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Frank "Tussy" Russell manager of Annie Taylor "First woman to survive shooting Horseshoe Falls in a Barrel"
A couple of months ago while perched on the edge of my comfy couch and watching Nick Wallenda traverse a corded cable stretched across the mighty Niagara Falls, I was reminded of one of my favorite family stories. My mother in law Margaret, family historian for her own Smith/Black relatives, first mentioned my father in law, Louis Boehm?s connection to one Frank ?Tussy? Russell. Frank Russell was known as a carnival and fair promoter in Bay City, Michigan when he was hired by school teacher Annie Edson Taylor. On October 24, 1901, Annie became the first person to go over Horseshoe Fall in a barrel and survive. Unfortunately, for Annie she became involved shortly afterward in a financial dispute with Frank Russell who briefly made off with her barrel and held it for ransom. Some sources indicate that Frank made public appearances with the barrel and a beautiful young woman posing as Annie Taylor before he was eventually jailed and forced to return Annie?s barrel.
While much of the information I?ve uncovered depicts Mr. Russell as slightly nefarious, an opportunist taking advantage of an impoverished woman and ultimately contributing to her death as a pauper, I?ve found nothing regarding the family of Mr. Russell with the exception of excerpts from the Boehm family history by William Dryden Boehm. William ?Bill? Boehm, an uncle of my husband spent several years compiling information on the Boehm?s from their immigration to Bay City from Marienwerder Prussia forward to present day. According to data provided by Bill?s research, Frank married Lena Boehm, daughter of immigrant Max Boehm in 1896 when Lena was 18. Bill states that Frank ?reluctantly? decided to represent Annie as her manager. He says as a young man Frank got into promoting after watching kids jump from the high lumber pilings into the Saginaw River. Lena and Frank had one daughter, Lillian who eventually married and moved to California. It is not known whether Lena was perhaps the ?beautiful woman? Frank was passing off as Annie or whether Lena and Frank eventually divorced. I have found evidence of Frank, Lena and Lillian on the 1930 census residing in Detroit. According to Bill Boehm, Lena moved to California and passed away in 1968. Lillian had no children, and I?ve found nothing about Frank after the 1930 census. On the 1940 census, only Lena, Lillian and Lillian?s husband are listed.
The Boehm family is a stalwart bunch, not given over to drama, intrigue or fanfare. It comes as no surprise therefore that no mention has been made of Lena Boehm Russell?s thoughts on her promoter husband and his role in history. Even the inclusion of Frank and Lena in William Boehm?s research was done simply out of deep love and respect for his family and not for outside attention. Speculation aside, I nonetheless find the story to be a fascinating moment in my family?s history.
The picture is of Lena and daughter Lillian circa 1900
Maggots in the Woodpile
As many of you are painfully and bored-ly -is that even a word? - aware, the Tamster has been on a genealogy bent for a couple of years now, pretty much forsaking any creative endeavors in lieu of following happy green leaves down the rabbit hole.
So far, I've found whalers, Quakers, village idiots, suspected murderers/kidnappers, plundering vikings, puppet royals, cousins marrying, a Tory, and a witch. (The Tory and the Salem Witch are steps, mind you.) But yesterday I found something I never expected. I've taken a bit of a break on the Davis side (my second father's clan) and moved over to the Hudspeth/Watson clan. That being the family into which my dad on birth certificate married into. Pat, my step mom has four children. All of them are Hudspeths. She is a Watson. (Yes, I keep this all in my head. Its why I can't remember if I wore this outfit already this week or not) Anyway. The Watson/Hudspeth clans hail from south of the Mason Dixon line. That should tell you where I am going.
Genealogy is much like fishing. You can sit for hours, bobber idle on the pond and suddenly 'SMACK' you're being pulled into the deep by MOBY. This week I "discovered" that The Watsons are connected by marriage to the Boones which means - one of her aunts married one of my uncles. (nice) and secondly the Watsons married into a family called Van Cleave which married into the Vanderbilts. Again. The Hughes family ties into the Vanderbilts. So. my step mom and my dad are distant cousins. (giggle giggle!) But that's not the kicker.
Yesterday I was adding Hudspeths to the happy tree, going back to England in the 1700's and as I was adding brothers and sisters to the branches I came across a set of records from Alabama...One of the Hudspeth's was a slave owner. He owned a male, 75 years old and a 14 year old female. It makes me ache. I'm not sure why I had such a strong reaction to it - but it was disturbing to me on a gut level. I find it amusing when I find evidence of Grandma and Grandpa being brother and sister but evidence of humans owning other humans - wow. I actually don't know how to present this to my step mom and her kids. Its not their "fault" and it doesn't make them terrible people because of something a great great uncle did that they don't even know about - but to me it is deeply disturbing and I don't know how to tell them without doing harm. Even seeing the document made me ache.
Anyway. I should have prepared myself better for that type of truth surfacing when researching a family with generational presence in the deep south. Perhaps I am too naive. Not all of us are cornish tin miners and displaced Quakers....
Genetic Ethnicity DNA Results
So after flunking my first Ancestry Dot Com DNA test, I got the results of the second one yesterday. Yes, I'm geekin' out about it. What else do I have to do?
And the survey SAID!
British Isles: 69%
Scandinavia: 17%
Finnish-Volga/Ural 7%
Turkish/Persian/Caucasus 7%
What does it mean? YOU tell ME.
Most of you know, I have "daddy issues" as my mom told me when I was 27 or so that the man who raised me was not my dad, and my dad was a High School sweetheart she was divorcing the man I thought was daddy for. The man who raised me passed away in 2009. Both of his parents are gone and of the surviving brothers, the brothers aren't sure if they are full or half brothers - and they live in different states which makes DNA testing difficult. You'd think perhaps a DNA test from Ancestry would calm my little girl brain. But it doesn't. You see, while I know a lot about some of my family - depending on which dad is dad, I know nothing about some of my family so the above test is pretty much "Inconclusive" in proving whether I am truly a Hughes or a Davis. Reason being: On the Davis side - I am missing all information on George's mother. And on my mom's side I am missing all information on my mom's grandfather - who could be Swede but may be Irish/Scot. My dad who raised me was Norwegian/English - but there was a great great great grandparent who was presumably Native American. That didn't show up in this test - but say George's mom was Greek - well - its possible that the test would have proven my Hughes ancestry? See my conundrum?
Anyway. The test is 98% accurate over 700,000 genomes in evidencing genetic ancestry for up to a 1000 years back. So that means my peeps probably originated in the area of Persia/Turkey/The Caucasus - moved up into the Ural Mountains and Finland (did you know Finns are not considered Scandinavians? I did not know that) then over into Scandinavia and down into the British Islands. So far - I see on all sides of my family that the bulk of my peeps came from Norway down to either the British Isles or Normandy then over to the states settling on the east coast or around the Great Lakes area and the Dakotas. I do have a great great Grandpa born in Denmark who was supposedly Finn - but he is a dead end. My Norwegian paternal family dead ends in the 1700's in Norway. The Britons go way back (I'm working in the 1100 to 900's with multiple family lines) but the Persian/Turkish connection....don't see it yet in the paper work.
