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Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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Three to Four Year Prospective Evaluation of Personality and Behavioral Risk Factors for Later Disordered Eating in Adolescent Girls and Boys
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- , Jayne A. FulkersonAffiliated withMinnesota Department of Human Services
- , Cheryl L. PerryAffiliated withDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
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Findings of a 3- to 4-year prospective investigation of personality, temperament, and behavioral factors predictive of the later development of disordered eating in an adolescent population are presented. The sample consisted of 726 girls and 698 boys who entered the study in grades 7–10 in year 1 or in grade 7 in year 2. Predictors of eating disorder risk score were determined separately by gender. For both girls and boys, the latent variable of negative affect/attitudes determined at study entrance was the only significant predictor of final-year risk score. Semistructured diagnostic interviews confirmed an eating disorder diagnosis in 52.8% of 36 female subjects in the high eating disorder symptom group. A substantial history of lifetime and current comorbidity also was noted in this group. The function of negative affect/attitudes as a generalized psychopathology vulnerability factor and as a specific factor increasing risk for disordered eating is discussed.
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- Three to Four Year Prospective Evaluation of Personality and Behavioral Risk Factors for Later Disordered Eating in Adolescent Girls and Boys
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Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Volume 28, Issue 2 , pp 181-196
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- 1999-04
- Print ISSN
- 0047-2891
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- 1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 2. Minnesota Department of Human Services, Saint Paul
- 3. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA
- 4. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islamby Sumbul Ali-Karamali
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Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California—from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception, development and current demographics.
Through this engaging work, readers will gain a better understanding of the everyday aspects of Muslim American life, to dispel many of the misconceptions that still remain and open a dialogue for tolerance and acceptance.
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SUMBUL ALI-KARAMALI grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a J. D. from the University of California at Davis, and a graduate degree in Islamic Law from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She has served as a teaching assistant in Islamic Law at SOAS and a research associate at the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law in London. Her highly praised adult book is The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing, an academically reliable introduction to what Muslims believe and practice, but one written in the personal, anecdotal, everyday context of growing up Muslim in America.
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This book is about the author, who grew up Muslim in California. She explains the Muslim religion, how it is celebrated, and the differences between non-Islamic and Islamic families. The book answers the questions people want to know like what do they eat, how do they dress, what kind of holidays do they have, who is Muhammad, the different types of Muslims, and are girls and boys treated differently? "I loved Thanksgiving. I loved making turkey-shaped place cards, and I loved pumpkin pie." I really liked the chapter about the author growing up and seeing the magic of Christmas and how America makes a huge deal out of it and how disappointed she felt in her own festive holiday, Eid, because no one ever made a big deal out of it. I know my own feelings would feel very hurt. It was also neat to learn Muslims pray five times daily and, at the end of the prayers, they turn to each side and recite something. When they do this, they are talking to the two angels assigned to each Muslim to record all of their good and bad deeds. This was a good book. It helped me know more about the people in my life who are Muslim and understand why they wear different clothes and don't eat pork. It's okay to be different, and we can learn so much from people if they are willing to share their stories. *You can view the original review at City Book Review
Great for non-muslims curious about the people in their community who are muslim. Also great for muslim children who want to learn more about thei religion and who they are.


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This recipe is just right. Some food when salty doesn't taste all that great but this fried chicken taste good salty but not too salty just right. I love it. The texture is good. Nice and Crispy!!! Yummy Thanks. This is the best fried chicken I've ever cooked. So simple and easy. I didn't even use a pressure cook. I used a regular pot fill it halfway with oil.
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Wow! Very bland for a KFC copycat recipe! There are many KFC copycat recipes that actually use the "11 herbs and spices" approach with much better results.

Actually, there are no spices in this recipe besides black pepper. Salt and MSG don't count, do they?

I cooked this in a Pressure Magic, (also know as a Fagor Classic, clamp-style pressure cooker, 6L), pressure fryer. It's commonly sold at Fairs, Boat Shows, RV Shows, and they always demonstrate "pressure frying" during their shows, and their online video).

The chicken came out perfectly crispy on the outside and very juicy on the inside! It really wasn't bad at all. However, it tastes just like good "generic" home-cooked fried chicken, and NOT Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Great Recipe! My kids love KFC but we are an hour away from the nearest one. The kids loved it. I also used a deep fryer with a setting of only 375* - I cooked the chicken for 12 minutes.
Awesome Recipe! Seriously this fried chicken is the best I ever tried, everyone loves it, and I just used a regular electric deep fryer. Cooked a bit longer, but came out great AAA+++
very easy and simply. i made it in a ordinary pot over a gas stove and it came out very nice and juicy and crunchy on the outside. would have liked a more 'bitsy' and crunchy texture but that would probably be just a matter of using corn/potato starch/flour.
Used this recipe last night and it tasted like I got it from the Colonel himself. My entire family LOVED it!
I've been doing a very similar recipe for years, super KFC taste. I've used a traditional pressure cooker, no issues what so ever, however to crisp it up a bit I leave it in the oil several minutes after pressure has dropped.
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Welcome back to a new school year at WES! I'd like to take a minute to welcome Rob Messenheimer to the school as our new principal. If you haven't met him yet, stop by the office and introduce yourself. I'm sure he'd love to meet you! I'm Jason Dale and will serve as President of … Read more


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The Lingo of Our Calling
The Lingo of our Calling: The Legacy of Cowboy Poetry
January 19 to June 30, 2004
Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote, "a place is just a place until a poet's been there." The American West, with its vast and varied landscape, has been graced with an abundance of poets, a number from its horseback culture, who have given us a lasting legacy of story, song, and verse of language.
The Lingo of Our Calling, the title of a poem written by Montana poet Wallace McRae, speaks to the unique language cowboys use to communicate about their way of life.
This exhibit explores cowboy poetry's history, from the classics to the contemporary, and examines its role in reflecting sense of place and culture as it has evolved over time in the West. Poetry, illustrated books, manuscripts, photographs, vintage sheet music, postcards and memorabilia; artwork, hand crafted horse gear and other artifacts - as well as audio and video recordings - have been gathered from collections all over the West to illustrate the creative inspirations and enduring spirit of cowboy poetry. Artwork includes paintings and illustrations by William Matthews, Gary Morton, Buckeye Blake, C.M. Russell, Walter Piehl, Edward Borein, Harold Von Schmidt, Larry Pirnie and more.
