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When my daughter was younger, she loved shrimp. She still does, but it was much more fun to watch her eat them when she was a three year old toddler. It was awesome to see this little teeny girl, busy with a plate of shrimp. She'd peel and peel, industriously stacking the shrimp on her plate - and when she'd finished with the peeling, she'd pop them all into her mouth as fast as she could.
One evening, we had a co worker of my husband's over for dinner. I placed plates of chilled shrimp in front of each person at the table, and went to sit at my husband's side. The adults were busy talking, and no one really paid much mind to the children, who were, miraculously, eating quietly and not interrupting. My little daughter, seated to our guest's right, reached over and pulled on his sleeve.
"Mister! Mister! Don't eat the tails!", she said, pointing to his plate - and when he looked down, it was to discover that she'd quietly eaten all of his shrimp, returning the empty tails to a neat pile on the plate.
We still laugh about this story every time we have shrimp. It's become a family joke, and it's one my daughter may never live down. She's already promised that she's not going to have shrimp served at her wedding reception - the teasing will be too great.
Kids are always full of fun at the dinner table. They can often help you turn a kitchen disaster or an embarrassment into a memorable experience. They may not be well behaved all of the time, but, often, in their misbehavior can appear some of the best family memories. Often, we strive to serve a "perfect" meal, but in the imperfections are often found the most fabulous times.
Have you ever experienced a funny "dinner disaster" with your family? What funny surprises have made mealtime a special occasion in your household?
I've set off the smoke alarm several times, that always makes for interesting entertainment!! There have been a couple of times my kids fell asleep in their food, literally!
When I was a kid, my mother gave me the head of lettuce to "wash". I washed it with Ivory soap.
LOL, that is so cute. I can't think of any dinner disasters from my kids yet but my grandparents used to love to tell the story of the time they took me to a resturant when I was 2 and I was so hungry I was crying and a nice person came over and gave me a piece of bread and I was happy and content then, lol.
i love this! lol when was it figured out what you had done?
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When I was a kid, my mother gave me the head of lettuce to "wash". I washed it with Ivory soap.
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i love this! lol when was it figured out what you had done?Quoting mrswillie:
When I was a kid, my mother gave me the head of lettuce to "wash". I washed it with Ivory soap.
When our sandwiches tasted like soap!
DD cracking all you can eat crabs and trying to suck them out of the shells priceless
We have had a few but none that have totally topped the list as unforgetable yet.


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Tom Boatwright is a two-time winner of Field and Stream's Total Outdoorsman Challenge, claiming the championship in 2009 and again last year.
Nothing, however, prepared him and the other 14 competitors for what organizers from Field and Stream had in store for them when they arrived at the competition grounds in Branson, Mo., last month.
Instead of a head-to-head competition involving seven events over four days that resulted in a four-episode special on Outdoor Channel, Boatwright and the others found themselves in the middle of a reality show that unfolded over nine days and five rounds of one-on-one competition.
Skills included bass fishing, rifle, shotgun, endurance, archery, ATV handling and more.
The worst part for Boatwright, who grew up and lives in the Perdido community northeast of Bay Minette, is that, like most reality shows, he had to agree not to reveal how he performed or if he was able to repeat as champion to claim more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
"That's awful when you can't say anything," Boatwright said. "All I can say is that I hope the hometown folks are proud of me."
Hometown viewers can find out for themselves when the first episode of 13 airs Wednesday night at 8:30 on Outdoor Channel.
People can meet Boatwright and watch the show's season premiere during a free viewing party hosted at the City of Bay Minette's Civic Center. Free popcorn and Pepsi will be served, Chuck Stevens Automotive will have vehicles on-site and Bass Pro Shops will have hunting-related gear on display.
For his past successes in the Total Outdoorsman Challenge and Buckmasters Top Bow World Championship archery competition, which he won in 2010 and placed second this year, Bay Minette Mayor Jamie Tillery also honored Boatwright with a congratulatory proclamation during Monday night's city council meeting.
Boatwright earned a spot in his first Total Outdoorsman Challenge in 2009 after first qualifying at the Bass Pro Shop in Spanish Fort. He's been an automatic qualifier since.
Now in its ninth year as a nationwide event and its fourth year on Outdoor Channel, "Field & Stream Total Outdoorsman Challenge" has grown to become one of the most popular outdoor events in the country.
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Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation Frederick P. Rivara, Peter Cummings, Thomas D. Koepsell, David C. Grossman, and Ronald V. Maier, editors. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-521-66152-8
Injury Control is a basic guide to research methods in the field of injury prevention. The book contains 20 chapters, written by 30 authors, and compiled by 5 editors. The editors have done an outstanding job of ensuring consistency across the chapters. Each chapter is on a different research topic; all are succinct, contain a history of the approach, important definitions, examples of findings from injury-related research, and sources for the reader to turn to for further treatment of the subject. Anyone reading this book must come away convinced that injury prevention is indeed a scientific discipline.
The book is an incredibly useful guide for doing research on injury prevention. It contains many chapters on topics thoroughly familiar to epidemiologists—randomized trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, ecologic studies and case series. Each chapter highlights the advantages and drawbacks of that type of research approach, and includes interesting examples from the growing literature on injury control. For example, the draft lottery during the Vietnam War provided the opportunity for an unusual randomized trial. Although investigators had no control over the lottery, it randomized men into two groups that would be expected to have similar injury mortality in the absence of an effect of military service. Men whose draft lottery number made them eligible for the draft proved to have higher mortality from suicide and vehicular trauma, suggesting long-term effects of military service on the risk of traumatic death.
Injury Control also contains many chapters on issues in the mainstream of public health, which are often outside the realm of epidemiologic courses or texts—qualitative methods, evaluation of interventions, economic evaluations, measurement of disabilities, trauma performance improvement, and ethical issues. The chapter on qualitative methods describes three major research traditions—ethnography, participant observation and focus groups. A great strength of qualitative research is its potential to develop explanatory models and theories; qualitative research relies on inductive reasoning and is not used primarily for hypothesis testing but for hypothesis generation. Qualitative studies in the injury field include a year-long ethnographic investigation of observed parental actions following injuries to children, and focus groups to determine adolescent opinions about suicide prevention interventions and patient views of firearm counseling by primary care providers.
The chapter on measuring disability and the quality of life carefully explains the differences between functional limitations (which are independent of the physical and social environment) and disability (which is defined as difficulty performing activities or roles expected of the individual). Functional limitations are often viewed from the clinician's perspective (eg, hand function tests or intelligence tests which measure the capacity of an individual to perform specific tasks within a controlled environment) while disability is typically measured from the patient's perspective, using standardized questionnaires. The chapter contains a description and review of the advantages and limitations of various quality of life measures used in injury outcomes research, including the health-related quality of life (HRQOL), the sickness impact profile (SIP), the medical outcome 36-item short form health survey (SF-36) and the child health questionnaire (CHQ).
