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contradictions and confirmation bias
I don't envy these people who are tasked with coming up with a memorial quote that is simultaneously pithy and meaningful. Hendrick Hertzberg, among others, is criticizing the architect of Martin Luther King's memorial for failing to take the context of King's speech into account when he decided to use this truncated quote on the side of King's statue:
If you read the sermon, it becomes clear that, not only did the architect commit a hatched job, the paragraph he pulled actually contradicts the whole point King was trying to get across.
King's point was to rail against the "drum major instinct"; the drive in each of us that says "hey look at me!" But then, toward the end, he sort of makes a verbal personal foul and says: if you want to call me a drum major then at least say I am doing it for the good of mankind because that is not… er… quite as megalomaniacal as… uh… I mean… anyway back to what I was saying….
My take is that the quote came from a moment in which King started down an unfortunate verbal path and was trying to get out of it to get back to his main point. Oops.
Last April, Caroline Alexander brought up the same question of context regarding the use of a quote on the 9/11 Memorial. In that case, the quote "No day shall erase you from the memory of time," actually came from a longer sentence in which the poet Virgil was lauding his own role as a poet recording history in venerating the memory of an amorous pair of soldiers who died in midst of battle. Virgil is basically saying: it's a good thing I know what you two were up to, because otherwise you would die in obscurity like every other piker… or something like that.
What is the common thread? Read the rest of this entry »
i'm just a silly man who needs a shave
An incisive rebuttal laying
bear bare the overdetermined intersection of social identity theory, categorization, hierarchy and agency within organizations. Bravo.
Clearly, organizational theory would be better off if it had more bears.
the federal wage freeze
With these words, President Obama announced an across the board pay freeze for Federal workers:
In these challenging times, we want the best and brightest to join and make a difference. But these are also times where all of us are called on to make some sacrifices. And I'm asking civil servants to do what they've always done — play their part.
Anyone looking at either the politics or the substance of our America's budget deficits recognizes that something should be done about the federal budget. But is asking 2.1 million workers to shoulder the burden the right approach? And even if it is, is doing it in an "across the board" freeze, the right way to go? No it's not. Here's why. Read the rest of this entry »
confessions of a social spatial navigator
Network analysts can roughly be divided into two camps: those who look at the "whole" network and those who concentrate on individuals and their "local" set of network connections. One problem often raised about network analysis is that the two camps have relatively little to do with each other.
Indulging in my side interest in urban transportation planning, I came across a discussion of the different ways that people navigate physical space. It got me thinking about parallels to the way people navigate social space and about how different people approach the question of social "navigation". It speaks to this bridging of the two network camps.
First, some terminology:
Humans have two methods of navigation. Spatial navigators can construct maps in their heads as they experience a place, and also tend to be good at using maps as navigational aids. Narrative navigators navigate by creating or following verbal directions. For spatial navigators, the answer to the question where? is a position in mapped space. For narrative navigators, the answer to where? is a story about how to get there. Obviously, this is a spectrum; many of us are in the middle with partial capabilities in both directions.
The same concept, put differently:
[Giuseppe] Iaria and McGill University researcher Véronique Bohbot demonstrated in a study they published six years ago that our mapping strategies fall into two basic categories. One is a spatial strategy that involves learning the relationships between various landmarks—creating a map in your head, in other words, that shows where the flower shop is in relationship to the movie theater and to the Wendy's. The other is a stimulus-response approach that encodes specific routes by memorizing a series of cues, as in: Get off the bus when you see the glass skyscraper, then walk toward the big park.
Lets put this in terms of social structural navigation. Say you have a hipster friend who wants to go on a date with a Polish kid who the friend has been eying for a while, but doesn't see a route in. Plenty of people think about social structure in the same way that roughly half of the population thinks about physical space; that is in narrative terms: "So, hipster from Williamsburg, you want to figure out how to ask that Polish kid out on a date? Well, Pauline used to own the store with Mitch, but they split up and he started his own store. I think that kid works for Mitch and I am going to dinner with Pauline so I can see if she'd ask Mitch to make an introduction."
Myself, however, I'm a spatial navigator when it comes to physical geography. When I ask my phone for directions, it initially pops up with a series of "turn left here, go right there" instructions which I ignore completely as I head straight for the map. I then assess the whole map and adjust the route the computer gives me in light of information I might have, for instance, that I know there's a really great cupcake shop on a slightly altered route. In fact, I do this in a lot of areas involving instructions: for instance, I tend to improvise based on recipes I look up rather than following exactly what the cook-book says.
And, not surprisingly, I do it too when it comes to social space. Rather than specific individuals and their connections, I tend to think in terms of cliques and the key people within those cliques. Carrying on the example from before: "Mitch and Pauline don't talk any more. No love lost in that breakup. But, I've noticed that Mitch has a few Polish kids who are here for the summer working for him. I don't know if this kid is one of them, but I see a bunch of them downing vodka shots at the Pig Wednesday night. That's when you and the rest of the hipsters are normally drinking G&Ts at the Governor Bradford. I can't guarantee it, but you might want to consider boogieing across the street. I bet he'll be there."
Both approaches will get you to the destination, but the cognitive map that gets you there is different.
This distinction has the potential to be very useful both for how we teach network concepts and also for pointing toward research directions attempting to bridge individual and network levels of analysis. Read the rest of this entry »
the long fiscal game
I supported the stimulus package, but agree with the likes of Ryan Avent that the problem with Obama's stimulus was that it was not only poorly executed, but that that execution is rooted in a systemic problem:
A country committed to stimulus will take care to prepare to use stimulus. It will construct a system of automatic stabilizers that provide immediate counter-cyclical aid as an economy deteriorates. It may have a backlog of needed infrastructure projects at the ready, which can be rushed into action as conditions warrant. A country generally skeptical of stimulus, on the other hand, will reach for it in an emergency and find that it is unprepared. Automatic stabilizers will be too small and will require constant Congressional maintenance. Too few projects will be shovel-ready. The need to legislate will lead to inclusion of pork items that aren't particularly stimulative. Stimulus will be less targeted, timely, and effective as a result.
My take for some time has been that Larry Summers and Tim Geithner are no more pro-Keynesian than Greg Mankiw or other detractors of a stimulus approach. And, just as it was a bad idea to have a government with a distaste for government running major a government operation like the response to Katrina (i.e., G.W.B.), it has been a problem having economists running the response to the crisis who are implementing a Keynesian approach while quietly holding their noses. Which brings me to Martin Wolf's insightful post on how the politics of supply-side economics have influenced modern thinking both among Democrats and Republicans: Read the rest of this entry »
embrace immigrants, don't divide and conquer
Robert Putnam and Jeb Bush have an editorial in the Washington Post today arguing for more coherent — and embracing — approach to immigration. They draw on a theme I also touch on in my book.
A century ago, religious, civic and business groups and government provided classes in English and citizenship. Historian Thomas P. Vadasz found that in Bethlehem, Pa., a thriving town of about 20,000, roughly two-thirds of whom were immigrants, the biggest employer, Bethlehem Steel, and the local YMCA offered free English instruction to thousands of immigrants in the early 20th century, even paying them to take classes. Today, immigrants face long waiting lists for English classes, even ones they pay for.
I figure if Fabio can plug his book, then I can too. In Chapter 4 of Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown, I talk about the differences between how immigrant workers were treated in Bethlehem and Youngstown. In both places, local elites saw the arrival of new immigrants as a threat. But they defined the threat differently. In Bethlehem, the threat was seen as the break down of community. And so business and civic leaders took action to create bridges to immigrant groups (largely through religious outreach: that is, through organizations like the Young Men's Christian Association). This had the effect of forging ties both between the elites and the working classes and among the various ethnic immigrant communities that made up the working class.
