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ROCKVILLE, Md., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sealed With A Kiss(R) proudly kicks off its 23rd year of sending Super Camp Care Packages(R) to campers all over the USA. Sealed With A Kiss(R), the originator of Camp Care Packages(R), has successfully crossed over to the next generation of consumers; perhaps, the toughest challenge for any brand.
In 1984, founder and owner, Julie Winston, pioneered the idea of sending non-food care packages to children at sleep away camp.
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As the progenitor of its own industry and the lead innovator of camper gifts, Sealed With A Kiss(R) has received an enormous amount of media recognition, including being featured on or in Oprah, The Today Show, MSNBC, PM Magazine, USA Today, NY Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Jewish Week, Southern Living, Parent, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, McCalls, Business Week, and numerous other publications and television shows.
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IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, will discuss the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. The presentation will also discuss how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics to discuss are barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold.
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Rebuild! As I listened to the married couples gathered at the monthly marriage fellowship, the word "rebuild" kept coming to my mind. While some of the couples were paragons of strength, others were floundering in troubled marriages. For some marriages, I sensed desperation in their testimonies of infidelity, loneliness, disrespect, devalued self-worth and communication failures. Still others seemed paralyzed in mediocrity and satisfaction with the status quo. The emotional wounds and disappointments had left many of these couples feeling broken, without any clear path to restoration.
As I addressed the group, I asked for their patience to examine a biblical story that on its face seems removed from the subject of marriage. It is the story of Nehemiah as recorded in Nehemiah 2-4. I started with a question. It was the same question, in fact, that the Persian king Artaxerxes asked Nehemiah, his trusted Jewish cupbearer, in Nehemiah 2:2, "Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart?"
The king's observation was accurate. Nehemiah's heart was burdened by a call that God had placed in him to rebuild the shattered walls of Jerusalem that had been destroyed when the nation was taken into captivity. In response to Nehemiah's request, King Artaxerxes permitted Nehemiah to return to Jerusalem to assess the state of the walls and eventually to begin repairs. God had obviously stirred Nehemiah's and the king's heart to begin the difficult work of restoration. But, as Nehemiah soon learned through the mocking and ridicule of neighbors, enemy attacks to undermine his efforts, and the waning confidence of his own people, obeying God's call to rebuild was going to require remarkable perseverance, faith and obedience.
Like Nehemiah, many of you are also experiencing a great sadness of heart. And for many, this emotional state is directly connected with the struggles in your marriage. The disappointments, frustration and anger have left your own emotions in shambles, much like those broken walls of Jerusalem. My message to you is to have hope that God hears your cries just as He heard the lament of the Hebrew captives. God is calling you to rebuild the walls of your marriage. This call to rebuild is about prioritizing God's desires for your marriage over your own desires—in a pursuit of holiness. It is a call to marital intimacy that is built on selflessness, trust and respect. It is a call to extend grace as you unconditionally love the spouse to whom God has joined you. And, it is a call for an investment of time to allow strained emotions to heal.
You should be prepared, however, for attacks on your efforts to rebuild your marriage. In a culture that values individualism and self-satisfaction, your efforts to exemplify godly stewardship, humility and grace in marriage will be mocked—sometimes from your own family. With half of those around you opting for divorce, your unconditional commitment to an abundant marriage will be met with sarcasm and envy.
All of us experience attacks on our marriage – often leading to our own sadness of heart. God, however, has made provisions for you to withstand these negative influences. Fortifying the walls of your marriage is not simple, as it also requires obedience to the Lord's call to rebuild.
If God is stirring your heart to strengthen your marriage, this series of articles is for you. They are designed to provide insight, encouragement and practical advice to those seeking to protect their marriage from the external stressors that threaten it.
Have you ever seen a gyroscope? In terms of physics, its purpose is to maintain orientation, by providing stability. You don't need to understand this in depth to be fascinated by watching a gyro at work – frantic, multi-directional rotation, spinning on three axes, with a fixed center. This center, using the force of inertia, creates a stable force along a single axis.
We can use this metaphor to help us understand one purpose for which God designed marriage – to maintain orientation in three ways: husband and wife toward Him, husband and wife toward one another and, by example, others toward God. Without God's stability, our marriages risk spinning frantically out of control.
Couples struggle to maintain this godly orientation and can feel disoriented by the magnitude of marital destabilizers. Let's briefly review five stressors that many couples struggle with, so that you may equip and prepare. These stressors, all consequences of our broken world, distort the orientation of the marriage from God to ourselves.
Western culture gravitates towards truth that is relative to human desires – what philosophers call humanism. Humanism is a commitment to find truth in human rationale rather than the absolute Word of God. Humanism seeks to replace God's divinity with human ingenuity.
Increasingly, our culture relies on media moguls, political pundits and erudite educators to define the structure and purpose of marriage. This secularization of marriage has led to the promotion of self-gratifying behaviors that weaken the pursuit of shared identity, the acceptance of divorce as a solution for marital unhappiness and the legitimization of same-sex unions as a civil right. However, God-oriented marriages refuse these distortions, relying instead on God as the ultimate bearer of truth.
Fueled by humanism, much of Western culture compromises marriage by promoting values that weaken reliance on God. These values are most evident in the decision-making processes that reek of consumerism and convenience. Western culture values decision-making that is individualistic (what works best for me?); fear-based (how can I protect myself?); and short-term (how soon can I have what I want?).
But, the ultimate difficulty that this value system imposes on marriage is that it places individual interests as the focal point rather than a mutual sense of God's direction for the marriage. Contrarily, a God-oriented marriage prioritizes decisions based upon mutuality over individualism, faith over fear and long-term over short-term thinking.
