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Allow me to first apologize for posting here. I understand that these forums are geared more toward BackTrack - up to BackTrack 4 Pre Final. This is a BackTrack 4 Final question. I wanted to post here and not on the new forums.
I've been trying to work out how to get this image: on the EeePC 701.
I've used the BackTrack Support Search Engine, the search function within these forums, google, and have been tinkering around with fix-splash and resolutions within /boot/grub/menu/lst.
The closest I could come to a solution was this thread.
The best result I can get is a clean install of BackTrack 4 Final without changing anything. There is no splash, but I do not receive errors concerning unspecified video modes.
This is not a bug. It is just something that's been occasionally driving me nuts.
"Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced."


text: The De-ice discs are based of backtrack 2 final and not bt3. All you need to do though is get the 5 dictionary files of the bt2 cd and create a new dictionary directory on your bt3 install. Or if you are using the live cd or usb just make a dictionary usb key.

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GAME 11 - PENN (2-8) at WAGNER (5-5)
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 * 4 p.m.
Spiro Sports Center (Staten Island, N.Y.)
Radio: WFIL 560 AM (Brian Seltzer, Vince Curran)
Click here for Live Stats!
Penn Game Notes (PDF) / Wagner Game Notes (PDF)
The Penn-Wagner Series
*The Quakers and the Seahawks are meeting for just the second time this season. The first meeting came last year at The Palestra in Philadelphia, where Wagner gained a 71-65 victory.
*Penn is 15-2 all-time against programs that currently compete in the Northeast Conference. (2-0 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 4-1 vs. Monmouth, 2-0 vs. Quinnipiac, 1-0 vs. Robert Morris, 1-0 vs. St. Francis (N.Y.), 5-0 vs. Saint Francis (Pa.), 0-1 vs. Wagner)
A Short December
After an intense November to start the 2012-13 season that included a stretch of six games in an 11-day span, things have slowed down considerably for the Quakers in the month of December. In fact, tonight's game is Penn's first in eight days; its second in 21 days; and just its third since December 1. It is also the Quakers' last game before the calendar turns to 2013; they travel to Butler to face the Bulldogs on January 2.
Countdown to 1,700
Penn has won 1,699 games as a program; with one more, the Quakers will become the 11th NCAA Division I program to reach 1,700 wins. (Indiana only recently became the 10th, scoring its 1,700th win on December 19 against Mount St. Mary's.)
Quaker Notemeal From Delaware
*Penn fell to Delaware for the second time this season, and now leads the series with the Blue Hens 18-6.
*Penn played the game without juniors Miles Cartwright and Steve Rennard, sophomore Henry Brooks, and freshmen Tony Hicks and Darien Nelson-Henry due to a violation of team rules; as a result, only seven of the 12 players who were dressed saw action. (All five players will be a coach's decision on Saturday.)
*Penn went 8-of-10 at the foul line, its .800 percentage being a season high.
*Delaware took 81 shots in the game and had 51 rebounds, both opponent highs in the Jerome Allen coaching era.
*Sophomore Greg Louis had his first collegiate double-double with career highs in points (19) and rebounds (11); he led the team in points and rebounds for the first time in a game this season.
*Junior Fran Dougherty scored 18 points, his best output since scoring 20 against Fordham on Nov. 19; he also had nine rebound to finish one board shy of his fifth double-double this season.
*Sophomore Patrick Lucas-Perry had nine points on a career-high three three-pointers, his best output since he scored 15 in the season opener against UMBC.
*Sophomore Camryn Crocker set a career high with five assists.
*Junior Dau Jok, who made his first collegiate start on Friday night, tied a career best with six rebounds and played a career-high 35 minutes (previous high 18).
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Avast ye Blaggard!
By Capt. Patrick Sciacca — April 2003
If you don't get enough high-seas adventure on your boat this summer, there's plenty to be found in the cinema, complete with good pirates and bad pirates.
Disney has made a movie based on its theme-park ride Pirates of the Caribbean. The film, which shares the same name, stars Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, From Hell) as Jack Sparrow (a.k.a. the good pirate) and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine) as Capt. Blackheart (I think his name says it all). Set in 17th-century England, Blackheart and his crew are carrying a curse that leaves them existing somewhere between the living and the dead, and moonlight reveals the damned pirates' true identity. It's up to Sparrow to break the curse.
Although Pirates of the Caribbean is not in theaters until the summer, a sneak-peek trailer is available on the Disney Web site.
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Flotsam and Jetsam
What Major Nidal Hasan said as he headed out to kill American soldiers: "I'm going to do good work for God." Would liberals really be in such a quandary about what happened if Hasan were an evangelical Christian?
Yuval Levin explains how Obama did the heavy lifting for Republicans, "creating the conditions for a Republican resurgence": "President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid have launched the country on a course of massive spending, a dramatic expansion of government, and a slew of new taxes in the midst of a recession. Finding themselves in control of Congress and the White House and so possessed of an unusual opportunity to pursue their ideological agenda, they have sought to make the most of it. But they have misjudged just how far to the left of the country as a whole the Democratic base now resides—and so, rather than strengthen their own brand, they have inadvertently done wonders to build and unify the Republican Party."
What happens when Democrats have to face voters and explain their vote on PelosiCare (with "jobs-killing mandates on businesses, higher taxes, burgeoning entitlement programs, government intrusion into personal medical decisions, higher health costs, and federal dictates about the kind of health insurance Americans must have to avoid federal penalties")? Grace-Marie Turner seems to think the voters are going to want answers, not simply "flowery rhetoric."
Governor-elect Bob McDonnell's take on winning big in Virginia and advice to fellow Republicans: "A lot of independent voters, though, and Republicans as well, clearly told me they were very concerned about the direction of the country. … Stick to your conservative principles, but focus on the quality of life issues."
Brit Hume says 18 House Democrats from John McCain–carried districts who voted for PelosiCare are now "vulnerable in the upcoming election." And if the House bill doesn't pass the Senate, those Democrats' votes, like that on cap-and-trade, will have been wasted. Bill Kristol adds that "the Senate will not pass this bill" and that Pelosi will have done a lot of damage to her own members by forcing a vote on these ultra-Left measures.
Who voted no? "The nearly 40 Democrats who voted against the House's health-care legislation Saturday comprised a mix of party moderates, Southerners and freshman facing tough re-election fights. They also included two Democrats who surprised party leaders by voting against the measure. An analysis of the vote shows that 22 of the 39 Democrats who crossed the aisle to join Republicans in opposing the bill were members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, including three of the group's four leaders." In other words, Democrats whose seats aren't safe.
Rep. Mike Pence's take on the skin-of-the-teeth vote for PelosiCare: "If the Democrats keep ignoring the American people, their party is going to be history in less than a year." We will see how many Red State senators agree.
Sen. Olympia Snowe on the prospects of a final bill: "Now we are facing the prospect of a unified bill that didn't come out of either committee [and] that, frankly, has been designed in the cloak of secrecy and darkness." Really, what could go wrong?
Flotsam and Jetsam
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A Familiar Paranoia
Donald Trump sees disloyalty even in his closest supporters.