The horse gear on display comes from the Western Folklife Center's collection of contemporary gear, featuring work of some of the West's master makers including saddlemakers Dale Harwood and Scott Brown; bit and spur makers Al Tietjen, Mark Dahl, Dan Price, Frank Schultz and Ernie Marsh; horsehair artists Alfredo Campos, Kelly Kinkade, Larry and Toni Schutte, Frankie Dougal, Doug Krause and Helen Hammond; and rawhide braiders Jim McKinney, Bob Stone, Frank Hansen, Nate Wald, Randy Rieman, Doug Groves, Bill Budd and Ed Pass.
Produced by the Western Folklife Center with guest curator Liz Dear of Montana.
Presented with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Anne Pattee, the Nevada Arts Council, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Wells Fargo, R. Harold Burton Foundation and the Dick Burton Foundation.


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I often jokingly tell graduate students that I wish someone had told me about the sheer number of meetings I would have to attend as a faculty member — not to dissuade me, but to clue me into the bureaucratic reality of what it's like to be a faculty member. This is my attempt to distill my experience as a tenure-track assistant professor at two large, state research universities and the lessons I learned about the reality of what being an assistant professor is like with an eye towards preparing future faculty for the everyday reality of professorship. As usual, it's largely based only on my experience — other people surely have different experiences (even at the same institutions), and the experiences of friends at other kinds of institutions clearly differ from my own.
Briefly, my own institutional biography: I accepted a job at Wayne State University while finishing my dissertation in early 2007. I spent a year there — I actually started teaching in the summer term — and then moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was at UCSC from 2008 through 2015, and went up for tenure there in 2012. So, in total, I spent one year as an assistant at Wayne, and four as an assistant at UCSC. Generally, the experiences were not significantly different in their broad contours.
The big change from being a dissertating graduate student to being a tenure-track faculty member is that you move from being almost entirely self-directed to suddenly being beholden to the needs of others — in the classroom, but also in your department and the university and profession more generally. Usually, this is referred to as "service" and it can include everything from being a department chair, to serving on job search committees, to giving guest lectures in other people's classes, to serving on M.A. or Ph.D. committees — and so many more permutations, especially outside of one's departmental home. Service happens at the level of the department, the level of the division, the level of the university, and the level of the profession. So, on the one hand, I had ongoing commitments — like serving on Ph.D. committees, the number of which steadily increased over time — and new, one- and two-year commitments that changed with each academic year. In any given year, I tended to accept two to three new service roles, most of which changed the following year — and these included things like serving on the graduate admissions committee, the professionalization workshop I ran, prize committees for undergraduate and graduate students (both at UCSC and through the Society for Medical Anthropology), the academic review committee for students in danger of being expelled or suspended, the university's committee on faculty welfare, and a variety of one-off activities (like guest lecturing, serving on external grant agency review panels, and a host of peer-reviewing for journals). On any given week, it probably amounted to 2-4 hours of work and meetings — sometimes, though, it was dramatically more, like when I had to write a report for a committee that I was serving on (which probably took something like 10-15 hours in one week). And any peer-reviewing I did tended to take 3-4 hours, usually once or twice each month.
There are many more meetings — and emails, and telephone calls (still — some people actually want to talk on the phone!) — which range from meeting with eager or delinquent undergraduates, to meeting with current and prospective graduate students, to meeting with teaching assistants, to faculty meetings, to university-level meetings. At Wayne we had biweekly or monthly Friday morning faculty meetings; at UCSC we had nearly weekly faculty meetings on Wednesday afternoons. Most of these meetings required no preparatory work on my part, and on average I would spend 3-5 hours each week in meetings. It could be dramatically more though, especially with university-level and meetings to support the discipline, and in a couple of cases I easily spent 10 or more hours in meetings in one week.
It's easy to minimize the amount of time it takes to prepare and teach new courses, but it can be all-consuming. At Wayne, I was tasked with teaching a two-semester sequence of theory in medical anthropology at the graduate level — which was an entirely new course and not one that was particularly portable — and also an introduction to cultural anthropology for undergraduates. When I moved to UCSC, none of these classes were usable, in part because at UCSC the senior faculty protected the junior faculty from teaching the very large (~400 students) introduction to cultural anthropology course. But, also, I designed my intro class to resonate with the life experiences of students in Detroit, so a lot of the content would have needed to change as well. When I got to UCSC, I was asked to teach an introduction to medical anthropology course for undergraduates, and from there it was up to me to design my curriculum — so, I came up with graduate courses in science studies and experimentation, and undergraduate classes in the biology of everyday life, medicine & colonialism, and, eventually, I took on the service requirement of teaching the introduction to cultural anthropology, ethnographic methods, and cultural anthropological theory. (You can see my syllabuses on my Teaching page.)
Each of these preps took a few weeks of part-time work before the term began — and in most cases, took a lot of work at the stage when I had to propose the course at the departmental and university levels in order to get approval to offer the class and to garner general education breadth designations. During the term I first offered the class — and to a lesser extent with later iterations — there was significant work throughout the week, reading material, preparing lectures, writing assignments and exams. On top of service requirements, commuting, childcare, running errands, and everything else, this meant that I got very little new writing or research done during the term. (Over time, I was able to develop a rhythm wherein most of my writing and research would get done in terms with old classes or during the summer, and editing work or revisions on articles were saved for the intensive teaching terms.) Only late in my time as an assistant professor did I get to the point where I was teaching classes I had taught before, and then had more time for research and writing — but then started teaching more new classes, and also developed some fatigue related to teaching some of my steady classes. All told, it tended to be about 5 hours per week in the classroom, plus another 15-20 hours per week in preparation, emailing with students, office hours, and other sundry teaching support (which goes down to 5-10 hours per week with a retaught class).
