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Associate Publisher Mike Soule’

Graphic Design Kymberly Soule’ Tish Ellenburg

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Lead Photographer Elle Photography www.ellephotography.net

On the Cover Photographer: Elle Photography Model: Renee Mullenix Hair and Makeup: NouVeau Salon & Day Spa

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Editor's Letter I truly love this time of the year! Football, fashion, boots (I love boots), nice weather, music festivals, fairs and the holidays. It is always so exciting to me as an event planner. I start planning everything right down to the time of Christmas dinner. Of course, not everyone is like me. I have it in my blood.

I started thinking about what makes the world go round. Why doesn't everyone else like the same things I do. Are they crazy? Who doesn't love a party, or family get together or even something as simple as a gathering for a football game? Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Something I already knew and have known my whole life...we are all different. What makes me tick is certainly not what my husband, friends or children tick.

When a friend of mine sent me her latest body painting masterpiece I was reminded of this. As you will see in this issue, the picture is "shades of grey". When I asked her what the inspiration was behind this, her answer was simply, "We are not all weaved into the perfect human beings. The world we live in is not just black and white." Something that simple really seemed to give me clarity on some things that had been on my mind. We are all so uniquely different and shine in our own way. Personally my life revolves around bringing awareness to the world through beauty and color. What makes your happy? What makes your different? What is your talent?

I encourage you all to use your talents and shine bright in a dark world. No matter how small or big they are, there is room enough for it all!

If you have never taken the spiritual gifts test, you should do it. It is very simple and doesn't take long. It will reveal to you your gifts that God has given you. Sometimes we just need things clarified to move in a new direction. You can take your test for free at http://giftstest.com.

Have fun and enjoy life.

God Bless You Kymberly Soule’

“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.

There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.�

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Alabama Coastal Foundation Improving and protecting Alabama's coastal environment 251-990-6002 - www.joinacf.org Our Mission is to improve and protect Alabama's coastal environment through cooperation, education, and participation.

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Alabama is the fifth most biologically diverse state in the U.S. and has 53 consecutive miles of beaches, as well as over 600 miles of tidal shoreline.

Our coastal ecosystem is the fourth largest estuary in the U.S. and plays a critical role in nurturing the finfish, shrimp, shellfish, crabs, and migratory birds that are vital both to our economy and our coastal ecosystem.

Over the past several decades, we have lost a significant amount of these habitats due to human destruction and natural disaster. This puts our coast and our livelihoods at risk.

In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, we are faced with the task of rebuilding a Coastal Alabama that can be enjoyed by future generations.

Since 1993, the Alabama Coastal Foundation (ACF) has worked to create a healthy balance between the conservation needs of our priceless coastal resources and the inevitable pressures of economic growth. We encourage responsible citizen action and offer opportunities for individuals to play a vital role in preserving the environment and our coastal way of life. We accomplish our mission by providing reliable, well-researched data, promoting public dialogue, and advocating community action.

The ACF seeks to establish common ground amongst government sectors, local business, major industry, grassroots groups and individual citizens. This enables us to work together in addressing coastal conservation issues. We are committed to addressing priority environmental issues throughout the region to preserve and protect our coastal way of life. We all have the ability and responsibility to preserve our coastal way of life.

Every ACF program advocates personal and corporate responsibility and action. By fostering trust in both business and environmental communities, we have gained support that allows us to have a positive, long-term impact on our environmental health. We are dedicated to partnering with businesses, government, and other non-profits to maximize resources and results. By connecting diverse stakeholders, we believe we can find innovative solutions to the environmental challenges we face in Alabama.

The Alabama Coastal Foundation gives members hands-on opportunities to volunteer and experience the coast. We use an education-based approach to conservation: to find a solution, you must first understand the problem! Through our programming,we connect to students and our communities in order to inform and inspire future generations of leaders. This educational approach is the key to inspiring actions that will protect the long-term health of Alabama's natural resources.

We value your ideas, energy, and commitment to support the work of the Alabama Coastal Foundation as we help everyone connect to their coast.

Volunteer To fully appreciate our coastal resources, you've got to get involved!

Here's what you can do to protect our oceans and coasts - a priceless resource: Conserve water in your daily life.

Don't be wasteful: reduce, re-use, and recycle every day.

Pick up trash, participate in trash clean-up days.

Cut the rings of plastic six-pack holders. Aquatic life and birds can become entangled in them.