Your interactions with your caregivers in your youth are arguably the most influential factors in the self you bring to marriage. Your sense of appropriate behavior, communication style, conflict resolution and relational boundaries are impacted by what you learned from your caregivers. Consequently, your attitude, expectations and commitment towards marriage are developed well before you met your spouse.
If you had a positive model of marriage in your life, you may have transferred positive qualities into your own marriage. Unfortunately, many marriages have at least one partner who grew up in an abusive, neglected or conflicted marriage. Couples in a God-oriented marriage seek to extend grace to one another, allowing the marriage to serve as divine healing to these conscious and unconscious emotional wounds.
Marriages are struggling under the weight of financial obligations and indebtedness. With record home foreclosures, excessive credit card debt and dwindling portfolios, marriages are reeling with fear and uncertainty.
Couples in a God-oriented marriage prioritize modesty over extravagance, saving over spending and giving over getting. Regardless of the current state of your finances, it is important to make financial stewardship a shared goal around which you and your spouse rally.
Spending time together is the key to marital intimacy. Few couples, however, communicate well – that is, going beyond what's necessary for day-to-day functioning to the deep sharing of emotional worlds.
One reason that couples interact so infrequently is their endless activities. After days and weeks of busyness, couples are surprised and disappointed that intimate encounters don't just happen.
Couples in a God-oriented marriage learn to draw boundaries that preserve their time together by looking for reasons to come together rather than excuses to remain apart.
Marriage stressors wreak havoc on your commitment to God and to one another. Marital discord tears at your very identity as a couple. In the mist of these stressors, however, God provides a way of escape from every temptation.
Your marriage's purpose is to orient others to the Lord as the liberator from these stressors. Like the center of the gyroscope, your God-oriented marriage offers stability in the midst of storms. You know your marriage is in the center of God's will when you and your spouse feel nearer to God through the union, when your partnership shapes you into God's image and when your union draws people into relationship with God.
Chip and Sandy are like many married couples who say, "We're making it" in marriage. Recently I asked Sandy, "Do you ever feel great about your marriage?" She paused, clearly uncomfortable with the question, and replied, "My husband doesn't abuse me, doesn't cheat on me and hasn't left me. I would say that I am blessed."
Indeed, God has blessed Chip and Sandy. But, Sandy's response left me pondering the meaning of "great" marriage. God wants us to have not only life but to experience it abundantly (3 John 2). Yet, Sandy seems more aware of what is thankfully absent than nourished by what is abundantly present.
Maybe I should have asked Sandy a different question: "Does God occupy the center of your marriage?" After all, a God-centered marriage assures God's blessings upon the marriage covenant, fosters authentic partnership and models genuine love for others.
Many couples fall short on this point because God is pushed to the margin of the relationship. These couples have a sense of God, but they may compromise on obedience to His Word. They may pray for God's presence in their decisions, but lack the patience to wait for God's timing. They may seek more godly influences in their lives, yet their jam-packed schedules leave little room for meaningful relationships. The Apostle Paul describes this phenomenon as a form of godliness, but one lacking its power (2 Timothy 3:5). These power-deficient marriages are mediocre. Are you settling for the mediocre in your marriage?
The secular influences that surround us can exact a toll on marriage. Protecting your marriage against these stressors requires effort in five areas: unconditional commitment to the marriage, trust, respect, healthy boundaries and protected couple time.
The Holy Spirit emboldens couples to resist the stressors that erode their marriage only if they move God to the center of the marriage. Abundant marriage is within your reach as you allow the Holy Spirit to reveal and heal your strengths and weaknesses. In healthier marriages, this may just require additional insight. More troubled marriages are likely to require intervention by others who are committed to the health of your marriage.
Many couples enter into marriage with false or unrealistic expectations. Some believe that marriage will solve their problems. Some do not understand that strong and rowing marriages are a result of hard work.
Jim and Irene sat at opposite ends of my couch, as far apart as possible. The tension between them so charged the room that I knew we were in for a rough ride even before this first session began. After some small talk, Irene dove right into the reason for their visit: "No matter what I do or how hard I try, it is never good enough for him. I'm sick of trying anything anymore." Jim quickly retorted, "Funny, I feel the same way." Sadly, Jim and Irene seemed to have only two things in common: Each believed their own negative behavior was a justified response to provocation by the other, and both expressed unhappiness with the marriage.
Jim and Irene each had important perspectives on their relationship, and what they described was actually a very common negative pattern of interaction. The details of that pattern are not nearly as important as the manner in which it was described to me, though. Irene explained in detail what Jim was doing wrong in the marriage, while Jim described with equal competence just how Irene was failing him.
In other words, Jim and Irene demonstrated mastery of the "blame game." They were just getting warmed up with their finger pointing when I interrupted as gently as possible while challenging them: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your spouse's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" As Christians, Jim and Irene recognized this slightly altered version of Matthew 7:5. I let them know that our emphasis, if a marriage is to become what God intends it to be, should be to work on our individual planks while saving our partner's sawdust for later.
Jim and Irene's situation is not unique. We all have planks that limit our ability to see another person and circumstance the way God sees them. Planks foster despair in situations where God could pronounce hope. Planks reflect obstacles where God offers opportunities. And where the Holy Spirit causes you to look within for change, planks make sure you continue blaming your spouse.
These planks are blinding. They hamper a couple's ability to assess and take responsibility for their individual negative contributions to the deteriorating marriage. These planks represent an accumulation of unmet needs and expectations. As these disappointments mount, the planks become more destructive.
How large is the plank in your eye? That is probably a difficult or even painful question for you. We are all inclined to underestimate our own limitations while overestimating those of others.
