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Palm's Software Store has gone mobile. Debuting with 5,000 applications and games, the new on-device mobile store lets users download software to Palm OS and Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. At its introduction, the store supports over 25 devices according to its marketing text, with over 2,000 games and 1,000 free applications. Those devices include the Centro and the Treo Pro. Although the official name of the store appears to be "Software Store", the screenshot here clearly labels it as "App Store."
Palm's store joins Apple's App Store, Google's Android Market and RIM/Blackberry's soon-to-go-live Application Center. Microsoft Skycenter will launch in 2009. Apple's App Store now distributes over 10,000 titles and may have generated somewhere between $50 million and $100 million in revenue based on 300 million software downloads.
This move to a centralized application delivery store has invigorated each platform's developer community. Palm boasts of over 1,500 developers who have submitted products to Software Store. That's small change compared to Apple. In June, Apple boasted of over a quarter million iPhone SDK downloads. That number has no doubt increased since then. This leaves Palm having to play catch-up in a territory that has been already opened by other players.
Palm will be introducing the Nova operating system at the upcoming January Consumer Electronics Show. With this week's Nova and Software Store announcement, Palm continues to work on building buzz. Palm is clearly targeting the same audience as the Apple iPhone, looking to merge business and life on the smartphone platform. The question remains, are these announcements too little too late to keep up with the other players in the Smart Phone arena?
Comparing the stores
Enticing developers to your platform remains a key component of store success. According to the Washington Post, the cuts between developers and device manufacturers varies across platforms. Here is the breakdown for each device. As you see Palm currently offers developers the least revenue (50 percent of sale price) and RIM the most (80 percent of sale price). Apple's 70/30 split sits in the middle. This doesn't bode well for a platform that needs to lure developers into its store.
|Number of titles
|Revenue split
|Apple App Store
|30% to Apple
70% to Developer
|Android Market Place
T-Mobile G1 and
other Android devices
|30% Carrier
70% Developer
|RIM Application Center
80% Developer
|Palm Software Store
|50% Palm and other parties
50% Developer
|Microsoft Skycenter
Windows Mobile Devices
Although going by raw numbers, Software Store seems pretty solidly stocked with those 5,000 titles, development needs to be forward looking with a smart platform that excites and entices users. It's unclear how many of those titles will run on Palm's upcoming Nova OS. And, while Apple's App Store represents a thriving and vital community, one cannot help but wonder if Software Store has built its titles on yesterday's technology, swapping out innovation for backwards compatibility. Palm needs to make their new store and its software exciting and innovative to win its place in this growing arena.


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Truck slides off Winsted Rd. in Torrington, hit building
Torrington >> The police and fire department got an early start Wednesday morning when an accident involving a blue four-door pickup truck sliding off Winsted Road and striking the Taylor Rental Center.
The crash happened at 9:45 a.m. and both Torrington police and fire responded. They blocked the road and diverted traffic away from the accident.
The driver was traveling southbound on Winsted Road, which was slick and slushy after the overnight snowfall. He slid off the road, spinning and eventually hitting the side of the Taylor Rental Center.
"He hit the gas meter and hurt the building," said Captain Smith of the Torrington fire department. There was minimal damage to the vehicle.
What could have been a major issue was averted quickly with a prompt response from the gas company. They shut off the gas line, and a tow truck pulled the vehicle away from the building.
"Our biggest concern was the gas," said Ed Scarpati, Taylor Rental building inspector. "The repairs have already been made."
The gas company was able to shut off the line because it was, "broken in just the right spot," according to Captain Smith.
Fortunately for Taylor Rental, the damage is mostly cosmetic and they will be able to open today. The authorities were clearing out the scene shortly after 10:30 a.m.

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RED SOX: Junichi Tazawa allows home run in ninth, Red Sox lose to Toronto Blue Jays
BOSTON >> Beset by injuries, Boston's bullpen can't close it out.
Hours after closer Joel Hanrahan announced he would be undergoing season-ending surgery on his right forearm, Junichi Tazawa stepped in and surrendered a game-winning home run to Adam Lind to open the ninth inning as the Red Sox fell 3-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.
With Hanrahan sidelined and Andrew Bailey also on the disabled list, Tazawa (2-2) will serve as Boston's closer until Bailey is able to return from a biceps strain.
"It was a pitch he didn't execute and he paid for it," said Boston catcher David Ross. "Taz has been doing a really great job for us, he's a really good pitcher and he's one of our best.
"That's why they chose to put him in the closer role while the guys are out."
Red Sox manager John Farrell said before the game he was unsure if Bailey would require a rehab stint in the minors, and it remains to be seen whether he will healthy enough to return Tuesday when he's eligible to come off the DL.
In the meantime, Tazawa will continue to get the ball in late-game and save situations.
"There's not one guy on this team that I don't have a ton of confidence in," Ross said.
After Boston rallied to tie the game at 2-2 in the eighth, Tazawa replaced starter Clay Buchholz and promptly surrendered Lind's second homer of the season, a shot to straightaway center that quieted the crowd.
Farrell said the breaking ball was intended for the back foot. It didn't get there.
"He's been as powerful, he's had good secondary stuff, with the exception of the 2-2 breaking ball that doesn't get to the spot," Farrell said, disputing a claim about Tazawa's recent struggles. "It's not been a matter of stuff. Still, location is going to be the key in any situation."
Buchholz delivered another strong performance himself. The right-hander yielded two runs on six hits and three walks over eight impressive innings. He struck out four.
"Left a couple pitches up with runners in scoring position. They were able to put a bat on it," he said. "I've got to make better pitches at that point in the game."
It was just the fifth win in 16 games for the struggling Blue Jays.
Toronto's Mark Buehrle had outdueled Buchholz and had the Blue Jays in position to send him to his first loss of the season.
Darren Oliver (2-1) got the win despite giving up the tying run.
Casey Janssen pitched the ninth for his 10th save in 10 chances. He allowed a leadoff double, but got the next three hitters.
It was Buchholz's first meeting with the Blue Jays since Toronto broadcaster Jack Morris accused him of throwing a spitball after he beat them in a game on May 1.
Buehrle had baffled Boston's batters for seven shutout innings, but he walked the leadoff hitter in the eighth and was pulled. Oliver relieved and Jacoby Ellsbury tripled over center fielder Colby Rasmus' head. One out later with the infield in, Dustin Pedroia's hard-hit grounder bounced off shortstop Munenori Kawasaki's glove and into short left, allowing Ellsbury to race home with the tying run. The play was ruled an error.
Buehrle was charged with a run, allowing five hits, striking out five and walking two.
The start was delayed 51 minutes by rain before Buehrle and Buchholz began their work in a contest that saw the first seven innings played in about two hours.
Buehrle had given up five runs or more in five of his previous seven starts, but he had the Red Sox hitters looking confused as he changed speeds, mixing a below-average speed fastball with cutters, curves and change-ups to get a number of off-balanced, poorly timed swings.
The 35-year old left-hander retired 13 straight batters from the third through seventh innings, with Boston hitting just two balls out of the infield and striking out three times.
He needed just seven pitches in fifth and 12 in both the sixth and seventh.
Facing the Blue Jays for the first time since Morris' accusations that lasted into his next start, Buchholz breezed through a perfect first inning on eight pitches, throwing seven strikes and getting a strikeout.
But Toronto scored a run in both the third and fourth before Buchholz got into a groove, too.
The Blue Jays, who were two-hit over seven innings by Buchholz in that 8-0 loss to the Red Sox in Toronto, grabbed a 1-0 lead on Melky Cabrera's RBI single in the third.
In the fourth, Rasums' run-scoring single made it 2-0 after Lind singled leading off and advanced on Brett Lawrie's slow roller to third.
After the Blue Jays scored twice, Buchholz retired 11 of 12, walking one batter.
The Red Sox had two on and one out in the first and second, but Buehrle escaped both jams.
NOTES: The Blue Jays placed OF Rajai Davis on the 15-day DL with a strained left oblique muscle before the game and recalled RHP Chad Jenkins from Double-A New Hampshire. ... Hanrahan's recovery time is expected to be six to nine weeks. ... Heather Abbott, of Newport, R.I., who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Boston C Jarrod Saltalamacchia. ... Buchholz remains unbeaten at 6-0.


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Golf Ball Buyers Guide
For any beginner golfers, it's important for you to remember that you will use your golf balls every time you take a shot unlike a driver or putter. This is why it is extremely important that you buy the best ones to suit your playing style. With a myriad of golf balls available on the market, targeting a whole range of abilities, deciding on the best option for you can often take some time. The Sports Techie community blog readers and followers possess a wide assortment of skill levels per sport, golfing is no exception...Read More


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Hanoi has became very popular for its historical relics, religion and culture. Old Quarter is where Hanoi style remains its characteristics over the past thousands of years in history. Royal Hotel has been renovated with up-to-date amenities to make it to be the finest two star hotel in Hanoi. The hotel has 30 luxury and standard rooms with exquisite European decoration and architecture. With its modern design and facilities as well as professional staff, Royal hotel is a perfect place for both travelers and working visitors to Hanoi.
