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The Gwinnett school board decision to move students out of the Peachtree Ridge cluster — which has some of county's most affluent areas — has ed a group of parents to file federal civil rights complaints.
I still wonder if open enrollment isn't the answer in most counties. I think public school choice would go a long way to appeasing parents.
l talked yesterday to a father from another county who wanted his child to attend the public school a mile from the family business so he and his wife could pick her up and bring her back to the shop in the afternoons. (They both work every day in the shop.)
Instead, the county was holding firm that the family had to send the girl to the school nearest their home, but 18 miles from the shop.
As a taxpayer with a home and business in the school district, the dad couldn't understand why he couldn't get approval to send his daughter to a different school within the system. I told him that most schools are zoned by community and that the community gets first dibs on seats in the school.
He thought it was wrong that he pays the same taxes as everyone else in the county, yet couldn't send his daughter to the local school of his choice. Nor could he understand the hostility with which his request was being met by the central office.
Two complaints were filed with the federal Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that Gwinnett Schools is discriminating against the kids by rerouting them to campuses with fewer resources and more students from lower income homes.
About 505 students will move to empty seats in Duluth schools in August. The school board approved the moves last week, saying they will relieve overcrowding.
"The Board of Education and its planning department selected a group of minority children of low socio-economic status to move from a more affluent school district to an already overburdened one under the guise of saying they were trying to reduce overcrowding," said Lynne Sycamore, a Duluth mom who is among a handful of parents who filed the complaints.
"Most of the children they selected came out of Mason Elementary, which is already under capacity," she said.
Nearly half of the affected students — 241 — are being moved from Mason Elementary, which is under capacity by 13. Peachtree Ridge High, a school of 3,226 that is over capacity by 426, will lose 158 teens. Hull Middle School, which has 2,409 students, is over capacity by 659 and will lose 106 students.
Gwinnett Schools' spokeswoman Sloan Roach said the district has not been notified of the complaint.
Students are redistricted based on population figures, said school board member Mary Kay Murphy.
"We don't use socio-economics," she said. "Our core belief as a school system is that all students can learn at or above grade level. We would not have received the Broad Prize for closing the achievement gap if we weren't serving all populations."
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
April 28th, 2011
8:51 am
We would not have received the Broad Prize for closing the achievement gap if we weren't serving all populations."
LOL….that is too, too funny….
April 28th, 2011
8:53 am
So if every kid in Gwinnett wants to go to Peachtree Ridge and every kind in DeKalb wants to go to Lakeside, how does public choice solve the problem.
April 28th, 2011
8:56 am
Agreed Old School. But for the sake of "diversity" we must make these changes. No matter the inconvience, illogic, ridiculousness and burdens brought to bear it is for the greater good.
"The needs of the ONE outweigh the needs of the few and/or the many."
Can I get an AMAN!??
April 28th, 2011
8:59 am
Since the majority of schools that would be involved in "choice" are already overcrowded, how do you handle that? Overcrowd already overcrowded schools? We already do that – it's called AYP transfers and that has worked real well, right?
April 28th, 2011
9:04 am
Parents paying for their own children's education with absolutely no involvement from government whatsoever would give everyone exactly the kind of freedom of choice they require. Instead the call is to continue stealing from taxpayers and property owners and giving everyone a choice among government run institutions. Maybe my concept of freedom and choice doesn't agree with everyone's, but that certainly doesn't sound like much of a choice for anyone.
April 28th, 2011
9:05 am
@ Maureen, Dunwoody Mom brings up a good point, how would you decide where and who attended which school if it were school choice? Walton is already over crowded and I constantly hear parents of kids zoned for Pope, North Cobb looking for a way to send their child to Walton. Several are using the address of Grandparents, not exactly legal. But your proposal seems to me it would do away with neighborhood schools or do you propose school choice only if there is capacity after zoned kids? If that is the case, we already have that, but the better schools are over crowded and no room for other kids.
April 28th, 2011
9:19 am
YES! It is time for public school choice!
April 28th, 2011
9:25 am
Cobb already has choice; parents are responsible for transportation, and there are limits on how many students can enroll (so, technically, no overcrowding on the campuses, but class sizes are still huge). In Marietta City, you can pay tuition ($3K) to drive your kids to one of their schools.
There already is choice in some districts, but not all.Some parents want choice and transportation (not a possibility), and some schools are worried their high test scores will flee to other schools.
HoneyFern is still enrolling for fall. Maximum total school size is 8, grades 6-12, and tuition is well below your overpriced 20K private schools and includes everything (and no fundraising, except as seniors for a class trip). Come visit and see what we're about.
April 28th, 2011
9:27 am
"Reality Check" — you really believe you derive no benefit from having an educated citizenry? It's "stealing" to use tax money to ensure that children are taught the skills that will make them good employees, future property owners and responsible citizens? Or are you just another insular pseudo Libertarian who claims they are "self-made" all the while ignoring their own public education, their own taxpayer-subsidized college degree and the myriad other benefits that never seem to count when they're whining about tax-as-theft?
April 28th, 2011
9:30 am
Reality check: but as a citizen of this country I would think you would want all children educated. Of course, that's not what we have now, but seriously – do you think we shouldn't try to educate all? You can pay for education or prisons – and believe me we'd have many more than we do now (which is way too many) if we weren't at least trying to educate all.
As for school choice – it's GOT TO BE better than what we have now. I actually think that even if the 'best' schools didn't have any room, the 'other' schools would still have to get better – not knowing when the 'better' schools would have room for the 'other' students. Really – there's probably not much worse we can do than what we now have. Parents need choices (and if their choice is *no* school…not homeschooling…then what was discussed recently would work) – I mean, I have school choice and my friends have school choice. It's just that those with no choices are the ones who are losing these days.
