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Faculty Publications 2011
Boulmetis, John and Phyllis Dutwin. The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers. 3rd ed. Jossey-Bass. 2011. 288p.
Brand, Susan Trostle, Laurie J. Harper and Jane Picciotti. "Peaceful Penpals: A School-Home-University Service Learning Project." Childhood Education. 87(4):244-252. Summer 2011.
Byrd, David M. and D. John McIntyre. "Types of Partnerships." IN: Wepner, Shelley B. and Dee Hopkins. Collaborative Leadership in Action: Partnering for Success in Schools. Teachers College Press. 2011. p.27-48.
Coiro, Julie and Sara Kajder. "Digital Footprints." Language Arts. 89(2):148-153. November 2011.
Coiro, Julie. "Predicting Reading Comprehension on the Net: Contributions of Offline Reading Skills, Online Reading Skills and Prior Knowledge." Journal of Literacy Research. 43(4):352-392. December 2011.
Coiro, Julie, Jill Castek and Lizabeth Guzniaczak. "Processes: Two Adolescents Reading Independently and Collaboratively on the Internet." IN: 60th Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association. 2011. p.354-349.
Coiro, Julie. "Talking About Reading as Thinking: Modeling the Hidden Complexities of Online Reading Comprehension." Theory Into Practice. 50(2):107-115. 2011.
Coiro, Julie and Jay Fogleman. "Using Websites Wisely." Educational Leadership. 68(5):34-38. February 2011.
de Groot, Cornelis. "The Identity Crisis." New York Mathematics Teacher's' Journal. 61(3):108-113. 2011.
Fogleman, Jay. SEE also: Coiro, Julie; Niedbala, Mona Anne.
Fogleman, Jay, Katherine L. McNeil and Joseph Krajcock. "Examining the Effect of Teachers' Adaptations of a Middle School Science Inquiry-Oriented Curriculum Unit on Student Learning." Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 48(2):149-169. February 2011.
Kern, Diane. "Elections, Comets and Common Core Standards." New England Reading Association Journal. 46(2):89-92. 2011.
Kern, Diane. "Mission Possible: Curriculum on the Borderzone." New England Reading Association Journal. 47(1):87-91. December 2011.
Kern, Diane. "62 Years of the Pendulum's Swing: The Role of the Reading Specialist." New England Reading Association Journal. 46(2):67-72. 2011.
Niedbala, M. A. and J. Fogelman. "Incorporating Information Literacy Instruction and Collaborative Technology Into a Project-Based Learning Environment: A Librarian/Faculty Partnership Model." IN: 3T's: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology, and Transliteracy Conference, Johnston, NY; Proceedings of the Conference.
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Be a Nice Person
Surprised to find out that there are people who don't like you? Maybe you're not as nice as you think you are. Sometimes we don't realize it, but our more unlikeable selves get through and that's what turn some people off. Not that we should please everybody, but it won't hurt to keep ourselves in check. Here are some tips on how to be nicer:
Admit you have flaws. No one is perfect. If you are as good or as smart as you think you are, then you should have been given a prize for it. Admit that like any other person, you have flaws as well as strengths. Don't act as if you know everything. Be willing to learn and allow others to teach you if they are
Be happy. Everyone has issues, but other people don't need to be on the receiving end of your own temper tantrum. Anger can make you do things that you do not mean. So before you blow your steam off at some poor person, count to ten and breathe. Vent it out on something, and not someone. Think happy thoughts.
Listen. We often get carried away of our personal causes that we tend to rattle off about them, to the point that we are too busy to listen to what other people have to say about theirs. Not only that, we also sometimes fail to keep an open mind. So what if your co-worker does not believe in something of which you are an advocate (biggest fan, recognize!). If he respects you for your beliefs, then you should respect his too.
Follow the golden rule. Treat others the way that you want to be treated. I'm sure nobody here likes to be mistreated, right?
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This editorial was printed in The Courier-Journal on June 21, 1964. -- Editor.
What seemed impossible only a few years ago, and improbable at this time a year ago, has come to pass. The Senate has approved by an overwhelming margin the most effective civil rights bill enacted since Reconstruction. Passage, of course, was assured by the historic cloture vote on June 10, cutting off unlimited debate. This was the crucial defeat of the obstructionist minority that has prevented passage of meaningful civil rights legislation for all these years. Once the issue was put to a democratic vote, there was no doubt that the bill would pass. It is especially gratifying that Kentucky's and Indiana's senators voted for the bill.
All that remains now is House concurrence in the Senate amendments, and this is expected shortly. Then the bill goes to the White House for President Johnson's signature, probably on July 4, and the nation will have passed a great watershed in its history.
While full credit is due the congressional managers of the bill, and to President Johnson, the legislation will stand as a monument to the late President Kennedy. He made the critical commitment last summer and became the first president in this century to put the full prestige of his office behind a fundamental legal attack on racial discrimination.
It is one of the bitter ironies of history that had he lived the bill might not have won approval this year and that his assassination made possible its enactment. There is vindication of a sort in this turn of events, for it confounds the racists and hate-mongers who did not mourn the late President's death, in the mistaken belief that it would close the book on what he stood for.
Nor does the irony end there. The old race issue, which once rent the Democratic Party asunder and gave birth to the Republican Party, now threatens to splinter the part of Lincoln.
Senator Barry Goldwater, the frontrunner for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, lined up with Southern Democrats and against the majority of his party, in opposing the civil rights bill. His tortuous explanation of why he voted against the bill cannot conceal the fact that he has violated one of the proudest traditions of the Republican Party, the issue of conscience that created the G.O.P. out of the dismembered Whigs, the "free-soilers," and anti-slavery Democrats.
Senator Goldwater pleads sincerity, but sincerity is not the issue. His vote is. He contends that he is unalterably opposed to racial discrimination -- but by his vote he demonstrates that he is also opposed to doing anything about it on a national scale, and it is a national problem, of the gravest and most foreboding nature. He declares that he would have supported the bill if certain changes had been made -- but he took no initiative in trying to effect the changes, and didn't even bother to turn up on the Senate floor to vote on many of the proposed amendments.