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Une annulation après de ce temps ou un no show encourra une pénalité d'un sejour de 1 nuit.
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Reliability 'number 1 challenge' for 2014 - Horner
Red Bull Racing have a very busy off season ahead.
Jan.2 (GMM) Christian Horner has singled out reliability as "the number 1 challenge" for the start of the 2014 season.
The Red Bull boss has admitted that even the world champion team, having won the last four double world championships on the trot, will have "several sleepless nights" ahead of the start of winter testing late this month.
Horner said it will be a "hugely busy winter" as teams prepare for the radical new regulations, including the new turbo V6 power unit.
"As you know," he told Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper, "Adrian Newey does not have a reputation for having a car ready ahead of time, so I am sure there will be several sleepless nights before the car is in running order."
However, he said it is a similar challenge for every team on the grid, with the unique task of each producing a totally new car for the new rules.
"Reliability is the number one challenge," said Horner, "but of course we also want a lot of performance from the car from the very start in Australia.
"It means the amount of work in front of us in phenomenal.
"We did a good job in 2013 but it wasn't perfect, and that motivates us to improve on those areas in which we did not meet our targets.
"That doesn't mean that we expect to win next season. We want to win, but the competition is very hard, and we know how quickly everything can change at the top in F1.
"Nothing can be taken for granted," Horner added.
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Filed under: events, press | Tags: Andrew Bulger, Ben Blum, debut issue, events, Gigantic, james j. williams iii, James Yeh, linked and talked about a little, Litcrawl NYC, Matt Di Paoli, NewPages, tao lin, Yuka Igarashi
Last weekend's LitCrawl–which included Gigantic amongst many other fine NYC magazines and was a featured Goings on About Town in The New Yorker–was a great success. If you missed it, you can vicariously live the excitement in Suzanne Pettypiece's article for Poets & Writers, Lit Crawl: Postcard From New York City. Gigantic's tale starts at the bottom of page one and continues for most of page two.
At 8 PM, right on schedule, the thumping dance music softened and the lights dimmed. A disco ball hanging just overhead splattered the audience and walls with red dots. Author Tao Lin—whose new press, Muumuu House, hosted its own event, Cash-Money-Obama Millionaires—stood up from where he was sitting on the floor, just beside the towering DJ booth, and gave us our first sign that we were about to be served from a nontraditional literary menu.
Also check out this video, the second half of which shows Tao Lin's Gigantic microreading as well as a short interview with Gigantic co-editor James Yeh.
Gigantic Microreaders for the night included Ben Blum, Andrew Bulger, Matt Di Paoli, Yuka Igarashi, Tao Lin and James J. Williams III.
Gigantic received a very nice shout out over at the New Pages blog:
The first issue of Gigantic is out, and it indeed holds up to its name (or rather, needs to be held up). This puppy is big, but in a fun-to-read-on-the-bus sort of way, and I imagine the superlarge, four-color image by Nat Russel of dancing cowboys is going to end up decorating a lot of walls.
Lastly, McNally Jackson has some financial advice for you:
For $3.00, you could maybe buy a small fancy coffee drink, or a half of a pint of beer, or three normal-sized Snickers. You could also buy Gigantic. Gigantic is a brand new literary magazine, very big with many very small, very great things inside–like Ed Park's story about visiting a nursing home, Jason Morphew's poem about balls (yes), and lots of drawings that I only want to call "hand-drawn." You should buy Gigantic with your $3.00.
Filed under: events | Tags: Andrew Bulger, Ben Blum, Gigantic, james j. williams iii, Litcrawl NYC, Matt Di Paoli, microreading, shane jones, tao lin, Yuka Igarashi
Gigantic Microreading
Less is more. More is also more.
Please join Gigantic, a new magazine of short prose and art, for three minute readings and/or artistic presentations from Gigantic #1 contributors Tao Lin, Shane Jones, James J. Williams III, Yuka Igarashi, Ben Blum, Andrew Bulger and Matt Di Paoli.
This event is a part of Lit Crawl NYC 2009. For updates and a full schedule of the night's events, check it out here.
Saturday 5.16.09, 8pm
Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY
J, M, or Z to Bowery
B or D to Grand
Ben Blum holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley. He is a fiction intern at The New Yorker and teaches writing to second graders at PS 110.
Andrew Bulger is a Brooklyn based artist and philosopher. He received a graduate degree in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and has since been exploring his preoccupations in art's own language.
Yuka Igarashi is an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Quick Fiction and Gigantic. She lives farther out than you do in Brooklyn.
Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of the forthcoming novella SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL (Sept. 2009, Melville House) and four previous books.
James J. Willams III is an artist and curator. He has had solo exhibtions in New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Miami. James is seeking help for his growing Law and Order addicton.
Matthew Di Paoli is a native New Yorker. At Boston College, he received the Dever Fellowship and recently completed his MFA at Columbia.
Shane Jones is the author of the novel LIGHT BOXES (PGP 2009). His next book, THE FAILURE SIX, will be published by Fugue State Press in January 2010.
Filed under: issue #1 | Tags: Adam Wilson, Anya Yurchyshyn, Ben Blum, Dan Bevacqua, Derek Johnson, Doug Elsass, Ed Park, Gigantic, Gigantic magazine, Justin Taylor, Kenny Aquiles, Kristen O'Toole, Lauren Spohrer, Matt Di Paoli, Pedro Ponce, shane jones, tao lin, Yuka Igarashi
GIGANTIC #1 PREVIEW POST (1 of 3)
Art (with Nate Russell, Todd Zuniga, Jerome Jakubiec and more) and interviews (with Malcolm Gladwell, Deb Olin Unferth, Gary Shteyngart, Sam Lipsyte and more) to come!
One-Sentence Prose Preview
The look of: I want to tear your bloody head off.
Derek Johnson as distorted by Rozalia Jovanovic
It was just large enough for me to fit my arm through.
Ben Blum
Mostly I drive in search of half-wits at public libraries, all day bars, halfway houses, and Sears Roebucks.
Doug Elsass
…taking a wheel off a skateboard and taping the hamster to where the wheel was and trying to skateboard with one wheel as a hamster…
Tao Lin
It wasn't like there wasn't discussion.
Yuka Igarashi
She asks me if I watched the news and I say I don't watch the news and she should know that.
Matt Di Paoli
Ed Park
Our neighbors had been hosting a slumber party.
Kristen O'Toole
"Are we going to have to participate?" my husband asked.
Anya Yurchyshyn
He reminds me that it isn't an ocean, it's a river, and then he asks me what my problem is.
Dan Bevacqua
If asked, I would even say she is sweet all over, and would mean what I said, though of course this is figurative language.
Justin Taylor
Also, we lived in a village of giants.
Shane Jones
Kenny Aquiles
Then he looked at porn on his grandfather's computer and accidentally spilled jizz on his grandfather's tackle box.
Lauren Spohrer
The nightly detonations continue.
Pedro Ponce
"I'm not a bad girl," she said, as if morality had something to do with it.
Adam Wilson


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Picture by Mogulskier: MadPat adding some extra weight. Probably the beer.
After leaving St-Sauveur on May 22, the snow depth looked deep enough that it would survive into June even if the hill was closing the following day. A source had told me that it was still continuous snow from the lift to the top of the pitch on Sunday May 29. On that day South of the border Killington was still offering lift-served skiing, although they was some walking required. K was even hoping to offer some skiing on June 1, however the continued heatwave squashed those plans.
I could have gone to Killington to earn my June turns on the Superstar patches with a number of likeminded snownuts, but I was somewhat afraid of the response I would get from the Customs Officers: drugs testing or locked up in an asylum. So I decided to keep my skiiing shenanigans closer to home this time. Forecast was calling for heavy rain at time on Thursday June 2, but the weather was perfect the Friday June 3, plus I had a partner in crime with Mogulskier. We meet up in front of a very green Mont St-Sauveur, however approaching the mountain you could definitely see some snow was still present higher up on part of Hill 70 and Nordique. The question on the amount was hard to see from a distance; it just looked like a bunch disconnected patches.
Near the base of Hill 70, workers were getting things ready for the Summer activities and Waterpark, so we decided to use a stealth approach in a less obvious location. We joined Hill 70 just above the final pitch and witness our first patch of snow. Snow was semi-continuous on the middle flats on looker's right close to the trees and shade. Someone had definitely been around as the two box features were moved a few feet from the last open day to the remaining snow area. Bri7 had mentioned that the patch was still continuous on Sunday with 2-3 choking point, this was clearly no longer the case. As we moved above the mid part, there was a wet grass/mud field. Through the trees onto the next trail there was the appearance of an important Nordique patch.
