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McCrory picks poet laureate without input, rankles poetry community
Poet laureate is a coveted position in North Carolina's literary world. Fred Chappell and Sam Ragan are among the nationally known previous laureates, while outgoing Laureate Joseph Bathanti has published a dozen books and won major awards, including the Carolina Novel Award and the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award.
Bathanti's two-year term is up, and a new poet laureate was announced Friday: Valerie Macon of Fuquay-Varina, a state employee whose publication résumé consists of two self-published poetry collections. Given the stature of the poet laureate position, the thinness of the largely unknown Macon's poetry output and the fact that Gov. Pat McCrory made his selection with no input from the North Carolina Arts Council – which oversaw nominating and vetting in previous years – North Carolina's poetry community reacted to her appointment with swift vehemence.
Kathryn Stripling Byer, who was poet laureate from 2005 to 2009, called McCrory's handling of it "a slap in the face" even as she pledged to help Macon with her new position.
"While the governor is not bound by law to consult with the Arts Council, it's supposed to be an open, transparent, democratic process," said Byer. "It does very much seem to us that he either didn't know what he was supposed to do, or he just didn't give a damn, frankly."
Macon is the eighth person (and third woman) to hold the poet laureate title since 1948. She'll hold the post for two years, conducting workshops and readings while earning a stipend between $5,000 and $15,000, according to the N.C. Arts Council.
Since 1997, Macon has worked for the Department of Health and Human Services. She's a disability determination specialist with an annual salary of $44,770.
Macon's most recent book is this year's "Sleeping Rough," a self-published collection of poems about homelessness. Proceeds from "Sleeping Rough" go toward Garden of Eaten, a quarter-acre garden Macon started at a Fuquay-Varina church, which grows food for the homeless.
Wayne Martin, executive director of the N.C. Arts Council, declined to answer when asked if he thought Macon's work was artistically significant enough to make her poet laureate. But he cited her activism as a positive attribute.
Susan Kluttz, secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources, also cited Macon's work with the homeless in praising her in a statement issued late Monday.
"I met with her today to welcome her to her new position," Kluttz said. "Valerie brings an energy to her work that many, including me, find inspiring. I think she will make a great poet laureate and I, and my department, look forward to working with her."
When asked who advised the governor on the selection of Macon, McCrory spokesman Rick Martinez said he did not know.
"I don't know the governor's familiarity with her work," Martinez said. "I do know that she's qualified and has won some awards here in North Carolina."
Macon won honorable mention in a 2014 contest sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society. Before it disappeared over the weekend, her website ValerieMaconPoetry.com also listed Macon as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet; she was actually a student in that program, which pairs new poets with mentors, studying under Becky Gould Gibson in 2011.
Most years, the new poet laureate is announced with some fanfare in an introductory ceremony, with the newly minted laureate on hand to make the occasion more poetic. This year, Macon was announced with nothing more than a press release. After the news broke, social media discussions flared throughout the weekend in North Carolina's poetry circles. Many poets wondered who Macon was; the consensus of most discussions was that she wasn't qualified.
Macon herself said in an interview Sunday that she was trying to stay above the fray and ignore the flak. She also said she was "honored and humbled" at the appointment.
"All I can say is I will definitely do my very best to promote poetry," Macon said. "I'll work hard to be the best poet laureate I possibly can for the citizens of North Carolina."
That wasn't good enough for Jaki Shelton Green of Mebane, a former Piedmont Laureate and newly inducted member of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Green pronounced herself as "sad, but not at all shocked" at McCrory's selection.
"It's an affront to all the hard work so many of us have done," Green said. "I can name writer after writer in this state with a legacy not just in writing, but in leadership on how art informs lives. I don't think McCrory has a clue. But what's clear is he knows he doesn't have to have a clue, just be governor."
Durham poet and publisher Richard Krawiec echoed the sentiments of many of his peers, lauding Macon's activism and intentions while maintaining that she does not meet the requirements for poet laureate.
"Valerie Macon is a beginner in her poetry career," Krawiec said. "Laureate is for people with national and statewide reputations. If you don't honor that basic criteria of literary excellence and laureates being poets at the top of their game, than what's the purpose of the laureate position?"


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Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter," published by Times Books, and editor of a book assessing former President George W. Bush's administration, published by Princeton University Press.
Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- As the nation gets closer to the brink of fiscal chaos, many pundits have been writing the political obituary for John Boehner's term as Speaker of the House.
When negotiations over the debt ceiling broke down, with Majority Leader Eric Cantor refusing to accept any tax increase, New York magazine's John Heilemann said: "I think what we learned over this past weekend is that John Boehner . . . is not really Speaker of the House. Eric Cantor is Speaker of the House."
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stepped in with a compromise of his own, apparently trying to accomplish what his colleague in the House could not achieve, he immediately received praise for seeking to save the GOP from incompetent leadership in the House.
With the Republicans openly divided and apparently lacking any clear leader, it appears that Boehner's future can't be pretty.
