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London without a guidebook
Journalists and tourists tend to hover at Westminster with its famous Big Ben. Yet east and west, out of the spotlight, conservative social activists are reclaiming the changing face of the city with justice, compassion, and hope
LONDON- At 1 p.m. in the west of London, near the exit of the Ladbroke Grove tube station, a Christian candidate for Parliament on the Conservative Party ticket strides past a woman in full Islamist head-to-toe dress. A realtor in what was a depressed neighborhood advertises a two-bedroom flat on sale for 350,000 pounds (about $710,000). No customers are in a shop that advertises Bailey's Irish Cream in both English and Arabic, but a line waits at the counter of U.S. Fried Chicken.
At 2 p.m. in the east of London, the leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance walks past Canning Town businesses: Amazing Grace Afro Caribbean Food, Bargain Meat Centre (featuring Fresh Halal Meat), and His Grace Hairdressing, which offers curly perms, straight perms, braids, plaits, and weaves. No patrons at the Signs and Wonders Hair Salon are in sight, but a line waits at the counter of Dallas Chicken and Ribs.
Westside, eastside, all around this sprawling metropolis of 12-14 million, demographics are changing, prices are rising, and small groups of Christians are engaging the radically secular culture that surrounds them. How they fare will powerfully affect the future of a land once salted by Christianity, now sprinkled by Islam.
As Shaun Bailey, the 35-year-old grandson of immigrants from Jamaica, walked through westside Ladbroke one afternoon, he regularly called out to young men, "What's happening, bro?" They all responded with a wave, and some crossed Golborne Road to talk with him, darting past sidewalk stalls where sellers hawk clothes, games, shoes, and toilet tissue.
"Street work allows me to meet them in an arena where they feel comfortable," said Bailey, a 6-foot-tall, muscular youth worker. He tried to convince a fat English bloke to enter a training course: "It's not like sitting in college." He spoke with a bearded Moroccan immigrant who wore jeans and a jean jacket, and later explained, "He's a hustler, but he wants to go straight. My job is to challenge them, and if they offer crap, to tell them it's crap."
As Bailey walked past the neighborhood's three-story buildings, which typically sported first-floor shops with flats above, he sometimes singled out individuals sitting at small outdoor cafés. He told a slightly built 17-year-old Moroccan, "I've got a job opening for you. You'll be a proper businessman. Here's my card. All day Wednesday I'll be there. . . . I'm not going to call you, you have to come see me if you're serious."
He later estimated the teen's likelihood of showing up at 50-50. "I know he's been doing some bad stuff, but if he shows up we'll have the conversation. I'll tell him this is his chance to be a big man." If the person responds, Bailey gives him a GPS navigation tool (valued at $600) that will enable him to deliver take-out food. The would-be seller has to rent a cycle and pay insurance.
Bailey gave out another card to a man who kept glancing furtively down the road. "They all know I'm not a copper," he said, and then reported that he's handed out those navigation tools about 60 times and, amazingly, has yet to lose an investment: "I'm taking a risk, but if he absconds he knows he's hurting others. Besides, he knows he's likely to bump into me again."
If the teen succeeds as a deliverer, what comes next? "That's entirely up to him," Bailey responded. "Labour Party politicians say that delivering take-out is not much of a job, but the point is to get him used to the idea of working and earning legitimate money. He's also learning a lot from paying bills, because that means he is a big man who gives money to others. The job will keep him busy, give him self-respect, and start him thinking about how he can earn more money, legit. In three or four months he'll come back to me with a new business idea."
Working with donations and funds from a charitable trust, Bailey has also paid college fees for some among the poor and has equipped others for jobs as locksmiths, bicycle repairers, and hair cutters. When he recently sent 13 people to be trained for repairing railway lines, 11 gained jobs. (The other two failed drug tests.)
Bailey knows deprivations and temptations. When he was growing up, "my dad was almost entirely absent, so my mum kept me going to church until I was 13 or 14, but I escaped from that at my first opportunity." Three years ago Bailey had been a youth worker for a dozen years and was thinking of trying another occupation where he would earn more money, until something happened: "My girlfriend said I should do Alpha," the evangelistic program that has been influential across England.
Bailey says he went "to argue with the vicar, to show him how clever I was," but found himself believing in the resurrection and other doctrines: "What got me the most is when the vicar said Christianity is not a religion, but a faith. . . . Then I started reading the Bible. It was almost like it was written for me. . . . I had been a self-control freak, so I prayed that God would take control of my life. And that's what happened. . . . When I stopped having fear of failure I had more success."
He started paying attention to what was happening not only in the streets but also in government offices: "Well-meaning white people have hurt us, and we've been self-indulgent. . . . They remove religion from schools but give out condoms, and girls end up with lone parenting their only career choice. They talk about rights but not responsibilities, as if blokes are incapable. . . . Add to that school failure. Some children are not going to be academically sharp, yet school doesn't teach them any vocational skills. . . . The government sucks in all the pounds and wastes them."
As Bailey made his opinions known, he found himself invited to Conservative Party gatherings: "First they wonder who I am, but when I talk they think, 'Bloody hell, he's making sense.'" The next step came when Conservative Party leader David Cameron, born into privilege and without inner-city experience, began consulting Bailey. A third step came earlier this year when the Conservatives nominated him for a seat in Parliament, the next election for which is likely to come in 2009 or 2010.
Black conservatives flummox U.S. liberals, and Britain's Labour Party reacts similarly. Bailey said, "Labour wants people to think that Conservatives all wear tweed jackets and have offshore bank accounts, and that blokes from my background will automatically join them. Labour actually is saying, 'You're not clever enough to think for yourself.'" But Bailey is, and he's also done the right thing personally: He married the girlfriend who pressed him to acknowledge Christ, and they had a baby earlier this year.
On the other side of the metropolis, Alan Craig walked around his Canning Town ward in east London and explained that his is the poorest neighborhood in the city, judging by the percentage of people living on state benefits: "This is where I want to be. I stand up for the vulnerable, the marginalized, because I'm a Christian." He said he favors private enterprise because "initiative and creativity are part of God's creation," but he also pointed out proudly the spot where Kier Hardie, a Christian Socialist and Labour Party founder, announced his candidacy to represent the Canning Town environs in Parliament: "I'm part of that tradition."
The "working class" element of that tradition has eroded as some residents became affluent and left, and others became members of the non-working, welfare class. German bombers during World War II leveled the area, which is close to docks famous for launching the first ironclad ship in 1860 and many since then-yet residents returned when the British government after the war responded by building drab, brown brick apartment buildings that have lasted for 60 years. But two new pressures on the neighborhood are likely to affect residents as much as German bombs and British bureaucrats did.
One friend/enemy of current residents is visible: Craig gestured toward the huge corporate buildings of Canary Wharf just to the south; three of them are the tallest in Britain. The buildings house offices of heavy hitters like Morgan Stanley and Barclays: Canary Wharf now rivals the downtown "City of London" as a commercial center. The whole development, begun two decades ago under Margaret Thatcher's watch, has created 100,000 jobs, many of them well-paid: Canary Wharf office workers eat at places like Hartley's, which sells "the American burger" (with organic leanback bacon and cheese) for $17.
Those who pay such prices are also willing to pay a lot for lodging, so Canning Town condominiums are beginning to replace the old housing as corporate workers look for space. The 2012 Olympics, which will stage most of its events in the Canning Town area, will accelerate that process. Canning Town will become prosperous not by dealing with the problems of poor residents but by driving them out. Craig does not romanticize the old way of life, with its family breakdown, addiction, and unemployment; he emphasizes the need for spiritual regeneration but also works hard to deal with specific material problems as they arise.
One political problem for Craig, plus the two other members of his Christian Peoples Alliance elected to the 66-member borough council, is that that they gained votes by offering better constituent services than increasingly out-of-touch Labour. CPA newsletters headline offers to help constituents: "If you don't receive your [Winter Fuel] Payment, ring us and we will chase the claim for you. . . . Do you know an area that needs a cleanup? Ring Tom." An upwardly mobile Canning Town will remove some of the huge needs for services by which the CPA has gained a beachhead: Craig said, "Middle-class people don't have much demand for local council. They live in gated high blocks with porters downstairs."
