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I Mix the Songs: Front of House Engineer Ken Newman Chooses a HARMAN Soundcraft Vi6 Digital Console for Barry Manilow Tour
NORTHRIDGE, California - Barry Manilow needs no introduction as one of the most popular and recognizable artists of all time. His hits include "Could It Be Magic," "Mandy," Copacabana," "I Write the Songs," "Looks Like We Made It," "Can't Smile Without You" and many others, with sales of more than 80 million records worldwide. On February 29, Manilow kicked off his first US tour of the decade with a HARMAN Soundcraft Vi6 digital console as the front of house console for the tour. Eighth Day Sound Systems is providing the console for the tour.
"In mixing this show I have to make it sound exactly the way Barry wants it to," said Ken Newman, FOH engineer for the tour and owner of Newman Audio, Inc. "While some artists leave the sound to their engineers, Barry is very involved in rehearsal and sound check and will sit right next to me and tell me exactly how he wants to hear something. He is very particular about what should be heard because he put together many of the arrangements and wants the audience to feel the music the way it is intended to be felt."
"We're using a trimmed-down band setup, but we want it to sound like we have 30 to 40 musicians," continued Newman, who worked with Manilow from 1992 through 2002 as his FOH mixer. "As a result, the biggest challenge of mixing this show is keeping up with the changes of a very active mix. There's always something that needs attention. The logical layout and five illuminated touchscreens of the Vi6 make this part of the job much easier."
"Another key aspect is that the reverb has to be right," Newman continued. "It's critically important to him and has to sound good no matter what the venue. If I turn on the console and I don't have the reverb up, Barry will say it sounds wrong. If the reverb is up and it sounds right, he is happy."
Newman had to get ready for rehearsals quickly-and use a digital live console for the first time. "The last time I toured with Barry the console was analog, and from 2002 to 2011 when I was working for a corporate events firm I spent most of my time working on analog and smaller digital consoles," Newman noted. "When I got the call for the tour, I wondered how I was going to be able to do it."
The console selection process was quite involved, Newman pointed out. "I knew it would be totally impractical to use an analog console for the tour, and I looked at a number of digital consoles and what other music shows were using," Newman said. "I didn't feel confident that I'd be able to get the sound I was looking for with some of the consoles, as their internal effects and processing were marginal at best. With others, the control surfaces just weren't going to cut it for an old analog guy like me. Some consoles seemed too complicated to learn in the short time I had, or were just not the right 'fit' for me."
Newman asked the advice of Dave Lawler of Docktrdave Audio Inc. of Burbank, California. "My friend Dave Lawler suggested the Soundcraft Vi6. I could immediately see how operator-friendly it was with its five display screens, three user-configurable input fader configurations and other features. For me it was like the time I got my first Macintosh computer in 1984 after having used DOS-based computers."
"I need to see what is going on one channel at a time, and the Vi6 offers great access to everything and not limiting me when I'm mixing, in a console that's so nicely sized," Newman added. "The Vi6 is also intuitive enough where if I don't know exactly how to do something at first, I can figure it out easily enough."
"I'm using all 64 inputs from the stage, as well as the majority of the local rack inputs and outputs," Newman pointed out. "I'm using the board's internal processing for most of the inputs, and I have two external tube audio compressors for the main and spare vocal mics. I'm using some other external effects because they're the exact same units I had for the 2002 Manilow tour and I'm familiar with them. Given time and rehearsals, I might be able to eliminate some of those effects because the Vi6's built-in Lexicon effects, compressors and gates sound so great."
"This tour is the first time I've used the Soundcraft Vi6 for anything! Talk about putting something to the test - but I feel like I've found a new friend in the Vi6, and I look forward to using it for many years to come."
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Thousands Attend Chavez's Funeral and More
What's News: Thousands of mourners attend the funeral for President Hugo Chavez, the Federal Reserve's latest "stress test" show banks are on the mend, McDonald's posts lackluster sales and a poll of how many Americans would eat horse meat. Photo: AP
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Evo Morales
Evo Morales, in full Juan Evo Morales Ayma, (born October 26, 1959, Isallavi, Bolivia), Bolivian labour leader who served as president of Bolivia (2006– ). A member of the Aymara indigenous group, Morales was Bolivia's first Indian president.
Born in a mining village in Bolivia's western Oruro department, Morales herded llamas when he was a boy. After attending high school and serving in the Bolivian military, he emigrated with his family to the Chapare region in eastern Bolivia, where the family farmed. Among the crops they grew was coca, which is used in the production of cocaine but is also a traditional crop in the region.
In the early 1980s Morales became active in the regional coca-growers union, and in 1985 he was elected the group's general secretary. Three years later he was elected executive secretary of a federation of various coca-growers unions. In the mid-1990s, when the Bolivian government was suppressing coca production with assistance from the United States, Morales helped found a national political party—the leftist Movement Toward Socialism (Spanish: Movimiento al Socialismo; MAS)—at the same time serving as titular leader of the federation representing coca growers.
Morales won a seat in the House of Deputies (the lower house of the Bolivian legislature) in 1997 and was the MAS candidate for president in 2002, only narrowly losing to Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. During the presidential campaign, Morales called for the expulsion from Bolivia of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents (his campaign was bolstered by the U.S. ambassador's comment that aid to Bolivia would be reconsidered if Morales was elected). In the following years, Morales remained active in national affairs, helping force the resignation of Sánchez de Lozada in 2003 and extracting a concession from his successor, Carlos Mesa Gisbert, to consider changes to the highly unpopular U.S.-backed campaign to eradicate illegal coca production.
As the MAS presidential candidate again in 2005, Morales was elected easily, winning 54 percent of the vote and becoming the country's first Indian president and the first Bolivian president since 1982 to win a majority of the national vote. Sworn in as president in January 2006, he pledged to reduce poverty among the country's Indian population, ease restrictions on coca farmers, renationalize the country's energy sector, fight corruption, and increase taxes on the wealthy. Morales strongly supported efforts to rewrite the Bolivian constitution to increase the rights of the country's indigenous population, enshrine his policies of nationalization and land redistribution, and allow a president to serve two consecutive terms, though in a referendum in July 2006 the MAS failed to win a majority in the Constitutional Assembly. Morales then nationalized Bolivia's gas fields and oil industry, and in November he signed into law a land reform bill that called for the seizure of unproductive lands from absentee owners and their redistribution to the poor. His reforms faced opposition from the wealthier provinces of Bolivia, four of which overwhelmingly approved regional autonomy statutes in referenda held in 2008. The Morales government dismissed the referenda as illegal. Tensions escalated, and demonstrations, some of which turned violent, increased throughout the country. A recall referendum on Morales's leadership was held in August 2008, and two-thirds of the voters supported the continuance of his presidency.
