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Artists and writers draw inspiration from the time-frozen landscapes of the Mississippi Delta. Roots music fans frequent those lonesome highways to feel the spirits of bluesmen past.
I go for the food.
The Delta is a poor area with a rich history of good eating. Within the borders of this fertile floodplain — the Mississippi River to the west, a ridgeline of bluffs to the east — exists a strain of Southern dining outside the barbecue and meat-and-three-vegetable standards. Homemade hot tamales and Kool-Aid pickles, sold in convenience stores. Gulf seafood, served in curtained dining rooms. Catfish, deep-fried with hush puppies or whipped into pate and smeared on crackers.
But finding these culinary gems can be a challenge. Most of the places that serve them don't advertise, and some don't even bother to put up signs to indicate they sell food at all. In this gregarious culture, word of mouth travels fast.
Outsiders hungry for an authentic taste of the Delta won't be disappointed, though, so long as they listen to the locals. Here are three dining experiences that I most associate with this fascinating region, and where to find the best examples.
Greenwood is hundreds of miles from saltwater, yet a couple of restaurants in this weathered cotton town (the setting for the movie "The Help") pride themselves on serving this hard-to-come-by Gulf delicacy.
I first tasted it in the mid-1970s while visiting Greenwood natives for the weekend. A group of us went to dinner at Lusco's (722 Carrollton Ave., Greenwood, 662-453-5365), which has occupied the same spot since FDR's inauguration. I ordered the pompano because I'd never heard of it. Served whole in a pool of vinegar-laced butter sauce, its sweet-tasting white flesh bearing a crispy skin slashed with a cross-hatch, it was one of the most sublime tastes that had ever crossed my unworldly lips.
I couldn't forget the setting either: a dumpy old grocery store on the wrong side of the tracks with a Coca-Cola sign above the door. The memorabilia-filled lobby functioned like a home living room, where guests could hobnob and sip wine brought in paper bags, before being escorted to small curtained dining rooms, each with a buzzer on the wall for summoning the server.
More than 30 years later, I returned to Lusco's — and started asking questions. This is what I learned: Charles "Papa" Lusco and his wife Marie were Sicilian immigrants who came to Greenwood during Prohibition. Besides groceries, wealthy cotton planters came to the store for Papa Lusco's homemade hooch. Often they would bring back fresh seafood from trips to New Orleans, and the Lusco women would prepare and serve it in private curtained rooms in the back. Now all customers can dine on pompano – or any of their other seafood or steak specialties — in their own private space.
Pompano also appears on the menu at Giardina's (314 Howard St., Greenwood, 662-455-4227. www.giardinas.com), another Greenwood institution with deep Sicilian roots. It began as a Depression-era sandwich shop, and today it's the swankest restaurant in town, occupying the ground floor of the Alluvian, a luxurious boutique hotel owned by the Viking Range Corporation. Viking founder Fred Carl Jr. is a native son, and his fortunes are responsible for the flagship Viking cooking school and other popular tourist draws that have revitalized the once-dying business district. Along with steak and seafood, the menu boasts Italian specialties from the Giardina family files, served in the public dining room, courtyard, or in private curtained booths.
Hot tamales
These cigar-shaped cornmeal dumplings filled with spicy meat are Delta icons, beloved throughout the region. They are sold in take-out stands, mom-and-pop cafes and even steak houses and bistros as appetizers.
Moist throughout and dripping with oily, spicy juices, they are typically served with saltines and hot sauce on the side. The origins are fuzzy, but one plausible story has Mexican migrant workers introducing tamales to African American sharecroppers in the cotton fields in the early 1900s. They in turn adapted those techniques and passed them down to offspring.
Doe's Eat Place (502 Nelson St., Greenville. 662-334-3315, 662-254-8081. www.doeseatplace.com), a famed steak house in a dilapidated old grocery store in Greenville, is where many travelers get their tamale initiation. There they are served as an appetizer before the Porterhouses and T-bones arrive, using a recipe Dominick "Big Doe" Signa, the son of Italian immigrants, acquired in the1930s.
Even Ground Zero Blues Club (0 Blues Alley, Clarksdale. 662-621-9009. www.groundzerobluesclub.com), the former cotton-grading warehouse in Clarksdale that Delta native Morgan Freeman and business partner Bill Luckett converted into a juke joint for the masses, serves locally made tamales for lunch, either rolled in husks or cut in hunks, battered and deep-fried.
Head toward the Mississippi River levee town of Rosedale to find the holy grail of hot tamales, the White Front Café, aka Joe's Hot Tamale Place (902 S. Main St. Rosedale. 662-759-3842). The late Joe Pope made and sold them for decades out of that white clapboard building and taught his method to other Delta vendors. Today his sister Barbara Pope carries on his legacy. In 2011, the first culinary historic marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail was erected there to honor the tamale's significance in blues music (Robert Johnson's "They're Red Hot" is the best known tamale-inspired song.)
At Delta Fast Food (701 S. Davis Ave., Cleveland. 662-846-8800) along U.S. 61, Gentle Lee Rainey serves the tamales he learned to make from his grandfather, who chopped cotton with Howlin' Wolf and other blues greats on the nearby Dockery Plantation. Rainey also sells that other Delta oddity, Kool-Aid pickles: giant dills poked with holes and soaked in fruit-flavored powdered drink mix.
The Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi has been collecting oral histories of these tamale vendors since 2005, and their Tamale Trail map (www.tamaletrail.com) is an excellent resource.
The Delta is a leading producer of farm-raised catfish, which are harvested in raised ponds atop soil where cotton once grew. Reliably fresh, deep-fried, cornmeal-coated fillets appear on both upscale and down-home menus. All-you-can-eat family-style catfish houses such as Larry's Fish House (4238 MS 7 South, Itta Bena. 662-254-6001. www.larrysfishhouse.com) are common, often run by farmers who own their own ponds. Each April, about 10,000 people descend upon the tiny town of Belzoni for the World Catfish Festival, where festivities include a catfish-eating contest, the crowning of the Catfish Queen, and a giant community catfish fry.
Hush puppies, those crunchy, onion-flecked orbs of fried cornmeal batter, are the requisite accompaniment. Most places these days rely on a pre-mixed product to accommodate the high demand. Senator's Place (1028 S. Davis Ave. Cleveland. 662-846-7434. www.senatorsplace.com), a cafeteria-style soul food restaurant in Cleveland, serves catfish on Fridays only, with outstanding hush puppies that owner Willie Simmons, a state senator, typically fries himself, with a batter mixed by hand.
