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published a leaked image of last week? Well it's been approved by the FCC, which is a requirement before a phone can be sold in the US. You can see all the FCC documents here although unless you're an RF engineer they probably won't mean much. There's only one image of the phone (shown at right) buried in all those PDFs.
There's also a leaked Sprint road map document floating around on the Web which lists the SPH-M930 as replacing the Sprint Samsung Transform on October 2nd. That date is for Sprint, the phone could come to Boost sooner or latter than that - though when a phone is released on both Sprint and Boost, Sprint usually gets it first.
That's not all on the Boost Android rumor and speculation front either. Along with many other Boost users I got an email from Boost with a link to an online survey asking us to help pick a name for a new Boost Android phone. I was given a choice of; Director, Lux, Warp, Rhyme and Forge. The catch was that survey listed these specs for the phone I was supposed to name:
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- 4.3" Touchscreen
- 5MP Camera with Video
- GPS Enabled
- Stereo Bluetooth® Technology
- Easy Access to Gmail™ and Google Talk™
- Wireless Web Enabled
- Switch Between Portrait and Landscape
- Speakerphone with Voice-Activated Dialing
- 3GB Internal Memory Available
- Supports microSD™ Cards Up to 32GB (2GB Card Included)
The SPH-M930 is a lower spec phone with a 3.2" screen and 3.2 MP camera. Does this mean that Boost has two Android phones in the pipeline, the SPH-M930 and a higher end model possibly to be called the Director, Lux, Warp, Rhyme or Forge?
For what it's worth I chose Warp although I think made up, carrier specific names for phones are silly. I much rather have a well regarded off the shelf model like the Samsung Galaxy S or an LG Optimus One under its own name than some mystery compromise, just for prepaid model, with a "cool" but meaningless name.
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In his impressionistic book-length essay Humiliation (2011), critic Wayne Koestenbaum proposes that humiliation is determined by context and scenario (he singles out markers of gender, race, and class) as much as by inner evaluations. Its "soundtrack," he asserts, is a sickened stomach, and it "comes with its own proscenium." The particular notes it strikes are contingent upon "what you look like, what you sound like, how much money you make, how you walk, how you smell, where you put your garbage." A time, a place, or a glance can spark the dreaded emotion, but so can an inability to determine what or where one is, the failure to relate or be legible to others: "If we dwell in limbo, in transition, that homeless location, too, is humiliating." The stories in Ottessa Moshfegh's first short-story collection, Homesick for Another World, span this entire territory of mortification with precision, humor, and a pleasurable cringe. But what is most seductive about these stories is Moshfegh's exploration of humiliation as a liminal space, where the unrepentantly rotten world brushes up against its characters' erring imaginations—an interminable, awkward stage that generates plot, mood, and possibility.
Career-wise, Moshfegh has absolutely nothing to be humiliated about. Her novel Eileen (2015) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and her novella McGlue (2014) won the Fence Modern Prize. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, among other magazines, and won her the Plimpton Prize in 2013. At 35, Moshfegh has shown that she can write across genres—experimental, noir, Paris Review story—about people coping with the shame of feeling out of place in the world. The narrator of Eileen is a champion of the abreactive, boldly giving expression to the ways she feels diminished in society. She despises fads, novels, and, above all, the ignominy of inhabiting a dirty home (the kind she was born into, in a Massachusetts prison-industry town she dubs "X-ville"). "People truly engaged in life have messy houses," Eileen proclaims, "I knew this implicitly at age twenty-four. Of course at twenty-four I was also obsessed with death." McGlue, also named for its narrator, is the story of a man imprisoned on murder charges who has no ability whatsoever to disguise his personal failings. His self-hatred is far less processed than Eileen's, given to leaks rather than formulations.
The sickness to which Moshfegh's new title alludes is frequently literal: Some of her characters yearn for home, but most are nauseated by it. As with Eileen, her characters' shame festers most biliously where they live. Many reside in small towns, each dirty and disappointing in its own way. The narrator of "Slumming" is a divorced high-school English teacher who travels every summer to her vacation home in a small town, where she gets wasted. The house repulses her more with each passing year: "Each summer I drove up to Alna, I'd find the house altered—a new perfume lacing the humid air, menstrual stains on the mattress, hardened bacon grease splattered on the kitchen counter, a fleck of mascara on the bathroom mirror like a squashed fly." A later story, "Nothing Ever Happens Here," takes place almost entirely in a house in Los Angeles that the (far cheerier, greener) narrator rents a room in. (What short-story collection about humiliated losers would be complete without a couple set in LA and New York City?) He's 18 and has left his family in Gunnison, Utah, to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. But Moshfegh is keen on turning every destination into a gruesome layover. In this instance, the character is recounting this part of his life from some undisclosed location he's moved on to, but it's clear that his LA excursion is over ("I had big dreams"). "The house was white stucco," the story begins, "ranch style, with tall hedges and a large semicircular driveway. There was a crumbling pool out back full of rust stains and carcasses of squirrels that had fallen in and slowly starved to death."


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Wednesday's New York House of the Day is the Manhattan pied-a-terre of a couple who use the space to display around 30 pieces from their art collection that has grown over 35 years.