With this in mind, here are five questions to help you be objective about the size of your plank. Each question, except the last one, is designed to point us to some of the family-of-origin issues that become the planks in our eyes in marriage. The last one simply assesses selfishness. As you respond honestly to these questions, ask the Holy Spirit to allow you to accept that plank at face value.
Planks are stressors on your marriage. And, they are progressively destructive as a result of dysfunctional family patterns that you mimic from your family of origin, unrealistic expectations that you pick up from popular culture, latent fears that keep you in a defensive posture, sparse time in meaningful conversation and unrepentant pride.
As Jim and Irene reflected on these questions over several sessions, their postures gradually changed. While several transformations occurred in the relationship, Jim captured it best. "We are shaving our planks," he said humorously.
There are no gimmicky tricks or painless solutions to protect a marriage from these marital stressors. But, you can have miracles if you pursue an unconditional commitment to place God's will for your marriage as the point of focus.
We are all broken, and therefore neither you nor your spouse is perfect. Husbands and wives will inevitably detect the specks of sawdust in one another's eyes. We can honor God with an atmosphere of grace in marriage, which will allow Him to shape us into His image. But, God can only transform your marriage as both partners shift their focus inwardly.
God cannot love you less than He does. Consider two people – a priest who has devoted himself to the Lord for the last fifty years, and an evolutionary biologist who has dedicated himself to proving God does not exist. To which of these people is God most committed?
Intellectually, we know that God loves them equally. But, emotionally we struggle to understand how that is possible; it is beyond the comprehension of our conditional, emotional worlds. As evidenced by the parable of the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16), this concept speaks to one of God's most basic characteristics: His unconditional commitment. It is the cornerstone of God's relationship with us, and, by extension, it serves as the centerpiece of marriage in two ways.
First, God designed marriage to center upon an unconditional commitment to Him. This requires a daily sacrifice of replacing your own desires for your marriage with God's plans for it – a reminder that your marriage belongs to Him. When life's stressors beset your marriage, your greatest assurance is that God's commitment to your marriage is sufficient to contain any problem you may face (Romans 8:35-38).
Second, God designed your marriage upon an unconditional commitment to one another. This unconditional commitment requires agreement between spouses to cultivate what God has planted in them. It requires an assumption of good will to care for each other's vulnerabilities. Finally, it requires a vow between spouses to reserve their best emotional, psychological and physical selves for one another.
Unconditional commitment is the only secure foundation as family pressures, financial struggles, health challenges, work demands and church obligations mount. Your marital health depends on your ability to keep these pressures at your back rather than between you. From behind, these forces push you towards one another – creating intimacy in the struggle. Conversely, when wedged between you, they push you apart – nearly always fostering emotional, if not physical, separation.
Of course, unconditional commitment is not without its risks. Many spouses fear such a commitment because of the vulnerable position in which it places them – possibly being taken advantage of by a self-centered spouse. If your spouse exhibits a pattern of spousal abuse or blatant disregard for your well-being, it is vital that you protect yourself first and lean on God for reassurance.
Keeping marital stressors at your back requires unconditional commitment to a three-step process. When maintained, these iterative steps engender a climate of trust and respect that honors God and protects the marital relationship.
Inspirational speaker Zig Ziglar says, "Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side." Think about the military force or sports teams that unite to defeat an opponent. For victory, the "me" focus of the individuals must yield to the "we" focus of the unit. Being on the same side creates synergy as the best part of each person contributes to the strength of the whole.
Herein lays the success of a godly marriage. The "we-ness" of your marriage, born of unconditional commitment, builds as you and your spouse share respect, trust and quality time. Unconditional commitment or "we-ness" transforms potential marital threats into powerful testimonies of deliverance that glorify God.
"How did I miss two calls?" Susan wondered as she risked a quick glance at her cell phone during the emergency sales meeting. The school nurse had promised to call if her child got worse. Staring at the "voicemail waiting" message, Susan strategized how to gracefully exit this meeting.
The first message was from her husband, Bob, reminding her about tonight's theatre tickets. After more than three months of excuses, they were finally going on a date – alone. Susan and Bob barely had down time together anymore, and, when they did, the coordination of activities between kids, house, church and work dominated the conversation. Susan often feared that their season of intimacy as a couple had passed, though she never spoke this aloud to Bob. They both felt the strain. But Susan dared hope that tonight's date would be a turning point. At least, that had been her prayer.
The second message was the dreaded call from the school nurse. "Calvin's temperature is 101 degrees. Please call the school as soon as possible to let us know how soon you can pick him up."
Susan's own anxiety temperature rose, too, as she worried about Calvin's health, the consequences of leaving the sales meeting, how she was going address other critical work responsibilities and whether the elusive date was ever going to happen.
Bob and Susan are struggling with marital stressors that are common to dual-income homes. Like many couples in their situation, they converse less than an hour a day. Disturbingly, most of this conversation entails negotiating the activities of the next day. Nearly every aspect of their interaction is exacerbated by the physical and mental fatigue that accompanies their harried lifestyle.
Contemporary marriages lack quality and quantity time for several reasons: an endless pursuit of things, requiring money and therefore more work; busyness, disguising relationship rifts; and couples' lives running on parallel tracks. Three questions will help you discern how well time is managed in your marriage:
Susan's prayer for a "miracle" date is understandable. However, it is unlikely that a single date will reverse what has been lost. The good news, however, is that restored intimacy is within their reach as they make time the CORE of their marriage. CORE, an acrostic for a four-step intimacy-building process, resists external stressors by building the trust, respect and mutuality that characterize a healthy marriage.
