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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Kanye's OPUS...
The first part of that definition, "a creative work", is what seems to have been lacking from hip-hop albums for a minute. This year, with exceptions of GAME, Common, and an honorable mention of Beanie Sigel, hip-hop has been pretty much the same it's been for the past few years. That is, formulaic, overly thugged and gangstered-out, and seemingly half-hearted. Basically, I couldn't FEEL people's albums. I could listen to them, but I didn't FEEL them. I felt GAME's album. He had some stuff he made you feel. He spit with a passion like that of a budding artist starving to get his voice hear. I felt Common's album for similar reasons. Lyrically, he's one of the best, hands-down. And his content is REAL.
If you agree with me in this, you will find Kanye's latest CD, Late Registration to be a great break from the norm. The music alone on this CD is worth 5 mics (shot out to the SOURCE)! The sound of this album is, in a word, unique. Not Electric Circus (Common) unique. Not, Jay-Z and Linkin Park unique. But Kanye unique. Take the sound of Common's latest CD, BE (which Kanye executive produced) and "re-master" it, and then you have Late Registration. And by no means does BE need to be remastered, but if it were, it would probably have the rich and full sound of Late Registration.
Late Registration is easily a 4.5 - 5 mic album by any magazine's rating system. It's definitely the best album out since Kanye's last album. Two classics! He puts a lot of effort into his work and it shows. So maybe his cockiness when it comes to his music is warranted. I mean, every good businessman stands behind his product and Kanye is no exception.
From the music behind the words, to the content, delivery, flow, and creativity, this album is on another level. While he's not the best lyricist out there, he has a way of putting his words together very creatively and it complements the topics he addresses very well. Kanye has a knack for creativity and creating soulful music with some real meaning behind it. He addresses things that many people think and/or question through his music and that (to me) makes him real and not just a rapper/celebrity.
He is one of my favorite rappers and I critique him heavily when he comes out with new music, but I am going to try to sit-back and enjoy this one, because it's an album that should simply be enjoyed and appreciated. That is, if you like G.O.O.D. Music.
PHOTOS: More VMA Photos...
Is it just me...Or do 50's eyebrows get thinner and thinner every time I see a picture of him. Not to mention they look like they're arched...OMG! LMAO! He's doing his thing business-wise. MOP, Ma$e, Mobb Deep. I wonder who's next?
I am definitely gonna go check out that movie he's starring in, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Lookin smooth Fif!
Shakira. No commentary necessary on this one...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Crucial (and I do mean CRUCIAL) Keys looking fine as usual.
It's just one thing that got me tripping...That DRESS. She's a beautiful girl, I wish she picked a better dress.
I love Ciara ya'll! And so does Bow Wow. That dress she had on, MAN! Can we say legs? She should write a song and say "I put the Wow in Bow Wow!"
Shot out to Common...He's a smooth dude. And David Banner is looking CLEAN too! Nice job fellas!
Whether he's Puff Daddy, P Diddy, or DIDDY, you gotta give Sean Combs his props!
Imma Eva-Believa. Tony Parker you lucky dog.
Didn't really want to put this one up, but Ice-T's wife obviously wants the attention.
Two of the funniest looking dudes in hip-hop! I love Jigga man (shot out to Laf) and Jeezy got a decent album on his hands, but boy this picture is hilarious!
Another fine young actress. She's HOT!
Damn she FINE! John Legend is my man and all but he needs to loosen up that jacket!
I'm giving Luda props for doing the go-go version of pimpin all over the world...Although I don't like the song, I am glad Rare Essence got that exposure.
How Snoop won the best dressed award is BEYOND ME!
Returning perishables???
I say this because T and I were in Walmart on Saturday and this lady was in the customer service line returning some frozen pizza things. I thought it was pretty damn weird myself, but maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm tryna be too high-society or something.
Please advise.
Friday, August 26, 2005
HOW MUCH I LOVE SOUTH FLORIDA: What A Way to End the Summer...
It seems T and I were lucky enough to miss Hurrican Katrina and it also looks like Miami will recover from the hurricane just in time for my arrival. Labor Day in Miami should be great! As always, I'll post some pictures once I return home.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
PHOTOS: HOW MUCH I LOVE SOUTH FLORIDA: Fort Lauderdale
We left EARLY Thursday morning. And I mean EARLY as in the eye-crud was so thick it dried on my eye like Elmer's Glue. We got a lift to the airport by T's dad and made it there in pretty good time. It was a fairly short flight (about 2 hours and 15 minutes). Once we got to Fort Lauderdale T was hungry so we got some food in the airport.
You can see T looking real cute at the Fort Lauderdale airport in line to get something to eat.
Notice she has a HUGE smile on her face while eating this nice breakfast. Meanwhile, look at ya boy!
Notice that I am NOT eating. Okay, let me stop faking, it's because I wasn't hungry! Also, notice that my sometimes "wall" eye is looking directly at your a$$. LMAO! Anyway, the Fort Lauderdale airport was nice, but we had to bigger places to go, like the Avalon Waterfront Inn. CHYEAH!
So we take a cab to the hotel and get ourselves ready for some "fun in the sun" as T would say. Here's a nice picture we took at the hotel.
So we get checked-in and alladat and head to water. I will be keeping the beach pictures to myself (so so sorry).
Just to give you an idea of how wealthy the area of Ft. Lauderdale is, I'll give you a couple pictures of a high-rise that was being built right on the water. The residences in the building start at $1.15 million!!!
After we left the beach and changed our clothes, we took a walk down the main strip of Ft. Lauderdale Beach and ended up coming to a small shopping center with a few restaurants including Hooters (where we ended up getting food) and Fat Tuesdays (alcohol...YES!!!).
We ended up eating at Hooters which really SUCKED! I don't recommend going at all. The girls are low-budget and that tacky outfit just doesn't do it for me. Besides, the hamburger tasted like chicken! After Hooters, I did a chance to light up a nice stogie! It's tradition for me (shot out to WG)! Out of town on vacation, light up a cigar (preferably a vanilla or cherry-wrapped cigar...I love those!). So while we were at Fat Tuesdays sippin on some daquiri's, I ran and got a cigar and lit it up!
YES, I think I'm cool...Don't HATE!
Amidst all this, I got a chance to get some nice pictures of T. I think these are cute.
The next day we took a water taxi to the movies to see Four Brothers. Again, I highly recommend checking this movie out! It was GREAT! On the way to the movies, we saw a RACK of people's million dollar homes, sitting right on the water. These houses were HUGE and very ornate. They were owned by stars and businessmen. Basically people who have money beyond belief. We even saw a boat that costs $35 million. Check it out.
We went to the Los Olas Riverfront (which was a very nice little shopping center). Here are some pictures...
We also ate in a real ritzy area after the movies. This area seemed to the the Dupont Circle (for all my DC folks) or Mt. Vernon (for all my Bmore folks) of Fort Lauderdale. For everyone who really thinks about this, you'll know what I mean. I like to call these areas the "diamond district" because the men are just as high maintenance as the women (hint hint). Anyway, I was quite disturbed when we left the restaurant because TWO GUYS (hint...damn..hint) were waiting at the table next to us for T and I to get up. So I paid the bill and when we were getting up a GUY says to me "Do you mind if we take your table? I see you were KEEPING IT WARM for us". FELLAS, all I have is one question. What dude that you know says "I see you were keeping it warm for us." Think about that, would YOU ever say that to another GUY? Hell no! Me either. So needless to say, because we were in the "diamond district" I was quite bothered by this, which T got a HUGE kick out of as usual. Aside from that incident, the Los Olas Riverfront was a GREAT experience.