"I don't know how anybody lives without art," says Sue Berland, who owns the property with her husband, Joseph. Speaking from the Venice Biennale, a large contemporary art show held in Italy every two years, the Berlands say they were drawn to the apartment in part because it had the "feel of a loft," and large wall spaces, so their art could be displayed without "feeling squeezed in," Ms. Berland says. The layout also appealed to them, with the bedrooms grouped together in a wing on one side of the apartment. "We always had people coming up to go through our art collection,' says Ms. Berland. "You don't want them to go into your bedroom."
The Connecticut-based couple recently listed the Upper West Side apartment for $3.85 million, citing less time spent in the city and more travelling as a reason for the sale. Their collection, which includes works by contemporary artists Sol LeWitt and Roxy Paine "certainly reflects my husband and me," Ms. Berland says.
Broker Les Meyers of Citi Habitats says he felt the displayed works "were a perfect match with the design flow of the apartment." Having nothing on the walls would make the space feel barren he says. "The important consideration is to not overhang or over represent a collection that may confuse or distract someone viewing the home," he says, "but when presented correctly [the works] can make a space come alive and create an immediate connection between the home and the one viewing."
An extensive art collection can be a challenge for both brokers and staging professionals who try create a sense of anonymity in a space but don't want to offend homeowners by suggesting some works be put away.
Shell Brodnax, CEO of the Real Estate Staging Association, says deciding on whether an art collection should stay depends on whether the collection fits with the property as well as the demographic the seller and broker is trying to reach. "There is clearly artwork that would not be appropriate," she says, for example pieces that might be deemed offensive by some. But, "if it's a beautiful collection and it fits the architecture of the home, and it fits the demographics of the person who is buying, then it's a must," she says.
Cheryl Eisen of the Interior Marketing Group says that she will often ask homeowners to store their art, or will cover immovable art such as frescos. "We don't want buyers noticing the art, remembering the art -— anything that can take their focus or vision away from the home is to its detriment," she says. Occasionally though, her company will install pieces from their own art collection to bring color to a space. "We don't want it to be boring and lifeless," she says, "but it can't be figurative—nothing that's going to draw attention to itself."
Having the art built into the walls presents a different challenge, as in the case of this West Village townhouse, featured as a House of the Day in February. Designed by a collective of architects and artists in the 1980s, the home had motifs coming out of the wall that were representative of the homeowner, including archways, a mantelpiece and a table with riding hat with gloves and crop.
The home was listed for slightly under $6.5 million with Danny Davis of Town Residential and recently sold for $6.2 million. Describing the home as "whimsical," Mr. Davis admits the art installations "were not for everybody." Usually Mr. Davis advises home sellers to be "neutral" when showing a home.
But in the case of the West Village townhouse, "all it took was that one person who enjoyed the installations and thought it had a lot of character, and they loved it," he says of the purchases. "It was exactly what they were looking for."
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I'm getting lime basil in my CSA next week. no earthly idea what I will do with it. Any suggestions?
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it depends how much you are getting but I was thinking of a lime basil sorbet or lime basil butter for fish or rouille for Bouillabaisse.
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Pesto using lime basil - great on chicken or pasta
Chop it up and put it over fruit salad
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Dorie is a food writer and award-winning author of twelve cookbooks, her latest is Dorie's Cookies.
As others have said, lime basil is good with chicken, fish and pasta -- I like it with orzo -- and nice turned into a syrup that you can use to make cocktails or to add to lemonade. It's really nice with fruit, think peaches and berries and melon and mango. The lime basil I've bought had a big lime flavor, almost lime-leaf big, and so I found that I used less of it than I might have used were it regular sweet basil. I just did an article on basil for The Wall Street Journal that included a dessert recipe that had a smooth, creamy basil and avocado mix topped with mango and strawberries -- I bet it would be good with lime basil. If you make it, please let me know.


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North Queensland mayors have welcomed the coalition's plans for their region but say they would prefer a firm commitment to economic growth instead of more talk.
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a coalition government would turn the Northern Territory and parts of Queensland and Western Australia into a hub for food production, energy exports and tourism.
He's promised a government under his leadership would produce a white paper on opportunities for the region within 12 months of being elected.
Far north Queensland mayors have welcomed the news but say they want a firm policy commitment to boost industry and population numbers in the region.
"We hear the talk all the time, and what we want to see is a bit more of the walk," Rosa Lee Long, mayor of Tablelands, near Cairns, told AAP.
"We've got all the land available and every type of climate and we can produce anything you like."
Mount Isa Mayor Tony McGrady said: "I still welcome this but I'd have been far more happy had there been a lot more meat on the bone."
Mr McGrady wants a tax incentive scheme where residents are exempt from paying tax on the first $10,000 of their yearly income.
Townsville Deputy Mayor Vern Veitch said any discussion needed to include environmental protections, especially for tourism mecca the Great Barrier Reef.
Cairns Mayor Bob Manning said past discussions about tax incentives hadn't amounted to much.
"It's not that we feel unloved up here at times, but we do feel there is huge potential for growth and development," he said.
"What I'd like to see is an incoming government place a high priority on making some decisions that involve action."
The white paper would consider ways to exploit the region's potential as a "food bowl" and double the nation's agricultural output, boost domestic and international tourism and build an energy export industry worth $150 billion.


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33 migrants drown as boat hits rocks, sinks off Turkey coast
ANKARA, Turkey – A boat smuggling migrants to Greece slammed into rocks off the Turkish coast Saturday and capsized, killing at least 33 people including five children, as the choppy Aegean Sea continued to claim asylum-seekers' lives this month at an appalling pace, officials said.