The constitution that Morales had envisioned and planned for nearly three years was approved by voters in a national referendum held in January 2009. It allowed him to seek a second consecutive five-year term (previously the constitution limited the president to a single term) and gave him the power to dissolve Congress. Other changes to the constitution furthered indigenous rights, strengthened state control over the country's natural resources, and enforced a limit on the size of private landholdings. Its passing, however, further aggravated tensions between the country's indigenous majority and wealthier Bolivians from the gas-rich eastern provinces, who strongly opposed its ratification. In April 2009 Morales signed a law authorizing early presidential and legislative elections, set to take place that December. With the continued support of the Indian majority, Morales easily won a second five-year presidential term. Moreover, in the concurrent legislative elections, the MAS won control of both houses of Congress.
In April 2013 Bolivia's constitutional court ruled that because Morales's first term as president had preceded the constitutional reform that prevented the chief executive from serving more than two consecutive terms, he would be allowed to run for a third term in 2014. In that event, Morales claimed a clear victory in the first round of elections, with exit polls giving him more than 60 percent of the vote. Especially notable was his strong performance in wealthier regions, which had traditionally sided with the opposition.
By 2015 the robust Bolivian economy had begun to slow significantly, largely in response to declining world petroleum and natural gas prices, and some of Morales's critics blamed him for having failed to diversify the country's natural gas-dependent economy. Morales also found himself at the centre of a corruption scandal when it was revealed that a woman with whom he once had been romantically involved had obtained a prominent position in 2013 with a Chinese company that received some $500 million in no-bid contracts from the Bolivian government. Morales stridently denied having engaged in any impropriety. Nevertheless, that scandal and the sagging economy put a dent in Morales's popularity, and in a referendum held in February 2016 Bolivians rejected (by a vote of about 51 percent to 49 percent) a constitutional change that would have allowed Morales to run for another term as president in 2019.
Morales appeared to be resigned to the results, but in September 2017 the MAS asked the constitutional court to remove term limits for the presidency, and in November the court did just that. In December 2018 the Supreme Electoral Court upheld that decision, prompting widespread street protests but paving the way for Morales to run for reelection in 2019.
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Bolivia: EconomyJuan Evo Morales Ayma—who shared a leftist ideology with close allies Pres. Hugo Chavéz of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba—had begun a shift back toward the nationalization of Bolivia's industries to counter foreign control and to better fund social programs for the poor.…
Bolivia: Bolivia in the 21st century18, 2005, amid continuing protests, Juan Evo Morales Ayma was elected as Bolivia's first Indian president. A founder of the left-wing political party Movement Toward Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo; MAS) and a former coca-growers' union leader, Morales fought for more rights for indigenous communities, for less-harsh restrictions on coca farmers,…
Paraguay: Paraguay in the 21st centuryEvo Morales signed an accord settling the border dispute over the Chaco region that had caused the Chaco War in the 1930s. They blamed foreign intervention for fueling the war. In 2010, largely in response to his advocacy of Venezuela's ascent into Mercosur, Lugo lost…


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rinsing their noses with untreated tap water probably ended up killing two Louisiana residents last year, according to an investigation of the widely reported deaths by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tap water samples from the two homes both contained Naegleria fowleri, a tiny ameba that can travel from the nose to the brain and cause fatal infections.
The Louisiana residents, a 28-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman, both used neti pots to rinse their sinuses, and researchers believe they may have inadvertently given the bug a free pass to their brain while doing so.
Nestled in the warm fluid inside the skull, N. fowleri quickly started multiplying and feeding on the brain, killing its host within days, explained Jonathan Yoder, an epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta.
"Even though this is a very rare condition, it is certainly very tragic for those involved and their families," Yoder told Reuters Health.
Neti pots are teapot-like containers commonly used to wash the nose and remove dirt or dust there or loosen thick mucus. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning against using the pots with untreated tap water, which may contain bacteria and other microbes. Stomach acid usually wipes out the bugs, but the nose and sinuses don't have the same defenses.
The first signs of danger came in June 2011, when a man from southern Louisiana suddenly got a bad headache. His neck felt stiff, his back hurt and he vomited intermittently, according to the CDC report, which was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The following day he was brought to a New Orleans hospital in a combative state and with a fever. There was so much pressure in his central nervous system that when the doctors did a spinal tap, the cerebrospinal fluid shot out more than two inches. It was cloudy, when it should have been clear.
Despite getting shots of powerful antibiotics, the man was declared brain dead on June 8, three days after he first developed symptoms.
A few months later, a woman from northern Louisiana landed in the hospital after having spent three days with high fever and vomiting. She also had a stiff neck and was lethargic. She died on October 2 after five days at the hospital.
The CDC determined based on tissue samples that both persons died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, caused by N. fowleri.
Yoder said the CDC sees only a few cases of PAM every year, nearly all of them associated with swimming in lakes or other untreated water. But according to colleagues and family of the deceased, they had not been in contact with freshwater - other than at the house - in the weeks before their deaths.
Given that both persons used neti pots and that N. fowleri was found in the tap water, Yoder said it's likely that the sinus rinsing is to blame.
"It really requires a very specific forcing up the nose for (the ameba) to cross into the brain," Yoder explained. "It is not a typical parasite who is looking to infect humans. It is very happy to live in the environment."
The two Louisiana deaths are the first U.S. cases of PAM that have been linked to N. fowleri in household plumbing served by municipal water. Yoder said he did not know how the ameba got into the plumbing in the first place, as it was not found in samples from the municipal water treatment plant.
But the investigation shows that once N. fowleri is in the plumbing, it is able to survive there, said Yoder. And adding salt to the water, as is typically done with neti pots, is not enough to take care of the microbe, the CDC found.
"We found that it does kill the amebas but it takes something like 18 hours for most of them to die," Yoder said. "It highlights the point that we should use safe water to mix with the salt."
For safe nose rinsing, health officials recommend using sterile or distilled water bought in stores, or tap water that is boiled for at least three minutes and then cooled, or water that has been passed through a filter with a pore size of no more than 1 micron.
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I used to have a wonderful life. Then Scott Yorke ruined it.
Sitting alone in a small room in an undisclosed location, constantly guarded by two armed plain-clothes police officers, former marginal blogger and professional opinionator Andrew Geddis cuts a folorn figure.
Up until last week, he appeared to have it all. A well paid position at New Zealand's top law school (yeah, it is, Victoria ... just accept it). Media attention for whatever dribbling incoherencies happened to escape from his caffeine-addled mind. And while he may not have been a well loved, or even particularly liked, personality on campus, he enjoyed something far better - widely-felt fear, based on occasionally calling on individual students to answer a question in class.
But in a single shocking moment, this way of life came to an end. Speaking publicly for the first time, Geddis tells his story.
