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13 Months ago the original Surface Pro hit the stores, and I was one of the first in line to buy one. I quickly installed everything I needed to make it into one of my development machines and wrote a blog post discussing my initial impressions.
Back then, one of my biggest concerns was the 128G hard drive. Would this be big enough for a development machine? After installing Visual Studio along with the necessary add-ons that I needed, I ended up with about 70G of free space.
That was 13 months ago. What about today? I've installed a few other programs--most notability Visual Studio 2013 (along side ...
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In this video I describe the basics of image correlation. I actually wrote these utilities over 15 years ago in Delphi. That's the cool thing about math, it's timeless. It doesn't matter what you write it in. Links Statistical Functions Image Correlation Proof of Concept (Windows 8.1) Image Correlation Function Details in C#
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Attached Properties review : http://blog.falafel.com/Blogs/BaryNusz/bary-nusz/2013/01/16/using-generic-attached-properties-to-simplify-windows-8-settings-charm-pages
Telerik HubTile: http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-8/controls-xaml/hubtile.aspx
Falafel Bugs for Windows 8: http://www.falafel.com/store/falafel-bugs-for-windows-8
Boring example: https://github.com/physicspackage/Boring.git
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Monday, July 22, 2013   Comments
This is a follow up to my previous video blog post Processing real-time video with a Windows Store application using C#. In this video we are doing the same thing, but with a Windows Phone.
You can download the updated example with both the Windows Store and Windows Phone projects here. Here is an old blog post about displaying the Windows Phone camera preview with XAML.
The Nokia Imaging SDK.
The Nokia Real-time Filter Demo.
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Here is a video blog post of an example I came up with to see how fast I could process a real-time video stream in a Windows Store application. I was surprised with the results. Watch in HD and fullscreen!
I got the tip on how to do the grayscale from here.
You can download the example here.
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The Cowtown Code Camp in Fort Worth Texas is this Saturday, Mar 16th. I'll be speaking about "Windows 8 & Windows Phone XNA graphics and sensor integration" at 4 PM. Nokia has seen fit to name me a "Nokia Developer Champion". I, along with Falafel Software, look forward to working with Nokia and working to improve the Windows Phone ecosystem. My talk at the Cowtown Code Camp will be filled with lots of examples and hands-on demos. For those who are attending, I'll be giving away one of my custom designed and 3D printed phone stands for the Nokia 920 ...
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For years I've always liked the idea of having the ability to develop on the road. Few who know me would ever deny that I'm a true road warrior, although I'm beginning to slow down. Whether it was taking my kids all over the world to fence, chasing storms, hiking off the trail, or even jet skiing at the lake, I often had my laptop with me. I've come up with some of my best ideas while on the road. However, the size and bulk of my various laptops always had me wishing for something else.
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I've always liked attached properties… so much so that a couple of years ago I created a series of generic classes to simplify the process of creating custom attached properties.
Creating a custom attached property only takes a few lines of code. Many declarative ...
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Augmented Reality (AR) applications have been making headway into our lives. Probability the most recognized AR use is the yellow first down marker used on TV for most football games. AR apps have also been creeping into our phones. My current favorites are SkyMap and Wikitude. Being an engineer and scientist, I've always been interested in how things work. The inner workings of AR could not escape my interest, especially with access to such tools as our new smart phones. What makes AR possible in today's new phones are the MEMS and GPS sensors. The MEMS sensor is used ...
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Falafel just released a new mobile application that displays the magnetometer sensor of your Windows Phone 7. In addition to displaying the magnetometer, it also displays true north, and the up vector all in a "floating compass" 3D view. I've been playing around with the concept of using the accelerometer and magnetometer sensors and displaying them in a nice 3D format for some time now, as evidenced by my posts: Silverlight/XNA and Correcting WP7 Attitude Alignment, Showing the WP7 Magnetometer in 3D with XNA/Silverlight, WP7 Attitude and Magnetometer UPDATE with HTC Titan, Basic XNA Graphics for the ...
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Friday, July 13, 2012   Comments
In my previous blog I talked about loading a simple non-textured SketchUp model into your Windows Phone application. This blog will deal with loading textured SketchUp models.
I did some searching about and found a textured SketchUp model online of the Moon and Earth.
Using the same DirectX/XNA Exporter Plugin from the last blog, I exported them. What you end up with is an DirectX file and a jpg file for each texture used in your model. You need to put these files in your Content project directory and make sure you include the DirectX files in the ...
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In some of my previous WP7 blogs, such as Basic XNA Graphics for the WP7, I go over how to build basic 3D models for your applications. What happens when you want something more complex? You need a good 3D tool to generate those models for you. I started exploring Google SketchUp as a possibility for generating 3D models for the WP7. I found Jim's Blog on how to load a Google SketchUp model into a XNA game. Jim used the DirectX/XNA Exporter Plugin. So I installed the plugin and started playing around. I thought it would ...
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I've been looking at several alternate reality application ideas and how to best show the real world on the phone. It's easy to get the camera preview to show up in a WP7 application, but sometimes you want to maximize the camera preview in the screen. One problem is that the camera preview is a different size and aspect ratio than the WP7 screen. The size differences are illustrated below.
The WP7 screen is 480x800 and the camera preview is 480x640. If you want to show controls, then you can use the extra space at the top and bottom. ...
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Monday, February 13, 2012   Comments
If you missed my blog about showing the WP7 magnetometer in 3D with an XNA/Silverlight application, you can read about it by clicking here. We are in the process of putting this application in the Marketplace so you'll be able to check it out on your phone shortly. One of the steps in the Marketplace process is coming up with screenshots of the application. You can always use the screen capture option in the Windows Phone Emulator; however, in this case it was going to take some code to emulate the magnetometer sensor. Figuring out how to take screen ...
