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The web is buzzing with excitement for the return of the FOX hit show Glee tonight. (For good reason. Remember that incredible Diva-Off?)
Here are some celebratory food-related ideas that you should ignore, and why:
Follow the rule to drink every time Kurt talks about fashion or Lady Gaga
Flavorpill's Official Glee Drinking Game.
Why Not?: That game will have you passed out before the first commercial break.
Honor Glee's cheerleading squad, the Cheerios, with any number of recipes that General Mills says you can create with the breakfast cereal.
Why Not?: Select "What's for Dinner" from the drop down on that link and you'll understand.
Buy a Slurpee from 7-Eleven and drink it, douse your face in it, or douse someone else's face in it.
Why Not?: Two of those actions will make you seem like a jerk, and currently you might romanticize the flavor of Slurpees from your childhood. Don't ruin that.
Bake a batch of Blondies and a batch of Brownies, then compare them so you can sympathize with Finn Hudson's complex love for both Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry.
Why not?: That would be insulting to the desserts.


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The following are simpler-macros versions of the example macros given in syntactic-closures.
The swap! macro can easily be done in simpler-macros as follows:
(define-syntax (swap! a b)
(let ((temp ,a))
(set! ,a ,b)
(set! ,b temp))))
A syntax objects is here constructed hygienically a quasisyntax template. Inserted syntactic elements have to be unquoted, since there is no primitive concept of pattern variables, which makes the design conceptually simpler than that of syntax-case. Indeed, pattern matching is not necessary for the core design, although syntax-case is provided as a separate module.
For the loop macro, we need to break hygiene. For this, datum->syntax-object is available with the same semantics as in syntax-case. Instead, we use an alternative mechanism make-fluid-identifier as follows:
(define-syntax (loop body)
(let ((exit (make-fluid-identifier (syntax here) 'exit)))
(lambda (,exit)
(let loop ()
The make-fluid-identifier primitive introduces an identifier that will capture any free-identifier=? identifiers in the scope of its binding. The first argument provides the lexical context of the manufactured identifier.
We do the same thing with the it identifier for the aif macro. To control the precise scope of it within the macro, we use ordinary lexical scope via let, just as you would in an ordinary Scheme procedure.
(define-syntax (aif condition consequent alternative)
(let ((it (make-fluid-identifier (syntax here) 'it)))
(let ((val ,condition))
(if val
(let ((,it val)) ,consequent)
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By Gan Ling Kai & Maureen Koh
THE ORIGINS of gangs in Singapore date back to the mid-18th century in south-east China.
That's what former Secret Societies Branch detectives Lionel De Souza, Lim Ah Soon and Theva told us.
The literature on the history of gangs also indicates that in the early 1760s, Tiandihui (literally, Heaven and Earth Society) was formed in China in the midst of the economic poverty and political instability then.
Many Han natives of China had banded themselves together to overthrow the Qing dynasty, which reigned in China from 1644 to 1911.
Later, the Tiandihui became known as the Three Dots Society, the Three Unities Society and the Hong League (or Hong Men).
The first secret society believed to have established itself in Singapore was the Ghee Hin Kongsi (formed here in 1820). The name means "the rise of righteousness" - an offshoot of Hong Men.
Many of the practices of early secret societies in Singapore were legitimate ways of helping Chinese immigrants to settle down here, such as searching for accommodation and employment.
But these groups devolved into crime syndicates, controlling brothels, gambling dens and the opium trade since the 1850s.
Banned during the 1890s by the British Government here, they survived, nonetheless, although most of them had become mere street gangs by the mid-20th century.
Today, most of the gangs in Singapore are believed to have originated from Hong Men, and they can be classified into "secret societies" and "triads".
Secret societies have no clear organisational structure and their members are recruited rampantly - often without much screening.
Triads, on the other hand, have a strict hierarchy and members must go through elaborate initiation ceremonies, often involving prayers.
In some rituals, the new members have to cut their fingers with a knife, drip their blood into rice wine and drink it as a sign of brotherhood.
It is believed that the only triads in Singapore today are the gangs that are of the lineage of "21".
Most of the other offshoots are secret societies.
The New Paper on Sunday spoke to four former police officers and eight former gang members to profile these gangs.
Their gang members operate mainly out of locations listed on the map (see right), but they are also known to move around due to recruitment or to facilitate vice activities.
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If you are a fan of comics, then you are probably at least aware of The Darkness game. Adapted from a comic of the same name, the first title remained a bit under the radar, but the look and gameplay made it something of a cult hit—enough so that a sequel was put into development shortly after the release of the first.
But even if you aren't a fan of comics, The Darkness II is worth a look. In late April we were given a hands-on preview of the game, where the quad-wielding mechanic was highlighted. Using both hands to hold weapons, and using the darkness tentacles with two other buttons, you have four buttons all linked to weapons. That alone might be enough to win peoples' interest, but paired with the animation style, the game should draw plenty of attention.
