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Educational opportunities in Callaway County and the surrounding area include an excellent public school system and a variety of private schools. Parents can be assured that their children have access to a learning environment that is progressive and state of the art. Callaway County is committed to developing the academic programs necessary to equip each student with the skills needed to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Fulton Public School District is award-winning at all levels - from state-recognized teachers and administrators to the state's top recognition, the Student Performance and Distinction Award. Fulton has been rated as one of the 100 best communities for music education in America. The district features a national service-learning leader school and has obtained three Missouri Gold Star School Awards. The district boasts one of the top-performing schools in the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) and continues to be a leader in technology-equipped classrooms. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recently awarded the district a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. Educators are top-notch as well - the district boasts a winner of Missouri's Distinguished Elementary Principal of the Year award and a Missouri Teacher of the Year Finalist.
The Fulton Public School district encompasses 106 square miles and enrolls about 2,400 students. The district operates six school sites: three elementary schools (kindergarten through fifth grade), a middle school (sixth through eighth grade), a high school (ninth through 12th grade) and an alternative school.
Preparation for school starts early, with programs that begin at birth, including the "Parents as Teachers" program. Elementary students have high-speed Internet connections available and participate in the Accelerated Reading and Math online curriculum. Among the unique programs for Fulton's elementary students are a huge aquarium for fun but serious biology learning and an annual student-written and performed opera.
Middle school and high school students benefit from a traditional curriculum as well as computer science, band, choir, art, and vocational and college preparatory classes. Both the middle school and high school are designated Gold Star schools. Fulton High School's A+ Schools status entitles graduates to financial support at higher education institutions.
Three other public districts - North Callaway Public Schools, New Bloomfield R-III and South Callaway R-II Schools - serve the educational needs of youth in the communities outside Fulton.
New Bloomfield R-III has experienced a 3 to 5 percent annual growth in recent years. District residents passed a bond issue in 2001 that has allowed the district to expand to meet this growth. In both the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 academic years, the district's annual performance report ranked highly enough for the district to be cited for Distinction in Performance. In addition to solid academics, New Bloomfield students enjoy sports, music and drama, and the district offers FFA, FBLA and FACS programs.
North Callaway Public School District is comprised of three elementary schools, North Callaway High School, and an alternative school. North Callaway High has been recognized for excellence in academics and is an A+ School. Additionally, The North Callaway R-1 Technology Plan has received an "Exemplary" rating from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; statewide, less than 10 percent of plans reviewed were rated this high. North Callaway's students have received awards for Student Performance and Distinction three years in a row.
South Callaway R-II Schools start learning early with its Early Childhood Learning Center. Students here are encouraged to get off to a strong academic start, particularly in reading, through innovative reward programs. The focus on reading continues at South Callaway Elementary School. At South Callaway Middle School, the students' horizons are broadened with programs in computer technology, fine arts and foreign language. South Callaway High School students boast a graduation rate considerably higher than the state average through a broad curriculum and extensive extracurricular activities. Gifted and talented students in the district enjoy special programs starting in grade one, and there is an alternative school for students who have special needs.
One of the most renowned educational facilities in all of the state - and the nation - is the Missouri School for the Deaf (MSD), located in Fulton. The facilities and services of this institution provide a well-rounded educational program for deaf students from all parts of the state. MSD prepares them for the world of work and for post-secondary education with programs that are customized for each student. MSD graduates live and work in all parts of the state and throughout the nation.
The Missouri Legislature established MSD in 1851, making it the oldest state-supported school of its kind west of the Mississippi River. The 90-acre campus provides facilities for elementary, middle school and senior high school students as well as dormitories for boarding students, who comprise the majority of the school's student population. However, in recent years, several families have moved to Callaway County so that their children can attend MSD as day pupils.
Students are admitted to MSD via referral from a local school district. MSD is a state-supported school; therefore, like public schools, tuition is free. There is no charge for room, board, laundry or books, and the studentÕs residential district is not billed for these services. Parents are welcome to visit their children on campus at any time.
Education at MSD is offered in a bicultural (deaf and hearing) and bilingual (spoken English and American Sign Language, or ASL) environment. MSD offers a full academic education and provides students with the necessary educational background for college work. Students enjoy a wide variety of extracurricular activities, including field trips, parties, dances, games, movies and scouting. At the junior and senior high levels, competitive sports include boys' football, basketball and track and girls' volleyball, basketball and track. The campus has gymnasiums and a heated indoor swimming pool.
Westminster College in Fulton is an independent, four-year, coeducational college offering students a dynamic liberal arts and sciences education. Westminster's campus covers 86 acres, at the heart of which is a lovely, tree-shaded area enhanced by the stately Greek Revival architecture of the surrounding campus buildings.
In existence since 1851, Westminster provides classes in an interactive, seminar-style environment. More than 800 students from 20 states and 26 countries attend Westminster College. The school's distinguished Center for Leadership and Service integrates leadership skills, character development and community service opportunities into the curriculum. More than 50 clubs and organizations exist on campus, ranging from student government to college athletics.
Among Westminster's honors and distinctions are:
Outstanding Value in Education - Barron's
Top 160 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States - U.S. News and World Report
Elite 100 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States - Money magazine
Top 20 "Hidden Gems" Among U.S. Colleges and Universities - Washington Post
Each year, Westminster is proud to host a series of prestigious lectures that encompass the fields of business, law, history, politics and education. Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech on the campus in 1946. Other distinguished speakers over the years have included U.S. presidents, world leaders and scholars.
Commemorating Churchill's famous speech and lifetime of leadership is the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, located on the Westminster campus. It is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the visionary leader, paying tribute to Churchill's personal achievements as well as his significance throughout history.
Westminster recently constructed a modern, $18 million academic building, The Wallace H. Coulter Science Center. This 80,000-square-foot facility was designed by faculty and students to benefit learning in all majors. It houses state-of-the-art classrooms and labs in a high-tech but personalized environment.