In a performance that would have shocked sensibilities if they weren't already flogged to the point of numbness, President Trump delivered a nostalgic, campaign-style stem-winder on Monday to a troop of boy scouts. The commander-in-chief meandered between crippling self-pity and gauche triumphalism; he moaned about his treatment by the "fake media," praised himself for the scale of his Electoral College victory, and pondered aloud whether to dub the nation's capital a "cesspool" or a "sewer." Most illuminating in this manic display was an exposition on the virtues of fealty. "We could use some more loyalty; I will tell you that," the president mused. These days, Trump seems fixated on treachery—among Republicans in Congress, among his Cabinet officials, and among his subordinates in the administration. His obsession may yet prove his undoing.
Donald Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. That has become obvious, and not just because Trump's new communications director (whose portfolio seems to consist of inflating the president's ego in friendly media venues and purging the administration of experienced political professionals) admitted as much. Trump told the New York Times that Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign was "very unfair" to him personally. The president has criticized his "beleaguered" attorney general for taking a "weak" position on prosecuting Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, and investigating the Ukrainian government's efforts to support the Clinton campaign.
This is all post hoc. Trump expressed no interest in re-litigating the charges against Hillary Clinton (which his former FBI director dismissed as beyond the scope of prosecution) in November of last year. The tenor of Trump's agitation with his attorney general is proportional to the tempo of new revelations regarding the special counsel investigation into the president's campaign, many of which were first revealed to the public cryptically in Trump's own public pronouncements. As a self-described campaign operative, Sessions was obliged to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign's activities, and he did so in February. The move reportedly irritated Trump at the time, but his outrage has boiled over only as the probe has begun to ensnare his family.
There is no small amount of absurdity in the fact that Jeff Sessions is perhaps the most loyal of Trump's associates in Washington. His every action has been designed to shield Trump from the consequences of his own recklessness. When Donald Trump was still regarded by the majority of GOP officeholders as a liability and a usurper, Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to endorse the rogue candidate. He was a stalwart campaign-trail surrogate and turned in a workmanlike performance at the Justice Department. When Trump fired his FBI director, Sessions refused to testify before Congress as to the nature of pertinent conversations between the president and his Cabinet. When privilege did not protect those conversations, Sessions insisted that he had simply forgotten many of the particulars.
Perhaps more than most, Sessions helped to make Donald Trump the president. As attorney general, the former senator has been effective in overseeing an increasingly restless Justice Department populated by people who chafe amid Trump's regular attacks on them and their superiors. Even now, by declining to be goaded into resignation, Sessions is protecting the president. Trump seems to imagine that Session's removal would clear the way for a new attorney general, who would be free to dismiss Robert Mueller and dissolve the special counsel's office at will. But that wouldn't happen. Trump would merely ignite a political firestorm and be faced with the task of finding another person to serve as a punching bag atop his least favorite agency.
This is all to say nothing of the fact that such a masochistic individual would have to be confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. In that process, lawmakers would surely seek assurances that the new attorney general would not touch the special counsel's office. The Republican-led Congress is already conducting four of their own investigations into Trump's campaign. The president's extraordinary relationship with Russia has forced the GOP-led legislature to prepare a sanctions bill that robs the presidency of its freedom to administer those injunctions.
This all might seem like hostility, but it's precisely the opposite; it's guidance of a kind that a political novice with self-destructive impulses sorely needs. But this sort of protection, too, has led the president to wallow in melancholy and a sense of betrayal. "It's very sad that Republicans do very little to protect their president," he wrote of the incoming sanctions bill.
The kind of paranoia on display in Trump's attacks on his most loyal partners in government is not unfamiliar. It is the kind that mistakes a desire for self-preservation—an instinct found in every successful political actor—as weakness and perfidy. Trump is fortunate enough to have surrounded himself with people devoted enough to him to know when his requests are inappropriate or when the president is better served by preserving the appearance of their independence. The fact that Trump finds even that kind of pantomimed insubordination intolerable is disturbing. This is a man who would sacrifice competence for sycophancy. In a less robust system of constitutional laws, they are the impulses of a leader who would corrupt the very government he manages. They still might.
In his attacks on Sessions—an early Trump supporter, a dedicated public servant, and a man with more goodwill among Republicans on Capitol Hill than the president may ever possess—Trump might have gone too far. Even Trump surrogates who are loath to criticize the president when he most deserves it are no longer being shy. Perhaps they know the bell will toll for them one day, or maybe they sense the danger of the moment. If past behavior is a guide, these defections won't compel Trump to rethink his conduct. In fact, they might only reinforce in Trump the notion that he is surrounded by traitors.
Salaita, Out
Sympathy deferred.
I have written before about Steven Salaita. Once a tenured professor of English at Virginia Tech, he resigned from that position on the strength of an offer from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign to serve in the American Indian Studies program. But in the summer of 2014, UIUC rescinded the offer, mainly over of a series of reprehensible Salaita tweets.
Let the tone of one exemplify many others: Concerning three kidnapped Israeli teens—there was already reason to believe they had been killed—Salaita opined, "You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing." As I noted at the time, reasonable people could disagree about whether the offer should have been rescinded.
Ultimately, UIC paid $875,000 to make the case go away. But it was troubling that some on the left chose not only to defend Salaita's academic freedom—as one might defend the freedom of the Westboro Baptist Church to say vile things—but also that they made him into a kind of hero. To this day, he remains an elected member of the National Council of the American Studies Association and is still from time to time invited to give lectures at prestigious places about how he is not allowed to speak.
He has been occupying a chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut. But that was not a tenured or tenure track position and, apparently, no one else will offer him a job. So he has decided to leave academia.
We will now be endlessly subjected to the claim that Salaita cannot find a job merely because, as he puts it, he has "disdain for settler colonialism." The problem is, he says, that academia is a "bourgeois industry that reward self-importance and conformity."
That is nonsense.
First, Steven Salaita's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, roughly that Zionism is the problem and that turning Israel into a pariah state is a prudent and moral way of dealing with it, may be foolish and morally obtuse. But it is hardly out of bounds in academia and well over a thousand academics have expressed public support for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Many of them occupy tenured positions at prestigious colleges and universities and, at least as far as I can tell, pay no professional cost for holding the very same set of views Salaita wants us to think is too hot for academia to handle.
Second, in the field Salaita inhabits, a pro-BDS position is not a nonconformist position. It is famously the official line of the American Studies Association. The Association for Asian American Studies, which preceded the ASA in passing a boycott resolution, passed the resolution unanimously with nary an extension. Over four years ago, I observed that not one scholar in that field had publicly dissented. As far as I know, that remains the case today. Salaita himself, in spite of a thin scholarly record, was offered a job at UIUC, the flagship of the Illinois system, presumably on the strength of his activism. There is no doubt in my mind that were it not for his disgusting tweets, he would be happily tenured at U of I spouting the same line he was spouting before he got into trouble.
Of course, people who take radical positions, even if those positions are popular in their subfields, may find themselves under closer scrutiny than people who don't, even at colleges and universities that are supposed to value unconventional thinking. That's unfortunate, and should be decried. Indeed, the U of I's defense of its decision to rescind Salaita's offer in terms of civility was unconvincing and rightly earned the disdain of academic freedom organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the American Association of University Professors. People do sometimes lose their jobs over this kind of thing. But Salaita's views are not what undid him. He was undone by his own callousness and recklessness, neither of which has he found any reason to regret.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Syria's Forsaken Rebels
Has Washington given up on Syria?
