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Agency increases current rate to 56.5 cents per mile for feds who use their private vehicles for work.
The General Services Administration increased the mileage reimbursement rate for federal employees who use their private vehicles for work, as of Jan. 1, 2013.
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GSA sets the rate for feds, which cannot exceed the IRS rate. GSA is not obligated to match the IRS' rate, however.
National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley welcomed the increase. "NTEU monitors this matter regularly and works to ensure the GSA rate reflects the impact of rising fuel costs on federal employees in a wide range of agencies and variety of jobs, and particularly that the rate for federal workers is on par with that established for those in the private sector," she said in a statement.
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CONROE, Texas - A jewelry store owner fired shots at three people who tried to rob him and threatened to kill his mother on Wednesday.
Conroe police said two men and a woman walked into Wilkins Jewelry, 1712 N. Frazier St., about 10:30 a.m. One of the men asked Mitch Wilkins about getting a ring cleaned while the other man and the woman asked Wilkins' 77-year-old mother for help picking something out.
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In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
bitched griped about
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Deep Thought
--Mr. Zero
37 comments:
- November 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- Joshua Harwood said...
You could always join the discouraged workforce.
- November 5, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Good luck, Zero!
- November 5, 2011 at 5:17 PM
I have a tenure track job and it sucks. I never left the job market. So don't get your hopes up too high.
- November 6, 2011 at 3:09 AM
Sorry to burst your not yet made bubble, but unless you land your dream job and continue to think it's your dream job, this process will continue.
I can add, however, that applying for jobs when you have one isn't nearly as exhausting as when you don't, and takes far less emotional investment.
- November 6, 2011 at 3:41 AM
I have a decent tenure track job, and while I'm sort of on the market this year, I wasn't last year. It was wonderful not to be on the market. And it's wonderful to be on the market with the knowledge that, even if I don't get a better job, I'll still have one that's secure. So don't let 3:09 and 3:41 get you down.
- November 6, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Whether I get a shitty TT job or a good one, I don't care. At least you don't have to wait until mid to late summer to find out where your next paycheck is coming from. I will maintain my bubble of belief about the benefits of a TT job then. At least you know you can feed yourself! Poor you that you don't like your TT job. I mean I can't say I feel your pain, I do kind of understand and I am sort of sorry to be a bitch, but please take your self-pity to the rest of the people with TT jobs from now on. OK?
- November 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM
ps: if you don't like your job, I'll take it off your hands for you.
- November 6, 2011 at 8:54 AM
Right on, 8:48.
- November 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM
I have tenure at a completely shitty place but I'd rather have tenure somewhere shitty than go out on the job market again. The job market was BRUTAL in my experience 7-8 years ago. I wish all job seekers good luck.
- November 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
You could always join the discouraged workforce.
I suspect that would be worse. All things considered, I have it pretty good.
I have a tenure track job and it sucks.
Sorry to burst your not yet made bubble, but unless you land your dream job and continue to think it's your dream job, this process will continue.
I have thought about this possibility. Although I can't be sure how I'll feel about it until it happens (if it happens at all), I have developed several coping strategies.
For one thing, I think it would be a bad idea to get a TT job and then go back on the job market in a serious way during the first year. It seems to me that, having fought tooth and claw for five years (at a minimum, if I am hired this year) to get the job in the first place, I owe it to myself, my family, and the department that hires me to really make a go of it. And that means not mailing applications for outside positions in the first semester of the new job. So if I get a TT job, I'll take at least a year off the market.
For another thing, being on the job market in a serious way takes a lot of time and effort. It takes the kind of time and effort that has the potential to interfere with a person's ability to do the things she needs to do to get tenure. So I think that even if my family and I were pretty unhappy with the TT situation, I would want to focus on putting myself in a position to get tenure and apply out only if doing so wouldn't interfere with that.
Now, I see room for some give-and-take here, but I don't think I'd go on the job market again until I was up for tenure. I also think I'd go on the job market when I was up for tenure whether I was happy with the current job or not. Safety first, I always say. But I guess I'd say that having a TT job would probably buy me at least one year away from the job market, and probably more like five or six.
And as anon 8:19 and YFNA point out, being on the job market without a TT job is a lot different than being on the market with one.
- November 6, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Things I like about the job market:
Sense of possibility
Landing interviews
Interviewers asking about my work
Getting feedback on job talks
Things I hate about the job market:
Sense of impossibility
Pestering my letter writers
Filling out online job apps
Paying for the flights and hotels and APA
The APA and smoker
- November 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM
I got my dream tt job and still think its my dream job and spent the first two years in a hazy delirium of really, I don't have to go through that again? Ignore the grumps! Keep the the dream alive!
- November 6, 2011 at 2:58 PM
I had a job that I tried to leave, and I'm now glad I didn't. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
Good luck to all on the market this year!
- November 6, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- CTS said...
@ November 6, 2011 8:48 AM:
Is this blog only for those who do not have tt positions? I was not aware of that restriction. Are all job-search threads only for those who do not have tt positions? I was not aware of that restriction.
I understand that you might wish to correspond only with those in your own situation. I understand, although I would not approve of, your resentment towards those who are in a better position than you.
Nonetheless, at this job-searching time of year, I would encourage my fellow philosophers to be charitable, generous, sympathetic, and open-minded.
There are not many philosophy blogs that focus on the plight of job-seekers. This one does. Let's not divide and allow conquering among ourselves.
- November 6, 2011 at 8:37 PM
Hey look, I have nothing against people with TT jobs. Some of them are my best friends ;)
It's just hard to have sympathy for someone whining about their own TT job given the job market. It seems to lack, uh, grace, yeah, grace.
