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Writing Tips
It is now around six years since I began writing books although it is a pastime I have always enjoyed. Creative writing is a great way to express yourself and it can be fascinating researching the subject matter and you can learn so much more about that subject but how do you go about putting all this work together to create a book? Well I don't claim to be an expert but here I will offer a few tips and words of wisdom to all the budding authors out there which I hope will be put into practice.
My first tip for you before you start a writing project and begin researching is to choose a subject matter very close to your heart. Your passion for the subject is sure to take you through the researching stages far easier and with a great degree of enjoyment as your interest and enthusiasm will never wane.
My second tip for you is that when researching facts use various sources such as first-hand accounts, books, websites and public records. Always try to verify information by cross-referencing from different sources. One source may be in error so always double-check to make sure.
My third tip for you is that if you are writing a reference book similar to those I have written then try to get a number of contacts with the subject matter such as actors, actresses, writers or producers. The information garnered from such sources is invaluable.
My fourth tip for you is that if you struggle creatively with words when writing/typing them out then try another method. If you have a dictaphone speak clearly about what you want to write and then later transfer it down onto paper or a word document. You will be surprised how creative you really are.
My fifth tip for you is that if you seriously intend contacting publishers after completion of your manuscript you will be expected to have it stored on a Microsoft Word document. I have yet to come across a publisher who will accept a manuscript that hasn't been stored on Microsoft Word.
My sixth tip is that once you begin using Microsoft Word document remember (before starting) to copyright the document to protect from anyone 'stealing your work'. You can never be too careful.
My seventh tip is that before your manuscript is fully ready to be sent off to publishers ask one or two people to proof-read the manuscript. They will be able to spot errors that you will miss. Publishers frown upon error-strewn and poorly laid out manuscripts.
My eighth tip is for when choosing a publisher to approach - thoroughly research the publisher first. Check that they publish books in your genre and that they accept unsolicited manuscripts. Unsolicited manuscripts are those coming from an author without a literary agent in place.
My ninth tip is to be prepared for the marketing of the book if you get as far as publication. Your publisher may very well organise a number of radio interviews and book signings for you to attend and it is important you represent your book and publisher very well at these important events.
My tenth tip is to take every opportunity to take the initiative to promote your book in various ways even if your publishing is involved in fully marketing the book for you. Remember you will be able to reach potential buyers in areas untouched by publishers such as the online social network sites Facebook, Twitter, Google + etc. Also create flyers and visit local bookstores in an effort to get them to stock your book.
My eleventh tip is before approaching publisher decide which avenue of publishing you wish to go down as there are so many. If you are happy promoting the book yourself and handling all sales issues then I'd recommend you consider self-publishing but if that seems too daunting seek out an independent publisher who are not afraid to take on first time authors.
My twelfth tip is not to be afraid to approach local media outlets to promote your book - be that local newspapers or local radio stations. There is a fair chance it will get you some publicity and it may even get you some air-time in the form of a radio interview.
My thirteenth tip is do not be put off by rejection. If a publisher turns down your manuscript don't let that put you off and try again with another publisher. Remember that even JK Rowling's famous first Harry Potter book was rejected by numerous publishers before being accepted.
My fourteenth tip, well not exactly a tip but more like advice, is that I wouldn't advise sourcing information from rival books in your field. I have never done this and never will as I like to source all the information by my own means rather than through a rival book.
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For standalone posts debunking the denier videos see:
Debunking Denierbud's One Third of the Holocaust series.
Debunking Denierbud's "Auschwitz - The Surprising Hidden Truth"
Also, this post, while not directly addressing Denierbud's Buchenwald series, directly debunks his core thesis: Nazi shrunken heads, human skin lampshades, human soap, textiles from human hair? Sorting out the truth from the legends.
Debunking David Cole's Auschwitz video
Eric Hunt's videos won't be bothered with since Eric has since abandoned and denounced denial in no uncertain terms: Eric Hunt is No Longer a Holocaust Denier. And obviously, if his own videos no longer convince him, there's no need to waste time. But here's Caroline Sturdy Colls' response.
Short debunking of Steven Anderson's video "The Holocaust Hoax Exposed"
The French denier Vincent Reynouard and his clownish denial innovations
Is The French Holocaust Denier Thierry Gosselin As Dense As a Black Hole?
1. Debunking of the video "Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told."
2. Debunking of the video "Jewish Holocaust lies exposed"
3. Debunking of the video "10 Hard Facts About the Holocaust"
4. Debunking of the video "Holocaust Myths"
5. Debunking of the video "Europa The Last Battle Holocaust Segment #8"
6. Debunking of the video "The greatest lie ever told - The Holocaust."
1. Debunking of the video "Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told."
We treat only the Holocaust denial part here, if it is not credible, the rest falls apart on its own. (If you want to see the other points treated, look here.)
The Nuremberg Danzig soap has never been debunked. It was not mass-produced but some human soap was indeed made. It was obviously not the "Jewish soap", which is a myth. This claim is fully treated here.
The shrunken heads are supported by documentary evidence, as elucidated here.
So are the tattoos, which were gathered from corpses for research on criminality, as explained here.
The existence of the extermination decision is documented in Goebbels' diary entry describing Hitler's speech in a small circle of high-ranking officials on 12.12.41:
"Regarding the Jewish question, the Führer is determined to clear the table. He warned the Jews that if they were to cause another world war, it would lead to their own destruction.See here for more documents on the extermination intent.
Those were not empty words. Now the world war has come. The destruction of the Jews must be its necessary consequence. We cannot be sentimental about it. It is not for us to feel sympathy for the Jews. We should have sympathy rather with our own German people. If the German people have to sacrifice 160,000 victims in yet another campaign in the east, then those responsible for this bloody conflict will have to pay for it with their lives."
The author then raises a strawman as well as a false dichotomy. First he implies that the only evidence that should count is autopsy reports, photos or footage.
He then "forgets" about the documentary evidence e.g.:
Contemporary German Documents on Homicidal Gas Vans
Rebuttal of Mattogno on Auschwitz, Part 5: Construction Documents, G: Gas Chambers
Then he implies that the only gassing witnesses that count testified at Nuremberg (and yes, Nuremberg witnesses could be cross-examined).
The fact is that there were many dozens of trials having to do specifically with gassings, and hundreds about the Holocaust in general (which is not reducible to gassings). Of them many took place in West Germany, so the "Soviets" part was just another strawman.
The "Auschwitz had lots of non-extermination stuff" idiocy is debunked here. Also this.
David Cole now admits that Nazis gassed and shot Jews on a massive scale which debunks the film right there and then. Some of Cole's nitpicks about the small Auschwitz gas chamber are treated here and here.
Also see Debunking David Cole's Auschwitz video.
All Cole debunked were misconceptions about the small gas chamber (which was not in the extermination camp Birkenau in the first place and in which only a few gassings happened).
Sure, the Soviets tried to reconstruct the small gas chamber (after the crematorium morgue had been converted into an air-raid shelter) and partially botched the job, big deal. This doesn't refute the small gas chamber in the slightest, nor, of course, the big gas chambers at Birkenau.
He is of course wrong about there being only witness evidence:
Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau
"Separate accommodation" in Auschwitz: a code word for extrajudicial executions
The Kinna Report - German Document on the Killing of Unfit Jews in Auschwitz
Aerial photos do show smoke.
The cyanide residue has been found, Leuchter has been exposed as a fraud.
The alleged photo fakery is dealt with here.
The "300,000 dead" argument is a lie, only registered inmates were meant in that footage, very obviously (the "official" figure was 4,000,000 after all).
The plaque argument is debunked here.
The First Holocaust nonsense is debunked here.
There are laws against denying the Communist crimes, the Armenian genocide and the law in Turkey that bans the assertion of the Armenian genocide, so the claim about the Holocaust being the only such event is another lie.
