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INSG :In Singapore Online Magazine: Lifestyle : Beauty & Health : Ladies How to get Gorgeous Skin (Female) Don't go to bed with makeup on. Makeup left on overnight seeps into your pores, clogs them, and congests your skin. Make sure that you wash your face twice at the end of the day. Once to get the makeup off. A second time to wash the skin itself. Exfoliate daily. After washing your face at night, be sure to exfoliate. Use a delicate scrub. If you don't have one on hand, a tablespoon of sugar or oatmeal will work just fine. Use facial masks regularly. If possible, everyday is ideal. Again, if you don't have one on hand, make your own. Mashed banana or avocado is good. Plain yogurt also works well. Keep a treatment and moisturizer on your face, day or night. Put your skin first. After you wash it at night, put on some kind of skin treatment, whether it's alpha hydroxy acids, vitamin A or C, or any kind of special cocktail treatment. Let that sink in, then put a moisturizer over that. In the morning, do the same. Don't use the cheapest or most expensive cosmetics. Mom tells me that moderately priced cosmetics are the best. They get the job done, and the ingredients are usually pretty good. You have to keep trying various brands until you find something that works well for you. Hydrate your face throughout the day. Whether it's a commercial product, or one you make yourself (fill a spray bottle with distilled water, add a few drops of chamomile or rose essential oil, shake it gently before each use, and spray it on) hydrate your face, even over makeup, frequently throughout the day. Treat your face gently. Never pull, tug, or scrub your facial skin. Be very gentle when you clean it, moisturize it or makeup on it. This will lessen the chance that you'll damage your skin and get wrinkles. Keep your face covered when you're in the sun. As beautiful as she is, my mom never lets anyone see her face when she's in the sun. She'll slather on a high factor sunscreen, put on sunglasses, and a wide brimmed hat. Eat fresh foods and drink lots of water. My mom tells me to stay away from "dead food" food that's basically not fresh. She always eat lots of veggies, fruits, nuts, and drinks tons of water. Let go of stress. Stress can show up on your face, no matter how well you take care of your skin. Do something your enjoy everyday, whether it's watching TV or going shopping. Your face reflects what's going on inside of your mind. .... Moisturize it ! .... Hydrate Regularly .... Soft Skin This Month's Issue >>> Look Younger Gorgeous Skin Sports Sky Diving Food Cavana Nokia Model 8800 Samsung E810 Nokia Model 6270 Technology News Hawker Directory Movie Review Build Your Own PC An online magazine by INSG Pte Ltd © 2005. Designed & Powered by Sg Web Designer .

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At Home : Other : Fruity Facial Masks : Home & Garden Television   AT HOME Antiques / Collectibles Books / Videos Cleaning Entertaining Hobbies / Interests Kids / Family Moneysaving Ideas Organizing Personal Care / Health Allergies Bath / Body Exercise First Aid Home Safety Nutrition Other Pets Real Estate Recipes Shopping Tips / Techniques Vacations / Travel Fruity Facial Masks Smart Solutions : Episode SSL-757 -- More Projects » When applying mixture, be careful to avoid lip and eye area. Use natural or synthetic bristle brushes to apply the masks. Turn old fruits into wonderful facial masks. Skin-care specialist Scott Starr recommends using these masks once a week. Exfoliating Mask Ingredients: 1 overripe tomato (combats dryness) 1 tsp. lemon juice (combats oiliness) 1 tsp. instant oatmeal (exfoliates) Preparation and Use: Place ingredients in blender and puree. Apply with brush or fingers. Leave on 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water. Overripe bananas and avocados make a nourishing, hydrating mask. Avocado Banana Mask Ingredients: 1 overripe banana, mashed (proteins) 1 overripe avocado, mashed (fatty acids) 2 Tbs. plain yogurt (not low-fat) (antibacterial) 1 tsp. olive oil Preparation and Use: Combine ingredients. Leave on 20 to 30 minutes. Rinse with warm water. Skin-Firming Citrus Mask Ingredients: 2 tsp. orange juice 1/2 tsp. honey (soothing) 1 tsp. grated orange rind (anti-bacterial) 1 tsp. white clay (available at health-food stores; absorbs dirt and oil; Egg whites can be substituted if clay is not available.) Preparation and Use: Combine ingredients and apply to face. Leave on until mask dries. Rinse with warm water. GUESTS: Scott Starr Skin-Care Expert, Biotherm Website: www.biotherm.com ALSO IN THIS EPISODE: Smart Solutions : Episode SSL-757 • Fruity Facial Masks • Indoor Herb Garden • Perfect Fried Chicken • Smart Solution of the Day Home | About Us | Newsletters | Questions | Advertising Site Map | Privacy | Legal DIY | Fine Living | Food Network | Shop At Home Great American Country | HGTVPro | Living | Video On Demand Comparison Shop for Home Gifts & Patio Furniture at Shopzilla © 2006 