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Do you know what is going on in the graduate departments these days? Our little job got over 400 applications. We expected this. But we didn't expect the large number of applications from people who are ABD. Why would anyone without a degree (or even a defense date) go on the market? Well, that's not the question I want an answer to. The issue isn't really about ABD applicants. The question concerns ABD applicants who are manifestly unready for the job market. Who is advising these students? Who allows a student with only half a dissertation and no defense date in sight to go on the market?To be honest, I know of many departments which exercise almost no oversight. And I'm sure that this is bad for the job-seekers. Does anyone know of any departments which do a good job of coordinating the efforts of the job-seekers?
Given [the nature of our ad], there were several instances in which we received applications from several students from the same department. The undercooked ABDs make the department they come from look bad, and this means that they make the other applicants, even the defended ones, from that school look bad. Shouldn't there be some effort to coordinate who is applying to where? I know that back in the Dark Ages departments tended to be brutal when it came to who was applying where. We were told where we may and may not apply. I don't think that was a good practice. But surely some oversight is required. It seems that many departments are exerting no control over these matters anymore. So, I guess the real question I want to ask you is what practices are in place in graduate departments these days for coordinating job seeking efforts?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Another Note from a Search Committee Member
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This doesn't address the question you are asking (I'm in no position to answer that question), but I wonder whether many departments think that it is a mistake to apply when ABD. For students that have significant loans from undergrad, finishing without a job is taking a risk. I'd say that students in our department typically all go on the market when they are officially ABD with advisers, good advisers anyway, speaking to the candidates ability to finish their dissertation.
It also seems strange to let the fact that some candidates from school X are manifestly unready for the market influence a committees view about other candidates from school X. I'm sure having oversight could be useful, but it seems irresponsible to make judgments about department X, as opposed to about, for example, adviser Y, because a student is on the market when they aren't ready.
- November 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM
I was under the impression that everyone goes on the market ABD, in the sense that they expect to receive the PhD at the end of academic year during which they are applying. Applicants with the PhD in hand seem to have either already been on the market, or had a post-doc. Is this not the case?
- December 1, 2010 at 12:00 AM
I am under the same impression as anon 12:00am. I suspect also that the person ranting is older and far removed from the realities of graduate school and the market. You can't just go on the market with Ph.D. in hand unless you are currently employed in some capacity (VAP, adjunct, etc). ABDs are on the market presumably because they are ready to earn their Ph.D.s in the spring semester and because they need to keep their options open for funding for the following year. And because assholes on search committees believe that Ph.D.s "go stale".
Regarding department oversight - there is none. Not at my school anyway, and I have never heard of a department telling a student that he or she can only apply to certain jobs. What a crock of shit that would be anyway. Only in academia! Sorry - but faculty members do not have a right to tell a graduate student where he can and cannot apply for a job.
- December 1, 2010 at 1:05 AM
Our little job got over 400 applications. We expected this. But we didn't expect the large number of applications from people who are ABD. Why would anyone without a degree (or even a defense date) go on the market?
Three comments.
1) I feel like this SC member is on a completely different planet. The implicit assumption that one shouldn't go on the market until one's already completed one's PhD runs counter to all of the sensible advice I've ever heard about the job market. Given how bad the job market's become, as well as the significant decline in announced VAP's over the past two years, the candidate who defends in 2010 and then doesn't land a job has few remaining alternatives. "PhD's go stale," as the saying goes. By contrast, the ABD candidate who doesn't land a job stays in school a year longer, gains a little more teaching experience, polishes and/or extends the dissertation, tries to get a publication perhaps, defers student loan payments for another year, etc. Why is that such a horrible thing, especially given how unpredictable the job market situation's become? People who entered PhD programs 5-10 years ago weren't expecting this awful situation, and now they're trying to find ways to cope.
2) Why doesn't this SC member distinguish between ABD's who are ready for the job market and those who aren't? Surely, that's a meaningful distinction.
3) Even if a candidate (whether ABD or PhD) hasn't matured in the eyes of the SLAC search committee in question, that candidate may nevertheless be appealing to other committees from other schools. In my experience, the preferences, idiosyncrasies, and levels of competence among SC's from different schools varies considerably. Indeed, just the other day I read someone saying something like, "The search process at many institutions is nearly blind to all the things that matter in selecting a new faculty member." If that's true, then even the unqualified ABD candidate may stand a chance at some institutions.
- December 1, 2010 at 1:06 AM
Spiros said the note was a bit ranty. It looks like the guy is asking more about abd's with no defense date and not a lot of the dissertation completed - hence "undercooked." I get that one shouldn't finish unless one has a job, but one shouldn't go on the market unless one could be finished within a month, right?
- December 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM
I'm in agreement with 1:06.
Faculty should obviously give advice about whether students are ready to go on the market. But being ABD--even ABD without a defense date, and with only 2/3 of a dissertation--doesn't necessarily signal this. I know numerous people who've done very well on the market, but were only ready to defend half way through their first year on the job. It may be that there's considerable variation among departments about how they view such applicants, but--unless there's effective signalling of this--given that some departments don't mind, it may be in the best interests of both candidates and departments to go on the market as "undercooked" ABDs.
And even if this department cares about people having a PhD in hand or nearly in hand, it is irrational to look down on those PhDs who come from the same schools as ABDs. Even if you think the department is irresponsible in who they let go on the market, this presumably doesn't say anything about the quality of their education or the reliability of their letters. Why on earth would *this aspect* of the graduate program reflect poorly on candidates?
- December 1, 2010 at 9:03 AM
I think it would be incredibly inappropriate for departments to tell students where they can apply and where they can't, given the way the job market is.
In a pool of 400 applicants, whether ANY individual applicant gets an interview is hardly more than a matter of luck. Only "allowing" students to apply for particular positions seems to imply that they actually have good chances, in general, of getting an interview from any particular application. That makes sense, if each job only receives, say, 30 applications. But out of a pool of 400? It'd be irrational hubris to expect a job applicant to succeed if they're not taking every opportunity.
