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|THIS IS THE POLICE. DROP THE CAMERA: Illinois' Eavesdropping Law Turns Smart-Phone Owners Into Felons
|News/Features - Feature Stories
|Written by Larry McDonald
|Thursday, 09 June 2011 05:47
In Illinois, you could get a lighter sentence for killing a cop than recording one.
Section 14-4 of the Illinois criminal code reads: "The eavesdropping of an oral conversation ... between any law-enforcement officer ... while in the performance of his or her official duties ... is a Class 1 felony." Under Illinois law, a person is "eavesdropping" when he or she "knowingly and intentionally uses an eavesdropping device for the purpose of hearing or recording all or any part of any conversation" without the consent of all parties to the conversation.
A Class 1 felony is punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment. My irreverent sense of the humor often gets me in trouble, but I just can't contain it here: You could get a lighter sentence for killing a cop than recording one. When Jonathan Posey was convicted of reckless homicide in the 2001 dragging death of Illinois State Police Master Sergeant Stanley Talbot in Rock Island, he only got a five-year sentence for that crime. Good for Mr. Posey, he wasn't videotaping.
It's important to note that the potential 15-year penalty in Illinois for audio- or video-recording the activities of police has been in place since 2000. What has changed in the past decade-plus is our technology. Audio- and video-recording are now standard-issue on smart phones, and stand-alone recording devices are cheaper and far more portable. The result is that there are now millions of citizen videographers on the street.
The Illinois eavesdropping statute is not some old legal chestnut similar to laws against leaving your horse on Main Street after dark. The police are actively using it, and three recent examples involve violators in their early 20s.
• In July of last year, Tiawanda Moore of Chicago went to police headquarters to file a sexual-harassment complaint against a police officer. Finding officers uncooperative, she pulled out her Blackberry to record their reactions. She was promptly arrested and charged with eavesdropping. A preliminary court date was scheduled for this week.
• In May in Galesburg, city police entered a private residence without a warrant, suspecting that there was underage drinking. Concerned that the police might have been violating search-and-seizure laws, Eric Kraus and Andrew Cree began recording the police activities. Both were arrested and charged with felony eavesdropping but not any other offense.
• In DeKalb in November 2009, brothers Fanon Parteet and Adrian Parteet were on a late-night run with a friend to the local McDonald's when the car they were in was stopped by police on suspicion of DUI. While a DeKalb police officer was talking to the driver of the car, a second officer advised him that Fanon Parteet appeared to be recording him using a camera-equipped cell phone. While Fanon Parteet was being arrested and placed in a squad car, Adrian Parteet used another camera-equipped cell phone to record his brother's arrest. Both were charged with eavesdropping, but they pleaded guilty in April 2010 to attempted eavesdropping – a misdemeanor.
As the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) notes in its current appeal of the ACLU V. Alvarez case dismissed last year: "In recent years, at least nine prosecutors have charged at least 13 civilians with violating the [eavesdropping] act [in Illinois] by audio-recording on-duty police. Five prosecutions were initiated in 2010 alone. The increasing frequency of prosecutions parallels the increasingly common ownership of mobile phones that record sound."
A Fishbowl Made of One-Way Glass
The Illinois eavesdropping statute is troublesome for a number of reasons:
• The law is unusually restrictive. Only two other states – Massachusetts and Oregon – forbid the nonconsensual recording of plainly audible public conversations, such as an arrest on a public street. And Illinois allows for an enhanced penalty for recording law-enforcement officers. (See sidebar.)
• The law puts citizens at a disadvantage when it comes to collecting evidence for their defense. Police activity is often exempt from eavesdropping consent requirements in Illinois, and they can use the video and audio evidence they record in court proceedings. They are not obligated to share those recordings with people charged with crimes – even when the evidence might bolster a person's defense. As media organizations wrote in an amicus brief in the ACLU case: "The act vests in law enforcement near-limitless discretion to decide which recordings should be concealed from public view and which may be conveyed to the public." If citizens were allowed to record public police activity, it could assist defendants in protecting their rights.
• The law makes it impossible to monitor public police activity through video- and audio-recording. "This case seeks nothing more than a determination that the First Amendment protects this important expressive activity as a means of securing transparency and accountability in the operation of government," the ACLU wrote in its appeal. The media organizations added: "The U.S. Constitution protects people who gather and disseminate information about matters of public interest. Yet the arrest and prosecution under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act violate this constitutional protection and run counter to the text, history, and longstanding interpretation of the First Amendment."
In the broader view, though, this isn't merely an Illinois problem. There appear to be many examples of police – sans a restrictive, Illinois-style eavesdropping law –who empower themselves to stop citizens from documenting their activities with recording equipment.
• Last September, as New Haven, Connecticut, police were breaking up a street fight, Luis Luna whipped out his iPhone and began recording from a distance. When police ordered him to stop recording and leave the scene, Luna refused. He was arrested, was charged with "interfering with police," and spent the night in jail. Police confiscated his iPhone and returned it to him, without the video, after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of "public disturbance." Questioned by reporters after the event, New Haven Police Chief Frank Limon conceded: "It's not our policy to arrest people for filming. As a general principle, it is not illegal [in Connecticut] to video." An internal-affairs report on the incident concluded: "The mere act of an individual video-recording the police officers while performing their duties is not prohibited by federal or state statute. ... The New Haven Police Department has adopted a 'Video-Recording of Police Activity by the Public' policy."
• Last year in New Jersey, high-school honor student Khaliah Fitchette was handcuffed and had her camera taken away when she attempted to record officers attending to somebody who had collapsed on a city bus. She was not charged. According to the Newark Star-Ledger: "Fitchette's case marks the third time in as many years when Newark police have been accused of mistreating residents who were attempting to film them."