But, in fact, the verdict is still out. Not only is it too early to tell what will happen to him in the coming months as a result of the negotiations, it is also possible to see how Boehner can emerge from the debt ceiling debate in a stronger political position.
If a deal is struck in the next few days, it will be the speaker, not Cantor or McConnell, who could walk away with the biggest political muscle in the Republican caucus.
There are several reasons to think that Boehner might be in a better position than the conventional wisdom would have us believe. One reason is that, at least thus far, Boehner and the House GOP have successfully driven national debate to focus on their priority. Since taking over the chamber after the 2010 election, the speaker has used the debate over fiscal policy to nudge President Obama to the right.
Following two years of discussions about new health care programs, an economic stimulus and financial regulation, policymakers, including the president, are now squarely focused on reducing the size of government. Although Republicans have encountered significant blowback in response to Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to cut the budget, Boehner and his colleagues have been unrelenting in their focus on these issues.
Rather than challenging the broader arguments that have been promoted by the GOP by focusing, as many Democrats have argued is necessary, on federal policies to lower unemployment and on a launching a defense of government services, the president has generally accepted the terms of debate put forth by Republicans.
When President Obama tried to steal the thunder of the Republicans, he did so by offering an even grander deficit reduction package. The question is how much to cut government -- not whether to do so.
And so the major point of contention has been whether tax increases should also be part of the deficit reduction package.
As Harold Meyerson of The Washington Post wrote, "President Obama moved so far to the right that he has picked up many of the ideals the Republicans have jettisoned and embraced them as his own. It's Obama who's now the deficit-and-debt hawk and who has proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare."
The second important development from the debt ceiling battle is that the speaker has managed to distance himself from the tea party Republicans even while he champions most of their views. Boehner has presented himself as the statesman and the dealmaker who is trying to keep the revolutionaries under control.
The speaker's press people got a lot of mileage out of the famous golf summit, with a number of stories of how well he and the president got along. When the negotiations broke down, the press focused on Cantor bolting from the sessions. Meanwhile, the media reported that the speaker is still open to working with Democrats. Some commentators have suggested that the White House has intentionally fueled this division to aggravate the dissension within the GOP and pit the factions against each other.
Yet the division might come back to bite the administration. In certain respects, Boehner has actually benefited from the zealousness of the tea party Republicans. Their relationship has echoes of the dynamics between Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and northern liberals in the 1950s.
Johnson constantly warned conservative southern Democrats that if they did not compromise on issues like civil rights he would not be able to contain northern liberals like Illinois Senator Paul Douglas who were pushing for much bolder changes. He did this with the goal of moving southerners toward a compromise.
Boehner has been able to do the same with the conservative wing of his party. The speaker has created immense pressure on President Obama to concede on spending cuts by playing into fears of how far tea party Republicans are willing to go. Tea party activists are willing to risk the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling. The speaker conveys the message, moves the president, yet he does not have to take the blame himself. In the longer run, Republicans could feel as if they got the tea party out of their system and seeing the consequences, move back toward the speaker.
The final factor that will determine how the speaker comes out of this remains the biggest unknown. Can Boehner deliver the votes and persuade the extreme elements of his caucus to go along with a deal?
This is where Boehner must avoid, what might be called, the Newt Gingrich syndrome: the inability to control the radical elements in your caucus. Gingrich faced a similar challenge as Boehner in the mid-1990s. During the budget battles of 1995-1996, Gingrich could not control the legislators who had been elected in 1994 and who came to Washington determined to cut down the government. When the time came to reach a deal, Gingrich could not persuade them to go along. The result was a government shutdown that turned public opinion against the GOP.
If the potential for a major financial crisis does persuade House Republicans to go along in the end, however, the speaker could walk away victorious and come out of this legislative mess appearing as the leader who can round up votes.
It is far too early to count Boehner out -- and it is possible to see a number of silver linings for him amid the clouds of the past few weeks. Certainly, Democrats should not underestimate the speaker, nor should his opponents within the GOP. There are many ways to see how this cagey politician can emerge from a bruising battle stronger than before.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian E. Zelizer.

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Stuhr: Blaming closures on Lowe's is disappointing
I would consider myself an adamant supporter of local businesses. Unfortunately, I do not find myself shedding a tear over the closing of Bucksworth and BigHorn.
Bucksworth closed up shop over the summer several weeks before Lowe's opened. While the imminent opening may have accelerated their closure, a business that has a sign on their front counter that read "Price, Quality, Service, Pick 2" is not a business that is going to survive regardless of the economy. For what it is worth, they offered neither quality service or a reasonable price, while their quality was just standard.
BigHorn just as well closed up shop a year ago. Their shelves inside and out were nearly empty. If you wanted one item, you were fine, if you needed three of them, it might be here on a truck in a month. To buy a toilet, you had to drive to Avon or Evergreen, and this was months before Lowe's even opened their doors.
The opening of Lowe's may have accelerated the closing of BigHorn and Bucksworth, but it was by no means the cause. Bucksworth closed while Lowe's was still a big, empty, unfinished shell. BigHorn cleared their inventory a year ago, just waiting to close their doors.
