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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(c) The Boycott of 1 April 1933
1. In his book Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving justifies the Nazi-sponsored boycott of Jewish shops and businesses on 1 April 1933 as a legitimate reply to an irresponsible anti-Nazi press campaign instigated by Jews and Communists. In the last days before the March 5 elections in 1933, he writes,
the Jews and communists who had fled to Prague, Paris, and London poured vitriol over the new Hitler government. Irresponsible foreign journalists did the rest. Even ex-chancellor Brüning, still in Germany, watched in fury as they filed blatantly untrue stories exaggerating the plight of the Jews. At that time (Spring, 1933), he (Brüning) pointed out, hardly any Jews had suffered except for the leaders of the communist party. This year, 1933, was however the year of the big lie.14
2. These exaggerated reports, Irving continues, led to a boycott of German goods started by the international Jewish community, and thus 'Goebbels secured from Hitler - or so he claimed - approval to threaten a short, sharp counter-boycott of the Jews', on 1 April. This was 'crude but effective'. But, Irving continues, 'untrue' foreign press stories alleging for example (in 1935) that shops were refusing to serve Jews, continued to appear.15
3. Irving has made similar claims elsewhere. For instance, in 1996 he told an audience in California:
Dr. Goebbels was the man who had the Jews in his power...Dr. Goebbels was the one who made the decisions. Well, there are some of the reasons for his motivation in the book [Irving's biography of Goebbels]. The first piece of motivation is the episode of the Nazi boycott of the Jews in 1933. Very famous. Everybody knows about the Nazi boycott of the Jews, April 1, 1933, it took place on a Saturday. What nobody knows is that one week previously there had been a Jewish boycott of the Nazis, worldwide. And this is one of those facts of history which is suppressed. Cause and effect. Only the cause is never mentioned in the history books.16
4. In an article published in 1995 he similarly claimed that the Nazi boycott of Jewish shops on 1 April 1933 was merely a response to a boycott of German goods by Jews:
We must not overlook the fact that the world's Jewish community lost no time in striking at Nazi Germany. We all too readily talk about the book-burning and about the Nazi boycott against the Jews as if those things happened in a vacuum. They didn't. The Nazi boycott against the Jews on April 1, 1933, was a foolish reprisal by the Nazis in retaliation for the Jewish boycott against Germany. As soon as the Nazis came to power the world Jewish community announced an international boycott campaign against Germany.17
5. Irving once again tries to distance Hitler from any actions taken in Nazi Germany against the Jews:
It was Goebbels who organized that boycott, even though, if you read his diary, you can get the impression that Hitler authorized it, sanctioned it, and possibly even suggested it. But there's no doubt at all in my mind that this is another case of Goebbels having an idea, of putting it into effect, and then playing a trick by writing in his diary that he'd gotten Hitler's approval in advance.18
6. There may be no doubt in Irving's mind. But there is absolutely no warrant for this supposition either in the Goebbels diary or anywhere wlse.
7. There are many problems with Irving's account of the April, 1933 boycott. To begin with, he is wrong to repeat Brüning's claim that 'hardly any Jews had suffered except for the leaders of the communist party': wrong on two counts. First, the leaders of the Communist Party were predominantly not Jewish. Indeed, by late 1932, not one of the 100 Communist deputies in the German Reichstag was Jewish.19 Secondly, many Jews had suffered in a variety of ways. Immediately after the elections on 5 March 1933 there were violent anti-Jewish disturbances in Berlin.20 On 9 March 1933, the SA seized dozens of East European Jews in Berlin and took them off to concentration camps.21 Among the first German Jews to die in Berlin were Dr. Ascher and the journalist Leo Krell, killed on 16 March.22 Those attacked included American Jews who happened to be in Berlin. One of them, Herman Roseman, was kicked by an SA man on the street on 10 March and then the 'SA man continued to attack me, struck me in the face, wounded me in the eye and continued to do me bodily harm', he reported the following day.
8. Another Jew, Jean Klauber, was attacked in her home on 10 March by Nazi thugs who said to her 'Jews. We hate you. For fourteen years we have been waiting for this, and tonight we'll hang many of you', before beating her husband unconscious.23 In the town of Gedern in Hesse, the SA forced their way into Jewish homes and beat up the inhabitants 'with the acclamation of a rapidly growing crowd'.24 In Bündingen, many resident Jews were taken off to a local pub on the evening of 15 March 1933 and beaten up by SA men.25
9. Numerous other incidents of this kind were reported by officials. The later March report of the governing president of Bavaria noted:
On the 15th of this month, around 6 in the morning, several men in dark uniforms arrived by car at the home of the Israelite businessman Otto Selz in Straubing. Selz was taken by them from his house in his nightclothes and abducted in a car. Around 9.30 Selz was found, shot to death, in a forest near Weng, in the Landshut district. The car is said to have arrived from the direction of Munich-Landshut and to have departed in the same way. It carried six uniformed men and bore the sign II.A....Several people claim to have noticed that the car's occupants wore the red armband with the swastika.26
10. The American consul in Leipzig reported in the following terms on 5 April, recounting the anti-Jewish violence which had occurred since the elections of 5 March, a month before:
In Dresden several weeks ago uniformed "Nazis" raided the Jewish Prayer house, interrupted the evening religious service, arrested twenty-five worshippers, and tore the holy insignia or emblems from their head-covering while praying. Eighteen Jewish shops, including a bakery, mostly in Chemnitz, had their windows broken by rioters led by uniformed "Nazis". Five of the Polish Jews arrested in Dresden were each compelled to drink one-half litre of castor oil...Some of the Jewish men assaulted had to submit to the shearing of their beards, or to the clipping of their hair in the shape of steps. One Polish Jew in Chemnitz had his hair torn out by the roots.27
11. SA troops attacked a Jewish-owned department store in Breslau on 11 March, and on the same day several SS men, on the orders of the local SS leader, raided two Jewish-owned department stores in Braunschweig and caused as much damage as they could, ruining the interiors and smashing many shop windows. Local Nazis in Göttingen broke in the windows of almost all the Jewish-owned shops in the town, while in Mannheim Jewish shop-owners were forced to close their shops by the local SA.28
12. Jews suffered in other ways and other walks of life too. For instance, almost immediately after the election of 5 March 1933, Nazi violence started against Jewish judges and lawyers. On 9 March 1933, the local SA forced their way into the district court in Chemnitz, forced Jewish officials to leave the building, and took several of them into protective custody. On 11 March 1933, Jewish judges and lawyers in Breslau were forced onto the streets by the SA and physically assaulted; many of them were prevented by the SA and police from returning to work. Similar incidents had taken place in Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken the previous day, and the courts were also occupied in Oels on 18 March, Gleiwitz on 24 March, Görlitz on 29 March and Königsberg on 31 March. On 14 March 1933, the Nazi association of jurists demanded that all Jewish judges in Germany should be suspended immediately and that all Jewish lawyers should have their licences revoked within four years. The Nazi newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, demanded on 19 March 1933 that the Berlin courts should be 'cleansed' of Jews.29
13. The Nazi boycott of Jewish shops and businesses on 1 April 1933 has to be seen first of all in the light of all this preceding violence. Contrary to what Irving claims, there was no organized boycott of German goods by the international Jewish community; indeed the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine sent a telegram to the Reich Chancellery 'offering assurances that no authorized body in Palestine had declared or intended to declare a trade boycott of Germany'.
14. There were, to be sure, protests outside Germany against Nazi attacks on Jews, but these were based not on reactions to irresponsible reporting and exaggeration but on accurate representations of what the Nazis were actually doing to Jews in the weeks following the elections of March 5th. The Nazi boycott of Jewish shops and businesses on 1 April was not, as Irving claims, a 'counter-boycott'. The German Jews were in no way responsible for the actions of American Jews, and in any case the movement amongst Jews in the USA to boycott German goods was neither organized nor co-ordinated, and certainly not undertaken at the behest of the German Jews.