Last week, I wrote about one of the troublesome byproducts of the Trump-Putin summit in Hamburg: a ceasefire in southwestern Syria that Israel worries will entrench Iranian control of that area bordering the Israeli Golan Heights. The day after my article came out, the Washington Post reported on another troubling decision that President Trump has made vis a vis Syria: Ending a CIA program that had provided arms and training to anti-Assad forces.
Gen. Tony Thomas, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, insisted that this decision was not a sop to Russia. But whether intended that way or not, that is the effect of this decision. The Post quoted a current U.S. official as saying: "This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria." That seems indisputable. By stopping support for the anti-Assad forces, the U.S. is conceding that Bashar Assad—Russia and Iran's client—will stay in power indefinitely.
The U.S. continues, of course, to support the Syrian Democratic Forces, the misleading name of the largely Kurdish YPG rebels that are besieging the Islamic State city of Raqqa. But the YPG has no interest in overthrowing Assad and no interest in governing Arab areas. Their objective is to set up a Kurdish state, Rojava, in northern Syria, and they have friendly relations both with Damascus and Tehran. There is no way that the Kurds can rule the majority of Syrian territory, which is populated by Arabs.
That will leave multiple factions to battle it out for control of most of Syria: the Iran-Assad-Russia axis (spearheaded by Hezbollah and other Iranian-created militias, and backed by Russian air power), the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, which is rumored to get support from Gulf states), and the Islamic State, which may be down at the moment but hardly out. These factions have their differences, but they are united on certain core essentials. All are rabidly anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli, and all are violent jihadists, whether of the Shiite or Sunni persuasion.
It is not in America's interest for any of these groups to control a substantial amount of Syrian territory. Yet President Trump has now made the puzzling decision to stop support for the only faction that could keep substantial swathes of Syria out of jihadist hands.
Granted, the moderates loosely affiliated with the Free Syrian Army have been losing ground for years. That is largely the fault of President Barack Obama, who unwisely refused to heed the advice of the officials in his administration who advocated a vigorous train-and-assist program for non-jihadist rebels. Such a program would have had a much greater chance of working in earlier years. America's failure to help the moderates has led many fighters to defect to more radical groups, and many of our allies have been killed or expelled.
But it would not be impossible to reverse these trends, and trying would be worthwhile. There are, after all, scores of military-age Syrian men who have fled the country as refugees. If the U.S. had the will to act, they could be trained, armed, and organized into an effective military force on Jordanian or Turkish soil and then sent with U.S. advisers and U.S. air support to secure Syrian territory. We currently provide that kind of aid to the Kurds, but we have cut off the Arab fighters, who are willing to risk their lives to fight against one of the biggest war criminals in the world—Bashar Assad, who is responsible for upwards of 400,000 deaths.
This decision makes little sense on strategic or moral grounds. Instead of abandoning the moderates, we should be doing more to buttress them. Even if it's too late to overthrow Assad, who is more secure than ever since Russia entered the conflict in 2015, it might at least be possible to limit him to a few major cities and the Alawite heartland and prevent jihadists from taking control of most of the Syrian countryside. If we stop trying, we are conceding much of Syria to the Iran-Russia camp indefinitely. That is not in our interest, nor in that of our regional allies. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, will be very happy.
The Democratic Party's False Centrism
It's a duck.
Democrats are finally digging out of the wreckage the Obama years wrought, and are beginning to acknowledge the woes they visited upon themselves with their box-checking identity liberalism. So, yes, the opposition is moving forward in the Trump area, but toward what? Schizophrenia, apparently.
The party's rebranding effort began in earnest last week when Democrats revealed a new slogan meant to evoke an old one: "A Better Deal." Writing for the New York Times opinion page on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insisted the Democratic Party's new agenda "is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum." Any sentient political observer could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
"First, we're going to increase people's pay," Schumer wrote. "Second, we're going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we're going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy." He endorsed Bernie Sanders' $1 trillion infrastructure spending proposal, a national paid family and sick leave program, and a hike of the minimum wage to $15 per hour. To reduce the cost of consumer goods, Democrats will pursue changes in the law to allow Congress to break up big firms with oppressive capriciousness.
When pressed on Sunday about what the "Better Deal" agenda may mean for health care, Schumer confessed it meant the most radical expansion of entitlement benefits in American history. "Medicare for people above 55 is on the table. A buy-in to Medicare is on the table. Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table," the senator said. All options are available—including, apparently, a single-payer system in the form of voluntary Medicare-for-all—once Democrats "stabilize" ObamaCare's insurance market.
Schumer admitted that the source of Democratic troubles in 2016 and since isn't Moscow or former FBI Director James Comey; it's that the electorate doesn't know what values or beliefs his party represents. Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy agreed. "Our failing historically has been to focus on very targeted demographic messages, cultural issues, rather than broad-based economic themes," he insisted. So the Democratic Party's message in 2018 will apparently be not just big government but behemoth government. And yet, the faintest warble of Schumer's conscience compelled him to assure voters that big government isn't the Democratic objective. Why?
Because the way for Democrats to win involves party members farther to the Right—that faction of Democrats known as the Blue Dogs. "The [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] recognizes that the path to the majority is through the Blue Dogs," asserted Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. She told Politico that she is in talks with at least 20 potential candidates vying to revive this endangered species. "We are able to convince folks who normally wouldn't vote for a Democrat to vote for this Democrat."
Before voters purged moderate House Democrats by voting for Republicans instead in 2010, their eventual disappearance was heralded as a great victory for the Progressive Monolith. "Democrats aren't ideological enough," wrote Ari Berman in an October 2010 New York Times op-ed. He argued that ideological homogeneity would make Democrats "more united and more productive." In fact, the 2010 midterm elections marked the end of the legislative phase of Barack Obama's presidency. Good call there.
The House's Blue Dog Coalition is "dedicated to pursuing fiscally-responsible policies, ensuring a strong national defense, and transcending party lines," according to its mission statement. How those objectives comport with Schumer's platform—cutting a 13-figure check for infrastructure, rampant economic interventionism, and a semi-single-payer system—is anyone's guess. Democrats may plan on localizing individual races so as to shield their candidates from the party's negatives, but that's easier said than done. Just ask Jon Ossoff, who lost in a Georgia special election despite having done precisely this.
The party's leaders seem aware that the kind of hyper-liberalism articulated in the "Better Deal" agenda is incompatible with the kind of "economic populism" that proposes individual frugality and prudence as well as solvent safety nets for those who need assistance. For all his faults, Trump was able to marry these two concepts in a way that appealed both to Republicans and enough swing Democrats to win the White House. Democrats appear to be appealing to centrists only at the point of a progressive bayonet. If Democratic candidates start winning again, it won't be a result of their party's coherent platform.
Challenging Violent Speech—Unless It's About Israel
The border of incitement.
The idea that speech can itself constitute an act of violence grows ever more popular among the left's leading polemicists. They argue that employing a politically incorrect word can be triggering; that the wrong gender pronoun can provoke; that words and sentences and parts of speech are all acts of aggression in disguise. The left seeks to stop this violence, or less euphemistically: to silence this speech.
Given their particular sensitivity to the triumphant mightiness of the pen, it's profoundly disturbing to note where lines are drawn and exceptions made.
