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ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials
Mon, August 14 - Fri, August 18, 2017
Plenty of solid up-to-date content taught by an instructor with real experience and credibility.
The hands-on exercises were very useful & provided significant insight to the tools & methods available to potential attackers.
SANS has joined forces with industry leaders to equip security professionals and control system engineers with the cybersecurity skills they need to defend national critical infrastructure. ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials provides a foundational set of standardized skills and knowledge for industrial cybersecurity professionals. The course is designed to ensure that the workforce involved in supporting and defending industrial control systems is trained to keep the operational environment safe, secure, and resilient against current and emerging cyber threats.
The course will provide you with:
- An understanding of industrial control system components, purposes, deployments, significant drivers, and constraints.
- Hands-on lab learning experiences to control system attack surfaces, methods, and tools
- Control system approaches to system and network defense architectures and techniques
- Incident-response skills in a control system environment
- Governance models and resources for industrial cybersecurity professionals.
When examining the greatest risks and needs in critical infrastructure sectors, the course authors looked carefully at the core security principles necessary for the range of tasks involved in supporting control systems on a daily basis. While other courses are available for higher-level security practitioners who need to develop specific skills such as industrial control system penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, malware analysis, forensics, secure coding, and red team training, most of these courses do not focus on the people who operate, manage, design, implement, monitor, and integrate critical infrastructure production control systems.
With the dynamic nature of industrial control systems, many engineers do not fully understand the features and risks of many devices. In addition, IT support personnel who provide the communications paths and network defenses do not always grasp the systems' operational drivers and constraints. This course is designed to help traditional IT personnel fully understand the design principles underlying control systems and how to support those systems in a manner that ensures availability and integrity. In parallel, the course addresses the need for control system engineers and operators to better understand the important role they play in cybersecurity. This starts by ensuring that a control system is designed and engineered with cybersecurity built into it, and that cybersecurity has the same level of focus as system reliability throughout the system lifecycle.
When these different groups of professionals complete this course, they will have developed an appreciation, understanding, and common language that will enable them to work together to secure their industrial control system environments. The course will help develop cyber-secure-aware engineering practices and real-time control system IT /OT support carried out by professionals who understand the physical effects of actions in the cyber world.
Course Content Overlap Notice:
Please note that some course material for SEC401 may overlap with ICS410. We recommend ICS410 for those interested in security for an ICS/SCADA environment as it is approached from this viewpoint, and SEC401 for those primarily interested in a general information security course.
Course Syllabus
ICS410.1: ICS Overview
Justin Searle
Mon Aug 14th, 2017
Takeaway: Students will develop and reinforce a common language and understanding of Industrial Control System (ICS) cybersecurity as well as the important considerations that come with cyber-to-physical operations within these environments. Each student will receive programmable logic controller (PLC) hardware to keep. The PLC contains physical inputs and outputs that will be programmed in class and mapped to an operator interface, or HMI, also created in class. This improved hardware-enabled approach provides the necessary cyber-to-physical knowledge that allows students to better understand important ICS operational drivers and constraints that require specific safety protection, communications needs, system management approaches, and cybersecurity implementations. Essential terms, architectures, methodologies, and devices are all covered to build a common language for students from a variety of different roles.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Day 1 ICS Overview
- Global Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (GICSP) Overview
- Overview of ICS
- Processes & Roles
- Industries
- Field Components
- Real-Time Operating Systems
- Programming Controllers
- Exercise: PLC Programming
- Supervisory Components
- Specialized Applications
- Master Servers
- Exercise: HMI Programming
- Types of ICS Systems
- DCS vs. SCADA
- IT & ICS Differences
- ICS Lifecycle Challenges
- Physical Security
- ICS Network Architecture
- Network Models
- Design Example
- Exercise: Architecting a Secure DCS
ICS410.2: ICS Attack Surface
Justin Searle
Tue Aug 15th, 2017
Takeaway: If you know the adversary's approaches to attacking an ICS environment, you will be better prepared to defend that environment. Numerous attack vectors exist within an ICS environment. Some are similar to traditional IT systems, while others are more specific to ICS. During Day 2 defenders will develop a better understanding of where these specific attack vectors exist, as well as the tools to use to discover vulnerabilities and exploit them. Each student will use a vulnerable target virtual machine to further understand attacks targeting the types of web servers used on many ICS devices for management purposes. Simulators will be configured to allow students to conduct attacks against unauthenticated ICS protocols. A variety of data samples are used to examine additional attack vectors on remote devices.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Day 2: ICS Attack Surface
- ICS Attack Surface
- Exercise: Information Leakage
- Attacks on HMIs and UIs
- Intro to SamuraiSTFU
- Exercise: Password Fuzzing
- Web Attacks
- Exercise: Authentication Bypass with SQL Injection
- Attacks on Control Servers
- Attacks on Network Communications
- Exercise: Spoofing Modbus
- Attacks on Remote Devices
- Exercise: Analyzing Firmware
- Firmware Attacks
ICS410.3: Defending ICS Servers and Workstations
Justin Searle
Wed Aug 16th, 2017
Takeaway: Students will learn essential ICS-related server and workstation operating system capabilities, implementation approaches, and system management practices. Students will receive and work with both Windows- and Linux-based virtual machines in order to understand how to monitor and harden these hosts from attack. Students will examine concepts that benefit ICS systems such as system hardening, log management, monitoring, alerting, and audit approaches, then look at some of the more common applications and databases used in ICS environments across multiple industries.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Day 3: Defending ICS Servers and Workstations
- Windows in ICS
- Linux/Unix in ICS
- Updates and Patching
- Processes and Services
- Configuration Hardening
- Exercise: Bastille Linux
- Endpoint Defenses
- Exercise: Firewalls
- Automation and Auditing
- Exercise: Powershell
- Log Management
- Exercise: Windows Logs
- Databases and Historians
ICS410.4: Defending ICS Networks and Devices
Justin Searle
Thu Aug 17th, 2017
Takeaway: With an understanding of the ICS environment, the attack vectors that exist, and the defender-specific capabilities available on servers, workstations, and applications, students will now learn network-specific defense approaches. We'll first examine common IT protocols and network components used within ICS environments, then discuss ICS-specific protocols and devices. Technologies used to defend ICS networks will be reviewed along with implementation approaches. Students will interact with ICS traffic and develop skills to analyze it, then work through a number of tools to further explore a series of staged adversary actions conducted in a lab environment.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Day 4: Defending ICS Networks and Devices
- Network Fundamentals
- Ethernet
- TCP/IP Protocol Suite
- ICS Protocols over TCP/IP
- Exercise: Network Capture Analysis
- Enforcement Zone Devices
- Firewalls
- Unidirectional Gateways
- Honeypots
- Wireless in Control Systems
- Satellite Protocols
- Mesh Protocols
- Bluetooth and WiFi
- Defenses
- Exercise: Network Capture Forensics
- Field and Plant Floor Equipment
- Cryptography Fundamentals
ICS410.5: ICS Security Governance
Justin Searle
Fri Aug 18th, 2017
Takeaway: Students will learn about the various models, methodologies, and industry-specific regulations that are used to govern what must be done to protect critical ICS systems. Key business processes that consider risk assessments, disaster recovery, business impact analysis, and contingency planning will be examined from the perspective of ICS environments. On this final course day, students will work together on an incident response exercise that places them squarely in an ICS environment that is under attack. This exercise ties together key aspects of what has been learned throughout the course and presents students with a scenario to review with their peers. Specific incident-response roles and responsibilities are considered, and actions available to defenders throughout the incident response cycle are explored. Students will leave with a variety of resources for multiple industries and will be well prepared to pursue the GICSP, an important ICS-focused professional certification.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Day 5: ICS Security Governance
- Information Assurance Foundations
- Data Classification
- Depth in Defense
- Security Policies
- Policy Hierarchy
- Policy Governance
- Contingency and Continuity Planning
- Risk Assessment and Auditing
- Risk Governance
- Calculating Risk
- Exercise: Attack Tree Analysis
- Password Management
- Incident Handling
- Six Steps
- Table Top Exercise
- Exercise: Incident Response
- Resources
Additional Information
Laptop Required
The ICS410 Industrial Control System Security Essentials course consists of instruction and hands-on exercises. The exercises are designed to allow students to put knowledge gained throughout the course into practice in an instructor-led environment. Students will have the opportunity to install, configure, and use the tools and techniques that they have learned.