Of course, the author never ever deals with the extensive documentary evidence for the Holocaust, he's totally silent about the massacres of Jews like Babiy Yar or other mobile killing units massacres.
Here is just a very small sample of documentary evidence:
Contemporary German Documents on Homicidal Gas Vans
Sonderkommando Kulmhof in German Documents - The Extermination of 100,000 Jews
The Kinna Report - German Document on the Killing of Unfit Jews in Auschwitz
Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Evidence on the Babi Yar Massacre 29 & 30 September 1941: Contemporary Sources
The Jäger Report
Rebuttal of Mattogno on Auschwitz, Part 5: Construction Documents, G: Gas Chambers
More Than 100 Nazi Extermination Remarks, 1939-1944
More Nazi Mass Murder Statements
This "chapter" of the film fell apart like a cheap suit, this means the rest of it is just as deceptive and not credible.
2. Debunking of the video "Jewish Holocaust lies exposed"
This 6:54 long video has since been blocked. It's a typical "video list" Gish gallop.
World Almanac claim debunked here.
Pre-Holocaust Holocaust debunked here.
Claim about Weissmandl and "6 million":
1. It is somewhat ironic how the obviously anti-Zionist author of the video quotes the anti-Zionist Weissmandel as a hoaxer.
2. Tom Segev expresses doubts about Weissmandl's claims in The Seventh Million, p. 92:
"Later he published a terrible indictment of the Zionist movement. The Zionists have abandoned him and his people because they were ultraorthodox non-Zionists, he charged, as if Gisi Fleischmann had not been his partner. He based his arguments on letters he quoted from memory; they are unavailable in any archives. They may have been lost or spirited away, or they may never have been written."3. Indeed, this letter purports to have been written on May 15, 1944 "in a cave near Lublin", and presents the Hungarian deportations as if they're in full swing. And yet May 15 was the day the first Hungarian transports left Hungary. They arrived in Auschwitz only on May 16. Clearly the text as quoted cannot be authentic.
4. Let's assume for the sake of the argument that the alleged letter is genuine. Then it's just another example of cherrypicking - among a large set of letters of course you can find any number. It only becomes "meaningful" if you ignore all the other numbers you omitted.
Ehrenburg's quote is from December 1944, late enough to make such an estimate as the absolute bulk of the Holocaust victims have been dead by then.
Auschwitz plaque nonsense debunked here.
Listed estimated death tolls come from random mostly unauthoritative sources and mean exactly nothing for the evidence-based historiography. You can find extremely diverging estimates of Stalin's victims, does that mean Stalin wasn't a criminal? Also see here.
The list is topped off with the lie about what the Red Cross allegedly claims, debunked here.
So just another useless YouTube video full of denier lies.
3. Debunking of the video "10 Hard Facts About the Holocaust"
6 minutes.
Claim #1: refuted here.
Claim #2: refuted here.
Claim #3: refuted here.
Claim #4: addressed here and here.
Claim #5: refuted here.
Claim #6: refuted here.
Claim #7: the truth does not fear an honest investigation; Holocaust deniers are, en masse, not honest and engage in pure propaganda. And propaganda can destroy the truth. Hence the anti-HD laws (which I don't support). Also, to take another example, Turkey has a law against the affirmation of the Armenian genocide, while several countries have laws against the denial of the Armenian genocide. None of this is relevant to whether the Armenian genocide happened. Same applies to the laws against denial of Communist crimes - do they mean there were no Communist crimes?
Claim #8: refuted here.
Claim #9: the claims were mere rumors without any serious support, except the one about shrunken heads those were indeed made in Buchenwald (not from Jews).
I didn't quite get what the claim #10 was. Was it about the Holocaust being a dogma? But if so, why do most deniers whom I send these links which lead to sourced, informative articles refuse to tackle the arguments in them and instead engage in character assassination, ad hominems and insults?
4. Debunking of the video "Holocaust Myths"
21 minutes, apparently by Jim Rizoli.
Claim about revised Auschwitz death toll debunked here. (Note that finding some random book that took it seriously does not prove anything.)
Claim about no German records of a homicidal gas chamber program: obvious lie debunked at
Contemporary German Documents on Homicidal Gas Vans
Rebuttal of Mattogno on Auschwitz, Part 5: Construction Documents, G: Gas Chambers
Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Claim about Auschwitz gastight doors: the doors for the homicidal gas chambers were the same doors used for Zyklon B delousing gas chambers, so they obviously were gastight by definition. Less cyanide is used for short-period homicidal gassings than for multi-hour delousings.
Krema I is not in its original state so the claims about its doors are meaningless.
The claim about "combined strength" of thousands of people pushing on the doors is a macabre absurdity. Thousands of people were never near the door. Maybe a few naked, confused people at the door, and they're dead pretty soon. Addressed in detail here.
See more here.
None of the experts who have honestly studied Auschwitz have ever denied the gassings. Only the dishonest ignoramuses like Lindsey made such claims. Why is Lindsey dishonest?
1. He claimed that the underground were "cool", not mentioning that they were preheated before gassings, and that the heat of hundreds or thousands of bodies would generate enormous amounts of heat too (he was forced to admit it later). He also did not mention the Nazi wartime studies showing that HCN evaporates readily even at cold temperatures.
2. He used the dishonest flimsy doors argument mentioned above.
3. The "skin absorption" argument has been debunked even by a denier star Fritz Berg:
"Faurisson has repeatedly overstated the danger of HCN absorption through the skin. Although skin certainly does absorb HCN, it does so rather slowly. According to a source which Faurisson has himself used, 10 minutes are required to overcome a man with a gas mask whose skin is exposed to a concentration of 2% HCN in air."The letter from some Roubeix guy doesn't cite any arguments and can be instantly dismissed.
"It should also be remembered that a man may be overcome by the absorption of hydrocyanic acid gas through the skin; a concentration of 2 percent hydrocyanic acid being sufficient to thus overcome a man in about 10 minutes. Therefore, even if one wears a gas mask, exposure to concentrations of hydrocyanic acid gas of 1 percent by volume or greater should be made only in case of necessity and then for a period not longer than 1 minute at a time. In general, places containing this gas should be well ventilated with fresh air before the wearer of the mask enters, thus reducing the concentration of hydrocyanic acid gas to low fractional percentages." (See: The Gas Mask, Technical Manual No. 3-205, War Department, Washington, October 9, 1941, p. 144, NA RG 407, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917 TM 3-205.)
The typical lethal concentration for an execution chamber and for delousing is only 0.1% HCN in air, in other words, the lethal gas need only be one-twentieth as strong as the gas discussed in Faurisson's reference. If one applies a rule of thumb or reciprocity known sometimes as Henderson's Rule, one would need twenty times as long to cause the same toxic effect. In other words, approximately 200 minutes or three hours of exposure to 0.1% HCN would be needed to overcome a worker wearing a gas mask but whose skin is exposed. It is almost inconceivable, however, that workers removing corpses would be exposed to anything near these concentrations after the doors were opened."
Fred Leuchter has been thoroughly debunked.
Now to the issues of ventilation. Note that the gas chambers were not planned as such from the beginning. It has been shown by Pressac that they were at first planned as morgues and converted into gas chambers pretty late in the planning. Hence the things that might seem incongruous, like undressing room having more air exchanges per hour than the gas chamber.
The problem for the deniers is that we do know that a gas chamber existed there, in Leichenkeller 1. It was described as a "gas cellar" (Gaskeller) and a "gassing cellar" (Vergasungskeller):
The denier explanations have been pretty varied - some claim, without any evidence, that it was an air-raid shelter but this cannot be since no such air-raid shelter would be described as a Vergasungskeller (it would be Gasschutzkeller or something similar).
Another explanation, promoted by Mattogno among others, is that they tried to install a delousing chamber in Leichenkeller 1. But if so, then the deniers admit that the ventilation system in the morgue was sufficient for handling of Zyklon B, and moreover the undressing room still had a slightly more powerful ventilation as the delousing chamber in this case too. So it's hardly an issue only for the homicidal chamber.