The other squeeze on Canning Town is likely to come from Islam. The radical Muslim group Tablighi Jamaat (which translates as "Proselytising Group") wants to build a huge mosque nearby, along with a religious boarding school for up to 500 pupils. Craig has led the opposition, describing Tablighi Jamaat as an "ambitious, separatist and isolationist group," and pointing out the oddities of the sect. For example, strict members brush their teeth with a twig because Muhammad supposedly did so.
Craig has had some success at gumming up the works, at least forcing the Islamic group to hire a leading London public relations firm. He has also attacked Tony Blair and his Labour Party not only for ignoring needs in his area but for instituting "a fear agenda under the guise of the 'War on Terror'" while overlooking specific threats from Islamist groups based in East London. Craig wants a ban on one militant group active in his area, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which he says is filled with "hatred, intolerance, and deceit."
Craig also speaks of other threats; for example, "secular fundamentalists are trying to impose their agenda on the rest of us." He's angry about the direction of the Conservative Party and particularly its leader, David Cameron: "He's just Blair No. 2. Socially liberal. It's all about spin and who's got the prettier face." But Craig's Christian separatist party, based in poor areas, faces the same problem as U.S. Christian separatist parties that tend to operate in suburban and exurban areas: Christians are a minority, so alliance-building, even though often unsatisfactory, is both a necessity and a temptation.
Does anyone in the Conservative Party impress Craig? What about candidates like Shaun Bailey recruited to run in poorer areas? Craig said, "Tories don't know what to talk about in an area like this." He did praise one Member of Parliament: "Iain Duncan Smith is doing good work. Since he stopped being leader he's a man liberated."
West side, east side, Parliament building: Iain Duncan Smith, pushed out two years ago from his post as Conservative Party leader, is now chairman of the Social Justice Policy Group of the Conservative Party. As he leaned forward on a dark leather chair in his dark-wood-paneled office lit softly by lamps, his words came rapid-fire like fireflies on a summer evening.
First he discussed five interlocked problems: family breakdown, addiction, educational failure, debt, and unemployment/dependency. Not settling for a superficial causality, he explained the interrelations: For example, family breakdown may contribute to educational failure that leads to unemployment, addiction, or debt. But any of those may also lead to family breakdown and a different chain of events.
Then he described the variety of obstacles and excuses that conservative reformers like himself face. He noted social and psychological obstacles: "Many people live in a world of one," existing solely in the present without connections to others or the willingness to commit to a job or a person. He noted tax obstacles, explaining that the British income tax includes disincentives for couples to stay together, since joint household income cannot be divided and is thereby taxed at a higher rate. He summarized economic excuses: With Britain's growth fueled by an influx of motivated and educated tradesmen from Eastern Europe, middle-class Brits have not complained about the failure of British schools to train for trades those who are academically unmotivated.
Political obstacles are also key, since the Conservative Party for years played to fear of communism and Labour's domestic socialism: "Conservatives said, 'You don't have to know about us, you just have to fear them.' We were defined in terms of what we hate. . . . Conservatives became prisoners of their own 1980s success. . . . They didn't realize that as Communism and Labour collapsed what had delivered Conservatives into power was going." Once socialism was no longer a threat abroad or at home, voters lost their old reasons for backing Conservative candidates.
Duncan Smith said some Conservatives found new enemies in immigrants and in Muslims generally, but that did not work: "You can have a strong negative message if it's not a message of nastiness and if you have respect as a rounded person. But if I know you're a selfish bastard and you attack a group, I don't want to support you." Duncan Smith wants to educate Members of Parliament and would-be members by having them spend five days volunteering at a nonprofit anti-poverty group. When they do, he said, they "utter three words: 'I never realized.' That's what I want to hear from them. They all say it." He also noted the political payoff: "Once you show you care, voters can't say you are a bastard."
Duncan Smith also emphasized the importance of "choosing the proper words when going before the public": For example, Conservatives should not "cut" programs, but should "enable people to fulfill their potential." He praised the American attempt to reclaim the word "compassion" from the left: From 2000 until last year he and David Cameron defined themselves as "compassionate conservatives." But, as Duncan Smith said, the term "now has baggage," so he is trying to yank back from the left another concept and term: "social justice."
That will be a major effort. On the left, social justice means not only equality before the law but equality of result, which-given the highly differentiated callings, talent, and discipline of humans-can only be brought about by governmental dictatorship. (Furthermore, over the past century those who first proclaimed that all are equal soon asserted that some are more equal than others.) Biblically, though, social justice has a different meaning, one displayed clearly in Exodus 22 and 23 and in practices such as gleaning: Do not oppress widows, orphans, and the aliens within your gates; neither exploit the poor nor be partial to them in lawsuits; provide employment opportunities to all in need.
Duncan Smith favors such social justice and is battling with the Conservative Party for such an understanding. In the soft light of his lamps, he paused for a moment in his optimistic accounting to lean forward and say, "It's very difficult. Colleagues here are impossible, really. They think life is just to kick at things."


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VALDOSTA, Ga. - Valdosta State men's tennis player Philip Pakebusch has been named one of the top five male student-athletes in the Gulf South Conference as the conference announced Friday that the senior has been named a GSC "Top Ten" Award winner.
The GSC "Top Ten" Award recognizes the top five male and top five female student-athletes in the conference, in terms of athletic, academic and extracurricular achievement during the 2010-11 academic year. As a member of the 2010-11 "Top Ten" class, Pakebusch is now eligible for the Commissioner's Trophy, given to the top male and female student-athlete each year.
Pakebusch was dominant on the tennis court in 2011 as he led Valdosta State to its second national championship. He played No. 1 in singles play and No. 2 in doubles action on the year and finished the season with a 10-2 singles record and a 19-2 mark in doubles. He earned All-America honors as a singles player as he finished the year ranked No. 2 nationally as an individual and just missed the honor in doubles, where the top 10 ranked teams earn All-America status, as he finished the season ranked No. 11. Pakebusch's dominant play during the season led to him being named the ITA Division II Senior Player of the Year at the conclusion of the season while he was also named the Gulf South Conference's Player of the Year for the second straight season.
The Hamburg, Germany native was just as successful in the class room as he tallied a 3.66 grade point average during the Spring 2011 semester en route to a 3.33 overall grade point average while earning a degree in Management during the May graduation ceremonies.
Pakebusch's honor in 2011 marks the third straight year that a Valdosta State male student-athlete has been recognized on the GSC "Top Ten" Award list as former Blazer baseball player Jon Koenigsfeld was honored in both 2009 and 2010, a year in which he also received the Commissioner's Trophy.
Pakebusch was joined on the men's side of the "Top Ten" list by Arkansas Tech senior baseball player Matt Johnson, North Alabama senior baseball player Trey Mitchell, West Florida junior soccer player Frank Cope and Alabama-Huntsville junior basketball player Josh Magette.
Pakebusch and the rest of the "Top Ten" honorees will be recongized at next Monday's GSC Awards Banquet in Birmingham, Ala., during which the Commissioner's Trophy winners will be announced.

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Girls Night Out, KU Night, lineup
Tonight is Girls Night Out – be sure to check out the pregame festivities in the Outfield Experience! Fans with a VIP ticket can enter the event at 3:30, with all gates opening at 4:30. It's also KU Night at The K! Head football coach Turner Gill will be throwing out the first pitch.
Here's the lineup:
Gordon – LF
Cabrera – CF
Butler – DH
Hosmer – 1B
Francoeur – RF
Moustakas – 3B
Pena – C
Getz – 2B
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Framing Platinum Coin Seigniorage: Part Four, Political/Economic Objections
This series provides a framing document for Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS). In the three previous parts of the series, I pointed out that there are three classes of opponents of High Value Platinum Coin Seigniorage (HVPCS, $30 T and above). The first and largest group opposes all Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) of whatever type. The second, opposes HVPCS, but favors using the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) for the limited purpose of avoiding the debt ceiling. The third, opposes HVPCS, and doesn't really favor using the TDC either, except, perhaps, as a last resort to avoid the debt ceiling. It favors an incremental approach to PCS beginning perhaps in the millions or billions in face value, and over a long period of time, after giving people years to adjust to Treasury using platinum coins with unusual, and unprecedented, face values, eventually building up to a TDC.
