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The magnetic properties of materials hold the key to major advances in technology. The application WL- LSMS provides a nanoscale analysis of important materials such as steels, iron-nickel alloys and advanced permanent magnets that will help drive future electric motors and generators. Titan will allow researchers to improve the calculations of a material's magnetic states as they vary by temperature.
The S3D application models the underlying turbulent combustion of fuels in an internal combustion engine. This line of research is critical to the American energy economy, given that three-quarters of the fossil fuel used in the United States goes to powering cars and trucks, which produce one-quarter of the country's greenhouse gases.
Titan will allow researchers to model large-molecule hydrocarbon fuels such as the gasoline surrogate isooctane; commercially important oxygenated alcohols such as ethanol and butanol; and biofuel surrogates that blend methyl butanoate, methyl decanoate and n-heptane.
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear researchers use the Denovo application to, among other things, model the behavior of neutrons in a nuclear power reactor. America's aging nuclear power plants provide about a fifth of the country's electricity, and Denovo will help them extend their operating lives while ensuring safety. Titan will allow Denovo to simulate a fuel rod through one round of use in a reactor core in 13 hours; this job took
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It's a good neighborhood for ambling aimlessly, shopping-til-dropping or sweet-talking a date, and although it continues to change as the face of the city changes, it maintains the historical aspects that set it apart from any other hip city spot.
Tugboats are a common sight on the waterfront in Fells Point.
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While it still serves as a destination for bachelorette parties and babe-cruising frat boys, the area offers more than just an opportunity to drink. Although the bars are plentiful, the shopping and eating options offer more diversions. The modern stores and eateries are tucked into rowhouses hundreds of years old, with the wood floors, cornices and odd nooks that characterize Baltimore structures. Cobblestone streets let visitors know that this isn't some fly-by-night, hamlet-come-lately -- it's a neighborhood rich with history and culture.
Baltimore's Fells Point area was named for William Fell, who originally purchased the land, and his son Edward Fell, who plotted the layout of the village in 1763. Technically, this would label the area Fell's Point, but since we're talking about more than one Fells person, the "powers that be" apparently opted to drop the apostrophe. Built on the shoreline of the Chesapeake, Fells Point served as a major maritime port during both the War for Independence and the War of 1812 and has seen the construction of several famous ships. In addition to birthing the USS Constellation and the USS Enterprise (two of the first ships built for the U.S. Navy), the first designs for schooners were built in Fells Point. The design was so closely linked to the area that the schooners eventually became known as "Baltimore clippers."
Fells Point's waterfront location also made it one of the major ports for immigration until the mid-19th century. This turned Fells Point into one of the more ethnically diverse areas of Baltimore -- a fact made apparent by the multitudinous cuisine options available in the area.
Thames Street in Fells Point shows off the cobblestone the neighborhood is known for.
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The addition of Tortilleria Sinaloa on Eastern Avenue makes it unacceptable to hit the Safeway when you're in need of fresh flour tortillas. Head into this tiny shop to spend a mere $1.50 on a giant stack.
Market Square is the center of the neighborhood, and it's a great place to lounge and nibble a pretzel or sip a limeade. Just off the square are dozens of eateries and shops for every taste and temperament. Square mainstay Jimmy's Restaurant serves the best in greasy-spoon dining, and it's not unusual to see slightly inebriated locals at the counter shoulder-to-shoulder with area office workers. Recall diner scenes from the Baltimore-based TV show, "Homicide," and enjoy an entire meal for less than the price of a coffee and pastry at your favorite chain java joint. Diners can order anything from pancakes to burgers, and then enjoy their meal while people-watching or reading the paper.
On Aliceanna Street, Blue Moon Cafe boasts a cheap, greasy, to-die-for breakfast. Sure, you could get the basic gigantic breakfast, but try the huevos rancheros for something new. Or, pay homage to Maryland's own side-scuttling bottom-feeder, and have a Maryland Crab Benedict, with eggs, hollandaise and crab meat on an English muffin.
Patrons sit out front of Jimmy's Restaurant, known for its affordable food and diner-like atmospher and menu.
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For visitors with a Gatsby complex there's Birds of a Feather, a restaurant and scotch bar on Aliceanna. While the menu is strictly "lite fare" (sandwiches and appetizers), you're not there for the grub. You're there for the good stuff: More than 120 single-malt scotches.
For dinner away from the norm, walk like an Egyptian to The Nile Cafe. Right on the square, the bold yellow restaurant serves schwarmas, kabobs and "pitawiches," as well as salads, pizzas and pasta. As an added bonus, many dishes are vegetarian and even vegan.
Looking for music? Head to Full Moon Saloon. This bar offers live music almost every night, a good beer selection and munchies ranging from seafood to burgers.
Another local haunt for live bands is rock, funk and punk mainstay Fletcher's. Cram into the tiny upstairs with hundreds of your closest friends and see everything from no-name local acts to popular bands just passing through.
Bertha's, home of the green "Eat Bertha's Mussels" bumper-sticker, has live music as well. The featured acts are usually smaller -- often Celtic -- bands. Order some of those famous mussels, or a pound or two of their Old Bay-covered steamed shrimp and rock out with a Guinness.
Bertha's is famous for its bumper stickers as well as its mussels.
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For recorded music, The Sound Garden has one of the best selections in town. The store, which sells new and used music, videos and vinyl, outgrew its original space and expanded to include the building next door. Lovers of all music genres aren't looking hard enough if they can't find something they like at what is arguably one of the best record stores in the city. There's also a pretty impressive collection of obscure stuff, smaller labels and hard-to-find music. Short on cash? Sell your unwanted CDs here (you'll get more if you trade them for store credit, though). Along with its nearby rival Reptilian Records (aimed at the punk and hardcore fan), Sound Garden makes Fells Point the destination for music lovers seeking alternatives to mainstream acts.
