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Day 1
We have not left Vancouver on such a beautiful day for this retreat, since, well, last year. It was beyond spectacular and truly special. The entire process of boarding and getting and staying afloat was effortless – thanks to our Grade 10 students who made a human baggage chain and loaded the 113 or so bags onto the boat (without too much obvious fighting when a garbage bag clearly contained just a pillow – those bags were the most popular to move).
Clearly parents did not do a good job and forget to send their children with sunscreen so the poor kids had no choice but to stay inside the cabin to protect their skin from the harm of being exposed to the sun's rays. Teachers had no such qualms and it was delightful on deck – BC is a special place and on a day like today there is no other place like ours. It was good to be reminded of the 'specialness' when on two occasions our Israeli Shinshiniot shrieked with delight – apparently they do not have seals off the beaches in Tel Aviv (but they do have matkot, give me seals any day!)
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While I try to do most of my shopping at local shops, I do enjoy the ease and convenience of the Amazon experience for some items (and my Kindle Fire). There is a lot built into the stock of what the future may hold for the potential earnings at Amazon. When you are losing money on every sale, you can't make it up in volumes. But investors clearly think they will have the scale to eventually produce huge profits. Time will tell, of course. I like the product and the company, but wow, that stock price. No opinion here, just posting for future reference.


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- to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- to frustrate or confound; thwart by creating confusion or bewilderment.
- to check or deflect the movement of (sound, light, fluids, etc.).
- to equip with a baffle or baffles.
- Obsolete. to cheat; trick.
- to struggle ineffectually, as a ship in a gale.
- something that balks, checks, or deflects.
- an artificial obstruction for checking or deflecting the flow of gases (as in a boiler), sounds (as in the loudspeaker system of a radio or hi-fi set), light (as in a darkroom), etc.
- any boxlike enclosure or flat panel for mounting a loudspeaker.
Origin of baffle
Synonyms for baffleSee more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com
Related Words for bafflemystify, elude, stump, dumbfound, bewilder, faze, befuddle, puzzle, confuse, astound, confound, amaze, daze, embarrass, stun, nonplus, disconcert, disappoint, upset, frustrate
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Contemporary Examples of baffle
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October 14, 2014
That decision continues to baffle some law enforcement officials nearly two decades later.New Revelations in JonBenet's Unsolved Death
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October 25, 2013
With only two young witnesses, no clear motive, and no identified suspect, the case continues to baffle authorities.Alps Murder Victims Pasts Probed by Cops
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September 22, 2012
It was no good to set broad goals for agencies: those goals tended to contradict each other—or else to baffle the agency itself.James Q. Wilson, 1931-2012
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March 3, 2012
The singer-actress admits the debate continues to offend and baffle her.Jill Scott's Soul Searching
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June 22, 2011
Historical Examples of baffle
It had seemed to baffle the others; it baffled the big man now.Way of the Lawless
Max Brand
I have baffled them now for nearly a year, and I can baffle them still.The Hunted Outlaw
Marot's end was to baffle his pursuers and to benefit the exiles.Micah Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Haven't we eyes to see this ruin that's coming, and minds to baffle it with?The Coryston Family
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Now I like to baffle them—to leave them something to struggle with.A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
George Sampson
- to perplex; bewilder; puzzle
- to frustrate (plans, efforts, etc)
- to check, restrain, or regulate (the flow of a fluid or the emission of sound or light)
- to provide with a baffle
- obsolete to cheat or trick
- Also called: baffle board, baffle plate a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
Word Origin for baffle
1540s, "to disgrace," perhaps a Scottish respelling of bauchle "to disgrace publicly" (especially a perjured knight), which is probably related to French bafouer "to abuse, hoodwink" (16c.), possibly from baf, a natural sound of disgust, like bah (cf. German baff machen "to flabbergast"). Meaning "to bewilder, confuse" is from 1640s; that of "to defeat someone's efforts" is from 1670s. Related: Baffled; baffling.
"shielding device," 1881, from baffle (v.).


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Working in a funeral directors may not be everyone's idea of a nice career.
In fact, some may see it as rather morbid. But not the Searson family.
Andy and Debi have been in the funeral homes business for many years and branched out to open Searsons in 2007.
They put their enjoyment down to working with their nearest and dearest.
Andy, 49, says: 'I think there's a lot more flexibility working with family than there is with strangers.
'It's the Searson family people come to, it's us, not the business.
'There is a familiarity there.'
Since 1997, the firm has become so successful that there are now three funeral homes – in Winter Road, Southsea, Copnor Road, Portsmouth and Park Parade, Leigh Park.
They only employ family and, upon entering the Copnor branch, you are overwhelmed by their warmth, kindness and positivity.
There is a fire roaring, big comfy sofas and lots of smiles.
Debi, a 47-year-old mum-of-five, is bright and bubbly and balances being a mum with her demanding job.
