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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) So much attention has been focused on Milwaukee's pitching staff lately that it's been easy to overlook the Brewers' offense. Not anymore.
GAME REPORT:Brewers 8, Giants 5
Prince Fielder homered for the second straight day, Ryan Braun had three hits and Rickie Weeks added a two-run double to cap a four-run sixth inning to help Milwaukee remain unbeaten against the San Francisco Giants this season with an 8-5 win on Saturday.
"We have a young offensive team and we're at times not as disciplined as maybe we will be in the future, but they can really swing the bat," Brewers manager Ned Yost said. "I like to call this a quick strike offense. We can hit three-run homers with the best of 'em. Our kids are very, very talented offensively."
Milwaukee acquired left-handed starter CC Sabathia just before the All-Star break to pair with Ben Sheets as the anchors of the team's starting rotation. The move put the previously struggling Brewers into the spotlight and spurred NL Central-leading Chicago to trade for Rich Harden.
The Brewers apparently aren't through trying to upgrade their pitching, either.
A Milwaukee newspaper reported Friday that the Brewers had dispatched a special assistant to New York to watch Oakland closer Huston Street pitching against the Yankees. A radio station took it a step further, saying a trade had been completed Saturday, though a team spokesman denied the report.
Nevertheless, if the Brewers intend to make a run at Cubs in the NL Central they're going to have to continue flexing their offensive muscle.
Milwaukee trailed 4-2 in the sixth before scoring four times to break the game open. One run scored on a wild pitch and another came home on an error by Giants catcher Bengie Molina - both on the same play. Weeks then doubled to left-center to drive in two more and give the Brewers a 6-4 lead.
"To have a lead like that and not hold it, no question that is frustrating," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "It is what separates good teams from mediocre clubs. Games like this, you have to find a way to win."
Fielder added his 20th home run of the year off San Francisco reliever Osiris Matos (0-2) in the seventh, a towering shot that easily cleared the stands in right field and landed in McCovey Cove. It marked the 15th consecutive game in which the Brewers have homered, tying the third-longest streak in franchise history. The club record is 19, set in 1996.
It was also the 100th home run of Fielder's career and his first-ever to reach McCovey Cove, a spot where Barry Bonds splashed many of his home runs on the way to the career home run title.
"It's cool just because that's Barry's thing, that's his water," said Fielder, who also had an RBI single in the ninth. "I grew up watching him, I know him pretty good, and to be able to do something that not too many people have done, it's just pretty cool."
Braun missed hitting for the cycle by a home run for Milwaukee, which had had nine extra-base hits while winning its third straight.
Carlos Villanueva (4-5), the second of four relievers the Brewers used, pitched 1 1-3 scoreless innings to get the win. Salomon Torres pitched the ninth for his 16th save in 19 opportunities.
Sheets, who started and threw two scoreless innings for the American League in Tuesday's All-Star game, labored throughout the game and had problems with his command.
Sheets gave up nine hits and four runs - two earned - over five innings before turning the game over to Milwaukee's bullpen. The veteran righty, pitching on three days rest for the first time this season, also had an RBI-double as Milwaukee improved to 5-0 against San Francisco this season.
Omar Vizquel had two hits for the Giants but, typical of San Francisco's season this year, had to leave the game in the sixth after fouling a ball off his left ankle.
Vizquel entered the game with a .156 average and was 6-for-64 over a 21-game stretch before doubling and singling off Sheets. The veteran shortstop also drove in a run and scored for the Giants, who lost for the ninth time in 11 games.
San Francisco right-hander Jonathan Sanchez struck out eight in 5 1-3 innings but remained winless in his last three starts.
Notes:San Francisco reliever Keiichi Yabu hit the first batter he faced for the second straight game. ... Giants' RHP Tim Lincecum (11-2), who did not pitch in the All-Star game after coming down with an illness, will start for San Francisco on Sunday. LHP Manny Parra (8-2) will throw for the Brewers. ... Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry and Vida Blue were among 53 former Giants pitchers and catchers honored during pregame festivities as part of the team's 50th anniversary celebration. Ex-managers Roger Craig and Alvin Dark were also honored.
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Chevy Grand-Am At Mid Ohio: Chevrolet Corvette Grabs Top-Two Spots On The Podium At Mid-Ohio
Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi teamed to win the Diamond Cellar Classic on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette Daytona Protype (DP), giving the team its first victory of the season. The victory is Barbosaâs 11th career GRAND-AM series win and Fittipaldiâs third.
Close behind in second place, giving Team Chevy the top-two positions on the podium, was defending race winner Michael Valiante in the No. 3 8Star Motorsports Corvette DP started by Enzo Potolicchio.
"After an intense battle throughout the race, it was exciting to see the No. 5 Action Express Corvette DP capture their first win of the season, and the No. 3 8Star Motorsports Corvette DP score their first podium since joining Team Chevy," said Jim Lutz, Chevrolet Racing Program Manager, GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series. "Mid-Ohio is very technical, but our teams were up to the challenge today and added another win to boost Chevrolet's lead in the important Manufacturers' Championship battle. Congratulations to both organizations on their tremendous runs today. Now we head to Watkins Glen for the Six Hour Endurance race."
Max Angelelli and Jordan Taylor finished sixth in the No. 10 Velocity Worldwide Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP, managed to retain a one-point lead over Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP, who finished fifth. Action Express Racingâs No. 5 Corvette DP piloted by Brian and Burt Frisselle ended the day in seventh followed by the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP driven by Richard Westbrook and Ricky Taylor in ninth, to give the Bowtie Brigade six of the top-10 finishing positions.
In the Grand Touring (GT) class, Eric Curran driver the No. 31 Marsh Racing Corvette, passed the leader in the closing minutes. However, unavoidable contact was made resulting in a penalty which relegated Curran and co-driver Boris Said to a fourth-place finish. John Edwards and Robin Liddell brought the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Camaro GT.R to the finish in 10th place.
The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge pair of Matt Bell and John Edwards carried the banner for Team Chevy, bringing home a strong third-place podium finish in their No. 9 Stevenson Motorsports Camaro GS.R to round out the weekend.
Next on the GRAND-AM schedule will be June 28-30 at Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New York featuring both the Rolex Sports Car Series and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.
POST RACE DRIVER QUOTES: JOAO BARBOSA, NO. 9 ACTION EXPRESS RACING CORVETTE DAYTONA PROTOTYPE: WITH ABOUT 35 MINUTES TO GO YOU AND RICHARD WESTBROOK WERE HAVING A GREAT BATTLE. YOU WERE SO PATIENT BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE EVERY TIME YOU MADE A MOVE HE WOULD SHUT THE DOOR. WAS IT DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO USE THAT PATIENCE AND NOT JUST MOVE HIM OUT OF THE WAY? "Obviously GRAND-AM has always been like this really tight competition and really intense. Just I knew I was faster I just had to be careful with the guys that were behind me so I wouldnât get caught off guard. I was able to manage traffic really well during the whole race. I was able to get the move for the lead. Westbrook made it really difficult, but it was hard, clean racing. Iâm really proud the way he drove and I just hope we can continue racing like this in GRAND-AM. It should be awesome to see in the next future races."
CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI, NO. 9 ACTION EXPRESS RACING CORVETTE DAYTONA PROTOTYPE: HOW GOOD WAS THIS RACE CAR TODAY? "Well it was definitely good, but it was good the whole weekend actually. It didnât turn out to be good only during the race. We knew we had a strong car in the race. We qualified pretty decent. We were in the top-three. We thought we had a shot at the pole, but unfortunately it didnât go that way. The race it all connected. As you mention I had a very strong first sting. Joao (Barbosa) just kept it on from there. He did an awesome job and he drove unbelievably well. That is it. We ended up P1. The team really did a great job. The Corvette was awesome the whole day."
ITâS BEEN AWHILE SINCE YOUâVE BEEN TO VICTORY LANE HERE IN THE ROLEX GRAND-AM SERIES IS IT AS SWEET AS IT ALWAYS WAS? "Victory Lane is always sweet it doesnât matter where you are racing, how much time you have been out of Victory Lane. Victory Lane is always Victory Lane."
MICHAEL VALIANTE, NO. 3 8 STAR MOTORSPORTS CORVETTE DAYTONA PROTOTYPE: WE KNEW YOU GUYS HAD A TON OF SPEED IN YOU. WE SAW IT IN DETROIT IN THIS CAR, BUT I GUESS WE ARE A LITTLE SURPRISED THAT YOU WERE AS DOMINANT AS YOU WERE TODAY. HOW GOOD WAS THIS RACE CAR THIS AFTERNOON? "Well first off I have to thank the team. Itâs a brand-new car. Enzo (Potolicchio) has done a great job putting this whole program together. Itâs just getting better and better each race. We have so much to learn. We hit it just right in the race. Enzo did a great job in his first stint. For me I was able to get a good jump on that middle stint and pull away from the field. We lost a little bit of time on that last stop not sure why and kind of shuffled us back, but we had the pace to win today. I think second right now is like winning for this team because we have been pushing so hard to get on the podium."
ENZO POTOLICCHIO, NO. 3 8 STAR MOTORSPORTS CORVETTE DAYTONA PROTOTYPE: YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH WITH THIS CAR. IN FACT YOU GOT OUT OF THE RACE CAR AND LET SOME OTHER PEOPLE GET IN, GET THE PROGRAM GOING. YOU WERE WORKING ON A TWO CAR TEAM AND THEN THE CAR GOT WRECKED AT DETROIT YOU HAD TO USE THIS BRAND-NEW CAR THIS WEEK. ITâS BEEN A STRESSFUL TIME FOR YOU AS AN OWNER HOW SWEET IS IT TO BE ON THE PODIUM HERE AT MID-OHIO? "Itâs unbelievable what the team did in six days after the big crash we had in Detroit. We hired the right guy (Michael) Valiante for the team. We knew he is quality and the engineer loves him. The feedback is excellent. So we knew he was going to do well here. The car, itâs just a team effort. Itâs unbelievable what these guys are doing. We are a new team. We were born in November last year. We promised we were going to be a contender by the end of the season and here we are. This is a show of what these people can do and itâs just a team effort all around. Itâs unbelievable. I have to thank Valiante for his podium. It gives everybody more will to go forward and keep on pushing because we want to be one of the top teams and today we showed that we can be one of those."
ERIC CURRAN, NO. 31 MARSH RACING CORVETTE GT: TALK ABOUT THE CONTACT AT THE END OF THE RACE: "Yeah, it was pretty wild. Itâs great running with Billy (Auberlen) he does a good job. The Turner guys, Will Turner is a good friend of mine, all those guys are great friends. Itâs awesome to battle with those guys. It was just good hard racing and I was better in some place with this Whelen/Team Fox Corvette, but he was better in others. I thought it was all done after those two DPâs (Daytona Prototypes) hit each other in the key hole and I had nowhere to go but to touch the back of them and tore up the nose a little bit. This Whelen/Team Fox Corvette was just awesome all the way through. I love racing hard and I love racing with Billy he is a clean guy. It was my bad for getting into him and spinning him. That is not the way I want to win a race. Feel bad about that, but real happy for Marsh Racing and Teddy (Marsh) and all the guys. That was a good run. I wish it ended a little bit differently. Just happy to be up on the podium, too bad about the penalty."
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A lung nodule is a symptom in which a person has a chest x-ray or CT scan that shows a small lump (nodule) in a lung. A lung nodule can be cancerous or non-cancerous. If cancerous, it can be a lung cancer or can be a metastatic cancer that spread from another ...Read more
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There are apparently two chipsets on this accelerator blade and two ConnectX adapters, but only two processor sockets, which support up to the 2.93 GHz X5570 Nehalem EP chips. (The extra chipsets provide extra I/O, which keeps the GPUs well fed with data.) The accelerator blade has room for one SATA or SSD disk on the blade, and has two Gigabit Ethernet ports. The GPUs and the Mellanox cards plug into PCI-Express 2.0 adapter slots.
The bullx chassis and the Xeon 5500 compute blades are available now, but the accelerator blades will not ship until November. Pricing was not announced for the bullx machines. A CPU-only configuration delivers 1.69 teraflops of number-crunching power per chassis and a 42U rack with 108 blades will peak out at around 10 teraflops. So, ten racks of these puppies and you are at 1 petaflops, and that is without resorting to GPUs.
The Tesla M1060 GPUs are the same ones that motherboard and whitebox server maker Super Micro just crammed into its own HPC server nodes, which are rack-style boxes, not blades. The M1060 GPU cards were announced at the beginning of June, and they have 240 cores clocking at 1.3 GHz, plus 4 GB of its own GDDR3 memory; each GPU is rated at 933 gigaflops on single-precision floating point calculations, but only 78 gigaflops on double-precision math.
The lack of performance on double-precision math limits the appeal of the CPU-GPU hybrid, but nVidia is supposedly working on a new packaging for the GPUs due early next year (and I am guessing to plug into normal processor sockets) that will also sport something close to parity between single-precision and double-precision math. When and if that happens, expect CPU-GPU hybrids to take off like mad.
Bull is supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 plus its own bullx Cluster Suite on the bullx HPC clusters, and is also supporting Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008. Given the popularity of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in Europe, and especially among HPC shops, it seems odd that SLES 10 SP2 or SLES 11 are not yet supported.
According to a report in HPCwire, the CEA and the University of Cologne in Germany are the first two customers for the bullx boxes. The University of Cardiff, which currently buys Bull boxes, was trotted out as part of the bullx announcements to say that it will keep the bullx boxes in its thoughts as it plans to upgrade its current "Merlin" Xeon-based cluster, which is rated at 20 teraflops and which was installed last June. ®


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Malt chocolate cheesecake
Prep: 45 mins Cook: 10 mins Plus 5 hrs chilling
This crowd-pleasing dessert is made ahead, so all you have to do on the night is take it out of the fridge and bask in the glory
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal782
- fat60g
- saturates33g
- carbs53g
- sugars46g
- fibre1g
- protein9g
- salt1.01g
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- 200g malted milk biscuit, crushed to crumbs
- 100g salted butter, melted
- 5 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 x 300g tubs full fat soft cheese (we used Philadelphia; if you use soft or cream cheese from a deli counter the cheesecake might not set)
- 300ml pot double cream
- 300g white chocolate, melted
- 200g bar milk chocolate, melted
- 2 tbsp malt or Horlicks powder
- 37g bag white Maltesers
Line base and sides of a deep, 22-23cm loose-bottomed round tin with baking parchment. Mix the biscuits, melted butter and 2 tbsp of the sugar, then press into base. Chill while you make the filling.
Divide cream cheese and cream evenly between 2 bowls. Add the white chocolate to one, and the milk chocolate, malt and remaining 3 tbsp sugar to the other. Beat each with an electric whisk until smooth.
