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These deluxe accommodations feature stone fireplaces and spacious interiors with great views. The condominiums include a full kitchen, fireplace, washer and dryer, TV, VCR/DVD, stereo and free Wifi. A sauna or whirlpool tub is in every condominium; deluxe units include both. In the winter a free slope shuttle takes you to the slopes, only 1 mile away.
Killington's only full service mountainside hotel features hotel rooms, suites and penthouses with convenient ski-bridge access to the slopes. Amenities include free wireless, restaurant and lounge on site, valet parking, game room and a world class health club.The Killington Grand Spa offers a full menu of treatments. The health club includes an outdoor pool, hot tubs, sauna, steam and an exercise room. Accommodations include studio with kitchenette to 3 bedroom condos complete with a kitchen, fireplace, and balcony and are non-smoking. An evening shuttle service is available in winter to the dining and nightlife on the famous Killington Road.
The Inn of the Six Mountains is a leisure hotel located in Killington, Vermont. This resort hotel is nestled in the scenic Green Mountains of the Appalachian Trail. As you enter the Inn, you will be awed by a magnificent hand-crafted fieldstone fireplace that has gained fame as the largest of its kind in New England. After fun-filled days spent exploring the mountain, shopping, fishing, or great golf in Killington, discover the many delicious restaurants and exciting nightlife of the area.
Each of the 99 spacious guest rooms and 4 one-bedroom family rooms are warm and inviting and offer the perfect blend of modern comfort and ski lodge charm.
Fall Line accommodations are in a private village setting with some of the best views of Killington. A free shuttle makes getting to the slopes easy during the day and an evening shuttle takes you into town for the nightlife and dining. Warm furnishings, a full kitchen, fireplace, balcony or patio, free wireless, access to the Fall Line Sports Center with pool, hot tub, and sauna make Fall Line Condominiums
one of Killington's most sought out properties.
Enjoy mountain or valley vistas from the Pinnacle Condominiums. Warmly furnished and less than a mile to the mountain you will be within walking distance to the hill and the restaurants too. All condominiums include a fully equipped kitchen, gas fireplace, washer-dryer, TV/VCR/DVD and stereo and free wireless access. The Spa is open from 3-10 pm and offers a game room, exercise room, hot tub, steam and sauna as well as a TV Lounge area. You'll enjoy privacy and still be close to the action at the Pinnacle.
The Sunrise Village Triple chair gives you quick access to Killington's terrain and at the end of the day you can ski home~conditions permitting.
The Sunrise Sports Center includes an indoor pool, hot tub, steam and exercise room to rejuvenate at the end of your day on the slopes. Outside is an ice skating pond, snowshoe and cross-country trail system all at your disposal including complimentary equipment!Each condominium will include a fully equipped kitchen, fireplace, washer-dryer, TV/VCR/stereo and balcony. Some condos offer a sauna and jet tub too. Enjoy you stay in this award winning mountainside village.
Choose the Trail Creek property and walk to the slopes or ride the convenient free shuttle to the slopes. The décor is pure Vermont including a fireplace and the feeling of privacy.Trail Creek activity center is a relaxing environment to rejuvenate after a day on the slopes including an indoor pool, hot tubs, sauna, exercise room and game room.
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Thanko - High-power portable headphone amplifier with 5000mAh mobile battery function
Thanko has released a portable device that combines a 5,000mAh mobile battery and 680mw+680mw high-power headphone amplifier for ¥34,800.
Even with high-end headphones, once you connect the headphones to a smartphone or music player, you are not able to hear music in optimum sound quality. The output of those devices cannot maximize the potential of quality headphones.
Pioneer - Hi-Res audio system Stellanova to wirelessly play DND audio
Pioneer is going to release an audio system called Stellanova in late December. It was on display at CEATEC 2014 held last October.
Stellanova is able to play back Hi-Res audio files (DSD 5.6MHz, PCM 192kHz/24bit) saved on iPhone, iPad and HDD wirelessly through the dedicated iPhone/iPad application.
Thanko - Ultraminiature action camera anywhere you want
Thanko's new miniature camera can be installed anywhere you want.
For example, by attaching it on a radio-controlled plane, glasses, helmet, and even your dog's collar, you can record unique motion movies.
It's able to shoot high-quality 30fps movies (1280×720, H.264 codec) and photos (5200×3900). The motion detection function is perfect when in use as a surveillance camera.
The camera is controllable with the accompanying tiny remote control.
Terrie's Take: Japan's Unique Regions Playing 'Catch a Tourist!' (TOURISM EDITION)
Terrie's Take is a selection of Japan-centric news collected and collated by long-time resident and media business professional Terrie Lloyd. AkihabaraNews is pleased to present Terrie's learned perspective; we all could use another take on the news - here's Terrie's:
SoftBank starts selling Android tablet for the first time
IN MEMORIAM: PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? Whatever, Give Props to Ralph Baer!
[Editor's Note: It has been confirmed that Ralph Baer, the individual most directly responsible for creating the modern gaming console, has passed away at the age of 92. In his honor, we present this piece from 13 months ago, an article written amidst a storm of PS4 and Xbox One back and forth - rather than jump into the debate, welll...this.]
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: AkihabaraNews' Top 15 Japanese Gadgets
Tokyo Food Review: Ikinari Steak - Standing-Only Japanese Steakhouse
[Editor's Note: You might have heard about Tokyo's recent 'Best City in the World' cuisine rating. Well, it's not just the Michelin folks who're paying attention. AkihabaraNews Contributor Phoebe Amoroso also weighs in on Tokyo's food scene, and today: MEAT!]

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
It's one more trip to Hawaii for Tony Gonzalez. The Falcons' record setting tight end has claimed all season that this is his last year in the NFL, and he ends the regular season with a familiar honor---his thirteenth Pro Bowl selection in the past fourteen years.
Gonzalez is the lone starter for the Falcons, but quarterback Matt Ryan and second year wide receiver Julio Jones join him from Atlanta's high octane offense.
For Gonzalez, it's been another banner year in a surefire Hall of Fame career. He's claimed three records in 2012, becoming the career leader among tight ends in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
Gonzalez is already the Pro Bowl record holder for receptions (48) and touchdowns (6).
Ryan makes his second Pro Bowl appearance and first since 2010. The Falcons' signal caller is in the NFL's top five in passing yards (4,481), touchdown passes (31), completion percentage (69.0%) and passer rating (100.2).
He's in line to be the first back-up behind starter Aaron Rodgers of Green Bay.
Jones is a Pro Bowl rookie in 2012 in just his second season in the NFL. He's made a name for himself as a big play wide receiver who can out run defenders and come down with catches just inside the boundary lines.
He has 76 receptions (17th in the NFL), 1,142 yards (11th), ten touchdowns (6th) and 461 yards after catch (10th).
The Carolina Panthers, after seeing two players selected a year ago, have no representatives this year unless someone makes it as an alternate.
San Francisco led all teams with nine selections, just ahead of Houston's eight and New England's seven.
The 2013 Pro Bowl will be played January 27, 2013 at University of Hawaii's Aloha Stadium. Players from Super Bowl qualifying teams won't be eligible for the game.


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The first set of this show is awesome and weeeeeird. A 20-minute DwD in the #2 slot? Yeah! Then a delicately creepy segue into Maze, which builds with unusual deliberateness from deep quiet to Trey's sci-fi roar (an engrossing pair of atmospheric solos from Page and Trey here). Trey was apparently in a ruminative mood this first set: check out the texturally-rich downtempo LxL batting fifth. No idea what Rocky Top was doing creeping in there, especially after a first-set Loving Cup. Oh well. Some nights just weave away from the straightline path, and it paid off here.
