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Skip to comments.American Arrested as Nuclear Spy for Israel
Posted on 04/22/2008 12:07:37 PM PDT by anymouse
U.S. authorities arrested an American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said.
Ben-Ami Kadish, 84, acknowledged his spying in FBI interviews and said he acted out of a belief that he was helping Israel, court papers said.
He was accused of reporting to an Israeli government handler who also dealt with Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American citizen serving a life term on a 1985 charge of spying for Israel.
Kadish's arrest is a sign the Pollard scandal, which remains an irritant in the close U.S. alliance with Israel, may have spread wider than was previously acknowledged. Kadish was arrested in New Jersey and was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon at U.S. District Court in New York City, authorities said.
"We will be informing the Israelis of this action," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said. "Twenty-plus years ago during the Pollard case we noted that this was not the kind of behavior we would expect from friends and allies and that would remain the case today."
Kadish's lawyer, Bruce Goldstein, did not immediately return a call for comment.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel, asked about the arrest, said: "We know nothing about it. We heard it from the media."
Pollard pleaded guilty in 1986. Israel granted him citizenship in 1996 and acknowledged in 1998 that the former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst was one of its spies. Israel has unsuccessfully sought Pollard's release.
Kadish is a Connecticut-born U.S. citizen who worked as a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey.
His spying lasted roughly from 1979 to 1985, and his contact with the unnamed Israeli handler continued until March of this year, the federal complaint against him said.
The complaint said Kadish did not appear to receive any money in exchange for his suspected spying, just small gifts and restaurant meals.
Kadish, who had a security clearance, took 50 to 100 classified documents from the arsenal's library, working from a list provided by the handler identified in a federal complaint as "CC-1." The handler would then photograph the documents in Kadish's basement and Kadish would return them to the library, the complaint said.
It said one of the classified documents passed on by Kadish "contained information concerning nuclear weaponry." Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons but has never acknowledged it.
Another document obtained by Kadish related to "a major weapons system ... a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet that the United States had sold to another foreign country," the complaint said. It did not identify the country.
A third document contained information regarding the U.S. Patriot missile air defense system.
The complaint said Kadish maintained contact with CC-1, met him in Israel in 2004, and spoke with him by telephone on March 20 of this year, after his first FBI interview. It said the handler told him to lie to U.S. authorities: "Don't say anything ... What happened 25 years ago? You don't remember anything," the handler was quoted as saying.
The complaint said the handler worked for the Israeli government as consul for science affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in New York, from 1980 to November 1985.
During the late 1970s the handler worked for what was known at the time as Israeli Aircraft Industries, an Israeli government contractor, the complaint said. It said the handler left the United States when Pollard was arrested and has not returned.
The history appears to fit with that of Yosef Yagur, who has been publicly linked to the Pollard case. A woman who identified herself as Yagur's wife, when reached by telephone, said, "We're not speaking to journalists. Goodbye."
(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Christine Kearney in New York and Dan Williams in Jerusalem
Leaked to let Israel know that we ain't gonna pardon the traitorous scumbag named Pollard...
Timing is everything.
Notice what details that are provided vs. what Iran should be scared about.
Israeli F-15s took out the Iraqi and Syrian nuke facilities with conventional weapons while effectively slipping through Russian-provided air defenses. Iran should be rightly concerned that Israel would not hesitate to arm the F-15s with tactical nukes, in order to take out Iran's nuke facilities. An 84 yr old Jew just enabled the U.S. and Israel to send Iran a potent message - don't even think about it.
Samething happened with China with those "miss-shipped" nuke fuses sent to Tiawan.
The timing of this is very strange. Prosecuting an 84 year old man 23 years after the crime was committed? They had no idea of this for the last 23 years?
No kidding. I never believed those triggers were "miss-shipped".
I also believe that both Taiwan and Saudia Arabia have nukes.
and I'm not really sure about those unaccounted-for nukes that took a ride or two across country recently.
I didn't know anything about that.
But I would be very pleased if Taiwan had nukes; of all countries (besides Israel), it needs them (and about 20 different delivery systems).
Taiwan at least gets to deal with rational enemies.
20+ years ago? What's the statute of limitations on espionage? It isn't "treason" because it wasn't aid to a foreign government "we were at war with".
I am against espionage and know that our allies are not always our friends. Just curious why this prosecution can continue but Jane Fonda is still walking freely.
I felt the same way about the "joyride" Too many people involved, and too many security checks involved to screw up as badly as claimed. I think it was an intentional message.
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Long time, wonder where this information has been buried, and why it came up now.
It the 84 year old traitor dies in prison, don't whine to me, he's had many years of undeserved freedom, a betrayal of those with whom he served.
Presuming he's guilty, of course, I suspect he is.
The Israelis took US nuclear secrets and gave them to the Soviets in exchange for Russians jews.
I am a big friend of Israel, but this unacceptable behavior from a friend.
He's got 7 1/2 years to go.
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As for the Israelis who call for Pollard's release, they are either trying to sabotage US-Israeli relations, or they are proof taht not all Jews are intelligent.
Let's see. The policy of our leaders is against Israel having nukes but has long been actively involved in making sure that China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan and nations like that have nukes through student exchange, employment and trade policies.
Gotcha. No vote, and no respect for you all. [Spit]
I heard this from the G Gordon Liddy.
Only when the espionage is on behalf of an enemy of the United States. Israel does not fit that category.
Please read the definition of "treason" - which for good reason is the only crime defined in the Constitution.
Though espionage on behalf of an ally is a crime, it should not be punished anywhere near as harshly as espionage on behalf of an an enemy.
How severely would you punish espionage, stealing our national secrets, and giving them to a country we're not at war with?
A stern letter? Something in your permanent record?
Barring very unusual circumstances, a prison term in the range of three to five years.
That would encourage every "ally" to recruit spies. You could easily make it worthwhile for someone to spend five years or less in prison.
Pay me a million dollars (especially if tax free) and I'll go to lockup for that period of time. Great wages for watching TV, and that's only if I get convicted.
Thanks for the ping Jet Jaguar.
Hang ALL spies in the public square, is my opinion.
Puh-leeze. Doing five years of prison time is not a pleasant experience, especially for a "white collar" criminal, someone who is accustomed to at least a middle class standard of living. Plus whatever illicit income he had accumulated from his handlers would likely be confiscated in some form or another, and rightly so.
We have to deter spying with a punishment so severe that nobody in their right mind would consider it. It has to ruin your life forever if you're caught.
Treating it like stealing a car is ridiculous.
That should be the case for all crimes, but unfortunately there are people out there who would still do them, everything up to and including first degree murder.
Still, for the criminal justice system to be be just, there must be a principle of proportionality: the more severe the crime, the more severe the penalty - and vise versa.
From reading the US espionage statutes in detail, I come away with the impression that the law doesn't distinguish between various levels of espionage and their consequences very well, and so there are some defendants who may be get overly harsh or overly lenient sentences.