NOTE: Do not bring a regular production laptop for this class! When installing software, there is always a chance of breaking something else on the system. Students should assume that all data could be lost.
NOTE: It is critical that students have administrator access to the operating system and the ability to disable all security software installed. Changes may need to be made to personal firewalls and other host-based software in order for the labs to work.
Laptop requirements include the following:
- 64-bit processor with 64-bit operating system
- VT or other 64-bit virtualization settings enabled in your BIOS to run 64-bit VMs
- At least eight (8) GB of RAM
- At least fifty (50) GB of free hard drive space
- At least one USB port
- VMware Player 12, VMware Workstation 12, or VWware Fusion 8 installed BEFORE class. Other virtualization software such as Parallels or VirtualBox may work if the attendee is familiar with its functionality, however VMware should be pre-installed as a backup just in case
- Access to an account with administrative permissions and the ability to disable all security software on their laptop such as Antivirus and/or firewalls if needed for the class
- If you are using Linux for your host machine, you will need ExFAT drivers installed for the USB drive
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
The course is designed for the range of individuals who work in, interact with, or can affect industrial control system environments, including asset owners, vendors, integrators, and other third parties. These personnel primarily come from four domains:
- IT (includes operational technology support)
- IT security (includes operational technology security)
- Engineering
- Corporate, industry, and professional standards
Course participants need to have a basic understanding of networking and system administration, TCP/IP, networking design/architecture, vulnerability assessment, and risk methodologies. ICS410 covers many of the core areas of security and assumes a basic understanding of technology, networks, and security. For those who are brand new to the field and have no background knowledge, SEC301: Intro to Information Security would be the recommended starting point. While SEC301 is not a prerequisite, it provides introductory knowledge that will help maximize a student's experience with ICS410.
What You Will Receive
- Software tools
- Virtual Machine environments will be utilized throughout the labs
- MP3 audio files of the complete course lecture
- A license to Windows 10 and a hardware PLC for students to use in class and take home with them
You Will Be Able To
- Run Windows command line tools to analyze the system looking for high-risk items
- Run Linux command line tools (ps, ls, netstat, ect) and basic scripting to automate the running of programs to perform continuous monitoring of various tools
- Install VMWare and create virtual machines to create a virtual lab to test and evaluate tools/security of systems
- Better understand various industrial control systems and their purpose, application, function, and dependencies on network IP and industrial communications
- Work with operating systems (system administration concepts for Unix/Linux and/or Windows operating systems)
- Work with network infrastructure design (network architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, and components)
- Better understand the systems' security lifecycle
- Better understand information assurance principles and tenets (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)
- Use your skills in computer network defense (detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies)
- Implement incident response and handling methodologies
Hands-on Training
- Introduction to Samurai STFU
- Architect a secure DCS
- Information Leakage
- Password Fuzzing
- Bypassing Authentication with SQLi
- Spoofing Modbus-TCP control signals
- Finding Passwords in EEPROM dumps
- Host Based Firewalls
- Linux Hardening
- ICS Network Capture Analysis
- Network Capture Forensics
- Attack Tree Analysis
- Incident response exercise
What To Take Next?
Courses that lead in to ICS410:
- STH Modules
- STH.Engineer Modules
Courses that are prerequisites:
- SEC301 is not required, but it is recommended that students either take that course or have a working knowledge of the concepts taught in it.
Courses that are good follow-ups:
Author Statement
Eric Cole, Eric Cornelius, and Justin Searle
This course provides students with the essentials for conducting cybersecurity work in industrial control system environments. After spending years working with industry, we believe there is a gap in the skill sets of industrial control system personnel, whether it be cybersecurity skills for engineers or engineering principles for cybersecurity experts. In addition, both information technology and operational technology roles have converged in today's industrial control system environments, so there is a greater need than ever for a common understanding between the various groups who support or rely on these systems. Students in ICS410 will learn the language, the underlying theory, and the basic tools for industrial control system security in settings across a wide range of industry sectors and applications.


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CALGARY - A Canmore lot has sold for a record price of $2 million in that real estate market, the Herald has learned.
Kyle Pressman, a realtor with Maxwell Mountain Realty in Canmore, who sold the 14,000-square-foot lot at 23 Prospect Heights, said the sale eclipsed the previous high for a lot of $1.975 million in May 2008.
"All of a sudden we've had four sales over $2 million in the past four months. So the wealthy people are getting off the fence and they're spending money again," said Pressman.
"They haven't shopped for awhile and now they're buying . . . It's been very good."
He said demand is continuing in the luxury market with sales 31 per cent higher than a year ago.
Between January 1 and October 25 this year, 22 single-family properties in Canmore, including one lot, have sold for more than $1 million and four properties have sold for more than $2 million including the Prospect Heights lot.
Last year, for the same time period, there were 16 sales over $1 million and none over $2 million.
The Prospect Heights lot is located on the south side of the Bow River, close to the Canmore Nordic Centre.
The property was listed for over a year and was listed at $2.195 million.
Pressman said the lot was owned by a Calgary businessman and it was bought by someone from just outside of Edmonton.
The highest MLS residential lot sale in Calgary this year was $1.625 million for a nearly 23,000-square-foot property in Mount Royal.
The highest ever MLS residential lot sale in Calgary was $4.85 million for close to 4.5 hectares of land in Aspen Woods in October 2008.
Canmore's luxury home market is mirroring what's been happening in Calgary.
This year, the city set a record for most home sales over $1 million for an entire year and according to Mike Fotiou, associate broker with First Place Realty, October is the ninth consecutive month and 12th time in the last 13 months of record sales for the city luxury home market.
As of October 27, there were 51 MLS sales at that price point, besting the previous October record of 50 in 2012.

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Goat meat Adobo is something you might wanna give a try, you'll gonna love it!
Some food is so good they leave a special mark in your memories. Some even make it a portal to go back in time and place where they eat a specific food. A co-blogger that I truly admire can go back in 1970's Manila whenever she sip a hot soup of Beef Pochero.
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A very nice cabin will start to feel like a floating prison cell after 5 months. In the water world, everything will defend on your ability to create a way to make your time pass by as fast as possible.
Today, please join me as I escape my cabin and use my "Adobong Kambing Portal" to go back in 2007's Carribean Sea. I'm already having a nice smile on my face just by writing the word "Carribean Sea".