Elites in Youngstown interpreted the threat, not in terms of community, but in terms of elite's interests. And so their approach took a different form as well:
The connections among founding families forged through their economic, civic and neighborhood ties led elites in Youngstown to circle the wagons against the new arrivals. The strategy that emerged to deal with the threat was essentially divide and conquer. By controlling settlement patterns through their control over real estate, [Youngstown's] founding families fragmented the city's new immigrant working class into separate ethnic enclaves, a strategy later reinforced by the law-and-order and obviously racially and ethnically divisive approach favored by the Ku Klux Klan. Ethnic differences among early northern European settlers subsided as salient sources of identity; class interests were forefront in the minds and actions of various groups in [Youngstown region].
It seems to me that we continue to face this choice and Bush and Putnam are (explicitly) advocating for the approach that prevailed in Bethlehem. History is on their side, as the differences between these two communities turned out to be very important in the long term. The cross-cutting ties that Vadasz discussed laid the ground work for far more cooperative relationships with labor unions and, indeed, much more control on the part of business owners over Bethlehem's unions. The divide and conquer approach in Youngstown sewed mistrust both among workers and, certainly, between workers and company managers. In the short term, the differences were stark: the Little Steel Strike of 1937 turned violent in Youngstown with dozens of pickets killed. The strike largely missed Bethlehem and, in general, labor relations and social order were far calmer there. More importantly, in the long run, the integrative approach that prevailed in Bethlehem made that community far better prepared for the demands of a global economy than Youngstown has proven to be.
(P.S., the BBC has been doing a series on the revival of the US Rust Belt, including a segment on Youngstown).
a primer on 'networking'
I have spent the last couple of years using social networks as the basis of both my research and my teaching. I can geek out about academic terms like network centrality and cliques. I can tell you about multiplexity and eigenvectors (well, that last one, maybe only sorta). But then I come across comments like this one from Sam Biddle, re-posted by Andrew Sullivan this morning:
I am not entirely sure what networking is, and I'm not sure anyone else is either. I am somewhat sure that I am not doing it. I've been given the gist of it before. I know that it's all about meeting the right people, and making new contacts, and following up and other italicized things.
Actually, meeting the right people and making new contacts is a fairly ineffective approach to "networking". First, you can get much of the information you need through people you already know (or, at least through the people who you know, know). Second, just meeting the right people isn't enough. You have to close the deal. I study and teach this, and I tell the students in my MBA classes this is the wrong idea. But, how would a hapless philosophy major know that? He simply wants to know what the heck is "networking" and how do I do it better? And, we—as a field—have not done a great job of distilling the key ideas and getting them out there.
So here, in very stylized form, is the state of the academic art on "networking". (A note to orgheads: there are no "citations" to these ideas, but I've provided embedded links to some of the most important ideas. I hope folks will use the comments section to fill in the (probably copious) holes I've left out or errors of interpretation I've committed.)
First, I'm going to assume that by networking you mean using social contacts to get something you want, whether that thing is a job, an idea, an investment, etc. If so, then there are two pieces to the problem of effectively "networking": search and trust.
the key to success: get it wrong
It's hard to write academic pieces well. Getting the evidence right takes skill, time and patience. Making sure I have the literature down and accounted for means revisiting notes taken years ago and stashed somewhere I can't quite remember. But for me, the hardest part of writing a paper is the framing because framing is generally about recognizing how I, and most everyone else who has tackled this problem, was wrong in some way. In other words, just about every good piece of organizational theory written in the 20th century follows a general formula which begins by saying: organizational theorists have argued X, but I am going to contradict that to argue that Y holds instead.
After months — sometimes, years — of wrestling with an idea or a data set, finding that contradiction can feel impossible. But it has to be done. It's what makes people read your work and, to some degree, what makes them believe you. That realization came from the inevitable grad school airing of Murray Davis's classic essay "That's Interesting! Toward a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology." Murray writes:
An audience will consider any particular proposition to be worth saying only if it denies the truth of some part of their routinely held assumption-ground. If it does not challenge but merely confirms one of their taken-for-granted beliefs, they will respond to it by rejecting its value while affirming its truth. They will declare that the proposition need not be stated because it is already part of their theoretical scheme: "Of course." "That's obvious." "Everybody knows that." "It goes without saying."
Recently I was reminded of this idea when I was reading an interview with Ira Glass, the host of public radio's This American Life. He was asked "what is the big pay off for the listener in stories… " To which he replied:
Well, if the story works, you become the character, right? You agree with their early point of view, and then when it gets shattered, you are shattered with it. So in the storytelling, you want to manipulate the evidence and the feelings so that the audience is right there agreeing with the person who's about to be proven wrong. When that happens, if it's done right, you as the audience get flipped upside down.
He goes on to talk about a few of the best This American Life stories about being wrong and brings up the Squirrel Cop story and their series on the mortgage crisis. [Both well worth listening to.] Or, there is this lovely animation of a story on This American Life which is about being wrong about being wrong.
Sometimes these kinds of switch-backs can lead to juicy interpersonal drama. Intellectual history is rife with examples of students' "killing the father" which is to say, publicly contradicting the theories that one's own mentors and advisers championed. But the sweetest examples are those rare, revelatory, instances when big deal thinkers confront and admit their own wrongness after years and decades of towing the line.
It's all a reminder to me that, while we strive for scientific rigor in our work, the best orgTheorists are also excellent storytellers whose goal is not simply to find sociological "truth", it is to influence discourse; to change the way people think by exposing their own intellectual struggles in a way that sheds light. And it makes me wonder: where will the next great contradictory switchback come from in OrgTheory?
brooks discovers sociology: our time has come?
It's hard to let David Brooks's piece in the New York Times this morning go without a comment.
First there's the title: History's Return. A reference to Fukyuama's pronouncement that we had reached:
…not to an "end of ideology" or a convergence between capitalism and socialism, as earlier predicted, but to an unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism.
Brooks extrapolates from this: economics won the game; not just as a discipline, but as the intellectual underpinning of economic and political liberalism from here on out. Oh really? Not so fast, he says:
…the economic crisis of 2008 and 2009… is a climax of sorts because it exposed the shortcomings of the whole field. Economists and financiers spent decades building ever more sophisticated models to anticipate market behavior, yet these models did not predict the financial crisis as it approached. In fact, cutting-edge financial models contributed to it by getting behavior so wrong — helping to wipe out $50 trillion in global wealth and causing untold human suffering… More than a year after the event, there is no consensus on what caused the crisis. Economists are fundamentally re-evaluating their field.
Which leads to this hopeful prediction:
One gets the sense, at least from the outside, that the intellectual energy is no longer with the economists who construct abstract and elaborate models. Instead, the field seems to be moving in a humanist direction. Many economists are now trying to absorb lessons learned by psychologists, neuroscientists and sociologists. They're producing books with titles like "Animal Spirits," "The Irrational Economist," and "Identity Economics," about subjects such as how social identities shape economic choices.
Words to stir the soul of any self respecting economic sociologist / organizational theorist. Yet, somehow, I'm not stirred. I don't believe the day of the economists' intellectual hegemony has ended.
First, its not like we haven't been saying this all along. Brooks makes it seem like sociologists, psychologists and the like have been waiting for our moment. Sociology and the humanists originated the field and we never really went away (its worth remembering that Max Weber called himself an economist; Act I in Brooks's formulation was preceded by a whole lot of people we would today call humanists, political scientists and sociologists who were unpacking the nature of economic activity and action). So one has to ask: if we've been right all along (and I think we have been) then why should we think that this crisis will be the one to change the game back in our favor?
Otherwise put: why did they win the day for the last half of the 20th Century? One idea: it is because economists give definitive answers. They are comfortable with saying "this is the right answer" or "this is a set of principles on which to make in informed choice", even if they are eventually proved wrong. That isn't going to change.
And it isn't just bravado. People who need to make decisions want a rationale for those decisions to be conveyed with clarity. For as much as I think sociology and our sister — humanist oriented — disciplines come closer to understanding reality, we nevertheless will continue to lose arguments because of the wishy washy way we make our arguments. There is little interest or tolerance among economic sociologists for articulating a coherent, prescriptive, philosophy of economic action.