Spread the milk chocolate mixture evenly in the tin. Wipe round the edge to give a smooth edge. Spoon the white chocolate mix over the top and gently smooth. Decorate with Maltesers and chill for at least 5 hrs until firm.
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15th Aug, 2015
I made 9 individual rectangular one's for a change to one big one. I decided to leave out the sugar after reading the other reviews. I was so right to follow their advice, this really does not need any sugar adding. I did halve all quantities just in case we didn't like it. I decided to add the Horlicks (after all, it is supposed to be a malt cheesecake). This added a really good flavour. The sweetness, we felt, was just perfect, it was not at all over sickly but, I think that was because I made the smaller individual one's. I crushed malteasers over the tops of each one. Everyone absolutely loved them, I will be making these again. I did not halve the quantities of the biscuit base & it worked perfectly Just a tip, I left this to set over night & it set perfectly.
11th May, 2015
Oh so disappointed! I thought this would be wonderful because of all the 5-star ratings but I should have used my head! The best cheesecakes are the simple ones - don't mess around with a winner! This was sooooo sweet, we actually couldn't eat it all, even over three days! And of course there isn't the saltiness of digestives that one normally gets in a biscuit base, it was all just sweet sweet sweet. Look at the quantity of white chocolate in the top layer! Nope, can't recommend this at all. Big mistake.
19th Feb, 2015
I used the 3% fat Philadelphia cream cheese, which set perfectly. I'm assuming that this will have a considerable impact on the calorie content. Rather than add malt to the milk chocolate layer I used the Malteser teaser chocolate. I also took the advice of others and didn't add any of the sugar, it's definitely sweet enough. Was really pleased with this cheesecake so much so that I'm making it again this weekend.
18th Jan, 2015
This has become my go-to dessert whenever I'm stuck - it's quick, easy to make and delicious, always goes down a treat and looks so effective. I've made individual ones in silicone moulds, which also look great, and I often decorate with raspberries or blueberries instead of maltesers.
19th Nov, 2014
I've just made this for the second time.... best cheesecake I've ever made! (not that I've made that many...) But I change quite a lot of things! Firstly, I use hobnobs in the base. Secondly, I use 200g white chocolate plus 100g smooth peanut butter in the white layer- it therefore becomes a chocolate/peanut butter cheesecake! And THEN I put a thin layer of bananas between the white and dark layers! AND this time I put 100g dark chocolate and 100g milk chocolate in the dark mix as I felt last time it was a bit sickly. All in all, amazing! VERY rich and filling though, most normal people can only tolerate a very small slice.... I am not normal when it comes to chocolate cheesecake so I had a big slice!
15th Oct, 2014
My new favourite cheesecake! I've made it a few times now with some minor alterations: I tend not to bother with the sugar and reduce the quantities of butter and cream to 85g and 150/200ml respectively, just to make it marginally less evil - I increase the milk chocolate to 250g though, because what the heck... Delicious!


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On 6/3/05, Chris Van Vorous <m0unds at speakeasy dot net> wrote:
> Hi everyone, this is my first post.
> I've read through lots of questions regarding PPTP/VPN functionality
> withing m0n0wall, but I couldn't really find a concrete answer to my
> particular problem.
> 1. Remote connections to my external IP, requesting a PPTP session
> fail with Microsoft Windows error 619
> 2. Connections on the LAN work just fine (so do connections from my
> wlan)
> I've setup a NAT Forwarding rule to take traffic to TCP port 1723 (PPTP)
> and send it to one interface address of the m0n0wall (192.168.1.5 in this
> instance). I set up a matching firewall rule to permit traffic across that
> NAT link. After seeing my firewall log (as I have pasted), I also tried to
> forward GRE traffic to see if it would matter. I've also run a full-on
> forward firewall rule: WAN, any port, any protocol, etc with no result.
If m0n0wall isn't behind another firewall, you don't need any NAT
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to a different interface than the GRE traffic. Remove all the NAT and
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ACA In Wisconsin: Impact On Providers
Here and Now takes a look at the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on providers.
Episode Transcript
Frederica Freyberg:
One concern with the Affordable Care Act, how much of a strain will it put on the already understaffed healthcare industry? The US Department of Health and Human Services just announced $55 million in grants to increase training for nurses, dentists, and preventive medicine doctors. Some say mandated insurance coverage under the law will create a tsunami of new patients. It seems fair to say that remains to be seen.
Hello, how are you today?
Good, how are you?
Good, nice to see you.
Frederica Freyberg:
A lot of ink has gone to how patients might fare under the Affordable Care Act, but what about providers?
Melissa Stiles:
I think for physicians in general, there are so many unknowns about it.
Frederica Freyberg:
Family practice doctor Melissa Stiles says the new law could stretch physicians thin.
Melissa Stiles:
For primary care, you know, you're probably going to see an influx of patients. So the concern will be, are there going to be enough primary care providers to deal with the influx of patients. The unknown is how many people are going to sign up. So it's this equation is yet to be played out.
Frederica Freyberg:
The equation has yet to be played out in part.
It always gives me this, "your account couldn't be created at this time."
Frederica Freyberg:
Because of enrollment problems with the healthcare marketplace website healthcare.gov. Just how many people will be getting new insurance and new healthcare is in flux.
Robin Vos:
Which is why we are giving an additional three months for anybody in Wisconsin who is going to transition off of BadgerCare into the private exchanges, to get that done.
Frederica Freyberg:
Even more so, because due to delays and new legislation, patients moving off the state's BadgerCare plan, for example, won't have to seek insurance through the healthcare marketplace until April instead of the original January start date.
Michael Richards:
The goal is to get as many of the folks who are losing BadgerCare onto the marketplace.
Frederica Freyberg:
The point person on the Affordable Care Act at Gundersen Health in La Crosse is Michael Richards. What's your expectation for the influx of newly-enrolled people coming into Gundersen?
Michael Richards:
Because of the marketplace, that remains to be seen at this point. There's been a lot of glitches in the system. But we understand that those people that will need to get insurance probably have already come here, or have been in the area before, whether they've gone to the emergency room or waited too long and needed some other specialty care. So we hope that more people will get insured through the marketplace.
Frederica Freyberg:
Because Richards says if patients have insurance, they'll come through Gundersen's doors differently. Instead of using the emergency room as their primary care physician, they'll be able to come in the front door and get preventive care, stemming off more expensive care. Gundersen is not just a medical provider. It's also an insurer, with plans in the marketplace. It had to prove to the federal government that it could handle any influx of patients.
Kathleen Falk:
For the qualified healthcare plans to be approved and in the marketplace, there needed to be a demonstration of capacity. In Wisconsin, you know, we are blessed with a fabulous medical community of providers, and we have seen now through the marketplace that they were eager to respond to this new market and have made their plans available.
Frederica Freyberg:
As for that community of providers, we wondered about the most essential question, how will the healthcare law affect how doctors are able to care for their patients?
Melissa Stiles:
I don't myself see a lot of changes. I know there have been concerns among physicians about increasing bureaucracy, but we already deal with that. This doesn't really change the underlying structure of how we deliver healthcare.
Frederica Freyberg:
Dr. Stiles says she does have concerns about the Affordable Care Act, including the fact that it won't cover everyone. There will still be uninsured, and whether it will actually reduce healthcare costs.


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Pronunciation: min-ê-tor-ee • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Menacing, threatening, ominous.
