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Feb. 19th, 2011
09:14 pm - Tartakovsky surname study by classical and genetic genealogy
My surname research.
Dmitry L. Tartakovsky
Tartakovsky surname study by classical and genetic genealogy
In 1834-1850 approximately 40% of Tartakovskys lived in three locations in current Zhytomyr region (Ukraine) and belonged to four families — two families of merchants and two of urban commoners. No archival records confirming residence of Tartakovskys in the first half of 19th century outside the current Zhytomyr region have been found. The participants of Tartakovsky DNA project belong to two families. One of the families is identified as descendants of the merchants Tartakovskys who lived in the first half of 19th century in Zhytomyr city. No relationship between the family of merchants from Zhytomyr city and a family of the urban commoners of Chervone settlement has been found in the autosomal DNA test.
The project is not limited by time. The main prospect of the project is to attract new participants to identify branches of the surname have not been discovered yet.
Aug. 4th, 2010
09:51 am - Haplogroups E1b1b1c1 (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) among Jews. Could Abraham be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a?
What is the paper about in simple words:
There are about 8% of Jewish male lines and some percent of Arabian male lines originated from a man called E1b1b1c1 and about 4% of Jewish male lines and some percent of Arabian male lines originated from another man called E1b1b1c1a. E1b1b1c1a was a descendant of E1b1b1c1. We wanted to check if the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a was biblical Abraham. How did we study it? It is known that the descendants of Abraham are the Israelites, the Jewish priests — Cohens, the Arabs and the Seyyids. If Abraham was E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a, the calculated time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of the Israelites', Cohens' and Arabian E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a lines would be about 4000 years before present (lifetime of biblical Abraham) and 1400 years before present for the Seyyids (lifetime of imam Ali). We calculated different times for the groups listed above, so Abraham could not be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a.
Other conclusions of the paper:
- the ancestors of the Jews of E1b1b1c1 and E1b1b1c1a lines were included in Jewish community during the conquest of Canaan.
- the Jewish and Arabian E1b1b1c1a lines are close one to the other, their common ancestor lived 4080±1440 years ago, so, most probably, both are descendants of ancient Canaanites.
Haplogroups E1b1b1c1 (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) among Jews. Could Abraham be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a?
Akper Aliev, Dmitry Tartakovsky
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Jul. 18th, 2010
09:03 am - Arabian clusters of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34)
Akper Aliev, Dmitry Tartakovsky. Arabian clusters of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34). The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy, Vol 1, No 2 (2010) (PDF)
Haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (M34) and its subclade E1b1b1c1a* (M84) were detected among the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula. A possible reason for migration of the founder of cluster E1b1b1c1a-E from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula could be the Crusades.
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The highest diversity of subclades of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34) is observed in the Levant and Anatolia, therefore its ancestral home is often placed in the Eastern Mediterranean [1-3]. In addition, haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (M34) and its subclade E1b1b1c1a* (M84) were detected among the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula [4, 5], where they form specific clusters — E1b1b1c1-B [6] and E1b1b1c1a-E [7]. Knowing the age of the clusters and their area of distribution, we can find out the history of clusters' origin and resettlement of their carriers. In this paper we will try to find out the history of E1b1b1c1 and E1b1b1c1a subclades in the Arabian Peninsula on the example of these clusters.
Arabian clusters: when and why?
To find out the origin of the clusters, let us define their ages with the probability of 95% according to [8]. At the time of writing the paper (July 2010) cluster E1b1b1c1-B has had only two 67-marker haplotypes (N=2). Obviously, due to such a small number of haplotypes, their TMRCA (time to most recent ancestor) is "too young" and is 350±320 years, and gives us no reason to draw any definite conclusion about the history of its origin.
The sample of cluster E1b1b1c1a*-E consists of five 67-marker haplotypes. This cluster's TMRCA is 1090±510 years.
Despite the fact that, due to different size of samples, the ages of these clusters' founders are different, it should examine the entire period of their confidence intervals, which are intersected.
It is possible that both clusters have arisen in about the same medieval era and are linked to the migration of their founders from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula according to some important event. What could cause this migration?
We think that a possible cause of the medieval migrations from the Levant could be the Crusades — a series of Western invasions to oust the Muslims from Palestine, which lasted almost two hundred years (1096-1272 years).
