowadays,.
Some of the stuff men's retailers stock - especially if aiming for 40+ bracket - is simply laughable.
As an eCommerce implementer we have seen an explosion in demand for mobile applications both for customers and in-store.
If done properly, a mobile channel (phone and tablets) can add enormous value to customers by providing 24/7 access to the store and by providing a more efficient and personal level of customer service in store.
It's important to get the user experience right for each device and make the user journey and information provided as relevant as possible.
The biggest challenge facing the future of the highstreet is the archaic thinking and fundamental ignorance of town and city council planning authorities. They doggedly hold onto "principles" that stifle and inhibit essential change.
Their reluctance to embrace and foster change is institutionally embedded, and so long as planning authorities fail to move (very, very rapidly) towards understanding the changes in consumer behaviour, the more rapidly the highstreet will die.


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Whether Bound For Glory is the biggest pay-per-view in TNA history: "I don't know, is it? When we go out there as wrestlers and we see seats in the arena not full, it worries us also but all we can do is go out there and deliver the best possible in-ring product we can. Once we go through that curtain, that's when our jobs really start. I'm not the promoter of TNA, I don't work in the front office of TNA, I'm not responsible for the advertising of TNA, I'm not responsible for the product awareness of TNA, that's where TNA needs to grow and move forward as a company with bringing their product to the masses so people will want to come to the shows. Yes, there are empty seats but still if you concentrate on the in-ring product and you concentrate on what you see, it's still entertaining."
Coming into his prime: "No. I never think that far ahead. Not that I take things day-to-day, my success in the wrestling business never really shocked me. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I always knew that I was going to be successful and be part of one of the greatest tag teams and this and that, I just knew that I loved professional wrestling so much that I would have enough passion to make myself successful. I would have enough passion to do this for a long time and I'm going on my twenty second year now in the business. I'm proud of myself getting into the shape that I have got into, I'm proud of myself for doing something that not a lot of other guys can do which is come out of a tag team and have a successful singles career. I'm also proud of my ability to go in there which just about anybody on the roster and have a great match, great fight, a great speaking segment and proud for being able to entertain people for this long. I'm only stepping on the gas half way. I have so much more that I can bring to the table but it's a different world we live in and its different time with wrestling and sports-entertainment these days. I think I can go further, I can be a lot more physical. There are a lot of things that I can do and I try to wait until the right time to do them. From the newest kid on the block to the guys that have been there forever and I have said this before, TNA has the best locker room in pro wrestling, best bunch of pro wrestlers slash sports entertainers out there. These guys are capable of so much. You want icons? We got (Hulk) Hogan and Sting. You want guys that are still in their prime? You can go with me or Jeff Hardy or Kurt Angle and then you got the work horses. The guys that carried the company from TV to house shows like A.J. Styles, Bobby Roode, James Storm, Gunner, (Frank) Kazarian, (Christopher)Daniels. You have the hottest women in the business that can wrestle. You got great X-Division stars. Anything you are looking for, you can find it."
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MOTW: Russell Crowe's Career Beyond "Gladiator"
MOTW: Russell Crowe's Career Beyond "Gladiator"
-- Very few actors are ever able to find a signature role that will help define their career, but Russell Crowe is one of those fortunate few. In 2000, he took on the now-iconic role of Maximus in "Gladiator," which put his career into overdrive after many lean years in his native Australia. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the part, which made him an instant movie superstar. Despite the fame it brought him, fans of the versatile actor know that he had carved out a hard-fought career full of fantastic performances long before he became Maximus.
One of his earliest roles was in Australia, where he started in theater and sometimes resorted to street performances when he couldn't find work. One of his biggest breakthroughs there was in a somewhat controversial film called "The Sum of Us," where he portrayed a gay man named Jeff who is coming to terms with his sexuality. His father, portrayed by Jack Thompson, has too much of an interest in his son's romantic life, to the point that it becomes almost invasive. In a neat bit of trivia, Thompson was in the series "Skyforce," which was the first show Crowe ever got a speaking part on, when he was just five years of age.
A year after "The Sum of Us," Crowe made the move to the U.S. and found big success with steady work in critically acclaimed movies years before "Gladiator" went into production. One of the most famous was in "LA Confidential," where he played the part of Wendell "Bud" White opposite Kevin Spacey and fellow Aussie Guy Pearce. It was a part that led to better roles for him, including his turn opposite Al Pacino in "The Insider." As whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, Crowe had to wear aging makeup and was almost unrecognizable.
