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A fond look back at the periodicals of yore that inspired my love of writing and continue to influence me (sometimes subconsciously) to this very day.
By: Jimbo X
Growing up in a single mother family in a single-wide trailer, money was never something we had a lot of in my upbringing. I had to wear shitty shoes and hand-me-down clothing and while all the kids at school got to play with those newfangled Jurassic Park toys, I had to make do with whatever bullshit my mom could afford at the flea market (which almost entirely consisted of old He-Man action figures with various appendages missing.) So yeah, I never really got to do a whole lot of the regular stuff kids in the 1990s got to do, like visit Chuck E. Cheese's or go to Disney World or get a dentist appointment (seriously, I didn't get my first check-up until I was in my fucking early 20s.)
For me, the written word was both an escape from the pains of an impoverished childhood and an economical way to stay abreast of the modern world. Back then, you could score yourself a 400-page magazine for about $3.99, and that shit would keep you occupied for at least a week. Before long, those monthly dispatches from the publishing world became my raison d'etre, that thing I looked forward to each and every morning. School may suck and we might be eating off-brand pork and beans for dinner again, but holy shit, the new Game Players issue is on sale at K-Mart, and that almost makes up for everything else.
And because the publications were relatively cheap, I could engorge myself on a whole host of magazines covering all kinds of divergent elements of pop culture and modernity. Really, it was at this point in my life that I realized I enjoyed reading and writing about things more than actually experiencing them, and had it not been for the immense impact of the periodicals listed below, I probably never would've become a writer and gone on to do something stupid with my life, like become an investment banker or somebody who does I.R.S. compliance sheets for low-to-mid-range accounting agencies. More so than any other pop cultural construct, I'd say the monthly and semi-monthly publications listed below did more to frame my writing style - and really, my personality - than anything else in my youth. Wondering where my weltanschauung came from, admirers and haters alike? Ponder no more - for better or worse, the following publications are most responsible for forming me into the individual I am today...
Electronic Gaming Monthly
Well, this one shouldn't be surprising at all, considering my nomme de plume is an homage to the publication's most mysterious staff writer. More than anything, EGM - as well as its short-lived and much, much harder to find spinoff EGM 2 - is what got me into video game culture ... yes, even more than the games themselves, to a certain extent. Looking back on it, the writing does leave a lot to be desired (surely, after skimming a few back issues, I'd say that rival mag GamePlayers had far better content), but the way EGM was presented was just outstanding. Yes, it was a very, very aesthetically-driven magazine, but the way those flashy images, gaudy layouts and idiosyncratically curt columns were welded together just created a total sensory print experience that - to this day - I don't think has ever been rivaled. There wasn't a single element of the magazine that I didn't enjoy, from the reader mail section (who can forget the "Psycho Letter of the Month" feature?) to QMann's stream of consciousness gossip section to the 30 pages dedicated to Japanese-only Super Famicom games that people in the U.S. would never, ever get their hands on to the much imitated but never duplicated "Review Crew," whose infrequently syntactically-correct blurbs extolled the pros and cons of late-ass NES and Game Gear releases with a commixture of already passe Bart Simpson lingo and only barely gussied up marketing speak? I read the mag religiously up until the PS1/N64 era, where I lost interest in video gaming for a couple of years, but I resumed regular EGM consumption in high school (right smackdab in the Dan Hsu PS2/XB/GC era.) Since then, I've spent many a squandered weekend trying to fill the gap, which means I've got a good five years of Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and Game Boy Color coverage to joyously pilfer through when I can't sleep. But still, whenever I think EGM, I think of that wondrous 1991-1995 run through the Genesis and SNES years, and all those fabulous issues dedicated to Mortal Kombat II and Beavis & Butt-Head and Rocko's Modern Life. Shit, even combing through the old advertisements (which always comprised 60 to 70 percent of the bulk product) is an absolute delight, and every bit as enjoyable as the "genuine" editorial content. You university kids today have your online "safe spaces," and I've got my PDF copies of Electronic Gaming Monthly - and I'll gladly take my paper sanctuary of yore over your sanctimonious sociocultural sanctums any damn day of the week.
The Weekly World News
There was an old Beavis & Butt-Head book in which the main characters said supernatural-tinged sensationalist nonsense like The Weekly World News was pretty much the reason they learned to read. For me, that actually was the catalyst for pursuing literacy. As a four-year-old, I desperately, direly wanted information, but it was a very particular kind of information. Since I wasn't even in kindergarten yet, the only two things that really mattered to me was what was on cable and whether or not monsters were going to get me, and with TV Guide fulfilling my fist hierarchical need, The Weekly World News did its part to complete the dyad of knowledge. All of those black and white newspapers at the cash register at the grocery store with aliens and Bigfoots and ghosts and shit on it certainly piqued my curiosity, so while everyone else was learning to read via Dr. Seuss, I was introduced to literacy via the apoplectic rants of Ed Anger, that one half-kayfabe wrestling article WWN used to publish up until the mid-1990s and, of course, following the saga of Batboy as if it were some kind of radio serial. People tend to forget, WWN actually did contain a pretty good chunk of actual news, mostly concerning particularly scintillating sex scandals and psycho murderers - which, naturally, captivated me even more than the clearly made-up bullshit about the Loch Ness Monster and George H.W. Bush getting a handjob from a Martian. Granted, a lot of the material was probably above my comprehension level - sure, any first grader can grasp the intricacies of Book of Revelation prophesies coming to life and made-up stories about women giving birth to half frog chimeras, but the less fabricated stuff about serial killers and husbands intentionally infecting their wives with AIDS? Yeah, that stuff may not have been designed with the Barney viewership set in mind, but by golly, it gave me a sociocultural leg-up on my grade school competition, for sure - indeed, I'm pretty sure I was the only kid in second grade that not only knew how to spell "lobotomy," but describe to you the most up-to-date technical description of the procedure. It was a mag worth reading up until 9/11, when the editors figured there was too much real-world spooky shit going on and they decided to make it way lighter and fluffier with a bunch of wishy-washy, more P.C.-friendly articles that felt more like PG-rated The Onion pieces than anything actually worth reading. Still, it ain't too hard to find old copies of the paper from its glory days circulating 'round the Internet - definitely check out the stuff from the late '80s and early 90s if you have a keen taste for the good sleaze.
Wizard and ToyFare
Like everybody else in the early to mid 1990s, I bought a shit ton of comics because I was under the impression that my stockpile of Sludge and Major Bummer comics would someday be worth $300,000 and I could retire a millionaire before I was 20. The thing is, although I avidly purchased such funny books back in the day, I never really read them - even as a fourth grader, I knew the writing in X-Men and Spawn was subpar stuff, no matter how angular and pointy all the pictures looked. So outside of a couple of old Spider-Man reprints and stuff like Milk & Cheese, my treasure trove of comics mostly collected dust in bins in my closet, appreciating in value at about .0000000001 percent of a penny per year. Since I wanted to keep a close eye on the ebb and flow of the common market value of Young Heroes in Love No. 1, I was an avid reader of Wizard, whose price guide was considered the industrial gospel back in the day. The funny thing is, the price guide - the whole point of the magazine's existence - was probably my least favorite element of the publication. What really drove Wizard was this biting, self-reflexive humor that simultaneously celebrated and skewered nerd culture long before it was call to proclaim your geekdom publicly. Like EGM, the retroactive appeal of the magazine is mostly aesthetic, but it's hard to not reflect on their content-lite regular columns - like the Casting Call feature and a rundown of the ten most "popular" comic characters of the month, complete with a sardonic homage to a shitty forgotten character from yesteryear - and not smile. The articles ran the gamut from glorified P.R. (but you did usually get an exclusive "mini-comic" for free, though) to the fairly inspired (their top ten features were well worth reading) all the way up to legitimately great journalism, such as their piece on the arrest and conviction of indie artist Mike Diana for producing "obscenity" and their retrospective on the impact of Seduction of the Innocent. Oh, and their Halloween and April Fools editions were absolutely required reading, since they usually contained a fair amount of niche-interest snark and/or horror-tinged awesomeness. Wizard had several sister publications, but none were as memorable as their action figure-heavy magazine ToyFare, which in addition to featuring one of the best layouts of any nerd-interest magazine of the era, was also one of the funniest, thanks in no small part to the Mego Action Theater and price guide "one-panel" mini-comics. Shit - I have to find their special all-pro-wrestling-edition issue from circa 1998 now!
Mad and Cracked
It was until recently that I realized just how pronounced an influence the Mad and Cracked runs of the 1990s had on my subconscious. The same way I find myself almost instinctively trudging up the George Carlin/Richard Pryor/Bill Hicks party line when people ask me about abortion, gun control and eating pussy, it has dawned on me that pretty much EVERY opening paragraph I've written from the year 1997 on has been directly tailored around the tried-and-true Mad and Cracked article intro. You've got the table-setting opening sentence, the follow-up sentence that puts a spotlight on the target of satirization and then, you've got the final sentence that jerks open the curtain for your parody. It's such a perfect template, and one I'd advise all aspiring English majors to adapt for their term papers. As far as the content of the magazines, I think that even now these publications don't get the credit they deserve as social criticism. Remember, this shit was before Reddit and Voat and YouTube, so these magazines were pretty much the only media outlet out there specializing in niche interest humor. I thought Cracked did a better job lampooning popular culture while Mad did a better job overall making fun of general U.S. society. But more than that, I think these satirical publications wound up doing better job encapsulating the 1990s zeitgeist than even the "legitimate" journalistic publications of the era. If you want to see the decade hive mind in action, feel free to comb through any back issue of Entertainment Weekly or Newsweek. You want to experience what it was TRULY like to live - and laugh - through the Clinton era? Hunt you down some old copies of these two mags and get to guffawing in no time.
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (and all of the other Bill Apter mags)
What made PWI and its myriad spinoffs like The Wrestler and Inside Wrestling awesome was that they were basically monthly multiverse crossover spectacles. If you read the proprietary WWF or WCW magazines, they all kept it "in-universe," so all they ever did was talk about their own promotions and wrestlers. But PWI, though? They covered ALL of the 'rasslin promotions out there, including those weird beard promotions in Mexico and Japan. PWI introduced me to ECW (mostly, through those super bloody 1-800-Run-4-ECW ads on the back page) and the entire cosmos of puroresu, including such illustrious names as Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa and Toshiaka motherfuckin' Kawada. If you want to see an "event" issue done right, look no further than the annual PWI 500 issue, which was pretty much required reading for any 'rasslin dork worth his weight in Hulk Hogan apparel. Sure, by the time the rankings got into the 200s you had no idea who any of the people they were talking about were and I'm pretty sure they just made up the wrestlers in the 400-500 rankings, but still, you just felt like you had so much industrial knowledge pumped into your noggin just by perusing its thin, black and white pages. Oh, and for all you Johnny-Come-Latelies, yes, the entire PWI publishing armada - to this very day - keeps their writing entirely in kayfabe. You know, not that I trusted their old articles from the 1990s about the N.W.O.'s top secret plans to recruit Bret Hart and Sabu to their ranks, or that one piece purportedly penned by Shawn Michaels about how he would beat The Giant to be 100 percent legitimate journalism to begin with...
I was pretty late hopping aboard the Fango bandwagon (I didn't start reading it religiously until around 1996, a good 10 years' past the publication's heyday in the mid-80s), but there was still plenty of good stuff going on with the magazine in the great post-Scream, pre-Blair Witch boom period. When it comes to kitschy ephemera, this was a veritable treasure trove, from the cover stories about Resident Evil commercials to the full color ads for straight-to-VHS turdfests like Crinoline Head. Of course, you also had regular columns touching upon the "best" in recent horror videos, books and even video games, even though what Fango deemed "horror-worthy" was oftentimes debatable (uh, guys, is the original Grand Theft Auto on the PlayStation really a survival-horror opus?) And the features were usually pretty great, with the writers going into absurd detail about the technicalities of the gore effects in forgotten B-fodder like Aberration, The Ugly and yes, even that all-time celluloid classic, Revenge of Billy the Kid. Even though most of what they were covering was total crap, Fango managed to make that crap sound at least partially appealing; if you want to see journalistic turd polishing par excellence, check out any issue from 1997 or 1998.
Metal EdgeTo be fair, I wasn't exactly a regular reader of Metal Edge - pretty much the only time I bought a copy was when they did their semi-regular "Top 100 fill-in-the-blank-specials" - but I knew enough to know they were way better than everything else on the magazine rack trying to cater to the metalhead demographic. Since this was the middle of the 1990s, the magazine was caught in this weird historical epoch in which a lot of bands that had lost a lot of relevancy at the end of the 1980s were still touring and putting out albums, so you'd just be flipping through stories about Anthrax and Slayer and then boom, you'd get hit with a spread about fucking Firehouse, Trixter and White Lion. Granted, it was a rather superficial publication - about half the content was just flashy poster dressings and catalog ads - but it did have some fairly decent material in it from time to time. My favorite? A recurring feature where the magazine dialed up random rock stars and asked them really stupid questions, like what was their favorite thing about Thanksgiving and what was the worst movie they had ever seen. I also recall a pretty entertaining column in which heavy metal staples "reviewed" videos receiving heavy rotation on MTV, but my memory is a bit hazy - it just as well could have been a feature in another heavy metal mag.
Black Belt
If nothing else, Black Belt deserves recognition for getting me into mixed martial arts. Dana White and pals may never admit it, but this kung-fu crazy publication did wonders for the UFC in the early vale tudo days, absolutely pimping the fuck out of their first couple of shows and dedicating huge chunks of their print space to event recaps. Of course, the primary intent of the magazine was to spread all sorts of nonsense about the practical applications of karate and Taekwondo and all those other totally useless disciplines that serve no purpose in legitimate combat, and the rag frequently dipped into "survivalist" fare (I remember one recurring column teaching you how to supposedly survive mass shootings and knife attacks, among other things) and some really, really questionable pieces about the "history" of ninjas and jujitsu. There was also a pretty healthy amount of page space dedicated to fisticuffs-heavy movies, so it had your pop cultural bases covered, too. Throw in the insanely detailed pictorial spreads on how to use nunchucks and a million billion ads promising to reveal you ancient Chinese techniques to get laid and deflect bullets with your pinkie and you have all the makings of one highly memorable - albeit highly suspect - martial arts magazine.
The RingI may have owned perhaps just three or four issues throughout the 1990s - and those were because they came on the heels of big fights and I thought they'd be worth major moolah someday - but The Ring nonetheless made a huge impression on me. I wasn't as gung-ho about boxing as a I was the fledgling sport of MMA and the long-established pseudo-sport of pro 'rasslin, but I definitely enjoyed the strangely acerbic tone of the planet's leading pugilism publication. Make no mistakes, The Ring was one cynical ass magazine, which went as far as to openly mock boxers in its pages as overrated and out of shape (keep in mind, this is the same magazine that refused to call Muhammad Ali "Muhammad Ali" until damn near the middle of the 1970s and also invented boxers to give their own championship belt greater cultural resonance.) This had to be the most blatantly confrontational sports periodical of the Clinton decade, and if absolutely nothing else? It showed an entire generation the proper way to write columns like a know-it-all asshole.
The Weekly Reader
And of course, it's impossible to talk about periodical print publications that immensely inspired me without bringing up the one that was state mandated. If you attended elementary school in the years between 1991 and 1997, surely you encountered this flimsy little reading material, which sought to turn really big, overarching sociopolitical issues - like unemployment and the War on Drugs - into semi-digestible, low-syllable count blurbs the Power Rangers set could kinda-sorta' comprehend (with plenty of teacher insight, naturally.) Sure, the content wasn't very good and the writing just barely skimmed the surface of highly controversial and deeply nuanced social issues - plus, the liberal bias was glaringly apparent, even to somebody who slept with Ren and Stimpy plushies - but I nonetheless looked forward to each and every issue. Even way back then, I grasped the real significance of the printed medium - their worth wasn't in being contemporary containers of up-to-date knowledge, but little slivers of history that combined the factual with the user-preferred version of what actually happened. Despite being painfully condensed and non-complex, I could take away some sliver of significance from each issue, even if the only thing that had any relative historical value were the ads (which, really, are just as important in encapsulating the times as the "proper" magazine copy - if not substantially more, in many instances.) Yes, even as a second grader I grasped the impending retro-value of the publication, and while all my classmates just discarded their copies at the end of class, I hoarded every issue given to me from the first grade to fifth grade graduation. I lost my treasure trove years and years ago, and while I can't for the life of me remember one single article from the publication (except for this one they ran that cut off in mid-sentence and a story about bullying that was a hoot to read because it had the word "butt" in it), the import of that cruddy little periodical on my life - and desire to write professionally - lingers on to this day.
So if any of you assholes take offense to anything I write, I say take it up with Scholastic ... after all, they are the ones that - advertently and inadvertently - got me into the publishing biz to begin with.


