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Now you hear it now you don't. (or see it)
It's a small thing but I've spent a lot of time creating a really good selection of tunes on my iPod. Anyway, a week or so back, getting my first oil change I had the dealer update the media center (430) in hopes that I could use my Android Global 2 Verizon phone with the Uconnect. Also, I wanted to finally see the lights in the door storage bins. So, to make a short story shorter, they said the lights were there but too dim to see and we could never get the phone to connect. But now my iPod doesn't play. The menu shows the tracts but there is no sound. Do I blame the Tea Party? Did I have too many Steve Earle songs? Any advice?
Re: Now you hear it now you don't. (or see it)
You might try clearing the user partition on the hard drive. I was having trouble with some tunes on my 730 (user error), cleared the partition and reloaded. Works fine since. Not sure where to do that on your 430, the option was in my disc management section of the menu.
Re: Now you hear it now you don't. iPod problem
Tried to reset everything I could find but although the tracks show up there is no sound and no indication that they are playing. The iPod itself works fine and was working through the aux before the update. Don't want to bring it back to the dealer over this, life being too short and all.
Re: Now you hear it now you don't. (or see it)
Now I hear it! Reset iPod to original factory specs and it now works fine.
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Sony Walkman NWD-B105 2GB MP3 player
Simple 'n' sweet?
Posted in Personal Tech, 2nd October 2007 11:02 GMT
Review With increasing hard drive sizes, the arrival of touchscreen technology and ever more features and falling prices, it's easy to forget the more humble end of the personal digital music player market. However, Sony's NWD-B105 proves there are still some good value and strongly featured products at the lower price points.
At this end of the market, the look and feel of the product is perhaps even more important than on more expensive items. With fewer features to win over prospective buyers, the product needs to make a good first impression. The NWD-B105 comes in three basic but attractive colours: black, white and violet. At 30g, it's extremely light and has a pleasant, almost soft-to-the-touch coating on the outer shell.
Sony's NWD-B105: available in black...
Aesthetics aside, the product's most noteworthy trick is that there's no software bundled with the product. The normal SonicStage app is missing, presumed lost.
Instead, this player is all about simplicity. A basic-looking folder icon appears a few seconds after connection. With a sub-folder for storing any voice recordings made or transferred onto the player, files are just dragged over from the computer. The no-nonsense approach is continued with a built-on USB jack which plugs straight into the computer, so there are no cables to lose, tread on, lend out and never get back.
Getting the machine up and running is simple as well. From new, a full charge took just under an hour - although the figure quoted in the manual is 120 minutes. File transfer is fast, too. On a player with this kind of memory size - 2GB, to be precise - lots of transfers, often of singles or a couple of albums, are going to be taking place. Happily, one album buzzes over in well under a minute, and a more random selection of seven took just under ten.
...and white...
Sony quotes a storage capacity of 999 songs, but that's at 48Kbps. Choose 256Kbps and the number drops to an acceptable 250. A feature we particularly liked was the built-in software which can automatically pick the most recently added tracks to a PC, so the unit carries always the user's most recently downloaded files.
Once files are on the unit, the emphasis is again on simplicity. We reckon even someone with very little experience of using an MP3 player could find their way around the menu system. On the main menu there are only three symbols: Settings, Music and Voice, all indicated by very obvious icons. We also found that using the fast forward and rewind buttons on the collar of the unit and the Back button was an obvious and easy way to get around.
Other settings include Repeat and Shuffle options. A power saving facility offers three separate settings: normal, super save or off - essentially they're how quickly the device automatically powers down. Normal setting is fine, but we thought the super save was actually too quick, sometimes kicking in before you can make up your mind what you want to do.
...and, finally, violet
Playback times are listed as 12 hours for 128Kbps MP3 tracks and nine hours for 128Kbps WMA songs, which we found to be about right.
Music listings themselves come with the expected album, artist or all songs options, but the unit also recognises folders that have been created on a computer and transferred over.
Unusual for a product that's trying to keep things simple, there are several EQ options available. The Heavy setting throws a bit more bass into the mix, but the overall effect is a bit tinny. The Rock setting was better with the extra bass of the Heavy setting given a much warmer delivery. Classic sounds a little flat, but does smooth things out a little and adds detail. Pop pushes all the treble up and gives everything a sugary veneer. However, the unit sounds really good on Normal so we didn't really see the need for the extra options. In general, the sound is well organised, detailed and with less of the lifelessness that some other MP3 players deliver.
However, if you're really caught up with the idea of controlling the sound, there is a custom option where you can adjust the various different bass and treble levels to get the sound exactly how you want it.
Volume is often a problem with these players, but the unit does well here, with enough power to deal with a noisy street or to annoy the hell out of the person next to you on the train.
The voice record also has several different quality settings to choose from - High is 192Kbps, Mid is 128Kbps and Low 96Kbps. We didn't notice too much difference between the two higher settings. Playback is clear, with little distortion or hissing at the end of words or around 's' sounds, which some recorders often struggle with. The low setting had less definition and is only really suitable for recordings of a single voice in a quiet environment.
This is a friendly little player that delivers good sound in a simple-to-use package. Features like updating the most recently downloaded tracks add that little extra to the player to place it ahead of some of its rivals, and at under £45 it's just good old fashioned value for money.

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Twitter's purchase of Twitter iPhone client Tweetie last week, along with its launch of a BlackBerry app, have raised concerns among developers who believe the company could soon crowd out their own creations. CEO Evan Williams' response at Twitter's Chirp conference: "I know this is a controversial decision because there were Twitter apps on these platforms – but when we did the research we found we were really underserving our users."
Williams proceeded to show a clip of a newcomer to Twitter trying to find a Twitter app on the iPhone. "What am I looking for?" she asks, as she goes through several possible Twitter iPhone clients – both free and paid.
"That's not how we're going to serve users," Williams said. "We have to make it super easy to get users on board with Twitter and get them engaged." Williams said that the Blackberry app was responsible for 7% to 8% of Twitter's new sign-ups during the first three days it was available. The more users Twitter has, Williams said, the "more opportunities" there will be for third-party developers.
Will developers buy the pitch? During a short question and answer period following his remarks, Williams was asked whether the company could make acqusitions "without alienating its developer base". Williams' response was meandering, saying he "hopes so" and noting that there will always be some "tension" between a platform provider and the developers who build on that platform.
Williams made one announcement during his keynote, saying that users would now be able to indicate "points of interest" where they are Tweeting from (like a specific museum). He said however that Twitter was not trying to challenge check-in startups like Gowalla and FourSquare, saying instead that he wanted to make those services "work better with Twitter".
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Guardian writer Steven Wells supplies a scary, if humorous snapshot of that uniquely American sports institution known soccer-bashing. Many of us, blinded by the growing support and awareness of soccer in the U.S., will be unaware that there's a whole online world devoted to hating the world's most popular sport. One of the most popular sites is soccersucks.net, run by 39-year-old commodities trader Jefferson Glapski. As far as he's concerned, soccer players grow up to be "knock-kneed milksops" and "flopping on the ground, writhing in pain homos." His site regularly attracts more than two million visitors.