"I was in my office, skipping around on the internet to see what is more interesting than researching issues of constitutional law. I'd checked all the usual sites, up to and including this one, when I thought I'd have a look at poor old Scott Yorke's "Imperator Fish". I mean, normally you'll only find turgid pastiches of old Seinfeld episodes on it, but he tries so very hard and it's nice to throw a struggling IP lawyer and wannabe funny man the odd hit."
Here Geddis pauses and takes a long, shuddering breath. He obviously still is struggling to put into words what has happened to him.
"Yorke had put up a new post, "Blogger issues "fatwa" against law professor". In it, he lays out some insane conspiracy theory about me "stealing ideas from his head" and plotting with John Key to discredit and silence him.
I mean, that's just crazy! It's clear from his previous work that there's nothing in his head to be stolen, and why would John Key's National Government want to silence him when Yorke spends most of his time either attacking David Shearer, or defending David Shearer, or telling other people to stop attacking or defending David Shearer, or telling other people to stop telling other people not to attack or defend David Shearer?
But it seems that Yorke is serious in his delusions, and there's nothing more dangerous than a zealot convinced of his own righteousness and determined to gain retribution."
Geddis stops and shakingly raises a cup of coffee to his lips. His face has gone ashen white, and sweat stands out on his brow.
"Yorke has called on all his readers to "make life difficult for [me] in 'numerous but little ways.'" Now, normally I wouldn't worry what - at most - 20 people might be going to do. But the only people who go to that site are stone-cold sociopathic evildoers. And I'm not talking about your marginal, Kiwiblog-commentator levels of sociopathic evil ... it's the full-on Mengele-meets-Calvin Candie version.
Specifically, Yorke wants his slavish acolytes to "attack [me] with custard pies, call [me] rude names, and if you see [me] in [my] car make sure you cut [me] off. Or if [I'm] a pedestrian refuse to stop for [me] at a zebra crossing." The pies and names I'm not that afraid of - it's nothing worse than we see at a standard faculty morning tea. And, if anything, Yorke only is encouraging Dunedin drivers to show more courtesy and attention to the road code than they do at present.
But what really sent a shiver of cold dread through my very core was his next command:
If you're walking behind him just start giggling. If enough people keep giggling behind his back he'll develop a complex, and maybe his head will explode, and I'm pretty sure a law professor with an exploded head would be an unemployed one, and wouldn't that be sweet revenge for his idea-thieving?
Does Yorke really not appreciate the horrific consequences of people following his call? All that stands between me and a crushing recognition that I have wasted my life on a hollow existence in a narrow provincial backwater is my inflated ego and overdeveloped sense of smug self-satisfaction. If people start laughing at me, then all that falls away. I will be left psychically naked, shivering in the cold wind of scorn directed at me from people who I refuse to even hold the door open for in the lifts. It would mean the end of ... everything."
It is fear of this consequence and a recognition that Yorke's followers will go to any lengths to bring it about that has driven Geddis into his current life on the run - a life that eerily mirrors that of another famous victim of fatwa, Salman Rushdie. Geddis has had to give up his position at the University, each night is spent in a different place, while he has even been forced to adopt a new identity to hide behind.
"I have followed Rushdie's example and constructed a psudenom from the names of my two favourite authors. So when I do have to provide a name, I am "Wilbur Cussler". But don't print that would you? Otherwise it kind of ruins the point of having it. You won't print it, will you? Thanks."
Geddis sits for a while in silence, as he contemplates all he has lost and a future that looks very bleak. Then he straightens his shoulders, gives a deep sigh, and raises his eyes.
"Oh well. I guess I can always go sell real estate."


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I'm still searching for Chain Gang Rd. and the site where he dumped Nancy Rhinehart's body...I just think it's odd how all of the other places are well documented, only this one remains a "mystery" of sorts. I can't even find Chain Gang Rd. on a map!! I wonder why this one is "hidden" and why he revisited this one site repeatedly....
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:25 AM
i live in inman sc my sister inlaw and i have started a paranormal group we are currently seeking out haunted places here but reading today i got really interested in the gaffney strangler if any one can give me true information on this i would appreciate it. we have been to several locations here locally but would like more spots to try out if you are interested in the paranormal please feel free to contact us no crazys please dont want to waste time our research is very important to us
Posted 14 January 2014 - 10:51 PM
I have been doing a lot of research on Leroy Martin mainly because I am currently writing a book on South Carolina's paranormal. I was talking to my neighbor and when I mentioned the book to her she looked at me and said ''don't tell me nothing about it!'' I thought this was odd so I asked her what was the deal did she not believe? she looked at me matter of fact like and said '' yes I do, but you don't understand my uncle Leroy doesn't need to be bother and I don't like to talk about all that, because he is my uncle" it turns out Leroy Martin is her moms brother...hmmmm....I have went to several places where the bodies was found. My mama told me my aunt ran away and couldn't be found the police was looking for her when all of this was happening My daddy was called to idenitfy Nancy Parris's body thinking it was Jinny but lucky it wasn't but my mama took me to where she was dumped. My question is has anyone ever heard of what happened to Leroy's body after he was murdered? I can't find out anything, but I am thinking about asking his niece.(my neighbor) maybe she will atleast tell me if his body is buried at the prison, a cemetery or cremated.
Don't Judge what you don't understand.....Beth
Posted 14 January 2014 - 10:57 PM
The old chain gang rd is there but the name was changed. My father passed away in 2006 he could tell me everything about Leroy he worked with him. My mama is 66 and health is really bad she can't remember all of it, but I can look at my notes and tell you all of what I have found. I am also including the Ghosts of John D. Long lake where Susan Smith drowned her kids. The van full of people who went to see the place and drowned. It is haunted. I live in Union SC so I want to include ALL the places I know to be haunted near by and all through out SC.
Don't Judge what you don't understand.....Beth
Posted 14 January 2014 - 11:42 PM
Hope this helps some.
Hope this helps some.
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DSOGaming writes: "Back in February, we informed you about Warhorse Studios' deal with Crytek. Warhorse Studios has got its hands on CryEngine 3 and has been working on an unannounced role-playing game (RPG) and today, YouTube's member 'Kubina14' has uploaded an off-camera video that showcases what Warhorse has been up to this entire time."
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare looks like that right now!
actually the upcoming ArcheAge also looks like this now!!!
So there you have it folks your Next Gen Consoles Graphics will look like this!
It look pretty good.... I wonder what RPG will carry them graphics
Jesus, that looks incredible. I'm gonna have to wait for a next gen console :/ but at least I now know it'll be worth it ^_^
Everything in this video is static and that doesn't nearly require as much power as real-time rendered lighting, physics, destruction etc. In it self it does look very nice, but this is not proof of anything :P


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I feel a bit stupid for asking this, because it seems like this is something you just should know. But what exactly is "mutual primes"?
I'm asking because the term is ungooglable due to the current economic climate and subprime mortgages (No Google, I wasn't looking for new on Washington Mutual! ). Wikipedia won't give me an answer either. Neither do Mathworld.