So my expected 25% Norwegian can be explained by a couple of things. First would be a few point variance in the %s and the second is explained as "Genetic Shuffling" - in other words - just because the Orakers and Axness clans were in Nord Aurdal in the 1700's - doesn't mean that they were true Viking - and just like red hair - a marker for "scandinavian" may have been trumped in the sequencing by some bog jumping, kilted ruffian with bad teeth and a serious brogue.
What I found amazing is - the lack of Southern European DNA.. Apparently the Persian/Turkish/Caucasus didn't migrate across the continent and up into the British Isles - but they hugged the Ural mountains and areas of Russia. Also - any evidence of Roman influence in the British DNA (because you know the Romans were Toads and invaded everyone) is not evident.
It also goes to show that no matter how you slice me - I'm pretty darn paste-y. I'm a veritable glow stick. Except for that Persian part which may go to explain my taste for lentils and that chin hair I deal with (and I thought it was hormones)
None of it really matters in the scheme of things I suppose - unless you're inclined to be interested in human migrations. I find some validation in it. It makes me curious to learn more.
And that's my ramble for the day.
The Whole World Family
So this little thought has been rolling around my brain pan for about a week now and what better way to expel it than post a rabid blog about it?
Before I spill it - I'm going to remind you of who I am behind the happy virtual canvas. As far as I know I am of white mostly northern European descent (Cornwall, Normandy, Scandinavia) with evidence of ties to the houses of Burgundy,Capet and Plantagenet both via paternal and maternal DNA. It is possible that my great great grandmother was Seneca Native American - but for the rest of the pack of braying donkeys - they're all a bunch of pale devils.
Since both my parents share common ancestry - I've been studying that ancestry where it intersects and have found what cosmetically would puff up a chick to be uniquely disturbing once the "Titles" are dismissed and the behaviors are revealed. I certainly don't want to detract from the hard work of any family genealogist/historian who's amassed a thousand years of "identity" but I am not one to romanticize constant land disputes, murders, kidnapping, selling and marrying off women for property exchanges and the unbridled use of "the church" for personal gain. And that behavior is exactly what the early feudal Barons that sparkle in my happy tree did. It is fascinating study - but these aren't people to be elevated and admired. Many were absolute monsters displaying evidence of severe depression, rage issues, violence etc. And yet, these are the people who perpetuate our "cultural norms" today. For me - if I know who we were, I understand why we are who we are now and what steps I may need to take to become who I need to be.
I'd probably stop my tangent right there if I weren't in the middle of attempting to develop a Humanities curriculum for a sophomore. It just went off in me while looking at "Historical Time lines" and what is normally presented as "World History" at the High School Level that the focus is incredibly skewed - feeding up into this Greco/Roman then European and finally American advance of civilization. And here is where it gets incendiary: What kind of message is this sending? Doesn't this only serve to promote the bias of "white or European entitlement?" Seriously? If I'm white and I see this do we even need to wonder why some kids bristle when presented with the same information? Hear my heart. I'm not ashamed of the color of my skin - but skin comes in LOTS of colors and western civilization is not the only example of how humanity has grown over time. Yup - you should study the history of the area in which you live as in I took American History because I am an American. But if I am going to teach my child about the whole human world - its not going to be a white-centric lesson. That would do him a disservice.
Its fine to study Greco/Roman and European History but it isn't the only example of culture and perhaps it shouldn't be the hub on the wheel. I know I only got a part of the story when I was in public school. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure my own spawn is more rounded than I was.
There is a phrase someone told me that keeps it in perspective. A friend of mine is Fijian. He told us once when discussing missionary efforts in Fiji - "my people used to eat your people" Such a fine line between being served and being "served" - capiche?
Peace. I'm still looking for Ghengis Khan in my tree. I am. At this point it would make me feel better. I encourage those of you who are hundreds of years back in your studies to refrain from just collecting names and dates and really dig into the reality of who your ancestors were, what they did and what life was like for them on a daily level. The information can be amazing, humbling and at times a little brutal.
Vermin in my Family Tree
Anyway. Its become painfully obvious to me that if I am ever going to write anything of note, I'm just going to have to sit down and write. I know. Weeahhh. Enter Captain Obvious. But its really not that simple. You see, The brain only supports one addiction at a time. I am a bit of a savant at my core. I can become INCREDIBLY AWESOME at one thing - at the detriment of just about everything else. Lately its been genealogy. Probably since May of 2010. And I've learned some really cool things. Did you know that if you are of English descent - 25% of you will be able to trace your lineage back to William the Conqueror? Pretty cool huh. NO? Yeah. That's the kind of response I get from MY ENTIRE REAL LIFE. Thanks.
Right now I am rooting around in the 1100 to 800 time span in the Capetian Dynasty (self absorbed brutish inbred vermin) WHY. WHY. WHY am I connected to them. WHY. Actually - its "otherdaddys" fam but that means that a few weeks ago when I said I lost my dual Rollo connection - I can now say - its back.
So again. Two men, one of whom is my biological father from a dot on the map both descend from one ornery Viking. I think its cool. I'm geeking out about it.
The daddy who raised me and who I believe is my biodad hails from dissident Quaker stock with such sparklies as Boone, Lincoln and I just found out yesterday Washington (G's my cuzin, homes!) The other guy my mom keeps tossing up at me like so much confetti on New Year's Eve is descended from Mayflower stock (the Brewster family) and his lineage is peppered with Knights Templar, feuding warrior Barons and the Capet tribe - most of whom should have been boiled in oil - seriously - marrying princesses for land and money and then trying to get the PTB's to annul because a sister is too FAT? Bedding your wife who is TWELVE? NICE.
You see Mom's paramour, George is the 20th great grand son of John Lackland Plantagenet. (or as Disney so lovingly depicted him as Prince John, a cowardly thumbsucking lion. - way to go)
Yes, Tam spends too much time on the thin branches of the family tree...swinging by her digits.
Anyway. I'm going to spend some time tomorrow determining my course of action that will bring me back into writing. I think taking the family back a thousand years is probably far enough and I weary of turning up toads like John and most of the Capets. (You like the French Louises....you can have them. Sigh.) Peace.
Eleanor of Aquitaine was very cool. Its her kids that were such mutants. Peace.
Daniel Bliss - Poet
For almost a year now I?ve had this genealogy addiction and my two small family histories encompassing less than a thousand souls has now burgeoned to over 4500 souls on Ancestry.com and over 100 thousand on onegreatfamily.com. Now I am an opportunist. I will research any branch ? biological as well as by marriage which means I now have some interesting information on my step mom, my step dad and a step grandfather (my biological grandfather ? my dad?s dad ? died the same year I was born ? so the step grandfather is the only one I?ve known.)