Linda Sarsour, the left's darling of the day, posted a widely-shared picture of Palestinians praying in the streets of Jerusalem, an act protesting the placement of metal detectors outside the Al Aqsa Mosque. "This is resilience. This is perseverance. This is faith. This is commitment. This is inspiration. This is Palestine," Sarsour wrote. "Denied access to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque in their own homeland, Palestinians pray on the streets in an act of non-violent resistance. They are met with tear gas and rubber bullets."
Absent from her platitudinous prevarication was any mention of the inarguably violent act that led Israel to construct the metal detectors in the first place, the recent killing of two Israeli police officers at the Temple Mount. Also absent: any reference to the three Israelis who were brutally murdered in the settlement of Halamish on Friday night. It was a far cry from nonviolent resistance when 19-year-old Omar al-Abed entered a home, saw a family finishing a Shabbat dinner, and began indiscriminately stabbing his victims.
Sarsour's rhetoric is dangerous precisely because she understands her audience and how to appeal to their emotions. She peppers her statements with a few felicitous bromides like "non-violent resistance" and hopes no one notices the inconsistency of her arguments. Others on the left are slightly more honest about their intentions.
Writing in Al Jazeera, Stanley Cohen called on Israel to "accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist—in every way possible." He begins by telling his readers: "long ago, it was settled that resistance and even armed struggle against a colonial occupation force is not just recognized under international law but specifically endorsed." His entire article is predicated on a false premise in that it demands the characterization of Israel as a "colonial occupation force"— a characterization that is categorically incoherent.
Cohen cites a 1982 UN Resolution which "reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle." He does not mention which countries voted for and against this resolution.
Among the countries that voted for it: Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Qatar, Niger, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq.
Among the countries who voted against it: Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.
On college campuses, the call for armed struggle has become the Cri de Coeur of leftist students who are otherwise hypersensitive to the impact that intangible words can have on corporeal beings. On Columbia's campus, students who form the backbone of the BDS movement have successfully blurred the line between incitement and impassioned—albeit severely misguided—opinion. In 2016, the Columbia/ Barnard Socialists concluded one social media post by declaring: "long live the intifada." As recently as Sunday—after the Halamish attack— the Students for Justice in Palestine shared the Al Jazeera article calling for armed resistance. Where are the outraged professors, administrators, and students concerned for the safety of the student body? Where are the charges of bigotry and racism, the calls to silence this speech, to stop this violence?
Nowhere does the idea that speech can constitute violence find more support than on elite liberal arts colleges. But regardless of whether they have intellectual or moral merit on their own, calls for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and micro-aggression-free environments that come from groups or individuals who not only condone, but use their words to quite literally call for violence, must be ignored, and the hypocrisy highlighted.
From the safe confines of an ivy-covered campus–or from the relative safety of this country, for that matter–it's easy to preach justice and retribution, to portray armed struggle as the necessary means that will find justification through a righteous end. But especially those who are sensitive to the power of language should understand: euphemistic terminology does nothing to mitigate the violent nature inherent in this rhetoric. There must be no confusion. The left's glorification of armed struggle is nothing short of approval for those Palestinians who target and kill innocent men, women, and children. Those who proclaim to speak for social justice have been damningly silent.


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Thanks for reading.
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I will be, yes.
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Miles Brandon had been looking for a classic bus to display at his Volkswagen dealership in San Juan Capistrano when he learned of the film.
Three men chronicled the six-year journey of a 1972 Volkswagen Transporter from Iowa to California in a documentary film, "Circle the Wagen," highlighting a tight-knit yet widespread community of dedicated VW enthusiasts that helped them along the way.
Brandon, owner of Capistrano Volkswagen for 16 years, saw not only an intriguing project but an intriguing business partnership possibility.
Three weeks later, he's considered a foster parent for the bus, and his dealership is set to host screenings of what's already become an award-winning look at Volkswagen culture in America.
"I remember very well how it is to be struggling with limited resources," Brandon said. "This is a really cool project to be a part of."
Brandon paid for the bus – nicknamed the Croc – to be towed from a garage near Los Angeles to New Mexico for the inaugural Albuquerque Film & Media Experience on June 9, where "Circle the Wagen" was shown.
Now the Croc greets visitors to his showroom on Camino Capistrano. Brandon has spent about $500,000 renovating the inside of the building as part of a corporate program that allows Volkswagen dealers to break way from strict brand standards and make their dealerships a destination place in their communities.
He added artwork and brightened the showroom with new paint. He also installed a big- screen TV in the showroom that will host four screenings of "Circle the Wagen" on July 13 and 14.
The Croc will be in the showroom for at least a few weeks after the screenings. Dealership workers detailed the bus before it was unveiled Tuesday.
Brandon removed a tarp to reveal the bus and its three occupants: owner Dave Torstenson and his friends Charlie Pecoraro and Ryan Green. Green directed "Circle the Wagen," which followed Torstenson and Pecoraro as they tried to get the Croc home to California from Iowa.
Torstenson, who had no experience with Volkswagens, bought the van in 2006 for $727 from an eBay seller in Des Moines.
But he only made it to Tulsa, Okla., before the bus' mechanical problems prompted him to leave it behind. He returned to Los Angeles and worked with Pecoraro to find a way to bring the bus back home. They learned of a network of Volkswagen enthusiasts who help stranded VW drivers. They decided to give them a try and film their efforts to bring the bus home.
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The film won the Dennis Hopper "Gorilla" award at the Albuquerque festival, and they're preparing for a premiere in Los Angeles on July 19. The Croc's new temporary home in Brandon's showroom serves as a symbol of how far it's come.
"It's a surreal moment to see it in a Volkswagen dealership," Torstenson said.


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I'd like more info on this as well.
Does anyone know about client isolation?? how can I bypass that??
I'd like more info on this as well.
This has been addressed a few times already, so search the forum first please. Flexing that Google'Fu wouldn't hurt either as the first page that came up after running "bypassing client isolation" gave the exact information you're looking for.
I will give you this though; hopefully it will give you at the very least an understanding of what CI actually is:
Code:SSID Client Isolation prohibits wireless clients in the same subnet from communicating directly with each other and thereby bypassing the firewall
"The goal of every man should be to continue living even after he can no longer draw breath."
Hummm... it's very interesting. At Defcon Wireless network the same happens, you are unable to see any other laptop. Is it Client Isolation?
I looked at google and couldn't find a way to bypass it. Appear all the rules to not broadcast packets to all users is made via MAC, like in a Switch. I'm, right?
So maybe a kind of CAM table overflow can be possible? Or other MAC poisoning?
well, I know what CI means, and with juniper is just a check box to check!! buy how can I bypass that? how can I communicate with other client? I dont want the whole subnet, only one or two...
arp poisoning?
Alright, as there seems to be quite a bit of confusion regarding this, I give you what I know:
Client Isolation is simply that. Each client is put on its own vlan and denied communication to the others. What does that mean? Well...two things really.
A) You aren't going to be able to communicate with the other clients through conventional means, and the only way I've been able to bypass this function is by hacking the MACs of all clients to be communicated with onto the gateway's pass-through list.
B) Sniffing is still a very real possibility. Just because the clients are isolated, doesn't mean that you can't actively sniff the network and capture all data being passed.
