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Apple iPod touch 1.0
Apple iPod touch 64 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL - iPod touch is a great iPod, a great pocket computer, and a great portable game player. Listen to a mix of songs automatically put together by the new Genius Mixes feature. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Discover games and apps you're sure to love with new Genius recommendations for apps.
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iConvert 1.0.0
iConvert runs on Windows. It converts all most all video/audio streams to MP4 played on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The video formats include rm, rmvb, avi, and more than dozen of others. The converted MP4 is specially optimized for iPhone and iPod touch. Using iConvert is amazingly easy and straightforward.
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Active iPod Video Converter 1.8
Active iPod Video Converter is the world's best video software for iPod video (MP4,H.264) conversion. As iPod,iPod Touch,iPhone video converter software, Active iPod Video Converter can convert iPod,iPod Touch,iPhone videos from popular video files, such as AVI, MPEG, MPG, WMV, Xvid, DivX, ASF, MOV, VOB, etc. Video Preview and other functions make it more convenient to use. In a word, Active iPod Video Converter is the best choice.
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TuneAid 3.02
TuneAid is an iPod content recovery tool. It will let you import your iPod's content back into iTunes in no effort. TuneAid will salvage your music. Recovering music that you've purchased is completely legal, using TuneAid is no law infringement. iPhone and iPod Touch compatible even without hard disk mode. Non-Geeky interface, TuneAid is dead simple to use without sacrificing powerful features. One click import in iTunes.
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Forewave Audio Converter 2.0
Forewave Audio Converter is an universal audio converter, it provides you an easy way to convert between different audio formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, Real Media RA, FLAC, AAC, AC3, AMR, WAV etc. It also supports Video-to-Audio conversion, you can import a video file in almost any popular formats and turn it into an audio file.
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Daniusoft Video to iPod Converter 18.104.22.168
Daniusoft Video to iPod Converter can converter Video to iPod Video MP4 including AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, XviD, H.264, DAT, MOV, ASF and FLV, etc. to iPod MP4, MPEG-4, M4V and rip video audio to iPod MP3, M4A, AAC. It allows you to set many video editing functions: video crop, movie trimming, and video effect adjustment. You can also set encoding parameters to get the best video quality.
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iPod Songs Retrieval Utility 18.104.22.168
iPod music file retrieval utility retrieves deleted mp3, m4a, jpeg, bmp, wav (uncompressed), PSD, audible (.aa) and similar other file formats. Software supports major brands of mp3 music player like Samsung, Sony, Panasonic etc. iPod songs rescue tool salvages lost data from iPod Mini, Shuffle, Nano, Touch, HI-FI, U2 and all other next generation iPod series. Application restores data at user specified location in the system hard disk.
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DiskAid 1.5
DiskAid is a tool for PC and Mac which enables to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as external Disk. With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer. DiskAid is a Freeware, 100% free of charge. PC Windows & Mac OSX compatibility. Auto detection feature, just plugin it in ! Copy Files & Folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer. Files & Folders Browser. Drag & Drop.
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iPod Restore Software 22.214.171.124
Free iPod data undelete application restore deleted audio, video, pictures from formatted or corrupted Apple iPod. iPod files restoration program recover deleted files even error message like ?Connect to your computer. Use iTunes to restore.? displays. Advance iPod files recovery software restore deleted data from all models of Apple iPods such as classic, nano, mini, shuffle, touch, U2 from first to all next generation series.
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iPod Disk Data Restore 184.108.40.206
iPod corrupt disk mode repair software recover lost or deleted audio video files mp3 mp4 music songs and all your missing files on windows operating system. Music songs retrieval utility restore misplaced sound tracks, precious pictures, favorite mp3 songs, aiff, protected aac, m4a, wav, gif, jpeg, bmp, tiff, png file formats. Tool restore iPod disk mode and recover lost and corrupted Apple iPod Mini Shuffle Nano iTunes library.
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Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery 1.0
Stellar iPod data recovery software recover music files, graphics, videos, documents which has been corrupted, damaged and deleted from iPod. It helps to create image of the crashed iPod to hard drive to recover music files to a safe location. It repair and recover audio file types such as MP3, WMA, WAV. Video File format MPEG, MPG, AVI, WMV and Image File Format JPEG, BMP, PNG, CR2, CRW,SR2,ORF,RAF, NEF
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Corrupted iPod Restore 220.127.116.11
Apple iPod nano deleted pictures restoration utility retrieves corrupted audio, video, picture, image, mp3 and audible audiobook. iPod music files retrieval tool salvage data from all apple iPod models such as iPod Shuffle, classic and iPod next generation series. iPod music files recovery application recovers files from iPod media player lost while updating iPod playlist using iTunes software. Software works with any windows operating system.
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iPod Recovery Software 184.108.40.206
iPod music restore utility easily recovers all accidentally deleted audio video music files and folders lost due to virus attack or human error. Software ensures complete recovery while Drive not detected message displayed on your computer or laptop system. Apple iPod recovery tool provides very sophisticated and effective way to recovers all accidentally deleted data and save all recovered information into a user specified location.