So far ? my northern European ?appearance? holds true with few ?surprises? of the ?oh I didn?t know we were Dutch, French or German variety. That being said, I keep searching for family members who may be non Caucasian blood ties (so far I have one Native American great great grandmother) and since I?m seeing some evidence of settlers in the 1700?s ? it may be possible that I will run into some family member who owned slaves. I would find this onerous ? but I know its possible.
What I recently found however is that at least one of my step family had a spine and stood publicly against slavery (unfortunately he was also a British sympathizer?.can?t win ?em all) and the information thus far is below:
?The Gravestone of John Jack on the Burying Hill in Concord. John Jack a former slave who had bought his freedom in 1761, asked Daniel Bliss to draw up his will, and Bliss made him immortal by composing an epitaph in the prevailing balanced syle of the day, wlhich had a barb for the liberty-loving patriots who nevertheless kept slaves. One of Bliss's Tory friends sent it to England to be printed in a London newspaper as an ironic comment on the pretensions of the Sons of Liberty.? ? Lane Bliss 2009
?John Jack was a former slave who had been owned by shoemaker Benjamin Barron of Concord, MA. Jack was able to buy his freedom and before his death on March 17, 1773. According to the local historian his epitaph was written by a local attorney who was an active abolitionist.
This attorney was also a Torrey and supported the British during the Revolutionary War. He had to flee for his life since Concord was a hot bed of British resistance. No one ever knew for sure where he went. (research shows he died in New Brunswick, Canada ? Boehm?s notes)
Here's the tombstone epitaph he wrote:
God wills us free
Man wills us slaves
Gods will be done
Here lies the body of John Jack,
Native of Africa. Who died March 1773
Aged about sixty years
Tho' born in a land of slaves
He was born free
Tho' he lived in a land of liberty
He lived a slave,
Till by his honest tho' stolen labour
He acquired the source of slavery
Which gave him his freedom;
Tho' not long before
Death the grand tyrant
gave him his final emancipation,
and put him on a footing with kings
Tho' a slave to vice
He practiced those virtues
Without which kings are but slaves. " (-Daniel Bliss (1739 - 1805) relationship to me: 1st cousin 5x removed of husband of paternal grandmother)
From the internet ? Craig Brown
My bent in posting this is: we humans have the propensity at times to distance ourselves from things based on our immediacy ? or our personal experience. Time and distance become our excuses to forget the horror and the injustices real people experienced while living out their lives in anonymity. We can certainly overcome via education and empathy ? but we can never forget?..complacency and apathy are poisonous - deadly
Panning for Gold in the Family Pool - Genealogy musings 12/07/10
Being the singularly focused creature that I am, I'm still tackling the collected dead. I'm up to the T's now which means I'm on the home stretch. (pause for happy dance) and once the various names are migrated, I can jaunt down those rabbit holes for which I salivate. Whilst nosing about the bones yesterday - I made a whoppin' accidental discovery: my dad and my step grandpa have a common ancestor. For me, that means the clan that disowned me and all the other odd Hughes's after my dear Grandma Carol died (the dirt is that Carol's first husband, grandpa Hughes was a monster and she divorced him and married Grandpa Bliss and lived happily everafter....therefore, once gone, the Hughes's got a royal family flush.) are actually blood relations! (nya ha!) Wait till I tell 'em THAT!
The second way cool thing is a "toy" on my research site (onegreatfamily.com) called a relationship calculator. Its basically a list of famous relations and if you hit a happy little button, the squirrels plot your tree for you. Just for grins I've found the following family ties:
Using my firstborn for ease of calculation - but all these come from my side of the family and not the Boehm side:
Fred and Princess Diana Spencer: 10th cousins twice removed. I've actually plotted this one out
Fred and Ralph Waldo Emerson: 13th cousins twice removed. Haven't proven this
Fred and Stephen King: 13th cousins (that explains a lot)Have not proven this.
Fred and Walt Disney: 16th cousins (this also explains a lot, unfortunately Fred HATES Disney go figure. Have not proven this
and last but not least and definitely not expected
Fred and Muhammed Ali: 16th cousins (no kidding?) Have not proven this
Supposedly we share DNA with Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Attila the Hun (Have traced this back, possibly true) several statesmen and presidents, Charlemagne (also possibly true for more than one family line) and a bunch of other weirdos. The problem with the squirrels is that they go forward from a common ancestor quite nicely but they don't run backwards. I spent hours last night trying to find Shakespeare in the lineage and I don't even LIKE Shakespeare. I do have the lineage for Chaucer printed out but haven't proven it yet)
Supposedly we are related to Jessie James - which also means there's a connection somewhere to Ozzy Osborne (snort) but I'm not even going to look for that. I do however have an Osborne bloodline going back to the 1400's in Cornwall England. (did that one all by myself, thank you very much) My brick walls happen with my Prussian ancestors though. It seems that there is a black hole around the mid 1800's and anyone coming to the US from Prussia - must have spontaneously spawned with no parental information. That effectively shuts down the Boehms and Pfundts for my hubby's lineage, and one side on my mom's lineage. But still. In only 8 months - I have all this junk...in my family trunk.
Then there's that whole theory by David Icke that the House of Windsor and several of the presidential families are Martian Lizards.....I'm telling you....dragon DNA baby.
All joking aside, what humbles me are the connections to writers. Since I, my aunt, my grandpa and one of my children are all storytellers and poets...well. It gives me a warm fuzzy....Doesn't mean any thing to the outside world....but in my sappy heart, it makes me feel part of something bigger than my desk job. And it will be fun to put this on the website for my relatives. Thats the main thing.
what a difference a few generations can make - 12/07/10
So today I'm off on another random thought regarding thankfulness, what it means to be an American and what benefits "progress" has brought us as a society. I've said before that my parental units weren't much for educating me on my gene pool and so I'm left to satisfy my curiosity via personal research. I know that one side of my family came from Cornwall England to Michigan in the 1800's to work in the copper mines. (another set homesteaded in the Dakotas and later, some did the whole wagon trail thing to Oregon) I've learned that these Cornish immigrants were more than likely miners in Cornwall as well. Its what they knew....It was difficult, dangerous, dirty work - nothing like sitting at a desk and lamenting over a spreadsheet, you know? These immigrants didn't have time to worry about stuff like "job satisfaction" -they worked to eat, to feed families of eight or twelve kids and pay for a home with only two bedrooms and no running water... - and often - they lost children and wives and mothers in childbirth. For my homesteading great grandmother in the Dakotas - the doctor was over an hour away by wagon and when her sister got her front teeth kicked out by an ornery heifer, Mom just put the teeth back in her jaw and gave her soft food for a few days. When another sister broke an arm, they set the bone right there on the farm...And some of my buds break a nail and have to call the specialist and slather themselves down with antibactierial gel. Know what? I'm incredibly fortunate to be who I am, where I am and what I am. I got nothin' to complain about. In fact, the mere fact that I CAN complain - is a tremendous gift.
