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Davidson County Schools' officials found a way to waive three school days that students lost due to inclement weather last month and this past week.
Davidson County Schools' officials found a way to waive three school days that students lost due to inclement weather last month and this past week.
Board members approved the changes for the 2013-14 calendar Monday evening at their monthly meeting.
Superintendent Dr. Lory Morrow presented the board with the decision to waive Feb. 13-14 and March 4. Morrow explained that with the state legislature providing school systems with the option of attending a minimum of 1,025 instructional hours or 185 days of school in a school year, the system was able to determine that students will exceed the state requirement this school year. Students will make up March 7 on March 28.
Morrow said administrators talked with other school districts, teachers and other school personnel to get feedback before they made a decision. She noted that the system did want to protect spring break, which is now April 18-23.
The system had already taken April 24-25 out of spring break because of missed school days at the end of January due to inclement weather. Also, an extra day was added to the end of the school year — June 11 — because of snow and students attended school on President's Day, Feb. 17, as a make-up day as well.
Morrow noted that the system officials knew how important it was for teachers to have time off to re-energize and many families had plans already scheduled for spring break.
"I think we came up with a good solution," Morrow said.
Teachers will be given the opportunity to make up the time as well or to use optional leave days. Their days are June 18-20. They will also be afforded the opportunity to use the day of graduation — June 14 — as well to reach the 215 days of work that's a state requirement
The Davidson Early College's administrator asked for changes as well for the 2013-14 school year. Principal Cate Gentry asked if they could waive three days out of the eight missed since January due to having more than the required 1,025 instructional time. Those make-up days are March 10-11, April 21, May 22-23.
James Fitzgerald, chief executive officer of the Yadkin Valley Regional Career Academy, requested a couple of revisions to its calendar as well because of inclement weather. The school officials changed May 27-29 to regular school days.
In other news, the board:
• Approved two of the eight graduation ceremonies taking place this year to be conducted off campus.
Ledford High School's graduation will take place at First Assembly and South Davidson High School's ceremony is at Mount Zion Wesleyan Church. The events will take place June 14, except for Davidson Early College which is May 24.
• Heard from a handful of individuals representing a large group from the North Davidson community who support reinstating Lamar Powell as the North Davidson High School assistant softball coach.
• Passed a resolution that endorses the increase of the local sales tax by a quarter of a cent to finance the new high school in the northern part of the county. Pamphlets that will be used to inform the public about the referendum was given to board members.
The educational institution is the No.1 capital priority of both the school system and the Davidson County Board of Commissioners. The purpose of the school, which will be located across from Oak Grove Middle School, is to help alleviate overcrowding at both North Davidson and Ledford high schools.
The proposed quarter cent sales tax referendum will be on the ballot during the May 6 primary. It would cost consumers an extra 25 cents on a $100 purchase.
Deneesha Edwards can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 213, or at email@example.com. Follow Deneesha on Twitter: @LexDispatchDE


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Now that the holiday season is here, Americans across the country are revving up for travel and holiday activities.
For some however, the season won't be free of disaster.
Hard-core drunk drivers, those persons with a blood alcohol content over .15 or greater, or a prior driving while impaired (DUI) conviction, are a menace to our roadways.
Statistics tell us they will be involved in fatal crashes in the month of December. Fortunately our community has a DUI Court to ensure that when hard core drunk drivers are arrested, they face accountability.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in December 2010, 775 people were killed in crashes that involved a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. That's above the legal limit in every state as well as the District of Columbia.
Repeat DUI offenders are over represented in fatal crashes and have a greater relative risk to kill another person.
What is now known, traditional sanctions have little effect on drivers with a prior DUI conviction and those whose blood alcohol content is .15 or above.
Research has proven these hard-core drunk drivers to be unresponsive to general and legal deterrence.
There is a clear need for a court system that specifically addresses hard-core offenders and the addiction that keeps them from changing their behavior.
DUI courts are the solution.
Our DUI Court targets hard-core offenders. Defendants receive the treatment they require to stay clean and sober and never get back behind the wheel of a vehicle impaired.
But treatment is only half the strategy.
Accountability is critical; DUI offenders are required to meet their own obligations to society, themselves and their families. They are regularly tested for alcohol use, required to appear in court for the judge bi-weekly to review their progress and receive rewards for doing well and sanctions for not living up to their obligations.
A study by NHTSA found that repeat DUI offenders graduating from DUI Court were up to 65 percent less likely to be re-arrested for a new DUI offense, and the courts saved a substantial amount of taxpayer money.
There are 600 such courts nationwide.
Currently the Chatham County DUI Court has 186 participants and 825 graduates, who are working hard to change their lives for the better.
Their success makes all of us safer.
David A. Wood is Deputy Court Administrator for Chatham County State Court.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — A Bloomington woman on trial in the death of her mother-in-law tells a jury how she choked the other woman.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports that Misook Nowlin on Monday described how she held her mother-in-law around the neck by a purse strap and sweater until the victim passed out.
The 47-year-old Nowlin is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 70-year-old Wenlan Linda Tyda of Crest Hill in September 2011.
Nowlin has pleaded not guilty and is claiming self-defense. She says her mother-in-law was choking her neck.
Nowlin says she put Tyda's body in a plastic tote and buried her in a Will County forest preserve.
McLean County prosecutors say Nowlin lured her mother-in-law to central Illinois by making her think a job was available translating Chinese.


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NJ Gov. Chris Christie blasted President Barack Obama as a "self-interested" and "timid" politician who has sat on the sidelines rather than offer a steady hand to a country that is "starving for leadership."
Speaking at a luncheon of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the onetime-possible-presidential-candidate-turned-Romney-backer used characteristically tough-talking rhetoric to respond to the president's speech yesterday in Kansas.
Christie said that Obama "gave us false hope" on economic matters and "suffers from the need to always be the smartest person in the room" on foreign affairs.
The New Jersey Republican blamed Obama's hands-off approach to the congressional supercommittee on "his own self-interested political timidity."
And he asserted that the president, who yesterday aligned himself with President Teddy Roosevelt, to stop urging other Americans to "meet the moment."
"Get out of your chair and start doing the hard work yourself to make America a better country," Christie said to applause.
Christie did not explicitly mention his preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, but spoke about the need for "true leaders" and decried "blow-dried" political soundbites.
"The era of focus group tested blow-dried answers needs to end. But it cannot be replaced by an era of hyperbole and irresponsible answers," he said after briefly referring to the 2012 presidential contest as "a circus."
Christie heads to Iowa later today to stump for Romney in West Des Moines.