Scripps Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Slide show: Common skin rashes - MayoClinic.com Slide show: Common skin rashes PREVIOUS| NEXT 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 Not usually serious, but sometimes painful Your skin is surprisingly resistant to a wide variety of assaults, but it's still susceptible to various invaders. Viruses, parasites, fungi, heat and medications can all cause skin rashes and eruptions. Though not life-threatening, rashes are often bothersome, uncomfortable or even painful. Some, such as heat rash and swimmer's itch, clear up on their own. Others, including rosacea and drug rashes, require medical treatment. Here's a look at common skin rashes, their causes and when you might need to see your doctor. return to Hand-foot-and-mouth disease Dec 23, 2004 © 1998-2006 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved.  A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only. "Mayo," "Mayo Clinic," "MayoClinic.com," "Mayo Clinic Health Information," "Reliable information for a healthier life" and the triple-shield Mayo logo are trademarks of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.  SN00016 slideshow About this site · Site help · Contact us · e-Newsletter · Site map Privacy policy updated Oct 7, 2005 Terms and conditions of use updated Jun 3, 2004 LEGAL CONDITIONS AND TERMS OF USE APPLICABLE TO ALL USERS OF THIS SITE. ANY USE OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE. © 1998-2006 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. All rights reserved. Mayo Clinic Medical Services | MayoClinic.com Bookstore Diseases & Conditions Drugs & Supplements Treatment Decisions Healthy Living Ask a Specialist Health Tools Home Log in Register now SKIN Educational grant provided by: Eucerin Advertising and sponsorship policy Jan 26, 2006

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African Development Foundation | The ADF Approach | Focus on Guinea: A School for Development in Bady African Development Foundation A United States Government Agency About ADF Programs Where We Work Grant Applications Publications News Trade and Investment Enterprise Development Participatory Development HIV/AIDS Mitigation Where We Work ADF currently works in 15 African countries. Benin Botswana Cape Verde Ghana Guinea Mali Namibia Niger Nigeria Senegal Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Reports to Congress ADF's 2004 annual performance report is now available. DOWNLOAD>> Get ADF eNews Sign up to receive ADF e-news, a regular update on new ADF programs and projects that is delivered straight to your inbox. SUBMIT LOW BANDWIDTH HIGH BANDWIDTH Quick Links Download the ADF annual report .pdf ADF and AGOA ADF FAQ.pdf ADF e-news, Aug 05 ADF e-news, May 05 ADF Approach, Jan 05 ADF e-news, Dec 04 ADF e-news, Oct 04 ADF e-news, Aug 04 ADF e-news, Jul 04 ADF e-news, May 04 A school for development in bady How One Community's Experiment with Participatory Development Helped Shape a National Program for Rural Capacity Building Sociologists and discussion facilitators affiliated with ADF conduct discussion forums with separate groups of men and women in 1997, the pilot year of Guinea's Village Support Program. A New Approach to Rural Development in Guinea In the mid 1990s, the Government of Guinea approached the World Bank with a request for assistance in developing a new national program for rural development. Although 70 percent of Guinea’s population lived in rural areas, most of the country’s economic growth remained concentrated around the city of Conakry, and residents of thousands of outlying villages were living day-to-day without basic access to education, health care, clean water and other essential social and economic infrastructure. Guinea had taken steps to address this imbalance by launching a rural road rehabilitation project. The initiative had paid thousands of rural residents cash wages for manual labor on local road improvements, but it had produced very disappointing results. Rural communities had played virtually no part in project planning and had expressed different priorities for local development. As a result, when funding for road improvements stopped, local efforts to maintain the roads ceased as well. West Africa’s rainiest climate quickly reclaimed much of what had been done. Based on this experience, Guinean officials recognized the need for a new approach to rural capacity building - a strategy capable of mobilizing sustained local investment in projects that directly addressed the real and immediate needs of rural communities. A group of Bady women meets in 1997 to rank their priorities for social infrastructure development. The Village Support Program (PACV) The World Bank was thus invited to conduct a pilot program to design an effective model for Guinea’s new Village Support Program (PACV in French), and it was charged with: (1) finding new ways to engage local communities as direct participants in development; and (2) producing a framework for a new network of decentralized, self-governing