As SI writer Alexander Wolff once said, "There isn't a US daily without a 'soccer stinks' beat guy". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Rob Janeda, for example, fears that
soccer is a vast left-wing conspiracy. He writes, "If you can replace an American game with one that is not, you have come one step closer to the fragmentation of our society." His fears are echoed by
Stephen Moore, a right-wing intellectual think-tanker: "I am convinced," he says, "that the ordeal of soccer teaches our kids all the wrong lessons in life. Soccer is the Marxist concept of the labour
theory of value applied to sports - which may explain why socialist nations dominate the World Cup."
A little absurd, no? So how do you make sense out of this? "Their mania is in direct
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Eleven Years Ago Today
It was eleven years ago today.
Our lives changed on that day. Mighty towers fell. Lives were lost. It was the day Islamic extremists declared war on our nation.
And here we are – eleven years later.
I live just a few miles from where the towers once stood. Every morning I take the subway into work, across the Manhattan bridge – the Statue of Liberty to my left, the new World Trade Center to my right.
I've watched over the years as a gleaming tower rose from the place we once called Ground Zero. Today it is home to giant waterfalls and trees – life where death once was.
It was in the shadow of this new symbol that Americans celebrated, rejoiced – when word came that Osama bin Laden had been killed. I was there – recording the sounds of that day.
Yet, here we are – eleven years later.
We remember those who are gone.
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MTV Challenges Fans To Identify Fake Facebook Profiles
Pop culture entertainment station is draws attention to its docu-series 'Catfish' by getting people to uncover online phonies.
MTV has cooked up a new way to highlight its 'Catfish' TV show–and draw in a greater viewer base. It has created a 'Catfishing' game featuring Steve Angello, which will allow the lucky winner to rendez-vous with the producer in Miami.
The game operates on a similar idea as the TV show, in which Nev Schulman and Max Joseph find out whether couples who are dating online are actually who they say they are, or whether they are masquerading behind false information (being a 'catfish'). In MTV's promotional iteration, users are challenged to check out the Swedish House Mafia man's Facebook profile and discover what he's lying about in his fake profile.
What's particularly innovative about this game is that it will make use of Facebook's graph search function, and would be one of the first to do so. This way of looking people up is much clearer than the previous format, as it allows viewers to see crucial pieces of information at a glance, giving 'creative' profilers all the more to lie about.
The involvement of DJ and SIZE-label owner Steve Angello is also a draw. The Greek-Swedish music man has performed on stages like Madison Square Garden, and at festivals as large as Coachella, and despite the break-up of Swedish House Mafia, has plenty of projects, like this one, to keep him busy.
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Two weeks from today, I'll be speaking on Long Island about secular morality, courtesy of the Long Island Atheists Meetup Group. If you're in the area, come out and see me!WHAT: Secular Morality in the Modern Age WHEN: Saturday, August 15, 2015, 4:00 PM WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, 223 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, NYNo admission charge. Donations welcomed. … [Read more...]
Speaking at Long Island Atheists
#SSAcon 2015 Recap
I'm on my way home from Columbus, Ohio, where this weekend I was at the 2015 convention of the Secular Student Alliance. I haven't been a student for a good while, but you don't have to be one to attend! Columbus is a hip midwestern city with great art, music, food and drinks, and the weekend was full of friends old and new from the blogosphere and from past speaking trips in Ripon, Wisconsin and Mobile, Alabama (who drove more than sixteen hours to be there!).There were nuts-and-bolts talks … [Read more...]
Debate in Indianapolis This Week!
Reminder: This coming week, I'll be in Indianapolis for two live events as part of my ongoing conversation with Christian author Andrew Murtagh. The audience at both is likely to be mostly Catholic, so if you're in the area, come out and help balance the scales!First:WHAT: Indianapolis Theology on Tap WHEN: Wednesday, July 1, 7 PM WHERE: Tow Yard Brewing Company, 501 S. Madison Street, Indianapolis, INAnd second:WHAT: Faith vs. Doubt Night (requires ticket, but they're … [Read more...]
Upcoming Travel Plans for Summer 2015
I'm traveling all over the place in the next few months. If you'd like to come out and see me, here's what's on the agenda:• First of all, the week of May 18-22, I'm going on a road trip swing through New England. This is a purely personal vacation, with no conferences or speaking events planned, but I'd be happy to meet up with any Daylight Atheism readers in the area. I'm planning to have some down time in Newport, Rhode Island on May 19, Portsmouth, New Hampshire on May 21 and … [Read more...]
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This past weekend, I spoke at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, courtesy of the local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, SSA at USA. This was a milestone for me: the first time I've ever been invited to speak about atheism in the Deep South!Making a public case for atheism in Alabama may seem like going into the lions' den, but as you can see for yourself, I'm alive and well. (The SSA at USA has hosted other speakers before me, and the group's president, Amye, told me that all of … [Read more...]
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Reminder: NY Debate This Weekend!
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The Eriskay Pony is a breed of pony from Scotland. It is generally grey in color, and has a dense, waterproof coat that protects it in harsh weather. The breed developed in ancient times in the Hebrides islands in Scotland, and a small population remained pure and protected from crossbreeding by the remoteness of the islands. It is used for light draught (draft) work, as a mount for children, in many equestrian disciplines, and for driving. The breed is rare today, with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust considering their status critical. There are two breed registries for the Eriskay, the first formed in 1972 and the second in 1995.
