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In its scientific sense, industrial ecology represents an emerging transdisciplinary field of studying industrial systems and their fundamental linkage with natural ecosystems. As a short form, industrial ecology is called the "science of sustainability". At the bottom of industrial ecology there is a refreshingly different perspective of understanding nature as model in comparison with other scientific disciplines and concepts of understanding nature e.g. in terms of "sack of resources", "biophysical limit", "something outside", "surrounding", or just "environment" as opposed to industrial systems. The keynote of industrial ecology's specific perspective of understanding nature is to balance the development of industrial systems with the constraints of natural eco-systems, analogous to an "industrial symbiosis". The goal is to contribute for laying a fundamental underpinning for industrial ecology in its scientific sense, in this case especially for its use of nature as model. Therefore an impressive battery of philosophical arguments is provided bringing to bear against the sort of probably raised fallacies and facile or hasty proclaimed critics by sceptics, hard-liners, and mainstream-scientists who often overlook industrial ecology's stimulating role towards sustainability.
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text: Alienware's latest PC is an attempt to fire a salvo right across the bows of Sony and Microsoft's gaming flagships. It looks like the (slightly overweight) lovechild of the pair; like an alternate universe console. The X51 borrows liberally from the design schools of both the Xbox (matte sides) and the PlayStation 3 (slot-loading optical drive, front panel gloss). The Alienware logo rotates to suit both vertical and horizontal setups. The device is around the size of the original PS3, but it looked pretty petite in comparison to the rest of Alienware's gaming hardware. There's a litany of holes on the back of the X51, including plenty of USB ports and audio options. Reacquaint yourself with some technical specifics after the break, alongside our hands-on impressions with Super Street Fighter IV.


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Hough: What Glitches? Nasdaq Could Rise 20%
Technical glitches forced the closing of the Nasdaq last week but despite all the negative attention, Nasdaq shares have quietly returned 36% in a year and they still look cheap. Barron's senioreditor Jack Hough joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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"Merry Christmas."
Twenty years ago today, that simple holiday greeting was the first text message. It was sent by Neil Papworth of Sema Group Telecoms to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone UK, who was at his office Christmas party at the time.
Papworth, who now lives with his family in Montreal and is still in the telecom game, was 22 at the time he forever changed the course of communications history, but he admits he was clueless as to what he'd done.
"No, absolutely no idea," he said. "Or, me sending that first message was just a day's work … It was just proof that our software was working. I was more relieved than overjoyed."
Vodafone, which was the driving force behind texting at the time, was eager to figure out a way to monetize the new technology.
"The idea back then was that Vodafone was operating most like a paging bureau, where you call up and talk to one of these real people and you'd give them the phone number and tell them the message," said Papworth. "These things were to replace pagers. I remember then thinking people carrying around clunky analog phones and a pager, and now instead of having two devices they can have one."
Since Papworth sent that first text, more than 40 trillion texts have been sent worldwide, according to Portio Research. That works out to 3.3 texts per day for every person on Earth. Portio also estimates that 2012 alone saw 8.5 trillion texts sent -- generating $231 billion in revenue.
Texting, like all powerful technologies, has seen its ups and downs. It has been used to save countless lives, raised billions of dollars, scammed who knows how many rubes, spawned competitions (Austin Wierschke won the National Texting Championship in 2011 and 2012, earning $50,000 in prize money each time) and ended the political careers of men like Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and New York Rep. Anthony Weiner.
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Monday, December 31, 2007
The Holidays and Life without WoW.
The first is a search tool that I can't remember the name of. It listed people that had linked to my blog. More experianced bloggers are probably laughing at me right now and thinking something along the lines of me being a noob. Well, I am. I still can't get the Item Link thing to work that was pointed out to me a month ago. Anyway, I was quite supprised at how many people had found the blog. Its not a lot but more than I expected. Thanks to everyone for the links and positive comments. They are appreciated. Now if I could just find the search again. Apperently google on my dad's computer is different then google on my computer.
The second is two posts on Adventures in Azeroth dealing with Account/Gold selling and tanking money for blog posts. Here are the posts: First and second. The posts are kind of old so I thought posting on my blog made more sense then posting a comment on his. The posts touched on three topics: 1. Taking money for a blog entry, 2. Account Selling, and 3. Gold Selling.
1. Taking money for a blog entry: Amanna was very up front and said that he was paid to make a post about an Account Auction site, but as several other people did I have a bit of an issue with it. I don't think any of us should confuse blogging with actual journalism, but nobody likes to be fead a line of bull. Amanna's post did seem to be a very balanced view of the site, and I don't have a negative opinion of him or his blog. However, any time you admit that you were paid to make a post you have to wonder what the conditions where, and what might have been left out. Having an ad on the margin of the blog would have been ok in my opinion, but doing anything that looks like you selling your voice or maybe you opinion isn't a good idea. All that being said, Amanna says that he donated the payment to charity, so don't stop reading his blog.
These next to topics are very similar so I will get one point out of the way. I think Blizzard is doing the right thing to try and prevent Gold/Account selling. Both activities hurt the integrity of the game and would probably destroy WoW if allowed to go on unchecked by Blizzard. That being said I am not a 100% opposed to buying gold or selling an account. Here is a closer look.
2. Account Selling: First off, I think Amanna is wrong about Blizzards view of selling accounts. Allowing someone to permanently transfer an account is different then selling an account. There are several situations where it is perfectly reasonable to transfer an account or an individual toon. The main one being family members sharing an account. While blizzard cannot prevent money from changing hands or research each transfer, this doesn't mean that they allow accounts to be sold.
My opinion on the subject depends on who is buying the account. If you are new to the game or even to the class, buying an account is like using a cheat code in my opinion. Your not really experiencing the game and are not really interested in playing it. It takes time to learn the game and the class, and that is best done at lower levels. On the other had what if you have already leveled 5 toons to 70, and are buying a toon of a class you have already played? I have heard of several situations where someone wants to play with friends but can't because they play a different faction or on a different type of server. I have also heard of people buying a toon on the same server so that they can have one of a different spec without respecing ever few days. This is ok in my opinion because it doesn't hurt the integrity of the game much if at all. Finally what about selling my account? I have put a lot more time into this game than I would like to admit. What is wrong with trying to get a little of the money back? If you know you arn't coming back, recouping some of the cost isn't that big of a deal in my opinion as long as you let your guild and friends know.
