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Project to Create Jobs, Clean Air and Expedite Cargo at America's Busiest Container Port
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — Jan. 16. 2013 — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Port of Los Angeles officials broke ground today on a new intermodal storage railyard that will improve a vital link in the national freight network. The new yard will function as a critical link between the Port of Los Angeles and the Alameda Corridor, providing staging and storage for trains using the corridor.
Construction of the $137.7 million rail project at Berth 200, also known as the West Basin Railyard, will generate about 2,000 direct and indirect jobs. When completed, the new yard will move cargo more safely and efficiently, reduce truck traffic on roads and freeways and improve regional air quality while strengthening the Port of Los Angeles' position as the nation's No. 1 trade gateway.
The Berth 200 railyard project also enables track space at the TraPac container terminal to serve as TraPac's future on-dock rail facility. With completion of the $365 million in rail, roadway and terminal improvements at TraPac over the next three years, TraPac will join the other seven container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles that offer shippers the speed-to-market advantage of on-dock rail.
"This project creates jobs, reduces pollution and makes our city a better place to live, work and do business," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "The economic and environmental benefits of this investment will be felt across the nation."
"The West Basin Railyard is a model project for how government is supposed to work," said Harbor Commission President Cindy Miscikowski. "We are pooling federal and state grants with Port revenues to improve a critical link in the nation's supply chain and support the kind of sustainable solutions we need to meet our most pressing needs."
"The Port's top priorities are competitive operations, strong relationships and financial strength," said Port Executive Director Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D. "This project hits all three marks by allowing us to move cargo more safely and efficiently, making us a better business partner and neighbor to our surrounding communities, and procuring federal and state funding to make the best use of Port dollars."
The railyard will be constructed with $16 million in federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Transportation's highly competitive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program known as the "TIGER" Discretionary Grant program. The Port secured $51.2 million from the State Proposition 1B Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF) Grant that is administered by Caltrans and $22.1 million from METRO-awarded federal funds. The Port is investing $48.37 million from its Harbor Revenue funds for the project.
Project benefits include:
- Creating approximately 2,000 direct construction and indirect jobs.
- Maximizing use of on-dock rail shifts container transport from trucks to on-dock rail, reducing harmful emissions by 593,955 tons over a 20-year period.
- Improving safety via truck trip reductions on I-710, which has the highest accident rate in California, and via the removal of two at-grade rail-roadway crossings that are impediments between the community and the waterfront area.
- The new yard is projected to generate $1 billion in annual state revenues by 2030.
- When completed, the railyard will eliminate 2,300 daily truck trips from the Long Beach (710) and Harbor (110) freeways.
- Utilizing the most up-to-date green and clean Tier IV construction equipment.
The project strengthens the Port's position to maintain and expand discretionary cargo – goods whose owners choose the Port of Los Angeles over competing ports to import and export their products.
The project will be built in two phases. Phase I includes construction of the new yard, support tracks for the TraPac and China Shipping/West Basin Container terminals, double-track connections to the Alameda Corridor and national rail network, and access road improvements. Phase II is due to begin construction in 2013 and includes final rail network connections and vehicle overpasses to eliminate at-grade crossings for safer, more efficient flow of truck and commuter traffic. Both phases are due to be completed in summer 2014.
Construction of the rail project begins on the heels of completion of the Harry Bridges Boulevard Roadway Improvements, a $22 million project also built with federal stimulus dollars.
"This ensemble of roadway, rail and terminal infrastructure is part of the Port's $1.2 billion investment in capital improvements over the next five years that reflect the Port of Los Angeles' commitment to responsible growth and global leadership in international trade," Knatz said.
TIGER grants are awarded to projects that demonstrate their ability to contribute to the long-term economic competitiveness of the nation, improve the condition of existing transportation facilities and systems, increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the safety of U.S. transportation facilities, and/or enhance the quality of living and working environments in communities through increased transportation choices and connections. Projects that preserve and create jobs and stimulate economic activity are given priority. Funding for the Berth 200/West Basin Railyard project was awarded during the second round of TIGER grants.
The Port of Los Angeles is America's premier port and has a strong commitment to developing innovative strategic and sustainable operations that benefit the economy as well as the quality of life for the region and the nation it serves. As the leading seaport in North America in terms of shipping container volume and cargo value, the Port generates more than 830,000 regional jobs and $35 billion in annual wages and tax revenues. The Port of Los Angeles – A cleaner port. A brighter future.


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Author: Amy K. McClung
Title: Still You (Trade Me Collection)
Genre: Gay Romance
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Artist: Soxsational Cover Art
For Eden, life revolves around making sure his sister and niece are taken care of while building his landscaping business. Love certainly hasnât been a priority. From the moment he meets his new client, his outlook on whatâs important changes.
For Adam, the last two years have been spent helping his best friend, Maggie, grieve for her late husband while helping take care of her kids. Between his work at the hospital, and supporting his friend, finding time for himself has not been his priority. When Eden knocks on his door one summer morning, he knows life will never be the same.
Mistakes and misunderstandings are always difficult to navigate. Can Adam convince Eden heâs still the only man for him before itâs too late?
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Still You by Amy K. McClung
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Cute and sweet
I really liked it. I hadn't heard of this author but I love m/m books so I decided to give her a chance. And I'm so glad I did. It was really good. The two characters Adam and Eden ( yeah you read it right) have instant chemistry. Eden or EJ as he likes to go by, is a landscaper. When he shows up to do some work and Adam answers the door the sparks start to fly for them both.
The book has misunderstandings, old flames, sexy scenes and laughs. The characters are wonderful and easy to fall in love with. Their story is a good one and I enjoyed the way the writer told it. I liked her writing style and will definitely read more from her.
Amy McClung was born in Nashville, TN. She is the second oldest of four girls and occasionally suffers from middle-child syndrome. She met the love of her life online in August of 2004, on his birthday of all days, and married him in September 2005.
Currently they have no human children, only the room full of colourful robots that transform into vehicles and the large headed Pop Funkos who represent their favorite characters. Collecting movies, shot glasses, Pop Funkos, and dust bunnies are some of her favourite pastimes.