The only good way departments can support their students in this market is if they say, "We can't tell you what any department is looking for, and it's mostly luck that decides if anyone shows interest in you, so all we can suggest is that you apply to every job to which you conceivably can." Anything else would be irresponsible.
- December 1, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Another way a department can support its students in this market is, you know, financially support its students. For example, don't make them pay for shipping each package themselves or, worse, pay for Interfolio--even for the recommendation letters.
- December 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I have to say that reading that letter scared the hell out of me, and reading the comments has only slightly quelled the anxiety. I am a graduate student who is on the market with roughly half of my dissertation written. I expect to defend in time to have a PhD in hand at the end of spring semester. I do not have a defense date "set". Am I "undercooked" and "not ready" for the market?
This was the time I was advised to go on the market. I have a vast teaching background, great reviews, great letters, and a publication. Hearing this SC member basically shit on my chances is really like a giant slap in the face, when this time is already so stressful.
- December 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM
I got a TT job with no defense date set and easily finished the dissertation that year. I have gone on the market many times since then, and never since gotten a campus interview. So if I hadn't gone out that year, I would probably be unemployed.
Ignore everything you hear about going on the market except this:
As long as you have the support of your letter writers, and honestly believe you could finish by the following July IF YOU HAD TO, go on the market as soon as you can, and apply to any job you think you have a chance at.
Another thing: how long does it take for a disciplined student to finish a dissertation? A year is fast, but more than two years is dawdling. Let's be honest.
- December 1, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Sometimes I think Spiros is making up these letters from SC members just to drive the newbies to drink.
Seriously, though: Whether it seems "inappropriate" or not, there are departments, good departments, which exercise control over where their ABD's and Ph.D.'s apply. And there are good reasons for doing so.
Oftentimes, it has to do with a department which has 2 or 3 candidates on the market in the same year, and they want to be able to throw their full support behind one or the other candidate for a given position (i.e., with letters not only from the grad advisor, and the dissertation advisor, but also from the chairperson). Given that this is the strategy, they need to control where the candidates apply: it wouldn't look very convincing if two applicants came from the philosophy department at U. of x and both had letters from the grad advisor and the chair saying this person was the department's top candidate for the job … would it? As an SC member, if I saw something like that, I would assume these letters are given cheaply and have little value.
I didn't go to such a school, but I wish I had. Although I had a letter each, from my advisor and my chairman, I know those letters would have been a lot more valuable if my department had had a policy in place that made certain that no one else from my program was applying to that University.
I know there are a lot of ABD's out there who subscribe to the view that the best chances come from sending out 75 applications in a year. Statistically, I guess more is better. But really, your chances are much better if you letters have weight.
For ABD's who haven't published, or who have published only one article, letters count - a lot.
- December 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM
"how long does it take for a disciplined student to finish a dissertation"
Probably depends on if you are also teaching and working two part-time jobs to pay the bills.
As others have said, given the job market it seems foolish not to be throwing your application out as soon as possible to as many positions as possible.
I know one guy that finished all his PHD requirements, including successfully defending his dissertation, but remaining ABD while on the job market. His advisor told him to not submit his paperwork until he had job offers so that he could stay in school if needed. Worked like a charm.
- December 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM
I want to a pretty middle-of-the-road department, where most of the faculty seemed to be more worried about publishing and moving somewhere better than helping out the graduate students who were there with them. So you could probably include this as one of the departments with little oversight regarding where and when their PhDs applied. But it was not just the lack of oversight, but the lack of overall guidance and support that made things so difficult for job candidates (and I guess, by extension, for people who end up sorting through their applications). Since I got out into the world I have heard with wide-eyed wonder stories about schools sending out the applicants' dossiers for them, or supporting particular candidates for particular positions (as anon 12:41 mentions), or even having placement training (that was more than just a 30-minute talk by a junior faculty member), since nothing even remotely like this happened at my program. What got me a job was simply having two people on my committee who cared enough to write careful letters and to make some behind-the-scenes phone calls at the right times. It certainly wasn't anything like "oversight" from my department. So if you're a search committee member reading through the application of one of the 25 students from my former school who applied for your position, you should know that that's just the way it works there -- everyone applies to everything!
- December 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Quick question: does anybody know how many applications is average now? I'm guessing at least 400, but wonder if data is available.
- December 1, 2010 at 5:46 PM
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I don't think anyone should be alarmed by this one email from one person - who is probably horrified by the prospect of trying to deal intelligently with 400 applications.
It really is unclear what the writer objects to. Most people in their final dissertating year go on the market. If they do not have 'a date' for defending, they say they expect to defend in the Spring, etc.
I wonder if the writer's dept. got several applications from students in the same program, none of which [including in letters] made clear where they were in the process. To an SC member feeling overwhelmed, that might seem to be too little information.
At any rate, if they are not interested in hearing from ABD's who are still writing, their ad should say so.
- December 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM
As someone on a search committee this year, my two cents is that, yes, it's annoying to read applications from people who are not "good applicants." But only some of them are bad because they are ABD. There are types of "bad applications" I've seen this year:
1. Those who aren't going to defend in time to take the job. More than one applicant noted that they have just started their dissertation, and given what they claim to be writing about, they just don't have time to finish by the start date. And no, we don't want you to rush your work; how will producing rushed work help you when your teaching, service, and research loads go up?
2. Those who aren't specialists in the area we are looking for. We all know that the market sucks, but applying to jobs you aren't qualified for won't impress a search committee. I promise you, we won't ever sit back and say, "you know, we thought we needed a classical philosopher, but this guy writing about Kant is really compelling; hire him!" Not happening. More than one applicant has noted that, while they do not specialize in what we want, they could prepare classes in those fields if needed, because of a grad seminar they took once.
