Ice Facial

Have you ever tried the ice facial? When I have a little swelling or terrible puffy eyes, I will wash my face or rather the eye area with ice-cold water. 

I was taught this when I was working real late nights, and had to wake up early the next day. My eyes were bad. I tried this and it worked.

It’s not going to be working like magic. It did helped, it lessen the puffiness and it made my eyes looked “normal”. So next time you need to have a quick remedy for “late night eyes”, you can always give this a try!

Icing is one

First Female President - South Korea 2012

South Korean voters have chosen conservative candidate Park Geun-hye as their president. The daughter of the country's late dictator will become its first female head of state.


The 18th South Korean presidential election was held in South Korea on December 19, 2012. It was the sixth presidential election since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic, and was held under a first-past-the-post system, in which there was a single round of voting and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes was elected. Under the South Korean constitution, presidents are restricted to a single five-year term in office. The term of incumbent president Lee Myung-bak will end in February 2013. According to the Korea Times, 30.7 million people voted with turnout at 75.8. Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri party was elected the first female South Korean president with 51.6% of the vote opposed to 48.0% for her opponent Moon Jae-in.

The National Election Commission said that Park had secured the necessary votes to defeat her liberal opponent Moon Jae-in.

With more than 96 percent of the votes in, Park had garnered 51.6 percent of the vote, compared with Moon's 47.9 percent.

"I will become a president of the people's livelihoods who keeps her promises to the people and open an era in which the people are happy,” park told a rally in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul.

Turnout was nearly 76 percent, a significant rise on the 63 percent figure for 2007 elections.

Park served in the presidential palace, the Blue House, as her father's first lady in the 1970s following the death of her mother who was killed by a North Korean-backed gunman.

Her father,

Kiwi fruits for you Health

Kiwi fruit is the edible fruit of Actinidia Deliciosa, and hybrids between this species and others in the genus Actinidia.
Kiwifruits owe their name to a bird, native of New Zealand, named "kiwi",














and actually in many regions of Europe, North America and South America, kiwi fruits are generally referred to as "kiwi".
This fruit consists of a hairy, brown peel containing green flesh, with white pulp in the center, surrounded by black, edible seeds. The fruit has a sweet taste, similar to a mixture of banana, pineapple and strawberry. Kiwi fruits are native to China, where they were called "macaque peach"
Nutrition-wise, kiwi fruits contain about as much potassium as bananas, and also contain 1.5 times the DRI for Vitamin C.
It is also rich in Vitamins A and E, and its black seeds can be crushed to produce kiwi fruit oil, which is very rich in Alfa-Linoleic Acid (an important Omega-3 essential fatty acid).
Studies have proven that kiwifruits are useful in improving conditions of asthmatic children, and in decreasing the probability of colon cancer by providing a good amount of dietary fiber.
Please be aware that kiwi fruits can be

Please Don't - K. Will

Kim Hyung-Soo (Hangul: 김형수; born December 30, 1981), better known by his stage name K.Will (Hangul: 케이윌) is a South Korean ballad singer, vocal coach, dancer, songwriter,composer, and actor. K.Will first became known in South Korean through his single called “Dream” in “A Love to Kill” OST, released in 2006. A year after his single and 5 years after as a trainee and a vocal coach, he released his first album “Left Heart” in 2007. Then, after two years, he came back with a successful single, "Love 119," in December 2008. This was followed by a mini album “Dropping the Tears” in April 2009 and his second album “Miss, Miss and Miss” in November 2009.

Childhood

K.Will loved singing since he was little, and he began by singing along with his mother while she was playing the guitar. He has even been kicked out of a class once, because he was humming in reading class. After graduating from high school, he finally determined that he was going to become a singer, and told his parents. However, they opposed that idea and tried to compromise with him so that he could do music along with another work. It was too difficult for him to do two jobs at once, so he decided to just do music.

