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Overview Detail Legend Zoom: ?? Overlay features legend For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature. Detail Map Features Showing 10 items: The Saddle 1011.4m, The Saddle - Trig Point 1011.1m, The Saddle West Top 974m, Sgurr na Forcan 964.6m, The Saddle East Top [1974: Sgurr nan Forcan] 959m, Sgurr na Sgine 946m, Sgurr na Sgine NW Top 942m, Spidean Dhomhuill Bhric [1891: Sgurr na Creige] 939m, The Saddle North Top [1921: Sgurr na Creige] 926m, Sgurr Leac nan Each 919m, Find Suggested WalksOpen walks finder Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature. Videos (none available) Recent Contributions 1 2 3 .. 19 Next page >> Get Notifications Taghart South: Only one way up Summit Comment TommyMc an hour ago The only practical way to access this hill is from near the locked quarry gates on the road in front of it. I attempted it across the fields and scrub to the north via the adjacent masts, and the ... Crotlieve Track 2646 Peter Walker an hour ago Room to park two, perhaps more cars at the start...although it's hard to imagine legions of walkers descending on Cro... walk, Len: 0.9km, Climb: 134m, Area: Crotlieve Mountain, Mourne Mountains (Ire UK website for mountains Forum: General Peter Walker a day ago I'll second peter1...walkhighlands.co.uk is very good (specifically for Scotland, unsurprisingly).I'll even forgive the person on their forums (the forums are excellent, btw) whose response to 'is... Change to map layers. -Google +Bing Forum: Suggestions simon3 3 days ago As a result of various technical difficulties MV has moved to using Bing as a secondary map provider with global scope.You will see Bing Roads and Bing Aerial Hybrid offered as maplayers in the De... Birreencorragh: Shapely summit welcomes bootless buffoon Summit Comment wicklore a week ago This is a view of the rather shapely upper slopes of Birreencorragh as viewed from the col to the south west. 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Video display Glen Shiel to Loch Hourn and Loch Quoich Area More detail Place count in area: 105, Highest place: Gleouraich, 1035m Maximum height for area: 1035 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 765 metres, Places in area Glen Shiel to Loch Hourn and Loch Quoich:A'Chioch 829.7mA'Mhuc 420mA'Mhuing 533mAm Bathaich 899mAonach air Chrith 1019.4mBad an Fhithich Mhoir 506mBeinn a'Chaoinich 410mBeinn a'Chapuill 759mBeinn a'Chapuill West Top 742mBeinn a'Chuirn 603mBeinn a'Chuirn SE Top 550mBeinn Aoidhdailean 634mBeinn Clachach 643mBeinn Clachach East Top 540mBeinn Clachach West Top 618mBeinn Fhada 445mBeinn Loinne 775mBeinn Loinne East Top 752mBeinn Mhialairigh 548mBeinn na h-Eaglaise 805mBeinn nan Caorach 774mBeinn Sgritheall 974mBeinn Sgritheall East Top 906mBeinn Sgritheall NW Top 928mBiod an Fhithich 645.8mBiod an Fhithich North Top 540mBora Chnoc 402mBuidhe Bheinn 885.5mBuidhe Bheinn North Top 830mBuidhe Bheinn West Top 879mCadha nam Bo Ruadha 815mCarn na h-Ulach 418mCarn nan Caorach 543mCraig Coire na Fiar Bhealaich 1006mCreag a'Mhaim 946mCreag an Fhithich 427mCreag Liathtais 506mCreag na h-Oidhche 562mCreag na Nathrach 515mCreag nan Damh 918mDruim Fada 713mDruim Fada East Top 647mDruim na h-Achlaise 540mDruim nan Cnamh [Beinn Loinne] 789mDruim nan Firean 662mDruim Seileach 840mDruim Shionnach 987mDruim Shionnach West Top 938mFaochag 909mFaochag West Top 880mGlac Raineach 738mGlas Bheinn 397mGleouraich 1035mLeac nan Gaidhseich 660mMam na Seilg 499mMaol Chinn-dearg 980.3mMaol Chinn-dearg East Top 913.2mMaol Disnich 579mMeall a'Mheil 614mMeall an Uillt Bhain 608mMeall Buidhe 486mMeall Gleann Dubh Lochain 434mMeall na h-Oidhche 551mMeall Odhar 462mSgurr a'Bhac Chaolais 885.2mSgurr a'Bhac Chaolais East Top 802mSgurr a'Bhraonain 502mSgurr a'Bhraonain North Top 462mSgurr a'Chuilinn 755mSgurr a'Gharg Gharaidh 690mSgurr a'Gharg Gharaidh Far North Top 680mSgurr a'Gharg Gharaidh Far South Top 682mSgurr a'Gharg Gharaidh North Top 685mSgurr a'Gharg Gharaidh South Top 680mSgurr a'Mhaoraich 1027mSgurr a'Mhaoraich Beag 948mSgurr an Doire Leathain 1010mSgurr an Lochain 1004mSgurr Beag 896mSgurr Coire na Feinne 901.8mSgurr Coire nan Eiricheallach 891mSgurr Coire nan Eiricheallach North Top 881mSgurr Leac nan Each 919mSgurr Leac nan Each North Top 842mSgurr Mhic Bharraich 779mSgurr Mor 627mSgurr Mor East Top 597mSgurr Mor Far West Top 600mSgurr Mor Near West Top 614mSgurr Mor West Top 614mSgurr na Forcan 964.6mSgurr na Laire Brice 709mSgurr na Laire Brice North Top 662mSgurr na Sgine 946mSgurr na Sgine NW Top 942mSgurr Thionail 906mSpidean Dhomhuill Bhric [1891: Sgurr na Creige] 939mSpidean Mialach 996mSpidean Mialach West Top 977mStob Loch Fearna 587mThe Saddle 1011.4mThe Saddle - Trig Point 1011.1mThe Saddle East Top [1974: Sgurr nan Forcan] 959mThe Saddle North Top [1921: Sgurr na Creige] 926mThe Saddle West Top 974m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Sgurr na Sgine NW Top Mountain Height: 942m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 33 Grid Reference: NG94371 11591 Place visited by 6 members. Recently by: peter1, melohara, IainT, markmjcampion, chalky, three5four0 I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) View on Hill Bagging (DoBIH) Longitude: -5.400892, Latitude: 57.148987 , Easting: 194371, Northing: 811591 Prominence: 21m, Isolation: 0.3km , GPS IDs, 6 char: Sgr942, 10 char: SgrnSgnNWT Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/B702/ Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Sgurr na Sgine NW Top 1 of 1 Follow this place's comments (No comments so far about Sgurr na Sgine NW Top.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.


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The No. 3 overall pick in the 2012 draft, Richardson rushed for 950 yards and 11 touchdowns as a rookie. While he gained just 3.6 yards per carry, his potential was evident, and he toughed it out through injury, something for which left tackle Joe Thomas publicly praised him late in the season.
