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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will travel to the factory line of the newest version of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle next week to personally thank the workers for their efforts to speed delivery of the vehicles to warfighters.
Oshkosh Corp.'s factory in Oshkosh, Wis., produces the new MRAP all-terrain vehicle known as the M-ATV, which is designed to be suited to off-road conditions in Afghanistan's rugged terrain.
The Defense Department has contracted the company to produce 6,600 of the armored vehicles. Gates is scheduled to travel to Oshkosh on Nov. 12, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said in a briefing today.
"The secretary wants to thank the workers there for doing everything they can to expedite the production of these lifesaving vehicles," he said.
Morrell called their efforts an "amazing display of industry and dedication to the war effort."
The factory expects to speed the production of the vehicle from 46 M-ATVs produced in July to 1,000 per month by the end of the year, he said.
The new vehicles are lighter than the MRAPs used in Iraq and offer an independent suspension and shorter wheel base that make it more adaptable to Afghanistan's rocky hills. Its design retains the V-shape hull that helps to divert the blast of roadside bombs.
Morrell emphasized that the new vehicle is only one piece of the department's effort to defeat the improvised explosive devices so prevalent in Afghanistan.
"Secretary Gates is pushing everyone in this building to make sure they are doing everything they possibly can to provide our warfighters with everything they need, be it [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance], improved command and control, or additional authorities or even capabilities, so that they can better diagram, dissect and ultimately defeat these IED networks," he said.
Most of the bombs found in Afghanistan are unsophisticated, unlike the more high-tech bombs troops faced in Iraq. But even so, they are the No. 1 killer of troops there, usually employing huge amounts of cheap bomb-making materials to attack troops and vehicles.
Last week, a U.S. Stryker combat vehicle was hit in Afghanistan by a 1,000-pound homemade bomb, killing seven soldiers.
"There's not an armored vehicle you could build that would likely protect you against a thousand-pound fertilizer bomb," Morrell said. "Even if it doesn't penetrate the hull, those inside of it are going to suffer a concussive blast that is clearly going to be a real danger to them."
Gates hosted a meeting at the Pentagon today to bring together most of the key players in the efforts to defeat the IEDs, Morrell said. Participants include representatives of the MRAP and ISR task forces, as well as the Joint IED Defeat Organization. Those deployed joined the meeting via secure teleconference.
Morrell said all groups involved need to collaborate to take an all-encompassing approach toward defeating those who make and emplace the bombs.
"If we're relying simply on better armor at the point of contact, we're not going to succeed," Morrell said. "We need to be attacking this problem from 360 degrees, just as we did in Iraq and proved so successful there, by watching the roads, by watching for patterns of life, by mapping those patterns, by developing intelligence that allows us to penetrate the networks and take them down."
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No bias for Northampton Brewery here. I would have included it as my #1 biggest disappointment, except I have heard that they have a new team brewing there. Since I have not had the opportunity to verify and taste, I did not think it fair to comment.
I understand that the beer geeks would not hold most of the locals in high regard, but we are the vast minority of the beer drinking community. I would propose that popularity and public opinion would be best gauged by shelf space allocated at retail.
I have not tasted anything of quality from Opa since the team changed there. I wish, wish, wish BBC made anything palatable. I live walking distance and would love to have a brewery to love.
It would be great to hear from this crowd… what are the "underrated" beers?
George - I have just started following your column, so I don't know if you have addressed the following...
Why are most of our local breweries so highly overrated, and why don't they make better beer?
Here would be my list, in no specific order...
Opa Opa
Any VT brewery (OC, MH, LT, etc)
Paper City
Good luck, Chris. Get better. The team and the fans need you.
Bruce - thanks for keeping the team here for at least one more year. I am not a season holder, but have attended 10 games this season. I appreciate the opportunity to bring my family out for a fun and affordable night.
Now... let's win some!

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And by new offense, you mean the offense that Tony Sparano hand picked? The offensive coordinator that he interviewed and gave the job to? The 2 running backs that he traded for and drafted? The whole new starting right side of the offensive line that he decided on?
The same offensive line that he hasn't been able to pick consistent starters for in 4 years?