With all of the new homes -- and new homeowners -- the neighborhood furniture stores and home goods peddlers are doing brisk business. Across the street from Sound Garden, Su Casa is helping to furnish the area's newer townhomes. Looking for a cheap, hip way to dress up your house? Try a new set of hand-painted drawer pulls. Looking for a pricey accessory for wowing dinner guests? Get a snazzy new bedroom set or an immense wine bottle rack. There's something for every price range.
Stepping into Eclectic Elements on the square is like poking around in your grandmother's attic, if your grandmother happened to be a world-traveling adventurer (think "Aunt Jenny" from The Brady Bunch"). Intricate antique trunks, tables and chairs abound for the collector, but smaller, less expensive items are tucked in-between. Candles, dinnerware, incense and beaded pillows can be bought for a song (maybe a song and a half).
And Fells Point has plenty of little specialty shops, for window-shopping or great gift ideas.
Need something to wear? Cool clothes, body jewelry and candles can be found at The Big Iguana. Hippies can peruse the racks of batik-dyed skirts and tanks, while club kids scrounge for little black dresses, tube tops and hip-huggers. Prices are fair and the staff is friendly and helpful.
For adorable T-shirts and panties flaunting Hello Kitty and '70s-era characters, as well as glittery plastic baubles, be sure to skip into Trixie's Palace. The store is so cute, you'll wish you were either hip enough to wear the fun gear or you knew someone you could surprise with a funky little purse, beach towel or notebook.
A customer checks out sunglasses and clothes, just a few of the funky and hip items available at Trixie's Palace.
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For the still innocent ones who haven't hit their dark and angry stage, there is Grrreat Bears and Childhood Delights, a children's store that carries a colossal collection of Beanie Babies and other stuffed animals, as well as a number of children's toys aimed at exercising their minds instead of their parent's wallets. Logic puzzles, beginner chess sets, and surreptitiously educational books (ranging from relatively straightforward activity books to the classic Encyclopedia Brown brainteasers) make this a good place to shop for a kid you want to turn out right.
Another store for kids of all ages is aMuse, a tiny shop with thinking toys, kites and puzzles. It also has a resident massive sock monkey. He is reason enough to go there, but the collection of toys for young and old will keep you browsing long after you recover from said monkey's sticker shock.
All this shopping might be making you thirsty, so you'd better wet your whistle at The Daily Grind. This local hangout serves coffee and various baked goods, and has smushy chairs and ample table space for chatting or reading. Have an iced chai and gossip with a long-lost friend, or nurse a black coffee and read poetry in the corner. The choice is yours, and the brew is good.
Although Fells Point continues to change as new residents and shops move into the neighborhood, its ability to reflect the times while preserving its history is part of what makes this Baltimore locale worth a visit.


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- NAME: Tennessee Williams
- OCCUPATION: Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1911
- DEATH DATE: February 25, 1983
- EDUCATION: Soldan High School, University City High School, University of Missouri, University of Iowa
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Columbus, Mississippi
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
- Originally: Thomas Lanier Williams III
- Full Name: Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Other work followed, including a gig writing scripts for MGM. But Williams' mind was never far from the stage. On March 31, 1945, a play he'd been working for some years, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway.
Critics and audiences alike lauded the play, about a declassed Southern family living in a tenement, forever changing Williams' life and fortunes. Two years later, A Streetcar Named Desire, opened,
surpassing his previous success and cementing his status as one of the country's best playwrights. The play also earned Williams a Drama Critics' Award and his first Pulitzer Prize.
His subsequent work brought more praise. The hits from this period included Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth.
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The 1960s were a difficult time for Williams. His work received poor reviews and increasingly the playwright turned to alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms. In 1969 his brother hospitalized him.
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People who suffered flood damage to their homes during the June flood will have a few more weeks to seek aid.By: Peter Passi, Duluth News Tribune
People who suffered flood damage to their homes during the June flood will have a few more weeks to seek aid. The deadline to apply for help through Minnesota's Quick Start loan program had been Monday but that now has been delayed until Jan. 4.
The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency reports that, as of last week, only 234 households of the 2,000 homes significantly damaged by the June flood in Northeastern Minnesota were slated to receive state or federal financial assistance.
Sen. Roger Reinert, DFL-Duluth, said homeowners who were affected by flood damage and who are still living in homes that need repairs should know there's still time to apply for assistance.
"I think it's an awareness thing," he said. "As hard as we've tried, it's tough to break through the din of everything else going on. First, people were just responding to the crisis and they weren't really looking outwards. Then, that quickly moved into the school year starting and then the holidays. People have a lot of things going on."
Many people are still in the pipeline to receive aid, according to Drew Digby, a long-term recovery coordinator for the Northland region.
"We have nine case managers now working 60-hour weeks and assisting with more than 500 cases," Digby said. "They're working hard to get people as much help as they can."
Digby said people need to apply for federal aid through the Small Business Administration before they can qualify for Minnesota Housing's Quick Start Loan Program. He said 770 people had filed applications with the SBA, and that agency appears on pace to distribute about $8 million in aid to flood victims in the region.
"There are a lot of hoops to jump through," Digby said.
The flood recovery bill passed by the Legislature in August dedicated $12.2 million for the program. Homeowners who qualify can receive a no-interest loan of up to $40,000 per household. Those loans are forgivable if a homeowner stays in the residence 10 years or more.
If a borrower moves and/or sells a dwelling before then, the loan will be called but no interest will be paid, according to Digby.
Tonja Orr, assistant commissioner for housing policy at the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, estimated that 100 to 200 people who have not sought assistance might still be eligible for it.
"The problem is that people aren't asking for help," Reinert said. "Others may believe they can't afford to take on a loan or simply didn't know that help is available. I'm hopeful this deadline extension will give community organizations assisting with flood recovery more time to reach out to the community and let folks know that plenty of assistance is still available."
Duluth residents should contact One Roof Community Housing at (218) 727-5372, ext. 200, for more information on eligibility and directions on how to apply before Jan. 4.
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Inappropriate Personal Use of the Internet Jeopardizes the
Security and Privacy of Taxpayer Data
June 2003
Reference Number:
This report has cleared the Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration disclosure review process and
information determined to be restricted from public release has been redacted
from this document.