Daughter Shannon Clow, 19, who is her mum's assistant, explains: 'Even though the reason people come in here is upsetting, we always try to put a smile on their faces.
'My mum is always getting giggles out of them.'
Shannon and her sister Abby are joined by their step-grandmother Pauline Searson, step-brothers Matthew and James Searson and step-cousin Lily Coulson.
They all buzz about each other and have very defined roles.
Matthew helps in the mortuary, Lily helps plan the funerals, James is on logistics and Andy makes the coffins, embalms and takes the services.
But everyone mucks in. Shannon says: 'I work with my mum.
'My job is to do everything she tells me to do!
'It mainly involves paperwork and cleaning, all the little jobs. I take telephone calls. People always ask me what it's like working at a funeral directors but after all this time I'm used to it.
'Working with my parents can be a bit challenging and demanding at times.
'They ask more of you because they can get away with it. But it's nice working with my mum and spending time with her.'
Pauline, 71, has been volunteering her time since she retired four years-ago.
She beams with pride when she talks about Andy's success and is more than happy to muck in and greet people, make the tea and clean.
She says: 'Andy has been in the industry a long time now. I'm very proud of how well he has done.
'It's not an easy profession. You've got to be a particular kind of person.
'It's not a job, it's a way of life. You've got to have the right attitude about it. You've got to be a real people person – which Andy certainly is.
'Because it's a family business it's not a 9am to 5pm job at all. Andy and Debi have to be prepared to do whatever it takes. In a normal job you can say, "It's 5pm, I'm going home".
'But, if the place needs cleaning and I haven't go round to it during normal working hours, I stay and do it.'
Debi and Andy have been married 10 years. They both previously worked in the industry and met and fell in love working for a funeral directors.
They decided to set up their business after their daughter Jasmin was still-born. Andy arranged the funeral and felt he wanted to help other families in his position.
They have since set up a fund to help families of still-born babies who cannot afford headstones.
Debi says: 'It's lovely that we can work together. We didn't think we would have three (funeral) homes. There is demand for something different.
'We concentrate on making the services unique and professional'.
When asked what it's like working with his family, Andy jokes, 'It's a nightmare!'
'Not really. We've each established niches. I suppose it's quite unusual for the proprietors of a business to still work day to day, but I'm still very hands-on. I do the embalming, I make some of the coffins.
'It's 24/7. You concentrate all day on doing the funerals and at night, when you go home, you plan them.'
Andy and Debi have three boys at home too – Liam, 15, Alfie, 12, and Freddie, seven. And everyone takes turns looking after them.
Andy adds: 'We'll never get rich doing this. Our costs are low but we like the idea of being able to work for ourselves. We provide a unique and individual service. Other funeral directors charge a fortune but I'm still driving a clapped-out old van.
'But I don't care. It's a job we enjoy.'
Lily, 30, echoes that sentiment, 'We're looking after families and we're a family ourselves. We know how it feels.
'We've made wonderful friends. Families we helped out in our first year come to our annual memorial service.
'We're not seen as funeral directors, we're seen as friends.'
A Formula One coffin
Andy and Debi Searson pride themselves on being able to accommodate even the most extraordinary final requests.
Andy once made a coffin in the shape of a Formula One car – complete with wheels.
At the service there was a pit stop with sound effects.
For a former skipper of the Gosport ferry they arranged for a special one-off crossing for him.
His coffin was taken on board and the mourners were each given commemorative tickets.
A volunteer on the Hayling Seaside Railway was given a special service for his final goodbye – the coffin was put on the train for a last journey.
Top 15 funeral songs
1. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle
2. The Lord Is My Shepherd
3. Abide With Me
4. Match Of The Day theme
5. My Way - Frank Sinatra
6. All Things Bright And Beautiful
7. Robbie Williams - Angels
8. Enigma Variations (Nimrod) - Elgar
9. You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers
10. Cricket Theme/Soul Limbo - Booker T & the MGs
11. Canon In D - Pachelbel
12. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
13= Last Of The Summer Wine theme
13= Only Fools And Horses theme
14. Time To Say Goodbye - Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
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Southern Rock
Oakley was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in the suburb of Park Forest, Illinois, then moved to Florida where he met and joined Dickey Betts's band, The Second Coming. He was a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1969, along with guitarist Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, who was the band's vocalist and keyboardist, Dickey Betts on co-lead guitar, and drummers Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson, both on drums, congas, and the band's percussionist.[1]
With the Allman Brothers, Oakley was known for his long, melodic bass runs underneath Allman and Betts' furious guitar solos and jams. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", "Mountain Jam" and "Whipping Post" from the live album "At Fillmore East" capture Oakley at his best.[1]
Berry Oakley was a natural musician, brought up on the blues. He'd moved to Florida as a teenager, finding himself a position in The Roemans – big-selling Tommy Roe's touring band – when their bassist was drafted. Then came Second Coming, a politically charged rock band, before he claimed bassist position with the original Allman Brothers Band.[2]
Under this banner, Oakley helped to set new standards for inspired improvised rock. However, The Allman Brothers Band were soon shattered by the loss of Duane Allman, their undisputed jewel in the crown ( October 1971 ). And as if this weren't enough, just over a year later, an incident of ghostly similarity befell its second self-imposed leader. Heading for the Big House – the band's communal residence, originally rented by Oakley and his family – the bass-player and his friend roadie Kim Payne were engaging in a bit of motorcycle horseplay. The pair wove in and out of the cars on Macon's Bartlett Avenue until Payne decided to lose his buddy by putting his foot down. As he approached an intersection, a city bus appeared from the opposite direction; Payne managed to avoid the vehicle as its driver slammed on his brakes, but Oakley's Triumph hit the bus full on. Like Duane Allman a year before, the rider skidded some sixty feet across the street, his machine landing on top of him. Refusing immediate medical treatment, Berry Oakley went into shock and walked away from the scene.[2]
He died from a skull fracture later that afternoon, at the very same hospital where Allman had passed away the previous year. Position of bassist within the band proved to be unlucky: Oakley's replacement Lamar Williams also died prematurely.[2]
1. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Oakley
2. The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars -Jeremy Simmonds, 2nd Edition, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2012, page 60.