The first crusade ended with the capture of Jerusalem and the massacre of Muslims [9]. Apparently, these invasions, and, as a result of them, looting and killings, forced part of the Muslims to seek refuge from persecution of the Crusaders closer to Mecca. This, in our view, could cause to arise at least one cluster of Arabia — E1b1b1c1a-E.
1) Carriers of subclades E1b1b1c1* (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) identified in the Arabian Peninsula, where they form clusters E1b1b1c1-B and E1b1b1c1a-E.
2) The TMRCA of cluster E1b1b1c1*-B is 350±320 years ago, the TMRCA of cluster E1b1b1c1a*-E is 1090±510 years ago. They possibly arose at one time.
3) A possible reason for migration of the founder of cluster E1b1b1c1a-E from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula could be the Crusades.
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May. 7th, 2010
01:18 pm - Конференция перенесена
- Конференция перенесена
- Конференция "Провинциальные дворянские усадьбы: прошлое, настоящее, будущее", проведение которой планировалось на 13-15 мая 2010 г., будет перенесена на 10-12 июня 2010 г. Приносим свои извинения. Условия участия прежние. Организаторы конференции оплачивают проживание и проезд иногородних участников.
Feb. 12th, 2010
10:32 am - "Little Known" genealogical service by US Government
From here ...
LOS ANGELES — At first glance, the photo-copied documents simply looked like government forms and applications.
But when Susanne Mori read more closely, she found the story of her grandfather's life as he made his way in America.
Those 23 pages of facts and dates revealed how a young man, Jinbei Mori, left Japan and arrived in San Francisco the month after the 1906 earthquake, how he spent decades working for the Union Pacific Railroad, how his home was searched by the FBI during World War II.
Mori said seeing her grandfather's photographs and reading his words brought his immigrant experience to life.
"We are all descendants from immigrants, and at some point our families decided to leave the place they called home for whatever reason and come to someplace new and start over," said Mori, 52, of Santa Barbara, Calif. "Seeing in print the name of a ship and where (my grandfather) was born somehow makes it more real."
The documents came from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which runs a little-known genealogy service for relatives wanting to learn more about their family history.
The records include naturalization files, visa applications and citizenship tests, and may reveal family secrets and mysteries, said Marian Smith, the agency's historian.
"The details of the story have been told over time, and the edges kind of wear off," Smith said. With the documents, "there are a lot of "aha!" moments."
In the past, genealogy researchers had to file document requests under the Freedom of Information Act and sometimes waited years for a response.
Under the genealogy program, which started in 2008, requests are usually completed within 90 days. For $20, the government will run a search of the name, as long as the person is deceased. If there are records available, the government charges additional fees for the files.
In fiscal year 2009, more than 5,300 requests were made, fewer than expected. In addition to relatives, historians or researchers can also request files.
Alan Latteri, 34, had a practical reason for the document search. The Brentwood, Calif., man wanted dual citizenship with Italy and needed to know exactly when his grandfather was naturalized to complete the complex application. After requesting the documents, Latteri learned that he was not eligible. But he did learn more about his grandfather.
"Reading about him is really interesting," Latteri said. "I don't really have a connection to him other than seeing a few photos and hearing a few stories from my dad."
Mori was just a toddler when her grandfather died, and she wanted to find out more about his life. She heard about the immigration documents during a genealogy class and submitted a request early last year.
Even though she knew some information, the documents completed the picture in her grandfather's words.
According to the immigration files, Jinbei Mori was born in Okugaita, Japan, on May 25, 1888, and came to the U.S. in May 1906 on the steamship Korea from Hawaii. Soon after, he started working for Union Pacific and became a section foreman. He married and had four sons and a daughter. The family lived in several states, including Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
During World War II, Mori completed an application listing his height as 5 feet, 3½ inches and his complexion as "yellow." A photo shows a stern man with a tall forehead who is wearing a dark suit.
In April 1942, the FBI searched his home in Brigham City, Utah, looking for anything prohibited for "enemy aliens of Japanese, German and Italian nationalities." The agents interviewed his wife, who said her husband had turned in a Spartan shortwave radio to the sheriff.
In 1953, Mori applied for naturalization and took the citizenship test just before Christmas. Though his answers were in Japanese, a notation about the test said, "Apparently OK." On March 9, 1954, he became a U.S. citizen.
Susanne Mori said the documents confirmed a lot of family stories. She remembered her father talking about making that radio from a kit and how annoyed he was that his father turned it over to authorities. The papers also cleared up some confusion about dates. "What we know about our relatives is what they choose to tell us, and they don't always tell you the truth," she said. The files also gave her leads for future research.
