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Disobedience, Protest and Resistance by German-Russians in the Soviet Union (Part 8)
Verweigerung, Protest und Widerstand der Russlanddeutschen im Sowietstaat (Teil 8)
Krieger, Dr. Viktor. "Disobedience, Protest and Resistance by German-Russians in the Soviet Union (Part 8)." Volk auf dem Weg, December 2007, 12-14.
This translation from the original German-language
text to American English
is provided by Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado
Subtitle: Internal Estrangement from the Soviet State: The Emigration Movement (continued from Volk auf dem Weger, 2007, issues 2-5, 7, and 10-11)
Circumstances Surrounding the Development of the Emigration Problem
During the entire history of the German-Russian minority,
emigration was always considered a proven means of
getting away from the conditions that were felt to
be an entirely unreasonable and oppressive socio-economic
and political situation in the homeland. During the
time before 1914, economic and, to a lesser extent,
religious factors (for the Mennonites, for example)
might have been of the highest importance, but after
the Bolshevist Revolution, motivation for emigration
was based more on political-social considerations.
It was no longer the scarcity of land or the prospect
for better living conditions that motivated tens of
thousands to leave the country, instead it was the
persecutions and discrimination, as well as the wide-spread lack of rights and the ruinous collectivization engendered by the new people in power.
Rather remarkable in this situation was the geography of the [emigration] target countries: until the end of the 1920's, the vast majority of emigrants was attracted to the New World, and it was in the US, in Canada, but also in Latin-American countries, that the mostly agrarian people eager to emigrate were hoping to maintain or to develop further their traditional way of life.
There was a sharp contrast during the post-war period, when (West) Germany had become the main target country for emigres. For one thing, this was tied to the fact that, as a result of Bolshevist dispossessions and deportations, the formerly independent German farmers and tradesmen had been turned into genuine proletarians, and the economic dynamic of the young West-German State was offering attractive opportunities for salaried occupations. For another thing, for German-Russians the Soviet authorities accepted only family reunification as justification for [allowing their] emigration. Even so, emigration was permitted only for persons of relatives "of the first grade" (parents, siblings, children). As of the mid-1950's these kinds of relatives were found almost exclusively in the [German] Federal Republic [i.e., West Germany] only.
Primarily these were the so-called Administrative Resettlers and their descendants. During 1941 a fourth of all Soviet citizens of German origin had come under German and Romanian occupation. And during 1943 and 1944, about 340,000 Black-Sea Germans fled - some were "evacuated" by force - and were resettled in the Warthegau [German-dominated Western Poland - Tr.] or in the Reich itself. Following the end of the war, the Soviet administration - in part by threat of force, in part under false promises - forced about 210,000 Germans to be repatriated. In February, 1955, the government of the Federal Republic officially recognized the naturalizations [that had been engendered by the Reich - Tr.] during wartime and thereby created the possibility of resettlement to West Germany. Of course, this fact might have had scarce consequences, if the Soviet leadership had made any serious efforts during post-war times toward reestablishing equal rights and equal status for these people, instead of banishing them to Siberia, bullying them for decades, branding them as traitors of the nation, and having them watched by the secret police. In the Novosibirsk region alone, of the 12,000 who had been repatriated, 7,818 were subjected to intensive interrogation, and 1,007 of these were placed under "operative control" ["operative" here means as much as "strategic" - Tr.] on suspicion of having cooperated with the enemy. In the banishment sites these potentially German citizens would increasingly become "in-laws" with other groups of German-Russians, so that the number of those becoming eligible for a return [to Germany] in due time increased extensively.
The Communist power, placing great value on validity in foreign politics and proclaiming world-historical superiority of its new social order, at first viewed any expression of wanting to emigrate as a particularly serious anti-Soviet action. The tenacious desire of, say, a simple milk-maid or a welder to leave the very first Socialist "Worker and Farmer State" on earth toward the "capitalist and revanchist" Federal republic of [West] Germany represented, in the thinking of Moscow Central and of the leaders of individual Republics, more political dynamite for the existing system than a comparable desire by intellectual dissidents in the larger cities.
Fighting to Leave the Country
Subsequent to the assumption of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic and limited resumption of correspondence with outside countries, applications by over 100,000 people eager to emigrate were piling up in the German embassy by 1957, although by the end of the 1960's only a few thousand were allowed to leave the country.
It was the eventual failure of efforts toward reestablishing
an Autonomous Republic, plus the German-Soviet pact
signed in 1970, concomitant with limited permission
for family reunifications, which provided the emigration
movement with additional impetus. This "emigration
mood," as it was called in propagandist Russian,
became particularly widespread in Kirghystan and Tajikistan,
also in the southern Kazakh regions of Alma-Ata, Dshambul,
Taldy-Kurgan and Tchimkent, as well as in Karaganda
and Aktyubinsk. Here there happened to be a particularly
strong concentration of repatriates, their relatives
and descendants, plus other regional or sectarian
groups of the German minority, such as the Caucasus
Swabians and the Mennonites, the greater portion of
whom also strove to emigrate to Germany. Prospects
for a relatively easier path through bureaucracy concerning
emigration caused considerably large communities of
Germans to spring up in Estonia, Latvia, Moldova and
other regions . Those affected put everything into
forcing an emigration permit: written requests and
collective letters to party and government organs
were composed; petitions and appeals were sent to
foreign State and government chiefs, to important
media and international organizations such as the
UN; and lists of signatures were given to the German
embassy and to the German Red Cross. Persons eager
to emigrate would take their requests in person to
various government offices in Moscow as well as in
the Republic metropolises such as Almaty, Frunse (Bishkek),
Tallinn and Dushanbe. In the 1970's, Germans established
various committees and associations in an effort to
protect themselves better form persecution, to gain
the required "ear" with the appropriate
authorities, and to exercise greater pressure. In
many large cities, demonstrations and open protests
were commonplace. Photos on March 31, 1980 showing
those desiring to emigrate in a protest action on
Red Square in Moscow went around the world.
Andrey Sakharov (1978)
Between 1970 and 1979, 56,213 persons were finally permitted to emigrate to the Federal Republic. After this, the Soviet government throttled the emigration stream so drastically that by 1986 only another 16,371 Germans succeeded in leaving the country. During these two comparable time spans, 5,747 and 5,057 persons, respectively, were permitted to emigrate to the GDR [the "German Democratic republic," that is, East Germany - Tr.].
At the height of the emigration wave the Kremlin leadership began to see that it needed to take steps toward improving the condition of the German minority. In a memorandum of August, 1978 the then KGB chief, Yuri Andropov, plus other high-ranking party and State functionaries, proposed the establishment of a German territorial autonomy region in order to "fight against the unhealthy emigration and nationalist atmosphere." Still, the complete lack of reaction against the ethnic unrest of June, 1979 in Kazakhstan, where that German region was to be established, demonstrated that the State powers were never serious about creating real equality for the German-Russians.
