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Heavy-duty, high-torque servo for 1/10-scale cars and trucks.
The heavy-duty, metal-gear S6020 servo puts out an impressive 146 oz-in of torque making it ideal for 1/10-scale trucks and cars. And it delivers this torque with silky smooth precision thanks to its dual ball-bearing output shaft.
Click here to see the Spektrum™ Servo Reference Chart
Digital and analog servos have very similar construction and components. They both use the same type of motors, gears, cases, and have a potentiometer. A digital servo is different in the way it processes the incoming signal and converts that signal into servo movement.
An analog servo when it receives a command to move, takes that signal and sends pulses to the servo motor at about 50 cycles per second, which in turn moves the motor to its required position determined by the potentiometer.
A digital servo has a micro-processor that receives the signal and then adjusts the pulse length and amount of power to the servo motor to achieve optimum servo performance and precision. A digital servo sends these pulses to the motor at a much higher frequency which is around 300 cycles per second. This helps eliminate deadband, provides a faster response to the servo motor, smoother motor movement, and has higher resolution and holding power than an analog servo.
There are some disadvantages to digital servos, but the disadvantages are not in any way close to out weighing the advantages. A digital servo will have a higher power consumption (Around 10 to 15 mAh per servo at idle) than an analog servo due to its higher pulse frequency, so larger capacity battery packs are recommended. Digital servos also are more expensive than analog servos which can get very costly in applications that require many servos.
For JR servos we recommend Tamiya ceramic grease (TAM87025).
There are several scenarios which may attribute to this problem.
1. The servo arm fit on the output spline may be loose.
2. There may be slop or wear in the gear train.
3. There may be slop or binding in the linkages.
4. You may have a faulty servo saver.
5 The push rods may be too flexible.
6. Improperly mounted servo (screws too tight, mounting rail too tight against the servo)
7.Faulty extention, damaged lead or dirty connector.
8. Worn or dirty pot.
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Thanksgiving. It's a day of friends, family, football, and food. Lots of food.
In days gone by, we'd fill a plate or two with turkey and all the fixings, plow through it, and settle in for an evening of football and conversation. That still happens, but now there are tablets and smartphones thrown into the mix. As we catch up with Great Aunt Martha, we're also tweeting about how dry the turkey was and posting pictures of the table centerpiece to Facebook.
Since Ars is all about technology, we're using this Thanksgiving as a chance to stop and give thanks for all the ways technology has made our lives richer.
Associate Writer Casey Johnston: Spotify and other somewhat aggressively social music services
I am specifically thankful for music streaming services that feature social network integration. My main listening weapon of choice is Spotify.
Yes, there is a major creep factor here: not only do Facebook and Spotify get their grabby hands on oodles of data about my listening habits, but all my Facebook friends can see my data too, as my two accounts are connected. And there are only limited ways to stop them. But if I blithely accept this reality as "part of my job," or ignore it as "too much effort to get around," the social aspects of these listening services are pretty fun.
I recently went many months without really listening to music because I was sick of everything I had and didn't want to go to the usual effort to learn about new stuff. But when I signed up for Spotify and found some friends that were also using Spotify, lo and behold, there it was in the right column of the app window: an avalanche of new songs, albums, and artists to listen to, all a click away.
Music recommendations are hard to glean from publications or services, because they don't know you; they're also hard to get from friends in the moment when you're hanging out, and then also hard to remember by the time you sit back down at your computer. Spotify's social feed acts as an ideal recommendation engine, where music is both vetted and virtually served to you in one smooth motion.
Once I caught up on what the kids are listening to these days, I now fancy myself some kind of DJ, performing for the people who are (un)lucky enough to both use Spotify and be my Facebook friend. At worst, it's quite a lot of Rihanna's greatest hits and the new One Direction album, but I can blend in with the trendy hipsters and play Mumford and Sons and Crystal Castles when the opportune moment arises.
Social Editor Cesar Torres: E-books
I am thankful to have e-books in my life. I have been devouring books since I was a kid, and in the three years since I have owned a Kindle, I have grown very fond of e-books. I can now carry a library of my books with me anywhere, whether on my laptop, iPhone, tablet, or Kindle. In fact, the transition from paper to digital has only made me more passionate about e-book technology.
I am thankful for being able to live out my bookworm life with convenience, but things are not perfect. E-books still leave a lot to be desired. Though manufacturers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon are rolling out interesting user interface features, the lack of support for a universal format remains one of the biggest obstacles to e-book nirvana. Right now I have to work too hard as a consumer to get all the titles I want into my collection. I can't lend out most of the titles in my library, and pricing only reflects the battles between major publishers, not what readers actually want. It's a mediocre marketplace at best.
But don't get me wrong, I feel positive about the possibility of change and innovation. I am also grateful to fellow readers and authors who have embraced this transition into digital: many of them care about e-books, DRM-free formats, fair pricing, and access to older titles. Books are not read alone; communities read and share books with one other. I am grateful for passionate readers, in meatspace and on the Internet. The book is alive and well in 2012.
Apple Contributor Chris Foresman: Streaming video services
This year I'm thankful for video streaming services, like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant Video. Such services may not allow every viewer to "cut the cord," but for the most part, I can watch what I want, when I want, wherever I have a reliable network connection. That includes anywhere my carrier's LTE signal reaches, too, via smartphone apps.
There are a number of holdouts—most notably cable channel HBO, which doesn't offer any of its shows via Netflix or the like, though you can buy episodes via iTunes or Amazon Instant Video. And HBO doesn't allow users to subscribe directly to its HBO Go (or related Cinemax Go) streaming services—at least, not here in the States. However, the company is now offering direct digital streaming subscriptions to customers in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Perhaps this time next year I can be thankful that content producers wised up and figured out how to cut out the cable middle man.
Associate Writer Andrew Cunningham: My home office
Your situation may differ based on where you work and what you do, but it has been my experience that low-level IT workers don't regularly get their own offices. I spent many of my years in IT with just a cubicle wall (and sometimes less) in between myself and my co-workers and every once in a while you just want a door to close.
That's just one of the reasons I'm thankful to have been working from home for the last two months, and it's a long list: No commute in New Jersey rush hour traffic. No more tiresome IT-mandated regulations. No more clearing paper jams. Coworkers with whom I share much more in common (and several who are becoming good friends, besides). A job I'm excited to wake up for every morning.
Sure, working from home presents its own challenges. Staying physically and socially active are both things that now require concerted effort on my part, and neither comes very naturally to an introvert well-versed in the joys of the great indoors. Staying on task at work can occasionally be a challenge, as can turning off my work-brain when it's time to relax. These are, however, completely surmountable problems and they're a tiny price to pay for finally having that door on my new home office.