Senator Goldwater himself is no racist, but he lends aid and comfort to racists, all of his talk about "constitutional principles" notwithstanding.
The struggle will continue. We are in for an ugly summer, not because the civil rights bill will become law, but because we have done too little for too long about the festering racial sores afflicting the Republic. The South lost the Civil War but won the Reconstruction. The North won the war but abandoned the Southern Negroes to the tender mercies of the Southern "redeemers" of white supremacy, and as a result the problem is today national in scope, though different in degree as between the South and the rest of the country.
Now a decision has been made to do what conscience and common sense tell us must be done to repair the sins of the past. It won't be easy. But it can be done, and we are on the way to doing it.


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One killed in storms in northeast Georgia, tornado confirmed in Rabun County
CLAYTON, GA. - One person was killed and more than 30 homes were destroyed by storms that pounded northeast Georgia late Wednesday, officials said.
The worst damage happened in Rabun County, where the National Weather Service received reports of at least two tornadoes around 11 p.m. Wednesday.
A tornado was seen by a trained spotter in Mountain City, a town with a population of about 800 that is 3 miles north of Clayton on U.S. 441. At least two businesses, one church, a fire station and numerous homes in Mountain City sustained severe damage.
The National Weather Service issued a statement shortly before 7:30 p.m. Thursday confirming that a tornado hit Mountain City on Wednesday night. The tornado had an estimated maximum wind speed of 165 mph and traveled 3.5 miles. The maximum width of the tornado's path was half a mile, according to the weather service statement.
Across the border in South Carolina, funnel clouds were sighted near Mountain Rest and Salem in Oconee County shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday, but neither cloud touched down.
"We were spared from the catastrophe that struck elsewhere," said Scott Krein, Oconee County's Emergency Services director.
No significant storm-related damage occurred in Anderson County.
The one fatality linked to the stormy weather in northeast Georgia was a man who died in the Lake Rabun area, said Scott Cagle, spokesman for the Rabun County Emergency Management Agency. Several other people were injured throughout the county, he said.
The storms destroyed 30 homes and damaged 50 others in Rabun County, Cagle said. Downed trees also closed 100 roads in the county, he said.
In the aftermath of Wednesday's storms, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in Rabun and 15 other counties.
Besides Mountain City, Cagle said the hardest-hit areas in Rabun County included Acorn Creek, Lake Burton, Meeting House Mountain, Moccasin Creek and Timpson Cove.
Capt. Jeff Harris of the Rabun County Sheriff's Office said it will take several days to clean up the damage around Lake Burton.
"There are parts of homes in the lake," Harris said.
In neighboring Habersham County, three homes were destroyed and nine others were damaged on Goshen Mountain Road, a county spokeswoman said.
The storms knocked out electricity to 8,000 Georgia Power customers in the northeast part of the state. About 3,200 of those customers still were without power as of 5 p.m. Thursday.
Employees from Oconee County in South Carolina and Stephens County in Georgia were dispatched to Rabun County to provide assistance, officials said.
Meanwhile work crews from Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and Duke Energy's Upstate offices headed to Alabama, the state that suffered the most extensive devastation from Wednesday's outbreak of severe weather.
The American Red Cross of Upstate South Carolina said Thursday that it has disaster volunteers and resources on stand-by to provide assistance to areas throughout the South that were affected by the deadly storms.
Those who want to make donations can visit the Red Cross website or call 1-800-RED-CROSS (733-2767). Donations of $10 also can be made by texting the word REDCROSS to 90999.
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A clean, green and healthy city where sustainability contributes to a strong economy. This is the ambition the Rotterdam Municipal Executive wants to work on with the new Rotterdam Sustainability Programme. Reducing carbon emission by half, preparing for the consequences of climate change, improving air quality and reducing noise are the main topics of the programme. The Municipal Executive will invest 31 million euros in order to achieve the green ambitions.
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The American Marketing Association defines a "brand" as "a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers." Some marketing researchers assert that brands are one of the most valuable assets that a company has. Interbrand ranked Coca-Cola the most valuable brand in the world in 2011, with a value of almost $72 billion, while Millward Brown Optimor found Apple the most valuable with nearly $183 billion in value in 2012.
Interbrand 2011
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According to Millward Brown Optimor, "strong brands have the power to create business value. They impact much more than revenues and profit margins. Strong brands create competitive advantages by commanding a price premium and decrease the cost of entry into new markets and categories. They reduce business risk and help attract and retain talented staff."
"Brand equity" is defined by the American Marketing Association as "the value of a brand" (although not in the financial sense of "value"), while, according to P. Kotler and K. Keller in their book Marketing Management , it is "the added value endowed to products and services." Keller, in Strategic Brand Management , writes that a brand "has positive customer-based brand equity when consumers react more favorably to a product and the way it is marketed when the brand is identified than when it is not." David Aaker ( Managing Brand Equity ) calls it "the set of assets and liabilities linked to a brand's name and symbol that adds to or subtracts from the value provided by a product or service to a firm and/or that firm's customers."
The various definitions are important to define the concept but do not lead to a single measure of brand equity.
"Brand value" is often confused with brand equity, but the former refers more specifically to the financial value of a brand. Therefore, Kotler and Keller define "brand valuation" as "an estimate of the total financial value of the brand."
In the past decade, the recognition of the importance of brand and its economic impact has grown, and there is widespread acceptance now that brands play an important role in generating and sustaining both the financial performance of businesses as well as shareholder value. A study conducted by Interbrand and J.P. Morgan in 2002 concluded that, on average, brands account for more than one-third of shareholder value.
