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Sunday, July 22, 2012

'Dark Knight Rises' Box Office: Hollywood Puts Box Office On Mute After Shootings

Tom Sullivan , holds a photograph of his son, Alex Sullivan, as he pleads with the media to help him find his son, outside Gateway High School on Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. Alex Sullivan, was celebrating his 27th birthday by attending midnight premiere of the Batman movie Friday night. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

A woman cries outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning after a gunman opened fire at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises Batman movie Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Tom Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School where he has been searching franticly for his son Alex Sullivan who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see "The Dark Knight Rises," movie where a gunman opened fire Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Eyewitness Chandler Brannon, 25, sits outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning after a shooting at a movie theater showing the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

A small group prays outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Family and friends wait outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning after a shooting at a movie theater showing the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Eyewitness Jacob Stevens, 18, hugs his mother Tammi Stevens after being interview by police outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Eyewitness Isaiah Bow hugs his mother Shamecca Davis after being questioned by police outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought in, Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. After leaving the theater Bow went back in to find his girlfriend. "I didn't want to leave her in there. But she's ok now," Bow said. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Emma Goos, 19, hugs her mother, Judy Goos, outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. Emma was in the third row of the theater of the new Batman movie when the shooter entered. She helped apply pressure to a man's head who was injured. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Police cars in front of the Century 16 theater in Aurora, Colorado where a gunman opened fire during the opening of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" killing at least 15 people and wounding 50 others on the morning of July 20, 2012. The shooting suspect in custody after at least 12 people were shot dead and around 50 were wounded at a movie screening in the United States has been identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, US media said Friday. Television networks cited the FBI as saying that Holmes, from the town of Aurora, Colorado, scene of the midnight shooting at a screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," did not appear to have any known terrorism connections. (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN CASTNER JONATHAN CASTNER/AFP/GettyImages)

Police tape cordons off the parking area around the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012 where a gunman opened fire during the showing of the new Batman movie. At least 12 people were killed and around 50 wounded in the cinema shooting. (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO JONATHAN CASTNERJONATHAN CASTNER/AFP/GettyImages)

Police cars in front of the Century 16 theater in Aurora, Colorado where a gunman opened fire during the opening of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" killing at least 15 people and wounding 50 others on the morning of July 20, 2012. The shooting suspect in custody after at least 12 people were shot dead and around 40 were wounded at a movie screening in the United States has been identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, US media said Friday. Television networks cited the FBI as saying that Holmes, from the town of Aurora, Colorado, scene of the midnight shooting at a screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," did not appear to have any known terrorism connections. (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN CASTNERJONATHAN CASTNER/AFP/GettyImages)

Police cars are seen in the parking area around the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012 where a gunman opened fire during the showing of the new Batman movie. At least 12 people were killed and around 50 wounded in the cinema shooting. (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO JONATHAN CASTNERJONATHAN CASTNER/AFP/GettyImages)

Police use a video camera to look inside an apartment where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Police break out a window of an apartment where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Shamecca Davis hugs her son Isaiah Bow, who was an eye witness to the shooting, outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver. After leaving the theater Bow went back in to find his girlfriend. " I didn't want to leave her in there. But she's ok now," Bow said. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater at a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

Judy Goos, second from left, hugs her daughters friend, Isaiah Bow, 20, while eye witnesses Emma Goos, 19, left, and Terrell Wallin, 20, right, gather outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater at a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

A SWAT team officer stands watch near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 14 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Police gather near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

A SWAT team officer stands watch near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. As many as 12 people were killed and 50 injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre early Friday during the showing of the latest Batman movie. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Jacob Stevens, 18, hugs his mother Tammi Stevens after being interview by police outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning after a shooting at a movie theater, Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater at a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

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Police are pictured outside of a Century 16 movie theatre where as many as 12 people were killed and many injured at a shooting during the showing of a movie at the in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates talks to media at Aurora Mall where as many as 12 people were killed and many injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates talks to media at the Aurora Mall where as many as 14 people were killed and many injured at a shooting at the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

People gather outside the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., at the scene of a mass shooting early Friday morning, July 20, 2012. Police Chief Dan Oates says 12 people are dead following the shooting at the suburban Denver movie theater. He says 50 others were injured when gunfire erupted early Friday at the Aurora theater. Oates says a gunman appeared at the front of one of the Century 16 theaters. <em>Photo Credit: Karl Gehring, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/exposure/" target="_hplink">Denver Post</a>. </em> / AP

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

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We decide our honeymoon destination right after we decide our wedding date

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we were brought to our waterfall villa by the butler

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Funerals: Touching is Safe Here

In our culture, touch is too often motivated by

1.) ?Desire. 2.) ?Demand.