But I do know that at the time of the Pollard case, sentences for espionage for a first-time offender working for an ally usually were in the three to five year range. So I don't see my concept of an appropriate penalty in such circumstances to be radical or outrageous.
I have no problem with prosecution of anyone who passes secrets including Pollard. I think the punishment should be proportional to the offense and the reality is that nobody has been punished the way Pollard was. Do you have any real evidence that the Israelis gave Pollard's info to the Soviets? I have never seen any.
But also remember that we have given both China and Russia design secrets for nuclear weapons and our NMD designs.
One has to really wonder how many nuclear weapons spies are lurking in America, sent in by Iran, the Wahhabist Saudis & al-Qaida?
Espionage of national security secrets is still a crime against the state but it is neither treason (aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war) nor sedition (efforts to overthrow our form of government).
Considering that Axis Sally was convicted of treason after WWII and out in 7 years, it is something to consider.
I'd scale back that comment if I were you. The Rosenbergs were executed for their espionage.
I agree that the spies within the CIA and FBI should've been executed for their betrayal.
BTW, Pollard was sentenced by a BLACK, Carter-appointed judge. I would respectfully suggest that antisemitism might well have played a role in the harshness of his sentence. (The sentencing judge has since passed on.)
The standard has been 2 to 5 years. Pollard is way over and nobody else has been close.
Id scale back that comment if I were you. The Rosenbergs were executed for their espionage.<<
That is a great non incoherent statement that is unconnected, says nothing and means nothing. What do the Rosenbergs have to do with Pollard, he was probably not born by the time they were hanged. Why even bring them up here.
They worked for an enemy nation. They endangered the lives and security of all Americans. Pollard did none of those things.
I know Dershowitz claims that the judge had anti Israel bias. Then again Desshowitz is not above lying for his clients and Pollard is not an exception. I once saw a debate with Joe DeGenova, who prosecuted Pollard. DeGenova kept asking him about a memo that was used at the trial. Dershowitz kept saying he is not allowed to say if he saw it. Obviously he did see it and could not refute it.
It should be way over that, and I hope Pollard dies in jail.
There is not a much more despicable crime than stealing the secrets of our nation and giving them to a foreign country. It jeopardizes our position as a superpower and endangers countless citizens.
Why on earth would we give a longer sentence to someone who holds dog fights than to someone who sells our national secrets to foreigners?
I think there is an understanding that friends spy on friends. The USA had a spy in Israel who was captured at the same time. There are people who spy for Taiwan, South Korea, etc. I think they should be punished in all cases but I don't think it should be more than most murderers get. If Pollard walks out tomorrow, nobody will think he got off easily and be encouraged to do what he did.
Let's see you last a day in a tough prison (Pollard has been in the worst) let alone 5 years before you talk tough.
I just have a hunch you're Jewish and wouldn't mind Israel having all our secrets.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but the US should be in complete charge of what technology we share with allies. Because once it's gone, it's gone, and we can't control our enemies stealing it from our allies.
What would you sentence someone to if they gave detailed plans to Iran on how to build a nuclear bomb? A couple years?
I feel the same for someone stealing secrets for Israel that I would if they stole secrets for Great Britain, South Korea, Taiwan etc. Maybe your problem is that you cannot realize Israel is an ally. Comparing stealing secrets for Iran and Israel shows that you lack understanding on this issue.
You are so full of crap. Really.
You think it's okay to steal for friends who prove they are not friends by stealing from us.
It's not.
You are no patriot. You are a danger to our republic.
If Dershowitz officially represented Pollard at trial, that's news to me. I believe Pollard's attorney at trial was named Hibey.
Later, on appeal, Ted Olsen (husband of the late conservative attorney and writer Barbara Olsen), who later became Solicitor General under W, represented Pollard. It turned out that Pollard's conviction would have been overturned and he would have had a new trial had not Ruth Bader Ginsberg ruled against him on a procedural matter on a DC Circuit 3-judge panel back in the late 80s or early 90s.
Dershowitz's role in the case was limited to commentator and pundit, to the best of my knowledge.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Let's try this one more time and maybe you can understand. Allies spy on each other. South Korea spies on us, Taiwan spies on us and Israel spied on us. Frankly I can understand why those nations do since to varying degrees their survival is in the balance and it is vital for them to know what we are doing that may affect their survival.
Now do I condone Americans who help them for reasons of money or ideology? The answer is no, I say they should be prosecuted as Pollard was. Do I think what they did is less serious than spying for an enemy? Yes, it is obvious and if you cannot grasp that concept, I probably cannot help you. Just as we don't have a death penalty for assaulting someone, while we do consider it a serious crime it is not in the same class as murder. We have intermediate punishments for less serious crimes.
You may not like that fact but it is a fact. And we have accepted it as a society in the practice of sentencing those who have spied for allies much less seriously than those who spied for enemies. Pollard is a lone exception as has been demonstrated. Do you feel all the others should have been sentenced much more harshly? Perhaps you do. Curiously you only mention Pollard but never complain about all those others who served two years or less for spying for allies.
Dershowitz did get involved in his appeal. I don't know exactly what his role was and whether he worked for Pollard at the same time as Olsen or prior to Ted Olsen getting involved. If memory serves me, Olsen was hired by the Israeli government to represent Pollard.
FYI, the Rosenbergs were electrocuted, not hanged, about a year before Pollard was born.
The US and Israel as allies share all kinds of secrets. However, it's up to the governments to decide what they will and will not share. It's not up to Pollard or Kadish.
I can't understand why anyone convicted of espionage shouldn't spend the rest of his/her life in prison.
We're not exactly at war with Russia. Have you checked the sentence given to Robert Hannsen?
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of the penalties handed out to Americans who steal classified information and give it to someone else. It has nothing to do with who receives the information and more to do with the importance of the information itself. Pollard received a life sentence because of what information was compromised. According to a classified memorandum written for the trial judge by then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Pollards actions amounted to treason. It is difficult for me to conceive of a greater harm to national security, Weinberger wrote.
We have had others who have spied on behalf of Israel, e.g., Larry Franklin, who were not sentenced to life. And there have been other spies like Aldrich Ames and John Walker who received life sentences. To suggest that Pollard was unfairly singled out in terms of punishment is nonsense. Why do you believe that to be the case?
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A native of Bolivia, Marcelo Eduardo describes his middle-class childhood in South America as very similar to a middle-class childhood in the United States. Eduardo's childhood dream was also similar to that of many all-American boys. When asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, his answer was, "a professional athlete." A star tennis player in high school, Eduardo discovered Mississippi in 1980 courtesy of a tennis scholarship to Delta State University (DSU).
"I saw an athletic scholarship in the United States as a step toward my goal of becoming a professional athlete," Eduardo says. "I had graduated from high school in November, which is the normal graduation date in Bolivia. I was baffled that no one would give me a scholarship for the following January – such was my naiveté about college athletics and when scholarships are granted. The one exception was DSU, which had lost a player mid-season. I accepted the scholarship and relocated to Mississippi sight unseen."
