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Abuse isn't just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,Statistics For Domestic Violence in 2018 . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring.
What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse?
Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse.
Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and Domestic Violence News Stories . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple's finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include:
•Strict Allowances. This isn't an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given.
Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren't named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse.
Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Abuse Programs Near Me .
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We're all capable of abuse when we're frustrated or hurt. We may be guilty of criticizing, judging, withholding, and controlling, but some abusers, including narcissists, take abuse to a different level. Narcissistic Abuse can be physical, mental, emotional, sexual, financial, and/or spiritual. Some types of emotional abuse are not easy to spot, including manipulation. It can include emotional blackmail, using threats and intimidation to exercise control. Narcissists are masters of verbal abuse and manipulation. They can go so far as to make you doubt your own perceptions, called gaslighting.
The Motivation for Narcissistic Abuse
Remember that narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and abuse exist on a continuum, ranging from silence to violence. Rarely will a narcissist take responsibility for his or her behavior. Generally, they deny their actions, and augment the abuse by blaming the victim. Particularly, malignant narcissists aren't bothered by guilt. They can be sadistic and take pleasure in inflicting pain. They can be so competitive and unprincipled that they engage in anti-social behavior. Don't confuse narcissism with anti-social personality disorder.
The objective of narcissistic abuse is power. They act with the intent to diminish or even hurt other people. The most important thing to remember about intentional abuse is that it's designed to dominate you. Abusers' goals are to increase their control and authority, while creating doubt, shame, and dependency in their victims. They want to feel superior to avoid hidden feelings of inferiority. Understanding this can empower you. Like all bullies, despite their defenses of rage, arrogance, and self-inflation, they suffer from shame. Appearing weak and humiliated is their biggest fear. Knowing this, it's essential not to take personally the words and actions of an abuser. This enables you to confront narcissistic abuse.
Mistakes in Dealing with Abuse
When you forget an abuser's motives, you may naturally react in some of these ineffective ways:
1. Appeasement. If you placate to avoid conflict and anger, it empowers the abuser, who sees it as weakness and an opportunity to exert more control.
4. Set Boundaries. Boundaries are rules that govern the way you want to be treated. People will treat you the way you allow them to. You must know what your boundaries are before you can communicate them. This means getting in touch with your feelings, listening to your body, knowing your rights, and learning assertiveness. They must be explicit.
Don't hint or expect people to read your mind.
5. Have Consequences. After setting boundaries, if they're ignored, it's important to communicate and invoke consequences. These are not threats, but actions you take to protect yourself or meet your needs.
6. Be Educative. Research shows that narcissists have neurological deficits that affect their interpersonal reactions. You're best approach is to educate a narcissist like a child. Explain the impact of their behavior and provide incentives and encouragement for different behavior. This may involve communicating consequences. It requires planning what you're going to say without being emotional.
Get Support
To respond effectively requires support. Without it, you may languish in self-doubt and succumb to abusive disinformation and denigration. It's challenging to change your reactions, let alone those of anyone else. Expect pushback when you stand up for yourself. This is another reason why support is essential. You will need courage and consistency. Whether or not the narcissist makes changes, you'll get tools to protect yourself and raise your self-worth that will improve how you feel whether you stay or leave. CoDA meetings and psychotherapy provide guidance and support.
Warning: If you're experiencing physical abuse, expect it to continue or escalate. Get help immediately.
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What Is Real Reasons For Domestic Violence?
1. Sticks and stones won't break my bones" - and words won't leave any measurable physical damage, but they will cause progressive, long-term harm. Never underestimate the power of words: words are used to brainwash.
Being told you are "stupid", "ugly", "lazy" or "worthless" is never acceptable. The first times you hear it, it will hurt, naturally. In time you "may get used to" hearing it from a partner. That's when you start to internalise and believe it. When that happens you are doing the other person's work of putting you down for them. This is why your feelings of self-worth suffer increasingly over time.
The good news is that just as words have been used to bring you down, you can learn to harness the power of words to build you up and restore your confidence and belief in yourself.
2. You are always told that it's your fault. Somehow, whatever happens, however it starts, the ultimate blame is always yours. Notice that we are talking ultimate blame here. The blaming partner will always tell you that their behaviour was caused by what you said or did. In fact, their argument runs along the lines that you can't possibly blame them for anything, because if you hadn't said what you said, or done what you did it would never have happened.
3. You're more inclined to believe your partner than you are to believe yourself. Have you ever reeled with a sense of hurt and injustice, or seethed with anger at the way you've been treated? Have you found yourself asking: "Is it reasonable to feel like this?" "Am I misinterpreting things?" "Have I got it wrong?"
If this is you, what it means is that you have become so brainwashed you've stopped trusting in your own judgement. Your mind keeps throwing up the observations and questions because, deep down, you know that what is happening is utterly wrong. But right now you can't feel the strength of your own convictions.
4. You need your partner to acknowledge your feelings. Have you ever felt desperate to make your partner hear what you are saying and apologise for the hurtful things they've said? Have you ever felt that only they can heal the pain they've caused?
Does your need for them to validate your feelings keep you hooked into the relationship?
When a partner constantly denies or refuses to listen to your feelings, that is, unquestionably, mental abuse.
5. Your partner blows hot and cold. He can be very loving but is often highly critical of you. He may tell you how much he loves you, yet he is short on care or consideration towards you. In fact, some of the time, maybe even a lot of the time, he treats you as if you were someone he truly dislikes.
You do everything you can to make him happy, but it's never good enough. You're more like the pet dog in the relationship than you are the equal partner. Your constant efforts to get his attention and please him meet with limited success. Sometimes he'll be charmed, often he's dismissive.
If you find yourself puzzling about how your partner can treat you that way, it is because you are trying to live in a love-based relationship, when in reality you are living in a control-based relationship. The mental abuser struggles with his own feelings of worthlessness and uses his relationship to create a feeling of personal power, at his partner's expense.
6. You feel as if you are constantly walking on eggshells. There is a real degree of fear in the relationship. You have come to dread his outbursts, the hurtful things that he will find to say to you. (Maybe the same anxiety and need to please spill over into your other relationships also.)
Fear is not part of a loving relationship, but it is a vital part of a mentally abusive relationship. It enables the abuser to maintain control over you.
7. You can heal. Mentally abusive relationships cause enormous emotional damage to the loving partner who tries, against all odds, to hold the relationship together and, ultimately, can't do it, because her partner is working against her.
Whether you are currently in a mentally abusive relationship, have left one recently, or years later are still struggling with the anxieties and low self-worth and lack of confidence caused by mental abuse, it is never too late to heal.
But you do need to work with a person or a programme specifically geared to mental abuse recovery.
Women who have suffered mental abuse expect radical change of themselves, and they expect it right away. This is why they often struggle and, not uncommonly, take up with another abusive partner.
Mental abuse recovery is a gradual process. Low self-worth and limiting beliefs about what kind of future the abuse sufferer can ever hope for are the blocks that can stop women from moving on. But they are blocks that you can clear very effectively. Just as language was once used to harm you, you can now learn how language can heal you. You can overcome past mental abuse and keep yourself safe from it in the future. You can also learn to feel strong, believe in yourself and create the life and the relationships you truly want.