While the loss of two local businesses is disappointing, to blame the closure on the opening of Lowe's is just plain denial.
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DETROIT (AP) -- A documentary film about a Detroit fire company will screen later this month at two area theaters.
"Burn" is scheduled to be shown in Livonia and Sterling Heights from Friday through Dec. 13.
The movie follows the crew of Engine Company 50 as it fights fires on Detroit's blighted east side.
"Burn" is executive-produced by actor Denis Leary, who portrayed a firefighter on the acclaimed TV series "Rescue Me."
A portion of the proceeds from "Burn" will go to the Leary Firefighters Foundation to buy gear for Detroit firefighters.


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Now what?
Guess it's on to Plan C.
David Beckham's desire to build a soccer stadium, with $250 million in private funding, but on city of Miami waterfront, has been thwarted — again.
Mayor Tomás Regalado and City Manager Daniel Alfonso broke the bad news to Mr. Beckham and his group telling them, "No goal" — at least not yet. But the FEC boat slip next to American-Airlines Arena is off-limits for a stadium. As attractive as the prospect of Miami's own Major League Soccer team appears, downtown's dwindling accessible waterfront simply cannot be up for grabs for every private interest with bayside dreams.
In a city and county that have gotten it wrong too many times in their stewardship of public spaces, Mr. Regalado and Mr. Alfonso got this one right. There was not enough support to give Mr. Beckham what he wanted, even though he's offering to build a stadium with private money and pay the city $2 million a year. The mayor stood on the side of the people — including a considerable number of environmentalists, architects and urban planners — who said that Museum Park should be just that, a park, seamless, green, inviting and without further development.
And that is precisely the vision, laid out in master plans, that should be realized sooner rather than later. All need to remember that when it comes to green space in large metropolitan areas across the country, Miami falls short.
Mr. Beckham should be getting the message by now: A soccer team? Oh yeah! A privately funded stadium? OK. On downtown's waterfront? Uh-uh. But Mr. Beckham and his team shouldn't take their marbles and go elsewhere before modifying their expectations and giving other sites their due.
Before the boat slip was dangled, the Beckham team had its heart set on a waterfront parking lot at PortMiami. But in the face of opposition from a broad swath of business and government interests, most notably Royal Caribbean — it was the cruise company's parking lot, after all — that location was scrapped.
Perhaps there is an appropriate location somewhere along another body of water. In 2001, a site along the Miami River just west of downtown proper was under serious consideration — culminating in an unsuccessful City Commission vote — when the then-Florida Marlins was looking to build a new baseball stadium. Marlins Park ultimately replaced the Orange Bowl in Little Havana.
It must be frustrating for Mr. Beckham and his partners to know that the community really wants soccer, but not a stadium where they want to build it.
They rejected building next to Marlins Park, not wanting to be associated with such a taxpayer debacle — "spiritually tainted," said one Beckham colleague — and a lackluster neighborhood. Who can blame them? Sun Life Stadium, where many soccer matches are played, might be an option, with potential upgrades now being considered.
Other city leaders would love to get Mr. Beckham to bring his franchise to their cities. Joy Cooper, the mayor of Hallandale Beach, offered the Beckham group land near the water. In Miami, even as he rejected Mr. Beckham's plan, Mayor Regalado told him not to give up on the city. That's good counsel. The retired soccer superstar can still score a goal.


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I thought I'd let you all know about a program of rifle marksmanship and American Revolutionary War histroy.
It's called Project Appleseed.
For those who are 20 years of age or younger it is free!
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We've trained lots of youngsters with their families.
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text: This book and Cd combo is all about Om, the most fundamental and ancient of the yogic mantras. In the book we learn the origin, symbolism and effects of both the Om mantra and its graphic representation, the Sri Yantra. The book also goes into detail on the yogic practices to use Om for meditation and contemplation, many which incorporate the musical tracks on the Cd. Oms of different pitches and harmonic overtones are either sung solo, in triads, or choruses and fill the entire 74-minute Cd. These tracks can be used in multiple ways, from passive listening to accompanying the exercises and meditations explained in the book.


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South Carolina Capital Hosting Freedom Walk
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 - Columbia, S.C., will remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and honor servicemembers past and present with a Freedom Walk Sept. 11, according to a news release from the city.
The walk will begin at the State Capitol at 11:30 a.m. and conclude at City Memorial Park with a wreath-laying ceremony. Participants will include members of the general public, public service representatives, state and local government officials and representatives of all military services, the release said.
Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, is scheduled to participate.
The city of Columbia and "Connect and Join," are sponsoring the event. Connect and Join is an online communications and activities site connecting families separated by deployment or who have family members living away from home due to job-related responsibilities, according to the organization's Web site.
The group is a member of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, which spotlights ways the American people and the nation's corporate sector support U.S. servicemembers.