Amy began writing in September of 2011 and independently published her first YA novel, Cascades of Moonlight, Book one of the Parker Harris series the following May. Her first book was a means of therapy for her, enabling her to escape reality for a while during a difficult transition in her life.
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Once again, Microsoft has made a gajillion dollars, all while dispelling myths about Vista's supposed problems:
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.92 billion, $4.29 billion and $0.45, respectively.
"This fiscal year is off to an outstanding start with the fastest revenue growth of any first quarter since 1999," said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. "Operating income growth of over 30% also reflects our ability to translate revenue into profits while making strategic investments for the future."
Microsoft's businesses of Client, Microsoft Business Division, and Server and Tools grew combined revenue in excess of 20%, and experienced robust demand for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
"Customer demand for Windows Vista this quarter continued to build with double-digit growth in multi-year agreements by businesses and with the vast majority of consumers purchasing premium editions," said Kevin Johnson, president of the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft.
But wait, there's more. Microsoft announced that it has sold over 85 million copies of Windows Vista so far, 25 million of those in the past 3 months alone. And thanks to Halo 3, Microsoft's entertainment and devices division posted its second ever profit, this time for $165 million. Fear not, I'm sure they'll be back to losing money again next quarter.


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Living in an apartment has its perks. It also has its creepy-crawlies. This guide is for apartment dwellers who need to keep their spaces safe.
Your apartment is a magnet for common household pests.
Even if you keep everything meticulously clean, leave your garbage out twice a week, there's still no guarantee that creepy crawlers will not get in.
Bugs can get into your home through cracks in concrete floors, air vents, or even through the gaps in your front door.
If the thought of insects squirming into your home crawl, then this guide is for you!
How to Control Pests in Your Apartment
1. Call the Professionals
Before you go breaking out the heavy poisons yourself or setting out traps, you might want to consider your pest problem warrants calling professional pest control services.
Using poisonous chemicals You 're not familiar with can result in sickness or even death. For the inexperienced bug-killer, you may even spend money on expensive extermination methods only to find that it does not kill everything and have to call Pest Control anyway.
How much of a priority is it your apartment is cleared of pests quickly and permanently? Can you risk the bugs coming back in a week to ruin your day?
If need the most effective and permanent way to kill pests in your apartment, consider calling in the professionals!
2. Keep It Clean!
The best way to control your pest problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place!
Although there is little you can do to stop an unsanitary neighbor from drawing pests into your building, if you keep your apartment clean, you can detect an infestation quickly and stop it before it gets out of control.
Pay specific attention to your kitchen and any area where moisture builds up. Pests get into your home for food and water, so when you leave dirty dishes in your sink or spills on your countertop, you're practically inviting bugs in for a feast.
Clean regularly and the pests will have no reason to invade!
3. Spice Things Up!
Tobasco Sauce
Most bugs can not stand the taste or smell of spicy foods like Tobasco sauce.
Spraying a solution of water and Tobasco near potential entry points is a great natural way to ward off ants, cockroaches, and spiders.
But be careful! If your solution is too strong, you might be dealing with the smell of hot sauce yourself until you clean it up!
It may not be the best option for a first date, but if you want to keep the pests away, most bugs can not stand garlic.
Leave a few cloves under the sink in your kitchen or something else.
And bonus: it'll solve your vampire problems too!
Peppermint Oil
If it's mice you're trying to rid from your place, then you're in luck in terms of a fresh-smelling apartment.
Rodents can not stand the minty smell of peppermint oil and will turn tail and run when they encounter it.
Mix about 1/4 cup of water with 40 drops of peppermint oil in a spray bottle and apply liberally beneath sinks, in kitchen cabinets, and along baseboards in your home.
If you're dealing with a pest infestation in your apartment or you're just trying to prevent it from happening, keep your apartment clean, use natural household remedies, and do not be afraid to call in the professionals!


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Symmetry Electronics Signs Distribution Agreement with IBASE Technology
January 17, 2013 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology NewsLOS ANGELES, Calif. January 17, 2013 - Symmetry Electronics continues to stake its claim as a leader in the distribution of embedded products for digital signage, gaming, medical, industrial automation, and industrial panel pc applications by signing a distribution agreement with IBASE Technolgy Inc. IBASE offers various single board computers with: ATX, Mini-ITX, Micro-ATX form factors, industrial motherboards, and stand alone systems with a wide range of AMD and Intel processors. One key IBASE advantage, in addition to over 170 standard products, is its ability to expedite the production of requirement specific OEM/ODM solutions. Symmetry will immediately begin to promote and sell the full line of IBASE products to complete a recent embedded market expansion which includes the additions of AMD and TUL to a traditionally wireless focused line card.
IBASE Technology is an AMD Embedded Solutions Partner and an Associate Member of the Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance and works very close with both companies to develop high-performance, innovative and dependable products including the SI-08 and SI-38. The SI-08 is a compact (7.9" x 5.9" x 1.4"), fanless digital signage player powered by AMD G-Series Dual Core T56N Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) with AMD Radeon HD6320 graphics processing system. With a TDP of 18W, this processor allows for power efficient playback of HD content in a compact system. The SI-08 supports full suite of connectivity standards including: DVI, Analog CRT, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, and analog audio ports. The SI-08 comes equipped with 2GB of DDR3 main memory and a 320 GB 2.5" Hard Drive. Optional 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability may also be added as necessary. The SI-08 represents a cost effective and power efficient digital signage playback solution that is ideal for challenging installation environments.
The award winning SI-38 digital signage player is powered by AMD R-series Quad Core APU and discrete-class AMD Radeon graphics engine in APU with up-to 35 watts. SI-38 supports full HD 1080P, dual display video playback with superior graphics. It carries an ultra slim, 1" thin chassis (10.6" x 7" x 1") built with a cast aluminum thermal frame to maximize heat dissipation for additional reliability. The dual redundant Maglev fans are designed to reliably perform 24/7 duty over extended durations. The player can be wall mounted or used on a desktop. Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, analog audio and RS-232 serial are standard; Wi-Fi / TV Tuner connections are optional. Up to 16GB of DDR3-1600 system memory may be installed. An externally removable 2.5" HDD or SSD may be installed.