"The Woman You Want To Be" is a unique workbook designed to accompany you on a year long journey into emotional health and happiness.
(C) 2005 Annie Kaszina
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LOUISVILLLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Derby Museum is planning a bourbon-themed tribute to Secretariat.
A bourbon decanter featuring the likeness of the great racehorse with jockey Ron Turcotte aboard will be released May 1 at the Derby Museum next to Churchill Downs.
The decanter will be filled with premium Four Roses bourbon selected by Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery.
The Derby Museum says 500 limited-edition, hand-numbered decanters will be produced for the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's victory in the Kentucky Derby.
The museum says the ceramic decanters were created by the Secretariat team in the style of the 1970s-era collectible decanters that became popular among fans and whiskey connoisseurs.
Proceeds will help preserve Derby history at the museum and will also go to the Secretariat Foundation to benefit equine-related causes in the racing industry.
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Germany,holland in semis ... Argentina & brazil out in the QF perfect world cup for me
Germany,holland in semis ... Argentina & brazil out in the QF perfect world cup for me
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
RIP Craigos
Should be a good match, whoever wins.
I have to go for Germany, having heard Phillipp Lahm's press conferences have led me to conclude that he is a rather angry person:
"We know South Americans are a temperamental lot," said Lahm. "On Saturday we will see how they deal with another defeat."
Doesn't mince words does our Phillipp.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Ben Stokes, that most unlikely saint, worked the second of the two miracles he needs for his canonisation." - The Guardian's Andy Bell on the England all-rounder's Headingley ton
Well there is a first for everything. C'mon Germany! Bounce these cheating bastards and their fat **** of a piece of **** manager out of the tournament.
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Doubt there'll be more than a goal in it. Will doubtless kick off at some point too.
'Mon Jerry. Feel safer outsourcing our footballing rivalries to more talented proxies, tbh.
Cracking delivery that.
Regretting two things, not putting Muller in my fantasy side and going for 2-1 rather than 3-2. We're in for a cracker here IMO.
Very nice.
Rest In Peace Craigos
Get in!
Gee that was quick.
R.I.P Craigos, you were a champion bloke. One of the best
R.I.P Fardin 'Bob' Qayyumi
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"How about you do something contstructive in this forum for once and not fill the forum with ****. You offer nothing." - theegyptian.
"There's more chance of SoC making a good post than Smith averaging 99.95." - Furball
"**** you're such a **** poster." - Furball
All Jerry so far. Early doors tho & hope they nick a 2nd whilst on top.
Blatant handball from Di Maria. No card. WTF? Where's the consistency?
Amazingly lenient reffing, given how card-happy this tournament has been.
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We are looking for a Service Excellence Solutions Manager to join Suunto Customer Care team in Vantaa, Finland
You are part of our Customer Care organization offering premium and personal service experience to Suunto customers. In this role you will develop and maintain service capabilities for Suunto global service network. This is a key position to develop further our customers' service experience and to minimize the repair costs.
You lead a team of three people that manages different areas of service capability: service know-how creation, service material management and logistics, and maintenance and development of reporting and diagnostics systems. Also ensuring the serviceability of new products and solutions is under your responsibility within R&D programs.
You work closely with our global Service Network Management team as well as Support Services, several Supply Chain functions (e.g. Purchasing and Quality), Product Management, and product and solutions development organizations. You are responsible for key partnerships regarding reporting system and service logistics.
Responsibility areas:
- Lead Service Excellence Solutions team
- Manage service network capabilities and knowledge via service manuals and bulletins, troubleshooting information, primary trainings, tools development, and network support
- Manage service materials (spare parts, service modules, tools) and logistics
- Maintain and develop systems such as repair reporting platform and service diagnostics software
- Contribute to new product and solution development programs to ensure the serviceability
- Run field return analysis and claim validation for new products
We expect the suitable candidate to have the following qualifications and skills:
- Relevant experience in corresponding tasks
- Experience in service capability development
- Understanding of materials management (logistics, inventory, order fulfilment, SAP)
- Leadership experience
- Proactive working style
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- A good command of written and spoken English
- Bachelor's level education
This position is a maternity leave substitution (for an estimate of one year) and it is based at Suunto headquarters, Vantaa, Finland.
Please send your application and curriculum vitae in confidence by 5th of November 2017 via this link. For further information, contact Head of Customer Care Sanna Timonen on October 31st or November 3rd at 9:30-10:30, at +358 40 679 7374.
If you want a feeling for what it's like to work for Suunto, you can check out #suuntolife and watch this short video of one nice morning we spent together: https://vimeo.com/110763131. You can also check out www.suunto.com.


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As consumer interest in fuel-efficient vehicles remains high, two automakers, Chevrolet and Nissan, ended 2010 with the launch of their first highway-capable plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) for the mass market. These vehicles, commercially available in December 2010, enable drivers to reduce both gasoline expenses and greenhouse gas emissions. Many other auto manufacturers are working to electrify their lineups with new models. For example, Toyota plans to launch PEV Prius in January 2012, and other manufacturers have plans to launch plug-in electric models in the near future.
To assess consumer demand, preferences, and price sensitivity for PEVs and EV charging infrastructure, Pike Research, Boulder, Colo., conducted a web-based survey of 1,051 U.S. consumers in the fall of 2011 using a nationally representative and demographically balanced sample. The survey found that, based on Americans' driving and commute patterns, PEVs should be a strong fit for a large number of consumers. Likewise, survey respondents indicated strong fundamental interest in PEVs, with 40% of participants stating that they would be extremely or very interested in purchasing such a vehicle, assuming the price were right. However, price sensitivity is an issue that continues to loom over the industry, as survey participants' willingness to pay was much lower than the prices currently planned by automakers.
This Pike Research report examines the dynamics of consumer demand for PEVs, fast residential charging outlets, and workplace, public, and private charge points. It includes a detailed analysis of price sensitivity and optimal price points for PEVs, as well as data related to typical consumer driving patterns that will affect demand for such vehicles, and vehicle brand preferences. The report also includes information on consumer interest in smartphone applications that would allow them to better utilize a PEV


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Yellow Lotus Flower Earrings –Cloisonné & Champlevé Enamels on Fine Silver w/ Sterling Ear Wires
These bright yellow lotus bud earrings are a pure slice of summer. They are delicate and easy to wear and add that touch of sunshine even in the most air-conditioned space!
Materials: Champlevé & cloisonné Enamels on Fine silver.
Size: .9" long x .5" wide
All my jewelry is handmade by me in my studio in beautiful Raleigh, North Carolina.
Did you know that enamels are melted glass?
Yes! It's true... To create this lovely pair of earrings, I first fabricated the silver base out of sheets of fine silver. The lines of the design are actually fine silver wires that I meticulously bent by hand (and tweezers) into the shapes you see. Then I placed granules of ground up glass (enamels) in between the wires and melted them in the kiln. There are as many as 20 layers of glass in each individual piece! After I've added all the layers of glass, I carefully grind and polish it until it sparkles!
Champlevé: pronounced Shamp-lee-VAY
is the process of inlaying the colored glass enamels directly into a solid piece of silver, so there's no need for a separate setting.