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Like clockwork, when one "Housewives" franchise ends, another one begins. As we get ready to enter the eighth season of "The Real Housewives of Orange County," let's take a look back at some of "Bravo's" longest running show's best dinner party brawls.
Alexis Fight:
Season 5
Here is another crazy "Alexis moment." There are so many, and it's always the most awkward. This time she thinks a woman is hitting on Jim, as if anyone ever would. She confronts her, and it's a long drawn-out argument. Everyone in the room knows she wasn't hitting on Jim. Why would she?
Gang up on Vicki Day:
Season 5
This one may not be a dinner party, but it is a lunch. Alexis is mad that Vicki scolded her for incessantly talking to her husband on her cellphone at their last trip. So when Vicki makes some business calls, Alexis decides to call her out. Alexis was still new at this point, and was trying to take over Vicki's roll as head housewife in charge, at which she failed miserably.
Naked Wasted:
Season 4
When Gretchen first came on the show, she was labeled a gold-digger by Tamra and Vicki. Gretchen's fiancé, Jeff, was a much older man who unfortunately was dying of cancer. Tamra decides to set her up at this dinner party, to get her "naked wasted," and she even gets her son Ryan to hit on her all night. Ryan lures Gretchen into a bathroom at one point, and that gives Tamra the ammo to accuse Gretchen of cheating on Jeff. This is the point in the series where Tamra truly becomes a mean girl.
Vicki's Medical Emergency:
Season 6
Alexis' fake clothing line (well it's real but not really hers) is being debuted, but Vicki doesn't show. She's in the hospital for some kind of rectal bleeding, and when she texts Tamra, Tamra freaks-out. Does Tamra really even care about Alexis? No, so why should she? Gretchen takes major offense by the party becoming the "Vickie show," and she's very vocal about doubting Vicki's emergency.
An Epic Fight:
Season 6
Oh Jeanna! She was always such a trouble maker, especially when it came to picking the wrong side of an argument. After Tamra and Simon's divorce, Jeanna has been defending Simon and denying that he was ever abusive to Tamra. She did all of this publicly. No housewife likes to be "put in the press" by another. Tamra's lawyers are handling the situation with Jeanna, but here Tamra decides to handle her on her own.
Vicki vs. Simon:
Season 5
Lynn hosts a party; everyone ruins it. With Simon and Tamra having marital problems, and Simon psychotically blaming Vicki for them, they come face-to-face and it doesn't go well. Simon wants Vicki to stay out of his marriage, which she thinks she does. He's upset that Vicki knows more than he wants her too, and Vicki knows like the rest of us that Tamra and Simon are headed for divorce.
A Pretentious Intervention:
Season 7
The tables have turned, as Alexis once tried to give Vicki a little lunch intervention, here she gets slammed. Heather, Tamra, and Gretchen are sick of Alexis' holier than thou ways, and they decide that a beautiful dinner in a tropical setting is the perfect time to call her out. They all gang up on her, and she runs away.
Nothing Good is Coming Out of This:
Season 7
Vicki has spent years bashing Slade for being a dead beat dad, and here she is dating Brooks, a dead beat dad. Gretchen can't stop accusing Vicki of being a hypocrite, which she can't really deny, but does. Vicki loses it after Slade's pathetic attempt at stand-up comedy was spent comparing Vicki to Miss Piggy.