There is no standardized or accepted definition of brand value or brand valuation. Nevertheless, Interbrand and Millward Brown Optimor (MBO) have developed rankings that are well respected. Interbrand characterizes its method as "proven, straightforward and profound. It examines brands through the lens of financial strength, the importance of the brand in driving consumer selection, and the likelihood of ongoing revenue generated by the brand." Millward Brown Optimor calls its BrandZ "the most reliable, comprehensive and useful brand valuation ranking available," a database that provides a "detailed, quantified, understanding of consumer decision-making worldwide."
According to MBO, in 2012 "brand value grew overall, but only marginally, because of myriad economic and political issues that eroded consumer confidence in the developed economies and because the BRICs slowed somewhat." The total value of the 100 most valuable companies in the Brandz ranking reached $2.4 trillion this year. Brands in the technology sector dominate the top of the list, occupying four of the first five spots. Apple retained its number one position, IBM came second, Google third and Microsoft fifth. Fast-food chain McDonald's was the only non-technology brand in the top five.
Eileen Campbell, Global CEO of Millward Brown
Discussing the 2012 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands
Coca Cola topped the Interbrand 2011 ranking (the latest available,) followed by three technology-sector giants, IBM, Microsoft and Google. McDonald's, fourth in the MBO list, ranked sixth. Apple, who leads Brandz, was only 8 for Interbrand, although it climbed 9 positions from the previous year. "For brands, the ups and downs of today's world make an already competitive marketplace all the more complex," states the 2011 Interbrand report. "These strong and highly innovative brands [the 100 most valuable] have responded to the needs of their people, their consumers, and the world beyond their corporate doors. In times like these, it's an admirable achievement worth celebrating and emulating."
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- David A. Aaker, Managing Brand Equity, The Free Press, 1991
- Gabriela Salinas, International Brand Valuation Manual, Wiley, 2009
- Interbrand 2011 Report
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- Millward Brown BrandZ 2012 Report
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"Symposium participants had a spirited debate about whether release of a biological control for saltcedar in the Southwest is a good idea or a bad one," said April Fletcher of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "But I believe everyone left the symposium with a greater appreciation of how complex the issues of saltcedar control are, and how many questions remain unanswered."
Many of those unanswered questions involved the ecosystem of the Southwest. If saltcedar is removed, will native species return? Or have groundwater levels and flooding patterns been changed so much as a result of human activities that the original cottonwood galleries will be unable to grow? If saltcedar stands are controlled, what will happen to wildlife species that now depend on the shrub for nesting sites, including the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus)? Participants also had lots of questions about the potential for unintended consequences from the voracious saltcedar leaf beetle.
"Though we've made great progress in controlling some of the nation's most destructive plants and weeds, the debate over saltcedar shows ongoing research is vital," said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America. "Taking a science-based approach can help us answer critical questions about our natural ecosystems and carefully weigh the impact of the decisions we make."
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Document Number: 3773Summer School: Unfulfilled Promise - Quality summer school is the last hope for failing students to avoid repeating a grade, according to this report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). Based on a survey of more than 1,000 middle schools and high schools, the report found wide variation in the funding, operation and existence of summer schools. Among other recommendations, the report suggests that states must make summer school an integral part of a year-round program at no cost to parents. It also concludes that summer school must meet clear standards for quality, program length and scheduling of classes. (David R. Denton, SREB, June 2002) ...
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Flying Saucer Comes Through with Flying Colors, or the Triumph of Infrastructure
Say No To Powerpoint
I loathe authoring with Powerpoint (or its OpenOffice equivalent).
Putting together a presentation requires a horrid amount of mouse clicking
and fussing with fonts and formatting. Instead, I use the amazing href="http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/">HTML Slidy. You write your
slides in XHTML (I use href="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/">XMLMind, but any web editor
that produces XHTML will do.) Then you add links to the Slidy style sheet
and JavaScript magic, and you have a great slide show.
This isn't something that Aunt Tilly would do, but I already know XHTML
and a bit of CSS, so authoring becomes very, very fast. I dash off a few
h1, ul, and img, and I am done.
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;" />Next semester, I will use
href="http://up.ucsd.edu/about/WhatIsUP.html">Ubiquitous Presenter for
"active learning" in the classroom. It is a nifty system where
both the professor and the students can annotate slides. However, the
slides must be in Powerpoint format (and, I am told, it is best if the
Powerpoint is not too old or too new or "too complex"). As an
alternative, the system will grudgingly accept a set of 576x432 pixel
image files. (It took me a long time to realize that this means 8x6 inches
at 72 dots per inch.)
I forged ahead with this recipe:
- Use PrinceXML to convert
XHTML to PDF
- Use Pdftk to burst the
PDF into a sequence of single-page PDFs
- Use ImageMagick to convert
the pages to PNG
It worked, but the image quality was rather poor.
There had to be a better way. My mission was to find one.
I considered using JEditorPane, but I had not been happy with
it in the past. It has a lot of quirks and doesn't seem very actively
maintained. Then I happened to spot href="https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/">Flying Saucer.
Flying Saucer
style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;" />Flying Saucer is "an
XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 renderer in 100% Java". It renders to Java2D
images, and, together with the href="http://www.lowagie.com/iText/">iText library, to PDF. (It does
not try to process arbitrary HTML, so you won't want to build a web
browser with it.) Some people use it to produce PDF or images on the fly,
for example in web applications. Generate XML or XHTML, use CSS for
styling, and you can produce quite a variety of output with very little
I loaded a slide sample into the Flying Saucer viewer application.
Impressively enough, all of the CSS was correctly interpreted. Make that
"almost all of the CSS". A bug with image scaling was a
showstopper, but I sent a message to the mailing list, and href="https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=817">a
patch materialized within hours.