3. Those who put no effort into their applications. They have stupid typos that should have been corrected. Their letters are wordy and obtuse. Their CVs are pointlessly annotated. (No, you don't need to provide a short description of what an Intro to Philosophy course you taught looks like. We can figure that out.) They didn't even look at our program. No, we don't have a PhD program, so don't tell us you are ready to start advising PhDs right away. One applicant clearly cut-and-pasted our department's name onto another school's application letter, because he noted our proximity to a particular library with a special collection he wants to work with; that library is two states away.
Honestly, though, while I do complain about these applications, they make it so much easier to thin the pile. And for what it's worth, those applicants who have been on the market before - who are currently in a VAP position or a post-doc - tend to have much, much better applications.
- December 1, 2010 at 6:39 PM
I was ABD about where you are (some years ago but in a comparable market). Great teaching, great letters, a publication from my MA. Flown in for window dressing mainly but my interview kicked the ass of the presumptive favored internal candidate with a PhD in hand (and I subsequently finished/defended in one semester). I'm Full Prof now. Yes you need luck, and yes you need to be realistic, but there are SCs that can recognize ABD talent even in this market.
- December 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM
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Yes, indeed Anon 1:09--having already defended but not "deposited" and officially graduated is a very good strategy as far as I know. One can succesfully defend but need time to revise and submit for deposit. One can also "wait out the clock." This was what I did and I know several other graduates of my program that did it as well. When you're able to state that your defense is completed, search committees have less reason to question whether you'll have Ph.D. in hand at the start date or very, very soon after.
I mention this simply because there are many reasons to remain, technically ABD, and the defense is technically not the point at which you graduate. Universities have different rules about how long between a defense and deposit date can be, but it can be around one year. If health insurance and child-care are issues, it's a good idea to know something about how long you can wait to deposit. The difference of 6 months or so could be meaningful.
Also, the date at which the clock begins ticking for paying back student loans begins on the deposit date (not the defense date). There is a 6 month grace period for Federal Student loans, and the opportunity for a full year deferment that one can apply for after the grace period expires. The timing of one's deposit may matter in this respect for many people. The expenses of starting a new job (relocating and/or finding housing) can be considerable. Depositing immediately after one's defense, simply to go on the market, may not be necessary and waiting may buy one financial benefits. I had some solid finanical advise and background, and was able to time the turnovers in my heath insurance and start of student loan payments pretty well, so I pass this information along as it might be useful.
- December 1, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Most departments won't explicitly allow or disallow you to apply for a particular job. But, advice for next year (should it become relevant): talk to your advisor (and other letter writers) about the jobs to which you wish to apply. If you fail to communicate your intentions and ask for advice, and if, moreover, your advisor (or other letter writer) knows (or even merely believes) that you are applying for jobs to which s/he cannot, in good faith, recommend you as an excellent candidate, then s/he is more likely simply to deflate her letter than to instruct you not to apply to those top jobs. In other words, it is in your best interest to communicate your intentions to your letter writers, and ask for their advice about where to apply--even if that results in your not applying to some top tier of jobs--in order to secure the strongest letters of recommendation on your own behalf.
- December 1, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Anon: 6:39pm
As an ABD without a date (hopefully in May) I have to disagree with your second point. I know of examples within my own department where Search Committees invited graduate students on the market to interviews who had specifically stated that they did not have an AOS in the advertised position in his or her cover letter. I will do the same because of their successes as long as the advertised position is close enough to my AOS.
- December 2, 2010 at 1:09 AM
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I suppose that where there are 400 or more applications the search committees must find some way of wading through them. Perhaps one criteria is that candidates have PhDs in hand.
I would oppose rejecting ABD candidates out of hand. Why? Well, I got my job as ABD and without a viva date (although planning to submit a few months after the interview, which I did).
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- December 2, 2010 at 6:50 AM
Anon 6:39 complains about:
Those who aren't specialists in the area we are looking for. We all know that the market sucks, but applying to jobs you aren't qualified for won't impress a search committee. I promise you, we won't ever sit back and say, "you know, we thought we needed a classical philosopher, but this guy writing about Kant is really compelling; hire him!" Not happening. More than one applicant has noted that, while they do not specialize in what we want, they could prepare classes in those fields if needed, because of a grad seminar they took once.
Your comment piques my curiosity. Are you saying that someone with a strong AOC in your committee's preferred AOS is automatically disqualified? (I can't tell if your example is fictional).
One possible source of confusion is that the AOS/AOC distinction doesn't appear to track the majority of jobs in the profession. If AOS means 'qualified to teach graduate seminars in this area' and AOC means 'qualified to teach advanced undergraduate seminars in this area', then, since most departments don't have graduate programs, there's an inherent risk SC's at non-graduate-degree-awarding programs will get applications from candidates who don't actually have the preferred AOS.
- December 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Placement Director has it just right. Our department doesn't forbid folks from applying for any particular job -- as if it could. But we will not support applications to particular jobs -- we do not give them 'departmental recommendations' for jobs that are clearly out of their league, and about which our department would get a reputation for bullshit if we did recommend them. If candidates have a realistic view of their abilities and chances at certain jobs, the department can go all-out on their behalf. It really is a bad idea to be just laissez-faire about this sort of thing.
- December 2, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Anon 9:11,
What's the difference between a "departmental recommendation" and the LORs which different faculty submit on behalf of a candidate? Or are the LORs written differently when sent to jobs which are thought to be beyond the reach of the candidate?
- December 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of the claim to have received 400 applications. Our current search (a decent research department) has 180 apps and the highest numbers for open searches at other places I'm in contact with are around 250. So, just out of curiosity fellow anonymous philosophers, are departments really getting 400 applications?
- December 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM
are departments really getting 400 applications?
Last year, one of the SLACs with which I interviewed reported having received 400 applications for an AOS open search (though with narrow AOCs). And then there's the CUNY and Boise numbers for last year.
Is your department conducting a completely open AOS/AOC search? Is your SC dissatisfied with the quality of the applicants? Would you like a copy of my dossier? I'm fabulous, I promise.
- December 6, 2010 at 4:52 AM
I'm a bit skeptical of the claim to have received 400 applications.