After "Gladiator" came several more big parts, though few of them would get him recognition on the same level as his role in the Ridley Scott epic would. Just a year later, he would portray real-life mathematician John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind," which was such a nuanced performance that many thought he deserved the Oscar that year more than eventual winner Denzel Washington of "Training Day." It's a role that required no physicality like "Gladiator" did, forcing Crowe to show layers that he hadn't been able to do in previous films.
Audiences were so used to seeing Crowe in action films or thrillers that they were surprised to see him in the romantic drama/comedy "A Good Year" with Marion Cotillard and Abbie Cornish. The film was based on a book about a British man who falls in love with the Provence region of France and decides to move there. It was a complete departure from the roles that made him famous, and showed that he had acting range beyond high drama.
Despite his willingness to take risks like "A Good Year," Crowe returned to the type of movie that made him famous in 2007 with the western "3:10 to Yuma" costarring Christian Bale and Peter Fonda. The same year he also starred in "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington, who was his costar in one of his earliest American films, "Virtuosity."
In 2012, Crowe took what could arguably be the biggest risk of his career, singing in the film adaptation of "Les Miserables." Not only did he sing some very famous songs in the film opposite more seasoned singers like Hugh Jackman but also he did all the singing live on the set. In most filmed musicals, the cast will lip synch or sing live during filming, but the sound will be replaced in post production with studio versions of the same song. This gives the actors an infinite amount of chances to nail the song and make it sound pitch perfect. In this particular version, director Tom Hooper wanted the cast to sing live because he felt it would capture the emotion of the moment, since the script is full of highly dramatic moments captured in song. There would be no studio versions recorded, so each song had to be sung live dozens of times, which can be very taxing on the actors. Crowe, never one to shy away from a challenge, was game for the difficult part of Javert, the foil for Hugh Jackman's Jean Valjean.
Crowe is still very much in demand as an actor, so there are likely to be more excellent parts in the future for which he will be known. Though he will probably always be known first and foremost as Maximus, he has done so many great portrayals that one day, perhaps, he will be better known for his entire body of work rather than the one iconic role.


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If you looked at the raw passing numbers, you might wonder what all the fuss is about.
NEW ORLEANS — If you looked at the raw passing numbers, you might wonder what all the fuss is about.
You might wonder how anybody could say that he would be better than Tim Tebow as Mike Gillislee did on Sunday.
You might wonder why Louisville is so worried about him.
"I've seen quarterbacks like him," said safety Calvin Pryor, "but not as big as him."
Jeff Driskel's passing numbers don't blow anyone away.
There were 11 quarterbacks in the SEC who averaged more passing yards a game. Florida finished the season ranked two spots from the bottom in passing in the nation at 118th. Driskel's 1,471 passing yards? Meh.
And yet, Driskel is probably the best quarterback he's ever been right now and it's only going to get better.
It's not because he has let his hair grow out, eschewing the closely cropped cut for the Bama Bangs look. It's not because Florida's wide receivers are suddenly game-breakers. It's not because he's gotten a lot bigger, stronger or faster.
It's because he's had another month. Another month to learn. Another month of practicing. Another month with offensive coordinator Brent Pease.
"You take steps every week," Pease said. "He's gotten better."
It wasn't that long ago that we didn't know if Driskel would be the starter for Florida. He was in a battle for the job with Jacoby Brissett for the starting job in August. Once he won the job, he took Florida to an amazing season.
And Florida has only scratched the surface with Driskel.
"I'm excited about the future," Driskel said. "But at the end of the day, we're 11-1 this season and our goal is to win games."
Winning 11 games in a season is never easy, especially when you've built it around a sophomore quarterback with zero starts coming into the season. Florida took some of the burden off Driskel by relying on defense and the running game, but certainly he made a lot of big plays during the season.
On Wednesday, he'll shoot for a 12th win for this team on the field where Tebow played his last game and went out with one of his best performances.
"You could see a version of Tim Tebow in him," Louisville defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said. "He's big. He's strong. He's fast. He's athletic. How many quarterbacks across the country can run a 4.5 flat?"
This one can. It's part of the package that is Jeff Driskel. The tools are there. Always have been.
"I've been blessed," Driskel said. "Even when I was a little chubby kid I was still fast. So that was pretty cool."
It's very cool for Florida's future that the Gators have a guy who should only get better as he learns. Florida rarely allowed Driskel to check out of bad plays this year. That's something they will work on in the offseason.
