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- Preheat the broiler, positioning the oven rack 6-8 inches above.
- Melt half the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Pour in half the beaten eggs.
- As the eggs cook, use a spatula to lift the edge, letting the uncooked egg run underneath.
- When loose egg can move to the edge, remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle on half the cheese.
- Place the pan under the broiler until the cheese is melted and the egg is completely set.
- Spread half the fruit on one side of the omelet.
- Top the fruit with a generous dollop of the yogurt, which has been blended with the cinnamon and honey.
- Fold the other side of the omelet over the fruit and slide it onto a plate.
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WASHINGTON — Top officials — including former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — were responsible for the use of "abusive" interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a bipartisan Senate report concluded Thursday.
The long-awaited Senate Armed Services Committee report bluntly refuted the Bush administration's repeated claims that the abuses, which helped fuel the Iraq insurgency and damaged America's reputation around the world, were the work of a few low-level "bad apples."
"Senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees," said the report's 19-page unclassified executive summary. "Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority."
"Attempts by senior officials to pass the buck to low-ranking soldiers while avoiding any responsibility for abuses are unconscionable," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the panel's chairman, who released the executive summary with Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the committee's top Republican.
The report "details the inexcusable link between abusive interrogation techniques used by our enemies in violation of the Geneva Convention and interrogation policy for detainees in U.S. custody. These policies are wrong and must never be repeated," said McCain, a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
The 250-page classified report, which is undergoing a Pentagon declassification review, was the most comprehensive to date of a series of official investigations into the abuses of suspected terrorists who were detained after President George W. Bush launched his "global war on terror" after the 9/11 attacks.
The Senate report traces the abuses to a Feb. 7, 2002, Bush memo that declared that international law on the treatment of war prisoners embodied in the 1949 Geneva Convention didn't apply to al Qaida or to the Taliban.
The report outlines how senior U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, Myers and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice shaped the policy decisions that led to the use of interrogation techniques that the administration insists were legal but that numerous legal authorities and some former military officers have denounced as torture and war crimes.
Detainee abuses led to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, according to testimony to the committee by a former Navy general counsel, Alberto Mora. "There are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq — as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat — are, respectively, the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo," he said.
It's not clear, however, if the report will lead to legal proceedings against any of the officials or military officers named or whether the incoming Obama administration will pursue allegations of possible crimes committed during President Bush's war on terror.
"We welcome this report," said Brooke Anderson, the Obama transition team's national security spokeswoman. "We will review these findings carefully. President-elect Obama has said that Americans do not engage in torture and that we must send a message to the world that America is a nation of laws and that we stand against torture."
Obama, who's vowed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, must decide whether to authorize some kind of fact-finding effort into questionable aspects of Bush's war on terror, which in addition to rejecting the laws of war and approving harsh interrogation policies include denying detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment, sending suspected terrorists to third countries that use torture and eavesdropping without court approval.
The White House said it would have no comment on the new report, referring calls to the Pentagon. Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an e-mail that the findings of the committee's 18-month investigation were still being reviewed.
He indicated, however, that military officers could face prosecution.
"Any credible allegations of abuse by U.S. military personnel are taken seriously and looked into in painstaking detail," he wrote. "If and when applicable, offenders have been punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
The report said that the inhumane interrogation techniques were "based, in part, on Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to elicit false confessions" from captured American prisoners and adapted for use against U.S. detainees.
Instructors from the Pentagon agency that trains soldiers to resist such treatment were sent to Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq to assist in adapting the Chinese methods, it said.
The abusive techniques — waterboarding, nudity, stress positions, exploiting phobias, and treating detainees "like animals" — were "at odds with the commitment to humane treatment of detainees in U.S. custody" and inconsistent with the goal of collecting accurate information, the report concluded.
Rice, as national security adviser, and other Cabinet officers participated in meetings where specific interrogation techniques were discussed, the report said.
The report said that Rumsfeld's authorization of the techniques at Guantanamo "was a direct cause of detainee abuse there." By approving a memo from Pentagon General Counsel William J. Haynes, Rumsfeld "contributed to the use of abusive techniques," including using military dogs, forced nudity and stress positions in Afghanistan and Iraq, it said.
Myers' decision to cut short a legal and policy review of the techniques sparked by the concerns of military legal authorities was "inappropriate and undermined the military's review process," the report said.
Others criticized included:
_ Army Col. Randy Moulton, the commander of the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which trains soldiers to resist abusive interrogations. The report said that Moulton, "who had no experience in detainee interrogations," had authorized instructors in the Army's "Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape," or SERE, program to actively participate in interrogations using abusive tactics. This "was a serious failure in leadership that led to the abuse of detainees" in U.S. custody.
_ Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who introduced the techniques. It said that Miller ignored warnings from Pentagon and FBI investigators that the techniques were "potentially unlawful" and that their use would strengthen detainee resistance. Miller, it said, also helped to bring harsh interrogation methods to Iraq during visits in August and September 2003.
_ Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander in Iraq. Sanchez committed a "serious error in judgment" by approving the use of military working dogs and stress positions, which it said were "a direct cause of detainee abuse in Iraq."
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law — a McClatchy special project
Closing Guantanamo a minefield of critical steps
Supreme Court takes up another challenge to Bush terror strategy
Judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees
Obama's biggest Guantanamo dilemma may be in Yemen
Rights groups urge Obama to mount Guantanamo probe
Guantanamo down to 250 detainees; future uncertain
Can Barack Obama undo Bush's tangled legal legacy?
Guantanamo court judge: Threatening family was torture
Judge orders 17 Guantanamo detainees released to U.S.


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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Surname Saturday - Foster
The line begins with the immigrant ancestor Reginald Foster. He was born about 1595 in Exeter, Devon, England. He was married to Judith Wignol. Reginald and Judith had children William, Mary, Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Reginald, all born in England. Reginald and his family came to Ipswich, Massachusetts from England in 1638. Reginald died in 1681 in Ipswich.
Son William Foster was born about 1633 in England. He married Mary Jackson on May 15, 1661 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts. They had children Mary, Judith, Jonathan, William, Timothy, Hannah, David, Joseph and Samuel. William died on May 17, 1713 in Rowley.
William Foster was born 1670 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts. He was a weaver by trade. William married Sarah Kimball on July 6, 1690. They had children Sarah, Mary, John, Hannah, Lydia and Asa. William died August 29, 1755 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts.
Asa Foster was born June 16, 1710 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Abbott on October 26, 1732 in Andover. They had children Asa, Abiel, Daniel, David, David, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Sarah. Asa was a Captain in the French and Indian War. He led an expedition to Canada in 1758. His original dairy of this expedition is held at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. While on an expedition against Ticonderoga in 1758, Asa learned that his wife had died. Asa married 2nd Lucy Rogers Wise and had a daughter Lucy. Asa died July 17, 1787 in Andover.