Then there's things like giving colloquium talks and attending conferences and workshops, all of which can be edifying, but also time consuming. Until The Slumbering Masses came out in 2012, most of my invitations were based on my social network — after the book came out, the invitations started to widen. I developed a rule pretty early on that I wouldn't give more than one colloquium talk per term and wouldn't travel to more than one conference per term. I also wouldn't travel over the Mississippi River more than once per year, since I tended to lose too much time to travel. There were exceptions, but having the rule meant that I really paid attention to my schedule for the year, and that I would try and avoid excessive travel — and maximize the travel I did do. I also tend to only present new work at conferences and colloquia; if I recycled the same talk, I might approach things differently, but given that I was always working to produce new material for talks, I wanted to make sure I had the time to do the necessary writing. In any given week, these kinds of speaking engagements had little effect, but when I was traveling, it tended to take 3-4 days (plus the writing to support the talk).
Publishing also loomed large, and my tenure requirements at both institutions were about the same: a few articles and a book. I tend to write an article or two each year, as well as working on book chapters. I was fortunate to get an advanced book contract rather early, and had a handful of article manuscripts by the time I started at UCSC, so most of the real, anxiety-inducing pressure was off, but I did have to work on actually getting everything written and published. I tend to work in fits and starts rather than in a steady stream of productivity, so I would sometimes work on edits or small writing during the term, but most of the heavy writing was left for periods when I wasn't teaching. The biggest challenge was writing the book, which took 3-4 months of intensive work — which I spent at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, while my partner was in India doing her own research — and then was followed by another intense period of revisions, which happened about six months later (at which point we had a newborn). That was followed by needing to work with a copy editor and then to correct the proofs of the book. The intensive writing and revision work often took all day, every day that I could fit it in (based on teaching and family schedules); the editing and proofing work also took all day, and because there was often a very small window (like 2 weeks) to turn things around, it often meant squeezing it in whenever I could. And when I'm just writing — articles, book chapters, talks — I tended to work a couple hours each day, but that could be anything from actual writing, to editing, to reading in support of the writing project or transcribing old research. When I could, though, I'd binge on writing and work all day, but that changed significantly after having our first child.
I've hinted at it throughout, but it's worth remembering that there's all the duties and joys of non-professional life too, and spending time dating or with a partner, parenting, having hobbies, grocery shopping, commuting, talking to your parents, reading for enjoyment, fixing the toilet, cooking, and everything else that life is really all about takes up a lot of time. Developing a schedule to make sure that you're not just working is vital to staying happy.
I'm pretty low stress, and my departments at Wayne and UCSC were supportive of me and my work, but there was still stress enough during those four years at UCSC for me to develop shingles twice (which my family doctor was sure was stress-related). Know that if you go into the professorial line of work that there are significant demands on your time and all sorts of stressors — but approaching them deliberately can significantly mitigate their effects on you. And make sure you sign up for health insurance — just in case.
Last year, I posted a series on article writing, offering a method for the novice on how to approach writing an article in six steps. But one of the questions I've left a little unanswered is what one should publish early in an academic career. I've previously suggested that the primary consideration here is the job market, and that it's useful to think strategically about what kinds of jobs you'll be applying for and what kinds of journals exist that would make evident your expertise in those jobs. For example, in cultural anthropology, jobs tend to be posted that call for expertise in particular geographic regions and topical subfield. If you do research in Latin America, there's the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and if your work is about medicine, then there's Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, etc. In other disciplines, period can also come into play. But identifying journals isn't enough — there's also the question of what, exactly, you should work on publishing, and why.
So, here are two ways to think this through:
The Nagging Anecdote Method
By 'nagging anecdote' I mean any kind of case, data, or event that you've turned up that continues to be something you think about — maybe without any real resolution. It might be something that you talk with people about when you discuss your research, or just something that sticks out from your research. Probably the reason why the case sticks out for you is because it shows something about your research that's novel in relation to your field.
The challenge with this method — and probably the reason why the anecdote is nagging at you in the first place — is that you have to figure out what the anecdote actually shows and whether it has any legs. Sometimes an anecdote can be just that: a quirky case, data burp, or event that other people will find kind of compelling to think about. But if it doesn't actually show much, it's not worth hitching an article to — it might best to relegate it to a conversational hook. If it does have legs, it'll be because it helps to show something in relation to existing literature, which is either theoretical or topical.
The next step is to put the nagging anecdote alongside some other, less nagging evidence. So, answer this question: if this nagging case is the exception, what does the rule look like? You might have two or three more normative cases that help the naive reader to understand what the nagging case is of deeper interest. These other, more normative cases might not only be yours — they might be drawn from existing scholarly literature, which might lay the basis for a literature review. If the data is coming from your own research, you might be establishing the broad outline of the evidence that will be the heart of the paper.
The challenge at this point is figuring out what kind of contribution you're making to your field. It can be modest — your set of data can confirm how widespread a particular set of circumstances are or how common certain outcomes might be. It can also be a much more profound contribution, if the cases you have are really exceptional. In either case, this kind of article really depends on knowing the topical literature well and making an argument that's based on a shared understanding within your audience of what's normative in a particular research context.
The Medium-Sized Debate Method
In any field, there are theories that people use to think through their research material. In subfields and area studies, the theories that people are using aren't usually as macroscopic as they are in the flagship journals in any field. So, for example, in the social study of medicine, 'medicalization' is a theory that is widely used, whereas in the discipline of anthropology more generally you have bigger debates around ideas like 'globalization,' 'culture,' 'neoliberalism,' 'ontology,' etc. Anyone who has successfully completed their qualifying exams should be able to identify these smaller, subdisciplinary or area-focused debates — it might take a little time, and you might have to go back to your reading lists, but the knowledge is there (and the debates haven't changed much since you did your exams). It might be worth writing down a list of relevant debates in your areas of study, and then figuring out which ones you have something to say about.
Having something to add to a debate can be really straightforward: you can really focus an article around providing further proof of a concept in a different context than its initial elaboration. You can also argue against a concept by its inability to fit in a particular context. And you can do something in-between, simultaneously accepting a concept and showing how it might need revisions based on a particular set of circumstances (which are the basis of your research). So, to go back to 'medicalization,' you can provide an set of examples of it working along the lines that Peter Conrad has elaborated the idea; you can show how it's not the logic underlying a particular set of circumstances (which is what I try to do in 'Natural Hegemonies'); or you can work to extend the concept based on its insufficiency in a particular context (e.g. Adele Clarke et al.'s Biomedicalization).