Parts two, and three, this post (Part Four), and the two remaining posts in this series consider still more objections brought forward by people in one or more of these categories, and my replies to them. As you're seeing, if you're following the series, the opponents of HVPCS are throwing everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at it. In this post, I'll consider some political/economic objections to PCS. Read more about Framing Platinum Coin Seigniorage: Part Four, Political/Economic Objections
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No surrender to the Taliban. Afpak strategy for victory.
Peter Dow's "no" to Taliban's surrender terms. Afpak strategy for victory in war on terror. (YouTube) CBS News: Divisions within Taliban make peace elusive Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made news Wednesday when he said the combat role for U.S. troops in Afghanistan could end next year instead of 2014. On Thursday, he took a step back — insisting U.S. forces will remain combat ready — | Read More »


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|Retirement options considered
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Though many people are delaying retirement, the day will still come when they leave their jobs behind and retire. Retirement can be a difficult adjustment that takes some getting used to, but it can also prove an exciting time, especially for those who planned ahead to ensure their retirement was a time to be cherished and not feared.
Whether retirement is right around the corner or still a decade or so away, men and women should consider several factors to make sure their retirement years are an enjoyable time that allows them to live life to the fullest.
—Income: Just because they're no longer working doesn't mean retirees won't have income. Government benefits, retirement accounts and perhaps even some light consulting work are just a few ways retirees can earn an income. Though their retirement income will likely pale in comparison to the income as an adult working full-time, they should estimate what that income will be so they can get at least an idea of how much will be coming in each month.
—Monthly expenses: Once they have an idea of what's coming in, they should estimate how much will be going out each month. Certain costs associated with working, such as the cost of commuting and maintaining a professional wardrobe, can be removed from the ledger. But other expenses, including utilities, car payments and possibly even a mortgage payment, will still need to be made.
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Oceanside rallies for restoration
Local politicians rebuke LIPA
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Several hundred Oceanside residents — cold, angry and still without power — gathered at School 8 the morning of Nov. 9 to voice, and often shout, their disapproval with the efforts of the Long Island Power Authority and local politicians since Hurricane Sandy devastated their community.
The press conference-turned-rally, organized by Oceanside School District leaders, was held outside one of the district's hardest-hit schools and served as yet another reminder of the travails residents have faced without electricity in what many of them have described as the "forgotten town."
Superintendent Dr. Herb Brown began by explaining how the district and the Oceanside Community Service organization had helped residents. Oceanside High School football players carried flood-destroyed furniture out of homes, Brown said, while principals and teachers knocked on doors to say hello to district children and students, staff and PTA members prepared hot meals for residents at the high school.
"Our community has come together as it always does, in an amazing show of community spirit," Brown said. "This is a disaster beyond the scope of anything our community has ever dealt with. Families are suffering in cold, dark homes. It's impossible to care for children in these circumstances."
Brown and Board of Education trustees Sandy Schoell and Bob Transom told residents that schools would reopen for the district's 6,000 students on Nov. 13, three with electricity restored and others powered by generators.
As she stepped to the lectern, Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray was greeted with a chorus of boos, though the focus of the crowd's anger quickly shifted when Murray began a chant of "Where is LIPA?"
"They won't talk to us," Murray said of the utility, echoing the complaints of so many residents. "LIPA has absolutely abrogated all of its duties. They should be wiped off the face of the earth after this."
Murray described a discussion she had with LIPA's chief operating officer, Michael Hervey, saying that when she asked him whether residents south of Merrick Road needed electricians to inspect their homes, he responded that he could not answer. (Hervey resigned on Tuesday.)
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Kate Murray has nerve criticizing the performance of any agency.
FOUR(4) Town of Hempstead dump trucks and a payloader came into my neighborhood, all having KATE MURRAY's name on the side of them. They cleared a tree in the road and pushed all the debris to the side taking NONE OF IT!!! Eight guys, and only TWO(2) chainsaws. One supervised, two cut the tree, and the others WATCHED!!!
This is standard practice in the Town of Hempstead. Dump trucks, regardless of the need, regularly patrol the streets looking for debris.
In another month the dump trucks will have their salt hoppers installed and will be patrolling the streets looking for debris. I have told Supervisor Kate Murray about this wasteful practice for the last 3 years, yet it still continues.
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I own 3 homes in Long Beach and Lido Beach . One home in Long Beach got destroyed by the flood. That electric was turned on the other day with out any inspections. My other property in Long Beach also got electric without any inspection. My property (Home) in Lido still has no power and we never had even an inch of water. We left a note on our door telling the inspector this and also leaving our phone numbers. We are freezing and I have tried calling every possible number for TOH Lipa and the electric co with no luck. Please turn on our power. This is insane that we have been in the dark and cold for 2 weeks now.
No one knows what the other one is doing. Are they just randomly choosing homes to inspect? It doesn't seem to matter if you are home or not. I have never seen such mismanagement in my life. Learn from Fl They go through this often. Learn from Latrina. Learn Organize and GET THE DAM POWER BACK ON
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15 min till tip... Hopefully they can get out the season moving foward now.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
I am stuck working right now, hopefully it will be done shortly so I can focus entirely on the game.
Hopefully they can stay awake. Something tells me I'm going to have a hard time doing so...
Go Sssssssssyclones!
Baylor only down 1 to Washington St in the last few minutes.
Is this game on in Cedar Rapids for Mediacom? I've got the sports pack, but I don't see on my guide.
FSN midwest... dish net ch. 418
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15 min till tip... Hopefully they can get out the season moving foward now.
Did you end up getting sports pack?
You need the sports pack for next weekends Iowa game also. It is on ESPNU.
CRAP... I can't believe that game is on ESPNU... will it be available on ESPN360?
OK, so I'm listening to 100.3's online stream and its just their regular music. I figured they'd be streaming what they're actually playing over the radio waves. WTF.
Is this game on FSN on channel 40 for those of us in Ames and at school?
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Radio works here.
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Is this game on FSN on channel 40 for those of us in Ames and at school?
Sweet, its on channel 40.
Anybody know if it is on DISH
Also, I met a lot of Iowa State fans and I dont want to leave any of that behind. - DARIUS DARKS on Staying a CLONE!!!
Matt (00 Alumn)
Waukee, Iowa
I don't know about everyone else outside the Midwest, but I am pumped because I just found the game on FSN. I thought it was only on FSN Midwest and I'm happy to finally see the boys play.
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2006 Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals Indy - Big Wet OneWritten by on August 29, 2006 Soaking In Some Great Rods and Customs at the Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals in Indianapolis
One of these years we're going to remember to bring a poncho to this show. Year after year, raindrops follow the cars onto the grounds of Indianapolis Raceway Park. It's part of the tradition at the Goodguys Hot Rod Nats, I guess, and the typical mid-June heartland weather never seems to dowse the enthusiasm of the participants or the quality of the hot rods and custom cars. Even though the rain prevented any passes down the dragstrip on Saturday and Sunday, the place stayed packed all weekend long.
This was the 18th year for the Hot Rod Nats, making it one of Goodguys longest running events, drawing something like 5,000 vehicles from from all over the country, and a few from Canada. Goodguys lets in any '72 and earlier iron. Rods, customs, and classic trucks mingled with musclecars, street machines and pickups. High-dollar pro-built beauties mixed it up with high-mileage homebuilt jobs. High-tech national show winners rolled in alongside traditionally-styled retro rides.
Speaking of traditional, they really know how to do it in Indy, especially when it comes to paint. There was metalflake and black suede in abundance, dressed up with our favorite graphics-flames, scallops, and low-key 'striping. Even a lot of the high-tech cars had one eye on traditional styling, and blending up to date technology with old-time style may end up as the definitive look of this decade. Take a look at some of our our Top 10 picks to see what we're talking about.