My husband's family is descended from two children of Asa and Elizabeth - Asa and Sarah.
Asa Foster was born August 29, 1733 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. He built the first gristmill in that town. He was also a Deacon. He married Hannah Symonds on November 16, 1762 in Boxford, Massachusetts. They had children Asa, Susanna and Mehitable. Asa died September 23, 1814.
Asa Foster was born June 3, 1765 in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire. He was a private in the American Revolution, serving in Captain Ebenezer Webster's Company of Colonel Moses Nichol's Regiment. He was at West Point when Benedict Arnold left for the British side. He married Sarah Morrill on November 10, 1794 in Canterbury. They had Lucy, Hannah, Asa, Adams, Harrison, Mehitable, Sarah, Galen, Stephen, David, Newel and Caroline. Asa died August 20, 1861 in Andover.
Adams Foster was born February 18, 1800 in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire. He married Sarah Eastman on November 21, 1832 in Concord, New Hampshire. They had children Cyrus, Ann Maria, Emma, Asa and Charles. Adams died November 18, 1873 in Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Ann Maria Foster was born August 3, 1836 in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hamphsire. She married Farnk Joel Kinney on May 30, 1858. They had children Herbert, Lorenzo, Henry, Emma, Asa, Clarence and Sarah. Ann Maria Foster Kinney died June 13, 1890 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts and is buried in Hope Cemetery in that town. Ann Maria Foster Kinney was my husband's great-great grandmother.
Back to Asa and Elizabeth's daughter Sarah, from whom my husband also descends. Sarah Foster was born February 15, 1750 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. She married Timothy Bradley on December 23, 1773 in Andover. They had children Elizabeth, Asa, Sarah, Abiah, Hannah, Timothy, Foster and Abiel. Sarah died on February 7, 1825 in Concord, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
Sarah "Sally" Bradley was born on April 26, 1779 in Concord, New Hampshire. She married Charles Eastman on November 29, 1798. They had Lucy, Eliza, Maria, Sarah, Lycergus and Lucretia. Sarah died on December 7, 1809 in Concord.
Daughter Sarah Bradley married Adams Foster of this Foster line!
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I don't believe it! I just ran into this family line this week as I was doing some research on a woman who was my grandmother's best friend. Thank you so much for posting all this. I've got to print your post out and do some studying next week. I'm going to write a short post about this woman (not her ancestors) in my own blog today. It's been an adventure. Thank you again!ReplyDelete
I look forward to reading your posts and finding out the connection!
Another match. Reginald Foster is my 10x great grandfather, through his daughter Sarah Foster who married William Story of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Canterbury and Concord are not too far from me, I was at the vital records office in Concord, NH and it was 25 minutes door to door. The new VR office is very nice, and about three times as big as the old one.ReplyDelete


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Introducing Boildown
Fri Mar 25 12:31:08 2016 -0700
I've been poking at a fun side project lately, exploring how to compress/uncompress arbitrary streams flowing between two sockets. I ended up with something that's a little hacky, but surprisingly works quite well.
Introducing Boildown.
From a remote location (usually from work or on the road), I SSH home quite regularly and port-forward to several services behind NAT on my home network: SSH, remote desktop, web-cams, etc. I was curious to see if I could write something general that compresses traffic flowing between two sockets in an attempt to improve the overall "remote experience". That is, compress the bidirectional traffic flowing over-the-wire to see if I could make things "faster".
Orthogonally, I kinda wanted an excuse to play with LZF and Snappy.
How it works
Boildown listens on a local port, compresses (or decompresses) incoming traffic, and forwards the result to its destination. It's like SSH port-forwarding, but the bidirectional network traffic flowing through Boildown is automatically compressed or decompressed, depending on how it's configured. In essence, Boildown provides a compressed "pipe" connecting two nodes on a network.
Boildown is entirely protocol agnostic — it knows nothing about the protocol of the data flowing through it, and works transparently with any protocol that can be expressed over TCP/IP. The most common being HTTP (port 80), HTTPS (port 443), and SSH (port 22). This was key for me, because I wanted to build something general — a tool that isn't protocol or application specific, and an app I could just stick between a sender and a receiver on a network and (ideally) see some sort of performance benefit with compression.
And so, Boildown v1 supports the following framed or "block" codecs:
- LZF — provided by ning/compress
- Google Snappy — provided by xerial/snappy-java
There's two sides (or "modes") to Boildown:
- Compressor — listens on a local port, compresses outgoing traffic, and forwards the compressed data to another host.
- Decompressor — listens on a local port, decompresses incoming traffic, and forwards the original (uncompressed) result to its destination.
Assuming you'd want to SSH to
remote:22, here's how you'd create a compressed pipe using Boildown for an SSH session between
localhost:10022 and
+--------- [localhost] ---------+ +----------- [remote] ------------+
| --compress 10022:remote:10022 | <---- (compressed pipe) ----> | --decompress 10022:localhost:22 |
+-------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+
A Boildown compressor listens at
localhost:10022 and forwards compressed traffic to the decompressor listening at
remote:10022. Any bytes received by the decompressor at
remote:10022 are decompressed and forwarded to the SSH server daemon listening locally on
localhost:22. Of course, traffic flowing the other way,
remote:22 back to
localhost:10022, is compressed and decompressed in the same way.
Hence, a bidirectional, compressed network pipe.
Start a compressor on
localhost:10022, forwarding compressed traffic to
java -jar boildown-0.1-SNAPSHOT-runnable.jar --compress 10022:remote:10022 --zlib
Start a decompressor on
remote:10022, forwarding decompressed traffic to
java -jar boildown-0.1-SNAPSHOT-runnable.jar --decompress 10022:localhost:22 --zlib
localhost, start a new SSH session, funneling traffic through the Boildown managed compressed pipe:
ssh -p 10022 localhost
Compression codecs
--snappy, or
--lzf on the command line to use any of the 3 supported compression codecs.
Note, both sides of the pipe need to be using the same codec (obviously).
Thread pool
The compressor and decompressor implementations run within threads. The size of the internal thread pool used by Boildown can be controlled with the
--poolSize N argument, where
N is the maximum number of desired threads in the pool.
By default, if
--poolSize is omitted, the internal thread pool is sized to match the number of available cores.
Seeing what's happening on-the-wire, over the Boildown compressed pipe, is quite easy with
nc (netcat),
telnet and
Spin up a compressor listening at
localhost:20000 that forwards compressed traffic to
java -jar boildown-0.1-SNAPSHOT-runnable.jar --compress 20000:localhost:30000 --zlib &
Spin up a decompressor listening at
localhost:30000 that forwards uncompressed traffic back to
java -jar boildown-0.1-SNAPSHOT-runnable.jar --decompress 30000:localhost:30001 --zlib &
In a separate terminal, spin up an instance of
tcpdump that dumps traffic on port
30000. On Mac OS X:
sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i lo0 -nnvvXXSs 1514 port 30000
In another terminal, launch
nc to open up a socket and listen on port
30001 (where the decompressed/original bytes will be forwarded to):
nc -l 30001
And finally, in yet another terminal window, launch
telnet and connect to
telnet localhost 20000
Click to enlarge.