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Hello viewers, fans, family, and friends.
We've finished what we've been calling the first leg of our trip, Arcata, CA to Bellingham, WA. This distance took us four weeks. Some say that's quick and others say we must have been poking around and taking our time. It's about right for a bunch of average kids wanting to travel for 14 months on bikes and keep our cool.
In that time we've settled into our daily routine. One month into the trip and I'm not sure at what point the magnitude of what we're going to do has sunken in. For me it really hasn't. Maybe we've prepared for it so much by expecting to be on the road for over a year. But perhaps it's the familiarity of the northwest that has kept the tour civilized, something you'd book with a tour guide.
As a part of our presentations we now give a summary of our trip so far. The pictures are all postedbut the details need some filling in.
Our first week takes us through the familiar redwoods and into Oregon. The weather tends to be moist, in the 50s, but with a tailwind.
We experience high winds that stop us in our tracks at Humbug Mountain.
The ride though Oregon on 101 is known for its amazing coasts. It's incredibly scenic, but somehow the beginning of the trip lacks adventure. We're familiar with the northwest. There are towns every few miles. We've toured this way before. The grand adventure through has started.
Without planning each day of riding, we camp in unique spots. The night before our first classroom presentation in Myrtle Point, OR, we camp next to a beautiful forest just a few feet from an ATV trail. We find a burned cow or horse not far from where we camp. One evening we're staring at a carcass and the next morning sharing our trip with 3rd graders. The juxtaposing scenes are characteristic of a tour with a heavy dose of pirate camping.
We wrap up the week with a stay at Margret and Daniel's place, playing music.
On our second week the road felt more heavily traveled and we were pushed away from the coast by dunes unsuitable for building on. It was turned into an ATV playground.
Somewhere around Dunes City, OR there was the first and really the only close call with a behemoth land barge of sorts, really our biggest danger of being on the road. Don't worry mom. Wake up old timer behind the wheel!
We took the scenic way to Tillamook, biking on the three capes. There is more rain but more scenery. We decide to add on the miles in favor of the views. Each small hill makes us second guess our decision.
We bike to Seaside, OR, and in typical fashion make some last minute changes to our presentation. We speak to an art class for 20 minutes and spend the rest of the period drawing our dream commutes. We feel we make a connection with these 5th-8th graders, a group that's not always easy to excite. As a side note, many states across the country are experiencing budget cuts and unfortunately educational programs usually get axed. But art! How do you cut the art program?
By the end of the second week we arrive in Portland and tour the city with our friend, Aaron Antrim. Two days off from riding, but no real rest as we view the best the city has to offer, including Voodoo doughnuts.
By the end of the third week we're in Seattle and the days are blending together. If you don't journal sometimes the memories seem lost.
One night is spent on the Columbia River, watching barges go by.
The next is under a railroad bridge, but the romantic fantasy soon becomes annoyingly loud. The heavy rain soaks through the bridge and grease drips into our food and on the banjo and ukulele. The experience is worth it. There were few other options.
We travel to north to Tacoma and luck out finding a spot to camp as they are getting scarce closer to the city. It's an old gravel mine, now overtaken with scotch broom. You can either hate invasives or enjoy them as worthy plants. As a group we're split.
Our Washington presentation takes place on Vashon Island to groups of well behaved 5th though 8thgraders. In fact, every 5th grader on the island, attending private or public school, got to hear us speak.
In Seattle, the "Miss Jackson" house was our next home away from home.
The fourth week takes us to Bellingham where we catch a ferry to Haines, AK. Cheating!? I think not. We'll ride 1800 miles through Canada to claim Alaska, the expected scenic leg of the trip.
On Whidbey Island I'm bored of cycling. Not in the way that makes me want to quit, but more of a feeling that I'd rather sleep for a few hours in the grass instead of push the pedals.
It must be the lack of adventure. We have it too easy with towns every day and a million choices for food. We live like kings and queens. We need to have the wind howl once again.
We pack like rats in Bellingham for the 3 day ferry, buying and cooking as much food as possible for the long journey.
We reach the 1000 mile mark and celebrate with the hordes of college students finishing the semester the same day.
Wow! We're on the ferry, heading to Alaska, the last frontier. It's a well explored frontier by now, but fewer people, fewer stops, more picture time, more daylight, cheated or slighted from nothing, the real deal.