While their relationship is presently strained, Bob and Susan can acquire the tools to rebuild their intimacy. As they regularly make time the CORE of their marriage, Susan will find comfort in Bob's willingness to listen to her frustrations as a working mom, her anxiety about her job performance, and her feelings of emotional isolation. As Bob and Susan will learn, protecting their marriage from external stressors is really all about time.
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My wife Dalia and I met in our senior year of college. And, for much of that final undergraduate year, I was on my best behavior to win her over. When she finally said "yes", my youthful naiveté led me to believe I had gotten through the toughest part. It wasn't long after our nuptials that I realized just how wrong I was.
I expected some bumps on our marital road. I knew marriage comprised constant adjustments and difficult compromises. But nothing (neither our parents, our respective churches nor our college education) prepared us for what we ultimately would find most challenging – thriving in a cross-cultural marriage! On the day that Dalia, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Panama, and I, an African-American from the rural south, wed, "culture clash" was furthest from our minds. But, it wouldn't be long before its presence was felt.
My first clue that Dalia and I were going to stumble over some cultural differences came when she lovingly offered to fix me chicken with gravy. "Excellent!" I replied. I could almost taste my grandmother's succulent smothered chicken with biscuits.
But, when Dalia served dinner, I was visibly disappointed by the chicken entrée. Instead of the flour-based brown gravy that I was expecting, Dalia used a tomato-based gravy common to Panamanian dishes. This was certainly not what my grandmother would have prepared. After a few rounds of clarification, the misunderstanding was clear. Dalia and I used the same term "gravy" with a completely different set of expectations.
Disappointment associated with unmet expectations is a drain on many marriages. However, the threat of unmet expectations to cross-cultural marriages is more pronounced because of differing cultural idiosyncrasies. What makes the pain more difficult is that the disappointment often extends to your parents and others who are most important to you. Generally, the more dissimilar the cultures, the more pronounced the disappointment.
For Dalia and me, cross-cultural conflict has revolved around the authority of our parents, financial decisions and social interaction. Whether your expectations come from your family of origin, the social context in which you live or simply your ingrained attitudes, fundamental differences in beliefs and behaviors often impede the sense of covenant that God expects. What are your examples of unmet expectations in your cross-cultural marriage?
With twenty years of experiences in a cross-cultural marriage, I have learned that culture influences nearly every important aspects of marriage. To a large extent, communication style, boundary setting, elderly care, parenting, gender roles, food preferences, biblical interpretation and even worship style are negotiation points for the cross-cultural marriage.
When you married your spouse, you married his or her culture too. This is both the challenge and opportunity of cross-cultural marriage. Just as the kingdom of God is enriched by the diverse background and experiences of the people that worship Jesus Christ as Savior, diversity enhances marriage. Though from a different culture, your Christian spouse and you are joint heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). This shared identity, enabled by honest communication, transforms your differences from liabilities to assets by leveraging cultural strengths. Your marital diversity covers one another's weaknesses, broadens your ideas, models healthy conflict resolution and extends your reach for ministry.
Despite the stressors and disappointments in your cross-cultural marriage, if you desire God's gifts for your marriage, He promises you a more excellent way (1 Corinthians 12:31). As you and your spouse attend to the following ten tips, I am convinced that you will see each other and your marriage the way God sees it – a vessel of honor:


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News about the National Security Agency, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Sep. 27, 2014
Apple's iPhone 6 is first smartphone of post-Snowden generation that will disrupt investigative abilities of National Security Agency and nation's law enforcement agencies; phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone's user and that Apple says it will not possess. MORE
Sep. 17, 2014
Op-Ed article by author James Bamford examines question of whether data gathered by the National Security Agency about Americans with Arab ties had been given to Israeli military for use against Palestinians; notes that veterans of organization and former NSA contractor Edward J Snowden say that is the case. MORE
Sep. 12, 2014
Court documents show that federal government threatened Yahoo in 2008 with fines of $250,000 a day if company did not immediately comply with secret court order to turn over data about its foreign customers; threat adds new details to public history of Yahoo's unsuccessful challenge of federal requests for warrantless surveillance of its foreigner users. MORE
Sep. 7, 2014
Justice Department releases less-redacted version of May 2004 legal memo approving National Security Agency's Stellarwind program, set of warrantless surveillance and data collection activities that Pres George W Bush secretly authorized after September 11 terrorist attacks; newly declassified memo still leaves questions unanswered regarding collection of Americans' phone and email records. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
Former State Dept official John Napier Tye filed whistle-blower complaint in April arguing that National Security Agency's broader data collection practices abroad, authorized by Reagan-era presidential directive, violates Americans' Fourth Amendment rights; complaint, filed as Congress considers amending act on how NSA operates domestically, focuses attention on how agency operates abroad under different rules. MORE
Aug. 8, 2014
Russia grants Edward J Snowden three-year residence permit; former National Security Agency contractor leaked classified government documents and then fled to country. MORE
Jul. 25, 2014
Sen Patrick J Leahy says he will file new version of bill aimed at ending National Security Agency's bulk phone records collection program after extensive negotiations with Obama administration and privacy groups; some privacy advocates who opposed House-proposed bill as too watered down say they back Leahy's measure. MORE
Jul. 21, 2014
Guardian newspaper publishes interview with former National Security Agency contractor Edward J Snowden, who says oversight of surveillance programs are so weak that members of United States military working at spy agency sometimes shared sexually explicit photos they intercepted; also says British government often pioneered most invasive surveillance programs because its intelligence services operate with fewer restrictions. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
Newly disclosed emails reveal that Obama administration knew in advance that British government was planning in July 2013 to force The Guardian to destroy hard drives containing copies of documents leaked by Edward J Snowden; decision had been praised by National Security Agency official Richard H Ledgett Jr. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