Flying Saucer comes with command-line utilities to generate PDF or
images, but there was nothing to produce an image per page. In a day, I
hacked together a simple program for
this purpose, by copying the pagination code from the PDF generator and
the image rendering code from the image generator. I don't understand all
the mumbo-jumbo with devices and contexts, but it works perfectly. Here is
a slide sample:
If you ever need to render images or PDF with lots of text and a fairly
rigid structure, give Flying Saucer a try.
style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;" />What does this all mean in a
bigger way? It is an issue of infrastructure. The Ubiquitous Presenter tools are
tethered to Powerpoint. It is a fragile infrastructure. There is no
reliable mechanism to process Powerpoint other than Powerpoint, and even
that comes with the proviso that the files are neither too old nor too
In contrast, open standards and open source enabled me to leverage a
huge infrastructure. When I submit a bug report about CSS, there was no
arguing about the expected behavior, but the bug simply got fixed. (Try
that with Powerpoint!) There are lots of tools that produce or consume
XML+CSS. The Flying Saucer people integrate the iText stuff; I take the
Flying Saucer stuff and solve my problem in a day. It's all open source
and there is very little friction. It isn't something that I think about
very much, just like I don't usually spend a lot of time thinking about
the physical infrastructure that surrounds us. As long as it works, it is
For this reason, I am somewhat reluctant to embrace the Ianguage du
jour. If I switch to Ruby or Python, I have a different infrastructure.
How good is it? For example, how do I render XHTML into PDF? Is it like
moving from the United States to Mexico? Fun at first, but then the bad
plumbing gets to you? Maybe the JVM will become a part of the
infrastructure, and in ten years, I'll call Flying Saucer from JRuby or,
more likely, Scala.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Christians in a Pakistani town beset by pro-Taliban militants sought government protection Wednesday, the eve of a deadline for them to convert to Islam or face violence.
About 500 Pakistani Christians in Charsadda, a town in the North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, received letters earlier this month telling them to close their churches and convert by Thursday or be the target of "bomb explosions."
Several Christians, a tiny minority in the predominantly Muslim country, have fled town and others are living in fear, community leaders said.
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Yikerz is a board game of magnetic attraction and strategy. It's easy to learn, play and pick-up. The game can be played with 2-4 people and provides a greater strategic challenge as you get more players.
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What are RSS feeds and how can I use them?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds provide a convenient way to stay up-to-date with frequently updated information.
Smartraveller RSS feeds provide basic reissue information about the travel advisories issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, linking back to the updated information on the Smartraveller website.
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Fire At South Jersey Golf Club Declared Arson
November 23, 2010 10:18 AM
DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Investigators said a fire at a southern New Jersey golf club was intentionally set.
Flames swept through the abandoned former Maple Ridge Country Club pro shop in Deptford early Sunday.
The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill reported it took 90 minutes for firefighters to get the upper hand.
No one was injured and no arrests have been made.
Maple Ridge was previously known as Tall Pines Country Club and Ron Jaworski's Eagles Nest Country Club.
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Little League Continues Long-Standing Relationship with Active Network
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Aug. 4, 2011) - For more than a decade, Active Network has been a partner to Little League, making it one of the company's most well-established customer relationships. Active Network technology makes it easy for local Little Leagues to conduct all aspects of their league management online. The Company's eteamz.com website offers free and affordable cost solutions, while Active.com – its top-rated sports site – makes it easy for adults and children to find local activities and sports based on their interests.
"Active Network has provided technology solutions that have aided local Little Leagues in managing their league operations more efficiently using services like online registration and assembling team rosters," Stephen Keener, president and chief executive officer of Little League Baseball and Softball, said. "Through their sponsorship, Active Network will continue to provide enhanced services that meet the needs of our leagues and teams – helping our volunteers and local leagues provide healthy, safe and organized programs for children."
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The Bible tells of men who were strong in faith, strong in integrity, and strong in leadership. While not perfect, these men strived to live lives that honored God. We see the culmination of faith, integrity, and leadership in the Life of Jesus. As we strive to live a life like Jesus' life, we understand the difficulties that men today face. There is a certain camaraderie and fellowship that men can only get from friendship of other men. FBC MEN is here to make those connections. We want men to grow in faith, integrity, and leadership.
There are two important connections that men need in order to grow strong in faith, integrity, and leadership. One is a connection to Jesus Christ. He is the source of power in our lives. The other is a connection to other men where they can be challenged and encouraged to live out what they learn. We need to live it out at home, with family, at church, at work, and in our journey with Christ. As men we will too often seek isolation that keeps us from the encouragement of others, the fellowship of believers, and clearly seeing the gospel at work in our lives.
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Best: Everybody Has Forgotten Everybody, I Guess
"hey randy it's the nay-cha boy ric flair woo"
"you ever seen the ending to last crusade, when the guy picks the wrong grail?"
"who did"
[long silence]
I'm really intrigued by this segment, even though it's probably all in my head. Randy Orton's been officially thrown in the garbage by The Authority, hasn't he? They told him he had to eliminate Roman Reigns or he'd never be free to get another title shot. He lost to Roman, and now suddenly The Authority's championing Brock Lesnar. Orton's been trying to take out Cena for 10+ years and Lesnar just shows up and German suplexes Cena to death like it's nothing. Now Randy's teaming with RYBAXEL and they're LOSING. What's he supposed to do now?
So I like Flair showing up and being all, "hey man, if you need to talk, I'm here." How cool would it be if Flair picked up the pieces of the disenfranchised members of Evolution and brought them back as babyfaces? Imagine Daniel Bryan showing up at the Royal Rumble and Triple H trying to lord some kind of power over him, only for Orton and Batista to show up and wreck him and clear the way for Bryan? I'd lose my mind. It'd be perfect, circular storytelling. Throw Roman in the group with them and do it right. Then you'd have a past (Batista), a present (Orton) and a future (Roman). The most recent version felt like three pasts.
Best: It's Goldust And Stardust! AND THEY'RE DOING THINGS!