All of IBASE's signage players are designed with a ventilation system that segregates airflow away from sensitive components to prevent dust accumulation and contamination, thus ensuring high reliability and uptime.
"Our commitment to excellence led us to design high performance Digital Signage players not only with a refined appearance but, functionality-wise, also with superior processing and graphics performance that meet our customers' demands," said C. S. Lin, president of IBASE Technology Inc.
"High levels of integration, smaller, lighter, more power efficient packages and extensive customization capabilities motivated Symmetry to partner with IBASE. We are looking forward to providing embedded customers world class single board computers and signage player solutions," said Symmetry Electronics CEO, Gil Zaharoni.
About Symmetry Electronics
Founded in 1998, Symmetry Electronics Corp. is a supplier-authorized, global distributor specializing in the distribution of wireless, video, and embedded semiconductor products. Symmetry provides sales, logistics, design and manufacturing support from its world headquarters in Southern California, local field offices and a robust ecommerce and einformation website SemiconductorStore.com. Symmetry Electronics is ISO9001:2008 certified and supports its customer base with factory trained FAEs, deep inventory, and product selection expertise.
About IBASE Technology
Founded in 2000, IBASE Technology (TASDAQ: 8050) is an ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of industrial PC products. IBASE provides OEM/ODM services tailoring products to customers' requirements. Current product offerings from IBASE include single board computers, Mini-ITX boards, Disk-Size SBC, ETX CPU modules, embedded systems and network appliance for various applications in the automation, digital signage, gaming, entertainment, medical, military and networking markets. IBASE is committed to delivering innovative, practical and dependable solutions for an ever-evolving industrial computing landscape. For more information, please visit www.ibase-usa.com.
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2232-1 exim4 -- format string vulnerability
- Date Reported:
- 06 May 2011
- Affected Packages:
- exim4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 624670.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-1764.
- More information:
It was discovered that Exim, the default mail transport agent in Debian, uses DKIM data obtain from DNS directly in a format string, potentially allowing malicious mail senders to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2011-1764)
The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem because it does not contain DKIM support.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.72-6+squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.75-3.
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By Haruka Saijo
TOKYO (Reuters) - As they hauled in their net on the frigid seas of northern Japan, Shigenori Goto and the crew of his boat were hoping for a good catch of yellowtail. Instead, what slowly appeared was a mammoth squid, still alive.
Giant squid, mysterious creatures thought to have inspired the myth of the monstrous "kraken", make occasional appearances near the Japanese archipelago. Last year, a Japanese-led team made history when it released the first live images taken of one, nearly 1 km (3,280 feet) beneath the surface.
"We were about 30 minutes into our day when this large, reddish-brown thing came swimming up from the depths," Goto, 44, told Reuters about the fishing expedition off the coast of Niigata, northwest of Tokyo.
"I was surprised - there's no other word for it. We all started shouting 'giant squid, giant squid' all at once."
The squid, a male weighing 163 kg (360 pounds), died shortly after being pulled to the surface last Wednesday and was trucked to a research institute.
Experts said the squid, which lost its super-long tentacles during the capture, was likely to have been around 8 meters (26 feet) in total, since the tentacles usually equal the rest of the body in length.
Still, it was relatively small by giant squid standards. The largest ever caught measured some 18 meters from tail to tentacle tip.
Goto, who has been besieged by calls from the media since word of his unusual haul became public, said he regretted the roughing up the squid had suffered.
"I wish we'd been able to make it more presentable," he said. "If I'd known it was going to be such a big deal, I'd have treated it with more respect."
Squid, both raw and cooked, is a popular food in Japan but Goto said the thought of eating the catch never crossed his mind.
"If it had been smaller, we might have," he said. "But something that big really isn't all that edible."
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AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan outlasted FC Barcelona Lassa to gain its first win of the season with a 78-74 triumph at Mediolanum Forum, leaving both teams with 1-3 records. Barcelona was up by 15 after a powerful second-quarter charge sparked by Juan Carlos Navarro, but Milan responded quickly to level by halftime, and the hosts surged clear in the fourth quarter to establish a lead big enough to withstand a late Barcelona flurry. Point guard Jordan Theodore was the stand-out performer with 19 points and 7 assists, while big man Kaleb Tarczewski combined 11 points with 8 rebounds. Mantas Kalnietis scored 14 points, and 11 rebounds from Arturas Gudaitis helped the hosts win the battle of the boards 38-30. For Barcelona, Thomas Heurtel had 13 points and 7 assists, with Navarro also scoring 13 and Pau Ribas netting 12.
The early stages went back and forth, with Ribas and Sasha Vezenkov both scoring 4 early points as Barcelona went 7-10 ahead midway through the first. Vladimir Micov and Dairis Bertans sank triples for Milan as Kevin Seraphin got into his stride with two consecutive baskets for the visitors, before Adrien Moerman's buzzer-beating triple saw the first quarter end with Barcelona leading 17-22. Navarro entered the action by scoring 8 points in less than two minutes, as his team enjoyed a 2-12 run to establish a commanding lead. Another Navarro triple made it 23-37, but Milan then rallied with a thrilling 12-0 run including a three-point play from Bertans and a driving lay-up by Theodore, who then teed up an alley-oop for Tarczewski and produced another layup to make it 39-39 at halftime.
Both teams struggled for offensive rhythm in a third quarter containing seven lead changes, and Milan led by 1 point as the final quarter got underway. The same
pattern resumed early in the fourth with both offenses struggling and the game staying close, until a 7-0 run featuring two layups from Kalnietis gave Milan some breathing room, and another layup from Theodore made it 65-60 with four minutes remaining. A Navarro-style finish from Petteri Koponen reduced the deficit, but Barcelona suffered a blow as Seraphin fouled out with more than three minutes to play. The irrepressible Theodore's floater made it a 6-point game, and two tip-ins from Gudaitis appeared to have put the game beyond Barcelona's reach. Back-to-back triples from Moerman and Ribas made it 74-71, but Pierre Oriola missed a tough alley-oop lay-up and Kalnietis hit a pair of free throws to seal the win.