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Monday, December 19, 2011   Comments
With Christmas coming up soon, what better blog can a nerdy geek come up with than to explain how to draw a Santa hat on the WP7 using the XNA Graphics Framework.
I've been working with computer graphics on and off for most of my 20+ year career. For me, it all started with OpenGL in the early 90's. Since then I've worked with DirectX and now XNA. It's amazing how little things have changed over that time. All those frameworks are based on triangles and arrays of vertices and normals. When you learn one of those frameworks, you ...
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With the release of the HTC Titan, I needed to update a couple of my previous blogs.
In my blog Silverlight/XNA and Correcting WP7 Attitude Alignment, I talked about how to correct for any misalignment of the Attitude sensors with the phone body. With my Samsung Focus, I found that the Attitude alignment was off by about 3 degrees, which was noticeable in my compass application. The HTC Titan does not need any Attitude adjustment; its Attitude sensors are already inline with the phone body.
In my blog Showing the WP7 Magnetometer in 3D with XNA/Silverlight, I ...
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Wednesday, November 16, 2011   Comments
In my last post I came up with a simple compass application and how to correct for sensor misalignments. In that application I had a blue arrow that always points up and a yellow arrow that always points North. Now I wanted to add another arrow showing the raw magnetometer readings. For the simple compass application, we just needed to use the Motion Sensor API. To get access to the raw magnetometer readings, we need to use the Compass API to get to the MagnetometerReading property.
To set up the compass I used the Compass Sensor example as reference. ...
Posted by: Bary Nusz on | Friday, November 11, 2011   Comments
I've always been interested in 3D graphics and wanted to investigate the capabilities of the WP7. As an engineer who has dealt with sensor technology most of his career, I was also interested in investigating the sensor capabilities of the WP7. Using the Mango Teapot as an example, I came up with a simple compass application to dive into these areas. This application is a Windows Phone Silverlight and XNA Application similar to the Mango Teapot but with a 3D blue arrow that always points up and a yellow arrow that always points North.
I found that the 3D graphics ...
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Rounding the corners of a rectangle or a border is nothing new, but what if you want to clip other FrameworkElements such as images or buttons. The first step is to look at how to generate the necessary clipping geometries to give you the rounded corners.
Take a look at the clipping of the following rectangle that rounds each corner with a radius of 10.
Clip="M0,10C0,4.5 4.5,0 10,0L118,0C123.5,0 128,4.5 128,10L128,86C128,91.5 123.5,96 118,96L10,96C4.5,96 0,91.5 0,86z"
The quickest way I've found to decode clipping strings is to let Blend do it for you. After selecting the rectangle in Blend, select the Clip ...


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These are the 10 most common reasons given for not exercising:
I don't have time | I can't afford to workout |
Exercising doesn't work | I am slim already |
Going to the gym is boring | I don't want to bulk up |
I am naturally fit | I am not vain enough |
I am too fat to exercise | My health prevents me from exercising |
Do you ever hear yourself using any of these reasons, and if you do, what are you REALLY saying to other people?
1. REASON GIVEN - "I don't have enough time to exercise!"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING - "I can't manage my time properly"
This is by far the most common reason I hear from people for not exercising (yawn!). What they are really saying is that they can't manage their time effectively. Don't be fooled by this reason, most of these people will spend several hours a week down the pub, or even glued to the tele. If you are genuinely short on time you could try and inject a little bit of exercise every day, even a very short workout is worthwhile. Everyone has 10 minutes!
2. REASON GIVEN - "I can't afford to workout"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING - "Having money in my savings account is more important than my health"
You dont need to spend money to get fit. How much does it cost to go for a jog, do some bodyweight exercises in the park? Yes, nothing, they are free! Can you really afford not to workout? The cost to your health could be huge over the coming decades. Think of health over money!
3. REASON GIVEN - "I used to workout and it didn't achieve anything"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING - "I was too stubborn to ask for help from a professional, and didn't have a clue what I was doing in the gym"
If you are training regularly and you feel your fitness has not improved, then there must be a logical reason for this: either your fitness has improved but you had no way of tracking it, you have unrealistic goals, or you are not training at the right intensity. Instead of giving up your exercise regime, employ a fitness professional to work with you, they will be able to diagnose where you are going wrong.
4. REASON GIVEN: "I have never had a weight problem, I've always been slim"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING - "I am deluded into thinking my body looks good naked"
The people I meet who use this reason are likely to be 'normal weight obese'. Yes, they have too much fat, but think they don't have to train because they are either underweight or of average weight. These are the people who have bingo wings and a muffin top!
5. REASON GIVEN - "Going to the gym is boring!"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING: "I am boring. Nothing is boring, you only get boring people"
There are so many different exercises you can do in the gym, it is hard to imagine how you could get bored, especially if you know how to train. But, if you simply prefer to train outdoors, then you should do that instead. You need to find a regime which is going to work for you. You don't need to train in the gym.
6. REASON GIVEN: "I don't want to bulk up"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING: "I have no body definition at all"
This is usually a concern I hear from women. However, the reality is women don't need to worry about bulking up, unless injecting steroids. We dont have the hormonal profile of men. Muscle should be a girl's best friend as it gives our bodies definition and that healthy toned look. The women I meet who use this reason are usually the cardio queens, running on the treadmill for hours at a time. The results they get from their fitness programs are usually fairly limited.
7. REASON GIVEN: "I am naturally fit"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING: "I am totally deluded and have no self awareness"
Yes, some people think they are born fit, with some kind of fit gene, which means they never need to train or workout. These people will refer to themselves as 'naturally fit'. These people will also struggle to run for the bus, or carry their shopping bags home.