So today, I am thankful that I have hot food in seconds, a doctor within ten minutes and a grocery store within walking distance. I'm stoked that I have plumbing and that I don't have to stare down my meal in the barn before I eat it. I'm thankful for technology that enables me to instantly talk with family across the planet. I'm blessed beyond comprehension.
Honestly, when I study what my family went through just a few generations back...it makes me ache inside. For all the stress and the crap and the road rage and the ornery teens and the year long audits, I will never face the difficulties my ancestors faced....I'm blown away by what they went through - just to be "Americans" just to have a chance to survive....
On Being a Cultural Transient - Genealogy Research 11/4/10
Here we go on a random brain purge. You know, I was rambling about the bandwidth recently when I engaged in a an exhange with a friend that got me thinking about my own personal condition. (Oh Good Lord, here it comes...yes. Its inevitable) For the purpose of this post, I am going to blur the lines between "culture" and "ethnicity" for ease of communication. In my specific line of thought - they are conjoined twins. I've lived in New Mexico since February of 1979, and while I've assimilated to the rich Hispanic culture (I can make posole from scratch, I cuss in Spanglish, I WILL bump a track at intersections...) but at the end of the day, when I look in the mirror - I don't see a doe eyed, sunkissed chica. I'm white to the bone. And unfortunately, sometimes that makes me the village idiot instead of the adopted daughter. This is not my original "home" and many can smell the white on me like I can smell the prechewed food on a cattle hauler.
Truth is, I'm a cultural transient, a parasite I suppose. While doing research on my family I've found most of them were sturdy Cornish and Scandinavian types who immigrated to Michigan and the Dakotas to work the copper mines or till the red soil. They left little of themselves for me to pass down, just scant notes on backs of family tree sheets and a few pages of "memoirs" I've scrounged from throwaway collections of curling, moldy, photos. My grandparents didn't share stories of "their" parents and my own parents were so consumed with other things - even the cordial week vacation visit to the grandparents ceased when we moved to the high desert. You see, my mom was born with congenital birth defects right after her dad came back from WWII, and he refused to accept her as his blood child. From that point on, my grandparents slept in seperate rooms, and my mom, shortly before her 18th birthday, took the first opportunity to leave her parents. She never looked back. My dad, his parents divorced, when he was young, did the same thing.
While I was growing up, they never shared with me that secret recipe for melt in your mouth rosette cookies (after my great grandma's death I learned they were her favorite cookie, she said they were the most beautiful cookie she'd ever seen) or the ingredients to a Cornish pasty that will stay with you the entire day...no music, no words (they learned English and forbade their 1st generation offspring to speak Norwegian) nothing but the physical indicators of my heritage. This pale, freckled skin and reddish hair, the clown shaped pale eyes - so foreign out here in the land where families have settled and stayed for a dozen generations.
Perhaps my ancestors were simply a "practical people" not given over to emotions, and traditions and legacies. They survived with little and left behind even less. Those of us with recessive right brain tendencies were consigned to the dark side if we remained uncompliant. Stuffing our dreams by beating our children, or self medicating with liquor, or morphine..."Uff da. We don't talk about dos types, donchano?" But all that genetic sludge puts me at ethnic ground zero with no personal identity and no method to simply melt into the blur of my current adopted culture.
I know that some Norskies kept their culture. I've found evidence of two ancestors' membership in something called a "bygdelag" - (they still exist) I know that the church where many of my ancestors were baptized not only stands but is one an active church in Norway. In their determination to become "American" they abandoned all of who they were. (The ancestor is TK Axness)
So when I stroll Old Town plaza at Christmas and I see the little girls dancing flamenco, and I hear the mariachi's, and I smell the biscochito's, and chile, and I hear the church bells, and I hear the lilt of a language that is not my own, I ache a little. What I would give to have that fullness of identity. To know where I've come from, where I'm going, and what progress I've made along the way. To know that I'm part of that beauty I see around me...wow. I want family. I want heritage. I want to belong...
And so this year at Christmas, along with the tamales at my table, I'm going to find some cookie irons and try my luck at rosettes. I'll probably end up with scorched concrete in my deep fryer, but its worth the risk. Anything to cover that bovine perfume that makes me forever uncomfortable in my own skin
My mind is full of......Genealogy research 10/18/10
Its monday already and I've been going at the speed of light since about 5:00. A second night with no sleep thanks to intermittent "rovalerts" (I'ma kill that dog) and an aging bipedal male making man noises all night...sigh.
I've been fighting with my limited schedule, trying to carve out time to get my 3500 dead people catalogued without going down the "you may be related to" rabbit trails that keep popping up with wild abandon on One Great Family.com So far the Hughes line shows: Abe Lincoln (unconfirmed) Daniel Boone (confirmed) Chaucer (under investigation) Louis the VIII or IX (yea right) King Herod the Great (whoops!) and Salome...and a bunch of others. Of course this is only applicable if my Hughes dad is my dad...and everyone seems to think he is except for my mom, my step dad and the spare mind in my mind....doubt is a snarling cat on the back porch
For those of you who've done any Bible studies - you may remember that Salome was the girl who danced for King Herod the Great and Herod was so enamoured - he granted her the head of John the Baptist on a charger plate - for her mom. Not the kind of relations a Christian wants....sigh. But there had to be a Vlad the impaler in the mix somewhere, right.
Funny, how genealogy software works....I'm back fourteen generations on my moms maternal clan, and my dad's maternal clan and there's nothing. But take those crazy Hughes's back 8 generations - and wow. A genealogical Mardi Gras....My uneducated theory is this. If you can tie back to a pilgrim or a political figure - you'll hit pay dirt, otherwise, not so much.
I did find a Knight - A Denne I believe, on my mom's side from the 1400's. Supposedly the family has its origins from the court of William the Conqueror. I'd like to actually see that mapped out. (I'm anal like that)
And finally, the clock is ticking. nanowrimo is only a few weeks away and I have that percolating novel....I'm planning to break from the dead zone and write my arse off for a spell.
PS. As of August of 2012 - Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Boone are both confirmed relatives of the Hughes family. I am not able to prove the connection to Chaucer and believe this to be "wishful thinking" which happens with sprawling on line family trees.


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The Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation, and Cancer sponsors an annual midsummer symposium for the Memorial Sloan Kettering community. In 2010 the symposium focused on tumor-infiltrating macrophages. In 2011 it focused on inflammation and the development of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract.
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ERIE — A pilot escaped serious injury when a wind gust caused loss of control of a plane preparing for takeoff from Erie's municipal airport on Saturday afternoon, according to Erie Police Cpl. Robert Vesco.