Gaming Editor Kyle Orland: The indie game scene
This year, I'm thankful for the existence of a robust independent game development scene. Don't get me wrong, I love a big budget, AAA blockbuster FPS as much as the next guy (OK, maybe a little less than certain guys). But gaming in general has been enriched immeasurably by the opportunity for a single person or a small team to create a small, personal game that tries something new.
Without the expectation of mass market success, these games don't need to cater to mass market tastes, allowing them to explore unique or unfashionable modes of gameplay and presentation that help add color to the entire industry. I'm also thankful for these creators' ability to distribute these games directly to interested gamers through the magic of digital downloads.
This year, I'm thankful for Super Meat Boy, Spelunky, Journey, Limbo, Sound Shapes, Super Hexagon, Dustforce, Pixeljunk Eden, Retro City Rampage, Super Crate Box, Octodad, VVVVVV, Braid, I Wanna Be the Guy, Pix'n Love Rush, The Room, To The Moon, Mark of the Ninja, and countless other indie games that I don't have time to recall right now.
Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson: The age of the SSD
After remaining relatively flat for most of 2011 and early 2012, solid state disk prices plummeted in the past several months and adoption of NAND flash-based storage has skyrocketed. Consumer SSD prices have dropped far below the $1 per gigabyte barrier; in fact, with a bit of hunting you can pick up a 512GB SSD for $350 which would have been unheard-of just a year ago.
It's a near-certainty that everyone reading this interacts with solid state storage several times a day whether it's in a smartphone, a desktop, or a laptop. The ubiquity of SSDs has reset our expectations about how fast a computer should work and it's difficult to go back to a mechanical disk drive computer after spending some time with an SSD. Out of every possible component you could add to a computer, nothing will have as great an impact on the computer's performance; SSDs can bring an aging laptop back to life or make a new system boot with blinding quickness.
Even if you don't use an SSD as your main data store, technologies like Intel's Smart Response Technology and Apple's Fusion Drive use SSDs to enhance the speed of mechanical hard disk drives, combining the speed of SSDs with the capaciousness of big mechanical hard disk drives.
If you don't have one yet, odds are you will in your next computer. The venerable hard disk drive will be with us for a while yet, but the age of the SSD is well and truly here, and it's awesome.
Managing Editor Eric Bangeman: Wireless broadband
I remember going on a cruise on the Chicago River about five years ago where Sprint and Motorola demonstrated one of the first WiMAX installations anywhere. Back in 2007, wireless Internet access meant something akin to dial-up speeds, so the 3.2Mbps speeds I saw on the demo laptops were fairly mind-blowing. I ended up purchasing a Sprint WiMAX mobile hotspot a couple of years ago and enjoyed the speeds of up to 6Mbps that it provided. This past summer, I upgraded to a Verizon Jetpack Mobile LTE Hotspot and its still-faster speeds.
One the perks of working for Ars Technica is being able to do your job anywhere there's a broadband connection. With my Jetpack and the widespread availability of LTE, that can be just about anywhere.
I use the Jetpack as a backup when the home Internet goes out as well as when I take my laptop over to the local coffee shop. The Internet often moves slowly at Starbucks and looking around, it's no secret why. There are several laptops, tablets, and smartphones competing for a finite pool of bandwidth. Meanwhile, I'm surfing away at speeds of up to 15Mbps. And when I travel, my fat broadband pipe goes with me if I head somewhere with LTE coverage.
I just wish I didn't have to keep track of my data usage...

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Legendary Artist to Play Selected Dates in Anticipation of New Album
Mose Allison, whose new Joe Henry produced album The Way of the World will be released an Anti Records this March 23rd has just announced a string of selected live performances in the following weeks. The record is Allison's first in twelve years after swearing off formal recording. It was Grammy winning producer Henry who finally lured the inimitable musician back into the studio. "I became fairly obsessed with the notion that Mose might yet have something more to tell us," Henry explains. "And so I embarked on an old-fashioned letter writing campaign by way of lobbying his participation."
When the two eventually teamed up in Henry's California studio, Allison found his most sympathetic setting in years, surrounded by young, vibrant players, who added a surprising slide guitar and some sinewy saxophone to the classic Mose sound; The Way of the World also features Mose' first-ever duet with his daughter, singer Amy Allison. Yet this album is all Mose, from the solo song "Modest Proposal," a sly scalpel taken to organized religion, to the modernist, Monkish changes he takes the band through on the lone instrumental, "Crush."
The brilliant Mississippi born Allison has long been referred to as the "William Faulkner of jazz" and is renowned for his profound influence on musical luminaries including The Rolling Stones, The Who, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and more. Ray Davies of the Kinks said of Allison, "When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues" and the New Yorker Magazine pronounced Allison "nothing less than a National Treasure."
Mose Allison live dates:
January 7, 8 & 9, Blues Alley, Washington, D.C
January 15, California State University, Bakersfield, CA.
January 16 & 17, Largo at the Coronet Theater, Los Angeles, CA
January 18, Kuumba Santa Cruz, CA.
February 4-7, Jazz Showcase, Chicago, Il
February 26, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ


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Red Sox - 000 000 000 - 0 2 1Sabathia (7-1-0-2-8, 96) clearly outpitched Dice (7-6-1-5-3, 115), although the game was only 1-0 -- a Robinson Cano home run that barely cleared the left field fence -- when the starters left.
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New York got two runs off Billy Wagner in the eighth, after a missed catch error by Chris Woodward on a rundown of Brett Gardner off third base. Nick Swisher walked to start the inning and Gardner pinch-ran. Gardner took second on a wild pitch right before Cano struck out. With Melky Cabrera batting, Gardner stole third. Wagner ended up hitting the Dud. Wagner's second pitch to Jose Molina got away from Victor Martinez. He got to it quickly and Boston had Gardner caught off third, but Woodward could not hold onto the baseball. Molina then walked to load the bases. Derek Jeter sasahed for the second out, but Johnny Damon blooped Wagner's 35th of the inning into short right for two runs.
The Yankees blew an excellent scoring opportunity in the fifth. Jeter singled and Damon and Mark Teixeira walked to load the bases. Alex Rodriguez dribbled the ball maybe 15 feet down the first base line. Martinez went out, gloved it, slipped a bit turning around, then dove towards the plate, getting his glove on the dish right before Jeter slid in. Hideki Matsui fouled out to Martinez and Swisher fouled out to Lowell, who made an amazing basket catch down by the tarp.
Sabathia retired the first 11 Red Sox until Martinez walked in the fourth. Lowell began the fifth with a ground ball single into center. CC then KKK'd the side; Lowell stole second (!!!) when Rocco Baldelli fanned for the second out.
