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Why I Tattooed My Eyebrows | Beauty With Mi | Refinery29 - Duration: 6:14.
You're going to grow hair!
I won't have to do my eyebrows ever again.
Ok, well...
For awhile I won't have to do my eyebrows.
Hey guys!
It's Mi-Anne and this is Beauty With Mi.
So this episode is really special because
it involves me conquering a fear.
Needles freak me out!
I got my eyebrows microbladed.
Essentially, it's a semi-permanent way to
fill in your brows and it lasts over a year!
52 weeks, 365 days a year.
Your eyebrows are permanently there.
For me, as someone who does fill in her
eyebrows pretty much every single day,
that's pretty friggin' awesome.
So I started thinking about getting my own
eyebrows microbladed about two years ago
when my coworker and friend Alyssa
got hers done.
I've had to really convince Mi-Anne
that this is worth it.
It just so happened Alyssa was due for
a touch-up on her own brows
so we ventured all the way to Long Island
to visit Emilia Berry,
founder and eyebrow extraordinaire
at Permaline Cosmetics.
Hey guys it's Alyssa Coscarelli here,
fashion market editor at Refinery29
and I'm here with Mi-Anne today on an
eyebrow adventure.
A tattoo on your face, essentially.
It seems like it's gonna hurt!
I always insist that it's not that bad but
your eyes water when you get your eyebrows done,
like when you get them waxed or threaded.
That's true.
It's just a sensitive area.
You know, the technician puts numbing cream
on your eyebrows so that you really
technically shouldn't feel a thing.
But I am still nervous.
All right, I'm excited.
We should just do it.
Let's do it!
All right.
First things first,
Emilia smoothed on a layer of numbing cream.
She's an angel sent from heaven above
to fix eyebrows.
She's been doing it for years so Alyssa
and I knew we were in really good hands.
Blades aren't out yet so I'm not that nervous.
I know that there's some steps
before we get there.
First of all, we're creating shape, essentially.
I'm filling in.
I'm adding here and there.
This is...This is a really good shape.
— Thank you. — I agree with you.
I think because I'm so used to it being
a little bit more of an angle so just keep going.
So let's do it a little more angle-y.
Then she brought out all of her inks
and started matching the color
to my eyebrows and once I was happy with it—
— I think this one. — I think so too.
She pulled out her microblading tool.
Not gonna lie, it scared the $#*! out of me.
Essentially a row of needles.
The first feeling of the pain is like what
I'm most anxious about.
Listen, I'm going to go super slow.
Then I closed my eyes and Emelia
started scraping teeny tiny brow
hairs onto my skin.
You all right?
Yep!
It doesn't hurt.
That's usually one of the more sensitive
areas right there.
Yeah, it hurts a little more now but still,
I can do it.
The first few strokes were, admittedly,
mildly uncomfortable but afterward,
it didn't hurt at all.
You can kind of hear the needles, like...
like scratching on your skin.
That's kind of like a...That's a little bit scary.
On a scale of one being no eyebrows
to ten being bushy eyebrows,
where were my natural eyebrows?
I think yours are about six, seven?
Really?
Mmhm.
You have eyebrows.
What is Alyssa then?!
So this process took about 45 minutes
before she switched to a digital pen
which essentially is a tattoo gun
with a really fine needle.
See?
You can't even see how moving but
it does move.
Oh man, it's so sharp.
Ahh!
It was kind of scary.
The machine made a lot of noises
but it actually was less painful
than the actual scraping.
I don't, I don't feel it at all.
It's kind of amazing.
Isn't it?
The most important thing, I believe,
is if you create eyebrows to not make them too perfect.
To kind of try to simulate mother nature,
which she certainly is not.
All right, looks good.
Wanna see?
Yes, I do want to see it.
Oh they look so natural!
All these little tiny hairs.
Super even and fresh and all filled in.
I'm so excited to not have to fill my eyebrows
in anymore.
And that was it!
I had built up all this anxiety for two years
for an hour long process that honestly was
pretty painless.
Once she was done,
Emelia wiped off our eyebrows and instructed
Alyssa and I not to get them wet for five days.
I told you it wasn't gonna be that bad!
It was just how I remembered.
Like, you could hear the little
scraping sound a bit
but the numbing cream really works wonders.
I'm so excited for them to heal a little bit too
— so that we can see in four weeks- — The final, final result.
What the final effect is but even just,
I don't know, one hour post.
And how do you feel?
Does it hurt at all?
Mine's a little bit tender.
The actual procedure didn't hurt at all.
We're gonna have to get creative with covering
our eyebrows, keeping them dry.
Maybe wearing some goggles in the shower
for the next five days.
But four weeks later…
They're gonna look amazing.
Wait for it.
So I know for me,
that this has kind of changed my life.
Me too!
I can honestly do my makeup in five minutes
now that I have these.
I just conceal anything,
a little bronzer, a little mascara.
Peace.
So it all came together full circle.
Aw.
Let's do it again sometime!
Yeah, two years from now.
We'll make a date.
So for those of you who don't want to spend
the money and I do not blame you.
It is a lot of money.
I have a few products here that I personally
really, really love.
The first of which is a brow pencil.
Now, I am a big fan of brow pencils
especially if you have superfine
brow hairs like me.
This one's from Benefit.
It's called, "The Precisely, My Brow Pencil."
Secondly, I like to set my work.
Usually I'll do it with a powder and then
gel but you can also get away
with just doing gel.
It is called, "The Maybelline Brow Precise."
I like it because it has little tiny fibers
that you can put on your brow hairs and it
kinda beefs them up a little.
