Daytona Times - October 01, 2015

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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Young Black males are pushed out, pushed away’ SEE PAGE 4

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Retired fire chief supports racial discrimination claim

‘Your leadership should represent the demographic of the city it serves, but when you have a 30-40 percent Black population and none in leadership, you end up with a Ferguson (Missouri).”

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Flames continue to spread following last week’s Daytona Times report that Fire Department Lieutenant Larry Stoney said he has filed an EEOC complaint against the city.

Last week, the Daytona Times reported Stoney’s claim that he was denied appointment as fire chief, and that a less qualified White male was appointed the job.

This week, the first Black fire chief of the Daytona Beach Fire Department (DBFD) came to Stoney’s aid.

Dwayne A. Murray

First in history

Former Daytona Beach Fire Chief

Dwayne A. Murray was ap-

pointed to the position in 2007.

Murray was the 16th fire chief in the city’s history and the first African-American to hold the post.

He came to Daytona Beach after serving as the fire chief of the Birmingham (Ala.) Fire Department, which boasted 700 firefighters in 31 stations at the time Murray was in charge there. (The Daytona Beach Fire Department currently has 106 employees and six stations.)

‘Lived through it’ Murray relocated his family from Birmingham to Daytona to continue his career as a 25-year industry veteran. In a 2007 interview with the Daytona Times, Murray said the majority of peo-

NAACP begins training for voter registration drives PENNY DICKERSON DAYTONA TIMES

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he Volusia County-Daytona Beach Branch of the NAACP and the Volusia County Department of Elections met at the Dickerson Center on Sept. 26 to prepare the branch to operate voter registration drives for the upcoming 2016 elections. Cynthia Slater, president of the local branch, was joined by approximately 25 branch members and community advocates.

Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall and her staff facilitated the informal training aimed at third-party registration organizations. The term “third-party” applies to any person, entity, or organization that solicits or collects voter registration applications.

McFall’s staff reviewed current laws, introduced new laws, and described new voting equipment. Pamphlets and information were also distributed.

New laws & equipment “What third-party groups can and can’t do became a big deal just before 2012 when the laws changed,” said McFall. “You have to be a registered thirdparty vendor with the (elections) division; the NAACP already has a good handle on things. There are about 20 different groups that are permitted to do it. It used to be anyone could, but now it’s very restrictive by state law,” she added.

State vendors provide election equipment and software. Volusia County has used Dominion equipment since 1994 and Please see NAACP, Page 2

Left to right: Edda Rosado, Cynthia Slater, Lisa Lewis and Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall review a list of purged voters.

ple in Daytona Beach welcomed him with open arms. But he also admitted the last vestiges of segregation in the South reside in the fire department.

“It was the same thing in Birmingham, but we lived through it,” he said in 2007. “There are people who have made some phone calls looking for stuff.

There seems to be a concern about me, which I simply don’t understand… My life is an open book. Still, before relocating here, the majority of folks were happy with (my) leadership. I believe the same thing will happen here.”

Within one year, he said City Manager Jim Chisolm asked him Please see CLAIM, Page 2

B-CU Legacy Awards Gala set for Oct. 21 PENNY DICKERSON DAYTONA TIMES

Bethune-Cookman University will present its Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Awards Gala on Oct. 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach.

Originated by B-CU President Edison O. Jackson, the gathering is now one of the university’s leading fundraisers. According to the school, the 2014 Legacy Gala raised $2.5 million, including a $1 million donation from the B-CU student body as a consequence of a referendum approved by the students to add a $30 endowment fee to their fees.

Here are this year’s honorees.

Descriptions are from a statement issued by B-CU. Jeff Feasel, Humanitarian Award – Feasel was named president & chief executive officer of Halifax Health in 2005 and previously filled critical roles, including chief operating officer, president/CEO of patient business and financial services, and vice president of Halifax Community Health. His community leadership includes the Civic League of Halifax Area, Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, Daytona Beach Community Foundation, Healthy Communities Board, Halifax Insurance Plan Board, and the Florida State University Community Advisory Board.

Tony Jenkins, Philanthropy Award – Jenkins is market president for the Florida Blue’s Central Florida region. His career includes serving as director of diversity for CSX Corporation and 20 years with the Walt Disney World Company in various management roles. His Orlando community service includes past chairmanship of United Arts of Central Florida, current board chairmanship of the Florida Institute for Community Studies, board membership of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, and membership in the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness. He is also on Please see AWARDS, Page 2

State to pay legal fees in mistaken paternity case FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

After wrongfully pursuing a paternity case against a man whose name was chosen in “some random fashion,’’ the Florida Department of Revenue is required to pay his attorney’s fees, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a circuit judge’s decision in the Miami-Dade County case and said Guillermo D. Lopez should be able to recoup attorney’s fees.

The department runs the state’s child-support system. It contacted Lopez in August 2011

and said he had been named by a woman as the father of her child.

Lopez said he didn’t know the woman and fought the department.

In June 2012, a man named Guillermo J. Lopez filed a separate case against the mother seeking to establish paternity.

The department halted the pa-

ternity case against Guillermo D. Lopez, who continued pursuing attorney’s fees. A magistrate ruled that Lopez was entitled to attorney’s fees, but a circuit judge overturned that ruling.

On Wednesday, the appeals court cited part of the magistrate’s ruling that found the department “had failed to conduct due diligence prior to serving Lopez with DOR’s petition, and further found that DOR had not

acted in good faith in continuing to prosecute its paternity action against Lopez.” The ruling also said the only evidence in the case indicates that Lopez’s name “was chosen from the phone book in some random fashion.”

Along with the $4,257 in attorney’s fees recommended by the magistrate, the appeals court said Lopez is entitled to fees for subsequent proceedings in the case.

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The Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Commission on Health and Wellness has planned its third annual health fair for Oct. 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the church, 580 George W. Engram Blvd, Daytona Beach. Admission is free.

The theme is: “Achieve Optimum Health Through Mind, Body, and Soul.”

Numerous vendors will be available to provide information on wellness care, screenings for diabetes and high blood pressure, nursing homes, hospice care, healthy foods and exercise. Kale Café also will give smoothie demonstrations.

New this year is One Blood Drive. People can donate blood and also receive a wellness check-up including iron count, cholesterol screening, and a voucher for a free movie ticket.

Also, there will be a free car wash for all attendees and giveaways.

Tony Jenkins

AWARDS from Page 1

Stetson University’s board of trustees.

Lucille O’Neal, Beacon of Light Award – After 30 years of raising two sons and two daughters, including NBA All-Star Shaquille O’Neal, she enrolled in the B-CU Adult Education program and earned a bachelor of science degree, followed by a Master of Arts in Organiza-

NAACP

Deltona seeking residents’ thoughts on strategic plan

Allen Chapel planning health, wellness fair

Jeff Feasel

OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 7, 2015

Lucille O’Neal

The City of Deltona is seeking the input of residents in defining strategic planning goals significant for our community. Residents are needed to explore needs and opportunities that will enhance Deltona and provide input to the Mayor and Commission and City staff as they develop a strategic plan for Deltona.

The city is working in conjunction with the Florida Institute of Government to provide two community workshops. The first workshop, which is for residents, will be from 9 a.m. to noon, Oct. 17, in the Commission Chambers at City Hall, 2345 Providence Blvd.

The second workshop is for the mayor and commissioner to review and discuss their goals for the city’s future. There will also be a brief time for public comment at this workshop as well. This second workshop will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Nov. 7, also in the Chambers at City Hall.

For more information, call the Planning & Development Services Office at 386-878-8600 or e-mail Director Chris Bowley at cbowley@ deltonafl.gov.

Rev. Dr. Gerald Lord

tional Management from the University of Phoenix. She shares her life story in her book, “Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go.” Rev. Dr. Gerald Lord, Lifetime Achievement Award – Lord recently retired as associate general secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church (UMC).

As CEO of the Higher Education division, he liasioned with 119 U.S. schools, colleges, and universities affili-

Gov. Rick Scott

ated with the UMC and more than 800 institutions worldwide. He was responsible for administration of the Black College Fund that assists the 11 United Methodist historically Black colleges and universities. Lord is a retired U.S. Army reserve colonel.