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is the process of using delicate silver or gold wires to create drawing lines that separate the different bits of colored enamel.
Enamels are my passion.
I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 with a degree in illustration. I currently reside in Raleigh, North Carolina and have a wonderful studio at Artspace.
Before becoming involved in jewelry crafting, I spent many years making designs in leaded glass. I was an active member of the Ant farm, a local artists cooperative for several years, and currently have a studio at Artspace in downtown Raleigh.
I have always loved incorporating bright color and light into my work, so when I discovered the beauty of cloisonné enamel, I was hooked. My work incorporates color, light, and balance- be it abstract or figurative. I'm influenced by all the gorgeous jewelry of the past, but try to give it a modern twist.
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Why do they call it that? One pond, two great stories | News
If you visit Seven Springs in Pasco County, we have two suggestions: First, bring your golf clubs. And second, don't count -- because things won't add up to seven.
Why do they call it Seven Springs?
We'll start out at a simple golf course pond. It's one water hazard with two interesting stories to tell.
Here's the first.
Welcome to the banks of beautiful Lake Margaret. The "lake" is really just a tiny pond in the middle of a golf course -- but stay with me.
It's easy for anyone to see it sits along the course at the Seven Springs Golf and Country Club. Easy for you to see -- but not, apparently, for Margaret to see.
Years ago, a nice woman by that name drove her golf cart off the fairway and into the drink! Margaret plunged her cart into the water hazard.
I have no idea how many penalty strokes you're supposed to take for that.
After the incident, the course's managers put up a sign at the pond, naming it Lake Margaret.
Margaret was okay. The pond was named after her not as a memorial, but so that she would be permanently embarrassed.
They did haul Margaret's cart out of the water, but there is something still down there that's much more remarkable.
Feeding this pond, hidden below the surface, silently flowing, is the only known location of one of the Seven Springs.
Those springs gave this area southeast of New Port Richey its name more than a hundred years ago.
Carl Johnson hacked a road into the thick woods and built a mini tourist hotel along the banks of the sleepy Anclote River.
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The main attraction? The supposedly healing waters of seven springs that happened to be all gathered in a group.
Johnson planned to build a whole town and resort around the springs, much like the one that still survives today around the springs at Safety Harbor in Pinellas County.
But mother nature had other plans.
A hurricane tore through in 1921. It did incredible damage to churches and other buildings in the area; Johnson's hotel was devastated.
Johnson bailed on his big plans, and all but one of the famous Seven Springs faded from memory -- destined to become just a slice of history.
Why do they call it that? Now you know.
The designer of the golf course tried to work the existing landscape into the course layout, so he used the spring-fed pond as a natural water hazard.
It didn't have a name until Margaret made that wrong turn in her golf cart.
We feature new "Why do they call it that?" stories each Wednesday on 10 News starting at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Check out previous editions of the Emmy Award-winning series at our "Why do they call it that?" website: wtsp.com/callitthat.


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Marking the loss of what was once a major employer of digital artists in Hawaii, Tokyo-based Konami Corp. will close its video-game studio in Waikiki by year's end.
Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii executives would not say precisely why Konami is closing the facility, located in the Waikiki Galleria Office Tower, which once employed dozens of designers.
Confronted about the rumored closing, Konami issued a three-sentence statement late last week. "In the late fall of this year, Konami will be closing its Honolulu, Hawaii, office in order to streamline operations," the company said. "We regret that this necessary business decision will affect approximately 40 employees. Where it is possible, Konami has been providing and will continue providing positions to these employees at other locations within the company."
Konami is perhaps best known as the developer of the video game "Frogger," which was a blockbuster game decades ago. More recently in Hawaii, the company developed updates of the "Frogger" game, including "Frogger Beyond" and "Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand." The Hawaii studio also developed a series of dancing games, including "Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix" for the Xbox console.
John Strom, vice president and director of business development and technology for the economic development organization Enterprise Honolulu, said Konami's decision to close the Waikiki studio is part of a global reorganization of the Japanese giant founded in 1969 as a jukebox repair and rental company.
Konami is phasing out game development in the United States altogether while shifting work to its digital entertainment and casino gaming facilities in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, said Strom, who said he has spoken to Konami executives to find out what, if anything, could be done to keep the studio in Waikiki. Although Konami's reorganization means a job boom for its development center in Las Vegas, Strom said, it leaves Hawaii out.
If there is a silver lining, Strom said, it is that Konami did not cite any unhappiness with Hawaii as a reason for closing.
"The good news is it has nothing to do with Hawaii," Strom said.
Although Konami said that 40 workers would be affected, Strom said the office already has dwindled to only a dozen or so employees.
Konami's departure hardly means the total elimination of a game industry in Hawaii. Last year, Jamdat Mobile Inc. paid $137 million to acquire Manoa-based Blue Lava Wireless LLC, a startup whose biggest hit was a version of the video game "Tetris" that can be played on cellular phones.
Jamdat was later swallowed up by video game giant Electronic Arts, which operates in Hawaii as EA Mobile Hawaii.


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ROCKLEDGE, FL - Proving that he truly is one of "man's best friends," Dart, the Holmes Regional Medical Center therapy dog has been selected to receive the prestigious "Rainbow Award" from the Brevard Association of Human Services.
Dart, together with several of his fellow therapy dogs (and their handlers) will be part of a ceremony to be held Tuesday, April 13 at 10am inside the lobby of the Holmes Regional Medical Center Heart Center. Members of the Brevard Association of Human Services will present Dart with the award before an audience of other therapy dogs and handlers.
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"How'm I doin'?"
The question – an Ed Koch trademark – came at the four of us as we slipped out of a taxi in 1978 in Greenwich Village. And there he stood, the man himself. Caught unawares, we all yelled back, "Great!"
What we didn't realize was that CBS's "60 Minutes" had a film crew trailing hizzonor. As the mayor shouted at us, the cameraman swung around to capture the moment. That brief encounter with the legendary Mr. Koch, who died Friday, became the teaser – right before the tick, tick, tick – for the news show's segment.
Over many years since then, I, like many reporters, had more substantive conversations with Koch, who invariably had an opinion about the topic du jour – and was more than willing to share it. Here are some Koch classics.
Political endorsements
In September 2011, Koch – who might be characterized as an independent Democrat – announced he would endorse Bob Turner, a Republican, over a Democrat in a special election to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner in a district that spanned Brooklyn and Queens. The endorsement, he explained, had nothing to do with the candidates: It was all about his perception that President Obama had "thrown Israel under the bus" and it was important to let him know.
"I think the message is, don't take the Jewish constituency for granted – and this district has the largest Jewish constituency in the nation," Koch said at the time. Mr. Turner went on to win in the heavily Democratic district, thanks in large part to Koch's endorsement, including taped robocalls.
Rudy Giuliani
In November 1997, Koch admitted he had voted for Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican, for a second term as mayor of New York, saying he felt the quality of life had improved under his administration. But Koch also said he disliked Mr. Giuliani's bullying style.
"If you are not a sycophant, he destroys you," he told the Monitor.