A Lying Alexis:
Season 6
One of the biggest meltdown's at a dinner party ever. I recommend watching the whole episode in order to get a true sense of how crazy Alexis really is. Her annoying husband Jim doesn't want to socialize with the other housewives anymore, so he doesn't come to Peggy's party. Alexis makes an awkward excuse for him, and spends the entire dinner crying because she's never been to a party without him before. She takes all the attention of the evening, crying in the bathroom, and acting really strange. She suddenly snaps out of it and acts like a sorority girl, laughing and dancing and causing another scene.
Tamra's Evil Eye:
Season 7
Vicki's new boyfriend Brooks leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth. No one trusts him, especially Tamra and Vicki's kids. They think he's using Vicki, and here he tries to pin Tamra and Vicki against each other by accusing Tamra of giving Vicki an "evil eye." Yes he's extremely weird, and the accusation set of a massive explosion at Heather's party.
Those are just some of the many, many awful moments in the history of "The Real Housewives of Orange County." Let me know some of your favorite moments here. Who's excited for the new season?
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Stuart Taylor is a Director and Board Member of The Resilience Institute; a global organisation that works with organisations and people to liberate human performance sustainably. Closer to home, Stuart also leads The Resilience Institute in Australia. In 2013, Stuart published his book "Assertive Humility – Emerging from the ego trap" sharing his story and lessons before, during and after his brain cancer journey. He is an experienced management consultant with a focus on resilience, stress and cognition. His diversity of qualifications in psychology, finance, IT and engineering bring a breadth of credibility and perspective to client situations. Stuart has worked extensively in Government, Professional Services, Banking and Finance sector, Telecommunications and in the Manufacturing sector. Prior to joining The Resilience Institute, Stuart was an Associate Director with KPMG Management Consulting and then worked as a senior leader in a global corporation. Stuart's clients include GE, BP, Jetstar Airways, KPMG, PwC, NAB, Citigroup, Government, CBA, Australia Post, Heinz and Port Phillip Prison.


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Our cart path renovation has begun. We will start by first installing the Belgium Block curbing on the paths that are scheduled to be re-capped. This is a little easier and not as disruptive. We started on 1green, 8green, 9 tee and 5green. Tomorrow the cement truck is scheduled to come and the block will be cemented in place. Please use some caution maneuvering around where the work is being done. We will be having some path closures while the block is setting up.
We also started seeding our roughs. Now that we have irrigation, we want to capitalize on the good weather and get some seed in the ground before it gets to cold and the leaves start to fall. The course has greened up with the recent rains and the pond has come up about a foot or so.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
And The PURSE Saves the Day...
I love this story, mostly b/c the victim fought back, but also because her PURSE saved her from a gunshot wound! woah! I bet it was an expensive purse if it was catching bullets, which is probably the reason she put up a fight! ha
They really should have shown a picture of the handbag, but you can read the details here.
I heard about this on Regis & Kelly of all places!
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They just interviewed her on the Today show. Right here in Nashville, I wonder if she was a Vandy student...
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The construction group behind the recent £20 million renovation of the Barclaycard Arena has been appointed to carry out a major refurbishment for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
BAM Construction, which is also leading the Beorma Quarter project in Digbeth, will renovate The Other Place studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
It will remodel the internal space of the temporary Courtyard Theatre, the original site of the 1974 The Other Place, to create a festival venue for RSC productions and a creative hub.
It will house rehearsals, research and development, and training for artists throughout the year.
Local amateur groups will be able to use the theatre for rehearsals and performances and The Other Place will also be available for commercial hires.
As part of the project, there will also be a new storage facility to house the 30,000 costumes from the RSC's costume store, making them available for public viewing for the first time via theatre tours.
The scheme is part of a wider transformation project that saw the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re-open in November 2010.
The project is due for completion in the autumn ahead of events in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Rob Bassett, project manager for BAM whose regional HQ is in Solihull, said: "BAM is delighted to be working on this prestigious facility at the heart of Shakespeare's historic home town.
"We will work hard to ensure the project benefits the local community at construction stage as well as in end use."


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After the Daleks, it's pretty clear that the Cybermen are some of the Doctor's greatest foes; first seen in 1966 in The Tenth Planet, the Cybermen were technically the first menace in the universe that caught the Doctor to regenerate (kind of). Fifty years later then, they're still seen in the TV show, but recently it seems that they've lost their menace; what could be done to make the Cybermen scary again?
If we use the Daleks as an example of how a monster can still be relevant and then compare them to the Cybermen, the first thing you'd notice is the lack of consistent mythology for the Cybermen. Originally in the Classic Series, the Cybermen were from Mondas, the Earth's recently discovered twin planet; the Cybermen are the result of humans upgrading and replacing parts of their anatomy to make them more efficient. We then got an alternate version of the Cybermen during the revival in 2006 when we met the parallel universes Cybus Industries version of the Cybermen which first appeared in Rise of The Cybermen and The Age of Steel. These Cybus Cybermen were used until 2013 when we were introduced to the newest form of Cybermen in Nightmare In Silver, with these constantly upgrading Cybermen. This means that loose in this universe we have at least three different strains of Cybermen, making their origins and mythology confusing and erratic.