While most Deltans like their catfish fried, there are alternatives. At The Crown/Taste of Gourmet (112 Front St., Indianola. 662-887-4522, 800-833-7731. www.tasteofgourmet.com), a charming tea room near the B.B. King Blues Museum and Interpretive Center, the proprietors cater heavily to genteel ladies with catfish gratins, salads and just about every other preparation that does not involve a deep-fryer. The Crown also sells an addictive smoked catfish pate that once took top honors in the International Fancy Food Show in New York. It's sold in the adjoining antique-decorated gift shop and by mail-order.
Susan Puckett is the author of "Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey Through the Soul of the South" (The University of Georgia Press).
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Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.
We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. Today, customers can find fabulous fashion at affordable prices online and in one of our 1,000+ stores globally. Old Navy celebrates a workplace that's just as diverse as our customers. Fun, fashion, family and value are at the heart of everything we do. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we're family.
Old Navy – a brand for everyone a place for you!
Old Navy makes current American fashion essentials accessible to every family. From day one, Old Navy was a revolution. We were something the world had never seen - fabulous, affordable fashion. We didn't take ourselves too seriously, and we broke the industry's rules. What we believe in today is exactly what we believed in when we started: we're on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. Today, customers can find their must-have fashion essentials online as well as in one of our 1,000+ stores located globally.
As part of the Field organization, you make the brand come to life for our customers. Our stores are fast paced, fun, diverse and full of passionate people who love fashion. The Field offers endless opportunities to grow your career and be a leader – of your peers, of teams, of a business, and in the community.
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As the Product and Marketing Specialist, you drive profitable sales growth by managing execution of the signage, marketing, shipment, replenishment processes, and by ensuring back of house standards are met and maintained. You are the subject matter expert in all product operational processes, and ensure Brand Associates consistently meet company productivity standards and compliance measures. You support the development of the team. You create a culture of engagement and high performance through development and coaching of all Brand Associates.
As an Old Navy leader, your first priority is to contribute to the success of your store. This means that you not only deliver in your role as the Product and Marketing Specialist, but you also model leadership behaviors and deliver as a manager on duty. As the Manager on Duty, you deliver results during your assigned time, drive key performance indicators and brand loyalty by leading through your team. You make decisions and collaborate with other members of your store leadership team to prioritize work based on business needs and company direction.
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Must be at least 18 years of age
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Vintage Wedding Style in Weston, CT/
A Wedding Planner's heart goes a flutter when they find a spacious and plain venue, as their imagination can take center stage. However, once in a while you stumble upon a venue that is the perfect setting for a design you already have in mind, decorated just enough to help you complete the picture. The inspiration for this style shoot began when we met a creative and open minded bride-to-be Jennifer. We decided to invite her to have fun with us, experimenting with a wedding design idea, while kind of rehearsing if-you-will her big day.
Jen's back is filled with a large tattoo of a fairy with branches sprouting out of her back as wings, complete with leaves and a little bird here or there.
Unfortunately a love bird theme can evoke a rather girlie picture, one where pink and green go hand in hand. We knew anything that is expected at a wedding such as lots of white, sparkles or flower centerpieces would not be acceptable for Jen. As with all weddings, we want the couple and their guests to say to themselves upon entering "oh yes - this is completely them"! A couple's wedding should appear as though they created, planned and orchestrated it all themselves regardless of their level of involvement. Yet, although a love bird theme is all too common, it did fit perfectly. Jennifer is a free spirit; her parents really should have named her something like daffodil or whatever is the Sanskrit word for rebel.
We had the idea that we wanted guests to regard this wedding as one big conversation piece.
We love it when every table is in the same conversation but not exactly the same. In addition, we wanted to blend the old with the new, not being able to tell which was which, in addition to adding an assortment of rentals and finds that were store bought. Vintage became another theme. Vintage love birds do not need to be girlie! Remember there are no rules so why ever steer away from your first instincts!
Note the baskets with assorted blankets to be offered at the ceremony instead of purchasing a whole bundle of white scarves that no one is going to wear again. Use some pillows from home and purchase some new pillows to be included in the lounge area of the reception. Take picture frames directly from above your fireplace mantel to be included on your welcome table or at your cocktail reception. On your family's dining tables consider including personal touches such as using your parents wedding china or crystal as shown here.
The venue we stumbled upon is the newly reopened and almost completely renovated "La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn" in Weston, CT. Tucked away, off the beaten path, this venue has a ton of history embedded into its newly restored thick chestnut floor boards and it's large running waterfall that you can not only see but hear from its main dining room.
La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn was one of the first buildings in CT, predating the revolutionary war. Originally it was owned by the first ten or so families that settled in Fairfield County, Connecticut – so it is authentic vintage :).
The venue has many different rooms, almost like a maze. It is a great place for kids to play hide and seek during the reception, and great for private little gatherings before the big event, such as the handkerchief or shoe signing. The main event room is large with windows looking out onto a spectacular running waterfall. It is also large enough to accommodate an indoor ceremony if it rains. Outside there is a grass area right alongside the river- a perfect square, perfect for a ceremony. There is also a new outdoor ceremony space in development that will be up and running by 2013.
Adjacent to the event space is the Mill's former Old Country Store that is in the midst of renovations to become the most darling of neighborhood coffee shops and a great choice for a kid's area or poker room at a wedding. Best of all, this venue is not a banquet hall and can easily accommodate up to 150 people, if not 180. Revisit the La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn over the coming months. They may have reopened in May of 2012 but evidently they are not done with their renovations and they have plans for expansion.
Many couples desire a Farm / Barn-like aesthetic without the cost of a full tented affair. This location is evocative of a barn, while the running waterfall adds a touch of the dramatic naturally. Original wrought iron pieces flank the property, such as the chandelier that adorns the main dining room: shining crystal wrapped in iron globes – a conversation piece!
Whether simple or ornate in design, think in terms of a texture pallet besides a color pallet: The different fabric pillows, the mixture of berries, branches and succulents' with flowers, etc. This design added the texture of paper which was perfect because it is an unpretentious touch and as creative as this Bride-to-be. To find paper mobiles such as this one search Etsy, or if you dare to take the time, make them yourself.
Event design, Ashley Douglass Events, celebrating relationships; Flower design, Carolyn Dempsey Design; Bride's styling, gown & jewlery, The Plumed Serpent Bridal in Westport, CT; Hair and Make-up,Arleigh Cole Hair and Make Up; Rentals, Events Party and Tent Rentals in Georgetown, CT; Venue,La Roué Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn; Photography, Bruce Plotkin Photography.
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What Is Professional Relationship Coaching?