But with E3 looming, 2K Games wants to make sure The Darkness II stands out before the wave of game trailers and info from the convention crashes. So check out the trailer below which features both cinematics and gameplay, then look for The Darkness II to hit stores on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 4.
[Warning: The following trailer may not be suitable for all ages]


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The biggest day within the U.S. twelvemonth – Gregorian calendar month – falls on Mon 4 July 2016 – and countless Brits are going to be celebrating the massive event – despite being over 3000 miles removed from our friends across the pool.
Independence Day celebrates the day the U.S. secured independence from the British Empire when the Revolutionary War. It falls on the the fourth of Gregorian calendar month per annum – and is historically marked with delicious pies, parades, burgers, hot dogs and additional yankee delicacies.
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The House that Mörk Built
I have a thing for open fire places. I find them comforting. It's not just the flickering amber flames or the raw heat emanating from glowing embers. It's the scent. The smell of burning wood swirling from a fire place immediately takes me back to chilly winter afternoons at home with my siblings. We would… Read More The House that Mörk Built


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When you're carrying a debt nightmare around with you, debt management companies seem like the answer to all your problems. They offer to take the burden off your shoulders and carry it for you: they promise they have the skills and expertise to keep your creditors happy, while cutting your monthly payments dramatically. It's all we can do in our exhausted state to avoid weeping with joy as we hand our burden on.
But we shouldn't be too hasty, because there's every chance that all they will do is make the burden that little bit heavier, and then hand it back. Debt management companies are not free, and they will not be able to reduce your debts for you. In essence they simply do something that you can get elsewhere for nothing – and then add their fees to your debt burden.
- What do they do?
- When should you use one?
- The pitfalls
- Picking a company
- What else do I need to know?
- What can I do instead?
What do debt management companies actually do?
Debt management companies bring together all your debts, so instead of paying lots of different companies, you make one monthly payment. This psychologically feels less stressful because you don't have lots of different debts – just one big one.
Typically, they then approach everyone you owe money to, and try to negotiate better terms for your repayments. They will ask creditors to freeze the interest and give you more time to pay the money back.
Up to this point, the service is essentially the same as a debt management plan from a free debt advisory service or a charity.
The way in which they differ, is that in addition to this, debt management companies will add significant fees onto your total debts, so that part of your monthly payment goes into paying the company every month.
When should you use a debt management company?
Using a debt management company is better than failing to deal with the problem entirely. If you miss your payments, you'll face penalties, and if your bank account runs dry, you'll be hit with charges and fees.You'll have the double-whammy of interest and penalties inflating the total amount you owe every month.
It also brings your debts together into one monthly payment, which makes it easier to keep on top of.
However, it's far from the only solution, and it's definitely not the best one.
It's perfectly possible to negotiate with people you owe money to on your own. If that feels overwhelming, a debt charity can help put together a debt management plan and negotiate on your behalf. It's also worth talking to friends and family – who may be able to offer moral and practical support.
The pitfalls to consider
Debt management company services come with a hefty price tag. Money education charity Credit Action told us these companies typically charge a fee of 17.5% of your monthly repayments – with a minimum of £30 per month. There are often administration costs or set-up fees too.
A debt management company's fees will take up a huge proportion of your overall debt repayments, and can add a year to the time it takes to pay off the debt.
if you're going to pick a debt management company
You need to understand what you are getting into. Your first question should be exactly how much they charge each month.
Next, you need to be clear whether the company is negotiating with creditors and bringing payments together – or just selling you a consolidation loan or mortgage on behalf of other obscure lenders. The latter should be avoided at all costs, as you will be paying two sets of charges and fees for a loan from a company you are not familiar with.
Never hand over bank or other details which could give the company or any third party access to your money, and only go with a company with a good reputation, which is registered with the FSA (Financial Services Authority). They should also have signed up to the guidelines of the Debt Managers Standards Association.
What else do I need to know?
Although things have improved with the introduction of the Debt Managers Standards Association and the OFT, there are still some bad eggs in the industry. "Debt management companies have cleaned-up their act a bit but there are still a few rogue companies offering bad advice," says Frances Walker from Credit Action.
If you are going to use a debt management company, never pay an up-front fee and always check that the company conforms to the Office of Fair Trading guidelines. You can check out the companies and websites on the OFT consumer credit register.
When you use a debt management company, you also need to know that there is no guarantee that your creditors will accept the debt management proposal; they may refuse to reduce payments or freeze the extra interest. You could be paying to use a service that was never going to work. Creditors are also still free to take legal proceeding against you at any time.
It's also important to understand that your credit rating will go down, because it will show details of a debt management plan. This may reduce your chances of being approved for credit in the future.
Find out what's on your credit record with Checkmyfile, Equifax and Experian and see how you can clean up your credit record in our guide here.
What can I do instead?
Get free debt help
A much better alternative is to use charities that offer free advice and help you to organise a debt management plan:
- Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) provide free, confidential and independent advice from thousands of locations in the UK
- StepChange is a debt charity offering an online debt remedy service and free debt advice in person or on the phone.