April 28th, 2011
9:37 am
Stop free public education at the age of 15 – elementary and middle schools can remain "community" schools with the district providing free transportation. For HS (maybe just 10-12), let both students and schools choose. There should be an entrance exam and other screening methods, while students can apply to go to any HS they wish in the district. There must be tuition, not necessarily a huge amount, and subsidize low-income families. Parents are responsible for providing own transportation – or pay fees to use school buses.
April 28th, 2011
9:37 am
If school choice was mandatory, maybe the disctricts would need to pay attention to the very real discrepencies in programing that result from the variations in parent resources.
April 28th, 2011
9:38 am
DeKalb has lotteries now for their "choice" schools – there is a whole other level of complaint with this method. Kittredge and the other magnet programs have academic requirements attached to it. Are you saying that school choice should be only for those who make a certain grade on the ITBS or GPA?
April 28th, 2011
9:52 am
Maureen: I think adopting something akin to what the charter schools do might be better. They have a 'first tier' of students – those closest to the school, then a second tier, slightly further away then enrollment's open to the whole district. This way you kind of have a neighborhood school, which is really great for a neighborhood, but you'd have slots for others as well.
My friend just moved from seattle here, where they do have school choice (I'm not exactly sure how it works) and she was shocked that all she had to do was live in the district to enroll her kids in school. That was that. I guess in Seattle they open up however many slots they have at the schools, then there's some sort of application process.
We wouldn't need to do this ridiculous redistricting all the time. we could go to lottery, make a district smaller and smaller around schools that don't have a lot of room.
There has GOT to be a better way.
Morningside was JUST redistricted and it's about at capacity AGAIN – as is SPARK and Mary Lin.
APS is not worrying about it because it's got bigger fish to fry – again, these schools aren't getting what they need…
April 28th, 2011
9:57 am
@DunwoodyMom Actually, that is not true for every school in Gwinnett. South Gwinnett is/has been overcrowded for years and no one is begging for a permissive transfer to that school. All of the high schools that are not run like factories/prisons are in the northern part of the county, or at least 40 minutes away from where we live- no buses so my son is stuck. Mary Kay Murphy and any other board member who uses the Broad Prize as justification for what they are doing is naive/apathetic or just plain ignorant. This district has so many hidden policies that disenfranchise minority or low-income kids (which could include Whites too) that it is pathetic. As long as the federal government is lax in monitoring the racial balance in schools this type of thing will continue to happen…or util they get another superintendent who actually has experience in/knowledge of diverse/urban districts. No, Gwinnett IS NOT urban. It is diverse, but urban it is not.
April 28th, 2011
9:58 am
No, it is time for parents to grow up, quit being a bunch of whiners and pitch in to improve the school they are zoned to.
April 28th, 2011
10:00 am
@ATLMom Not sure which charters you refer to but that is not how enrollment is 'supposed' to work. Charter schools are open to anyone living within the district and most, except those in Gwinnett, provide some form of transportation from the beginning…not 2-3 years later. There are some groups, mostly those with financial influence, who can create charter schools and strategically keep certain people out. That is where the State Board of Education is 'supposed' to use their governing authority to prevent such things but this is Georgia after all….
April 28th, 2011
10:00 am
This idea will never work.
April 28th, 2011
10:09 am
educationceo: i don't know exactly – a friend of mine in a crappy school district told me this was the case with a new charter school. so she was either in the 'first' or 'second' tier. I have no way of knowing how true any of this is.
Her kid's in private school now since the charter school wouldn't take her kid (even though they have spots) and she wanted to avoid a lawsuit. She was never going to send her child to the local school even if they had to walk away from their condo. this is what i mean by school choice – there are plenty of us with it.
the ones who are losing are those in crappy schools whose parents don't care or can't move. so who's against school choice? all those people who say they are for the 'poor' and they care so much about them.
I don't know if any kind of school choice can work – but certainly we need something new and radical. what we're doing sucks and is doing no one any good – and we are doing nothing good for us as a society by keeping the status quo and just tweaking it.
April 28th, 2011
10:11 am
"If choice within systems was embraced — the notion that all district taxpayers were on equal footing in school alignment — I think we would eventually see better schools all around."
I think we need a little more than "think" if we're going to unravel the current system. Will another system work better? Is a lottery more fair than allowing citizens to move to a district that they think has better schools? You allude to a district in New Jersey, but offer no information on the outcomes. Did all the schools improve? How was this measured?
April 28th, 2011
10:15 am
Whatever happened with Athens/Clarke County's school choice started in about 1995? Anyone know? Is it still operative?
April 28th, 2011
10:18 am
Dunwoody Mom is the more pragmatic and logical here. Maureen, you're far too optimistic and idealistic. Dunwoody Mom brings a valid point: this is only going to create a new set of headaches and most likely to occur as a result of so-called 'choice'.
April 28th, 2011
10:22 am
clarence: they have had some sort of school choice program in south florida at some point and I hear that it was abandoned. Why? i don't know.
There are ways to reform the current school system without choice, but no one seems to have the fortitude that it would need to do it.
Part of it is the complication in our government – too many cooks in the broth (i.e., like discussed the other day – if you're on welfare and you have kids – you have a responsibility to getting that kid to school and your benefits should depend on it and/or have your kid taken away).
April 28th, 2011
10:24 am
@EducationCEO – I may have misread, and if I did, please forgive me, but if you are concerned about the racial balance of students in the southern end of Gwinnett (Specifically South Gwinnett and Shiloh), I'd ask where do you want the balance to come from? I grew up in the area – moved there when I was 7 years old, graduated from Shiloh in the late 90s and still live in the area. There are very few whites left. Should we start bringing them in from Parkview, Brookwood, and Grayson even though those schools are farther away? I will say at the time I attended Shiloh, it was ranked 8th best in the state as far as academics were concerned (other top schools were Parkview, Brookwood, and Duluth). I think everything comes down to how much does the community support its local school? Better community support, better academic performance.