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There are friendly dragons who help small children, but they're not badass. Then there are tame dragons who fight for humans, but very few of them are badass either. Luckily, we've got some truly hardcore dragons here to eat your face off.
10. Sapphiron (World of Warcraft)
She's an ultra-powerful blue dragon, who could channel the spirits of dead dragons - and when she was slain by annoying humans, she came back from the dead as a zombie frost wyrm. It doesn't get much more badass than that.
9. Avan Agornin in Tooth and Claw
It's true that Avan never slaughters another dragon. But in Jo Walton's masterful drawing room melodrama, set in a Victorian world ruled by dragons, Avan is a brave attorney who dares to challenge the power of ancient dragons in court. Sure, other dragons fight to the death and eat their young. But Avan is the most badass dragon in the story because he uses his brains instead of his claws.
8. Kalessin in The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Series)
He's the dragon who created Earthsea, and like all dragons, the language he speaks is pure magic.
7. Dragons in D-War
Look, the movie was beyond absurd. But the dragon effects were incredible - and there were a TON of them. When it comes to dragon eye candy, this flick can't be beat. And they are chewing their way through Los Angeles at a rapid clip, biting helicopters out of the air and smashing the shit out of everything.
6. Polychromatic Dragon from Dungeons & Dragons
Five heads and five breath weapons, baby. Fucking BADASS.
5. Vermithrax Perjorative in Dragonslayer
It's hard to make a movie dragon really badass. They're either too friendly (like Saphira in Eragon or Sean Connery in Dragonheart), or too lame (like the barely-seen dragons in Reign of Fire). Even though the effects in Dragonslayer feel dated now, there's a majesty and terror to the dragon that is hard to beat.
4. 5 dragons of Lodoss
The only remaining dragons after years of magical wars on the island of Lodoss, this pack - a mixture of evil and good - are undoubtedly the most powerful dragons in this Japanese fantasy franchise that spanned games, manga, and anime.
3. Kilnmouth from Magic the Gathering
A rare and powerful card, this is the dragon who will take your dragon deck from awesome to badass.
2. Smaug in The Hobbit
This red dragon may not be the most powerful dragon ever, but he's certainly one of the most memorable. It sounds weird to talk about realism when it comes to dragons, but when we meet Smaug in The Hobbit, it's as if Tolkien has taken fairy tale dragons and made them into something we can believe in.
1. Temeraire (the Temeraire Series)
He's the biggest, smartest dragon in the King's army, and possibly in the world. He's a gorgeous glossy black, speaks several languages, only eats tasty Chinese food, and has one of the rarest and most powerful breath weapons ever seen: the Divine Wind, which is basically a sonic blast that can shatter a naval ship and flatten whole armies. Plus, he's a civil rights activist who is trying to make dragons into full citizens of the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. Seriously, if you haven't read Naomi Novik's incredible series about Temeraire the dragon, you haven't lived the badass dragon lifestyle. Start with book one, His Majesty's Dragon - you'll never look back.
Special bonus round: Trogdor
He's a dragon. He's a man. He's a dragon-man. He burninates the countryside. I still love Trogdor.


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Thanks to the emergence of faster powerline communications (PLC) standards, anything from Internet to high-definition television signals can be sent to every room of the house — as long as it's equipped with an electrical receptacle.
In 2001, a group of companies formed the HomePlug Alliance, which created the HomePlug 1.0 standard to transmit data at speeds of 14 megabits per second over electrical wires. To date, more than 4 million devices based on this standard have been sold worldwide.
Until recently, HomePlug was primarily used for networking computers. However, this summer the HomePlug Alliance released its newest PLC standard, HomePlug AV, which stands for audio and video. This new standard allows a data transfer rate of up to 200 megabits per second — plenty fast enough to handle multiple high-definition video streams at once. It uses 128-bit AES Encryption to ensure privacy of the data exchanged over the network and is designed for backward compatibility with HomePlug 1.0 products. Products containing this technology are expected to hit the consumer market early this year.
While the data transfer speed of HomePlug appears promising, even more telling may be the high-profile companies this technology has attracted. Since the new technology was announced, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, General Electric, Sharp, and Samsung have all joined the HomePlug Alliance. In fact, Intel powerline initiative manager Matt Theall even took over as president.
A new standard. "What makes HomePlug so compelling is the fact that there's a power outlet every 8 feet by building code," says Andy Melder, senior vice president of Intellon, a founding member of the HomePlug Alliance and a major manufacturer of HomePlug silicon chips. "So what electrical contractors do is simply lay out the electrical wiring per code without consideration whatsoever that HomePlug will be using that wire for other purposes."
In fact, he says the technology requires no real installation. Just by plugging in a HomePlug-enabled adapter into a wall receptacle and connecting it to an Ethernet cable, every receptacle in the house can have data transmitted to it over the home's existing electrical wiring system. Then adapters can be used in other parts of the house for access to Internet, HDTV, VoIP, etc. The broadband signal can enter the home using a variety of methods — including broadband over powerlines (BPL), if the user's utility provider offers this service — before it is dispersed throughout the home.
The idea is technology manufacturers will eventually include silicon chips in their devices to read the signal coming through the electrical receptacle. Therefore, in many cases, purchasing a converter won't even be necessary. The user will simply plug in an electronic device, and it can receive both communication signals and power simultaneously through its power cord.
"Just like five years ago, for example, if you bought a laptop computer, chances are it didn't have a WiFi chip in it, so you had to go out and buy a PC adapter card," Melder says. "The same thing will happen with HomePlug."
Sending data over home powerlines is not a new concept. As early as the mid-'80s, a technology called X10 allowed end-users to control the lighting throughout the home from one central control console using adapters that plugged into the wall. But simple command and control doesn't require the signal processing that data, video, and audio streams demand. Because electrical lines are inherently noisy, especially when hairdryers, dishwashers, and vacuums are in use, HomePlug had to develop a method of moving the data around the noise.
HomePlug AV sends data over the electric wires in the home using the frequency spectrum from 2 MHz to 30 MHz. That spectrum is broken up into 1,000 different carriers — each of which has the ability to be phase shifted with modulation densities from 1 bit per carrier symbol to 10 bits per carrier symbol. If one of these carriers contains too much noise, the data will shift to another carrier through the use of windowed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).
"The sophistication of the algorithms and the performance of silicon have advanced to the point where we can do these things in real time," Melder says.
Real time is especially important for audio and video. "If I type in a URL and hit enter on my keyboard, it doesn't matter if it takes 1 second or 1.2 seconds for that Web site to come up," he maintains. "But if I want to move video or audio around, I can no longer tolerate a delay in the arrival of any packet that's tied to a video stream or an audio stream, because immediately my usage experience goes down the tubes."