- Creditaction.org.uk is a national money education charity
- Christians Against Poverty is a national, free debt advice service that runs through local churches.
- Nationaldebtline.co.uk is a website offering a guide to dealing with debt – and has some useful sample letters for writing to creditors.
- Payplan.com is a free debt management company funded by the credit industry, which makes repayment arrangements
- Adviceuk.org.uk is the largest support network for free, independent advice centres in the UK
Money Magpie also has lots of free information which will help you organise your finances and start making a dent in those debts. Learn how to detox your finances and read our guide to beating your credit card balance.


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HC designates nine judges for 2002 riot trial
The Gujarat High Court has designated nine judges for as many special court to carry out the trial in the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases being probed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, High Court officials said in Ahmedabad today.india Updated: May 08, 2009 16:32 IST
The Gujarat High Court has designated nine judges for as many special court to carry out the trial in the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases being probed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), High Court officials said in Ahmedabad on Friday.
The High Court, in an order issued in this regard as per the SC judgement delivered early this month, has designated nine special courts, one for each case, which will become operational soon, they said.
Out of the nine special courts four will be in Ahmedabad, two each in Mehsana and Anand, and one in Himmatnagar of Sabarkantha district.
According to the Court's order, additional sessions judge P R Patel has been designated to conduct the trial in the Godhra train carnage case which will be held in the premises of the Sabarmati Central Jail here.
Judge S H Vora and additional sessions Judge Jyotsna Yagnik will be presiding over the trial of Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya cases respectively.
For the Gulburg society case, where Congress ex-MP Ehsan Jaffery was killed during the riots, Judge B U Joshi has been designated as judge for the special court.
For the two cases in Mehsana district -- Dipda Darwaja and Sardarpura -- the Court has designated Judge B N Kariya and Judge S C Srivastava respectively.
Judges S Y Trivedi and R M Sarine have been designated to conduct trial in two riot cases in Khambodaj and Ode of Anand district respectively.
While for the riot case in Prantij taluka of Sabarkantha district where some British nationals were killed, Judge H P Patel has been designated as judge of the special court which will be based in district headquarters Himmatnagar.
The Supreme Court on May 1 lifted the stay on trial of nine cases, including Godhra train carnage and post-Godhra riot cases, and ordered day-to-day hearing by fast track courts in Gujarat.
The apex court also took into consideration the report filed by Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan which probed the cases.
While vacating its stay order of November 21, 2003, the court had directed that witnesses be provided security for their safe passage and if necessary at their place of living during the trial.
The Court said that the SIT will act as a nodal agency to decide as to which witnesses in the case should be given protection and relocated.
It also armed SIT with sweeping powers and said that it would be open to the SIT chairman to seek change of public prosecutors if any deficiency was found during trial.
The apex court also gave liberty to the SIT to recommend cancellation of bail if it is considered necessary.
First Published: May 08, 2009 14:30 IST


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text: King (Dermot Mulroney) is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J (Balthazar Getty) and junkie Greg (Sean Astin). When Heather (Lara Flynn Boyle), a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of the gang. However, it seems as though nothing will alter their dangerous lifestyle.


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Inspired by the positive regional potential of Expo 2020 and despite low oil revenues, increased numbers of travel professionals from across the Middle East, participated in this year's World Travel Market London 2016.
This helped the leading international travel trade to record a joint-record attendance of 51,500 and the highest number of exhibitor invitees and buyers in the 37-year history of the event.
There were a number of new exhibitors from the Middle East this year, including Saudia, the national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia and travel organization - Alraqi from the Sultanate of Oman. Other key exhibitors included the tourism boards and associated partners from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Fujairah, Dubai Parks & Resorts, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kingdom of Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran Doostan, Kuwait Airways and Oman Air.
Overall, the number of Middle East exhibitors showed a steady growth of 2.26% compared to 2015 as regional governments look to diversify their economies away from falling hydrocarbon receipts. Those from the UAE occupied the lion's share of floor space devoted to the region, which was to be expected with Expo 2020 Dubai on the horizon, but the indirect boost to regional travel and destinations, was not being underestimated, by other regional tourism boards.
Total visitor numbers (excluding press, ministers, ministers' aides and students) stood at 31,951 – a 5% increase on WTM London 2015.
More than 865,500 on-stand connections took place over the three days of WTM London 2016 (Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 November) leading to more than £2.5 billion in industry deals being negotiated and signed.
Furthermore, more than 3,000 (3,034) of the world's media were in attendance – the highest number for more than ten years – making the WTM International Press Centre the largest recurring press operation in the UK. The WTM International Press Centre was moved to the exhibitor floor for the first time to put the media at the heart of the event.
The travel trade industry is now preparing for Arabian Travel Market 2017, the Middle East installment of the World Travel Market portfolio, which is taking place from 24 to 27 April at Dubai World Trade Centre. Considered by many industry professionals as a barometer for the Middle East and North Africa tourism sector, Arabian Travel Market witnessed a year-on-year visitor attendance increase of 8% to over 39,800 in 2016, with 2,520 exhibiting companies signing business deals worth more than US$2.5 billion over four days.