Virtually every coach in the national football league had to deal with the NFL lockout. Tony was put into the same situation as every other team in the league...and he has won 3 games. Teams with completely new coaching staffs are putting together winning seasons with just a handful of weeks to introduce new systems. This is Sparano's 4th year....and the team was still under prepared.
Oh, and Sparano did pick Henne. His assistant coaches(some of whom he hired) sold him on Chad Henne in that draft. After picking him, Sparano kept him on for 4 years, with 4 offseasons to replace him. Sparano did not. Even this past offseason, in a quarterback heavy draft, with a contract that stated he had power over personel moves, Sparano passed on good quarterback prospects and refused to trade up for others. Why did he do so? Because he thought he had better in Henne. And he was wrong.
The only person who is having a "tough" time judging the season is you. Others see that 3 wins is not acceptable. Others see that Tony Sparano making the same mistakes he did 4 years ago is not acceptable. Good coaches rise up against adversity. Good coaches win games with the odds stacked against them. Good coaches properly evaluate talent and take steps to correct positions of weakness. Good coaches do not let their boss's misadventures distract them from winning games. Tony Sparano does not fill any of those requirements. Tony Sparano is not a good coach.


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Lee Cusenbary is the General Counsel at Mission Pharmacal Company in San Antonio. He is also the creator of Ethics Follies®, a musical parody that uses comedy to raise ethics issues. The fully-produced Broadway-style musical combines San Antonio's business leaders and professional actors to engage the community. It is featured each year by The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) for their ethics conference which benefits The Community Justice Program. Lee is also a frequent writer and speaker on why "good ethics is good for business," and is a recipient of the San Antonio Business Ethics Award. In 2012, ACC renamed their ethics awards the "Lee Cusenbary Ethical Life Award" in recognition of his commitment to ethics in law and business. Learn more about how you can be part of a more ethical culture at EthicsFollies.com.
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STRAIGHT FROM THA UNDERGROUND follows the journey of B-BOY, a hip hop head from Compton, CA who falls back in time through a hole made during the construction of one railroad (the Metro Rail). He soon finds himself on another train on the Underground Railroad running for his life along with five other formerly enslaved Negroes. on their journey to freedom, they learn many things from B BOY including reading and writing, which he teaches them using whatever he can find including: his rhymes, speeches by Abraham Lincoln and even School House Rock's "Conjunction Junction."
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This is the first time Straight From Tha Underground is being performed at UCR although an excerpt was performed two years ago at CaliFest, the annual hip hop theatre festival at UCR curated by Hinds. Straight From Tha Underground was written in 1997 and has been peformed in several venues across the country including Memphis, TN, Cincinnati, OH; Loma Linda, Riverside and San Bernardino, CA.
The play was also recently afforded the unique honor of being named an official "Network To Freedom Site" by the National Parks Service in 2005. This award which is usually reserved for Underground Railroad locations, was awarded to Straight From Tha Underground because of its unique and creative exploration of the Underground Railroad and slavery.
The journey of the play is accentuated by the singing of traditional Negro sprirituals by a group assembled for the production from the Riverside and Los Angeles areas culminating with a blending of the two musical forms: The Negro Spiritual and Hip Hop.
"I am extremely excited about this production of Straight From Tha Underground, not only because of the production itself, but because this performance in the University Theatre, in a way, brings me full circle because this is the site of my very first play, The First Day of The Rest of Your Life, back in 1987 while a student here at UCR. That play was also performed in celebration on Martin Luther King Day," said Professor Hinds.
The cast of 8 actors include members from the Riverside community as well as UCR students. Hinds saw the production of this play as an opportunity to continue his personal efforts as well as the university's desire to continue to bridge the gap between the city of Riverside and UCR and of course he believes that the arts are a great point of departure in this quest.
Straight From Tha Underground will premiere on January 15, 7pm at UCR in the University Theatre. Tickets are $12 General / $8 Students.
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The robotics industry is still in its infancy. Remember where personal computers were in 1980? Like that.
Peter Singer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution focusing on robotics and the defense industry. He says robots are around us more than we think - in things like automated manufacturing, or cars that parallel park themselves.
SINGER <These are all robotic things; we just don't like to call it robots. Which is much the same - you know, I drive a car that has a hundred computers in it. I don't call it a computerized car. That's when you know it's really made it. When they're around you and you don't even notice anymore.>
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Kim English and Missouri are in the driver's seat for a top seed in the NCAA tournament.