Relationship Apprenticeship is the appliance of apprenticeship to claimed and business relationships. While abounding become motivated to seek admonition if disturbing with their relationships, apprenticeship and accord apprenticeship are positive, results-oriented professions that admonition anatomic humans accomplish their claimed and accord goals and is not a acting or backup for analysis provided by a accountant analyst accomplished to amusement mental, emotional, and cerebral disorders. While accord coaches adeptness be experts in relationships, the art and science of apprenticeship is to facilitate success for the applicant afterwards accouterment admonition or "professional opinions."
The characterization "relationship coach" has been acclimated for abounding years by professionals (Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Alliance and Ancestors Therapists, Social Workers, etc.) and ambitious para-professionals with a advanced array of backgrounds.
With the change of personal/life apprenticeship as a accustomed profession in 1995 with training standards and acceptance initially accustomed by the International Drillmaster Federation, accord apprenticeship as a apprenticeship specialty with its own able training, standards, acceptance and methodologies was aboriginal developed in 1997.
Relationship Apprenticeship Specialties
Singles Coaching
44% of U.S. adults are single, and 27% of adults reside alone. If this trend continues, soon, the majority of the citizenry of the western apple will be single.
Helping singles accept accomplishing lives and acknowledged relationships requires compassionate that not all singles are akin and a lot of do not fit the average of getting abandoned and atrocious for relationship.
Here are seven types of singles:
Temporarily Single-actively gluttonous a accomplice and in amid relationships
Recently Divorced/Widowed-recovering from accident and not accessible for a relationship
Frustrated Single-wants a partner, not able to acquisition one and gives up
Passive Single- wants a accord but not actively gluttonous a partner
Individual But Not Available- self-perception of getting individual and desires a abiding relationship, but "hooking up" to get needs met
Busy/Distracted Single-absorbed in getting a individual parent, career, school, etc. and doesn't accept time or admiration for partner
Individual by Choice- no admiration for a partner, getting individual is a acquainted abiding affairs best for abounding reasons, including -
"Been there, done that, don't wish to do it again"
"Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?"
Ascetic or added religious/spiritual reason
Values adeptness added than couplehood
Polyamory/alternative affairs that doesn't accommodate itself to cohabitation
Financial reasons
Each blazon of individual has their own different adorning goals and challenges acute specialized abilities and strategies to finer drillmaster them to acquaintance accord success absolute of the advice-driven approaches of added professions.
Couples Coaching
As with singles, not all couples are alike. Here are four types of couples:
Dating Couples: Self analyze as "single" but accept an on-going, non-exclusive relationship. "Friends with benefits" is one accepted way of anecdotic these couples. These couples see the purpose of their accord as fun and recreational. Dating couples generally seek apprenticeship if one or both ally wish to yield their accord to the next level.
Pre-committed Couples: Both ally accept absitively to stop dating others and become an absolute couple, and while co-habitation is accepted at this stage, no academic or absolute abiding commitments accept been made. These couples generally admiration charge and are testing their accord for abiding compatibility. Pre-committed couples generally seek apprenticeship if they appointment a "deal-breaker" (also referred to as a "requirement") preventing their adeptness to access into a abiding committed accord afterwards sacrificing something important (such as whether or not to accept children).
Pre-marital Couples: Both ally accept absitively to become committed, but haven't yet acted to ascertain their charge (marriage, charge ceremony, etc.). Abounding of these couples are acutely acquainted of the top abortion amount of committed relationships and seek apprenticeship to access the abilities and practices bare for abiding accord success.
Committed Couples: "Commitment" can be authentic as both an "attitude" (belief) and a "fact" (formal, symbolic, even acknowledged act). While a lot of couples adeptness anticipate of their accord as "committed," if they haven't acted to ascertain their charge they accept the attitude but not the actuality of commitment. Couples who accept fabricated a academic charge sometimes accompany up annulment in acknowledgment to a problem, which can be a could cause of confusion, alarm and conflict. A lot of committed couples are affiliated or accept formalized their charge in a commemoration of some kind. These couples generally seek apprenticeship because they admiration to acquisition a way to auspiciously break problems and "live appropriately anytime after."
Family Coaching
Family apprenticeship includes nuclear and continued families, parenting, siblings, ancestors businesses and co-housing arrangements.
Business Accord Coaching
Productive businesses crave able relationships. Apprenticeship business relationships can cover abode relationships such as manager-employee, peer-peer, amid accumulated divisions, teams, as able-bodied as chump and bell-ringer relationships.
Comparing Apprenticeship and Therapy
In short, apprenticeship is a after-effects and aggressive alignment that assumes the applicant is anatomic and absolutely able of success, while (psycho)therapy is a healing profession accomplished and accountant to analyze and amusement mental, emotional, and cerebral disorders. Apprenticeship and analysis can accompaniment anniversary added actual well. It could be said that apprenticeship starts area analysis ends, authoritative apprenticeship a acceptable fit for claimed growth-oriented therapists.
Being a able Accord Drillmaster is a fun and accomplishing way to accomplish a abundant active as able-bodied as accomplish a aberration in the world. If you adore allowance others and acquisition that your friends, ancestors and co-workers appear to you to allocution about their accord goals and challenges, you're apparently a acceptable fit for this growing profession.


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James S. Gordon, MD, is the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and is also one of the founders of contemporary holistic medicine. A practitioner, researcher and educator, he pioneered integrative medical education at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, where he is Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine. Gordon was named by President Clinton to chair the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine after earlier serving as the first Program Chair for the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine (now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine).
In addition to his new book, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression (Penguin, 2008), Dr. Gordon is the author of Comprehensive Cancer Care and Manifesto for a New Medicine, and has also written or edited nine other books, including the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers, among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, American Family Physician, Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. His work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, Fox News and National Public Radio, as well as in The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, People, Town and Country, Hippocrates, Psychology Today, Vegetarian Times, Natural Health, Health and Prevention.
A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, he was for ten years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health. There he developed the first national program for runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative Services for President Carter's Commission on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for medical students. Through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Dr. Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families, and those who serve them, in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel, Gaza, post-9/11 New York City, and post-Katrina southern Louisiana.
Unstuck, Dr. Gordon's newest book, focuses on his holistic, non-drug based model for helping people with depression, who Gordon believes have been ill-served by conventional medicine. He is critical of the tendency of many doctors to quickly prescribe antidepressant medications while devoting little or no time to exploring the life events that led to the depression. He feels strongly that doctors need to engender hope and empowerment in patients to help them to move through and out of depression. He offers Unstuck as a manual for implementing these goals.
In this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Gordon explains the limitations of viewing depression as a disease, describes the various aspects of his program, tells the story of a patient's dramatic positive response, explains the importance of physical exercise for depressed people, and discusses a variety of circumstances in which he has applied his methods, including his work in Kosovo during and after the 1999 war there.