See also: iPod, touch, data, repair, recover, video, recovery, restore, deleted, pictures, music, lost, songs, backup, damaged, corrupted, images, nano, classic, shuffle, apple, mp3, rescue, avi, mpeg, audio, folders
Frozen iPod Files Recovery 188.8.131.52
iPod music recovery software technically designed for regaining entire music songs, audio, video albums, images, photos, pictures and all previously existing music files and folders from all type of latest Apple iPod series including iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod home stereo, iPod U2 etc. iPod data rescue program supports easy recovery of multimedia files like mp3, aiff, mov, mp4, bmp, jpeg from logically bad crashed iPod devices.
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MP3 Guide Vol 1 1.0
The sale of Mp3 players is one of the fastest growing areas of consumer electronics. Whilst the apple iPod is synonymous with MP3 players there are many alternatives that should be considered when you are looking to buy.
See also: mp3, music, Download, Players, reviews, articles, posts, blog, Car, Adapter, touch, screen, mp4, FM Radio, Camera, offer, bargain, deal, ebay, amazon.com, Ipod, Iphone, zune, sandisk, coby, pyrus electronics
DVD iPod Ripper 3.2.90.001
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Crazy Dart Shooter 1.0
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Tiny Ball vs. Evil Devil Lite 1.0
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Trans To Apple 0.9.8
Trans To Apple is the ultimate backup & recovery tool for your iPod, iPhone and iPad. Transfer iPod music, videos, ratings, playlists, artwork & more from iPod to PC
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Bubble Crusher HD 1.3
" Bubble Crusher Was Top 10 Overall Free App In 17 Countries (07-31-11), Thank You!? Bubble Crusher HD is the most thrilling bubble popping game. Pop, pop, pop those bubbles!Bubble Crusher HD is an extremely fun bubble popping game that requires you to be quick. Pop the bubble, but don't pop them twice! There is a simple fun elements with the different twists and challenges that is bound to make you laugh and enjoy.
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You Can Eat Like a President in 2012
NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- With Presidents Day weekend coming, it's worth noting that our presidents, no matter what party, seem to agree: Las Vegas and New York City are some of their favorite dining destinations. TravelsinTaste has rounded up some of their dining experiences in case you'd like to spend your President's Day weekend enjoying in a similar fashion.
For two years in a row, President Bill Clinton celebrated his birthday at Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This guy could go anywhere for his birthday dinner, and chose Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak ... twice. Executive Chef Barry S. Dakake has kept him coming back for more of his cuisine at N9NE inside the Palms Casino Resort and takeout from the restaurant when he was staying at the Bellagio. He's prepared tastings from almost his entire menu, including steak, chicken, salmon, scallops, lobster papardelle, salads, sashimi, rock shrimp and some sides. The Clintons liked it so much they got another delivery later in their stay.
New York City's 21 Club has been known to host many presidents and please them so much they've even donated gifts to its "toy" collection. |
Another celebrity chef whose cuisine Clinton has savored is Hubert Keller of Fleur by Hubert Keller and Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay. One of America's most widely recognized and acclaimed chefs, Keller was praised for his early championing of original, multicourse, vegetarian menus in a four-star setting. His zeal for vegetarian cooking was recognized by the White House and he was invited to be the first guest chef to prepare his sophisticated vegetarian menu for Clinton and the first family. Revered by his colleagues and fans, the Frenchman boasts a long list of accolades and awards, including being named the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef for California and being placed among the foundation's prestigious Who's Who in Food and Beverage. Food & Wine magazine tapped him as one of the 10 Best Chefs in America, and Restaurants & Institutions gave him its Ivy Award. He's hailed by The New York Times as a "Rebel with a Cuisinart."
President Barack Obama shares more than just a party with Clinton. Dakake cooked for Obama at the Democratic National Convention dinner at George Maloof's home at the Spanish Trail Country Club. During his last trip to Las Vegas, Obama stayed at the Element Hotel. He and his staff enjoyed a dozen pizzas and some cannoli from Dom DeMarco's Pizzeria & Bar, which was opened last month in Summerlin by DeMarco, the legendary pizza maker behind the award-winning Di Fara's in Brooklyn, N.Y.If you can't make it to Vegas you can certainly bring some Vegas with you. You can indulge in a splendid evening at Bellagio's Petrossian Bar with live music from David Osborn, the pianist to the presidents. Osborn has performed at the White House for many residents, including presidents Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. Guests at Petrossian Bar can relax on one of the velvet couches overlooking the casino while enjoying beautiful music played by Osborn on the one-of-a-kind Steinway Grand. The elegant lounge gently sets the mood for sophisticated tastes and discerning palates. It's designed to be the ultimate meeting place, where guests may choose from an array of offerings -- from afternoon tea to the finest Champagnes, Petrossian caviar and smoked salmon. On the other coast, New York City's 21 Club has been known to host many presidents and please them so much that they've even donated gifts to its "toy" collection. John F. Kennedy donated a model PT-109 (he dined at 21 on the eve of his inauguration) Clinton has donated a model of Air Force One to the collection and held multiple events at the restaurant, including daughter Chelsea's birthday and -- true to his publicized healthy eating (at least his love of vegetables) -- has ordered the Vegetable Tasting. Another president with a healthy choice is Gerald Ford. He ordered chicken salad from the Restaurant Week menu in 1994 and even keeps a private stock (wine) at the restaurant, while Jimmy Carter is a fan of the famous '21' Burger. Here's to dining like a president this holiday. >To submit a news tip, email: email@example.com.