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Tyshawn Taylor's Jayhawks could boost their seeding by beating Mizzou in Lawrence.
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Quincy Miller and the Bears need to buckle down and put an end to their two-game slide.
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Chris Allen (center), Royce White and the Cyclones face a make-or-break stretch run.
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J'Covan Brown can't push the Longhorns into the NCAA tournament all by himself, can he?
With three weeks left in the regular season, the Big 12 has four teams in contention for its conference title and two more in the running for an NCAA tournament berth. Express-News staff writer Mike Finger takes a look at what the final six games have in store for the league's six elite teams.
Record: 23-2, 10-2 Big 12
Best case: The Tigers, who have never won the Big 12 and never reached the Final Four, would secure the conference crown and a near-certain No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament by winning out.
Worst case: The Tigers have shown no signs of being prone to a slump, but even the unlikely scenario of losing two or three games shouldn't drop them below a No. 4 seed.
Big game: at Kansas, Feb. 25
Record: 20-5, 10-2
Best case: The Jayhawks also would be worthy of a top seed if they finish 6-0, which would wrap up their eighth consecutive regular-season Big 12 championship.
Worst case: Three tricky road trips remain, as well as two home games against foes (Missouri and Texas) that have beaten them this season or last. A 3-3 or 2-4 finish would drop them into the realm of fourth and fifth seeds.
Big game: vs. Missouri, Feb. 25
Record: 21-4, 8-4
Best case: Perry Jones III finally finds a mean streak, the Bears start living up to their immense potential, and Missouri and Kansas stumble a couple of times to create a three-way tie.
Worst case: The troubling signs that surfaced in back-to-back losses get worse, and the Bears limp into the NCAAs with a confidence problem.
Big game: at Texas, Feb. 20
Record: 18-7, 8-4
Best case: Forward Royce White keeps rolling, and the Cyclones thrive in a rough stretch of four games against the Big 12's top six.
Worst case: The brutal finish exposes ISU's relative lack of experience, and the Cyclones have to sweat out an invitation on Selection Sunday.
Big game: at Missouri, Feb. 29
Record: 17-7, 6-6
Best case: The Wildcats rebound from Saturday's second-half meltdown at Texas, pull off a couple of upsets and earn a No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the NCAAs.
Worst case: KSU's lack of offense proves to be too crippling to overcome, and the Wildcats have to settle for the NIT.
Big game: vs. Kansas, tonight
Record: 16-9, 6-6
Best case: J'Covan Brown gets enough help from UT's maturing freshmen to not only wrap up a 14th consecutive NCAA berth, but also enter the tournament as a real threat.
Worst case: The Longhorns' season-long inconsistency and lack of focus resurface, keeping them out of the 68-team field.
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Living History Park will be the location for two community events in the upcoming days. Colonial Times: A Day to Remember, and the Spirits of Hallowed Eve Dinner will both be held in the park.
The former is a free event that will be held Friday and Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. on both days. According to park chair Lynn Thompson, the event will be used to educate participants on colonial history.
"This is an 18th-century event that we do to help educate people about the war that represents our freedom," Thompson explained. "Twenty-two years ago, while the city was constructing River View Park, they uncovered graves.
Thompson furthered explained that there is a marker at River View Park that tells the story of the discovery. Each year, the day to remember is a reenactment of the burial of Samuel Hammond, who is one of the people found.
"So many people do not understand how much of the war was fought in South Carolina," Thompson said. "The event offers hands on learning and what better way to learn than to relive?"
The Hallowed Eve Event will be held Oct. 25 beginning at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature a Wine and Spirits Dinner will include wine ale, two meats and one seafood, soup/salad, vegetables, bread and desserts. The food will be served in a colonial manner.
"We have hands on activities for all ages. Young people can learn drills and take orders from the militia, and students can go on our web page to download a scavenger hunt," said Thompson. "Many of the teachers in the CSRA will give extra credit if students come to the event on Saturday and Sunday and seek out the answers."
"Between each course spirits of Hallowed eve will provide entertainment. So if you do not like to have a good time and get embarrassed easily, this dinner may not be for you," Thompson joked.