"It will be a treasure chest for genealogists," said Pam Wiedenbeck, president of the Southern California Genealogical Society. "Oftentimes these files will have information on brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles that will help connect the dots."
For experienced genealogists, the files may open the doors to even more research, perhaps leading people to hometowns in their ancestors' native countries. And for those new to genealogy, they may be just the beginning. "For every question you answer, you come up with two or three more," Wiedenbeck said.
For more information Check out www.uscis.gov/genealogy
Dec. 21st, 2009
11:11 pm - Letter to 80 year old great aunt re geneaology
cut/paste from the present sent to my aunt in Mississippi today. I am remiss in correspondence as she provided the necessary information to get going on the project. It has been paused at the middle ages in England w/ the eldest relative born in 1288, an ancestor of Lord Throckmorton. The mormon's seem to have uploaded everything from England given the missionaries who brought pilgrims back to the states - my benefit though none of us ever encountered them. encouragement to everyone to keep at it and print something for your families even if it is just a sketch!
Dear Aunt Betty Jane,
Please find following a lengthy, hodge-podge printout of the Ward/Cope family line. It may be found online at www.Ancestry.com under search for the file - ______ family' for those who may be so interested. A link to the file may also be emailed to someone along with an invitation to collaborate. It may be 'easiest' to lay the printouts out on the floor or a table after initially unfolding the package. Tacking it to a wall may also aid in viewing the extensive family tree.
I hope I have not inundated you! All but the most far-reaching lines have been included with a few examples. It is certainly understandable why some charts take years to complete ensuring thorough records evaluation let alone time. A few further general notes follow:
• I have hand-written some further dates and information as the screen print-outs do not, for whatever reason, show the birth and death dates with locations. (Please forgive my handwriting!)
o The bulk of the research was completed this summer with some holes filled-in during this last week.
o The project is ongoing as time permits.
• Most of the last 150 years of more immediate relatives have been the hardest to determine due to lack of online records. It will be possible to fill in this information later at the county or city level. For example: Gramie's birth record; the West family marriage records and anything from the US Civil war.
o I may hire an expert to find the local level records and do plan on DNA family tests in the coming year ultimately determining lineage.
• Not all siblings are printed out simply for a matter of space. As others share common ancestors; the process has been easier given other distant relatives who are also seeking common ancestors. We have shared and tag-teamed research.
• Original records have been printed out for your interest – your father's WW I & II, census records and the oldest which is the marriage record of 1816 for Absolom Lasater.
• Records further-back than the first 'official' U.S. census of 1790 were not able to be printed as they are yet to be scanned but are officially certified by the Millennium project, International census records and other families who have transcribed records from their family bibles to local county and parish records.
• Most of our distant relatives date to England coming-over in the 1600's. Our ancestors were some of the first colonists in Virginia progressing to North Carolina, Pennsylvania through to Tennessee and Kentucky before reaching Southern Illinois at the turn of the last century. (There are many English records online due to the Mormon archives – several of their early followers were immigrants 'fresh off the boat' from England due to Mormon Missionaries. Note NO MORMONS are listed as our blood-lineage.)
• Age differences from the father/husbands to the mother/wives were common along with multiple wives who died in childbirth (12+ children were common) or later in life due to complications.
o Not all wives maiden names were recorded hence the end of some trees.
• My records have stopped along the middle ages with the eldest ancestor being born around 1288.
o Notable names of England include Lord Throckmorton.
o Our American family surnames are numerous throughout early colonist publications. To date, we are not traced directly to any of the founding fathers of the USA nor Johnny Appleseed, Davey Crockett or Jim Bowie as Gramie/your sister told tales when I was a child. It does seem we have a history of 'staying out of it' particularly the wars though
we did have family member's siblings fighting in the Civil war.
There are numerous other notes one could make but I shall stop here and wish you a happy Holidays before inundating you even further. Please contact me with any further questions you may have. I will be traveling to Canada over the holidays but return for work commencing on the 7th. My next major venture is to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in October of 2010 for three months returning from there or Singapore to move everything else over in January of 2011 after employment has finally been secured. Do find the phone number and mailing address in the header and footer of this correspondence.
Happy Holidays and to Pam!
With Love,
Sep. 11th, 2009
09:15 am - Anna M. (Flaharty) Smalley
Hello fellow genealogy lovers, I've been using Ancestry.com and have been researching much of my family history for 6 years (I'm 18). My paternal grandfather is the hardest to find information on past his own parents because he came over to the States from Germany at the age of 2.
