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Darvocet and Darvon Painkillers Removed from Market

Darvocet and Darvon Painkillers Removed from Market

Propoxyphene based painkiller drugs Darvocet and Darvon are being removed from the U.S. Market. Darvocet and Darvon painkillers have been used by the U.S. Market since 1957 as pain relieving drugs, but are now being removed from the U.S. Market by Xanodyne, the manufacturers of Darvocet and Darvon. The FDA requested that Xanodyne remove Darvocet and Darvon from the U.S. Market, and have also requested that other U.S. Manufacturers of Propoxyphene based drugs also remove their products … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured, Health

A Photography Journey by Martina Jackson

A Photography Journey by Martina Jackson

The photography story below is true and is authored by a friend of mine, who I met on the Internet. We’re many many miles apart but both of us share a love for photography. I wish Martina all the best with her photography adventures! – Teresa Schultz MY PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNEY by Martina Jackson My passion for photography was reignited in 2009 and I have been posting my pictures on my photography blog about my passion. I … Read entire article »

Filed under: Art and Photography

Medicinal Bulbinella Herb and Mosquito Bites

Bulbinella is a herb that is indigenous to South Africa. The drought-resistant South African bulbinella herb has many medicinal uses, making it a useful plant indeed. The leaves of the bulbinella are long and resemble chives or garlic chives. Although the leaves are long, they are also fairly thick and round and contain a natural healing sap. This sap contains glycoproteins, which have soothing and protective qualities. The sap of a bulbinella leaf is clear and can be rubbed onto parts of the human body to ease the pain, irritation and itching of mosquito bites. Relief is almost immediate. If you have not taken measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes in the first place, the bulbinella herb is a handy herb to have around. It is very easy to extract … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health

Johnny Depp is a Versatile Actor

Johnny Depp is a famous actor and was born on the 9th of June in 1963. We all know Johnny Depp from his role as Captain Jack Sparrow from the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Although Johnny Depp starred in quite a few movies before the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl, it wasn’t until these Pirates movies that he became really famous. Savvy? Johnny Depp is a respected and admired actor, but was not always “a good guy.” He dropped out of school when he was 15, hoping to become a rock star; he took drugs, vandalized property, and was pretty much a big rebel. Luckily while working as a salesman and visiting Los Angeles, his former wife, Lori Anne Allison introduced him to … Read entire article »

Filed under: Movie Reviews

The importance of using good grammar in comments

Why is it important to try use at least fairly good grammar when making comments on blog posts? Exposure exposure exposure! It is not at all selfish to try and get some exposure for yourself when leaving comments on the blog posts of other people. If you leave a decent comment for another person, and especially if that comment is fairly lengthy, you are not only helping that person (who wrote the blog post) gain more exposure, but are gaining more exposure yourself too. Your profile link is displayed, or a link to your own website or blog. How many words – or particular words – you use in the actual comment, or how you say what you want to say, can draw further attention, to both the blog post and yourself. Words in comments … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogging, Writing

Free advertising for East London and South Africa

Shopping for free advertising? We are now offering free advertising on three of our blogs – East London in SA, and School and Stuff and Online Flea Market. These blogs are fairly new, but are sure to grow just like our other older sites and blogs have, and the advertising we offer is generous, and FREE! Our main 1pic4twenty blog, according to the South African blog aggregator myScoop is already receiving over 2000 page views per week – this is real visitors viewing the pages – the figure is considerably larger if including Search Engine robots. Be careful when paying for advertising on some sites that the amount of page views they say they are getting does not include Search Engine robots (robots are not going to read your ad and like … Read entire article »

Filed under: East London, Random, Shopping

Doesn’t it make you sick when poor content articles are easily found?

To write good content that may not be easily found, but is helpful to viewers, or write a load of rubbish (or steal somebody elses’ article and spin it dizzy and end up with the biggest bit of trash) but get found easily?  Oh, and of course offer Google Adsense ads for people to click on (on the rubbish article pages), so that people can maybe find the info that WILL be of help, and will be written with proper grammar. The sad thing about providing good content for viewers, when using Google Adsense as a method to try earn a bit of extra income, is that those ads are hardly ever clicked, because the viewer has found what information they’re looking for right on your page! So, what to do? As much as Tony … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogging, Random, Writing

What to do when your computer screen goes all funny

  While I was trying to get in an hour or two’s extra sleep this morning due to having an awful night because of a painful lower back and hip area, Basti came through to our little home office to chat with Tony, and to mess up my computer screen while he was playing some old game he found on my computer. I heard about it afterwards, of course, when all was repaired. I would have spun had I come through before they had sorted it, so I’m glad the drama was all over already when I came through. Why would I have spun? I’m using Tony’s pc monitor as mine recently packed up completely, and Tony is using a very old small dark screen one we luckily had lying around, but it’s … Read entire article »

Filed under: Family Life with TnT, Random

Hogsback church Saint Patrick on the Hill burns to the ground!