So, a very good choice.
Also at the drugstore so it's affordable.
Got it, got it.
Would you ever get your eyebrows microbladed?
Let me know in the comments below
and be sure to click here to subscribe to Refinery29
and click here to watch more videos.
See ya later!
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ISOLATION CHAMBERS HEALING FOR THE MIND & SOUL HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED THIS - Duration: 5:21.
ISOLATION
CHAMBERS HEALING FOR THE MIND & SOUL.
HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED THIS
BY JEFF ROBERTSAPRIL
The sensory deprivation tank, also known as an isolation chamber, is a modern day relaxation
therapy that has been gaining widespread attention for its remedial and healing benefits for
the mind and soul.
Drawing upon meditation theory, it forces the participant to let go of all external
sensory stimuli to focus on the infinite universe that is within.
The tank is filled with water that is harmonized to the same temperature as the surface of
the skin.
Heavily salted with Epsom salt, the water is extremely dense, allowing the person to
float on their backs with their nose and mouth above the water.
The participant enters the tank nude, and because of the precisely correlated temperature
of the water and the skin, the person is led to feel as though they are floating in mid-air.
Neither light nor sound can enter the chamber, which means the person is completely cut off
from outward sensory stimuli and, after relaxing into the environment, is absorbed into a concentrated
mediation.
The environment allows for the person to easily slip into an altered state of consciousness,
and with practice through successive sessions, users report being able to explore deeper
and deeper aspects of their psyche and consciousness with improved efficiency each time.
As a person gets better at letting go a bit more each time, they come to a point where
they release the attachments to identity, and by doing so become connected to a source
of energy and awareness like never before.
Within the first 15-20 minutes, users report experiences wherein they observe themselves
and their lives with a new transparency, gaining clarity on things such as their behaviour,
relationships, and thought patterns.
As time goes on within the chamber, the mind and soul become completely segregated from
the body, wherein some can experience the �god-head,� or the feeling of complete
oneness with the universe and the source of love and light.
The tank provides a helping means for anyone to practice meditation, whether they are completely
new to the exercise or are already a master.
The benefits can be substantial for people who are experiencing stress and who wish to
escape their busy lives, for people who have difficulty meditating in their normal environments,
or even for people who simply wish to gain clarity on issues in their daily lives.
In today�s society, a vast majority of people search outwards for help and assistance, and
the common vices that are promoted through mass advertising and media include pharmaceutical
and/or illicit drugs, alcohol, and television, to name a few.
Modern day therapies such as the isolation chamber may be the future of psychotherapy,
which focuses on ridding oneself of external distraction while empowering oneself to heal
by means of personal observation and conscious awareness.
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Andy Puzder 'Very Disappointed' He's Not Labor Secretary | MSNBC - Duration: 5:49.
YOU KNOW, I'M SURE HE COULD BE RIGHT BUT I DON'T THINK HE IS.
I THINK HE'S WRONG. >> WHEN YOU WORE THE FORMER HAT
AS CEO OF CKE YOU FOUGHT AGAINST RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE.
IF WAGE GROWTH WHAT IS WE NEED, INCREASED WAGES HAVE YOU CHANGED
YOUR OPINION ON THAT? >> NO.
ACTUALLY, THAT'S NOT TRUE. FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS I'VE
BEEN ENCOURAGING THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION AND THE
INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION TO GET BEHIND AN
INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE. WHAT I OPPOSE AND STILL OPPOSE,
IS AN INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE THAT KILLS JOBS.
IF YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU'RE KILLING JOBS, THEN YOU'RE
REALLY ACTING COUNTER TO WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO WHICH IS
HURT -- HELP WORKING CLASS AMERICANS.
$15 AN HOUR CLEARLY KILLS A LOT OF JOBS.
THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE A COUPLE YEARS AGO SAID $10.10
AN HOUR WOULD KILL 500,000 JOBS. WE HAVE TO FOUND A BALANCE TO
INCREASE WAGES AND WE SHOULD INCREASE THEM BUT NOT TAKING
AWAY JOBS PEOPLE NEED TO GET ON THE LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY.
THERE WAS A LOT OF PUBLICITY ABOUT MY BEING OPPOSED TO
INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE JUST WASN'T TRUE.
>> IF A BORDER ADJUSTMENT TAX IS OFF THE TABLE AND WE STILL
PARTICIPATE, WHICH WE WILL, IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY, HOW IS IT THAT
WE'RE GOING TO PUT PRESSURE ON COMPANIES TO ACTUALLY INCREASE
WAGES? IF YOU CAN GET LABOR COSTS -- IF
LABOR COSTS CONTINUE TO BE MUCH LOWER OVERSEAS WHAT PRESSURE CAN
YOU PUT ON COMPANIES NOW TO PAY EMPLOYEES MORE?
I MEAN THE DISPARITY BETWEEN CEO AND WORKER PAY HAS NEVER BEEN
GREATER? >> WELL THE DISPARITY BETWEEN
CEO AND WORKER PAY HAS BEEN DRIVEN IN LARGE PART BY SOME
HUGE, HUGE INCOMES BY PEOPLE LIKE A MARK ZUCKERBERG, OR STEVE
JOBS, WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE, OR BEZOS AT AMAZON.
YOU HAVE THESE REALLY SPECTACULAR COMPANIES THAT HAVE
DONE A LOT OF GOOD FOR AMERICA, BUT YOU'VE GOT CEOs WHO MAKE A
LOT OF MONEY IN THAT RESPECT. AS FAR AS KEEPING JOBS IN THE
UNITED STATES, I THINK ONE IS IF WE CAN REDUCE THE THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OR LOW-WAGE WORKING IMMIGRANTS, IF WE CAN
REDUCE THOSE NUMBERS AND FIND AMERICANS TO FILL THOSE JOBS I
THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WAGES GO UP.