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New Dwarf hamsters – called Hank and Cameron – continuing our tradition of naming dwarf hamsters after Stargate characters. They're very fat. It's awesome.
New Dwarf hamsters – called Hank and Cameron – continuing our tradition of naming dwarf hamsters after Stargate characters. They're very fat. It's awesome.
The last post I wrote was pretty hard to write, which considering I have a whole category for mental health problems, talk about my family and my self harm and pretty much anything and everything I think about – not counting the poetry I write – is probably pretty surprising to you. To me not so much, but then, I'm me – I know me – I know what I'm thinking obviously.
Well, I usually know what I'm thinking though not always why.
Anyway, there are a couple of things I don't talk about. One is sex, two is my relationship with my wife (which also includes any and all current sex). The reason I don't talk about sex is not because I'm a prude but it's just never been something I've spoken about. I think because my sex life can be categorised in three stages sex with the ex – single and getting none – sex with the wife. So, I don't really want to talk about my ex, so that sort of includes the sex – which was fine but comes with all those complicated feelings that I still feel like I'm working through. Being single doesn't really involve having any sex – so hard to talk about what you're not having. And sex with the wife is private, and brings us on to point two: My relationship with my wife.
My relationship with my wife is the one thing in my world that is private, my own, our own. Which includes the sex. Plus I doubt my wife would want me to talk about our relationship. Talking our wanting a baby, trying to get a baby, the top layer of everything is fine I guess, the rest isn't fine with me anyway. It's too much, too intimate, too important – not that everything else isn't important or any less important (like my health, or my words, or my childhood) but Kate Ellen is the most important person in my life, in my world and that isn't something I even want to share. Beyond that I can't really explain it. Not in a way that doesn't make me sound a bit psycho or dependent or like a toddler. It's all mine, it's not yours.
I know, I know.
I'm not even sure why I'm basically writing about what I won't write about.
When I first thought about this post, maybe a year ago even, it seemed like a simple enough thing. And when I thought about it again last week it seemed clearer but now it's just a mish-mash of thoughts that I can't quite straighten out.
Oh well, such is the state of many of these blog posts.
It's three am, I can't sleep. Partly because of a touch of insomnia borne out of a messed up sleeping pattern from being ill and partly because I am still ill. My throat is killing – still – when I swallow, when I yawn, when I cough. I can't tell if it hurts less when I clutch my jaw and throat or it I'm just braced for it better. Either way, it's definitely worse when I'm lying down, and I swear I swallow and yawn more just lying there not sleeping, thinking about how much it hurts when I next swallow. Or yawn. Or cough. It's the worst I've been for a long while.
So it seems like the right time to try and gather some thoughts together about the coming year, because as much as I do not like that whole look back/look forward part of the New Year (or any part of the new year) I do have plans for 2015, plans that have been in the works for a little while now, plans my wife (who is currently sleeping) and I have been talking about for a while now and talk about every night before we go to sleep (or in this case, before she goes to sleep and I lie there for two hours, read fanfic, listen to my ipod for a bit before ultimately giving up and getting up).
Big plans. Big scary plans.
We want to have a baby this year.
Now this comes with a set of problems, some normal, some unique to being gay and some just odd cause, well we're odd and we have four cats, four chickens and two live hamsters (plus a dead one in the freezer I keep forgetting to give my mother for burial).
The most obvious one is the fact that I am definitely not a bloke. I have bigger balls than some blokes, but they are metaphorical and metaphorical sperm just doesn't cut it.
Trust me.
So we have to outsource our genetics (or sauce as my GP called it), which isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be after some thorough research but is something that bugs me terribly and am working through my issues. It bugs me that I can't give my wife a baby just like that, that my part in this is actually procurement of genetics rather than creation and sharing of them. Not that my genetics are particularly great or anything (read a bit of the family tag and you'll see why) but it's the effort that now has to go into getting her pregnant (my wife will be having the baby) where as most straight people can just have them by accident, without even thinking about, without even wanting to first.
So that sucks, but as time passes and we come closer and closer to finding a donor and the reality of it all seems clearer I do feel better about it. Either way, I want children, her children, children with her regardless and I will do whatever I can get them (bar kidnapping obviously).
The other problems, are money – we're both working part time now so we have less money coming in and while I've actively started looking for a full time job (I like my job but I won't get more hours there) we worry about bringing a baby up in a household like that. I think it bothers my wife more than it bothers me. I grew up skint, I've never really had money, my mum managed it and my sister manages it and we will manage it but my wife is middle class. Her mother's an accountant, a good accountant with a good income and her father teaches. Her house where she grew up is ten times bigger than our little bungalow, it's only since being here, I think, that she's really felt, well, poor. And we're not poor per se, just skint.
Scraping by.
Is that fair? To bring a kid into that? Knowing we're actively trying for a child and not accidentally getting pregnant. Maybe not, but if we waited until we were rich or even well off, we'd be waiting for ever (I do not see big money in our future). It's a choice we have to make, and we deserve family as much as anyone else.
