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The Age of Unreason
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – February 3, 1997
The Age of Unreason
Welcome to the factual free-for-all.
WHAT DID HE KNOW, and whendid he know it? During the late-modern era of
journal-ism and popular thought, which achieved its apotheosis in Watergate,
those were the salient questions. A consensus about facts prevailed, along
with a kind of common-sense faith that the accumulation of facts would yield
something like truth. The postmodern period began in the eighties, with the
American religious deliriums, in both fundamentalist-Christian and New Age
forms, end with the indulgence of the imaginary anecdotes of Ronald Reagan
and Tawana Brawley, it achieved its apotheosis in O. J. Simpson's acquittal.
The salient questions in this new era tend to be epistemological: What do
you think you know, and why do you think you know it?
Consider the major news stories of the last year.
We don't know who
was responsible for the epidemic of black-church arson, or even if there
was an epidemic. We don't know why T.W.A. Flight 800 blew up. We don't
know who planted the pipe bomb at the Olympics in Atlanta. The biggest news
stories de-generate into contentious unsolved mysteries, each an argument
against the efficacy of facts and the possibility of truth. Again and again,
facts—arson, plane crash, bomb—are supplanted by controversies
over how the stories were reported and who believes which versions of reality.
We are left with proliferating parallel universes. So Representative Maxine
Waters suspects that the C.I.A. was behind the crack trade in South Central
Los Angeles; Pierre Salinger suspects that Flight 800 was hit by an American
missile; and Dan Burton, the new chair-man of the House Government Reform
and Oversight Committee, suspects that Vincent Foster didn't really
kill himself in the park where his body was found— make that "found." Where
there's a fact vacuum, pseudo facts, opinion, and out-right fantasy
come rushing in. When the White House earlier this month issued a book-length
report on allegations of wrongdoing by the Clintons and Clintonites, the
point was not to refute the substance of the charges but to analyze how spurious
charges filter from the mar-gins into the élite press, frequently
via the Internet—more epistemology.
Of course, Americans are supposed to mistrust élite authority and
to believe that every citizen is entitled, above all, to his or her own opinion.
Until the late nineteenth century, moreover, that populist doctrine accorded
with the way information flowed: the "media" were scattered and
local. Then the steady march toward centralization gradually made information
and opinion the province of mass-circulation magazines, wire services, radio,
and, ultimately, networks and national newspapers. For better and for worse,
the American journalistic century devolved from the muckraker to the pundit
to the anchorman—Steffens
to Lippmann to Cronkite. But the old native antipathy to-ward elite authority
was never rooted out, and after getting amped up during the late sixties
and the seventies it is driving today's trans-ideological, my-facts-are-as-
good-as-your-facts skepticism.
Sometimes the skepticism is justified. Even science
often seems irresolute, arbitrary. During the last election campaign, polling
was way off the mark the final New York Times/CBS News survey before the
election overestimated Pres-ident Clinton's margin by a hundred per cent. In December, the
four big television networks declared that they no longer trust the accuracy
of the Nielsen ratings, which are the foundation of the entire TV business.
And a federal commission discovered that inflation had been inaccurately
measured for years, yet it could only approximate by how much the rate was
being overstated—maybe thirty per cent a year, maybe sixty per cent,
maybe somewhere in between. If a technical story is scary enough, there's
a good chance that it will be published with its premises essentially unchecked;
and, the
scarier it is, the greater is the chance of its being picked up widely.
The first great parental panic of the postmodern
age was missing children— a
putative rash of kidnappings by pedophiles and killers. After the murders
of twenty-three black children in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981, and, later
in 1981, the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, in Florida, magazines,
newspapers, and broadcasters began asserting routinely that many thousands
of American children were being snatched by strangers each year.
Missing children quickly became a movie-of-the-week
social issue. The Reagan Ad-ministration established the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children. Children's faces appeared on
milk cartons. The annual number of kidnappings was by this time pegged
in the media at twenty thousand, or fifty thousand, or, sometimes, even
a hundred thousand.
In 1984, I was a writer at Time, working on a missing-children
story. I did some simple arithmetic. If the low-end national figure was
true, it meant that in New York City alone a dozen children per week were
disappearing. It seemed improbable to me that in a city with two tabloid
dailies such a story had escaped notice. I called half a dozen urban police
departments around the country, more or less at random, and asked each
one how many cases it had had in the previous year of children abducted
by strangers. One here, none there, a couple in the next place. By extrapolation,
it seemed clear that the correct national number was possibly in the hundreds,
certainly not in the thousands, let alone in the tens of thousands. My
editor, however, declined to go ahead with such a wildly skeptical story
by a nonexpert—a
story that he seemed to think would have looked niggling and callous. (It
turned out that the figure of fifty thou-sand had been invented by Adam Walsh's
father in the weeks following his son's death; according to the current
Wash-ington Monthly, Walsh has since said that the number was a "guesstimate.")