April 28th, 2011
10:25 am
I think the real issue would be better solved if we could figure out how to make all schools equal. Why should one school be so much better than another? Solve that problem and redistricting wouldn't be an issue.
April 28th, 2011
10:27 am
Ummm..what Charter School are you referring to? My son has gone to SEVERAL and they have worked like what atlmom described. And as for transportation…the one TRUE charter he went to, with open enrollment for the ENTIRE county and a lottery system provided NO transportation. The other two were neighborhood charters that took the the first tier/second tier approach.
April 28th, 2011
10:28 am
I am all for school choice. As long as:
1. parents provide the transportation, not the school system.
2. the school you are going to has rooom– without adding trailors which are dangerous as well as too small and not conducive to learning.
3. the school's permanent buildings do not exceed capacity as determined by the Fire Marshall.
4. the parents pick up and drop off their children ON TIME—not early or late.
5. the parents do not use distance as an excuse for keeping their child out of school or for parents attending all school functions, including required conferences and meeting.
6.the parents do NOT expect babysitting if the child is sick, or the parent is late. Pick them up regardless.
7. As long as truancy laws and chronic absenteeism/tardeiness rules are Tightened and strictly enforced with NO exceptions granted.
Think of the money we could save by eliminating school buses from the budget!
School attendence would level out and all schools would be about equal in number. Right? So then parents would not be able to complain about the teachers or the education their little darlings were receiving. Right??
April 28th, 2011
10:29 am
I don't think you are suggesting school choice. You are offering random assignment to any school in a district. Is that what you meant? An oversubscribed school goes to a lottery, so if I live next door to the school, and my number isn't drawn, I get to go to some other school I didn't apply to?
April 28th, 2011
10:33 am
It was a bomb? How do I know? I am a native Floridian (born and raised in Miami-Dade/Broward) and saw it firsthand. It didn't produce any REAL change and has been all but abandoned at this point. The best schools had NO room already and the local residents put up a fight if their school was placed on the transfer list. The schools available to transfer to were often not much better than the students' original home schools and seemed to only get worse with the influx of kids from outside the neighborhood.
I've seen this play out, and it NEVER goes the way it is idealized.
April 28th, 2011
10:33 am
DeKalb's magnets and magnets across the country benefit tremendously from extra dollars. Kittredge (since you used it as an example) gets six teachers more than it really earns. DeKalb School of the Arts gets 10.
Would people move their children around if all the schools had the same resources? Or would it be either shopping for the best student population or on the other extreme, the teachers who wouldn't call and complain about your child?
I think that choice is part of the answer but we would end up with more and more segregated, either racially, economically or both.
April 28th, 2011
10:35 am
Public school choice is a win/win/win:
Win for parents: they send their kids to the school of their choice, assuming all responsibility for the child's education.
Win for schools: schools raise the expectations academically and behaviorally; if the student is unhappy, he/she can move to another school.
Win for students: they get the best possible education that they can under the circumstances that they are given.
What we have now is not working, and our antipathy toward change is keepingus from making some of the decisions that need to be made to save our kids and save our schools.
April 28th, 2011
10:39 am
With the price of gas going up and the weight of our children rising even faster, we should encourage neighborhood schools where children can walk and ride bikes to school (like the childhood of my youth). Parents need to do the hard work and improve their neighborhood schools just like they do with their yards. For all the money spent on hair extensions and fancy fingernails, is money that can be spent on education. It is about priorities. We had work days our schools. We raised money for lab equipment and art supplies. We raised money for foreign language teachers. Every school district can do this. It takes time, effort and willingness. Yes, there will be many parents who will ride on the coat tails of the few hard working parents and never lift a finger to help but will demand their children be allowed to participate. Much like those in the other part of the county who think they can ship their child from one school to another and reap the benefits. What children need are role models in their homes who put education ahead of reality tv where trips to library outnumber trips to the mall.
April 28th, 2011
10:47 am
I've not seen a single person point out how a "lottery" is fair. If you have school choice, certain schools are ALWAYS going to have more demand than capacity, meaning it won't be TRUE school choice. So my questions is how is a lottery more fair than the current system? To me this comes down to people feeling like they are entitled to send their children wherever they please instead of following @Me's advice "to grow up, quit being a bunch of whiners and pitch in to improve the school they are zoned to."
April 28th, 2011
10:53 am
Might I suggest that public schools need to get out of the parent-appeasement business. Suggesting that much of the grade-inflation, student misbehavior and teacher angst has arisen from appeasing unreasonable parents would not be a stretch.
When public schools educate their children, reasonable parents are satisfied.
Please keep us apprised of what happens to this civil rights complaint. I'm interested in finding out whether the USDOE's Office of Civil Rights thinks that this complaint is founded upon reasonable grounds.
By the way, have you recently heard anything from the SW DeKalb teacher whose letter you published several weeks ago? Let's not forget about him.
April 28th, 2011
10:53 am
And after reading Maureen's link to the Montclair article, I failed to see many "pluses." I'm not claiming they don't exist – maybe all of the schools in question increased performance. But I feel like that piece highlighted the inherent inequities and administrative challenges more than anything.
April 28th, 2011
10:56 am
I sympathize the father who wants to send his child to a school close to his place of business and don't understand why his request will not be approved. Teachers are allowed to bring their children to the school in which they work – how is this any different. Don't get me wrong, yes teachers are doing a great thing by teaching our kids everyday but are they above having to deal with the same things other parents face when balancing work and home???