(More on the "delousing chamber" argument why it is wrong see here.)
Long story short: ventilation existed, it was sufficient.
And it was not a delousing chamber since Auschwitz had dedicated delousing chambers elsewhere, and the facilities were not on the list of the delousing installations.
Skin color of corpses has been dealt with here.
The denier then distorts a witnesses quote about faces. He was obviously using metaphoric language to describe people becoming a mound of dead flesh. Obvious from the context. So the denier is simply dishonest.
The denier then distorts yet another witnesses' quote, claiming he claimed skin turned into glue. He of course claimed no such thing. Rather he referred to difficulty of detaching corpses from one another - which would be an obvious effect of rigor mortis, among other things.
The denier then jumps to crematoria capacities but, of course, compares apples and oranges - modern crematoria, or more specifically the modern cremation procedures prescribed by law cannot be compared to the procedures employed in the wartime Nazi camps. This is explained at length here.
Due to the differences in procedure the Nazis were able to achieve the average capacities that were much larger than the modern crematoria as numerous documents attest.
I'm afraid I'll take the word of the Nazi cremation specialists over that of some amateur deniers who lie about other matters as well. But even Mattogno had to concede that in Gusen cremations took much shorter than than 1 hour.
As for coke in Gusen, this has no bearing on Auschwitz at all. A Nazi engineer calculated the needed amounts of coke for the ovens as they were used in Auschwitz for a 12-hour period, based on the information from the oven manufacturer. He noted that through continuous use (bei Dauerbetrieb) the amounts of coke needed are significantly smaller. Indeed, the continuous cremation differs starkly from many individual cremations (with their heating down and heating up cycles).
For example the magistrate of Wiesbaden wrote to the firm Topf & Söhne (who had constructed the Auschwitz ovens) on 19.12.1949 (ThHStAW, Bestand Topf u. Söhne, 231, Bl. 35):
"It is hereby confirmed that Mr. chief engineer Klettner carried out the planned conversion of the cremation furnace in 2 1/2 weeks, taking into account improvements according to your latest experiences.Chimney fires are of course possible and have nothing whatsoever to do with coke but rather with the soot accumulating in the chimneys (the more, the more actively the ovens are used). Duh.
Mr. Klettner demonstrated the furnace in operation and handed it over after three days of trial operation with a total of 16 cremations to our complete satisfaction today.
The performance of the oven, especially in terms of fuel consumption, exceeded all expectations. On the third day after the commissioning, cremation times of 40 minutes were already being achieved without any fuel consumption except for the required heating up [of the oven].
You are free to show the oven to the interested parties after a prior notification.
Publication of the above letter without prior permission on this side is not permitted."
As for the photos, the first question is whether the smoke from chimneys would be observable on the aerial photos at all. Second issue is whether the crematoria smoked continuously during the operation or only in certain periods (that they did smoke we know from photos showing soot on chimneys).
Third issue is whether they were taken in the periods of crematoria inactivity (which could be on a particular day without any transports, on the days where crematoria were inactive because of repairs; and possibly every day for a few hours for the oven maintenance) or when the open-air incineration pits were used instead (clearly visible on the photos). Merely throwing out "peak extermination activity" doesn't mean anything. One has to go through the photos day by day and see what happened on those days. One will find that on several of those dates there is no evidence of transports, and on three dates the corpses were burned in the incineration pits, the smoke being clearly visible. On May 31 one chimney can seen to be "glowing" from the inside.
This issue is further examined here.
The refractory brick stuff is an old canard. A German researcher found that refractory bricks fail after a certain number of cremation cycles. That makes sense. But this only refers to individual cremations in civil crematoria with heating and cooling cycles, obviously not to continuous multiple cremations as practiced in Auschwitz, where one cremation cycle meant hundreds of bodies, not 1. More about that here.
Conclusion: the author is an ignorant liar repeating debunked claims.
5. Debunking of the video "Europa The Last Battle Holocaust Segment #8"
This video is peak Gish gallop. I did not bother to go through each frame.
The author begins by outright lying that the majority of partisans were Jews and that Jews were shot as partisans and not Jews. After this everything else he says can be ignored.
Just for the fun of it I skimmed through the rest. He lies about Jews declaring war on Germany (they didn't; a tabloid "fake news" headline is not evidence of an actual war declaration) and this allegedly giving a legal right to Germany to put Jews into camps (it didn't and the Nazis never used it as an argument for the camps).
People in labor camps were dying in great numbers due to systemic mistreatment (that is, even ignoring the extermination for a sec) long before the end of the war and the bombing of the infrastructure (see e.g. Wachsmann's KL).
The video gathers random internet memes without factchecking them.
E.g. the Zündel trial memes handled here and here.
He outright lies about no documents referring to policy of extermination - see here, here, here just for starters.
He outright lies about the Red Cross, which was not able to visit all camps and certainly not any extermination camps. He fabricates the alleged Red Cross quote about the alleged interrogations of detainees about the gas chambers.
He repeats the ignorant "flimsy door" non-argument.
He relies on the fraud Leuchter and on the dishonest Lüftl.
He relies on an outright and long-ago debunked fake "Lachout document".
He relied on Cole, who has been totally debunked.
He repeats the Buchenwald photo nonsense.
And uses some random online photo fakes.
He distorts Bruno Baum's claim.
He relies on the fraud Krege who made lots of claims about GPR tests at Treblinka but has failed to publish his results in 2 decades now. Leading deniers reject his hoax contention that the soil was not disturbed at all - after all, they claim that there was a transit camp there (with at least several of thousands of Jews buried). I.e. Krege is an outright liar. For more see here.
He brings up the braindead Larson canard.
From the existence of the Prussian Blue in the delousing chambers does not follow the necessity of such in the homicidal chambers - completely different modes of operation.
He lies about a court's decision about the Anne Frank diary - never happened; he lied about significant portions of the diary being written in ballpoint pen or about BKA concluding so; he lied about the handwriting not matching; on the contrary, the diary was fully forensically tested and found genuine.
He repeats the usual nonsensical "leisure stuff means no extermination" idiocy.
He lies about the non-existent Red Cross death stats - Red Cross never gave any such numbers.
He repeats the zombie argument about the Auschwitz plaque and the total Holocaust death toll, showing that he has not mastered the basic arithmetic.
He repeats the decrypts nonsense.
He repeats the "pre-Holocaust 6m" non sequitur that makes zero sense.
He carps on some fake witnesses as if it proved anything.
He repeats the debunked "Wiesel-impostor" nonsense.
As well as the "witnesses that saw no gas chambers" nonsense.
Since I was just skimming, I've probably missed a lot of stuff and could probably double the above list.
It is clear that the author of the video is nothing but a fabricator and/or a mindless regurgitator of other denier lies who has merely amassed as many internet memes (debunked here) as possible but has never done any real research.
6. Debunking of the video "The greatest lie ever told - The Holocaust."
Attributed to "Eleanor Wittakers" (the narrator is male).
2:29: the author shows her absolute ignorance by stating that the Holocaust is defined as murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps. In fact, no serious source states this, any basic credible source will mention the millions killed outside of any camps - due to the mass shootings, gassings in gas vans, starvation etc. - as well as the fact that most extermination camps (like Treblinka) were not even concentration camps.
That's it. We can end it here. The author has zero idea about the definition of the term "Holocaust", which renders anything else she says on the topic not credible.
Around minute 13: the author does not actually cite any credible sources on the alleged systematic torture in Nuremberg - McCarthy's lack of credibility is well known (including in relation to the Malmedy massacre trials, the investigation of which showed McCarthy's key claims lacking credibility). And the Malmedy trials didn't have to do with Nuremberg in the first place.
15:21: the repetition of the ignorant statement "that 6,000,000 Jews were systematically murdered by Germans in concentration camps", see above. Once again, this is enough to dismiss the whole video.