Upper pitch with two distinct patches
Picture by Mogulskier: Upper patch
The next important patch was on the upper pitch, however there was a cut/snow bridge on the verge of collapse where a stream. Once we arrived at the clearing at the top of the triple, there was no longer any remaining snow. We dropped on gear and celebrated the verge of my first descent of Quebec June skiing with a couple of bottle of beer. As for Mogulskier, he had skied Mont St-Sauveur with the lift running back in June 1997. We hiked over to take a look at the upper pitch of Nordique and the patch looked more impressive through the trees. It was only one narrow cross trail patch, so not necessarily enough to fight the adversity. The adversity had found us and it was black flies. We quickly chugged what was left of our beer and jumped into our ski boots still attached to our skis.
Where the snow that we saw on Nordique?
Nordique's snow patch partially hidden
Funny, I was so focus on carrying a pair of bottles that I had forgotten my ski poles. D'oh!!! We hurried down from our spot before bug lunch, connecting the patch as best we could via grass and mug skiing. That included the perhaps ill-adverse skiing over the snow bridge. The upper patch was definitely the steepest if you didn't mind the few yards of grass skiing. The main patch was definitely the middle of the trail, a few hundred feet of partially suncupped hard snow. Although it was hot, the snow didn't have the cream cheese fell. The main patch curled over the crest of the pitch with one tiny patch in the middle of the pitch and ended on fresh ankle-deep grass. Fresh tracks top to bottom with only one portage. Woyou!!!!
After reaching our car, we drove off to look at possibility our next mission on the neighbouring ski area in a few weeks time.
Timelapse video of Mogulskier
MadPat's Gallery:
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Contact: Deanne Puca
KALAMAZOO—Downtown Kalamazoo will come alive every Friday through the end of September with local musicians, food trucks, area retail vendors and recreation opportunities including free yoga, badminton and life-size checkers.
Lunchtime Live was originally scheduled to run weekly from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Bronson Park until Friday, Aug. 23. Due to the success of the gatherings, additional dates of Sept. 13, 20 and 27 were added.
Musical guest schedule
- July 26: Branden Mann & The Reprimand, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; parks and recreation camp kids performances, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
- Aug. 2: The Pine Lunch, acoustic/folk
- Aug. 9: Branden Mann & The Reprimand
- Aug. 16: Crescendo Fiddlers
- Aug. 23: Joe Plair, latin/salsa/soul
- Sept. 27: Bronco Dance and Cheer teams, Buster Bronco, Bryce Blowers Trio
For more information, call (269) 337-8295 or visit the City of Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation Facebook page.


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Amid the pandemic of shrinking products that is sweeping the nation, its nearly impossible to find a half-gallon container of ice cream that is still a full half-gallon, or 64 ounces.
First, manufacturers, including one of the downsizing leaders, Breyers (Unilever), shrunk their half-gallon ice cream containers to 56 ounces. More recently, almost all brands have downsized yet again, to 48 ounces (1.5 quarts). See our previous article about Breyer's shrinking their ice cream containers. These days, the freezer at Routing By Rumor headquarters usually does without ice cream. Funny, but when we walk down the frozen food aisle in the supermarket and see the miniaturized containers of ice cream, we loose our taste for the product.
By the way, we realize that we may be jumping to conclusions by blaming the ice cream manufacturers for cheating us out of our hard-earned ice cream. It is entirely possible that this is what is actually going on.
But ice cream lovers (and lovers of value) rejoice ! If you shop at Costco Wholesale, you will still find full half-gallons of "Kirkland" ice cream. Sixty-four creamy, delicious, luxurious, decadent, fat-laden ounces. At about $4.50 per half-gallon, it's less expensive than the anorexic-looking downsized containers of name-brand ice cream at the supermarket, which contain 25% less product. And Costco's house brand of ice cream is available in any flavor you like, as long as it's vanilla. That reminds us of what Henry Ford said about his Model T back in 1909. Poor Henry. He never knew the joy of shopping at Costco.
One of the tenents of shopping at Costco is that you sacrifice variety for value. You also have to buy a carton of two half-gallons at a time, but how many people are going to complain that they are forced to fill up their freezer with ice cream ?
One thing you won't have to sacrifice is quality. Costco branded products have never disappointed us. We have found them to always be superior to the national brands in quality and/or value. Here's a particularly stark example. Gallon containers of milk are $2.25 at Costco. Many local stores charge more for a half-gallon of milk than Costco charges for a gallon ! There are many items at Costco that are priced at less than half of what you'd pay at your local supermarket.
Lest you think that we are little more than shills for Costco, you'll want to know that we aren't crazy about everything at Costco. While many items at Costco might be slightly less expensive than your supermarket's everyday prices, you'll pay less, sometimes a lot less, at your local supermarket when it's on sale. Meat and poultry are perfect examples of this. And when you consider that many items at Costco are sold in huge packages, it won't be a bargain if you have to throw away half of it because you couldn't finish it before it went bad. For instance, a 25 pound sack of flour, a gallon of mayonnaise, or a five gallon jug of vegetable oil are just a bit more than we need. An interesting thing about these institutional-sized packages is that in many cases, the price per pound/quart or whatever unit of measure is used, is not significantly different from your normal supermarket-sized packages. With some items, such as Del Monte or Libby 's canned vegetables, you sometimes end up paying more per can at Costco, despite having to buy a case of a dozen or so cans of peas or string beans, than you would if buying a single can at the supermarket. Same thing goes for cans of soda ("pop", for our Southern readers). We think that in some cases (pun intended), Costco hopes you think you're getting a bargain simply because you're forced to buy such large quantities at a single time. Call it "warehouse club buying momentum", if you will. When you get home and start calculating whether that two-gallon jug of mustard that will last you for the next twelve years was really a good buy, you start to have some regrets, even though it was only nine cents an ounce. The bottom line is that you have to keep your guard up at all times when shopping at a warehouse club. For us, we're better off purchasing many items at a local supermarket.
When you factor in the obligatory ID check at the entrance to Costco, which is guarded by Cerberus himself (good doggie !), and the veritable strip search before they'll let you leave, a trip to Costco isn't a bowl of cherries (but it is arguably a bowl of vanilla ice cream). At least Costco doesn't conduct a cavity search. We get enough of those when we visit our dentist.
Even if you don't have a Costco membership, you can still do better when you shop at your local supermarket. While most supermarket half-gallon house brands of ice cream have shrunk to 56 ounces, they are still a better value than the 48 ounce containers that have become the new standard among the name brands, and the house brands are usually very good quality.
Now, if Costco can manage to keep their half-gallon containers of Kirkland ice cream a full half-gallon, why can't all the the other brands manage to do the same ? That has to qualify as one of the great mysteries of the Universe.


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ZAPAK.com is India's largest free-to-play gaming destination offering millions of casual gamers the choice of over 1000 games across genres like Cricket, Racing, Sports, Action as well as multiplayer games.
Farm Match
Are you able to Crush the farm? A new type of Match-3 game to break your mind! Compete against the clock and collect points while matching crops! But remember to match a crop on each tile of the grid until the time runs out. Two interesting logics combined in this cute game. Play it now. (Best experience on tablet devices)
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Latest Infectious Disease News
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- You're doing better, America, but with only a "B-minus" grade in hand-hygiene habits, you've still got a ways to go, an industry-sponsored survey finds.
This year's results are up from a "C-minus" last year, but the fifth annual "Clean Hands Report Card," distributed by the Soap and Detergent Association, still finds room for improvement.
The good news: 50% of the 888 respondents to the August telephone survey said they wash their hands more than 10 times per day. That's up from 36% the previous year.
And 70% say they wash their hands at least seven times per day.
But there's bad news too. Only 37% of men are washing their hands more than 10 times a day, compared to 62% of women. And nearly half of those surveyed wash their hands for 15 seconds or less (the government recommends hand-washing for at least 15 to 20 seconds). And only 26% always wash their hands after they cough or sneeze.
"The H1N1 pandemic is real. Cold and flu season is on its way. With common sense hygiene practices, good health is literally in our hands," said Nancy Bock, vice president of education for the association, in a prepared statement. "Now is not the time to let our guard down when it comes to cleaning our hands."
--Randy Dotinga
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An interpretation of species expressions as cycle index series. For details on cycle index series, see "Combinatorial Species and Tree-Like Structures", chapter 1.