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ASHWAUBENON, Wis. -- A fight near Lambeau Field following the Green Bay Packers-Minnesota Vikings game sent one man to the hospital and two others to jail.
Authorities say the brawl in the parking lot of Sideline Sports Bar in Ashwaubenon involved 20 to 30 people Sunday afternoon. Public Safety Lt. Jody Crocker says a 50-year-old man who apparently tried to break up the fight was found unconscious and bleeding from the head.
Officers arrested a 40-year-old man Lakeland, Minn., man on a possible charge of felony battery. The Green Bay Press-Gazette says a Green Bay man was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.
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Video A Seriously High Speed Video Camera (Video) 62
Tim: Mike, what is it you are holding in your hand right now?
Mike: We have here the Edgertronic high-speed video camera. This is a product that we've been in development for about two years, and we've been shipping for six months starting in December of 2013. We have quite a few of these cameras already in the field and a lot of customers that are doing very interesting things with it.
Tim: When you say high-speed, can you quantify that a bit?
Mike: The camera has a range of resolutions: At the highest resolution which is 1280 x 1024 we can shoot approximately 500 frames per second. At the common 720p resolution, we can shoot 701 frames per second. And by reducing resolution, for example, a VGA resolution 640X480 we can shoot 1850 frames per second all the way down to 18,000 frames per second at very small resolutions.
Tim: Now there are other high-speed cameras in the world, what makes this a different proposition?
Mike: Well, what makes this camera different is it's accessible. There are many cameras right now that you can buy that have this exact same level of performance—they are built around the same technology, the same sensors. If you look at our spec sheet and their spec sheet, they are virtually identical. But those other cameras cost $22,000 up to $50,000—this camera is $5495. Through clever engineering and skilful design, we've made this camera accessible to a market that's previously been locked out.
Tim: Now that market includes what kind of uses? Where do you see this camera being used?
Mike: We are seeing this camera used in five main areas:
The first area is industrial. Imagine some company that has a production line—it's building something, for example, it might be a bottling plant or it might be a production line that makes cardboard boxes. Invariably these production lines have problems when things jam, things break. And somebody needs to figure out what's going wrong and get the production line back running; otherwise, they are losing money every second of every day.
Another application is research. We're having people that are doing basic research and using this to understand the world around us.
A third application is educational—both at the high school level and at the university level, we are seeing these used in physics classes, in demonstrations about materials, fluid flow, various fundamental science applications.
The fourth application that we've seen, and it's kind of a no-brainer, is the entertainment market. We all know that high-speed video is cool and there are a lot of shows that capitalize on this, and show high-speed video as a key part of their presentation. So this camera now allows a number of film makers that don't have $50,000 to $100,000 or more to spend on a high-speed video camera to get that same level of performance—suddenly it opens the door for them to make high-speed part of their repertoire.
And then the final application we see is the enthusiast-hobbyist market. These are people that just know that high speed video is cool. They've been seeing it forever, they've always wanted to do it—and now they can.
Tim: Are you in that category yourself? What do you take pictures of at such high speeds?
Mike: To be honest, since I started this company I don't have a whole lot of time to do much of anything other than work on this product. Probably if I had more time, I would be getting more sleep. But this actually started a long time ago. When I was a kid, I was really fascinated by photography, and I got into photography. My dad got me a book that had some of the legendary photos that Doc Edgerton at MIT had taken—I thought that was really cool! He said, "You know, could you take anything like this?" I said, "Well, not with the stuff I have." I knew how expensive the strobes that Doc Edgerton was using and in the early '70s, those strobes cost $2000 apiece. As a kid and as a teenager, I didn't have 2000, I had ten bucks. So I figured a way to take a ten-dollar consumer electronic flash and modify it so I could get exposures on the order of 1/10,000th of a second. I was able to take some pictures of golf balls being hit with a golf club and getting that classic egg-shaped squish of the golf ball—that was pretty cool! After that, I had a career in electronics. I designed quite a few computers, consumer electronics, I've got products that are in the computer museum, I've got products that have gone into orbit, products that have been used undersea, medical devices, industrial devices—a large number of products some you might have even known.
Tim: Let's talk about the details of this product. Could you show it in close-up?
Mike: So it's actually not a very typical looking camera. It's a little box with a lens on it. Inside is a very powerful computer and a lot of very specialized electronics.
Tim: What's the sensor you've got in there?
Mike: So this has a special high speed CMOS sensor. It is approximately APS-C sized and when used with the Nikon F Mount lenses it gives you approximately a 2X zoom factor. Which is typical enough for most people these days, no one expects a lot with digital cameras. So it is very familiar in that way. But beyond that, this camera is unlike the typical cameras that you've seen—in a number of ways: One is just the sheer amount of data that it has to deal with. This camera is dealing with data on the order of gigabytes of data a second coming off of the sensor. So we have a lot of specialized and dedicated hardware that can deal with that flood of pixel data. Another thing that's unique about the camera is the simplicity and elegance of its interface. If you notice, this camera doesn't have a shutter button, it doesn't have a viewfinder, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that a normal camera does. It's designed to be hooked up to your laptop. You connect to it with an Ethernet cable, and the entire control of the camera—viewfinder, framing, setting exposure, controlling the camera, setting the shutter speeds, setting the framerate, resolution is all done through a web browser that runs in your laptop.
Tim: Now you mentioned that with these USB ports you got in here, there's potential of these for wireless connection down the road.
Mike: That's correct. We are working on software releases that will allow you to buy some wireless Wi-Fi dongles and plug them into the USB ports. You also can plug a memory card or memory stick into the USB port or a hard drive. So if you're capturing a lot of videos, and a 64-gig SD card isn't enough, then you can hook up your 4 terabyte hard drive to it.
Tim: I notice you have a power connection, but you certainly don't have the batteries in it?
Mike: No. That was one of our design issues. A battery pack that is this size would add to the weight of it and give you maybe a couple of hours, maybe four hours of runtime. That might be good for some people; other people might want more runtime. When we designed this camera one of our goals was to make it simple, make it inexpensive, and also to make it very small. Our first application that we saw, that we talked about is industrial. Industrial users will have some assembly line, some piece of machinery and a failure is occurring in it. We'll need to be able to put the camera inside of that machine to see the event that they are trying to capture and understand. If we make a camera the size of a lunch box it is not going to fit in some cases. So one of our design goals was to make the camera as small and light as possible without getting to the point where we start to get exorbitant in the price of the product. At some point, as you miniaturize something then the price starts to get out of control.
Tim: Right now, we are talking something a bit north of $5000?
Mike: Yeah. This camera right now sells for $5495 for a color camera, and $5695 for a black and white. Now people ask: "Why would I want the black and white if it costs more?" Well, the black and white costs more just due to economies of scale. We pay more for the sensors—unfortunately, we have to pass that cost on.
Tim: That's quite true with the Red, if they need the black and white that costs more.
Mike: That is correct. As does Leica. But the advantage that you have with black and white is since it doesn't have the Bayer color filter, you have an advantage in resolution and you also have an advantage of 2 f-stops in light sensitivity. People will soon discover with high-speed video, if they haven't had any experience, that lighting becomes an issue. Every day, people are content to shoot with shutter speeds of 30 to 1/500th of a second. But this is a high-speed video camera—most people don't shoot at shutter speeds below 500th of a second. As a matter of fact, I don't think any of the demos we have today have shutter speeds under 500th of a second, maybe even a 1000. I've shot videos with shutter speeds all the way up to 1/100,000th of a second—that's 10 microseconds. When you have shutter times that are that short, you need an awful lot of light, because there is just not a lot of time to capture the photons while the shutter is open.
Tim: And a lot of storage too.
Mike: And a lot of storage.
Tim: One more thing—would you mind addressing for people who may be as imaging-naïve as I am, what kind of shutter you are using here, how do you achieve them at very high speeds?
Mike: So this camera is a true high-speed video camera, and one of the characteristics that make it a high-speed video camera is it's based around the sensor that uses a global shutter. Long ago, in the early days of digital cameras and digital video all cameras had global shutters. And as technology changed, they were able to improve the characteristics of those cameras and those sensors by going to what's called the rolling shutter. For more details on the difference between a rolling shutter and a global shutter you can go to Wikipedia—they've got an excellent webpage that has great descriptions as well as pictures that show the differences. For a consumer product, a rolling shutter is a great technology use—it's cheap, it gives you high pixel counts, high sensitivity, great image quality. And it works well as long as things aren't moving too fast. But for high-speed photography the reason you want the camera is for something that's moving too fast to see—that's the whole reason for having high speed. If it's not moving fast, you don't need the high speed.
Tim: You want a series of stills.
Mike: You want a series of stills. And what a global shutter does, unlike the rolling shutter, is it captures the image all at the exact same moment. So when I have that 10-microsecond exposure every pixel is exposed for the exact same time during that 10-microsecond exposure. That's not true of the typical rolling shutter cameras. So what's the bottom line? The bottom line is: If it doesn't have a global shutter, it's not a true high-speed camera—it's as simple as that. If you want a camera for high-speed that entails motion, you are taking videos of something that's moving and it's moving really fast. And for those cases, you have to have a global shutter.
Tim: Let me ask you one more question:
Mike: Go ahead.
Tim: Tell our readers what your first computer was.
Mike: My first computer was a DEC PDP-8 that I scrounged out of a bunch of discarded parts from a local high school.
Tim: And how long did that work?
Mike: I actually used it during college—I actually wrote my thesis paper on it—back when people didn't have PCs or laser printers or any of the stuff we take for granted.