YEAH, TIME FOR ME TO GET ENTHUSIASTIC AND EXCITED BECAUSE MY FAVORITE GUYS ARE … oh no what are they doing
Worst: Seriously Though, Enough With These Consequence-free Losses For Champions
After being locked in a room for a month, Goldust and Stardust are getting surprise rollups on the tag team champions and pinning them to set up a match that has nothing to do with cosmic keys or feuds or allegiances or ANYTHING. It's just "and now, the tag teams we remember." I'm down for a Dust Brusters (f*ck you, JBL) and Usos beef, especially if it leads to one of the teams going rogue and, I don't know, developing a story, but is this the way to do it? Especially on a show where Paige already lost a non-title match to a distraction roll-up and the new Intercontinental Champion lost by count-out.
Can we do something with these guys' CHARACTERS? I know I'm the Internet's head cheerleader for F*CK THE CHARACTERS, WRESTLE THE MATCHES, but man, you've got two gold guys who spent a month doing math problems and pondering outer space. The Usos are trying to get "Usos crazy" over. Why are they trading waistlocks and rollups? Go nuts, guys.
Best: Rusev Is Still Selling The Ankle
Rusev's dedication to telling a story in the ring is making him one of my favorite wrestlers. I mean, he was already one of my favorite wrestlers because he's wearing a gold star given to him by Vladimir Putin and putting people in camel clutches because his foxy girlfriend ordered it via hand gesture, but this is REAL. The guy is still hobbling around and not at 100% because even though he beat Jack Swagger, he still wrestled him, and the wrestling you wrestled should still exist when you're done. Beautiful.
Best: Mark Henry, Gentleman Wig-Splitter
Also beautiful: MARK HENRY, SEGMENT TWO.
This is how you do it. This is how you stand up for the United States against a cartoon super villain and deal vengeful babyface damage without looking like an asshole. Henry shows up and explains that he's tired of hearing Rusev and Lana run down America … he's competed in two Olympic games on behalf of the country and LOVES it. It's not a thing he's saying, it's the truth. The guy goes to Olympic training camps and takes happy mark photos with the athletes. He's posing with THEM, not the other way around. And yeah, there's still a bunch of "I was SICK TO MY STOMACH to see you have your flag raised IN MY COUNTRY per the rules of the match you won fairly" jingoistic stuff, but it's largely based on Rusev's heelishness and not Henry arbitrarily going around bodyslamming foreigners.
When Lana won't stop yammering and trying to interrupt him, he points at her and yells I'M NOT TALKING TO YOUUUU. She shuts the hell up. That's how you do it. You don't call her a bitch and give her a dramatic soap opera slap, you tell her to shut up because she's talking over you. She's actively being the confrontational and annoying one. Henry challenges Rusev, and Rusev doesn't just throw the first punch … the first punch is a SUCKERPUNCH, which gives Henry the babyface right to unload on him. How does Henry get the advantage? Blocking a kick by hitting Rusev's bum ankle. Do you see how hot and logical and wonderful this stuff can be when you pay attention and do it right?
The best part is the very end. Henry doesn't try to intimidate Lana or threaten her. He doesn't grab her by the hair or kiss her or anything stupid … he makes a gentlemanly "move out of the way" gesture and moves her out of the way so he can splash Rusev. It's perfect. He knows Lana isn't going to do anything to him. He's Mark Henry, and her only weapon is on the ground with a split wig.
If WWE's smart, they'll give Henry the first pinfall victory over Rusev instead of putting Rusev over, because the "hi, I'm John Cena, have we met" ending doesn't help anybody.
Worst: Let's Ask The WWE Universe What They Thought About This Angle


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Several other types of insurance - many of which are approved by the DOC Insurance Committee - are available for purchase by employees. While premiums for these insurance options can be deducted from payroll, they cannot be deducted on a pre-tax basis.
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The Heart and Stroke policy features one policy that covers both heart disease and stroke. Employee coverage can continued if the employee leaves or retires from the Department of Correction. There is no reduction in benefit at age 65 or retirement. Plan features include:
An eligible employee can enroll at any time. Benefits are paid in addition to any other coverage you may have. Benefits are subject to Pre-existing Condition Limitation defined by the plan.
For specific information and additional information on benefits, limitations and exclusions, please contact the Pierce Insurance Agency at 1-800-421-3142 or visit www.pierceins.com.
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Cancer Insurance - The coverage provides for wellness benefits (cancer screening) initial diagnosis, treatment, inpatient care, transportation and lodging, and experimental treatment. Colonial offers an optional radiation/chemotherapy rider with some plans, plus an optional progressive payment benefit. Coverage is guaranteed renewable for life.
Enrollment is open for Colonial Cancer Insurance. However, coverage is subject to specific policy limitations. For specific information and full disclosure of benefits, limitations, and exclusions call 1-800-325-4368 or visit http://www.coloniallife.com.
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Protective Life has two options for Life Insurance. Either of these options can be carried with you (at the same rate) if you separate or retire from the Department of Correction:
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2. Level Premium Life Insurance: Premiums are guaranteed and level for the first 15 policy years. Your spouse, children, grandchildren, and parents may also be eligible for a policy. After the initial 15 year premium guarantee period, rates increase every 5 years. The ultimate premium is reached between ages 81 and 85 and remains level to age 100. There is a 2 year suicide and contestable period. Benefits will be adjusted for misstatements of age and sex. (Policy form number GPWL-03). For more information, contact First Protective at 1-800-334-1217.
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Disability Coverage - Provides income to employees for a covered accident or sickness, which includes maternity, regardless if the accident or sickness occurred on the job. This coverage pays in according to the plan options you choose and it pays in addition to other insurance.
Accident Coverage - Provides benefits for medical fees, fractures, dislocations, gunshot wounds, etc. This plan is available to employee, spouse and children.
Additional Coverage - For an additional charge employees may elect coverage from several riders such as Accidental Death and Dismemberment.
For specific information and additional information on benefits, limitations and exclusions, please contact the Pierce Insurance Agency at 1-800-421-3142 or visit www.pierceins.com.