16, 2003
FROM: Gordon C. Milbourn III /s/ Gordon C.
Milbourn III
Acting Deputy Inspector General
for Audit
SUBJECT: Final Audit Report - Inappropriate
Personal Use of the Internet Jeopardizes the Security and Privacy of Taxpayer
Data (Audit # 200320007)
report presents the results of our review of personal use of the Internet by Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) employees. The
overall objective of this review was to evaluate employee compliance with the
IRS' Internet usage policy, which was implemented in May 2002.
IRS' Internet usage policy permits employees to use Federal Government
computers to access the Internet for limited personal reasons as long as the
use involves minimal costs. Personal
use is permitted during both work and nonwork time for a reasonable duration
and frequency of use. The policy
provides a list of inappropriate personal uses.
summary, although the policy is comprehensive and was widely distributed, a
substantial number of IRS employees continued to access prohibited sites that
put IRS computer systems at risk.
During a 1-week period almost 6 months after the policy was implemented,
IRS employees accessed over 1 million questionable web site objects from over
19,000 computer addresses. These
accesses were to seven categories of sites specifically listed in the IRS
policy as inappropriate: sexually explicit
web sites, personal email accounts, chat rooms, games, music, instant
messaging, and sites from which programs were downloaded. Because of the manner in which the IRS
assigns computer addresses and because we had no means to identify all
inappropriate sites, we could not determine the exact number of employees who
did not comply with the policy.
However, the magnitude of the results clearly indicates significant
misuse of the Internet in the IRS.
use of the Internet can create unnecessary security risks and result in denial
of service for work-related actions.
Other adverse effects include productivity losses and increased
telecommunications costs. Further, by
allowing access to sexually explicit sites, the IRS could be accused of fostering
a hostile work environment that could lead to damages and legal costs.
IRS established a multifaceted process to monitor compliance with its Internet
usage policy. Specifically, it
published the policy and distributed it to all employees. Vendor software was also purchased to block
employee access to certain categories of web sites. In addition, the IRS conducted limited monitoring to identify
inappropriate accesses that had avoided the blocking software. However, these actions were not completely
improve IRS employee compliance with the Internet usage policy, we recommended
IRS management require employees to annually document their understanding of
the policy, improve site blocking and monitoring controls, and develop a strategy for
publicizing Internet abuses to deter future Internet policy violations. We also recommended that the IRS assign sufficient resources for employee
Internet monitoring.
Office of Audit Comment: In his
response, the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Modernization and Chief
Information Officer questioned our approach for counting potential violations
because we identified potentially inappropriate web site objects. He stated that if a web site contained 100
objects, then conceivably we would have counted 100 objects as potentially
inappropriate when an employee accessed that web site. He further provided hypothetical examples of
objects that we may have identified as inappropriate sites just by visiting The
Washington Post home page and Congressional web sites.
While web sites can contain
multiple objects (e.g., recent tests of the CNN and Yahoo web sites identified
81 and 18 objects, respectively), we would not have identified an object unless
the object's web address contained a key word indicating it may be
inappropriate. In any event, the occurrences
in our results of potentially inappropriate objects on The Washington Post
home page or Congressional web sites were extremely minimal. Only 21 of the 142,359 potentially
inappropriate sexually explicit objects were accessed via The Washington Post
web site, and only 8 of the 373,281 chat room objects we identified were
accessed from Congressional web sites.
We are also certain that we
did not identify all inappropriate accesses.
As we pointed out in the report, our tests could not be precise due to
the mechanics of the Internet. Overall,
we used essentially the same methodology to identify misuse that most
content-filtering software packages use in blocking sites.
Our intention in citing the
total number of potentially inappropriate objects accessed was to emphasize
that misuse of the Internet by IRS employees continues to be significant and
widespread. Our audit emphasis was not
focused on merely demonstrating the volume, especially a precise number, of
policy violations. Instead, our results
indicate that the relative size of the problem is still significant, and that
the IRS should have been in the position to identify and monitor the problem
and to initiate appropriate corrective actions, particularly since this is our
second report on Internet use.
Copies of this
report are also being sent to the IRS managers affected by the report
recommendations. Please contact me at
(202) 622-6510 if you have questions or Margaret E. Begg, Acting Assistant
Inspector General for Audit (Information Systems Programs), at (202) 622-8510.
The Internet Usage Policy Is
Comprehensive and Procedures Were Developed to Enforce the Policy
Some Employees Continued to Make Inappropriate Personal Use of the Internet
I – Detailed Objective, Scope, and Methodology
II – Major Contributors to This Report
III – Report Distribution List
Appendix IV
– Management's Response to the Draft Report
In May 2002, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) implemented an Internet usage policy for its employees. The policy allows employees to use Federal Government computers for limited personal use when such use involves minimal additional expense to the Government and does not overburden any of the IRS' information resources. The policy states that limited personal use of the Internet should not affect the performance of official duties, interfere with the mission or operations of the IRS, or violate Federal Government ethical standards. Personal use is permitted during both work and nonwork time for a reasonable duration and frequency of use.
The policy was developed because of the expansion of information technology to an ever-increasing number of IRS employees, the issuance of Treasury Directive 87-04, "Personal Use of Government Office Equipment Including Information Technology," and the desire of the IRS to enhance the quality of the workplace. The policy also addresses issues in the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's (TIGTA) report entitled, Employees' Extensive Personal Use of the Internet Should Be Controlled (Reference Number 2001-20-016, dated November 2000). In that report, we discussed that the IRS' Internet usage policy prohibited any personal use of the Internet but that there was, nevertheless, substantial nonbusiness use of the Internet by IRS employees.
This review was conducted from October 2002 to January 2003, primarily within the Office of Security Services at the IRS National Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. Detailed information on our audit objective, scope, and methodology is presented in Appendix I. Major contributors to the report are listed in Appendix II.
The IRS' policy for employee Internet use clearly and comprehensively states the IRS' position. The policy includes an appendix that lists inappropriate personal uses. It also describes sanctions for the misuse of information technology equipment and resources.
