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Remarks by Sara Longwe
Sara Hlupekile Longwe 2003 Laureate
Women's rights activist and immediate past chairperson of FEMNET, Zambia
Statement upon receiving the Prize
I have to thank The Hunger Project for attempting to make my life appear like a series of successful events. But to me it never seemed like that. What I mostly experienced, especially in the early days, was becoming outraged at being discriminated against, and then trying to claim my right to equal treatment, only to run into a brick wall.
Let me give an early example. As a young secondary school teacher I turned up for work one day wearing trousers, and was immediately told by the headmistress to go home and change. I refused. This instruction was on the basis of some invisible rule, written nowhere. The whole thing became a very big issue. The regional inspector of schools was called in to tell me I had to follow all instructions from my headmistress, irrespective of how unreasonable. The leader of the teachers' union, who was supposed to defend me, instead came only to give me the same lecture. At the end of a long saga I received a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, no less, telling me to obey the instruction. I wrote a letter back, explaining why I wouldn't, and why I didn't think he had any right to give any such instruction. I continued wearing trousers. In fact, I now made sure that I never wore a skirt.
This simple story, although fairly trivial, has many of the elements of women's everyday struggles against discrimination. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I had run into a brick wall. A brick wall both visible and invisible. Visible in that it was definitely there! I had run into it! But invisible in that it was not about women's rights! Well, certainly not in their arguments! This, they said, was all about decency, custom and tradition! And most importantly, about the disciplinary question of whether I could do as I was told!
And such invisible brick walls affect all development projects in Africa. Let me give you the example of a Hunger Project intervention in Africa, the African Women Food Farmers Initiative. This provides women farmers with increased access to resources, especially in the form of skills training and credit. But traditionally men control the money and the land. Existing credit organisations lend to men, who hold the collateral. Husbands usually control the proceeds from the sale of cash crops. Therefore such an initiative immediately raises the strategic question of whether the initiative aims to assist women within their brick wall, or whether it must assist them to move the wall! Hopefully they themselves will begin moving the wall, and then demand assistance!
Let me return to my trousers, which I shall never forget. You see, in my trouser fight, it was not merely Sara Longwe that was insulted. It was all women that were insulted. That was why I took up the fight. And similarly when you give me this prize, you do not give it to me personally. You give it to all the women of Africa, in their struggle for equal rights. This prize money is not mine. It will be used as seed money, to establish a new campaign for women's rights in Africa.
On behalf of my sisters in the struggle, of which I am just one of many, I thank you very much.
The Hunger Project's Policy Forum - Women's Leadership and the Future of Africa
Statement by Sara Hlupekile Longwe, 2003 Africa Prize Laureate Introduction
This paper looks at the present lack of progress in addressing issues of structural gender equality in Africa, to identify current obstacles to progress, and to map out the sort of strategic response that is needed to overcome these obstacles.
The paper argues that despite the policies of both international development agencies and also of many African governments to address gender issues, in practice there is actually a pervasive bilateral collusion of inactivity. It needs the co-ordination of the African women's movement, in collaboration with their sisters in the North, to take direct action on gender issues, and to galvanise development agencies to face up to their responsibilities.
The paper begins by looking at development programmes concerned with increasing women's agricultural production, as a way of introducing the issues of gender politics which are inherent within such programmes, and which need to be addressed.
Hunger and Women's Rights
It is now some twenty years since the general realisation that gender issues are central to agricultural development in the Third World. Gender issues are especially important in Africa, where women produce 80% of the food, especially in crops. Where men are agriculturally active, it is mainly in rearing and herding cattle.
It may seem strange now, but the realisation of women's importance seems at the time to have been a new and startling revelation to development theorists from the more developed countries, where farmers are mostly men. But perhaps it was also an understandable mistake, since African men are very much in control of the farming, in the sense that they control such matters as land allocation and utilisation, and collecting the agricultural surplus. They are also in control of their wives. Women are farmers in the technical sense, in that they are the ones who actually do the agricultural work. But at the level of control over land, labour and capital, it is men who are the farmers. Therefore we may perhaps excuse the Western observer for seeing the man as the farmer, and the woman as his helper.
This realisation of women's actual agricultural role had an immediate impact on the efficiency experts. They realised with horror that most of their provision of training and increased access to resources was being given to men, whereas it was women who were the actual producers who could profit from these interventions. From a technical perspective, the gender issue was simple: give the training and increased resources to the actual producers - the women!
But of course, such a gender re-orientation of agricultural assistance has immediate political implications. In a traditional African rural society, where men are in control, provision of developmental benefits to women challenges the established patriarchal order. It is men who belong to the more 'modern' society, who consider themselves as the ones who are supposed to go for advanced training and certification - not their wives! It is men who own the land, and who are eligible to receive credit. It is men who sell the cash crop (which their wives produced), and who decide what to do with the money.
This relatively new interest in gender issues in African agricultural development also points to a basic dichotomy which arises when this interest is pursued in practice. On the one hand there is the technical dimension, of needing to provide women with the resources for increased agricultural production, in the form of basic education, literacy training, agricultural skills, access to land and credit, and access to markets. But on the other hand there is the political dimension, that women are traditionally discriminated against in access to all of these resources. Increasing women's access upsets the monopoly of male control over resources, and therefore by the same token upsets the pattern of male control over women.
In societies where men effectively own women, in much the same way as they own cattle (indeed, women are often exchanged for cattle) it is unthinkable that women could themselves become owners of land. This would herald the total upset of the patriarchal state!
But let us pause for thought, and put it another way. It would be an important beginning in achieving equal rights for women, to which most governments are committed in a UN Convention.
Therefore it would seem that the struggle to improve African agriculture is inextricably bound up with the struggle for women's rights. Or is it? Is it possible that we can support women's increased productivity without entering into the struggle for women's rights? Is it possible to separate the technical from the political? Can we talk about the technical and the economic, without talking of liberation? It is to this question which this paper now turns.
Accommodation versus Transformation
If African women farmers are to be assisted without disturbing or challenging the present patriarchal order, then by definition we must be thinking of an accommodatory strategy, which aims to leave gender power relations as they are, and which instead works within them. Can we imagine how this might actually operate, in rural Africa? We must imagine that women are provided with agricultural training, with access to credit, with more access to land, but without upsetting the patriarchal order.
We may imagine that husbands can be persuaded that such additional resources for wives are in everybody's interest, and for the general benefit. Therefore husbands will be expected to give their permission for their wives' advancement, and more productive enterprise. The wife should remain a subordinate, but the whole farming enterprise will become more productive. In other words, to put the matter more bluntly, the wife will remain within her cage, but she will have a larger and more productive cage. It may even become a more comfortable cage.
But can we really separate the issues of control? If the husband is to retain control over the cash income from surplus production, is he really going to plough this back into more farm investment? In practice, a more typical pattern is that the husband uses the money for a bonanza in town, wasting money on beer and girls. He may come back from town with sexually transmitted diseases, or with a new wife bought with the additional cash. If any money remains, he will very likely have spent it on status acquisitions such as radio, clothes, or even a motor car which the farm cannot afford and which is not necessary.