I find it hard to describe how scenic it is, how we enjoy the sweet summer sun and how we rock the night out of it!
We use to bring live goat and pig onboard. Roast the whole pig on charcoal and make alot of PULUTAN out of a goat. Adobo is one of my favorite goat dish.
Our Master, Capt. Dante suggested to squeeze a lemon at the last part of the Adobong Kambing procedure. It really made all the difference. Making the taste balanced and adding a citrus kick on the meat.
If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend you should give it a try!
Now on with the cooking…
Adobong Kambing
Prep. time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour and 15 minutes {or a little longer if you're cooking a tough goat meat.}
Difficulty: Very Easy
Good for 12 crew
You will need;
2.5 kg young goat meat bone-in, cut into chunks and chop bones to 6 cm. long
2 Tbsp. vegs. cooking oil
8 cloves garlic, crushed
8 pieces bayleaf/laurel
1 teaspoon black peppercorn
1/2 cup Kikoman soy sauce
4 Tbsp.(¼cup) vinegar{6% acidity}
2 Tbsp. lemon/kalamansi juice
1 tsp. sugar
Season to adjust taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper
Place goat meat on a large pot with vegs. cooking oil, garlic, bayleaf and peppercorn. Pour Kikoman soy sauce, stir to evenly blend the flavour. Cover pot with lid and place on very high heat. Bring it to a boil, then lower heat to simmer.
While simmering on low heat occationally check, stir and add water if sauce is drying up. Return lid, cover and continue simmering until goat meat is tender. {About an hour, goat meat is already tender.}
Pour in the vinegar. Bring heat to medium-high heat, cover with lid crack open for 5 minutes. Avoid stirring while the vinegar is being cooked.
Squeeze in lemon/kalamansi juice, stir to blend flavour. Since goat is full of fats, you can tilt the pot and scoop out the excess fat oil.
Lastly add the sugar, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to adjust to your desired taste.
Enjoy your meal !!! 😉
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new global arms trade treaty was overwhelmingly approved by the United Nations, with U.S. backing, but it was clear on Wednesday it faces a tough fight for ratification by U.S. senators who contend it could affect Americans' gun rights.
The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly approved the pact by a vote of 154-3 on Tuesday, with 23 abstentions, many by major weapons exporters.
Washington was one of the 'yes' votes, but to go into effect for the United States it must win at least 67 votes - a two-thirds majority - in the 100-member Senate. Last month, the Senate supported a measure calling for the treaty's rejection even before U.N. negotiations on its text were completed.
The powerful National Rifle Association gun industry lobby promised to fight against ratification. Several senators, mostly Republicans, quickly issued statements opposing the pact.
The United States is the world's largest gun exporter, accounting for 30 percent of global volume. Russia, No. 2, accounts for 26 percent. Moscow, which along with China abstained from the U.N. vote, said it would take a hard look at the treaty before deciding whether to sign it.
The treaty, the first of its kind, seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.
A U.S. commitment to the treaty is important to get China, Russia and other big arms producers on board, diplomats and activists say.
The United States is already in compliance with the treaty's terms because of its weapons export and import laws, they said, but U.S. approval could put pressure on other nations to adopt similar limits.
The White House said on Wednesday it had not yet decided whether President Barack Obama would sign the pact, and gave no timeline for doing so. Such a signing seems likely, however, given White House support for the pact at the United Nations.
If Obama signs, government agencies would review the treaty before the administration decides whether to seek ratification by the Senate.
"Timelines for the treaty review process vary and given that we're just beginning the review, I wouldn't want to speculate about when we'll make a decision," said Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council.
The Senate voted 53-46 on March 23 for a nonbinding amendment to its budget resolution calling for the treaty's rejection. Supporters said they were worried it would infringe on U.S. gun rights.
Winning 67 votes for ratification would require the support of all Democrats, including eight who voted for the amendment, as well as at least 12 Republicans, or a quarter of the entire Republican caucus, which strongly opposes almost any limits on gun sales.
"Don't expect a cakewalk," one Democratic Senate aide said.
The U.S. Senate has often been skeptical of international treaties, seeing them as limiting U.S. power. Among the unratified pacts signed by a U.S. president is the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions.
As with some other unratified treaties, however, Washington has implemented that treaty's terms, refraining from nuclear testing.
Several senators issued statements after the U.N. vote reiterating their opposition.
"The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty ... would require the United States to implement gun-control legislation as required by the treaty, which could supersede the laws our elected officials have already put into place," said Senator James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who sponsored the budget amendment.
He, fellow Republican Jerry Moran and Democratic Senator Max Baucus issued a press release objecting to the treaty after the U.N. vote. It also included a statement from Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action.
"We have always been clear that any treaty which does not expressly exclude civilian firearms ownership from its scope will be met with the NRA's greatest force of opposition," Cox said in the statement.
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would decide whether to take up the treaty if it were sent to the Senate. He applauded the U.N. vote and promised a "vigorous and fair review," if the treaty is eventually submitted to the Senate.
Menendez echoed Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House in insisting that the treaty would not affect Americans' gun rights.
"I ... commend the U.S. negotiating team for crafting what appears to be a strong, effective and implementable treaty that would in no way infringe on the rights of American citizens under our domestic law or the Constitution to bear arms," Menendez said in a statement.
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Ferrari 308 328 348 Mondial 512... Window Accelerators
Also fits Dino 246 and most all ealier models. To be sure do the test shown below.
Now even smaller in size!
Now at a lower price and better quality compared to the other units that are available on the market today!!
Do you own a Ferrari and the electric windows are terribly slow? Try my cheaper/better window helpers/accelerators. New and improved! These are now my redesigned Ferrari window accelerators where the componants are soldererd to a circuit board and bedded in potting material. Better quality and now available at a lower cost than the other Ferrari window accelerator kits available on the market today! 100% waterproof!
If you have a 70's - 90's Ferrari that has terribly slow windows like I had on my 1990 348 TS - this kit will make the windows move up and down at a more normal speed. Easy to install. $119.00 per pair (One unit per door) plus $8 shipping. Includes installation instructions.
The advantages of using a circuit board: There are several advantages of using a circuit board for these Ferrari window accelerators. All connections are soldered. There are no "push on" spade terminals used (other units on the market use push on spade terminals). With a circuit board there is no chance of a marginal connection at anytime of its use.
Built in arc suppression. There are two MOV's (Metal Oxide Varistors) on the circuit board. What do the MOV's do? The MOV's absorb any arcs created when the window switch is released. This insures long life for the window switches. A good example of this is if you have an appliance that has a large amperage draw such as a portable electric space heater. When this heater is on and you pull the plug from the wall outlet you will notice a spark. This also happens in window switches. When you release the switch there is a small arc created each time. Over time this arc degrades the contacts in the window switches. The MOV's mounted in these window accelerators eliminates that spark thus greatly extending the life of your window switches. My window accelerators are the only units in the market today that utilize this arc suppression circuitry.
This circuit board is inserted into a plastic box and filled with an epoxy potting material. This insures a waterproof and vibration proof device. Included in these kits are all the necessary parts for installation. Butt splices, shrink tubing, top quality 3M double sided emblem tape and some tie wraps.
Never suffer from slow windows again!