To solve this problem, it would be great if there was an explanation such as a grand CyberPuppetMaster that is outside the realms of universes pulling all of the Cybermen's Cyberstrings as it were.
The next problem with the Cybermen is the fact that the latest incarnations of the Cybermen, last seen in Dark Water and Death In Heaven is the fact that they're essentially Iron Man from the Marvel comics and Marvel Cinematic Universe. For some reason these Cybermen seemingly have an Arc Reactor in their chest, fly almost identically to Iron Man and prides themselves on constant upgrading, much like Tony Stark with his creation.
To remedy this problem, I'd recommend that we go back to basics, get rid of the latest Cybermen and go back, like Peter Capaldi wants to, to the Mondasian Cybermen. They weren't bothered about upgrading themselves to be the best creatures in the universe, leave that to the Daleks, the Cybermen originally just wanted everyone to be like them; a very different goal to their Skaroian(?) neighbours.
Personally, if I were to attempt to make the Cybermen scary again, especially for a modern audience; I would have a much less polished Cyberman. The problem with the Cybermen in this day and age is the fact that the majority of the public are constantly upgrading parts of their lives, whether it be their smartphones, their tablets, their TV's, their games consoles, their clothes, their friends, their Facebook statuses. In the 21st century we're constantly upgrading aspects of our lives, meaning the threat of the ultimate upgrade would probably be a great way to save money over the years.
In that case, if we had a more unpolished, unfinished Cyberman; a cyberframe more than a Cyberman, drilling into the flesh, keeping the human form but being torn apart. I know that people don't like body horror but it would be suitably efficient for a Cyberman to be truly scary.
Next, I would bring back some of their emotions, making Cybermen more tortured souls than they currently are, some of the most emotional and distressing moments from the Cybermen are when their Emotional Inhibitors are faulty, meaning they know that they're essentially a monster. but being powerless to do anything about it.
If the Cybermen were less perfect they would certainly be more menacing; couple that with a great true origin story and take the Doctor back to Mondas and I think that there's a chance for these metal men to be truly terrifying once more. The people of the 60s and 70s were petrified of computers, robots and an unnerving perfection, but in todays society that is what's expected. Maybe its time for the Cybermen to be much more rustic, ragged and imperfect…


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Stop tapping your feet,
Stop listening to the beat,
Get up and shake your booty,
You ain't here on a duty,
So let your hair down,
Have fun like a clown,
Give me a 1, 2, 3,
And let your body free
And let your body free,
And let your body free.
Dance, dance, dance,
Come on put a step right, right, right,
Set the floor on fire on this night,
Dance, dance, dance,
Come on make a move left, left, left,
Show the world why you are best.
Yes, give me that move,
You know how to groove,
Jump up and the punch the air,
Yes, you have got that flair,
Now add a twist to it,
You are now super hit,
Give me a 3, 2, 1,
Yes that is how it's done,
Yes that is how it's done,
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Dance, dance, dance,
Come on take a step back, back, back,
Yes that move is right for this track,
Dance, dance, dance,
Go on jump ahead and up, up, up,
You've won the damn dancing cup.


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David Shenk looks at the new face of our world with a curiosity and connection-making responsiveness that make him exhilarating to read. These are bits, takes, provisional sweeps at issues still coming into focus, but taken together they give us a startling glimpse of where we are. Shenk is so close to the present that most readers will mistake it for the future." --SVEN BIRKERTS, author, THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES
If the world of constant, instantaenous communication makes you a little nervous from time to time, David Shenk can explain why. This book is a very useful antidote to the endless praise lavished on the new electronic mediums. Read it slowly!" --BILL McKIBBEN, author, THE AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION
In this provocative collection of essays, David Shenk expands his enlightened skepticism to include thoughts on the dangers of online journalism, the ethical implications of digital photography, and the misguided hopes for computers in the classroom. Shock-jocks, computerized toys, Microsoft-bashing, and genetic testing are all subject to his incisive and discerning criticism.
Is Shenk just another neo-Luddite determined to bash all things digital? Hardly. This self-described technology enthusiast--and avid fan of the Internet--is simply interested in clear-eyed analysis of how machines we use actually affect our lives. As one of the founders of the Technorealism movement, he insists that new technologies must be appraised for their ability to achieve traditional human ends, rather than embraced merely for novelty's sake. The End of Patience includes vignettes from Shenk's conversations with some of the most provocative technology thinkers of our time, including Mitch Kapor, Steven Johnson, Esther Dyson, Douglas Rushkoff and Steve Silberman.