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Prudential Long-Term Care
Traditional health insurance benefits are not designed to cover you for long-term care. Traditional health insurance benefits pay for hospital or doctor care- skilled care. Skilled care is short-term, acute-type care designed to restore you to your previous level of wellness with recovery being the focus. Long-term care is designed for chronically ill individuals.
Long-term care is the personal care you may need on an ongoing basis in the case of a disabling or chronic medical condition. Long-term care is not one service, but many different services aimed at helping people with the essential activities of daily living such as bathing, eating, transferring, continence, toileting, and dressing, or other needs due to an accident, chronic illness, or just due to the frailty of old age. Employee's family members are eligible to enroll including spouse, children, parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, and grandparents-in-law.
Long-Term Care Services can be provided in nursing homes, hospital long-term care units, assisted living facilities, hospice facilities, adult day care centers, or at you home.
For more information or to request an enrollment package, please call 1-800-732-0416 or visit www.prudential.com/gltc (enter group name "stateplan" and password "stateplanltc.")
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|Clendenin Keys Bobcats to sweep of Pfeiffer on Senior Day
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Senior Taylor Clendenin (Statesville, N.C.) recorded a match-high 11 kills to lead the Lees-McRae College women's volleyball team to a straight set victory over Pfeiffer University on Saturday afternoon as the Bobcats celebrated their senior day
in Williams Gymnasium. Lees-McRae (12-14, 8-6 CC) won the match by scores of 25-16, 25-14, and 25-16, posting a blistering .427 hitting percentage as a team while holding Pfeiffer (7-17, 4-9 CC) to a .028 clip on the attack. Each team recorded five blocks in the contest, as Lees-McRae smashed down 44 kills in the sweep.
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I-85 Interchange
Public hearing scheduled Nov. 21
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A public hearing on plans for the Poplar Road interchange on Interstate 85 has been scheduled for Nov. 21, which is considered a major milestone for the long-awaited project.
"We set a very aggressive schedule for that public hearing — and we've made it," transportation consultant King Evans told the Coweta County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. "We never dreamed we were going to have a public hearing this year, and we're going to have it in November," Evans said. "I don't know of any project I've worked on that has gone any smoother than this one has."
The hearing is on the draft environmental document as well as the plans for the project. It will be held Nov. 21 at Central Educational Center, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Newnan, from 4-7 p.m.
Coweta County got approval of the draft environmental document for the project on Oct. 1, said Tod Handley, Coweta's transportation and engineering director. The interchange will receive federal funding, which means the project must go through the long and detailed federal process.
It was important to get the public hearing held before Thanksgiving. Otherwise, it would have been pushed into January, Handley said.
After the public hearing, comments will have to be incorporated into the environmental document. The project also has to go through preliminary field plan review, and then final approval of the design.
Hopes are to begin acquiring right-of-way for the project late next summer, with the project being let for construction in January 2016. Construction is expected to take two years.
Evans wanted to "salute" the ladies at the Federal Highway Administration who have been working on the project. FHWA had made some minor comments and "just as we are sending her the stuff, the government shuts down," Evans said. The workers took the information home with them and "at 2 the next afternoon we had" the approval of the next steps. "That thing could have easily gotten lost in that whole muddle," Evans said. "They took care of us and did a great job. That's one of the reasons, along with Tod and my guys, that we are where we are."
— Handley also gave an update on the plans for the Southeastern Bypass Extension and intersection improvement at Ga. Hwy. 16 East, U.S. 29 South and Pine Road. The bypass extension, from Turkey Creek Road to Hwy. 16, and the intersection improvement are being treated as one project, which will also include some widening of U.S. 29 at Interstate 85.
They are currently working on right-of-way. There are 25 parcels that need to be acquired, and "seven have been signed for," Handley said. "We are in negotiations now with most of the remaining property owners."
"We're going to be moving very soon to a final field plan review," Handley said, and are hoping to have the project out for bid in May 2014. Reaching that date will require right-of-way to be certified by March. Construction is estimated to take 18 to 24 months.


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-- Jeff Karstens was named the National League Player of the Week on Monday. Karstens pitched a complete-game shutout Friday night in a 4-0 win over the Astros and became the first Pirates starter to win five consecutive decisions since Ian Snell in June 2006. "It's an honor, just for us as a team to get recognition now," Karstens said. "We had three All-Stars, and now, to get (Player of the Week), it means a lot to us. But my biggest goal is to get us farther than what we're doing now." This is Karstens' first career Player of the Week award.
-- Manager Clint Hurdle said the front office is "making connections everywhere" in the search for possible trade acquisitions, but he declined to identify the team's greatest needs in order of priority, saying that's an internal matter. "But even what we identify as our need, to find someone to play ball along those lines is the other challenge that goes along with it," he said.
-- In regard to whether he worries about the possibility of acquiring a player who might adversely affect the team chemistry, Hurdle said, "We're going to do enough homework where that guy won't get in the door, if there is that guy out there."
-- Ryan Doumit is progressing with his exercise program, but there's still no date for when he might return to game action. "We just know the more activity he's taken on he's pulled off and gotten to a good place," Hurdle said. "Hopefully, it'll be soon."Additional Information:
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Wednesday: 12:35 p.m., PNC Park, Pirates' right-hander Jeff Karstens (8-4, 2.34 ERA) vs. RHP Johny Cueto (5-3, 2.01 ERA).
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Friday: 7:05 p.m., PNC Park vs. St. Louis Cardinals, left-hander Paul Maholm (6-9, 3.06 ERA) vs. RHP Chris Carpenter (5-7, 3.69 ERA).