- zToEGF :: CycleIndex -> EGF
- zToGF :: CycleIndex -> GF
- zCoeff :: CycleIndex -> CycleType -> Rational
- zFix :: CycleIndex -> CycleType -> Integer
- aut :: CycleType -> T
- intPartitions :: Integer -> [CycleType]
- cyclePower :: CycleType -> Integer -> CycleType
zToEGF :: CycleIndex -> EGFSource
Convert a cycle index series to an exponential generating function: F(x) = Z_F(x,0,0,0,...).
zToGF :: CycleIndex -> GFSource
Convert a cycle index series to an ordinary generating function: F~(x) = Z_F(x,x^2,x^3,...).
zCoeff :: CycleIndex -> CycleType -> RationalSource
Extract a particular coefficient from a cycle index series.
zFix :: CycleIndex -> CycleType -> IntegerSource
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Should Academic Free Speech Accommodate Holocaust Denial?Historians/History
If you scratch a Holocaust denier long enough, you may reveal an anti-Semite, but not always. You will, however, probably find someone like the morally repellant Kaukab Siddique, a Pakistani-born, tenured associate professor of English and journalism at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, who seemingly puts great faith in conspiratorial dramas in which a crafty and all-powerful enemy—in this case, Jews—weaves an oft-repeated claim that six million of their people were exterminated just to elicit the world's sympathy and promote Zionism and the creation of Israel.
Siddique has been embroiled in an intellectual firestorm, largely of his own making, since his paroxysms of hatred toward Israel were exposed in a video taken during his appearance at a Labor Day rally in Washington and posted by The Investigative Project and reported on by the Christian Broadcasting Network.
In vitriol-laced language that unfortunately is not at all uncommon these days from the professoriate and many of their impressionable, like-minded students, Siddique was filmed crying out to the crowd at the September 3 event: "I say to the Muslims, 'Dear brothers and sisters, unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism.'" More troublesome than this spectral horror of creeping, pernicious Zionism was Siddique's exhortation to the receptive audience that Zionism itself was an aggressive, dangerous ideology that must be extirpated. "Each one of us is their target and we must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel," he said, "if possible by peaceful means." [Italics mine]
This grotesque anti-Israelism, of course, frequently animates the thinking of broad swathes of the West's intelligentsia, who, obsessed with Third World victimism and a virtual cult of Palestinianism, think nothing of calling for the destruction—by boycott, divestment, de-legitimization, even armed resistance—of Israel, a sovereign nation, American ally, and the single democracy in the Middle East.
But Siddique, it has been revealed since this recent furor began, has an even more pernicious intellectual defect which calls into question, not only his academic credibility, but his very qualifications to hold tenure at a university at all. Because linked to his invidious attitudes about Zionism, Israel, and Jews, Siddique also plays a leadership role in Jamaat al-Muslimeen (JAM), a "radical separatist Islamist" group based in Baltimore that focuses its limited intellectual resources on spewing forth anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and engaging in Holocaust denial. At an August meeting of this inspirational group, for instance, Siddique spoke to the rapt attendees and touched on the same theme of his that was revealed in the D.C. rally, namely, the treachery of Jews and the boundlessness of their power. "We're under the grip of a Jewish Zionist power structure in this country," he told the audience, and further suggested that one reason Jews were able to obscure the sins of Israel and exploit the Holocaust for material and emotional gain was due to the existence of the dreaded "Zionist-controlled media."
When asked about his D.C. rants concerning Zionism and Israel, Siddique was quick to assert, as many crypto anti-Semites are, that he, of course, harbored no enmity towards Jews, only towards pernicious Zionists and their brutal, illegitimate, rogue nation, Israel. In fact, he has previously asserted that JAM is "not against the Jews as a collective," and the only reason "we are against the Jews [is] because they have usurped Palestine and they take interest on loans and have built up the exploitative economic structure," collectively blaming Jews for being rapacious thieves who not only stole Palestinian lands for economic gain, but then used those ill-gotten gains to further manipulate the world economy—a well-worn anti-Semitic trope.
It is one thing for a tenured professor at a modern university to have negative attitudes towards Jews and Israel. It is altogether a more serious matter when a member of the professoriate, as is the case with Siddique, thinks that his academic free speech gives him moral cover to delve into the intellectual netherworld of conspiracies, historical distortions, and full-blown Holocaust denial. In a now widely-circulated email thread on the crackpot conspiracy-theory web site Rense.com, for example, Siddique revealed that his world view creates conspiracies as a way of explaining the unfolding of historical events; his is a pessimistic and frantic outlook, famously characterized by historian Richard Hofstadter as "the paranoid style" of politics, which shifts responsibility from the self to sinister, omnipotent others—typically and historically the Jews.
Thus, in his incoherent ramblings on the site, he suggested that the Nazis were not actually that harmful to European Jewry, a point he attempted to prove by grotesquely and cruelly suggesting that "[t]he German behavior was so good that Elie Wiesel (the arch holocaust propagandist) left Auschwitz WITH the retreating Germans when the Russians advanced towards the camp."
And besides, Siddique continued, was it not the Jews' own propensity for ill-doing that brought on justifiable Nazi anti-Semitic inclinations? In Siddique's feverish imagination, those negative feelings did not, at any rate, amount to a genocide of a whole people. "The Jews," he wrote, "as in America today, controlled the entire economy. German leaders made powerful speeches against Jews but that does not amount to holocaust [sic]."
In fact, Siddique concluded, the "Holocaust is a hoax," so those who still speak about it should "Get over it!", since there "is not even ONE document proving the holocaust [sic]," an assertion that might come as a surprise to the archivists at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and Memorial, as one example, which owns some 51 million pages of documents and 121 million images cataloguing the exact Nazi atrocities Siddique denies ever occurred.
And then in a particularly odious bit of moral relativism, Siddique commits the intellectual parlor trick of grafting onto Israel the Nazi-like crimes he has just finished asserting never happened, again maligning Jews for their perceived omnipotence and power, and Israelis for their crimes against the innocent Palestinians. "Notice that Jews wiped out entire PALESTINIAN villages," he wrote, contrasting this behavior from that of Hitler, "but failed to hide the atrocities in spite of their control of the media." Even worse, Israel's brutal occupation and militancy continues to oppress the Muslim world and then accuse the victims of the crimes Zionist themselves perpetrate. "In Palestine," Siddique wrote, "we Muslims can see how you Jews operate. You kill, rape, destroy, build your cities on our villages and then use your media to label us as terrorists."
If the victim status of Israel—and by extension, all Jews—can be diminished by exposing the lie of the Holocaust, which is what deniers dedicate themselves to achieving, Palestinians become the more aggrieved victim, a people victimized by former victims, the Jews, who spread the lie of their own suffering for material ends. It is not without irony, of course, that while Siddique, not to mention many other anti-Israelites in the West, wants to rob Jews of the piece of dismal history that brought about the extermination of six million of their people, they are eager to regularly repeat the vile comparison they draw between the perceived behavior and shared values of the Jewish state and the Nazi regime. How better to cause the greatest hurt and to speak the gravest criticism than to deny or minimize on one hand that the Nazi atrocities and slaughter ever took place, and then to suggest, that if they did, the people reborn of that fire have descended morally to the same moral level as their former tormenters?
Does it matter if a tenured professor expresses personal opinions, no matter how odious and controversial, and are they not acceptable under the notion of academic free speech? Well, yes and no. With great regularity, academic imbecility and fraudulent scholarship has been substituted for reasoned inquiry on our campuses, and, observes Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, "academic freedom is meant to protect scholarship, not replace it." Nor does "free speech ... absolve anyone from professional incompetence," Rubin says," which is the heart of the matter in a conversation about Professor Siddique and his qualification to be part of a community of scholars where certain ideas and theories simply do not deserve nor warrant academic discourse.
More seriously, Siddique's chronic Holocaust denial, his calls for the destruction of Israel, and his demonization of Zionism, Israel, and world Jewry should be of enormous concern to Lincoln University officials. Far from being "a concerted act by the extreme right wing aligned with Israel to destroy someone who spoke out against them," as Siddique himself characterized the reaction to his odious opinions, his ideas have to be understood as blatantly anti-Semitic, and expressive of raw Jew-hatred, regardless of his own attempt to excuse it as mere criticism of Israel.
In fact, if one applies the working definition of contemporary anti-Semitism, produced in 2005 by the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), to Siddique's core ideologies and attitudes, the anti-Semitic nature of his speech and thought is quite clear. EUMC's definition, specifically, describes behavior as anti-Semitic when an individual makes "mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective;" denies "the fact, scope, . . . or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany . . . during World War II;" and accuses "the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust," all of which animate Siddique's lurid writing and speaking.