Kevin Youkilis was hit with a pitch in both the seventh and ninth innings. Mariano Rivera got the first two outs in the ninth, but Martinez singled to right -- extending his hitting streak to 25 games. He too second on DI and third on a wild pitch before Yook was plunked. Lowell struck out to end the game.
When it looked like Boston might end up with only one hit, Fox had a couple of tidbits. The last one-hitter in a Red Sox/Yankees game was Mike Mussina's near-perfect game at Fenway on September 2, 2001. The last Yankees one-hitter pitched against the Red Sox in New York was on August 9, 1992, when Sam Militello went seven innings (Fox did not mention it was his major league debut).


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Financial Engines, which claims to be America's largest independent RIA, announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its services to include management of individual retirement accounts (IRAs). IRA management includes access to Financial Engines' retirement income feature, Income+. The company is now managing IRA assets for 401(k) participants from select plan sponsors.
The company reports that over all, 70 plan sponsors have signed contracts for Income+ as of March 31, representing $126 billion in assets and 1.4 million participants.
"Americans entering retirement today, especially those with modest assets, are on their own to manage unprecedented complexity and uncertainty," Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Financial Engines, said in a statement. "There is an urgent need for unbiased help and management that puts together all retirement accounts and sources of income to make the most of what people have saved. By offering IRA management, we are another step closer to this vision."
Financial Engines has extended Income+ methodology to IRAs so that "retirees looking to generate income from an IRA can receive steady monthly payouts based on their household's changing needs."
It also makes management and Income+ portable for participants who want continued help if they decide to roll out of their 401(k) plan or take a pension lump sum distribution.
The company notes that "independence is more important than ever." It cites a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that's highly critical of 401(k) rollover practices. The GAO found that participants are subjected to pervasive marketing of IRAs, in many cases from their plan service provider steering participants toward the purchase of their own retail products and services. Financial Engines notes it doesn't sell investments and is free from the product conflicts or the perception of conflicts of interest that can arise for firms that sell products.
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Culture for kids? That's right, and nowhere does this better than Germany's worlds of discovery, which are always a hit with young families. As well as amusement parks, Germany boasts all kinds of themed attractions – each with something different to offer: you can see incredible film sets and meet cartoon characters and big-screen heroes at the movie parks, star-gaze at planetariums or go treasure hunting at a fairytale park. These eclectic attractions are like giant adventure playgrounds, keeping boredom at bay for all ages with their sensational shows, special events and guaranteed thrills and spills. You can walk through the rainforest one day, go to a water park the next, enjoy a spa or watch fantastic entertainment on stage. Everyone loves making a splash – better yet, one combined with a loop-the-loop. Now, at Germany's water parks, you can feel the adrenaline rush of a rollercoaster on a loop-the-loop waterslide or a spectacular tube slide. The dizzyingly high climbing parks guarantee fun for families with a taste for heights and adventure. Other attractions reveal the history of the Earth and the dinosaurs in vivid fashion. And where but at a wildlife park could you see native and exotic animals one minute and scale a climbing frame or whizz down a tall slide the next? But we won't give it all away here – take a look and see for yourself!
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I wrote a nasty piece about Genpo Roshi's Big Mind™ — a new process for Zen practice Genpo claims will give you Enlightenment in just an hour — for this week's Suicide Girls article. It's going to "go live" — as they say — at Noon Pacific Time on Saturday (March 3, just 2 days before my birthday). Ever since I wrote a couple scathing paragraphs about Big Mind™ in a review of the movie "What The Bleep" about two years ago (click on the title of this article if you want to read it) I've been hearing from lots of people who've been involved in Big Mind™, or BM as I like to abbreviate it. And, man-o-man it sounds like it's even worse than I imagined! I've also heard from Zen teachers nearly everywhere I've gone to speak how appalled they are at this new development in the world of Zen. I'm starting to think that, maybe more than being just an obvious bit of low-rent sideshow hokum, this could possibly end up being the stuff of scandal sheets and Movies of the Week before too long. Of course, I'm sure Genpo and his butt-buddy Ken Wilber will end up on Oprah before then. Oh how the wheels of commerce do turn.
Anyway, I'll leave it till Saturday before the serious Big Mind™ bashing begins. But while I was writing, I was fishing around on-line for a quote I recall seeing in which John Daido Loori praised Big Mind™ as an excellent skillful means or some such thing. The quote came from a printed hand-out someone got at a Big Mind™ seminar and kindly sent me, which I then kindly lost track of. I was hoping the same stuff ended up on the Internets somewhere, but I couldn't find it. So I guess Daido gets a reprieve this time. Maybe he wisely told them to take his name off the list of supporters. Although I wouldn't give too much credit to the guy who wrote the very worst book ever written in the history of books about Dogen (the reprehensible "True Dharma Eye," may every copy burn in Hell).
Anyway (again) I didn't find the quote, but I did find a thing someone wrote way back in the golden year of twenty-ought-five about li'l old me. It's always funny to see this kind of thing. I thought I'd share it with you. Here's what they said:
"Notice that Brad Warner hasn't actually claimed to have tried the Big Mind™ process, or holosync for that matter. His ideas on what meditation/Buddhism must be are frustratingly stubborn. 'That's not Zen! THIS is Zen! And I'm the rootin' tootin' toughest Zen cowboy in town!'"
Haw! Is that what I sound like? I am definitely not the rootin' tootin' toughest Zen cowboy in town. What I am, though, is honest. Real Buddhist practice is hard work. Guys like Genpo Roshi and the makers of the holosync try and con you into thinking there are easy peasy ways to get to the same place. There are not. This isn't just my personal opinion. It's a fact.
The dude goes on to say, "If Big Mind™ works, if it really can give you a little satori within hours (I'm also doubtful, but I have no right to claim anything until I've tried it) then it doesn't matter if Genpo Roshi is a 30ft drug taking meerkat."
I've heard this argument a lot, that I shouldn't knock it till I've tried it cuz, who knows, maybe it really does work. But it isn't a valid argument. Let me give you a metaphor. Let's say a Martian came to Earth and an unscrupulous Earthling handed him a gram of coke and a straw. He tells the Martian that the coke is what we on Earth call a "piano." He tells the Martian to suck it up thru the straw into his proboscis. The Martian does so and he goes back to Mars and tells his friends, "When I was on Earth I sucked a piano into my nose through a straw and it felt GREAT!" Now the Martians may believe him. But will anyone on Earth?
The only reason anyone falls for this kind of malarchy is that they don't have any understanding what words like satori, kensho or enlightenment mean, just like our Martian friend has no idea what we on Planet Earth call a "piano."