Saturday we took a trip to MIAMI. South Beach BABY! I was really excited about this because Miami is one of my FAVORITE places to be. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to catch a boat from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami. The ride took us about 2.5 hours but the scenery was really nice.
While in South Beach we ate a the Lincoln Road Cafe on Lincoln Road. The food was really really good. We were walking around on Lincoln Road in search of a place to eat when one of those mini torrential tropical downpours hit, which really blew me. But we ended up standing under an umbrella at the hostess desk of a lil cafe and ended up going in to dine. The food was suprisingly good. But they served your sodas to you in a coke can with an accompanying goblet which was HILARIOUS to me!
One of the most interesting and crazy things I saw in Fort Lauderdale was this sandbar that's in the middle of a bay. Now keep in mind that a bay is like the size of a river basically, so it can get really really deep and wide. So we're coming back from Miami and there's this sandbar in the middle of the water and people have their boats parked (anchored) around this sandbar (probably about 50 yards in diameter). The crazy part is that these people were STANDING IN THE WATER. Imagine riding the Potomac River or Baltimore Harbor on a boat and seeing someone standing right in the middle of it and the water only comes up to their chest. Well, that's exactly how it looked. Check it out. You can even see a red and black hot dog stand in the middle of one of the pictures.
Once we got back from Miami, we hit the beach again and T played around in the water for a while. Afterward we headed back to the hotel to get dolled up for our last night in Fort lauderdale. We ended up having a nice dinner at a restaurant called Sloppy Joes. Nice conversation as well. Overall, it was a VERY nice trip and I had a really really good time. I wish you guys could have been there to experience it with us.
FELLAS, like the Backwudz say..."YOU GONNA LOVE MEEEEEEEEE!"
All I can say is WHOA!
Monday, August 22, 2005
Banging Makaveli in the IPOD...
If one more person tells me I need to get an iPOD I'm going to scream. While
I recognize the inherent trendiness of a 10,000 song music library at my
finger tips and an 11 hour battery life (minus the iTrip) there's just
something wrong with having that much music at your fingertips. For someone
who nearly sets her mood for the day by what music she listens to in the
morning, the thought of someone having 10K options at their disposal
throughout the day is liable to make them a lunatic. Never mind the
additional technology needed to make the thing run. Where do you think
those songs come from, because you know they don't just magically appear on
the iPod.
But iPod will save Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL). At least that what
everyone says, so it MUST be true. Hey, I'm not complaining, as a stock
holder if it's good for Apple it's good for me. Just don't expect me to go
down with the rest of society on this wave of technology. I still think
vinyl has superior aesthetic quality to digital music, and prefer film
development from negatives opposed to digital renditions. The second I
figure out how to abandon personal computer technology (minus in-car GPS)
I'm out! Hit me up with the next soon to be 42-cents stamp!
Trapped in the closet...
Four Brothers...
John Singleton definitely has another solid movie to add to his increasing line of great movies. I highly recommend you check this movie out. Moreso than Hustle and Flow, which was a real let-down for me.
Friday, August 12, 2005
DUMBASS Award Runner-UP
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Shot out to Rah on sending me this joint!
DUMBASS Award for the week
Sounds like something from a movie doesn't it? Well, this movie doesn't have a happy ending. This woman did successfully break her husband out of police custody and they made a fairly clean escape. But she took a bullet in the process and they were subsequently caught a day later.
Now here's the dumbass part! They fled to another state and caught a cab ride for $185.00 to another state (I wish I could find that article I read). They told the cab driver that they were headed to an Amway convention. Okay, there's the DUMBASS part. They ended up getting caught at a hotel where the room. Before the police entered the room, they called the room and asked for Jennifer. She responded "Yes." DUMBASS!
Then they proceeded to tell her that they were surrounded and they should come out with their hands up. The couple was then apprehended with no problems. The hotel room was described as having weapons and with the mattress halfway off the boxspring? Hmmmmnnnn...Mattress halfway off the box spring. Sounds like some "relations" to me...Was this just an escape to have a "conjugal" visit? I sure hope not.
She gets the DUMBASS award for the week because she took a bullet and actually answered to her name when the police called basically giving them both away! And they both get a DUMBASS award for telling the cab driver they were headed to an Amway convention and paying $185 for a cab ride.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Ladies, keep your skin clean...
And if I see one more lady with the tattoo on the small of her back that looks like a XXX symbol I am going to scream. It was sexy when it was only a few girls with that tattoo but now it's like everybody has a tattoo in that spot of seemingly the same design. At least be creative if you gonna get one there!
For all you ladies out there who are serious about your health and appearance and can feel me on this tattoo thing, here's a nice book you should get by Mikki Taylor, Self-Seduction. And I want it to be known that I am not against women with tattoos, I am just against women with too many tattoos and tattoos in places that they won't look cute in 1) 10 years and 2) a classy dress.
Do yourselves a favor and surprise your girl with a nice book...
The S-Factor
I am sure your lady will appreciate it.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Money Changes You...
"Money changes things, man. And the person who tells you that finances don't change you – if money don't change you, it's because you're not making enough. Because it will change you, you know what I'm saying? It will change your thought process because as you become successful you're going to act with a circle that is more successful. They think on a higher level. [Success] ain't an accident."
I think I agree with that statement. Not that I know because I ain't making enough...LOL. But I definitely agree with the last 3 sentences.
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Public Service Announcement: Stop wearing those B.B.B.B.'s!!!
I HATE these slippers. And yes, I understand HATE is a strong word, but in this case, I really do mean it. I can't stand these joints! Everybody from toddlers to grown women (damn shame) have a pair of these. You automatically descrease your net worth by 10% when you slide your feet into these low-budget slippers. These are arguably worse than those Ninja slippers girls in PG used to wear back in like 97-98.
I am not sure who came up with this flier, but I agree 100%!!! Ladies take heed please!
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Fort Lauderdale-BOUND...
I'm looking forward to this trip...Clear skies, clear water, clear liquor (YES), and relaxing in the sun!
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
TC Tuesdays: Heatwave!!
Are you ready for the heatwave? If you are on the East Coast, then
you have been feeling this heatwave for about a week now. I hope
you are reading this email in some air conditioning, because today
is supposed to be yet another 90-degree scorcher. Once the heat
gets this intense, it becomes too hot for a lot of things; I have
created a list below. If you find yourself doing any of those
things on the list, I command you to immediately stop what you
are doing, go sit in front of a fan and eat as many ice cubes as you
can in 5 minutes; you'll thank me once you're hydrated.
-Dude, It's too hot to fight right now. If I catch a beef with
somebody, we just gonna have to squash it till September, we'll
probably both pass out after swings anyway.
-Ladies, it's too hot to have like 3 or 4 pound of weave in your
hair, I know your scalp smells like fried okra. Let it breathe,
-It's too hot to be wearing timberlands, point blank. But dammit
I still wear mine damn near every day. But if you ever see me with
some slouch socks on, I hereby give you permission to spit in your
palm and smack the sh*t out of me.
-It's too hot to be getting drunk. My Ethiopian friend Nate got
twisted at Republic Gardens last week, and burst into flames as soon
as he walked out the door.
-It's too hot to be hanging outside for no reason. I know ya'll
"thugs" gotta make ya'lls money, but you better get in some air
conditioning; only people coming on the strip in this heat are
dedicated pipeheads (the ones who dance for rocks) and Satan.