Until we do, I'm afraid we are always going to be playing second fiddle.
sean safford and jerry davis on google
The NY Times has a nice article on Google's head quarters. My co-blogger, Sean Safford, comments:
Sean Safford, a professor who studies organizations and markets at the University of Chicago, noted that Google was replicating traditional company-town practices by placing housing for its employees near its headquarters.
"It will be so interesting to see how much of their human resources strategy is about creating a community feeling that goes beyond the offices," Mr. Safford said. "Sometimes when you're competing for workers and prominence, there's a need to stick your chest out and say, 'We're the big dogs in town.' "
Our good ol' buddy Jerry Davis also chimes in on the topic of different forms of community investment by firms:
Perhaps uniquely, Google is also casting itself as a partner with NASA, now the proprietor of Moffett Field. This partnership is making Mountain View a stop along the virtual route to Mars and the real route to the Moon.
"It's a cool anomaly because the company-town tradition had basically died in the U.S.," said Jerry Davis, a professor at the University of Michigan, who has written about the ties between companies and cities. "It's interesting to see Google put their touches on the idea."
Historically, company towns have grown up around organizations with large manufacturing operations that can support thousands of local workers. To attract top executives to often less-than-ideal locales, the companies donated large sums to cultural institutions.
"The main reason Ford put money into the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is to make it plausible to recruit executives to Detroit," Professor Davis said. "It was a human-resources move as much as it was philanthropic."
Check it out! Hat tip to William S.
pukeworthy comparisons and insight into relative depravation
Steve Levitt, has a provocative blog post up today. Forwarding a reader's email he asks:
"What other benefits can be found in poverty? Obviously there is a difference between the regular poverty of say, a good chunk of Western college students versus the extreme poverty of many people in Africa. Depending on the situation, I am thinking there could be a connection between poverty and with things like creative resourcefulness and happiness." Your thoughts?
As for thoughts, an orgTheorist who shall go nameless posted this on his facebook page questioning whether Steve might have had an aneurysm. Its hard to disagree with that sentiment.
But then it did make me think of Amartya Sen's argument in Development as Freedom. In a nut shell, Sen's goal is to shift the debate away from mainstream economists' notions of utility and from philosophical (sociological?) questions of justice or fairness to emphasize the capability of people to do and be what they value.
Echoing Levitt's reader's (puke-worthy, yet nevertheless thought provoking) comparison of Western college students and "people in Africa" (whatever that means given that it is a continent of 1 billion people and countless cultures and subcultures), Sen's argument is, fundamentally, that poverty is relative.
If a lack of income is standing in the way of doing things you want to do — worship, vote, be comfortable — then you are poor. But those restrictions can come just as easily from social norms, religious edicts or political structure as income. At the same time, simply having a low income does not make one either poor or unhappy. The Botswanan bushman who is living a full and meaningful life within a traditional society is neither unhappy nor poor because he has full capability to achieve what he wants to achieve in life.
Sen likes to point out that in his wanderings in Calcutta's ghettos, he never encountered anyone who said that their poverty made them unhappy. The same, I venture, could not be said of your average college student living on loans. Myself, I remember spending a few very miserable winters in Ithaca eating ramen noodles. Yet, the capabilities of the Calcuttan ghetto-dweller to achieve the things they may want to achieve are vastly inferior to the capabilities of the students. So why are they happier? The difference is, essentially, ignorance: the poor in Calcutta make-due under overwhelmingly adverse circumstances while students in the US feel worse off relative to others in society. The poor may seem happier, but their happiness is in light of their relative lack of freedom compared to the US student. Which is worse? Sen argues that happy ignorance is not bliss. I'd say I have to agree.
the dual nature of brokerage
Maureen Dowd went populist in her column yesterday. Picking up on on Matt Tabai's slimy imagery, she refers to "Goldmine" Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money"…
The name calling tries too hard to foment middle and working class anger where, frankly, I don't really see protests forming in the streets. But what I find interesting is Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's rebuttal to the claim.
We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital… Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle. We have a social purpose.
So here's a question… Clearly, banks are brokers; they are intermediaries engaged in managing the two sided market of investors and investees. But, what kind of broker are they?
Ron Burt's work shows convincingly that brokers realize economic benefits from connecting disconnected actors. For Ron, brokers are tertius gaudens: the third who benefits by exploiting asymmetric resource flows and contests for control. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo built on this to ask the following question: do brokers' profits come from making transactions more efficient or do they come from the fact that, where two parties lack full information, the left hand doesn't really know what the right hand is doing? She shows that brokers can pass on greater rewards to partners with which they have a closer relationship and that the pound of flesh is extracted from the other partner to the transaction. One interpretation of this is that the latter mechanism prevails.
Yet, by emphasizing banks' socially beneficial role, Blankfein is channeling what David Obstfeld refers to as the "tertius iungens" form of brokerage. The intuition behind the iungens idea is that more value is created by connecting disconnected actors than if they weren't connected. Everyone benefits: the parties to the transaction, the broker and society at large.
So which is it? Are investment banks iungens or are they gaudens? In Fernandez and Gould's formulation, are they honest brokers or… not?
about that tale of two numbers
Michael Roston points out a very interesting tale of two numbers in the news yesterday:
Perhaps you've heard that the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 10,000 today, finally, at long last…
But it turns out that while Mr. Dow Jones believes that our Great Recession is over (that's a joke), one invisible hand in our market doesn't know what the other is doing.
That's right, the Pentagon reported on this day of Dow 10,000 that our strained Armed Forces have beat their recruiting goals for the fiscal year, driven by economic unease. (h/t: the Daily Dish).
Here here! for pointing out the obvious. Seriously. The man makes a good point.
The AFL-CIO and the Economic Policy Institute make another good point: the current recession is hitting women worse than men, and minorities worse than non-minorities.
One reason women workers are so adversely affected by manufacturing job loss is that they are concentrated in industries that have been drastically affected by the surge in cheap imports over the past decade, such as textiles, apparel and leather. Women make up more than 50 percent of the total workforce in these industries. Faced with high levels of foreign competition, these jobs have had high levels of trade-related job displacement.
Not good. So what to do?
One idea that has been proposed is to redirect stimulus and TARP funds to smaller regional banks where it is more likely to go to support small businesses where conventional wisdom suggests more jobs will be created in the short term.
That's not a bad idea, per se. But it doesn't solve the larger problem which is that the U.S. economy has been putting off a denouement with itself for decades: the engine that built and sustained the middle-class is broken and we need to figure out what to do about that. Sometimes its important to take a step back and think about the big picture.
of cows and collective action, ostrom wins a nobel
Elinor Ostrom has won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Boo rah!
For a lot of orgTheory readers, Oliver Williamson's win will be the more exciting and relevant of this year's laureates. Oliver Williamson is really one of us; many orgTheorists find his work compelling or at least a useful foil. But I'll let others comment on Williamson because, for my money, the questions and topics that Ostrom work on are as (if not more) relevant and compelling to my understanding of organizations and of organization theory.
Sometimes it is the quality of the questions one asks — more, perhaps, even than the answer one gives — that makes for a great thinker. To some degree, I think this applies to Ostrom. In the end, I find her answers somehow incomplete. But, the questions she asks as she breaks down the larger puzzle are compelling.
Her fundamental question is this: in a world of abundant but rapidly depletable resources, where individuals have incentives for survival that, if acted on, would undermine the long-term viability of the resources on which they depend, how does coordination and cooperation emerge? That is, she's interested in the Tragedy of the Commons. The term derives from the fact that farmers with access to the local grazing land (The Commons) have an incentive to feed their cattle as much as possible. But if all farmers fed their cattle as much as possible it would rapidly deplete the grass leading all of their cattle to suffer. There are two prevailing answers to that dillema: (1) may the best farmer win (which would mean the commons would no longer be a commons) or (2) institute some set of rules and enforcement mechanisms to govern the behavior of farmers. Obviously, the second often wins out. The question is how.