15. Indeed, the idea of a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses was not first mooted as a response to foreign criticism of Nazi policies in March 1933 but had been frequently proposed by a variety of Nazis over the precious two years.30 Nor, finally, was it undertaken on 1 April on Goebbels's initiative and without Hitler's approval, as Irving claims; on the contrary, Hitler told the cabinet meeting on 29 March 1933 that he supported the proposed boycott and said he himself had called for it.31 Once more, Irving's attempt to exonerate Hitler from measures taken in Nazi Germany against the Jews is totally discredited by contemporary documentation. Once more, too, it is apparent that he has borrowed a long-established 'revisionist' assertion, lifting it, as he does so much else, from other Holocaust deniers. In this instance, Irving seems to have based his claims on an article published by the notorious antisemite Ingrid Weckert in 1985, in which she wrote:
No legal measures were taken against the Jews in Germany until after the international Jewish "Declaration of War" against Germany, as announced, for example, on the front page of the London Daily Express of 24 March 1933. This "declaration" took the form of a worldwide boycott of German goods. A week later there was an officially sanctioned boycott of Jewish shops and stores throughout Germany. This action was in direct response to the international Jewish boycott of German goods already in effect.32
14. Irving, Goebbels,, p. 159. Heinrich Brüning was Reich Chancellor from 1930 to 1932. Irving is quoting from his retrospective writings on the fall of the Weimar Republic.
15. Ibid., pp. 163, 207.
16. Audiocassette 127, Irving speech of 10 September 1996 in Oakland, California, at an event sponsored by the "Berkeley Free Speech Coalition".
17. Irving, 'Revelations from the Goebbels's Diary', Journal of Historical Review, 15 (1995), pp. 2-17, here pp. 9-10
18. Ibid., p. 10.
19. E. Hamburger, 'Jüdische Parlamentarier in Berlin, 1848-1933', in H. A. Strauss and K. Grossmann (eds.), Gegenwart im Rückblick (Heidelberg, 1970), pp. 56-85, here p. 67.
20. U. Adam, Judenpolitik im Dritten Reich (Düsseldorf, 1972), p. 47/
21. S. Freidländer; Nazi Germany and the Jews (London, 1977), Vol. I, p. 18.
22. K. Drobisch, 'Die Judenreferate des Geheimen Staatspolizeiamtes und des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS 1933 bis 1939', Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 230-54, here p. 230.
23. Affidavits in Nuremberg document 1795-PS, Der Prozess gegen dies Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof, Vol. 28 (Nuremberg, 1948), pp. 234-54, here pp. 244-6.
24. Drobisch, 'Die Judenreferate', p. 231.
25. Peter Longerich, Die braunen Battalione (Munich, 1989), p. 170.
26. M. Broszat, E. Fröhlich and F. Wiesemann (eds.), Bayern in der NS-Zeit, Vol. I (Munich, 1977), p. 432.
27. Nuremberg Document 2709-PS, reprinted in Noakes and Pridham (eds.),Nazism 1919-1945, Vol. 2, p. 523.
28. H, Graml, Reichskristallnacht. Antisemitismus und Judenverfolgung im Dritten Reich (Munich, 1988), p. 110; H. Buchheim et al., Anatomie des S-Staates, Vol. 2 (Feiburg, 1965). p. 311; Longerich, Die Braunen Battalione, p. 170; Institut für Zeitgeschichts, 6b Gb 10.02: Urteil des Schwurgerichts Braunschweig, 5. 4. 1950.
29. L. Gruchmann, Justiz im Dritten Reich (Munich, 1990), pp. 124-6, 322-3.
30. Friedländer, Nazi Germany, pp. 19-21; M. R. Gottlieb, American Anti-Nazi Resistance, 1933-1941. A Historical Analysis (New York, 1982); G. Arad, The American-Jewish Leadership and the Nazi Menace (Bloomington, 1997).
31. Akten der Reichskanzlei: Die Regierung Hitler, Part I, Vol. I, p. 277; D. Bankier, 'Hitler and the Policy-Making Process on the Jewish Question', Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 3 (1988), No. 1, pp. 1-20, here p. 4.
32. I. Weckert, '"Crystal Night" 1938: The Great Anti-German Spectacle', Journal of Historical Review, 6 (1985), pp. 183-206, here p. 186, disclosed in Third Supplemental Discovery List by Irving, with pencil lines in the margins.
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Over the next month or so, it'll be fairly quiet on the console front. Publishers are waiting to launch their big guns -- "Disney Infinity," "Saints Row IV" and "Splinter Cell: Blacklist" on Aug. 20. But the mobile side is a different story. Summer seems to be the season for hand-held experiences, and there won't be a shortage of them across the Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita and iPad platforms.
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Sure, it's not manly like eviscerating an army of ninjas, but "New Leaf" has its charm. The world moves in real time, and it's a title you return to each day to see something fresh. And with the new features to be mayor and design your town, it gives you more excuses to work for funds, improve the area and invite friends to check your place out. (Nintendo 3DS, $34.99)
What's so remarkable about "Hotline Miami" is how it tells an intriguing story, even though the campaign is done via a top-down 8-bit design. Despite its looks, the game boasts deep puzzle gameplay, where you are tasked with getting from Point A to Point B, and you have to figure out how to do it without being killed in one hit. It's harder than it sounds. (PlayStation Vita, $9.99)
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Free Software advocates quickly demonize SaaS as the ultimate way to take your freedom away. A lot of them dismiss the advantages of having data online highlighting (and rightly so) the fact that you may be locked out of your own data anytime. My question is: what if SaaS is in fact the way to go, the future, and just need to hurry the hell up and make sure that it's easy to install, and use, the great SaaS available under a free software license?
The cloud's advantages
I am not going to spend much of this article explaining why I believe that SaaS is great. I will however name a few reasons:
Simultaneous collaboration on documents. When two people in two different parts of the world are both editing a Google Documents spreadsheet at the same time, or writing a presentation together, it feels like you are watching a Hollywood movie. Except, you are not: changes happen as they are typed, and productivity (as well as fun, may I say) is sky-high.
Backing up. Last week, I had a full hard drive failure. It started with IO errors on my drive, which then evolved into real trouble. I have weekly backups, and recovered the most recent stuff just on time. I was lucky and able to act very quickly. Normal users normally aren't as lucky. If your data is on a server, you are fine.
Software updates. I believe that only the very basic system should reside on the computer: the operating system, the browser, the basic desktop, along with IO drivers etc. For all that, yes, a big bunch of packages that get updated in the background make a lot of sense. End-user software, however, should run in a browser window. Yes, you heard me right (and, before you think I am completely crazy, read on).
Access. You can access your applications, and your data, from anywhere you are, and from any computer. This is a huge advantage.
Arguments against SaaS
There are tons of arguments against SaaS. So many, that it's hard to list them: privacy, data control, data mobility, upgrade control, sudden account deletion, the list goes on and on. Pretty much all of them are due to the fact that, until up to now, having data in the "cloud" meant having it on some proprietary server somewhere on the planet, with a big corporation (and governments) able to spy on you.
All these arguments are real: it is insane having your corporate spreadsheets, or your tax returns, your private information, and basically your life on Google Documents. It's a recipe for disaster: one day, Google might simply cancel your account, just like that.
But... what about the benefits? Should we really give them all up, just like that?
"The cloud" is unsafe. "Your cloud" is not
I believe that the cloud as such is very unsafe. I agree with every single point ever made against it, honestly and frankly. However, I also believe in the cloud's advantages (see my earlier point: editing documents together, for example). The solution? That's in your cloud.
Ubuntu did a fantastic job creating a client-side system that anybody can install and use. Linux Mint is another great option. I believe that Ubuntu and Mint, together, cover pretty much all of the client-side, no fuss user base.
These systems are created by getting thousands of packages, testing how they work, and providing a simple installation procedure for them. Ubuntu in particular has gone a long way, with their Ubuntu Software Center as well as their incredibly friendly installation procedure.
All we need now, is the same -- but for the server.
People forget that there is, right now, a huge collection of free software that can do pretty much anything:
- Teambox for project management
- Collective Access for archiving
- Zimbra and Roundcube for your email
- Etherpad for online documents ala Google Docs (yes, interactive). How many people knew that they could set up their own shared documents system locally?