8. REASON GIVEN: "I am a not vain enough to exercise"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING:"I don't care about about my health"
Vanity has very little to do with working out. What is more important is looking after your health. The short term benefits of working out include enhanced energy, higher self-esteem, and reducing everyday life stress.
9. REASON GIVEN: "I am too fat to exercise"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING: "I am too frightened to start exercising"
Some people put off exercising until they lose weight as they feel they are too overweight to exercise. The reality is you get best results combining a good nutrition plan with weekly exercise sessions. Yes, it can be daunting to start exercising, especially if you are extremely fat. However, if you can just take one little step, you will make progress, and feel better about your body. One step at a time is all that is required!
10. REASON GIVEN: "My health prevents me from exercising"
WHAT YOU ARE REALLY SAYING: "I am looking for an excuse"
If you have dodgy knees, lower back pain, or a frozen shoulder you can still train. You just need to work within the boundaries of what you can do. I have trained people that were wheelchair bound, they did not use it as their reason for not exercising!
Guess what? All of these reasons are merely EXCUSES. If you truly believe the reasons you give for not exercising are valid, please think again. You are deluded. Everyone can exercise. Be honest with yourself, what are your real reasons for not exercising?

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Only seven years after its 1885 incorporation, Dothan saw the beginning of a Jewish community. In 1892, German immigrants Emanuel and Amelia Crine came to Dothan from Georgia with their children. The Crines settled in Dothan, where they expanded their family to six children and became leading members of the fledgling community. From their home, the Crines led small services with the few other Jewish families in Dothan for many years, even after Emanuel died in the late 1890s.
Not long after the Crines settled in Dothan, more Jewish immigrants found their way to the sleepy peanut capital of Alabama. The family that perhaps features most prominently in Dothan's Jewish history soon came to set down roots in the town. When Hyman Blumberg came to the United States from Lithuania he had little economic means. Yet with his wife Ester, an American born child of English immigrants, they would start one of the most prosperous families in Dothan's history. Soon after they came to Dothan, their first son Myer was born in 1892. After Myer came six other children. In 1911, Blumberg along with Sol Lurie and Myer Levine bought what remained of the real estate on Dothan's Main Street. With the help of his children and wife, Blumberg operated a small dry goods store out of that original space. Over the years, however, that original seed investment would grow to something much larger as his small shop eventually became the largest department store in Dothan.
As the Jewish community grew in Dothan, so too did the desire to have a more formal congregation. With a group of fifteen families, Myer Levine attempted to establish a charter for a new congregation to meet for the high holidays in 1910. Levine's attempts were unsuccessful, though the group did bring Rabbi Bernard Ehrenreich of Montgomery occasionally to lead services. The Jewish community continued meeting informally at the home of Amelia Crine until her death in 1927.
The women of Dothan, behind the initiative of Mrs. Myer Blumberg, actually started the first official organization of Jews in Dothan with the formation of a Sisterhood chapter. It was not until 1928, when the growing number of Jewish children made the need for a formal congregation more urgent, did Dothan's Jews finally form into an organized congregation. The legally constituted body of Temple Emanu-El of Dothan was formed in January, 1929 by fourteen founding families. Among the founding members were children of Dothan's earliest Jewish families: Myer Blumberg, Henry Crine, and Joe Kraselsky. Without a building of its own, the young community rented out the local Elks Club. Visiting Rabbi Edmund A. Landau led services twice a month; lay members of the congregation led services on the high holidays. Even in that first year of services, Temple Emanu-El had a choir, with several Blumberg and Crine children taking part.
In 1929, under the leadership of its first president, Henry Crine, Temple Emanu-El bought a plot of land to construct its own building. In the meantime, the newly formed Jewish community enthusiastically celebrated its first High Holiday service, taking over the Elks Club as a fully functioning Jewish Community Center. Members met every Friday for services led by young men acting as lay-leaders, and the center provided an active space for socialization and community events. Mrs. Myer Blumberg organized and ran Temple Emanu-El's first Sunday School. From the early days of Temple Emanu-El, the future appeared bright for the Jewish community of Dothan; however the effects of global economic forces and the malignant spread of the boll weevil, rushed into their small community. The fledgling congregation came to a jarring stop as the 1930s brought on the Great Depression, causing several members to leave Dothan. The lot purchased for housing congregation Emanu-El sat vacant for over a decade.
When peanuts began to grow again, and Dothan revived from the Depression, the Jews of Temple Emanu-El emerged from their dormant state and reactivated in 1938 under president Randolph G. Lurie. And though some members had moved away and many were financially weakened, the Jews of Dothan persistently worked to keep their community alive. With the Blumberg family leading the charge, Temple Emanu-El took on the difficult task of fundraising for construction of a new synagogue. Despite the climate of slow economic recovery, the community succeeded in raising sufficient funds. On October 27, 1940, the congregation laid the cornerstone of the building that would contain their holy services, religious schools, and community events for the next 70 years. While Rabbi Edmund Landau of Albany, Georgia was the main speaker, other rabbis from Birmingham, Mobile, and Pensacola also took part in the ceremony. Around this time, Emanu-El received a rescued Torah scroll from a synagogue in Breslau, Germany, burnt to the ground in the terrible events of Kristalnacht.
Soon after the completion of construction of their new temple in 1941, Emanu-El welcomed their first full-time, spiritual leader, Rabbi Alfred Wolf, who had just been ordained by the Hebrew Union College. Also in 1941, Emanu-El joined the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central organization of Reform Judaism. During his five-year tenure in Dothan, Rabbi Wolf led an active and passionate Jewish community that grew tremendously when the demands of the Second World War brought hundreds of young Jewish servicemen to nearby military stations, Fort Rucker and Napier Field.