Gov. Rick Scott, Leadership Award – Rick Scott is Florida’s 45th governor.

The gala is open to the public and individual tickets are $125. Go to http://www. cookman.edu/gala for more information.

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is currently replacing antiquated equipment that is no longer manufactured. Their new supplier is ES&S which, according to company’s website, is the world’s largest elections-only company and has been used by U.S. municipalities and counties to help run elections for more than 30 years.

Critical 2016 election Since 1965, the Voting Rights Act has protected voters at the polls. Advocates want to ensure that all who are qualified register in time to exercise their voting rights.

“We need support from the entire Daytona Beach-Volusia County area. There will be a big change during the 2016 elections,” said Slater.

“Early voting will be extended to 15 days. We will continue with voter registration drives until the last day to register to vote in the 2016 elections, which are critical to the future of AfricanAmericans and other minorities. We must get out to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

Otherwise, the gains we have made will be lost,” she added.

National initiative September was also National Voter Registration Month and considered a time “to encourage voter participation and increase awareness of state requirements and deadlines for voting,” according to the National Association of Secretaries

CLAIM

‘Reflect the demographics’ Murray refers to the exodus of African-American leadership from the Daytona city government as a travesty. He says that he was recruited then forced out by Chisolm.

“As soon as Mayor Yvonne Scarlett-Golden died (in 2006), City Hall stopped reflecting the demographic of the city,” said Murray. “Your leadership should represent the demographic of the city it serves, but when you have a 30-40 percent Black population and none in leadership, you end up with a Ferguson (Missouri).”

Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach NAACP branch, concurs with Murray’s sentiments. She encourages city employees to utilize the resources at hand to file grievances.

“People feel hopeless when faced with employment issues,” said Slater.

“They need to realize that there is a process that is in place for them to file grievances when they believe that they have been wrongly terminated.”

Supports Stoney’s decision Murray stated that he agrees with Stoney’s deci-

Convenience matters According to the Florida Department of State’s Division of Elections, Daytona Beach residents are taking full advantage of those conveniences.

The agency’s monthly report ending August 2015 states that 1,674 Volusia County residents registered to vote.

Among them, 81 percent utilized the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to register while they were renewing, reinstating, or obtaining a driver’s license. The remaining 19 percent chose mail, public assistance and armed forces recruiting offices, and public libraries.

College campus drives Daytona Beach is home to five colleges and by law, the Volusia County Office of Elections is required to call each and offer to assist them. They are not considered thirdparty registrants.

“We help with B-CU (Bethune-Cookman University) because of the large number of students,” McFall explained.

“We try to team up on their larger drives and also do the B-CU Student

sive amounts of time and energy on ensuring an efficient working out of class structure, yet the department seems to operate under an umbrella of personal preference and not the umbrella of set guidelines that were constructed to be both functional and nondiscriminatory.

“The department has in place a process, along with testing procedures, to allow those persons who desire to matriculate to the next level of leadership the opportunity to chase those dreams, so why have recent decisions given the impression that the process can only be utilized at the expense of some and not within the confines of operational guidelines for all?”

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to resign.

“I knew that my time wouldn’t be long a few months after I got here,” said Murray. “The environment and professionals didn’t want to be better and I refused to march to the tune of the union. I came to work for the city of Daytona beach,” added Murray, who further claims he wasn’t given the support necessary to succeed.

Murray concurs with Stoney’s allegations that favoritism and discrimination infests the city’s top management and fire department ranks, which blocks fair promotions practices and creates a hostile work environment.

of State (NASS).

“Each September, we ask eligible citizens to help celebrate democracy and make voting part of our back-to-school and back-to-business routines,” said NASS President Tom Schedler.

“Thanks to state adoption of new and improved technologies, registering to vote has never been faster, easier or more convenient for people with busy lives.”

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Daytona’s first Black fire chief, now retired, is raising questions about what he sees as the elimination of Black administrative leadership in the city. sion to file an EEOC claim and that he advised him years ago that he should file a suit against the city.

“Larry (Stoney) did the right thing by filing. I’m not going to tell you how to pick a fire chief, but Larry was qualified,” said Murray.

“It’s my understanding (current Daytona Beach Fire Chief Dru) Driscoll didn’t have a degree.

Stoney does and was the public information officer, a face everybody sees.

I think he was qualified for the position, but don’t know all of the criteria that was used, but I don’t hear anybody questioning the appointment of Driscoll to fire chief,” Murray added.

Driscoll is a Daytona Beach native and a Seabreeze High School graduate. He holds an Associate of Arts degree in Fire Science. At the time he was appointed in March 2014, he was scheduled to graduate from Keiser University with a bachelor’s degree in public safety administration.

Murray earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Stillman College and an Associate of Arts degree in Applied Science/Fire Service before undergoing five years of extensive manage-

ment studies.

Wrong side

Focus on training

The city of Daytona Beach recognizes the union as the exclusive bargaining agent for all employees occupying the positions of fire lieutenant, fire mechanic, driver engineer, and firefighter. Excluded are the fire chief, deputy fire chiefs, and battalion fire chiefs.

Murray says he often found himself fighting the union instead of fires.

“I don’t want to classify it as right or wrong, but initially what I saw was a department that was run by the union,” stated Murray.

“I’ve never seen a fire department with union insignia painted on property.

The union even had an office with computers onsite and conducted business there.”

Murray says that he arrived in Daytona with a vision that focused on training, and a philosophy that you should never have to go outside of your department to hire a fire chief. A chief’s legacy should be that he trained people to take his place.

“I believe that if you’re going to be a professional, you have to do things a professional does, like continued education,” said Murray. “I wanted to send firemen to the International Fire Academy – which costs the city nothing – because you were reimbursed for travel and gained cutting edge information. But they wouldn’t leave Florida to learn.”

During his brief tenure, Murray said he was once scheduled to attend a leader-specific training at the International Fire Academy. One week prior, he received an email saying he and another AfricanAmerican city employee were both taken off the list.

Murray believes the reason was discord between him and International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Local 1162.

‘Umbrella of preference’ Stoney also questioned the union’s tactics and their relationship with the DBFD. In an open letter that precedes his EEOC grievance. Addressed to Chief Driscoll, Stoney closed with the following: “Lastly, this open letter is to seek resolution to administrative changes.

DBFD, along with the Local 1162, has spent exces-

Financial issues?

Murray points to continuing problems with the firefighters’ union. However, in the January 8, 2008 issue of the Daytona Times, he downplayed the union as the reason for his departure.

“The papers say that I did not get along with the union and that is not true. I had no animosity or ill will against anybody. I had an open door policy. I had no difficulties with dealing with union issues,” Murray told the Daytona Times.

“Our relationship was professional. Chief Murray was a real nice guy. He listened to our issues and gave us options on dealing with them. I was not an open critic of him as other publications said. We were not nasty to each other,” then-union president Mike Tyrell said.

Tyrell also noted that Murray was in a tough situation.

‘Open budget’ “He walked in (Daytona Beach) Police Chief (Michael) Chitwood’s shadow…Chitwood could say what he wanted. He has an open budget. He can spend with an open cap. Murray did not have that.”

Back in 2008, Murray also denied any conflict between himself and other city officials.

“The papers say that I did not get along with the

Government Association elections. We set up a precinct and everything.”

Grassroots and local community efforts like those spearheaded by Slater and the NAACP are crucial to registering eligible voters from the elderly to college students.

“B-CU will be holding a massive voter registration drive on October 14, “said Slater. “Hopefully, we will also be able to go into all of the churches to do voter registrations, and of course there will be other events in the city where we will be able to do voter registration drives.”

Poll workers needed Applications for poll workers are also being accepted. To be eligible, you must be at least 18 years old, registered to vote in Volusia County, be able to read and write English, and deal with the public in a courteous and professional manner.

Qualified applicants must attend mandatory training sessions before each election and be available to work from 6 a.m. until after the polls close at 7 p.m. (most work is completed by 8:30 p.m.).

Poll workers serve at the will of the supervisor of elections and become part of a pool of prospective workers. Actual hours worked, duties, positions, training and rates of pay will be discussed during a mandatory orientation session that every applicant must attend. There is no compensation offered for orientation.

union and that is not true. I had no animosity or ill will against anybody. I had an open door policy. I had no difficulties with dealing with union issues,” Murray told the Daytona Times then.