Once you have a list of potential debates to contribute to, the challenging part is figuring out the right data to match up with those debates, and what this data might show. Probably the safest place to start from is the assumption that your work will confirm whatever theory you're working with, and you might set about figuring out how it does so. You might get to one of the other positions (let's call them 'contradiction' and 'complementarity'), but in the beginning, assume that you're working to confirm the theory.
Break the theory down into its constituent elements. So, to continue the medicalization example, the basic idea is that what was once accepted as natural human experiences are now treated as medical disorders and in need of medical attention. In the case of my research on sleep, sleeping in more than one period was once considered normal, but is now often thought of as insomnia — or, in some cases, narcolepsy. With the categories of insomnia and narcolepsy, particular medications are identified as being helpful, which necessarily involves medical professionals. With treatments being prescribed for individual patients, the medicalization process is complete — although when you take the perspectives of patients into account, the process gets a little upset. This is the basis for an article of mine that could be useful to look at. But, basically, you need to tease apart the theory and then find evidence of yours that matches up with the component parts. This might sound a little schematic, but if you're really working with a particular theory, this is a good way to demonstrate to your peer reviewers that you know what you're talking about. It will also help you see whether or not you're complementing the theory, contradicting it, or confirming it, since a variation in your evidence from any of the theory's components will be pointing you down either the contradicting or complementing roads…
Finding a journal to send an article like this to should be pretty straightforward: since it's a theory that emerges from or is particularly relevant to a subdiscipline or area-studies interest, you should be able to identify a journal that fits under one of those rubrics. Before you have the whole manuscript written — but after you have a sense of what it's going to be about — make sure you take a look at the journal's submission requirements and to take the time to analyze a model article from the journal you're planning on sending the article to for review. Taken together, the submission requirements (like word count) and the model article should give you a clear sense of what an article should look like for the journal you've identified and how to put it together.
I'm more of a Medium-Sized debate writer than a Nagging Anecdote one; but some Nagging Anecdotes have appeared in my work over the years. More often, I feel like what I write about are pretty modest topics that gently expand theoretical perspectives. But I know a lot of people who are definitely in the Nagging Anecdote camp, and that works just as well.
Whichever route you pursue, forethought is critical: what you don't want is an article manuscript that has a hard time finding a place to fit. If that's what you end up with, you'll need to go back to the manuscript to get it into the right shape for the journal you end up identifying as your first target for peer-review. The more you know about a journal and what its editors are looking for, the better the odds of your work being accepted for publication there. A little upfront research will save you lots of time rewriting to meet the editorial and audience expectations of any journal.
If your article doesn't make it through peer-review at your first pick journal, don't get discouraged. Take the peer-reviews into account, do some rewriting, and send it out for review again. Journal articles can take years to find the right editors, peer reviewers, and audience — so, again, knowing the right journals to send things to is critical.
A while back, I set about asking for input from faculty who serve on search committees to weigh in on their experiences and what they're looking for when reviewing files from applicants. Between some random social media outreach and targeted invitations, I ended up with several responses, which both confirm and challenge some of my assumptions and experiences. In this post, I'm reproducing a handful of answers to my first question — what do you look for in a job letter? — and a few reflections on job letters these days.
So, from a friend at a large, public research university who has served on a few search committees over the past decade:
When reading a job letter I look for the usual things, like descriptions of the candidate's dissertation, next project, publications, and teaching, but also something more: a quality of self-knowledge and even vision. Does the candidate have a vision for the field — what it is and should be — and clarity about how their own research and writing move it in that way? In part, this requires clarity in explaining the dissertation itself. I like to see one or two sentences that express the central finding or argument of a dissertation, as opposed to merely describing the subject matter, topic, questions, methods, approach, and so on. I also look for a concise discussion of what the work means — its larger implications. Can the candidate describe their dissertation's core argument in a way that reflects a compelling understanding of how it fits with (or is set against) a larger configuration or trend of scholarship? Does it exemplify certain intellectual or ethical values we should all be considering?
Another thing that should go into a job letter is an abundance of care in reading the job ad. This is not my issue personally, but I have been on enough search committees to know that many colleagues treat this as extremely important, explicitly or tacitly. From the candidate's point of view, the job in my department may be just one of many on a list to apply to, but from the committee's perspective, it is the one and only job that we are thinking about and trying to fill. So seriousness about this job is important to demonstrate. Another reason to read the job ad carefully is that nearly every word of a job ad is carefully chosen, and the criteria stated in a job ad are reviewed by many parties and can be binding on the search committee, so they are crucial to recognize and address.
A more junior faculty member at a small, private research university responded to the same question with, "'Spark.' Some trace of what they are passionate about. Something that shines through the formulaic phrases that, somehow, have become normative." Another junior colleague at a large, state research university added, "A sense of what they do and who they are in scholarly life beyond the dissertation." Who knew that having a life beyond your dissertation was even possible?
A junior faculty member at a large, private research university suggested, "Clear articulation of an argument and contribution to existing literature, clear articulation of research program. Writing that is clear and accessible to scholars outside the immediate area of the applicant's research." This is especially important in departments that are mixed — like Anthropology, Sociology and Criminal Justice, or Human Development, or Cultural Studies — where you might be the only representative of your field.
A full professor at a medium sized private research university added, "A cogent account of what their dissertation project was about, what it contributes to the wider field, what their methods were (and why). A sense of where they might head next, project-wise — though perhaps more important is a sense of what they'll do with their dissertation work (turn into a book [have they been talking with editors?]? journal articles [are any in the pipeline? out?])."
And, finally, from a mid-career faculty member at a small, private liberal arts university,
First and foremost are qualifications and fit for the position. From there, I look to see how much effort has been made to tailor the letter to the institution and job description. I don't mean simply that the candidate has incorporated the language of the job ad into their letter, but that, for instance, if it is a small liberal arts college, they have emphasized their commitment to undergraduate teaching, rather than simply spending the entire letter talking about their research. Brief mentions of personal reasons for being interested in the position (i.e., proximity to family and friends) don't hurt, particularly if the institution or location is not conventionally considered desirable in its own right.