- November 7, 2011 at 2:14 AM
It's just hard to have sympathy for someone whining about their own TT job given the job market. It seems to lack, uh, grace, yeah, grace.
Given the job market, many academics probably feel compelled to take chances on less than optimal positions (bad location/high teaching loads etc.). These jobs may in the long run not make many people happy. Given the job market, *your* lack of grace is also potentially troubling. Given that you probably live in a wealthy, liberal democracy that allows you to take a chance on making a career in philosophy, where the risks of failing probably mean, I don't know, becoming an office worker of some kind, rather than say, allowing your entire extended family to starve to death, is suggestive of something too. And my point IS that arguments based on relative degrees of suffering are pretty annoying and not very nice.
- November 7, 2011 at 5:55 AM
Hmmm...I would then think that whining about one's TT job, given the starving people, would be even worse than complaining about the possibility of being unemployed? So I still would be less ungracious, would I not? I don't understand your reasoning, but neither do I care to.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Asshole (YFNA)
- November 7, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Oh come on. It sucks not having a TT job. It also sucks having a crappy TT job. But it sucks a lot less.
Those of us with TT jobs should remember what how absolutely shitty it was when we didn't have them.
And those of us who don't shouldn't pretend like we KNOW we'll so happy if and when that TT job comes along. Are you really that sure you'll *love* teaching hundreds of hopeless students in 10 courses per year? Are you so sure you'll be bffs with your coworkers? Will you be forever content with living in East Bumfock, KS?
Let's stop pretending like we're immune to the hedonic treadmill. Can we please get back to bitching about the job market, and stop bitching about each other?
- November 7, 2011 at 7:44 AM
- zombie said...
I have a TT job. It is not an ideal or "dream job," but it is pretty. damn. close. I don't see myself leaving any time soon. I'd rather have another root canal than go on the job market again, and uproot my family again.
I have a friend (not a philosopher) who was laid off from her job and spent more than a year unemployed, and as soon as she got a good job, with good pay and good benefits, she started complaining that it was boring and not creative enough. She started thinking about looking for another job. I think it's a mistake to think that your job or career has to be perfect. There is life outside work, unless your job is so bad that it makes the rest of your life terrible too, and makes it impossible to find fulfillment anywhere. I've had plenty of bad jobs, but none of them were that bad. I'm willing to bet that very few TT jobs are that bad. It beats working in a coal mine, or a nucelar power plant, or being an underemployed, underpaid, overworked sessional facing chronic uncertainty.
Good luck Mr Zero, and the rest o' ya!
- November 7, 2011 at 7:50 AM
"unless your job is so bad that it makes the rest of your life terrible too, and makes it impossible to find fulfillment"
"It's just hard to have sympathy for someone whining about their own TT job given the job market. It seems to lack, uh, grace, yeah, grace."
Admittedly, some people with tt positions might moan for less reason that others (e.g., "What do you mean I have to teach three courses a year and actually bother to comment on the work these awful students turn in?"). But some tenure track jobs really are that bad. Not all of them, true, but some of them.
Do not assume that because people have tenure track jobs, they have no business being on the job market, or that their situations are not worthy of at least some degree of compassion.
- November 7, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Yet another *possible* option: Find oneself "blessed," "fortunate," or whatever in landing a TT job, even one that is not so great, and building the program, curriculum and environment such that it is a much, much better job, and a great place to work.
It is not always possible to engage in Program Building. Not every department one lands in would be open to making changes. Yet, this was something no one ever mentioned to me while a grad. student and job-seeking, and it turned out to be precisely what I and my new colleagues did. I think very often departments are viewed passively from job-seekers' perspectives--what you see is all that you get. This can be a real mistake. Once one lands a job, one becomes party to the goals and direction of a department. As I mentioned, sometimes one is up against inertia, obstacles and utter lack of vision, but there are cases in which *your* Input and Effort make a difference. If a department lacks vision, maybe you get to provide it. I recommend having some such vision, and doing one's best to implement it, especially when one lands a TT job that is not close to ideal. (I am *not* referring to research positions so much as considering a helpful attitude to have for teaching oriented positions.)
I could explain some useful strategies for Program Building (aka How to turn a "crappy" job into a pretty awesome job), but I figure that even my suggestion is something that highly anxious, frightened people might prefer arguing over a priori than taking into account. So, instead, I suggest that asking around about it, asking tenured or TT philosophy teachers what sorts of things they and their departments do to improve their curricula, department and student community, and outreach (college/university and public presence), could be helpful.
- November 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM
I have a TT job, and one that I rather like , for what it's worth.
I know many people who, despite having TT jobs, go back on the market every year. Some want a more prestigious job (and so only apply to top universities); others want a specific location (and so only apply to the west coast). But increasingly, there seem to be some who are just...unhappy. Yes, I know that some jobs suck. However, there also seem to be some people who can't distinguish between a shitty job and, well, a job.
That is, I have friends and colleagues in the field who define "bad job" as "I have to serve on multiple committees," or "some of my colleagues are post-tenure burn-outs who quit caring in the 1980s," or "OMG DEPT POLITICS!" And these people go back on the market hoping to find that department that doesn't require service work of junior faculty, fires its burn-outs, and everybody always gets along with everyone else. That is, they don't seem to realize that there are certain kinds of bullshit that simply come with the job.
Far too many grad students have a limited view of the academic world. They have a low teaching load, little to no service requirements, a degree of protection from dept politics, and lots of time (and in many ways support) for their research. So many people (including several recent grads I know who landed TT jobs) are honestly disappointed to learn that a TT job is not just "being a grad student with much better pay."