More than 120 similar Freedom Walks are scheduled in all 50 states to remember those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, and to honor America's military veterans, past and present. The local events around the country parallel the Washington, D.C., Freedom Walk scheduled for Sept. 10 and sponsored by the America Supports You program.
Information for people interested in organizing Freedom Walk observances in their communities is available at the America Supports You Freedom Walk Web site.
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The following is the press release for The Beatles' single Real Love, issued by Apple Corps on this day. The single was released on 4 March 1996.
There was never a more romantic band than The Beatles. Throughout their career they only really said one four-letter word – l-o-v-e.
Love is the theme in almost every song they wrote. Although the actual word only appears in the titles of 10 of the 213 Beatles' compositions (All My Loving, All You Need Is Love, And I Love Her, Can't Buy Me Love, It's Only Love, Love Me Do, Love You To, PS I Love You, She Loves You, and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away) the loving feeling hallmarks The Beatles' musical history.
Love is all around in Paul's Here, There And Everywhere. There's the lust for constant love in "Ooh I need your love, babe... eight days a week". There's the idolized love of George's "Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover". There's the desperate cry for love in John's Help! There's the happiness of being in love in John's "I'm in love with her and I feel fine." And, of course, there's Paul's classic lost love lament of Yesterday, "Love was such an easy game to play".
Even the last song they ever recorded together – the aptly-titled The End, at the very end of Abbey Road, their last album – highlighted the importance of love to The Beatles when they sang their very last lines: "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make".
For The Beatles, all you ever really did need was love. And now they are releasing their very last love song as their absolutely final word.
Aptly it's called Real Love.
Real Love is the final track from the Beatles' reunion sessions that were the talk of last year after Paul, George and Ringo came together in the studios for the first time in 25 years to re-record unreleased songs penned by the late John Lennon.
Unlike Free As A Bird, which basically Paul, George and Ringo had to piece together and write extra parts for around an unfinished demo track of John's, Real Love was completed as a song by John before he died. However, to make it a Beatles song, Paul, George and Ringo spent hours in Paul's Sussex studio layering over drums, bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitars and instantly recognizable Beatles harmonies.
The result is a more catchy song than Free As A Bird and is many people's favorite of the two for being the more "poppy". In essence it passes the record industry's "whistle test" – one listen and you can whistle along with it.
Real Love was different from Free As A Bird in that it had all the words and the music and so it was a bit more like being side men to John – but that was very joyful and good fun and I think we did a good job", said Paul.
"I think Real Love is slightly deceptive, it's one of those songs that the more you hear it the more you go 'ooo'".
Recording sessions for Real Love began at Macca's studio in February, 1995 and lasted for a week. In June, Paul and George came together again to make the final edit. It is probably the last time that The Beatles will record together as Beatles. As Paul admits, that day is probably done.
"I think it may be a non-starter, just the three of us. You know, maybe we've done enough. If you look at our career, hell, it wasn't a bad one. And now we've done the Anthology, had great success with that, and I think the only thing that might excite me and George and Ringo now would be some crazy idea someone might have or finding another crazy John track that we've all got to work on.
"But the three of us working on our own – I just can't see it myself. But you never know". If this really is, as it seems, the end, then it is fitting that the world's most celebrated band is ending it all with a love song.
For Paul, leaving love as The Beatles' last message is important. As it is, The Beatles led the Love Generation and influenced the spread of peace and kindness throughout the Sixties. But, Paul warned, the world could have gone a worse way had they used their power to tell their millions of fans to riot and violently rebel.
"The one thing that I'm really proud of with The Beatles is that I'm glad of the content of the songs, of what we said in them", said Paul.
"Because if you listen to Beatles' songs, we're saying good things. We're saying love and peace. Let It Be, there will be an answer, Hey Jude, don't make it bad.' Looking back on it, none of it says go and screw your brother.
"Our songs weren't anthems of rebelliousness. We weren't saying 'come on kids, hate your parents.' Although we could have done, we had that power – we could have stood for Satanism instead of love – and if we had chosen to use that power the whole thing could have gone a very different way.
"We could have gone off on the whole psychedelic thing and have really majored on that and forgotten the love thing. But love was important to us.
"I thought spreading love was important then and I still do now. I really do think that's all there is. I don't think you need much else and a lot of the problems in society that you're getting now is because there isn't enough love, especially between families. Kids are just not getting it.
"But I think the overall impression that The Beatles left people with was an affectionate feeling. Most people I talk to say 'Aah, great days', they've got lovely memories of it. And if there is any residue of love for The Beatles, I think it's because we had that very honest, loving attitude and our message still remains a very positive, loving message".
As he sang long ago, "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
Also on this day...
- 1970: Recording: Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing by Ringo Starr
- 1969: Mixing: I've Got A Feeling, Don't Let Me Down, Get Back, One After 909, Dig A Pony
- 1968: Ringo Starr rehearses for Cilla Black's television show
- 1967: Filming: Penny Lane
- 1964: Press conference: London airport
- 1963: Live: Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster
- 1962: Live: Kingsway Club, Southport
- 1962: Live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunchtime)
- 1961: Live: Blair Hall, Liverpool
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The only way to stop the next gunman "waiting in the wings" is to place an armed police officer in every school in America, National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre said Friday morning.