village-level institutions that could be integrated into broader district-level and national-level development planning and implementation. To create an organizational foundation for the PACV, Guinea established 303 Rural Development Communities (CRDs in French) across its four major provinces. The World Bank then invited the African Development Foundation (ADF) and three other international organizations with participatory development experience to help it implement the PACV’s pilot phase and evaluate various strategies for generating demand-driven, community-led development. ADF agreed to finance projects in the CRDs of Bady, Baguinet, and Banguigny. The pilot-year phase of the PACV program was launched in 1997 and designed to provide officials of the Government of Guinea and The World Bank with an opportunity to: (1) compare several different models for implementing participatory development methods and (2) incorporate best practices and lessons learned from each of the four pilot projects into a model for a 12-year nationwide PACV implementation program. Through their partnership with ADF and CAD, Bady residents identified support for primary education as their most important priority. Local communities paid the salary of a teacher out of their own pockets to ensure that the first school year started on time. A School for Development in Bady ADF began its funding activities under the PACV in Bady, a rural area nestled in the valley lowlands of Guinea’s Maritime province that had derived little economic benefit from its close proximity to a major bauxite processing center in the city of Fria. The Foundation financed a group of local Guinean development experts to act as the implementing team in Bady. This group began its work by organizing general village assemblies across the CRD. They invited every segment of the community to take an active role in open conversations about the PACV and discuss ways that local villages could take part in the development process. These meetings ultimately led to the formation of village-level discussion groups that were divided up according to age, gender, and other social categories. The groups agreed to debate and prioritize their most pressing development needs and then send representatives to general village assemblies that would openly debate the recommendations of the smaller groups and determine an equitable set of community development priorities. The general village assemblies then elected delegations of representatives – usually two men and two women - to present their village’s development agenda to a district-wide meeting of village representatives from the CRD of Bady. Each of the four field operators participating in the PACV pilot program followed a different project-implementation methodology. Some placed little emphasis on community engagement and quickly implemented projects that expatriate development experts had recommended based on consultations with local community leaders. Other field operators took more time to engage local communities in participatory development exercises but then assumed all of the details related to project implementation and construction. Because it focused time and effort on creating broad-based decision-making forums, the ADF-financed project in Bady took time to get moving – indeed, much more time than either the Foundation or the World Bank expected. And as the pilot phase of the PACV program reached its first review period, the Bady project was clearly lagging behind the other three pilot projects in measurable results. While the others were reporting significant progress toward implementation, Bady residents were still negotiating with one another over details on how they would invest the US $100,000 that had been allotted to the CRD for the first year of the five-year project. The approach of the Guinean development experts who implemented the Bady project stood out from the others by virtue of its focus on ensuring direct community control of the project from start to finish. They recognized that Bady’s residents were the primary stakeholders in their own development and worked to integrate them into every facet of decision-making. At one end, the ADF-financed implementing team worked with local communities to develop socially representative planning committees that could effectively debate and prioritize local development needs. And at the other end, the team trained local residents in all the essentials of project management and financial management so that they could directly control the bidding, selection and payment of contractors; organize local materials and labor to reduce project costs; provide on-the-ground oversight of construction activities; and identify successes and failures along the way. This comprehensive approach to local capacity building necessarily took time, and the slow pace of implementation in Bady began to raise concerns among the World Bank’s program managers. Dick Day, ADF’s Coordinator of Program Operations, recalls that “there was a sense of frustration that the ADF team