The IRS distributed the policy in an information package to all employees in May 2002. The package was accompanied by an IRS organization-wide media campaign that included a personal message from the Deputy Commissioner. An extensive Intranet web site provided additional clarification regarding access to certain categories of web sites.
Blocking software was used to prevent access to certain web sites. A web-monitoring process was implemented to identify accesses to inappropriate sites that had avoided the blocking software. In addition, the TIGTA Office of Investigations developed software that analyzes Internet logs to identify workstations accessing sexually explicit and gambling sites.
Employee abuse of the Internet is still widespread. During the week beginning October 20, 2002, over 1 million accesses to web site objects that were likely to be prohibited were made from over 19,000 computer addresses. Some employees continued to access sexually explicit materials, as well as personal email accounts, streaming news, music, and video sites. They downloaded games, music, videos, and other large files.
Inappropriate use of the Internet can create unnecessary security risks and result in denials of service. Organizations the size of the IRS have incurred system restoration costs and productivity losses of up to $11.5 million annually to recover from these security incidents.
Employees who access their personal email accounts via the Internet and those who access other inappropriate sites circumvent the controls designed to protect IRS computer systems. For example, work-related and personal emails sent to IRS employee accounts are screened for viruses and other malicious programs before entering the IRS network. However, emails accessed from personal email accounts via the Internet are not screened prior to entering the network.
Inappropriate use of the Internet could also result in productivity losses and increased costs to purchase enough telecommunications capacity to handle unnecessary traffic, particularly from streaming video and audio. Access to sexually explicit and other sites with inappropriate content can foster hostile work environments that could put the IRS at risk of legal actions and costs.
To make our assessment, we looked for key words in web site titles for seven categories considered inappropriate by the IRS' policy: sexually explicit web sites, personal email accounts, chat rooms, games, music, programs (i.e., downloading unauthorized software), and instant messaging. For example, we searched firewall logs to identify sites that included the key word "chat" in their title to identify chat rooms accessed by IRS employees.
We recognize that some of these sites may have been accessed for legitimate business reasons. However, we judgmentally tested 283 of the sites and determined that most were obviously inappropriate. The sites we tested were accessed from over 6,000 of the 19,000 computer addresses that had accessed potentially inappropriate sites.
We could not determine the exact number of employees making the accesses. Because of how the IRS assigns computer addresses, a computer could have had more than 1 address during our 1-week test. It is also possible that one employee could have accessed more than one computer during our sample. Conversely, more than one employee could have used the same computer to access the Internet. The time lag in receiving and reviewing the data also hindered our ability to calculate the number of employees misusing the Internet.
We are confident, however, that the number of employees misusing the Internet and the amount of the misuse is significant. The following chart illustrates the activity for our test week:
Prohibited Category |
Total Computer
Addresses |
Total Objects
Accessed |
Chat Rooms |
8,231 |
373,281 |
Games |
9,338 |
294,619 |
Personal Email |
10,494 |
170,431 |
Sexually Explicit |
8,204 |
142,359 |
Music |
5,892 |
54,727 |
Programs |
4,602 |
22,747 |
Instant Messaging |
124 |
9,392 |
Totals |
19,581* |
1,067,556** |
IRS firewall logs for week of October 20, 2002.
* Total adjusted to reflect
that some computers were used to access more than one prohibited category. During the week of our review, 56,085
IRS unique computer addresses were used to access the Internet, of which 19,581
unique computer addresses were likely to have accessed inappropriate
During the week of our review, IRS employees made over 79,574,412 accesses to
web objects, of which 1,067,556 were accesses to sites likely to be
Although a large number of employees accessed sites likely to be inappropriate, a relatively small number of employees appear to be chronic abusers. More than 300,000 (over 28 percent) of the potentially inappropriate accesses made in the 1-week period were made from 122 computer addresses.
Employees were able to continue violating the Internet usage policy because:
· Efforts made to maintain employee awareness of the policy were not sufficient.
· Blocking software was not effective or fully used.
· The monitoring of Internet use was not effective.
Efforts made to maintain employee awareness of the policy were not sufficient
As previously mentioned, the IRS initiated extensive steps to ensure employees were made aware of the new policy. From our test results, it is obvious that many employees forgot, misunderstood, or ignored the policy requirements.
Since the initial distribution of the policy to all employees, little has been done to remind employees of their responsibilities for using the Internet. The IRS also has not taken the opportunity to publicize the results of any Internet monitoring activities being performed. Widespread publicity regarding the monitoring of the policy would provide a deterrent to further inappropriate use of the Internet.
IRS employees are also required to annually acknowledge their awareness of security policies by signing an Information System User Registration/Change Request (Form 5081). However, the Form 5081 does not specifically cite the IRS' Internet usage policy in the Information Systems Security Rules section. As a result, an opportunity to annually refresh employees' understanding of the policy and document their acknowledgement was missed.
Blocking software was not effective or fully used
During our 1-week test, approximately 40,000 of the over 1 million inappropriate accesses were blocked by content-filtering software. We identified 294,619 accesses to game sites, but the software blocked only 12,834. We identified 142,359 accesses to sexually explicit sites, but the software blocked only 24,610. The IRS' Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC) indicated that the software had been inoperative for periods of time and had allowed prohibited traffic to bypass the filtering process during periods of high activity. The CSIRC indicated that it was working with the vendor to resolve these problems.
Also, at the time of our review, the software's access-blocking capabilities were not in full use. The software was not set to block accesses to chat rooms, music sites, or streaming audio or video media, even though those categories are expressly prohibited by the Internet usage policy.
The monitoring of employee Internet use was not
Much of the inappropriate activity identified in our review was not identified by the CSIRC. We matched our results of the top five potential violators for each of our seven categories with the CSIRC's incident reports for the same time period. Only 7 of the 35 computer addresses with the most inappropriate accesses were identified by the CSIRC.
The CSIRC indicated that resources were not always available for this monitoring due to other incident response priorities. The CSIRC has primary responsibility over intrusion detection, firewall administration, computer forensics, and incident response.