The list goes on and on. In the end, you can have enough pieces of software that you will be completely sick of trying new ones.
The short story is that if you don't trust the cloud (and you shouldn't), you can (and should) be able to create your own cloud, using your own servers.
The bonus is that you will be able to use these pieces of software wherever you are. You will be able to tick TODOs as done, create a document in real time with your colleagues, check your email and answer -- all by using your own servers.
The catch: it's hard work
Installing the pieces of software I mentioned above is hard work. Getting a server set up with just the four pieces of software I mentioned (which are just a drop in the ocean) can take a quite some time, even for an experienced system administrator.
Incidentally, the list I provided is especially complex: Etherpad is based on Node.JS, Teambox is based on Ruby, and so on. Some of them want a database server installed and configured... it really does get complicated.
Thing is, installing software was complicated as well, a while ago in GNU/Linux. You had to download the .tar.gz file, start compiling, and discover what libraries (and what versions) you were missing. Today, it's a tad easier.
What I am saying here is, it doesn't need to be hard.
A solution: a GNU/Linux SaaS distribution?
Just as GNU/Linux distributions simplified enormously the process of installing software and use it at desktop level, we need the same giant leap in terms of free software SaaS. We need a distribution that:
- Installs a baseless server
- Gives the means to configure this server (see: Webmin). However, administration should be basically unnecessary, or extremely simplified.
- Gives users the ability to install/enable web services
- Give users a "portal" where they can see exactly what services are available
This would effectively create an "application server" where the most important, free software SaaS are available at your fingertips.
Creating such a distribution is anything but easy: configuring a Webmail for example is quite involved and requires careful work. However, I remember some 20 years ago people saying that making a 100% user friendly GNU/Linux distribution was impossible because of the way Unix worked and was structured... and I am writing this while using GNU/Linux.
Before you say that I am just dreaming, and that there is no money in making a GNU/Linux distribution like this, picture this: a distribution could make all this available for free, but could then configure everything so that online backup happens seamlessly with their servers, at a small fee for more than X Gb backed up. Or they could offer pre-configured network devices (Raspberries, anybody?) with all the requires software preinstalled. Just like Ubuntu is trying to make money with Ubuntu One, there are possible business models to make this self-sustainable.
Am I dreaming?
Maybe I am dreaming. However, I can't picture a world where web software is not more and more relevant. And I don't want to imagine a world where your data is always on a corporation's server -- a corporation well intertwined with the government, and willing to disconnect you from your data without warning.
It is possible to have the best of both world. It's just a little painful -- for now. But, it's only going to get easier. Hopefully.
The (bumpy) road to Free Software SaaS
Hi, merc.
It's not obvious who should get excited about this. You seem to be seeing private clouds from the point of view of a self-employed person, or maybe a SOHO manager with a small, dispersed staff. Private clouds with archiving and collaboration are already very widespread in businesses of all larger sizes, e.g. as VPNs. Important online projects are run with version control systems as well. A publisher with whom I'm associated is setting up a secure framework to allow authors and reviewers and editors to all work on the same manuscript collaboratively. The software isn't new, and neither is the server underlying the new collaboration framework. So are you arguing that the benefits of the many existing private clouds should/could be made universal, so that anybody can have one? Do you expect the idea would catch on in Userland, where 90+% of people don't want to know what happens behind the keyboard, and wouldn't be prepared to hire their own rackspace, let alone set up a home, Web-connected server?
Just asking,
"Just asking" ah? :D
I don't think you can put "version control" and "editing a spreadsheet together" in the same basket. One is a kludge to make it possible to work together on stored documents, but it's not easy to review revisions, previous versions, etc. Plus, it's not possible to edit something *really* simultaneously. The publisher you are associated with would probably benefit immensely by using Etherpad.
People who are used to using web applications (that is, most of them) would probably jump on the idea of having a credit-card sized computer you can just plug in that provides a spreadsheet, word processor, presentation, music manager, movie manager, tasks, and whatever else -- especially if they are concerned about privacy and especially if there is absolutely nothing to configure for them.
You don't think so?
"Just asking" ah? :D
I don't think so, but of course that's just my opinion.
1) Your 'simultaneous' collaboration sounds an awful lot like real-time online gaming. Is that really going to boost productivity in Boring Old Stuff Inc, where half a dozen wage slaves need to comment on a draft spreadsheet from Accounts 'before COB Friday'?
2) This doesn't sound all that different from where smartphones are headed, and you get voice connectivity with a phone as well.
I'm reluctant to get excited about the future of SaaS in any guise because I think it suits only a very small proportion of all computer users, and for perhaps only a fraction of their user-hours, not because I have the security/reliability worries you mention in your article.
There might be small gains in convenience from completely splitting my PC into minimal OS+browser, and everything else, but are they worth it? A split like this happened in the computer world a few years back with the introduction of the netbook: the traveller's friend. The convenience factor didn't transform the world. Instead, netbooks became small notebooks and notebooks continued to get smaller.
I think you'd need to make a very strong business+convenience+security case for your credit-card-sized computer (which plugs in where?) before you could start changing the world. Like desktop Linux (which I use exclusively) and the electric car, they're very good ideas with very limited use.
This is What We Need
At last I have found someone who agrees with me. Managing your data in "the cloud" truly is the way of the future, but I don't like the idea of corporations controlling my data. The public needs to be informed about the problems with traditional SaaS and proprietary software.
Yes, it will take hard work for the Free Software community to get this into the public view before people start buying their own pre-configured servers, but I don't believe it's as hard as some would have you think.
Also, I don't think Netbooks are a great comparison to cloud computing. People use cloud computing every day and they don't even realize it. Fewer people buy Netbooks because they're neither a regular laptop nor a tablet.
SaaS is not a good thing, even on free software
Even if SaaS was running free software I wouldn't use it even though I exclusively use free software on my personal systems. The fact is I wouldn't be in control of my data. Using SaaS it becomes the property of the server owner. There is no way that I would trust my information to a third party in that way. SaaS is a terrible idea for those that value privacy and freedom.


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August 03, 2011
DOE Considers New Venue for Solar Decathlon 2013
Teams of competitors gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009.
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The Solar Decathlon provides participating students with unique training for the clean energy workforce. As part of the Obama Administration's larger goals to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and to maintain a highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce, DOE creates and supports initiatives that engage students to learn about energy technologies and issues. The contest also fosters greater adoption of clean energy technologies and energy efficient construction techniques that help the United States compete in the global marketplace. Responses to the solicitation are due August 29. See the DOE press release, solicitation DE-SOL-0003159 in FedConnect, and the Solar Decathlon website.


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There were no reports of damage, but people in 32 ZIP codes reported feeling light to weak shaking, said a United States Geological Survey spokeswoman. Most reports were from Union City and Hayward.
"Usually you don't get damage unless the earthquake is 5.0 magnitude or higher," said Susan Garcia. The temblor was near the Hayward Fault, which extends through the East Bay from south Fremont to San Pablo Bay. More than 2.2 million people live near the active fault, which last had a major earthquake in 1868.
"There's a 31 percent chance of a 6.0 or greater earthquake occurring on that fault," Garcia said. "This serves as good reminder that earthquakes do happen in this area, and we should be prepared."
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Saturday's quake also is a reminder that the 25th anniversary of the Bay Area's last major earthquake, Loma Prieta, takes place in October. That 6.9-magnitude earthquake had its epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains but caused damage throughout much of the Bay Area.
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PARKERSBURG - The local housing industry has been impacted as the Mid-Ohio Valley experiences a resurgence in the energy market because of drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale fields.
Motels, hotels and RV camps are full and people working in the industry, they are beginning to set up more permanent residences. Construction has begun on more motel or hotel properties.
For now, though, the drilling industry has had its greatest impact on the rental segment with a slight growth in sales of existing properties.
Linda McClain of Coldwell Banker, Landmark Realtors, said the real estate market has seen an increase of sales of properties tied to the influx of people in the drilling industry.