Notes: The Latin verb that lies behind minatory also produced several other variations with essentially the same meaning, including minacious and its noun minacity, minatorial, and menacing itself from the verb menace. All mean approximately the same thing. Minatorily, with the I replacing Y, works as an adverb.
In Play: In its most literal sense, today's Good Word refers to threats that project over or into something: "The minatory clouds hanging over the horizon were the only blemish on an otherwise perfect day in the country." Today, however, the meaning has long since diffused from its literal sense: "Dad was very polite but the minatory smile on his face made it clear he wanted the garage cleaned in the very near future." You may also use this adjective as a noun indicating a threat of some kind: "The boss sent his minatories to the plant floor to make sure everyone was hard at work."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from minatoire, the Middle French version of Latin minatorius, an adjective from the verb minari "to threaten". This word comes from a Proto-Indo-European root mon-/men- "to jut out, project". This root is usually found in words referring to parts of the body that jut out, such as Latin mentum "chin" and German Mund "mouth"; in fact, the same root underlies mouth, which lost the N somewhere along the way to Modern English. The O-variant underlies Latin mon(t)s "mountain" which English borrowed from Latin's descendant, French, as mount and mountain. Did you know that amount is related to mountain? It started out as Latin ad montem "to the hill" which Old French converted to amont "uphill, upward". English borrowed this word for its noun amount. (We owe a mountain of gratitude to Lew Jury for suggesting today's unusual word.)
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Meditation .. Is it really possible for an ADHD???Posted by Bobby_pk to ADHD Adults on Jul 13, 2014 at 3:50pm | 16 Comments
I tried GYM and Vitamins it really works provided you keep up with the routine ...But meditation ??? are you serious ? Do you really think an ADHD can ever be able to do meditation , Concentration & ability to calm brain are the basic essentials for meditation
For me it sounds like you are asking a one legged person to try Running for good health….
When I was heavily into martial arts, and I mean training to exhaustion multiple times per week, I was able to meditate quite comfortably. That was a long time ago though and with my current tinnitus I can't meditate to save my life I miss it.
And not to criticize your choice of analogies, but Jeff Keith ran across the US on one leg after he graduated from Boston College. He lost the other to cancer but it didn't stop him from playing net for the BC LAX team. Funny as hell when he took a shot in the prosthetic leg and the ball would rebound halfway up the field. The resounding 'thok' would make spectators who didn't know him cringe.
@ADDedValue62 The way you meditated certain drugs can also be used to calm down brain Again drugs come into scene, I started meditation a while back, did it for a month with no outcome, then one day my friend gave me Valium with alcohol and I was able to experience the initial stage of meditation the colors the sounds the peace within I was concious for some time before I went to deep sleep ..... I never did it again ......
Jeff Keith is an exceptional case how many one legged people could be able to achive that, Such exceptional cases exist in every sphere of life but I think they shouldn't be taken as an example
try these tips for meditation http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14465/5-tricks-for-people-whove-tried-everything-but-still-cant-meditate.html
Yes, and it can be extreme helpful for quieting the "mental gerbils" and improving clarity!
I was a total skeptic myself, because I could never figure out how to do it in my own, but I run a local ADD support group, and I had a local mindfulness meditation expert present at a meeting a few years back. He started with a guided meditation, and had my mind clear and centered in minutes. I was amazed! He showed us simple techniques to do on our own, and I've been a believer ever since. I suggest my clients explore it as well. His website is:
http://meditationscience.weebly.com, and he has some good resources on there.
Good luck!
Lynne Edris, ACG
Life & ADHD Coach
It was very difficult in the beginning, but it really helped me in many areas of my life. Being able to stay focused in my work despite of the noise around me was a very direct benefit for my ADHD.
Staying focused for meditation is a bit like watching TV. Watching TV is something that many ADD and ADHD people can stay focused on for some reason. I would say if the meditation included visualization, like a TV show, it would make it easier, but in my case, the best method I know, and the most difficult, was thought to me by a Thailand Buddhist monk who just kept us walking in silence for 30 minutes and then sitting in silence for another 30 minutes. The walk made me fall into some type of trance, and then the sitting was easier.
I was going to suggest moving meditation but najn beat me to it and Addedvalue62's comments on karate are in the same theme.
For me practicing karate katas, forms or free moving moves to music are ways to calm the monkey mind chattering. Yoga much the same. That helps expend some energy, make me more aware of my body and then I can let go into mindful breathing and eventually slip away into an non sleep state where my inner chatter and visuals are gone.
Perhaps even more than this sort of meditation I find activities that demand a lot of attention plus movement end up giving me a feeling later of calm alertness. Karate, yoga, hiking, and in the past 3 years I've taken up hand drumming. Once I developed enough motor skill to move beyond a drum circle where my early goofs were not that glaring in the din of many drummers, I started to join some local music jam session. I play the Irish bodhran which has a 2+ octave range and I can add some harmony as well as rhythm. So I could replace the function of an upright bass without having anything that big to tote around. The balance of attention needed to listen to others as well as my own playing helps me go into a state some call flow or the zone. I'm using all the stuff I normally would have left to chatter or drift about with. At the end, there is a blissful fatigue that leaves me quiet and refreshed.
On a similar note, I've trained dogs for years. High drive dogs like those used for protection work, herding, terriers, need exercise and mental stimulation at a high enough level to work off that mental energy or they will go crazy and take you with. Rather like ADHD. Can hyperfocus or be highly distractible until the right training, lifestyle with appropriate exercise and mix of active training with fetch, jumping, heeling as well as hold still and be patient with sit or down stays even when exciting stuff is going on around.
Too much very high energy work like fetch without the downtime can make them into adrenaline junkies. Pretty much like a lot of AD/HD'ers
Simply holding still and ignoring exciting things going on takes mental energy and can be tiring. And once past that initial stage, the mind can start to relax in the midst of bedlam and pick out what you might need to notice.
Try a number of things that require moving and not moving. It can be easier to get there from here if we don't try to do it the way most people do.
For those of us who find "traditional" types of meditation to be about as elusive as finding a needle in a haystack, simply taking up a musical instrument serves the exact same purpose. It does take a certain amount of accomplishment before you're able to reap the full benefit, but so does wrestling with that elusive "meditative state."
For me, playing the piano is the equivalent "nirvana" as meditation…if not more so, because it is a "productive" activity. When I'm "in the groove" everything else in the universe ceases to exist. And looking back over 45+ years, the only times I've been able to achieve anything like "traditional meditation" have been the times when I've also been playing the piano daily (or close to daily).
One would think ADHD would make meditation impossible, but many ADHDers swear by it. I think it's essential to start slow, and give yourself incremental goals—don't expect to sit down the first time and quiet your mind. Start with mindfulness and work from there.
There are several articles that offer strategies on practicing mindfulness and meditation with ADHD:
Lidia Zylowska has studied ADHD and mindfulness and offered a mindfulness how-to for individuals with ADHD in this ADDitudeMag.com webinar too: http://www.additudemag.com/RCLP/sub/10657.html
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I've found any repetive activity (yoga, loom knitting[!], walking, etc) to sometimes set me into a trance state.
There's also visualization. I bought a DVD called Meditation for Beginners by Maritza. You can find it on Amazon. She's excellent at taking you into the state first by practicing a short yoga routine that takes the practice back to its original intent, which was to help take the mind into a meditative state through movement.