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King Solomon Story
I thank God for the experience of this graceful moment. I tried to explain something to my thirteen year old daughter and she came back with total and sweet understanding. This was one those moments when what I attempted to explain penetrated her heart.
After she moved to live with her father, Kesha comes to visit every summer. The first summer was tense. I had to work and couldn't pay to have someone to stay with her. She had grown a lot but still had mischief in her soul. The first week Kesha and Rustin got along famously. They loved on each other and were polite. It was short lived as expected. Before I knew it the summer was over and she was gone again. The next summer I had moved to Austin. Kesha loved Austin and came with enthusiasm. Before this visit, on the phone, I heard her tell me she misses me. She said she was thinking of coming home. She had said this before and to me she never really seemed serious. Long before she came this summer I had decided I wanted her to come back home. I planned on asking her about it.
When Kesha exited the terminal Rustin recognized her before I did. He pointed and said, 'There's Kesha.' When I saw her I couldn't believe my eyes. My little girl had turned into a young lady. My heart ached that I wasn't part of it. The drive home was full of joy. Kesha has a witty sense of humor that was now complimented by her experience of becoming a young lady. All the way home I kept looking at her and we would smile. She was as big as me and beautiful as ever. I couldn't wait to get home and spend some Mother-Daughter time. Rustin and I ended up fighting over her that night. I'm sure she loved it.
We talked every chance we got. I discovered she wanted to come home. I laid in bed with her and read to her. What surprised me was she listened, really listened. We talked and cried, we worked out and played. Before I knew, it was time for her to go back. She wasn't sure about leaving her Dad and she felt obligated to stay with him. He had just bought a house and she was enticed. I encouraged her to go back and talk to her Dad about it.
At the departing gate I hung on to her. Again her excitement of the trip over powered her pain of leaving. She boarded the plane with half a smile. I cried for three days. It's not that I never missed her before. I was sadder than I ever was. I think I just let myself feel my love for her.
Well Kesha is with her Dad. I haven't heard much from her. She has a new house, dog and is playing the clarinet. She seems happy. About four months after she left we talked. She told me that she was going to stay with her Father. He had told her she would have to in order to go to this great school she wanted to go to. The School of Arts and she doesn't like to hurt peoples feelings. After she blurted it out there was silence. I felt hurt. I couldn't breath. I didn't know what to say. She tried to fill the void with questions. 'So mom how's the job? I said, 'Fine.' Again the silence as I gulped my tears back. I had this thought, Mothers aren't suppose to get their feelings hurt by their children. Once more Kesha asked another question. I didn't hear it. I finally tried to speak. I told her, 'I 'm not going to keep after you about it. I will just tell you how I feel. I feel hurt. I could hear her crying. I walked delicately around my words in order not to cause guilt.
I told her if you want to stay with your Father I will support your decision. I won't try to convince you to come home. She choked out the words, "I know." "Kesha I love you and I won't pull on your other arm. I won't do that to you. I know how it hurts. I will love you even if you stay with your Father. I'll still write, call and send you my love. Don't worry." She started whaling with tears. "Oh mom, it's just like that story of King Solomon. When the two Mothers.." she sobbed. "They were fighting over who's baby it really was. He was going to cut the baby in two and give each women half. The real Mother said, 'No, she can have the baby.' Just like you, Mom." The mom loved her child so much that she would give him up before letting him be torn in half and hurt.
I couldn't believe this child's understanding. The lump in my throat stuck there like cotton while she spoke. I cried the words, "I love you Ladybird, you are incredible."
A Mothers love is the most loyal of all. It hurts my heart when I see Parents hurt their children from the hurt they received as a child. Letting go of a child given to you by God can seem like a betrayal. I had to act from the heart and know that this ladybird would fly back to me one day with larger, much freer wings and understand what real love was about.