April 28th, 2011
10:56 am
I read an article this morning about a homeless woman in Connecticut who has been charged with larceny for using her babysitters address so that her kindergartner could attend a higher performing school in the babysitters district…..this craziness is everywhere! Unfortunately, while choice/charter seems to be the answer it's just not realistic! Again, the parents who are involved and care about their children's education will find a way to a) make the school they are currently districted for work for their child or b) move the child by whatever means necessary to a better school….I've said it 100 times (or more) the quality of the child's education is directly related to parental involvement (of course you will always have students who will rise above poor parenting as well). School systems, whatever they may try, cannot fufill the role of a concerned parent!! Does that mean we shouldn't try? If I had the answer to that, I'd be the new DeKalb superintentant it seems……
April 28th, 2011
10:59 am
Ms. Murphy's last statement,"We would not have received the Broad Prize for closing the achievement gap if we weren't serving all populations," is absolutely hilarious! They won the award for political reasons. The school district is definitely not an urban district. All districts should offer school choice. Parents know what is best for their children, so school districts should put aside power issues and do what is best for children, by offering school choice options for all!
Cobb and Fulton Counties are about to allow this for their charter schools. Students from Cobb will be able go to a Fulton County charter school and vice versa. This is a great start. Parents need to organize and speak up!
April 28th, 2011
11:03 am
Why do the parents need to ask the feds to resolve this? The federal department needs to be abolished and the local level needs to address this. Why aren't people at the local level smart enough to figure this stuff out? They hold elections don't they?
April 28th, 2011
11:08 am
d and Clarence:
I agree with your points about the value of community and parent support for public schools.
But I have serious questions about what individual schools, school systems, and education-related organizations are doing to recruit parents and other community members to volunteer in, and otherwise support, local schools.
And I don't think sending-a-note-home-with-a-student constitutes vigorous recruitment.
April 28th, 2011
11:10 am
School choice sounds great, but has anyone thought it through? Imagine if 10,000 kids wanted to attend School A and no students wanted to attend school B. WHo gets priority? Who arranges the transportation and staffing? What is to keep School A from 'cherry picking' students for atheltics or other reasons? What does the system do wth the empty buildings? What happens if half of those 10,000 change their minds a few months into the academic year and wish to transfer to school C? These things are much more complex than simply stating that 'school choice' is the answer to our educational woes.
April 28th, 2011
11:13 am
Racism, pure and simply and I'm gonna use the "damn" race card right now.
April 28th, 2011
11:16 am
Apparently Athens/Clarke County schools abandoned the modified school choice 2 years ago. It was to function like this: you rank your first 3 choices for elementary, and something like 98% of parents got one of those choices. You would provide transportation or I think there was to be central dropoff points for catching buses. Middle school you chose from 2 schools, and high school you went where zoned. I think parents who failed to choose saw their kids sent wherever there was room.
Apparently it was not a rousing success since they abandoned it. Would love to hear some feedback from real people about it, or even an "official" report.
One thing that bothers me is we assume that schools with high concentrations of poor students cannot have parental involvement. I think this is incorrect. Anyone got any examples?
Parental investment is key–one reason why charter schools with poorer students see some increase in test scores is because parents have to apply to get in there (or is that so?).
April 28th, 2011
11:27 am
"We don't use socio-economics," she said. "Our core belief as a school system is that all students can learn at or above grade level. We would not have received the Broad Prize for closing the achievement gap if we weren't serving all populations"
Watch out for the lightning strikes. I don't think I could do a job where I would just have to tell boldfaced lies with a straight face.
April 28th, 2011
11:57 am
This is just pie in the sky. Aint gonna happen.
April 28th, 2011
12:00 pm
all you people who think the answer is 'parents getting involved': okay – great – there are many parents involved. But do the children need to suffer when the parents ARE NOT involved?
Even school choice is re-arranging deck chairs (my kids will always go to a good school, or wherever is best for them, as I've mentioned before – *I* have school choice).
If the parents aren't involved, it is clear to all that they won't *be* involved. So, now what?
I guess the answer is: how do we educate *those* children where parents treat the school as free day care/food/everything their kids need????
Personally, I want EVERY SINGLE CHILD to get a great fantastic education. We owe it to the kids – as a society. We owe it to the kids for a zillion reasons, some of which, as a society are selfish (you educate every single one because you don't know which one is the einstein of his/her generation).
April 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
The idea is utopian. Beautiful, but utopian none the less. Once America realizes this, it can fight to regain what has been lost to other countries who already realize this. I'm being honest.
April 28th, 2011
12:15 pm
atlmom, I don't think that poor parents = non-involvement – you don't have to be rich to be a good parent (I think we all agree that the other extreme can be just as bad if not worse) and I do want to see every child educated…..I'm just saying we can all rant and rave about what the school systems, teachers, gov't, administrations, etc until we're blue in the face, but none of those entities can change parental involvement


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What are the educational implications of holding on to objective truth in a culture that values relativistic truth?
Besides conflict, of course! This question is deliberately broad, not focused on teachers, students, curriculum, or institutions specifically, so that the soil of it may be tilled as completely as possible through discussion.
Let's start here: if one holds that objective truth exists, then the interactions with culture, peers, professors, course content, and even the disciplines themselves must be flavored and shaped by that assertion. In a postmodern, relativist culture, this questions is somewhat pressing: there are movements in education that favor both types of truth, and that can make plugging into education, for a student, disciple, or apprentice of an opposing view, feel something like a 120V appliance being plugged into a 220V outlet. Without a transformer, step-down or step-up, these learners seemingly would not be able to approach, apprehend, or socialize around the learning because the premises behind its whole gestalt are out of phase. Or could they? What are the transformers necessary to do so? And the greater question: what are the implications for our culture? Can folks who have these two views, and therefore different educations, inherently, create a functional society together?
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Jul 19 2013: May be a bit far fetched, but this reminds me of an issue in my state with how to teach children who are Spanish speaking immigrants in an English speaking culture. Would It be acceptable to educate in Spanish only? they would still have the knowledge but not the ability to use it in there current social environment.
