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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Thursday, May 9, 2013
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- It's breeding season along the streets and in the woods of Aiken County.
"The number's very high this time of the year," said Bobby Arthurs, who works with the Aiken County Animal Shelter.
And the numbers are high for shelters in Aiken like his -- the majority of those are feral cats.
"When it's reverted back to the wild state, it's a feral animal," Arthurs said.
And he says they're not just a danger to your animals.
"They're a danger to folks if they are able to trap them, corner them and pick them up," he said.
Unlike those domesticated cats that he handles everyday, feral cats are a hit or miss when it comes to their health.
"You don't know what they're carrying and they're unvaccinated, they're going bite you," Arthurs said.
And Barbara Nelson would know.
"If you're going to handle a feral cat, be prepared," she said.
Nelson is the president of the SPCA in Aiken.
"Fifty percent of the animals that come into our shelter through our system are cats, and about 70 percent of those cats are feral," she said.
With those statistics, she and others across the county are more conscious of the animals in their backyard.
"The hope that we have as a shelter is that there would be less kittens born because research on the sheltering side says that the population of feral cats will decline," she said.
Arthurs says that it takes just one unfixed male and one unfixed female to cause those numbers to rise even more.
Which would make Arthurs' job that more difficult, and unfortunately, these kittens' lives that much shorter.

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A Penny for Your Song? Spotify Spills Details on Artist Payments
Ever wonder how much an artist gets every time you click their song on services like Spotify?
The Swedish streaming-music provider is looking to provide some answers amid continued debate over whether artists and music rights holders get a fair shake from their business model.
Spotify on Tuesday unleashed a load of data, revealing that each time a user listens for a song, rights holders are paid between $0.006 and $0.0084. Over the course of 2013, the company says it will have paid $500 million in royalties, representing half of the $1 billion Spotify sent to rights holders since setting up shop in 2008.
The stats were unveiled as part of a new Spotify Artists webpage, a site where rights holders can access analytics tools to track their performance on the streaming-music platform.
Spotify has been a lead player in the growth of streaming music, with revenue more than doubling in 2012 to $590 million and its user base growing well in excess of 24 million, at least 6 million of which are paying clients. As this part of the industry grows, concern over compensation for the music makers has expanded.
This was a hot issue over the summer, when artists like Thom Yorke from Radiohead called for a boycott of the service over allegedly unfair payment practices. Some of Yorke's music was pulled, although Radiohead music remained.
Some big names, including Led Zeppelin, have steered from signing on with Spotify, but a huge portion of the industry has inked deals. The service has over 20 million songs in its catalogue, and can be accessed in 32 countries.
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, in an interview this summer, said the complaints from artists "saddened" him, but said the company is trying to usher in a bit of a revolution. The move from physical music to digital, he said, "is the single-biggest shift in the industry since the invention of the recording. We're selling access, not ownership."
Mr. Ek went on to say "The focus of the artist ought to be how to maximize the number of streams, because that, in turn, will be better long-term…but that's hard for people to understand." He said "all they see is millions of streams and they see, you know, not millions of dollars in the end, but thousands of dollars, and they think that a million streams is compatible to a million downloads, which it obviously isn't."
Last year, the Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear complained on Twitter that they received on $10 for 10,000 plays of their tracks. The math Spotify published suggests the total pay-out for a track over 10,000 plays is actually between $60 and $84.
Spotify might be good for exposure but after about 10k plays we get approx 10 dollars
— Grizzly Bear (@grizzlybear) August 31, 2012
Spotify's new data suggests there is money for hit makers. The company says, for instance, an unnamed "global hit" album generated $425,000 in revenue from Spotify during the month of July, while a Top 10 album generated $145,000.
Spotify pointed to an unnamed "global star" to which it paid $3 million in individual royalties over the past year, a sum it expects to double in 2014. It added that this particular artist wasn't its most played artist and that there other stars were paid more than $3 million in 2013.
The streaming service can be experienced for free by users willing to put up with ads or a limited amount of playing time. For about $10 per month, subscribers can stream unlimited music on an array of devices, including smartphones.
When the whole group of paid and unpaid clients is tallied up, Spotify says it generates an average of $41 per user, higher than the $25 that Spotify says the average U.S. adult pays for music in a given year.
As Spotify has grown, it has taken on an increasing amount of red ink. Last year, the company lost nearly $80 million. About 70% of the money taken in, Spotify says, goes right out the back door in the form of a payment to rights holders.
This means Spotify is a bit limited in how much more it can ratchet up compensation if it wants to stay afloat. The company attracted $250 million in new funding last month, in a round valuing Spotify above $4 billion. If Spotify hopes to take itself public in the future, public investors may have less appetites for the big losses that currently accompany the business model.
Spotify said its own service offers better returns to right holders compared to alternative digital music services. One million listens on Spotify generates between $6,000 and $8,400, which compares to about $3,000 on video streaming such as Google Inc.'s YouTube and between $1,300 and $1,500 on radio streaming services like that offered by Pandora Media Inc.
Those numbers come from Spotify.
Still, Spotify — with its relatively low number of users — has difficulties stacking up against the likes of YouTube, which has some 1 billion users, and Apple Inc.'s iTunes with its almost 600 million users. The company noted, however, that iTunes is one of the preferred tools for listening to pirated music, "which generates nothing for artists."
"When Spotify grows to even a fraction of the size of these services, for example to 140 million total users and 40 million paying subscribers, we will increase our total payouts by five times," it said.


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Chase Away The Blues at Tryon Fine Arts Center's fundraiser
Published: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 12:53 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:06 p.m.
The Tryon Fine Arts Center is located in Tryon, N.C., about 40 minutes away from Spartanburg. The venue caters to the entire Carolina foothills and encourages interaction with the arts, usually focusing on drama and classical music. This Saturday, however, they're hosting the 2nd Annual "Chase Away the Blues", featuring local bands from all around the Carolinas. According to Marianne Carruth, director of marketing and Arts in Education, this event is a "fun way to bring in families and young people."
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What: "Chase Away the Blues",
When: 5-11 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2
Where: The Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Avenue, Tryon, N.C.
Tickets: $25 general admission, $75 for VIP Lounge, $200 for "Friend of the Blues"
Info: Go to tryonarts.org/index.html or call 828-859-8322
It started last year when Becky Barnes, the vice president of Development for the TFAC, decided they needed a new fundraiser. Through collaboration with Jim Peterman, who lives in Tryon and who will be performing, and Joe McConnel, a former manager of The Marshall Tucker Band who lives in Spartanburg, they called in old favors and organized the event. "It just became an independent little movement," Carruth said. It turned out to be a great success, as well, and for the rest of the year people asked Carruth "are you going to do that again?"
The acts include Rudy Blue Shoes, Tommy Lytle, Daryle Ryce, the Jim Peterman Quartet, Dr. Blues Chuck Beattie, Mac Arnold Plate Full O'Blues, and the Shane Pruitt Band. All of the bands, as Carruth puts it, "have been doing this a long time." They're veterans of the Whiskey A Go Go club in Atlanta, The Handlbebar in Greenville, Rhythm & Brews in Greer, and much more.
