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By KeithFL on Tuesday, August 07, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 82,000overall rating 8 of 10rating details
Pros: "Quality Looks Sport performance Big trunk"
Cons: "Low stance Back seat room"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"When my wifes 01 Cherokee broke, I started looking at cars I felt fit her personality, gorgeous looks and driving style. I looked here at kbb.com for info and reviews of many, many cars. I reviewed for a month or so and couldn't find a fit. Someone here in the neighborhood owns, and drives by the house in a C350 that I covet. So I thought hmm, let's look at the Germans. We decided to look at a used BMW 3 series. We both drove the beemer and felt it was sub-par in the interior fit and finish(cupholder issue). Luckily just in on trade was an 07 230 sport, black on black(pictured). We drove it the same day the guy traded it in. The dealership hadn't gone through it yet, it needed a bath and some of his things were still in the console (business cards change and pens). The first noticable improvement over the 325i was the cockpit layout, overall quality, comfort and support of the seats,the console(cupholders), A/C, window switches, radio controls and even the feel of the pedals. Driving the 230 was heads above the BMW as well, crispy shifting triptronic-esq 6 spd trans, and throttle response. The suspension was smooth, quick and firm, I blasted over R/R tracks to feel and listen to the suspension. What really shocked me was the brakes, race car like big drilled/slotted rotors and hi performance multi-piston calipers bring the car to a halt right now. I have upgraded the brakes in my other cars(Mustangs, Volvo S60) with the good stuff(EBC) and the little Merc is right there in factory form. This car zooms around much better than I would have figured with just over 200 hp. I think it has to do with the 6 speed trans and MB engineers calculating the gearing right. It lacks low end torque like my v8 Mustangs or the insane boost of the Volvo(9.5psi), but past 3k rpm's the motor growls and builds speed magically, it doesn't make sense but it accelerates very well. On the Interstate the car is a blast to drive! The car is very sticky and smooth the faster it goes. The feeling from 75mph to the century mark is mostly unchanged. I've gone as fast as 120mph confidently. The high beam headlights are insanely bright and reach way out front. Driving in heavy rain is very good as well. Driving this car gives you confidence in your safety, it feels like fitted armor. The bad is road noise, it is a bit intrusive without the stereo on. The driver menu's ( mpg's, distance traveled, clock etc.) is confusing without the manual. Shifting the trans manually is weird (but worth the increased rpm's) push right for up, and left for down. I am used to up for up, and down for down. I accidentally tested the rev limiter pushing the shifter upwards into neutral @ 5500 rpm's(not good)I'm used to it now. I am 6ft 2in and 225 lbs, my wife is 5ft 10in and we fit good in the car up front, getting in and out is daunting because the car is very, very low. When our equally heighted boys are in the back seat, it's tight for them. We drove 3 hours to Tampa and they didn't complain about comfort, but were happy to get out and stretch by the end. I have owned the car 6 months and am very happy with the $15000 purchase. I purchased a 100k mile powertrain warranty just in case. My wife likes it but wants a taller vehicle, but, she looks so dang good driving it. Thanks for reading."
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By J on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 210,000overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"Never had a significant issue with this car and have obviously put plenty of miles on it. Others I talk to say it has to 300K mi easy. Really a joy to drive and as reliable as they come."
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By C230 Sport Coup on Tuesday, November 16, 2010
overall rating 7 of 10rating details
"The C coupe is the most misunderstood Mercedes in the US. For the 4 short years it was sold, people in the US just didn't embrace it. It's an excellent compromise between a sports car and a sport ute. With the seats folded down, you have 5 ft of cargo space. It's a bit pricey to maintain. For me I've been lucky, I bought it new, and got the extended warranty which easily paid for itself. After 100K I've been on my own, but nothing terrible has happened. As to be expected the brushes in the alternator gave out at 120K, the spark plugs had to be replaced again, as they were stressing the ignition coils and causing to fail and odd thing, but the coils are only $35. Despite the dealer hype of a "lifetime fill" of the transmission, it is imperative to replace the fluid, which I did at 120K as the tranny began to act erratically. Very irresponsible of MB to tell people that, when everywhere else in the world it's considered a maint. item every 60K Kilometers. Changing it regularly will increase the life of the tranny. Since at the time it was free maint they just didn't want to do it. The starter failed recently, and I had to replace the Catalytic converter, Other than that, rear brakes, and tires. Put Akebono ceramics pads on and you'll only have to do the brakes every 100K miles. I replaced the suspension with stiffer springs and sway bars, and it's drives like it's on rails. AMG bar in the front, HR in the rear is the perfect combo for the coupe. I added Bixenons, and lots of other goodies. A great value for the money. Beware of 2003-2004 1,8L engines. 2005 or 2002 2.3L is best."
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By Benny on Tuesday, March 25, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 190,000overall rating 8 of 10rating details
Pros: "Great ride, sleek its a MBZ"
Cons: "Repairs and tires $$$$"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 8
"We have had this car for almost 10years, driven it hard and put a lot of commute miles on it. My only complaint is after getting 8-9 years old things start to break and repairs are expensive.. fan belt pulley tensioner, rear window screen, passenger door handle, mass air flow sensor, wiper washer reservoir,all after about 7 years old. I highly recommend a one time wheel alignment contract with your favorite repair shop front alignment goes out a lot...I have a son who is a auto mechanic and he saved me lots of money on service fees and when things needed work to be done. I do not like the tires being front and back specific they can not be rotated so tire costs are high over the life time. With that said Benny has been a great car. I would recommend Mercedes C-class to any new MBZ newby but be ready to afford what you are buying."
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By gato_sailor on Sunday, October 23, 2011
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 155,000overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Fun to drive"
Cons: "Dealer maintenance costs"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I never had an import until I bought my 2003 C320 when it was 5 yrs old with 93k miles. Now have ~155k on it. My car had previously been owned by 2 women and I suspect that the second owner was scared into selling it by dealer maintenance cost shock. MB dealers treat you as if you have money to burn. I did a brake job and corrected some minor wiring issues with a few dollars worth of parts. Since then, the only thing that has gone wrong is that the rear sunshade will not retract and the oil level sensor failed. The car handles well, rides well, accelerates at least adequately, and is very comfortable. It is handy to be able to do some of your own maintenance to avoid stealership prices. Oil changes don't require you to get under the vehicle. Brakes and plugs are far easier than a Chevy truck. The car is assembled like a swiss watch. There really is something to be said for German engineerng."
