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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Clean Bottle Runner ? Store Your Phone and Keys in Your Water Bottle
Well, you don’t exactly store them in the water bottle – more with the Clean Bottle.? A while ago, Julie told us about the Clean Bottle, a 22-ounce plastic water bottle with a leak-proof screw-off bottom for easy cleaning.? The Clean Bottle Runner includes a jacket that has a clear, play-though plastic pocket for your [...]
Extreme Sports Legend Comes to Cullowhee
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Gadd spoke with a group at the Rock Wall in the CRC Thursday afternoon - Photo by Joseph Moon
Red Bull athlete, Will Gadd, is an ice climbing Winter X-Games champion, record braking distance paraglider and producer of extreme sports films. Having been chosen as the third Red Bull athlete in North America, his resume epitomizes the Red Bull brand.
This 45-year-old from Canmore, Alberta, Canada proves through his accomplishments and lifestyle his dedication to extreme sports. He once climbed an ice wall for 24-hours straight, reaching close to 25,500 feet for charity. Why does he live this lifestyle?
?We take risks in life for lots of things. It?s funny, because the riskiest thing out of them all is childbirth. We take this risk for what? For this beautiful thing,? said Gadd, positioning his arms like holding a baby. ?You have to figure out what you want, and what risks you?re willing to take.?
Red Bull student brand manager, Zach Heaton, invited Gadd to the WCU campus.
?I heard he was in the area, and I knew we had such a special outdoor community here. It just worked out,? said Heaton. ?I?m pretty stoked. He?s a really cool, relaxed guy. He is all about helping others. This is a unique experience for everyone to get to hear what he has to say. He?s super legit.?
Will Gadd is known for his extreme sports abilities Photo by Christian Pondella
About 15 years ago, Gadd paraglided across the entire United States. One of the landing points was Jackson County airstrip because it was the only place he and his team could land in the whole area.
?I didn?t even know [WCU] was here! I made full circle; I?m back and it?s really nice to be here,? said Gadd.
March 29, Gadd spent time advising Park and Recreation students. He later coached a group at the rock wall in the Campus Recreation Center.
?I really like teaching, and this has been a fun group of people. They?re excited and motivated. Some of them are farther along than others, but they?re all having fun and a good time,? said Gadd. ?A lot of people really helped me when I was learning to climb, so I feel like I have a debt to the teaching world. I try to fill it by doing this sort of thing.?
Gadd assisted Base Camp Cullowhee in teaching a kayak roll clinic Thursday evening - Photo by Joseph Moon
Gadd explained how rock and ice climbing are closely related, despite the fact that ice climbing requires more equipment. He also said climbing is something everyone can relate to in a way.
?The whole motion of climbing, you know like a kid climbing up a dresser, it?s no different [than rock or ice climbing]. That?s what we do as little kids; we climb. It?s a very natural thing to do,? he said.
After the rock wall, Gadd taught a kayak roll clinic through WCU?s Basecamp Cullowhee. The seasoned paddler has been kayaking on rivers for 30 years all over the world. Ironically, his worst accident was not in the water, but when he fell on a trail hiking to the put-in.
Gadd?s sage advice for students wanting to push limit in extreme sports is, ?Behind every big success there is a massive amount of disappointment. Only about 50 percent of things I set out to do, I succeed at; if that.?
To find more information about Will Gadd, go to the following links:
His Red Bull profile
ABC Story
Source: http://www.thewesterncarolinajournalist.com/2012/03/30/extreme-sports-legend-comes-to-cullowhee/
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Watch: Dario Franchitti on Auto Racing Dangers and Marriage to Ashley Judd
Our iVillage offices were all a flutter recently. After all, it's not everyday we have an auto racing champion, a four-time IndyCar winner, who happens to be extremely handsome and is married to Hollywood star Ashley Judd, in our offices to do an interview with me. Yes, my job has some definite perks!
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Futures extend losses after GDP, jobless
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Video: Pope Benedict criticizes Castro?s regime
In an unusual homily, the pontiff called for free thought, and more freedom for the Catholic Church in Cuba. NBC?s Andrea Mitchell reports.