Even absent Siddique's moronic denials of the Holocaust, his obsession with and criticism of the perceived power of Jews in controlling the media, manipulating U.S. public policy to further the interests of Israel, having involvement in the attacks on 9/11, not to mention his characterizations of Jews as being treacherous, underhanded, duplicitous, and avaricious—all of these notions, when put into speech or writing, not only rise to the level of what has been deemed anti-Semitism under the EUMC guidelines, but should be of grave concern to administrators at Lincoln, a historically black university which receives significant state funding from Pennsylvania.
Putting aside the fact that Lincoln's own code of conduct forbids "any conduct or behavior that is disrespectful, absurd and rude," and despite the fact that the university has now distanced itself from comments and beliefs Siddique expressed publicly but outside of the campus walls, there should be universal denunciation of the professor's whole belief system, riddled as it is with the darkest and most vile of pathologies and hatreds. Tenure comes with some clear responsibilities, not the least of which is to be an intellectual and moral partner with the academic community with which one has made a professional contract. Saying that is acceptable for a professor to harbor delusional, primitive attitudes about the Holocaust and Jews as long as he only utters his calumnies off campus and not as part of his teaching in the classroom is disingenuous at best, and a craven way that university officials try to excuse the inexcusable in some of their tenured intellectual brats.
This case also exposes a startling double standard that is currently prevalent in academia when it comes to who may say what about whom. Either because they are feckless or want to coddle perceived protected student minority groups in the name of diversity, university administrations are morally inconsistent when taking a stand against what they consider "hate speech," believing, mistakenly, that only harsh expression against victim groups needs to be moderated. When other groups―whites, Christians, Republicans, heterosexual males, Jews, for example―are the object of offensive speech, no protection is deemed to be necessary.
Lawrence Summers, for example, lost the presidency of Harvard for merely suggesting out loud at a closed lecture that the reason women had traditionally not excelled in science and math might be due to genetic differences in the sexes. That is a theory that feminists found repugnant and unacceptable to even utter, but it is certainly not as fantastical or delusional as suggesting that the Holocaust is a fable. And more relevant is Lincoln's own reaction, or lack thereof, to Siddique's anti-Zionist invective at the rally and the subsequent revelations about his Holocaust-denying hobby. Was it not for the waves of criticism coming from Pennsylvania officials, Jewish groups, and others, Siddique's behavior would have continued without comment, and no introspection from the university community would likely have occurred at all.
Imagine for a moment that it was discovered that a tenured professor at Lincoln was "outed" as being a white nationalist, and his postings were sprinkled on the pages of a hate site such as Stormfront.org in which he railed, as visitors to that odious site do, against the dangers of non-whites to white culture, the harm that non-whites do to society through criminality, high birthrates, and low morals, and the overall superiority of the white race to other, lower forms of human existence. Would any member of the Lincoln community care whether or not that professor brought those vile attitudes into his classroom or merely expressed them off campus? Would they say that he had a right to express that type of noxious attitude safely under the umbrella of academic free speech? Could any sentient observer contend that a tenured professor who delved into the perverse intellectual netherworld of neo-Nazism and white supremacism could somehow return to the cocoon of a campus and separate his other life from the person he is when he stands in front of students, helping young minds to thoughtfully explore human thought and achievement?
The answer obviously is that anyone who expressed such feelings in the academic community would be immediately and thoroughly shunned, that his or her actions and speech would be labeled for what they clearly were—repugnant hate speech that has no place on a campus. And when an offense is made to members of one of academia's favored victim groups, the response is immediate, widespread, and thunderous in its self-righteousness.
Consider what happened at the University of California, San Diego, this March, for example, where the entire campus underwent collective apoplexy over some incendiary racial slurs made by students, not a tenured faculty member, involved in an off-campus fraternity party, the racially-insensitive "Compton Cookout," and the discovery of a noose and a roughly-fashioned Ku Klux Klan hood on campus—all of which helped stoke tensions and inflame rage at the perceived racism.
Members of UC San Diego's Black Student Union wasted no time in drafting a six-page memo for school officials (who eagerly embraced them), in which they itemized a veritable encyclopedia of demands by which, it was felt, the racist climate could be modified. Cries of "institutionalized racism" and a "toxic environment" at UCSD were heard. Because the BSU felt that African Americans were being "racially demoralized," those demands included, among others, establishing ethnic studies programs, a "rewrite the Student Code of Conduct," presumably meaning a speech code that would proscribe certain speech deemed inappropriate by the code's creators, and, ominously, a mandatory "diversity sensitivity requirement for every undergraduate student."
While calling for further investigation into the specific incidents that had sparked the outrage, and promising to identify and punish the perpetrators, embarrassed school officials also met with angry minority students, promised to increase efforts at diversity, pledged more minority faculty hiring and student enrollment, set up psychological counseling facilities, met with community leaders and state officials, and even flew in Berkeley's law school dean, Christopher Edley, to help arbitrate the situation.
But at Lincoln University, when a tenured professor demonizes Jews, delegitimizes Israel, accuses Zionists and Israelis of treachery, theft, brutality, and pure evil, and calls for the Muslim world to rise up and destroy the Jewish state by any means necessary, the reaction is grotesquely understated. In fact, the final moral call by Lincoln's administration is that, while Siddique's views are not in keeping with the university's sensibilities, at least he keeps his morally-imbecilic views and ideology safely outside the campus walls where, presumably, they cannot infect the minds of students within.
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Elliott Aron Green - 11/19/2010
This is a summary of the article linked to in my comment above:
http://www.acpr.org.il/Nativ/2007-1-contents.htm#Reason, Science and Progress
Elliott Aron Green - 11/19/2010
Andrew, antisemitism, more properly called Judeophobia, goes back to the time of the Roman Empire. It is not a mere 19th creation, except in the limited sense of the racial theories of HSChamberlain, Wagner, Marr and others. My view is that Luther and Kant had as much influence on producing Nazi Judeophobia as did the racial theorists. Or that the racial theorists were influenced by Luther, Kant, etc.
Peter Kovachev - 11/11/2010
A fascinating background, Andrew, and a probably a helpful therapeutic primal e-scream. Let me guess, you're young, fascinated with yourself, and the hard fact that no one will ever care about your personality's facets as much as your mom, hasn't really sunk in yet. Trust me, it will eventually and life will go on.
Beginning response with claims to Jewishness and autobiographies is not a good idea. Claims to Jewishness do not place one in a special club, rendering him immune from being judged as hostile to Jewish aspirations, or even from being called a raving antisemite. Unfortunately, the strange phenomenon of the self-hating Jew is a historical and present reality; just pick up some history books, or have a few drinks with J-Street types.
Even less of interest to most are jujune theses on world history and bombastic pronouncements like, "Adolph Hitler was simply a logical outgrowth of nineteenth-century nationalism." It's that simple, is it? Gosh, if I had known back at university.
Or, "the answer to Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish National Homeland. What would that have been worth if Field Marshall Montgomery had lost the battle of El Alamein..." Great point; and what would a Jewish National Home have been worth if a meteor had struck Earth and obliterated everyone except five tribesmen in Borneo? Tip: It's usually not very effective to argue with might-have-beens which never happened.
Lastly, non-sequiturs should be avoided at all cost. To wit, your, "I suppose the boundary cases involve great apes, whose mentality merges with that of children" doesn't appear to be attached to any of your points. Non-sequiturs may not affect the thrust of your arguments, but the reader is justified in pondering whether they are a product of a brilliant mind or, sadly enough as the case usually is, whether such literary ejaculations reveal issues with substance abuse, or cognitive or emotional disabilities. It's a rough, cold world out there, and although some of us may be able to guess at your points, don't expect everyone to do so.
Andrew D. Todd - 11/11/2010
Just to set the record straight, an ultra-orthodox rabbi would consider me an unobservant Jew. A German Nazi would consider me a "Zebra," and if I wanted to claim Israeli citizenship, I could. As it happens, I consider myself an American, one of Hector St. John de Crevecour's "Noveau Hommes," with ancestors from many countries, not to mention those who arrived over the Bering land-bridge, fourteen thousand years ago. When I was a child, I attended a school and a community center run by (progressive) Jewish organizations. Both Christmas and Channuka were celebrated. So stop calling me a shiksa!
Adolph Hitler was simply a logical outgrowth of nineteenth-century nationalism. It was mere chance, the luck of battles in 1815 or 1870 or 1914, that he was an ethnic German, rather than a Frenchman like Jean-Marie Le Pen. Parenthetically, I gather there is a certain persistent doubt about whether Hitler might have had Jewish ancestry (at this late date, who can prove who a girl slept with or didn't sleep with, circa 1850). Nineteenth-century nationalism implies purging those who are seen to be a little bit less "national" than the others, and then, having eliminated them, repeating the process on another group who are not perfectly "national." And so on. In Northern Ireland, to cite one example, Orange Day is colloquially known as "Kick the Papishes Day." All Hitler really did was to synthesize nineteenth-century nationalism with the violence of total war. He is in fact Hans Helmut Kirst's character "General [Toten]-Tanz" in _The Night of the Generals_.