Actually there's a bit of an early/mid-2003 vibe to this show: lots of odd textures, opioid playing from Trey, quickstep tempos alternating with plodding oddities, a dark dark darkness creeping in around the edges. And of course the powerful stupidity of Roses Are Free, which Phish would later turn into a huge jam vehicle (4/3/98, 12/31/99) but which functions here as a goofy pick-me-up after the bedraggled ambience of Drowned. (Check out how little recognition it gets from the crowd, though! Funny).
The show is indeed outstanding, but not in a *purely* desirable way: the atmospherics are pervasive and strange and the first set must've blown minds on that night, but there's none of the feverish intensity and focus of 12/6, nor the partyfunk vibe of 12/7. The Ghost > DWD quote > Johnny sequence is fine, but Ghost is a straightforward, monotonic version with a solo from Trey that's either bravely restrained or sublimely boring depending on your tastes. Waste is Waste.
Definitely seek out this show - it's a treat to hear SBDs of Fall '97 no matter what the vibe is like. But I'm gonna revise my earlier enthusiasm to a cautious endorsement: this is one of the tour's weirder and (yeah) weaker shows. Its highlights are lovely, but a one-month stretch containing 11/21-11/23, 12/6, the three huge Worcester shows, and those wild Denver outings doesn't require this night to be a classic.


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UWA men win, women lose in GSC tennis
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 12:23 a.m.
LIVINGSTON | The University of West Alabama men's tennis team used a strong performance in singles play to score a 5-4 Gulf South Conference victory over Shorter on Thursday. The UWA women lost to the Lady Hawks, 6-3.
The UWA men improved to 3-1, 2-0 in GSC play. The women are 2-2 and 1-1.
The match was the first in the GSC for Shorter. The Hawks are 3-3 overall and the Lady Hawks 4-2.
Nestor Vargas, Anton Ivanov, Kike Ruiz and Simon Bardell got singles wins for West Alabama, while Vargas and Ruiz claimed the Tigers' lone win in doubles. Dasha Popova and Shannon McEvoy earned UWA's women's singles victories. Popova and Emily Gerding scored a doubles win for UWA.
Both teams are off until Thursday when they travel to Tuskegee.
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By Bill Monroe, WF360 Pacific Flyway Migration Editor
Duck hunting has been improving in Oregon in recent days, especially for those willing to scout and locate birds. Most of the action is on the Oregon coast right now, but there are still plenty of birds that have yet to arrive from the north.
"We really haven't had a good enough cold front or storm yet," says Eric Strand, co-owner of S2 outfitters in Scappoose, along the lower Columbia River, and a recent third-place finisher in the World Goose Calling Championship in Easton, Maryland. "We've had a very stale weather pattern and some new birds are just now starting to show up on Sauvie Island. But the coast is holding a bunch of birds."
Strong winter storms will eventually bring more waterfowl into the Willamette Valley and the upper Columbia Basin, but recently the most impressive numbers of ducks have been on the lower Columbia River near the coast and south to Alsea Bay.
Good duck hunting reports have been coming from the marshes bordering Siletz, Tillamook and Nehalem bays. Thousands of birds are also resting on refuge areas on Sauvie Island, a public hunting area near Portland. Hunting has been slow from Arlington to Umatilla in the upper Columbia Basin. Keep an eye on plunging temperatures next week in northeast Washington, Alberta and southeast British Columbia. If the freeze-up finally takes hold, late November and early December will see more birds in the Basin.
Meanwhile, duck hunters continue to do relatively well at Summer Lake in southeast Oregon as well as in the Klamath Basin, where ducks are concentrated on drought-depleted reservoirs and marshes.
Goose season is closed in northwest Oregon until November 23. Goose hunting has been slow across the rest of the state, as hunters wait for northern flights to arrive. However, a few good reports have come from the Boardman area, and goose hunting should improve generally in the upper Columbia Basin over the next few weeks.
Bill Monroe is an Oregon-based freelance writer who has hunted the Pacific Flyway for three decades. Monroe will provide hunting and habitat reports throughout the Pacific Flyway for the 2013-2014 waterfowl season.
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Topic: Thought for the Day (7/22)
Just Wondering, and no I wasn't even in the thinking room. What if we took the section titled Humorous and changed it too "Thought For The Day" I think it would be neat to check the site and and read a supportive thought to get the day rolling or a thought to go to sleep thinking of. Everyone take a turn and if no one posts a thought, then go for it. They can be originals or give credit to your favorite. Positive,Clean, Supportive, Inspirational, consoling, Funny, etc. No long poem or book, just a simple thought for the day. I bet we all have plenty to share. Chime in everyone and give your opinion. I personally think the section Humorous is flat/not fizzy.
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In Final Speech, Bloomberg Lauds Rise of Cities, Warns of Fiscal Crisis Looming
In his final major address as mayor, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg heralded what he called the ascendance of American cities, but also warned that a looming crisis in healthcare and pension costs could pose a threat to their survival.
Mr. Bloomberg said New York City's population is at an all-time high and is gaining more people than it is losing for the first time in decades. "New York City has never been stronger than it is today," the mayor said Wednesday in a packed Economic Club luncheon at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. "It's clear that the golden age of the suburbs is over."
In a speech that reflected on his dozen years in office as well as life in general, Mr. Bloomberg spoke proudly of the city's diversity and said the city had come a long way from the 1960s and 1970s, when it was struggling with crime and losing people to the suburbs.
"The question back then wasn't whether cities could be saved; the question was whether they were even worth saving," he said, adding that he moved to New York in 1966 when the city "was beginning to decay."
Today, though, the mayor said, "cities are once again ascendant" and are ahead of states in experimenting with new innovations to take on challenges such as education reform, climate change and public health, and poverty. That's thanks in part, he said, to the fact that they tend to eschew the kind of partisan politics that have seized Congress with gridlock.
"Running a city is an exercise in pragmatic problem-solving, not ideological politics," Mr. Bloomberg said.
The mayor, on a citywide tour to promote his legacy as he prepares to leave office Jan. 1, ticked off some of his administration's most visible projects Wednesday, from the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan to the reshaping of the Brooklyn waterfront, the Second Avenue subway and the city's bikeshare program.
But Mr. Bloomberg also warned Wednesday that pension and healthcare costs could ultimately exact a devastating toll on basic services in cities across the country and argued that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio would have to be tough in his negotiations with unions.
"Our country appears to be in the early stages of a growing fiscal crisis," Mr. Bloomberg said, noting that pension costs in New York City have risen from $1.5 billion to $8.2 billion over his 12 years in office.
The mayor said Mr. de Blasio is "in a powerful position of strength" to hold city unions to current contracts, which have expired.
When asked about the mayor's comments Wednesday, Mr. de Blasio said he planned to fight for "more fundamental" changes than the mayor had outlined.
"I don't just intend to leave things the way they are, I intend to fight for some more fundamental structural changes," he said at a news conference in which he announced that he had chosen a new budget director.
"So I would caution, as much as I appreciate Mayor Bloomberg's advice," he said, "one should be careful giving advice from that perspective."
As Mayor Bloomberg spoke Wednesday, at least one local TV news outlet cut away from his address to cover Mr. de Blasio's announcement instead.
At the Marriott, Mr. Bloomberg said he wished Mr. de Blasio success, and gave a nod to the audience, where some of the city's wealthiest donors and philanthropists had gathered to hear the final speech of a mayor who was a billionaire and often used his personal relationships to entice friends to invest their personal money into city projects.
"If it hadn't been for your generosity we could not help those who are really in need," Mr. Bloomberg said.
That era is nearly over, and Wednesday, Mr. Bloomberg, who has said he will launch a consulting firm to advise cities around the world when he leaves office Jan. 1, said he was grateful to have served as mayor and hoped he would leave a meaningful legacy for his children and first grandchild, a boy due to be born this month.