The current conventional medical model asserts that depression is a disease that can be treated effectively with medications. A central theme in your book is that depression is not a disease but a call to change something in one's life. Please begin at the beginning and explain how you reached this opinion.
The beginning for me was when I was in medical school. I was working on a psychiatric ward and it just hit me that the folks on the psychiatric ward didn't look much like the folks on the medical ward or the surgical ward. They didn't look sick, just more or less like me and the other people who worked on the ward. And yet they were being put in pajamas (which is what they used to do in psychiatric wards). I thought to myself, this is very strange.
The question came to me: in what way do these people have a disease? Certainly not in the way that someone going to the hospital in a diabetic coma has a disease, or someone who has cancer or who has had a heart attack. It's just not the same kind of experience. So I began to question how this was a disease and the answers I got were not terribly satisfactory. Also, as I read about it, I didn't see that there was any evidence of anatomical lesions. I had worked in pathology, I had done autopsies, and I knew that there were anatomical lesions for disease states. But there weren't any for depression. I also discovered that people could move through it. They were depressed for a period of time and then they stopped being depressed, sometimes without any particular kind of treatment. And I wondered, what kind of disease exactly is that? There's no pathogen that's been discovered, there's no anatomical lesion, there's no fixed biochemical abnormality, there's no particular downhill course for this condition. What makes it a disease?
I wanted to understand the experience of people who were diagnosed as being depressed so I began to talk with them and to hear their experiences. Some of these people had what we then called "endogenous" depressions, which at the time were considered distinct from the "reactive" depressions when you became depressed, had all the signs and symptoms, the weight loss or weight gain, lack of pleasure in life, a sense of hopelessness, fear about the future, discouragement and sometimes suicidal feelings. There were some people who experienced these things clearly as a reaction to events in their lives, but there were other people for whom these signs and symptoms just appeared, who were said to have an endogenous depression.
But when I talked with those people at length, I found that in their lives, too, things had gone on that made them significantly more depressed now than they were six weeks or six months before. And I began to read the psychological literature, Freud and Abraham, and to think about some of the theories about depression. And it just didn't seem to be a disease. When I found myself depressed, at times it felt overwhelming in the way an illness did, but there was no illness. I realized these were ways I was looking at the world, things I was feeling. Primarily a sense of loss and a sense of confusion after losing a relationship.
In Unstuck, you quote Freud as writing that replacing neurosis with ordinary unhappiness is a worthy goal. You also point out that many psychopharmacologists praise the restoration of the "pre-morbid personality." I was struck by how low the bar can be set. How realistic is it to set it higher?
If you think about those phrases, they're pretty discouraging. [Laughter]. The bar is set extremely low. My own experience is that depression is the beginning. They're talking about a state or a terrible condition. Their model is that it's sort of like an infection, where you may have pneumonia now, and we'll give you antibiotics for it, and your lungs will come back to what they were before. That's the "restoring the pre-morbid personality."
But depression is part of life. It's not a particular disease state and there are lessons that it is bringing to us. If we can learn those lessons, then we can move ahead with our lives in ways that may be very different from the way we've lived before. For me, it's entirely reasonable to set the bar far higher, to see that this is a wake-up call. Depression was a wake-up call for me and it is for the patients and people I see. If you view it as a disease state, then you'll be perfectly happy to restore the pre-morbid personality. If you view it as a sign that something needs to change, then what you're going to want to do is work for that change. To ask what needs to change, and what can I do as a person who is depressed. Or what can I do as a clinician to help promote that change.
In your book, you tell the stories of patients you've seen who worked their way through depression, some of them slowly and others surprisingly quickly. The story that moved me most was that of a man you called Milton, who came to you after two years of suffering through the breakup of his marriage and the fact that his wife moved with his son to California, 3000 miles from Washington, DC, where he lived. Please tell us that story.
Milton was an amazing story. With all the people I write about, I disguise them enough so that no one is likely to recognize them, except perhaps they will recognize themselves. Milton came into my office and he was depressed, he was angry and he was very strong. He had been a sergeant in the Air Force, kind of a ramrod straight guy. He was an airplane mechanic and one of the people whose planes he was servicing, a neurosurgeon, had seen how upset he was and had referred him to me. He was angry at his ex-wife, he was angry at his kid, he was angry at the doctors who had prescribed antidepressants, he was angry at himself, he was angry at his boss, he was angry at everybody. And he wasn't sure what he was doing there [in a psychiatrist's office] but nothing else had worked for him.
I took a history and found out what had happened. He and his wife had had a very nasty breakup and she moved to California. He got more and more upset about his son being so far away from him. And he found himself getting more and more angry at his son, and I think that's really what brought him to see me ultimately, because that was so distressing to him, that this anger and this sense of hurt was so uncontrolled. Meanwhile, all of his life had lost its savor for him; there was nothing he really enjoyed any more. He was still perfectly good at his job but it didn't give him any real pleasure.
After we talked for some time, I taught him the very simple relaxation technique that I teach in the beginning of the book, which I teach many of my patients and also in our training programs at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. It's called Soft Belly. And what I said to him was to just sit in your chair and let your breathing deepen. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth (which is a particularly relaxing way to breathe) and allow your belly to be soft. If you breathe this way the breath tends to go deeper into the lungs, there's better exchange of oxygen. The vagus nerve will start working to produce relaxation to balance out the tension, the fight-or-flight response that Milton was in. I told him that if you relax your belly, all the other muscles of your body will begin to relax.
And you did this along with him. You were a participant, a partner, as well as an observer.
Yes. We did this together for some minutes. When he opened his eyes, I could see that there was some relaxation in his muscles. He felt a little bit better, a little calmer. I felt a connection with him. I always give people things that they can do for themselves—this is so crucial to working with people who are depressed, or with anybody. Because part of being depressed is not only that you feel hopeless, but you feel helpless. So if you give people techniques and approaches and ways of looking at things that are practical strategies that they can use to help themselves, you're beginning to overcome that sense of helplessness. And if you have an experience, like Milton did, of relaxing, then you start having a little hope that things can be different. So that was a very good experience for him. And I told him I wanted him to do this Soft Belly deep breathing several times a day, for several minutes at a time. I thought it would help to relax him so that he would feel better and wouldn't be quite so angry or quite so tense in the muscles in his jaw and his shoulders.
Then, as he was getting ready to leave, I asked him to read the Tao Te Ching [a short Taoist text, written by Lao Tzu in China in the 6th century B.C., that has achieved great popularity in the West].
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Today is Knitting Project of the Day's 500th post! Today I want to honor my follows, readers and fellow knitters who have enjoyed my free knitting patterns. I spend some time on Ravelry (username ChemKnitsBlog), where I love seeing finished ChemKnits projects. I don't think I'll ever stop feeling excited when I see a newly uploaded photo. Thank you everyone for making my blogging activities a success.