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By Kate on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 89,000overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "Fun to drive, perfect size"
Cons: "Not cheap to maintain, but very little maint req"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I have owned my C230 for 6 years and haven't found anything else that I would even consider driving. This has been a fabulous and FUN car. My only complaints are cosmetic. I have had to replace the interior front door handles on both the driver and passenger side, the cd player has been fixed 2 or 3 times, and the driver's window motor broke. The replacements are not inexpensive, but I would still recommend this car, and it's value."
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By Scott R on Wednesday, January 22, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 198,775overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "looks, overall pwr, AWD, heated seats, sound syst"
Cons: "front cup holder(s), console nooks and crannies"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I purchased my 2003 Mercedes C240 4-Matic in 2010 with just under 90,000 miles on it. I paid $12,000 for it, which may have been a bit high, but the dealer helped me out of a car I was upside-down on. The Mercedes is just about to hit 200,000. I will own this car forever. As has been said in other reviews, you'll spend $300 to $1000 a year to have it repaired, BUT--it you're without a car payment at all (as most 2003 owners would be, one way or another), even $1,500 a year (for this car) is peanuts! This is a fantastic car. the 4-Matic all-wheel-drive system takes me where four-wheel trucks will not go, and I have a 4-wheel truck to compare it to. I get roughly 30 mpg on the highway, and 24-25 mpg in the city. It doesn't have the snappiest 6-cyl engine on the planet, but it whispers at 100 mph, and sounds, feels and drives like a much larger car at all times. If this car died today, I'd be looking for another--with 100,000 miles on it. I'm not paid to extol the virtues of this car...I'm just a guy who loves his little Mercedes sedan."
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By Thatonekid on Friday, October 23, 2009
overall rating 4 of 10rating details
"Let me just say that I've had this car from the very beginning in 2004. Here I am 46,100 miles later. Just finished Service A @ 42000 miles and paid around 1000 (little more) for synthetic fluids, new spark plugs, and windshield wipers. At the time my sunroof wouldn't "auto express close," my cd changer was no longer recognized (cant get my cds out anymore), and my rear fog light has fused. No biggie. I figured after a service that cost that much, I would be good to go till 10,000 miles later. Yeah right...more than 6000 miles more before my next service, and I get a battery/alternator warning. ESP, ABS, SRS warning lights come on (probably because there was not enough power) but the car still works. I think its a faulty alternator. I figured since my battery wasn't replaced since 04, and its now 09, its time to change it. After replacing it for $240, my tech says, all should work, but if you get an alternator warning light in the future, keep in mind that you may need to replace that as well. Yeah, nice try man, not gonna happen...o wait, it happened. Same problems. Gonna cost me $850. So its time to sell this thing before I spend anymore on servicing it. Probably should go for a toyota. Ill miss the fun times I had driving it (a lot of fun) and the really cool german precision engineering. Seriously, this thing would tell me when a light stopped working, would let me know exactly how much fuel I had remaining, I loved the 3 click indicator while switch lanes, auto wipers, fake leather -4 stars for quality (yeh fake leather...paid 40K for fake leather, but it looks new and great 5 years later), everything feels like quality, unlike a plastic gmc yukon. I did feel embarrassed to have paid 40K for an inline 4 for less than 200hp... too bad I never got a chance to see how fast it would go either. Only reached up to around 120mph. I wanted to keep this car forever and say proudly that this was my first car. a classic. tear. but i cant. Servicing this killed me and sadly, no more mercedes for me. Dont recommend A solid 2.67 stars."
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By C. Martin on Tuesday, June 25, 2013
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 120,700overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "Drives great & great styling."
Cons: "Seat sits a little low even if you move it up."
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"This car drives like a dream with a responsive feel. I purchased mine new in 2006 and still have it. It gets good gas mileage 21 city and up to 28-29 on highway. Mine is silver w/black interior and it is still beautiful."
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By jealdi on Thursday, November 08, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 51,250overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Everything. The ultimate dream car"
Cons: "Repair costs"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"The more I drive this car the better it gets. It has somehow learned the best interior setting for my personal comfort. I do believe it is the best car on the market! A true joy to drive. If there any negatives, I would have to say that you have to pay for such a great car when it comes to repairs. Even oil change prices shocked me. Now that I no longer employed and disabled I am afraid that I may have to sell it. It's in great shape now but have just been told that it will need brakes eventually. My heart is broken but I hope the next owner appreciates what he/she has...the greatest car I have EVER owned!!!"
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A bit more upscale than most of the properties along Route 28, the Bayside overlooks pristine salt marshes and Lewis Bay. Although it's not right on the water, there's a small beach and a large outdoor pool with a café (there's also an indoor pool, which kids enjoy). Rooms have contemporary light-wood furnishings, and several have cathedral ceilings, whirlpool tubs, and views toward the bay. The resort is popular with families. The Bayside Resort also offers a number of package deals covering everything from golf to day trips to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
225 Rte. 28, West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 02673, United States
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Brian McCrorie: 'Speaking The Truth In Love'
While the News And Views You Can Use blog is up and running (as you can see at the left sidebar); and while we normally draw your attention to valuable insights and articles via News And Views, Brian McCrorie offers a noteworthy and insightful post that deserves front-page attention. So here it is:
As a result of a recent discussion at my favorite blog in the world, SharperIron, I have again come to wrestle internally with various aspects of Christian character and how they are communicated to a watching world. The following is just my thinking over the issues. I did not supply supporting Bible passages for each assertion, but can if it would be helpful for anyone.Continue reading HERE.
I come from a tradition that takes pride in being called "Fighting Fundamentalists" and uses terms like "militant" to describe their stance toward error. I agree with this approach, by the way, as long as it is focused on the faith, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When militancy and a fighting spirit, however, become the modus operandi of Christian fundamentalists, I can understand why many "hold their noses" at us. That kind of lifestyle stinks. Don't believe me? Try talking to homosexuals today in terms of Sodom and Gomorrah and what will happen to them if they don't convert.