Russia will most likely extend temporary asylum of Edward J Snowden, former National Security Agency contractor who leaked agency documents. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
Report released by The Intercept online magazine, based on documents provided by Edward J Snowden, identifies five American Muslims, including the leader of a civil rights group, as having been subjected to surveillance by National Security Agency; documents arouse anger among Muslim civil-rights groups, which say there is no basis for the apparent spying. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
Obama administration officials say National Security Agency routinely filters out correspondence of Americans that has no intelligence value as it targets suspected terrorists globally; statement is response to new disclosures by the Washington Post suggesting that roughly 9 out of 10 agency-intercepted communications involve people who are not direct targets of surveillance. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that sharply criticized the collection of the phone records of Americans by National Security Agency comes to starkly different conclusion about agency's exploitation of Internet connections in United States to monitor foreigners communicating with one another abroad; holds program is largely in compliance with both Constitution and surveillance law Congress passed six years ago. MORE
Jun. 30, 2014
Adm Michael S Rogers, newly installed director of National Security Agency, says in interview that while fallout from secret documents leaked by Edward J Snowden has been serious, crisis is ultimately manageable one; describes series of steps agency is taking to ensure large-scale leak cannot occur again, but warns that it is impossible to fully safeguard against intrusion by dedicated insider. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
House of Representatives votes to bar National Security Agency from looking for Americans' communications without a warrant within a database of emails and phone calls it gathers while targeting foreigners. MORE
Jun. 17, 2014
Vice Pres Joseph R Biden Jr arrives in Brazil, seeking an opening during World Cup soccer tournament to thaw relations with country, which soured after revelations of National Security Agency's surveillance practices; makes it clear ahead of meeting with Pres Dilma Rousseff that Obama administration is hoping to discuss range of issues. MORE
Jun. 7, 2014
Internet giants are racing to encrypt more data and erect new security protocols to prevent the type of government surveillance that was exposed by Edward J Snowden; moves by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others are making it far more difficult--and expensive--for National Security Agency and other intelligence organizations to pierce their systems. MORE
Jun. 1, 2014
National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs; agency's reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly as it has turned to new software to exploit flood of images included in communications. MORE
May. 30, 2014
National Security Agency releases what it says is sole internal email from Edward J Snowden before he fled country with trove of agency secrets; insists message undercuts Snowden's whistle-blower claim that he protested legality of surveillance programs before he released any documents he stole to journalists. MORE
May. 29, 2014
Edward J Snowden, in interview with Brian Williams of NBC News, says that he still considers himself to be an American patriot even after leaking thousands of classified documents; in hourlong interview, Snowden tries to justify his actions and explain why he accepted refuge from Pres Vladimir V Putin of Russia. MORE
May. 23, 2014
House of Representatives passes legislation aiming to end National Security Agency's bulk phone records program that had prompted intense domestic debate about privacy and civil liberties. MORE
May. 23, 2014
Editorial contends bill passed by House to limit domestic spying program falls far short of promises made by lawmakers in the wake of revelations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden; maintains Senate could yet fix the law's flaws and says there is still time for Congress to show it is serious about reining in nation's runaway spies. MORE
May. 21, 2014
Every example of the National Security Agency spying on corporations around world is being used by China to argue that Obama administration is giving new meaning to capitalistic hypocrisy by indicting members of People's Liberation Army cyberwarfare unit; American officials insist United States never acts on behalf of American companies, but do not deny that US routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, as part of broad national security strategy. MORE
May. 21, 2014
Leaders of both parties in House of Representatives, at Obama administration's request, have changed USA Freedom Act, bill that restricts power of government to obtain Americans' records in bulk; several civil liberties groups that had backed a previous version argue that changes weaken limits in a way that leaves door open for government, through National Security Agency, to obtain enormous volumes of records. MORE
May. 15, 2014
Declassified documents from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court say that in 2009 and 2010, a telephone company raised questions about legality of then-secret National Security Agency program that is systematically collecting records of Americans' calling habits. MORE
May. 14, 2014
Democratic Sens Mark Udall and Ron Wyden accuse the Obama administration of seeking to 'ignore or justify' statements it made to the Supreme Court about warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency. MORE
May. 13, 2014
Glenn Greenwald book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State notes documents that reveal Susan E Rice, then American United Nations ambassador, asked National Security Agency in 2010 for intelligence about Security Council members; documents, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward J Snowden, reveal wider net of United States' spying on envoys. MORE
May. 9, 2014
House Intelligence Committee embraces Judiciary Committee bill that would replace National Security Agency's program for collecting bulk records about Americans' phone calls. MORE
May. 7, 2014
Senior members of House Judiciary and Intelligence committees agree on similar but rival bills that would restrict National Security Agency's ability to collect Americans' phone call data in bulk; Judiciary Committee is expected to pass a compromise version of bill sponsored by Wisconsin Rep James Sensenbrenner. MORE
May. 3, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasizes her country's continued opposition to United States surveillance practices during meeting with Pres Obama that was intended to mend fences; also says it is too soon to return to 'business as usual' following disclosures that NSA had eavesdropped on her phone calls; cordial but strained encounter comes as Merkel and Obama seek to project unified front against Russia's aggression in Ukraine. MORE
May. 3, 2014
News analysis; debate over data collection and surveillance of American citizens has shifted its focus from activities carried out by National Security Agency to practices of Silicon Valley companies; question remains whether restrictions imposed on NSA will spill over to technology industry. MORE
May. 2, 2014
German officials say effort to remake intelligence relationship between United States and Germany has collapsed; effort began after it was disclosed that National Security Agency was taping Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone; officials say there will be no broad intelligence sharing or 'no-spy' agreement in place between two countries when Merkel arrives at the White House for upcoming visit. MORE