Rod & Custom Top 10
Goodguys Hot Rod of the Year
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One of the reasons we like Indianapolis Raceway Park so much is that we can watch hot rods smoke 'em on the starting line. We only got to like it for one day this year, since the the on-again-off-again rain kept the dragstrip silent on Saturday and Sunday.We've seen this amazing '29 in several stages ever since Brian "Tinman" Limberg was an R&C Young Gun several years ago.....The roadster, built from a handmade body on custom rails with quarter elliptic springs at both ends, plus friction shocks, and '34 trailing arms, is finally finished......Brian, who insists this isn't a modified since the scratchbuilt car offered nothing to modify, drove the car to Indy for its debut, getting good and soaked in the process.It takes zero mods to make a '63 Riv cool, but John Kouw added many to move Kevin Anderson's custom to the next level......Shaved sheetmetal, one-piece side windows, 2 1/2-inch chop, handbuilt grille, '61 Imperial headlights, and pearlescent gold paint are just the beginning......Team Skins handled the interior, which features a mother of pearl dash. A left-alone Buick 425 is the perfect engine choice.
...The bed floor was created from a sheet of aluminum, hand ground and finished with candy paint under clear....Since then he's treated the truck to a C4 suspension, Ramjet 350 engine, and candy copper paint. A 1 3/4-inch chop, Jeep headlights, F-150 tailgate, and Chrysler 300M seats take this Stude far from stock......Mike Rutter at Rutterz Rodz built the roadster for Michael Bunch. It's got a Pete & Jake's front end, Currie 9-inch rear, and a 425hp 383 Chevy with a Barry Grant SixShooter carb......Paul Atkins filled the elegant interior with a '33 Dodge dash, '56 Chevy wheel, a '33 Dodge instrument panel, and an updated heat box from the early '30s.We love seeing Tri-Five Bowties when they're done differently, like Oscar Gamble's slippery smooth '56 Handyman wagon, built by the owner and the guys at Randy's Body Shop in Paducah, Kentucky......The extra-clean exterior features front and rear bumpers were narrowed and tucked into the body. The front suspension includes Heidt's tubular A-arms...
...but we doubt that young John's first car was anywhere near as nice as this Alan Johnson-built '32 five-window......How can you beat the look of a three-piece hood, Americans, a Super Bell axle, hairpins, '37 taillights, and a single inch out of the top of this cool copper highboy coupe?Cupageno is the name of the custom tan color Gene Younk selected for his '35 Ford roadster, which is set off by red rims, pinstriping, and custom interior from Mark Milbrandt......Red also extends to the 383 stroker small-block with triple deuces. The suspension includes a 4-link rear, 4-inch Bell dropped front axle, and drilled split wishbones...
Patrick Quinn's ice blue '40 Chevy ragtop stopped us in our tracks at the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville last year and did it again in Indy......With the exception of the Scott Arnold paint and the Steve Ralfs interior, this is a homebuilt rod. With C4 suspension components underneath......plus a Paul Atkins interior, classic Americans, Magnum axles, and a Richmond quickchange help Gilbertson's hot rod combine traditional and contemporary...
What's different about Jack Matia's ripe orange '63 Impala? It's many things, including the '64 Thunderbird interior, but most notably the '60 Plymouth top that looks like it was born there. The custom is based on a Steve Stanford illustration from Custom Rodder magazine.We were figuring on a flathead, maybe a Chevy, but not a Thunderbird Turbo Coupe engine under the louver hood of this just-finished '26 Ford RPU......Owner Wayne Godbey and his wife Lou did all the work on the rod, and drive it all over the place. The other surprise was the budget...Christine Lies' 302-powered '56 Fairlane is a real-world version of R&C's April '02 Dream Car of the Month......The Ranch wagon is dressed up with Crown Victoria trim, and topped with a glass roof from a '54 Mercury Sun Valley. The rims are 18- and 20-inch Boyd's five-spokes.The rain rolled right off the fastback of Bob Parson's black '46 Cadillac, built on a Nova front end and Trans Am rear, and pulled by a 502 big-block. The mostly stock body was shaved of just enough shiny stuff, and dropped with 2-inch dropped spindles, no bags. "Just watch where you drive it," Bob said.
...kokomo, 355 with tripower TH350, red roadster, drives everyday. Gordon added one of those new tops from Time Machines....It's got a small-block and automatic, Mustang II front suspension, plus creature comforts like air, heat, and power steering. His '30 coupe, inspired by the Chrisman coupe, looks less streetable, but Ray says it's legal...Voodoo Larry gave Vick Kinzler's '60 Fairlane all kinds of graphics, from scallops to flames to 'striping......It's not bagged-the spring were cut to drop this Ford, and Vick drove it like this from Michigan.
...Red and white metalflake vinyl tuck 'n' roll really stands out. The black suede is highlighted with nice 'striping on the headlights, C pillar, and decklid.Yellow flames pop against the purple 'flake on Jim Mathis' slammed and shaved '50 Merc, built by Mike Gamble Street Rods......Air Ride bags and Gene Winfield dropped spindles provide the drop. Ed Roth, Joe Bailon, and George Barris added their autographs to the inside deck...Fat chunks of 'flake and a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude set off Kirby Stafford's channeled '36 pickup......Our favorite parts? The 'striping, the firetruck taillights, the e-Bay mag wheels, the 302 and C4 trans, and the 1,100 miles Kirby's covered in the month since he finished.The black, pink, and silver color combo on Tom Van Etten's '58 Impala reminds us of Good 'n' Plenty, which we unofficially nickname this low Chevy. The pink extends to the dash. The cleaned up grille and bumper, and the scallops look great.Curt Albertie was as clean as his '27 roadster after his wet drive from Wisconsin. The cars is suspended with front and rear hairpins and front quarter elliptic springs. The roadster body is a one-off piece, and the whole hot rod was built for $16,000 as a tribute to the previous owner, who passed away.
...Modifications include the restyled '84 Daytona seats, homebuilt tube grille, and long shaggy white faux fur carpet. The Chevy was built to drive, and it came all the way from Saskatchewan to earn the Long Distance award.Jeff Rittenhouse '49 Chevy Club Coupe retains a few pieces of side trim and loses the rest. There's nothing fancy about this 6-cylinder, three-speed car, which may be what makes it cool. Or is it the red steelies?Not everybody could identify Danny Cornett's ground-level '51 Henry J, initially modified by Scott Sullivan, and built by Mac Nicewander. Front bags bring the reshaped front fenders right to the pavement.In a sea of tasteful street rods, hot rods like Steve Anderson's severely chopped and channeled Model A sedan grab us right in the gut. Note the undropped axle, split bones, and straight pipes poking out of the blown 390 Ford mill.This was the first big trip for Douglas and Kim Rusk's '53 Chevy coupe, which sat for years in original condition before they bought it four years ago. We like the clutch pedal, the Moon caps and the spots, but they had us with the painted grille and bumpers. Perfect."Mantis," created in the style of the show customs of Ed Roth's early '60s heyday. John Beecher III constructed the '03 Olds body from plywood covered with fiberglass, riding on a handbuilt frame......The top is foam board covered with 'glass and wrapped with cloth to look like a soft top. A built-up '74 Volkswagen engine powers it from the rear.This pair of flat black beauts belong to James and Johnny Taylor. James' '41 Ford pickup runs a 5.0 Ford and Centerline rims. Johnny's '36 coupe has a 351 and Tremec trans, plus red steelies with caps and rings.
One of the nicest woodies around, Gil Losi's award-winning ZZ4-powered '50 Ford, made the road trip from California to Indianapolis (and back) with Goodguys head honcho Gary Meadors.Take a close look at Brian Zelenka's belly-scraping multi-toned '34 ford pickup for an eyeful of well-done metalwork inside and out. The bed features copper rails and a single centered '57 Ford taillight and housing centered on the tailgate. Seats are fiberglass buckets right out of the bowling alley.The '61 Buick LeSabre isn't at the top of the list as custom car raw material, but after looking at the job Gary Karaz did on this mild custom, we wonder why not. Paint it, slam it, upgrade the rolling stock, and you've got a cool ride.Bob Davis said he got the idea of running the pipes on the outside of the rear quarters from Spence Murray's '49 Chevy. This beautiful '51 is customized with molded '57 skirts, a '50 Olds windshield, '50 Jaguar headlights, and '53 Pontiac taillights. The 14-year-old acrylic enamel still shines.