Now admittedly, I'm making a generalization. Some may say, "That's not the fundamentalism I know!" And…they're right. Not all fundamentalists live and breathe hellfire and damnation. But many do.
For what it's worth, Brian gets a hearty AMEN from this fundamentalist fringe forum! We would like to give a reverberating hand-clap, but doing so would outrage many a fightin' fundy!
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
Zen navigating North America.
This is my story...
It is a retrospective view of an adventure I had in 2012.
It basically involved me packing my life up in Australia, and heading to North America for a year.
My life was a dog's breakfast, I was a mess mentally, just out of a very messy and particularly nasty divorce, I had to escape.
After 20 odd years of doing everything for everyone else it was "me" time. The kids were grown, and I was out of there.
I had a pocket full of cash.
I had no itinery or plan other than a vague notion of heading to Alaska some time during June or July.
I didn't have a bike...
But, I had a contact in Houston who I had never met, didn't know from a bar of soap, but he made a lot of sense, and was willing to help me with bike purchase and registration etc.
A very generous offer from an amazing bloke. He had been quite successful during his life, and had oodles of spare time and contacts, and a willingness to just help. More on him later.
This is all I had, besides an overnight bag with a change of clothes, and a tow hitch for a Bonneville, one hundred small clip on koala bears and a bottle of 15 year old Glenlivett single malt and a sense of adventure.
The ride report will be a lot of cut and pasting from a previous report I did on another site, but with a difference, I will also be adding comments and observations from 2 years after the trip. I will try to mark these observations/comments in italics or a different colour or something. It won't be your usual all dirt affair, although I do do a bit of serious dirt (mud) during the ride, it is mostly back roads with the slab only really being used to make a mile when I had to be somewhere fast.
Don't worry though, the Dalton gets a mention later... Possibly the most life changing split second decision I have ever made, I learnt more about myself than anything else on that ride up the Dalton in the most appaling conditions, it had rained solid for a week before I headed up there... On a Bonneville towing a trailer.
More on that later, but first some eye candy to whet the appetite.
I hope to, over the next couple of months, finally sort out the shemozzle of my ride reports and other posts at the time into some sort of coherent enough for me to eventually get it bound into a book for my own personal satisfaction and use. And no, the book wont be for sale, if you want to have a read, you will have to do it here, ok?
No, down to the task of getting it all together!
If you hop aboard for the journey, enjoy! I most certainly did.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
Ok, a quick heads up, anything written in italics and a different colour is from 2014, the rest is from 2012.
...and so it began.
In reality this trip is rooted in a decision I made thirty years ago, where I passed up an opportunity to travel for a job I wanted. Something I have regretted, not travelling had become the itch I could not scratch.
Life being what it is, thirty years, five kids, a few mortgages, and a divorce have all come and gone. I now find myself in a position to be able to travel, time and finances are covered.
I am doing it because I can...
I have a rough timetable based on the weather, start south and head north! Peppered with some events at certain times. Remember that events can be tourist attractions too. For example, at the start of May I shall be whooping it up with the good ol boys watching NASCAR at Talladega, then at the end of May I will be finding myself in Indianapolis. watching the 500. Now there will be two and a half weeks for me to make the 550 odd miles between the two events, and I will have all that time to poke around that general area. I will fine tune the details between these "events" as I get closer to them and get some local knowledge on roads, attractions and places to stay.
Seriously, the above is total rubbish, I didn't get near any of that...
I want to do the ride up to Alaska and back during the small weather window in the summer there. The trip from Seattle to Anchorage is around 2,500 miles, I have allowed myself 10 days up and 10 days back, I am not going to bust a gut getting there or back, on 600 mile days you don't get to see much. In calculating times and distance I have worked on averaging around 50 mph while travelling. This might sound low, but it is a pretty realistic figure, remember I will try and avoid the super slabs as much as possible. Six hours in the saddle is a fair days ride, and by my math, it is around 300 miles. I think my 10 days is fairly realistic.
Ok, the bike...
A Bonnie. About the bike, I know it is sentimental clap trap, and there are much better bikes to do it on but it sort of has to be a Bonnie, it just wouldn't be right otherwise. I will be towing a small cargo trailer behind the bike. I would rather tow 200 lbs behind me than strap a hundred on the bike and wrestle it around. I have been through the trailer versus put it on the bike argument too many times to go through it again, it is set in stone, I am getting the trailer. The sheer convenience of it is hard to ignore, if I am travelling to a destination and there is a nice two hour twisty ride on the way, just find a secure spot for the trailer, unhook it off the bike and go ride the twisties unencumbered. Return and put it back on, and you are ready to roll again in two minutes.
I am still at least a fortnight away from flying out, have to pack up my house and tie up all my loose ends.
Getting excited though.
Check this out, it is my visa from the US consulate... I look like Uncle Fester
Serious... serious hangover...
The night before I had been very drunk half way up a hundred year old oak tree with several mates at a bit of a going away thing.
Seriously? 50 year old blokes up trees with eskys?
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
It is with a tear in my eye that I put "the Pig" my 1971/72 mongrel bred Bonnie in storage, said goodbye to my abode and headed off.
23rd February 2012
The flight from melbourne to Los Angeles was... well a flight, and pretty boring. But I did get to fly over in an A380, which are around three and a half hours quicker than a 747 on a Melbourne to Los Angeles trip. If you have never been up close to one, they are simply massive.
Oh, and while I was waiting to board, I took the opportunity to purchase duty free a 15 year old Glenlivet single malt that I will have to share with someone. Gee, I wonder if I can get a volunteer to help me..?
Had a few hours to kill at LAX before my flight to Houston, never seen so many guns in my life, what a culture shock!
The flight from L.A. to Houston was everything the flight across the Pacific wasn't. I watched stunning scenery and mountains taller than any I have ever seen. I was licking my lips in anticipation.
And so the dog had landed...
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
Welcome sages.
A couple of things I should explain now.
My every day ride at home was a bike I affectionally called "the pig", because it was.