3. Gold Selling: Mostly I think buying gold is just stupid. I don't know who the typical gold buyer is but I assume that most of them are just don't want to spend the time farming it. Buying gold is expensive and if you don't want to spend the time to farm the gold you need then you probably won't be playing the game long. Mainly, it is just a waste of money in my opinion. The only exception that I can think of is for some hardcore raiders. Raiding can be very expensive and I can understand how some people would have the time to raid or farm but not both. If high end raiding is what you enjoy but have to many RL commitments to do every thing that is needed to support raiding, then buying a little gold isn't a big issue in my mind.
Anyway, that is it for now. Thanks again to everyone that reads my blog and has linked it. There is no toon update this post since they haven't done anything.
3 comments:
- Matticus said...
Firstly, no respectable blogger is ever going to laugh at another blogger for any technical reason. Ever. They may laugh at them for something they've written, but never because of something minor like blog addons or tools.
Second, the search tool you may be thinking of that shows all blogs that link to yours might be technorati (http://www.technorati.com). A lot of WoW bloggers use it to determine things like their "authority" rating and other blogs that link to theirs. I believe it scans a few times a week.
The alternative is the one from Google: http://blogsearch.google.com. That one's a little quicker to use and get set up with then Technorati.
Hope that helps! Keep up the writing, by the way =).
- December 31, 2007 at 1:09 PM
- Cdin said...
Awesome, I hoped some one would know what I was talking about and would respond.
Technorati was the site I had seen. Thanks for the help.
- December 31, 2007 at 2:12 PM
- Horns said...
You can try histats.com, it shows search keywords and referrals from websites nicely.
Google analytics is nice also but a bit too much info for my taste.
- December 31, 2007 at 4:02 PM


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Faculty Research Awards Go to 19 at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Institutions
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that it has awarded a total of $6.7 million in fellowships to 180 U.S. scholars for their individual research in the humanities. An additional 19 faculty members at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities will receive a total of $648,000 in Faculty Research Awards for their individual or collaborative projects.
"Through their research on a broad range of humanities topics, NEH fellows and Faculty Research Award recipients will deepen our understanding of ourselves and our world," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. "When completed, their work will benefit scholars, students, and lovers of knowledge for many years to come."
NEH fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Faculty Research Awards support projects that make similar contributions in the form of publications, presentations, and classroom teaching. Among the NEH fellowships awarded this year are the following:
- Howard J. Pollack, University of Houston, for "Gershwin: A Critical Biography";
- Seth L Schein, University of California, Davis, for "An Edition with Commentary of Sophocles's 'Philoctetes'";
- Anthony Colantuono, University of Maryland, College Park, for "The Culture of Prudence: Advice, Control, and Artistic Creativity in Early Modern Italy"; and
- Christopher J. Kelly, Boston College, for "Translation of Short Works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
Among this year's Faculty Research Award recipients, Robert Murie and Matthew Herman, both of Stone Child College in Box Elder, Mont., will collaborate on "Retrieval, Validation, and Protection of Historical Records of Rocky Boy's Chippewa Cree." The Endowment received 1,289 eligible applications for NEH fellowships and 117 for Faculty Research Awards. Full-term (9- to 12-month) NEH fellowships and Faculty Research Awards carry a stipend of $40,000. Recipients may opt for a shorter term (6 to 8 months), which carries a stipend of $24,000. This year's fellows and Faculty Research Award recipients represent 38 states and the District of Columbia. A state-by-state list with names and affiliations of this year's recipients is available as an Adobe PDF file here.


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I mentioned it in her cancer thread but wanted to share more pictures here. Sofie is fourteen today! I remember last year just hoping she'd hit Thirteen, never imagining she would make it this far given a 6 month prognosis. Her cancer has been inactive since we started her on chemo a year ago. She still sneezes something fierce once in a while but otherwise the tumor has not invaded her face at all, thankfully
She's laying nearby snoozing right now as I write this thread. She's been sleeping most of the day, which is definitely her favorite thing to do. She got some special canned junk food today and has been given lots of human food by my roommates. I'm not at my original comp so I don't have a lot of younger pictures of her but I had quite a few on facebook so here goes!
These were maybe 2004. In the first one her nails were horribly long. She looks very different when she's shaved naked as compared to when she's hairy.
These were taken in 2005, LiLo was still just a kid :p
This was maybe in... 2007. She was a little chunky here
I think this was 2008, this was my foster dog that I successfully found a home for. [I am not a hoarder! :p]
These were 2009, she looks really excited to have her picture taken with me, this was shortly after her diagnoses so I wanted to get a picture of us.
2009 as well before my cat Pause died. She's obviously a little cut out of it but it's a favorite. She was so tolerant with the cats.
This is from the present, her picture taken for Harleybird's card. I figure it's only fitting since it's her birthday now


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An online petition that describes Canadian pop star Justin Bieber as "reckless, destructive, and drug abusing" has received enough signatures to earn an official review by the White House.
The petition, "Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card," was started last Thursday, Jan. 23 on the We The People site. Created after the "Baby" singer was arrested in South Florida on DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license charges, the petition had amassed over 118,000 signatures by Wednesday. The White House responds to petitions once they've surpassed 100,000 signatures.
19-year-old Bieber is in the United States on a special visa given to high profile people such as actors, musicians and academics.
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The full text of the petition reads: "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture. We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nations youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society."
How long it will take for the White House to provide an official response remains to be seen.
A response to a recent petition demanding the ABC network remove the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late night show from broadcast after the comedian made a joke on-air about killing Chinese people in reference to paying down the U.S. debt took three months.
In retaliation to the petition demanding deportation of the tween heartthrob, Bieber supporters (or Beliebers) created their own peition on Jan. 25, also on the We the People site. "Stop Justin Bieber from getting deported" had attracted 1,750 signatures as of Wednesday.
It reads: "The whole idea of Justin Drew Bieber getting deported, is completely unfair. He doesn't deserve this.... With your help, we can stop it. He's human. He's not perfect. The media sees the bad side of him. Please. He's saved so many lives. Including mine. A lifesaver, Shouldn't deserve this." According to information on the site, the petition was created by H.P. in Modesto, CA. The petition requesting deportation was created by J.A. in Chicago, MI.
Bieber's arraignment hearing in Miami is scheduled for Feb. 14. Deportation is highly unlikely, though. According to U.S. immigration law, authorities do not revoke an individual's visa unless the person has been convicted of a violent crime or been sentenced to more than one year imprisonment.
Meanwhile, the singer had been spotted relaxing on a beach in Panama following his arrest. E! News reported that Bieber left the Central American country and headed back to the United States on Tuesday Jan. 28.


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Zach Braff photobombed a wedding shoot in Times Square and the actor says it's one of his best ever.