My own thoughts on job letters haven't really changed much over the years, but these responses definitely add a few things to consider for prospective job seekers:
1) Don't just be descriptive. When it comes to describing one's research — especially a dissertation — it can be pretty tempting to get bogged down in the details. But what people really want to know is that there's more to a dissertation project than the content — and they want to be surprised…or at least intrigued. A lot of dissertation projects can be pretty predictable — topic from Column A, theory from Column B — to the point that a well informed reader can pretty much guess the findings with a brief overview of the data. And when you saturate a job letter with pure data, it doesn't really leave anything to the imagination. It's better to hold back on the description of evidence and lists of topics, and instead give a sense of what the debates in your field are and how you're entering into them with your project — and potentially your whole career. Taking such an approach also gives people a sense that your interests extend beyond whatever your dissertation is about, and that you have contributions to make — what was referred to above as "spark."
2) Give a sense of your trajectory. I tend to think that your CV tells your past and your job letter tells your future. You don't need to spend a lot of time recounting your achievements — they're in the CV — but you should take the time to tell readers what your plans are for the future. This can have to do with your next project, but, also where you are in terms of publishing your research material and what your plans for it are. Faculty want to know that they'll be able to recommend you for tenure at their institution — in part because they might not get a chance to replace you if you don't get tenure since the economy is awful — so looking at the profiles of recently tenured faculty and thinking about your trajectory in similar terms might be very helpful. Did they just need a few articles? A book and some articles? A huge NSF grant? If you have a sense of what an institution is looking for in junior faculty, work it into the job letter.
3) Respond to the advertisement and institution. It's really tempting in an age when there are a lot of demands on one's time during job season to not customize every letter that you send out, but consider it from the reader's perspective: when you're serving on a search committee at an out of the way institution and you receive 200 applications that make no mention of the part of the world you're in, what the ad is calling for, and the strengths of your institution, the handful of letters that do will really stand out. I used to allot myself a set amount of time for each application to do some research on the institution in relation to the advertisement, to check out the local area (looking at real estate and local newspaper websites can be very helpful) and reading faculty profiles and abstracts of their published work. Generally where this all fits in is in the paragraphs about teaching and your institutional fit, but if you can fit it into your research statement — maybe in the opening sentence as a hook — all the better.
4) Appear to be a human being with thoughts, feelings and something resembling a life outside of academia. Again, in an age when people are reading 200 applications for one position, appearing to be a human being with a life outside of your dissertation research can make a huge difference. Remember, you're applying for a job that might be for your entire career — and the entire career of your future colleagues. Having a sense that you can talk about more than just your research might go a long way to differentiating you from the pack. And a canny way to do this is to think about what your life would look like where the institution is — are there features of the place that are particularly appealing, like national or state parks? Are there institutions that you might reach out to, both as faculty and a member of the community? Do you have personal ties to the area? All of these things give letter readers a sense of life beyond the research.
There's a lot to fit into 2 short pages, but I always tell people that job letters are like a Las Vegas show (not that I've ever been to one): you need to leave your audience wanting more. If you tell them too much — especially about the dissertation — the conversation is pretty much over. But if you can engage them on their own terms by addressing the advertisement, the institution, the area, and their imaginations as scholars, you can get out of the slush pile.
Other thoughts on what should be in a job letter? Or have great job letter success or fail stories? Share them in the comments. And thanks to the anonymous friends who responded to my questions.
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If you've served on a search committee for a tenure-track position in the last five years, would you take a minute and answer some of the following questions (either in the comments or you can email them to me):
1. What do you look for when you read a job letter from a junior scholar?
2. What do you look for when you read a CV from a junior scholar?
3. What do you look for when you read a teaching statement or statement of teaching effectiveness?
4. What do you look for when you read a research statement?
5.What do you think is the most important thing a graduate student can do to prepare for the job market?
6. What makes a good job talk?
7. How do you read job materials from someone not in your field (i.e. you're a cultural anthropologist hiring a biological anthropologist)?
8. How is searching for a tenured position (i.e. already associate or full) different than searching for a junior scholar?
It seems to me that over the last few years, there's been a real intensification of genres in job letters and related material — a generic trend I've probably promulgated as much as diagnosed. But it also seems like these generic trends might not actually be meeting the expectations of people who serve on job search committees. You can see my posts on most of the above topics by clicking on the hyperlinks above — a direct response to any of the topics would be great.
This is officially Phase Two of the professionalization end of this blog, in which I'm hoping to collect answers to the above questions from academics at a variety of institutions and from assistant to associate and full professors. When I have enough answers to each of the above questions, I'll compile them into new posts to run parallel to my more proscriptive ones. Hopefully, taken as a set, these will give job seekers a clear sense of what each of these documents do and how they might be changing.
(Incidentally, and there might be a future post on this — the intensification of genre in academic job materials seems a lot like what Norbert Elias describes in relation to etiquette in The Civilizing Process, which might be a good thing to read if you're on the job market these days…)
Thanks — and stay tuned.
In this post, I discuss three of my articles and what the experience was of getting them through peer review and their ultimate publication. Some of the details are a little foggy — in some cases, it's been upwards of seven years since I started work on the articles mentioned here — but most of what I want to convey is that getting a manuscript to publication depends on two things: 1) don't take criticisms and rejection too seriously, and 2) make sure you're writing for the right audience. If you're doing the second, the first should be minimized anyway…
I should say at the outset that I'm leaving names of journals out, since editorial shifts happen frequently and my experience of any of the journals I've interacted with in the past isn't predictive of your experience with the same journal or editors. I've also kept all of my peer reviews, editorial decisions, and other paperwork from all my publication efforts, and I draw on them below.
So, first off is 'Natural Hegemonies.' I had written it as a job talk back in 2006, and presented it in a few of different versions as colloquium talks and workshop presentations. It's sprawling, and covers a lot of the content from my dissertation — and later, book — in summary format. It was usually well received by audiences, and so it seemed like the good basis for an article to send to a flagship journal. After some fine tuning, I sent it to an anthropology journal generally seen as one of the top of the field. It spent a long time in peer review, and when it returned to me it was returned as a revise and resubmit with five reviews. The reviews were generally positive, with a couple very glowing reviews. The editors had a series of revisions they were seeking, and I set to work on them; they also, in retrospect, had deep philosophical disagreements with me, and if I was reading clearly at the time, I would probably have pulled up stakes after the first round of reviews…
After revising it, I sent it back, and this time it was under review for even longer than the first time. When it was returned to me, it was sent back as a rejection, despite having generally positive reviews. Reviewers said things like 'I found just about every aspect of this text compelling and thoughtful. I urge publication of the manuscript in its current form' and 'This is a great paper, which I enjoyed reading immensely. The paper is engaging, flows, and connects together a series of seemingly unrelated themes together in such a way that they appear in retrospect to be inevitable and one wonders why one never thought about it before. This is the hallmark of a very engaging and persuasive argument, one that appears impossible at the outset and inevitable in retrospect. I'd certainly publish it.' But the editors disagreed. Which, ultimately, was fine. I worked on the manuscript for a couple of hours — addressing only the big things pointed out by reviewers from the last round of review — and sent it to Current Anthropology the same day it was rejected from the other journal. After a round of peer review, it was accepted with minor revisions. I set to work on those revisions, and it ended up coming out in 2011.