This is the typical pattern to be expected where the man has control without responsibility. He is likely to use his position to demonstrate to his wife that he cannot be controlled, and can do as he likes. He may perhaps genuinely and legitimately consider that an additional wife is a good investment for further farm production. This may even be true, but it is also a formula for the further oppression of both wives, as the husband enjoys the fruits of their labour and eats away at the surplus they produce.
And even if increased productivity from such accommodation within the patriarchal system is possible, how sustainable are such programme interventions? Since we are accommodating within the existing discriminatory system, we have not increased women's access to public resources, merely increased their access to specially provided programme resources. The banks remain discriminatory, so we have set up our own programme credit scheme. The schools remain discriminatory, so we have set up our own system of agricultural training. The land remains in the hands of men, so we have sought men's permission for women to use the land. The woman continues to be owned, rather than to own. She cannot accumulate capital for herself, but only for her husband. When her husband dies, her husband's relatives will come and take over everything, including probably herself. We have achieved increased productivity but ignored issues of women's rights. But can we really do it? Is it really workable? Even if we could do it, should we do it?
Here we may note, in passing, that there is a severe limit to the prospect of increasing women's production from within the cage. People are generally willing to work more and produce more when they can see the fruits of their labour coming back to themselves. But there is no incentive to an exploited woman when her increased production is enjoyed by her husband, his additional wives and other relatives, rather than by herself and her children. How much less is her incentive when her increased production leads to her husband's increased wealth and enjoyment, causing him to demand even more hard work from his wife, so he may enjoy himself even more.
Slave economies have a distinct limit on increased productivity, due to the limited prospect of increasing the efficiency in the exploitation of slave labour. And always with the danger of a slave revolt!
Perhaps the best that can be said for such attempted accommodation is it has the automatic potential to provoke transformatory tendencies. This is especially so if women, when allowed to develop a bigger and better cage, begin to see the extent to which their progress is curtailed - not by their own lack of knowledge and effort, but rather by the discriminatory system which denies them access to resources in the public arena, and denies them the fruits of their own labour. This is the essential stage of conscientisation, where women are faced with the reality of the system of discrimination and oppression. This is likely to be followed by women's realisation that their collective action is needed to establish their equal rights in access to resources, in such matters as right to bank accounts and bank loans, to schooling and agricultural training, to ownership of land, and to inheritance of marital property.
But of course the accommodatory project, by definition, attempts to confine the project to the level of 'economic' and 'technical', and deliberately stops short of the political dimension. It even parades its 'non-political' role as being a developmental virtue. The development agency claims it is 'non-political', and makes the anthropological boast that it does not intend to 'interfere with local customs and traditions' (i.e. women's continued subordination).
By contrast, the route to women's emancipation, also incidentally the route to increased agricultural production, lies in transformation. This means using the agricultural programme as the means to improving women's access to public resources, not merely giving women protected access to agricultural resources within a wider public system of gender discrimination.
And this is where the question of women's leadership must belatedly enter the discussion. For women will never be 'given' equal right of access to public resources. It is generally true that any political group can be expected to hang on to their privileges, and to the power that maintains these privileges. Power has to be taken, it is never given. It is this process of women collectively organising and mobilising to increase their access to public resources which properly deserves the term 'women's empowerment'. Women's empowerment is not to be found in the individual act of gaining access to resources, let alone receiving resources. Furthermore, women's empowerment is not one woman gaining economic advantage at the expense of her oppressed sisters. Women's empowerment is the collective act of overcoming discrimination, in order to gain equal right to publicly available resources. And leadership is women's catalytic role in provoking and enabling this process.
Reluctance of Development Agencies
There is scarcely a development agency that does not loudly claim to be pursuing policies of women's empowerment, and equal rights for women. All UN and bilateral agencies are bound by the strategies of the Beijing Platform for Action, and almost all governments (but not the US government) have ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
But, in my experience, all of these agencies are - in varying degrees - fainthearted in pursuing policies of gender equality. Nowadays they all claim to have policies of 'gender orientation', and sometimes saying rather more explicitly that gender issues should be recognised and addressed in all of their programmes.
But in practice, gender orientation may mean one or more of the following strategic approaches:
- Agenda Setting Programmes. In addition to mainstreaming of gender issues within all programmes, there should be 'agenda setting' programmes which are directed primarily at addressing particular major issues of women's increased empowerment, political representation, and ending structural gender discrimination.
- Strong Gender Focus. Selected programmes should use a 'trojan horse' strategy of using various sectoral programmes as a means towards addressing the various major gender issues which affect that sector (e.g. all agricultural projects would have to address the issue of gender discrimination in public access to credit).
- Gender Mainstreaming in Programme Design. All programmes should recognise the gender element within the problems being addressed, and therefore have a gender component within all goals aimed at addressing these issues, to ensure that women's position relative to men has improved by the end of project implementation.
- Protection of Women. A preliminary situation analysis is conducted to assess the present traditional division of labour, and project interventions are designed to ensure that there is gender fairness in the division of programme responsibilities and rewards, to ensure that women are not left worse off after programme completion (as has often been the case in the past!).
- Gender Efficiency. A preliminary situation analysis should include a gender role analysis, to make sure that all project interventions are 'gender sensitive', in that they respect the traditional gender division of labour, work within this, and therefore allocate programme responsibilities in an effective manner for maximum implementation efficiency. (This strategy may well involve giving a lot of the extra programme work to women, since they are traditionally the ones who do most of the work).
- Gender Sensitive Approach. This entails leaving the programme plan in an entirely gender blind condition, without any recognition of gender issues in the situation analysis, let alone stating any intention to address gender issues. Instead this approach involves training the programme staff to work in a 'gender sensitive way'. This approach therefore claims that gender issues can be introduced and addressed purely at the implementation stage, and often amounts, in practice, to little more than project management insisting on having some local women amongst the representatives of the management committee. ('Unfortunately they didn't seem to mention any gender issues. They didn't say much at all!')
Whereas all of the above six strategies may perhaps fall under the heading of a vaguely defined 'gender orientation', only Nos. 1-3 are actually concerned with recognising and addressing gender issues, and are therefore transformatory in their intention.
By contrast, Nos 3-6 are clearly accommodatory, being 'gender sensitive' in the sense of adapting to the present system of structural gender inequality, rather than concerned with doing anything about it.
We may also note that, as we proceed down the list, we are clearly entering the world of lip-service and window dressing, where there is an increasing amount of vocabulary and play-acting on gender issues, but no real substance. This play-acting often takes the form of 'gender workshops' for programme staff and co-operating partners that tend to be held separately from normal programme activities, to which they have no direct or obvious relationship. Instead, people are asked to achieve the personal transformation of becoming 'gender sensitive', undoubtedly a commendable state of mind, but not clearly connected to programme objectives.
Another interesting thing about this list is that the vocabulary at the development agency head office, and in written policy, is more at the level of Nos. 1 and 2. But as one travels to the country office, and even more as one steps into the field to look at project implementation, the vocabulary - and even more so the action - has slipped down the list, perhaps all the way to No. 6.