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LIU Brooklyn wins NEC tourney again, gains NCAA berth
NEW YORK -- LIU Brooklyn became the first team in the 32-year history of the Northeast Conference to claim three straight tournament titles when it knocked off Mount St. Mary's, 91-70, Wednesday night.
By virtue of the win, the Blackbirds (20-13) received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth straight game where they scored 90 points or more.
Mount St. Mary's (18-14) was seeking to become the first school in the NEC to win a conference championship by winning all three tournament games on the road. The Mountaineers ousted top-seeded Robert Morris in the semifinals.
But coach Jamion Christian's team ran into a human buzz saw in LIU Brooklyn's C.J. Garner. The senior guard led the Blackbirds with a career-high 31 points, displaying a variety of spin moves, floaters and ball-handling skills that the Mountaineers found difficult to defend.
The 5-10 Garner, who was voted the tournament MVP, has scored at least 30 points in three of his last four games and is averaging 23.4 points in his last 11 games. Garner's 84 points in the three tournament games is two points shy of Robert Morris' Chipper Harris record, set in 1983.
LIU Brooklyn's Jamal Olasewere, the NEC Player of the Year, scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
The Mountaineers, who saw their nine-game win streak snapped, received 21 points from Sam Prescott and 12 points from Kristijan Krajina off the bench.
Fueled by a packed crowd of 1,700 chanting "Three Peat" at The Wellness Center, the Blackbirds used a 14-2 run to start the second quarter to roll ahead 49-35 with 14:17 left to play. Garner scored five in the run and Olasewere chipped in with four points.
Mount St. Mary's got to within 11 points at 57-46 at the 11:14 mark, then fell prey to another big run from the Blackbirds. Garner tabulated nine points in a 14-2 blitz that increased his teams lead to 71-48 with 7:53 to go.
Mount St. Mary's trademark 3-point shooting, which had been effective in the first half, abandoned it in the second. The Mounties sank 3-of-18 3-pointers in the second half. They entered the game 10th in the country in successful 3-pointers at 8.5
"We have a young team. I think we got caught up in the hype of the moment," said Christian. "The guys got a little antsy. They didn't share the ball well. We had good looks and they didn't go in."
A lot of that had to do with LIU's perimeter defense.
"We changed up to a 2-3 zone to extend it and take away those 3-point shots," LIU Brooklyn coach Jack Perri said. "I actually asked C.J. (Garner) at halftime if he wanted to stay in the 2? He said he did.
"I trust him so much and it worked."
In his first year as coach at LIU, Perri has been overcoming adversity all season. The Blackbirds lost the returning NEC Player of the Year, Julian Boyd, to an ACL tear in December. He was among the four LIU players suspended in the aftermath of an on-campus brawl. The suspensions led to a 1-3 start in NEC play and six straight losses from late December to the second week in January.
"I wasn't sure which way it would go when we lost six in a row," Perri said, "but they showed me what they're made of."
The Mountaineers defense was exposed all night as the Blackbirds were able to convert easy transition baskets. LIU Brooklyn scored 16 points off the nation's worst defense when it comes to field goal percentage. Mount St. Mary's ranks last in the country in the category as teams shoot better than 51 percent against them.
LIU Brooklyn shot 61.4 percent Tuesday night.
"We just didn't get enough defensive stops," Christian said. "You don't see too many championship games where a team shoots 64 percent."
The first half was played at break-neck speed, featuring five lead changes and four ties. Neither team maintained more than an eight-point advantage.
The Blackbirds scored six straight points to end the half and took a 35-31 lead, erasing a 31-29 Mountaineers lead. Mount St. Mary's used its trademark long-range shooting to grab an early 20-12 advantage.
Prescott connected on each of his first four 3-point attempts in that run and finished the half with 15 points. Not to be outdone, his backcourt opponent, Garner, deposited 14 first-half points. Garner was particularly effective driving the lane, as the Blackbirds collected 24 points in the paint before the break.
The nine-game winning streak was the third longest win streak by a Mountaineers team since the school moved to Division 1 in 1988-89.
NOTES: Perri and Christian are both finalists for the Joe B. Hall Award, presented to the top first-year coach in Division I. ... Mount St. Mary's guard Shivaughn Wiggins was named the Northeast Conference's Rookie of the Year, only the second time in school history a player received that award. He averaged 9.6 points per game and shot 46.8 percent from 3-point range. ... LIU Brooklyn entered the game ranked sixth in the country in scoring (79.1 ppg) and 14th in offensive field-goal percentage (47.9). ... The Blackbirds also were second in the nation in free-throw attempts per game (26.1) and third in makes per game (18.0).


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The TOPS Open House for members, former members and new members will be held for four consecutive Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m., Jan. 8, 15, 22 and 29 at the Farmers Protective Insurance office at 119 W. Fourth St.
The New Year is here and Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) No. 565 in Stuttgart begins the new year with an Open House.
The TOPS Open House for members, former members and new members will be held for four consecutive Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m., Jan. 8, 15, 22 and 29 at the Farmers Protective Insurance office at 119 W. Fourth St.
"We want everyone to start off new for the new year," Edie Baugh, charter member of the TOPS in Stuttgart, said. "The theme is 'A New Year for A New You.'"
Baugh said it takes that first step, the support of other people, a commitment and a club who supports its members in a healthy way to lose weight.
"We will have new incentives for members to be encouraged in their journey to lose weight," Baugh said. "This is a new year with new ideas."
The incentives are:
• Once-a-month food journal drawing — which each member will keep for one week, to be turned in at the end of that week when the member weighs in.
• New members — All new members to join will, at the end of January, be eligible to receive a one year membership to the local TOPS organization.
• Weigh In Wishing Well — Incentive for each member to weigh in one quarter.
The TOPS Club, Inc. is the original, nonprofit, weight loss support and wellness organization, which was established in 1948 to champion weight-loss support and success.
Micki Parham, TOPS member in Stuttgart for over five years, said she was a member of another TOPS club when it was disbanded and began her membership at the Stuttgart TOPS club for support and weight loss.
"I continue the program because it keeps my weight off," Parham said.
"We encourage everyone to join us at our open house in the month of January," Anita Bowlan, local leader, said. "We have a great time and encourage each other to lose weight."
For more information concerning the open house or membership, contact Baugh at (870) 673-3508 or Pat Meins at (870) 673-1629.


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Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by FCCstandards, Nov 29, 2012.
Of course Robin's name is big and lavish 34
Monkey is the only one with proper penmanship.
what is this? they auctioning it for another charity?
no it was just posted on the website by Jason
we should bring a class action lawsuit for the claims made on that poster about "the tapes".
20,000 hours from the past 20 years. Heavily edited all non-PC stuff censored. Totally sanitized.
Know more bullshit?
Online is extra now too isn't it? (Ive never had sirius)
just 12.95 a month!!!!!!
+ internet fees
+ music licensing fees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is Jackie Martling?
It looks like Artie fell asleep in the middle of writing his last name


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UPDATED 4.16.2013 by Julie Montanaro
The Madison 9 is now down to two and the NAACP is demanding charges against them be dropped.
They protested outside the state attorney's door this morning.
"It's just, its just been real rough. Its just something I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through," Tina Johnson, Still Facing Charges, said.
Tina and Earnest Johnson are the last of the Madison 9 still facing charges for voter fraud. They stood outside the state attorney's office as the NAACP demanded charges against them be dropped.
"Enough is enough," Juvais Harrington, Florida State Chapter, NAACP, said.
"The charges should be dropped, and we are very confident they will be by the judge. But we're asking is that Willie Meggs would concede," Jami Coleman, Johnson's Attorney, said.
Tina Johnson was the winner of a hotly contested school board race in Madison County in 2010. She was suspended after she and eight others were accused in an absentee ballot scheme.
Judges have already dropped the charges against five others.
Two more had charges dropped after signing deferred prosecution deals.
Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman says she considers the Johnson's the most culpable of all and vows to let the courts decide.
"Some of the other people that were arrested were more peripheral players in the investigation whereas she's the target of the investigation," Cappleman said.
The NAACP called on prosecutors to concede there was no criminal conduct or intent.
"There was no ill feelings," Laverne Haynes, Madison 9, said. "No ill intent. Nothing. It was just to assist people that were not able to vote."
"I thought it was okay to help folk, you know, to vote," Earnest Johnson, Still Facing Charges, said. "We're just waiting and hoping that everything will just be in our favor."
The Johnson's are awaiting a court date to consider a motion to dismiss the charges.
UPDATED 4.16.2013 by Julie Montanaro
The Madison 9 is now down to two and the NAACP is demanding charges against them be dropped.
They protested outside the state attorney's door this morning.
UPDATED 4.10.2011 by Julie Montanaro
The "Madison 9" is now down to the Madison 2.
A Leon County judge today dropped the charges against former Madison County elections supervisor Jada Williams.
She was facing 17 counts of neglect of duty.
Williams was one of nine people arrested in a voter fraud investigation that stemmed from a 2010 Madison County school board race.
Williams' attorney said there was no evidence she committed a crime.
"Today Jada Williams was fully and completely exonerated by the Court. All of the charges were dismissed because there was no evidence that she ever committed any type of crime. The evidence clearly showed that she was not involved in any fraud or collusion whatsoever," attorney Matt Foster said.
"Now the hard part is going to be putting her life back together and moving forward. This has been very difficult but anyone who knows Jada will tell you she is a fighter and will find a way to get back on her feet," he said.
Williams was suspended from her job in the wake of her arrest and lost a subsequent election.
Tallahassee, FL - Charges against another one of the Madison Nine have been dropped.
Jada Williams - the former elections supervisor - was facing 17 counts of neglect of duty.
She was being tried in Leon County. County Judge Aikens dismissed the charges this morning.
WCTV will bring you more tonight on Eyewitness News.