This doesn't mean I'm calling all y'all dummies. I'm the biggest Neanderthal in town. But does it make sense to you that some new fangled technique is gonna get you 15 years of Zazen experience in just an hour? And if you don't know the answer to that one, how about this? Do you think a new fangled miracle diet pill is going to help you lose the fat it took 15 years to put on in a single week? I thought not. Then why would you imagine a lifetime of misuse of your brain and body can be undone in an afternoon? (actually Genpo claims BM can give you Enlightenment "before lunchtime.")
So there's your sneak preview. Enjoy the Suicide Girls piece this weekend. Remember it's free to look at my stuff up there. No need to join or risk accidentally seeing any tattooed nudie cuties.
*****POST SCRIPT March 8, 2007*****
I dug up the quote by John Daido Loori about Big Mind. It's from an article called "Genpo Roshi's Big Mind." The author is John Kain but the original source is not noted on the copy I have. I believe it was a hand-out given at a Big Mind™ seminar. Here's what it says:
"Zen teaching is like fishing," says John Daido Loori, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, dharma brother to Genpo Roshi and author of numerous books including, Making Love with Light (Daido Roshi is my teacher and has a much more traditional approach to practice than does Genpo Roshi. I'd asked him what he thought of Genpo Roshi's less traditional method). "Every fisherman has a technique. Some use flies, some lures, some bait. The key is to get the student hooked. Genpo Roshi uses the Big Mind process. I use the Arts, and Tetsugen (Bernie Glassman) uses social action. What counts is what happens when the student gets hooked. Genpo Roshi has shown, through the strength of his successors, that he is good at the essential part of Zen training. His successors are excellent."
There you have it. Although I'm not really sure just what Daido is saying here. It's not quite as supportive as I'd recalled. In fact, it may be an obtuse way of saying he doesn't support BM. It's impossible to know. Which may be the problem (see my March 7 article). I do have a problem, as well, with the idea that it's OK to hook a student with something deceptive. Or to hook students at all. This may be a matter for another article.


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Amarilla's grandmother Mary Ann Delano Keller died on 3 Aug 1882 in Morrow Co., Ohio. I have not found anything in the death records for Morrow County about her death like I did for John Keller, her husband.
Mary is buried with John Keller in the Hedding M.E. Cemetery in Morrow County, Ohio. I featured that tombstone in the posted dated March 25, 2011 on John Keller's death.
Here is another photo of the tombstone:
Mary Anne Delano and John Keller married on 5 March 1831, per the marriage records of Knox Co. or on 15 Mar 1830 per Hse of Delano book in Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio.
Source: Marriage Records 1808-1851, Probate Court, Knox Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio, FHL#1294304 1808-1853.
There is information about the family in the book: The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano 1621-1899, by Major Joel Andrew Delano, Part IV, New York 1899, pg. 426 to 427.
Mary was the daughter of Stephen Delano (Jr.) and Lovina Smith. The Delano's are an old family and go back to Philippe de Lannoy (Delano or de la Noye) to 1621 and the 2nd boat to Plymouth, Massachusetts, The Fortune.
There is one submission application for Stephen Delano (Sr.) at the DAR Library. It is an original application to DAR under Elizabeth Delano, daughter of Stephen Delano and Mary Shaw, and a sister to Stephen Delano, Mary Anne Delano Keller's father. You can search for this information at the DAR website it will cost to purchase a copy.
Miriam, Amarilla's niece wrote in her notes:
My Aunt Miriam was a little confused. She was mixing up membership in the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution 1776) with membership in Mayflower 1620. Two very different and separate hereditary organizations. Miriam is correct there is DAR and Mayflower in Amarilla's lineage through the Delano family and the Goss family. I have found a copy of the source book that Miriam mentions from the Boston Public Library and it is close to what was written. The date is 1973 and a lot more information and sources are available today.
There are green books from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999 that were written by Muriel Curtis Cushing that feature the descendants of Philip Delano of the Fortune 1621 and his descendants for four generations to Stephen Delano born 1748. The other book is the the fifth and sixth generations numbers 198-367 Part I 2004, which does not cover our family and so far I do not see that Part II has been published at this time.
Miriam writes more: "Amarilla Spracklin Barclay Dawes Urton, My mother's mother. Old line American. Tried to prove her right to membership in DAR but never made it. Fine old American names in her lineage — Delano, Keller, Dare."
I am a member of the Delano Kindred:
They are a hereditary organization for Delano descendants. Ms. Cushing is up for President of this organization in 2011. Their membership is not that expensive or is it hard to join. I have yet to submit my family line to them but plan to soon. You will find information at their website. They have annual reunions. As a member I have access to the membership list, a copy of the Delano book I mentioned above and information on what is going on regarding the research on the Delano family.
Internet Archive has a copy online of the Delano Genealogy Book: http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyhistory13dela
Wikipedia has an interesting article about the Delano Family with sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family


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|if(expression){ statement1 } else { statement2 }
|In the if statement, if the expression in parentheses is nonzero (true), control passes to statement 1. If the else clause is present and the expresssion is zero (false), control will pass to statement 2. The "else" part is optional, and if absent, a false expression will simply result in skipping over the statement 1. An else always matches the nearest previous unmatched if; braces may be used to override this when necessary, or for clarity.
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|The switch statement causes control to be transferred to one of several statements depending on the value of an expression, which must have integral type. The Substatement controlled by a switch is typically compound. Any statement within the substatement may be labeled with one or more case labels, which consist of the keyword case followed by a constant expression and then a colon (:).
No two of the case constants associated with the same switch may have the same value. There may be at most one default label associated with a switch - if none of the case labels are equal to the expression in the parentheses following switch, control passes to the default label, or if there is no default label, execution resumes just beyond the entire construct. Switches may be nested; a case or default label is associated with the innermost switch that contains it. Switch statements can "fall through", that is, when one case section has completed its execution, statements will continue to be executed downward until a break; statement is encountered. Fall-through is useful in some circumstances, but is usually not desired. In the preceding example, if label2 is reached, the statements statements 2 are executed and nothing more inside the braces. However if label1 is reached, both statements 1 and statements 2 are executed since there is no break to separate the two case statements.
|while(expression){ statements }
|The while loop will run the statements between the braces over and over as long as the expression results in a non zero value (true). Once the expression results false, the program will skip beyong the while loop and move on. Since the while loop always checks the condition of the expression first, it is possible that the while loop never runs the statements within the braces.
do while
|do{ statements }while(expression)
|The do-while loop will run the statements between the braces over and over as long as the expression results in a non zero value (true). Once the expression results false, the program will skip beyong the while loop and move on. Since the do-while loop always checks the condition of the expression last, the do-while will ALWAYS run the statments at least once.
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Clinton Comments on 51st Anniversary of Voting Rights Act
By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
Saturday, August 6, marked the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Democratic Presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton (D) issued a statement in which she said she will fight to repair the Voting Rights Act.