How is this pattern explained? Largely by admitting the simple but uncomfortable truth that the field staff of development agencies like to live a comfortable life in African countries. There is no way that they are going to upset their (extremely) patriarchal host government by following their own agency's policies on gender equality. They will quickly tell you that we have to 'respect local culture and tradition', or that 'this is government-to-government assistance, so we can only do what is allowable within the policies of the host government'. (This may be said notwithstanding that the host government, albeit under donor pressure, has formulated its own National Gender Policy, which may be just as strong and explicit as the agency's own gender policy!).
Leadership for Transformation
In this situation, the first requirement of strategy is to face up to real nature of the problem, and the first job of leadership is to wake up everybody from their slumber. If we fondly imagine that international development agencies are busy in partnership with African governments in a joint venture to eliminate structural gender inequality, then clearly nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, all the evidence suggests that both sides are equally opposed to such a venture.
If there is any contradiction to this broad generalisation, it is to be found only in small corners. At the level of government, it is only perhaps the governments of Uganda and South Africa that may be saved from full condemnation, in that they have gone further than lip-service on women's rights. For international development agencies, only the Scandinavian bilateral agencies, which are ready to put money into subverting patriarchy in Africa, provide some hope for the women's movement in Africa. Outside of that, there are some international NGOs, such as the Hunger Project and Oxfam, which show serious signs of being willing to support programmes for women's equal rights in Africa.
At the African level, the need is for a women's leadership that can unite progressive African women around particular gender issues, where we can make a collective effort around common and pervasive issues, and seek support from our Northern sisters in doing so. What we need is a global campaign around one clear identifiable issue.
Perhaps a successful example of such a campaign, but outside the area of gender, was the recent campaign against landmines. But why has the women's movement not managed to launch a campaign of such magnitude? One major reason must be that landmines was such a clear identifiable issue. By comparison, in the area of gender, there are so many issues that the list is endless. We are not up against one issue, but we are up against a patriarchal system that manufactures countless issues.
Nonetheless, if we select carefully, we can campaign around one issue that is well chosen not merely for being pervasive and serious, but also for its potential as a vehicle to attack patriarchy itself, and put it on the defensive.
Let me attempt to set out ten criteria we might use in selecting an African gender issue for a global campaign. I suggest it should be an issue which:
- clearly has negative effects on women, which are demonstrable both in socio-economic data, and in the witness of individual women;
- is ideologically indefensible even by patriarchal principles, so that patriarchy is attacked at its most vulnerable point. In other words, since patriarchy claims to be government by men in the best interest of women, the detrimental effects of this particular gender issue clearly cannot be justified, even in terms of patriarchal principles;
- is indefensible in terms of human and women's rights principles to which the various concerned governments are already signed up;
- is clearly seen to be unfair and unjust by a large number of African women; or otherwise there is good prospect of persuading them of this injustice, notwithstanding that they have been educated to believe such injustice to be normal, ordained by God, or given as a biological inheritance;
- is pervasive across many regions of Africa, or all Africa;
- is an obvious and established obstacle to economic development;
- is an issue which women of the North can understand and identify with, and on which they would be willing to support their sisters in the South;
- is an issue which cannot be justified by religious belief, and which will not provoke inter-religious divisions on how the issue should be addressed;
- is an issue affecting women in all walks of life, which will enable a coalition of various African women's groups, operating in different sectors and areas of interest, to unite around the issue;
- will enable the development of campaigning and empowering skills, and use of a variety of campaigning strategies, to be further used in tackling the next issue on the list.
Of course I shouldn't write as if there is nothing currently happening in the way of such a campaign. The current campaign against female genital mutilation has had considerable success, and is clearly along the right lines. But it falls short on one or two of the above criteria - particularly in having no very direct connection to economic development, and therefore not putting a clear and direct onus on the powerful development agencies to take action.
Once a campaign issue has direct relevance to the development agenda, women of the North are put in a strong position to demand action from their own government's bilateral development agency, and from the UN agencies to which their governments contribute. This therefore gives women of the North a clear case and opportunity to demand action and accountability from those development agencies which have strong gender policies which they do not implement.
Let us wake up! Strategise! Take the lead!


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Atlanta employers were facing a 10 percent bump in employee health benefits costs for next year, but most softened the blow by making changes in their health programs, AJC staffer Carrie Teegardin reports.
The global consulting firm Mercer said Wednesday that metro Atlanta employers now expect a 6.3 percent bump in per-employee health benefit costs in 2011, after modifying benefits to lower the costs of coverage, Teegardin writes.
Atlanta's projected increase, based on Mercer's survey of 37 large and medium-size employers, was on par with the national average. Nationally, Mercer surveyed more than 2,800 employers.
Next year's increase will push the average per-employee cost of health benefits to about $9,600 for Atlanta employers in the survey, Teegardin writes.
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November 18th, 2010
8:07 am
Boy, I am really impressed with the GA Repub legislature's jobs program. I mean all those business tax breaks has opened the floodgate to all those jobs!
November 18th, 2010
9:31 am
I am very sorry to hear about TED'S closing certain locations.
If you guys want your core customer, and even casual diners, to feel more comfortable in your restaurants and return more often, you guys need to stop skimping on the soda refills AND provide larger soft drink glasses & servings in the first place.
Whenever I dine at TED'S, I almost always have to go to QuikTrip afterwards to get another beverage to wash down all the sodium from my delicious bison meal that leaves me thirsting.
November 18th, 2010
2:30 pm
Ever considered drinking water? The more expensive the restaurant, the smaller the meal. But Ted is one of a kind and we should all wish him well.
So what else is new? The 91.1% that remain employed and we retirees are going to have to continue to kick in a little more. I imagine many have retired a little earlier than planned and will remain out of the job market.
November 18th, 2010
2:31 pm
How does QT sell those delicious drinks so cheaply?

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An inspiring, pictorially dazzling documentary from one of the Bay Area's most exciting filmmakers! Jon Shenk's The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. The film follows Nasheed during his first year in office, culminating with a stirring speech given at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Just this February, Nasheed was forced out of office in a coup d'etat, lending this film an unusual timeliness and poignancy.
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May 28: Officers assisted the U.S. Border Patrol and RCMP in locating two individuals who had jumped the border north. RCMP apprehended two people who could not out run their canine.
May 28: Officers received a report of a violation of a no contact order on 4th Street. One person was located and found to be in violation of the order. He was arrested and booked into Whatcom County Jail.
May 27: A person identifying himself as a Cuban national approached several kids at the skate park. He asked for directions in to Canada. When the directions were given to the man, he thanked the young man who had assisted him and then stated that if the young man told anyone what he had done he would die. No weapons were displayed or brandished. About 30 minutes later, the incident was reported to the police. U.S. Border Patrol agents were notified. Officers and agents searched the area, but did not locate the man.