When it comes to whatever the truth is for you, as an educator you have to prepare the student to move and function within that culture and beyond. To help them understand their truth and put that aside in order to work from some common principles right? That's maturity.
I would think that respecting someones truth and accepting it on some level (at least in appearance) and moving on to what the student needs to know about the field of study would work out fine. Could I not study paleontology and be a Christian? Can I be an atheist and still reference 2400b.c? I think so. hehe
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Friday Favorite: Use AppleScript to delete files from a folder
As part of my daily writing, I take a lot of screenshots and process a ton of images on my Mac. As a result, I have two ever-growing folders that are stuffed full of images that are not useful after I publish a post. Now that I have a MacBook Air and only 128 GB of storage space, I am much more concerned about keeping my files in check.
To help delete these files in bulk, I've been using this handy AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
delete (every item of folder (path to desktop folder) whose name begins with "Screen Shot")
delete (every item of folder (path to downloads folder) whose name ends with ".jpg")
end tell
on error
display dialog ("Error. Couldn't Move the File") buttons {"OK"}
end try
You can modify it yourself to point to a different folder or to target different files. If you remove the qualifier "whose name begins with" and leave the line as "delete (every item of folder (path to desktop folder))", then you can delete all the contents of a folder in one fell swoop.
I don't need to run the script every day, so I've exported it as an application and run it once a week. It's not a fancy script, but it is a timesaver, which makes it invaluable for me. Hopefully, it will be of use to you, too.
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I have had a number of negative experiences with people like this. And that's only since I came back to WoW on April 30th after taking a break since the first week of November.
In fact, just 3 days ago I was rejected for a Zul'Aman run because I'm wearing some blues. Nevermind the pieces of gear and weapons I've accumulated since I came back. Someone I had friended and had been inviting me to Karazhan on my weeks I didn't go with the guild finally looked at my Armory and decided my numbers were too low for Zul'Aman.
I was told my RAP was too low, my DPS was too low, and the fact that I wore blues excluded me from this run. Note that my 3 blues are the Claok of the Coming Night, Lightwarden's Band, and Abacus of Violent Odds. I'd rather spend my badges on bigger upgrades at first and get the smaller ones as time goes on. So I kept an eye on the group as it was forming because players have made me a bit spiteful as of late. I saw which hunter they picked up (because they were still in LFG at the time) and looked her up on Warcrafter.net --- A good place to compare yourself to others.
She passed their inspection process because she was wearing all epics. However, upon checking her warcrafter page, I saw that my numbers were quite a bit higher than hers were. Now here's the kicker. She saw me sitting in Shattrath the following day and asked me for gear advice. I had never spoken to her before she approached me about this. Go figure. People would prefer someone in all epics than someone who knows what they're doing, it seems. I don't understand this thought process.
I don't hold this situation against her, but I took note of the people in the raid and they will forever be people I won't bother with. Even the one who was a WoW friend was removed for this. I can't stand gear nazis. It's one thing to expect a certain level of gear, as well as skill when building a party for any given instance, but to solely base it on someone wearing things with only purple outlines seems ignorant.


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Tatum and his former "Step Up" co-star, Jenna Dewan, tied the knot on Saturday in Malibu, according to Us Weekly.
The couple wed in front of more than 200 guests during a 15-minute ceremony at the Church Estates Vineyards – the same location where Fergie and Josh Duhamel tied the knot last January.
"Entourage" star Emmanuelle Chriqui reportedly served as Dewan's maid of honor. Among the bridesmaids was Tatum's sister, Paige, as well as actress Haylie Duff.
Tatum, 29, and Dewan, 28, got engaged in September 2008 after meeting on the set of "Step Up" in 2006.
Tatum, whose film credits include "Fighting," "Stop-Loss," "She's The Man" and "Coach Carter," will star as Duke in the upcoming "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra."
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HOLY CRAP IT'S FINALLY DONE. This is by far my longest and best flash ever, weighing in at 8 minutes and 10 seconds of actual movie time, not including credits. It's been in production since mid-2007 and I never got around to making it until now. I'm willing to bet that I've encountered more glitches in Flash than Adobe has even heard of (lazy fucks) while making this pain-in-the-ass movie.
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i have the same problem, it's been going on for about a month. does anyone know how to fix it? or even help me?
frankffff wrote:
this is not my problem, but ive had a similar one. i add an audio file and its says, this file is valid or corrupted, but never used say that, so i dont think its to do with changing formats
Yep that link from Have No Fear worked!
I have one problem, I import mp3 in movie maker, and drag it in the timeline, but music doesn't play. :(
Please help me!
Thanks all!
I used Real player (basic free version) and went to clip properties under "file" and removed clip properties (upper left in "clip properties" pop-up). The clip then loaded fine into moviemaker. No codec isses after that.
Here is what I found that works for this problem. Although I converted my mp3 file to a wav file and it worked in windows movie maker. Found from another source.
"Best bet IMHO would be to convert the MP3 files to
the WMA format before importing into Movie Maker.
Maybe the following freeware converter would
be worth a try:
(FWIW...it's always a good idea to create a System
Restore point before installing software or updates)
Free Mp3 Wma Converter
(Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Aac, M4a, Ac3, Ape, Flac, Wav)
(FWIW if you install the converter you may want to
uncheck the offers of Yahoo and Dealio) (also...you
may want to uncheck the CD Ripper and the Easy
MP3 Cutter)
After installing the program...open it and drag/drop
your MP3 files onto the main screen...
Choose a save folder (output path). Or just leave...
"Save in the file's directory" checked and the new
files will be saved in the folder with the MP3 files.
Choose a format....WMA."
Hey I fixed this.
First I downloaded AVIcode:
I used this to find out the type of V. codec my video needed.