"We have sold several houses to people moving from that industry," she said.
However, she said many are opting to rent rather than buy and that has led to a boom in another industry.
"What is really booming right now in the rental market," she said. "It is very hard to find a good rental in the area now and we have seen rental prices go up recently."
McClain said as the demand grows the rental rates will continue to climb.
Bob Wright of Warfield Realty said while there has been more purchases of houses, most of those relocating for the gas drilling industry are seeking rentals.
"We have more requests for rentals," he said.
Lisa Lyons, an assistant broker at Warfield Realty, said, while the emerging industry has brought more people and families to the area, it has boosted the sales market, but she agrees the rental industry is what is seeing the effects from the industry.
"With the increase in the oil and gas industry there has been an increase demand for rental property," she said. "We see an increase for unfurnished apartments and houses for families.
"We have fewer and fewer vacancies in rental property now."
Gail Gaines, a property manager for Old Colony, said the demand for rentals has grown in the last two years.
"We have seen an increased demand, especially for houses," she said, "Most of the people coming here are coming with families and they want houses for their families."


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It has been a few years since the 3rd and last season of Deadwood. Many know the show for it's more then salty language. It is true that the diolouge isn't for your school aged kids. However, if you want to see a western featuring perhaps the best cast ever assembled, great acting, directing and scripting, then Deadwood is for you. Blu-ray brings video justice to the gritty, muddy and polluted streets of Deadwood. Fortune seekers, dogs, thiefs, crooks, hawkers of evrything from elk meat to soap with a present inside roam the streets. I could not imagine this series without the two main characters, Al Swearengen played by Ian McShane and Sheriff Seth Bullock played by Timothy Olyphant. Al, the overload of the town, cares only about protecting his town and his financial investment in it. From the upstairs of his Gem Saloon he plots his every move using and discarding all who enter. He thinks the Sheriff is a hot headed idoit but is not against an alliance with him if it furthers his own needs. The Sheriff is a good man at heart but steams like a tea kettle ready to explode at first provocation. The relationship between these two men is the heart of the show. There are so many great characters on this show that it's impossible to mention them all. William Sanderson as the greasy, greedy hotel owner E.B Farnum is as sad and pathetic character as ever seen. Robin Weigert is nothing less then brilliant as the drunken, foul-mouth Calamady Jane. Garret Dillahunt earns his check by playing two characters. Garret is a star in the making.
I could go on and on but if you don't mind the language you will be treated to Shakespeare in the muck with this HBO show. 36 episodes of true grit.


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Japan's growing elder care crisis, Car Talk radio host dies from Alzheimer's, and "Surviving Grace" heads to Indiana (read more).
Alzheimer's researchers seek younger, healthier patients, researchers hope to repurpose cancer drug for Alzheimer's, and the need to increase investment in medical research (read more).
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Trish Vradenburg calls on newspapers to better acknowledge Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's is the leading killer of women, and two neurological drugs head into human clinical trials (read more).
David Rothkopf calls Alzheimer's a "massive freight train," the UK's attempt to improve dementia diagnosis by paying doctors, and new research links compound in cocoa to memory improvement (read more).


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Representatives from Sen. John Hoeven's office are meeting with officials from the Spirit Lake Nation this week to discuss the tribe's Social Services.
The Devils Lake Journal reports (http://bit.ly/13DpvGc) that Hoeven's office will meet with tribal leaders on Wednesday at the Spirit Lake Casino to discuss issues surrounding child abuse and neglect on the reservation.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs took over control of the tribe's social service programs after criticism that the tribe has failed to protect vulnerable children.
The meeting on Wednesday is scheduled for 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend.
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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 file photo, a British soldier walks with his machine gun on the roof of a residential house in the village Qari Sahib, Nad Ali district, Helmend province, southern Afghanistan. Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported Friday, March 15, 2013 in a study that explores the roots of such behavior. The research found that merely being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan made no difference in rates of violent crime later on. Instead, a key predictor was violent behavior before enlisting. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
Gov. Rick Snyder has approved $3 million in funding for a new state agency with a mission of helping veterans collect what they are owed.
Michigan has the nation's 11th-highest population of veterans and ranks last in federal money spent per person on services provided through the U.S. Veterans Administration. Those services include medical treatment, pensions and employment assistance.
Legislation signed Wednesday funds the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, which Snyder created with an executive order in January. The agency launched March 20, the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war.
Snyder has named Jeff Barnes to head the agency. Barnes is Snyder's deputy director for strategy and served about 10 years in the Army, including tours in Korea, the Balkans and Iraq.


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News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- There's a lot of learning going on at Hammond Hill Elementary. So much learning, in fact, that in just a couple weeks the school could be named the best in South Carolina.
"I love waking up and coming to work in the morning because I'm doing what I love to do, I know my own personal children are taken care of, and it's a place where my friends are," said Mandy Pond, who's been a kindergarten teacher there for a number of years.
She already knows this school is one of the best in the nation. They have the award to prove it. In September of last year, the school was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. That's the highest honor a school can receive.
"Talking to my brother, who lives in Pennsylvania, and telling him our school is a national Blue Ribbon School makes them proud because they know what kind of an honor that is," Pond said.
News 12 asked Principal Janet Vaughan how the school found success and whether other schools could learn something from Hammond Hill.
"We have a unique computer writing lab," she said, adding that even kindergartners learn typing and computer skills.
She adds that the labs are open both before and after school. Students without Internet at home can do online assignments in those extra hours with parents by their sides.
"Also, we have a mathematics lab with a small teacher-student ratio," Vaughan said.
Teachers and administrators even encourage students to work during summer break. There are plenty of awards for student achievement.
Vaughan says they also promote friendly learning environments, too.
"The PTO and the School Improvement Council joined forces together this past year, and they totally renovated our courtyard," she said.
The announcement for Palmetto's Finest will be made on March 11. Teachers, parents and students are all invited to a 4 o'clock assembly, where the results will be streamed live.
By the way, Hammond Hill has come a long way. Just a few years ago, it was graded as an "at-risk" school.
"I am teaching at a National Blue Ribbon School. It's kind of like a mini dream come true," Pond said.
Hammond Hill will be competing against two other elementary schools in South Carolina for the Palmetto's Finest. One is in Spartanburg and the other is in Dorchester.


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What to Bring to Games as a Baseball Coach
Part of the Coaching Baseball For Dummies Cheat Sheet
It's game day! As the coach of your baseball team, you've done your best to get your players ready to play, but you have additional responsibilities. You have to bring equipment for your players and information for the officials. The following list shows what you need to bring to every game:
A fully stocked first aid kit
Cell phone in case of an injury emergency
Extra water for players
Your roster of players, the positions they'll be playing, and your batting order
Scorebook and pencil
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Local law enforcement spent Halloween watching out for the safety of your kids.
The Department of Corrections probation office made house calls for registered sex offenders Tuesday night.
They say it's up to parents to check the registries also.
Officers advised all offenders to turn off their porch lights, keep their doors closed, and stay away from Halloween activities where there could be children.
Some parents took no chances on the danger.
"We just kind of keep her inside and let her be with friends and cousins and grandparents and get all dressed up," said mother Heather Guilfoyle.
She tells us she sees registered offenders in the Hephzibah McBean Road area walking near her house all the time.
There are 175 registered sex offenders in Richmond County.
Huge tree falls on Lincolnton man
A Lincolnton family experiences a real horror when a father is pinned under a 100 foot tree.
Two weeks ago, Larry Beggs was standing near the driver's side door of the truck with his 17-year-old on the opposite end and his two small children in the bed of the truck.
Larry was hit, but the massive tree somehow missed the kids.
He suffered three broken vertebrae and a broken rib.
Doctors say he should be back to normal in three months.
Prayer vigil for Desire Northington
A vigil will be held tonight for a teenage girl thrown from a ride at the Georgia-Carolina State Fair.
13-year-old Desire Northington is still in critical condition at MCG.
A report from the Georgia Department of Labor reveals she panicked before she was thrown off the ride, the Orbiter, last Thursday.