-It's too hot to have cookouts. Move that grill inside and just
make sure you don't burn the ribs, or your smoke detector will be
screeching like Mariah Carey at the BET Awards.
-It's too hot to be doing all that terrorist sh*t, so could
somebody two-way Bin Laden's Sidekick and tell him to wait until the
fall to bomb us? You know, like he did last time.
-It's too hot to be mad, so if you did like that last line I
wrote, go drink some Aquafina, think of something funny, and chuckle
to yourself.
-Ladies, it's too hot to have all that make up caked on your face,
I saw this chick on the blue line yesterday, it looked like her face
was melting; she looked like Michael Jackson made up as a clown;
kids were crying, retarded people were doing the moonwalk, the
train conductor was singing "Thriller;" it was just terrible.
Ladies, lay off the MAC until September.
-It's too hot for car accidents! Please people, drive like you
got some sense, because road rage gets 100% worse when it's hot
outside. Some people are already pissed off because they are
driving a hooptie with no A/C and the windows don't roll down, so
just imagine how quick they will flick off if you cut them off in
-It's too hot to be outside playing basketball, football, baseball,
hell any kind of sport. Now is the time to be playing your
Playstation 2, your Xbox, or whatever.
-Its too hot to be wearing them thick ass, hot ass t-shirts; you
know, those joints with the hoodie on the back of it? Man, you
better get you a cut off or a wifebeater before you sweat to death.
And not one of those gay ass G-Unit 50 cent looking wifebeaters
JRon's Addition:
It's too hot to be tryin' to look cute! You can't look cute and smell good until after about 7:30/8:00 p.m. from late July - August. Not to mention what the humidity does to some of the ladies hair! If you come out of the house any other time, within minutes you will be smelling like a combination of skin and "outside" and will remain perpetually moist.
Tiff's Addition:
Fellas if you are a "pimp in ur own mind" and its this HOT outside,
leave the mountain of cologne and the three piece suit with the matching
gaitors (w/out socks I might add) at home. And for the love of all that is right in the world, being preppy does NOT mean having on some shorts that come ABOVE your knees...yes we can respect that its hot outside but I don't want to see your knees and furthermore...IF you are a man that is secure enough to wear flip-flops, be secure enough to get a pedicure BEFORE doing so...and keep your knees and feet hook up with some lotion man...
Monday, August 1, 2005
SOCIAL OUTCRY: 50 cent clothes, water, and watches....all OVERPRICED
Now, here's a watch that performs the same function, for $180:
"Tell em why you mad son, tell em why you man!"
Do "they" think we're dumb? Do you think that because I like Jay-Z and 50 Cent; because I wear baggy clothes; because I wear a button-up and blazer; because I blast my rap music when you pull up next to me at a stoplight...That I AM DUMB????
Come on man! Like T.I. said..."You don't know ME!"
Man, we gotta think about what type of respect people have for our intelligence when they start doing stuff like this. I mean, there's a $300 mark-up on a product because 50's name is on it...First and foremost, don't think I don't realize that I can get the same product for a lot cheaper. Secondly, don't think that I am gonna buy something simply because Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is associated with it. Hell, after that last album, I don't know if I'd buy anything 50 Cent sponsors! I won't rant and rave about this people.
But I will say, seek and ye shall find. Don't think that the 50 Cent MP3 player is the ONLY mp3 player out there! Search around for comparable products before you just run out and buy what you're favorite rapper is sponsoring and wearing/using/etc. I know that it's hard to resist those fresh S. Carter tennis shoes (hell, I got a pair). I know it's hard not to cop that new Rocawear tee...But daggonit, be smart about it. Catch it on sale. Go look around before you head straight to your usual spot to cop an overpriced product. This is something that I AM WORKING ON right now! So I'm preaching to myself as well. But I realize that I have to be smarter and pay for quality and value rather than a name. Not that rappers aren't behind quality products, but you guys know what I mean. We're smart and it's time we act like it!
DUMBASS Award for the week...
And today, the man will be getting suspended for taking 'roids...Somebody please tell him that Cialis and Viagra will cause a positive drug test...
-Fred Sanford
ADDENDUM: More incriminating information on our DumbAss for the week
PHOTOS: Fantasia...Go Ahead and Free yourself
I mean yeah the trailer was cool, but what's the fuss about???
I gotta admit that I was kinda siced up to see this movie. So much so that I planned to take my half-day last Friday and go catch this joint. Well, I did just that. But it wasn't as good as I was hoping. Fortunately for me though, I went to a matinee show, so at the very least I can smile and say: "At least I didn't pay full price!"
The movie was NOT that bad at all. It was defintely a movie that entertains you. However, I left the movie theater feeling a little disappointed. Terrence Howard was good in his portrayal of a pimp turned desparate rapper. I haven't heard that many "Mannnn"'s since Dead Presidents (remember his role in that movie). But overall, the movie didn't really move me or make me go "Wow!" like I had anticipated.
On a scale of 1-10, I'd have to give this movie a 7. It really left me expecting more. While I can't recommend that you avoid seeing this film, I will say that it's worth the price of a matinee admission.
Go see it and feel free to let me know your thoughts! If you have already seen it, let me know if it's just me or not. PEACE!


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Internationally infamous fake-news writer Paul Horner dies in Phoenix
Kaila White and Alden Woods, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 7:00 a.m. MT Sept. 26, 2017 | Updated 1:01 p.m. MT Sept. 27, 2017
Fake-news pioneer Paul Horner, whose hoaxes drew international attention on the Internet and during the 2016 presidential election, died in Phoenix on Sept. 18, officials confirmed. He was 38.
For at least six years, Horner sprayed the Internet with intentionally false stories designed to inflame readers. Those stories often went viral on Facebook, allowing him to misinform tens or hundreds of thousands of people — including eventual voters — from his Phoenix apartment.
"All the stuff I write has a moral purpose of targeting things I don't like in society," Horner told The Arizona Republic in a September 2016 interview. "Anybody who gets tricked by my stuff is people that I'm targeting, trying to make them change the way they think."
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mark Casey said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that there were no signs of foul play in Horner's death, which is under investigation.
"Interviews with Mr. Horner's family indicate the deceased was known to use and abuse prescription drugs. Evidence at the scene suggested this could be an accidental overdose," the statement said.
Horner died in the Laveen area of southwest Phoenix. His brother, JJ, said in a Facebook post that Paul died peacefully and in his sleep.
Paul Horner also was a stand-up comedian and host of a downtown Phoenix comedy show called "Mystery Show," which attracted a few dozen attendees each show. But once Horner's false content gained traction online, his infamous influence spread throughout the country.
"There's nothing that I'm putting out now that's not getting at least 20 to 50 thousand views," Horner said last year. "And that's not really viral. A hundred-thousand is viral."
Using official-sounding domain names like CNN.co.de and Microsoftsite.com, Horner's stories swerved from over-the-top jokes to political firebombs, namely the super-viral "Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: 'I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trump's Rally."
His stories followed a simple formula: Use a famous name, include a real photo and make at least the first few sentences read like a standard news story. That way, his stories would have credibility before readers began to doubt.
"Anybody can write a story," Horner said. "I'll make sure the first couple paragraphs are always super-legit. The title will be legit, the image when you share it on Facebook will look super-legit, everything will look super-real, perfect. And then after that, I'll just gradually have more and more ridiculous bulls--t."
Many of his hoaxes were picked up by news outlets and political players who failed to fact-check the claims.
Are we SURE he's dead???


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Bancroft JD, Gamble M. Theory and practice of histological techniques. London: Churchill Livingstone, 6th ed, 2008.
