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Consider this from The Hill a measure of the rising desperation among Senate Democrats over the upcoming midterm elections. The horizon looks so bleak that Democrats hoped that Republicans would lose the race, since they saw no chance of winning it for themselves with Barack Obama an albatross around their necks and the economy going nowhere except down:
This sober realization came to Democrats on Wednesday, as Tuesday night's primary results showed they cannot count on Tea Party candidates upsetting more-electable incumbents.
And Democrats are increasingly realizing that President Obama's approval rating will probably remain mired at 45 percent or lower until Election Day, giving Republicans ammo.
As their difficulties mounted, Senate Democrats met with the president at the White House on Wednesday evening. … But it is clear Democrats are nervous. After Republicans flopped in the last two Senate election cycles, the GOP establishment fought and frequently defeated the Tea Party candidates that Democrats hoped to face.
Even that slender reed of hope was … very slender. Even if Chris McDaniel won the runoff this week, the odds of Mississippi electing a Democrat to the US Senate were somewhere between Powerball and space-alien invasion. And the odds of winning enough seats to keep Harry Reid as Majority Leader are not exactly growing, either, as National Journal's analysis shows:
The campaign for control of the Senate has changed, somewhat, since The Hotline last ranked the 2014 Senate races in February. The top nine pickup opportunities still belong to Republicans, more than enough for them to win back control of the Senate. But some of the most threatened Democratic incumbents have stabilized since winter, when things looked particularly dire for their party, and they could yet manage enough red-state victories to keep the Senate in Democratic hands. Incumbents like Arkansas's Mark Pryor still have very difficult campaigns ahead, but they aren't done yet. …
At some places in the list, the differences between the states are infinitesimal; at other points, there are wide gaps. We think about the Senate landscape in tiers: Democrats are highly likely to lose the top three races; the next four are toss-ups; the six after that are highly competitive campaigns where we think the incumbents still hold the upper hand; and the races at the bottom are against-the-odds upset possibilities.
The top nine slots in this list of potential flips are Democrat-held seats. So are two of the are seats that moved up into the top 10 in likelihood of flipping since their last analysis (Iowa and Colorado). In places 10 and 11 are Mitch McConnell and the open Georgia seat, which assume an awful lot about the political skills of Alison Lundergan Grimes and Michelle Nunn. After that, the next five seats are all Democrat-held too, including a possible pickup in deep-blue Oregon. All Republicans need to do is hold serve and take six of the 14 races rated as competitive by NJ.
Even in a fairly neutral political environment, that wouldn't be an impossible task in a sixth-year midterm. However, it's not a neutral political environment, in part because Democrats are losing the enthusiasm gap — and badly:
The history-making coalition that delivered the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008 and reelected him in 2012 has a distinct attitude toward the 2014 election: Meh.
A new poll from Democratic pollster Democracy Corps finds that just 68 percent of African Americans, Latinos, young people and unmarried women who voted in 2012 and are "likely" to vote in 2014 — the four key parts of Obama's coalition — say they are "almost certain" to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.
The enthusiasm deficit for key members of the Obama coalition (68% who say they are almost certain to vote) versus other voters (85%).
That's up four points from April, when 64 percent said the same. But it's still lagging far behind other voting groups, a combined 85 percent of whom say they are almost certain to vote. The new 17-point gap is up from 15 in April and 11 in March of last year.
Any polling that doesn't take this into account is likely to miss the building wave. The succession of scandals and failures has voters angry, and they're not going to take that anger into the voting booth to pull levers for the party of incompetence. It's the reverse of 2006 (and 2008). That's why Democrats like Dianne Feinstein and Mary Landrieu want to distance themselves from the President and the cascade of incompetence.
Update: What a difference a missing word makes. I've fixed the headline by adding "on" where it belongs.


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Anyone who can figure out the Jets might want to apply for a job sorting out the messes in Washington or the Middle East because they are pretty confounding to the rest of us.
A week after barely competing in a 49-9 loss to the Bengals, the Jets rallied from an early 14-6 hole and knocked off the Saints to improve to 5-4 on the season. The 26-20 win continues the Jets' run of alternating wins and losses, a formula that's maddening but also keeps a team in the Wild Card hunt well past the point that many thought they'd be starting to make a list of head coaching candidates to replace Rex Ryan.
Seven games remain, but it is hard to see Ryan going anywhere. The team veers wildly in performance from one week to another, but the good version features a defense that made Drew Brees look ordinary for most of Sunday and plays hard enough on offense to make up for the fact that there's very little talent at skill positions other than running back. The Jets lost Jeremy Kerley on Sunday, causing their passing offense to pretty much disappear, but Chris Ivory ran for 139 yards and a touchdown and the Jets avoided turnovers all afternoon.
The Saints got plenty of time with the ball in the second half, but scored just two field goals as they failed time and again on key downs. Facing third-and-inches early in the fourth quarter, Sean Payton opted for a pass to fullback Jed Collins that fell incomplete and an end around to tight end Josh Hill that was blown up in the backfield by Jets defensive end Quinton Coples. Coples then thwarted the Saints' last stand as he broke through and forced Brees to throw incomplete on 4th-and-19 with just over a minute to play.
Shortly before the Saints failed on the two short yardage plays, they got a gift call from referee Clete Blakeman who called a personal foul on Jets safety Josh Bush for a form tackle around Brees' waist as Brees delivered a pass. The call was actually for diving at Brees' knees, which suggests Blackman's loved ones buy him an anatomy book for the holidays because Bush was as close to Brees' knees as one's elbow is to his…
The call thankfully had no bearing on the outcome, but the NFL's attempt to make the game safer only cheapens it if players are penalized for wrapping up even star quarterbacks with perfectly legal hits that should be on the league's teaching videos.
It will be a bit before we find out if the Jets can actually string together a winning streak because of the bye week, but a spot in the playoff chase is theirs for the taking if they can win in Buffalo in a couple of weeks. That would be two weeks from now, so that might mean the good Jets show up once again.

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Overview of R. STAHL's products for the application "Functional Safety" including basic engineering data (19 kB)
More information about Functional safety - SIL: Article about Functional safety and explosion protection (281 kB)
The origins of Functional Safety
The topic "Functional Safety" and the often in this context used abbreviation "SIL" lead us back to an accident which has happened in the year 1976 in Seveso, Italy. As a result of this incident was released the extremely acid substance dioxin due to an uncontrolled overheating reaction. The plant was not equipped with automatic cooling system nor with a warning system. An emergency plan was not available either. The released dioxin caused diseases and tremendous, long-term environmental harms. Numerous animals died in the following days. The facts: 200.000 people have been evaluated, about 200 people suffered serious skin diseases, 70.000 animals have been slaughtered. The cleaning up of the contaminated soil and other measures have cost a lot of money. As a consequence of this accident it was decided to tighten up legislation and ordinances aimed at protecting humans, living organisms and the environment.
Safety standards IEC 61508 and 61511
IEC 61508 "Functional Safety of Safety - Related Electrically/Electronically Programmable Electronic Systems" which has been valid Europe-wide as EN 61508 since August 2002, was published in the year 1998. This new Safety Standard, for the first time, defined the safety requirements in automation engineering comprehensively, independently of the application, and also allowes for modern, microprocessor-based systems.