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In an interview with AdvisorOne on Friday, Bernie Clark, executive vice president of Schwab Advisor Services, admitted it was a mistake to send a letter from Schwab Retirement Plan Sponsor Services directly to plan sponsors without first informing the company's RIA affiliates. Clark explained the communication was sent before it could be fully discussed with advisors.
"We have policies in place to ensure we respect the primacy of the relationship that advisors have with their clients," Clark said. "As you can imagine, at a firm of this size we do many, many mailings and we have the necessary safeguards in place within our system designed to prevent this from happening."
When asked if the letter fed the perception voiced by critics and competitors that Schwab competes with its affiliated RIAs, Clark said it's something the firm talks about openly and honestly.
"We're really in two markets," he said. "Our affiliated RIAs serve higher-net-worth clients with more customized and specialized service, while our own internal advisors deal more with the mass affluent on the retail side. Do we compete? Every once in a while we have a situation where that might occur, but we're completely honest and transparent about it."
The letter, sent Aug. 9 and signed by Director Ann Insley, sparked an outcry from RIAs with whom the company works and forced an emailed apology on Aug. 17 from Clark.
Entitled "Important information about investment products now available for your retirement plan," the letter appears to solicit clients on behalf of two fee-based investments the company provides.
Referring to Schwab Managed Portfolios Mutual Funds as well as Windhaven Portfolios, the letter takes an opt-out approach, telling plan sponsors, "If we don't hear from you, we'll consider this your direction and consent to make these Investment Advisory Products available to your eligible plan participants."
The letter makes clear that the information it includes does not apply to plan participants currently working with advisors. However, it goes on to say "the information does apply to current or future eligible plan participants who do not work with an investment advisor, as well as eligible plan participants who discontinue working with an investment advisor in the future."
The letter then provides steps for plan sponsors that are interested in including the Schwab products in their plan, before repeating the opt-out language it previously provided.
Clark apologized in the follow-up email and said he regrets "any inconvenience this communication may have caused you and your plan sponsor(s)." Clark said the original letter was sent as part of the company's "fiduciary duty" to the plan sponsors with whom it works.
"Schwab, which has a contractual agreement with the sponsor, notified each plan sponsor about these changes as the overall fiduciary for their plan," Clark wrote. "It is the plan sponsors' decision whether or not to elect to use these investment products. If the plan sponsor does not want these products to be included, they must simply return the form provided in the mailing."
A Schwab-affiliated RIA who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal said the company's purchase of Windward Investment Management (now Windhaven) in November 2010 likely drove the original letter's release.
"Bottom line, the Windhaven purchase was expensive," he said. "With interest rates at zero in money market accounts, Schwab is getting squeezed and they want to put people into Windhaven so they can make money."
Noting the size of the company, the advisor said the letter was probably a mistake that was not vetted through the proper channels.
"They probably didn't think it was an issue until people like me stood up and said, 'Hey, wait a minute,' " he said. "They've got to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them. Their investment advisor business is one of the fastest growing and most profitable lines of business they've got. It was a mistake, and they've got egg on their face."
Clark disputed the advisor's contention that the Windhaven acquisition and deployment had something to do with the original letter.
"I don't want to come across as anything other than completely apologetic for what happened, and it's something I regret," he said. "As far as Windhaven; it's growing very rapidly. Do we need to do [what the advisor claims]? No. But there are instances when the type of solution Windhaven offers would do well for a mass affluent-type client. If that's the case we want to be sure we explain that fully to the advisor and the client."


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The Apple Valley High School gym was eerily quiet Friday, considering about 750 people had arrived to see a consensus top-five national basketball recruit announce his college destination.
Tyus Jones, who had choked up moments earlier, thinking about his recently deceased grandfather, stood solemnly at a lectern, waiting for instructions through his ear piece from a television producer.
ESPNU had staged this moment so Jones and his close friend from Chicago, Jahlil Okafor, could announce their decisions together. Asked where they were going, Jones anxiously grabbed a charcoal colored hat from inside the podium and said, "Duke University."
Seconds later, Okafor donned a blue cap and said those same two words.
The silence in both gymnasiums was gone, replaced by standing ovations and thunderous applause. Jones looked over at his family and exhaled.
"It's over, baby!" said his older brother, Jadee.
Tyus Jones exhaled again. One of the most high-profile recruiting processes in Minnesota sports history finally had ended.
"It started four years ago," Apple Valley coach Zach Goring said. "It was my first year as coach, so I'm nervous the first day, and there's Tubby Smith from the University of Minnesota, coming over to watch our eighth-grader."
Other coaches soon followed, including Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Kansas' Bill Self, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Smith's replacement at Minnesota, Richard Pitino. Jones never officially cut the Gophers from his list, but it had been assumed for months he would head out of state.
Okafor never listed the Gophers as one of his finalists. He and Jones had been planning to attend the same college together since 2011.
Okafor, a 6-11 center from Chicago's Whitney Young High School, is the nation's consensus No. 1 recruit in this year's senior class. ESPN has Jones ranked No. 4 on that list. Their idea to attend the same school hatched in Colorado, during tryouts for the Team USA Under-16 squad.
"We became good friends, and we just kind of mentioned it one day, not seriously," Jones said. "The more we both thought about it, the better the idea sounded."
Jones said he and Okafor finalized their decisions Thursday.
"He's like my best friend; he's like a brother to me," Okafor said. "If you take basketball out of the equation, he's still somebody I wanted to go to college with."
Jeff Borzello, a college basketball writer for CBSSports.com, said it's rare for two elite recruits to announce they are going to the same school simultaneously.
"I think the chemistry they have is just going to be a huge advantage for Duke," Borzello said. "It's going to be one of the best point guards in the country, and the best big man in the country, and I think Duke immediately becomes maybe the national title favorite for next season."
The Blue Devils' starting point guard this year is junior Quinn Cook.
"He'll be a senior next year, but it won't be much of a contest [with Jones]," Borzello said. "Cook will have experience, and I think they'll find ways to get them both on the floor, but I think Tyus Jones will start immediately."
The 6-2 Jones averaged 20.9 points, 7.6 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 steals as a junior last year, leading Apple Valley to the Class 4A state championship. Krzyzewski, winner of four national titles at Duke since taking over at the Durham, N.C., school in 1980, cultivated the relationship for years.
Jones made the announcement one week after DeLaSalle forward Reid Travis picked Stanford over the Gophers. Travis ranks No. 23 on ESPN's Top 100 recruits.
The only member of Minnesota's "Big Three" left to make his college choice is Rashad Vaughn, who sits at No. 17 on ESPN's list. The former Cooper shooting guard is playing his senior season at Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev.
Jones said he and Okafor "feel that we can fit into [Duke's] style of play right away as freshmen. And obviously Coach K — to have a chance to go and play under arguably the best coach of all time, and one of the best basketball minds out there, we felt like we would learn a lot under him."
Emotions flowed for Jones throughout the half-hour announcement. The audience watched a two-minute video of his highlights, which ended with the words, "For Grandpa."