Time also figured in that decade's other great social panic, cocaine
use. One particular cocaine factoid cropped up repeat-edly in the mid-eighties—the
assertion that every day five thousand Americans were trying cocaine for
the first time. In 1987, it had been among the official data presented
at a meeting of the National In-stitute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Then, in
1988, an article in Science on drug-abuse statistics attempted to track
down the source of the five-thousand-new-coke users-a-day number. Science
reported that, "according to the best recollection of the writer
who compiled these data for NIDA," the statistic had appeared in
1984 and was based on five hundred calls to a New Jersey cocaine hot line.
But, in exposing the factoid as squishy, Science seems to have got the
provenance wrong. The statistic first appeared, I believe, in an April,
1983, cover story in Time. I wrote the story and I invented—no, constructed—the
statistic: taking a credible 1982 estimate of Americans who had used cocaine
and subtracting from it the comparable 1980 estimate, I divided that number
by seven hundred and thirty (three hundred and sixty-five days times two)
and arrived at . . . about five thousand new users a day.It may have been
true, or anyway true-ish, but its genesis bears out Science's
finding that "many of the numbers are soft."
No wonder the idea of truth seems so slippery just
now. If good faith and cool heads can let facts go astray, what happens
when more tendentious or paranoid versions of reality leach into the mainstream?
We're perpetually
warned about the con-temporary rise of cynicism, but a parallel American
contagion, often infecting the same citizens, is credulity. The postmodern
cynic cum naïf mistrusts the govern-ment, the media, and the other
elites even as he recklessly embraces this or that line of grassroots make-believe.
You believe that a
majority of women were sexually abused as children? You believe that Ben
Franklin was an anti-Semitic propagandist? You believe that you have seen
a documentary videotape of government doctors performing an autopsy on
a captured extraterrestrial? Whatever.
THIS laissez-faire ultra-populism finds its per-fect
medium in the Internet. Not only is every citizen en-titled to his or her
opinion but he or she is entitled to deliver it instantaneously, studded
with chunks of fake infor-mation, to the whole world. With a computer and
a phone line, anyone can become his own publisher/commentator/ reporter/anchor,
dispatching to every-one everywhere credible-looking opin-ions, facts,
and "facts" via the Internet.
On the World Wide Web, for instance, the site at www.all-natural.com contains
dozens of dense, competently written reports on subjects as various as the
Hale-Bopp comet, AIDS, and T.W.A. Flight 800, and its frequently updated
pages look as professional as those of brand-name news-media sites; the articles
assert, however, that the comet may be traveling alongside "a gigantic
space-craft," that H.I.V. grew out of a "U.S. biowarfare program," and
that Flight 800 was brought down by "a rift in the space-time continuum." Thanks
to the Web, amateurism and spuriousness no longer need look amateurish or
spurious. If so-society's susceptibility to misinformation is like
AIDS then Web sites and Internet news groups and electronic bulletin boards—a
vast, thrilling, promiscuous commingling of facts with fabrications—could
be its bathhouses.
"You see, I'm not a person who looks into the Internet," Pierre
Salinger assured me last month. Salinger was for most of the last two decades
a senior ABC News correspondent and investigative reporter and then, until
1995, vice-chairman of the P.R. firm Burson-Marsteller. But the Net and its
wide-open marketplace of ideas and information remained alien territory to
Sometime last fall, he says, he was given a document
by "a top intelligence
agent in France, a guy who's been a fantastic adviser to me." The
document began, "TWA flight 800 was shot down by a U.S. Navy Aegis
missile fired from a guided missile ship which was in area W-105 about 30
miles from where TWA 800 exploded. W-105 is a Warning Area off the southeast
coast of Long Island and is used for military operations including missile
firing." It continued for five hundred more words thick with knowledgeable-sounding
analysis and technical detail. And so, on November 7th, in a lecture-circuit
speech in Cannes to members of an airline-industry association, Salinger
declared unequivocally but without elaboration that Flight 800 had been shot
down by a Navy missile, and that the United States government was covering
up the truth.
Ron Dunsky, a CNN producer who was assigned full
time to the Flight 800 story, reached Salinger late that night. "He was awake, and he was very excited
by the information he had, and I asked him to read me the document," Dunsky
recalls. "I recognized it immediately. I pulled out my document, and
I went over it paragraph by paragraph. He said, 'That's it! That's
the document! Where did you get it?"' CNN had got it as a fax
almost two months earlier, and had then found virtual clones all over the
Internet; the original was the speculative E-mail scenario of a retired airline
pilot in Florida.