"I will look back on this for the rest of my life and have been able to do something, hopefully, for my kids and about to have a grandchild," he said. "If you want to change the world, run for mayor."


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NEW YORK -- Charles Schwab Corp. can ban its clients from bringing class-action lawsuits, a securities industry regulatory panel ruled Thursday in a sweeping decision that may be adopted broadly by U.S. brokerage firms.
Schwab last year told customers it was modifying their 8.8 million account agreements to prohibit class-action suits and to modify their ability to have arbitration cases consolidated. The decision followed settlements of class-action litigation by Schwab in which it agreed to pay $235 million for misleading marketing of its high-interest YieldPlus money-market fund between May 2006 and March 2008.
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hearing panel said in a 48-page ruling that the class-action ban is consistent with federal law and recent Supreme Court interpretations of the Federal Arbitration Act.
The ruling is a blow to FINRA, a private group that regulates broker-dealers and administers arbitration panels. It was also a blow to class-action lawyers.
Last February, FINRA's enforcement department charged Schwab with violating its rules by limiting clients' class-action and arbitration rights. The hearing panel on Thursday agreed that the class-action ban violates the self-regulator's rules but found that the rules are not enforceable because they conflict with the Federal Arbitration Act.
"Schwab is pleased with the panel's decision," the San Francisco-based firm said in a statement. "The company believes customers are better served through the existing FINRA arbitration process and that class-action lawsuits are a cumbersome and less effective means of resolving disputes - for both parties."
A FINRA spokeswoman said the group was reviewing the decision, and could not yet comment on whether it would appeal the ruling to its appellate body, the National Adjudicatory Council.
Securities industry officials said it is likely that many firms will now attempt to revise their customer account agreements.
"FINRA could appeal, but you have a fairly well-developed decision here," said Kevin Carroll, associate general counsel of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Associations, broker-dealers' main trade group. "It's up to our individual members to determine if they will adopt a class-action ban."
Plaintiffs' lawyers said an appeal is almost certain and will be in the best interests of brokerage firm clients.
"It's a significant step backwards for consumers," said Ryan K. Bakhtiari, a partner at Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari in Beverly Hills, California, and past president of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. "I would expect FINRA to move to protect its turf."
Some lawyers said it is far from certain that a single panel ruling can determine far-reaching law. "This ruling threatens most securities class-actions, but the panel does not usually make the law," said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia Law School.
In spite of the ruling, FINRA can tell broker-dealers that if they want to remain members they still have to abide by its "fair-play" rules, he said. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which delegates regulatory authority over brokers to FINRA, requires all broker-dealers to be members and all brokers who sell securities to be licensed by FINRA.
FINRA prevailed in one of its three actions against Schwab. The panel said Schwab violated FINRA rules by limiting the powers of its arbitrators to consolidate individual client claims in hearings.
The panel said the federal arbitration rule does not dictate how arbitration forums should be run and fined Schwab $500,000. It also ordered the broker to take corrective action and remove the violative language from its customer agreements.
Schwab removed the language in January, a Schwab spokesman said.
He added that Schwab was pleased that it prevailed "on the central class-action waiver issue."


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Mt. Wachusett Community College Makes Huge Investment in Wind Power
March 23, 2011
Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in Gardner, Massachusetts, with support from DOE, made a huge investment in renewable energy by installing two new utility-scale wind turbines on their campus in 2011. The turbines are expected to provide an annual savings of approximately $700,000 based on the area's current utility rates—a figure which more than offsets the annual debt service on the turbines.
MWCC's purchase of two Vestas V82 1.65 megawatt turbines, now towering 270 feet above campus, was made possible through a DOE grant. See the Energy Blog post.


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Added performance: February 3, 8pm.
"Visually, this production is a stunner, moving from triumph to triumph from
the minute the lights come up…"
—Toronto Sun
Joining SF Ballet's repertoire for the first time, John Cranko's intensely dramatic work Onegin is a masterful ballet adaptation of the early-19th century novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin.
The passionate story of Russian aristocrat Eugene and his lost chance for love with the beautiful Tatiana, unleashes heartbreaking themes of unrequited love, anguish, and tragic irony. Set to a powerful score by Tchaikovsky, this production features lavish scenery and costumes by award-winning designer Santo Loquasto and lighting by James F. Ingalls.
Read Tatiana's passionate love-letter to Onegin.
Check out the exciting social media events around Onegin.
The 2012 San Francisco Ballet premiere of Onegin is made possible by New Productions Fund Lead Sponsor Mrs. Jeannik Méquet Littlefield, Major Sponsors Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation and Larry and Joyce Stupski, and Sponsors Suzy Kellems Dominik and Stephanie and Mory Ejabat. Additional support was provided by Story Ballet Sponsor Koret Foundation and Sponsors Timothy Dattels and Kristine Johnson.
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- Jul 27:
- Michael J. Fox tries to find the funny in Parkinson's
- NBC producing Hillary Clinton miniseries
- Cory Monteith recalled as 'wonderful guy,' great leader by Mike O'Malley
- Jul 26:
- 'Breaking Bad': Cast discusses 'unapologetic' ending
- 'Shake It Up' canceled by Disney Channel
- 'Sharknado': Syfy sensation coming to movie theaters
- 'Doctor Who': Matt Smith parties with the TV critics
- Jul 25:
- Gandolfini pilot won't air on HBO
- 'Doctor Who': Matt Smith wonders if leaving show will be 'big mistake'
Sean Combs wants to stage a Revolt.
The music mogul/rapper dropped by the TV critics press tour Friday morning to promote his new music cable station, Revolt TV, which is scheduled to launch this fall.
Combs, clad in a snappy gray suit, spoke with his usual passion about how he's seeking to appeal to young viewers -- or millennials -- who have "unplugged from TV and run to the Internet."
"My mission is to bring kids back to television," he said, pointing out that TV is going to be everywhere, including the "toilet and sidewalk."
Revolt, Combs said, will rely heavily on social media, allowing viewers to approve and create content. He insisted that the channel will cover "music as a culture" and "in a journalistic way."
"We'll take risks on young and new artists," he added.
Revolt grew out of a diversity program initiated by Comcast. Combs said he has harbored a dream to control his own TV network for 11 years. But the work that has gone into the project has exceeded his expectations.
"It's the hardest, most stressful thing I've ever done," he said.


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Good Chalk Dust to start with as I still had high hopes for this one. Guelah had some off spots as the tweaks in the sound continue. Rift continued to have timing problems during Page's solo and a rough ending. Fee was pretty good, maybe some monitor tweaking going on? Maze was ok. Trey desperately needs to tune during Forbin's, which was rough in parts, but had a really funny story with it as usual. "The first holographic Phish show." He does tune during the story making Mockingbird decent. Sparkle was ok. Horn was off on Mike's part. Trey actually says "oops" in IDK's false start and the nicknames fly again after "Tubbs'" trombone solo. Check out Mike's yell at the end too. Page adds some "get up" music after the all fall down signal and the Simpson's say "DOSE". Bowie was a weak closer as more DAT noise interrupts and then cuts off the end of a rough first set.
My Friend is good tonight and has a great Drummer Boy ending. Poor Heart was also good as this set starts to make this show respectable. Melt was good and so was Tela even though it's pretty rare. YEM was good, but the vocal jam was cut. Old tape flip? Fish forgets to turn the snares back on and Trey forgets to tune for an ok Pen. Then the balls come out and then we go right into a Fishman section with a good Brain. Coil had a few problems in the middle, but not too bad as Page again tries to pick up the pieces of this better, but not great set. Cavern even has a false start and makes for an average closer.
GTBT as the encore sums up this show pretty well and I wonder if the band really meant it as there were some good songs for the past two nights, and definitely some bad ones.
