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Serpents, God and the Law Clash in 'Snake Salvation' Case
JACKSBORO, TENN.–Reality TV isn't supposed to get one in trouble with the law, but that's what happened to Andrew Hamblin, one of the stars in National Geographic's 16-part "Snake Salvation," which concluded at the end of last month.
Hamblin, who lives in LaFollette, Tenn., a small town 33 miles north of Knoxville, is one of a coterie of Pentecostal pastors who handle snakes in church services in the belief that several verses at the end of the New Testament book of Mark (Mark 16:17-18) commands Christians to do so. The reality show went into great detail about Hamblin's extensive collection of water moccasins, rattlesnakes, copperheads and other death-dealing vipers.
The downside: The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency raided his church on Nov. 7.
They allegedly found 53 venomous snakes in a storage room at the Tabernacle Church of God, a church Hamblin has pastored for two years. They charged Hamblin, 22, with 53 counts of possession of class I wildlife, which includes poisonous snakes. This has been illegal in Tennessee since 1947 when five people died of snake bite in a church over a two-year period. Each count could mean a year in jail.
More than 100 people packed a court room at the Campbell County courthouse just south of LaFollette in Jackboro, Tenn., Friday morning, many wearing red in support of Hamblin who pled not guilty. A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 17.
Hamblin says that snake handling is essential to his faith and thus a religious practice protected by the First Amendment. Unlike neighboring Kentucky, Tennessee doesn't allow practitioners like Hamblin to get a permit to handle snakes. Some fault state officials for citing residents for taking in a wild raccoon or turtle.
"They send storm troopers to peoples' homes," said Chris Jones, a Chattanooga attorney who defends people cited by wildlife officials. "No state treats people like they do in Tennessee."
Hamblin was an unknown preacher until the Wall Street Journal profiled him in April 2012 as a young social media-savvy pastor who used Facebook to spread the word about God and serpent handling. National Geographic was one of several media organizations that approached him afterwards and the resulting series, which premiered Sept. 10, featured Hamblin, fellow serpent-handling pastor Jamie Coots of Middlesboro, Tenn., and their respective families. The National Geographic Channel did not respond to a request for comment about the charges against Hamblin.
Episodes featured plenty of shots of snake handling in church. Although snakes are contained in specially made snake boxes and kept to an area behind the pulpit, there are small children in the congregation. Wildlife officials said it was the presence of children and elderly that concerned them enough to raid the church. However, Hamblin's church and others like it do not permit anyone under 18 to be near the snakes.
When news of the charges spread across Facebook and YouTube last week, Hamblin's Facebook "Friends" list zoomed to 5,000, the maximum amount allowed. Within a few hours of him posting photos of wildlife officials carting off his snakes, his feed was jammed with hundreds of people promising prayers, financial support, legal help and red ribbons. The next night, his church's evening service was packed with supporters, according to a local TV station that attended the meeting.
By Thursday night, Hamblin said he had gathered about 3,000 signatures from a petition drive at his church and online from people who support him. Clergy – especially Baptist pastors – he added, signed the petition in support of his stance even though they differ with him on whether Scripture mandates serpent handling.
"This is my God-given right in the United States," he said on the courthouse steps before the hearing. "If God moves on me to take up a serpent, I take up a serpent."
For more, go to 'Snake Salvation': Inside the World of Christian Serpent Handlers


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Musicians with Utah connections made it big on YouTube this year (including, in a slightly belated splash, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir). Meanwhile, the Utah Symphony got a box-office boost from Beethoven.
Lucrative Ludwig • Thierry Fischer's seasonlong Beethoven project, in which he led the Utah Symphony in all nine of the composer's symphonies, got most of the credit for a 23 percent rise in ticket revenues for the orchestra. The number of tickets sold last season was the highest in a decade. Utah Symphony | Utah Opera CEO Melia Tourangeau was cautiously optimistic. "It's always going to be a struggle," she told The Tribune in May. "We're not out of the woods."
Beyond Beethoven (and this season's Mendelssohn symphony cycle), Fischer finally took on another composer beloved by Utah Symphony audiences: Gustav Mahler. His interpretation of the composer's Symphony No. 4 earned rhapsodic reviews; his presentation of a movement from Mahler's Symphony No. 10 was similarly well-received. The conductor further boosted his cred with players and listeners by conducting short chamber symphonies of Arnold Schoenberg and John Adams on the NOVA Chamber Music Series (for which he donated his fee) and kicked in the money to hire extra musicians for a season-ending performance of Richard Strauss' "Alpensymphonie."
Other highlights in Abravanel Hall this year included superstar pianist Lang Lang's solo recital in October and Hilary Hahn's spectacular November performance of the Korngold Violin Concerto.
Bieber beware • The Mormon Tabernacle Choir launched a YouTube channel in October. What, you assumed the choir was on YouTube already? It seems that thousands of videos of the choir on the popular site were unauthorized. Now that Utah's most famous singing group has secured the necessary digital distribution licenses for the music on its channel, the choir has attracted nearly 15,000 subscribers to its videos (135 and counting) of past concert performances, favorite hymns and full episodes of "Music and the Spoken Word." The channel is closing in on 750,000 video views perhaps it's only a matter of time before the MoTabs fulfill singer Alex Boyé's prediction of "more hits than Justin Bieber." First, though, the choir will have to catch The Piano Guys, whose clever, well-produced cello-and-piano productions continue to gain popularity, and former Utahn Lindsey Stirling, who made YouTube's Top 10 list of viral videos with her dubstep violin.
The group also welcomed a new president. Ron Jarrett became the first former Tabernacle Choir singer to head up the self-supporting choir's business operations when he replaced "Mr. Mac" Christensen in August.
Singing Steinbeck • The highlight of Utah Opera's season, and one of the finest productions in the company's history, was "Of Mice and Men." The company's May staging of the Carlisle Floyd opera, based on the John Steinbeck novella, was expertly directed and beautifully sung. From the unforgettable performances of Matthew Burns and Corey Bix as the iconic George Milton and Lennie Small to the adorable shelter pup who played Lennie's ill-fated dog, every aspect of this production was top-notch.
Bowing out • Terence Kern, hailed as "one of the most expert ballet conductors in America" by New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay in 2010, moved to emeritus status this spring after conducting the Utah Chamber Orchestra, which accompanies Ballet West, for 28 years. A search for his successor is ongoing.