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U.S. Marines, Iraqi Troops finish 'Quick Strike' Operation
American Forces Press Service
Iraqi special operations forces, Iraqi army soldiers and U.S. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 2 concluded Operation Quick Strike today.
American and Iraqi forces had teamed up to sweep the Haditha, Haqliniyah and Barwanah areas in recent few days as a part of a joint operation interdicting foreign and domestic terrorists' presence and networks, and collecting intelligence.
Quick Strike netted 36 suspected terrorists for questioning, officials said.
"This is another operation, similar to those conducted before, that has disrupted the insurgents' ability to operate freely in the western Al Anbar region," said Col. Stephen W. Davis, commanding officer, Regimental Combat Team 2. "The intelligence collected throughout this operation will enable us to better assist the citizens of western Al Anbar in their quest to participate in the upcoming referendum."
Nine car bombs were discovered. Three were identified by a local citizen, and the remaining six were discovered in an assembly garage used for rigging vehicles with explosives for insurgents to attack Iraqi civilians and military targets. And 28 improvised bombs were discovered during the operation. Most were planted as roadside bombs; others were rigged to destroy entire buildings.
(From a 2nd U.S. Marine Division news release.)


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Niemi Earns Brocade 'Sharks Player of the Month'by Staff Writer / San Jose Sharks
SAN JOSE, California - The San Jose Sharks announced today that goaltender Antti Niemi has been selected as the Brocade "Sharks Player of the Month" for the months of January and February 2013.
Thru March 4, Niemi is 3rd in the NHL in goals-against average (1.83), 4th in save percentage (.934), and T-6th in wins (9). He has given up two or less goals in 12 of his 17 games this season.
Established in the 1996-97 season, the Brocade "Sharks Player of the Month" program honors the Sharks player(s) who have contributed most to the team's success each month. Brocade will donate $2,500 on behalf of the player(s) to The Sharks Foundation. In addition, one player will be selected as the Brocade "Sharks Player of the Year" at the conclusion of the season and Brocade will donate $5,000 on his behalf to The Sharks Foundation. The Sharks Player of the Month and Year award program has donated more than $300,000 to The Sharks Foundation since the program's inception.
"As a company that got its start and continues to thrive in Silicon Valley, Brocade is proud to partner with the Sharks Foundation to provide access to food and shelter and promote health, education and wellness initiatives in our local communities," said Andy Vandeveld, a Brocade executive and a major proponent of the company's culture of community involvement and volunteerism. "Our congratulations go out to the Sharks Player of the Month, Antti Niemi, and we're thrilled to be making a charitable contribution in his name to support such a worthy cause."
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2006 Volleyball
Bluffton 3, Franklin 0
Beavers pick up first HCAC victory since 2004 with 3-0 win over Franklin
October 5, 2006
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's volleyball team picked up its first Heartland Conference victory of the year and the first HCAC win during head coach Steve Yarnell's tenure at Bluffton with a straight set thrashing of the Franklin College Grizzlies on Thursday, October 5. The Beavers took care of business 30-20, 30-22 and 30-25 as they improved to 7-16, 1-1 in the HCAC.
The Grizzlies went up, 9-5, in game one before Bluffton responded with seven of the next eight points on the serving of senior Katie Moore (Bucyrus/Wynford) and Audra Coleman (Lima/Central Catholic) for a 12-10 lead. Neither team gained a marked advantage until, with the game knotted at 19, the Beavers rolled 11 of the next 12 points to stun the Grizzlies, 30-20. Coleman served the final eight points of the set as freshman middle hitter Anna Viars (Lebanon/Lebanon) dominated at the net with three kills and two blocks during the run.
Bluffton jumped out to a 3-1 lead in game two thanks to the serving of senior setter Brittany Shultz (Hudson, Ind./Prairie Heights) and the net play of Viars. With the Beavers on top, 18-14, Franklin went on a three-point run to close the gap to one point. Holding a slim two-point advantage, 21-19, Bluffton closed with nine of the last 12 points to take the game convincingly, 30-22.
Despite trailing Franklin 5-0 at the onset of the third game, the Beavers rallied, using the support of the student faithful which was transplanted opposite of its usual stage presence to the upper deck due to preparations for the presidential inauguration, to overtake Franklin, 12-11, following a five-point Bluffton spurt. The lead bounced back-and-forth until the Beavers went ahead, 25-22, and never looked back. Bluffton improved to 7-16 with the 30-25 win in game three as it gave the Grizzlies their first loss in the HCAC this year.
Viars again led the Beavers as she pounded 15 kills on only 24 attempts for an unbelievable .542 hitting percentage. Freshmen Michele Rosen (Harrison/Harrison) and Jordan Scifres (Greenwood, Ind./Lutheran) cleaned up on the outside with nine and eight kills while juniors Kalla Aeschliman (Wauseon/Wauseon) and Rachel Alvarez (Convoy/Crestview) chipped in with eight and seven kills. Shultz paced the Beavers with 23 assists while Chelsea Wyse (Archbold/Archbold) tacked on 17 assists. Viars patrolled the middle with 5 blocks, including 2 solos, while Scifres stopped four Grizzly attacks at the net. In the back, Brittany Roth (Findlay/Findlay) played a huge part in the victory as she picked up 18 digs.
Bluffton was firing on all cylinders as the team hit .441 in the first game, .279 in game two and .229 in the final game (.304 for the match). The Beavers tallied nine team blocks and served five aces in the three-set victory.
The volleyball team returns to action on Tuesday, October 10, when it travels to face the Anderson University Ravens at 7 p.m.


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Mullins leads Columbia past Penn 58-41
NEW YORK (AP) -- Grant Mullins scored 18 points to lead Columbia to a 58-41 win over Penn on Saturday night in a game featuring poor second-half shooting by both teams.
Columba and Penn combined to make six field goals after halftime. The Lions shot 10 percent (2 of 20) from the floor, and the Quakers made 16.7 percent (4 of 24) of their shots.
Columbia (11-13, 3-7 Ivy League) went into halftime with a 35-25 lead and controlled the second half - despite its poor shooting. The Lions, who snapped a three-game losing streak, took their largest lead at 19 points with 2:09 left to play.
Brian Barbour finished with 12 points and Maodo Lo added 11 points for Columbia.
Tony Hicks scored 19 points for Penn (7-19, 4-5), which had its two-game winning streak snapped.
Columbia's reserves outscored the Quakers' bench players 23-3.