When Salinger finally looked into the postings on
the Internet, he was im-pressed to find "forty pages of material" on Flight 800. To Salinger,
the Net postings were encouragement to stick to his guns. Dunsky and his
colleagues at CNN had nearly the opposite reaction. "We were getting
annoyed at the persistence of this rumor out there," Dunsky told me
recently. "It was almost like this parallel universe." Certainly
the logic and the language of Salinger's document are typical of on-line
paranoia: "Notice that the FBI is always standing beside or behind
Mr. Francis"—Bob Francis, a spokesman for the National Transportation
Safety Board— "and it would appear that his job is to make sure
that nothing is said that would give away ' THE BIG SECRET!' "
Last summer's series in the San Jose Mercury News on the links between
the C.I.A. and Nicaraguan cocaine wholesalers is a very different case. The
newspaper story was extensively reported and was probably true in many of
its basic facts— that is, some Contras were probably involved in the
cocaine trade, and people on the C.I.A. payroll probably looked the other
way. As with Salinger, however, it posited an unholy federal conspiracy.
And, as with Flight 800 fabulism, the story swelled with populist afffirmation
while circulating via the Internet and talk radio, especially among black
Americans. In that parallel universe, where rumors of fantastic plots by
government (a satanic Ronald Wilson Reagan—six letters, six letters,
six letters—had crack invented as a genocidal weapon against blacks)
are widely credited, a crack- dealing C.I.A. can seem not just plausible
but obvious.
Of course, counter-realities flourish in Malibu
as well as in Compton. Oliver Stone, as both a director ("JFK," "Nixon") and, lately,
a producer ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"), has spent as much
time as anybody alive fending off charges that he twists facts. He is still
pained by the intense criticism—the factual criticism, not the film
criticism—that he gets for his historical movies. "I raised questions
in 'JFK,' " he told me recently. "The movie never
said we had the answers. It deconstructed history, if you will. The Warren
Commission is the myth, my movie was counter-mythology. We're not allowing
for dissident thought."
We aren't? With the Internet, the Oliver Stones of the world now have
their own homeland. They may be subjected to an extra dose of scrutiny, but
that is the price of being a dissi-dent. Unorthodoxy isn't supposed
to get a free pass. And, as we gear up to live in a hyper-democratic media
world crawling with contagious false-hoods, society will need a robust in-formation
immune system.
It looks as if we might be developing one. The Pierre
Salinger misadventure sounds like a parable about our vulnerability to
pseudo facts, but it contained a self-correcting happy
ending. In the following days, every relevant agency and expert dismissed
Salinger's story, and there were no takers among the rest of the old
media—not even the New York Post. Nor is the affair an indictment of
the new media; mostly what it reveals is one cocky old-media cowboy's
cluelessness about the new frontier of the Internet.
and homesteading eras have passed, and sheriffs and schoolmarms have come
to impose law and order. On the twenty-first-century Internet, as in the
nineteenth-century American West, the mavericks and cranks drawn to the frontier
will not be wiped out, and their romantic sensibility will inform the spirit
of the place, but the rude settlements and wild behavior are being overshadowed
by more traditional, trustworthy modes. Each year on the Net is equal to
about a decade in nineteenth-century-frontier terms: the rise of Internet
news groups and bulletin boards is analogous to the half century after Lewis
and Clark; the beginning of the World Wide Web, in the early nineties, can
be compared to the discovery of gold in California; and the present cyber-moment
is equivalent to, say, 1880.
As far as the ongoing spew of digital information
is concerned, certain brand names, some familiar but some strictly new-media,
are coming to be seen as re-liable. Americans may temperamentally resist
following orders from headquarters, but they still have a weak spot for
experts. Slate, the Microsoft webzine, just inaugurated "The Tangled Web," a section devoted to policing
on-line conspiracy-mongers. Brooke Shelby Biggs, a media critic for HotWired;
an Internet epicenter of don't-fence-me-in libertarianism, posted a
commentary last month pining "for a filter that can help the public
separate the bunk. . . from mostly accurate news sources."
After four years of unchallenged legitimacy, the
bogus missing-children statistics were exposed, by a Denver Post series
that won a Pulitzer Prize. In the academy, the cachet of the multiple-truth
post-modernists seems to have peaked around 1994. The C.I.A.-Contra crack
story was overplayed, but, again, the immune system responded: "EVIDENCE IS LACKING
OF ALLEGED PLOT," a Washington Post headline declared six weeks after
the Mercury News series ran. Even Oliver Stone said that he found the alleged
conspiracy unbelievable. Since Disney had just bought the film rights to
the C.I.A.-Contra crack articles, I half-teasingly asked Stone, whose "Nixon" was
re-leased by Disney, whether he would like to work on the project. "No,
I wouldn't touch that one," he said quickly. "I started
a script about that back in the eighties, called 'Contra.' But
it's very tough for me to do another contemporary political movie.