"That's going to be key for him," Pease said.
Pease said Sunday that he's seen a steady improvement in his young quarterback as the season unfolded. We saw early in the season in College Station and Knoxville that this was a guy who was filled with confidence and not flustered. It seems like so long ago but remember that second game of the season when he outplayed the guy who would eventually win the Heisman Trophy?
To some people it looked as if there was a regression during the season. Florida struggled to score points against LSU and Georgia. But more than anything, he was playing against excellent defenses who had games of tape on Driskel and Pease's offense. We saw in Tallahassee the kind of performance we may be seeing more of next year.
"Any time you are in a system for more than a year," Driskel said, "you're going to get better."
Comparing him to Tebow is unfair because there is only one Tim Tebow. But it's also natural because of Driskel's running ability.
"It's going to be hard to tackle him in open space," Bedford said. "We have a concern about containing Jeff."
The college football landscape is littered with the lost dreams of quarterbacks who don't get better. Some of them get too full of themselves, some of them have a lower ceiling than anyone thought they did.
But when you talk to Driskel and feel the humble confidence that oozes from him, well, you just get a feeling that this is going to be a special career at Florida.
Florida may never take the reins completely off of him because of the Will Muschamp philosophy and a lack of great receivers on the roster. But in the end, he'll be measured the same way all quarterbacks are measured, not by his statistics but by the games he has won.
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It's not surprising that what people are saying about your business online can dramatically affect its prospects.
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One of the fastest growing companies ever, the daily deals behemoth's decline is happening faster than its rise, creating an interesting spectacle that will one day be ideal fodder for MBA students, if it isn't already.
Travel deals stabilise Australia's group buying market
Group-buying seems to consistently experience conflicting states of flux - from reported positive growth, through to states of decline - so it's arguably difficult to identify the current condition of this segment in the digital industry.
However, according to a new report by Telesyte, Groupon has taken the lead as the most used group buying site, travel has become the most popular deal category for consumers and the group buying market looks like it really is moving away from a decline.
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How does one make the most of their affiliate marketing program? On what areas of affiliate management should one focus to optimize the ROI of an existing affiliate program? These and many other questions are answered by today's guest.
Today's Q&A is with Carolyn Tang Kmet, former Director of Affiliate Marketing for Groupon, currently VP of Performance Marketing at All Inclusive Marketing Inc and holds Affiliate Summit's Affiliate Manager of the Year 2010 Pinnacle Award. Carolyn is also an adjunct lecturer at the Loyola University of Chicago, where she teaches both undergraduate and MBA level e-marketing courses
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Since launching in the UK in 2010 Groupon has achieved an astonishing rate of growth that is almost unrivalled in any other industry.
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In December last year the OFT revealed that the company had breached UK advertising regulations 48 times, leading to an investigation into its business practices.
Then there's the 'accounting issues' which have seen the companies share price drop from a high of $29 to less than $5 in less than year.
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Apple's iPhone may be the smartphone, and the latest iteration of it, the iPhone 5, which was unveiled Wednesday, looks set to sell like hotcakes, even if some are disappointed that Apple hasn't done more.
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Two years ago, Google offered to buy daily deal giant Groupon for $6bn. The Chicago-based startup, at the time one of the fastest growing companies in the world, refused. Late last year, it went public and saw its valuation soar to more than $17bn on the first day of trading.
It has been all downhill since then and on Tuesday, following an earnings report that disappointed investors, Groupon shares have plummeted more than 30% to their lowest level yet. Today, the market values Groupon at well under $4bn.
This isn't surprising given the Wall Street is increasingly skeptical about Groupon's business model. As one analyst put it, "It appears the daily deal business has run into a wall." That may be true, but it's just one part of the story. In reality, the demise of Groupon as we know it arguably has to do with the way Groupon handled its relationship with the local businesses it works with.
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Before Ron Johnson joined department store giant J.C. Penney as CEO in 2011, he was the SVP of Retail Operations at Apple Inc., where he was responsible for developing the Apple Store and its Genius Bar.
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Earlier this year, Johnson unveiled his bold vision: radically alter J.C. Penney's pricing strategy.
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U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) recently conducted a seminar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to introduce U.S. wheat and the U.S. marketing system to the Saudi Arabian wheat buying organization, Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO).