The operator says he saw Desire's legs dangling from the tub of the ride and her holding onto the lap bar.
The report concludes the ride is not at fault for the accident and that the girl managed to maneuver herself into a position to attempt going underneath the lap bar before the ride reached full speed.
Members of the South Carolina Leadership Conference will hold the vigil at 8 o'clock tonight outside the Law Enforcement Center.
Salvation Army accepts Christmas assistance applications
Before you know it, Christmas will be here, and the Salvation Army is already preparing for the big holiday.
The organization will be accepting Christmas assistance applications next week.
To apply for help, visit the Salvation Army Social Service Center at 1384 Greene Street beginning Monday, November 6 through Friday, November 10.
The center will be open from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.
If you need more information, call (706) 826-7933.
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What are the rules and regulations for military people who come and go back to work and back to duty?
Thursday, find out the Buzz on the human resources Biz. That's on News 12 This Morning starting at 5:30 a.m.


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Gaming the system
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 7:32 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 7:32 a.m.
There are several ironies in North Carolina's clumsy efforts to eradicate online "sweepstakes parlors" that have sprung up, in various guises, like mushrooms in a damp cellar. It's ironic that the state, which runs an "education lottery," is intent on shutting out this lesser form of gambling. It's ironic that the online gaming industry sanctimoniously touts jobs it creates for North Carolina families while preying on people who are addicted to gambling.
Most ironic of all may be how well the industry has beaten the odds, at least so far, finding loopholes in state laws intended to shut down this insidious form of gambling. Staff Writer Emily Weaver detailed this saga in a pair of articles titled "Hendersonville aiming to force out sweepstakes parlors" and "Seven years later, sweepstakes battles continue."
North Carolina banned video poker machines shortly after it enacted the state lottery in 2006, but the purveyors of online gambling were crafty. No sooner had video poker been banned than electronic gaming machine shops, some operating under the guise of Internet cafes, started popping up across the state.
Operators said their consoles were not poker machines but computer-generated games with predetermined odds, played for the purchase of Internet time or phone cards.
Lawmakers said the games looked strikingly similar to the ones once played on the video poker machines. They moved to outlaw "server- based electronic game promotions" in 2008. Operators just found another loophole, replacing prepaid phone cards with ID numbers. In 2010, the General Assembly voted to make it illegal for any machine "to conduct a sweepstakes through the use of an entertaining display." The industry appealed, arguing that a prohibition on the games violated its First Amendment rights. In December, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the state's new law. Now the gaming industry is appealing the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The high court is unlikely to review, let alone overturn, North Carolina's law, but not all of the online gaming businesses have left town. After the state Supreme Court's ruling, businesses were given 20 days to conform to the law. Cafe owners asked a judge for a temporary restraining order. They claimed that a recent change in software put the machines in compliance with state law, but their request was dismissed.
Like the state, Hendersonville and other municipalities have passed laws unfriendly to the online gaming industry. The latest is a proposal by the City Planning Board to allow gaming establishments only in the city's Industrial-1 district. The city tried to do this once before, but a number of sweepstakes parlors already in business were allowed to stay put.
Now the city is proposing to get rid of this grandfather clause and force sweepstakes businesses back into the I-1 district in the event the industry wins its fight against the state. City Council will hold a public hearing on the measure at 5:45 p.m. July 11. City residents should turn out and express their feelings. An industry that continually exploits every legal loophole in an effort to part people from their dollars should not expect localities to roll out the welcome mat.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi's Jasmine Shaw was named the Southland Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the league announced today. Shaw earned the award by averaging 27 points a game this week.
In her first game of the week Shaw set a career-high in field goals made with 11 en route to 28 points, which fell just one point shy of her career high. This effort helped her team to the victory against Incarnate Word, snapping a four-game losing streak on the road.
Shaw then followed that performance up with yet another game scoring 20 or more – her seventh of the season – as she exploded in the second half for 20 of her 26 points in a win against Abilene Christian.
The Cincinnati, Ohio, native was extremely proficient against the Wildcats, canning six of her seven three-point attempts to go along with an 8-for-12 overall performance from the field. During one vital stretch of the game, Shaw scored 13 points in just three minutes and 18 seconds of play.
The senior also made a huge play to seal the victory for the Islanders, as she pulled down the rebound off a missed free throw that would have tied the game with just three seconds left. She then hit both of her free throws to put the game away.
On the week Shaw also averaged four rebounds, three assists and one steal a game. She was also an incredible 19-for-30 from the field, including a 9-for-15 performance from behind the arc in the two games.
The team will be back in Corpus Christi this week after concluding a season-long four-game road trip. On Thursday, the Islanders will host their Pink Game, as they will take on UCA at 5 p.m. in the American Bank Center. This will be followed with a matchup against Oral Roberts on Saturday at 1 p.m. to close out this week's action.
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The 3.8 billion year old rocks featured at the Gneiss Outcrop Scientific and Natural Area seem to be the only things that have remained the same there. The rest of the SNA has seen some big changes recently and is bound to see some more in the near future. About fifteen local explorers gathered on Saturday to learn more about the work being done and to see it firsthand. Brad Bolduan, part of the Minnesota DNR (Department of Natural Resources), led the tour with the help of Mark Cleveland, an SNA manager from the Twin Cities. They explained the recent problems that the site has been battling - the most prominent being controlling the non-native plants that have taken over the area. Just recently, hundreds of buckthorn, ash, and cedar trees were cut down in the SNA because they were taking the sunlight and nutrients from some native plants. Thanks to aerial photographs taken over the last seventy-five years, Brad was able to show the group how these trees had gradually taken over. He repeatedly said that, going forward, "the big thing is keeping the buckthorn regrowth in check." Some of the other invasive plants, like reed canary grass, can be as stubborn as the buckthorn when it comes to being removed. Often it takes burning and using herbicides, but then there's the risk of losing native plants, too. Cleveland himself mused, "Can we manage and protect these intact communities?" It's a fine line to walk, but there are already some signs of hope popping up throughout the outcroppings. One native plant that was spotted growing among the other grasses was Hoary Vervain. Cleveland referred to it as a "pioneering species" because it's one that can help with the restoration of the land. The group also had the chance to see several prickly pear cacti, another native species, blooming on a large outcropping in the SNA. Of course, the area has a long way to go before it's back to its natural state, but progress is definitely being made. "The whole process of restoration is a long one," Cleveland said upon seeing the piles of trees that had been chopped down. Thankfully, there are people like Brad and Mark with a passion for returning the land back to normal, so the rest of us can learn from and enjoy the beauty that's hidden right beneath our noses. The Gneiss Outcrop SNA is open to the public, so feel free to go see for yourself the great strides being made to restore the land, or just head out there to relax in a stunning part of nature. Long time visitor, Virginia Homme, promises that each time you go, you'll find something new. "You may see a plant one week, then find something else coming up in its place the next," she said. Just grab bug spray, a water bottle, and a plant identification book then get ready to spend a little quality time with the great outdoors.
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D.B. Russell is about to find himself in a sticky situation.On Wednesday's CSI (10/9c, CBS), an angry teenager opens fire in a police station. When the situation escalates, Russell (Ted Danson) is taken hostage!Spring Preview: Check out the must-see new showsAs you can see in the exclusive sneak peek below, Russell is still one piece. (The same can't be said for another hostage.) Fortunately, when Greg (Eric Szmanda) makes a delivery in keeping with the hostage-taker's demands, it looks like he and Russell have a secret plan to bring this tense situation to a close.Will their plan work or backfire? CSI airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on CBS.(Full disclosure: TVGuide.com is owned by CBS.)
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Anyone who has ever watched the TV show "Hoarders" is probably drawn by the sheer shock of how those "filthy" people live. But the truth of the matter is, none of us is clean as a whistle.
While we may not live like the folks on "Hoarders," we aren't clean freaks, either. There are horribly disgusting things we live with every day, we just don't notice them.
In fact, if you thought about it too hard, you'd stay in a hot shower, scrubbing yourself until you were raw, and you'd never eat a hot dog again. But that is the goal of this article -- to gross you out.