Whatever I do is held up to ridicule going in." He paused, then added, "That's
a form of censorship, isn't it?"
Earlier this month, Stone took a light one-two punch
from the Northeastern élite:
first, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., attacked him during a discussion at the annual
meeting of the American Historical Association, in New York; then ABC's
World News Tonight broadcast a report disparaging the accu-racy of "The
People vs. Larry Flynt." "Schlesinger talked about 'the
facts,' and kept saying, 'Facts are facts,' " Stone
told me. "Peter Jennings leads with a frown and a sneer, and then they
get me on the same 'What are the facts?' "
Literalism can be a drag, and one would certainly
rather watch Oliver Stone movies than Arthur Schlesinger,Jr., movies. But,
unpleasant though it can be for artists to have their work fact- checked
in public, the scrutiny of Stone's counter-histories may be a measure of cultural health. Society's
intellectual antibodies are responding.
And when those who are criticized by the establishment
for factual sloppiness and distortion declare that they, too, are victims
of factual sloppiness and distortion, they are in effect recommitting themselves
to the ideals of accuracy and a common truth. "There was a tremendous amount of misrepresentation
about what the movie 'JFK' said," Stone complained. "It
was shocking to me. Ninety per cent of the time, the press quotes me out
of con-text." Last September, during a lecture at Southern Methodist
University, a distinguished journalist brought down the house when he deplored
the debased standards of the mainstream news media, charging that they were "all
becoming tabloids." The speaker was Pierre Salinger. ©


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Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh
Ferdinand Mount writes:
Bryan Niblett is a barrister, computer scientist and judicial arbitrator, and he is nicely attuned to his subject. This excellent biography, the first for nearly 40 years, makes us understand why Bradlaugh deserves more than a footnote in political and legal history. His contemporaries understood this well enough. Half a dozen biographies were published in his lifetime and several more after his death. His funeral procession to Brookwood Crematorium required three special trains and was attended by many young men who were to be heard much of in the next century, notably Gandhi and Lloyd George. Lord Queensberry was also present, to bear witness to his loathing of 'Christian tomfoolery'. So was Walter Sickert, who painted the enormous portrait of Bradlaugh that now hangs in Manchester Art Gallery. To the last, Bradlaugh remained a pioneer of customs we now take for granted, his daughter Hypatia arranging for him to be buried in one of the London Necropolis Company's earth-to-earth coffins made of papier-mâché. Bradlaugh had called her Hypatia after the fourth-century bluestocking who was said to have been the last librarian of Alexandria and who was martyred by a fanatical Christian sect, her body mutilated with pottery shards. He was never less than consistent. To later generations, though, Bradlaugh's impact has faded. His long struggle to be admitted to his seat as MP for Northampton without swearing the oath has come to seem a dusty curiosity, a picturesque hiccup in our seamless progress towards a secular world. It didn't appear that way at the time. Niblett's lucid and painstaking account of the saga forms the centrepiece of his book, and is not to be missed. In retrospect, Bradlaugh's seemingly unpatterned clashes with the authorities look more like a neat row of milestones on the road from the pre-modern polity to the one we now live in. Every battle he threw himself into turned into a test case. He was often rebuffed at first. Yet in the long term he mostly prevailed, and his prevailing unblocked a remarkable sequence of changes in attitudes, practices and institutions.


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When did O'Brien coach the C's?
That's another reason why Flip is destined to fail here. You can't coach in order to not get fired. If he's going to play his bench, it has to be his choice. Otherwise why keep him here?
Rather have coaches that have been in the trenches... I just hope it doesn't become a headstrong battle. Which guy is just the bench coach with the clip board? I could see it possibly working out ok. Porter as the personal trainer working on improving individual skills and bridging the gap by giving the players perspective.... O'Brien as the hard nosed defensive minded coach and Flip working the offense... Flip would have to be opened to strong minded opinions.
If this pans out my look at next season will probably be more right. I only see next season as a championship season or one that ends ugly. If Ben leaves it ends ugly. If Ben stays we're beck on the road to the championship. If we get these 3 "head" coaches and they can't work together it will end ugly. If these 3 work together and use their strengths we'll be in great position to win a championship. If the bench isn't played it will likely end bad If the bench is played we have backups who have had more game experience than last year to back up an injured player in the playoffs wich would help in a championship run. If Ben leaves, we get 3 coaches who can't work together, and the starters are playing the whole game If Ben stays and he and Flip work it out, if we get 3 coaches and they use their strengths and work together, and if the bench is developed we can possibly back to being
O'Brien's team wasn't a league leader in rebounding or anything like that, but if you'll remember, it was O'Brien's Celtics that completely shut down Stackhouse and bounced us in what would later become known as the "5 game sweep". It was not a pretty sight and they notched up the hustle after a game 1 blowout and effectively ran us out of the playoffs.