Filling in the gaps. With PLC technology supporting data, audio, and video, a "smart home" for the masses seems closer than ever. People could record their favorite show using the digital video recorder (DVR) in their bedroom and then stream the video to their large flat panel display in the family room later to watch it. Digital pictures downloaded to a PC could instantly be displayed on a TV in the basement. A printer could be shared with every computer in the house just by plugging it in. Every electrical device in the home could be interconnected via the home's electrical network. But PLC technology is unlikely to completely replace other data transmission technologies any time soon. That's because HomePlug adapters can also be used to enhance other networking systems.
"HomePlug technology is just an alternative for expanding or completing coverage, filling up gaps in your coverage," says analyst Joyce Putscher of market research firm In-Stat in Scottsdale, Ariz., explaining how wireless LAN service providers can reap the benefits of HomePlug technology. "If a customer is having trouble getting reception in a room or two, they want to make their customer happy, so some of the service operators are starting to just send them a [wireless LAN] adapter," Putscher says.
Homebuilders may also find themselves benefiting from PLC technology. Homebuilder Benjamin Johnson, president of Martineck-Johnson Custom Homes, says that just knowing this technology is available makes him comfortable enough to install less Cat. 5 cable in his new homes. In fact, he only installs about one-third as much cable as he did before learning of HomePlug AV, primarily for traditional phone lines.
"We still generally run one Cat. 5 to every room, but I don't have to worry about my homeowner calling me up and saying, 'Gee, I wanted to put my computer over here instead of over there,' because I know that by using the [HomePlug] technology they can do it themselves," he says.
Johnson also notes that the way his new homes are wired electrically will not need to change in any way to accommodate HomePlug equipment. Melder agrees, adding, "There's been quite a bit of testing done in the early days of various homes of different sizes, of different construction, and different wiring material being used, whether it was aluminum or whether it was copper — none of that matters."
Overcoming obstacles. Though builders and service providers may be excited about HomePlug, not everyone is thrilled. The frequency spectrum used by HomePlug is also the same spectrum used by ham radio operators, who are concerned about the signal in the wires radiating and causing interference in their communications. For this reason, Melder says, HomePlug has "notched out" certain frequencies used by ham operators. In other words, these frequencies are assigned a null value and are not utilized by HomePlug.
"The American Relay Radio League (ARRL) has products that they've tested where they are used right next to a ham radio, and they cannot see the HomePlug products operating, because notching is done so deeply in terms of attenuation and so precisely, that the ham frequencies aren't touched at all," Melder says.
A study of the HomePlug 1.0 standard conducted by broadband consulting firm Systems Dynamic in 2003 notes some of the drawbacks of the original standard, most of which have been remedied with HomePlug AV. It warns that HomePlug adapters should not be plugged into traditional surge protectors. Through this research, the consulting firm found that the better the surge protector, the worse the HomePlug performance. In fact, analysts say a UPS will block HomePlug completely. To address this issue, some manufacturers now sell surge protectors and UPSs specifically designed to work with HomePlug networks.
HomePlug is not the only standard for transmitting data across home electrical wires, but it is certainly the most predominant standard in the United States. However, another standard by a company in Spain, DS2, also offers 200 megabits per second performance, and claims to have provided chips for 100,000 powerline networking devices distributed by Telefonica, a Spanish phone company. But analyst Putscher doesn't feel that there is any kind of a standards war developing between DS2 and HomePlug.
"Some operators may deploy and offer DS2-based units to their customers and some may offer HomePlug, so at this moment I don't see one going totally away," she says.
Future plans call for HomePlug to make its technology available for use over cable and phone lines to provide even further home coverage. "So not only are we focused on powerline, which is the most ubiquitous medium in the home, but we can also apply it to any other already in-place wiring." Melder says. "I can't help but be very bullish on where this is going over the course of the next 18 to 24 months."


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KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight soldiers with the American-led military coalition were killed Saturday, making it the bloodiest day this year for Western troops fighting here.
Two were shot in an insider attack, one died in a small-arms attack and five Americans were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, according to statements from the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan officials.
The explosion that killed the five American soldiers took place in the Maiwand district in western Kandahar Province, said Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar. The soldiers were driving toward villages from central Maiwand when they were attacked, he said. Capt. Dan Einert, a spokesman for the international coalition here, confirmed that the five soldiers were Americans.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the insider attack in Farah Province in western Afghanistan, where an Afghan National Army soldier turned his weapon on his trainers after an argument, said Lt. Col. Hajji Dil Jan, the deputy police chief of Farah Province.
A Taliban spokesman said in an e-mail that the gunman was from Farah Province.
The coalition said it would not confirm the nationality of the two soldiers who were killed because the next of kin had not yet been notified. But most of the troops in Farah are Americans. Colonel Jan said the gunman, who went by the name Quadratullah, was killed by American soldiers.
Insider attacks rose sharply in 2012, with 64 deaths in 48 attacks, more than in any previous year, Captain Einert said. The military has taken extensive measures to prevent them, and so far this year there have been four episodes.
But with the Taliban's spring offensive now under way, military officials say they are expecting the militants to increase the use of the tactic.
The eighth casualty occurred in an attack in northern Afghanistan, Captain Einert said.


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This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. To see what's been digitized in this collection, click on the thumbnail at the top right of this page
or look for hyperlinks in the container list and/or the preliminary inventory.
Betty Speir, alumna of East Carolina University, served on the ECU Board of Trustees, ECU Board of Visitors, North Carolina State Board of Education, North Carolina Museum of History Board, North Carolina Crime Commission, and the National Democratic Party Executive Committee. She chaired the Women's Forum of North Carolina, the North Carolina Democratic Party, the Board of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Communities in Schools of Pitt County. Speir founded the Pitt County Education Foundation and was the first woman chair of the Pitt County Democratic Party.
All the information above was obtained from the 100 Incredible ECU Women webpage at East Carolina University's Division of Diversity Advancement Women's Roundtable website. For more information, please visit the Women's Rountable website at:
East Carolina University Division of Diversity Advancement. "100 Incredible ECU Women."
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/mktg/womensroundtable/100_incredible_women_a_d.cfm (August 2010).