Trauma performance improvement traces its roots to the surgical audit of the 19th century, which began as a system of counting procedures, complications and deaths. In the 1960s and 1970s the concept of preventable mortality was used to examine multi-institutional or system levels of performance. Judgments came from panels of experts utilizing empiric assessments. Evidence-based guidelines are slowly beginning to replace expert-opinion based audit filters. About twenty-five years ago, an industry-wide initiative in medical care known as quality assurance emerged from the Deming model of quality control in industry. That approach has shown that most practice errors are due to system-level rather individual-level problems, and that assigning individual blame for poor outcomes is counterproductive and destructive to the performance improvement process.
The chapter on ethical issues describes the three key principles of respect, beneficence and justice. Respect (or autonomy) states that individuals have the right to decide whether to become research subjects and individuals with limited capacity (eg, children) are entitled to special protection. Beneficence means that researchers must try to minimize the harm to subjects and maximize the benefits to subjects and to society. Justice requires that no one group of subjects should be inappropriately or exclusively burdened with the research risks. Informed consent, a continuous process, must ensure these principles are met.
Injury Control is an ideal text for a course on research approaches to injury prevention. It is also an excellent reference book. Need a quick review of rates and proportions, economic evaluation, or measures of injury severity and co-morbidity? Injury Control is the place to look. Anyone interested in injury prevention research should have this volume readily available on her bookshelf.
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Who's exploiting whom?
April 29, 2008 - Kevin Sweeney
In this country we have an annoying habit of turning young, adolescent girls into entertainment icons, and then gasping in shock when they start doing sleazy things to get more of our attention.
Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are just a couple of examples. Lindsay Lohan has not responded well to the pressure of being a teen idol.
And now we are shocked, SHOCKED that Miley Cyrus. 15 years old, has posed topless, although with a satin sheet wrapped around her naughty bits, for the magazine Vanity Fair.
As a racy photo, it is not anywhere near as overtly sexual as the photos on the covers of a lot of magazines you see on the news rack in the grocery store. How do I know? Not because I ran out and purchased a copy of Vanity Fair, but because I have seen the photo time and again on the major cable news channels. Fox News, MSNBC and CNN have been showing this photo almost hourly for the past couple of days as their announcers profess their dismay that this up-to-now squeaky clean young entertainer has been used and exploited in this fashion. Is this child abuse, they ask, as they show us the photo yet another time.
Yes, Miley Cyrus has been used and exploited, but not just by Vanity Fair. At least Vanity Fair is claiming the photo was published as an artistic, innocent portrait. The cable news channels are jamming this down our throats as a piece of soft-core porn that we should all look at so we can share their disgust.
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Both U.S. Senators from Massachusetts released statements shortly after news of the death of Osama bin Laden broke, commending U.S. forces and President Barack Obama for action taken to find and kill the terrorist leader.
News broke last night that a Navy SEAL counter-terrorism unit moved into a compound in Pakistan that had been identified as bin Laden's hideout. Officials told the Associated Press that bin Laden was shot in the head after an operation that lasted mere minutes.
"Justice has been done," President Barack Obama said during a late-night live broadcast.
Former President George W. Bush called the operation a "momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001." NPR collected his and other political leaders' reactions to the news on their news blog, the Two-Way. Read the statements here »
Massachusetts politicians react
Republican Senator Scott Brown called bin Laden's death "a great day for America and out allies across the free world." The Boston Globe reports today that Brown, an active member in the National Guard, is headed to Afghanistan for two weeks this summer.
Here is Senator Scott Brown's statement in full:
This is a great day for America and our allies across the free world. Osama Bin Laden has finally gotten the justice he deserved. I commend President Obama, former President Bush and the highly capable men and women in our military and intelligence community whose tireless work over the last decade made this day possible.
It is also a time to reflect on the victims of 9/11 and their families, as well as those who have died across the world fighting terrorism. Let this be a lesson that there is no sanctuary in the world for America's enemies.
Senator John Kerry, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said this "closes an important chapter in our war against extremists" but warned that the U.S. must remain vigilant in the war on terror.
Here is John Kerry's statement in full:
The killing of Osama bin Laden closes an important chapter in our war against extremists who kill innocent people around the world. We are a nation of peace and laws, and people everywhere should understand that our ten-year manhunt was in search of justice not revenge. Terrorists everywhere must never doubt that the United States will hunt them down no matter where they are, no matter how long it takes.
We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the men and women of our intelligence agencies and our military for their tireless dedication and enormous sacrifice to bring justice to a man responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11 and thousands more men, women, and children around the world.
I commend President Obama and his national security team for never forgetting the need to secure justice for those who lost their lives nearly 10 years ago and for those who have lost their lives in the war against extremism that continues today.
A single death does not end the threat from Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups. We must remain vigilant and committed to keeping the world safe and secure."
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick issued a statement emphasizing the work of the Commonwealth's men and women and uniform.
Here is Deval Patrick's statement in full:
On behalf of the people of Massachusetts and all others who suffered the profound loss of the September 11, 2001 attacks, I congratulate and thank President Obama and the soldiers and intelligence personnel who carried out this mission. We also remember our Massachusetts servicemen and women who continue their extraordinary efforts to rid the world of terrorism. Let us heed the President's call to unite, as we did in the months of mourning following that terrible day, to make a better, safer and more just world.
WBUR in Boston has comments from more Massachusetts officials, including former Massachusetts Homeland Security adviser Julliette Kayem and Rep. Mike Capuano.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney released a statement calling it "a great victory for lovers of freedom and justice everywhere." The Daily Caller notes that Romney, who is gearing up to challenge Obama in 2012, made no mention of the president in his statement.
Note: this post has been updated to include relevant links to other Massachusetts officials and lawmakers.


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If you're new to this blog, then read our guides to the basics: Skin (Part I), Skin (Part II), The Supernatural, Color Theory I, Color Theory II, Eyes, and Brushes.
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My favorite look at this moment:
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The Kindly One once wrote to us, in an email, "Very occasionally, though, a color is so beautiful that I just want to have it at home to look at, even if I never wear it", and so it was for me and the limited-edition Benefit Mermaid Velvet Eyeshadow ($18), a green so dimensional it shifts from silvery-blue to gold-dust according to the light. Though I generally hew to liners over shadows, Mermaid is astonishingly wearable even on my limited lid space. The rest of the accents are kept as delicate as possible: feathery, long, curly lashes with Kiss Me Heroine Make Volume & Curl Mascara, glossy, naturalistic brows with Laura Mercier Brow Definer ($20), and sometimes MAC Ego Starflash Eye Shadow ($15, not shown) to highlight the inner corners. For lips, I've simply recycled my bold, punchy NARS Schiap ($24). The colors complement each other, but the textural contrast adds extra interest: where Mermaid is sparkly and sheer, Schiap is matte and opaque.