Coast guard officials said they rescued 75 people from the 17-meter (56-foot) vessel but government officials said they suspected more were trapped inside the sunken vessel and the death toll was likely to rise. Video footage on the Turkish shoreline showed police walking among bodies of several dead as they washed ashore, among them a toddler lying on his back in navy blue clothing.
The International Organization for Migration says drowning deaths are running at four times the rate of 2015, when many thousands daily sought to enter the European Union via Turkey by reaching one of more than a dozen offshore Greek islands, particularly nearby Lesbos.
Saturday's deaths take the drowning total for January above 250, whereas the agency recorded 805 drowning deaths on Turkey-Greece smuggling routes throughout 2015.
A Turkish government official said he expects rescue workers to find more dead who were trapped inside the wreckage of the boat, which sank shortly after departing from the Aegean resort of Ayvacik, barely 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of the Lesbos coastline.
Saim Eskioglu, deputy governor for the coastal Canakkale province that includes Ayvacik, said the boat "hit rocks soon after it left the coast and, unfortunately, it sank."
"We believe there are more dead bodies inside the boat," he told CNN-Turk television.
Ayvacik's mayor, Mehmet Unal Sahin, said most of the migrants were Syrians. The state-run Anadolu Agency said the boat also bore natives of Afghanistan and Myanmar.
In a statement, the Turkish coast guard said it dispatched three boats, a team of divers and a helicopter after receiving calls for help. The coast guard said its rescue teams recovered 33 bodies and were continuing to search.
A private Turkish news agency, Dogan, said police arrested a Turkish man suspected of being the smuggler who organized Saturday's disastrous sea crossing.
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Spain | 2013 | 13:34 | Fiction, Live Action
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A young couple in a park comes across a mysterious man who claims to be an expert falconer. The encounter will become a test for the young people, as they start to share the hope that the peregrine falcon -Durandal - will return to his master's fist.
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Durandal is a film about faith or, if preferred, about the place where illusions breathe when reality deprives us the air. To do this, we set a simple story, portraying the meeting of two disparate generations: while Antonio is a broken toy from the 80's, a ghost destined to wander from bar to bar, trying to convince everybody of his glorious past as a falconer, Ruben and Gema reflect a disaffected youth, that longs for the resources to fight apathy and the current lack of opportunities. Our short film wants to take part in the fantasies of a romantic, a wanderer inviting us to dream of possibilities and who is able to close, with his story, the gap between two young lovers; indeed, frecuently, it's contradictory and lost men those who travel with the best stories on their lips.
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1 Oct – 6 Oct | Spain
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Cortos Con Ñ: Festival de Cortometrajes | 2013
3 Sep – 31 Dec | Madrid, Spain
Vagrant Film Festival | 2013
22 Sep | Minsk, Belarus
1 Oct – 6 Oct | Madrid, Spain
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17 Oct – 20 Oct | Atlanta, United States
Festival Internacional de Creatividad, Innovación y Cultura Digital | 2013
29 Nov – 1 Dec | Tenerife, Spain
8 Feb – 18 Feb | Berlin, Germany
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Freemasonry is Topic of Tuesday Talk at SWOSU
The History and Symbolism of Freemasonry is the topic of an upcoming meeting on Tuesday, April 29, on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.
The talk by Dr. Jim Tresner will be at 6 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium on the SWOSU campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. SWOSU's Student Government Association is sponsor.
Tresner will speak about the history and symbolism of Freemasonry. He has written books about the subject, according to Josh Buxton, vice president of SGA. He will talk to anyone who is interested in Masonry and what it means today.
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Jammu & Kashmir: the readymade SEZ
One of the criticisms leveled against India's SEZ policy is that the zones are too small to make a real difference. But there's a very big zone that could be an SEZ, especially if the state's politicians—who are all for 'autonomy'—decided economic freedom is something that is well in their capacity to achieve. And set an example for the rest of India.
That's one of the proposals Sushant Singh puts forward in his article on moving towards an endgame in Jammu & Kashmir:
…unemployment among the youth of the valley remains to be adequately addressed. Handing out of doles and packages to the state government and public sector institutions is not the solution. An alternative would be to incent the private sector, perhaps even outside the state, with an offset to employ a certain percentage of people from Jammu & Kashmir.
The idea of converting the entire state into a virtual special economic zone (SEZ) has been mooted. The state has a special status under the Indian Constitution. So do SEZs. What is required is the repositioning the state to one that leverages its special status to achieve socio-economic development.
It would also require a rebalancing the distribution of fiscal transfers from the central government between the public and private sectors.
This will undermine the separatists' main economic grouse—step-motherly treatment by the Centre and no attempts at development in the state. [Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review]


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Scottsdale, AZ – November 3, 2016 – Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. ("Equus"), one of the nation's leading private equity fund managers, announced today the sale of Scottsdale Financial Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The 107,000 square-foot class-A office building was sold to the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Real Estate Group, a business unit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and was 93% leased at the time of sale.

Scottsdale Financial Center was acquired in 2008 on behalf of an affiliate of Equus, BPG Investment Partnership VIII, a fully discretionary private equity fund managed by Equus.  Since acquisition and after spending over $3 million in renovations, Equus transformed the property into an award-winning, multi-tenant Class-A office building.  The redeveloped property was awarded EnergyStar label from 2011-2016 and was awarded the Office Building of the Year in the Renovated Building Category in 2011 by The Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Phoenix.