There is also the problem of parents. Mine and hers. Parents who we both love dearly, but parents who are completely insane. On varying levels. My mother told us not to rely on her when we told her we were going to try for a kid – that's literally all she said – something I think comes from the fact that the last two times we've had a 'we need to go to Accident and Emergency' emergency we've called her. I tend not to rely on her because she is notoriously unreliable. She's terrible. I wondered where I got my ability to be brilliantly late until recently when I realised it's probably genetic. She's worse. If she shows up at all. Assuming she hasn't already cancelled. She also has a number of complicated illnesses that you can't make up. Like a virus in her spinal cord and Reynards which turns her hands and feet blue but a complete indifference to it all. My dad is pretty ill, he has Parkinsons, a slow degenerative disease that is going to kill him, sooner rather than later. He's only 58. He also has epilepsy and drinks. And lives 147 miles away. He's a sweetheart, deep down, when it comes to kids, he loves my niece and nephew to death, but it's a minefield.
My in-laws are 3000 miles away, across a sea and yet caused us the most amount of grief and amusement (there's probably a great German word that combines those two feelings). As well as my wife's grandparents, they've all chipped in opinions on everything from who the donor should be (and, what he shouldn't be) and when exactly my wife can give birth (after tax season, before the school year starts). This was something that was discussed on Christmas Day, over Skype, during their Christmas Breakfast, while I was taking a nap (I was ill then – that's how long it's been) and my wife was making gingerbread chickens (and biscuits).
To top it off, obviously my wife is American and here on a spousal visa that needs renewing this year so god knows how that changes if we have a kid (the news has not been good) and I worry all the time about losing her to immigration and the idea of losing my wife and my child just breaks my heart without it even needing to happen and I don't even have that child yet.
It's a myriad of problems, but I'm pretty sure having a baby is going to be like that but at the end you have a baby right? Which is a good thing, assuming it's you know, it doesn't end up being a little jerk or thinking it's a cat cause it lives with so many of them (or a chicken).
I want a baby, I must do, cause I wrote a thousand words at three am (now four am) about all the problems we face and tomorrow we'll still talk about it when we go to bed.
Anyway, as stated it's not four am, my throat is no better – the usual hot chocolate has not helped and I think I'll have a cup of tea and play Roller Coaster Tycoon (it won't help me sleep but at least I won't be lying in bed swallowing my own saliva painfully).
Night all.
N.B This post was harder to write than it would seem because I'm not one for talking about my relationship with my wife and the intricacies and intimacies of it. And this feels intimate, important. Expect a future post on that thought in the future when it's not the five am. Or at least this current five am.
I never know what I'm doing with this blog, writing in it certainly, this is obvious. But is it a platform or a voice. Both. Who am I? A blogger who writes poetry or a poet with a log. Both. Neither?
Neither seems more likely some days when I'm not writing poetry or blog posts and I'm just squirrelling away my thoughts in my mind, keeping it all to myself until I can't keep it in any more. I do think that some days. Eventually I will explode and a millions words will come spilling out. When I die I will degrade and decompose into letters instead of cells.
There is so much life to live that I don't always have the words for it. At which point do I stop pretending I am anything more than just a hack with a pen and blog and start living the normal life of a some average sale assistant and regular weirdo.
I'm not really special or talented.
I've never really thought I was though. I just liked to think that maybe I was something else.
I've always thought maybe I was someone else.
Doctors tell me it's part of the Borderline Personality Disorder. I just call it hope.
This started out about writing about writing as it always does, but the two are woven so tightly, me and my words, I could never really tell the two apart. Even when I haven't written in ages.
I continue on though, always will despite how it sounds.
What I have watched this week that disappointed me enough to rant about is Miranda.
Miranda, Miranda, Miranda…she finished her show with these last couple of episodes to tie everything up because season three ended on a cliffhanger and she didn't want to do it any more. Which was nice of her, because she didn't have to do that if she didn't want to, though I don't know what her contract was like with the BBC.
The thing is, I wish she hadn't bothered.
I knew it wasn't going to make me happy, as soon as Gary asked Miranda to marry him – in response to Mike proposing – and despite years of Paolos on tv showing me that the new guy never gets the girl for a brief moment I really did think that he would, that he and Miranda would be happy together and that Gary could go whistle for all Miranda cared. But no, television is depressingly predictable (there's a reason I write fanfiction) and Mike is the Paolo and she ends up with Gary. And if that's a spoiler then I don't know what tv show you've been watching. (And if you don't know what a Paolo is read this.)
The thing is, that's not even the worst problem. A little disappointing yes, because it's obvious and boring and they actually made Mike to be a really nice guy who actually loved Miranda and wanted to marry her out of his own volition (not as a reaction to another guy asking) and Gary comes across as desperate and, well, he was undeserving about two seasons before this.
No, the worst thing is those last two episodes where we get this hackneyed break-up and then an entire episode about how Miranda doesn't need Gary – a man who couldn't even tell her he loves her without breaking up with her instead by the way – doesn't even need a man to do all the things she wants in on her bucket list and in her life.