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MLAB Lightning is forming a 10U Select team. We are holding an open tryout on December 10, 2011 at 10 a.m. for any girls born in 2001 or 2002 for 10U and 1999 or 2000 for 12U.
Tryouts will be held at Major League Academy of Baseball. 9421 FM 2920 Tomball, TX 77375 (Building 7)
Please email coach Emily for more information. firstname.lastname@example.com
Tryouts will be indoors so please wear tennis shoes or turf shoes.
Pitchers and catchers please come 30 minutes early.
Girls from all areas of Houston are welcome.
Come on out to tryout!
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If you are a pitcher looking for innings we have the spot for you! Contact us email@example.com .
Come be a part of a great organization. Email us at email@example.com for more information.
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Looking forward to meeting all of the girls at tryouts. Come on out for 10U and 12U tryouts. Contact Coach Emily with any questions.
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Over the past several weeks, the phenomenon of sinkholes has become quite a popular topic.
After a large sinkhole in Seffner, Fla., "swallowed" a man and parts of his home in February, so-called "sinkhole sightings" are popping up all over the world– from Portugal to Chicago.
But is this an end-of-times scenario that we should be increasingly vigilant about?
One local expert says this is business as usual from a geological perspective.
"It's pretty typical," said Dr. Neil Anderson, a professor at Missouri S&T. "Sinkholes occur all over Missouri and in other different places...This type of activity is ongoing – 24/7."
In fact, a sinkhole at a Waterloo golf course near St. Louis "swallowed" a golfer on the fairway at the 14th hole on March 8, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
According to the article, the "enclosure" was "up to 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide." The golfer was recovered from the sinkhole.
This was a far cry from the sinkhole in Florida, which claimed the life of 36-year-old Jeff Bush and devoured parts of his home. This particular sinkhole was approximately 60 feet deep and 30 feet wide on the surface, but below the surface it was about "100 feet across," according to a March report from USA Today.
According to the U.S Geological Survey, sinkholes occur most commonly "where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them."
The worst sinkhole damage is reported in states such as Florida, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and – you guessed it, Missouri.
"They've been forming for literally tens of millions of years," Anderson said. "As the limestone is dissolved, it isn't filled by soil, but rather an air pocket forms.
"As the limestone is dissolved, the air fill void becomes larger and larger, and eventually it becomes so large that the overlying soil basically has a little bit of a bridge over the void.
"Occasionally what happens is the ground surface will collapse catastrophically,
like in St. louis and in Florida."
Anderson was involved with a study of a sinkhole in Nixa, Missouri back in 2006.
According to his report, "the kitchen and attached garage of the single-family home... collapsed into a catastrophic sinkhole."
The sinkhole was approximately 75 feet deep and 50 feet in surface diameter, but the homeowner's vehicle and freezer were buried well beneath 75 feet.
"They estimated that it had been 90 feet deep to have completely swallowed the man's car," Anderson said.
Anderson says weather conditions can exacerbate occurrences of sinkholes, specifically heavy rain or the opposite, long periods of drought.
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But there's always the human factor, such as urbanization, causing an unusually heavy amount of storm water runoff.
Anderson maintains that sinkholes, even the large ones, are a common phenomenon.
"I think this is a little bit of the press picking up on something that has caught people's attention," Anderson said. "There are a lot of big sinkholes in Missouri that open up in a farmer's field and nobody cares. The one in Nixa was 75 feet deep but it didn't get much attention."
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Brandon and Ginger Warren of Lawrenceburg announce the birth of a son, Luke Michael, at 5:34 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11 at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington. He weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces and was 19.75 inches long.
Grandparents are Jerry and Regina Shely of Lawrenceburg and Larry and Brenda Warren of Campbellsville.
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Army National Guard Spec. Milton A. Buckner has been mobilized and activated at Fort McCoy in Sparta, Wis., for deployment overseas to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The soldier is a member of the 201st Engineer Battalion in Cynthiana, Ky.
Bekah Bolin donated 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love, an organization that provides hair to children suffering from illness-related hair loss. Bolin is the daughter of Shana and Shane Stapleton and Jeff and Marcella Bolin. Her grandparents are Steve and Sue Campbell and Betty Bolin.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently had a contest for school-aged children to submit a name for its new 18-foot water safety display.
The display is meant to attract attention as well as make visitors to the lake think about water safety.
"Billy Floats A lot" was chosen as the winning name and was submitted by Jordan Humphress, 13, of Knifley. Humphress' entry was chosen based on how catchy it was and how his description promoted water safety.
Larry and Betty Skaggs recently visited their middle son, Daniel Skaggs, who is living in Missoula, Mont., where he is attending the University of Montana majoring in environmental studies. He has a 4.0 GPA.
Todd Sharp and his fianc Leeann Cooke of Campbellsville won Boyle County Fair's Dancing with the Stars event on Tuesday, June 17. The couple danced an East Coast swing to "Hot Stuff, Let's Dance." They will perform the same dance in exhibition tonight at Taylor County Fair's Dancing with the Fair Stars competition. The event begins at 7:30.
Sheryl Bell, 29, of Campbellsville performed a vocal solo during the USA World Showcase on May 24 at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Bell sang "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn.
Online voting will begin on Sunday, July 6 at www.usaworldshowcase.com.
Bell received a plaque for her performance and was the only participant from Kentucky.
Tina Hudson Watkins and David "BB" Benningfield exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, May 31 at All Occasions in Campbellsville.
The Rev. Paul Dicken performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Elsie Hudson of Winter Haven, Fla. and the late James Hudson. Her grandparents are Margaret Wells of Tipler, Wis., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sylvester and Albert Hudson.
Raymond and Delphia Warner of Springfield announce the engagement of their daughter, Cynthia Lynn Warner DeWitt, to Douglas Dale Porter, son of Elwood and Joyce Porter of Finley.
DeWitt is the granddaughter of the late Thomas "Tom" and Mandy Loy and Raymond and Pearlie Mae Warner.
She is a 1986 graduate of Washington County High School and is employed at General Electric in Louisville.
Porter is the grandson of the late Alford Clever and Mary Elizabeth Moore and Roy and Winnie Porter.
Rachael Akin and Adam Dobson, both of Campbellsville, will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, June 28.
Akin is the daughter of Jane Carter of Lebanon and Rocky and Lori Akin of Lexington. Her grandparents are Bobby and Mary Louise Carter and Russell Akin, all of Campbellsville, and the late Jane Akin.
She is a student at Campbellsville University and is employed at Taylor Regional Hospital.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi volleyball team will open the 2013 season this weekend in Denver, Colo. at the Pioneer Classic. The Islanders will kickoff competition against UC Irvine on Friday, Aug. 30, before taking on Denver and Air Force on Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Hamilton Gymnasium.
The Islanders are coming off an impressive 2012 season that saw the team shatter school records in overall wins (21) and Southland wins (12) while finishing the season with a program-best third place. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi returns nine letterwiners from a year ago and welcomes six newcomers.
Brianna Brink, a Preseason First Team All-Southland pick, leads the pack of returners along with senior Logen Bourque, a Preseason Second Team All-Southland pick. The setter set the all-time career assist mark last season for an Islander while leading the team with a season-high 1,070 assists. She also tallied her first career triple-double and was the first Islander to do so since 2005 with 10 kills, 13 digs and 39 assists against Lamar. Also, returning for the Islanders' offense is right side hitter Ashley Phelps and outside hitters Ivy Baresh and Haley Satterwhite Day. Defensively, Shayla Maldonado and Hailey King will return to lead the Islanders in the back row.
Head Coach Tony Graystone enters his fifth season at the Island University and welcomes the addition of six newcomers, Morgan Carlson (RS), Nicole Soifua (MB), Abby Whitehead (MB), Valarie Moehrig (OH), Courtney Cary (S) and Shaquinn Parker (MB).