Her conclusion: it's complex. There is no silver bullet (which makes it all the more surprising that the Nobel committee has decided to honor her work. Economists, I've noticed, put a lot of value on "elegance"; Ostrom is a strong writer, but elegant… not so much). There are a series of mechanisms that come into play to keep good order and that, if harnessed and understood, can lead to behavior that sustains survival. Read the rest of this entry »
azoulay bait: russian dolls and the identification movement
The Economist airs some inter-disciplinary dirty laundry within the identification movement. On one side, the forces aligned behind isolating causality through the use of instrumental variables:
Often derived from a quirk in the environment or in public policy, [instrumental variables] affect the outcome (a person's earnings, say, to return to the original example) only through their influence on the input variable (in this case, the number of years of schooling) while at the same time being uncorrelated with what is left out (scholastic ability). The job of instrumental variables is to ensure that the omission of factors from an analysis—in this example, the impact of scholastic ability on the amount of schooling—does not end up producing inaccurate results.
On the other are leading lights such as James Heckman and Angus Deaton:
According to Mr Deaton, using such instruments to estimate causal parameters is like choosing to let light "fall where it may, and then proclaim[ing] that whatever it illuminates is what we were looking for all along."
Their alternative: model the selection effect directly by first predicting, for instance, whether a woman is likely to want to leave the market for some period of time to raise a family and then use that model as a control when you estimate discrimination.
Here's the rub: the article poses these as an either-or choice. But choosing to employ a selection model involves its own trade-offs. More importantly, instrumental variables and selection models are hardly the only options available.
orgtheorist makes good: kogut on the daily show
Try as I might, I have not been able to figure out how to embed this video: the Daily Show with Jon Stewart takes on the MBA oath and Bruce Kogut plays a staring role.
Having watched it, I am now considering getting some prominent arm tattoos… clearly they generate more respect from MBA students than my current sartorial efforts have achieved to date.
More importantly, kudos to Bruce for playing the straight man with aplomb. I'd say he does the George Burns thing to John Oliver's Gracie very well indeed.
health care is not made in china
Matt Yglesias makes the point that the price of new cars has not increased as fast as inflation over time, nor have High Definition TVs which have seen costs come down. He wonders why the same hasn't happened for health care technology:
This gets back to some of the perversities of fee-for-service medicine. The current market creates strong incentives for people to develop "better and more expensive" methods of treatment, but almost no incentive to develop "as good but cheaper" methods of treatment. Both kinds of innovation, however, are extremely valuable. The world's resources are limited, and the development of cheaper methods of treatment would allow for more overall treatment and thus better outcomes.
In short, I'd say the answer comes down to China, or really its relative absence from the health care market. As an NPR report from a few days ago illustrated nicely, the reason consumer goods like TVs, toasters, shoes and even cars has come down has a lot to do with the unsustainable trading relationship between the U.S. and China.
Key point: consumer goods are transportable. But health care is fixed in place. You get sick where you live. So while capital is free to scurry the globe in search of cheap labor and factor inputs for consumer goods, health care has to contend with the realities of operating in a high-wage, highly-regulated society.
politics of health care reform: do doctors have too much power?
There are a lot of things I like in the health care reform bills passing through Congress. Most importantly, all of them make it easier for individuals and small businesses to buy insurance. But what is not clear is how the reforms will achieve the equally important goal of controlling costs. President Obama gives a two-piece answer to this question. The first is rationalizing care and eliminating wasted dollars, largely by digitizing medical records. The second has to do with moving away from "fee-for-service" system, which provides incentives for doctors to over-treat illnesses, and toward the one where doctors are compensated based on a combination of cost reduction and quality.
To work, both of those fixes have to be effectively implemented at an organizational level. They will require changing the way doctors, nurses and other medical care providers do their job. And that means changing the organizational rules by which hospitals and doctors offices operate. But what that organizational model will look like has not been specified. It might look like the Mayo or the Cleveland Clinics which use computerized records, pay doctors salaries and reward them for patient outcomes rather than per service. Yet as the New York Times points out, only one plan in Congress addresses the organizational model and that one is just a pilot program. Massachusetts is looking at ways of urging doctors to shift into salary-based provider networks. But there's no discussion of a mandate or of anything with teeth that would move the medical industry in that direction.
How many reform movements have succeeded in winning legislation meant to change society, but then fail to actually change anything? Too many to count. Why? Because the devil in achieving real change is in the details of organizational implementation.
Specifically: even if reforms are enacted, those who want to maintain the status quo can simply let reforms pass and then either comply only symbolically or make sure that the reforms are implemented in ways that effectively maintain the system in place. News that the American Medical Association has signed on to major elements of the reform process is important to getting reform passed through Congress. But what really matters is how reforms are implemented inside hospitals and doctors offices. In other words, in the absence of a specific plan for how to restructure the way medical care is organized, the endorsement doesn't mean a whole lot.
In fact, I fear that it makes it more likely that history will repeat itself.
could penske's purchase of saturn fundamentally change the auto industry?
Roger Penske is purchasing Saturn and the implications are possibly far reaching. If a crisis, as the saying goes, is a terrible thing to waste then the auto industry circa 2009 presents a golden opportunity to see how a crisis opens opportunities to re-write the rules that govern an industry. Penske's gambit aims to do that and if he succeeds it could fundamentally change the way cars are designed and manufactured.
Saturn has been cast in the role of change agent before. The company was conceived in 1982 as a "new kind of car company, making a new kind of car." Back then, the rap on the American car industry was that it produced poor quality goods. That problem, in turn, was blamed on ossified relationships between the car companies and their "stakeholders": relationships with the unions had become paralyzingly adversarial, relationships with suppliers were dictatorial, the companies' own designers weren't cooperating across divisional boundaries and the dealer network were unwieldy. Saturn was meant to push the reset button on all of these relationships.
Saturn's new model worked, for a while. Its quality ratings were high and the brand developed a strong customer base. But rather than spreading into the rest of GM, the opposite happened: GM re-colonized Saturn. When Saturn opened a new plant in Wilmington, Delaware in 1996, it was stripped of most of the key organizational innovations of the original plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Labor-management cooperation was replaced with a regular pattern contract, the car's design was outsourced to a GM subsidiary, Saturn's relationships with suppliers reverted to form, and plant's managers were brought in through GM's regular management career channels. Saturn became just another GM subsidiary.
That is, with one exception: the brand and the dealer network maintained a good deal of independence. And they are essentially what Roger Penske has now purchased: not a company that makes cars (GM will continue to design and manufacture vehicles for the time being after which Penske plans to outsource manufacturing to a global network of manufacturers), but a brand and a distribution channel.
On first inspection, that doesn't seem to be the stuff of fundamental industry change. But it could turn out to be just that if Penske is able to capture power in the value chain and use it to influence the way cars are designed and manufactured. The open question is whether Penske has the wherewithal to pull it off.


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BRYAN -- A month and a half ago, Joseph Jones announced he was going to test the NBA draft waters.
That experiment is now over after Jones told Mark Berman of KRIV in Houston that he's returning to Texas A&M for his senior Season.
Jones didn't hire an agent back on April 24 when he announced he was thinking about declaring for the NBA draft later on this month, that decision gave him to option to travel to several NBA draft camps and get a feel for where he might get drafted.
Joseph said back in April if he didn't think he'd be a first round draft choice then he'd return to A&M to finish out his senior season under first year head coach Mark Turgeon.
The pride of Normangee was second on the team in scoring last season, averaging 13.4 points per game.
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New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray spins a beautiful holiday tale of finding love in unexpected places.
Twenty-year old Ruth Stutzman is a wonderful caregiver—but she has no experience with kinner. Laid off from her job at a retirement home due to budget cuts, she's relieved to find work—even if it means temporarily watching widower Martin Rodes' brood of six!
Martin has done the best he can since his wife's passing, but he and the children need help. Their house, once full of laughter and light, has been darkened by sadness. Soon after Ruth arrives, the children are drawn to her warmth and gentleness, and so is Martin, even though he feels it's wrong. But the harder he tries to ignore her, the deeper he begins to care for this attractive young woman who has brought joy back into his children's lives . . . and his own.