I've discovered the most brilliant combination: SK II Facial Treatment UV Protection SPF 25 PA++ cut into Shu Uemura Face Architect Remodeling Cream Foundation SPF 10 ($45). Possibly the most luxurious BB cream, ever. Those of you in the Western world may think of it as a tinted moisturizer. I look airbrushed—nay, as if I were sporting a halo—that I gather queer, shocked looks from people. Best of all, it just looks like good skin; just an hour ago, the girl at the Chanel counter (Rouge Coco, at last!) assumed I wasn't wearing any base. Take my commendation with a grain of salt, however; I have dry skin.
And the perfect "wear-it-to-death" perfume for the upcoming season? BVLGARI Black. For something so unusual (rubber?!), Black is oddly comforting, a chewy vanillic that smells like old thick paper. Though its sillage is so distinctive, it's also quite subtle.
Strawberries are in season in Korea—or, if they're imported, they're at least extremely cheap and far more savory than in America—and I've developed a habit. I like mashing them, no blender required, with a teaspoon of sugar to draw out the juices, to mix with yogurt and milk for a quick, cheap, nutritious milkshake. A great alternative to ice cream for dessert, possibly even more delicious, and on the run, they're surprisingly filling. My boy, who has a serious weakness for strawberries, adores them.
Thanks to my punishing hakwon job, I've lost thirty pounds since my shift to the eastern hemisphere—quite extreme, though I didn't quite approach the skeletal—but slowly, I've been gaining it back. Mostly, it's the lack of stress, more than any caloric gain. It's been a blissful two months, but I'm not sure whether to sigh over my now jiggly thighs or celebrate the return of my boobs.
A film represents a collaborative effort, and perhaps undue attention is paid to the actors (often the most important relationship is between the director and cinematographer), but occasionally, there is nothing that can make up for a powerhouse performance:
The perennial genius of Orson Welles.
I want to grow into Maggie Smith. The irony, that Sandy becomes a miniature
version of Miss Brodie through her condemnation, is laid on thick.
Part of the frustration, and unexpected joys, about seasonal shopping lists is that they are so rarely fulfilled. For perhaps the first time, ever, I'm already finished. As usual, I've sourced a new dress (shown above), a new bottom, and a couple of new tops according to the vagaries of commerce and my own print-heavy taste. The accessories have a certain rough-cut bohemian aesthetic to tie them together, but attenuated to delicacy, so they're not too obviously thematic: Isabel Marant necklace ($125, above), silver gladiator sandals, a vintage cream/brown Bally saddlebag, my beloved olive espadrilles from Banana Republic, and a vintage tooled leather belt (to ground my skirts).
"Deny me and be doomed."
I've been ruminating lately on the intentional design and accidental virtues of Asian skincare. I've long dismissed the anal-retentive multiple steps of oil-based makeup remover, cleansing foam, humectant-rich softener, concentrated essence, then a moisturizer according to need—emulsion or cream. This is before any "special care" like eye creams or masks get involved. There is, I've discovered, a kind of internal logic involved, and the products do work in tandem.
And—can I deny it?—my skin loves, loves, LOVES Shiseido. I don't get it. The ingredients reveal nothing special. But The Skincare, here I come!
Labels: benefit, bvlgari, consumer diaries, hedwig and the angry inch, isabel marant, kiss me, laura mercier, mac, maggie smith, nars, orson welles, shiseido, shu uemura, sk ii, the third man
3/30/2010 [0]
There has been exactly one season of America's Next Top Model that I've missed. Otherwise, there has not been one moment that I've missed, and the mayhem has gotten even better with the addition of Andre Leon Talley, who has become my New Favorite Thing.
I've recently gotten back into reading American Vogue. It's something I fall in and out of touch with. The last couple of months have had more interesting articles and editorials to me than in the previous months. Plus, I think that step away made me appreciate it more. I get Vogue now. It's not meant to be taken seriously, really. It's meant to be some reportage of the real world of very privileged people saying very frivolous things and 90% fantasy, an exploration of what happens when you combine very fanciful, exquisite clothing with an Upper East Side sensibility. Because let's face it - even when Vogue does street, it's Lily and Serena van der Woodsen's* idea of "street," not Jenny's. Or even Vanessa's.
This image, sadly, is from Vogue Italia, which promotes captivating cover art, and not American Vogue, which does not.
Laura Mercier Metallic Creme Eye Colour in Burnished Copper ($22) has turned out to be a sleeper hit in my stash. I probably swatched this color for the first time a year or two ago and fell in love with its complexity, with hints of gold and orange suspended in shimmery red brown. I did not fall in love with the price or the likelihood of it's having very poor lasting power on my very oily lids. I finally caved on it a few months ago and find it's now one of my very favorite toys to reach for. I've found that using the smudger side of a cheap Sephora brush to thinly line my top and bottom lashes works beautifully to give a either a crisp, opaque line or a smudgier, sheer finish, depending on how I work the brush. I then either leave the line as is and tightline with black liner or add NYX's Eggplant or Red Bean Pie on top of Burnished Copper for a vibrant, shimmery pop of purple (the purple side of NARS Eurydice works well, too). The key to the look is Too Faced Shadow Insurance, which gives Burnished Copper lasting power and opacity (it's too sheer otherwise).
I'm really not a fan of leggings as outerwear. I think they lend the wearer to laziness and are largely unflattering. However, I had to break down and buy some when my tights failed to keep me warm in an unreasonably cold, bleak winter. I ended up getting these brushed leggings from Gap ($19.50) in athletic grey and black on sale (which look like they've sold out, leaving only navy). I get it now; there is nothing more comfortable than wearing something formfitting, soft and soothing on the skin. I leave mine under clothes or for loungewear, though.
I have a job that requires me to sit in front of a computer eight hours a day. It is very tedious and very boring (and so are my coworkers). To get through it, I listen to YouTube videos all day long. My favorites are cosmetics reviews and Ricky Gervais podcasts/radio edits. This is one of my favorite Karl Pilkington stories. I just like how he takes something somewhat commonplace and normal - the discussion of cloning - and weaves it into this bizarrely fantastical tale that has its own sense of the commonplace and ordinary to it.
This could take an age.
I knew I was in trouble when BleachBlack's Kristin posted this ring a couple of weeks ago. The site's coauthors have extended their collaboration with Urban Outfitters to include this ring. Though I typically don't wear jewelry, I think I could make an exception for something this stand-out and unusual, particularly as it is only $18 and I have a 10% UO code.
I've been excited about MAC's upcoming Art Supplies collection for a couple of months (US release date April 1; international release later in month). The collection features new Pearlglides and Pro Longwear Lipstain Markers, both of which I wanted to invest in heavily. I love Pearlglides; as I've discussed extensively with Dain, Dorothy, and Anne, my eyelids are too oily to keep on any gel pencil liners except these, which have the requisite grit to stay through the day. I was also excited to try the Lipstain Markers, having grown to prefer lip stains over gloss and lipstick. I'm a bit disappointed by the initial reviews, none of which are impressed with the color range of the Lipstain Markers, with some even saying they smell bad and taste weird. However, everyone's in agreement: the Pearlglides rock. I'm going to get mine on April 1 (I'll be damned if I miss out on these). The ones I'm particularly interested in are Undercurrent, a teal base with gold and green flecks, and Almost Noir, a browned-out plum.