Many don?t know how to touch outside of those two categories.

There?s a rather new interdisciplinary area of study called haptonomy which explores how to touch outside of the desire and demand categories. ?Haptonomy is the study of psycho-tactile communication. Psychologist and hospice pioneer Marie de Hennezel writes concerning her training in?haptonomy:

One develops and tries to ripen one?s human faculties of contact; one learns to ?dare? to encounter another human being by touch. ?It may seem foolish to undergo formal training in order to develop a basic human faculty. ?Unfortunately, the world in which we all grew up and continue to develop is one that doesn?t encourage spontaneous emotional contact. ?Certainly we touch other people, but that?s when the intention is erotic. Other times, the context is impersonalizing, as in the medical sphere, when one is most often manipulating ?bodily objects.? ?What is forgotten is what the whole person may feel. ?

Soldiers at a funeral for 13 of their fallen comrades.

There?s touching with desire, touching with demand and ? here?s a third option ? there?s touching with devotion. Touching with devotion is an ardent recognition of the value of people ? it?s not forceful or uncomfortable, rather it?s respectful and produces ease.

There?s one place where the humanizing, respectful and relaxing touch of devotion is seen on a regular basis.

That place is death.

We receive the phone call that so-and-so has died at their home. ?We put on our dress cloth, drive to the house and there awaiting us is so-and-so?s family. ?We walk in and instead of shaking their hands, we reach for a hug. ?And they reach back.

Complete strangers.

At the funeral of so-and-so, family and friends hug and kiss and embrace all day. ?It?s those hugs and embraces that somehow make a funeral bearable ? they somehow relax the otherwise?tumultuous?experience of death.

The irony is that a human has to die for true humanity to be found.

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Mainstream medicine is catching on to the power of devotional touch.

The University of Miami conducted over 100 studies on the power of devotional touch and this is what they found: Devotional touch can: produce faster growth in premature babies

caused reduced pain in children and adults

decrease autoimmune disease symptoms

lowered glucose levels in children with diabetes

improved immune systems in people with cancer.

Other studies have show that devotional touch can

lower stress levels

boost immune systems

help migraines.

Why do we reserve the life giving power of touch only for death and funerals?

What would happen if we would daily interact with our friends and family like we were at a funeral?

Source: http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/07/funerals-touching-is-safe-here/

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BancTec ? iBPO ? The Smarter Way to Outsource | Service Provider ...

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BancTec is a global leader in business process outsourcing (BPO), providing financial transaction automation and document management services for organizations seeking to drive efficiency in their financial and back-office processes. Headquartered in Dallas with clients in 50 countries, BancTec leverages its proprietary IP and deep expertise to deliver flexible, focused solutions across the financial services, insurance, healthcare, utility, transportation and government sectors. The company operates 19 BPO centers in the United States and worldwide, using a common technology platform to automate processes for Fortune 500 and mid-size companies.

Providing payment and document processing solutions since 1972, BancTec has consistently stayed ahead of the technology curve to better serve its clients. Starting in hardware with check-sorting equipment and high-speed scanners, BancTec expanded to software solutions. BancTec?s history in managing payment processing and document processing gives the company an in-depth understanding of client businesses, which facilitates the transfer of critical business processes from the client to BancTec. Since 1999, BancTec has offered BPO services, which now is its primary focus and fastest-growing business segment.

BancTec?s Intelligent BPO methodology sets it apart from other outsourcing providers by offering a service that is fundamentally more valuable to clients. Instead of merely outsourcing a broken financial or back-office process, BancTec addresses the root causes of inefficiency to automate and optimize business processes. Although outsourcing a broken process may reduce labor costs in the short-term, BancTec?s Intelligent BPO methodology yields efficiencies that can enrich a company?s bottom line for years to come. Customers across the banking, insurance, manufacturing, utility, government and healthcare sectors are successfully transitioning to BancTec?s smarter way to outsource. The goal is to substantially impact the balance sheet of each client through superior business process management.