I have started a new group on Ravelry called ChemKnits Designs. If you would like to chat with me about my designs, or anything else fiber related I would love to hear from you!
I started KPOTD because friends and family kept sending me amazing knitting projects, and I wanted an outlet to share them with the world. I felt (and still feel) that every kind of fiber artist a place of honor, not just designers. Through these 500 KPOTD posts, I have begun to notice some changes to how I find projects. Last March I created a ChemKnits Facebook page, and since then I've found myself sharing amazing knitting feats as I find them immediately. It seems silly for me to share something on KPOTD that I've already shared on Facebook.
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that I will no longer be publishing amazing knitting projects daily here on KPOTD. (Don't worry, ChemKnits isn't going anywhere! ) I will continue to share amazing knitting projects on Facebook and/or Google+ as I find them, but not daily since they can no longer be scheduled in advance. Thank you for your faithful readership!


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Trying to Change CPS
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Child Protective Services is a group that tries to help kids. They are often called CPS for short. They visit families that might not be taking good care of their children.
Sometimes it is better to take children away from their parents for a while. Children are taken to another home. They usually stay with other family members or a foster family.
The Child Protective Services want children to be safe. They make this happen by putting kids in better homes. They try to help parents become better moms and dads while their kids are away.
Right now CPS gets money if they place kids with foster families. They do not get money if they place them with family members. Many people are mad about this.
Some people are trying to change the way CPS works. They think that children should stay with family members if they can. Many of these people marched together to show that they want changes made in the way CPS works.


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College Admissions Expert Elizabeth Levine: Saving for Your Child's College Education
Where should I put my money that I am saving for my child's college education?
If you are saving for your child's college education and there's a chance that you will be applying for any kind of federal financial aid when your child heads to college, (loans, scholarships, grants…etc.), keep on reading.
Many parents I speak with, as was also my impression when my children were growing up, feel that the money they put away for college should be put into their child's name. Unless these funds are deposited into a 529 account/plan, which is a plan that is operated by the state, putting money into your child's name can actually be detrimental to the amount of funds the federal government will provide to you.
In order to get any kind of federal or even college specific financial aid the student/parent needs to complete the FAFSA form, the federal government financial aid form. There is a lot of information that needs to be completed and a complex calculation that goes into assessing what a parent/student can pay towards a year of college. There is one piece of the calculation that relates to what we are speaking about here:
+ 20% of a child's assets may be counted towards aid calculations, meaning how much that child can apply towards one year of their college costs
+ 5.64% of a parents assets may be counted towards aid calculations, meaning how much a parent can apply towards one year of their child's college costs
+ When there is money put into a 529 account though, that money is counted as a parental asset at 5.64% vs. a child's asset at 20%
As an example, if you have $50,000 put into your child's name, the government says $10,000 of it can be applied to pay for 1 year of college. If it is in the parents name only $2,820 can be applied.
The financial aid calculation has many factors that feed into the result but being aware of how you can best manage your funds to gain the best possible outcome can make the difference in not only how much money you can receive but what kind of aid as well.
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Easy Appetizers Recipes
Paneer Masala Mushroom Appetizers
Paneer masala is pan-fried paneer cheese simmered in a spicy, creamy sauce. It is amazing with plain basmati rice or hot naan. But instead of serving this dish the traditional way, I used it as a filling for mushrooms. The bold flavor of the curry sauce marries beautifully with the earthiness of the mushrooms; they make the most delicious fusion appetizers.
The idea for these cute appetizers was inspired by my aunt, Ma Mười. She told me the first time she tried Indian food years ago at a restaurant, she was served a lot of little metal tins filled with colorful sauces. After a while, she asked the waiter when her main meal was going to arrive. She thought they were condiments and didn't realize that was her entire meal.
These appetizers showcase the wonderful flavors of Indian cuisine for those who are not really familiar with this culture. I've prepared pizzas, "naaninis" and other fusion dishes with Indian toppings in the past. Indian cuisine is boldly flavored, so pairing it with simple and attractive presentation techniques is a low-risk strategy for producing delicious new dishes.
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Cheesy Wild Rice Stuffing Recipe
When I think of stuffing (or dressing), the picture that comes to mind is of day-old bread mixed with onion, celery, other vegetables, dried fruit and herbs. It's time for a change, and this year for Thanksgiving, I'm opting for a healthier but just as tasty version using wild rice, pumpkin, dried mango, cranberries, asparagus and walnuts.
For easier serving, I baked it in individual cups and covered them with a blend of Jarlsberg and cheddar cheese. That might make them a little less healthy, but it's so worth it!
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Chili Stuffed Mushrooms (Vegetarian Appetizer Recipe)
If you thought chili couldn't be the basis for an elegant appetizer, give this recipe a try! I had leftover vegetarian chili, so I scooped it into stemmed crimini mushrooms. I baked them for 20 minutes, sprinkled on a combination of queso manchego and Oaxaca cheese and then baked them again until the cheeses melted.
After placing them on the table, I just turned my back for a few minutes and the appetizers were all gone. Everyone asked for more, and since these little bites are pretty nutritious, I had no problem obliging!
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Tabouleh Stuffed Mushrooms (Mushroom Appetizer Recipe)
In this recipe, mushrooms are used as little receptacles for serving tabouleh. They make very refreshing appetizers, which pair perfectly with the beautiful weather we've had in the Bay Area.
I pickled the mushrooms days in advance so the mushrooms aren't raw but still hold their shape and don't darken. The appetizers are assembled at the last minute and they make an ideal dish for a buffet-style party. We're hosting our annual pool party soon, so I've been experimenting with fun, summer-y appetizers for the occasion and this mushroom dish is definitely going to make the list!
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Cantaloupe and Cheese Appetizer Recipe
I love Emmentaler cheese. It has mild, fruity and nutty attributes, which pair incredibly well with fruit. One fruit it particularly works well with is cantaloupe. Since I had both on hand, I caramelized the cantaloupe in a little butter and then alternately skewered it with cubes of Emmentaler on cocktail picks. I finished the cute bites with crushed pistachios.
These cheese appetizers are easy to prepare and get devoured amazingly fast too. They would fit quite well in a buffet style party. Even if you aren't planning a party, take advantage of the wonderful fruit that's currently in season, because summer won't be here forever!
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From the Allergic Living archives.
We've sealed ourselves indoors with a toxic stew of gases, dust and mold. Home is just not so sweet any more.
As a kid, Michele Chase had severe asthma attacks, which her family put down to the polluted air in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. But when, at the age of 10, she moved with her family to Fredericton, New Brunswick, a city with a population of only 50,000, Chase's bouts of asthma surprisingly did not improve.