"Scottsdale Financial Center had been virtually untouched since it was built in 1983 and needed a complete overhaul, including building exteriors, roofs, elevators, common areas and landscaping," said Jonathan Praw, Vice President and Head of West Coast Operations for Equus who oversaw the reposition and disposition efforts for the firm. "When we acquired the complex it was just 68% leased. After our renovations were complete, we were able to quickly improve occupancy and take advantage of the strong tenant demand in Old Town Scottsdale," he added.

Scottsdale Financial Center is located at 4110 N. Scottsdale Road, at the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Indian School.  It is currently 93% leased to a diverse tenant roster.

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Mitch McConnell's Debt Ceiling Proposal is Probably Unconstitutional
0 Comments | Posted by gimme-five in Politics
Mitch McConnell has proposed a new way to deal with the debt ceiling issue:
Under Mr. McConnell's plan, Congress would pass legislation authorizing the president to request a total $2.5 trillion debt-limit increase in three stages—$700 billion by Aug. 2 followed later in the year by two $900 billion installments. The increases could take effect without congressional approval, but Congress could block it with a resolution of disapproval.
In general, under McConnell's plan: (1) the President is required to propose the debt-limit increase; (2) Congress can respond with a "resolution of disapproval," which requires a vote of a majority of each house; (3) the President can veto that resolution, which presumably he would; and (4) Congress can attempt to override that veto with a 2/3 supermajority in both houses. The purpose of the plan is that Republicans can place the blame (some individuals find raising the debt ceiling unpopular) for raising the debt ceiling on the President, because there is no chance that 2/3 of both houses would vote against raising the debt ceiling.
Such a plan is likely unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's decision in I.N.S. v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983).
A. Chadha
In Chadha, Congress passed an Act which allowed the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to suspend deportations of illegal aliens. However, the Act further specified that Congress could reject the INS's decision to suspend deportation, and that, to do so, either house of Congress merely needed to pass a resolution of disapproval, with a majority vote.
After Congress passed such a resolution of disapproval, the resolution, and Act, were challenged and eventually were reviewed by the Supreme Court. The Court held that the Act was unconstitutional.
The Court wrote that, when one of the three branches of the government acts, it must act according to the procedures set forth in the Constitution. Importantly, the Constitution sets forth a specific procedure Congress must follow when it takes a legislative act, meaning doing something like passing a bill, but not simply making internal Congressional rules.
Specifically, when taking a legislative act, except in limited circumstances spelled out in the Constitution (such as impeachment), the Constitution only allows Congress to act through "bicameralism" and "presentment." "Bicameralism" means passage by both houses, and "presentment" means presenting the passed bill to the President for signature or veto.
In Chadha's case, the Act allowed Congress to take a legislative act (passing a resolution of disapproval) without bicameralism or presentment, because either house could pass the resolution of disapproval, and the President didn't get to sign or veto the resolution. Thus, the Act was unconstitutional.
To dispel any argument that such a ruling would cause inefficiencies, the court explained, in one of my favorite Supreme Court lines of all time:
The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental processes that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked. There is no support in the Constitution or decisions of this Court for the proposition that the cumbersomeness and delays often encountered in complying with explicit Constitutional standards may be avoided, either by the Congress or by the President. See Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 72 S.Ct. 863, 96 L.Ed. 1153 (1952). With all the obvious flaws of delay, untidiness, and potential for abuse, we have not yet found a better way to preserve freedom than by making the exercise of power subject to the carefully crafted restraints spelled out in the Constitution.
I.N.S. v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 959 (1983).
B. McConnell's Plan
McConnell's plan is slightly different than that in Chadha. Unlike Chadha, it does not authorize a single house to take "legislative action." However, it does allow the President, as opposed to Congress, to take legislative action, and allows Congress to effectively have a veto power over the President. Thus, Chadha, as well as the Constitution, suggests that McConnell's plan is unconstitutional.
First, Article 1, Section 8, lists Congress' powers, and Clause 1 of that Section states that "[t]he Congress shall have Power . . . . to pay the Debts . . . ." It is Congress' role to "pay the Debts," which, throughout our nation's history, has meant that Congress proposes the plan to pay the debts, and the President signs or vetoes, and then Congress can override a veto. In other words, to "pay the Debts," bicameralism and presentment must be followed.
However, under McConnell's plan, the roles of Congress and the President are flipped. The President is the one who must propose "legislation," and then Congress effectively gets veto power over the proposal. To pass this "legislation" (i.e. raise the debt), Congress would not need a vote from both houses (bicameralism) – rather, they would only need one house NOT to pass a resolution of disapproval (because if both houses don't vote to disapprove, the debt increase occurs). If both houses passed such a resolution, and the President then vetoed it, then only one-third of one house could ensure that the debt ceiling would be passed, because the only way to stop the debt ceiling increase at that point would be to have 2/3 of each house vote against the debt ceiling increase (to override the President's "veto").
In other words, under McConnell's plan, there is no ordinary bicameralism and presentment process. Instead, Congress simply abdicates its power under the Constitution to "pay the Debts." Hence, McConnell's plan is unconstitutional.
C. Aside: Political Accountability
As an aside, one of the main checks against the power of Congress and the President is accountability to the people. The purpose of McConnell's plan is to avoid accountability, by making the President appear to be the only one responsible for debt ceiling increases, when, for all practical purposes, Congress forces the President to increase the debt ceiling. Such avoidance of accountability is not unconstitutional, per se, but certainly raises doubts as to its desirability.