All seven bands will be alternating between the Lobby, Mahler Room, and Main Stage from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Some bands will alternate between electric on the Main Stage and acoustic in the Mahler Room while others, like Daryle Ryce, will play acoustic for both. This all ends with a big jam session from 10:45 to 11 p.m.
Tickets are $25 for general admission and $75 for the VIP Lounge that also includes food and drinks. There's also the $200 "Friend of the Blues", which gets two VIP tickets and recognition as a donor to the TFAC.
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Charlotte City Council has endorsed a proposal to upgrade Bank of America Stadium and keep the Carolina Panthers in town for at least 15 more years.
The city would contribute $144 million, and the state would be asked to contribute $62.5 million, according to a city news release. The Panthers would contribute $96.25 million under the deal, which still needs to be finalized and approved.
Charlotte plans to raise its $144 million through a 1 percent increase in Mecklenburg County's food and beverage tax. The state General Assembly would have to approve the tax increase.
The public will have a chance to weigh in before council moves forward with the proposal in the spring.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Men's and Women's Cross Country teams will be hosting the 13th annual Islanders Splash on Friday, Sept. 28, at West Guth Park. The college race will begin Friday night with the women's 5k at 6:20 p.m. and the men's 8k will follow at 6:45 p.m. The Islanders will also be hosting high school and junior high races on Saturday as part of the Splash starting at 8 a.m.
The Islanders are counting down the days until their only home meet of the season! Next up is senior Patrick Kimeli. The Eldoret, Kenya native is the two-time Southland Conference Champion and reigning Southland Conference Athlete of the Year. Last season, Kimeli qualified for the NCAA National Championships for the second straight year.
For the latest information, follow Islanders Cross Country on Twitter (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).


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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Founding Standards Live On
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Platinum has been their metal of choice and they have been well-known for their cushion diamonds. Harry Kotlar, for three generations now, has thrived and excelled in providing businesses and individuals with high quality diamond laden jewelry to enjoy. This family-owned business takes pride in their expertly cut diamonds and stylish yet classic designs. Every Harry Kotlar piece is sure to be exquisite having only expert hands and eyes grace each piece from selection to creation. Through more than 50 years in the industry, Harry Kotlar had been known in giving outstanding service and value to old and new customers alike. The founding standards of quality, beauty, and integrity had found their way to every Harry Kotlar creation since the founding of the firm in 1948 to this day. And the family has no plans of letting go of these values soon or ever. For topnotch quality pieces, visit Shreve & Co. — authorized dealer of Harry Kotlar.
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Pretty good lineup. Let's see if that's what the T-Wolves go with in the season, if there is one...
It's hard to say. My top though, not in any order are:
Derrick Williams - He's already built as an incoming player, he's quick, can shoot, all of that. I think it depends where they play him, but he's incredibly talented for a big man. I think he'll be a monster three on the offensive side, but on D, I don't think for his rookie year he'll be able to guard the Lebron's, Melo's, and KD's. He has the athleticism though to be a presence though.
Kyrie Irving - I didn't see him play enough to really rate him. But, if he's the 1st pick after missing most of his Freshman year than he must have potential that teams are interested in. And, he's a PG, and lately they have been running the league.
Jimmer Fredette - He's a hard worker, with unlimited range. I think he's pretty strong and crafty. He'll just need to get faster defensively for guards like Westbrook and Rose.
Kemba Walker - Proven winner. Quick, can score the ball effortlessly, and his defense and jumper is coming along. His downside is his height, but he'll get better at it. It'll take time though but he's a competitor and has one of the better work ethics, if not the best out of this whole rookie class. I think he's a definite canidate for ROY.
Either Derrick Williams or Kemba Walker, in my opinion.
Kemba he can get you wins because he's a leader plus he's proven on the court
D.Will would be the best in my opinion
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[1.4/A]'When I get into Australia I know what is going to happen, the media will be there, they will trot out their own homebred survivors. Every town has a survivor. In Florida, I understand that every school now has its visiting survivor, who comes to inflict the nameless horrors on these eight-year-old toddlers, telling them what happened to them at the hands of the Germans.
In Australia there are professional survivors, a woman called Mrs Altman who will roll up her sleeve and show the tattoo to prove that, yes, she was in Auschwitz. Of course already we sceptics have caused problems because when I spoke in Cincinnati, my host, his wife, she was a school teacher and she said you know Mr Irving we've got a bit of a problem because we now have to teach the Holocaust - the same as you do in Florida - it is part of the school curriculum. You have to teach the Holocaust and last week we had a Holocaust survivor who came and lectured to the children, she was an old woman and she lectured to these eight year old children in my class and several other teachers came along to listen and one of the eight year old children, a girl piped up at the end of the lecture and said "How did you survive then? How did you survive?" Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings come these questions and this woman, this survivor said, "I managed to make a hole in the back of the gas chamber and escape". [Laughing] And my friend said "we teachers, we looked at each other and we didn't dare say anything. But the trouble is that the children believed it". This is the basic problem. And that's how it's going to be with Mrs Altman. I was saying Mrs Altman, you have your tattoo this is an interesting thing to show everyone, but we have a basic problem here, you are a survivor. I used to think that the world was full of a thousand survivors. I was wrong. It is full of hundreds of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust if not, in fact, millions by now. The numbers of survivors seems to grow these passing years, it defies all laws of natural deceased and all laws, now the number of survivors is growing. And I said isn't the existence of so many survivors in itself an indicator, something doesn't, it doesn't fit. If the Nazis had this dedicated programme to exterminate the Jews, how come so many of you have survived, were the Nazis sloppy or what? They let you out, they let you escape?" It's a basic question. And she'll get very indignant and talk about her honour and her integrity and how she suffered and I'll say "Mrs Altman, you have suffered undoubtedly, and I'm sure that life in a Nazi concentration camp, where you say you were, and I'm prepared to accept that, we have no reason to disbelieve you, was probably not very nice." And life in Dresden probably wasn't very nice, and probably life in Pforzheim wasn't very nice. "But tell me one thing", and this is why I'm going to get tasteless with her, because you've got to get tasteless, "Mrs Altman, how much money have you made out of that tattoo since 1945? [Laughter] How much money have you coined for that bit of ink on your arm, which may indeed be real tattooed ink? And I'll say this, "half a million dollars, three quarters of a million for you alone." It must be in that order of magnitude because think of the billions of dollars that have been sent that way, billions. You American taxpayers are happily, indeed joyously, giving to the State of Israel 3 billion dollars a year, if not 4 by now. The German government is adding another 1 billion dollars a year in compensation. $5 billion go to be spent on people like Mrs Altman with their tattoo. Divide that up amongst all the survivors and it's a very sizeable annual income that they are getting. And I'll say - I'm in front of the television, "Mrs Altman there must be a million Australians sitting there thinking to themselves 'why is it that they have got all the compensation and yet our troops who suffered in the Japanese camps and building the Burma railway and the people who died in the air raids cities and the rest of it didn't get one bent nickel by way of compensation?' How is it always these people who get compensation and not the others?" She won't have any answer for that I'm sure.