I am trying to find more information on my paternal grandma's grandmother. Her maiden name is Flaharty (as written in my grandma's Ancestry book) and she was married to William Henry Smalley on March 1, 1888. Her name is Anna M. (not sure what the M stands for) but, as with other ancestors, I'm not sure if it was listed with an alternate first and last name for spelling.
She was born in Illinois (no further information on city- not 100% sure this state is accurate) August 18, 1865 and died in Hobart, Lake (county), Indiana February 7, 1931. I am paying for worldwide (bullshit since I can't find anything in Germany) for a month on Ancestry.com but still am very frustratingly limited with factual sources.
Help please and thank you!
Sep. 8th, 2009
08:06 pm - foreign births register
My grandfather lived in ireland as a child for a short time, but his father's intention was to return permanently. While there, my grandfather went to school. How can I determine whether or not he was registered as a foreign birth and given citizenship during this period? I'm in the US, so online resources would be most helpful.
Aug. 31st, 2009
11:38 pm - can't find "first papers" (x-posted to Genealogy)
My grandmother's father died when she was very young. In the 70s or 80s, her brother said he had equipment for copying photographs and all the siblings sent him their photos. Well, he never got around to doing it and then he died. His ex wife seems to have thrown everything out. I would love to give my grandmother a picture of her father.
I found my great-grandfather on both the 1920 and 1930 census (he died in 1933). On both he is listed as "PA" for citizenship, which means that a declaration of intent for naturalization was filed. This includes a photograph.
I can't seem to find it anywhere on ancestry.com (where I found other relatives' papers). I may not be doing something right. We know him as Charles Holovacko, but on various forms he is listed as Vasily Holovcsak (1907 passenger record, ship: Fiume), Charles Holovaka (1920 census, Vermont), and Charles Holovaesko (1930 census, New Jersey).
He's listed as PA by 1920, but I don't know if I should be looking for Vasil, Vasily or Charles, or any of the myriad permutations of the surname that seem to have cropped up in various records. Soundex searches seem to be of no help.
How should I be doing this?
Aug. 27th, 2009
01:23 pm - Newbie questions
Yours truly may get sucked into ancestry.com. i'm seeking tips to do my own research before plunking down any money so i'm building out the tree on my paternal grandmother's side. i am a graduate student so doing research w/ persistence is not a problem for me. anything further back than census records of the mid-1800's then i may start to pay someone for help.
so - before i become too entrenched, a few questions and i'm sure i don't know enough to ask what i don't know to ask so please chime-in!
1) what else is out there w/ the DB like ancestry.com? it can reside on my machine or internet. i'm not fond of the UI design of ancestry as much.
2) sites to connect w/ others of similar surname, doing other geneological research in the USA?
3) other government sites?
4) things you wish someone would have told/warned you when you began your family research?
i do know my paternal grandfather's side. good story of about 10 years ago, went through the freedom of information act to find his background, everything the FBI found on his original parents as he was adopted - didn't find out till he was accepted by the FBI who asked for his birth certificate and his parents couldn't produce it...so it was a family secret till his 20's post law school. he was german thru and thru given up to an orphanage when his father died of smallpox. shocking as one of the first FBI agents, da' gov kept all the records on him down to his last home loan, 50+ years later after leaving the service post-wwII.
yada yada - research, tips, thoughts appreciated as i start this journey...
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Removing PAUP's expiration date and version check
Bottom line
PAUP* phones home for a version check every time it is started. This function is undocumented and the software itself does not alert the user that this occurs.
PAUP* also has an expiration date, set to July 2018 at the time of this writing, after which the program cannot be used.
I would prefer to remove these features.
Copy and paste this into Terminal:
curl -L http://phylosolutions.com/paup-test/paup4a161_osx.gz | gzcat | perl -pe 's/p(hylosolutions.com)/_$1/g; s/\x{81}(\x{fa}\x{e2}\x{07})/\x{c3}$1/' > paup4a161_fixed
chmod a+x paup4a161_fixed
This downloads PAUP for macOS and gently applies the Stick of Correction.
This won't necessarily work on Linux so you'll have to follow the detailed steps below to apply the specific correction. If you figure it out for Linux please tweet or email me and I'll update this article.