While IEC 61508 is aimed primarily at manufacturers of components for protection equipment and devices, IEC 61511 >Functional Safety - Technical Safety Systems for the Process Industry< is aimed at users and planners of safety devices and equipment. IEC 61511 provides recommendations and targets for assessment of the damage risk of installations and provides assistance in selection of appropriate, safety-related components.
SIL itself is an abbreviation for "Safety Integrity Level" and has now become a synonym for Functional Safety. SIL defines a measure of the safety-related performance or reliability of an electronic or electrical control device. SIL focuses on assessment of the safety chain, also referred to as SIF "Safety Instrumented Function". Typically, this safety chain consists of a fail-safe control, an actuator and a sensor. The SIS "Safety Instrumented System" consists of one or more safety chains.
Functional safety and explosion protection
Were we to place the Standards and regulations of these two specialist areas side by side and compare their content, we could easily conclude that these two topics have nothing to do with one another and coexist
with no interrelationship whatsoever. Many operators and planners will confirm, on the basis of their own experience, that this is not the case and that both topics are even frequently inseparably linked.
R. STAHL as manufacturers of explosion protected apparatus recognised this interrelationship at an early stage, and the required knowledge was acquired in parallel with product developments and certifications. Consequently, now also supply the components and systems specified for functional safety circuits together with the required specialist knowledge.
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Today's machines and systems are subject to ever more complex safety-engineering requirements. Frequently, conventional control buttons are also connected to PLCs and other automation units and are to be monitored by these. This requires multi-functional operating controls able to safely and reliably switch very low currents.
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The isolating repeater IS pac offer the galvanic isolation and processing of all standard signals in instrumentation systems. The explosion protection is based on the the protection scheme intrinsic safety - Ex i. The application field ranges from isolators for 4..20mA signals to versatile temperature transmitter. The IS pac isolators have been analysed and classified in accordance with IEC/EN 61508. The isolators are suitable for applications with requirement of SIL 2 and SIL 3.
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Presidio Schools recently moved to the Common Core academic standards.
And Scott Whitlock, a science teacher and head of curriculum and instruction at Presidio Schools, said it has been an amazing experience for them.
Common Core is a multi-state, nationwide initiative that shifts the focus from teaching knowledge in a vacuum to teaching how knowledge is achieved, he explained.
"What (the method) has forced us to do as teachers is allow our students to be more independent thinkers," Whitlock said. "We still teach facts, but now we put a larger emphasis on how students use those facts, the meaning they derive from those facts, and also just how they are going to use (them) later in their life..."
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The Common Core asks teachers to use writing assignments in science and math courses. Whitlock often assigns his students such task, and he's noticed they've began to think more interdisciplinary.
"Suddenly, they are starting to put disciplines together...they see that creativity is (also) alive in science...math," he said. "By incorporating writing in math, a kid who has never gotten the (numerical concept), but is good (verbally), suddenly understands number logic and number expression. This has made a big impact in their lives."
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A compendium of the cleverest, toughest, strangest, wildest, prettiest, most elegant and deviant exercises of mental gymnastics around, this bestselling book is a must for anyone who likes puzzles that actually pose a challenge.
Mixing off the wall humor with on-the-ball logical puzzles, here is a thousand hours of brainteasers and word twisters in one giant book. From Think-and-Blink to Eyeball Benders, from Dszquphsbnt! to Sequences, each page is a winner for both aces and amateurs. A special 32-page section in full color presents artistically pleasing and logically enigmatic labyrinthine dilemmas. (Try dodging the hidden cameras in the three-dimensional maze.) Answers are revealed in the back of the book. Selection of the Literary Guild. 356,000 copies in print.
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Lesbian Couple Denied Wedding Cake Accept Celebrity Baker's Offer
(BALTIMORE) -- A lesbian couple who were denied a wedding cake by an Oregon bakery have accepted a sweet offer from Ace of Cakes star Duff Goldman, who is based out of Baltimore.
The celebrity baker offered the brides-to-be a free wedding cake after they were shunned by an Oregon baker who said he does not serve same-sex marriages.
"I said, 'Hey I can fix this problem. Somebody was a jerk to them and I can bake them a cake. That's what I can do,'" Goldman told ABCNews.com last week.
Aaron Klein, who owns Sweet Cakes with his wife, Melissa, told ABC News affiliate KATU-TV he was living in accordance with his religious beliefs when he refused to make the couple a wedding cake.
"I honestly did not mean to hurt anybody, didn't mean to make anybody upset, [it's] just something I believe in very strongly," he said.
One of the women filed a complaint Jan. 28 with the Oregon Department of Justice, which is looking into the allegation.
The names of the women have not been released, however they issued a statement through their lawyer thanking friends, family members and the community for the "outpouring of support."
"We are especially thankful that LGBT-supportive companies have graciously offered their services to make our special day perfect," they said.
Goldman, who recently baked the cake for the inaugural ball, said he is happy to help.
"It involves cake, it involves love, marriage, all things I'm a big fan of," he said.
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Re: Merrick Family...Macy Nebraska???? Omaha Tribe
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Merrick Family...Macy Nebraska???? Omaha Tribe
Mandy Jahnke 10/25/12
I'm not related to any member of this family.
You need to supply DOB's + birthplaces for these ppl.
Facts you should know about the early census records -
All census records [1790 – 1840] prior to the 1850 census ONLY listed the head of household; whether male or female.
NO specific age was stated for any family member
NO place of birth was stated – city, state, or country
NO city, town, or village is stated – only the county; however some census takers listed the township
NO street address was stated
NO marital status was stated – single, married, widowed, or divorced
NO family relationship was stated – brother, sister, cousin, son, daughter, wife, inlaw, etc…
NO occupation was stated
NO parental birthplaces are stated
NO race was stated [but assume "white"]
1850, 1860 & 1870 census records do not show family relationships, marital status or parental birthplaces.
Step children are not enumerated as "step" children
Adopted children are not enumerated as "adopted"
Grand children are not enumerated as "grand children"
Orphaned children were not enumerated as "orphan"
1850 is the 1st census that shows all family members
1880 is the 1st census that shows parental birthplaces and family relationships +++


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Since 1837, we've made it our mission to prepare women to face the future. To take the lead. To make a difference. The requirements? Be smart, determined, and willing to embrace change.
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MIDDLEBURY — Addison County resident Jeanne Montross is organizing an effort to acquire the movie inventory from Waterfront Video's Middlebury store.
Waterfront Video recently announced it was closing its Middlebury store. Managers had announced a movie sale to the general public during the month of May, but Montross — with others — hopes to pull off a bulk purchase of the store's more than 16,000 titles and eventually make them available for loan to the community.


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GA Minutes – 7pm Monday 28th November 2011
Location: St Paul's Steps
Event: Evening General Assembly of Occupy LSX
Date: Monday 28th November
Facilitator: Annette
Minutes: John
Started: 7.40pm (after the church service)
Announcements: There is a forum for the People's assemblies WG. Also their email is email@example.com.