William Woods University (WWU) is a student-centered, professions-oriented liberal arts institution located on a scenic residential campus in Fulton. Founded in 1870, WWU offers degrees in more than 40 different undergraduate and graduate majors in both traditional and outreach settings. More than 900 students attend classes on the Fulton campus, representing approximately 35 states and 20 foreign countries. The William Woods campus sits on 170 gently rolling acres that include two picturesque lakes and an impressive sculpture garden.
William Woods is proud to hold many honorable distinctions. It is home to North America's foremost program in equestrian education and was the first to offer a four-year equestrian science degree. The school is one of only 25 institutions in North America to offer a baccalaureate degree in interpreting/American Sign Language. The Mentor-Mentee Program at William Woods provides opportunities for unique student-faculty research partnerships. An innovative program called LEAD (Leading, Educating, Achieving and Developing) provides significant tuition reduction and promotes learning outside the classroom. WWU is mid-Missouri's leader in graduate and adult programs for working adults, with courses offered in communities throughout the state.
Both the college and the community of Fulton come together to share cultural activities at the Gladys Woods Kemper Center for the Arts. The 41,000-square-foot building provides academic facilities for visual, performing and communication arts students, as well as a broadcast studio for the campus FM radio station, KWWU. An art gallery featuring revolving exhibits is open year round for public viewing.
A unique instructional facility on campus is the equestrian complex. The university owns more than 100 horses and offers education in all four seats: saddle seat, hunter/jumper, dressage and western. The equestrian complex includes several stables, indoor and outdoor arenas, and a cross- country course.
Other academic facilities include Dulany Auditorium, where university residents and community members enjoy plays, musicals, concerts and lectures. Constructed in 1907, this is the oldest building standing on the campus and contains original stained-glass portraits in its windows. The Bernard W. Weitzman Model Courtroom was built to host actual trials as well as educational mock trials. The school is also home to a state-of-the-art lab for interpreting/American Sign Language students and a Center for Human Performance, where athletic training students get on-the-job experience.


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Here's an economic riddle: what do you do when a community has goods and services to sell, but no one has any money to buy it with? That was the situation in a little village on the outskirts of Mombasa, Kenya earlier this year.
Most people would probably call it a slum -- tumbledown shacks, dirt alleys, open sewers everywhere. People here live on a little more than a dollar a day, and that makes them all entrepreneurs. Some people grow tomatoes. Some people sell water. The mayor repairs clothes on an old sewing machine. But the community is really poor. And so while everyone is selling, very few people have cash to buy anything.
That's what Will Ruddick is trying to change. "Imagine a silly situation with a bunch of people sitting around with goods and services to exchange with each other," said Ruddick. "But they're not, because they don't have money. Sounds insane, right? It is insane. It's dumb."
Ruddick's a Santa Cruz native who now lives in Mombasa. He's only in his thirties but he's packed a lot into his life so far -- he graduated from high school early, studied physics in Boulder and at Stanford, worked at a software company and a hedge fund, and lived on a commune.
Eventually, Ruddick joined the Peace Corps, which is how he ended up in Kenya. When his term of service finished, he stayed, and founded an NGO to try to solve some of the problems here, using theories of what's called econophysics. He started asking some revolutionary questions.
"What is this thing called money that they need so that they're not poor?" asked Ruddick. "Can we replace it with something they can use on a daily basis?"
Ruddick came up with the idea to print a kind of barter voucher that people could use as a universal IOU for their local trade. They named it Bangla-Pesa, after the name of the slum and the Swahili word for money.
Emma Onyango, who runs a produce stand in the town's main market, illustrates how the Bangla-Pesa system works. Onyango sells tomatoes for ten Bangla-Pesa, then uses that ten Bangla-Pesa to buy some corn meal at a shop. The shop owner takes the same ten Bangla-Pesa and buys herself some water. The water seller brings the voucher back to Onyango's stall to buy some cabbage. And so on.
Onyango and her neighbors could have used Kenyan shillings, the national currency -- but they don't have enough. Instead, they're using Bangla-Pesa to trade what they do have -- tomatoes, water, corn meal. The economy is moving, without any cash at all.
"It has really helped us a lot," Onyango said. When the people here started using the vouchers in May, everyone suddenly had more resources to spend. Ruddick says trade jumped 22 percent in the first week.
But a few weeks later, Ruddick and the barter currency fell under suspicion. It started with articles in the local paper that implied Bangla-Pesa was part of a secessionist movement with shady links to Islamic terrorists.
"Police were running around asking people whose door to knock down, who's abetting the terrorists, and that sort of thing," said Ruddick. So he went to the police to explain how the currency works -- in true California fashion, with a presentation on his laptop.
"Halfway through my PowerPoint I could tell they weren't really listening," Ruddick recalled, "All of a sudden, the officer in charge of banking fraud just grabbed my laptop away from me and said 'this is evidence.'"
Kenyan police threw Ruddick in jail, along with five community leaders, and charged them with bank fraud. They faced seven years.
Out on bail, Ruddick started a PR offensive. He appeared on local TV to explain that Bangla-Pesa was meant to help businesspeople save their Kenyan shillings, not to replace them. He produced an animated explainer video, and a YouTube documentary, which showed pictures of similar vouchers used in Massachusetts and in the UK. Experiments like Bangla-Pesa have gone to court in Thailand and Brazil too, but they had always won in the end.
And indeed, in August, Kenya's public prosecutor dropped the charges.
Will Ruddick says he's not a revolutionary. But he admits that he's broken the rules -- of economics.
"You talk to a lot of economists about these types of programs and their jaw will just drop," he said. "We have these staunch rules that you can't break -- but it turns out we just made them up."
After six months out of commission, Bangla-Pesa started up again last month.
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Woodbury resident receives Birmingham-Southern College student-athlete award
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern student Tawnya Nylund of Woodbury, Minn., is the recipient of the William Legg Award presented during the college's 2008 Honors Day Convocation.
