Family Tree Software - What It Can Do For You

Building the family tree can get tedious, if someone has no prior knowledge of how to go about it. However, a good software can help in this regard. There are numerous technologies available with a variety of features. It essentially depends on the person, on what sort of family tree software would they care to buy. It is vital to have the right program and genealogy software at hand for the job as well. The genealogy software organize the information accessed through different sites and data bases and present a organized record of the data, which is used to construct the tree. The two most important factors to consider in this regard are:

Cost

The cost of the family tree software is the foremost important thing. According to price, the programming varies in different software. In same manner the flexibility of using the software differs as well. For getting the lowest priced yet the best type of software, one can do comparison shopping. The comparison would be in terms of the price of the software as well as in terms of the variety and the flexibility.

Variety and Flexibility

• In terms of the flexibility one has to compare the conditions and the information that the genealogy software offers. Like some of the programs take the religion into consideration others take into account the geographical regions.

• When one usually starts to build the tree, there is a lot of information to handle in the first instance. As people go about building the tree, a lot of other information starts adding into the already built tree. The family tree software should allow the user the flexibility of adding information later on.

• The final look of the tree is important as well. So, the ancestral tree software should also allow a number of templates to use from. Unless one is acquainted with the designs, it is hard to choose from only a few.

For building the ancestral tree, one must have information on the date and place of birth and also about the death marriages, relationships, etc. In case of individual's relationship, knowing the parents name, spouses and the children's name is important. Genealogy programs handle the data as well as the notes and snaps in multimedia to present a definite record connecting the dot. Utilizing this program and the family tree software one can produce graphical charts and pedigree charts or the family tree.

Susan is a full-time freelance writer. She is an avid traveler and reader and enjoys writing on health & fitness, travel, parenting, relationships and personal development.

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A Few Thoughts About School Fencing

Maybe you have never sat down and considered the necessity for school fencing. Most people think of these items as barricades to keep the area private, but an educational facility is a public place where many different people need to have access. An educational facility is also a private place that is charged with the care of the world's most valuable commodity, and that is the youth of the nations.

Think of school fencing as a barricade between the student that walks the campus and the cruel world on the street. It will come as no surprise to you that there are actually sick and twisted individuals who hurt children for no other reason than to pleasure themselves. Children must be protected from these people at all cost and school fencing can help to protect the little ones from this danger.

Many of the educational facilities are near city streets and highways that have large amounts of traffic. Having proper school fencing in place can prevent children from accidentally running out into these streets and being struck by a car. The enclosure will make parents feel better about the safety of their child while the drivers will feel more secure in the knowledge that a child is not going to dart out from between two parked cars in front of them.

School fencing is also designed so when the facility is closed and there is no one there it can prevent people from coming onto the campus and committing acts of vandalism. Vandalism of school property is something that the officials must be worried about a large portion of the time.

School fencing can also be put into place in such a manner that it protects the young students on campus from reaching areas of the grounds that contain things that could be dangerous to them. Areas where the air conditioning systems are housed, and where the electrical boxes are placed need to have a barrier to keep unauthorized persons from being able to access them. There are also places around the campus where chemicals may be stored that need to be sectioned off where only staff can get to them.

Of course the areas where the children play sports like baseball, hockey, soccer, and football need to have school fencing to protect the players and the spectators that attend the games. The enclosures for these types of places on campus grounds are specialized for the type of sporting activity that will be taking place within them.

These enclosures are constructed from some of the finest materials so they provide the maximum amount of time before the fence needs repaired or replaced. Most schools have limited funding to pay for these items so the longer they can get one to last the better it is for them. The materials are generally rust resistant and spaced so that children cannot get appendages stuck between the metal slats. If that sounds ludicrous you have to remember that children will try anything especially if they have an audience.

School fencing is necessary for the protection of the student s on the campus from many different dangers that lurk in the world. The professional staff at Zaun can help you to choose the type of school fencing you need at your facility.

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French Payouts Tempt More Roma Immigrants

The village of Berini lies 20 km south of the city of Timis, oara in western Romania. The first historical record of the village, whose name means lamb in English, dates back to the 14th century.

Living conditions for some of the villagers are medieval too.

At the village outskirts, 150 souls live on swamp land in ramshackle dwellings without electricity or running water. When it rains, villagers scramble to cover the holes in the roofs so their improvised beds - made from wooden planks - are not soaked through.