Then she changes her mind and marries him anyway (in a ceremony that is in no way legal and if you've ever gotten married you'll know the hoops you have to jump through to get married but I digress).
She learnt nothing and we gain nothing. As women or a species. Don't worry girls, you don't need your Gary to enjoy life, you don't need a Gary at all.
Except you do, and you will.
Now two points I'd like to make – One – just cause I'm married doesn't mean I'm a hypocrite. At the point in my life which I had met my wife I was settling into a long life of being single (having been single for a few years already) and was prepared to be single for the rest of forever, it was working quite well to be honest. So was my wife in fact. Then we met and everything changed. It happens.
Two – My friend pointed out that the message she took away from the episodes was that you can free yourself from the influence of family. And yes, that was shoe-horned in there like a size ten foot into a size five shoe but Miranda ends up doing exactly what her mum wants her to do anyway (get married) and the odd little scenes of Tilly struggling with her family over her wedding do not an episode about family make.
It's very frustrating and I think the entire thing was written in the rush it seems to come out in and written by Miranda Hart herself. Every time, it's the women who let women down the most. If it was a bloke I would have a moan, on facebook like I did, and then leave it and we wouldn't be having this conversation. And by conversation I mean these 700 odd words of a rant while listening to angry music.
You don't need men. You don't women. You need yourself. You don't need anyone else to cement yourself and the way you live your life. It's nice certainly, it's why we have friends and family, why we as a species form communities over and over. But as RuPaul says, "If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love anybody else."
Don't bother with Miranda if you haven't already seen it. Watch Roald Dahl's Esio Trot. That's damn adorable.
What does 2015 bring? Well, at the moment a serious sore throat and laryngitis. What did 2014 give me? I have no idea. I have an awful memory. I got a job. First job in years. We got new cats, Reb Brown and Seymour. Our house-mate Jen moved out and got engaged. My neices from America came to stay. My wife started a new job in a nursery. We have chickens. Hamsters came and went. Things happened. Life continued on as it does. I don't understand this desire to look back, to look back, look forward, start over.
Why start over? If you weren't willing to make the effort to live your life six months ago why do you think you're going to be able to do so during January when it's cold and dark and wet. You're down on your vitamin D, down on your serotonin, and wrapped up like a sausage roll trying to remember the last time you saw the sun and, and lose weight/quit smoking/give up whatever.
You should've tried that six months ago in July, when it was sunny and you were happier and weren't carrying around an extra five pounds of winter fat underneath the five pounds of winter clothing you're wearing. Trust me. Start in spring. Spring is about new beginnings. January is about trying not to kill yourself as the depression finally hits it's peak and you realise you enjoyed Christmas while sacrificing the ability to pay your bills and people don't care any more. They only cared for that damn day we pretend Jesus was born on when we know he was born in the summer. You know, summer? Do you remember it?
Me neither.
My plan every new years eve is to stay sober, stay okay. I guess I struggle with winter more than I realise. Christmas is okay, it's fine. I prefer thanksgiving I guess. I get cake and presents and I appreciate everything my wife does and everything we do together but I still feel like something is missing.
New Years is worse though. I've had serious problems with New Years since I was a kid but I couldn't tell you exactly when it started. Or why it started. There is something dark about it that I can never fully explain to anyone. Something happened one year. Something bad that set it all off but I don't know what it was or when it happened.
I don't care to find out.
I don't think about it much any more, the worst of it. I don't drink it away or overdose or cut it away. This year I worked until five and came home to my wife, my niece and my nephew who had spent the afternoon baking and had made biscuits and 'Amazing Balls Of Justice' which were little cakes that were supposed to be doughnuts but the oil was too hot and it was a little too dangerous. I missed this, probably for the best.
This year there are plans, some big, some small. Like I need to get my eyes tested. Not something I've been waiting for the new year to do, I've just not had time. Few other appointments I've not had time to do cause I've been working. Some other things there are to talk about. I've had this post in my head about recycling bopping about for a few weeks now.
Anyway, that's my dark little ramble, the usual way to continue with my life. However, of all the year reviews/looking forward to 2015 things out there, there is only one bloke who can really match the way I feel about it all: Charlie Brooker.
Reasons to be fearful 14. Epic.
I'm not really into nostalgia. It's not for me, that looking into the past and seeing it through rosy glasses and thinking it was better back then. Trust me, it wasn't better. It was worse. The past was shit. The future may or may not be, but at least that's on me. The past, that faraway past when I was a kid, the eighties and nineties, was something that was done to me, something I felt, I did not have control of. Actually, I'm not sure I had much control in my twenties either, but for different reasons. Childhood was something that was given to me, something I had to experience in whatever form it took at the time.
Now I'm an adult with fewer issues and better mental health and life is mine to experience as I want to.
Well, that's the ideal isn't it, and it's getting there, to that point where I am in charge of the things that happen in my life. Good and bad.
So nostalgia is just something that reminds me of all that crap I've been through, picking and choosing the little bits of those decades I enjoyed (mostly television and music) suits me fine.
What I do like about nostalgia is that it gives me the opportunity to share bits of my childhood and what it was like growing up in Britain with my wife who is from the States. We're of the same generation but our experiences are very different for many reasons, especially geography, and of course a lot of the popular culture. I mean, there is an overlap, but there's also a hell of a lot that we grew up that never made it across the Atlantic.