The Free Speech Excuse
2 Comments | Posted by gimme-five in Philosophy, Politics
The title of this article may be misleading. To be clear: I am a big fan of the First Amendment. Freedom of speech is possibly the most important individual human freedom. Every person in the world should be allowed to freely express himself in "the marketplace of ideas," except in extremely rare circumstances.
Yet many people confuse the point underlying freedom of speech. Freedom of speech gives one the right to express him or herself. However, it does not mean that one should express one's self in any manner. John has the right to say: "If you are a non-Christian, you are inferior;" yet Susan does not have to condone this speech simply because John has a right to make that statement. Freedom of speech works both ways – Susan can judge John and make her judgment known by stating publicly that his statement is bigoted. If John responds by saying that he should not be condemned because of freedom of speech – this is a false argument. John has the right to say what he wants, but Susan and all others offended by his comment may judge him at will.
Unfortunately, the above example is not a far-fetched creation from my mind. In California, a car dealership actually said the following in a radio advertisement (click to hear audio):
Did you know that there are people in this country who want prayer out of schools, "Under God" out of the Pledge, and "In God We Trust" to be taken off our money?
But did you know that 86% of Americans say they believe in God? Now, since we all know that 86 out of every 100 of us are Christians who believe in God, we at Kieffe & Sons Ford wonder why we don't just tell the other 14% to sit down and shut up. I guess maybe I just offended 14% of the people who are listening to this message. Well, if that is the case, then I say that's tough, this is America folks, it's called free speech. And none of us at Kieffe & Sons Ford are afraid to speak up. Kieffe & Sons Ford on Sierra Highway in Mojave and Rosamond: if we don't see you today, by the grace of God, we'll be here tomorrow.
Under the "Kieffe & Sons Ford" interpretation of the First Amendment, it seems that (1) Freedom of speech only applies to the majority opinion; (2) if someone makes a statement that offends others, asserting that the statement is "free speech" means the statement should not be condemned. I'm sure that's exactly what the founding fathers were going for. [Not So Silver Lining: Apparently Kieffe & Sons apologized after many complaints, then retracted their apology.]
The essential problem here, and in many usages of offensive speech, is the assumption that free speech does not go both ways. But it does – anyone has a right to condemn another for saying something that is idiotic, offensive, or short-sighted. Simply because something is within the right to free speech does not mean it must be condoned, or that a response to that speech is not considered free speech of its own. Nor does the right to free speech only apply to a majoritarian view. Any child who has studied Galileo and Copernicus, or Adolf Hitler's Germany knows that a majority-only free speech rule would be unproductive and dangerous.
Perhaps everything I've written in this piece is completely obvious to everyone that will read it. But there are many people out there that think they should have a "get out of jail free" card for making offensive speech simply because they have a right to make it. You can exercise a right and be a horrible person at the same time.
[P.S. This reasoning also applies to how both major American political parties argue against "political correctness," but in different ways and merely to favor themselves. Maybe sometime soon I'll write an article about that.]


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Authority Labs wants all of our customers to have all the help they need. Please let us know what you think of the videos and let us know what you need more help with. We appreciate the feedback!
Here are some of the latest topics released:
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The West Ohio Food Bank and Safeway Packaging are pleased to announce a new partnership. Safeway Packaging will begin delivering boxes to the West Ohio Food Bank on Thursday, November 7th at 10:00 a.m. This delivery marks the start of a new partnership that will provide substantial savings to WOFB allowing more funds to be directed to the mission of "Ending Hunger Together".
Brian Garver, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Bryan Fitch, Plant Manager, and Jennifer Taylor, Customer Service Representative will be in attendance when the first delivery is made to illustrate the commitment being made to WOFB and this important new partnership. An important "Key Value" at Safeway Packaging is, "Treat everyone with Dignity and Respect." This delivery takes that value to an even higher level as they partner with the food bank to provide a cost saving solution to several of the distribution projects that are ongoing at WOFB.
Gary Bright, CEO of WOFB will also be present for this delivery. "We are extremely grateful for this generous donation from Safeway and look forward to this new partnership continuing to grow for many years. A cost savings this significant makes an enormous impact on our ability to continue effectively serving the nutritional needs of seniors in our region." says Gary Bright, CEO.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Bead Soup Blog Party Round Up
The Bead Soup Blog Party was a huge success!
My main goal when throwing these parties is to introduce all types of bead and jewelry artists, get them to know each other through their blogs, and finally, help people break out of their comfort zone by presenting them with a set of beads that they have no inkling of -- they have no idea what's coming their way.
This party, even more so than last party, really had a lot of participants commenting on how hard they worked to create with what they were given. There were LOTS of gorgeous beads handed out by many talented bead artists, by many times, the colors of the style or even the medium was completely NOT in the beaders realm of general comfort.
But that's ok! That was what this was all about. That's what, I think, makes this a great party -- the opportunity to spread your wings and really fly. I also think it gives people the incentive to keep up with their blogs, if they've fallen behind, or to perhaps use their blog in a different way, reaching out to people they've just met or hope to meet.
Thank you so much for joining my party -- it warms my heart to see all the AMAZING work that went into it and to have read all the wonderful posts about the creative process that went into each piece.