AND IF WE CAN GENERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH SO THERE ARE MORE JOBS IN
THIS COUNTRY, SO WE HAVE EMPLOYERS COMPETING WITH EACH
OTHER FOR EMPLOYEES AS OPPOSED TO EMPLOYEES COMPETING FOR JOBS,
THAT'S WHAT DRIVES WAGES AND BENEFITS UP AND I THINK WE COULD
EASILY HAVE THAT SITUATION WITH THE TAX PLAN THAT GENERATED
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS
PROPOSING. >> WHY DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO
TAKE THE CORPORATE TAX RATE FROM 35% DOWN TO 15%?
WHICH KNOW THAT COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING WE'VE GOT A HIGH RATE,
BUT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK, VERY FEW COMPANIES ARE REALLY PAYING
THAT 35%. I MENTIONED IT EARLIER, YOU WERE
TALKING ABOUT CEOs LIKE MARK ZUCKERBERG, STEVE JOBS,
COMPANIES LIKE IBM, WHO HAVE MISSED SALES FOR 20 CONSECUTIVE
MONTHS, THEY'RE NOT PAYING -- LAST MONTH THEY GOT A TAX
CREDIT. THEY GOT CEOs GETTING PAID $33
MILLION AND THEY'RE NOT PAYING 15%.
SO UNLESS YOU HAVE A FLAT TAX WHERE MY MOM AND DAD WHO CAN'T
NECESSARILY AFFORD TO PAY FOR A TAX SPECIALIST, THEY'RE GETTING
THE SHORT END OF THE STICK AND AS LONG AS CORPORATE AMERICA HAS
TAX GURUS WHO CAN FIND THOSE LOOPHOLES BECAUSE THOSE
LOOPHOLES AREN'T GOING AWAY, WHY DO THEY NEED TO GO TO 15%?
YOU'RE JUST GOING TO JACK UP THE DEFICIT?
>> TWO THINGS. ONE, WE WANT TO GET THE
CORPORATE RATE DOWN SO THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING THE NUMBER OF
CORPORATE INVERSIONS WE'RE SEEING, WHICH IS WHERE
CORPORATIONS GO OVERSEAS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A LOWER TAX RATE.
>> GIVE THEM A PENALTY. >> IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS
RIGHT, THEN CORPORATIONS WOULDN'T BE GOING OVERSEAS TO
SEE THOSE RATES. THERE ARE CORPORATIONS THAT TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN THE TAX CODE.
SUCH AS IBM AS YOU JUST MENTIONED NOT PAYING TAXES.
FOR THOSE CORPORATIONS ACTUALLY GOING TO A 15% RATE AND REDUCING
DEDUCTIONS AND LOOPHOLES, WHICH WHAT IS THIS PLAN IS SUPPOSED TO
DO, THAT WOULD INCREASE TAXES FOR THOSE CORPORATIONS.
SO YOU WOULD PUNISH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE
SYSTEM NOW, BUT YOU WOULD LOWER THE RATES SO PEOPLE WEREN'T
ENCOURAGED, PEOPLE THAT DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SYSTEM,
WOULDN'T BE ENCOURAGED TO INCORPORATE OVERSEAS.
SO I THINK A 15% RATE, EVEN IF IT WENT TO 20%, BUT A RATE IN
THAT RANGE WOULD BE HUGE FOR AMERICAN BUSINESSES.
WHITE KEEP BUSINESS HERE. IT WOULD BE -- IT WOULD KEEP
BUSINESS HERE. THERE WOULD BE MORE JOBS.
ENCOURAGE CORPORATIONS TO EITHER PAY THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TAX OR
STAY IN THE UNITED STATES, BOTH OF WHICH ARE GOOD.
>> I HAVE TO ASK YOU, WHEN I LOOK AT JEB BUSH NOW SPENDING
HIS TIME BUYING THE MARLINS WITH DEREK JETER, HE MIGHT BE SAYING,
I'M PRETTY STOKED I'M NOT PRESIDENT.
YOU WERE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU MAY HAVE BEEN LABOR SECRETARY.
DO YOU WISH YOU WERE? >> ABSOLUTELY.
I FEEL LIKE IT WAS A JOB I WAS PREPARING FOR FOR MY ENTIRE
CAREER. I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED I'M NOT.
EVEN WATCHING THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS WITH PEOPLE DOWN
THERE THAT HAVE BEEN FRIENDS OF MINE FOR A LONG TIME LIKE RICK
PERRY AND RYAN ZINC KI AND WILBUR ROSS THAT I MET DURING
THE PROCESS BEING AT HOME SITTING ON THE COUCH DRINKING A
GLASS OF WINE ON THE COUCH WITH MY WIFE WATCHING IT ON TV,
DISAPPOINTING IN ONE RESPECT, BUT BEING AT HOME DRINKING WINE
WITH YOUR WIFE ISN'T A BAD THING.
>> THREE DAYS LATER WHEN THE PRESIDENT, AFTER HE GAVE THAT
STRONG STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, HE WOKE UP AND HE
TWEETED THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HACKED HIM.
THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A HEADACHE FOR YOU?
