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How To make a Homemade Slimming Body Wrap?
I need to lose some belly fat and all the exercises seem to not be working for me, so I thought of this because I watched a YouTube video a few days ago but then I checked to see if I had any of the ingredients and I had none, I'm trying to do this without my parents knowing and I'm too young to drive so I cant go to the shop and by them but I'm just hoping some people here will know some of the ingredients that a normal person would have in there house, I don't have the cream and the paper that has to be wrapped around the belly but I have a heated blanket and that is about it, is there any suggestions? Please help I really need to lose all my belly fat in a few weeks
as long as you walking and dong leg lifts stomach crunches and you are young you will firm it up try to do 100 of each and you may have to build up to it also back in the 70′s the women used saran wrap wrap it around your waist from under breast to pelvic then do all the climbing walking running works like a sweat suit just make sure you drink lots of water . cut out most of your carbs and no sugar that means no colas even diet is high in sugar!
How can I HEALTHY loose weight?
So I'm 13, and I'm not overweight, but even my mum says I'm getting a belly. Summer is here, which means I can eat whenever I want, whatever I want, and I'm not walking at least 2 miles everyday (walking home etc.)
I'm a vegetarian, and my family doesn't really have all that many recipes for me (the other 4 in my family still eat meat… with every meal) so I usually have fake meat product and starch (along with some sad overcooked veggies) for dinner, covered in butter.
I would seriously love it if someone could give me some ideas for foods I can eat (sorry, tofu makes me sick, like throwing up sick ) vegetables that are easy to grow in michigan, and any way at all i can loose weight (I'm sooo desperate, I even made myself through up once, and I try to starve myself but. .. )
help me please! please read!?
i need help with my eating plan, i don't think i am consuming enough calories. i have an app on my phone and it says i am consumming around 11138 cals (estimate) correct me if i'm wrong.
breakfast – 2 choc weetabix with semi skinned milk and a banana
snack – peice of fruit (usually apple or banana)
lunch – cheese and lettuce sanwhich or peanut butter sanwhich (wholemeal bread)
dinner – whatever parents make e.g homemade curry, pasta, chicken tikka wraps etc (medium sized portion)
i drink around 1-2 lits of water a day.
the thing is i am obsessed with walking! i walk around 4-8 miles 5-6 times a week.
don't tell me to stop because i enjoy it, it makes me feel happy and healthy.
i am 17 years old, 5 ft 1 nearly 5 ft 2 and i weigh 7st and 13lbs (111lbs )
i dont look skinny, i have a big frame.
so what i am asking is how many calories should i be consuming in order for me to be healthy and continue with my 6-8 miles walk aswell as loose weight at the same time.i want to loose my inner thigh, love handles and my belly fat. no mean comments! thankyou !
Sounds like you need more calories. If you are a hundred and eleven pounds at 5′ 1″ you are under weight. And 17 yr. olds don't have FAT.Its called room to grow into. Nourish your body. Stop depriving it. You only get 1 body. You are still developing. Relax and walk to your hearts content. Reat along the way too. Food is fuel. Mind, body and spirit. It's like a tripod. If one is lacking you are sure to fall.
Homemade tummy tuck body shaper thing? Ideas?
Okay so my belly is a little chubby but not alot you know, and i like having smooth sides an then a good sized butt, and if i tried wrapping plastic wrap around my belly a few times and it smooths out the sides but when i sweat underneath it, it rolls up? If you know any ways to fix that let me know. I don't wanna go buy one of those gurdle things because I don't wanna waste my money… any ideas with stuff at home? Thanks..
You have created your own "sweat suit" used mostly by wrestlers to drop weight.
All you are doing is causing your midriff to sweat.
The weight is replaced the moment you take a drink.
It is not converting an ounce of stored fat to be lost.
That is done with that pesky healthy diet and exercise thing.
I'm 15 and overweight? I'm sick of being this way can you please help me? EASY 10 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Hey I'm 15 and 5'6 and 170 pounds. Before the summer started I weighed 150. I just feel stupid and I feel like it is impossible to get back to my normal weight. I hate my body shape too. I am a little bigger on the top so basically a muffin top and then I have a great butt and then I have fat on the inside of my thighs that I want to lose. So basically I am apple shaped and I don't want to look like that. I want to look like pear shaped. I have always wanted a flat stomach too. I feel like its impossible for me to eat healthy no matter how much I try, I am always finding myself then eating cookies, alfredo pasta, pizza, ice cream and chips. I just don't feel full when I eat healthy and I can't enjoy my meals. There aren't many healthy foods in my house either. Today I had for breakfast 1 egg, half a tortilla wrap with a little bit of cheese. Then junk food came in. So far I have had 10 baked cookies and a plate of alfredo sauce with brocolli. Alfredo sauce is my WEAKNESS. I have also tried drinking water but its just not taking my craving away and then it makes me want it more. I try working out and after the first couple minutes I feel so tired, really warm and I just want to stop. I'm sick of eating unhealthy, not wanting to work out, and being the shape that I am now. It's mainly belly fat I want to lose but I know spot reduction is not possible. Can you please help me.
I am a vegetarian.
Hi Amber, I know how you're feeling/what you're going through.. The first thing you should know is that losing weight is possible, but it's going to take A LOT of work. Just know that in the end, everything will be worth a rockin' body (: Alfredo sauce is your weakness? The easy thing to do is stop buying it. Once you tell your parents (or whoever buys groceries) of your weight loss plan I'm sure they'll understand. Cut off all soda and sugary drinks from your meals, just eliminating this element will cut off TONS of sugar and added calories from your meals. The reason why you don't feel full is because you're not eating the right foods. Try brown rice, potatoes, fish, oats, beans, basically anything fiber packed. For breakfast try two eggs instead of one with a side of wheat toast. Or you could have some greek yogurt with lots of berries. If this doesn't make you feel full until lunch snack on some lightly salted nuts if you get the cravings for chips. I know you like pizza so try making your own pizza at home with a wheat tortilla, spaghetti sauce, and lowfat cheese. Stick it in the oven, and you have your homemade pizza (: You can also make your own cookies: http://www.eatingbirdfood.com/2012/08/testing-out-paleo-chocolate-chip-cookies/
As for working out, you need to focus on cardio. Have a set goal in your mind when you start working out and focus on that. You need to remember that this takes time and results will not happen overnight. Good luck & if you need advice in the future, don't hesitate to contact me!
i go to the gym 4-5 times a week and ive put on weight?
im trying to gain weight im 10stone 9lbs im 5ft 7 and im aged 19 my bmi is 23.5
when i started weight training last year i weighed 10 stone i had man boobs and a bit of a belly i lost the belly and man boobs and they now look alot more in shape, ive added alot more calories to my daily intake and ive just weighed myself now and i weighed 10 stone 9, at chrismas i was only 10 stone.. would this be fat or muscle?? i dont look any bigger at all and nobody has said i look any bigger.. for a week i went through a fase of eating maybe 8-10 slices of brown bread a day.. could this be where the weight has come from? making me fat? i cant figure out where the extra 9lbs has come from.. i always eat healthy.. i drink alot of water daily..
my usual days diet
9am – Breakfast – Porrige in semi skinned milk with 4/5 tablespoons of honey
an activia day yoghurt/ with multivitamin
11am – honey sandwhich (4 slices of bread)
12pm lunch – half a chicken and boiled white rice
a apple
2pm – packet of velvet crunch crisps ( 70 percent less fat theres 2.0g of fat but 0.2g of saturates)
5pm – dinner – homemade shepards pie ( no butter in mash, fat rinsed out) with leaks, brockli, carrots and maybe coliflower
half 8/9 – after workout meal- protien shake, bown of bran flakes, 2 or 3 tablespoons of penut butter, and another multivitamin, maybe beans on toast ( reduced salt/sugar heins beans) or maybe scrammbled egg ( 4 eggs )
what do you think could be the weight gain and whats my diet like? to many carbs maybe?