While I'm at MAC, I'd also like a 208 Brow Brush ($19.50). I've never had a brush specifically made for the brow area, and let's be honest, some days it shows.
*In a total aside, perhaps Lily and Serena are the creepy Stepford, less cool, parallax universe version of Judy and Jane Aldridge?
Labels: america's next top model, consumer diaries, gap, gossip girl, laura mercier, mac, sea of shoes, urban outfitters, vogue
3/27/2010 [2]
When they make up, Korean women wear an awful lot. It's rarely colorful, nor so obvious as the Western vulgarity of smoky-eyes-and-nude-lips, but it's an awful lot: bulletproof sunblock, layers of BB cream and powder pact, sparkly lipgloss, falsies anchored by half a tube of mascara and a strip of black liner, both waterproof. For nights out, they add on the inner corners of the eye a coarse silver-white frost. Once married, rose and burgundy lipsticks enter the realm of the permissible. "You can always tell the fresh meat," complained my friend G. of her university campus, "they spend ages primping." Much of this stuff is waterproof, indelible well beyond your Colorstay, so how do they get it off?
Double cleansing, of course.
When we were researching non-foaming cleansers for Hit List, I bemoaned the dearth of milky cleansers, which languished under imported French labels, snowed under by an endless vista of cleansing oils and foams. I knew these formulations, though so opposite in their technology, were often used in conjunction, I even knew it was called "double cleansing", but I dismissed it as a gimmick. Cleanser is cleanser, was my surly determination, it all washes down the drain.
In theory, it should work. Cleansing oil, massaged onto dry skin, breaks down oil and dirt and the most stubborn eye makeup, then, upon contact with water, rinses almost clean. I've long been fond of AA favorite DHC Deep Cleansing Oil ($25) for its thoroughness, but I fretted it might enlarge my pores with continued use. There might be something to this double-cleansing business, I thought. Any lather would do, gel or soap, to clear the skin of any remaining residue, but the standard, demanded by the Asian consumer base, is a fine dense foam. A very little product yields hyperbolic lather, in texture only deceptively creamy, as they tend to be rather harsh and drying. I'm currently using Innisfree Olive Moisture Creamy Foam (7,000 KRW, about $5), a brand not available in the United States as far as I know, largely for an attractive price point, but I fully intend to upgrade to the luxurious Shiseido The Skincare Extra Gentle Cleansing Foam ($30). I suspect the differences between foam cleansers is very little, so a less expensive alternative to imported Asian brands might be Vichy's Purete Thermale Purifying Foaming Cream Cleanser ($16.50).
I quite favor the combination. It is not merely that my skin is so thoroughly, thoroughly clean. I might swear that it has diminished the congestion scattered minutely over my complexion, if only but a little. Even the blackheads on my nose seem to be shrinking. The cleansing oil loosens the plug (massage well), the cleansing foam prevents further impacting, and over time... but my imagination may be at work here.
The main drawback? Alas, it's quite stripping, even restricted to nighttime, and my dry skin needs those oils.
Labels: asiatica, beauty notes, dhc, innisfree, shiseido, vichy
3/26/2010 [1]
It's been a while since I looked at an outfit and felt such uninhibited admiration. I don't particularly care to dissect this one, other than to say, for all that I bitch about Korea, it has its share of pleasant surprises. Would an American guy walk down the street in that fully confident in his masculinity? Nope.
From StreetPeeper.
Labels: asiatica, fashion notes
3/19/2010 [3]
This video is actually a very good resource on how to achieve full, separated, natural-looking lashes. It might seem easy on the surface to apply mascara - just swipe it on and go. In reality, though, unless you are born with naturally thick, long, curled lashes, achieving that effect takes real effort and technique. When done masterfully, it's an art form, just like applying red lipstick, and I like that this video nods to that.
Labels: beauty notes, makeup by tiffany d
3/16/2010 [1]
If she won't be slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us."
Honestly, I think kpop is bad for Korea's health. It's like cultural diabetes.
Labels: asiatica, culture notes, girl's generation, john lennon
3/15/2010 [4]
In some ways, fantasy clothes are an easy pursuit; Dior couture may be worn only by the fashion elect, but its appreciation surely belongs to everyone. Often, however, I feel myself driven to answer how real women wear clothes, how style can be effected in the real world, where one desires both the proper impact but not the fuss and spectacle of runway fashion (which, it cannot be emphasized enough, is not meant to be worn). For me, one formula that never fails is the perfect pair of pants, flattering in its fit and integrating with any variety of tops, with just the right pair of shoes. Get these two aligned in just proportion and as aesthetic complements, and the outfit is almost certain to cohere. And, because formulae do require illustration, here are mine...
Midnight navy wool Vanessa Bruno trousers, with a crisp pleat down the center and a modest straight leg, paired with zebra-printed calf-hair ballet flats from Alaia. The silhouette is stolen somewhat from Audrey Hepburn, an inevitability, perhaps. These are a cool-weather combination, because of the weight of the wool, but they manage nearly every top I own. My favorite neutral is navy—I wear neither black nor brown—and animal print in low doses is extremely wearable. A black-and-white check trench coat picks up the theme, and you can easily surmise that the top is rendered quite superfluous. My only concern is preserving these flats; I've nearly worn them down to the ground, so exquisitely comfortable from the first.
I dream of Manolos, but let's face it, we all live in our flats. I'm looking forward to wearing my white Lucky Brand jeans again, not soiled yet, currently the only denim I own (I'm very proud of the deficit of casual wear in my wardrobe). I've only recently discovered their ideal counterpart, however, as the ballet flats were too precious: silver gladiator sandals from Emu, by name of Bellbrae. A metallic flash, I find, is refreshing with warm-weather casuals, and nothing says summer quite equal to white jeans. Like any flat proper to its cause, these ultimately recommend themselves in terms of comfort rather than style, with a little sheepskin for cushioning. They also show off a nice pedicure excellently.
So sensible is the appeal of the classic black pump that it defies true utility. The gods of shopping are whimsical, and often it is the most unlikely objects, say, zebra ballet flats or antiquated low-support basketball sneakers, that in use prove the height of fashion. I'm very happy to report that these Manolo Blahnik Butterfly have borne their promise of utility. I'll have to get them resoled and cleaned soon. With plenty of toe cleavage gathering to an erotic point, they sharpen the silhouette of a voluminous J. Crew menswear trouser, and yet are kindred spirits in classical appeal.