Sure, there's some educational merit to knowing the kinds of germs and filth in which we exist, but, really, we just want to make you uncomfortable in your own skin.
And there's plenty of reason to be grossed out by your skin ...
No. 5: Your body is crawling with bacteria
What kind of filthy animal allows himself or herself to be covered in bugs? Even if your dog brings them home, it reflects badly on the pet owner who is covered in the parasites. But that's only lazy, dirty people, right?
Not so fast. You may not be crawling with bugs but you yourself are -- at this very minute, in fact -- covered in bacteria.
We're coated, from head to toe as a matter of fact, in the stuff. That's the bad news. The good news is that those bacteria serve a purpose. They're there to improve health and defend against disease.
So the argument is that if we didn't have those critters living on your skin -- and again, to be clear: every... single... solitary inch of it -- we'd have far more health problems, because the bacteria acts as a defense against disease.
Does that make you feel any better? Us neither, but we're just getting warmed up ...
No. 4: Dust is dead skin
One of the cliches of the Army drill sergeant is wiping the tops of lockers and other furniture with white gloves looking for dust. If Sgt. Pain finds even the slightest hint of dust, it's non-stop push-ups for the whole platoon.
But even after you dust something, it doesn't take long for a fine layer of the stuff to accumulate. And if you wait too long between dustings, the stuff really builds up.
The bad news is it's not just dirt that's coating your stuff -- it's you, too.
Household dust is make up of such delightful things as dead skin, hair, waxes, pollen, mold, fungi, particles of fabric, insect parts, and even tiny bits of metal debris from anywhere metal touches other metal (think hinges, for instance).
Mmm! Breathe deep!
No. 3: Trillions of bacteria call your intestines home
We learned how it works in biology 101: You use your teeth to chew food, breaking it down into small bits. Then muscles in your throat push it to your stomach where it is digested as it works its way through the digestive system. But there's more.
Once food gets into the large intestine, bacteria goes to work on it, breaking it down so your body can use it. The stuff is actually good for you, because they help fend off "bad" bacteria that are trying to create infections.
And the bacteria are part of a team -- one little critter can't do it alone. In fact, there are about 100 trillion cells from up to 1,000 different species alive and thriving in your intestines.
So how big are 100 trillion bacteria cells? If you were to weigh them all, they'd weigh about 2.2 pounds.


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In some ways, Lupita Nyong'o fits the fashion-plate standard of beauty that's changing ever so slowly, but still frequently pinpoints a certain type.
She's thin and sculpted, with regal cheekbones and bearing to match. And her accent doesn't hurt, either. In a word, she's gorgeous.
But in other ways, she's something apart from the blond icons -- spanning from Jean Harlow to Marilyn Monroe to today's ubiquitous Jennifer Lawrence, whom Hollywood normally presents as the ideal.
Nyong'o -- the 30-year-old, Mexican-born Kenyan who stepped out of the Yale School of Drama into fame and an Academy Award nomination -- is dark-skinned, with a short, natural haircut, and no apologies.
She stands out on the cover of New York magazine's Spring Fashion issue, which calls her the new "it" girl. Indeed, she is known, as the chosen often are, by just one name, "Lupita." Her heart-wrenching performance in "12 Years a Slave" as Patsey, exploited and abused but with an untrammeled spirit, made everyone take notice.
Then she dazzled in bright prints and jewel colors at movie openings and on red carpets. She was possibly the best-dressed (in a Ralph Lauren red cape dress) actress at the Golden Globes, where she lost. She followed up that appearance wearing a striking blue Gucci gown at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she won.
And in a Vanity Fair Hollywood layout that made news because of its diversity, Nyong'o held court, resembling an Oscar in shimmering gold. Her triumph, though, was not without a backlash, as some wondered whether the magazine had retouched her skin color.
Whether she wins or loses as best supporting actress at the Academy Awards on March 2 (Lawrence is also a nominee), everyone will be dying to see what, and who, she is wearing.
It's Lupita's world, and she has been handling all the fuss with poise and modesty. Many of my friends, particularly those accustomed to the indignities described in the documentary "Dark Girls," especially love her elevation as the epitome of style.
But the canonization of Nyong'o follows a pattern of picking one style icon, one "it" girl -- one "it" black girl -- who will crowd out everyone else. The bar is set pretty high, and I wonder, if she were a fraction less thin, or her flawless, dark-chocolate complexion were anything other than perfectly blemish-free, whether it would be enough.
There has always been room for all kinds of beauty. But let's face it: There is a thumb on the scale for certain types, whether on the screen or in fashion magazines. I remember when the definition of "all-American" good looks didn't veer too far from a Christie Brinkley, and any reference to a "dark beauty" meant a brunette such as Christy Turlington.
As Viola Davis famously said at a Newsweek actors round-table, in a comment that hit age, gender and race issues, "I'm a 46-year-old black actress who doesn't look like Halle Berry -- and Halle Berry is having a hard time getting cast in Hollywood." That's when Charlize Theron cut her off with a presumably well-meaning quip: "You have to stop saying that, because you're hot."
The real test will come after the Oscars. That's when we'll see if all the Nyong'o love translates into romantic leads with substance, like the ones offered other, usually white, actresses. Patsey was a great role, as was Davis' turn in "The Help." But there is much more that these actresses can do.
With Kerry Washington making waves with "Scandal" -- and on fashion-magazine covers -- and "Saturday Night Live" adding Sasheer Zamata to its ensemble, the "12 Years a Slave" star isn't alone. True onscreen equality, though, means a lot more than just one star; it encompasses beauty and talent in all sizes, shapes and colors, and Nyong'o's shoulders are far too slim to carry the hopes of black women in Hollywood and beyond.
As style icon Iman (another one-named beauty with roots on another continent) has said: "Since I've been in America, I've always been intrigued by one phrase: 'She is beautiful, like the girl next door.' I have always wondered whose neighborhood they were talking about."
In a changing neighborhood, perhaps Nyong'o can be more than a single, beautiful flash.


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Top court strikes 'Defense of Marriage' provision
Published: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 11:01 a.m.
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WASHINGTON - In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.
Hank Hueber, a deacon at Trinity Metropolitan Community Church in Sarasota, has been in a relationship with his partner for 40 years. They live in Sarasota.
"Elation is the feeling of the LGB community today. We are gaining ground, day by day. We're people like anyone else – we're not looking to be treated in a special way."
"This is a significant day for our nation," said Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, in a prepared statement.
"My hope is that one day Florida will join those states in recognizing the equality of all people to marry. Today, I challenge Governor Rick Scott and the Republican leadership in Tallahassee to do justice, walk humbly, and listen to the clarion call for marriage equality as other freedom-loving states have done. This is about the people."
Nadine Smith, executive director of St. Petersburg-based Equality Florida, said the decision is "a call for action" for Florida.
"For those of us who live in states like Florida where our marriages are still not recognized, today's decisions are a reminder that we cannot wait for justice to be handed to us, we are going to have to get engaged and fight."
Nancy Wilson of Sarasota, who servers as moderator and global leader of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, said this is "an enormous victory." She married her partner, Paula, of 35 years in Massachusetts in 2004.
"We know this will come to Florida," she said. "Maybe not today, but soon. We're also elated because of what these means for same-sex families or those with children, in such areas as inheritance laws."
She believes momentum is gathering.
"I think we've reached a tipping point now," she said. "There's been an effort, one that started years and years ago, back in the late 1960s. But in the past couple of years, there's been a real cultural shift happening. It started with a president willing to say, 'I support this.' And more and more people have come out. Both major parties and mainstream religions are changing."
"Equal rights under the law for families is fundamental to our American values," said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa/St. Petersburg), in a prepared statement. "Marriage is defined by commitment and love, and it is important that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that all married couples must be treated equally. The decision will have a positive, meaningful impact for all Americans, and I am proud to have signed an amicus brief in support of overturning the Defense of Marriage Act."