According to a colleague, the PFO from Xavier in Cincinnati stated they received over 300 apps this year for a position with an AOS in any period of the history of philosophy. If a search excludes the entirety of the contemporary sub-fields and still gets over 300 apps, then wouldn't you expect less restrictive searches to garner significantly more apps, all things being equal?
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I was wondering what material in algebraic geometry is crucial and is a logical step for a serious graduate student in algebraic geometry once they've finished Hartshorne. Good answers could include a list of areas of algebraic geometry or important topics that an algebraic geometer must learn along with good references (i.e. accessible to someone with the background of Hartshorne), preferably in the order he or she should/could learn them. Papers in algebraic geometry tend to draw from so many areas within the field itself that I was wondering what people thought was the best order and way of acquiring that material.
'Intersection Theory' by Fulton
Every algebraic geometer needs to know at least the basics of intersection theory. Fulton's book is the standard reference and serves both as a textbook and a reference.
'Principles of Algebraic Geometry' by Griffiths and Harris
This is because Hartshorne does not really talk about complex geometry, Hodge theory or more classical algebraic geometry. It might also be good to see the classical approach to the theory developed in chapters 4 and 5 in Hartshorne which of course existed way before sheaf cohomology and schemes.
EGA by Grothendieck and Dieudonné.
This is if you want more of the Hartshorne style algebraic geometry. I would not say it is essential to read the entire EGA, but since it is the standard reference, it is at least worth getting to know it.
Here is a few more suggestions for more specialized subjects:
Birational geometry (Kollar-Mori or Matsuki). Toric varieties (Fulton). Hodge theory (Voisin). Arithmetic geometry (Cornell-Silverman). Abelian varieties (Mumford). Deformation theory (Hartshorne). Moduli spaces (Mukai).
After Hartshorne, you could start specializing. Find something that seems interesting to you - you'll pick up a lot of new algebraic geometry even though you are studying a specific subtopic. After finishing Hartshorne's book you should be able to read these books without too much trouble.
Dear anonymous, Mumford wrote a short book Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface which, according to the preface, was written for the reader you have in mind (although at the time Hartshorne's book didn't exist yet). The book corresponds to oral lectures and the sections ( called Lecture $n$) are essentially the notes that had been distributed in class after the lectures, which makes for easy to digest little units.
The book contains the construction of the Picard scheme of a surface and the Hilbert scheme of curves on that surface. Lectures 3 to 10 (out of 27) are recollections of the general theory of schemes, with very interesting insights on the functor of points aspect. For example Mumford describes $\mathbb P^n(S)$ in terms of invertible sheaves on the scheme $S$ and their sections, he explains how to describe the Zariski tangent space of a functor defined on schemes even if the functor is not representable, etc.
The actual goal of the booklet is to prove a theorem of completeness of a characteristic linear system on a surface. The theorem was proved in characteristic zero analytically by Poincaré in 1910 but algebraically in all characteristics only in the 1960's by Grothendieck through systematic use of nilpotent elements. But as in all good books, the road is at least as interesting as the final destination, and much can be learned even if the book is not read to the end.
Lazarsfeld's book ``Positivity in Algebraic geometry'' contains a wealth of important material and is masterfully written. Anyone doing algebraic geometry today will greatly benefit from being familiar with the contents of this book.
Edit: here is a blog post by Burt Totaro on the importance of this topic/book:
Perhaps the first advice I could give is to ask your advisor or algebraic geometers at the university at which you are located, if you are a student, they might already have areas/problems in mind for you to work on and so can give you the best advice relative to those problems.
A couple books which have not yet been mentioned (some of which I wish I had gone through more carefully):
Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, by Olivier Debarre.
This is a nice somewhat more informal introduction that covers many of the topics in Kollar-Mori with I would say more examples. It also covers some of the material in "rational curves" .
Moduli of Curves, by Harris and Morrison
A standard introduction / reference on the topic (which is again heavily studied).
Rational curves on algebraic varieties, by János Kollár.
The study of algebraic varieties by studying their rational curves is a major area of investigation in algebraic geometry. This book is fairly technical but contains a lot of information.
Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry I: Volume 1 & 2, by Claire Voisin
Hodge Theory is an important tool and field of study as well.
Mumford's three part series Tata Lectures on Theta is well worth reading. (I wish I had read them already...I could sure use the information they contain.)
Added: Or really, close your eyes and pick a book by Fulton, Hartshorne, Kollar, Mumford, Silverman....If you get the book by Hartshorne that you've already read, pick again. Otherwise, whatever you picked will be a fine choice.
Abelian varieties.
If you are interested in complex manifolds I would recommend Complex Geometry: an Introduction by Huybrechts.
I also think the Toric Varieties by Cox, Little, and Schenck is an excellent introduction to many advanced topics in algebraic geometry. Plus you get to learn a bunch of combinatorics in the process!
I've been told that Néron models by Bosch, Lütkebohmert, and Raynaud is a nice book to read if you want to get better acquainted with techniques in arithmetic geometry.
I'm far from having read all of Hartshorne, but if I did I would study Compact Complex Surfaces, by Barth, Peters, Van de Ven. Also Geometric Invariant Theory would be a nice topic (I know about the book by Mumford, are there other good books on this topic?).
Ah, I forgot! How about derived categories? Someone suggested that for this topic a good reference is the book by Hartshorne Residues and duality. I had a look at some notes by Caldararu on the arxiv, "Derived categories of sheaves: a skimming", they seem well written.
Q.Liu's "Algebraic geometry and arithmetic curves" is a good reference, if you plan to lean on the more arithmetic side.
Again, a good idea would be to discuss the matter with your advisor(s), since there is a rich variety of fields within the topic (puns intended) -- or ask a more precise question.
Geometry of Algebraic curves, by Arbarello, Cornalba, Griffiths, Harris, 2 volumes; Complex abelian varieties, by Lange and Birkenhake; M. Artin, Lectures on deformations of singularities.