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Hawks46 wrote:You have to look at Flynn's value in a couple of different ways: current market value and value to the team.
I think it's funny how a lot of people were on board with the Harvin trade with the rationale that "hey, if Harvin were in the draft, he'd be a top 5 pick", so we're big winners. Absolutely no one in the media is castigating us for the trade; they all love it. So look at Flynn....he's NEVER been bad in a regular season NFL game....EVER. Two starts in GB (@ NE, and Detroit) and in mop up duty last year. Against the Cards they blitzed up the middle (and got good pressure) and had their starting D out there. Flynn would've dropped 30 on them that game as well. So, the guy has limited starts, but in that time, he just doesn't look bad. This is with limited prep time usually.
So, in his NFL playing time, does Flynn grade out as a 1st rounder this year, with this crop of QB's ? I'd say yes. I theorize he's better than anyone you're getting in the draft right now, and for a team that needs a QB, with a GM desperate to keep his job, I'd bet someone rates Flynn as a 2nd or maybe even 1st rounder. Alex Smith was considered the best QB in free agency this year, and I think Flynn could be that good easily.
Also, 3 teams are wanting him. That drives up the market with absolutely nobody left.
Then look at what he's worth to us: is a 4th or 5th rounder worth losing insurance if Wilson gets hurt ? You can't predict injury, and I don't see anyone out there in FA or in the draft (I'm counting 1st rounders as well) that could come in off the bench and win us games in a pinch better than FLynn could. Hell, I don't think there's a FA QB out there that could even win any games for us. Fitzpatrick, Kolb, Vince Young, really ? Hell the 49ers are kicking the tires on Pat White, and I'd like that option better.
The Hawks aren't in cap hell and don't have to trade Flynn. They've stated it, and stated he's not getting cut. We hold all the cards, and coming to us with a "you're lucky to get a 4th rounder out of him" attitude is wasting our FO's time and I bet the league knows it.
I would disagree with this statement. You are totally overhyping Flynn. I'd take Barkley over Flynn any day. 1- the 2 players are very similar, both are roughly the same size (6-2, 220) and both have similar "ARM" talent. Barkley has much more experience than Flynn and he's younger so I'd definately take him over a guy who will be 28 before the season starts. (Age also has to factor into the equation). Meanwhile Manuel and Smith have much more upside than Flynn does.


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Doug Dalton hacked into servers while he was a sixth grader.
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|Spicy pumpkin cheesecake with gingersnap and pecan crust, drizzled with maple-caramel sauce
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Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap/Pecan Crust and Maple Caramel Sauce
Equipment required: 9" springform pan, mixer, food processor or coffee grinder, baking sheet with sides (i.e. jelly roll pan) Ingredients
1 cup crushed gingersnap cookies
1/2 cup pecans, ground fine in a food processor or coffee grinder
5 tbsp butter, very soft or melted.
2 - 250 g (8 oz) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
1 3/4 cup canned pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup pecans, roughly chopped
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter the bottom of a 9" springform pan, then wrap the pan with a double layer of aluminum foil.
- Mix crust ingredients in a bowl, and press into the bottom of the springform pan. Use a spatula to make it nice and flat and neaten the edges. Bake crust in the oven for 8-10 minutes, then remove from oven and set aside to cool. Turn the oven temperature down to 275°F.
- For the filling, beat the cream cheese and brown sugar together until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition; then beat for 2 minutes (use a timer).
- Add pumpkin, spices and vanilla and beat for another 2 minutes.
- Pour filling into cooled crust. Place foil-wrapped pan on a baking sheet and fill with 1/2 inch of water. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Sides of filling should look puffy and centre should still jiggle and look slightly wet. Turn off the oven, leave the door open a crack and leave the cheesecake in the oven to cool for another hour.
- Remove cheesecake from oven, lift out of water bath and chill cheesecake overnight.
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To prepare sauce
- In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, melt butter and sugar, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Reduce heat to medium and keep stirring for another 2 minutes.
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Broncos Insider: Peyton Manning's return from neck surgery began with a game of catch with dad
Happy end-of-week, Broncos fans. We're 9 days away from Super Bowl Sunday. This is your Broncos Insider Newsletter:
"THE SCORE IS PATRICK ROY 4, JOHN ELWAY 2, writes Post columnist Mark Kiszla. "If championships are what really matter, Saint Patrick has the Duke of Denver beat. And we all know how much a Hall of Famer hates to lose. …
"In plain English, here's what Roy admires about Elway: There's a natural confidence, totally devoid of pretension. Elway knows he's good. There's no need to tell you about it. The easy laugh of Old No. 7 covers the slow tick of a gambler's fearless heart." … Elway and Roy defined the golden age of Colorado sports. And they're back. http://dpo.st/1l414zW
PEYTON MANNING'S RETURN started with a game of catch with his dad, writes Yahoo! Sports columnist Dan Wetzel. "Peyton threw maybe 15, 20, passes to Archie, just like the old days. It turned out Peyton Manning's arm was still so weak that his dad was good enough" to be a receiver to him.
"Archie tried to focus on the positive: 'He threw OK,' he recalled. It doesn't mean there wasn't concern this was a doomed exercise. Everyone in the Manning family felt it. Younger brother Eli long ago learned to never write Peyton off, but … 'I had some doubts. I had some worries, for sure.'" http://yhoo.it/LGBu4v
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Sephardic Web Sites - Egypt
After the Exodus from Egypt, Jews returned to Egypt in 586 B.C.E. and then maintained an uninterrupted presence in that land ever since. Some, like Fargeon, say that there has always been Jews in Egypt since the days of Joseph because when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, some Jews remained in Egypt and settled in Asyut where they formed a warrior tribe.
In the early 20th century, the multilingual and cosmopolitan Jews of Egypt, part of Cairo's "Belle Epoque" maintained 37 synagogues in Cairo alone, several all-Jewish orchestras, 3 Jewish theaters (one in Yiddish), nearly a dozen Jewish newspapers in a variety of languages, as well as Jewish hospitals and old age homes. The Jewish aristocracy, lived in palaces rivaling those of European nobility, entertained and hobnobbed with Egyptian and European royalty.
In 1948, 70,000 to 80,000 Jews lived in Egypt; about 55,000 in
Cairo and most of the rest in Alexandria, with smaller communities
in Port Said and lesser towns. 5,000 to 10,000 held Egyptian citizenship,
40,000 were stateless and 30,000 were foreign nationals (Italian,
French, British and other) even though most of the latter had also
been born in Egypt.
In the 19th century the AIU set up schools in many locations in Egypt. Their archives in Paris are a largely untouched resource that certainly contains much information of value to the genealogist.
Internet resources
Local Articles of interest
Other webpages
The most useful books for the genealogist researching Egypt are:
Fargeon, Maurice, ed. : Annuaire des Juifs d'Egypte et du proche orient. Cairo: La Societe des Editions Historiques Juives d'Egypte, 1942, 1943. Similar to U.S. city directories.