I don't like to wear denim without special cause, so you can imagine my excitement upon spying these sapphire corduroys, a more textured alternative, from J. Crew, in that rarest of offerings, the wide leg. My sole caveat is that my tailor, when taking in the waist, ruined the properly baggy drape—now these pants are neither here nor there. Nostalgia for the 90s may mislead better judgment, but it strikes me that nothing better balances the fashion sneaker than boy pants. Chucks are the epitome of hipster—high brow masquerading as low brow masquerading as high brow masquerading as low brow—not to mention they are murder on your feet until thoroughly broken in—but if you must be casual, if you must be cool, nothing feels more just. Pale pink is my third; I wish I could have found the skull print.
These slate suede Roberto del Carlo boots were my first luxury purchase (ever), but they languished for the absence of the ideal pairing. This golden wheat velvet is a skirt, and I'd love to find pants in such a shade—no luck yet. They're weather-proofed and crepe-soled; in spite of the heel they were my go-to shoe during a freakishly snowy Seoul winter.
Labels: azzedine alaia, closet confidential, converse, emu, j crew, lucky brand, manolo blahnik, roberto del carlo, vanessa bruno
3/11/2010 [0]
Like most of the Internet, I love this Old Spice commercial:
So archly funny and, unlike the craptastic Brut ads from last year, it plays on the "manly man" concept without being misogynistic, homophobic, or 10 years behind the times (mocking boybands in 2009? Really?).
Except that the premise of the ad, useful as it is from a marketing perspective, is flawed: in my experience, it's not that easy to stop a man from smelling like a man. Men and women apparently sweat a bit differently, but I've smelled a number of men just out of the shower, having used various girly bath products, and they still smell like men, not women. My boyfriend uses Dial almond body wash, which smells like a very low-rent take on Hypnotic Poison, and he still smells like a man. And I don't smell like a man, even when wearing Pour Monsieur, Guerlain Vetiver, or Troisième Homme.
(Of course, since North American culture still generally mistrusts femininity in men, it's far more socially acceptable for me to wear Pour Monsieur than for my boyfriend to wear Hypnotic Poison. More's the pity.)
Having this background, I was surprised to read in Turin and Sanchez's Perfumes: The Guide that skin chemistry doesn't affect perfume, or affects only the top notes, as this isn't my experience at all. Not only do women smell different from men, but we vary as individuals: plenty of people report that their skin amplifies some notes in perfumes and "disappears" others.
On my skin, most roses turn sour and boozy, even those that have a reputation for softness. Jasmine and tuberose have to be quite strong and indolic not to turn metallic and irritating, like the feeling of aluminum foil between one's teeth (hedione is apparently not my friend); green florals frequently turn into syrup or potpourri. But the real demon is melon. Le Parfum de Thérèse, widely loved for its jasmine and fruit salad aspects, smells utterly vile on me, like watermelon-flavoured Jolly Ranchers sucked on and spit out. And yet this is a very well-regarded scent: I have to conclude that it's my skin or my nose altering it this way.
This is what's especially difficult about writing about perfume, I think: most of us can see the same basic range of colours and call them the same things, and even guess, based on looking at each other, which makeup will flatter and which won't. But noses and skin chemistry are individual and not easily predicted; perfume really has to be tested.
Labels: old spice, perfume notes
3/10/2010 [1]
I've recently developed a strong appreciation for the combination of brown and blue eye makeup. It's an unexpected pairing. One wouldn't think it would work so well, but the blue adds dimension to a brown smoky eye, as well as a vibrant pop. I am particularly fond of the blue glitter liner used here by Xteener. It's a beautiful shade of blue, and the pairing with the brown keeps the whole look sophisticated rather than tacky. Personally, I've never had the personality that could carry glitter liner, but if you can wear it and rock it, I say go for it, particularly if the end result is as refined as this. For a more subdued look, though, you could also try brown shadow paired with sky blue, as seen at Elle's Video Star.
Labels: beauty notes, elle, xteener
3/09/2010 [2]
Not all bestsellers are cult classics. Next to basics like Definicils, as staunchly utilitarian and meticulously calibrated as a Volvo, you've got your sleek, expensive little sportscars: luxury skincare. Any skeptic penetrates easily through the hype—sumptuous textures, mythic ingredients, heavy and ornate packaging, extensive propaganda—a $300 cream is just not likely to support objective analysis very well. If you've paid these prices, however, you are more apt to be appreciative. Like most faiths, it is the believers who are most rewarded: in terms of quality, the products from a luxury brand are perfectly legitimate formulae. If the jump from drugstore to Neiman's isn't quite represented substantively... oh well. It's your money, and your decision to make.
As a skeptic rather than a believer, my forays into luxury skincare have been limited to single products, intensively researched and tested prior to purchase, never the entire package at once. Since this series would not be complete with one insanely expensive, utterly frivolous, so-called miracle wünderprodukt, I chose SK-II, arbitrarily, largely motivated by the massive hype that surrounds the brand here in Asia.
In the west, following the tradition of employing well-respected and flawless-complexioned actresses, the spokesmodel for SK-II is of course Cate Blanchett.
The linchpin of the line is the Facial Treatment Essence ($100-195), the "holy water", a cocktail of humectants arranged around Pitera, the fabled ingredient that provides the gravitational pull for this particular planetary system. The legend, if you haven't heard it, of the workers of sake factories and their exposure to the fermenting broth, supplies great charm. SK-II makes no effort to disguise the distinctively yeasty odor, a masterstroke of consumer psychology reinforced by the SAs who urge the consumer's indulgence. I can report nothing whatsoever on Pitera's efficacy as an anti-aging, sebum-balancing, texture-refining, super-brightening panacea—treatments are best reserved for problematic skin—mine simply registers it as a mild irritant.
The packaging, matte glass in counterpoint to red lettering and shiny silver metal, is almost demure.
My first entry into SK-II, however, was the Facial Treatment UV Protection SPF 25 PA++, a slightly matte, unscented emulsion that makes a nice base under makeup—quite the ideal daily sunscreen. Horrified by the expense? Me too. But sure as hell, I will be using this stuff up, and hopefully will turn sunscreen into a regular habit. Unfortunately, SK-II does not have consistent distribution throughout the world, and I do not believe this particular product is available in the US; instead, there is the Advanced UV Protect Essence SPF 15... I know.
On my dry skin, the featherlight UV Protection SPF 25 PA++ is quite insufficient; I returned to the counters again in search of a moisturizer. With prices ranging from $125 to $350, theoretical anti-aging provides the main conceptual thrust. Since "anti-aging" translates into nutrition-rich hydration, I expected to have little difficulty finding a product appropriate to my skin. Instead, I found myself dazzled and confused by the sheer array of serums and creams SK-II offers, nearly impossible to navigate without the intervention of an SA—what if you chose the wrong $200 cream!?—an idiom frequently seen throughout luxury skincare. I was loaded with generous samples of the relatively modest Signs Nourishing Cream ($160): a stiff, thick cream best reserved for nighttime use, humectant-rich (and therefore slightly sticky in residue unless given ample time to absorb), in deference to the Asian distaste for emollient textures. The tiniest dab goes a long way. In terms of performance, it is merely good-to-decent, very easily preempted by moisturizers at a mere sliver of the price, but you cannot deny the enormous sense of well-being that's contained in that attractive red jar.