>>> in cuba today, on the final day of the pope's visit, an historic mass. andrea mitchell is there and has our report.
>> in an unusual homily with a sharp political edge in a square thatsome b somymbolizes cuba revolution, with raul castro front and center, the pawnf called for freedom. he preached cuba and the world need change, but this will occur only if each one is in the position to seek the truth. and he called for free thoughts, respect for human dignity , and more freedom for the church, including the right to religious school . after asking raul castro to make good friday a national holiday . although hundreds of thousands attended, the pope did not meet with dissidents. disappointing human rights groups who fear that prominent activists known as the ladies in white, last seen in church on sunday, may have been detained. their home and cell phones went dead last night, but he met with a notally frail fidel castro . the vatican said the two men joked about their age. the 84-year-old pontiff telling castro, who is 85, i'm old, but i still know how to do my job. castro told the pope he had watched the mass on television and was struck by how the liturgy has changed. before leaving, the pope criticized the 50 year u.s. economic embargo for imposing what he called an unfair burden on the people of cuba .
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Age of oldest rocks off by millions of years
Two of the solar system's best natural timekeepers have been caught misbehaving, suggesting that the accepted ages for the oldest known rock samples are off by a million years or more.
According to two new studies, a radioactive version of the element samarium decays much more quickly than previously thought, and different versions of uranium don't always appear in the same relative quantities in earthly rocks.
Both elements are used by geologists to date rocks and chart the history of events on our planet and in the solar system.
"If you have a critical event in Earth's history, something like an extinction event or a climate change shift or a meteorite impact, you need to know the absolute age with the most confidence," says Joe Hiess of the British Geological Survey, who led one of the studies. "In Earth sciences there's a need to be able to define what happened first and what happened second."
Chronometer shortage
Geochemists age rocks by measuring the ratio of radioactive isotopes ? versions of the same element with different atomic masses ? in them. Because the elements decay from one isotope, or element, to another at a constant rate, knowing the ratio in a particular rock gives its age.
Different elements and isotopes decay at vastly different rates. Scientists pick one that suits the timescale of interest. One of the favourites for tracing events in the early solar system, such as when the Earth's crust differentiated from its mantle or when the lava oceans on the moon solidified, is samarium-146, a hard shiny metal found in many minerals in the Earth's crust.
"In this time window, there are not many other chronometers," says Michael Paul of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Scientists have measured samarium-146's half-life ? the time taken for exactly half of a sample of atoms to decay radioactively - four times over the past 60 years, and got different answers each time. The two most recent measurements seemed to converge on a half-life of 103 million years, plus or minus 5 million years. But Paul and colleagues suspected that that number wasn't quite right. So they used a technique called accelerator mass spectrometry, which Paul says is less likely to be skewed by experimental errors.
Youthful meteorites
They found that the half-life is just 68 million years, 30 per cent shorter than thought. That means that every rock dated by samarium-146 decay ? which include some of the oldest on Earth and the moon, and even some Martian meteorites ? formed 20 million to 80 million years earlier than thought.
In a solar system that's 4.5 billion years old, tens of millions of years "is a lot", Paul says. "It means everything was forming more quickly."
There was a second, separate hiccup. Earth's oldest rocks are also aged using isotopes of uranium, which decay into isotopes of lead. Until a few years ago, geochemists assumed that the ratio of uranium-238 to uranium-235 was constant ? 137.88 ? in all rocks, and therefore the ratio of lead isotopes was the only measurement needed to date the rocks. But high-precision measurements of early materials found in meteorites or rocks formed in oceans showed differences.
Hiess and colleagues made the most wide-ranging study of uranium isotope ratios yet, using 45 samples of zircon from all over the world (pictured, above right). Zircon was one of the first minerals to solidify on Earth, it resists weathering and melting, and it holds on to uranium well, so it's a good candidate for dating old rocks.
Mass extinction
The team found that, while most of their samples had similar uranium ratios, some were wildly different.
"It's no longer safe to assume that it doesn't vary. It clearly does," says Gregory Brennecka of Arizona State University, who was not involved in either study. "Nobody thought that was the case five years ago."
