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Lionel Mapoe got what he wanted, which was a ticket out of Bloemfontein. But it was the way that he did it that sucks and betrays his immense talent on a rugby field.
A year ago Mapoe's omission from the Springbok squad to tour Europe was more baffling than some of the selections. Mapoe was the form winger in South Africa. He appeared the dream selection: young, big, fast and bloody well black. It was as if God had gift-wrapped the complete package for the Springbok selectors who did as they tend to do with the logical and the obvious: they ignored Mapoe, who didn't need an international tour to stay in the news. If only we were talking about this athlete for the right reasons.
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Mapoe wanted out and the Sharks were happy to oblige in taking a player still under contract. So when Mapoe walked out on the Sharks a month ago and joined the Lions after the Cheetahs and Lions administration had exchanged notes and put the squeeze on the Sharks, there wasn't a whole lot of sympathy for the Sharks.
This, though, isn't about the Sharks, the Cheetahs or the Lions. It isn't about who is right or wrong and who acted in good faith. It isn't about who has the moral high ground or whether the Sharks' lawyers feel there was a loophole in Mapoe's contract. It certainly isn't about whether the Cheetahs and Lions feel common ground has been reached and that both unions and the player start 2011 as winners. It is about the absolute disregard shown by yet another player for a signed contract. What does a signature mean to Mapoe? Where is the integrity?
Every year players talk about the lack of professionalism among certain administrators. Players privately bemoan the incompetence of these amateurs who control their professions in the guise of CEOs. But what of the player who screws the system and does a dirty on his own integrity in the process? What a mess.
I have no sympathy for Mapoe or any player who walks out on a deal in which he has committed his name to paper. There is honour in a name and the assumption has always been there is honour in a signature.
Mapoe will get better as a player working with Lions and former All Blacks coach John Mitchell. He will break tackles, make tackles and score tries in next year's Super Rugby tournament, but nothing he does on the field can disguise his lack of integrity off it.
The Lions must enjoy Mapoe's talent while they have him, but they shouldn't be surprised if he's in Pretoria or Cape Town in February, given his track record.
If you let a player in through the back door then expect him to leave the same way.
– This first appeared in the December issue of SA Rugby magazine.
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The current version of MobileExplorer is still compatible with the latest Activiti version 5.2, since the REST API haven't changed apparently. If I start working on a new version of MobileExplorer in tthe future, I will contact you if you are still available.
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I am willing to test in feature as well, i have iPhone4.
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Revision as of 12:55, 20 January 2014
|William Enyart
|U.S. House, Illinois, District 12
|In office
|January 2013-Present
|Term ends
|January 3, 2015
|Years in position
|Jerry Costello (D)
|Base salary
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 6, 2012
|First elected
|November 6, 2012
|Next general
|November 4, 2014
|Campaign $
|Term limits
|University of Illinois; Southern Illinois University
|Southern Illinois University School of Law, United States Army War College
|Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
|Military service
|US Air Force, Illinois National Guard
|Years of service
|1969-1975, 1982-2012
|Date of birth
|Sept. 22, 1949
|Place of birth
|Tuscola, Illinois
|Net worth
|United Church of Christ
|Office website
|Campaign website
- 1 Biography
- 2 Career
- 3 Committee assignments
- 4 Issues
- 4.1 Legislative actions
- 4.1.1 113th Congress
- 4.1.2 National security
- 4.1.3 Economy
- 4.1.4 Immigration
- 4.1.5 Healthcare
- 4.1.6 Social issues
- 4.1 Legislative actions
- 5 Elections
- 6 Polls
- 7 Campaign donors
- 8 Analysis
- 9 Personal
- 10 Recent news
- 11 See also
- 12 External links
- 13 References
Enyart replaced primary winner Brad Harriman (D) after he withdrew from the race in May 2012. Enyart won election in the general election on November 6, 2013.[1]
He is set to run for re-election to the U.S. House in 2014. If he runs, he will seek the Democratic nomination in the primary election. The general election took place November 4, 2014.
He is a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline Program. The program is designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents heading into the 2014 election.[2]
Based on analysis of multiple outside rankings, Enyart is a more moderate left of center Democratic Party vote. As a result, he may break with the Democratic Party line more than his fellow members.
Enyart grew up in Tuscola, Illinois, where he attended school. He won a scholarship to the University of Illinois, but left after one year.
He joined the United States Air Forced in 1969 and left active duty to attend Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) where he studied political science and journalism.
After he graduated he worked for the Belleville News-Democrat which then led him to enroll at the Southern Illinois University's School of Law. He worked at his own practice for some years before going back to school and earning his master's degree from the Army War College.
He joined the Army National Guard in 1982, and his master's degree gave him the rank of General, and he became the adjutant general of the state National Guard.[3]
Below is an abbreviated outline of Enyart's professional and political career[3]:
- 2007-2012: Adjutant general, Illinois National Guard
- 1982-2012: Army National Guard
- 1979-2007: Attorney at Law
- 2000: Graduated U.S. Army War College, earned a M.S.S.