You will be amazed at how fast your windows move with these installed. They certainly will not be lightning fast but will generally move at a very reasonable speed. Never again be embarrassed about your slow moving windows on your Ferrari!! The 348 I purchased in early 2007 had windows that barely moved up.
They moved down only slightly better. To get them up I had to open the door, stand outside the car and push the electric window switch while pulling up hard on the glass window. Even then it was a struggle to get them to go fully up. Once I installed this accelerator device the speed of the windows increased dramatically. Although they are not super fast they move at a very reasonable speed.
They do not fit all Ferrari's Please do the test listed below to insure they fit your Ferrari before ordering these kits.
To test your Ferrari
There are 2 variations of the electric window circuitry on Ferraris. Most are the type that are compatible with my window helpers. To determine if you have the circuit that works with these window helpers you need to first test for compatibility. You will need a 12 volt test light. By test light I mean a 12 volt bulb with 2 wires. If you touch these 2 wires across a 12 volt battery the bulb lights . Take off an inner door panel. Find the wires that go to the window motor. There are 2 wires that go to the electric window motor. If there are connections that is good. If not you will need to strip a small amount of insulation off each of the 2 wires to do the test. The two wires may also be inside a plastic tube. This tube will need to be opened to get to the two electric window wires. Ground one wire from the test light to the door. Make sure the ground is good. Turn your key on to run (no need to start the car). Put the other end of the test lead on one electric window wire and see if the bulb lights. Take that same test lead and put it on the other electric window wire and see if it lights. If the bulb does not light my window helper will work on your Ferrari. You can double check and hold the test lead on one wire and push the button up and down. The bulb should light in one direction. If you put the test light wire on the other electric motor wire the test light should light when the switch is pushed the other way.
How They Work
Typically the single biggest reason Ferrari windows from these years do not work well is because the existing electric window wiring harness does not provide a good ground to the electric window motors. The way the Ferrari electric window system works is when you push the button to go up one wire is positive 12 volts and the other wire is the ground. When you push the button to go down the polarity in these two wires is reversed. The opposite wire becomes the positive 12 volts and the other wire becomes the ground. Although there can be voltage losses in the wiring harness, switch and any connections along the way - providing a better ground will significantly improve the speed at which the windows will move. This box provides an improved ground making the window motors work much better as they will now receive more voltage and amperage. There is no added burden on the stock wiring harness. There are no detrimental effects to the stock wiring system or switches. This box senses which wire is hot and automatically makes the other wire become the ground and it directs that wire directly to the door frame. These are not always a cure-all for slow windows. You may have other problems like old dried up grease in the window lift assembly or marginal connections in the rest of the electric wiring system. This kit will not correct those types of problems. In most if not all cases the speed of the windows will increase dramatically.
How to install them: These window accelerators are very easy to install. You remove the inner door panel (just the lower section if the door panel is several pieces). Generally there is a speaker in the door. Remove the speaker. Behind the speaker will generally be the 2 wires going to the electric window. You will cut both wires and add this window accelerator to the existing wires. The black wire from the box goes to a good ground. Generally to a bolt that is close by. An installation sheet is included.
Waterproof construction. The boxes are 100% sealed. Thus they are sealed so no moisture may enter because they are now bedded in a potting material. The grounding lug is soldered on to the black ground wire providing a durable/failure free connection. Easy to install. Works very well. Everything you need is included. Nothing else to buy. Installation instructions included. You will need to have an electrical crimping pliers for the electrical terminals (to crimp the butt splices) and a heat gun for the heat shrink tubing. Borrow one or both if need be to do this installation. To connect the wires to the factory wires I include butt splices and pieces of heat shrink tube that has an adhesive/sealant inside providing a waterproof connection. I also include some tie wraps and 3M double sided tape. Each relay unit has two holes that may be used if you prefer to use screws for mounting the units.
Questions? Call me at 262-835-9575 or email to email@example.com
Typical installation:
May not work with the drop top 348 and 355. We have found these may not work with the drop top 348's and most likely will not work with the drop top 355's. I have only seen this a 2 times so far. So it may work on most and not work on only a few? We are not sure why. To date (February-2018) it has happened on only 2 cars.
This is from an early Dino owner:
Hey, Rodney, they worked great, on the 246/Dino E, late USA version, thought, you, should know, thanks again John...
Installed into a Testarossa:
Sold in Pairs. One for each door. One kit does two doors. $119.00 per pair.
Shipping in the USA via Priority Mail is $9.00
Shipping to areas outside of the USA: Generally I ship these kits postal air first class mail. Shipping varies depending on what country they are going to. It ranges from $18.25 to Canada to $24 or more to Japan/Australia etc.
I do not offer free shipping.
Because I use postal flat rate boxes for heavy orders there is no program that can add the proper amount of shipping to every order. So all shipping is added manually by myself after you place your order. That is explained here: Shipping added later explanation
When you place an order the shipping amount will show $0.00. Soon after you place an order you will receive an email confirmation that shows the amount of shipping that was added to your order.


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The Motorola Xoom could be the first tablet to get updated to Google's soon to be released Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.
According to Fudzilla, the Xoom will see the hybrid phone and tablet operating system pushed out as an update imminently.
Ice Cream Sandwich is set to be announced tomorrow at a Google event in Hong Kong, where we should hopefully also see the arrival of the Galaxy Nexus, the first handset to run the operating system from Samsung.
Fudzilla is also saying it can definitely confirm tablets like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Asus Transformer will be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade.
We likely wont know more until Google announces things tomorrow but we expect given the hype surrounding it, that most companies will be pushing to get Ice Cream Sandwich onto their devices as soon as possible.
It may also be that Ice Cream Sandwich devices make an appearance at Motorola's event planned this week, especially given that Google and the big M are such good friends now.


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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year. Our family certainly did. The whole family was able to spend Christmas day together eating wonderful food and opening all of the sweet presents. The kids really had a great time. I personally received a Lalaloopsy (Goldie Luxe) and a new Crock-Pot, plus some wonderful cookbooks that were on my wish list. On the stitching front, I have been working on a few holiday themed pieced to keep me in the spirit. I finished Lizzie Kate Joy to the World this week. Isn't it just lovely? The colors are so perfect. I also stitched the bonus pin keep box piece last night while hanging out with my friends, celebrating my little sister's birthday.
We had a great time. Lisha is a wonderful hostess!
The other project I have been working on is the Country Cottage Needelworks Santa's Village series. As you can see, the first one is complete. I love the colors on the blustery blue fabric I selected. This one is going to be so cute. I only have the first four patterns, but I will get the rest eventually.
So, this year I had hoped to stitch a whole bunch of pieces that I have kitted. Last year, on the 26th, I made a list of all the patterns that I had everything needed to stitch. That list included 70 pieces (I know, my hoard is too large). Well, I stitched about 28 of them, including this Lizzie Kate Autumn Alphabet that I am currently working on. I was not as productive this year, with the move and building the house and all. But, that's OK. This just means that the 2014 list is ready and waiting. While organizing my new craft room I did something that now that I think about it was a bad idea. I made a list of all of my stitching patterns. I organized all of my linens by stitch count. I combined my and my mother's DMC collection in a wonderful drawer system that Theresa gave me. It looked so nice. But it also made me realize I may have a problem. I am truly a cross stitch hoarder. I have over 200 patterns just waiting for me to stitch. I have plenty of fabric and thread to work on these. So, as part of my "Counting my Blessings" new year, I have decided to not purchase any new cross stitch supplies for the next year. There is one caveat though, my resolution is suspended with a cost limit when I go to the Silver Needle retreat this summer.