Author Notes
David Shenk a former fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, he has written for Harper's Wired, Salon, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, and is an occasional commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Shenk, author of the celebrated Data Smog, articulates further uneasiness with the information age in this collection of provocative punditry originally written for National Public Radio and publications ranging the information superhighway from Wired to Feed. There is, to be sure, much in the new hyper-faster-go-go-go dial-up culture to wear down one's patience. Shenk is fed up with Microsoft, the recent consolidation of corporation and academy, carbon-copy Howard Sterns and the paparazzi in all of us. But, even as he asserts the benefits of patience and the ability to pay sustained attention, Shenk is no Luddite ready to shack up in the mountains with his Smith-Corona far from his modem. He actually likes the digital ageÄso long as it is kept in perspective: "As the Web becomes integrated into the fabric of our livesÄmostly to our great benefitÄwe should employ hyperlinking as a useful tool, but be careful not to let it govern the way we think." Though, as a collection of previously published pieces, the book lacks the coherence of Data Smog, Shenk's sentences are witty, often savagely funny. These essays, many of which are shorter than three pages, are entertaining, even if, in their brevity, they do not demand the patience that Shenk argues is such a virtue. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
ExcerptsChapter One [Technology Review, September/October 1998] Stealing Calm An Ode to Radio Chances are, unless you've ever been alone in a radio booth, you have never experienced complete silence. I've had the privilege a number of times in the last few years and have come to savor it. Whenever I'm scheduled to record a commentary or defend my point of view on a talk show, I try to show up a few minutes early just to bathe in the silence of the studio. Radio booths are generally cramped and are rarely much to look at--ratty carpet, corrugated walls (designed to nullify all sound waves coming from whatever angle), soft creakless chairs. But the aural stillness lends a cathedral-like quality. There is an unnatural calm which slows down time. You can hear your own breath. Of course, no one listens to radio in that kind of cocoon. We turn it on in the car, the backyard, the kitchen. But the silence of a radio booth says something important about the nature of the medium. As the delivery mechanism for a precious, fragile stream of audio, there is an uncompromising, almost militaristic component to radio's mission--that of vigilant protector. Seal the perimeter . Radio tightly focuses on a certain sound source to the rigid exclusion of all others. In a radio engineer's control room, there's a sanctity surrounding audio that you just don't see anywhere else in the media world. That's because with most other communications technologies, particularly anything with moving visuals, the task is not to slow down time, but to feed it as it ravenously marches forward. I've been thinking a lot lately about the difference between radio and multimedia, wondering how it is that such a technically confined medium seems to me so intellectually superior. How does radio, with its limited bandwidth and narrow one-lane avenue of sensory impact, triumph over the audiovisual feast of television and even the World Wide Web when it comes to conveying memorable information, provocative ideas, and deeply human feeling? Marshall McLuhan wrote that radio "is really a subliminal echo chamber of magical power to touch remote and forgotten chords." I know I couldn't possibly count all the times, in ten years of daily listening to a variety of programming on National Public Radio, that I have wept, had deep spiritual epiphanies, come up with provocative story ideas, or heard an idea or perspective that fundamentally changed the way I thought about music or politics or language or science. But I do know that I owe a good bit of my life and career to what I've heard on shows like All Things Considered, Fresh Air , and A Prairie Home Companion , and I have spoken to many others who feel the same way. With no disrespect meant toward the many serious and talented practitioners of commercial and public television, TV is regrettably not a medium that regularly nourishes the spirit or challenges the mind. A comparison with TV is particularly instructive in light of the impending televisionization of the Web. The other day I was asked to appear on CNN fn for a brief discussion about the cultural implications of the failure of Panamsat's now-infamous Galaxy4 satellite. Always happy to plug my book, I ironed my shirt and found my way to CNN's New York studios, near Penn Station in midtown. The differences between TV and radio were much on my mind as I arrived at the twentieth floor and began to notice that everything about the studio, from the makeup to the polished veneer set to the antiseptic dialogue on the TelePrompTers, said, "Skim the surface." I wasn't there to truly discuss information proliferation; I was there to look the part of having a discussion about information proliferation, to mimic the type. of discussions that might occur if the TV cameras weren't on. The audio would provide an appropriate backdrop for the image of, the anchor and me speaking, looking into each other's eyes, exchanging penetrating remarks. I did my seven minutes. It was, like the rest of the spots I saw that morning while I waited, unmemorable. I shook hands with the anchor, thanked him. Then, as I was headings, away a funny thing happened. One of the production assistants caught up to me and said, "Hey, interesting stuff, can I ask you a question?" We proceeded to talk for another seven minutes or so about computers, the Internet, Bill Gates, and so on. It was about the same length as my conversation on the air, and infinitely more interesting. It was an actual conversation, with a life of its own that couldn't have been charted in advance. I don't fault the anchor or the producer for the drabness of the CNN fn