After a couple of years spent playing college-level tennis, Eduardo realized his dream of becoming a professional tennis player was not destined to come to fruition.
"Looking back, I was fortunate that my parents had the insight to foster those dreams, while at the same time insisting that I have a strong education on which to fall back in case those dreams didn't work out," Eduardo says. "Now, as a parent myself, I am at least somewhat comforted by the fact that I obviously did listen to them."
Eduardo shifted his focus from hitting balls to hitting the books. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from DSU, and began working on his M.B.A. while coaching the Delta State women's tennis team.
"I taught some classes while working as a graduate assistant, and realized that I really enjoyed explaining and illustrating business concepts and theories," Eduardo recalls. "I think all true teachers can relate to this. There is a great degree of satisfaction in helping people understand something complex. I knew then that I wanted to teach."
After earning his M.B.A. from DSU and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Mississippi, Eduardo accepted a teaching position at Mississippi College in 1997. In just four short years, Eduardo rose from instructor of finance to chair of the business administration department to associate dean to dean of the School of Business. In the decade since, Marcelo Eduardo has taken his vision for the School of Business from mind's eye to an impressive reality.
"It is honestly hard to put into words what Marcelo Eduardo has done for the School of Business," says Dr. Lloyd "Bo" Roberts. "The tempo starts at the top at any organization, and Dr. Eduardo established a new tempo here. He has literally transformed the MC School of Business."
Roberts should know. A former dean of the School of Business himself, it was Roberts who originally hired Eduardo as a professor of finance. When Roberts elected to step down as dean in favor of returning to the classroom, he recommended Eduardo for the position.
Dr. Roberts points to three areas in which Eduardo's intense efforts have most noticeably paid off – cultivating strong relationships between the School of Business and MC alumni and between the school and the Mississippi business community; the transformation of Self Hall, the home of the School of Business, into a signature business facility; and recruiting the highest caliber of instructors to join the MC faculty.
"Dr. Eduardo has created and furthered so many relationships that have led not only to increased financial support for the School of Business, but to support and recognition for the school and its programs in the Mississippi business community," Dr. Roberts says.
"That is perhaps the least seen yet most important part of his work."
Also under Eduardo's tenure, Self Hall has undergone a multimillion-dollar overhaul that included a renovated auditorium, modernized classrooms, and state-of-the-art technical equipment. Eduardo identified the enhancements that should be made, then helped recruit equally visionary donors who made the physical transformation possible.
"If we wanted to remain a premier business school, we had to have facilities consistent with the educational experience we were giving our students," Eduardo says. "The 'new' Self Hall is an asset in recruiting new students and faculty members. There is an inherent pride in being part of a place that's leading edge."
While the new facilities are impressive, Eduardo considers the instructors who teach there his greatest accomplishment. As dean, Eduardo has recruited an outstanding faculty and provided them with the motivation and tools they need to take the School of Business to a higher level.
"People walk into Self Hall and see very nice facilities, but our faculty is what makes us who we are," Eduardo says. "Today, we have the strongest faculty we have ever had in the School of Business. That is something that we've built over time. I would place our faculty against that of any other school in our region. They are second to none in terms of their credentials and their professional experience, and they share a common thread that will always attract students – their love of teaching."
The MC community and School of Business alumni are celebrating his many accomplishments to date, but Eduardo is not one to rest on his laurels.
"Dr. Eduardo is always pushing to another level," Dr. Roberts says. "He is always working. He sets high goals for the faculty and students, but he is always encouraging and accessible," says Dr. Roberts. "Most importantly, he is a good man. If I could use only three words to describe him, I'd choose 'character,' 'integrity,' and 'perseverance.' Then again, I could also say, 'Give me a superlative,' and I know that Marcelo Eduardo would fit it."
While his big-picture vision for the School of Business has enhanced the institution itself, Eduardo has never lost sight of the school's ultimate purpose – serving its students.
"The job of a leader is to make sure the true mission of an organization doesn't change," Eduardo says. "The mission of the School of Business is to provide personalized, caring instruction for our students. Our faculty is among the best and our facilities have been upgraded, but that personalized, caring instruction is still the mission that sets the MC School of Business apart. There are a lot of good business schools out there, but this is what makes us different."
"Dr. Eduardo is as concerned about his students' personal lives as he is the big picture of the School of Business," Dr. Roberts says. "He can be tough, but he has a big, soft heart."
His former students share that opinion, describing Eduardo as one of the toughest, kindest, best instructors they have known. Following his 2000 graduation from the MC School of Business, Jonathan Ishee attended Vanderbilt Business School. Today, Ishee is president and CEO of Broad River Furniture, a chain of 12 furniture stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, ranked among the top 100 furniture companies in the United States.
"When I arrived at Vanderbilt, I was intimidated by the pedigree of my classmates," Ishee recalls. "It wasn't uncommon to sit between a graduate of Harvard on one side and Duke on the other. But I quickly discovered that Dr. Eduardo's finance classes had prepared me every bit as well as any of my classmates. I never saw a concept that he hadn't covered in detail and in a way that ensured we understood the concept. It was such an advantage to have had a professor that cared enough to challenge us."
"The thing I remember the most – and dreaded at the time – was that Dr. Eduardo made us learn how to calculate an internal rate of return and a net present value by hand, without using a calculator. The concept has stuck with me ever since – don't just memorize the formula, understand what it means," says Thomas Blalock '04, '06, vice president of investor relations at Parkway Properties, Inc. "Dr. Eduardo is a great professor, mentor, and friend. I would encourage current business students to take his class and learn from him. He is guaranteed to have a lasting impression on their lives and their careers, just as he's had on mine."
"Dr. Eduardo still keeps up with me 10 years after graduation," Ishee adds. "You don't get that at other schools or with other professors. I have had a lot of great teachers, professors, mentors, and leaders, but Dr. Eduardo is among the very best."
Now an instructor in the MC School of Business himself, Chris Smith '01 has benefitted from Eduardo's guidance as both a student and as a colleague.
"One of the things about Dr. Eduardo that impressed me as a student was how encouraging he is," Smith says. "In teaching a difficult subject, it's easy to 'talk above' your students, but Dr. Eduardo always made me feel like grasping financial concepts was within my reach. Even with all the responsibility he carries now, I know his chief concern is still the success of our students."
With his vision, leadership skills, and business acumen, it's no exaggeration to say that Dr. Marcelo Eduardo could have successfully pursued any number of careers. Fortunately for Mississippi College, he followed his passion. And while he's assumed a leadership position in the years since he arrived on campus, that passion is still what he treasures most about his role at MC.
"I never get tired of sharing my excitement for all the things that you can learn when you step into a classroom," Eduardo says. "The satisfaction that I derive from both explaining a concept and from seeing students truly understand it is something that I feel blessed to have. I have no question in my mind that teaching is the best job in the world."