If you check podcasts, there are also meditation podcasts, several of them by different people. Listen to them—one voice might appeal to you. Meditation doesn't have to last for an hour. It can last for ten minutes.
Good luck to you.
As some previous posts commented, I have found that repetitive actions calm my thoughts and help me relax my brain and privide clarity. Walking, painting, cleaning…
I gave up on meditation…too frustrating!
I wish the forum had a "LIKE" button.
It's so easy to get hung up on the *what" and *how* instead of the goal, which is a quieter, more relaxed state of mind.
I'd also suggest looking into Zen studies. The koans linked to Zen were also designed to help the mind focus inward (pretty sure).
What I tell both of my kids when they can't relax enough to get to sleep is not to breath from the top of their lungs, but slowly and deeply. How you breath literally does affect the rest of the body. Shallow rapid breathing activates the panic/flight mechanism. Focus on your breath. How do you do that? Move your mind inward to your physical body, feel how your chest expands, which muscles are being used, how the rest of your chest feels, etc. Go as deep as you want or can.
If you notice a muscle or group of muscles are distracting you, tense that muscle up for a little bit, then let it go. Focus on your body. It keeps your mind focus away from those distracting thoughts. And it has the benefit of relaxing those muscles. :-D
A similar technique is to choose a comfortable position. In that position, start tracing the outline of your body with your mind. Go slowly, don't skip or generalize the outline. If it's too much to handle at first, start with a hand. (if you've read Dune by Frank Herbert, he uses this as a basis for his far future's extreme body control by the mind!
Also, it might help *before* trying to meditate and clear your head, to grab a pen or pencil & paper and write down or scribble what's on your mind—the worries, the thoughts, etc. Try not using a computer or keyboard; you have limited gestures and movements related to typing, and you can't feel the more direct mind-writing connection that way. This helped me daughter immensely when she needed to quiet her head down enough to relax.
*sigh* Sorry about the novel, folks. :-[] I'm not an expert at all, these are just the techniques that have worked for me and my kids.
Some variation of breath-counting meditation is the most common and ancient methods of focusing awareness. But counting is usually an insufficient anchor of focus for ADHDers.
I would highly recommend a new acoustic device that amplifies the sound of your breathing which makes it very much easier to stay focused and relaxed for the 5- to 15-minute session. It's called the ZenFocusMaster.com. Costs about $15 or $20.
I also use it before any stressful situation like taking a test or playing tennis, etc.
Best wishes
I completely get how you feel!!!!!! I have had the same thought. I've tried meditation before and was useless at it. There is one that was recommended to me for sleep before I was diagnosed, where you go through and tense/relax muscles from top to bottom, slowly. I NEVER made it past my knees.
I find the amount of concentration it takes to meditate generally using methods like specific thinking/mantras etc. negates the value. So I have my own things that help me and kind of *are* meditating, without calling it that or ever realising.
One is to listen to music that moves me emotionally, and really listen to each song. Listen to the piano part, or really hear each word etc. It doesn't matter what I focus on and I can change it around as much as I like, but music (loud, often eyes shut with headphones in bed) is a good one for me.
I think too, if you can be still (or with something to fidget with) and just 'watch' your thoughts like you're watching TV - that is meditation too. It's not about having none, but just letting them come and go without grabbing them and following them up consciously. Just relax and let your mind wander. That we can be really good at - it's about doing that and letting it be 100% OK to spend 5/10/15/20 minutes just sitting there mentally wandering - which it usually isn't.
We can be quite good with being objective within ourselves too, but if you are a self-judger and find it hard to allow the thoughts to happen without judging yourself, do it as a thought without feeling it if you can - *think* that's crappy, and move on to the next thought - no lingering allowed.
I assign my self-judgment to what I describe as a 'second me' in my head. When I imagine her, she's sitting in a director's chair, and she usually uses dry and sarcastic one-liners when judging - it lightens the emotion of the judgment. I often find myself laughing at how judgy I can actually be on myself - so much so when I first had this image of it come up as an analogy for someone, I laughed so hard that I could barely explain it. I kept thinking how it sounded like I had multiple personality disorder!
Anyway the key is finding either a meditiation or something similar that does the same thing, I think. There will be something, you just have to look
gym, karate, yoga they worked for me sometimes because they exhausted me so much that I didn't have energy to think about anything. The more tired I was the more focus I got. There are few points: it is difficult to force myself to do anything, when I'm doing things I'm usually very distracted and this is complete fail in meditation and yoga. I'm new here and this post spot my attention, because it sounds so familiar.
Thanks for all the great comments, So it is concluded its difficult but one has to keep practicing giving up is no option for ADHD ...........
@aylaah I forgot to mention music really work for me to calm my brain
Many adults with ADHD (and without) find that practicing for shorter periods of time with guided support is very beneficial for developing a mindfulness practice. In that vein many adults have used my mindfulness CDs Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness of Young Children, and Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for Teens with great benefit. They feel the practices are short and potent and develop true mindfulness.
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Recommend me a cheap but good quality camera for taking pictures of paintings. I'm not looking for anything too pricey, I'm kind of on a budget.
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Posted by: Dan Carmichael on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
What is that budget?
I also have this question Dan. Have nikon AF lenses but no digital body (35mm is F4).
What body would you recommend for the following budgets: $1000, 2000, 3000
On an ongoing basis or just a single batch of works?
If the latter, you might look into renting a better rig than you could afford to buy. (Bonus: you wouldn't be locked into 2013 tech until you can afford an upgrade.)
Alternately, you could buy an affordable camera for initial shots (and other uses) and periodically rent a high-quality rig to upgrade your shots en masse.
Just a thought.
Also, depending on the size and medium of your paintings, you may well get much better results from a relatively (to a camera that would give the same results) inexpensive flatbed scanner.
Update: Just took a peek at your gallery. Those pencil drawings could definitely be scanned, and would come out much better, with the paper texture and tack-sharp lines. (Scanners these days could probably bring out the larger grains of graphite and fibers in the paper.)
Posted by: Judy Kay on 4 Years Ago
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This camera got a rave review from cnet : priced from $439.00 - 539.00 http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fz200/4505-6501_7-35374662.html
Posted by: Margaret Saheed on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
I photograph my small paintings, and take all my other photographs with a Panasonic Lumix (an earlier model to the one Judy mentions above - DMC FZ40) and get excellent results.
Would you guys take a peek at my gallery and tell me if scanning would be better? These were taken with a nikon d800e I believe. I range in brush technique so much (totally smooth to heavy knife/fine detail - often paint with toothpicks), work in oils, glazing... you name it. If it causes an issue I've got it going. Thanks.
Posted by: Joseph Baril on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Gopro cameras.
Definitely an Epson Flatbed scanner is by far the best for paintings... easier and more accurate for artwork. I was just given an older one... 48bit... which is awesome for picking up accurate colour and the depth of the layers... and they are not expensive! If anyone wants to know the process that I do .... I would be happy to reprint the (long) tutorial that I put on Painterly Fine Art discussion.
Yes Catherine please reprint it. Also what model # of scanner is that Epson that you use, I'm very interested.
Thank you to everybody for your recommendations, a lot of great info!