15:38: the credible estimates of the Holocaust death toll vary from 5 to 6 million, they are based on a country-by-country analysis of the Jewish population, on the Nazis' deportation and camp records and so on. They are certainly not based on any one testimony. Here is one such scholarly study that documents that between 5 and 6 million Jews died.
18:16: the author repeats the "Red Cross document" lie debunked here.
21:00: the author tries to calculate the rate at which the Jews had to have been killed and comes to the figure of "2.281 Jews killed in a minute". The author however forgets to make an argument. Is this number supposed to speak for itself? Well, obviously no - there's nothing meaningful or useful about this purely abstract rate. Such "rates" can be concocted for any mass murder. And?
21:40: Actually Auschwitz had a gas chamber since late 1941 (in the main camp crematorium) and Auschwitz-Birkenau had two buildings with gas chambers already in 1942, so the author shows her absolute ignorance again. Oh, and the majority of the Holocaust killings obviously did not happen in Auschwitz.
22:00: the author repeats the debunked "World Almanac" canard, in fact outright lying, since at least one of her post-war numbers explicitly refers to 1939 in the Almanac.
24:24: the juggling of the Holocaust survivor numbers is irrelevant - it depends solely on the "wider" definition of a survivor, to wit:
The two researchers reached radically different conclusions. On Ukeles' count, there are 687,900 Holocaust survivors in the world today. DellaPergola's estimate is much larger: 1,092,000 survivors.TL;DR: these definitions are not limited to people who were in camps or even in Europe.
Both demographers relied on the same standard in terms of defining a Holocaust survivor: Any Jew who lived for any period of time in a country that was ruled by the Nazis or their allies is called a Holocaust survivor (by DellaPergola) or a Nazi victim (by Ukeles).
The gap in the results derives mainly from DellaPergola's decision to count as a survivor Jews who lived in the Holocaust period in North African countries (excluding Egypt), Syria and Lebanon. On his estimate, out of the 600,000 Jews who lived in these countries during the Holocaust period, about a quarter million are alive today, and about 150,000 of them live in Israel. "When I examined reports formulated in the past by Ukeles and other researchers, I found that they simply `forgot' to include these Jews in their lists," says DellaPergola.
29:00: the huge densities were more of an exception and were achieved during truly massive actions, like the Hungarian operation, where all gas chambers had to be used at once. For most of the history of the camp the densities were lower than 2000 people per chamber. The matters of foreknowledge, chamber loading, doors and elevators are all discussed in detail here and here.
33:30: the author comically confuses the Auschwitz commandant Hoess with the unrelated Hoettl. This once again perfectly characterizes the author's level of knowledge and "scholarship". The phrases about the 2,5m are from Hoess, his disavowal of the number is from his essay on the Final Solution in Auschwitz.
34:56: on the cremation process and capacities see here, here and here.
39:52: on the swimming pool etc. etc. see here.
41:35: the Larson canard.
43:00: of course Zyklon B was used for delousings. It was also used to kill people in a massive scale, as the documents (documenting the gas chambers in the crematoria - which were not found on the list of delousing installations) and witnesses (including Nazis during the West German trials in the 1960s, where there was not even a whiff of any torture or coercion) agree.


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The agenda for tonight's BOE meeting has a number of items, but my focus in this post is to concentrate on "Computational Thinking". There is no attached document, so nothing I can link to from here, but the agenda item does have a lengthy description which I include at the bottom of this post. I have had many great conversations with Todd Lash, Kerris Lee and Dr. George Reese via Ctrl-Shift – there is so much exciting stuff happening with this group.
I will also say that I realize "computational thinking" can be rather hard to wrap your head around. In talking to parents and teachers, I have heard (and heard of) parents asking teachers "why is my child doing eToys? How is that part of the curriculum?". I think one of the important things to remember about technology in general is that it is just a tool. Think about the root word in "computer" – to steal from the geek cult-classic Short Circuit "It's a machine, Schroeder. It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes. It just runs programs." At one point, the pencil was a technological marvel. *grin* The idea is to use a tool that allows for collaboration, exercising critical thinking skills, and processing logical patterns. But read the "background information" below for more (and better?) details.
Kerris wanted to reiterate that even though he is involved with Ctrl-Shift (as are others from the University of Illinois), 100% of the money they are asking for is purely for teachers, subs and teacher professional development (PD).
At tonight's meeting, I believe Todd Lash will be bringing forward some of the Kenwood students to present and show off what Computational Thinking is all about. I have asked Kerris to see if perhaps those of us who are unable to attend the BOE meeting can perhaps tweet questions to Stephanie Stuart during the meeting. I'll update this post when I find out. I am curious, how many of you would take advantage of being able to tweet Stephanie with live questions? (regardless of whether or not the idea flies)
Background Information:
Kenwood staff and students will present their ongoing work on computational thinking and computer science. Cultural shifts made over the last year at Kenwood and future plans will be explored.
The use of technology has shifted dramatically in the first decade of the 21st century. The average amount of time spent on-line by Americans increased from 2.7 hours per week in 2000 to 2.6 hours per day in 2010 (Sheninger,2014). In 2011, 71% of students between 11 and 16 had their own game consoles at home spending an average of 1.7 hours per day using this technology. A recent national survey found that of those teens online, 73% used social networking sites while equal numbers of young adults also used social networking sites (Sheninger, 2014). The extensive use of technology by students and families strongly suggests that the practical application of 21st century literacy skills should be an important part of the school curriculum. However, in most cases technology and 21st century literacies have been taught in isolation from the rest of the curriculum. The importance of integrating these skills into the curriculum is an essential tool to help students deepen their understanding and increase their engagement regarding computational thinking, but also identifying its application in subject areas such as mathematics. The District proposes creating intentional connections between the newly adopted Everyday Mathematics curriculum and a computational thinking framework. During the past year and half, the University of Illinois has collaborated with Kenwood beginning the process of developing computer science and computational thinking (CS/CT) throughout the school. The Department of computer science has generously donated $40,000.00 during the 2013-14 school year to provide training and support for classroom teachers as they have continued to develop their CS/CT teaching strategies and in addition have worked with students and families through outreach during Saturday programs. Kenwood and other district campuses and staff look forward to continuing this collaboration with the University of Illinois.
Staffing/Staff Development Needs:
The District will post and hire staff to develop up to five modules to connect mathematics content to computational thinking. Possible connections include the following: Use one of the Common Core learning progressions in mathematics as a content template for development: K-6 Geometry, K-5 Geometric Measurement, K-5 Number and Operations, or Grades 3-5 Fractions are possibilities.
Participants may include classroom teachers (K-8), Unit 4 administrators, University of Illinois collaborators from the following colleges and departments; College of Education Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education, Center for Small Urban Communities, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Everyday Mathematics Collaborators and other community representatives. If approved, the planning process will begin with positions posted in November. Curriculum writing work would be completed between December and May of this academic year.
Financial Implications:
Estimated costs of the project would be $37,340. These costs include teacher writing days to develop the modules, consultant fees for other providers, and materials.


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Yesterday is a simple, quiet and delicate film about a young Zulu family ravaged by HIV. There are a number of wonderful moments but, as you would expect, this is ultimately a very sad and emotionally challenging experience.
Solaris (2002)****
A bit draggy in the middle, but overall a decent and respectful revamp of the Tarkovsky sci-fi classic. Features the same Zen-like atmosphere of the original, and manages to be equally haunting. This is a film that you'll be thinking about for a few days. Excellent performances from Viola Davis and Jeremy Davies.
Heaven (2002)***
Well produced thriller that's a little too clever for its own good, but some beautiful Italian landscapes nearly make up for it. Will appeal mainly to ardent fans of Cate Blanchett.