I will work from the same list as I started last year. For the first few months I think I will just go down the list, working on the projects in sequence. I may jump around to work on small projects when I feel overwhelmed, but for the most part I will follow the list. First up are two beautiful pieces that I have been looking at and wanting to stitch, but made myself wait until I finished some WIPs. Well, on January 1st I am going to start these two lovely pieces. First is a reproduction sampler from Shakespeare's Peddler Ann Womack. I love the samplers Theresa chooses. She has a very creative spirit and a wonderful sense of taste. This is one she released in 2012. Love all the red. The second piece is from Jeannette Douglas. It is a small one, but I love it. Once I finish the stitching I resolve to also complete the finishing so it will be useful and not just another piece stuffed in my chest of stitching.
Have a safe and happy New Year! Those of you in the South, or with a Southern flair, don't forget to eat your black-eyed peas and greens on Wednesday. (Our family also includes a carrot dish called Copper Pennies, just for added luck).


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Posted 17 July 2014 - 02:48 PM
Hi Jayde653948,
You might get more responses on the other forum, a lot of our members have made the switch. The new forum is at www.quakerparrotforum.com.
Posted 17 July 2014 - 02:59 PM
Bird poop really shouldn't smell too bad. I'm thinking that maybe a vet visit is in order, just to make sure his organs are functioning okay. Has his poop always smelled? How often do you clean his cage? What is the consistency of the poop (dry, extra watery, etc.) and what color is it? If it's yellowish and watery that can indicate a problem with his liver.
I just read your post in the cage cleaning thread....if his poop is watery, please get him to a vet. Bird poop really shouldn't have very much "liquid matter". It is generally moist, but not wet.
Posted 18 July 2014 - 10:38 AM
He sounds so much like the girl I just adopted, she does the bite and laugh and the "come in" when you knock. Not sure what to tell you about the rest...I've only had my girl a day but have owned other birds and they didn't have too bad of a smell. Does he eat a LOT of fruits and veggies? That might be the difference.
Posted 18 July 2014 - 02:23 PM
Excellent point, PrettyBabyRio!
I have copied and pasted this thread to the other forum. I'm now going to lock it here. Please go to www.quakerparrotforum.com and create an account there, and we can continue the discussion, and hopefully get more insight from other owners.


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Kaine chops $23 million from UVA
Governor Tim Kaine's proposed cuts in the face of a nearly $3-billion state budget shortfall slice another $12.4 million from UVA, bringing the total to $23 million less the university can expect for the 2009 fiscal year. Staffing makes up two-thirds of UVA's operating budget. "We don't have layoffs in our plan," said Leonard Sandridge, UVA's chief operating officer in a conference call with reporters. "But we don't know what the next six months will bring."
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Ya think, Mr. Sandridge? Especially after the Fourth Quarter returns roll in and the Endowment loses even more cash....Bleak.
State funding accounts for less than 10 percent of UVA's annual budget. Even if we are being extremely generous to the nimrods at UVA and measure only the academic operations of the university, state funding still accounts for less than 14 percent of the total UVA budget.
And the lion's share? Where does that come from? Why, patients at UVA's medical center. That's where. More than 40 percent of all UVA funding comes from people who visit the hospital.
If donors had the slightest clue how much waste and high living goes on at the university, all its "leadership" would squeal like pigs dipped in hot oil when their surf & turf dinners and cocktail parties all dried up -- because there would not be enough foolish people stepping up to pick up the check.
It's especially hilarious to hear all this grand talk of "greening" at UVA. Just drive by the Darden business school any night of the week. The place is lit up and gleaming like the heavenly host is ready to sing the chorale from Handel's Messiah.
Only when someone finally exposes this nonsense for what it truly is, will the honest hardworking alumni finally be able to declare "hallelujah."
Until then, only a chump would open a checkbook for those smug, smarmy bastards.
Darden lit up? They are busy grooming the next generation of techno-whiz kid donors. We need more Halsey Minors in this world!
I love our University and I love Carr's Hill. I love khakis, loafers with no socks, navy blazers, objectifying women, speaking with interjections of "dude" included, rep stripe ties, the Carl Smith Center, DMB, vacuous bleach blonde coeds, the Wahoo Wah song (or whatever the hell it is), marginally literate athletes, invoking Thomas Jefferson's name as a non sequitir, rabid growth, new multi-level parking lots, the so-important chalkboard on the downtown mall and--most of all--I love the Kennedys. You know, they are the only family in America who plays touch football.
By the way, has anyone noticed that Sandridge looks like Ralph Nader?
The world needs more MBAs like the world needs nuclear proliferation, fecal coliform in your iced tea, excessive hubris, insincerity, smarmy smiles and backstabbers, and children who never stop bed wetting, which covers most Darden grads right there.
MBAs are devoid of creativity, innovation and, it often seems, a soul. Their busienss is to discover heretofore hidden ways of squeezing an extra nickle's worth of profit from a turnip. They create nothing. They accomplish practically nothing. They take credit for everything.
This simple verity is inversely proportional to the opinion they
hold of themselves.
They are the festering pus-boil on the ass of the businEss world.
And that's just laughably sad.
While a friend of mine briefly flirted with the idea of pursuing an MBA at Darden, her interest was quickly shot down when they realized her parents were married at the time of her birth and she would therefore be ineligible for consideration.
The bow-ties, back slapping and simpering grins they sport over there didn't suit her too well, either. It takes a "special" kind of alumnus who turns to Darden to get sucked off in exchange for a nice donation.


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CHICAGO - Three popular brands of baby mattresses that were marketed in recent months to families and day-care centers contained toxic flame retardants linked to increased cancer risk, according to laboratory tests conducted for the Chicago Tribune.
CHICAGO � Three popular brands of baby mattresses that were marketed in recent months to families and day-care centers contained toxic flame retardants linked to increased cancer risk, according to laboratory tests conducted for the Chicago Tribune.
One member of that family of chemicals, known collectively as chlorinated tris, was removed from children�s pajamas over cancer concerns a generation ago.
Yet that same flame retardant turned up in significant amounts in 11 baby mattresses sold recently by national and local retailers under the Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. Two other mattresses made by Angeles contained a related form of tris.
While furniture-makers often add flame retardants to the polyurethane foam cushioning in sofas and upholstered chairs, the test results on infant mattresses surprised and alarmed some scientists who have studied the chemicals. Babies and even toddlers can spend 12 or more hours a day in a crib, and foam mattresses can meet federal fire-safety rules without the use of chemicals.
Linda Birnbaum, director of the federal government�s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said regulators had assured her that chlorinated tris and other toxic flame retardants weren�t used in mattresses.
�These are bad chemicals, and we�ve known they�ve been bad for a long time,� said Birnbaum, a toxicologist. �If these chemicals are in your child�s mattress, they are going to be constantly exposed.�
In the late 1970s, scientists at the University of California-Berkeley found that TDCPP, a form of tris, could cause mutations in DNA. Its manufacturer removed it voluntarily from the market for children�s pajamas. When researchers look for flame retardants in house dust, they still find TDCPP, which was never banned.