Apr. 29, 2014
Negotiations appear bogged down nearly a year after Edward J Snowden retained well-known Washington defense lawyer Plato Cacheris to negotiate a plea deal with federal prosecutors over Snowden's release of classified data. MORE
Apr. 29, 2014
White House publishes on its website a series of questions it asks in deciding when to make public the discovery of major flaws in computer security; item is posted by White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, and appears to be distilled from more detailed classified document giving guidance to National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and others who often exploit flaws in Internet security. MORE
Apr. 26, 2014
Newly declassified documents show that Federal District Court Judge Rosemary M Collyer rejected a major telephone provider's request to have Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reconsider its approval of National Security Agency's bulk phone-records collection; decision upheld earlier ruling that there was no Fourth Amendment protections for metadata. MORE
Apr. 19, 2014
Memo from Berlin; revelations that United States has collected huge amounts of data about German citizens and Russia's involvement in crisis in Ukraine has left Germany feeling that the established rules of 21st century have been broken. MORE
Apr. 13, 2014
White House officials say Pres Obama has decided that National Security Agency should reveal most major flaws it discovers in Internet security, but a loophole exists that could allow NSA to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design cyberweapons. MORE
Apr. 12, 2014
Obama administration denies that National Security Agency or other federal agencies had known about security flaw nicknamed Heartbleed, which has created widespread fears that passwords and other sensitive information belonging to millions of Internet users may have been revealed; suspicions about NSA were fueled by fact that agency regularly seeks out similar security flaws for cyberweapons. MORE
Apr. 12, 2014
Journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, who revealed findings of former government contractor Edward J Snowden, setting off hunt for their source and debate about government surveillance, meet in person for first time; two were in New York for prestigious Polk Award presented to Greenwald and his colleagues, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, and Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, for national security reporting. MORE
Apr. 11, 2014
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, who reported on documents about government surveillance leaked by Edward J Snowden, will return to United States to accept a Polk journalism award for national security reporting. MORE
Apr. 7, 2014
Ridenhour prize for truth-telling will be given to former National Security Agency contractor Edward J Snowden and Laura Poitras, filmmaker and journalist who helped Snowden disclose his trove of documents on government surveillance. MORE
Apr. 2, 2014
Newly released letter again confirms that United States intelligence analysts have searched for Americans' emails and phone calls within the repository of communications that the government collects without a warrant; letter, from national intelligence director James R Clapper Jr to Sen Ron Wyden, elevates issue beyond theoretical speculation. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, seven-term Republican who is chairman of House Intelligence Committee, stuns colleagues by announcing that he will retire to take job as talk radio host; news comes just days after he proposed ambitious overhaul of National Security Agency's electronic surveillance programs. MORE
Mar. 27, 2014
Former Pres Jimmy Carter says he would consider a pardon for Edward J Snowden, former National Security Agency who leaked classified information, but he is not certain he would grant one. MORE
Mar. 26, 2014
Pres Obama publicly endorses plan that Justice Department and intelligence officials have developed for sweeping overhaul of National Security Agency's phone call records program; says he believes new procedures will help preserve privacy while keeping program's usefulness in fighting terrorism. MORE
Mar. 26, 2014
Editorial contends that if Pres Obama really wants to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, he can act unilaterally; questions why Obama feels he needs to wait for permission from Congress. MORE
Mar. 25, 2014
Obama administration is preparing to unveil legislative proposal for wide overhaul of National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records surveillance program; government would obtain individual orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain only records linked to phone numbers a judge agrees are likely tied to terrorism. MORE
Mar. 23, 2014
National Security Agency documents provided by former contractor Edward J Snowden show that the agency pried its way into servers in headquarters of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei; infiltration occurred even as American officials warned the products sold by company could allow Chinese military or hackers to steal corporate and government secrets. MORE
Mar. 19, 2014
Report based on document leaked by Edward J Snowden says National Security Agency is recording all phone calls and their routing data in one foreign country and retaining that data for a month so that it can be analyzed; classified document also indicates that similar but less comprehensive efforts exist in at least four other foreign countries. MORE
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Tracking the Postal Surveillance System
Ron Nixon explains how a Freedom of Information Act request lead him to understand a little-known surveillance program.
October 28, 2014, Tuesday
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Intent on Defying an All-Seeing Eye
"Citizenfour," about Edward J. Snowden's quest to expose sweeping government surveillance of citizens, has the effect of a spooky and deeply unsettling thriller.
October 24, 2014, Friday
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Obama Had Security Fears on JPMorgan Data Breach
Officials say no one could answer what the president wanted to know most: What was the motive of the attack?
October 8, 2014, Wednesday
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Twitter Sues U.S. Government Over Data Disclosure Rules
The social media giant wants to loosen restrictions on what it is allowed to tell users about government information requests.
October 7, 2014, Tuesday
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Many Missteps in Assessment of ISIS Threat
The question of how officials failed to anticipate the rise of ISIS resonates inside and outside the Obama administration.
September 30, 2014, Tuesday
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Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A.
The new iPhone creates a unique code that scrambles information, disrupting the investigative abilities of American law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
September 27, 2014, Saturday
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Israel's N.S.A. Scandal
Is American intelligence data being used to persecute Palestinians?
September 17, 2014, Wednesday
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Government Push for Yahoo's User Data Set Stage for Broad Surveillance
Documents from the case paint a vivid portrait of the high-stakes battle that pitted Yahoo against some top officials in the Bush administration over what was legitimate gathering of foreign intelligence and what was illegal snooping.