In the left panel, we're using
telnet to connect to the Boildown compressor listening at
localhost:20000. Anything typed into this
telnet session is routed through Boildown, compressed, and forwarded to
The middle panel, we're running
nc which is listening at
localhost:30001. This is the decompressed side. Anything from the
telnet session at
localhost:20000 is seen here, and consequently, anything we type into this session is forwarded (and compressed) back to
In the right panel, notice the bidirectional compressed traffic captured by
tcpdump flowing over
localhost:30000. The astute reader will notice the
Z? header in the
tcpdump output given we're running Boildown with
Next steps
- Java NIO — eventually I want to explore how to use Java's non-blocking I/O paradigm in lieu of threads to manage data flowing over-the-wire, similar to Jetty's NIO org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector.
- Specify Multiple Compressors/Decompressors — as of now you can only specify a single
--decompressroute on the command line, but I'd eventually like to rework the app to support an arbitrary number of routes similiar to SSH's
Open Source
Boildown is free on GitHub and licensed under the popular MIT License.
Issues and pull requests welcome.


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Antonio Banderas judge; winning images to be exhibited during world leaders' Millennium Development Goals Summit in September
Johannesburg, 14 May 2010 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Olympus Corporation and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Foundation, launched the second annual Picture This photo contest today in Johannesburg, South Africa. The contest, titled Picture This: We Can End Poverty, seeks to show the inspirational work that is being done in many countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight goals agreed on by world leaders to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
"Through the photo contest this year we want to show that the MDGs can be reached, even in the poorest and most disadvantaged countries," said Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator, at the launch of the contest. "We hope that the contest will bring much needed attention to the quickly approaching deadline for achieving the MDGs, and motivate people and governments in developed and developing countries to redouble their efforts in the fight against extreme poverty."
This year's competition is particularly important, as it coincides with the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals to be held in September in New York. The Summit will bring together world leaders to boost progress against poverty and commit to a concrete action agenda to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and internationally-acclaimed actor Antonio Banderas is one of five judges who will choose the winning photos. "We are at a defining moment in the fight against poverty. The challenges of achieving the MDGs cannot be overcome by a single person, organization or government. All sectors of society need to be mobilized in a call to action for the big push to 2015. This photo contest is the type of initiative that will bring all these different groups together in order to bring attention to the urgency of achieving the MDGs."
An exhibit featuring the winning photos will be held during the Summit to put a human face on the MDGs. The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. Contestants may submit up to three different photographs, focusing on progress towards one of the eight MDGs, preferably in a developing country.
The eight goals are:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development
The deadline for entries is by midnight EST 16 July, 2010.
The other four judges who will choose the winning photos are professional photojournalists: Alexandra Avakian and John Isaac, both award winning photographers, as well as Mark Garten, Head of UN Photo and Paola Messana, AFP Bureau Chief in New York.
In addition to three winners in each of the professional and amateur categories, there will be one "People's Choice" award. The winner of this category will be selected by the public, who can vote on the photo entries displayed on the Picture This website. The top rated three photos in each of the professional and amateur categories, as well as the "People's Choice" winning image will be displayed on the sponsors' websites and shown in at least two exhibitions in Japan and the United States.
The first prize winners in the professional and amateur categories and the "People's Choice" winner will be flown to an awards ceremony and launch of an exhibition in September in New York.
"The AFP Foundation is once again very pleased to support this photo contest," said Robert Holloway, Director of the AFP Foundation. "We believe it will give an opportunity to amateur and professional photographers everywhere to show the world how ordinary people around the world are dealing with achieving their most pressing development challenges."
President of Olympus, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, said from Tokyo, "We hope that through this initiative, people around the world will be inspired by images showing that the simplest of actions, no matter who you are or where you live, can make a real difference in the effort to halt extreme poverty. The time has come for the world to realize that we all have a role to play to achieve the Goals, and that regardless of where we live or what we do, we all have the potential to contribute to human development in our countries, communities and villages."
The 2009 Africa-centred Picture This: Caring for the Earth competition resulted in an international traveling exhibit (Geneva, Johannesburg, New York, Osaka, St Louis in Senegal, and Tokyo), and extensive media coverage for the contest itself, its winners and participants, as well as the issue of climate change and environmental degradation in Africa. Picture This: Caring for the Earth.
For more on the 2010 Picture This: We Can End Poverty photo contest, visit: http://picturethis.undp.org
For more on the Millennium Development Goals and the September MDGs Summit, visit:http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
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Olympus Corporation: Established in 1919, Olympus manufactures and sells precision machinery and instruments for medical and healthcare, imaging and information, and industrial applications. Its core competency is Opto-digital technology, which is a fusion of traditional optical technology with advanced digital and fine processing technologies. As a global corporation Olympus recognizes its social responsibility and the necessity to bring about improvements in the quality of human life and livelihood. www.olympus.com.
The AFP Foundation was set up by Agence France-Presse in 2007 to train young photographers and reporters, especially in developing countries. It exists in the belief that free, independent and responsible media can help people make informed decisions about their lives and thus help reduce poverty, promote development and defend human rights. It seeks to raise journalists' professional standards in accordance with its code of conduct and to promote press freedom. The AFP Foundation supports efforts to improve the working conditions of journalists and the protection of those working in combat zones and other dangerous areas, especially freelance reporters and photographers. It also supports efforts to elevate the status of women in the news media. http://fondation.afp.com/english/
UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. www.undp.org


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About the Product and BrandBaron 700 Series
A range of compact heavy duty equipment that incorporates reliability, power and design. The kitchen tops are made in a single mould and may be fitted on request. This system has many add-ons to improve the working environment including removable dirt-collecting tray, electric ignition and self-cleaning system. The wide choice of models with versions on an open base unit or over an oven or counter-top, allows the ideal solution to be found whatever the need or type of environment.
Exceptional levels of reliability, hygiene and safety, all compliant with the strictest European regulations.
Modern technology combined with the strength of stainless steel, with a Scotch Brite finish.
Baron is designed to satisfy the toughest requirements of professional catering. It has a vast range of integrated systems and equipment for professional kitchens with the perfect combination of high efficiency and a sophisticated design.
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You'll Like The 2009 Toyota Sienna If...
If you're comparing minivan comfort and convenience, you'll find the 2009 Toyota Sienna borrows many of the best ideas from each of its competitors and combines them into a strong, well-built platform. The Sienna is the only minivan to offer the option of all-wheel drive.
You May Not Like The 2009 Toyota Sienna If...
The Sienna can get pricey as you move up the trim range, but the same can be said of the competition. About the only reason not to like this van is if you are not partial to the styling or interior layout.