Journal of Histotechnology
American Journal of Pathology
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We have been struggling lately to get Lila to fall asleep in her own bed. She fights going to bed (or even just going to sleep) with every fiber of her being. But especially with the imminent move to a downstairs bedroom we are working hard at getting her to go to bed and stay there.
Last night was pretty typical. I tucked her in, a few minutes later she wandered out to "tell us something", so I put her back in bed. A few minutes later I hear a noise and see her peeking around the corner of the hall, I send her back to bed. That happens
27 a few more times over the next half hour. Brian and I started a movie. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blanket waving in the air. Lila was spreading out a blanket and was ready to play with her doll in the hallway. I spoke quite sharply to her and she gathered up her toys and cried her way back into the bed. That was the last we heard from her, so I assumed that she had finally fallen asleep.
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She is too clever for her own good. She figured out that if I couldn't see her or hear her then I wouldn't chase her out of the hall and back into her own bed. I was seriously tempted to let her sleep there all night. But Brian couldn't maneuver around her to get into the bedroom, and it just seemed a little too mean to make him sleep on the couch because Lila had crashed in the hallway.


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Wordless (???) Wednesday WHAT??? - *Who knows what to call this silly post? Mom says yesterday we crossed all our T's, so today we will dot our "eyes:)* *Woos - Lightning, Misty, and Tim...
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- Maggie and Mitch said...
What awesome pictures of the two of you! We thoroughly enjoyed them!
Love ya lots
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- September 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM
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hello munchkins, it's good to see you again... 100 times!
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Any pic of you two cuties is beautiful - we have missed you.
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Mollie and Doyle,
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What a lovely lot of photos. All so cute
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Kashmir endures University terrorism
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln
Shiyam Vij, a veteran journalist, writes in The Express Tribune (March 07, 2014) "It is no secret that most Kashmiri Muslims don't like India and don't want to be called Indians. If there is a big India-Pakistan match and you are in Srinagar (Kashmir´s capital), you would think you are in Pakistan". Sixty six years of occupation has amply demonstrated through armed uprising, intifada using stones and bricks or even peaceful processions that Kashmir is not comfortable with the status-quo that India so cherishes and loves to maintain by hook or by crook.
Vij further stresses that "There is no doubt that India is holding on to Kashmir through the military jackboot, like many such places tend to be"; but seems to miss the point that Kashmiri Pandits were taken for a ride and asked to leave Kashmir temporarily to dress down Muslims killing them indiscriminately involving four corners of Kashmir. Indian governor Jagmohan Malhotra miscalculated hoping to crush uprising against India with an iron hand ended up sealing the fate of any rapprochement or understanding between Srinagar and Delhi.
Two and half decades back on October 13, 1983, politically motivated cricket match between India and West-Indies turned out even more embarrassing for India when Cricket legends Vivian Richards and Malcolm Marshall were amazed to see Kashmiris showering them with flowers and garlands for every four runs hit across the boundary or on an Indian wicket falling and Indian players like Sunil Gavaskar or Kapil Dev booed and jeered. The high profile political sports activity came to a halt when people jumped the fence and rushed to the wickets to dig the ground, though West-Indies won the match hands down by 28 runs.
Times of India reports that one hundred fifty Kashmiri students were expelled from the University in India´s UP state for supporting Pakistan on winning a cricket match against India played on March 02, 2014. This was not a match of the millennium but a usual affair of India-Pakistan cricketing history. Kashmir has always supported Pakistan in any sporting event against India and even supports a third country playing against India. It is very unfortunate that India chooses to ignore the factuality of Kashmiri resentment and the stark message of ending occupation in Kashmir.
"Angry Hindu students of the University started to thrash Kashmiri students and had the seniors not intervened, the enraged students would have lynched them to death". Students victimised informed media on phone. The news about the treatment meted out to Kashmiri students travelled to Kashmir igniting already charged up atmosphere. An undeclared curfew, hide and seek with brickbat missiles and shutdown (February 09, 2014, Afzal Guru´s death anniversary) depicted Kashmir as a ghost town, hundreds of leaders and activists arrested for violating prohibitory orders using draconian laws to deal with general public sternly. Chairman of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik was arrested along with several of his close associates. Malik stated that unless Kashmir problem was resolved, Kashmiris would continue to suffer.
Mudasir Yaqoob, a well known Kashmiri journalist, reports that three Kashmiri students were injured in a scuffle with RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) a militant Hindu organisation as they (students) were observing the first anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Guru. Guru was hanged and buried within the precincts of Delhi´s notorious Tihar jail. The students were brutally attacked for raising slogans for ´justice´ and return of mortal remains of their murdered leader. Hurriyat leader Ali Shah Geelani is reported to have stated that "communal and sick-minded people have once again proved that Indian democracy is a big fraud and there is no democratic sense even in New Delhi".
A report published by Authintmail.com recorded that scores of parents from Kashmir staged a protest in Srinagar´s Press Enclave to highlight that the authorities of educational institutions in India were forcing their children to vacate the colleges and or universities on the pretext that India´s ministry of human resource development has rejected to bear their expenses. The students were initially with great publicity admitted in these institutions under so called "Prime Minister's Scholarship Program".
Press Trust of India reports citing a spokesperson of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon that the United Nations is available to mediate between Pakistan and India over Kashmir if both sides were to request that. The fact remains that Kashmir is a burning political issue fraught with serious consequences and warring factions must shun aggrandisement guided by nostalgia.
The United States (March 07, 2014) reiterating its concern said that long-standing tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir are a threat to the regional stability and world peace; General Lloyd J Austin, Commander of the US Central Command said in his testimony before House Armed Services Committee. China once again officially stated that "Kashmir a clear-cut issue is a legacy from history" and brushed aside India´s concerns about the proposed Pakistan-China Economic Corridor. In order to find a lasting solution, many believe that apart from Kashmir, India and Pakistan, the fourth party China must be involved in any dialogue to settle this long standing international human problem.
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The Proteas ace will join the county in June as he looks to return to full fitness after a series of injuries.
Veteran Proteas fast bowler, Dale Steyn will join English county side, Hampshire for the 2018 domestic season.
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He will join up with the county in June, a month before South Africa is set to tour Sri Lanka for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one T20 international.
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'Stuart Pearce, he's one of our own'.
Those were the words chanted by 2,734 Forest supporters in the away end at Pride Park on Saturday afternoon.
Moments previously, and deep into the four minutes of added time, Derby-born midfielder Ben Osborn had wandered forward before planting an absolute rocket past Lee Grant to secure a 2-1 victory for the Reds.
How fitting then that Lee Grant, with a forlorn expression on his face at the full-time whistle, had been the one winding up the travelling contingent with his pathetic attempts to time waste at 1-0 up. Karma is such a wonderful thing at times.
Going into the break the Reds were down and seemingly out yet again. Despite only trailing the Rams by a goal to nil thanks to a Henri Lansbury own goal, you half expected the team to unravel as they have done so often of late.
But something seemed to change in 45 second-half minutes at the iPro Stadium. Of all places, eh?
Forest proceeded to put on show a Stuart Pearce-type performance that we have been so desperately craving in recent weeks. From Dorus de Vries in goal to Britt Assombalonga up front, every single player wearing red rolled up their sleeves and stood up to be counted.
It is hard to put in to perspective how proud I am as a Red sat here today writing these notes.
The last few weeks have been tough for everyone associated with the club and here we were trailing the club with arguably the best squad in the division – on their own patch. The writing was pretty much on the wall and the question was really a case of limiting the score to keep the embarrassment factor down yet again.