>> WELL LOOK, A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS
SAID PEOPLE C CRITICIZE VERY HEAVILY, BUT THEN YOU FIND OUT
THAT THEY HAD SOME LEGITIMACY. I REMEMBER DURING THE --
>> SO YOU THINK PRESIDENT OBAMA WIRETAPPED HIM?
>> NO. BUT WE DID FIND OUT PEOPLE IN
THE ADMINISTRATION WERE -- I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE
WIRETAPPED OR HACKED, WHAT THE RIGHT WORD WOULD BE, BUT WE DID
FIND OUT THAT THERE WAS SOME THINGS GOING ON THAT MAYBE
WOULDN'T BE CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE IN THAT
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Video: See the newest trends for weddings - Duration: 2:58.
CHRIS CLACK AM, WBAL-TV 11 NEWS.
>> JOINING ME THIS MORNING,
NICOLE ETTENHOFFER WITH GEORGE
STREET VIDEO AND PHOTO.
I CAN SMELL IT.
A DOUGHNUT CAKE.
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT?
>> WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF BRIDES
AND GROOMS PICKING A
NONTRADITIONAL WEDDING CAKE,
DOUGHNUTS.
THEY'RE VERY TASTY, BUT IT'S A
VERY AFFORDABLE OPTION.
>> WHAT A COOL IDEA.
I'D HAVE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.
GET A CLOSE-UP.
NIGHT SHOT PICKS.
>> THEY'RE ON TREND RIGHT NOW.
IT ALLOWS THE COUPLE TO TAKE A
MOMENT DURING THE RECEPTION,
STEP OUTSIDE AND BE ABLE TO HAVE
A SWEET MOMENT FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY CAN CAPTURE THE MOMENT AND
ENJOY IT FOR A LIFETIME.
THE LIGHTING EFFECTS CREATE A
ROMANTIC FEEL AND ALSO, IF THEY
ARE GOING TO BE ANY LIGHTING
EFFECTS WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER,
THEY NEED TO LET THEM KNOW AHEAD
OF TIME BECAUSE THE PHOTOGRAPHER
NEEDS TO BRING SPECIAL
EQUIPMENT.
>> THESE SOR GORGEOUS.
>> SHALL WE TRY ONE ON?
SO FLOWER CROWNS ARE GREAT,
BECAUSE THEY OBVIOUSLY BRING
BEAUTIFUL POPS OF COLOR INTO
EVERYTHING.
AND THEN THEY ALSO REALLY, YOU
CAN USE IT WITH JEWELRY.
YOU CAN USE IT WITHOUT JEWELRY.
IT'S UP TO WHAT THE BRIDE
CHOOSES.
AND IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL IN PHOTOS
AS WELL.
SO IT'S REALLY FUN.
>> I FEEL LIKE IT'S REALLY A
BOHEMIAN TREND THAT'S GOING ON
TOO.
>> VERY MUCH SO.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT MISMATCHED
DRESSES.
>> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
LACEY, BUT I'VE HAD A LOT OF
TIMES WHEN I'VE STOOD UP IN A
WEDDING AND THE DAY AFTER, I
THROW AWAY THE DRESS OR GIVE IT
TO DONATION.
>> GUILTY.
>> ME TOO.
>> WHAT THIS ALLOWS IS THE
BRIDESMAID TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE
A DRESS THAT IS MORE FITTING FOR
THEM.
SO THEIR BODY STYLE, THEIR
WHATEVER.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT
SIZES.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT
VARIETIES WITH LENGTHS, WITH
MATERIALS.
SOMETIMES IT'S A MISMATCHED WITH
THE COLOR.
AND THEN SOMETIMES IT'S A
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DRESS FOR
EACH AND EVERY BRIDESMAID, BUT
THEY ALL ARE VERY COHESIVE AND
WORK BEAUTIFULLY TOGETHER.
>> >> I LOVE THE IDEA BUT I WAS
BORING AND DID THE SAME FOR MY
GIRLS.
BALTIMORE HOT SPOTS, ONE IS A
MUSEUM, ONE A FARM.
>> YES, SO STEPPINGSTONE FARM IS
A MUSEUM.
IT'S BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE THEY HAVE
BARNS AND BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE
AND SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A
RUSTIC WEDDING, THAT IS THE
PLACE TO BE.
>> I LOVE THAT BACKDROP.
AND RAWLINGS CONSERVATORY.
>> WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS, IT
HAS A BEAUTIFUL BOTANIC
BACKDROP.
FOR THE CEREMONY AND THE
RECEPTION, IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
>> THERE IS JUST REALLY NO EXTRA
DECORATION NEEDED AT SOME OF
THESE PLACES.
>> IT ALSO MAKES IT AFFORDABLE
IN THAT RESPECT.
>> EVEN BETTER, BECAUSE WE KNOW
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JDRF Westchester/Fairfield Gala 2017 - Duration: 2:01.
HI, I'm Barbara Arman and I had the honor of being this year's Gala chair.
I hope you had a spectacular time at the Gala on Saturday and that you enjoyed being a part of the JDRF family.
Thank you to those who came, gave or participated in some way.
Your support allows JDRF to invest in the most promising research that aims to cure, prevent and treat Type 1 Diabetes.
Lastly, thank you to an incredible Gala committee that helped make the evening a huge success.
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Video: Spoil your favorite teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week - Duration: 2:46.
>> WELCOME BACK.
THIS UPCOMING WEEK IS TEACHER
APPRECIATION WEEK.
HERE WITH IDEAS TO HELP
CELEBRATE IS BILL MARTIN FROM
LAKE SHORE LEARNING.
GOOD MORNING.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING US ON
TODAY.
>> YOU'RE WELCOME.