PAUP* is a great piece of software that has some misfeatures that I'd like to correct. Its silent version checks and the time-bomb function that make the software stop working after a certain date are pretty user-hostile. The closed-source nature of PAUP also means that we can't just go into the source and delete the offending code.
But given enough know-how we can still modify this closed-source binary executable. The rest of this blog post will detail the general way I approached the problem and how I patched PAUP to get around these mandatory date and version checks.
PAUP phones home
I recently bought and installed Little Snitch, which alerts you when software is connecting to the Internet, and lets you allow or deny the connection attempt. I started up PAUP* and it surprisingly asked to connect to the Internet. I forbade the connection and started to dig deeper to find out what was going on.
Note: Attempt to get current version info from server was not successful (no network connection available, or connection failed)
The Little Snitch dialog suggested a connection attempt to phylosolutions.com, which is where the download for PAUP is hosted. Let's see if we can find that website encoded in the binary using
strings, which takes a binary (or any other file) and tries to extract human-readable text out of it.
strings paup4a161_osx | grep phylosolutions
The output of which is:
## (snipped)
That first output line is interesting, so let's visit that site with
$ curl http://phylosolutions.com/paup-distribution/current_dev_version
160 4.0a (build 160)
Looks like it's returning the latest build number and a human readable version string, delimited by tabs.
This suggests that we can simply change the requested URL to an invalid one, so that this network connection is never made.
perl -pi -e 's/p(hylosolutions.com)/_$1/g' paup4a161_osx
This tells Perl to
-execute a line of code,
-printing the result of editing the file
-in place, using a regular expression to change the first character of
phylosolutions.com to an underscore.
Note that the replacement string must have the same number of characters as the input string since we're patching an executable file. (Try excluding the underscore to see what happens).
We can confirm this worked since running the updated executable results in a new error message and no connection attempt:
Note: Attempt to get current version info from server was not successful (network connection failed with error code = 6)
PAUP expires
I was intrigued to see that PAUP announces an expiration date when you start the program:
This is an alpha-test version that is still changing rapidly.
It will expire on 1 Jul 2018.
When we ran
strings above we also saw an expiration message:
This version of PAUP has expired. Visit http://paup.phylosolutions.com to obtain a newer version.
How does software "expire"? Let's test this out by artificially setting our system time to August 1, 2018:
sudo date 0801000018
PAUP* now announces that it is expired and unceremoniously exits! We can't run PAUP in August, but this can be fixed. First we should restore our original system time:
sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com
We could take the same approach as before, looking for strings that correspond to dates. But it seems unlikely that the date would be coded as a string, and I'm not sure what the exact date would be (July 1? June 30? etc.) so I'm going to take a different approach and look for debugging symbols that might correspond to what we're looking for. Luckily the PAUP binary hasn't had these stripped out:
nm paup4a161_osx | grep -i expir
0000000100027cb6 T _checkIfExpired
00000001003ce998 b _gVersionHasExpired
0000000100027c44 T _isExpiredOrUnlicensed
0000000100027c3c T _isVersionExpired
0000000100027c92 T _showExpiredMessage
0000000100027c4c t _testExpiration
All very promising. The last function,
testExpiration seems particularly meaty. I fire up LLDB, a debugger, and ask it to disassemble that function for me:
$ lldb paup4a161_osx
(lldb) target create "paup4a161_osx"
Current executable set to 'paup4a161_osx' (x86_64).
(lldb) di -n testExpiration
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c4c] <+0>: xorl %eax, %eax
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c4e] <+2>: cmpl $0x7e2, %edx ; imm = 0x7E2
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c54] <+8>: jl 0x100027c86 ; <+58>
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c56] <+10>: jg 0x100027c86 ; <+58>
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c58] <+12>: je 0x100027c62 ; <+22>
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c5a] <+14>: movb $0x0, 0x3a6d37(%rip) ; gExportMissingSymbol + 7
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c61] <+21>: retq
## (rest of the disassembly snipped)
This is the translated machine code that our computer is actually running when PAUP calls this function. The important line is
cmpl $0x7e2, %edx followed by the
jl jg je commands. This basically says "compare what's in edx to the constant value 0x7e2, then jump to one memory location or another if they're equal (
je) or not (
jl and
I know I'm on the right track now since hexadecimal 0x7e2 is equal to decimal 2018 — the current year.