Okay... the following may sound complicated but it really isn't once you have done it a few times.. and a scanned image will always be better than a photo of the artwork. I scan directly into Photoshop 7 and am using their photostitch program but am hoping to buy the Epson stitching software, which will make the process almost foolproof. Any flatbed scanner will do the job, even a small 8 1/2 X 11 one.. but the larger the bit size the better. I have a 48 bit scanner which in effect penetrates the layers of paint and picks up all the fine detail. It is very important to scan at a minimum of 300dpi but not to increase the scanned size of the image ..ever! After stitching the image together... and still in photoshop... I look at the actual pixels to ensure that there are no seams or pixels showing from the stitching and also to check all the edges in order to crop as closely as possible. If anyone has any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them... if I can... so fire away!
How to Scan Artwork With A Flatbed Scanner
You need a flat bed scanner installed and connected to a computer system.
Before use, carefully clean the scanner glass with a damp cloth or glass cleaner and dry.
Put the print face down on the glass. Ensure that the actual print area is parallel to the edges of the scanner.
Start the scanner software. On some scanners there is a scan button, or there may be an import function on your images processing software, or a separate scanner program.
If your scanner software does not automatically run a preview, do so (unless you are using VueScan - see tips.)
If your picture is skewed, line it up better and repeat the preview.
On the preview, use the mouse to outline the desired scan area.
If you are going to use Photoshop (or other image manipulation), scan all images as 'millions of colours'. Otherwise use this for colour and grey scale for black and white.
Adjust the scanner resolution to give an appropriate file size in pixels. For printing, scan to get 300 pixels per inch of final print size. For web, create a scan with largest side around 900 pixels.
Try the auto-exposure button if there is one in the software, then adjust brightness and contrast if needed. On some scanners, resetting to default will give good results.
For colour pictures, set any colour controls to the default values unless you are scanning direct to a printer.
If your scanner has a setting that allows you to improve shadow separation, use it.
Scan the images, saving in TIFF, BMP or PCX, but not as JPEG.
See the related 'How to's' for what to do with your scan next.
Always set the size measurement on the software to read in pixels when making a scan, unless you are scanning direct to a printer.
Third-party scanning software may produce better results than that supplied by the scanner manufacturer.
Never scan at a higher resolution than the actual optical resolution of your scanner. Never use any 'sharpen' command in the scanner software.
Scanning Work Larger Than Your Scanner
Take the cover off the scanner
Place painting face down on scanner.
Scan in the first quarter at at least 300dpi, preferably higher, taking great care to align the artwork squarely.
Continue to scan all 4 quarters with exactly the same settings and again, taking great care to align the artwork squarely.
Open each of the quarters of the painting in Photoshop.
To remove any canvas pattern etc. optionally: Apply Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur, have the radius at between 5 - 10 pixels
If you scanned at more than 300dpi, reduce each quarter to 25%
Go to Image Go to Image Size - the window will look like this (Note: Make sure that Constrain - Proportions box is checked:
Image Window
Change inches to percentage by pressing the triangle next to the word inches.
Change Width to read 25% (when the Proportions box is checked, both the width and height will be reduced by 25%.
Press OK.
Make each of the quarters 25%.
If necessary, go to Image - Rotate - and select the correct number of degrees so that it will be right side up.
Now it is time to put your painting together. Go to Image - Canvas Size - Change the width to 5 inches and the height to 6 inches. This will give you enough room to assemble the painting.
Next, add 3 more layers to the image, one for each of the quarters. Make sure the Layers Palette is open.
If it isn't, go to "Window - Palettes - Show Layers" to open it.
Press the triangle until the menu pops out and choose New Layer.
Using the Marquee tool, move the Bottom Left Side of the painting to the bottom left side of the screen.
Copy each of the remaining quarters and paste it into its own layer in your assembled image file.
You can now move around each of the quarters until they all match up with each other by selecting the layer that it is on and using the Move Tool (Hint: You can use the arrow keys
to move each section by a very small amount).
When you are happy that all the quarters line up, go back to the Layers Paletter and Press the triangle again. This time choose "Flatten Image" and your quarters will now be pasted together.
At this point, you can handle this image like any others you have edited, however you might need to trim it a little, sharpen it, adjust the colors, change the size to fit your web page, etc.
Which Scanner To Buy
Scanner technology is improving all the time, so it's difficult to keep current with recommendations. Apart from following recommendations, the main factors to consider are the optical resolution and Bit Depth, but any new scanner is likely to be able to produce acceptable results.
Posted by: Leah Saulnier The Painting Maniac on 4 Years Ago
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4 Years Ago
we use a Canon Rebel 18meg
Any of the Epson Photo Perfection models will work fine... and should be under $200.00 ... legal size and at least 48bit is best.
Two small corrections to the above... I do as little manipulation to the actual scan as possible and I don't know why they said to not do jpeg... mine are all scanned in jpeg.
Here is the link to the epson scanners Catherine suggest. Catherine with oil paints, and heavy texture is there a recommended model for me?
@ Mary Ellen.... I meant to tell you that if you look at my latest painting... Moon Rise Love Song ... in the green box... a lot of it was done with a knife... heavy texture, and it came out perfectly with my old Epson... you can really see the texture and the depth of colour elsewhere. Any Epson Photo Perfection will work fine... just keep in mind the specs. of minimum 48 bit and preferably legal size.
This is going to sound like a really dumb question, but here goes. Can you use a scanner without using Photoshop or any other complicated photo software and still get good results? I really struggle getting good images with my Nikon Coolpix 14 megapixal camera. I'm not a photographer and don't want to spend a lot of money on a new camera. I'm pretty much a 'point and shoot' person (which is probably why I don't get the results I want). Am desperately looking for an alternative to my camera.
Posted by: Ericamaxine Price on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
I've bought a few cameras from ebay, never had a problem. Buy from someone who has sold quite a bit.
Pretty great prices!
Also, are 'flatbed scanners' the same as the scanner I use on my printer (Epson Stylus NX515)?
Every time a jpeg is saved,
an angel cries there is at least a little loss of detail, which is cumulative if you save more than once (and that includes the initial scan if scanning to a file to be subsequently opened by your image editing software.) When saving intermediate/working copies use a lossless format such as tiff or, probably, your image editing software's native format, and save jpg for the final published copy if jpg is what's called for.
Tip: when cleaning your scanner with glass cleaner, spray it on the cloth, not the glass. (Even if the cleaner doesn't leak inside and damage the electronics or leave residue on the optics, some could seep in between the glass and housing to be later soaked up by the edges of your art.)
Also, if you wish to make prints available larger than the original art, scan them at higher resolution, such as 600dpi to print at twice the size.
Also consider scanning at the highest physical resolution available to future-proof your image against improving printing & display technologies. You can always downsize or compress to fit into upload file size restrictions etc., and will still have the higher-resolution scan available later for upgrades, even if you sell or lose the original.
All good advice, John... and I realized afterwards that the original scan is in tiff, sorry for the confusion. I would love to scan at much higher resolutions, however my computer can't handle it! I need a much better computer now to go with my awesome scanner. Sighhhh
Posted by: Bradford Martin on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
Question about scanning. Wouldn't an auto stitching program work as well or better for large images?
Thank you Catherine. I am now seriously considering scanning rather than buying a new digital camera.
@Bradford... after the larger paintings are scanned into the computer, usually in 4 pieces, it is pretty much an auto process for stitching.
@ Roz... if you go ahead with the scanner idea and have any questions, please feel free to contact me... it has been quite a learning curve for me also, but I am very, very happy with the results. I certainly don't have all the answers on scanning but if I don't know, will try and give you some sites that will help.
Catherine, I want to try this so will get a scanner ordered; but one more question.