Records indicate only 126 employees were identified for disciplinary actions due to Internet abuses from May 2002 to January 2003. Eighteen cases are still open and 108 cases have been closed. Actions were taken on almost 90 percent of the cases, with dispositions including employee suspension and removal. We did not review case files to evaluate the appropriateness of actions taken. However, it appears that when cases were forwarded to IRS management, actions were taken.
The TIGTA Office of Investigations also monitors Internet usage with an automated software program it developed. This software is used for tracking the top 20 daily computer address policy violations for sexually explicit and gambling accesses. The Office of Investigations was primarily interested in these two categories because the accesses could be criminal violations. The software identified 60 percent of the same computers accessing sexual content that we identified and some additional potential computer violations that we did not identify. We attribute the disparities in identifying the computer address violations to differences in the key word criteria used to identify abuses.
To improve the IRS' process for identifying and referring violations of the policy, we believe that the Office of Investigations program for dealing with sexually explicit and gambling accesses could be merged with our strategy for identifying and categorizing other types of abuses. The IRS' use of the modified software could improve its identification of abuses and reduce monitoring costs.
To resolve the identified issues,
the Deputy Commissioner for Modernization & Chief Information Officer
Include the Internet usage policy as part of the annual
security awareness process, which requires employees to sign Forms 5081
acknowledging that they are aware of their security responsibilities, or
require employees with access to IRS computers to sign statements that they
have read and understand the policy provisions.
Management's Response: Management added
the Internet usage policy into this year's annual security training. Although management did not commit to
including this issue on Form 5081, the annual security training should be
Resolve the deficiencies with the current blocking
software, or replace it with more effective content-filtering technology, and
use it to prevent accesses to a wider range of inappropriate sites.
Management's Response: Management has
reconfigured system components and improved restrictions for known chat rooms
and other high-risk sites. Actions are
planned to analyze and implement a long-term content-filtering solution that
dynamically updates sites that should be blocked.
Assign sufficient resources to monitor and analyze employee
Internet usage.
Management's Response: Management has
assigned responsibility for monitoring Internet usage under the Chief, Security
Services, and authorized the hiring of a program manager to carry out these
responsibilities. Responsibility for
processing inappropriate Internet access activity has been centralized to
ensure consistency of treatment.
Expand the use of existing Office of Investigations software that identifies accesses to sexually explicit and
gambling sites to the other inappropriate uses specified in the Internet usage
Management's Response: Management is
evaluating the existing software for identifying accesses to sexually explicit
and gambling sites to determine if it can be applied to other inappropriate
Work with
the Offices of Tax Administration Coordination and Communications and Liaison
to develop a strategy, which includes publicizing Internet abuses, to deter
future Internet policy violations.
Management's Response: The Acting
Commissioner issued a memorandum to all managers requiring them to ensure that
all employees are familiar with the Internet usage policy and the potential
disciplinary actions related to violations.
Actions are planned to develop a comprehensive communication plan that
includes multiple techniques, such as payroll stuffers, for presenting the
Internet usage policy and related issues.
Appendix I
Detailed Objective, Scope,
and Methodology
The overall objective of this review was to evaluate employee compliance with the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Internet usage policy. This review is a follow-up to a previous Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report entitled, Employees' Extensive Personal Use of the Internet Should Be Controlled (Reference Number 2001-20-016, dated November 2000).
To evaluate the processes
used by the IRS to disseminate the Internet usage policy to all employees, we:
Researched the IRS' Intranet
web site for the current Internet usage policy, which went into effect May 13,
Researched the methods the
IRS used to provide employees with the policy and guidance on what usage is and
is not allowed.
To evaluate the Internet
usage policy to determine whether it adequately addresses all security risks
arising from Internet accesses, we compared the Internet usage policy with
Internal Revenue Manual 25.10, Treasury Directive (TD) Publications 71-10, TD
87-04, and other similar Federal Government guidelines to identify unallowable
practices that are not addressed in the IRS' Internet usage policy.
To identify the controls and
processes in place to monitor compliance with the Internet usage policy and to
detect/prevent inappropriate accesses, we:
Discussed with the Agency-Wide
Shared Services' Personnel Services staff the role they have in investigating
and monitoring Internet usage, the controls and processes that they use to
monitor Internet usage, the administrative actions taken for inappropriate
Internet access over the 6 months prior to the start of our review, and actions
they perform to curb inappropriate accesses by employees.
Discussed with the IRS'
Office of Security Services staff the role they have in investigating and
monitoring Internet usage, the controls and processes that they use to block or
monitor inappropriate Internet usage, the actions taken when inappropriate
access is identified, the actions they perform to curb inappropriate Internet
accesses by employees, and whether the web-monitoring product is installed at
all gateways leading to the Internet.
Discussed with TIGTA Office
of Investigations employees the role they have in investigating and monitoring
Internet usage, the actions they perform to curb inappropriate Internet
accesses by employees, and whether they investigated any inappropriate Internet
usage cases in the 6 months prior to the start of our review.
To determine whether there
was Internet traffic to sites that are deemed inappropriate by the Internet
usage policy, we:
A. Requested the firewall logs for all of the
Internet gateways used by the IRS for a full week, approximately 6
months after policy went into effect. We judgmentally selected the week of October
20, 2002.
Retrieved the Domain Name
Service (DNS) tables from the Department of the Treasury or IRS Internet DNS
fileservers to verify whether all of the IRS' Internet gateways listed on the
DNS tables were accounted for in the firewall logs.
C. Screened the log files for seven
categories of Internet web site accesses or downloads that are deemed to be
inappropriate by the Internet usage policy.
Judgmentally selected a total 283 sites (at least 20 from each of the 7
categories of inappropriate uses) to confirm that the sites were inappropriate. The 283 sites were visited by 6,330 computer
addresses during our 1-week test period.
D. Reviewed the log files for web accesses
that had been denied by the application used to stop accesses to inappropriate
sites and ascertained what actions were taken by management to prevent ongoing
abuses by the addresses with significant numbers of denied accesses.