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Three straight national championships. Nine straight conference titles. Thirteen years at the helm of the country's best collegiate club lacrosse program.
John Paul fell into the University of Michigan lacrosse head coaching position by accident. Originally interested in a career in athletic administration, Paul began helping coach local Michigan high school programs and the UM club team whenever possible. But when the then-coach of the Wolverines' club program stepped down, Paul was asked to take over. The rest was no accident.
However, not many people outside the lacrosse world know about Paul's success. Michigan plays in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). Title IX, a law enacted in 1972 and designed to ensure equal opportunities in college athletics for both men and women, offers three prongs by which athletic departments can comply. The school can comply by continually expanding athletic opportunities or accommodating the interests of the underrepresented gender. However, historically, the first prong, which says athletic opportunities must equal the gender percentage enrollment of the undergraduate population, has become the standard to show compliance, since the other two prongs are difficult to measure.
But this proportionality prong has created a quota system that forces Division I-A (known as the Football Bowl Subdivision) athletic directors to either double their financial burden if they want to add a men's lacrosse team, because a corresponding women's sport must be added in order to maintain compliance with Title IX, or not add the sport at all. To date, the decision among many FBS schools outside the Eastern Seaboard has been that lacrosse isn't worth the financial hassle.
"If somebody can figure out how to resolve the conundrum of Title IX, put a trademark on it, because you'll be a very rich person," says Mary Jo Kane, a professor of sport sociology at the University of Minnesota and a Title IX expert. "But if you're an athletic director who lives in the trenches every day [fighting] some theoretical law that lives in Washington, you're in a position where you're going to have to come up [with money] every year that you don't have, or you can turn around and say here's an opportunity to drop or not add a men's sport."
Consider: In 2009, there were approximately 137,000 high school males playing lacrosse. Yet, according to statistics compiled by the College Sports Council, the ratio of male high school lacrosse players matched to the NCAA Division I level is 1277:1. The odds of males receiving a lacrosse scholarship are 100.6:1. Both numbers are about twice as much as the corresponding figures for women. Comparitively, ice hockey's ratio is 620:1 and odds of a scholarship are 34.4:1. Basketball, the only revenue sport on the list since football isn't included, has a ratio of 1,706:1 and scholarship odds of 131.3:1.
"At the major [FBS] football schools, it's a completely different business model than everything else in college athletics," says Paul. "For a big school, it doesn't make as much sense, from a business perspective, to add $2, 3 or 4 million to the budget to add a men's and women's program if they're not going to get a return on that."
It may not make sense in today's economic climate to add another two varsity programs (men's lacrosse and a comparable women's team), since only 25 of the 119 FBS schools reported a net revenue for the 2008 fiscal year. However, the growth at the high school level begs the question of 'If not now, then when?'
"There's been talk [of jumping to a varsity program] as long as I've been here," says Trevor Yealy, a rising senior at Michigan. "The main reason why it's not a Division I sport here is money. Hopefully the funds come together so the university can have a solid foundation to work with and add lacrosse and whatever women's sport they choose."
Only 10 Division I men's lacrosse teams have been added since 1981, bringing the total number of DI programs to 60 in 2010. And only 12 FBS schools currently offer Division I men's lacrosse. There are 91 DI women's programs.
"A big part of the future of the expansion of lacrosse will be driven by the generosity of the donors and the development communities of the various institutions and whether they're willing to step up and help make it fiscally possible for schools to move in that direction," says University of Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon. "If people are so passionate about lacrosse and there are donors and advocates of varsity lacrosse who are really interested and believe in the long-term investment, they're going to have to step up and help because that's one of the prerequisites to it ever happening."
Lacrosse is an expensive sport, and with an average men's roster of 44 players and average women's roster of 27, a major hurdle in lacrosse's expansion is convincing athletic directors that adding the sport benefits the school.
"[Title IX] just adds financial pressure; whenever you add a men's sport, you have to come up with a way to add a commensurate sport," Brandon says. "Because it's about head count, not just numbers of sports. Lacrosse is a pretty head-count intensive sport. I have a pretty clear understanding of the number of athletes that the men's lacrosse coach would want, and we would need to match that with the corresponding women's sport, and the combination of those two creates a significant financial hurdle."
Michigan, however, was one of those 25 schools to report a net revenue in 2008 and also in 2009. According to athletic department records, Michigan reported over $24 million in profits over the last two fiscal years.
"When you take an outside look at [Michigan's] budget, it's doable," Paul says. "But they have to see a benefit to doing it, and that's what we're trying to convince them of. … We're having success convincing a lot of people around Michigan, but the guy who needs to pull the trigger is the athletic director."
Based on 2008 Department of Education statistics, the average yearly combined cost to run both a men's and women's Division I lacrosse program is about $1.25 million. Average combined revenue for both programs, however, is about $1 million.
"The reality is that you must distinguish between an economic model that is revenue-producing versus profit-generating," says Mary Jo Kane. "The vast majority of schools in Division I don't make a profit. They not only don't subsidize everybody else, they do not even pay for themselves."
Paul says his yearly budget as an MCLA program is approximately $900,000. Donations make up about $500,000 of that figure, with the rest coming from equipment, apparel and other various team sponsors. But to run a top-notch Division I program, Paul estimates he'll need a yearly budget of about $1.5 million.
"We have donors that are very generous that fortunately have the capability to make a significant impact," Paul says. "But that's the question: If a program is going to cost $1.5 million a year, are we going to be able to generate that kind of revenue? The real answer is probably not. We can't become, in the short-term, a revenue-producing sport."
So the question becomes: If lacrosse isn't a self-sustaining sport, what's the future?
"I don't know if we can sustain our program at the club level at the level we've sustained it financially forever," Paul says. "For us, it's either varsity or bust in the next few years."
Brian Schneider wrote for Inside Lacrosse as a player at Hofstra and is finishing up a Master's degree in journalism from Northwestern.