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The sixth grade boys basketball team placed first at Hayes Center and Imperial, second at Hershey, and third at Perkins County. The team includes (Front row, l-r): Jaden Dietlein, Caden Waitley, Matthew Hahn. Back row: Coach Matt Waitley, Tanner Burge, Domonic Wendell, Beau Wood, Spencer Ross, Coach Michelle Ross. (Courtesy photo)


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It's been a good year for wildlife.
We watched a fox bury his lunch in our backyard in February, and played host to the deer more than a few nights. There's been moose up on the hill a lot this year and the guy I get my eggs from has a raccoon giving him grief. I think we've got some little yellow finches nesting somewhere nearby, because they are constantly hanging out in the mountain ash even though there's no berries or anything yet.
We had two really cool visitors this week. A yellow-bellied marmot was just hanging out on the front walk when we saw him; by the time Chris got the camera out he was hiding out under the front steps so we didn't get a picture. He was pretty amazing. I've never seen one in the wild, much less in my yard.
Then we had a tiger salamander drop in. They are common in southern Alberta, but we don't tend to see them unless it gets good and wet, which it has been the last few weeks.
Salamanders are good luck charms for me. Amphibians are some the of first creatures to be affected when an environment is disrupted or damaged, so seeing this little guy is like a little signal from the universe that things are okay, that our little corner of the world is pretty healthy and happy. Makes you feel like you're doing something right, you know?
Then doing the dishes here tonight, we saw a big old jackrabbit bound across the road. That's a little more prosaic–my parents have a warren in their Edmonton neighborhood–but with all these critters around, I feel like our garden has become a veritable wildlife sanctuary. It's reminded me I've been meaning to build a bat house and a mason bee house to add to all the birdhouses Chris and the kids have put up. Heck, I think maybe we'll build a butterfly house this summer too… the more the merrier. As long as the raccoons stay away from my compost pile.


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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Canada won their fourth consecutive Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal with a 3-2 overtime win over the United States at the Sochi Games on Thursday.
The win capped an undefeated run in Sochi for a Canadian team that have won four of the five gold medals awarded since women's ice hockey made its debut at the 1998 Nagano Games.
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Switzerland beat Sweden earlier on Thursday to claim bronze.
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Okay, so laying out a map for a mosaic is just like planning any other cartography project. The only special need for my specific purpose here is that in the end of the planning phase I have the land selected. Here are two of about fifty or more options to achieve this result:
OPTION ONE: Scan In a Drawing.
The first image below is a hand sketch I scanned into my computer then opened into Photoshop. It is about 1000 pixels square, at 300 px/in resolution. (Remember, if your scan is not at this level when opened in PS you can go to Image>Image Size.). To get my selection, I used the Quick Selection Tool for the large areas and the Lasso Tool for everything else and to clean up the edges.
OPTION TWO: Draw PS Color Shapes
In the second image I created a blank PS page (File>New) about 1000 pixels square, at 300 px/in resolution. Then on a new layer above "background" I used a hard-edged brush in a random color to create my land masses. Then, simply ctrl-click the thumbnail of the color layer in the layers window (the little picture next to "Layer 1") and the land masses were selected.
Please note that whatever method you use, mosaic tile work by its nature is simplifying; thus unless you plan the image to be HUGE or the tiles themselves to by teeny-tiny, I do not recommend highly detailed coastline contours.
You can also see that I left a wide border around the edge of the document; this is because I plan to have a fancy-schmancy border around the final map. You can, if you choose, take your map all the way to the edge.
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San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 156, Ed. 1, Monday, July 19, 1886
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Mississippi State Medical Association Elects First African-American President
(Updated 8/23/2013) After a century of trying to eliminate the differences in health care for Mississippians based on race, income or social status, the Mississippi State Medical Association has named the first African American head physician in its history.
During an Aug. 17 meeting, the association elected Dr. Claude Brunson as president-elect. Brunson will officially take over the 5,000-member organization in 2014, 50 years after a time when the association was opposed to admitting privileges for Black physicians.
Brunson called the election by his colleagues a "distinct honor."
"My assent to the presidency was no more eventful than the presidents who have preceded me certainly in the past several years," Brunson told the AFRO in an e-mail. "It is a multi year process but I did not experience any more barriers than my majority colleagues. That is the refreshing part of this story and actually what makes it a story. This has happened in Mississippi while it still has not happened in most states."
He is currently the senior advisor to the vice chancellor for external affairs and professor of anesthesiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss.
According to the state association's website, Brunson attended the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Mississippi Medical Center for graduate school and completed his residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
"He was elected because he's the best person for the job," Dr. Randy Easterling, Brunson's colleague, said in a statement. "He wasn't elected because he's African-American."
Dr. James Rish, the new MSMA president for this year, said in a statement that he was ecstatic about Brunson's selection. "Claude will do a wonderful job as he already has as board chair. I have the utmost confidence in him."
Brunson will assume his new leadership post in 2014, which marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer—a campaign launched in 1964 in Mississippi to get as many African-American voters as possible.
As one of the first three Black physicians granted full privileges in Jackson in 1965, Dr. Robert Smith told The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger that he was "very delighted and happy" to see Brunson selected as president-elect.
"His election shows we're closer to guaranteeing the rights of all Americans to get health care," Smith said.
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Richmond, VA (Sports Network) - Juvonte Reddic registered a double-double with
24 points and 10 rebounds as the Virginia Commonwealth Rams coasted to an
84-57 victory over the George Washington Colonials in an Atlantic 10
Conference matchup at the Siegel Center.
Rob Brandenberg, Melvin Johnson and Troy Daniels contributed 11 points each
for VCU (21-5, 9-2 A-10) as the Rams picked up their fifth consecutive victory
to hang onto sole possession of first place in the conference standings.
Kevin Larsen and Patricio Garino tallied 10 points apiece for the Colonials
(11-12, 5-5) as they were handed their second loss in a row. Larsen also
grabbed nine rebounds while Joe McDonald scored nine points and committed
eight of George Washington's 25 turnovers.
The Colonials jumped out to an early 8-2 lead but it did not last long as VCU
quickly battle back. The Rams closed out the first half with an 18-4 run to
build a sizeable, 42-24 advantage as the contest progressed into the
intermission. Reddic made all six of his field goal tries in the opening 20
minutes while VCU swiped 13 steals.
Although George Washington improved to connect on 41.4 percent of its attempts
from the field after the break, it was unable to cut into the deficit as VCU
extended its lead by hitting 16-of-32 of its field goal tries to close out the
The Colonials had a poor showing at the charity stripe, where they went just
14-of-25 while the Rams converted George Washington's 25 turnovers into 27
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Obscura -- Landshut, Germany -- December 15th, 2012
I went to see OBSCURA in their hometown of Landshut, Germany. Since it was their anniversary (10 years) the line-up was pretty sick - every band was connected to OBSCURA in one way or another.
First up were HOKUM, a regional Progressive Thrash Metal-band an home to former OBSCURA bass player Jonas Fischer. Since these guys are friends of mine, I've seen them countless times in the past. Still pretty tight shit, nonetheless.
Setlist HOKUM:
1. Creation Of Pain
2. Collapsing Synapses
3. Live To Suffer
4. Impetus
5. Inexorable
6. Eroded
Next up: ILLEGIMITATION. And this is where it might get interesting for you guys. ILLEGIMITATION is basically the original line-up of OBSCURA which got together only for this special occasion. They performed the "Illegimitation"-Demo in its whole, as well as two songs of OBSCURA's "Retribution"-album. Steffen Kummer had a hell lot of fun on stage, I can tell you!
Setlist ILLEGIMITATION:
1. ...And All Will Come To An End
2. Crucified
3. Fear
4. Immanent Desaster
5. Nothing ("Retribution")
6. Exit Life ("Retribution")
Co-headlining were none other than Germany's finest Black Metal-band: DARK FORTRESS. Sound wasn't too good, but the setlist kicked ass. Seraph is such a sick drummer ("Osiris"!!) and Morean imo one of the best black metal vocalists of all time. Best part of the show was that I was finally able to see them play "Antiversum" live.