Announcement: Please help the tranquillity team.
Announcement: Times and places of spokes and coordination meetings.
Legal: Court date on December 19th. Need to win it because otherwise nobody would be able to come to St Paul's for sanctuary.
Corporations: Got statement in Guardian today.
Facilitator: Statement from process about finding out what is going on, and about how to register proposals and discussion topics….
Facilitator: Hand signals….
Facilitator: Over the Mark to explain proposal.
Mark: Have been working on real democracy and people's assemblies. Hope you have piece of paper with proposed statement.
Will have another session on Saturday.
First want to propose event in Putney. Big debate in 1647, parliamentary forces were in the ascendant. Giles Fraser was priest at St Mary's. Correct a mistake they made. If agreed, there would be an event on 14th January. World day of action is being called.
Facilitator: Goes for consensus. Consensus was achieved.
Announcement: There will a discussion in the working groups, and on forum occupylondon.info.
Mark: Explains the statement. The government has been taken over by corporations, and majority have lost their voice. Proposal is about establishing people's assemblies to reconstitute a new place for people. 2m people on strike because their voice is not heard any more. We are building on what has been achieved so far, the few rights that are remaining, to build a new democracy.
Facilitator: Points of clarification. Does anything need to be clarified? No.
Is there disagreement? If so, please do you want to come and tell us about it.
Mark: Reads statement. [insert statement]
There is already two questions for clarification that have been raised: who are we calling for? and how do we want it to happen? We are calling for everybody to be involved.
Objection: Two major objections. Firstly don't think it should go into initial statement. The initial statement is simple, and inserting the statement would detract from the simplicity. Secondly, it's quite arrogant to tell people to do things. They should be able to decide how they organise. Our model is not without its problems, and we shouldn't tell people what they should be doing.
Objection: Wouldn't be happy to insert this into initial statement. Can see statement coming from working group. Shouldn't try to give "the solution", we are testing this here, we are discovering something, and calling for other people to hold assemblies is wrong.
Objection: Not against people's assemblies, but it would be a mistake to mess up the initial statement. It complicates things. There is no strategy here. Our problem isn't a lack of assemblies, but we need more resistance and to build a movement. So I think it is the wrong time to be putting this proposal.
Objection: Good to keep initial statement as it is. Don't need to tell people what to do. We can say no to things we don't like. Statement is a positive thing already.
Objection: Bringing objection from somebody who couldn't be here tonight: We need to be clear about what people's assemblies are and how they work. It's a kind of imperialism. Also the language used is a bit marxist.
Objection: Three points: All people have to do work of General Assembly. Should not be telling people what to do. Questions about how the general assembly should be working. So we are talking about the formation of working groups: people should join proper working group, that's how it works.
Objection: Problem with phrase "truly democratic." We do have some democracy. Tone of statement is wrong. We don't need an alternative, we need to improve what we have.
Objection: Shouldn't use the word "liberation" because that implies we were ever free.
Objection: Shouldn't "express" people's "voice", but should be the people.
Mark: It isn't absolute. There is some strategy.
Amendment: We call for the formation of people's assemblies … across the country where nobody will be excluded and where the people's voice will be heard.
Objection: Calling on people to do X, Y, Z isn't how we built the movement. We called on people to protest, to take action. Not to have talking shops.
Objection: Have problem with phrase "call up on". We can say "this is what we are doing, and invite you to join us." That's more who we are.
Objection: Would like to use "encourage" rather than "call upon". Trying to encourage the idea to continue, and the energy to go into as many places as possible.
Facilitator: We have heard a lot of objection. There was some enthusiasm for simplified proposal. Should whole proposal go back to working group? Do we have consensus on whether this should go back to working group? Any blocks? Yes.
Objection: From reaction to questions, people are not willing to air their concerns. So I propose that people talk about it, and that we postpone.
Mark: If you disagree, the most important thing is that you get involved in working group. Otherwise we are second guessing.
Word about occupations: loads of people love proposals for a different way of going forward. Loads of people don't understand what we are proposing. What we need is something that they feel they can take part in, many can't be involved in an occupation. The idea of calling for people's assemblies is to create a way to get people to discuss the issues they have, to create a more sophisticated analysis. Perhaps we need a debate about the point of people's assemblies. We are pushing them because they are accessible. RMT thought it would be a good idea.
Response: Outreach are thinking of things that people can do. There is no short cut through "calling for assemblies". The idea of calling for people to join working group doesn't work. People are working on stuff that they think will work, and don't want to invest in things they don't think will work.
Facilitator: Nobody is against idea of assemblies? [agreement] But don't think we are going to get any further with this tonight. Can we leave it there? Yes.
Shoutout: Legal: Solicitor will be in Info tent tomorrow morning at 10.30am.
Shoutout: Shelter: Would like everybody to tell friends that if they turn up please go to library where they can find a contact number. Call this number and we will fit you in.
Shoutout: Welfare: Tent blew away. Finance told us to put a proposal together.
Shoutout: Request for somebody with a printer to help print flyers for N30 demonstration. Come to me now (or in a little bit).
Shoutout: Tomorrow night we will be voting on funding for paper (£350 per week).
Shoutout: There was a painting that there was a dispute about it being taken down. Was said it would go to GA. Concerned that it has been taken down without consensus. Based on a piece of art, if anybody sees it knows who has it, please tell us so we can have discussion about people's stuff being taken down without consensus.
Shoutout: Request for urgent patience during this process.
Shoutout: Anybody know passwords for Facebook page?
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Gov. Rick Perry's directive for state agencies to freeze their upcoming budget requests and also to prepare a separate document showing 10 percent cuts highlights on-going budget issues that didn't stop with lawmakers cutting some $15 billion last year.
Part of the state's financial squeeze goes back to 2009 when state leaders used $9 billion in federal stimulus money to pay for on-going expenses to plug a budget hole, Dale Craymer, president of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, reminded a legislative hearing this week.
Another possible problem facing the state's future budgets remains Texas' heavy reliance on the federal government for revenue. State tax revenue for fiscal year 2011 amounted to $38.9 billion while federal funding topped $38.4 billion.
"How long can we depend on the feds financing half of our budget?" Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, asked rhetorically during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing this week. Otto, a certified public accountant, is vice chair of the tax-writing committee.
Nearly half of the federal revenue flowing to Texas comes in the form of Medicaid – about $18.5 billion this year in federal dollars to pay for Texas Medicaid patients. The state will spend about $13 billion for the federal-state health care program for low income Texans. Children account for about 75 percent of the state's Medicaid population.
State sales tax revenue is increasing, but so is the state's population, which grew, on the average, of nearly 1,200 persons each and every day from 2000 to 2010.
State leaders are trying to hold or cut spending (after cutting $5.3 billion from public education last year), which again postpones infrastructure investment.
Texas continues to postpone financing the state's 15-year-old water plan, which calls for 22 new reservoirs to catch water in wet years to store for times of drought and a growing population. The water development part of the plan will cost at least $53 billion.