Germans would pay a steep price for their drive for freedom. The lists of prisoners which Eduard Deibert had put together, and partial information, indicated that, as of 1972 a total of 89 persons prosecuted criminally and sentenced; of these, two ended up in a psychiatric institution, one eager to emigrate was murdered, and another died in a penal camp. Thousands of activists had to endure home searches, constant surveillance, physical and psychological intimidation, vile press campaigns, being kept from certain occupations and studies, plus "prophylactic" measures by KGB organs, by State attorneys, and by work colleagues incited against them.
The Soviet Human Rights Movement and Germans Desiring to Emigrate
A continual champion of civil rights for the repressed Germans was the outstanding scientist, human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Andrey Sakharov. Via several petitions to Soviet authorities, and via appeals to foreign governments and international organizations, he pointed out the extraordinarily difficult situation of the German minority in the USSR.
For him, it was a fact that "German emigration rests on a natural desire of people to settle in the land of their forefathers and to take part in their culture, language, economic and social achievements. No less natural is the desire to leave a country in which their people have been exposed to atrocious repression - genocide, in reality - where they are discriminated against to this day, and where they are constrained in education and occupational choice. Hundreds of thousands of Germans have died in the camps and the 'reservations' (i.e., special settlements) , and to this day they are forbidden to return to their former places of residence; furthermore, there is among them hardly a person of academic training, and even now, German pupils are constantly defamed as Fascists by their schoolmates, who have seen plenty of war films."
Sakharov kept up enduring contacts with Friedrich Ruppel, to whom he dedicated a few pages in his memoirs. Furthermore, the difficult fate of individual families, like that of Peter Bergmann of Estonia or of Johann Wagner from Moldova, left him anything but indifferent.
At the time - just as is the case today - efforts by Russian dissidents, who attempted to point out the massive discrimination against German countrymen, received very little attention by intellectuals in the Federal Republic of Germany. During his first meeting with Heinrich Boell in February, 1975, Sakharov addressed the Soviet problems and levied sharp criticism against the - in his eyes - insufficient efforts and lack of attention by the West German press and society in general to their far-away countrymen in the Soviet Union. How could one demonstrate such lack of feeling in the face of such a tragic fate, of inhuman dismissal and continuing persecution of those who wish to emigrate? Boell, as is well known, typically countered with tales of numerous assimilation problems of the immigrants, about their feeling of being lost, etc.
Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, along with other members of the Moscow Helsinki Group, also became actively engaged, particularly during the time span of 1976 to 1982, on behalf of the problems of those desiring to emigrate. The courageous behavior of the Russian dissidents found honorable continuation in the activities of the human rights organization "Memorial," which contributed so much toward the social and especially moral rehabilitation of the German minority in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
appreciation is extended to Alex Herzog for translation
of this article.


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Apple is now looking to beef up its security team with two managerial positions to protect "unreleased products and related intellectual property."
The positions came up just after reports of an iPhone prototype was found in a bar were made public. However, there has been no revealed iPhone prototype, no arrests and no leads. We're not entirely sure if the Apple iPhone prototype even existed, but we do know that last week Apple investigators were accompanied by San Francisco police and that Apple investigators spent a lot of time searching the home of Sergio Calderon for the prototype. They didn't find it. (Calderon said the Apple investigators identified themselves as police officers, something the SFPD said it would investigate if Calderon speaks with the police directly.)
Perhaps because of concern that prototypes could go missing again, Apple seems to have responded to the situation by hiring. From the new product security manager position from Apple:
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The candidate will be responsible for overseeing the protection of, and managing risks to, Apple's unreleased products and related intellectual property. Position will reside in Cupertino, California and will require up to 30% travel (international and domestic).
The individual will collaborate with other security managers by contributing to, and managing execution of, strategic initiatives set forth by Director, Global Security.
Apple seems to be very worried that it will have leaked prototypes or information and is doing what it can to make that more difficult.
The takeaway from all this is that Apple apparently has a very vigilant security force (we hesitate to use the words "secret police") that seems to work in tandem with local authorities as it investigates claims of alleged wrongdoing. We don't think anyone wants the Apple investigators knocking on his door.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009
So Proud...
9:00 PM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
I was asked recently what I did for a living...and I have to say...for some reason, I hesitated...but then quickly remembered...hell, I have the most rewarding job in the world....I get to be Bella's Stay At Home Dad!
Now, I've had a good career life...and one heck of a life in entertainment as well. I have done the professional gig, more than I ever care to admit...but boy, did I have fun in life too ;-)
I was a stand up comedian...an actor (stage and film), dancer and a model. Yeah Yeah I know, you've seen the recent pics...but I really was...long before I got the wrinkles.
But now? Now, I wear those wrinkles proudly...cuz I know....these ole battle scars are for an amazing reason.
I am a stay at home dad!
I get to laugh allot. Play as much as I want. And in general, watch another human being grow before my very eyes. Knowing full well, her life is in my hands. My responsibility is to be there...always...for her. For our family.
When people comment on how cool, beautiful, smart and awesome Bella is...I take credit for it...hell, I have to...proudly!
Don't get me wrong, I am a Dad after all. There are times when I wanna crawl under a rock...disappear for awhile...and just be invisible. But, unlike previous career choices, I cant! I gotta be there...always...
And I love it ;-)
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Our blog friends "JEVE" recently asked a few questions of us:
"What is the GAYEST thing you've done prior to parenthood? "
"What is the GAYEST thing since becoming a parent? "
I don't know if our submission (submission, get it? - tee hee!) was all that "funny gay"...but it was definitely good times for us ...;-)
Some of these stories are absolutely hysterical...some will have you *sighing* and a few others?..., well, the "AWE" factor will cause a few well-ups...guaranteed....so, check out our friends blog, as well as our blogger friends...
CLICK_HERE to visit John & Steve's blog...and have a good chuckle.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Walk Down Memory Lane...
6:01 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
With Fathers day this weekend, I thought it cool to (re) post how it all began....
After about a year together, we'd decided the time was right for us to research starting our family. We'd talked about adopting, but being a same sex couple, it was determined it would not be the best thing for us, legally or for the kid. Too many things can happen, like bio parents coming back for the kid, etc...Besides, the state we live in does not allow it, by law.
We knew we had allot of love to give a child, as much as we had for each other. Our friends, a male couple together for many years, had triplets a few years before we met, so we asked for advice and referral. They suggested we speak with a firm out of Los Angeles which specializes in same sex surrogacy. We arranged an appointment, flew to LA and the process was started.