Malka, Eli :
Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi. The Jews of the Sudan.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ Press, 1998.
The appendix includes a listing of all Jewish marriages in the Sudan. Since these Jews were, with rare exceptions, from Egypt, the missing link to many family histories can be found here.
Juifs d'Egypte, Images et Textes. : Paris: Les Editions du Scribe, 1984. 2nd. ed. Compendium of photographs and images compiled by Jews from Egypt.
Kramer, Gudrun.: The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914-1952. Seattle: Univ of Washington Press, 1989. This is the most comprehensive study of that period.
Laskier, Michael.: The Jews of Egypt, 1920-1970. New York: New York University Press, 1992. Excellent review.
Patai, Raphael.: The Vanished Worlds of Jewry. New York: Macmillan, 1981.
Laredo, Abraham:
Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc.
Institut Montano, Madrid, 1978.
Although out of print, this book is essential to consult for any Sephardic research. It contains a huge listing of family names, their origins and meanings and notable persons who carried these names with documented sources for further research. Invaluable.
A listing of names compiled by Abensur can be found on the ETSI website
A listing of names compiled by me can be found in the "Names" section of this website.
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Often when pulling weeds or mowing the grass, my mind drifts to some of the challenges in the world. I don't mean solving world hunger or anything, but just considering some of those gardening questions not discussed on radio shows. This happens in a "stream of consciousness" where one thought or question runs into another and another and so on.>> read "Gardening Questions You Never Really Thought to Ask" #Misc #Pests #Uncategorized #Vines
Gardening is harder than it looks … just when we think we know what we're doing, our beds are attacked by outside forces. How to prevent ultimate defeat? Rather, how to be at war with nature, when you're trying to be in harmony? Be your garden's ally – provide adequate reinforcements by instituting an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan using some of these methods. As with insects, our ecosystem is delicate. Please think through your actions carefully – you wouldn't want to go get your legs waxed and end up leaving with a bald head.>> read "Sorry, We're Closed" #How to #Pests #Wildlife
When most people think of wasps, they think of paper wasps, and they probably think of them only as pests because of unpleasant past encounters with these stinging insects. However, the world of wasps is much larger and more complex than this! Our gardens abound with hundreds of species of wasps that vary greatly in size and life habits. Most of the wasps in our gardens are tiny, parasitic species that do not sting people and go largely unnoticed. These are definitely friends because they help control pest insects. There is also a group of wasps known as sawflies whose larvae look like caterpillars and feed on plants. These are usually foes because they damage landscape plants. Two other groups of wasps are the social wasps, such as paper wasps, and the solitary wasps, such as mud daubers and cicada killers. Wasps in both these groups are capable of stinging, and they definitely qualify as foes when they do so, but paper wasps also have a beneficial side.>> read "Wasps: Garden Friends or Foes?" #Beneficials #Insects #Pests
Managing weeds in flowerbeds
Gardeners take pride in the appearance of their landscapes. However, nothing detracts from the beauty of flowerbeds like weeds. Along with being aesthetically displeasing, weeds in flowerbeds compete with desirable plants for water, nutrients and light. If weeds are out of control, expect fewer flowers and more headaches. For most people, backbreaking hand removal is relied upon exclusively to remove weed problems. Hand pulling may be successful for a few weeds, but for most weed problems it is only partially effective.>> read "The Best Defense" #Pests #Turf Grass #Vines
Every gardener has experienced it, usually more times than they can count. You walk into the garden and discover a plant that's been defoliated or otherwise damaged by caterpillars. The canna leaves are riddled with holes, the cabbage leaves look like lace, half the tomatoes have worms in the fruit, or the azaleas have been stripped of their leaves. How could this happen so quickly?>> read "Caterpillar Calamities" #Pests #Vegetables #Wildlife
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I don't know about where you live, but in my neck of the woods fall brings swarms of Asian lady bugs, clinging desperately to my home, vehicles, trees, kids, and even pets. They creep their way into my windows, nestle deep inside every nook and cranny, and crawl in my hair when my path crosses theirs. And while this is, at times, a bit of a nuisance, I remind myself that these little guys are simply trying to find a safe winter hideout until they can venture out again to devour any aphids brave enough to attack my garden. However, ladybugs aren't the only pest-fighting soldiers out there. Lacewings, hover flies, and parasitic wasps are just a few of the predatory insects worth enticing to your garden.>> read "Inviting Predators" #Beneficials #Insects #Pests
If you have a garden, it's more than likely that you also have a pest or three. It should be no surprise that pests and critters like our yards and gardens as much, or more, than we do. We are encouraged to invite wildlife into our yards and gardens because we love seeing them, and, in theory, they help balance our desire for our garden and nature to coexist. But what happens when they go rogue and start eating, digging and destroying all of our hard work?
Scaring them away, or we could say gently discouraging, wild and sometimes not-so-wild critters to "Step away from the garden," is always a first and sometimes successful option.
Patience is a virtue, especially in the gardening world. I learned this lesson in a profound way one season while on a morning walk through the garden. As I scouted for disease and pests and checked the ripeness of various fruits and vegetables, I discovered my lush and heavily laden tomato plants nearly covered in aphids. Or so it seemed. Never in all my years had I been the victim of such a harsh attack by these horrid creatures. I'm sad to say that my initial response, despite being an organic grower, was to think I needed some chemical to treat the infestation. Fortunately for my garden, my more rational side suggested I wait patiently to see which of my garden helpers would come to the rescue. And as always, I was not disappointed.>> read "Gardening is for the Birds" #Birds #Pests #Wildlife
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I frequently disagree with Megan McArdle, but her WikiLeaks post yesterday on struck me as simply delusional. The basic argument: megabank financiers haven't committed any crimes, because if they had, we'd already know about it. There's a kind of efficient-market-hypothesis ring to this, and like the efficient-market-hypothesis, it has no basis in reality. As a result of this reasoning, McArdle doesn't think that the upcoming WikiLeaks release of bank documents will spark much in the way of criminal prosecutions. Here's Megan:
Prosecutors have been trawling through their internal documents pretty heavily, looking for something that might help them run for higher office make a case against malfeasant bankers. They haven't found much, which is why one of their most high profile cases fell apart. You can decide for yourself whether this is because there was no criminal activity, or because bankers have had a decade of prosecutorial aggression to learn not to write anything down.
This is just wrong. Prosecutors are not trawling heavily through the internal documents of major banks. Most prosecutors aren't white-collar crime experts, much less financial crime experts. To nail a bank, they need help from federal banking regulators. And while the SEC has slightly stepped up its enforcement game, it isn't recommending cases for prosecution. Literally. It has recommended a grand total of zero cases for prosecution against big banks and their executives—even though the SEC itself believes that banking executives have committed some truly egregious crimes.