May 27: Officers responded to the 300 block of E Street regarding a noise disturbance that possibly was a domestic dispute. Officers determined that the male resident at the residence was throwing objects and had broken a pickle jar and cut his head during a dispute with his girlfriend. He was arrested for DV malicious mischief and taken to the hospital where a mental evaluation was completed before he was booked into jail.
May 27: An officer observed a young teenager out walking around during school hours and when the officer approached him, the youth ran from the officer. Officer found him in the 2000 block of Bayview and made contact with the school who advised that the youth had been suspended from school. Officer gave youth ride to his residence.
May 26: A person checked in to a motel, and after a couple of hours decided that the room was inadequate. He wanted to leave but complained the hotel manager refused to refund his money. Police responded, and the parties were working on a compromise by the time the officer departed.
May 25: Officers and WSP investigated a car vs. two pedestrians collision in the 800 block of Peace Portal Drive at Clark Street. The incident is under investigation. An 84-year-old Blaine resident died as result of injuries sustained in the collision. A 34-year-old woman was injured and hospitalized.
May 24: An officer assisted the U.S. Border Patrol with the placement of a small child. The child's mother was detained for an immigration violation and the father who lives in Florida could not be contacted at the time. CPS will be following up on the incident.
May 24: A man came to the police station to report the loss of his wallet at grocery store on H Street. The victim put his wallet down in the store just before beginning his shopping. When he returned to the service counter it was gone and no employees knew where it might be. Case closed.
May 24: A woman reported that she was stopped for traffic in her car facing westbound in the 2600 block of Bell Road when her car was rear-ended by another vehicle. The offending vehicle left without stopping. Damage was limited to a possible paint scuff on the rear bumper. The suspect vehicle was driven by a teenage male in a forest green SUV. There was a group of teenager passengers in the running suspect vehicle. There are no further avenues of investigation to pursue in the matter to date. Case closed pending further information.
May 23: Officers were dispatched to a report of a structure fire in the 700 block of A Street. On arrival officers contacted a neighbor who already had the fire extinguished with a garden hose. Fire arrived and took control of the smoldering scene. Officers cleared and the fire marshal located a discarded cigarette butt at the base of the burning bush.
May 23: A resident reported seeing an unattended two year old child pushing a stroller down the sidewalk on 6th Street, a busy residential road. Officers arrived less than one minute after the call, but had been beaten to the scene by dad. He had already captured the fleet footed toddler. Father surmised the toddler had awakened from a nap and snuck out without his knowledge. Dad was counseled about appropriate supervision, door locks and sitters. Case closed and an informational copy forwarded to CPS.
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May 23: A driver reported that an unknown vehicle had collided with the rear corner of her unattended, parked motor home in the parking lot of a mobile home park on Peace Portal Drive. Damage to the motor home was estimated at about $1000. The owner had spoken to all of her neighbors but no one had seen the incident occur.
May 23: A business called police to report having found two pieces of luggage beneath their stairway on 12th Street near the Port of Entry. An officer impounded the luggage pending possible owner location. From evidence inside the baggage it appeared the owner discarded it so he could more stealthily cross the border.
May 23: Officers responded to a report of malicious mischief on D Street and contacted the owner of a vandalized vehicle. He awoke to discover his car had been covered in bird seed, syrup and other suspicious substances overnight. Officers photographed the glazed and crunchy Toyota. The owner did some legwork among friends and learned that he was an unintended victim of mistaken car identity, and had become collateral damage in an ongoing war of mutually assured Pranksterism. Officers await the owner's decision whether to pursue detente or detention.
May 22: A couple of family members visiting Blaine were threatened with bodily injury by two juvenile males who accosted them on the street and then ran off towards the skate park when one of the victim's called 911 from his cell phone. The teenaged harassers were identified by officers and immediately arrested. A prosecution report was completed and submitted. No one was injured.
May 22: A citizen reported discovering that his boat trailer was reported stolen from someone in another state. This was disconcerting as the Blaine resident has owned his trailer for some time and was still in possession of it. Officers determined the cross country mix-up occurred because there are two trailer manufacturers in the country using the same brand name and serial number series for their trailers.
May 22: An officer was contacted by a Blaine resident on D Street who said she rented a room to two men for two days and they only paid for one night. Police advised the complainant she most likely entered into a landlord tenant dispute and she would have to evict the men, since she was not licensed to operate a motel. At the resident's request officers asked the two gents to leave and find a less hostile hostel. They did.


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(WMC-TV) - Signs in one Mid-South city targeted people who drink, produce or sell alcohol. Residents were shocked by the phrases including "Satan Couldn't Be Everywhere" and "Boozers are Losers."
One Dyersburg businessman took it on himself to get rid of the signs.
"I don't want to have to walk out of here and face a sign right across the street talking to me about Satan and drinking," said businessman Stan March who frequently meets friends at a Dyersburg bar and restaurant. "It sounds crazy. I realize everybody has their own opinion."
Marsh says there were eight of the professionally-made signs in the area of the 51 Bypass and Highway 78. He complained to the mayor.
Dyersburg removed four signs put up in a flower garden. The mayor said there is a sign ordinance prohibiting the signs.
Marsh got a cell phone number for the person who put up the signs and called him.
"He just kept saying Dyersburg needs to be taught a lesson," said Marsh who said the caller hung up on him.
Marsh was never sure what that lesson was. He says the man claimed to be putting the signs up on his own.
"We ought to be able to sit up here and have a drink without walking out and seeing a sign saying Satan is sitting with us and watching us. Truth be told Satan is probably sitting at this guys house watching him," said Marsh.
All the signs have since been removed.


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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (January 25, 2014) – The Rutgers swimming and diving team returned to the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center after nearly two months on the road and swept the visiting Fordham Rams (169.00-128.00) and Rider Broncs (211.00-79.00) Saturday afternoon. The Scarlet Knights won 11 of the 16 events on the day.
With the wins, Rutgers improves to 7-4-1 in dual-meet scoring competitions.
"You always want to come away with some wins and we came away with two today, which is great to add to our dual meet record," said head coach Phil Spiniello. "We had some really good season times today, lowered some of our season times and have some momentum now going into the AAC Championship meet, which is the goal of these next three weeks. We want to gain some momentum and confidence in our races and dives and get ready to do what we need to do on February 19 when we head into Louisville [for the championship meet]."
Junior Greta Leberfinger (Chatham, N.J.) and sophomore Joanna Wu (Kent, Wash.) led the Scarlet Knights with two individual event wins each and were also members of the first-place 200 medley relay team.
Seniors Mary Moser (Wyomissing, Pa.) and Nicole Scott (Toronto, Canada) also picked up two individual wins.
Wu captured first in both the 100 back (56.15) and 200 back (2:03.97), while Leberfinger was victorious in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events.
Moser picked up wins in both the 50 and 200 free and Scott led the way on the boards, sweeping the 1-meter and 3-meter with scores of 263.70 and 302.00, respectively.