- 1991-1997: President and COO, Doc's Distributing
- 1973-1975: Air Force Reserves
- 1969-1973: Air Force Service
Committee assignments
U.S. House
Enyart serves on the following committees:[4]
- Committee on Agriculture
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development and Credit
- Committee on Armed Services
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- Subcommittee on Readiness
Legislative actions
113th Congress113th Congress enacted into law 224 out of the 3215 introduced bills (7 percent). Comparatively, the 112th Congress had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.[5] For more information pertaining to Enyart's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections.[6]
National security
American response in Syria
- See also: United States involvement in Syria
More than 100 House lawmakers signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to call Congress back into session if he planned to use military force in Syria.[7]
Rep. Scott Rigell wrote in the letter in August 2013, "engaging our military in Syria when no direct threat to the United States exists and without prior congressional authorization would violate the separation of powers that is clearly delineated in the Constitution."[7][8]
The members of Congress believed that Obama should have asked Congress for permission before engaging in Libya. The letter asked, "If the use of 221 Tomahawk cruise missles, [sic] 704 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, and 42 Predator Hellfire missiles expended in Libya does not constitute 'hostilities,' what does?"[8]
The letter stated, "If you deem that military action in Syria is necessary, Congress can reconvene at your request. We stand ready to come back into session, consider the facts before us, and share the burden of decisions made regarding U.S. involvement in the quickly escalating Syrian conflict."[8]
A total of 98 Republicans signed the letter. Enyart was one of 18 Democratic members to sign the letter.[8]
DHS Appropriations
Enyart voted against HR 2217 - the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014. The bill passed the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 245 - 182 and was largely along party lines.[9]
Keystone Pipeline Amendment
Enyart voted in favor of House Amendment 69, which would have amended HR 3 to "require that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, conduct a study of the vulnerabilities of the Keystone XL pipeline to a terrorist attack and certify that necessary protections have been put in place." The amendment failed on May 22, 2013, with a vote of 176 - 239 and was largely along party lines.[9]
Enyart voted in favor of HR 624 - the CISPA (2013). The bill passed the House on April 18, 2013, with a vote of 288 - 127. The bill would allow federal intelligence agencies to share cybersecurity intelligence and information with private entities and utilities.[10] The bill was largely supported by Republicans, but divided the Democratic Party.[9]
Enyart voted in support of HR 1960 - the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill passed the House on June 14, 2013, with a vote of 315 - 108. Both parties were somewhat divided on the vote.[9]
Government shutdown
- See also: United States budget debate, 2013
On September 30, 2013, the House passed a final stopgap spending bill before the shutdown went into effect. The bill included a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and would have also stripped the bill of federal subsidies for congressional members and staff. It passed through the House with a vote of 228-201.[11] At 1 a.m. on October 1, 2013, one hour after the shutdown officially began, the House voted to move forward with going to a conference. In short order, Sen. Harry Reid rejected the call to conference.[12] Enyart voted against the stopgap spending bill that would have delayed the individual mandate.[13]
The shutdown finally ended on October 16, 2013, when the House took a vote on HR 2775 after it was approved by the Senate. The bill to reopen the government lifted the $16.7 trillion debt limit and funds the government through January 15, 2014. Federal employees also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period. The only concession made by Senate Democrats was to require income verification for Obamacare subsidies.[14] The House passed the legislation shortly after the Senate, by a vote of 285-144, with all 144 votes against the legislation coming from Republican members. Enyart voted for HR 2775.[15]
Pay during government shutdown
Enyart said that he is "donating my pay for the duration of this senseless shut-down to a food bank in Southern Illinois and call upon my colleagues in Congress to do the same."[16]
Coal-fired power plants
Enyart and Reps. Rodney Davis (R) and John Shimkus (R) criticized President Obama's plans announced June 25, 2013 to make sharp cuts in carbon emissions by using the federal Environmental Protection Agency to impose tougher restrictions on coal-fired power plants.[17] The three congressmen harshly criticized the stricter rules proposed by Obama as job-killers that will "needllessly spike electricity costs for consumer."[17]
Enyart issued a statement saying he "will work tirelessly" against new mandates "that will increase energy costs, and decimate our Southern Illinois coal industry in the process." The 12 counties that make up the 12th Congressional District once comprised the heart of the Illinois coal industry.[17]
Morton Memos Prohibition
Enyart voted against House Amendment 136 - Prohibits the Enforcement of the Immigration Executive Order. The amendment was adopted by the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 224 - 201. The purpose of the amendment as stated on the official text is to "prohibit the use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Morton Memos." These memos would have granted administrative amnesty to certain illegal aliens residing in the United States. The vote largely followed party lines.[9]
Health Care Reform Rules
Enyart voted against House Amendment 450 - Requires Congressional Approval for Any Rules Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The amendment was adopted by the House on August 2, 2013, with a vote of 227-185. The amendment requires all changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be approved by Congress before taking effect. The vote was largely along party lines.[9]
Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act
Enyart voted against HR 2009 - Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013. The bill passed through the House on August 2, 2013, with a vote of 232-185. The bill would prevent the IRS and Treasury Secretary from enforcing the powers provided to them in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The vote largely followed party lines.[9]
Social issues
Amash amendment
Enyart voted against House Amendment 413 - Prohibits the National Security Agency from Collecting Records Under the Patriot Act. The amendment failed on July 4, 2013, by a vote of 205-217. The amendment would have prohibited the collection of records by the National Security Agency under the Patriot Act. Both parties were split on the vote.[9]
Enyart is set to run for re-election to the U.S. House in 2014. If he runs, he will seek the Democratic nomination in the primary election. The general election took place November 4, 2014.
Enyart is a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline Program. The program is designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents heading into the 2014 election.[2]
Enyart won election in 2012.[18] Enyart ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 12th District. Enyart replaced primary winner Brad Harriman after he withdrew from the race in May. He faced Jason Plummer (R) and Paula Bradshaw (G) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[19]
|U.S. House, Illinois District 12 General Election, 2012
|Vote %
|William Enyart
|Jason Plummer
|Paula Bradshaw
|Total Votes
|Source: Illinois Board of Elections "2012 General Election Official Vote Totals"
|District 12 Representative Election
|William Enyart
|Jason Plummer
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September 11-13, 2012
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Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Enyart is available dating back to 2012. Based on available campaign finance records, Enyart raised a total of $1,180,463 during that time period. This information was last updated on April 5, 2013.[20]
|William Enyart's Campaign Contribution History
|U.S. House (Illinois, District 12)
|Grand Total Raised
Candidates for Congress are required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2014 elections season. Below are Enyart's reports.[21]
|William Enyart (2014) Campaign Finance Reports
|Date Filed
|Beginning Balance
|Total Contributions
for Reporting Period
|Cash on Hand
|April Quarterly[22]
|May 17, 2013
|July Quarterly[23]
|July 15, 2013
|October Quarterly[24]
|October 13, 2013
|January 31, 2014
|March 6, 2014
|July Quarterly[27]
|July 15, 2014
|October Quarterly[28]
|October 15, 2014
|Running totals
Enyart won election to the U.S. House in 2012. During that election cycle, Enyart's campaign committee raised a total of $1,180,463 and spent $1,167,686.[29] This is less than the average $1.5 million spent by House winners in 2012.[30]
Cost per vote
Enyart spent $7.44 per vote received in 2012.
|U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois' 12th Congressional District, 2012 - William Enyart Campaign Contributions
|Total Raised
|Total Spent
|Total Raised by Election Runner-up
|Total Spent by Election Runner-up
|Top contributors to William Enyart's campaign committee
|Simmons Cooper LLC
|AmeriPAC: The Fund for a Greater America
|Laborers Union
|New York Jobs PAC
|Top 5 industries that contributed to campaign committee
|Lawyers/Law Firms
|Leadership PACs
|Public Sector Unions
|Building Trade Unions
|Candidate Committees
Ideology and leadership
Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Enyartis a "centrist Democratic follower" as of June 17, 2013.[31]
Like-minded colleagues
The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often. The results include a member from each party.[32]
Enyart most often votes with:
Enyart least often votes with:
National Journal vote ratings
- See also: National Journal vote ratings
Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year.