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This colorful crayon lip gloss is made from coconut oil and crayons. That's it! Such a simple activity for kids to make. You can add scents if you'd like and make them any color of the rainbow depending on what color of crayon you choose! This post contains affiliate links.
I walked past the kitchen the other day and the girls were hard at work recreating a cute little craft that they saw on yet another youtube video. Here's the one that they made last week from another video, ha!
I was busy getting ready for company that was coming that weekend and was pretty impressed with how they were able to make this crayon lip gloss all on their own! Seeing them busy at work and so happy with the result prompted me to grab my camera. I asked them how they made it and they gave me a quick rundown.
(Yes, those are little stick on nails that we found at Walmart. She only kept them on a couple of days before deciding that she didn't like how they felt, but she did like the way they looked!)
Crayon Lip Gloss
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Kaylee: we weren't sure if we should use just a little bit of a crayon to color our lip gloss or the whole thing. So we tried it with a little bit and then decided to add more to make a darker color. We like how those ones turned out.
(So use about 1″ of an unwrapped crayon, cut into small pieces. The crayon also helps give the lip gloss structure because of the wax.)
Kaylee: we microwaved a teaspoon of coconut oil in a bowl for 30 seconds. Then we added the broken crayon and stirred until it was all melted. Sometimes we had to put it back in the microwave for 10 more seconds.
Kaylee: Then we put them in these little containers (from this project) and put them in the refrigerator.
The girls occasionally add things to my grocery list. Last week it was "coconut oil, lip gloss containers, lipstick brushes, and packing tape (for another project)". I couldn't find any lip brushes in the make up section at the store so I bought a small pack of paint brushes and they work great!
They made 5 little containers and I have a feeling they will continue until they have a whole rainbow of colors! They didn't add scents this time or glitter, but that would be super easy to do!
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Swype being eyed at for $100+ million, Nuance swypes their hands together with glee
A source with knowledge close to the deal is claiming that Nuance has scooped up Seattle-based Swype for $100+ million. Swype is an amazing application and would be a great addition to Nuance's lineup. Swype first launched at a TechCrunch conference back in 2008 and is software for mobile devices which helps people input text far quicker than normal typing. It will soon be on over one hundred million devices.
Nuance already owns T9, which if you didn't know is a predictive text application which first popped up in the 90s and directly competes with Swype. Co-founder of Swype, Cliff Kushler, also founded T9 funnily enough. This acquisition should let Swype expand a fair bit, with the power of Nuance behind them, who knows where they'll Swype to next.


text: I love this list of the 10 most expensive wines in Spain, mainly because the included wines are all amazing, and because we visit most of the wineries on the list. That said, we don't normally taste the wines on this list at the visits–given the price tags you will understand why. It is enchanting to visit a winery where you know they have bottles of wine worth hundreds, even if you don't get to taste it.


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In this second Sunday of Advent sermon, Bob talks about how Christ prepared himself for a life on planet Earth: how he emptied himself of his divinity and was born among us and lived among us in linear time as a man.
This sermon is available on the WCOC Podcast channel. Click on the following link to access the soundcloud web site and enjoy this delightful sermon.
You can also subscribe to the Church of Christ Podcast channel using the Podcast app on your mobile device. Just search for WCOC or Bob Kolodner in your podcast app and subscribe. You will then receive WCOC post casts automatically.


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There is something about the look, feel and smell (is that creepy?) of an old book. We can't help but wonder about how many readers it has held the attention of through the years, the places it has been, which cafes the coffee stains came from…
They are lovely items to have in your home and not just for the stories; they make great decorating items and adorable gifts for special friends. Most of all, if you look in the right thrift shops you could probably score a few for under $5 each.
We've rummaged through quite a few shelves in second hand stores and every visit usually scores us at least one sweet, old book. The one thing we've noticed consistently is that books from an earlier time were truly treasured. There is inevitably always a note on the first page when it has been given as a gift (in some cases, a little proclamation of love). There is generally also the name of the owner of the book written proudly in the front cover and sometimes along with an address and date (how is it that everyone from that time had such gorgeous handwriting?). We've found a couple of books with dates from the early 1900's and these personal touches add so much charm and wonder to these items. We've even found things like old postcards, photographs or newspaper pieces wedged between the pages of some books.
You'll find that the covers have worn away (or completely fallen off), the spine may be a bit of a mess and the pages discoloured; all of these signs of age only add to their charm, so don't worry about looking for books in good condition.
To use them in decorating, pile two or three casually and add a favourite ornament, vase with a single flower or cute little bowl on top for keys, sweets or knick-knacks. It elevates the display from being just functional into a little work of art and certainly makes it a talking point as visitors will be intrigued by these books.
We've delighted friends by gifting them some old books tied together with some string and a hand-written label. This cute little bundle makes such a thoughtful and unique gift and always gets such a surprised and sincere reaction.
At the rate the world is moving, who knows how long books will keep getting published for. As we race forward with technology like e-readers, ipads and smart phones, slow down with things from a simpler time. They have a wonderful way of changing the pace of one's day!


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A woman alleged that Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama, sexually assaulted her when she was 14 years old, the Washington Post reports. Moore was 32 at the time.
The allegations: Leigh Corfman says that Moore picked her up one day (after previously meeting her outside a courthouse in Alabama when she was accompanied by her mother) and drove her to his house in the woods. He allegedly kissed her and complimented her looks. On another visit to his home, she claims Moore took off her pants and shirt, as well as his own clothes, and touched her over her underpants and bra. She also said Moore directed her hand to touch him over his underwear.


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5 Uses For Designs
The Importance of Hiring Architect Design Services.
A home is a place of living for a long time. There are few methods of acquiring a home. We can acquire a home by buying a real estate. Homes can be gotten through wills from parents. Home can be gotten by construction. Land is needed when building a new. We should value some aspects when buying a land for building our homes. It is good to consider the location of the land. The place should be accessible to the public.
We should select a land situated near public facilities such as schools and hospitals. The climate of the place should favor other activities to be done. We should not locate our homes in a hilly place. The construction of a new building entails a lot of things. It is hard to do all the construction work on your own. There is a need to hire construction services. There are many types of services that are needed in the construction work. An example of one of the services is architect design services.
The interior part of the building is very crucial in when designing a building. It is impossible to design the interior part of a building correctly by your own. It is advisable to go for the services of architect designers. There several plans when it comes to the interior work of a building. Examples of such plans are construction of walls, floors, windows, doors, lighting, cabinet, to name a few. You should consider some things when going for architect design services.
A Beginners Guide To Architecture
It should be your aim to first do a research on the best architect designer services of your need. You can follow online directories or rely on other people's advice. It is good to go for the skilled or experienced architect designer services. You should meet with your architect to discuss the plan and cost of the service. It is advisable to budget for your project. It is obvious for the budget to contain the cost of labor and materials. There are a few advantages of hiring architect design services.
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Expect architect designer to give advice on the best materials to buy in the construction work. Architect designers offer quality services to their clients. Architects are people who are updated on the current architectural design techniques. This is meant to make the house look attractive. Expect interior architect designers to assist in safety and regulation procedures. Expect interior architect designers to be confirmed on the law governing the construction of buildings. Architect designers help in the supervision work. …