The Islanders will face UC Irvine and Denver for the first time in school history and will face Air Force for just the second time in Islanders history. The last time the two teams matched up was in the Air Force Invitational in 2008.
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Following Saturday's matches, the Islanders will travel to Houston, Texas, next weekend to compete in the Rice Invitational I on Friday, Sept. 6 and Saturday, Sept. 7, against Rice, LSU and UALR.
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WATERFORD — At its core, the game of basketball is really pretty simple: Put the ball in the hoop more than the other team. But sometimes, getting that ball in the hoop can be a real challenge....
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When you think of an Olympic athlete, the word "normal" doesn't come to mind. But that's how Jordyn Wieber's family describes her.
"She's a pretty standard teenager, she really is," said Rita Wieber, Jordyn's mother. "She loves fashion and she loves shopping. She likes purses and shoes and makeup. She loves Twitter and Instagram. She does all the normal teenage stuff."
"She's a little more busy than a normal kid," said Wieber's brother, Ryan. "But she does her homework, she hangs out with friends. She likes to just chill and have fun."
Younger sister, Kyra, says Jordyn gives her advice about friends, and they like to go shopping together. Pretty normal sister stuff, she says, except for when they go to the mall and Jordyn gets asked for autographs.
"We make it kind of fun," said Kyra Wieber. "Sometimes when we go shopping, we'll count how many people notice her, stare at her, something like that."
We asked Jordyn's older sister, Lindsay, what would surprise us about her younger sister.
"I just learned this about her," said Lindsay Wieber. "She hates feet. If you touch her with feet, she was freaking out about it. We were out at the pool and my other sister, Kyra—her feet touched her and she started freaking out about her feet, which is so weird because they're barefoot all the time in the gym."
Kyra Wieber says Jordyn has more fun than we might think.
"People think that she doesn't have a big social life," says the 12-year-old. "You would think that she spends like every single hour of her life in the gym. But on the weekends and stuff, she hangs out with her friends, she hangs out with me and my sister and stuff. So she's not spending like her whole life in the gym."
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BERKELEY -- It's starting to appear Stanford has a Michigan problem when it comes to women's volleyball.
The unseeded Wolverines shocked the second-seeded Cardinal 3-1 on Saturday night to bounce Stanford out of the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season.
While last year's second-round defeat at Maples Pavilion wasn't that surprising, what happened at Haas Pavilion in the Elite Eight was downright confounding.
The Wolverines (27-11) advanced to play Texas on Thursday in the Final Four in Louisville, Ky. Penn State and Oregon will meet in the other match.
Stanford (30-4) came undone at the most inopportune time. It passed poorly against a strong-serving team and never recovered in falling 20-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-20.
"It was a fight out there," said junior All-American Carly Wopat, who had 13 kills and six blocks. "It just got away from us. We haven't had a match like that until now. Kind of bad timing."
Stanford coach John Dunning knew it wouldn't be easy although the Wolverines were the only unseeded team playing in the Elite Eight. Michigan had five returners from last year's team that won 3-1 after also dropping the first set against Stanford.
"They're here. They're really good," he said. "One thing we know about Michigan is we have a little bit of history with them. We know they are fighters."
After having one of its best passing performances this season Friday night, the Cardinal came out flat against the Wolverines.
"Their confidence grew throughout the game," said freshman Inky Ajanaku, who added 11 kills and seven blocks. "We didn't put pressure on them."
The lack of pressure led to a game-high 23 kills for Lexi Erwin as four Michigan players scored in double figures in hitting. Setter Lexi Dannemiller added 59 assists.
"We don't have all these all-stars or all these big names in the media," junior middle blocker Jennifer Cross said. "We don't need our names in the news because no matter what teams throw at us 14 people are coming at them."
By the time Michigan built a 2-1 lead it seemed it was headed to Kentucky The Wolverines hit off the Stanford block to score point after point while never allowing the Cardinal to find a rhythm on offense or in blocking.
"This team really has come together in the past month and a half and been one of the best teams I've been part of," coach Mark Rosen said.
Michigan reached its first Final Four and denied Stanford its record 19th appearance.
The Cardinal won the first set but not without some tense moments after building a 17-11 lead. The Wolverines scored three consecutive points to make it 14-17. Then it became a tug-of-war with the Cardinal making a mini-run only to see Michigan respond.
Although they lost, the way the Wolverines reacted to being down seemed to calm them down and allowed them to play within Rosen's system.
"We knew they were tough," Dunning said. "And we knew they are going to do it through serving and passing. We needed to make them feel pressure and we didn't do that after game one.
"It looked like we went to off speed. We started to feel it a little bit."
The Cardinal just couldn't recover despite a season in which it had battled back often and played in five five-set matches.
After Michigan tied the score 1-1 in sets it kept employing the same system that Stanford couldn't solve. The Cardinal never made a serious challenge after that.
"It's just kind of hard to handle," Ajanaku said.
That pretty much summed up the way the Stanford players felt after walking off the court.
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Published: Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 14, 2012 at 12:16 a.m.
West Henderson (N.C.) senior volleyball standout Ashley Biggs has committed to Converse College. The outside hitter finished her senior year with 299 kills, 63 aces and 382 digs.
USC Upstate: Sophomore closer Chad Sobotka was named a Preseason Third-Team All-American as announced Thursday by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
South Carolina: Senior left-handed pitcher Tyler Webb has earned Preseason All-America honors as announced by the NCBWA.
... The swimming and diving program signed nine student-athletes during the early signing period.
The Gamecocks inked swimmers Joshua Clothier, Robert Gilchrist, Samuel Lynch and Evan Mahoney and diver Jordan Gotro to the men's team. Mary Carlson, Elizabeth Maltby, Caroline Petrone and Taylor Vincent signed to swim for the women's team.
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Obama, Hillary Clinton 'Most Admired' in Poll
The most admired man and woman of the year are, once again, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to Gallup's annual poll.
This year, 16% of those polled named Mr. Obama and 15% named Mrs. Clinton. They won the titles by comfortable margins, although they weren't mentioned as most admired by as many people as in previous years. Gallup's poll asks Americans to name, in an open-ended format, the man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most.
Mr. Obama has been named most admired man each year since he was elected president in 2008, receiving a high of 30% in 2012 after his re-election. Mrs. Clinton has been named most admired woman each of the last 12 years and a total of 18 times – more than any other woman since Gallup began polling in 1948. She was mentioned as most admired woman by 21% last year.
Former President George W. Bush tied with Pope Francis for second place among men, named by 4%. Former President Bill Clinton and Rev. Billy Graham each were named by 2%. Oprah Winfrey, mentioned by 6%, was one notch ahead of First Lady Michelle Obama and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin among most-admired women.
In addition to the pope, Clint Eastwood, whose empty-chair gag at the Republican convention in 2012 was still being referenced this year, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who spoke for more than 21 hours on the Senate floor in opposition to the federal health law, finished in the top 10 for the first time.
Because the poll was conducted at the time of Nelson Mandela's death, he doesn't appear on the list. He was mentioned by 7% as most admired man.
The Gallup poll of 1,031 adults conducted Dec. 5-8 has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
CORRECTION: President Obama won re-election against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in 2012. A previous version of this post incorrectly said his victory was a landslide.