THIS IS MAINLY FOCUSED FOR
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS.
>> EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMENTARY.
TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK STARTS
TOMORROW, RUNS ALL WEEK LONG.
IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SAY
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT THESE
TEACHERS MAKE.
WE'VE GOT GREAT IDEAS THAT ARE
UNIQUE AND GET THE KIDS INVOLVED
IN GIVING SOMETHING AWESOME TO
THE TEACHERS FOR TEACHER
APPRECIATION.
>> LET'S START WITH OVER HERE,
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THIS IS GOOD
FOR MOTHER'S DAY TOO.
>> THIS IS AN AWESOME LITTLE
CRAFT.
IT'S VERY EASY TO DO.
PRETTY MUCH, YOU COULD WRITE A
PERSONALIZED MESSAGE ON THE
PAPER RIGHT THERE, PUT IT ON A
CARDBOARD FRAME AND THEN THE
KIDS CAN TAKE THEIR TIME GLUING
CRAYONS ON TO HERE TO GIVE IT A
UNIQUE, ONE OF A KIND LOOK.
IT JUMPS OUT FOR SURE.
I DON'T THINK MANY TEACHERS WILL
HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN
THEIR CLASSROOM ALREADY.
>> SORT OF LIKE A CATCH-ALL BOX
RIGHT HERE TOO.
>> THIS IS SOME ART SUPPLIES.
NO TEACHER IS EVER GOING TO BE
UPSET ABOUT GETTING MO MORE ART
SUPPLIES.
A NICE CADDIE AND I LOVE THE
MESSAGE.
TEACHING IS A WORK OF HEART.
GET IT?
>> SO CUTE.
THEY'RE SO IMPACTFUL IN OUR
CHILDREN'S LIVES.
HERE IS A FLOWER BOUQUET.
>> IT HAS MAGNETIC LETTERS IN
HERE SO IT GIVES IT THE
EDUCATIONAL THEME AND GIVES THEM
SOMETHING TO USE WHEN THEY'RE
ALL DONE WITH THE FLOWERS.
IT'S JUST A THOUGHTFUL,
THOUGHTFUL GIFT THAT'S GOING TO
BE SPECIAL WHEN YOU GIVE IT TO
THE TEACHER.
>> SOMETHING ELSE THEY CAN USE,
MORE BOOKS.
>> ALWAYS CAN USE MORE BOOKS.
THOSE LIBRARIES, YOU WANT TO
FILL IT UP.
HAVING TWO COPIES OF THE SAME
BOOK, NEVER A BAD THING.
THESE CUTE BOOK CASES ARE
AWESOME FOR STORING THEM AND
KEEPING THEM ORGANIZED.
I LOVE THE STORY WANDS HELP YOU
WITH READING COMPREHENSION.
>> I LOVE THE MESSAGES.
I LOVE HOW PRACTICAL THESE ARE.
WHAT'S THIS?
>> THAT IS A SPECIAL
PERSONALIZED BOOK THE KIDS CAN
MAKE FOR THEIR TEACHERS.
IT'S HARD COVER, TOTALLY BLANK
INSID
INSIDE.
IT LETS THEM DRAW PICTURES, PUT
PHOTOS IN THERE, PERSONALIZE IT
AND GIVE TEACHERS SOMETHING TO
HOLD ON TO AND REMEMBER THEIR
KIDS WITH FOR A LONG TIME TO
COME.
>> AT THE END, YOU HAVE A FLOWER
POT.
>> WE DO FREE CRAFTS AT THE
STORE EVERY SATURDAY FROM 11:00
TO 3:00.
THE FLOUR POT IS WHAT WE'LL DO
THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY.
A SPRING THEME, VERY CUTE.
IT'S MAGNETIC SO WHEN YOU TAKE
IT HOME, POP IT ON THE FRIDGE
AND HAVE A SPRING/SUMMER VIBE IN
THE HOUSE.
WE DO SOMETHING EVERY SATURDAY.
IT'S ALWAYS DIFFERENT AND IT'S
ALWAYS A TON OF FUN.
>> BILL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
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Shapes Learning Learn Colors for Toddler and Preschooler Learning Shapes & Colors game for Kids - Duration: 11:38.
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TWICE Announces Special Treat For Fans Along With New Comeback Teaser - Duration: 1:05.
TWICE Announces Special Treat For Fans Along With New Comeback Teaser
Along with their latest comeback teaser for "Signal", JYP Entertainment girl group TWICE revealed that they will be holding an encore TWICELAND concert following the incredible success of their first concert tour.
Following the release of their first teaser for "Signal", which featured a photo of the girls in western school uniforms, TWICE unveiled their comeback schedule for the upcoming release.
In addition to teasing fans with what looks like a space-theme, however, the teaser also included a note that encore concerts for TWICELAND would be held on June 17th and 18th at the Jamsil Indoor Stadium.
With the overwhelming success of the TWICELAND concerts in Seoul, Thailand, and Singapore so far, the encore concert will definitely be a huge hit with fans.
TWICE's comeback schedule .
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6 Idols That Trained For At Least 10 Years Before They Debuted - Duration: 2:11.
6 Idols That Trained For At Least 10 Years Before They Debuted
These six idols were trainees at their respective agencies for at least ten years before debuting their groups.
Idols undergo training as trainees at their companies for an undetermined amount of time before debuting. Some train for a year, some even train for fifteen years before debuting.
The following six idols underwent a rigorous training period as trainees for at least ten years to finally debut.
TWICE's Jihyo trained for about ten years before debuting with TWICE and she even trained alongside Suzy during her training period. Since she started training at JYP Entertainment at such an early age, she debuted at the fresh age of 19.