Koch always stood ready to explain the complexities of politics – no matter that the issue didn't involve him. For instance, Giuliani faced a hard choice in 1994: whether to endorse sitting Gov. Mario Cuomo for reelection or fellow Republican George Pataki, then a state senator.
If Giuliani were to endorse Mr. Cuomo, Koch reasoned, the backing could come back to haunt him. "Pataki will carry a grudge," he said. "You have certain expectations as a politician, and if they are not fulfilled, you feel betrayed."
Any Neil Simon portrayal of a New Yorker would look and sound a lot like Koch. The three-term mayor loved to have Sunday brunch in the Village with an assortment of other New Yorkers. He loved bagels and other fattening foods, and so was almost always trying to diet. Koch acknowledged he wasn't much of a sports fan, but like many New Yorkers he did love going to the movies.
"Have you read my movie reviews?" he once asked me. He put me on his distribution list. The movie reviews were quintessential Koch: They always got straight to the point.
His Jan. 7 review of "The Impossible," about the tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands along the coasts of the Indian Ocean, vaulted right to superstorm Sandy, which hit the New York region at the end of October, and from there to House Speaker John Boehner's decision not allow a vote on emergency aid to storm-ravaged areas. Koch called it "the most perfidious act of Congress that I can recall."
His "movie" review then recounted how Mr. Boehner "got the message" and scheduled the vote in mid-January. New York got its money. "All's well that ends well," wrote Koch.
Koch, who left office in 1989, was also fond of writing what he termed "commentaries," and he did not confine himself only to things New York. Here's his take on how to resolve the recent "fiscal cliff" impasse in Washington: shame officials into action.
"We Americans should shame our legislators and the President into doing their jobs, which include adopting a budget and ten-year plan that will put our house in order," Koch wrote in a Dec.11, 2012, missive, started while he was in the hospital recovering from an illness.
He recounted a favorite story about taking over as mayor in 1977 when the city was on the brink of bankruptcy. In three years, New York was back in the black, wrote a proud Koch.
"Based on my experience, there is only one common sense way to balance a budget: cut expenses and increase revenues in some combination," he informed Mr. Obama and Congress. He also suggested six ways to raise more revenue and two ways to cut expenses.
After the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Koch called for a national day of commemoration every Dec. 17, when Americans would stop whatever they were doing and pause to observe a moment of silence. "It is my hope that an annual commemoration of this sort may raise everyone's consciousness as to the need to control the level of senseless violence in our society," he wrote.
Koch, unlike many former and current politicians, was readily available to talk on the phone. After a short hold, he would pick up the receiver, which is what people used back in the day. "Ed Koch," he always said. "What do you need?"
Whether you agreed with him or not, he had an opinion.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Tuesday the United States must effectively use all instruments of power, not just military might, to successfully lead the world after a dozen years of war that have strained it physically and financially.
The Pentagon chief told a leading Washington think tank that Americans should not "fall prey to the false notion of American decline," and must also resist the post-war urge to retreat from foreign entanglements.
"Looking inward is just as deadly a trap as hubris, and we must avoid both in pursuing a successful foreign policy in the 21st century," Hagel told a global security forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"No other nation has the will, the power, the capacity, the capability and the network of alliances to lead the international community ... However, sustaining our leadership will increasingly depend not only on the extent of our great power, but an appreciation of its limits and a wise deployment of our influence," he said.
Hagel's remarks come as the Defense Department is winding down a 12-year-old war in Afghanistan and is struggling to meet demands to cut nearly a trillion dollars from its budgets over the next decade.
The speech underscored the administration's shift toward a more cautious approach to military force and a desire for greater reliance on diplomacy. Hagel pointed to U.S. engagement with Iran and Syria as examples where combined use of diplomatic, economic and military power are creating opportunities to advance U.S. interests.
The cuts in U.S. defense spending have eroded military training and readiness, and Pentagon officials have warned that the spending reductions would eventually force the department to reassess the global military strategy it outlined two years ago.
"These cuts are too fast, too much, too abrupt and too irresponsible," Hagel told the forum. The Defense Department "cannot responsibly, efficiently and effectively plan, strategize and implement national security policies with this cloud of uncertainty continuing to hang over it."
A senior defense official said Hagel's speech was his second dealing with how the Defense Department must adapt to "a changing strategic and fiscal landscape" since taking over as secretary earlier this year.
Hagel outlined six priorities he said would shape U.S. defense institutions for years to come, including reforming and trimming the department after a decade of growth, dealing with military readiness in a time of financial constraints and protecting investments in emerging technologies.
A key focus, he said, would be reforming personnel compensation, which currently consumes nearly half the defense budget and if left to grow unchecked will eventually produce a force that is "well-compensated, but poorly trained and equipped, with limited readiness and capability."
Hagel said with the end of the Iraq war and the winding down of the Afghanistan conflict, President Barack Obama has been moving the United States off a "perpetual war-footing" in which "priorities, policies and relationships around the world" were dominated by the response to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
As it looks to the future, the United States must pursue a "principled and engaged realism that employs diplomatic, economic and security tools - as well as our values - to advance our security and our prosperity," Hagel said.
He said the military would remain an essential tool of American power, but "one that must be used wisely, precisely and judiciously." Military force, Hagel said, "must always remain an option - but it should be an option of last resort."
"Our success ultimately depends not on any one instrument of power," he said. "It depends on all of them. And it depends not only on how well we maintain and fund all of our instruments of power - but how well they are balanced and integrated with each other."
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When J.J. Abrams set out to find the young adult leads of Super 8, his homage to the beloved Amblin films of the early 1980s (such as E.T. and The Goonies) he wanted to find (according to the film's press release) "fresh faces that the audience could have fun discovering." He couldn't have found a fresher face than that of his star Joel Courtney.
Joel, an Idaho native, was visiting his brother Caleb in Los Angeles for his summer vacation and taking auditions with this hopes of booking (maybe) one commercial and making a hundred dollars. "That was my goal," the young star told us in our interview at the Los Angeles press event for Super 8.
Courtney far exceed his relatively modest goal when his acting coach suggested he go in and see her protege Jason James, who was conducting a nation wide search for the kids ofSuper 8. "Apparently I did really well," the young actor reflected, "because they had me come back like eleven times. And then I kept getting acting coaches to help me through."
Courtney's innate charm and refreshingly artless manner won Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg over and landed him the staring role in one of this summers biggest and most highly-anticipated films. As early reviews have indicated, this newcomer's performance is a stand-out as one of the most compelling aspects of the film. As we mentioned in our Super 8 early reviews and impressions piece, his is a bit of genuine casting magic.
Casting a first-time actor as the lead in his film is in line with J.J. Abrams' (career consistent) desire to surprise audiences and create a sense of mystery. We have no preconceived notions about Joel Courtney before we meet him as his character Joe Lamb. Abrams is a self-proclaimed believer in the idea of "the mystery box," the notion that audiences, "are most compelled by an unseen mystery, and that a movie should have all the potent unpredictability of an unopened box, out of which absolutely anything could emerge."