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A new service will allow customers to print 3-D objects at Staples office-supply stores
The printers generate objects using reams of paper that are cut, stacked and glued together
Staples Easy 3D will launch in the Netherlands and Belgium in the first quarter of 2013
Pretty soon you'll be able to print your 3-D projects at the local Staples.
A new service called "Staples Easy 3D" will allow customers to upload their designs to Staples' website, then pick up the printed objects at their local office supply megastore, or have them shipped to their home or business — not unlike the photo- and document-printing service the company already offers.
The project was announced today at Euromold 2012 by 3-D printer manufacturer Mcor Technologies, who is partnering with Staples to provide its new Iris printers for the service.
The Iris printers employ an innovative method to generate objects, using reams of paper that are cut and printed while being stacked and glued together. This technique allows for a high-resolution layer thickness of 100 microns, similar to that of the MakerBot Replicator 2, but not quite as fine as the 25-micron capability of the Form 1.
The new printers also incorporate the ability to add photorealistic coloring — something that more common plastic printers can't yet achieve. But while the glued paper is said to have a wood-like hardness, the arrangement of the layered paper grain will require special consideration for certain design layouts (this can affect other types of 3-D printers as well).
And while the company says it is able to be drilled, tapped or screwed, its material properties are unknown compared to traditional materials like real wood or steel.
Still, the move by an established corporation to offer 3-D printing further legitimizes the adoption of the rapidly growing field by the mass market. Similar services currently exist, being offered by companies like Shapeways and Sculpteo, but this is the first to be made available from a chain retailer.
Staples Easy 3D will launch in the Netherlands and Belgium in the first quarter of 2013, and will be rolled out to other countries shortly afterword. No word yet on pricing or when it will reach the United States.
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Want a new and easy method of securing your servers according to their roles? Tired of digging through white papers and Microsoft documentation while you try to piece together the optimal security configuration? The new Security Configuration Wizard (SCW), which comes with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), can help you quickly and easily reduce the attack surface of your Windows 2003 SP1 servers. SCW's primary goal is to define security according to a server's role or roles (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, Certificate Server, domain controller—DC). Not only can SCW provide configurations for computers that play a single role, the Wizard can also determine dependencies for computers that hold several roles on the network.
When you run SCW, it asks a series of questions designed to determine the functional requirements of the target server (i.e., the system for which you want to author, deploy, or roll back a security policy). Based on your answers and on its analysis of the target server's current configuration, SCW lets you author a security policy that you then can apply (via the Wizard's GUI or command-line version, or through Group Policy) to lock down the target computer. You can also use SCW to roll back a deployed configuration, returning the target system to its pre-policy state. (Note that I wrote this article based on the Windows 2003 SP1 Release Candidate—RC—so some details might differ slightly in the final SCW version.)
Installing SCW
SCW can be installed only on Windows 2003 SP1 systems. After you install or upgrade to SP1, SCW will be available as an option in the Control Panel Add or Remove Programs applet. To install SCW, log on as a user who's a member of the local Administrators group on the target computer. Open the Add or Remove Programs applet, then click Add/Remove Windows Components to launch the Windows Components Wizard. On the Windows Components page, which Figure 1 shows, select the Security Configuration Wizard check box (from the Components list), then click Next. When the installation has completed, click Finish, then close the applet.
The installation installs both a GUI and command-line version of SCW. The GUI version (scw.exe) is added to the Administrative Tools folder; the command-line version (scwcmd.exe) is added to the \%SystemRoot%\system32 folder.
SCW also installs an XML-based security-configuration database, referred to as the SCW knowledge base, that contains role-specific security-configuration information derived from best-practice documents, white papers, prescriptive architecture guides, and other Microsoft security documentation and literature. This knowledge base contains predefined security-configuration definitions for more than 50 roles. If you'd rather not use the knowledge base's default local copy, you can implement a network share that maintains a centralized copy of the database. To do so, specify the location of the centralized database by launching SCW and referencing the shared knowledge base, as the following sample command shows.
scw /kb \\server\scwkbshare
What Can It Do?
When you use SCW to author a security policy, the Wizard carries out several actions to harden the target server. These actions include disabling unnecessary services and Microsoft IIS Web extensions, blocking certain ports and using IP Security (IPsec) to secure the ports that are left open, letting you configure auditing settings, letting you import Windows security templates, and securing NT LAN Manager (NTLM), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and Server Message Block (SMB) transmissions.
Disable unnecessary services and IIS Web extensions. SCW disables those services that aren't required by the role or roles that you configure for the target computer. If IIS is installed on the target system, SCW also disables all unnecessary IIS Web extensions. For example, if the target system's specified role doesn't require Active Server Pages (ASP) but ASP is enabled on the system, SCW will disable ASP.
Block or secure ports. After you've defined the target system's necessary services, SCW uses a combination of Windows Firewall and IPsec to block any ports that aren't required by those services. If the target computer is multihomed, the wizard can limit services to specific interfaces. You can also tell SCW to implement IPsec to restrict the computers that are allowed to connect to open ports.
Configure audit settings. SCW lets you define auditing objectives (e.g., auditing for intrusion detection, enabling forensic investigation) for the target system.
Import existing Windows security templates. SCW lets you import existing Windows security templates, which can supply existing role definitions and settings.
Secure NTLM, LDAP, and SMB transmissions. SCW poses a series of questions to identify clients that will connect to the target computer, then secures NTLM, LDAP, and SMB transmissions according to your answers. Specifically, SCW
Aside from using SCW to author security polices, you can use the Wizard to perform several configuration or analysis tasks. You don't have to perform these operations on the local computer; you can select a remote computer as the target. (You must be a member of the local Administrators group on the target computer.) You can use the Wizard to compare a target computer's security configuration with a defined security policy so that you can determine whether the target computer is compliant with that policy. You can use SCW's command-line version, scwcmd.exe, to convert security policies to security templates, which you can import into a Group Policy Object (GPO) that you can then apply to computer accounts. You also can use scwcmd.exe to configure or analyze multiple target computers. SCW supports the use of Extensible Style Language (XSL) to transform the Wizard's XML definitions, security policies, and analysis results into HTML documents (for easier viewing). And if your network or your organization's policies change, you can use SCW to modify the policies you've created.