SPICA Jiwon. Jiwon trained at her agency for a total of 10 years before debuting. She initially was set to debut in a group called "Five Girls" with Secret's Hyosung, Wonder Girls' Yubin, G.NA, and After School's UEE.
Since the agency faced financial issues, the group disbanded and all the idols went to different agencies.
Since the agency faced financial issues, the group disbanded and all the idols went to separate companies. Jiwon later went to B2M Entertainment and finally joined SPICA.
G-Dragon was a trainee for 11 years before debuting as the leader and rapper of BIGBANG.
When he was a child be trained at SM Entertainment for 5 years and then switched agencies to YG Entertainment, where he trained for 6 years.
Melody Day Yeo Eun. Yeo Eun started her training period in middle school. She had the biggest dream to become a singer so she continued training at her agency for a total of ten years before finally debuting with Melody Day.
G-Soul is the artist who trained at JYP Entertainment the most. He trained for a lengthy period of 15 years before finally debuting in 2015 with a full-length album.
He trained alongside Miss A"s Min and Wonder Girls' Sunye when he was a trainee.
PRISTIN Siyeon. Siyeon is the idol who debuted most recently amongst these other idols. She debuted with PRISTIN in 2016 after training for 9 years at her agency.
She became a highly popular idol recently due to her participation in Produce 101 Season 1.
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Hair Oil For Hair Fall/Hair Growth/ Healthy, Thick & Smooth Black Hair - Ayurvedic Herbal Oil - Duration: 3:41.
hey guys I am Nisa Homey and welcome back
to my channel today I am sharing an
Ayurvedic hair oil for healthy, thick,
shiny, and smooth hair this herbal oil
will improve the health of your hair
helps to reduce grey hair, reduce dryness
of the scalp and after applying it two
to three times a week you will start to
notice considerable difference in the
health of your hair I make this hair oil
often for my daughter when she goes
back to hostel from home. So let's get
started with the recipe, in a plate I
have already added two fresh amla's or
Indian gooseberry which is known as
"nellika" in Malayalam 5-6 sprigs
of curry leaves and add in a
small handful of shallots which is also
known as "cheriya ulli "in Malayalam. Now
with a grater I am grating the Amla.
Amla is an excellent hair tonic it's a
natural conditioner, helps to reduce hair
fall and grey hair it also encourages
strong and healthy hair growth Amla is
the richest source of vitamin C. The
vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients
present in Amla increases scalp
circulation strengthens hair follicles
and stimulate new hair growth. Amla also
helps to renew pigmentation in the hair
and makes it darker and thicker and thus
it helps to reduce greying
The anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial
properties helps with dandruff and other
scalp conditions. Now grate the shallots
or cheriya ulli also. Small onions improve
blood circulation and strengthens the
hair. Shallots helps to nourish hair,
prevents hair loss, and dandruff. Move the
grated Amla and shallots to one side of
the plate. Wash the curry leaves
thoroughly and then remove it from the
stem and spread it out on the plate
curry leaves has essential nutrients
required for healthy hair growth they
are rich in antioxidants and amino acids
which are essential for hair fall
prevention. Now, shade-dry this for 3 to 4
days you can also cover it with a thin
clothe to prevent dust.
once everything is dried you can hear
the rustling sound of the dried curry
leaves and if the Amla and the shallots
are sticking to the plate, just scrape it
out. Now let's make the herbal oil I am
using one cup of coconut oil and into an
iron pan add in coconut oil and once the
oil starts to heat add the dried
ingredients since there are no moisture
in the ingredients it will get fried up
very fast
stir it and immediately switch off the
flame I like to keep it in the same pan
to allow it to cool down completely as
it will help the ingredients to get
seeped into the oil and once it has
cooled down completely pour it into a
glass container through a strainer use
this oil to massage your hair and scalp
two to three times a week allow the oil
to stay on your hair for at least 20 to
30 minutes and then rinse it with mild
shampoo. This oil can be stored at room
temperature for months so make sure that
you cover it with a tight lid and it is
best to use a glass container for
storing than using a plastic container
Do try this Ayurvedic homemade herbal
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2017 Read; "Prayers For The Stolen," author; Jennifer Clement - Duration: 37:31.
(inspirational music)
- Thank you so much, Lynn, for those really lovely words,
and thanks to all of you for picking my book.
It's a huge honor.
Thank you for being here, President, Doctor Hernandez.
Just, before I begin, just to say thank you
to Brad Thomas, for your words.
As President of PEN International,
I don't know if you know this organization;
some of you might, some of you might not,
but we're the oldest human rights organization in the world.
We're in over 100 countries, 150 chapters,
PEN stands for poets, essayists, and novelists,
but actually now includes journalists,
bloggers, anybody who is dealing
with the word, basically.
It started out as an organization
that believed in friendship, and creating bridges,
and the sort of, a realization that writers
had been responsible, themselves,
for some of the xenophobias and hatreds
that happened during the first World War.
But very soon, in the 30s, it became
a highly political organization,
with the realization of the growing of fascism, in Europe.
But, apart from the fact that we are very much involved
with writers in prison, and the defense
of freedom of expression, the other thing:
that we believe in deeply, is literature,
and we believe in literature as a great power of force.
I'm bringing this up because of your program,
and because of choosing my book, which is such an honor.
So, I just wanna say that if you look at history,
novels especially, but some poems as well,
have been forces of great change.
So if we think of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens,
that book changed child labor laws,
and nobody remembers the journalism of that time,
but we all remember Oliver Twist.