Nick and Becky Manassa, pastors at First Assembly of God in Bradenton, have led church members in prayer this week that the Supreme Court would uphold DOMA to honor God and respect the Bible.
"We don't want to exalt sin in our nation," said Becky Manassa. "We're to shun evil. God hates sin. Sadly to say, homosexuality is a sin. It is a sad day to see our nation being deceived. It is time for us to drop denominations and link arms on these very important moral issues."
"This is a historic ruling for equality," said Barbara Zdravecky, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. "This decision is rooted in principles that underlie the work Planned Parenthood does every day: that politicians should not get to decide what your family looks like and that rights in this country should not depend on the state where you live.
"Reproductive rights are deeply connected to civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people…This country is seeing extraordinary progress on marriage equality. Today, we celebrate this ruling and commit to ensuring that all LGBT people are safe, supported and respected."
Betsy Nelson, a social worker in private psychotherapy practice in Sarasota, said she and her partner of 26 years remain realistic about what the Supreme Court decision means for them in Florida, where same-sex marriage is not legal.
"We will share a bottle of champagne tonight and then we'll put the party things away," she said. "This doesn't affect our lives in any way. It's frustrating.
"I'm reaching the age when people are dying, and they don't have their partners' Social Security or benefits. Every single day puts another person at financial risk."
The first thing Roger Capote of Sarasota did upon learning of the DOMA decision was head to social media, where he began celebrating with his friends. But first, he texted his partner that he loved him. He and Jim Wilson, former CEO at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, have been together more than three years.
"It changes everything," said Capote, an events planner at The Francis. "It changes the way you look at everything."
He said Sarasota is an extraordinarily accepting place – "beyond just gay friendly" -- and he and his partner are comfortable here. They plan to marry out of state for the legal status, but then have their wedding ceremony in town surrounded by family and friends. Wilson has two children.
"Me being an events planner, a lot of people thought I'd really be into it," he says with a laugh. "But it's Jim who is like, ' I want this and I want that!' "
The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.
The other was a technical ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation's most populous state in about a month.
In neither case did the court make a sweeping statement, either in favor of or against same-sex marriage. And in a sign that neither victory was complete for gay rights, the high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. A separate provision of the federal marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex union from elsewhere remains in place.
President Barack Obama praised the court's ruling on the federal marriage act, which he labeled "discrimination enshrined in law."
"It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people," Obama said in a statement. "The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was disappointed in the outcome of the federal marriage case and hoped states continue to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
The ruling in the California case was not along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.
"We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit," Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposition 8.
In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court's liberal justices.
"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," Kennedy said.
"DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal," he said.
Some in the crowd outside the court hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday when the DOMA decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.
Chants of "Thank you" and "USA" came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court's marbled steps. Most of those in the crowd appeared to support gay marriage, although there was at least one man who held a sign promoting marriage as between a man and a woman.
Kennedy was joined in the DOMA decision by the court's four liberal justices.
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Scalia dissented.
Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.
The outcome is clear for people who were married and live in states that allow same-sex marriage. They now are eligible for federal benefits.
The picture is more complicated for same-sex couples who traveled to another state to get married, or who have moved from a gay marriage state since being wed.
Their eligibility depends on the benefits they are seeking. For instance, immigration law focuses on where people were married, not where they live. But eligibility for Social Security survivor benefits basically depends on where a couple is living when a spouse dies.
The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court's Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to same-sex marriage.
Massachusetts was the first state to allow gay couples to marry, in 2004. When same-sex unions resume in California, there will be 13 states representing 30 percent of the U.S. population where gay marriage is legal.
The other 11 are Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
Outside the court, gay marriage proponents celebrated both wins.
May the marriages begin," said the Human Rights Campaign's Chad Griffin, who helped spearhead the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8. The two same-sex couples who sued for the right to marry also were at the court Wednesday.
In New York City's Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, where a riot in 1969 sparked the gay rights movement, erupted in cheers and whooping.
Mary Jo Kennedy, 58 was there with her wife Jo-Ann Shain, 60, and their daughter Aliya Shain, 25.
She came with a sign that could be flipped either way and was holding up the side that says "SCOTUS made our family legal".
They have been together 31 years and got married day it became legal in New York.
The broadest possible ruling would have given gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said nothing on that topic in either case.
The decisions Wednesday have no effect on the roughly three dozen states that do not allow same-sex marriage, including 29 that have enshrined the bans in their constitutions.
The federal marriage law, known by its acronym DOMA, had been struck down by several federal courts.
The justices chose for their review the case of 83-year-old Edith Windsor of New York, who sued to challenge a $363,000 federal estate tax bill after her partner of 44 years died in 2009.
Windsor, who goes by Edie, married Thea Spyer in 2007 after doctors told them Spyer would not live much longer. She suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years. Spyer left everything she had to Windsor.
Windsor would have paid nothing in inheritance taxes if she had been married to a man. And now she is eligible for a refund.
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Friday, Feb. 1, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- The GBI and the Richmond County sheriff held a joint news conference on Friday afternoon to discuss the deputy-involved shooting that happened early Friday morning.
GBI Special Agent Pat Morgan says the incident started around 2:20 a.m. when deputies initiated a vehicle pursuit that ended near the Church's Chicken on Wrightsboro Road near Fox Trace Drive.
The driver of that car, later identified as 21-year-old Chaz Williams, ran from the car after striking a fixed object, initiating a foot chase.
Deputies on the scene later located Williams at the Fox Den Apartments on Fox Trace Drive.
Morgan says an attempt was made to take him into custody and that during this attempt, one of the officers involved discharged his firearm. The GBI could not release how many shots were fired, but it appears there was more than one gunshot in the suspect's body. Morgan said he could not disclose where Williams was shot.
Morgan says there were weapons inside the home and that a knife was involved in the altercation.
Sheriff Richard Roundtree identified the deputy who fired at the suspect as Michael Woodard. He said Woodard is a five-year veteran and is taking his regularly scheduled days off at this time.
Roundtree says there are no plans to suspend Woodard from duty at this time, as there is no evidence that any wrongdoing took place. No disciplinary action has been taken at this time.
"We believe everything was in line with the use of force policy," Roundtree said.
Roundtree said officers go through deadly force training once a year and that deadly force is used to defend yourself or a third-party or to prevent a forcible felony.
When asked if deputies could have used a Taser in this situation, Roundtree said deputies do not have Tasers at this time and that the program is being implemented within 30 days.
Williams' body was taken to the Augusta Crime Lab where an autopsy will be performed on Saturday morning.
The GBI continues to investigate this case.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- News 12 has learned the name of the suspect killed in Friday morning's officer-involved shooting.
Deputy Coroner Kenneth Boose says the deceased is 21-year-old Chaz Williams. Boose says Williams lived at Fox Den Apartments.
The shooting happened around 4 a.m. Friday on Fox Trace off of Wrightsboro Road.
A Richmond County deputy was serving a warrant at the apartment complex Friday morning. When the deputy arrived, gunfire was exchanged between the deputy and Williams.
News 12 has not learned the name of the deputy involved at this time. No injuries have been reported for the officer.
Williams is no stranger to law enforcement. He was arrested on Aug. 11, 2011, for cocaine. Later that year, Williams was convicted and sentenced to three years of probation as a first-time offender. On Aug. 21 of last year, he was picked up for an expired car tag and suspended or revoked license.
Sheriff Richard Roundtree says GBI is taking over the investigation, which is standard protocol any time an officer is involved in a shooting.
"Our protocol is to notify an outside agency, which we notified the GBI immediately. And we turned the investigation over to them. We also turned this over to the District Attorney's Office. Any further comment from that will be done at a later time," Roundtree said.
A news conference has been planned for 2 p.m. News 12 will keep you updated as information comes into the newsroom.
