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Volume XIX, Number XXXXI September 30 - October 6, 2010 Y R TO S Bishop ER V O C Eddie Long: Founded 1991 .com “I Am Not Perfect” Your Paper, Your Opportunity... Visit Us Online at www.NorthDallasGazette.com Murphy to send 37 charter amendments to voters on Nov. 2 Pair of informational Town Hall Meetings set prior to vote (NDG Wire) Qualified rule charter during the mid- in February of 2004, and Like all emerging cities, we voters who reside within the term election set for Novem - since then, the city has seen must maintain a charter that City of Murphy will have ber 2 of this year, according the types of increases in reflects the needs and re - the opportunity to express to City Manager James population, in commercial quirements that come with their opinions on 37 cha- Fisher. activity, and in the level of growth and development,” nges, clarifications or modi - “The City of Murphy citizen involvement that See LONG, Page 9 fications to their city’s home adopted its original charter characterize superior cities. See MURPHY, Page 12 “Family Symphony Sundays” Plano fitness club owner says in Plano For more information see pg. 7 "There is no childhood obesity epidemic" www.northdallasgazette.com Y (NDG Wire) Nearly chain in the world is R TA Republicans one out of every three about to launch a nation - N E American children is clin - wide campaign featuring M M ically overweight or TV commercials and full- O Pledge: obese. The health and page ads in USA Today C well-being of future gen - and People magazine “A Trick Bag erations is undeniably at which declare “There is risk. And yet the fastest- no childhood obesity epi - growing fitness club For America” See OVERWEIGHT, Page 16 BY DANNY J. BAKEWELL, possibly the Senate. But SR., NNPA CHAIRMAN until last week, the Re - The Republican Party publican Party had offered Dallas Police take a progressive has spent most of the past no agenda of its own--so two years as the "Party of party leaders finally pro - approach to transparency No," opposing nearly duced one: the lofty- (NDG Wire) The Dal - now provides current inci - also offers free Crime to date regarding what’s every policy proposed by sounding "Pledge to las Police Department has dent data for both the Dal - Alerts which help keep the happening near their home, President Obama and De - America." taken a progressive ap - las and Fort Worth areas. community well informed work or child’s school of mocrats in Congress --a Sadly but predictably, proach to transparency by Any resident with access to by distributing incident re - attendance. The fifteen strategy that has worked this Pledge is nothing making their crime data the internet can map out ports via e-mail to anyone crime types displayed are politically, according to more than a promise to re - available to the public and analyze recent crime that subscribes to the sys - those most often requested polls that say this Novem - turn to the failed policies through numerous chan - activity in their neighbor - tem. by the public and include ber's election could sweep that created the worst eco - nels. hood. Over two million Texas Republicans back into the CrimeMapping.com CrimeMapping.com residents can now stay up See POLICE, Page 5 majority in the House and See PLEDGE , Page 3 INSIDE... People In The News… People In The News . 2 Op/Ed . 3 Health . 4 Community News . 5 Education . 6 Cover Story . 9 Arts & Entertainment . 10 Business . 11 Classifieds . 12 Career Opportunity . 13 Lyfe Jennings John Dabrini Annette Gordon-Reed Church Happenings . 14 Sister Tarpley . 15 See Page 2 People in the News www.NorthDallasGazette.com has not had any trouble with your freedom." me a chance I am forever in and forever. Amen from [a Lyfe Jennings the law except on this one He is currently in the your debt. I have had a fab - man]... Smile, its [conta - occasion. Lyfe is eligible Cobb County jail, where he ulous career because of gious]:)" (NDG Wire) On Sep - dio album, I Still Believe, for parole and according to will remain for approxi - you. All I can say in parting As a result of this news, tember 22, 2010, just a few platinum-R&B-soul- his attorney, Don Samuel, mately 30 days. Then will is that I have been honest all remaining shows left on weeks after releasing what crooner Lyfe Jennings was will most likely serve about be moved to what is known with [y'all]. I didn't sugar - Lyfe's current National tour 1 he has called his "final" stu - sentenced by Cobb County one-third of his 3 ⁄2 year sen - as the Diagnostic Center coat a word didn't hold back have all been