Being basically a '71 Bonneville, it had the gear shift on the right hand side, unlike modern bikes where the shift is on the left, this caused me a great deal of trouble at different times, and almost undid me a few times too... more than once in the first few days/weeks, I would be coming into a corner in ummm... "a spirited fashion" and while setting myself up for the corner, I would brake before leaning it in fully, you have no idea how scary a compression lock up is coming into a corner too fast, I would brake as if i was on the '71, which had vague braking abilities at the best of times, and stand on the brakes only to select a lower gear. This seriously put the wind up me and I had this weird head thing going on where I didn't trust the bike for a long time, took me 3 or 4 thousand miles to really come to terms with the bike and become comfortable with it. My new Bonnie was probably 80 to a 100 pounds heavier too, plus luggage... add this to riding on the wrong side of the road, and I was seriously struggling for a while, not that I would admit it then. I seriously just couldn't get my schitt together riding the new bike, and it worried me.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
The Dog has landed.
When I eventually landed in Houston well... will let HAP tell the story as he was the one who picked me up from the airport.
Lost in Space
Joined: Dec 2004
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Oddometer: 2,312
Classic! That is an outstanding photo for sure and gets my vote!
I had a similar "life event" and put 28,000 miles on my bikes in one riding season trying to get my head sorted out. It worked!
Looking forward to more.
"If it doesn't blow smoke and make noise, it isn't a sport!" - radio ad for shop in Bozeman, MT
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Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Seven Springs NC
Oddometer: 1,006
- Converting 1998 Harley Sportster XLHugger 883 into Dual Sportster
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
Glad it worked out well for you.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
The bike.
I am going to give a shameless plug to British USA in South Houston, great people. If your close, and looking for a bike, definately call in there and see what they have to offer. Triumph BMW (Bring More Wallet) and Urals, I was very tempted by some of their used bikes too.
I walked into the showroom and stood and looked, even if you arent going to buy anything it is worth the trip to their shop just to look at all the old Trumpets, Beezers, AJS's, Nortons from the 50's, 60's and 70's. After some time I eventually realised there was also new bikes on the floor, and quite a few. As my head swiveled down the line of bikes, past the Thunderbirds, the America, Street and Speed Triples, there it was, my heart skipped a beat, and I was in love. My head kept swivelling but my eyes were focused on a grey and black T100. After 20 minutes of trying to think of a reason, any reason, not to buy the T100 and buy something else, I was keen to sign the paperwork. The bike was ready to pick up the next morning. I had them put a Triumph King and Queen seat, and a roadster screen on the bike, arse comfort is paramount, and I have a dislike of large insects. Bolted on my tow hitch, and here is the result.
... that has got to be the second ugliest seat I have ever seen on a Bonneville.
but I could get off it after 500 miles with no discomfort. Worth every cent.
I needed practically a whole new set of gear as well, I had lost a considerable amount of weight over the last three years, around 90 lbs, so my gear from home was practically useless. A Schuberth C3 flip top helmet, some ventilated pants and jacket, and the neatest of the lot, ventilated gloves that are waterproof, I have no Idea how they do this but they work.
Yeah right, they worked the first time...
the next day Hap, SWMBO and myself went for a shake down ride about 90 miles down the coast from Houston to eat seafood. Still trying to figure out the most enjoyable part of the day, the food was awesome, had some Gumbo for the first time. The bike ran like a dream, motorcycles have come a long way in the 40 odd years since mine was built, imagine that, a bike that you push a button to start! And no vibrations, when you got home nothing had rattled off it. The ride was all on straight and flat roads due to being on the Delta that extends south of Houston, but heh, I didn't care, I was on a Bonneville riding on the wrong side of the road in a foreign land, my dream had become reality. I had a schitt eating grin on my face from start to finish. Everything was new and different, the scenery, the road signs, the vehicles, the speed everyone travels at, sitting anywhere between 70 and 90 mph was a whole new world for me.
Returned home just on dark and settled in for a good nights sleep and a new day.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2006
Location: Ontario, CANADA
Oddometer: 936
Looking forward to more.
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
I bought myself a GoPro camera to mount to the bike among other things...
Fitted the mounts to the bike, went back upstairs, read 2 pages of the manual, thought to myself, sod this, just turn it on and see what you get, here is the first bit of footage I took, suburbia in Houston. Not exactly adventure riding.
Joe Satriani seemed appropriate.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
Pine forests.
More coming... I am currently on a two day ride around the pine forests north east of Houston, and will get back in a couple of days when I got time to post about that.
This is just a two day jaunt to run up the 600 miles before my first service, it seemed pretty pointless to take off travelling before I had this done.
This part of Texas seems to be a well kept secret, very little traffic, great roads, and bizarrely very few bikes.
This is a bit of footage taken by me in East Texas, Greenday this time.
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: May 2010
Location: rural Oz.
Oddometer: 784
I finally have time to write up East Texas.
Hap and I ventured up to the pine forests of East Texas for a quick run around, a lazy 522 miles all up for Saturday and Sunday.
We took off out of South Houston and headed for Woodville in East Texas. Here is the Google aps link. I have no idea what roads we took to get there, I was too busy gawking at the scenery and holding Hap up by being slow, although we both gave the bikes a squirt at times. I got my 'Ton Up!' on the Bonneville just for curiosity sake, it did it in a canter and still had more, The bike continues to impress me as a riding platform, it is not fast for a modern bike, but it is rediculously easy to ride and very forgiving. I am comparing it to my 41 year old Bonneville though...
We rode a lot of roads through the area and saw very few bikes, this area has to be Texas best kept secret. The trick is to get onto the Farm to Market roads, they all have excellent tarmac and very little traffic. You just pull out the map, and point and say, this one looks good, and you have a 20 mile squirt to the next town or crossroads, select another road that looks good, rinse and repeat.
An entire weekend of this is just too much fun.
Here are the trusty steeds parked at the motel for the night.
I am sorry I don't have photos of the scenery, but we were just having too much fun riding. it was good to finally get some miles under the belt.