Instead the players knuckled down, didn't go into hiding and grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck in an attempt to get something from a crucial fixture.
I would love to know what Pearce had said to his players at half-time because clearly there was some motivation from somewhere – we looked a different side to the one we had seen sapped of confidence over the past few weeks.
Maybe the Forest boss had just asked his players to have a go, force them into mistakes, play that extra pass, and create some chances.
It just goes to show that anything can happen in derby matches and that form really does fall by the wayside on such big occasions.
Quite simply, some of their so-called 'better' players didn't turn up. Richard Keogh cuts this figure of being a tough tackling 'come and have a go if you think you're big enough' sort of centre-back, but his defending for the winner was woeful.
Keogh and Jake Buxton hate having pressure put on them. They go into hiding, back off strikers and give them the time and space to cause chaos.
How Buxton doesn't get sent off every week is beyond me. His style is uncompromising to the point where he makes himself look silly.
I haven't seen anything like his foul on Michail Antonio since I last watched the UFC, the referee should have stopped the contest never mind award the Reds a deserved penalty. I know I speak from a biased point of view but give me Jack Hobbs any day of the week over either Buxton or Keogh.
Hobbs' performance on Saturday afternoon epitomised everything that wearing a Forest shirt should be about. When Jamie Ward had sprinted past him in the second-half on Saturday you feared the worst for a still relatively rusty Hobbs. Hobbs took three huge steps and proceeded to crunch into a crucial tackle to clear the danger. Kelvin Wilson alongside him deserves praise too as he looked more solid than he has all season and the winning goal actually started from his headed clearance.
Gary Gardner is another who deserves special praise for his performance at the weekend. He really is some player and given Aston Villa's current plight it is strange that he hasn't been given a chance in the first-team at Villa Park.
The young midfielder has been a Red for a week or so and already he is demanding every pass, appealing for every decision, shouting at players to focus and be on their game as if he has been a Red for ten years! He is simple yet so effective. You might not see him for five minutes or so but then there he is breaking play up and regaining possession. I don't recall Jeff Hendrick kicking the ball too many times for the Rams after coming on as a half-time substitute and a large dose of credit for that belongs to Gardner.
The images of Stuart Pearce on the sidelines when the second goal went in will make great galleries on websites and in newspapers but it really did go a long way to show exactly what Nottingham Forest means to the man.
The former England left-back was like a kid in a sweet shop on the sidelines, arms aloft, punching the air and celebrating such a massive win not just for the club but also for himself.
They often say that Mark Robins famously saved Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United job with a winning goal in 1990 against Forest, and I really think we could be saying the same about Ben Osborn and Stuart Pearce's job in future years.
I personally think that Pearce has bought himself to the end of the season just with Saturday's events at the iPro Stadium and in hindsight who can begrudge him that.
Forest know that a lot of work lies ahead and it is now vital that Saturday acts as a catalyst for the rest of the season and puts the Reds' season back on track.


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David Ettlinger: Newton Mass. Teacher Made Child Porn, Stole Girls' Underwear
Belover Newton grade school teacher David Ettlinger is in prison and facing a host of child pornography charges after federal agents raided his home and found hundreds of pornographic images on his computer and dozens of stolen girl's underpants.
Ettlinger, 34, of Brighton, Mass. is pleading not guilty to two child pornography possession charges. According to the Boston Herald, he and lawyer Greg Johnson have yet to respond to charges by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the teacher was taking part in a child exploitation and pornography ring.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, he was arraigned today on charges of indecent assault and battery on a child and posing a child in the state of nudity. More charges are expected to follow.
Raid Yields Disturbing Evidence
When Homeland Security agents raided Ettlinger's home, they were shocked at the amount of child pornography they found stashed in his Commonwealth Avenue condo.
In addition to massive amounts of child pornography on his computer, officers discovered dozens of girls' underwear. Ettlinger later confessed he had stolen the clothing from pools, locker rooms and changing areas in the neighborhood.
But perhaps most disturbing was a 3-year-old video that agents found of young girl exposing her genitals. Ettlinger told them the girl, now 13, is the daughter of a friend, and that he was the man in the recording.
He identified the girl as somebody he babysat for, said David Keatin, the Assistant District Attorney.
David Ettlinger 'Despicable,' Preyed on Innocent and Vulnerable
The horrifying accusations against Ettlinger are part of a federal probe of Dreamboard, a members-only web site whose members produce, distribute and watch child pornography. Members are rewarded based on the videos they post and the visits they log, according to Patch.com.
Prosecutors say Ettlinger was so active on the site that he obtained VIP status.
The video officers recovered, meanwhile, is part of a chain of evidence that suggests Ettlinger has been active in distributing child pornography as well as engaging in the sexual abuse of minors.
Let's be clear about what this case entails, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a press release. It arises out of a long-term federal investigation into the violent sexual abuse of children across state lines and national boundaries.
The evidence as it stands suggests a despicable violation of every duty he had to protect the innocent and vulnerable, and we intend to prosecute that violation aggressively.
'We live in a world where you can't trust anybody.'
David Ettlinger has been teaching in the Newton school system for 12 years. According to School Superintendent David Fleishman, the 34-year-old passed a background check in 2010. Newton does the checks every three years on staff members who work directly with children.
At the moment, Ettlinger has been placed on paid administrative leave. He taught the second grade at Underwood Elementary.
It's very upsetting news, Fleishman said. We anticipate a lot of people will be incredibly upset and stunned.
Parents of the children Ettlinger taught are similarly thrown. Though there is no evidence that he abused any of his students, it's still difficult for many to believe that the teacher, whom Boston.com reports was very well-respect and popular, would be guilty of child pornography.
I thought he was a really great teacher, Una Simmons said. Ettlinger taught two of her girls.
All of the parents I've talked to are shocked and disappointed that we live in a world where you can't trust anybody.
The Newton school system has sent a crisis team to Underwood to offer staff and students counseling and Flesihman said he would be sending a letter to all Underwood parents tonight.
Bail Set at $100,000
Our first priority is ensuring the safety of every child, Newton Mayor Setti Warren said in a statement.
If these allegations prove to be true, the suspect detained should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The type of behavior that is alleged has absolutely no place in our community.
Judge Franco Gobourne set Ettlinger's cash bail at $100,000. He has been ordered to wear a GPS monitoring device and have no contact with children if he posts that amount. In court Tuesday, he was held on $10,000 bail.
A sentence for the first child pornography charge could get Ettlinger up to ten years in prison. A second charge carries a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty years behind bars. And if Ettlinger is found guilty of all the charges being compiled against him, he could end up facing a life sentence.
The DA's office is expected to release more information from the arraignment this afternoon.


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As promised, the time has finally come to open submissions for issue #5 of inc. magazine.
Each issue so far has been a one-off project and number 5 is no different. For the first time, we are having open submissions for all poets and are asking you to write to a theme. We'll then send the best off to illustrators on a commission basis - but before you think this is your usual poem-picture set up, there's a bit more to it than that which we're keeping under our hat.
The theme is: 'Place'.
The MAXIMUM length is 15 lines - please don't send us poems longer than that as we will not be able to use them.
Send as many as you like to inc.zine [at] gmail.com by 29th February at the very latest (be grateful it's a leap year)
Illustrators: let us know if you're interested in being involved, with a link to your portfolio if we haven't already seen your work.
We're very open to different styles of poetry but as always have a penchant for rhyme and rhythm, or a bit of humour. Please tweet/blog about issue #5 to spread the word to other poets. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with...