Conducted in cooperation with local USDA/Foreign Agricultural Service and State Department officials, the seminar was the first ever held exclusively with this new international wheat buyer, and was designed to build confidence in U.S. wheat crop quality, handling, and commercial reliability.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has decided to end domestic wheat production by 2016 and may eventually need to import more than 2.5 million metric tons (91 million bushels) of wheat per year.
"Competition for this market is intense," said Dick Prior, USW regional vice president, Cairo, Egypt.
"The Canadian Wheat Board monopoly is allowing select traders to offer comparable quality Canadian wheat at delivered prices well below what our exporters can offer so establishing the value of U.S. wheat with GSFMO is critical," Prior said.
"As of Dec. 17, Saudi Arabia had purchased almost 60,000 metric tons (2.2 million bushels) of U.S. hard red winter wheat in marketing year 2009/10 (June-May).
Prior said the seminar was a full year in planning. With perseverance from the USW Cairo staff and strong personal support from GSFMO Director General Waleed Khureiji and U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Smith, about 20 GSFMO staff and Saudi authorities met at the GSFMO offices in Riyadh in late November.
USW is the industry's market development organization working in more than 100 countries on behalf of America's wheat producers. The activities of USW are made possible by producer check-off dollars managed by 19 state wheat commissions and through cost-share funding provided by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
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How to Grow Tropical Plants Anywhere
Article written by Saturday6TM blogger Steve Asbell from The Rainforest Garden
How would you like to step out into the garden and enjoy the exotic blooms of bromeliads and orchids or the luxuriant bold leaves of elephant ears? You might not be surprised to hear that you can grow tropical plants in your garden, especially if you've ever planted tropical flowers like begonias in your flower beds. But they're only the tip of the iceberg. With enough care, almost any plant you see in the most exotic of island resorts can be grown in your own garden if they're brought indoors over winter. Bromeliads, gingers, hibiscus, elephant ears, orchids and more can all be wintered over as bulbs, cuttings or in containers.
I personally live in north Florida, but our frosty winters still make it necessary for me to take my most tropical plants indoors. Luckily there are so many ways to do it successfully, even where winters are longer. Why do I bother? Because with the dramatic leaves and tantalizing blooms of tropical plants, I can set the stage and create the illusion of a warmer and more exotic locale. It certainly turns some heads!
Most so-called bulbs are technically called rhizomes, corms or tubers; but regardless of their name, growing and storing tropical plants this way is incredibly easy. Once the soil has warmed up, plant them near the surface in moist soil where they get some shade from the afternoon sun. Before the first frost, dig them up, let them dry and store them in a bag of dry sawdust or shredded newspaper - keeping them in a dark place until spring. Some great tropicals to start from the roots include elephant ears, gingers, caladiums and cannas. For areas with longer winters, start bulbs in a warm window or sunroom by planting them in containers. The biggest "bulb" you can grow is a banana. That's right - you can actually dig up a banana plant in fall and store the big stem in a dark basement or garage until late spring.
A more unusual - and nonetheless effective - way to grow unusual tropicals outside is to cut their stems in fall and let them form roots over winter. You can grow lots of plants this way, but some of the easiest include ti plants, reed stem orchids, succulents, plumeria and coleus. To take cuttings of these plants, make a cut several inches down from the tip of a stem, right above a leaf node. For the fastest growth, dip the cut end in a bit of rooting hormone (available at the garden center) before tucking it into potting mix and covering it with plastic until the roots form. This keeps the plant from drying out. Keep it well watered through winter and you'll be able to plant them out in the garden in spring. Some woody perennials and shrubs take a bit longer to establish, but they can be grown in containers until they're large enough to plant in the garden.
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When all else fails, just dig up the plants and keep them indoors over winter. The easiest plants to dig up are those with limited root systems like bromeliads, but just about anything can be dug out of the ground with a sharp spade and potted up with fresh potting mix for the winter. This method is especially useful for palms and big architectural plants like Heliconias and bird of paradise plants. When wintering over plants, keep them in similar light to what they became accustomed outdoors and reduce watering to help them slow down for winter. Many prefer some humidity, but that's easily provided with a humidifier, a spray mister or simply by grouping your plants together so that they form a moist microclimate. Not all plants will look good indoors through winter, but provided you remove pests and don't let the soil dry out entirely, they'll bounce right back when brought outdoors in spring.
There are no hard and fast rules to what you can grow indoors through winter, but you'll have plenty of options. The reed stem Epidendrum orchids pictured have been wintered over by taking cuttings or digging them up in fall. The most tender of my bromeliads are yanked out of the ground and brought indoors whenever it gets cold, or I need a temporary houseplant. Tropical plants are more resilient than you realize and they're well worth trying in your own garden. Have fun!