The Eriskay Pony generally stands between 12 and 13.2 hands (48 to 54 inches, 122 to 137 cm). It is usually grey in color, although a few are bay or black. Dark colored animals generally have the pangaré characteristics of a light-colored muzzle and ring around they eye. However, according to breed standards, they should not have an eel stripe.[1] Chestnut, piebald, skewbald and excess white markings are discouraged by breed registries. The winter coat is dense and waterproof to protect from the harsh climate, with a thick mane and tail.[2] The head is large, with a wide forehead. The neck and shoulders are well muscled, and the chest deep but generally not broad. The rib-cage is long and the loins short, which increases the strength of the back. The croup is slightly sloping.[1] It is quite similar to the Exmoor pony in body type. The Eriskay has an easy-going temperament and is suitable as a mount for children. It is used for light draught work,[2] as well as dressage, show jumping, three day eventing, western riding and driving. Eriskays have successfully competed in combined driving at highly competitive international level competitions sanctioned by the Fédération Équestre Internationale. They have also been used in therapeutic horse-riding.[1]
The Eriskay Pony developed in the Hebrides, a group of western isles in Scotland. The origins of the breed are ancient, with roots in Celtic and Norse breeding.[2] It is physically similar to drawings of ponies on ancient Pictish stones found in north and west Scotland.[3] It is related to other northern breeds, including the Icelandic horse and the Faroe pony.[2] The Eriskay takes its name from the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. Originally, the breed had a fairly large population,[2] and until the mid-19th century the Eriskay and similar ponies were found throughout the western islands of Scotland. They were used as crofters' ponies, as pack animals, for light draught and as mounts for children.[3]
During the 1800s numbers were much reduced through increased crossbreeding.[2] The crossbreeding was used to produce larger ponies for draught work, and Eriskays and other island ponies were crossed with horse breeds from mainland Europe, including Arabs and Clydesdales.[3] Other horses, including the Norwegian Fjord, were crossed with island ponies, including the Eriskay, to produce the Highland pony.[2] A few specimens of the Eriskay were preserved on the remotest islands of Scotland, mainly due to the difficulties of accessing the islands. This stock of ponies remained pure, but through the advent of mechanisation, declined in population to around 20 animals in the early 1970s.[3] In 1941 the SS Politician foundered off the Eriskay coast, and the natives, using the Eriskay ponies, carried away the cargo of 250,000 bottles of whisky.[4]
Today the Eriskay is rare. Its population is considered to be at critical status by the UK-based Rare Breeds Survival Trust, meaning that there are 300 or fewer breeding females registered in the world today.[5] In 2006, there were believed to have been around 300 mares and 4 purebred stallions,[6] and by 2009 this number had risen to around 420 ponies worldwide.[1] It is possible that the Eriskay is the last surviving Hebrides pony breed. There are two breed registries that represent the breed. The first (the Eriskay Pony Mother Society or Comann Each nan Eilean,[7] formed in 1972[8]) has the goal of maintaining the purity of the Eriskay breed, and disallows all crossbreeding. The second (the Eriskay Pony Society, formed in 1995[9]) aims to produce ponies with desirable traits, which the registry feels will help promote their survival – this registry has considered the possibility of cross-breeding.[10] Both breed associations have achieved legal recognition as breed societies and are allowed to issue equine passports for Great Britain.[11]
See also
- List of domesticated Scottish breeds
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The Eriskay Pony". Eriskay Pony Society. http://www.eriskaypony.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=32. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Hendricks, Bonnie (2007). International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN 9780806138848.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Eriskay Pony". Breeds of Livestock. Oklahoma State University. http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/eriskay/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ Williams, Douglas and Alastair Robertson (October 26, 1997). "People quit 'ponies galore' Eriskay". Sunday Times (London, England).
- ↑ "Watchlist". Rare Breeds Survival Trust. http://www.rbst.org.uk/watch-list/main. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ "Born to be mild: the pony that's rarer than a giant panda". Daily Mail Online (Associated Newspapers Ltd). June 30, 2006. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393266/Born-mild-pony-thats-rarer-giant-panda.html. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ "The Mother Studbook". Eriskay Pony Mother Society. http://eriskaypony.users.btopenworld.com/. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ "Formation of Society". Eriskay Pony Mother Society. http://eriskaypony.users.btopenworld.com/. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
- ↑ "The Eriskay Pony Society". Eriskay Pony Society. http://www.eriskaypony.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=31. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ "Eriskay Pony". Horseman Magazine. August 7, 2008. http://www.horsemanmagazine.com/2008/08/eriskay-pony/. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ↑ "Horse passports- organisations issuing horse passports". Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. April 14, 2009. http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/id-move/horses/horsepassport.htm#e. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
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Let me get this straight: The liberal intelligentsia, which cannot spot bias in mainstream media outlets that gobble up Hamas propaganda, couldn't be bothered to report on Benghazi for weeks, carried President Obama's water on blatantly false attacks on Mitt Romney (nonexistent outsourcing to China, for one thing) and hounded Romney for details on his tax plan while giving Obama a pass on having no plan at all is now convinced critics of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice are racists or sexists or both. I'm sure Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) are surprised to hear that they are misogynists.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar as Dr. Freud said. Maybe the uniform criticism from Republicans and the refreshing candor coming from liberals in good standing at the New York Times is actually based on the merits, Rice's that is. Truth be told, she was a washout in the Clinton administration (where she sat idly by while the Rwandan genocide unfolded), signed on with Obama's campaign where she was an uncommonly partisan foreign policy adviser, had to be hushed when she attacked another woman, Hillary Clinton, and then wound up at the United Nations, where she has had the most undistinguished career of any U.N. representative in recent memory. (She rounded up all of eight "no" votes on the Palestinian declaration of statehood and has made serial excuses for the heinous Human Rights Council. A convenient list of her underachievements can be found here.) That's before we got to Benghazi. And her investment portfolio.
The idea that racism or sexism must be the motivation for (me-oh-my could this also be good old fashioned colorblind partisanship?) attacking an opponent's underlings for incompetence or untruthfulness is one that never applies when a conservative (Alberto Gonzales, anyone? Harriet Miers, perhaps?) is on the hot seat. This surely is the bigotry of low expectations from the media elite, who seem to be certain only white men can be bullies, incompetents and liars. The finger-wagging at conservative media and elected officials like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is known for bipartisanship and good relations with the current, female secretary of state, is a bit too much to bear.
Enough already. If you gave truth serum to liberal foreign policy gurus and to Democratic senators well-versed in foreign policy, I doubt more than a handful would say Rice is a great selection, let alone the best one, for the job of secretary of state. (Considering how well she did with moderate GOP senators I would be wary of sending her off to deal with Vladimir Putin or Mohamed Morsi.)
So yes, Rice is the subject of a double standard — one that assumes Republicans are motivated by prejudice and that women and minorities can't, in just the same proportion as white males, be really bad at their jobs.
Rice, who had no direct knowledge of Benghazi nor operational responsibility for it, was selected to go on five TV shows because she is an ever-willing partisan whose enduring characteristic is not independence of thought or intellectual honesty, but political loyalty. Hillary Clinton didn't go out there to spin the tale that al-Qaeda had been "decimated." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta didn't do it. But Rice did. Now neither she nor the president wants to pay the price. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.


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Marked by animated controversies, the general elections of 2014 undoubtedly make this a special year for Indians. Few would contest that political analysts and cultural theorists will debate the consequences of this key phase in our history in years to come. At the moment, though, little seems predictable. There are waves and groundswells, sound and fury! Is it frivolous, then, to look back in wonder when the present appears so full of puzzles? Perhaps. Yet, in an election where mythic pasts of all sorts have been invoked, it is tempting to point out that 2014 also commemorates the 450th birth anniversary of two of the greatest figures of the 'Early Modern Period'. If India is a nation attempting to reimagine itself, it might with profit attend to the odd and inventive coincidences of history.