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|Title: "U.S. Detailed Streets" (2006)
Description: U.S. Detailed Streets represents detailed streets, interstate highways, and major roads within the United States. U.S. Detailed Streets is part of StreetMap USA. StreetMap USA is a dataset in Smart Data Compression (SDC) format that provides nationwide streets display, routing, and geocoding for the United States. It contains a TIGER 2000-based streets dataset, enhanced by ESRI and Tele Atlas, and prepared for routing within the StreetMap Find Route dialog. StreetMap USA data is provided in the ESRI Data & Maps media kit on the ESRI Data & Maps/StreetMap USA DVD. U.S. Detailed Streets provides nationwide streets display, routing, and geocoding for the United States.
|Keywords and Themes: Addresses, Geocoding, Highways, Express Highways, Major Roads, Road Feature Codes, Routing, Streets, Transportation
|Filename Prefix: streets.sdc
|Mapped Drive Folder: /esri2006/data_maps/usa/streetmap_usa/streets/
|Total size of data files: 606 MB
|Data Type: ESRI SDC data set
|Feature Type: Polyline
|Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983
|Datum: North American Datum of 1983
|Map Units: Decimal degrees
Spatial Extent: United States
|Source Scale: 1:50,000
|Scale Note: Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:50,000.
Created by: Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
|Released by: ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
|Content Date: varies
|Published Date: 20061001
Collection Name: ESRI® Data & Maps 2006
|Physical Location: Reference GIS Data Cabinet
|Call Number: G70.212 .E77 2006
|Acquired Date: 20061122
|Distribution Restrictions: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/esridm/2006/help/rdstrght.htm
Links to Metadata, Documentation, and Mapping:
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Old toys seem more imaginative than new ones, even though they are often not considered safe by today's standards.
In the early 1900s, lithographed tin toys, especially those made in Germany, were popular. Many had moving parts, a comical look, bright colors and sharp edges. Today, collectors keep old toys away from young children for safety reasons and to avoid damage.
One major firm that made the toys is George Kellerman of Nuremberg. His company opened in 1910 and is still in business. The mark CKO was put on many of its toys. Kellerman's company made clockwork and friction cars and motorcycles, penny toys and accurate model cars.
From 1954 to 1979, Kellerman made a series of 1/35th-scale toys called the "Rollo Series," which is popular with today's collectors. Look for any toys marked CKO. The mark is a mystery to many.
A letter holder
Question: My mother was given a hand-painted majolica letter holder in the early 1930s. The back is marked "Minghetti Italy." Any information?
Answer: Angelo Minghetti and Son, founded in 1849, was a majolica factory in Bologna, Italy. Its pieces were marked with an AM monogram. It is likely that your letter holder was made by a successor of that firm. The fact that it is marked with the country name in English ("Italy" rather than "Italia") indicates that it was made for export.
A dog tag
Q: I have had an old dog tag for years. It's 11/2-by-11/4 inches and appears to be hand-etched. There's a man's name on it, the letters U.S.N.R.F. and two dates: 5-29-18 and 3-25-99. On the back, there's an etched fingerprint. Is this a tag worn by a soldier? I have had it since well before 1999.
A: Your dog tag matches the kind issued to U.S. Navy enlisted personnel during World War I. U.S.N.R.F. stands for U.S. Navy Reserve Force, which was founded in 1915. Dog tags were first required in the Navy in 1917. The two dates on the tag are the sailor's date of enlistment (May 29, 1918) and date of birth (March 25, 1899). The back of the tag is etched with the print of the sailor's right index finger. The tag is an interesting World War I collectible.
An autograph book
Q: My sister's boss left her some of his personal belongings, including an autograph book that belonged to his wife. She was a Montgomery Ward hat model in the 1930s in New York City. The 29 autographs in the book include several famous actors, such as Leslie Howard, Ginger Rogers, Pat O'Brien and Edward G. Robinson. How should we go about evaluating the autographs?
A: Many autograph dealers are interested in old autograph books because the original collector usually gathered the autographs by sticking the book right under the signer's nose -- a method that guarantees the autographs are authentic. However, since the book you're asking about came to your sister through the collector's husband and you don't know for sure how the autographs were collected, the first thing to do is to contact a reputable dealer or appraiser who can authenticate the signatures. This expert will look at the signatures, ink, paper and general condition of the autographs to judge whether the autographs are real. Meanwhile, protect the book from bugs, sunlight, water or other damage by storing it properly.
A silver bowl
Q: I paid $5 for a tarnished silver bowl at a local flea market. When I cleaned it I could read the marks on the bottom: "International Silver Co., The Drake, Chicago." What can you tell me about it?
A: The International Silver Co. was incorporated in 1898 in Meriden, Conn., by several well-established American silversmiths. By that time, the American hotel industry was already a big market for sturdy silver-plated wares. But Chicago's famous Drake Hotel didn't open until 1920, so your bowl wasn't made earlier than that. Hotel silver was designed to be durable. It was usually made with several layers of plating over a heavy nickel base. Seams were often soldered. Hotel silver is collected for its appearance, usefulness and historical interest. Many collectors use it every day. You paid a bargain price for that piece.
And a chair
Q: We inherited a wooden armchair from my husband's great aunt. The paper label on it reads "Grand Ledge Chair Co." When did the company work?
A: Grand Ledge Chair Co. was in business in Grand Ledge, Mich. (about 12 miles west of Lansing), from 1883 to 1981. The company manufactured chairs and rockers in many styles, from Golden Oak to Mission to Colonial Revival. It used paper labels starting in the middle of the 20th century. The public library in Grand Ledge has an archive of the company's catalogs.