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6.1 This examination of Irving's work has demonstrated that there is abundant evidence of his beliefs and activities since 1988 as a Holocaust denier; that is to say, he has actively propagated the view that the Holocaust as conventionally understood did not happen. According to Irving, there were no functioning gas chambers, there was no systematic extermination of the Jews by the Nazis, the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in the Second World War did not amount to more than a few hundred thousand at most, and the evidence on which historians have relied for their accounts of the Holocaust was fabricated by the Allies during the war and further invented afterwards in the interests of sustaining the new state of Israel. Irving has manifold connections with well-known Holocaust deniers in a number of countries, and uses his website to propagate Holocaust denial on the Internet. He has repeatedly implied that such antisemitic outrages as did occur under the 'Third Reich' were the responsibility of the Jews themselves, who in his view gave rise to them as a result of various acts of provocation which they committed. And he has consistently sought to portray the crimes of the 'Third Reich' during the Second World War as no more serious, indeed possibly a good deal less serious, than the crimes, if that was what they were, committed by the Allies most notably the bombing of German cities.
6.2 Irving is a particularly dangerous spokesperson for Holocaust denial because over the years he has consistently portrayed himself as a scrupulous historian with an unrivalled knowledge of the archival sources and an unerring eye for forgeries and falsifications. As we saw in Part I, he has repeatedly claimed that he is waging a 'campaign for real history' against legend and myth, truth against falsehood. 'Real history', he says, is based on the archives, not on copying other historians' work, which is how academic, university-based historians in his opinion proceed. Many reviewers, and still more journalists, have been at least partly taken in by this ceaselessly propagated self-promotion and have paid tribute to Irving's skill and energy as a researcher. But even if they have done so, they have often gone on to complain that Irving manipulates and distorts the sources he uses. If, like Peter Hoffmann, Charles Sydnor, Martin Broszat, Hugh Trevor-Roper, David Cannadine, or Eberhard Jäckel, for instance, they have themselves been familiar with these sources, their condemnation of Irving's work for its inaccuracy and bias has been particularly detailed and unremitting.
6.3 Irving has claimed in a posting on his website that there is at least one positive view of him by a professional historian with expertise in the areas on which he works. 'New Zealand's leading Holocaust historian has a word or two to say about David Irving', he proclaims. The competition to be New Zealand's leading historian of the Holocaust is, in truth, not very intense. However, the historian to whom he refers - Dr. Joel S. Hayward of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, is not a specialist on Nazi antisemitism at all, but a military historian who has worked on the role of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Stalingrad. Irving quotes Hayward as saying that he has read all of Irving's books, and has also 'conducted extensive research into Irving's character and career, this information forming a substantial part of my Master's thesis on the historiography of Holocaust Revisionism'. Hayward's verdict, based, he says, on a knowledge of many of the documents Irving has used and cited in his work, is that 'I can't find serious flaws in his methodology and I have never found a single example of deliberate falsification of evidence....Irving is a researcher, biographer and military historian of outstanding aptitude. Many of his works are excellent.'1
6.4 However, although he holds an academic post, Hayward is far from being an unbiased witness. In fact, he hovers on the fringes of Holocaust denial, to put it no more strongly, himself. His only work on the Nazi extermination of the Jews was an M.A. thesis entitled 'The Fate of Jews in German Hands An Historical Enquiry into the Development and Significance of Holocaust Revisionism', which was quoted by antisemites in New Zealand as a justification of Holocaust denial. Charged with being a Holocaust denier, Hayward replied that he was young and inexperienced when he wrote the thesis, admitted that it contained errors of fact and judgement, and confessed that he was embarrassed by some of the things he wrote in it. It is clear, however, that the thesis was extremely sympathetic to the Holocaust deniers. Moreover, in his reply to his critics, Hayward admitted that 'European Jews suffered dreadfully during the 1930s and especially during World War II, when Germans and others maltreated, enslaved and murdered great numbers', but did not admit that gas chambers had existed, that five to six million Jews had been murdered, or that the Nazi extermination was in any way systematic. Moreover, Hayward has published an article in the Holocaust Revisionist periodical the Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung (first issue of 1999, pp. 4-16), and is listed as an author by the periodical's publisher, the Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, a Dutch revisionist organization devoted (as it proclaims on its website) to 'Revisionismus pur', alongside well known deniers such as Austin App, Robert Faurisson and Günther Deckert (Irving is another author whose work is available via this website). Neither from the nature of his associations, nor from the quality and range of his research, which insofar as it has dealt with the Nazi extermination of the Jews, has been in considerable measure, if not quite completely, disowned by its author, can Dr. Hayward be called an unbiased or trustworthy witness on the quality of Irving's work. As this Report has made abundantly clear, Hayward's own views on Irving's research are completely without foundation.2
6.5 Irving's claims to be a historian are bogus for a number of reasons. He has repeatedly condemned other historians for supposedly neglecting or suppressing key documents and for merely plagiarising each other; but how can he possibly do this, when on his own admission he never reads their work, and so can have no idea what is in it? At the Zündel trial in Canada, for example, he was even forced to admit that he had not read the standard work on the extermination of the Jews by Raul Hillberg. How can one take seriously the opinions of such a man on what professional historians do or fail to do? In fact, as we have seen, specialist historians do not merely rely on each other's work, but base their investigations on research in the archives that is at least as extensive as Irving's, and in most cases a good deal more rigorous. They cite other historians because other historians have carried out work on archival sources themselves, which it would be otiose to repeat. However, historians always provide precise references to the archival sources on which they base their conclusions, enabling their colleagues to check their accuracy and subject their arguments to critical scrutiny, and this is what commonly occurs when they use each other's work. By contrast, as we have seen, Irving frequently fails to provide proper source references, is often vague about the documents he claims to have used, and sometimes appears to cover his tracks by making it particularly difficult for his readers to track his sources down.
6.6 Moreover, far from reaching his conclusions about the Holocaust as a result of independent research, Irving, who admitted to a conference of the Institute of Historical Review in the mid-1980's that he had never investigated it in any detail since it was not his primary concern, has simply copied them from the existing literature of Holocaust denial, in the kind of incestuous and plagiaristic procedure which he has repeatedly and falsely alleged is common practice among academic historians. Examining the views of App, Butz, Faurisson, Rassinier, Staeglich, Christophersen and others quoted and summarized in this paper, it is clear that many of them have been taken over completely by Irving without acknowledgment and presented as his own. Thus his argument that Zyklon-B was only used for delousing and hygiene - for saving lives rather than taking them, in other words - was put much earlier by Butz. So too was his claim that the failure of Yad Vashem to collect six million names showed that six million did not in fact die. Irving's assertion that Auschwitz was no more than an industrial plant also appears to derive from Butz. His belief that most Jews who died there died of typhus can also be found in Butz's The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, published long before Irving announced in public his conversion to Holocaust denial. He follows Butz in his semantic disputation of the meaning of terms such as Judentum and Ausrottung. He echoes Austin App in the suggestion that a large number of the Jews who allegedly died in the Holocaust went to Israel and were not killed at all. These examples can easily be multiplied with reference to other well-known works of Holocaust denial. All that Irving does in this respect is to repeat the arguments that had become standard clichés of this literature in the decades before his conversion. Indeed he himself, writing in his diary on 24th July 1986, admitted that it was Faurisson who first got him 'thinking very hard' about the evidence for the Auschwitz gas chambers. There is no evidence that he has carried out any serious research on the Holocaust since the late 1980's, and none at all that he did any in the run-up to his 'conversion' in 1988.