I'm still a novice at assembly but my interpretation is that PAUP only runs if the current date is between March 1, 2018 and July 1, 2018.
xorl %eax, %eax ;
cmpl $0x7e2, %edx ; 0x7e2 = 2018
jl 0x100027c86 ; if edx != 2018: return true
jg 0x100027c86 ;
je 0x100027c62 ; edx == 2018
movb $0x0, 0x3a6d37(%rip) ;
retq ;
cmpl $0x3, %esi ; 0x3 = 3
jl 0x100027c7b ; if esi < 3: return true
jne 0x100027c6f ;
testl %edi, %edi ;
jle 0x100027c7b ;
jmp 0x100027c5a ;
cmpl $0x7, %esi ; 0x7 = 7
jg 0x100027c7b ; if esi > 7: return true
jne 0x100027c5a ;
cmpl $0x1, %edi ; 0x1 = 1
jle 0x100027c5a ; probably tests for day, hour, etc. in a loop
pushq $0x1 ;
popq %rax ;
movb $0x1, 0x3a6d13(%rip) ; return true?
retq ;
pushq $0x1 ;
popq %rax ;
movb $0x1, 0x3a6d08(%rip) ; return true?
Returning to
lldb we ask for the exact disassembled bytes of this function:
(lldb) dis -b -n testExpiration
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c4c] <+0>: 33 c0 xorl %eax, %eax
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c4e] <+2>: 81 fa e2 07 00 00 cmpl $0x7e2, %edx
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c54] <+8>: 7c 30 jl 0x100027c86
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c56] <+10>: 7f 2e jg 0x100027c86
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c58] <+12>: 74 08 je 0x100027c62
paup4a161_osx[0x100027c61] <+21>: c3 retq
## (snipped)
We want to patch out the byte sequence
81 fa e2 07 since that corresponds to the first critical
cmpl instruction. (N.B.: 0x7e2 is stored as
e2 07, in little-endian order). Let's use
xxd to ensure that this sequence is unique:
xxd -p paup4a161_osx | grep -o '81fae207'
This confirms that the hex sequence
81 fa e2 07 only occurs once in the file and is safe to patch out.
xxd will split its output in nice human-readable format (try running
xxd paup4a161_osx | less to see), but we turn that off with
xxd -p since the hex sequence we're looking for might get split across multiple lines. We then tell
grep to
-only print out the matching sequence, so we're not deluged with the entire binary file in hex!
perl -pi -e 's/\x{81}(\x{fa}\x{e2}\x{07})/\x{c3}$1/' paup4a161_osx
This replaces the first byte
0x81 with
0xc3, which is the opcode for
ret. Basically it makes the comparison function return as soon as it is called.
We can verify that this worked by setting the date into the future again and running PAUP. Success!
I hope this was a useful tutorial on how to confidently navigate closed-source binaries and modify them to suit your own needs. I also hope that this encourages phylogenetics software developers to release their code as open-source, so that others can more easily change the software without resorting to these hacks.
I understand that the developers probably have good reasons to do version checks, though users should be informed and agree to such checks. I think there is less of an argument for including time-bombs that disable the software. Ultimately it's on the users to use the software appropriately and attempting to restrict user freedoms in this way is both unnecessary and futile.


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➕What are the words that describe your brand? Are they obvious when you look at your profile, overall content, and bio?
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Engagement means different things to different accounts, but Mostly, your tribe should feel like you care about them and that they're being listened to.
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A reasonable amount of time will definitely depend on the size of your following, but really what you're trying to determine is whether or not your community is being listened to. This includes looking at older posts for new comments and checking your DM requests consistently!
Are you following the accounts that are currently connected to your brand ➕ tribe?
For small businesses, this is a great way to get your brand out there and connect with potential influencers. It also shows that you're actually active on the platform and not just using it as a way to drive sales. So take the time to review your current following list, trim it down, and add some new relevant accounts!
Are you liking and/or commenting on tagged and hashtagged photos as they appear?
Like responding to DMs and comments on your own content, it's equally important to respond to tagged and hashtagged posts related to your brand.
Your tribe is so important and one of the most important things to build—- and hello! This is where your support and income comes from as well!
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➕Are you using relevant hashtags that both fit your brand and your tribe?
➕Do you have at least one branded hashtag that you consistently use?
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You have to figure out whether or not you're using the right hashtags for your business!
You want to make sure that your content is actually discoverable and not lost in all of the popular hashtag feeds like #food or #beauty. Not sure where to start?
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Now that your Social Media audit is complete— go back and review any questions you responded "no" to or felt iffy about.