When it comes to transportation, Texas now pays more to cover debt on road bonds than it has in cash to build new roads. The state gasoline tax has not increased in 21 years. The gas tax revenue peaked three years ago, even though more vehicles travel Texas roads and highways.
Some Texas lawmakers say they have to address the state's under-performing business tax when they return to session in January. The six-year-old business tax has never come close to generating the $6 billion per year as projected when lawmakers approved the reform package in 2006.
The business tax needs to be "repealed and replaced," Kathy Barber told lawmakers. She is the legislative director for the National Federation of Independent Business.
A net income tax might work better, she said, than the so-called margins tax, which socks businesses whether they make a profit, or not.
The tax applies different rates for similar classes of industry, generating protests that it is unfair.
Some also grouse about the different tax rates on beer and wine also differ – depending on where they are served.
Yard House restaurants opened up establishments in Houston and San Antonio and planned to develop up to 18 more in Texas, but have pushed the pause button because the state's mixed beverage tax of 14 percent means that beer and wine get taxed differently – depending on location. In some places, beer and wine are simply taxed at the 6.25 percent sales tax rate.
"We would love to grow here. It has definitely hampered our expansion efforts," Yard House president and CEO Harald Herrmann told the committee.
Lawmakers want to understand the tax disparities, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville, said.
"We want a fairer, simpler approach," Hilderbran, R-Kerrville, said.
Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, agreed.
"We need to make this tax fair and equitable. We need to treat similar people similarly," Villarreal said.
About 40,000 Texas businesses are exempted from the tax because their revenues fall below $1 million.
Otto said small businesses would have to show unity for tax reform.
"We will need your support; otherwise, it won't happen," Otto said.
In other words: Stay tuned.


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Since I'm on a roll with complaining about turning 30 next year, it shouldn't surprise anyone that this movie trailer got me choked up:
I *loved* this book so much and there was something about seeing this on screen that just hit me a little too hard. I'm old. I will never feel this sort of magic and wonderment ever again.
It also helped a great deal that the music is from Arcade Fire and they just give me goosebumps everytime I hear their music.
Man – I'm really having a hard time accepting the fact that I'm about to turn 29… my last year in my twenties. I promise to pick up these posts. I'm starting to depress myself.


text: Jesse Tyler Ferguson is best known for playing uptight and openly gay lawyer Mitchell Pritchett on ABC's Emmy-winning comedy beast "Modern Family," which has also earned him a handful of personal nods for outstanding supporting actor, and for his vivacious guest judge appearances on "So You Think You Can Dance." Ferguson, who previously appeared on CBS' "The Class," got his start around 8 after his family moved to Albuquerque, performing with the Children's Theater, the Civic Light Opera, his high school and at Cliff's Amusement Park. He made a beeline for the Big Apple to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and became a fixture off-Broadway and on it. He originated the role of Leaf Coneybear in the Tony-winning "The 25th Putnam County Spelling Bee." In 2012, he started Tie The Knot, a line of men's neckwear which raises funds for marriage-equality issues, with his husband Justin Mikita. He married the lawyer, whom he met two years earlier at the gym, in July 2013 in a ceremony officiated by playwright Tony Kushner.


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Research ››› ››› MATT GERTZ
Fox News has a Dick Morris problem. He often engages in ethically dubious behavior, unabashed GOP advocacy, hypocrisy, outright fabrication of smears of progressives, failed political prognostication, extreme and inflammatory rhetoric, and repeated falsehoods.
"Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." -- Dick Morris, 3/31/09
Morris uses Fox News cred to shill for financial schemes
Over the past year, Morris has repeatedly used anti-Obama rhetoric and stoked fears about the economy on Fox News, in his latest book, and in videos for the right-wing website Newsmax. Newsmax has used those videos to the promote financial-services products it sells, which the website has pushed by playing on similar anti-Obama fears. Morris has been paid by Newsmax to use his email list to plug such products; he builds his email list through his website, which he often promotes on Fox News.
Newsmax's Aftershock promotion deal featured Morris' seal of approval. In January, Newsmax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy offered readers an offer which included a "free" (after spending $4.95 for "shipping and handling") copy of the book Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown and free trial subscriptions to three Newsmax financial newsletters, each of which must be individually canceled during their respective trial periods to avoid being charged a full year's subscription to them. According to the Ruddy's offer, readers who ordered the book were provided access to "an exclusive Internet broadcast I'm filming with Fox News analyst Dick Morris." In an email to his own email list, Morris urged readers to take the offer and "view this important internet broadcast." In April, Newsmax began offering the initial promotion in TV ads airing on Fox Business; their ad features Morris' endorsement of the book.
Morris appears in Aftershock webcast promoting Newsmax's "Money Matrix Insider." Morris appeared in Newsmax's February 25 webcast, during which he plugged Aftershock and attacked President Obama as promoting economic policies that would result in "more inflation." During the webcast, a caption identified Morris as a "Fox News Analyst & Commentator." The ultimate goal of the webcast was to promote what it called the "Money Matrix Insider" -- a method of investing in foreign currency exchange markets. Newsmax is charging $1,495 for the "Money Matrix Insider" package -- described as a $1,000 discount off the regular "membership price" -- which includes instructional DVDs, tips and alerts.
Morris endorsed Newsmax's "Money Dollar Secret Code." In a May 2009 email to his list that he acknowledged Newsmax paid him to send, Morris stated advised his readers to sign up for Newsmax's "A Call to Arms" webcast in which Morris would be participating in order to "protect your wealth and investments from the far-reaching hands of Barack Obama and the Democrats in Washington." The purpose of Newsmax's webcast was to plug its "Million Dollar Secret Code" package, which included a year's worth of stock tips from Ruddy's "chief financial adviser" and cost $1,295. During the webcast, Morris endorsed the product, stating that he was investing in it and suggested it was "a strategy" people could use to "keep yourself safe" from "the kind of offensive Obama is launching against the American economy."
Warning of Obama's "depressflation," Morris urges readers to buy newsletter that gives him a cut of each subscription. On March 16, 2009, Morris sent out an email with the subject line, "THE COMING 'DEPRESSFLATION'...AND YOUR MONEY." Recommending that his readers subscribe to the Global Stock Investor newsletter published by investment adviser Nicholas Vardy, Morris warned that the "inevitable result of the Democrats' plans to 'rescue' the economy" would be "massive inflation, even hyper-inflation, together with Depression-like economic stagnation." He added: "Full disclosure: I receive a percentage of each subscription sold, but even if I didn't, I'd want you to know about this amazing service. Nicholas' advice is rock solid. If you check into it, you'll thank me later."
Morris, Fox News hosts tout Morris' website, which he uses to boost email list. According to a Nexis transcript search, Morris' website, dickmorris.com, was referenced either by Morris or the host in at least 24 separate appearances on Fox News programs between January 1 and April 1. The first thing visitors see when visiting dickmorris.com is a page asking to join Morris' email list.
Morris uses Fox platform to stoke fear of economic woes. Newsmax's webcast isn't the first time Morris has warned that Obama's policies will prolong the recession and eventually lead to massive inflation and skyrocketing interest rates -- likely followed by another recession. He has repeatedly made these claims in his role as a Fox News analyst.