September 13, 2014, Saturday
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Daily Report: Government Threatened Steep Fines in Push for Yahoo Data
Court documents shed light on Yahoo's unsuccessful challenge of federal requests for warrantless surveillance of its foreign users.
September 12, 2014, Friday
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Government's Threat of Daily Fine for Yahoo Shows Aggressive Push for Data
Court documents shed light on Yahoo's unsuccessful challenge of federal requests for warrantless surveillance of its foreign users.
September 12, 2014, Friday
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Responses to Whistleblower Complaints
Earlier this year, John Napier Tie, a former State Department official who worked on Internet issues, filed an inspector general whistleblower complaint alleging that the National Security Agency's collection and storage of American communications abroad under Executive Order 12333 violates the Fourth Amendment. He also took his concerns to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. He received these two letters back; he did not hear back from the Senate panel.
Two Sets of Rules for Surveillance, Within U.S. and on Foreign Soil
How the N.S.A.'s surveillance programs are governed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Order 12333.
Germany on Allegations of U.S. Spying
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Clemens Binninger, a member of Merkel's party, discussed the investigation of suspected spying by the United States in Germany.
Identity Intelligence: Image Is Everything
An excerpt of a document obtained by Edward J. Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Agency, referring to the agency's use of images in intelligence gathering.
Snowden's Interview With Brian Williams
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified documents, said in his first interview with an American television network that he had been "trained as a spy."
Times Minute | Facebook Privacy Moves
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Pulling Big Brother's Strings Instead
The Processional Arts Workshop created a "Procession of Confession" to draw attention to government surveillance.
Obama on End of N.S.A. Data Collection
President Obama spoke about the overhaul of the National Security Agency's bulk phone records program at a press conference at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.
Times Minute | Proposed N.S.A. Overhaul
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Slides Describe Mission Involving Huawei
Powerpoint slides from 2010 lay out the National Security Agency's goals in an effort to break into networks of Huawei, the telecommunications giant.
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After the first trip, someone was ready to write a book; on a second trip, an article; on a third trip, a paragraph, and so on.
Likewise, as I come to the end of my second stint here in Patterson, it's almost impossible to summarize my experience as editor of the Irrigator during the past three years. Yet I am filled with gratitude for the opportunity, even as I was blessed to have worked here as a managing and assistant editor from 2003 to 2008.
After spending nearly eight years writing about local matters here, I will spend the next eight weeks in Arabic school unable to speak, read, write or listen to English at all. Learning Arabic has been a personal goal since I lived in East Jerusalem 10 years ago, and I'm looking forward to the doors God may open in the weeks ahead.
At the same time, I will miss the people of Patterson, and I am grateful for a second chance to have served at the Irrigator at the invitation of former staff members.
Patterson is a unique community, and as we were all reminded during the Apricot Fiesta this past weekend, it's also one that deserves celebration.
It's hard to explain to outsiders how a festival can take on the weight of a national holiday — or how taking a bite out of the West Side's famed stone fruit almost feels patriotic.
It's difficult to describe the sense of community forged in times of tragedy, such as during the kidnapping-death of 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas in 2011, or the passion that is stoked when residents feel their way of life is being threatened, such as when the original 7.5-square-mile West Park plan was proposed for the Crows Landing Air Facility.
In both the good times and the bad, it's been a blessing to share life with you, our readers. Thank you for allowing the Irrigator to be a part of your life and for contributing to ours.
The feedback we have received from the public has been invaluable in making us aware of breaking news and in giving us a breadth of perspectives on local and regional matters. With more than 3,200 "likes" from faithful followers, it's been fun to see how the Irrigator's Facebook site now feels like a community of its own.
Likewise, the phone calls, emails and drop-ins we receive on a daily basis have been helpful, as we seek to keep an open dialogue about matters of public interest.
In these days when articles about Kim Kardashian's pants are considered "news," it's essential that issues of local importance are not swept to the wayside.
My hope is that we've been able to foster discourse about local topics that matter. I'd like to think we've succeeded at times in comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable and serving as a catalyst for the common good. When tempers have flared locally, we've sought to rise above the fray to provide readers with an objective perspective.
Though people may have varying opinions about how successful we've been in those endeavors, I'm thankful for the grace and kindness shown by many of our readers and for those who have been willing to engage in dialogue with us. I'm also incredibly grateful for the wonderful family here at the Irrigator that I'm leaving behind.
The people of this community have become special to me, and it will be exciting to see what lies ahead both for Patterson and for the Irrigator in the years to come.
In the meantime, thanks for the smiles and the memories — and here's to keeping the conversation going. God bless you all.
• Jonathan Partridge is the departing editor of the Patterson Irrigator.


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Hudson, from Indian Lake down
Just up the road from me, less than an hour drive. The upper Hudson Gorge is pretty cool.
congrats.....i turkey hunted harder this year than i ever have, and could not take a bird in mississippi....but most avid turkey hunters i know from my area besides poachers didnt kill any birds this year. my cousin mark limits out every year at my uncles hunting camp.....he couldnt kill a bird this year. i also saw very few hens laying or split up by the end of the season...its like they never got bred
those pics are great. congrats on the bird.
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Nice looking bird! He definitely looks like the dominant male there. He looks pretty close to being a young mature bird. I couldn't tell how close his fan was to being even all the way around. Congrats!!!
Thanks Andy. I'm hearing mixed reports on the black flies, it has been dry which limits where they can breed and keeps their numbers down. They never get too bad around here; misquitoes were starting to show but a couple colnights stooped that. What river are you going down?