Information on 2012 vote rating is unavailable
Lifetime voting record
According to the website GovTrack, Enyart missed 0 of 89 roll call votes from January 2013 to March 2013. This amounts to 0.0%, which is better than the median of 2.2% among current congressional representatives as of March 2013.[33]
Net worth
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Enyart's net worth as of 2012 was estimated between $1,591,065 and $4,267,000. That averages to $2,929,032.50, which is lower than the average net worth of Democratic representatives in 2012 of $5,700,168.36. Enyart ranked as the 111th most wealthy representative in 2012.[34]
|William Enyart Yearly Net Worth
|Avg. Net Worth
|% Difference from previous year
Voting with party
William Enyart voted with the Democratic Party 88.6% of the time, which ranked 177th among the 201 House Democratic members as of June 2013.[35]
Enyart and his wife Annette have two sons together.[36]
Recent news
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- Illinois
- United States congressional delegations from Illinois
- United States House of Representatives
- Illinois' 12th Congressional District
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- ↑ List of active candidates
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, "DCCC Chairman Steve Israel Announces 2013-2014 Frontline Members," March 5, 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 National Journal, "Illinois, 12th House District," November 6, 2012
- ↑ CQ.com, "House Committee Rosters for the 113th Congress"
- ↑ Congressional Record, "Resume of Congressional Activity, First Session of the 112th Congress," accessed September 5, 2013
- ↑ Congressional Record, "Resume of Congressional Activity, Second Session of the 113th Congress," accessed March 4, 2014
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Yahoo, "65 Lawmakers Ask Obama to Consult on Syria," accessed August 28, 2013
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Politico, "33 lawmakers: Congress must approve Syria action," accessed August 28, 2013
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Project Votesmart, "William Enyart Key Votes," accessed October 11, 2013
- ↑ The Library of Congress, "H.R.624 CISPA (2013) (Referred in Senate - RFS)," accessed August 27, 2013
- ↑ Clerk of the U.S. House, "Final vote results for Roll Call 504," accessed October 31, 2013
- ↑ Buzzfeed, "Government Shutdown: How We Got Here," accessed October 1, 2013
- ↑ Clerk of the U.S. House, "Final vote results for Roll Call 504," accessed October 31, 2013
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Reid, McConnell propose bipartisan Senate bill to end shutdown, extend borrowing," accessed October 16, 2013
- ↑ U.S. House, "Final vote results for Roll Call 550," accessed October 31, 2013
- ↑ Washington Post, "Which lawmakers will refuse their pay during the shutdown?," accessed October 2, 2013
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 BND.com "War on coal? Local congressmen blast White House plans to cut carbon pollution" Accessed June 27, 2013
- ↑ Politico "2012 Election Map, Illinois"
- ↑ List of active candidates
- ↑ [www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2012&id=IL12 Open Secrets "William Enyart" Accessed April 5, 2013]
- ↑ Federal Election Commission "William Enyart 2014 Summary reports," Accessed July 24, 2013
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "April Quarterly," accessed July 24, 2013
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "July Quarterly," accessed July 24, 2013
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "October Quarterly," accessed October 23, 2013
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Year End Report," accessed February 3, 2014
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Pre-Primary," accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "July Quarterly," accessed October 14, 2014
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "October Quarterly," accessed October 20, 2014
- ↑ Open Secrets "William Enyart 2012 Election Cycle," Accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ Open Secrets, "Election 2012: The Big Picture Shows Record Cost of Winning a Seat in Congress," June 19, 2013
- ↑ Gov Track "William Enyart," Accessed June 17, 2013
- ↑ OpenCongress, "Rep. William Enyart," Accessed August 1, 2013
- ↑ GovTrack, "William Enyart," Accessed April 1, 2013
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Enyart (D-IL), 2012"
- ↑ OpenCongress, "Voting With Party," accessed July 2014
- ↑ Enyart for Congress, "About," Accessed October 4, 2012
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The value of college can't be measured by money alone
I admire the recent efforts by Sens. Marco Rubio and Ron Wyden to provide students with information about how much they will earn if they attend college and pursue different courses of study, but I also worry about how students will be influenced. The Student Right to Know Before You Go Act is a clear reaction to rising college costs and mounting student debt. President Barack Obama also recently launched a similar bang-for-your-buck "College Scorecard."
Unfortunately, framing higher education as a "return on investment" is wrongheaded -- a result of states' growing disinvestment in higher education. Diminishing support shows a lack of recognition for the ways higher education benefits society, sending a message that college is something people do just for themselves, not also for their communities.
Such data can be highly misleading. A graduate's income in the first few years after college is a poor barometer of earnings potential later in life. Students might join the military, Teach for America or the Peace Corps and then go on to higher salaries in their 30s or 40s.
I also fear that the emphasis on measurable data, such as earnings, will overshadow unmeasurable data, such as what it means for a medical school graduate to practice in a poor, underserved area. Or what it means to become a teacher at a low-performing high school and inspire others to apply to college.
The world works best when people remember that we're all in this together. While it is hard to correlate the benefits of a college education to societal well-being, never in my 35 years in higher education have I seen a more pronounced and sustained effort by young people to choose careers that serve society.
It's a backlash, perhaps, to the 1980s individualist mantra that "greed is good." The dramatic Wall Street downturn five years ago was also a stern warning to graduates that such a mantra cannot be sustained.
Universities, particularly those supported with public funds, exist to serve society. Asking students to choose a future based on a salary scale does not serve society and, often, does not serve the individual. Students need freedom and encouragement to find their passions and strengths. Framing decisions about college as a cost-benefit analysis will not encourage the creativity and risk-taking that has made this nation great.
Too often the academic community is accused of being divorced from the challenges of the outside world. But we in academia are all too aware of the struggles many students face paying for college and finding jobs after graduation. And we're constantly looking for new ways to support them.
More and more, colleges and universities are also working aggressively to connect with the worlds beyond our campuses. The college experience cannot occur solely in lecture halls.
Last year, 3.1 million college students performed 118 million hours of service across the United States -- a contribution valued at $2.5 billion. Here in Los Angeles, students from English classes helped high schoolers with college essays; German classes interviewed Holocaust victims for oral history projects; environmental engineering classes taught K-12 kids about climate change and water quality.
That service ideal stays with them after graduation. Each year, thousands of students will find jobs in nonprofits that assist people throughout the nation and the world. And they choose to do it -- based on the critical thinking skills they developed at our campus. It's true they will bring down the average salary of recent college graduates, but their dedication and sacrifice will also inspire many more.
Calculating the value of higher education will inevitably exclude factors critical to society. We should not let what's measurable determine what is meaningful.
We need the next generation to ask questions grander than "How much money will I make?" That's an important question, but it cannot be the only one.
They, and we, deserve better. "What barrier will I break?" or "How can I change the world?" These are the questions we must inspire every student to ask.
The writer is chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves on the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and is a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Universities.
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Volunteering in Nigeria: Burning Food and the Complexities of Saying 'Hello'
By Jason Gaskell
Around a straw roof in the centre of a village, people gather excitedly. Women skilfully weave palm tree leaves as they listen, a weathered old man nibbles on some fried plantain; and children begin to grow restless in the midday sun.