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My September Top Ten List: Back to School We Go!
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
I am so excited to be blogging for Scholastic again this school year! While I will continue to share my ideas with all of you, my role will be a bit different this year. I will be creating a "Top 10" list at the beginning of each month for my readers to enjoy. It will include timely lesson ideas, instructional videos, technology tips, management tools, links to cool Web sites, and, of course, a window into my own classroom so that you can see what I am doing with my students each month.
READ ON to check out my first "Top 10" list of the year and discover the things I am most excited about this month. Printables and links to useful Web sites are included.
Why not make your students' first day back to school after the long summer a celebration? In past years, I have purchased New Year's Eve hats, blowers, and other decorations when they were on sale in January. I saved them for the following school year and threw a "New School Year" party on the first day of school. When students walk into the classroom, they find a New Year's hat and blower on their desks, and the song "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang is playing. Their first task is to then write New School Year resolutions similar to the ones people make at the beginning of a new year. I encourage students to make their resolutions related to the school year. If you want to do this, consider visiting a local party supply store and asking the manager if they have any New Year's Eve supplies in the back. (Oftentimes they keep them in boxes until December.) If you have already started school this year, stock up on New Year's Eve supplies once they go on sale in January and plan this fun event for next school year.
Building community is a huge goal for me each school year. I want my students to feel as if they are part of a close-knit family when they are in my classroom. To help students get to know each other and really feel as though they are brothers and sisters, I ask them to bring a baby picture to school on the first day. I request that they put it in an envelope so that other classmates do not see the picture. I then create a bulletin board in our classroom entitled "Who's That Baby?" Each baby picture is on the board along with a number. After the pictures are up for a week or so, students are given a blank sheet of paper. They number the paper and try to guess each baby. It is fun for the students, and it creates a sense of family to have all of their baby pictures hanging in our classroom.
3. Use Student Art to Decorate a Wall
On one of the first days of school, I give each student a white tile. (I purchase the most inexpensive individual tiles I can find at Home Depot or Lowes.) Students use permanent markers to write their names on their tiles and draw pictures of things that represent who they are (hobbies, pets, food, etc.). Once the students are finished, I attach a self-adhesive business card magnet to the back of the tiles and arrange them on a magnetic wall in our classroom. It makes for a beautiful wall display and adds a personalized component to my classroom design.
4. Partner Clocks
partner clock idea, and download a partner clock from Scholastic Printables.I ask students to work in partnerships quite often in my classroom. While they have assigned partners in Reading and Writing Workshop (based on reading level and other factors), there are certainly times when I want them to quickly find a partner with whom they can complete a task or do an assignment. If I ask students to find a partner, feelings often end up getting hurt. Some students are excluded by others, or they may complain about working with a particular student. For this reason, students make "appointments" with their classmates for each hour on the clock. I can then quickly say, "Work with your 10 o'clock partner for this activity. This management tool saves a lot of time and hassle. Read more about my
5. Reaching Out to Parents
parent questionnaire to help guide their responses.Developing a positive relationship with my students' parents is incredibly important. The school year runs much more smoothly when parents know that I care about their child and that I have their child's best interest in mind. For this reason, I write parents at the beginning of the school year asking them to write a letter to me about their child telling me anything that may help me be the best teacher that I can be to them. I encourage parents to tell me about their child's personality, interests, talents, learning style, etc. Not only does this letter help me get to know my students so much better, but it also sends a positive message to parents. It tells them that I value their input and want to alter my teaching to best meet the needs of their child. You might also send them a simple
6. Read-Aloud Books for Launching Reading Workshop
You set the tone of Reading Workshop in your classroom during your launching unit. For this reason, it is important to choose read-aloud books that both reinforce the behaviors you are teaching during your mini-lessons and promote a love of reading.
(Click on each book for more information about the story.)
For more on Reading Workshops, read a detailed blog entry and watch a video showing how it works in my classroom.
7. Cool Tool for Creating Random Groups
At the beginning of the year, I find it hard to form groups before I really know my students and how they work together. Instead of having them count off in numbers or drawing sticks, I found this neat online tool at a site called Super Teacher Tools that will randomly group my students for me. It allows you to create a class list and then choose how many students you want in each group. It automatically creates the groups with just a click of the mouse. (In addition to Group Maker, this Web site also has cool online review games and management tools you can use with your students.)
8. Have Students Personalize Their Writer's Notebook
My students write each day in their Writer's Notebook during Writing Workshop. They are given a blank composition book at the beginning of the year and I ask them, in class and with a letter to their parents, to bring things from home (photos, sticks, postcards, souvenirs, etc.) to decorate both the front and back of the notebook. While this may just seem like a fun art project, it is so much more than that! Allowing students to personalize their notebooks helps them truly take ownership of the writing that will soon cover the pages of their book. The photos and other things they choose to put on their notebooks often give them ideas for new notebook entries as well. I have parent volunteers cover the notebooks with contact paper when they are done decorating them.
9. Creative Activities for the First Days of School
I am always looking for new ideas when it comes to planning for the first week of school. Some great resources I've found for getting to know students and welcoming them to the classroom include an article "Top 5 Ways to Welcome Students Back to School," this page of getting-to-know-you" activities, and these getting-to-know-you printables.
10. Using a Classroom Economy to Manage Behavior (and Teach Economics) in Your Classroom
Teachers often ask what behavior management looks like in my classroom. I use my classroom economy to teach economic concepts, but it also serves as my behavior management system. It is so important to introduce the economy during the first days of school, so I am including a link to one of my favorite blog posts from last year. In this post, you will find out how to set up an economy in your classroom and use it to effectively manage behavior in your classroom. Creating class rules and determining class jobs are done right at the beginning of the school year, and they serve as the catalyst for this dynamic classroom economy. Read more about my classroom economy/behavior management system.
Check back next month for my October Top Ten List. It will include new resources for Reading Workshop, a video of my classroom makeover, ideas for celebrating Halloween in your classroom, and much more!
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Linda Sweat,
I am so glad that you are doing the sports theme in your classroom this year and that you were able to use some of my ideas! That was one of my favorite themes I've ever done. I am now recycling old themes (and trying to make them even better), so I am back to the Rockin' Room 13 theme this year. However, I am trying to take more of a "rock star" approach and update the theme from when I did it a few years ago. I will add pictures in my October Top Ten list post later this month as well as a sneak peek of our first class movie.
Thanks for posting your comments! I love hearing from teachers like you who are so excited to motivate students in fun (and educational) ways!
You asked if there were any good books that would help you plan lessons, units, etc. I was going to direct you to the page on my website that lists all of my favorite professional books, but it looks like you have already found that. To be honest with you, at this point in my career, I feel like I am creating most of my own lesson plans and units myself rather than using professional books like I did earlier in my career. When I am looking for a great idea for a specific lesson, however, I tend to do a Google search these days. I find that teachers have become so generous in sharing their ideas and posting their best lessons and units that I rely more on that than on professional books. Below is a link to a great website that inlcudes units for reading and writing workshop for all grade levels. I think you will find it very useful! http://curriculum.dpsk12.org/
I hope you have a wonderful school year!!