Each passing day brings the Rodes closer to Ruth . . . and closer to Christmas, when she will have to say goodbye. Ruth, too, cannot deny the bond she feels with the children—and with Martin. When her old job becomes available again, Ruth finds herself torn. How can she stay with the Rodes? Yet how can she go?
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(CelebNMusic247-News) Why Teen Mom Farrah Abraham Is A Bad Example?
When you think Teen Mom screw up, most would agree that Farrah Abraham has not led a good example for her 4-year-old daughter Sophia.
The Teen Mom star, Farrah Abraham keeps racking up bad choices to her list of wrong doings! She may have made some money from her
anal sex tape but she has invested her money an time in all of the wrong places.
Here's some poor examples of what Farrah Abraham's has done with her monies:
1 – First, she got size C breast implants, but that was not enough. Abraham later paid for size D silicone breast implants which costed $7,145.
2 – Not only did she work on her breasts, the young mother underwent a rhinoplasty and a chin implant which costs $16,000.
3- It is mind-boggling to think that by the age of 22, she has had a child, gone under the knife multiple times, and had a sex tape.
4 – And if that's not bad enough, Abraham's latest hobby is making appearances at strip clubs all over the country.
Who is raising Farrah Abraham's daughter? Is this what Teen Mom's promotes? Is Farrah Abraham a good example for Teem Mom's and why are we making trashy reality stars famous?


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West Coast Readings of The Future Perfect, Directed by Rock of Ages' Kristin Hanggi, Held June 25-26
By Michael Gioia
The Pasadena Playhouse's final presentation of its 2012-13 Hothouse at The Playhouse series, The Future Perfect, directed by Tony Award nominee Kristin Hanggi (Rock of Ages), is offered June 25-26 in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at The Pasadena Playhouse.
Featuring a book by Jonathan Caren, music and lyrics by Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter Ben Decter, the 8 PM readings have musical direction by Kyle Puccia.
"This project is a labor of love for us...and something we've enjoyed developing from the ground up," said director Hanggi in a statement. "I've always thought of this musical as John Lennon's quote – 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.' I'm really interested in exploring all the optimism of youth and our dreams, and how life grows us by the events that happen along the way."
Added composer and lyricist Decter, "After several aborted attempts at exploring the early years of being a Dad through words alone, I finally turned to songwriting. It just so happened that Kristin Hanggi was given a CD, and thus began the deep development process. Kristin promised on day one that this would be a long, challenging journey. Yet, we keep moving forward, onward, and upward and that's actually what this story is about. It's amazing how our show, and all of us, have grown through the process – especially the little girl who was the original inspiration for this story."
The Future Perfect, according to press notes, "is a story about a singer and his band on the verge of their dreams, but behind the scenes his family is falling apart. While the band deals with their newfound fame, Daniel is dealing with his newfound daughter and her ensuing medical crisis, which will require more love than he ever imagined. In The Future Perfect, we follow a young man's struggle to accept a different vision of himself, his daughter and the future. It's a musical about going for your dreams, and being surprised by what you find along the way..."
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Columbia: From April 2 to Monday, the state checked 2,557 lower-river anglers, who had caught 316 adult and two jack spring chinook and nine steelhead. The number of people in the river is increasing with more than 1,300 boats and 1,146 bank anglers counted Sunday.
Cowlitz: The action is improving a bit. State creel checks showed 33 boat anglers kept 16 steelhead, while 59 bank anglers kept one adult chinook and 13 steelhead, and released two steelhead.
Lewis: Steelhead fishing has been poor. The river remains closed for chinook. The East Fork Lewis, from the mouth to the top boat ramp at Lewisville Park, opens to hatchery steelhead fishing April 16.
Olympic Coast: The Calawah and Sol Duc have been the best choices for catching wild steelhead. State checks last weekend showed both rivers producing more than one first per person. River flows and visibility should be good the rest of the week.
Yakima: Fishing has been good to very good, even with river flows on the rise. The fish don't seem to be concentrating on any particular bug, but a split-wing Adams parachute dry fly has been very effective when mayflies have been hatching.
Fly-fishing: Beach action has been fair. There are a lot of chum fry in the water, so go with baitfish patterns. An olive and white Clouser minnow is a good pattern to start with.
North Sound: The eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca continues to produce the best catches of blackmouth right now. Weekend creel sampling done at the Ediz Hook boat ramp showed 118 anglers brought in 75 chinook. The fishing off Port Townsend has been fair to good.
South Sound: Salmon fishing is very slow. Of nine anglers checked by the state late last week at Tacoma locations, just one had a chinook. In the Olympia area, seven people were checked and only one had a chinook. It is the same story on Hood Canal.
Westport: Improved ocean conditions meant better results Sunday. People were catching more ling cod, including one that weighed 37 pounds, 13 ounces.
American: Kokanee are being caught, with a few anglers limiting out. A red Wedding Ring has worked for some people. When you find a school, troll in a figure 8 pattern to work the fish more effectively.
Lenice: Folks making the drive to this Grant County lake northeast of Yakima are being rewarded with good catches of rainbow trout. People are having luck with micro leeches, chironomids and callibaetis nymphs.
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DOVER, Del.- The Delaware House of Representatives has passed bills to continue indefinitely four tax increases that are supposed to go away this year.
The four bills affect franchise, personal income, gross receipts, and estate taxes. They were all raised in 2009 when the state was in serious financial trouble. And though they were scheduled to sunset this year, that may not end up happening.
The bills required three-fifths majorities to pass. They got that even with every Republican and Democrat Rep. John Atkins, D-Millsboro, voting no on each.
Talk of taxes not going back to 2009 levels isn't sitting with people in Dover.
"I'm not really happy about it," said Neal Robinson, of Dover. "Too many times they raise the taxes, saying they'll go down, and they never do."
"They'll do anything they can to get more and more of our money to spend it any way they can," Pat Fizette, of Dover, said.
House Majority Leader Rep. Val Longhurst, D-Bear, says it was never a guarantee the taxes levels would go back to 2009 levels this year.
"What Rep. Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth, said is depending on where the economy is we will revisit them. Our economy hasn't rebounded. We're still in the same position. It's not the $800 million shortfall we had four years ago, but we haven't come out of it yet."
She says the house needs to pass this plan.
"If it doesn't go through, we're going to have do some major cuts," Longhurst said. "That's not a good thing."
Minority Leader Rep. Danny Short, R-Seaford, says not going back to 2009 levels amounts to a broken promise.
"It's actually reimposing these taxes - in the case of the bills - forever. They have no expiration on them. That's troublesome to me, because there was a promise made in '09."
And that's how Robinson feels. He says if it goes through he'll feel lied to.
"When someone says they're going to do something, and they don't, that's a lie."
The bills now head to the Senate for consideration. If all the bills pass, the taxes won't be at their original hike level. But they will be higher than they were to start in 2009. Gov. Jack Markell's budget proposal counts on these four tax bills passing.
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Dennis Keith Kimple, age 63, of Meadville, passed away Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 at Meadville Medical Center.
He was born on Feb. 24, 1949 in Meadville. He is the son of Roland George Kimple and Frances Miller Kimple.
He was married to Shirley Kimple for 25 years then spent the last 14 years with his significant other, Nancy Hoegerl. They both survive him.
He was a 1967 graduate of Meadville High School. He worked at his father's garage, Kimple's Exxon, then went into the Army during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1971. He then worked for the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier for 39 years. He was a Christian.
He belonged to the ELKS lodge 219, VFW post 2006, Eagles, Italian Civic Club, Meadville Club, West Mead #2 fire department and Free and Accepted Masons.
His pastimes include cooking, gardening, NASCAR, music and spending time with his buddies at the ELKS.