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Fall Skirt Trends
Breaking news: skirts are popular for fall! OK, we know this isn't exactly shocking information, but there are a couple of standout skirt styles that are must-buys for the season. We fell head over heels for two key shapes in particular: the trimly sophisticated pencil skirt (as seen at Lanvin and Michael Kors) and the short 'n' swingy full skirt (as seen at DKNY and BCBGMaxAzria). It's only a matter of time before the best-dressed celebs begin showcasing their different takes on these silhouettes, but until they do, you can check out today's episode of Who What Wear TV for all the pointers you need for wearing both versions!
Runway photos, courtesy of First View.
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game against the Saints in 2010.
The bounty program was apparently supervised by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. Head coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis knew about it and did nothing about it apparently. Owner Tom Benson said he didn't know.
Panther wide receiver Steve Smith -- who has had a number of conflicts with Saints' players over the years -- told Pro Football Weekly's Eric Edholm about the Saints' bounty program: "Doesn't surprise me. Wouldn't expect anything less from them."
Said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a statement: "The payments here are particularly troubling because they involved not just payments for 'performance,' but also for injuring opposing players. The bounty rule promotes two key elements of NFL football: player safety and competitive integrity."
The NFL investigated this and now is about to lower the boom. There will be fines. Suspensions. (Williams, now the defensive coordinator with the St. Louis Rams, has admitted his role and will be seriously punished). The Saints face a likely loss of draft picks, too -- the first one they hold in the 2012 draft, though, is only No.59 overall. Here's New Orleans newspaper columnist Jeff Duncan's reaction to the news in an interesting column that predicts the scandal will follow the Saints for years and forever tarnish the Super Bowl they won.
To me this is worse than "Spygate," when New England was caught spying on opposing teams. This flies in the face of all the NFL's safety improvements. The Saints look like they have been caught red-handed and they are about to pay a heavy price.
So will it shift the balance of power away from the Saints? (And as some of the "Scott Says" commenters are saying below, don't you now have to wonder about Roman Harper's late hit on Smith this past season? I'm sure Smith does -- and yes, I know Smith can't exactly take the moral high ground on hitting people, but still that Harper hit was so ridiculous.)
A quicker way for the Saints to turn into a bad team would be for Drew Brees not to re-up with the Saints -- and I think he will eventually re-sign with New Orleans. Remember, this is just about New Orleans defensive players, and the Saints' remarkable offense apparently won't be affected.
But the loss of at least one future first-round draft pick -- which I believe will happen maybe in 2013, and I think this will be a multiple-draft-pick penalty before it's all over -- will damage the Saints. And defensive suspensions will further muddy the water. At the very least, the Saints will be a good team to play early in the season when suspensions would take effect (barring appeals).
Bottom line: The Saints just got clocked. Their feel-good Super Bowl story from 2009 will never feel nearly that good again. But more than that, the balance of power in the NFC is ripe for shifting. Atlanta and Carolina are the two teams most primed to do something about it if New Orleans falters.
And you know what? If all this is true -- and the NFL's report certainly makes it sound that way -- I hope someone does take over for the Saints. Because what they allegedly did is absolutely disgusting. I'm not naive enough to think this doesn't happen elsewhere in the NFL -- although I have never heard of such a thing with the Panthers -- but the Saints' level of blatant rule violation is shocking.
In a statement released by the Rams, Williams (the "Pay-for-Pain" administrator and also an occasional contributor to the Saints' bounty pool of money, according to the NFL) said: "It was a terrible mistake, and we knew it was wrong while we were doing it. Instead of getting caught up in it, I should have stopped it. I take full responsibility for my role. I am truly sorry. I have learned a hard lesson and I guarantee that I will never participate in or allow this kind of activity to happen again."
Do you believe him? "We knew it was wrong while we were doing it..." Hmmm..... And so why didn't Williams stop it again? (Incidentally, I imagine Williams is done as St. Louis's defensive coordinator -- he will "resign" or be fired or something after this. At least he certainly should be).
Now why wasn't it stopped in New Orleans? Because it was working, of course. That's the sad part. The Saints won the Super Bowl when the bounty program was apparently at its height.


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This is part 2 of a long review of the Scala Rider Q2 Pro Helmet Headset, a wireless communication device for motorcycle helmets. Click here to read part 1.