Hope that clears some things up. There are a couple of other pieces of the puzzle of course but you are all intelligent people, I know you can figure it out....
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Gav Boardman head coach of Predators MMA Manchester is awarded his black belt in BJJ off Rodrigo Antunes on 25/01/13. He is Rodrigo's first bjj black belt so this has to be a massive honour.
There were a few other belt promotions, Avi Jack and Andy Miles were awarded there purple belts. Ste Henshaw gets his blue belt as well as Chris Senior and not to forget the little pocket monster Liz Crowley also is awarded her blue belt well done to everybody i mentioned above.
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Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:30 pm
Toenail Fungus
Can toenail fungus be cured by essential oils? If so, which ones and how often must it be applied?
Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:35 pm
Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:11 am
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Re: Toenail Fungus
Hi, Bugle! I've read that tea tree or lavender can do it. I'm going after the fungus on my hubbie's toenails with lavender right now. He's been doing an aloe detox thing, which is also supporting his immune system. We noticed that the toenails were starting to heal, so we're adding the lavender EO, as tea tree makes his footies itch. I'm a henna fanatic, and we *were* getting slow healing of his nails from hennaing his feet about a year ago. Trouble was, he got tired of having hennaed feet all the time!
I've noticed other oils listed on Ananda for toenail fungus, but can't remember which ones. If you search it there, they might pop up. You know, it seems to me that frankincense is one...but I don't know. So many EOs cross over each other on what they do, eh? I'd think anything antifungal would help. Calendula, maybe.
Anyway, we're doing it once a day, at bedtime. If it were my own nails, I'd be doing a couple times a day. We're applying the EO neat, to the nails, and also on his toes and the bottom of his feet, to get at the whole athlete's foot thing, which is all the same fungus.
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Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:39 am
Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:48 am
Re: Toenail Fungus
Hi there -
In addition to tea tree and lavendar, I've read the lemon eucalyptus and geranium are effective. as well. Lavendar can be applied neat, but dilute everything else.
Good luck!
Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:01 pm
Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:39 am
Re: Toenail Fungus
I had a bad case of athletes foot and I tried tea tree oil, which didn't work for me. I also tried oregano oil, which seemed to intensify the condition but it did clear up the fungus I had on a toe nail. However, the only thing that cleared up the athlete's foot was plain old vinegar. So, if the tea tree doesn't work, you may want to try oregano oil, and definitely give very inexpensive vinegar a try.
Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:27 pm
Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:15 am
Re: Toenail Fungus
I'll chime in on trying ACV (I use the Bragg brand). I broke my small toe once and the toe nail (which is very small) turned black. It was that way for many years. I started using ACV that I added a little tea tree and Lavender oils and put the mixture in a spray bottle. After just a week or two the black toe nail was normal color. I now use this mixture to spray my feet after every shower. Works on itching skin also.
Hope this helps,
Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:20 pm
Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:48 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
Lemongrass (
Cymbopogon citratus
) is a powerful anti-fungal oil. I blend it with geranium and palmarosa, and add it to aloe gel or coconut oil (both very cooling, drying carriers; fungal conditions don't need any more moisture!) at a 3% dilution. Apply 2-3 times per day.
Apple Cider Vinegar soaks are great... a 50-50 blend of ACV and water, with a tablespoon of Epsom salts is very effective. Soak for 20-30 minutes, dry thoroughly, then apply the essential oil blend.
Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:43 pm
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Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:51 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
These are all excellent instructions. It seems toenail fungus is a challenging condition, for which one oil and process will work well for one person and not for another.
I would also just like to recommend the use of
Benchmark Thyme essential oil
-- applying one drop one to three times daily on the toenail (and at it's front edge).
"Benchmark" Thyme
is a pure essential oil blend of 4 strains of Thyme herb,
scientifically created to be highly antimicrobial,
without the burning potential of oregano or cinnamon. It has a chemical profile and action like a combination of different Thyme oils (all known for their antimicrobial properties) and Tea Tree. Together, they synergyize very well.
The oil blend (again, it's pure essential oils, without carrier or any other additives) was developed specifically as a treatment for MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus),
yet has much more broad anti-microbial uses, such as
toenail fungus
Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:08 am
Re: Toenail Fungus
Advanced Aromatherapy recommends a blend of thyme thymol, oregano and cinnamon. They should be diluted and applied 2x / day for up to two weeks as the oils can be very sensitizing--try not to get much on your skin. I've had good but not great success with it--but then again, I've had this really stubborn fungus for decades.
Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:52 pm
Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:10 am
Re: Toenail Fungus
O.K. the guest is correct but that particular recipe should only be used by a Trained Aromatherapist who is also a Licensed Nail Technician.
Dr. Schnaubelt in his "Advanced Aromatherapy" also recommends the below recipe which I use first before going for the other as it is easier to tolerate and does not have such a burning effect on the skin around the toenail (still put this on the nail itself)
1 Millileter (ml) Palmarosa
1ml Euclayptus Globulus
1ml thyme, thujanol type
mixed with 100 milliliters Fatty based oil.
Two to four applications per day for a period of 10 to 14 days.
Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:32 am
Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:19 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
Hallo...just joined your forum in hopes of curing a thumbnail fungus and possibly toenail also. I have read a bit about the oregano oil but noticed there is "leaf" oil and am wondering if there are two kinds of this particular oil and if so which one should I purchase? I will use this to mix with the tea tree oil and need advice please as how much to mix with what and the best way to apply etc. I don't wish to spread this from my thumbnail to my other nails either so haven't researched again if it's possible to do so...I'm a strange type person so when filing my nails I do the thumb last...I have seen severe cases of nail fungus with my step-mom-in-law and have no desire to see that happen...my thumbnail looks different than my toenails but plan to treat both. The CRNP I have been seeing said that "that's just the way they are growing" and I don't buy that for a second...thanks in advance for any and all advice...
Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:50 pm
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Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:51 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
OK all, here's the scoop. You CAN use just oregano, though it's more like the shotgun approach. Oh, and I think the 'leaf' only has to do with some herbal cold remedies, not essential oils. Oregano essential oil is 'leaf'.
That said, the thing about oregano is that it's really a one-chemical oil -- carvacrol is really a caustic substance, that does it's intense work when needed, but is used only in extreme cases. REALLY, the only time you'll see oregano used is ingestion in capsules to manage stomach illnesses and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
SO, given that, we do HIGHLY recommend the use of Benchmark Thyme essential oil for toenail fungus. It has components of Oregano, Tea Tree and Thyme all in one oil; it's also been scientifically developed from 4 strains of Thymus sygis plants, each with a slightly different essential oil profile - to create the most potent, yet most safe, synergy available.
Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:30 pm
Thu May 01, 2014 1:17 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
What would be the best formula and protocol to help fight a severe toenail infection for an adult?
I mean, a formula which can fight the fungus and at the same time help the nail to regrow properly.
1) "Benchmark Thyme" seems great to kill the fungus; but what would be the optimal dilution?
2) "Rosalina" seems great to at the same time fight the infection (but may be too "soft") and help the skin/nail regrow; but what would be the optimal dilution?
3) And what about mixing "Benchmark Thyme" and "Rosalina"? What would be the proportion of each for dilution?
4) Should I add, and at what proportion, some Geranium (great for skin regrowth), Lavender, Lemongrass, Palmarosa, Tea Tree?