"Jockwa," I say as I stand up to address the meeting. I had learned this word for "hello" in the nearby village of Unwana. But now we're in Nwofe and something is wrong. I can see confusion in their eyes; a quiet bewilderment has spread throughout the crowd. The village elders and PTA whom I'd greeted are looking at each other, shaking their heads and muttering something.
Then suddenly I have an untimely flashback to the orienteering session, a lecture that I evidently should have paid more attention to; '…and there are over five-hundred languages spoken in Nigeria ' . Of course they're confused; I had used the wrong dialect! I begin to wonder what I'm doing here.
After graduating from university and working in a bank for a year, I felt that it was time to do something completely different. I had come to Ebonyi with HiPact, an international volunteer agency who are helping to implement a state-wise student-tutoring scheme. It is the responsibility of HiPact volunteers like myself to a) train students to be tutors and b) to set up a workable administrative framework at their allocated school. My team of four has been assigned to a project in Nwofe village, a small rural area in northern Ebonyi. The PTA and village elders gave us permission to begin the project, and two days later, we went to the school to have our first meeting with the would-be tutors.First Contact
"So what do you think are the benefits of student tutoring?" I ask. There are several students who raise their hand. I choose a boy at the back of the class who is struggling to be seen. He is delighted at the choice and stands up to speak.
"To make cool," the boy says enthusiastically. I almost laugh. It is not a response we are expecting.
I'm ecstatic that so many students have turned up, as this is the middle of the school break. I have already explained the aims of the project - that we'll be training a small group of students to give tutorials on their strongest subject. Once we've gone they'll be acting as after-school teachers to their juniors. The boy is still standing there and looking pleased with himself. I probe his enigmatic statement further.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
The student goes on; "our classes usually have between 50 and 150 students. It gets hot and we can't breathe well." The other students all nod in agreement. Indeed the dusty, poorly ventilated classrooms don't seem to be most conducive to learning. A valid point well made. During the tutoring sessions, students will be able to sit outside on the grass in small groups. I congratulate him and he sits back down, smiling at his contribution.
Succumbing to Popular Demand
A few days later, training is progressing and students are enthusiastic and diligent in their work. They are already beginning to show initiative and have started to create their own lesson plans by collating useful material from their old notebooks. However, the students are beginning to want more from their foreign helpers. Russell, one of the volunteers in Nwofe explains that,
"Kids are constantly asking us to teach them stuff, especially science because they haven't had a science teacher working at the school for a few years"
We decide to oblige the request and give the students their first ever science practical. There are no apparatus at the school so we decide to conduct a food burning experiment by using some scissors, various foods, and our watches as timers. The aim of the experiment is to find out which foods contain the most energy.
Unexpected Results
"It's still burning!" says one student in surprise.
I have been holding a burning peanut between some scissors for several minutes now. I too am amazed at the amount of energy there is in a peanut. We begin making some graphs to demonstrate our results taken from several foods. The students are enjoying the hands-on experience. Usually it's all theory for them; in fact, they tell me that they've studied music for several years without ever laying their hands on an instrument. Tomorrow I will bring my guitar and lead a music class.
The music class is so much fun that we ask the students to prepare something for a talent show. On our last day, the talent show hosts a magic show, singing, stories and dramas. Some of the girls even create a farewell song to sing to us. The students shed a few tears as we say our goodbyes; some of the volunteers do too…
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But we aren't talking about the esoteric idea of some God existing. We are talking about a specific testable God hypothesis in which the same spirit responsible for the creation of our planet some 6 thousand years ago authored the book which describes that event. The probability of that Christian God existing is exactly 0, not 1x10-30 as you estimate – which may be a good estimate for some God existing, I don't have the skills to attempt any kind of probability analysis on the point, but I won't object to your offer since seems small enough to be feasible.
Well, maybe that's what you're talking about, but I don't think it's what Dawkins was talking about and you do sort of take him to task in your original post. I think the probability of some version of the Christian God existing with the attributes that some version of Christians would find essential, is greater than zero. Or, put another way, there is a version of the faith that one can test against versions of other faiths, such as Mormonism, in terms of plausibility.
I'm ok with the main thrust of things you are saying, but the "nit" issue that I selected is important personally to me. I tend to agree with the Dawkins formulation of atheism, as I understand it. There are, to be sure, some or many falsifiable propositions in the Christian Bible, but as mentioned, I do think one can construct an essential version of the "faith" that to date hasn't been falsified, and may not be falsifiable. I am as uncomfortable declaring that to be false as I am when an evangelical declares it to be true. I find either to be based on belief and faith.
The trap, as Dawkins notes, is to claim as many theists do that since the existence and non-existence of God are both as yet unproven, that it's a 50/50 proposition. Dawkins skewers this theory, and notes that it's a matter of probability, and on that score, theism is down by 1x10 to the whatever in the fourth quarter. But I do not have a problem with atheists of this stripe discussing relative probabilities and still find the point, as I said, important.
Nor do I think the angels dancing on a head of a pin arguments are without value. The more relatively implausible religion becomes the more it says about its adherents and the human mammal's capacity for bullshit, which is important sociologically and politically.
If what you really want to talk about is the destructive power of various faiths viz. one another, then I guess I don't understand the point of much of your original note. With respect to Mormons, to the extent anyone gives a crap about my opinions, I know many and would say that, by and large, they are productive citizens, no more or less pernicious than rank-and-file Christians. I find their particular version of child abuse to be more pernicious than that of some types of protestants—say, unitarians—and less so than that of most non-reform Catholics and others. If find their particular views about women slightly more repulsive than the views of many of my rank-and-file Christian colleagues. But not approaching that of, say, orthodox Jews. I find them a touch more clannish and tribal than some of my non-evangelical Christian colleagues, but not in a way that seems to matter too much.


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Great news for animals nationwide! On June 21, the U.S. Senate took a huge step toward strengthening federal laws against animal fighting by approving the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, which had been a stand-alone bill in the Senate (S. 1947), as part of that chamber's version of the Farm Bill.
This humane measure would make it a federal offense to knowingly attend an organized animal fight and would impose additional penalties for bringing children to animal fights. Violators would face up to one year in prison for attending a fight, and up to three years in prison for bringing or causing a minor to attend.
While organized animal fighting is a federal crime and is illegal in all 50 states, the issue of spectators at these events has not been fully addressed on the federal level—and laws against spectatorship vary from state to state.
"This measure would help law enforcement by allowing them to pursue and punish the spectators who drive the market for animal fighting," says Nancy Perry, Senior Vice President of ASPCA Government Relations. "Furthermore, children need protection from the spectacle of animal fighting, as well as its dangerous and illegal associated activities, including drugs, weapons and gambling."
In order for the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act to become law, the U.S. House must add the same language it its version of the Farm Bill, which is still being crafted. The Farm Bill is expected to be finalized by the end of summer.
For more information on the ASPCA's efforts to tackle animal fighting, please join the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade.