Just one week after a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school where 20 children and six adults were killed — and as polls showed an increasing public cry for more gun control — the nation's largest gun-rights lobby group demanded Congress immediately appropriate funds for additional officers.
The NRA also asked for the creation of an "active database of the mentally ill," against which gun purchases could be checked.
LaPierre, who took no questions from reporters, warned that swift action was needed to stop the next killer from being lured to action by the "media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall action and a sense of identity that they crave."
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun," LaPierre said, "is a good guy with a gun."
In Colorado, many public schools are already staffed by armed police or deputies — and have been since
before the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School.
Several Colorado law enforcement agencies that oversee the school resource officer programs say increasing the number of cops at schools might be welcomed, but the vastness of NRA's call to arms is unrealistic.
"I don't think that anyone is going to look at the NRA for school-safety practices," Greenwood Village police Chief John Jackson.
Jackson's department manages five school resource officers who work at five schools, including Cherry Creek High. The 90-acre campus is the largest noncollegiate campus in Colorado.
"It's not about just sitting in an office," Jackson said. "They spend their days split into three jobs — they are a teacher, a counselor and a police officer. At any given time, they can be doing many of those roles."
Jefferson County Sheriff's Sgt. Wayne Holverson, who oversees 10 of the 37 officers who patrol Jeffco Public Schools, said deputies are stretched so thin that he can't imagine adding more schools to the patrol.
Those 10 deputies work primarily at five high schools, including Columbine, and nine middle schools and assist at 32 elementary schools. Since the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, in Newtown, Conn., deputies in the division have been required to check in at least one elementary school in the morning and one elementary school in the afternoon.
During a typical school day, deputies may handle multiple incidents, ranging from sitting in on student meetings with counselors to taking reports of thefts from lockers to investigating incidents of "sexting."
"It's a very challenging scenario to think there's a capability of having an armed law enforcement professional in every school all the time," County Sheriffs of Colorado executive director Chris Olson told The Denver Post editorial board. "It's not just a cop sitting at the front door."
School resource officer programs in Colorado are only a single — and expensive — element of school-security programs.
Denver Public Schools' total security budget is $5.4 million, and $1.5 million of that budget covers a contract with the Denver Police Department for the district's 15 school resource officers, DPS spokesman Dave Nachtweih said.
Shrinking school budgets could affect districts' abilities to keep or expand school resource officer programs and could result in cuts to crucial programs used to prevent school violence, said Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association.
"We've cut $1 billion in funding that has reduced the number of school counselors and school psychologists," Dallman said. "If we are serious as a nation and as a state, we really have to focus our attention so our students have access to high quality mental health services early on."
National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel called the NRA's demands "shocking."
"Their delusional assumption that everything other than guns contribute to these tragedies reflects just how out of touch the NRA has become," Roekel said in a statement. "Their proposal misses the fact that in many schools across the country, we have school resource officers and yet tragic incidents like Newtown, Chardon, Columbine, Paducah and Jonesboro still have occurred."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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DRAFT MINUTES GODORT State and Local Documents Task Force Hilton Bayfront Hotel, Room Indigo 202 A Saturday, January 08, 2011, 1:30 -3:30p.m. Convener: Jennie Gerke Recorder: Sarah Erekson
Attendees: Members: Non-Members:
At 1:30 p.m., Jennie Gerke, SLDTF Coordinator brought the meeting to order. After the welcome and introductions, the Attendance Sheet was passed around to attendees.
I. Adoption of the Agenda Taken as adopted
II. Approval of Minutes from ALA Annual Conference, July 2010 a. Moved to approve Jennie Gerke b. Seconded by Richard Gause
III. Discussion/Presentation a. ALA E-Gov Toolkit i. Developed in 2008 by Committee on Legislation (COL) subcommittee to deal with E-Gov. ii. Defines of E-Government and how libraries can create E-Government policies b. Breakout session – two groups, 15 minutes i. E-Government toolkit and E-Government policies were discussed. 1. We are increasingly asked to be the liaisons between people and government. 2. There are some great ways libraries, especially public libraries, have responded to this need, particularly when they partner with agencies. 3. Issues discussed included cyber-security, legal liability, public access computer time limits, giving feedback on the usability of government websites and forms, the demand for E-Government services such as civic empowerment or business opportunities and the policy question of social work – should libraries be providing social services as one-stop-shops and are E-Government workshops (presented by agencies or libraries) being given to social workers as part of their training for the profession?
IV. Updates a. Washington Office update from Barbara Miller i. Libraries now recognized by FEMA as essential service to get funding and continuity of services during and after emergencies. ii. Implications of being an "Essential Service" still being discussed at ALA and advocacy plans may be communicated in the future.
V. Liaison Reports a. Program Committee is planning for Pre-Conference at Annual 2012, programs surrounding the upcoming anniversary, providing history fair help for students and connecting history projects with government publications, and some sort of program about the 2011 oil spill.