I must mention the ride back into South Houston, from the time we hit freeway, to Haps house, it was 36 miles of the most intense sensory overload I have had for a long time. 80 mph in mad freeway traffic at night, 4 lanes full going both ways, the lights, the sounds, the smells, it was just awesome, and something I haven't had at home. I am just a country lad... and simply don't see this sort of traffic, it made me feel so alive. I was still buzzing and thinking about it hours later, it was awesome in the true sense of the word.
But there is better to come, I must put todays ride together and post it.
The weekend: 522 miles.
Total: 704 miles.
Crazy old Triumph guys: 0
Ok, the stats at the bottom of my posts, I will continue them all the way through, there are some interesting ones come up later... It just keeps getting added to.
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By Recycle
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Comments about Vuelta Corsa Lite Road Wheelset:
This is a follow-up to my "second set" review, After 100 or so miles, began noticing a regular creaking noise at pedaling cadence. Eventually removed the 11 speed cassette to switch back to my old wheels and discovered the outer cassette cogs had cut into the freehub body similar to another review. Contacted Nashbar customer service and made arrangements to exchange the wheelset. Wow - they were awesome - I couldn't be more pleased with their service including sending me a shipping label prepaid to return the wheelset - just outstanding. When I saw the Lites were on back order, Nashbar came through again to switch my exchange from Lites to the SLR set - see that review. I still think the Lites are fine wheels and they must have just gotten some soft freehub bodies. Stuff happens, which isn't the end of the world when you get the kind of customer service Nashbar offers.
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By Vince
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About Me Commuter
Upgrade from stock Shimano R501s to these, and I've seen quite a speed improvement after the first 100 miles. Climbing and headwinds are much easier, and I've set PR's on every uphill segment.
Spokes Lasted 6 Months
By Acedownunder
from Virginia
Great price and stiff set of wheels, but simply didn't hold up. Six months of daily commuting (170 lbs rider) on pretty forgiving surfaces and I've been losing spokes on the drive side like a champ (three thus far). They have all snapped at the eyelet - high tension and brittle material. Looking for new wheels.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
I love these rims
By abcbennett
from utah
I have had these rim since Jan 2015 and have put on just over 1600 miles. Still true as the day I got them.I will buy them again when I need to replace them completely worth the money.
Excellant 2nd set of wheels
By Twilight Cyclist
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I bought these to use as a backup for my Kyserium Elite wheels. They closely match the weight and aerodynamic profile of the Kyseriums and ride remakably similar to them. Now when I discover a flat tire before a ride I can just change out that wheel and go because the handling and performance is so similar between the wheelsets. I got these on sale and am very satisfied with them. My Kyseriums have proven to be bomb proof over the past 12 years - If these Corsa Lites hold up half as well, they'll be worth it!
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By TJB
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I've run these wheels for about 2400 hard road miles and they have exceeded my expectations. Lite and durable and great for climbing. They were out of true by ~1.5mm when I got them, but were easy to true up and have not moved since - despite taking some bad pothole and crevice hits on club road rides. Nice wheelset, highly recommended.
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Decided needed to replace my 12 year old Mavic Pros that came with my 2003 Litespeed Tuscany, with a new wheelset. The old Pros were still fine and true after around 30,000 miles but wanted lighter wheels and to forestall any breakdown in the near future (never know). They certainly seemed to have upped the performance. Nice smooth whirring noise and are lighter and more responsive. Attractive appearance. Rim deep enough but not outlandishly deep. Could have afforded more expensive wheels, but don't like to just spend money and couldn't see how a more expensive upgrade made sense for me-I'm 73 and a 15 to 16 mph man when on my own, so probably couldn't tell the differences. Very good price on sale. Have put around 1000 miles on these so cannot speak to durability. The old Pros set a high bar in that category. Can see why you are out of stock-hope you can restock for others.
Very Nice Wheels
By Homer Spokes
from Kettering, Ohio
After asking several friends for their opinion about wheels and looking at reviews and ratings on Internet sites, I chose the Vuelta Corsa Lite. After 125 miles I'm very pleased. They arrived on time, in perfect condition and are still true after my first few rides. When coasting down steep hills with other riders, I no longer slowly fall behind but rather stay even or roll slightly ahead. I have to assume that this is the result of better bearings in the hubs of the Vuelta's. Ten days or so is not nearly enough time to evaluate a pair of wheels but so far I'm giving them 5 stars. Factoring in the reasonable price I paid, I'm very satisfied.
Nice Wheels Except The Rear Hub Strippin
By Matt the Racer
from Wichita Falls TX.
About Me Competitive Cyclist
I ride competitively and have put around 1000 miles on these wheels since purchasing in early January 2015. I noticed a noise coming from the hub and pulled the cassette off to discover the bottom 5 gears had nearly stripped the hub cogs. I have contacted Vuelta and was told I should have checked the hub after each ride. I don't know anybody who has ever done that or what that would help. The wheels overall have been true and are holding true well. If you are a very strong rider I would look at a different rear wheel or hub. I weight around 174lbs.
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Just got my second set of 'Lites for my new endurance bike based on my excellent experience with the first pair I got for my old bike passed down to my son. First pair was dead on true out of the box and still the same after 8-10k miles. I NEVER had to touch them. Reasonably light yet durable - I really don't know why you'd go somewhere else for a set of alloy rim wheels for the kind of cycling virtually all of us non-pros do. Many say these are good wheels "for the price" and they are a great value but I simply say they are good wheels period.The second set arrived dead on true out of the box just like the first set. Weight on my digital scale is 1579 grams w/o the skewers - close enough to as claimed. Add 120 grams for both skewers. The new graphics are very understated especially in comparison to my first set which have bold red and white. I assume the new graphics are intended not to clash with any bike color scheme which is important for a replacement wheel set - the old graphics wouldn't work well at all for my new bike - but this may underwhelm some. Considered the SLR's - they're about 100 grams lighter - but like the deeper, stronger although heavier 'Lites rims with fewer spokes and my past experience with them sold me on a second set. Yes I know there's no real aero advantage but they just look better. Last comment - I weigh in the 150-160lb range so I don't know if they would hold up as well as for Clydesdales.