• In April 2010, Atlanta police twisted the arm of Marlon Kautz behind his back and took his camera after he tried to record them making an arrest. He sued and earlier this year settled for $40,000. His attorney told an Atlanta television station: "If you stand back away from the officers and you're in a public place, you have an absolute right under 11th Circuit [Court of Appeals] law to photograph or video those officers."
This is not just a case of a bad Illinois law. The problem is larger and more systemic. Illinois' eavesdropping statute is terribly out-of-whack with the times, but so are practices outside of Illinois that use threats, arrests, and intimidation to block perfectly legal recording of public police activity.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the use of surveillance cameras has proliferated. Security cameras skirt eavesdropping laws by not recording sound, and cameras in stores and public places are so commonplace as to go unnoticed. Traffic cameras are used to ticket drivers. Google Earth allows anyone to peer into our backyards. Airport full-body scanners get all the headlines, while concourse eye-in-the-sky video cameras – their sly brethren – are so high-definition as to allow airport personnel to read the paperback you brought with you. Welcome to the fishbowl.
We have all relinquished privacy in the past decade. None of us decided on this, and we didn't vote on it; it's just the way it is. I hate this loss of privacy, especially when it is applied unfairly. When the privileged are increasingly empowered at the expense of the disadvantaged, it really cheeses me off.
And Illinois' eavesdropping law is grossly tilted toward the powerful.
While recording a law-enforcement official is a Class 1 felony and carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison, making a recording of a private individual is only a Class 4 felony with a maximum penalty of three years in prison.
And, of course, uniformed police are exempt from many provisions of the eavesdropping law, yet they only use those recordings when they assist in prosecution. Suppose, for example, that you are charged with a DUI, and the arresting officer's dash-mounted camcorder shows you effortlessly jumping up and down on one foot, with your eyes closed, while reciting the alphabet backward during your field-sobriety test. The police don't have to show that in court; in fact, they aren't even obligated to keep that recording around.
The fishbowl, it would seem, is made of one-way glass.
Inhibiting an Already Dangerous Job?
Unsurprisingly, the police are neither neutral nor silent on the matter. The president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, Mark Donahue, told the Chicago Tribune that citizen recording of arrests "could potentially inhibit an officer from proactively doing his job."
In a story on KWQC about the Galesburg eavesdropping arrests, Captain Rodney Riggs was quoted as saying that recording was "a hindrance. Following the police officers around, it's two in the morning, we have officers trying to do their jobs, and at times, we have to take action to get our job done."
In an article in USA Today, Fraternal Order of Police Executive Director Jim Pasco said the recording of police has created a "chilling effect" on officers: "The proliferation of cheap video equipment is presenting a whole new dynamic for law enforcement. It has had a chilling effect on some officers who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video. This has become a serious safety issue. I'm afraid something terrible will happen."
And in a commentary in USA Today, Dennis J. Slocumb and Rich Robert (of the International Union of Police Associations) said recording of police activity puts additional burdens on a job that's already dangerous: "Policing is a job full of extraordinary risks. Officers have no choice but to make decisions based upon split-second determinations coupled with their training and experience. Out of approximately 400,000 men and women who regularly patrol the streets and highways (we are not counting an additional 400,000 who have purely administrative assignments), an average of 160 will be killed, 60,000 will be physically assaulted, and 20,000 will receive serious injuries in the line of duty every year."
For those such as Donahue who say citizen recording can "inhibit" officers: That's a small price to pay. Important jobs need to be monitored. Airline pilots live with flight-data- and voice-recorder black boxes, ensuring that every little mistake they make will live on, regardless of whether they or their passengers do. Today's vehicles constantly monitor the behavior of commercial truckers. Surgeons have jobs in which they make life-and-death decisions, and mistakes could cost them millions. Guess what: They're being recorded. I don't see representatives of any of those groups attempting an argument that video-recording inhibits their ability to do their jobs well.
As for the argument that law enforcement is a dangerous job: It is, but perhaps not as much as most people think. Danger-wise, police are in the queue behind farmers, ranchers, and sheepherders, and are far below fishermen.
As Forbes said in a 2011 article on "America's Most Dangerous Jobs": "Miners and police officers face many dangers. In 2009, the most recent year for which we have statistics, 101 miners and 97 police officers and security guards died on the job, making for a roughly similar fatality rate of around 13 deaths per 100,000 workers.
"But neither cracks the top 10 on our list of America's Most Dangerous Jobs. Going by fatality rates, workers have more to worry about in such seemingly mundane professions as roofing, farming, and sanitation."
Firefighting is more dangerous than police work, but I don't believe I have ever seen a firefighter come out from a burning building and demand the news crew turn off the cameras.
Statistically, being an airline pilot is much more dangerous than being a police officer. Being a trucker is more dangerous than being a cop. Again, those last two jobs face constant monitoring.
And nobody is claiming that recording normal police work makes cops' jobs more dangerous.
Other police defenses of the eavesdropping law are contradictory. In the same story in which Riggs said citizen recording was a "hindrance," he added: "I always tell my officers: If you're doing the right thing, there is no problem with being recorded."
And some are just bizarre. In an article in the Peoria Journal Star, Captain Dave Briggs of the Peoria County sheriff's department defended the law as protecting the privacy of people being questioned by police: "Sometimes even suspects have things they want to say to an officer – and it shouldn't be out on YouTube." But in the situation at hand, it was the suspect himself who was recording: Rodney Anderson Jr. recorded his arrest on his phone following a March 27 domestic disturbance.
Quad Cities law-enforcement officials defended the eavesdropping law by saying that police are subject to many of the same requirements as the public. However, their responses glossed over the law-enforcement exemptions.
East Moline Police Chief Victor M. Moreno wrote: "Police are also restricted from using eavesdropping without a court order during undercover operations."