The $1,000 scholarship is presented to a senior student-athlete who plans to attend graduate school. It is named after the 1950 BSC graduate who played varsity baseball and basketball at the college and who is executive director of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Nylund is a member of the BSC women's air rifle team.
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'Necklace' sparkles, but it's a bit loose
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
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Stars: Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Joely Richardson,
Adrien Brody, Brian Cox, Christopher Walken
Director: Charles Shyer
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Rating: R for some sexuality
No matter how ornate or magnificent a strand of jewels
might be, it's not the most effective device to pin a story on. True, the central
scandal in The Affair of the Necklace led to the French Revolution and
is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Marie Antoinette's sumptuous mirrored
palace at Versailles. But the story is still pretty wooden.
It begins with Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (the capable Hilary
Swank, Oscar winner for bending genders in Boys Don't Cry) attempting
to explain her part in a fraud surrounding a priceless diamond necklace before
a stony-faced courtroom. We learn, through flashbacks, that she is forever haunted
by the brutal murder of her father, an outspoken nobleman, at the hands of French
soldiers. Her mother died a year later of a broken heart, and young Jeanne (played
by Hayden Panetierre) is left orphaned.
We don't see Jeanne again until she's all grown up and
has become a countess by marriage to a feckless womanizer (Adrien Brody). While
he's off romancing, she is single-minded in her pursuit to restore her family's
good name. It is that overriding determination that drives her to get embroiled
in the nasty affair of the necklace, an incident that amounts to nothing sexier
than an elaborate swindle.
Repeatedly rebuffed in her attempts to gain an audience
with Marie Antoinette (played with just the right regal bearing and bawdy touches
by Joely Richardson), Jeanne grows increasingly desperate. She teams up with
an opportunistic and suave gigolo (superbly played by Simon Baker), and they
conspire to use the necklace to further their ambitions, as well as those of
a corrupt cardinal (Jonathan Pryce, in fine slimy form), who longs to have the
ear of the queen. Somewhere along the way, revenge becomes Jeanne's primary
motive, and the story grows tedious.
French decadence has its virtues: There's the sumptuous
seductiveness of the period, with its satin and lace costumes, which more often
than not here get torn off in ornate boudoirs. And laudably, the lush film was
made for a reasonable $20 million.
But that's not enough to sustain a movie, particularly
one that promises a juicy romp but delivers a plodding trudge.
The affair may have raised eyebrows all over 18th century
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"There were parts about certain … well, ACTS that men supposedly don't like performing on women that I have very strong feelings against. I would very much argue the opposite."
– Justin Long on Neil LaBute's play "Filthy Talk for Troubled Times," in which he played a sleazy misogynist who hates giving cunnilingus. Justin, apparently, does not! This is good news, as Long walked past my apartment building this weekend and I said to myself, Amelia, he is a celebrity you might have a shot with. Good to know the crush would be worth my time … in the sack. But something tells me Drew Barrymore isn't letting him go anytime soon. [NYMag.com]


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Bijay Kant Dubey
Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) - Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey
Nissim Ezekiel is one such poet who suffered the alienation feeling most,
Some sort of rootlessness and uneasiness in being here
And the nativity question baffled him
As for to be called Indian
And he was not,
Indian in sentiment, feeling and emotion,
Thought, culture and tradition racially,
As his mind dwelt it afar,
Indian philosophy, spirituality, morality and ethics
Never lured him, lured him
So with its Vedism, Upanishadism and Puranism,
Nor did the things of Indology and Oriental studies
As most of the modern Indian poets are today.
A modern poet, he was of the post-1947 period, the post-fifties
As he started writing from then,
A Bombayan, a city dweller of cosmopolitan Bombay
Of airports and shipyards,
Living in Bombay and dreaming from
And the India of villages with its soul in them
Never the enchantment of Nissim,
Who chose to dwell far from
And this took him to England
And he returned back to
After spending three and a half years there,
Studying Philosophy at Birbeck College, London.
A Time To Change, Sixty Poems, The Third, The Unfinished Man, The Exact Name,
Hymns in Darkness, The Unfinished Man, Latter-Day Psalms,
The works published from time to time
Tell of his literary attainment
Into the poetic field laced with wit, irony and humour
And caricature,
Writing about Indianness and its hollow ethics,
Society, culture and jokes,
Realistic portrayal and discussion,
His understanding of India
Just like an outsider's viewpoint.
A Maharashtrian Jew, instead of his attachment with the city of his birth,
The growing island that saw he,
He marked the nation as an alien insider
And his view was outsiderish
And if not, he was like the modern
Hollow man, shallow man,
Exulting in urbanization, industrialization and commercialization,
Talking of city life and culture,
Professorship and literary journalism continued side by side
And this added to
In getting name and fame.
Though he was a poet mostly, he wrote one slender book of playlets
And just on the basis of that thinner stuff,
We call him a playwright
And this happens in Indian English writings
As there is a dearth of
And English is a foreign tongue
And it is difficult to master a foreign language
And to be write in an alien tongue
Though many of the good oldies did not get a chance,
Nor did they dare to show
As the age had not been in their favour.
Then the people used to say, one should write in one's own mother tongue,
But the definition changed
Drastically in the changed scenario and context,
Editor C.M.Mandy gave a chance to many of the new writers
And their bad verses
With a view to imparting strength and verve
To promote Indian English verse
And Nissim too served as an assistant editor,
Later on edited Imprint
And the Indian P.E.N.
It took time in developing, Nissim went on trying to hone in
His sporadically written verses,
Meagre in output, not at all bulky,
Some poems meaningful, some meaningless
And as thus peddled he
The stuffs of his own,
Applying modern contexts of deliberation,
Approach and assimilation,
Fact and fiction, wit and intellect,
Psychology and philosophy added to
His idea of new poetry
And he tried to think in a novel way,
Indian or un-Indian or otherwise.
We generally ask with regard to him, how far Indian is he in his
Picturisation and presentation of India, Indian ethos and milieu,
What is Indian in his poetry
And it is the theme of Indianness,
Ironical and realistic,
Which finally bails him out
And it is true he failed to understand
The ethos of India,
But has portrayed it realistically
Like a Western man,
Seeing and presenting
And cracking the joke
And humour was his spirit.