Morris' lengthy record of GOP activism, on-air and off
Morris regularly endorses and fundraises for Republican candidates; Morris has also used his Fox News employment to urge viewers to contribute to or help campaigns that advocate on behalf of Republican causes or against Democratic candidates or causes.
Morris urged viewers to donate to group he is affiliated with to fund anti-health care ads. Morris is the chief strategist and ad crafter for the conservative group League of American Voters (LAV), which opposed the Democrats' health care reform proposals. On Fox News, Morris implored viewers to donate for ads opposing health care reform at least 10 times just in February and March, often directing viewers to his website, which contained contribution links for the LAV. In a February 26 email to DickMorris.com subscribers, Morris wrote that LAV "raised $200,000 in the past three days" to run ads in the districts of "marginal Democrats who voted for healthcare last time." Morris also regularly solicited funds on Fox for 2009 LAV ad campaigns.
Morris asked Fox viewers to "give funds to GOPTrust.com" without noting his apparent financial ties to the organization. Between October 27, 2008, and November 17, 2008, Morris mentioned GOPTrust.com during at least 13 Fox News appearances and asked viewers to "give funds to GOPTrust.com," the website of the National Republican Trust PAC, without disclosing that the organization has paid $24,000 to a company apparently connected to Morris. Through publicly available records with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Media Matters for America found that GOPTrust.com paid Triangulation Strategies at least $24,000 from the beginning of October 2008 to November 24, 2008, mostly for "Email Communication." The "Mailing Address" for Triangulation Strategies is listed in one of the National Republican Trust PAC's FEC filings as "dickmorris.com."
Morris promotes lists of vulnerable Democratic members of Congress to target with LAV ads. In a February 23 blog post, Morris listed 31 "Vulnerable Democratic Congressmen" who are "swing congressmen on health care" and wrote that the "League of American voters has produced ads targeting these swing Congressmen and we urge you STRONGLY to CLICK HERE to send them money to help fund these ads." Morris promoted his list and website in numerous instances on Fox.
Morris urged viewers to "Please, please help" Brown. During the January 11 edition of Hannity, Morris joined Fox News' advocacy on behalf of Scott Brown, the Republican nominee in the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, urging viewers to "go to DickMorris.com ... to help elect Brown," because if "we win this fight, then there will never be another victory for Obama." DickMorris.com includes a fundraising plea "to help us raise $300,000 for a last minute media buy to push Brown and the Republicans to victory."
Morris repeatedly implored viewers to call Congress to halt progressive legislation. During the health care debate, Morris frequently implored viewers to call Congress and tell them to oppose health care reform. In doing so, Morris routinely directed viewers to DickMorris.com, where a list of swing votes was posted. In February and March alone, Morris made at least 13 on-air appeals. Morris claimed his efforts deluged members of Congress and could help defeat the bill.
Morris frequently appears at GOP fundraisers. Since September 2008, Morris has appeared or is scheduled to appear at 10 fundraisers for Republican candidates or party organizations. Those candidates and organizations frequently promote their events by touting Morris' Fox News affiliation.
Morris' campaign activities, endorsements, and donations. According to The Boston Globe, Morris served as a consultant for Christy Mihos for Governor (MA); the campaign reportedly "brought Morris to Massachusetts for events and featured his involvement prominently on its website." The Globe reported that Mihos "paid Morris $20,000 a month for four months last year [2009], state campaign finance records show." On March 15 on Fox Business, Morris endorsed Rand Paul for U.S. Senate (KY). On March 29, during Hannity, Morris endorsed and campaigned for Edward Lynch for Congress (FL). On his website, Stephen Broden for Congress (TX) lists an endorsement from "Dick Morris, National Political Strategist, Fox News Contributor and author." Morris has donated $1,000 to Edward Lynch for Congress (FL) and $1,000 to Sam Caligiuri for Senate (CT).
Morris' history of fabricating smears of progressives
On Fox, Morris invents, retracts story that Clinton reappointed Reno so she wouldn't "turn on" him over Waco. On the April 19 edition of Hannity, Morris claimed that then-Attorney General Janet Reno threatened President Clinton in early 1997 by saying that if Clinton didn't re-appoint her as attorney general, she was "going to tell truth about Waco." Morris said that his story had "never been said before," and went on to say: "I know that he told me -- Clinton told me -- that I couldn't not appoint Reno because she would have turned on me over Waco. That's the phrase he used."
After Morris' accusation was covered across the right-wing media -- and Media Matters pointed out that his claims were dubious at best, and directly contradicted his account in his 2004 book -- Morris appeared on the April 21 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends and changed his story, saying that he needed to "distinguish the facts from my conjecture based on the facts" and that Clinton "didn't actually say that." Morris now claims Clinton told him "she asked me to reappoint her for at least a year, because if I didn't, people would think that I was blaming her for Waco," an assertion consistent with his 2004 statement.
Morris distorts Hillary Clinton quote to paint her as lying about daughter's location on 9-11. Morris repeatedly accused Hillary Clinton of having "completely fabricated her story" of where her daughter was during the September 11, 2001, attacks, falsely claiming that Clinton "says Chelsea was in danger on 9-11, jogging around the towers of the World Trade Center and was saved only 'cause she ducked into a coffee shop," which Morris portrayed as contradicting Chelsea Clinton's own account, in which Morris claimed she said "she was 40 blocks -- 60 blocks away and watched it on TV, 80 blocks away, was not in danger."
In fact, on the September 17, 2001, edition of Dateline NBC, Clinton said that her daughter had "gone, what she thought would be just a great jog. She was going to go down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and -- and that's when the plane hit" (emphasis added). A November 9, 2001, UPI article about a piece Chelsea Clinton wrote in Talk magazine corroborates Hillary Clinton's statement that Chelsea did, in fact, leave her apartment to have coffee the morning of the attacks, and that she went downtown after she heard of the attacks and was close enough to hear the second tower collapse.
Morris makes up baseless conspiracy theory that Massa investigation is retaliation for voting against health care. Offering no evidence whatsoever, in a March 5 column, Morris claimed that then-Rep. Eric Massa faced an ethics investigation because of his "sin" of voting against health care reform, and that "Pelosi and the ethically-challenged House Ethics Committee are investigating him for 'verbally abusing' a male member of his staff." He continued:
In this age of more serious offenses, using "salty language" to express his displeasure with staff work would not seem to rank high on the list of indictable offenses. If it were, Lyndon Johnson would have been impeached. But Massa is being hung out to dry as an example to other would-be independent minded Democrats.
Massa resigned from the House on March 8. The same day, Massa offered allegations similar to those pushed by Morris, but later walked back his claims. In April, a former Massa aide filed a complaint with the congressional Office of Compliance alleging, according to the former aide's lawyer, that Massa "'subjected my client and other young gay men' to 'unwelcome touching, sexual propositions, groping, sexualized comments' and similar forms of harassment both inside his official congressional office and outside of it."