All of which is to say, yeah, some people are in really shitty jobs. But not as many as would like to think so.
- November 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Would the real spoiled-rotten Prima Donna please step forward?
I feel like I'm reading a Sofia Coppola script.
- November 7, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Prof. Kate said...
I worked in a factory making parts for farm equipment. My particular task involved dipping my hands in alcohol thousands of times a night to fish out the plastic plugs that I then connected to wires. (No gloves, the bosses said they'd slow our productivity. So we just felt sleepy and nauseous instead.)
There are days I do not like my TT job in philosophy, and I confess to tearful nights when I utterly fail to manage to do everything expected of me. But none of my worst days in philosophy are even close to being as bad as my 'best' days at the factory. Having said all that... I'm still going to come here and bitch about the profession from time to time.
- November 7, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Just a reminder to those looking forward to a TT job: This blog is mainly about being on the market, whether one is looking for a first or next job. With respect to all the TT'd faculty out there, the dissatisfied voices are probably overrepresented here.
That's not to say that TT life isn't bad (in all the ways these people say it is). Just that the blog's audience skews toward the jobless and those dissatisfied with their jobs (especially this time of the year). Broader and more representative portraits of TT life are probably available elsewhere.
- November 7, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Unrelated question: Does anyone know the percentage of junior, tenure-track positions that are typically filled by candidates directly out of graduate school? How many are filled by post-docs? By VAPs moving from another college?
- November 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM
I'm not sure who would even keep those records in any centralized way. The only national philosophical organization doesn't even update the most basic job data so I wouldn't hold up hope.
- November 7, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- zombie said...
2:05 -- it is by no means a scientific survey, but the Leiter Report runs a thread each spring for depts and the newly hired to post on who got hired where. It includes info on where the new hire came from, where they graduated from, etc.
- November 7, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- N. N. said...
The philosophy wiki reports that one of the jobs I've applied to has 'acknowledged applications.' I have not received such an acknowledgement, but I know they've received all of my materials (I got a confirmation from the secretary; wait, does that count as acknowledgement?). Should I be concerned?
- November 8, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi N.N,
- November 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- zombie said...
N.N. -- Fear not. The wiki is self-reported. Someone could have called and asked if their application was received, and then reported it as "acknowledged."
Most of the time, you will not receive an acknowledgment. Occasionally, you will. Often you will never hear from the SC at all. Not even a PFO.
If you mail application materials, you can enclose a SASpostcard, and they will send it back to you as acknowledgment (cheaper than getting a receipt from the post office). If you email an app, you can BCC yourself, although that will only tell you that it was successfully emailed. (But if it gets refused by the recipient's server, you usually get notice of that too.)
- November 8, 2011 at 11:13 AM
Speaking of the Phylo wiki, it looks like users' IP addresses are not visible to other users, unlike last year. If so I will be more inclined to update the wiki. Does anyone know if there is some way visitors to the site can see IP addresses that I am missing?
- November 9, 2011 at 3:51 AM
2:05 here again:
I know the APA doesn't collect that data, but I had hoped some young philosopher might had done so. Oh well.
The reason I ask is simple: if freshly minted PhDs are expected to take a post-doc or VAP before having any shot of landing a tenure-track job, then the discipline is once again favoring those from privileged economic backgrounds who can afford to spend their entire twenties and early thirties earning a very modest wage. That doesn't seem fair. I understand that search committees are looking for folks with experience and dedication to the profession, but doing so might bias the process. But then again, this might not be a problem at all: empirical data is necessary.
I do, however, think that it is obvious that a similar problem arises in graduate admissions. Search committees do seem to favor folks from certain terminal MA programs. And getting an MA requires taking on substantial debt, which only a limited number of folks can do.
- November 9, 2011 at 5:12 AM
- david morrow said...
No, the IP information is not visible on the Phylo Wiki. We'll see how that goes this year. If there's an increase in the amount of wiki vandalism, we might need to reinstitute it—unless anyone has better suggestions for detecting and/or deterring wiki vandalism.
- November 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- zombie said...
2:05 -- VAPs and post-docs don't pay badly compared to TT jobs. (There's variation, of course.)
I had a post-doc that paid a salary comparable to some TTs at the middly-lowish end. VAP salaries tend to be comparable to starting TT salaries.
Where VAPs can hurt is when the teaching load is so high that your research suffers. But if you can pull it off, you show your potential employers that you can be a productive scholar and teacher at the same time.
I doubt this is a problem unique to philosophy, although PhDs in the sciences (and law and medicine) have considerably more earning potential. The academic life is no get rich scheme in any discipline.
- November 9, 2011 at 7:30 AM
3:51 here again. Thanks to David Morrow for the info about the Phylo wiki. If you notice a sudden flurry of updates now, that's probably me.
- November 10, 2011 at 2:51 AM


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We've been getting numerous inquires about installing larger wheels and tires on vintage Mustangs. Are you worried about backspacing, tires rubbing fenders, and tire sizes that may or may not look right on your car? We'll answer these questions and more to steer you in the right direction for fitting the ideal wheel-and-tire package to your vintage Mustang.
While we have plenty of photos to help you decide what you want, this isn't a wheel-styling guide, but rather a look at what fits in terms of wheel diameter, width, backspacing, and tire size.
In general, installing larger wheels and tires on vintage Mustangs falls into two categories. The '65-'66s are in a separate group. They have a few limitations because they're a bit smaller in every dimension than the later cars and have smaller fenderwells. For example, we've seen 18-inch wheels on these early cars, and they don't look right.
The second category is the '67-'73. There are more choices for what will fit in the fenders and look good. Any '67-'73 Mustang with the right 16- or 17-inch-diameter wheel and tire filling the wheelwell provides that cool open-track, road-racy look many owners desire.