Now, it ain't easy for two men to have a kid, not like we can go out and knock someone up and wait for labor...(well, we could, but that hasn't happened in years, wasn't gonna happen then LOL)! NOOOOO, we have to consult with attorneys, fertility doctors (not the voodoo kind, the "we cost lots of money" kind), counselors, geneticists, sperm banks (someone had to store our "stuff"), egg donor extractors, etc.... Our bodies had to be poked, prodded, explored and counselled to insure our baby, and the surrogate would not be infected with any range of STD's or genetic maladies. Of course, the egg donor and surrogate had to experience the same, to insure our baby would be healthy.
Now, funny thing about the egg donor processes...ironic in fact...We were directed to a web site, and it was almost exactly like an online dating service. We were directed to see the pics, watch the videos, and read about the family health histories of so many women. Most were actresses, models and housewives in the LA area, young and quite beautiful. Educated and eager to offer their eggs to a same sex family...no worries, they are paid well for this. We chose our egg donor based on so many things, (looks of course) but also, genetic background, family health history, age, hair color, eye color...hell, even teeth. Yeah Yeah, Daddy saw one who was just perfect for our family, but, didn't care for her teeth. Papa said, "no worries, we can get them fixed later in life"...Daddy, says, "why bother?, we can find one with perfect teeth and not have to worry about it"...Daddy Won! We saw one woman, quite statuesque, blond, and Swedish...we were convinced she was the one...until we saw her video...SOOOOOO strong, stubborn, matter of fact and VERY competitive! Stubborn? I was like, NO WAY, I have to deal with one of those already not gonna have a kid like that too.....HELL NO! Ha...(Daddy Won that one too.) Now I suspect I know what you may be thinking, but trust me, I don't win too many battles..not even to this day...we knew from the beginning I would be a stay at home dad...so truly, not many battles for me to fight, let alone win anymore LOL!
Once the egg donor was chosen, it was a hurry up and wait scenario. The egg donor had to go through a few months of medical prep to "tune" her body into producing viable eggs for "harvest." During this process, behind the scenes, surrogates are thumbing through OUR profiles,. pics and bios, looking for the family they want to help create. Yup, the surrogates picks US, not the other way around. Think about it, they are a special breed. They offer up their bodies to carry, and birth a child. Not to mention, the 8 inch needles, full of OIL, for 2-3 months, faking their bodies into believing they are pregnant, readying for the embryo transfer...And of course, the 9 months of actually carrying a child that is not their own...stretching their bodies, for someone else's happiness! Again, not their own! So yeah, they get to pick whom they want to carry for. Hell, don't blame them...! They are paid well, but, in the grand scheme of things, no money can ever be enough, considering what they have to endure for more than a year...!!
We were eventually notified that a surrogate had chosen us....(finding out later, she picked us as her first choice). It was arranged that we meet, in Los Angeles and I don't have to tell you, my Partner and I were so thrilled...it was actually happening! She walks in the room, and I start crying, almost immediately. I mean, in walks a woman, so confident that WE are the family she wants to help create...I was so thankful for her...I couldn't help it, I hadda cry! It was like it all fit, no worries, no concerns, it was done! I can go on and on, with details and stuff, making this one hell of a blog entry, but I wont...you know the outcome, the family created here...the time and effort that goes into having a baby in a 2 Dad family is certainly more time consuming, more meds, more decisions, but hell, don't worry for us, we are damn happy to have our family started!!
Friday, June 12, 2009
"Bella, What Ya Thinking Bout"?
12:46 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
(The pic has nothing to do with the story - just wanted to share a day by the pool)
It has been a pretty darn cool week, but the highlight has been..."the big girl bed"
After our neighbor told us of their 2 year old, taking a header out of her crib, I have been concerned for Bella's safety. She is fearless when it comes to discovering new things and it was only a matter of time before she too took the dive.
Fortunately, she did not...ever! But, it made me think, when do you transition a toddler from crib to bed? Well, depending on who you talk to, I have researched and found it varies...GREATLY! Have received advice from parents and pediatricians, neighbors and friends, 15 months, all the way up to 4 years. 4 YEARS? Lord, no way I am lifting this kid out of a crib, several times a day...uh uh, not gonna happen.
So, when our friends told us of hearing that tell-tale thump, upstairs, I figured it was time to start looking into it for our little one.
Of course, the thoughts of how she would deal with this transition, this new change in her life, concerned me. So, for the past week or so, I have been psyching her into it. She prides herself on no longer being a baby. Reminding us over and over how she is now a "big girl." We ask her if she is a baby or a big girl, and she just about screams...NO, BIG GIRL! Bella is a big girl now! Soooo, one to stay with a theme, I kept on her...telling her over and over..."your big girl bed is coming"..."Bella's gonna have a big girl bed soon" "Are you excited to sleep in a big girls bed"?...I kept this up, until eventually, SHE was telling ME the same....
First step, bought her a standard size pillow. I was as, if not more, excited than she was to have this in her crib. FINALLY, I could get rid of the "pickle pillow"...(a small, green, firm, curved pillow. Not really sure what it was intended for, but, she seemed to like that it was a pickle...;-) Researching online, I found, best not to place a standard size pillow in a crib. Especially for infants, but, toddlers have also been known to have issues with a large pillow in a small space.
Eh, it was time. We needed the big girl bed.
Taking advice from yet another neighbor/friend...I ventured to Costco. Thinking I would price them there, then go on to our local mattress store and negotiate. Boy, was I surprised to find the mattress store was having a huge sale. It was 150 bucks cheaper than Costco - who would have thought? I had to have the mattress set...NOW!
Picked out a full size set (her crib turns into a daybed and full size bed - without the side rails - she is gonna have this till she is 18!!) and proceeded to wait 24 hours for delivery. Well, I got that wrong. For an additional 50.00 bucks they will deliver. I figured, eh, I can do it myself...it should fit in the back of my car...afterall, full size sets are just slightly larger than a twin. WRONG! Duh me, they are just smaller than a queen size set. LOL. Had to head back home, but not before calling my neighbor, and gotta love them, they offered their big ole Expedition! No more wait, I could get it home that night. If only you could have seen me tying that box spring to the top, and shoving the mattress in the back...not a pretty sight. Good thing I was alone, as I was cussing up a storm.
Next day, I took down the crib, placed the mattress and box spring directly on the floor. (again, taking advice to place it there for about a week, get her used to the idea).
That didn't take long...within hours, she was so excited to take a nap on her "Big Girl Bed". I was in shock, as she usually give me little hissy fits at nap time...not this day...uh uh, she went right down. Even sang herself to sleep...and in the 36 hours since, has slept all night and taken two naps...WOWSA! It worked!
Damn, our little girl has a big girl bed...not so little anymore...SIGH!
Bella was sitting in our family room, and as I glanced over, had a look of deep thought. I asked: "Bella, wotcha thinking about"? She replied: "I am thinking about my Daddy"...man oh man, did I melt in that moment!