Authoring a Security Policy
You can use SCW to author a security policy according to a server's role. To show you how the procedure works, the Web-exclusive sidebar "Authoring a Security Policy: Step by Step" (http://www.windowsitpro.com/ windowssecurity, InstantDoc ID 45629) walks through the process of using the Wizard to author a policy designed to protect a Windows 2003 Certificate Server that implements Certificate Services Web enrollment pages. These pages require IIS with ASP, and the server will need to enable Remote Desktop to allow remote administration.
Deploying a Security Policy
After you've authored a security policy, the next logical step is to deploy it to the computer or computers that act in that server role. The deployment process differs according to the method you use: SCW itself, the command line, or Group Policy.
SCW. The easiest way to deploy a single security policy to one local or remote server is to use the SCW GUI. Log on to a computer on which SCW is installed; log on as a member of the local Administrators group if you'll be applying the security policy to the local computer or as a member of the target computer's local Administrators group if you're applying the security policy to a remote computer.
Open Administrative Tools, Security Configuration Wizard. On the Welcome to the Security Configuration Wizard page, click Next. On the Configuration Action page, click Apply an existing security policy, then click Browse. (By default, custom security policies are stored in the \%SystemRoot%\security\msscw\policies folder.) In the Open dialog box, click the security-policy XML file that you want to apply, then click Open.
On the Configuration Action page, click Next. On the Select Server page, indicate the target server's DNS name, NetBIOS name, or IP address, then click Next. On the Apply Security Policy page, you can review the policy settings by clicking View Security Policy. When you're sure that you're applying the correct security-policy file, click Next.
The Applying Security Policy page appears, showing you the progress of the security-policy application process. When the status bar states Application complete, click Next. On the Completing the Security Configuration Wizard page, click Finish.
Command line. Another method of deploying a security policy is to use the SCW's command-line version. The advantage of using the command line is that you can script the deployment to target multiple computers.
To deploy the security policy from the command line, you must use the scwcmd configure command. The command uses the following syntax:
scwcmd configure \[\[\[/m:machine | /ou:ou\] /p:policy\] | /i:machinelist\] \[/u:username\] \[/t:threads\]
For example, to apply a security policy named CertAuthorities.xml to all Certification Authorities (CAs) in an OU named OU=CAs,DC=Servers,DC= identit,DC=ca, I'd use the following command:
scwcmd configure /ou: CAs, DC=Servers,DC=identit,DC= ca /p:CertAuthorities.xml
To implement a machine list for the deployment, I'd create an XML file like the one that Listing 1 shows. To deploy the systems that this file—which I named ServerSystems.xml—lists, I'd use the following command:
scwcmd configure /i:ServerSystems.xml /t:100
This command also increases the number of threads to 100 to increase the speed of the deployment.
Group Policy. You can use the scwcmd transform command to transform the Wizard's XML security-policy files into security-template files that you can then deploy by using Group Policy. This operation creates a GPO in AD and copies all the resulting files into that GPO. To use the scwcmd transform command, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group or have the delegated ability to create GPOs, and the Windows Firewall service must be enabled on the computer on which you will execute the command. To create the GPO, run the command with the syntax
scwcmd transform \[/p:policyfile.xml\] \[/g:GPODisplayName\]
For example, to transform the CertAuthorities.xml security policy into a security template in a GPO named PKI Issuing CA Security Policy, I'd use the following command:
scwcmd transform /p:CertAuthorities.xml /g:"PKI Issuing CA Security Policy"
Note that IIS security settings aren't deployable through Group Policy. Therefore, if a security policy includes IIS security settings, you must apply these settings by using the Wizard's GUI or command-line version. For example, if you were disabling specific services within IIS (e.g., disabling WebDAV), you would need to do so through the SCW GUI or the scwcmd command. You could not enable the IIS security setting through Group Policy.
Once the GPO is created, you can link it to an OU that contains the computer accounts to which you want to apply the security policy. To do so, log on as a member of the Domain Admins group or with an account that's been delegated the permissions to link GPOs to an OU. Open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers console. Ensure that the console is connected to the domain that contains the target computer accounts. Right-click the OU that contains the computer accounts, then select Properties from the context menu. On the Group Policy tab, click Add. In the Add a Group Policy Object Link dialog box, go to the All tab. From the Look in drop-down list, select the domain in which the GPO was created, select the GPO (e.g., PKI Issuing CA Security Policy), then click OK. In the OU Properties dialog box, click OK.
Rolling Back a Security Policy
The process of applying a security policy creates a rollback-policy file in the \%SystemRoot%\security\msscwrollback folder. This rollback policy lets you revert the target server to its earlier, presecurity policy state.
To roll back a target server, log on to a computer on which SCW is installed. Log on as a member of the target computer's local Administrators group. The computer must have access to the rollback file that was created when you applied the security policy to the target computer.
Open the SCW GUI. On the Welcome to the Security Configuration Wizard page, click Next. On the Configuration Action page, click Rollback the last applied security policy, then click Next. On the Select Server page, select the target server's DNS name, NetBIOS name, or IP address, then click Next. On the Rollback Security Configuration page, you can review the rollback settings by clicking View Rollback File. When you're sure that you're applying the correct file, click Next.
The Rolling Back Security Configuration page appears, showing you the progress of the rollback operation. When the status bar states Rollback complete, click Next. On the Completing the Security Configuration Wizard page, click Finish.
Best Practices
To take full advantage of SCW, I suggest you follow several best practices. First, define the security roles that your network servers use. Second, create an OU structure, such as the one that Figure 2 shows, that enforces the use of roles. Deploying separate OUs for each role type lets you apply the security policies through Group Policy. Third, test all security policies in a test environment before deploying them on production servers. If you don't have a true test forest, consider using a virtualized network environment (courtesy of virtual machine—VM—technology). And fourth, convert your security policies to GPOs to enable consistent application of the policies.
SCW is a handy tool that can simplify the process of securing your Windows 2003 SP1 servers. Give it a spin.