Setlist DARK FORTRESS:
1. Iconoclasm Omega
2. Self-Mutilation
3. Osiris
4. The Valley
5. Poltergeist
6. Hirudineans
7. Baphomet
8. Antiversum
Although I have to admit that OBSCURA suffered a little from the terrible sound, I enjoyed every second of their performance. Setlist was great, they even performed "Aevum" live (it was the second time ever). By the way, Steffen Kummerer also announced that they were recording this show for a possible live CD (not sure whether it will be released as a bonus disc for the next album or as a standalone release - if the quality is good enough of course!).
Setlist OBSCURA:
01. Septuagint
02. Vortex Omnivium
03. Ocean Gateways
04. Universe Momentum
05. Incarnated
06. Orbital Elements
07. Drum Solo
08. Aevum
09. The Anticosmic Overload
10. The Centric Flow
My girlfriend took a few pictures during the show. You can find them here (gallery-software is in German, but it should be pretty self-explanatory):
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Birth Name: Lars Von Trier
Born: 04/30/1956
Birth Place: Denmark
Born: 04/30/1956
Birth Place: Denmark
Born on April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark, von Trier became fascinated with film after receiving a Super-8 camera as a present for his 11th birthday. Growing up in what the director later described as a very emotionally cold home, von Trier discovered that through the medium of film he could explore complex questions and ideas that were never discussed by his parents - both of whom were devout atheists, as well as nudists. Much later in life, von Trier learned from his mother on her deathbed that the man who had helped raise him was, in fact, not his biological father. As it turned out, his actual father was a high-ranking bureaucrat of German descent - a shocking revelation for von Trie... Continue Bio >>
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Hahoe Village is home to descendants of the Ryu clan of Pungsan and is well-known for its traditional houses. Birthplace of renowned scholars of the Joseon Period such as Gyeomam Ryu Un-ryong and Seoae Ryu Seong-ryong, the village became even more famous after Queen Elizabeth of England visited on April 21, 1999.
Hahoe Village (translating to "Village Enveloped by Water") gets its name from Nakdong River, which flows around the town's perimeter. The village is located at the foothills of Hwasan Mountain, an offshoot of Taebaek Mountain that rises up to the east. The center of the village is populated by large tile-roofed houses belonging to the Ryu clan, adding their own unique charm to the surrounding thatched roofs.
Hahoe Village boasts exquisite scenic sights: the elegant Nakdong River flowing around the village, the magnificent Buyongdae Cliff, endlessly unfolding sandy beaches, and lush, ancient pine trees. Visitors can take the boat to Buyongdae Cliff for a panoramic view of the village.
In addition to breathtaking scenery, Hahoe Village offers delectable local delicacies. Try the Andong Soju (distilled alcoholic beverage), Heotjesabap (a type of Bibimbap eaten by the nobles), Andong Gangodeungeo (salted mackerel), and Andong Guksu (a kind of noodle dish).
Nearby attractions include Bongjeongsa Temple (built during the Silla Period), Gosan Seowon (Confucian Academy), Gwiraejeong, Gyemyeongsan Mountain Recreational Forest, Hakgasan Mountain Recreational Forest, and Waryongsan Mountain.
Hahoe Village, along with Yangdong Village in Gyeongju, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List under the category of "Historic Villages in Korea" on July 31, 2010.
Andong Mask Dance Festival is held every autumn.
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Winter season: 09:00-18:00
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Middle vehicles: 2,000 won / Large vehicles: 4,000 won
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Adults 3,000 won / Teenagers 1,500 won / Children 1,000 won
Adults 2,500 won / Teenager 1,200 won / Children 900 won
* Adults (ages 13-18)
* Free admission: Seniors (ages 65 or more)
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|Facilities for the Handicapped
|Wheelchair rental services
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- Reservation should be made online at least a week in advance.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Moral Quandry
I suppose having a more senior person respond in print to one's work is a good thing for a junior person's CV and tenure file. But if the content of that response is largely negative, it could hurt a tenure file, right? I suppose I could try to respond in a way that is philosophically forceful, but does not make the author look amateurish; yet, given the character of the criticisms, this will be difficult to achieve. I suppose I could simply decline, but that's unsatisfying in its own way. Part of me thinks that writing the gloves-off, I-drink-your-milkshake rejoinder would be a sign of respect. But would a T&P committee see it this way? Perhaps I have an inflated sense of how much damage I can do? Suggestions? Thoughts?
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Respect their milkshake and drink the hell out of it.
If they deserve tenure, then they'll have other things to write about besides a single thing that got torn up by a single response article. Maybe those other things will be some devastating objection to you that you can't find amateurish errors in. Also, this will be in the service of our collective movement toward the truth.
Walk away from this one, and everyone's harmed.
Drink it up!
- July 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- 729 said...
I have to cast my vote with Impolex--drink the milkshake.
As far as I know, from at least where I am at, the tenure process is complex and too difficult to call from any distance. The external review letters will be significant, and there's no way of knowing ahead of time, who the reviewers will be, their positions, and how charitable/uncharitable they are generally (maybe they already hate you, and will favor the person's attempt to refute you--no way to know). Then, there are administration and higher level committees, who very often look at citation counts. If you write a reply, the whole exchange becomes citable (see X for Blah, and see Y for not-Blah). And then there's the matter of the dept. and its politics, and whether they will or will not find reasons to tenure the person, none of which are transparent.
If there is anything good at all in the paper, maybe in terms of the formulation of the problem, or focus, whatever it was that made it publishable, you could acknowledge this fairly, then refute. This is standard anyway, but also offers the ext. reviewers something to write. It is a pretty big deal that the person's paper will be assessed by the philosopher it concerns. I think it is *rare* that any philosopher's responses to others' work on their ideas are positive. Insofar as you might first respectfully clarify the problem, then drink the milkshake, reviewers and folks at the dept. level will create whatever language they are so inclined to create for the tenure file.
- July 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Spiros: You have shredded me in the past and it made me better at refining my ideas and clarifying my world view. Drink the milk shake. It is the best thing that can happen to the person's development. 'Tis better to school someone proper than let them off easy. The person will never progress to the next level without such honesty. The odds of your review being the tipping point either for or against tenure is small unless this person has a history of being refuted decisively and often. In either case, you are doing this person and the field a service by doing your duty much in the same way Socrates shredded Gorgias.
- July 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- Ben said...
I don't really know about the machinations of tenure (not being from the US) but, speaking as someone just out of grad school, I'd be fairly happy to have a senior academic respond to criticisms I'd made in print. Admittedly, if your objections are as good as you think then that may dampen things a bit - but then, of course you think you're right. The usual pattern, I believe, would be for him to publish a rejoinder to your initial response. Assuming you're respectful in your response, and he still has something to say afterwards, then I'd say the whole simply boosts his publications, citations and profile.
- July 3, 2008 at 5:42 PM
- Spiros said...
Good comments, all. Many thanks. Looks like the milkshake drinkers win. But let me ask:
Let's say that I can't figure out a way to do this rejoinder without charging the author with making a very basic equivocation, which then feeds into a baby-logic formal fallacy. That is, let's say that there's a degree of ineptness in the original paper that I'd have to call out. There's no polite way to say "affirming the consequent is a fallacy." Would this change things in your view?
- July 4, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Spiros: You are an educator and a logician first and foremost, correct? When someone engages in fallacious reasoning in your classes, do you ever feel that you should not point out the error so that the student can realise the mistake and get better? I doubt that. In that same vein, you should feel a need to engage this potentially future colleague in the field and point out a glaring error lest you create a monster like a philosophical Bill O'Reilly by not nipping the problem in the proverbial bud and schooling the person properly. If this person really cares about a creer in the field, they will learn from their mistake and be a better philosopher in the future. If this person is just a bad philosopher, you will have potentially helped weed the field of one more bad element.
- July 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Isn't this thing peer-reviewed? Did two reviewers miss such a basic fallacy?
- July 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- Spiros said...
It's tricky. The affirmation of the consequent is clear only once the equivocation is disentangled.
- July 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM
- Spiros said...
Part of me of course agrees with you wholeheartedly.
- July 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Got it. So then it sounds like it might actually be helpful, to the community, at least, to clear things up. For the author? Well, it sounds like an instance of a simple error, but one that others could easily make. Maybe that's not quite as damning for the author. (Maybe you could lessen the sting by pointing out that two - or however many - reviewers missed it as well?)