Nice Capt., how's the black flies up there? I'm headed up for a rafting trip this weekend.
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I just returned from dropping my son off at the high school on the morning of Friday, Dec. 14. As I witnessed the driving habits of many near the schools, I thought that it's a wonder there are not more accidents. Then I got on Facebook and someone asked for prayers for a child who was hit by a car in front of a school in Patterson.
Please, people, use a little common sense and courtesy when you drive, especially near the schools. While I was trying to proceed down Seventh Street, three people who had pulled up to drop off kids made illegal U-turns with very little regard to what was going on around them. There are signs in front of the schools that say "No U-turns." Patterson is not so big that you can't drive up a block out of your way and make your way to where you are going. There are so many circles now, getting turned around is actually pretty easy.
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How To Cook a Crispy, Juicy Rotisserie Chicken on the Grill
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It's our nation's 4th of July celebration tomorrow, and like most holidays, this one deserves a feast — a celebration through food (and maybe beer, too). If you have a rotisserie attachment for your grill hanging around, it's time to dust it off (and if you don't have one, now might be the time to finally buy it). Because today, my friends, I'm going to show you how to cook the best darn rotisserie chicken you've ever had. Time to quit messing around.
The best things in life often take extra time and extra work. The same is true for this rotisserie chicken. It starts with a good brine, and ends with a bunch of smiling faces and sticky fingers. So go ahead, make the commitment. You're worth it.
A brine solution allows meat to retain more moisture as it cooks. That's why this chicken is so juicy that you'll have trouble taking it all the way to your plate. Instead (if you're like me) you'll just eat the meat right off the bone, and make your mark with a swop of barbecue.
It's a our nation's birthday. Eat well.
How To Cook a Rotisserie Chicken
What You Need
1 whole chicken, about 4 lbs
3/4 cup kosher salt (plus more for seasoning)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 small red onion
3-4 garlic cloves
1/2 cup cilantro
Freshly ground black pepper
Barbecue sauce
Cooking twine
Baking pan
Rotisserie grill attachment
Basting brush
Clean the chicken: Remove chicken from its packaging and rinse thoroughly under cold water. Discard giblets, and trim any excess fat around the neck and tail.
Prepare the brine: In a large pot, mix one gallon of cold water with 3/4 cup kosher salt and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Stir until salt and sugar are dissolved.
Brine the chicken: Submerge the chicken the brine and refrigerate for 4 to 6 hours.
Prepare the vegetable stuffing: Just before removing the chicken, dice the onion, garlic, and cilantro. Mix together and set aside.
Remove the chicken from the brine: Take the chicken out of the brine mixture and rinse thoroughly to remove all excess salt. Pat dry.
Season the chicken: Carefully stick your fingers between the skin of the chicken and the breast meat to create an opening. Stuff the vegetable mixture beneath the skin of the chicken and rub it inside the chicken as well. Season with extra salt and pepper.
Truss the chicken: Truss the chicken with the cooking twine. This is important for sealing the cavity of the chicken to ensure even and slow cooking. There's a helpful video here if you've never done it before.
Prepare the grill: Remove the grill grates from grill and place a shallow baking pan in their place. The pan will catch drippings and prevent flare-ups. Set the grill for medium-high to high heat and preheat to 375°F.
Secure the chicken to rotisserie spit: Securely clamp the chicken between the spit forks and turn on rotisserie motor.
Baste chicken: With a basting brush, thoroughly coat chicken with the barbecue sauce of your choice. You will want to baste the chicken (with sauce and drippings) at 20 to 30 minute intervals throughout the cooking process.
Cook the chicken: Let chicken cook over indirect heat until the thickest part of the thigh reaches 165°F and has a deep golden skin (1 to 2 hours).
Remove the chicken from the grill and let it rest: When finished cooking, remove the chicken from the rotisserie spit and let it set at room temperature for at least 15 minutes. This will give the chicken time to reabsorb its juices.
- Cut and serve. After the chicken has sufficiently rested. Cut, serve, and enjoy! It's ok to eat it right off the bone — I won't judge.
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DISCARD giblets? Oh no, no, no! Save those little gems for other recipes. I like freezing the necks, hearts, and gizzards for chicken soup. A quick sautee for the livers in some olive oil and shallots is divine.
Looks delicious!!
So let me get this straight... you rotisserie the chicken (the whole point of which is to let the fat drip onto other chickens in a proper rotisserie, which keeps them all deliciously basted and crisps up the skin like nobody's business) over an open grill, letting all the delicious fat drip away into the recesses of the grill???? Worse yet, drip into the recesses of the grill, creating flareups???
@mh330 - Step 8 has you replace the grill grates with a pan to catch the drippings! You use them to base the chicken as it roasts. I'm thinking that tucking a few potatoes into the pan with the drippings would also be a mighty fine idea!
We've been using a rotisserie on our BBQ for over 10 years and it is the best way to cook chicken ever. I don't brine it because I think it's unnecessary. I also don't think it needs basting - ours are always crisp without basting.
One thing I like is to tuck garlic and sprigs of rosemary just under the skin. Another nice thing is to put a dry rub on the outside.
No brining necessary. I clean -but never discard giblets which can be used for other purposes- and pat the chicken completely dry, dry, dry. To give it flavor I'll tuck in 20 garlic cloves, under the skin I'll rub in a mix of salt/pepper/olive oil.
First time with my new (used) grill and rotisserie and I used this recipe-AWESOME!!!
The chicken body touching the water faucet really skeeves me out!
obviously you cant read, the directions say to put a DRIP PAN underneath the bird while it cooks and you use those juices to baste it........duh