Rock Island Police Chief Scott D. Harris at least acknowledged the exemptions in his e-mail response, although he, too, noted that undercover operations are restricted: "An undercover officer would have to get a court order for an eavesdrop, although there are some exceptions, such as in the case of a traffic stop in which the stop is recorded."
Rock Island County Sheriff Jeff Boyd initially said police are forbidden from eavesdropping without a court order, but when asked about exemptions for law enforcement, he said that police recordings – such as from traffic stops – are available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. "All of that is available publicly" he said. "The accessibility is there."
Boyd said that Illinois' eavesdropping law makes undercover drug operations more difficult. Because a legal recording in Iowa requires the consent of only one party to a conversation, he said, it's easier for undercover officers to make drug buys in Iowa. For that reason, he said, he would support changing Illinois' law to single-party consent – which would give citizens the right to record their own interactions with police. Boyd said he would have no problem with legalized citizen recording "as long as that person was not interfering. ... If that's the law, I'm good with it."
However, all three law-enforcement leaders who responded to our questions said that recording of operations could cause problems for officers.
Harris wrote: "Depending on the type and length of the police operation and with today's technology, it could severely hamper an operation or officer's safety. With our current cell-phone technology, video can be sent and posted immediately showing a situation as it evolves, which would include location and number of officers, type of equipment being used or brought in, the tactics being used or contemplated by the officer, etc."
"Recording police tactics or operations can give the public insight and access to the way police approach or plan," Moreno wrote. "Having that info can allow criminals to prepare to respond, therefore creating danger for the officers."
Harris cited one example: "While I am not aware of a citizen's video endangering or hampering an officer, there was a situation in which a hostage situation was developing and some television cameras were inadvertently showing the location of perimeter officers and other personnel who were approaching the location towards a blind spot from the suspect for concealment. Once the camera crew was made aware of the hazard they were potentially creating for the officers, they changed the camera's field of view, filming other areas which allowed the officers to continue on with their task. In addition, the camera crews were initially in danger as well and relocated to a safer area."
While it's undoubtedly true that the recording of a hostage situation or major law-enforcement operation could be problematic, those rare instances could be handled – gently and tactfully – on a case-by-case basis. However, most of the time, and especially in the Illinois cases where citizens are facing a Class 1 felony sentence, people are recording commonplace police work, with no effect on officers' job performance.
Trooper. Officer. Deputy. Can We Talk?
I respect and appreciate what you do. In my experience, law-enforcement officers have behaved with the utmost civility and professionalism. As I reflect on the times that I've clearly been outside the law, I am reminded of the officers who cut me some slack. (One hundred ten miles per hour in a 55 zone comes to mind.) Admittedly, that slack probably wouldn't have occurred if the officer thought he was being recorded, and it definitely wouldn't have occurred if I jammed a camera in his face.
So let me attempt to return the favor. Remember when reality-TV shows such as Cops and America's Most Wanted were introduced? Law enforcement won a tremendous public-relations chit then. You are in danger of losing that chit in the next few years. Not because of anything I think or say, but because the numbers and the technology are against you.
Every year we will see an increase in the number of smart-phone users, and the younger they are, the more likely they are to exercise their God-given right to video-record your activities – especially because they themselves were raised being video-recorded.
Every year, the cameras within the smart phones will become more technologically advanced. Features such as telephoto lenses will allow recordings to be made from greater distances. Cameras will shrink in size. Often, you will never know the recording was made. Social-networking sites and a younger generation's increasing use of them will mean the video of you will go viral instantly. The eavesdropping act will no longer be any kind of shield, because once people are aware of it, they will cease to claim ownership of recordings. Then you are really in the censorship business, and we all know how well that works.
And the more you aggressively pursue enforcement of the law, the more people will find the law absurd and anachronistic, and push to repeal the ban on recording police activities.
But while the law is still in effect, what should you do?
Let people record. People are not motivated to photograph or record mundane, everyday events. They pull out cameras when unusual, exciting events occur. But while three squads converging on the perp look great in the editable world of Cops, it won't look nearly as good when the perp is just a drunk at the convenience store and the cameraman is some kid with an Android. If just one unit shows up and the drunk is quietly given a ride home, the footage is almost certain to make it to the cutting-room floor, as they used to say.
At an organizational level, you'll need to address this emerging and continuing departmental problem. Your leaders must craft a policy on recording police activities in public, and they'll need to make some sound decisions. Will you enforce the law? Under what circumstances? What will your procedures be regarding the arrest of videographers, confiscation of their equipment, and deletion of recordings? Train your officers, and make sure the public is made aware of your policy.
That cop who caught me doing 110 in a 55 mercifully gave me an expensive ticket for 29 miles per hour over the speed limit, which I gratefully accepted. Thirty or over in Illinois means you landed on the Go to Jail space. Then he showed me an interesting little piece of technology. Namely, that the company that made my radar detector and the one that made his speed gun were one and the same. He went on to explain that every year or so, the company would come out with a new speed gun that existing detectors couldn't pick up, and then it would introduce a new line of detectors that could. In other words, he wasn't the trap; the trap was a clever snare of marketing, and by thinking I had some bit of technological advantage, I was speeding right into it.
Trooper. Officer. Deputy. Because you believe you presently have a legal advantage, please don't go speeding into a public-relations trap.
Sidebar: A Brief History of Illinois' Eavesdropping Law
(Return to the main story.)
Illinois' eavesdropping statute dates back to at least 1961, but in the past two decades legislators have made significant changes.
At core, the law requires that all parties to a conversation consent to its recording. (Some states allow one-party consent – that is, only one participant needs to agree to let a conversation be recorded.)
In 1986, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in People V. Beardsley that the eavesdropping law only applied to situations in which parties "believe that the conversation is private and cannot be heard by others."