It told me I needed XVID Mpeg-4.
So I went here and downloaded the XVID codec.
this is my problem.. i can't open my movie maker. when i tried to open, there's a box said "windows movie maker cannot be used because the required audio hardware cannot be found on your computer" . so,, how can i operate it?
this is my problem.. i can't open my movie maker. when i tried to open, there's a box said "windows movie maker cannot be used because the required audio hardware cannot be found on your computer" . so,, how can i operate it?
ok so wneh i try to put a video with sound it makes it the audio but when i try to put it as a no-sound video it sau=ys i dont have the right codec


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I found the perfect gift for Mrs Chang which means all of my Christmas shopping is done. Now to prepare the apartment for guests…
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Oh…I'm sorry for even bringing it up. I guess I'm just a little curious since I haven't been through something like you're going through. How's everything else going in your life though? Work?
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You don't think your families will stay in touch at all? I mean you and Sam were together for a long time.
I finally went out to do some Christmas shopping today! It was mostly window shopping until I get my paycheck this week, but it was nice to do some browsing in real life instead of online for the first time in a while.
Were the stores horribly crowded? I still haven't started my Christmas shopping and was thinking of going tomorrow.
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I know Mike's mother likes me and supports us, but I get the feeling Mike's father doesn't approve of us at all. Well, I know he doesn't. I just want to make a good impression.
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We're doing a combined holiday again and spending Christmas Eve and Day with the Changs. It's kind of the longest I've ever been around them, so I suppose I'm a little nervous.
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The Daniel R. Barnes Undergraduate Prize: Call for Submissions
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The International Climate Negotiations roadshow is rolling into Durban, South Africa this December and the big question – at least for the diminished audience still watching – is what we can expect out of the latest episode of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The performance that took place in Copenhagen two years ago was a disaster. Last year's installment, which occurred in Cancun, Mexico, was a pleasant surprise, but only because expectations had been set so low. The red-hot intensity that used to greet the performances has cooled to a lukewarm. If the negotiations were just entertainment, that would be bad enough. But this is the future of the planet at stake.
The issues on the table in Durban are huge. First, the very future of the Kyoto Protocol and which countries will be participating in any binding agreement after next year. Second, the key financial issue of how rich and poor countries will pay for responding to climate change. Third, the question of what targets to set for binding emissions reductions.
The very complexity of the climate negotiations is a reason that many people have tuned out these summits. Best, then, to keep it simple. Here's a quick cheat sheet so you can follow along at home – and help explain the issues to your friends and family.
The pre-negotiation meetings that took place in Bonn, Germany and Panama were characterized by bickering and showmanship. Many climate policy experts are predicting a stalemate at the South Africa summit, and that would be a disaster. A breakthrough in Durban is urgent since the Kyoto Protocol's targets are set to expire. The only binding international agreement on greenhouse gases (so far), it went into effect in 2005, eight years after it was adopted by the vast majority of the globe's nations. The treaty's first set of emissions reduction targets expires in 2012.
Unfortunately, the world's largest countries are reluctant to play with each other. The United States and some other industrialized nations say they will adopt emissions limits only if rising powers like China, India, and Brazil (which were excluded from the original 1997 goals) also commit to matching reductions. For their part, China, India, and Brazil continue to maintain that the richer nations have larger obligations to make reductions because they have spewed the bulk of the planet's carbon pollution since the start of the fossil fuel age. It's a geopolitical game of chicken.
Once again we could see an agreement left on the drafting table, covered in brackets and lacking signatures.
Participation isn't the only problem. As the worst economic downtown since the Great Depression slogs on (and outraged young people occupy city centers from Cairo to Madrid to New York) climate negotiators are charged with figuring out how to pay for any global agreement, including funding reduced carbon emissions, transferring technology between countries, and adapting to the inevitable changes we are already locked into.
A so-called Green Climate Fund is supposed to provide up to $100 billion a year, through 2020, to help meet those costs. But double- or even triple-counting is starting to impinge upon the mostly hypothetical funding mechanism. There's another wrinkle. "The proposed Green Climate Fund is good news, but it is designed to distribute the funds – not raise them," says Richard Gledhill of the consulting firm PwC. While there are plenty of ideas for sources of funding – including carbon credits, taxes on bunker and aviation fuels, and even a "Robin Hood" or Tobin Tax on financial transactions – political will is sparse.
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The Antikythera Mechanism.
Found aboard an ancient Grecian ship at the bottom of the sea. No one knows everything it does, however scientists have determined one of its uses was to predict star and planet locations, as well as lunar and solar eclipses, a technology thought to be far too advanced for 80 BC, when the ship it was on sank. To this day, scientists are flummoxed not only to the rest of this mechanisms capabilities, but also at the fact that technology like this was not thought to have been developed for another 1,000 years.


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As the Queen prepares to celebrate her diamond jubilee, it is worth remembering that much of this country marks her birthday every year with a public holiday, a courtesy not even observed in my homeland. There are still some 160,000 Britons who can cast a vote in Australian federal elections, a fancy franchise shared with other residents from the Commonwealth but with no other non-citizens. British colours still adorn the Australian flag ("Britain at night," scoffs Jerry Seinfeld) while Australia Day celebrates the moment of British colonisation. The Queen's profile continues to decorate the coinage, while her title is affixed to the hulls of Australian warships. When Dublin looked to dispose of its statue of Queen Victoria, Sydney gladly offered it a home.
The point is amply made. The death of British Australia has been surprisingly slow.
Nick Bryant, "The slow death of British Australia," The Interpreter, June 1, 2012
This is important, because the death of British Australia has always meant the birth of Australian Australia. This is a demise which we must, for the sake of our own dignity and self-realization, cheer on.