When we think of the novels of Jane Austen
or Charlotte Brontë, thanks to those books,
women were allowed, finally, to own property.
If you cross the ocean to France,
Victor Hugo changed the way we looked at the poor,
with Les Misérables, or Zola's novel, Germinal,
changed conditions for miners,
in France, which were horrific.
And of course, in the United States,
I mean, there are seminal works such as Moby Dick,
for example, made one
wonder about evil and good, and how
the United States viewed these
issues, as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin, for sure,
was an important book, novel, that addressed racism.
And then, you take a book like To Kill a Mockingbird,
that really set the course of a kind of ethical standard,
within the country.
So, to think that a novel is not a powerful thing;
it is a powerful thing, and I have to say
that extraordinary for me, I was invited
to the U.S. Congress, I spoke to many groups
about Prayers for the Stolen.
So, that was a completely unexpected thing
that happened to me, with this novel,
and it was incredible to talk about these people
as though they were real.
I'd have congressmen saying to me:
"So, do you think that Paula"
and I would be like, Paula doesn't exist.
(laughing) I just invented her.
But anyway, it was incredibly moving
to have that happen to the book.
So, Prayers for the Stolen was written because
I really wanted to understand how violence
was affecting women in Mexico.
It was very much a male-driven story,
both in the press, and
in what we now have, a genre, which is called
(speaking in foreign language)
literature, was also very male-driven,
and the women in the novels tended to be sort of cliched,
stereotyped women, there was always a prostitute.
There was always a table-dancing girl, and a mother.
I mean, that was sort of like the three types
that you would find, and so,
I found this very disturbing and I wanted
to understand it all better.
So the first two years of research,
I was interviewing the women of drug traffickers,
and they were mainly women who were in hiding
And then, this was at the end
of President Vicente Fox's administration,
and then when Calderon came in,
he won the presidency by a very small margin.
Some people think perhaps he didn't actually win.
But anyway, he won, and he felt the need
to sort of, you know, show his force,
and decided that he would start what he called the war
on drug trafficking.
So, it became very difficult to continue
to interview these women; it became dangerous.
But that coincided with me hearing this story,
in Guerrero, and Guerrero's a part of Mexico
that I know very well, so I felt very comfortable
writing about that part of Mexico;
I've been going there ever since I was a little girl,
and it's, you know, my second home, perhaps.
So,
I heard about how they were hiding the girls in holes,
because these SUVs would suddenly appear,
like a horrible animal on the horizon,
and drive towards their homes and steal their girls,
and traffic them, sometimes within the country,
sometimes across the border, into the United States.
So it was that image of the hole
that really gave birth to the novel.
So I'll read a little section from this part.
Oh, there are many sub-themes, as you know, in the novel,
and one of the sub-themes is the idea
of television knowledge.
I'm very interested in how, not only in Mexico,
but in many parts of the world,
people that have very little education
do have contact with television,
and how that knowledge
is processed within them.
So there's a lot of reference to televisions in the book.
The hole was too small.
My father had dug it up when I was 16 years old.
I had to lie down on my side with my knees at my chest,
like skeletal remains of ancient burials
I'd seen on television.
I could see slivers of light peer in on me
through the thatch of leaves.
I heard the sound of a motor approach.
The ground above me trembled, as the SUV
drove up to our small house, and stopped in the clearing,
right above the hole, and above me.
My small space became dark
as I lay in the shadow of the vehicle.
Through the leaves, I could see the SUV's underbelly,
a web of tubes and metal.
Above me, the motor was turned off.
I could hear the sound of the hand-brake
as it was cranked into place.
The car door opened on the driver's side.
One brown cowboy boot with a high, but square,
and manly heel, stepped out of the car.
Those boots did not belong to this land.
No one wore boots like that in this heat.
As he stood with the car door open,
he looked straight at my mother.
From the hole, I could only see his boots
and her red plastic flip-flops face each other.
"Good day, mother." he said.
The man's voice did not belong to this land.
The boots and his voice were from the north of Mexico.
"Is it always this hot here?", he asked.
"How hot do you think it is?"
My mother did not answer.
"Aah, mother, put down that gun."
The other car door opened.
I could not swivel in my hole to try and look around,
so I just listened.
From the passenger side of the SUV,
another man stepped out.
"Do you want me to shoot her missing?",
the second man asked.
He coughed and wheezed after he spoke.
He had an asthmatic voice, from the desert,
a voice of rattlesnakes and sandstorms.
"Where's your daughter, huh?", the first man asked.
"I don't have a daughter."
"Ah, yes, you do.
Don't lie to me, mother."
I heard a bullet hit the SUV.
The vehicle shook, above me.
I heard the bra-ta-ta explosion of machine-gun fire,
along with the sound of the bullets
breaking up the adobe brick walls of our home.
Then, it stopped.
The jungle swelled and contracted.
Insects, reptiles, and birds stilled,
and nothing rubbed against anything.
The sky darkened.
The machine-gun had fired the wind out of the mountain.
"We were your best hope, mother.", the first man said.
"I birthmarked the place, didn't I?",
I heard the second man say, through a shrill wheeze
that became a whistle.
The two men got back in the car and slammed the doors shut.
The driver turned the key and started the motor.
When he placed his boot on the accelerator above me,
my hole was filled with the vehicle's exhaust fumes.
I opened my mouth and breathed in the noxious smoke.
The car backed up and drove off, down the path.
I breathed deeply.
I took in the poison, as if it were the smell
of a flower, or fruit.
My mother made me spend the next two hours in that hole.
"You're not coming out until I hear a bird sing.", she said.