was taking too much time in getting its pilot going. Bank officials wanted to see for themselves whether real progress was being made. But what they heard and saw at their meetings in Bady definitely changed their minds.” World Bank officials, accompanied by a local government representative, inspected the work site where the construction of Bady’s first PACV project – a single-story primary school equipped with three classrooms and an outdoor lavatory system – had just started. They were visibly impressed with the quality of the construction and even more impressed that local residents were pitching in to contribute sand, stone and labor. The World Bank visitors were surprised, however, when they learned that ADF had placed a local residents’ committee in charge of controlling and disbursing all payments to the builder. This information raised questions of accountability and the potential for malfeasance. Yet concerns over the issue were quickly put to rest when local committee members produced a financial ledger and offered a detailed cost itemization of the building contract. Each purchase on a long list of acquisitions was accompanied by a receipt. Moreover, the committee had developed a rigorous system for monitoring the builder’s use of concrete. Committee members had stored all of the concrete for the school in a locked shed and were dispensing it to the contractor in carefully portioned daily allotments. Every evening they asked the contractor to return the bags he had emptied so that they could keep a running inventory of his usage. These details left a notable impression with World Bank officials, as did the dynamics of a mid-day discussion that Bank officials held with local CRD committee members, ADF-Washington staff, and a local member of Guinea’s parliament. As World Bank staff began asking specific questions about the Bady project, the member of parliament began answering on behalf of his constituents. He praised ADF for the work it was doing in Bady and thanked the Foundation for building a new school and health clinic. After a few minutes of silence, a representative of the village committee politely interrupted the discussion to offer some important clarifications. He noted that his village was indeed grateful for ADF’s support in financing the project. But he made clear that his community - not ADF - was implementing the project and achieving its goals. His community was building the school and the clinic. His community was contributing time and labor to the project. He also noted that local families had pooled their savings to hire a temporary teacher so that their children would not have to wait for a new school year for the government to assign instructors. As Dick Day remembers, “It was a moment that helped convince the Government of Guinea and the World Bank that something really special was happening in Bady. It brought to life the power of ADF’s unique participatory development methods. When the committee members spoke up, they spoke with commitment, knowledge and authority about every last detail of the project. They made it clear that this was their project. And they were proud of what they had achieved.” A New Model for Participatory Development The meeting helped transform the Bady pilot project into a development model worth replicating, and the seven-part participatory development methodology that ADF's Guinea team had created in close partnership with the people of Bady soon became an integral feature of the PACV program across Guinea and a guide for similar World Bank-funded development initiatives in Niger and Senegal. The model that the ADF team produced through their work with Bady residents emphasizes the central importance of community participation in conceiving, designing, implementing, and evaluating local investments in rural development. The ultimate goal of the model is to provide local communities with the knowledge and skills they need to manage their own development. The ADF Approach, January 2005: Focus on Guinea Introduction The ADF Approach in Guinea GO TO ARTICLE >> ADF's Approach to Participatory Development in Guinea What They Are Saying About ADF's Guinea Program GO TO ARTICLE >> A Grounded Approach to Rural Capacity Building GO TO ARTICLE >> A School for Development in Bady GO TO ARTICLE >> Seven Steps for Generating Effective Participatory Development GO TO ARTICLE >> A Bridge to Kédougou GO TO ARTICLE >> A Healthy Approach to Development GO TO ARTICLE >> ADF's Investment in Micro- and Small-Enterprise Development Helping Guinea's Small Entrepreneurs Invest in the Future GO TO ARTICLE >> The Mechanics of Small Business Development GO TO ARTICLE >> A Better Future Looms for Rural Weavers GO TO ARTICLE >> New Ground for Growth GO TO ARTICLE >> Profile: About CAD, ADF's Guinea Partner Organization A Partner for Development in Guinea: CAD GO TO ARTICLE >> Facts on Guinea Facts on Guinea GO TO ARTICLE >> ©2005 African Development Foundation 1400 I Street NW, 10th Floor | Washington. 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