In 1994, the Illinois General Assembly made two key changes. First, it exempted law-enforcement officers from some consent requirements. It also expanded the definition of a "conversation" to eliminate the expectation-of-privacy requirement; the eavesdropping law now applies "regardless of whether one or more of the parties intended their communication to be of a private nature." In other words, an audible conversation on a public street between a police officer and a citizen can no longer be legally recorded by a citizen without the consent of both parties under Illinois' statute.
This makes Illinois' eavesdropping law unusual. As the American Civil Liberties Union says in its current case: "The federal government, 39 states, and the District of Columbia each have a statute criminalizing the audio recording of certain in-person conversations – unlike Illinois – only if there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. [Only] two states other than Illinois [Massachusetts and Oregon] extend their prohibitions to audio recording of conversations whether or not there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, but they do so in a manner substantially narrower than in Illinois."
In 2000, a provision enhancing penalties for recording law-enforcement officials was added. While a violation of the statue is a Class 4 felony (punishable by up to three years in prison), recording a law-enforcement official is a Class 1 felony (punishable by up to 15 years in prison).
Furthermore, in 2009 the Illinois legislature made more explicit some broad exemptions to the eavesdropping law for law enforcement. As the ACLU summarizes: "Uniformed police may record practically all of their conversations with civilians [without consent], while civilians are precluded from recording those same conversations."
(Return to the main story.)
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written by Police Victum, June 10, 2011
As public servants whose testimony is almost seen as golden and can be responsible for people serving decades in prison it would seem that we should be able to record everything that they do. If they do the right thing then they have nothing to fear, if they plant evidence, violate citizens rights, lie, engage in police brutality, etc, then don't we hope that the truth be known and they can be removed from service?
Strangely enough I see all the time on the show "Cops" someone on the ground being struck by officers. The person is face down with their hands behind their back and while the officers strike them they keep yelling "stop resisting" . . . I don't see how the person could possibly deserve to be hit while face down and their hands behind their back. I'm convinced that the shouts of "stop resisting" are really about convincing potential witnesses that the person on the ground must have been resisting and so deserved to be hit repeatedly and have their face slammed into the concrete. "Watch your head" they say when putting you into the car and then with their hand on the back of your head they forcefully guide it right into the top of the door frame . . . "I told you to watch your head" . . .
Do I sound like I don't view the police as protectors but as predators? My entire low income neighborhood feels that way . . . we get all kinds of policing but very little protection from the police . . . The thieves and robbers run free but everyone else gets treated like a criminal . . .
written by Police Victum, June 11, 2011
Got pulled over and my car searched in my low income neighborhood again last night . . . they were swarming like a wolf pack all over the neighborhood. I knew before any officers even saw me exit the alley that I would be getting pulled over because of the way that all the squad cars were racing all over in and out of the streets and doing 180's in the middle of the street. Didn't get a half a block away after they let me go and the already had someone else pulled over. Does it bother anyone else that the people who live in that part of town are all treated like we are prisoners in their gulag and that the 4th amendment has been shredded to oppress the poor?
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written by TDS, June 21, 2011
I am happy to see this issued covered. Here is a short interview with Chris Drew a local Chicago artist facing charges under the Illinois Eavesdropping Law.
Wrongfuly arrested twice now?????
written by Disablednotdead, July 22, 2011
Funny how my worthless child molestor neighbour recorded my first arrest and it was actually used in court and then the jack ass tried recording the second one but you say this is wrong?
I actually was sent to jail for 4 days the first time because his kids lied to the police. I would love to hear what they think they know about me because they refuse to even hear anything when they come to my house and yet I am to be civil and not get mad when they did nothing about my daughter nearly being raped by his son?????
written by Bergman, October 02, 2011
I'm reminded of an old story, that ostensibly describes how an entire Chinese imperial dynasty was toppled. Two farmers are walking down a road. The first one says to the other, "What time do we need to be at work?" The second one says "A minute ago." The first says "What's the penalty for being late to work?" The second one replies "Death." The first one asks "What's the penalty for armed rebellion?" The second one answers "Death."
If the combined penalties for exercising a Constitutional right amount to a longer jail time than your life expectancy, and the penalty for murdering police is equal or less, what do you have to lose? You never know, you might get away with it.
Ron Paul Revolution!
written by karaoke singer, November 02, 2011
I really hope people see what is going on and how Ron Paul is truly the only answer out of this mess. If I am wrong...then who is Right? Government is Way Out Of Control - PERIOD!
Illinois Eavesdroppping Law Still Alive
written by Paul Simon, January 04, 2014
The illinoiscorruption.net has issued an informational video and a press release, to help the media and the general public in the upcoming oral argument at the Illinois Supreme Court hearing in Annabel Melongo's eavesdropping case. The hearing is scheduled for January 14th, 2014, at the 18th floor of the Michael A. Bilandic Building, 160 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago at 9.30 am.
Video: http://www.illinoiscorruption....lease.html
Press Release: http://www.illinoiscorruption....lease.html
Please support this cause. The Illinois Eavesdropping law at its very core creates a two-class legal system wherein the conversations of the powerful and well-connected are protected to the detriment of the less powerful. The upcoming oral argument presents a unique opportunity for the common citizen to re-establish that legal balance that will unequivocally establish a right to record public officials in their public duties.
Therefore, please contribute to this all-important hearing by either attending it, writing about it, spreading the word or just forwarding the below video and press release to anybody who might be of any help.
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Job-embedded learning must become a focal point for schools keeping in mind the ways in which teachers now work, the emergence of digital learning environments, and the ways in which "any-time, any-where" technology makes us rethink the boundaries of job-embedded learning. An equally pressing take away is that we need to begin thinking about how we can ensure that job-embedded learning is personalized to the needs of teachers and to the students that they teach.