VI. Old Business Karen Hogenboom – Projects of preserving state government information. Site is stagnant and help is still needed.
VII. New Business a. Annual's Task Force Topic i. Disaster recovery- follow up to Katrina; local records recovered over the long term. b. NIH open access bill. To documents, going to come up again, what would it mean to individual states, and pass on to WO to lobby c. Volunteer opportunities i. Notable documents panel – for state and local judge; we need more nominations from state and local. d. Wiki vs ALA connect join Task Force open to everyone VIII. Recap of any action items IX. Adjourn a. Moved to adjourn Jennie Gerke at 4:27p.m. b. Seconded by Crenetha and Kris Kay


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"Play hard. Stick together."
That's the message Washington College head men's lacrosse coach Jeff Shirk has emphasized with his team since taking over the reigns of the program last summer. It's also the team's new motto.
The Shoremen finished the 2010 season with an uncharacteristic 4-10 record - the program's first sub-.500 season since 1995. Shirk is confident this year's Shoremen are ready for a new start and are back on the right track.
"We're rebuilding, but we have a lot of talent and a great group of guys," notes Shirk. "We've got a whole new system and a whole new direction. Our guys are working hard - coming early to practice and staying late."
A young team (18 freshmen and only five seniors are on the 51-man roster) helps give the Shoremen that fresh start, but a buy-in by last year's Most Valulable Player and representative on the All-Centennial Conference Team - senior captain and midfielder Doug Herdegen (Baltimore, MD/Archbishop Curley) - has also been important.
Herdegen scored a team-best 29 goals last season and assisted on seven others to lead the team with 36 points. He also led the Shoremen in extra-man goals (five) and shots (110), but it's been his leadership off the field in the fall and in preseason that has especially impressed Shirk.
"He has really embraced being a captain and looks out for our guys off the field as much as or more than anybody else."
The offensive midfield unit is perhaps the Shoremen's most experienced group. Fellow captain and classmate Shane Kaski (Mosley, VA/Midlothian) (11 goals, two assists) joins Herdegen there. Kaski and Herdegen are the only two players remaining from the 2008 team that reached the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals. Sophomores Patrick Coyle (Reisterstown, MD/Calvert Hall) (eight goals, eight assists) and Sam Witham (Falmouth, MA/Cape Cod Academy) and juniors Dave Lundquist (West Chester, PA/Henderson) (five goals, six assists) and Morgan Braendel (Chester Springs, PA/Owen J. Roberts) are among the Shoremen's other top returners in the offensive midfield. Freshmen Hunter Nowicki (Baltimore, MD/Franklin), Sam Eckerson (Fairfield, CT/Fairfield Warde), and Tom Petty (Annapolis, MD/St. Mary's) should also be in the mix.
Junior captain Billy Stafford (White Hall, MD/Hereford) (six goals, nine assists) will lead the attack along with sophomores Matt Lewis (Mt. Airy, MD/Glenelg Country School) (six goals, one assist) and Bennett Cord (Gaithersburg, MD/Gaithersburg) (three goals, three assists). Sophomore Glen Tompkins (Manhasset, NY/Manhasset), who spent the fall 2009 semester at WC and returned for this spring, and freshmen Ryan Ohlin (Stafford, VA/Mountain View) and JD Campbell (Baltimore, MD/Mount St. Joseph) are expected to bolster the attack unit.
Junior captain Bryan Botti (Hereford, MD/Hereford) anchors Washington's close defense. Botti led the team in caused turnovers with 16 and also scooped up 22 ground balls in 2010. Juniors Matt Hager (Graonsville, MD/Kent Island) and Jack Vermeil (West Chester, PA/Henderson) and sophomore Michael Pierandri (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) are the other top returners at close defense. Freshman Taylor Lynn (New Canaan, CT/Kent School) is also expected to contend for playing time.
The Shoremen's top long-stick midfielders should be sophomore Jonny Poe (Coronado, CA/Coronado) (17 ground balls, 13 caused turnovers, two assists), freshmen Casey McKnight (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) and Mike Barbalace (Baltimore, MD/Calvert Hall), and junior Garrett Matthews (Chestertown, MD/Mercersburg Academy [PA]). The top short-stick defensive midfielders include junior Michael Pancottine (Bellevue, WA/Issaquah) (21 ground balls, nine caused turnovers, two assists), senior Nash Evans-Hodgson (Maple Grove, MN/Maple Grove) (12 ground balls, one goal), and freshman Eric Crosby (Annapolis, MD/St. Mary's). Three of the team's four face-off men from last season return in senior Zechariah Rogers (Bear, DE/Middletown), junior Stephen Evans (West Chester, PA/Henderson), and Hager. Lundquist may also see time facing off this season.
At the start of preseason, there was a healthy three-man competition in goal. Junior Peter Stewart (Annapolis, MD/St. Mary's) posted a .557 percentage in four starts before his 2010 campaign was cut short by injury, while sophomore Matt Miller (Baldwin, MD/Calvert Hall) made 10 starts, posted a .556 save percentage, and led the team in ground balls with 34. Freshman Ted DiSalvo (Boca Raton, FL/Spanish River) is competing with both of those returning netminders for the starting job.