I turned on the iPhone's music. The Q2 Pro is equipped with the A2DP/AVRCP Bluetooth profiles, meaning you get a very good quality stereo, and it showed. The sound was excellent, close to being in a concert hall. It's a very enjoyable experience, listening to music while riding. And if your music player doesn't have Bluetooth, the Q2 Pro has a standard audio jack into which can plug your player.
The advantage of the Q2 Pro is that sound is priority driven, meaning that while you are listening to your favorite music, if your pillion starts talking to you on the intercom, or your riding partner does, or even if your GPS has navigation instructions to give you, the music is interrupted until the other party is finished. Then music is turned back on, and all this is done automatically.
Obviously the same applies to your phone. If someone rings, your music or conversations are interrupted, and you can talk to whoever is calling you. BUT, please pull over to continue your conversation. Talking on the phone while riding is VERY dangerous.
The Q2 Pro is also equipped with a decent FM radio with a RDS function (that's a feature that bikers love, since if a radio station has different antennas located in geographically parts of the country, the Q2 will select the transmitter with the strongest signal; No need to "dial" the best station, the Q2 does it for you). 6 stations can be pre-programmed, and selecting the station is relatively easy, a question of pressing a button sequence.
The Q2 Pro battery is slated for a total of 8 hours continuous operations (and 7 days in standby mode). Our experience is more or less that. We did spend most of the day on the road, had lunch, continued riding, and in between we did turn off the units. So we can't tell you 100% if the 8 hours were met, but if they didn't, it was close. But do remember that the older the batteries become, the less long they go.
Charging the units takes about 3 hours, so easy and quick.
The units worked very well as advertised. Sound was crystal clear and loud enough at any speed. The intercom usage was great, even fun. Music was beautiful, the range of notes that can be played through the speakers was very good. It made the riding experience, whether riding with others or solo a more memorable experience. If you've never tried riding with music, TRY IT.
The Q2 Pro can be used with other Scala Rider units, which is an advantage; It means if you buy it, you can continue using it even if your friends have upgraded to more advanced Scala Rider units.
On the downside of the Q2 (and other Scala units) is that using the models requires you to memorize button sequences (it does have voice commands, but it's not very practical). Often it's not a question of pushing one of the four buttons, but a sequence. And that makes it more difficult when riding, when your brains are focussing on the road, it become difficult to remember what to press.
My suggestion to Scala is make a remote control unit that gets placed on your handlebars (like the Parrot SK4000), or maybe even an application for the smartphone to control the units.
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The Patients' Rights Office was created in response to California legislation requiring each county mental health director to appoint patients' rights advocates to protect and further the Constitutional and statutory rights of mental health care recipients.
Also available on this page are the Beneficiary Client Grievance Forms and the Grievance Appeal Procedures Brochures. Please contact the Patients' Rights Office at (213) 738-4888 or (800) 700-9996 if you have any questions or need more information.
What the Patients' Rights Office Does:
Represents Consumers at Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals- Patients' Rights Advocates travel to psychiatric hospitals throughout Los Angeles County and represent patients who are involuntarily detained. The Advocate prepares consumers for their certification review hearings. The hearings are held to determine if the treatment facility has sufficient cause to hold the patient without his/her consent. Advocates also represent consumers at medication capacity hearings (Riese hearings). These hearings are held to determine whether or not an involuntarily treated patient has the ability to consent to or refuse psychiatric medication.
Responds to Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatric Grievances and Complaints – Patients' Rights Advocates investigate and respond to grievances and complaints about inpatient and outpatient mental health providers. The complaints can come from consumers, family, friends, and even staff. Advocates also provide other advocacy and mediation services to consumers involving outpatient providers.
Provides Residential Advocacy – Patients' Rights Advocates, along with the State of California Community Care Licensing and the Ombudsman, investigate complaints about licensed board and cares and unlicensed residential facilities where consumers live. They also provide training on residential law and rights to consumers, family and providers.
Responds to Inmate Mental Health Concerns – Patients' Rights Advocates provide support and a voice for male and female mental health consumers that are in the county jail by investigating and responding to inmates' mental health complaints and concerns. Advocates also educate Jail Mental Health and Los Angeles County Sheriff staff on patients' rights issues.
Advocates for Minor's Rights – Patients' Rights Advocates specialize in minor's rights and parental rights/responsibilities. They investigate complaints regarding minors, monitor facilities providing services to minors to ensure compliance with laws and regulations and represent minor's at hearings.