The event is free to attend, and the dinner is $50. Donations for the event are encouraged, and funds go to supporting the park. In addition, the event will include activities for all ages.
The following day, the Hallowed Eve event will continue with a Ghost Walk & Illusion Show from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Participants can walk among ghosts and also take a tour. The tour will be available for families for a reservation fee of $7 per family. The money will be refunded at check in.
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Ng Kai Ling – Straits Times
Singapore. Go ahead, enjoy the durians — but leave some for everyone.
Richard Lim, 60, who was said to have forbidden his neighbors from picking up the fruits of a durian tree near his home, has come forward to clear the air.
The resident of Block 69 Moulmein Road told The Straits Times yesterday that he had no problem with people taking the fruit home to eat.
He said his beef was only with one neighbor, Madam Lily Wee, whom he described as greedy.
The spat came to light after Madam Wee called the police last week and complained that Lim had used expletives on her for picking up durians from a tree, which he claimed was his. The tree, however, is on state land and does not belong to anyone.
Lim claimed that he only called Madam Wee "yao gui" (greedy) last Tuesday after he saw her returning for more durians after she had already taken four.
"I told her that she shouldn't be so greedy and leave some durians for our other neighbors," he said.
Madam Wee had said she picked up two durians at about 4 a.m. that morning before going back at 6 a.m. for a third one.
Although some residents have accused Lim of not letting them so much as eye the durians, Lim said this was not true.
"Whoever sees the durians can take them. When I pick the durians, I always share them with my neighbors," he said, adding that of the more than 20 durians he picked this year, he gave 18 away.
Yesterday, Lim's neighbor Chin Y.H. said he gave her durians from his harvest every year. "He is not selfish, he shares it with some of us who are close to him."
Lim said the durian tree, which began to bear fruit in 2006, was planted by his late father in the early 1980s.
Asked if he had argued with other neighbors, Lim said: "I've never scolded anybody else, only Madam Wee."
He added that the neighbors who spoke out against him were people he did not get along with.
After the area's town council weighed in on the issue to say that the tree did not belong to him, Lim now says residents are free to pick as many durians as they like — even if it is more than what he thinks is fair.
He said he wouldn't mind even if the tree was chopped down, adding: "It is not worth quarrelling over durians."
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Actually, it IS about race. Specifically, it is about the panic that many white Americans experience when they experience America as belonging to more than themselves. This panic causes these Americans to engage in bigoted, vile, racist discourse . . . as we see here. No matter that there is a fig leaf of "law" surrounding the racism. It's all about race . . . as another right wing bigot used to say on the radio, culture, borders, and language. In other words, race.
No human being is illegal. They do not have documents at this moment.
Of course they are your brothers and sisters.
This is a roster of the usual right wing suspects. Kremer, in particular, has done incalculable damage to public education. These are authentically bad people, and anyone they back ought to be viewed with suspicion.
Thank you, Mo, for clearing this up. And certainly the practice ought to be illegal.
Mr. Snell, congratulations on a fine essay, and even more kudos for the research that you've done to back up the argument.
However, in the remarks above, you make a common but damaging error. You attempt to engage Republican anti-tax zealots with facts. The Republicans live in a fact-free zone, aided by media (e.g. Faux News) and pretend "research" (conservative hacks paid by the Koch Bros. e.g. Cascade Policy Institute, Hoover Institute, etc.). Large numbers of this tribe don't believe in evolution; large numbers do believe that President Obama is a secret Muslim and/or not actually born in the U.S.A.
However, a disproportionately large number of the rightmost shills for the conservative 1% post here on O-live. Some are even paid per posting by various right wing organizations!
In short, evidence is not a valuable commodity in their world. In fact, it kind of gets in the way.
Therefore, as it says in one particular book, cast not your pearls before swine. It gets the pearls dirty and it annoys the pigs.
Truly, fac modo, the facts are on one side and you are clearly on the other.
I-84 above and marvinlee below . . . with each new post you expose your naivete. You could no more teach than fly by flapping your arms.
Please go back to expressing your views on morning television or something similarly moronic. Or go to school, learn to value evidence and prize learning, and get the requisite degrees. Then see if you can con someone into hiring you to teach in an actual school (not bloody likely).