Hi, Beth. Thanks again for all the great ideas. Typing camp has become a staple in our classroom for the past three years as has movie making. For Back to School Night my kids are holding a Press Conference to ask and answer questions so I don't have to do most of the talking that night. As for the tiles, if you don't have a magnetic wall, my suggestion (and what I do) is just use a piece of white paper and hang them on the wall. It forms a kind of quilt, which looks great for Back to School. Thanks again. Stacy
I just want to thank you for the wonderful ideas that you have shared about your past classrooms. I have used many of your Sports theme ideas this year...even hanging the cardboard jerseys! I taught Force and Motion as the first unit in Science, and, therefore, the theme REALLY gave me plenty of Force and Motion 'lead ins' to get the kids right in the mood for Science. I can't wait to give movie-making a try!
Beth, I am a student teacher and I was wondering if you can suggest any good books that would help new teachers plan units, lessons or learning centers for various subjects (since new teachers must start from scratch!). I recently found your page with books for implementing Reading / Writing workshops. Are there any others that you pull ideas from? Please share! Thank you for your wonderful ideas!
Your question about my "magnetic wall" makes perfect sense! I am actually very lucky because, of the four walls in my classroom, two of them are steel (magnetic), one is all bulletin boards, and only one is the dreaded cinderblock. The steel walls are great because I just attach business card magnets to the back of everything I put on those walls.
If you do not have steel/magentic walls in your classroom, you could always use part of a dry erase board (if you have one on a wall in your classroom), or you could attach some sort of self-adhesive material to the back of each tile. I often use different self-adhesive materials from office supply stores to post things on the cinderblock walls in my classroom.
I hope one of my ideas works for you. The tile wall really does add a neat touch to a classroom!
Thanks for reading my blog and posting your comments!
Beth, This may seem like a silly question, but since I tell my students that "No question is a silly question", I'm going to go for it! I like the idea of using tiles to create a class mural; however I'm not sure that I understand how you have a magnetic wall. Is this something that was pre-existing in your classroom, or did you create it yourself? Please give me the scoop! An extra magnetic space would be wonderful considering that I have yet to find an adhesive that actually keeps my anchor charts on my walls for more than a week. Thanks! Welcome back!
Thanks for your comments! I'm thrilled to know that teachers are using the things I share and finding my ideas to be useful. Typing Camp and Movie Making are two of my favorite things I do during the school year!
Have a great school year! Hopefully you wil continue reading the blog and I will hear more from you througout the year!
Hi Beth, I am so impressed with everything you do and share. I have become such a better teacher because of you. I especially love the typing camp and movie making ideas! Thanks for all you do! Meaghan
My main discipline/behavior management is done through my classroom economy. If you check out #10 on my top ten list, you will find a link to more information about my classroom economy and how students earn credits and debits.
We try to make bucket filling a positive activity in our classroom, so it is not really related to our discipline plan. It is intended to be an intrinsically motivating activity where students focus on filling each other's buckets. We never take pom poms out of students buckets if they are not behaving. Instead, they would earn debits in our class economy.
Let me know if you have any more questions after you read my classroom economy post: http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2010/01/class-economy.html
Thanks for posting! I hope to have more dialogue with you this school year!
Hi Beth! Do you have any kind of discipline plan besides bucket filling?


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One thing I was wondering about, though... before I started working with the poolish, I used to make the dough and then let it rise at room temp for an hour or two, then punch it down, divide, and put in the fridge. I did not do this first rise again after adding the poolish - I just kneaded the dough, and then divided and put in the fridge.
I agree that the pies are looking good. As far as accurately measuring small quantities (yeast and slat come to mind), I bought this $20 scale that weighs to the hundredth of a gram: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003STEIYY/?tag=pmak-20Barry
Oh, wow! I already ditched one scale that had 5-gram precision in favor of one with 1-gram precision. I think I may just have to supplement that one with the even-more-precise scale that you suggest.Thanks!__Jason
Thanks, Peter - that makes sense. I think on my next batch of dough, I'll go back to allowing it to rise once prior to dividing, and see how that works out.__Jason


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Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing. I am still looking for a prep table and a van, very hard to get a decent one at a decent price. I used my oven 2 times and in both occasions the bottoms cooked much faster than the top, so I am trying to learn how to control the oven better. I will send you pictures of the jacks my trailer has so you can do something similar to be able to lift it.keep the good work man!nico
Jeff, what temps are you running and what's your bake time?
Pies look good Jeff! I know they are not Neapolitan style, so are you calling them NY or a breed of NY/Neo?


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Skip to comments.Easy fix eludes power outage problems in US
Posted on 07/05/2012 4:45:55 PM PDT by robowombat
Easy fix eludes power outage problems in US Buried lines an option, but costly
By Chris Khan and Eric Tucker The Capital
WASHINGTON In the aftermath of storms that knocked out power to millions, sweltering residents and elected officials are demanding to know why it's taking so long to restring power lines and why they're not more resilient in the first place.
The answer, it turns out, is complicated: Above-ground lines are vulnerable to lashing winds and falling trees, but relocating them underground incurs huge costs - as much as $15 million per mile of buried line - and that gets passed onto consumers.
With memories of other extended outages fresh in the minds of many of the 1.26 million customers who still lack electricity, some question whether the delivery of power is more precarious than it used to be. The storms that began Friday killed 24 people in seven states and the District of Columbia.
"It's a system that from an infrastructure point of view is beginning to age, has been aging," said Gregory Reed, a professor of electric power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. "We haven't expanded and modernized the bulk of the transmission and distribution network."
The powerful winds that swept from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic late Friday, toppling trees onto power lines and knocking out transmission towers and electrical substations, have renewed debate about whether to bury lines. District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was among officials calling for the change this week and was seeking to meet with the chief executive of Pepco, the city's dominant utility, to discuss what he called a slow and frustrating response.
"They obviously need to invest more in preparing for getting the power back on," said Maryland state Sen. James Rosapepe, who is among those advocating for moving lines underground. "Every time this happens, they say they're shocked - shocked that it rained or snowed or it was hot - which isn't an acceptable excuse given that we all know about climate change."
Though the newest communities do bury their power lines, many older ones have found that it's too expensive to replace existing networks. To bury power lines, utilities need to take over city streets so they can cut trenches into the asphalt, lay down plastic conduits and then the power lines. Manholes must be created to connect the lines together. The overall cost is between $5 million and $15 million per mile, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., a nonprofit research and development group funded by electric utilities. Those costs get passed on to residents in the form of higher electric bills, making the idea unpalatable for many communities.
Pepco's initial estimates are that it would be a $5.8 billion project to bury power lines in D.C. and would cost customers an extra $107 per month, said Michael Maxwell, vice president of asset management.