April 9, 1979, 6 containers, 1cu. ft.; Personal files (1975-1978), including correspondence, reports, agendas, minutes and memos pertaining to the equals rights amendment, the governor's crime commission, and state and local Democratic party politics. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
November 7, 1979, (Unprocessed addition 1), 1 cu. ft.; Files (1978-1979) for Governor's commission on crime control. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
September 10, 1982, (Unprocessed addition 2),
2 cu. ft.; Files (1978-1981) of the N. C. Crime Commission, the Juvenile Justice Planning Commission and the Democratic party activities. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
December 30, 1983, (Unprocessed addition 3),
1 cu. ft.; State Board of Education files (1982). Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
January 7, 1985, (Unprocessed addition 4),
2 cu. ft.; Files (1981-1984) pertaining to State Board of Education. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
June 28, 1988, (Unprocessed addition 5), 1 cu. ft.; Personal files pertaining to local, state and National Democratic Party activities (1976-1984), the 1984 Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic National Committee (1982-1984). Other files concern the N. C. State Board of Education (1981-1986) and school discipline. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
December 12, 1989, (Unprocessed addition 6), 1 cubic foot; Files (1985-1987) pertaining to the N.C. State Board of Education. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
March 4, 1997, (Unprocessed addition 7), 1 1/2 cubic feet; Democratic Party files, including Democratic National Convention materials (1980-1992). Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
September 4, 1997, (Unprocessed addition 8), 3 cubic feet; Files (1983-1986) of member of the N.C. State Board of Education. Donor: Mrs. Betty Speir
November 11, 2004, (unprocessed addition 9), ca. 3,500 items, 3.15 cubic feet; Papers (1971 - 2000) including correspondence, telephone numbers, scrapbooks, photographs & memorabilia relating to the donors membership and activities in behalf of the state and national Democratic Party. See preliminary inventory. Donor: Betty Speir.
January 13, 2005, (Unprocessed addition 10), ca. 511 items, 1.0 cubic feet; Papers (1965-1998) relating to the Democratic Party of North Carolina Executive Committee, Democratic National Committee, North Carolina State Board of Education, Governor's Crime Commission, Lillian's List of North Carolina, Democratic Women of North Carolina, and concerning education, women's issues, and Democratic political candidates including Jim Hunt, Terry Sanford, including correspondence, notes, documents, and printed materials, etc. See preliminary inventory. Recd. 12/9/2004. Donor: Betty Speir.
September 6, 2005, (Unprocessed addition 11), 57 items, 0.25 cubic feet; Collection (June-November 1984) of correspondence, newsletters, printed materials, etc., relating to the Democratic Party of North Carolina and the election campaign of 1984. Donor: Betty Speir.
November 4, 2005, (Unprocessed addition 12), 700 items, 3.00 cubic feet; Collection (1967-1996, n.d.) of correspondence, newsletters, printed materials, etc., relating to the Democratic Party of North Carolina, Pitt County Democrats, Democratic Women of North Carolina, the Democratic Party National Committee and local, state, and national election campaigns of 1968-1996. Donor: Betty Speir.
July 6, 2006, (Unprocessed addition 13), 1 items, 0.0001 cubic feet; Pageant speeches (4/11/1924) at the Eastern Carolina Exposition, Kinston, North Carolina, of Christine Pollock and Harold Hargett, recreating the scene when the Ladies of Jones County, NC represented by Mrs. Nannie P. Smith (Kinsey), presented their hand-made flag to the Men of Company G, represented by Capt. Sawyer, on the unit's departure for service in the Civil War, ca. 1861. Carbon typescript. Donor: Betty Speir.
May 26, 2009, (Unprocessed addition 14), 14 items, 0.014 cubic feet; Papers (1928-1980) including Historical Background of Jones County (1928-1980) typescript & Betty Speir material including a photograph, letter on tax revision; newspaper clippings regarding Betty Speir's election as State Chariman, a meeting of the Pitt County Democratic Women, 1st District Delegates, Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner program, & an Agenda for Joint Metting of Newspaper Methodist Retirement Home Site Comittee & Citizens of Greenville Area; & oversized newspaper clippings, etc. See preliminary inventory. Donor: Betty Speir.
June 4, 2010, (Unprocessed addition 15), 707 items, 1.05 cubic feet; Papers (1897-1994) pertaining to Mrs. Speir's role in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, & National Democratic Party politics, including: her support of Jim Hunt's gubernatorial campaigns in 1976 & 1993; her letters of recommendation for persons seeking office or employment; her service as vice chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party; her membership on the Democratic National Committee & of various other committees & commissions, including committees on cotton, crime, the Equal Rights Amendment & other women's issues; & including newspapers, correspondence, speeches & directories & printed materials & oversized materials. Box 50 Restricted to 1/10/2064. See preliminary inventory. Donor: Betty Speir.
March 14, 2014, (Unprocessed addition 16), .25 cubic feet; Papers (1885-1939), including agreements, contracts, deeds, receipts for city government taxes paid, and business papers relating to J. B. Pollock, register of deeds, Trenton, Jones County, North Carolina. Many of the receipts also concern Mrs. J. J. Simmons of Trenton. Donor: Betty Speir.
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Experience Ithaca College in Six Words
By Tom Rochon
Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story (supposedly in response to a bar bet): "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." In later years he claimed it was his best work.
Like haiku, the six-word short story has become a literary feat that many have tried to master. John Updike wrote one as follows: "I'm sorry." "What for?" "Never mind."
That got me thinking—wouldn't it be great if IC alumni could distill their specific memories or overall experiences of the College into their own six-word stories? I invite you to undertake this exercise and post the results below in the comments area.
To prime the pump, I solicited six-word stories from some of the alumni I am privileged to correspond with on a regular basis. Some responded by recalling the sense of awakening that occurred during their time on the IC campus.
Ed Rivera '88, former alumni trustee, thought back to his journey from New York City public housing to Ithaca College, where he had the opportunity to explore subjects and perspectives that he didn't previously know existed. He wrote: The entire world in four years.
Thad Fortin '81 channeled Julius Caesar to write, I arrived, I grew, ALWAYS remembered.
Bob Kur '70, a recently retired member of the Board of Trustees, also focused on the physical and intellectual environment: Surrounded by beauty, challenge, and opportunity.
Given our mission as a comprehensive college that combines liberal arts with professional education, it is not surprising that others among our alumni emphasized the impact their IC experience had in launching them into their subsequent lives and careers.
Mark Dicker '77, an alumni trustee, wrote, Ithaca College: where life's journey develops.
Tom Grape '80, currently on the Board of Trustees, responded to the query with, Spreading my wings. To where? Life.
Bob Iger '73, CEO of Disney, wrote, Ithaca College lives in me today.
A third dominant theme is the sense of community that our alumni encountered at IC and the persistence of that community in the form of lifelong friendships.
David Giannotti, a trustee from the class of '69, penned, Intellectual awakening. Delta Kappa, lifelong friendships.
David Bachrach '70 referenced a specific form of lifelong friendship that often seems to originate at IC: Got education. And wife. Life's good.
Joel Reitman '78 managed to squeeze both themes of community and life preparation into just six words: Great school, special friends, fulfilling career.
Of course, not all six-word recollections fit neatly into a few themes. There are so many possibilities present within an Ithaca College education that inevitably the experience is highly individualized, depending on your personality and what you are looking for.
Larry Alleva '71, who recently retired from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, drew on his training as an accountant by including some mathematical symbols in his six-word description: Distinctive learning + lifelong friendships = real-world preparation.