Here, where real educators are reading your sorry, sad, unintentionally humorous braggadocio, you embarrass not only yourself but the fictive sources you pretend to cite.
Indeed. This is just the latest story in the long jihad Betsy Hammond and the Oregonian have against labor in general and teachers in particular.
I can remember students who were within a few weeks of graduating who dropped out. They met a boy/girl, moved to the California coast, mother/father was getting out of jail and they wanted to help, family needed help in a restaurant/cleaners/auto shop etc. Several of them I know went on to go to college or other advanced training some years later. Some students are in difficult life circumstances; others simply take longer to develop.
They aren't widgets. They're people.
And in my (long) experience as a teacher, there are always some teachers who would do pretty much anything if that kid would only stay in school, graduate, move on with the advantages that a full secondary education affords them.
Teachers do this because, all cynicism aside, they are committed to their students. I don't want to say "love" each and every one - some are pretty difficult to be the object of appropriate affection. But all the teachers I know (hundreds) are committed to helping EVERY ONE of these kids to succeed. And sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it's not enough.
I have become inured to seeing the latest polemic against teachers here in these pages. I know not to expect understanding and generosity from the Oregonian. As Bertolt Brecht said, you can't expect fair conduct on a sinking ship.
Still, these kind of breathless stories founded only on half-truths and misunderstandings used to be beneath actual journalism. They were the stock in trade of the National Enquirer and their ilk. Sadly, that's no longer the case.
May I ask why the comments of Boofalo, which seem to be made up entirely of personal insult ("whining bums," the "same people . . . who can't tell you what they're protesting") are allowed, no problem . . .
When a number of critics from the left have had their permission to post revoked?
Will there be some explanation of this purge?
Why is my roommate getting a "permission denied" message?
"limp wristed architects"? Really? That's what you've got?
Let me explain why the usual suspects on Oregon's "radical right," forever looking to de-fund public education and shift that spending to the private sector, is desperate to get this toxic stew passed.
1) Public schools are closing (e.g. Marshall here in Portland). Some educated observers felt that more high schools ought to have been closed. It was a difficult decision, balancing schools that have long been the anchors of their respective neighborhoods against what we could afford. Needless to say, this is not the time to introduce more unneeded and unwanted schools.
2) Of course, if your aim is not to have excellent education for all but rather to undermine the public schools, this is an opportunity that's hard to pass up.
3) Charter schools are now demonstrably failures at the mission they sold to state legislatures, i.e. to provide scalable innovations that will educate those who are now falling through the cracks of the educational system. To the contrary, the consensus of more and more scholarly (i.e. not sponsored by the radical right, but by actual universities engaged in their basic mission) research is that charter schools, with some notable exceptions due to exceptionable non-replicable circumstances, generally result in WORSE educational outcomes than public schools.
4) Don't believe this? I don't blame you. The radical right and their billionaire sponsors have done a pretty good job of lying and obfuscation. Here is a right-down-the-middle summary of the situation: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/ (note: Ravitch was appointed to serve in both Republican and Democratic administrations, has served with the notoriously conservative Hoover Institute, and is now a prof at NYU. She's the real deal.
5) This snake pit of a mess-o-legislation revokes enrollment policies, destabilizing the budgets at the exact historic moment when that destabilization will do maximum damage. The richer school districts will benefit from parent-shopping, the poorer districts will lose money and talent.
6) It forces public schools, i.e. your tax dollars, to pay for for-profit "virtual schools," which, coincidentally, Republican sleazebag Matt Wingard has a financial interest! Republicans passing legislation for their selfish greedy interests . . . who could have predicted that?
7) It sucks money out of schools emergency reserves and puts it into a moronic "merit pay" program, something the voters have already soundly rejected.
So, to be concise, what we have here is an ill-advised power grab by the anti-public school right wing zealots to accomplish their agenda at the expense of public schools, kids, and families. Oh, and the biggest players stand to make a bundle from OUR TAX DOLLARS.
They believe that if they shout, "Look over there! A union!" you'll be taken in.
Don't be.
@z97221 . . . I suggest that you run for the "worthless" school board. Even though I often disagree with most of them, I respect that they are doing a largely thankless and misunderstood job as volunteers.