The Scarlet Knights began the day with a one-two finish in the 200 yard medley relay. Wu, Leberfinger, senior Brittany Guinee (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) and sophomore Julia Kudryashova (New Providence, N.J.) teamed up for a first-place time of 1:48.10, while sophomore Morgan Pfaff (Red Lion, Pa.), freshman Rachel Stoddard (Hillsborough, N.J.), sophomore Sophie Newton (Leesburg, Va.) and junior Lindsay Gibson-Brokop (Edmonton, AB, Canada) followed up at 1:48.58.
RU dominated the 100 breaststroke event, as the hosts captured the top three spots, with Leberfinger in first, followed by Stoddard in second and senior Allyson Perrotti (Branford, Conn.) in third. Leberfinger and Stoddard would also finish one-two in the 200 breast, with times of 2:21.61 and 2:23.56, respectively.
Guinee recorded a first-place finish in the 200 fly at 2:04.91, with Pfaff finishing third. Pfaff captured her own first-place finish in the 400 I.M. (4:27.46), while Guinee added a second-place finish in the 500 free.
Rutgers closes out the 2013-14 regular season on Saturday, Feb. 8 as the team hosts a tri-meet with Georgetown and Providence. The meet also marks Senior Day for the Scarlet Knights.
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For this jacket, I was inspired by the recent trend of wacky printed tailored suits. I love anything wacky and printed, so it was right up my alley! I also started making a pair of matching pants, but those are still a work in progress (they're mostly done, but I get hung up on the little finishing details).
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As we stood transfixed, scared to death of Tiger Stadium at night on Saturday during the Alabama-LSU game, we couldn't help but hearken back to the past at The List HQ.
See, five years ago, we took a look around the state at which teams have the most frightening home stadium, where they suddenly change from a good team to basically unbeatable over the previous 10 years.
Back in 2007, Marist was on top of the heap, winning 95 percent at home while not even eking out 75 percent on the road. So we were curious, how have the subsequent five years changed things? Who has the most LSU-like homefield advantage in the state?
With tireless research, we have the numbers. The teams are ranked based upon the biggest difference between their home and road winning percentages since 2003. Here are the top 10.
10. Warner Robins (McConnell-Talbert Stadium)
They play in what's generally considered one of the toughest places for visitors to play in the state, and they certainly take advantage of it. It may not be their home alone, but they treat it like it feels that way.
Road winning percentage: .574
Home winning percentage .707
9. Marist (Hughes-Spalding Stadium)
They didn't top the list like they did in 2007, but the Eagles are still a nightmare to play on their home field. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly scary about the place … well, except for the way Marist plays there. The Eagles have been very good wherever they've played, but they're always tougher on campus.
Road winning percentage: .759
Home winning percentage: .892
8. Jefferson (Memorial Stadium)
This stadium just hit its 50th anniversary, and there's clearly some magic here for the Dragons. It's not a new place, and it's not the fanciest setup, but it appears to do its job. Jefferson has been a solid team wherever it's played, but there's a definite difference on the home field.
Road winning percentage: .632
Home winning percentage: .780
7. Jackson (Red Devil Hill)
One of just three teams to make both the 2007 and 2012 lists, the Red Devils must have something going on at Red Devil Hill, as they move up from No. 10 five years ago. At the time, they were in the middle of the best 10-year stretch in school history. The past 10 years haven't been quite as kind, but they're still devils at home.
Road winning percentage: .620
Home winning percentage: .770
6. Woodward Academy (Colquitt Stadium)
They have one of the nicest campuses in the state, and the stadium is right in the middle of it. If anyone thinks a private school won't be as tough at home, Woodward shows there's nothing soft about going in to Colquitt. The Eagles are only a little over .500 on the road, but they're a handful in their own place.
Road winning percentage: .571
Home winning percentage: .722
5. Walton (Raider Valley)
As Cobb County continues to seek that first state title in more than 40 years, this Walton program is one of the best hopes of getting that done. Even more so with their success at home, where they're unquestionably one of the best in the state.
Road winning percentage: .672
Home winning percentage: .845
4. Fitzgerald (Jaycee Stadium)
Can anyone tell us what makes Fitzgerald so good at home? Don't get us wrong. It's a nice facility, with a field house on one end. But what accounts for winning a staggering 91 percent of their games there? The Purple Hurricanes are pretty good wherever they play, but this is one that's wild.
Road winning percentage: .733
Home winning percentage: .910
3. Hillgrove (Cobb Energy Hillgrove Stadium)
OK, yeah, they don't have an entire 10 years to go on. But quite a start, eh? They've settled into their home stadium rather quickly and made it into a true advantage already. The Hawks have won a lot of games in a short time, but they've done lots more damage at home than elsewhere.
Road winning percentage: .676
Home winning percentage: .862
2. Rome (Barron Stadium)
We're nearly at the top, and Barron Stadium is obviously one of the most difficult places to come into and win in the state. Rome is a proud program that hasn't been quite as good as they'd like recently. But the Wolves have only been under .500 at home once in the past 10 years.
Road winning percentage: .646
Home winning percentage: .833
1. Commerce (Tiger Field at Ray Lamb Stadium)
Who saw this coming? Under Steve Savage and Marvin Justice, the Tigers haven't even really been all that good the past 10 years. But if you're going to line up against them, you definitely want them away from home, where they're well under .500, while they somehow become a 70-plus percent juggernaut in their home stadium. They moved up from No. 6 in 2007, so this is no fluke. Maybe it's the fabled "Run down the hill." Maybe it's that the population of Commerce doubles every Friday night. We don't get it, but we still kind of love it.
Road winning percentage: .448
Home winning percentage: .702
And now, we want to know what you think. What makes these stadiums special? Does anyone ever win at Jaycee Stadium? What in the world is making Commerce so much better at home? Let us know in the comments here or on Twitter at @ajcprepsports.
November 7th, 2012
11:03 am
Marist is the War Eagles; not just the "Eagles". This is not Philadelphia!
November 7th, 2012
11:03 am
According to the GHSFHA Web site Fitzgerald's home winning percentage is 66%.
November 7th, 2012
12:40 pm
How can Buford not be on this list??
Have lost one (1) home regular season game in 12 years (Gainesville this year)
Have an overall record of 72-3 since '07 (77-6 if including this season)
Buford has won EVERYWHERE they play!!
November 7th, 2012
3:35 pm
Hello Jeff…
So I guess that's why EAST PAULDING and "THE BONEYARD" isn't on your list!!!
November 7th, 2012
3:47 pm
McConnell-Talbert simply has an intimidating atmosphere. Hughes-Spalding at Marist is an old stadium where ghosts seem to come out of nowhere to help Marist make big plays. There is nowhere for visiting fans to sit at Hillgrove and this gives the home team a big advantage. Barron Stadium doesn't have intimidating crowds but has certain traditions that definitely let a visiting team know they are on the road when they go up there.
November 7th, 2012
6:55 pm
winning on the road and the difference between winning at home made this writing dumber. winning at home should be the list, end of story.
November 8th, 2012
1:29 am
I've covered playoff games at McConnell-Talbert, and it is a special place indeed. But I have to agree that Buford HAS to be in there somewhere, and so should Lincoln County's home field. Covered a quarterfinal game there a couple of years ago. Classic small-town feel, and they fed us like KINGS in the pressbox, with home-made goodies, no less. They even set me up with a laptop when mine went down. GREAT place, but a loooong drive to the middle of nowhere in east Georgia….