Instead of his frailties and foibles, he was a great poet
As he contributed to an evolving literature,
Came of age,
Added to realistically and ironically,
Bagged the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 and the Padma Shri in 1988
A notable acknowledgement of his creative contribution,
A formerly head of the deptt of English of Mithibhai College from 1961 to 72
Before witching over to Bombay Univ. English Deptt. fnally
And taught for a short tenure at the Univ of Leeds and the Univ of Pondicherry
As visiting professor,
A broadcaster on literature and arts for sometime for All Indian Radio,
An art critic, an editor, a prose writer he was
Writing conversationally-inspired poetry
In a very technical and spirited way.
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You don't need a dodgy smartcard, a degree in mathematics or a job at NDS to be a pay TV pirate nowadays. Anyone with a broadband internet connection fast enough to stream video can do it.
For pre-recorded content, the BitTorrent file-sharing system is still a popular way for viewers to bypass the security on pay TV. Someone with a valid pay TV subscription, or perhaps someone in a market where the show is broadcast free-to-air, simply records the program, converts it to a compressed format that's easier to download, and then shares it with other BitTorrent users, who share it with other BitTorrent users, until it's widely and unstoppably available.
Recent crackdowns on popular BitTorrent indexing sites such as BT Junkie have made it harder to find pirated files, but not impossible. Other indexing sites such as Pirate Bay are still online, seemingly out of reach of prosecutors. (Pirate Bay recently announced it would send its servers into orbit, if need be, to evade the long arm of the law.)
But BitTorrent can't be used to share live sports broadcasts in real time, when most people want to watch them. Illegal live-sports internet streaming sites pop up on the internet, only to be closed down, Whack-A-Mole-style, by authorities.
When all else fails, there are always "lifecasting" websites, such as Justin.tv, that allow users to set up video cameras and stream whatever is in front of the camera onto the internet, where it can be watched free of charge by thousands of other internet users.
What's in front of the camera could be anything: paint drying or someone sleeping or playing a video game. But it might equally be someone sitting in front of his or her TV, which just happens to be tuned to a pay-per-view boxing match or a football game that's only being broadcast on a pay TV channel.
Lifecasters on those sites can get banned for broadcasting copyrighted content (Justin.tv says it has special filters installed on its site which can detect such content), but then new users appear who like to film themselves watching pay TV, and the Whack-A-Mole hunt continues.
Of course, the internet hasn't just helped the pirates. Even the pay TV companies have embraced the internet and are using it to deliver subscription services that are often at a lower cost than traditional cable and satellite pay TV services.
While Foxtel still offers its pay TV service over cable to smartcard-secured set-top boxes, most of its recent product launches have been for internet-based devices such as Telstra's T-Box set-top box, Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console, or (soon) for Samsung's smart TVs. Foxtel's Xbox-based offering uses the games console's own hard-to-crack security rather than smartcards to protect the data stream from pirates.
But whether the security is crackable or not hardly matters. Nowadays, pay TV piracy is as much about using the internet to stroll around sophisticated security systems as it is about trying to hack through them.
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What makes this trophy SO HARD!
1. You can't eat any little food pellets even though it's everywhere! & must snack on creatures only! argh'
2. Once you eat a creature, he will drop more food!
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P. T. Frazer was the principal of the school until it closed some time around 1915 due to a lawsuit between Frazer and the school trustees. The school, owned by Baptist associations, had six teachers. Located on five acres of land, it was an elementary and high school that could house up to 50 boarders. When the school closed, there was an 11th grade high school available to Colored students in Hopkinsville, KY, that was supported by the city. For more see p.277 of Negro Education, by T. J. Jones [available online at Google Book Search]; and Annual catalogue of the Hopkinsville M. & F. College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. For the school's continuation see the entry Hopkinsville College of the Bible. See also the entries for African American Schools in the NKAA Database.
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:20:21 -0500, Don Munyak <don dot munyak at gmail dot com> wrote:
> I am still trying to work through this so if something doesn't make
> sense, it's either because I'm not sure or I didn't do a good job of
> explaining it.
> I would like to use introduce m0n0wall into our network as a second
> layer of physical defense. We have a group of public servers, web and
> email. We have a public subnet range of 14 useable IP's. We are not
> using all of them currently.
> Existing public access is gained by NAT'ing Public IP's to
> non-routeable Private IP's for a given server and limiting the
> Protocol used for public access. Once I figure out some of the pieces
> I need to forward inbound requests, I will probably re-work the
> existing ACL's.
> The Cisco Border Router is configured as such:
> >>> EXISTING Config:
> --Internet-----(s0.744)Router/FW(e0)-----LAN
> s0.744
> xx.43.154.230 / 255.255.255.252
> e0
> xx.43.155.33 / 255.255.255.240
> 192.168.222.1 / 255.255.255.0 secondary
> ip nat inside source static 192.168.222.18 xx.43.155.45
> ip nat inside source static 192.168.222.2 xx.43.155.43
> ip nat inside source static 192.168.222.40 xx.43.155.41
> ip nat inside source static 192.168.222.9 xx.43.155.39
> -- REMARK Reflexive ACL applied to s0 interface
> ip access-list extended InboundFilters
> permit tcp any host xx.43.155.45 eq smtp
> permit tcp any host xx.43.155.45 eq pop3
> permit tcp any host xx.43.155.45 eq 32000
> etc...
> Where I'd like to go.
> >>> NEW Config:
> --Internet-----(s0.744)Router(e0)-----(e1)Firewall(e0)-----LAN
> Router (s0.744) x.43.154.230
> Router (e0) x.43.155.33
> Firewall (e1) x.43.155.46 (???)
> Firewall (e0) 192.168.222.1
> - Need to route incoming requests to public servers behind firewall.
> - NAT overload question. currently, the LAN uses a NAT overload
> (sharing one Public IP) for outbound traffic.