- July 5, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- 729 said...
Im with CW on this. If two (or more) reviewers missed the fallacy on account of an equivocation, it would seem to stand that there is significant confusion at large that directly impedes understanding your argument.
It sound to me like you can frame your response so that the focus is on a "common" misunderstanding, one that is "at large" in the literature, a "certain type" of misunderstanding, or however you might put it. There's nothing wrong with shifting the onus from a particular person to a more general situation in the literature. We do it all the time--create diagnostic classifications for types of responses or approaches in order to sift through discussions of the literature. If the author's equivocation has other sources the author is in someway beholden to, it would be helpful for everyone for you to clarify and trace those sources. This would also frame the discussion in a wider context and help your own argument stand apart. If the author's equivocation is entirely unique and has no background whatsoever, I'd be surprised, but I'd also be less inclined to think that a novel equivocation should slide by so easily. And if it did, there's so real trouble.
- July 5, 2008 at 4:14 PM
- The Brooks Blog said...
I think I agree with all the above. Of course, it may well turn out that a quite negative published comment on such a person's work may do little good for that person beyond improving citation rates. That said, and I do think you're right to feel a bit mixed, I think at least two further things.
First, if the paper published dealing with your work makes such glaring mistakes, then, well, they should be corrected. We all have a duty to be careful with what we stand behind.
Secondly, I think even a negative reply could serve the person well (beyond the citations). After all, both the journal and yourself would then not only view this person's work as worth being aired, but worth being responded to. Much work is published, but far less is replied to.
- July 6, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Brooks nails it. You have a duty to correct mistakes you detect, and that duty is much greater in your area of expertise. The issue, as I can gather isn't really whether to point out the error, since not to do so would be a failure not only to your subject area but also to your colleague -- that of not taking him/her seriously enough to correct. Instead, the issue is the tone of your response... your reference to 'drink your milkshake' indicates not only a correction, but a bit of browbeating or sport made of those who commit errors. This is trickier, since that is appropriate, I think, only in cases where the person not only needs a correction, but a lesson. Surely the latter will influence readers for a tenure case, but if this person needs a lesson, this person may not deserve a tenured position.
- July 6, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Spiros said...
Sorry for the delayed response. You've convinced me. Look out.
- July 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM


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Luc's entire future is planned out - but there is one very sexy obstacle in his path: Alyssa, a strip club owner with whom Luc recently shared one night of wild abandon. It left Luc terrified by his loss of self-control - and Alyssa desperate for more. But Luc is not the only man desperate to have Alyssa.... And that's just one of her secrets - secrets as dark and mysterious and delicious as her fantasies.
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"Spicy and fun, this romp between the sheets will thrill erotica and mystery fans alike." (Romantic Times)
I really enjoy the world of books! Narration just add layers to that world... don't u think? :)
"Woah!!!! Finger licking Good!"
Wow! Black is getting better and better! Ok... we already know who Luc is from Decadent. Luc and Deke had the threesome with Kimber... We already know Alyssa from Wicked ties... the owner of the strip club. I vaguely remember in Decadent the mention of these to hooking up and the mention of the 6 hour romp. It did not register until now.
OMG! Black! WHAT! If you have listen to or read Decadent, Luc really has come full circle now. I love this story. Luc and Alyssa is so mismatched but so perfect and Luc... dang.. the way Black expand his character...OMG... it is sooo hot!!! If you enjoyed the smex from Wicked Ties and Decadent, well then, you will go crazy for this, plus the story is awesome too.
One fact I love about series is how they just keep going. Its like the characters just keep living.. ya know. I was wondering what was gonna happen to Luc and now I know.
Maynard is really getting up there with Xe Sands in narration. I really like her. She is very good. All her females from book to book sound the same, so I have to adjust a bit other than that... her narration is really good. Totally worth the buy/or credit...
it's the best way to spend a working day, and i'm thankful my job is one where i can listen to books all day long.
"you can't help but love this series"
it's the truth. you can't help but fall deeply in love with these characters with their broken hearts and souls, trying desperately to be mended with sex to fill their empty holes. shayla black has such a way with words and this series is beautifully written. i usually want to listen to them two or three times before "letting them go" back into the void of my listening library, it's that good. they have me captured from beginning to end. the stories are never terribly long yet shayla manages to get so much into the story.
book three is just as charming as book one, and i loved the story between Luc and Alyssa. i couldn't get enough.
"The title says it all!"
I am so glad more of Shayla Black's books are coming to audible. This is a great series. I love Luc and was glad to hear his story after his part in Deke's story. Shayla Black is the master of erotica. Her books are not just a steamy love scenes but have a great story. This one keeps you guessing all the way through. Everytime you thought you knew who was causing all the problems she throws you a twist. Shayla's next book in this series comes out Nov 12 th and I can't wait to hear Hunter's Story.
This is an adult book with very erotic love scenes so please know what you are getting when you get this book and don't give bad reviews because you did not take the time to read others reviews. If you are a fan of Fifty shades of grey you will love this series and the men in this series.
"He's a man but she's A WOMAN"
Do not listen to this is a public surrounding, it starts hot and keeps you there. Luc is the man but Alyssa is a woman who wants him and will use what she has to get him. These two are the best characters in the series because their story has been building up from the others books. We know Luc has a plan and we know why, but he should have told Alyssa because she intends to rock his world. When he loses control theres only one woman who can satisfy him. I also like the introduction of our other love interest Tyler, a girl can't go wrong there.
Lot's of unexpected suspenseful events in this one, I could not predict who our main villian could be.
"Definitely Hot, But..."
Delicious is another great book by Shayla Black. It is well written and very steamy, but I was beginning to tire of the guy and girl who love each other but won't admit it until there is mortal danger storyline. However, that being said, I did have a difficult time putting it down and allowing myself to sleep when appropriate. Also, I will still be continuing in the series. So, it is a conflicted feeling I review with. I still can not say enough good things about Lexi Maynard's narration of these stories. It is easy to keep track of who is talking and the voices are enjoyable. The book, although somewhat predictable was still very enjoyable and ultimately worth the credit.
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Audios are more intense then print. I enjoyed both versions.
No others compares. Just listen to the entire series. They are all Deliciously good.
Lexi Maynard brought every character alive in all four audios. I can not wait for the rest of the Wicked series prints to go to audio.
Seriosly? From the start.
Hurry up and release the entire Wicked series to audio. Waiting!!!!
No spoilers! Love HOT, sexy books w/a plot. No vampires, paranormal, teens 4 me. I also review in exchange for books-lots of fun surprises!
"Very naughty with interesting storey"
I love Lexi's narration-she is spot on in each character.
While the sex scenes are very graphic...the stories woven through are suspenseful and action packed too.
Shayla Black whole series is a must read for the erotic story fan. All of her novels personal rank in the top ten of audiobooks that I have read so far.
Shayla Black sex scene are some of the most well written that I have read since joining aubible. If your a fan of a HOT SEX SCENE and who isn't MUST read !!!!!!!!!!
Lexi Maynard brought this story to life. Without great narration the story fails.
YES!!!!!!!!!!! when I wont to listen to a audio book in one sitting it a great story.
Shayla Black you go girl!!!!!
I've always been a avid reader so now I'm a avid listener. I prefer the paranormal genre but I do like to switch things up. It's boring if you don't have variety. Of course I do love the romance and the hotter the better. Also, you can't beat a good thriller filled with suspense and a ending you can't even guess at until the very end.
"Great Listen!!!!!!!!"
All the emotional twists. I love how strong Alyssa is and all the things she has done with her life. I love how much Luc loves her and all he is willing to go through even when he thinks the worse. Not to mention the danger to Alyssa's life.....
Way too many to say!!
It just takes you away and you don't have to worry about turning a page.
Well worth the credit. I would recommend getting the books in order. Wicked Lovers Series: Wicked Ties, Decadent, and Delicious. All of them are great!!!!!!!!
"Love Ms. Black but SAVE YOUR CREDIT"
Such a disappointment! Each of the main characters harbors a "secret" too horrible to confide in the other. His is explained early in the book; hers is kept a mystery. Normally this could be an okay premise, as far as steamy-sex-laden romance plots go (heck yeah, I love those scenes, too!) but rather than empathizing with the main character, I could only roll my eyes and think, really?!