As such, there has been just as much secrecy associated with this film as with Abrams' previous projects. Secrets, as we know, are hard to keep — especially for kids who are working on something very exciting. When we asked Courtney if holding it all back from his friends has been difficult he replied:
"It has, it really has been. I wanted to tell my friends for a really long time, but I wanted them to be surprised at the same time. I'm really excited to show it to my friends," the actor continued, "I really want to know what they think."
Screen Rant: Did J.J. tell you that you were going to go to bed without dinner forever if you let anything slip?
"There weren't any threats, but there was also that looming presence like…Oh! I love this. So, Zack [Mills] (who plays Preston in the film) and his dad and his mom were so funny, they treated it like if they said anything this black helicopter would come down and FBI agents would be like 'get in the van!'"
On Pranking Abrams:
The kids in the story of Super 8 are in that first blush of puberty where rebellion and self-definition are the names of the game. They are likely to sneak out, steal cameras, and otherwise create all manner of mayhem in order to shoot the film within the film (titled simply The Case) that they (as a group) are working on when they witness the train crash that will change the course of their lives. The young actors portraying these kids are in the young-punk-prankster phase of their lives as well (a phase which some of us may, or may not, grow out of as adults). We wondered if there were a lot of on and off-set shenanigans in play. Courtney confessed that yes, on-set they, "Played jokes on everybody, it was just a big happy group of people."
When asked which prank took the cake as the all-time best, Courtney told us a tale of the most perfect April fools joke possible to play on the notoriously close-lipped Abrams.
"The best prank would have to be off-set," Courtney relayed. "It was April fools day…(laughing) J.J. will probably not ever forgive us for this one. Riley [Griffiths] (who plays Charles in the film) told J.J. that he had left his script in a mall and that he couldn't find it and when he went back to look for it… it was gone. (Stopping to laugh again) It gave J.J like a heart attack. He was so scared, and then after a little while of just like freaking J.J. out — Riley's like, 'April fools!'"
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SR: That's amazing. What a perfect joke! Did he get mad…did he start sweating?
"No, no! He was just so relieved to hear that it was an April fools joke, and he was just so happy, ah (sighing) Riley got him so good. No he just blew it off as a joke — he's such a cool guy."
We can just imagine poor Abrams (the master of the "mystery box") breaking out in a cold and clammy sweat envisioning some intrepid mall-goer happily making a hundred copies of his top-secret script at the local Kinko's. Those had to be a long couple of minutes for the riddle-wrapped-in-an-enigma director before the kids fessed up to the joke.
The director, as it happens, was not the only adult on Super 8 who was subject to the machinations of the teens.When we asked Courtney about his working relationship with Kyle Chandler (who plays his father in the film) the actor responded that Chandler, "Pulled a lot of the weight for the father/son relationship. He's such a good actor," Cortney continued, "and he can run around hotels better than anybody else."
SR: What do you mean run around hotels?
"So Riley and Ryan [Lee] (who plays Cary in the film) ding-dong ditched him — and they didn't tell me that they were going to do it. So they do it, and I'm standing there when he opens the door and so I point at him, and then point at them running down that hall, and I take off in the opposite direction. And he's like chasing me and then apparently at some point in time he was chasing them — and I was like, 'how can he chase us both!' And then I went downstairs to the elevator, and I open up the elevator, and he's (magically) in there!"
There is no end to the Bermuda-triangle-like vortex that opens on an Abrams set it would seem.
Super 8 has at its heart a sense of innocence — of wonder and possibility. It depicts events of great mystery combined with the sweet simplicity of kids-being-kids in an unaffected way that is rarely seen today. When we met with Courtney, he sat there eating an ice-cream Sunday, looking in all ways to be a normal, happy, Idaho teen. He had the same open, amiable and genuine quality as his character Joe. And yet there he was, not at a school in Idaho, but rather in the midst of a Hollywood press junket — a week before the world will have a chance to see him star in one of the event films of the summer. When we asked the young actor if the enormity of this project has hit him yet, he responded:
"I've had a couple of people ask me for my autograph and it's weird. And I don't really think I'm ready for what's coming, but people just keep telling me that it's going to be big, and that I need to stay grounded and stay real and humble and not get a big head and all screwed up and stuff."
Out of the mouths of babes…
On Working With Abrams:
SR: How did J.J. work with you on-set in terms of inhabiting a world in 1979 that's so unfamiliar to you. Did he have you watch some of the movies that Super 8 is referencing?
"No he didn't, but he made references to them, and I had watched (and loved) "E.T." and "Close Encounters" already but I hadn't watched "Stand by Me" and "The Goonies," and so I watched those two during production and all of his references made sense, after I watched those two movies. It was really incredible because there's so much Steven Spielberg and J.J. collaboration on this movie. You can see it throughout the entire movie. Like, the group of kids and J.J.'s sci-fi thrown in there — it's like, so apparent."
SR: Is there one quintessential moment that captures what it was like to work with J.J.?
"There was this one time during the auditioning process where he wanted us to understand about one character, and so he pretty much just told us the entire life story of that one character. And he did it in like thirty seconds flat. He described everything about the character — it was so incredible."
SR: Which character was it?
"It was Martin."
Having that level of detail succinctly at the ready is not surprising for a director of Abrams' skill and experience. What is somewhat surprising for a filmmaker as detailed and in control of the story as Abrams, is the level of freedom and fluidity he offered his young stars. That freedom lends itself to a naturalism in the performances and relationships in the film. One of the most endearing (and relatable) relationships is between Joel's character Joe, and the girl of his dreams (turned good friend) Alice, played by Elle Fanning.
SR: It was so fun to watch your crush on Alice develop in the film — have you experienced that kind of a crush yet?
"Not really. But it was a lot of fun working across from Elle, because she's such a good actress and it was a lot of fun to act out having a crush on her."
SR: How did J.J. work with you on scenes and moments like that? Did he just let you sort of explore and find things on your own?
"Kind of, pretty much. He kind of said, 'This is the idea, and go do it.' So we would put our own spin on it and if he didn't like it he would say, 'Try it this way.' And whenever he did that it was always better."
As mentioned, in the story of Super 8, the friends are making a short, super 8, zombie film entitled The Case to submit to a short film festival. Abrams let the young actors write the script for the short film themselves. You can see their handiwork in full during the closing credits for Super 8. When asked about his participation in the creation of The CaseCourtney responded:
" The kids wrote the scenes, we pretty much wrote the entire movie, and it was so much fun because we acted in it and I did the make-up for it (which I didn't really do, that was the make-up people because I am not that good). I actually didn't do that much for it but Gabriel [Basso] (who plays Martin in the film) he wrote like practically the entire movie. So I had a smaller part in that movie, but Gabe had a bigger part."
On Aliens And Explosions:
One of the most elaborate and intense sequences in the film is the train crash the kids witness that unleashes the cryptic creature onto the town.
When we asked Courtney about the scene and how it was choreographed with the stunt coordinators, he replied excitedly:
"I love that scene, it was so incredible. It was so much fun to shoot and they had these poppers that would go off and they were just like these little flame explosions. Quite a bit of it was us, most of it was us, and a little bit was the stunt doubles. If there was some stuff that we didn't want to do, then our stunt doubles would do it, but most of it we wanted to do because it was so much fun. J.J. was like, 'If there's anything you don't want to do you just let us know.' And we were like, 'No, I want to do it!'"