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The Patients' Rights Office Mental Health Client Resource Directory provides an overview of resources in the Los Angeles area including but not limited to mental health, medical, legal, self help, and housing. It was developed as a tool to be used for self empowerment and advocacy. Feel free to download it and to distribute it to anyone who can benefit from the information it contains.
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Tom Coburn: The Doctor Who Is Sick of Washington
Tom Coburn is leaving the Senate early with a proposal to save private insurance from the ravages of ObamaCare.
Tom Coburn stood for Congress in 1994 as a political tenderfoot for two main reasons: As an obstetrician he thought government was impinging too much on his medical practice, and the nine-term House Democrat who held his Oklahoma district's seat favored the Clinton national health plan then under consideration. Another reason Dr. Coburn entered the race, he says, was that "the cowardice of career politicians governing to win the next election above all else made me sick." Twenty years later, he finds...


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Please remember that your password is case-sensitive (i.e. this password Pa$sT3!E is not the same as pa$st3!e).
If you do not remember your password or it is not working, you may be able to set a new password over the Web. When your UH Username was activated, you were asked to select two questions and provide answers to these two questions. If you know the answers to these two questions, you may visit the UH Account Management page and select the Forgot Your Password link to set a new password.
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File Drop copies of the required documents to firstname.lastname@example.com OR Fax copies of the required documents to the ITS Help Desk at (808) 956-2108 along with a campus telephone number where you can be contacted with the new password.
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UH Affiliate who are out of state, abroad, or otherwise unable to fax in their request from a campus fax machine should ask the UH department that they are affiliated with to File Drop or Fax a copy of the SAMPLE MEMO with your information (Legal name, UH Number, UH Username, and month and day of date of birth). In addition, the request must include a phone number for the requester (not the department) and the memo must be signed by the department's dean or director. This should then be faxed to ITS at (808) 956-2108.
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Text Features - Make An Image In Our Minds!
Lesson 17 of 19
Objective: SWBAT examine the text features to see what information they contribute to comprehension of the text.
- Houghton Mifflin Grade 2 Social Studies text.* (You could use any social studies or science book-just make sure it has some good text features)
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: imaging**, informational text, details, headings, list, diagram, captions, bold words, map, symbols, main ideas
- Set up the whiteboard
- 'Informational Text Features' worksheet
* I used this text because it supports our current Social Studies unit. The chapter has great text features that are common to a typical Social Studies/Science 2nd grade text. It's important to help kids realize they should be using reading strategies with these texts and everyday materials. Often kids think that 'reading is reading' and 'social studies is social studies', but this line no longer exists for the Common Core Standards. Instead of picking random informational texts, choose those that support the students' learning in other academic areas. This is powerful cross-curricular learning. Make sure the kids are familiar with the information and then introduce a text that supports what they are learning. It's a great way to bolster their academic learning and create stronger readers.
** "Imaging" is the term that my district uses for "visualizing". In order to stay true to the district expectations, I'll continue to use this verbage. Visualizing is a critical skill for 2nd graders because they need to 'go deeper' in the text. By visualizing as they read, they are creating and tweaking images in their minds as they actively read. This kind of 'close reading', forming images using text, verifying and changing those images, and ultimately comparing their images to the author, creates critical readers and deepens comprehension.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Common starting point
- "Today we are using the imaging/visualizing strategy with informational text. This strategy helps us organize information and connect ideas, which will be REALLY helpful in 3rd and 4th grade."
- "This text has GREAT informational text features. They carry so much meaning and we need to look at these as we read."
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Introduce the task
- "I brought this informational text because it has ideas about the Social Studies topic we are discussing. We talked about these ideas yesterday, but today we'll look at how the text organizes them and see if we can understand more. There are LOTS of ideas, so it would really help if you use imagery to see how the information is organized. Text features really help us to understand better because they add so much information that is shown in images, instead of just words."
- Here's a video of my introduction.
- Read the book to the class (remember you reviewed this information previously) and discuss how the ideas are organized. Ask the students what informational text features show the main ideas (headings) and what show the details (maps, captions, symbols, bold words, lists, diagrams).
- Take a few moments to explain how text features help us. Here's how I explained this concept.
As we discuss these text features, the students identify other ways to comprehend informational text, beyond the words. They are using these various text features to locate information quickly that will aid in understanding (RI.2.5). As students use the text efficiently to comprehend information, I am encouraging students to draw on their own abilities to discover answers themselves rather than rely on adults to decode and reteach information from the text, an emphasis in the Common Core Standards.