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Nomadic's award was based on client campaign work, as well as agency size, revenue, culture and leadership. Campaign work included Social Content Marketing for Disney Parks & Destinations, Promotion and Interactive Brand Experience for Disney Vacation Club, Website Redesign and Content Marketing for Diet Pepsi, and the Digital Content Campaign and Broadcast for Ubisoft's Rocksmith.
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They've shared tombstone photos, burial records, baptismal information and genealogy happy dances, and helped me fill in blank spots in my tree. Recently, a genealogist I emailed about a possible connection (I found his online tree with a
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An organization that's digitizing genealogy records, mobilizing millions of volunteers to index them, and making them available free online has to be on a genealogist's thank-you list. I'm talking about
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I could list resources I'm thankful for all day. What genealogy resources are
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In the
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Ancestry.ca's free 1921 Canadian census collection
is now indexed. That means you can search the records by name and other criteria instead of having to know exactly where your ancestor lived, and then browsing by location.
The census will be accessible free on Ancestry.ca for at least three years, says spokesperson Matthew Deighton. You'll need to set up a free registration (or log into your account, if you already have one) in order to view the records.
The 1921 Canadian census is the country's most recent census available to the public. It lists everyone in a household and contains details including birthplace (for a person and his or her parents), immigration year and religion, says
Family Tree Magazine
Document Detective
George G. Morgan.
Morgan will show you clues in the 1921 Canadian census in our January/February 2014 issue, on
and newsstands Jan. 7.
The 1921 Canadian census also is part of the subscription collection on Ancestry.ca's US sister site,
Canadian roots
census records
Free Databases
Friday, 01 November 2013 11:03:33 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Genealogy News Corral, Oct. 28-Nov. 1
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A new blog called
Heartbreak & Hope
will tell the stories of Ellis Island immigrants. It's from Statue Cruises, the company that ferries people to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York Harbor. You can
click here to submit the stories of your ancestors who immigrated through Ellis Island
This week, the free FamilySearch.org website has added more than 135 million indexed records and images from Brazil, Canada, England, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy and the United States. The new and updated collections include the 1911 Canada census, Brazil immigration cards and New Orleans passenger lists.
Click here to see all the new and updated collections, and click through to search or browse them
FamilySearch also has
made some minor updates to the online catalog
, mostly to add useful features the old version of the catalog had. But one I'm not crazy about is that when you search, places are now hidden if the library doesn't have any related microfilm, books or other titles.
I see the benefits of hiding places instead of letting you run a place search that won't have results, but I think negative results can be useful: Then you know that yes, the place does exist, and you need to redirect your search to another repository. Also, sometimes I'll type a place into the catalog just to see the suggested locations. Now, if the library doesn't have anything for a location, it won't be suggested.
Historical newspaper subscription site
has a new, free ebook download, "How to Search Obituaries to Find Ancestors and Trace Your Family Tree."
Click here to get your free copy
Genealogy Web Sites
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Friday, 01 November 2013 10:13:05 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Partnerships Add Burial Records and Obituaries to MyHeritage.com
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Halloween talk of death won't scare many genealogists, who are acutely interested in when, where and how their ancestors died. But what's scary sometimes is the search for evidence of an elusive ancestor's death.
Maybe this will help:
MyHeritage has joined with the
cemetery records website and the memorial website
to add 5.5 million gravestone images and records, and 3.5 million obituaries, to its search engine.
These records are available for free on SuperSearch, MyHeritage's search engine for historical records on the site. Those with family trees on MyHeritage will receive Record Matches to alert them to matches in these new collections. (The Tributes.com obituaries will tend to be recent deaths.)
In related news, MyHeritage is holding a
Halloween photo contest
: Enter your most creative and original Halloween family photo by Nov. 3, and three entrants will win a one-year MyHeritage data subscription.
Get details on the MyHeritage blog
Need advice for finding out about your ancestors' deaths? Try our
Death Records Workbook
eight-page download, available for $4.99 in ShopFamilyTree.com. It has instructions and resources for finding death records, substitute records that can provide death information, sample records, and a form to help you organize your death records search.
Vital Records
Wednesday, 30 October 2013 13:09:11 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013
The Genealogy Event Packs a Lot of Family History Into One Day in NYC
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Are you lucky enough to be in the Big Apple this weekend? (I'm humming "
Autumn in New York
" right now.)
If so, you should definitely take some time out this Saturday, Nov. 2, to see what
The Genealogy Event
is all about. This family history show at New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion is a day full of how-to sessions, expert consultations, and exhibits of resources and tools.
The 36 half-hour sessions and four 45-minute mini-workshops focus on a range of research topics, including Ancestry.com searching, genetic genealogy, photo research, using maps, criminal ancestors, and others.
You also can register for a free 15-minute professional consultation in the Expert Lounge (so practice succinctly pitching your question—the longer you talk, the less your pro can talk).
And check out the resources of 27 exhibitors including
Family Tree Magazine
in booth 217. Pick up a free issue of the magazine (while they last) and say hi to our publisher Allison Dolan!
The Genealogy Event is open Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Appointments with experts begin at 10:15 a.m. and sessions begin at 11 a.m.
You can purchase an All-Day Pass at the door for $35 or
online for $30
(plus a $1.50 online transaction fee). A Twilight Pass ($25 at the door, $20 plus $1.50
) gets you in from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Genealogy Events
Tuesday, 29 October 2013 14:14:23 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Monday, 28 October 2013
8 Photo and Document Scanning Tips for Genealogists
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Does a pile of papers and pictures stand between you and your dream of a digitized family archive? Digitized files are easier than their paper counterparts to share with relatives, back up, and turn into a family history book one day.
Get started scanning with these quick tips from our upcoming
One-Week Workshop: Digitize Your Genealogy Documents, Photos and Heirlooms
Not sure where to start? Start digitizing your most valuable and irreplaceable items first.
Set an achievable goal, such as scanning 10 items a week, or participating in
(genealogists meet online the last Sunday each month and chat as they scan).
You could speed up the scanning process by scanning multiple photos at once. Some photo software (such as
Adobe Photoshop Elements
) automatically separates the scanned images into separate files.
Choose the right resolution—usually, 300 dpi for documents and at least 600 dpi for images. If you plan to print an enlargement or zoom in for detailed retouching, go up to 1,200 dpi.
Consider saving master copies of photos as TIFFs, and use JPG copies to share and for everyday viewing. The PDF format is a good choice for documents.
Before you scan, clean your scanner glass with a soft, dry cloth. If it's really dirty, spray a little glass cleaner on the cloth (never on the glass). If the photo or document is dusty, gently brush it with a soft, dry brush.
Organize digital files as you scan. Decide on a file structure for your scanned images and file them right away. If you use photo-organizing software, tag images with the name of the person or family associated with the item, plus a place, date, type of record, and other pertinent information.
Back up your scans in multiple locations, such as to the cloud, to an external hard drive, and on your sister's computer.
Digitize Your Genealogy Documents, Photos and Heirlooms one-week workshop
, happening Nov. 15-22, will help you
create a manageable plan for your digitizing project
work with fragile and bulky items
learn the best options for digitizing items
Learn how to back up your digital files
The workshop gives you access to four pre-recorded video classes with presentations and demos, excerpts from Family Tree University's popular Digitize Your Family History course, plus daily message-board discussions and a Q&A with digitization expert Denise May Levenick, author of
How To Archive Family Keepsakes
Register for the Digitize Your Genealogy Documents, Photos and Heirlooms workshop
before Nov. 11 to save $35 on tuition with code WORKSHOPEARLY.
Research Tips
saving and sharing family history
Monday, 28 October 2013 15:44:07 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Eight Family Tree Tips to Take Away From "Genealogy Roadshow"
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Genealogy television shows like TLC's "
Who Do You Think You Are?
" and PBS' "
Genealogy Roadshow
" are meant to entertain us, but that doesn't mean we can't learn a thing or two from them.
In fact, our Tuesday, Nov. 12 webinar,
10 Essential Research Tricks from "Genealogy Roadshow,"
is full of such lessons from co-host
D. Joshua Taylor
Here are my own favorite takeaway family tree research tips from "Genealogy Roadshow":
Don't believe everything your family told you about your ancestors.
Whether it's the year Great-grandpa arrived in the United States or a rumored link to George Washington, treat family stories as theories that require research to prove or disprove.
You can't get away from the "start with yourself and work backward" principle.
No matter what family claim the "Genealogy Roadshow" experts were researching, the research started with the present and moved to the person's parents, then grandparents, etc. You didn't get details about every generation in the show's quick segments (remember the entertainment factor), but those generations were listed in the trees that flashed by.
You're related to lots of people.
Among them is probably someone famous and someone infamous (remember this next time one of those announcements comes out about which celebrities are related—it's really not anything unusual). The way to document a connection between two people is to research both family trees as you normally would, and find a person common to both trees.
Build on others' work.
"Genealogy Roadshow" sometimes used already-existing, reliable research about famous folks. Don't be afraid to look for clues in published family histories and family trees you find online—just make sure you do research to verify all the names, dates and relationships in those resources, so you don't end up repeating someone else's mistakes and claiming the wrong ancestors.
Same-named people are everywhere!
And they're the cause of many erroneously linked family trees. I've experienced the excitement of finding a record for someone with the right name, birth date and place of residence—followed by the disappointment when I realize it's not my family member.
Use other details about your family to determine whether a record is for the right person—here's an example of how this can work
Ancestors who did bad things are especially interesting to trace
, and left sources including court records, newspapers and prison registers.
I blogged a little about this last week
Once you get beyond your garden-variety first or second cousin, figuring out exactly how you're related to someone can seem complicated
. The trick is to find the most recent common ancestor to the two cousins in question. If there's a different number of generations between each cousin and the most recent common ancestor, the cousins are "removed." The number of removes is equal to the number of generations that separates the two cousins. We
explain cousin relationships here
and have a
free relationship chart PDF download here
Sometimes genealogical discoveries come quickly, and sometimes it takes a lot of research to find answers
. The show's hosts often used the word "we" when talking about records discovered. Behind the scenes, full-time, professional researchers were devoting hours upon hours to tracing guests' family trees. You might not be able to devote that much time at once to your research, but keep plugging away a little bit at a time. And keep track of what you've done so next time you can pick up where you left off.
Josh Taylor's
10 Essential Research Tricks From "Genealogy Roadshow"
will help you do better family tree research whether you watched the show or not. And you'll save $10 when you
register now
Genealogy TV
Research Tips
Wednesday, 23 October 2013 12:50:06 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Genealogy Resources for Hard-to-Find Virginia Ancestors
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Virginia genealogy researchers, meet the
Library of Virginia
. And the
University of Virginia Library
, and several other resources for tracking down your Virginia roots.
In our Oct. 24 webinar
Virginia Genealogy: Beyond the Basics
, you'll become well-acquainted with these repositories and other resources for Virginia-specific genealogy records, both online and offline offline records at repositories.
Virginia genealogy expert Shannon Combs Bennett will let you in on her favorite tricks and strategies for tracing hard-to-find Virginia ancestors (including dealing with the state's burned counties).
Here's a sampling of the Virginia genealogy records covered in this webinar:
county records including wills, deeds, court orders, vital records and naturalization oaths
chancery records and other court records
official vital records, including those before statewide recording began
church records
tax records, including those of poll taxes, personal property and land
military records
record sets focusing on non-English groups
And you don't even have to worry about scribbling notes, because all webinar registrants receive a handout of the presentation slides and access to view the recorded webinar again as often as they like.
Virginia Genealogy: Beyond the Basics webinar
takes place Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern (6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain, 4 p.m. Pacific). Time's running out to register!
Learn more about the webinar and sign up today in ShopFamilyTree.com
Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:40:12 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, 18 October 2013
Genealogy News Corral, Oct. 14-18
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The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors has opened its 2014 Excellence in Writing competition. Entries are due by June 15, 2014. Both members and nonmembers, published and unpublished, can enter to win cash prizes. Entries must fall into one of six categories—
see them here
. For additional details and entry instructions,
download the entrant packet here
AncestryDNA updates
previewed to 6,000 AncestryDNA customers in September are now available to everyone who's tested with Ancestry.com. The updates offer a more-detailed ethnic heritage analysis, including for African ancestry, a redesigned user interface, and a database of results from more than 200,000 customers. There's no additional cost for those who've tested with Ancestry.com; a new DNA test costs $99.
Read more on the Ancestry.com blog
British cemtery records pay-per-view site
has added eight cemeteries from North Yorkshire, in addition to a collection of 105,000 burial ground removals dating back to the 16th century from the British National Archives.
You can read more on the DeceasedOnline blog
FamilySearch has added more than 2 million records and images from Canada, England, and Russia to the free search at FamilySearch.org. You can
see which collections have been updated here, and click through to search or browse them
Genetic Genealogy
saving and sharing family history
Friday, 18 October 2013 12:54:50 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Remarks by Ambassador Wittig to the UN Press Corps on Libya
Feb 22, 2011
W: The violence by the Libyan security forces against peaceful demonstrators is really shocking. It has regional and international implications, so that is why we think it's a case for the Security Council. The Security Council should act with a swift and clear message and that's what we are working on.
Q: And that will be today?
W: We think so. And we will support a very swift action.
Q: Are you considering a no-fly zone?
W: We will be deliberating on how the Council should act but we are very much in favour of a swift and clear message of the Council.