Many people take their children to dog fights. I hope this law will include loss of custody for any parent taking children to dog fights. This law should also include cockfighting.
those that organize animal fights,that blood train animals for fighting are very different - they don't see what we see when looking at an animal - how could they? compassion never enters into it, supply and demand,they will always do what's necessary to make a buck-and there are those that are always buying. if we can remove those that buy, we take profit out of the equation. when we lose profit,i promise we'll lose those that provide the fights. and that my friend is when the
animals really start to win. "in this world they have no voice, they have no choice. i will be their voice."
I am so glad that they are trying to pass this law, Although i do not think one year is enough. It makes me sick to know people fight animals, I don't see how anyone could ever do that or watch it! I have two full blooded pits and a pit mix and they are loving and loyal. It's sad that people want to put pitbulls down and get rid of the breed. Do you think that they wanted to fight?! NO. It's time for people to see that it is NOT the ANIMAL it's the so called 'owner'.


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Standing tall for the fallen
A retired Marine's journey aims to raise awareness for those wounded in war
Mark Mulligan / The Herald
Chuck Lewis, a Marine Corps veteran from Ronan, Mont., walks eastbound down U.S. 2 toward Gold Bar on Monday, the second day of a 3,300 mile, 6-month journey across the United States.
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Chuck Lewis, a Marine Corps veteran living in Ronan, Mont., walks eastbound down U.S. 2 toward Gold Bar on Monday.
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Chuck Lewis, a Marine Corps veteran fromRonan, Mont., walks through Startup on Monday.
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Chuck Lewis, a Marine Corps veteran living in Ronan, Mont., walks eastbound down U.S. 2morning toward Gold Bar on Monday, the second day of a 3,300 mile, 6-month journey across the U.S.
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Chuck Lewis stops to talk about his project on the side of U.S. 2 outside of Gold Bar on Monday morning. "I probably can't help too many of these guys personally, but I can raise awareness and money for the programs that can," he said of his effort to help veterans.
Mark Mulligan / The Herald
Mark Mulligan / The Herald People can track Chuck Lewis' progress online thanks to this GPS unit that helps keep track of his location, updating it every 10 minutes on a map available on his website.
U.S. soldiers, sailors and Marines killed in war or those who returned with physical and mental disabilities are the focus of his cross-country campaign.
Lewis is committed to walk 3,300 miles from Everett to Washington, D.C., during the next six months to raise money and awareness for programs that help military veterans.
Lewis, 62, from Ronan, Mont., began his patriotic journey Easter morning at Legion Park in Everett where Bill Quistorf, an Army veteran who lives near the park, shook his hand. Lewis said goodbye to his wife and daughters and started walking down Marine View Drive to Hewitt Avenue headed to U.S. 2.
He won't see his wife again until he reaches Kalispell, Mont. They'll have another reunion in Dubuque, Iowa, and she plans to meet him in late September when he finishes at the Vietnam Memorial in the nation's capital. Hoping to walk 25 miles a day, Lewis plans to reach Chicago, dip down to North Carolina and then up to Washington, D.C.
Lewis, a Vietnam veteran and retired electrical engineer, is pushing a flag-decorated cart loaded with a tent, a sleeping bag, clothes for any weather condition, a second pair of shoes and a solar panel to power his iPhone, which is interfaced with a SPOT global positioning system that allows his supporters to track his progress online.
He spent Sunday night at the Sultan Firehouse, where firefighters Steve Tonkin, Michelle Fox and Andrew Lowry decided to take Lewis out for supper.
"He's got a long way to go, so we wanted to give him a good start," said Tonkin, 47. "Chuck's a good guy. I'm a veteran, too, so what he's doing hits home in several ways."
Though he was prepared for chilly rain, Lewis donned a pair of athletic shorts and a T-shirt Monday morning to continue his spring walk along U.S. 2 in the Skykomish River valley.
In Startup, Lewis wondered aloud if this was the community where he would begin to see some elevation gain.
"Is this where I start going up? I see the mountains ahead," Lewis joked. "I already have a blister, but I've run 100-mile races and I'm prepared."
While taking a break, Lewis told a story about two Marine Corps veterans who returned to Ronan last year from combat duty in Afghanistan. One came home missing his legs. The other killed himself three weeks later.
"In the military, these guys have a purpose and people who have their backs. When they get home, everybody is busy, so they have nobody to talk to. The economy is poor and they can't find a job," Lewis said. "I probably can't help too many of these guys personally, but I can raise awareness and money for the programs that can."
Lewis waves to the drivers who honk their horns. Occasionally people stop him to ask about his journey.
The side of his cart is decorated with a thermometer graphic that shows how much Lewis has raised for veterans. His goal is $50,000, but he has a second thermometer ready to go should people donate more.
Lewis invites people to walk with him through their towns. If anyone asks, he is able to give a presentation about his trip. He also welcomes help with places to sleep, shower and wash clothes.
To offer such help to Lewis and donate to the cause, go to www.walkingforthefallen.com.
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Photos: [top] Jack and [bottom] Jill, before and after receiving treatment at the ASPCA Animal Hospital.
Can you imagine leaving your pets behind in your former home, even in the worst possible circumstances? We can't either. And yet, after Jerome Smith, 23, was evicted from his Harlem apartment, he chose to do just that to his six-month-old puppies.
When New York City Animal Care & Control officers opened the door to Smith's former home in September, they found Terrier mix puppies Jack and Jill, all alone and in bad shape.
The officers called ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement, and our agents brought the pups to the ASPCA Animal Hospital right away.
ASPCA veterinarians found Jack and Jill to be dehydrated, malnourished and severely underweight. Jack weighed 12.7 pounds and Jill weighed 8.5 pounds. By contrast, after being fed a balanced diet and receiving treatment by ASPCA staff, Jack now weighs 36.5 pounds and Jill weighs 30.3 pounds—a 187 and 256 percent increase, respectively.
The ASPCA arrested Smith in December. He was charged with two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. If convicted, he faces up to two years in jail and/or a $2,000 fine.
Jack and Jill's story ends happily. On January 13, Jill was adopted! Jack is waiting for a forever family at the ASPCA Adoption Center, located in Manhattan. To learn more about how you can adopt Jack, please visit the ASPCA Adoption Center online.
Update 1/18/13: We are thrilled to report that Jack was adopted!
If you suspect you've witnessed animal cruelty, please report it.
How can someone be so heartless? I do hope they find this guy very guilty for animal cruelty and he should be starved to the point where he loses weight too. Show him how it feels to be without food. I am totally against animal cruelty (every aspect of it) and I also love happy endings when those pets who were once neglected, found new homes with loving families. I am glad to hear that Jack and Jill got adopted.
Stories like this make me sad for humanity and proud to be a member of the ASPCA.