Don't litter - streets and storm drains empty into rivers and streams that lead to our coasts.

Choose non-toxic products for household use.

Choose products carefully: avoid excess packaging.

Dispose of household and yard chemicals properly; read their labels.

Minimize use of fertilizers and pesticides on your yard.

Make sure your septic system is operating properly; Respect your sewer system - don't pour toxic wastes, chemicals, or any medications down the toilet.

Remember gutters and storm drains deliver water and contaminants to streams, rivers, and eventually the ocean.

Maintain your boats, cars, and other heavy equipment to reduce oil leaks.

Do not dump petroleum products, including oil down storm drains; recycle used motor oil.

When visiting coral reefs, do not touch living coral.

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Debra and Pat Cary, are the owners of Covered Boutique, located in the hub of downtown Mobile between Bienville and Cathedral Square. Before moving to this new location, they were in a very nice place a couple of blocks away on Conception St. for 3 years. They just didn’t have the foot traffic they desired. As soon as the right place was available on Dauphin Street, they chose to relocate. With so many things going on downtown, such as conventions, concerts, restaurants and residents in the area, there’s no shortage of people who walk up and down Dauphin Street. This helps in making their new location so wonderful and lively with new customers. Because they have such a diverse clientele, they can offer a wide selection of affordable women’s apparel, up to the more “curvier” sizes; from tendy and edgy, to classic; suitable for “work or after-five”. In addition, they carry jewelry, shoes, accessories, gifts, gift cards and personal shopping.

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How to be on Top of the

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10 Natural Ways to Feel on Top of the World Exercise It’s popularly known as the runner’s high, but you don’t have to run to feel high from exercise. The best known, mother of all natural highs can have you skimming the clouds. The latest research indicates that the high is probably mediated by two endogenous chemicals: beta-endorphin, an endogenous opioid involved in pain reduction and relaxation; and anandamide, an endocannabinoid responsible for pain reduction and euphoria.

Group Workouts Just as exercise itself can spur a euphoric state, exercising with others may offer a different and arguably better high. One study found that rowers’ pain thresholds were greater after training as a team than after working out alone. Since pain sensitivity is a marker of endorphin release, the group workouts produced more of a high.

Extreme Sports Whether it’s bungee jumping, mountain climbing, snowboarding, cliff diving, sky diving, or base jumping, some of us flock to extreme sports like moths to the flame. The appeal is obvious: extreme sports place the body into remarkably stressful situations. It’s physical exercise, yes, but it’s also mental exercise.

When you’re leaping from a cliff or plane, your brain thinks you very well may die. The result is a rush of powerful hormones, including adrenaline, dopamine, and beta-endorphins (which correlate closely with reports of euphoria). Your heart works harder and faster, sending more blood, more quickly to the muscles as well as the brain. Your senses are heightened. Time slows down. Moments linger longer than ever before. It’s all a stop-gap mechanism to help you survive the situation. Dangerous situations – perceived or real – tend to have that effect. There’s the afterglow, too. After the hormonal explosion has abated and you’re back on solid ground, you’ll feel calm and accomplished and carefree. Stress melts and stays away, because what can compare with flinging oneself off a mountain into open air?

Spicy Food Think of the spiciest food you ever ate. I’m not talking Tapatio, Tabasco, or Cholula here. I mean the kind of hot that makes you anxious and queasy and regretful. Whatever it was, you never forget what it felt like or how much you wanted to take a fire hose to your insides. There’s no strong, incontrovertible evidence that eating hot food has psychoactive effects in humans, though some animal evidence suggests that capsaicin (the main spicy component in peppers) can release beta-endorphins and adrenaline. It also has analgesic properties which may be mediated by activation of the central opioid system.

Still, there’s usually a physiological justification for odd human behavior. If people are happily eating food that literally burns their mouths and insides, there’s a good chance there’s something in it for them. I suspect that the pain gives way to pleasure, and that cool pool of biochemical pleasure afterward is indeed the result of endorphin release. After the pain/danger has dissipated, an intense calm pervades.

Nature Most of us are so divorced from the natural outdoor environment, that leaving the city and going where the cell towers don’t reach feels like entering an altered state of consciousness. Probably because our consciousness has changed. When you are out there, whether it’s at a secluded beach, deep in the redwoods, or alone on a snowy mountaintop, you feel different. You notice new things. Your brain works better.