As for the photo above (click to make it bigger)-- I wish I could show each and every one of the 90+ participants, so I just took a shot in the dark and pulled eight out of a hat. From left to right, then top to bottom:
Lori Anderson
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I did miss being in the Bead Soup Party this time around but I did make it to several blogs to look at all the beautiful work that everyone did.ReplyDelete
I hope you do it again so I can participate!
I totally agree, it was a whole lot of fun. Thinking outside the box, meeting fellow beaders and bloggers, reading about their creative process... I could go on. Thank you, Lori, for hosting and coordinating it. I am ready for the next one, whenever you are! May all you days be migraine free is my wish for you! Thank you.ReplyDelete
The party was awesome, thank you so much! I really enjoyed it and discovered many great artists because of it. I look forward to the next party:)ReplyDelete
Take care and thanks again,
Thank YOU Lori for hosting this spectacular event! Can't wait for the next one!!!ReplyDelete
Lori, this was so much fun, I don't know where to begin! I had such a great time working with these materials, and they aren't things that I would normally choose myself. However, after finishing this piece (and at least starting another one), I think I will be looking around for more beautiful Venetian glass to incorporate into my bead weaving!ReplyDelete
I'd love to participate in another swap, maybe after my farmers market and show season ends at the end of September.
Thanks so much for organizing this! What fun!
This was my first bead soup party and I guess I didn't know what to expect. Little did I know how much talent was out there! I liked my second piece the best, but it was still nothing compared to all that sparkled on the other blogs! Thanks for organizing and giving me oppertunity for more inspiration!ReplyDelete
You are a delight, Lori. And I would gladly participate again. I have met such wonderfully talented women and enjoyed so many lovely morsels. Thank you for facilitating this most excellent blog hop party!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the day!
Lori--I have to say the pleasure was all mine! In spite of the challenges of time constraints and "What the heck am I going to do with these gorgeous beads?!?!??!" lolReplyDelete
I'll take part in future bead parties--I love the idea of meeting someone new and receiving a stash of beads that I'm not familiar with or sometimes--not comfortable with.
I'll second Kella--thank you for being a great hostess and the event's coordinator!
Lori...thanks again for hosting the party! I had a blast and am still blog hopping!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for organising this! Can't wait for the next one :DReplyDelete


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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas
The Marketplace of Ideas is not as interesting as I thought it would be. One reason may be that it is part of a series intended, as series editor Henry Louis Gates Jr. explains, to "invite the reader to reexamine hand-me-down assumptions and to grapple with powerful trends"--that is, the books are not rigorous analyses aimed at specialists but accessible and deliberately provocative commentaries meant to bring a wider public quickly up to speed on debates about (Gates again) "ideas that matter in the new millenium." At just over 150 small-scale, large-type pages, The Marketplace of Ideas is not anything like a comprehensive examination of the many issues it addresses, whether the rise of the modern university, the vexed history of the "liberal arts" curriculum, the changing aspect of humanities research, or the causes and consequences of the current appalling academic job market. Rather, it offers a briskly coherent account of some historical contexts of particular relevance to certain elite universities (he shows this narrowness of focus throughout, which, as other reviewers have pointed out, eventually undermines a number of his more general claims and complaints). Then he transitions quite abruptly to consider political homogeneity as a feature of the academy, and then, with another awkward transition, to offer some interesting but often idiosyncratic or, worse, facile suggestions about what ails graduate education in the humanities today and how to fix it.
Of the contextual section of Menand's book, Anthony Grafton at The New Republic writes, fairly, I think,
Menand's account is consistently even-tempered, and he resists all temptations to succumb to nostalgia or to launch jeremiads, even when both might be appropriate. He does not portray the university in the age of New Criticism as a paradise of Serious Reading, or denounce the new forms of scholarship that have grown up more recently as one great betrayal of truth and high standards. Instead he sings a song of sclerosis. Through all these changes, he writes, the basic system of disciplines and departments remained intact--a hard and confining carapace that proved impossible to break, however humanists squirmed and pushed.
I appreciated his discussion of the mixed blessing that is professionalism, something addressed from a more discipline-specific angle in Brian McRae's Addison and Steele are Dead (a book I discussed here at some length). I also found his comments on the unsatisfactory realities of "interdisciplinarity" very interesting: "interdisciplinarity" is a buzzword often invoked as if it represents a panacea to whatever ails our individual, disciplinary, or institutional limitations, but Menand suggests, persuasively, that our obsession with it is a symptom of anxiety about "the formalism and methodological fetishism of the disciplines and about the danger of sliding into an aimless subjectivism or eclecticism."
Overall, though, this "structural explanation," as Grafton calls it, wasn't really what I went to the book for; rather, I was hoping for an elaboration on the provocative excerpt published last fall in the Harvard Magazine, focusing on "the PhD problem." There, he talked about the dramatic rise in the number of doctoral students even as the number of available tenure track positions (relative to the number of candidates) fell off drastically, the long time to degree for doctoral students in the humanities, and some ideas for unclogging the system by, for instance, making an article the standard for the Ph.D. rather than the book-length thesis. It turns out he gave most of the milk away for free here, and my thoughts on reading that material over in the book version were the same as what I said at the time (if he can make his writing do double-duty, I figure I can do the same with mine):
. . . I was struck by Menand's passing suggestion that "If every graduate student were required to publish a single peer-reviewed article instead of writing a thesis, the net result would probably be a plus for scholarship," but this seems to me another of those ideas about changing "the system" (not unlike the MLA's call to "decenter the monograph" as the gold standard for evaluating tenure and promotion files) that can never be addressed on a local level and so may never be addressed at all. Which department wants to be the first to say that they will award a Ph.D. without requiring a thesis? For that matter, which department could make such a change in policy without losing their accreditation or funding? Which department could independently assert its ability to evaluate the work of its members without the sacred stamp of "peer reviewed publications," or at least giving equal weight to less conventional modes of knowledge dissemination? . . .