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Oscar Horrors - only queers allowed : Title Fright 12, Oscars Special
Why Rebecca (1940) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) won Best Picture but Get Out (2017) did not.
Why Rebecca (1940) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) won Best Picture but Get Out (2017) did not.
It's all about the teenagers this week. By the end of the show I'd talked myself out of this being a 'wimmins' episode.
Clive Barker is a specialist subject and I'm no expert, but these to films are dear to my heart and I had to go there.
Whether you're in love or not, don't come here for relationship advice!
Who's doing the best job of carrying out Satan's plan? The Damien or The Donald?
It's just one big The Exorcist love-in.
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These two epic religious horror films go up against each other in the sixth edition of Title Fright. Who will win? Pazuzu or Damien?
I was wrong!
The latest Title Fright makes two classic Japanese horror films trade blows. Do you agree with me on who wins?
The ecstasy of selfishness versus the agony of hope. Which film wins this week's Title Fright? Tell us your vote and why in the comments section.
Bucking Hell is a short film by James Kermack. It's about three men stuck on a sinking ship, with only one life-jacket. They sit below decks playing an improvised version of Buckaroo to decide who gets the life jacket – hence the title.
The Buckaroo is worth describing in more detail. It's like a mix between a Blair Witch Project twig sculpture and a four-year-old child's junk modelling. It's really quite special.
The film is a fine study of men on the edge and it's darkly hilarious. Dick-waving about who's got the biggest scar – that's scar not car - takes up a significant proportion of the character's dwindling time.
Gradually, the terrified and ridiculous bickering breaks down into Beckettian existential reflection. At this point real characters begin to emerge. One shows himself to be a cynic to the end, while another reveals an unexpected, if horribly violated, sensitivity.
Bucking Hell is a very accomplished short film. The performances – from David Schaap of the Inbetweeners, Nicky Evans of Shameless and Geoffrey Breton… who is less well known but should be…. are impeccable.
Like many a short film, I wanted it to be longer.
James Kermack's first feature film - Hi-Lo Joe, about a love affair haunted by trauma - received mixed reviews. But Kermack's clearly got an eye for compelling set-up and characters, and tightly controlled narrative. He's currently putting together a dark action thriller, Knuckledust, and I'll certainly be looking out for it.
Here are my off the cuff thoughts on The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special.
On the down side, the structure of the series - a hybrid between a sketch show and a sitcom - wasn't quite as dreamlike as in the original show. It felt bitty, rather than unsettling.
This was the only downside, however.
Royston Vasey, as others have observed, is more relevant than ever. What is Brexit if not a resolution of Britain's identity as a local country for local people?
I'm coming at League of Gentlemen as a horror fan. On a more personal note, I feel that for horror fans , the energy of characters like Edward and Tubbs and Papa Lazarou is always there under the surface of everyday life. To me, you can't make sense of life without that crazy dimension. You can't live your life without it. A show like the League of Gentlemen provides an exhilarating validation for this feeling, and it was good to be back.
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton were so ferociously good in all their roles they made me tingle. I got the feeling they were having the time of their lives and they absolutely took me with them.
Shearsmith excels himself when, as Benjamin Denton, he's possessed by Harvey Denton. I never knew a top lip could be so funny.
Mark Gatiss, as usual, was smooth and brilliant.
All in all, watch it if you haven't already!
Predator fights back!
Happy Festive season! Horror author MV Clark delivers some nostalgia on Christmas Day with a battle for supremacy between two mega-classics:


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Star India ropes in AIB for news comedy series
MUMBAI: Star India has roped in India's premier comedy collective All India Bakchod (AIB) for new news comedy series called On Air with AIB.
The show will go on air in October and have 10 English and 10 Hindi episodes. It will first release on Star's OTT platform Hotstar, followed by weekend airing on Star World and Star Plus.
All four members of AIB - Gursimran Khamba, Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya synchronously said, "We have no idea why anyone in their right minds would ask us to inflict our views on unsuspecting audiences. Also, we live in such a perfect country where everything is amazing and where the maddening, infuriating and often silly state of affairs is not a comedic goldmine, so why would you have us do news comedy? But we're doing this because we want to see what it's like to be on a show that requires us to put on pants."
Taking a cue from insult comedy, which AIB is infamous for, Star India CEO Uday Shankar added, "I am told that based on extensive, exhaustive research, AIB are considered mildly entertaining and we should give them a show on our network. I have complete faith that we will regret this in the months to come."