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GE builds relationship with MC2 STEM High School
(Cleveland)- During the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Obama talked about schools like Cleveland's MC2STEM (m-c-squared-stem) high school, a collaboration between the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and GE Lighting.
GE's Andrea Timan was on WTAM 1100's Wills and Snyder in the Morning to talk about the school, in which students learn more about science, technology and math by learning from GE employees.
Students do much more hands-on work than in a regular public school, and in many cases, students have actually worked with GE engineers who are developing products.
Timan says they have a 94 percent graduation rate, and the graduates have a very high rate of earning college scholarships.
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Come on GUYS! Dont let this battle die!
Come on GUYS! Dont let this battle die!
still pretty impressive for two entries
good job guys
i was really looking forward to this battle
and you didnt let me down
Kickin' it
went with glass, i'm not really impressed with either, all it is is a close-up with a macro lense, but glass's actually carries a vibe throughout his picture, would have been better if you used a 3/5th's compromise, and osbagosh is just a random closes up of water
maybe i'll enter the next one
the first one have a bad focus...
M i S t X
both were very good, I was gonna enter this one but I didnt meet the deadline
"why thank yeu. rogue isnt my freind anymore. hes mean razor. he made me piss right in all my ink." ##sable##
funniest shit ever man LMFAO
wow!a photgraphy and canvase battle...you moderators got everything covered now!
great substitutes for real graffiti!!!
aside from that...cool photos!
LATVIETIS STARP CUUKAAM

QUOTE (sir.one @ Apr 17 2007 @ 08:16 AM)

bombing science criminals 4 life.