The answer to Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish National Homeland. What would that have been worth if Field Marshall Montgomery had lost the battle of El Alamein, and Field Marshall Rommel had taken Cairo, and had then passed through Palestine, en route to turn the Russian flank on the Caspian Sea, to come into Stalingrad via the back door as it were? The answer is to push political and civil rights outward, far enough that Jews are not conspicuous aliens. This is in effect Pastor Martin Niemoller's "When they came for the Jews..." argument. In its time, this approach produced Jewish Freedom Riders. I suppose the boundary cases involve great apes, whose mentality merges with that of children.
Peter Kovachev - 11/10/2010
"Anti-semitism of the Israeli state"? Did you make this howler up yourself just to provoke a talking point, Mr Todd? It is one of the stupidest swipes at Israel I've read in a while.
For anyone serious who is reading this, yes there is vigorous Orthodox opposition to Reform and other liberal movements, not all of it fairly fought. It is not, however, the only or even the biggest obstacle Reform and other forms of liberal Judaism face in Israel.
The majority of Israelis are not readily attracted to Reform mostly because it is a Western European and North American response by an assimilated religious and cultural minority to issues which Israelis, given their circumstances and challenges find, rightly or wrongly, picayune. And it doesn't help either that the Reform movement in the U.S. has been distancing itself from Israel politically, physically and emotionally, while readily embracing with abandon almost any trendy liberal cause du jur.
This has left some of the Reform's more excitable activists confused and angry, seeing that while many Israelis may choose to be moderately or entirely non-observant, and that they admire some of the platforms of the Reform, when push comes to shove, they tend to choose what they consider to be authentic, time-proven and much more vibrant traditional kinds of Judaism represented not by a fictional monolithic "Orthodox rabbinate," but by the rich and very diverse collection of Orthodox movements on finds in Israel.
There are, indeed, legitimate complaints liberal Jewish congregations and secular Israelis can make both against sectors of the Orthodox political establishment and Israel's governments. However, a good chunk of the critique comes from hostile types like our Mr Todd, who pretend to know or care about Israeli and Jewish internal religious issues and in the fashion of all intellectual scavengers, will use any handy tool and all the provocative lingo and questionable factoids to bludgeon Israel and the Jews.
Andrew D. Todd - 11/10/2010
At some point, one has to talk about the anti-semitism of the Israeli state, that is, the harassment of Reform Jews by the official Orthodox rabbinate. Harry Golden dealt with this in _The Israelis_ (1971). As Golden pointed out, Israel is not a nation of Orthodox Jews, so much as it is a nation of non-observant Secularized Jews, who simply don't care enough about religion to be affected by what Orthodox Rabbis do.
Here are some more recent sources. Nothing much seems to have changed:
Peter Kovachev - 11/9/2010
Mr Hanby, as an active and proud Zionist, I protest your reduction of Zionism to the vague, and obviously unfavourable characterization as a "separatist ideology."
Given the fact that most ideologies and all expressions of religious, national or cultural pride out there can in one way or another be interpreted as "separatist," the term has hardly any meaning other than to be demeaning to Jews specifically.
Zionism is, simply, a Jewish form of nationalism, held by the vast majority of committed Jews worldwide, and comes in many forms, expressions and political shades. In its modern form, it emerged as a practical response to centuries of attempts to destroy Judaism as a religion and Jews as a people. How is Zionism "hurtful to American Jews"? (Recent stats show Americans' support of Israel and sympathy with Jews to be quite high.) And, even if this were truly the case, would it be justified to single out the Jews as the only group in America not entitled to particularistic sentiments? Would you describe Gay Pride parades, the Million Man March, Latin festivals and Chinese New Year fests as "orgies of separatism"?
Sure, people are entitled to their own opinions out there, but in my experience, if you scratch "anti-zionism" even superficially, the ugly face of Jew-hatred will peek back at you.
Charles S. Weinblatt - 11/8/2010
Americans love free speech. We believe that people should be allowed to say anything, as long as it is personally defaming. Yet, with such freedom also comes responsibility. When a university professor denies the Holocaust and calls for the destruction of Israel, he can inflict significant damage to Jews and Judaism.
Captured German war records, available at the US National Archives, prove that millions of innocent Jews and tens of thousands of others were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany - mostly in gas chambers. These facts have been proven repeatedly through countless thesis and dissertation research papers (see Nuremberg Trial records, Yad Vashem, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Emory University and many other cherished academic institutions). Virtually every History PhD in the free world will stake their career on these known Holocaust facts. Despite this knowledge, Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. Deniers have a sordid agenda - to distort the truth in a way that promotes antagonism against Jews, and to deny the culpability of their ancestors and heroes.
Museums and mandatory public education are appropriate tools to dispel bigotry, especially racial and ethnic hatred. Books and films can also establish the veracity of genocides, such as recent Holocaust films. They help to tell the true story of the perpetrators of genocide; and they reveal the abject terror, humiliation and degradation resulting from such blind loathing and prejudice. We must disclose the cruelty and horror of genocide to combat the deniers' virulent and inaccurate historical revision. By doing this, we protect vulnerable future generations from making the same mistakes.
Whenever we stand up to those who deny or minimize genocide we send a critical message to the world. As we continue to live in an age of genocide and ethnic cleansing, we must repel the broken ethics of our ancestors, or risk a dreadful repeat of past transgressions. A world that continues to allow genocide requires ethical remediation. We must show the world that religious, racial, ethnic and gender persecution is wrong; and that tolerance is our progeny's only hope. Only through such efforts can we reveal the true horror of genocide and promote the triumphant spirit of humankind.
Charles Weinblatt
Author, Jacob's Courage
Alonzo L Hamby - 11/8/2010
It is one thing to hate Zionism, a separatist ideology that I happen to think hurtful to American Jews. It is another to hate Israel, for all its faults a fundamentally liberal democratic country existing in a sea of Middle Eastern authoritarianism and corruption. But people are entitled to their opinions.
No intelligent interpretation of academic freedom, however, legitimates the teaching of untruths. No one who examines the record of World War II can credibly deny that the Nazis wanted to kill millions of Jews and, while one may quibble about the precise numbers, were horribly successful at it.
That said, the tone of this article is troubling in its shrillness, and its focus on one extremist obscures the much greater fact that it has become broadly acceptable on American campuses to attack Israel intemperately and rather dangerous to say anything critical about the Islamic world.
A couple of days after 9/11, I was asked to serve on a panel discussion of the event, along with four or five other Ohio University faculty members. One highly edcucated idiot launched into a long monologue blaming the attack on Israel! This unfortunately was not an uncommon, one-of-a-kind event in academia.
Nicholas Clifford - 11/8/2010
I can't quote chapter and verse on this, but my memory is that the AAUP documents on academic freedom apply rather more narrowly than many think. Of course you are free under the first amendment to express whatever ideas you like. But if you wish to appeal to academic freedom (under the AAUP's understanding of the term. your academic freedom is limited to those matters in which you are competent. Is an English professor competent to deny the Holocaust? An overly simple answer might be, Yes, as an individual; No, under the AAUP guidelines. Being "morally imbecilic" about the Holocaust, Israel, or for that matter, the Palestinians, is not a crime; but I don't think it can claim academic freedom as protection, unless it is within the competence of the "moral imbecile."
Maybe someone more up to date on AAUP matters and interpretations can set me straight on this.
John D. Beatty - 11/8/2010
When the Greens listen respectfully to those who claim that climactic change is a natural cycle, and when the Truther mantra of 9/11 as an "inside job" is accepted as an academic argument, we can allow Holocaust denial to be a legitimate academic position.
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IOM Increases Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions for South Sudan Refugees to Avert Spread of Hepatitis E
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- IOM is intensifying the digging of emergency latrines and increasing its hygiene promotion activities at Doro camp, one of four refugee camps established in South Sudan's Upper Nile State over the past year for more than 115,000 refugees fleeing violence in Sudan's Blue Nile State.
IOM is providing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to over 40,000 refugees at Doro camp. Although current standards of access to water and sanitation stand at 21 liters per person per day and 15 persons per latrine, the organization is intensifying sanitation and hygiene promotion efforts in response to an outbreak of hepatitis E, notably in areas on the edge of the camp where the first suspected cases were reported.
"We're currently working on the construction of an additional 336 latrines in the villages of Jumjum and Ingasana. At this point 200 have been completed," says IOM Chief of Mission in South Sudan Vincent Houver.
"Additional community hygiene promoters are also being deployed and water tanks are being installed to ensure that people in outlying areas of the camp get better access to clean water and sanitation. They are currently potentially vulnerable to the spread of waterborne diseases that have already broken out in other camps," he adds.