Former Secretary Clinton said, "Fifty-one years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, Americans are now facing the most systematic effort to curtail those rights since the era of Jim Crow. Make no mistake, new voter restriction laws in seventeen states have replaced poll taxes and literacy tests as a thinly veiled attempt to achieve an old objective: disenfranchising African Americans, Latinos, low-income people, young people, and people with disabilities."
Presidential nominee Clinton continued, "But we are fighting back. Last week, a court struck down North Carolina's voter ID requirement, saying it was designed to 'target African Americans with almost surgical precision.' Similar restrictions have recently been overturned in Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, North Dakota, and Kansas after courts found they were intended to discriminate as well."
The former First Lady said, "This November, the notion that every American has a voice in shaping our future is at stake. Donald Trump supports discriminatory voting restrictions — and actually claims that without them in place, the results of American elections should be questioned. It's a dangerous attempt to undermine the legitimacy of our democracy." "I have a very different view. I believe America is stronger when we expand access to the ballot box, not restrict it. That's why I'll fight to repair the Voting Rights Act, expand early voting, and introduce universal, automatic voter registration."
Clinton concluded, "Upon signing the Voting Rights Act in 1965, President Johnson said the right to vote 'is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny.' He was right."
US Representative Terri A. Sewell (D-Selma) said on social media, "In 1965 the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge forced the nation to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What now?"
Congresswoman Sewell introduced the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 to attempt to restore some of the restrictions on state and local governments in southern states, after the US Supreme Court struck down the preclearance section of the original Voting Rights Act in the landmark decision: "Shelby County versus Holder." Shelby County successfully sued the US Justice Department after a disputed redistricting of the City of Calera.
Rep. Sewell said on Twitter, "In the 51st anniversary of the signing of the VRA, we no longer have the protections it promised.
On Saturday, Rep. Sewell said that she had, "Just returned from visiting our Troops in Kabul, Afghanistan with congressional delegation led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. So thankful to our service members for their service and sacrifice!"
Sewell, Clinton and many Democrats object to Alabama's photo ID requirement.
Alabama voters must provide a valid photo ID in order to vote in the November 8, Presidential election or to vote in any election including the August 23, Mayor and City Council elections in many towns across Alabama.
If you do not have a valid photo ID, your local Board of Registrars can provide you with a free voter ID. Contact the Alabama Secretary of State's office for assistance or for more information. Forms of photo ID accepted at the polls include valid: driver's license; Alabama photo voter ID card; state issued ID (any state); federal issued ID; US passport; employee ID from Federal Government, State of Alabama, County, Municipality, Board, or other entity of this state; student or employee ID from a public or private college or university in the State of Alabama (including postgraduate technical or professional schools); Military ID; or Tribal ID. An expired driver's license is not acceptable so make sure to check your license to make sure that it is current.
A recent court decision overturning North Carolina's controversial photo ID law, has called in to question if such photo ID requirements are actually constitutional.
Hillary Clinton faces Republican nominee Donald Trump in the General Election on November 8.
Congresswoman Sewell represents Alabama's Seventh Congressional District.
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House passes General Fund Budget
By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
The Alabama House of Representatives passed the state General Fund Budget on Tuesday.
The General Fund Budget for the 2019 fiscal year is Senate Bill 178. It is sponsored by Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Montrose. State Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, carried the budget on the House floor. Clouse chairs the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee.
Clouse said, "Last year we monetized the BP settlement money and held over $97 million to this year."
Clouse said that the state is still trying to come up with a solution to the federal lawsuit over the state prisons. The Governor's Office has made some progress after she took over from Gov. Robert Bentley. The supplemental we just passed added $30 million to prisons.
The budget adds $50 million to the Department of Corrections.
Clouse said that the budget increased the money for prisons by $55,680,000 and includes $4.8 million to buy the privately-owned prison facility in Perry County.
Clouse said that the budget raises funding for the judicial system and raises the appropriation for the Forensic Sciences to $11.7 million.
The House passed a committee substitute so the Senate is either going to have to concur with the changes made by the House or a conference committee will have to be appointed. Clouse told reporters that he hoped that it did not have to go to conference.
Clouse said that the budget had added $860,000 to hire more Juvenile Probation Officers. After talking to officials with the court system that was cut in half in the amendment. The amendment also includes some wording the arbiters in the court lawsuit think we need.
The state General Fund Budget, SB178, passed 98-1.
Both budgets have now passed the Alabama House of Representatives.
The 2019 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2018.
In addition to the SGF, the House also passed a supplemental appropriation for the current 2018 budget year. SB175 is also sponsored by Pittman and was carried by Clouse on the floor of the House.
SB175 includes $30 million in additional 2018 money for the Department of Corrections. The Departmental Emergency Fund, the Examiners of Public Accounts, the Insurance Department and Forensic Sciences received additional money.
Clouse said, "We knew dealing with the federal lawsuit was going to be expensive. We are adding $80 million to the Department of Corrections."
State Representative Johnny Mack Morrow, R-Red Bay, said that state Department of Forensics was cut from $14 million to $9 million. "Why are we adding money for DA and courts if we don't have money for forensics to provide evidence? if there is any agency in law enforcement or the court system that should be funded it is Forensics."
The supplemental 2018 appropriation passed 80 to 1.
The House also passed SB203. It was sponsored by Pittman and was carried in the House by State Rep. Ken Johnson, R-Moulton. It raises securities and registration fees for agents and investment advisors. It increases the filing fees for certain management investment companies. Johnson said that those fees had not been adjusted since 2009.
The House also passed SB176, which is an annual appropriation for the Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The bill requires that the agency have an operations plan, audited financial statement, and quarterly and end of year reports. SB176 is sponsored by Pittman and was carried on the House floor by State Rep. Elaine Beech, D-Chatham.
The House passed Senate Bill 185 which gives state employees a cost of living increase in the 2019 budget beginning on October 1. It was sponsored by Sen. Clyde Chambliss, R-Prattville and was being carried on the House floor by state Rep. Dimitri Polizos, R-Montgomery.
Polizos said that this was the first raise for non-education state employees in nine years. It is a 3 percent raise.
SB185 passed 101-0.
Senate Bill 215 gives retired state employees a one time bonus check. SB215 is sponsored by Senator Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, and was carried on the House floor by state Rep. Kerry Rich, R-Guntersville.
Rich said that retired employees will get a bonus $1 for every month that they worked for the state. For employees who retired with 25 years of service that will be a $300 one time bonus. A 20-year retiree would get $240 and a 35-year employee would get $420.
SB215 passed the House 87-0.
The House passed Senate Bill 231, which is the appropriation bill increase amount to the Emergency Forest Fire and Insect and Disease Fund. SB231 is sponsored by Sen. Steve Livingston, R-Scottsboro, and was carried on the House floor by state Rep. Kyle South, R-Fayette.