And what these people don't understand, by way of conclusion, is that they are generating anti-Semitism by their behaviour, and they can't understand it. They wonder where the anti-Semitism comes from, and it comes from themselves, from their behaviour. We don't promote anti-Semitism, we've got no reason whatsoever to promote anti-Semitism. I find the whole Holocaust story utterly boring. It goes on and on and on and they keep on going on about the Holocaust because it's the only interesting thing that's happened to them in the last 3000 years. [Laughter]
We have no reason to promote anti-Semitism, it's not in our interest one way or the other, but they are doing it. I don't know why. Whether it's because they want to be the centre of attention or what. To an audience in Louisiana, I spoke in Freeport, Louisiana about 6 months ago, and to my embarrassment half the audience turned out to be with the local Jewish community. They'd come along to cause trouble, the rest was normal, but half the audience was this Jewish community with their Jewish community leaders and they showed their true colours after I had begun to speak. And after they had interrupted and behaved in a thoroughly obnoxious manner, for about half an hour while the rest of the audience grew increasingly impatient with their behaviour. I interrupted the flow of my own lecture, and I said to their ringleader, who I recognised by his accent, which came from a particular suburb of London called Colindale or Cricklewood, we English can tell from their accent, from somebody's what class they are, what family they come from and also what particular suburb of London they come from. I said "Do you come from Colindale or Cricklewood?" and he said "Why do you say that?" and I said "Well I can tell by the way you're shrieking at me, but do you mind if I say this, I am disliked, I know I'm disliked, I know I'm disliked because the Newspapers say I'm disliked. [...] And is it the historian's job to be liked? Obviously it isn't. An historian's job is to find out what happened and why. But I said to this man from Colindale, leader of the Jewish community in Louisiana, I said "I'm disliked and I know why. I look in the mirror when I shave in the morning and I think 'You're disliked, you could alter it overnight, but you don't, it's your own fault, everything that's happening to you' You were disliked, you people. You have been disliked for 3000 years. You have been disliked so much that you have been hounded from country to country from pogrom to purge, from purge back to pogrom. And yet you never ask yourselves why you are disliked, that's the difference between you and me. It would never occur to you to look in the mirror and say 'why am I disliked, what is it the rest of humanity doesn't like about the Jewish people, to such an extent that they repeatedly put us through the grinder?'" And he went berserk, he said, "are you trying to say that we are responsible for Auschwitz, ourselves?" and I said, "well the short answer is 'yes'. The short answer I have to say is yes". I mean he really got my gander up. "The short answer is yes, but that's the short answer obviously between your question and my answer, yes, there are several intervening stages but that is it. If you had behaved differently over the intervening 3000 years the Germans would have gone about their business and not have found it necessary to go around doing whatever they did to you. Nor would the Russians, nor the Ukrainians, nor the Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians and all the other countries where you've had a rough time. So why haven't you ever asked yourself that question?" It's an interesting point, but they don't, they go round the other way and they make life unbearable for those who try to analyse whatever happened, whatever it was.' [P's speech in Tampa, Florida, 6 October 1995: K3, Tab. 20, pp. 16-19]
[1.4/B]'So I'm not liked and I know what I could do to change it to be liked. I look in the mirror in the morning when I shave and I say "David Irving you're not liked and you know what you could do about it." And in Baton Rouge, Louisiana two years ago this half of the audience was entirely made up of Jewish hecklers who had decided to disrupt the meeting, not from outside but to come in, infiltrate the audience and as soon as I began speaking they began barracking and harassing much to the anger of the rest of the audience who wanted to hear what I had to say. And eventually I said to the ringleader, who came from North London, that anecdote, I know why I'm not liked.
And I said to him "you people aren't liked either. But you're not liked on a global scale, on a Millennium scale. You haven't been liked for thousands of years and you don't ask yourselves the question why. Maybe there's no answer, I don't know. You're not just disliked in the way that I'm disliked, that you get bad reviews in newspapers. You're disliked in the way that people put you into concentration camps and line you up at the edge of tank pits and machine gun you into them. You're victims of pogroms and you're harassed and hounded and made to move from country to country to country and you never ask yourselves "Why us? Is it something we are doing. Is it a perception that people have of us that makes us unpopular?" I don't, I have to say at this point in the meeting that I don't know the answer and I cannot offer you an answer. But there must be some reason and if you want to prevent Holocausts, really this is the question that has to be answered, not just the question of what happened by why it happened. Why one nation can turn on its Jews or on its gypsies or on some other little faction who they can identify as a scapegoat and ruthlessly and inhumanely dispose of them. And there is something of the answer in Dr Goebbels' diaries. [P's speech at Oakland, California, 10 September 1996: K4, Tab. 7, pp. 14-15]
[1.4/C]'Over to a radio station [in Austin, Texas] at three p.m. [...] Several callers, all hostile, including a very Jewish Holly, whose mother had suffered and wanted money.
I pointed out that her mother, like countless millions of others, had also thank goodness survived; but did this not rather highlight the sloppiness of the Nazis who had had her and millions of other Jews in their camps, but allowed them to survive despite their extermination intent?
The very word Holocaust survivor is an oxymoron: nobody survives a holocaust, it is a whole. I think that bit would have been a bit above her, however.' ['A Radical's Diary', P's Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 5: K4, Tab. 10, p. 62]
[1.4/D]'Hundreds of witnesses, thousands, there are hundreds of thousands of survivors now. There are millions of survivors now. And I'm happy. But of course each single survivor is living proof that the Nazis never did have an extermination programme. Because they were all at Auschwitz.' ['Hunderte von Zeugen, tausende, hundert tausende von Uberlebenden gibt es jetzt. Millionen von Überlebende gibt es jetzt. Und ich freue mich. Aber selbstverständlich jeder Überlebende ist ein lebendiger Beweis dafür, daß es ein Vernichtungsprogram der Nazis nicht gegeben hat.'] [P's speech in Moers, 5 March 1990: K3, Tab. 5, p. 13]
[1.4/E][Following an exhortation to "Sink the Auschwitz"] 'I should have warned you that I'm going to be very tasteless this evening, but it gets far more tasteless than this. [Laughter] Why should we be considerate about people who have lied to hundreds of millions of people for forty five years?' [P's speech at the Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 1990: K3, Tab. 8, p. 15]
[1.4/F]'...these individual crimes did happen [shootings etc.]. And I can tell you later on the kind of evidence there is for these individual crimes, which are crimes on the order of thousands at a time, as I repeated before. Not millions. So, something did happen, but what I can say, with equal firmness, is, you can sum up my case on the Holocaust in the following nutshell: - more people died on the back seat of Senator Edward Kennedy's motor car in Chappaquiddick then died in the gas chamber in Auschwitz. [Applause]' [P's speech at the Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 1990: K3, Tab. 8, p. 16]