North Carolina considered burying its lines in 2003, after a winter storm knocked out power to 2 million utility customers. The North Carolina Public Staff Utilities Commission eventually concluded it was "prohibitively expensive" and time-consuming. The project would have cost $41 billion and taken 25 years to complete - and it would have raised residential electric bills by 125 percent.
An onslaught of recent extreme weather around the country, including heat waves, wildfires and flooding, has increased strain on infrastructure already struggling to meet growing consumer demand. And some scientists predict the severe weather will only increase, though it will take time to study this year's weather before any conclusions can be drawn.
Pepco has contingency plans for dealing with severe weather like tornadoes and hurricanes and runs periodic drills in which staff go through the process of responding to mass outages. In this case, though, the hurricane-force winds lashed the region with no advance notice, creating a type of quick-hit storm that caught the utility flat-footed and for which it had not practiced, Maxwell said.
"That's going to be a very big lesson for us," he said. "We need to understand how we recover from this."
A stress index created by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., which monitors the country's power supply to annually assess its performance, shows that day-to-day performance seems to have improved, but there was an increase in high-stress days. The company counted six high-stress days in 2011, slightly more than the three preceding years. Weather was a contributing factor in nine of the 10 failures severe enough to generate a federally required report in 2011.
But utility insiders acknowledge that the math is little comfort when a customer's air conditioner fails during a triple-digit heat wave and the food spoils.
"The industry is getting better and better," said Aaron Strickland, who oversees distribution and emergency operations for Georgia Power, a subsidiary of the Atlanta-based Southern Co. "In my opinion, I think the expectations of customers are higher and higher because we depend so much on electricity. ... We expect to push that button and it works."
Still, he noted Friday's storms pummeled the region with no advance warning, and "you can't prepare for that."
"You don't see it coming," Strickland said. "It just happens."
Seth Blumsack, an assistant professor of energy policy and economics at Penn State, said utilities are making investments in transmission upgrades but "it doesn't look like blackouts are getting any less common."
"Some studies have suggested that they are getting more common," he said. "Some studies have suggested that they're happening at basically the same rate as they used to."
Though the country's power infrastructure is reliable, it was mostly built between the 1930s and 1970s and is starting to age, said Reed of the University of Pittsburgh.
Bruce Wollenberg, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota who specializes in power systems, said it's hard to tell if extended outages are more common than in years past. But the capacity for high-voltage transmission systems has not increased with demand, he said, in part because of the cost of moving power lines underground and the general distaste for having above-ground lines right outside homes.
"People don't want power lines - period ...They don't like the way they look, they don't like a lot of things," Wollenberg said. "It's universal across the country, and I think across the world. People don't want power lines. They don't want more power lines."
Residents' complaints about the latest outages have increased with their duration.
Kevin Fogg, a barber from the rural community of Jefferson, about 45 miles northwest of Washington, scoffed when asked if he'd be willing to pay Potomac Edison higher rates to prevent more outages like the one he's been suffering through.
"I think it's more than it should be already," Fogg said.
He said the utility company should do a better job of trimming trees and branches that threaten power lines.
"There's a huge, dead tree hanging over our line and they said, 'Well, we're not going to cut it down,'" Fogg said. "It's got to break first and knock the power line down before they'll do anything about it. So I guess they won't do any preventive maintenance - or at least not as much as they should."
Jean Cuseo, a middle-school art teacher from Jefferson, said she's not sure if she'd be willing to pay more to prevent outages, even if that were an option.
"I'm pretty environmentally friendly. If I could live off the grid I would," she said.
"Easy" fix
yeah right
it's a welfare program for attorneys to negotiate the right of ways
Then you let contracts to politically connected contractors
Then you get high priced featherbedding union labor to tear up the city and do the work
Yeah it's cheap AND easy
I think underground lines make some sense, I mean, think about it, how easy, or hard, would it be for falling trees to snap an underground line? Earthquakes and digging up damaged lines would be another story though.
I think underground lines make some sense, I mean, think about it, how easy, or hard, would it be for falling trees to snap an underground line? Earthquakes and digging up damaged lines would be another story though.
Another fix, the low-maintenance, fully automatic Toshiba reactor they're thinking of putting in Alaska. Instead of having centralized powerplants costing several billion along with an expensive distribution system, put thousands of these small plants across the country for a distributed power grid of 50 MW plants.
But our expensive and tedious process for approving such plants proved too much for Toshiba, and the plant that was supposed to be going live soon may never happen.
I'm an electrical engineer and to me, our above ground power grid is really a bad thing, almost stupid. And did I mention really UGLY.
North of the Mason-Dixon Met-Ed was severly reprimanded by the PA Public Utility Commission for its slow response following Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003...a storm that had me 96 hours without power.
The PA-PUC mandated a very aggressive schedule of tree trimming and other preventive maintenance plus installing cut-off fuses at the beginning of long branches of the line. Some of my neighbors' lane strech 1/2 mile or farther, now their lines are isolated at the beginning of their branch lines.
All that has helped. but still endured two 50 hour outages last year.
Around here the water table is only a few feet down and would be a real problem.
And if George Bush were president we KNOW the corrupt MSM would be blaming his lack of compassion for oppressing these people (think: Katrina). Meanwhile, St. Obama get his usual pass.
Easy... they wrap their roots around them. Tree goes down, roots come up.. lines break.
Newer areas are under ground because even though the above can happen it does not happen as often.
I'm not an EE but I agree.
The $15 million a mile quote smells like BS, however. Maybe in the city or the interior suburbs but how much does it cost to run a ditch digger out in the exurbs where the tree problem is the most acute?
Hell, hire the legions of unemployed and give them shovels. Kill 2 birds with one stone. /pissed off sarcasm.
Seriously, I'd like to have someone break down $15 million a mile. That's $2840 a FOOT to dig a ditch and lay wire. I smell BS.
Rant over.
You hit the nail on the head. I lived in a neighborhood in Baton Rouge during Katrina and Rita. The older part of my neighborhood had underground utilities. My house was just past the underground sections. Due to lack of distribution redundancy and switching, everyone lost power for at least a week during 99 degrees and 99 % humidity.
There are large inefficiencies in Generation (power plant), Transmission (high power lines), and point-to-point retail Distribution (step down connections).
There are better ways, but unless stakeholders demand their unelected bureaucracies stop protecting statist, monopolistic lobbyists, well all be in the dark.
Underground lines crap out too.
Yeah, they are ugly but I can't see them trying to bury them here in my part of the swamp.
I guess natural gas, petrol, and water should be above ground. Underground works better for most situations.
"Im an electrical engineer and to me, our above ground power grid is really a bad thing, almost stupid. And did I mention really UGLY."
Most electrical engineers are into communications and computers. The ones that into high-voltage power understand the limitations of running those lines underground for extended distances - which is why NONE EXIST, even for short distances.