I like contrast in glass' and luv B&W pix but don't like tha focus. I went wit Osb* 'cuz it tells me more about tha mother earth stuff but dont' like tha focus either.. Hahaha..
"why thank yeu. rogue isnt my freind anymore. hes mean razor. he made me piss right in all my ink." ##sable##
funniest shit ever man LMFAO
osbagosh's picture is all dead space theres no focal point.
Glass' pictures has great contrast, and I LOVE the black and white
whens the next photo battle?
"why thank yeu. rogue isnt my freind anymore. hes mean razor. he made me piss right in all my ink." ##sable##
funniest shit ever man LMFAO
GLASS JUST liked da b&w but like it better ne ways over water
she got um for xmas, while i was in jail.... i thought it was fanny shit i was liek
"mom why didnt u pick up"
"oh sorry i was in operating room"
"yeah your sister wanted tits"
"but mom shes only 11"
well the last line didnt happen but still...
well you best be not trippin.
im a jedi fuckin masterrrrrrrr
all y'all padawans best shut da fak upppp
(sex without condoms)
I voted OsbaGosh. I wasnt feeling very black and white. There both great photos though.
What kind of degenerate scumbag writes fuck you on the wall? That's me! I write that shit. I can do art, I can makes things look nice but I can fuckin' destroy. Fuck this shit, you wunna come into my town you real estate faggots and buy all this shit up and charge the rent up? No I'm gunna come in and I'm gunna bring the property value down, make it look ugly. But whatever ugly/beautiful, it's all good man. Maybe I got nothing to say maybe I got something to say.
-David Choe
geesh glass gmv, his blurring aint the best tho, but has better focus
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SCNG teams up with USC School of Journalism
Members of the South Carolina National Guard public-affairs staff have teamed up with the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina to offer a course, "Media & Military." The class is in its second year.
The class is directed by Dr. Miron Varouhakis, a visiting professor in the USC journalism school and former Associated Press foreign correspondent, who covered the 2003 Iraq War as an embedded reporter. Varouhakis worked with the SCNG public-affairs staff to create the material for the class two years ago.
"Students in the 'Media & Military' class have a unique opportunity to learn about the structure and culture of the military, military public affairs and much more through a series of guest lectures by South Carolina National Guard public-affairs officers and with visits to military bases," said Varouhakis.
National Guard public-affairs officers guest-lecture in many of the classes, drawing on their experiences as deployed PAOs from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the Air Force Mortuary at Dover AFB, Del., and from their many experiences managing day-to-day public affairs for the guard. The guard PAOs also mentor students on a major military-themed end-of-course project.
"This was a very interesting class that taught me a lot about the military," wrote a student from the Spring 2010 class. "It made me change my perspective of the military and the people in it."
Another student said, "the resources provided to the course are outstanding; students are truly able to experience situations that are not readily available to anyone else."


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A sentry tried to stop us from meeting, but Milne took no notice of him, and we shook hands.
Milne is growing old and frail like myself, and I will need to spare her all I can.
Dr. Milne asserts that Ningpo is 10,000 years old, and that the pagoda was raised antecedent to the city being built.
The noble labors of Milne Edwards have brought this to light.
Oddly, I was never at all staggered by this theory until now, having read Mr. Milne's argument against it.
Then Mrs. Milne quotes from "Parliamentary papers for 1859-76."
According to the view of Professor Milne, the volcanoes of the Kurile chain are fast becoming extinct.
"That was how poor Milne used to argue," said Hoste gravely.
Milne located the gun, and, crouching on his hands and knees, began to work his way forward.
Milne, you may just bet your boots I felt knocked all out of time.


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Please, someone who is not as bored as I am seeing "gender" all over this board, post a working definition of the two terms so we don't see "gender" plastered everywhere it doesn't belong.
Basically NO. You won't know the "GENDER" of your kid for a while. You will likely know the "SEX," unless you have a baby with ambiguous genitalia, or one whose genitalia don't match the chromosomes etc. That also happens, and it's never brought about on this board.
But "gender"? Gender is what you're trying hard to instill when you prepare a pink nursery and expect your child to play with dolls instead of construction sets.
Let's start a discussion on this so we can chip away at all the gendering going on prematurely.


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Some new TV shows that have just premièred that I think will be worth a watch.
Game of Thrones, big budget production by HBO. Pilot episode was excellent.
Camelot, another big budget, quite a big british cast, gives a twist on the tale of king arthur and how he became king and Merlin is played by the young Fiennes brother, who in my opinion is excellently casted.
Breakout Kings. In order to catch escaped convicts, a squad of U.S. Marshals makes a special deal with several current prisoners . If they agree to help, their sentences will be reduced by one month for each fugitive they bring in and they will be transferred to a minimum-security facility. However, if any of them should try to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled.
Havent watched any yet but from the write up looks like it maybe worth watching.
Breaking In, nothing to do with above, staring Christian Slater, watched the first five minutes of the pilot and it was funny. Looks to be in the style of the bbc programe " The Hustle". So may have potential.


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Taylor Swift to release limited-edition sneaker with new album
Listen to Taylor Swift on iHeartRadio
(WENN) - Country star Taylor Swift has teamed up with bosses at her favorite shoe brand to release a limited-edition sneaker named after the title of her upcoming album Red.
The singer has been pictured wearing Keds designs for years, and now she has signed a three-year spokesmodel deal with the fashion house, which will begin with the release of her new shoe line.
She tells Women's Wear Daily, "I've been a fan of Keds for years, because they have two of my favorite elements of great style - they're classic and effortless. I remember wearing Keds as a little kid, while riding my bike around the farm. When I got older, I started wearing them again. There's something cool about shoes that you can grow up with."
"I think they add something casual and cool to your look, and the new colors and patterns are so eclectic. I love pairing them with vintage looks."
The Grammy winner's specially-designed red shoe will be available in stores October 22, the same day as the release of her new record.
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this sounds like a useful idea
Sniffjoke 0.4.1 - a sniffer evasion tool (Anti-IDS/IPS)
SniffJoke (Sj) implements a set of anti sniffing technology itself, but begins developed as a modular framework.
Will easily be supported by a security community that want to exploit and explore sniffing faults. SniffJoke is an application for Linux that handle transparently your TCP connection, delaying, modifying and injecting fake packets inside your transmission, make them almost impossible to be correctly read by a passive wiretapping technology (IDS or sniffer). An internet client running SniffJoke injects in the transmission flow some packets able to seriously disturb passive analysis like sniffing, interception and low level information theft. No server supports needed!
Sj in the 0.4 release, hacks & mangles your network at layers 3 and 4. But with further development of plugins, you could well make all protocols at every layer scrambled, so that they cant be detected by network sniffers.
This is the official change log:
- GPG verified autotest files
- Documented autotest operations
- Bug fixed discovered in 0.4 rel
Get from the master branch: https://github.com/vecna/sniffjoke/tarball/master
System requirement:
Linux Kernel 2.6.16, tun support, root privileges.
Package requirement:
g++ cmake gpp (to install) tcpdump curl (to run autotest) gpg (optional)
Download Sniffjoke v0.4.1 (sniffjoke-0.4.1.tar.bz2)
this sounds like a useful idea
"Never do anything against conscience -- even if the state demands it."
-- Albert Einstein
I thought the best way to evade sniffing was to encrypt all of your traffic. Yes I know about man in the middle attacks, and presenting clients with false ssl certs so you decrypt the clients traffic. Lets take ssh for example, if you used public/private keys and already exchanged keys with the ssh server before the man in the middle attack began you should be fine. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I like the bleeding edge, but I don't like blood loss
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|Monday, December 03, 2012
|Adult Cooking
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 8:00pm
Author: Jennifer Pedersen
Description: Adult Cooking, for ages 16+. Space is limited, so be sure to register for each session during the beginning of the registration period listed. Cost: Participants are required to bring an already cooked part for the meal.