What's New
For 2009, the Sienna adds new optional 17-inch wheels and some upgrades to the LE trim's available option packages.
Interior Features
A look inside the Sienna clearly shows that Toyota is a player in the upscale van market. Trim levels include the CE, LE, XLE and Limited, and each has a great standard equipment list. The Sienna's seats take full advantage of the van's roomy interior, with wide seat bottoms as well as firm back rests. Second-row seating is either a set of captain's chairs that can be slid together to form a two-person bench, or a three-person split-folding bench seat with a sliding center section that can move forward by as much as 13 inches. The sliding center section makes an infant in a child safety seat more easily accessible to the front-seat passenger. Like the Honda Odyssey, the Sienna's rear seat can fold flush into the floor and features a 60/40 split. Cargo space behind the third seat has been improved thanks to the Sienna's long wheelbase.
Exterior Features
The Sienna is smartly styled but offers nothing radical in the way of exterior features or design. The current Sienna is bigger than previous generations, with a long wheelbase and a wide cabin with over 45 cubic feet of volume. The wide cabin permits three-passenger seating without cramping. Generous hip and shoulder room, a noticeable shortcoming on previous models, is a thing of the past. Clever features, such as the available Dynamic Laser Cruise Control and the option of part-time four-wheel drive, help the Sienna stand out in what has become a very crowded field.
Driving Impressions
The 2009 Toyota Sienna's 3.5-liter V6 engine delivers where it counts, and it performs beautifully in both city and highway driving. The Sienna pulls quickly from a dead stop and power is masterfully managed by an electronically controlled five-speed automatic that makes the most of the engine's torque curve before seamlessly shifting to the next gear. The Sienna's wide stance and long wheelbase make for an extremely smooth ride and further bolster the Sienna's already rock-solid stability. Some drivers may feel the steering effort to be somewhat heavy for a minivan, but the resultant firm and direct steering makes it possible to pull off highly accurate maneuvers not usually attempted in a vehicle of this sort.
Pricing Notes
The eight-passenger Sienna CE's Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) starts around $25,000, while the all-wheel-drive LE starts close to $30,000. The luxury-oriented all-wheel-drive Limited starts closer to $36,500 and, when fully loaded, tops out around $42,000. Before you buy, be sure to check the most recent Fair Purchase Price to see what others in your area are paying for the Sienna. Remove the luxury frills and you can find a comparably equipped van from Hyundai or Kia for a lot less money, and Dodge's Grand Caravan offers a far more versatile interior. But the Sienna is expected to retain a high resale value, far better than that of rivals Dodge Grand Caravan, Hyundai Entourage and Kia Sedona, a few points higher than the Nissan Quest, but not as good as the Honda Odyssey.
Notable Equipment
The Sienna CE includes a V6 engine, five-speed automatic transmission, anti-lock brakes, Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Traction Control (TRAC), 10 cup holders, rear defroster, side-impact and side-curtain airbags, dual sliding side doors with power windows, power door locks, illuminated remote keyless entry, power liftgate release, AM/FM stereo with CD, tilt/telescopic steering wheel, power windows, full wheel covers and a rear wiper.
Notable Options
Options vary by trim and include all-wheel drive, power seats, leather interior, heated front seats, cruise control, dual power sliding side doors, JBL audio with ten speakers and Bluetooth technology (standard on Limited), power-folding third-row seat (Limited), four-wheel disc brakes, power lumbar support, DVD rear-seat entertainment system and alloy wheels. The Limited trim offers Dynamic Laser Cruise Control, while the Limited and XLE offer optional navigation.
Favorite Features
Sliding Side-Door Power Windows
Sliding side-door power windows allow passengers to enjoy as much fresh air as they like.
Split Flush-Folding Third-Row Seat
The Sienna's split flush-folding third-row seat allows you to carry both additional passengers and cargo.
Under the Hood
There is only one engine offered with the Sienna: A robust new V6 offering strong off-the-line acceleration, quiet operation and decent fuel economy.
3.5-liter V6
266 horsepower @ 6200 rpm
245 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4700 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 17/23 (FWD), 16/21 (AWD)
Editors' Notes
The 2009 Toyota Sienna is considered one the best minivans on the market today. Although not as big as the Honda Odyssey or Dodge Grand Caravan, the Sienna is still a sizable family hauler with room for up to eight persons. An attractive feature you won't find on any other minivan is the optional all-wheel drive, a must-have for many families who live in snow-frequented climates. Known for its solid build and a reputation for reliability, the Sienna quietly retains one other noteworthy quality: A strong resale value.


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
How Do You Use Google Alerts?
The Faces of My Family blog called "Another Google Alert Makes My Jaw Drop - Part 1". Then I wrote my own post on how to set up Google Alerts for finding gravestones online at my Symbolic Past blog.
But I still can't get Google Alerts out of my head. I guess it's because I don't want to leave people short. You can do so much more with Google Alerts than just find gravestones.
How I Use Google Alerts
My main use of Google Alerts is to track myself on the web. If you are a speaker you will want to know when your speaking venues are publicizing your talks. If you are a writer or photographer you will want to know if someone has mentioned your writing or photos on the web. Of course, the ugly side is that the Google Alerts will also alert you to who is stealing your content.
Me, Myself and I
I have an alert set up for my name "Marian Pierre-Louis". I put it in quotation marks so that it will give me exact hits. I don't want to see all the other people with a first name Marian (and some other last name) or folks who share the Pierre-Louis last name but have a different first name. Now that I think of it, I should really have alerts for mispellings of my name too. People seem to mis-spell my name a lot. I also have an alert for "Fieldstone Historic Research" which is my company name.
Don't forget about your blogs. I have an alert set up for "Roots & Rambles" and for "Roots and Rambles" because you just don't know how people are going to write things.
Beyond Me
There are a few organizations that I follow closely and like to keep up with. Instead of having to remember to search the web regularly I have Google Alerts set up to alert me whenever there is something new about them. This is particularly useful for smaller organizations that are not in the press a lot or only make the local papers.
There are some journalists that I follow because I like their content. I've set up alerts for them as well. For instance, if you wanted to follow Sharon Tate Moody's genealogy articles in the Tampa Tribune you could do an alert for "Sharon Tate Moody" +"Tampa Tribune". You won't ever miss an article again!
As Lisa described in her blog post, you can also use Google Alerts to find your ancestors. This works best of course with unusual family names. Names like Smith, Johnson and Murphy will return too many hits to be useful.
How Do You Use Google Alerts?
There must be a million different creative ways to use Google Alerts. What are some of the ways you use them? Do you use them to keep up with topics on a regular basis or to help find that needle in the haystack? I want to hear from you because there are probably lots of ways that I haven't thought of yet that could be really helpful.