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(KPNX) There's an emotional picture that's been making its rounds on the web recently.
It shows an army airborne soldier watching his wife give birth to their first two children, twin girls, live via video chat from Afghanistan.
In the photo you see the new father crying tears of joy thousands of miles and ten hours away from where he wants to be in the hospital room with his new family.
"He just started crying, and it was pretty awesome, and then he heard the second one scream and he was just super excited about it all," said new mom Shannon Romney of Mesa, Arizona.
Liberty and Lauren were born just minutes apart.
Shannon Romney says a nurse held her phone as she and her husband shared the moment during her 3:00AM caesarian section.
"He was looking at me kind of shocked, but then he had this big huge smile on his face," Romney said.
It's a bittersweet moment, something Romney says she and her husband Colton are getting used to.
The Mesa high school sweethearts were also apart when Romney had her ultrasound revealing they would be having twins.
"He was shocked and i was shocked and he didn't believe it until i showed him that we were having twins. It's weird what technology can do these days," said Romney.
Colton's mom Tammie Romney says it's been a blessing as three of her sons have served their country overseas.
"I have posted on my army mom's page many times; i don't know how people did this before Skype," said Tammie Romney.
That's especially true when information about loved ones is in short supply on the front lines.
Shannon Romney says she doesn't know when her husband will get to hold his two girls.
"I have been worried since he left, but, now that they're born, it definitely became greater because he's over there," Romney said.
Liberty and Lauren are both preemies delivered on Wednesday.
Shannon Romney says doctors performed the C-section on her birthday.


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even though they lost some talent these Phillies CAN HIT THE BASEBALL
They need to stop pitching to Howard. He kills the Reds every game.
The shift is something that always manages to amaze me. I can't recall it even existing more than seven or eight years ago. I would be embarrassed as a pro to have a team play me in a way that says, "your abilities are so limited and predictable that we're just going to concede the entire left side of the infield to you." At least throw a bunt down the third base line every now and then.
(Referring to Jack Hannahan signing with a Korean team)
Since there are no teams on the moon, I guess South Korea's far enough from Cincinnati to satisfy me.
Leake on the way to a short outing...already 56 pitches through 3 innings with 5 hits allowed
Bruce trots down to first. Nice start.
(Referring to Jack Hannahan signing with a Korean team)
Since there are no teams on the moon, I guess South Korea's far enough from Cincinnati to satisfy me.
I believe Cairo struggles so much at the plate because he can't see. He's constantly squinting.
Originally called the "Boudreau" or "Williams" shift, the strategy is often associated with Ted Williams, but it was actually first employed against Cy Williams during the 1920s.[1][2] It was later used against Ted Williams during the 1946 World Series between the Red Sox and the Cardinals as a defensive gimmick by St. Louis manager Eddie Dyer to psych out and hopefully contain Boston slugger Williams. It was devised by Cleveland Indians manager Lou Boudreau on a blackboard between games of a doubleheader in July 1946 to halt Williams' hot hitting. "I always considered The Boudreau Shift a psychological, rather than a tactical victory," wrote Lou Boudreau in his book, Player-Manager. The shift has been employed since then to thwart extreme pull hitters (mostly lefties), such as Barry Bonds, Ryan Howard, Jason Giambi, or David Ortiz.
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Looks like the thread view count problem is back, as described in http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...13#post2074413. Can't say anything about attachment download counts by now.
As of now, thread view counters seem to work properly, yet attachment download counters still appear to be stuck.
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Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Model
Internet Archive – "Today, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of mostly 20th century books on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it's already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons with an OpenLibrary.org account can borrow any of these lendable eBooks using laptops, reading devices or library computers. This new twist on the traditional lending model could increase eBook use and revenue for publishers. "As readers go digital, so are our libraries," said Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. "It's fabulous to work with such a great group of 150 forward-thinking libraries."


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t_contact::model()->insert(array('attributes'=>array( 'ID' => $id, 'NAME' => $this->NAME )));
i try to insert data with insert() method but not work, got this error?
CDbException Description The active record cannot be inserted to database because it is not new.
note : my current model is t_post. and i not crud t_contact table, only create model in commnd line(DOS).
is there any other solution ?
1 search entire forum to see snipet about insert() method, but it seems no one use this method.
is't me in the wrong way
thank before.


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US shoppers spent heavily online on the crucial Black Friday shopping day, for the first time topping a billion dollars in online sales in a single day, analysts and retailers said.
The four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend is the start of the US holiday shopping season, and Black Friday has long been considered the critical day that turns retailers' books from red to black.
Consumer spending makes up more than two-thirds of US economic activity. So the short, but busiest, consumer sales season is of huge importance to the US economy for the whole year.
This year, online shoppers spent a grand total of US$1.042 billion on Friday, surpassing last year's Black Friday haul by 26 percent, according to consulting firm Comscore.
A total of 57.3 million Americans visited online retail sites on Black Friday, representing an increase of 18 percent versus a year ago, the firm said.
It said that Amazon.com ranked as the most visited online retail site on that day.
"Despite the frenzy of media coverage surrounding the importance of Black Friday in the brick-and-mortar world, we continue to see this shopping day become more and more prominent in the e-commerce channel — particularly among those who prefer to avoid crowds at the stores," Comscore chairman Gian Fulgoni said.
Another study by IMB Benchmark Digital Analytics saw an increase of 21 percent in Internet sales, with a surge in orders of mobile devices and tablet computers, in particular.
However, the new record might be short-lived.
Coming next is "Cyber Monday," the day Americans go back to work and online retailers launch heavy promotions to reel in more shoppers.
"According to norms we've observed over the past three years," retail analyst ShopperTrak said, the Monday after Thanksgiving "should be the heaviest online shopping day of the season with sales approaching US$1.5 billion or even higher."
Across the four-day weekend, US shoppers spent US$59.1 billion dollars, a jump of 13 percent over the previous year, the National Retail Federation (NRF) announced.
"It's phenomenal," NRF director Mathew Shay told reporters at a press conference, saying the numbers bode well for the holiday season despite the still-struggling economy.
American consumers spent an average of US$423 this weekend, compared to US$398 last year, the group reported.
However, the NRF did not revise its prediction for the US holiday shopping season as a whole, keeping it at a 4.1 percent increase year-on-year, saying that consumers remain cautious about the economy.
The looming threat of the "fiscal cliff," which could send taxes soaring if Republicans and Democrats do not reach a compromise on reducing the deficit before the end of the year, also had the retailers worried.
And despite the good numbers overall, sales at brick-and-mortar locations were sluggish on "Black Friday:" In-store traffic increased by 3.5 percent on Friday with more than 307 million visitors, but total sales actually went down compared to the previous year by 1.8 percent, according to ShopperTrak.
Some of the biggest numbers went to the stores that opened early on the Thanksgiving holiday itself — a growing trend, especially among large chain stores, that is turning the traditionally family-based holiday into a commercial event.
"Opening on Thanksgiving was a big win," Shay said, adding that 35 million people went shopping, a 40 percent surge over the previous year.
Comscore also noted a jump in online Thanksgiving day sales, up 32 percent from last year, with US$633 million in sales, though the IMB Benchmark Digital Analytics survey saw a more modest gain of 17.4 percent.
However, ShopperTrak noted that the Thanksgiving day shopping may have undercut spending usually meant for Friday, without increasing the overall numbers.