IOM is also working with partners to reduce the risk of transmission of waterborne diseases through the chlorination of drinking water, by increasing the number of hand washing points and by ramping up the distribution of soap and other hygiene materials.
Sensitization and community mobilization initiatives are being carried out in parallel with these activities to educate camp residents on the proper use of latrines and hand washing facilities.
In September 2012, South Sudan's Ministry of Health announced an outbreak of Hepatitis E in three refugee camps - Jamam, Gendrassa and Yusif Batil. Hepatitis E is a virus that causes an infection of the liver and can be transmitted by consuming water and food contaminated with faeces.
Symptomatic infection is most common in young adults, but the virus poses the greatest risk to pregnant women. To date, close to 5,000 suspected Hepatitis E cases have been identified across the Maban area, according to the latest data from South Sudan's Ministry of Health.
IOM has been operating in Maban since December 2011, supporting the UNHCR-led response to the influx of refugees. It provides transport assistance through a common transport system, as well as WASH interventions, working closely with humanitarian partners.
IOM, which is currently working in Maban with support from Canada and Italy, is appealing for USD 13 million to support its South Sudan refugee response in 2013. Unless new funding is found, the programme will run out of money in March.


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Toshiba Corporation has started sampling the world's first series of Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) equipped with features to "wipe" protected data from the disk if the disk drive is removed from the host platform.
Wipe Technology allows users to determine a range of security settings, including invalidation of encryption keys and data invalidation when a drive is removed from its housing or connected to an unauthorized host system.
As a successor to the MKxx61GSYD series, the 2.5 inch MKxx61GSYG range starts with the MK1661GSYG, a 160 gigabytes (GB) 7,200rpm SATA3 drive, and contains five models up to the 640GB MK6461GSYG. Using government-grade AES-256 encryption these SEDs offer a range of security features including:
- Invalidation of all data by the system – This invalidates all data. This feature is designed for use prior to system disposal or re-purposing to ensure that private data never leaves the control of the responsible business unit or the IT department.
- Invalidation of data on powering down – The HDD encryption key is automatically invalidated when the drive's power supply is turned off. If a Wipe Technology SED drive is removed from a system, it can be set to invalidate all data on the drive.
- Invalidation of data when the equipment is connected to an unauthorized system – When an SED HDD is inserted into a system it triggers "challenge response"authentication to confirm the system is known to the HDD. If the authentication fails, the HDD automatically deletes the encryption key. This level counteracts attempts to read a drive by physically removing it from a secure host system and installing it in another system.
The Toshiba AES-256 encryption algorithm implementation is certified by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through its Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP).


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"This shows pretty much my backline of amps. All of my Marshalls have been modified by Alan Cyr of the Amp Exchange in Woodland Hills, California. He is the best amp guru alive for Marshall amps. They all have Mercury iron and just blister like nothing I have ever heard. I also have a Divided by 13 FTR 37 that Fred Taccone built for me a few years ago. His stuff is very unique -- super big clean sounds and a Marshall-Vox-like kind of brown sound on the click channel.
"I still pretty much plug a guitar directly into a Marshall and use the volume as a gain control for my main sound. Sometimes I will Y two amps together and have one DSL 100 with a slight delay and the other 59 HW head or 50 watt JCM 800 as pure tone.
"In the first photo, you also see a bunch of Gibson Custom guitars and a lineup of custom-built Strats. I got a little carried away with finding the best body wood/neck combinations last year so I built 15 of them. I also have experimented with a ton of pickup manufacturers like Seymour Custom winds, Suhr, DiMarzio, Nordstrand and a few others. My favorite pickup is pretty much a BurstBucker in a Les Paul Historic. They just sound like an open vowel waiting for your strings to vibrate. They are open, airy, clean, crunchy, stingy and have a ton of balls and low end while still being very clear and well-balanced.
"I have tried most [pickup] manufacturers cold and hot. For singles I like Seymour Duncan Custom calibrated set of Alnico 2: 6.5, 6.5 (RW Middle),6.5. MJ knows what she is doing and is great to work with. The John Suhr v60 LPs are equally as awesome for single coils. I have never tried a BurstBucker in a Strat, so I stick with Seymour or DiMarzio humbuckers. I like the five-way Superstrat wiring where you take two humbuckers and split the north coils on position 2 and the south coils on position 4. Since the pickups are reverse of each other this makes all five positions humbucking. I usually use a hi-pass filter on the volume so it rolls down clean and sparkly.


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In 2011, I brought my family to Sacred 'Iao Valley. We also brought the Pōhaku Wānānā o Pai'ea. His mo'olelo he shared was "Created in the fires of Halema'uma'u by the hands of Pele, and the waters of Kanaloa, for the prophet Ke'eaunaoa; I bear the face of Nae'ole and share the Spirit of Kū. I tell the story of the Killer of Chiefs. I am the embodiment of Ke Akua/'Io, who are one in the same. I am the tangible proof given to Ke'eaunaoa to show Keku'iapoiwa (Kamehameha's Mother) that the prophecy is true, and name Nae'ole as her son's kahu and keeper."
While there, we chanted and prayed for the lives lost in the Battle of Kepaniwai, to help those ready to ascend, and to help Heal the history between the warring families and islands to find forgiveness for each other. Many tears were shed. On a return trip to the valley, a kupua, or supernatural Spirit showed herself next to a pōhaku in the river. Her face slightly changed in the current, but she remained for several minutes.


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For those of you who are curious about the real differences between Hypercat and Pyrocat MC, I have some curves that demonstrate their respective characteristics in a very graphic way.
A friend was kind enough to email me some curves Sandy King posted for some of the litter of Pyrocats, and I have a curve for Hypercat that makes for an interesting comparison. King doesn't give information regarding developer dilution, or temperature, but being somewhat familiar with his testing practices, I'll speculate that the dilution
is the standard 1:1:100, the development temp is 72F, and agitation is rotary, probably in BTZS-type tubes.
The Hypercat curve was generated as follows:
dilution- 1:3:200
time- 7:30
temp.- 70F
agitation- Rotary, Jobo
densitometry- blue diffuse
About dilutions and concentrations
While Hypercat and Pyrocat MC are very similar in formulation, it can be confusing to decipher their respective dilutions, because Hypercat is 2X as concentrated as Pyrocat MC, and Hypercat uses a 20% sodium carbonate solution as its B solution, while Pyrocat MC uses a 75% potassium carbonate solution. For clarity of comparison, the developers as tested contain/ liter of working solution:
catechol .5g
metol .025g
ascorbic acid .04g
potassium carbonate 7.5g
catechol .5g
ascorbic acid .025g
sodium carbonate 3g
The curve for Hypercat was generated during tests for optimum carbonate concentration. All of the tests were developed identically in my Jobo ATL 2 Plus processor, for 7:30/70F, but the carbonate concentration varied from 1:1:200-1:12:200, and it is the carbonate concentration that appears where development time usually does. So, where it says "Curve=3:00", that indicates the dilution was 1:3:200, and not that the film was developed for 3:00 minutes.
Contrast and SBR are equivalent for a common paper ES, flare density, and speed calculation method.
Film speed-
For an equivalent normal contrast, Hypercat gives an EFS (Effective Film Speed) of 160-, and Pyrocat-MC gives an EFS of 125+. This is not a big difference, but might surprise some who have read Sandy's claims that Hypercat loses speed compared to the Pyrocats.
Development times-
For normal contrast, an equivalent dilution and development method, Hypercat requires 7:30 min @ 70F, and Pyrocat-MC requires 10:00 min/72F. This might surprise a lot of people, considering Hypercat contains no secondary reducer, and 60% less carbonate than Pyrocat MC.
Hypercat produces more image stain than Pyrocat MC. Metol and ascorbic acid both reduce stain formation, and Pyrocat MC contains more than 2X as much combined ascorbate and metol, as the ascorbic acid content of Hypercat.
Hypercat produces less fog than Pyrocat MC, probably because it uses less than 1/2 as much alkali as Pyrocat MC. Didn't Haist say something like -"If you have too much fog, you have too much alkali"?
Hypercat is sharper than Pyrocat MC. Because Hypercat uses no secondary reducer, it tans and stains more efficiently than Pyrocat MC.
Hypercat produces finer grain than Pyrocat MC, because it stains more efficiently, works at a lower pH, and contains no metol.
I think Pyrocat MC is a very good developer, but in my experience, and in comparative testing, Hypercat performs better. There are very few single-agent developers, fewer single-agent tanning/staining developers, and none like Hypercat, that are made up in glycol and produce full film speed.