Industry Solutions:

Financial Services ? BancTec began in finance by providing payment processing, transaction processing, document and content processing and solutions. BancTec?s solutions ensure regulatory compliance and help avoid financial penalties, keep money and documents more secure, minimize fraud and risk, cut operating costs, improve service levels, streamline credit card application processing, accelerate issuance of debit cards/checks, and facilitate consumer finance installments.

Healthcare ? BancTec offers technology tools designed specifically for the healthcare industry that improve efficiency and reduce costs, improve collections and increases yields, help eliminate write-offs, enhance in-process claim visibility, and improve provider/patient relationships.

Utilities ? BancTec?s payment processing and mailroom solutions automate the processing of utility payments. The optimized process lightens the load to speed invoice processing, provide clear regulatory compliance and audit trails, and capture customer letters and correspondence.

Business Services ? BancTec simplifies and streamlines processing demands with customized solutions for the accounting, legal, advertising, design, maintenance, printing, consulting, engineering, personnel and any specialized service industry. The industry-specific solutions allow the business to concentrate on its core service.

Insurance ? BancTec manages and digitizes the once paper-intensive business processes of the insurance industry, reducing costs and making better use of personnel time. With solutions unique to the industry, BancTec helps with claims processing, account openings, accounts payable and mailroom automation. BancTec allows companies to get the right information to agents at any location, store policy documents together in a secure format, improve customer service by providing instant access to records, deliver claims payments electronically, and provide end-to-end automated accounts payable solutions.

Retail ? BancTec electronically manages accounts payable processes, providing more efficient store card account opening, automating mailrooms, managing payment processing, and converting past paper documents to easily accessible electronic files. The latest data capture solutions are provided to better control and manage merchandise in stores, warehouses and goods in transit, ultimately giving staff more time to help the customer.

Telecommunications ? BancTec provides the telecommunications industry with a range of document and payment services for all areas of the organization, from the mailroom to the finance department. Its business process outsourcing solutions create cost and performance efficiencies when processing payments, correspondence, transactions and customer requests. BancTec employs the most advanced document and data capture, workflow and storage technologies.

Public Sector ? BancTec helps government agencies around the globe realize faster, more cost-effective business processes. It provides solutions for processing claims, applications, payments and general inquiries to help with data preservation, information sharing, mailroom automation, application processing, operational efficiency improvements and regulatory compliance.

Manufacturing ? BancTec works with global manufacturing giants to provide processing solutions that deliver operational efficiencies and financial savings. BancTec?s solutions help reduce costs; shorten the cycle time from receipt of invoice to posting; monitor, track and measure process and employee performance; work with existing systems; and integrate operations with suppliers.

Travel ? BancTec provides solutions and outsourced services for business processing in the travel industry. BancTec helps collect ticket revenue from other carriers in a more timely fashion, quickly retrieves passenger ticket information worldwide, reduces operating costs, and archives millions of past tickets.

Energy ? BancTec serves the energy industry with back-file conversion, image capture and archiving, as well as application automation, inbound mail processing and payment processing solutions tailored to the specific needs of the business. BancTec?s solutions help energy companies improve organizational efficiency by providing secured access to clearer, better scans of geoseismic maps, drilling rights, landman records and other data.

Business Process Outsourcing Services

BancTec has been a leader in the payment and document processing industry for nearly 40 years.? Today, our BPO portfolio focuses on the service categories where we maintain the deepest expertise ? financial transaction processing and document management. ?Fortune 500 corporations, mid-size companies and small businesses are choosing business process outsourcing with BancTec to lower operating costs, improve information access and reduce business risk.

Remittance Processing ? BancTec delivers both wholesale and retail remittance processing with world-class speed, accuracy and reliability.? Advanced OCR technology, specifically optimized for check processing, increases read accuracy rates and minimizes exceptions, yielding fewer bad checks, providing earlier fraud detection and reducing costs. Faster processing decreases internal float costs and accelerates funds availability. In addition, with BancTec?s worldwide network of processing centers, customers are assured comprehensive coverage and minimized delivery times. BancTec customers experience superior service, and in return, are able to deliver better service to their own customers.

Invoice Processing ? BancTec?s invoice processing solutions enable enterprises to digitally process invoices and lower costs. ?Automated data capture and validation processes eliminate repetitive data entry tasks and guarantee information is captured accurately.