[1.4/G]'I've heard that on September the Twenty First last year, 1989, President Gorbachev, as part of his glasnost, I think personally as part of his overtures to the German people, bear that in mind, he announced that his Archives, an un-named Archives, I think it's the Archives in the KGB, had found the death books of Auschwitz. And not only that, they'd found the index cards of all the prisoners who'd been in Auschwitz. And alone that fact, that they had the index cards of all the prisoners who'd been in Auschwitz, sent a shudder round the organised Jewish community of the world. 'Cos hitherto, of course, there has been an inexhaustible supply of Auschwitz survivors. The cruise ship Holocaust which has taken the oceans after the Battleship Auschwitz, this massive cruise ship with luxury wall-to-wall fitted carpets and a crew of thousands, this cruise ship Holocaust which has marine terminals established now in virtually every capital of the world, disguised as Holocaust Memorial Museums, the one in Washington DC alone is costing a hundred and forty six million dollars to build. [Person in audience shouts "Our money"] Your money indeed. A hundred and forty six million dollars, the cruise ship Holocaust, where will this story, where will its crew be, where will the Auschwitz survivors be now the fact has come out that the index cards, lists all the people who ever passed through the gates of Auschwitz - Arbeit machs Frei - know who they were? Suddenly a lot of people aren't claiming to be Auschwitz survivors any more. Elie Wiesel, for one, for example, he has always been uncertain whether it was Auschwitz he had been in, or Dachau, or Buchenwald. [Laughter]
Well, I say that, because there's a photograph, a photograph, in which he identifies himself as being a prisoner in a photograph of various prisoners in a bunk-house in a barracks in the concentration camp in Buchenwald, and he said, "Yes, that's me". But it turns out that photograph was in Auschwitz and he says, "Ohh, yes, I meant Auschwitz." I mean, what can we do about these people? And poor Mr Wiesel, I mean, it's terribly bad luck to be called 'Weasel' but that's no excuse [Laughter] I mean, these people do have a bad time, they had a very, very hard time and I do want to speak a few words of sympathy for them, like, I mean, like on Halloween's Night, for example, or say Saint Weisenthal's Night, as we call it in London. So they have had a very, very bad time and it going to get tougher now that people are going to challenge them as to whether they really were in Auschwitz or not, because we now know exactly who was and who wasn't. And they have gone to immense troubles, ladies and gentlemen, even the ones who've got tattoo marks on their arms. Because the experts could look at the tattoo and say, "Ohh, yes, One Hundred and Eighty One Thousand, Two Hundred and Nineteen, that means you entered Auschwitz in March 1943." So, if you want to go and have a tattoo put on your arm, which a lot of them do, I'm afraid to say, and claim subsequently that you were in Auschwitz, you've go to make sure, 'A' that it fits in with the month you said you went to Auschwitz, and 'B' that it's not a number that anybody's used before. So there are actual, kind of, trainspotter guides of numbers that have been used already. And the whole of that hoax is now going to collapse because the Russians have released the index cards.' [P's speech at the Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 1990: K3, Tab. 8, pp. 17-18]
[1.4/H]'And the only way to overcome this appalling pseudo-religious atmosphere that surrounds the whole of this immense tragedy called World War Two, is to treat these little legends with the ridicule and the bad taste that they deserve. Ridicule alone isn't enough, you've got to be tasteless about it. You've got to say things like more women died on the backseat of Senator Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. [Applause] Now you think that's tasteless, what about this? I'm forming an association especially dedicated to all these liars, the ones who try and kid people that they were in these concentration camps, it's called the Auschwitz Survivors, Survivors of the Holocaust and other liars, A-S-S-H-O-L-E-S. Can't get more tasteless than that, but you've got to be tasteless because these people deserve all our contempt. And, in fact, they deserve the contempt of the real Jewish community and the people whatever their class and colour who did suffer.' [P's speech at the Bayerische Hof, Milton, Ontario, 5 October 1991: K3, Tab. 10, p. 18]
[1.4/I]'There's an arrest warrant because when I was in Austria I was tasteless enough to say, that to my mind as an historian and as a neutral observer, these eyewitness accounts are an interesting subject matter for psychiatry to have a look at. And I mean that seriously. People have to explain why people genuinely believe they experienced or seen something years after the event simply when there's money involved and they can get a good compensation cash payment out of it.' [P's speech at the Bayerische Hof, Milton, Ontario, 5 October 1991: K3, Tab. 10, p. 17]
[1.4/J]'But it's interesting because the word Holocaust, this cruise ship Holocaust which is now floating around with an inexhaustible crew. I mean there's no shortage of crew members or applicants for this particular ship. The only requirement to become a crew member of the cruise ship Holocaust, is they should be an Auschwitz survivor, because there's an inexhaustible supply of Auschwitz survivors. There are millions of Auschwitz survivors now floating around the world or people who purport to be Auschwitz survivors although I must admit that their numbers become somewhat muted. In recent years, over the last eighteen months since the Government in Moscow on September the twenty-first, Ninety Eight Nine, in a statement from TASS, announced that all this time they've had a card index of anybody who was ever in Auschwitz. And ever since then the number of new applicants who claim to have been in Auschwitz has somewhat dwindled. Eli Wiesel no longer claims to have been in Auschwitz, for example, the Nobel Prize winner. He now claims to have been in a completely different camp, in the hope that they won't find the card indexes on that one.' [P's speech at Victoria B.C., 27 October 1990: K3, Tab. 7, p. 7]
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It's a place you'd least expect drivers to speed up: school zones. Especially when flashing lights and speed limit signs are warning people to slow down.
"You have to watch your speed," says Richmond County BOE member Helen Minchew. "You have to be more alert, but you have got to slow down."
In this News 12 Special Assignment, we pinpoint those problem areas and ask what's being done to keep your students safe.
School zones throughout Richmond County are fast becoming a busy beat. Drivers continue laying on the gas.
"And people tend not to use their brakes," says motorcycle officer James Paugh.
Motorcycle patrols are out every morning and afternoon.
"Even though the speed limit's 35 during school zone's flashing, people are still running 45, 50, 55 miles an hour," Paugh says.
We visited two streets police call "danger zones": Highland Avenue, home to Aquinas High School, and Windsor Spring Road, home to Diamond Lakes Elementary.
"With the new school there and also parents coming in and out, school buses coming in and out, of course it adds to the volume of the traffic there," Minchew says.
So the county is responding.
On Windsor Spring, crosswalks were added, trees were cut down, and the speed limit was lowered.
On Highland Avenue, drivers are continuously clocked and often ticketed as a reminder of what could happen.
"It's hard to work that type of accident," Paugh says. "You really have to block it out and do your job."


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On Wednesday in his native Mexico City, WBA/WBO lightweight titleholder Juan Manuel Marquez met with Top Rank President Todd duBoef and Zanfer Promotions' President Fernando Beltran.
The subject was a potential fourth bout with Manny Pacquiao, who is coming off November's controversial majority decision over Marquez that most ringsiders thought Marquez had won.
Having battled through a draw and a split-decision loss to Pacquiao previously, Marquez is among five fighters being considered as Pacquiao's next opponent, most likely in May or June.
The others are WBC welterweight beltwinner Floyd Mayweather Jr., IBF/WBA junior welterweight titlewinner Lamont Peterson, WBA junior middleweight beltholder Miguel Cotto and WBO junior welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley.
If neither Marquez nor Peterson gets Pacquiao, Marquez told RingTV.com that he would like to take a tuneup fight on March 17 in a newly-constructed venue in Mexico City before perhaps rising a weight class to challenge Peterson.