The Tribune tested 27 mattresses. All of the mattresses containing chlorinated tris had one thing in common: labels saying they were made in China or imported from China. None of the tested mattresses made domestically contained significant amounts of any form of chlorinated tris.
The response to the test results from manufacturers, importers and retailers varied.
Wayfair, the retailer that fulfilled the Tribune�s Wal-Mart order through the retail giant�s online marketplace program, halted sales of the Angeles crib mattress, which fits cribs that are popular at child-care centers.
One importer, however, vigorously defended its product.
Summer Infant Inc., the importer of the Babies R Us-branded crib and bassinet mattresses that contained chlorinated tris, noted that the mattresses �are in a sealed impermeable plastic covering,� which �ensures no exposure of the inner mattress foam to the child.�
Responding to questions from the Tribune, the company wrote, �Simply put, the statements made are misleading and reckless in that they imply a health hazard that doesn�t actually exist.� It faulted the Tribune for analyzing the chemical content of the foam inside the product rather than � risk assessment models� that look at whether a consumer is exposed. But Birnbaum and Heather Stapleton, a Duke University chemist who studies flame retardants, questioned whether any foam product can be sealed completely. They said chemicals escape when they vaporize and seep through seams or holes and get into air or dust.
And Inez Tenenbaum, chairwoman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, stressed that she sees no need for flame retardants in children�s mattresses, which can be protected with inherently flame-resistant wraps or barriers.
�I strongly encourage all mattress manufacturers to comply with our performance standard through the use of barrier technologies and to avoid using any potentially harmful chemicals to which children can be exposed,� she said in a statement. �The law strictly prohibits children�s products from having hazardous chemicals that children could be exposed to and could foreseeably cause substantial illness or injury.�
The agency is awaiting approval from its federal safety commissioners for a broad study of children�s exposure to flame retardants in consumer products. Responding to the Tribune, agency officials last week began purchasing the same models tested by the Tribune for their own studies to determine how much chlorinated tris could escape and be absorbed through a baby�s skin, ingested or inhaled.
The findings from the testing commissioned by the Tribune echo those of a California environmental group. The Center for Environmental Health, in Oakland, hired a lab to conduct tests but did not release the precise results in announcing its findings this month. Instead, that group is using a California labeling law and the threat of a lawsuit to prod companies to reformulate their products without tris.
Because they are smaller than adults and their bodies are still developing, children face greater risks from exposure to toxic chemicals, said Dr. Jerome Paulson, a George Washington University pediatrician.
Last year, Paulson wrote an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement calling for a sweeping overhaul of the nation�s chemical safety law to protect children.
�We know these flame retardants are hazardous,� he said. �The fact that you found these chemicals in crib mattresses is evidence of an ongoing problem that we as a nation have been unwilling to confront.�
The Tribune purchased the baby mattresses at major retailers, including Amazon.com, Babies R Us and Wal-Mart�s online site. Stat Analysis Corp., a private Chicago analytical lab, performed the tests from October to December.
When tests showed a mattress contained any form of chlorinated tris at levels that Stat Analysis considered above a trace amount, the Tribune bought sister products from the same brand and had them tested to see whether there was a pattern. A safety commission spokesman in September said his agency had never tested baby mattresses for chlorinated tris or other flame retardants. Federal flammability rules for mattresses were created �in a way so that manufacturers did not have to use flame retardant chemicals,� spokesman Scott Wolfson said.


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Playing with the Nikon 55-200mm lens
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
One of our in-house photo enthusiasts, Zak, passed out lenses to a few of us camera geeks the other day, so that we could try them out and report back on what they do best and what it was like to use them.
I brought home the Nikon AF-S DX 55-200mm VR lens and paired it with my Nikon D80 for a couple of weeks. This lens is rated for f4-5.6, so it's best used outdoors or with some really great indoor light. I also took advantage of my camera's ISO settings and the lens' Vibration Reduction feature to ensure I could capture crisp shots in settings with slightly dimmer light.
Because it starts at 55mm and zooms all the way out to 200mm, it's considered a nice, inexpensive add-on to the typical 18-55mm "kit lens" (that is, the lens that comes with many SLR kits). I think that's a very good assessment.
Overall, I found it to be a handy, lightweight lens that was ready to capture images with all kinds of focal distances. I regularly shoot with a 50mm prime lens, so I really enjoyed still being able to shoot portraits with a lens that I could also crank out to get photos of more distant subjects. And it was certainly compact enough for me to grab and run with, as is necessary when you're taking pictures of kids or animals! I also found that for a comparatively inexpensive lens, the images were pretty sharp; this image is a pretty decent representation of what the AF-S DX 55-200mm VR lens can do.
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You probably wouldn't think of playing the US energy boom with this stock. But Jim Cramer says you should.
"I'm always talking about the North American oil renaissance, the huge surge in domestic energy production made possible by both new discoveries and, more important, new technology for getting oil out of the ground," said Cramer.
And there are a slew of companies that stand to benefit from the revolution in energy — many of which Cramer has profiled in the past.
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Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. represents Illinois' Second Congressional District, which consists of portions of the South Side of Chicago and its suburbs. The district isn't "rotten," but the representatives it sends to Congress sure are.
Jackson himself is reportedly negotiating a plea deal with the federal government that would end his 17-year career in Congress. The deal would involve pleading guility to charges of misuse of campaign funds; repayment of contributions that were converted to personal use, such as home furnishings, improper travel and gifts; and probably some jail time.
Before electing Jackson, the Second District was represented by "Swell" Mel Reynolds. In 1994, a Cook County grand jury indicted him on counts of criminal sexual assault, child pornography, and obstruction of justice. His accuser was a 16-year-old campaign worker. But these charges didn't worry his constituents; they returned him to Congress later that year (as they returned Jackson, Jr. to Congress this year).
Reynolds resigned from Congress in 1995, after a jury found him guilty of having sex with the underage campaign worker. Reynolds later was convicted of federal charges of bank and campaign fraud. He remained in jail until President Clinton commuted his sentence in January 2001.
Reynolds' predecessor, Gus Savage, was also rotten. As James Taranto reminds us, the House Ethics Committee investigated allegations against Savage of sexual misconduct involving a Peace Corps volunteer while Savage was on an official congressional visit to Zaire. The subsequent public report condemned his behavior but did not recommend punishment, citing Savage's effort to apologize to the volunteer. For his part, Savage blamed the whole thing on the "white racist" press, claiming that "Black leadership is under attack in this county, and I'm the No. 1 target."
Savage was reelected in 1990, but lost to Reynolds two years later in the Democratic primary.
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Girls are being snatched up from there homes at night, and torn away from their families. Everyone has heard of it, but she never thought it would happen to her. They call it the cage, there is no way out unless let out it's dark and has no windows. She was kicking and screaming at first but after days she knew nothing was going to happen. They say that the wealthiest of people buy the girls for large sums of money and give them to the sons or whomever they're buying the girls for. They transport the girls from the cage into large homes where is no way out unless you are a worker or a special. Can she become one of the girls who walks in the night air and the light of the camera or will she find out of the worse fate in store for her if she cannot win his favor?