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Friday, June 5, 2009
From Baby Babble to Chatty Cathy
6:12 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
Or just plain Cute? Our little one has become quite the chatterer....Seems like only a yesterday (so cliche eh? LOL) ago, we were still trying to decipher her words. She has become SO LITERAL, seemingly overnight!
She taught herself the alphabet at 19 months, thanks to Elmo and Old School Sesame Street DVDs...seriously, she did it, we watched, with fingers in ears and she actually learned the letters by sight, then sound. She is a braniac...she absorbs everything around her. Pays attention to conversations, and is a stickler for detail...but now?
Now? She doesn't shut it...goes on and on and on and on and on. My Partner recently suggested that I had asked for this. HUH? WTF? I said at one point: "I cant wait for her to talk, like a normal person. So I can actually have a conversation with her". Yup, that's what I said, after so many months/years of Baby Babble.
Being a stay at home parent, you don't get much adult interaction, unless you seek it out...and who has time? Who in their right mind would ever ask for anyone to chatter incessantly? Hell, for months now, I have SO looked forward to that one, maybe one and a half hour sleep time. Alone time. Just damn quiet time.
Anyway, now, it is:
Daddy, what are you thinking about?
Daddy, who is that on TV?
Daddy, where is Papa?
Daddy, are you feeling OK?
Daddy, do a puzzle with Bella?
Bella Do it Daddy. OK? OK Daddy? Daddy OK?
Daddy, Bella let the dogs out?
Daddy, Bella let the dogs in?
Daddy, go shopping?
Daddy, Bella do yoga?
Daddy, Bella do exercises with Daddy?
Daddy, Bella want juice, please, NOW!
Daddy, Papa at work?
Daddy, Pink Shirt, Pink Shoes, Pink Headband.
Daddy, where's Bella's Pink Glasses?
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! (I May change my name).
OK, OK, I know, how frikkin cute....but believe me...when you are experiencing it 24/7...it tends to get a little (ALLOT) redundant....
OK, OK, I know, how frikkin cute....but believe me...when you are experiencing it 24/7...it tends to get a little (ALLOT) redundant....
Now I say: "Man, I cant wait for her to go to school"...(of course I will miss her, what are you frikkin crazy?)
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Police arrested four Minot State University football players on misdemeanor drug charges and charged a fifth with attempted murder, saying a recent transfer to the school brawled with officers, knocking one out and leaving another with minor injuries.
The officers who were injured during the Friday night incident were responding to a report of suspected drug use in a vehicle parked off-campus in Minot, which is about 50 miles south of North Dakota's border with Canada, police said.
Four members of the team - Kwajo Bansu, 22, Thomas Armstrong, 19, Grant Jansent, 18 and Leon Ladeaux, 21 - were each charged with marijuana possession and ingesting a controlled substance, which are both misdemeanors. Jesse Ili, a 6-foot-tall, 220-pound linebacker for the Division II Beavers, faces three misdemeanor and three felony charges, including attempted murder, which is the most serious.
Police Capt. John Klug said Ili tried running away while officers were dealing with him, television station KXMC-TV reported Saturday ( https://bit.ly/17byDmu ).
"They got him but that is where the fight ensued," he said.
Although no weapons were used, the fight got very violent, and Ili knocked one officer unconscious and left another with minor injuries before he was arrested, Klug said.
Both officers were treated at Trinity Health hospital and released. They were in good condition Saturday and recovering at home, Klug said. The decision to charge Ili with attempted murder was made in conjunction with the state's attorney, he said.
In a story published in March on the team's website, which no longer lists Ili's name on the team roster, Minot State said Ili played fullback last season for Division I Fresno State University and played linebacker the two prior seasons for Citrus College, where he earned All-Conference honors twice. Ili, whose hometown was listed as Tulare, Calif., was listed as a linebacker in the Minot State report.
Minot State released a statement Saturday saying the school has suspended the five players and is cooperating with the police investigation but would not comment further about the matter until more is known.
Police said they were searching for a sixth person and asked the public for help in identifying that person.
Minot State, which is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, opens its season next Saturday against Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn.
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When Jimmy Patsos goes to Loyola alumni functions, former basketball players "can't wait" to tell him about their battles against Mount St. Mary's. When Jamion Christian played for the Mountaineers under Jim Phelan, the legendary coach was "always juiced to play" the Greyhounds.
Since 1910, Loyola and Mount St. Mary's have played 167 times, with the Mount holding a 96-71 edge. On Saturday at Reitz Arena, Patsos' Greyhounds and Christian's Mountaineers will continue the most-played rivalry in Maryland with game No. 168.
Needless to say neither coach should have much trouble motivating his players for Saturday's matchup.
"Mount and Loyola is what basketball is about in this state," Patsos said. "Our players like the [in-state] rivalries. They pay more attention to it. They know [the importance and] we talk about it. We have [alumni] Christmas parties, [and former players] can't wait to [talk about] 'the Mount back when we played.' "
Christian, a three-year captain at the Mount who graduated in 2004, remembers Phelan's relatively low-key approach to the rivalry.
"Coach never wanted to make it too big of a deal for us. But he always talked about wanting to really beat Loyola," said Christian, in his first year as head coach. "We did extra preparations for it. Neither of our programs were really at an elite level [when I played], but it was a big game for multiple reasons because we both needed to win."
Much has changed in the eight years since Christian played his last college game in Emmitsburg. The Mountaineers are on their third coach since Phelan after Milan Brown left for Holy Cross in 2010 and Robert Burke was placed on administrative leave last season and ultimately resigned. Under Christian, however, the Mountaineers (4-3) appear to be on the right track.
"He's doing a great job," Patsos said. "They run, they press, they play hard, they shoot 3s. He's got the kids excited to play. He's done an excellent job."
The Mountaineers, who finished last season with an 8-21 record, have beaten George Washington and Binghamton on the road and topped Hartford and Navy at home this year. Two junior guard transfers — Rashard Whack (George Mason) and Sam Prescott (Marist) — have paced the Mount with 12.7 and 10 points per game, respectively. Junior guard Julian Norfleet, Mount's leading scorer a year ago, is second on the team with 10.4 points per game.
Loyola, which has won its past two meetings against the Mount, has picked up right where it left off last spring. The reigning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champions are off to an 8-3 start. Junior combo guard Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons) is averaging a team-high 17.4 points, while senior forward Erik Etherly, out the past six games with a shoulder injury and questionable for Saturday's contest, averages 15.7 points and eight rebounds.
"What an unbelievable job [Patsos has] done at Loyola," Christian said. "Watching them on film, I think they're the best team we've played all year. They've just done a great job. I watched them from afar last year. They're really good.