Okay, I remember a little bit more now. But, those Celts teams appeared to only play great defense in stretches. They were generally outscored by the opposition and got most of their momentum off of three point barages. The same Celts team that made Jerry "Forced Shot" Stackhouse invisible also got steam rolled by the New Jersey Nets. Not to mention that our offense was still very offensive (as in awful) back then. Again, I'm not sold on O'Brien being a really good defensive coach, but anything has to be a step up from what Flip brought to the table defensively. I will say that his teams did appear to hustle a little bit more during the playoffs, so I guess that could be promising.
We already have a good defensive team, but we know that the players can get full of themselves and not play their game. O'Brien is a better defensive coach than Flip so if Ben stays and Obrien comes we should become better defensively assuming Flip works with him.
in the papers it said o'brien was going to stay out of coaching for another year
O'Brien did a lot with a little there, IMO.
Remeber we still have this to worry about. Thanks a lot everyoneit helps to let out everything you think instead of keeping it closed inside. I'm out!
For all the Flip-Ben conspiracy theorists: "I think my relationship with Flip (Saunders) is pretty good. At times we bumped heads when we're out there on the floor, but that's a given. When you're out there trying to reach greatness, and try to do something special, you're going to have conflicts. I don't think there's anything wrong with conflicts. I think the way you sit down and get them resolved are the key. My relationship with Flip had nothing to do with my situation of me leaving, because since I've been here, every other year or every two years, we've been having different coaches, so how can I get along with five or six different coaches and not get along with Flip?" Source: Detroit Free Press (Ben's Post Contract Interview) http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060705/SPORTS05/607050394/1122
Nice read, thanks for that link. I guess I'm not a "flip conspirist", more of a Flip's system conspirist. I want to believe that Ben saw more opportunity to play, and play "his Style" under Skiles.
As for the assistant coach, I think we need someone really, really tough. Someone to kick some ass and take some names. Get these guys motivated. Get these guys mad. Put the chip back on the shoulder, so to speak.
I'm with you linwood. Who do you have in mind though?
Thats were my plan needs help!
I don't believe very much of what Ben said there, but I found it comforting somehow anyways. Don't know why. I do think that if Flip was fired he'd still be here. It may or may not be personal, but what's important is that you can't really blame him for going where he can get a ring. Flip will never get one, and Ben doesn't have the time to wait for him to be fired. About the former teammates were supportive for the most part'' line -- I am so curious who the non-supportive one was.
Supposedly Porter is close to signing. That's good news to me as I was very impressed with the work he did in Milwaukee in his short stint.
Apparently TP was sideline at the VSL.
Are we putting too much emphasis on an assistant coach here folks? I mean, I am not discounting the importance of an assistant coach, however, he and the head coach must be on the same page and have the same goals and expectations for their players and the team. It is quite obvious Flip is not a defensive minded coach. Will it cause a rfit between players and coaches if everyone is not on the same page? Will players who don`t want to committ to playing D, only respond to Flip who seems to be lacking in defensive intensisty?
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Sonnet 'Memory' - Poem by Jahan zaib
After that day of our departure,
I gave my soul nothing but torture,
Calling you to memory all the time,
Made my moments the most sublime,
You were here with me like the sun of dawn,
Sat I looking you ending in smoke every plan,
How can I stop you, knowing no way no reason,
To have forever in my heart a lily, rose' season,
Is this my fate this my destiny? Looted and in despair,
Or with your hand will my hand be ever in pair?
Will ever my tired head rest on your soft arm,
Will my name be written ever on your white palm?
I have a hope you will be mine and mine you are,
Like the moon accompanied by the brightest star,
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The Central Council of Jews in Germany has expressed concern about the reprinting of Nazi-era newspapers by a British publisher as part of a campaign to raise historical awareness.
The first issue of the controversial weekly "Zeitungszeugen" (Newspaper Witness) contains copies of three daily newspapers first published on January 30, 1933 -- the day Adolf Hitler took power. Included is the notorious propaganda paper "Der Angriff" (The Attack).
"I'm highly dubious about this project," Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council, told Reuters after the first 300,000 copies of the "The press in Nazi times" were distributed across Germany late last week.
Kramer said he feared neo-Nazis could rally around the collection of newspapers and ordinary Germans might take the Nazi claims at face value, even though balancing comments by historians are included in a four-page covering section.
On page one of "Der Angriff," Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, attacked the "Jewish press" in a column under the headline: "Make a clean sweep!" He wrote: "It's time to cure the ill German body and bring it back to life again."