The New York City photographer who shot the wedding photo at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue on Nov. 2 says he didn't notice the celebrity in the crosswalk until he was editing photos on Thursday.
"I was like, 'Is that Zach Braff?'" the photographer, Sascha Reinking, told NBC 4 New York.
Indeed, it was. Reinking tweeted the photo and Braff quickly confirmed it was him.
This is one of my best photobombs ever: pic.twitter.com/LZS0TZE3JS
— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) November 22, 2013
Reinking said the newlyweds, who are from Germany, loved the photo.


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Sales of Amy Winehouse's Albums Surge After Her Death
In the hours following Saturday's death of British pop singer Amy Winehouse, sales of her albums surged -- pushing her 2007 Grammy-winning album 'Back to Black' to the top of the iTunes charts in the US, UK, France, and Germany.
UK's Official Charts company, which tracks downloads and disc sales, reports a 3700 percent increase in the sales of Winehouse's albums. "We would expect an even bigger impact to roll through over the coming days," said Official Charts managing director Martin Talbot.
The spike is similar to that seen after music legend Michael Jackson died. In the two years since his death, his estate is estimated to have generated at least $310 million from album sales and spin-offs.
Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home on Saturday. While she was a longtime substance-abuser, the cause of her death is still undetermined.


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The man accused of unleashing the deadly mass shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last year pleaded guilty Tuesday, just after he was ruled fit for trial.
Jared Lee Loughner, accused of the January 2011 shooting in Tucson that killed six people and wounded 13, including Giffords, said he understood the charges against him and wished to plead guilty. He also said he was of a clear mind.
That new plea means Loughner will be spared the death penalty but will spend his life in prison, with no possibility for parole, U.S. Attorney John Leonardo said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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It was made possible by a crucial ruling Tuesday by Judge Larry A. Burns that found Loughner competent and fit to stand trial.
"He's a different person in his appearance and affect than the first time I saw him," Burns said in Arizona federal court. Loughner has spent more than a year forcibly medicated with psychotropic drugs for schizophrenia.
He has since "become human" and is "tormented" by his actions, forensic psychologist Christina Pietz, who treated him in federal prison, testified in court Tuesday.
She said he had reached a turning point in his mental fitness. As a result of medication, he had become more rational and remorseful, with a clearer understanding of the murders he is accused of committing, Pietz said.
"He understood what he had done, understood the victimization he had caused, and he was sorry for that," she said. She said he had wept as he talked about the victims and told her he was "tormented" by his thoughts and sometimes cried uncontrollably, particularly about the child victim.
Pietz told the court that Loughner had become upset when he was told of his diagnosis of schizophrenia and told her he would have taken medication to prevent it. He told her he thought he should be executed for his actions.
Loughner appeared in court emotionless as he concentrated on the testimony at the hearing.
With his new plea deal, the 23-year-old college dropout will likely be spared the death penalty and instead be sentenced to life imprisonment, sources familiar with the case told The Associated Press.
Loughner previously had pleaded not guilty to 49 charges stemming from the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting at a Giffords campaign event outside a Tucson grocery store.
Giffords survived a gunshot wound through her head and resigned on Jan. 25 to focus on her recovery.
Her husband Mark Kelly said in a statement to NBC News earlier Tuesday that the couple was "satisfied" with the plea agreement.
"Gabby and I have been in contact with the U.S. Attorneys' Office throughout this process," he said. "We don't speak for all of the victims or their families, but Gabby and I are satisfied with this plea agreement. The pain and loss caused by the events of Jan. 8, 2011, are incalculable. Avoiding a trial will allow us – and we hope the whole Southern Arizona community – to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives."
Victims and the families of victims said at Tuesday's news conference that they, too, were satisfied and that Loughner's guilty plea represented their best available option.
An agreement that spares Loughner a death sentence will benefit both sides, Wes Oliver, a law professor and director of the Criminal Justice Program at the Duquesne University School of Law, told NBC News.
According to Oliver, a life sentence will avoid costly, not to mention highly publicized, trials and spare the victims and their families a lengthy ordeal.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Lorenzo Brown had 20 points and 11 assists to help No. 18 North Carolina State beat North Carolina 91-83 on Saturday night, ending a 13-game losing streak in the long rivalry.
Freshman T.J. Warren added 19 points for the Wolfpack (16-4, 5-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who beat the Tar Heels for the first time in nearly six years. N.C. State dominated much of the night, leading by 23 points before the break and 28 after halftime before the Tar Heels put together a second-half push that made things interesting the final minutes.
P.J. Hairston scored 19 points to lead the Tar Heels (13-6, 3-3), including four second-half 3-pointers that helped UNC slowly climb back into the game.
North Carolina cut the deficit all the way to 85-80 with 30.7 seconds left, but the Wolfpack hit six straight free throws to avoid what would've been a crushing late-game collapse.
N.C. State hadn't beaten UNC since an 83-79 home win in February 2007, its only victory in 20 tries against the Tar Heels since Roy Williams returned to his alma mater before the 2003-04 season. But N.C. State - wearing all red - ended the skid with a performance that for much of the night validated its status as the preseason ACC favorite.
N.C. State shot 49 percent and Brown frequently had the Wolfpack out in transition, outscoring the Tar Heels 39-19 in fast-break points - an area that Williams' teams usually have the edge. N.C. State also got strong games from C.J. Leslie (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Richard Howell (16 points, 14 rebounds) up front.
The Wolfpack entered the year as the ACC favorite for the first time since the 1974-75 season and had already beaten top-ranked Duke here in a rousing performance that ended with fans storming the court to celebrate. But N.C. State had lost two of three games since, falling on a last-second basket at Maryland then losing 86-84 at struggling Wake Forest on Tuesday night.
North Carolina had won three straight games since an 0-2 league start, but the Tar Heels fell behind by double figures in the first 6 minutes. They regrouped enough to close within four then watched the Wolfpack stomp the gas pedal and blow the game open.
With Brown running almost unchecked in transition and through the UNC defense, N.C. State blew things open with a 20-2 run and pushed the lead to 23 points on Warren's layup with about 90 seconds left before the break. The Wolfpack led 45-26 at halftime and pushed the margin to 61-33 on Brown's transition layup with 13:16 left.
It took the Tar Heels a long time to mount any pushback, though they fought back with a 28-9 run once the Wolfpack eased off the throttle to steadily chop into the lead and close within 70-61 on free throws from Marcus Paige with 5:22 left.
Hairston hit his final 3 with about a minute left, then James Michael McAdoo slammed home a miss from Reggie Bullock to close the deficit to five points. But the Tar Heels got no closer, with Scott Wood hitting a pair of free throws and Brown adding four straight in the final 17.4 seconds to seal it.