Jones hung his head and wiped tears from his eyes. His mother's father had passed away two days earlier. Jones also choked up several times when thanking his family, coaches, teammates, teachers and fellow students.
"The past four or five years — it's kind of going through my mind, and I'm just thinking about all the phone calls, all the texts and all the trips," Jones said. "It's just been a long process, and I'm just excited for this day, to have this off my chest."


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text: Rain kept them from playing last night, but it looks like everything's a go this evening in St. Louis. Colby Lewis is pitching for the Rangers, while Jaime Garcia is going for the Cardinals. Will Texas no longer be baseball's oldest franchise to not win a World Series? Or will Tony La Russa get one more game to figure out how to use a bullpen phone? So much to consider. So much to talk about. Feel free to hash it out in the comments.


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GOT Storyboard Artist William Simpson Gives a Glimpse at Season 3
By Cat Taylor
Artist: William Simpson
Will is an internationally renowned artist who has worked on any number of comics including 'Judge Dredd,' 'Hellblazer' and 'Batman.' He's been the storyboard artist on 'Game of Thrones' since the beginning, and his beautiful work has now been collected in the new HBO book 'Inside Game of Thrones.'
What would you say is the main purpose of your job?
The main function would be to try and collate a director's thoughts on to paper so you get a 'comic strip version' of what they are, going to film. When you read a script you do start to get images that explain how the story makes sense. You try and find a way that it should be filmed. There are many ways it could be done, but when you are working with a director you are interpreting their version of things. That interpretation is crucial; it's their stamp on the program. Sometimes I get to interpret in my version, sometimes parts get mixed in. I always find that interesting.
You've also done comic books. What would you say is more challenging – working on comics or working off a film script?
One of the things that I found was that for me, there wasn't much difference. I always had a very 'cinematic' style. I've always been more graphic, more realistic in style. I would say that in comics, you are looking for one image that captures a moment; in the film, you can break down all the shots – filling in detail and time. You have to imagine the shot from different angles, with different camera perspectives. It becomes a much more involved thing. They are almost opposites – but always interesting.
You've worked on a lot of different projects – what would you say is unique to working on Game of Thrones?
A lot of the projects that I've worked on have been films, so one director, one film. With this, each episode is like a film, with a different director. It can be a challenge to work for all five directors, all on different scripts at the same time, with changes to the scripts coming in all the time. When I do storyboards I try and get the energy into the images, maybe it's left over the comics, but for me it's important that when I director shows it to a camera man or a DOP they get a sense of the nuance, the feel of the shot. Sometimes that can be difficult if you have so little time.
After years of knowing the actors, do you find it easier to draw the people and capture that energy?
It would be lovely if you could concentrate on it the way you do with comics. For me, I do like to know who is playing a character. You do try and draw a version of them, it's not always easy; some are definitely easier to get a likeness to than others. A lot of the time you have scripts before things are cast, so you haven't a clue and you end up with Conan the Barbarian.
A collection of your GOT boards is coming out as a book now, do you look back on them now and think, "Man that is pretty on the money?"
There are maybe one or two – but for me it will always be the opening shot of the first season where the white walkers first appear. That was worked out meticulously with Tim Van Patten, because it had to work. It was going to be shown to executives, and it needed to show how the show could work, that everything was right and it could be done. I was watching it with a friend, and we were flipping through my copies and saying "God, this is this, and this is this …" That was pretty right on.


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ESPN's First Take show this morning was talking about LJ wanting out of KC in their "Cover Two" segment. We all know this but the guy on the phone talking about it said he thought it was unlikely that it will happen. He addressed the cap, the $3.5 million that he will earn this coming season etc.. I personally thought this has been the case all along. I don't think there is anyone out there willing to give the Chiefs what they are going to want for LJ. Some on here would trade him for a box of rocks but the Chiefs are much smarter than that. He is a very valuable commodity as a RB and they will need quite a bit to trade him. Pioli has been very good at this and I believe with the CP's of the organization out, Pioli will turn things around and LJ will once again return to form as he did a few years ago. This will make his attitude change as well as the fans of the Chiefs and everything will be back in harmony!!!!!!:yahoo:


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PLEASANT HILL — Karen Sakata, deputy superintendent for the Contra Costa County Office of Education, has announced that she plans to run for Superintendent of Schools next year.
Joseph Ovick, the current Superintendent of Contra Costa County schools, said he does not plan to seek re-election when his term expires in 2014. Ovick has endorsed Sakata's candidacy.
Sakata worked as a teacher and administrator in the Mt. Diablo school district before her appointment as associate superintendent for student programs and services at the county office in 2008. She held that position until 2012, when she was promoted to deputy superintendent. She is second in command under Ovick.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - 17th-ranked Texas Tech parlayed a pair of second half goals into a 2-0 win over UC Santa Barbara at the Jack in the Box Classic at the University of New Mexico on Sunday. The loss ended the Gauchos five-game winning streak.
In the 51st-minute Janine Beckie collected an errant clearance and, with a strong wind to her back, unleashed a shot from 35-yards out. UCSB goalkeeper Beth Ritter, who had posted five consecutive shutouts entering the match, jumped to make the catch but the ball slipped through her hands and rolled into the net giving the Red Raiders a 1-0 lead.
At the 63:45 mark, when Alli Murphy sent a free kick from 50 yards out, again with a powerful wind in her favor, and the ball bounced over Ritter's leaping attempt at a stop for a bizarre goal.
Texas Tech had a penalty kick in the first half, but Caity Heap's attempt was blocked by Ritter.
The Gauchos had their most dangerous threat early in the first half when a shot by Indiana Mead hit the crossbar. In all, Santa Barbara was held to six shots overall, two by Mead, and three on goal, both by Mead. Ritter finished with four saves.
UCSB falls to 6-3-1 while the Red Raiders improve to 9-1-0.
The Gauchos will return home on Sunday, Sept. 29 to host 14th-ranked Denver in an early match that will kick-off at 11:00 a.m.


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Julianne Moore is tickled pink about a glowing early review of a new musical based on her "Freckleface Strawberry" children's book.
Then again, it was from her daughter.
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The actress recently took 8-year-old Liv to a performance of "Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical" and was delighted to discover that she didn't once have to bribe her daughter with sweets to stay still.
"When kids watch shows, they're not very quiet. Usually when I bring my kids to a musical, whenever there's a ballad, they ask for more candy," Moore said Thursday. "She didn't turn to me once."
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The off-Broadway musical is adapted from Moore's best-selling adventures of a 7-year-old relentlessly teased by her schoolmates for having bright red hair and freckles, something Moore knows a lot about.
"I think what they did is absolutely charming," she said. "It's not so easy. I mean, it's a picture book. It's a small book. To make it into a show that lasts an hour and a half and maintain the message — a very simple, childhood message — I think is pretty phenomenal."