Pre-Debut

K.Will participated in auditions and looked for potential composers to be able to sing more. When he was a trainee, he would do anything to sing, such as performing at street concerts, singing backup, or singing the chorus for more famous artists. During that time, his friendships with today well-known artists--8Eight, Lim Jeong-Hee, SG Wannabe, Sweet Sorrow, etc.--started.

During his work as a vocal guide (guide vocalist), K.Will also was part of an amateur a cappella group and performed at street concerts around the country for two years.

K.Will is frequently mistaken as the songwriter for TVXQ's “Hug” and it was clarified by an interview on KBS World.

Career

2006-2007

When K.Will was helping Rain produce his second album, he was noticed by 

California Audio Show

Welcome to California Audio Show - Aug 9th - 11th, 2013

Sponsored by The Absolute Sound and Stereophile

The very first, inaugural show was held in July, 2010 and it is created for the public.

The purpose of this show is two-folded: to address the passions of the enormous group of music lovers, and hobbyists who we call audiophiles, and to introduce the hobby to a new generation of audience. 

High-end audio is a

Loudspeaker

LANSCHE AUDIO NO.7 LOUDSPEAKER

Smitten!

Loudspeaker designers constantly strive for lower and lower moving mass in their cones and panels, but what would a driver sound like if it had no moving mass—or no moving parts at all?

The massless driver is the holy grail of loudspeaker design. It’s the moving mass of speaker cones, domes, and panels that introduces a whole host of distortions—distortions that designers devote an inordinate amount of time, money, and effort combating. A diaphragm, no matter how light, has inertia that, when it is at rest, makes it want to stay at rest. It’s not just the diaphragm that moves in dynamic loudspeakers, but also the voice-coil former, voice coil, and suspension. And when all those parts are moving, they tend to keep moving after the drive signal has stopped. It’s not hard to imagine how inertia plays havoc with a loudspeaker’s ability to faithfully reproduce music’s dynamic structure: Transient leading edges are not as steep as they are in life, and notes don’t end as quickly and cleanly as those produced by live instruments. Moreover, loudspeaker drivers misbehave in a whole host of other ways—breakup modes, temperature-dependent dynamic compression, non-pistonic motion, non-linearity at high excursions, and magnetic eddy currents, to name just a few. To be sure, great advances have been made in these areas during the past twenty years, particularly as a result of exotic-materials technology. But at the end of the day, we’re still listening to cones, domes, electrostatic panels, or ribbons moving back and forth.

Enter the corona-plasma tweeter, a device that produces sound with no moving parts. As explained in more detail in the sidebar, an electric arc stretching between two electrodes causes the air around the arc to become ionized. By modulating the arc with an audio signal, the ionized plasma around the arc is made to expand and contract, creating sound—no diaphragm, and no diaphragm- induced distortions.

Plasma transducers have a long history dating back to 1900(!) but have never gained much traction in audio (see the sidebar). One company committed to the technology is the German firm Lansche Audio. The speaker company bought the rights to a corona-plasma tweeter in 1999 and has since offered many loudspeaker models built around this exotic driver. Lansche redesigned the corona-plasma tweeter in 2006, and currently every product in its lineup is based on this unique driver.

After hearing something quite special from the second-to-top- model Lansche No.7 loudspeaker at the 2012 CES, I asked for a review pair. The No.7 is a three-way, seven-driver system employing four 8.7" woofers, two 4" midranges, and the horn-loaded corona- plasma tweeter in the baffle’s center. The $108,000 No.7 is a

The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an internationally bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels. Seven have been adapted to films, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and most recently The Lucky One.

Nicholas Sparks
Bestselling Author Nicholas Sparks
Born	Nicholas Charles Sparks December 31, 1965 (age 46) Omaha, Nebraska
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Genres	Romantic fiction
Spouse(s)	Cathy Sparks
Children	Miles, Ryan, Landon, Lexie & Savannah

On June 17, 2011, Nicholas Sparks stated on his official website that Warner Bros. had bought the movie rights to his novel The Best of Me, published October 11, 2011. The production date for the movie has not been verified, although Sparks believes that filming of the movie will start in 2012.