A victory over Peterson would make Marquez only the second Mexican fighter to win a fourth title over as many different weight divisions, a mark that was first achieved in September when Erik Morales scored a 10th-round TKO over Pablo Cesar Cano for the vacant WBC junior welterweight belt.
But if Marquez were to face Peterson, he would be taking on a fighter who idolizes him.
"It's a lot of things about him," Peterson said, "and it's a lot of things that I try to take from him and learn from him. Overall, I love his fighting style, and he's an exciting fighter who throws a lot of combinations. He's willing to mix it up with anyone."
"[Marquez] reminds me of myself a lot…warrior all the way through. But he's intelligent."
Below is the interview with Marquez:
RingTV.com: So what do you want to do for your next fight?
Juan Manuel Marquez: I am not sure what to expect for my next fight. I don't know what will happen. I talked with Fernando Beltran. Maybe I will fight in March.
And then, I don't know who will be the next opponent for my next fight. But, I told Fernando that my next opportunity I would like it to be against Manny Pacquiao. Everybody knows.
I want to take maybe one fight for preparation. That would be in March. Maybe. I don't know. But I need to sit down again with Fernando Beltran.
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With explosive growth over the last six years and an eye on sustaining current quality and possibly expanding, the Lake Dillon Theatre Company has created a new position and hired a director of development.
Mari Geasair - a longtime Denver resident who most recently worked in Seattle - started earlier this month and is charged with overseeing all the individual, corporate and foundation fundraising efforts for the organization. Approximately 65 percent of the theater's annual operating budget is generated from contributed income sources each season.
Over the last six years, the organization's annual operating budget has grown to its current $800,000. It has switched from a community to professional theater - which means actors and other workers are paid a living wage - and now applies for professional rights to works, rather than amateur (only 10 theaters in the state do so).
"This position is meant to help us sustain the quality we have now," said executive director Josh Blanchard. "Our expenses just have really grown."
Geasair, who now lives in Summit County, has been professionally dedicated to marketing and development for live theater since 2003. Before that, she spent 15 years as a small business marketing coach and consultant.
From 2006-2012, Geasair served as the vice president of strategy and education for an outsourced marketing and development firm for live theaters. The company served clients such as ACT in Seattle, Wash., and Aurora Fox Theatre in Aurora. Geasair is also a nationally recognized speaker on arts marketing and arts development.
"Mari's expertise, passion and talent will help move the LDTC toward our vision of sustainable professional theater and cultural programming in Summit County," Blanchard said.
In her new position, Geasair said she hopes to raise large sums of money for the organization - particularly in light of its plans to possible move into a new, larger space in coming years. Theaters enhance communities, she said, and the arts "are just plain good for the economy."
"That being said, I also want people who never attend the Lake Dillon Theatre, or any other theater for that matter, to know how vitally important the Lake Dillon Theatre is to our community," she said. "I truly believe that in a 'me first,' short-attention-span world, live theater can help audiences build empathy and concentration and have access to one-of-a-kind experiences that can enrich your soul, or just take you away from a very bad day."
Geasair said the intimacy of the space, the friendliness of the people and high-caliber art at the Lake Dillon Theatre made it an irresistible draw for her.
"I have consulted with or worked for hundreds of leaders from arts organizations in a wide range of communities, and they don't always 'get it,'" Geasair said. "(Artistic director Chris Alleman) and Josh are that rare combination of genuine artists who also understand business and are proactively committed to being fully participating members of the community. They are the kind of people I want to work with, and the kind of people that this community can be proud of."


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MARIETTA - With sunny skies and temperatures into the 70s, Sunday's weather seemed custom-made for Marietta's Veterans Day celebration, drawing hundreds who lined the streets for the annual parade and ceremonies that followed in downtown Marietta.
Nine-year-old Jadin Buckman of Marietta knew what Veterans Day was all about as he shook the hand of Vietnam veteran Larry Block and thanked him for his service.
"I'm probably going to join someday, too," Buckman said.
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A World War II-era military jeep makes its way along Putnam Street during Sunday's Veterans Day Parade in Marietta.
Block, 62, of Belpre, served with a U.S. Army Airborne unit during the war, and served in Cambodia from 1969 to 1971. He was the third American to touch down on Cambodian soil in 1969.
"Be sure and become a paratrooper so you can jump out of planes like we did," he told Jadin.
Asked why he thanked veterans for their military service, Jadin said it felt good.
"Becaue they've helped us," he said. "If they didn't we might not be alive today. Or maybe we would still be alive, but we wouldn't have our freedom."
Vincent resident John Lawrence, who works with the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C., brought his whole family to Sunday's ceremonies. He was glad to see the crowds turn out on Veterans Day.
"Patriotism never goes away," Lawrence said. "In some years it's just more openly displayed than in others. But we love these small towns, and Marietta always has a good Veterans Day celebration."
Bryan Moffatt, of Marietta, also brought his family to witness Sunday's parade.
"We bring the kids out to educate them about our veterans and what they've done for our country," he said. "And when they get older I hope they'll do the same with their children. Our veterans have given a lot for us."
The parade ended at East Muskingum Park with ceremonies that included a rifle salute by veterans in memory of their fallen comrades.
Regis Kern, commander of American Legion Post 64 in Marietta, reminded the crowd that Veterans Day is to be celebrated at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of every year.
"How quickly the nation forgets those who fought and died for their country," he said.
"But every day is a blessing that reminds me of my brothers in arms who didn't come home from the wars and who won't be remembered unless we commit to remember them."
Former U.S. Marine and Marietta Mayor Joe Matthews was keynote speaker during Sunday's event.
"Veterans Day is a reminder to guard the legacy that has been left us by our forefathers," he said. "That legacy is freedom in every American heart. It's central to our being, but is only attained through eternal vigilance. And freedom is never free."
Matthews said that's why the nation must keep its arms at the ready and its military forces strong.
"America can never fully repay our veterans for their service, but we must not forget the sacrifices of all those who served in wars and conflicts," he said. "Our veterans have served us well, and we must continue to honor and support them."


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HENDERSONVILLE — Worth William Boisture, 91, of Hendersonville, N.C. died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, at Carolina Village.
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By Molly Saunders, Digital Bear
Because we're all pressed for time and money, I thought I'd share this simple craft for fall. It's great because you can bring new life to your children's old T-shirts, and it costs less than five dollars. All you need is an old T-shirt (or something you find at a thrift store) and a bleach pen (be sure to get the one meant "for whites.") I'd recommend this craft for kids old enough to follow directions and those that enjoy art projects, because this one takes just a little bit of patience.
Lay out your shirt on a flat work surface. (If you are working with children, be sure to protect the work area and have them wear clothes that could possibly get bleach on them.) *This is not what I would consider a messy project, but because it involves bleach, it's a good idea to be cautious.
If you have a plastic lid or piece of cardboard, you can slip it between the layers of the shirt to keep the bleach from seeping through to the back side.
Start drawing freehand, or find a design you like and go for it! (If you need inspiration, you can search for fall images online. I just really like trees, so I just kind of went crazy on the tank top. For the red shirt, I found a moon image that I liked and used that as inspiration.)