During holidays, the members of Emanu-El offered up their living rooms to entertain and feed the young men who were hundreds of miles away from their own homes in places like Brooklyn, Chicago, and Cleveland. A weekly brunch was held for the soldiers at the temple. The servicemen attended Emanu-El on the high holidays, with Private Morris Berman acting as cantor during the Yom Kippur service in 1942. In 1943, the soldiers held their own Orthodox service on the second day of Rosh Hashana at the temple. On one notable Passover in 1943, Emanu –El congregants along with Rabbi Wolf traveled to Napier Field to join the servicemen in what was likely the largest Passover Seder in Dothan's history. Longtime residents of Dothan still remember the massive piles of matzah balls cooked by the women of Emanu-El for the hundreds of servicemen at Napier Field. In 1944, the temple-sponsored seder at Camp Rucker drew one thousand people, in which German prisoners-of-war were brought in to help with the massive dinner. Many Jewish G.I.'s stationed in the area got married to their hometown sweethearts at Emanu-El. Some married Jewish women from Dothan whom they had met while stationed in the area. During the war, the congregation members also sld war bonds and raised thousands of dollars for the United Jewish Appeal and Jewish Welfare Fund.
When Rabbi Wolf left Dothan in 1946 to take a pulpit in Los Angeles, he was replaced by Martin Hinchin, who had just been ordained by Hebrew Union College. Four years later, Hinchin was replaced by Rabbi Meyer Marx. At the beginning of the 1950s, Temple Emanu-El refurbished and expanded its building, and many of its congregants enjoyed similar prosperity and growth. The Blumberg family store, once a small, one room shop, now had grown into Houston county's largest department store. In the 1950s, Blumberg and Son's sold a wide variety of goods ranging from home appliances to women's clothing and employed a staff of over one hundred. It was the first store in the area to install an escalator, and people would come from miles just to ride it.
The prosperous Jews of Dothan, like the Blumbergs, experienced relative acceptance and tolerance from the predominantly non-Jewish town. The town paper, The Dothan Eagle, frequently wrote favorable articles about Jewish life in Dothan and Jewish residents often joined civic organizations like the Masonics and Elks. Many joined the Dothan Country Club, in fact, some Jews served on its board of directors and one, Bill Nomberg, eventually became its president. Likewise, Emanu-El also served as an integral part of the wider Dothan community, by sponsoring Boys and Girls Scout troops, selling tickets to the Annual Peanut Festival, holding auditions for local theater groups, and, later on, hosting Tet parties for Dothan's small Vietnamese community.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Temple Emanu-El continued to grow and expand. It achieved further improvements to its building with the completion of a new social hall, classrooms, and kitchen in 1963. Despite an electrical fire in 1967 that caused extensive damage to the ceiling of the sanctuary and ark, members of Emanu-El steadfastly met for services every week. With Torah scrolls saved from the fire by member Sam Behrman, Emanu-El could continue to worship, even if their sanctuary was a bit charred.
In 1979, Temple Emanu-El celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a luncheon in its fellowship hall and evening party at the Dothan Country Club. Their rabbi at the time, Paul Tuchman, compiled a small booklet that briefly summarized the history of Jewish life in Dothan since 1929 and included letters of reflection from past rabbis, including one from Rabbi Wolf in which he fondly recalled the early days of Emanu-El. The celebration of its golden anniversary reflected Emanu-El's hopeful and energetic mood. In his introduction to the anniversary booklet, Rabbi Tuchman's note exudes optimism about the future of the Jewish community in Dothan: "For a congregation, the age of 50 is still youth. We are strong, and growing stronger. Dothan's rapid and continuing growth will surely bring more Jews to the area, and more of the Temple's children home as permanent residents…It is devotion and concern of our members which have carried us thus far, and will carry us farther."
Unfortunately for Emanu-El, Rabbi Tuchman's optimistic vision for their future did not come to pass in the ensuing years. In 1980, there were an estimated 205 Jews in Dothan. By 2000, there were only about 100. In the last thirty years, the median age of Emanu-El congregants has gone up significantly, as the number of children and new families has plummeted. When family businesses closed down, the children of Emanu-El's founding members moved on to distant, more populous cities. The former grandeur of Blumberg and Sons' escalator stopped running many years ago. The grandchildren of Hyman and Ester had moved on to own and operate hotel chains. Despite this decline, in 2004, Emanu-El celebrated its 75th anniversary with a year-long series of talks and celebrations.
Rabbi Larry Mahrer retired from the congregation in 2006. With no one to run their religious school or their worship services, Emanu-El's congregants looked towards their future with uncertainty and anxiety. However, in 2007 they were able to hire a new and enthusiastic rabbi as Lynne Goldsmith became Emanu-El's first, full-time female rabbi. Temple Emanu-El has further reason to be optimistic due to the continuing legacy of the Blumberg family. In the fall of 2007, a group of committed members of Emanu-El, with significant financial backing from the Blumberg family, started the Blumberg Family Jewish Community Services (JCS). The aim of JCS is to keep the Jewish community alive and well in Dothan, by providing financial support to community members during emergencies, helping finance religious education, and attracting new Jewish families to Dothan through its Family Relocation Program. By offering generous grants of up to $50,000, the Family Relocation Program aims to bring at least twenty families to Dothan between 2008 and 2012.
Though currently there are only 50 affiliated families at Temple Emanu-El, Dothan might continue to be fertile ground for the Jewish community for years to come. After all, the efforts of a tenacious few have marked Dothan's history throughout; from the original families who would not let their religious customs die despite the tiny Jewish population; to the early entrepreneurs who made a name for themselves in a new, strange land; to those who would not let the impact of the Great Depression stop them from raising money for a sanctuary of their own; to the original farmers who discovered that peanuts could grow in the previously barren soil.