Meet the 30 remaining Roma families living in this village that lies within the tourist-friendly, historical Romanian region of Banat that borders Serbia.

Tired of eking out a living at home, most of the families left for France to beg on the streets of Lille and Paris. However, many soon returned, being among the first wave of Roma to be sent back from France in 2008, when the controversial deportation programme began.

It was the promise of a payment of €3,600 to set up livestock farms on their return home that persuaded these Roma to go back to Berini.

The French immigration and integration office (l'Office Franasais de l'Immigration et de l'Integration, OFII) is charged with supporting efforts to reintegrate immigrants who have left France and voluntarily returned to Romania, sometimes by paying to establish micro-enterprises such as small livestock farms.

However, if the French government hoped the offer of money was an effective means of dissuading eastern European Roma from coming to France, they miscalculated badly.

Payout rumours

Rumours of large payouts spread like wildfire among the Roma communities across Romania. The €3,600 payment per person simply to go home made France look like an El Dorado to Romania's impoverished Roma.

Not only that, Roma communities could easily travel to European Union countries as Romania formally joined the EU in January 2007, removing any requirement to obtain travel visas in advance.

Lucia and Cornel Cristea live in Berini, they have eight children. Four live at home, three in state-run residential care and another is now married and living in France.

After being forcibly returned from Italy, Cornel suffered severe health problems and his left leg had to be amputated in 2003. He was unable to provide for his family at all. Hearing about French funding for farms, Cornel was determined not to miss out and left for France in the autumn of 2007.

Unable to pay for the bus fare to France, he borrowed €150 on condition he repaid €500 on receipt of the French government payout for him to return home and set up his farm. Two of his friends, Pavel Nedea and Marcus Novacovici, joined him later.

However, their dream of becoming 'rich' farmers came to an abrupt end. After several months on the streets of Paris, they were deported to Romania in the spring of 2008.

"As soon as I landed in Timis,oara, I handed the 500 euro to the guy who loaned me the money", Cornel says. Almost three years after their expulsion, they are still dreaming of running their own farms.

Shortly after his return, Pavel started to build a small stable in his backyard for the animals he is yet to buy. Pavel and his family share a one-room shack over which a wooden door serves as a roof to keep the rain off the bed where his eight children sleep.

Since he was sent back from France, he is been working as a daily labourer for other villagers. On a good day, he might earn €8 for working from dawn to dusk.

"I was in Paris to beg, and after I was apprehended by the French authorities, I was told to go back because then I will have sheep and cows," Pavel says.

Silvia Novacovici, her husband and their six children are also still waiting for the promised livestock fund from the French.

"A lady official in Timis,oara notified us that our claim for receiving the money had been approved. We stayed home and waited for the money which never came. We remained only with the papers," she claims.

Leonard Bebi works for Parudimos, a Roma non-governmental organisation in Timis, County. He stresses the people who decided to come back to Romania did so only because of the promised €3,600.

"There isn't any written document between the French and the Romanian government about the expelled people, but the villagers still wait for the money," he says.

According to French immigration and integration officials in Romania, 488 Roma projects have received the maximum funding of €3,660 since 2006.

They stress these funds are not cash awards for individuals per se, but rather assistance for projects including the creation of farms and other small businesses such as clothing and food sales. The idea is to enable returnees to ensure a "regular income, which helps them stay and live in their country".

"The OFII... is not intended to replace the inclusion programmes for Romania's returnees who are the responsibility of the Romanian authorities, with assistance from the European Union," an OFII spokesman is careful to note.

Payouts 'circumvent due process'

However, Victoria Vasey, legal director at the European Roma Rights Centre based in Budapest, is highly critical of the voluntary deportation fee.

"These payments, for the large part, are a way of seeking to circumvent due process and to create an illusion that people are leaving voluntarily. It is rarely the case that people are leaving voluntarily. They either feel they have no other option or they simply do not understand what is happening to them," she says.

Marian Mandache, human rights coordinator with Romani Criss, the biggest Roma NGO in Romania, is also critical. He says the €3,600 payment system is simply "inefficient" and could be used to fund "integration programmes in Romania and Bulgaria, but mainly in France".

"The Roma left for economic reasons, especially because they are marginalised in Romania. Here, it is difficult to live and they couldn't obtain the money to survive. They left because of poverty and to try for a better life," he says.

Many of the original, 2008 Roma returnees simply went back to France or other western EU states, having concluded they were the victims of a scam.