People like this need to be made an example of, lets lock him in a room and not feed him until social services find him, then kick him in the fuckin head a few times
People are such assholes. He should get 5 years not maybe 2 years in year.
It is ashame the poor little things couldn't be adopted together, after being locked away together for so long they must have grieved when they were split up. They kept each other alive because by all means they should have both been dead especially with no water.
and....SPHINCTER BOY should be chained to a tree in the middle of no where, stripped down and left there with no food and water for about six month and then really just put out of his misery!! because people like that are not only going to abuse an animal...their going to abuse their wife, their kids, do drugs, probably live a life of crime so really their just a waste of good oxygen anyway!!
they look so much better.thank god they were found.i am glad they have no issues.
thank u for being the babies angels,faith
I have no love for a human who can hurt a dog.. or any other animal.. they only want to give us love and happiness. For anyone to do something like this to puppies.. well, he's not a human, he's a beast. He deserves to be flogged.
Someone should leave him somewhere to starve. What a horrible thing to do to those poor furbabies. So glad the ASPCA found them in time and helped them. This man is a poor excuse for a human being.
Animal abusers deserve to die! Our society has become WAY to permissive about people's rights and crap like that. Hurt and animal and we kill you. Wish it could be so!
Hope he rots in Jail!! HUMAN GARBAGE!


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OCTAE Connection is a weekly electronic newsletter published by the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education to provide information to state officials involved in adult education, career and technical education (CTE), and community colleges, as well as to practitioners, researchers, education groups and others interested in community colleges, CTE, and adult education. To subscribe, please contact Carol Norris.
- Flash Edition: April 21, 2015 WIOA - Five Notices of Proposed Rulemaking - Public Comment Period
- Flash Edition: April 13, 2015 First in the World Grant Competition and OCTAE openings
- April 9, 2015 HPOG and Community College Dev Ed initiatives
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- March 26, 2015 My Borther's Keeper, Benefits of ABS
- March 12, 2015 Women's History Month and Certificates: A Fast Track to Careers - Part 2
- Flash Edition: March 6, 2015 Responses to Career Pathways Request for Information
- February 27, 2015 Job-Driven Educational Pathways; Certificates: A Fast Track to Careers; Social Innovation Fund
- Flash Edition: February 24, 2015 Making Skills Everyone's Business
- February 12, 2015 Technical Training Fund for CTE America's College Promise, Women and Girls in STEM
- Special Edition: February 4, 2015 The President's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget
- January 29, 2015 USCIS Listening Sessions, Tools for Employers and Educators, BLS New Jobs Projected
- Flash Edition: January 21, 2015 Upskilling America's Workers
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- December 16, 2014 DOL Apprenticeships Grants; Registered Apprenticeship-College Consortium (RACC), MDRC WorkAdvance Report
- November 25, 2014 Re-connecting Youths, Training Tomorrow's Workforce, Employer Toolkit Webinar and more
- November 13, 2014 Reach Higher Initiative, New Online STEM Resource, and 2015 Grant Competitions
- Special Edition: November 10, 2014 Honoring All Who Have Served
- October 30, 2014: Veterans Transition Into the Job Market, and Mobile and Internet Use at Home
- October 16, 2014: HUD Jobs Plus Pilot, Veterans' Transition to Employment, Grads of Life
- October 2, 2014: Job-Driven Training Grants, STEM Symposium, Promise Zone, Science PD for Adult Educators, and more
- September 18, 2014: Adult Ed and Family Literacy Week, WH College Opportunity Summit, Dialogue on Career Pathways
- September 4, 2014: Job-driven Training and Competency-Based Pathways
- August 28, 2014: WIOA Webinar, USDA SNAP Grant, Civil Rights Act of 1964, SMART Competition
- August 21, 2014: NSF $18M for research partnerships and Is the New G.I. Bill Working?
- August 14, 2014: WIOA: Changes in Adult Learning; The State of Preschool
- August 7, 2014: Excellent Educators for All; Education and Health Outcomes Call for Papers
- July 31, 2014: Occupational Outlook, IES Ed Research and Development Awards
- July 25, 2014: President signs WIOA, Baccalaureate and Beyond, Collaboration with ILMS
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- July 16, 2014: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)To Be Signed Into Law
- July 10, 2014: DOL Awards Employment Services Grants, Credit for Military Experience; Is It Still Worth Going to College?
- July 3, 2014: Uvin named as Acting for OCTAE, NSF and HHS Grant opportunities, and NACIE membership
- June 26, 2014:Urban Institute PFS Model
- June 17, 2014, SPECIAL EDITION: DHS hosts DACA Renewal Process Web-stream Event
- June 12, 2014: My Brother's Keeper, Ensuring that High School Students are College and Career Ready, IES Research Grants
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- May 9, 2014: Minority Male Student Achievement and TAACCCT Grants Applications Due in July
- May 1, 2014: Stackable Credentials, Early Learning and College and Career Readiness
- April 24, 2014: Duncan visits Community College, RFI for Career Pathways Systems, ACT Report
- April 17, 2014: Youth Career Connect Grants, Grant Programs for Community Colleges, Citizenship Prep, WIA Incentive Grants
- April 10, 2014: Future of Jobs, MA- Pay for Success, DOL Workforce Success Tool, ILMS grants, ACE Military Experience Credits
- April 3, 2014: EdReady, New SAT , FCC Broadband, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- March 27, 2014: President at Worcester Tech High School on 6/11, Champions of Change, Juvenile Justice System
- March 20, 2014: AP Exams, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Education Program, Disconnected Youths, CTE Standards
- March 13, 2014: Maker Faire, Adult Reentry Grant Program
- March 6, 2014: Economic Impact of Community Colleges, ELS:2002, Ready to Work Competition, President's 2015 Budget
- February 27, 2014: $1.3B for Communities to Improve Manufacturing; 50 Years of Adult Ed; CTE Effectiveness Webinar
- February 20, 2014: CTE Operations, Alternative Credentials, Developmental Education
- February 13, 2014: Investing in America's Future, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), Job-Driven Training, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Innovative Educational Technologies
- February 6, 2014: CTE month, Developmental Ed, CCR Standards Institute
- January 30, 2014: Is College Worth It?, 5 Promise Zones, Undergraduate STEM Education
- January 23, 2014: College Opportunities for Low-Income Students, High-Impact Learning Technologies, SMART Competition, Workforce and Training Initiative and more.
- January 16, 2014: New Ideas for Administering Student Financial Aid Programs, College Knowledge Challenge, Critical Employment Skills, Citizen Schools
- January 9, 2014: Project Win-Win, Financial Aid Toolkit, Engage with OVAE, and Where the Jobs Are
- December 12, 2013: NGA Launches America Works, Low-Income High School Students to College
- December 5, 2013: Improving Student Achievement Through Information and State Data-based Profiles Underscore Need for Adult Education Programs
- November 27, 2013: Welcome to Mark Mitsui, Undergraduate STEM Education, Achieving Equality in U.S. Public Schools
- November 21, 2013: NSF Tech Ed; Financial Aid; Student Loans; PIAAC Engagement; Parent and Family Involvement in K–12
- Special Edition November 12, 2013: Community College Section, Helping Veterans Succeed, and Time for the US to Reskill?