The team produced a new, average figure for the uranium ratios. It shifts the ages of Earth's oldest rocks slightly, by just under a million years, Hiess says. The oldest rocks will have the biggest corrections: sediments that are 4.4 billion years old are now younger by 700,000 years. "To put it into a human perspective, if the Earth was only 18 years old, we have taken 1 day off the life of its oldest materials," Hiess says.
Now that scientists know they need to measure the ratio of uranium isotopes in all of their samples - as well as the ratio of lead isotopes - they'll be able to date rocks more accurately.
That's important for putting events in order. If a mass extinction occurred just before a meteorite struck, say, that paints a different picture than if the meteorite hit first.
"These are two big steps in improving the way we do geochronology, both in the solar system and terrestrial rocks," Brennecka says.
Journal references: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1215507 and 10.1126/science.1215510
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wall Street falls, dragged down by energy, materials
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Guaranteed Income Does Not Guarantee Retirement Success
I suspect in part as an outgrowth of the stock market meltdown of 2008-09, guaranteed income products (annuities) in 401(k) and other retirement plans are a major topic of discussion. The Treasury Department recently gave the go ahead for the use of annuities in retirement plans. As a practical matter the widespread use of these products is still a bit off into the future.
I?wrote an earlier post in this blog and one for US News about my thoughts and concerns surrounding annuities in retirement plans. A good idea in theory, the reality of the implementation concerns me.
Let me focus on one additional area of concern. While a guaranteed income product that the participant would purchase as part of their investment in the plan would provide a guaranteed lifetime income stream, there is no guarantee that this stream of income would be sufficient to guarantee the retirement lifestyle the participant seeks.
Said another way, the inclusion of a guaranteed income option in a retirement plan does not absolve the participant from determining how much they need to save for retirement and how they need to allocate their investments. Even the use of a Target Date Fund or a managed account option requires the participant to ensure that the fund manager is investing their money in a fashion that fits their retirement accumulation needs.
Besides concerns such as the fees tied to these options and the selection and monitoring of an insurance provider for these products, the prospect of these products providing retirement plan participants with a false sense of security in terms of their retirement readiness concerns me greatly. A guaranteed income option might be a good tool for a retirement plan participant, but it is in no way a substitute for good old fashioned financial planning. At the end of the day, participants still need to accumulate a sufficient amount in their retirement plan accounts in order to be able to generate a meaningful monthly income stream if they choose to go the annuity route.
Need help with your retirement plan allocation or your overall retirement and financial planning? Please feel free to contact me.
Retirement plan sponsors do you want to provide your participants with access to one-on-one investment and retirement planning advice? Please contact us for assistance.
Source: http://wohlnerfinancial.blogspot.com/2012/03/guaranteed-income-does-not-guarantee.html
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JetBlue suspends captain after in-flight meltdown
Tony Antolino and Laurie Dhue, passengers aboard the JetBlue flight that made an emergency landing after the pilot had a mid-air meltdown, talk to TODAY's Ann Curry about the bizarre incident.
By NBC News services
JetBlue announced Wednesday that it is suspending the captain whose bizarre behavior prompted his fellow co-pilot to lock him out of the cockpit on a flight from New York to Las Vegas.?
Clayton Osbon, 49, ?has been a pilot at JetBlue since 2000, the airline's first year of flying. The company said a "medical situation" occurred onboard the plane on Tuesday but wouldn't elaborate.
Passengers said the pilot was yelling and acting unruly in the cabin after he was locked out of the cockpit. A group of passengers tackled the captain and restrained him until the plane landed in Amarillo, Texas.
JetBlue spokeswoman Allison Steinberg said Wednesday that Osbon was taken off active duty pending review of the incident.?
Two passengers aboard JetBlue Flight 191 recounted Wednesday the dramatic and bizarre situation of the plane's captain leaving the cockpit, acting erratically and eventually being subdued. JetBlue's CEO, meanwhile, said the captain was a "consummate professional."
The captain "became increasingly agitated," passenger Tony Antolino told TODAY's Ann Curry, adding that several passengers grabbed the pilot, "tackled him to the ground" and sat on him.