How do we know? From the SEC's civil fraud suits. In finance, criminal fraud is essentially identical to civil fraud—you just need more evidence for a criminal conviction than you do to win a civil lawsuit. The SEC has brought civil cases against Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Barclays and settled them all with slap-on-the-wrist zealotry. The Bear Stearns hedge fund case that McArdle links to is small potatoes compared to the accusation the SEC levied against Citigroup: lying to its shareholders about billions of dollars in subprime exposure at the height of the subprime meltdown. The penalty for Citi CFO Gary Crittenden was $100,000—roughly one-half of one percent of his $19.4 million pay in 2007.
The SEC is not alone in its inaction. As of March 3, 2010 bank regulators at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision have also failed to recommend a single case for criminal prosecution.
And what happens when regulators actually do turn over cases to the Justice Department? Well, the banks get away with it anyway. Wachovia got caught laundering $380 billion in Mexican drug money, a clear violation of federal law. But what happened to Wachovia? A "deferred prosecution agreement" in which the too-big-to-fail behemoth escaped indictment in exchange for a $160 million fine. No individual is currently being prosecuted in the case. And the U.N. thinks that several other major banks were doing the exact same thing in 2008 as liquidity dried up.
We've also had congressional hearings on Lehman Brothers' Repo 105 scam, mortgage fraud at Washington Mutual, a damning ProPublica investigation into self-dealing in the CDO market, and Felix Salmon's discovery of abuses in mortgage bond due diligence and disclosure. How can anybody stare at these cases and really, truly believe that banks just never actually committed any crimes? After the savings and loan crisis, more than 1,100 bankers went to jail for financial crime. Can anybody seriously believe that after a crisis several orders of magnitude greater, no major banks or their executives engaged in criminal fraud? Apparently McArdle can.
What's more, the Government Accountability Office says that bank regulators weren't even looking at the foreclosure process until this fall, when massive frauds began to be uncovered. If regulators aren't even looking, they can't recommend cases to prosecutors.
So essentially, McArdle has assumed away the problem, and in order to do so, she's ignored dozens of major financial headlines from the past couple of years. For a financial blogger, that's a case of massive self-delusion.
Sure, prosecutors can make a name for themselves by going after big banks. But they can also have their careers and personal lives totally destroyed by doing so. Sometimes aggressive prosecutors end up like Eliot Spitzer. Just as often, they end up like Eliot Spitzer. It's much, much safer to target individuals and institutions with less political and economic clout than a major bank or its executives.
None of this proves that WikiLeaks has a set of smoking guns that will take down Bank of America. They might, and they might not. But to believe that a political system almost entirely captured by Big Finance has performed rigorous criminal investigations into Big Finance is ferociously naive.


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Anti-HIV Treatment Improves Immune System and Fights Sight-Threatening Eye Infection
A combination of anti-HIV drugs appears to help rejuvenate the immune systems of people with AIDS and prevent progression of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a potentially blinding AIDS-related eye complication. A paper detailing these findings is published in the November 3, 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Researchers at the Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that all 14 patients with CMV retinitis enrolled in the study who took highly active antiretroviral therapy - called HAART - were able to stop taking their standard anti-CMV medications safely and without progression of their retinitis. The study also suggests that with HAART, the immune system of people with AIDS is being partially restored and may be able to fight other serious infections.
"CMV retinitis is not progressing in patients who are receiving HAART, suggesting that somehow HAART is playing a role in strengthening the immune system," said Dr. Carl Kupfer, director of the National Eye Institute (NEI), which conducted the study in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
"With HAART, the rejuvenated immune system effectively controls this serious infection and doesn't need the help of specific anti-CMV retinitis medications. Stronger immune systems respond better to HIV and other infections, potentially allowing patients to live longer."
"This study indicates another important advantage of potent antiretroviral therapy," said NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. "We now have clinical evidence that in addition to the rises in CD4+ T cell counts seen in patients taking HAART, there is sustained functional immune recovery to the point that their immune systems can effectively control a major opportunistic infection."
Dr. Kupfer said that HAART, a combination of drugs taken orally, will change clinical practice and lead to a significant improvement in the quality of life for people with AIDS who have CMV retinitis. "Some patients will no longer have to take the standard anti-CMV treatments, which require life-long medication with a variety of anti-CMV drugs. These drugs can have serious side effects, including kidney toxicity and low blood cell counts, and may require daily intravenous administration," he said. "HAART is expensive - it costs an estimated $15,000 annually per patient - but is significantly lower than standard anti-CMV treatment, which can range between $50,000-100,000 per patient each year."
"Prior to the use of HAART, CMV retinitis would progress in many patients despite treatment," said NEI Clinical Director Dr. Scott Whitcup, study chairman and primary author of the JAMA article. "We found that none of the patients in the study had progression of their retinitis, despite being off of standard anti-CMV therapy for an average of 16 months, and in some cases for almost two years. This significant result adds to the body of evidence that some patients who have both CMV retinitis and immune recovery from using highly active antiretroviral therapy may be able to stop their standard anti-CMV medications."
Another indication of HAART's success was that throughout the trial HIV levels remained low or below detectable limits, according to NIAID's Dr. Michael Polis, an AIDS physician and senior author. "We measured no elevation of HIV viral load in the plasma," Dr. Polis said, "and CD4+ T cell counts increased significantly over time, giving us more signs that HAART is restoring some independent immunologic control in our patients."
Despite these positive findings, Dr. Whitcup noted that "to some degree, immune recovery is a double-edged sword. Although we are seeing better control of the CMV retinitis in patients on HAART, we're also seeing more inflammation, or 'immune recovery uveitis,' in these eyes. In patients who took HAART, immune recovery uveitis is seen both in patients who remain on standard anti-CMV therapy and in patients who discontinue anti-CMV therapy. The cause of the inflammation is not clear and requires further study."
HAART is a cocktail of anti-HIV drugs, each having varying costs and side effects. The specific regimen - which can include at least one protease inhibitor and two other antiretroviral agents - varies for each patient and depends on a patient's tolerance to the medications. CMV retinitis is a common complication occurring mostly in the later stages of AIDS and, prior to HAART's availability, had been increasing in frequency as people with AIDS began to live longer. CMV retinitis can cause blindness if left untreated, and previous NEI-supported studies had led to effective treatments for CMV retinitis.
The only people eligible for this trial were those with stable CMV retinitis who had an increase in levels of CD4+ T cell counts to greater than 150 cells per microliter and had been receiving HAART for at least four months. All 14 patients in the study had their anti-CMV medications stopped. "Although there was no control group, the absence of disease progression in all of the patients is significant, since other well-controlled, randomized clinical trials prior to the use of HAART report that the disease progressed after an average of two months despite anti-CMV therapy," Dr. Whitcup said. "Without anti-CMV therapy, the disease can progress in as little as three weeks."