SR: What kinds of things would the stunt doubles step in for?
"Well, they blew the building up. So we weren't allowed to be there. But there was this one part where there were explosions behind us and we could do that, because we were nowhere near anything that was really dangerous. But when the building exploded and there was wood flying everywhere we weren't allowed to do that — because when they actually blew the building up we were two hundred yards away and still the shock wave hit us — it was immense. The shock was huge. Like I don't know what they blew it up with, but it was big — and it was crazy."
But what of what the train's secret cargo? When asked if he believes in the existence of extra-terrestrial life, the young star responded thoughtfully:
"I find it hard to believe that in such a big universe there is nothing else out there."
The world will get their first glimpse of the down-to-earth, funny and relatably charming Joel Courtney when Super 8 opens in theaters this Friday, June 10th.
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I got a PFO from USC today that must rank somewhere near the top of most annoying PFOs. I'm not even going to comment on it - I'll leave that to the smokers.
"Dear Applicant,
Thank you for applying for the faculty position in the USC School of Philosophy. I apologize for the impersonal nature of this letter, but I wanted to let you know that the Faculty Recruitment Committee has identified a small number of mostly senior applicants who best fit the needs of the department at this time. These applicants have been contacted for further evaluation.
As you may know already, USC is also offering 2-year post-docs in the humanities, for which you may have applied. Those applications were due February 1st, and will be coming to the department about a week from now for review. If you have applied for that position, this announcement, about your status in our advertised job and search, has no bearing on the post-doc applications that will be coming to us.
Despite the near completion of our search for the advertised position, we will keep your application and resume on file for a short time, and, of course, all information will be kept confidential. Thank you again for your interest, and we wish you the best of luck in pursuing your career."
- February 4, 2011 at 1:13 PM
This PFO doesn't strike me as fitting into the 'most annoying' category. At least they were honest and tried to be informative. We are only hiring senior people and if you want to try the postdoc thing then we promise our rejection of you now need not be a wholesale rejection of you later. Fairly annoying, yes; but 'the top of annoying', no. I don't know, maybe I'm so battered that a slight beating begins to actually look like an act of goodwill.
- February 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM
I don't understand why it's annoying at all
- February 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM
I don't get why it is that annoying either. I mean its a bit cumbersome to read around the second paragraph and I suppose a touch annoying if I hadn't applied to the postdoc as well. But certainly not worthy of ranking near the top of most annoying PFO's. What am I missing?
- February 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Here are the reasons why this is super annoying (I am not the person who originally posted this, but i got the same email and was very annoyed and confused):
This is a mass email targeting both the job applicants and the post-doc applicants. First; come on, can you really not send two emails and not make people read through shit that does not apply to them?
Second, it is February 4, and the deadline for the post-doc was Feb 1, so what is the point of including that information that freaks the hell out of those of us who did not even know that was an option and now missed that deadline?
Third, it does not say clearly that the recipient of this email was not among those candidates that were selected for further evaluation (I thought that they were legally bound to say that).
Fourth and in general, it is wordy, confusing, and makes one's heart rate go up for no reason because it includes useless information (more useless than your average PFO, I would say). This is why it is one of the most annoying PFOs. Out.
- February 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM
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I must have gotten a different PFO from Siena (or there is more than one Siena). Mine didn't ID anyone. It was annoyingly addressed to "Philosophy Applicant." I much prefer "Philosophy Reject."
I find the USC PFO annoying because it is too long, and large portions of it are completely irrelevant to the rejection in question. They could have just been really explicit about the position it applies to. A waste of time to read it.
- February 4, 2011 at 4:39 PM
So perhaps here's a contender for cheekiest rejection and follow-up. Earlier this week I got a rejection stating "I want to congratulate you for your past accomplishments" - which might have sounded halfway sincere if it hadn't been addressed to "Dear Applicant." Not too bad, all told - just the usual faux-regret, made a little more hollow-sounding by trying too hard.
But today, hilariously, I got an email from the same department. Apparently, they can't complete the search process officially because not enough people submitted their equal opportunity/diversity monitoring forms. So now they've sent out an email to all the rejected candidates asking them, post-rejection, to fill in the form and send it back. I'm tempted to do it just out of admiration for their gall.
- February 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Let them boil like frogs from their ignorance of harm that should gradually destroy them if their stupid call for help is finally unheard by you and your rejected comrades. Don't let your impulses cool the flames of growing acknowledgment of their stupidity as the return emails don't come in. Doing nothing here does everything that justice finally requires.
- February 4, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Does any search chair have the guts to send this letter:
Dear Applicant.
Not Your Future Colleague
If not, what's the shortest, most reasonable, way to say it with out writing "PFO."
- February 4, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- zombie said...
Dear You,
- February 5, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- zombie said...
Speaking of annoying: I have gotten two separate PFO emails (a few weeks apart) from the same school (a CC), each of them almost immediately followed by an emailed request for more information indicating that my candidacy was proceeding. I question their efficiency and organization. In each case, a follow-up email from me confirmed that I'm still under consideration.
One can only hope that working for them would not similarly be a series of highs and lows and abrupt changes of course.
- February 5, 2011 at 6:24 AM
Perhaps the worst part of the USC reject: the subject line, which read, "From: USC Recruitment Committee."
Yes, I knew I already lost this job. Yes, I know that a "recruitment committee" may perform different tasks beyond recruitment -- but COME ON! I don't want a single positive indicator to show up in my Inbox's subject lines unless it is actually attached to a positive email.
Did I expect them to say "From: USC Rejection Committee"? No, but it'd be awfully honest and refreshing.
How about: "From: USC Search Committee"?
And, yes, 3:32 is right, I found the second worst part of this PFO was the sending of it right after the postdoc was due and talking all about the postdoc as if to rub it in that us junior people who only applied for the one job clearly shot too high and should have read, "Open Rank" to mean, "Just apply to the PostDoc, dumbass."
By the way, I thought it was ok to out schools. Who the heck did that, 7:49?
- February 5, 2011 at 6:25 AM
"It seems like every year I get at least one mass e-mail rejection with the e-mail addresses of a good number of my fellow job candidates cc'd."
I've been on two searches, and both times we've had a number of applicants who failed to cut and paste our university's name into the cover letter they used for another application. But I've yet to have an applicant send an email apologizing for the error.
- February 5, 2011 at 7:08 AM
7:49 Do not return that form! That the EEO or EOA or what ever they call it's problem. No one has to send that shit in, and I wouldn't do any extra work for a but of people who cannot even send you an acceptable rejection email.
- February 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM
At least Siena apologized. My earlier PFO from Valdosta State (the one that preceded any on-campus interviews, and began "We are pleased to announce that we have hired [person who is not you, but our inside candidate]...")was also mass email style, with everyone's email address visible. There was definitely no apology follow-up. Interestingly, looks like a few of us applied at both places. :(
- February 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM
I hardly got any PFOs at all (true, I only applied for 7 jobs since I can afford to be selective, just starting a research-oriented postdoc position). If it weren't for the job wiki I would still be in the dark.