Osbon, since charged with interfering with a flight crew?and now getting medical care, left the cockpit, tried to enter an occupied lavatory and then became increasingly agitated when he couldn't get back into the cockpit.
"The first thing I saw was the captain running down the aisle," passenger Laurie Dhue said on TODAY, adding he was "banging on the door, saying 'Let me in! Let me in!' " Dhue credited the "brave people on board" for handling the situation, saying it was "literally like a scene from a movie."
JetBlue CEO Dave Barger, also appearing on TODAY, told host Matt Lauer that he knew the captain personally and said there were no signs that pointed to the in-flight meltdown.
"It was a true team effort at 35,000 feet yesterday," Barger said of the response by passengers and crew.
JetBlue CEO Dave Barger speaks out after a JetBlue flight made an emergency landing due to a pilot's mid-air meltdown.
Flight 191 was scheduled from John F. Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas, but was diverted to Amarillo, Texas.
On Tuesday, Antolino told NBC New York the captain began yelling about an unspecified threat linked to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. "They're going to take us down, they're taking us down, they're going to take us down. Say the Lord's prayer, say the Lord's prayer," the captain screamed, according to Antolino.
A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, Tuesday after the pilot had a "medical situation" and had to be restrained by passengers. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
John Cox, an aviation safety consultant and former airline pilot, told the Associated Press that incidents in which pilots become mentally incapacitated during a flight are "pretty rare." He said he could only recall two or three other examples in the more than 40 years he has been following commercial aviation.
Airlines and the FAA strongly encourage pilots to assert themselves if they think safety is being jeopardized, even if it means contradicting a captain's orders, Cox said. Aviation safety experts have studied several cases where first officers deferred to more experienced captains with tragic results.
In-flight outbursts by airline crewmembers are rare, but they do happen.
Earlier this month, an American Airlines flight attendant was taken off a plane for rambling about 9/11 and her fears that the plane would crash. "I'm not responsible for this plane crashing," the crew member said over the public-address system, according to passengers.?Passengers wrestled the flight attendant into a seat while the plane was grounded at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport; the flight attendant was hospitalized.
In 2008, an Air Canada co-pilot was forcibly removed from a Toronto-to-London flight, restrained and sedated after having a mental breakdown on a flight.
The FAA is likely to review the unidentified captain's medical certificate ? essentially a seal of approval that the pilot is healthy. All pilots working for scheduled airlines must have a first-class medical certificate. The certificates must be renewed every six months to a year, depending on the pilot's age. To receive the certificate, the pilot must receive a physical examination by an FAA-designated medical examiner that includes questions about pilot's psychological condition. Pilots are required to disclose all physical and psychological conditions and medications.
Passenger Charlie Restivo thought it was clear the pilot suffered a medical episode. "I don't think when he got up this morning that that's what he was intending to do," Restivo told the AP. "Unfortunately, I just think it happened to him."
The Associated Press and NBC New York contributed to this report.
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Home Improvement: Kitchen ? Thrifty Travel Mama
Of all the improvements we?ve made to our humble abode, I am most excited about the upgrades in the kitchen! ?I guess that?s a bit obvious, though, since I naturally spend most of my day in there.
First up, counter space. ?My stellar Barbie kitchen came with exactly 19 1/2? of usable counter space. ?I have another 13 1/2?, but it?s in the corner and therefore only good for making piles.
Doc Sci and I figured out that the height of the counter and the height of the washing machine were only 1/2? different. ?We bought a particle board shelf at the local hardware store for 6 euro and voila! ?I now have a whopping extra 34? of usable counter space. ?Incredible.
Added countertop (right) and new shelf (left).
We purchased a utility shelf from IKEA that fits exactly around our washing machine. ?This allowed us to take advantage of a lot of previously wasted space and get the microwave off the top of the washer. ?The unit shakes like crazy when it spins a load, and I was always afraid I?d find the microwave on the floor one day smashed to bits!
Organized "pantry."