My work as a high school volunteer reading tutor for students in an impoverished community in Chicago fueled the call to teaching. The students did not have two nickels to rub together, but there was richness in their eyes when they learned. The rest is history.
The most important aspect of a teacher's professional development is when a teacher owns her/his learning with the support of colleagues who want to learn from the work they do—teaching—and co-planning, and observing in each other's classrooms.
No One can take your education away from you—you own it
Facebook is my favorite social media platform because I can follow friends in my network, meet new colleagues, and share photos, video-clips, headlines, and follow certain groups such as Edutopia.
Focus intently on learning from the work you do with colleagues. Our colleagues can be our best teachers—next to the students who respond to instruction. If we approach job-embedded learning from the very work we do, professional learning should occur in real time.
I follow Edutopia with a vengeance because this group follows research (Schools that Work series), reports innovative practices related to all aspects of schooling, and the blogs are thought-provoking. My inner imagination of how cool teaching can be comes alive.
Seeing former doctoral students become instructional leaders as they assume teacher leadership positions, principalships, the superintendency, or stay in the classroom—they bring to life theory.
"We have been working together for the past 15 years on an array of projects focused on defining, conceptualizing, and implementing critical literacy practices in elementary, middle school, and college classrooms. As a collective, our work began as members of the Indiana Study Group. For one of our first projects, we identified and reviewed children's picture books, chapter books, and adolescent novels that raise important social issues. The idea behind this project was that by making these social issues books an integral part of the English language art curriculum, teachers could use literacy as a way to open up spaces in their classrooms for important conversations about critical issues.
Our work has always involved teachers. Chris and Jerry worked with a group of teachers in the Indianapolis Public Schools to start a new school, the Center for Inquiry (CFI). Now in its second decade, the center has expanded to four buildings and includes a secondary component. The curriculum focuses on multiple ways of knowing, inquiry-based learning, and critical literacy. While Chris and Jerry were working with teachers in the Indianapolis area, Mitzi was working with teachers in Bloomington. Through several Indiana University and state-funded grants, Mitzi and colleagues were able to sponsor eight years of teacher–researcher study groups, where teachers explored how they might put a critical edge on their teaching of reading and language arts.
We have found small but powerful groups of teachers in different parts of the country whose teaching "takes your breath away." In the second edition of Creating Critical Classrooms we have sought out the work of teachers across the U.S. and Canada and add their classroom stories as testaments to the power of critical teaching."]]>
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This summer, Annette's latest book Seven Simple Secrets: What the BEST Teachers Know and Do, 2nd Edition was released. This international bestseller, coauthored with Todd Whitaker, reveals the seven keys to great teaching that are often overlooked. Annette and Todd offer must-have advice for new and experienced teachers on improving instruction, classroom management, discipline, student motivation, and more. The book is filled with useful tips that teachers can take back to the classroom. The new edition contains information on timely topics such as using social media appropriately and incorporating technology to enhance teaching. A Study Guide is available so that teachers can use the book in book studies and PLCs.
Annette is also the author of 101 "Answers" for New Teachers and Their Mentors: Effective Teaching Tips for Daily Classroom Use, 2nd Edition. This book offers clear, practical, and honest advice to help new teachers overcome the challenges of their first year. It is widely used by induction programs to help with new teacher effectiveness and retention.
Her other books include REAL Teachers, REAL Challenges, REAL Solutions; 101 Poems for Teachers; 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior; and Making Good Teaching Great.
Annette is a former classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, and teacher induction coordinator. She is currently a presenter with the Education Speakers Group. Her warmth, infectious humor, and ability to touch the hearts of educators invariably bring audiences to their feet. Teachers who have read Annette's writings or heard her speak agree that they walk away with user-friendly information, heartfelt inspiration, and a much-needed reminder that they truly have chosen the noblest of all professions—teaching.
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"Finding ways to engage students from historically underrepresented groups must be one of the academy's highest priorities going forward. The contributors to this volume have done a great service by pointing to actions colleges and universities can take consistent with this goal, which is in the national interest as well as that of individual students. We are in their debt for helping us better understand and appreciate the rich diversity of student backgrounds and experiences that characterize college and university campuses today and what institutions can do to promote the success of all their students." --From the Foreword by George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Indiana University
"During this period in higher education, there is nothing more critical than a national commitment toward the success of all students. This thoughtful and well-researched book is a vital and necessary resource for faculty and staff committed to the power of engagement and student success." --Kevin Kruger, Ph.D., President, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
"Quaye's and Harpers' volume is a timely update to an important book. Now, more than ever, colleges and universities are searching for strategies for increasing the ways in which students can become meaningfully more involved and engaged on campus. This book deepens our understanding of the construct of engagement, helping readers to appreciate how to improve engagement for a wide array of different types of students in higher education. The chapters are thoughtfully constructed, and the broad territory covered by the book rightly recognizes, and addresses, the diversity of American higher education, both in terms of its students and its institutional forms." --James Soto Antony, Professor Adjunct, Educational Leadership & Management, Yale School of Management and Associate Provost, Yale University
Student Engagement in Higher Education fills a longstanding void in the higher education and student affairs literature. In the fully revised and updated edition of this important volume, the editors and chapter contributors explore how diverse populations of students experience college differently and encounter group-specific barriers to success. Informed by relevant theories, each chapter focuses on engaging a different student population, including: low-income students, students of color, international students, students with disabilities, LGBT students, religious minority students, student-athletes, homeless students, transfer students, commuter and part-time students, adult learners, student veterans, and graduate students. The forward-thinking, practical strategies offered throughout the book are based on research and the collected professional wisdom of experienced educators and scholars at two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. Current and future faculty, administrators, and student affairs staff will undoubtedly find this book complete with fresh ideas to reverse troubling engagement trends among various college student populations.