State Rep. Elaine Beech, D-Chathom, said, "Thank you for bringing this bill my district is full of trees and you never know when a forest fire will hit.
SB231 passed 87-2.
The state of Alabama is unique among the states in that most of the money is earmarked for specific purposes allowing the Legislature little year-to-year flexibility in moving funds around.
The SGF includes appropriations for the Alabama Medicaid Agency, the courts, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Alabama Department of Corrections, mental health, and most state agencies that are no education related. The Alabama Department of Transportation gets their funding mostly from state fuel taxes.
The Legislature also gives ALEA a portion of the gas taxes. K-12 education, the two year college system, and all the universities get their state support from the education trust fund (ETF) budget. There are also billions of dollars in revenue that are earmarked for a variety of purposes that does not show up in the SGF or ETF budgets.
Examples of that include the Public Service Commission, which collects utility taxes from the industries that it regulates. The PSC is supported entirely by its own revenue streams and contributes $13 million to the SGF. The Secretary of State's Office is entirely funded by its corporate filing and other fees and gets no SGF appropriation.
Clouse warned reporters that part of the reason this budget had so much money was due to the BP oil spill settlement that provided money for the 2018 budget and $97 million for the 2019 budget. Clouse said they elected to make a $13 million repayment to the Alabama Trust fund that was not due until 2020 but that is all that was held over for 2020.
Clouse predicted that the Legislature will have to make some hard decisions about revenue in next year's session.
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Day Care bill delayed for second time on Senate floor, may be back Thursday
By Samuel Mattison
Alabama Political Reporter
The day care bill, which would license certain day care centers in Alabama, was once again delayed on the state Senate floor after one lawmaker requested more information.
Its brief appearance Tuesday ended with state Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, saying a compromise had not yet been worked out with the bill's detractors.
Alabama's Senate has been hesitant to act on the legislation because of complaints of state Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, who has been an opponent of the bill since its introduction last year. The bill's delay on Tuesday marks the second time its been taken off the Senate's agenda.
The bill has had a rocky time in this year's session, but the bill's sponsor state Rep. Pebblin Warren, D-Tuskegee, said she is still confident about its passage out of the Legislature.
Warren, D-Tuskegee, filed the bill this session with the support of influential lawmakers including Gov. Kay Ivey, who told reporters last year that she though all day cares should be licensed.
Mainly sparked by the death of 5-year-old boy in the care of a unlicensed day care worker, the bill had great momentum coming into this year' session.
Despite the growing support from lawmakers, Religious groups had concerns that the bill would increase state-sponsored reach into religious day cares in churches and non-profit groups.
Spearheading the dissenters was Alabama Citizens Action Program, a conservative religious-based PAC.
Warren, proponents, and ALCAP announced a compromise to the bill while it was still in the Alabama House.
Announced by ALCAP originally, the new bill was a weaker version in that it did not require that all day cares in the state be regulated. Instead, religious-based day cares would only need to be registered if they received federal funds. At a Senate committee meeting in February, Warren said a similar requirement was about to come from federal law in Congress.
The bill moved through the House in a overwhelming vote in favor of the proposal and passed unanimously out of a Senate committee a few weeks ago.
Warren, speaking to reporters after its passage from the House, said she was unsure if the bill would encounter resistance in the upper chamber.
It was the Senate that killed the daycare bill last year amid a cramped last day where senators took the bill off the floor. The bill may face similar complications this year, as lawmakers seem to be preparing to adjourn within a few weeks.
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Fantasy sports bill fails on Senate floor
By Samuel Mattison
Alabama Political Reporter
Would-be Fantasy Sports players in Alabama will have to wait to legally play in the state following a Senate vote on Tuesday.
The Alabama Senate decisively killed a bill to exempt fantasy sports from the state's prohibition on gambling.
Not even entertaining a debate on the Senate floor, the proposal was killed during a vote for the Budget Isolation Resolution, which is usually a formality vote preluding a debate.
Fantasy sports are contests where participants select players from real teams to compete on fantasy teams using the real-world players' stats.
Since 2016, the practice has been illegal in Alabama following a legal decision by the Attorney General's Office that categorized it as gambling.
The bill's sponsor, state Sen. Paul Sanford, R-Huntsville, predicted the bill's failure during a committee meeting two weeks ago, where the bill passed unanimously.
- Sen. Paul Sanford speaks to reporters after a Senate Committee meeting on Feb. 28, 2018. (Samuel Mattison/APR)
Speaking to reporter's after the committee meeting, Sanford said the decision to file the bill was mainly a philosophical belief that the practice shouldn't be illegal.
Sanford, a fantasy sports player before its ban, said that fantasy sports are a way to bring people closer together and not a means to win money. The Huntsville senator is not seeking re-election.
The bill's failure in the Senate follows its trajectory last year too. A similar version of the bill, also sponsored by Sanford, failed in the Senate during the final days of the 2017 Legislative Session.
Since Sanford is retiring, it is unclear if the bill will even come back next session, or if it will even have a Senate sponsor.
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House OKs bill to clarify consulting contracts by state legislators
By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
Tuesday, the Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill to try to clarify how legislators accept consulting contracts under Alabama's 2010 ethics law. Some pundits have suggested that House Bill 387 is actually designed to weaken the existing ethics law.
Sponsor state Rep. Rich Wingo, R-Tuscaloosa, argues that the legislation is merely a clarification and is intended to prevent legislators from inadvertently crossing the line into illegality.
Wingo said that his bill would require legislators to notify the Alabama Ethics Commission that they have entered into a consulting agreement in an area outside of their normal scope of work.
State Rep. Paul Beckman, R-Prattville, said, "I have never understood why members of this body were allowed to take contracts as consultants or counselors."
Wingo said, "Never do I use the word counselor in my bill; it is consulting."
Beckman asked, "Are we going to be getting into an area where every time we turn around we create a bureaucratic nightmare where we have to go get an opinion. These opinions whether it is orally or written don't hold up in a court of law." Beckman said, "We are serving the people here but we get this admonition that we can still be a consultant if we get an opinion."
Wingo said, "This does not apply to professions where a member is currently licensed."
Beckman said, "I would like to see more opinions coming out of the Ethics Commission. Right now we have the Ethics Commission competing with the Attorney General's office over who has more authority."
State Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, said,"This happened to a friend of mine. He just got out of prison. He was a state senator and had a written letter from the Ethics Commission which his lawyer read at trial and the jury convicted him anyway."
Rogers never named his friend, but reporters think he was talking about former state Sen. Edward Browning 'E. B.' McClain who spent over 22 years in the legislature until he was convicted on 47 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, bribery, and money laundry in 2009.