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I use it to track mentions of my paternal grandfather (a WWI era Chicago White Sox pitcher.) With baseball players, it's important to "Google-alert" for nicknames as well, so I include all his known nickname variants, like "Red" and "Mellie".ReplyDelete
I also "G-alert" for obscure places, esp. small towns and villages where there are family clusters I;m researching. If "Earlehurst" or "Sweet Chalybeate" Virginia get a mention, I want to know about it!
I use Google Alerts to monitor all mentions of the surname CRUWYS which I am researching for my one-name study. It wouldn't work for more common surnames! I find the easiest way to monitor Google Alerts is to set them up as an RSS feed. I can then scan the alerts easily in Google Reader rather than having to read lots of e-mails.ReplyDelete
I track the words "genealogy" "family history" etc together with "New Hampshire" to find out what is going on in my state. I also track the name of my town or towns where my ancestors lived, and I get many interesting hits, too. I'm experimenting with Google.es for Spanish surnames and village names, with some success but I wish I knew more Spanish to weed through the hits!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Thank you for reminding me to track my own name!ReplyDelete
I know I'm a bit late to the party :) I use Google Alerts to let me know when certain out of print genealogy books come up for sale.ReplyDelete


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Jon Gosselin: 'Yeah,' I'm a waiter now
"Hi, Welcome to Black Dog. My name's Jon. Ready to order?"
That's Jon Gosselin, 36, greeting diners at Black Dog restaurant in Beckersville, Pa. The father of eight kids and ex of Kate Gosselin tells Entertainment Tonight that it's "next to nearly impossible" for him to find a job.
"I've hit rock bottom like 20 times. I just bounce back."
He says, "No," he's not struggling to make ends meet. He likes being a waiter.
"At first I was nervous because I was like, 'How are people going to react?'" he says. "But then I'm thinking, 'Well it's fun and I get to talk to people.' And they technically already know me, so they're like 'Are you the guy?' I'm like, 'Yeah, I'm the guy.'"
He is happily living in a cabin "in the woods" with no TV and no Internet, reports ET.
But he has no regrets about anything. "You learn from your mistakes."


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The Offshore Energy Center's Education Outreach Program was established in 1999. Educating the public about the industry, including its history and its safety and environmental record is of paramount importance among the OEC's objectives.
The purpose of the outreach program is to enhance science and technology curriculums for school children, from kindergarten through grade 12, utilizing teacher workshops, field trips and overnight and summer camps. The Center works with schools, Boy and Girl Scouts and teachers to promote the importance (past, present and future) of the offshore energy industry and its contributions to our quality of life. The program is also designed to ensure awareness of the industry's contribution to and continued improvement of our environment.
An Advisory Committee, consisting of individuals representing various industry and governmental organizations, operators, drilling contractors and service companies, oversees the Educational Outreach Program. An Educational Outreach Mission Statement has been developed, and goals and objectives to develop vision, direction and planning outreach strategies have also been formulated.
Assisting the Education Director is the Offshore Energy Center Education Committee (OECEC) consisting of educators from the surrounding area. Together, these members have aligned various science state curricula with the Project E³: Expanding Energy Education (Project E3), developed curriculum, facilitated and recruited teachers for workshops and developed the Mobile Offshore Learning Unit (MOLU).


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In our company we have an old piece of software which was written by our previous I.T manager but was never finished.
The program connects to SQL server but we want it to point to a newer SQL server we have recently configured.
The old instance name (on the current server) is simply server1.
Our new instance name (on the new server) is server2\someinstance.
Changing the programs app.cfg file to point to server server2\someinstance isn't a problem until a certain stage where it joins to another database on the same server. The program then throws the below error:
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 Incorrect syntax near '\'.
If we run the same query in SSMS, we get the same error but to get around this we can put square brackets around the name and then the query completes successfully, e.g [server2\someinstance].
The problem I have is I cannot edit his source code and when attempting to change the DB server in the app.cfg to [server2\someinstance] it won't connect to the instance at all.
The only way I see around this is to reinstall SQL server on the new server, without having any slash at all, e.g server2.
I thought I'd ask the question here in case anyone can offer any other suggestions. I've looked into SQL aliases but am not sure this is what I want (plus when trying it would never connect using the alias name anyway, but that's probably a separate issue).


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NAIA Men?s Swimmer & Diver of the Month ? No. 1
By Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Communications & Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Daniel Ramirez of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA National Men's Swimmer & Diver of the Month, the national office announced Friday. Ramirez was selected based on his performances in the month of October through December. He was chosen out of a pool of candidates nominated by NAIA men's swimming & diving programs.
Ramirez, a native from Hermosillo, Mexico, set NAIA season highs in seven different events since the start of the 2013 campaign. The junior was a highlight at the NCAA Division I University of Texas Invitational on Dec. 5 where he finished sixth overall among 32 competitors in the 100-yard backstroke (47.43). That mark would have broken the National Championship record in the event by .17 of a second. In all seven of his events overall, he placed within the top 10, which included a first-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly (1:51.15) at the NCAA Division III Hendrix (Ark.) Classic on Oct. 25.
The second edition of the Men's Swimmer & Diver of the Month will be announced on Jan. 24, 2014. For more information on NAIA Swimming & Diving, click here.
Nominees: Bradley Moore, Union (Ky.); David Lambert, St. Andrews (N.C.); Jacob Anderson, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Kevin Donnelly, Concordia (Calif.); Chad LeJeune, Biola (Calif.); Matheus Montarroyos, West Virginia Tech; Jimmy Hall, Asbury (Ky.); Thalys Caixeta, Cumberlands (Ky.); Filippo Albertino, Campbellsville (Ky.); Jonathan Hindman, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Gabriel Phillips, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Joel Ax, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Igor Dos Santos, Thomas (Ga.); Mark Pontier, Oklahoma Baptist.
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By monitoring the status updates of 2.4 million twitter users, sociologists at Cornell have harvested close to half a billion tweets to generate one of the world's most impressive social barometers ever: a searchable dataset that reveals hour-by-hour tweeting trends all around the world. And the best part is they've gone and made the dataset public.
The researchers analyzed the data for hundreds of words like "happy," "excited," "fearful," and "sad" to reveal that all over the world, people's moods tend to follow similar patterns of high and low throughout the day. According to the researchers, people tend to be most upbeat around breakfast time, but this mood tends to wane over the course of the day before rebounding later in the evening.
And while the researchers may have probed the dataset for indicators of mood, you can search their data to reveal trends on just about anything you want! Just don't expect a publication out of it.
You can read all about the scientist's findings, which are published in the latest issue of Science, over at Discovery News.
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o.0 How did this thread end up in the Sauna? 0__o
I had a teacher in California in her 70s. She was full of self doubt because of her age - I told her I'd gladly pay her class fee just to watch her dance! {BOW HERE} She's incredible to watch, and a bang-up teacher as well!
And yes, the social aspects are very important to me as well - its a huge part of the experience.