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David Irving: Says he has no choice but to admit charges of Holocaust denial
David Irving, the British revisionist historian, revealed last night that he would plead guilty to charges of Holocaust denial when he appeared in a Vienna court next week.
Mr Irving, 67, who has been held in an Austrian prison since last November, said he did not consider himself to be a Holocaust denier but had no choice but plead "guilty as charged".
"Under the law I've got no alternative," he told the television channel More4 News.
But he added: "I deny that I'm a Holocaust denier. This is a filthy smear."
The charges date back to 1989, when the Right-wing author of books such as Hitler's War gave speeches in Vienna and Leoben in which he disputed the existence of the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.
Under Austrian law, denying the Holocaust is illegal and punishable with a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Mr Irving said he had been labelled a Holocaust denier by Austrian and German journalists and deliberately misunderstood. "It means they've not read anything I've written since the actual offence was committed, which is 1989 - 17 years ago," he said.
"If they read that, they'll see I describe in great detail what Hitler and his troops were doing to the Jews behind the Eastern front … I'm very angry indeed about it."
Mr Irving was arrested in Austria in November, where he was to give a lecture to a Right-wing student fraternity.
He accused Austria of acting like a "Nazi state" for allegedly burning books of his that the authorities found - to their embarrassment - in the prison library.
Mr Irving, who lives in London and Florida, said his lawyer had advised him to plead guity.
Mr Irving lost a high-profile court case in London in 2000 in which he sued the US academic Deborah Lipstadt for calling him a Holocaust denier. The judge described him as a "falsifier of history".
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While Ben Smith made a solid cameo in the centres over the weekend against the Wallabies, it is expected that the old firm of Nonu and Conrad Smith will be re-united in the midfield.
Smith has recovered from his eye injury, and coach Steve Hansen said he would be available to return to action in front of his home crowd.
However it is the crucial link between a 10 and a 12 that will need to be re-established according to All Blacks first five-eighth Dan Carter, who has had Sonny Bill playing outside of him with more frequency that his old dreadlocked team-mate.
Carter operated alongside Williams last year in Crusaders colours, while the last time he played with Nonu was when the All Blacks played France during the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup in September.
Nonu played at centre against the Wallabies last week, and Williams' absence and Smith's return meant that the Blues back could play where he is most comfortable Carter said.
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Dover, Florida - Inside an auction house in Dover is a smorgasbord of history including old Victrolas, farm tools, and an icebox that needed real ice.
Keith Bolton, who does demolition work, has picked up antiques from here to Kentucky. "It's kind of like a bug bite; you get bit by it and you just get interested in it," explains Bolton.
Now Bolton's collection is on the auction block, but amid all of the stuff, there is a bona fide star.
"It almost went into the trash," says Bolton about a photo album. He was paging through the album when ordinary family photos turned extraordinary.
"And lo and behold, I come on photos of who? Elvis Presley," explains Bolton. "Nobody has probably seen these photos before, because these were in a house that no one had been in for 25 years."
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An expert from Graceland says the photos were likely taken while Elvis was in Florida filming the 1962 movie Follow that Dream. The movie featured scenes from Crystal River, Tampa and Ocala and the selection of snapshots also included one of two twin boys -- believed to be Gavin and Robin Koon -- who were also in the film.
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Creole Seasoning Mix Recipe
Notes Marian Platt of Sequim, Washington, "I make up this zippy blend to have on hand when a recipe calls for Creole or Cajun seasoning."
- 2 tablespoons plus 1-1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon pepper
- In a small bowl, combine all ingredients. Store in an airtight container in a cool dry place for up to 1 year. Use to season chicken, seafood, beef and vegetables. Yield: 1/2 cup.
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A Cancer Patient's Best Friend
Daisy Martin didn't seem sick. Come dinnertime, she was as ravenous as ever. And at the sight of a new toy, she danced around in excited circles, same as always. Then one day, when Daisy was 8 years old, one of her family members noticed a lump, and then others, on the side of Daisy's neck, beneath her fur. The diagnosis was devastating: T-cell lymphoma, a cancer so merciless that Daisy's family feared losing her within weeks. The one hope was to enroll Daisy in a study of an experimental drug, available more than an hour's drive away at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. Her family was torn. Would the treatment cause more suffering? Would she lose her hair?
Daisy (pictured below) is a doe-eyed Shih Tzu. As with research volunteers of the human kind, her participation in the drug trial meant she could obtain care that her family could not otherwise afford. She would help scientists collect data that could benefit future generations of ailing dogs, even if she herself could not conquer the cancer.
And the trial reaches beyond canine patients. Whether Daisy recovers, and how she recovers, will provide information about a drug that could one day help dog owners as much as dogs themselves.
When it comes to cancer, dogs now exist at the nexus of human and veterinary medicine. "I just came back from a meeting of the connective tissue oncology society, where two of the talks were results from studies of pet dogs. Neither of the two people presenting the talks were veterinarians," says Chand Khanna, a veterinarian by training who heads the comparative oncology program at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
And last year, Harvard Medical School invited Elaine Ostrander, an NIH cancer geneticist who has long worked with dogs, to deliver the esteemed Franklin H. Epstein Memorial Lecture. Her talk, given to the faculty of Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, covered the human implications of "good dogs with bad genes." She says that when she learned of her selection for the honor, she thought, "Hot diggity dog! We've made it!"
Khanna, Ostrander and other researchers with similar interests have long contended that dogs offer an under-recognized bounty for oncology. No matter the species, cancer arises when some tragic combination of a body's genetics and its surroundings conspire to take the brakes off cell growth. Dogs' environmental exposures occur alongside those of people: For centuries, pooches have lived with people, sleeping in their homes and eating their foods. And dogs' genetics are not so different either. When the partial genetic instruction book for a poodle was published in 2003, followed by a more detailed look at a boxer in 2005, scientists learned that most genes in man are shared with man's best friend. The DNA within many tumors may carry an even more similar pedigree.