Shirk, who came to Washington after four years as the head coach at Division I VMI, brought in an experienced staff of assistants. Andrew Delaney has spent time as an assistant coach at both Washington and Lee and Limestone, JL Reppert is a former Harvard assistant with a number of successful high school stops on his resume, and Ian Shure is a veteran of the Baltimore-area high-school coaching scene.
The Shoremen will open the 2011 season February 26th, at 2010 Landmark Conference Champion Goucher College, the first of six 2010 NCAA Division III Tournament participants they will face this season. The non-conference schedule also includes early-season home games against long-time rival Washington and Lee, York (PA), and Wesley, a trip to 2010 Colonial States Athletic Conference Champion and NCAA Division III Tournament participant Cabrini, and, of course, the annual "War on the Shore" for the Charles B. Clark Cup against 2010 NCAA Division III runner-up Salisbury, which will be played in Chestertown May 7th.
The always-challenging Centennial Conference schedule includes stops at 2010 conference champion and NCAA Division III Quarterfinalist Haverford and NCAA Division III Tournament participant Gettysburg and a home game against 2010 NCAA Division III Tournament participant Dickinson.
With such a daunting schedule, the Shoremen will be in the historically unusual position of underdogs heading into the season, but that's not something Shirk or his team is concerned about.
"We're already headed in the right direction off the field and with work ethic. We don't talk about winning games - we talk about putting in the work and preparing for game days. We're trying to create that mentality of focusing on preparation so that when game days come, we're confident that we have a great chance to win."


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Vote to adopt an amendment to SB 560 that establishes a voucher program for charter schools.
- Prohibits charter schools from assessing any tuition charges for resident or non-resident students (Sec. 6).
- Requires the school district in which each charter school student resides to pay to the charter school an amount equivalent to the amount of funding required to support the same student at a public school, and to deduct the amount from payments received from the state (Sec. 6).
- Authorizes a charter school to enter into a concurrent enrollment agreement with an institution of higher education and award academic credit to "concurrent students" (Sec. 2).
- Defines "concurrent student" as a student who is enrolled in a school district, charter school, vocational-technical school, nonpublic school, private school or a home education program and who takes a concurrent course at an institution of higher education through a concurrent enrollment program (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that attendance at a cyber charter school shall satisfy requirements for compulsory school attendance (Sec. 6).
- Authorizes charter schools to be located in any of the following areas (Sec. 6):
- An existing public school building, or a part of an existing public school building;
- A space provided on a privately owned site;
- A public building; or
- Any other suitable location.
- Requires school districts to make their unused facilities available for lease or sale to charter schools operating within that school district (Sec. 6).
- Authorizes charter schools to limit admission to any of the following types of students (Sec. 6):
- Students from a particular grade level;
- At-risk students from a targeted population group; or
- Students specializing in one or more disciplines including, but not limited to, mathematics, language, or the arts.
- Requires charter schools to provide 900 hours per year of instruction at the elementary level or 990 hours per year of instruction at the secondary level (Sec. 6).
- Prohibits charter schools from providing religious instruction or displaying religious objects and symbols on the premises of the school with the intention of advancing or endorsing religion (Sec. 6).
- Establishes a tax credit for businesses that contribute to a scholarship organization or educational improvement organization of no more than 75 percent of the total amount contributed during the tax year, and limits the tax credit to the following amounts (Sec. 6):
- For fiscal year 2011-2012, no more than $400,000 per firm; and
- For fiscal year 2012-2013, no more than $750,000 per firm.
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Liberty University to welcome Newt Gingrich
Accustomed to hosting political heavyweights, Liberty University will welcome former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to campus Wednesday to address students at convocation. The best-selling author and FOX News analyst was Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 1994 for leading an historic Republican takeover of the House of Representatives.
Gingrich will be speaking on the theme "Rediscovering God In America" and meeting later in the day with Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. and a group of key conservatives and evangelical leaders.
The visit will be the fifth for Gingrich, who delivered the Commencement keynote address in May 2007, just days after Liberty's founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell, passed away. He also spoke at Super Conference in 1994, an event sponsored by Thomas Road Baptist Church, Commencement in 1991 and convocation in 1987.
Earlier this year more than 80 Liberty students heard Gingrich speak at the fifth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., a two-day event that teaches students how they can impact America politically while staying firm in their Christian faith.
Students may also know Gingrich from his annual appearances at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by Liberty University and the Liberty University School of Law.
Liberty's convocation is the largest weekly gathering of Christian youth in North America.


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Support ... Tinkler received the backing of at least one KMC member on Monday night. Source: Liam Driver / News Limited
A member of the Newcastle Knights board that approved Nathan Tinkler's takeover has called for caution over the rising rancour about the NRL club's future.