- February 5, 2011 at 2:35 PM
7.49 here... It was UC-Riverside who sent the plea for equal opps forms out. Really, at this stage I'm much more amused than insulted - "Please do this so that we can formally complete the process of rejecting you. Yes, that's right, we need you to contribute to the confirmation of your own rejection." Maybe if I don't do it, and they can't officially close the search, it means I'm still in the running!
- February 5, 2011 at 10:25 PM
I think that the mass email issue and a number of other SC-candidate communication issues could be resolved by sufficient standardization. So, for instance, when one applies to law school (something I have experience with), one applies through a centralized electronic clearing-house (LSAC). The universities then communicate with released or waitlisted candidates via highly vetted mass-emails (which are not part of the clearinghouse, but could be). This eliminates all variance in expectation as well as all mistakes by overtaxed (and often technologically inept) SC members.
- February 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM
I haven't heard from any of the schools I got first-round interviews with. I know it's not too late to give up all hope, but it also seems unwise to hold out too much hope that I'll get an on-campus.
BTW, Anon 7:08, do you really think the two situations are parallel? I think job applications are somewhat confidential -- that's why online applications require that you set up passwords, after all -- and to broadcast a list of applicants to the philosophy world is very unprofessional. Not fully updating an application is a harmless oversight. I can't believe you feel personally injured when you see typos.
- February 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM
10:25--UC--Riverside??? You have to be kidding me. As Spiros would say--DOOM.
wv: "droni" as in I am a self-imposed drone target.
- February 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM
"Not fully updating an application is a harmless oversight. I can't believe you feel personally injured when you see typos."
I suppose it's a harmless oversight until it's your school that an applicant can't be bothered to identify. Are they parallel? Not exactly. Just noting that it's not just committees that make errors, regardless of the relative weight of those errors.
If nothing else, this is a lesson to those on that market. If you can't properly identify the name of the school to which you are applying, expect to be rejected immediately. Nobody wants to read a form cover letter that wasn't given the very minor attention of making sure you correctly identify the university you are asking to hire you.
If your blind date's name is Susan, don't expect to be invited upstairs if you spend the evening calling her Peggy.
- February 7, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
I suppose it's a harmless oversight until it's your school that an applicant can't be bothered to identify
Dude. It's a typo. If that sort of thing really, honestly hurts your feelings, if you genuinely think it's not harmless, I recommend that you attempt to develop a thicker skin.
- February 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM
What if I call Susan Sue? Will I then get invited upstairs for a makeout session? Is getting a PFO letter like getting rejected by the girl or is it like a cock block from the town drunk?
- February 8, 2011 at 12:18 AM
Applicants send many letters. SCs send one or two mass e-mails. So, come on.
Also, it may also happen that an applicant forgets to change the name of the school, e.g., on the first line of a letter the rest of which they have in fact tailored for your school.
Rejecting a candidate for a typo like that is crazy....
- February 8, 2011 at 2:55 AM
If I had 50-70 blind dates that I had to go on (not by my choice but because each one had a less than 0.5% chance of being willing to continue dating me next year, and I really need a date next year), and they all knew these circumstances, and I forgot a name, then, yes, I'd be the jerk.
Look, if someone got the school's name wrong, does that indicate you probably aren't the person's first choice? Yes. Are you likely to be anyone's first choice? Probably not. Does it mean they don't care about the school, that they wouldn't be happy to be there, that they wouldn't be an excellent colleague who occasionally makes a random mistake? None of these follow.
After I applied to about 95% of the schools I was applying to, I found a typo in my dossier that went out to all of those schools. I felt sick about it for at least a week. But, I kept telling myself, "No one would care about a single typo." It turns out some schools may have actually rejected me for my typo. Good. I would never want to work with such people.
- February 8, 2011 at 5:51 AM
Heh. I'm not really thin-skinned, but I am a bit experienced having been on 2 job searches. Our last search brought in nearly 200 applications. We had to narrow that down to 10 interviews, 3 finalists, and 1 hire. Applicants may not like this, but one way SCs thin the herd is to eliminate those whose letters mis-identify the school to which they apply. Does it suck? Probably. But to be honest, it's a means of cutting the pile down. And doing so may eliminate a good potential hire, but honestly, any means we use to trim the herd eliminates good potential hires. It's no more or less arbitrary than any other means (like basing the first cut on letterhead, for instance).
One thing job applicants need to keep in mind is that to get the job, they first have to get the interview. To get the interview, you have to stand out. You have to be one of the 10 out of the nearly 200 that strike the committee positively, immediately. In this regard, academia is no different from the business world. Talk to people in your business programs about successful job applications. They will tell you the same thing: it may be silly, and unfair, and you may hate that it happens, but if you dismiss the impact of such minor typos on your chances of being hired, you do so at your own peril. When you are chairing a search committee, you may choose whatever arbitrary means you want to cut the many dozens of fully qualified and potentially great colleagues. Reject applications by any means you choose. But know that mis-identifying the school is one such means SCs employ.
When I was on the market, I was that over-achiever who wrote an individualized letter for every school to which I applied. Not coming from a top-25 program, I needed every bit of help I could get to make it past the first cut, given that it was my first year on the market. I had a dozen interviews, and at each the SC noted the attention I put into my letter. I had several fly-backs, and accepted the offer I found most appealing. I have no doubt at all that one major factor in getting those interviews was the quality of my cover letter. Details matter.
Of course, once you get past that, you still need to nail the interview and demonstrate that you are the best fit. But the first step is getting the interview, and the best way to get an interview is with the best application. And part of what makes an application "best" is its attention to detail in such a way that impresses the SC.
- February 8, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Hi anon 8:33/7:15 (I presume you are the same person),
It is one thing to take a cover-letter typo misidentifying the school as a sign of carelessness or something, for the purposes of narrowing things down. It's one thing to use an arbitrary weed-out criterion in the clear absence of a suitable or accessible non-arbitrary standard. I have not "dismissed" this.
But that's not what you said. You said, "it's a harmless oversight until it's your school that an applicant can't be bothered to identify." You said, "If your blind date's name is Susan, don't expect to be invited upstairs if you spend the evening calling her Peggy."
If you want to change your initial story to a more reasonable one, that's fine. But I was responding to what your comment actually said. FWIW, I agree with your advice about cover letters. I think it's true that the details matter, and your cover letter is your only chance to make a first impression. And it's hard to overcome a bad first impression. (That said, it would be kind of foolish to round-file an otherwise strong dossier just because the cover letter said 'Delaware' instead of 'Connecticut' on it.)
- February 8, 2011 at 7:54 AM
I'm actually kinda surprised by these responses from other SC members. When I've been on an SC, or more recently, when I've been on admissions committees, we routinely see misnamings in the letters.
"Berkeley is ideally suited to my areas of interest..." I'm happy to give the student a pass on the misnaming; but if the student identifies an area of interest that isn't one in which we have a strength, then _that's_ a reason to reject the student. [nb: Berkeley is not my school.]
So too with cover letters and teaching statements in job apps. Sometimes people make mistakes. Obviously, misnaming a university or college is not a big deal. However, if the applicant says something to this effect, or implies as much: "I am applying to your job at Teaching College because I would make such a great teacher. I stay up late at night thinking about all the great collaborative games and group activities that we'll play in my class the next day," I know they're not right for my research university.