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A new bike concept from Thailand does the dirty work of actual air purification.
Bicycle transit is becoming a huge part of green transportation and cleaner cities, but the only way bikes can truly make a difference in our pollution levels is if each individual bike replaces a hypothetical car. In cities where most people already get around by public transit (which, coincidentally, are the cities encouraging the most bike use), bikes perhaps should be pulling more weight. Not to mention, air pollution in streets can be bad enough to make riding a bike as injurious to your lungs as smoking a pack of cigarettes, particularly in smoggy areas such as Bangkok.
That very city's Lightfog Studio has an interesting answer to these problems: a battery-powered bike with a small (possibly personal-sized) air filter and a "photosynthesis system" that generates oxygen from water, electricity and the lithium-ion battery in the bike. It's unclear how the air filter would be powered, but hopefully the kinetic energy would somehow be involved, as the large battery seems more suited to powering the bike's movement. A prototype has not yet been built – there are only mockups – but the product has already won a Red Dot award in the "Green" category.
Though it will take time before the model becomes practical, the idea of personal air purification is certainly one that deserves more investigation, as the investments of just a few individuals on a given street could benefit everybody.
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UPDATED: Boxes and Arrows Redesign Call: This just in: Hillman Curtis joins the panel of judges. The entry deadline has been extended until August 15th, 2004 and the panelist of judges confirmed.
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In the information economy, the longevity of an organization is based as much on the sophistication of its knowledge management practices as it is on traditional differentiators such as the strength of its products, the talent of its employees, and its marketplace reputation and partner relationships. Simply speaking, as actionable and insightful information becomes the currency of an organization, there are few other ways to tap into any latent potential lost in the office corridors.
How does a user interface designer know that a given design will work? How does anybody develop enough confidence in a design to move it toward the real world? The methods designers use to evaluate user interfaces require training and experience. But the people who need to hire designers are unlikely to have those skills. How do the people who are paying the bills know they are getting good answers?
As information architects we all know how important it is to keep the user in mind. The same is true in teaching IA: we must keep the learner in mind. Learning objectives are one tool to help keep your classes focused on the student. They will also help you develop the syllabus, lesson plans, and assessment methods.
User-centered design professionals pay special emphasis to one type of stakeholder—the users of the system—arguing that user experience needs to be carefully crafted to satisfy user needs. While understanding user needs and goals is certainly necessary, it is often not sufficient for producing a successful design.
Guidelines. We seem to have a love-hate relationship with them. At the same time we construct them, we worry they'll come back to haunt us. How did guidelines get such a bad reputation?
When resources are limited, the design must be optimized to make the best use of all resources. To account for this complexity, it is important to have a clear understanding of both sides of the design equation—what you have to work with and what you are trying to build.
Just what are the design practices on the web that have the highest frequency? And are there design practices that all (or nearly all) sites employ?
What do cognitive psychology and information architecture have in common? Actually there is a good deal of common ground between the two disciplines. Certainly, having a background in cognitive psychology supports the practice of information architecture, and it is precisely those interconnections and support that will be explored.
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Hurricane Earl formed earlier last week on 22 August but was only upgraded to a Category 2 early on Monday morning. Hurricane Earl is expected to go right into Canada according to the Canadian
Hurricane Earl formed earlier last week on 22 August but was only upgraded to a Category 2 early on Monday morning. Hurricane Earl is expected to go right into Canada according to the Canadian Meteorological Centre the hurricane might hit Halifax in Canada as welll as St John but for now the hurricane is over the Northern Carribean and the National Hurricane Center put a hurricane warning out for Antiqua, Barbuda, Monteserrat, St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla. There is also a hurricane warning out for Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy, St Maarten, Saba and St Eustatius.
A hurricane watch is in effect for Puerto Rico and the Islands of Culebra and Vieques.
According to the Global Forecast system the hurricane will just miss New York by 194 Miles but that might change as the hurricane comes closer, that however is the prediction from the GFS in 105 hours from now, later this week.
Using the XTRP 12 hour model the path of the hurricane is Brownsville.
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Hurricane Earl is the fifth tropical storm of the season.
The latest hurricane statement from the National Hurricane Center is that the hurricane force winds extend outward up to 85 140km from the center. Tropical Storm winds extend up to 500km.
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Many predictions are out that Hurricane Earl might make landfall but this is to early to tell. The hurricane is also reported to be growing stronger.
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The history channel did a great job of saying how it would be if some major hurricane would hit New York.
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The eye of Hurricane Earl is now only 211 miles from St Martin. Although they do remain outside of the eye as we can tell. According to the XTRP 12 hour model the hurricane is heading directly towards the Dominican Republic but as usaul that should change.