Now showing at New World Stages, the show features a cast of seven adult professionals and officially opens Oct. 1. The music and lyrics were written by Gary Kupper, with a book by Kupper and Rose Caiola.
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Caiola, who runs the Manhattan Youth Ballet as well as the Manhattan Movement&Arts Center, got the project up and running when she came across Moore's first book and thought it would be perfect to workshop with children. To mount it as a real theatrical event, she decided to cast adults, including Hayley Podschun ("Pal Joey," ''Hairspray") as Strawberry.
Moore, the 49-year-old star of such adult dramas as "A Single Man," ''Boogie Nights" and "Hannibal," has tried to let the producers mount their adaptation without too much interfering.
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"They've been incredibly receptive to all of my notes," she says. "I certainly never expected it to be a production of this scale."
Caiola said Moore's tweaks have helped: "She's really agreed with most of what we've done. Little notes here and there have helped to make the show better," she said. "She gave me this wonderful opportunity and I want to make her happy."
The musical, which includes original songs such as "I Can Be Anything" and "Different," stays close to the message Moore hopes to convey in her books: Be happy being who you are.
"There are things about yourself that you're not going to like necessarily. What we hope will go away as children doesn't always go away," said the actress, who has finished work on a third "Freckleface" book and plans a fourth. "I hoped my freckles would go away. They didn't. They're still here. I still don't like them, but they don't loom as large a problem in my life any more because I have other things that are more important."
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Certain vehicles may have been assembled with an incorrectly manufactured automatic transmission parking pawl guide plate. As a result, the transmission may not engage in park when the shifter is placed in the park position. The vehicle may roll unexpectedly if the parking brake is not engaged. Unexpected rolling of the vehicle could result in a crash. Dealers will replace the parking pawl guide plate to correct this concern. The Land Rover recall number is B023.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Joe Pavelski got the puck to the right of the net and sent a one-timer wide in the final minute as he tried for that elusive first hat trick. That's about the only thing that hasn't gone Pavelski's way of late.
Pavelski scored two more goals and the San Jose Sharks beat Jimmy Howard for the ninth straight time in the regular season with a 4-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.
Pavelski has three two-goal games this season and 22 in his career but is still seeking his first three-goal game in the NHL.
"It'll happen, I bet," he said. "Hopefully. We'll see. We'll keep trying. That was one of the better looks I've had at it, though."
Dan Boyle and Andrew Desjardins also scored for the Sharks, who bounced back after losing two of three on a recent road trip. Antti Niemi made 24 saves to beat the Red Wings for the fourth straight time with just three goals allowed in that span.
"We know it's going to be a good competitive game against these guys," said captain Joe Thornton, who had two assists to give him a league-leading 45. "We weren't very focused in Nashville but tonight I thought we got back on track and played solid for 60."
Tomas Tatar scored the lone goal for the Red Wings, who began a tough three-game California swing with a loss. Detroit follows up this game with weekend visits to Los Angeles and Anaheim. The three California teams have just six regulation losses in 63 home games this season.
Howard made 19 saves but allowed three goals in the second period to end his night and extend his struggles against the Sharks, who haven't lost to him in the regular season in more than three years. San Jose's 10 regular-season wins against Howard are the second most for any team, trailing only Chicago's 12.
"We gave up two ugly goals," coach Mike Babcock said. "For whatever reason, they went up 3-1 and that seemed to do it for us. We have to be mentally strong and keep skating no matter what. With this group we need good discipline and good goaltending and we didn't get it."
Howard allowed two soft goals in the second period to help the Sharks break open a close game. The onslaught started when Desjardins skated into the offensive zone and beat Howard to the short side from a bad angle for his second goal of the season to make it 2-1.
Pavelski added to the lead when he knocked in the rebound of Brad Stuart's shot, giving him 12 goals in his last 15 games as he has excelled on a line with Thornton and Brent Burns.
"He's been really good," coach Todd McLellan said. "We need to keep him that way. When the team really needs him, he elevates his game. That's the sign of a real good player. Again, playing with the two players that he does, he's just got to get himself in the right spot and find pucks, and he took advantage of it again."
Boyle added to the lead on a power play when he beat Howard with a wrist shot from the circle that made it 4-1.
The game got testy in the third period, starting with a fight between San Jose's Tyler Kennedy and Kyle Quincey. There was another scrum that ended with Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi throwing his helmet at Tommy Wingels and then a later one between San Jose's Scott Hannan and Dan Cleary.
The teams traded goals in the first period with the Sharks striking fist when Thornton carried the puck into the offensive zone and waited patiently for Pavelski to break free of Henrik Zetterberg. Thornton then threaded a perfect pass into the slot that Pavelski one-timed past Howard for his 20th goal.
The Red Wings answered late in the period when Tatar held the puck behind the net while Marc-Edouard Vlasic was without his stick. Tatar then skated in front and lifted a backhand past Niemi.
"I saw the one guy without a stick and looked up to try and pass," Tatar said. "When no one came over to help I choose to take it. The puck was following me tonight. It's too bad I only scored one goal. I had plenty of other opportunities."
NOTES: The Sharks got Wingels (upper body) and Kennedy (flu) back in the lineup and sent F Freddie Hamilton back to the minors. … San Jose also recalled D Matt Tennyson from Worcester as insurance with D Matt Irwin out with an upper-body injury. … D Danny DeKeyser (groin) returned to the lineup for Detroit, but Fs Pavel Datsyuk (lower body) and Darren Helm (groin) remain sidelined.


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I currently have a local volatility model that uses the standard Black Scholes assumptions.
When calculating the volatility surface, what causes the difference between the call volatility surface, and the put surface?
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I currently have a local volatility model that uses the standard Black Scholes assumptions.
When calculating the volatility surface, what causes the difference between the call volatility surface, and the put surface?
The reason for put and call volatilities to appear different is that the implied vol has been calculated using different drift parameters than those implied by the market.
Let's take everything in the model as given except the interest rate $r$ and the volatility $\sigma$. For European options we have the Black-Scholes formula for put and call values $V_{P,C}$
$$ V_{P,C}=BS_{P,C}(r,\sigma) $$
Now, although it is common practice to run this equation backwards to "imply" the volatility $\sigma$
$$ \sigma_{\text{Imp}} = BS^{-1}_{\sigma}(r,V) $$
we can see that from a mathematical point of view we could imply $r$ instead
$$ r_{\text{Imp}} = BS^{-1}_{r}(\sigma,V). $$
Obviously, using a different $r$ affect options prices and therefore implied volatilities.
Consider now the consequences of receiving prices from someone using the Black-Scholes model. For concreteness I will take $T=1, K=S=100$ and no carry cost. Let's say you think $r=1\%$. I give you put and call prices of $7.95$ and $11.80$. You will get a put vol of $21.3\%$ and a call vol of $28.6\%$. Seem familiar?