Morris suggests Obama "illegal[ly]" nominated Matheson "to a judgeship with an implicit quid pro quo." On the March 15 edition of Hannity, Morris claimed that "appointing Scott Matheson's brother to a judgeship with an implicit quid pro quo" is "illegal." Morris was apparently referring to University of Utah professor Scott Matheson's nomination for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Matheson's brother Jim is a U.S. representative. Rep. Matheson's office and the White House both flatly denied the allegation that Scott Matheson's nomination was in any way intended to sway Jim Matheson to support health care reform legislation. A spokesman for Republican Sen. Robert Bennett (UT), and former Judge Michael McConnell -- an appointee of former President Bush -- who last occupied the seat to which Scott Matheson has been named, both definitevely debunked the smear, noting that Matheson's nomination "has been in the works for a long time." Rep. Matheson subsequently voted against the health care reform bills.
Morris contradicts self on whether Clinton "may well have been" a communist in early '70s. On the April 14, 2008, edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, discussing Hillary Clinton's 1971 internship with the California-based law firm Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, Morris asserted that Clinton was a "law student defending the Black Panther Party, and then she worked in a communist law firm." Co-host Alan Colmes then asked Morris, "Well, does it make Hillary a communist?" After Morris again stated that Clinton "was a supporter of the Black Panthers," Colmes interjected, "Wait a second. Does that make her a communist?" Morris replied: "No, at that time, at that point in her life, she may well have been." But Morris previously wrote in his book Rewriting History (ReganBooks, 2004) that "Hillary was no Communist, nor should her work in the Treuhaft firm imply that she was."
Morris' comically off-track record of political prognostication
Morris 0 for 2 on 2008 presidential nominees: Clinton "virtually uncontested" among Dems, McCain won't "ever be nominated" by GOP. Morris is co-author of the 2005 book Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race. The epigraph of the book's first chapter is the presidential oath of office as it would be if given by now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The chapter's first sentence is "On January 20, 2009, at precisely noon, the world will witness the inauguration of the forty-fourth president of the United States. As the chief justice administers the oath of office on the flag-draped podium in front of the U.S. Capitol, the first woman president Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be sworn into office." Morris goes on to write that Clinton is "on a virtually uncontested trajectory to win the Democratic nomination" and has "no serious opposition in her party."
Morris also states that Clinton's "victory is not inevitable" because then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "alone could win the nomination, defeat Hillary, and derail a third Clinton nomination." According to Morris, two "seem fated to meet on the grand stage of presidential politics." Morris also writes: "Rudy Giuliani and John McCain? Either of them could probably win, but neither will ever be nominated by the Republican Party" [Pages 1-3].
Clinton lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. Rice never declared her candidacy for the Republican nomination. McCain won the Republican nomination and lost the general election.
Morris: November GOP wins "A deathblow to Obamacare." In a November 4, 2009, New York Post column, Morris wrote that Republican victories in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections were "A deathblow to Obamacare." In March, Obama signed historic health reform legislation into law.
Morris repeatedly claimed Clinton would drop out due to Pirro challenge. In columns in The Hill and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and in appearances on Fox News in 2005, Morris repeatedly touted New York Republican Jeanine Pirro's 2006 Senate campaign against Clinton -- asserting, regarding Clinton running for a second Senate term, that, "the first thing I would tell Hillary, if I were advising Hillary, is you're crazy to run for the Senate"; that "[s]he might just take a pass"; and that if Pirro ran, Clinton might drop out of the race. Morris predicted that if Pirro proved to be the strong candidate that he expected her to be, Clinton would drop out. Pirro, however, trailing badly in polls, dropped out of the race on December 21, 2005. Clinton was re-elected over GOP candidate John Spencer by a 67-31 margin.
Night before 2000 election, Morris predicted Clinton loss. On the November 6, 2000, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Morris asserted about Clinton's first Senate campaign in 2000 against former New York Rep. Rick Lazio: "I think Lazio is, at this point, more likely to win it than Hillary, because, if Hillary is at 48 percent -- or even at 49 percent, or even at 50 percent -- a lot of her vote of minorities, a lot of her -- who have no real reason to vote in the presidential race." The next day, Lazio lost to Clinton by more than 12 percentage points.
Morris' incredibly off-base 2008 electoral map predictions. According to his final predicted electoral map, released on October 27, 2008, Morris labeled Arkansas "leaning Obama." McCain won Arkansas by 20 percentage points, and according to Pollster.com, Obama led in that state in only one poll throughout the entire race -- by two percentage points in a June 2008 Zogby Internet survey. Morris' final electoral map also had Louisiana and Tennessee as "tossup" states; McCain won each of these states by at least 15 percentage points.
Morris predicted Obama would be at 30 percent approval by March 2010. On the March 16, 2009, edition of Hannity, Morris said of Obama and his economic policies, "because of the innate crisis itself and of its exacerbation by what he's doing and because two years from now there's a tax increase coming and inflation coming and that's killing any positive of the stimulus plan, now he's all of the sudden saying things are great, and they're not, and I think that his credibility is going to be shot. This guy is going to be at 30 percent in a year." According to Pollster.com, Obama job approval ratings in polls conducted from March 9, 2010, to March 23, 2010, ranged from 44 percent to 50 percent.
Morris' inflammatory and extremist commentary
"Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." During a long conspiracy theory about a "super-national authority" that will oversee U.S. financial institutions, Morris asserted that because President Obama's policies are "internationalist ... [t]hose crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." [Your World with Neil Cavuto, 3/31/09]
Health care "switch[ers]" are "traitors" that "sold out this country." Morris named House Democrats who switched their health care vote from no to yes and labeled them "traitors." Morris concluded, to applause, that "we are going to defeat them" in November. [Huckabee, 3/20/10]
Obama is "anti-American." Morris has cited that Obama's nuclear policy "might" make him "the first anti-American president we've ever had." [Fox & Friends, 4/13/10] Morris as also stated that Obama 's foreign policy "can only be described as anti-American." [The O'Reilly Factor, 4/22/09]
Morris: "If we don't take our country back in 2010, it's not going to be there for us to take back." Discussing why "we are in one of the more important election cycles ever in our lifetime," Morris has stated, "If we don't take our country back in 2010, it's not going to be there for us to take back." [Hannity, 1/4/10]
Obama awarded Nobel prize as part of "Europe's effort to colonize the United States." Morris claimed that the reason Obama was "delaying the decision to commit troops to Afghanistan is because he wanted" to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He added that the award "is part of Europe's effort to colonize the United States -- to reverse the effects of the American Revolution." [Hannity, 10/13/09]
"The way to get popular with this administration is to be an enemy of the United States." Morris has said Obama's foreign policy is "absolutely flipping things upside-down" because "If you're an enemy of America -- Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Hamas -- he's in bed with you." He added that "The way to get popular with this administration is to be an enemy of the United States." [Hannity, 4/23/09]
"Obama's plan is gonna kill you." After Bill O'Reilly said, "just treat me as a guy from Levittown... making $55,000 a year" and asked if Obama's plan is "gonna help me" buy insurance, Morris replied "No, Obama's plan is gonna kill you." [The O'Reilly Factor, 7/22/09]
Morris' falsehood-heavy commentary
Morris frequently and repetitively pushes falsehoods about progressive policy proposals. For example, Morris has repeatedly forwarded the myths that health care reform legislation contains a "death panel" or promotes "euthanasia"; that the legislation will increase premiums for the "average family"; and that the legislation punishes those who do not have health insurance with "jail."