Arabian Travel Market 2017 will build on the success of this year's edition with the announcement of an additional hall as Reed Travel Exhibitions looks to add to its record-breaking achievements earlier this year.


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I made many gifts this year for my family, our families enjoy handmade gifts and I enjoy making them. Rowan is young enough that I'm able to make many of her gifts...it's much harder to make homemade gifts for our boys who are now 9 and 12.
'Newfie mitts' for my mom
Quilted bags for my sisters
Pixie hat for my youngest niece
felt playfood also for my youngest niece
preparing squash for Christmas dinner
working on Lego
sporting as many gifts as possible
I enjoy the Christmas season, but I'm ready to start anew. Time to move past the excess of December and onto the new year. I'm looking forward to getting back to our normal rhythm. My son is going off to Florida with his Dad for a week, while he's gone I'll sleep in his room while we (specifically Bill) does the drywall in our master bedroom. I despise drywall work, but I just can't wait to have proper curtains hung on the bedroom windows and making the room at least a bit more pretty.
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On silence as property, commodity and instrument of oppression.
I am sitting in a room. Much like Alvin Lucier's text, different from the one you are right now. I am sitting in an auditorium, watching a mixture of performance and lecture, in a half-full venue somewhere in Berlin. I like to take my sketchbook with me because very often I have ideas — and very often completely disconnected from what I am experiencing at the moment. I write some rough notes down with a pencil. The room is filled with artificial fog, and a faint sound comes from the speakers. A couple of Germans are sitting in front of me; the woman turns to me and says, very impolitely, that I should stop writing on my notebook because the sound of my pencil writing on the paper is disturbing her. The lecture/performance is about sound.
Cut to a train ride in Germany — very German indeed. A brazilian friend of mine sits in a room — this time a so-called "silent room", much admired and cherished by the travelers (usually they are the first to run out of free seats). She is editing some pictures from a recent trip, and the passenger in front of her, very impolitely, tells her to stop doing that because the click of her mouse is annoying.
As a South American living in Germany for quite some time, I have often heard how "latinos" are loud. Usually this is meant as a kind of weird compliment of sorts — we are loud because we are passionate. Sounds like an old-fashioned cliché? Not quite, because that is exactly what my landlord told me when we moved into this apartment, when talking about the arguments my neighbours downstairs — two Argentinians — would often have. Many stories from expats living in Germany or other northern countries go somehow like those I have just wrote, and they are so ridiculous they actually become funny. But only among us, mind you.
As a South American researcher within Sound Studies I often find myself sitting through lectures, symposia, presentations, performances and conferences about silence. After all, there can't be sound without silence, as a myriad of composers including John Cage would say. In all of those instances where ideas of silence as opposed to noise are discussed, I end up hearing variations of the same accounts, that is, how silence is to be valued, how silence is the goal, how cities could be more silent, how people could be more silent, how home appliances, rooms, trains, cars, you name it — could just be quiet. People assume that there is a "right to quietness" but more often than not forget to ask whose quiet is meant in this right. Last time I sat through a lecture on silence, many of the presenters were claiming that silence is just more civilized, and that researchers in sound should educate people that silence is a must.
Yes. I had to swallow deep when I heard that.
As you move through these instances observing how closed these communities may eventually become, you start to notice those patterns. Most of the scholarship assessing sound and silence comes from countries and societies for whom silence means politeness. They may overlook that quietness is but an appropriation of an alleged "oriental" concept, mystified and deemed as the ultimate solution to education, etiquette and peace. Coming from a culture where talking is cherished, music is ubiquitous and people engage in conversations with strangers just because "yes, why not?" I cannot help but feel that there is a very paternalizing and colonizing factor in that assessment. If you understand the power of sound as territory, it is but natural that a search for imposing silence on the other draws interesting perspectives. Sound, far more than written language, defines group identity. Communities define themselves through oral rather than written cultures. However, the distinction between what is noise and what is silence in society is a political, social and gendered practice. As Bruce Johnson (2009, p.42) writes in Dark Side of the Tune — Popular Music and Violence,
[…] In western Europe, the authority of the oral was challenged by the advent of print and the spread of literacy from the late fifteenth century. The new technology achieved two things. First, it enabled the widespread dissemination of information in standardized form far beyond the radius of the human voice. […] The other outcome was to create a new marker of class: those who could read and those who could not. As London Commerce, with its peripatetic pedlars and their street cries demonstrated, everyone could shout, but not everyone could write.