"We've really just talked about how good Loyola is, how physical they are, how they rebound the ball. It's another game for us, [but] we have to be really prepared and have to be ready. … We've scouted Loyola and have a ton of respect for what they do. But you have a lot of different things, defensively, to prepare for. We play a very aggressive, in-your-face style. We have to be ready to go out and play well from the opening tip."
Loyola senior guard Bobby Olson, one of four Greyhounds captains, grew up in Silver Spring but wasn't aware of this rivalry's existence until his freshman year. Olson said Patsos tells his team to treat this "like any other game," but the energy level from both teams always makes this game special.
"I'm really excited. I think this is always such a fun game," Olson said. "We've always had some close games against them. A big rivalry game, this is really what you play for. We're pumped."
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NAC and endpoint security frameworks: Which way to go?
We've all heard about the Cisco and Microsoft initiatives for NAC, plus the standards-based Trusted Network Connect. What's the difference between these approaches and which, if any, should you choose to secure your endpoints and keep your local networks from being compromised?
Endpoint security is arguably the hot information security topic in 2006 -- small wonder. No matter how diligently you defend your perimeter, roaming laptops and devices are bound to introduce worms, viruses and spyware into your network.
The mobility of commodity laptops equipped with wireless adapters has set your workforces free to work productively at home and on the road, as well as in the office. Consultants and vendors can plug into your networks for an hour or a day--how do you protect yourself against what they may bring in?
Which, if any, should you choose to secure your endpoints and keep your local networks from being hammered by compromised machines that have become roaming malware collectors?
Solution needed -- now
Faced with a security problem that needs immediate attention, you should be looking for a solution that allows you to define granular policy, detect every device that connects to your network, assess its level of compliance, enforce access policy and remediate noncompliant machines.
This is a tall order for any security system, and getting on board with endpoint security isn't going to be simple. The "big three" architectures--NAC, NAP and TNC -- are incomplete, costly to implement and complex to understand. They are also coming at the issues of endpoint security from different places, so it's not surprising that they aren't mutually exclusive:
- Cisco's NAC focuses on network infrastructure and policy definition and management, and, of course, assumes that you will have plenty of Cisco routers, use Cisco's security solutions and want to keep within the Cisco family as you move towards locking down your endpoints.
- Microsoft's NAP takes more of a health-assessment approach and remediation, assuming that you start with Microsoft servers and desktops, and that your primary focus is keeping them running and secure.
- Trusted Computing Group's TNC takes the broad-brush architectural approach, and assumes that every desktop contains a specialized piece of hardware to verify that the endpoint hasn't been compromised and builds on that hardware to monitor and enforce endpoint policies.
Let's look at these efforts and see what they claim to cover -- and where they come up short.
Cisco's NAC
NAC is ahead of the game because of the confluence of both architecture and products that support it. NAC is designed to secure network access through trusted modules that are implemented in its router and switch code, as well as Windows and Linux clients.
There are lots of vendors supporting NAC, and for good reason: You'll need several of them to put together a complete solution that can handle all five of the endpoint security requirements (see right). You'll need to run at least two agents on your endpoints to handle more complex policies and for SSL VPN compliance checking, for example.
NAC employs client software, the Cisco Trusted Agent, that gathers device information and passes it using 802.1X mechanisms to Cisco's RADIUS server, the Secure Access Control Server (ACS). ACS communicates with third-party policy servers (AV, patch) to determine compliance and enforce network access via the switching infrastructure.
Some analysts feel that NAC takes too many pieces to deploy; it may be difficult to implement because of having to manage all the IOS updates to get the pieces to work together and maintaining it as infrastructure changes are made.
The problem with NAC is that it is its own island of security, with reliance on Cisco's RADIUS servers as its sole authentication mechanism, and Cisco switches with up-to-date firmware. Moreover, NAC doesn't necessarily work with Cisco legacy infrastructure, unless it can be brought up to current firmware levels.
"Part of the NAC problem is that you have to upgrade your IOS versions," says Lloyd Hession, the VP and CSO for BT Radianz, a major IT supplier to the financial services sector. "I have 40,000 routers across my network, and that isn't an easy proposition." Instead, Hession chose ConSentry so he could eliminate MAC-layer filtering and access controls across his network. ConSentry sells an inline security appliance that assesses and enforces endpoint security policy compliance.
Moreover, NAC architecture is short on remediation--it falls short on managing patch levels of the endpoints themselves. Also, there's not much flexibility in what happens after a device is assessed: It either passes and is allowed on the network, or it doesn't and gets routed off to some VLAN with limited access.
"Getting a client out of quarantine is really the trick, and that is what we do," says Rich Lacey, the Altiris product manager who handles the company's NAC-compliant products, which provide remediation solutions through desktop management and replication.
Cisco has the support of McAfee, Trend Micro and Symantec antivirus products, along with a smattering of other hardware and software vendors.
Hession didn't find installing agents on all his endpoints to be particular appealing. "The problem with agents is that you end up having to install multiple ones to support all the things you want to do, such as antivirus and access controls. Cisco's NAC forced me to go in one direction with the agent that I didn't want to go towards."
"We currently support agents," says Russell Rice, director of product management for Cisco's Security Technology Group, but "we will also do agentless solutions, and active scans and assessments of other non-Windows devices."
NAC is widening its support beyond agents, and vendors such as Qualys -- with its QualysGuard for NAC -- are providing services that support agentless monitoring of network devices such as printers and other embedded devices that can't employ agents.
Microsoft's NAP
NAP is yet to be implemented in any product, although the effort has a long list of more than 60 supporters, many of whom are hedging their bets and are supporters of NAC as well.
NAP brings the security policy management and enforcement perspective into Windows Server that has been somewhat lacking since the early days of Active Directory.
"NAP will provide the ability to enforce policies through a variety of mechanisms, using IPSec for host authentication, 802.1X, or through a VPN or DHCP," says Mike Schutz, the group product manager at Microsoft's Windows Server Division, which is leading the charge for NAP.
Like NAC, NAP employs client software, Quarantine Agent, that passes information to Microsoft's Network Policy Server, which, like Cisco's ACS, checks with third-party servers for policy compliance. NAP promises multiple enforcement options including DHCP, IPSec VPN and 802.1X.
NAP will initially only support Longhorn Server and Windows Vista, as well as XP SP2, which will require a NAP update on each device. This will present problems for shops using older versions of Windows, and require commitments to the new OSes, and testing and managing XP upgrades. Further, authentication and enforcement servers, i.e., DHCP and RADIUS, will require Longhorn, needing further upgrades and making NAP even more proprietary.
"We don't think of NAC and NAP as being an either/or situation," says Schutz. "We've announced that we would be working together on interoperable solutions, so customers can choose what will best meet their needs." However, neither Microsoft nor Cisco is currently working with the TNC solution and have no immediate plans to do so.