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text: "Life can only be lived dangerously – there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains to maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown. And once one has tasted the joys of freedom and fearlessness, one never repents because then one knows what it means to live at the optimum. Then one knows what it means to burn your life's torch from both ends together. And even a single moment of that intensity is more gratifying than the whole eternity of mediocre living." – Osho


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Middle Eastern food never fails to amaze me with its vibrant flavors and simplicity and ease of preparation. Its popularity is obvious from the fact that foods like hummus, felafel, pita and tabbouleh have melded effortlessly into our food vocabulary today.
I am lucky because one of my oldest and best friends, Margo, is an Armenian who was born and raised in Lebanon. I often pick up great tips for wonderful Middle Eastern dishes from her, and from eating at her home.
This super-simple recipe for beets, one of my favorite veggies, is one I got from her. When I first ate these beets at her home, I was speechless when she told me just how easy to make they are, and how tiny the ingredient list is, because the flavor was so incredibly and spectacularly vivid.
I make this dish often in my kitchen now, and it takes minutes to put together. It goes beautifully as a side dish with just about anything. Try it: you won't be disappointed.
Beets Infused with Garlic and Olive Oil
- 4 medium beets.
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 4-5 cloves of garlic , crushed, preferably with a garlic press, or minced really fine.
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Salt to taste
- Scrub the beets clean, then cover with water and boil on a stovetop or zapped in a microwave until a fork stuck in the middle slides in effortlessly. (I don't skin my beets). Slice the beets thinly and cut each slice into quarters, then eighths.Pour the oil-garlic-lemon mixture over the beets and toss well.
- In a small bowl, mix together the olive oil, garlic, lemon and salt.
- Pour over the beets and mix. Set aside for about half an hour for the flavors to infuse. Serve at room temperature.
- Delicious.
I have long been intimidated by the thought of entering Jugalbandi's gorgeous Click event because of the amazing quality of the photographs they get, but heck, you only live once! So this time I'm throwing my hat in the ring. Thanks, Happy, for the suggestion!
I am also sending on this super-simple recipe to Ramki's event for minimalists, Recipes for the Rest of Us. Thanks, Ramki!


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IRS duplicity or stupidity? Our view
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of recent U.S. history should recognize the sensitivity of anything that smacks of using the IRS as a political weapon. After all, one of the impeachment counts against Richard Nixon in the 1970s grew out of the president's efforts to turn the powerful tax agency loose on his enemies.
So it's hardly surprising that disclosures since last Friday, showing that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status, ignited an instant firestorm. Such actions are wrong, chilling and, as President Obama put it Monday, "outrageous."
IRS:'We should have done a better job'
The agency does have a legitimate role in trying to prevent blatantly political groups from masquerading as tax-exempt social welfare organizations, a distinction that allows the groups to keep the names of donors secret. Nonetheless, the IRS should have found a way to process applications for tax exemption while sticking to the agency's core principles: scrupulous non-partisanship and neutrality.
Instead, it went far astray. Faced with a deluge of applications for tax-exempt status from advocacy groups, IRS employees singled out groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their names. Or groups associated with certain issues, such as government debt or taxes, or even those whose applications said they would lobby "to make America a better place to live."
Making matters worse, some groups were asked to name their donors, which the IRS admits is inappropriate. Some were asked to name political candidates who appeared at their functions, to provide transcripts of speeches and copies of handouts. Many of the groups' applications are still languishing. Some groups simply gave up. It's hard to blame them for suspecting a political witch hunt.
So far, the IRS has blamed the fiasco on employees at the office in Cincinnati that reviews applications for tax-exempt status, insisting that "mistakes were made initially, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan rationale."
Well, targeting the words "tea party" and "patriot" seems pretty political on its face.
Members of Congress are calling for investigations, and they're right in wanting to know who made those mistakes, and whether higher-ups were involved in the decisions or in trying to hide the facts.
A Treasury Department inspector general's report, expected this week, might provide some preliminary answers about whether this is a scandal about duplicity, or just plain stupidity.
The fact is, many "social welfare" groups — from both ends of the political spectrum — that lavished millions on the 2012 presidential and congressional campaigns, ought to be scrutinized to see whether they are living up to IRS rules. Sadly, because of the agency's clumsy and intolerable actions, the chances of that happening are rapidly shrinking.
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American diplomat: U.S. not taking sides in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — The most senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since its elected president was ousted said Monday that Washington is committed to helping the Arab country succeed in its "second chance" at democracy, adding this can only happen with the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns' meetings with Egypt's interim leaders came as thousands of supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi held another mass rally to demand his return to office. The protest turned violent as police fired tear gas at pro-Morsi protesters who burned tires, threw rocks and blocked traffic flow on a main roadway running through the heart of the capital.
The remarks by Burns, the No. 2 American diplomat, signaled that Washington, while calling for an inclusive transition, is moving on from Morsi and his Brotherhood group.
Burns insisted that the United States is not taking sides in deeply polarized Egypt, saying it is not Washington's policy, "as outsiders, to support particular political personalities and particular parties."
"What we're going to continue to try to do is to support an open inclusive, tolerant democratic process," Burns said. "We hope it will be a chance to learn some of the lessons and correct some of the mistakes of the last two years."
Burns' comments were being carefully watched in Cairo, where a cross-spectrum of groups have accused Washington of meddling in the country's affairs.
Morsi's opponents have long accused the United States of backing the Islamist president during his year in office, particularly after he helped broker a cease-fire between neighboring Israel and the Hamas rulers in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Tamarod, the main activist group that organized the protests against Morsi, said it refused an invitation to meet with Burns because of the perceived U.S. stance.
On the other side, Morsi's supporters, including the Brotherhood, now accuse Washington of backing the July 3 coup against Egypt's first freely elected president. A Brotherhood spokesman said he was not aware of any invitation for the group to meet with the U.S. diplomat during his visit.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not comment on whether Tamarod or the Brotherhood had been invited to meet Burns.
Burns held talks Monday with Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour, Prime Minister-designate Hazem el-Beblawi and the head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, concerning the transition plan put forward by the new leadership. The road map calls for the amending of the Islamist-drafted constitution approved in a referendum under Morsi and then parliamentary and presidential elections early next year.
In carefully-worded remarks after the meetings, Burns said Washington is "firmly committed to helping Egypt succeed in this second chance" to realize the promises of creating a democratic state, but added that he did not come to Cairo "with American solutions" or "to lecture anyone."
"We know that Egyptians must forge their own path to democracy. We know that this will not mirror our own, and we will not try to impose our model on Egypt," he said.
Burns told reporters that the process, particularly the constitutional changes, should be "transparent and inclusive" and that no party should be excluded — a clear call for the Brotherhood to be involved.
"If representatives of some of the largest parties in Egypt are detained or excluded, how are dialogue and participation possible?" Burns asked, referring to the Brotherhood.
So far, the Brotherhood has staunchly rejected participating in the new political process, saying it will not validate what it calls the illegal ouster of Morsi. The group has questioned the new leadership's calls for dialogue even as authorities launch a crackdown against the Brotherhood's leadership, putting Morsi and five others in detention and issuing arrest warrants against others. Morsi has been kept at an undisclosed location, but no formal charges have been filed.
In a main Cairo intersection, thousands have been holding a sit-in to protest Morsi's ouster by the military following days of mass protests by millions opposed to his handling of the country during his year in office.
The interim leadership says it wants to offer the Brotherhood's political party posts in the Cabinet it is putting together, but the group has refused.