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Official Release: "Brewers Baseball Academy Presented By Kwik Trip" To Debut This Summer
Eight Week-long Camps Scheduled Throughout Wisconsin; Camp Registration Available at Brewers.com/camps
The Milwaukee Brewers are proud to announce the inaugural season of the "Brewers Baseball Academy presented by Kwik Trip." The Academy is open to youth (ages 6-14) and includes eight separate week-long baseball/softball camps that will be held in various cities across Wisconsin this summer. A complete schedule of camp locations and dates is listed below. The camps will be conducted under the supervision of Tim Rappé, executive director of the Brewers Baseball Academy.
"Our promise is to create a world class Milwaukee Brewers baseball experience for every camper," said Rappé. "Regardless of skill level, the camp will profoundly improve each player's ability to play the game of baseball."
Each camp runs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. with instruction provided by experienced youth coaches. During one of the five camp days, campers are transported by bus to Miller Park for a one-of-a-kind experience as they will be treated to a guest appearance from a current Brewers player and have their photo taken. Campers will also receive instruction from Brewers coach John Shelby.
A unique component of the Brewers Baseball Academy is that a video motion analysis of each participant will be performed. Every camper's swing will be recorded, analyzed and shared with the player and his/her parents. In addition, all participants will take part in a baseball or softball skills competition. Each week, scores will be posted at Brewers.com/camps and upon completion of the last camp (August 12-16), the top scorers will be invited to the Champions' Day Finals at Miller Park. Boys and girls will compete separately in appropriate grade groups.
The fee for the week-long camp is $395 per child, which includes 30 hours of exceptional instruction, a complete Brewers uniform, four Brewers game tickets to one of three select games – compliments of Kwik Trip – and a V.I.P. day at Miller Park.
Registration is currently available at Brewers.com/camps. Registrations received prior to March 31 will receive a $25 discount. This discount may not be combined with any other discount. If registering two or more children, each child will receive a $25 discount if booked together. A limited number of spots are available for each camp location.
As the presenting sponsor of the Brewers Baseball Academy, Kwik Trip will award 120 random participants with $50 gift cards to their store. One lucky camper from each host city will also receive a personalized camp jersey, along with a special presentation during the camp graduation ceremony.
In addition, two registrations per host city will be given away through a promotion at Pick 'n Save stores throughout the season. For details, visit participating Pick 'n Save locations.
Additional information can be found online at Brewers.com/camps. For questions, please contact Executive Director Tim Rappé at email@example.com or call (414) 939-8808.
|2013 Brewers Baseball Academy presented by Kwik Trip
|Sun Prairie, WI
|Sun Prairie High School
|June 17-21
|Green Bay, WI
|Notre Dame Academy
|June 24-28
|Delafield, WI
|St. John's Northwestern Military Academy
|July 1-5
|Appleton, WI
|Fox Valley Lutheran High School
|July 8-12
|Milwaukee, WI
|University School of Milwaukee
|July 15-19
|Oshkosh, WI
|Oshkosh West High School
|July 22-26
|Mukwonago, WI
|Mukwonago High School
|July 29-August 2
|Kenosha, WI
|Carthage College
|August 12-16


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Host Michel Martin checks in with Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C. Public Schools. As chancellor, she made a number of controversial changes that were both applauded and denounced. A year ago, she started StudentsFirst, a group formed in response to increasing demands for a better public education system in America.
Michelle Rhee On 'Take No Prisoners' Approach
By editor • Dec 13, 2011


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Dogs compare numbers
WESTERN Bulldogs president Peter Gordon has revealed he is investigating the distributions received by clubs in major overseas competitions in a bid to help provide a solution for the growing divide in the AFL.
Collingwood's unprecedented profit of $7.83 million for 2012, having also disclosed it had spent $21.17 million on its football department, an increase of $1.75 million on 2011, has added to debate over the league's equalisation measures.
The Magpies' football department spending outpaces the likes of Melbourne ($18 million) and the Bulldogs ($15.75 million), with AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou conceding on Tuesday the gap could continue to increase, despite the measures taken last year with the club future fund.
Gordon, who will officially replace David Smorgon at the Bulldogs annual general meeting on December 20, has nominated equalisation as a key point of interest. ''I am studying it by not just reference to the way it works in the AFL but the way it works in elite sporting competitions all around the world,'' he said. ''From the Bundesliga, to the English Premier League to the NFL to the NBA. There are lots of such competitions and it seems fairly evident that all of them have smaller and larger franchises. It also seems very clear that there are a range of policies with respect to the distribution of what might be called core or central revenues.
''I want to spend a little bit of time understanding the area before I dip my toe into the water into what the appropriate AFL position ought to be or, indeed, what the appropriate Western Bulldogs position would be.
''What I do say is every club should aspire to be like Collingwood. They are, obviously, an icon of the AFL, tremendously well-run and their financial result is a great credit to them.''
The Bulldogs declared an operating loss of $136,679 for the year ending October 31, but did increase football spending by $1.2 million.
''The Bulldogs is essentially a break-even result this year based on a lower spend in its football department than is the median spend. That is one of the things that we are seeking to address,'' Gordon said.
Club presidents and chief executives will meet the AFL in March to discuss the issue.
St Kilda president Greg Westaway has flagged the possibility of taxing interstate clubs which benefit from lucrative home-ground deals. But the two West Australian-based teams point out they will each pay the West Australian Football League more than $5 million next year in licence fees.
Demetriou said all parties had ''agreed that something needs to be done''.
''We have got an equalisation process at the moment which is working,'' he said. ''There is no doubt in the first year of the five-year 'disequalisation' strategy we have seen some significant shifts in clubs like Richmond, North Melbourne - some really pleasing things happening at the Bulldogs and St Kilda.''
But the fine print released by clubs indicates issues still abound in terms of giving all clubs a better chance of winning a premiership.
''There are some aspects of the revenue gap that are widening,'' Demetriou said.
''We have seen some real responsible spending going on in football departments where some of the lower clubs have been able to spend more on their football department, but when you see some of the results, you are going to see that it gives [wealthier clubs] the potential to spend more on football, which means the gap might get larger again.''
Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.
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Minnesota's embattled Anoka-Hennepin School Board voted on Monday to repeal a long-held policy that prohibits discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the classroom and replaced it with a policy that directs district staff to "affirm the dignity and self-worth of all students," including those who are LGBT. Anti-discrimination groups hailed the move, while conservative Christian parents warned that the district would be overrun with "homosexual indoctrination."
The district, whose schools mostly fall in Rep. Michele Bachmann's congressional district, has been at the center of a raging controversy, with some parents attributing anti-gay bullying and more than a half-dozen suicides in two years to Anoka-Hennepin's policy on LGBT issues.
Dubbed the "neutrality policy" and the "sexual orientation curriculum policy," it had its roots in a 1995 program colloquially called "no promo homo," which was created by conservative Christian parents with ties to the Minnesota Family Council.
This policy plainly stated:
[H]omosexuality [will] not be taught/addressed as a normal, valid lifestyle and that the district staff and their resources not advocate the homosexual lifestyle.
Barb Anderson, a Minnesota Family Council researcher, helped form the Parent Action League, the vehicle through which those parents urged the school board to maintain this policy and demand that the school board add "ex-gay therapy" and other curriculum that disparaged LGBT students.
Before the board voted Monday night, the two sides tussled over the policy, as they have for the last two years.
Lori Thompson, a frequent testifier at the board meetings and a member of the Parents Action League, complained of a "relentless campaign by homosexual activists" over the last 18 months. She said that the idea that the policy aided and abetted anti-LGBT bullying was false.
"Only the gullible and oblivious believe that line," Thompson said.
She said repealing the policy would lead to "indoctrinating the porous young minds with the homosexual propaganda" and that "homosexual activists" had created a controversy where none exists.
"I blame these same adults for creating an unsafe environment for students who believe in traditional values," she said, adding that that environment was perpetuated by "liberal sassy teachers who don't know how to behave."
The meeting came a week after Rolling Stone magazine took an in-depth look at this district and its anti-LGBT policy.
Thompson called the article a "vicious and brutal attack on our community by Rolling Stone."
"Do not let the liberal media or gay activists define who you are," she said, addressing the students in the audience.
A grandmother named Susan appeared before the board to testify against the more inclusive policy.
"As a grandmother, I could not be quiet anymore," she said. "The classroom is no place to push the homosexual agenda. We have people trying to shove this lifestyle down our throat trying to teach our children what it is all about. I am a believer in Jesus Christ and I have a humble heart. I say this not with any hate in our heart because I am concerned for our children."
Mackie Barnett, a student in the district, said the policy needed to be changed, citing friends she's lost to suicide.
"How can we not acknowledge that something in this system is wrong?" she asked the board. "[Students] need to be taught the true facts that being gay and lesbian is not a lifestyle choice. You are born that way. There's no gay agenda. What do gay people want that is so different from straight people?"
Rachel Holly, another student, said that though she identifies as straight, she is constantly called a "gay activist" because she supports her LGBT peers.
"I'm just trying to help those who need a voice," she said."Learning about gay issues has never impacted me. How is learning about gay people been a negative for me?"
The Rev. Sharon James Fazel of the First Congregation United Church of Christ also took issue with the term "homosexual activists."
"What exactly is this all about where 'activist' is used as a dirty word?" she asked. "We would have slavery and no women voting if it weren't for activists, and I wouldn't have a church if there wasn't an activist named Jesus Christ."
Before the vote, board member Scott Wenzel gave his support for the new policy.
"I truly hope [the new policy] will move this district and our community forward," he said. "We are removing a policy that has singled out one minority group in this district."
Board Chair Tom Heidemann, who has in the past opposed efforts to repeal the policy, said now is the right time to repeal it.
"We are elected officials, we represent the community, and we put in place curriculum that reflects the community in which we serve," he said. "I'm going to support the new policy because I believe this is the best thing for Anoka-Hennepin and the best thing for students."
The vote passed the six-member board by a voice vote with one member voting "no."
Anti-discrimination groups cautiously praised the vote.
"While some have legitimately asked whether this policy will change much, the fact is that policies matter," OutFront Minnesota said in a statement. "They reflect priorities and values, they send messages of inclusion ... or the opposite. For the first time in 17 years Minnesota's largest district will not have a policy designed to stigmatize its LGBT students."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which had sued the district on behalf of five students who had been bullied in Anoka schools, did not comment on the lawsuit but praised the vote.
"Today is the first day in nearly 18 years that Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District no longer has a harmful policy that singles out lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students," the group said in a statement. "Although we would have preferred for the District to have repealed this stigmatizing policy without replacing it, we are pleased that the new policy expressly requires district staff to affirm the dignity and self-worth of all students, including LGBT students."
Photo: Students in Anoka-Hennepin at a 2011 board meeting (AMERICAN INDEPENDENT/Andy Birkey)