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Basildon Council Approve New Travellers Site Near Dale Farm
A general view of a proposed new travellers site close to the Dale... ニュース写真イギリス,イングランド,クレイズヒル,デールファーム,ヒューマンインタレスト,乗客,建造物,新しい,標準レンズ,横長,民間人,計画するPhotographer Oli ScarffCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesCRAYS HILL, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 13: A general view of a proposed new travellers site close to the Dale Farm traveller's camp, a portion of which was cleared of residents and structures by Basildon Council on February 13, 2013 in Crays Hill, England. Basildon Council have approved a new site to accommodate the displaced travellers, which lies less than 800 meters from Dale Farm. Following Basildon Council's eviction in October 2011, which was estimated to have cost 7 million GBP, many travellers now reside on the access road for the legal portion of the Dale Farm site. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)


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Since the initial unveil of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich", plenty of details have spilled out from manufacturers, carriers, and Google itself. With every new version of Android comes a lot of questions as to whether it'll support older devices or certain features, so we'll try to clear up some of that confusion here.
First, let's start with some features that Google didn't really spotlight in their initial unveil. Native stylus support is one of these features, building hooks into the Android API to recognize between a pen and fingertip as well as respond specifically to touches with differing pressure. This software-level integration piggybacks on initial ideas from the HTC Flyer and Samsung Galaxy Note, but still places the impetus on manufacturers to provide hardware solutions. Another feature that wasn't well explained was the barometer in the Galaxy Nexus, which Android engineer Dan Morrill explains provides altitude readings to the GPS program to more rapidly acquire the user's location by satellite.
Manufacturer distribution of firmware updates to Android have been spotty in the past, but this version seems to have much more promise as far as widespread adoption is concerned. In fact, Director of Android User Experience Matias Duarte said that 4.0 "theoretically should work for any 2.3 [Gingerbread] device" The following devices are confirmed to either release with Android 4.0 or be updated in the future, though firm dating is universally ambiguous:
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text: Welcome to Sajjanpur (release date: September 19th) – Cinematic genius Shyam Benegal makes a comeback this year after his last acclaimed release Zubeidaa. The award winning director returns to the comedy arena this time with Welcome To Sajjanpur (earlier titled Mahadev Ki Sajjanpur) starring Shreyas Talpade (Iqbal) and Amrita Rao (Vivah). Welcome to Sajjanpur is the story of a village that has a population of mostly illiterates except for one man who makes his living out of writing letters for the villagers. The movie promises to be a satirical take on rural India. Shantanu Moitra (Parineeta) composed the soundtrack, which has just hit shelves worldwide. Watch out for this comic adventure in a cinema near you this September!


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Now in its 93rd season, the American Passion Play is one of the oldest, continuously-performed, passion plays in the United States. This Biblically accurate performance takes the audience on a spiritual journey to Palestine, 30 AD where they travel with the living Christ, meet his Apostles and follow his ministry from the Sermon on the Mount to His resurrection and ascension. The play features beautiful scenery, live pipe organ music, live voices and even live animals.
Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market
The Market is open from 7:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday morning from May through October. Located on the historic downtown square, the Farmers' Market is managed by the Downtown Bloomington Association. Not only does the market give customers a colorful venue to buy locally grown farm products, it also puts them in touch with local artisans of prepared goods and fine arts, musicians, and community organizations. The Downtown Bloomington Association Farmers' Market is a producer-only market offering a wide array of farm products — including vegetables, fruits, cheeses, pork, beef, free-range poultry and eggs, flowers, plants, herbs, and more grown and produced by the individual selling these items! The market features different musical performances each week. Cooking demos are offered regularly, and the Kids' Zone has sponsors that offer weekly hands-on activities for all ages.
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To a very unique musician whose words and music transformed my husband's and my life.
We listened to one of her CD's , singing with her all the way from Old Bridge to South Euclild ,Ohio,to visit my sister and family. I with friends attended her Women's Seders in New York on many occasions, all of which were uplifting experiences. So many of us incorporated many sections of this Seder into our own, and singing and dancing to "And the women dancing with their timbrils---". My husband and I heard her at the Kallah at Brandeis, Carneige Hall,at my Temple and many of he concerts. Debbie's music will live on in the lives of all who knew her,in Synagogues throughout the word,and for generations to come.We shall miss her terribly. Condolences to her family and friends. May she rest in peace.
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Tyre companies want to be asociated with top flight motorsport because it's good for business. (although how you truely guage the link between involvement and sales is debatable)
But I'm not sure what Barcelona did for Pirelli's image...........irrespective of what their brief was.


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According to school officials, teacher turnover is not currently an issue in Hanover.
At a June 30 joint education committee, comprised of school board members, supervisors and county staff, Superintendent Jamelle Wilson presented committee members with data on the number of teacher resignations and retirements from the 2004-2005 school year to the 2013-2014 term.
The data show the most teachers recently resigning in the 2012-2013 school year with 103 who left. This year 57 instructors out of about 1,500 total were reported to have left Hanover schools and 19 retired, according to the data. In the data, numbers include any special education, gifted or resource teachers.
"We know that there are individuals that are leaving us for lots of different reasons," Wilson said. "Top four reasons: they are staying at home with their own children, they are going to other Virginia school districts, they're being promoted or going into another industry."
And the numbers appear to be fairly low.
"From my observation, our existing turnover is lower than our surrounding neighbors," said David Myers, assistant superintendent of business and operations.
Myers added that the Hanover school division is not losing any teachers to other school systems.
"That's just the bottom line. People are not leaving Hanover to go anywhere else," he said.
Myers said that from working for both Henrico's and Chesterfield's schools in the past, he knows that teachers are not leaving to work for other divisions.
"I'm one of the few people that actually has real life hands-on experience on both sides," he said.
This year, the school division started doing exit interview surveys again.
Surveys are given to instructors at the end of the school year, but an interview is not actually required of the person leaving the division; however, they do have the option.
Teachers are asked to fill out a roughly 11-to- 12-question survey about their choice to leave Hanover schools.
"Some people have chosen to take us up on the interview," Wilson said.
After looking through the exit survey, Wilson said she discovered that many teachers, especially at the elementary level, were retiring.