6.7 The Holocaust denial literature which he has copied is light-years away from the kind of careful, archivally based historical scholarship which Irving has become accustomed to describe as 'real history'. Take for example the arguments put forward in the 1980s by 'Richard Harwood', quickly revealed as a pseudonym for Richard Verrall, the editor of Spearhead, the journal of the National Front, which at the time was the leading racist and neo-fascist political organization in Britain. In 1974 'Harwood' published a booklet entitled Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth at Last. In 1978 'Harwood' bought out a second pamphlet, entitled Nuremberg and other War Crimes. Among other things, these brief tracts engaged in the kind of semantic disputes which we subsequently find in the work of Irving. Harwood declared, like Butz, that in his trial at Nuremberg, leading Nazi Alfred Rosenberg 'was able to show that "Ausrottung" had been mistranslated; in fact it meant uprooting. Likewise, "Judentum" did not, in Harwood's view, following Rosenberg, mean "Jews" as individuals (this would have been Juden), but should be translated as "Jewry" or "Jewish power".'3 Harwood also claimed, as Irving was to do subsequently, that Nazi antisemitism was a response to attacks on Germany by 'international Jewry'. As Irving was to do later, he argued that the Allies fabricated photographs alleged to be of concentration camp victims.4 Although the author of the pamphlet had never carried out any documentary historical research, Irving subsequently rated it as over 90 per cent factually accurate and took over many of its arguments entirely uncritically, although he himself had not done any documentary historical research in this area either.5 In fact it is a complete falsification of history, as is all the work of the Holocaust deniers, including Irving's.
6.8 An examination of Irving's own work, for example with reference to the origins of such instances of Nazi antisemitism as he is prepared to concede actually did happen, or the statistical calculation of the number of German civilians killed in the Allied bombing raid on Dresden in February 1945, confirms that he shares the principal historical methods of Holocaust denial. These include especially skewing and manipulation of documents, intentional suppression of evidence, conscious falsification of statistics, reliance on sources known to be unreliable if they fit the argument in hand, unjustified dismissal of reliable sources if they do not, false attribution of conclusions to books and sources which in fact say the opposite, knowing mistranslation of German sources and use of known mistranslations when this suits the argument, and deliberate misconstrual or even invention of the historical record. We have repeatedly encountered examples of all of these methods of distorting and falsifying the historical record in Irving's work, both in connection with his contention that Hitler did not know of, or insofar as he did know, disapproved of antisemitic acts during the 'Third Reich', and in connection with other aspects of the history of the time, such as the Allied bombing raid on Dresden in February 1945.
6.9 In looking at one particular kind of source, especially prized by Irving, namely the postwar testimony of Hitler's surviving staff, we have seen again how he lacks all consistency in applying critical criteria to source material and judges it not by its provenance, the intention and position of its authors, or its internal consistency and its consistency with other relevant sources, but solely and simply by the extent to which it supports his attempt to exculpate Hitler. The same can be said of Irving's use of the Goebbels diaries, of which he has made so much in recent years. When Goebbels writes something that fits Irving's argument, Irving praises it as accurate. When he writes something that does not, Irving suggests, usually without any solid grounds for doing so, that Goebbels had ulterior motives in writing it, and that it cannot be relied on.
6.10 Irving's claim to be a scrupulous historian is completely bogus. His attitude to source material which runs counter to his argument is neatly summed up by his discussion of a passage in Eichmann's memoirs which he evidently found somewhat inconvenient to his attempt to argue that Hitler neither ordered nor even knew about the extermination of the Jews. In the memoirs, Eichmann says how in July 1941 Heydrich said to him: 'I've come from the Reichsführer SS. The Führer has given orders for the physical destruction of the Jews. Irving told an audience at the Institute for Historical Review: 'You've only got to change one or two words and you get a completely different meaning.' Eichmann, he claimed, was worried when he was writing his memoirs in case he was later arrested and put on trial. So he tried to place the responsibility on Hitler in order to advance the argument that he had only been obeying orders. 'Eichmann', concluded Irving, 'may well have adapted the sentence that Heydrich actually uttered to him'.6 In other words, if the source doesn't fit, then argue it out of existence if you can't ignore it altogether. If you want to alter a few words in a document in order to make it support your argument, then either do so (which, as we have seen, is the case with some of Irving's translations) or argue that the author would have done so had he been telling the truth.
6.11 There are some, of course, though they do not include Irving, who argue that this kind of way with sources is what historians do anyway, and that arguments about Hitler and the Holocaust are simply arguments of the kind that historians commonly indulge in between themselves. 'Revisionism' according to this view is what historians not only do, but actually should engage in all the time, and the 'Revisionists' such as Irving and his associates at the Institute for Historical Review are doing no more than the customary business of the historian. The libertarian journalist David Botsford, for example, has recently argued along these lines:
Whether one likes the fact or not, these ideas have gained considerable ground since the mid-1970s, and are no longer dismissed by historians as merely the ravings of a neo-Nazi fringe seeking to restore the 'Third Reich'. They are beginning to creep into the margins of respectable academic history....Holocaust revisionism is increasingly considered by historians to be an extreme, radical, dubious and highly controversial interpretation, but an interpretation nevertheless that must be taken into consideration in the writing of the history of the second world war.
6.12 And Botsford goes on to argue against the proposition that 'historical arguments aimed at exonerating Hitler and the Nazi regime simply cannot be equated with those relating to other historical problems'. 'No historical question can ever be regarded as finally settled', he concludes, not even that of the Holocaust.7
6.13 But this is a cynical and in the end inaccurate depiction of the historian's business. Of course historians disagree. One pertinent example is the long-running controversy between so-called 'intentionalists', who argue that everything in the 'Third Reich', including above all the extermination of the Jews, happened because Hitler intended it to happen, and the so-called 'functionalists', who argue that the ideological radicalism of the Nazi movement generated its own dynamic, and that many things, including at least the beginnings of the 'final solution', happened because of various pressures acting upon Nazi functionaries on the ground, whose actions eventually forced Hitler to ratify their policy and give it a systematic character. From this point of view, leading 'functionalists' such as the German historians Martin Broszat and Hans Mommsen went on record in the 1970s as accepting Irving's argument that the final solution did not happen because Hitler planned and ordered it from the outset.8 Broszat and Mommsen pointed in support of their arguments to factors such as the casual and often opportunistic nature of decision-making in the 'Third Reich', and the absence of any written order by Hitler for the extermination of the Jews.
6.14 But none of these historians actually disputed the fact that the extermination of the Jews, however it began, eventually, by the middle of 1942 at the latest, became a co-ordinated and systematic action. None of them disputed the fact that between five and six million Jews were eventually killed. None of them denied the fact that millions of them were killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka and other murder centres. And none of them accepted Irving's contention that Hitler never knew about the extermination, never approved of it, and never ratified it. Botsford is wrong to say that Holocaust denial is one interpretation amongst many; it is indeed unnecessary for him to do so in order to justify his fundamental argument, which is that there should be no law against it, for from his libertarian point of view, it does not matter how absurd an argument is: freedom of speech is absolute. The fact is that academic historians have not come to consider Irving's argument about Hitler, or other elements of 'Revisionism' as in any sense legitimate or come to believe that thay have to be taken into account. The handful who have, such as the German historian Ernst Nolte, or the American historian Arno Mayer, have done so from political motives (respectively, right and left) and their views have not been taken seriously by mainstream historians.