Although no patient in the study had progression of eye disease, Dr. Whitcup cautioned that there may be some patients whose rejuvenated immune systems may be unable to control CMV retinitis, even with HAART. "Scientists are trying to develop blood tests to help predict when this might occur," he said.
Although the study focused on CMV retinitis, the results may be a "gateway" for researchers in treating other opportunistic infections, such as Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), which also can be controlled by HAART alone, according to preliminary results from NIAID-supported trials. "The study demonstrates that immune recovery associated with HAART is effective in controlling a major opportunistic infection, even in patients with a history of severe immunosuppression," Dr. Whitcup said. "The question is, will immune recovery associated with HAART effectively control other opportunistic infections? The results of this research present an opportunity for scientists to answer this question."
Dr. Whitcup said that patients with CMV retinitis should undergo dilated eye exams. "The study results suggest that if their CMV is inactive and their CD4 counts have responded well to HAART, stopping their anti-CMV medications could be considered," he said.
The NEI and NIAID are both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NEI is the Federal government's lead agency for vision research that leads to sight-saving treatments and plays a key role in reducing visual impairment and blindness. The NIAID conducts and supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, asthma and allergies. The NIH is an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services.


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[GameName] is a pyramid building board game for all ages. Place the final ball on top and become the king of the pyramid! Train your mind and memory. Play against a human opponent or computer. Ideal for family members and couples to challenge their intelligence against each other in a two player game. Even kids can handle the easy controls. Choose rules of a complexity that suits you best. Collect achievement points and share your scores on-line in Game Center.
[GameName] is a pyramid building board game for all ages. In the game, you want to be one who places the final ball on top of the pyramid. It is ideal for family members and couples who want to challenge their intelligence against each other and/or want to relax during a break, travel and so on. It is based on simple rules, which the player will learn in an interactive tutorial. Two variations of the basic rule set are making the game suitable for kids as well as for experienced players. The game can be played by one or two people. One player can play against artificial intelligence, two players can play against each other on the same device. A round can be finished in a time under 1 minute, though beginners and children can amuse themselves for 10 and more minutes, and there is no time limit enforced. The two players are building a pyramid of balls. Each player possesses a set of 15 balls, either light or dark, and by a simple tap onto the screen places a ball to grow the pyramid. The pyramid is viewed from top. The base of the pyramid is a 4x4 grid. Once four balls are placed next to each other and are making a square, they can support another ball, which can be placed on top of them, forming a second level of the pyramid. The pyramid has a total of four levels. At the fourth level, there is just one ball, which is placed last by the player who becomes the winner, the king of the pyramid. At any time, a player can decide to pick up a ball anywhere from the pyramid, which doesn't support any other ball, and move it to a higher level of the pyramid, if there are four balls in a square, that can support it. By that he saves one ball in his reserve, in that turn. If the player succeeds to make a square of four balls of the same color, he can remove up to two balls anywhere from the pyramid, that do not support anything, and return them to the reserve, thus saving up to two balls in that turn. The main strategy is to save as many balls of a color as possible during game, so that a player can place the last ball on top of the pyramid and win. There are two variations of this basic rules. Kids can play an easy game, in which balls only can be saved by picking them up and moving them to a higher level. The experienced players may enjoy an extended rule set, in which up to two balls may be removed from the pyramid also in case the player creates a row of balls of the same color. The controls are awesomely simple. Balls can be placed, picked up in order to be moved, and removed from the pyramid by a single tap, which is easy for kids and allows for fast and agile matches for the experienced players. Scores can be shared with friends on-line in Game Center. Several gameplay goals can be achieved and rewarded by achievement points in Game Center. Stylish and restful background music will keep the player focused but can be turned off, so that the player can listen to his favorite iTunes tracks instead. Soft graphics in wood and cute cartoon-style player avatars will keep the family in a good mood all the time. We wish you fun and friendly matching!


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The big dig-out: New England, New York reeling
Providence — New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.
About 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity, and some could be cold and dark for days. Many roads along the New York-to-Boston corridor of 25 million people were impassable. Cars were entombed by drifts. And some homeowners woke up in the morning to find the snow packed so high they couldn't get their doors open.
"It's like lifting cement. They say it's 2 feet, but I think it's more like 3 feet," said Michael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Quincy, Mass., as part of a work crew for a landscaping company.
In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Harrison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do. His snowblower, he said, "has already paid for itself."
At least five deaths in the U.S. were blamed on the overnight snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was overcome by carbon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled Saturday morning.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee cautioned that while the snow had stopped, the danger hadn't passed: "People need to take this storm seriously, even after it's over. If you have any kind of heart condition, be careful with the shoveling."
Blowing with hurricane-force winds of more than 80 mph in places, the storm hit hard along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between New York City and Maine. Milford., Conn., got 38 inches of snow, and Portland, Maine, recorded 31.9, shattering a 1979 record. Several communities in New York and across New England got more than 2 feet.
Still, the storm was not as bad as some of the forecasts led many to fear, and not as dire as the blizzard of '78, used by longtime New Englanders as the benchmark by which all other winter storms are measured.
By midday Saturday, the National Weather Service reported preliminary snowfall totals of 24.9 inches in Boston, or fifth on the city's all-time list. Bradley Airport near Hartford, Conn., got 22 inches, making it a contender for the No. 2 spot in the record books there.
In New York, where Central Park recorded 11 inches, not even enough to make the Top 10 list, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city "dodged a bullet" and its streets were "in great shape." The three major airports - LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, N.J. - were up and running by late morning after shutting down the evening before.
Most of the power outages were in Massachusetts, where more than 400,000 homes and businesses were left in the dark. In Rhode Island, around 178,000 customers lost power, about one-third of the state.
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island imposed travel bans until 4 p.m. to keep cars off the road and let plows do their work, and the National Guard helped clear highways in Connecticut, where more than 240 car accidents were reported. The Guardsmen rescued about 90 motorists, including a few who had hypothermia and were taken to hospitals.
On Long Island, which got more than 2½ feet of snow, hundreds of drivers spent a cold and scary night stuck on the highways. Even snowplows got bogged down or were blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers used snowmobiles to try to reach motorists, many of whom were still waiting to be rescued hours after the snow had stopped.
Around the New York metropolitan area, many victims of Superstorm Sandy were mercifully spared another round of flooding, property damage and power failures.
"I was very lucky and I never even lost power," said Susan Kelly of Bayville. "We were dry as anything. My new roof was fantastic. Other than digging out, this storm was a nice storm." As for the shoveling, "I got two hours of exercise."
Some spots in Massachusetts had to be evacuated because of coastal flooding, including Salisbury Beach, where around 40 people were ordered out.
The Postal Service took the rare step of closing post offices and suspending mail delivery Saturday in New England.