“When you have goals and objectives that you want to accomplish, you must have the resources and support. It was obvious that the political establishment was not going to change. I felt that I could not do my job as best as I could.”

Why speak out now?

Murray said in 2008, he was tired.

Tired of fighting “I’m from Birmingham and have been fighting all my life. I came here (to Daytona Beach) okay, and I am still okay financially, mentally, and socially.

I thought it would be nice to continue service in the community in which I live.

“I refuse to fight a battle where everyone in the community thinks it’s okay and fine. If they are satisfied, I can’t fight a battle.

I could have kept my job, but it would have been so much turmoil, it wouldn’t have been worth it.

“I been fighting all my life and I’m tired of fighting. Particularly when it’s not a problem to anyone else. For all the people who have left city government, no one has said nothing.”

No comment Government Relations Administrator Hardy Smith responded via email on behalf of the city to a request for comment on this story.

“Thank you for your inquiry. The City will not comment on a situation that involves a possible EEOC complaint,” he wrote.

The Daytona Times reached out to Mayor Derrick Henry, Commissioners Patrick Henry and Paula Reed and an IAAF representative for comment.

None returned phone calls as of the newspaper’s press time late Wednesday night.

Chisholm was attending an out-of-state convention and was unavailable to personally respond.

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OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 7, 2015 COMMUNITY DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006

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‘Motown & Mo’ to dazzle Palm Coast “Motown & Mo’” will deserve big “props” following performances of talented voices and style during its 18th season, Oct. 16, 7 p.m., and Oct. 17, 5 p.m.

Cast members are working at Palm Coast Community Center for celebrity appearances, mimicking the superstars of Motown and beyond, in addition to engaging theatrics and setting lip sync to music. They’ve parlayed the success of being in production onto the stage of Flagler Auditorium, 5500 East Highway 100, Palm Coast.

“This year’s show is dedicated to our late, beloved emcee, Mr. Willard Anderson,” said Director James Sims. “We will miss his tasteful humor and on-time comments, which put downtown Palm Coast on the entertainment map.

“The show will turn back time with famous artists,” said Sims.

“The list includes Patti LaBelle, The Stylistics, The Manhattans, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Al Green, and Whitney Houston.”

Sims scores phenomenal hits showcasing “Motown & Mo.’” He is president of City Lites, Inc. for stage productions to be performed as fundraisers for Flagler County students, pursuing their education in the performing arts.

City Lites, Inc. is a registered 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. Two graduating students will be awarded scholarships at the beginning of the show on Saturday, Oct. 17.

A playbill has supported the marketing efforts. To place an ad in the show’s playbill, call 386447-8461.

Recorded voices, paralleling the Motown sounds of star impersonators – choreographed, along with glittering make-up and costume design – will wow the audience and, this year, will be emceed by former California runway model Cynthia Black.

Bring friends to become part of the captivated audiences, which keep on growing, and where new faces appear among the veteran performers. It’s a wide range of Rock ‘n’ Roll, R & B, pop, traditional jazz, and other music genres.

The ticket price is $20, and ticket purchase must be made

James Sims is featured with his lovely wife Ruby for a Motown performance of Ashford & Simpson. He is president of City Lites, Inc. and director of “Motown & Mo.’”

PALM COAST COMMUNITY NEWS JEROLINE D. MCCARTHY

at the box office. The group rate, for a 10-person minimum, is $17.

For tickets, call the box office at 386-437-7547 or toll free, 1-866352-4537.

••• An Awards Luncheon will

swagger entertainment at the African American Cultural Society (AACS) on Oct. 10, 1 to 4 p.m. Edward Tucker Caterers Unlimited will provide a delicious entree.

The society, located at 4422 U. S. 1 North, Palm Coast, can be reached for tickets at 386-4477030. The ticket price is $25 per person. Tickets can also be obtained by calling Stephanie Robinson at 386-439-7174, or Loretta Bryant at 386-437-0912.

This year’s Meritorious Awards will go to Richard Barnes, June Bethel, Shirley Jacob and Edmund G. Pinto, Jr. Erma S. Brooks,

PHOTOS BY JEROLINE D. MCCARTHY/DAYTONA TIMES

Cynthia Black, a former California runway model, will emcee the upcoming “Motown & Mo’” show. along with yours truly, will be recipients of the Long-Term Service Awards. AACS President Stephanie Ecklin has instituted a Presidential Recognition Award for Barbara Solomon, the new award’s first recipient.

••• The Women’s Missionary Society of First Church – where the Rev. Gillard S. Glover serves as pastor – has scheduled the monthly food giveaway for Oct. 10, 1-3 p.m., at 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast. For further information, call 386-446-5759.

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Florida lawmakers continue to get wealthier

BY JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

Being in the state’s “parttime” Legislature might tax members’ time, but for most it hasn’t caused financial heartaches.

With all 160 annual financial-disclosure reports from House and Senate members now available – the reports were due July 1, the last outstanding report was posted online Friday – the average net worth of sitting senators stands at $3.8 million, while House members on average are worth $1.43 million.

For state lawmakers who are paid roughly $30,000 a year plus expenses, the net-worth averages, according to self-reported numbers, grew by $212,650 in the Senate from 2013 to 2014 and by $56,260 in the House during the same period. The newly filed reports typically reflect the finances of lawmakers as of Dec. 31.

Over the past four years, the averages are up nearly $750,000 in the Senate and just over $366,000 in the House, which has had greater turnover.

GOP pols richer Republicans, who comprise the majority in both chambers, are doing better financially on average than their Democratic counterparts. Senate Republicans are worth $4.5 million on average, compared to $2.6 million for Democratic members. House Republicans average $1.7 million, while House Democrats average $837,454.

Individual net worths range in the Senate from $26.99 million for Sen. Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who co-founded VITAS Healthcare Corp, to $14,042 for Sen. Audrey

Former Florida Senate President Don Gaetz is the richest legislator in Florida.

Gibson, D-Jacksonville.

Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, holds the distinction of being at the median for net worth among senators at $828,099.

Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, has reported the largest individual growth of net worth over the past four years. Simpson, whose business interests include Simpson Environmental Services, Inc., reported a net worth of $12.3 million in 2011. For 2014, Simpson reported his net worth stood at $21.2 million.

In the House, the highs and lows range from the $17.36 million reported

by Miami Republican Michael Bileca to a negative $354,165 posted by Rep. Victor Torres, D-Orlando.

Torres, a retired New York City Transit Police detective who was $28,017 in the red in 2013 added a

$278,440 residential mortgage to his portfolio in 2014.

Bileca, a co-founder of the Towncare Dental Partnership firm located throughout Central and South Florida, has also reported one of the largest hikes in net worth over the past four years among House members.

Bileca reported a net worth of $3.855 million in 2011. His current totals include $2.56 million in 2014 income from ATG Development, a Miami limited liability firm – one of the companies for which he has been listed as a registered agent.

The $480,000 net worth reported by freshman Rep. Mike Miller, R-Winter Park, represents the median of the House.

Some decreases Not everyone has seen their net worths grow in re-

cent years.

Over the past four years, five senators have reported decreases in their net worth – Republicans Tom Lee and Denise Grimsley and Democrats Gibson, Gwen Margolis and Jeremy Ring.

Ring, former executive at Yahoo worth $13.7 million, had the largest drop over the past four years, $1.3 million.

In the House, 20 members – nine Democrats and 11 Republicans – have reported losses of net worth over the past four years.

The largest drop in the House was reported by Ocala Republican Dennis Baxley, who has seen his net worth diminish nearly $2 million, to $3.58 million, over the four-year period.

For a number of those who have reported drops in net worth, the primary cause involved taking out loans to buy real estate.

As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

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Celebrations Birthday wishes to: Rose Williams, Willie T. Mitchell, Oct. 1; Micah Booker, Oct. 2; George Weaver, Bloneva Scott, Oct. 3; Vivian Richardson, Dr. Herman Price, Oct. 5; James Sims, Violet Gordon, Oct. 7. Happy anniversary to Lawrence Smith and Dr. Pamela Jackson-Smith, Oct. 6.