The government in Fulton County, Ga., is already wading into NAP, with early versions of Microsoft servers and Vista desktops and laptops.
"Everything is still in beta," says Keith Dickie, who is managing the NAP rollout of the county's IT department. "But several members of our IT staff are using it on their production machines without any problems, including incorporating Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus with Microsoft's SMS and Windows servers."
The county is using IPSec authentication, and its NAP deployment checks for a series of health requirements, including making sure that the version of Norton AV is current.
Trusted Computing Group's TNC
TNC is composed of dozens of industry heavies (one wry observer calls it "everyone but Cisco") supporting a bunch of open standards. The good news is that the standards more or less map to the five requirements for network access control security mentioned earlier -- policy definition, detection, assessment, enforcement and remediation. The bad news is that not all standards have been defined, and woefully few products support much of the alphabet soup that is required to actually implement a solution.
The key ingredients with TNC are support for RADIUS and 802.1X authentication servers and protocols, along with a trusted hardware chip and software in the endpoints.
"This isn't a forklift upgrade," says Steve Hanna, the cochair of TNC and a product manager at Juniper Networks. This differs notably from Cisco's approach, which uses the Cisco ACS authentication servers.
A PKI chip, called the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), extends authentication features that help to secure laptops against unauthorized users--such as thieves or someone who simply finds a lost laptop--in a hardware implementation that thwarts potential compromises to software.
"You just can't trust software these days because a PC could have been compromised by a zero-day vulnerability or by something a user downloaded via the Internet. The only ways to detect this is through trusted hardware," says Hanna. A number of laptop vendors including Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo, already include trusted hardware modules in their product lines.
Once authentication checks are satisfied, the trusted hardware routine passes control to a third-party software agent, which checks the device for policy compliance, working with the TNC architecture that handles network authentication and login access. As an open standard, TNC should potentially employ any enforcement mechanism.
Not surprisingly, TNC-compatible products are already available from Cisco competitor Juniper, which acquired Funk Software, makers of RADIUS server products.
SSL VPN weak spot
Missing from all three solutions is SSL VPN support: "Nobody has any product yet available in the [SSL] VPN space, and we can't support it yet. But we expect to see that coming quite soon," says TNC's Hanna.
SSL VPNs have a ways to go. Few offer support for more than a couple of antivirus scanners, and many don't go beyond Windows/IE combinations or scan for a connection prior to network login. Part of the problem is that most of the VPN vendors added support for endpoint security after they finished their first versions, and it shows. Nortel and Aventail, for example, have two different sets of access controls in their VPN product--one that supports endpoint security and one that doesn't. Many SSL VPN vendors are partnering with third-party endpoint security vendors-- a growing market that offers alternatives to NAC, NAP and TNC.
Can't wait?
While the marketing wars among Cisco, Microsoft and Trusted Computing Group heat up, enterprises are looking for solutions that work now, and, perhaps, support NAC, NAP and TNC as the paths to the future. Several vendors are shipping products that address at least some of the requirements for securing network access.
These products offer a wide range of checking and enforcement options to control both managed and unmanaged devices and give customers a lot of flexibility. Many offer login-, agent-, and ActiveX- or Java-based scanning to determine endpoint compliance, which you can mix and match according to your needs. And, instead of a single enforcement mechanism, these products increasingly offer the choice of DHCP, 802.1X, agent-based, inline appliance or NAC, so your enterprise does have options to match your environment. (For a representative list of products see "Choices, Choices & More Choices," at right)
Cisco, in fact, has a second approach that is not completely aligned with its own NAC architecture, called Clean Client Access, the result of its acquisition of Perfigo. It does agent-based endpoint assessment, client, policy management and remediation services.
No easy answer
The truth is that no single vendor has a complete solution that will lock down all of your endpoints and keep your resources safe. You'll need to find a product that will handle different security policies to protect critical network assets as well as those roaming laptops. And, unless you have a completely homogeneous network composed of Windows XP users running IE, you will need support for other operating systems and browsers. Despite all the wonderful claims, no one comes close to delivering a general-purpose endpoint solution that works with both agent and agentless technologies.
If you stick within the XP/IE realm, if all your users have administrator rights to their systems, and if you don't mind them downloading some form of Java or ActiveX application from their browser, then you can almost make things work with one of the third-party appliance products or by using VPN solutions from companies like Juniper and Aventail.
If Microsoft's NAP vision aligns with yours, get a head start by running the VPN quarantine in Windows ISA Server 2004--that will form the basis of the Longhorn code when it finally is delivered early next year.
And, if you have all your Cisco routers up to their current versions and can continue to live in an all-Cisco world, one of the NAC solutions from Cisco and its partners might work for you.
But if these limited scenarios aren't your situation, you have your work cut out for you to implement the best possible endpoint security solution. The best advice, as with all information security initiatives, is to thoroughly understand your enterprise and business requirements. Address these questions:
- Who are your mobile employees, what OSes and security applications are they running, and how do they connect to the network?
- Do consultants and vendors regularly access the network?
- What is your network infrastructure and what enforcement/remediation mechanisms will it support? Is it homogeneous? Is it relatively new, with up-to-date firmware, or do you have legacy routers and switches that won't support network-based solutions?
Sorting out NAC, NAP and TNC is going to take some time, and you'll have to live with your decisions to secure endpoint access to your network. Choose the solution that best meets at least your most critical needs and aligns with your enterprise's plans for the future.
About the author:
David Strom is founding editor-in-chief of Network Computing magazine and author of two networking books. He writes frequently on IT, networking, Internet, security, and other computing topics and his blog can be found at strominator.com. He is based in St. Louis and can be reached at email@example.com.


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NEW YORK -- A New York man confessed to stabbing and beating two women to death in the 1990s, a day after police found a third woman's body under the covers in his bed, a law enforcement official said.
Lucius Crawford, 60, was arrested late Tuesday after the body was found in his basement apartment in Mount Vernon.
The woman had been stabbed 19 times; her name has not been released.
A law enforcement official said Crawford had since confessed to stabbing and beating to death a Bronx woman in October 1993 and another woman that same year in Yonkers.
"To the best of our knowledge these weren't random attacks," said Mount Vernon Police Chief John Roland. "From his early assaults right up until the current homicide that we're talking about here, he knew his victims in one manner or another."
The body of the 37-year-old Bronx woman, Nella West, was found dumped along Liebig Avenue in 1993. Police have DNA evidence linking Crawford to that killing, the official said.
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Investigators had gone to Crawford's house on Tuesday to question him in the Bronx 1993 case. He wasn't home but they found the woman's body in his bed under the covers, the official said.
Crawford previously served 13 years in prison for attempted murder after stabbing a 31-year-old co-worker who allegedly refused to date him.