AP Automation ? BancTec?s accounts payable automation solution enables enterprises to significantly lower the processing cost per invoice and gain improved financial management. Services include converting invoices to digital format, capturing data and posting payment information to ERP and account systems. Customized reports provide increased visibility and allow for workload balancing and analysis. Organizations achieve an increased focus on cost reduction and improved fiscal management by outsourcing the accounts payable process to BancTec.

EOB Processing ? BancTec?s EOB processing solution improves efficiency, reduces costs, enhances visibility and improves provider and patient relationships. It captures and converts data accurately and quickly from Explanations of Benefits, preventing increased costs and reducing delays.

Medical Lockbox ? BancTec?s medical lockbox service simplifies the processing of healthcare receivables. BancTec provides total automation of processing ERAs, paper EOBs, ACH, checks, credit card payments and associated correspondence. The entire process is managed, eliminating manual keying and reducing delays while increasing revenue and improving cash flow.

Inbound Mail Processing ? By outsourcing mailroom activities to BancTec, businesses gain a fully secure mailroom service that takes in high volumes of mail; converts it into a digital format; and archives and distributes it to the appropriate resources or business applications. With the capability to process up to 100 documents per minute, BancTec can easily match peak processing requirements and provide effective management and reporting through dashboard tools and audit functionality.

Claims Processing ? BancTec provides front-end operations for claims processing to enable 100% electronic claims submission allowing healthcare payers to reduce administrative costs, improve auto-adjudication rates and reduce turnaround time.? Using patent-pending technology, BancTec?s claims processing service automates and integrates all aspects of pre-adjudication claims processing, including cleaning and enhancing claim data so that payments are accurate and cycle time is faster.

Medical Records Processing ? BancTec?s capabilities allow healthcare providers to better manage the processing of medical records for both backfile conversion and day-forward scanning. Processing is accelerated, improving productivity and lowering costs. BancTec makes it easy to validate data, accurately balance procedural charges, review discrepancies and verify items.

Image Archive ? BancTec offers capture and archive for companies that generate or handle large document volumes. Its electronic archiving eases disaster recovery, protects historical records, fulfills compliance retention requirements, increases audit readiness and enables better control of document distribution. Documents become easily accessible through a web-based portal that eliminates manual searches and reduces the time to locate data from hours to seconds.

Data Conversion ? BancTec uses the industry?s fastest scanning equipment to scan and convert entire volumes of paper documents to electronic images for storage in records management, document management and archive applications. The scanned records can be delivered in any format with full indexing information, or BancTec can provide a secure hosted document archive with complete access to images over the web.

Distinctive Capabilities

BancTec?s approach to business process outsourcing is fundamentally different and more valuable than that of traditional BPO providers.

Its approach is called Intelligent BPO, or iBPO. It?s based on the concept that while an increasing number of companies today are outsourcing financial and back-office processes to reduce labor costs, too many are missing out on the opportunity to automate and optimize their processes before outsourcing them.

BancTec doesn?t just replicate business processes, it offers clients a holistic methodology to assess where BPO can most increase efficiency and reduce costs.

BancTec?s iBPO leverages its proprietary IP and deep vertical expertise to help clients achieve lower costs, reduced business risk, enhanced customer service and improved business intelligence.

BancTec at a glance

Year founded ? 1972
Revenues ? $267.7M in 2011
Employees ? 2,000+ FTEs
Service lines ? Finance & Administration, Document Management, Financial Processes
Headquarters location ? Dallas, Texas

Locations of global delivery centers:

Dallas, TX, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Columbus, GA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Charlotte, NC, USA
Fairfield, NJ, USA
Stockholm, Sweden
Harlow, UK
Durham, UK
Heathrow, UK
Poole, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Frankfurt, Germany
Cologne, German
Paris, France
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tallinn, Estonia
Delhi, India

For More Information

Web site URL ? http://www.banctec.com

iBPO ? The Smarter Way to Outsource

BancTec is a global leader in business process outsourcing, providing financial transaction automation and document management services for organizations seeking to drive efficiency in their financial and back-office processes.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

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DNA Testing for Genealogy ? Getting Started, Part One

We?re excited to bring to you a special guest blog post by genetic genealogist CeCe Moore. Some of you may recognize her from her blog YourGeneticGenealogist.com.?For the next few weeks, she?ll be providing a great overview about DNA testing for genealogy. So without further ado, here?s part 1! Enjoy!