Some people managed to make it to work. In Westborough, Mass., Christina's Cafe opened at 6 a.m. as usual to serve breakfast to snowplow operators. Kim Lupien was the only one of the restaurant's six waitresses who made it to work, climbing through snowdrifts from her home nearby.
"People expect us to be open, so we're open," she said with a shrug. Lupien added that she grew up in snowy Maine: "That's why it doesn't affect me much."
Lindsay reported from Salisbury, Mass. Associated Press writers David Klepper in Providence, Ebony Reed in Quincy, Mass., Karen Matthews in New York, Frank Eltman in Farmingville N.Y., Charles Krupa in Boston, and John Christoffersen in Fairfield, Conn., contributed to this report.
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Lexus has released an inside look at its latest concept vehicle, the LF-LC 2+2 hybrid sport coupe.
The LF-LC was revealed at the 2012 Detroit auto show.
The video includes interviews with designers from Calty Design Research, Toyota's U.S. design group that has offices in California and Michigan.
Technology used in new ways was a primary focus of the LF-LC project, Calty president Kevin Hunter says.
While the LF-LC is a concept, look for some of its design cues to show up in future Lexus production vehicles.


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I saw you over at Craftaholics--what an amazing craft room! When I popped over here to see more of your blog, I realized I was just here the other day admiring your amazing embroidery project! I love what I've seen of your blog so far--I'm a new follower and so excited to see more!ReplyDelete
Rachel @ Maybe Matilda
LOVE your craft room that was showcased at CA today! I'm so jealous...your own crafting room...maybe one day I'll have a whole room too!ReplyDelete
It is a dream space...because of that room I decided to be a follower. Any woman who can create a space like that and have her husband help is a hero of mine. I will be dreaming of a room like yours for myself tonight.ReplyDelete
Your space is so inspirational! So beautiful, relaxing and useful. I wish I could transform mine to look (and function) even a tiny bit like yours -- but we rent, and someday expect to turn my creative space into another baby's room.ReplyDelete
I recently started a series of posts called Right Now in My Craft Room:
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Thanks so so much for reading and for your sweet comments!ReplyDelete
I am also here from CA and I am in LOVE with your color scheme and style! Your craft room colors pretty much match my whole house! Aqua and White are my two favorite colors. My craft room is still a work in progress, but you have definitely inspired me! I LOVE the white butterflies hanging on your wall, did you make those?ReplyDelete
Hi! Great job! Can you please tell me more about your bookends. I NEED (lol) them for my daughter's (www.lundenlou.com/blog) room! Thanks in advance for the info! Erin firstname.lastname@example.com
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I got the bookends at Target a few months ago. I looked on Target's site but cannot find them for you :( I would try asking at Target to see if they can help you.
The white butterflies are also from Target. They are by Umbra. I did find these on Target's website so you can find them there.
Thanks so all of you for reading and commenting!
I love you room. I just had to say have you thought of buying cordinating scrapbook paper and modpodging it to your clipboards to prettify them a little. I saw the idea on a different blog and have been meaning to do some for my office/craft room wall and just have not found the right clip boards yet. Wish my room was a little bigger so I could have so many great space---lucky girl:)ReplyDelete
Wow! A room to die for! Every crafting girl's dream. I love your style and the little added extra's to show this room is yours. Thanks for sharing. I am sure everyone who has seen it will be inspiredReplyDelete
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Amidst all the recent talk of just how successful Kickstarter has been as a platform for creators raising money, some people have suggested that the company may run into problems down the road because it seems ripe for fraud. Of course, most things are ripe for fraud in one way or another, so Kickstarter isn't exactly special in that regard—and when fraud does happen, people will fight it just like they do anywhere else.
At least, that was certainly the case with a recent video game project on Kickstarter that turned out to be fake. As BetaBeat reports, the crowdsourcing scam was exposed by a crowdsourced investigation:
... a campaign for an action video game, MYTHIC: The Story Of Gods and Men, has just been busted by forum users at Reddit, SomethingAwful and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The creators claimed to be an independent studio, "Little Monster Productions," of 12 industry veterans in Hollywood. "Our team has done a significant amount of work on the World of Warcraft series as well as Diablo 2 and the original Starcraft," says the project page.
Bullshit, said the Internet. Turns out the art was cribbed, the text for backer rewards was copied and pasted from another Kickstarter project, and even the office photos were from another game studio, Burton Design Group.
When people brought their accusations to the Kickstarter comments, the developers made a few weak attempts at deflection then quietly shut down having raised just under $5,000 (far short of their goal, so that money won't actually be released). With Kickstarter gaining more attention every day, we're sure to see more attempts at scams—and maybe even some successes—but with a savvy community that polices itself like this, the scammers face an uphill battle.
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Pope Benedict XVI appeared to distance himself Tuesday from Vatican efforts to blame the media for the pedophile priest scandal that has engulfed the Roman Catholic church, telling reporters that the greatest threat to the church has come from within.
On a flight to Portugal, Benedict told reporters "the greatest persecution of the church does not come from the enemies outside, but is born from sin inside the church... the church has a profound need to relearn penance, to accept purification, to learn on the one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice."
The comments were both the most direct and most self-critical the pope has made about a rash of reports in Europe that priests accused of sexually abusing children were shuffled between dioceses by their superiors rather than being quickly defrocked.
For decades, the Catholic Church had approached the problem of child abusing priests with psychological counseling and prayer. Pope Benedict himself dealt with Father Marcial Maciel, the founder of an influential Catholic order in Mexico who had sexually molested boys, in 2006 by ordering him to a private life of "prayer and penance."
But today Benedict signaled stronger action against abusers going forward, saying: "Forgiveness does not substitute justice." In fact, stronger action has already begun to be taken as the pope seeks to quell the biggest crisis to hit the church since he was elected in 2005.
Bishops accused of failing to act against accused child molesters have resigned their posts in Belgium, Ireland, and Germany, and the Vatican has moved to take over a financially powerful Legion of Christ, which was founded by Maciel, who passed away in 2008. On May 9, Benedict accepted the resignation of conservative German Bishop Walter Mixa, who was appointed to his post in one of Benedict's earliest actions on becoming pope. Mixa admitted to slapping children and is also under investigation for sexual and financial misconduct.
Nowhere has the effort to redress the sins of the past been greater than in Ireland. On May 6, the Vatican accepted the resignation of Irish Bishop Joseph Duffy, who said he was aware of abuse accusations against a priest but did not inform the police. Three other Irish bishops, named in government reports about mishandled abuse claims, have had their resignations accepted.
Church doing enough?
Pat Buckley, an Irish bishop considered a renegade, says the pace of change is still too slow. "The church still hasn't accepted the resignations of some of the bishops. As the politician Alan Dukes recently said, perhaps the way forward is for everyone to resign and the church to then reorganize," he said.
The Catholic Communications Office in Ireland told the Monitor that resignation is a personal decision. The scandals, which date to exposure of priests' sexual abuse in 1994, were reignited by two government reports last year.