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David Irving: A Political Self-Portrait: Electronic EditionTable of Contents
|1.6 'Traditional enemy/en... >
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1.5 International Jewish conspiracy
[1.5/A]'Well, what got into Churchill in 1920 [Referring to an anti-Semitic article by Churchill] got out of him in July 1936. (Laughter). At a dinner in north London...on July 22nd, 1936, it was put to Winston Churchill by various influential businessmen - again I'm not going to go into detail about who they were - that they might finance him. One of those present was the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Deputies, Sir Robert Waley[-]Cohen. His biography was published in an authorised version by Robert Henrique[s]; he quite openly boasted that at this dinner they put up £50,000 to finance a secret group to keep Churchill afloat, provided he turned his magnificent oratory, his brilliant writing talents away from his targets at the time, which were India and Defence, and direct his cannon squarely upon their enemy, Nazi Germany. Imagine that in terms of 1990 currency! The secret pressure group was called The Focus.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club: 'We have lost our sense of Destiny', 1990: K4, Tab. 10, p. 23 ]
[1.5/B]'Why in God's name did we get into the war in 1939? Because we gave a guarantee in March 1939 to the Poles. We have the records now. Neville Chamberlain was tricked into giving the guarantee by people like Ian Colvin, of the News Chronicle a newspaper heavily financed by the kind of people I have [been] talking about earlier. And here's Ian Colvin, their young Berlin correspondent, getting an audience of the prime minister in March 1939 1and [sic] telling Mr Chamberlain, on the instructions of The Focus, that Hitler has given orders to invade Poland almost immediately. Chamberlain is panicked into issuing that fateful guarantee - the guarantee of March 31st, 1939, that if Poland was attacked, then Britain would stand by her side. That was the hidden moment which first saw the British Empire beginning to fall apart. And it was all done by these mysterious forces behind the scenes, who for ruthless reasons of their own wanted war in Central Europe.
What should we have done, if we had had politicians who were statesmen for Britain, through and through, and who knew only the red [ - ] white-and-blue flag of our forefathers, and who weren't in foreign pay? We should have said to the Poles: so, you've got a squabble with Herr Hitler? You've got a squabble with Germany? - Sort it out yourselves! Our Empire is more important to us. (Applause). And if we had had true blooded English statesmen at that time, then they should have said to the immigrants and refugees who flooded towards our shores...they should have said to them: You are guests. So long as you are our guests here, then you do as we English decree! But we are not going to be led astray by you. We should have said to these people: so, you have a squabble with the Nazi party? - sort it out yourselves! Because it was a squabble: these people had started an international boycott of Germany as soon as the Nazis came to power; four, five or six years before that they had been fighting a war, from inside the police stations and inside the newspapers in Berlin and Hamburg and Munich against the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Any historian could tell you this. It was a fight between these two forces in Germany. And it was fought with the cudgel and the cosh and the dagger in the darkness. And what had it got to do with Britain or the British Empire? Nothing whatsoever. (Applause). But there we were, encouraged to interfere, because these people who came flooding toward our shores found that their friends were already here in the media. And the situation has become progressively worse over the decades since then. You only have to look at the concentration of British media power in the hands of a foreign-born executive like Mr. Robert Maxwell to realise the danger that the British people, as a proud entity, is now in.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club: 'We have lost our sense of Destiny', 1990: K4, Tab 10, p. 24]
[1.5/C]'We were [In the 1940s and 1950s] proud of our traditions. Britain was a haven of thriving industries, of intelligent and forthright people whose word could be trusted. But now it isn't. Britain has become a nation where some people's rights have to be specially protected by law, instead of by one's own natural Christian instincts; a nation where the newest newcomer is given preference over the people who have been here, with family and forefathers and ancestors for centuries. [...] Everything has been stood on its head. And we are baffled and perplexed and confused by it all, because wherever we turn, we English and Scots and Welsh and Irish - wherever we look we cannot find any political party or any force or any faction that is prepared to stand up for us. Where are the Englishmen in office? Mrs Thatcher? We know whose pocket Mrs. Thatcher is in. She's in the pocket of her constituents (Laughter and applause). Well, Britain is a "democracy" and it is right that the Prime Minister should be in the pocket of her constituents, if these constituents are a representative cross-section of the English people. I should be interested to know how many of those constituents had their parents or their grandparents in Britain in the 1930s and the 1940s. Take Mr. Martin Gilbert, my great rival as a historian. He was not even in Britain during the war: from the wealthy and the influential family that he came, he was immediately shuffled overseas to Canada, so that no harm should come to him. Perhaps he could not dispose otherwise. Meanwhile we English sat here and sweated out what the other people had inflicted on our country.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club: 'We have lost our sense of destiny', 1990: K4, Tab. 10, p. 25]
[1.5/D][A Japanese magazine published an article on the Holocaust under the title 'The Greatest Taboo of Postwar History: There Were No Nazi Gas Chambers'. Irving described that the magazine was ordered to close by the Japanese government when] 'the international Jewish community wagged its bejewelled finger'. ['Wiesenthalers Zap Jap "Crap"', P's Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 11: K4, Tab 10, p. 51 (at 1)]
[1.5/E]'When grovelling apologies were not forthcoming the Israelis, proving once again that no, they are not part of an international conspiracy, put pressure through their foreign cohorts, minions, and henchmen at whatever level on every major company currently purchasing advertising space in every weekly and monthly publication in the Bungei Shunju corporation, telling these companies to cancel their advertising contracts.' ['Wiesenthalers Zap Jap "Crap"', Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 11: K4 Tab. 10, p. 51 (at 2)]
[1.5/F][Commenting on a police raid on Anthony Hancock's printing works in England at the request of the German government] 'It seems that having failed to burn this print works down, the traditional enemy of the truth is now putting pressure on Germany to inflict her bigoted methods on the freedom-loving British.' ['The Very Whale of a Wail', P's Action Report, September 1994, p. 12: K4, Tab. 10, p. 35 (at 1)]
[1.5/G]'And in September 1941 when Churchill was still being obdurate, Churchill was promising to deliver the goods to [Chaim] Weizmann, but still not actually signing on the dotted line. Weizmann wrote a letter, which I have found in Weizmann's private papers because I was given access to his papers in the State of Israel, in return for the kind of horse trading that the Israelis and so on are pretty good at. And they delivered these papers to me and there was this letter in which Weizmann said 'You've got to remember that we are the biggest independent community in the United States". At this time we were still trying to lure the United States into World War II remember, we were still trying to lure them in and President Roosevelt couldn't swing round American public opinion Pearl Harbour hadn't happened, Churchill was having a hard time throughout 1941, the battle of the Atlantic was in sight and Weizmann said "You've got to remember the Jewish community in the United States. We are the largest cohesive body in the United States, which is on your side, on the British side, don't ignore us. We did it before in World War I, and we can do it again now, we can drag the United States into the War. "We did it before and we can do it again."
But okay the scales have tilted against us, we can't always complain the battlefield isn't level, we win by other means, we win mainly because we have the people on our side, because we have the archives on our side, because we have the documents on our side and that's why we keep on winning. So they dragged us into two World Wars and now for equally mysterious reasons they are trying to drag us into the Balkans' [P's speech at Bow Town Hall, London, 29 May 1992: K4, Tab. 4, pp. 6-7]
[1.5/H]'...and I never used to believe in the existence of an International Jewish Conspiracy and I am not even sure even now if there is an International Jewish Conspiracy all I know is that people are conspiring internationally against me, and they do turn out mostly to be [unintelligible]. [Applause].' [P's speech at Bow Town Hall, London, 29 May 1992: K4, Tab. 4, p. 16]
[1.5/I]INTERVIEWER: When one reads your speeches one has the impression that Churchill was paid by the Jews, that the Jews dragged Britain into the war, that many of the communist regimes have been dominated by Jews subsequently, and that a great deal is control over the world is exercised by the Jews.
IRVING: Right these are four separate facts, to each of which I would be willing to put my signature. They are four separate and unrelated facts. When you string them together like that you might be entitled then to say: "Question five David Irving, are you therefore an anti-Semite?" This may well have been... [Cut off]
INTERVIEWER: No this wasn't my question.
IRVING: But the answer is this, these are in fact four separate facts which happen to be true, in my considered opinion as a historian. And I think we can find the historical evidence for it. [P's interview for 'This Week', 28 November 1991: K3, Tab 12, pp. 7-8]
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