6.15 Two general questions are of vital importance here. They are interlinked and to a large extent interdependent. The first is, what are the boundaries of legitimate disagreement among historians? The second is, how far do historians' interpretations depend on a selective reading of the evidence, and where does selectivity end and bias begin? The answer to both is fundamental to the business of being a historian. Historians bring a whole variety of ideas, theories, even preconceptions to the evidence to help them frame the questions they want to ask of it and guide their selection of what they want to consult. But once they get to work on the documents, they have a duty to read the evidence as fully and fairly as they can. If it contradicts some of the assumptions they have brought to it, they have to jettison those assumptions. The pursuit of history, as Thomas Haskell has argued, 'requires of its practitioners that vital minimum of ascetic self-discipline that enables a person to do such things as abandon wishful thinking, assimilate bad news, (and) discard pleasing interpretations that cannot pass elementary tests of evidence and logic.'9
6.16 Those historians who have abandoned, or in some cases never acquired, this faculty of self-criticism and the ability to recognise when the evidence confounds their hypotheses, have received short shrift at the hands of their colleagues. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, the young American Marxist historian David Abraham was shown by his critics to have cited his own, tendentious paraphrases of documents as if they were the originals, to have committed innumerable egregious errors of transcription, including the omission of the word 'not' from a quotation to make it look as if a document said the reverse of what it actually said, and to have selected material in order to back up his own preconceived arguments rather than to test them against the sources. He was denied tenure at Princeton University as a result and failed to get a job in any history faculty elsewhere.10 Selecting evidence to support a case is one of the worst sins a historian can commit. 'Far from just looking for evidence that may support his thesis', the late J. H. Hexter, Professor of History at Yale University, remarked, the historian '...needs to look for vulnerabilities in that thesis and to contrive means of testing them. Then, depending on what he finds, he can support the thesis, strengthen its weak points, or modify it to eliminate its weaknesses.'11
6.17 It is no use for example merely selecting quotations from the Goebbels diaries to back up your argument; some other historian is bound to read them and refute your argument by selecting other quotations that tell against it. What a professional historian does is to take the whole of the source in question into account, and check it against other relevant sources, to reach a reasoned conclusion which will withstand critical scrutiny by other historians who look at the same material. It is precisely for this reason that there is so much agreement amongst historians on so many aspects of the 'Third Reich', at least as much agreement as there is disageement. Argument between historians is limited by what the evidence allows them to say. Perhaps the point may be best put in a metaphor. Supposing we think of historians like figurative painters sitting at various points around a mountain. They will paint it in different styles, using different techniques, they will see it in a different light according to where they are, and they will view it from different angles. They may even disagree about some aspects of its appearance, or some of its features. But they will all be painting the mountain. If one of them paints a fried egg, or a railway engine, we are entitled to say that they are wrong: whatever it is that he has painted, it is not the mountain sitting in front of him. The possibilities of legitimate disagreement and variation are limited by the evidence in front of their eyes.
6.18 Holocaust denial falls into this category of what is wholly unacceptable in terms of the evidence. It is not, indeed, an interpretation at all, but an attempt to make a statement, or series of statements, about historical fact. As we have seen, 'intentionalists' and 'structuralists' dispute the origins of the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Each side is advancing an interpretation based on a different reading of the available evidence. Neither side disputes the evidence for what happened. Holocaust deniers, by contrast, ignore, suppress, misinterpret or dispute the evidence itself. In the same way, astronomers, geographers and geologists argue about how to interpret the history and structure of the Earth and the solar system, but only within the limits imposed by the evidence; none of them argues for example that the earth is flat, or that the sun orbits the earth and not vice-versa. Holocaust denial falls wholly outside the confines of what it is reasonable or legitimate to argue in terms of historical evidence for the events that took place in Europe between 1939 and 1945.
6.19 Matters stand a little differently with the question of whether or not Hitler ordered, knew about or approved of antisemitic actions before and during the 'Third Reich', up to and including the extermination of the Jews. It is no part of this paper to argue that he did any of these things, however. In terms of the allegations levelled by Lipstadt against Irving, all that is necessary is to show that Irving has manipulated and falsified the historical record in order to support his contention that Hitler did none of these things. The point at issue is not what Hitler knew or thought, but what Irving writes and says. The many examples presented in the present paper demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that Irving has repeatedly engaged in the falsification of the historical record.
6.20 Reputable and professional historians do not suppress parts of quotations from documents that go against their own case, but take them into account and if necessary amend their own case accordingly. They do not present as genuine documents which they know to be forged just because these forgeries happen to back up what they are saying. They do not invent ingenious but implausible and utterly unsupported reasons for distrusting genuine documents because these documents run counter to their arguments; again, they amend their arguments if this is the case, or indeed abandon them altogether. They do not consciously attribute their own conclusions to books and other sources which in fact, on closer inspection, actually say the opposite. They do not eagerly seek out the highest possible figures in a series of statistics, independently of their reliability or otherwise, simply because they want for whatever reason to maximise the figure in question, but rather, they assess all the available figures as impartially as possible in order to arrive at a number that will withstand the critical scrutiny of others. They do not knowingly mistranslate sources in foreign languages in order to make them more serviceable to themselves. They do not wilfully invent words, phrases, quotations, incidents and events for which there is no historical evidence in order to make their arguments more plausible.
6.21 At least, they do not do any of these things if they wish to retain any kind of reputable status as historian. Irving has done all of these things from the very beginning of his career. Not one of his books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about. It may seem an absurd semantic dispute to deny the appellation of 'historian' to someone who has written two dozen books or more about historical subjects. But if we mean by historian someone who is concerned to discover the truth about the past, and to give as accurate a representation of it as possible, then Irving is not a historian. Those in the know, indeed, are accustomed to avoid the term altogether when referring to him and use some circumlocution such as 'historical writer' instead.12 Irving is essentially an ideologue who uses history for his own political purposes; he is not primarily concerned with discovering and interpreting what happened in the past, he is concerned merely to give a selective and tendentious account of it in order to further his own ideological ends in the present. The true historian's primary concern, however, is with the past. That is why, in the end, Irving is not a historian.
6.22 In reaching this conclusion, I have understood that my overriding duty is to the Court. My paramount obligation, as I have been advised by my Instructing Solicitors, is to assist the Court on all matters within my expertise regardless of whom my instructions are from and who is paying my fees. I confirm that this report is impartial, objective and unbiased and has been produced independently of the exigencies of this litigation. I believe that the facts I have stated in this report are true and that the opinions I have expressed are correct.
1. Focal Point website, 6 November 1998, citing letter from Hayward on the following website: http://members.tripod.com/~WhitelightNZ/Hayward-3.html.
2. Hayward to Jeremy Jones, 18 January 1999; Hayward to New Zealand Jewish Chronicle, 4 Dec. 998; website http://www.adam.com.au/fredadin/news82.html; website of the Vrij Historisch Onderzoek: http://who.org/index.html.
3. Harwood, Nuremberg, p. 27.
4. Ibid., p. 61.
5. David Irving's 1988 Testimony at the Trial of Ernst Zündel, p. 28.
6. Jackson, The Case for David Irving, p. 30.
7. David Botsford, Freedom of Expression, Dissenting Historians, and the Holocaust Revisionists (Historical Notes No. 29, published by the Libertarian Alliance, London, 1998), pp. 10-11, 19-20.
8. Broszat, 'Hitler und die Genesis der Endlösung'; T. W. Mason, 'Intention and Explanation: A Current Controversy about the Interpretation of National Socialism', in G. Hirschfeld and L. Kettenacker (eds.), Der Führerstaat': Mythos und Realität (Stuttgart, 1981).
9. Thomas L. Haskell, 'Objectivity is not Neutrality: Rhetoric and Practice in Peter Novick's That Noble Dream', History and Theory, Vol. 29 (1990), pp 129-57, here p. 132.
10. Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History (London, 1997), pp. 116-24.
11. Quoted in ibid., p. 121.
12. Jückel, 'Noch einmal', p. 164.
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Data Points to Denmark Win, Claims Microsoft Expert
Forget the sequins. Cold, hard data predicts that Europe will vote for Denmark at the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, says a top researcher at Microsoft .
Using a model designed to predict complex business scenarios, David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research, harnessed powerful computer clusters to work out that Emmelie de Forest's rendition of "Only Teardrops" will win for Denmark.
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Microsoft Research analyzed Eurovision partly for fun, said Mr. Rothschild, but also because it helps calibrate the product they are working on. His research explores long-term ways to disrupt the multibillion dollar sector of market research and polling. Testing out the model on Eurovision is helpful.
"In Eurovision there's an outcome, there's public voting, it's something that we get to see unfold," he said, explaining why he chose the event.
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