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Available now: OctaneRender for Unity
OTOY's cinematic render engine for the Unity editor has arrived! OctaneRender® is the first and fastest path-traced, GPU-accelerated render engine. In Unity, OctaneRender is available for free, or at $20 or $60 for packages that unlock more GPUs and OctaneRender plugins for leading 3D authoring tools.
Cinematic rendering in Timeline and Play mode
OctaneRender arms Unity creators with greater rendering power and quality for cinematic use cases. Born on GPUs, OctaneRender is an unbiased render engine, tracing each ray of light in a scene with physics-grade precision to deliver unrivaled photorealism in CG and VFX.
OctaneRender Recorder now allows you to record animations or sequences made with Unity's Timeline and export either as a movie file or as an ORBX® format, which can leverage OctaneRender Cloud®. Recorder makes composing films through Timeline, Cinemachine, and now Play mode, that much easier.
In advance of next year's Octane 4 with Brigade, our real-time path-tracer, OctaneRender for Unity is limited to pre-rendered content. However through cinematic rendering and the upcoming Live Lightmap Baking, OctaneRender for Unity expands what you can do in the engine today.
This Made with Unity scene is rendered with OctaneRender for Unity and is available for free on the Asset Store.
Overview of the main OctaneRender for Unity features in action. All within the Unity editor.
The PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) Viewport
One of the immediately noticeable features in OctaneRender for Unity is the PBR Viewport. It provides a window into your scene as viewed by a path-traced render engine. With Cinematic Rendering in OctaneRender, what you see is what you get. You can now use a Hollywood-grade render engine inside of Unity to create cinematic output from Cinemachine and Timeline.
The PBR Viewport showing a glimpse into the Docking Bay with OctaneRender for Unity— scene available on the Asset Store.
OctaneRender materials and lighting
For pre-rendered sequences, OctaneRender steps up the quality of the scene immediately, even with standard Unity shaders. You can also choose to leverage OctaneRender's node-based material and lighting system, which improves the overall look even further with physics-based quality.
In future versions, OctaneRender for Unity will also support Open Shading Language (OSL) for even greater flexibility.
You can find tutorials that walk you through the new workflow here.
Views of The Orbital and Docking Bay scenes with OctaneRender for Unity available on the Asset Store for free.
OctaneRender for Unity on the Asset Store
Getting started with OctaneRender is easy: simply head to the Asset Store and download any of our scene packages. When you load any one of them, you will be prompted to install OctaneRender for Unity.
The Installer Scene is a good place to start, as it's lightweight and friendly, but any package from OTOY's storefront will install OctaneRender. Once you are prompted to install OctaneRender for Unity, check out the Octane for Unity installation guide for the step-by-step process.
We'll be updating the Asset Store with new scenes to inspire you and provide some free goodies to use in your own projects. Keeping checking back!
These scenes will also be used in our project-based guides, so download and follow along to learn how to get the most out of OctaneRender for Unity.
Visit the Asset Store and download a scene to start exploring OctaneRender for Unity today!
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OctaneRender for Unity comes in three versions—a free tier and two subscription options—each of which is feature complete.
- OctaneRender Prime is available for free by downloading an OctaneRender asset from the Asset Store. Prime only allows access to your primary GPU and comes with no additional plugins.
- Annual subscriptions to OctaneRender Studio and OctaneRender Creator offer access to more GPUs and a selection of additional plugins. They can be purchased here.
- OctaneRender Studio is $20 per month and allows access to 2 GPUs and a selection of 1 additional plugin.
- OctaneRender Creator is $60 per month and allows access to up to 20 GPUs and a selection of 3 additional plugins
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Live Lightmap Baking Beta
Currently available in beta, Live Lightmap Baking will soon be completed and launched. GPU-accelerated baking can deliver 10x the speeds of current solutions, redefining how lightmapping in Unity is done today. Because OctaneRender can read Unity materials and lights, even legacy lightmap workflows can be accelerated with path-tracing. The Unity community can experiment with OctaneRender's baking system in beta today, and more features and support will come shortly.
Live real time Octane GPU baking in @unity3d viewport on my laptop! Entire scene baking on GPU shared w/ Unity game viewport! No slowdown ? pic.twitter.com/lgk7hl9apT
— Jules Urbach (@JulesUrbach) October 11, 2017
Javier Leon's Mini Metaverse, rendered and baked in OctaneRender for Unity.
From hardware requirements and installation guides to project-based tutorials, learn how to unleash the power of OctaneRender for Unity:
- Installation and project-based guides: To get started, check out the Installation Guide and the Introduction to OctaneRender for Unity tutorial.
- Manual: Take a deeper dive with the OctaneRender for Unity Manual
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- Unity Assets: Download OctaneRender's astonishing sample scenes for free to see for yourself what's possible.
- Updates: Don't forget to check out the OTOY Forums for the most up-to-date information and to ask more in-depth questions.
- More about OctaneRender for Unity. Get additional resources and information such as the OctaneRender for Unity roadmap.
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Baking Overview! Wow!
Charlieenero 3, 2018 a las 2:17 am
The only problem is that it is working only on Nvidia based GPU. That's a huge minus from many professionals that rely on mixed. Environments that use and AMD based GPUs.
I will wait from the BOCS that works on both GPU manufacturers.
Jules Urbachenero 9, 2018 a las 4:12 am
AMD GPU support is working and being tested internally with 3.07 while we work out performance optimizations and OSL support (coming soon in Octane 3.08). Here is a video of AMD iMac GPU running Octane : https://twitter.com/otoy/status/883188571665874944?lang=en
Alriiight! An alpha-stage engine for sale that works with Unity for $80 for the full features! …..not sure why this is a blog or news at all O_o
Jules Urbachenero 9, 2018 a las 4:19 am
There is no $80 subscription. These are the three options:
(1) The free version included with Unity – this includes the full features of the latest commercial release of Octane 3.
(2) A $20 month subscription includes a DCC plug-in (e.g. C4D) and dual GPU support.
(3) A $60 month subscription includes multiple plug-ins and 20 GPU support.
Aleksanderdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 9:29 pm
Hi Jules,
I bought standalone Octane few years ago, when it was in version 1.x. Lately I thought to upgrade to version 3.x
I'm mostly use it for hobby purposes, static scenes etc. Do you think this Unity version will be ok for me instead of standalone Octane?
If I get standalone Octane, is there a way to integrate it with Unity or I have to have Unity plugin anyway?
I'm thinking of getting $20 2-gpu subscription.