> - Allow outbound only passive ftp from LAN hosts to remote FTP servers
> 1. I am not sure how to route specific IPs to the LAN side of m0n0wall.
> 2. How would you configure the router to forward requests for hosts on
> the subnet.
Take out the IP NAT statements. Take off the private IP on the
router. You can take out the ACL or leave it, just make sure it
matches up appropriately with firewall rules. For ease of
troubleshooting (no questioning if it's the router or the firewall),
at least during the setup, take it out. You can add it back later
after things are working with the new setup as another line of defense
if you want. It's not necessary though.
> 3. I am very confused by 1:1 vs NAT Server
1:1 means translating one public IP to one private IP, on both inbound
and outbound traffic. Server NAT differs in that it allows you to
open multiple ports on one public IP to different LAN side hosts.
Inbound NAT does the same thing, but uses the m0n0wall WAN IP. Server
NAT lets you use public IP's other than the WAN, which is what your
LAN hosts other than any with 1:1 setups will be NAT'ed to outgoing.
Since you have 14 public IP's, I'd use 1:1 NAT because it's more
flexible, and easier to understand IMO. It's easier to mentally
picture IP x.x.x.3 goes to mail server, x.x.x.4 is web server, x.x.x.5
is ..., etc. rather than what port goes where on a single IP (which is
how you have it set up now)
> This is a real business project for me. I would be glad to help create
> a real-world "HOW-TO" for the documentation project. My particular
> topology I would assume is pretty common for small businesses.
This would be good for the example configurations chapter.
If you write something up (the wiki would be a good place,
http://wiki.m0n0.ch), I can add the network diagrams, screenshots, and
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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V01 #88
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:06:50 -0300
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.. Does anyone know if there is one particular culture or race of people
whose hair does not turn white or gray until very late in life?
In Brazil we have a popular saying about Negroes: "Negro quando pinta, tres
vezes trinta" - "When a Negro's hair turns white, three times thirty" -
meaning he/she is ninety years old.
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WALLACE-L ArchivesArchiver > WALLACE > 1999-04 > 0925299194
From: <>
Subject: [WALLACE-L] WAGON TRAINS to Alabama-WALLACE
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:33:14 -0400
One of the main ways that settlers came to Alabama in the early days
was by WAGON TRAIN from the East Coast. If any of you know about
WAGON TRAINS that came to Alabama, take the time to post a message about
TRAIN, giving 1) the surnames of the families you think moved together
in the
train. Also, include 2) an approximate date if possible. And, of
course, 3)
the route the WAGON TRAIN followed, if you know it. Pooling our
about WAGON TRAINS might help us all.
I'll begin by mentioning a WAGON TRAIN that left Carteret County, NC
and traveled in sixty days to Marengo County, AL in 1823. The story
like this:
Joseph Nelson, born 1773, the son of William and Elizabeth
Nelson, accompanied by Caleb Dana, sailed from Hunting Quarters (now
Atlantic, NC) in Carteret County, NC, to Mobile Bay, Alabama and
Marengo and Baldwin Counties, prior to 1820. Apparently Joseph so liked
new area that thoughts of moving there entered his mind.
By this point in time Hunting Quarters had changed
considerably. Present day Sea Level, then a part of Hunting Quarters,
been held by family Nelsons, Hamiltons, and Wallaces. The families
multiplied and brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins had
and brought in new people. Joseph's father, William, had been selling
his 395 1/2 acres inherited from his father, James. So, what had been a
791-acre plantation at the beginning of Joseph's life began changing to
group of smaller farms. From a population of about 40 in 1790, the area
to a population of about 150 in 1820. In Joseph's eyes, it was getting
Others from Carteret County felt the same as did Joseph. So,
in 1823 they organized a wagon train and left Carteret County for
Originally they settled in Marengo County, AL, but eventually they
settled in
Baldwin County, AL. The descendants of these travelers have some family
memories of the trek. Oxen pulled the wagons which carried all their
belongings and each person walked as much as they were able, some making
journey on foot. Naturally some married along the way, bringing other
surnames into the group and there were children born along the way.
Those families known to have been on the WAGON TRAIN are:
WALLACE, NELSON, BISHOP, FULFORD, ROBINSON, STRONG, STIRON (or Styron).
were from Portsmouth, Ocracoke, and Hunting Quarters, North Carolina.
Those individuals known to have been on the WAGON TRAIN were:
William Fulford, Clifford Fulford and his wife Alice of Portsmouth
and their daughters Abigail, born 1806, and
Eliza J.
Joseph Nelson, Sr., and his wife Abigail Stiron, born 1778, the
daughter of Samuel Stiron and Hannah Hamilton Hill of Portsmouth, and
their children:
Thomas Nelson, born 1795, married in NC in 1815 to Katurah
Hall, born 1797, the daughter of Simon and Phebe Hall
of Portsmouth,
Abisha Nelson, born 1795, married in NC in 1819 to Elizabeth
Lovey Nelson, born 1797, married in 1823 (during trip in
Perry County, AL) to Metzger A Litchfield,
Samuel Nelson, born 1800, married in Alabama in 1851 to Nancy
Elisha Nelson, born 1804, married in Alabama in 1830 to Eliza J.
Fulford, daughter of Clifford and Alice Fulford of NC,
Amosa Nelson, born 1806, married in 1832 in Alabama
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From: Bob Quinn <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Venicones
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:29:28 -0400
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Does anyone know how much each era contributes to one's Haplogroup?For instance, how much does whether one is M222+ is dependant on who their ancestors were, for instance, before 0 AD, from then to 500AD, then to 1,000 AD, to 1,500, to 2,000 ?It seems to me that anyone with the "right" background could show up anywhere, become whatever folks were there, and propogate and populate, and show M22+ there?It could be Southern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Norway, France....Just askin.
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> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:34:28 +0000
> Subject: Re: [R-M222] Venicones
> How does this explain M222+ in southern Ireland?