Here is a list of ideas for your shirt: Lightning, storms, black cats, bats, bugs, spiders, spider webs, witches, witch hats, pumpkins, Jack o' lanterns, candles, vines (lots of root veggies have pretty vines, like sweet potatoes!), moon, stars, skeletons, skulls, cornstalks, sunsets, falling leaves, apples… I could go on and on!
Note that the bleach will come out as gel. So once you have your design on the shirt, let it dry for about 15 minutes. (I left mine for about 45 minutes.)
These pictures illustrate how quickly the bleach gel dried. The thicker the lines, the longer it takes to dry.
If the tip of your pen gets bubbly, just wipe it off with a paper towel. The thinner your lines, the more detailed and precise your design will be. The lines on my tree came out pretty thick because I was rubbing in the gel as I drew, not knowing how well the bleach actually worked.
Once it's dry, it becomes a bit cracked, and it's easy to rinse off. Carefully, under the kitchen sink, rinse off all the bleach gel. (Depending on the age of the children involved, this may be better for adults to handle.) If you rub it quickly under the running water it will easily rinse off without bleeding into other sections of your design.
After the bleach gel is rinsed off, wash the shirts in a washing machine (if there are more than one, you can wash them together), and dry them normally.
I even dried mine with a dry pair of pants (to get the wrinkles out of the pants) and no bleach was transferred.
If you're worried about running out of gel in the bleach pen, don't be. I made both of these and still feel like there is enough in the same pen for one or two more shirts.
I'll definitely be using this trick for many things in the future. This is a craft that's great for all ages, and it can be altered to fit so many holidays, gifts and home décor ideas. I can see it working on tablecloths, napkins, wall hangings, etc. Really anything with fabric would work.
Have you ever used a bleach pen like this before? What suggestions or ideas can you share?
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Gov. Jay Nixon Thursday signed into law three bills containing provisions that benefit military veterans, active military and Missouri National Guard members, and that honor several Missouri soldiers who died while serving their country.
Senate Bill 600 waives various business fees paid to the Secretary of State for Missouri residents who are members of the Missouri National Guard or active military; this provision was supported by Secretary of State Jason Kander. In addition, the bill will establish a specialty license plate for women veterans; eliminate the $15 fee for Gold Star license plates; create medallion programs for veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, Desert Shield and Desert Storm; and authorize the expansion of the medallion programs for World War II, Korea and Vietnam to include Missouri National Guard veterans who are not Missouri residents.
House Bill 1724 expands the help given to the families of deployed reservists and Guardsmen under the Military Family Relief Fund. The bill also eliminates the requirement that reservists must have been called to active duty as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in order to receive assistance.
House Bill 1866 names several bridges and highways in honor of various Missourians, including three for Missouri soldiers who died in the line of duty: the Spc. Justin Blake Carter Memorial Highway for Life on U.S. Hwy. 60 in Wright County; the James R. Ledbetter Memorial Bridge on Mo. Hwy. 5 in Laclede County; and the SGM Patrick R. Hurley Memorial Highway on Mo. Hwy. U in Washington County.
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the plaintiff to recover in the absence of proof that the
defendant created the condition or actually knew of it, the
plaintiff must prove that the defendant had constructive notice.
That means that the defendant, using reasonable care, should
have known of the unsafe condition in time to have taken steps
to correct the condition or to take other suitable precautions.
You may
consider whether the defendant inspected the premises on a
reasonable basis or in a reasonable way in determining whether
the defendant should have known of the unsafe condition.
You may consider the length of time the condition had existed in
determining whether the defendant should have known of the
condition had the defendant used reasonable care.
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The Mediterranean-style, lakefront Aston MonteLago Village Resort - 17 miles east of the Strip at Lake Las Vegas resort in Henderson, Nevada - features luxury condominium rentals set along cobblestone streets brimming with unique restaurants and cafés, exclusive shops, art galleries, and the Lake Las Vegas Marina.
Beautifully appointed condominiums feature all of the comforts of home. The studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom suites feature custom, Old World décor, fully equipped kitchens (studios have kitchenettes), spacious living and dining areas, and private balconies. Each condo offers high-speed Internet access, DVD players, irons and hairdryers. There's a 24-hour front desk, with concierge, dry cleaning and laundry services. Two heated swimming pools, a Jacuzzi, fitness center, and media and games rooms offer guests unlimited activities.
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VAIL, Colorado - The image lasts not much longer than the blink of an eye, but Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger is in a TV commercial, with a three-word message: "I've been shot."
Henninger - who was wounded on the job as a new officer in Garden Grove, Calif., about 30 years ago - is one of several police chiefs from around the U.S. who appear in the latest TV ad from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that lobbies for more, and more strict, gun control laws.
This particular ad pushes the idea of expanding background checks for firearms purchases. Private firearms sales in most of the country are legal without those checks. Colorado expanded its background check requirement this year to cover private sales.
The Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, of which Henninger is a member, supported that and other gun-control bills working through the Colorado Legislature this year.
Henninger - who made clear that he was talking on his own time, not the town's - a believer in better background checks, and believes that the man who shot him those decades ago might not have been able to get a gun if he'd had to pass a background check.
Henninger believes that background checks won't do much to inhibit private firearms sales. And, he said, he'd prefer that anyone he sold a gun to would go through a background check.
"That covers me in case anything happens," he said.
Henninger's position on the background check law is on the other end of the spectrum from that of Eagle County Sheriff Joe Hoy, who believes the new law is "unenforceable."
Hoy and Henninger have known each other a long time, and both men like and respect each other. But their different views on the state's gun laws illustrate a difference of opinion between the state's police chiefs and county sheriffs.
While the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police lobbied for the new gun laws, the County Sheriffs of Colorado opposed the bills.
Neither Hoy nor Henninger could offer much besides a guess about the difference of opinion between the two groups. But it's there.
Hoy guessed that police chiefs may be under different kinds of political pressure, since they work for elected officials. County sheriffs are elected officials, and might not feel that kind of pressure, Hoy said.
"People are pretty much on one side or the other," Henninger said. "All I know is that I'm working every day to make Vail safer."
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PLEASANTON -- An experimental project designed to test whether a new type of wind turbine will prove less lethal to Altamont Pass birds will have to clear a few more hurdles before gaining approval of Alameda County.
The three-member East County Board of Zoning Adjustments on Thursday delayed voting on permits for the 40-turbine Sand Hill Wind project, citing concerns over "limitations" in the project's bird mortality study, the scenic impact of the turbines and the precedent the project could set for the technological future of the Altamont Wind Resource Area.
"The avian validation study in my opinion is absolutely worthless," said board vice chair Larry Gosselin. "We have this remarkable responsibility to address protecting avian species and we're being asked to do that with a study that nobody really advocates for."
The Altamont Scientific Review Committee -- a five-member group that makes recommendations to the Alameda County Planning Director -- approved the validation study.
It would survey deaths among four raptor species -- the golden eagle, burrowing owl, American kestrel and red-tailed hawk -- for a year after installation of the new "shrouded" turbines in three different zones on the Altamont Pass.
Board members, who say the project could lay the groundwork for repowering the Altamont Wind Resource Area, said they could still approve the project with some modifications to the study and consideration of "less aesthetic impact" on the view from Interstate 580.