He continues later on:
Feminization was only one way in which the untrustworthiness of sound became inscribed in the language that produced the axioms 'Don't believe everything you hear' and 'Seeing is believing' […] It is a language in which […] we announce an idea with the words 'apparently' or 'it appears that', and we ask our interlocutor 'do you see what I mean?' and where a doctor about to probe and listen to the body begins by saying 'let's take a look at you'. Conversely, a word such as 'hearsay' describes a form of hitherto respectable information which suddenly becomes suspect in the seventeenth century with the decline of oral custom and the consolidation of the written contract. The repertoire of words describing orally/aurally transmitted knowledge are now markers of (often feminized) unreliability: gossip, tittle-tattle, sounding off, chatter, whingeing, rumour, lip service, scolding, nagging, blab, babble, prattle — a network of the untrustworthy other: Chinese Whispers. (ibid., p.46)
Now think about all those silent rooms in trains, noise-cancelling headphones and loud music blasting in one's ears as to isolate oneself from the world around — all it does is to sell silence as a commodity. Silence is not the same concept or idea all around the world — and it is not by creating "hi-fi soundscapes", as Murray Schafer would very conservatively argue [1], that the world will be a better place. A Napalm Death album is not noisy for me, but it definitely is for my grandma, pretty much in the same way she thinks of a blender. Fair enough. Coming from a noisy city in a "noisy" country, I have a very different notion of what silence means than the Finnish teenager who lives in downtown Helsinki. A citizen of Delhi, Istanbul or Mexico City may have total different notions of what is noise and what is not. The amount of "stress" or other physiological illnesses it allegedly causes is as relative as Decibels are.
The problem for me is that researchers are talking about silence in a very patronizing, eurocentric and northern-centred way — and because of that, creating a very dangerous dichotomy between "silent" and "noisy" societies. This assumes, as Steve Goodman would say in Sonic Warfare, a very reactionary character [2] in which the blame is to be put upon those "uncivilized", "illiterate", "acculturated" citizens of the world. You don't need much of a mental exercise to imagine that this naturally extends to immigrants, women, people of color and whatnot. Take, for instance, this very unsettling quote found on Michael Bull's study on iPod use, Sound Moves:
In America people are often loud and rude. In Phoenix we have a lot of Mexican immigrants. They don't learn English and they have no control over their children […] It was becoming increasingly difficult for me to shop without encountering a bombardment of Spanish or screaming kids. The iPod lets me filter them all out." (user "Tracy" cited in Bull 2007, p.36)
This quote is the perfect example of the otherness attributed to notions of loudness. She assumes that people are loud and rude, not her — even though she is a US American citizen. Then she proceeds to separate herself — through language and through a bit of xenophobia. It is for these sort of attitudes that noise-cancelling headphones are designed. Once confined to pilots and industry workers, active noise-cancelling technologies are now flooding the market. Patents are being filed on techniques for the perfect noise cancellation in consumer products. Silence can be purchased, and it costs as much as you need to separate yourself from the "uneducated" other, who probably cannot afford it.
Exerting auditory control over oneself, be it by actively crafting one's own soundscape or passively by silencing the other, is a strong form of aggression and oppression. Mieszkowski et al. write, on the introduction to their bookSonic Interventions, about a Muslim community in the Netherlands who requested the use of loudspeakers for its prayer calls. Even though Muslims are called to prayer several times a day, the community was asking permission to occupy the soundscape of the city only once a week, only for the Friday afternoon session. They tell of a right-wing party's response, which was to pose questions such as whether or not the call to prayers would "create a climate that is alienating to a lot of Dutch people [and] increase the tension between the different cultural and religious communities […]" (2007, p.22). By immediately ignoring the omnipresence of church bells all around the western world, it instantly creates a sense ofotherness to the sonic presence of a muslim community, which defies their already imposed silence.
For these societies built on practices of colonization of the other, and yet very fearful of them, silence is not only a commodity but a private property, and as such protected by the capital. In one of those lectures I've been to, during a presentation of an app for "spotting silent places in a city", a German asked the presenter/developer if the act of sharing these locations with the world would not immediately erase its silent qualities, for "a lot of noisy people would come looking for silence too". I would normally dismiss this commentary as a one-shot, but due to the amount of stories I know of, it really speaks volumes (no pun intended).
All in all, my point here is that we should celebrate sound, because your silence might be my noise and vice-versa. I want to believe that we have moved beyond 4'33" — even acknowledging that Cage's piece is in fact about non-silence. There cannot be a conversation about noise and silence if the attitude and perspective is still centered on a very conservative, idealized notion of silence as the ultimate resort of the modern, middle-class man.
In free-form, improvised music, silence is the best quality a musician can explore — not because it is valuable but exactly because it means to stop and listen to the other. This would have been a notion of silence I would be glad to discuss. "Silent" must always mean a respect for what the other has to say. I refrain from my thoughts or my occupation of the soundscape so as to make room for yours, so we can both enjoy a collective construction of the acoustic environment around us. More often than not, however, it means respecting my space and silence as private property, while cancelling the "noisy other". In that regard, what these conservative notions of silence want for themselves is very far from "education" or "civilization" and more towards exclusion and oppression.
So sorry my dear Blixa, but silence isn't sexy. Silence is an utopia, and in my opinion it must remain so, for silence always means silencing the other.