> I ask for take my surname as an example: According to book "Surnames of Ireland" by MacLysaght, then Herald of Ireland, Irish Morgans have four origins:
> O Murchadhain of Ui Failge (theoretically not M222; with one DNA result from the area - so DNA supports them as being not M222)
> O Murchadhain of Conmacne (theoretically not M222; with one DNA result from the area - so DNA supports them as being not M222)
> O Muireagain of Arighalla (theoretically not M222; with many DNA result from the area - so DNA supports them as being not M222)
> O Muireagain of Southern Ui Neill (theoretically M222; with no DNA result from the area - the Normans took their land and displaced them. Is the M222+ Morgan from Co. Clare such a displaced member.)
> The O Muireagain of Southern Ui Neill are identified members of Cenel Tadgain a branch of Cenel Maine of counties Longford and Westmeath. Cenel Tadgain includes the Foxes of Kilcoursey, O'Cathalan and many other families. It has been questionable whether Cenel Tadgain where M222+, for the leading branch (in later medieval period) where the Foxes of Kilcoursey and there had been no M222+ Foxes until now. This and other Southern Ui Neill results makes me believe that the Southern Ui Neill are M222+ and that results of Tir Connaill origin are skewed due to survival-bias (i.e. no norman settlement impeding the population growth and expansion of the local families).
> What family names in Westmeath (the center of the southern Ui Neill power) were tested for M222 in the Trinity report?
> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:05:55 +0200
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> > Subject: Re: [R-M222] Venicones
> >
> > At 02:23 AM 8/19/2011, you wrote:
> > >I just stumbled on a well done history web site that mentions the Venicones
> > > and Venicnii of Scotland and Donegal.
> >
> > This is an interesting notion but perhaps too incomplete to go very far with.
> > OK we have the same DNA in Donegal and at a much lower rate in
> > Lowland Scotland.
> >
> > What about NW Wales, and NW Gaul, and south of the Baltic and
> > wherever else these Veni people were supposed to be?
> >
> > The equivalents of Con in Hebrew would be Caleb.
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Well, I am about 2/3rds through it, and I will say that I agree with the others: It is a good strong fantasy, but I am not seeing the kind of wonder in it that will pull me in for future reads. Overall, it is not turning out to be predictable, the characters are engaging enough, and the plot has sufficient 'pull' to carry itself forward.
That's so spoiler-free, I could write the above for just about any book at all that I liked. ;)
Our family watched "Hairspray" last night, (which was absolutely phenomenal, by the way, highly recommended) and in front of it, they have a seven minute extended preview of The Golden Compass. I think you can just watch that and be done, lol. I'm about halfway through, and they covered every significant scene in that preview. Sometimes, too much is too much.
So far, so easy read. Nothing too remarkable here, I find. I'll save my detailed nitpicking for the spoiler thread later.........
I read it about three years ago. I remember not liking the idea of "daemons" at first. They seemed unoriginal .. too much like indian spirit guides or guardian angels ... but Pullman makes them believable and by the end, I was totally happy with the concept.
I got the next two in the trilogy and am about halfway through the last one The Amber Spyglass. Quite enjoyable for light bedtime reading but I won't be telling people it's a "must read". To be honest I was interested in what was said about the religious aspects but I feel the press has made more of that than the text actually justifies. I found myself thinking of daemons as "external souls".
I am not susre that the press is at fault, this time. The way I first heard about the religious controversy was when I received an email from a relative telling me to boycott the book and the movie because the author was all about "killing God". This relative is very involved in a very fundamental Christian church but she also knows very well I am quite opposed to fundamentalism and its "causes". I was surprised to get this "book burning" message from her as she is otherwise very smart and thoughtful. All to say, I think it is the churches who are adding fuel to the controversy fire.
I must confess I'm usually pretty dense with religious themed books. When I was little and read the Narnia books, I read them as pure fantasy until I got to The Last Battle and then I finally clued into the Christian tie-ins (I told you I was/am dense). When I read The Golden Compass I was equally clueless to the religious tie-ins. I read it superficially I guess. I saw the daemons as external souls too PossMan, and loved that idea, sort of like having Jimminy Cricket on your shoulder all the time, a bit of a pain, but nice company too.
It wasn't until I read several threads of LT that mentioned Pullman as being quite the vocal atheist and The Dark Materials trilogy as reflecting that. Then of course I went back and glanced through them again and saw it. Just dense, that's all I am! ;-)
I agree maggie. I think the more people call for a ban on something the more popular it becomes. You'd think the churches would have learned by now!
#5 I read the trilogy a little over a year ago & loved the daemon concept as I love pets & their company: so the idea of a creature being that connected to you-a soul mate literally has great apeal for me. I went on the Golden Compass website & took a quiz which said that my daemon would be a Snow Leopard (one of my favorite animals) named Alexius. Your daemon is always of the opposite sex which would seem to make one a more balanced individual.
As to the controversy about the books I may also be dense as I thought the message was to be more cautious about following individuals or groups too blindly especially when they are doing things that are just wrong morally-so wrong that no justification would make them right!!
As to the killing God thing-atheists deny the existence of God-so how does one kill someone who does not exist????
When we read the books for a class, we discussed how they are essentially a re-working of Paradise Lost, with some fantastical themes thrown in there. I don't remember all that was established, but I'm willing to elaborate on some in the spoiler thread if it interests anyone.
I picked up on the religious connections, but not the literary ones, on first reading.
I checked out the Golden Compass movie's website and also took the quiz to find my daemon (always wanted one). Mine is a racoon. Hmmm, don't know what to think of him. More shall be revealed. I think I need to finish the book before the movie opens because I am going to be sorely tempted to cheat and go to the movie as soon as I can fit it in.
katylit #8: I think the more people call for a ban on something the more popular it becomes.. I'm sure that's right and possibly the only reason I bought Salmon Rushdie's The Satanic Verses when I'd already decided I wasn't too keen on some of his other works. In the case of Pullman I think making the film made a big difference as illustrated by the fact that many of the objectors use the title of the US version (Golden Compass) which is also the title of the film, rather than the UK title (Northern Lights).