conversation. I think the flaws are embedded in the video medium itself. There's an interesting paradox at work here: moving images capture attention but subvert thought, a condition that is perhaps most vividly illustrated in the 1991 Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World . Setting: It is 1999, and a scientist has just invented a camera that can record and replay not just images, but also the neurological recipe behind each image. It can enable the blind to see what sighted people see, or for anyone to replay their own dreams. Several characters in the film become hopelessly addicted to, and strung out on, an endlessly intoxicating video montage. The story is an elegy for our post-industrial society: a collection of fragmented, alienated individuals who seem to continually shift their attention between flickering images--GameBoy, flashing billboards, news and stock tickers, and so on. Wenders calls this "the disease of images," the problem where "you have too many images around so that finally you don't see anything anymore." This in-your-face property of television becomes its defining. characteristic for both producers and consumers. The inherently captivating and distracting properties of moving images allow force --TV and its practitioners to constantly acknowledge and flaunt the primacy of images over ideas. It would seem as fundamental a natural law as paper-covers-rock or scissors-cuts-paper: video trumps thought--complex thought anyway. Narratives work brilliantly on TV, of course and the medium thrives on conveying primal feelings like lust, betrayal, and triumph. There's something about the power of the moving image, though, that not only doesn't require much intellectual effort to consume, but actually discourages such exertion. Sit back and let me come to you . The frozen look on any TV viewer's eyes confirms this. So does the feeling we all have when we're a bit under the weather and just want to escape; we don't turn on the radio in those instances, or pick up a book. We watch TV. It's the great escape because it does, all the work for us. This observation is reinforced by the most ambitious TV programming. In an interview not long ago, Neil Postman was asked his opinion of the Ascent of Man TV series, which was built around, the ideas of philosopher Jacob Bronowski. As usual, Postman honed in on the essential point to be made. "Here's an interesting point about the series," he said. "If you read the book, which actually was the television script printed, you realized that Bronowski actually has a theory of social change. And almost anyone who read the book could be asked a question about whether or not they think they agree with Bronowski's theory of social change. If you would ask this question of people who only saw Ascent of Man on television, they would say, `What theory?' The theory disappeared on television even though Bronowski actually uses the words that would appear in the book. Why does the theory disappear? Because the program, being good television, is filled with exotic, interesting, exciting images." Postman, of course, is author of Amusing Ourselves to Death , which worries that we're entertaining and distracting ourselves into cultural oblivion. Fortunately, there is no analogous "disease of sounds." Radio producers face an entirely different set of problems. Television need only be seen to be watched. For radio, though, to be heard is not necessarily to be listened to. Though the juxtaposition of certain sounds can be comforting, inspiring, saddening, maddening, and powerful in a hundred other ways, those are all emotions of consideration. Sound moving forward in time is not inherently mesmerizing or captivating. It doesn't grab. On the contrary: the listener has to reach out with his or her attention and grab it , pull it in, and keep pulling with a considerable amount of focus. Television producers and webmasters have learned to speed up images as a way of seducing people to refrain from changing channels. That doesn't work in radio. String together ninety split-second fragments of nonlinear audio in the same way that MTV does with video, and you'd see many unhappy faces. Images captivate us effortlessly, and are difficult to filter out. Screening out sounds, though, is something that humans are well constructed to do. Beginning with frequency-filter membranes in the inner ear (cochlea), we constantly discriminate between competing sounds so that we can make sense of our sound environment. This filtering, or "masking," enables us to perceive certain sounds as drowning out other sounds. Without it, the audio world would make very little sense to us. Perhaps because it is so difficult to separate one sound from another and our auditory neurons are expressly designed to respond to this challenge, or perhaps because of other aspects of how sound is processed in our brain, we also psychologically discriminate among sounds. It is very easy, we all know from experience, to lose focus on what someone is saying to you in a room, even when there is very little audio competition. And it's downright common to have the radio on and stop noticing its contents altogether. As soon as we stop pulling audio in, it fades into the background. Being able to so easily ignore radio turns out to be the luckiest thing of all for the medium, because it also means that in order to really listen to it, we must become truly engaged. Radio won't "work" in the neural background. It won't settle for an intellectual glazing over. It requires more of a commitment, a certain level of consideration, concentration, rumination. And there's a direct payoff, for the cerebral effort: studies by UCLA's Patricia Greenfield and colleagues show that radio inspires more imagination than television. A healthy imagination and other aspects of creative thinking are the surest signs that we're pulling the information into our minds and interacting with it, that we're converting the information into knowledge. Kurt Vonnegut expressed this point marvelously in a recent magazine interview: "I can remember when TV was going to teach my children Korean and trigonometry," he said. "Rural areas wouldn't even have to have very well