He gets her pregnant, and she marries the fella to give her unborn child a two-parent home, hoping love will follow with time. When she thinks he's more interested in being a father than a husband, she leaves him. Huh? That's a big part of her reasoning to marry him in the first place! She endlessly agonizes over her undying love for him, which, due to her secret. is why she "can't" be with him. Even after her secret is revealed, she continues to agonize and "rationalizes" she cannot stay with him because she loves him so much, and loving him gives him the ability to potentially hurt her feeling IF things don't work out. Again, huh?!
The sex scenes were pretty good -- not hot or sizzling. All sex is strictly vanilla, which would have been fine, but the so-called "plot" was awful. Ms. Black is capable of much better work. This one is an embarrassment and needs a complete rewrite.
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News: Men's Basketball Settle For 4th At Imperial Valley Tourney
The Pasadena City College men's basketball team finished the 2012 portion of the 2012-13 season with a fourth place finish at the Imperial Valley Holiday Tournament Dec. 28-30. The Lancers closed out pre-conference action at 4-9.
In the third place game, Cuyamaca went on a 17-6 run early in the second half en route to defeating the Lancers, 76-69. Freshman guard Jeffrey Dockett scored his season high of 21 points while sophomore guard Evan Brooks had 18 points. Letterman guard Chris Smith added 11 points and eight rebounds. Freshman guard Gary Matthews tallied 10 points.
On Saturday, PCC downed College of the Desert, 70-61, as the Lancers made 14 steals and forced the Roadrunners into 27 turnovers. Dockett (pictured) pumped in 18 points and passed out five assists. Sophomore guard Mike Swanegan also poured in 18 points. Matthews tacked on 12 points and freshman forward Bryce Clifton scored 10.
In the tourney opener Friday, Fullerton edged out the Lancers, 76-73. Matthews led PCC with 19 points plus four assists and two steals. Swanegan contributed 13 points, three assists and three steals.
"We've tried different combinations, but we're simply not getting production from several of our returning sophomores," said PCC head coach Michael Swanegan. "These are players who played on a winning team as freshman (16-12). I'm waiting for them to wake up and join the others who are playing hard and trying to help us. No more excuses for us. It's come together now or we're in for a tough haul in conference."
Pasadena has yet to win two games in a row and is 0-4 when following a win.
The Lancers will finally play their home opener and South Coast Conference opening game on Wednesday, Jan. 9 when they face Los Angeles Southwest College in a 5 p.m. tip-off at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. The HP Gym floor has been completely resurfaced and has a new look that will be viewed by fans for the first time against the Cougars.
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Porterhouse steak with peppers and onions
From CARMINE'S Chef Terry Natas
Serves 2-4
½ cup olive oil
6 gloves garlic, peeled and left whole
2 large Spanish onions, peeled and cut into 6 wedges each
2 red bell peppers, seeded, cored, and cut into 6 equal pieces
2 green bell peppers, seeded, cored, and cut into 6 equal pieces
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 basil leaves, sliced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
36 to 38 ounce porterhouse steak
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 Tablesppon of dry oregano
2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
1/8 teaspoon dried oregano
1. In a large sauté pan, heat ¼ cup of olive oil over medium heat. When the oil is hot, add the garlic cloves and cook them for 3 to 4 minutes or until they are browned. Using a slotted spoon, remove the garlic and set it aside on paper towel to drain.
2. Add the onions and peppers. Season them to the taste with salt and pepper. Sauté them, stirring occasionally, for 4 to 5 minutes or until they start to brown. Return the garlic to the pan and add the basil and parsley. Reduce the heat to medium and cook mixture, stirring occasionally, for about 15 minutes or until the peppers have softened and both the peppers and the onions are caramelized.
3. Prepare a charcoal or gas grill so that the coals or heating elements are medium hot; first, lightly spray the grilling rack with vegetable oil spray to prevent sticking. Or preheat the broiler.
4. Meanwhile, generously season both sides of the steak with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and 2 Tablespoon of dry oregano leaves, rubbing the seasonings into the meat.
5. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Unless you are using the broiler in the oven. In that case, the oven will not be hot enough from the broiler.
6. Grill the steak for about 10 to 12 minutes for a medium to medium rare doneness.. Turn it and grill it for about 10 minutes longer for medium-rare. Remove and let rest for 10 minutes
7. In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining ¼ cup of olive oil, the chopped garlic and 1/8 tsp dry oregano leaves. Season it to the taste with salt and pepper.
8. Using the bone in the porterhouse as a guide, slice the fillet and the sirloin steak from the bone. Slice the fillet into 5 to 6 slices and the sirloin steak into 12 to 15 pieces slices.
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Milan designers go for structured looks
MILAN Milan designers chose structured, architectural looks in their collections for next year.
On the runways, the basic silhouette is voluminous, though cinched at the waist and often with a slim bottom. Drapes and pleats softened and gave movement to what could otherwise have been rigid looks.
Shoulders play a big role - but this is no return to the 1980s padded shoulders. Instead, these are true products of design, artfully conceived and executed. Sometimes they are squared, sometimes rounded, and at times even pleated.
Colors are bold - oranges, reds, yellows - often on a black background. Black mingles with white in geometric designs. But the real stamp of luxury is gold, embroidery, brocade, in entire outfits or accents.
Pants are really an afterthought. Most of the architectural inspiration has been focused on skirts, dresses and outerwear. So much the better for showing off all the fantastic shoes.
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Materials define the fall-winter 2013-14 collection. Maier worked with wool to create new looks, from plush to felty to subdued.
Coats, which led off the collection, were belted with thin leather strips or ribbons, the look finished with fine leather gloves. Architectural structuring catches the eye from a distance, and detailing like raised decorative piping keeps the viewer enthralled from a closer view.
Colors tended toward the dark, black and grays, with flashes of red, yellow and curry.
Shoes were inspired by a men's loafer or lace-up booties with chunky heels, and some interesting details like tabs on the back of the heels. Bags were smaller than in seasons past, with no handles, and made of woolens mixed with napa leather and decorated with raffia.
While most runways have shown long hair left slightly wavy or pulled back, Maier's models sported voluminous styles, which from a flat crown burst out into fizzy curls.
Jil Sander is back, and it shows. Belgian designer Raf Simons, now with Dior, had livened up the minimalist label with bold colors and inventive styles. But since the company's founder took back the reins a year ago, the style has reverted to precise, disciplined tailoring, for the most part in no-nonsense colors.
Big double-breasted coats, jackets with sculpted shoulders, pleated skirts and tailored dresses, all combine to create a fashion code based on geometric shapes in the collection presented Saturday.
But if the style and, sometimes even the fabric, are rigid, the effect of the latest Sander collection is more sensual than sensible, obtained by the generous pleating and draping used throughout the show.
For designer Roberto Cavalli, it was a very quiet and surprisingly elegant show.
The master of sexy fashion shunned his trademark animal prints and body-clinging clothes, replacing them with sparkling fabric in high society styles.
But despite the glitter there was something dark about the womenswear collection, a reflection of the prevailing aggressive mood of this round of preview showings.
The extravagant fur coats for example, shaggy and black with splashes of bright red or yellow, were something Cruella De Vil, Disney's despised dognapper, might favor. The shoes, too, came with a nasty high metal heel.
But the series of cocktail and evening dresses, with hand-stitched sequined prints inspired by works in the museums of designer Cavalli's native Florence were literally awesome. Whether floor length, with dipping neckline, or short with demure pleated skirt and sleeveless top, the outfits are a treat to the eye and a relief from the edgy feel of next winter's fashion.


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- muppy said...
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- July 9, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Simon @ the heart of food said...
Demos without facial hair. It just doesn't seem right somehow :)
Love the new look, especially the personal touches on the banner.
- July 9, 2011 at 8:33 PM
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Haha, go the new format!
I do miss seeing Domo's about the place though...
- July 10, 2011 at 12:30 AM
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Domo looks like he's about to embark on an eating rampage! Go little guy, go.
Cute background - so colourful. Makes me want to spring clean my blog too.
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Simon - he does look totally different!
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