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An American sublime. Scott Fitzgerald wrote perhaps the most read American novel of the 20th century. But he died prematurely, a broken alcoholic. Julian Evans celebrates the last of the romantics
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Flappers and Philosophers
F Scott Fitzgerald Cambridge University Press, 430pp, £35
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Just about all the objections ever levelled at F Scott Fitzgerald for his unseriousness as a writer - that he fawned on the rich; that he was a mongrel of letters; that, being tarred by his self-destructive excesses, he was a wretched custodian of his own talent - originated with Fitzgerald himself, except for the charge about the rich. As he said in 1940, when somebody repeated the canard: "I always thought my progress was in the other direction." To him, the motive seemed strange. "It can't be jealousy, for there isn't much to be jealous of any more . . ."
In 1940, at the age of 44, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack, lying on the sofa in his none too grand Hollywood apartment a few days before Christmas, annotating the report of a football game in the Princeton alumni magazine. That year, all of his books sold a total of 72 copies, and he knew that he had wrecked himself physically. A couple of years earlier, he had said to the screenwriter Budd Schulberg: "You know, I used to have a beautiful talent once, Baby. It used to be a wonderful feeling to know it was there . . ." In 1940, he was also working strenuously on The Last Tycoon. Any writer interested in the prose of others should read the first six pages of that novel, then see if they could say so much, so well, in 60 pages.
The success of This Side of Paradise, published when he was 23, made Fitzgerald both star and sage. As a storyteller, he was elevated - wrongly, given that his commentaries are largely sceptical - as the prophet of a decade in which America wanted only to be entertained. Ever since, he has been viewed iconically, always denied the status of serious greatness. (His personality, and he and his disturbed wife Zelda's ashtray-throwing sprees, didn't help.)
That there is a new Cambridge edition of his work may indicate a sea change in the prevailing attitude. It is 30 years overdue, but welcome nevertheless, giving us the chance to start again, to reinspect the Fitzgerald house, to reappraise the style and re-examine the writing on the wall - as opposed to the personalities who lived there. The most recent volume to be published, in fact, offers a ground-floor entry in the shape of his first ambuscades: Flappers and Philosophers was his first collection of stories, published in the wake of (although, in several cases, written before) his first bestseller.
Misconceptions are rife about Fitzgerald's 160-odd published stories. He was partly responsible: disparaging them for the energy they drained from novel-writing, he encouraged critics to segregate them as hack work. But if, today, you read a number of the later stories back-to-back - say, "Winter Dreams", "Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar", "The Sensible Thing", "The Last of the Belles", "The Swimmers", "One Trip Abroad", "The Bridal Party", "Babylon Revisited" - I guarantee that few of you will deny that this is work from the hand of a brilliant maker. I use the word "brilliant" deliberately: brilliance and glitter seem to be the qualities that modern disparagers of Fitzgerald, including John Updike, find most offence in. But Fitzgerald's model of society - if it really is from the top down, and I have my doubts - is no less valid than that of Dos Passos or Faulkner. He may not have foreseen the Depression, but it wasn't the defining moment of the American century; no, Fitzgerald's point was that, as the story "Two for a Cent" shows, whether you succeed in making it on to the fast train going north, or east, from the opiate south or Midwest, is less than half a matter of class and more than half pure chance. And he also knew that, behind every American fortune - even Gatsby's - lies some meanness or rottenness. America at the end of the 20th century was the land of Gatsbys. Who is Bill Clinton but Jay Gatsby, Arkansas version? The real question is not how mature Fitzgerald's characters or his dealings with them are - a man has a right to wear a glorious crushed rag of a pink suit if he wants - but whether, as Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, says, they turn out all right in the end.
The stories in the Cambridge Flappers and Philosophers number not only those from the 1920 Scribners edition, but also four others that were rejected at the time by Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, and two that were omitted from Tales of the Jazz Age. This reflects the edition's desire to collect chronologically everything that Fitzgerald published. The terrific pleasure for me in this collection is reading Fitzgerald from 1917 to 1921, when he was learning the bulk of his confidence. The two earliest stories, "Babes in the Woods" and "The Debutante", although they were stripped and used by Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise, are the usual breathless stuff of early attempts: Fitzgerald makes something of them by the skin of his teeth, by his ability to create a sharp, colourful contrast of descriptive formality - stag lines and staircases - and emotional excitement within and without his characters' heads. (I wonder whether Elvis really invented the teenager. Maybe Fitzgerald did it first.)
In 1918, Fitzgerald seems to have written no stories, presumably occupied with This Side of Paradise; a year later, he wrote eight, four of which show a racing maturity. "The Ice Palace" is famous but, in an appendix here, a helpful essay by Fitzgerald about the genesis of the story tells how he was out "walking with a girl" in Alabama, and they wandered into a graveyard. "She told me I could never understand how she felt about the Confederate graves, and I told her I understood so well that I could put it on paper." Which he did, in a manner likely to do considerable damage to the ideal of a United States, and with not a grave in sight - the ice palace of the title doubling as the frozen labyrinth of northern forgetfulness, as against the ever-living memory of the south.
Before "The Ice Palace" in the autumn of 1919, Fitzgerald seems to have gone through some kind of climacteric. In "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", a war hero turning to burglary to supplement his peacetime wages is taken up by a political sponsor: a sudden golden future beckons, but the picture is already stained. Dalyrimple is thus the first echo of Gatsby. "The Cut-Glass Bowl", with its suppressed family tragedy, is a surprising swerve into domestic bleakness. These are not my favourites, but they are interesting rebuttals of the image of Fitzgerald as gadfly. In fact, four of the 14 stories in this collection hit a base note of grief, of something irretrievable, and hardly one is about wealth and glamour, unless wealth is something sought and glamour an expectation of rich experience.
What matters in these stories - in fact, what is always at issue with Fitzgerald - is the prose, and its excellence or not, according to your point of view. However, it is not entirely a personal matter. That there are readers who can't stomach Fitzgerald's romanticism, and that it is possible to prefer another angle on the class-and-money question, I understand. But I fear that those who do not feel the epiphanies of his prose, do not feel. This is one of the most human, and humanising, voices of the past hundred years. "The sunlight dripped over the house like golden paint over an art jar, and the freckling shadows here and there only intensified the rigour of the bath of light . . . only the Happer house took the full sun and all day long faced the dusty road-street with a tolerant, kindly patience." "You will have to take him as you take Abercrombie, for what he is and will always be. This is a story of the dead years." I don't know another writer who can make me so cheered to read about sunlight, or the dead years - cheered in the sense of being party to a pact of compassion (and pleasure) between writer and reader. Raymond Chandler once described this quality of Fitzgerald's: it was charm, he said, "charm as Keats would have used it . . . a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite".