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Series to Be Co-Produced by Electus and 5x5 Media
All parents think they know their baby well, but are they willing to bet on it? ABC's "Bet On Your Baby" will reveal the answer to that question each week in an hour-long program featuring five memorable families with toddlers between the ages of two to three-and-a-half years old, who will play to see how well they can guess their child's next move in the hopes of earning money towards their college fund. Actress/comedienne and working mom Melissa Peterman, star of ABC Family's "Baby Daddy" and "Dancing Fools," hosts ABC's newest addition to the network lineup, the adorable, hilarious and surprisingly suspenseful game show, "Bet on Your Baby," which premieres with back-to-back episodes SATURDAY, APRIL 13 (8:00-9:00 & 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET).
Editor's note: "Bet on Your Baby" was originally scheduled to premiere on April 6.
On "Bet on Your Baby," the parents will be playing the game and the children will just be playing. The game takes place on two stages - on one, a shiny game show studio with a cheering audience, one parent places a bet, while on the other, the parent takes the child to a play room called "The Babydome" where the child determines the outcome of the game completely unaware of the stakes that are on the line. Each family plays a self-contained, individual challenge against the house -- meaning that they're only competing against themselves, not against other families. Later on, the five families return to play for the chance to advance to the final round - "Smash for Cash" - in which parents of one toddler will have 5 tries to hammer open piggy banks, one of which contains a $50,000 college fund.
"Episode 101" (8:00-9:00 p.m.) -- How many toys can your spouse get your toddler to clean up in a minute? How many cookies can your wife get your child to stack while time runs out? Which snack will your two-year-old choose to eat? -- And would you bet money on it?
"Episode 102" (9:00-10:00 p.m.) -- Will little Ryder be able to complete an obstacle course with Dad in just 90 seconds in the game "Copycat?" Can young Addison name at least seven grocery items before the clock runs out during "In the Bag," and does she really know the word for "corn," as Dad insists but Mom doubts? And can Thomas play "Stack 'Em" and not "eat 'em" before time is up?
Co-creator and executive producer Craig Armstrong says: "'Bet On Your Baby' is an amazing way for parents to celebrate their babies and have a chance to win real money for their kids' college fund. It's the happiest show on television."
ABC has ordered eight episodes of the series, which is produced by some of the talents behind such hits as "Supernanny," "Survivor," "The Biggest Loser" and "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution." "Bet on Your Baby" was created by 5x5 Media's Craig Armstrong, Rick Ringbakk, Charles Wachter and Electus' Ben Silverman and Jimmy Fox. The series is executive-produced by Electus (Ben Silverman, Chris Grant, Jimmy Fox) and 5x5 Media (Craig Armstrong and Rick Ringbakk). Electus International, the global distribution arm of Electus, will distribute the series universally.
About Electus
Electus is the first integrated multimedia entertainment studio to unite producers, creators, advertisers and distributors under one roof and produce all forms of content for distribution across a variety of platforms around the world. Headed by Ben Silverman in partnership with IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], the company connects advertisers, distributors and content creators early on in the development process, enabling marketers and advertisers to be a true partner in campaigns and content creation. Electus International, the global distribution arm of Electus, is responsible for all international sales and distribution for Electus' programming and its studio partners as well as programs and formats from other well-known 3rd party providers.
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Five by Five Media ("5x5") is a full service television and film production company in an overall production and distribution agreement within the Electus studio system. 5x5 Media develops and produces both scripted and unscripted television programming and feature films. Its principals have won multiple primetime Emmy Awards and have produced such titles as "Survivor," "The Amazing Race," "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," "Supernanny" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." 5x5's recent productions include TBS' "King of the Nerds," SPIKE TV's "Car Lot Rescue," CMT's "Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country" and NBC's fashion reality competition show, "Fashion Star."
"Bet on Your Baby" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound. A TV parental guideline will be assigned closer to airdate.


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Column: 'Snow' place like East Price Hill
On Jan. 27, three black male teenagers decided they would threaten my wife and 8-year-old son's life in a spoiled attempt to steal our vehicle.
Due to the absolute stupidity of these three ignorant individuals, I know it has caused my wife to question the consequences of residing in our East Price Hill neighborhood home.
On both Thursday and Friday of that same week while sled riding at Dempsey Park with our three kids and their friend, I was reminded why East Price Hill is our home and will remain so.
First, two Hispanic fathers intently watched as our children and I sledded the hill on our rudder sleds and ended up near the ball field backstop. They ventured over and inquired about the sleds and asked if they could attempt a run. "Of course" was the answer and down they went with their two very young children.
As they returned back up the hill their smiles lit up the now sundown afternoon. After a few runs they thanked us and returned their children home out of the extreme cold.
Next an oddly dressed 30-something male, who most probably would have had suspicions of his intentions, watched inquisitively for about 20 minutes or so, but then came over to give a suggestion that would help my 7-year-old daughter now be able to start her snowboarding runs without my assistance.
"Daddy look, I can do it myself now!" "Thank you sir" and off he went to his place of residence.
Now the 7- or 8-year-old black male who had been there disc sledding since we arrived respectfully asked if he could attempt both the snow board and rudder sleds. Again, "of course" was the reply and soon he was experiencing his first snowboarding and rudder sled runs, going further than he ever expected down the ice covered Dempsey Park hill.
Now come two young men exiting the library on their way home. "Can we please try?" "Sure," and off they went, also returning with huge smiles. Despite not having gloves they stayed till we were ready to leave. One of the two, "Johnny" indicated that he, his mother and younger brother had just arrived in the neighborhood after residing an a homeless shelter. "Come back tomorrow and we will bring an extra pair of gloves."
On Friday, our 60 something neighbor ventured to the hill with us to enjoy a beverage and a cigar with me. Watching the kids sled the hill was not good enough, soon he and I were racing down on the rudder sleds like we were the 7,8 and 10 year olds. "Johnny" soon arrived smiling. We gave him a pair of gloves, he linked up with the kids and sled riding he went.
Now a late 20 or early 30 something black female arrived and watched with curiosity. Finally she asked, "Can I try once?" She had never seen a rudder sled either. "Absolutely!" She only took one trip down but indicated that it was a sure thrill.
Thank you to Cincinnati's past leaders for preserving the many parks, recreation areas and green spaces. How many suburban neighborhoods can you think of where you can literally walk to five parks within 15 minutes. On two late weekday afternoons while many were stuck in traffic or driving for 30 to 60 minutes to get home from wherever, I shared time with my family and neighbors creating both first experiences and fantastic memories.
My only regret is that my friend Jim Grawe was not able to witness these event so he could have told the memories. Leave East Price Hill, I think not.
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March 11. 8000 block Roanoke Street. Complainant states that between March 9 and March 11, an unknown person gained entry to shed and stole two small gas tanks, propane tank, shovel, leaf blower and attachments.