"The genome data were transformational," says Jaime Modiano, an immunologist and veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. "It allowed us to say that a cancer in dogs and a cancer in humans are the same thing."
Canine genetic studies since have yielded important clues to how cancers of the blood, bone and brain arise. Better understanding of these diseases may lead to better treatment. The most common type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, for example, affects dogs and humans in almost equal proportion, and the same chemotherapy treats both. Veterinarians have long turned to human drugs to treat their canine patients, but one day the pipeline may flow in the other direction. More and more pets like Daisy are participating in tests of new treatments, studies that produce answers sooner than human trials because dogs are shorter lived.
"There's a lot bubbling right now," says Kerstin Lindblad-Toh of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a leader in the project to sequence the boxer genome. "This year and the next you're going to see a lot of publications."
Genes that sit, stay
Animal research has long been a part of medical science. But unlike mice and rats, the dogs involved in oncology research don't live in laboratories. They are patients, occupying a place as companions and family members. Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, and although both dogs and humans have benefitted from the storied relationship, dogs have paid a price for their heritage.
Dogs evolved from wolves, entering human culture around 33,000 years ago. Solid records date back around 15,000 years, says Matthew Breen, a geneticist at North Carolina State University. "Fifteen thousand years ago, dogs didn't sit at our feet and watch TV. They helped the nomadic tribes survive."
Scientists can only hypothesize about the path from feral to Fido, but Breen says one theory is that early humans began tossing food to wolves as a way of bribing against attack. Over time, wolves and people became dependent on one another; wolves grew accustomed to the easy meals, people enjoyed the protection wolves offered. As time passed, relationships deepened.
"They helped us by hunting, herding and guarding. They became companions," Breen says. By the late Pleistocene, which ended about 11,700 years ago, humans were buried with their dogs. The ancient Egyptians mummified some dogs like royalty.
Following the transformation from wolves, the genetic milestone in dogdom came with the industrial revolution, Breen says. "The landowners and factory owners had something they never had — free time. As a consequence, we started to breed [dogs] because we liked the way they looked." Owners developed a fancy for long or short coats, small or large bodies, or a dog's ability to hunt or guard or just lounge around being sweet. Most breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club have been distinct genetic entities for about 200 to 300 years, Ostrander says.
All this selective breeding greatly decreased genetic diversity. Further bottlenecks came about during the lean times of the Depression and world wars, when purebred dog populations shrank. Today, many breeds such as Leonberger dogs and Portuguese water dogs are the descendants of perhaps fewer than 20 or 30 founders.
Along the way, as people handpicked the most attractive dogs for breeding — often mating uncles and aunts with nieces and nephews — they unknowingly amplified hidden genetic triggers for cancer.
About 25 percent of dogs will eventually develop a malignancy, Breen says, and the proportion is increasing. Cancer kills about 13 percent of the world's human population, and some dog breeds have a cancer-related death rate three or four times that. About half of all golden retrievers die from cancer, commonly lymphoma. Large breeds are known for their high risk of bone cancers, while brain tumors are typical among dogs with squished-looking faces, including pugs and bulldogs.
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Yet the same genetic inbreeding that makes dogs so cancer-prone also provides an easier landscape to search for cancer's roots. In appearance, solid tumors removed from people and dogs can be practically indistinguishable. "You couldn't tell a difference between a dog tumor and human tumor under the microscope," says Peter Dickinson, a veterinary neurosurgeon at the University of California, Davis. The molecular engines of disease are also often similar.
To find genetic flaws responsible for human disease, scientists have to study hundreds, even thousands of people to account for the random, irrelevant genetic background noise. Imagine hearing a symphony, straining to listen for just the viola. You'd need to listen over and over, slowly eliminating every other instrument. The task would be easier if the violas were louder and more numerous, and had fewer violins and cellos drowning them out. Centuries of inbreeding have given dogs a simpler genetic ensemble, so scientists have an easier time finding a distinct melody.
Consider that one search for a genetic cause of gliomas, a deadly brain tumor, involves more than 700 human patients and almost 4,000 healthy volunteers in a comparison group. Dickinson and his research team are performing a parallel and probably equally powerful study with just 40 affected dogs and 150 healthy ones. They have narrowed the search for their glioma gene down to one chromosome.
Other canine gene hunts are under way. In 2012, a team of researchers that included Ostrander and Breen announced the location of a gene for histiocytic sarcoma, a form of lymphoma that is rare in humans but strikes up to a quarter of Bernese mountain dogs and flat-coated retrievers. It is an aggressive malignancy with no cure. In a cover article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, the researchers described a genetic mutation that appears to be associated with the cancer in these dogs.
Importantly for their masters, the aberration turned up in a poorly understood genetic region that has been associated with other kinds of human malignancies — yet another clue in the search for cancer's origins. "People are dogs, in terms of cancer," Breen says.
A 2009 study by Khanna, from the National Cancer Institute, shows how true that may be. The analysis, published in BMC Genomics, found that the genes active in human osteosarcomas (the most common malignant bone tumor in children) and dog osteosarcomas are almost indistinguishable. If the genes are the same, the treatment can be, too. The following year, he reported in PLOS ONE that the drug rapamycin fights the cancer the same way in dogs as it does in people.
Better treatments unleashed
That finding is good news for dogs, but there's a larger point. Dogs have long relied on human chemotherapy drugs, but as studies find more and more instances of tumors that are almost genetically interchangeable, medical researchers are turning to dogs to test drugs for humans.
Mice and rats have long stood in for people, but four decades of the war on cancer have revealed major shortcomings to this approach. Rodents do not develop human cancers naturally, so researchers often have to graft tumors from people into mice and rig unnatural arrangements such as severe immune suppression that allow the cancers to grow.