- Thursday, November 7, 2013: Childhood Participation and Improving Services for Disconnected Youth
- Thursday, October 31, 2013: PIAAC Results Released
- Thursday, October 24, 2013: 3rd Round of TAACCCT Grants, PIAAC Findings, and CTE grant awards
- Thursday, September 26, 2013: Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and Building Strategic Partnerships Webinar
- Thursday, September 19, 2013: Is Not Finishing College Really That Bad?; Improving Detroit; ConnectED Initiative and E-Rate Program; Phase II of CTE Competition
- Thursday, September 12, 2013: President Outlines Plan to Transform Higher Education; Collaboration, Access and Stackable Credentials; and Making Successful Career Pathways Webinar
- Thursday, September 5, 2013: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education; March on Washington; Health Insurance Marketplace
- Thursday, August 29, 2013: National Career Pathways Network Conference, Child Well-Being, Improving State Education and Workforce Training
- Thursday, August 22, 2013: The Hidden STEM Economy, E-Rate Program
- Thursday, August 15, 2013: Oregon's integration of CTE CCSS, New Advice for Community College Students, and Using Data to Improve the Performance of Workforce Training
- Thursday, August 8, 2013: U.S. Performance in Science Is Above Average, Innovative Technology to Educate Adult Learners
- Thursday, August 1, 2013: U.S. Performance in Math Is Above Average and Long-Term Career Advancement
- Thursday, July 25, 2013: Interpreting PIRLS Results and High-Quality Career Pathways
- Thursday, July 18, 2013: WorldSkills Competition, 2011 PIRLS and TIMSS Results Released, High Quality Career Pathways Webinar Series
- Thursday, July 11, 2013: TAACCCT Grants Round 3 and OECD Report on Postsecondary CTE
- Thursday, July 3, 2013: Training to Work-Adult Reentry, High-Quality Career Pathways Webinar, OECD Report on Postsecondary CTE, NEFE Financial Literacy Initiative
- Thursday, June 27, 2013: Sing Sing State Prison Graduation, ClimateChangeLIVE, Internet Use in US
- Thursday, June 20, 2013: Pathways for Youth, ARISE II: Unleashing America's Research & Innovation Enterprise
- Thursday, June 13, 2013: Polarized Workforce, NSF Ideas Lab; 75% HS Graduation Rate
- Thursday, June 6, 2013: WIA Incentive Grant Award; College and Career Readiness
- Thursday, May 30, 2013: Middle of the Pack, Bridge to College and Careers, Improving Services for Adult Learners
- Friday, May 24, 2013: Education to Employment, Concentrated Poverty, and National Career Clusters Institute
- Thursday, May 23, 2013: 5/30 Webinar Center on Great Teachers and Leaders
- Thursday, May 16, 2013: A Challenge to Reach New Heights, Manufacturing Engineers Seeks to Boost CTE
- Thursday, May 9, 2013: Digital Public Library, Equity in Education, and more.
- Thursday, May 2, 2013: Improving Community College Student Success, New Procurement: Implementing CCR Standards
- Thursday, April 25, 2013: Education Equity and Excellence, NCICTE site launched, Face Forward and TAACCCT grants
- Thursday, April 18, 2013: Worker Resilience and Accountability and Public Schools
- Special Edition, April 16, 2013: President's 2014 Budget Request for Education
- Thursday, April 11, 2013: LEP Access to ED Services, Women's Academic Achievement, and Help for Disconnected Youths
- Thursday, April 4, 2013: What's My Next Move?; Competency-Based Learning Programs; Community College and Correctional/Reentry Education Webinar
- Thursday, March 28, 2013: Aspen Prize for CC Excellence; Connect2Compete; Experimental Sites Initiative (ESI)
- Thursday, March 21, 2013: OVAE Blog; Job Training; Is Developmental Educational Overprescribed?; and CC Webinar - April 10
- Thursday, March 14, 2013: TIME Collaborative, National Metrics and Benchmarks for Career Pathways, and ELL Procurement
- Thursday, March 7, 2013: Contributions of Community Colleges
- Thursday, February 28, 2013: Career-Focused Ed System; $50,000 for Immigrant Integration; Shifting Gears; Webinars and more...
- Thursday, February 21, 2013: CTE Month Message From Under Secretary Martha Kanter; and CTE Focus in State of the Union Address
- Thursday, February 14, 2013: Coordinate with Business to Build Job Skills; DOL's Competency Model; Graduation Rate Increases
- Thursday, February 7, 2013: is CTE Month and ETA Mobile Job Search and Training Tools
- Thursday, January 31, 2013: February is CTE Month; College Completion Toolkit Discussion with FSA; Solve Workforce Needs; Global Trends 2030
- Thursday, January 24, 2013: Workforce Education Partnership; Remediation Participation Rates; Ed at a Glance 2012; and CTE in Career Pathways Systems
- Thursday, January 17, 2013: How Do Children Succeed? and Digital Learning Day 2/6/13
- Thursday, January 10, 2013: Work-based Learning Exemplars Report; Prior-Learning Assessments; SBIR Program
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SHELBY — A little boy approached Walt Wallace after Hunter Huss' 65-56 Big South 3A Conference tournament championship win over Ashbrook on Friday and had his eyes set on one thing. All he wanted was the game ball the Huskies coach was holding.
The kid was out of luck.
"You can't have this one," Wallace told him. "This one means a lot."
Considering what Wallace has been through this week, who would blame him?
Wallace's mother died on Saturday, and as if that weren't enough, he had to deal with a rough game in which one of his best players fouled out prematurely by his count. Earlier, he had to watch security escort his wife to another place in the gym away from her usual spot behind the bench after an altercation in the stands.
In the end, Wallace and the Huskies were able to breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate their fourth consecutive tournament title and sixth in the last seven years.
Jaelan Kennedy scored a game-high 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead the Huskies (21-3) to their eighth straight win entering the state playoffs, which begin Monday.
Gastonia had no problem making the 45-minute trip to Cleveland County as Crest's Ed Peeler Gymnasium (Crest earned hosting rights as the girls No. 1 seed) was packed. And the crowd was boisterous enough to cause two game delays as security dealt with situations at the Ashbrook student section, positioned directly behind the Hunter Huss bench.
On the court, Hunter Huss got off to a slow start and trailed 11-3 early but soon gathered itself and wound up making a run at the end to pull out of a dogfight. The Huskies closed the game on a 15-5 run after trailing 51-50 with 3:09 remaining.