Current Chairman and Chickahominy District School Board member Bob Hundley Jr. said he thinks some teachers are leaving because of the increase in extra work and responsibilities in regards to reporting classroom data and grades.
"My guess is that there's a fair amount of teachers who've decided 'I don't want to do this anymore,'" Hundley said.
He added that many teachers end up at private schools because of that reason.
Hundley commented that teachers get less and less time to perform these responsibilities.
"I imagine that there [are] teachers who decide, 'I've had enough,'" he said.
Between previous years and this recent school term, numbers have dropped a decent amount. According to the data, in the 2007-2008 school year, there were 168 teachers who left and 28 who retired.
Myers said in a Monday interview that it was a time of uncertainty because of the economy.
He attributed the increase in resignations and retirements in 2007 to when the district stopped subsidizing retirees' healthcare.
"You see these numbers pretty high back then and I think it pushed some folks out," he said.
Because of the economy and changes in retirees' health care, Myers said that some people may have left the school system and moved to another industry. Some people might have also left to work in other school districts, because of events such as Chesterfield opening several new schools, he said.
"These are unique attractive opportunities," Myers added.
As for the lower numbers this year, some county officials asked if the recent 2 percent merit-based salary increase impacted the data.
Chickahominy District Supervisor Angela Kelly-Wiecek said that her constituents and teachers she has talked to said they were happy with the 2 percent raise, but it was only "a start."
"As opposed to 'Now I've got my 2 percent raise and I'll stop job searching," Kelly-Wiecek said.
Former Mechanicsville District board member Glenn Millican Jr. expressed caution toward these numbers. Millican said they should pay attention to demographic and age groups and reasons specific to those.
"Without knowing that it's difficult to see what's going to be trending," he said.
"People will never level with you completely but if you compare to other national demographic trends, you can apply those to attrition within the different groups," Millican added.


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My column today, "Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters," reports on Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery) and its challenge to the revisionist view of the ethnic Japanese internment during World War II. What I do not mention there, but note for the record here, is my own cameo appearance in the introduction to her book, on p. xx, where Malkin discusses how the "ethnic grievance industry and civil liberties Chicken Littles" have shut down rational discussion of her topic:
Malkin has it right. The incident began on April 9, 2003, when I gave an interview to Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now," the radical left's most prominent U.S. program. Amy Goodman, the host, and I were talking about my usual Middle Eastern and Islamic issues when she, out of the blue, 12:26 minutes into the discussion asked me, "Did you support, do you now, looking back on the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II?" Startled, I replied, "It's not a subject I know enough about to talk about."
CAIR, thick in its campaign against my nomination to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, tried, without success, to use this statement of mine to incite the Japanese American Citizens League against my nomination. In retrospect, given that CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper was on the same "Democracy Now" program as I was, I suspect that Hooper fed the question to Goodman.
(That would not be the first time CAIR had apparently planted a question about me. For example, I have a videotape of the press conference it held in Davie, Florida, on October 24, 2003, conducted by its Florida head, Ahmed Bedier. Titled "Muslims Demand Probe of Floridian with Terror Ties," the event had nothing to do with me until the very end, when Bedier asked of his tiny audience, "Is there anything else?" To which, a CAIR ally and shill replied with a long question about my recent appointment to the U.S. Institute of Peace. Bedier then provided a long and inaccurate answer about my appointment.)
This attempt at ambushing me on the radio not only failed to derail my nomination, but it also failed in a larger sense, for it provoked my curiosity about the Japanese internment and prompted me to read Malkin's book. Now, should anyone ask the same question Goodman did, I can knowledgeably reply: Yes, I do support the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II because, as Malkin shows, "given what was known and not known at the time," the U.S. government made the correct and sensible decisions. (December 28, 2004)
Dec. 29, 2004 update: The response to this column prompts two clarifying comments from me: (1) I am encouraged by the results of the Cornell survey because it means that many Americans understand the need to focus on the segment of the population that is engaged in Islamist activities; I do not specifically endorse its notion of Muslims having to register their whereabouts.
(2) I raised the subject of the Japanese internment because it "still matters" in its influence on the U.S. public debate, and not because I advocate the internment of anyone today.
In this connection, during a boisterous meeting of U.S. Civil Rights Commission in July 2002, commission member Peter Kirsanow advised Arab and Muslim Americans to complain less about the civil rights restrictions that help protect the country from terrorism. Should these efforts fail and mega-terrorism by Arabs again struck the United States, he warned, "you can forget about civil rights" because "the public would be less concerned about any perceived erosion of civil liberties than they are about protecting their own lives." He predicted "a groundswell of public opinion" might lead to Arab-Americans placed in internment camps, as happened to Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Kirsanow, former head of the Center for New Black Leadership, explained that he personally did not support such camps and was merely speculating. In fact, he later declared himself "adamantly opposed to the concept" of internment.
But this distancing did not protect him from a groundswell of outrage. Politicians, Japanese-American lawyers, and self-styled civil rights groups, demanded his removal from the Civil Rights Commission, a federal government institution. The commission itself even attacked Kirsanow.
Kirsanow's experience illustrates (a) how toxic is any discussion of the Japanese internment issue and (b) how directly events of sixty years ago bear on current counterterrorism issues. Which is why Malkin wrote her book and I wrote my column about it.
Dec. 31, 2004 update: I correct the record vis-à-vis the calumnies spread by Juan Cole on the subject of the Japanese internment and its applicability today at "Department of Corrections (of Others' Mistakes about Me)," under today's date.
Jan. 5, 2005 update: I have experienced an onslaught of abusive attacks from the Left as a result of my column on the Japanese internment; Michelle Malkin herself reviews and comments on some of these today in a weblog entry, "In Defense of Daniel Pipes."
July 19, 2005 update: I tell the story today, at "[The Canadian Islamic Congress:] An Islamist Apology," of how I won a retraction from the Canadian Islamic Congress for its inaccurate depiction of my position vis-à-vis the interning of Muslims.
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