March 14. 8300 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states that offender handed teller demand note but fled bank without any money.
March 14. 8300 block Anderson Street. Complainant states that between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., an unknown person broke window to enter property and stole a black Dell laptop computer, modem and backpack.
March 14. Unit block Norman Lane. Police responded and to alarm and upon arrival found first floor bathroom window broken open. It appears entry was not made.
March 17. 8400 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states that an unknown person was observed taking pieces of costume jewelry and leaving store without paying. Offender – black female, 5'11" tall, 36 – 40 years old, medium brown complexion, red hair, wearing a green scarf and a brown coat. Reported at 12 a.m.
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"Life and Death," replied Confucius,
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Israel-NY flight makes safe emergency landing
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York-bound Delta Air Lines flight from Israel declared an emergency and returned to Tel Aviv early Sunday after flaps on the jumbo jet failed to retract properly on takeoff, the airline said.
Flight 469 — a Boeing 747 with 370 passengers and 17 crew members aboard — landed safely back at Ben Gurion Airport around 2:30 a.m. local time, about two hours after it left for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Delta spokeswoman Jennifer Martin said the crew made the emergency landing "out of an abundance of caution."
The emergency landing came amid heightened sensitivity in Israel, as the military continues to exchange rocket fire with Palestinian militants. Martin said there was no indication the plane's problem was related to the conflict or terrorism.
Warning sirens sounded Friday in Tel Aviv as militant rockets targeted the airport, but they were intercepted and there was no disturbance to Israel's air traffic.
Hamas has said it intends to fire rockets at the airport and warned foreign airlines to stop flying to Israel.
Delta issued a travel advisory earlier this week labeled "Israel Unrest" saying it would continue operating flights on the New York-Tel Aviv route but that it would allow passengers booked while the conflict continues to cancel or change their tickets without penalty.
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How to Make a Skating Rink Cake
Cake eaters will be amazed, surprised, and delighted by the visual impact of this design. Although the cake doesn't pay homage to a particular holiday, it's a great choice for any wintertime occasion.
Assembling and Decorating the Skating Rink Cake
Tools: Two 9-x-13-inch cake pans, #864 icing tip, 8-cup glass measuring cup, large glass bowl
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 35 minutes plus 30 minutes for cooling
Decoration time: 45 minutes plus 3 hours for refrigeration
Yield: 12 servings
2 batches modified Most Excellent White Cake batter
1 cup flaked sweetened coconut
2 batches Stiff Decorator Frosting
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Prepare the cake batter according to the recipe, but in each batch, fold 1⁄2 cup flaked coconut into the batter before pouring it into the pan.
Bake for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs attached. Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes before you run a knife around the edges. Invert the cakes onto racks to finish cooling.
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Frost the stacked cake with buttercream. Use a bamboo skewer to sketch a free-form lake in the center of this cake. With a fork, carefully hollow out the lake, digging out the cake to a depth of 1 inch (only dig out the top layer of cake).
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Mr. Right
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
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Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
Barry Goldwater loved ham radio and liked to fly airplanes, was a fine photographer, had a lifelong subscription to Popular Mechanics, inherited a share of his family's department store, and as a retailer became celebrated as the creator of "antsy-pants," men's boxer shorts imprinted with drawings of ants crawling this way and that. He was a man's man, a guy's guy, a regular fellow. Big, handsome, square-jawed, quick to smile, easy to like. A straight-from-the-shoulder talker who'd rather tinker with his old souped-up car than go to a black-tie dinner.
Make him a presidential candidate running against the shrewdest politician who ever cut a deal, and you have a movie by Frank Capra: Mr. Goldwater Runs for President. Capra's Goldwater of course would have won. American innocents were Capra's specialty, and they never lost. Whether they went to whorish, thieving Washington like Mr. Smith or went to town playing the tuba like "pixillated" Mr. Deeds, they prevailed. In Capra's America innocence could never be defeated.
The real Goldwater was not quite so innocent as that. He surely knew all along that he was going to lose to Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Anybody who ran against Johnson was probably going to lose that year, because Johnson held a nearly unbeatable hand. People who watched Goldwater campaign suspected, however, that he was a little too resigned to losing, that maybe he really didn't want to win. One afternoon while campaigning by train in the Middle West he climbed into the engineer's cab, took control of the locomotive, and hauled his own rented train across the prairie. That was not what a man did who had "fire in the belly," as the reporters called the consuming lust for presidential power; it was Goldwater the Popular Mechanics subscriber extracting at least one boyish adventure from this miserable experience.
Long afterward Goldwater wrote that he had been "better equipped, psychologically" for military life than for politics. "If I had my life to live over again, I'd go to West Point," he said in his autobiography. Well, he was nearly eighty when he wrote that and maybe losing touch with the man he had been when young. The evidence suggests he would not have flourished under military discipline. As a young Republican senator he once attacked a Republican president, a five-star general named Eisenhower, for operating "a dime-store New Deal." Such insubordination spoke of a man more passionate about politics than discipline.
Perhaps he was one of those politicians who are born not to command but to preach crusades. He was a good talker, but not much for doing. "Lazy" was the judgment of reporters who covered him in the Senate. When he talked, though, audiences cheered and opened their checkbooks.
The gospel he preached was "conservatism." Forty years ago it was a word no politician had spoken, except with contempt, since the age of the Hoover collar. Nowadays of course politicians fling it about with the same reverence accorded "home" and "mother," but by…
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The South China Sea: China, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, & the Philippines all stake claim over oil-rich waters (REPORT)
(HN, April 11, 2012) -- A cold-war `esque conflict is brewing in the area known as the South China Sea, though recently US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there is no such scale of a dispute brewing. It might be described then as an inter-Asia issue with China claiming the entire South China Sea for itself, with Taiwan and four ASEAN members - the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam - also making overlapping claims to parts of the territory.
The Philippines and China are contesting sovereignty over a small group of rock formations known as Scarborough Shoal which the Philippines calls the Panatag Shoal but what China call's Huangyan Island. This weekend, Philippine Navy officials said eight Chinese fishing vessels had been found there, 124 nautical miles off the coast of Zambales province and the country's largest warship, the US Hamilton-class cutter Gregorio del Pilar, was sent to investigate.
The fishermen claim they were seeking shelter from bad weather, and were prevented from entering the lagoon by a Philippine Naval gunboat. A boarding party found endangered marine species on the ships, and a standoff ensued after China sent two surveillance vessels to the area to prevent the arrest of its nationals, Vice Admiral Alexander P. Pama of the Philippine Navy told reporters at a briefing.
On Wednesday in Manila, the Philippines Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario met with the Chinese ambassador Ma Keqing over the matter and both made a statement saying "We resolve to seek a diplomatic solution to the issue", though neither country is backing down from territorial claims to the Scarborough Shoal region.