FLORIDA BRIEFS

Guns, medical marijuana at issue in House As lawmakers continue preparing for the 2016 legislative session, House panels next week will take up a bill that would allow people to openly carry firearms and will get an update about a medical-marijuana law passed last year.

The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday will consider a measure (HB 163), filed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, that would allow people with concealed-weapons licenses to openly carry firearms. The bill also calls for other changes in gun-related laws, including giving direction for judges to use “strict scrutiny” when reviewing laws dealing with the right to bear arms or self-defense.

“The right to bear arms is a fundamental and individual right that exists in any place that a person has the right to be, subject only to exceptionally and narrowly tailored restrictions that employ the least possible restriction on the right in order to achieve a compelling government interest,’’ the bill says.

Meanwhile Tuesday, the House Health Quality Subcommittee will receive an update about how the state is carrying out a 2014 law that allows the sale and use of non-euphoric types of medical marijuana. Backers of the law said it could help patients such as children with severe forms of epilepsy, but the cannabis remains unavailable, at least in part because of delays stemming from legal disputes.

Scott, Cabinet back change after marriage ruling Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet gave approval Tuesday to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to update transfers of titles on cars and boats to reflect the legalization of same-sex marriage.

The department intends to change a single check-off box on title-transfer forms. The change involves where people can declare why they shouldn’t be subject to sales and use taxes when transferring the ownership of motor vehicles, mobile homes or vessels. The phrase “a married couple” will replace “husband and wife.”

The proposal was one of two department rule changes approved during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. Under the other change, aspiring motorists who fail driving tests may be able to retake the tests the same day. The change is intended to clarify a state law by removing language that prohibits people from taking more than one driving test on any day unless they can get the approval of officials from county driver-license or taxcollector offices.

The change allows county offices to administer second or subsequent tests the same day to people who fail the tests if time is available. The state motor-vehicle agency noted that the county offices operate under an appointment system and in most cases can handle additional testing during regular hours.

– From The News Service of Florida

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OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 7, 2015

Young Black males are pushed out, pushed away Damien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education was always stressed. No one, including Damien, ever thought he wouldn’t finish high school.

When his father, grandfather and aunt all died within a short time of one another as he was starting high school, it shook him off his solid foundation. But through his terrible grief he kept going. Then he hit a roadblock: he failed the math section of the proficiency test required for graduation.

Out of school “I took the math portion of the test numerous times, went to summer school, attended tutoring in school, attended tutoring at another high school, and even had a teacher from my mother’s school come to the house and tutor me – and still I could not pass the test…At the end of my senior year I found myself pushed out of school and unable to graduate because I could not pass one portion of a standardized test.”

Damien’s “offense” was having spent 12 years in public school classrooms that left him unable to graduate. Years later Damien wrote about how his school pushout derailed – and nearly destroyed – the course of his life. “[W]hat often is not discussed

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when you repeatedly fail like I did are the deep feelings which I felt of shame, embarrassment, disappointment and intellectual inadequacy…based on a test that kept reminding me that maybe I was not good enough. “…So with no high school diploma I spent the next seven years working multiple jobs…United Parcel Service, Gibraltar Strip Steel, Labor Ready, DialAmerica, construction, telemarketing, and the list goes on. Throughout the course of those seven years I was arrested and involved in some illegal activities and found myself constantly looking for creative ways to bring in revenue.”

Turned things around Damien eventually turned his life around, got his GED, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors from American Baptist College. That’s where he met one of his mentors who immediately saw his brilliance and steadfastly encouraged him, Rev. Janet Wolf.

After graduating from American Baptist College – which John

Collecting $200 million from the debt collectors At one time or another, many consumers have fallen behind on paying their bills. For the working poor, unemployed and underemployed, the struggle to get out of debt can be a daily challenge.

At the same time, there are businesses that exploit others’ financial woes, reaping high profits on debt purchased for just a few cents on the dollar.

In some scenarios, debt buyers become nagging collectors who hound consumers at all hours of the day and night. The irony is that the harassment is not always warranted or even accurate.

Deliberate actions Debt buyers have a documented history of suing the wrong person for the wrong amount. In the worst scenarios, some consumers first learn of alleged debts after a court judgment has been entered against them.

These are only a few of the con-

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cerns that recently led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to take enforcement actions against the nation’s two top debt collectors. CFPB’s actions also suggest that financial abuses may be inherent in debt buyers’ business models.

Together, the San Diego-based Encore Capital Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries comprise the nation’s largest debt buyer and collector.

The Norfolk-based Portfolio Recovery Associates, the second largest debt operation, will halt collections totaling $128 million. The firms will also pay another $61 million in consumer refunds and an additional $18 million in penalties.

Yes, Black homeownership does matter What is important to 45 million Black Americans today should be important to all Americans.

Yet, as the economy in the United States continues to gradually recover from very a difficult and complex set of economic woes, the recovery of economic wellbeing of Black America continues to lag behind.

One critical measurement of economic viability and stability is the status of homeownership.

Sustainable wealth in the U.S. is often measured in part by homeownership.

Over the past five years, I have been engaging in a dialogue with the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) about homeownership in Black America. NAREB, founded in 1947, is our nation’s oldest and largest minority real estate association.

It was established precisely to secure the right to equal housing opportunities regardless of race,

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creed or color.

Discrimination exists We all are aware, however, that there still remains a present-day reality of systematic racial discrimination in America when it comes to equal and fair housing issues.

There is more need for a professional trade organization such as NAREB today than in the 1940s. Black wealth in the U.S. in losing ground at a time when there should be advances and increases in Black American homeownership.

According to Nielsen’s latest research on consumerism with-

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Lewis, Bernard Lafayette and Jim Bevel attended and became key leaders in the Nashville and national civil rights movements – Damien earned a Master’s in Divinity degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Today, he is a minister, a school counselor, and an organizer with the Children’s Defense Fund Nashville Nonviolent Organizing Team advocating for and mentoring children and youths – mostly Black boys – and others pushed out of school and put at risk of the prison pipeline who might not be as lucky and as able to get their lives back on track as he was.

Another life story Eric Brown is one of Damien’s colleagues who wrote about his experience being pushed out and pushed away by adults.

Eric, the son of a third-generation pastor, was rooted in the church. But as a teenager he started to realize adults in the church community were sometimes among the first to judge the youths around them: “I noticed my frustration with identity through my experiences of how church folk were quick to label students and young adults as criminals based on music, clothing, hair styles, and vernacular. I felt many church folks never took the chance to listen to the concerns of students, but rather

“Encore and Portfolio Recovery Associates threatened and deceived consumers to collect on debts they should have known were inaccurate or had other problems,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. “Now, the two biggest debt buyers in the market must refund millions and overhaul their practices. We will continue to take action to protect consumers from illegal and obnoxious debt collection practices.”

List of offenses The litany of CFPB’s charged offenses read like a primer of what not to do in consumer lending.

Here are just a few of the illegal and deceptive actions the firms were charged with: • Illegally attempting to collect debt they knew, or should have known, may have been inaccurate or unenforceable; • Collecting debts through lawsuits and threats of legal action in unlawful ways; • Falsely telling consumers the burden of proof was on them to disprove the debt; • Suing or threatening to sue consumers past the statute of limi-

in Black America, we spend in excess of $1.2 trillion annually. With that kind of spending power, why should there be a decline in Black American homeownership?

The issue is not about having the money to purchase a home.

The real issue here is a persistent and deliberate pattern of racial discrimination in the housing marketplace. Since the enactment of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, it has been illegal to discriminate in the U.S. housing market on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or family status.

The National Fair Housing Alliance recently filed a federal complaint against one of the leading national real estate companies, RE/MAX Alliance/Lee Garland and Rita Jensen Team, located in Jackson, Miss. After months of investigations, the National Fair Housing Alliance documented racial discrimination against Black Americans seeking homeownership.

Not limited But that kind of racism was not

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preached their notions of a child’s image as evil to children they said they love . . . [M]any of my friends began to go down a road of crime based on fulfilling a destiny we felt older adults already forced on us.”

Eric was able to envision and forge a different identity for himself after finding the right adults willing to serve as role models and mentors instead of prejudging him.