Star India digital head Ajit Mohan said, "We are sort of excited to bring AIB's brand of mature humor to our platform. This may be the start of a new era of quality content in India, I am told. Janta hamein maaf karein."
On Air with AIB will be a weekly series with English and Hindi episodes dropping simultaneously on Hotstar on Thursdays and on Star World and Star Plus on Sundays.


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Sunday, June 22, 2008
CPT 30 Wiki - Gearing up for 08/09
I am SOOOO excited about teaching next year. I have moved from teaching physical education to my more current interest, which is technology. I am teaching one course that I am very excited about which is the Communication Production Technology 30 Course. I am planning on incorporating all that I have learned in the past year to this course. My students will blog and I am putting my entire year plan on a wiki. http://cpt-macklin-0809.wikispaces.com/
This wiki will eventually have everything from project explanation and assessment rubrics to showcasing student work.
This wiki is an obvious work in progress.
Up coming additions:
1. Digital Citizenship Introduction page.
2. Student Blog list page.
3. Project page
4. Assessment page
5. Student Work Showcase page
6. Macklin Radio Page
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Photography 10 Field Trip
Today was a great day for picture taking. My five Photo 10 students and I picked up pizza and took aff at 1:00. We ate and had a photo scavenger hunt. Beautiful weather and the kids got some great shots.
Here are some of mine.
These are on my old 1.2 megapixel Sony Mavica. My 7.2 megapixel Sony Cybershot is ... well... out of commission.
Here are some of mine.
These are on my old 1.2 megapixel Sony Mavica. My 7.2 megapixel Sony Cybershot is ... well... out of commission.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
My del.icio.us Wordle
This is an example of Wordle. I see myself using this as a part of my introduction on a unit or year plans. I am sure administration would love to decifer what I am doing for the year.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Compiling a list of Educational Technology Inspiration
I would like to compile a list of lessons, links, ideas or anything else that people have thought of, done or heard of that will help teachers not familiar with new technology.
I would like to give my staff a technology challenge each week next year. This challenge would be optional, however, those participating in the challenges would increase their knowledge and confidence in technology.
Here are some ideas I have so far:
1. VoiceThread
2. Claymation
3. Photo Challenges
4. Digital editing
Please comment on any suggestions or better yet, links you have.
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - My Privacy, My Choice, My Life
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - My Privacy, My Choice, My Life
This is a great website to help teach kids how to keep their privacy, a HUGE part of digital citizenship. Teaching a teenager how to keep their privacy used to be a parenting issue. With the massive change of information exchange via the www, this is needed by almost all kids.
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Why we need to teach technology!
I understand that my staff, along with many other teachers around Saskatchewan, Canada and the world, are unsure why the incredible push for technology integration throughout all courses and grades. This video by Carl Anderson helps to explain some of this need.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Are You Teaching for the Future?
Although this is a promotional video and the second half is all futuristic possibilities, it demonstrates where we need to go. So many possibilities.
Well ... are you ... teaching for the future ... ARE YOU?
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Video by: celestefenton
Well ... are you ... teaching for the future ... ARE YOU?
Click here to see video.
Video by: celestefenton
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
My Problems with the "Technology Usage Policiy" in my School
Lately I have been questioned on my school computer use policy, why we block sites and only allow one web browser to be used. I struggle with coming up with a better way to police www. abuse.
My school is behind in general computer use and the staff takes little ownership or police'ing. This is mostly because of ignorance. I have tried to teach the staff how to watch for tricks students use; minimizing, proxy servers, other browsers via thumb drive or as simple as using another students account. Here is my list of problems to solve.
1. Inform the staff to a point of confidence with technology.
2. Pre-teach students the schools expectations according to technology usage in the school.
a. password protection
b. digital citizenship
c. technology usage responsibility
3. Through the staff, teach students digital citizenship to the point that blocking and filtering is barely needed.
a. Students understand and apply the general rule that if it is not educational, don't do it at
b. Create a consequence list stern enough that rule breaking is deterred.
c. Create a flag system that warns staff and students of digital citizenship malpractice.
4. Build the schools technology hardware to a point that students are proud of what they have and what they are doing with technology.
5. Allow students to use browsers designed for their specific needs in respect to digital citizenship.
I believe that many schools and divisions are on the right path. I hope to get my school, staff and students, to a point that they can call themselves, Confident, Empowered and Engaged Digital Citizens.
Any suggestions?
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