Galileo Galilei (born February 1564) and William Shakespeare (born April 1564), both children of a Renaissance springtime, were the greatest of inventors. They invented, that is, the conceptual apparatus of their times—and, to a substantial extent, ours. One a representative of the natural sciences and technological advancement, the other of poetry and the performative arts, a backward glance tells us that we still have much to learn from these intellectual giants. For example, the National Geographic argued in a recent article that "Galileo is still in the news" on account of "an optical illusion he discovered in the 1600s [which] caused Venus to appear much larger and blurrier—a 'radiant crown', as Galileo called it—when seen through a telescope than when viewed with the naked eye." According to the magazine, neuroscientists have now discovered that this distortion in perceptual effect is caused by the way in which our brain-cells process information about light. Similarly, Shakespeare continues to offer challenges to our basic understanding of human nature and his plays are appreciated by audiences across the world, including India where, for instance, Bollywood films like Maqbool and Omkara have powerfully reinterpreted classic Shakespearian tragedies in a robust local context.
So what made Galileo's and Shakespeare's lives and times so special and what makes their joint anniversary worth celebrating even today? Well, at least three things.
These were, firstly, men with attitude—specifically, experimental attitude. Let's begin with a consideration of two iconic sites of such experimentation: the Leaning Tower of Pisa, said to be the place where Galileo conducted his legendary public probe into the momentum of falling objects of different weights; and the Globe Theatre in London, where many of Shakespeare's plays were staged. As our two architectural starting points, these 'imaginariums' could help us revisualise, through the lens of that earlier age of accelerated learning, our representations of our own times—in which a major e-revolution at the 'top' as well as powerful social movements from 'below' are significantly changing a knowledge status quo.
Secondly, Shakespeare and Galileo were 'inspiring' in the classic sense that both radically challenged the received wisdom of their times. That is why revisiting their ideas today could prove a major stimulant for educators everywhere. On the face of it, Shakespeare was the less provocative of the two, keeping a politically low profile for the most part; Galileo, on the other hand, was spectacularly hauled up by the Inquisition for reiterating after Copernicus and Giordano Bruno that the earth revolved round the sun. It has, however, been argued—perhaps not entirely in jest—that, had Galileo proposed his heliocentric theories in verse, his claims might have gone unchallenged! What is worth noting today is that this tension between the power of science and the seductions of the humanities continues unabated, setting up a dynamic that universities across the world would ignore at their peril. As India takes important decisions on the content and character of learning in the 21st century, on the skill-sets to be acquired as well as the kinds of scholarly research to be encouraged, the works and words of Shakespeare and Galileo may be worth returning to for their prescient wisdom.
A third reason for celebrating the lives of Galileo and Shakespeare is, of course, the perennial turbulence of the political. Harbingers of both Cartesian reason and Renaissance humanism, of both Newtonian science and of Miltonian ideals, these men presaged what it meant to be individuals with free will and voice in a modern nation-state, even though neither Europe nor England formally 'went to the polls' in their times. That process would have to wait to take shape only after the French Revolution—a reminder that 'democracy' in the forms that we know it today is only a little more than a couple of centuries old. However, it could be argued that the early foundations of 'Enlightenment' reasoning—political, scientific and ethical—were indeed laid by brave post-Cartesians like our two heroes of 1564. An ironic look at some of Shakespeare's most famous lines:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel
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Locked at this tumultuous time in a fierce political contest whose fateful end is still unknown, we may need once again to appeal to those infinite capacities for reason that Shakespeare invokes—but which we, as a species, do not always act on, occasionally with disastrous consequences. We could also choose to look across the Eurasian landmass from Shakespeare's 'emerald isle' to the political goings-on in the Indian subcontinent of 1564. What was happening in India then? A great deal, it turns out!
During this year, Akbar decisively put down an Uzbek rebellion in the north and defeated the exemplary Gond-Rajput queen Rani Durgavati in a battle that established him as a supreme political power. We might plausibly suggest that his often violent confrontation with the varying cultures of this subcontinent influenced Akbar at least in part to conceptualise that wondrously syncretic religion, the Din-i-Illahi, in 1582. Akbar may have been the only formally illiterate ruler amongst the great Mughals but, once again, his support for pluralism, diversity, theoretical debate, practical reason and exchanges of opinion remain an object lesson. This is a trait he shared with Galileo, whose capacity for observation, innovation and accurate and bold intellectual conjectures continues to amaze us, as well as with William Shakespeare, whose immortal writings on human emotion and imagination remain fascinating. Our intellectual lineages, we urgently need to remind ourselves, come from everywhere and that there must not be meum-tuum or tu-tu-main-main wars when it comes to these shared sources of our knowledge. With a past human heritage as rich as that emblematised by Akbar, Galileo and Shakespeare, not to mention Rani Durgavati, there is then some reason, however down we may on occasion feel, to be hopeful, if not exactly sanguine, about our common future. "O brave new world that has such people in't!"
(Writer and critical theorist Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a professor at IIT Delhi)
@ Atul Chandra - "We must not trivialise the importance of what Akbar was doing"
Not for nothing is Akbar (literally great) called the Great. It is the unanimous verdict of historians and it was not my intention to trivialise his attempt to bring about religious unity by a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam, the dominant religions of India, along with the ideas of the Portuguese Jesuits and other religious minorities. For an Islamic Emperor of 16th century India, that was truly stupendous because it was unprecedented that a Defender of the Faith actually show respect for and attempt to understand the faith of his subjects.
However, my take is that syncreticism is not new to India or even to that period. Barring the religious orthodoxy, most Hindus were syncretic in their approach to religion. Scholars are of the opinion that vegetarianism entered Hinduism due to the influence of Buddhism.
Even in Akbar's time(actually it was a few decades earlier), Guru Nanak was starting a syncretic religion in the Punjab. Akbar probably got interested in Hinduism after observing the rituals of his Rajput wives. Incidentally, marrying Rajput princesses was more for political reasons than anything else.
Prior to Akbar, but in the same century, we have the examples of Baz Bahadur of Mandu who married Rupmati and Quli Qutub Shah of Golconda who resisted their ulema and did not insist that their consorts convert to Islam. Quli Qutub Shah actually called the city he built Bhagyanagar after his lady love. However, he ultimately succumbed to the pressure exerted on him and his consort became Hyder Mahal and the city was renamed as Hyderabad.
For me, not mentioning of the Vijayanagara Empire, which marked a Hindu renaissance of sorts after centuries of subjugation. Its fall in 1565 is a watershed in Indian history, at par with the Battles of Tarain and Panipat.
Looking at it from the perspective of world history, one becomes acutely aware that India, which was always a leader of thought, was getting left far behind. In Europe, you have a galaxy of names like Copernicus, Gallileo, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Tycho Brahe, Roger Bacon, Machiavelli and the incomparable Leonardo Da Vinci, who belonged to that period.
Europe was on its way up and we were steadily losing ground. It culminated in the chaos following the death of Auranzeb in 1707, which made the conditions ripe for European dominance in our ancient land.
While fully appreciating the additional perspective given by you Mr Narayanan, we must not trivialise the importance of what Akbar was doing.