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Farmers' Almanac: It's Gonna Be a Cold One
(NEWSER) – A bitterly cold winter is just around the corner, if you believe the Farmers' Almanac. The 197-year-old publication's forecaster, "Caleb Weatherbee," predicts that around two-thirds of the US will have a colder-than-usual winter, with heavy snowfall in much of the country, and stormy weather for the outdoor Super Bowl XLVIII in New Jersey. The almanac says it predicts the weather using a "secret mathematical and astronomical formula" devised in 1818 that considers "sunspot activity, moon phases, tidal action, and more," and claims readers find it correct around 80% of the time, the AP notes.


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McLEAN, VA -- The International Foodservice Distributors Association reports that Sugar Foods Corp. (Sun Valley, CA) is this year's winner of IFDA's Achievement Award for Excellence in Product Innovation. The honor is based on the association's manufacturer benchmarking survey. Sugar Foods also was recognized as one of the top five IFDA partners of the year.
Sugar Foods Corp. also won high marks in two other categories. The company was named as one of the top five manufacturers "working to address issues critical to the success of the distribution industry," and as a top-five manufacturer "engaged as a strategic partner" to distributor clients.
The survey benchmarked the 50 leading foodservice manufacturers participating in the IFDA Partners Program.


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SAN BERNARDINO - Jeanie Sykes hadn't seen her husband, Howard Edward Sykes III, in about a year when he pulled his car into the driveway of his sister's home early Monday.
The 43-year-old San Bernardino woman, who was visiting friends nearby, said she had hoped to reunite with her husband eventually.
But before she had a chance to approach him, someone else did.
"It happened so quick," she said. "He pulled up, then it was like 'pop, pop, pop.' "
Two men standing in the driveway walked up to Howard Sykes and opened fire.
Howard Sykes' green Ford Thunderbird rolled backward into a palm tree at the end of the driveway.
"I was a couple feet from it," Jeanie Sykes said.
San Bernardino police received a call at 1:50 a.m. about the shooting in the 1100 block of North D Street and found Sykes still in the vehicle.
Paramedics took him to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:35 a.m., San Bernardino County coroner's officials said.
Police had not determined a motive in the killing and had made no arrests.
"We're not getting a whole lot of information," Sgt. Gary Robertson said. "We don't know why it happened. "
While waiting for her son to pick her up hours later, Sykes sat with a cigarette in one hand, still shaken from the incident and the loss of her husband.
She didn't specify what led to her separation, just that there were problems in their lives.
But she said that the San Bernardino High School graduate, who was working in a warehouse job, wasn't involved in gangs and didn't have enemies. She suspects the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.
"He was a good person. I just can't believe it," she said.
Sykes is the seventh person to be killed in the city this year and the fourth in less than two weeks.
Anyone with information on this case may call Detective William Flesher at 909-384-5655 or Robertson at 909-841-5361.
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The division of Cellular Pathology at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children processes tissue specimens for clinical diagnostics and research applications. The division consists of a highly experienced group of physicians, histotechnologists, laboratory technicians, scientists and other specialists.
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Histology refers to the microscopic structure of tissues. The department processes tissue specimens, including bone, skin, nerve and muscle biopsies, for routine histological preparations, histochemistry and enzyme staining. Specimens are processed for clinical studies and research applications to explore fundamental questions related to biology of normal cellular growth and differentiation.
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Osho,When I came to Greece to see you, everything reflected more and more of the zorba.Now, being here in India, everything around you is reflecting more of the buddha.Osho, does this depend on being in Greece or India?
Human history has been a tragedy. And the reason for it being a tragedy is not very complex. You do not have to go very far to find it out; it is in everybody.
The whole past of man has created a split in man; there is a constant civil war in every human being. If you do not feel at ease, the reason is not personal. Your disease is social. The strategy that has been used is to divide you into two enemy camps: the zorba and the buddha, the materialist and the spiritualist.
You are not divided in reality. In reality you are a harmonious whole. But in your mind the conditioning is that you are not one whole, one piece; you have to fight against your body. If you want to be a spiritual being, the body has to be conquered, defeated, destroyed, tortured in every possible way. This has been the accepted ideology all over the world. In different cultures, different religions, the formulations may be different, but the basic rule is the same: divide man, create a conflict in him so one part starts feeling higher, becomes holy, starts condemning the other part as the sinner.
And the trouble is that you are one, there is no way to divide you. Every division is going to create misery in you, every division will mean that half of your being is fighting with the other half. And if you are fighting within yourself, how can you be at ease? The whole of humanity up to now has lived in a schizophrenic way. Everyone has been cut into pieces, fragments. Your religions, your philosophies, your ideologies have not been healing processes; they have been root causes of inner conflict and war. You have been wounding yourself. Your right hand wounds the left hand, your left hand wounds the right hand; both your hands become wounded.
The West finally chose to go with the zorba. There was no other way to remain sane - one part had to be completely destroyed, ignored, forgotten. The West denied the inner reality of man, his consciousness - there is no soul, man is only body, and eat, drink and be merry is the only religion. This was simply a way to find some peace of mind, to get out of the conflict, to come to a decision and a conclusion, because this is accepting that you are one: just matter, just body.
The East has chosen the other way, but the basic problem is the same. The East has chosen that you are the soul, and the body is an illusion. Matter does not exist, the world is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of, so don't be bothered about it. Renounce it, forget all about it; it is not worth taking note of.
On the surface it seems that East and West are doing different things, but essentially they are not doing different things. Essentially they are trying to find a rational way to be one, because to be two means a constant dis-ease, a conflict. It is better to drop the idea of the other.