"I think we need an experiment, but why does the rest of Alameda County have to see it?" said board member Jim Goff. "We've got so much rural area, I don't know why we have to go through a scenic corridor."
The shrouded turbines -- designed with two concentric covers around the blades to make them less accessible to approaching birds and bats -- would replace 73 existing conventional windmills.
Representatives of Ogin Inc., the company that developed these turbines, have said they won't move forward with a second phase of 300 additional turbines if the demonstration doesn't prove them safer for birds than conventional designs.
"We think the conditions put forth by the board are reasonable," said Peter Pawlowski, Ogin's director of business development.
The board will take up the issue again at its May 22 meeting in Pleasanton.
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For more than 20 years, the town has sold parcels in its industrial park without one essential component: approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fill in wetlands in parts of the lots that were suitable for building.
Now, the town has proposed a settlement that includes it placing a formal conservation easement on all remaining nondevelopable wetland areas in the industrial park, a process that would be overseen by the town's Conservation Commission.
In addition, the town proposes to convey a 90-acre tract of forestland bordering the Pachaug State Forest to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to become part of the state forest.
Plainfield acquired the land in the 1950s in a tax foreclosure, Town Engineer Lou Soja said.
The proposed land donation must be approved by the Board of Finance and by voters at a town meeting, according to First Selectman Paul Sweet.
In exchange, the town is asking the Corps of Engineers to modify the original road permit to allow the filling of some wetlands on the remaining saleable lots in the park.
"I feel very fortunate we were able to find a way to resolve this problem," Sweet said.
Corps of Engineers officials did not respond to a request for comment on the proposed settlement.
The issue originated more than 20 years ago, when the park was being developed.
"It was a simple case of the town not understanding the terms of its agreement with the Corps of Engineers," Soja said.
When the industrial park was developed in the late 1980s, the town knew it would be required to get approval from the Corps of Engineers for the roads because it would disturb more than 5,000 square feet of wetlands, Soja said.
Gregory Martel, the first chairman of the Economic Development Commission, whose job was to market the industrial park, said the Corps of Engineers had flagged all wetlands in the park — both in the proposed roads and in developable parcels — when the park was originally designed.
"That led me to suspect that approval from the Corps of Engineers might be needed for any parcel to be sold," Martel said. "But I don't recall ever seeing that in writing as part of the Corps' agreement with the town."
Soon after, Martel was not reappointed to the commission during a time of political turmoil in Plainfield, and he said last week he had been off the panel for more than a year when the first parcel was sold.
As the park was developed in the ensuing years, Soja said, the town allowed companies to fill in wetlands in the developable portions of their lots, believing it had the authority to do so under the terms of that original pact.
Page 2 of 2 - Soja said the discrepancy was not discovered until about 18 months ago, when former Norwich City Planner Bill Sweeney, now a lawyer, raised the issue while representing a client who was considering the purchase of an industrial park lot.
"As soon as we realized we had made a mistake, we contacted the Corps of Engineers to see what could be done to resolve the problem." Soja said. "Obviously, we couldn't undo the construction that had already taken place, so we came up with an alternate proposal."
Mary Jane Burke, owner and president of BGR Radiator at 25 Center Parkway, said she encountered no problems with wetlands on her parcel when she relocated her business from Brooklyn to the industrial park in 2007.
"I think the fact we're near the top of the hill, and built close to the road, helps to keep our site dry," Burke said. "All we ever encounter is the normal runoff from storm drainage."
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There are 2 main definitions of pathfinder in English:
pathfinder 1
1A person who goes ahead and discovers or shows others a path or way.
Example sentences
- Is she seen as a bit of a - well, as you said, a trailblazer, a pathfinder for women, not just in athletics, in that time?
- They're the groundbreakers and the pathfinders.
- They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
1.1An aircraft sent ahead to locate and mark the target area for bombing.
Example sentences
- But no one in FEMA had enough sense to ask about air drops, pathfinders, Special Tactics Teams or anything which could have sent immediate aid.
- It made its mark in the attack on Poland in September 1939 and its versatility was such that it was used as a bomber, reconnaissance plane and as a pathfinder by the Luftwaffe.
- It developed more specialised roles such as a torpedo-carrier, a glider tug and a pathfinder.
1.2 [usually as modifier] An experimental plan or forecast: a pathfinder prospectus
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- The row highlighted the haphazard application of the rules covering pathfinder prospectuses.
- The federal interdepartmental committee reviewing pathfinder projects specifically indicated its preference for citizen-facing projects.
- The plans have been drawn up by eight regional pathfinder partnerships across England.
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We've had quite a few geeks get in touch with questions about the Quaker Cloud. Here are some of the most common questions we've received. If you wouldn't describe yourself as a geek, you may find these answers a bit dense. Rest assured, you won't need to understand anything below to fully use the Quaker Cloud. The Frequently Asked Questions is a good starting place, if you haven't already looked there.
This started as an email exchange, so it's written in first person by FGC Communications and Web Manager, Chris Pifer.
- Where are the servers located that will host this service?
- What kind of redundancy that is built into this system?
- Is there some sort of a service level agreement?
- Are all the administrators Quakers? Are there other partners involved?
- Who are the partners and what is their role?
- Is there a helpdesk and is it staffed by Quakers?
- What steps have you taken to ensure data security? Is data encrypted in transit and when it is stored?
- What kinds of password/passphrases policy exists for administrators at FGC performing admin tasks?
- Can a meeting really store sensitive data on the Cloud?
- If FGC is subpoenaed, how would it be handled?
- What kinds of Disaster Recovery planning and continuity plan are in place?
- If a meeting decides to participate, are there tools to help migrate data in?
- If a meeting decides to withdraw, are there tools to help migrate data out?
Where are the servers located that will host this service?
The servers are located in a colocation datacenter in the Chicago area. The site is actually running on two virtual private server that is distributed across a cluster of physical servers and storage devices such that failure of any individual server in the cluster does not bring down the site. This allows us to add resources to the server with no or minimal downtime. A disk failure will degrade performance, but it will not take the site down.
Currently we are running on one web/cache server and one database server; if demand is such that we need to scale beyond that, we expect we will disperse servers geographically such that traffic is load-balanced between servers in various locations, with hot copies of the back-end database stored in at least two physical locations.
At the time this was written, the server has been up for 3 months without a reboot. Our last reboot was for a kernel patch. Downtime was under 5 minutes.
What kind of redundancy that is built into this system?
The database and filesystem for the Quaker cloud are backed up nightly. Three copies are stored 1) in datacenter in New York 2) in the FGC remote office in Atlanta 3) on the server in Chicago. The code base is stored in a version control system that uses Amazon EC2 in Northern Virginia and on the server in Chicago, as well as on a development server in Philadelphia.
Is there some sort of a service level agreement?
The full contract and agreement for using the Quaker Cloud is available here.
Are all the administrators Quakers? Are there other partners involved?
FGC staff are the only people with root access to the server. I don't imagine this changing.
The "Administrator" for each meeting is a member/attender of that meeting. So, it's up to the meeting to decide who that will be and to select someone they trust.