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"It just tells you how selfish he is. He comes on, not a word - 'I'm not gonna sing with anybody else, I'm not gonna say goodbye.'..."
So Cowell had to hit back. Ow!
Oh, it's probably a strategic move, the first in a series of moves that will end with an official Prince night next season.
33 comments:
- Brendan said...
Faded stars copping an attitude. Priceless.
- Harkonnendog said...
It would have felt akward and stupid had Prince stood there to be interviewed. From the way he entered to the way he walked off- it was all a part of the performance.
- Ann Althouse said...
I think all the other guest stars sang with one of the idols. Mary J. Blige did.
Prince is not a faded star. He's huge. He had an extremely successful concert tour last year and is quite adulated.
- Wickedpinto said...
Prince is a Major Star, but he is not a major record seller the way he was.
Most of the other stars are in the background, but prince has been able to maintain his image throughout all of his silliness. I agree with Simon that prince was selfish, but I would rather have Prince come out and sing a song and walk off, than watch Blige bigfoot elliot again.
I was so made, watching her do that.
- Brendan said...
Prince is not a faded star. He's huge. He had an extremely successful concert tour last year and is quite adulated.
It seems your definition of "star" is more elastic than mine. Lots of past-their-prime stars continue to tour and pull in the diehards. Lord knows Sinatra, Bobby Sherman, Tom Jones, and David Cassidy did. Hell, AI hosted nothing but faded stars this year (Manilow, Queen, etc.) How many Top 50 Billboard hits has Prince amassed in say the last 10 years? How many of his fans are under 25? He looks great for his age, but he's not a contemporary pop star. Just sit back and enjoy the nostalgia.
- Ann Althouse said...
There's also the issue of Prince being extremely short. He would probably had looked odd standing next to Ryan. And really, why should Prince have to deal with Ryan? But then, really, he just doesn't belong on the show.
- Sanjay said...
Now, all due props to Prince. But his star _has_ faded somewhat. So he can still sell records. But there was a time you'd have described Prince as a real innovator and I don't think you'd do that now: the Prince "too clever for you" think is pretty much gone. If it weren't Cowell wouldn't do what he did there: it'd have been clever genius Prince doing what clever geniuses do. But as he stands it looks more like, rock star acting like a dick. So Cowell can blow the whistle.
Not that Idol might not whore out to him another season: but it lowers my opinion of Prince some that he came on the show, too, y'know. That's hard to justify (I think Stevie Wonder is as musically talented as Prince, and I don't think less of him for doing Idol) and I think it comes from the sense of Prince, convention-defying musician, sucking up to a quest to find a plug-in formulaic singer. I hear that and think, man, the Prince that Miles Davis admired, that guy is dead.
As for Prince being short, that just underlines it -- the old Prince wouldn't have given a rat's ass.
- knoxgirl said...
That's how I expect Prince to act! If he stood up there and shmoozed, I'd be disappointed. I agree that it's part of his performance/personna.
And how many records he sells now is immaterial. Prince is an *icon,* like Sinatra or Madonna. He transcends sales or radio play.
me love prince
- Irene Done said...
I think we have to admit that Prince is still huge because 1) his appearance was so electrifying it was the first thing everyone wanted to talk about the next day and 2) AI agreed to his terms, selfish and flouncy as they may be.
me love prince too
- Brendan said...
He's like Farrah Fawcett: still famous, but not "huge." Not anymore.
- Wickedpinto said...
MJ Obligation still bigfooted Elliot, MJ Oblige me, was begging for a superstardom, and she proved it by insulting an up and comer.
MJ Oblige was worse than prince.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
I think knoxgirl was right on - I wouldn't have expected anything less of Prince.
And I know Simon makes the show, but really -- sometimes pissy and jealous just doesn't work. This is one of those times.
"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one but is an insect, and the other is a horse still." - Johnson
- MadisonMan said...
The first two things I thought when he left right away: He doesn't want to talk to Ryan (who would?), and he doesn't want to stand next to Ryan (he's short). It really did seem like part of the performance to me as well.
Simon comes off for the worse here. At least for the older demographic -- No idea how it plays to youth.
- chuck b. said...
I loved his love4oneanother.com website... lots of bloggy goodness (i.e., long, discursive essays about love, sex, god, etc straight from the brain of Prince). Not so much anymore (besides a fabulous picture of him w/ two chickees). Now that page just goes straight to the boring npg website.
I saw Prince once, in my junior year of high school on the Purple Rain tour. I wore eyeliner. Did I really just say that in public? Not really. I'm basically anonymous. Phew!
Is Prince still a Jehovah's Witness? He did that a while ago. That must be kind of interesting. A little bit interesting. Slightly interesting. It must contain a tiny bit of interest. A mote of interest floating across my mental field. Perhaps.
- Harkonnendog said...
"A mote of interest floating across my mental field. Perhaps."
He's great at basketball, according to Eddie Murphy's brother. Another mote? Perhaps?
- David Boyd said...
Knoxgirl is right. Prince wouldn't be Prince if he waited around for some corny chit-chat with Seacrest.
Simon feeling compelled to gripe about it proves who's hipper regardless of who may have had more recent success.
- Finn Kristiansen said...
Brendan said...
a lot of things that don't quite charaterize Prince in the right light. Sure he is not as big as he was in his prime years, but he continues to put out new music.
To compare him to Farah Fawcett is ridiculous, as she was never, even in her prime, considered good at what she did (being an "actress").
Further, we know nothing of his album sales at all, because for a long time he brought much of that in house, striking distribution deals with various companies, thus assuring that his take on each album would exceed the dollar or less the artists often get.
Then again, artists make the bulk of their money from touring, not radio rotations or album sales.
I think an artist is only faded if he fails to do new work, AND nobody pays to hear or see that work. Prince does not fit that bill.
Brendan, it's better to just say, "I don't like Prince" and be done with it.
And yes, it was snooty for him to walk off, and anything less would have been embarrassing. Prince is supposed to have attitude.
- Brendan said...
Finn, I liked Prince a lot ... when I was in tenth grade ... 23 years ago. Rockers like Prince don't get better or more creative with age. Happens to the best of us. He's not a fossil, but it's silly to pretend that he's still relevant.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
You can debate how important Prince still is, but I just watched the video again. Dang! He is teh cool.
Simon's comment? "It just tells how small he is."
- Troy said...
Besides -- I would've been disappointed if Prince had stopped to schmooze. It would be so un-Prince-like.
I would've been crushed if Bono had pranced out to help Mary J. Blige (whom I just don't get).
btw -- Prince killed at the Rock & Roll Hall-of-Fame concert. There's a lot of Jimi in that small frame.
- Drew W said...
Great. I've been wanting to weigh in on American Idol -- especially since I don't watch it.
But please don't think that I'm dismissing that which I know not, because a few years back, I was shown a video documentary introducing Americans to its British template, Pop Idol, complete with the snarky ripostes for inept singers; treacly, manipulative back-stories; and the karaoke-writ-large music itself. It was at a meeting with some BMG Records reps, who were quite pleased that the winner of the as-yet-unaired American version would be awarded an album to be released on a BMG label.
Over the years, I've known real, honest-to-God musicians, people who work their butts off crafting their songs, and end up playing them in crappy little bars to audiences made up mostly of their friends. And many of these people are actually quite brilliant, but will probably never reach a larger audience. So it rankles when the whole country is transfixed by this silly contest, the winner of which gets to release a series of perfectly forgettable, overproduced pop albums of inevitable mediocrity. (The only exception to this rule is the smart singer/songwriter Bob Guiney, but he was on The Bachelor.)