Hurricane Earl became a major hurricane earlier today as we reported
The Hurricane weather and research forecast model now predicts that the eye of hurricane Earl might come as close as 199 miles from the New York coastline. The same model also predicts that Boston and Portland might come in the way of the hurricane IF it does not fade out by the time it hits those areas.
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Hurricane Earl is now a category four hurricane and it is moving away from the Virgin Islands. There is now a tropical storm watch for the Caicos Islands, the Southern Bahamas and the Government of Antique replaced their previous hurricane warning with a storm warning. The tropical storm warning was also discontinued for Anguilla.
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Hurricane Earl now passed through the Virgin Islands and caused devastation killing one person and destroying several buildings.. People are advised to stay as far as possible away from the sea and not try to swim in the hurricane weather.
Hurricane Earl will now pass by Puerto Rico and people are preparing for strong storm winds, high and big waves.
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Indeed (and to keep quite on topic), perhaps rather than hardlink trees, LVM snapshots would be even more space efficient. Maybe that is what this thread has been about. I just jumped in. Apologies if it was.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- President Barack Obama's job approval rating among Ohio voters has hit an all-time low, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University. Only 34 percent of Ohioans give Obama a thumbs up, while 61 percent think he's doing a bad job. Not only is that the lowest score he's received in Ohio, but it's the lowest among any state that Quinnipiac tracks. Obama's previous low in Ohio was a negative 40 – 57 percent in a June 26 survey.
Obama gets approval from only 3 percent of Republicans, 30 percent of independents, and 69 percent of Democrats.
"President Barack Obama's popularity is at a record low in Ohio and the first time his approval rating has fallen below 40 percent in the state," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling institute. "This is a state considered to be a national bellwether where he got 51 percent of the vote, just 12 months ago."
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"If voters still feel that way about their own situation come November 2014, that is likely to create a political playing field beneficial for Republicans," Brown added. "Voters still blame the Republicans more for the government shutdown, but that issue's salience is being dwarfed by the opposition to 'Obamacare.'"
In an early look at the 2016 run for the White House, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gets 42 percent to 41 percent for New Jersey Republican Gov. Christopher Christie in Ohio. Clinton tops Gov. John Kasich 49 – 38 percent. Her widest lead is over Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 50 - 35 percent with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush not performing much better at 50 - 37 percent. She also has a sizable lead over Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 48 - 39 percent, a ten point lead on Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 50 - 40 percent, and leads Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, last year's vice presidential candidate on the GOP ticket, by a 49 - 41 margin.
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The possibility of a prison in north Wales has been welcomed by council leaders, emergency services and health officials in the region.
The North Wales Regional Leadership Board said it was "great news" the area had been shortlisted.
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Last month the UK government announced the region was being considered for a "super" prison with 1,200 inmates.
The board, which also represents the Police and Crime Commissioner and the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, met last week to discuss the issue.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Cllr Hugh Evans, leader of Denbighshire council, said: "The board has been lobbying for a prison in north Wales for over five years.
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Cllr Dyfed Edwards, Gwynedd council's leader, said he was "excited" by the prospect of a prison.
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The board agreed that a north Wales prison should also serve the north west of England and the Midlands.
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Binge-like patterns of excessive drinking during young adulthood increase the propensity for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) later in adult life; however, the mechanisms that drive this are not completely understood. Previous studies showed that the δ-opioid peptide receptor (DOP-R) is dynamically regulated by exposure to ethanol and that the DOP-R plays a role in ethanol-mediated behaviors. The aim of this study was to determine the role of the DOP-R in high ethanol consumption from young adulthood through to late adulthood by measuring DOP-R-mediated [(35)S]GTPγS binding in brain membranes and DOP-R-mediated analgesia using a rat model of high ethanol consumption in Long Evans rats. We show that DOP-R activity in the dorsal striatum and DOP-R-mediated analgesia changes during development, being highest during early adulthood and reduced in late adulthood. Intermittent access to ethanol but not continuous ethanol or water from young adulthood leads to an increase in DOP-R activity in the dorsal striatum and DOP-R-mediated analgesia into late adulthood. Multiple microinfusions of naltrindole into the dorsal striatum or multiple systemic administration of naltrindole reduces ethanol consumption, and following termination of treatment, DOP-R activity in the dorsal striatum is attenuated. These findings suggest that DOP-R activity in the dorsal striatum plays a role in high levels of ethanol consumption and suggest that targeting the DOP-R is an alternative strategy for the treatment of AUDs.
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First time poster. Actually this is my first Ford. Lovin' my Focus.