I guess natural gas, petrol, and water should be above ground. Underground works better for most situations.
In case you missed it. here is the second paragraph of my post.
"Newer areas are under ground because even though the above can happen it does not happen as often."
D.C. residents sweltering in the heat.
OK, but where is the problem?
It would be best to shut of the power to D.C. completely March-October. That would help limit the damage.
The extension to another block where folks didn't want the tree trimming got a circuit breaker so they don't bring us down anymore.
It's been a definite improvement in reliability.
Buying a sine wave inverter to run off a bank of 12volt batteries and hooking up to the cars for recharging takes care providing minimal 120v backup (has to be manually rigged).
Where do they hide all of the electrical poles in Manhattan, and every other downtown city area?
"Where do they hide all of the electrical poles in Manhattan, and every other downtown city area? "
Those are medium voltage lines. The substations are outside of the cities, for obvious reasons.
"Electric power can also be transmitted by underground power cables instead of overhead power lines. Underground cables take up less right-of-way than overhead lines, have lower visibility, and are less affected by bad weather. However, costs of insulated cable and excavation are much higher than overhead construction. Faults in buried transmission lines take longer to locate and repair. Underground lines are strictly limited by their thermal capacity, which permits less overload or re-rating than overhead lines. Long underground cables have significant capacitance, which may reduce their ability to provide useful power to loads."
This is from Wikipedia.
"Could people have paid for a swap that wasn't?"
Did your rates double in the past few years? If not, don't worry, you haven't paid for it (yet).
I've traveled over 2 million miles domestically and helped to "deregulate" the 8th largest utility company in the US.
Rural areas, weather new or old, are above ground. Densely populated metro centers have been buried for many decades using large, multipurpose utility conduits. This is the best way and allows for hardening and future upgrades. It can work for areas with low water tables (weve had intercontinental communication cables since 1851), but less so for mountainous regions.
Ah! Time for another $2 trillion obama campaign stimulus to get the economy rolling for the unions.
They're putting new poles in here now.
When I put my split rail fence in I had to put a rock on top of each one to keep them from bobbing up in the hole while I put concrete in.
$3000 per foot - ah the joy of monopolies that can just pass their costs on to their customers, unquestioned.
Of course here in DC $3000 per foot does not go far. First there is the pickup truck and couple of guys to operate the rented pavement cutter, and then the guy to operate the backhoe. But then there are all the supervisors and the guys who stand in the road with the stop / go signs and thier deputies, and reliefs and supervisors.
A cynic might also factor in bribes to the city council not to ask too many hard questions, but I think that is a totally over the top and unfair slander against citizens working for the good of the taxpayer like DC Councilmember Marion Barry.
$3000 per foot - ah the joy of monopolies that can just pass their costs on to their customers, unquestioned.
Of course here in DC $3000 per foot does not go far. First there is the pickup truck and couple of guys to operate the rented pavement cutter, and then the guy to operate the backhoe. But then there are all the supervisors and the guys who stand in the road with the stop / go signs and thier deputies, and reliefs and supervisors.
A cynic might also factor in bribes to the city council not to ask too many hard questions, but I think that is a totally over the top and unfair slander against citizens working for the good of the taxpayer like DC Councilmember Marion Barry.
The big push for underground distribution lines in Calif began in the 60s. Older communities are still above ground. I live in Anaheim Hills, a planned community, we are 100% underground. Malibu on the otherhand is 100% above ground. PCH Malibu has all overhead lines and it's ugly as hell.
There are no problems with earthquake damage to underground. Flooding can cause problems at transformer vaults however. Had to go out in big stormy nights to pump water out of vaults. The overhead crew had a much tougher time.
Really? I find it hard to believe that all of Manhattan is run off of medium voltage lines. If true they would have to run a lot of them into the city.
That said, the high voltage lines on the giant towers aren't generally where the power outages occur, as the trees are below those lines and can't fall on them.
Those overhead transmission lines will be cheaper. The ambient cooling of the air is verses building tunnels with cooling systems to string transmission lines.
More reliable than overhead.
Cables run thru PVC. Conductors are sealed in lead casing and are water tight. Biggest problems are at the underground connection vaults where they are connected and routed. Underground Vault flooding is a headache.
"That said, the high voltage lines on the giant towers arent generally where the power outages occur, as the trees are below those lines and cant fall on them."
You're right. So the question there becomes whether people are willing to pay TWICE what they pay now (for at least 5 years, if not 10 years) to get their existing lines buried, as well as the lower voltage feeders to their neighborhood.
I suspect that if you had that referendum, you'd realize why so many overhead lines remain. They may be ugly (to some of us), but burying them is neither free, nor cheap.
Most all high voltage transmission lines are overhead. It's the low voltage distribution lines, 12kv or less, that go underground.
That's what used to happen.
Downside is that at the current price of propane power outages cost me $5.00/hour.
15 million is probably a low estimate. Underground might be fine and dandy in your subdivision, but transmission lines are another thing. No way are you going through mountains and valleys underground
Maybe I missed it but I don't think they are talking about putting high tension underground. Around here, the power companies take pretty good care of the tower lines as far as tree incursion and maintenance of way goes.
The overhead residential lines are the ones neglected when it comes to trees. I still say $15 mil a mile is BS for putting medium voltage (~13kv.) underground.
The tree line is cut about fifty yards either side of the power lines. It would take a damned tall tree to take one out by falling, but they do become debris in a windstorm
And then there is the matter of burying the lines to the each house, which is a personal expense, and also expensive.
Burying pre-existing lines is expensive, but doing it from the very beginning isn't too bad.
All of the new developments here have the lines buried.
Yea, when you get to those voltages underground isn't much worse than above ground. But like you say, the above-ground infrastructure is there in most of the country - so it will be very costly to move them underground.
It's the old question:
Do you believe in higher taxes to help the homeless? Answer: Sure, we need to do what we can to pull them out of their situation.
Would you be willing to pay higher taxes to help the homeless? NO WAY!!! The government steals enough of my money already.
Sure, people want reliable power, as long as they don't have to pay for it. What should be done is a serious cost-benefit study of options. Maybe doubling the size of the truck fleet and clearing trees more often and with wider berths would help a lot, and not cost too much. And then that fleet could also respond to outages much more effectively. That is one option.
Yes, I concur.
I appears here locally (no rock to deal with) that the cost/benefit is hit when the lines can be dropped in before building begins in a new neiborhood.
The other cost is that electrical is not the only line hanging on those poles. Cable TV and telephone lines must also be put underground and they cannot all be put together inside one conduit, due to interference and differing responsibilities.
As nice as underground lines are, I'm not willing to pay the 20k required to do it (just on my property, nor would I be willing to vote to force someone else to do it, even if I was willing to spend the money.
Just looking at what's running above ground in my neighborhood, it would be a freaking nightmare to do it
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U.S. stuck in the 'two-party bully pulpit'
Common wisdom says there are two sides to every story. For every pro, there's a con. You're either for or against legalizing marijuana, raising taxes on the wealthy, cutting Social Security benefits, limiting assault weapons, cutting military expenditures.