What do you recommend?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 11:21 pm
Hi Aleksander. Thanks for buying Octane so early in it's development :)
You can absolutely use Unity's Octane integration as a full replacement for standalone. The full standalone UX system, ORBX import/export node graph, Octane native viewport are all exposed inside Unity Editor and have identical features to the full Octane 3.x standalone features with no limitations or restrictions, other than 1 GPU in the free version. You can go to the Unity store at any time and get a subscription to the $20 month Octane Studio with adds multi-GPU support and includes a DCC plug-in of your choice (including ORC for cloud rendering).
In this post 'live lightbaking' is mentioned. This is something that I am really interested in.
I want to try it out, but I have been unable to find a guide of how to use or activate this. It this in the Unity beta or is it available in a beta of Octane? How do I acces live baking? I did see the option to create a bake camera in the node editor…
This is what I would like to do :
1. Mark object(s) to render to a texture.
2. Select a location to output the rendered texture to.
3. Render textures
4. Use renderered textures in a scene for low hardware impact mobile applications.
I am used to this workflow through Maya in combination with Arnold. Are we able to do something similar in Octane in Unity?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 6:59 pm
Hi Simon – all great questions!
2-4 are covered, as Octane PBR render target is able to directly be connected to one or more live Unity RenderTextures (which can then be saved to a file, or re-used by Unity itself)
For (1), we are working on an automated system and UX in the next update (with OSL) that allows scenes to be prepared for multi-step (offline) or one-step (real time) GPU texture baking using Octane's built in baking camera. This can be experimented with in the current release, but setup is a manual process more suitable for testing purposes while we make improvements to the front end (see my posts below for more information about the OSL camera and other roadmap details).
Jabrilsdiciembre 18, 2017 a las 9:37 am
I don't know much about lighting, therefore I don't know why this is so amazing, BUT i am currently downloading the docking bay demo to experiment :D
Alan Mattanodiciembre 17, 2017 a las 3:21 am
Mille Grazie Jules, Beppe e OTOY team! Software fantastico!
Lars Steenhoffdiciembre 16, 2017 a las 1:50 pm
Why it's not stated anywhere that this only works on PC for now, and not on Mac.
Yes I know its coming to Mac too, when? Once it was stated not in the foreseeable future, thats seems so far away…
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 1:14 am
MacOS is coming after we have OSL integration fully completed. From that point onward, Mac/PC are expected to be released and updated in tandem.
laurentdiciembre 16, 2017 a las 4:10 am
Batch render of a timeline? Super integration! Bravo to the dev team that did that.
Really exciting release, was looking forward to it since I saw it at Unite!
I can't get it to install via the asset, though. Facing some dll dependencies errors (like «Failed to load libfbxsdk.dll (). Errorcode: 87»)
Same error i not understand why
Praffuldiciembre 16, 2017 a las 8:30 am
Hi Paulo, try installing the older version from the Octane->Settings->Version Control and then upgrade it.
Worked for me on 2017.2.0f3
Thank you Prafful, that was an easy workaround! :)
Another use for this kind of rednering is outside the editor in pre-viz etc. (from your app/game) where you want to create a better rendered image of the scene to output. Any chance for a solution to this in future?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 1:18 am
A solution that works outside of Editor is currently planned after the Octane 4 Editor update rolls out next year.
Simon Kratzdiciembre 15, 2017 a las 11:27 am
Is there some documentation or example scenes for the lightmapping feature that we can build upon?
I loved the rendering speed of the system in beta, but the lightmapping capabilities is really something we'd love to use in production :D
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 1:02 am
The baking camera itself is built into Octane. While it can be manually set up now with in this release (as some users have done), I would wait until we get to the next update (with the OSL baking camera and proper automation/UX) before using it beyond internal tests.
With OctaneRender's Lightmapper being in beta, is this going to replace Unity's Progressive Lightmapper in the future?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 12:46 am
Once we add OSL integration in Unity (scheduled in the next update), there will be an OSL camera which can be used for many types of custom computational baking workflows. For example, a few lines of OSL shader code could capture irradiance and bent normal maps suitable for traditional light mapping systems. We are interested in building on this foundation to expose surface/volumetric light field baking tools (which have different cost/quality trade-offs relative to lightmapping + reflection probes – but you can mix and match these however you wish). The LF volumetric rendering system is further meant to blend seamlessly with Brigade's real time path-tracing + real time AI denoiser (planned for Octane 4 next year). Octane 3.09, now in testing, will include a version of the AI denoiser for offline rendering inside Unity (and should also work with the OSL camera).
matthew radforddiciembre 15, 2017 a las 8:33 am
Really awesome addition! This is going to be such an aid. Being able to make new textures right inside unity will be huge. Awesome new feature! Can't wait for lightmapping!
Really interested in the lightmapper but can I use it for actual games or only for cinematic stuff?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 12:56 am
Sure. It's just a manual process at the moment. As per my other post regarding the OSL camera coming up shortly, we are working on making Octane support a general purpose pre-computing system that also leads to practical light field baking (and playback in game mode) of assets and scenes, after we get the workflow better automated in the Editor UX.
Marc Wakefielddiciembre 15, 2017 a las 6:19 am
Amazing! Well done Unity, Jules and Otoy!
Just so you are all aware; Jules is a really kind and courteous guy who works really hard but is also happy to answer questions and assist whenever possible.
It is rare to see this type of interaction from people in a similar position in other firms. His dedication to the cause is truly admirable.
Jules Urbachdiciembre 20, 2017 a las 1:09 am
Thank you Marc! It's truly a pleasure to talk to fellow Unity/Octane users here.
Vic Holtdiciembre 15, 2017 a las 5:39 am
This is a game changer for sure!! Thanks to the team!
What I am most interested in with all this is the GPU lightmapper, but I haven't been able to figure out where it is or how to use it. Are there any instructions available?
Hakan Karadumandiciembre 14, 2017 a las 9:16 pm
Great news! I have e few questions.
Will this include the AI denoising feature when it's out?
Can we render out single frame renders with the recorder?
Is there a resolution limit to renders or any watermark?
Can I use AI denoise feature with a GTX 780 TI or what are the requirements?
Are all the features from Octane standalone included with the free unity plugin?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 11:40 pm
Will this include the AI denoising feature when it's out? – YES
Can we render out single frame renders with the recorder? – YES
Is there a resolution limit to renders or any watermark? – NOPE! :)
Can I use AI denoise feature with a GTX 780 TI or what are the requirements? – Kepler (maybe) and for sure Maxwell, Pascal, Volta GPUs and Hawswell (AVX2) level CPU
Are all the features from Octane standalone included with the free unity plugin?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 11:42 pm
Are all the features from Octane standalone included with the free unity plugin?