Former Brotherhood lawmaker, Saad Emara, said senior military officials reached out to Mohammed Ali Bishr, a senior Brotherhood official and former minister in the last Morsi government who declined talks with the armed forces.
"They tried to contact him. He said clearly he will not talk about anything except restoring matters to how they were, not post-coup arrangements," Emara said.
The military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali denied that military officers had been in touch with the Brotherhood's leadership, saying the allegations were part of a smear campaign against the armed forces "to realize cheap political gains."
"The doctrine of the military doesn't work in the dark as a methodology. If we have any such contacts we will announce it before," he wrote in a post on his official Facebook page.
The Brotherhood posted a statement in the form of a letter addressing the head of Egypt's military on Monday, suggesting he had committed treason for leading a coup against the president. The letter was made public after el-Sissi sought to justify his decision to remove Morsi, saying the deposed president had violated his popular mandate and antagonized state institutions while in office.
Marches by Morsi's supporters to denounce the military have disrupted Cairo's traffic, but have largely been peaceful since violence peaked a week ago when more than 50 Brotherhood supporters were killed in clashes with the military.
Meanwhile, Burns said he had called on the military to "avoid any politically-motivated arrests."
The military did not comment on talks with Burns beyond saying in a statement that the U.S. official and el-Sissi discussed "the recent political developments in Egypt ... and ways to reinforce cooperation."
Burns, the No. 2 American diplomat, is also expected to meet with civil society groups and business leaders during his two-day trip.
The activist group Tamarod explained on its Facebook page sarcastically that it turned down an invitation to meet Burns because of perceived U.S. support for the Brotherhood over the past year.
"What is your business with Egypt? Stick with the Brotherhood and show me what good they are (to you)," one of Tamarod's founders, Mahmoud Badr, said in a posting.
Emara, of the Brotherhood, said any talks with U.S. officials would have to recognize the group's demand for Morsi's reinstatement — not about a post-Morsi political process.
In a sign of how anti-U.S. tone has sharpened, the editor in chief of the main state newspaper Al-Ahram called the United States "the Great Satan" and denounced American "meddling" in Egypt. The paper has hewed closely to the military since Morsi's ouster.
"I will not feel liberated so long as the American flag flaps in Egypt skies, and as long as US meddling in Egypt's most intimate affairs continues," Abdel-Nasser Salama wrote in the editorial Friday.
At a rally of Morsi supporters in Cairo, the deputy leader of the Brotherhood's political party, Essam el-Erian told the crowd that Obama pressured Morsi to offer concessions to the protesters or a military coup will be inevitable.
Burns told reporters he was aware of the negative perception many Egyptians had toward Washington's policies.
"I am not nave. I know that many Egyptians have doubts about the United States, and I know there will be nothing neat or easy about the road ahead," he said.
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Mayor De Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito Announce Budget Deal
Office Of The Mayor (Press)
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and members of the City Council Thursday announced an agreement for an on-time and balanced City budget for Fiscal Year 2015—marking one of the earliest budget handshakes in recent history. The agreement on an approximately $75 billion budget represents a fiscally responsible, progressive, and honest approach to the City's finances, and moves forward key initiatives that will improve the health and vitality of the City by beginning to address income inequality, while strengthening the City's fiscal health.
Today's agreement follows a more honest budget process that ended the cynical "budget dance" and reflects the productive and respectful relationship between the administration and the Council.
"A budget agreement is where rhetoric meets the road—and we've delivered a fiscally responsible, progressive, and honest budget that will have an enormous impact on New Yorkers across the five boroughs, while protecting our City's fiscal health," de Blasio said. "This is one of the earliest agreements in recent history—a result of the productive dynamic we've developed with the Council that ends the cynical budget dance and delivers results for New Yorkers. I'm grateful to Speaker Mark-Viverito, Chair Ferreras, and all of their colleagues in the Council for their partnership as we reached this historic agreement."
"This budget process was substantive and thorough, and the result is an on-time and balanced budget that reflects the needs New Yorkers face in public safety, employment, education, health and infrastructure," said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. "Through the Council's advocacy, NYPD will very soon have more cops on the beat to help keep New Yorkers safe, and thousands of children will have access to free lunch through an important pilot program aimed at keeping our children healthy and focused on learning. This was a collaborative effort among all 51 City Council members who put in hundreds hours of hard work at meetings, hearings and briefings to create a budget that truly benefits the five boroughs. I want to thank Mayor de Blasio, Budget Director Dean Fuleihan, and the entire administration for working with the Council on a budget we can all be proud of."
"As Finance Chair, I am proud to say the FY15 budget process has had a level of unprecedented transparency and inclusion within the City Council. Under Speaker Mark-Viverito's leadership and with the help and input of every single member of the City Council, we, as a body, were able to provide considerable insight and fight for our constituents' needs with specificity and detailed knowledge. Each decision was made with great calculation and reflects our desire to close the growing inequality gap affecting so many residents in our City. After dozens of hours of budget hearings, which I was proud to Chair, our Council Committees heard from over 50 agencies about how this budget affects their ability to perform their core services. We also heard essential testimony from the public, whose needs never ceased to escape our minds as we spent hours in negotiations. I am pleased to see that many of the priorities we had championed throughout this process will be included in the adopted budget. These victories are shared by everyone, including the City Council, the Mayor, and the public," said Council Member Julissa Ferreras, Chair of the Committee on Finance.
The Mayor worked closely with the Council to include their priorities in the budget.
Among a variety of initiatives, tonight's agreement includes:
$19 million for a comprehensive, citywide plan to reduce violent crime in NYCHA developments by increasing community engagement efforts and expanding neighborhood watch and domestic violence outreach teams—while providing key services to residents, including employment and benefits assistance, recreation, and mentorship
$32.5 million to provide increased programming and enhanced services to inmates with mental illness and reduce violence at Rikers Island Correctional Facilities
$6.2 million to hire 200 Police Administrative aides, allowing for an increase in the number of uniformed police officers on the streets to keep New Yorkers safe
$6.25 million to provide free school lunch to all middle schoolers starting this September
$17 million to keep 57 NYCHA community and senior centers open
$17.5 million for summer out-of-school time slots that will provide 10,700 summer youth jobs
$10 million to create additional child care vouchers for low-income families to ensure parents have access to quality child care
Key budget monitors and investors have validated the prudent way in which this administration has handled its first budget, which keeps out-year gaps and debt service at management levels that are well below historical averages. Earlier this month, all three major rating agencies affirmed the City's strong, stable ratings, highlighting the City's "highly effective budget management." Last week, the City finished its first major bond sale since the labor agreement and executive budget; the sale increased in size from the planned $850 million to over $1 billion, reflecting extremely strong demand, while the City secured low interest rates that resulted in significant savings.
As announced in the Mayor's Fiscal Year 2015 Executive Budget, the budget also:
Invests in our children, including by delivering on the promise of universal, full-day pre-K for all 4-year-olds and an expansion of after-school and summer enrichment programs for middle school students
Protects the City's most vulnerable, including through investments to prevent and reduce homelessness
Dramatically expands affordable housing, including by providing funding for the Mayor's plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units over 10 years
Creates economic opportunity, including by following through on the Mayor's pledge to reduce arbitrary and punitive fines on small businesses
Makes New York City safer, including by investing in the Mayor's Vision Zero initiative to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths to zero
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