What I realized in working on 'Natural Hegemonies' was that the kind of article it was — sweeping in its empirical scope and making a pretty theoretical argument — just wasn't right for the first journal I sent it to. Despite the peer reviewers, the editors saw the mission of the journal as promoting a different form of anthropological scholarship, which my manuscript didn't quite fit. But Current Anthropology offered a more ecumenical approach to the discipline, and the article fit right in there.
A more straightforward path was that of 'Therapy, Remedy, Cure.' I originally wrote it as a colloquium talk around the publication of my book, and presented it a couple of times over the course of a year. Because it was largely ethnographic and developed an argument I saw as of potentially broad appeal — about time, capitalism and medical treatment — I decided to take another stab at publishing in a flagship anthropology journal. Based on what I had seen in the journal recently, I thought the editor would be interested in the piece, and work with me on revising it as needed. But the editorial reigns had just been handed over, and the new editor seemed to have different tastes, including kinds of reviewers to send things to for review.
Of the three reviews that were returned to me, the first was principally concerned that my methods section was a footnote rather than in the body of the article, which would seem easily remedied (and was an artifact of the paper as a presentation). The second reviewer had a number of suggestions, and asked for revisions prior to publication. The third reviewer wrote a three sentence — and extremely positive — review. Despite the reviews, the editor 'definitively' rejected the piece. Not to be dissuaded, I sent it out the same day to Medical Anthropology, a journal I had published in before and always had excellent experiences with.
At Medical Anthropology, the piece received favorable reviews, and was accepted pending revisions, most of which were minor. In my experience, sometimes minor revisions are the hardest to make, since they're usually just to satisfy specific peer reviewer concerns, and they always stick out to me as being just that. But I set down to work on the manuscript, addressed what I needed to, and sent the article back for review within a couple of months, at which point it was accepted for publication. Again, although I thought the argument would be of broad disciplinary interest — maybe it is? — the best home for it was a subfield journal where the kind of evidence and argumentation that was the basis of the manuscript was easily recognized and supported.
Maybe the easiest — yet longest — experience I had was with 'Where Have All Our Naps Gone?' The meat of this paper was in my dissertation (which focuses on various experiments with sleep over the 20th century), but it didn't really fit into the book version. Being largely historical in its focus, I decided to send it to history journals. Over five years, I sent it to five journals. Maybe it was even more than that. Of those journals, a couple times it was rejected without peer reviews — the editors simply thought it wasn't interesting and right for their audience. A couple other times it underwent peer reviews, and was ultimately rejected for one reason or another. I was asked to present something at a workshop on sleep in the 20th century, so I dusted the manuscript off and presented it there, where it received a favorable response — which reaffirmed my sense that there was something to the argument, but that maybe it just wasn't right for historians.
I was asked by Peter Benson and Rebecca Lester to guest edit an issue of Anthropology of Consciousness on sleep, and it dawned on me that maybe this would be the right venue for the piece. Instead of writing a lengthy introduction to the issue, I asked for the article to go through peer review for consideration in the journal. The review process was relatively painless, which may have been because it was a special issue, or because I had been working on the manuscript on and off for so long — or maybe because it finally found the right audience. At Anthropology of Consciousness, the article ended up winning the annual 'outstanding article' award — something I didn't even know existed, but it made it evident to me that the article had finally found its audience. Maybe historians will get turned onto it sooner or later…
Over the years, I've learned to not take rejection as an indictment of my abilities, my research or my writing. The biggest help on this front was peer reviewing other people's work, often that of people I knew and respected. Critically reading through other people's work with the goal of helping them publish also helped me see some of the mistakes that I was making. Going through peer review and doing peer review significantly changed my thinking about writing and how finished something needed to be before it could be sent out — a three-quarters finished manuscript might risk rejection from an editor, but it also gives reviewers a lot to respond to and help you work through.
My general rule is to write a new article manuscript every year. Part of my reason for doing so is that I don't like presenting the same material as colloquium talks more than a few times, so I'm always looking towards the next presentation. The other reason for doing so is that it takes the burden off any one manuscript to get published. If something gets hung up in peer review for a year or two, like 'Natural Hegemonies' did, I know some other stuff will make it through to publication in the meantime.
But, generally, rejection is no big deal. This isn't to say that you should ignore why things are getting rejected, but that rather than over think why things are being rejected, you should take the criticisms seriously, address them as succinctly as you can, and move on. Targeting the right audience will reduce your overall rejection rate, but it's absolutely normal for an article manuscript to be rejected once or more on its way to eventual publication…
Welcome to the inaugural N=1 article writing challenge! The goal is to produce a 6,000-8,000 word article in two weeks, by following these steps: identifying the right journal (and stuff to publish), analyzing a model article, and then writing the conclusion, literature review, case studies and introduction. If you're participating, please post feedback as comments on the individual steps — or, if you prefer anonymity, send me an email. At some future point, I'll put together an addendum to the steps, and include material from the comments and emails I receive.
After years of editing a journal and serving as a peer reviewer, I've become very aware of one critical misstep most authors make: audiences are important. One of the things my steps to article writing try and address is how to conceptualize your audience and write for it. Having a clear sense of who you're writing for and why can speed up the writing process — both in terms of working from scratch and revising the article when it comes back from the journal for revisions (which it will, and that's perfectly normal).