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Ugh, the hotel room blocks. So far, this has been the most un-fun wedding related task I've crossed off our list. It just boils down to the fact that hotels in NYC are crazy expensive and I felt extremely guilty saddling our guests with that kind of expense. Nevertheless, hotels are needed, so hotels we shall have! Don't be fooled by my gusto to take on this challenge. I contacted a plethora of hotels and was shocked by all the exorbitant quotes I received. (Apparently December is a very popular tourist month in NYC, making negotiations with hotel reps very difficult.) This eventually resulted in a lot of grumbling on my part, and at one point I shamefully declared, "If they don't like these hotels, then they can find their own!" I'm such a gracious host.
In the end, we are giving our guests two options: convenient or cost-efficient. There's also a DIY option, which I'd totally go for if I were a guest at our wedding.
Convenient: Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. The Marriott is situated smack dab in the middle of our church and reception sites. One could potentially walk from the Marriott to our church, but we're thinking most guests will opt for a taxi in the winter weather. It also offers the largest guest rooms of all the hotels we looked at.


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Gonna be on holiday skiing in Bansko, Bulgaria between the 24th december and 2nd of Jan and then again between the 9th and 16th of Jan with friends and family, none of whom are climbers so jut wondered if there was anyone out there at the same time who wanted to possibly get a couple of days climbing in? Im not too familiar with the climbing around the area and all of the guides and topos online seem to be in bulgarian! Just looking to do some easyish stuff and would be great if any prospective partners also had gear out there; ropes, pro etc as I can't really lug much more than axes, boots, crampons from home when the main point of the holiday is skiing! Long shot I know but worth a try!
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Hewlett-Packard Co chief Carly Fiorina said on Wednesday she would run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, seeking to unseat liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer next year.
In vying for the Republican nomination, Fiorina becomes the latest Silicon Valley executive hoping to get on the California ballot next autumn.
Former eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, an entrepreneur now serving as California's insurance commissioner, are seeking the Republican nomination for governor.
Fiorina and Whitman are relative newcomers to politics and face tough primary election battles.
If she secures her party's nomination, Fiorina would likely be the underdog against Boxer, who has served four terms in the Senate and has an edge in decidedly Democratic California.
A Field Poll in October showed Fiorina trailing Republican state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the race, although most voters were still undecided. Both Republicans trailed Boxer by double digits in the poll.
At a town-hall event in Southern California announcing her candidacy, the breast cancer survivor announced she was ready to fight.
"I have to say, after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer is not so scary," Fiorina, 55, told the crowd.
Making light of Boxer's sideline writing politically charged potboilers, she said, "Let's say we give Barbara Boxer the chance next year to be a full-time novelist."
Fiorina was the driving force behind HP's controversial 2002 acquisition of Compaq Computer, turning the Silicon Valley pioneer into a behemoth with billions in annual revenue in line with that of IBM.
HP's poor performance resulted in her ouster in 2005 with a $21 million severance package. She served last year as a senior adviser to Republican Party presidential nominee John McCain, who lost to Barack Obama.
Fiorina said she would tackle the issues of jobs and illegal immigration and that the healthcare legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress worried her.
"California needs a Senator who will fight to create jobs -- not a failed CEO who laid off 28,000 Americans and shipped jobs overseas," Boxer's campaign manager, Rose Kapolczynski, said in a statement.
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We tried, my brother
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Gone away.
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You could have been living near a swinger, but you do not know them. They could be one of your associates, family members or neighbor. Swingers are everywhere and in Michigan, they can also be found in specific places. A few years ago, prior to the internet era, these people were active secretly and they met each other via dating magazines. Rightly so, it was hard to approximate the number of swingers available. Nonetheless, times have changed and the situation is no longer the same these days.You can find swingers in a number of clubs in Michigan who are of different categories altogether.
The Meeting Place
This is a swing club in Michigan around the Kalamazoo area and is only 90 minutes drive from Grand Rapids or Chicago. There are parties each Saturday night at this club, which commence at 8PM but the door opens 30 minutes earlier and runs all night till dawn. It is a big space of more than 6000 square meters, this makes it feel more of a big house party. There are 12 play rooms as well as 30 beds inclusive of the dance floor, a locker room, hot tub and the general meeting area. For directions, you will only receive them via the phone and not through email or on the website. See complete list: Michigan Swinger Clubs
Cherry Lane
This is a clothing voluntary club that deals with nudists and swingers. You must be above 18 to enter this club which is a campground Nudist Resort and not a resort style resource. You will be catered to by being offered a nice balance between having the best fun available and maintaining its appealing taste. An 80 acre field is present to allow you to ride your golf cart or have evening dances.
The 4th Floor Experience
This club is located at 4731 Grand River Detroit, Michigan and has 5 wide screen televisions, a dance floor, a live DJ, huge Jacuzzi tub, a tripper pole and a pool table. You can also smoke freely inside the club. There are sexy bar maids who serve clients as they pick money since it is a cash bar. A new inviting atmosphere is available for meeting new catches or your friends. It runs every Saturday from Midnight to 6AM. It is a good opportunity to find the perfect match you have always wanted.
Victim of All Pleasure
This is a club which is a crew of real swingers laid back and enjoy having quality adult fun without any cheeky games. Monthly house parties are held and for that, if you are not in a crowded hotel party, you can join this amazing club.
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Byob Hotel Takeover Meet N Greet/ Pool Party
This party will be held on Friday, the 9th of May,2014, at the Capital City Social Club and it is a sex party for people to meet and enjoy themselves at the pool. Single males and couples not staying at for the night will be charged 20 dollars. See complete list: Michigan Swinger Party
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Come and enjoy the Bikini Babes night at the Capital City Social Club on Saturday, 10th of this month. The party officially commences at 5pm and goes through the night, the charges per room is 79 dollars.