"We just stuck together at the end," Wallace said. "We have a drill: stop, score, stop. And that's what I told them at the end, 'It's just like practice: stop, score, stop and you get to go home.'"
Kerrion Moore added 16 points and Chadrickus Mackins scored 12 for the Huskies, who improved to 2-1 against their biggest rival this season. Hunter Huss had won 72-67 exactly a week earlier to win the regular-season Big South championship after Ashbrook had claimed the first meeting 75-64.
"It means a lot," Kennedy said of the tournament title. "We've turned it around from first time we played them."
The season series might not be over yet as these teams have a high probability of facing off in the 3A state playoffs at some point next week due to the new playoff seeding format. Both teams will host a first-round game on Monday. Pairings are expected to be announced Saturday.
Huss' leading rebounder and third-leading scorer Jerimiah Hunter finished with six points after fouling out with 5:43 left on what the Huss coaches thought was his fourth foul. Hunter Huss led 46-44 at the time.
Ashbrook took one lead after that but couldn't hold on. The Green Wave turned the ball over four times the rest of the way and finished with 19 turnovers in all. Of course, Hunter Huss had 17 turnovers of its own.
"I think their defensive pressure at midcourt got to us right there," Ashbrook coach Chad Duncan said. "I was hoping to take advantage when Hunter fouled out if we could go inside and we weren't able to accomplish that. We turned the ball over a few times. I think all night, though, we played some pretty good defense."
Antonio Blalock led Ashbrook with 19 points. Grant Stafford added 15 points, six rebounds and five steals, Alex Linder contributed eight points and four steals and Delshon Leach pulled down six rebounds to go with his four points for the Green Wave.
Ashbrook (18-8) was seeking its first tournament title since 2006. The Green Wave has played in six of the Big South's 12 tournament title games, winning only in 2006.
Phillip Gardner: 704-869-1843; twitter.com/gazettephil
Big South 3A Conference tournament championship game history
2002 — East Gaston 61, Ashbrook 50
2003 — Hunter Huss 78, South Point 70
2004 — Forestview 64, Ashbrook 59 (OT)
2005 — East Gaston 74, North Gaston 72 (OT)
2006 — Ashbrook 85, Hunter Huss 80
2007 — Hunter Huss 80, Crest 60
2008 — Hunter Huss 77, Ashbrook 62
2009 — Forestview 72, East Gaston 54
2010 — Hunter Huss 60, Forestview 59
2011 — Hunter Huss 76, Ashbrook 40
2012 — Hunter Huss 79, South Point 52
2013 — Hunter Huss 65, Ashbrook 56
2002 — Forestview 70, Hunter Huss 67 (OT)
2003 — Hunter Huss 79, Forestview 77 (OT)
2004 — North Gaston 64, South Point 45
2005 — East Gaston 48, Hunter Huss 39
2006 — East Gaston 36, Hunter Huss 31
2007 — Forestview 72, East Gaston 59
2008 — Forestview 59, East Gaston 49
2009 — Forestview 75, East Gaston 53
2010 — Forestview 77, Hunter Huss 45
2011 — Forestview 64, South Point 59
2012 — Forestview 59, Crest 39
2013 — Forestview 61, Crest 59


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TARBORO — Oh, what might have been for the Kinston Vikings in their Eastern Plains 2A Conference tussle against unbeaten Tarboro on Friday.
Kinston turned the ball over three times, the last coming at the Tarboro 39 with 36 seconds remaining, and that proved to be the difference as the state's top-ranked 2A team escaped with a 34-27 victory on homecoming.
The win was the 15th in a row for Tarboro (7-0, 3-0) stretching back to the middle of last season. Kinston fell to 1-3 in league play, 4-4 overall.
"We've stressed ball security all season, but it continues to be a problem," said Kinston coach Nick Anderson, whose wife gave birth to the couple's first child earlier in the week. "We gave the ball away on our first two possessions and then at the end when we had a chance to win. We've got to do a better job of protecting the football."
The final turnover, a fumbled pitch on an option, ended what would have been an incredible comeback by Kinston, which trailed by three touchdowns entering the fourth quarter.
A 17-yard TD scamper by Raheem Freeland on the second play of the fourth period brought Kinston to within 34-20 with 11:52 left.
Kicker Will Deters then executed a perfect onside kick, setting Kinston up at the Tarboro 47. Seven plays later, on fourth-and-12 from the 22, Vequain Joyner hooked up with Denzel Keyes for another score, closing the gap to 34-27 at the 7:46 mark.
And then Kinston did it again, as Jeremy Taylor recovered another onside kick at the Tarboro 45. This drive stalled, however, and Kinston gave the ball back to the hosts on downs with 6:13 to go.
"Will (Deters) does a great job with the onside kick, so I thought our odds were better with that than they were on defense," Anderson said. "We hadn't stopped them all night."
Until the next possession, when Kinston stopped Tarboro and forced a punt, taking over at its own 14 yard line with 2:09 remaining.
Methodically, Kinston moved up the field, mostly on the ground as Tarboro elected to guard against the pass and play just three in the box.
The option was particularly effective, accounting for 38 yards as Kinston drove to the Tarboro 39 with 36.2 seconds to play.
After a 6-yard loss on first down forced Anderson to call his second time out, Kinston returned to the option, only this time Joyner's pitch to Freeland was batted out of the air by Tarboro's Kethion Battle, who also pounced on the loose pigskin with 31.7 seconds on the clock.
Tarboro quarterback Aaron Moore took a knee and Kinston's upset bid was over.
"There are no moral victories," Anderson said. "We played hard and we didn't quit, but we also had our chances to win. Too often this year we've moved the ball up and down the field without putting points on the board."
Kinston rolled up 329 yards of total offense, nearly equaling Tarboro's 335.
Kinston also received a huge special teams boost from Anthony Pitts, who returned a kickoff 81 yards for a score, and from Deters, who converted three extra points in addition to the two successful onside kicks.
Pitts' return sliced a 14-0 deficit in half after Kinston turned the ball over on its first two possessions.
The first miscue came at the Tarboro 22, and the hosts responded with a 16-play, 78-yard drive that took 8:22 off the first quarter clock.
Kinston then fumbled at its own 45, giving Tarboro a short field that resulted in another TD.
"We put ourselves in an early hole and never recovered," Anderson said. "Hopefully, we come away from this game knowing first-hand how turnovers can affect the outcome."
Joyner completed 14 of 25 passes for 180 yards and two TDs, both to Keyes, who caught four passes for 90 yards.
Tarboro's vaunted rushing attack churned out 309 yards on the ground, but just 103 in the second half.
Tarboro also punted just twice, both in the second half.
"We did a much better job on defense after halftime," Anderson said. "We knew they were going to score a lot of points, but I thought we held them in check as good as we could in the second half."
Kinston returns home next week to face league rival Greene Central, which is coming off its bye week.