The Last Station (2009)****
A glorious chance to watch a pair of old pros at work. This examination of the tempestuous relationship between Tolstoy and his histrionic wife Sofia earned richly deserved Oscar nods for Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer. The film gets a bit too cute in spots and the ending drones on a bit, but overall the proceedings are a pleasure to watch. Paul Giamatti is refreshingly restrained for much of the film.


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Culinary Arts with a Local Focus
Lakeshore Culinary Institute frequently has unique opportunities for learning that result from collaborative partnerships with area experts, artists, corporations, and nonprofit entities.
Cheese Carving
The photos above were taken during a cheese carving demonstration by a world champion ice sculptor and food carver, Dean Murray. Students have been fortunate to learn from a master who happens to live and work in our area. Depicted above is a cheese carving commissioned for the Taste/Local event sponsored by UW Sea Grant, a collaborative partner.
Ice and food carving are skills typically explored in Advanced Garde Manger classes. Those who master these skills can move on to competitive carving and establish a niche career that can have a culinary artist traveling the world to compete the way Dean does.
Olivada Oils
Fresh, hand-bottled extra-virgin olive oils, vinegars and gourmet oils are available to the public at Olivada Oils on Sheboygan's Riverfront. Bistro 712 at the Lakeshore Culinary Institute teaches students the nuances of flavor and the health benefits provided by the specialty olive oils.
Olivada Oils
Saxon Farms
Only the milk from the Saxon Farms herd of dairy cattle grazing their pastures is used to make Saxon Creamery's family of award-winning cheeses. This recipe uses cheese from Saxon.
Saxon Farms
List of Saxon Creamery Cheeses
Vollrath products are engineered with the same level of detail that is given to each course that leaves the back of the house. Vollrath commercial kitchen equipment is manufactured not far from the Lakeshore Culinary Institute in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Vollrath Company
Cuisine on the Cutting Edge
For the Taste/Local Event, Lakeshore Culinary Institute created recipes and a menu that featured over 21 of Wisconsin's finest gourmet food products with vendor partners. Culinary students even had the opportunity to be pioneers in field-testing and showcasing Wisconsin's first ever, shrimp grown in inland tanks and fed with organic proteins. The flavor of Wisconsin-grown shrimp rivals ocean shrimp from either coast.
Partnering with agencies like UW Sea Grant gives our students an opportunity to work with, and taste, high quality foods in preparation for events that have great purpose.
Recipes shown on this page represent a few of the hors d'oeuvres that showcase these products.
The recipe to the left features Sartori cheese. Sartori is a fourth generation family-owned and operated company with artisan cheese expertise headquartered in Plymouth, Wisconsin.
Kohler Company
Kohler's American Club has earned a Forbes Five-Star and AAA 5-diamond rating. Culinary Arts Program graduates regularly find opportunities following graduation with Destination Kohler Dining:
- The Wisconsin Room
- Blackwolf Run
- Cucina
- Horse & Plow
- The Immigrant Room
- Whistling Straits
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Baileys Harbor Fish Company
Lake Whitefish from Hickey Brothers Fisheries
Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
The Hickey family has been commercial fishing on Lake Michigan for five generations, ever since native Norwegian Martin Hickey settled in Baileys Harbor in the early 1850s. Martin first fished with a sail-powered mackinaw boat using hook and line rigs and pound nets. Today, the Hickey family primarily harvests whitefish for the wholesale market and also helps with a research project in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Local Partner, Local Seafood
UW Sea Grant recently hosted the debut of its Wisconsin local seafood vendor catalog for chefs and consumers and promoted multiple Wisconsin seafood products at Taste/Local, a tasting event hosted at Lakeshore Culinary Institute. The purpose of the event was to promote economic prosperity for Wisconsin food businesses and public awareness of environmental sustainability in seafood practices.
Lake Orchard Farm Aquaponics, Fishery and Local Vegetable Producer in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, delivers farm fresh 365 days a year.
Lake Orchard Farm Aquaponics
3 Sheeps Brewing
Winner of the 2012 RateBeer Award, you'll find 3 Sheeps Brewing products available at Bistro 712, the student-run restaurant at the Lakeshore Culinary Institute.
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Matt Leinart UpdateApril 4, 2008 6:53 am Baker
Following the release of a set of controversial photos of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart partying with college coeds, Laughing Near You assigned a crack team of researchers to uncover more of the signal caller's off-field exploits. The pictures they've uncovered are shocking.
Unnamed sources have reported that Leinart was forced to leave his billy goat outside the stadium.
A representative for the QB claims he was in LA at the time of this photo, but those reports could not be verified.
Matt Leinart doesn't care about black people.
Hey, at least there wasn't a beer bong anywhere in sight.
Once again, it'd be cool if you checked this same article out on CollegeHumor and Digg'd it, Liked it, whatever cool stuff you can do to get me recognized.


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American Portraits
General Dwight D. Eisenhower: D-Day and Responsibility
In this lesson, students will read an account about General Eisenhower's actions on D-Day and how they can act responsibly in their own lives through readings, discussions, and a presentation project.
Founding Principles
Civic Virtue
A set of actions and habits necessary for the safe, effective, and mutually beneficial participation in a society.
Individual Responsibility
Individuals must take care of themselves and their families and be vigilant to preserve their liberty.
Private Virtue
The idea that only a knowledgeable and virtuous citizenry can sustain liberty.
Rule of Law
Government and citizens all abide by the same laws regardless of political power. Those laws respect individual rights, are transparently enacted, are justly applied, and are stable.


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For nearly a decade we've known Perez Hilton as the snarky celebrity gossip blogger, a genre he popularized, if not created. Originally famous for never holding back his harsh opinions, and drawing obscene objects over photos of the celebrities everybody loved to hate, a lot has changed over the years. These days Perez is the doting father of two children (born to him via surrogate), he owns and operates several successful blogs/websites (including the original PerezHilton.com- which has been significantly cleaned up over the years) is currently staring in Full House: The Musical Parody as Danny Tanner, and circulates as both a television and radio personality. A couple weeks ago I sat down with Perez during a personal appearance at Macy's.
How has recently becoming a father, both for the first and second time, changed your outlook?
It's changed my outlook so much because it's nothing like I thought it would be. I naively thought having two kids close in age would be like having one and a half, but it feels more like having three! Which is great, it's just not what I expected or prepared for. In addition to the extra love and joy and happiness and smiles came a lot of intense fear and anxiety. So this year I've really been dealing with anxiety in a major way, that I've never really faced before. It's positive because it's making me think about the future. I've got to be prepared. I've got to be smart. I've got to save. I've got to invest. I can't overspend. I have to get them into the right schools…. Ahhhhh. For awhile there this year it was overwhelming! But I've gotten over that and now it's just a slight omnipresent anxiety. [Laughs] Right now it's on a low flame.
You currently have so many different projects going on- What are you having the most fun with?
My new podcast! You can listen to it on play.it or subscribe on iTunes. The reasons I'm enjoying it so much are A. I had really low expectations when I started doing it, I only started doing it because I had to as part of my new radio deal, and B. It's really an amazing opportunity to share who I truly am with listeners. Even though I've been around for 11 years people don't really know who I am as a person. People know things I've said about celebrities, or maybe things I've done in the past but they don't really know me. They don't know why I think the way I do, or things I've experienced in my life, or what I find funny. So this show really gives me a chance to talk not just about the trending topics of the week, but also reveal a bit about myself.
We've seen you go through an amazing transformation during your time in the spotlight. What do you attribute that to?
I just grew up! I was in my mid-twenties when I started blogging, I was only 26. I think if you have a "2″ in front of your age you're allowed to be an idiot, you're allowed to make as many mistakes as you want, but once you have at least a "3″ in front of your age you need to start behaving like an adult. You can still do some of the things you did when you were younger but you shouldn't be doing them the same way. You can still go out and go to a bar with your friends, but when you're 35 you don't need to be doing 5 shots of tequila. I still do what I did before, I just approach things differently now.
Since we're here at Macy's today, what can you tell me about your relationship with fashion?