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Dr. Crazy fell so far off the fitness wagon in 2007 that she hardly knows how to talk about it. The exercise? The eating well? Yes, those things didn't so much happen. At all. Things really went off the rails in July, but they were already on that path from about January of last year. She blames the Book and the Job Search(es) but the reality is that Crazy is prone to letting the fitness fall by the wayside because she'd much rather not pay attention to it. But so. Crazy has many fitness goals for the coming year, which she has explicitly outlined for herself, along with plans of action for achieving those goals. The bottom line is this: with no job search stuff to worry about this spring, with an excellent teaching schedule, and no plans for conferences until at least spring of 2009, Crazy can really devote 2008 to getting herself in tip-top (ish) shape and, ideally, staying in tip-top (ish) shape from that point forward. It's all about accepting the fact that I'm old (well, or at least not 23) and I have to eat well and exercise forever in order not to continue expanding.
I'm in not horrific financial shape, but I've got a good amount of credit card debt. And it occurs to me that if I teach summer school this year (see above about excellent schedule in spring and no conference plans) that I can extricate myself from that. Which would mean being able to achieve the 14-year-old-girl resolution of actually having a savings account. Which means that I can start working toward the goal of actually buying something (a house? a condo? a luxury home for cats?) within the next five years. Because basically, it's been time for me to do that for a good while now, and I've just not cared enough about it to get on the plan. And so, as with the fitness resolutions, there is a very detailed plan of action that goes into effect tomorrow, which should, by January of 2009, see me as (except for student loan/car stuff) debt-free. Note to self: traveling to Europe 3 of the past four years and to MLA 4 of the past 4 years probably has something to do with my debt situation.
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This is a photo I took about 6 weeks ago, of our day at the park. I love the LCB, especially the color and the Absolute strap, but the Synapse I got a couple weeks later works a lot better for my needs. I need bags with compartments.
I still adore my Field Journal. Boy is that thing is a work of elegance. For awhile I kept my Kindle in the front pocket, but now it's filled with art supplies. I keep it near my bed and use it as a journal at the end of the day, and will tote it around when I think I might want to write on the go, or draw something.
The Swift Cork is the most versatile and beautiful all-around city bag I've ever owned. It looks gorgeous doing everything from taking books back to the library to toting groceries home to going into a nice restaurant. Every single time I go out with it, someone stops and tells me what a pretty bag it is, and ask what it's made of, and where I got it.
Oh and you can also see the Large Organizer Pouch - those are great, too! I bought several. My kids' school color is blue, so I have a blue one I use just for school paperwork. This works PERFECT as a busy and frequently frazzled mom of grade school kids, because I can keep all their sports paperwork, school handbook, parent permission slips, uniform stuff, all in one place. I keep a checkbook and pen in there too, for those parent meetings where you realize you need to buy a coupon book or a sweatshirt or something. The kids know that if they bring something home from school that Mom NEEDS to get, they have to "put it in the blue pouch", otherwise I won't see it. If they leave it on the counter who knows what will happen, but if it's in the blue pouch I'll get it.
I have another one in purple, my favorite color, that I use for my current personal paperwork. I keep envelopes and stamps in there, bills I need to pay, letters to reply to (I still have a few friends who write paper letters! Kicking it old school), information sheets for various events around town or things I want to remember, receipts for anything really recent that I might need, etc. I have another one in green for the kitchen, for recipes (green to remind me to eat my veggies!).
It works well because I can keep a large amount of paperwork of various sizes in one place; the size is large and robust so I can see what's in there and things can fit without getting crammed or crushed. And stuff doesn't end up scattered all over the dining room table or kitchen counter, or dropped behind the couch, or slid under something by accident. And the color-coding is great because I can glance at them on a table, grab the one I need and walk out the door. For instance, for curriculum nights I grab the blue one and go, and I know anything I need related to school will be in there. For returning a package, I grab the purple one and know that my shipping label and a pen are already in there.
I'll probably be passing down this system to my kids, as part of Life Skills 101. They'll come home from college in ten years with their homework divided neatly into their color-coded Large Organizer pouches. Ha! That'll be my neatnik daughter. My messy son will come home with everything in a paper bag. :)


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It's that time of year, when sunlight is in limited supply in the Northern hemisphere. The low angle of the sun beaming directly through office windows somehow becomes more tolerable in the winter. By summertime, however, the endearment quickly fades.
For employees in the 350,000-square-foot Consolidated Forensic Laboratory (CFL) in Washington, D.C., a six-story-tall, south facing, glass curtainwall façade would typically result in intense glare, unforgiving solar heat gain, and increased building cooling demand—counterproductive for its occupants as well as for a project that is targeting LEED Gold certification.
The facility hosts three governmental agencies—the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the Department of Health. Laboratories—spaces that prefer indirect sunlight due to light-sensitive operations—occupy the north, east, and west elevations, while administrative areas are organized along the south side of the building.
The local HOK office strategized ways to mitigate the solar heat gain to help ensure a high-performance building and to create a distinctive aesthetic from other sustainable commercial buildings in the District, says project manager and senior associate Timothy O'Connell, AIA. "This building is all about celebrating sustainability as part of the design parti," he says.
After researching different energy-efficient building skin systems for the south elevation, the firm selected an exterior automated solar sunscreen that would fulfill CFL's aesthetic, programmatic, and sustainability goals. Covering three-quarters of the south wall, the 24,000-square-foot solar sunscreen comprises glass louvers that adjust automatically to control direct sunlight at the building perimeter while allowing indirect light to penetrate 45 feet inside the open office area.
Manufactured by British company Colt International, the louver operating system encompasses three 90-foot-square bays, each with 648 18-inch-by-64-inch nominal glass fins and 108 half-sized end fins. The 11/16-inch-thick laminated glass, manufactured by Viracon, has a 50-percent frit pattern to cut the amount of sunlight entering the building by half when the louvers are fully closed.
Structurally, the louvers are supported by vertical mullions spaced 64 inches o.c., which in turn are supported by aluminum outriggers built into the unitized curtainwall. In the vertical direction, the outriggers align with the floor plates.
The louvers operate on low-voltage screw actuators that require 1.7 amps to operate, or a total of 30.6 amps per floor. Every hour, the fins rotate based on a computer-driven system that calculates the sun's angle using the building's location, time of day, and time of year. A roof-mounted weather station equipped with a barometer, thermometer, windspeed monitor, and daylight sensor also informs the fins' position, telling "the system if it is sunny or cloudy outside," O'Connell says.