You said " I would love to scan at much higher resolutions, however my computer can't handle it! ". What computer limitation is this, memory, hrd drive size? Your images look wonderful, what resolution are they effectively.
Basically, besides the scanner what do we need for our heavily textured art? I did just get a monitor calibrator and that equipment also should be in our tool kit.
@Catherine: If high-resolution gives your computer fits, but it handles lower resolutions fine, you may just need more memory (RAM). That's usually much cheaper than a new computer, unless you have a very old computer with a memory type not much called for these days and harder to come by.
Thanks again, John... that is what I was thinking of doing... cause I love my laptop...and it is a really good one.
@Mary-Ellen...see John's answer above...lol... it is memory... but as he said, that is easily fixed.. right now, most of my work is scanned at 300 and the resolution is great... but I would like to try it higher. Hopefully, you have photoshop or something comparable to scan your painting into and stitch there. There is a ton of info here in various discussions about calibrating your computer and epson has some interesting software...some of the scanners come with it. I haven't had a problem with colours not being correct.. I usually print a hard copy for my portfolio and also do my own printing for cards and matted prints ... not a totally accurate test, mind you, because the material you are printing on changes the colour dramatically sometimes.
Posted by: Ben Kotyuk on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
I have a Nikon D3100 but I found it has more to do with the lens. A short lens will curve the edges, I use a 200mm telephoto Lens and shoot from across the room at a slow speed to burn in the entire piece. I have to be careful not to shoot through the medium. I looked into large flatbed scanners, they cost way more than a really good camera. I've been working in pastel so I can't use a scanner any way.
To answer the ones asking what my budget is it's $350 and under, but now I'm looking into the scanner option. Thanks everyone :)
Posted by: Judy Kay on 4 Years Ago
4 Years Ago
I am curious...I have a HP Photosmart 5520 printer with a scan option...the scan size is 8 1/2 by 11" What is the largest painting I could scan and use one of the stitch programs...or is this printer not really designed for that purpose? I primarily have 16x20 and 12x16 paintings...
It depends on how big a picture you could physically achieve coverage, which will depend on which way the cover opens, The cover, unless it's removable (probably not) will limit how you can position your art on the scanner. If the hinge is along the short side, you could scan sections of up to 22" or so (Double the length, plus however much clearance the hinge gives you) in one dimension, with the other dimension being limited to how many subsections your stitching software can handle. That's if you're unwilling or unable to fold or roll the painting.
Otherwise, you could also roll up the painting as you go, allowing you to potentially scan VERY large works. So long as rolling it face-out won't damage it.
I wondered the same thing about my Epson NX515 printer/scanner. So, I scanned an 8x10 just to see what the quality would be. Not so good. After reading this thread and constantly struggling with good image quality from my Nikon Coolpix 4100, I bought an Epson Perfection V37 flat bed scanner for $74 from Amazon. I downloaded the free Microsoft Image Composite software (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/69699e5a-5c91-4b01-898c-ef012cbb07f7/default.aspx).
The cover rotates 180 degrees, so it's flat and I was able to scan a 24x30 painting in nine sections. The software magically stitched it all together very quickly. In my opinion, the quality is great. It's 10 times better than the image I had taken with my camera. I'm now in the process of scanning all the paintings I still have in my possession. I hope my 'image problem' emails I get from Dawn with every sale is now a thing of the past.
Thanks Jamie for that useful information. I think a scanner is the way to go for me.
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Quality: Material is on the thinner side but it's what I expected for a jersey-like wrap dress. If you're prone to showing bulges, make sure to wear shapewear underneath. The inside is not printed, as shown below:
DVF for Less: Old Navy & Gap Wrap Dresses Review
Quality: Material is on the thinner side but it's what I expected for a jersey-like wrap dress. If you're prone to showing bulges, make sure to wear shapewear underneath. The inside is not printed, as shown below:
83 comments:
Both of these dresses are gorgeous on you. I say you keep both. The green is amazing but the red one is really lovely, too. <3ReplyDeleteReplies
i agree! they both look great on you :)Delete
keep both! they both look very flattering on you!ReplyDelete
xo, Tina
Just the Old Navy. You look great, but the red dress looks cheap.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree with this.Delete
If you had to keep one I would go with the Old Navy dress, it's such a beautiful colour that would work perfect for the upcoming seasons! I love how you paired it with nude heels, you look lovely :)ReplyDelete
- SophiaFriday, March 16, 2012
Both of them are perfect! The shape is so classic and feminine. Keep both!ReplyDelete
I agree that they both look very flattering on you. Keep both of them.ReplyDelete
While both a cute, I think the printed ON one looks more classic. Plus it's a great color and I think wrap dresses look very smart in classic print patterns. The red dress is cute, but the ruffles bug me and I think will seem very dated soon. The thin tie makes the outfit look like a matchy-matchy blouse/skirt combo. Though, you do have an eye for potential so maybe that can be fixed. Amazing the ON was fine on the length. I'm headed there tomorrow, hopefully there will be some left!ReplyDelete
$11 WHOLE dollars??!! Wow, such a steal J! I can always count on you to scope out the best deals and follow up with incredible reviews...love that you take the time to help your readers! This piece is perfecto for St. Patty's day! Have an awesome wknd babe!ReplyDelete
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i like the old navy dress more, but both look great on you.ReplyDelete
do you like your new bcbg heels? i am considering getting a pair!Replies
I've hemmed and hawed about whether or not to keep them ... the leather color is perfect and matte, and the silhouette is nice. I'm returning them because I bought another pair (pre-owned, unfortunately so no link) that I like better. You should give them a try!Delete
Thanks for the review. Both dress look very flattering on you. I say if you love them then keep both.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love wrap dresses for spring and summer. I can never find something that fits well here, so the few that I have were all custom-tailored in Shanghai. About $25 can buy a perfect-fit wrap dress in almost any common fabric like jersey cotton, cotton, linen, modal, lycra, other synthetics... I wish I had more made before I left!ReplyDelete
I don't think you'll be happy with the burgundy dress over the long term. The elastic waist looks cheap, and the ruffles look too little-girl-ish. It's OK to go out to dinner in, but if you're thinking of this to wear to work, I don't advise it. The green print looks great; eager to see how you fixed the sleeves. As is, they are way too poofy.ReplyDelete
Beautiful dresses!ReplyDelete
rockin both <3ReplyDelete
keep both!!! They look amazing on you, and an awesome fit like that is rare! :)ReplyDelete
They both look very nice on you. The print is more casual, the ruffled more dressy.ReplyDelete
I love both of those dresses on you Jean! I plan to check those out at my local ON tomorrow!ReplyDelete
They both look good on you! keep both!ReplyDelete
I just called old navy and I was told the green one was for $22.50ReplyDeleteReplies
Have them ring it up - the one at my local store was unmarked and appeared to be pricier, but rung up as $10.99 (plus an extra 17% off today).Delete
Love the green dress. Went to my local store and of course they were sold out of the xs. Maybe I'll be able to find it at a different location. Wish me luck!ReplyDelete
Keep them both! Very nice fits.ReplyDelete
Keep both!! They look nice on you :) If you don't like the sleeves, try and alter it or something :)ReplyDelete
jean, i love both!!! and i want both!!!ReplyDelete
both dress look cute on you. i really like the dvf dress.ReplyDelete
You look lovely in bothReplyDelete
I've always thought that wrap dresses can make slim petite women look skinnier. Thanks for showing us that petite women can still look good on them.:) You look really amazing, but I think the red one is lovelier!ReplyDelete
Both looks nice on you...ReplyDelete
btw, are you interested to get more dresses like this and sell it to Indonesia? Pls let me know... there are many petites here and its hard for us to find something that's fit and good looking.