It can also hurt a candidate when paired with other information in the dossier or in the broader market. If the candidate notes a school that lists as its AOS metaethics, and we're hiring in philosophy of law, this is a bad sign for the candidate. In that case, she's given me an extra reason to question whether she's applying for the right sort of position. In at least one of the two cases, she isn't qualified for the job.
It's not, in other words, the care with which the applicant prepares her cover letter, but the information that is conveyed by playing sloppy poker.
- February 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM
"(That said, it would be kind of foolish to round-file an otherwise strong dossier just because the cover letter said 'Delaware' instead of 'Connecticut' on it.)"
Me again.
Out of curiosity, what would you recommend using as a means to "round-file" strong dossiers? We're going to reject nearly every application that comes our way. Most of them will be strong applications that fit the AOS and hit the qualifications we are looking for. Most of them will have strong letters of recommendation attesting to the value of the applicant.
Or put it this way. You're chairing a SC. You get 170 applications and narrow them down to, let's say, 75 strong applications from fully qualified candidates. Each one is appealing. Assume that by "strong" I mean the usual: the right conferences, good publications, strong letters, relevant teaching experience, degree in hand. What do you use to thin the herd, knowing that you are "round-filing" strong dossiers?
- February 8, 2011 at 8:27 AM
Another many-times SC member here. In my experience, the case made by 8:33/7:15 is too strong. My department gives not one shit that you sell yourself specifically to us. We want to hire the best not-totally-irresponsible philosopher we can. But a cover letter that misaddresses us makes us wonder if the application isn't actually a mistake. 'Did this person really mean to apply for this job?' we wonder. (People do apply for jobs by mistake, conflating branches of a state system or schools with similar sounding names.) Of course, we'll clear it up eventually if we want to interview the person. But I attest that it's unsettling to read a file while wondering if the applicant really is addressing it to you. The "typo" is always immediately circled, and it becomes the most immediately (however superficially) salient thing about the file.
It's a small thing. But since most of my colleagues and I don't like the eager-beaver approach that 8:33/7:15 advocates -- we don't care at all about individualized cover-letters, and I'm personally a big fan of the two-sentence letter -- I wanted to spell a simpler rationale for proof-reading carefully. (If your cover letter is two sentences, it would be very easy to proof read!)
- February 8, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- zombie said...
I have a basic cover letter that I use as a template. Then I tailor every single letter I send, and I applied for 50+ jobs this year. To my knowledge, I never forgot to update the institution name on a letter, but more than once, I realized after thinking I had finished a letter that I had forgotten to change the name in the last paragraph. The preceding several paragraphs? Tailored to the school and job.
I don't doubt that getting the name wrong is a good way to get your dossier tossed, given that SCs have so many apps to look at, and they need ways to reduce the load. Which is why applicants need to be vigilant.
But given that applicants have a heavy burden come application time, SCs could also be a little forgiving. If I use the wrong name in my cover letter, it doesn't mean that I don't care about your school/job. It only means that I applied for other jobs before I applied for yours -- we all realize that's a function of deadlines and not preferences/values right?
- February 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM
On the dating analogy.
Isn't the better analogy speed dating? If I know that the gal across from me has to meet and chat up fifty plus guys in a short amount of time and she slips and calls me "Blaine" and then on those grounds I cross her off my list, my mom would say that I'm a dick. And, let me add, my mom is pretty forgiving.
[word verification: shons. As in, "He who shons the candidate for making a small fool of him or herself is the greater fool."]
- February 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
Look, dude. I get that you've got a lot of applications to deal with, and it's difficult or impossible to find non-arbitrary ways to narrow the field. I understand that it is perfectly fine to use an arbitrary criterion in the absence of a suitable non-arbitrary one. I know that, and I know you know I know that. Because when I say, "that said" in the text you quote, that is what I am saying I said.
I get that it's tough to be on a search committee. That it's a royal pain in the ass. But it is a rich man's problem. It is a pain in the ass I would give almost anything to have. Because that would mean for one thing that I was in a tenure-track job. It would mean that my days of dealing with the agony and uncertainty of the job market were over. And, intrinsically, it would represent an awesome opportunity to have an influence on the future direction and quality of my department. It's an extremely important decision and it seems to me that the responsibility of making it is a great honor.
I know it will give me a pain in my ass. I know it will be time-consuming, frustrating and difficult. I know I will complain about it. I know I will look at the pile and not know how to proceed. But the idea that the anonymous search committee member would come over and tell the perennial job marketeer how tough it is to be on the search committee, what with so many highly qualified applicants to eliminate, is extremely silly. And if I'm ever in your shoes, I hope I take the responsibility more seriously than to get offended and round-file applications that call me by the wrong name or something.
Again, I will emphasize that it's one thing if you think the typo is an arbitrary criterion to be employed only in the absence of any workable non-arbitrary criteria. This idea entails that the typo is not literally a good reason to eliminate the candidate--it's just that you have to eliminate some candidates somehow, and you don't have a good way to do it, and this way is no worse than the others.
But that's not what you have said. You have said that the typo is not a harmless mistake. You said that it's evidence of a kind of clueless insensitivity, like calling your date by the wrong name all night, and therefore literally counts as a good reason to eliminate the candidate, even if the rest of the file is strong (as in, strong; not merely not weak). My point is, you can use it if you have to, but don't say it's a good reason.
- February 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM
12:19pm just owned you. Hahahaha.
- February 9, 2011 at 11:09 AM
"12:19pm just owned you. Hahahaha."
Actually, 11:09am, that was written by Mr. Zero. Because of your mistake, our SC has tossed out your application.
- February 10, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- zombie said...
Giving credit where credit is due, a good PFO from Bowling Green and Louis Katzner arrived today.
"Dear zombie,
I am sorry to inform you that our Faculty Personnel Committee has decided not to pursue your candidacy any further for the position of Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Bowling Green State University. The Committee was very impressed with the quality of the applications submitted, and the selection of candidates from a very large pool was not an easy task.
On behalf of the Department, College and University thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to review your credentials. We wish you the best of luck in your job search."
Was that so hard? The letter gets right to the point. It accepts responsibility for not selecting me in direct language. None of this "your name does not appear on our list of candidates" or "your application has been set aside" crap. It wishes me luck.
Well done, sir.
- February 11, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Ben said...
Credit to Bowling Green indeed, that is a good one - in the sense it's the kind of PFO I'd want to receive if getting one, rather than a good example of how not to reject someone.
- February 12, 2011 at 1:42 AM
Two completely different remarks.
1. I've been on many SCs. I have never known anyone who cares if a cover letter contains a typo or has the wrong university name on it. I certainly would not care. Mind you, I usually merely skim the cover letter anyway, since it rarely contains useful information. I'm with Feb 8, 9:04 AM: I'm personally a big fan of the two-sentence letter.
2. Typically, when a mass email accidentally cc's rather than bcc's all of the condidates, it's a clerical error made by an administrative assistant. I have seen otherwise excellent and efficient admin assistants in tears after such a mistake.
- February 14, 2011 at 10:23 PM
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