In 2010, another wave of Roma expulsions took place following an emergency meeting of the French government on July 28, convened in the wake of the killing of a Roma of French nationality by a gendarme during a car chase near Saint-Aignan in central France.

French officials decided to close around 300 illegal camps inhabited by travellers and Roma, and to deport the inhabitants back to their homelands - mainly Romania and Bulgaria. Soon after the July 28 meeting, France began mass deportations, later citing security concerns.

This time, the way the French authorities dealt with the deportations sparked international disapproval and soured relations between the Romanian and French governments.

Viviane Reding, the vice-president of the EC and commissioner for justice and citizens' rights, confirmed she would recommend beginning proceedings that could see France appear before the European Court of Justice. In response, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, suggested Reding should welcome Roma to her own country, Luxembourg.

The European Commission, EC, announced in the autumn of 2010 its intention to launch infringement proceedings against France for disobeying the EU Directive of free movement.

In late September 2010, the EC began infringement proceedings against France, only to bring the action to a halt two weeks later. According to a statement by Reding, France decided to modify its legislation, making the laws fully compliant with EU directives.

Eric Besson, the French immigration minister, stressed his country would implement a €1m programme to help reintegrate Roma returnees into their home countries.

However, France has steadfastly refused to suspend its deportation programme and other EU states - including Finland and Belgium -followed suit and also deported Roma to their home countries, especially Romania and Bulgaria.

On January 27, Victor Bos,tinaru, a Romanian member of the European Parliament, denounced the move to stop EC proceedings against France, saying discrimination had "become a new value of the EU".

As the EC warns member states they must present national plans on Roma inclusion that meet the requirements of the EU Roma Strategy by the end of 2011, many Roma remain trapped in a cycle of poverty, immigration and deportation.

More than 2,300 km east of Brussels, Cornel, Pavel and Marcus are among the very few Romanian Roma still waiting at home for the €3,600 euros they claim they were promised.

Others, like most of the Berini villagers, took the French promise of cash to be simply a trick, and went back to France and other EU states just a few days after they were expelled.

This article was produced as part of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence's Alumni Initiative, established and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation. For more in-depth news and analysis on the Balkans, visit http://www.balkaninsight.com/

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The First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech Without Retribution

Each and every person in our land has the right to say how they feel about anything, and can do so without fear of retribution. This was not the case of one Christian and his business.

Mr. Dan T. Cathy, CEO of a Christian business has received both personal and business protests because of his answer to a question. His answer was nothing special, but nonetheless a backlash came.

There are many people in which I disagree with their views on many issues, including same sex marriage, gun control, and mental health discrimination. I would say on an average day I meet some people that disagree with what I say. There are some in which I don't agree with their opinion.

However, we cannot get angry or feel slighted because my beliefs are different from another's. The educated thing to do is to discuss it, and be respectful of both sides. Because of my religious beliefs, I cannot support issues that circumvent my beliefs.

Same sex marriage is one issue in which I listen to another's viewpoint, but I politely air my opposition. This is how we should respond to each other's core beliefs. No business or person(s) should suffer because they spoke their mind.

They should not have their business effected because they believe differently than someone else. If we do that, then we are no better than a bunch of hoodlums that try and bully a school kid.

If you want to protest someone or something, do so, but do it in a non - confrontational way. This applies to me along with everyone that reads this article.

The great part of this country is our freedom to display our views and beliefs, and to peacefully protest those beliefs that are different from our own. This applies to every person and business including Mr. Cathy and his business.

What I would like to in closing is that in other countries you can be jailed or killed for believing in certain things including Christianity. I just thank God that I can worship my God any way I see fit.

All I can say is that if you like Chicken, then frequent Mr. Cathy's business. If you do not want to eat there, then all I can say is that you are missing a family friendly place to take your family and get some great food.

I chose to write about the hard issues facing out society. As writer's we are duty bound to tackle unpopular topics for to not do so is to not only neglect our duty, but fail our readers.

As always, go out and find a stranger and tell them that both you and God love them.

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Chemical Plant Explosion And Fire In Iran and A Refinery Fire In Richmond CA - Any Relation?

Do you believe in coincidence, because generally speaking I don't? You see, there will be, just based on probability, so many coincidences in our given realm at any one time. However, when they happen in very close proximity, one needs to start asking the questions, and playing a little bit of detective. Let me give you one such instance which came up recently in the global media.