Surviving him is a daughter, Samantha Ashe of Meadville; a son, James Kimple and his wife, Dana, of Jekyl Island, Georgia; five grandchildren, Josie, Cooper, Spencer, Madeline and Ryan; a sister, Rolanda Chaney of Meadville; brother David Kimple and his wife, Missie, of Meadville; a sister-in-law, Denise Kimple of Meadville; two nephews, Jesse and Russell; and six nieces, Amy, Stephanie, Amber, Natalie, Jamie and Tricia.
Also surviving are an aunt and uncle, Bill Eckart and his wife, Donna Eckart.
He is preceded in death by his father, one brother, Robert Kimple, a sister, Sharon Kimple and a niece, Jessica Rose.
Calling hours will be on Monday, Dec. 17 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Hatheway- Tedesco Funeral Home and Crematorium, 614 Baldwin St. Meadville, and the funeral on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.
Interment will follow at Dicksonburg Cemetery.
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(UPDATED) Big Brother 12 to air Sunday, Wednesday & Thursday at 8PMBy: Josh on May 25, 2010
CBS announced it's summer schedule today and in it we learn the days that Big Brother 12 will air. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursdays will be the days and they will each air at 8PM/est on CBS. No longer will we need to guess if the show will be on at 8 or 9.
The full press release is available after the jump!
"Big Brother" to Be Broadcast Three Times a Week—Wednesday, Thursday (Live Eviction Show) and Sunday from 8:00-9:00 PM
Julie Chen Returns as Host
The summer reality hit BIG BROTHER premieres Thursday, July 8 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The new cast will be announced at a later date.
BIG BROTHER will be broadcast three nights per week: Wednesdays, (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning July 14); the LIVE eviction show hosted by Julie Chen on Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT, beginning July 15) and Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning July 11).
Last summer's edition saw BIG BROTHER grow its audience both on-air and online for the CBS Television Network and CBS Interactive platforms.
Last year's edition of BIG BROTHER was one of only a handful of programs ever to post growth in its tenth season. Compared to the prior year's edition, BIG BROTHER was up +7% in viewers (7.08m from 6.60m), +4% in adults 18-49 (2.5/08 from 2.4/07) and +5% in adults 18-34 (2.0/07 from 1.9/06). Each of the three weekly broadcasts also posted summer-to-summer growth.
Online, BIG BROTHER was the last summer's #1 show on CBS.com and across the CBS Audience Network in all key metrics, with 25% more unique users and 94% more video streams than the prior summer.
BIG BROTHER follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day. Each week, the Houseguests vote someone out of the house. At the end, the last remaining Houseguests receives the grand prize of $500,000.
BIG BROTHER is executive produced by Emmy Award winner Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan in association with Endemol U.S.A.
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No! This is how it was for one of the previous seasons and I disliked it. I don't see the benefits of having 2 nights back to back. It is better spread out and then there is less of a BB withdrawl. lol.
If it ain't broke-Don't Fix It!!!!! CBS……..You Will lose numbers!!!! Not Happy!!!!
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May 6, 2007
Birding for a cause: Event will benefit wildlife
By Larry Claflin Jr. , Staff writer
Mass Audubon's 24th annual Bird-a-thon on Friday, May 18 will give birders a chance to participate in a friendly competition while raising money for the conservation organization's sanctuaries and programs.
The event will take place at 24 of Mass Audubon's 43 sanctuaries around the state, beginning at 6 p.m. on May 18 and ending 24 hours later. Pledges earned through birding - or collected from donors - will go to help protect wildlife.
Locally, the public is invited to join a Bird-a-thon team at Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield. The 24-hour timetable allows for flexible, rotating shifts and the chance to locate nocturnal birds.
Sponsors pledge money toward the number of bird species seen by a team during 24 hours, and teams are awarded incentives and prizes in different categories.
To join a team or for more on the event, call the sanctuary at 978-887-9294 or visit www.massaudubon.org/birdathon.
Other Mass Audubon events planned for May:
Warbler Thursdays:
Wake up early and discover the excitement of spring birding from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at one of five local sanctuaries: Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary in Gloucester (Thursday, May 10), Martin Burns Wildlife Management Area in Newbury (Thursday, May 17), Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary (Thursday, May 24), and Parker River Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport (Thursday, May 31). Advance registration is required. Cost is $10 for Mass Audubon members and $12 for nonmembers. Call 978-887-9265 to register.
Edible Wild Plant Walk
at Old Town Hill (Sunday, May 12, 9 a.m. to noon): Join Russ Cohen, author of "Wild Plants I have Known ... and Eaten," on a walk through Old Town Hill, a Trustees of Reservations property in Newbury. The author and naturalist will lead a group on the search for edible, alien invasives and common native species that can be collected ethically. Advance registration is required. Cost is $17 for Mass Audubon members and $20 for nonmembers. Call 978-887-9265 to register.
Canoeing for Beginners
at Ipswich River sanctuary (Sunday, May 12, 2 to 5 p.m.): This workshop is for beginners or those who want to brush up on their strokes. The class will begin on land and then move to the waters of the Ipswich River for a leisurely paddle. All equipment will be provided. Participants must know how to swim. Advance registration is required. Cost is $20 for Mass Audubon members and $24 for nonmembers. Call 978-887-9265 to register.
Wildlife Safari - Creatures of the Vernal Pool
(Monday, May 21, 10 a.m. to noon): This class is designed for families with children age 5 and older. Participants will learn about the many creatures, such as frogs and salamanders, that depend on vernal pools for survival and view them up close. A walk to Ipswich River's vernal pool is included as well as a short video on the fragile habitat. The program is free but advance registration is required. Call 978-887-9265.


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Sweet freaks, beware: Two new dessert establishments have recently opened on the same block of Broad Street between Higuera and Marsh streets.
One is Batch, which offers made-to-order ice cream sandwiches, with the customer selecting a combination of flavor of ice cream and fresh-baked cookies. Across the street is Sugar Daddys Bake Shop, which offers a wide array of baked goods, including wedding and other special-occasion cakes.
These are in addition to Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop, which opened a few doors down earlier this year.
Batch is owned by sisters Tami Becker of Oakland and Wendle Schoniger of San Luis Obispo. The interior was designed by Beckers daughter, Marki Becker, a Cal Poly architecture student. Schoniger declined to say how much the sisters have invested in the business, which will be open daily, with late hours until 2:30 a.m. on weekends.
Sugar Daddys is owned by siblings Chris and Brenda Susca. The shop has five part-time employees, and all pastries are made on site. Brenda Susca also owns First Class Cakes in Los Angeles, Chris Susca said. He has relocated to San Luis Obispo, while his sister maintains the Los Angeles business. Chris Susca didnt divulge how much they have invested in Sugar Daddys, which will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m.
When asked whether he was worried about dessert competition across the street, Chris Susca said hes neutral on the situation because Batchs cold treats are a different product from the high-end pastries and wedding cakes that Sugar Daddys creates. Schoniger of Batch was enthusiastic about the cluster of sweet shops on the block, saying that she has heard students call it the street of dreams.


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Sorbet Boutique Fine Mesh Babydoll with FREE Thong
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In fine mesh this babydoll by Sorbet Boutique is soft, pretty and packed with prowess for a strong and sexy lingerie style.
This mesh babydoll has a gorgeous sweetheart neckline with ruching detail that gives it a great shape and a flattering texture. This babydoll is finished with a bow trim to the front and to the thong and we love the black for sophisticated seduction.
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Please note: This body must be hand washed only.
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- All-over leopard print
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Sorbet Boutique Flirty Lace Padded T-shirt Bras (2 Pack)
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In a pack of two these lace T-shirt bras by Sorbet Boutique are great value and the perfect addition to your everyday lingerie drawer. With padded cups these bras give you a little lift. Floral lace adds a gorgeous feminine appeal, while underwiring supports the padded cups for a beautiful finish. Wear this padded lace bra with the matching lace shorts for a coordinated and confident underwear pick.