The only outside firm that we are working with on development of the Quaker Cloud is Message Agency. Their principal is an attender at Central Philadelphia Monthly meeting. As I mentioned before, we are not hosting this in a closet in our offices, so I guess you could say our hosting company VPS.net is a partner. Pieces of the Quaker Cloud will be connected with the primary FGC database system, which is built in Salesforce.
Who are the partners and what is their role?
Message Agency has served as lead developer on the services building upon the widely-used and enterprise-appropriate Drupal CMS/framework.
Obviously our hosting company is providing hosting and bandwidth. We will be using Salesforce as the primary help-desk infrastructure for the Quaker Cloud, though users are unlikely to ever know they are interacting with Salesforce. Again, they are an enterprise-appropriate system that Fortune 500 companies trust with their trade secrets. They are built from the ground up using a "trust no one" model such that even Salesforce customer support does not have access to the FGC data unless it is explicitly and temporarily provided by FGC staff. In the past few years of FGC using Salesforce we've only had two cases when we needed to grant access to Salesforce customer support.
Finally, we are partnering with Acquia to provide enterprise-level solr search for document indexing. The architecture and infrastructure we are using through them is built in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act to support a number of government clients that hold much more sensitive data that FGC interacts with.
Is there a helpdesk and is it staffed by Quakers?
The helpdesk is run in-house at FGC, so all helpdesk staff are FGC staff.
The primary FGC helpdesk staff person, Erin, is not Quaker, but she is familiar with Quakerism and Quaker structures, while also being able to provide meetings a bit of guidance on how they can make their websites more welcoming to non-Quakers.
I (Chris Pifer) am second tier support. I was born into the Quaker meeting in Madison, WI and I've been worshiping with Quakers ever since.
What steps have you taken to ensure data security? Is data encrypted in transit and when it is stored?
I've done a threat analysis around the data flows and data types related to the Quaker Cloud and prioritized around that threat picture.
Because people reuse their passwords on multiple services, the single most valuable piece of data FGC will be storing is the email address/password pairs created by member/attenders logging in.
As a result, passwords are the most securely stored piece of data in the cloud – it would require the fastest computers in the world several times the life of the universe to decrypt a reasonably strong password in use for the Quaker Cloud.
From a technical perspective, password hashes are created using 16385 iterations of SHA-512 hash with individualized salt for each user. This means the most common tool to decrypt this data, something called a rainbow table, is useless.
We are not storing any credit card data, social security numbers, driver's license numbers, bank information, dates of birth, or anything else that is widely recognized as sensitive data that has a market value for hackers. If at any point in the future we find ourselves storing this data, we will store it using similar encryption techniques.
Beyond this, it's fairly uncommon for data outside these sensitive categories to be stored in encrypted form even in online banking or other secure settings.
That said, recognizing that Friends do feel sensitive about this data, all data is protected in transit via SSL/TLS
What kinds of password/passphrases policy exists for administrators at FGC performing admin tasks?
For FGC staff with administrative access, passwords must be at least 14 characters including uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols. If a password only has one number, it cannot appear in the first or last location in the password.
At the moment, the administrative passwords are long pseudo-random strings.
Can a meeting really store sensitive data on the Cloud?
That entirely depends on how you define sensitive data. Can your meeting store social security numbers on the Quaker Cloud? No, please don't! In the course of normal operations, most meetings do not need to store sensitive information such as this, and the costs associated with building this level of security would increase the amount we would need to charge for the Quaker Cloud dramatically.
Can your meeting feel comfortable storing directory info, minutes and other related private info? Yes!
I have a personal interest in computer security. I arranged for a friend of mine who works for a large computer security firm that typically works with major banks to conduct a pro-bono analysis. We discussed the design and architecture, potential weaknesses, and system configuration strategies. We implemented the strategies suggested. In the future, I will perform periodic regular testing.
If FGC is subpoenaed, how would it be handled?
This is again a policy question which is still in the works. We don't have an answer to this yet.
For the sake of background - I spent 5 years working for AFSC in Washington, DC working on the PATRIOT Act and related privacy/security concerns. This was during a period when AFSC was under surveillance by the Department of Defense. Needless to say this is territory I've been over and these are risks I know well.
That said - there are some complicating factors which we need to consider. FGC doesn't have legal counsel in-house or on retainer, so we need to be sure we have the appropriate infrastructure in place for this type of situation and the resources to be able to uphold such a policy. FGC's Central Committee will decide on this policy and this document will be updated to reflect that policy.
So, I don't have a firm answer on this topic, but I hope to be able to offer one soon.
What kinds of Disaster Recovery planning and Continuity plan are in place?
At the moment our disaster recovery plans focus on geographically-focused single-point catastrophic failure in the datacenter.
Assuming the backup systems stay online in New York, our recovery time is under a half-day. If backup systems go down in New York, it will take slightly longer to recover from Atlanta backups. Essentially, this is the same disaster recovery planning we've done for the primary FGC website.
If a meeting decides to participate, are there tools to help migrate data in?
The answer is yes and no. We do provide an automated process for setting up user accounts for your members and attenders as part of the setup of your meeting's cloud account. As far as importing pages and content from an existing website, we've found there is too much variation in the structure, format and infrastructure supporting meeting websites to allow us to build an import tool. We've also heard from meetings that the process of migrating content between an old website and the Quaker Cloud often provides an important opportunity to review what was previously on your meeting's website and verify it is still correct, current, and consistent with how you would like to present your meeting to seekers and newcomers.
If a meeting decides to withdraw, are there tools to help migrate data out?
We don't have a clear export format/process defined, and we haven't needed it yet. We do know that contact information will come out as a CSV file. Minutes will come out as an encrypted zip file. Website content is the hardest piece, and will likely come out as a CSV file.


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Facing foreclosure, White Mts. resort sues Northern Pass
Mullen, his partner Walter E. Lankau Jr., and Owl Street Associates LLC (the entity that owns Owl�s Nest) � claim that condo and home sales on the property have �collapsed� ever since the 2010 announcement of plans to construct the high-voltage transmission line from Canada through New Hampshire, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in Grafton County Superior Court. The suit names PSNH, its Connecticut-based owner, Northeast Utilities, and Northern Pass Transmission LLC.
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Better than average chance of rain tomorrow = supply run to Alpine.
Buttoned stuff up just in case - including topping off my outdoor bundles of insulation with some extra waterproofing and raised them off the ground. 46,59,37,0,B
Life off the grid in the SW Texas desert. An experiment in sustainable living. NUMBERS AT THE END OF EACH BLOG POST: temp at 8PM,high temp,low temp,rainfall,wind conditions(CalmBreezyWindyGusty).
Nicely done!
Did not realize your friends had brought you so many insulation sheets.
Kudos to them!!
John I just Have to ask. Why isn't that big pile in one of the buildings? That stuff ain't heavy is it? Seems to me it'd be safer from rain, wind and cows in side.
Great pic of the cloud spilling down over the mountain top. Is that Elephant Mountain?
Hay John have u done anything with the pond??
Very nice photo of the mountain and cloud.
I hope that is enough insulation for you to finish out the trailer. Looks like a lot.