As an alternate possibility, I also received a sample of the Blanchett-favored Facial Treatment Repair C ($160), though deservedly a bestseller for more concrete reasons. Repair C is a weightless yet powerful hydrator with four times the concentration of the Facial Treatment Essence. If Pitera works for you, this product is an investment in active ingredients. Indeed, my fragile, reactive skin, which barely tolerates Pitera at lower concentrations, testifies to its potency as nascent clogs flare into full-blown acne, in an orgy of irritation. I should add that Repair C is not a formula likely to be comedogenic; it is a beautiful product, on its own or to boost a richer cream. Luckily for me, I have good reason to avoid the expense.
Truly, the placebo effect inherent to the glamour of luxury skincare is in full force here. The C stands for "concentrated", not "vitamin C". There is unfortunately an echo that reverberates through reviews of this product, that complains that the percentage of vitamin C should be stated on the label, even going so far as to demand whether it is the stable form! Fer chrissakes...
Finally, the Facial Treatment Clear Lotion ($60), in which I have no personal interest, but would recommend as a mild chemical exfoliant (malic, lactic, and salicylic acids), a bona-fide toner used before the Facial Treatment Essence to facilitate the penetration of other products, in the same way that a scrub beforehand improves the performance of a mask. It is alcohol free, and like most of the SK-II line, features that Pitera-plus-humectants combination that sells so well.
The bottom line? The SK-II line was a heady little seduction, but like all beauty bloggers, I've a magpie's inattention for the next shiny object. Now I'm focused on the delightfully kitsch, dirt-cheap Sana Nameraka Honpo. And with the humility of the straying lover, this fling into luxury skincare has only deepened my appreciation of The Face Shop's Eco-Therapy softener and serum. I don't need any Pitera in my life, and hyaluronic acid is a powerful humectant regardless of whether it comes from the factories of Shiseido or Proctor & Gamble, which owns (surprise!) SK-II.
Labels: bestsellers, sk ii
3/05/2010 [1]
As with most other fashion rules - no white after Labor Day, always wear hose with dresses and skirts, no shorts after summer - the rule against wearing black with brown has been thrown out the window. The pairing of black and brown can create a very rich look. The trick is to choose a brown that has some depth. Flat, matte true browns without depth cannot create a contrast against black, causing the colors to clash. Browns with depth, meaning those that feature an undertone color, create the illusion of depth and contrast with black, allowing the colors to work in concert. There are no particular undertones that must be paired with black, though I find medium-to-deep browns with warm undertones work best as they provide the most contrast. Should you wear a couple of brown items with black, there is no need to match the browns. The more depth, the better. Rather than getting hung up on specific shades, though, it's more important to focus on the visual depth you're creating. If the outfit has depth, you're on your way. If the brown and black you're wearing seem to clash, you probably need to find a more complex brown.
Labels: fashion notes, garance dore, sartorialist
3/02/2010 [0]
I need a deeply hydrating, but not too emollient (I have my NARS Potent EFA for a rich cream), moisturizer to layer beneath my sunscreen. I've been looking at The Face Shop and Innisfree, but then my eye was distracted by this:
Must find... somewhere... in Korea. Plus, it sounds just about ideal for my purposes.
And what's your favorite cheesy video? This one puts a smile on my face...
Labels: culture notes, dschinghis khan, sana
3/01/2010 [0]
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The sculpture that local artist Dan Burch has been working on for almost two years will be unveiled Tuesday morning during the dedication of the Huntsville Police Fallen Officers Memorial.
The memorial will honor 22 officers and law enforcement officials who have died over the years in the line of duty in Madison County. The dedication starts Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Huntsville's Public Safety Building, 815 Wheeler Ave. The event is open to the public.
Burch's statue shows two police officers with their caps removed in remembrance of their fallen comrades. The cost of the memorial is more than $400,000, with the money raised coming from donations by individuals and corporations. Burch also designed the statue for the new Veterans' Memorial Park.
The memorial's design includes benches, green space and the names of the officers who have died. Citizens may still purchase engraved brick pavers for $100 each.
Along with the families of the officers, Huntsville Police Chief Mark Hudson, Madison County Sheriff Blake Dorning, District Attorney Rob Broussard and Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle will attend. The ceremony will feature a 21-gun salute, the playing of "Taps," bagpipes and the Missing Man Formation Honor Guard.
For more information go to www.hsvpolice.com.


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NEW YORK - Eduardo Nunez thought he knew how to play shortstop.
The former Thunder All-Star also thought he knew how to prepare for a game, how to deal with the media and how to handle himself under pressure.
He didn't.
Not by New York Yankees' standards.
"You learn so much up here, even when you are not playing,'' Nunez said. "You see how all these guys prepare. I thought I knew how to get myself ready for the game, but not like that. It's different up here. The guys here prepare to win. Not for one game. Not for one month. They prepare to win for six, seven months. They prepare to play and win until November.''
Nunez initially had the tall order or filling in for Derek Jeter, after the Yankees' captain and 12-time All-Star landed on the disabled list June 14 with strained right calf that required a two-game rehab stint at Double-A Trenton.
Over 17 consecutive games, Nunez batted .339 (20-for-59) with five doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs.
Against the Mets at Citi Field prior to Jeter's return in Cleveland, Nunez went 7-for-8, and only a brilliant play by Justin Turner kept him from going 8-for-8.
Although Nunez has committed 10 errors in 39 games (110 chances) and admittedly has a long way to go defensively, the Yankees were 14-3 with him in the lineup at shortstop.
Nunez committed 33 errors with the Thunder in 2009, two shy of Kirk Mendenhall's franchise record of 35 established in 1994. It was the third time in his minor league career Nunez had been charged with 33 or more errors.
"I had a chance and I think I showed everybody I can play,'' said Nunez, the Yankees' Kevin Lawn Minor League Player of the Year in 2010. "The last two weeks have been exciting and I know I can play shortstop here for my career, but I am not thinking about that right now. Derek Jeter is a great captain. He is the shortstop of the Yankees, a Hall of Famer and I am very happy for him reaching 3,000 hits. He has been helping me the whole time and I am just going to keep working hard for whenever they need me and whatever they need me to do.''
Barring a trade, the Yankees are counting on Nunez to fill in at third base with Alex Rodriguez on the disabled list following surgery to repair torn meniscus cartilage in his knee.
In that role, Nunez hit safely in each of his starts against the Tampa Bay Rays, including playing alongside Jeter Saturday when his third inning home run opened the door to the 3,000 hit club.