The politics of silence often assumes a conservative guise and promotes itself as quasi-spiritual and nostalgic for a return to a natural. As such, it is often orientalized and romanticizes tranquility unviolated by the machinations of technology, which have militarized the sonic and polluted the rural soundscape with noise, polluted art with sonification, polluted the city with industry, polluted thought with distraction, polluted attention with marketing, deafens teenagers, and so on. Its disposition is almost always reactionary. (2010, pp.191-2)


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So what is my strategy? I have no clue right now. I know that I need to make some changes, so I am going to cut out all artificial food. My family has agreed (sort of) to do the same. Their change may be a more gradual, but I am starting NOW. I am starting with all organic produce (bananas will be conventional), no GMOs, so no corn or wheat products (YIKES!). When we get through this set of groceries, I will only bring good stuff into my home.
Hungry for Change is a very motivational food film that we watched last night. But, how can a normal, American family carry out eating all whole foods, juicing pounds upon pounds of produce, and all grass-fed/free range meet while sticking to a VERY modest budget? I don't know, yet, but I am going to find out.
So here's my objective. If it isn't necessary, I won't eat or do it. Is Candy Crush necessary? Nope, but I justified it as a de-stressing activity. How can I better use my time? I will apply this to food too. Are chips and salsa necessary? NOPE! But, I can grill an avocado, fill it with taco filling of my choice and enjoy with salsa. It will take some creativity, planning, and a will to change.
Eventually, I want to nix the microwave, never use plastic, and use natural hygiene products, but for now, I'm sticking to time management and food.
What makes me happy? The thought of a healthful lifestyle, exercise, proper whole food diet, and low stress. I love to cook, write, and spend time with my family. This is the perfect vehicle to do all three. We will get healthy together, I will write, and we will document our hit and miss recipes from this year-long experiment. Stay tuned and I'll post dinner videos and recipes.
My objective for the end of the year is to be the healthiest we've ever been, fit, lower our stress and drama, and be artificial ingredient free. I also want to be a full time writer/film-maker. There I've said it. Those are my goals, fit and writing and filmmaking. So here's day one: 158 pounds, day one of writing, and needing help to stay on the goal wagon. I'd love to hear from you and see what you do to eat healthy, and work towards goals.
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4.) Having a happier household
I've never been happier, however, I think our happiness and stress levels can use a positive boost. What can I do to help change that? How can I help the attitudes of a preteen, almost two-year old and a four year old? I can't make them less attitude-y, but what can I do to promote a happier home? Let's find out! I really believe that a whole food diet is step one to better attitudes. Proper sleep and a predictable schedule will help, too.
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I'm sure many of you reading this Cortex are aware I also write a regular column for Forbes on digital transformation. What you don't know, however, is how the Forbes sausage comes to be made. But as it happens, a recent article caused quite a stir behind the scenes - a story in itself.
Normally such a kerfuffle wouldn't be worthy of note, but in this case, there's an important lesson about digital transformation to be learned here. So let's peel back that natural pork casing and take a peek into the motley assortment of ingredients that go into such an article.
The Story Is the Story
On a recent briefing call with a vendor, they mentioned that they could set me up with an interview with the AVP of creative and digital strategy at one of their clients, a large, well-known technology and financial services firm. (I won't mention the names of any of the players, as I'm sure I'm stirring the pot of sausage stew quite enough as it is - but of course, you can always follow the link above to the article in question.)
Typically, such interviews lead to glowing praise for the vendor in question - but that's not what I was looking for. Rather, I wanted to hear their customer's digital transformation story. I told the vendor that I would only mention them if their name came up in the conversation.
I also expected a well thought-out success story, as why would they agree to be interviewed for Forbes otherwise? But strangely enough, that's not what I got. Instead, this company had begun the initiative they considered to be their digital journey, but still had quite a ways to go. The story the AVP told was about their digital challenges, not their digital successes.
I agonized all weekend over how to approach the article. After all, writing an article about challenges can generate consternation among the hapless participants. No amount of consternation, however, deters this intrepid member of the Fourth Estate. Onward I plunged.
To add some context to the AVP's comments, I decided to include some quotes from their CEO and CMO that I had found online. These particular comments referred to the importance of agility and innovation at their company - clearly relevant to their digital struggles, or so I thought.
Then I ran the draft of the article by their PR folks, who circulated it for feedback. I incorporated the feedback - including a request to provide event more context for the CEO and CMO quotes - and published the article. My work was done, right?
Not so fast. In all of two minutes flat, all hell broke loose. It turns out the aforementioned circulation didn't include the CEO and CMO, who were livid that they had been quoted in the article - or at least, that was what the PR rep said. Perhaps they simply didn't like the article. So they asked rep to ask me to make further changes.
Don't Confuse Digital with Digital
Here's where the story gets strange. "The major issue is with the context of the article," the PR rep said. She claimed that it was very important that the article distinguish between their website and their real-time platform, going so far as to request that I add a disclaimer to that effect, because "it's a very important distinction."
The thrust of the article, you see, was about how they were in the process of cleaning up a number of public-facing web sites as part of a larger rebranding effort. In other words, their digital effort was focused entirely on marketing.