We're using a '65 to discuss the small cars, and our reliable '69 fastback for the '67-'73 cars. We'd like to thank the folks at Vintage Wheels Works (VWW) and Islas Tires for helping us get the wheels and tires mounted.
Our '69 fastback test car is a textbook example of any '67-'73 Mustang in terms of wheelwell room and wheel/tire fitment. We believe the current wheels and tires on this car are perfect because they're big enough to look cool, but don't cause interference with fenders or suspension pieces. Remember--we're discussing dimensions only and aren't recommending a specific make or model of wheel or tire. We love VWW wheels in a big way, but are leaving the design and style choices up to you.
The wheels are 16x8-inch Vintage 45s all around, which are the original wheels VWW began offering about eight years ago. With 41/2 inches of backspacing, there's plenty of clearance from all obstacles and they fit exactly where you want in a '67-'73 wheelwell. The tires are staggered sizes, with 225/50R16s in front and slightly larger 245/50R16s out back. You could also run the same size tires all around (a 245/50R16 at each corner on a '67-'73), but we like the look the staggering provides. We think 225/50R16s all around might be too small for the rear wheelwell of a '67-'73 Mustang. You could also run a 255/50R16 tire out back, which we've seen on other '69-'70 Mustangs, with a 245/50 or a 225/50 up front. That would depend on how much size difference you want with the front and rear tires.
For a compromise between looks and ease of fitment, a 16-inch wheel is the perfect diameter for a '67-'73, but that's not to say the right 17-inch wheel isn't just as cool. The 8-inch width of the Vintage 45s is also ideal for this or any aftermarket wheel. Seven-inch-wide wheels are also good for whichever style you choose.
At Vintage Wheels Works, we mounted a set of 17s on our '69 to see how they looked. Cool, eh? They fit as well as the 16s, but are more radical with respect to a restomod look. They provide more clearance up front in relation to the front suspension's upper control arm. A staggered setup all the way, these two-piece 17-inch Vintage 45s differ from the 16-inch wheel's one-piece construction. We had VWW mount a 245/45R17 tire to a 17x8-inch wheel up front--which would also look good out back and would allow tire rotation. But the car here has a big 17x9.5-inch Vintage 45 out back with a 275/40R17 tire. VWW feels safer recommending a 17x8 for the rear, but the bigger wheels fit well enough to run them with no worries. Some inner-fender rolling at the rear might be needed with the bigger wheels, which will vary on a car-to-car basis.
The difference in looks between 16s and 17s is evident in our photos. Though we love the 17s, we were content to leave VWW's shop with our 16s still in place; they've been on this car for nearly two years. As for tire sizes on 17-inch wheels, 245/45s up front or all around are ideal on any car, though we love the bigger 275/40s out back. The biggest tire we'd run at the front would be a 255/40R17, although we'd likely be satisfied with what you see here.
It is possible to fit 18-inch wheels and tires on a vintage Mustang, but that's beyond the scope of our discussion. We're sticking to 15-, 16-, and 17-inch wheels, since the 17s already provide a low-profile look most of us might seek on an early Mustang.
Using the '69 as the guinea pig, we'll show what 15-, 16- and 17-inch wheels look like on the front of a typical vintage Mustang. Using VWW wheels of various styles, we begin with a 15x7-inch Vintage 50 with a 37/8-inch backspacing. Essentially a Shelby 10-spoke copy, it looks great with the 225/60R15 tire (about the best size for this wheel). However, a 235/60R15 tire would also fit well. You could also stagger tire sizes by running a 225/60 or 235/60 up front and fit a 245/60 on the back. Although the 245/60 might be a little big for a wheel that's only 7 inches wide, it will fit and would look good. The Vintage 50 is also available in a 16x8-inch size with a 41/4-inch backspacing and would work great with the 16-inch-diameter tires mentioned earlier.
A 16x8-inch wheel with a 41/2-inch backspacing wrapped with a 225/50R16 (shown here) or 245/50R16 tire is a true no-hassle fit on the front of any '67-'73 Mustang. Use these dimensions with just about any make or model of wheel and tire and you can't go wrong. This one-piece 16x8-inch Vintage 45 wheel started it all for Vintage Wheel Works.
Now we're going big and it's really cool. This two-piece Vintage 45 in a 17x8-inch version with a 245/45R17 tire is the de facto setup to use in terms of size should you desire 17-inch wheels of any make and style. Fitment is perfect, fenderwell clearance isn't an issue, and you have plenty of rubber on the road--much more than any Mustang came with from the factory. Backspacing is 41/2 inches. A 255/45 or 255/40 tire will also fit here with the same size out back, or a larger 275/40 if you want to stagger tire sizes.
Moving to the back of the car, our current setup is the same 16x8-inch wheel as the 16-inch wheel shown earlier up front, but with a slightly larger 245/50R16 tire. This ideal combo looks great and won't cause any problems. On some cars, slight fender rolling might be required because some 245/50 tires are fairly big. You could have four tires that are the same size, but are different brands, so the tires will measure differently. For example, we've seen 245/50R16s on the back of two different '69 Mustangs and the tires were from different makers. One brand was clearly taller than the other, even though the size was labeled the same on each tire. Another option is the 255/50R16, which we've recently seen on the back of a '69 Mach 1. They are big, however, so some fender rolling will probably be required compared to running 245/50s.