Matched the programs
downloaded from the Internet to a list of known malicious software programs
based on names and file sizes.
Appendix II
Major Contributors to This Report
Gary V. Hinkle, Acting Assistant Inspector General for
Audit (Information Systems Programs)
Steve Mullins, Director
Leon Niemczak, Audit Manager
Richard Borst, Senior Auditor
Bret Hunter, Senior Auditor
Louis Lee, Senior Auditor
Midori Ohno, Senior Auditor
Larry Reimer, Senior Auditor
Appendix III
Commissioner N:C
Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support N:DC
Chief, Agency-Wide Shared Services A
Chief, Security Services
Chief, Tax Administration Coordination N:ADC:T
Director, Portfolio Management M:R:PM
Director, Strategic Human Resources N:ADC:H
Chief Counsel CC
National Taxpayer Advocate
Director, Legislative Affairs CL:LA
Director, Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis N:ADC:R:O
Office of Management and Controls N:CFO:AR:M
Audit Liaisons:
Deputy Commissioner for Modernization &
Chief Information Officer M
Chief, Security Services M:S
Director, Strategic Human Resources N:ADC:H
Appendix IV
The response was removed due to its size. To see the complete response, please go to the Adobe PDF version of the report on the TIGTA Public Web Page.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Summers are especially busy and there often isn't enough time to prepare a healthy dinner. This week's recipes focus on foods that can be made and served in 30 minutes or less. The Spanish omelet is especially quick, and everyone likes to eat breakfast for dinner. Kids think it is especially fun to eat foods "out of the norm."
Spanish Omelet
Makes 4 servings. Source: National Institutes of Health.
5 small potatoes, peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 medium onion, minced
1 1/2 cups green and/or red bell peppers, sliced thin
5 mushrooms, sliced thin
3 eggs, beaten
5 egg whites
Pepper and garlic salt
3 ounces part-skim mozzarella, shredded
1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese
HEAT oven to 375°.
COOK potatoes in boiling water until tender. In a nonstick pan, add oil and warm over medium heat.
ADD the onion, and sauté until brown. Add peppers and sauté until tender but not brown.
BEAT slightly, in a medium mixing bowl, the eggs and egg whites, pepper, garlic salt and mozzarella cheese. Stir egg, cheese mixture into the cooked vegetables.
OIL a 10-inch pie pan or ovenproof skillet. Transfer potatoes and egg mixture to pan. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
BAKE omelet until firm and brown on top, about 20 to 30 minutes.
SERVE with whole-wheat toast or English muffins.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 250 calories, 9 grams total fat, 3 grams saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat, 125 milligrams cholesterol, 220 milligrams sodium, 30 grams total carbohydrate, 4 grams dietary fiber, 3 grams sugars, 15 grams protein.
Anytime Pizza
Makes 4 servings. Source: University of Massachusetts Extension Education Program.
1 loaf Italian or French bread, split lengthwise or 4 split English muffins
1 cup pizza sauce
1 cup low-fat shredded mozzarella cheese
6 tablespoons green pepper, chopped
6 tablespoons mushrooms, fresh or canned, sliced
Additional vegetable toppings as desired
Italian seasoning (optional)
TOAST the bread or English muffin until slightly browned.
TOP bread with pizza sauce, vegetables and low-fat cheese. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning as desired.
RETURN bread to toaster oven (or regular oven heated to 350°). Heat until cheese melts.
SERVE with a fresh green salad.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 180 calories, 7 grams total fat, 3.5 grams saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat, 15 milligrams cholesterol, 540 milligrams sodium, 21 grams total carbohydrate, 3 grams dietary fiber, 2 grams sugars, 12 grams protein.
Baked Pork Chops
Makes 6 servings. Source: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
6 pork chops (lean, center cut, 1/2 inch thick)
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
1/2 cup red pepper, chopped
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
HEAT oven to 375°.
TRIM fat from pork chops. Place chops in a 13- by 9-inch baking pan.
SPREAD onion and pepper on top of chops. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
COVER pan with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover pan, turn chops and continue baking for an additional 15 minutes or until no pink remains.
SERVE with baked sweet potatoes or cooked brown rice.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 160 calories, 9 grams total fat, 3 grams saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat, 55 milligrams cholesterol, 150 milligrams sodium, 4 grams total carbohydrate, 1 grams dietary fiber, 2 grams sugars, 17 grams protein.
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During WWII, Japanese American soldier of the 442nd Infantry Regiment fought not only the enemy but also prejudice and racial discrimination in the U.S. Theirs was an ironic situation, fighting for a country that had branded them as enemies.
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Mary Jo Kilroy
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Mary Jo Kilroy is an attorney and socialist affiliated Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 15th district of Ohio. Kilroy served eight years on the Columbus Board of Education and the last six years as a Franklin County Commissioner. She is married to labor union lawyer Robert Handelman.
Early Life
The daughter of a pipe-fitter and World War II veteran, Mary Jo attended Cleveland State University for her Bachelors Degree, and then The Ohio State University for her JD. Mary Jo married Robert Handelman and settled in Columbus, Ohio with their two daughters, Julia and Rosa. She spent a number of years working in the private sector as a partner at the Handelman and Kilroy Law Firm, until she left to run for County Commissioner.[1]
National Lawyers Guild
In 1998 Mary Jo Kilroy, was chairman of the Columbus Ohio branch of the extreme left National Lawyers Guild[2].
Her husband, labor union lawyer Robert Handelman, is still a member of the National Lawyers Guild.
The Free Press
In the 1990s Mary Jo Kilroy was a journalist and editor of the Columbus Ohio based radical journal The Free Press[3];
- Editor Mary Jo Kilroy had the keenest sense of a good news story. While she was editor, the Free Press won the Jack T. McKowan award from the OSU school of journalism for a string of news breaking stories that appeared in the Free Press. These included publishing the police report that documented Buck Reinhardt's molestation of his babysitter; the expose' on the true, but undisclosed, drop-out rates in Columbus schools; and the lawn poisoning practices of the Chemlawn Corporation.