Akbar was a part of the Abrahamaic tradition you call 'white man's' yet he consciously tried to have an inter faith debate/ discussions and tried to create a new syncretic faith acceptable even to his co religionists.
Further, if I may add, this was the 'Bhakti kaal' in the Indian cultural and literature, where for the first time 'syncretism' was getting a formal recognition. Before this phase, co-existence was the norm, same cannot be very clearly be said for syncretism.
> "Our intellectual lineages, we urgently need to remind ourselves, come from everywhere and that there must not be meum-tuum or tu-tu-main-main wars when it comes to these shared sources of our knowledge." - Prof. Rukmini Nair.
It is good to remind ourselves of that from time to time, especially now when those pushing parochialism on us are getting louder and louder.
"While waxing eloquently about the "wondrously syncretic" (was syncreticism alien or a new concept for India?), Prof. Nair is eloquently silent about the events that took place in the Deccan which had far reaching ramifications on the subsequent history of the subcontinent." Narayan
Sycreticism is a radical concept for white Christians, so they write enthusaistically about the sainted Akbar. Therefore, it follows that sickos like Professor Nair have to write enthusiastically about the sainted Akbar's sycreticism even if they themselves are the inheritors of 4000 years of syncreticism. They think like white people and they write for white people - the great dinosaur Amartyasaurus Rex is another example.
"What was happening in India then (1564 CE)? A great deal, it turns out!"
While waxing eloquently about the "wondrously syncretic" (was syncreticism alien or a new concept for India?), Prof. Nair is eloquently silent about the events that took place in the Deccan which had far reaching ramifications on the subsequent history of the subcontinent.
In 1564, the sultans of Deccan (Ahmednagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur and Golconda) ganged up to crush the glorious Vijayanagara Empire. Their joint efforts culminated on January 26th, 1565, when the combined forces defeated the Vijayanagara army at Talikota and then proceeded to raze the glorious capital city to the ground. No other event of that period was as important from the historical point of view.
From the artistic point of view, the great composer, Saint Purandaradasa died. He is said to have composed a staggering 475,000 devotional songs. He was also a social reformer who crusaded against the evils of the caste system. His pupil, Swami Haridasa, was the guru of the celebrated musician Tansen.


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Anyone using BBQ grill brushes with metallic bristles to clean their grills should consider other methods of cleaning them, Dr. Salvador Sordo, surgical research resident at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio.
"We have seen an increase number at emergency rooms and their doctors of people complaining of stomach pains," Sordo said. "We found they have foreign bodies inside their bellies."
Sordo found patients are ingesting large bristles from grill brushes that have been broken or dislodged during cleaning. Those bristles can then remain on the grill surface until they stick to food, he said.
"We have several patients that have all required some type of surgery in order to remove the metallic bristles inside their intestines," Sordo said. "So yes it can be as serious as to require a hospital admission."
Anyone using brushes to clean grills, should find an alternative means of cleaning: scraping tools, piece of steel wool or even a crumpled up ball of aluminum foil.
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In a new University of Minnesota Medical School study, researchers found that increasing fitness could slow the onset or reduce risk of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
The longest-running study of its kind, researchers looked at more than 4,000 participants from Minnesota, California, Alabama and Illinois, with data spanning over more than two decades. The study was published in Diabetologia.


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Monday, 16 April 2012
Doll quilt finished
14 comments:
I love this!ReplyDelete
I hope you get your machine troubles ironed out. My Bernina was acting up on Saturday and I hope it was just the thread I was using. We don't need machines that won't sew, do we!
So pretty, I love your fabric choices!ReplyDelete
Victoria xx
So gorgeous! Love the colour mix. Hope you get your machine sorted out. My top thread snaps sometimes but it's usually when I'm using a cheap thread. lol xReplyDelete
Wow it's lovely and the colours are so pretty. I want to get one started soon but I keep mithering about what color to go with what so end up not doing anything.ReplyDelete
I love it, the fabrics are beautifulReplyDelete
Karen xx
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Its absolutely beautiful.ReplyDelete
Love it! I love how you are able to mix fabrics so perfectly! They are cotton candy and spring and shabby all rolled into one!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful quilt and the colours feel so summery. I love your pegs with the hearts too, where did you find them?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, sorry they were a gift so I don't know where they came from, probably a local gift shop.Delete
The lighting in the first shot is beautiful; perfect spring picture. Lovely work!ReplyDelete
It is gorgeous, the colors, lighting. So sweet.ReplyDelete
I wish I was as good at machining as you are - the quilt is beautifully finished.ReplyDelete
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Georgia's dirty little war sounds warnings to all
Georgia may have been a small war but it contains a multitude of lessons for Asia as well as Nato and Russia's other neighbours. If not learned, there is reason to fear that peripheral issues could become the unwitting cause of bigger conflicts.
Lesson one - which the Georgians should not have needed reminding of. When it comes to ruthless suppression of what it sees as threats to its interests, Russia has few peers. If it could destroy one of its own cities, as Vladimir Putin did to Grozny, to crush Chechen separatism, what could Georgia's president have expected when he invaded a Russian-protected enclave?
Lesson two - for the US in particular. If you cannot protect friendly states, yet also cannot prevent them from foolhardy actions, do not encourage them to believe that because they have elections and love foreign investment that they will get your practical support. Complaining about invasion and enforced regime change cuts little ice, least of all with Russians, after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lesson three - for Europe. Stop believing that any and all separatist groups have a right to self-determination regardless of wider consequences. A continent with a system that can accommodate states ranging from Germany to Malta may be able to absorb political fragmentation into a bigger construct. But that is far more difficult for others; Russia's treatment of Georgia is a direct outcome of the west's support for Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Indeed, indirectly, Europe bears some responsibility for the break-up of Yugoslavia into a chaos of ethnic cleansing and multiple states. If Kosovo has a case, why not the South Ossetians, say the Russians. That is no doubt hypocritical, as the Ossetians may want independence. But, for now, they may prefer to be ruled by far away Moscow than nearby Tiblisi.
Lesson four - for all neighbours. Never underestimate the strength of ethnic Russian nationalism - which can easily morph into outright racism - and is again closely allied to the Russian Orthodox church. The recent adventure was ostensibly in support of the 'Russian citizens' in Georgia. The fact that 40 per cent of the population of Kazakhstan is Russian will not be lost on the Kazakhs - or the Ukraine and Baltic states, all with large ethnic Russian minorities.
Lesson five should be for the Russians themselves. The worst way in the long run to try to protect your own crumbling empire is to encourage secession in little bits of your neighbours' territories. The post-Soviet Russian Federation just about works despite Chechnya. But the possibility of more Chechnyas is real, given the size of the non-Russian population in many of the southern and eastern parts of the federation.