Yes, and you also get the entire Standalone app framework and UX inside Unity Editor. We also support import and export of ORBX in the free version too :)
laurentdiciembre 15, 2017 a las 5:57 am
but you need to buy Octane license which is cheap $399/seat
Hakan Karadumandiciembre 15, 2017 a las 1:10 pm
No it doesn't require the standalone license if I understand correct. That is awesome collaboration between unity and otoy. Thanks Jules for the response.
laurentdiciembre 16, 2017 a las 4:06 am
woooooooooow I had to install it to believe it ! free up to one GPU – that's pretty nuts when you know the quality of this renderer.
Simon Kratzdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 7:31 pm
This is really nice news! Tested the beta and it's blazing fast! Thanks so much for bringing ths to us :)
Jules Urbachdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 6:38 pm
I am so excited to share our first commercial release of Octane for Unity with everyone! This integration marks an important milestone for OTOY and Unity after a lot of hard work and planning. It is a foundation for many exciting updates we will be rolling out to subscribers in 2018!.
Octane is a cinematic renderer used across film, television, games, advertising, product design, and architectural visualization, and works with a full integration in dozens of authoring tools from Cinema 4D to Maya…and now Unity!
I am really proud of the fact that Octane in Unity is the world's first built-in integration of a cinematic GPU path tracer hooked into the core of a game engine. With GPU light field baking, Brigade and real time denoising coming in our 2018 updates – the future finally feels like it's arrived at our doorsteps (…next stop – the Holodeck!).
Looking forward to seeing what the world will do with this :)
Jules Urbach, CEO and Co-Founder of OTOY
P.S. . I am also very active on FB, Unity and OTOY forums, and happy to help fellow users and answer questions!
Thanks for making yourself available. Much appreciated.
Tomas Nihléndiciembre 16, 2017 a las 11:23 pm
Do you think rendering in game mode will be released in 2018? So that it could be used for VR games etc?
Jules Urbachdiciembre 19, 2017 a las 7:01 pm
Yes, and earlier than later in 2018.
Isaac Surfrazdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 6:16 pm
looks great, no more rendering in an external engine yet having my game made in another! looking forward to making cutscenes using this
Дмитрийdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 9:33 pm
And how you will made 3d models without other modelling software? Most useless feature for game engine imho
Jules Urbachdiciembre 14, 2017 a las 11:24 pm
Today's launch of Octane Studio and Octane Creator on the Unity store gives Unity users access to all the tools they need to connect Octane for Unity with every major DCC and 3D authoring tool: Maya, 3DS Max (w/ Vray material conversion), Blender, Modo, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Sketchup, Revit, Rhino, XSI and many, many more. For a partial (and growing) list, check out docs.otoy.com.
This workflow allows all lighting, animation, textures, hair, fur materials, scene data, volmetrics and more to be imported (and exported) between Octane for Unity and each one of these key 3D tools. In Octane for Unity all existing assets, standard materials and lights and more can be blended seamlessly with content form these dozens of other tools with Octane support.
It is also important to recognize that many artists work from models created by others, so they can focus assembling scenes, lighting, layout and materials in a higher level part of the toolchain, often using free or commercial assets available online. Unity is now at the point where it is a full fledged DCC tool, powered by Cinemachine, timeline and Alembic importing, even prior to Octane integration. This workflow is driving Unity authored cinematic content – see Adam – from major film directors like Neill Blomkamp (ADAM). Octane wil take this pipeline all the way to full cinematic quality not just in 2D but in VR/AR, games and more.
It is also important to note that even simple assets and models look amazing out of the box when they are loaded with Unity + Octane. Everything from Cinematic VR content to baking can be improved and sped up with Octane driving the rendering process.
Here is a more in depth post I shared in the Octane FB group about today's launch:
And here is a video of my Unite Austin talk discussing our roadmap for next year and beyond:
– Jules


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Thursday's Investors Business Daily ran an important editorial on Harvard and the Solomon Amendment: "Magna cum Saudi." It takes up a number of issues we have discussed here and effectively juxtaposes them for illumination. Here is the editorial in full:
Representatives of autocratic theocracies that finance terror, oppress women and consider homosexuality a capital crime are welcomed at Harvard and other campuses. But not the U.S. Marines.
At many of our so-called institutions of higher learning, which have become de facto liberal re-education camps, there's a crusade to ban military recruiters. These champions of diversity and human rights say the problem is the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuality, which they say violates their anti-discrimination policy.
It may have escaped the notice of these scholars, particularly those at the Harvard Law School, but under the U.S. Constitution the military is controlled by civilians. It was Congress, not the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that passed "don't ask, don't tell" into law. If they have a problem with how the armed forces treats homosexuals, they should write their congressman excuse us, congress person and take their righteous indignation to the ballot box next election.
Of course, this righteous indignation is somewhat selective. While banning recruiters because of "don't ask, don't tell," they welcome and honor members of Congress who voted for it. Last year, Rep. Nita Lowey, who voted for it in 1993, was welcomed to the Pace University School of Law last year to receive the "Pioneer of Justice and Equality for Women and the Law."
Lowey also voted last year to significantly strengthen the Solomon Amendment, which would withhold federal dollars from schools that ban recruiters, and which 36 law schools argued this month before the U.S. Supreme Court was unconstitutional. But an Army JAG (Judge Advocate General) recruiter, who is powerless to change "don't ask, don't tell," or repeal the Solomon Amendment, is vilified and banned.
The schools argue that federal dollars should not be used to compel them to propagate opinions with which they disagree. Yet they impose on students fees that are used to reimburse speakers whose opinions the students may find repugnant.
In hearing oral arguments on the Solomon case, Chief Justice John Roberts said that nobody infers academic endorsement of the views and policies of every recruiter allowed on campus. And as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor noted, recruiters and speakers come and go, while schools are free to indoctrinate, uh, educate their students on a perpetual basis.
But if opposition to repugnant views is the issue, why did Harvard, while it was justifying the ban on military recruiters, accept a $20 million gift from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and agree to set up a Middle East research center?
We could be wrong, but it's doubtful that the center will be involved in defending Israel's right to exist.
Talal, a member of the ruling family of a repressive, totalitarian, sexist theocracy, is the individual whose $10 million gift to 9-11 families was returned by then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani after Talal said, "Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek."
Putting his money where his mouth is, the prince in 2002 participated in a Saudi-sponsored live-broadcast telethon to benefit the families of homicide bombers who killed Israelis. It eventually raised $100 million, $27 million of which was his personal donation.
In Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is a capital crime, and penalties allowed by Sharia law for such "deviant sexual behavior" range from imprisonment to flogging to death. In the past, people accused of homosexual behavior have been beheaded.
Maybe Harvard's policy on Saudi repression is "don't ask, don't tell."
Earlier this month University of Minnesota Law School Dean Alex Johnson took to the pages of the Star Tribune together with Professors Dale Carpenter and Beverly Balos to explain their support of the FAIR litigation against the Solomon Amendment. Their column is no longer accessible on the Star Tribune Web site, but its relevant points are quoted in this post by law student Jason Martell on the Fritz Feds site of the law school's Federalist Society chapter. For additional illumination, juxtapose the arguments of the University of Minnesota Law School crew with those of the IBD editorial, or of Martell. (Thanks to George Mason University Law School Dean Daniel Polsby for alerting us to the IBD editorial.)


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Most of our long-time readers will know that I base my personal decisions about treatments on science. Many of you will know me as a "hopeful skeptic". Some of you will remember the fury our blog community endured over the topic CCSVI in previous years. The last few days have seen studies which are drawing serious doubt to both the condition and its treatment.
Last autumn, Italian researchers released their findings which included the bold statement, "CCSVI is not a disease connected to multiple sclerosis." Read their statement, and it continued, "there is no need [in clinical practice] to carry out additional tests to diagnose CCSVI, nor is vein surgery required."
Earlier this month a study of 276 subjects was released by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston showing "CCSVI was present in 7.14% of non-MS and 3.88% of MS patients (p=0.266). No significant differences emerged between MS and non-MS subjects for extracranial or intracranial venous flow rates." This seems to support the Italian findings.
Just yesterday, a double-blinded study of the actual treatment for CCSVI was released by the University of Buffalo which may have the most surprising findings of all. In fact, in a video interview with the study's principal investigators - both whom had expected to see improvement in symptoms – showed worsening in MS disease activity and symptoms in some patients who received "liberation therapy" in the trial. "What we found there was rather surprising and unexpected and quite to the opposite of what we had originally premised." said Adnan Siddiqui, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery at UB
The study in Buffalo is thought to be the first double-blind study of the treatment of CCSVI. The warning which came from the investigators (one of whom has been one of CCSVI's biggest supporters in the USA) couldn't have been clearer;
"Our strong recommendation to patients and to practitioners, who have, in earnest, been seeking betterment for their disease and a cure for MS is that they should instead consider enrolling in trials, rather than undergoing these procedures on a fee-for-service basis."
Over 30,000 people living with multiple sclerosis around the world have now undergone "treatment" for CCSVI. The body of scientific evidence is building that the condition may not be a factor in MS, may not even be a condition of real significance and finally now, that treatment by opening the veins may actually make a person's MS worse.
The importance of that final possibility (and the results of the UB study) if it plays out in further trials, is that all trials using the liberation treatment could be stopped for ethical reasons. The FDA isn't going to let scientists keep trying a procedure if it continues to show not only positive results, but compatible worsening of MS in subjects who receive treatment versus those who do not.
The book is not closed on CCSVI as several research studies are still in their final phases. Great caution - to the point of strong recommendation against - is urged, however, by the MS research community for those who might be considering treatment outside of clinical trials.
I am still hopeful but the skeptic side of me seems, at this point, to have had the proper hunch.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
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To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we present a reading list of books and articles that look at all aspects of Holocaust scholarship, including remarkable stories those who risked their lives to save Jews, post-Holocaust Jewish theological responses, and the challenges of recording oral histories.
I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shalt not be a perpetrator; thou shalt not be a victim; and thou shalt never, but never, be a bystander.
–Yehuda Bauer, Czech-born Israeli historian: speech to the German Bundestag, 1998, quoted in his own speech to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, 26 July 2000. From Oxford Essential Quotations.
A Thousand Darknesses by Ruth Franklin
What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be "truthful"–that is, faithful to the facts of history? Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust writing.
Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust by George Faithful
After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt, Germany in 1944, some young Lutheran women perceived their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath–a punishment for Hitler's murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German people. Some of these women went on to form the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in order to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews.
Why Should Jews Survive? Looking Past the Holocaust toward a Jewish Future by Michael Goldberg
Rabbi Michael Goldberg asserts that the twin pillars, the Holocaust and Israel, are brittle and have already begun to crumble: they will not be enough to support or sustain the next generation's Jewish identity. In an urgent warning to the Jewish people, Goldberg argues for a refocus on the original Exodus story and with it a deeper and more positive sense of what it means to be Jewish.
After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Richard Harries
The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism. This does not mean jettisoning Christianity's deepest convictions in order to make it conform to Judaism. Rather, Richard Harries develops the work of recent Jewish scholarship to discern resonances between central Christian and Jewish beliefs.
The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies Edited by Peter Hayes and John K. Roth
At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars.
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust Edited by Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman, and Gershon Greenberg
Presenting a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust, it is one of the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together a diverse selection of topics that represent virtually every significant theological position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were written while the Holocaust was happening.
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews by Peter Longerich
Holocaust is perhaps most remarkable for its extensive use of the 1930s archives of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, which re-emerged in the 1990s after years languishing in Moscow. The letters and reports from this archive document in detail the attacks suffered by ordinary Jewish people from their German neighbors. They show how, contrary to what has been believed in the past, the German populace responded relatively enthusiastically to Nazi anti-Semitism.
Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America by Michael L. Morgan
Morgan offers the first comprehensive overview of Post-Holocaust Jewish theology, looking at the background of the movement in the postwar period, its origins, its character, and its legacy for subsequent thinking, theological and otherwise.
The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators by Katharina von Kellenbach
The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past by drawing on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after World War II.
Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis by Suzanne Vromen
In the summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, a group of Jewish children found sanctuary with other families and schools–but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children and hid their identity from the authorities. Read "The Children" from Hidden Children of the Holocaust on Oxford Scholarship Online.
Oberammergau in the Nazi Era: The Fate of a Catholic Village in Hitler's Germany by Helena Waddy
Looking at Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party membership and defended their Catholic lifestyle, Waddy explores the reasons why both local Nazis and their opponents fought to protect the village's cherished Catholic identity against the Third Reich's many intrusive demands.