The biggest challenge I see among junior academics is knowing what to publish. Most people seem to think that they need to make a big splash right off the bat. But that's both unrealistic and misguided. If it's in your dissertation, it's probably worth publishing — especially if no one has written about it before; it just needs to find the right audience. The 'big splash' is generally intended for your whole discipline, and that can wait. What you need in your first couple of publications is to endear yourself to your subfield or regional colleagues, and publishing about obscure events or cases from your research is a great first step. So don't get hung up on what to publish — find the audience you want to write for, and then figure out what they might be interested in. It's in your dissertation, so use it.
Godspeed in your writing — and let me know how the steps are working for you!


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Consumers could be forced to live in a world with much less compatibility among the technology they use.
February 04, 2015, 04:00 pm
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Consumers could be forced to live in a world with much less compatibility among the technology they use.
February 04, 2015, 12:00 pm
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U.S. consumers generate two to three times more Internet data (per capita) than their European counterparts,
February 03, 2015, 08:00 am
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The expanding 4G networks already widespread in many industrialized nations offer data speeds that are 12,000 times faster than the speeds of 2G.
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There is good academic debate about whether monopolistic conditions exist in a number of markets in which the public so commonly assumes that they do.
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We need a robust discussion on all the ways that policymakers, companies and the public can work together to improve cyber hygiene.
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Consumers should receive unimpeded access to all lawful Internet content.
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The question is not whether some content will get priority – but who should determine what content gets priority.
January 27, 2015, 02:00 pm
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Discussions about patent legislation sound more like a witch hunt than an informed debate.
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Giving video providers the freedom to purchase broadcast content from neighboring markets would inject much-needed competitive market forces into a tired and protectionist retransmission consent regime.
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Last week, Alistair Overeem, K1 and MMA star, came to train with us in our cage.
Everyone knows about his skills and strength, but during the training he has been able to show us his humbleness, which make him a real champion.
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hi i have an ajax uploader and the issue i am having is that for example i have a 50MB video
On IE that takes 16min to upload, the progress bar hits 100% and done.
Whereas on firefox the video still takes 16 min but the progress bar hits 100% at 8 minutes and then the other 8 minutes its just sitting there seemingly doing nothing and then it will finish.
This is upsetting my FF members because they think its broken.
So i found this section of code in my ajaxuploader-min.js file and i think i have the correct function here to do this.
What i would like to do is if the browser is not IE (FF AND ALL OTHERS) then i would like to slow the progress bar down by half and i think we can do that here with the math involved here but im not sure how.
so if we can adjust this to test for IE or NOT and then if it is IE run normally, IF not then increment the progress bar at half speed of the normal process, i think that plan might work.
ps.. if you need to see the whole file let me know..
here is the function..
what i am thinking is that this line here (the math)Code:h.prototype.uploadAjax=function(){ var a=this.AU.settings,b=this.file,c=this.currentByte,d=this.name,e=this.size,f=a.chunkSize,h=f+c,i=0>=e-h,k=b,l=h/f; this.xhr=new XMLHttpRequest; 0==c&&this.AU.slots++; 0==f?(k=b,i=!0):b.mozSlice?k=b.mozSlice(c,h):b.webkitSlice? k=b.webkitSlice(c,h):b.slice?k=b.slice(c,h):(k=b,i=!0); var j=this; this.xhr.upload.addEventListener("abort",function(){ j.AU.slots-- },!1); this.xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress",function(a){ a.lengthComputable&&(a=Math.round(100*(a.loaded+l*f-f)/e),j.onProgress(a)) },!1); this.xhr.upload.addEventListener("error",function(){ j.onError(this.responseText) },!1); this.xhr.onreadystatechange=function(){ if(4==this.readyState&&200==this.status)try{ var a=JSON.parse(this.responseText); 0==c&&(j.name=a.name); if(-1== parseInt(a.status))throw a.info; i?(j.AU.slots--,j.onFinish(a.name,a.size,a.status,a.info)):(j.currentByte=h,j.uploadAjax()) }catch(b){ j.AU.slots--,j.onError(b) } };
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On my home page, there is a title called "home" at the very top. I would like to get rid of this.
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How would I get it to instead display nothing and have the beginning of the page start where the title is now?
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Published: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 5:09 p.m.
HOUMA - The Houma Chapter of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is always here to help members of the Hispanic community in all facets of their financial objectives. One objective of any tax-paying American, regardless of background, is to pay fewer taxes if possible. Another should be to fund your retirement accounts so you can enjoy your retirement. IRAs may help you accomplish both.
As you know, the tax-filing deadline is fast approaching. Of course, if you've already filed your taxes, April 15 is just one more day. But it's a significant date for another reason: It's the last day you can contribute to your IRA for the 2004 tax year. So, if you haven't "maxed out" your IRA yet, take action now.
You can contribute up to $3,000 - or $3,500 if you're 50 or older ó to either a traditional or Roth IRA for 2004. (For the 2005 tax year, you can put in up to $4,000 to your IRA, or $4,500 if you're 50 or older.) Your traditional IRA contributions may or may not be tax deductible, but in any case, your earnings grow on a tax-deferred basis. Although Roth IRA contributions are not tax-deductible, your earnings will grow totally tax-free, provided you meet certain conditions. (Keep in mind, however, than if you take Roth or traditional IRA distributions before you reach 59 1/2, you may be subject to a 10 percent IRA penalty, along with ordinary income taxes.)
Do whatever it takes to fully fund your IRA every single year. If you find it hard to come up with the entire amount in a lump sum, divide the contribution limit by 12 and make monthly payments. To make it even easier on yourself, set up a bank authorization, so that the money is taken directly from your checking or savings account and placed into your IRA.
Consider a "rollover"
You have more than one way to fund an IRA. For example, if you are planning to leave your job, you can roll over all or part of the taxable portion of your 401(k) distribution - pre-tax contributions, employer contributions, all earnings - into an existing traditional IRA. You can also roll over after-tax 401(k) salary deferrals, but transferring these after-tax contributions could lead to taxable consequences.
If you roll your 401(k) over to a traditional IRA, you can build the value of your existing account, and you can continue to make contributions. And you could eventually "convert" your traditional IRA into a tax-free Roth IRA, but you will have to pay the taxes that this conversion would trigger.
When you roll over your 401(k), you'll get some key advantages. First, you'll avoid all immediate taxes and penalties. Second, you'll continue to benefit from tax deferral. And third, your IRA may offer more investment options than a 401(k) plan.