Note: as carrier oil I am planning to use Jojoba.
In advance, thanks for the help!
Thu May 01, 2014 2:13 pm
Ananda Staff
Site Admin
Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:51 pm
Re: Toenail Fungus
Really, you can do this very simply by using only Benchmark Thyme - it is a very complex and effective antimicrobial unto itself. Since you're generally only applying to the toenails, just applying a drop or two to each affected nail daily (or 2x/day) will do the job. Of course, it takes a while for toenails to grow out and see the results, but this would be the most straightforward and effective approach.
All the Best!
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Thu May 01, 2014 1:17 pm
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Rock Hill, S.C. - The Brevard College baseball team was picked ninth in the 2009 South Atlantic Conference Baseball preseason poll, the league announced Wednesday. The Tornados are coming off a 10-38 season as provisional members of the SAC and NCAA Division II. Brevard went 3-18 against SAC foes.
Todd Anderson's team is highlighted by a strong starting pitching rotation, including ace southpaw Shane Galloway. Galloway went 4-7 in ten starts last season, with a 3.50 ERA. Seniors Ryan Toney (2-6, 4.67 ERA) and Seth Laughter (0-6, 5.94 ERA) round out the weekend rotation for a club that will lean heavily on its pitching.
Brevard's top returning hitter is 1B/3B Stephen Mullis, who hit .321 last season. RF Adam Arrowood is back after leading the '08 team with 23 RBI, and CF Brice Warner will lead off in the batting order after swiping seven bases a year ago.
The Tornado line-up will rely on a group of transfers to provide some much-needed power in the middle of the order. 2B Matthew Pruitt, a transfer from Western Carolina, 1B Jackie Corn, Pruitt's teammate at WCU and 3B William Scholer, from Kirkwood Community College, are expected to bring some pop to an offense that hit just 11 HR and slugged .312 last season.
Tusculum College is the favorite to win the 2009 South Atlantic Conference baseball championship. The Pioneers received six first-place votes and 76 total points in the SAC pre-season baseball poll. The preseason All-Conference team was also announced, with the Pioneers placing three players on the first team, and one more on the second team.
The Pioneers baseball team is listed No. 22 in the country according to the 2009 Collegiate Baseball Magazine NCAA Division II Preseason Poll. Tusculum returns its top three pitchers, along with four starting field players from last season's 41-15 squad that won the 2008 Food Lion SAC Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for a second straight year and fourth time in six seasons.
Four Pioneers players were selected on the preseason All-Conference team. Pitcher Raymond Ruggles, who finished last season with a 1.62 ERA, pitcher Boo Morrow, who had a 7-0 pitching record with a 2.00 ERA in the 2008 season and outfielder Ricky Feliz were named to the first team. Pitcher C.J. Hillyer was named to the second team.
Catawba College is picked to finish second. The Indians won the 2008 regular season SAC championship and received three first place votes and 70 total points.
The Indians have the most preseason All-Conference selections with seven selections. Pitcher Blake Ketner, who finished with a 3.34 ERA last year, pitcher Tim Holmes, shortstop Chris Ahearn, third baseman Craig Lyerly, who batted .390 last season, and designated hitter Brett Hatley were selected to the first team All-Conference team. Catcher Ryan Query and pitcher Alex Fairweather were named to the second team.
Carson-Newman College is picked to finish third. The Eagles received 63 points.
Carson-Newman had the second most players selected to the preseason All-Conference with five honorees. First baseman Derek Long and outfielder Tyler Wynn, were named first team. Pitcher Wes McIntyre, who finished the 2008 season with a 6-2 record, relief pitcher Corbin Ariail and shortstop Mills Rogers were selected to the second team.
Wingate University was picked to finish fourth after receiving 49 points. The Bulldogs are heading into their second season with head coach Allen Osborn. Designated hitter Kevin Childs was named preseason second team All-Conference.
Newberry College is sixth in the preseason poll with 34 points. They return pitching ace Josh McElwee, who led the league in strikeouts last year with 104 and a 4.00 ERA. Also returning for Newberry is second team outfielder Phillip Bartz.
Lincoln Memorial University is picked to finish seventh. The Railsplitters received 30 points. They return pitchers Mitch Kramer, who finished tenth in the league with 51 strikeouts and a 4.80 ERA, and Steven Starbird who finished last year with a 6-3 record.
Mars Hill College was picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll after receiving 27 points. Catcher Mike Dobre and second baseman Brian Williams were named first team. Third baseman Corry DiBiase and outfielder Brandon Savoca were named second team.
Brevard rounds out the preseason poll receiving ten points.
The 2009 baseball season begins February 1 with a number of games – Tusculum at Barton; Carson-Newman at Augusta State; Limestone at Newberry; Wingate at USC Aiken; Mars Hill at Belmont Abbey; LMU at Lander and Pfeiffer at Lenior-Rhyne.
The 2009 Food Lion SAC Baseball Tournament will be April 23-26 at Wingate University. The tournament winner will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
Poll 1st Total
1. Tusculum 6 76
2. Catawba 3 70
3. Carson-Newman 63
4. Wingate 49
5. Lenoir-Rhyne 46
6. Newberry 34
7. Lincoln Memorial 30
9. Mars Hill 27
9. Brevard 10
Catcher – Mike Dobre, Mars Hill
Pitcher – Raymond Ruggles, Tusculum
Pitcher– Blake Ketner, Catawba
Pitcher – Boo Morrow, Tusculum
Relief Pitcher – Tim Holmes, Catawba
First Base – Derek Long, Carson-Newman
Second Base – Brian Williams, Mars Hill
Shortstop – Chris Ahearn, Catawba
Third Base – Craige Lyerly, Catawba
Outfielder – Nick Siega-Riz, Wingate
Outfielder – Tyler Wynn, Carson-Newman
Outfielder – Ricky Feliz, Tusculum
Designated Hitter – Brett Hatley, Catawba
Catcher – Ryan Query, Catawba
Pitcher – Alex Fairweather, Catawba
Pitcher – C.J. Hillyer, Tusculum
Pitcher – Wes McIntyre, Carson-Newman
Relief Pitcher – Corbin Ariail, Carson-Newman
First Base – Zach Glass, Lenoir-Rhyne
Second Base – Hank Wofford, Lenoir-Rhyne
Shortstop – Mills Rogers, Carson-Newman
Third Base – Corry DiBiase, Mars Hill
Outfielder – Phillip Bartz, Newberry
Outfielder – Brandon Savoca, Mars Hill
Outfielder – Evan Taylor, Lenoir-Rhyne
Designated Hitter – Kevin Childs, Wingate


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Trail Blazers Fall In Fourth Game In Five Nights
The Portland Trail Blazers had a five-game overall winning streak and a five-game road winning streak snapped Wednesday night in Minneapolis with a 120-109 loss to the Timberwolves at the Target Center.
The Trail Blazers looked like a team playing their fourth game in five nights, falling behind by as many as 32 before going into the halftime break trailing 69-43.
"Obviously the first half was terrible," said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. "Minnesota played terrific. They had everything going in transition. We gave up too much in the first half and dug too deep of a hole. I was pleased with the way we competed in the second half. We came back and made it a game. We cut it to 10 and they made the threes, but the first half was a tough one."
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
"Who Do You Think You Are?" 2013 Celebrity Lineup (Bazinga!)