I've always loved fashion, though I come at it with a very different point of view. I would rather be on the worst dressed list than no list at all. I purposely wear things that I think are super loud or really crazy, Elton John inspired, because I know it will get people talking and I'd rather get people talking than look really chic and sophisticated. Classically handsome is boring. Classically handsome isn't going to get me talked about, but my Big Mac outfit from a few weeks ago made it on to WWD at fashion week. I got a bad grade, but I was on that list!
Over the years, what's been your best celebrity encounter?
Madonna! When she invited me backstage to meet her before one of her shows in 2008, I was beside myself. I had reviewed the show the night before and mentioned that I thought she played too much guitar, so during the concert she said "I'd like to dedicate this song on the guitar to my good friend Perez" then she gave me a microphone during the encore and I was singing one of the songs with her. That was beyond my wildest dreams!
Which celebrity has surprised you the most?
I would say Taylor Swift has surprised me the most because she hasn't changed though out the years, if anything she's become nicer. If anything she's become more amazing! I'm so inspired by her, her work ethic, her talent, her smarts, her humanitarian spirit, the way she connects with her fans. She meets them for free before and after concerts, other artists charge $500 to do that! She does so much for others, and is on top of her game at the same time.
Give me some good, snarky, old-school Perez… Which celebrity needs to get their act together?
I have to say Kylie Jenner. I mean, she's only 18, but in many ways she should be acting more mature because she's been in an adult world for so long. You look at her peers and I don't think they're acting quite like she is. Chole Moretz is her age, and couldn't be any more different. She has it so together and is so posed. I have to say Kylie Jenner.
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Wow, can't believe it's almost 2015. It feels like only yesterday we were starting 2014. And it feels like only the day before yesterday we were being born. What is time but an elusive and crooked truth? In the interest of communal motivation, we've decided to share our New Year's resolutions. With enough support, anything is possible.
1. Lose Wait Enough is enough. We're getting rid of the whole concept of queues, delays, checkpoints, intermissions, pauses, hiatuses, suspensions, and stops.
2. Learn a Language Let's do PicMonkey in COBOL.
3. Stop Smoking You guys, it's been months. If we don't put out that kitchen fire now, we may be stuck with it for the rest of our (short) lives.
4. Travel, More Hey, More. We know you're reading this. For the last time: your vacation days do not renew. They'll expire. We sent you some train tickets. Use them, for cryin' out loud.
5. Stop Biting Nails They really do come out much easier if you use a hammer claw.
6. Save Money Look, we've known Money since high school. She deserves a better job, and her boyfriend's a tool. Don't we want what's best for her? So let's stop minding our own business and save her!
7. Get Fit As part of our efforts to end the series of mysterious crimes at PicMonkey, we are committed to apprehending the criminal mastermind known as "Fit." Whoever gets Fit will be rewarded $100.
8. Read More C'mon, More. We're not trying to be pushy. You can ignore our calls, but at least read our emails.
9. Spend Time with Family Find a space-time wormhole stable enough to keep us and our families together for the rest of time.
10. Drink Less Water. We're running out. Start conserving now.
11. Use Our Smartphones Less Who needs phones when you can write emails with your watch?!
12. Sleep More You know what, More? Forget it. Just take the days off to sleep. See what cool pictures that gets you!
13. Stop Procrastinating [note: finish before publishing.]
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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on All Your Social Accounts
With the ever-increasing use of social media platforms, security is of paramount importance. While choosing a strong password 6 Tips For Creating An Unbreakable Password That You Can Remember If your passwords are not unique and unbreakable, you might as well open the front door and invite the robbers in for lunch. Read More might help, there's still a possibility of getting hacked.
To add an extra layer of protection, you should consider using two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA or two-step verification) is a security method that uses two different ways to verify your identity. Instead of only entering a password to log in, you'll be asked to enter a code which is sent via text message to your phone or generated via an app. This verification helps make sure that only you can access your account.
We've previously pointed out several internet services where you should enable 2FA Lock Down These Services Now With Two-Factor Authentication Two-factor authentication is the smart way to protect your online accounts. Let's take a look at few of the services you can lock-down with better security. Read More . Today, let's see which social media platforms support it and how you can enable them.
Facebook lets you add an extra layer of security using both, hardware-based and software-based mechanisms. First, here's how to set up the software-based mechanism.
To enable it, head over to Facebook's Settings and click on Use two-factor authentication. Add a new mobile number if you haven't already. Click on Setup. Here, click on Enable and enter your Facebook password to confirm. Now, whenever you sign in to Facebook from a new device, it'll send a unique code to your mobile number. You will need to enter this code along with your password to log in successfully.
Facebook also supports hardware-based authentication using Universal 2nd Factor (U2F)-compatible security keys Does YubiKey Make Two-Step Authentication Less Annoying? If you find two-factor authenication a pain, you'll be happy to hear that there is now another option. Let's take a look at how YubiKey can make your online accounts more secure. Read More . It's a little convenient than the earlier method as you can just tap your physical security key instead of having to enter a security code. To learn more about security keys, head over to Facebook's support page.
Google Plus
While Google Plus might not have taken off as Google wanted, it's far from dead It's Not Really Dead: 7 Reasons To Start Using Google+ Today I wake up in the morning, and check what's new on Google+. Yes, really. Google is putting a lot of brawn and brains behind the social network everyone loves to hate, and it shows. Read More . If you're still a loyal user of the platform, you'd be happy to learn that it supports 2FA.
To enable it, head over to Google's Settings. Click on Get Started. Here, you'll be asked to choose a second authentication method.
You can add your mobile number to receive security codes via text messages, or you can install the Authenticator app to generate two-step verification codes right on your phone.It might be a good option when you're unable to receive text messages due to a patchy mobile network 3 Ways You Can Improve Smartphone Reception Whenever I'm at my favourite pub (admittedly not often) or at my mother-in-law's (sadly more often than I would like) I find that I have considerable trouble making a phone call. How can mobile phone... Read More . However, the most convenient method is the "Google Prompt." With this enabled, you just need to accept a prompt on one of your trusted devices, and it'll sign you in automagically.
Like Facebook, Google Plus also supports hardware-based authentication using security keys. To learn more about it, visit Google's support page.
Previously, we had shared a few tips to secure your Twitter account. What You Need to Know About Securing Your Twitter Account Twitter accounts are juicy targets for scammers and malware distributors. Once someone compromises your Twitter account, they can send out tweets with links to scams and malware, bombarding your followers with their junk. Strengthen your... Read More Enabling two-factor authentication can help you double down on your Twitter account's security.
Twitter calls its two-factor authentication service as "Login Verification." To enable it, go to Twitter's Settings. Click the checkbox to Verify login requests. Click Okay, send me a message. Click Yes when you receive the verification message. Click Send code to add your mobile number. Enter the verification code sent to your device and hit Submit.
Now, whenever you log into your Twitter account, you'll receive a six-digit login code on your phone. Enter this code along with your password to login to your Twitter account. Note that Twitter supports limited mobile carriers. You can check if your carrier is supported by going to Twitter's help page.
Earlier this year, Instagram started rolling out Instagram Users: You Need to Enable This Security Setting Right Now Instagram recently introduced a new security setting that can truly help you keep your accounts safe and secure from hackers. You should enable it as soon as you can. Read More two-factor authentication for its 800 million monthly active users. To enable it, open the Instagram app and navigate to your profile page. Tap the Settings icon. Scroll down and tap Two-Factor Authentication. Turn on Require Security Code. It'll send a security code to your associated phone number. If you haven't associated one yet, you'll be asked to enter it.
Now, whenever you log into your Instagram account, you'll receive a security code on your phone. Enter this code along with your password to log in. In case you cannot receive text messages on your number, you can use any of the backup codes to login to your Instagram account.