Now a minister He also graduated with honors from American Baptist College, where he was mentored by Rev. Wolf, and received two master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University – a Master’s of Theological

actions, state attorneys general in Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas and West Virginia have all taken state actions against debt buyers and their collection practices.

In New York alone, more than 7,500 court judgments valued at more than $34 million have been vacated between 2014 and 2015.

Commenting on the New York actions, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, “My office will continue to hold debt collectors and lenders accountable so that New Yorkers can keep more of their hard-earned money where it belongs – in their pockets.

“It is absolutely urgent that the CFPB propose new rules that will stop all debt collectors from engaging in abusive behavior, prevent them from collecting debts based on inaccurate information and punish them when they do lie to courts and consumers.”

limited to the Deep South. The National Fair Housing Alliance also found racial discrimination prevented Black American homeownership in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas and in Illinois. It is a national problem that requires a national solution.

According to Princeton University scholars Douglas Massey and Jonathan Tannen, racial discrimination in housing leads to the perpetuation of “hypersegregation” that sustains “high levels of social isolation from mainstream society, but also high concentration of poverty and disadvantage.”

An effective strategy, therefore, to overcome poverty in Black America is to increase homeownership and to transform and to prevent racial hypersegregation.

In speaking to NAREB’s President Ron Cooper about a “solution” to help Black America to regain and to retain its wealth, it was important to know that NAREB announced at this year’s Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference that it is committed to a national goal of “two million new Black American homeownerships over the

next five years.” Attaining this goal would go a long way toward increasing Black wealth and helping to overcome poverty in our communities.

Charlene Crowell is the Communications Manager for State Policy & Outreach with the Center for Responsible Lending.

State actions Contact her at Charlene.crowBeyond CFPB’s enforcement ell@responsiblelending.org.

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tations; and • Disregarding or failing to adequately investigate consumers’ disputes.

“The Portfolio Recovery Associates and Encore Capital Group consent orders underscore the questionable tactics used by even the largest debt buyers attempting to collect old debts – deception, intimidation, and the mass-production of lawsuits against the wrong people for the wrong amount of money,” said Lisa Stifler, a policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). “Consumers deserve to be protected from wrongful collection and legal action.”

Further, abusive debt collection is annually among the top complaints to the Federal Trade Commission and the CFPB. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, CRL is working with lawmakers and regulators at both the state and federal levels to ensure that consumers are effectively protected from unscrupulous and predatory businesses.

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From South Africa to ‘The Daily Show’ How Trevor Noah began his journey as host of popular late-night program

his father. (That is, until his father moved away, first to Cape Town, then to Switzerland; they had little contact for many years.)

Noah says the experience of living between, if never entirely within, two wildly different worlds turned him into a “cultural chameleon” and an expert mimic — skills he wields impressively onstage, where he slides between various American, English, Australian and South African accents with ostentatious ease.

“You find that if you can blend in,” says Noah, who also speaks a half-dozen or so languages, “people spend less time asking you why you aren’t one of them.”

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NEW YORK — There wasn’t much in Trevor Noah’s childhood in Johannesburg to suggest that he would one day host America’s preeminent satirical program, starting with apartheid-era South Africa having virtually no tradition of professional comedy — nor, for that matter, free speech.

Then there was Noah’s strictly limited pop-culture diet, which consisted of reruns of “Murder, She Wrote” and “Knight Rider” he watched with his mother.

Years later, when a friend urged him to watch Eddie Murphy’s “Raw,” Noah was baffled: The guy from “The Nutty Professor” did stand-up?

By his own account, Noah was a “nerdy little child” who spent most of his time indoors reading voraciously — everything from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” to electronics manuals.

“That was my world,” says the 31-year-old late one evening in his sparsely decorated office. “I just consumed — that’s all I’ve ever been, a consumer of information.”

It’s a quality that will serve him well at “The Daily Show,” where Noah took over for Jon Stewart on Monday night.

Little U.S. recognition The comedian’s rise from the township to the pinnacle of American comedy is one of the more unexpected developments in an era of tremendous upheaval for late-night television. Before he was named Stewart’s successor in March, Noah had made only a handful of appearances as a contributor on “The Daily Show” and was little known in the United States.

In contrast, the man he replaced is a widely revered comedian who over the course of 16 years on the job transformed “The Daily Show” into essential election-year viewing and the Emmy-winning jewel in Comedy Central’s crown.

Noah may not yet have the recognition of a Chris Rock or an Amy Schumer — names who were floated as possible successors to Stewart — but there is little doubt that he will bring a unique perspective on race, politics and cultural identity to “The Daily Show” at a time when such issues dominate the news.

Outsider and insider Born to a Black mother and White father whose relationship was illegal under apartheid, Noah has mined his tumultuous upbringing for laughs in a stand-up act that blends comedy with trag-

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Trevor Noah began hosing “The Daily Show’’ on Monday. edy. “I was born a crime,” he has said.

Since he first began performing in his early 20s, Noah has gained an international reputation for his irreverent take on charged topics such as Western perceptions of Africa, his country’s scandal-prone politicians and, especially, race. And though Noah is firmly in the millennial generation coveted by television executives, he has a hard-earned wisdom and maturity that transcends his young age.

“I was born in the middle. I’ve always lived in the middle. I’ve been an outsider and an insider,” he says. “I have the ability to see both sides, and then I try to find the truth.”

No heir apparent In February, Stewart announced he would be stepping down from “The Daily Show,” stunning the loyal fans who had hoped he’d continue to be their voice of reason through the 2016 election and rattling executives at Comedy Central.

Without any obvious subs on the bench, the network chose to look at Stewart’s departure “as an opportunity to bring in someone fresh and different,” said Kent Alterman, president of content development and original program-

ming. “We would be setting ourselves up for failure if we thought, ‘Oh, let’s find a young version of Jon Stewart.’ It doesn’t exist.”

By this point, Noah’s profile in the U.S. was already on the rise.

He’d toured in 40 states, filmed a stand-up special called “Trevor Noah: African American,” and made Jay Leno howl on “The Tonight Show” — the first South African comedian to do so.

The right choice In December, he joined “The Daily Show” as a contributor. His first bit, called “Spot the Africa,” brilliantly flipped Western stereotypes of a continent “full of AIDS huts and starving children” to comment on the contentious state of race relations in the U.S. “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he joked. “It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days back home.”

Though the network put out feelers to other potential hosts, the network’s president, Michele Ganeless, said Noah was “at the top of the list from the beginning.”

His multicultural background — a rarity in what remains the overwhelmingly White, male world of late night — was a bonus, not a prerequisite, Ganeless

noted. “We talked to White men and we talked to Black men, and we talked to White women and Black women. We found the right person.”

Noah knew he was up for the job but also heard the other “amazing names” being considered and knew not to get his heart set on anything. “The longer I stayed in the running, the happier I got,” said the comedian, who learned he’d be the new host of “The Daily Show” while on tour in Dubai. “I got the news and then my world got turned upside down.”

Life in two worlds Noah’s childhood was divided between his mother’s home in Soweto and his father’s residence in the Hillbrow neighborhood, then entirely White. His parents, who met as part of an underground, desegregated social scene in Johannesburg, never married; it was against the law.

His Swiss father worked as a chef and managed a grocery store, and his mother was a secretary.

The comedian developed strategies for dealing with the suspicion aroused by his skin color. He pretended his mother was the maid, played along when people assumed he was albino and walked across the street from

Zoe Saldana to create digital content for mom network

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Actress Zoe Saldana is teaming up with new millennial mom-geared network Awestruck to create digital content.

Awestruck, a lifestyle network created by teen YouTube network Awesomneness TV, is scheduled to debut later this fall on YouTube, Facebook video and Verizon’s upcoming Go90 video service.

AwesomenessTV, which is owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst Corporation, has grown into one of the Web’s biggest multichannel networks for emerging online talent.

The network, which has more than 7.5 billion total views and 112 million subscribers, has served as an important launching pad for YouTube stars.

Comedy and drama The company’s new network will feature femalecentric scripted and unscripted programming — including comedy series, drama series, docu-reality series and talk shows.

It will also showcase both digital stars and celebrities.