Can i have some weight loss tips ? please?
i am 14 years old and i weigh 71kg and 157 pounds i'm 5ft5″ i don't really eat very healthy and i don't really move very much. i have many health issues like : constipation, migraine issues ,asthma and i have been to see a dietitian but i was discharged after 1 session so it wasn't much use. i wear size 14/16 clothes and i really want to be a size 10 all my weight goes straight to my belly and so i have like a pot belly and i really don't like it . it restricts me in so many ways and i really want to try and loose the weight fast . i am 11 stone and i want to be 8 or 9 stone.please help me . i would really like it if someone could possibly write out a diet plan or fitness regime please. or just general tips would be really helpful thankyou and i do drink alot of water
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to lose belly fat
will walking for 30 – 45 minutes 4 – 6 times a week help me shed belly fat?
i'm 5ft8 and 140lbs, will walking around my house 30 – 45 minutes 4 – 6 times a week (at a moderate pace with stair-climbing included) shed my belly fat?
i've also started lifting weights every 2 – 3 days.
will i lose my tummy fat and become skinny if i keep this up?
Need help loosing weight, please no rude comments!?
I am 5'4″ and over 225lbs… I have lost 40lbs in the past but am not able to loose it again… I would really love to loose the fat on my inner thighs and my belly. Please help me get back on a healthy diet asap…. NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE…
Daily workout-routine?
So, I am 19 years old…. my height is only 170cm and my weight is 60kg. I enjoy playing badminton and tennis a lot.. I play at least once a week, and I do push ups almost everyday too. I want to improve my body posture, I want to widen my chest and shoulder. I also need to burn some fats (especially fat-belly). Any tips???
will this excercise and diet plan help me lose 70lb?
hi i'm 15stone 5ft11 and 15
i need to lose a lot of weight
i'm an irish dancer and need to get fitter
if i follow this plan do you think i'll get there?
breakfast-porriadge/oats with orange juice
lunch- tortilla/wrap with tuna and lettuce, with apples and grapes and a museli/cereal bar with water
tea- jacket potato with tuna OR fish and pasta OR chicken with noodles OR rice
snacks- fruit
drinks orange juice/water
monday-pilates one hour
tuesday-30 min jog/walk
wednesday-aeroibics 75mins
thursday- irish dance (hard shoes) 40 minutes
saturday-irish dance (soft shoes) 40 minutes
sunday- jog/walk 30 minutes practice dance about 20-60 minutes
i want to lose 5 stone 70lb by july following this do you think i can do this please add suggestions and everything thank youuu


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I spent Friday with my girl shesasurvivor shooting (poorly, at least me) out at the public archery range, then buying Catching Fire, then watching DiCaprio do an assload of drugs and it was EPIC.
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So it hasn't been a stellar couple of weeks for TripleBig—the kitty cat reaper finally caught up with my fur baby and took him off to join his lil brother. He was 17—old as dirt—and wasn't sick or anything. Something in him just wore out and he passed away at home in his sleep, which is all I could ever hope for my old man! It still is majorly sad to be cat-less and I miss his fat face, but all lives end and his was full of fun, so I'm very happy for the time I shared with him!
Even before this happened, I was in the midst of a tumblr hiatus, and I've since decided to try to grab life by the cajones and shake every pleasurable moment out of it. So this is probably what you, my sweet, sweet followers, should expect out of this blog going forward:
Less of me in general. That is, less text posts and a hell of a lot less reblogs. My goal is to be on the computer as little as possible. Except for solitaire. That shit's sacred!
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Shall we say the weather of late is cray cray? Still, unseasonably warm temps in L.A. for the SAG Awards on Sunday meant the stars could really shine on the red carpet. "Take Sofía Vergara, who rocked the heck out of a silver Donna Karan Atelier gown," reported E!, who placed her among the top dressers. Likewise, HuffPo said, "She was luminous in a formfitting gown covered in silver sequins, a look inspired by 'antiqued liquid metal.'" Meanwhile, even though Matthew McConaughey was up for an outstanding performance, it was wife, Camila Alves, who stole the spotlight in a saffron Donna Karan Atelier gown.
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Epic was how Greta Gerwig described her Donna Karan Atelier gown for the 71st Golden Globes. "It's kind of epic," said the "Frances Ha" starlet, speaking with WWD.com on the red carpet. "When I put it on, the dress and I melded and became one. It was a magical moment." On the eve of her first Golden Globe nom, she perfectly captured the sense of Hollywood's new guard paying tribute to their idols, like Leonardo DiCaprio's heartfelt thanks to Martin Scorsese and of course, the Cecil B. DeMille Award going to Woody Allen, whose film "To Rome With Love" Gerwig appeared in. Congratulations to all!
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TV's biggest night in fashion, the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, this past weekend was all about grand entrances. "Sylvia Rosen" of "Mad Men" certainly turned heads in a sweeping gown that exuded old-school glamour and new-school sophistication. On the red carpet, WWD.com took note of its bright display of color, while StyleBistro.com put it among its top looks, "Linda Cardellini was one of our favorites of the night in a deliciously decadent fuchsia creation from Donna Karan Atelier. From her tumbling waves to that buttery train, there's nothing we don't love about this look."
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How can I introduce myself to someone without seeming awkward?
I've been antisocial until here recently, and I want to have better friends at my new school I'll be going to. Good news: I'm more confident than I used to be and I'm friendly. Problem: I'm super awkward and my intelligence comes across in the language that I use and some people just can't follow me. I'll be a sophomore at this school, and I don't wanna seem like a newbie freshman struggling to find my way around, how would I go about introducing myself to someone so that hopefully a friendship will form and I won't have to sit alone at lunch the first day? (I know all about the "compliment introduction trick", and I've tried that, but it can't support an entire conversation.)
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use complements (: dont go over bored just if you see a girl say something like i love your *whatever you like lol and then introduce yourself! just read that you know the compliment trick :/ sorry bout that lol also you can try joking! another thing is try to get them to talk about them selfs more then talking about you that way you do less of the talking and they think your interested in meeting them and its easy lol most girls looove talking about there selfs! and i think youll do fine if your schools anything like mine people are always nice to the new kid we like to tease slightly just go along with it and joke its funner lol but a lot of time we love getting new people it just gives us something new and different! good luck!
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New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan said that Quarterback Mark Sanchez, who received medical attention during the Jets 45-19 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, on his shoulder, is fine and will start Saturday against the New York Giants.
"I'm not sure if he's having tests, I don't believe he is," Ryan said on a morning conference call with reporters. "I think he's going to be just fine. It would be news to me if he had any tests done. I'm not sure, I haven't even checked in with the trainers yet."
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flaccidSyllabification: flac·cid
Pronunciation: /ˈfla(k)səd /
1(Of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant: she took his flaccid hand in hers
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Document - Syria: Indiscriminate attacks terrorize and displace civilians
AI index: MDE 24/078/2012
19 September 2012
Syria: Indiscriminate attacks kill, terrorize and displace civilians
Indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes by the Syrian army are killing, maiming and terrorizing the residents of Jabal al-Zawiya and other parts of the Idlib and north Hama regions.
Every day civilians are killed or injured in their homes, in the street, while running for cover or trying to shelter from the bombings. Hundreds have been killed or injured in recent weeks, many of them children, in indiscriminate attacks.
Battlefield weapons and munitions – unguided bombs dropped from the air and imprecise artillery shells and mortars which have a wide impact radius and cannot be aimed at specific targets – are now being used daily against residential areas, significantly increasing the number of civilian casualties. Such indiscriminate attacks violate fundamental provisions of international humanitarian law, as they fail to distinguish between military targets and civilian objects. In the Idlib, Jabal al-Zawiya and north Hama regions, where Amnesty International carried out its investigations for this report, such attacks account for the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties in the current phase of the conflict and have forced massive civilian displacement. Unexploded ordnance and remnants of weapons founds at the scene of strikes in the areas visited by Amnesty International include: air-delivered Soviet era unguided fragmentary OFAB-100-120 bombs and other unidentified unguided bombs packed full of pieces of metal rods for maximum impact; 122mm artillery shells; 120mm mortars (in one case an 82 mm mortar); and S5 rockets.