Deirdre Kerry, with Irish child-abuse charity One in Four, says the church has improved, but that more consistency and transparency is needed.
"The church does now have very robust child-protection guidelines," she says. "The problem is that ... it comes down to the discretion of the bishop." The Report of the Ferns Inquiry, published in 2005, criticized former bishops of the Ferns diocese in Ireland for failing to deal with the allegations of sexual abuse made against priests. Priests had been moved to different parishes or sent for psychological treatment.
Theologian Vincent Twomey, a friend of Pope Benedict's, acknowledges that the church made grave mistakes and is now rectifying them. "I have come around to the following point of view," he says. "First of all, it's a wake-up call – bad things were done and we have to deal with that. Secondly, for the first time since the Reformation, Irish Catholics will have to choose to be Catholics."
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NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (UPI) -- Texas is among U.S. states that may seek additional damage payments from BP in response to the 2010 oil spill, the state attorney general said.
Saturday marked the third anniversary of the deadly accident in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded following a well blowout. That left 11 rig workers dead and led to one of the worst offshore oil spills.
Texas attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said the state may seek claims against those responsible for the accident.
"Texas, along with the other Gulf Coast states and the Department of Justice, have been engaged in settlement talks for quite some time," she was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying.
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Geschichte im Osten Europas: Rußland
By Gerd Stricker
Published by Siedler Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1997, 669 pages, hardcover, in German language
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection appreciates the detailed book review provided by Eric J. Schmaltz and Sam Sinner, graduate students at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska. We are pleased to present this impressive book to the Germans from Russia community.
As one edition in a ten-volume series treating the subject of East European German minority groups, Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas, Rußland will clearly stand as the definitive study of Russian-German history for years to come. Not only a brilliant and exhaustive academic work, the German-language text of Gerd Stricker's edition, contrary with most modern German scholarship, is also highly readable and engaging for experts and general enthusiasts alike. Stricker's monumental edition successfully bridges the academic community's interests with those of the popular audience.
This impressive study incorporates numerous Russian-language and German-language sources, but also some notable English-language references. It provides hundreds of detailed endnotes, along with an extensive bibliography which is categorized by the book's major sections. Person and town indices, not to mention a short concordance of town names, also appear at the end. For the most part, the book is conveniently organized thematically and topically, with secondary importance given to chronology. Significantly, every major development and aspect of this ethnic group's epic history, complex culture, and tragic odyssey are covered by the internationally recognized scholars Gerd Stricker, Detlef Brandes, Peter Hilkes, Peter Rosenberg, and others. Though Stricker contributes the most book material, many of the Russian-German research field's best minds have come together to present their respective research in a single volume.
Siedler Verlag of Berlin has published an attractive, scholarly, comprehensive, hard-bound 669-page tome, which is printed on archival quality paper and is copiously and richly illustrated with black-and-white and colored photographs and replications, detailed maps, and statistical tables. This academic masterpiece should decorate any Russian-German's desk or coffee table and elicit lively discussion, as it arguably deserves a special place in addition to the personal library shelf.
First providing the historical background by briefly covering the period from Russia's traditional "founding" date of 988 A.D. to World War I's 1914 outbreak, the contributors then devote most of their attention to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. After broadly defining Russia's geographical parameters and explaining Russian geography's historical importance, the edition emphasizes the modern era's major socio-economic continuities and transformations that deeply affected the ethnic Germans' way of life. These significant developments include mass urbanization, industrialization, cultural assimilation, growing secularization, modern nation-state building, repeated attempts at socio-economic reform, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution's painful but far-reaching social, political, economic, and cultural consequences.
Gerd Stricker, a Swiss-German scholar well known for his studies on Russian-German Protestantism, observes in the introduction that a more comprehensive Russian-German history is only emerging in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. As new archival materials in the East become accessible to outsiders, Russian-German history will continue to expand and diversify. More importantly, Stricker further notes that our growing understanding of these Germans will always be in the context of an ethnic group living in a host country--that is, as a vulnerable and ever adapting minority in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Yet ethnic-German emigres from Russia now also find themselves to be "strangers" in a strange "ancient homeland" called Germany. The opportunities for further study seem limitless.
The authors suggest that the idea of "Russian German" encompasses a diverse and scattered ethnic group -- namely, the Baltic, Finnish, Bessarabian, Black Sea, Ukrainian, Volhynian, Crimean, Caucasian, Volga, and Siberian Germans. And the list goes on. Indeed, just what is "Russian German?" This ethnic category is closely tied with the problem of defining "Russia's" geographical and cultural boundaries, which have always been subject to change and interpretation. Without disregarding a certain degree of linguistic and cultural similarities, the Russian Germans' social diversity, historical variations, periodic migrations, and geographical separation have significantly influenced their general group development. The term "Russian German" is, more or less, a convenient means of naming and identifying ethnic Germans in what once constituted the Russian and Soviet Empires.
Thus a more complex picture of the Russian Germans emerges from Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas: Rußland, as one needs only to consider the Russian Germans' social structure, for example, in 1900: urban and rural, free peasant and noble, unskilled laborer and artisan, wholly "Russified" Germans and an increasingly self-conscious German intellectual elite, growing merchant and middle classes and disaffected workers and landless farmers. Moreover, the Russian-German mosaic comprises a multitude of vibrant Christian denominations: the Evangelical Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Mennonite, Reformed, Baptist, Hutterite, Orthodox, and various "Free Churches." In some cases, these denominations influenced one another, especially with regard to religious pietism's development during much of the nineteenth century.
Nor can it be denied the existence of a very small German-Jewish population in the Russian and Soviet Empires.
For all these internal differences and similarities, however, all these German minority groups clearly suffered a common difficult fate during this century. The Russians and their Slavic cousins had almost always regarded their German neighbors with both fear and respect, ever since Catherine the Great and some of her successors invited a substantial German population to come to their Empire as privileged colonists. Germanophobia (anti-German sentiment) increased in the course of the nineteenth century for a variety of factors, contributing to the Germans' loss of their privileges after the 1870s. Then between 1914 and 1945, the two terrible world wars, the Russian Civil War, and various episodes of profound social and political dislocation afforded the Russian and Soviet authorities the opportunities to label their Germans as "foreigners," "agents and saboteurs," "kulaks," "enemies of the people," "fifth-columns," "fritzes," and "fascists." For example, in the case of a number of Ukrainian Germans who joined the Nazi struggle in the early 1940s, the Russians and other Slavs reacted to a legitimate threat. In other instances, however, the "enemy" assumed disproportionate numbers, including innocents who, at least on the surface, appeared loyal to the authorities. Two prime examples of unnecessary and extreme anti-German measures include the forced mass deportations of Volhynian and Volga Germans in 1915 and 1941 respectively.