- "When I look at the text, I notice there are 'bold words'. These are a great informational text feature because they help me notice the important information in the text so that I can add to my mental image. I'll write 'bold words' on my chart. Now I need to describe how these help me. I'll write 'tell me which words are important to study for the test'."
- Here's how I modeled the description of bold words. (text page 1)
- I wrote this information on the whiteboard.
Guided Practice
- "Now is your turn to help me. Let's take a look at the another text feature that helps us find places. It's called a map (text page 3).
- "Who can tell me how the map helps us?" (lead into 'helps us find places')
- "This image of a map shows us lots of information - (capitals, locations....). Let's write that on the chart."
- This is the whiteboard at the end of the guided practice.
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Students' Turn
- "Now it's your turn to identify the text features." Here's how I described the task.
- "Remember that we are using evidence from the text. Review the text... "What features are you writing about and how do they help you?" Here's how I reminded students to go back to the text.
- Some of my students needed extra help putting the 'definition' into words that were understandable and help identifying the text features independently. This is an example of support that I gave a student to find a list.
Students work
- Let the students work - help with spelling as necessary.
- Here's a picture of a student working and her completed worksheet.
- Some students may need extra prompting. Here's some spelling help I put on the whiteboard.
- As students work, walk around and ask them about their 'definitions' of the text features. "How do these images help them understand better?" This is a student explaining a text feature.
This students' explanation of how the specific images and text features contribute to and clarify text is really the goal of the lesson (RI.2.7). I am looking for them to be introspective and ask themselves questions such as, "How does this map help me?", or say things to themselves such as, "I should read the list because it has important information."
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Reflect on your work
- "Let's talk about how these features help us - what ideas did you write on your paper?"
- "What images do these text features provide - a nice organized list, headings at the top of the page, captions under that pictures? These text features help us organize our thinking with visuals - images that we can remember better."
- As my students shared their ideas, they were surprised to learn that they had different perceptions. One student shared that 'the list tells what I pay for' and another student said that 'lists tell me what I have to do." This is a great discussion item - "Can you reflect on why you are learning what you are learning? Are you learning the same things? Why are we looking at text features? Do you understand this information better today than yesterday when we just talked about the book?"
- This is how one student described how text features helped her.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with academic challenges may need help formulating ideas about how the features help them and identifying those features in the text. I did provide some spelling help on the whiteboard and extra prompts for them.
Students with higher language may be able to a provide a better description of how these features help us with higher level vocabulary. I would challenge them to go beyond 'captions tell us what is in the picture' to 'captions share the meaning in the illustration.'


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Hackage is a fantastic resource for developers, but one disadvantage is that non-Haskellers rarely get exposed to the great software that is being developed in Haskell. Hackage lists nearly 1,000 projects currently, but checking on freshmeat.net, there are only 73 Haskell projects. As a developer, I don't want to have to submit and maintain project pages at Hackage, Freshmeat, Sourceforge, etc., but of course, I still want the largest audience possible.
One way to spread knowledge about software projects is to publish description-of-a-project (DOAP) files. These are formal descriptions of project stuff: homepage, maintainers, contributors, language, versions, and much more. There is a large overlap between the DOAP vocabulary and Cabal, the packaging system used for all Hackage projects. So, for the past few days I've been toying around with making a Cabal to DOAP converter, which is now ready for others to use.
Running the program in the root of a cabalized project will output XML-RDF. If the project is a Darcs repository, the commit history will be scanned, and developers will be noted in the output as well.
I hope that this will lead in the near future to Hackage generating DOAP data every time a new project is uploaded. There is lots of important data that is best gleaned directly from Hackage, such as the past releases, and download locations. I plan on making future improvements to aid in Hackage-cabal2doap integration, especially in the area of processing multiple Cabal files to build up release history. Before that though, I'd like to see if/how my projects become more accessible by virtue of having DOAP data published. For example, how well aggregation services like Doapspace and doap:store function.
A neat way to understand some of the power of representing data formally in RDF is to view it in graph form, such as that provided by the W3C RDF Validation Service. For example, the following is a representation of the DOAP data published for cabal2doap itself.
You can start with the official project homepage, or its home on Hackage. If you have Firefox and Tabulator or Semantic Radar, you can browse to a couple projects I host, which have linked DOAP data generated from cabal2doap.
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