So please, go ahead, let's put your "ideas" (really, so far as anyone can tell, more inchoate unfocused rage than intelligible ideas) in the public forum and let's vote on them. Let's see how many of your fellow citizens share your point of view about education's "little problems" and the "brainwashing material."
I suspect you know that, despite your bluster about "those of us who are not public employees," you are in a minority on this issue. Your repeating of the Faux News meme-of-the-season doesn't count as argument. Evidently, you have none.
Rural resident - I understand that you taught in a 6 of 7 schedule. I appreciate that you think that 5 of 7 is conducive to better teaching and learning.
However, unless your contract was very different than ours, you cannot have taught 6 of 7 AND had one prep AND had some school duty during that one prep or during your six classes. A preparation period is just that - a period in which no other duties can be assigned because we are expected to be preparing for classes, grading, etc. When I was assigned to study hall, I was tutoring students, reading and editing their papers, giving out passes to the library for specific books, assessing whether or not to send a student to the nurse, addressing the multiple discipline issues and the hundred other tiny tasks that are necessary to make the school run. If you are/were a teacher, you don't need me to tell you this.
Elsewhere you make a suggestion that, to save money, the district ought to hire other lower cost employees to do the more mundane tasks that are less explicitly academic, e.g. keeping order in the halls, supervising study hall, etc. Great! The more that we can do to make our schools calm and peaceful centers of respect for learning, the better we will all be. However, you will find very quickly that (a) no money is actually saved by hiring more people (quite the contrary!), and (b) the academic skill set for offering assistance in study halls, for example, is more formidable than one might expect. Not everyone has the MLA citation system down cold, not everyone remembers their Spanish verb systems, and not everyone remembers their second year algebra (still less calculus!).
The teachers that I know work very diligently to do right by their students. No doctor obsesses more over a patient, no lawyer toils harder for a client, than does a teacher for his or her students. Contrary to the recent meme perpetrated by the right wing folks who are, frankly, out to dismantle public education, our problems by and large do not lie with our teachers.
These comments (let's be charitable and call them erroneous) are exactly the kind of fracas that the Oregonian wants to stir up. More anti-union lies, half-truths, and intentionally omitted context. Oh, and the story makes it clear that Betsy Hammond once again has no serious understanding of what she is writing about. That too.
To begin: teachers are not concerned about a few extra minutes. Actually teachers would have an easier job in the proposed system, with one prep each day the length of a regular period (as per contract) and would see only half of their students each day.
Next, teachers do not have two periods to prepare classes in a five-of-seven period schedule, which is what most schools operate on now. They supervise study halls, they work on school projects, they work in the library, they work with student groups, they patrol the halls, they collaborate with other teachers in Freshman Academies . . . some even teach another class just to expand electives for students. Nobody that I'm aware of simply gets the time off.
So, much to the Oregonian's chagrin, the real story is not "lazy teachers." Teachers however are generally concerned about the effect of this new pattern on students' learning. There is no clear research saying that fewer, longer block periods each day are helpful. (At best, the research is contradictory.) Concerns include the impact of this schedule on students who have trouble getting to class each day (if you miss a day of math, for example, you will miss the equivalent of two class periods now, thus doubling the effect of an absence). Our time with students will be shortened, overall, by most of our calculations, and for teachers who teach AP classes - especially the ones that teach for an AP test that measures a full year of learning e.g. AP Chemistry and AP U.S. History - this is a problem.
Many anxious students who are relatively unprepared for school, who come out of less than ideal family situations - and trust me, we have a LOT of these students - report that they find it very difficult to be in block classes now. They are not used to concentrating that hard for that long a period of time. If every day they have only block classes, some of them have threatened to not come to school at all. I have no idea whether this is the decision many of them will make, but I know that students have told me this over and over. I listen to what students have to say about this, both the ones who are already succeeding and the ones who are not succeeding in the present situation.
There are non-trivial safety considerations as well, and these are of course never mentioned in the article. If the district can restrict students to taking classes in only seven of eight class periods, this means for at least an hour-and-a-half every other day that student will be either arriving late to school, leaving school early, or will have an hour-and-a-half hole in his or her schedule with nothing to do. What could possibly go wrong? Are we ready to have (at least) 1/8 of the student body roaming the halls and/or neighborhood? Are we going to try and keep them in school? How? With what staff? Have you ever counted the doors to the outside of a high school? Can you calculate the staff it would take to create a system that would keep students out of the halls, inside the school, in a school whose cafeteria already cannot come close to feeding all its students in the allotted time for lunch?