Mary Jo Kilroy was also a financial supporter of The Free Press. Advertisers who supported the paper through hard times included attorneys Jim McNamara, Gordon Hobson, John Marshall, Robert Handelman and Mary Jo Kilroy plus State Rep. Mike Stinziano[4].
During Kilroy's time with The Free Press, many of the paper's staff and volunteers were (and still are) members of the Democratic Socialists of America. the video at right shows an interview by French/US radical Noel Burch with The Free Press staffers Mary Jo Kilroy and DSA leader Robert Fitrakis sometime in the 1990s. The video reveals that The Free Press shares an office with the American Indian Movement and Democratic Socialists of America.
Kilroy makes it clear that she is promoting leftist views and is working for "real change".
When Fitrakis began co-publishing and editing The Free Press in 1992, his co-publisher was Mary Jo Kilroy[5].
Fitrakis has claimed that Kilroy was too moderate[6];
In fact, Kilroy was too cautious for his liking, which reportedly led to their falling out and her departure from the paper in 1995, when she was serving on the Columbus Board of Education.
Socialist support in School Board campaign
Democratic Socialists of America leader Robert Fitrakis was media consultant, Mary Jo Kilroy for School Board Campaign, Columbus (1991)[7].
Democratic Socialists of America member
In 1991, Mary Jo Kilroy was elected to the Columbus Ohio School Board. At the time she was a member of Democratic Socialists of America.[8]
Attended high level DSA meeting
Mary Jo Kilroy was also named as a Democratic Socialists of America member in Democratic Left, July/August 1992, page 11, as part of a report on a D.S.A. National board meeting in Washington D.C.
The text indicates that Kilroy actually attended this high level D.S.A. meeting, which involved discussions on electoral organizing, strategies and tactics. Other attendees included Bob Fitrakis, a "DSAer" and Democratic Party Congressional candidate in Ohio, Paul Pinsky, a representative of the New Party and Howard Croft from the D.S.A. National Political Committee.
Center for Democratic Values conference
The Center for Democratic Values, the think-tank project of Democratic Socialists of America, held its first national conference, "Arguing with the Right," November 6-7 1997 at the Clarion Hotel Columbus Ohio, in conjunction with the DSA national convention[9].
The conference will include historical and analytical sessions, plus skills workshops for contesting the Right's current dominance of American political discussion.
1:30 Issue Workshops: The Right's Key Ideas and the Left's Responses
A. Affirmative Action: Barbara Bergmann and James Upton (Ohio State University)
B. Arguing for Public Schools: Mary Jean Collins and Mary Jo Kilroy (Columbus Board of Education)[10].
Working with Jobs with Justice
On Friday, May 16, 2003, Columbus Jobs with Justice participated in one of Columbus' first workers' rights delegations. A group of local labor, religious and community members (including County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy, representatives from JwJ, the Central Labor Council, the Catholic Diocese, and a number of labor organizations) visited the corporate offices of the Kroger Corporation to ask for a visit with the president and to present a large signed poster demonstrating community support for truck drivers of Teamsters Local 413, who are in danger of losing their jobs. Kroger, a union shop where cashiers and others are represented by the UFCW, is considering giving the trucking contract to a non-unionized, low-paid owner-operator trucking firm in Texas[11].
DSA support 2006
Ohio Democratic Socialists of America members campaigned for Sherrod Brown in his successful 2006 Senate race and in Mary Jo Kilroy's unsuccessful Congressional contest[12].
- Former Representative, now Senator Sherrod Brown is the most visible symbol of this change...A longtime critic of "free trade" agreements, frequently characterized as far left and out ofthe mainstream, Brown handily defeated the relatively moderate but free-trade proponent Mike DeWine.
- Trade was also an issue in the narrow loss of Mary Jo Kilroy to Deborah Pryce. Local DSAers worked in both the Brown and Kilroy campaigns.
Ohio DSA member Simone Morgen discussed Mary Jo Kilroy's House race in Ohio at a Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee September 16-17, 2006[13].
- Frank summarized DSA PAC work around Sanders. Nine house parties raised just over $30,000, and there will be five more. Nearly a thousand people have contributed either to DSA PAC or to Sanders. David Green told about Nancy Skinner's house race in Michigan and Simone Morgen told about Mary Jo Kilroy's house race in Ohio. DSA members in both places are interested and involved.
Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus will be the first Democrat to represent any part of Franklin County in Congress since 1982, and the first to represent her 15th Congressional District since the 1960s.
Voter fraud allegations
Democratic Socialists of America leader and long time The Free Press Kilroy colleague Robert Fitrakis has alleged that Mary Jo Kilroy was robbed of victory in the 2006 election[14];
- In 2006, Kilroy barely lost to incumbent Deb Pryce as thousands of contested provisional ballots went uncounted. Under then-Secretary Blackwell, voters in Democratic precincts were routinely challenged on minor details and forced to cast provisional ballots to allegedly be counted at a later time.
- But thousands were merely pitched in the trash or otherwise negated. Some 16,000 provisionals and 93,000 machine-rejected ballots have never been counted from a 2004 election decided by an official margin of less than 119,000 votes. Independent observers believe a fair vote count would have given Kilroy her House seat in 2006. Also in that election, e-voting machines had statistically unlikely high rates of undervotes in central city polls.
DSA support 2008
In 2008 Ohio Democratic Socialists of America campaigned for Mary Jo Kilroy[15].
- In Columbus, Ohio, DSA members campaigned for both Obama and congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy, who, after a suspenseful count of provisional ballots was declared the winner in December, raising the Democrats' majority in the House to 257.
Planned Parenthood
Kilroy received $5000 in lobbying funds from Planned Parenthood in 2008.
EMILY's List
Kilroy has been and is an EMILY's List-supported candidate.
Homeland Security
Mary Jo Kilroy serves on the Homealand Security Committee.