You see, I live in California and I'm now paying four dollars a gallon for gas. It turns out there was a California refinery fire, which sent 100 people to the hospital for smoke inhalation, and that refinery is responsible for about 16% of the fuel for California. Due to supply and demand, now you know why I'm paying so much for gasoline. Interestingly enough, just the day before there was a petrochemical plant fire and explosion in Iran.

There was a news alert coming in from CBS on August 6, 2012 titled; "California refinery fire sends scores of residents to hospital with breathing problems," which incidentally occurred only one day after the Iranian chemical plant fire and explosion killing 1-person and injured 16, quite serious; cite: Chemical Info article; "Fire Kills One at Iran's Biggest Petrochemical Plant."

We know that Iran has insurgents in the United States, and they have admitted to sponsoring terrorism in the past to serve their political will, and stated in the global media that they have sleeper terrorist cells here in our homeland. Was this a retaliation? It may have been, we don't know, at least not yet. It is hard to say if the petrochemical explosion in Iran came about due to foreign spy operatives there. Anytime there is an explosion in any of the facilities in Iran, they automatically suspect that it is the Western world which is behind it.

Whether it was or wasn't, Iran might believe it was, therefore launched a secondary attack in reciprocal response here the United States. If so, this could be considered an act of war through state-sponsored proxy terrorism. If it is so, would I be surprised? Not in the least actually, and that's why I dare to ask a question at a time when no one is talking, the Department of Homeland Security won't comment, and we are further marching towards war in the Middle East.

Economic sabotage, and attacks on our oil infrastructure have already been part of Iran's plan to get back at the Western world for economic sanctions, which they believe are an act of war upon their civilization and society. Some might say that my creative mind is making links and connections which don't exist. I don't allow my mind to do that, and yes this is speculation, but it comes from a deeper understanding of geopolitics, international terrorism, and the reality of current events on the global stage. I ask that you please consider all this and think on it.

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Do Publications Continue To Exist Over Digital Media?

Print media is the periodicals that are given out in a printed form like newspapers, which are delivered to the public. These periodicals can be distributed manually or the customers can buy them. Publications are wide-ranging as different topics are covered in it. Some periodicals may feature only a particular section like sports, entertainment, business, politics, and lifestyle while other periodicals may cover current happenings in your area. bay area newspapers and other publications are the best way through which you can keep up with the latest events. These events could be in their community, state or country. You can also read about any special interests, if you have any. For example, there are cookery features in newspapers which are great material for cooking fans.

Advantages of print media:-

• It is cheap and handy.

• You don't need access to a computer to read the latest news, a periodical can be bought from the roadside also.

• Newspapers and magazines help customers remember information. The biggest plus to publications is that, it can visually kindle your memory. So, if you have an advertisements print, you can always remember it and keep it as reference.

• Social media and online content are mediums that have flourished today.But newsletters have been read since a century. Many of us would want to go back to reading those good old newspapers.

• Prints still keep you excited. Printed content seems more credible to people. You would probably respond to International newspapers classified than an online advertisement.

Is print media still useful?

To tell the truth, today, digital media is appropriate for national distribution. But, there is more importance given to print media by businesses, as it is also appropriate for local information.

Technology is occasionally annoying or excess of its use. Older people prefer following this medium. It is tricky for them to get a hang of the digital media. Also, you can even save more with it. Lots of people still prefer reading newspapers as they are portable and wireless. If you don't like the internet, you can use newspapers and magazines for marketing also. This way, you can find out your advertisement expenses for planning funds accordingly.

Print media directly connects with a huge niche of people. It is a great way of putting across to people, products, news, articles, even products on commercial terms. Digital media is not that astounding as it seems. People still love reading news papers with a cup of tea in the morning. For, the working group reading news via the internet is the best alternative. Even they can glance through a newspaper while just waiting at the airport! Regardless of what you do, prints are still preferred by a lot of us. Needless to say, print media continues to exist over digital media, owing to traditionalism that prevails among people.

Desi Tribune is a US based publication and the most credible among bay area newspapers. It covers all important local and international news. Its online version is available featuring current events in the US and the world.

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9/11 Something Fishy Happened That Day

As I saw the videos of the planes impacting the world trade center's twin towers, I was beside myself with disbelief. It was too much to process mentally. It seemed like a movie. There is no doubt that the events of September 11, 2001 are known by every human on the planet, and has affected the world deeply.