A federal jury found that McClain and the Rev. Samuel Pettagrue were guilty in a scheme where McClain would secure public funds for Pettagrue's community programs and then receive a kickback once the funds were in hand. McClain was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison. McClain was not prosecuted under the Alabama ethics law as the state has a much weaker ethics statute then. The current ethics law was passed in 2010.
Rogers said, "If they offer me a consulting contract for a field like aerospace engineering that I know nothing about they are trying to pay me off. If you can already be a consultant for something you know about why would you seek a consulting contract for something you don't know about.
Rogers this is how they can pay you off for your vote."
State Rep. Artis "A.J." McCampbell said, "I don't like making changes to things like this because we get into things called unintended consequences."
McCampbell was reading from the bill and Wingo said, "You are reading from the original version it has completely changed." "We worked tirelessly on this bill with the Ethics Commission this is not a fly by night bill."
"If a member of the legislature enters into a contract to do a consulting contract outside of their normal field of work this bill requires that they consult with the Ethics Commission first," Wingo said. "It is up to the member to notify the Ethics Commission not to the company or person offering them the money."
State Representative Pebblin Warren, D-Tuskegee, said, "Everybody but legislators are allowed to do contract work up to $30,000."
Rep. Wingo said, "This is not intended to be a roadblock."
State Representative Arnold Mooney, R-Indian Springs, said, "The whole purpose of this is not to prevent members from doing work in your field." "What you are doing is offering to protect me."
State Representative John Knight, D-Montgomery, asked Wingo what the Alabama Attorney General said about this legislation.
Wingo replied, "I have not contacted the Attorney General."
Knight responded, "Something from the Ethics Commission does not carry a lot of protection from the Attorney General. We have seen that in the past. I think the Attorney General and the Ethics Commission should be in agreement in the working on this."
Wingo answered, "Maybe this is a first step."
Rep. Laura Hall, D-Huntsville, asked, "Do we have anybody doing work outside of their regular scope of work?"
Wingo answered, "Yes I think so."
Wingo said, "If we had had this bill four or five years ago maybe we could have been spared the embarrassment that this body experienced with the former Speaker."
Wingo was referring to former Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard who was convicted of 12 counts of felony ethics violations in June 2016. Ironically, Hubbard is largely responsible for creating the ethics law that he was found guilty of violating 11 times in his relentless pursuit of outside contracts and personal wealth.
Unlike McClain, however, Hubbard has not yet served any of this sentence.
House Bill 387 passed 67-0 with 26 legislators abstaining.
The bill now moves to the Senate for its consideration.
(Original reporting by the Alabama Media Group's Lisa Osborn in 2009 was consulted in this report.)


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Sunday confidently predicted congressional backing for limited military action in Syria on Sunday and disclosed fresh evidence the Assad government used sarin gas in a deadly attack.
Senior U.S. officials sought to lay out their case to divided lawmakers in a classified briefing as the countdown began to the biggest foreign policy vote since Congress authorized President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
In a series of interviews on the Sunday news shows, Secretary of State John Kerry said the case for intervention in Syria's 2 1/2-year civil war was strengthening each day and that he expected American lawmakers to recognize the need for action when the 'credibility of the United States is on the line.'
He said President Barack Obama has the authority to launch retaliatory strikes with or without Congress' approval, but Kerry stopped short of saying the president would do so if the House or Senate withholds support.
'The stakes are just really too high here,' Kerry said. 'We are not going to lose this vote.'
Seeking to sharpen the argument for war, Kerry said the United States has received hair and blood samples from first responders indicating that Syria's government forces used sarin in its Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs.
It was the first piece of specific physiological evidence cited by the administration, which previously cited only an unnamed nerve agent in the killing of 1,429 civilians, including more than 400 children. The U.S. says such chemical weapons use compels an international response.
Washington has struggled to rally allies to its cause, however, with only France firmly on board among major military powers. Stalwart ally Britain cannot be counted on after Parliament rejected using force in a vote last week. That could be a harbinger of the difficult task ahead for the Obama administration as it seeks Congress' approval for cruise missile strikes and other limited measures once lawmakers return from summer break, which is scheduled to end Sept. 9.
A little more than a year ago, Obama declared that Assad's use of chemical weapons would be the 'red line' in a conflict that he has steadfastly avoided. But Obama deferred any immediate action Saturday by announcing that he first would seek congressional authorization.
Senior administration officials were briefing members of Congress in private later Sunday. Further classified meetings would be held over the next three days, Kerry said. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans a Tuesday hearing.
Navy ships are on standby in the Mediterranean Sea ready to launch missiles.
Obama is likely to find strong support in the Democrat-controlled Senate but a tougher fight in the GOP-dominated House.
Despite the intense gridlock on Capitol Hill over debt reduction, health care, immigration and other issues, at least some senior lawmakers said the president should be able to cobble together a strong enough coalition of moderate and hawkish members of both parties to defeat anti-war Democrats and tea party-backed Republicans opposed to intervention.
'We cannot make this about the president versus the Congress. This isn't about Republicans versus Democrats. This has a very important worldwide reach,' said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. 'At the end of the day, Congress will rise to the occasion,' he said, but added that 'it's going to take that healthy debate to get there.'
GOP Rep. Peter King of New York, who criticized Obama for not proceeding immediately against Assad, predicted a tougher challenge. 'I think it is going to be difficult,' said King, citing the rising 'isolationist' tendency among members of his party.
A leader of that faction, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, said he expected the Senate to 'rubber-stamp' what Obama wants. 'But I think the House will be a much closer vote,' he said, saying the balance was 'at least 50-50 whether the House will vote down involvement in the Syrian war.'
Late Saturday, the White House sent Congress a draft resolution authorizing force against Syria to 'deter, disrupt, prevent and degrade' the Assad regime's ability to use chemical weapons. It doesn't lay out a timeline for action or detail Obama's strategy.
Kerry reiterated Obama's oft-repeated promise not to send any American troops into Syrian territory, a reflection of the president's own aversion to getting too deeply involved in a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and drawn in terrorist organizations on both sides of the battlefield.
Polls also show significant opposition among Americans to involvement after a decade of war in the Muslim world, and several officials have cited the faulty intelligence about weapons of mass destruction that led up to the Iraq war as justification of the need for lengthy debate before U.S. military action.
Kerry, who voted to authorize Bush's 2003 Iraq invasion but then opposed the war in his unsuccessful presidential bid a year later, rejected any comparisons to those conflicts.
'This is not Iraq. This is not Afghanistan. There is nothing similar in what the president is contemplating,' Kerry said. 'There are others who are willing to fight, others who are engaged. And the issue here is not whether we will go and do it with them, it's whether we will support them adequately in their efforts to do it.'
Asked repeatedly what Obama would do if Congress didn't give its consent, Kerry said, 'The president has taken his decision.'