Love Falling in love is the ultimate high in most people’s book. A review of studies demonstrates that no less than twelve different brain regions are activated by the cascade of chemicals like dopamine, adrenaline, vasopression, serotonin, and oxytocin when we fall in love. Endorphins and PEA (the chocolate/love drug) also play a big role in the neurochemistry of love. As a result, we feel happy and dopey. Confused and excited. Anxious and confident. What if you’re already settled down with someone? What if that heady blast of new love has long since passed? Value your relationship. Nurture it, feed it. Spoil your partner, act like it is the early days. Experience them in the fullest possible way. Recall those initial romantic days and do it over again. Relish good memories. Make new ones. In a couple words: be present.

Sex

Having sex releases a torrent of endogenous drugs, hormones and neurotransmitters. During arousal, your body secretes the powerful stimulants adrenaline and noradrenaline. Your heart is racing, your blood pressure rises, all in the service of delivering extra blood to various important body parts. Upon climax, your bloodstream is treated to an intoxicating cocktail of prolactin, oxytocin, phenethylamine, and dopamine. During male ejaculation, the (male’s) brain apparently lights up like a heroin user’s right after shooting up, indicating a major role for opioids. Neuroimaging studies on women during orgasm also reveal significant activation of the brain’s pleasure centers.

Music We’ve all heard – or performed – music that has left us with goose bumps and chills. We’re utterly struck by it, held by it, entranced and touched in such a deep way that we feel moved physically and spiritually.

Science has confirmed the existence of the euphoric music-induced “chills.” Researchers asked participants to choose music that gave them the “chills” each time they heard or played it. Then they allowed subjects to listen to the music while they monitored their brain activity with PET imaging. (In other parts of the experiment, they listened to other peoples’ musical selections or general noise.) Each participant’s chosen music, the researchers found, exclusively produced activity in brain areas associated with “euphoria-inducing stimuli, such as food, sex, and drugs of abuse.”

Dream Remember how you’d hang out at night with your friends, looking up at the stars, just thinking and talking about how immense and crazy and impossible and possible everything is? Remember when you were filled with wonder? Dreaming is one thing that still gets to me and makes me feel like a kid again. Best of all, we have direct access to it. It’s the great mystery that we get to explore every single night of our lives.

Every night, we enter a fantastical world of our own creation. In this world, time is relative; we can live out entire lifetimes in the span of a single sleep cycle. We become artists, novelists, world-builders and storytellers. What’s going on here, chemically? Some researchers think that our brains release very small amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a powerful psychedelic compound, during sleep. That certainly seems plausible.

Humor Laughter’s a funny thing. It’s contagious. The very act of producing the muscular contractions responsible for laughter release beta-endorphins. And there’s nothing like a belly laugh. The weirdest part of all is that it has a mind of its own and cannot be tamed. If something is really, truly funny, you’re going to laugh and there’s not a thing you can do about it. You know how it is – we all have that memory that makes us laugh just thinking of it. Or that friend in class who could get you to laugh just by glancing at you? Or how about the uncontrollable ten minute laughing fit that turns into an ab workout? It’s insane, in a good way. www.marksdailyapple.com

Our goal with the Dumbwater Restaurant was to bring old Mobile back. We took an old building that was erected in the 1890’s and took it back to what it was meant to look like. Our name, Dumbwaiter Restaurant, came from our idea of brining old Mobile back. A dumbwaiter was used a 100 years ago to move food in restaurants and kitchens up and down between floors. We thought the name was a great fit for our restaurant and catchy. I chose downtown Mobile because I thought that downtown was coming back and I wanted to be a part of the resurrection. I belive Downtown Mobile should be a destination for people and I hope by putting Dumbwaiter Restaurant in the heart of it, that we have helped to make Downtown Mobile a destination for everyone visiting our city.

We wanted to bring in a type of food that would set Mobile forward in the world of cuisine. Our Chef, Chris McElhaney, is a graduate of Johnson Wales in Charleston, SC. He has been the chef at many fine establishments from Charleston to New Orleans, including Hanks Seasfood in Charleston, Fire Steak House in Atmore and Delmonico’s in New Orleans. His palette and his creativity are both amazing and they shows in the type of food he has made for years.

Old Mobile

Sweet Spot Bluberry Cream Pie in a Jar

Short bread and pecan crust with vanilla cream cheese filling and topped with fresh blueberry compote

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"Shades of Grey"

“We are not all weaved into perfect human beings.This world we live in is not just black and white.�

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