Some towns and villages have been virtually emptied of their residents, many of whom are now camping out in the surrounding countryside or hiding in caves; others are crowding in with relatives in what they hope are safer areas, while others have sought refuge in Turkey – or are currently stuck at the border with Turkey waiting to flee the country.
With the attention of the international media mostly focused on the fighting in Aleppo and the capital, hardly any news reaches the outside world about the horrors of daily life for the residents of Idlib, Jabal al-Zawiya and north Hama regions.
Amnesty International visited 26 towns and villages between 31 August and 11 September and carried out on-the-ground field investigations into indiscriminate attacks which killed 166 civilians (including 48 children and 20 women) and injured hundreds of others. In recent days Amnesty International has continued to receive information from residents of several villages about ongoing air and artillery attacks, some of which have resulted in yet more civilian casualties.�
While the presence of fighters and military objectives from all parties within residential areas has further heightened the risk of harm to the civilian population,� there were no armed confrontations or activities by armed opposition fighters at the times of all of the attacks documented in this report except one (detailed below), nor were there military targets near the locations struck during these attacks, which were indiscriminate by the nature of the munitions and the manner in which they were used. �The random nature of the strikes, which did not target fighters or military objectives, suggests that the aim of such strikes may be to punish residents of towns and villages which are now under the de-facto control of opposition forces for their presumed support for the opposition. If this is indeed the aim of the bombardments, these would constitute direct attacks on civilians/civilian objects.
Amnesty International witnessed daily indiscriminate air strikes and shelling in towns and villages throughout the region, several of which killed or injured civilians.
In the afternoon of 1 September a mortar landed in a residential area in the centre of Kan Safra, in Jabal al-Zawiya, killing Khaled Yamani, a young man from a nearby village who was there to visit his fiancée. His father was also injured. A resident of the neighbourhood said: "Khaled and his father had just got out of the car and Khaled was locking the car door when the mortar landed right next to him. He was killed on the spot, torn to pieces. His father was already across the road and was injured but not too seriously because most of the shrapnel flew in the opposite direction."
Nearby houses were sprayed with shrapnel, which penetrated at least one house where residents told Amnesty International they had escaped injury because they had been hiding in a more sheltered part of the house, under the stairs in the basement.
Four days later, two more shells landed in the centre of the village, in the gardens of two houses. The soft garden soil largely contained the impact of the blast, but shrapnel from the shells cut down trees around the gardens and tore large holes in the outer walls of nearby houses. One family were sitting in their front garden when one of the shells fell in the back. The owner of the house told Amnesty International: "We are hosting our relatives who have escaped the bombing in another village. Had the shell landed on this side of the house, we would all have been killed. Nowhere is safe anymore. Where can we go?"
A young woman who was in the other house told Amnesty International: "I was standing by the window in the living room and my little girl was by my feet, when I heard an incredibly loud bang and the glass from the window shattered and flew down on us. I thought we were going to die".
Ma'arat Misrin, a town of some 40,000 a few kilometres from Idlib city, was until a few weeks ago hosting families who had escaped army incursions and fighting in towns and villages in the Idlib and Aleppo governorates. It is now largely deserted and is being bombed indiscriminately every day. Amnesty International visited the town three times (on 8, 9, 10 September) and each time indiscriminate shelling struck residential areas where some civilians remain.
In the afternoon of 9 September, four artillery shells landed in the space of half an hour. As in most cases witnessed by Amnesty International, two shells struck near each other, one shortly after the other. Nabila Haddad, a 37-year-old mother of four, and her cousin Ahmad Haddad, in his late 40s, were killed and Nabila's 15-year-old son and three other relatives were seriously injured. Nabila and her family were on the pavement less than 200 metres from their home when the two shells landed in the street, one right next to them.
In the late afternoon of the previous day, while the Amnesty International delegate was investigating an earlier air strike which had killed several civilians, two shells landed in the next street, one striking a two-storey house and the other landing in the middle of the street. In the house, which was partially destroyed, were 10 members of a family. They were badly shaken and covered in cement dust, but fortunately unharmed. Some had rushed outside and others were huddled in a room, too afraid to move. One of them told Amnesty International: "We were sitting here drinking tea, the whole family, when the shell landed on the house and the upper floor collapsed on us. The women and children were so scared. Why do they bomb civilians, children? What are we supposed to do? We have nowhere else to go."
They had been sitting in a room in the inner-middle of the house, leading to a tiny courtyard, on the ground floor. The shell smashed through the roof into the upper floor, above the kitchen, next to where the family was sitting. Part of the upper floor collapsed over the kitchen and the next room, but luckily the ceiling collapsed at an angle, shielding the family. Had they been sitting only a few metres closer to the kitchen they would have been crushed under the rubble.
Leaflets dropped by Syrian army helicopters over villages in Jabal al-Zawiya show crying children with masked gunmen in the distance and read: "Do not steal the smile from children's lips". Another leaflet shows a uniformed soldier taking aim with his rifle in front of a baby in a pushchair, while a masked gunman takes aim with his rifle from behind a baby in a pushchair. The message that such leaflets seek to convey is that the Syrian armed forces are concerned with the protection of children.
The reality on the ground is very different. The relentless indiscriminate air bombardments and shelling are killing mostly civilians, including many children.
Four children, Ghofran Habboub (four), her brother Mohamed (three) and their cousins Laith (18 months) and Qusai (11 years) were killed when their home was bombed on 14 August in the village of Shellakh (near Idlib). Another child, Qusai's brother Ahmed, aged 14, sustained a broken hip and Ghofran and Mohamed's father sustained multiple fractures and injuries. He told Amnesty International: "The children were downstairs, some sleeping and some playing, when an aircraft dropped a bomb on our home and the second floor collapsed onto the first floor, just where the children were. It was about 12.30 pm. This was the first time that the village was bombed from the air but since then there have been more bombardments. Today (9 September) the village was shelled at 2 am and again at about 2pm. Two strikes each time. I cannot move from my bed and every time there is another strike I am terrified for my little girl. I only have her left and I can't do anything to protect her." Neighbours who helped rescue the family after the attack showed Amnesty International where the bodies of the children had been found under the rubble of their home. The surviving members of the family are now sheltering with relatives as their home was completely destroyed.
Two five-year-old girls, Hajar Rajwan and Ines Sabbouh, Hajar's brother Mohamed 'Ali (11) and her cousin Sou'ad (10), were killed when a mortar exploded outside their home on the evening of 18 August in Ma'arat al-No'man, south of Idlib. Four other children were seriously injured. Fatima Rajwan, Sou'ad's sister, aged five, lost her right leg; 'Isam Rahoum, aged seven, sustained severe abdominal injuries and had his spleen and pancreas removed; and 18-month-old Saddam and 11-year-old 'Abd al-Karim both sustained multiple shrapnel injuries. The children's parents told Amnesty International that the children had been playing in the street outside their homes when the mortar shell landed. The walls on both sides of the narrow street are full of holes from the deadly shrapnel and children from neighbouring houses showed Amnesty International the fragments they had collected from the street after the attack that had killed and injured their friends.
In a neighbourhood in western Ma'arat al-No'man, another family home was struck by a mortar shell on 12 July, killing Hassan and Rayan al-Bajri, aged 11 and eight, their mother Salha and father Naasan , and two of their neighbours. The children's 12-year-old brother Mustafa sustained serious abdominal injuries, which damaged internal organs, and lost two fingers from his right hand. He and his four remaining siblings are now being looked after by their elderly grandparents.