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TLC has announced the full lineup of starpower on the fourth season of "Who Do You Think You Are?," which premiers Tuesday, July 23. TLC picked up the series after NBC dropped it last year.
These are the season's celebrity guests. I added a bit of info on where you might recognize them from and on their ancestry:
Kelly Clarkson:
The first winner of "American Idol" back in 2002, this singer-songwriter from Fort Worth has Greek and Welsh roots.
A Clarkson sighting in Sumter County, Ga., in February
prompted reports she was filming at the Andersonville National Historic Site.
Zooey Deschanel:
You may know this actress (she's pictured in the screenshot above) and musician as the quirky title character of "New Girl" on Fox. Her surname comes from her French paternal grandfather; she also has Swiss, Dutch, English and Irish roots.
Chris O'Donnell:
As his parents' surnames—O'Donnell and Rohs von Brecht—would suggest, this "NCIS: Los Angeles" actor (he also was on the big screen as Robin to batmen Val Kilmer and George Clooney) has Irish and German ancestry.
Christina Applegate:
This "Married … with Children,"
and "Samantha Who?" actress was born into the business: Her parents are record company executive Robert W. Applegate and singer and actress
Nancy Lee Priddy
Jim Parsons:
The episode featuring this "Big Bang Theory" star (trademark line: "Bazinga!") is the one I'm most anticipating. BBT is a favorite in our house, and I'd love to see what Parsons is like when he steps out of the role of Sheldon Cooper. The Houston native reportedly has English, Scottish, French and German heritage.
Cindy Crawford:
German, English and French make up the bulk of this supermodel's ancestry. She was "discovered" by a newspaper photographer as she detasseled corn in her DeKalb, Ill., hometown. Her
appearance at the Connecticut State Library in May
clued us in that she was filming for WDYTYA?
Trisha Yearwood:
This country singer does it all: She's also an actress, cookbook author and host of her own cooking show on the Food Network. She was born in Monticello, Ga.
Chelsea Handler:
A comedian, actress and talk show host from Livingston, NJ, Handler has a German Mormon mother and a Jewish father.
TLC's "Who Do YouThink You Are?" website is here
Watch a short teaser for "Who Do You Think You Are?" season 4 here
"Who Do You Think You Are?"
Celebrity Roots
Thursday, 27 June 2013 10:21:55 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Editor's Pick: Learn Insider Secrets for Pennsylvania Genealogy
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Maybe you've done some basic research on your Pennsylvania ancestors in censuses and vital records. But where should you and your genealogy research turn next?
Find out from our
Secrets to Beat Your Pennsylvania Brick Walls webinar
with veteran Pennsylvania genealogist Lisa A. Alzo. It's happening Thursday, July 9, at 7 p.m. Eastern (6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain, 4 p.m. Pacific).
Among other resources, she'll introduce you to the Pennsylvania Archives—and by that I mean both the Pennsylvania State Archives and the Pennsylvania Archives series. The latter is 138-volumes of published records including early government correspondence; tax lists; and church, land, and military records, and it's
free on Fold3.com
Participants in the Secrets to Beat Your Pennsylvania Brick Walls webinar also receive:
a quick Pennsylvania vital records review
strategies for exploring military records for your Pennsylvania ancestors
tips for researching in court and tax records
information on other state-specific resources that can help you break through research brick walls
the opportunity to submit Pennsylvania genealogy questions before the event (via a form when you register for the webinar) and again during the webinar's live Q&A session
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Battle of Gettysburg 150th Anniversary: Honor Civil War Ancestors With a Virtual Visit
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With the beginning of July (can you believe that's already next week?) arrives the 150th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg.
It lasted from July 1-3 and involved 160,000 soldiers on both sides, with casualty estimates (also for both sides) ranging from 46,000 to 51,000. Civilians hid in their homes as the fighting happened around them.
Although the Battle of Gettysburg is considered a turning point in the war—it put Gen. Robert E. Lee was on the defensive—the Civil War dragged on for nearly two more years.
The astounding numbers of dead at Gettysburg led to the establishment of the
Soldiers National Cemetery
there. At the cemetery's dedication on Nov. 19, 1863, President Lincoln eloquently spoke the 10 sentences we know as
the Gettysburg Address
If a visit to the
Gettysburg battlefield
(perhaps for the
150th anniversary commemoration
) isn't on your agenda, you still can pay a virtual visit to honor the memories of your Civil War ancestors and see the world through their eyes. Here are some ways to do it:
The Civil War Trust's free
Gettysburg: Devil's Den & Little Round Top Battle App
for iOS and Android (
find a link to the app here, plus FAQs for using it
) has maps that show where units were in these areas at key points of the battle, plus information and videos describing the events. If you're touring Gettysburg, the maps are GPS-enabled to show your location on the battlefield.
The companion website for the Civil War documentary by Ken Burns
uses battlefield maps to show you troop positions
You can find more digitized battlefield maps at the Library of Congress website, including "
Copy of official plan of Gettysburg. Pennsylvania, fought 1st, 2nd, 3rd July 1863
" and "
Map of the battlefield of Gettysburg
To find more maps, type
into the search box in the
LOC's Civil War Maps collection home page
Visit the
Gettysburg Foundation website
to view photos of the Gettysburg Battlefield and the Gettysburg Cyclorama—French artist Paul Philippoteaux's 360-degree, life-size "painting in the round" by that depicts Pickett's Charge.
See photos and soak up history (and plan a visit, if you're lucky enough) at the
Gettysburg National Military Park website
The Stone Sentinels website shows you
photos of more than 1,200 Gettysburg Battlefield monuments
to units, individuals and others; plus farms and other buildings. You can browse monuments to units by the state where the unit was raised, or take a tour using a monument map.
Nationwide Gravesite Locator
lets you search for burials of veterans and their family members at Gettysburg National Military Park (choose Gettysburg from the Cemetery dropdown menu and then enter at least a last name).
Did your Civil War ancestor fight in the Battle of Gettysburg? See the
July/August 2013
Family Tree Magazine
for our seven-step guide to researching Gettysburg ancestors.
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:09:50 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, 21 June 2013
Genealogy News Corral, June 17-21
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Early-bird registration ends July 1 for the
Federation of Genealogical Societies conference
, Aug. 21-24 in Fort Wayne, Ind. (which is the home of the renowned
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
). Registering as an early bird will save you $50 for the whole conference or $20 for a single day.
Register for the FGS conference here
An update to RootsMagic 6 genealogy software makes it the only program that's "Share+ Certified" by FamilySearch to work with
its updated Family Tree system
. RootsMagic's new collaborative features for FamilySearch include enhanced discussions, viewing and copying sources between RootsMagic and Family Tree, viewing a change history for a person and reversing incorrect changes.
Read more about the RootsMagic 6 update and find out how to get it on the RootsMagic Blog
In related news, on Sunday, June 30, FamilySearch will shut off the ability for vendors (such as software companies) to "write" to trees on
, which is actually the old version of FamilySearch Family Trees. That means that if you're using a third-party product that works with the new.familysearch.org system, you won't be able to use it to update your new.familysearch.org tree.
Read more about this on Renee Zamora's blog
FamilySearch also has announced that
Personal Ancestral File will no longer be available for download beginning July 15
. FamilySearch stopped updating the free program a few years ago
Take note of the free Irish vital records access on findmtpast.ie June 27-30.