In his seventeenth novel, "The Best of Me," Nicholas Sparks seems to have the romance novel formula down to a science. Attractive boy and girl from different sides of town meet and fall devastatingly in love? Check. Couple torn apart by war, parents, spouses, or traumatic past? Check. Shocking tearjerker ending? Double check. Sparks has mastered the art of writing novels that tug at readers’ heartstrings, evident from his novels selling over 77 million copies worldwide.

In "The Best of Me," Sparks adds the presence of unexplained mystical presences that help shape the characters’ lives. Ultimately, "The Best of Me" is about

Bibimbap

Bibimbap (BEE-beem-bop): One of the most popular dishes in Korean cuisine, bibimbap is a nutritious rice dish of steamed rice and pre-cooked vegetables (usually spinach, bean sprouts, carrots, mushrooms, egg and lettuce. It can also contain ground beef but can be ordered without meat. Dolsot bibimbap is the same dish served in a hot stone pot (the pot is pre-heated in oven) to make the rice on the bottom crunchy and to keep the dish hot for a longer time. Bulgogi (BULL-go-ghee): Literally meaning "fire meat", bulgogi is thinly sliced, usually rib-eye or sirloin, marinated grilled meat. Gochuchang (GOH-choo-jang) paste: spicy red pepper paste sold either in glass jars or plastic containers that can be purchased at any Korean or Asian food market.

Ingredients

• Steamed white rice
• Bulgogi, recipe follows
• 1 carrot, julienned
• Cooked bean sprouts, sauteed in a little sesame oil or peanut oil and seasoned with salt
• Cooked spinach, sauteed in a little sesame or peanut oil and seasoned with salt
• 4 shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced and sauteed in peanut oil and seasoned with salt
• 1 egg, cooked over easy
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 1 tablespoon dark sesame oil
• Soy sauce, to taste
• Gochuchang Paste, recipe follows

Directions

*Cook's Note: This can be done in a regular bowl or a hot stone bowl. If it's in a hot stone bowl, the rice becomes crunchy because it's still cooking.

Put cooked rice in large slightly shallow bowl. Place bulgogi (with juices from cooked meat) and veggies on top of rice but place separately so you can see each ingredient beautifully placed on rice. Put egg on top. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and drizzle with sesame oil and soy sauce.

When ready to eat, mix all ingredients together with some

Earthquake struck northeastern Japan

TOKYO • A strong earthquake Friday struck the same Japanese coast devastated by last year’s massive quake and tsunami, generating small waves but no immediate reports of heavy damage. Several people along the northeastern coast were reportedly injured and buildings in Tokyo and elsewhere swayed for several minutes.

The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 and struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Miyagi prefecture at 5:18 p.m. (0818 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter was 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) beneath the seabed and 240 kilometers (150 miles) offshore.

The area was shaken by repeated, smaller aftershocks, the agency said.

After the quake, authorities issued a warning that a tsunami potentially as high as 2 meters (2.2 yards) could hit. Sirens whooped along the coast as people ran for higher ground.

Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi, reported a tsunami 1 meter (1 yard) high and other towns reported smaller tsunamis.

About two hours after the quake struck,

Heavy snow alert in Seoul - Dec 5 2012

Workers clean the snow at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. The weather forecast agency issued a heavy snow alert in Seoul Wednesday. (Xinhua/Park Jin hee)


Residents walk in the snow at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. The weather forecast agency issued a heavy snow alert in Seoul Wednesday. (Xinhua/Park Jin hee)


Workers clean the snow at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. The weather forecast agency issued a heavy snow alert in Seoul Wednesday. (Xinhua/Park Jin hee)


Residents walk in the snow at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. The weather forecast agency issued a heavy snow alert in Seoul Wednesday. (Xinhua/Park Jin hee)

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