"Case Study: 'Above all, we need the WITNESS': The Oral History of Holocaust Survivor" from The Oxford Handbook of Oral History on Oxford Handbooks Online
Holocaust survivor and witness accounts began long before the Second World War ended. Diaries, journals, letters, notes hidden, buried, and stuffed into jars or between floor boards were mostly lost and destroyed, but those that have been recovered express desperation to tell, to document, to bear witness, and to commemorate. This article records the oral history of holocaust survivors. Together with the countless thousands of testimonies that would be recorded during the next sixty years, these eyewitness accounts would change the face of research and education, not only in the field of Holocaust studies but across academic boundaries.
"Constricting and Extinguishing Jewish Life" by Truder Maurer in Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945
As of summer 1938 more extreme persecutions peaked in the pogrom of November 9-10 and the arrest and internment of about 30,000 men in concentration camps. This made the defenselessness and isolation of the Jews clear-cut. Even at that time they received little help from non-Jews. Emigration seemed the only remaining option. But this option became virtually impossible once the war started and was finally prohibited entirely in October 1941. At the same time, forced labor and the withdrawal of almost all food stripped Jews of the material basis for survival and all psychological strength.
"'On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Nazi': Some Comparative Legal Aspects of Holocaust Denial on the WWW" by David Fraser in Extreme Speech and Democracy
Legal regulations in Canada and Australia provide two frameworks under which Holocaust Denial can be outlawed. Canada has chosen to proceed by way of complex analyses of the content of the 'speech' and its reception by an intended audience. Australia, conversely, has adopted a legal framework which examines the possible adverse impact of the 'speech' on an identified victim group. What unites the two, and the aspect which is perhaps most troubling from a variety of perspectives, is a distinct rejection of any claim that the Holocaust actually happened, as an underlying normative basis for legal regulation.
"Writing to Remember: The Role of the Survivor" by Zoë Vania Waxman in Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation
This chapter charts the path of the 'liberated prisoners' and their gradual re-categorization over time, first as 'Displaced Persons', and eventually as 'survivors'. It shows how the post-war introduction of the concept of 'the Holocaust' to describe survivors' experiences, and the adoption of the post-war identity of the survivor as witness, acted as organizational frameworks for survivors' experiences, enabling personal experiences of suffering to be viewed as essential components of a collective historical event.
"On the Global and Local Representations of the Holocaust Tragedy" by Jeffrey C. Alexander in Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate
The universalization of the Holocaust is alive and well, even as the collective consciousness continually addresses fears of forgetting. This chapter provides a historical context for "The Social Construction of Moral Universals", and examines how the movement, from a progressive tragic trauma narration created moral particularism alongside universalism, and fueled social splitting and antagonism at the same time as cooperation and expanded solidarity.
"Perpetrators With a Clear Conscience: Lying, Self-Deception and Belief Change" by Ralph Erber in Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust
This chapter focuses on psychological mechanisms underlying perpetrator behavior, by looking at the possibility that a specific form of self-deception may play an important role. It also examines what Hannah Arendt calls "lying self-deception": the effects of telling lies repeatedly on subsequent belief change.


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After months of giving investors only headaches, consumers gave Wall Street a break Tuesday.
A closely watched measure of consumer confidence soared in April, pulling stocks off an early slide as investors grew hopeful that a better outlook among spenders would translate into bigger cash register receipts.
Stocks ended with modest losses after fluctuating throughout the day. Worries that large banks might need more capital and the spread of swine flu were balanced by news that the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index surged this month to its highest level since November.
IBM Corp.'s decision to boost its dividend and spend more to buy back stock gave the market another shot of confidence, but an afternoon rally petered out in the last hour to leave major market indicators just barely in the red.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 8.05, or 0.1 percent, to 8,016.95 after being down as much as 86 ahead of the consumer confidence report.
Broader stock indicators also lost ground. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.35, or 0.3 percent, to 866.16, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 5.60, or 0.3 percent, to 1,673.81.
Consumers worried about falling home prices, rising unemployment and a slumping stock market have been reluctant to spend since troubles with the economy intensified last fall. Since March some reports on home sales and demand at factories have indicated the economy is starting to stabilize, helping to send stocks up more than 20 percent and build confidence among investors and consumers alike.
Todd Leone, managing director of equity trading at Cowen & Co., said investors have been growing more upbeat about prospects for the economy. That optimism followed a string of better-than-expected readings and has driven a market rally since early March.
"People aren't as afraid as they have been. We're definitely seeing more money come back into the market," he said.
That optimism took a hit ahead of the confidence reading as investors worried that a growth in swine flu cases could hurt industries such as travel and tourism. The World Health Organization raised its alert to Phase 4 out of 6, saying the flu spreads easily but is not a pandemic.
Banking troubles came back into the spotlight after news came out that regulators told Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. that they may need to raise more capital unless they can convince regulators that results of government "stress tests" were mistaken.
Bank of America fell 77 cents, or 8.6 percent, to $8.15, while Citigroup fell 18 cents, or 5.9 percent, to $2.89.
The report on consumer confidence bolstered hopes that some consumers might begin to step up their spending.
Some stocks that depend on consumer spending rose after the Conference Board said its index jumped 12 points to 39.2 this month. The reading was far better than the 29.5 that economists had expected, and suggests consumers might be willing to spend more if confidence continues to build.
Starbucks Corp. rose 30 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $13.50, while Coca-Cola Co. advanced 4 cents to $42.28.
"In the short term, this market is going to continue to trade on psychology," said Matt Eads, portfolio manager at Eads & Heald Investment Counsel in Atlanta. "People are looking for anything they can grab on to, which is a sign of good news and economic stabilization."
IBM rose $1.99, or 2 percent, to $101.94 after the company raised its quarterly dividend 5 cents to 55 cents. The company's board authorized another $3 billion for repurchasing stock. The move brings the total available for buying up shares to $6.7 billion.
"IBM's buyback and dividend hike has given the market some confidence and reminded people that there is a little bit of favorable news in technology," said Nick Kalivas, vice president of financial research at the brokerage MF Global in Chicago.
Unlike other major benchmarks, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index is up 6.1 percent this year as investors look for lean technology companies to benefit quickly from an economic recovery.
Investors responded more to news about individual stocks rather than buying entire industries, as had been the case in recent months when traders placed bets on consumer staples and technology companies expected to better endure the recession.
In other trading Tuesday, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 3.28, or 0.7 percent, to 472.81.
The swine flu gave investors reason to cash in recent gains Monday, but the Dow is still up 22.5 percent from the nearly 12-year low it reached in early March.
Bond prices fell, pushing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note up to 3.01 percent from 2.91 percent.
The dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies. Gold prices fell.
Light, sweet crude fell 22 cents to $49.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
About four stocks rose for every three that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to a light 1.25 billion shares.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 2.7 percent. In Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 1.7 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 1.9 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 1.7 percent.