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|rationality (ˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ)
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|the state or quality of being rational or logical
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|economics the assumption that an individual will compare all possible combinations of goods and their prices when making purchases
in philosophy, the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. The term "reason" is also used in several other, narrower senses. Reason is in opposition to sensation, perception, feeling, desire, as the faculty (the existence of which is denied by empiricists) by which fundamental truths are intuitively apprehended. These fundamental truths are the causes or "reasons" of all derivative facts. According to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, reason is the power of synthesizing into unity, by means of comprehensive principles, the concepts that are provided by the intellect. That reason which gives a priori principles Kant calls "pure reason," as distinguished from the "practical reason," which is specially concerned with the performance of actions. In formal logic the drawing of inferences (frequently called "ratiocination," from Latin ratiocinari, "to use the reasoning faculty") is classified from Aristotle on as deductive (from generals to particulars) and inductive (from particulars to generals).
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Story Time and Crafts for young children, 3:30 p.m., Aquinnah library. Call 508-645-2314.
Outdoor Yoga for Kids, 4 p.m., with Sondra Murphy, Oak Bluffs library. Drop-in class for ages 4 and up. Cancelled if raining. Bring a mat or towel.
Thursday July 31, 2014
It's a Mystery with library Felicia, for ages 5 and up, 4 p.m., Vineyard Haven library, Main street. Call 508-696-4211 or visit vhlibrary.org.
Friday August 1, 2014 to Monday August 4, 2014
Book Sale, Friends of the West Tisbury Library annual sale and fundraiser. Call 508-693-3366 or visit westtisburylibrary.org.
Programs on the Lawn at Edgartown library, noon, every Friday. Call 508-627-4221 or visit edgartownlibrary.org.
Friday August 1, 2014
Improv Workshop for Kids with Siobhan Beasley for ages 6 and up, 4 to 4:45 p.m., Oak Bluffs library. No preregistration required.
Forever Young Book Club, for adults who read young adult books. Last Tuesday of each month. 7 p.m., Oak Bluffs library. Call 508-693-9433.
Toddler Time, 10:30 a.m., every Saturday, Edgartown library. Call 508-627-4221 or visit edgartownlibrary.org.
Family Craft Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., West Tisbury library. Drop in crafts free and open to all ages.
Crafts for Kids, noon to 3 p.m., Aquinnah library. Call 508-645-2314.


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By Rick Dandes
Daily Item
A Lewisburg runner and her family miraculously avoided injury in Monday's Boston Marathon explosions.
Maria Bhangdia was running her second marathon and finished the race minutes before the explosions.
"I was in a staging area where runners meet their families," she said by cell phone from Boston about 6 p.m. "I was waiting for my husband and daughter, who had been near the finish line. I started walking toward them as they were walking to meet me."
Bhangdia soon found out that they had been standing exactly where the bombs exploded.
"That shook me up. It brought a chill to my spine when I found out how lucky we are to be safe," she said.
Bhangdia said she did not hear the explosion and did not see the ensuing smoke.
"I was too far away," she said. "But I started seeing people running away from the finish line area, some talking on their phones, panicked looks on their faces. I could hear them talking into their phones, saying, 'I am fine.' I immediately knew that something had happened. And it was bad."
After meeting with her family, they tried to make their way back to their hotel.
"People in the streets, they looked alarmed," she said. "Some were crying."
Somehow, they were able to get to their car and leave Boston, despite roadblocks and traffic tie-ups. It was because they were already out of town that they were able to use their cell phones. Asked if she would run in next year's Boston Marathon, Bhangdia laughed nervously.
"I can say that two of my friends were OK, Beatriz Benedit and Michael Starr," she said.
Attempts to reach Starr by cell phone was unsuccessful due to the city lockdown of cell phone service. Cell phone service in Boston was shut down after the bombings.
But Starr was able to text message The Daily Item at 8:45 p.m. The message was short: "Wasn't at finish when it happened. Folks from here understandably dismayed. Strong police presence everywhere tonight."
At 9 p.m. calls to Benedit got through and she said she was "OK, thank goodness. I feel very fortunate that I finished the race about 15 minutes before the explosion."
Benedit said she was at her hotel when news of the bombing broke.
"It was on TV all of a sudden," she said. "People were on their cell phones, calling up loved ones and friends to say they were OK. This is all very sad. Very shocking. I'm so sorry to see what the city is going through."
Mike Hannon, of Danville, finished the race in three hours and was in a restaurant at the time of the explosion.
"He didn't realize at first what had happened," said his brother Joseph, who contacted Mike via text message to see if he was OK.
"He was there with his girlfriend," said Joseph. "He's fine." Shortly after exchanging text messages, cell phone activity in Boston ceased.
"That's all I know," Joseph said. "But at least we know he is not hurt."
According to the Boston Athletic Association, the Marathon organizers, Valley runners listed as participants in the race were as follows: Lewisburg: Beatriz Bendit, Marcia Bhangdia, John Furia, Elisabeth Reitz, and Michael Starr; Danville: Mike Hannon, Ryan Norton, Bryan Cotner (Cotner's sister, on Facebook, said that he and his wife, Andrea, are safe); Watsontown: Shannon Hoffman, Wendy Wood; Northumberland: Bethany Daku-Treas; Freeburg: Mark Sullivan; Selinsgrove: Bryan Rynearson; Newburyport, Mass.: Maddy Hribar, a Selinsgrove High graduate; Harrisburg: Katy Hribar, a Selinsgrove High graduate, Laura Rinck, New York, N.Y, of Selinsgrove.
Meanwhile, Runner's Gazette publisher and editor Freddi Carlip, of Lewisburg, was astonished by the television footage of the bombings and worried about the photographer she'd sent to cover the event and the several friends she knew were participating in the marathon or attending as spectators.
"I'm just looking at this in shock, disbelief and fear," she said. "You go to Boston with all this joy and all of a sudden it's chaos. It's very scary and should not be happening."
n Reporters Marcia Moore, Francis Scarcella, and Ashley Wislock contributed to this report.


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Styling Librarian: Technology Sharing for March
March 25, 2012
I just learned how to easily get a summary of all my favorite Diigo bookmarks for a month, once again I think to myself: "What an amazing, useful tool!" Thrilled to share these resources for March:
Technology Sharing: Here's the treasures for this past month… from author visits to advocacy to internet safety to cyberbulling to poetry teaching ideas to terrific technology tips…
- Youngzine | News and more for the Young
"Our mission at [ http://www.youngzine.com/ ]Youngzine is to bridge the gap in class room teaching by using 21st century learning tools. Through the use of technology, our aim is to help children • make sense of and understand their responsibility in this interconnected world, • explain the context behind global events and correlate it with what they learn in schools, • provide a forum for their opinions, • inspire them about the latest developments in science and technology and • raise them as engaged and contributing citizen of tomorrow. Youngzine introduces current news and events shaping our world, in a simple, engaging and interactive manner through compelling visuals and videos that are curated. Articles are presented keeping in mind, age appropriateness, sensitivities and maturity of the audience. Further, current events are used as prompts to contextualize classroom learning with real world events. All comments on the site are moderated to ensure the safety of our young readers. Youngzine is a great tool for teachers who want to bridge that critical gap between textbooks and the real world of science and technology, society, politics, and the environment – through interactive content, trivia and visuals. With our popular "Classroom Portal", teachers create customized assignments to stimulate and moderate discussions in a completely secure, password-protected environment." tags: news magazine currentevents youngzine Kids current events worldawareness education youth
- Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom – Skype An Author Network
Skype and author network, what a resource for finding authors willing to Skype, very cool.
tags: skype classroom web2.0 author authors collaboration literacy books
- Human Body Systems – Stich.It
Stich.It – interesting new resource, here's an example of someone organizing webpages on human body systems.
tags: human body systems
- technopoetry – home
Techno Poetry ideas, some great ones…
tags: poetry ProfRes
- Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians
It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about
all the ways their libraries impact students' education.
tags: advocacy libraries library toolkit Librarian colorado tlchat
- Register to Receive Books
FREE BOOKS! If you're an educator or program administrator, and at least 70 percent of the children in your program come from low-income families, we can help.
tags: register books freebooks
- Weenies topical and literary index
David Lubar's topical and literary index is quite thorough and useful. Perfect for teachers to use with reluctant readers. Additionally, since the books are packed with short stories, they're perfect for identifying a terrific read aloud! Yes, there are anthropomorphic hot dogs on the covers, but they conceal a broad and deep variety of short fiction. Scroll down to find the perfect story for any classroom need.
tags: index books author authorwebsite authorwebsites literary reference professional
- Reading for the Earth | Earth Day Network
Interesting Earth Day program.
tags: reading earth network
- Share a Story – Shape a Future: Share a Story 2012: A Quick Look Back
Share a Story 2012: A Quick Look Back
We had several notes over the weekend from folks who were "just now" catching up on Share a Story – Shape a Future 2012 and reading the posts. We hope you're still basking in all that great, positive energy!!