Saldana, who is a mom, and her production com-

There was no money for college, and in his late teens and early 20s Noah began to gravitate toward entertainment — doing a bit of acting and working as a radio DJ. He stumbled into comedy, quite literally, about 10 years ago, when he was thrust onstage during a raucous visit to a comedy night at a Johannesburg bar.

Within a few years, he’d risen to the top of South Africa’s small comedy scene, hosting his own talk show and regularly selling out the country’s largest theaters.

The documentary “You Laugh But It’s True” chronicles Noah’s meteoric ascent, and the resentment it created among some of his peers. In one scene, an older White comedian calls Trevor “arrogant,” and it’s hard not to cringe.

“There was a general resentment of comedians of color rising very rapidly,” Noah says, “as there was a resentment of people of color rising rapidly in any sphere in South Africa.”

More dire than racism was the violence that touched Noah’s life in 2009, when his mother was shot in the head by his former stepfather. She survived, as did her sense of humor, says Noah.

“Comedy gives you the power to not take things seriously. When you laugh at somebody, when you laugh at something, all of a sudden, it seems surmountable.”

Plan to be self-reliant As for contact between the hosts, Noah says, “I’m conscious of using my ‘call a friend’ very sparingly.”

By way of explanation, he invokes another metaphor: As a child, Noah would ask his mother for help locating misplaced belongings and she would gently steer him in a more self-reliant direction.

“She would always say, ‘If you look like you know I’m going to come and look for you, you’ll never find it. Look like I’m never coming, and then you will find what you need.’ That’s how I see it with Jon Stewart. I go look for the answer as if Jon Stewart doesn’t exist.”

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Zoe Saldana announces nominations for the Golden Globe Awards on Dec. 12, 2013, in Los Angeles. Saldana and her production company Cinestar, which she co-founded with sisters Mariel and Cisely Saldana, will partner with Awestruck on both unscripted and scripted content. pany Cinestar, which she co-founded with sisters Mariel and Cisely Saldana, will partner with Awestruck on both unscripted and scripted content. Saldana will executive-produce two series and create a YouTube channel for the Awestruck platform with her sisters.

“Zoe epitomizes the talent we are seeking for Awe-

struck,” Sarah Penna, head of Awestruck, said in a statement. “She marries a strong creative vision and an existing fan base with the experience of being a new mom.”

Saldana echoed the enthusiasm for the collaboration.

“With modern moms on-the-go and online, the opportunity to create con-

tent specifically for them is exciting,” Saldana said in a statement. “The team behind Awestruck has already proven their expertise in reaching young audiences with AwesomenessTV, and we are thrilled to partner with them to collaborate on this new, promising venture.”

Oprah Winfrey is set to recur on her network’s forthcoming drama “Greenleaf.’’

The series follows the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful.

Emmy winner Keith David will play Bishop James Greenleaf, the charming but manipulative leader of Greenleaf World Ministries. Emmy winner Lynn Whitfield will play Bishop’s wife, Lady Mae Greenleaf, a money-loving woman who will do anything to protect her power and her position as the first lady. Merle Dandridge will portray their estranged daughter, Grace Greenleaf, a disillusioned former preacher who Oprah returns home after fleeing her conten- Winfrey tious family two decades previously.

Winfrey, who is also exec producing the series, will portray Mavis McCready, the sister of Lady Mae Greenleaf and a close confidante of Grace Greenleaf’s.

2016 premiere The cast also includes Desiree Ross as Grace’s teenage daughter, Sophia; Lamman Rucker (“Meet the Browns”), Kim Hawthorne (“Rake”), Deborah Joy Winans (“Whitney”) and Tye White (“American Crime Story”).

Winfrey most recently appeared in Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” and is also set to recur in DuVernay’s upcoming OWN drama “Queen Sugar.” Winfrey’s past credits include The Butler, Beloved and The Color Purple, for which she earned an Oscar nomination.

Greenleaf, from Lionsgate TV and “Lost” and “Six Feet Under” alum Craig Wright, will premiere in 2016 on OWN.

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CROSS COUNTRY – Daniel Kiptoo and Xavier Walton of the Bethune-Cookman Men’s Cross Country team placed first and second last week at the FLrunners.com College Invitational in Titusville.

According to bcuathletics.com, Kiptoo, a freshman from Eldoret, Kenya, and Walton, a sophomore returning to run in his hometown, clocked 5,000 meter times of 16:03.1 and 16.25.8 for the Wildcats. Kiptoo previously finished second in the first two meets of the season and finally came out with a first-place finish.

Walton went into the event excited about running in his hometown of Titusville, and was motivated by fans in the crowd as he ran in front of former teammates, his high school coach, and family members who cheered him on to his second-place finish.

Walton admitted, “I know from practices (that) Daniel’s always

ahead of me, so I just try to keep him in sight…and try to kick at the end, but the kick just wasn’t there. I probably burned out a little after the two mile (mark), but I just kept pushing.”

Overall, the Wildcats finished third in the men’s six-team field.

Their cross county rival Stetson University won the event with 39 points, followed by Ave Maria University.

FOOTBALL – The Wildcats won their third consecutive game in a 42-12 dismantling of Savannah State at Municipal Stadium last week. In a performance earning him Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week honors, redshirt senior quarterback Quentin Williams completed 9 of 18 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns.

Williams also ran nine times for 100 yards and according to meacsports.com, he became

the first B-CU quarterback to amass 200 passing and 100 rushing yards since 2004, when Jimmie Russell (2004-07) did it in the Florida Classic victory over rival Florida A &M University.

Jonathan Cagle, a junior punter from Pensacola, collected his first MEAC Special Teams Player of the Week award. He averaged a season-best 50.7 yards per punt, punting three times for 152 yards.

He also booted a season-long 64-yarder and landed three of his punts inside the 20-yard line.

An 11-yard rushing touchdown by graduate Anthony Jordan in the second quarter would mark the 30th of his career, moving him past Jimmie Russell for fifth on the Wildcats’ all-time list.

The Wildcats’ offense was able to pile up 592 yards, while the defense denied an offensive touchdown for the second straight week. The Tigers’ only touchdown occurred on an interception return by Leonardo Myers who picked off a fourth-quarter pass and returned it for the score.

Dolphins should fire Philbin sooner rather than later

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Take heart, Dolphins fans. NASA announced Monday the discovery of water on Mars, raising hope there might be life beyond Earth. If scientists can discover signs of life on the red planet, surely they can find one on Miami’s sideline. (Rim shot!)

I figure a little humor might make it easier for Dolphins’ faithful to cope.

Their season is over before October and the franchise faces three unsavory options.

Fire coach Joe Philbin this week. Drag this out until the end of the season.

Or, go to London for this weekend’s game and hope the entire coaching staff requests political asylum.

Let him go The best move is to let

COMMENTARY Joe go. That would essentially admit the grandiose plans for the Miami’s 50th season have already collapsed. The truth hurts.

“If I had a magic potion I would have brought it out earlier,” Philbin said.

That’s why calls to fire him aren’t an overreaction to Sunday’s 41-14 meltdown to Buffalo. All that did was crystallize the obvious.

Philbin’s records are 7-9, 8-8 and 8-8. Team owner Stephen Ross said before the season this was Miami’s most talented team.

He expected more than the usual mediocrity. Instead, the lifeless Dolphins are a Jarvis Landry punt return away from 0-3.

Finding eight wins would be more astounding than finding water on the

sun. Even if Philbin managed that, does anyone think he’s the long-term answer? Let’s see a show of hands … Anyone?

Start with ownership Firing Philbin would just be a stopgap, of course. To really cure what ails the Fish, you’d have to start with Ross. Actually, you’d have start with whoever decided to build Joe Robbie Stadium on an ancient Indian burial ground.

The Dolphins haven’t made it beyond the first round of the playoffs since abandoning the Orange Bowl in 1987. They haven’t won a single playoff game in 15 years. They have been cursed with a conga line of sideline misfires: Dave Wannstedt, Jim Bates, Nick Saban, Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano, Todd Bowles (interim) and now Philbin.