In 2012, LinkedIn's security was breached What You Need To Know About the Massive LinkedIn Accounts Leak A hacker is selling 117 million hacked LinkedIn credentials on the Dark web for around $2,200 in Bitcoin. Kevin Shabazi, CEO and founder of LogMeOnce, helps us to understand just what is at risk. Read More , and it was said that around 6.5 million accounts were affected. Four years later, the situation turned out much worse as it was revealed that a whopping 117 million users had been affected. In the rise of such events, turning on two-factor authentication for LinkedIn is highly recommended.
To enable it, open LinkedIn's privacy settings. Scroll down to the Security tab. Click Change next to Two-step verification. Click Turn on. You'll receive a security code on your associated phone number. Enter the code in the box and click Verify. Two-factor authentication is now enabled for your LinkedIn account.
Pinterest is a great tool The Unofficial Pinterest Guide This Pinterest guide will quickly show you how to use Pinterest and all of its features. This guide outlines everything there is to know about Pinterest. Read More to organize and share the tools you love, but it has its own set of security issues. 3 Pinterest Security Issues, and What You Can Do About Them Pinterest is fun to use, the risks exist. Fortunately, we're here to help you spot the scams and make the most out of Pinterest's privacy settings. Read More Fortunately, it supports two-factor authentication.
To turn on Pinterest's two-factor authentication, head over to Pinterest's account settings. Tap on Security. Turn on Require code at login. Enter your password and click Next. Check your phone for a security code. Enter your code and click Verify. Two-factor authentication is now enabled for your Pinterest account.
In case you cannot receive text messages on your number, you can use any of the backup codes to login to your Pinterest account.
Snapchat offers two-step verification to secure your Snapchat account 8 Tips to Keep Your Snapchat Secure People of all ages use Snapchat to send illicit, self-destructing selfies. The privacy issues are numerous, so use our Snapchat security and privacy tips to shore up your account and stay safe! Read More across all of your devices. To enable it, open Snapchat on your mobile device. Tap the ghost icon on the bottom of the screen. Tap the settings icon. Scroll down and select Login Verification. Tap Continue. Choose to verify via Text or Authentication app.
If you opt to verify via text, a security code will be sent to your number. If you choose to use an authentication app, you can generate code using an app such as Google Authenticator. Enter the verification code you receive. Two-factor authentication should now be enabled for your Pinterest account.
In case you cannot receive text messages on your number, you can generate codes using Google Authenticator or its alternatives The 5 Best Alternatives to Google Authenticator Google's two-factor authentication app isn't the only one out there. Here are the best alternatives to Google Authenticator. Read More .
No Support for Two-Factor Authentication Yet
While a lot of social media platforms have stepped up their security game, not every company has made the jump. A few notable ones that don't support two-factor authentication yet include Quora, Reddit, Foursquare, and Goodreads. We hope that these companies roll out two-factor authentication as early as possible.
What do you think of two-factor authentication? Have you enabled two-factor authentication for all your social accounts? We'd love to hear about it in the comments below.
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Sometimes you just have to put the kids to bed early, and invite a couple of grown-ups over for a night of snacks, games, music, and laughter. Since we live way far outside of town, through the woods, beyond numerous coves, at the end of a peninsula almost in the ocean, and getting a babysitter is costly and never easy, we often opt to stay in, and have a mini party on our own turf. It's always fun to host a house party!
This summer, I have big plans. I want to project a movie on the side of our old barn. I want to string up lights and have a piñata filled with wax lips. I want a makeshift dance floor where couples sway together under the moon and stars to Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn records. I want to sit beside the fire pit and toast marshmallows. I want to play charades and a silly guessing game called Snaps. I want to serve all my favorite foods and fizzy punch with sherbet in our big vintage punch bowl. I want to play croquet in the dark and catch fireflies like we did when we were kids. I want to laugh with my friends all night. And by "all night" I mean until 10:47, because I turn into a literal pumpkin at 11.
The menu includes all my snacking favorites: good charcuterie, mustard pickles, spring radishes with butter, salt, and baguette, and locally made ricotta cheese. I want the food we serve our friends to be homemade, high quality, and a little unexpected. We're definitely having a Midsummer party this year. It's going to be magical.
Let me just say THIS IS THE PERFECT PARTY DIP. It is creamy and yummy with just a little oomph. But I couldn't stop there. I had a EUREKA moment, a scathingly brilliant idea to craft the most Mediterranean dip ever. I got Kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, and beautiful green beans, extra virgin olive oil, and warmed Naan bread for dipping. This is how I built the ultimate summer gathering hors d'oeuvre that everyone will be asking about the next day.
Ultimate Mediterranean Dip
Serves 6-8
- 1 can (16 ounce) BUSH'S® Garbanzo Beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 package BUSH'S® Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Made Easy
- 1 15 ounce can artichoke hearts, drained and roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup Kalamata olives, roughly chopped
- 2 cups lightly steamed green beans
- 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- 4 pieces Naan bread, warmed through in a 250 degree oven
- Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
Drain and rinse beans and add to food processor. Add contents of BUSH'S® Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Made Easy pouch.
Fold in artichoke hearts. Top with olives. Sprinkle with parsley. Drizzle a little olive oil over all. Serve with green beans and warm Naan.


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Vaddio introduces the WideSHOT point-of-view camera, designed for conferencing rooms that require professional-quality high definition video images with a wide field-of-view.
"Our WideSHOT camera was designed for our consultants and integrators that need an HD camera for meeting rooms that require a very wide field-of-view to cover all of the participants sitting at a table," explained Rob Sheeley, President of Vaddio. "We discovered that in smaller conferencing applications, the end users don't really want to move the camera around as people talk to keep them in the picture. They would rather have everyone in the picture to begin with."
The WideSHOT Varifocal Multi-Element Glass Wide-Angle Lens provides a wide 82-degree field-of-view that results in an exceptionally wide image and depth of field. A 3x manual optical zoom provides plenty of zoom range for framing the video image. Additional imaging control functions include manual iris for aperture adjustment for room lighting conditions and manual focus.
Built around a 1/3-Type progressive scan image sensor, the WideSHOT performs extremely well in low light conditions down to 0.3 LUX. Powerful DSP provides a Wide Dynamic Range of 110dB, video noise reduction, excellent contrast under varying light conditions, vivid color reproduction and exceptional high-resolution detail. Video output resolutions include 720p 30/59.94/60, 1080i 30/59.94/60. 1080p 30/59.94/60.
Each WideSHOT Camera system comes with an integrated Quick-Connect Cable interface to allow for easy installation with Cat 5 Cabling. Quick-Connect head-end signal output options includes USB, HDMI, Analog Component and Ethernet.
Vaddio's complementary QuickSET mounting system offers simple installation by just positioning the camera to a required shot and locking it in place. Optional wall and ceiling mounts are available in addition to the standard set-top mount.


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The Early College program at Atlanta Metropolitan State College (AMSC) allows students to take college course credits which can applied toward both satisfying high school credits and towards a college degree. Early College is a smart way to reduce the price of education, and reduce the time to completing a college degree.
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I'm done parading my goodness. Here's why.
I no longer subscribe to the version of Christianity that I grew up with.
I'm sure that's a scary statement to hear from someone who has been a believer for many years. Honestly, it's a scary statement to make. But it's the truth. By God's sweet grace, I have 100% walked away from my religious upbringing. I'm done. In walking away from all of that, I'm boldly and firmly walking by faith in the righteousness of Jesus alone because I have seen that it's all that I have.
"Well, that still sounds like you're subscribing to the same thing." Let me assure you, it makes all of the difference in the world. For many years I said that I believed that it was Jesus' work for me alone that saved me. However, my life was all about my effort to become good. I needed to look good in front of all of you. I believed that if you saw me being good that you would say, "Oh, there is something different about her! I wonder what it is?" And then I could give you my spiel about how you too could repent of your sins, trust in Jesus, and then start acting better than everyone else around you. I believed that it was my goodness alone that would draw you to Jesus. I just needed to get you to see it.