Chris Burch '76, the creative marketing mastermind behind the Tory Burch fashion label, wrote, creative impactful fun collaborative exciting friendship.
Lee Bird '86, former president of Nike Affliates, offered two six-word stories reflecting the life lessons learned from his experiences as a student at IC and as an athlete on the swim team.
From his academic life experience he wrote, Academic excellence is related to effort. (Lee says that he experimented with a high effort semester and a low effort semester and found this out.)
And from his athletic life, he noted, Hair can freeze after swim practice.
CCH Pounder '75, an actress and activist who starred in ER and Avatar, was born in South America and educated in British boarding schools before coming to IC. She wrote, Foreign student assimilating nicely, misses home.
How about you? What is the essence of your IC experience, distilled into six words? I hope you will share them in the comments section below. You can also read the 6-word stories submitted via Twitter here:
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Syria warned Israel Monday against any "trickery" when it withdraws from southern Lebanon in July, during a summit here between Presidents Hafez al-Assad of Syria and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara blamed Israel for blocking the peace talks during the first public appearance by Assad since a British weekly reported in late April that he could have just a few months to live.
Assad, who gave no statement to the press, moved slowly and appeared tired but showed no obvious sign of ill health and smiled at times when being welcomed here by the Egyptians.
"We will not accept any trickery in the implementation (of the Lebanon withdrawal)," Shara told a press conference while Assad and Mubarak met at the presidential palace in northern Cairo for more than two hours.
Shara said Syria had "legitimate fears" that Israel would not complete its withdrawal and use the pullout from the strip of southern Lebanon it has occupied for 22 years as a "means to threaten" the Lebanese.
He accused Israel of "fleeing from its duties" under the peace process and blamed the Jewish state for the deadlock in peace negotiations.
Shara made an attempt to calm fears about Assad's health, saying he was in "very good" condition, despite a Sunday Telegraph report that Assad had suffered a stroke last month leaving him weak with temporary double vision.
Middle East analysts fear that if Assad dies before Syria concludes a peace deal with Israel, his successor will not have the experience, legitimacy or authority to forge peace with the Jewish state.
Shara said Syria was serious about making peace.
"We say with all conviction the true way out of this unstable situation in the Middle East is peace," he said. "Who is obstructing ... the political peace process? It's clear it is Israel."
Israel and Syria resumed peace negotiations in December after a hiatus of nearly four years. But talks were suspended in January when Syria insisted Israel commit to returning to prewar 1967 borders.
Israel seeks lines closer to the 1923 colonial border, which would return most of the strategic Golan Heights to Syria. It insists on retaining sovereignty over the shores of the Sea of Galilee, a key water source. Syria consistently has said it wants peace but is in no hurry to make any deal that falls short of a full return of the Golan Heights.
Syria also fears Israel will use its Lebanon withdrawal to draw a new line under the peace process, without returning to Syria the Golan Heights which it seized in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
But during a three-way meeting with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra Thursday, Syria received assurances of support for its policy of calling for an overall peace settlement, to avoid it being isolated.
Shara reiterated Monday Damascus's backing for a strong UN role in southern Lebanon after the July pullout.
Such strong support for the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), expressed for the first time at the Palmyra meeting, was seen as likely to ease fears of continued violence in the area after the pullback.
Intermittent violence has flared in southern Lebanon since the collapse of peace talks in January between Israel and Syria and in the run-up to Israel's Lebanon withdrawal.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa repeated at the press conference that Egypt would continue to insist on a "fast and complete withdrawal ... by land, sea and air."
Damascus is insisting on a total withdrawal by Israel both from southern Lebanon and its own occupied Golan Heights, which were seized from Syria in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Mussa said later that the foreign ministers of the Damascus Declaration -- which Syria, Egypt and the six oil-rich Gulf Arab states formed after the 1991 Gulf war against Iraq -- would meet in Cairo in the first week of June.
Assad and Shara later returned to Syria – (Agencies)
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In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Waiting Around
On the one hand, it's pretty awesome to actually be up for a job. There is some chance that I will receive a job offer this year. And the offer will be for a job I really want, in a place I really want to live, with people I like. And I've never been in this position before.
But on the other hand, I am completely distracted. I can't think clearly about anything else for more than ten seconds. And it's agonizing. Agonizing.
And it's basically all I think about. There are two main things I think about: my performance and my chances. When I think about my performance, I feel good. I think I did a good job. I think they liked me; they were impressed with me on paper and I don't think I did anything to convince them that this was a mistake. When I think about my chances, though, I worry. Even if I knocked 'em dead, there are two other people out there with visits to this same campus, and there is no way that they're a lot worse than me. They could be worse, but they could be better, and if they're worse they're not substantially worse. So even if you allow that I helped myself a lot during the campus interview, the probability of my getting an offer can't be much more than .4. At least, that's the highest number I let myself contemplate. And that's not a very high number.
So I vascilate between being optimistic and being discouraged. It would be nice to know either way. I'm not really excited about the prospect of finding out I didn't get it--which I think is the most likely outcome--but at least then I could eventually think about something else for a change.
--Mr. Zero
19 comments:
You didn't get it! I did. Suck it up, Smoker!!
- February 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM
Good luck Zero. I'd say if you did very well on the campus interview, you're a 50-50. I've seen a number of searches through, and one of the three candidates, at least, ends up turning a number of people off, either for lack of fit, or because of personal qualities.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM
I can't offer any words of advice to avoid the suckiness of waiting. It just plain sucks. But for what it is worth, I'm pulling for you!
- February 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM
I was experiencing the same kind of anxiety that you describe during the early portions of this job market nonsense - waiting to hear about potential APA interviews or phone interviews in January. Now I've had a few interviews, and I'm feeling good about some, less good about others. But I've adopted a new attitude - intentionally - and I'm amazed to say that it seems to have worked.
The attitude is this: every time I find myself wondering, "did I answer that question as well as I could have?", "did I come on too strong making that joke during the interview?" etc etc, I instead ask myself, "Why worry?"
That is to say, there is nothing I can do about it now. I had the interviews, I'm up for a couple of jobs, and there's nothing I can do at this point to sway their decisions one way or the other. Worrying does me absolutely no good. I will hear back from them, and I will either get the job or I will not. But I am done wasting time and energy worrying.
Stay strong!!!
- February 2, 2011 at 9:05 AM
I don't know that your probability of getting an offer is at highest .4, actually. If you are a better candidate than the others, your probability is pretty close to 1. If you didn't, it is a lower number, but figuring it out would depend on a lot of other probabilities (e.g. that the top candidate has other, better offers) that you just don't know. Maybe someone who knows more about probability will correct me on this, though.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Zero: hang in there. But while you do, you shouldn't think about the chances in that way. You have a good shot at the job even if you aren't the first person to receive the job offer: if your third of the 3, or second, the first person(s) offered the job may eventually pass and it goes to you. Or, best case, you end up being the first one to get the offer. So don't stress.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:20 AM
Being on the other side of things, my experience has been that most candidates (there are some exceptions of course) perform extremely well during their on campus interviews. I strongly suspect that our decision-making process and the criteria we ended up using for selection would have surprised and perhaps even bewildered the candidates, had they been privy to such things.