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I would say keep them both! They both are adorable! May have to take myself down to soho tomorrow for a shopping haul again!!ReplyDelete
I like the gap dress! But for $10.99, you should keep the old navy as well! lolReplyDelete
both!!! :pReplyDelete
These wrap dresses are so classy!ReplyDelete
I love how they look on you!
Both are very nice. Keep them both.ReplyDelete
- Lloyd
The wrap dress is so feminine. You look even more beautyful in it.ReplyDelete
I love the green dress!ReplyDelete
Also, is that Gap ruffle dress red? In the link, the only colors are blue and a berry/pinkReplies
Sorry, it's a deep berry red. It was really dark in my room so the color in my photo may not be accurate.Delete
I like the red one more:-) The green one makes you extremely thin.ReplyDelete
Keep them both, you look great!ReplyDelete
- SugarNikitaSaturday, March 17, 2012
Keep them both. You can always use/make another belt with the wine-colored dress. Both fit you well. You look beautiful! :)ReplyDelete
I could wear both of these dresses and be happy. Thanks for the review. :)ReplyDelete
I like the Old Navy dress. I guess I like the style and fit better...and the pattern is cute for spring!ReplyDelete
Gap ruffle. Color & shape look better on you, just needs some slight hem altering.ReplyDelete
I think the Old Navy dress is more vibrant against your skin tone and more flattering! Return the Gap one and keep the Old Navy dress :)ReplyDelete
Keep the Old Navy Dress one, it shows off your curves betterReplyDelete
- claudiaSaturday, March 17, 2012
I love the old navy dress on you. I had tried it on a few weeks ago in store and it just didn't look right on me, but it's great on you! It's definitely more interesting than the gap dress, which is nice too, but just not as fun and sophisticated looking.ReplyDelete
You look gorgeous in both! The Old Navy dress compliments the top half of your figure a lot, it's very feminine and I thought the sleeves look fine. I'm in love with the GAP wrap dress though, I'm going to find it next weekend, it looks great! xXReplyDelete
No! Only the red one. It's gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I like the green one! Happy St. Patrick's Day!ReplyDelete
xo Jo
Very Beautiful dresses! At first glance I thought ON dress was a kids DVF for Gap dress that I somehow had missed!ReplyDelete
I think you should keep both. The green is a fun color this season and both dresses can be worn season to season. Keepers!
The green dress is lovely but the fabric is way too thin and it looks kind of cheap. I can see the outline of your bellybutton in the top right picture. I would return it.ReplyDelete
Bought both the green and black today in xs for 9.12 each down from 10.99 with 17% discount. Also bought the striped banana republic wrsp dress.ReplyDelete
Jean, I thought you and your readers might be interested in this: Banana Republic has extended its exclusive Friends and Family offer to facebook fans. The coupon is good for 50% off 5 full-price items in stores or 30% off your online purchase with the code BRSAVE30. Enjoy. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for always updating us with your purchases Jean! I know you're busy studying but I really appreciate how you take the time to keep up with your blog for your followers :)ReplyDelete
The green wrap dress has been on my list forever! I just got it but my score had it for $13.49. =( But I got 17% off.. so not too bad.ReplyDeleteReplies
Mine was that price too! I was trying to tell them that it was lower in a different store but they wouldn't budge -______-Delete
stunning dress :D! love itReplyDelete
Jen, which lipstick are you wearing with the green dress? Looks great!ReplyDelete
That GAP dress is absolutely adorable, I really want one for work. I hope they're still in the store near me! I think the wrap dress is lovely too, the colours look great for this time of year. If it was up to me I'd say keep them both - but the GAP dress completely blew me away. It's stunning.ReplyDelete
you should keep the red one! :)ReplyDelete
PRINT!! I love it.ReplyDelete
Or both, as other said :-)
i love the old navy dress on you...it has better fit and the print and color is like retro chic..love itReplyDelete
I love both the dresses on you!ReplyDelete
Have you tried any of the petite collection at Target? I was browsing through target online and saw that they did have a petite section...but wasn't sure about the fits.ReplyDelete
Ooh I love the Old Navy dress- it is so fresh and youthful. Perfect for spring!!ReplyDelete
you have to keep both! xoReplyDelete
Love the gorgeous wrapped dress!!! Its so elegant and classy, and super practical! You should definitely keep them both! Loveee it! - xoReplyDelete
If you have to choose one, I'd vote for the green (esp. if you slimmed the sleeves and it looks nice like the ruffle one). I love the graphic print and green just seems so fresh. The ruffle one looks lovely as well but price is higher and color seems more suited for fall (looks maroon / plum?).ReplyDelete
I just bought the green Old Navy wrap dress in XS too! I love it and am actually hemming it 1-2 inches shorter. I bought it in black as well. Keep them both!ReplyDelete
Hi Jean! So I was in NYc when I saw your blog post and I dragged my friend to Old Navy w/ me to find the dress, but they ran out of the green in my size (boo!) and I guess I couldn't get over how thin the fabric was even for the $10.99 price haha. It looks awesome on y ou though!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, March 19, 2012
Keep both! I like the maroon better, actually. If you decide to let go of the maroon, send it to me?! It's sold out on Gap.com now.. :(ReplyDelete
Hi Jean!ReplyDelete
keep the printed dress but return the maroon. The color is lovely on you... but the dress doesnt seem to define your waist. The waistband also makes it look cheap.. I think the printed dress is so much nicer on you :)
Hey Jean!ReplyDelete
I just did a review of this dress today over at my new blog. I was just thinking it's amazing how the same dress can look completely different on another person. I mentioned you in my post since we have totally different body types so people can see how the dress looks on another person. However, with that in mind, I think this dress is extremely easy to wear and can look great on so many different skin tones and body types. I'm so obsessed with the print and color of this dress!
Eek, anyways, I've been on a fashion/clothing kick lately. Need to get back to my makeup. -______-
I agree keep both! I have the green one from old navy and I LOVE that you tied it in the back :)ReplyDelete
jean! you look lovely as always!ReplyDelete
xoxo, :D
Hey Jean:)ReplyDelete
I recently came across your blog and I'm totally in love with it! I stopped by Old Navy and picked up the dress after coming across this entry:P It was $13 and some change at my store, near Nashville. Anywho, I had a question for ya^^I wanted to know how you care for your cheaper clothes. Obviously purchasing from Ann Taylor or BR would entail needing to dry clean the items but what is your wash/dry/care routine in general? Thanks so much in advance!
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- AnonymousMonday, March 19, 2012
i like the Gap dress a lot better on you (:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, March 20, 2012
Both dresses look flattering on you, but if I had to choose, I'd choose the Old Navy one because the gap one looks cheap (although the color looks great on your skin).ReplyDelete
Super thrilled I checked your blog over the weekend! I made a beeline for Old Navy on Saturday and got the green wrap dress for $9 and change - would've never shopped there without you!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the heads up about the Old Navy dress. I never shop there, but when I saw this steal on you I knew I had to go. Plus I found some basic shorts and cute, lightweight top for this really warm weather that we're having in Boston. A little digging around on my iPhone for a coupon net me four items for $45 and change. Thanks Jean!ReplyDelete
Keep the Old Navy dress!!! It stands out more and green is just a great color on you!ReplyDelete


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