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So, it seems I have a hell of a lot of catching up to do! What with getting married and the subsequent festivities, guests from out of town, and packing our entire lives into storage, I don't think I've had a more thoroughly chaotic week in my whole existence. However, I haven't had a better weekend in all my years, either, so I'd say the wedding was a smashing success.
I posted the Coquette menu before I got married, and the dinner was nothing short of incredible, from start to finish. The surprise amuse bouche ended up being a stroke of genius and generosity, Chef Mike Stoltzfus providing us with lightly breaded, perfectly fried, plump, sweet oysters on what seemed to be a Creole mustard aioli type sauce. Many of our wedding guests had never had oysters before, and I was extremely surprised to see how many Northeasterners took the plunge and tried the oysters. Boy, Patryk, and I were all hoping people would be too afraid to check these fat mollusks out so that we could hoard and devour them, but the joke was on us. They were a massive hit and people scrambled for the crumbs of the oysters, swiping their warm sourdough bread across the plates to get every last taste of them. In fact, a lot of people that had previously not liked oysters became stolid fans that night. Our guests were apparently informed enough to know that New Orleans oysters are a cut above most of the oysters in the U.S., and figured that if they were going to try it and like it, it'd be at a restaurant hand-selected by a food writer, even if that food writer was just little ol' me. So as happy as I am that they were impressed, it was bittersweet … I only got two and by trickery.
It was extremely impressive to me that Stoltzfus was able to get his hands on oysters so large, tender, and delicious, especially since the season for them has just ended. When I asked him about his sources, he just smirked and gave me a brazen wink. I didn't inquire further – the most important thing was that they were there! I hadn't expected something quite so delectable (and expensive!) as the amuse, and felt honored and humbled by the chef's kindness.
The Bibb Lettuce Salad was just as good as remembered, buttery, thick-leafed slightly salty Bibb lettuce complemented with a slightly acidic vinaigrette. Warm goat cheese made converts of many and served to prepare our guests for the proscuitto-wrapped hot goat cheese that would accompany the wedding dinner. Sweet and salty spiced pecan bits peppered the top of the lettuce leaves and lent a great crunch to the refreshing salad and the hit of fatty protein was welcome.
The pumpkin capelletti with duck confit was even more perfect than we remembered, for once, memory not doing a dish justice. I mean, when you think about food you loved, it often gets played up in your head, but not this. The light orange pasta was tender yet firm, the filling smooth, the duck smoky and rich, pulled apart and loose, and the sauce – oh, the sauce! Absolutely perfect, with just a hint of orange.
I had, as my entrée, the steak with frites, which was a thin-sliced hunk of steak served at a warm, red medium rare. The outside of the steak was charred but not blackened, allowing the natural flavor of the steak to shine through, and the sauce was a light one of carmelized onions with a tang, rather than the typical sweet sautéed onions. The fries were obviously fresh-made, crisp and delicious, and in generous proportion.
The seared scallops with the pulled pork shoulder was, by all accounts, fabulous, garnished with adorable little acorn squash. The seasoning was well-balanced and the scallops were massive, leaving everyone who ordered this so satisfied that I wasn't able to have even a bite of one to try. C'est la vie, eh?
I did, however, manage to snag a forkful of the cochon de lait, a fabulously tender, soft pulled pork in an indescribably delicious thin yet flavorful sauce. There was a slight taste of sweet pepper jelly, creating a blend of tastes that was literally just about the best cochon de lait I'd ever had … including the kickass cochon AT Cochon.
For a third course, the choice was ours of fresh local strawberries in an elderberry sabayon, which was like a green-tasting version of crème anglaise. This was a bit hit among those looking for a refreshing finishing dish, but once the healthy people had a bite of bread pudding, it was all over. Caramel covered and topped with vanilla ice cream, these crispy-topped individually baked cakes of soft mixed bread were decadent and irresistible. And what better way to end a night than with gluttony and a little bit of guilt?
Like I said to the chef, I was prepared for our wedding feast to fall far short of this unforgettable dinner. Boy and I look forward to coming back on our one-year anniversary to do it all over again!
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A tour of Switzerland in vintage postcards
Swiss cheese?
So what do you think of when you hear the name of the country Switzerland? Gruyère cheese and chocolate, perhaps, yodelling, cuckoo clocks, Swatches? Numbered bank accounts? Gnomes? Perhaps, if you're a bit of a history buff then the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal and his troops.
Yes, well, the country is all of those things and a whole lot more.
The country now called Switzerland has been inhabited for about 150000 years, according to the archaeological record. Farming in Switzerland has been dated back to about 5300 BCE.
Modern Switzerland really got going with the so-called Federal Charter of 1291, which brought together the three rural communes of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden which set in motion the "Old Confederacy of Switzerland", which lasted, with various ups and downs, until the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution in 1848 set up the country we know today with its 26 cantons.
The three original communes were soon joined by the cities of Lucerne, Zürich, and Berne. These six became the Acht Orte (Eight Places) with the defeat by the Swiss of Hapsburg armies. The Swiss at the time were part of the so-called "Holy Roman Empire", which, of course, was not really Roman, and not very holy either. It was ruled by an Emperor and so perhaps justified being called an "empire".
Religious differences between the cantons was spurred by the Reformation, with some cantons going Reformed and others remaining Catholic.
Today Switzerland is a very modern, high-tech country with almost 8 million inhaibtants and a per capita GDP (PPP) of around $43000 US and GDP (nominal) of around $67000 US, giving it one of the highest quality of life ratings. The country has four official languages, German, French, Italian and Romansh.
The lst of these languages is also the smallest language group in Switzerland, being spoken by only about 62000 people (about 0.9% of the population) mostly in the Grisons canton of southern Switzerland. It is believed to have come down from the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who occupied the region.
Switzerland has been a neutral country since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and Article 11 of the Federal Constitution makes it illegal to send troops to serve abroad.
We will start our tour of this old federation in Geneva, which, while not the actual capital of the federation - that honour belongs to Berne, our next stop - is the centre of many great international organisations like the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the World Council of Churches (WCC) as well as the second-biggest United Nations office.
Geneva was first taken by the Romans in 121 BCE and subsequently became part of Burgundy. It was taken over by the German Emperor in 1033. The city finally joined the Old Confederacy in 1526.
The city of Bern, which now the capital of the Swiss Federation, was founded by Berthold V, Duke of Zahringen, and was subsequently made a free imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire in 1218.
The city joined the Old Confederacy in 1353 and when the Swiss Federation came into being in 1848 it became the capital city.
Sinced 1983 the ancient centre of the city has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bern is also notable as the place where a humble clerk in the patent office worked out a theory which revolutionised physics - Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity, first proposed in his 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies."
This city of more than 50000 people began after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 6th Century when a monastery was set up on the site by the Benedictines. The Monastery of St Leodegar was founded in 750 and taken over in the middle of the 9th Century by the Alsatian Murbach Abbey.
In 1178 the ties to Murbach were cut and the the city of Lucerne was born. It became an important trading centre and was able to shake off Hapsburg control and join the Old Swiss Confederacy on 7 November 1332.
The city was involved in the religious tumult of the medieval and reformation eras, but remained Catholic, unlike the cities of Basel, Bern and Zurich.
In January 2010 it was united with the neighbouring town of Littau as decided in a 2007 referendum, making it the seventh-largest city in Switzerland with a population of more than 75000.
Founded in the early years of the Christian era, Lugano has become known as the "Monte Carlo of Switzerland" because of the number of celebrities that have settled there, attracted by the warm climate and tourist attractions.