Interest in DNA testing for genealogy has reached an all-time high thanks to its increasing sophistication and the resulting visibility in the media. We hear about what we can learn from DNA testing from popular genealogy television programs, news stories and in advertising.? As a result, many family history enthusiasts have expressed their desire to venture into the fascinating world of genetic genealogy, but don?t know where to start.? If you are one of these people, then I am writing this for you. In a series of four posts over the next month, I will explain the three different types of DNA testing currently used by genealogists to discover more about their family trees. I will endeavor to help you determine which test or combination of tests would be best suited to your interests.

The first step is to determine your testing goals.? Do you have a general curiosity about genetic genealogy or is your focus more specific? For example, please consider the following questions:

Are you primarily interested in researching your surname?
Are there specific brick walls that you wish to target with the use of DNA testing?
How far back in your family tree are these brick walls?
What is the ancestral pattern back to these brick walls, i.e.- mother?s mother?s ???mother or father?s mother?s mother?s father?
Are you ready for a long-term project or do you desire quick answers?
Are there adoptions in your family tree that you would like to explore?
Is your primary interest receiving a percentage breakdown of your overall ancestral origins or ?ethnicity??

Currently, there are tests geared at isolating three different types of DNA that can address these questions and others. They are Y chromosome DNA (Y-DNA), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (atDNA).? Y-DNA has been in use the longest and, as a result, has the best track record for helping genealogists demolish those proverbial brick walls, so let?s talk about that one first.

Focused on your surname?

Y-DNA refers to the DNA found on the Y chromosome. Only males inherit the Y chromosome, so this test can only be used to trace the direct paternal line.? Simply speaking, a man inherits his Y chromosome from his father who inherited it from his father who inherited it from his father and so on. Testing of Y-DNA can reveal the ancient origins of a person?s direct paternal line. It can also be of great genealogical value since the Y-DNA traditionally follows the same inheritance pattern as surnames. As the surname is passed down from father to son, so is the Y-DNA. Because of this, a male can often identify which direct paternal ancestral line he belongs to by matching with others of the same or similar surnames. For those with ancestral roots in societies with traditional surname inheritance, this type of testing can sometimes help identify common ancestors from several hundred years ago. Though far from guaranteed, an adoptee may even find success in discovering his biological surname by testing his Y-DNA.

If you are a woman who is interested in discovering more about your maiden surname, then you will need to locate a male of that surname from your family. You can test, for example, your father or brother (full or paternal half), a paternal uncle or a paternal male first cousin. If needed, you can even test a more distant cousin as long as he carries the surname of interest and shares a common ancestor along your direct paternal line.? Remember, you cannot test your son for this purpose, since he carries the Y-DNA of his father!

Although this test is limited in scope, it can be used in ways not immediately obvious. For instance, you can identify any specific surname of interest in your family tree, follow that surname down the branches toward present day and use these same rules to try to locate an appropriate male for testing.? This way, the usefulness of Y-DNA testing in your family research can be expanded beyond this one ancestral line.

Perhaps the best news about Y-DNA testing is that there are thousands of surname-specific DNA projects headed by volunteer genetic genealogists to help you with your DNA research. With the birth of the first commercial genealogy DNA testing company, Family Tree DNA, in 2000, surname projects immediately began springing up. Some have already had great success in determining the origin(s) and family branching of their particular surname of focus, while others are still searching for enough participants to reach solid conclusions.? You can participate and assist in focused research on your surname by joining the appropriate project. To locate your surname project, you can try Googling? ?(Insert surname) + DNA Project?. If you find that one does not exist, you may want to consider starting your own and recruiting those genealogical cousins that many of us are already in contact with through our family history research.

As in all genealogy, I do want to point out that immediate gratification is not guaranteed. Some participants have not yet found success with this type of testing due to the lack of matches to their DNA in the databases. However, time should rectify this problem for most with the growing popularity of testing and the increasing numbers of those contributing their DNA to this research. For cultures that did not utilize inherited surnames in the traditional way, Y-DNA testing will not be as effective, but can still be useful in identifying probable origins and migration patterns.

The Y-DNA tests on the market currently offer anywhere from 12 markers to over 100 markers. I suggest testing at least 37 markers to start with (around $150). In the simplest of terms, ?markers? are specific spots on the Y chromosome for which numerical values are assigned based on each individual?s DNA signature. So, for example, if you order a 37 marker Y-DNA test, this means you will generally receive a string of 37 numerical values. A man?s closest matches may be found by comparing his string of numbers to all of the other results in the company?s DNA database.? As a general rule, the men who have the most markers that match each other are the most closely related to each other.? The approximate number of generations back in time that two men shared a common paternal ancestor is estimated by determining how closely the individual strings of numbers match each other.? (Don?t worry; the testing company will automate these calculations for you.)