The beautiful and charming little chapel Saint Patrick on the Hill in Hogsback has burnt to the ground! This is sad news for Hogsback and all the visitors to Hogsback who so love to vist the quaint little church with its stone walls. Many a couple has said their marriage vows inside the stone walls of Saint Patrick on the Hill, and won’t be happy to hear that it has burnt down. Tony, myself and the boys enjoyed a day trip to Hogsback in January 2009, and you can see some pictures of the church on the article we wrote about our trip. As we say in the article, one cannot come away from Hogsback without taking a part of it with you, and it is indeed sad that part … Read entire article »

Filed under: Random

Clever way to use our free 3 page web design special if you already have a website

One of our existing clients Lovedogs is using the free 3 page web design special is a clever way. Just for registering a new domain with us, and hosting a site, she will get her new free 3 page website. It will have links on it to her existing site, and, of course, 3 pages of content for search engines to find. So, even though this is a seperate website, it’s basically like adding 3 pages of content to a site, at only the price of a .co.za domain registration and hosting (R120 plus R360) (renewable yearly.) It also provides a domain name for search engines to find, that is similar to her existing site’s domain name. Further exposure! The client can of course always have … Read entire article »

Filed under: Web Design

FREE 3 PAGE WEB DESIGN! Special ends 26 June

FOR FREE! Catch? No catch, just a few basic conditions. A BASIC three page web design usually costs our clients R600 (yeah, we know, already dirt cheap) and now we’re giving that away FOR FREE! This special will end at 5pm Saturday, 26 June, or we reserve the right to end it before then, if the response is overwhelming. We will work with clients on a first come first serve basis, and we don’t want clients waiting forever to see their sites live on the Internet, so if you’d like a free 3 page web design, contact us really soon! What are the conditions? You must live in South Africa. The site you have us design must be a family friendly static html site. You must register your domain through … Read entire article »

Filed under: Web Design

My list of things to do

This blog post is probably really boring for anyone else to read, but, tough, writing lists helps me get more organized, and if I can get myself a blog post out of it at the same time, why not? So, without further ado, here’s my list of things to do: Write a blog post about making lists Phone the boys at their father in the morning (where they’ve gone for three nights), to see how their night went, as Basti, in particular, has not been well. Put two big plants out on the pavement in the morning and hang the three signs on the wall (hoping to sell a plant or two, or get somebody to notice that we do web design, writing and photo editing) as we’re pretty broke right now. Take some more … Read entire article »

Filed under: Family Life with TnT, Random

20 short story titles to get you thinking and writing

Struggling for something to write about for your blog posts? What’s wrong with a little fiction for a change, instead of just an article full of facts? Of course you can base the story on facts, if that helps you write the blog post, but the main aim is to just get something up on your blog, that’s interesting or fun for others to read and enjoy. Make a list of possible titles, and then take it from there. Ask your family to help with making lists of titles – it can give the kids something to do in the holidays, and even make grandparents feel and be creative. Here’s my own list (that I’m creating as I write this – it’s not copy and paste) that you … Read entire article »

Filed under: Writing

Guilty of NOT clicking Google Adsense ads

Maybe it’s because Tony and I are web designers, who also do some basic organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for our clients, and we therefore know the efforts that go into producing some good organic search engine results, or also understand the time and effort it takes to leave decent comments on blogs and forums, to get backlinks. More often than not, when searching for information on eg Google, and clicking one of the ten organic results on page one, we find sites with good, relevant information. More often than not, when clicking the ads right at the top, or off to the right, (we at least personally) find the sites to not have us much relevant info for us, as the sites that are in the organic results. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogging, Random

Why these 10 movies are on my list of top 10 favourite movies

Well, perhaps I should say why these current movies are on my list of top 10 favourite, as I do tend to change my mind from time to time (I’m female!) and do also enjoy many different kinds of movies. Also, I tend to forget which movies are my favourite or that I really enjoyed, until I see them mentioned somewhere else – then I go “Ah, of course, how could I not put that movie in my list of top ten!” So, here’s my current list of favourites (in no particular order), and why they’re my favourite: Fried Green Tomatoes (At the Whistle Stop Cafe) Friendship, friends being there for each other, uplifting each other, and just good old fashioned countryside lifestyle and ideals incorporated into modern day living. Sweet, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Movie Reviews