The defense was led by junior Jason Smith, Jr. with seven tackles (two for a loss) and a sack. The defense also produced a fumble recovery from freshman defensive lineman Jamal Thomas along with an interception from senior defensive back Jocelyn Borgella, Jr. The Wildcats’ victory was Savannah State’s 24th consecutive regular season loss and marked B-CU’s 16th consecutive victory over them, dating back to 1992.

The Wildcats will travel to O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium in Durham, N.C. to face North Carolina Central University on Saturday at 4 p.m. The battle of two of last year’s MEAC co-champions will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU. TENNIS – Bethune-Cookman wrapped up the second weekend of its 2015 fall schedule at the Bedford Cup hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University at its tennis complex in Fort Myers.

The event took place from

Ross has forced coaches on general managers, and vice versa. All of which is to say the current state of affairs isn’t all the latest fall guy’s doing. But the only thing worse than firing Philbin now would be keeping him around.

I’d say he’s lost the locker room, but that would assume he had it in the first place. The whole Richie Incognito affair showed how unplugged Philbin was.

Wife goes off The famed bully was back Sunday. Rex Ryan, ever the devil, made Incognito one of the Bills’ captains. That was almost as embarrassing to the Dolphins as Miko Grimes going Incognito on half the Miami police force.

In one of the weirder scenes in NFL history, the wife Joe of cornerPhilbin back Brent Grimes was wrestled to the ground kicking and

Sept. 25-27 and saw Pablo Lopez advance to the second round before getting knocked out by UCF’s Nico De Fraia 6-0, 6-3.

Wildcat tennis returns to action next month when they host the 2nd Annual Juan Varon Wildcat Invitational at the USTA Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach.

VOLLEYBALL – BethuneCookman volleyball made it three straight victories last week after defeating Savannah State 3-0 (25-14, 25-14, 25-13) and MEAC foe South Carolina State 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-22).

Following the sweep of Savannah State, the Wildcats were able to keep their win streak alive after midst a slow start in Orangeburg, S.C. Senior Delicia Pierre led the B-CU offense, finishing with a match-best 18 kills on 34 attempts (.382). Her performance earned her MEAC Volleyball Player of the Week honors.

Jahson Lewis, a Daytona Times intern, is a senior Mass Communications major at Bethune-Cookman University.

screaming profanities. She tried to bust through a restricted area outside the stadium and went berserk when police stopped her.

If nothing else, Miko showed more emotion in three minutes than the 46man active roster did all afternoon. All this on the much-anticipated home opener at spiffed-up Sun Life Stadium.

A few names There are no good candidates on the staff to replace Philbin, but that’s no reason to prolong a failed experiment. We’d be spared three months of “Philbin on hot seat” blather and fans could start anticipating the next victim of Miami’s coaching curse.

Let’s start the Sean Payton rumors. Anyone know the number for David Shaw’s agent? For fun, throw in Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer. How about Saban, just to hear him swear he’s not returning to Miami five minutes before he does. Anyone know the number of Miko Grimes parole officer?

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SPORTS MA YOR

OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 7, 2015 DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006

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The NFL has seen annual visits to its online properties quadruple, to 1.2 billion, and the number of fantasy football players triple.

Daily fantasy leagues blur distinction between games and gambling

BY SAM MELLINGER THE KANSAS CITY STAR / TNS

If you’ll pardon the mangled cliché here, it turns out that a sports revolution is being televised – during commercial breaks.

The same factors that are shaping change in every other part of our lives – technology, sure, but also money and power – are shifting the ground beneath the metaphorical feet of sports fans and leagues.

This has been obvious in many ways for many years, but so far mostly in the form of how fans can access and analyze their favorite teams and sports.

No long secret Now, it is taking gambling – or at least what ap-

pears to be gambling, and more on the distinction in a minute – into the open.

State and federal laws are being rewritten and reexamined. Billions of dollars and the attention of millions of sports fans hang in the balance.

The shift is obvious in the ads for daily fantasy sports leagues promising seven-figure prizes that run on a virtual loop during any commercial break of a game on TV. The ads are on many sports websites, too, including NFL. com – which is particularly telling because that league spent enormous amounts of money lobbying against a bill that would’ve legalized online non-sports gambling.

The NFL hasn’t gone as far as other leagues. Major

League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL have reportedly reached official agreements with daily fantasy sports leagues, even as the legality of those operations is being challenged in court and examined by Congress.

Boundaries challenged A new industry is exploding. Long-held beliefs are changing. This – today, right now – is a major turning point in the complicated history of gambling in our country, and the way the situation shakes out will forever impact the way sports are consumed.

“Yes, absolutely,” says I. Nelson Rose, an expert on gambling law and a professor at Whittier Law School in California. “Even the

NFL coming out in favor of something that looks like gambling is astounding.”

We are still in the frontier stages of this, but the rules are clearly changing.

League-sanctioned websites – again, NFL.com stands out – are producing content and giving tips for fans playing in daily fantasy leagues, which are being promoted and advertised in ways that sure look like gambling.

Betting ‘mutual fund’ Nevada recently legalized what are essentially mutual funds for sports bets. A man named Matt Stuart started the first one, which he likens to an investment club.

Now, he thinks he can get a 7 to 10 percent return on that investment. The investors can come from anywhere in the country, so this is one more small step toward people outside Nevada being able to legally wager money on games.

Daily fantasy leagues are less subtle, even as their legality is in question. The argument depends on a small distinction, and the outcome will decide what

could be a billion-dollar industry. Legally, gambling is defined in part as games of chance played for money, like slot machines.

Daily fantasy leagues are defining themselves as games of skill. This is a distinction that reasonable people can disagree on.

For instance, DraftKings is advertising NFL lineups that won $2 million in the first two weeks of the season. The first lineup included Jarvis Landry (who returned a punt for a touchdown) and Tyler Eifert (who doubled his career touchdown total in one day). The second included Danny Woodhead (who went over 100 yards from scrimmage for the first time since 2010) and Travis Benjamin (who scored three touchdowns after scoring just five in his first 39 games).

Is that skill, or luck? And if it’s skill, which isn’t banned by the gambling law, why is that different than picking, say, the Chiefs and the points on Monday night?

“If you’re already telling people they can gamble on the lottery and in other ways, then why not allow this?” says David Schwartz, director of the center for gaming research at UNLV. “It’s something people obviously want to do.”

Momentum building Rose, Schwartz and other gambling experts see clear momentum toward looser laws. Opposition is either hard to find or disorganized.

Sports gambling is legal and regulated in many other countries, perhaps most notably England. A recent white paper by the research branch of GamblingCompliance.com said a fully legal sports market in America would produce $200 billion in wagers and $12.4 billion in revenue. That’s more money than any professional sports league, including the NFL. Right now, it’s believed that less than 5 percent of sports bets are made legally.

Along with following what seems like an evolving public opinion toward gambling – it’s a vice, but largely a harmless one – the most compelling reason for the shifting treatment of sports wagering is the money available.

That’s why we’ve come this far, you know. The NFL and other sports leagues have traditionally been vehemently opposed to gambling. They often characterized themselves as protecting the integrity of their games, despite a long history that shows regulated gambling is the strongest deterrent to scandals.

If you enjoy seeing hypocrisy exposed, you are enjoying the way this is playing out.

The NFL once spent considerable money, effort and time lobbying against a bill that would not have affected sports wagering. The league did this because it worried about a slippery slope, that if it didn’t take a stand against all gambling it could not take a stand against any gambling.

Money rules But money rules the world, particularly the sports world, and extra-particularly the NFL’s world.

The advertising revenue from daily fantasy leagues is nice, but the real attraction is in television ratings.

The NFL has long operated with TV ratings and contracts in mind. That is where the league gets the bulk of its revenue, which means the NFL has been forced to quietly change its stance on gambling with the emergence of daily fantasy leagues.

Even more than seasonlong leagues, daily games mean a heightened investment in performances, some of which happen in otherwise dull or uneven games. Those fans are more likely to continue watching blowouts, or further plan their weekends around the television.

The NFL, especially, has been predictably brilliant about how it’s embraced this new revenue stream.

While other leagues have latched on to a particular brand of daily fantasy games, the NFL has let them fight amongst each other. They are all advertisers, and they all have customer bases which are being programmed to watch games more closely. This way, the NFL also gets to stay out of the legal battle.