The town is partly under the control of government forces and partly under the control of the armed opposition. The areas which have been the target of regular shelling in recent months and weeks are under opposition control, and residents pointed to a military base on the outskirts of town from where they say the attacks originate. In the late afternoon of 6 September, while Amnesty International was present in the town, at least two mortars coming from the area under government control landed in the part of the town under opposition control, causing no casualties as they fell in empty spaces on the edge of the built up area.
An air strike on the small village of 'Ainkawi (north of Hama) killed three children and two young men, and injured tens of others, in the morning of 1 September. The bomb landed and exploded in an orchard surrounded by houses, sending deadly fragments flying hundreds of metres in all directions. A five-year-old girl, Maram Bassam Qaddi, was in her home, by the patio door, when she was struck by a fragment from a bomb which landed some 200 metres away. She sustained serious head injuries and died of her wounds shortly after arriving at the hospital of a nearby village. Ahmed Hamdo, aged 11, died on arrival at the hospital. Doha Sattouf, aged 15, was killed as she stood some 150 metres from where the bomb landed; a large fragment cut off most of her head. Doha Sattouf's father told Amnesty International that his daughter had just finished the ninth grade, and was looking forward to going to secondary school.
Several children and women were among those injured in the attack. Among them was three-year-old Mothanna Abdo, who had gaping wounds in his right thigh. Fragments from the bomb had penetrated his thigh from side to side. Mothanna's mother suffered a serious back injury and another woman had two fingers and part of her hand lacerated by shrapnel. The child and others injured in the attack had to be evacuated to Turkey, as the local hospitals only have basic facilities and cannot adequately treat patients with such serious injuries.
A double air strike on a house in the village of Tarmala (south of Jabal al-Zawiya) in the early afternoon of 20 August killed three sisters, Heba, Suraya and Ghofran Sulayman, aged seven, eight and nine, their aunts Redha Zwadi, 28, and Halima 'Alaiwi, 60, and their uncle Trad Zwadi, 35. Fifteen other family members – 13 children and two women – were injured.
A relative who lives next door told Amnesty International: "It was a massacre, everyone in the house was killed or injured. We couldn't see anything at first because of the thick dust. Then we found them all dead or injured. They were all women and children. How can they bomb houses full of women and children? It was the second day of 'Eid,� and they were sitting all together eating and the house was brought down on top of them."
Ahmad Sulayman told Amnesty International: "The missile struck the roof just above where they were gathered. It was a massacre. Three of my daughters were killed and the fourth one was badly injured; the other children had horrible injuries. Redha's children were rescued from under the rubble; a boy of four months who was breastfeeding, and a girl of 18 months. It is a miracle that they survived. Their mother was killed protecting them with her body. Our aunt Wardeh was wounded in the head and is now paralyzed. Why bomb innocent civilians in their homes? How can this be allowed? The children were at their grandmother's house. My wife died two years ago. I had my precious four girls and one boy and now three of my little girls are gone. Why? There is no reason. All I have left is one daughter and one son. They were injured but survived, thank God. May God help us."
In Killi (Idlib region) a whole family perished when their home was bombed on 15 August. Marwa Khattab, aged three, her 18-month-old brother Bilal, their parents, 25-year-old Yahia and 20-year-old Rabi'a, and their grandmother Fatima Khattab, were in their home when it was destroyed in an air strike at about 12.30 pm. Only one child, five-year-old Mohamed survived. At the time, since the previous day, government and opposition forces were engaged in fighting several kilometres from the village and government forces launched a large numbers of indiscriminate air strikes in the area, including in Killi and other neighbouring towns and villages.
Because of the indiscriminate nature of the bombardments, there is little residents can do to protect themselves. Many of the victims were killed in the very places where they had sought shelter, hoping they would be safe, or as they were running for cover.
In Ma'arat Herma (south of Jabal al-Zawiya), 15 civilians were killed and dozens were injured in two twin air strikes in the centre of the village in the late afternoon of 26 August.
Dou'a al-Thalluj and her two-year-old son Mustafa were killed while trying to run to safety. Her husband, Ahmad Rahal, told Amnesty International: "After the first strike nearby, my wife took our son and ran out of the house to go to my brother's house next door, where there is a cellar. She crossed the garden, opened the front door to the street and as soon as she got to the street there was a second strike. She was holding our little boy and they were both killed on the spot. How have we come to this? Our own government is killing its people, women, children, bombing civilians indiscriminately; and nobody is doing anything to stop this. We have been forgotten by the whole world."
Her neighbour, 25-year-old Lamia al-Nabo, was killed in the same airstrike while running from her home to her brother's – only a few metres away – with her sister and two brothers, all three of whom were injured. Her brother and sister told Amnesty International they were next to their sister when she was hit by a flying fragment and killed.
Ahmed Sultan, a 16-year-old tenth-grade student, was killed trying to reach shelter. His mother told Amnesty International: "We heard the aircraft above and we came running to the cellar. The younger children and I got to the cellar but Ahmed was still on the stairs when the missile exploded in the middle of the road a few metres away. There was a loud explosion, debris flying around and dust so thick I could not see anything. Then we found Ahmed in a pool of blood; his legs had been blown off and his abdomen was cut open."
Ahmed's uncle, 'Abdallah, a 35-year-old father of three, and another 16-year-old schoolboy from the neighbourhood, Ahmed Rahal, each lost a leg and sustained fractures in other limbs. 'Abdallah said that he had just got off his motorcycle and was walking towards his home when the strike happened. Ahmed Rahal said that he and a friend were standing on the corner looking at the plane: "I did not expect the plane to bomb. We were not afraid of the planes because until that day they had not bombed our village. Now when I hear bombings even far away I get very scared, but I can't move from my bed."
One of those killed in the strikes – Mus'ab Ibrahim al-Thalluj, a 31-year-old father of two – had fled the nearby village of al-Tamana� and was staying with relatives in Ma'aret Herma.
Aircraft dropped several unguided bombs on the centre of the village of Kan Safra (in Jabal-al-Zawiya) on the morning of 24 August, killing seven civilians - four children and three women. The two-storey house of Mohamed al-Hamdo was completely destroyed, as well as the neighbouring houses on both sides. Mohamed al-Hamdo told Amnesty International: "My children were sleeping upstairs and as we heard an aircraft bombing outside the village some 30 neighbours came running to shelter in our cave and at the same time I called my children to come down and go to the cave. The bomb struck just as some of my children were still on the stairs, before they got down to the cave. My wife Miriam, my daughters Manar (16) and Bara' (22), my son Ahmed (12) and my niece Maysa' (18) were killed. Many were injured, including my 75-year-old mother, three of my brother's daughters, the children of one of my nieces and other relatives and my neighbour Majed. The plane struck just after the neighbours had gathered by my house, as if the gathering was the target; luckily almost everyone had got into the cave; a minute earlier and the massacre could have been even worse."
Another air strike a few streets away at the same time killed 10-year-old Hoda al-Khallaq and wounded four other girls. A 17-year-old boy, Abd al-Razzaq al-Khalil, was killed in yet another strike nearby.
An earlier strike on 7 August killed a one-year-old baby girl, Mays al-Dik, whose family was sheltering with relatives in Kan Safra, having fled the fighting in their own village. Her mother told Amnesty International: "We went to Kan Safra because we were afraid that the army would shell our area. Fighters from the Free Army (opposition fighters) had told us that we should leave because they were going to hit a nearby army checkpoint and that it was likely that the army would strike back and we would be at risk. So we left but we found death instead of safety. The village where we were staying was shelled and my baby daughter was injured in the head by a fragment from the shell. She had a large hole in the back of her head. There were no cars available and we tried to take her to hospital by motorbike, but just as we were about to set off, the plane bombed again and we had to take cover and in the meantime my baby died of her wound."
In Zardana (near Idlib), Lina 'Arouf, a 28-year-old mother of a young boy, her 13-year-old brother Hassan and her 30-year-old husband Mahmoud were killed as they fled their home on the morning of 5 September. Lina's mother, another of her brothers and her three-month-old niece were injured. A neighbour who witnessed the attack told Amnesty International: "We heard the shelling and ran for cover. Lina and her family were less than 50 metres behind us when the shell exploded." Another neighbour told Amnesty International: "Lina was horribly mutilated but she was bent over her little boy and he was saved because she shielded him with her body. But now the boy has lost both his parents."