Fox hosted former tax delinquent Morris to criticize Geithner's tax failure.
IRS tax lien against him did not prevent Morris from criticizing Geithner. In a January 2009 appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Morris repeatedly criticized Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner for his failure to pay Social Security taxes several years ago. But Morris has his own history of tax delinquency; the IRS reportedly filed a $1.5 million tax lien against him in 2003 and according to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS), Morris owed the state $443,915 as of November 1, 2007, making him the state's sixth-biggest tax delinquent at that time. Morris is not cited by DRS on its list of "The Top 100 Delinquent Income Taxpayer Accounts" in Connecticut as of November 1, 2008.
In an April 2008 article on "[b]ig names" who are tax delinquents, USA Today reported:
Morris says he's reached an agreement with Connecticut and his name will be removed from the next delinquency list. He says he is committed to paying his taxes: "Following a difficult period in my life, I fell into arrears. But since then, I have paid almost $3 million in state and federal taxes."
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Cisco ASA 1000V: The Cloud Ready Firewall
In this show, we cover the new ASA 1000V and how this security family represents the oldest yet most future ready security platform.
What is the relevance of a Firewall in today's modern world where security must encompass every part of increasingly distributed operations? What is really meant by a Cloud Ready Firewall? What the heck is this new 'virtual ASA'…didn't we already have the Virtual Security Gateway? Perhaps its all just marketing hype…
Or not.
In my estimation, the cloud is overhyped in the short run, but underestimated in the long run. Every enterprise is now exploring some aspect of a cloud based service model – whether this represents you now or in the future, the notion of a flexible security solution remains important. Incredible advances for data center infrastructure with the flexibility and speed enabled by the virtualized tools we are all now using – MUST be accompanied by equally capable security tools.
The original maxim still rings true: Security must be addressed at every layer.
Questions we must answer:
- Where is security best addressed in a hyperactive virtualized enterprise with the traditional organizational edges now so 'cloudy…'
- How do we isolate the business and the service without compromising the integrity of the data?
- What, in the cloud, are you responsible for securing? This is crucial no matter what your style, public/private/hybrid.
The security game has not changed: It's still about protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.
This show looks closely at the ASA family and goes deep on its newest member the ASA 1000V
Here is what we cover:
- Healthy discussion on the firewall relevance debate
- What is the right way to measure performance?
- We introduce the new ASA 1000V Firewall for the Cloud and cover hard questions about how familiar it will seem to hardcore ASA engineers.
- Break down the ASA's virtual offering and ensure the clarity and relationship to Cisco's Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)
- Juniper Competitive Reality check – you need to know what you are looking at with high end firewalls…
Key Points:
Single ASA code base; consistency across form factors; we are now able to provide consistent security for your hybrid networks (physical, virtual, and cloud) using a proven firewall.
Integration with Nexus 1000V (vPath) – We have not just thrown the ASA into a VM; but it is a solution which is optimized to cater to the new virtualization and cloud challenges and use cases. vPath helps us provide a solution which is simpler, cleaner, much more flexible and efficient.
Enables multi-hypervisor support where we don't need to develop a different virtual firewall for each different hypervisor. As Nexus1000V spans across hypervisors, we can easily start supporting those as well.
vPath enables a single instance of ASA 1000V to secure multiple ESX hosts. So, we don't need 100 ASA 1000V instances to secure 100 ESX hosts. Customers can segregate their resources on which they deploy ASA 1000V and VSG instances and those on which they run their applications
VNMC – single point manager for VSG and ASA 1000V, which is custom made for addressing virtualization specific workflows. It integrates with vCenter to fetch VM attributes that provides us with the capability to define policies based on VM attributes (on top of out good old 5tuple)
- Break down the ASA's virtual offering and ensure the clarity and relationship to Cisco's Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)
- Juniper Competitive Reality check – you need to know what you are looking at with high end firewalls…
Further Reading:
Cisco Unveils Virtual Firewall Appliance to Protect Multi-Tenant Cloud
Gary Kinghorn's blog: A New Virtual ASA: On Full Display at VMworld
ASA 1000V: Firewall for the Cloud
Sylvia Hooks and Rajneesh Chopra
Virtual ASA and the Virtual Security Gateway
Jimmy Ray and Brian Conklin
FEEDBACK LOOP: Firewall Troubleshooting
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Mike Storm is a Consulting Systems Engineer in our Irvine office…he supports a broad geography with thousands of customers. As a security specialized engineer he is the one the field calls for the most challenging situations. We heard from multiple sources that he would be a fantastic guest engineer to walk us through the reality of the Juniper SRX security solutions and how they stack up (for real) with the Cisco ASA.
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Four things we need to really hold Juniper accountable to:
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As always, thank you for watching!
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The Chargers had a half time lead against the Bengals on Sunday and carried the lead all the way into the fourth quarter. Their chances of winning seemed pretty good as they continually thwarted the Bengals offense, forcing a pair of turnovers and keeping them from scoring after a second quarter field goal. Then everything went pear-shaped and the Bengals wound up winning the game 20-13 after scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter.
There wasn't one big moment of implosion or failed fourth down defense this time for San Diego. It was just an overall failure of their offense to do anything in the second half. They went three-and-out four times, missed a long field goal and then saw Philip Rivers turn the ball over twice after the Bengals grabbed the lead. The first was a strip-sack by Carlos Dunlap, one of four Cincinnati sacks on the day, and the second was an interception in the end zone as Rivers tried to rally the team in the closing seconds.
Rivers was 10-of-25 in the second half for 94 yards, 47 of which came on that final last-ditch drive for a touchdown. The running game offered no help at all and the defense finally broke down on a nearly eight-minute drive that ended with Andy Dalton running in the go-ahead touchdown.
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This elegant Etxeondo women's Nere sleeve jersey offers you a comfortable fit and great warm weather performance. The lightweight and wicking fabrics moves moisture from the skin leaving you feeling cooler and fresher as you ride.
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Scenes of destruction: Syrian mosques leveled after months of combat
The civil war in Syria has taken its toll on mosques, with most of the damage coming from regime bombing, according to Dr. Cheikhmous Ali, the head of the Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology, who's based in Strasbourg, France, and has advised the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights. Here are some examples.
One of the greatest losses in the war so far was in Daraa, a city of fewer than 100,000 in southwestern Syria, where the revolution began. The Omari mosque there was an imposing edifice of black basalt with a large, square minaret. Built in the seventh century on the site of an ancient Roman temple by Umr Bin al Khattab, a revered Islamic leader and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, it was the starting point in 2011 for the first major protests against the government of President Bashar Assad.
The first big Friday demonstration, on March 18 that year, saw thousands gather in front of the mosque to demand political freedoms, an end to widespread corruption and the release of political prisoners. Security forces opened fire on the crowd, killing four people. The resulting nationwide protests prompted a harsh crackdown that soon descended into all-out war that's claimed the lives of almost 100,000 people and left the country in ruins.