November 8th, 2012
11:55 am
Calhoun has not lost at home a couple/3 times in 12 years. They have lost more games in the dome than home in the last 4 years.


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Israeli security forces were on a state of high alert, particularly along the border line with the West Bank after intelligence warnings of a would-be bomber entering into cities from the Palestinian territories, Israel radio reported Thursday. Forces were also on high alert in the Jerusalem area.
This latest warning of an attack comes less than 24 hours after a bomb exploded in the main cafetaria at the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, killing seven people and wounding 97. One person was still in critical condition and 12 in serious condition Thursday morning following the blast.
Five of the seven killed were foreign nationals - four of them from the United States and one from France, the radio said. One of the Americans killed was identified Thursday morning as Janice Colter, 37, the deputy director of the Hebrew University's foreign students department in New York.
Meanwhile, several explosions were heard near Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank town of Rmallah, after Israeli army moved into it Thursday morning. Apart from the explosions, shooting and machine gun fire could be heard in the vicinity of the compound.
Two Israeli tanks were seen moving from the area of the compound into the city's central Al-Manara square. Bulldozers were operating in the area, media reports said.
The Israeli army demolished early Thursday morning the Beit Jallah home of Majid Ata, 17, who carried out the suicide bombing in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Military sources said this was part of a series of actions decided upon after the university bombing. These measures include expulsion of bombers' families to the Gaza Strip, demolition of homes and prevention of financial assistance for the families.
The Israeli army was still operating in Palestinian-controlled towns Thursday, making several arrests in the West Bank. Two explosive devices were activated early Thursday morning near Israeli troops in Nablus, and Palestinians fired at soldiers in Jenin. There were no injuries in both incidents, Israel Radio reported. (Albawaba.com)
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The actress has been cast as Lily Munster in "The Munsters" reboot, "Mockingbird Lane," Entertainment Weekly reported.
Portia will play the vampire bride of Herman Munster (Jerry O'Connell). She'll also star alongside of Eddie Izzard, who has been cast as Grandpa Munster in the Bryan Fuller's dramatic re-imagining of the classic TV show.
Yvonne De Carlo originally played the role of Lily in the '60s sitcom.
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"It's a little darker than the original. It really is," he said. "It's a great project… [with] a lot of cool, special effects."
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed some of tech's heaviest hitters to his country with a word of caution.
Sarkozy opened a conference, featuring leaders of the tech world in Paris, by encouraging the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt to work with foreign governments and share the benefits of revolution.
He compared the tech world's role on recent uprisings in the Middle East to the discoveries of Columbus, Galileo and Newton.
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Adam Gerald McCarn, 24, Nicolas J. Crespin, 29, and 34-year-old Willie Yanez are charged with one count each of breaking and entering, non-residential burglary and conspiracy.
According to a witness, around 4 a.m., a small, gray vehicle park near the Alameda House at 526 S. Alameda Blvd.
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Depth down low: Communication could be key in keeping Bucks bigs happy
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We've talked before about the Milwaukee Bucks and the glut of four and fives that developed this off-season. It was a popular conversation after Samuel Dalembert arrived via trade, after John Henson was drafted and most of all after Ersan Ilyasova resigned. By the time the off-season ended Sunday, Milwaukee was up to seven guys to fit into two positions.
Of course, depth is hardly a big problem in this organizations eyes. In fact, Bucks players spoke optimistically about finding a balance between all those bodies on media day. Drew Gooden said he was ready to sacrifice minutes for wins at this point in his career. Joel Przybilla's cared less about minutes than he did about his wife not wanting him fighting anymore. Larry Sanders said he'll do whatever is necessary for the team.
Scott Skiles, never one to be shy about eschewing a rotation, spoke about finding a balance in the front court (H/T to Preston at Behind the Bucks Pass for his coverage of media day).
"It's going to be a challenge," Skiles said of the front court balance. "We talk about it every day. We got seven big guys who have played, or are capable of playing well in an NBA game. The way the game is played now, some games it's hard to get three of them out there…It's something we've talked to them about. It's going to be a challenge."
"We don't want to be in a position where guys are looking over their shoulder every night and wondering when they're going to play. We have to keep an open line of communication. But the reality is there's going to be nights where there may be three guys that deserved to play in the game and didn't play at all or didn't get the minutes they wanted."
Surely it will be much easier explaining to Sanders that there aren't any minutes available than it was to Stephen Jackson or Corey Maggette. Those were established veterans who felt like they had a lot to give. Jackson and Maggette ignored either eroding skill or inability to defend/fit in. Sanders is likely young and unproven enough to accept a smaller or non-existent role.
It's going to be guys like Gooden and Ilyasova that may require a bit of extra attention from Skiles and his staff. Both are on big contracts and likely expect, all media day niceties aside, to be playing big contract minutes. Rumors of unhappiness with an undefined role constantly surrounded Ilyasova over the past few years. It seems fair to wonder now if, given the amount of money he was paid this off-season, he expects a more consistent role going forward. The pecking order in the Bucks front court likely starts with Ilyasova, then Dalembert with the rest fairly interchangeable.
Milwaukee's always stood behind Gooden, who's been injured and put into some pretty tough situations over the past few years and handled them all without complaint or excuse. It's tough to envision him not getting at least 25 minutes a night for most of the season. With Ilyasova, Dalembert and Gooden handling the majority of the minutes and Pryzbilla likely the most accepting and obvious choice for DNP-CDs, where does that leave the Bucks young bigs?
Udoh, Henson and Sanders will have to battle it out to for remaining minutes. It's almost academic that each of them will have a few moments in the sun this season. Sanders will probably have the least and if last season is any indication, Udoh the most. But it's tough to predict just what sort of impact John Henson will have on the Bucks this year.
He's already got a leg up on his rookie classmate Doron Lamb, he of the arm in a sling (per this video) and non-existent training camp prospects. And he'll likely be further along come the season opener than last year's rookies, Tobias Harris and Jon Leuer. Neither of the them had the benefit of either Summer League or training camp, plus Henson had a couple more years of college seasoning than Harris. We've been hearing rave reviews about Henson's defensive presence since day on and no one seemed ready to back off any of those remarks on media day.
Henson's the wild card. In a perfect world, he'll be everything the Bucks hoped a fully developed Larry Sanders would be by now. If that's the case, he could firmly grasp the fourth rotation spot in the Bucks front court. But he's a rookie and the world isn't perfect. It's far more likely that Henson will have some of the typical rookie ups and downs we've seen recently with Brandon Jennings, Sanders, Harris and Leuer. During his downs, Udoh or Sanders will be there to give the Bucks some cushion.
The guys who are playing the best are going to play. That's one thing we've seen throughout Skiles run as coach of the Bucks. If everyone else can accept that, we've seen how smooth things can go (2009-10). If that's going to be an issue, well, we've seen that too (2010-11).