Since this test exclusively addresses your direct paternal line, remember the results are only informative of a very small portion of your family tree. If you are interested in a more general overview of your ancestry, please check back for my post in two weeks on autosomal DNA tests.

Next week, we will take a look at mitochondrial DNA testing.

CeCe Moore is a professional genetic genealogist and writes the popular blog Your Genetic Genealogist, She is the administrator of several surname DNA projects and the ISOGG DNA Newbie Yahoo Group. CeCe serves as an ?Ancestry Ambassador? to 23andMe, on the Advisory Board of the Mixed Roots Foundation and is a member of Mensa. Her favorite genetic experiment is her seven-year old son, Nicolas.

Source: http://www.geni.com/blog/dna-testing-for-genealogy-getting-started-part-one-375984.html

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Are Social Networking Internet sites Eliminating Your Business ...

Though social networking sites supply businesses a powerful way to promote for free, do businesses actually gain from using them?If used appropriately social media sites may be a powerful way of marketing your business. However, if you don?t get it right, using social media sites can be greatly damaging to your business and brand and can ultimately kill off your business.Below are some tips how to get the most effective effects from social networking sites and help your company to thrive.1. Participate With Your FollowersOne of the greatest problems that many companies make is to appear too desperate by frequently promoting their goods and services. There?s a superb line between advertising and being too pushy.Social media sites are all about engaging with your fans and gathering confidence with them. The easiest way to achieve this is by providing top quality and varied content. You will also need to ensure that you don?t consistently refer to yourself or your business.For case when you send three tweets or messages a day then your material must be as follows:One with a to action, make the second an interesting one e.g. using a photograph or movie that can be market connected and the third one might share someone else?s material ensuring that you duplicate their link and use it the post. This will help portray you as being cutting edge and understanding what the most recent styles are.The more original and varied content that you provide,the more your supporters will participate with you,especially when you ensure that you also comment on other individuals posts.2. Get People To Like YouTo achieve success within network marketing it?s important to get people to ?like ?you on the social networking sites. ?Likes? are very powerful and can become more effective for marketing your business than having a list.Even simple steps like mentioning to your social supporter site links and logo within your characters, e mails, campaigns and also via sms can help you to accomplish that. You could even provide a discount or voucher to clients in return for them ?liking? you. This will prove very strong in advertising your business.3. Increase Yourself /Business WellWithin most of the social networking sites there are portions whereby you can offer text about yourself and your organization. It?s important to make sure that you use great keywords within these sections as search engines really list sections such as ?about you? on experience book. As there are only 20 characters that actively show in the ?about you? section on facebook, it?s very important to present details of your URL within these 20 characters in order that your supporters are immediately aware of your website and everything you do.You may also benefit from indexing your pictures with vital keywords for your business.4. Keep All Your URL?s The SameIf possible hold all your URL?s the same for all your social press websites as this will help with your rank within search engines and will also reinforce your brand with your followers.5. Link Your Business Page To Your Personal Page On FacebookIn order that you capitalise on your personal facebook friends along with your facebook business page supporters, you may relate to your business, including your URL, within the info area on your personal page. These records will present below your name and send your ?friends? to your company page6. Build LinksEvery time that someone becomes your fan on social media sites, a new link is established. It is essential to link to your fan site atlanta divorce attorneys way probable including from your website, website, twitter, and LinkedIn.You may also need to add a link to your website within one of your everyday posts by using the link option.7. Facebook MarketingIf your budget allows for paid advertising, facebook paid advertising provides a very effective way as you can target the audience that you want market to, based on their interests and loves to market your company. In general, social networking sites present your company to be endorsed by a powerful means especially when you?re starting a new business. However, as previously stated it?s important to communicate and engage with your fans to start with, in order to build-up confidence. What you do and when you offer diverse and exciting content daily, then ultimately your fans will need to get to learn about you and will begin buying from you. However, if you seem also pushy and continuously attempt to sell, sell, sell, your followers will stop following you which could ultimately kill your business.Whereas using social press for business effectively will support your business to flourish and will become bored.

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