Supported by Council for a Livable World
The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and alleged Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported Mary Jo Kilroy in her successful 2008 House of Representatives run as candidate for Ohio.[16] She has also been previously supported by the Council.[17]
The Council also supported Kilroy in her 2010 Congressional election campaign.[18]
Calling on Israeli Govt. to lift Gaza Travel Ban
On Dec. 22, 2009, thirty-three U.S. Representatives wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling on her to request that the Israeli Government end the ban on student travel from Gaza to the West Bank. Mary Jo Kilroy was one of the signatories of the letter.[19] The entire letter together with a complete list of signatories can be read by clicking here.
Supported Lifting the Gaza Blockade
On Jan. 27, 2010, U.S. Representatives Keith Ellison and Jim McDermott led 52 other members of Congress in signing a letter addressed to President Barack Obama, calling for him to use diplomatic pressure to resolve the blockade affecting Gaza. Mary Jo Kilroy was one of the signatories of the letter. [20] The entire letter together with a complete list of signatories can be read by clicking here.
Kilroy on Obama
Mideast Congressional Mission
In February 2010, the first JStreet-sponsored congressional mission toured Israel, Jordan and Palestinian-controlled areas. Five members of Congress participated in the tour; Lois Capps, Bill Delahunt, Bob Filner, Mary Jo Kilroy, and Donald Payne.
It was stated that the mission "will meet with Israeli government and opposition leaders as well as key regional leaders, including Jordanian King Abdullah II and Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The delegation will travel widely in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan taking a close look at the situation on the ground through the eyes of policy makers and civil society leaders."[21]
JStreet is a Jewish organization that, according to its website, "was founded to change the dynamics of American politics and policy on Israel and the Middle East".[22]
21st Century Democrats support
21st Century Democrats is a Political Action Committee that has stood for Progressive causes for over 20 years. Founded in 1986 by Institute for Policy Studies affiliate, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, Democratic Socialists of America affiliates, former Texas Agriculture Secretary Jim Hightower, and former Illinois Congressman Lane Evans. Its three main goals are to help elect progressive candidates, train young people about grassroots organizing, and lastly, to continue to support our elected officials after Election Day "through our comprehensive progressive network".
Long time Board chair was Democratic Socialists of America member Jim Scheibel, a former Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The mission of 21st Century Democrats is to build a "farm team" of progressive populists who will be the future leaders of the Democratic Party.
- In each election cycle, we endorse a diverse array of candidates who exemplify our values and show unusual promise to advance our progressive goals. We invest in some of the most competitive races as well as in some of the most challenging – those in which the candidates are outstanding but the traditional Democratic supporters are most reticent. We back candidates in primaries as well as general election races, and we focus the bulk of our resources on electing challengers and protecting vulnerable incumbents.[23]
Kilroy was one of 17 key progressives endorsed by 21st Century Democrats in the 2010 election cycle. [24]
Kilroy was also supported in 2008.
2012 run
In 2012, Mary Jo Kilroy ran for Congress in Ohio's 3rd district.
Endorsements / Supporters included;[25]
- MoveOn.org
- Women's Campaign Fund
- Amalgamated Transit Union
- Transportation Workers Union Local 208
- Recommended by the Central Ohio AFL-CIO
- Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council
- Somali Democrats of Ohio
- Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
- Blue America
- Plumbers and Pipefitters local 189
- Sheet Metal Workers local 124
- People For the American Way
- Iron Workers Local 172
- Outlook Magazine
- J Street
- Franklin County Commissioner Marilyn Brown
- Democracy for America
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- NOW - National Organization of Women
- The Humane Society Legislative Fund
The following have worked as staff members for Mary Jo Kilroy:[26]
- Thomas Elmer Anfinson
- Susan Anfinson
- Thomas Edward Anfinson
- Babatunde S. Aremu
- Steven R. Barker
- Colleen J. Bell
- Randall S. Borntrager
- Andrea S. Clark
- Noah C. Cuttler
- Jamison Dague
- Devon Damiano
- Keith C. Dyer
- Nicholas S. Ferrara
- Kirsten R. Fraser
- Kathleen T. Greene
- Ryan L. Halterman
- Samantha Lummus Herd
- Peter F. Judge
- Jennifer A. Keaton
- Madeleine J. Lovette
- Tasha D. Manoranjan
- Colin Masters
- Douglas R. Matties
- Joshua Rosenblum
- Ashley J. Senn
- Paul J. Tencher
- Sharon H. Whitten
External links
- ↑ Kilroy for Congress website: About Mary Jo
- ↑ Columbus Dispatch, The (OH) - Friday, March 11, 1988
- ↑ http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=61&strJournal=11
- ↑ http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=61&strJournal=11
- ↑ http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2009/1726
- ↑ http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2008/10/15/front/doc48f6606652ab7869535454.txt
- ↑ http://18.104.22.168/search?q=cache:ochQ1Sc9jq0J:www.akron.com/20061026/wyl100.asp+Mary+jo+kilroy+fitrakis&cd=20&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
- ↑ Democratic Left, November/December 1992, page 9
- ↑ http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg23177.html
- ↑ http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg23177.html
- ↑ http://www.freepress.org/dispatches/2003/display/83
- ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2007.pdf
- ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/minutes/NPC2006sep16.pdf
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-fitrakis-and-harvey-wasserman/last-us-house-seat-filled_b_150578.html
- ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2009.pdf
- ↑ CLW website: Meet Our Candidates
- ↑ CLW website: Who We've Helped Elect
- ↑ CLW website. Meet the Candidates, accessed Dec. 31, 2010
- ↑ John Dingell's House website: Letter to Hillary Clinton, Dec. 22, 2009
- ↑ The Minnesota Independent: Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar urge Obama to lift Gaza blockade, Jan. 26, 2010 (accessed on March 14, 2011)
- ↑ JTA website: J Street sends first Mideast congressional mission, Feb. 15, 2010
- ↑ KeyWiki: JStreet
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats website, About us]
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats 2012 bio
- ↑ kilroy campaign website, accessed May 21, 2012,
- ↑ Legistorm: Mary Jo Kilroy (accessed on Aug. 24, 2010)


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