Also at IKEA, I bought storage boxes for my shelf that supposed to serve as a pantry. ?Now, I can group like items and find things with ease. ?I also no longer have to battle cascading piles of bagged pasta that do not stay put. ?Unfortunately, I wish I would?ve stocked up on these boxes. ?I ended up wanting a few more for the shelf above the washing machine, but IKEA discontinued the style only a few weeks later.
Since counter space is at such a premium, I couldn?t waste any room storing cooking utensils. ?I only have three drawers in the entire kitchen, so I can?t exactly fill them up with bulky soup?ladles.
Tension rods above the stove.
One day, I got the genius idea to use the walls for storage. ?I searched the hardware store to see what kind of curtain rods could be found. ?I was able to put up two tension rods above the stove, and one adhesive rod on the wall to the left of the sink.
Adhesive curtain rod and shelf in the corner.
Lidl offered an adhesive holder on special one week that was originally meant for the shower but works brilliantly affixed to the tile in the corner. ?I also found some dish brushes at IKEA that suction cup to the wall.
Kitchen command central: weekly meal plans, grocery lists, recipes, etc.
I saw the idea to add?cork boards?to kitchen cabinets on Pinterest. ?I knew this would help with clutter on that 19 1/2? of counter space, but I wanted my cork boards on the outside of the cabinets. ?I can?t remember my own name if it?s not written down and shoved constantly in front of my face. ?So, I went for functional instead of pretty.
Though I still have washing machine hoses running across the floor and no place to store my glass recycling, I?m stoked and thankful for how the kitchen is shaping up.
Do you have any suggestions for improving my eensy weensy kitchen? ?Leave a comment below. ?I?d love to hear it!
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
New Cadillac safety feature is a butt-buzzer
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Cadillac's latest safety technologies include graphics on the gauge cluster that indicate when an object has been detected in the path of the vehicle.
By Joseph Szczesny , The Detroit Bureau
It?s something a good race car driver is expected to do, using the subtle cues a car gives while racing around the track to push to the limits.? But now, even an average driver will be able to drive by the seat of their pants in Cadillac?s new flagship luxury sedan.
The General Motors luxury division is introducing a suite of new safety features for the new 2013 Cadillac XTS luxury sedan, which is slated to go into production this spring, including an industry first using the driver?s seat to alert a motorist to threats while driving or parking.
The patented Cadillac Safety Alert Seat generates vibrating pulse patterns in the lower bolster to alert the driver to potential dangers, such as drifting from a traffic lane or toward nearby objects while parking.? Threats from the front and rear trigger pulses on both sides of the seat, while the seat, while the seat can vibrate on the left or right to signal the direction of a problem, GM engineers said as they demonstrated the new equipment at the General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan.
?It?s akin to someone tapping on your shoulder in a crowd to get your attention,? said GM Active Safety Technical Fellow Raymond Kiefer. ?Using the tactile sense to communicate crash threat direction provides an effective and intuitive way to cut through the clutter of visual and auditory sensory information that drivers routinely experience.?
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?The system works in tandem with other visual alerts, and extensive field research by GM?s human factors experts shows that it can quickly and accurately focus driver attention to the direction of potential dangers.
?We commend GM for their innovative use of haptic feedback and hope that drivers find it helpful,? said Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
The seats are part of the Cadillac Driver Awareness and Driver Assist packages, a combination of active safety systems designed to help drivers avoid crashes. The Driver Awareness Package, available at the launch of the Cadillac XTS this spring, includes Forward Collision Alert, Lane Departure Warning, Side Blind Zone Alert and Rear Cross Traffic Alert.
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The Driver Assist Package, which follows by autumn, also uses the Safety Alert Seat and features Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Collision Preparation, and Front and Rear Automatic Braking Systems to stop the car under some conditions such as if the driver is about to hit a post while backing up.
The Drive Assist Awareness and Driver Assist packages will also be offered this year in the new Cadillac ATS compact luxury sedan and the SRX luxury crossover, said Don Butler, general manager of Cadillac marketing.
Butler said Cadillac hasn?t priced the new safety options. But he said they will be packaged with Cadillac?s new CUE system and an updated navigation system that is required to make the safety systems work.
According to Kiefer, GM research shows that the seat may direct driver attention to the location of a crash threat more quickly and accurately than beeping alerts.