Her chest would become tight and she'd wheeze so hard she couldn't catch a breath, despite a daily course of medication. Her family became acquainted with the local ER department.
But there was a difference in Fredericton: many of her asthma flareups started within the family home. For years, she couldn't figure out the exact trigger. But Chase, now 28, today is certain she knows the spark for her childhood agony.
Asthma attacks triggered by home's poor indoor air
Three years ago she helped her mother renovate the family home. As they were replacing the gyprock and paneling in the basement, they made an unsettling discovery. Thick, oozing black fungus had completely covered the back side of the gyprock and had permeated the insulation.
While they knew the basement was always damp, they had been completely unaware of the health hazard hidden behind the walls. Chase is thankful her bedroom was not in the basement, but notes, "if it's in the home, it's still in what you breathe."
In Ottawa, Susan Clemens can relate. She watched with increasing distress as Angela,* her young daughter, suffered frightening asthma attacks between the years 2002 and 2004. The family was living in a "maisonette" with 12 apartments connected to a central hallway.
The building's owners were busily renovating units, and every time a tenant moved out, they would resurface the floor in the vacated unit. Chemical fumes permeated the building, and the Clemens' immediate neighbour was a smoker, so the family was also breathing in second-hand smoke.
Angela was not a wheezer, but during attacks the skin between the toddler's ribs and collarbone would suck in as she struggled to breathe. Her lips would turn blue, and she'd break into a sweat. Angela was diagnosed with asthma at 12 months, but didn't see a respirologist until she was 3.
He questioned Clemens and her husband about their lifestyle. When they explained about the apartment renovations, he immediately connected that to their daughter's health. "That's one of your big problems," she recalls him saying. And then the life-changing words: "You have to move."
How a home's indoor air can cause allergies and asthma
Such instances are far from unique. While most North Americans still think of smog as the most serious form of air pollution, a more toxic chemical stew is often found in the air we breathe inside our homes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency labels indoor air one of the Top Five environmental health risks, up there with polluted drinking water.
The bad environment in our households starts with polluted air from the outdoors, which is often not cycled effectively in and out of tightly sealed and energy-efficient homes. Trapped, "the pollutant levels may be two to five times higher inside than outside, and in some cases, 100 times higher," says Tom Kelly, director of the EPA's Indoor Environments Division.
Then the homeowners mix in other chemicals: pesticides, perhaps cigarette smoke, air fresheners, hairspray, perfume and cleaning supplies. Thrown into the invisible concoction are the gases given off by furnishings or paint. Add animal dander, dust mites and mold – those ubiquitous biological allergy triggers – and suddenly there's new meaning to the term "the fresh outdoors."
Who is harmed by indoor air pollution?
Polluted indoor air "can be a very high risk for children, for elderly people, and for folks with diseases such as asthma," says Kelly. In Canada, asthma is responsible for 10 per cent of all hospital admissions for children under the age of 4. The thought that our homes, our safe havens, can at times be to blame, is sobering.
To get a reading on just how bad household air is becoming a company that designs indoor air monitors, AirAdvice, worked with a network of heating, air conditioning, and air quality professionals to collect and analyze about 1.3 billion air samples from nearly 50,000 homes in the U.S. and Canada between 2004 and 2006.
Its survey showed 96.7 per cent of the homes generating an "alert", that is, a level outside the recommended range for one of: particle allergens (dust, dander and pollen); chemical pollutants; carbon dioxide; temperature; humidity; and carbon monoxide. Eighty-three per cent of the homes had two or more alerts.
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|2004-10-28, 16:00
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Holy Beast ~Wuff!~
Yep. you can watch it in any order YOU LIKE! the best tihng about Macross that if you haven't seen any of the previous series, you will still enjoy it.
It series can stand on it's own, or watched in chronicle order.
(edit: oh wait! except Macross Dynamite and Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling me! episode special)
personally, when i re-watch the macross universe again (make that in a weeks time, cos i only watched them 3 times this year.)
I wil lbe watching them from Macross Zero to Macross Dynamite -> Macross Trash (manga)
It's gonna be a weekend of fun!! (No i don't have any friends *sob* besides anime and b33r! ehehehheh )
|2004-10-28, 16:07
|Link #182
/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Time Warp/Future
well, it helps to watch Macross before Macross 7.
Macross Zero doesn't have much to do with the other Macross series, however maybe if you watch Zero first then Macross, you may wonder why the Valkyrie in Macross doesn't look as good as those in Zero
|2004-10-28, 17:34
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Just Married, Oct. 28th!
Join Date: May 2003
Age: 40
I'm rather pleased with the ending, though it did seem rushed in both the story and animation department. It would have been much better had the episode been about twice as long. As it was, they just kept jumping from scene to scene.
As for glyph's spoiler tagged comment:
|2004-10-28, 17:36
|Link #184
Just Married, Oct. 28th!
Join Date: May 2003
Age: 40
Well, the VF-1 Valkyries were designed way back in the early 80's. When they made Macross Zero they decided to make the VF-0 larger, bulkier, and more ungainly. If you prefere that in your mecha, well, it cannot be helped that the VF-1 Valkyries were sleeker and more refined looking.
|2004-10-28, 18:27
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Holy Beast ~Wuff!~
VF-Zero have more resemblance to modern day millitary aircrafts then VF-1's.
They just look better cos they animation quality is better, it can't be helped. but if you look at the detailed designs of the VF-1 compared to the VF-0 you can clearly see that mechanically and design wise the vf-1 are much more efficient, doing away the restraints that atmospheric aircrafts had.
ah... pardon my Otakunese....
|2004-10-29, 01:43
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Join Date: Aug 2004
I was quite impressed by the final episode but I too must echo the ending is a bit short. At the very least they should be able to stretch another episode.
Unfortunately this didn't have a "happy" ending unlike the original unless you are a Minmay fan.
|2004-10-29, 21:11
|Link #193
Grouky Freak
I'll go with Alterscape 's version since I unerstood the same thing from seeing the episode. So call me a hopless romantic too .
Otherwise, nice episode and great OAV alltogether, the best fighting scenes ever, and a story that might not have been great but that was realy decent and did it's job well.
The only drawback is that now I'll never be able to appreciate regular's anime mecha fighting scenes as much .
|2004-10-29, 21:28
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Senior Member
Not enough blood for me. But I am damn happy when I see a Monster MK 2 MAC deployed. Those artillery mechas is beautiful.
Storywise, Zero lacks a lot of development, especially the Russian group. The superlative animation is a good compensation.
|2004-10-30, 00:21
|Link #195
Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
Just watched the first 3 episodes... It is ok, nothing great about them. Yeah good graphics... so what? who cares. The story is prety lame. But the action secuenses are pretty good. Of course, in my opinion they are no way better than the ones in scrapped princess so far.