Daemons remind me of the dragons in McCaffrey's Pern novels. I would love to have one or the other. I think it's the idea of never having to go it alone, of always having a guide/companion with you who knew you so intimately you could always be completly yourself. I wonder if it would be better or worse, for everyone to have daemons which would therefore make it very hard to lie, even to yourself.
The first time reading these books I didn't catch on to the religious aspects. To me it was more about power and keeping most of the population mindless and malleable. But I must have just forgotten the religious aspects because reading the book now I can see how it is the power hungry using religion as a reason for the cruelty they do.
I don't think there is anyone trying to kill God in this book though. Maybe in one of the next two? I don't remember them that well. Or did I miss something?
sandragon - My reading of the religious complaints relates to the author being outspokenly atheist and that he was quoted as having said the series was all about killing god. I have no idea if the alleged quote is accurate or not. I also heard that it is all more clear in the third book. Makes me want to read all three again.
One thing I found very funny was the kids coming up with the name "Gobblers" and finding that some adults used the same term as a pronounceable acronym.
I liek the subtle differences between Lyra's Oxford and the real place - not that I know it well. You can easily imagine the ancient university rooms being as described.
I really liked the daemons and thought it a lovely idea. Like many I'd love ot have one - although I don't suppose they could actually help you make any better choices than you'd make for yourself.
Finished! See y'all over in spoiler-land!
#9 Vanye, about the daemons as pets idea - almost the whole time I read this at home, one of my dogs was curled up on lap. Maybe it was my imagination, but I think the book helped me bond with them a bit. :)
reply to readingfox: I LOVED the the alternate universe oxford too. I studied (and lived) at magdalen college one summer so Im a little bit familiar with it, I'd love to go back some day.
In reply to several posts about "killing god":
1. Isn't that kind of a spoiler? ;-)
2. But (and here is a spoiler for future books) its not even in the golden compass anyway.
3. I find it amusing thata book can be called atheistic when it has god as a character in the book (the later books).
4. I find it even more amusing that christians can be upset about a book being written where god dies. Have they never even opened the new testament? He (big spoiler alert) dies in that book too. ;-)
There is a little book by Pullman called Lyra's Oxford which has a map in it which I have compared w/a map of the real Oxford. As a Tolkien fan I liked seeing how the city is just full of Colleges it is like a maze in that way-colleges right next to one another. The buildings are all so old & architectuarally interesting. I have a couple of those view books that they sell to tourists which show a lot of the buildings both inside & out. I am an Anglophile in case you couldn't tell! 8^)
>20 tanstaafl: -- great points!!!!! Now if you could just repeat them on all 423 (more added daily!) GC threads here on LT... :)
#20: I didn't consider the "killing god" piece to be a spoiler since one, it is not in The Golden Compass and two, it is a quote from the author, according to his critics from the conservative Christians.
#20, et. al, the "alternate Oxford" stuff was awful to me. I've never been there, so all of the description was tedious and meant nothing. I really got the feeling that it was all an inside joke of some sort. Not a joke, per se, but you get what I'm aiming for.
Spoiler free - I liked them, but not as much as The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper.
It appears that the movie adaptation of the Pullman book, though, will be infinitely better, sadly, than the execrable adaptation of Cooper's book, released earlier this fall. Did it even come to "a theater near you"??
I refused to see it. How can they take away all the Arthurian references and consider it the same story? NOT!
#24 aww, that was always my favorite part. As a kid this book made me want to go to college at oxford.
#26 I refused to see it as well. Almost didn't recognize it was that book from the trailer. Never a good sign.
I am posting this link for anyone who is interested in a reasoning Christian's response to The Golden Compass. There have been many references here to what I think of as hysterical responses to the work, thought it might be good to have another viewpoint given. I liked this article a lot.
WARNING: There are lots of SPOILERS in this article, so don't go there if you don't want them.
edited to add that the name of the article is: "Fear Not the Compass"
Well, this non-Christian's opinion is that it is a very good article. I wish more Christians were like this fellow.
>30 drneutron: That may be the case, but the "other sort" is a lot louder.
I guess we quiet ones feel a little overwhelmed by all the hoopla sometimes. I know I do. Thanks MrsLee. I really like that article. :-)
Ignoring Pullmann because the books seem to be blasphemous is like ignoring Douglas Adams because HE'S an atheist too. Terry Pratchett is an atheist apparently, and a humanist, however he never deliberately attacks other people's religions, he just sends up the lot in Small Gods. Never forget the furore over Monty Python's Life of Brian, it was banned in many places, which I feel was a gross crossing of the line in censorship's road to hell paved with "good intentions".
Like that article most recently posted said, making a fuss over the movie because of alleged anti-Christian messages will only make Pullman more cemented in his thinking.
I thought that the article was very good and very different from many other articles you see on this topic. I have chosen not to read the books nor to see the movie. There are so many other books and movies out there that it really isn't like it is a hardship on me and I hadn't really ever heard of them before anyway. I generally don't read this type of fiction.
I don't have a problem with the author being an atheist or agnostic or whatever he is - it actually doesn't sound like he really knows what he is. I think, to me, he actually comes across as exactly what he professes to be against just on the flip side of the coin. While I am offended by those who claim that if I do not believe as they do I am condemned to h*** or whatever horrible thing is going to happen to me, I am equally offended by his position and just don't wish to contribute to expanding his bank account.
If I had not read various interviews with him, I probably would not have a problem with either the books or the movie. I am one of those people who really has to be hit over the head with symbolism, etc. in a book to pick up on any of it. I read it for the enjoyment not for the message. I enjoyed the Narnia movie and it didn't seem overly religious to me. I would assume that this movie wouldn't seem overly un-religious to me either. I find the author's interviews and quotes so distasteful that it is now impossible for me to either read the books or see the movies without the religious or non-religious undertones being completely apparent even to a thick headed person like me.
As for my kids, if they wish to read the books, that is their choice. My oldest has read about the author's position and beliefs and has chosen not to read them at this time. My other son has no interest in that type of book and my girls are too young at this time.