If you need anything bigger than this out back, you can do it, but you'll likely have to contend with custom backspacing, which VWW offers. This 17x9.5-inch Vintage 45 wheel with a 51/2-inch backspacing and a 275/40R17 tire is downright huge. It's a nice fit, but VWW recommends staying with 17x8s out back. Outer fender clearance will be an issue on some cars, since all cars are different in this area. VWW offers several 17-inch wheel setups, including 17x7s, 17x8s, and these 17x9.5s. Custom backspacing is available on all sizes if needed. This package is about as far as we'd go. Beyond this, you'll likely get into custom sizing and backspacing issues, as well as tires rubbing on outer fender lips without considerable fender rolling.
Although the 17x9.5-inch wheels fit on the back of our car, they got pretty close to the rubber bumpstops for the rearend. If we ran the 17s, we'd trim the metal edge on the part of the bumpstop mount that's closest to the wheel, since removing the bumpstops altogether on a regularly driven street car isn't a good idea.
GOING BIG ON SMALLER '65-'66s
Although there are many similarities when it comes to fitting larger wheels on '65-'66 Mustangs as compared to the bigger '67-'73 cars, special considerations are necessary because the earlier cars are smaller in most dimensions. Although they might fit, some believe a fairly large 17-inch wheel-and-tire combo doesn't look right on an early car. In some circumstances, we'd agree.
We have some recommendations for those with a '65 or '66 Mustang. Factory 14-inch wheel-and-tire combinations that came on most '65-'66 cars are fine, but we're going beyond that here. While some might consider it conservative, we think the right 15-inch wheel and tire looks perfect on these smaller Mustangs. For example, the '65 fastback below rides on 15x7-inch Magnum 500 wheels with 225/50R15 tires all around. Now that Vintage Wheel Works offers several 15-inch wheel options, you have an ideal choice for a Vintage 45 in a 15-inch size. Several Mustang parts houses also offer a factory Styled Steel wheel in a 15-inch size that looks cool on a '65 or '66 Mustang. Other tire options include taller 225/60R15s all around or a staggered arrangement with a 215/60R15 up front and 225/60s out back.
As for running 16-inch wheels on '65-'66 Mustangs, you can go with 16x8-inch wheels with 41/2-inch backspacing and 225/50R16 tires all around, or maybe 245/50s in back. That's as big as we'd go, and it's the ideal 16-inch setup for these smaller cars. But fenderwell clearance can be an issue with some cars when trying to run 16-inch wheels in front. For no-hassle fitment on a '65-'66 Mustang, a 15x7-inch wheel with one of the above-mentioned tire sizes is an ideal setup that will look great and won't cause any problems.
Finally, while you can run 17-inch wheels on a '65 or '66 Mustang (and there are many options), be careful because there isn't as much room as on the larger '67-'73 cars. Shop carefully and seek out the advice of a tire/wheel shop or the wheel manufacturer you're working with before going big on an early small Mustang. While it's not impossible, it isn't the norm, so be careful before buying 17-inch wheels and tires for a '65-'66, installing the tires on the wheels, and not being able to return them before realizing they won't fit. Test fit before you mount 17-inch wheels and tires on a '65-'66 Mustang.
In addition to the three styles of VWW wheels we showed on our '69, there are several other options. Besides the Vintage 45 shown on the car in 16-inch and 17-inch sizes, VWW also offers the Vintage 40, which is the same wheel except for its straight-spoke configuration. That is, if you look at the wheel from the side rather than directly in front of you, you'll notice the spokes are straight across the face of the wheel rather than the gentle curve of the Vintage 45. Shown here are 16- and 17-inch Vintage 40s, which are the same as the 45s in that the 16-inch wheels are one-piece and the 17s are two-piece. Several backspacing options are available for the 17-inch Vintage 40/45 wheels because of their two-piece configuration.
Besides the 40s and 45s, two other styles are available from VWW, one of which is the Shelby 10-spoke-type Vintage 50 shown earlier that's available in 15x7- or 16x8-inch sizes. The other is the Vintage 48, an eight-spoke wheel that looks much like the "Minilite" design--a classic look that's a cool alternative to the equally trick Vintage 40 or 45. The Minilite-style Vintage 48 comes in a 16x8-inch size with 41/2 inches of backspacing. Whether it's a 15-, 16-, or 17-inch wheel, VWW has several offerings, all of which will look great on any classic Mustang, from a restored show car, to a restomodded hot rod, to a worn-in, but not worn-out daily driver like our '69 fastback.


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Originally posted on November 17, 2006. Re-posted in light of the recent Apache attack video footage.
British troops punch, beat and kick pleading Iraqi children as a sadistic comrade films the brutal scenes of torture, laughing, screaming, growling and frothing like a serial killer filming a snuff movie. This is why the Iraqis hate us.
Iraqi children throw rocks as they flee from running British troops, are grabbed, brought inside a gate and beaten half to death. Watch the video below. The censorship spies at You Tube rejected it 2 minutes after upload so I re-named it "Fluffy Happy Poodles In Heaven," to try and bypass their keyword filters and it was still rejected. I even renamed the actual 'wmv' filename but it was still blocked for "terms of use violation." I finally managed to get it posted on Google Video. If it disappears again, here's the Windows Media link on our server.
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"Oh yes! Oh Yes! You're gonna get it!" snarls the cameraman.
"Yes! Naughty little boys."
He laughs as they boys begin to scream out in pain, "Yes!"
He then takes on the tone of a demented serial killer, grunting and growling, "Yeeeeeesss, yeeeeeessss," as troops punch and kick the children.
He mocks the cries of the boys, "No please don't hurt me," laughs again and then proceeds to begin frothing in some kind of insane carnal bloodlust, "Motherfuckers, you little fuckers – die!"
Adult Iraqis are brought in and similarly assaulted – the video ends.