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After I had been a high school English teacher for twenty-plus years in the same school district, I began to realize that I had something to offer to my less-experienced colleagues. This "accidental leadership" role caught me by surprise. I didn't have a lot of guidance as a teacher, which was both good and bad. It was bad because I always felt that I wasn't doing things quite right because I didn't hew to a Teacher's Guide (or even an answer key, in most cases). But it was good because I learned how to teach organically, in a way that was responsive to my students, and I was able to indulge my own interests in literature and language.
Anyone who knew me as a child and teenager would never have thought I'd become a teacher. I didn't like school, nor did I excel, except in grammar, and they stopped teaching that when I got to high school. But, as John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans," and I'm happy to say that the teaching life is what happened to me, and what has sustained me for the past forty-plus years.
Teaching seemed like a worthwhile way to share my passion for words, language, and literature.
After carefully considering the instructional implications of the thirty-two Literacy Standards of the Common Core, I came to the conclusion that the ten Reading Standards are at the heart of them. If teachers focus on the ten Reading Standards, the other twenty-two Standards will naturally follow.
The ten Reading Standards are at the heart of academic learning.
schedule, research, audience awareness, flow
Learning is the by-product of problem-solving.
A group of students volunteered to address the Board of Education to say how much they had learned from RxWrite, an individualized program that I developed that helped students learn how to bring their writing to the next level.
I think summertime is a great time for teachers to read those professional books that they don't have time to read during the school year.
My favorite online educational resource is vocabulary.com. This is a way for students to improve their vocabulary in an authentic and engaging way. It also has a fantastic, student-friendly dictionary, information about the frequency of words, morphology, and great articles about words and language.
I'd say Facebook, only because it allows me to keep up with aspects of my grown-up and living-far-away son's life. I get to see his friends and activities. Professionally, I'll just be old-fashioned and say e-mail, because I really do read the links that people and organizations send my way.
This series addresses key themes in this internationalisation with books written and/or edited by leading thinkers and writers in the field. Up to the minute and international in both appeal and scope the books in the series focus on delivering:
- Contributions from a wide range of international contexts
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"This is a transformative book. It provides an enlightening cartography of the uses of history and philosophy in the science classroom. No one interested in science teaching or science culture should be without a copy of this updated classic."--Alberto Cordero, Philosophy Program, The CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College CUNY, USA
"This book's importance transcends science education. Its coverage of topics such as the impact of constructivism on education provides the book with a universal importance. I strongly recommend it to everyone interested in teaching and learning."--John Sweller, School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia
"The Pendulum chapter is a masterpiece! It should be considered obligatory reading for everyone who aims at becoming a science (especially physics) teacher."--Ricardo Karam, Physikdidaktik, Universität Hamburg, Germany
"Science Education is a rigorous and necessary resource for science education researchers, policy makers and practitioners."--Sibel Erduran, School of Education, University of Limerick, Ireland
Science Teaching explains how history and philosophy of science contributes to the resolution of persistent theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical issues in science education. It shows why it is essential for science teachers to know and appreciate the history and philosophy of the subject they teach and how this knowledge can enrich science instruction and enthuse students in the subject. Through its historical perspective, the book reveals to students, teachers, and researchers the foundations of scientific knowledge and its connection to philosophy, metaphysics, mathematics, and broader social influences including the European Enlightenment, and develops detailed arguments about constructivism, worldviews and science, multicultural science education, inquiry teaching, values, and teacher education. Fully updated and expanded, the 20th Anniversary Edition of this classic text, featuring four new chapters—The Enlightenment Tradition; Joseph Priestley and Photosynthesis; Science, Worldviews and Education; and Nature of Science Research—and 1,300 references, provides a solid foundation for teaching and learning in the field.
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"This is a book that really gets to 'the bottom'. It unpacks what is meant by the term and demonstrates explicitly why bottom up knowledge is important and what its components are. It's a book I'd been seeking for a long while. English L2 Reading provides us with specific information on how to teach L2 learners through showing us how language awareness is critical for teaching L2 English reading." --Vanessa Wenzell, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA
"English L2 Reading refocuses attention on the often forgotten, bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. It strikes a good balance between theory and practice." --Paul Abraham, Simmons College, USA
"…provides an effective review of key linguistic points and ties them to reading and writing. This text offers a perfect balance between theory and practice, consistently providing concrete illustrations of research on second language literacy."--Sarah Dietrich, Salem State University, USA
English L2 Reading, Third Edition offers teachers research-based insights into bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language and a solid foundation on which to build reading instruction. Core linguistic and psycholinguistic concepts are presented within the context of their application to teaching. The goal is to balance or supplement (not replace) top-down approaches and methodologies with effective low-level options for teaching English reading.
The text's pedagogical features— Questions, Study Guide Questions. Discussion Questions, Spotlight on Teaching sections— engage readers of the text in moving easily from linguistic details and psycholinguistic data and theory to practical explanations and suggestions for teaching. Two Appendices provide tables that list the graphemes or the phonemes of English.
Changes in the Third Edition:
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"An essential text, Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities provides a complete foundation in special education, grounded in an historical perspective of pivotal events, research, and legislation that have shaped the field. The guiding questions and additional online sources will challenge readers to evaluate and apply the information presented. This book equips future teachers with the knowledge needed to effectively implement best practices for educating students with disabilities." --Fred Spooner, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education and Child Development, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"I am most impressed by the high quality of the information and broad range of coverage of this text, which, while thorough and rigorous, has many appealing features and a writing style that is easy to understand and reader-friendly. I plan to use this book in my own work, as it provides an up-to-date source that helps the reader understand the importance of inclusion and social justice as well as effective instructional settings and practices for intellectually disabled students." --James McLeskey, Professor, School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida
Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions provides thorough coverage of the causes and characteristics of cognitive and intellectual disabilities (formerly known as mental retardation) as well as detailed discussions of the validated instructional approaches in the field today.