I was also struck by Menand's remark that "Inquiry in the humanities has become quite eclectic without becoming contentious. This makes it a challenge for entering scholars to know where to make their mark." This certainly echoes my strong feeling for the last several years that English, for one, has become a field so inchoate that it is unable to declare and defend itself in any compelling way that all of its members can agree on--at least, not without resorting to unbelievably bland formulations (all the world's a text!). How can we sustain a sense of ourselves as a functioning discipline under these circumstances? Though I don't want to fall into conservative lamentation about the good old days when everybody knew what books were valuable and why (when were those days, exactly, and how long did they last?), anyone who has worked on curriculum reform (and probably everyone working in an English department anywhere has done so at least once) knows that the lack of an identifiable core is a practical as well as an intellectual problem. It's a problem for us, as we try to define priorities in hiring as well as teaching, and it's a problem for students, whose programs include so much variety it is possible to meet a 4th-year honours student and be more struck, somehow, by what they don't know or haven't read than by what they do and have, and certainly impossible to predict what experience or knowledge they bring to your class . . . . But what, if anything, to do about that? Too often, I think, we resort to a rhetoric of skills (critical thinking!) that (as Menand points out with his remark about the dubious efficiency of studying Joyce to achieve more general ends) rather strips away the point of working through literature to achieve such general, marketable ends.
That last point about skills is something I have returned to recently, as I feel as if the pressure is mounting for humanities graduate programs to retool themselves as all-purpose training grounds for a (rarely specified) set of non-academic jobs. Here's what Menand actually says on that issue:
The effort to reinvent the PhD as a degree qualifying people for non-academic as well as academic employment, to make the degree more practical, was an initiative of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation when it was headed by Robert Weisbuch. These efforts are a worthy form of humanitarianism; but there is no obvious efficiency in requiring people to devote ten or more years to the mastery of a specialized area of scholarship on the theory that they are developing skills in research, or critical thinking, or communication. . . . The ability to analyze Finnegan's Wake does not translate into an ability to analyze a stock offering. If a person wanted to analyze stock offerings, he should not waste his time with Joyce. He should go to business school. Or get a job analyzing stock offerings.
As I've recently argued in response to just that kind of administrative "humanitarianism" (some might call it "pragmatism," as well), I think there is indeed something fundamentally misguided about this trend to play up the skills set acquired during Ph.D. training, as if the content of the degree (and its specific constituent requirements, such as specialized comprehensive exams and a thesis) are somehow tangential. This "solution" to "the Ph.D. problem" sounds exactly like something an outside (non-specialist) administrator who doesn't in fact care much about the content of individual disciplinary programs would propose, and our rapidity to embrace it, well-meaning though we certainly are (we really like our graduate students, in my experience, and want to help them), is in itself a kind of capitulation on the larger issue of the value of the work we specifically do (about which collapse of principle, see more here).
And here's where Menand really turns out to disappoint, because with his throw-away line about the prospective stock analyst who should not "waste his time with Joyce" he (perhaps strategically) distances himself from one of his key audiences--not the skeptics or outsiders who already think that reading Finnegan's Wake is at best a harmless (if bizarrely difficult) form of self-indulgence and at worst, yes, just a waste of time (and certainly not something that should be supported by public funding), but his fellow scholars and academics, the ones making decisions about curriculum and program requirement and advising undergraduate students to go on (or not) to Ph.D. programs, or Ph.D. students to complete (or not) their dissertations. How can they look for leadership to someone who doesn't sound as if he thinks their work is important, whose suggestions for reform effectively trivialize it? He may well be right about Joyce as a means to that particular end, but why does he so blithly pass up the opportunity to explain why that work on Joyce might be vitally important to some other end not currently lauded or rewarded in the public culture he claims, in his closing peroration, must in fact be questioned and resisted by "the culture of the university"? He does spend a little time acknowledging what we have all gained: "the humanities," he says
helped to make the rest of the academic world alive to issues surrounding objectivity and interpretation, and to the significance of racial and gender difference. Scholars in the humanities were complicating social science models of human motivation and behavior for years before social scientists began doing the same thing via research in cognitive science. That political and economic behavior is often non-rational is not news to literature professors. And humanists can hope that someday more social scientists and psychologists will consider the mediating role of culture in their accounts of belief and behavior. . . [Scholarship in the humanities] is pursuing an ongoing inquiry into the limits of inquiry. And it is not just asking questions about knowledge; it is creating knowledge by asking the questions. Skepticism about the forms of knowledge is itself a form of knowledge.
That's something, though that's about all I could find, and it strikes me as pretty tepid and unconvincing, all very abstract and general and vague about how exactly those literary scholars achieved the insight (?) that "political and economic behavior is often non-rational," and promising nothing more than that humanities scholars will keep on keepin' on, being skeptical and questioning about, well, everything. What's Joyce to them, then, exactly, anyway? But I wouldn't be so annoyed at these moments if it weren't for this one:
It takes three years to become a lawyer. It takes four years to become a doctor. But it takes from six to nine years, and sometimes longer, to be eligible to teach poetry to college students for a living. . . . students who spend eight or nine years in graduate schools are being seriously overtrained for the jobs that are available.