'He is not trying to create an imperial presidency,' Kerry said. 'I believe that in the end, Congress will do what is right.'
Administration officials said that until late Friday Obama appeared set on ordering a strike without first seeking Congress' approval. After a walk around the White House grounds with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, the president told his aide he had changed his mind.
Complicating efforts in Congress is the demand for even stronger action from Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the leading Republican hawks in the Senate.
McCain said he and Graham and others 'will be wanting a strategy, a plan, rather than just we're going to launch some cruise missiles and that's it.' McCain said he was invited to the White House by Obama to discuss Syria and planned to go there Monday.
Kerry appeared on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' CNN's 'State of the Union,' CBS' 'Face the Nation,' 'Fox News Sunday' and ABC's 'This Week.' Paul was on NBC, Rogers was on CNN, King was on Fox and McCain on CBS.


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The U.S. Forest Service unveiled a revised travel management plan Thursday for Boggy-Glade, the area north of Dolores comprising 245,800 acres of San Juan National Forest.
For years, the Forest Service has drawn the ire of locals who feel the agency is closing too many roads and Off-Highway Vehicle trails inside Boggy-Glade. The outcry is also philosophical: they interpret forest planning, which involves setting boundaries where motorized travel is acceptable, as an affront to their freedom.
While the decision document was not available to the public until Thursday, Forest Service officials chose to meet with Montezuma County commissioner Gerald Koppenhafer Wednesday evening to discuss the decision. Commissioners Larrie Rule and Steve Chappell did not attend.
Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla, and Deborah Kill, an environmental policy analyst, were on hand to give an overview of the 60-page document.
They were greeted by a crowd of 30 people, mostly members of the Four Corners 9/12 Project, who didn't hide their contempt for the plan - and for Washington, D.C. government in general.
The tone was adversarial from the outset.
"You have no right to own the damn forest," one man said just moments after the session convened.
With only Koppenhafer present, it was not considered an official public meeting, so attendees were not required to give their names before speaking.
Crowd members immediately pounced on this fact, declaring it "convenient" that commissioners Rule and Chappell were missing. Koppenhafer clarified that Rule was recovering from surgery and Chappell was out of town, and said no evasion was intended.
The Forest Service decision was the second attempt to develop a comprehensive multi-use plan for Boggy-Glade.
The new proposal - "Modified Alternative D" - preserves 379 miles of forest roads and 42 miles of newly designated OHV trails. It eliminates 70 miles of old roads, 20 fewer than the original plan. It prohibits motorized cross-country travel through undisturbed forest, but makes exceptions for limited game retrieval, dispersed camping and day-use parking.
Kill said the changes were necessary to restore wildlife habitat and watersheds. Trail proliferation and overuse has "caused precipitation runoff down the worn tracks instead of percolating through to the soil," she said.
Padilla added that Boggy-Glade is a "transition zone between Ponderosa pine and piñon-juniper woodland habitats", used heavily by elk.
"There are too many roads and not enough secluded spaces to separate themselves from human presence. Without (those spaces), the elk move elsewhere, which nobody wants."
The audience wasn't buying it.
Disdain for the plan at times grew personal. Padilla was brazenly asked whether he believed in God (he said he did), had read the Constitution lately (he said he carried a copy), and how he could sleep at night.
Padilla defended the Forest Service and argued that ample time was given for feedback.
"But you don't listen to it," someone shot back.
Sheriff Dennis Spruell apologized for the less-than-civil tone of certain exchanges, but vouched for the crowd's grievances.
Among them were bulldozing long-established roads, blocking off routes with berm and rock barriers, poor communication and too much red tape - all adding up to an intrusive, unpleasant atmosphere they said discouraged hunters - and their money - from coming here.
After the original decision was appealed and reversed in November 2010 - ironically for too many roads on a certain swath of forest - Kill said she held meetings with county commissioners and the public about which roads were important to keep open and why.
One contentious flashpoint was the right of hunters to retrieve large game, like deer and elk, using motorized vehicles. Alternative D allows for motorized retrieval - with caveats: OHVs 50 inches in width or smaller may venture one mile off designated roadways during archery, muzzleloader, first through fourth rifle, and late antlerless elk seasons, so long as the hunter has a license and carcass tag. Kill said this was a concession by the Forest Service compared to the first plan and evidence they were being responsive.
From the audience's perspective, the Forest Service was micromanaging and splitting hairs with its precise regulations. They scoffed audibly when Padilla said firewood gathering was permitted within 300 feet from the road, and that campers could only park one vehicle-length off to the side.
"Is your job to manage resources or people?" quipped Dexter Gill, spokesman for the 9/12 group.
Padilla said the Forest Service was aiming for consistency, and that other national forests have the same rules.
Flabbergasted, another man said, "Most people like myself will be mad enough to (disregard the rules) anyway!"
"That's their prerogative," Padilla replied.
He explained that rangers will spend the first year educating forest users who might be unaware of the rule changes, "gaining compliance by request." Only "flagrant violators" would be issued citations, he said.
Attendees did not seem fazed by the prospect of fines.
"You talk about your nifty laws," one man said, after Kill referenced no less than seven federal statutes that give the Forest Service legal clout to conserve sensitive habitats. "When you violate them, there's no such thing as legality anymore. We will go where we please, when we please, and restore those roads ourselves."
With emotions flaring, Debbie Boyd seized the moment to give a lengthy political treatise: unless Alternative D was reversed, she feared a downward spiral from fascism to socialism to communism.
Padilla rejected the notion that the Forest Service was out for a power trip.
Legislation in the 1970s under presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter laid the foundation for more systematic management of public lands. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth added teeth to those earlier laws in 2005 by requiring each forest without designated motor vehicle guidelines to create them.
"In decades past, ATV use was not prevalent. In 2005 it was identified that unless defined trail systems were in place, the increase in ATV use would have detrimental consequences on resources," Padilla said in an interview Thursday. "People can still hunt. Can they drive to every single acre they could before? No, they can't. But they still have access."
So what happens next?
Individuals and groups have 45 days to file an appeal against Alternative D. Fifty more days are given to resolve any forthcoming appeals. If an appeal has legal standing, the decision could be tabled temporarily, or voided altogether - "then it's back to the drawing board," Padilla said. On the other hand, if an appeal is dismissed and the decision upheld, modifications to Boggy-Glade would begin in the spring of 2013.
The meeting ended with a verbal agreement that Padilla would invite an expert on forest law to clear up questions surrounding "RS2477 roads," those covered by an 1886 right-of-way law. If a plaintiff proves a certain road predates 1976 and served a functional purpose, like timber or mining, it cannot legally be removed.
The crowd accused the Forest Service of routinely ignoring this law. Padilla said the burden of proof is on those who assert RS2477 status.