The "official" story, which was not properly investigated, is that the world trade center buildings came down because Islamic terrorists flew planes into the buildings. But, what about world trade center building no.7? No planes crashed into that building, and yet it came down, allegedly due to an office fire. That's something which makes one go, "Hmmmmm!" Can a normal office fire actually bring down a building? 1560 architects and engineers, under the collective name, "Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth", are taking this issue to court in America. They say that there is NO WAY a simple office fire could get hot enough to melt steel-reinforced concrete columns. I personally have seen people's homes completely burned out with no structural damage to the concrete structure whatsoever. Thusly, I had found myself taken in by conspiracy theories regarding the fallen world trade center buildings. However, new information has come to light, which sets the record straight. Let me say that there has come forth a Ph.D. scientist who has debunked all the previous explanations about how the world trade center buildings actually came down. Her name is Dr. Judy Wood.

Dr. Judy Wood is a scientist, and she collects evidence, not theories. She has written a book with her findings, entitled: "Where Did the Towers Go?" Herein below, I shall elucidate some of her findings, evidence only; and, you decide where the towers went. Okay?

1. From scientific observation of the collapse of the world trade center towers, Dr. Wood found that the buildings fell, or actually were pulverized, faster than the laws of physics would allow. If in a free fall, as from a controlled demolition, it should have taken 9 seconds for the towers to fall. In fact, it took only 8 seconds for the buildings to be mostly pulverized and the remainder to hit the ground.

2. As alluded to above, the buildings, for the most part, didn't fall, but were pulverized mid-air.

3. The twin towers were destroyed from the top-down, not from the bottom-up.

4. The upper 80% of the twin towers was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the ground. Many of the cleanup crew were surprised at the lack of rubble.

5. The upper 90% of world trade center no.7 was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the ground.

6. Remaining steel beams that were found were not melted, but rather had a "swiss-cheese" appearance. That is to say, they were full of holes.

7. According to eye-witness accounts, some things did spontaneously combust, without the existence of high heat, while other things did not. In fact, some of the "first responders" said that the dust cloud felt cool.

8. There was no evidence of any burnt human bodies.

9. The windows of surrounding buildings had odd-shaped holes "cut" out of them.

10. The north wing of WTC 4 was left standing, neatly sliced from the main body which virtually disappeared.

And for me, here are the clinchers:

11. The WTC1 and WTC2 rubble pile was far too small to account for the total mass of the buildings.

12. The WTC7 rubble pile was too small for the total mass of the building and consisted of a lot of mud.

I don't know where the towers went, but Dr. Wood suggests that they went into dust. They were mostly pulverized, disintegrated, separated into in nano-particles. What could do something like that? An airplane? No. Jet fuel? No. What? Do we even have the technology on this planet to do something like that? I don't know. Do you?

In any case, Dr. Wood's data conclusively proves that the buildings did not come down by controlled demolition as many conspiracy theorists are suggesting. However, to their credit, it does look somewhat like a controlled demolition. The elements of thermite, an ingredient in bombs which consists of aluminum and oxidised iron, were found in the rubble. But, Dr. Woods says that those ingredients could be found if steel and aluminum were pulverized into their base elements.

So, my dear conspiracy theorists, I love you, but we were wrong. There is no way on God's green earth that controlled demolition could account for 80 to 90% of the world trade center buildings just disintegrating. 9-11 wasn't an inside job; it was something far more nefarious than our minds can even comprehend. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it.

At the beginning of this article, I posed the question: "Where did the towers go?" I think that Dr. Wood has sufficiently answered that question. The question that remains is: "How did they go?" This article, being an opinion piece, I'm allowed to speculate and give my opinion. But, I have no opinion to answer that question. I do not have the necessary knowledge to explain how a building can be pulverized mid-air by some unseen force. However, I can give you my opinion as to why the world trade center was targeted for destruction. And I shall.

The world trade center buildings weren't just any buildings. They were icons of democracy and a free-market economy. Clearly, to me, those buildings were targeted to cripple the free-market system. In addition, the destruction of those buildings was to instill terror in the hearts of humankind. On both accounts, it worked. There is no doubt that the events of 9-11 set in motion a series of event that has led to our current market failures; and, there is no doubt that people have been terrorized by the events of 9-11. My next question is who would want to do such a thing? Who stood to gain by such a heinous deed? I don't know. Do you?

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