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?Vibrating alerts also may help drivers who do not hear beeping alerts due to hearing loss or competing noises, and may be preferred by drivers and passengers who might be annoyed by beeps and shut crash avoidance features off,? Kiefer said. ?The last thing we want is for drivers to turn off features with safety benefits.?
The Safety Alert Seat works with a variety of sensors and cameras installed in the car that help ?intelligently? decide when to activate warnings. For example, if a turn signal is on, lane departure warnings are not presented.
Safety Alert Seat vibrations can be selected by the driver, via an in-vehicle menu, to replace the audible beeping alerts used across much of the industry.
The seats also will be connected to the XTS Park Assist system and Rear Cross Traffic Alert system to help make parking in tight spaces easier.
?We feel customers will appreciate the intuitive elegance of the Safety Alert Seat, and more importantly, will appreciate the ?good vibrations? afforded by the features linked to this seat,? Kiefer said.
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The Spittoon ? DNA Tests Uncover African Ancestry and Surprising ...
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Spittoon will feature posts from 23andMe?s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own stories about using DNA to dig into ancestry.
By CeCe Moore
You never know what a DNA test might reveal!
A few months ago, spurred on by my interest in genetic genealogy, my sister Erin decided to order a DNA test from 23andMe for my brother-in-law John Huffer. Since John has never known his father, we didn?t really know what his results would show. His mother?s family has a strong oral tradition of Native American ancestry, so we expected some mixed ancestry. However, what we found was unexpected.
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Ancestry Ambassadors from left to right, top row, Dr. Ann Turner, Larry Vick, Shannon Christmas, bottom row, Dr. Tim Janzen, Andrea Badger and CeCe Moore.
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Spittoon will feature posts from 23andMe?s Ancestry Ambassadors.?They?ll be writing about how they?ve used DNA to dig into the roots of their own families? histories.
With our Ancestry Ambassadors we?ve been lucky to bring together a group of people who are not just enthusiastic about ancestry, but who also have garnered a reputation in the 23andMe?s community of users as trusted sources and helpful guides.
We created our Ancestry Ambassadors group to help us build the best service possible. They?ve already helped, by spending a day and talking to our scientists, engineers and our CEO Anne Wojcicki offering ideas for improving 23andMe?s ancestry tools.
Members of the group ? CeCe Moore, Dr. Tim Janzen, Dr. Ann Turner, Andrea Badger, Larry Vick and Shannon Christmas ? also got a chance to learn a little bit more about 23andMe?s research mission.
Each member of the group had ideas about improving the overall experience of using 23andMe, including more voices from users. Opening up the blog to guests like our Ancestry Ambassadors is one way to do that.
His Ancestry Painting, in the image below, revealed that he has five percent African ancestry.? 23andMe?s Ancestry Painting examines the 22 pairs of chromosomes one segment at a time and determines for each stretch whether it was most likely inherited from ancestors in Africa, Europe or Asia and ?paints? the segments based on that different ancestry.
I had never investigated John?s family tree before, but my curiosity was piqued. Fairly quickly it became obvious that his was no run-of-the-mill genealogy. John?s mother?s line traces straight back to Madison Hemings. That name may be familiar to you. Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings, a mixed race slave of Thomas Jefferson, our third president and author of the Declaration of Independence. My genealogy research clearly showed that Thomas Jefferson and Sally are John?s fourth great-grandparents!*
John has always especially admired Thomas Jefferson above all other historical figures and felt a special affinity to Monticello when he first visited there ten years ago, although he had absolutely no idea of his familial connection. When I first relayed my findings to John and my sister, they were, understandably, shocked. Once they started browsing the Internet in search of more information, they came across a very familiar photo on one of the websites about Monticello. An original of this very photo had hung in John?s house growing up. Further investigation shows that his mother had at least a vague knowledge of her family?s relationship to Thomas Jefferson and/or Sally Hemings, but did not share it with her children.
There have been a number of interesting ?coincidences? in regard to the Huffers and Monticello that make one ponder on genetic memory. When John and my sister first visited Monticello on an anniversary trip ten years ago, they loved it so much that they decided to go back the very next year with their daughter Courtney.