We blogged about it here
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Friday, 21 June 2013 12:35:21 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Free Irish Vital Records on Findmypast.ie June 27-30
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Findmypast.ie is offering
free access to Irish vital records from June 27-30
. You'll be able to search for free:
Ireland Births 1864-1958
Ireland Marriages 1845-1958
Ireland Deaths 1864-1958
It's part of the site's Ashes to Archives initiative, which marks the anniversary of the
Four Courts Fire
in Dublin. This June 30, 1922, fire during the Irish Civil War severely damaged the Public Records Office, resulting in a major loss of historical records. It's one of the most infamous events in Irish genealogy.
Findmypast.ie's helpful site
tells you what records were lost and what survived (including sources available with a findmypast.ie subscription or pay-per-view credits).
You'll need a free membership on the site to view the Irish vital records.
Got Irish ancestors? Take a look at these resources from ShopFamilyTree.com:
Irish Ancestry Value Pack
: This contains our Family Tree University Irish Research 101 Independent Study class, the Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Irish Ancestors e-book, and two Irish genealogy how-do downloads, all discounted by 47 percent.
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Friday, 21 June 2013 12:33:36 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Observe Juneteenth by Remembering Slave Ancestors
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Happy Juneteenth—the holiday that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. On that day, Union Gen. Gordon Granger stood on a balcony in Galveston and read
General Order No. 3
, informing the people of Texas that slaves there were freed.
From the beginning, Texas freedmen marked Emancipation Day—now known as Juneteenth—with festivals and remembrances of enslaved ancestors. Observances declined during the early 20th century, but have seen a resurgence since the Civil Rights movement. Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas in 1980; 41 other states and Washington DC have designated it a holiday or a day of observance.
Learning about African-American roots during slavery is difficult but it isn't always impossible. These free online articles will get you started:
Follow these eight steps to using the 1850 and 1860 US census slave schedules
—which enumerate but don't name slaves—to find records of your enslaved ancestors.
African-American Genealogy Toolkit
with websites, publications and organizations for tracing African-American roots.
About the Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy Website
, which contains information on African people in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820
Also check out these resources in ShopFamilyTree.com:
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors
by Franklin Carter Smith and Emily Anne Croom
African-American Slave Genealogy Guide
Jump Start Your African-American Genealogy Value Pack
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:24:37 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Family Tree University Summer School Sale—Learn How to Tackle Your Genealogy Projects!
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Want to put together a family history book this summer? Trace your Civil War ancestor? Finally get organized and be on top of your genealogy research?
Enroll yourself in our
specially priced Family Tree University Summer School sessions
, and do all these things and more.
We're offering a discounted tuition of $59.99 on
11 summer school courses
—five starting now, and six starting July 1:
Starting June 17 (available for registration through this Friday):
Cemetery Research 101: Dig Up Your Family History
Digital Photography Essentials: Techniques to Capture and Preserve Your Family History
Time Management for Genealogists: Make Time for Your Tree, Yourself and Your Sanity
Exploring City Directories: How to Trace Your Family in Yesterdays Yellow Pages
US Military Records: Trace Your Ancestors' Service
Starting July 1:
Newspaper Research 101: Find Your Ancestors in American News Sources
Computer Boot Camp for Genealogists: Become a Power User in 4 Weeks
Creating a Family History Book: Start-to-Finish Guidance for Assembling and Printing a Family Keepsake
Reverse Genealogy: Working Forward to Break Down Brick Walls
Civil War Research: Find Your Ancestors in the War Between the States
Google for Genealogy: Find Ancestors Online
Visit the
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:32:30 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, 07 June 2013
Genealogy News Corral, June 3-7
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The folks at Flip-Pal mobile scanner are presenting a free webinar, Metdata and Digital Images, on Tuesday, June 18 at 7:30 Central Time (that's 8:30 Eastern, 6:30 Mountain and 5:30 Pacific). Presenter Thomas MacEntee will show you how to use a digital photo's metadata (the information embedded in digital files) to add captions and details such as who's in a photo and when it was taken.
See more details about the webinar and click to register here
Friday through Sunday marks the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree, one of the most-anticipated conferences of the year. Remember to register for sessions you want to watch from home via free JamboSTREAM webcast.
See the schedule on the Jamboree blog
has added 2.5 million court records to its collection of Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers (1828-1912), which has information on petty crimes (such as public drunkeness and allowing livestock to wander) and punishments of Ireland's residents. They're available with a World Subscription or pay-per-view credits on findmypast.com international sites.
Visit the BBC News site to see a list of
materials damaged beyond repair in an April 26 fire at the National Library of Wales
. The items were among the 140 crates of material that were badly damaged by smoke and water; items that can be salvaged are undergoing restoration.
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Friday, 07 June 2013 11:47:16 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, 06 June 2013
Founders Online Site Will Give Access to Historic American Documents
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The National Archives is poised to launch the Founders Online website with thousands of transcribed and annotated documents from George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.
Eventually, 175,000 letters, diary entries, publications and other documents will be on Founders Online. Their source is 242 printed volumes that collect the papers of each man from the National Archives, Library of Congress and other archives around the world. The volumes also include editorial essays that introduce the materials and add historical context.
The site will launch at
(there's a placeholder page there now) June 13 with a ceremony at the National Archives building. Student winners of the
National History Day contest
will be among the first to search the site's records.
This video gives you an overview of Founders Online and the documents it provides access to:
Read more about how the papers were collected, transcribed and annotated
in this online article from the Winter 2010 issue of
, the National Archives' magazine
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Thursday, 06 June 2013 09:04:18 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Six Tips for Mapping Your Family History
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One of my research goals is to visualize my family history on a map showing all the places my ancestors lived and worked.
I found plenty of advice in last month's Family Tree University One-Week Workshop, Map Your Family History With Google Earth. Participants studied course materials and created a family history map project with guidance from
Google Earth
Lisa Louise Cooke
Here are a few tips from Lisa for using Google Earth and finding old maps of places your family lived:
A great source of old maps to use with Google Earth is the
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
. Sign up for a free account for access to the highest resolution downloadable maps (You can still download up to about medium resolution if you aren't signed in).
Instead of using the "Search the Site" box, scroll down on the home page and use the Map Rank Search tool to search by year and location.
More of Lisa's favorite sites for maps are the
Library of Congress American Memory Map Collection
, the
British Library
, the
University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library
, and the
University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Lisa recommends using Google to find online plat maps (these show property boundaries and owners' names), which might be anywhere from large mapping web sites to a genealogist's own site. Try doing a
Google Image search
with keywords such as
Indiana "Randolph County" "Plat map."
Another strategy to find plat maps is to run a
Google Books search
on a county, state and the term "plat map." If the book you want isn't fully digitized, copy the title and search for it at
to find libraries that have that book.
You can have Google email you when Google Maps or Google Earth map images are updated, or Street View becomes available, for the areas where your ancestors lived. Go to
Follow Your World
, log in with your Google account, and follow the prompts.
Google Earth doesn't auto save, so if it crashes on you, you'll lose your work. Every so often, go up to the menu and select File>Save My Places to save everything in My Places.
Enhance your family history search with the
maps and how-to guide on
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013 10:26:51 (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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