The basic idea common to all these suggestions is to use the foundational material from Hartshorne to investigate some more specialized topics, like curves, surfaces, abelian varieties, moduli spaces, singularities, or some more general techniques like intersection theory with applications to general Riemann Roch theorems, and vanishing theorems with applications to classification questions, plus arithmetic and analytic questions.

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Phil heads to Mid-Calder. Donald Ferguson is selling up so he and his girlfriend Marie can move into a place they both own, but his semi hasn't shifted in two long years.
Episode 10 - Gravesend
In Gravesend, Karen Spellar has been struggling to find a buyer for her three-bed for almost a year. Phil's determined to help so he's stepping in as her Secret Agent and planning a makeover mission.
Episode 11 - St Leonards on Sea
Almost a fifth of Brits want to live near the sea, but it seems nobody wants Ken and Tricia Bolton's house in St Leonards on Sea, despite its incredible views of the Channel
Episode 12 - Newcastle
There's plenty for Phil Spencer to tackle in Newcastle when he tries to sell a five-bed house for Graham, Jane and their horse-loving family
Episode 13 - Thame, Oxfordshire
Phil travels to Thame in Oxfordshire where he helps a family sell a house packed with pot plants and penguins
Episode 14 - Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire
Phil travels to the Leicestershire village of Barrow Upon Soar, where John Lord is trying to find a buyer. But John's not the only inhabitant - there are animals everywhere, including pet lizards.
Episode 15 - Alexandria, Scotland
Liz and Steve Mitchell's four bed near Loch Lomond has been on the market for three years. It doesn't take Phil long to see that Liz's love of colour is blinding buyers.
Episode 16 - Whitley Bay
Laura Staines and her partner Gavin want to sell their Whitley Bay three-bedder and buy a bigger house. But it's been more than a year on the market and they still haven't found a buyer.
Episode 17 - Reading
In Tilehurst, Reading, Phil meets Dan and his son Chester, who are struggling to sell their very blokey three-bed with a motorbike in the back garden
Episode 18 - Watford
Arancha Burnell's house has been stuck on the market for two years with a whopping 60 viewings. Phil finds dated décor and a bedroom that looks like a Swedish sauna.
Episode 19 - Strood, Kent
Phil helps Helen and Paul Merrick turn around the stalled sale of their house after eight months on the market. But will the owners be willing to change their ways?
Episode 20 - Penicuik
In Penicuik in Scotland, Phil visits a house that's been stuck on the market for more than three years. Nonetheless he's convinced he can help owner Vivian land a buyer in a week.


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Earth Day officially takes place on Thursday, but the planet-hugging has already begun. Below, six Bay Area destinations for fashion and beauty that are getting into the eco-spirit this week:
Convert: A special Saturday celebration from 2 to 6 p.m. at this eco-minded Berkeley store embraces Earth Day spirit with giveaways from organic denim label Nudie Jeans, organic snacks and wine tastings featuring organic varietals. A portion of the proceeds from the afternoon event's sales will go toward the Regional Parks Foundation's projects preserving and improving East Bay trails and shoreline.


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TAMPA, Fla. - China Star on East Fowler in Tampa is known for its New York style Chinese take-out. But on June 28, a state inspector ordered a temporary kitchen closure documenting 22 violations, 11 considered critical.
Among the problems: cooked chicken held at an unsafe temperature; food stored on the floor in the walk in cooler; an employee touching ready-to-eat items with their bare hands; a toxic substance stored next to food; and roach activity, including 30 live roaches found under the kitchen sink, 15 between storage shelves, and another five found under the cook's line hand sink.
More roaches were also found in glue traps, according to the state.
China Star was allowed to reopen the following day, so we wanted to find out if the issues were really corrected.
"No, no... everything is clean... Clean, clean, clean," insisted manager Linda Lin when we showed up asking for permission to inspect the kitchen.
Eventually management reconsidered, permitting us access into the kitchen where we found soap for employees to wash their hands and food in the walk-in cooler now up off the floor.
"It's very good...everything clean," said the cook, who did not provide his name.
We asked about all the roaches and what the restaurant did to get the problem corrected.
"We have a company... clean... every month," said Lin, who later brought us a pest control receipt from February.
But after just a few minutes, we spotted a bug crawling around in the back storage area. The bug was limping around like it had been treated by pesticide, but was still alive.
We found other violations including raw meat left uncovered in the walk-in cooler. There was also no copy of the restaurant's latest state food service report available for public inspection as required by law.
When we shared information on China Star's June violations with unsuspecting customers some seemed uneasy.
"I think I've heard enough. I'm not going in. I appreciate you telling me though," said customer Ralph Radhay.
Management says they've worked hard to make corrections. "My restaurant right now... everything clean, yeah... food is good, yeah," said Lin.
But customers like Radhay say the damage to China Star's reputation is done. "I don't have trust. If you have these things documented that you found it, I don't have trust to eat there."
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Big Shot Rob on Access SportsNet right now and Mike D'Antoni's Laker coaching debut tonight against Brooklyn.
Ahhh........yes it's going to be a nice great night.
Lakers better get the W tonight so I can sleep well.
So, I see that Coach Dave Miller is not in the studio. Did Robert Horry replace him?
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|Peekin' into the Past
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
|Wednesday, 06 February 2013 13:25
Five Years Ago
This past month, the Board of County Commissioners received word that the Phillips County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior on Dec. 26.
Office headquarters for Wolf Auto Center and United Country Choice Real Estate are moving this week to 444 E. Denver St., according to manager Casey Blake.
A Friday, Feb. 1 fire at the corner of Phillips County Roads 40 and 19 took around 1,600 tons of hay products owned by Anderson Alfalfa.
Lincoln Hayes earned third place in the state Voice of Democracy contest after winning first place at the local and district levels earlier this year.
Bret Kramer has been hired to work in the county assessor's office, while Sheila Gift and Diane Rahe have started work in the county clerk's office.
A farewell reception is being held Feb. 7 in honor of Deanna Deselms, who has served as the elementary school secretary for the past 16 years.