Finally, the district appears to want teachers to teach six of eight class periods (two block periods in the morning, two in the afternoon, teachers teach three of the four periods, much easier than the present schedule if you ask me) without accounting for students who will be either taking only seven of eight classes. Will there be study halls or tutorials or other support systems? If so, by law only accredited, licensed teachers may supervise these. Will we hire new teachers for this? With what money? On the other hand, if students take eight of eight classes, then likewise new teachers will have to be hired for this. Eight out of eight classes increases the number of classes offered by 1/8, or 12.5%. Is the community ready to hire 12.5% more teachers?
Now, mind you, none of this is even hinted at in the typical Betsy Hammond anti-teacher piece above. It's just another thoughtless anti-union broadside, printed hoping to stir up the yahoos. One look at the comments here sees that the column has done what it set out to do.
I am happy to teach in whatever system we decide, and I and the other teachers I know will cheerfully adapt. If this is the best we can do for learning, bring it on. But most teachers have a number of unanswered questions that have nothing to do with Betsy Hammond's "lazy teacher" narrative and everything to do with their deep knowledge of pedagogy and their serious concern for student learning.
Yeah, everybody knows teaching children is where the real money is. Why be a high priced lobbyist or a bankster leech on society when you can teach? Being a CEO of a big corporation that pays no taxes - that's for suckers. No, teaching kids is where the smart cash goes to vacation. Swimming pools. Movie stars. Yeah, that's the life for me.
Perhaps somebody in the right wing idiocracy made a bet that he could make Americans believe anything at all. He could even make people believe that TEACHERS were the overpaid greedy bloodsuckers ruining society.
It's not working. Go fish.
"Illegal bank customer?" Really, that's what you're going with? That's not even sophistry. It's just lame.
What transparent idiocy from the Republicans! If you want to practice law in our courtrooms, go to school and get the proper credential. If you want to perform surgery, go to school and get the proper credential. If you want to teach our children, go to school and get the proper credential.
The right wing privatization agenda (Greed Uber Alles!) once again is in the way of getting anything done for the people of Oregon. Get out of the way.


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An article by Dr Carolyn Jackson and Dr Nigel Sherriff entitled 'A qualitative approach to intergroup relations: exploring the applicability of the Social Identity Approach to "messy" school contexts' was the subject of a two-page piece in the TES on 7th October. The article, soon to be published in the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology, explores intergroup relations in schools. Jackson and Sherriff argue that Social Identity approaches to intergroup relations, which are currently dominant worldwide, are limited by their reliance on positivist approaches. In the article, Jackson and Sherriff focus on the complex interplay between discourses about popularity within schools, constructions of gender identities, and intergroup relations. In doing so, they demonstrate the benefits that qualitative research may have for social psychological intergroup theories and their applications.
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That is the opinion of chief executive Ferran Soriano, with City working under strict orders from UEFA.
Sanctions have been handed down after breaking Financial Fair Play regulations, and that means City can no longer embark on elaborate spending sprees.
They have, however, been able to tie up moves for Bacary Sagna, Fernando Reges, Willy Caballero and Bruno Zuculini in the current window.
The new recruits have helped to add important depth to the reigning Premier League champions, but there are still areas to address.
Soriano concedes that bolstering the defensive ranks remains a top priority, with the likes of Mehdi Benatia and Eliaquim Mangala heavily linked with a big-money switch to the Etihad Stadium.
Soriano told the Men In Blazers podcast: "We don't plan season by season, we plan in cycles. And cycles can be three, four, five seasons.
"One year ago, we knew the positions we wanted to reinforce in the team and we did it.
"We have a new right-back, we have a holding midfielder, we'll have a new central defender and that's it.
"We don't need to sign new players for the sake of it.
"We need to sign players that the team needs because the team has a balance. To win you need to keep the balance.
"Our squad is very strong and it's the second year that they play with Manuel Pellegrini, so they'll do much better."