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Brevard battles back to win thriller in OTNovember 28, 2009
Brevard, N.C. - Samantha Winn led the Tornados past the Limestone Saints Saturday night with 23 points and 8 rebounds. Brevard had led just once in regulation before tying the game and handling Limestone in overtime, 73-69.
The win boosts Brevard to a 2-3 record, while Limestone falls to 3-2.
The Tornados saw their largest lead in regulation just four minutes into the game when they led the Saints 6-4. Freshman forward, Tempestt Mack contributed 8 points for the Tornados in the first half who went into the intermission down 41-26.
Brevard trailed Limestone, led by Maria Young's 21 points, by as much as 17 points in the second half. The Tornados then went on a 13-2 run led by Holli Flippo's steal taken coast to coast for a lay in and a three point shot cutting the score to 45-39 at the 14:10 mark.
The Tornados finally battled back to tie the game 56-56 with 4:25 left. However, Limestone regained the lead a minute later on a Whitney Todd shot to make the score 58-56 in favor of the Saints. The teams went scoreless for almost three minutes before Flippo found Winn for a jumper to knot the score for the fifth time, 58-58 with 0:26 on the clock.
Brevard, led by Winn's 8 points, did not trail in overtime. The steady foul shooting of Amanda Whitaker and Anna Schlobohm secured the victory with minutes left, leading the team to a 75% free throw mark as they handed Limestone their second loss of the season with a 73-69 final.
Brevard will return to action on Monday night at 6:00 p.m. in Boshamer Gymnasium taking on King College after losing to them just a week ago 73-67 in overtime.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- German private investment firm Joh. A. Bensiker has agreed to buy Caribou Coffee, the No. 2 coffeehouse chain in the United States behind Starbucks, for $340 million. The chain has more than 600 coffeehouses in 22 states mostly in the eastern and Midwest regions, and 10 international markets, compared with Starbucks' 11,000 stores.
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The deal comes less than two months after Bensiker, a holding company for Germany's Reimann family, bought Peet's Coffee & Tea for $1 billion and raised its stake in D.E. Master Blenders 1753, the coffee arm of the former Sara Lee, to 15% from about 12%.
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Winner: Donovan's Steak & Chop House
|Located in the heart of the Camelback Corridor, Donovan's sets the standard of fine dining excellence. A classic steakhouse. A stylish, lively atmosphere. Cordially friendly. Donovan's is a place where you can celebrate with friends, family and associates. Delectable market seafood is available for those non-steak moments, as well as mouth-watering steakhouse fare. A depth of wine variety has earned the prestigious Best of Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator. Uniquely designed private dining rooms that may accommodate 10-120 guests are the perfect venue for business events and personal celebrations. Donovan's dedicated sales manager will help you plan a most memorable occasion.
|Year Est: 2005
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Finalist: Vincent's on Camelback
|For 25 years, Vincent Guerithault has been combining his expertise in classic French cooking with Southwestern ingredients to create his signature blend of flavors. Guerithault's career began in France. In 1976, he came to the U.S. to work at Chicago's Le Français, and within 10 years opened his own restaurant that helped put Phoenix on the culinary map. Guerithault was the first chef ever to receive a Citation of Excellence from the International Food & Wine Society. He has received a James Beard award and the prestigious Chevalier de L'Ordre du Merite Agricole on behalf of the Republic of France.Zagat, Gourmet, Conde Nast Traveler and Travel Holiday all have lauded Guerithault and his restaurant.
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'"This is a great effort tonight," goalie Ryan Miller said. "I think everybody had the right attitude tonight. They were all going to go out and try their hardest, and I think we're capable of great things when we're moving our feet. We started right from the drop of the faceoff. I could feel it sitting back there watching the guys in the first period, watching them go, and I thought tonight could turn out to even more of a spread, you know, we had great chances."'
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The DREAM Act is a major component of the 844-page bill introduced by the "Gang of Eight," a bipartisan group of four Democratic and four Republican senators. It would allow those who came into the country before the age of 16 to obtain legal status if they have a high school diploma or GED. Eligible persons would be able to obtain citizenship five years after achieving legal status.
For others among the 11 million estimated immigrants who are not legally inside the country, obtaining legal status, and eventually, citizenship, would take more time and include paying some fines. The Senate's bill would allow immigrants who entered the United States before 2012 and have since remained in the country to apply for what would be called "Registered Provisional Immigrant" status.
Those who obtain this provisional status would be required to pass a background check, pay a $500 fine, back taxes and fees.
Provisional status would be valid for six years, and immigrants would have to pass an additional background check and prove that they are either regularly employed or living at 100 percent of the poverty level for renewal. After 10 years, immigrants would be able to apply for permanent residency. They could be apply for citizenship after three more years.
On the enforcement side, the Senate bill would also require all employers to use the e-Verify system to check job applicants' eligibility to work in the United States within five years and require the Department of Homeland Security to produce border security and fencing strategies designed to apprehend and return 90 percent of illegal immigrants in "high risk border sectors."
Officials would be required to develop their plans within the six months before immigrants would be able to apply for RPI status.
The bill also alters family-based immigration policies to permit spouses and children to immigrate without delay. Family preferences for siblings would be eliminated 18 months after the bill becomes law.
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MWL notes: Kepler's talent on display
German outfielder flashing his athleticism with Cedar Rapids
By Curt Rallo / Special to MiLB.com | July 25, 2013 6:00 AM ET
Andy Johnson, a Minnesota Twins scout based in Kristiansand, Norway, was walking past a baseball diamond at a tournament in Germany when a tall 14-year-old sprinting down the first-base line caught his eye. Johnson hadn't planned on stopping to watch, but his scouting instincts took over when he glanced at Max Kepler.
"Max was tall, lanky and very fluid," Johnson said. "He was young for that tournament, but you just saw athleticism. His athleticism really stuck out from the other players."
Minnesota signed Kepler in 2009 as a 16-year-old for $775,000, the biggest bonus ever for a position player outside the United States and Latin America. The 6-foot-4, 180-pound left-hander began his career the next year in the Gulf Coast League, followed by two seasons with Elizabethton in the Appalachian League, and is currently patrolling center field for the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
"For me, athletically, Max was the best," Johnson said. "I saw Greg Halman when he was 15, and he was pretty athletic. Max was a different type of athletic. He wasn't as powerful, but he was a little more fluid and more graceful. Halman was more explosive.
"Athletically, Max is right there. The physical attributes and the tools are there, which definitely allow him to grow. From reading our game reports, you can see the growth in maturity and presence at the plate. He's becoming more of a baseball player every day."
Kepler is hitting .263 with four homers and 19 RBIs in the 30 Midwest League games after being held back for more than two months in extended spring training due to a forearm strain. Kepler caught up quickly after arriving in Cedar Rapids, but then again, catching up and passing the competition is one of his gifts.
"When guys come from Europe, they're probably a little bit behind the curve when you compare them to Latin players or American players who have probably played against better competition, but Max adjusted really quickly," Twins farm director Brad Steil said. "It's not easy coming to a new country when you're 17 years old and competing against talented baseball players. He's done a good job of adapting. He's an athletic kid. He's developed into a strong kid. Max is a smart kid. Whatever gap was there, he made that up pretty quickly."
Kepler's mother is from San Antonio. She joined the Berlin ballet in 1984, where she met her husband, ballet dancer Marek Rozycki, a native of Poland.
"My mom really got me into baseball," said Kepler, who was once offered a scholarship to the Steffi Graf Tennis Foundation. "She was putting me in all kinds of sports to see what I would like. I played baseball for a public team and had a great coach. I had great coaches with every team I played for in Germany."