A probe of this video led to the arrest of the cameraman, Cpl Martin Webster, but after that the investgation seemingly went nowhere and was swept under the rug.
Originally leaked in February this year, this is just the latest in a long line of "trophy videos" that expose the true face of what the troops have been trained and ordered to do in Iraq, dominate, brutalize and enslave the population – and it's why nearly 3,000 have come home in flag-draped coffins.
This is why the Iraqis hate us.
– A CNN clip from the early days of the "liberation" shows U.S. troops finishing off an injured Iraqi. The tape cuts to an interview with one of the soldiers who states, "Like, man, you guys are dead now, you know. But it was a good feeling. I mean, afterwards you're like, hell, yeah, that was awesome. Let's do it again."
– In another clip the soldier exclaims, "Hell yeah bitches," as he audibly orgasms as the scene of carnage before him – a missile slamming into a nearby building. "I got all that shit on camera."
– U.S. troops in a convoy drive vehicles down an Iraqi highway and bemoan the fact that they are not allowed to gun down children who throw rocks at them.
– Bloodthirsty security guards and contractors hang out the back of trucks and randomly execute Iraqis driving in vehicles behind them.
– An Iraqi taxi driver who stole some firewood gets his vehicle crushed by an Abrams tank as U.S. troops cheer and holler.
Note: Most of these videos have now been removed but a reminder can be viewed below.
These are just some of the videos that have been leaked onto the Internet. Now we know that the policy to abuse and torture innocent Iraqis just to show them who the bosses were was implicit, how many more of these kind of incidents have happened over the past three and a half years but not been videotaped by salivating zombies?
This is why the Iraqis hate us.
No one is suggesting that U.S. troops should roll over like a poodle if someone is shooting at them – they have every right to shoot back no matter what your view on the war is. The rubicon is crossed when petty thieves, children who throw rocks or completely innocent people are brutalized without recourse and the one thing that betrays the true nature of it all is the sadistic reaction of the protagonists who enjoy the torture, the beatings and the death.
Most of these individuals were brought up on a steady diet of first person shoot-em-ups, and they have overlaid the mental perception that the video games taught them on how to treat death. Distanced and emotionless, the troops see random slaughter and torture as a stress reliever, a means of letting off some steam – and it's all sanctioned from the very top.
This is why the Iraqis hate us.
The assumption that Iraq is now liberated and that its people have suffered for the glorious opportunity of seeing democracy and freedom flourish throughout their country is the last thread the Neo-Cons are hanging onto as claims of weapons of mass destruction and Al-Qaeda ties evaporated long ago. Yet to claim Iraq is liberated is the most absurd of any of the justifications for going to war or "staying the course."
Every cornerstone of what one would consider to be basic rights in a free society, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, right to fair judicial process, right to be secure from unlawful searches and seizures in one's home, have been abolished in Iraq. The occupation makes the regime of Saddam Hussein look like post-revolution America.
This is why the Iraqis hate us.
I guess the Iraqi children should feel lucky in that they got their retaliation in first by throwing rocks, many are simply arrested, hooded and taken to the torture camp for refusing to show ID at checkpoints. It's good to see that the authorities are not hypocrites and that the same kind of law enforcement techniques are practiced here at home, as Mostafa Tabatabainejad can attest to, the student was tortured for refusing to show his ID to UCLA police in a campus library.
The fun will continue when the same kind of barbarous fiends who get orgasmic pleasure from watching children being tortured come back home and become our police.
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People in Southern Arizona are used to hearing a loud conspicuous shrill among trees and plants from May until September.
The source of the sound is most likely a type of cicada - a large insect with long transparent wings, which is most active during the hottest part of the year.
The males of this species are looking for love.
Carl Olson is an entomologist, who is known as the "bug man."
"Each different species of cicada has different strategies for keeping predators away from them but this one is just singing at the hottest part of the day, so that nothing else is active except the females and entomologists listening to them," said Olson, who recently retired from the University of Arizona.
While some people have grown to believe the cicada is a sign of the monsoon, Olson disagrees.
"I don't think so, they're as good as our weather man in doing that," he stated with a laugh.
"They're always predicting hot, would be the way I see it. At least the ones that are out right now and saying, 'it's going to be hot and that's when we're going to get together,'" he added.
When they breed, the female lays her eggs on a plant or tree and the nymphs eventually go underground where they feed on roots before re-emerging as adults in a few years.
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As the finances of Venezuela continue to deteriorate under the collapse of crude oil prices, the government of President Nicolas Maduro is becoming more paranoid and vindictive.
Venezuela derives the vast majority of its export earnings from sending oil overseas. With the largest endowment of crude oil reserves in the world, the oil-driven economy worked well for the late Hugo Chavez: he provided generous support for the poor, and built allies in the western hemisphere by dispensing cash and cheap oil in exchange for political allegiance.
But state-owned PDVSA has struggled to keep production up. Rather than using its earnings to develop more fields, much of its earnings have been diverted for political and social projects. Chavez also purged PDVSA of thousands of experienced workers, leaving the company short of well-trained staff.
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A couple of weekends ago we set out on a day trip - we're trying to squeeze in a couple of more travel weekends before Baby Hobick arrives... 3 more weeks to go! I love when we jump in the car and go exploring. Oh- please ignore the pregnancy induced melasma on my face.
We headed west to Deerfield, Mass. On the way we stopped to look over this bridge - look at the amazing color of the foliage. When we lived in Kansas City, I'd always dreamed of doing a New England fall foliage tour. Now that we're living here out in the country, everyday seems like a foliage tour.
Deerfield is a tiny historical village in Central Massachusetts that has been preserved since its heyday in the 1600 & 1700's. The historical area of the town consists of a wide boulevard that has a dozen (+) historical homes that are open for tours.