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Dear Friends,
Every chance I get, I like to talk to business owners and professionals about how DBPR treats them. I have found that when they don't know I'm the Secretary, they will be completely open, sharing how they feel about their interaction with the agency and government in general. It's a little like the popular TV show "Undercover Boss" in which the CEO learns the truth about employees and their interaction with customers. Being incognito seems to encourage more honest responses!
Sometimes I'll encounter a customer who is dropping off an application here at our office in Tallahassee, and I ask them how they're being treated. It's helpful to get a good idea of how businesses feel DBPR is doing and whether there is anything we could improve. Earlier this week, I walked by the customer service window of the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco and met Danny, who was working on getting a permit. I asked him how the division was treating him and was pleased to hear him praise our staff as friendly, efficient, and more helpful than any other government entity he'd previously encountered.
I asked him about his business plan, and his excitement continued to grow. Danny said he and his teenage son had used our website to map out the location of certain retailers and wholesalers and they had determined there might be a gap in the distribution system Danny could fill by opening his warehouse in a small rural Florida community. As is the case with so many entrepreneurs, he was beginning his business on a shoestring with a small loan from his family, and had two months worth of credit from his suppliers. Danny came to our office to talk with our staff about the state's requirements and was literally gushing about the help he received. He had brought his paperwork with him and was walking out with his license in hand!
This entrepreneurial phenomenon is extremely important to our staff at DBPR - people who are taking a huge personal and financial risk to bring a small business to Florida need immediate support and help. What a bureaucrat may see as a stack of application papers may be the first step in fulfilling an entrepreneur's dream. We emphasize over and over to our staff that we are going to treat every entrepreneur's dream with respect and support, and we will try very hard to make it come true because we have an enormous impact on how easily and quickly a small business gets licensed and opens its doors.
Now here's the bottom line. Danny told me that right off the bat, his business would employ 13 people and that within a couple of months he would have 60 people working for him. Imagine the effect 60 new jobs will have on a small rural town that has many empty homes and vacant store fronts on Main Street. Danny invited me to come over for his opening on March 5, and I hope that I can join him. Together with people like him and staff like ours at DBPR, we will get Florida back to work!
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WASHINGTON, March 17, 2007 It is vital Congress pass an emergency war spending bill as soon as possible and without strings attached, President Bush said during his weekly radio address today.
"In times of war, Congress has no greater obligation than funding our warfighters," Bush said. "The purpose of this legislation should be to give our troops on the front lines the resources, funds and equipment they need to fight our enemies.
Bush submitted a defense budget request Feb. 5 that includes a $93.4 billion emergency supplemental measure to cover the cost of operations in the war on terror for fiscal 2007. Congress subsequently added several additional spending measures to the bill. Bush said some members of Congress are using the bill as an opportunity to micromanage military commanders and force a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, while spending billions on domestic projects that have nothing to do with the war on terror.
U.S. troops "urgently" need the emergency funds as they step up the new security strategy in Iraq, he said. The new strategy, under the leadership of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, is still in its early stages, yet signs of progress are already being seen, Bush said.
"Iraqi and American troops have rounded up more than 700 people affiliated with Shia extremists," he said. "They've also launched aggressive operations against Sunni extremists. And they've uncovered large caches of weapons that could have been used to kill our troops."
Bush said the bill Congress is now considering would undermine Petraeus and the troops under his command just as these critical security operations are getting under way. The bill would impose restrictive conditions on the use of war funds and require the withdrawal of U.S. forces by the end of this year if these conditions are not met, he said.
"These restrictions would handcuff our generals in the field by denying them the flexibility they need to adjust their operations to the changing situation on the ground," Bush said. "And these restrictions would substitute the mandates of Congress for the considered judgment of our military commanders."
The consequences of imposing an artificial timetable would be disastrous, he added.
Bush said Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said it best when he told Congress setting a fixed date to withdraw would "essentially tell [the enemy] how long they would have to wait until we're gone."
The scale and scope of insurgent attacks would increase and intensify if U.S. troops were forced to step back from Baghdad before it is more secure, he said. This could in turn cause more violence to spill out across the entire country, and possibly the entire region, he said. "The enemy would emerge from the chaos emboldened with new safe havens, new recruits, new resources, and an even greater determination to harm America," he said.
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