Lugano is in the south of Switzerland and has grown to become the third-largest centre of banking and finance in the federation, after Zurich and Geneva.
"Chillon! thy prison is a holy place,
And thy sad floor an altar ..." - from "Sonnet on Chillon" by Byron (1816).
The Château de Chillon was made famous by George Gordon, Lord Byron's famous poem "The Prisoner of Chillon."
The Château itself is indeed very old, with documents dated back to the beginning of the second millenium making mention of Chillon.
The prisoner of Byron's famous poem was Francois Bonivard, a Swiss patriot who opposed the rule of the Duke of Savoy. He was imprisoned in Chillon from 1530 to 1536.
Eisgrotte (Ice Cave)
"Early autochrome postcard marked Eisgrotte, Louis Glaser Leipzig, and Gebr Wehrli Kilchberg b/Zurich. No 3624. Postally unused. Undivided back" - from catalogue entry
I have no idea which Ice Cave this might illustrate. The most information I have been able to find is that this postcard dates from about 1900.
A note on the images
Except where otherwise stated, all the images in this Hub are scans
of postcards in my posession.Unfortunately none of them has a postmark
and so I can only guess when they were produced, which I would guess
would have been the first few years of the 20th Century, certainly
before the First World War of 1914 - 1918.
The postcards are part of the vast collection assembled by my Great-Aunt Hetty McGregor. She died in 1977 just before her 101st birthday, having lived in the same house in Cape Town for much of that time. She never married, having been thought "too frail" to do so in her youth!
Map of Switzerland
Great hub, with all the information and the postcard pictures! Loved seeing Great Aunt Hettie too. I want to keep revisiting this hub. The pictures are so interesting to look at again and again. Thanks for sharing, this is so special. Rated up and beautiful.
I loved seeing the portion of Switzerland that I got to see with my friend. We rode the Glacier Express train and got to see Tasch, Zurich and the Matterhorn on a crystal clear day. Beautiful!
I have some old postcards that my husband's father picked up in France during World War 2 but they are copyrighted and I wonder if they would be safe to post on a site like this?
I have a bunch of old postcards that are really nice but so far have only posted those with no marks of copyrights. From what I have read if they are 75 years old it is OK. Do you know anything other than that?
Very interesting and informative hub. Have just returned from visiting the country where we stayed with a Swiss family in Zurich. Good reading Tony.
Beautiful post cards. Thanks for the wonderful tour - it was like a mini vacations.
Thank you for this lovely journey and educational article. I have been to Switzerland. It is an amazing country with many lessons to offer those who can see.
LOVELY vintage postcards--where did you find them? I often find these gems in thrift stores in boxes, etc.
Thank you Tony for showing these to us, great collection and I'd say worth a fortune if sold,
as I travel all over each yr. one day I will get there.
Switzerland is a beautiful country. I would love to visit,but i don,t fly, so i,ll be content seeing your post cards. Your Aunt Hetty was a wise woman. lol
Love and Peace
What a lovely hub about a beautiful country. Based on such a fabulous collection of vintage postcards. Much of the scenery still just like that - untouched by the passage of time.
Some beautiful vintage postcards. I have a small collection of my own and I'm really enjoying this article series.
Great vintage postcards! Switzerland is a very nice country. Hope to visit some day...
Fascinating! My father's ancestors came to this continent from Bern in the 1600s; they had to leave when they were made unwelcome in Europe for their religious convictions, but it was part of a vast sweep across Europe, not originating there in Switzerland.
Our family name, I'm told, means "Keeper of the Flame" - they tended the outposts in the high mountains to keep a flame burning to guide lost mountaineers. I feel a great affinity with the country and have personally known several native Swiss people "in real life" who were beacons themselves. Thank you for a lovely hub about this enchanting and enchanted land. One day I hope to visit!
I wonder what was the real reason why your aunt Hetty did not marry – I mean how frail could she have been to reach the blessed age of 100? Just curious. Thanks for showing us those bEaUtIfUl postcards. I'm sure she would have been so thrilled to see how many people all over the world are appreciating it now. Switserland reminds me in a way of our Lesotho. Thanks Tony – dit was nou 'n lekker blits vakansie. Take care :)
Oh Tony! Brother Tony! I think of a beautiful lady named Daniela! I loaned her my 94 Caddy to them last year as her mother (gorgeous too) came to visit. They gave me chocolate from Switzerland! Heaven? Heaven! Sorry- heaven can't be all about chocolate - but it was until the chocolate disappeared! What a wonderful country! Thank you Brother Tony!
I would love to go to Switzerland. Nice looking postcards and hub.
These are great post cards! I love antique postcards and have a similar collection of Paris and various other towns in France. Postcards offer such a valuable record of history!
A terrific hub about a fabulous country that has so much to offer. The cleaness of this place and the discipline of its people alone makes it one of my favorite places to visit. Thank you Tony, just loved it
A very Novel Idea! Great hub, that's awesome that you have the collection still it's an antiques road show...


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What Does £100 Get You…
…in the Lowry Outlet Sales?
Once upon a time, £100 seemed like an extraordinary amount of money. As a child I could barely imagine what it would be like to have three figures of money to spend! Sadly as an adult £100 doesn't seem to go very far at all. One food shop and a phone bill later and it's all but gone. £100 isn't quite the grand sum it seemed.
That said I was completely up for the challenge when Lowry Outlet asked me to see how far £100 could stretch in their sales.
If you've never been before, the Lowry Outlet is a collection of designer and high street, brands and restaurants. It's easy to drive to in the heart of Media City but easier still to reach by tram as you don't have to worry about parking. That's how I got there with Dottie, for whom the journey was just too much ?
They have an absolutely delightful concierge team as you arrive, who can answer any questions and point you in the direction of whatever it is you're looking for. Sadly I had no idea what I was looking for. You know how when you go shopping with very little to spend, you can always find 304738472 things that you love/need/can't live without. But then when you pop into the shops with the intention of having a spree, you can't decide whether or what to buy? It was like that!!
So for a while I just browsed. I tried on beautiful clothes, smelt lovely candles, stroked sumptuous soft furnishings and generally had a rather relaxing time.
But I still couldn't decide on anything and I do kind of regret leaving this dress behind ?
And then this little lady woke up and apart from looking a little confused about where she was, the first thing she said was 'Pleeeeaaaase' as she laid her eyes on a My Little Pony tee-shirt from Marks and Spencer.
Now im not one for character clothes and given that M&S have such sweet children's clothes, I slightly begrudged buying it. But she was smitten and at Just £5 my first purchase was a steal! So the question of whether or not I'd be spending 100 whole pounds on myself had been answered. As suspected – no I would not ?
I decided to look for something for Beth. Anyone with teenager girls will know that unless it's a pair of high waisted jeans, you're best advised not to try to buy them clothes unless they're present. Still I couldn't help but look. The Bench store had some real bargains with all sale items 3 for 2 and the £15 dresses in Kurt Muller were certainly tempting. In the end I bought her a large Yankee candle, in her favourite colour with a deliciously tropical smell.
She's always 'borrowing' mine and given that they weee on sale for just £12 I considered buying a couple. I didn't though and instead headed to another favourite haunt of Beth's, The Body Shop.
Unbelievably, if you buy four items from their Outlet store, they'll take an extra 40% off, regardless of price. And they'll even gift wrap your items.
I chose four things that were already heavily discounted, so this sweet gift (which she was chuffed to bits with, by the way) came to less than £3.50!