The dispute is one of a myriad of conflicting claims over islands, reefs and shoals in the South China Sea pitting China against its Asian neighbors who, last year using patrol boats to disrupt hydrocarbon survey activities chasing away a ship working for Forum Energy off the Philippines and slicing cables of a vessel doing work for Vietnam. Some of the claims have drawn the United States to press China over sovereignty.
Both of the countries reject China's map of the South China Sea as a basis for joint development of oil and gas resources, and have pushed ahead with exploration work, leading to more confrontations as China expands the use of its marine surveillance vessels.
Also at play are the Spratly Islands, a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea. The archipelago is situated off the coasts of the Philippines and Malaysia, about one third of the way from there to Vietnam - amounting to less than four square kilometers of land area over more than 425,000 square kilometers of ocean. Such small, remote islands have little economic value in themselves, but are important in establishing international boundaries.
The islands stand as rich fishing grounds, and initial surveys indicate the islands may contain significant reserves of oil and natural gas which a 2008 US Energy Information Agency report said could be as much as 213 billion barrels of oil.
About 45 of the islands are occupied by small numbers of military forces from Vietnam, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Brunei.
Tension has risen in the past two years over worries China is becoming more assertive in its claims to the area as needs for oil and gas rise in the population booming Communist nation in and as more goods are needed in the second largest nation on earth.
Straddling the Spratly archipelago are also the main shipping lanes between East Asia and Europe and the Middle East and the control of these lanes has not been lost on those claiming sovereignty over these waters.
The stakes have risen further since the US last year began refocusing its military attention on Asia, strengthening ties with the Philippines and Australia. The US has a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines and has boosted military relations with Vietnam in recent years.
On Tuesday, Chinese state media said a Chinese cruise ship, the `Scent of Princess Coconut', had completed a trial voyage to the Paracel Islands - Hoang Sa in Vietnamese - a cluster of close to 40 islets, outcrops and reefs that both Vietnam and China claim as theirs since ancient times.
The Scent of Princess Coconut docked at a port in the Chinese southern island of Hainan on Monday after the trip. The proposed opening of the Paracel Islands to tourism by China could add to the long-standing tension, which has drawn the United States into pressing China over the issue.
The Japanese-built ship carried out a three-day voyage to the northern shoals of the Paracels, though China said there was no firm timetable for a launch of such regular cruises. Initial Chinese plans call for ships to visit Woody Island, called Yongxing Island by China, though tourists would not be allowed to leave their boat.
Vietnam's foreign ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said Monday that the trip was "illegal and seriously violates Vietnam's sovereignty".
China and South Vietnam once administered different parts of the Paracels, but after a brief conflict in 1974, Beijing took control of the entire group of islands - although this remains disputed by Hanoi.
Last month, China detained 21 crew sailing on two Vietnamese fishing boats near the Paracels, sparking an angry rebuke from Hanoi.
Complicating matters as well are recent claims by both India and Russia which have both, in the past few months announced their own plans to go ahead with oil exploration in the South China Sea, in partnership with Vietnam. China has vocally asked both nations to step aside saying, "China enjoys indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea".
Although not an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Nations) nation member, Chinese President Hu Jintao travelled to Phnom Penh ahead of the Asia bodies meeting in Cambodia last week to press his case over the South China Sea with Prime Minister Hun Sen - asking that ASEAN work to resolve the dispute among its members. ASEAN, for its part has stated that it believes the issue should be discussed and solved among those members making claims to the area directly.


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Last November I had the pleasure of hearing Tony Campolo speak at a two-day event in Chattanooga hosted by the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. In one of his talks, Tony warned the audience that the next group of people to be persecuted in the United States would likely be Muslims and Arab Americans. "As Christians, we can't let this happen," he said. "These are our neighbors, created in the image of God. They deserve our love and respect."
Tony's statement stood out to me, as I had never really considered the plight of Muslim Americans before. Now his words seem almost prophetic, as news of protests and book burnings fill the airwaves each night.
It is of course frustrating to watch as some of the same folks who so passionately defend the second amendment seem ready to do away with the first when it applies to someone else's freedom to worship. But far more troublesome to me is the fact that many Christians are passionately protesting the building of Islamic community centers in New York and Mufreesboro on the basis that such centers are "offensive" or that they "threaten the American way of life."
Have these Christians forgotten that our first allegiance is not to our own interests or to the "American way of life," but rather to the Kingdom of Heaven?
When God decided to wrap himself up in flesh and live among us, he placed himself in the context of perhaps the most oppressive and cruel empires in history. Those listening to him would have had clear memories of injustice, ridicule, heavy taxation, and even genocide at the hands of the tyrannical Roman government. And yet to those who had every right to fight back, every right to be biter and offended, Jesus said:
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles."
Jesus remained faithful to these teachings all the way to the cross and they were so diligently observed by the first Christians that they refused to fight back in the midst of terrible persecution. One wonders how we went from boldly declaring the gospel from dungeons and stoning pits to complaining to upper management when department stores don't play Christian music at Christmastime.
There is a tragic disconnect from the way of Jesus when Christians join the chorus of those saying, "We will respect your faith when you respect ours" or "You can build a mosque in New York when we can build a church at Mecca." Jesus did not teach us to be good to those who are good to us and tolerant of those who are tolerant of us. As he pointed out, "If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?"
What makes us different is that we love when we're not supposed to. We love unconditionally.
Of course, implying that all Muslims are violent extremists and therefore fit into the category of "enemy" is about the same as implying that all Catholics molest children or that all evangelicals sympathize with Westboro Baptist Church. So we must give our Muslim neighbors the benefit of the doubt before assuming motive. But even if the builders of these centers are doing so with anti-American sentiments or for the purpose of ridicule, how should Christians respond?
Sarah Cunningham said it well in a post on the Q blog, where she wrote:
Regardless of our personal political beliefs or the outcome of this scenario, Jesus did not come as a political revolutionary but as one bearing a message of transcendent spiritual truth. Part of his example, although unconventional and unpopular in the wider pop-culture, was a mandate to "love our neighbors," to "love our enemies," and to "pray for those who persecute us." No matter how you view these Muslims, I am certain that at least one of these apply. The Christian faith maintains that God loves and wants relationship with every person on every side of this argument.
As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion—keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods. But I am convinced that the only way for the Church to survive in a post-Christian world is to do the exact opposite. We must preserve our identity as a distinct, set apart Kingdom that does things Jesus' way—not the world's way, not even America's way. We must continue to grow and expand, not through a sense of entitlement or a fight for power, but through unconditional service and love.
The constitution dictates that Muslims should be able to worship when and where they please.
Compassion compels us to reach out to those who are still hurting from 9-11 and who are understandably struggling to forgive.
And the way of Jesus calls us to love whichever individuals in this story are hardest for us to love.
…Guess I should say a prayer for Glenn Beck.
What is your perspective on the recent mosque debates? To which side do you find it hardest to extend grace and peace?
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