That's because I actually generated those prices using $r=4\%$. If you had used the same drift parameter $r$ as I had employed, you would have computed both volatilities to be $25\%$.
Generally, risk-free interest rates are not too hard to pin down, but we have other effects on drift where the parameters are not so obvious. This includes dividends, borrow costs and funding costs. Each of these terms is typically treated as a deterministic "carry cost" but even in the simple case of European options it is not necessarily clear what values should be used for them.
So to your answer your question, the difference between put and call volatility surfaces is a symptom of your drift parameters failing to match those of the market.
Implied volatility is the same for European call and European put options (it can be seen from Put-Call parity). If you use non-parametric local volatility model and fit it to implied volatility surface, then you should get exact fit. Therefore, local volatility surface should be the same for call and put options.


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Donnie Yen
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86.} bake a cheesecake
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90.} ♥learn how to make RoseApple tea and HONEY Lemon Tea
91.} make a bag using screws and glue/magnets
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93.} ♥design my OWN wedding gown
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95.} join MythBusters juz a few eps, like as a guest.
96.} ♥bbq bread
97.} ♥Star in 3 movies adapted from books (eg. Sabetha in TGBS)
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102.} conversational Espanol
103.} invent a partially permeable membrane (filter) that can (on a mass scale) sieve out pollution and bacteria, leaving juz clean air/water.(to clean the ocean of pollution)
104.} have a nice cottage full of fishing equipment, bbq set, next to my lake.
105.} grow a fruits and veggies garden
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107.} achieve NYAA Gold
108.} write a song in Japanese
109.} write a song in Spanish
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111.} ♥design a 'heart' necklace pendent
112.} film my own eulogy
113.} ♥duet with Sakurap
114.} spoof The Hunger Games movie
115.} ♥full MKR collection.
116.} ♥drive an armoured vehicle with ballooney pokey spikes and a red/white 'FIEARY' sign.
117.} Universal/Warner Music Group artist offer
118.} wakeboard down the streets of Venice
119.} create a WW1 movie
120.} write a jazz song
121.} ♥a recipe book containing 13 of my original food creations
122.} ♥create my dreambook
123.} appear in one of Arashi's variety shows
124.} pass JLPT N3
125.} pumpkin house of horrors in my themepark
126.} 紅白歌合戦に出る
127.} The Best Bet busker in the streets of Orchard during Christmas
128.} a song collaboration with Angela Aki/Shimizu Shota
129.} get a class 2 boating licence (small boats)
130.} visit the Bermuda Triangle
131.} buy a glass grand piano for korkor
132.} get married.
133.} tailor nutrition supplement regimes for animals
134.} shake hands with Bowling For Soup
135.} collaborate with a Phillipino singer
136.} speak 7 languages
137.} climb 100 mountains/volcanos
138.} expedition to 50 waterfalls/caves
139.} visit 254 countries/White Chart Project
140.} spend 6 months backpacking around Japan
141.} visit the original 5 Wonders of the World
142.} drink beer out of a wooden barrel
143.} design webbed duck feet slippers
144.} serve jelly in a trophy cup
145.} road trip around England/Europe
146.} participate in an archery competition
147.} run with a bull in Spain
148.} sail halfway across the world in my yatch
149.} have a kimono/yukata collection
150.} own a mountain
151.} organise a charity stiletto marathon
152.} travel to http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150217015767463.346934.108605392462
153.} learn the choreography for Party Rock Anthem
154.} climb a mountain in Bhutan
155.} go fishing in Serbia
156.} retire in Bhutan
157.} collect traditional costumes from 100 different countries
158.} complete an ironman
159.} complete a vertical marathon
160.} visit 硫黄島
161.} rear a small herd of capybaras
162.} build a traditional igloo
163.} own a list of copyrights
164.} invent a game using electromyograms
165.} complete a bike marathon
166.} complete a full marathon
167.} climb up the Empire State building
168.) become a Master Scuba Diver
169.} own a game centre
170.} play a full tennis match
171.} do all my own stunts for a martial arts movie
172.} achieve perfect eyesight
173.} drive from Singapore to Europe
174.} drive to Africa
175.} go to college
176.} work as a waitress
177.} learn to surf in Australia
178.} grow/crochet dreadlocks
179.} shopping spree at Armani Exchange
180.} fall in love
[DONE] 181.} fish for tuna
182.} tour in a bus
183.} plant a forest over a wasteland
184.} go cave-hunting
185.} translate 10 songs into japanese
186.} 24時間テレビで出る
187.} go on a business trip before 27
188.} create a mobile app
189.} play with baby tiger cubs
190.} hug a bear
191.} finish a coloring book
192.} complete 100 adult puzzles
193.} world map of theme parks and aquariums
194.} bite into a freshly caught fish
195.} Collect Scott Lynch's The Gentlemen Bastard Sequence
196.} rear a tank of pearl-bearing oysters
197.} cosplay a very adorable characters
198.} food tour in NYC
199.} eat gold
200.} 桜と梅の花見したい
201.} Ride a rodeo bull machine
202.} see/pick up a sand dollar
203.} eat black sapote
204.} eat a red banana
205.} find a diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas
206.} do a DNA test to find out my ancestry
207.} see a black lion
208.} dive with dolphins
209.} spend 1 hour in Vatican City
210.} go night diving in Singapore waters. Pulau Hantu.
211.} go on a world cruise
212.} petting cafe
213.} front row tickets to BattleBots
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Monday, 9 May 2011
137.} climb/summit 100 mountains/volcanos [3/100]
1.) summited Gunung Arong, 120m. [3/2/2010]
went with DPA 2010 students during the 2010 DPA orientation camp
day trip
2.) summited Gunung Panti, 531m. [1/5/2011]
went with 15th BOAT during training camp 2
camped at summit for 1 night
3.) summited Gunung Tarpis, 1512m. [4/6/2011]
went with 15th BOAT during the Overseas Expedition/camp 3
camped at 600m for 2 nights
summited during day trip
4.) Chele la Pass, Bhutan. 3988m. [27/5/2018]
154.} climb a mountain in Bhutan [Chele la Pass]
100 - 1 goals
accomplishment in progress
when will my dreams be fulfilled??
Saturday, 7 May 2011
meh, 29 biebers ain't nothing to me. 7/5/11.
it's been a while since i last posted.
i had an AMAZING week. it was soo awesome, and i know God will make this coming week even better. ^^
so i wanna share something that added to my great week.
Created by
i bet i could take even more!
MMA coach called me darn flexible too. lol. one more plus point; when caught in any kind of foot-lock, i can easily slip out.
hopefully i won't injure anyone at MMA this time.
more fun for everyone!!
my week's extraordinary time cannot be adequately expressed, since i forgot how i wanted to say it already. lol!
even my dreams were inspiring! now if only i can remember them.. hhmmm.
Fieary. 7/5/11.
when will my dreams be fulfilled??


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