One important differentiator between what passed for digital back in the dot-com days and today's notion of digital is the role mobile plays. Yes, this company had a mobile site, and they had what the AVP claimed was a "mobile first" plan for their web content, but as yet they had yet to roll out any responsive design. In the final analysis, their digital effort up to this point boiled down to little more than better brochureware, a la 1990s web redesigns.
But more significantly, what was entirely missing from their digital achievements (although the AVP did indicate that it was a roadmap item) was pulling together their real-time platform or any of their other software-based products and combining them with the marketing effort that to date is the sum total of their digital effort.
As a result, when I quoted the CEO stating that their core business had to be innovative, they felt that the quote was "taken out of context for this piece and isn't in reference to the focus of this piece," according to the PR contact. In other words, they were suggesting that their digital efforts weren't core to their business, and thus didn't have to be innovative.
They also took issue with the CEO's final quote in my article. Discussing the lessons he's learned during his career, he explained to Fortune, "We always have to confront brutal reality. That could be a reality we like because it's what we thought, but it could easily be, and most times is, a different reality than we perceived, and we have to be agile about responding to that."
Even though he was responding to a question about general lessons learned, the PR rep still insisted that the quote applied only to their core platform, and not to their web site.
The irony inherent in that claim is why I decided to write this follow-up article. This company is facing the reality that their marketing-centric perspective on digital is merely scratching the surface of what digital transformation will eventually mean to them.
And yet, even though the CEO has learned through his career the importance of being agile when confronted with such realities, they nevertheless took the active step of avoiding confrontation with precisely that reality.
Needless to say, I didn't change the article.
The Intellyx Take: The Critical Digital Take Away
The fundamental take away from this article is that digital is more than skin deep. Yes, branding is important, and having a brochureware web site can be a useful part of the marketing mix. But if you have a digital offering - that is, if the products you put in front of customers are technology-enabled - then your digital effort comprises both your marketing and your products themselves, whether you like it or not. Why? Because your customers are demanding a coherent digital experience from the companies they work with.
The company I'm talking about in this article is in reality an entirely digital enterprise - and they have been since their inception. Every product they put in front of customers is a digital product. And yet, when they decide to clean up their web sites and undergo a rebranding initiative, they define those activities alone as constituting their digital initiative.
Don't make the same mistake. More and more organizations today are digital companies like this one - banks, media companies, insurance companies, publishers, the list goes on and on. Your marketing department may be driving the initiative you call digital today, but don't confuse the frosting with the cake.
In reality, never forget that your customers are actually driving your digital story. If they want a coherent digital presence from you, wowing them with better branding and a cleaned up web site won't cut it.
Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: She Paused 4 Thought.
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I haven't been up to much in the last several weeks. My usual day consists of getting up, going to work, getting overly expensive lunch from the cafes on campus, working more (until late usually), coming back home, eating dinner, and falling asleep to TV. It doesn't sound like a bad life, but I always complain about it because long work days are very physically exhausting.
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Hebrew: a smiting; The root word for tabret is tabor which is a one-sided drum. The root word for timbrel is toph.
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A carefully coordinated global ATM heist last November resulted in a one-day haul of $9 million in cash, after a hacker penetrated a server at payment processor RBS WorldPay, New York's Fox 5 reports.RBS WorldPay announced on December 23 that they'd been hacked, and personal information on approximately 1.5 million payroll-card and gift-card customers had been stolen. (Payroll cards are debit cards issued and recharged by employers as an alternative to paychecks and direct-deposit.) Now we know that account numbers and other mag-stripe data needed to clone the debit cards were also compromised in the breach.
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A human error at Google caused its main search engine to briefly identify every site on the web as a potentially malicious destination that represented a threat to end users, the company said.Starting early Saturday morning California time, the world's largest search engine flagged each search result with the warning: "This site may harm your computer"Attempts to visit a search link were met with Google's standard malware warning, which blocks users from actually reaching the intended destination:
Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.The $250 proof-of-concept device - which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time - operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.
Sony has unveiled the next step in biometric security: a camera-based system that analyses veins in your fingers.The user first lays one side of their index finger down on a small pad, after which a series of LEDs shine infrared light onto it. A CMOS sensor sat on the other side of the finger then picks up light scattered off of the veins inside the user's finger.An algorithm uses this information to build up a picture of the user's vein layout. Sony claims that, much like a fingerprint, a person's vein arrangement is unique and that it doesn't ever change.
The website for one of the net's more popular bulletin board software packages has been taken offline following a security breach that gave an attacker full access to a database containing names, email, address, and hashed passwords for its entire user base.In a message posted Sunday, administrators of phpBB.com said the attacker gained access through an unpatched security bug in PHPlist, a third-party email application. The miscreant had access for more than two weeks before the breach was discovered, and phpBB remained down at time of writing, more than three days later. Administrators didn't respond to emails seeking comment.