Two days earlier, a nearby school hosting displaced families from other villages had been sprayed with large calibre bullets from a helicopter. All the displaced people fled the school. A girl from the nearby town of Taftanaz (now under daily bombardment and virtually emptied of its population) who returned to shelter in the school with her mother and siblings, told Amnesty International: "We had to flee our home and we cannot go back. Here too we were under attack so we left the school, when everybody fled, after the attack. But we have nowhere else to go to, so we came back here. God willing they won't bomb us again and we will be safe here".
With nowhere safe, villagers often shelter in old Roman caves for protection from the air bombardments and shelling. Such caves, where they exist, are usually on the outskirts of villages and not easily reachable when residents need to flee incoming bombardments. In several villages, Amnesty International found large numbers of residents who were spending most of their time in caves, overcrowded because there are so few, and particularly uncomfortable when there is no electricity (which is usually the case for several hours a day and sometimes for days at a time). Some families have been digging makeshift underground shelters near their homes, a demanding and challenging undertaking requiring time and resources, but one which terrified residents see as the only option to protect their families from the relentless bombardment and shelling.
In the village of Kafr Anbel, 35 civilians were killed and scores were injured in two separate air strikes, on 22 and 28 August. Twenty-two were killed when the market square was bombed on 28 August. Some were shopping, like Fathiya Fares Ali al-Sheikh, a 56-year-old mother of nine, and Fu'ad Hassan al-Ahmad, a 63-year-old father of six. Others were in their homes or shops around the market square. Teenagers Mohamed and Jumaa al-Sweid and their father Abd al-Karim were killed in their shop, as was 34-year-old Mohamed Musa. Amna Kheiro al-Sweid, a 66-year-old widow was killed in her home, above Musa's shop.
The market square, which had become well known for its weekly anti-government demonstrations with creative multilingual banners, is now largely destroyed.
Six days earlier, a bombardment near a secondary school (Zika school) and a grocery store killed 13 civilians, including 31-year-old Zahia al-Aabbi. Her father told me: "Zahia collected plastic around the village and then sold it and with her work she provided for the whole family – her mother and sisters and disabled brother. I am blind and cannot work anymore. Zahia looked after the whole family. She was killed near the grocery shop of Salha al-Shayeb, an elderly woman who was also killed in the bombardment and her grocery shop was destroyed."
Between 31 August and 7 September an Amnesty International delegate witnessed further indiscriminate strikes on the village on three separate occasions, including an airstrike on 31 August which destroyed and damaged several buildings – including a clinic and the mosque - in one of the village's main streets. No casualties were reported as residents and passersby had fled as soon as they heard the aircraft above.
Attacks such as the one in the market in Kafr Anbel, and repeated strikes near hospitals shortly after the hospitals receive large numbers of casualties have raised suspicions that these areas might have been targeted because of the large numbers of people gathered there. Amnesty International documented the use of weapons in these attacks which do not allow pinpoint targeting, but would allow for the targeting of areas. If this were the case, such strikes would constitute direct attacks on civilians, a serious violation of international humanitarian law (IHL) and a war crime.
A rocket attack which killed two boys on the morning of 15 August in the village of Ram Hamdan, near Idlib, indicates that when government forces are intent on targeting opposition fighters they use more precise weapons. This raises further questions as to why they continue to launch indiscriminate attacks against residential areas using weapons (unguided bombs and artillery and mortar shells) which cannot be aimed at specific targets and are known to be causing mostly civilian casualties. Mustafa Deeb, 15, and Husam Sleibi, 17, were killed by a rocket fired from a Syrian armed forces helicopter on the morning of 15 August. Opposition fighters had been firing on the helicopter with an anti-aircraft machine gun from the edge of the village, and the two boys were watching from the roof of a house about 80-100 metres away, so it is possible that they were mistaken for opposition fighters. The remains of the rocket found at the scene were those of a Russian-made S 5. Although not noted for their accuracy, these rockets are capable of being directed at a specific building (unlike artillery and mortars). It would thus appear that when government forces want to target opposition fighters posing a danger to their forces (as may have been the case in this instance) they use more precise weapons, unlike the indiscriminate strikes which are routinely directed at residential areas and which in the overwhelming majority of cases kill and injure civilians not taking part in the hostilities.
Amnesty International previously documented S5 rocket attacks on the Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo on 12 and 14 August. The fact that two such attacks were carried out against the hospital in the space of three days suggests that it was deliberately targeted.� Attacks on hospitals or medical facilities are expressly prohibited under international humanitarian law.
The presence of armed combatants and the conduct of hostilities in residential areas and urban settings pose an inherent heightened risk for the civilian population, with civilians in danger of getting caught in the crossfire and being forcibly displaced. Both Syrian government forces and opposition fighters have been operating in, and launching attacks from, residential areas in and around towns and villages in the Idlib governorate and elsewhere in the country, thereby increasing the risk to civilians in those areas.�
However, in all the cases investigated by Amnesty International for this report (except the attack in the Ram Hamdan village, cited above) there were no known military targets at the locations of the strikes, and no opposition fighters were killed or injured in the attacks (though it is conceivable that some of those killed or injured in their homes with their families or in the market might have been fighters who were not engaged in hostilities at the time of the attacks). No armed confrontations were taking place in these areas. This is because Syrian armed forces are now located too far from these towns and villages for opposition fighters to be able to target them from within these towns and villages. Rather, the Syrian armed forces, having withdrawn from these areas, are now launching indiscriminate air and artillery attacks from a distance, with disastrous consequences for the civilian population
Where armed confrontations do occur in populated residential areas, the warring parties must take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians. They must take precautions to protect civilians and civilian objects under their control against the effects of attacks by the adversary, including by avoiding - to the maximum extent feasible - locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas. International humanitarian law also expressly prohibits the use of tactics such as using "human shields" to prevent an attack on military targets. However, failure by one side to separate its fighters from civilians and civilian objects does not relieve its opponent of its obligation under IHL to direct attacks only at combatants and military objectives and to take all necessary precautions in attack to spare civilians and civilian objects.
A fundamental rule of international humanitarian law is that all parties to a conflict – in this case Syrian government forces and opposition fighters (members of the FSA and other armed opposition groups, regardless of whether or not they are affiliated to the FSA) – must at all times distinguish between civilians (and civilian objects) and combatants (and military objectives). Attacks may only be directed against combatants and military objectives. In case of doubt, individuals and objects should be presumed to be civilian (and immune from attack).
Intentional attacks directed against civilians not taking part in hostilities, indiscriminate attacks (which do not distinguish between civilian and military targets), and disproportionate attacks (which may be expected to cause incidental harm to civilians that would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated) are prohibited and constitute war crimes. These rules apply equally to all parties to armed conflicts (whether government forces or non-state armed groups) at all times without exception.
When parties are fighting in the vicinity of civilians they must choose appropriate means and methods of attack. This requirement rules out the use of certain types of weapons and tactics. The use of means and methods of combat that cannot be directed at a specific military objective may result in indiscriminate attacks and is prohibited. The widespread use by Syrian government forces of battlefield weapons that have a wide impact radius and/or wide margin of error, or cannot be directed at specific targets, such as artillery shells, mortars and free-fall unguided bombs and rockets, in populated residential areas has resulted in large numbers of civilian casualties. Attacks such as those documented in this report, which government forces continue to carry out with the full knowledge that they have inflicted and will continue to inflict heavy civilian casualties (and cause massive damage to civilians objects), flagrantly violate the prohibition of indiscriminate attack and constitute war crimes. In some cases, government shelling and bombardment of towns and villages appears to have constituted direct attacks on civilians, as they were targeting residential areas in which there were no opposition fighters or military objectives (in some instances apparently as punishment for the residents' real or perceived support for the opposition). Direct attacks on civilians constitute war crimes.