So good for Cyndi Lauper when she said American Idol was "trash" in her NY Times Magazine interview. It isn't said often enough. (My ex-wife and I have both been working in and around the music business for about 25 years, and our daughter feels cheated that both of her parents can't stomach a show watched by all her classmates. As a major compromise, we let her keep a Kelly Clarkson album she'd been given.) I imagine that most people in the music industry -- who are not part of the American Idol revenue stream, that is -- feel the same way I do about the show.
I'm amused that Prince would have to suffer a hokey act like Simon Cowell -- whose credibility as a judge of musical talent comes from his career as an executive producer on albums by such crucial artists as Westlife, 5ive and Sonia, not to mention a couple of Wrestlemania compilations. Cowell is an over-promoted caricature and Prince is an eccentric, but genuine, musical artist of serious stature (despite his vertical challenges). Over the better part of 30 years, he's amassed a staggeringly creative body of work, filled with gorgeous melodies and killer grooves. Prince has been a victim of his own excessiveness and nuttiness, from throwing in too many extended outtakes in kitchen-sink releases to changing his name to a glyph, then to a phrase and then back to his name again. But who could complain about an entertaining bizarro who may not be charting any more, but who still knows how to write a devastatingly beautiful song and is a monster guitar player to boot?
Why Prince deigned to appear on that show may be another little enigma to toss on top of the others, but it probably has something to do with an attempt to boost his career. After all, somebody convinced Bob Dylan that a commercial for Victoria's Secret would be a good idea, so this sort of misstep is not unheard of. Prince should've stayed away. But . . . Simon Cowell giving Prince attitude? Hmmm, what's a good analogy? Richard Pryor being dissed by Carrot Top? Something along those lines, I think, only worse.
Sorry for the long post, but to make a long post longer, I'd always heard that the similar Nashville Star had a far higher level of talent, but I wouldn't watch that one either. I did stumble on a copy of the debut album from the singer/songwriter and Nashville Star alumna Miranda Lambert, and she's actually pretty good.
- reader_iam said...
Fourth attempt at a comment, this one brief:
This comment thread illustrates not everything, but a tremendous chunk, of what's wrong with "Idol" culture, by my lights.
No, I don't like what Prince did. (Brings to mind a great story about Miles Davis, a great artist who could also be a tremendous asshole.)
But they don't pose the true offense to the truly talented.
That list would start with those who conflate "star" with "artist" or "record sales" as the benchmark of "art."
Or, for that matter, adulation or the quality of "latest, greatest" having anything truly significant to do with creativity and art, in any media, in and of itself. To be clear, the "in and of itself" refers to the adulation. Though not just that.
And the short-sightedness? Maybe even shallowness?
That remains to be seen, I suppose, in the long run. But it's been pretty clear in the short- to mid-run for a long time now.
- Craig Ranapia said...
Cowell getting Miss Manners on anyone's arse is right up there with parenting advice from Britney Spears.
But am I the only person who thinks this is another manufactured McScandal? Prince isn't a schmoozer and never has been - and I've heard no suggestion that he did anything other than what he and the show's producers agreed on. You may think it's jerky; but this seems more about Simon's ego and Simon's sense of entitlement rather than any unprofessional or disrespectful conduct on Prince's part.
- Brent said...
What is it with you Wisconsin and Minnesota people and Prince? Is it possible to find ANYONE in your region that falls short of Prince-worship?
I agree he's uber-talented, but if that's the performer role-model for your neck of the woods - PLEASE!
- Telecomedian said...
I'm pretty shocked by the comments of folks who think Prince is not the star he used to be. He does not get the radio airplay he used to, but, given the nationwide dirge that is terrestrial radio, that's not a bad thing. He doesn't need it. He made his star when record sales, FM and MTV were the sure-fire keys to success. He's evolved, and he doesn't need traditional means to get his music out. Prince was one of the first, along with Peter Gabriel, to push music to the Web, figuring that to be the next frontier.
Prince doesn't fit a standard radio format, and in that demographics-obsessed world, he's useless. His music is not really rock, it's not really hip hop and it's not really soul. He's too black to play on Rock stations, and too white to play on Urban stations - as a result, few CHR, AOR, or R&B stations really play his music. Occasionally a risk-taking Top-40 station will play a new Pricne track, but they quickly revert back to Sheryl Crow and Matchbox 20. Of course, they'll break him out when they do a "1980s at 8" or "Flashback Cafe" kind of show. Listen to "Let's Get Crazy" or "When Doves Cry" and compare it too all the other hits of that time. Prince was a decade ahead of everybody else.
I haven't bought a Prince album since Purple Rain when I was 12 years old, but between XM, streaming radio stations (I love Pandora.com), concert tours and iPods, I've heard plenty of Prince's new albums.
Take a step away from bad radio stations, go to the left of the dial (notice the other Minnesota shout-out there), or just get XM or Sirius. It's a better musical world.
- Dawn said...
Tele, I moved to Minnesota 10 years ago, which still doesn't qualify me as a Minnesotan (you have to be born here to be that I've figured out), and I'd take Husker Du or the 'Mats over Prince anyday.
But that 1999 album. Damn!
- StrangerInTheseParts said...
2 thoughts:
1) Prince flouncing off after his performance is EXACTLY the same thing as James Brown collapsing to the floor mid-song and a man coming out and draping a cape on him. It is a rhetorical flourish, a signature stage move. (It's even a little like Madonna on a cross. It's almost blase in it's mechanical repitition.)
2) Interesting tidbit: for years Prince had a clause in his rider that forbids anyone making eye contact with him backstage except a short list of explicity named people.
- Dawn said...
Speaking of not 'gazing upon the star' - when Prince and his former wife would arrive at the clinic I used to work at, the entire back portion of the practice would be closed off, noone could wander back there - his Royal Purpleness and the missus would arrive through a back door and leave the same way after her visit. Of course, that didn't stop a few of the employees from checking them out.
Their verdict? "He was really short, and she was even shorter".
My 6 degrees Kevin Bacon moment, lived vicariously through former coworkers!
- ak21 said...
"He was really short, and she was even shorter".
Living in MN, you always hear Legends of Prince. Mostly that he's a very small oddball. But he's our small oddball!
I've never personally seen him, but I did see his suit from Purple Rain at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas. I think even at my high school weight, when I was a size 3 petite, I couldn't have gotten an entire thigh into that outfit. He must be one tiny dude.
- Comrade X said...
Prince and Simon should settle it on the basketball court.
Baby Gap shirts vs. blouses
- Ann Althouse said...
StrangerInTheseParts: "Prince flouncing off after his performance is EXACTLY the same thing as James Brown collapsing to the floor mid-song and a man coming out and draping a cape on him. It is a rhetorical flourish, a signature stage move."
I agree, and, pointing back to my original post, also think Simon's statement is a stage move, and it's all a publicity dance. There will be more stages, and we'll notice them. Prince will have a week to himself on the show next season, I'm betting.
- SteveR said...
This is not the most popular show in America because of the talent or music. These people are smart and the idea that this is a set up, seems almost a certainty.
No doubt the appearance came off exactly as planned. No anticipation, total surprise, exceeded expectations, over quick, residual drama. Perfect.
- Wickedpinto said...
I know I'm gonna catch crap for this.
Prince, while the songs I like of his, that were performed by him, are . . . large, but not that large, the truth is that this midget stripper was the Niel Diamond (ehh, yeah, he was) of the 80's. He had some songs he himself did well, but he was behind songs that virtually everyone else did.
Prince, wrote for as many people, if not more, than he wrote for himself. AND, he is a midget stripper, who is just plane COOL!!! unlike Niel Diamond.


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