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Hey, That's My Cape! - DC Social Media Needs Some Help
Some might say I'm a social media darling. Others would say addict (especially if you ask my family). I'd say I'm in a steady relationship with Twitter, Facebook and the like.
I grew up in a time when online activities started to become part of our daily lives and jumped on most new sites or technologies as they evolved. It meant I never got left behind but it also meant the Internet, with all its pleasures and foibles, came along with it. That's not to say I don't enjoy a healthy social life outside my house, it's just that I met a lot of cool new people via the internet and I get to see them both on and off the computer.
With the advent of social networking today things got even more exciting. Facebook, while allowing everyone and their mother (sometimes literally) to poke me, was a fun way to connect with old friends and deny requests from old enemies. Twitter, while allowing others to tell me when they went to the bathroom today, allows me to share my personality with thousands upon thousands of people. Not everyone is into it but I have a lot of fun with both.
But looking past the fun I have creating my own Hogwarts House at 2 a.m. on my Twitter, the website, and others, are a fantastic tool to socially network. I remember when I was in school hearing people say how important it was to "network" in order to find jobs when we graduated. It sounded awfully boring to me. Pretending to be interested in something someone had to say in order to get on their contacts list for future opportunities? That wasn't me. But social networking, while founded on the same general principles is so much more than that. I've gotten several job offers via Twitter and it was because people had gotten to know me, and my writing, from my sometimes silly, sometimes thoughtful posts on the website. [Newsarama Note: It's a big part of why you're reading this column on this website right now, in fact!]
So, why am I going on about social networking in a comic book column? I read an excellent piece on Wired recently by Corrina Lawson titled, "Open Letter to DC Comics, Part 3: Marketing Fail, Or Why Not Go After Truly New Readers?" In it, Lawson mentions DC's current initiative to go after males, 18-34 for readership of their relaunched line. She makes some great points about the large number of females already into fantasy in other mediums or those that read GeekMom.com etc. and that DC has huge potential for new readership they are ignoring. She states the very basic incentive to get female readers, scale back the over-sexualized art, but her main gripe is with DC's marketing itself, especially through social networking or lack thereof. And I have to say, I agree.
I've been shouting to anyone who will listen for a few years now that DC badly needs its own Agent M and that I'd gladly volunteer for the job. Frankly, sometimes I feel like I already do that job for free with how much I talk about DC on my Twitter account. While Marvel's official Twitter has just over 156,000 followers, Ryan Penagos (Agent M) has over 1.4 million. As Editorial Director of Marvel.com, Penagos writes about more than just Marvel comics and movies making him a well-rounded individual who isn't just there to shove marketing schemes down your throat. That is what every good, professional social networker should be. In fact, Marvel has recently taken things one step further by hiring a good friend of mine, Janna O'Shea as their Social Media Coordinator. Another excellent move by Marvel considering O'Shea was already a huge supporter of the brand. These are not just employees, these are fans and having fans to talk to other fans is the best advertising you could ask for.
Now, as Lawson points out in her piece, DC is way behind Marvel and many other comic companies, in this regard. DC has a DC Comics Twitter account that they don't use. It has just over a thousand followers but their DC Nation account has just over 53,000. Way behind Marvel. It's a similar situation on facebook, where their fans are split in two, while Marvel's facebook account just hit 2 million. Why is that? The simplest explanation is DC does next to nothing to engage their fans on Twitter. If you simply use the website as a tool to post links about press releases, articles or interviews, it's going to get boring after a while. This is the digital age, people want interactivity.
I am boggled that a specific Social Media job was not created with the inception of DC Entertainment back in 2009. With all the moves the company was making, it seemed a rather obvious omission. DC says they want to hear what fans have to say about their books and the decisions they've made but they don't make any public response of it on their forums or Source Blog and, even more puzzling, DC went backwards in time to bring back their letter pages. It's great to see letters from fans printed in the actual comics and I know there's a nostalgia factor in there too but DC encouraged actual writing of letters. Now, I'm not a technology snob (and you can submit letters via their website of course) but shouldn't they be looking ahead? Shouldn't they be encouraging all forms of digital feedback and give some sort of response in like? I know Dan DiDio has fun with fans at conventions, his Facebook page, etc. but he shouldn't be the only one speaking to them. DiDio, Jim Lee and Geoff Johns all have other jobs that keep them very busy.
So, why not hire me? There. I said it. I want to be DC Entertainment's Social Media Darling.
I live and breathe social networking and it's helped me grow my own brand exponentially in a few years. I'm not naive enough to think everyone knows my name but I have a pretty wide reach. Just the other day my brother told me a friend of his from England asked if The Nerdy Bird was his sister. It was one of those surreal moments. I do what I do, every day, and can sometimes forget how many people are listening to me but it was pretty neat to hear. Ask any of my friends or 10,000 followers, I was made for this job, DC. I'm already hopelessly devoted to your brand, I know how to write and I look and sound good on video. Social networking/media is a lot more than just talking to people on Twitter but you have to start somewhere.


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How To Get Ideas For Macro Photography (2)
My son recently passing his degree in 'Broadcast Media' has with a close pal from university embarked on the ambitious adventure of setting up his own 'Proper Job Productions' organization. Seeing the rejections and what is accepted into the stock agencies are also a fantastic studying curve to photography no matter what level you are at. My cat seems to take great delight in turning her head away anytime she sees me pointing my camera at her and my hyperactive dog just won't sit nevertheless long sufficient for me to get several shots in. So if you have a pet or know someone who does and you are up for a challenge, then pet photography is undoubtedly anything you should try. If you like photography sooner or later you are going to star using your photographs for other issues in addition to attempting to be published in a magazine or other publication. There are good and poor points to film cameras – the price of film production is extremely high now, so I'm pleased to stick with digital.
Beauty mode – Some cameras have a 'beauty mode' which is designed for enhancing close-up pictures of faces. I have just changed the function of my internet site from Photography Website to a Wet Felting Internet site. Photography captures snippets in time and when these snippets have individuals as their main topic matter it makes sense to capture in every photograph what the human condition is. Awesome tips, when travelling we really like to take photos of the neighborhood flowers on our adventures and these suggestions will be place to very good use. With figure study photography your aim is to capture photos that concentrate solely on the human anatomy the curves, the textures and contours of the human body. This is outstanding info, Lela, for people like me who do not possess the photography gene.
Check back routinely as I will keep adding concepts to the list as they come to me but in the meantime you might want to also check out some of the other photography articles I've written, I have incorporated links to those at the finish of this post. Your fundamental photo web sites hosting program is really flexible and can be paid monthly or yearly and you have four different plans to think about. I get pleasure from photography and have been undertaking so professionally and independently for more than 30 years.


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A root called Burdock has been shown to help clear skin. It supports the detoxification process, increases blood circulation to epidermal tissues and also destroys bacteria and fungus present in the skin. It also contains vitamin C which will help to maintain a youthful look.
I typically juice this root once a week along with apples and it tastes great! If you are not a fan of juicing it is also available in tea form, tincture form, and in capsules.


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Your can contact Netflix Customer Service using the Netflix contact number on 08435 040 998.
Netflix is a leading provider of internet television. With Netflix you can watch as much as you want, anytime and anywhere. You can play, pause, resume and there are no commercial breaks.
Subscribing to Netflix means you can cancel online at any time – you're not signed up to a contract. You can pick your monthly price depending on the kind of Netflix package that will suit you.
You can watch Netflix on your television at home, on any computer or mobile device. Netflix has dramas, documentaries, kids programmes, along with the latest films. Netflix is adding to its catalogue all the time.
Help and advice from Netflix Customer Services
Visit the Netflix website at www.netflix.com or contact Netflix Customer Services on 08435 040 998. If you are having problems with streaming, then it could be your internet service. You may wish to contact your internet service provider for help and assistance.
The Netflix Customer Service team can offer help and support with:
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Contact Customer Service for advice and assistance for the following:
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In 2007 Netflix introduced streaming services, allowing members to have instant access to TV shows and movies on personal computers. The next year, partnerships with consumer electronics companies allowed Netflix to expand its streaming service to internet connected TVs and other devices.
By 2010 Netflix was available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Netflix first became available in Europe, including the UK, in 2012 and by 2016 it was available worldwide.