Here's what's happening and my question: I am able to send a map with destination from my iPad using Mapquest. All instructions I have been able to find say use voice command "Services" to download the map to the nav unit in the car. When I say "Services" the car phones some weird 888 number. I can't find the phone number in my contacts list so not sure where it's coming from. Is the another Sync command that will download the map?
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When I send a destination to my car via MapQuest. I let sync dial the number and connect. Then it tells me about the destination that was sent and it asks me if I want directions to that destination. If I tell it yes it gives me the directions (it downloads the destination and calculates a route).
So that is not a direct answer to your question about a command to download the destination but I have never had to use a command to download a destination.
So when it dials the number do you let it dial and connect?
Let the call go but it would not connect. Will try from someplace else. May be my phone connection/reception.
I just went out and checked mine. When I press connect it shows the number 888-244-4529,it dials and connects. Then it says "MapQuest has sent you the destination "_________". Do you want directions? If I say "yes" after a few seconds it comes up with the GPS screen and I can set that as the route.
I was looking through the guide and can't find a way to like go back and redownload a destiation.
John thanks for your feedback. Let me check the number but the one you mention looks familiar. So I let the call go through and I hear no ringing and the system disconnects after about six seconds. Getting close...
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If enacted, this bill will amend the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to help protect animals that have not yet received a final ESA listing from trophy hunts by restricting their import into the U.S.
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You'll find there are a lot of us on here from Tennessee. I'm in Shelby County. Part of the most violent metropolitan area in the whole USA. I knew if the gang members and drug dealers tried real hard they could be number one and they did.
It's no wonder that there are more carry permits issued in Shelby County than any other in Tennessee.
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Harry Smith won't be up on the platform with Ted Kennedy today endorsing Barack Obama. But he might be there in spirit, after having absolutely unloaded on Bill Clinton's on this morning's Early Show. The CBS anchor made the stunning suggestion that when it comes to matters racial, Bill Clinton may have perpetrated a fraud on African-Americans.
Smith's guest was "diversity expert" Joe Watson and you might have expected Watson [who FWIW impressed me favorably] to carry the anti-Bill ball. But ultimately it was Smith who offered the single most damning suggestion. The CBS host began by playing the clip of Bill's by-now infamous words from the weekend, writing off the Obama victory in South Carolina by pointing out that Jesse Jackson had won there twice in the 80s.
View video here.
After Watson dismissed the notion that Clinton's words were accidental, Smith chimed in to poo-poo Hillary's excuse that Bill's comments were the result of "sleep deprivation," then added . . .
HARRY SMITH: These words are fraught. These words are rated. These words, as you suggest, are not accidental. By invoking Jesse Jackson, what is Bill Clinton saying?
JOE WATSON: Well it's imagery, it's any time that we do these things, Nadia Comaneci [??], Michael Jordan. As soon as we say those words, images pop into your mind. The hope of course is that things will link together. And when you do that, Jesse Jackson causes a visceral reaction in many portions of our population. Many folks within the campaign I imagine would hope that it would be negative. And by creating that linkage, somehow you would derail the efforts of Senator Obama.
That's when Smith offered what amounted to a stunning indictment of the former president.
SMITH: Through all of this talk, I mean [holding up the front page of today's NY Post with its blaring headline "Wild Bill] look at this, there's all this talk within the Clinton campaign of trying to rein in the former president. Does Bill Clinton send a message to African-Americans that he may not be who they thought he was?
WATSON: Here's what's really telling, when you think about this. The African-American talk radio, all the conversations have been ablaze with thoughts and commentary around this issue. And when you come out and make a comment about Jesse Jackson, you essentially pour gasoline onto a fire. Now think about that. If you send that kind of signal, what you're really saying is, "we got sub-20% [of the black vote], maybe we can't compete for this demographic anymore, and we've got to compete for a different set of demographics."
Bill Clinton may not be who African-Americans thought he was? Hard to read that other than as Smith suggesting that Bill Clinton has defrauded blacks [and all Americans for that matter] on race.
Update 9:15 AM: Carville's Cajun Chutzpah
Over on Good Morning America, James Carville had whatever the Cajun equivalent of chutzpah is to claim that Bill Clinton hadn't "meant it in that way at all" in comparing Obama's SC win to Jesse Jackson.
View video here.
JAMES CARVILLE: I don't think he meant anything other than it just being an analysis, you know President Clinton has a long --
DIANE SAWYER: You wish he hadn't done it?
CARVILLE: They have a long history of being pro-civil rights in Arkansas, which is not the easiest place in the world. Her support from the African-American community in Arkansas and New York is literally overwhelming. I think he was trying to make a political point here. And I can see why people would interpret it another way. I don't think he meant it in that way at all. There's nothing in President Clinton's history to suggest that.
Actually, there's everything in President Clinton's history to suggest that he'll say whatever it takes.


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