Opposition fighters, while mostly fighting with short-range light weapons, have at times also used imprecise weapons (such as mortars) or even inherently indiscriminate weapons (such as home-made rockets) in populated residential areas, in contravention of the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks.
Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the Syrian authorities to put an end to indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians. The organization has also urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to ensure that that the perpetrators of these war crimes and other crimes under international law are brought to justice and that victims and their families receive reparations.
The fact that one of the parties to a conflict is systematically violating the rules of IHL does not in any way excuse the commission of similar violations by other parties. In this regard, Amnesty International reiterates its warning to all Syrian armed opposition groups and their leadership that, as they seek to procure or manufacture longer-range weapons, they should be fully aware that the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks applies equally to them. Any use of artillery, mortars, and unguided rockets in populated residential areas violates this prohibition and may constitute a war crime for which they will be held accountable.
One of the unexploded unguided fragmentary OFAB 100-120 bombs frequently dropped by aircraft on civilians in residential areas. © Amnesty International
One of the unexploded bombs packed full of metal rods frequently dropped by aircraft on civilians in residential areas. © Amnesty International
One of the unexploded 122mm artillery shells which rain down on civilians in residential areas. © Amnesty International
Three-year-old Mohamed Fadi Habboub (left), along with his sister and his 18-months-old cousin Laith (right) as well as another cousin (11 years old) were killed when their home was bombed on 14 August in the village of Shellakh (near Idlib). Two other family members were injured. © Private
Four members of the al-Bajri family were killed when their home in Ma'arat al-No'aman (south of Idlib) was struck by a mortar shell on 12 July 2012. © Private
Halima 'Alaiwi, 60, and her son and daughter and three nieces aged 7, 8 and 9, were killed when the family home in village of Tarmala (south of Jabal al-Zawiya) was bombed on 20 August as the family was eating lunch. Fifteen other family members – 13 children and two women – were injured. © Private
The attack reduced Halima 'Alaiwi's home to rubble. © Amnesty International
Residents queuing for bread in Ma'arat Misrin, next to a large crater from a recent air strike, during which people had also been queuing for bread, which resulted in some casualties but fortunately no fatalities, September 2012. © Amnesty International
Maryam al-Sadd, 35, lost her right hand, her daughter Rama Maklluta, 5, was killed and her son, Naji, 2, lost a finger when a 120mm mortar struck their home in Kfar Ruma (south of Jabal al-Zawiya), Syria, on 25 July 2012. © Amnesty International
Destroyed houses in Killi (Idlib region) as witnessed in September 2012. © Amnesty International
Imad Jarbu'a, 10, who sustained a head injury when his uncle's house in Kafr Awaiyd (Jabal al-Zawiya), Syria, was bombed on 29 August 2012. The attack killed his uncle, 58-year-old Jasem Jarbu'a. © Amnesty International
� Residents of Kafr 'Awayed told Amnesty International that in the early afternoon of 16 September several airstrikes on the village killed eight civilians, five of them children, and injured several others. On the same day residents of the nearby village of Kan Safra told Amnesty International that nine air strikes had been launched on the village and its surroundings, without causing casualties, as residents had taken refuge in caves and shelters or had fled the village in the morning when they first heard the aircraft circling above the village.
� Dozens of armed opposition groups, composed of Syrian army defectors and volunteers, are operating in the areas covered in this report. Many are acting under the general banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) but in reality are only loosely connected with the FSA and operate largely independently of the FSA and of each other. Others have no link to the FSA at all.
� The Muslim holiday which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, when people fast from sunrise to sunset
� Several residents were killed and many homes were burned down in the hamlet of al-Tamana (north of Hama) on 13 May 2012 in an attack which residents told Amnesty International was carried out by state-armed militias. The surviving villagers have been displaced since then.
� See Amnesty International, Civilians bearing the brunt in the battle for Aleppo, Index MDE 24/073/2012, 23 August 2012, http://www.amnesty.org./en/library/info/MDE24/073/2012/en)
� See Amnesty International, Syria: Civilians bear the brunt as battle for Aleppo rages, 23 August 2012, � HYPERLINK "http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/syria-civilians-bear-brunt-battle-aleppo-rages-2012-08-23" ��http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/syria-civilians-bear-brunt-battle-aleppo-rages-2012-08-23� and the media briefing Civilians bearing the brunt in the battle for Aleppo, Index MDE 24/073/2012, 23 August 2012, http://www.amnesty.org./en/library/info/MDE24/073/2012/


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- T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z3 now on sale for $630
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4 now available from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a good phone from inside to outside. Form factor, the Note 4 is really thin and has a premium feel and build. Camera shoots amazing pictures. It has the greatest graphics and I love the fast download booster and the ultimate power saving mode….
The T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z3 has a very lightly skinned version of Android. The camera on this phone is also superb and not to mention it is water and dust proof.
The BlackBerry Passport is the most innovative smart phone on the market. The touch keyboard is very innovative. It makes it very easy to scroll and navigate through the text. It comes with Amazon app store pre-loaded on the device, and Android apps and games run perfectly.
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iPhone 6 is slightly longer and wide than the iPhone 5, feels nice and sturdy. In terms of battery life the 6 has not improved dramatically but defiantly improved. I love the way it looks and feel. Speaker is loud and clear.
16GB: $31.24/mo. x 24 mos or $749.91 full retail price
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I was excited to get my phone when it came out. It has a 5.5 inch screen which is nice and big. Its easier on the eyes. The screen is gorgeous, gets very bright and great colors. Great that they moved the wake button to the side. The battery finally last forever….well a day and half at least and Im a pretty heavy user.
The Moto G 2014 is now on sale for $179.99.
The Samsung Galaxy Avant is like a mini Galaxy S5. It's cheap, has great Animations. The size of the phone is big enough to browse internet but relatively smaller to fit in your pocket.
The T-Mobile LG G3 has everything you would need in a phone and more. It's 3GB RAM and less likely to slow down after months of use unlike the LG G2/S4/S5. This phone is comparable to the HTC One M8's speed but I would say the LG G3 is much better. Battery life suffers compared to the LG G2, with a 20-21% reduction in overall power, primarily from the strain of the display.
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The Nokia Lumia 635 is a great handset, powered by the new Windows Phone 8.1. The Live Tiles and Cortana give Siri a run for it's money! And the big 4.5 inch, super sensitive display is great for playing games or watching HD movies and videos. The only thing with this phone it the lack on a front camera, camera flash, (although all Lumias work great in low light and front sensors such as a proximity sensor or an ambient light sensor. #but the device still knows whether or not you're phone I'd up to your face when in a call, so the screen still goes off when your phone is up to your face.) Overall it's a great device!
Unlocked Nokia Lumia 1020 for T-Mobile LTE
The unlocked Nokia Lumia 1020 windows phone is now on sale for $549.00 at Microsoft Store.
Unlocked Sony Xperia Z1 Compact for T-Mobile
The Unlocked Sony Xperia Z1 Compact is now on sale for $549.99 in the US.
The Huawei Ascend Mate2 has a 6.1-inch 720p HD display, price for$299 unlocked, support T-Mobile LTE.
I'll start by saying the Samsung Galaxy S5 definitely feels much nicer to hold than its predecessor. The speed of the processor is FAST and the screen blooming in display of colors is just awesome!
Battery life is very very good and can get you through a full day with heavy use. Touch wiz only uses 4.4 gigs of memory so that means that the 16gb version on the S5 has just under 12gb of usable space right out of the box.
The HTC One M8 is a phone that offers enough to buy it. The camera is great in my opinion but I am not a camera expert. The ability to refocus you shots after taking them is awesome and works great. The speakers on this thing are also amazing, they are better than any other smartphone at volume, bass, and clarity.