I was reminded of this gem today: A Milky Way advert from 1989 (I was seven). It popped into that brain during the final of The Apprentice, those first lines and – something I love about the internet – of course I could find it online and share it with her. I really like sharing the funny and oddities from growing up with her, we spend a lot of time talking about the good and bad stuff from our childhood, our pasts. We've both shared tv shows from when we kids. We've found episodes of all sorts of kids shows online.
I think it helps her understand some of the stuff that comes out of my head to see how I grew up. That and meeting my family (she still married me). Eventually I will take her to Coventry, where I lived until I was ten and the comprehension will be complete.
It does make a little nostalgia acceptable now and then, to have a reason behind other than randomly sharing those annoying facebook posts that proclaim life was better when we were kids. And how when we were kids we played out until dark and ate stuff off the floor. That's not better. That's just different. When our parents were kids, they only ate stuff off floors and didn't play at all and, according to my mum walked fifteen miles to school everyday. Which is surprising considering how little my mother actually went to school and how little it snows during the school year. I never ate stuff off the floor, cause my dad took Epilim and other medications that looked like smarties and had it drummed into me not to OR I COULD DIE (emphasis his). Also, I didn't play out until it was dark. Cause my mum didn't let me. And then I lived in the middle of bloomin' no where. Also I had a snes.
Sorry, off point a little.
I don't have those rose-tint glass for the eighties (seriously Thatcher stole my milk and screwed over my family) or the nineties (it sucked, really, I was miserable). I do enjoy sharing the little bits though with my wife, knowing she can enjoy them without any of the baggage that may come along with my own memories of them.
Finally, here is that advert for Milky Way that makes me smile because it made my wife smile.
The bookshop in my town in for sale.
It's been there for twenty years, since I was a kid, and I've bought and sold so many books there over the years. When I had no money for new books, I would sell them back some of my old books and use the money there and then usually. Back then I read book after book after book, without pause. I loved that bookshop.
When I was a teenager I wanted a bookshop of my own.
I actually made out floor plans of where I would live and how where everything would go in the shop and in the flat I would live in above it. I would paint the building purple. I've always loved purple.
So I kinda want to buy the bookshop.
It's a pipe-dream.
For a few reasons. I don't have the money for starters and I doubt I could get a loan. I would need money for the lease and for a few other things and I'm struggling to pay the bills here. I work twenty hours a week, and I actually really struggle with that some weeks. The full day I do on Wednesdays is a killer sometimes, I was ill today (sore throat and cold) and it was a nightmare. By three in the afternoon I was pretty much working on sugar and tea. I could go to bed now and it's not even ten pm. I could've gone to bed when I got home for work and it's been so long since I've needed an afternoon nap.
If I ran a shop, I would have to be there everyday. I would need to be. All day. Working. Trying to keep a shop above the water in a tough economy in a town that's actually been quieter than normal this winter (it's a tourist town, but this is even quieter than usual). It's a risk. My job is relatively solid even if the hours aren't enough.
I don't know much about running a business. I've worked in retail, done some financials for shops, but I don't know nearly enough to run a shop.
Part of me thinks I could do it. Part of me wants to so badly I actually made an appointment to see it tomorrow and asked to see the books for the last year or so.
I would hate to see it close, would hate to see this opportunity pass me by but goddam I will have to. Pipe dreams and all. I feel like I'm just torturing myself a little, because the depression isn't enough on itself that I need add to it.
I will probably cancel this viewing tomorrow and spend the day sleeping off this lurgy and spend some time with my wife.
Everything is grey and I'm tired.
I'm not sure what's started it: December, the weather, general malaise, missing my meds for a single day, messing up my patch for a day (different days) but the grey started before that. I'm tired. I didn't sleep properly for a few days but now, now I am sleeping and now I'm tired.
The grey means I'm just not excited or interested in anything. Everything is grey and uninteresting and all I want to do is watch endless repeats of shows I've seen before and play Oblivion on the xbox. I don't want to work, I don't want to write. I want to sleep and sleep and sleep in the grey.
Christmas is coming and I'm hardly interesting. A little more than last week now some of my wife's presents have come and I did some wrapping. I like buying people presents and wrapping them up and knowing they will enjoy the things I've gotten them. That has helped but not much, and I hate it because my wife loves Christmas and I want her to enjoy it but I am ambivalent at the best of times about the holiday.
Pancake Day, that's the holiday for me.
I'm tired.
Did I mention that? I have stuff to do. A piece to write for The Cult Den and fanfiction to write and stuff to learn for my HCA course for work. Things. But I've clocked over 50 hours on Oblivion and watched the first seven seasons of Mock the Week. It's good background noise.
I need background noise.
I need sleep.
I need to feel better.
I see perfection
she's sees everything with
a rim of darkness
around the edges that
pull in tighter as the day goes on longer.
She pulls me closer
to see me clearer
and everything fogs
but I still see perfection.
I'm lost without her,
she's fine without me.
Eventually there'll be nothing
between us and the daylight
she'll take all she can get
guided through what's left.