Before he was 30, Fitzgerald believed that this ability was effortless. "I was a sort of magician with words - an odd delusion," he wrote, "when I had worked so desperately hard to develop a hard, colourful prose style." So, after CUP's very good edition of the stories, I am rather puzzled by the other Cambridge Fitzgerald volume published this year. This is the 100 per cent spurious novel Trimalchio, the first version of The Great Gatsby - a version on which Fitzgerald worked heavily in proof in the winter of 1924. The justification that these are two different books is a weird sort of sophistry, given that the first was a version that Fitzgerald didn't want published; having read both versions, it is clear that his winter labour is what clinched it as a masterpiece.
Are we to go on misunderstanding Scott Fitzgerald? If he was ever superficial, the honesty of his superficialities turned out to be a truer picture of the American Dream (and a truer prediction of the American century) than the mysticism and pose-ridden individualism of many of his contemporaries, and successors. It was Fitzgerald, too, who nailed the arbitrariness of its score sheet, nailed the obvious concomitance of success with rapid, violent disillusion. Listening to the one existing recording of his voice in the BBC archives, I thought of Gatsby's remark about Daisy Buchanan's baby voice (that seductress's voice used by Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe): "Her voice is full of money." Fitzgerald's own accent is barely American, practically that of an Oxford man, and his voice is low and gentle and full of everything he paid for. Romantic writers tend to pay more, because they see the passing of a dream, although they never quite let up on believing it. Fitzgerald died young, but he stood the course, unlike Hemingway; he wrote perhaps the most read American novel of the century. In The Crack-Up, incidentally, he invented the confessional memoir that has become routine for American writers. His stories remain a joy and a blessing, fragments of an American sublime. He turned out all right in the end.
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Light's Fred Torphy on the street you might not see what a natural born rocker
he is. But, stick him beneath hot stage lights with an electric guitar and he looks just
too right. Surround him with three equally primed-for-launch guys overflowing with talent
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And while their off-the-books tangents work great – they are jam band scholars – it's the
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that they stoke memories of Wilco, Big Star and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians.
Perhaps more than anything else, one picks up on a hunger in this group often missing from
today's too-cool-for-school bands. Big Light positively salivates at the chance to wreck
and ride rock for all it's worth. And they ain't half bad at pretty stuff, too. 2010 has
been a banner year for this young San Francisco-based band, with regular touring on both
coasts, a flurry of new composing and the release of their bang-up debut album, Animals
In Bloom (JamBase review). Yet, this all feels
like the tip of the iceberg with Big Light, whose potential may well surpass even their
wide, eager eyes ability to envision just yet. (Dennis Cook)
Here's what Fred had to say to our inquiries.
Instrument of choice: Gibson SG standard
1. Great music rarely happens without…
Lots of hard work
2. The first album I bought was…
Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy
3. The last song or album to really flip my wig was…
Dawes' North Hills (JamBase review)
4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be…
A musician or archaeologist
5. My favorite sort of gig is…
Intimate, DIY, party/guerrilla festival set
6. One thing I wish people knew about me is…
I dislike capers (as in the food) intensely.
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The Slip's Eisenhower
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10. I always find the coolest audiences in…
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Not eating well
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The Beatles. They wrote better songs and made better albums.
13. The craziest thing I ever saw was…
A friend do a perfect double back flip off of a 60-plus-foot cliff into Lake Champlain in
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Big Light plays the grand re-opening of SF's The Independent next
Wednesday, August 4, with kissin' cousins Apollo Sunshine
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Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim Collegeposted by The Editors
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Educationposted by The Editors
In their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion has increasingly become more intertwined with the work higher education as well as how the "religious" and "secular" are blending together.
CFP: Religious Studies 50 years after Schemppposted by The Editors
On September 27-29, 2013, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington will host a conference entitled "Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp: History, Institutions, Theory." Conference organizers have issued a call for papers.
Conference: Religion and the Idea of a Universityposted by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Religion and the Idea of a Research University, an interdisciplinary project of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, will be hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference (April 3-5) exploring the question of: What place does religion have in the Western research university?
Funding for atheistsposted by Candice Scharf
Recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the student organization, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) $69,000, the largest amount of grant money ever given to a non-theistic, student-led organization by a college or university.
The graduation warsposted by John D. Boy
In Il Sussidiario, Michael Sean Winters gives his opinion on the recent controversies surrounding commencement speakers invited to Catholic institutions of higher education.
Catholic doctrine and universitiesposted by Candice Scharf
In a recent article, Libby A. Nelson discusses the role of faith in Catholic universities and puts forth the question, how Catholic are these institutions?
College, religion, and Santorumposted by Wei Zhu
A 2007 SSRC study on religion and higher education contradicts Rick Santorum's claims about loss of faith and college attendance.
The NYPD's religious profilingposted by John D. Boy
Ta-Nehisi Coates comments on the New York Police Department's profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.
The house that D'Souza built?posted by Charles Gelman
Earlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King's College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha on the small Evangelical and—at least in the eyes of its authorities, if not in those of all of its students—politically conservative college housed in New York's Empire State Building. Now, Andrew Marantz, of New York Magazine, takes a closer look at D'Souza's tenure, the college's sense of its vocation, and the student body being trained to become, in D'Souza's words, "dangerous Christians."
The "Axis of Antisemitism"posted by Amanda Kaplan
Jonathan Rauch responds to James Kirchick's Tablet Magazine article on the shuttering of Yale's Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.