Kepler's forearm strain was a tough test for the 20 year old.
"[The injury] was thought to be healed a month after it happened, but I ended up being sent back a couple of times," Kepler said. "It ended up being two and a half months in extended spring. Injuries are part of baseball. I'm glad to be part of the team now.
"It was frustrating during rehab. You have to be patient. Once I was with the team, I was really happy to be back. I think I was putting pressure on myself, because I was back on the field and excited and nervous about everything. I lost two months, and catching up was tough."
Capitalizing on his ability to learn quickly, Kepler made an immediate impact for the Kernels.
"I tend to pick up sports naturally since I've been young," Kepler said. "I like to think of myself as a student of the game, because I'm always learning new things. I'm just trying to get better at what I do and try to learn new things every day, every week. I try to develop new skills that I don't possess right now."
Kepler also hopes to make an impact on German baseball.
"When I was there this winter, we had a lot more camps for kids who wanted to start baseball," Kepler said. "Soccer is a big sport there right now, but baseball is growing. I hope it keeps growing. One of my biggest goals is to help baseball become bigger in Germany. People love the game there."
In brief
Major rehabs: Detroit second baseman Omar Infante and left-handed reliever Darin Downs were both assigned to West Michigan for rehab. Infante, who played for West Michigan back in 2000, went 1-for-3 in his first game for the Whitecaps on Wednesday. Prior to suffering a sprained left ankle July 3, Infante was hitting .309 in 76 games for the Tigers. Downs, on the DL since July 7 with rotator cuff tendonitis in his left shoulder, was 0-2 with a 5.18 ERA for Detroit and has not yet appeared for the Whitecaps.
Huge comeback: Dayton rallied from an 8-1 deficit for a 10-9 victory against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Monday. The Dragons scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead, and left-fielder Jesse Winker made a game-ending diving catch with a runner on third to seal the victory.
Whiff city: Peoria pitchers posted 19 strikeouts against West Michigan on Monday, one shy of the franchise record set July 9, 2005, against Clinton. Cory Jones (7-1) struck out 12 without allowing a walk, Dixon Llorens fanned all six batters he faced and closer Zach Russell had one strike out in one inning.
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This board is used by my 12 year old son, my wife and myself. Very easy to use and great for carving. Just now getting into jumping, but it seems like a great beginner to intermediate wakeboard.
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Bought this board as my first wakeboard setup. After a few outings I am very pleased with the purchase.Family and friends were up on the first pass or two, and we are all new to wakeboarding.
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is found in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the western arm of the Great East African Rift Valley, about 530km from Uganda.
The park occupies the size of about 321 sq km. This park is divided into four gorilla tracking sectors including Buhoma, Ruhija, Rushaga and Nkuringo sectors.
The Buhoma sector was the first to be developed for gorilla tourism and is the most popular of all the four sectors. It is at this sector where other walks have been developed including; the Munyanga River Trails in the valley of Buhoma, which is a short walk for viewing birds and primates along the forest edge. The waterfall trail which passes beneath tree ferns, epiphytic ferns as well as orchids to visit three dazzling waterfalls. The Rushura Hill Trail, Muzabajiro Loop Trail and the River Ivi Trail of which the latter follows an old raod through the forest, emerging near Nkuringo on the southern edge of the impenetrable forest. The Buhoma community walk and cultural performances which takes up to three hours visiting a typical homestead, the traditional healer and a banana beer brewery is organized by the local community. Of recent, the Batwa cultural experience has been developed in this section of the park. Gorilla families habituated for tracking in this sector include; Rushegura, Mubare and Habinyanja.
The Nkuringo sector which lies closely to the Buhoma sector is about 10km from Buhoma although this distance is covered by the Impenetrable Forest and a walk through the forest takes about 4 hours. Connecting by the car from the two points takes about 7 to 8 hours. Villages at Nkuringo also operate a community walk that visits a traditional healer, rural homestead, blacksmith and brewers. Nkuringo and Bushaho are the families in this sector. The Gorilla Habituation Experience is now being offered with the Bushaho family.
The Ruhija sector which is famous for its abundant birdlife on top of the gorillas is considered the most remote sector of all the four. There is a three hour hike to visit the Mubwindi swamp and this rewards birder lovers with countless bird species. Gorilla families in this sector include; Ruhija, Bitukura and Kyaguriro.
The Rushaga sector boasts the highest number of gorilla family to include; Mishaya, Nshongi, Kahungye, Busingye and Bishaho . It lies between Kabale and Nkuringo coming from either Ruhija or Kampala.
Getting there
Bwindi can be accessed either by air from Entebbe Airport or Kajjansi Airstrip or by road from Kampala.
From Entebbe, there are scheduled flights to Kihihi which is close to the northern sector of Bwindi and also flights to Kisoro which is close to the Southern sector of Bwindi. Flights to Kisoro only leave in the morning while Kihihi has both morning and afternoon departures from Entebbe. You can also do charter flights from Kajjansi Airstrip to either Kisoro or Kihihi.
By road, there are alternatives that include;
Kampala-Kabale-Kanungu-Buhoma which follows a tarmac highway until Kabale for about 414km spending about 6-8 hrs and then connect on a murram road through Kanungu and Kanyantorogo for about 120km to Buhoma. For the latter route, it is highly recommended to have a 4WD vehicle and this journey can take about 4-5 hrs.
Kampala-Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma which follows the same route as the above first option except the Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma section is about 95km on a murram road and can take about 3-4 hrs also highly recommended to have a 4WD vehicle.
Kampala-Kabale-Nkuringo also follows the same as the above routes to Kabale and an additional 105km about 4-5 hrs drive on a mountainous murram road to Nkuringo from Kabale. Some people prefer spending a night in Kisoro which is about 80km from Kabale and in the morning proceed to Nkuringo for gorilla tracking.
Kampala-Ntungamo-Rukungiri-Kihihi-Buhoma is regarded as the quickest and most direct of all the routes from Kampala and follows a tarmac rout to Rukungiri about 390km followed by murram roads to Buhoma for about 82km.
There is also a route that goes through Queen Elizabeth National Park via Kihihi and to Buhoma passing through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park famed for the tree climbing lions. Sometimes this route is not favoured because of the bridge which keeps on breaking down.
What to do
The major activity in Bwindi is; Gorilla tracking limited to a maximum of 8 people per particular gorilla group per day – Permits must be booked before since they are on a very high demand all year round.You can do this by getting in touch with Uganda wildlife Authority or contacting your local Uganda safari Operator for advise.
Guided forest walks, birding and other primates viewing. There is also the interesting activity of the people (Batwa Pygmies) whereby recently the Batwa Cultural Experience was introduced.
When to visit
The rainy season is from March till May and October till November. Light rain season falls in November and December. Dry seasons are from December to February and June to August. The best time, the best months of the year would be December to late February and from June to September.
When to go & What to Expect
Uganda is suitable for travel any time of the year. Uganda is sunny most of the year with temperatures rarely rising above 29 degrees (84 degrees Fahrenheit). The average annual temperature is about 26 degrees Celsius (78° Fahrenheit).
For a gorilla Safari you need to be fairly fit, equipped for the humid, muddy conditions of a rainforest hike, and healthy. You will not be permitted to go gorilla trekking if you have a cold or similar illness because gorillas are susceptible to many human diseases. The region's mid-December to February and June to September dry seasons are the best time to go gorilla trekking but you can still expect a tough day on foot: it's sometimes humid, wet and muddy with steep slopes and tangled vegetation. Nevertheless, the chances of finding a gorilla family are often around 95%. Once a habituated gorilla family has been located by your guides, you can settle down for an hour to observe them as they feed and groom while their babies tumble about the undergrowth - all under the watchful gaze of the great silverback male. Sitting only a few meters from a gorilla and looking into its soft brown eyes is a spine-tingling experience not easily forgotten.