Name an issue and every editorial, talk show, blog, and radio personality will stand squarely on one side of the issue or the other, as if every debate were a tennis court with two players and a net in the middle.
Certainly some issues, like gay marriage, are Constitutional justice issues that people should be for. However, most problems are too complex for broad-brushstroke solutions, which is probably why the aftermath of the November election continues to frustrate a lot of people. The two-party stranglehold of the American Presidency left people with third-party affiliations feeling as if they were throwing their votes away, yet 759 courageous Chautauqua County souls chose the Libertarian and Green candidates. Even Peta Lindsay of the Socialism Party drew 15 votes while Virgil Goode, the Constitution candidate, ended up with 50.
The national results would have been more diffuse if alternative parties had a bigger slice of the power pie, which would be reflected in campaign coverage and debates. Our two-party bully pulpit obscures the plurality of other parties that represent entire sets of values and goals, rendering the ideas of these voices meek and powerless. Even the Independence Party – that weird amalgam of socialists too liberal for the Democrats, libertarians too conservative for the Republicans, and Constitutionalists who want a strong voice – puts forth specific ideas that deserve a hearing. Our founding fathers did not create a government fueled by two-party gridlock; rather, they believed each issue would create shifting alliances, fluid coalitions. Unfortunately, this vision of government will not unfold at the national level until diverse voices emerge at the state and local levels.
We also need a shift in consciousness away from the dualism that fosters lines in the sand and aisles to be crossed. Most issues facing voters and representatives alike are too complex to be distilled into two points of view. This truth is not just political, but applicable for any decisions or issues that arise out of contention and disagreement.
In her book "The Argument Culture," Georgetown linguist Deborah Tannen suggests we would be better off as individuals, as groups, and as a republic if we adopted the idea of complexity that some cultures have. Take the Japanese talk show, for instance. Tannen recounts an analysis of three current affairs shows, all of which feature panels of guests with diverse viewpoints. There is heated debate, but experts speak and argue from their expertise rather than as two separate political parties or ideologies – the proverbial "two sides to the story." While complex arguments are thrown onto the table, enduring rancor and polarization are left off it.
A shift in consciousness requires a language that guides public policy to broader analysis and a plurality of viewpoints. Tannen explains how our media constantly deliver bellicose stories to us that reinforce unhealthy dualities. We have wars on drugs, crime, poverty, homelessness, and illiteracy. Like all wars, these artificial wars set up lines in the sand that invite political battling from two sides. All the above-named societal ills are problems to be solved, and our language, as well as our public policy responses, would better serve our needs by inviting diverse factions to the debate. Tannen's thesis makes sense: We can have healthy debate, but only if diverse points of view are brought to it.
Most citizens agree we don't want our representatives to be bitterly polarized. We are so polarized that each of the two sides believes it's the other that is unwilling to cross the aisle. Oddly, though, when I talk about issues with people who vote opposite me and espouse an ideology opposite mine, we find common ground without much effort. Why can't our representatives do that? I believe our existing power gridlock fuels the two-party standoffs that perpetuate that firm line in the sand with opposing armies arrayed on either side of every issue. If we encourage our representatives to see the complexities by telling them our diverse ideas, we can at least throw ourselves against the wall of obdurate dualism.
Wouldn't it be exciting if we saw our "wars" instead as problems to be solved? Wouldn't it serve our country better to have an eight- or ten-slice pie rather than a pie cut into two gluttonous halves? While May is only as exciting as school budget and school board elections, it is as good a time as any to further widen the American political landscape by re-thinking our political affiliations. After being registered for 37 years in one of the two major parties, I have joined the third party that more closely reflects my values.
I encourage such re-aligning: a simple act that makes a statement to the powers that be. There's a political table available to all of us, and it's time to put a leaf in it.
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You're " damn sure." No, I think what you meant to say is that you'd like to "think" this is what happened so that you could justify degrading dead children. And if you don't mind, link me to the article that says that she slept with multiple guys.Originally posted by Inactive UserI like how you're argument is that she's a slut. Great logic there, Mr. Limbaugh.
As to why I'm defending her, eh, I'm not sure. I guess I was just kind of irked at the sight of a bunch of keyboard commandos vilifying a dead child. I'm just the type of person who does not participate in degrading dead children over the internet. Sorry, that's just the way I am.
No one is degrading her except herself. I am damn sure she wasn't bullied for a fucking picture of her tits but rather what she did and that was sleep around with dudes.
Originally posted by Inactive Useryou knew this chick couldn't accept consequence for what she did because she fucking killed herself. did she even go for help or do anything to stand up for her self? the only thing that was unfair was that she got mobbed by a group of people, which, came from her slutty tendencies.
Yes, stand up to a mob of teens who would not hesitate to viciously beat her down. You are aware that we are talking about a teenage girl here, not a pro boxer, right?
Originally posted by Inactive UserPeople picked on her for a reason, unlike Trayvon's there really was 0 motive behind it. Death was harsh, yes, but the fact that she went through it should prove to you she was a pussy.
Yes, they did indeed pick on her for a reason. An incredibly stupid reason.
Also, I was not discussing motives when I mentioned Trayvon, only media coverage. But thanks for sharing anyways.
Originally posted by Inactive UserDeath was harsh, yes, but the fact that she went through it should prove to you she was a pussy.
It takes real balls to call a dead child a pussy and say that she should have stood up to a mob of 15 teenagers. I'm sure that if you were that girl you would have created a live Anderson Silva highlight reel and knocked each of them out one by one. Congratulations, you're more badass than a little girl!


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Infineon Technologies AG confirmed intention to leave the market of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) by creating two independent companies, one of which – the current memory unit after becoming independent – will be traded at stock-exchange. The company said that the move was conditioned by necessity to develop both businesses in different directions. The company that deals with logic will remain to be Infineon's.
"There are two essential reasons for taking this step: first, the processes and business models for Memory and Logic are developing in diverging directions. Second, we improve the growth dynamic and profitability potential for both companies", said Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart, chairman of the board of directors for Infineon Technologies AG.
Infineon will consider initial public offering (IPO) of the memory products company after July 1st, 2006, after the unit becomes independent. Infineon, as the parent company, will focus on the Logic business, comprised of the business groups automotive, industrial electronics and multimarket (AIM) as well as communications (COM).
Memory products require as fast as possible time-to-market, manufacturing efficiency and direct access to capital market, whereas logic products demand a profound understanding of applications, as well as a strict alignment of all innovation activities with customers' individual requirements in their competitive markets is crucial, the chairman of Infineon explained.
"Both the Memory and the Logic businesses gain more room for action to consolidate and expand their market leadership in selected segments, to enhance customer orientation and to seize opportunities for more forceful growth," said Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart.
Earlier this week it was reported that Needham & Co. said in a research note that Micron would buy Infineon's