After 43 years of service at the First National Bank of Holyoke, Josephine McWilliams retired Dec. 31, 1987.
Warren Snyder of Holyoke, who has served as a wildlife researcher with the Colorado Division of Wildlife for 27 years, was honored recently when he was named the 1987 Colorado Wildlife Federation's "Wildlife Professional of the Year."
Elmer Rowe, Clarence Kuhnke and Charles Hassler were recognized as 50-year members of Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union at the appreciation banquet held Feb. 3. All three were charter members of the Credit Union, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
B-52s and F-111 bombers of the Strategic Air Command will begin bombing runs near Holyoke immediately. These bomber runs will continue for a period of one year and will be day or night. No bombs will be carried, and the only disturbance from the low-flying bombers will be the noise as they pass over.
Carl and Keith Schneller of Holyoke were named the top sugar producers in the Sterling factory area of the Great Western Sugar Company at the growers' annual banquet held in Sterling last week.
Selected by score in a written knowledge and aptitude examination taken by both senior boys and girls on Dec. 5, Tony Kafka received a specially designated award from General Mills, which was presented to him at the last Holyoke High School pep assembly.
The mercury soared to 78 degrees here on Tuesday, and Holyoke is believed to have had the highest temperature in the state that day.
Another new business was opened in Holyoke this week—John's Phillips 66 station, located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 385. Manager of the new station is Francis Taylor, who moved here two weeks ago from Wray.
Razing of the former Presbyterian Church building to clear the site for a proposed new Christian Church was completed Tuesday. On Monday, workmen discovered a tin box containing interesting information and history of the church fastened to joists beneath the floor.
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No last rites for region's landmark hospice
The headlines about San Diego Hospice's layoffs carry me back to my worst days.
It was 1996. Bill Clinton had just been re-elected. From one day to the next, my healthy mother's life was turned upside down. On the day she was finally, gratefully, passing away, I committed this to a column:
"The storm first kicked up during the holidays with rising swells of pain. Then the word like a killer typhoon: Lymphoma.
"She started swimming in a whirlpool. Chemo. Radiation. Home care. One crisis led inexorably to the next.
"She might have drowned in a hospital room, as many do, strangling in kelp-like IV and oxygen tubes.
"But then a miracle. A warm, gentle current carried her to a beach where the weariest people on earth rest quietly before going on.
"The Acute Care Center of the San Diego Hospice, generously endowed by Joan Kroc and others, is a luxury retreat for terminal patients.
"I have known two people who died at the center. Soon, I'm told, a third.
"It's a hard thing, this slow dying, but it somehow is made easier knowing she is slipping away in a gorgeous room with hardwood floors on Vauclain Point in Hillcrest.
"For this American family, the hospice is a five-star godsend."
Five years later, my sister was tossed into a similar metastasizing maelstrom, though her struggle lasted much longer, ultimately landing her, completely spent, in a hospital room in Rancho Mirage.
As she was dying in 2007, I wrote a farewell that included the following:
"Sick of being sick with four bags of fluids flowing into her swollen forearm, my sister defied her never-say-die oncologist and asked to leave the hospital and live out her final hours in a hospice.
"It was enough. No more amped-up heroics. Her last song would be performed unplugged."
It had been my duty to find a hospice in the Coachella Valley that would remind my sister of the Hillcrest sanctuary, the peaceful place she used to recall when she sent in her annual donation, a charitable gesture that reflected her gratitude.
The San Diego Hospice ideal led me to the Odyssey House in Palm Desert, a clean, well-lighted place from which my sister could sail upon the midnight with no pain. Her living hell was over.
I don't pretend, by the way, that my mother and sister were your typical hospice patients.
Unlike their English and Canadian counterparts, American hospices, driven by economics or cultural preference, tend to care for terminal patients at home.
Nevertheless, it strikes me as terrible, an affront to the memory of Mrs. Kroc and countless others, that San Diego Hospice, come next year, could be forced to shutter the 24-bed Hillcrest inpatient center, a soaring structure overlooking Mission Valley that embodies a "vortex" of end-of-life care, as CEO Kathleen Pacurar remarked recently. (A smaller facility in Carlsbad is also closing.)
Not only did San Diego Hospice's flagship offer a Medicare-eligible refuge for my mother, it also conveyed a vision of how my sister's life should end and, one day, my own.
From what I gather, the region's first, and largest, hospice, a 35-year-old nonprofit that raises about $7.5 million a year in charitable donations and attracts some 750 volunteers, is under the auditor's gun because, like many other hospices around the country, it sometimes skirted Medicare time limits governing hospice care.
The altruistic view is that the hospice's heart was too soft. Rules were bent when patients fell into an uninsured gap by living longer than anticipated.
(The negative view, which I instinctively doubt, is that the hospice knowingly plundered Medicare to grow its "census" and enrich itself, which would be a criminal conspiracy.)


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|Melodrama tickles crowd's funny bone at 125th
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
Holyoke celebrated its 125th anniversary Wednesday, April 24 with a melodrama, "Shawnee Lou, the Prairie's Purest Dressmaker," at the HHS auditorium. Actor Maury Kramer, playing villain C.E. Ginapp, defiantly ignores the ramblings of Chester C. Conklin while he is with his ladies, Fluffy Furry (Dolly Smith), pictured at left, and Trixie Baxter (Penny Dockins), at right.
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Laughter filled the HHS auditorium Wednesday, April 23 as Holyoke residents gathered to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the "City of Pride and Progress" with a melodrama entitled "Shawnee Lou, the Prairie's Purest Dressmaker," put on by the Phillips County Players.
Mayor Orville Tonsing welcomed those in attendance and acknowledged past mayors and members of Holyoke City Council.
Once the lights dimmed, the crowd was treated to the hilarity of the melodrama, which was directed by Penny Dockins.