This may be a new trend, but it’s following the same thing as most every other trend since the beginning of time – money.

Why child athletes of all levels earn more as adults

BY BRETT GRAFF MIAMI HERALD / TNS

Lori Wolk, a mother of three, was pleased after colleges came to her community to recruit athletes.

Mostly because Vassar College selected her daughter Lindsay – now a freshman – to play lacrosse for the selective liberal arts school.

She always figured sports would offer a healthy involvement for kids, and today works to support the hectic schedules of her younger daughter Abby, who is still in high school and also plays lacrosse, and of her son Jason, who is on his middle school’s soccer and wrestling teams.

“Sports opened up doors for my daughter, but it’s all driven by my kids. If they wanted to stop playing tomorrow, I’d tell them to stop playing tomorrow,” says Wolk. “I wouldn’t tell my kids they need to play a varsity sport in order to be successful in life.”

Getting paid No worries; economists will tell them for you.

They’ve known for decades that former varsity athletes earn more money.

Now research shows why: Prospective employers perceive them to have better leadership skills and greater self-confidence than graduates who participated in extracurricular activities such as band or yearbook.

This is not (let’s repeat: not) a license to berate

our kids after plays go bad.

(Parents who yell at referees may need more help than we can offer here.) Because experts also explain that our kids don’t need to be the top athletes on the varsity teams – or even on the varsity teams, for that matter – to get the moneymaking skills from sports that are so coveted by corporations.

“It’s a question of persistence,” says Kevin Kniffin, an assistant professor at Cornell University. “We get the idea there are prosocial values – thinking about other people – that are obtained when playing on a team and they spill over to outside the team.”

Higher expectations Kniffin and his team of researchers first set up a proxy for a hiring situation by surveying 61 adults with an average age of 39 years old. He then asked them to rate their expectations of prospective employees.

Without meeting the “candidates,” those “bosses” expected people who played sports in high school to be more confident leaders.

(They did not, to Kniffin’s surprise, expect them to be better at time management.)

Kniffin then looked at 951 adults who had graduated from high school 50 years earlier, with average age of 78. The research team asked those people to rate their own sense of leadership, confidence and self-respect. The respon-

dents who had played high school sports gave themselves scores superior to those who did not.

“In addition to the correlation between participation in high school sports and late-in-life leadership, self-confidence and selfrespect,” says Kniffin, “we found people who played high school sports donated their time and money significantly more than people who didn’t play.”

Those experiments very much reflect a real-world corporate mentality, says Mary M. Young, the director of the Ziff Career Services Center for the University of Miami’s School of Business. At IBM, where Young formerly worked as an executive, managers would actively seek out candidates with sports backgrounds because that was a predicator of leadership skills and a person’s ability to collaborate and work well on teams.

“Goal setting and achievement, high pressure and stress situations,” says Young, “all of these are skills that student athletes possess and can bring to the professional work space.”

What’s more, UM has, through a partnership with the NFL, created an MBA program specifically for artists and athletes. Their competitive spirits, says Young, easily translate into entrepreneurial strength.

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Trystan Barnes tries to get past Illinois State quarterback Blake Winkler during a Miracle League flag football game in January in Frisco, Texas. The game for special needs children was a service project for teams participating in the NCAA Division I Football Championship.

Hyman, author of “The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today’s Families.”

Parental over-involvement in athletics – both emotionally and financially – not only costs money but can melt away the confidence and leadership skills the researchers find valuable. These attitudes are not only common, but worsening.

“It’s the global warming of youth sports,” says Hyman. “Because every year, the temperature creeps a little higher.”

Parents and coaches do

best for kids by giving compliments, says Johanna Guma-Aguiar, sports director for a girl’s volleyball league and a traveling softball league in Miami. She agrees that sports develop critical skills, but says those can be, and often are, attained by players of all proficiencies, even those participating in recreational (not varsity) leagues.

Learning teamwork The best athletes learn to depend on teammates (a kid who hogs the ball eventually loses the game for everyone) and the least able

players learn that positive words and high-fives go far, says Guma-Aguiar.

Confidence develops when a kid can’t serve the ball until – after weeks of practicing – she eventually can. Respect from teammates and opponents comes from arriving in uniform, standing tall, and shaking hands. Commitment? It’s developed when a kid shows up at every practice, meeting and game, she says.

“The minute you’re part of a team, no matter what level,” says Guma-Aguiar, “you’re learning these basic fundamentals.”

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7HEALTH

OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 7, 2015

Members of “The Empowered Fe Fes” women’s group, from left, Kandace Robinson, Brittany King, Shelby Cain and Stephanie Jackson, with Access Living employee Heather Robinson, hug while posing for group pictures during the “Take Charge!” launch party in Chicago on Aug. 25.

what sex is like for disabled people,” Jackson said.

And their families aren’t necessarily eager for them to find out. Parents and guardians don’t want the young women to be taken advantage of or hurt.

Thrasher sympathizes. “The pressure is real for parents of children with disabilities to protect them and make sure they have housing and transportation,” she said, and arranging for their continued care after they’re gone.

But the young women are thinking about boyfriends, marriage and children, Thrasher said, and should get guidance and support.

High risk for violence

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Women with disabilities help produce guide on reproductive health issues

BY BARBARA BROTMAN CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS

Stephanie Jackson was nervous as she stepped in front of the room.

“This is a very important day for the Fe Fes,” she began softly.

“This is the first time that a group of women with disabilities … .”

She paused and looked down at her notes. “Oh, God,” she murmured.

The room echoed with encouragement. “You’re doing great!”

“Go on!”

She went on.

“Sometimes people in my life don’t want me to make my own decisions,” she said. “But it’s about you and taking control of your life. Thank you.”

She walked away to cheers amid celebration of the launch of

“Take Charge!” a guide to reproductive health for women with disabilities.

The new guide tells what to expect at a gynecology appointment, discusses birth control and preventing sexually transmitted infections and advises disabled women on how to ask to see a doctor without a parent or guardian present.

Same needs as others A project of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago funded by the Chicago Foundation for Women, the guide is being presented by a group that inspired its creation and contributed to its content — the Empowered Fe Fes. The Empowered Fe Fes — slang for females — are young women with disabilities who meet regularly at Access Living to enjoy one

another’s company and talk about their shared concerns. Among them is reproductive health care.

Women with disabilities have the same needs for pelvic exams, Pap smears and birth control as other women, said Fulani Thrasher, women and girls community organizer at Access Living. But they may be stymied by inaccessible exam tables or clinics that don’t provide help with donning gowns or transferring from a wheelchair.

Frank discussions And they often face another barrier: the belief they don’t need services like birth control.

“We are seen as people who maybe shouldn’t have sex — that we’re not ready for something like that,” said Jackson, who is 23.

The Fe Fes know disabled

women have sex. One of them has a 2-year-old daughter. Sex is a recurring subject at meetings.

The Fe Fes talk about birth control, masturbation and at what point to broach the subject of sex with a partner. At a recent meeting, a representative from a sex toy store brought various wares.

The Fe Fes used some of them for a practice session on putting on a condom.

The absence of media representations of disabled physical love leaves Fe Fes with frank and specific questions.

Personal questions How do people who use wheelchairs have sex? How do they maneuver in the room with the wheelchair? Can other people be in the room helping them?

“They don’t have a picture of

Their health is at stake, said Kennedy Healy, 20, Access Chicago’s women and girls intern and a primary force behind the new guide.

Because of outdated assumptions that people with disabilities don’t have sex and don’t find love, she said, disabled women are rarely taken to gynecologists and thus have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies.

Disabled women are also at higher risk for sexual violence, according to Illinois Imagines, a statewide project to improve services for disabled women who are victims of sexual assault.

Their relationships should be taken as seriously as anyone else’s, said Healy, who is also a student at DePaul University.

Guide coming soon The new guide will be distributed in coming months to community organizations, medical offices and, Thrasher hopes, to medical students.

The Empowered Fe Fes, who were hugging and laughing for photos, will continue encouraging women with disabilities to live fully.

“It’s OK to have these feelings,” said 25-year-old Brittany King, who has mobility issues in the wake of a stroke. “We are women, at the end of the day. We want the same desires and relationships as other people.”