The British Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has spent £4.7bn ($6.6bn) on its new biometric ID card system. But it has not established a timeline for a card-reader rollout.Without the necessary card readers, the biometric information such as fingerprint scans stored in the cards is inaccessible and therefore useless for ID verification.In a statement released on January 29, the IPS reiterated its schedule for releasing the cards, beginning with over 50,000 foreign nationals by this April, then airport workers in the fall of 2009, and leading up to full availability in 2011 and 2012 "to the wider population on an entirely voluntary basis."
The US ISP market is rapidly heading towards a future where unlimited monthly usage will be the exception rather than the rule. Comcast has already imposed usage caps, while a number of other ISPs are experimenting with limiting their subscribers' downloads. Although most of them are testing the limits in individual markets, it looks like Charter has decided to roll out caps for all its customers.DSL Reports was tipped off about the plans earlier this week; we received confirmation from a Charter spokesperson this afternoon. She told Ars that the the changes will be implemented through an update to Charter's acceptable use policy that will roll out on Monday, February 9.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has launched Forge.mil, a software project management site that will host the military's public open source software projects. Inspired by SourceForge, the new site was created to accelerate development by facilitating broader collaboration between government agencies.The DoD is a major proponent of the open development model and uses open source software extensively in the field. With the aim of fostering broader military adoption of open source software, the DoD defined an Open Technology Development roadmap in 2006 in collaboration with the Open Source Software Institute. In that report, the DoD discussed a wide range of issues that make open source software desirable for government adoption, including reduced risk of vendor lock-in, increased flexibility, greater interoperability, and reduced IT costs.
A San Francisco startup led by a former Tesla Motors engineer is developing an electric motorcycle capable of 150 mph, a claim that, if true, would make it the fastest production electric vehicle in the world.Mission Motors unveiled the bike, dubbed Mission One, at the TED conference and said it will begin selling them next year for $69,000 apiece. Although several electric motorcycles have been announced in recent weeks, Mission Motors sticks out because its 12 employees have worked for Tesla, Ducati North America and Intel, and the bike they're building could set a new benchmark for EVs of all kinds.
Google Ocean expands this map to include large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain.Users can dive beneath a dynamic water surface to explore the 3D sea floor terrain.The map also includes 20 content layers, containing information from the world's leading scientists, researchers, and ocean explorers.Al Gore was at the launch event in San Francisco which, Google hopes, will take its mapping software a step closer to total coverage of the entire globe.
The "opt-in" Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user's location automatically.Users can also manually set their advertised location anywhere they like, or turn the broadcast off altogether.The service has raised a number of security concerns, as many users may not be aware that it is enabled.Latitude is based on Google's My Location feature that has been in place since last year.
At a recent Hall of Fame news conference, a woman claiming to be Ex-Cowboys receiver Bob Hayes' half sister read an emotional thank you letter written by him in 1999. But something is amiss.Bob Hayes died in 2002 and this letter was supposedly a thank you pre-written in the the hope that he would someday enter into the Hall of Fame after three decades of disappointment. Naturally, a reading at the conference by his half-sister Lucille Hester sparked a lot of emotion among the Cowboy's organization, the fans and the NFL. However, it appears that the letter is actually a forgery, and Lucille may be a Texas-sized fraud.
10: Awesome motor bike! ...in look and price -Shades (February 08, 2009, 12:09 AM)
My pleasure, as always gents -Ehtyar (February 08, 2009, 12:17 AM)
My pleasure, as always gents -Ehtyar (February 08, 2009, 12:17 AM)Is this a boys own column then?-Carol Haynes (February 08, 2009, 07:16 AM)
I think the absurdity of #7 (non-readable biometric IDs) demonstrates that the government's real intent is not to provide a secure means for the populace to prove their identity to one another. It's really because the government wants a more-complete database of all its subjects. Period.-CWuestefeld (February 08, 2009, 11:40 AM)
Did you see any women reply prior to that comment?-Ehtyar (February 08, 2009, 01:12 PM)
Did you see any women reply prior to that comment?-Ehtyar (February 08, 2009, 01:12 PM)I don't know - it is difficult to tell with the use of nick names -Carol Haynes (February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM)
I don't mind being one of the boys ... if it'll make you happy :Thmbsup-Carol Haynes (February 09, 2009, 04:49 AM)
#12: "The service has raised a number of security concerns, as many users may not be aware that it is enabled."How could they not be aware that it's enabled if you have to opt-in to enable it in the first place?-Deozaan (February 09, 2009, 05:05 PM)
I thought the same. Opt-in is in quotes, so there's no telling what the truth actually is. The article is there simply because it was, believe it or not, the least sensationalist I could find.Ehtyar.-Ehtyar (February 10, 2009, 04:29 AM)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a bit concerned too about things like this, too, but as long as you have to opt-in first then that helps alleviate some of the concern.-Deozaan (February 10, 2009, 03:27 PM)
Not surprised at 4, but still, sigh...hoping that eventually, continued demonstrations of this sort might have an impact on future decisions...-ewemoa (February 11, 2009, 04:01 AM)
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