I would love to spin this into the suggestion that candidates try not to second-guess hiring departments' reasoning. But this is useless advice, much like telling someone to stop worrying about what they can't control. That's pretty much all I worry about.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Didn't any of the faculty you interviewed with give you some kind of inside word about your chances. Sometimes this happens; like in cases when one of them are pulling for you.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM
During my campus visit, I was told by a couple of people (including the dean) that my chances were extremely good. But it's an unusual, multidisciplinary hiring situation, which complicates the picture. Still, I have been thinking about it a lot, and while I'm thrilled to be a serious contender for a job, my worries have been more along the lines of moving my family, leaving my house, my community, my friends, etc. (And the constant background worry of unemployment.) Obviously, premature to think about, but it weighs on me. Meanwhile, I have a fast-approaching deadline to get some revisions done on an accepted paper, and I'm feeling the pressure, and the distraction.
So, I could tell you to stop worrying in advance about things you can't control, but I'd be lying if I said I was successfully doing that myself. My greatest accomplishment is that I haven't let the pressure turn me into a raging ass to the people around me.
It's impossible to calculate your odds, BTW. There are too many unknown variables.
Good luck, Zero.
- February 2, 2011 at 10:23 AM
I'll second 9:05's advice. We worry most about the things we cannot control
Good luck zombie and zero!
- February 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM
A member of the search committee that selected me let me know that I was their first choice before I left the building. I don't know how typical this is (I was the last person they interviewed, out of four).
Two others mentioned something like this above.
That's not, of course, to say all committees will do this, just seemed worth saying in light of the other comments.
- February 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM
On my campus interview I was told by a senior and reasonably powerful member of my current department that I would get the job. I got the offer the next day, literally right after I got home from the airport.
The guy who told me I would be hired was/is powerful enough that I could probably assume it was true. But if one faculty member just tells you that you are their first choice, that is far from a guarantee. My guess is that the latter is more common than the former.
- February 2, 2011 at 2:11 PM
I have a friend who is on a search committee who just brought their second candidate to campus. I asked him how it went. He writes to me today (I've redacted names):
"Our candidate went well, but both Professor X and I felt he was a bit reserved and strangely uncurious about the position and about Awesome State University itself, which struck us both as very odd in a person who supposedly wants a job. I think we prefer the first candidate."
- February 2, 2011 at 2:21 PM
I am not sure that most candidates do well at their campus interview. I have seen a number of times people who were ranked first on the short list come to campus only to crash and burn. So the fact that you did not do that is a good sign. Best of luck!
- February 2, 2011 at 2:56 PM
I'm screaming expletives at my screen right now.
Tell your friend that making vague surmises about a candidate's interest in the position has nothing to do with candidate quality, and if they are so worried about, they should just ask the candidate straight out.
There's too much irrationality in this process already, thanks to this kind of bullshit. Does a candidate not deserve a job if he forgets to ask what the school colors are?
Oh, and tell your friend she's an asshole, and so is Professor X.
- February 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM
Easy there, 3:47. I can assure that my friend is not an asshole.
I do of course understand why you are upset about learning something like that. It makes me upset too. (Note: I have not pursued this conversation with my friend any further and do not intend to.)
There is a lesson of course in this. At the on-campus interview stage, it's fair to assume that the 3 or 4 candidates being brought to campus are roughly equal in quality. So, that being the case, you want to shine in other ways - like in ways that show that you will be a good colleague, not just a good philosopher. That's one thing we tend to forget - especially those of us at Leiteriffic places. Departments hire colleagues, not just philosophers. One way to *not* shine in this area is to seem uninterested in the position.
- February 2, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- BunnyHugger said...
At one of my campus interviews, the last person I talked to, who drove me back to the hotel after the last official activities, kept saying, "When you get here..." and similarly-phrased things. I know you aren't supposed to take that sort of remark seriously, but it felt so encouraging that I could not help getting excited. Then when he left me at the hotel he said, "See you in the fall... maybe." I said, "I hope so!" He said, "I hope so too."
I thought, someone is on my side. But whether I read that correctly or not, I did not get the job, which was one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had. The moral of this story is... actually, I don't think there is a moral to this story. It's not as though the moral can be "Don't get your hopes up too much" because your hopes tend to do what they will regardless of your attempts to beat them down with caution.
Good luck!
- February 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM
It's impossible to take your mind off it, so change the way you dwell on it. Read some Stoics--Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or something.
Don't try to assess your chances, instead master getting the worst phone call, and getting use to it. Maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised, but don't think about that. The waiting's going to be miserable either way, so spend this time making it less miserable later, if it doesn't go as you'd like.
- February 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Waiting does suck, even when you're pretty confident about your chances. For my present job, I knew I was the last scheduled on campus interview, and I had very positive indications while I was still on campus that things were going very, very well. My wait wasn't terribly long, but it was uncomfortable.
But I used to suffer insomnia and had learned that the best thing to do for insomnia is the same thing that worked well for me with the job waiting: work. And the more physically demanding the better, though as long as I could retain my focus, I found it rewarding to get some writing done for a conference paper.
Anyway... good luck to all of you in limbo!
- February 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM


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WASHINGTON — Like a boxer under siege, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday rebuffed calls from Republicans to resign and slugged it out with lawmakers over Obama administration economic policies.
Geithner is on the hot seat with lawmakers because billions of stimulus dollars failed to stop the nation's unemployment rate from soaring to 10.2 percent, and for bank bailout decisions he made as the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
As Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, pulled no punches.
"Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed. Liberals are growing in that consensus as well. Poll after poll shows Americans have lost confidence in this president's ability to handle the economy. For the sake of our jobs, will you step down from your post?" Brady asked.
Geithner began with a measured response, but quickly shifted to meet fire with fire.
"I agree with almost nothing in what you said, and I think almost nothing you said represents a fair and accurate perception of where this economy is today," Geithner replied.
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Brady interrupted: "Remind me Mr. Secretary, what post were you holding when President (George W.) Bush left office?"
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After the heated personal exchange, the two resumed sparring over the economy.
"Congressman, again it's just a basic fact, a year ago, a year ago, this economy was falling at the rate of 6 percent a year. We were losing between half a million and three quarters of a million jobs a month and that process was accelerating, not slowing," until President Barack Obama took office, Geithner said.
Interrupting again, Brady said, "Mr. Secretary, the public has lost all confidence in your ability to do your job, and it's reflecting on your president," adding that it's "really time for a fresh start and I would urge you to consider that."
Another Texas Republican, Rep. Michael Burgess, jumped into the act.
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