Gotta love that fanservice...
I wonder why people give good ratings to almost every anime with good graphics, cute characters, or a pretty good intro/ending song, when the story line, which is the main part isn't outstanding at all.
Samurai 7 anyone?
We are sooo shallow... Including me of curse... I watched Elfen Lied too, and loved its fanservice, its blood and cute naked gilrs...
|2004-10-30, 02:02
|Link #196
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Walnut, CA
Age: 40
Like everyone else said, I love the fighting sequences but the story sucked.
It would have been kewl to see some sort of flash forward of Minmay & Rick & the others...or at least a scene w/ SDF-1 at the end or something.
|2004-10-30, 03:13
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Like many of the earlier posts said; Sara's faith and hope guided Shin to become a "Birdhuman" to fly (despite the wrecked engine, boosters etc); to wherever it may be. One thinks, and hopes, that it is a search and eventual reunion with Sara. Watching it again, it really probably is the case.. since you see his plane flying vertically up into space.
I for one thought that Macross Zero was very promising from chapter 1-4.. of course the story was abit flimsy; the characters were not really well developed, but there were parts that were truly beautiful and artistic. And I don't mean only the awesome battle scenes; anyone remember the Maya Island? The waters and everything.. it was awesome. There was alot of attention paid to detail in the animation for the first few chapters; lighting, sound, the peace of the islands.. all very beautiful.
Chapter 5 had pretty good animation when compared to other OVAs, but it was a letdown compared to it's earlier episodes. I was expecting something truly spectacular. However, the battle scenes are rendered so beautifully they might just match up to Ghost in the Shell 2.
The story sucked. Chapter 5 just got on my nerves.. could you believe that I actually skipped through most of it because it was too formulaic? The pace, presentation, structure, and character interaction was just too weak. I was THOROUGHLY shocked that I waited 6 months for such an episode. I was expecting a blast, but I just shook my head in disappointment.
Honestly it had so much potential.. not to forget, one of the MOST beautiful songs I've EVER heard in my life. The ending song played for Chapter 01 and Chapter 05.. the one sung in French. It promises such an epic tale but instead what we get is a hashed plot. I've heard that this is the most expensive OVA ever created; costing around US$10 million or more.. I wish they could've put more money on the script; and that the director, no offence to Shoji Kawamori, could have been more skilled.
Ahh.. T__T. It's just sad.
|2004-10-30, 08:11
|Link #198
Just Married, Oct. 28th!
Join Date: May 2003
Age: 40
While I agree that the final chapter seemed rushed, I would hardly say that the story sucked, or that it was rehashed. Sure, maybe it takes a lot of the premise from The Day the Earth Stood Still, but even so that's not exactly a commonly used premise, especially in this day and age.
And certainly the story was very untypical of a Macross show, yet retaining Macross' main themes of hope, peaceful solutions to conflict, and the idea that mankind will survive.
The series was really too short to develope more than a couple characters, but those that it did, it pulled off decently, if not spectacularly like a longer show such as Macross 7. DD and Nora were never main characters, you might as well complain that Col. Millard from Macross Plus was under developed, or the poachers Dynamite 7.
Overall, I rather liked the story and characters, right up to and including the end. I do, however, agree that it would have been even better had the episode been twice as long, or split into two episodes.
To those still speculating about the origins and purpose of the Bird Human, I can only reccomend you go watch SDF Macross, Do You Remember Love? and Macross 7, all of wich give more insight into the Protoculture.
As for the future of the survivors of Macross Zero...
|2004-10-30, 15:46
|Link #199
ore wa kanpeki da
Join Date: Nov 2003
interesting comments, I thought the last episode saved the ova since it seemed to take a downturn around episode 3 & 4. I've watched a lot of anime and very few of them are able to have any sort of good endings, except the quality ones of course like the kenshin ovas and even macross plus. Macross Zero was high up there too.
|2004-10-30, 18:00
|Link #200
Senior Member
Beautiful ending, stunning animation, and awesome fight scenes. The characters could use more screen time since they all have a lot of potential, especially DD Ivanov. About the Bird Human... it looks too much like a Peacemaker from another series to me, but i don't complain since that scene is so awesome.
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When I ordered from Missha end of last year, they gave me a sheet mask. I decided to review it not only for my readers, but for myself as well. I have a tendency not to remember how I felt about the sheet masks. Being able to look at my reviews on my blog helps me to either to order some more or not. I hope it helps you as well! :)
Product Review: Missha Real Essential Sheet Mask in Ceramide
Where to purchase: Misshaus.com
Price: $2.99 for 25 g
Made in Korea
Description on the back: Pure cotton sheet mask enriched with Ceramide ingredient, makes you delicate skin calm and soft.
Click on the picture to see the original size.Thoughts: I love receiving sheet masks, because it gives me an opportunity to try things I really wouldn't have. Sometimes I'm blessed to find new products I love, and know to order it for the future. I'm thankful for the opportunity to try this mask.
First of all, I will start with the size of the sheet mask. I'm not too sure why the width of the sheet mask is so wide (ear to ear). It covered my hair on the side of my forehead, as well as, the side of my face. Since it covered the hair, a minute or two into wearing the sheet mask it would fall and not grab onto the hair. It was extremely uncomfortable since I was doing stuff on the internet while wearing the sheet mask. This mask is made for people who lay on their bed resting. It's definitely not made for someone not resting like myself. :X
The length of the nose part is also short. It did not fully cover my nose which is shocking since I do not have a bridge. I have the typical, flat Asian nose.
Other than the size, I'm pretty content with the fabric of the sheet mask. Some masks leave residue from the fabric. I can feel the cotton on my face once I'm done with the sheet mask. This did not!
Secondly, I will talk about the feel of the sheet mask. It's very refreshing, cooling and I can feel the essence. Some masks are dry even from the start because it does not have enough essence. That's not an issue with this mask. It lasted the whole 30 minutes of using this mask. I was even able to pat the essence left over from the sheet mask onto my skin. The only thing is a lot of masks have essence left over in the package. You can use the left over essence on your neck and chest. The package did not have enough to pat it onto my neck. If I can wish for something, I would wish it had a little bit more essence so I can use it for my neck and chest.
Lastly, I was pretty content with the result. My skin felt soft and glow-y right after the mask, as well as, the next morning. It also hydrated my face.
* You need to lay down for the mask; get real rest.
* Good fabric; does not leave residue.
* Good enough essence for the face.
* No scent.
* Leaves skin soft.
* Hydrating.
* Skin looks glow-y.
* Width of the mask is too wide.