The Yankees won both of those games and headed into the All-Star break a combined 16-3 with Nunez filling in for Jeter and Rodriguez, who will make a combined $46 million this season.
Nunez, 24, earns the major league minimum of $419,300.
"I have been a shortstop my whole career,'' Nunez said. "But I will play shortstop, third base, second base or the outfield. It doesn't matter to me. As long as whatever I am doing helps the Yankees win. I don't think I am ready to play every day up there right now. I know I have a lot to learn, but I'm just a young guy. This is not an easy job and there are adjustments I have to make, but everyone here is helping me every single day.''
Thunder catcher and midseason Eastern League All-Star Austin Romine collected the game-winning hit for the U.S. Team against the World Team at the XM Futures Game Sunday at Chase Field in Phoenix, Az.
Romine did not start the U.S. Team's 6-4 victory, but he singled in his only two at bats, including the game-winner in the eighth inning.
With increasing chatter that he has passed top prospect Jesus Montero in the eyes of the Yankees at the position, and will be elevated to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre following the July 31 trade deadline, Romine said he is attempting to stay in the moment.
"I try not to look into the future because if I don't take care of the present, then there will be no future," Romine told mlb.com Sunday. "So, I have to take care of right now.''
There was talk around Yankee Stadium against the Rays over the weekend that the Yankees want Romine in the big leagues before rosters expand Sept. 1.


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Published on August 28, 2013
Yolande Modica drives up to the Captain Cook Monument in Corner Brook on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 to show Charlie Bear the view of Corner Brook from Crow Hill. Charlie Bear is travelling the world to help children with life threatening illnesses.
Diane Crocker
Published on August 28, 2013
Yolande Modica and Charlie Bear enjoy the view from the Captain Cook Monument in Corner Brook on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.
Diane Crocker
CORNER BROOK — Yolande Modica can't quite explain it, but there's just something about a teddy bear.
"I've got two kids," said the Pasadena mom to Logan, 2 1/2, and Sofia, nine months. "I know what a teddy bear does, I know how a teddy bear calms a child down."
She said you can take a child that's got a tummy ache, or teething or hungry and give them a teddy bear and their troubles are gone.
So when Modica stumbled across a special bear in need of a ride she knew she had to help him.
Modica, a baker with a passion for biking, is one of hundreds of motorcycle riders participating in the World Wide Relay Ride with Charlie Bear. The journey around the world is taking place to raise awareness and funds to help children with life threatening illnesses.
The plan is to direct all money raised to Make-A-Wish America and Make-A-Wish International. Modica said riders are not affiliated with the charities and don't collect any money. Instead they direct donors to the World Wide Relay Riders website, www.worldwiderelayriders.org, or encourage them to support a local children's charity.
Charlie left Mesa, Ariz. on July 4 and travelled to Calais, Me. before crossing the border into New Brunswick and then to Nova Scotia. Charlie was supposed to travel to Newfoundland via Marine Atlantic's Argentia run, but got bumped to Port aux Basques due to the Blue Puttees being taken out of service.
That travel bump resulted in St. John's rider Tony Harnum putting out a Facebook plea looking for a rider to get Charlie across the island. "I saw that story for a reason," said Modica. "It just touched me in a way I've never felt before."
Charlie made the crossing from North Sydney, N.S., in her brother Andre Noseworthy's transport truck and she drove out to Port aux Basques to get him on Monday. Since then she's been showing Charlie around on her Yamaha FZ6 and documenting his visit for the relay. Charlie's been all around Pasadena, including the beach, sightseeing at the Man in the Mountain, Marble Mountain, the train museum and up to the Captain Cook Monument.
Modica and her husband, Maurizio Modica, plan to drive Charlie to Grand Falls-Windsor on Friday where they'll meet up with Harnum. He'll then take Charlie to St. John's before shipping him back to the United States to continue his journey.


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TRENTON — While local pension costs will grow in the new state budget, the bill would be much higher were it not for the landmark benefit reform enacted in 2011, according to figures released today by the New Jersey Treasury Department.
Without the reform, Treasury says the local pension bill would be $540 million higher next year, resulting in many cases in higher taxes for residents. Under the reform, Christie and Democrats forced public employees to pick up a greater share of the pension costs and stopped cost of living adjustment for retirees.
"The tough decisions we made in 2011 to get our pension and benefit costs under control are paying dividends every year for New Jersey's overburdened property taxpayers," Gov. Chris Christie said in a news release. "The combination of pension and benefit reform and other bipartisan reforms such as the 2 percent cap on annual increases in local property taxes, the reform of interest arbitration and promoting shared services are all bringing well-deserved relief to middle-class taxpayers."
The total amount that local governments and school districts will have to contribute to the two major pension funds in the budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1 will be $1.57 billion, compared to the $2.11 billion without the reforms, according to Treasury.
Towns will see about a 6 percent increase in pension costs, far less than the double-digit spikes they saw in the three years before the reform, figures show.
The increase is due in part to poor performance in the pension funds' investments and longer life expectancy.
• Wall Street: N.J. economy is growing, but concerns remain


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With the market in a frenzy, investors are looking for alternatives to stocks and bonds. They may not be ready to go the route of classic cars as hyped on television last week by CNBC, but they can get pretty comfortable with an old stand-by: Real estate.
So if an average investor decides to pursue a real-estate mutual fund, they'll look for a few characteristics, like top marks for consistent return from Lipper, an analyst's recommendation from Morningstar, and top-shelf performance over the long haul.
That kind of research might well bring them to T. Rowe Price Real Estate (TRREX), which on the surface has everything going for it. Dig a little deeper, however, and it appears that average investors haven't gotten what they wanted from the fund, and that crucial disconnect makes it the Stupid Investment of the Week.
Stupid Investment of the Week highlights the concerns and conditions that make a security less than ideal for the average investor, and is written in the hope that spotlighting trouble in one case will make it easy to avoid danger elsewhere.
While obviously not a purchase recommendation, neither is the column intended as an automatic sell signal, as there are times when dumping a worrisome investment actually compounds the problems.
That could definitely be the case with T. Rowe Price Real Estate because, by most metrics, the fund has been a big winner. If you are one of the investors who has won with it, hanging on for the long run makes perfect sense.
But indications are that the fund has been a winner, but investors who went there haven't been.
Consider this: Over the last 10 full calendar years, T. Rowe Price Real Estate returned an annualized average of 11 percent, but the average investor's return, as calculated by Morningstar Inc., was a loss of 4 percent per annum.
That's a disconnect of 15 percentage points; only eight stock funds that have been around for a decade have a bigger discrepancy.
Morningstar's "investor returns" are designed to track a fund's dollar-weighted performance, to see if money only moves into or out of a fund at the wrong times. Ideally, investor return would track the fund's gains closely, meaning that investors rode it out with the fund through all conditions.