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The Knights Members Club (KMC) directors and Hunter Sports Group (HSG) met on Monday night, with the former airing concerns about the direction of the club and Tinkler's spiralling debt.
Tinkler's right-hand man, HSG chief executive Troy Palmer, Knights boss Matt Gidley and coach Wayne Bennett addressed the KMC and did their best to allay fears at the meeting.
Palmer and Gidley reinforced their view that a tax bill of approximately $3 million would be paid, all of HSG's creditors would be paid, and that an audit report into the Knights' 2012 financial operations would reveal HSG had met all requirements.
Despite rumblings otherwise, KMC chairman Nicholas Dan wasn't ready to demand Tinkler hand back the NRL licence.
"It's a privately owned club and it's in their hands what happens from here," Dan said on Monday.
It was the first KMC meeting since the tax office moved last week to liquidate eight companies linked to Tinkler, including the Knights, and Newcastle Jets.
Tinkler's public perception problem has become a crisis over the past week, but one man who was sitting on the club's board when the white knight rode into town in 2011 leapt to his defence.
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"It's disappointing that such a great bloke is sitting on hard times," said the board member who did not wish to be named.
"The good thing about him is the one love he has got is for his Knights and the players he's formed a bond with.
"You can pat a horse but it won't talk back to you.
"He'll bounce back and I know the players aren't worried."
Tinkler offloaded his prized racehorse All Too Hard on the weekend, with some suggesting the funds could be used to pay off HSG debts.
Even if the KMC was to make a stand against Tinkler, it's unlikely to happen before an independent audit into HSG's finances, which will examine whether Tinkler has met all obligations in his takeover.
Gidley and Dan agreed in principle last Wednesday to change the audit date from December 15 to January 21.
Brent Perkins, partner of Knights auditors Crosbie Warren Sinclair, noted on Monday the delay had nothing to do with Tinkler's precarious financial situation.
"As the financial reporting year is to 31 December, this (audit) obviously could not be completed and issued for the full year by that date (December 15)," Perkins said.
"We understand that the recently proposed amendments will allow the audit to be completed and our report to be issued by 21 January each year."
Even if HSG makes good on its debt-clearing promise, Dan still has concerns about the club's reputation.
"We're very happy with the way memberships have increased and the money spent on facilities but we've got to look more broadly at the brand,'' Dan told Sky Sports Radio on Monday.
"I firmly believe creditors need to be paid in a timely manner."
Palmer suggested there were issues HSG "should apologise for" but was steadfast the club was in safe hands.
"I talk to Nathan every day ... there is no chance of Nathan going under," Palmer said.
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Leyland Cypress � Cupressocyparis leylandii � is a cultivated hybrid of Monterey cypress and Alaska cedar with an appealing natural shape. It is grown in all southern states as an ornamental. Trees are usually harvested within three to six years after planting. The foliage is dark green to gray in color and has upright branches with a feathery appearance.
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Eastern White Pine � Pinus strobes � is native to western N.C. at elevations between 1,200 and 3,500 feet. White pines retain their needles throughout the holiday season and have very little or no fragrance. Trees grown and trimmed for sale have a very full appearance with soft, blue-green needles that are 2 to 5 inches long. It takes seven to 10 years to grow a seedling into a 7- to 8-foot Christmas tree. White pines can be grown in the coastal plain but will be susceptible to many issues.
Eastern Red Cedar � Juniperus virginiana � was the traditional native Christmas tree in the Piedmont and coastal plain of N.C. It can be grown on almost any site in the state. Leaves are a dark, shiny, green color and prickly to the touch. Stems are weak, not holding much weight, and the form is considered poor. Red cedar has a good scent with a wide variation in individual tree characteristics. This species dries out quickly after cutting but should last two to three weeks if kept in water.
ArizonaCypress�Blue Ice� � Cuppressus arizonica var. glabra � is another beautiful Christmas tree grown on farms in the Piedmont and in Eastern N.C. Blue Ice has beautiful silvery blue needles and is conical shaped. It is fast growing and aromatic.
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Virginia Pine � Pinus virginiana � is a popular southern Christmas tree with dark green needles that are 1.5 to 3 inches long and held in twisted pairs. The tree has strong branches and a strong aromatic pine scent. It can be grown in a variety of soils from the coastal plain into the lower mountains. It is less sensitive to soil fertility than Fraser fir or White Pine. Growth is vigorous especially on fertile, well-drained soil. Production takes only four to six years, but some consider Virginia pine to be less favorable than other species.
Norway Spruce � Picea abies � can be grown in the Piedmont and Eastern N.C. if properly planted. The needles are one-half to an inch long and shiny, dark green. The tree has a sharp, strong fragrance with a nice conical shape. Norway Spruce makes a nice container tree or a ball and burlap tree.
Green Giant � Thuja occidentalis � is a newer type of tree available as a Christmas tree. It is a pyramidal evergreen with rich green color. It has tiny scale-like leaves on flattened branchlets. It is becoming very desirable.
Next week we will talk about the trees grown in western N.C. that are used as Christmas trees and how to care for your tree.
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