Set in 1888, tension between Burge Hotel owner Lavern Meusborn, played by Jerry Brandt, and the actors residing in the hotel resulted in a humorous dialogue between the conflicting characters. Although he allows them to live in the hotel, Meusborn vehemently disagrees with the flamboyant style of those chasing fame and fortune through theater.
Young Billy, played by Tristen Ferguson, was a source of humor throughout the show. He continually drew laughs as his impatience with his mother, played by Ashley Sullivan, grew. His biggest contribution to the play, however, was acting as an instigator, prompting the crowd to boo villains and cheer for the good guys.
Crowd participation greatly heightened the enjoyment of the evening. At several intervals throughout the night, actors would break the fourth wall and talk directly to the crowd.
Meusborn's daughter, Shawnee Lou, played by Anastasia Conklin, found herself in the middle of a love triangle early in the play. It was love at first sight when she laid her eyes on Francis Scheunemann, played by Jacob Vasa. But before they could marry, she was forced to agree to wed villain Chester C. Conklin, played by Eric Conklin. Out of fear her father would be harmed if she did not cooperate, Shawnee Lou became deeply depressed.
Shawnee Lou's (played by Anastasia Conklin) luck makes a dramatic
—Enterprise photo
If one villain wasn't enough, C.E. Ginapp soon entered the story, scamming, stealing and lying at every opportunity. At first Ginapp, portrayed by Maury Kramer, promised lead roles to the actresses of the Burge Hotel, Trixie Baxter and Fluffy Furry, portrayed by Penny Dockins and Dolly Smith, to win their favor, but quickly turned his attention to thievery.
He tricked Mrs. Scheunemann, played by Karin Kramer, into lending him a sizeable amount of money as he promised to maker her a star in an upcoming play if she were to help fund it. After he bled her dry of her fortunes, he was going to skip town with the loot.
The unsavory plots by Conklin and Ginapp were foiled by Francis and his mother, and the two villains soon met their endings in a manner fitting of a Shakespearean tragedy.
After the cast returned to stage for a curtain call, it was announced that the show may return in June as the celebration of the momentous occasion continues.
Other cast members include Lemoine Ferguson as Sherman Brandt. Pat Wiebers contributed to the drama of the show on the piano.
Eric Conklin served as assistant director and designed the set while Nancy Pillard and Karin Kramer worked on costumes for the event.
Sandy Ferguson was responsible for lighting and the entire cast contributed to the construction of the set.
Chester C. Conklin, played by Eric Conklin, pictured at right, taunts Lavern Meusborn, portrayed by Jerry Brandt, about his upcoming nuptials to Lavern's daughter, Shawnee Lou.
—Enterprise photo
Holyoke Enterprise May 2, 2013


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The Weekly Walla Walla Wine Word for Dummies: Estate-bottled
First of all, this is a term used and regulated by the TTB, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Estate-bottled means that 100% of the wine came from grapes grown on land owned or controlled by the winery. Also, the vineyard must be located in a AVA desginated area, and both land and winery be on the same AVA area, as well.
Therefore, the winery must grow, crush, ferment, age, finish and bottle the wine in a continuous process on the same winery's premise.
In the Walla Walla area, a few estate-bottled wines to look for would be those from Leonetti, Woodward Canyon, L'Ecole #41, Pepper Bridge, Spring Valley, Tero Estates, Cadaretta, Dumas Station ... to name a few.
Wouldn't you know, the Eastside girl is often the last one to tout about one of the newer, and most distinctive wines around. That Sullivan character from the Westside beat me to it.
Allen Shoup and Gilles Nicault of Long Shadows Consortium did it again.
Teamed with John Kaiser of Kaiser Vineyard at The Benches, perched high on a windy bluff in the Wallula/Columbia River area, this talented trio created a sophisticated Chardonnay sourced from The Benches estate fruit located in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA.
This wasn't their first attempt, either. After five experimental vintages exploring other sites, it was this unique terroir (including a magnificent view), that gave this visionary team the character and complexity they were looking for in Chardonnay. I understand that the previous experimental vintages were shared with family and friends. Ahhh - - the benefits of wine experiments.
Keeping with tradition of this vibrant grape with strong French roots, yet often misunderstood, this elegant wine was fermented with Montrachet yeast and aged in French oak barrels from Burgundy, 50% new and 50% one-year old. After being aged for 11 months, the "cream of the crop" was reserved for the "Dance" Chardonnay label and a smaller quantity, but lighter in style, was used under the second Long Shadow's label, "Nine Hats."
The Weekly Walla Walla Wine Word for Dummies: Closed
This word best describes a wine that is not showing its potential, because the wine may be too "young."
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Stemming from the word, Madeira, this word is a term for oxidization.
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There are two guilty pleas in a public corruption case that involves an Eastern Carolina school system.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Danny Lee Langley of Snow Hill and Earl Rhodes of Pikeville entered the pleas today in Greenville.
Langley used to be maintenance director for Wayne County Schools, while Rhodes was the assistant director. The feds say the two men helped All American Roofing and Construction win bids for various school roofing projects. They claim Pamela Turner, owner of All American and David Tedder, paid the two school employees a cash percentage in return for the work.
The feds says in 2002-2003, .3% of the school roofing budget was paid to All American, but by 2004-2005 their business jumped dramatically to 61.1% of the roofing budget.
Langley faces up to 10 years imprisonment for the bribery charge and Rhodes faces up to five years for the conspiracy charge.
Turner was charged on July 20, 2010 and pled guilty on September 14th to structuring transactions to evade a reporting requirement. Her sentencing is set for January 30th. Tedder was charged on April 1st and pled guilty on June 14th to conspiring to commit bribery concerning local programs receiving federal funds. His sentencing is set for December 19th.


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MSRA's Back to The 50's - Travel Back In TimeWritten by on October 1, 2012 MSRA's Back to The 50's
From what I hear, the '50s were great times. Cars and trucks were being designed to have style and function. The potential to create your own American dream was at an all-time high. Work hard, start a family, buy a house or something like that, right?