Lesson six - this is for everyone, perhaps most of all in an Asia where many countries are still struggling with post-colonial boundaries, ethnic complexities and multiple minorities. Clearly, fragmentation into ever-smaller political units is a recipe for increased conflict between states and, in some cases, for ethnic cleansing to be rid of troublesome minorities. Yet suppression of minorities can be an endless and fruitless, as well as bloody, business. Instead, there needs to be measures of genuine autonomy for groups, whether Tibetans and Uygurs in China, the Acehnese or Papuans in Indonesia, or the Shans and others in Myanmar.
Logic would also suggest some agreed border changes, such as the cession by Thailand of its three southern provinces to Malaysia. But that will not happen, ensuring an enduring legacy of troubles and friction.
Which brings us back to Georgia, whose borders were set by that Georgian expert in divide and rule, Joseph Stalin. By standing on its recently acquired sovereignty as a reason to bring South Ossetia to heel, Georgia exposed the dangerous futility of a lot of nationalism. Georgia itself would be a much more viable state today if it had accepted that the Russian-backed Ossetians wanted out.
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Jan. 3, 2012
Recap | Box Score | Quotes | Photo Gallery
1: Kamiko Williams (No. 4) made her first appearance of 2011-12 for the Lady Vols after recovering from surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
3: With 10 points and 13 rebounds against Chattanooga, Glory Johnson put up her third-consecutive double-double, adding to her performances against ODU and Auburn.
10: All ten available Lady Vols saw action in the first half versus the Lady Mocs. Additionally, each Tennessee player scored in the contest.
16: The Lady Vols held Chattanooga to 16 first half points in the win -- the lowest first half total for a Tennessee opponent this year (previously 19 points by Middle Tennessee).
30: With the early score 10-8 Lady Vols, Tennessee went on a 30-point run to pull away from Chattanooga. The 30-0 stretch spanned 12 minutes of game time.
To Note
The Series
With the win Tennessee moves to 25-6 in the all-time series versus Chattanooga dating back to the 1924 season.
The triumph adds to UT's recent successes against Chattanooga; the Lady Vols have won 19 consecutive games between the sister schools. The Lady Mocs last topped the Lady Vols on Jan. 26, 1973.
For Starters
Today's starters: senior Glory Johnson, senior Alicia Manning, senior Shekinna Stricklen, sophomore Meighan Simmons and freshman Ariel Massengale.
This is the third game in which the Lady Vols have taken to the court with this starting five. They sport a 3-0 record with those five lining up for the opening tip.
Familiar Faces
UT fans might recognize a familiar face in the Chattanooga line-up wearing number 34. Knoxville's Faith Dupree (The Webb School) originally signed with the Lady Vols and sat out her rookie year at UT with back problems in 2009-10. Dupree led Chattanooga with 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting.
Stricklen Start Streak
Lady Vol senior Shekinna Stricklen has the nation's longest starting streak. Including today, Stricklen has started 117 consecutive games.
Chalk Talk
At the Half
The Lady Vols led at halftime for the 10th time this season. They have trailed in one contest and were tied at the break in the other two games.
Taking a 34-point lead into the locker room, the Lady Vols topped their previous season best for halftime lead -- a 30-point advantage over Old Dominion (12/28).
Tennessee tied its season-high scoring effort for a first half with 50 points against UTC (also vs. ODU 12/28) and held Chattanooga to 16 points -- a season-low for UT opponents (previously 19 points by MTSU 11/29).
Tennessee is now 10-0 when it leads going into the locker room.
Board Game
Tennessee led the board game for the ninth time in 2011-12, pulling down 55 boards to Chattanooga's 28 rebounds.
Tennessee's rebounding margin of 27 marked its highest of the season.
The Lady Vols converted second chance opportunities to the tune of 30 points; on the season they have tallied 232 second chance points while surrendering 161 to opponents.
Shooting Shapes Up
After shooting 32.3 percent from the floor in the win against Auburn, the Lady Vols came back to shoot 47.5 percent from the floor against the Lady Mocs.
Tennessee rode a 30-0 run in the first half to open up a 32-point lead on the Lady Mocs and never looked back, with the largest lead of 46 points coming with 23 seconds remaining in the game.
Lady Vols Lookin' Good
Double Dipping
Four Lady Vols posted double-digit scoring efforts against Auburn: Massengale (19), Harrison (13), Johnson (10) and Simmons (10). Johnson put up a double-double for the third-consecutive game, pushing her career total to 28.
She put up 10 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in the winning effort for the Lady Vols.
Massengale Perfect
Freshman Ariel Massengale was a perfect 6-of-6 from the floor, 4-of-4 from three in the contest, earning herself AutoZone Player of the Game honors.
Totaling 19 points against the Lady Mocs, she set a career high for points and tied her career-best mark for field goals made with six.
Kamiko Makes A Comeback
The game marked the return of junior guard Kamiko Williams, who missed the first 12 games recovering from a torn ACL. Williams played 16 minutes and had two points, four assists, two steals and three rebounds.
Hey There, Harrison
Freshman Isabelle Harrison put up a career-high 13 points against the Lady Mocs on 5-of-12 shooting. Her five field goals in the contest also tied a career high.
Rounded Effort
All 10 available Lady Vols saw action in the first half for Tennessee.
Each Big Orange player who took the floor scored for UT, marking the third time this season the Lady Vols have boasted 10 scorers.
On the Horizon
Approaching 1,100 Wins
19 more wins will put Summitt at her next victory milestone: 1,100 Ws.
Elite Company
Glory Johnson needs 30 rebounds to reach the 1,000 career boards plateau, making her the fourth in school history to tally 1,000 pts. and 1,000 reb.
Up Next
UT stays at home against Georgia Jan. 5 in Thompson-Boling Arena before hitting the road again for a contest at Arkansas Jan. 8.


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NameCheap.com also allow you to put the extensions you want on a watch list. So when they're live you get an email.
digitalscience said
What's the best site to use to register?
Well I used Namecheap.com
They were pretty solid and was happy with the price. They do however need to sort out their control panel design. Massive shock going from the lovely front end to that!
huykhong said
I was pre-registered for php.ninja on goddady but someone take it with higher price and I lose it
There are a couple I've pre-registered but keeping those quiet for now
Yeah, I find it hard seeing these new TLDs taking off
So there have been a lot of new TLD's released recently! I'd be interested to see if anyone has picked up some interesting/funny names?
I've currently only got:
Crooked.Management – Thought this was hilarious so had to snap it up!
A site worth checking out too: Dumb.Domains – Great selection of hilarious, sometimes NSFW domains!
Good luck! Recently had my Uni choices come back to me here in the UK. Just down to me to get the grades now!
ZoomIt said
Also, having 500Mbps internet helps. God bless Romania
That's crazy! Do you get the full 500Mbps?
My usage for march was 340Gb! Same as @UBLThemes, a very internet hungry family!
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WebTutorials saidYou must negotiate, we are £29 for EVERYTHING on the TV £0 for BBand and £20 for the phone with unlimited anytime calls.
