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Page 6A DATA PARK: FROM Page 1 The City of Kings Moun- tain agreed to waive city prop- erty taxes for 30 years and waive all local building, zon- ing and development permits and utility connection fees. Cleveland County commis- sioners agreed to grant back to -Disney 65 percent of its prop- erty tax for 10 years and build a secondary water line to the property with a $500,000 - grant from the state. “Disney is looking at 26 acres in the larger portion of a -54-acre tract in the TS park which could sprout as many as four or five data centers in the near future, A franchise tax on the amount of electricity used at all of the data centers could equate to hundreds of thou- sands of dollars flowing into the city’s budget each year. Data centers, in general, are known as “electricity may be growing hogs” using 30-80 percent more energy to operate per square foot than a typical of- fice building. The county, too, will have new water cus- tomers with the centers. With all of the electricity data cen- ters typically use, an abundant water supply is key to cooling off all of the computers and machines the centers employ. Data centers are ware- houses that store, with the use of computers connected by servers, digital information and programs of the com- pany’s clients. Being able to store programs and informa- tion at a centralized, remote location can free up the mem- ory used on a client’s comput- ers. With the use of secure servers, clients are still able to access information and pro- grams through their own com- puter, even those, that are stored in these warehouses . The Kings Mountain Herald Wednesday, August 31, 2011 BROWN: asks for his rezoning quest for a campground be withdrawn, seeks different zoning for old mill site FROM Page 1 “This isn’t a subdivision I’m trying to build, it’s an RV park,” Brown told the P&Z board at its Aug. 9 pub- lic hearing, Reportedly Brown has been lobbying council mem- bers to take a look at his proposal for a primitive park. He has consistently stated, during two lengthy planning board hearings, that he is eyeing 25 parking spaces to start with until he finds whether the park idea works. After his first appearance before the planning board in July, the board listed 13 specific fggesrions for a revised site plan. “The board took a hard look at the provosal and voted on four findings of fact,” Killian said. Among the major concerns expressed by the board was sanitation. Brown gave no timetable for bathroom facilities. “I have to take baby steps,” Brown responded to ques- tions.”I can’t spend another half million dollars on this property now.” Speaking for his Macedonia Baptist Church congre- gation against the rezoning, Pastor Michael Horne called the proposal “almost laughable” because of incomplete- ness. Horne said the plan omits on-site management details as well as health concerns. “There’s just too many loose Planning board vice-chairman Keith Miller, who presided, said the site plan did not clearly document where the property lines are described and would not tell any future property owners which land is zoned for what. “It’s a single piece of property with two or more dif- ferent zones with the same parcel,” Miller said. The switch to light industrial, without a conditional use permit, could open the property up to a variety of uses, according to Killian. Light industrial, typically in- cludes manufacturing facilities, warehousing and stor- age. The Brown property adjoins Light Industrial on L two sides, Heavy Industrial on one side and Residential 10 on one side. Because it is served by public water and public sewer, P&Z said that the tract is more suitable for more intensive zoning districts. The board also said that . debris from a former industrial use needs to be removed safely and legally in order to make the property either safer or better for redevelopment. “It is in the best interest of the community that no por- tion of the tract be changed to R-20 and no conditional use permit for a campground be issued in accordance with a conditional use permit application and its con- ceptual RV park plan. The conditional use permit appli- cation does not meet the minimum requirements of the zoning ordinance as revised July 24, 2011,” the board miles away. ends and our church property. is 1,000 feet from the site.” seid in its recommendation. : LONG HISTORY: of Eugenics program in America makes some question Hitler connection? FROM Page 1 Eugenics is now consid- ered the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe out all human beings deemed "unfit" in a battle for the sur- vival of the fittest. It was born of scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. In 1863, Galton, a distant cousin of Charles Darwin, thought that if talented people only mar- ried other talented people, better offspring would result. He believed that through se- lective breeding, the human species should direct its own evolution. Eugenicists craved the blonde, blue-eyed Nordic types, believing them best fit to inherit the earth. The mas- ter race excluded those of color and of lower class, the infirm and really anyone classified outside the gentri- fied genetic lines drawn up by the American raceolo- gists. Eugenicists identified the so-called “defective” family trees and subjected them to lifelong segregation and ster- ilization programs to kill their bloodlines-here in the United States. The grand plan was to wipe away the reproductive capability of those they determined weak and inferior. Men and women were often’ sterilized for different reasons. Some men were sterilized to treat their ag- gression and to eliminate their criminal behavior, while many women were sterilized to control the re- STOP BACK PAIN * Back Pain Arm/hand pain * Sprains/strains + Weakness * Neck Pain ¢ Headaches * Hip/leg pain * Whiplash * Muscle Spasms . 