* Length of the nose is too short.
* Does not stick on the hair.
* Not good for multi-taskers.
* Not enough essence left over in the package.
Would repurchase: No.
Rating: 2.5/5 Tobey's Paws
Speaking of sheet masks, I received some from a friend and family that I got to try out.
Luna gave me My Scheming sheet masks in Camellia Japonica Hydrating (beige), Bulgarian Rose Whitening (pink), Bird's Nest Collagen (light blue), and Puli Ginjo Sake Kasu (yellow). I've been curious about My Scheming masks. I heard great things about this brand, and now I can understand why. They fit great on the face, hydrating, and lots of essence to work with.
Thank you Luna!!! :)
Thank you sis-in-law!!! :)
I received this Physicians Formula Eyeshadow Palette from the Beautylish Event I attended last year.
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CES is coming in early January, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't just about gadgets. A lot of software vendors make the trek to Las Vegas to show new and updated versions of software for just about every platform.
With the app stores for Apple, Google, and Windows exploding with new offerings over the course of 2012, we think this year's CES will have more new and updated software on hand than ever before.
As the in-house software editors at CNET, we have put together a list of predictions for this year's CES, from the probable to the vaguely possible. Check back in early January to see if our predictions for software bore any fruit or fell flat.
Apps to control your everything
The Google Glass-wearing daredevils at this year's Google I/O Conference showed us that software can run anywhere and on pretty much anything. You can wear it on your wrist or face, and you can even interact with it in your kitchen appliances. At CES, we fully expect developers to run with this idea, as they blitz conference-goers with newly reinvented household wares, like scales and baby monitors, all with software baked right in.
Voice control will only get better
Upgrades to both Apple's Siri and Google's Search app over the past year have made voice recognition technology a larger part of controlling our smartphones.
With Siri spreading beyond iPhones, and Google's Voice Search becoming a major competitor, voice control of your smartphone is clearly here to stay. Don't be surprised if there are new launches and software updates coming out of CES that add or enhance voice control in many third-party apps.
Developers further invade your living room
While it may be improving, thus far, Google TV has not been a runaway hit. The public has been slow to adopt it, and its reviews have been more bad than good. But that doesn't mean that the idea of apps on your TV is dead in the water. In fact, we think CES 2013 will show us just the opposite, with developers showing off apps for Google TV, as well as for other living room platforms like Samsung Smart TV.
One product that gives us a small taste of things to come in the living room is the YouTube app for Android. With its most recent update, YouTube for Android can now push individual videos and playlists directly to your Google TV box, Airplay-style. But what sets this feature apart from Apple's Airplay is that it allows you to continue browsing and interacting with YouTube while your videos play on your big screen, which means your handheld isn't just mirroring content on your television set. Rather, it's controlling it.
And of course, there are the rumors of Apple developing its own television set, which would certainly come loaded with its own array of software. This, of course, won't be released leading up to or during CES, but the mere fact that the rumors are swirling lend credence to the argument that the living room is the next big domain in developers' crosshairs.
Second Screen apps take off
Speaking of software aimed at your living room, Second Screen apps are already making their way onto people's iPads and tablets, but there's still a lot of room for improvement, and we expect to see more of these apps at CES.
This year, AMC's "The Walking Dead" and HBO's "Game of Thrones" (among other shows) both started giving viewers interactive content they could view on a tablet while watching new episodes. But there are also apps like Zeebox that give you more info -- like actor bios and related content -- for just about any show on television.
If people get used to having a tablet in their lap in the living room, these apps are going to become a must-have whether they are for specific shows or try to cover all the content. At this early stage, we think this year's CES will be a launching point for more Second Screen apps as part of the flood of new software.
Broadcast television everywhere
It has to happen at some point, right? We admit this one is a bit of a stretch for CES in January, but as our computers, smartphones, tablets, and television screens share more and more content, we have to think it's only a matter of time before we have TV everywhere.
We have already seen live streaming video for big events like the 2012 Summer Olympics with NBC's Olympics Live Extra app, though it wasn't ideal. But with Wi-Fi and wireless getting faster than ever, are we really that far from watching television on our devices?
We may not hear more on this at CES, but perhaps some companies will begin hinting at the possibility. It might just be wishful thinking on our part, but you have to admit that TV anywhere would be awesome.
Windows Store apps missing in action
And then there's Windows 8 and its newfangled Start Screen. Be honest: when Windows 8 showed up with its live tiles and confusing RT apps, it wasn't exactly love at first sight for you, was it? Well, unfortunately for Microsoft, neither was it for much of the general public. And it's because of this lackluster reception, that we don't expect any big splashes by third-party developers for the platform. And of course, Microsoft will not be in attendance at CES, which means we won't be hearing about any big updates directly from them.
The bottom line is, if users aren't excited about the platform, then the developers probably won't be either, which means we probably won't be getting a deluge of game-changing Windows Store apps at CES.
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Dave Yates has had it with drivers taking a shortcut along his road, going by at speeds he often considers dangerous.
Yates lives along Dan Drive, a narrow gravel street shared by several homes north of Marion County Lake. It connects with Gilham Road on the north and Lakeshore Drive on the south, making it a shortcut from Upland Road to the north end of the lake.
Except Dan Drive doesn't directly connect to Lakeshore Drive. It connects with a private drive on Kevin Hoffer's property at 75 Lakeshore Drive.
Yates would like either the county or Hoffer to shut Dan Drive to through traffic, to reduce the amount and speed of vehicles traveling the road.
Yates met with Marion County Commission on Thursday to discuss his concerns. He said he would like to put boulders or something else across the road where it meets Hoffer's property, to allow pedestrians, bikes, horses, and motorcycles to continue to use it — if Hoffer is OK with it — but to stop cars and trucks using it as a shortcut.
The commission told Yates they couldn't force Hoffer to close his drive to people going through.
"I'm not inclined to shut the road," Hoffer said Monday afternoon while sitting on his porch. "The people that use it, I don't mind. It's the people who exceed the speed, so to speak, that irritate me."
Hoffer does have a sign by his driveway where it turns off Lakeshore Drive noting that it is a private drive and closed to through traffic, but it is old, worn, and difficult to read. And he uses Dan Drive and Gilham Road as a quicker route into Marion, so he would be hurting himself by putting barricades between his driveway and Dan Drive.
Hoffer said he wouldn't mind adding speed bumps like the ones in the area around the lake office. That would alleviate his concerns about the speed of traffic.
"Ninety percent of the people who use that road are conscientious about their speed," he said.
He said people have asked why there is a road sign for Dan Drive on Lakeshore Drive if it is a private drive for that stretch. Hoffer said he is happy to have the sign up to help responders find places during 911 calls.
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