On cloudy days, at night, and during times of heavy wind, the louvers are completely open, or horizontal. During times of snow or sleet, the louvers close to prevent ice buildup. The sunscreen's controls tie into the building management system and can be manually overridden.
Unlike a double-skin façade, which the team also considered, the solar sunscreen allows the 4-foot airspace between it and the curtainwall to vent. Otherwise, O'Donnell says, "the heat builds up in this climate, and it's ineffective [at reducing heat gain]."
The unitized curtainwall façade was fabricated by Gardner Metal Systems (GMS) in Acworth, Ga., while components for Colt's louver operating system came from Germany and England. "Everything met on site," O'Connell says. In roughly five months, exterior wall contractor TSI Architectural Metals, in Upper Marlboro, Md., erected the curtainwall, installed the sunscreen's vertical supports with actuators and brackets for the glass fins, and fitted the glass fins individually on site.
Along with helping CFL reduce energy usage by 30 percent, as compared to a baseline laboratory building, the mechanics of the automated louver system also appeal to the building's users, O'Connell says. "This is a signature agency that needs to recruit and retain people. Scientists appreciate something as technical as this."


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text: In case you missed it, Koss headphones were featured on last night's 2-hour premiere of the Emmy-Award winning show, Mad Men. After an insensitive comedic routine on the Tonight Show, Peggy Olson (played brilliantly by Elisabeth Moss) is forced to redo Koss' Superbowl ad without the help of her new boss, Ted Chaough (Olson no longer works for Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm). Olson works tirelessly throughout the episode (even on New Year's Eve) to solve the problem. Her solution is to use b-roll footage from the commercial shoot with a voice-over saying: "Koss Headphones - sound so sharp and clear, you can see it." The original idea, "Lend Us Your Ears," is a fictitious ad created by the writers of Mad Men who do an excellent job with their research (at the time, Koss was one of the only headphone manufacturers in the world). On the show, the ad was scheduled to run during the 1968 Superbowl (which featured our team of choice, the Green Bay Packers). In reality, we have never run a TV ad during the big game. AdAge.com writer Matt Creamer wrote that a 30-second ad during this game would have cost about $50,000 (http://adage.com/article/media/mad-men-premiere-recap-blue-hawaii/240741/). This is not the first time Koss headphones have been featured on Mad Men. Last season Pete Campbell (played by Vincent Kartheiser), frequently wore the signature Koss Pro4A headphones as an escape from the rigors of the advertising world (http://tinyurl.com/d26zn7z). We look forward to seeing what the writers have in store for the rest of the season. In honor of our part on the show, we will be running a headphone give-away for the rest of the month on our Facebook page (http://ow.ly/jQQuI), each headphone will come with a one-of-a-kind Koss Stereophone print, autographed by the inventor of the World's First SP/3 Stereophone, John C. Koss. *For non-Facebook users please visit (http://ow.ly/jPDrE) for the headphone give-away.


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Chief town of the district of the same name in Prussian Saxony, situated on the Gera. If the dates on the tombstones found in Erfurt are genuine, there existed in that city an organized Jewish community in the ninth century. The earliest official document, however, concerning the Erfurt Jews dates from the second half of the twelfth century. Between 1160 and 1186 Bishop Conrad I. drew up a form of oath to be used by them. On June 26, 1221, the community suffered great persecution at the hands of Friesland pilgrims, about twenty-six Jews (according to some sources eighty-six) being massacred. A fast-day was institutedin commemoration of this calamity. Twenty-one names of the victims have been preserved in the "Memorbuch" of Mayence, and several others are given in an elegy written on the occasion by the liturgical poet Solomon ben Abraham.
Great as the catastrophe seems to have been, its effects were not lasting; and the community increased considerably in the first half of the thirteenth century. For nearly forty years the prior of St. Benedict, in whose parish many Jews resided, claimed from the Jewish owners of houses the same tithes as from Christians. When the Jews protested, the bishop decided (July 20, 1240) in favor of the prior; but the Jews, upheld doubtless by the municipal council, persisted in their refusal to pay, and the matter was finally submitted to arbitration.Protection by the Archbishop.
On Jan. 13, 1266, Archbishop Werner, in return for an annual payment of 100 silver marks and for a fee of 30 pfennigs for each interment, granted the Erfurt Jews a letter of protection, placing them under his own jurisdiction. From his notification of this arrangement to the city authorities it may be inferred that the Jews had suffered greatly at the hands of the municipality, which had been interdicted on this account. The archbishop's protection, however, did not shield the Jews from assault on their synagogues and cemetery; and the city was again put under interdict, the decree remaining in force until revoked in 1284 by Werner's successor, Heinrich of Basel, who, however, at the same time renewed the Jews' privileges. In 1291 Archbishop Gerhard II. pledged the Jews to the municipal council for 1,000 silver marks.
In spite of ill treatment and numerous vexations, the Jews, as attested by contemporary chroniclers, took an active part in the defense of the city against the repeated attacks of Count Friedrich in 1309. These services, however, were soon forgotten, and the chief of the council, Hugo Longus, together with the Dominicans and certain nobles who desired to be rid of their creditors, plotted the destruction of the Jews. The plague, which had raged intermittently in Erfurt since 1315, was attributed to the poisoning of wells by the Jews, and in Aug., 1348, their quarters were stormed, about 3,000 Jews perishing by fire and sword. The council benefited to the extent of 800 silver marks in addition to all movable property remaining, but the archbishop, whose interests were injured by the extinction of the Jewish community, claimed compensation. Nevertheless, he pardoned the city in the following year, and in 1350 he empowered the council to collect and to use the debts owed to the Jews by the counts of Bleichlingen.After the Black Death.
Scarcely a year afterward a new Jewish community was formed at Erfurt, the settlers undertaking to pay the same amount of taxes as their predecessors. As the old synagogue had passed into private ownership, the council granted (1357) a certain sum for the erection of a new one. In 1373 it issued a series of ordinances concerning the Jews, who were required to wear throughout the year long gowns, boots, and hats. If capes were preferred for winter, these had to be worn over the gowns. Girdles and jewelry were prohibited. During the Christian fast-days Jews were forbidden to buy fish. The affairs of their community were to be administered by five parnasim and a rabbi.