I just hope it's enough
to get around the darkness
that already claims so much of her light.


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Amsterdam: JUMP-START YOUR BUSINESS, GIRL!
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
18:30 – 22:00
Rockstart Accelerator
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"Women are born leaders. They just don't know it yet!"
You have a business idea! What are you waiting for? Now is the perfect moment to start!
Get inspiration and knowledge from experienced female founders! You'll hear about what it can be like to start a business from scratch. What challenges are there? How do you stay motivated? How do you reach higher levels? You get to ask the questions!
The founders of WEFOUND, World Women Startups & Entrepreneurs Foundation, will share valuable advice on how to start your own company. This will help you take your first steps towards independence.
Network your way to success! Connect with other like-minded women! Find your future co-founder or mentor! Exchange ideas with other ambitious women in an inspiring atmosphere!
You get: Inspiration, knowledge, meet experienced female founders, toolkit for successful female startups, present your own business, networking, an awesome location at Rockstart Accelerator, free drinks & snacks, lots of fun!
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18:30 – Welcoming
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Marina Tognetti, founder of Myngle
The concept of Myngle was created when founder Marina Tognetti was struggling to learn Chinese. A fully packed agenda, high prices and low availability of Chinese teachers were the main cause of a lot of grief and almost made her give up entirely. She then had a brainwave and realized that in fact it shouldn't be at all hard to find a good Chinese teacher – there are probably thousands of them in China! She resigned from her manager position at Ebay, together with 3 partners, she started Myngle. Now, a few years later, Myngle is providing affordable and high quality online language lessons to thousands of people all over the world.
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Forecasting has been Andrea's profession for more than fifteen years. She founded Second Sight, a platform, a publish company and 'boutique' for trend research and forecasting and futurising. She makes books, zines, reports and organize mash-ups, meetings and courses. Sciencefiction writing is now her favorite occupation! As a publisher, speaker, guest lecturer and project manager on future plans, she is never bored! She regularly gives presentations in the corporate sector for big brands, smaller organizations, NGO's or governmental institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Master Anubis
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Ok this is yet another thread about elo hell and leavers in the community. For those of you who don't know me i'm a heavy rank player i been trying to get out of elo hell i'v climb back to 1k+ elo from being way down in 700+ elo cause i played rank with a few new friends. Anyways my point is this. Now that i'm serious about rising my elo i can't seem to do it. Last 4 matchs i had leavers trolls and afking. I know riot can't do much about the troll geran who wanted to support my kog bot but he sat on tower and we got out lvled cause they did'nt push our lane and we lost cause he could'nt do anything to help me get exp or kills in lane phase. But the afking and leaving riot has full control over that. I'd like to know why i ended up with this akali who wanted mid even talks during champion select but as soon as the game starts she sits in base for the whole 20 mins of the game and we lost. I proceed to look at her match history and she has 4 leavers in her rank game history so within the 10 games your match history hold she had 4 leavers in RANK. So i ask my self why is this person making it into more and more rank games and continues to leave. Does riot not do anything about this. The community seems to be getting worst i leave rank for a day hoping it might of been a fluk but no i came back the next day to do my 1st rank and bam leaver again. What can i do at this rate i'm gonna keep losing elo with all the leavers and this just aint fun to play when they keep leaving your team handicap
Lios Ashenblade
Dude I know your pain, 200 elo dropped in 2 days, baddie after baddie...leaver after leaver
Junior Member
I played today like 10 games. In 6 games any player of my team leave. We need a high penalty about it, we can't play with 3v5, 4v5, so boring.. Dont know what, lose IP, ban, something! BUT WE NEED IT Trolls, Rage Quiters.. :/
Why doesn't riot just initiate a client ban?
A little story, When I first started playing ranked I had the same problems you guys are having and I dropped to about 1.1k elo, maybe a little less. It's pretty tough down there. In order to get out you have to change your mindset. Take your ten game match history, you can't look at the 4 games with leavers/trolls whatever and think "If only I hadn't had those trolls...." You have to look the the 6 winnable games and think "how could I have won those games" if you go 6 and 4 every ten games you will be out of elo hell. There is the possibilty of trolls/leavers for both teams at that elo. I know it always seems like they are on your team but that won't be true forever. Because of this though you have to capitalize on every chance to win. You can't risk losing a winnable game because you can't play support. You can't risk losing a game cause you got into a fight with your jungle cause he doesn't gank enough. You have to work with your teammates as much as possible. It's very obvious in this game to tell who's trying and who isn't. If someone is trying, but failing, help them. Offer to switch lanes, ward for them, tell them what they are doing wrong (nicely), ping for them when a gank is inc. Reassure them by saying things like "don't worry about getting kills in your lane, just cs as much as possible and don't lose the lane and we got this." It will take the presure off them, they won't feel the need to press for kills. If you really shouldn't be at 1k elo doing any of these things shouldn't be too hard. I'm at 1350 now, I'm not a pro and I'm not so far removed from elo hell that I don't remember what it's like. I can tell you this though, at 1300+ the population of trolls and leavers drop a ton.