We also had a couple of other items and additions that I wanted to highlight. I'll be adding them to our Comprehensive Index of Posts and List of Contributors, but I also want to share them here.
tags: share story shape future quick
- The Slice of Life Challenge Begins Tomorrow
If you are looking for a way to get yourself writing every day, and connecting with a supportive community of other teacher-writers, I urge you to consider joining in the Slice of Life challenge. Now in its fifth year, Ruth and Stacey at Two Writing Teachers encourage you to reflect on a moment of your day — bring a small slice into focus, and consider it as a writer.
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- Internet Safety WebQuest Webquest lesson plan for Internet Safety tags: internet safety safety webquest internet
- 02 Cyber Bullying Gr5 ppt free ebook download from sharepoint.newport.kyschools.us
ebook on cyber bullying.
tags: cyber bullying ppt free ebook download sharepoint newport
- Internet safety with Safety Sally
eBook Safety on the internet
tags: internet internet safety safety sally
- Parody Motivator Generator – Create your own Motivational Poster
Great way to create reading promotion posters- including dewey numbers posters. Are you ready to join the revolution? Despair.com puts the power of motivational parody in your far less capable hands!
Terms and Conditions By uploading an image, you agree to our usage policy. No copyrighted or vulgar material is permitted.
tags: generator graphics funny motivator Poster parody despair demotivator
- Reach A Reader Resources | For Schools and Libraries
Resources for Schools and Libraries- wow, this is a great collection of resource ideas for getting free books and sharing them.
tags: reach reader resources schools libraries
- Share a Story – Shape a Future: Share a Story 2012: All the Posts
Excellent resource for children's literacy/teaching.
tags: story share shape future posts
- QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator from classtools.net
Great way to organize and cut down time on QRcodes use!
tags: QR codes education edtech treasureHunt qrcodes qr qrcode web2.0
- You're Invited! – This Is What a Librarian Looks Like | Librarian by Day
As the ultimate compliment to Library Day in the Life we bring you This is What a Librarian Looks Like!
What: a site to go beyond the bun and challenge old, outdated librarian stereotypes with photos of real librarians in their real lives doing real stuff."
tags: librarian
- Print Friendly & PDF
"Have you ever… tried to print up something from the Internet and it ends up being 8 pages long because of all the "extra stuff" around the edges? Or it's a crossword puzzle that ends up covering 3 pages that you would somehow have to tape together? Don't be frustrated! Save paper!" Use: http://www.printfriendly.com/ Simply go to the above site, paste in the URL you are wanting to print, and watch the magic as your 3 page printout somehow gets cut down to ONE!
tags: printing print tools pdf printfriendly web web2.0 green
- Doodle Alley
Author webpage- from author of Mal and Chad, creativity celebration!
tags: alley doodle comic graphicnovels comics art
- Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Compressing a PDF file
Compressing a PDF file
Large PDF files can be difficult to archive or email. Using Preview, you can compress a PDF file so it's easier to share or store.
tags: mac mac os x os x help pdf file tech4learning technology
- Reluctant Readers
Reluctant readers are those who, for whatever reason, do not like to read.
Reluctant readers are typically students who are disengaged, struggling readers, many of which are not realizing success in any aspect of their school career. Educators encounter struggling readers in the classroom every day. These students need to be engaged in reading and must be helped to develop the skills required to not only be successful in school, but to become lifelong readers and learners. All students will require advanced literacy skills regardless of their post secondary pathway, and reluctant and struggling readers need extra support in achieving this end.
tags: reluctantreaders reading teaching teachers blog
- The Book Chook: Book Chook Bag of Tricks
Every teacher, parent or anyone who deals with kids has a bag of tricks. We need a bag like that for those days when an emergency arrives, or we're feeling out of sorts, or our kids are using the "b" word – (bored).
My bag of tricks is ever-expanding. It has grown over my years as a teacher, parent, aunt and friend. In it I pop language games, reading and writing activities I think kids will enjoy, tips for doing things the Book Chook way, and links to internet treasures.
tags: book
- El Día de los Niños | Official Site
El Día de los Niños-Celebrating Young Americans is a gift from the Latino community to all children. Many nations throughout the world, and especially within the Western hemisphere celebrate "Día de los Niños" on April 30th to honor and celebrate children-who represent the hopes and dreams of every community.
tags: día los niños official site
- Rasco From RIF » Blogs to Explore in Transforming Book to Passport
In the Share a Story-Shape a Future introductory entry today, I indicated this posting would be a list of blogs I hope you will find useful in your efforts to become more familiar with a wide array of multicultural books and customs. The list is not comprehensive, but it is a list I can indeed recommend to you given my familiarity with these blogs. Let's get acquainted!
tags: blogs to explore book passport
- Spread your reading wings and join the PaperTigers Reading the World Challenge 2012
Do you enjoy reading books from and about different cultures? Would you like to have an incentive to read more culturally diverse books? Either way, the PaperTigers Reading the World Challenge is the one for you!
tags: spread reading wings world challenge
- CyberSmarts: Staying Safe Online Book set to consider purchasing… eBook and accompanying text. CyberSmarts: Staying Safe Online New! This exciting five-book series is geared for grades 3-6 and instructs readers in how to deal with important online safety issues. Kids are becoming more technologically literate at an early age, but it is crucial that they understand the dangers and risks of interacting with others online. This series emphasizes engaging in safe online conduct. Each book in the series contains a robust glossary of terms and sidebars that further explore important or high-interest material. tags: staying online cybersafety cyberbullying
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Siri Thinks You Should Get a Lumia 900 (in Cyan)
This post is beyond hilarious, if you take an iPhone 4S (yeah the one that talks) and ask it "What's the Best Cell Phone Ever" unsurprisingly the answer you'll get is "Nokia Lumia 900 4G". I don't think there's much more I can add to that (Siri uses wolfram Alpha for it's answers- which based the best cell phone on customer satisfaction/reviews).
As someone in the source comments section pointed out; this should definitely be part of the Smartphone Beta Test ad campaign; people will see it, think it's photoshopped, try it on their iPhone and be shocked.
Edit- Just tried this on my brother's iPhone; not only does it bring up the Lumia 900 as the answer but it also throws in a picture of that beautiful Cyan device.
Serious Advertising scheme here- without mentioning the Lumia 900 in an ad simply post "Attention all iPhone users- Ask Siri "what the best cell phone ever is"- "you didn't hear it from us; you heard it from her".
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About the Author (Author Profile)Hey, my name's Ali- Currently a fifth (and final) year Dental Student from Chicago; studying in Jordan. I love all sorts of gadgets almost as much as I love my cookies! Be sure to follow my Twitter handle @AliQudsi and Subcribe to my Youtube for the latest videos - no pressure. Thanks.
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this is what i saw on mediafire.
This is not true. I just tried the exact same question on my iPhone 4S siri and the response I got was "the one you are holding". I tried it repeated over 3 days and got the same response each time.
Apple prompty fixed that, so now when you are holding your Iphone, in case you are wondering whether you did the right purchase, "siri" will remind you in a totally impartial way that you are indeed holding the best phone already.
I'm gone to convey my little brother, that he should also pay a visit this web site on regular basis to get updated from latest information.


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