Security forces invaded Daraa's old city in April 2011. According to opposition activists, paratroopers used three helicopters backed by tanks to seize the mosque. Videos posted online at the time show them in the courtyard, chanting, "God, Syria, Bashar and nothing else."
The army used the mosque as a base until March of this year, when opposition fighters with the Liwa al Tawhid brigade retook the area after two weeks of fierce battles. A video dated March 23 and posted on YouTube showed opposition fighters apparently in the mosque cheering, "God is great! Our master is Muhammad, our leader forever!"
The narrator announces: "The Omari mosque has been liberated."
But as has happened often, after regime forces withdrew, they pounded the area with artillery and airstrikes. For two days, they fired shells at the mosque. A series of videos on YouTube show explosions against the minaret as they score direct hits. A YouTube video dated April 13 shows the top half of the minaret topple in a cloud of dust.
The Khalid Bin al Walid Mosque in Homs, named for a seventh-century Islamic leader, was the starting point for anti-Assad demonstrations in Homs, a city of 1 million people in central Syria. Mohammad Abu al Fedaa, a spokesman for the local opposition media office, interviewed by Skype, said it became a daily target of government snipers and eventually, "for their safety, people stopped praying there."
The Ottoman-era building, which sits on the site of an earlier mosque, housed a small museum of Islamic art and rooms for Quranic study. Now it's badly damaged after months of mortar, rocket and machine-gun fire, videos posted on the Internet show. One wall has been destroyed and the mosque's domes are filled with holes, apparently caused by shells. Fedaa said mortar rounds and heavy machine guns had caused most of the destruction.
"This is revenge against the heritage and history of the country," he said.
In Douma, a city of 500,000 just northeast of Damascus, the Grand Mosque was a gathering place for anti-Assad demonstrators. On April 1, 2011, as worshippers emerged from Friday prayers, security forces shot eight people, some at the main entry to the mosque, others on the streets, according to Souhad Khibiyh, a former journalist in Douma who now lives in Egypt. In the months that followed, almost-daily protest rallies began in the main square, adjacent to the mosque.
Then, in May 2012, the military sent tanks into Douma and attacked the mosque and other targets in central Douma. Last November, fighter jets fired missiles at the mosque, burning it down. "The library of the mosque was burned down, and all the ceilings destroyed. The walls of the mosque turned black," Khibiyh told McClatchy. Combat jets returned three more times, she said.
Twenty other mosques also have been destroyed in Douma, Khibiyh said. The Manfoush mosque "was turned into ashes, a pile of stones," last November. The Rawda mosque – targeted in January, April and May of this year – is "completely destroyed," as is the Haand Nasan mosque, which was attacked in October and December.


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Dan Garcia's 4.6L-equipped '40 Ford
Some folks will confuse a '39 DeLuxe Ford with a '40 Standard Ford because the factory basically made the '39 DeLuxe its base trim package for the '40 model year, but there are a handful of other telltale design changes that you can spot to separate the two years. The '39 versions don't have windwings in the doors and the '40 does, and the windshield wipers on a '39 mount above the windshield while a '40 has them mounted in the cowl. Both years have the same iconic grille (though it's usually referred to as a "'40 grille"), but the '39s have the classic teardrop-shaped taillights while the '40 uses the one-year-only Chevron-shaped 'lights. Of course the headlights are different, too, with the laid-back teardrop design being used in the '39 and the vertical design used in the '40, but that doesn't mean you can't mix and match any of these design elements with either year, which is how you get a car like the one owned by Dan Garcia.
Dan, who lives in Anaheim, California, got involved with hot rods and Harleys through his friends and family, and it was his brother-in-law, Jim Johnson, who sold him this car nearly 30 years ago. It was pretty well beaten up back then (Dan believes it was used for some racing) and it sat for many years in his garage waiting to be fixed up. When Jim owned it, his 10-year-old son, Jamie, used to play in it, as it was one of the cars that filled the backyard at Jim's house. From a very early age, Jim taught his son what he knew about hot rodding, and Jamie absorbed everything.
Almost three decades later, Jamie owns and operates Hot Rod Haven in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and cars he's built have won numerous awards and been featured on the cover of STREET RODDER on more than one occasion. So it was only fitting that when Dan decided a couple of years ago to have his coupe gone through, that he'd choose Jamie and his dad to do the work. But this wasn't just a simple build—Dan wanted the '39 turned into a full-fledged '40.
At least one aspect of the build would be easy: since the car, being a '39, already had one-piece door glass, the decision was made to leave that characteristic alone, but cutting out the windshield surround (with the wiper mounts above) and replacing it with one from a '40 (with the wipers on the cowl) was a chore. The dash was changed out for a '40 version, too, and the car also received some custom tricks, such as the taillight buckets being welded into the fenders and their bezels trimmed to half their normal size for a cleaner look (you get to the bulbs from under the fender).
The hood and front fenders were changed to '40 Ford, too, and the headlight rings now fit flush. All of the car's gaps were addressed, and the lip around the edge of the rear fenders was re-rolled to accommodate the larger rear wheels. Jamie also re-arched a '32 trunk handle (from LimeWorks) so it would follow the shape of the '40 trunklid and also fabbed a stainless steel nerf bar for the rear to hold the license plate. Another trick item are the outside mirrors, which Jamie made using '32 roadster posts that screw right into the corner edge of the door for a clean look.
The original chassis was beefed up with a custom X-member, and Jamie installed an independent front suspension with dropped spindles and disc brakes from TCI Engineering while a '57 Ford 9-inch was located out back with a pair of TCI Engineering leaf springs. Jamie also made new engine and trans mounts for the car so he could install a DOHC 4.6L (281-inch) Ford modular motor out of an '03 Ford Mustang, and backed it to an AOD transmission. The car's stance is improved with a set of Real Rodders Wheels 15×6 spindle mount style and 16×8 wheels, which are wrapped in Signet 165/60-15 and Cooper 265/70-16 rubber.
Once Jamie and his dad finished up the metal and bodywork, the car was shipped to Sean Sena at SEA-NIC Restorations in Albuquerque where it was painted Garcia Red, a custom mix made with BASF Diamont paints. Once covered in its perfect red hue, the car was taken to Ron Mangus Hot Rod Interiors in Rialto, California, for its threads.
Mangus used looped tan wool carpet, binding the edges with the same coffee-colored leather he used to make the headliner and pleated door panels. He also used the leather on the Glide Engineering split bench seat and in the trunk area, too. Jamie finished off the dash with an aluminum gauge panel for the white face VDO gauges and a LimeWorks three-spoke steering wheel for the chromed tilt column. Hidden from view is the Secret Audio stereo system and the air conditioning system from Hot Rod Air, all wired up using a kit from Haywire Inc.
The '40 Ford coupe has long been a go-to car for hot rodders and, for many years, a base from which many a race car and custom vehicle have been built. Though you usually don't find too many folks waiting 30 years to build the car of their dreams, at least Dan Garcia was able to resurrect one more hot rod from the edge of oblivion, getting one really classy ride in the process.


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