The formula:
Hypercat A
catechol 10g
ascorbic acid .5g
propylene glycol 90ml
Hypercat B
distilled water 750ml
sodium carbonate 200g
distilled water to 1 liter
mixing A
Add the catechol and ascorbic acid to the glycol at room temp, heat to
125-150F with stirring until dissolved. Allow to cool to room temp
before storing in a plastic container. The color of the stock solution
should be clear to very light amber.
To make a liter of 1:3:200 working solution, add 750ml water, 5ml Stock A solution, and 15ml stock B solution to mixing container, and top up with water to 1 liter. Enjoy.


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De Drekwagen (garbage wagon or street sweeper's cart) was a name given by Leenaert Bouwens to the Waterlander group of the Dutch Mennonites, because they admitted into the membership of their congregations even those persons who were banned by the other Mennonites, and also because they accepted members of other Mennonite branches without rebaptizing them.
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica, 10 vols. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914: VII, 55, 465, 523f.
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July 17, 2017 – Friendship is a deep emotional stake that cannot be ignored, especially while growing up; it forms, reshapes and helps define the world we live in, this is the story of Mark Schneider and Jimmy Miley, a childhood friendship that is really the story within the bigger story. A story of how the tragedy in both Men's lives can be overcome when chance brings them back together to create a film of the heart-wrenching passion of Brotherhood devotion & deep love never witnessed by 2 Brothers. The story of Jimmy & Buddy Miley.
The friend duo Mark Schneider and Jimmy Miley grew up in a small suburban town of Warminster located outside of Philadelphia PA, in the mid-sixties through 1977. They grew together as kids, paperboys, and teammates in Junior Football to Junior high school sharing a lot of memories together. But on one fateful day, their friendship took a new toll. Jimmy's older Brother, Buddy, was severely injured in a tragic high school football game, when Buddy became paralyzed; His big brother superstar quarterback would become a quadriplegic.
Notwithstanding, the friendship of Schneider & Miley continued as Mark would visit Brother's Buddy and Jimmy many times a week at their home while they both continued on with their lives, which continued over the years. However the family of Schneider tasted of the pie, they experienced an issue of grief as Mark's little brother Glenn, lost his life to leukemia. The Schneider's family moved to Florida in 1977 to start afresh- a new family life.
Jimmy & Mark lost contact from that time on as there were no means of inexpensive communication, no cheap calls, social media, and other platforms were not in existence. The friendship was seemingly over, both men moved on with their respective lives. Schneider knew a little of how Buddy was doing from old neighborhood friends of his Mom's, but that was it.
Over the years Schneider took a learned direction and became a very successful entrepreneur, and inventor, selling his products worldwide for millions of dollar. Sadly, by this time in 2005, Schneider was coming out of another family tragedy when his own mentor, his Dad committed suicide, prompting him to take a hiatus and move his family to Costa Rica for complete recuperation and healing at their family vacation home there.
Like a story waiting to be shared across the world, Mark stumbled upon a book written about the Miley's, got hold of the book and remembered the bond shared together with them, a great story indeed that tells of sacrifice, love, and compassion. After the book, he knew there was much more to the story of Jimmy and Buddy. Years later, Mark read that Buddy asked Jimmy a final wish to assist him to Detroit to meet Dr. Jack Kervorkian. The rest is a documented history.
Mark then reached out to Jimmy after nearly 40 years later, they reconnected with the help of modern communication platforms, Mark told Jimmy he felt the story was off a bit from what he remembered; they hit it off like old times. Jimmy and Mark spoke many times over a period of a few months like no time had ever passed between them; Mark so intrigued about what Jimmy had been through in his own personal prison of tragedy invited Jimmy down to Costa Rica, he wanted to explore doing a screenplay on the true story of the Miley Brothers. Did they have a time together? Lots of laughter, love, tears and great times like they never lost touch.
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This Culinary Trail Guide to Canada's Food Island , is your guide to some of the Island's most unique and exciting culinary attractions. We invite you to explore the Culinary Trail. Experience and celebrate our food culture on PEI.
YOU HEAR "mmmmmm" a lot on Prince Edward Island. It's the sound of people savouring their first bite of lobster supper. Or Malpeque oysters freshly harvested from the bay. Or a PEI potato cooked to perfection. There's a renewed appreciation for local ingredients of late, and that can only mean one thing: seafood, meat and veggies that have taken the shortest possible route from source to plate. Put those ingredients into the hands of award winning chefs, and just imagine the results. Better yet, come taste for yourself. We have the best in fine dining, casual, and family restaurants, as well as an assortment of cuisines that just may surprise you.
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Officially, it was three years ago that the NFL first acknowledged that repeated concussions can indeed have a long-term effect on mental health. In the six years before that, the league had taken the opposite stance, publishing a series of scientific papers that denied any link between football and brain trauma.
Yet starting in the late 1990s, according to reporting by ESPN's Outside the Lines and PBS's Frontline program, the league's retirement board agreed to pay more than $2 million in disability benefits to three former players after determining that football had left them with devastating brain injuries. The reporters obtained documents and medical records from the disability claim filed in 1999 by the late Steelers center Mike Webster.
This is potentially huge news. Nearly 4,000 former players are party to a federal lawsuit that accuses the NFL of covering up a football-brain trauma link. A lawyer who represented Webster's claim told the reporters the disability payments were "a proverbial smoking gun" for the former players' case, which the NFL has asked to have dismissed. And to judge by the reaction of its spokesman, Greg Aiello, the league was completely blindsided by the revelation:
The NFL declined to comment for this story, but league spokesman Greg Aiello emphasized in an email that the retirement board is independent, and that its decisions "are not made by the NFL or by the NFL Players Association."
The seven-member NFL retirement board is composed of three owner representatives, three player representatives, and a non-voting representative of the NFL commissioner. Among its duties is deciding individual disability claims.
In other words, the NFL is already trying to say that a retirement board comprising NFL owners, NFL players, and someone from the NFL commissioner's office has nothing to do with the NFL.
Webster died in 2002 at the age of 50, after which he was the first former NFL player to be diagnosed with CTE. His financial and mental problems were well known when he applied for benefits in '99, but he was only granted partial benefits because the retirement board determined his disability had not surfaced until long after his career was over. His estate successfully sued to get the full benefits three years later.
The Outside the Lines/Frontline report says that based on documents provided to Webster's family as part of the suit, the NFL in 2004 turned over a list of 11 players who had filed claims for disabilities they said had resulted from playing in the NFL. Nine were refused, but two other players had previously been granted "total and permanent" disability benefits. One is former Browns lineman Gerry Sullivan, a plaintiff in the players' suit against the NFL whose post-NFL career as an executive became undone by erratic behavior. The other was a player whose name was redacted from the documents.
The neurologist who examined Webster in '99, Dr. Edward L. Westbrook, told the OTL/Frontline reporters he was asked by the retirement board to check out "at least a half dozen players who had filed disability claims based on traumatic brain injury":
Westbrook, speaking for the first time to the media after receiving permission from Webster's family, said he was "impressed and maybe horrified by … the degree of injury" in the players he examined. Most suffered from some form of mental impairment, Westbrook said, including one case of Parkinson's disease in a young retired player with no family history of the syndrome.
Westbrook said he had no doubt that Webster's problems were caused by "multiple hits" related to football.
Meanwhile, from 2003 to 2009, the league's brain-injury committee published numerous papers saying that "no NFL player" had sustained long-term brain damage that resulted from concussions.
NFL Board Paid $2M to Players While League Denied Football-Concussion Link [PBS]


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Family Fun Duck Race
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Rotary Gym Bike Ride for Prostate Cancer - Saturday 18th June
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Family Fun Duck Race at Barton's Mill, Old Basing to raise funds for the Dial-A-Ride charity.details
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Selected Charities for 2013-14
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Do you live in northern Australia? Lucky you — you're one of the few people on Earth who will be able to watch today's solar eclipse in person. For everyone else, your best bet is to watch it unfold online. The total solar eclipse (the last to occur before March 2015) is set to begin today at 15:35 ET (20:35 GMT). Hit the jump for some live video feed.
The first feed comes courtesy of the Astronomical Association of Queensland, which will be broadcasting live eclipse coverage from over Cairns, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. The webcast is set to kick off around 13:00 ET (10:00 PT/ 18:00 GMT / 5:00 local Australia time), so be sure to check in before 15:35 ET, when the eclipse begins:
Those looking for a more interactive experience should check out this feed, hosted by the folks at SLOOH Space Camera. They'll be broadcasting live from Cairns, Australia starting around 11:30 AM PST / 2:30 PM EST / 19:30 UTC. You'll also be able to pitch questions to astronomical experts and capture pictures of the eclipse live from the SLOOH homepage using Pinterest.
And if you're fortunate enough to find yourself in northern Australia this afternoon (or rather morning, by you), congrats. Remember to take precautions when observing the eclipse. Check out the tail end of this post for tips on how to watch it safely.