In spite of these restrictions the Jewish population of Erfurt gradually increased. It became necessary to enlarge the old cemetery, situated near the Moritz Gate, and some adjacent ground was rented (1375) from the council for an annual payment of five shillings. In the same year an agreement concerning the taxes was entered into between the council and the Jewish community. Excepting a certain rich Jew, Elias, termed the "Judemneister," who was specially taxed, the annual amount for the community was fixed at 850 pounds of pfennigs. Besides these regular taxes, the Jews had to contribute to the expenses of the defense of the city. Thus, in 1377 they paid for this purpose 100 pounds of pfennigs.
At the expiration of the agreement in 1380 the council compelled them to make a present to the city of 2,200 silver marks. In addition certain changes in the Jewish dress were prescribed with the view of still further humiliating its wearers. Jews were forbidden to employ Christian servants. No Jew, unless he became a citizen, for which privilege he had to pay a considerable sum, was allowed to settle in the city. To facilitate the control of the Jewish inhabitants, the parnasim were ordered to draw up a list and to deposit it with the council. In this list figured seventy-six families who were able to pay their dues to the city and twenty-six for whom their more fortunate brethren paid. In 1391 King Wenceslaus of Bohemia granted the city of Erfurt many privileges, and relieved the citizens from paying any debts to the Jews.Till the Expulsion.
The history of the Jews of Erfurt from the end of the fourteenth century to 1458, in which year they were banished from the city, records a long series of sufferings of various kinds. On one side was the council, which became more and more exacting; on the other, the bishops and the German emperors,to whom belonged by right one-third of the property of the Jews. Thus Sigismund in 1416 imposed upon the Jews of Erfurt the payment of 6,000 gulden, estimating this sum to be a third of the value of their possessions. In the following year he granted them a letter of protection for a period of ten years, at the expiration of which it was renewed for another term of six years; but, judging from their repeated complaints, the protection seems to have been very ineffective. In 1438 Sigismund pledged the Erfurt Jews to the knight Matthes Schlick, Burgrave of Eger, for the sum of 1,000 Rhenish gulden. In 1442 they were again compelled to pay 6,000 gulden as a coronation gift to Friedrich III. In 1454 John Capistrano visited Erfurt, and excited the mob to violence against the Jews. The latter complained to the emperor, who severely remonstrated with the council; but his remonstrances remained unheeded, and in 1450 the council succeeded in obtaining from Elector Dietrich of Mayence, in return for the payment of 450 silver marks and 4,000 gold gulden, permission to banish the Jews from the city.In the Eighteenth Century.
Until the end of the eighteenth century Erfurt remained forbidden ground to the Jews; and the heavy poll-tax imposed by the council upon Jewish travelers gave rise to many protestations. Between 1768 and 1789 only four Jews received permission to settle at Erfurt. A little later several others took up their abode there, and although the council refused them rights of citizenship, they were allowed to live in the city unmolested. Citizens' rights were first conferred on an Erfurt Jew in 1810, the recipient being Solomon Mayer, father of the mathematician Ephraim Solomon Unger. In 1811 the Jews acquired some ground near the Brühlerthor for a cemetery. A synagogue was erected in 1840.
In the Middle Ages Erfurt was a seat of learning, and possessed an important rabbinical college. In 1399 many rabbis gathered there for a synod and settled various ritual questions. Among the most renowned rabbis and scholars of Erfurt were: Eleazar of Worms, whose wife and children fell victims to the persecutions of 1221; the Masorite Eleazar ben Kalonymus; Rabbi Wadarash (?) (d. 1285); Solomon ben Menahem ha-Levi; Simḥah ben Gershon; Alexander Süsskind (13th cent.); Isaac ha-Levi (14th cent.); R. Anshel Cohen and R. Hillel (15th cent.); and Jacob Weil. The community was administered by four parnasim, having at their head a chief called the "Judenmeister." Three names of such chiefs occur often in the official documents: Elias, referred to above; Heller; and Makir, whose son lived at Frankfort in 1398. Among the rabbis of the nineteenth century the most noteworthy were Adolph Jaraczewsky, Ezekiel (1879-82), J. Caro and Philip Kroner. Dr. Moritz Salzberger is the present incumbent. The Jewish community numbers now (1903) about 800 persons in a total population of 72,360. It has four charitable institutions; namely, the Ḥebra, the Frauenverein, the Armenkasse, and the Groschenverein.
About sixteen Hebrew manuscripts are preserved in the library of the Evangelisches Ministerium at Erfurt, some of them of great value. The Bible manuscripts, in large folio and most beautifully executed, have been used by J. H. Michaelis in his edition of 1720 and by Baer in his critical edition (see his "Liber Duodecim Prophetarum," p. vi., Leipsic, 1878). They have been described by D. J. J. Bellermann in "De Bibl. et Museis Erford," 1800-1803; by Lagarde in "Symmicta," i. 130 et seq., Göttingen, 1877 (see "Hebr. Bibl." xix. 28); and in the "Katalog der Ministerial-Bibl. zu Erfurt," 1876. The Tosefta manuscript was used by Zuckermandel for his edition of that work. A manuscript of the Montefiore Library (No. 104) contains the "minhagim" of the Erfurt community (see "J. Q. R." xiv. 181).
- Urkundenbuch der Stadt Erfurt, 1890;
- Michelson, in Zeit. des Vereins für die Thüringsche Gesch. und Alterthum, iv. 151;
- Schmidt, Ueber die Juden in Erfurt Während der Hussiten Kriege, 1427-1431;
- Adolph Jaraczewsky, Die Gesch. der Juden in Erfurt, 1868;
- Philip Kroner, Die Erfurter Hebräischen Grabschriften, in Monatsschrift, xxxiii. 349;
- idem, Gesch. der Juden in Erfurt;
- Aronius, Regesten, pp. 105, 183, 225;
- Grätz, Gesch. vi. 92;
- Zunz, S. P. p. 26;
- Breslau, in Hebr. Bibl. xii. 124;
- Salfeld, Martyrologium, p. 120.


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