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Over his past six starts this month, Tillman has pitched to a 2.68 ERA and has recorded five quality starts. Very quietly, Tillman has grown to become one of the Orioles' most dependable starters. Since June 25, 2012, he is 18-5, and his .783 winning percentage in that span trails only Detroit's Max Scherzer (22-2, .917) and Oakland's Bartolo Colon (15-4, .789) among AL starters with at least 12 decisions in that span.
Tillman loaded the bases in the second inning — and allowed the first Yankees run on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to leadoff man Brett Gardner — but averted further damage by inducing an inning-ending pop-up from Ichiro Suzuki.
Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts, reinstated from the 60-day disabled list before the game, made his first start at Camden Yards in nearly a year. Roberts, who injured his right hamstring three games into the regular season this year in Tampa Bay, received a standing ovation from a smattering of fans when he stepped to the plate for the first time at Camden Yards since last July 1 — his 2012 season ended just 17 games in with a hip injury.
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"My first at-bat was definitely special for me," said Roberts, who had been limited to 118 games over the past four seasons because of injuries. "To be here as long as I have and go through so many ups and downs, you don't really know sometimes if people are just tired of you or [if] they really want you out there still. I said to somebody that I think my journey people can relate to."
In his second at-bat, Roberts — who was the club's starting designated hitter in his first game since April 4 — singled to center off Kuroda in the fifth inning.
Orioles reliever Darren O'Day walked the No. 7 and No. 9 hitters in the seventh to put two on with no out, but O'Day retired lefties Gardner and Ichiro Suzuki to end the threat.
Kuroda (7-6) lasted six innings, but was chased from the game in the seventh after Matt Wieters opened the frame with a single, following by a J.J. Hardy double. Wieters would score on Roberts' sacrifice fly to medium center field to give the Orioles a 4-2 lead.
After Troy Patton and Tommy Hunter combined for a perfect eighth inning, Johnson converted his 28th save of the season, despite bringing the go-ahead run to the plate.
Johnson, making his first appearance since blowing a save and taking a loss Wednesday, allowed a leadoff double to Lyle Overbay and hit Chris Stewart with a pitch with one out.
The Orioles closer recovered, striking out David Adams on a foul tip and then getting Gardner to ground into a game-ending fielder's choice to second baseman Alexi Casilla.
"I think we can compete every night," Johnson said. "Our offense is one of the best. You're witnessing something special in what Chris Davis is doing and our defense, every night there's something exciting that's going to happen when we're playing. It makes coming to the ballpark fun. We all get along and we talked about chemistry last year and that's carried over to this year. I think we're all excited to where this ends up taking us."


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WATSONVILLE -- An Aptos mother accused of killing her young daughter in November will stand trial, a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday morning.
There is enough evidence against Veva Virgil, 37, to support the two charges against her, Judge Samuel Stevens decided during the hearing, which began Wednesday afternoon.
Virgil allegedly smothered 3½-year-old Isabella Grace Martinez and left the little girl's body in an otherwise-empty Watsonville motel room. A housekeeper at the Motel 6 on Silverleaf Drive discovered Isabella's body the afternoon of Nov. 16. Virgil was arrested that night in San Jose.
She is charged with murder and assault on a child causing death.
"This case is less about what all happened, and more about why it all happened," defense attorney Maya Nordberg said. "This was not a willful, deliberate and premeditated act. The tragedy of what happened was the direct consequence of Ms. Virgil's mental illness."
The preliminary hearing was closed to the public at the request of Virgil's attorney. Nordberg said she made the motion to keep the hearing private to preserve her client's opportunity to have a fair trial in the future. The attorney said she was concerned that some details of the case may taint the jury pool, should they be released to the public.
Prosecutor Ross Taylor took no position on the motion and, over protests from several local media outlets, Salazar approved the request to close the courtroom.
The case will be back in court April 2, at which time the judge will consider releasing transcripts from this week's hearing.
Virgil's supporters, including husband Richard Sullens and Kelly Collier, a Sunnyvale woman who was Isabella's foster mother for several month in 2007, have said Virgil suffers from schizophrenia and needs psychiatric help. They said she's not a criminal and they hope she can get the assistance she needs.
Virgil could be sent to state prison if convicted.


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Westminster had a population of 2,658; a land area of 3.41 sq. miles; a water area of 0 sq. miles; and a population density of 780.16 people per sq. mile according to the US Census Bureaue estimate of July 1, 2009. Latest Census Estimates for all incorporated places in South Carolina.
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HIV Pre-Exposure & Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP & PEP)
This program will be broadcast on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It is our 44th program in the ongoing series "Management of HIV/AIDS in Correctional and Community Settings.
Program Goal: To enable the learner to have the most recent information about HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP & PEP)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the indications for HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP).
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Physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses, dentists, and other interested medical providers.
Faculty Carl J. Koenigsmann, MD Ronald H. Goldschmidt, MD Dawn K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH Author of "PREEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION IN THE UNITED STATES 2014-A CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE"
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Fit Links: Healthy Snack Options and Stress-Fighting Secrets
Written on March 16, 2012 at 3:41 pm , by Karla Walsh
This week's fit links from around the web:
- Yum! Whether you're craving a sweet treat or a savory mini-meal, these smart snack ideas are wholesome, satisfying and delicious. — Peanut Butter Fingers
- Fess up: What are you really wearing under those workout capris? — Fit Bottomed Girls
- We are intrigued by the idea of avocado pudding (especially if you add chocolate)! — Edible Perspective
- One woman tells you the secret to finding the perfect work/life balance. — MizFit
- Feeling frazzled? These five steps will help you find (nearly) instant bliss. — Diets in Review
- Hey, we've all stolen a bite of cookie dough before baking. But if you find yourself continually ruining your dinner appetite by taste-testing, try these tricks. — The Great Fitness Experiment
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