canceled. On Superior Court Judge, Lark tence. Mr. Samuel also where he will serve about a single [syllable] of my life his latest LP, Lyfe touches Ingram, in Marietta, Geor - stated that "Although it had two months, and then he from [y'all]. I've lived a on the incident that has now 1 gia to serve 3 ⁄2 years in jail been reported otherwise, will be designated to a min - hundred lives in these 6 sent him to jail in the song for his role in a 2008 do - there were no allegations of imum security prison for [years] so I not only won't, If Tomorrow Never Comes . mestic dispute. physical abuse or violence the remainder of his sen - [I] don't have the right to Lyfe addresses his mother, In court, Lyfe spoke to whatsoever against my tence. complain. I would like to his aunt, his ex-girlfriend the judge, accepting full re - client in this case". He also After being handed think that I've changed lives and his kids singing, "If to - sponsibility for his actions added, "Lyfe wants his fam - down his sentence, Lyfe by changing my own, morrow never comes/ And and apologized for what he ily, friends and fans to know sent this message via Twit - [though] I can't be sure. But you never see me again/ I had done. After serving a 10 that he is a changed man, ter: one thing I am sure of is don’t want your last memo - year prison sentence for but all it takes is one mis - "This will be my last God gives and takes away ries of me/ To be filled with arson from 1992-2002, Lyfe take and one bad day to lose post. To everyone who gave in measure. He is fair, just negativity." rounding water by contract - species, and they also found only for understanding the John Dabiri ing their bell; his results that a hybrid jet-paddling evolution and biophysics of significantly increase our motion brings the advan - locomotion in jellyfish and John Dabiri is a bio - MacArthur Genius Award. knowledge of the impact of tage of drawing nearby prey other aquatic animals, but physicist whose work dra- Dabiri studies some of size and speed on the for - into the bell, where the ten - also for a host of distantly ws on a wide range of the simplest multicellular mation of optimal vortex tacles can capture them. related questions and appli - fields—including theoreti - organisms, jellyfish, which rings. Because the relative Dabiri has invented a cations in fluid dynamics, cal fluid dynamics, evolu - propel themselves by con - impact of viscosity on method that allows divers to from blood flow in the tionary biology, and biome - tracting cells in their bell- propulsion decreases with use tiny reflective particles human heart to the design chanics—to unravel the se - shaped outer skin and gen - greater size, fluid dynamics to visualize, with high of wind power generators. crets of one of the earliest erating jet forces in the tail theory implies that rowing speed and fine spatial reso - John Dabiri received a means of animal locomo - end, with tentacles trailing becomes a more efficient lution, the fluid dynamics B.S.E. (2001) from Prince - tion. behind. From a theoretical means of locomotion as an - of propulsion by jellyfish in ton University and an M.S. On Tuesday September engineering perspective, he imals grow larger. their native habitats; this (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) 28 he was named by the has shown that elucidating Dabiri and colleagues technique provides a wealth from the California Institute in such journals as Nature, John D. and Catherine T. the mechanisms of locomo - confirmed this experimen - of new data that can be used of Technology, where he is MacArthur Foundation a tion depends on detailed the Journal of Fluid Me - tally by examining propul - to test and refine models of currently an associate pro - chanics, the Journal of Ex - winner of the 2010 Mac- mathematical analysis of sion during maturation and vortex behavior. fessor of aeronautics and Arthur Fellowship, more the fluid vortex rings that perimental Biology, and in adult specimens of vary - Dabiri’s research has bioengineering. His scien - PNAS. commonly known as the jellyfish form in the sur - ing size across hundreds of profound implications not tific articles have appeared generations of a slave family and Thomas Jefferson, Gor - written with Vernon Jordan, owned by Thomas Jefferson. don-Reed is also the co-au - Jr. and received the Anisfield- Annette Gordon-Reed She also won the National thor of Vernon Can Read!: A Wolf book award. (NDG Wire) The John D. and humbled to be given this Book Award in nonfiction for Memoir (2001), which was and Catherine T. MacArthur award,” said Gordon-Reed.