educated teachers; all they'd have to do is turn on the box. Well, we can see what TV really did.... We are not born with imagination. It has to be developed by teachers, by parents. ... A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols, 10 numbers, and about 8 punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. But it's no longer necessary for teachers and parents to build these circuits. Now, there are professionally produced shows with great actors, very convincing sets, sound, music. And now there's the information superhighway." Vonnegut's sarcastic rant suggests that electronic visual technologies have changed the rules somewhat. Historically, we have associated sight with understanding . "Of all the senses, trust only the sense of sight," Aristotle wrote in his Metaphysics . Our present language is loaded with words and phrases which make analogies between the two--"insight," "illuminate," "enlighten," "clarity," "observation," "brilliant," and so on. In an age where more and more images are in motion, though, sight can neither be trusted nor counted on to propel us into thought and action. We're going to have to recalibrate our language and our thinking for a digitized age. Fortunately, we have abundant text and audio resources at our disposal. We have the freedom to retreat to serious radio programming, to pull into the interior of our mind, to engage . The sanctity of audio allows for an intellectual intimacy that can be as nourishing as we allow it to be. None of these technological parameters ensure that a great percentage of radio programming will live up to the medium's potential--there's as much titillating mindlessness available on the radio dial as there is via the television remote or the web browser. But it does set the bar high enough that an ambitious few will inevitably (and consistently) scale to great heights. I am chopping vegetables in my kitchen and listening to the first explanation of schizophrenia that has ever really made sense to me; now I am driving in my car listening to a very interesting conversation about beach erosion; now I am in the shower, really learning something about myths in Ireland. It's not just the quality of the information that's resonating with me; it's also the conduit. At its best, radio is at once formal and intimate, thoughtful and spiritual, visually confining and cerebrally expansive. At CNN fn , I noticed that as I spoke informally with the production assistant, we mostly did not look at each other. We'd glance over frequently to make eye contact, to reinforce some point or some tonal cue. But most of the conversation itself was happening irrespective of the visuals--in spite of the visuals. We were intentionally avoiding a situation where our eyes would constantly be fed. On TV a moment before, it had been just the opposite. All conversation was made with lasting eye contact, perhaps the best clue of all that it wasn't a conversation but a visual simulacrum--a video painting--of a conversation. About an hour after I left the CNN building, I was in a radio studio on 56th Street near Sixth Avenue, participating in a wonderful public radio show called The Connection , hosted by Christopher Lydon. For about an hour, a handful of people shared observations and ideas, spoke with their eyes metaphorically closed, making a psychic connection. Real thoughts were formed, articulated, considered. As I listened to thoughtful guests and callers, I wondered: is any technology more "interactive"? It wasn't a perfect hour. I stumbled a bit, said some things I'd wished I'd said better. But it was still a terrific conversation. Callers thanked the host for another marvelous program, and you could hear that they meant it. People weren't just listening because they had time to kill. They were engaged. This wasn't entertainment; it was nourishment. After the show, I stuck around the studio for a few precious minutes to let the ideas settle a bit, and to steal just one more moment of calm. Copyright © 1999 David Shenk. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
|Prologue: The Problem with Hypertext
|Introduction and Acknowledgments
|Part I The Disease of Images
|Stealing Calm: An Ode to Radio
|The Disease of Images
|Just Sit Still: The Problem with The Java-Infused Web
|Part II The End of Patience
|The End of Patience: The Triumph of Button Smackers
|The Age of Net Scoops
|The Problem wIth Breathless Online Journalism
|This Just In: The Problem with Pointcast
|When Rushed Is Rash: The Dangers of Super-Quick Email
|Part III From Signal to Noise
|The Devolution has Been Televised: Crossfire Turns 15, An Appreciation
|More is Less: How Faster News Can Hurt Journalism
|A Wrinkle in Cyberspace: The Unreliability of Information on the Web
|The World Wide Library: An Immodest Proposal
|Disclose Disclose Disclose: What Newt Gingrich Doesn't Get about the Information Revolution
|Part IV The Paparazzi Is Us
|The Paparazzi Is Us: How the Democratization of Media Leads to the Tabloidization of Media
|The Would Full of Stone Phillipses: The Tyranny of the Hit Count
|Not Kissing but Telling Anyway: The Ethical Ramifications of Photoshop
|Ph.D., Inc. : Is Extreme Profitability Healthy for Academia?
|The World according to You: The Problem with Personalized News
|Part V The World and Redmond, WA
|Deep Pockets: The Problem with a Free Microsoft Browser
|Hating Gates: The Culture of Microsoft Bashing
|To Mac or Not to Mac: One Apple Devotee's Excruciating Purchase Dilemma
|Part VI When Information Costs Too Little
|The New Pests
|The End of Anonymity?
|Spam: Congress to the Rescue
|Free Bridge for Sale. Just Click Here
|The Problem with Abundance
|Part VII Generation Next
|School Bells and Whistles
|"Use Technology to Raise Smarter, Happier Kids:" Behold the Toys of Tomorrow
|Hall Pass to the 21st Century: The Problem with Putting Schools Online
|Stupid Kid-Tricks: The Actual State of "Educational" Material Online
|Biocapitalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution?
|Be Afraid
|Part VIII Technorealism
|A Philosophy for the Rest of Us
|An Overview
|Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
|Letter from Shinjuku: Japan and the Future of the Information Revolution