Don't get me wrong there are things riot needs to do to help us out. I feel if you get a leaver status 3 times or more within 24 hours you should be 2 day banned. I also think leaves need to absorb more of the cumulative elo loss of the team. IMO everyone on the team with the leaver should lose half of the elo they were going to lose and the leaver should lose their elo plus the remaining elo for everyone else. If you already do everything I said then keep plugging away, you will get out of elo hell. If you want you can add me and we can play a couple of games. I'll duo queue with you after a few normals to make sure you're not bad
Be careful with the leaver penalties. While I agree 100% with the repeated leaver penalties, be careful about the occasional offense. While not ranked, I've had two oddball matches where my internet connection dropped for no reason for an hour. Should I be heavily penalized for this when the other 99% of my games I finish? It's a tricky subject to fix.


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As others have said, this recipe is the real thing. It is canonical Swiss fondue. Nice to see a couple of the tweaks others have suggested: nutmeg, herbs de provence. Not both of course. Serve with cornichon pickles, pickled pearl onions, and sliced fruit, usually apples. Somebody said it reheats. I have never seen a fondue that reheats but the best thing to do is that if there is ever any left - rare in my house - scrape out the rubbery pieces, cut them up, and use them in omelets. Oh. my.
really delicious and fun recipe. i wondered if the cheese was going to come together but in the end it was smooth and silky. my family loved it. we got it on the table in about 30 minutes so much faster than i imagined all the prep would be. guess we will have to buy our own fondue pot now...
I'm Swiss and this recipe is nearly perfect. Do NOT omit the Kirsch and add a little nutmeg as you cook. The "crust" truly is a delicacy, and you don't need to wait until the end to enjoy it - just gently scrape it from the bottom of the pot every ten minutes or so. For a true Swiss experience, serve with a shot glass of Kirsch for dipping and sipping, and Fendant wine, if you can find it. And don't forget the classic Swiss rule - if you drop your bread in the pot, you must go around the table and kiss each member of the opposite sex.
WOW. This is a spectacular recipe. I just returned from Geneva, and this recipe is spot on authentic. I added a little Herbs Du Provence. My guests were highly impressed.
Easy and excellent! As other reviewers have noted, make certain you use good wine!
First time making fondue. This recipe is spot on!! I followed a reviewers suggestion on mixing the shredded cheese with the corn starch and stick with the slurry of a little corn starch with kirsch. Keep stirring-- added a few house made sausages, grilled and sliced from whole foods for a man's type meal. Awesome!!
This fondue is delicious. I love garlic, so I wouldn't dream of discarding it. Instead, I minced and cooked the garlic, and included it in the fondue (just before adding the wine). Since the recipe has so few ingredients, make sure the wine you use tastes good on its own (to avoid the whole "garbage in, garbage out" scenario). If you find that you want a smoother fondue, try making a slurry of cornstarch (~1 tablespoon) and water and adding this as you heat and stir the fondue in the last step. This recipe reheats well if you have leftovers or want to prepare it in advance. Make it, you'll love it.
This recipe is spot on to what my Swiss friend gave me years ago. I use a mix of Emmental, Gruyere & Appenzeller, put the cheeses in a ziplock bag with the cornstarch & shake it-it makes it easier to prepare the cheeses ahead of time. When it comes time for the kirch addition, I'll make a paste out of an additional 1/2 tbl.


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I found this in the middle of a bridal path. It was going to get trampled, so I bought it home. It takes off wherever it touches ground. I think it might be Geranium endresii or x oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink.' It has markedly veined flowers with notched petals. The color is a more vivid than the pictures I see of Wargrave Pinks, though. I have photos. It thrives in the shade. I've divided it, but never deliberately planted it from seed, but it has self-sown, so you should be successful. Unsprayed, organic garden. I've only captured about 15 seeds - if you know geraniums, you know they fling them in a hurry - but I'll try to get a few more. I'd love to get some unsprayed seeds for flowers that thrive in my area - try me. Also interested in any organic lettuce that isn't redina. |
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You're in hardiness zone 8. You might include that somewhere. Most people post it where you have Puget Sound. You might add the number 8. I have unsprayed flower seeds. Check my list. It grows pretty often. My flowers are starting to seed. I got rid of all my old seeds so all of them listed are from 2014. Heidi in Nebraska |
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Fiery desert test of new moon rocket hailed as success by NASA...
A million pounds of propellant was ignited in the Utah desert today, as NASA tested a new moon rocket.
A massive cloud of smoke and dust rose as the rocket blasted flames for more than two minutes.
The rocket itself was fastened horizontally to the ground on a testing pad.
The Ares I rocket is part of the new technology intended to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020.
The rocket is designed to eventually boost a 321-foot long vehicle, and its crew, about 36 miles into space in about 120 seconds.
But a White House panel says there may not be enough funding for the Ares I rocket.


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Postgame: Kyrie Irving (4/20)
Submitted by mhaltuch on April 20, 2012 - 10:37pm
Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving addresses the media following Friday night's 98-90 win over the New York Knicks.
CLEVELAND, OH - April 20, 2012 - Cavaliers Forward/Center Anderson Varejao continues to rehabilitate and recover from his fractured right wrist. While the healing of his fracture has progressed well, his full recovery is not complete and he is still experiencing some soreness in the wrist.