Teenagers are difficult to please, but not more than a 6″4 man,who just lost a number of inches off his waistline and truly believes that he's infinitely more stylish than his wife. Phillip is a pain to buy for, but I was keen to treat him to a well fitting pair of jeans. I headed straight for Gap.
At the door I was given a voucher and told that if I spent £35, they'd knock £5 off the bill. Not bad. So I bought jeans for Phill – reduced from £49.99 to £29.99.
I then chose a top for Dottie with a map of the World on it – reduced from £8.99 to £4.99. And a 5p bag pushed me over the £35 meaning that Dottie's top was essentially free!
I was then left with around £50 and decided to treat myself. I was proud that with just £50 of managed to buy treats for the family so decided to splash out on some Vivienne Westwood shoes.
Yes that's right. You can get a lot for a little on their sales but if you spend a bit more, you can get some real gems too! Like my gorgeous sparkly pumps which were reduced from £110 to £55 in Tesutti.
I'm deeply in love with my shoes and in total I saved well over £100 on my shopping! It turns out that you can get quite a lot for £100 at Lowry Outlet!
As well as a wide range of shops, Lowry Outlet also has a cinema, food court, restaurants and it's currently host to a number of book benches. I'd definitely recommend a trip down there before the sales end on 31st July.
Have you found any bargains in the Summer sales?
Love Rachel
PS. Phill's bum looks ace in his new jeans ?
*I was gifted a £100 voucher for the purposes of this article but was given no instructions about how and where to spend it. All views are my own.*


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End of 2012, mobile applications may exceed the news sites on the Internet.
More than an epiphenomenon, it's a real groundswell. Last Thursday, the mobile users have accessed more than ever their smartphones to stay abreast of current events. The French have taken on their mobile evolution of the assault by the raid on the apartment of the killer of Toulouse. The major applications have all seen their audience skyrocket. The Figaroa, for example, recorded a threefold increase in the number of visitors to its mobile applications (iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone). For Le Monde, the number of hits on mobile surpassed those of the website. In exceptional cases, this could become the rule by the end of the year.
Beyond a dramatic news, the consultation of information on the go tends to be rooted in the mores. Almost 37% of smartphone users in five major European countries (including France) have already accessed news sites via an application or Web browser, according to the latest study released by ComScore. An increase of 74% in one year! In France, sales rose 59% year over year, the prize going to Spain, with a growth of 160%. Owners of smartphones become true "addicted" to information on mobile. More than a third of them consults news sites at least once a month, an increase of 74%, and already 10% of them do almost daily, an increase of 82% . In other words, people who visit the sites more information on mobile are also those who have more appeal.
Changing consumption patterns
"The increased adoption of smartphones in Europe contributed to the consumption of news and information on the fly," says Blandine Silverman, director of ComScore Mobile. Last year, more than 14 million smartphones were sold in France. In addition, the size of phone screens has increased significantly, which makes reading easier. Moreover, with the exception of Apple, handset makers have contributed – especially through financial support – the development of applications related to information.
Important for magazine publishers attending a changing consumption patterns, the challenge is no less crucial for brands of mobile phones. Anxious to respond to the expectations of local consumers, they are trying to encourage publishers to develop applications in their world. This was accompanied by an improvement in the quality of products tailored for mobile, with more alerts. These short messages are a means of access to information very popular with mobile users.
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Close on the heels of Galaxy Tab 2 P5100 and P5110, the P5113 (Wi-Fi only) variant also gets its latest Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean update with CyanogenMod 10.1 (CM10.1) ROM through an experimental release. The custom ROM is still under early developmental stages and hence may harbour a few untested bugs or broken features onboard.
Nevertheless, discerning users who wish to try out the latest CM10.1 experimental (nightly) ROM with Android 4.2.1 update on their tablets may proceed with our step-by-step guide provided below. As the ROM is a nightly build, it may be afflicted with FC errors, boot loops and other issues. Users are strongly advised to backup their data and reinstall stock firmware or any other stable custom ROM if they face any technical issues.
Disclaimer: The software and instructions provided in this guide are meant for reference purpose only and will not cover any warranty claims involving device damage or issues arising out of using the Android 4.2.1 CM10.1 custom firmware. Users are advised to proceed at their own risk.
Key Points to Note
The CM10.1 ROM and the instructions given in this guide are compatible with the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5113 (Wi-Fi model) only and will not work with any other device. Verify your device's model number by navigating to Settings > About Phone.
Make sure that you do a Dalvik Cache Wipe before continuing from the recovery mode.
Samsung KIES will not recognise your phone after installing the CM10.1 ROM, as it is a custom firmware release.
- Verify that the correct USB drivers are installed for your Galaxy Tab 2 on the computer to enable proper USB connectivity between the devices. Download Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 USB drivers
- IBTimes UK advises users to backup apps, important data and settings to avoid risk of data loss while installing the Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean update on their Galaxy Tab 2.
- Enable USB debugging mode by navigating to Settings > Developer Options. NOTE:Users who are updating from Android 4.2 to the new Android 4.2.1 should enable USB debugging mode as follows:
- Go to Settings > About Tablet
- Browse to the bottom of the options screen and select Build Number. Now, tap the Build Number about seven times.
- When you make the third tap, a dialogue box pops up saying you are just four taps away from accessing developer options. Continue tapping four more times to open the hidden developer options.
- Ensure that your tablet battery has at least 85 percent charge to avoid unexpected device shutdown (due to battery drain) while flashing CM10.1 ROM on your Galaxy Tab 2.
- Make sure that your tablet is rooted with ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) preinstalled on it.
How to Update Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5113 (Wi-Fi) to Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean with CM10.1 ROM
Step 1 - Download Android 4.2.1 CM10.1 Jelly Bean ROM and Google Apps for Galaxy Tab 2 on your computer.
Step 2 - Connect and mount your Galaxy Tab 2 P5113 USB mass storage on your computer with the original USB cable.
Step 3 - Copy the downloaded Android 4.2.1 ROM zip and Google Apps zip files to the root folder on your tablet.
Step 4 - Then power off the tablet and disconnect its USB cable from the computer.
Step 5 - Now, press and hold Volume Down and Power buttons together until the device boots into CWM Recovery Mode.
Step 6 - In CWM Recovery, do a full data wipe first. Then navigate to Flash zip from SD card option and hit the Power button to select it.
Step 7 - Tap the Power button again and click Choose zip from sdcard.
Step 8 - Now, use volume keys to navigate to the Android 4.2.1 ROM zip file that you copied to your tablet earlier and select it by pressing the Power button. Confirm the ROM installation on next screen and the installation should begin.
NOTE: Repeat this step for installing Google Apps as well.
Step 9 - Once both the ROM and Google Apps are installed, hit Go Back and reboot the tablet by clicking Reboot System Now in the recovery menu. The tablet will reboot and the first boot may take about 5 minutes to complete. So, leave it alone.
Your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is now successfully updated to CM10.1 based Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean custom ROM. Go to Settings > About Tablet to verify the firmware version installed.
[Source: Team Android]


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If you've ever wondered whether Carrie Bradshaw was more of a mean girl or a nerdy bookworm in high school, mark your calendars for 2010: Candace Bushnell is currently writig a pair of teen novels called The Carrie Diaries, which will show readers how the Sex and the City character got her start.
The series "takes readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer," HarperCollins announced today.
While ostensibly sporting the hottest fashions at the time, "Carrie in high school did not follow the crowd – she led it. It was there that she began observing and commenting on the social scene," says Candace in a statement.
We can't wait to read about her closet!