TorahaUK saidYeah, they are! My girlfriend can't live without all the tv channels, so I have to put up with it
WebTutorials saidSKY are super expensive aren't they? We were with Virgin Media for a while but changed to Utility Warehouse which is mega cheap with fast speeds!
£85 or so with SKY TV. Thats like $140.
Exactly! Paying £33 for Everything (40 Mbps Unlimited Fiber, Phone and Sky with Movies). Basically just said we wanted to leave the service. They tried so hard to keep us, eventually after saying no a couple of times they offered us that. They'll do almost anything to keep you!


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On the day of the party, Bret drove Dad to church. A pastor invited them both to attend a Christmas celebration (which was really Dad's party) at the El Dorado Park Golf Course. Dad was open to going.
Then Bret noticed my parent's van parked in front of the event tent! Quickly, he asked, "Dad, is your nose bleeding?" Dad became concerned about his nose, never seeing the van, and Bret was able to maneuver to another spot.


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Karl Smith, 43, left a pig's head at North Jamia Watford Mosque on February 21
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A Watford man has pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated harassment after leaving a pig's head outside a mosque in Herefordshire on February 21.
43 year-old Karl Smith, of Gullet Wood Road, was charged with religiously aggravated harassment after leaving the animal's head in North Jamia Watford Mosque's car park during evening prayers.
Watford Chief Inspector, Nick Caveney, told The Muslim News: "Hertfordshire Constabulary would like to make clear that hate crimes will not be tolerated in the county and the Force takes all allegations very seriously. A significant amount of resources were used in this investigation allowing an arrest and subsequent charge to be made promptly.
"We understand that these incidents are very distressing for the people involved and can have a detrimental effect on relations within the community. We would like to reassure concerned members of the public that the Constabulary has good relationships with all racial and religious groups in Watford and this kind of incident is highly unusual."
Rashid Choudhrey, who is a member of the Mosque Committee, added: "This was a distressing crime for the Muslim community and the many friends we have in Watford. We support the action taken by police.
"In general we have good relations all parts of the community and we look forward to maintaining those. No one has to put up with this form of behaviour and I would strongly encourage victims to report incidents to the police."
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Sometimes, when faced with the task of writing (and yes, it often feels like a task), I first delay, but then often settle upon writing a blog. It's low stakes--sort of. I don't seem to edit as much as I'm writing, leaving that task for a second or third read. Instead, I am somehow able to let my brain, the word-tick machine, simply dictate to the page. I begin with a particular thought, but that thought usually gets interrupted with ideas, with that click that happens when I settle into writing, when I stop fighting what I can't avoid, when I allow myself the time to do that which makes me smile deep inside. I never, well hardly ever, second guess the words that I put upon a page when blogging.
That doesn't mean I don't revise, question some language, attempt to craft to the best of my ability at the time. But I don't linger for hours, days, weeks, months, years with a piece on my blog. It is fluid. And it's something I can begin and end, usually in one sitting. Rarely, do I begin a blog and not finish it, abandoning it because I couldn't find enough to say, because I lost interest, because I was afraid of rejection.
It is instantly publishable, guaranteed an audience, even if that audience are only a few, even if that audience I can predict. Low stakes--sort of.


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Manhattan Man Accused in Bomb Plot
A Manhattan man who was described by city officials as an al-Qaida sympathizer was arrested on charges that he was plotting to bomb police patrol cars, postal facilities and target members of the armed forces returning home, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday.
In a rare Sunday evening press conference, Bloomberg said that Jose Pimentel, 27, of Washington Heights faces terrorism-related charges for his alleged involvement in a plot to bomb different locations. He allegedly acted alone, the mayor said.
"The suspect was a so-called lone wolf motivated by his own resentment of the presence of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as inspired by al-Qaida propaganda. He was not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad," Bloomberg said.
Pimentel is a U.S. citizen, but was originally from the Dominican Republic. He is a convert to Islam.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said his office filed charges against Pimental for conspiring to build a bomb for terrorist purposes and for possessing a weapon for terrorist purposes.
(Photo: Examples of bomb making materials found in Pimentel's residence. Arun Venugopal/WNYC)
Pimentel followed instructions on how to make a bomb from Anwar al-Awlaki's "Inspire" magazine and was planning on making three bombs, according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Absent from the press conference was any federal official. Kelly said the FBI was fully informed of the case but Pimentel was putting the bomb together and a decision was made to act quickly.
"Because of the immediacy of the situation, that was a significant factor in making the arrest yesterday and using the state law to do it," he said.
A number of federal law enforcement sources told WNYC that they were skeptical the case did not rise to the level of a federal terrorism case.
Vance noted that New York State enacted its own terrorism laws that enable it to take action and the collective belief was to proceed under state charges.
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the case of the sleepless and full-stomach weekend
(with an emergency mahjongeras session)
Last Friday, i went to work really early because i was supposed to meet Derrick and give him cupcakes, but something happened the day before and well, i did not have cupcakes to give. Derrick went somewhere else instead, and I, feeling alive-alert-awake-enthusiastic on a payday Friday, still decided to go to work early and eat at Manang's! I discovered Manag's when i went out on a date with Paul months ago in Mercato. Well, it was just a stall there. The one along Morato was an actual resto. The place looked like a less fancy Jollibee but with the same friendly crew. I totally understood the understatement with the interior because my focus was on the food. When i arrived, i was the lone customer. Minutes later, there were pairs of people coming in, some i think were dates, and i felt a bit sad. I was the odd, gay man out. Anyway, i ordered the four-piece chicken wings, which was actually just two wing parts cut into halves, so you have four. I don't care. memories came back when i savored the hot meat, crunchy skin and delicious original sauce. I forgot about Bon Chon and Four Fingers altogether. Oh-la-la.
I had to leave soon (with Romy's take-out) because i knew it was difficult to get a cab along Morato going back to work. I didn't want to walk. Ugh. When i got back to the office, Romy reminded me that there was a birthday celebration at work. Wooooh! We had spaghetti (Filipino sauce), pizza and ice cream. Double. Effing. Dutch. When the food came in, we were in a meeting. After the meeting my food was already gone. Romy and i kept talking about Manang's to Ray and Rem that we decided to order 24 pieces more. Yes. The four of us. 6 pieces each. By the time the delivery arrived, i was almost full. I stopped eating after my third piece. Yes, sometimes i give up (i wish it was that easy for other things). I finished my sixth piece towards the end of my shift. I could feel my heart complaining about all that oil. Sorry.
Anyway, we ended our shift kinda happy. So i went home early and didn't ask them out. By the time i was about to sleep, i caught Burn on Grindr. Well, we had to talk about Vince at some point. We ended up conferencing Rye, who just got out of work at 7am. Guess what happened next?