Here is how I went about that:
I believed that if I drank tea while you drank beer, you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I didn't listen to secular music, and showed a discomfort while you blared "Eminem" you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I dressed modestly you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I waited to have sex until I was married (even if only on a technicality) you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I threw my TV in the street, pretended to be oblivious to "Celebrity news" while you watched every episode of "Desperate Housewives" you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if you saw me serving my husband and being "submissive" by bringing him food at gatherings, you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if you saw me discipline my children when they behaved badly, you would see your need for Jesus.
I believed if you never heard me cuss you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I ran my home like a well-oiled machine, with meal planning and scheduled laundry days (I handmade my own laundry soap, btw), you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if you saw me (via social media) having tea parties with my kids because I'm a good, attentive mother, you'd see your need for Jesus.
I believed if I appeared strong in the midst of trials, while you fell apart in them, you'd see your need for Jesus.
Here's the thing. I believed that YOU needed Jesus. I believed that the way that you would see your need for Jesus is to see how bad you are against the backdrop of how good I am. I would like to set the record straight and say this, THAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL. That is not Christianity. That is moral-ism.
The bible is pretty clear about the condition of all mankind, "None is righteous, no, not one." (Romans 3:10) I have no righteousness of my own to parade around. The only thing that I bring to the table is my deep unrighteousness. No matter how much I try on the outside to look like I have it all together, my heart still rages. I get angry, prideful, lustful, discontent, judgmental….the list goes on and on.
Some would accuse me at this point of trying to boast of my sinfulness. They would say that is wrong. The Apostle Paul would argue that point by saying this: "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Cor. 12:9) I'm not trading in parading my goodness for parading my badness. What I am doing is being honest. I'm telling you that what the bible says about me is true. I am a wretch. Just like you. And the truth is that the message of Christianity isn't YOU need Jesus so you can be good like me. The message of Christianity is that WE need Jesus because no matter how hard we try, we can't possibly be good to the extent that God requires us to be, which is perfect.
Romans 3:23 says that "All fall short of the glory of God." That word "fall" means we are continually falling. I fall short. You fall short. Just because I am a Christian doesn't mean that I no longer fall short of God's standard of perfection. Romans 3:24 goes on to say, "and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Martin Luther said that Christians are "Simul justus et peccator" which means we are simultaneously just and sinner. I am a sinner AND I am just (right) before God. Because I trust by faith in the work of Jesus' perfection on my behalf. I will never come to a point in my life where I don't need to depend on that. I will always need Jesus. The Christian life is not about my own goodness. It is about the fact that Christ was good for me and he loves me despite the fact that I am not good. It is that unconditional love that he keeps pouring out on me every time that I fail that makes me long to be good. It makes me want to be pleasing to Him. So I ask him to help me be what he already declares me to be. He is faithful to answer that prayer, over the course of my life. There is some changing that takes place, sure. But it's the kind of change that is from the heart. It isn't by my following a list of silly rules. It's a change that can't be explained by human effort. It's God's work alone.
So here's what I'm not going to do anymore. I'm not going to try and prove to you that I'm better than you. Because that's silly. And also it's a lie. I'm not better than you. You and I are the same. Both sinners. Both need Jesus. All I am going to do is live honestly. I'm going to tell you where I fail. I'm probably going to even let you see me fail. And then I'm going to tell you how much Jesus loves me anyway. Because that's the truth. That's the gospel. Jesus loves sinners. He ate with the tax collectors. He touched lepers. He drew water with prostitutes. He draws near to those of us who are broken and sinful that the "good people" of his day shunned. He welcomes us. He forgives us. He heals us. He loves us.There is no better news than that. And sure, the tax collectors, the lepers, and the prostitutes are all different after their encounter with Jesus. That kind of crazy love has an effect on it's objects. Though, that's the kicker. It's Jesus' love that changes us truly, it's not that we effort to appear changed to the world.
So yeah, I'm done with the moralistic American brand of counterfeit Christianity that I've been served over the years and that I've tried to convince you of. I'm finished with the silly games of my make believe goodness. True, biblical Christianity is a beautiful, amazing thing. It's Jesus who died for us because we failed to be good. But the good news is that in Christ I am loved beyond what I can even comprehend. And it's that truth that I want to live in and share with you for the rest of my life.


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The University of Arizona College of Engineering has received a software license valued at $23 million from Schlumberger.
Schlumberger, a global oilfield services provider, granted the multi-year license to the College of Engineering's department of mining and geological engineering. Schlumberger's industry-standard software is used widely throughout the oil and gas exploration and production industries, but its application in the mining industry is less common.
Mary Poulton, head of the mining and geological department, sees the Schlumberger software license as a chance to change this. "It is an opportunity to use state-of-the-art software from the oil and gas industry and see how it can be adapted to mining and environmental applications," said Poulton, who is director of the UA's Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources.
Poulton's lab will host the software, but she said it will be available to other departments who can benefit from using it, such as geosciences, hydrology, and soil, water and environmental science. The software will also influence the curriculum, "We will be developing new courses around the software," Poulton said. "Any student in our program who takes a class using the software or needs it for their research can have access."
The $23-million license consists of software valued at $14,654,083 and maintenance worth $8,791,704. "Industry-standard software packages in the oil and mining businesses are really expensive," Poulton said. The specific software packages covered under the license are Petrel, workflow management software for mineral exploration and development; Eclipse, an oil and gas reservoir simulation program; and Techlog, a set of petrophysics analytical tools for oil and gas drilling.
Poulton expects the software to be available by the fall 2012 semester, and sees great potential for new research areas arising out of this cross-industry application. "As we look at crossover technology from the oil and gas industry to mining, a natural technology is the software to map and interpret geology, geophysics, and fluid movements in the subsurface," she said.
"We think there are exciting research opportunities to see the potential transfer of knowledge to our challenges in in situ mining, leaching, environmental management, and water management," Poulton said. "We are grateful to Schlumberger for making this donation and allowing us to expand our frontier of knowledge."


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Our Mission
Na Maka O Pu'uwai Aloha's Mission is to perpetuate the Hawaiian culture and language by educating the haumana (students) through music and dance with Hula. We also offer Polynesian, Hip Hop, Tap, Ballet, Jazz, 'Ukulele, Guitar and Voice to help students to express themselves and to build self confidence.
We support and encourage higher education. We also believe in giving back to the community. We try to provide a fun and safe environment for the students to learn.
As we share our beautiful culture with others, we also hope to preserve it for future generations. Through numerous performances and opportunities, such as traveling abroad, we hope to instill the values of living Hawaiian with the world.
Learn the basic steps in hula along with various mele (songs) and chants. Experience both the kahiko (ancient) and auana (modern) styles of hula.
Ia Orana! Kia Ora! Our polynesian classes will enrich you with the basics in polynesian dancing, with emphasis in Tahitian and Maori techniques.
Want to learn how to play chords, read music, sing songs, strum and tune your uke or guitar all at the same time? Now wouldn't that be fantastic?!
Learn in a safe and fun environment where you'll make friends and express your feelings in a healthy way while building your self-confidence.
Improve your techniques and learn how to stay on pitch, expand your vocal range and perform comfortably in front of an audience.


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An Urgent Message from MHA
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January 15, 2016
Dear HCV Owners, Agents and Participants:
Last week, we informed you that a recent storm had affected our computer system, causing an unforeseen delay in disbursements of Housing Assistance and Utility Assistance payments to owners and participants for the month of January 2016.
We are pleased to report that most January payments were made on January 8, 2016, and we are working to diligently resolve any outstanding issues. Please be reminded that tenants are responsible for their portion of rent and that they may not be assessed late fees for MHA's portion.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding your Housing Assistance or Utility Assistance payments, please contact the HCV department at 901.544.1347or visit memphisha.org.
Ian Randolph, Board Chairman
Memphis Housing Authority