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Interview by Sarah Neubert
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If you've been around the Internet weaving world at all, you already know about Don Freedman. His woven wall hangings are coveted cacophonies of shaggy 70s glory. They pop up in thrift shops for $15, and on Chairish for hundreds of dollars. These iconic wool-and-jute pieces are everywhere - design blogs, Pinterest, and in the homes of many weavers who've been lucky enough to find one - and there's no denying the influence of his work on current weaving trends.
Yet, if you Google Don Freedman, you find very little about the man himself. Lots of weavings pop up in the search, but where did they come from? Is Don Freedman a real person? If so, where is he? Where did he get the inspiration for his work? Does he have any idea the effect his pieces are having to this day? I felt like I needed the answers to these questions and, through a couple of phone calls and a long chain of emails, I discovered that Don Freedman is alive and well, in his late 70s, spending lots of time in his garden, and designing gorgeous clocks, lamps, furniture, lighting and sculptures (he does some of the sculpture himself), which he sells in his home furnishings boutique, Freedman's of Nantucket.
To my delight, Mr. Freedman was happy to answer my questions about his textile work. We conducted an email interview that was fascinating and heartwarming. I found him to be very kind, thoughtful, and full of wise words; he even gave me a valuable and personal critique of my own work. I hope you will enjoy, like I did, getting to know the man behind these iconic pieces.
Where are you from? When were you born?
I was born in a little town called Hillside, New Jersey, in 1937. Everyone in the town knew everyone else, and in school every student went to all the sports events and the plays and the high school dances, and many of my classmates married their high school romances. We were very happy and very naive. I was a very sensitive young man and did poorly in school and had a very dysfunctional family. At that time my guidance counsellor suggested that I be a presser at the local cleaner's. That set me back quite a few years. When I made my first million I wanted to call the counselor and tell him how wrong he was, but by that time I was very comfortable in forgiving him. As a young man my creative energy was just plain weird, and so I am sure that my tests never showed that I was creative.
Your shop assistant told me that you found the inspiration to design tapestries on a visit to India.
This is not exactly correct. I became addicted to yoga and went to a retreat at the age of 34 or 35. We chanted two to three hours a day, plus about three hours a day of Hatha yoga. As I look back, I would say that I was not aware of how out-of-touch I was with my heart and others. I lived what seemed like a normal life, but I was definitely unconscious, and as a matter of fact, I have gone in and out of consciousness most of my life. I feel that most of us go through life just filling the basic needs of existence. We are hungry and we eat, we are tired and go to sleep, we are stuffed from eating and go to the bathroom. But back to my yoga retreat story! After many months of the retreat, I started to have the feeling that there was more to life than I thought. I felt like I was experiencing ideas that were almost messages, and some thoughts that made me feel much, much more aware of myself and the people around me. I am sure this sounds crazy, and to tell you the truth, I was very afraid of all that I was feeling. I remember one evening after chanting for an hour or more, all the other people in the group left, but I stayed and watched the sun set. It was as if I never saw a sunset before, and each moment of the sky changing made me feel more and more energy inside my chest. I felt that I could not hold the energy inside of me, and that the beauty I was watching had to be coming from a God. I cried in hysterics, and for months the experience was right in front of me. Boy, was I afraid. During these periods I looked at people and felt that the entire world wanted to fill the empty places inside of themselves. They all wanted that feeling of sitting in front of a fire with their favorite book, wrapped in a soft blanket. It came to me that I could help people to get that feeling, and it would be through creating tactile art for them.
At the time, I was designing metal sculpture that was being made for me by a wonderful large traditional Chinese family, and I began designing metal sculptures that had fabric in them. I loved designing these pieces. It felt like I was making an environment, not just a piece of art - like I was making something that was all around me, not just something right in front of me. On my next trip to Hong Kong, I decided that I would find what I wanted to design in India. I have no understanding about why I decided that; I guess I just felt it in my heart. Well, I was right - I found some simple weavings in India, and saw such potential for what could be done with the fibers. It took me months to find villages in India where weaving was done. This story can go on and on, but I hope that I have given you some idea of what started me off. In a way my drive was created by my need to fill the empty places inside of myself and others.
What else did you learn or experience in India?
The answer to this would take a full chapter in a book. But I must say it seemed like all that happened was just meant to be. Over the years my heart opened up, and that is when I became much more aware of myself and the world.
Tell me a little bit about your design process.
If I have a process I do not know what it is. At the time [when I was designing weavings] I would just follow what "she" was telling me. Maybe "she" was the God within me. This may sound crazy, but it's just how it felt. I say "she" because I always felt that this work for me was coming from my female side, and it didn't bother me at all!
Have you ever done any weaving yourself?
No, I haven't, and I feel this was to my benefit - I was never concerned about doing a new technique that may have been very time consuming and difficult. I just wanted to get a certain look and I left it up to a weaver or his family to figure out how to get the look.
Were the tapestries created as a collaboration, or were all the designs solely created by you?
The best way to answer this is to say that I could have used any weaver - I believe my ideas were what made the pieces successful. The weavings were produced in rural India. I would watch what the weavers were doing and then suggest what they could do differently to get the effect that I wanted. In most cases the weavers had been doing primitive, somewhat sloppy and cheap wall hangings. I did use some of those designs as a starting point, turning simple geometric styles into designs with a different flow and a recognizable story. It was through days and days of patience and discussions that I worked with these weavers, who had been used to spending maybe 8 hours on a weaving, to create pieces that would take 2-3 weeks each to produce. The new weavings used high-quality mixed materials, and more complex shapes and designs. So in a sense it was a collaboration, but the weaver's ultimate role was just to weave.
Do you know how many tapestries were produced from your designs?
I can only try to remember. I would say there were 130 to 180 different designs and some of them sold up to 50 per month for five or six years, and some sold a total of 10 or 15 each.
I understand that you're cautious about your online presence; is that because you've experienced people copying your work?
Without a doubt. I saw many tapestries with my signature that were just poor copies of one of my designs. Some were not poor copies; a few were good copies - but there was a huge lack of originality.
Does your textile work influence your current designs?
My textile designs came from the same sort of creative energy inside of me, and that period gave me the confidence to let my creative side come out of me. All that I now do is from the same energy that I used in designing textiles. I try to make the most of my creative potential in everything I do, whether it's making up a story to entertain my wife or designing a clock.
Before this interview, were you aware of the renaissance your work is currently experiencing? Is it surprising to you?
No, I was not. It's very surprising and it warms my heart.
Above: Don Freedman in his shop, Freedman's of Nantucket; some of Mr. Freedman's clock designs.
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The Met Office announced their official list of chosen storm names last month after the general public pitched in to have their say. Storm Abigail is the first on the list, with many anticipating its arrival in the UK this weekend. However, a spokesperson for the Met Office said: "We are continuing to monitor the developing weather situation and will let everyone now when any storm is officially named."
While unsettled weather is expected over the weekend, with spells of rain and strong winds, the Met Office has not classified this as a storm so far. Saturday 7 November is expected to see wet and damp conditions for many, however, by Sunday 8 November the Met Office has said mild conditions could be back alongside windy spells of wet weather. Much of the rain and gales will be confined to coastal regions and upland areas of the north and west.
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The Met Office launched the 'Name Our Storms' project last month in the hope that it would help raise awareness of severe weather. Storms moving in from the Atlantic often make first landfall on UK shores, and the Met Office said they would be naming these storms when they have the potential to cause "substantial impacts" in the UK or Ireland.
Names for the storms will be chosen from the official list in alphabetical order and alternating between male and female names, with Abigail first on the first. Other names on the list mean that the UK could soon see a Storm Nigel, Storm Katie and Storm Rhonda.


