When it comes to COSMETIC TREATMENTS, the face may get all the attention, but the NECK deserves love too. Novel TECHNOLOGIES that go beyond creams deliver LIFTED, SCULPTED necks—WITHOUT SURGERY. You could spend days doing trials on various devices, professional treatments, and high-tech formulas designed to lift and firm the skin on your face, but…
Pine Tart and Cheese Roll – Memorable Recipes
Pineapple tart (commonly called “pine tart”) and a cheese roll rank among the top pastries in Guyana. They are legendary teatime treats: Buttery, flaky dough is filled with a spiced sweet pineapple jam and folded into petite triangles (for the pine tart) or filled with a spicy cheddar cheese paste and rolled into rectangles (for…
Rum and Raisin Bread Pudding – Memorable Recipes
In my house, nothing says the holiday season has officially arrived like a warm serving of rum and raisin bread pudding. It’s great on its own, but when you top it with my special chocolate rum cream sauce, it just takes things to another level. I mean, if you decided to have a few servings…
Early Concessions and the Birth of Taste – Eating in US National Parks
After Yellowstone in 1872, other parks began to pop up around the country— Yosemite, Sequoia, and Mount Rainier all before 1900, as well as later-demoted Mackinac and Rock Creek, each with their own needs for concessions—alongside anxious chatter about the specter of “bad development.” Coney Island and Niagara Falls loomed large in the elite imagination…
Spending and saving for later – Life Insights
While starting retirement may seem a time to be cautious about splashing out, there are some big outlays that may make sense and save you money later on. Conversely, you may want to set money aside in earlier retirement to help you cope with spending later on, particularly inflation and possible care costs. Many people…
Private pensions – Life Insights
‘Private pensions’ means any pension schemes you have apart from a State Pension. They may be schemes you join through your workplace, or schemes that you arrange for yourself. How much you can save Private pension schemes are one of the most tax-efficient ways to save, because you get tax relief on the money you…
Gambas al Ajillo – Garlic Shrimp – Memorable Recipes
When I was growing up in the Philippines, if gambas al ajillo was on the menu when my family went out to dinner, I would have to order it. I always thought that gambas was a Filipino dish—which it is—but later realized it was based on a recipe from Spain (Filipino food is heavily influenced…
Possible ways of boosting your retirement income – Life Insights
There are basically four ways to give your retirement finances a boost: your home, work, investments and state benefits (and other state support). Your home Three-quarters of people aged 65 and over own their home outright, and a further 3 per cent are homeowners with a mortgage, according to the government’s Family Resources Survey. Your…
Indigenous Hunger – Eating in US National Parks
Throughout the nineteenth century, American Indians were moved to reservations or restricted to a small portion of the land they could previously access, where set-tlers made efforts to “civilize” them via agriculture. The government, motivated by a belief that Indigenous peoples who became farmers would be able to better assimilate into white society, crafted policies…
Community Interventions for mental illness
Based on the previous discussion, school-based interventions appear to have many advantages related to access and stigma reduction; however, they might not be suf-ficient to meet the needs of all refugee families and destigmatize seeking help for mental illness. Therefore, interventions targeted at the community level can foster more support for refugee youth and their…