Still, the tumor isn't inclined to this kind of existence. That's why cancer is cured many times over in labs, but not so often in actual people. The late Judah Folkman, a renowned researcher who pioneered a new class of oncology drugs, once said, "If you have cancer and you are a mouse, we can take good care of you."
By contrast, dogs have cancers that arise spontaneously in the face of an intact immune system and a normal life. While no one is considering eliminating rodent research, people are thinking about turning more to dogs, especially for modern treatments that try to engage the body's own immune system in the fight.
In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved one of the first medicines to use this immune system–enlisting approach, the prostate cancer drug Provenge. The treatment amplifies an immune attack by exploiting the body's own antigen-presenting cells. These cells consume proteins that don't belong in the body, grind them up and then display them on their surface to alert the immune system.
"The immune system is rather polite," says Nicola Mason, an immunologist in the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "It won't attack anything until it's been properly introduced." For Provenge, doctors harvest a type of antigen-presenting cell called a dendritic cell from a patient, incubate those cells with the prostate cancer cells, and infuse the newly enhanced dendritic cells back into the patient.
But in many ways, dendritic cells are less than ideal for making a cancer vaccine, says Mason, who is trying to improve on the method through research in dogs. The Provenge regimen is time consuming and expensive, costing about $93,000 per patient. Mason is researching the same concept with a different kind of immune cell, called a B cell. The treatment doesn't require so many cells, and is easier to carry out.
In 2011, in PLOS ONE, Mason published a study of 30 dogs with lymphoma, testing the effectiveness of using B cells in immune therapy. When dogs get lymphoma, they often go into remission after chemotherapy but then relapse about 90 percent of the time, she says. In the Penn study, all dogs were treated with standard chemotherapy, but 19 of them also received the immune therapy after they achieved remission. Four vaccinated canine patients have never relapsed. "This tells us that in some cases you can induce a cure," she says.
Among the dogs receiving the immune therapy that did relapse, 10 received a second round of chemo; 40 percent of those (4 more dogs) achieved remission, compared with only about 8 percent of a comparison group of 39 unvaccinated dogs that received another round of chemo treatment after relapse.
It's still too early to know how studies like this will advance human oncology, but dog owners are delighted when they see signs of benefits, as Ostrander says, at both ends of the leash. In December at a meeting of the American Society of Hematology, the research team presented the results of the study that included Daisy. The experiment was carried out in three veterinary schools and sponsored by the biotech company Karyopharm, based in Natick, Mass. The 14 dogs were given gradually larger doses of the experimental drug to test whether it would have any major unanticipated side effects. None appeared, and studies are continuing. Meanwhile, studies of a human counterpart are also under way.
As for Daisy, she is doing well. "We're so thankful for every single day we have with her," says her owner, Cindy Martin. Daisy's part in cancer history may be minor, but at home, she will always be a star.
Cancer research goes to the dogs
From left: Courtesy of Jan Takaichi; Courtesy of Susan Bunyard; Courtesy of Barry Doohan
People in clinical studies help the next generation of cancer patients. Canine efforts help not only future generations of dogs but people, too. Here are some four-legged patients who benefited from experimental therapies for their cancers:
Kodiak (left) was 8 years old when he developed a limp in his left front leg. An X-ray found that his wrist was riddled with cancer. His owners took him to the University of Minnesota, where his leg was amputated and he received treatment with a gene therapy drug that is also in human trials for liver cancer. Today he is back duck hunting and cancer free.
A French bulldog, Devon (middle) was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was just 18 months old and starting a champion show career. Veterinarians gave him only two months to survive with the aggressive malignancy. He received an experimental chemotherapy injected into the tumor at the University of California, Davis and lived another 21 months.
He died August 12, 2010.
Barney's (right) lymphoma was already advanced when his owners enrolled him in an immune therapy study at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Though lymphoma usually relapses in dogs after treatment, Barney was one of four patients whose cancer disappeared for good. Six years after treatment, he is now 13 years old and shows no signs of cancer.
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Feel it, FEEL IT ... Mark Wahlberg just told TMZ he would REUNITE with The Funky Bunch to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Wahlberg -- who was born and raised in Boston -- was leaving T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA this morning when he told us he's totally game to get the gang back together for a BMB fundraiser.
Fun Fact -- T.C. Williams High was the inspiration for the movie "Remember the Titans."
We already know The Funky Bunch would be down to perform -- back in March, they told TMZ a reunion show would be "amazing."
And now that reuniting could actually raise money for a good cause??
Fun bunch? Wow... wasnt even AROUND then and I know it was the Funky Bunch. That be some fine journalism right there!
Mark Wahlberg is what is known as a "Triple Threat" in the business: Cant' Act, Can't Sing and Can't Dance. Mabye you should go back to mugging people Marky.
Between this and the the "I touch myself" singer dying, its been like the early 90s the past few days.
Mark Wahlberg Begged to be in Transformers 4 and now He will be in it, Taylor Lautner should've done the same because now Lautner will be in a Franchise that NOBODY cares about, GrownUps 2............Aim High Boy....
Surprised at the positive comments here for this Loser. Wahlberg is pure s***. Try Wikipedia some time.
Reguardless of his past, it is the right thing to do!! Cant say much for the beiber, beyonce, the kardashians, and all the other greed ridden celebs out there!!
Imagine if every rich celebrity out there would donate $1,000,000 to the boston victims! If you can't pay it forward then you dont deserve to be rich!!!!


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In a world where the vampires-- "Nobles" --are losing their power, a handful of stragglers still wreak havoc on humanity. D is a half-vampire who hunts them.
There is seemingly no 'perfect' way to truly say goodbye. So I gathered a bunch of them!