Located in rural Mass, Deerfield was a farming community consisting of affluent families. The long street is virtually the same as it was when the town sprouted up... it was one of the first 'neighborhoods' in the rural community.
This is the "Stebbins" house... wonder if there is a phonetic connection to Steffens?! Probably a stretch, as my ancestors were German.
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This collection of over 3,200 images from 1947 to 1957 by the American photojournalist Leonard Nadel records early efforts by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to promote integrated public housing for the city's growing multiethnic population and also documents impoverished and historic areas targeted for redevelopment. From aerial and panoramic views to close-range shots, a large portion of this collection focuses on individual families or tenants, presenting a very personal portrait of life in the city's slums and projects.
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Jimmy Smith has prototypical size for the cornerback position. He has the speed to bump receivers, then trail them down the sideline. He has confidence to burn, too, which is always a good thing to have at that position.
In his first two seasons with the Ravens, Smith showed occasional flashes, but he couldn't stay on the field long enough to live up to the lofty expectations that came with him being a first-round pick in the 2011 NFL draft. But as Smith enters his third season in the league, the expectations he soon will face might be even greater.
Cary Williams, one of the team's Week 1 starters from a season ago, is gone, having signed a three-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. Their other starting corner, Lardarius Webb, is attempting to return from a torn ACL, a tough recovery that has traditionally been a lot tougher than Adrian Peterson made it look last season.
Regardless of Webb's situation, the Ravens are going to need a corner to step up in 2013, and the obvious candidate is Smith.
When Webb got hurt back in Week 6, a loss that was greater than losing Ray Lewis to a triceps injury, Smith finally ascended to the starting lineup. (Back in training camp, many assumed that Smith would be given a starting spot then, but he couldn't beat out Williams.) Smith's play was adequate, but he soon would need sports hernia surgery. When he returned in Week 15, Corey Graham had the job on lockdown.
Because he still wasn't completely healthy, the Ravens eased Smith back onto the field. He played just two defensive snaps in the wild-card win over the Indianapolis Colts and none against the Denver Broncos in the divisional round. He played nearly half the defensive snaps in the AFC championship game, though.
Smith played just 18 snaps against the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, but it was easily his best performance of the season. And his tight, physical -- and arguably illegal, depending on which Harbaugh brother you are -- coverage of Michael Crabtree on the game's final plays helped the Ravens preserve the victory.
"I think those plays right there are gonna go an awful long way for him," defensive coordinator Dean Pees said an interview with 105.7 The Fan, according to the team's official website. "I think he's a tremendous talent. I've seen a difference in him already here in the offseason. This guy has been around here all winter."
The top three cornerbacks at this early point in the offseason are Webb, Graham and Smith. Technically, only two of those players will be labeled as starters, but all three should be considered as such given how often opposing offenses use three-receiver sets. The Ravens also have third-year cornerback Chykie Brown and second-year cornerback Asa Jackson in the mix. Veteran cornerback Chris Johnson has been re-signed, as well.
A starting job is there for Smith, who turns 25 this summer, to seize, but it's certainly not going to be handed to him.
"The best guy has to play," secondary coach Teryl Austin said. "It doesn't matter where you're drafted and how you got here. If you're here and are performing the best, you're going to play."
Austin might have been speaking about the uncertain strong safety position when he said that, but it applies to the entire secondary. After all, Williams was signed off a practice squad and he started.
Williams is gone now. While he was by no means a lock-down cornerback, he was a steady starter who could be counted on to play every week, something that cannot yet be said about Smith, who missed nine games in his first two NFL seasons.
At 6 feet 2 and 205 pounds, Smith could potentially offset the loss of the size and swagger that Williams took with him to Philadelphia. And Smith has more natural ability.
Two years into his young career, though, we are still talking about his potential and not his production.
It is still too early to write Smith off, but the Ravens need him to finally start meeting the hype in 2013.


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Japanese diplomat-cum-wrestler wows crowds in Sudan
They call him the barefoot diplomat: Yasuhiro Murotatsu, the political officer at the Japanese embassy in Sudan, also carries out an unusual form of physical diplomacy.
He takes on the best Sudanese wrestlers in the ring.
Mr Murotatsu hopes his fights can even bring the Sudanese closer together.
"I will be very happy if all Sudanese, from different parts of Sudan, from different tribes of Sudan, come together to support Sudanese wrestlers against a foreigner, a Japanese diplomat," he told the BBC.
He is believed to be the first foreigner to ever compete with the Sudanese wrestlers in the weekly fights at the stadium on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum.
Mr Murotatsu is certainly the first diplomat to do so.
As a schoolboy, he wrestled in Japan, but then he gave up the sport.
Before he moved to Sudan, he read about Sudanese wrestling, one of the oldest forms in the world, and he decided to see if his "modern Japanese wrestling" techniques would work against the traditional Sudanese style.
He trains hard with colleagues from the embassy, who use martial arts techniques to give him a good workout.
Unlike the popular image of the Japanese Sumo wrestler, a vastly powerful and heavy man, Mr Murotatsu is actually "kind of thin", as he admits.
It is also difficult to pick up the nuances of Sudanese wrestling.
So far, the Japanese civil servant has lost every one of his fights.
Mr Murotatsu says his friends laugh at him.
"'Why are you wrestling in Sudan?'" he reports them teasing him. "'You are a diplomat, you are 33 years old, you have no girlfriend, maybe you should play tennis more than wrestling, so you can have more of a social life.'"
Despite this Muro, as he is known, is sticking with the wrestling.