Now we are stuck in an age where social media rules over human interaction. Things like iPhones, social networking sites, email, and the Internet are all great things, but only if you moderate your time spent using them. According to data from a 2010 www.comscoredatamine.com poll I found, the average person 45-54 years old spends 39 hours on the Internet per month. Compare that to an 18-24-year-old person who waists seven hours less doing the same thing.
My point is, what if you could go back to your childhood, or if you're around my age, visit a time that your parents said was better? I didn't travel back in time by any means, but it sure felt that way.
The Back to the 50's is held by the MSRA at the beautiful Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. This is the place you want to travel to, not because it's a normal parking lot type fairgrounds, but because it has really nice surroundings. Trees are everywhere you look and the buildings reminded me of that old hand-craftsmanship and wealth.
The first day I arrived, the event promoter and staff kindly scooted me around the massive fairgrounds via golf cart. That is when I got a chance to take everything in. The only regret I had about riding on the golf cart was my emails kept coming in, and of course, my lack of willpower kicked in and I checked each one of them.
By Saturday morning I was getting more into the spirit of things and the storm of classic cars and trucks came in like a flashflood. One minute the fairgrounds was empty, the next minute there were vehicles around every corner. The streets were also filled with vendors with just about every truck part you could imagine and the smell of sweet BBQ sauce filled the far corners of the fairgrounds.
Time was spent walking around looking for feature vehicles and cool trucks to put in our show coverage, but I must be getting old because I needed to rest my feet. That break came in the form of driving Tim Tullo's pickup truck around the fairgrounds with Brent VanDervort of Fatman Fabrication riding shotgun. With the A/C blasting, Brent and I took in all the scenery and with a giant smile on my face I said to Brent, "Now this is fun, I'm having a great time." I realized that it took something more than just looking at the cool classics; it was about driving one and living in the moment. At that point my cell phone was turned off and the rest was history. Get it? Lol.
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Did someone say sleeper? Jeff Clampitt from Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, did and his '57 Ford screamed fast just sitting still. Check out the rear drag tires.I'm a sucker for Fleetside and Cameo beds and apparently so is Dave Carron of Mt. Iron, Minnesota. Nice '55 Dave.This Clean '40 Plymouth pickup looked ready to cruise down an open field and drop off a load of hay.
Hate it or love it, this pickup stirred up quite a controversy on the CLASSIC TRUCKS Facebook page. You can thank RavenWorks from Maple Grove, Minnesota, for being so creative.Kids are always welcome at car shows, and in fact, the promoters gave them a cool play area. If only I were a kid again.
Also for sale was a '51 Mercury M-1. Whitewalls, scallops, and a plush white interior, how could you go wrong?Personal touches on classic trucks always grab my attention. Chuck and Barb Gau from Anoka, Minnesota, added a swan to hood of their '54 Ford to stand out from the crowd.Roger and Gloria Fey from Edgerton, Minnsota, drove their '57 Dodge Sweptside carrying a '58 Cushman Eagle in the back. Now that's cool.if only I was made of money and could buy all of the cool trucks for sale. What a sweet looking classic truck someone could have drove home.Fatman Fabrications set up some of the chassis and suspension options they offer. if only the photo could show the details in the fabrication work.I remember doing this as a child until they banned it in California. Grab your chair hunny, we are hopping in Joe's truck to go for a cruise.


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CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) -- A southwest Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a fatal home invasion.
A Lee County judge sentenced 24-year-old Timothy Tuttle Jr. on Wednesday. He was convicted in April of manslaughter with a firearm. Also that month, Tuttle's accomplice, 28-year-old Terry Ragland Jr., received a life sentence after being convicted of second-degree murder, attempted home invasion robbery and burglary.
Authorities say Eric Stuebinger was fatally shot in the chest during a July 2010 home invasion in Cape Coral. The News-Press reports that Tuttle and Ragland were demanding money and drugs, but Stuebinger fought back to protect his ex-girlfriend and their 17-month-old son.
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|2008 weather largely similar to last year
|Written by Jes-C Brandt
The 2007 weather report depicted the year as mild, and predicted similar weather for 2008. This year has, however, brought higher highs, more precipitation and an equally chilling low. Most striking were the higher amount of variation in temperature and lower amounts of snowfall than the previous year.
National Weather Service official weather observer Dan Kafka reported the daily highs and lows, as well as precipitation and snowfall for the area. Kafka's report showed the low of 2008 at 18 degrees below just last month, Dec. 16. Other subzero temperatures occurred Jan. 22 at 9 below and Feb. 6 at 5 below.
January kicked off 2008 with a chilly average minimum of 10 degrees. Maximum temperatures for the month were still near freezing, at an average of 36. Similar weather brought 2008 to a close. December's minimum and maximum averages were 9 and 38.
Summer months showed some high temperatures, but the monthly averages were rather mild. The hottest day of 2008 was reported in the middle of summer, Aug. 3 at 107. Summer began with high temperatures, with June's high at 95 on June 27.
Hot temperatures persisted throughout summer, with July's high of 102 on July 21; and September's high of 90 on Sept. 1,2,23 and 29.
Overall, weather was mild as predicted. Monthly average lows ranged from 9 to 59 degrees, and the average highs had a range of 36 to 92.
Increased precipitation was noted from 2006 to 2007. Similarly, 2008 had greater precipitation than 2007, but the difference was minimal. Total precipitation for the year was 19.87 inches.
August was a month of extremes, holding the year's high as well as the wettest month, at 4.21 inches of precipitation. April through July all had over 2 inches, and September and October had over 1 inch. The lowest precipitation was .02 inches in January.
For all the similarities between the years 2007 and 2008, snowfall was not one of them. There were days in 2007 with 4 or 5 inches of snowfall, and the snowfall for the month of December alone was an astounding 18 inches. The year 2008, however, had a total of only 22.1 inches for the whole year.
The snowiest months of 2008 were March, April, November and December. March had the highest, with 5.9 inches. November followed with 4.8. April and December both had over 3 inches of snowfall. January, February, May and October each had around 1 inch of snow.