Obviously, that's not happening with T. Rowe Price Real Estate, and the phenomenon is too big to ignore. If other average investors can't make the fund work to their advantage — if they can't stomach the ride — then new investors need to consider whether they can be smarter than those other guys, or if they are just being the next fool to rush in.
Make no mistake about it, the fund seemingly has everything going for it. Over the last 10 years, the annual return ranks in the top 20 percent of its Morningstar peer group, and Morningstar's analysts like it so much they made the fund an "analyst's pick," a status typically reserved for funds those analysts would bet on for the long haul with their own money. Lipper gives the fund its top mark for consistent return and expenses, and has it above average on total return; the fund's expenses are well below its peers.
David Lee has managed the fund since its inception, and his record is impeccable. Over the last 10 full calendar years, TRREX only had three years in which it was a below-average performer. While the losses were big in 2007 and 2008, those were years that made a lot of funds and managers look silly.
"The hot subject matter among advisers is alternatives, finding assets that are not correlated with stocks and bonds and, historically, the purpose of real-estate funds was to be the non-correlated portion of a portfolio," said Jeff Tjornehoj, senior research analyst for Lipper.
"This looks like the kind of fund you would want to own to diversify your portfolio, but people need to realize that non-correlated assets doesn't mean non-risky assets."
Lipper, too, has one key criticism of the fund, because it gives T. Rowe Price Real Estate its worst possible mark for "preservation of capital." It's hard to believe a fund that generates consistent and good total returns can't preserve capital, but Tjornehoj said that is the risk factor rearing up.
By all appearances, the fund has had some significant volatility on its way to a solid long-term trend. Investors, apparently, have been victimized by that volatility, buying in only after the run-ups and taking the brunt of the downturns.
T. Rowe Price would not discuss the fund with me, but the firm's published numbers and those of the analysts don't appear to show wild swings in assets under management, with investors fleeing or flocking in depending on the prevailing winds. Clearly, if you read anything T. Rowe Price sends to shareholders (and I do because I own other Price funds among my retirement holdings), the firm encourages long-term, stay-put investing.
That may mean that what appears to make T. Rowe Price Real Estate a bad bet is that other investors were dumb, and were chasing hot short-term performance rather than trying to hold a chunk of assets in real estate for the long haul. The problem could be less about the fund than about the people who have owned it.
If that is the case, an investor with a strong will and a strong stomach might be able to make the fund work.
Charles Jaffe is a columnist for Marketwatch.com.


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Swimming: Peters Township comes up with triumph against West Allegheny
Class AAA Peters Township dropped down in class to compete against one of the top Class AA boys teams around in a battle of the Indians. The Peters Township Indians defeated the West Allegheny Indians 98-77 in a competitive dual meet on December 20. Peters Township took a commanding early lead with a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The relay team of Connor Martin, Tyler Phillips, Michael Kehm and Joe Dunleavy took first place just ahead of their teammates, Harrison Nix, John Martin, Mark Mizikar and Ian O'Brien.
Peters Township flexed their muscles further in individual events with Sebastian Yocca winning the 200 freestyle and Adam Harsch winning the 200 IM. Harsch and O'Brien finished 1-2 in the 50 freestyle, Kehm and Harsch took 1-2 in the 100 butterfly and Peters Township divers Tommy Devine, Gage Fremer and Xander Browell swept the top three spots in the 1 meter diving while Martin, Joe Dunleavy and Josh Dunleavy swept the top three spots in the 100 freestyle.
Peters Township's Mitchell Golias won the 500 freestyle in a competitive dual with West Allegheny's Ashton Pietroboni. Golias edged Pietroboni by 0.11 seconds, an extremely slim margin in the longest race in high school swimming. Golias swam a 5:19.00 while Pietroboni swam a 5:19.11.
Harsh, O'Brien, Kehm and Golias put an exclamation point on the meet with a winning time of 1:40.49 in the 200 freestyle relay.


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The South Carolina Gamecocks will face the University of North Carolina in the Super Regionals this weekend.
The South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Liberty Flames Monday afternoon and now advance the NCAA Baseball Super Regionals.
The Gamecocks (41-18) lead the game 4-2 through the fifth inning on Sunday before rain postponed the game to Monday.
On Monday, the Gamecocks scored two more runs to win 6-4.
South Carolina will take on the University of North Carolina, who beat Florida Atlantic 12-11 in extra innings Tuesday morning.
South Carolina will head to Chapel Hill to play the Tar Heels.
Game one of the series will be Friday at 1p.m. Game two will take place Saturday at noon and if necessary game three will be played Sunday at 1p.m.


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Canterbury Square Mobile Home Park to be turned over to tenants next week
by Jeff Switzer
The Canterbury Square Mobile Home Park will have new owners next week when the requisite $7.4 million is turned over to current owners Al and Donna DeYoung Jan. 12.
The DeYoungs received $200,000 in earnest money Dec. 29 from the Canterbury Criers Association, representing the residents of the park.
"The mood around the park has been excellent, very upbeat," said George Scrimshaw, president of the Canterbury Criers Association. "One older woman came in last week and burst into tears because it was so wonderful to have the pressure gone."
Scrimshaw said the residents of the park worked very hard to purchase the park. "People tend to underestimate the determination of older people," he said. "Everyone can recognize the virtue of people with a sole goal to achieve. The reward is in the accomplishment."
The purchase agreement was reached between the DeYoungs and the Canterbury Criers during the summer of 1995, stipulating that the residents could purchase the park if they could come up with the $7.4 million before the deadline.
The agreement also dictates that the tenants not sell the park for five years. Once the five years has passed, the association can sell at any time; however, the residents must put the park on the market after 12 years, in 2008.
At that time, the residents must have the property appraised at its "highest and best use," as commercial land, in keeping with the DeYoungs' desire to have a thriving downtown retail core. Following the appraisal, the residents must put the park on the market for $10 million or the appraised value, whichever is higher, for three years time. The residents have the option of having the property re-appraised after 1 1/2 years.
The residents are required to sell if they receive an offer at the asking price within the three years, otherwise the sale requirement is waived.


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Considering a recent survey by Hearst Publishing revealed teens spend close to $250 on a prom dress, why don't girls just try getting them for free?
Yes, it's possible. A nationwide organization called DonateMyDress.org collects and distributes dresses from all across the country to satisfy any given girl's need for a gown for their special night.
The dresses come from stores like Saks and J.C. Penney Co. Other dresses have been donated by teens who've already had their proms.
New York's ABC7 reported the story Wednesday.
Senior girls from New Dorp High School had dresses in their possession immediately, as opposed to spending too much money or continuing an endless search for the right outfit.
The student activity coordinator applauded the donation for another reason.
"It definitely teaches them to give back," Lisa Murphy said.
DonateMyDress.org will be hosting an event April 25 from noon to 4 p.m. in the NAC Ballroom of City College of New York, Manhattan.


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