Features include:
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"Creating Critical Classrooms is one of those rare finds. It has the perfect balance of theory—in ways that preservice teachers can understand—along with real ways to "do" theory in classrooms with children." --Lisa Scherff, Florida State University, USA
"As immorality and insanity continue to permeate the world of education, and the world in general, Creating Critical Classrooms will become an increasingly vital and crucial text in helping learners, teachers, and citizens understand and analyze the material forces at work in society while also connecting that intellectual work to the much needed interventions required to carry out positive structural transformations on pathways toward creating more humanized and humanizing systems and institutions…before it is too late." --Doug Morris, Eastern New Mexico University, USA
This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, Creating Critical Classrooms meets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.
Pedagogical features in each chapter:
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Hi – New here!
I've just seen this auction…
and was wondering just how many of these there might be? Does anyone know how many of these would be made when a band came in to lay down or master some tracks?
Thanks in advance!
I've not heard of that particular release before.
As for acetate discs, they were quite often made for The Beatles and their associates from rough mixes for reference purposes. George Martin, for example, quite often took copies away when he had to write a score for a song. At other times it was just because they liked the sound of them, or wanted to work on a song for longer (eg the 27 minute version of Helter Skelter). There must have been dozens of Beatles acetates created, but they were quite fragile so broke easily.
Oh, and please be honest – this is your eBay listing and you're trying to get attention for it, right? I know you're based in Edinburgh, as is the auction item.
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Bounty Hunting in New York
Bounty Hunters are known as Bail Enforcement Agents in New York and their behavior is explicitly regulated by state law. Fugitive Recovery Agents require training and licensure before they may make arrests in the state with the exception being the provision that a Bail Enforcement Agent may, "by a written authority indorsed on a certified copy of the bail bond, empower any person over twenty years of age to do so."
How to Become a Bounty Hunter in New York
To become a Bounty Hunter in New York, you must have "three years' experience as a police officer; an investigator in an agency of the state, county, or federal government; or an employee of a licensed private investigator or at a firm, partnership, company, or corporation where one member has been performing the duties described in the definition of bail enforcement agent; OR twenty years' experience as a police officer or fire marshal."
Becoming a police officer is possible through organizations such as the NYPD. Applicants must be at least 21 years old, a US citizen, and have completed at least 60 college credits with minimal GPA requirements or two years of military service. They also must pass a character and background check and have a valid driver's license, among other things.
Private Investigators in New York must be at least 25 years old, part of an investigations business, three years of experience as an employee of an investigations business, pass an examination, and submit fingerprints along with $475 fee. More information can be found at the New York Department of State.
If you meet these requirements for licensing, becoming a Bounty Hunter in New York first involves finding a licensed bail bond company that will contract you to skip trace fugitives. But they will not hire just anybody. Professional bondsmen in the state are governed by lengthy regulations and restrictions and must ensure that the Fugitive Recovery Agents under their employment maintain only safe, effective, and lawful practices in their pursuit of fugitives. Thus, training and education about New York bail laws and safe skip tracing practices is highly recommended in addition to experience as an officer or a private investigator.
In addition, Bounty Hunters in the state must acquire a license, which requires a bail enforcement agent qualifying course. A list of school offering approved courses can be found here. The course takes 25 hours and must be completed before a license will be issued.
New York Bounty Hunter Licenses and Requirements
Bail Enforcement Agents' licenses are regulated by the Department of State in New York. Specific information regarding where to apply can be found here, but, to sum it up briefly, proof of a training course must be submitted along with fingerprints, a background check, and a surety bond in the sum of $500,000. The fee is $475 for a license which must be renewed every two years.
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gcc -S option will generate assembly code in AT&T syntax, is there a way to generate files in Intel syntax? Or is there a way to convert between the two?
Have you tried this?
Untested, but I found it in this forum where someone claimed it worked for them.
I just tried this on the mac and it failed, so I looked in my man page:
It may work on your platform.
For Mac OSX:
Unfortunately gcc can't do this and conversion is difficult because some instructions in AT&T take operands in the same order as Intel, so you have to special case. In addition, some conversions for size where memory dereferencing and such can be difficult. Your best bet is to use a disassembler that will do what you want and make sure you reference symbol files and such. This'll get you 99% of the way.
Does work with me. But i can tell another way, although this has nothing to do with running gcc. Compile the executable or the object code file and then disassemble the object code in Intel asm syntax with objdump as below:
This might help.
I have this code in CPP file:
That's code worked with this GCC command line:
It will result *.exe file, and it worked in my experience.
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Liberty Wire & Cable Opens Major New Warehouse In Hawaii, Expanding Service, Lowering Costs
New Honolulu Facility Brings Mainland Services, Faster Deliveries and Other Increased Efficiencies to Commercial and Residential Customers
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, Apr. 8, 2009 â Liberty Wire & Cable, worldwide supplier of a broad range of wire and cable products for the audio/video trade, including custom installers and systems integrators, has opened a new warehouse facility in Honolulu, Hawaii, to service commercial and residential customers in and around the 50th state.
Located in Oahu, the Big Island of an archipelago comprising hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 square miles of central Pacific Ocean, Libertyâs new facility allows the company to more quickly fulfill orders from its vast catalog of 7,000-plus wire and cable products and more quickly deliver them to customers.
âThe new warehouse lets us take advantage of our ability to containerize products to reduce both freight costs and shipping times, and provide both commercial and residential customers more immediate access to our products,â? said Kirk Horlbeck, Liberty Senior Vice President of Marketing. âAssembling and storing inventory in Honolulu also allows us to provide Will-Call Service, Same-Day Service and Next-Day Service to customers at no charge in most areas in and around Oahu,â? added Territory Manager Richard Herwig, speaking of the largest, most populous of the volcanic chainâs eight major islands. âThe other islands will benefit from reduced shipping times of one to five days, depending on conditions.â?