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When he unveiled his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein wasn't exactly met with applause. Almost no one else could do the math necessary to understand his abstract ideas, and at the time he didn't have any evidence to back it up. But in the century since it was proposed, Einstein's theory has continued to pass ever more stringent tests.
Einstein's concepts have been verified — just as he reckoned they would — on scales from a foot-long sub sandwich to galaxy clusters millions of light-years wide. In between, general relativity has made its mark on the Global Positioning System, while explaining anomalous planetary orbits and the whirling death dances of the remnants of giant stars.
Here are six examples of how Einstein's landmark theory has stood the test of (space-)time.
The Perihelion Precession of Mercury
Isaac Newton's law of gravity saw perhaps its greatest triumph in the mid-1800s with the discovery of the planet Neptune. In 1846, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier crunched the numbers on Uranus' weird orbit, likely caused by another massive body, and just a few months later German astronomers spotted Neptune lurking right where Newton's laws predicted. Ironically, it was another orbital discrepancy that turned out to be the chink in Newton's armor, which Einstein's ideas blew wide open.
This so-called precession of Mercury's perihelion wasn't much; it worked out to a break per orbit of a mere millionth of a percent from Newtonian predictions. Yet with each go-round (Mercury has an 88-day year), the planet stubbornly appeared out of place during perihelion from where astronomers expected it.
In stepped Einstein. In 1915, his brand-new theory precisely accounted for Mercury's weirdness, ultimately due to the warping of space-time produced by the substantial mass of the sun.
The Deflection of Light by Cosmic Bodies
Einstein's work piqued the interest of English astronomer Arthur Eddington, who recognized a great opportunity to test for this light deflection: On May 29, 1919, the sun would conveniently undergo a solar eclipse, which would block out its overwhelming glare, while passing close to a bright group of background stars called the Hyades. If Einstein were right, the sun's presence would deflect their light, subtly shifting their position in the sky.
The "gravitational lens" created by the bending of light through warped space-time has become a vital tool in probing the cosmos. "I call it Einstein's gift to astronomy," says Will. Foreground galaxy clusters can warp and magnify the light of distant, background proto-galaxies, for instance, allowing cosmologists to catch glimpses of early epochs of the universe.
The Gravitational Redshifting of Light
Relativity posits that as light moves away from a massive object, gravity's curving of space-time stretches the light out, increasing its wavelength. With light, wavelength equates to energy and color; less energetic light trends toward the redder part of the spectrum than shorter-wavelength, bluer light. The predicted gravitational "redshifting" effect was too meager for detection for decades, but in 1959, Harvard physicist Robert Pound and his grad student, Glen Rebka Jr., had an idea.
To really nail down this relativistic effect, NASA launched its Gravity Probe A rocket in 1976. This time, researchers looked for a change in the frequency of waves — with shorter wavelengths meaning a higher frequency, and vice versa — in a type of laser in atomic clocks. At a peak altitude of 6,200 miles, a clock aboard Gravity Probe A ran ever so slightly faster than a clock on the ground. The difference, a mere 70 parts per million, matched Einstein's math with unprecedented precision.
"That was a fantastic experiment, just to be able to measure the difference in the rate of time over that very small amount of distance," says Will.
The Shapiro Effect: The Relativistic Delay of Light
In the early 1960s, Shapiro proposed testing this by bouncing a radar signal off of Mercury when the planet was situated right next to the sun (from our Earthly perspective). Shapiro calculated that the sun's gravity well should delay the radar signal by about 200 microseconds, compared with its time back from Mercury without the sun nearby. "That's not exactly an eternity," Shapiro says.
So, to verify the Shapiro effect further, physicists abandoned planets, whose rough surfaces scatter some of the radar signals, for smoother targets: spacecraft. In 1979, the Viking landers on Mars made for a good testing ground for the Shapiro time delay. Then, in 2003, Italian researchers detected a time delay in communication signals to the Cassini spacecraft en route to Saturn. The accuracy achieved was 20 parts per million, 50 times better than even the Viking results, and — wouldn't you know it — right in line with general relativity.
The Equivalence Principle
First, the easy part. Evidence supporting the first aspect of the equivalence principle initially came four centuries ago. In 1589, famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, perhaps apocryphally, released balls from atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The balls, though made of different materials, met little air resistance and landed at the same time. Presto! Four centuries later, in 1971, a more evocative demonstration took place on — of all places — the moon. During the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut Dave Scott simultaneously let go of a hammer and a feather. In the airless lunar environment, the objects fell together and struck the lunar surface simultaneously, mirroring Galileo's experiment. The two bodies fell at the same rate, despite their differences.
The setup has also pegged the moon's acceleration toward the sun as the same as Earth's, just like Galileo's and Scott's dropped objects. After all, according to the equivalence principle, "you are in effect dropping the Earth and the moon around the sun," says the University of Chicago's Holz.
The Geodetic and Frame-Dragging Effects
Circa 1960, physicists dreamed up a straightforward experiment to examine both of these predictions. Step 1: Place gyroscopes on board a satellite orbiting Earth. Step 2: Align the spacecraft and the gyroscopes with a reference star, serving as a basis for comparison. Step 3: Look for changes in the alignment of the gyroscopes, seeing how far out of alignment they'd been dragged by Earth's gravitational influence.
General relativity has held up quite well these last 10 decades. But its trials are far from over. As impressive and rigorous as many of the tests have been, none have taken place in the realm of monstrously strong gravity, in the neighborhood of black holes. In these extreme environments, Einstein's theories might just come undone, or — given the man's track record — astound us still more with their predictive power.
"We're really looking at probing the predictions of general relativity even more deeply," says Will. "We shouldn't give up testing it."
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After her big win at the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy, a 17-year-old teen film critic thought it would be a good idea to make a gross sexist joke about meeting her.
Lights Camera Jackson, tweeted a photo of him beside Schumer, joking that he had "spent the night" with her and how it was unlikely that he was the "first guy to write that". The tweet has since been deleted.
Schumer, who is no stranger to the dialogue against slut shaming and sexism, clapped back yesterday, with, "I get it. Cause I'm a whore?"
@LCJReviews @jondaly I get it. Cause I'm a whore? Glad I took a photo with you. Hi to your dad.
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) January 18, 2016
Jackson apologized right away, saying that he thought she would appreciate the joke.
@amyschumer I truly apologize. Thought you'd like the joke. I should leave the comedy to you! Thanks for the photo. Glad you won last night!
— LightsCameraJackson (@LCJReviews) January 18, 2016
I truly apologize for the tweet I posted earlier. I'm not a comedian and it wasn't funny. @amyschumer
— LightsCameraJackson (@LCJReviews) January 18, 2016
Instead of escalating the argument, Schumer gracefully accepted his apology.
@LCJReviews that's really okay honey. I just remember thinking you and your dad were sweet and it was a bummer to read that
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) January 18, 2016
Hopefully, Schumer's clapback will ward off any future misogynistic and sexist jokes being sent her way. Citizens of the Twitterverse, you've been warned.
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Journey to the West
Based on one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature of the same name, Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" is a contemporary remake of the misadventures of a Buddhist monk as he makes a pilgrimage from China to India. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (sutras). The bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin), on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples - namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing - together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang`s steed, a white horse. These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as atonement for their past sins.
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Motorola Readies Ninth Android Phone For U.S.
Libertyville, Ill. - The ninth Android smartphone announced by Motorola for the U.S. market will be the company's first to pair a touchscreen with a fixed QWERTY keyboard that neither slides out nor flips out.
The bar-style Android 2.1-based Charm, available exclusively through T-Mobile later this summer, will also be the company's first Android phone with an enhanced version of the Motorola-operated Motoblur service, which aggregates and pushes all of a user's work and personal emails, text messages, and social-network posts and status updates to two widgets on the home screen for easy management. Improvements include increased customization, filtering options and such functions as re-tweeting.
The Charm will also be the second Android-based Motorola phone with a Backtrack navigation pad on back behind the touchscreen. The pad enables users to navigate Web sites and applications without touching the touchscreen or otherwise obstructing the view of content on the screen. The navigation pad, for example, lets users move an icon to select emails, icons and pictures.
Pricing wasn't announced.
The square-ish 2.65-inch by 3.87-inch by 0.45-inch device features 2.8-inch multitouch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, FM radio, 3-megapixel camera, 512MB internal memory, included 2GB MicroSD card, support for optional 32GB MicroSD card, Adobe Flash-enabled browser and 3.6Mbps HSPA 3G technology.
Like phones with the current version of Motoblur, the Charm will stream contacts, posts, messages, photos and more from such sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, and work and personal e-mail. In addition, Motoblur automatically syncs contacts to the phone from personal and work email and social-network accounts. The upgraded service, however, will give users more "options to follow who and what really matters," the company said. Consumers can select filters for each source to stream only the live information they want to see on their home screen's social-network Happenings widget and their Messages widget, the company explained.
The device supports up to seven home screens, and users can select different power modes to conserve battery. Lost Charms can be located from a secure personal information portal from which their content can be remotely erased. Motorola's Moto Phone Portal lets users access and manage their phone's data from any browser through a USB or Wi-Fi connection.


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Capitol Alert
California Assembly approves cap on UC out-of-state enrollment
Following a scathing state audit, the Assembly passed a bill Wednesday restricting the number of non Californians the University of California system can enroll to 10 percent of total enrollment by fall 2022.
State Auditor Elaine Howle found that UC was enrolling a higher number of less-qualified nonresident students to boost revenue at the expense of California students. According to the report, nonresident enrollment exploded by 82 percent between the 2010-11 and 2013-14 academic years. The report further stated the UC system didn't do enough to cut budgets before turning to recruiting out-of-state students.
"At this time, I think the audit has been clear that California students have been harmed," said the co-author of Assembly Bill 1711, Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside.
AB 1711 passed 61-0 and will advance to the Senate for consideration.
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