While a rollover from a 401(k) to an IRA does offer some important benefits, it isn't your only choice when you depart a job. For example, you could leave your 401(k) assets with your old employer, if the plan permits. Or, if you are taking a new job, you might be able to move your 401(k) assets into a new plan. Also, you could just cash out your 401(k) as a lump sum distribution, although you'd likely face a big tax hit, in addition to an immediate 20 percent withholding. Before deciding what to do with your 401(k), consult with your tax and financial professionals.
Hard to "overload" on IRAs
When it comes to investing in IRAs, it's hard to get too much of a good thing. So take full advantage of all your IRA opportunities -- they could pay off nicely when you reach retirement.
For chamber assistance
For general information on the Houma Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, call President Paul Cruz Alaniz at 877-425-2649.
Kevin Sevin, a Hispanic chamber member and Edward Jones representative, can be reached at 868-7134.
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YOUNGSTOWN — The man indicted last month for a 1974 triple homicide in Canfield Township was arraigned today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
James Ferrara, who is serving a prison term for a 1983 double homicide in Worthington, pleaded not guilty on charges he murdered Benjamin Marsh, 33; his wife Marilyn, 32; and their daughter Heather, 4.
Their son Christopher, 1, was unharmed.
Sporting thick, black glasses, Ferrara chatted with an inmate in the jury box occasionally and told Magistrate Eugene Fehr he has been in prison for 30 years.
He has a July 9 pretrial date and a Aug. 5 trial date before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum.
This is a breaking news story. Watch Vindy.com for updates.
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Why the NFL Playoffs Need to Be Scrapped
We live in an enlightened age. The first self-regulating artificial heart was implanted in a human this month, Amazon is building drones in an attempt to deliver goods to doorsteps and no team is employing Norv Turner as a head coach. Everyone, it seems, is getting smarter.
And yet, the NFL can't figure out how to get the best teams in the playoffs.
The drama of Sunday, the last day of the regular season, was unmistakable. A late touchdown pass powered the Green Bay Packers over the Chicago Bears to win the NFC North. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Kyle Orton threw a late, season-ending interception to give the Philadelphia Eagles the NFC East.
Do not, however, let those thrills obscure something important: The NFL desperately needs to change the way teams make the playoffs. Those teams won their spots solely because someone had to.
One of Sunday's most intriguing subplots was the race for the final AFC wild-card spot, which was one of the least inspiring battles in recent memory. The 8-7 Miami Dolphins could have clinched a playoff spot with a win, but they lost at home to the 7-8 New York Jets. The Baltimore Ravens also lost when they could have clinched a spot. Finally, the San Diego Chargers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime to get in with a 9-7 record. If they had lost to the Chiefs, who were using mainly second-string players, the playoff berth would have gone to the 8-8 Pittsburgh Steelers.
All of this while in the other conference, the Arizona Cardinals wrapped up a 10-6 season in which, because of outdated playoff rules, they couldn't have made the playoffs even if they were 11-5.
The reason they aren't in the playoffs is obvious: Because that is the way we've always done things. Six teams from each conference make the playoffs. The four division winners in each conference must host playoff games. Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer could have won the game, thrown for 942 yards on Sunday while executing a perfect baritone rendition of all of the titular character's songs in "Don Giovanni" and there is nothing that could have propelled his team into the playoffs.
Here's the problem: Putting mediocrity in the playoffs, as the current playoff structure does, is a bad idea. In the NFL over the past decade, nearly 50% of regular season games have been decided by seven points or fewer. Yet in the last two years, only two of eight wild-card games have been within one score. Since 2005, you are 35% more likely to see a close one-score game between two teams randomly matched up in the regular season than a matchup between two first-round playoff teams, who are allegedly among the best the NFL has to offer.
There are many more injustices, of course. In the first round of the playoffs this weekend, the Green Bay Packers, who went 8-7-1, get to host the defending NFC champion San Francisco 49ers (12-4). The New Orleans Saints (11-5) will travel to play the Philadelphia Eagles (10-6). The (outdated) reason? The Saints and 49ers didn't win their division.
Some tweaking to the system is almost undoubtedly coming, but it has nothing to do with letting the best teams in the playoffs and rewarding them with home games. A league official said Sunday the league is still in the process of exploring expanded playoffs. It is a topic that will be addressed this off-season; extra teams could be added in time for the 2015 season.
But simply adding teams and keeping the seeding system the way it is will only complicate an already muddled process. The best teams aren't getting seeded where they should. Since the NFL went to four divisions in 2002, worse seeds have pulled an upset 18 times on wild-card weekend. In the decade before that, when there were only three divisions and a wild-card team was guaranteed to host a playoff game, only 12 upsets happened on wild-card weekend.
The time of the geographic division is probably at an end. Incoming NBA commissioner Adam Silver said his league is considering scrapping them once he takes over for David Stern. Silver said the point of divisions was to build rivalries, which he isn't sure happens anymore.
The same could be said about the NFL. If traditionalists want to cling to some geographic rivalries, such as Packers-Bears, then that can be arranged. Other than that? Scrap divisions, conferences, everything. Make the 16-game schedule as random as possible and take the best 12 teams into the playoffs.
If that is too radical and you'd still like some semblance of "divisions" that lead to playoff spots, then a World Cup-style draw could happen each spring (imagine the television ratings for that) to determine the divisions. Seeding for the pool could be based on the previous year's records—not based on which part of the country the town's settlers landed.
Sound crazy? At least alternative approaches like this would better ensure that the right teams make the postseason. It is time for a big shake-up in the playoffs. Let the best teams play.
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The first song from the upcoming Michael Jackson music documentary will make its debut online.
Sony Music says "This Is It" will have its premiere late Sunday, at midnight, on http://www.MichaelJackson.com.
The song plays during the closing sequence of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" and will be included on a companion two-disc CD set. The unreleased single features backup vocals by Michael's brothers, The Jacksons.
The documentary opens Oct. 28 for a two-week limited run and was built around rehearsal footage for Jackson's planned London concerts. He died in Los Angeles on June 25.
The CD features original album masters of some of Jackson's biggest hits, including "Thriller" and "Billie Jean." They're in the same sequence as they appear in the film.
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