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The most commonly sug- gested method was to set up local gas chambers. How- ever, many in the eugenics movement did not believe that Americans were ready to implement a large-scale eu- thanasia program, so many ‘doctors reportedly had to find clever ways of subtly implementing eugenic eu- thanasia in various medical institutions. A mental institution in Lincoln, Illinois, allegedly fed its incoming patients milk infected with tubercu- losis (reasoning that geneti- cally fit individuals would be resistant), resulting in 30- 40% annual death rates. Other doctors reportedly practiced eugenicide through various forms of lethal neg- lect. 4 : California is known as the highest-ranking state in the United States for the number of victims steril- IN ITS TRACKS Are you suffering from any of the following? ized-more than 20,000 peo- ple. North Carolina’s 7,600 victims come as a close third to Virginia’s 8,300 cases. With 485 known victims, Mecklenburg County led the state in the number of steril- ization procedures that were documented during the pro- gram’s peak years (July 1946-June 1968). Gaston County came in third, pro- ducing 161 sterilizations. Cleveland County (24th) had 72 documented cases. The Eugenics Board pro- gram of North Carolina ster- ilized people that fell into three categories: mentally ill (such as with schizophrenia), epilepsy and people classi- fied as “feebleminded”, which usually meant a low score on an IQ test. The board looked at other factors, too, such as people pegged as too sexually ac- tive, or hard to control or stuck in poverty. Some as young as 10 were sterilized for offenses as minor as not getting along with school- mates, being promiscuous or running afoul of local social workers or doctors! North Carolina’s law allowed such professionals to refer people to the state Eugenics Board for sterilization. In" North Carolina, 8,000 cases were approved. In other states, people had to be jailed or institutional- ized before they could be sterilized. Mary Kilburn, a psychol- ogist for the state social serv- ices department who helped perform IQ tests on patients referred to the eugenics board, said that hearing from . people today who were harmed by the program is “horrifying”. She added that a lot of people were shocked to learn the program went on as long as it did in North Carolina. “This is after the era of the Holocaust when, as we know, the Nazis were very much engaged in managing the population of people ac- cording to their ewn rules,” she said. Only after eugenics be- came entrenched in the United States was the ¢am- paign transplanted into Ger- many, in no small measure through the efforts of Cali- fornia eugenicists, who pub- lished booklets idealizing sterilization and circulated them to German officials and scientists. Hitler studied American eugenics laws. He tried to le- gitimize his anti-Semitism by medicalizing it, and wrapping it in the more palatable pseudoscientific facade of eugenics. Hitler was able to recruit more fol- lowers among reasonable Germans by claiming that science was on his side. While Hitler's race hatred sprang from his own mind, the intellectual outlines of the eugenics Hitler adopted in 1924 were cultivated in America. During ~~ the . 1920s, Carnegie Institute eugenic scientists cultivated deep personal and professional re- lationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. In “Mein Kampf”, published in 1924,. Hitler quoted American eu- genic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowl- edge of American eugenics. "There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least weak begin- nings toward a better con- ception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Re- public, but the United States." When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics — the attempted "improvement" of the population through forced sterilization and mar- riage controls — that con- sciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for "defectives," upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927. Small wonder that the Nazi laws led one eugenics activist in Virginia to com- plain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game." Hitler also commented about the historical experi- ences that show proof that other countries didn’t want races and/or weak and strong to mix. “The Germanic inhabi- tant of the American conti- nent, who has remained racially pure and unmixed, rose to be master of the con- tinent; he will remain the master as long as he does not fall a victim to defilement of the blood,” Hitler wrote in “Mein Kampf”. Even on the Nazi propa- ganda poster from 1936, supporting Nazi Germany's 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (their compulsory sterilization law), there is a couple standing in front of a map of Germany surrounded by the flags of nations, in- cluding the United States, which read “We do not stand alone.” In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations were accelerat- ing beyond 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe upon re- - turning from Germany ebul- liently bragged to a key colleague, "You will be in- terested to know, that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions: of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought...I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you “have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people. " After the war, eugenics was declared a crime against humanity—an act of geno- cide. Germans were tried and they cited the California statutes in their defense. They were found guilty. North Carolina’s eugen- ics program kicked into high gear after World War II. Don Akin, statistician with the State Center for Health Statistics, noted that sterilizations peaked in the 1950s with nearly 3000 ster- ilizations being performed during that 10-year period. Another 1,600 were per- formed during the 1960s. The Old North State also had the longest role in eu- “genics. The North Carolina Eugenics Board program was abolished by state legis- lature in 1977 and powers of the board were transferred to the state courts. Involuntary eugenics laws in the state were finally repealed in 2003. "The last sterilization was performed in 1974. Between 1907 and 1963, more than 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under eu- genic legislation in the United States. Akin estimates that at ‘least 1,500 women and men who were sterilized under the state law between 1929- 1974 are still alive today. Only 34 state records have been matched so far with liv- ing survivors or families of victims. The Governor’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force, which is currently looking at restitution for the state’s ster- lization victims, hopes more ‘will come forward. Steriliza- tion survivors are encour- aged to call the North Carolina Justice for Sterili- zation Victims Foundation at 877-550-6013 (toll-free) or 919-807-4270, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday- Thursday. - at home. to see if they help. hometown service Harold's Weekly Health Tip... What is neck pain? Neck pain can occur anywhere in your neck, from the bottom of your head to the top of your shoulders. It can spread to your upper back or arms. It may limit how much you can move your head and neck. What causes neck pain? Most neck pain is caused by activities that strain the neck. What are the symptoms? 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