When Courtney entered the dining room of Monticello, she promptly passed out. Although her reaction could be attributed to the hot, humid day, it bears notice that this was the one and only time that Courtney has ever fainted. This was long before the family knew about their personal connection to the place or the families that lived there.? Courtney says that although she felt ?overwhelmed? at Monticello, she also ?felt at home?. Recently, the family visited Monticello for the first time since discovering their relationship to it and its previous inhabitants. John and Courtney both said that Monticello ?seems like a happy place? and gave them a sense of belonging.
Since John had never had any relationship with his father?s family and had very little contact with his mother?s side after a family dispute, he says it was as if they ?had no history?. Erin relates, ?It?s been fun for John to finally have a legacy of some sort, not to mention one as interesting as this,? and goes on to say that this discovery has finally given John and his siblings ?a sense of who they are and where they came from.? John?s young nephew Joshua tells me that learning about his illustrious roots has inspired him to strive to make more of his life and given him the confidence that he can achieve anything he desires.
John Huffer at Monticello
I am so happy for John, once a fatherless little boy, who can now take comfort and pleasure in the knowledge that he is directly descended from one of the founding fathers of our country! During his most recent visit to Monticello, he couldn?t help but wonder if his deep love of Paris is simply a coincidence or caused by the same unknown spark that made Thomas Jefferson fall in love with it so long ago. Or, if his interest in the art of brewing beer could have come from his forebearers, whom he learned on his visit were expert brewers at Monticello. It is wonderful for John and his family to finally have these types of questions about their ancestry to ponder; questions that most of us take for granted.
DNA testing has come full circle for genetic genealogy with John?s story. It is fitting that one of the very first public uses of DNA for genealogical purposes was the Y-DNA test in 1998 that originally addressed the controversy surrounding the paternity of Sally Hemings? children. Today, more than a decade later, the simple decision to test with 23andMe is what led John to make this illuminating discovery about his roots.
John and Courtney Huffer, descendants of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
[*Although some Jefferson researchers had disputed the validity of the claims that Sally?s children were fathered by Thomas Jefferson, most of these doubts were put to rest after a 1998 Y-DNA test on Sally?s son Eston?s direct male line descendants proved that they carry the Y chromosome of Thomas Jefferson?s male line. Although Madison has no living direct line male descendants who could have their Y-Chromosome DNA tested to further support this claim, it is now widely accepted that Thomas Jefferson fathered all of Sally?s children. This is supported by oral histories of Sally?s descendants and analysis of the couple?s relationship and time spent together. Annette Gordon-Reed provides a detailed look at this evidence in her exhaustive study and Pulitzer Prize winning book, ?The Hemingses of Monticello?. The official Jefferson Monticello website also addresses this issue. John?s discovery has sparked my interest in this fascinating subject. As a result, I am spearheading an autosomal DNA project on the descendants of Sally Hemings. Although it is now generally recognized that Thomas Jefferson fathered all of Sally Hemings? children, it has been impossible to determine with certainty. The introduction of autosomal DNA testing has changed this. Through autosomal DNA testing of specific individuals, I hope to be able to demonstrate that the descendants of Sally Hemings share blocks of DNA with Jefferson?s ?legitimate? descendants. If it is not possible to procure DNA from any of these known descendants, I will seek DNA from descendants of individuals one step further back in Thomas Jefferson?s pedigree in an attempt to show that Sally?s descendants possess DNA from Jefferson?s ancestral lines. Since autosomal DNA undergoes random recombination with each successive generation, it will be necessary to test the oldest living descendants of these lines. DNA is the perfect tool for this because it does not harbor any prejudice or predetermined notions. Anyone who fits these parameters should contact me at yourgeneticgenealogist@gmail.com.
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CeCe Moore is a genetic genealogist specializing in the use of autosomal DNA for genealogy. She writes the popular blog?Your Genetic Genealogist and works as a television producer with StudioINTV.? CeCe is the Southern California Regional Coordinator for the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) and a member of Mensa. ?Her favorite genetic experiment is her seven-year old son, Nicolas.
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