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Spectrum Data Discovery Module
Get the insight you need before beginning your data integration, data quality, data governance or master data management projects. Data discovery is the process of scanning data resources to get a complete inventory of your data landscape.
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Data discovery software
The Spectrum™ Data Discovery Module can scan structured data unstructured data and semi-structured data using a wide array of data profiling techniques. The results of the scan are used to automatically generate a library of documentation describing your company's data assets and to create a metadata repository.
This documentation and accompanying metadata repository provide the insight you need before beginning data integration, data quality, data governance or master data management projects.
Our data discovery layer provides companies with a broad set of capabilities to scan and inventory their data landscape. Using these applications organisations can perform the following:
- Scan data environment (structured data unstructured data semi-structured data)
- Create and populate a Metadata Repository that can be searched by business and technical users
Our profiling layer equips you with comprehensive data profiling abilities that are simple to understand, use and maintain while running your desired tasks.
Key Features of our Data Discovery Software
The Spectrum™ Data Discovery Module offers a number of outstanding features to help you gain better insight and optimise your data assets.
Scan and inventory your data landscape
Use our data discovery capabilities to perform the following tasks:
- Scan your structured unstructured semi-structured data environment
- Create and populate a Metadata Repository that can be searched by business and technical users
- Securely connect to different structured databases across your data landscape
- Automate the discovery of metadata contained in relational databases and create a comprehensive catalog of enterprise metadata essential for enterprise data integration
- Scan domains in code files and identify table and column names of selected schemas used in content of scanned code files
- Scan discover and catalogue information contained in a variety of file types including Microsoft Access database, fixed length, delimited, Excel, PDF, document, PPT, Plain Text, RTF and XSD
Our profiling functions make the following tasks simple to understand use and maintain:
- Discover and catalogue undocumented metadata associated with your global data landscape and build an integrated Enterprise Metadata Repository
- Identify documented and undocumented ID columns and natural key columns, composite keys and multi-column IDs
- Identify documented inferred and user defined relationships
- Identify and profile subtypes in a table in an enterprise data landscape
- Analyse data in delimited files, get error value suggestions and catalogue them
- Profile data stored in files without loading them in a database with support for the following file types: flat file (.txt), EBCDIC file (.txt), SAS data file (.sas7bdat), comma delimited (.csv and .txt), pipe delimited (.txt), tab delimited (.tsv & .tab) and XML
- Analyse data in Access Excel (.xls and .xlsx) and XML files get error value suggestions and catalogue them
- Analyse data and get outlier value suggestions based on time period of occurrence


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EVE Online Player Avatars, Captain's Quarters Entering Open Beta Soon
The first Incarna element will be Captain's Quarters, where players can get away from their crews on space stations. They'll be a small living quarters, filled with useful gadgets and connected to a viewing balcony, to gaze lovingly at your docked vessel.
The Quarters will offer in-environment interfaces for features such as changing ship fittings and customising your appearance. CCP explains that turning menu elements into 'physical' items will help ease new players into the game "without forcibly dragging them along with lengthy tutorials." Placing a Corp Recruitment console somewhere prominent, for example, will "explicitly tell a new player how important it is to find a good player corporation in EVE," CCP says.
Incarna will eventually bring a whole host of on-station features, including player-run shops, bars and games, but CCP is starting small with Captain's Quarters. Initially, they'll be "single-player," private areas. The developer explains that as Incarna will bring a lot of new technologies and features to EVE, it wants to "battle test" these before rolling out on a large scale. It also wants to be sure gameplay and server performance won't be affected too greatly.
EVE already rolled out remarkable new character creation tech with oodles of options in a previous update. However, these fantastic-looking avatars are still only seen in their profile portraits.
The Captain's Quarters are due to arrive on the 'Singularity' test server before the EVE Fanfest VII begins, which kicks off on March 24. It'll then go live on the main server in summer. The full Incarna expansion was scheduled to arrive this summer, but it'll now seemingly follow the 'Incursion' expansion's example and be split up into parts.
This is why I'm about to end my account. Finding a fight is really hard, and when I do find a fight, 99% of the time it's me and my friends vs. 20 battleships waiting in ambush. We just don't have the numbers to compete.
The carebear part of the game is ridiculously easy, unless you're talking wormholes (little harder).


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Incomparable NAMFLEG pendant made of 925 sterling silver with cloisonné enamel decoration. This article has a wear resistant 18K gold plating which provides unsurpassed brilliance and beauty. Fully handmade.
Weight – 14,5 gr.
The chain is not included.An exclusive collection of NAMFLEG fine jewelry made of 925 sterling silver was inspired by the legacy of Carl Faberge. In our collections we use the most sophisticated of all enamel techniques called cloisonné enamel. It takes 12 working hours to create one piece of cloisonné enamel jewelry, and all operations are done entirely by hand. Many companies nowadays try to replicate authentic enamel jewelry, but instead of the fire enamel they use cheap and low-quality analogs – beware of fakes.
Taking care of your jewelry
Handle jewelry carefully. Avoid mechanical impact on the product, i.e. compression, stretching, shocks, do not clean with abrasive agents. Avoid chemical exposure. Note that enamel contact with alkali, acid and grease, i.e. with detergents and cosmetics, can spoil the appearance of your jewelry. Salt water and chlorine can also damage your jewelry, so be sure to remove all jewelry before swimming in the sea or swimming pool. Use only special remedies (solutions, soft cloth) developed for gold and silver.
Taking care of your watch
We recommend that you regularly clean your watch (excluding leather strap) with soft cloth soaked in soapy water. Do not leave your watch in places exposed to strong temperature fluctuations, wet places, in direct sunlight or near strong magnetic fields.
Taking care of your silk scarf
We recommend that you avoid washing your 100% silk scarf and instead entrust them to your dry cleaner, who will clean them professionally and pay careful attention to their hand-rolled edges. Also, remember that any printing on silk may be damaged by the rain.
Free worldwide delivery on orders over 100 euro
1-year warranty on enamel coating & 1- year warranty on watches
Exchange your old Namfleg jewelry for the brand new items at 50% off


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Concord, CA – November 28, 2017 – Handscrafts.co is a new online store built with the latest e-commerce features and created exclusively to serve the handicraft industry. As the holiday season approaches, this unique online store offers a dedicated service that showcases the very best of hand crafted products available today.
Handicraft or hand made products, be it jewelry, bags, personal wear or show pieces, are undeniably one of the best sources of inspired living. Handscrafts.co aims to fill homes and lives with their simple allure and power, and contribute to making this ageless art stay alive in the new century.
This shopping season, as sales hit a record high, today's popular ecommerce platforms are giving an opportunity to every handicraft seller to open their own personal shop and start selling. A pleasant, hassle-free, full feature e-commerce space, Handscrafts.co aims to offer top quality products at affordable prices, timely, professional service, and a customer experience that exceeds expectations. Sellers will also love its personalized advertizing for talented artists and retailers across prominent media outlets.