By the mid-1950s, at the latest, nearly four decades of persecution and physical destruction had bestowed upon the surviving ethnic Germans deported to Central Asia a relatively more coherent ethnic identity: "Soviet German." This broader identity, though by no means the only one, was partly forged out of adversity, death, and chaos. The twentieth century's turmoil has more clearly defined what it means to be "Russian German."
In the late 1990s, however, can one really still speak of "Russian Germans" as a living ethnic group? After Stalin abolished the Volga German Republic (1924-1941), the Soviet Germans never fully recovered as a people. They subsequently lived as a scattered extra-territorial Soviet nationality, their numbers already decimated by war, famine and deportation, and their cultural institutions nearly nonexistent. The Soviet regime's 1955 "amnesty" and 1964 "rehabilitation" decrees failed to restore the Germans' previous official status as a semi-autonomous nationality group. Out of the more than 2 million Soviet Germans listed in the 1989 Soviet census, nearly 1.5 million have since emigrated to their new "homeland" Germany. More importantly, "Russification" continues nearly unabated for those who decide to stay.
The perennial problems and choices (or sometimes the lack of choices) of ethnic assimilation, social integration, group persecution, ethnic separatism, and mass migration remain the same. The chapters treating the post-1980s Russian-German mass emigration and national autonomy movements indicate that old issues still preoccupy this embattled but persevering minority group, or, more specifically, the remnants of what had been a distinct ethnic heritage. Historical memory casts its long shadow on the present, perhaps nowhere more so than in the former Soviet Union. Yet the Russian Germans' future as an ethnic group seems more uncertain than before.
Also especially deserving of mention are those topics that many Russian-German scholars have mostly ignored for a number of reasons. For example, Margarete Busch, Peter Rosenberg, and Gerd Stricker make invaluable contributions to Russian-German music, fine arts, literature, press, and educational systems. They combine in one volume information which up till now was available only in countless scattered and obscure publications.
Indeed, this comprehensive work will be incalculably valuable to professional and lay readers; there is a little bit of everything for everyone. Probably more than any other recent German-language work on Russian-German history, Stricker's fine edition is the book that should one day be translated and made widely available to an English-reading audience.
Book review by Eric J. Schmaltz, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Samuel D. Sinner, Department of German, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
The German-Russians were loyal subjects of the Czars, had autonomy in the USSR until 1941, and were part of Stalin's victims. Today they make up a major number of immigrants to the Federal Republic of Germany. Persons who desire to acquire a more detailed knowledge about this eventful history pertaining to this minority on the Volga River and the Black Sea, in the Caucasus, in Bessarabia, Volhynia, Siberia and in southeast Finland will find this scholarly book of much value. Embedded in brief descriptions of general Russian history, this book combines overviews of German Russian history with detailed vignettes on colonization through perspectivies of the Mennonites, of the church and the educational system as well as culture, customs, traditions and language. Like the other two volumes in this series, the quality of historic scholarship is highly recommended.
Book review by Michael M. Miller, Germans from Russia Bibliographer, NDSU Libraries, Fargo
The first German colonists settled on the banks of the Volga River upon the bold invitation by Czarina Catharine II. Their work as colonists evolved in 1918/24 to founding of autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans. However, only two decades later Stalin's deportation order startlingly destroyed everything, including the area of the Volga as permanent homeland of the Volga Germans.
The history of German refugees and deportees from Silesia, East Prussia and from the Sudetenland is well-known through frequent political discussions in the media. Much less is known about the fate of German settlers in Russia. This is the topic presented in this new volume of German history in the East of Europe. Together with a constorium of excellent scholars, Gerd Stricker brings the history of German-Russians through a comprehensive review with many pictures, starting with early settlement in the 18th century until the massive return to Germany since the 1980s. He clearly explains how Germans preserved their own culture in a strange and foreign homeland.
Although Germans had settled in Russian areas earlier, the actual history does not begin until massive invitations by Catharine the Great and Alexander I, who encouraged to have vast land settled and to profit from progressive "colonist" farmers. Names of new settlements, like Neuhoffnung and Glückstal, reveal how much hope thousands of Germans brought to the Lower Volga region to make a living from the barren land. After 1860, ethnic mistrust on behalf of Russian peasants against the colonist Germans grew as a result of abolishing serfdom under Alexander II. World War I and the October Revolution caused much distress and robbed them of their privileges, even though many of the German-Russians were good "Russian" patriots and welcomed enthusiastically political overthrow of inept government.
Around 1930, forced collectivization of agriculture, deportation and famines had devastating results even in the German settlements. After Hitler's attack of the Soviet Union in 1941, the German-Russians were defamed as "Hitler's fifth column" and deported on phobic orders of Stalin to Central Asia and Siberia.
Thus ended a profound chapter of German history in the East of Europe.
Book review by Thomas Weidner, ekz-Informationsdienst, Germany
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Cisco Security and the Layered Defense Approach
Over the past month, many of the Cisco Security Blog contributors have provided their view on Cybersecurity and its implications for customer network designs, architectures, protections, and services. These, in aggregate, stress what we all know: security is best achieved using a layered defense that includes securing endpoints, hosts, and network and services infrastructures. Cisco adds some unique layers to this defense, which stems from our experience developing capabilities and solutions that meet the needs of critical infrastructure and government networks. We are applying these lessons, capabilities, and our layered defensive approach to critical business infrastructures, as well.
Cisco takes a "build-in security" approach to provide device, system, infrastructure, and services security, and is the basis of the development approach that we use called the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL). Our development processes leverage product security baseline requirements, threat modeling in design or static analysis and fuzzing in validation, and registration of third-party software to better address vulnerabilities when they are disclosed. In the innermost layer of our products, security is built-in to devices in both silicon and software. The use of runtime assurance and protection capabilities such as Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), Object Size Checking, and execution space protections coupled with secure boot, image signing, and common crypto modules are leading to even more resilient products in an increasingly threatening environment.
Our products have evolved from monolithic operating systems to posix-like systems based on Linux and QNX. Even our iconic IOS has been built to run as a process on Linux kernels. Today, nearly all of the Cisco major operating systems are utilizing embedded Linux operating systems. We now face the challenge of ensuring that Linux kernels are hardened to meet networking needs.
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Second, Cisco has devised a Linux hardening guideline for our product development teams that provide guidelines for the secure configuration and use of a vendor's Linux distribution when embedded within our products. The Linux hardening guideline covers the enabling of secure development and runtime defense features; ensures the removal of unnecessary services, ports, and devices; and secures the configuration of well-known services.
We are committed to making security a key attribute of every product that we build. We remind ourselves of this annually during Cisco SecCon—an internal gathering of Cisco engineers, security experts, advocates, and researchers. Although this event is not open to the public, two products we plan to share at SecCon will be made available to you around that time: the Linux Hardening Guide for our engineers and the Linux Hardening Requirements we provide to our Linux Distributors. After all, knowledgeable and security-focused customers and partners are another important layer of defense in Cybersecurity.
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