The Hawaiian warehouse is the latest of several facilities Liberty has added in the past couple years to meet growing customer demand, to position itself for further growth, and to empower customers with the Liberty Advantage â the tools to operate more efficiently and competitively in the A/V marketplace.
About Liberty Wire & Cable- Liberty, a division of Communications Supply Corp. (CSC), is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is in its 17th year of operation. Its core goods, sold primarily for audio/video and security applications, consist of a complete line of wire and cable products along with connectors and connector systems, cable assemblies, interconnects, and a broad range of related accessories. Liberty principally serves the residential, commercial, broadcast, and rental and staging segments of the pro/AV industry. It also enjoys long-term relationships with a number of prominent OEMs. Liberty manufactures and markets the PanelCrafters line of custom and stock plates and panels. The company, which sells in 49 countries, has other facilities in Charlotte, N.C., and Phoenix, Ariz., and holds memberships in CEDIA, InfoComm International, and NSCA.
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Here's your daily reminder that commercial airline travel is a miracle and we should all kiss the ground any time we land someplace safely.
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Obama Has Secretely Signed Law Making Some Protests A Felony
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- LuckyLady said...
President Obama signed bill H.R. 347 (also known as the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011) into law on March 9th, amid numerous protests from the Occupy movement, as well as other agencies.
HR 347 is a modification from Senate bill S. 1794, which restricted people from entering or blocking public areas that have been closed off by Secret Service while a person under their protection is passing through. The law also included major public events, such as the Inaguration and Presidential campaigns.
The new law, which passed the House with a vote of 399-3, extends the original law by adding more protected areas within Washington D.C, and removing the word "willfully," from the paragraph stating that protesters can be prosecuted if they enter the area "willfully and knowingly."
399 to 3 seems like some conservatives must have voted for this too and obviously it was not done in secret. It just didn't get a lot of press.
Thank you ballseye for bring this to our attention.
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell says that he'd own up if it were his. Jon Stewart says that he doesn't remember his old friend being quite all that!
Presidential candidates had it easy in the pre-Internet age. Campaigns considered in the increasingly distant past didn't have to worry about Internet fundraising, emailing supporters, or trying to stay up to date and compete with their opponents online. They didn't even have to create a website, a move that every candidate must now do in order to win an election -- unless you're Alvin Greene running for a nomination in a South Carolina U.S. Senate campaign.
The state superintendent of education, Mick Zais, and Gov. Nikki Haley will not apply to the U.S. Department of Education for up to $50 million in federal Race to the Top funds allocated for South Carolina's public school system.
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When discussing whether libraries will weather shifts in technology, librarians who have been on the scene longer (OK, only slightly longer) than I have like to mention how everyone was predicting our demise when the Internet came along in the '90s Instead, libraries added free access to the Internet to their missions, and in the process have helped millions bridge the digital divide. Anyone who's been in a library recently will likely attest that they are busy, vital places. Nonetheless, whether libraries are obsolete is a question that is perennially raised. I think the necessity of public libraries will ...
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NEW YORK -- In a slender essay titled "Here Is New York," E.B. White wrote about the implausibility of the great city, mentioning among other things the millions of gallons of water needed each day just so people could brush their teeth.
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As the primary pundit at the "Harmony County Weekly Blister," I am frequently called upon to perform many tasks. So, besides winding up the cat and putting out the clock, I also write the advice to the lovelorn column entitled, "Ask the Stud Muffin."
I never played high school football. My glory days ended with the little league Lions and the gridiron of my youth is now a stand of depressingly mature pine trees across the old, worn foot bridge in Woodward Park. Like many, I now enjoy the pleasure of watching and cheering on younger generations and look forward to each new season as it plays out on our home field at Zemp Stadium. It is my opinion that we, as a community, should keep Zemp and prepare the old facility for the future.
WASHINGTON -- Lego's groundbreaking female-scientists set sold out almost immediately after it was released this month. But never fear, fans of feminist toys: A new Barbie doll, now in stock, is also shattering the plastic ceiling.
For the past couple of years, our district has designated one book for summer reading for secondary students. I've really liked this approach. It has generated a lot of enthusiasm and gotten entire families involved. This year's book, This I Believe II, is a collection of personal essays by a very diverse group of people, ranging from legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma to author Studs Terkel. The book got me to thinking; if I was to write an essay about what I believe about education, what would I say?
Let me begin with full disclosure: I was born in Greenville and even though my family moved away when I was 5 years old, I still consider Greenville my hometown. And, as with a first love, one's hometown will always be something special. So it is with me and Greenville.
Some missing something or the other required me to prowl through closets at Mama's house. That's when I found it. I pulled it out and smiled broadly, warmed by the memories it evoked.
I am man enough to admit that I have cried more than once since the news broke that Robin Williams had died by what local officials said was suicide.
WASHINGTON -- Grade deflation is dead. Long live grade inflation!
Since I have lived in this area for about eight months now, I have made a discovery about Camden. There's quite a bit of music talent here, especially for a town this size. I have to also say that my opinion comes from just the musicians I know and have heard perform personally. I'm sure there are countless others I don't know about -- yet.
I watched Rory McIlroy win the PGA title Sunday, his third straight golf tournament victory and his second major title within three weeks.
I jokingly call my backyard "the wilderness." My house, built in 1912, sits fairly close to my downtown street, as is the custom in the Historic District in Sumter. The Victorian cast iron fence and neat little patch of grass in my front yard belie what is happening behind my house. The deck at the back of my house overlooks a very deep backyard filled with towering oak and pecan trees. Just over the fence at the rear of the yard is a magnificent willow oak which is probably 100 years old. It rises majestically above all and makes a ...
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