"Handscrafts.co is equipped with the latest, user friendly features, and just like advanced e-Commerce platforms, sellers need not learn any programming or website coding. Your store can easily be set-up by watching videos or reading tutorials. We are always adding dazzling new products to our store, so be sure to check back often to see our latest products," said a spokesperson from Handscrafts.co.
Among its exclusive features for both buyers and sellers, Handscrafts.co offers free shipping for orders above $25, a 24/7 customers service, a secure Stripe payment gateway that is certified to a PCI Service Provider Level 1, and a 30-day money back guarantee. The service maintains a LookBook on Pinterest that features the latest handcrafted jewelry.
As Handscrafts.co takes the lead in promoting handicrafts, it would like to encourage others to develop their own online store using WordPress Woo-Commmerce, BigCommerce, or Shopify.com, which is offering a 14-day free trial of its complete platform.
About Handcrafts.co
Headquartered in Northern California, Handcrafts.co is an independently owned and operated small business focusing on providing high quality products you won't find anywhere else. Our goal is to deliver all three parts of great service- high quality, quick turnaround and low prices and we have made it our mission to create those gifts that provide timeless memories for friends, family and loved ones.
For more information, please visit: http://www.handcrafts.co
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HOUSTON — Demand for electricity in Texas on Tuesday morning set a winter record of 57,277 megawatts in the hour ending at 8 a.m., based on preliminary operations data from the state's grid manager.
The previous winter record demand of 57,265 megawatts occurred on Feb. 10, 2011, days after the state's last rolling blackouts in winter or summer.
Temperatures plunged well below freezing early Tuesday, but did not threaten the power system, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates most of the state grid. ERCOT discontinued a conservation alert originally issued on Monday morning, even though Tuesday morning's demand was higher.
"Right now, we don't anticipate any grid problems in the immediate future," said Robbie Searcy, a spokeswoman for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
By 2 p.m., Houston temperatures had climbed to 46 degrees, up from 28 earlier in the morning.
Additional generation available Tuesday morning pushed overall capacity up to about 64,000 megawatts, providing a safe margin.
The grid operator issued no new power emergency alerts Tuesday, indicating that the system met the record demand a day after freezing temperatures and power plant problems nearly forced rolling blackouts.
"We appreciate the consumer response to our conservation request yesterday, as well as the steps generation and transmission companies in the ERCOT region have taken to prepare for today's power needs," said Dan Woodfin, the agency's director of system operations.
The unexpected loss of two North Texas plants Sunday night had prompted the Electric Reliability Council to issue an emergency alert, borrow some power from other grids, and ask consumers to take extra conservation measures. Around 7 a.m. on Monday, wholesale electricity prices soared above a state-mandated cap for nearly an hour, an indication that the system was nearing its limits.
"We were close," said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT director of system operations, explaining that if one more power plant had been forced to shut down Monday, it would have triggered rolling black outs.
The two plants are now back online.
The wind that made the blue norther seem even chillier turned out to be more friend than foe in the power crisis. Spinning turbines provided a critical 1,500 megawatts of power as early morning demand of 55,487 megawatts approached the 56,000 megawatts of generation capacity available then.
The two large plants that went offline early Monday reduced available capacity by 1,700 megawatts, causing grid operators to use conservation measures to reduce the demand, as well as tapping into both internal reserves and available power from the East Coast and Mexico.
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10 ways to slim your power bill this winter


text: There's something about the cold weather that makes getting dressed so hard. It might be because my wardrobe consists mainly of crop tops and mini skirts, but it also might be because the wind and snow make me lazy – too lazy to pick out a good outfit. Everyday I'm tempted to just throw on a pair of leggings or sweatpants and then I'm reminded of this famous Karl Lagerfeld quote: "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants." I don't think I've lost control of my life this winter, but I have definitely lost control of my wardrobe. While most bloggers have the luxury of jet setting the world to warm and sunny places, us Canadians must face the snow and try not to let the cold weather compromise our style. To compliment my choice of waterproof boots to wear this winter, I've found 24 street style photos to inspire you (and me) to get out of the house and get dressed. Check them out below.


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Always update to the latest Software / Firmware version to enjoy the latest features & better performance!
Have you updated your product to the latest firmware?
If not, do it now! It's simple and you can enjoy:
- New Functions or Benefits
- Resolves known issues
- Improves Connectivity or Compatibility
Do remember to connect your unit to the internet by setting Auto Update Setting to ON.
If internet access is limited, you can update the firmware via USB storage device. Please refer to Support Page or Instruction Manual for more details.


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Many physical quantities span vast ranges of magnitude. Figures 0.1 and 0.2 use images to indicate the range of lengths and times that are of importance in physics.http://physicalworld.org/restless_universe/html/ru_intro_B.html
Why Is The Universe Complex? Broken Symmetries, Information, Energy, Work
Next, step: Where to asymmetric crystals and other things come from? By breaking symmetries. The universe started highly symmetric. So for assymetries to arise, those initial symmetries must have been, and even today, continue to be broken.
I want next to show that broken symmetries, absolutely natural in physics, biology, economics, cultural evolution, can arise spontaneously, and become new sources of free energy by which work can be done. But work per unit time is power hence a first step to Chaisson's increasing power density per gram universe over time.Stuart Kauffman-http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/06/30/128212122/why-is-the-universe-complex-broken-symmetries-information-energy-work#more
The Rise of Complexity in Nature
Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Human Kind


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All lure packs come rigged.
Lures are rigged with game fishing trolling hooks made from sharpened stainless steel and high quality shock absorbing stretchable monofilament leader.
A Scent Blazer rigging sleeve is colour matched to the trolling lure skirt pattern, the hook is set upright in the hook lock and the lure is weighted accordingly.
Your trolling lure will be rigged to the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) rules for fishing in saltwater, accepted by sports fishers worldwide.
1x TLMN4-15
1x TLNA2-12
1x TLNA2-05
1x TLNA1-14 chain
1x TLNA1-16 chain
Lures may change due to availability.


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Nine Predictions for Philanthropy in 2016
Jeff Clarke, CEO | Welcome to 2016! Philanthropy's core DNA is love for humanity and community. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we celebrate a unique philanthropic culture marked by optimism, generosity, civic engagement and stewardship. It rests upon our nation's unique commitment to philanthropic freedom and donor intent. But above all, our big, diverse place defines us, from Alaska's North Slope to southern Oregon, and the Pacific coast to eastern Montana and Wyoming. In other words, as American farmer and writer Wendell Berry observed, "If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are." Looking ahead to what is sure to be a dynamic year, philanthropy, with its ability to gather people around the public good, is more important than ever. more »