I won't get into the problem of his math (see the discussion at Historiann for some trenchant critiques). And I'll concede that he means (I think) to be descriptive: it's just true that the majority of jobs that are available for Ph.D.s in English right now are not at research-intensive universities or elite liberal arts colleges, or teaching specialized classes to majors and honours students in their fields. In a painfully literal way, then, he's just telling the truth (though every time he talked about supply and demand I wondered why he wasn't acknowledging the work of Marc Bousquet). But he makes it sound as if "teach[ing] poetry to college students for a living" is a pretty trivial occupation, one that really doesn't depend on a base of specialized knowledge. What he doesn't say, in this astonishingly dismissive remark, is that the eight or nine years people spend in graduate school are preparing, not just to teach Introduction to Poetry, but to rethink, and perhaps transform, how we teach poetry to undergraduates--not to mention what poetry we teach. I have only to compare the undergraduate training I received with what is standard in the curriculum today to realize what a seismic shift has gone on, in expectations, in contexts, in critical approaches. I had occasion to remark just this week, for instance, that when I studied "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in my own first-year English class, the term "Modernism" never came up. Never. We read Joyce but no Woolf, just as in my Victorian novel class we read Trollope but not Gaskell or Braddon, and the term "imperialism" never came up. Now, I suppose you could argue that a small cadre of specially privileged researchers could be off doing the kind of work the effects of which would trickle down to the peons in the classroom, but as Menand himself argues, the fewer people engaged in an activity, the less likely it is that its norms and paradigms will be challenged. And as Grafton argues eloquently in his own response to Menand, "all this takes time," and "the vocation of scholarship is difficult." I think there are some difficulties with Grafton's emphasis on the academic life as a "quest," but I really wish that, having grabbed people's attention, Menand would have seized the opportunity, not to lob another petty grenade at his struggling colleagues but to insist that we not concede too much to either the rhetoric or the pressures of the marketplace. Surely an English professor who is also a public intellectual is uniquely positioned to make the case for, not against, the rest of us. I'm not sure that someone who wants to be a stockbroker should finish a PhD either, but I'd rather have a stockbroker who reads Joyce (or Trollope or George Eliot) than one who doesn't see the point of that stuff.
How can they look for leadership to someone who doesn't sound as if he thinks their work is important, whose suggestions for reform effectively trivialize it?
To quote from a recent post of mine, "These aren't complaints seeking answers, these are just complaints seeking justification for misery." Who would expect anything original and challenging from someone on staff at Harvard English?
In that last sentiment I'm just echoing the line from SUNY Buffalo back in the 70s, that Harvard English was just a high-class intellectual backwater. Maybe things have gotten better since then, but . . .
And then we have Stanley Fish's blithe assertion that the humanities are useless and that's a good thing. One can't help but think that the current humanities mandarinate is mostly concerned about minimizing their guilt as they ease into retirement, and anything they write about the disciplines is written toward that end, not toward changing things in a positive way.
As for time to degree, my colleague and mentor, the late David Hays, believed that the long time to degree was psychologically debilitating, that no adult should be an an adolescent role for so long. But maybe that's the point of the long time to degree, to engender, if not joyful, at least thoroughly resigned, subservience.
Hays also believed that anyone who had the brains for a PhD should be able to complete the degree in their early 20s. Unfortunately we never discussed that issue so I don't know what he had in mind. What does it take to create an adult capable of autonomous and responsible teaching and scholarship in the humanities?
Christopher Ricks wrote a letter to Empson in the early 70s which made a similar statement about Harvard's English Dept. at the time. I don't think you can look at the faculty there now and fairly make that claim, however.
Grafton's review seemed to suggest that the early completion of the PhD was not a viable answer, that serious humanities research necessarily takes a long time to complete, etc., and that what Menand was was essentially making the PhD into an MA degree.
I liked "The Marketplace of Ideas." I had hoped though that Menand might have compared continuing ed. in the humanities to continuing ed. in the business world – the Wharton School of Business, for example, or various other executive MBA programs, or the weekend MBA programs that perhaps were the beginning of the current proliferation of adult degree programs. I don't disagree with some of your comments, or Grafton's, but it seems that you have criticized Menand's book for not being something he didn't intend it to be. I have an old book sitting nearby, "Liberations: New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution" (Hassan, ed., 1971, Wesleyan). If you want a stockbroker who reads (or at least appreciates) Joyce, develop a viable PhD program for her. As for Menand's math, the following is from the Lewis and Clark (Portland, OR) program:
"Flexibility is a word that describes several aspects of the law school. There is the flexibility afforded by having two fully integrated programs: a part-time program and a full-time program. This means a student may switch from one to the other, after the first year, merely by indicating the wish to do so. Both programs are taught by the same full-time faculty and there is no distinction made as to whether a student is a graduate of the full-time or the part-time program. This flexibility means a student who is willing to go full-time and take full summers of courses can graduate in as little as two-and-a-half years. If a student wants to take advantage of summer school, it's possible, depending on how many summer school courses are taken, to register for one or more part-time semesters, thus creating the opportunity to clerk in Portland. Depending on how much summer school and how many part-time semesters a student decides to take, people can graduate in the typical three years or in three-and-a-half. Students who do not wish to take summer school and who plan to work all the way through law school, graduate in four years."