Claremont School of Theology to train Christians, Jews, and Muslimsposted by Grace Yukich
This week, Claremont School of Theology in California announced that a large financial gift will allow them to transform the seminary into an institution that will train Christians, Jews, and Muslims. According to The Los Angeles Times, the new university—which will be called Claremont Lincoln University, in the couple's honor—will serve as an umbrella for three largely separate programs: the existing program for Christian pastors-in-training, another program for rabbis, and a third for imams.
God, money, and powerposted by Charles Gelman
At Killing the Buddha, John D. Fitzgerald describes the inside of a little-known conservative Christian college in the heart of New York City.
The good, the bad, and the uglyposted by Mark S. Cladis
It is worthwhile to pause and ask why so many educators are committed to the suspension of religious identity in the classroom. After all, educators ordinarily encourage their students to bring to their studies a deep engagement with the material—that is, to bring their perspectives, experiences, commitments, and passions to the topics and issues at hand. But what about students' religious commitments and perspectives? Why are these seen as a special case? Why ask students to bracket off religious beliefs from the stock of all their other beliefs, especially given the epistemological and psychological implausibility of achieving such bracketing? To some extent, students can express their religious perspectives by other means, including covert ones. Yet from an educational point of view, do we want our students to suppress the actual reasons (in this case, the religious reasons) that tacitly support their perspectives in the classroom? Can we justify placing this particular burden on students with religious perspectives?
The spiritual and the scholarlyposted by Varun Soni
Just as it is helpful for universities to think through constitutional aspects of federalism within the context of university governance, it can also be instructive for universities to follow a constitutional approach to secularism within a multifaith university environment. Contrary to popular opinion, the First Amendment does not mandate a "wall of separation" between religion and the state but, rather, prohibits the state from establishing or endorsing one religious tradition over another. According to First Amendment jurisprudence, it is possible for the state to engage with religion in a non-preferential, non-proselytizing capacity and still be considered "secular" in a constitutional context.
Soul-making and careless stepsposted by Colin Jager
For once, practice actually lags behind theory. In their very interesting post on "Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts," Kahn, MacDonald, Oliver, and Speers find that the concerted academic revaluation of secularization and secularism has not trickled down to relatively elite private liberal arts colleges. In their account, these institutions remain committed, both explicitly and implicitly, to some version of a distinction between the secular and the religious: religious belief is fine, but it has no place in the classroom. This distinction, of course, is designed to protect the kinds of things that academic institutions hold dear: critical thought, intellectual freedom, tolerance, diversity. But, the authors wonder, might "uncritical assumptions about the secular" actually make these things harder, by "stripping some students and faculty of fundamental aspects of their identities—in particular, their religious identities"?
Nothing human is foreign to meposted by Annette Aronowicz
The problem as I see it is not that students in the liberal arts are somehow forbidden to argue their religious views but that, whether they are religious or secular, they do not get sufficient exposure to religious texts. These texts contain many strange and interesting things—often surprising to religious and unreligious students alike. They uncover possibilities of being human. But in order for these possibilities to emerge, they need to be approached in a secular spirit. That is, their specifically theological language needs to be translated into a conceptual language through which people can imagine a given possibility without a prior or subsequent adherence to it as the absolute truth.
Teaching Catholicism and sexual moralityposted by David Walker
The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion and commentary in the last week, most of it focusing upon the appropriateness, tone, and argumentative validity of an email that he sent to students prior to their Spring semester exam.
The battle over Islamic Azad Universityposted by Jake Alter
A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pushed to take over Islamic Azad University, a private university, after it became a haven for political involvement in the Green Movement. This action seems to be directed at former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, founder and chairman of the board of Azad, who "all but allied himself with the Green movement" this past year.
The "inter-religious" university and the Christian rightposted by Jake Alter
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts to form an inter-religious university this coming fall. Philip Clayton discusses the controversy this has aroused in conservative Christian communities.
A trifecta of problemsposted by John Schmalzbauer
Three of Insider Higher Ed's most recent dispatches focus on a trifecta of problems in the academic study of religion.
The evangelical flagship at a crossroadsposted by John Schmalzbauer
As Wheaton College, known for decades as the "evangelical Harvard," searches for a new president, the flagship evangelical institution stands at a crossroads. Writing in the SoMA Review, Cornell University philosopher Andrew Chignell (a member of the class of 1996) reports on the concerns many faculty members have about the school.
Beyond The God Delusionposted by Elaine Howard Ecklund
The university classroom has become a battleground in the science and religion wars. In a controversial 2005 state of the university address Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings stated, "Religiously-based opposition to evolution . . . raises profound questions about . . . what we teach in universities and it has a profound effect on public policy." The growing controversy over the role of religion in higher education led me to ask how top university scientists think they ought to respond to religiously based challenges to science. […]
Religion's returnposted by John Schmalzbauer
The Immanent Frame symbolizes a sea-change in American higher education. When I was in graduate school in the early 1990s, I don't recall the SSRC taking a special interest in the academic study of religion. Today a visitor to the SSRC webpage is confronted with an entire program area on "Religion and the Public Sphere," with links to such topics as "Religion and International Affairs" and "The Religious Engagements of American Undergraduates." Far from a marginal area at the SSRC, such initiatives have attracted the involvement of such world-class scholars as Talal Asad and Robert Bellah. […]
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?posted by Jenny White
Turkey's ban of the headscarf on university campuses — rather than the headscarf itself — has become a serious impediment to women's participation in economic and professional life. Three-quarters of Turkey's female population covers in some fashion. The ruling Muslim-inflected Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish acronym AKP) made a deal this week with the nationalist MHP in parliament to secure enough votes to eliminate the ban. […]


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Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho does not expect to sell Kaka in the January transfer window. The Brazilian is a bit-part player at the Bernabeu, but Mourinho wants to keep hold of him to add extra depth to the squad. He said: "I don't think that Kaka will go anywhere. He will stay. And as I've said all along, if he stays then it is good for us because he provides us with an extra option." Mourinho also wished Barcelona boss Tito Vilanova a speedy recovery as the 44-year-old began a second battle with cancer. Vilanova had an operation on his parotid gland yesterday, which the club confirmed went "as expected" and will now start six weeks of chemotherapy. "With things like this we are on the same side," Mourinho said. "For Tito, for his family and for everyone with health problems we are all hoping together that they all recover."
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