'I will be back'
On one recent day, he limbered up on the roof of his apartment building then made the long drive to the wrestling stadium in Haj Youssif, on the outskirts of town.
The posters for the event billed it as "Japanese Muro's Return Match", and Mr Murotatsu himself was confident he would finally score a victory.
Cameramen and photographers clustered round him as he prepared to enter the ring, lenses pointed at the Japanese flag he was holding.
Once the fight began, the barefoot diplomat was immediately on the offensive, pushing his opponent out of the ring, as the crowd roared its approval.
However, as he charged forward once more, Mr Murotatsu was undone by a quick turn from his opponent, and was sent tumbling to the floor.
It was a fifth loss in five fights for the barefoot diplomat.
A bulky man hoisted Mr Murotatsu on his shoulders, and he and his conqueror were carried around the ring.
A triumphant defeat then?
"I am not happy about the loss," Mr Murotatsu said.
"I need to train more and more."
"I need to be more strong to make the Sudanese unified against a Japanese wrestler. I will be back, and then I will win."
A minister from South Kordofan state, the home of Sudanese wrestling, was among the spectators.
"He's very hasty, and just depends on physical strength, and he doesn't have sufficient grasp of the rules of the game," Salih Abdrahman Hussein said.
"But I think he will pick it up. It is nice to see him here."
Mr Murotatsu's posting in Sudan is coming to an end, and he will only have one more chance to record that elusive first victory.
The barefoot diplomat has a longer term goal, however.
Japan will host the Olympics in 2020, and Mr Murotatsu hopes to see Sudanese wrestlers competing in his homeland.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior and team captain, Anne Marie May, will be looking to uphold her titles in both the 50 and 100 freestyle. She has won both events in each of her previous three conference meets.
Senior Naomi Javanifard will be defending a pair of individual titles: the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke.
The Gaucho women will also be looking to repeat as the conference's 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay champs.
On the men's side, UCSB looks to take home its third consecutive championship and fifth in the last seven seasons. The Gauchos have been solid in the run up to the Championships with two meet wins in their last three outings. The club has individuals in the top three times of six events as well as posting the top time in three of the five relays.
Junior Kevin Kuhn will attempt to defend his 100 freestyle crown while sophomore Kevin Ferguson will look to repeat as the 100 backstroke winner.
The Gaucho men are also the reigning 200 free relay, 400 free relay and 200 medley relay champions.
The UC Santa Barbara swim teams will take on the rest of the Big West this week as the Gauchos look to defend their league titles at the conference championships at Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach.
In the women's competition, UCSB is going for its record fifth consecutive Big West title, tying the Gauchos with former league member Nevada for the most consecutive league championships. The club has been dominant this season, posting top three times in 12 events and having an overall event leader in four of those competitions. UCSB also enters the meet having won three consecutive dual meets and won last season's title by 135 points.
The Gaucho women's program has won a total of 13 Big West team titles while the men's program boasts 28.
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Changing climate has brought earlier springs and later winters to most of the world, with many animal and plant communities responding. Each species in an ecological community may be more or less tolerant of warmer temperatures, or other environmental changes, and entire food webs may shift s individual species respond to these changes. In many different ecosystems, a food web that exists during winter -under ice or snow-can provide food resources that are critical for species that begin to grow early in the warm season. For example, in high-mountain communities, under-snow soil food webs provide an important pulse of nutrients to summer plant communities that begin to emerge in spring.
In marine waters surrounding Antarctica under-ice plankton, microscopic plants and animals at the base of aquatic food webs, supply food to the nearby open ocean. In the world's deepest, most ancient lake, Lake Baikal, under-ice development of plankton similarly supports food webs that develop as the ice is receding in the spring, and as temperatures continue to warm. Such links may be disrupted with climate change, as winter food webs have less time to develop and spring communities establish increasingly earlier.
Using several long-term, year-round plankton datasets this working group will study how climate may alter these cross-seasonal links in freshwater food webs. Datasets include a 60-year record of plankton in Lake Baikal, faithfully maintained by three generations of one Siberian family and currently carried on by Lyubov Izmest'eva (Irkutsk State University, Russia). In addition to providing basic knowledge on how separate food webs linked in time and space may influence ecosystem stability, this research may allow us to predict responses to changing climate by entire food webs.


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She died in 1922 whilst living at 50 Upper Brook Street, London.
I posted some details in the Discussion area on the Wikipedia page about her.
Not found her in the 1911 census - someone wondered whether she could have been a Suffragette?
I also wondered whether she might have driven an ambulance in WWI with FANY or some similar organisation?
Her parents died around Brighton as did her sister and husband. There are a couple of births in Brighton in the 1920s which could be her sister's from the mother's maiden name so it is possible that there are descendants of her sister. There were four other siblings but all died before 1911, quite likely as infants.
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She wasn't very old when she died, then - possibly only in her early 40s. I wonder what happened? She did disappear from the scene fairly swiftly after her book was published. I have always suspected pregnancy to be the culprit, but perhaps it was illness.
If she was a FANY recruit, I'm sure it would have been picked up on. Muriel Thompson, a contemporary of Dorothy's who raced at Brooklands, was a prominent FANY, and several articles have been written about her contributions. The FANY themselves seem to have a good archive. Interestingly, Muriel Thompson too died quite prematurely, of a lung disease, although she was older than Dorothy.


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H1N1 outbreak - GenGIS is being used to examine the geographic spread and evolutionary relationships of the swine flu strains and isolates that have been collected to date.
HIV-1 subtype B in Europe - Here we show how GenGIS can be used to visualize the results of Paraskevis et al. (2009) which proposed mobility rates of HIV-1 subtype B in Europe.