The trailers of the movie appeared to scary to my girls and the boys have not expressed any desire to see the movie either. But as they get older they may change their minds and that is ok with me. I would watch it with them so we could discuss it and see what their opinions were. But, again, there is so much out there to pick from, it isn't like we are going to be hurting for entertainment by not going.
I hope this position doesn't seem offensive to anyone - it isn't meant to be. It is just my particular opinion about this particular situation. Again, I don't care that he is an atheist - that is his choice. He just seems pretty arogant to me and a bit offensive.
I personally applaud your having your own opinion about the author, the book, and the movie. I have problems with the people who believe I must be as frightened as they seem to be of his creative efforts. I appreciate my right to choose and yours too.
So glad to see a decent christian article. I've had at least 3 people I know, Two of which I am in bible studies with, come to tell me about "A movie that is a threat to Christianity and seeks to convert children to atheism". It was getting ridiculous. One person who sent me an email hadn't even heard of the books or movie till he received the warning email and forwarded it to me. That scares me more than anything. Why would someone forward a letter about the evils of something and advocating the boycott of it without even knowing what it was?
When the third person started to tell me about this "danger" they got as far as "atheist movie" before I cut in with "you mean the movie I'm seeing opening night?"
My parents were originally among those who were nervous about harry potter, and I'd given my little brother the dark material books to read and he was on the last one. Rather than let them realize what he was reading and hear the fuss I went to them directly told them I'd let him read them, I loved the books, I'd already given them to my other brother and gave them a summary of all three books and any objectional parts. Worked nicely and prevented any overeactions from occurring.
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It's been some day, with everyone glued to the TV to watch the manhunt.
But there's been an interesting development closer to home, in the troubled East Ramapo school district (it may be time to rename the district the Troubled East Ramapo school district).
Daniel Schwartz resigned today as president of the Board of Education.
When Schwartz became president at the start of this school year, he clearly believed that he was the guy to start pulling the district together. He insisted that he did not believe that public school parents really distrusted the school board — dominated by Hasidic and other Orthodox Jews who send their children to private schools.
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But Schwartz didn't seem to get that he had already lost tremendous credibility with public-school parents and teachers and students. The previous spring, when he was vice president of the board, he delivered a long speech about anti-Semitism being the real problem in East Ramapo, rather than the district's growing inability to offer a quality education to students.
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Schwartz resigned today "due to various personal reasons." The school district is $6 million in the red and faces an assortment of short-term and long-term problems.
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(CNSNews.com) - It was a simple question, but not willingly answered: Does President Obama plan to spend $56 billion more than he agreed to spend ten weeks ago, when he signed the Ryan-Murray budget agreement?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) repeatedly asked that question of President Obama's budget director on Wednesday, but he couldn't get a straight answer from Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
Finally, exasperated, Sessions answered the question himself:
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According to a Senate Budget Committee analysis, President Obama's Fiscal Year 2015 budget -- over a ten-year period through FY 2024 -- would increase discretionary and mandatory spending by $762 billion.
A partial transcript of the Sessions-Burwell exchange appears below: Burwell, director of the White House Office on Management and Budget, was testifying before the Senate Budget Committee, of which Sessions is the ranking Republican:
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Burwell: In a paid-for initiative.
Sessions: The question is -- do you spend more than was agreed to in the spending limits of the Ryan-Murray bill?
Burwell: We propose an initiative that would be paid for to do that.
Sessions: And you would spend $56 billion more?
Burwell: Only if paid for.
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Sessions: No, you're talking about -- you're theorizing about the purpose of it. The law limited spending, did it not, and you are spending over what the law requires.
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Sessions: So you are proposing that we alter Ryan-Murray so you can spend $56 billion more next year alone.
Burwell: What we are proposing --
Sessions: Yes or no, is that correct?
Burwell: We propose a paid-for--
Sessions: Can't you answer that question simply? Yes or no, do you propose to spend $56 billion more than Ryan-Murray allows, and you're proposing that we change Ryan-Murray to allow you to do so. yes or no?
Burwell: Senator, we do propose a change in the law that would be fully paid for, that would invest in the things that we believe are necessary for the economic health of the nation.
Sessions: So you're spending $56 billion more and you're going to raise taxes to pay for it, and you think that's acceptable?
Burwell: Senator, we believe---
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Would you padlock the Space Shuttle?
Welcome Blue Dragon Army,
I want to discuss the REAL 1% of this nation. Not those whiny, trust fund protesters that will follow the whims of others without having an objective, a stated goal, or direction.
I'm talking about "silent geniuses".
What's a silent genius?
I am meeting more and more of them and their stories scare the hell out of me. They usually have the following in common:
1. Perform horribly in school and many fail out.
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From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] 1940 census article
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:39:45 -0500
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As with any such newspaper article it is always a surprise what comes out
the other end. I never mentioned Heritage Quest in my conversation with the
reporter, so I can't enlighten you as to where he came up with that. I did
tell him about FamilySearch and even forwarded an email that our North Hills
Genealogists society received about the volunteer effort for indexing.
Sorry that I can't help you further. I don't think you are missing anything
-- Elissa
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Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under
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> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 4:28 PM
> Thank you for posting an interesting article. I was curious about the
> mention of Ancestry & Heritage Quest doing indexing. I have seen
> information about FamilySearch with their volunteer indexing for the
> 1940 census, and the involvement of Ancestry, Archives.com, and
> findmypast. Where did you find out about the involvement of Heritage
> Quest? If there was anything out there about that I sure missed it.
> Thank you for any enlightenment.
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Today though, another member of the CW family got a hold of Stephen's newborn and it looks like he's pretty ok with it.
Jared Padalecki, who stars on Supernatural and loves debating drug abuse on Twitter, was snapped holding Stephen's newborn daughter. And it looks like Oliver Queen might be really ok with the parental switch.
Not gonna lie, I personally think Stephen looks a lot better holding that little nugget.