LG Optimus F3Q has a 1GB RAM, which is more than enough for this phone. It is very smooth and has a very nice customizable home screen. This phone is not a good phone if you want to put more than 5 apps on it.
The LG G Flex is much more comfortable in your hand than other handsets of equal size due to the curve. Don't let the 720p rating fool you. This is a top notch screen.
I watch a lot of movies and youtube videos on my phone, and the curved screen makes it look like a mini theater in my palm. Some complain of ghosting.
The T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z1S is now on sale online for $0 down with $22 per month for 24 months or $528 full price.
New T-Mobile Phones Coming Out 2013
The Motorola Moto G is now on sale for $179 (8GB model) and $199 for the 16GB model.
The T-Mobile Nexus 5 is now on sale for $450 or $41.99 down payment for $17 per month. It's a very lightweight phone but feels sturdy enough for me. Battery life is fair to good. I streamed music thru my phone all day at work yesterday and used almost drained the battery. Nice large screen; buttons on the side are pretty intuitive and I've had no issues so far. The Snapdragon processor is great; navigating the internet is easy and quick.
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is now on sale for $0 down plus $29.5 a month for 24 months. The phone is great, the screen is very vibrant, the colors are amazing, the camera is amazing with its new features and it takes awesome pictures. S-pen has even more functionality than it's predecessor, active notes are very handy, not to mention drawing multiple windows on one screen. 32gb storage is great for downloading a bunch of applications and jellybean 4.3 allows apps to be moved to add card if you manage to fill the on board storage. The only complaint is the speaker volume!
The LG G2 is super fast and packed full of features. It has gesture settings to allow you to flip the alarm off and knock on the screen twice to wake up and sleep, etc. You can multitask using the Q-Slide apps bar and you can customize almost all of the screens and menu bars including being able to have separate themes for each text thread.
The T-Mobile Moto X is now on sale for $600 off-contract by motorola.com. Very clean android interface as well. Might as well be a Google Play phone. It's fast, the Motorola features are actually useful and the size of the phone is SPOT ON. I can't say enough of how clean it looks and how nice it is to hold.
The T-Mobile LG Optimus F6 is now on sale for $49.99 down with 24 equal monthly device payments of $10.
T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 925 is now on sale for $50 with a 2 year re-payment plan at $20. WP8 is fast, pretty, stable and it just works. Supper sensitive Touch Screen. Can use a fingernail or glove. The screen is clear and sharp colors. Easy to use at sunlight or in a dark room with no light. Overall this is a great phone, if you want something new go for it, you will be pleasantly surprised about how amazing this phone is.
The T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z is now on sale with a $99.99 down payment and two-year contract ($20 per month).
HTC One Google Play edition is now on sale for $599. Stock android guarantees future OS updates. Both hardware are worthy of future updates. The One is most beauty and premium look and feel android phone right now on Earth. Must get One soon.
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 Google Play edition is now available for $649.00. The Unlocked International Version sells for about $600 to $650, it is carrier free, with no logos and it does come with Samsung's Touch Wiz and great features that they advertise on TV. It seems that this International version has the best of both worlds and will probably get the Google Updates faster than the Carrier Versions.
The T-Mobile Samsung Gravity Q QWERTY phone is now on sale for $154 or $10 up front plus payments of $6/month over 2 years.
The T-Mobile BlackBerry Q10 smartphone is now on Sale for $ 99.99 down and 24 monthly payments of $20. It still has the Qwerty; looks gorgeous; pictures are very crisp. Touchscreen is very responsive. Screen is not to small, unless u plan on watching movies or tv shows.
The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III LTE is now on sale pay $69.99 down and $20 a month over 24 months.
The T-Mobile White Nexus 4 is now on sale, the white color looks nice…but adding wifi calling would have looked a lot nicer. 8GB or 16GB? Jesus…what is wrong with manufacturers? Should be 32gb minimum these days.
The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Exhibit (Galaxy S3 mini) is now on sale for a down payment of $19.99 followed by 24 monthly payments of $9.
The new T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 521 is now on sale for $129.88 at Walmart.
The new T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available, the best feature on this phone happens to be its screen which is a full 1920x1080p resolution with a Super AMOLED panel that gives super saturated colors and deep black levels that seem to blend in with the bezel of the device itself.
The T-Mobile HTC One is a very nice phone. Now on Sale online, arriving in stores April 24th. It is very user friendly and relatively simple to use. The camera quality is excellent, despite it being only 4MP, the Ultrapixel technology works very well and the shutter speed is pretty quick which is always a bonus. The 4.7″ HD screen is very clear and colours are rich making it great for watching clips on and surfing the web.
The T-Mobile iPhone 5 is now available for $99.99 down and 24 monthly installment payments of $20. This phone is easily the best phone for someone who wants a phone that is easy to use, has high quality apps, terrific build quality, wide selection of accessories, and great screen.
The T-Mobile BlackBerry Z10 is really smooth, the HUB is really cool, BBM video and screen share is convenient, and the way the phone manages applications…best phone for the job. Compared to Android and Iphone never looking back to another phone.


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And it almost feels safer being her because she wasn't cheated on
By safe does that mean you feel she had control over a situation you did not and the real issue is that you're afraid of being stuck in another situation where you lack information on and by extension control over events?
Speculation in the form of a question, sorry.
[This message edited by StillGoing at 10:04 AM, September 26th (Thursday)]
What they had was not real. They didn't go out amongst friends with couples night and amongst family activities. It was hidden where noone else could see they were ashamed.
I would never want to be that person. I see that person in my BGF and she just lies and lies so much she isn't the same person I knew before and it saddens me.
Be the best you can be. Lose weight exercise so it makes YOU feel good. We can't control our spouses but we can control how we think and what WE do for ourselves.
Don't ever want to be like the OW ever! As a matter of fact I am just the opposite of both and love myself for it! I am warm loving and nurturing. I deeply care about other people and could NEVER hurt someone in the manner they did! I know in the looks department I am 200 x better there sooo. Again their cheating is on them. Don't let it change the beautiful YOU!
And of course no I don't want his broken. His broken was what was emotionally abusing me for many years.
This is why it feels to me like the thoughts of A's being fake doesn't comfort me. If he was broken at the time (and I'm not convinced he was), I'm the one who got his *broken*, his cruel words and harshness. Meanwhile they got his happy self, they didn't get the unkind words or treatment. They got him at his best, not his worst. And, at least, in my H's case, I think they did get his true self. Realized too late that he has no moral problems with what he did. That's the difference. Someone who is remorseful, who doesn't feel infidelity is a value of theirs, then yes, the AP might have gotten them at their worst because they were contradicting their own values. But my H? His values were in line with having "game". Wish I'd known sooner.
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I'm smart, good looking and gosh darn it, people like me!
I want no part of what she got of my H. She got the absolute broken parts of him. She can have that, what I want now is what he is working on, the parts he is working on to make better. I have zero desire to ever be the person that allowed me to take so callously with no regard for myself or my H again.
There is no specialness or goodness in what happened, only brokenness.
I agree with tired girl. There is no way I would have wanted that side. At least I had the best side of him for many years.
I can see how eerily similar MOW and WH were as far as their lack of empathy and inability to take responsibility for their wrongdoings. They were a perfect match for dysfunction.
How he treated her in her moments of need was not how he ever treated me.
I can relate to this because my WH showed MOW more sympathy than me after his A ended.
Early in our R and M I had seen the kind of moments you are referring to, but during and after the A not so much. I am not sure why this changes. My WH is just now starting to feel sympathy for me but I honestly don't need it anymore because when I did need it from him it wasn't there. I found sympathy from my friends and family. I healed myself on my own in therapy.
One thing that was hard was when word got out about her, people wanted to see what she looked like and then it was immediate that they compared her to me! Friends did this from long ago, people asked her name, wanted to google, to fb search and so on...it was awful.