So 930am, i was at Starbucks 6750. No sleep. I guess i willed myself to go because i haven't seen Burn for a long time and i wanted to hear his story. And i wanted Rye to hear my story. So i told him my story. I got the reaction i imagined, and no, i did not cry. I didn't cry because i was always the one who cried in public. So i held my tears back for a change. It felt good to unload such things to good friends. Although i knew it wasn't something they could digest right away. I wasn't trying to do anything, i just wanted them to know. Almost all day, i got the remarks i was expecting. It was irritating because everywhere we went, i remembered the thing. Even the songs in the mall were reminding me of the thing. By 11am we settled at A Veneto, which was really disappointing. Well, their chicken pesto was not so satisfying. My stomach was full but my mouth was asking for more. Number one, the chicken fillet was really thin and dry. Two, the serving was surprisingly less than what we expected. Three, i kept comparing it to Napoli. Oh Napoli, I love.
We then went around Landmark to look for un-reading glasses for Rye, and then we decided to got to Cash and Carry. I haven't gone to Cash and Carry for a long time. Well, the last time i did was during Branden's first birthday. And we only went to Jollibee so we never saw the interior. It looked great, compared to the long stretch of stalls from years ago. We went to Smart, but they did not have what i needed so we headed to Sun. After my purchase, we went to Book Sale, my heaven, and bought my third Sedaris book that i may not read until December. After that, i went crazy and bought new underwear. For no reason. We headed back to Glorietta 5 after hearing Jealous for the nth time. We went to Bench again, but this time we didn't buy anything. I lost my will to purchase. And i felt i needed to do number two.
So we went home. I dropped off Rye near his place, but it took me almost an hour to get to our place because of traffic. I forgot it was fiesta in that area. Ugh.
When i got home, i immediately went to the washroom and did my thing. Was too tired to go out with my cousins. I just looked at my purchases. And calculated how much i spent that day. And then slept.
I woke up around 12am the next day because of my freaking alarm. Had we slept before meeting up, i would've been so late because i realized i set my alarm at 12am when i was awakened by it from a deep sleep. So smart of me.
I ended up watching Suits instead.
In a few hours, i was set to go to Fria's christening. Well, it was nice. I also got to see Karen's place for the first time. Loved the food, but i was too tired to stay. When we got home, i felt i wanted to go out, despite the laziness.
My cousins and i, plus two nieces, went to Greenhills. I sold the phone that woke me up and got another Samsung, an Ace, that is locked in TMobile Korea. Great. Then we ate at Little Asia in Promenade. I am loving that place everytime. I went there first with Paul, then Lester just a few weeks ago. Who's Lester? Yeah, Lester. Anyway, we ordered the chicken, Korean beef stew (yum! The Best!) and got my free herbed chicken. I was full! Again! What i love the most will be the Japanese mixed rice with shrimp! Love. It. And then we went home.
At home, i realized that i have been behind with my PDL chapters. Good thing Derrick asked me about it. We were so into the holy stuff and then i fell asleep. Sorry Derrick.
Well, the next day i went to work really early for a report i had to do. Felt sad when i left home because all of them were there. And Marcus was smiling! Well, tomorrow's another day. And tomorrow we will start our Hunger Games at work. we'll only be allowed to eat once a day. How long can i do this? It depends. I gotta fast and pray. Thinking of writing down quick prayers that i can say everyday. One, "Please let me go home safe today, Lord."
See you later!
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Done! I hate misinformation!!
I see some other familiar people also posted!
Hi Folks,
I was made aware that one member was worried about joining SA because of a
rating on a web site called Web of Trust. I had never heard of them before but
sure enough one commenter said that we were listed on Phishtank and "tanked"
our reputation on this site.
I don't think we were ever listed on Phishtank and we certainly are not listed now.
SA has never offered spyware, adware, malware or any type of malicious download.
SA does not have pop-ups and our newsletter is totally can spam act compliant
with Aweber.
If you have some time I would appreciate if you could go and rate our site so that
we can boost our reputation on this site to reflect a better actuality.
Here is the link: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/sweepsadvantage.com
( comments are good but please make sure to click the 4 reputation ratings into
the Green )
Thank You!
-Ken & Diane
Done! I hate misinformation!!
I see some other familiar people also posted!
I see the lie I referenced is gone - good!!! I let them know it was a lie:
I'll stick to SiteAdvisor
Rated 1 out of 5 stars by amyshulk on January 28, 2010
I can't understand why just one negative review {that is an easily verifiable LIE btw} vs 14 positive reviews would garner: "Controversial rating: the ratings for this site are conflicting" ???
I'm referring to:
I was told the site was being avoided because of the Controversial rating, which leads me to believe this is a popularity contest, where people who dislike you/have an ax to grind can attempt to ruin your reputation!!!
I'll stick to SiteAdvisor
Sweepers by nature are *always* looking for a free lunch, but if you value your time over your $$$, then upgrading to PLUS at less than a dime a day gives you the best bang for your $$$!
I don't want to get anything started between this site and another site, so feel free to delete this comment if you feel it should be.
I've noticed on another site, that they are now talking about the upgrades/PlusMembership here at SA. I think there are going to be a lot of people coming here to check it out, and as usual, you will have those that don't like it for the lamest of reasons.
I think there are going to be a lot of negative comments thrown around, just to be spiteful.
I never heard of Web of Trust, until yesterday, when I saw it mentioned over there. (Coincidence??)
Never heard of it before either. I personally don't waste my time with those kind of sites. Opinions are like arseholes ... everyone's got one ...But that doesn't mean I want to stick my nose in it! :laughing:
Having had my reputation stained by people mindlessly believing lies about me, I completely understand the desire to correct the misperceptions - however, my livelihood was never threatened by those people mindlessly believing the lies!!! :nono: :nono: :nono:
I was just told about Web of Trust today, so I d/ld'ed the prog, saw the lie, then I commented on it - see above if you still aren't clear on why :laughing:
Sweepers by nature are *always* looking for a free lunch, but if you value your time over your $$$, then upgrading to PLUS at less than a dime a day gives you the best bang for your $$$!
Many of these sites don't really identify correctly what site should be trusted or not. I contacted WOT and had them remove the one comment about phishing. ( This phishing comment was posted last feb 2009 and never validated by WOT ) Even with that comment gone and mostly good comments left I see that our rating went from poor to unsatifcatory?? :scratch:
Even siteadvisor isn't very accurate. I learned today that it takes 5 weeks for them to update their ratings. I know at one time they even considered Roboform to be spyware.. Its all kinda crazy but I just don't want any unrealistic data out there about SA when we have reliably stayed on the right side of the tracks since 1997.
Thanks to everyone who is rating us or has.
Ken (and others)
I totally agree with your concern. Yet, all of us sweeps fanatics ... and those yet to come to their senses ... know the truth!!! (THANK GOD!)
:sunny: :sunny:
Loren (still trying to scrape together my $30 ... but it will happen soon! )
Well, Wolfie-visor gives this site 4 paws up! :headbang: :laughing:
I placed my ratings and comments. I just don't understand people who post lies about someone/thing just to make themself or their site look better! It's like internet dating. Until you share meet in person, you can be anyone you want to be. :laughing:
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