About the Author (Author Profile)Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball. He founded it in January of 2009 because he hated his job. It's like basketball, but with Bucks instead of basket. I know ... I'm sorry. He might come off as a bit negative, but I'm really not so bad. He just wants the Bucks to succeed, so he points out areas where they are coming up short. Someone has got to do it and he's ornery and opinionated enough to take on that task. He isn't sure if this should be in third person or not. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com if you must use e-mail.
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I really like the upgraded site. I just dont like the banner line "8th seed or bust" Is that really the best we can hope for as Bucks fans? I certainly hope not. I think we could be the fifth best team in the east. Here's my preseason picks: 1-Miami, 2-Philly, 3-New York, 4-Chicago(still a good team even with no Rose), then 5-Milwaukee, and 6 through 8 will be between Indiana, Atlanta, Boston and Brooklyn. Realistically I think its Miami and then everyone else, but at least the Bucks should be able to make some noise. We've got a ton of size, and not to mention the fastest starting backcourt. The thing is that the Bucks roster is all role players, i hope Skiles can get them all to embrace that fact and play unselfishly. If they can play as a team and not worry about minutes and stats, theres enough talent here to be a really really tough team to beat. Anyways ive been reading posts on here for a couple of years and really like what u guys do, I just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work! Go Bucks!
All interviews with players & management seem to indicate that they all realize how important the team effort will be. If there is a 'spoiler' in the group, we will soon see them on the end of the bench.
The Bucks are beyond deserving a year not plagued by injuries and it has to happen for this team to perform at optimum level.
For all intents & purposes, the Bucks played .500 ball last year. Can't count last couple games Skiles let all the rookies play and benched the starters. I don't think 6th seed is a reach if they stay healthy, and I don't mean to imply that's their ceiling.
we can /hope/ for the 5th seed, but the majority opinion is that at least 3 out of the 4 teams you suggested the Bucks were better than will probably perform much better than the Bucks. It's good to have high hopes, but Bucksketball.com and Jeremy Schmidt are often very pessimistic (Read an article of his from April: http://www.bucksketball.com/2012/04/owning-pessimism-why-it-doesnt-make-you-a-bad-person/ )
Don't get me wrong, I believe that the Bucks could reach as high as the 5th seed if Jennings and Monta play effectively, Ersan keeps playing really well, Dalembert is what they hope for, Whoever the starting 3 is plays well, and younguns like Harris and Henson keep improving, sure. If everything goes right, this team has a 5th seed ceiling. Just my opinion though.


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The concept of support and accountability that comprise Level 3 required drivers is not new. In fact, it is a very old idea, earlier termed "rod and staff". Support and accountability (or rod and staff) are among the strongest predictors of on-the-job performance and accomplishment of goals. Here is a seven-minute recording discussing the principles. Click here to access the recording. (Link will load as a WMA audio file.)
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Questions related to whether or not a Level 1 evaluation should always be conducted are some of the most frequently asked of Kirkpatrick Partners. Wendy and Jim Kirkpatrick have recorded a short podcast of less than five minutes to answer this question. Click here to access the recording. (Link will load as a WMA audio file.)
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Kirkpatrick Partners hears this all the time: Levels 3 and 4 are too hard! Many learning professionals believe Level 4 is out of their reach, and are even intimidated by Level 3. Both of these are unnecessary apprehensions that will prevent maximization of program impact, and could even jeopardize careers.
There are many simple and effective ways to cross the bridge from the comfortable, familiar territory of Levels 1 and 2 to the strategic realm of Levels 3 and 4. Here is one to try:
Query past training participants three months after the conclusion of training and ask:• To what degree have you applied what you learned from xx event?• If you have, what factors have led to your successful application?• If you have, what are any early indications that your efforts are creating positive impact?• If you have not applied what you learned, what are the reasons?• What additional training, education or support do you need to move ahead?
You can administer these through a questionnaire (as is), survey (with drop down boxes with possible answers), one-on-one interviews or group interviews. It is best that you do this in situations where there has been structured support and accountability.
You can also ask similar questions of supervisors to capture their observations.Read the original article on training "defaults."
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It is a commonly held belief that the Kirkpatrick Model starts with Level 1 Reaction, and then moves sequentially through levels 2, 3, and 4. This tradition has been developed and solidified over five decades. The truth is that when used properly, the four levels begin with Level 4. This is the first of the Kirkpatrick Foundational Principles, entitled "The End is the Beginning."
Here is why to start with Level 4. When an external client or internal business leader asks you to develop and deliver a training program, it is most unwise to do a cursory pulse check of their expectations, and then jump to the DDD process (Design, Develop, Deliver), followed by some evaluation. This could lead to great waste of resources if the desired end result is not accomplished.
Instead, particularly for mission critical programs, interview the client and sponsor to find out as much as you can about what prompted the request, what is the overall intent, and specifically what will success look like from a strategic level.
Once you uncover or (more commonly) negotiate the answers to those questions, you have the structure for your Level 4 Results. Then, work backwards through determining Level 3 Behavior, and, if necessary, Level 2 Learning and Level 1 Reaction. In this way, you will know exactly where you are going. You will then be able to direct training, reinforcement, and evaluation efforts towards accomplishing mission-critical results with a minimum of wasted time, money and resources.
At the beginning of the month we shared with you an article by Jim Kirkpatrick about your "training defaults". He defines these as hard-wired behaviors that have become habits, but may not lead to the highest level of results. These are things we do automatically without considering if they are outdated or less effective than other options. This week we ask you to reset your "survey default", which we see often as a reliance on surveys as the only means of measurement and data collection. Employee surveys have been the standard evaluation method for decades. It may be due to their ease of implementation, and ability to gather large amounts of quantitative data quickly. Many organizations even refer to their Level 1 reaction sheets as "evals." Surveys are a critical component in your evaluation toolkit, but they should be combined with other methods that yield richer qualitative information to complement the quantitative data. Here are some reasons to consider a mixed approach. Research shows that targeted observations with accompanying checklists are statistically more valid and reliable than surveys. In addition, surveys only gather certain type of quantitative data, and little genuinely useful qualitative information. When Kirkpatrick Partners conducts impact studies, surveys are augmented with a relevant combination of focus groups, direct observation, work reviews, interviews, or other data collection methods. This is a best practice you can duplicate for your own initiatives. When you do use surveys, here are some recommendations: • For mission critical initiatives, survey not only actual training participants, but also managers, supervisors, co-workers, peers and customers.• Ensure that your surveys contain learner-centered questions. • Use hybrid evaluations; that is, surveys that include questions from two or more of the Kirkpatrick levels. • Avoid questions that attempt to empirically quantify and isolate the impact of the training event. It is mathematically impossible, contrary to business partnership, and produces measurements that get questioned and doubted by stakeholders. Here are examples of questions to avoid: o "What percentage of your time on the job relates to the content covered?"o "What percentage of what you learned do you plan to apply?"o "What percentage of what you learned in training do you currently apply on the job?"o "What percent increase in productivity have you seen in your work since the course?"o "What percentage of that improvement can you directly attribute to the course?" o "How confident are you in these percentages?"