Ironically X also made comparisons to myself and to DD about the "new family" he had entwined himself with and abandoned us for and had the need, after false R, to tell me. He said too, things that were not in her favor, but a counselor said that often people look for faults to help blame others.
Sorry to speak of my situation on your thread and I hope that in time, you'll think of the OW less.
What helped me, FWIW, was the realization that the more I thought of "it", the more importance it took on and I was horrified at that.
A counselor told me that in some sense, I did have control over that part, because I have control over myself. And Ow didn't get the better part of X, or his money, even when he retires, or if he dies, the benefits come here...she "gets" the person, his problems, his crap, his attitude...we "get" his benefits, some money ...and peace.
The counselor said also, it's what will be tolerated in some places and not others.
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Thank you all for your words. They make me feel like I'm on the right track.
As important as the Wayward Side is for my growth, understanding and recovery, I find Reconciliation to be the place where I can see BS's and WS's hoping to...or even better actually achieving...a rebirth together in the face of very long odds.
Seeing the examples here of that hope, perseverance, trust, and love...very powerful and touching to this wayward's healing heart. VERY!


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30. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingenvy33 May 17, 2012 8:08 AM (in response to poohheart)
After lots of trial and error, I am in complete agreement it is the wi-fi causing the problem. After constant reboots of my original phone and the one t-mobile exchanged for me, I turned off wi-fi for 48 hours and it was fine.
I dug around a bit more on the HTC forum and found a post with the following advice: Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Menu > Advanced, and tap on "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to enable it. Do the same for "Best Wi-Fi performance." Next, perform a soft reset by pressing and holding your power button and then choosing Restart.
I followed the steps above (mine did not have "Best Wi-Fi performance" checked) and it has been working correctly without crashing for the last 24 hours. This includes going from home to work and back with the phone in my pocket. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this will do the trick.
31. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingbureau13 May 17, 2012 8:26 AM (in response to envy33)
I left WiFi off almost all day yesterday as well, and also had no resets. The day before I had no wifi coverage most of the day and had no resets, went home where I DO have wifi coverage, and when I left again...reset. So I'm in complete agreement with the previous poster. (I did experience the phone getting sluggish and bogging down yesterday, so I suspect that is something different, which I will worry about later if it continues)
I double-checked, and for me, the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" was already checked, however "Best Wi-Fi performance" was not. I just enabled that (I hope the battery life warning is for something negligible) so we'll see what happens.
32. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingtmo_jesus May 17, 2012 9:49 AM (in response to poohheart)
Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to thank everyone for providing feedback on the HTC One S. I personally own this device myself and have not come across the issue with my phone rebooting or freezing. We will keep a close eye on this situation and if we come across anything we will definitely share it with our customers.
Pooheart, That is odd that your replacement unit is doing the same thing as the original device. What city and state are you located? Have you tried to toggle your network from 4G to 2G in the settings?
Gr8dane, Thank you for going the extra steps in filling out the crash report to HTC.
33. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootinghimenohogosha May 17, 2012 4:47 PM (in response to himenohogosha)
Again, my phone was in my pocket and rebooted itself. After it came back up, it didn't ask to send an error report. It'd really be nice if there was a papertrail that showed why the phone had to restart..
34. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingcraigmjamieson May 17, 2012 5:10 PM (in response to poohheart)
Misery loves company:) I got this phone a week ago and my biggest problem is that half the time when somebody calls, it doesn't even ring. Yesterday was the first time it shut down unexpectedly. This afternoon, instead of shutting down, it restarted. I was next to it both times and both times this occured when an email came in and the email notification sounded. I am using the native Gmail app and both times it created an error report for HTC which I sent.
I also use wifi calling almost exclusively so, if that is the issue and that issue relates to my phone not ringing ... I will no longer be a T-Mobile customer as wifi calling is a necessity for me in my coverage area.
35. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootinghase May 18, 2012 6:22 AM (in response to envy33)
I too have had this issue. No reboots with WIFI turned off.
I will try the suggested wifi settings and report back.
36. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingbureau13 May 18, 2012 6:25 AM (in response to hase)
Cross your fingers. I made those changes, turned wifi back on and I was rock solid all day yesterday and all night. No slow-downs or freeze-ups either. I'm going to give it another day or so, and if this keeps up I will try turning WiFi calling back on and see if that changes anything.
37. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingcj1171 May 18, 2012 8:32 AM (in response to bureau13)
So I have been having reboots since I got the phone 3 days ago as well. And it is definitely an issue with wifi. I tried disabling wifi calling last night and didn't have any reboots, but I went out this morning and when I got back and it hopped on wifi again, it had another reboot. So it doesn't appear to be wifi calling.
Using "Best Wifi Performance" is an unacceptable solution because of how much more of a drain it is on the battery. And it's not like a signal problem, I've got full bars and am sitting in the same room as my router. Sounds like a firmware update is needed from HTC/Tmo...
38. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingbureau13 May 18, 2012 8:36 AM (in response to cj1171)
cj1171, I don't think anyone is suggesting that turning on Best WiFi Performance is a fix, but it might be an acceptable workaround until the proper firmware update is available.
Does anyone know how much of a battery hit this actually causes? I haven't really noticed much of a difference but I haven't tried to quantify it either.
39. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingcj1171 May 18, 2012 8:41 AM (in response to bureau13)
True enough. I'll roll with it on all day today and see how the battery does compared to yesterday.
40. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingewilts May 18, 2012 9:01 AM (in response to poohheart)
I have had the "keep WiFi on during sleep" setting on since day 1 - I didn't play with the advanced options so it must be the default. I also have the "best performance" setting set. I still crash every day or two.
41. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootinggarryjarrett May 19, 2012 7:04 AM (in response to ewilts)
I received my new phone 3 days ago and it constantly crashes and reboots, 7-8 times a day. I've tried all the tricks mentioned here. Last night I did a factory reset so no personal apps are installed, wi-fi is not even setup, still the phone has crashed sereral times within the last half hour. I so wanted to like this phone, but now I'm ready to ask for a refund.
42. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootingcj1171 May 19, 2012 7:52 AM (in response to garryjarrett)
I tried a hard reset as well and now it's rebooted twice in the past hour. Not on Wifi. It's going back today.
43. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootinggarryjarrett May 19, 2012 10:38 AM (in response to poohheart)
I'm not sure of my return options. I purchased the phone on ebay. It was listed as 'new, never used' but now I discover that it is defective. If this forum is monitored by T-Mobile or HTC perhaps a rep could advise if the unit is returnable.
44. Re: HTC One S constantly freezing and rebootinggramps28 May 19, 2012 11:44 AM (in response to garryjarrett)
When you purchase a phone from a seller from eBay you need to look at the return policy of the seller. Your only other option is to contact HTC and see if it's under warranty.


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James Fraser
James Fraser was born in Glasgow in 1958 and after a career in the Civil Service gained a place as a mature student at Edinburgh College of Art in 1999. He was awarded the Heriot Watt University award for outstanding merit in his first year and received his BA (Hons) in painting from ECA in 2004.
His subject matter is varied and James uses a whole range of materials in his working method. Within this variation, however, he regards the aesthetic quality of the finished work paramount.
James has regularly exhibited at various galleries throughout Scotland and at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Royal Society of Watercolourists (RSW), Paisley Art Institute (PAI) and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts (RGI) annual exhibitions. In August 2006 he was elected a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) and he is also an Ordinary member of Society of Scottish Artists.
His work is now in many private collections.
1958 Glasgow, Scotland
1999-2004 Edinburgh School of Art, Scotland
2012 The Glasgow Art Club Award
2005 Peter Potter Gallery Trust Award
1999 Heriot Watt University Award – Outstanding Merit
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2004 – to date The Society of Scottish Artists
The Royal Society of Watercolourists
Paisley Art Institute
The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art
The Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem, Scotland
Arran Art Gallery, Isle of Arran, Scotland
The Fotheringham Gallery, Stirling, Scotland
The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Purple Gallery, Bournville, England
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