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Basic Plumbing : Erik Houston, York Powers
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Tall and rangy Erik Houston is at home playing with himself when his roommate, York Powers, enters to service his needs. Due to their almost twin-like appeal and fantastic, steamy, sweaty, and passionate love-making great oral action ensues as Erik fingers York's smooth behind with three fingers. York's expressions are sincere and real as he moans and his eyes roll backwards in his head. These versatile studs flip and mutually fuck each other with obvious joy and lustful abandon. Finally, we see the new corporate office of 'Basic Plumbers,' complete with overburdened secretary and fabulous decor, a success with their stud service.
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Claude Debussy's five-act 1902 lyric drama Pelléas et Mélisande receives an interpretation by the Theater an der Wien in this 2009 production. With a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck, the opera stars Natalie Dessay as Mélisande, Stéphane Degout as Pelléas and Laurent Naouri as Golaud. Laurent Pelly designed the costumes and directs for the stage, Chantal Thomas did the sets, and ORF-Radiosymphonieorchester Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor provide musical accompaniment.Bertrand de Billy conducts. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV The sounds I hear in my tent every morning sort of define where we slept that night. Alum Bluff had the barred owls, Estiffinulga had the rooster and boats launching. Dead Lakes had a low … Continue reading
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Angus's Lost Lady Expecting in Texas A Forever Kind of Hero Found: One Wife A Hero for All Seasons A Husband Waiting to Happen In the Family Way Traci on the Spot Wife in the Mail
Expecting in Texas
A Forever Kind of Hero
Found: One Wife
A Hero for All Seasons
A Husband Waiting to Happen
In the Family Way
Traci on the Spot
Wife in the Mail
When widow Dakota Armstrongís 2-year-old son Vinny is kidnapped, she has little reason to trust and a difficult time believing that vow. And she has a big reason to fear she may never get Vinny back. Rusty shows up, somewhat conveniently, and takes on her case. The search is on.
Along the journey, we get to know both characters. We learn how Rusty got involved in Childfinders, and get to see a multi-dimensional man who can be strong, sensitive, gentle, loving, sexy, and sensible. There is a scene where he helps a runaway that pinpoints his sensitive side, while the confrontation near the end shows his strong heroic side. Both glimpses of this man are believable and his sense of humor adds to his allure. I really liked him!
Dakota is on the run from the mob. She tries to be tough, but we see through this shell and empathize easily with her fears for her son. Dakota has a strong side that is less easily understood. The author goes into depth about her naivetť and vulnerability when she married and became pregnant. This is the same time her husband died and she stood up to her mobster father-in-law. This seems out of character for that time in her life. If that same scene had happened in the present after two years of hiding and running, it would be easy to believe she had forged her new resolve.
The romance is satisfying; we see Rusty recognize his feelings, and enjoy his attempts at helping Dakota realize hers, too. However, even in this, Dakotaís character doesnít seem to follow any pattern. I never really had a sense I knew her, so I never really grew to like her. This gave me a lukewarm feeling towards wanting this romance to succeed. I felt like Rusty deserved better.
However, the major problem with book is the pace. The flow is uneven, making the book easy to put down and hard to pick up at times. The first half of the book tends to drag with all the background information. The suspense definitely picks up once the two travel to Las Vegas with events happening quickly. The twist to the kidnapping keeps the end from being predictable. However, just as the reader is enjoying it, everything is tied up leaving no time to savor the victory.
The glimpse of the other members of ChildFinders is intriguing enough to whet your appetite for their stories, without making you feel you missed a part of this story. Followers of the series should be satisfied, and newcomers may immediately feel the need to add to their to-be read piles.
Overall, Heart of A Hero leaves you with a warm feeling that Rusty does come through with his promise once again.
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Manna Meal representatives have named an upcoming event in honor of their fourth successful year of operating a community garden.
This year's MannaFest, the major fundraiser for the charitable organization, has been given the theme "Art in the Garden So the Hungry Can Eat."
About 78 pieces of art inspired by gardens will be auctioned off at the Clay Center starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, said Jean Simpson, executive director of Manna Meal. For now, the artwork is on display in the Clay Center's ticket lobby, though the auction will take place in the Great Lobby.
There is no charge for the event and local musicians will play. Light appetizers will also be served.
A wide range of art - from jewelry, paintings and pottery to photography - will be auctioned off during the event, she said.
Although this is the fifth year for MannaFest, it is the first year the theme of the art auction has been the community garden.
The plot, approximately one third of an acre, has grown significantly over the past four years, Simpson said.
Produce raised there is used at the organization's soup kitchen. Whatever is not immediately used in the kitchen, or preserved quickly, is given to those in need.
Leftover produce can be picked up at the soup kitchen at 1105 Quarrier St. in downtown Charleston between Leon Sullivan Way and Brooks Street, Simpson said.
"We started the community garden four years ago because we saw a need to raise fresh vegetables not only for our soup kitchen but to give out to people too," she said.
Food pantries typically hand out canned goods or other types of processed foods because they can easily be stored for long periods of times. Produce provided to the soup kitchen by Kroger and area farmers is also given away if it cannot be immediately used, Simpson said.
"All of our produce is used one way or the other."
Many lower-income individuals live in a "food desert" - an area where there are no supermarkets, making it difficult to purchase healthy items such as fresh produce.
There are only two locations in the East End that sell fruits and vegetables. One is HUSH, the organic health food store on Washington Street East, and The Purple Onion at Capitol Market.


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2 February 2007 -- The world's leading scientific experts are set to deliver the latest, starkest findings on climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins its release of the long anticipated Fourth Assessment Report in Paris on 2 February 2007, which is set to provide the most credible evidence yet of the human link to climate change and its devastating impacts.
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