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At the beginning of the month we shared with you an article by Jim Kirkpatrick about your "training defaults". He defines these as hard-wired behaviors that have become habits, but may not lead to the highest level of results. These are things we do automatically without considering if they are outdated or less effective than other options.
This week we encourage you to think about a common Level 2 "default" many training professionals possess: automatic use of pre and posttests.
There is certainly a time and a place for pre and posttests, but it is not before and after every learning event. Please "uncheck" automatic pre and posttests as part of your Level 2 assessment methods.
Testing is often time-consuming, expensive, and traumatic for training participants. Be purposeful about the use of pre and posttests. Situations where it is recommended include:
• Prepositioning the learner to the material to be covered in training• Determining which elements of a course to emphasize and/or deemphasize• Allowing employees to earn the right to test out of a program• Demonstrating the amount of knowledge acquired during a formal learning event (if value of the event itself is being questioned)• Meeting compliance issues• Ensuring that participants are ready for more advanced training
If you decide to use pre and posttests, be realistic about the value of information they can provide. This form of assessment generally taps into the lowest levels of Bloom's learning taxonomy in the cognitive domain. This kind of data (e.g., "Our participants increased in knowledge an average of 37%") typically elicits a response of "Who cares?" from stakeholders.
To maximize training evaluation resources, and ultimately training effectiveness, focus your energies on assessing Level 2 skill demonstrations. Use the resulting data as part of your chain of evidence to show how learners were prepared to perform the required behaviors on the job. Redeploy the resources you saved by skipping pre and posttests to on-the-job reinforcement of the critical behaviors. This will drive the results the training was likely designed to deliver in the first place.
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Two weeks ago we shared with you an article by Jim Kirkpatrick about your "training defaults". He defines these as hard-wired behaviors that have become habits, but may not lead to the highest level of results. These are things we do automatically without considering if they are outdated or less effective than other options. During workshops, we frequently ask participants, "What is the most common way to conduct Level 1 evaluation?" Invariably the response is, "Give the participants a smile sheet immediately after the program." Indeed, a written survey is the most common, nearly exclusive Level 1 evaluation practice. Unfortunately it is also often inadequate to obtain the most useful Level 1 information.Consider these other options to measure Level 1:• Have your "fingers on the pulse" (formative evaluation) during the course, in addition to afterwards. Be aware of participant body language and level of involvement to see if people are with you. If they are not, you can do something about it right away and hopefully correct the problem. For online programs, ask polling questions within or at the end of each module to maintain participant attention. • Use a trained observer in class to note how participants are reacting to various modules and activities. This is a costly option best reserved for pilots and major initiatives. • Have a colleague conduct a focus group or one-on-one interviews after the program to gather important information that will likely not surface with even the best survey questions. Strongly consider this with pilot programs and when survey data indicates potential problems.
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Last week the article entitled "Checking Your Training Evaluation Defaults" discussed a number of common practices that hinder training effectiveness. This week we continue the discussion by providing alternatives to the first potentially harmful default: training needs assessments (TNAs).
The Kirkpatrick Model starts with Level 4, not Level 1, as is the popular practice. Training needs assessments are typically conducted with business leaders in an attempt to determine overall business needs under the false belief that you are starting with the end in mind.
Please uncheck this default for the simple reason that if you are conducting training needs assessments, you are pre-determining that the solution to business needs is training. Instead, approach business leaders and tell them you would like to work with them from a new perspective.
Develop a methodology that you call a "performance needs assessment" or a "business needs assessment". Ask questions about business pain points, needs, challenges and/or opportunities. Then work to determine solutions, one of which might be formal training. In this way you deliver learning and performance solutions that target results rather than just adding more training activity.
Computers have default settings designed to make common functions easier to perform. We become so accustomed to them we may never consider other (or better) ways to do the things we do regularly.
There are often similar "default settings" for training evaluation. Read this blog posting to find out if you are guilty of following a routine that may be limiting your training effectiveness.
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Most training professionals realize the importance of reporting numeric data related to training events. But how about testimonials, stories and examples of how the training has helped participants to achieve success on the job?
This type of qualitative evidence is just as important as numeric data in helping stakeholders to see the complete story of value created by training and subsequent reinforcement.
When Jim Kirkpatrick was a training director at a bank in Indianapolis, one of the programs he conducted was a book club. It was open to all bank employees during lunch hour. It took no time away from work and had a modest budget to purchase copies of the books being discussed.
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Each guaranty agency participating in a program under this part, working with the institutions of higher education served by such guaranty agency, shall develop and make available high-quality educational programs and materials to provide training for students and families in budgeting and financial management, including debt management and other aspects of financial literacy, such as the cost of using high interest loans to pay for postsecondary education, particularly as budgeting and financial management relates to student loan programs authorized by this subchapter and part C of subchapter I of chapter 34 of title 42. Such programs and materials shall be in formats that are simple and understandable to students and families, and shall be provided before, during, and after the students' enrollment in an institution of higher education. The activities described in this section shall be considered default reduction activities for the purposes of section 1072 of this title.
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Lord have mercy on the teenager for sins real or imagined against the media. Nail Yakupov stands alone this morning against the knives of the keyboard and it could get ugly.
I don't know where this started–draft, Russian pre-Christmas tour–but the media has decided Nail Yakupov is not like the good Canadian kids who populate the Oilers future:
Cole's comments, along with tweets by Terry Jones ("Yakupov doesn't do interviews after another quiet game. Kid making people wonder on and off the ice") Jim Matheson ("It's time for Igor Larionov to tell his client Nail Yakupov that wearing the 'C' means you talk. Kid needs wake-up call") gives you a rough idea about how the media reacts to being stood up with a deadline to publish approaching.
Now, I don't know the rules and that's a fact. I don't know if the IIHF insists on the captain–or anyone–being available to the media after a game. I don't know if Yakupov was available to other media–perhaps he was busy on Russian television–and I don't know if other members of the Russian team were made available to the gathered English speaking media in Ufa.
As far as I know, Nail Yakupov remains the refreshing kid we saw at the draft, but you wouldn't know it from the words being written over the last few weeks. I think this is the reason we as fans have to endure miles and miles of canned answers from sports personalities: they've been taught to do it by the media.
The first time I saw something that related to Yakupov's spirit as being a negative was this article from Terry Jones, with the lead line "that was awesome, but don't do it again." I'm not quite sure why the brilliance of Hall, Ebs and the Nuge are to be celebrated but the Russian rocket's brilliance is beyond the pale, but believe there's some kind of bias at play here.
What can we do about it? Make signs to display at games, call in to talk shows, tweet to Nail directly. Jason Arnott was run out of this town for making the mistakes of youth once upon a time, and he's Canadian. God knows what will happen to the Russian teenager, but one hopes he doesn't change one damn bit. Arrogant? FABULOUS! Think you're better than everyone? BEAUTIFUL! I genuinely believe this is one area where the fans can make a difference. Make a sign, show up at TC and let 'em know you're there.


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