It was almost dark when she pulled the fronds
off of the hole, and helped me out.
Our little house was sprayed with dozens of bullets.
Even the papaya tree had bullet wounds,
and sweet sap oozed from the holes in the soft bark.
"Just look at that.", my mother said.
I turned, she was pointing at the hole, with her finger.
I peered in, and saw four
albino-shelled scorpions there;
the deadliest kind.
"Those scorpions showed you more mercy
than any human being ever will.", my mother said.
She took off one of her flip-flops
and killed all four, in beating blows.
"Mercy is not a two-way street.", she said.
So that's the scene with the holes.
As a writer, I'm very concerned
with preserving the dignity of my characters.
I fall very much in love with them,
at a certain point of writing the book,
and so, in my books, you'll, for example,
I would never, ever write
the gang-rape scene that obviously,
Paula went through.
She says to Ladydi: "What can I tell you?
I was like a plastic bottle that everybody took a sip of."
I mean, to me, it's very important
that I not
put my characters in a position
where the reader can sort of
degrade them again.
So I'm very, very careful.
For example, I never write a sex scene, for the same reason,
because I think that's personal and private,
so I wouldn't wanna expose my characters
to the reader, reading that.
So, that's one of the things that I care about, a lot.
So, this little scene I'm going to read
is when Paula comes back.
I don't actually know anybody who has come back
from being trafficked,
but I have a friend who's met one person who has come back.
The reason that that initial research,
with the women of drug traffickers,
turned out to be so important,
is I was able to know very well, where Paula had been,
and was able to describe these ranches
in the north of Mexico.
And then, a sort of, rather
surprising thing happened, is that
when my book came out in Mexico,
Proceso, which is the most important
magazine in Mexico, for news,
the equivalent of maybe your Time Magazine,
or Newsweek, published the whole bit,
from the novel, about those ranches, in the news
part of the magazine.
So, I didn't expect that to happen, ever.
I always thought my book would be in the cultural pages
or in the book review pages.
So I actually left Mexico for two months,
and went to stay in Pittsburgh, at the City of Asylum,
because I was worried that, more than
that the drug traffickers would know about the ranches.
I was worried that they would know
that I knew where their women were, and their children were.
And that would be very dangerous,
because they'd say, well, who told her about this?
But it did become very, a very important part of the book.
So I do bring Paula back,
and this is that scene, when she runs into Ladydi,
in the jungle, and then Ladydi takes her back
to her mother, and she's obviously very traumatized,
by what's happened to her.
If you've been stolen, you burn the inside
of your left arm with cigarettes.
"Why, I don't understand.
Are you crazy?", she asked,
"Are you stupid?"
I'm sorry.
"A woman decided it a long, long time ago,
and now we all do it.", she said.
"If we're found dead, someplace,
everyone will know we were stolen.
It's our mark.
My cigarette burns are a message."
I looked at the pattern of circles on her arm
as she continued to hold her limb
stretched out like an oar, into the jungle air.
"You do want people to know it's you,
otherwise, how will our mothers find us?"
It was almost dark.
"We have to go now.", I said.
"Come with me, I'll take you."
Her mother was standing at the front door, waiting.
She held a baby bottle filled with milk in one hand.
"It's time for my baby to go to bed.", Concha said.
"What on Earth were you doing out in the jungle"?
Paula didn't answer, and went straight into the house.
Her mother walked me out to the edge of their property.
"Did she say anything to you?", Concha asked.
"Don't say anything to anyone.", Concha said, in a panic.
"How did they know she was here?
Who watched and knew a beautiful girl lived up here?
They came for her; they knew what they were coming for.
If they know she's back, if they find out,
they'll come and get her.
We have to leave; there's no time.
In a day or so, I've been planning, Ladydi
we're escaping.
What did she tell you?"
"She told me about the cigarette burns".
"Did she tell you that she did it to herself?
Did she tell you that all the women who have been stolen
do this to themselves?"
I nodded.
"Do you believe her?", Concha asked.
"I don't believe it at all.
I can't even imagine burning myself; that's impossible."
"Yes, I believe it."
At that moment, Paula appeared behind her mother.
She was like a white, vaporous creature.
She held a baby bottle in one hand.
She was naked, in the dark,
under a river of moonlight.
I could see the nipples of her breasts,
the black hair between her legs,
and the constellation of cigarette burns
all over her body.
I could see the cigarette burn stars
that make up Orion, and Taurus.
Even her feet were covered in the round burns.
Paula had walked through the Milky Way,
and every star had burned her body.
And, the last little bit I'll read,
will take place in the jail.
I spent quite a lot of time
at the Santa Marta Jail, in Mexico City, for women,
and one of the sort of great gifts
of writing this book, apart from being here
and seeing everybody's amazing
work, inspired by the book, that's so moving,
is, I get letters from women prisoners
from all over the world.
I mean, that is something I never expected would happen.
And what they're always saying about the book,
is that it's so loving,
but the truth is, I found a loving world
in the women's prison.
And so that's a bit, what I wrote about.
And I could have written three books on the women's jail
in Mexico City, but all the prisoners there
have the book; when a new prisoner comes, they're like,
oh, you have to read this book, it's our book.
You know, they think it's their book.
And of course, they do do collages.
That's one of the workshops, and the only person
in the book that's actually based on a real, real person,
is the collage teacher; he actually exists.
And he also thinks this is his book; he's very happy.
(laughing)
So, this is a scene in the jail.
"What happened to you?", I asked,
as Aurora lay back on her bed.
She had no pillow, so she had to lie flat.
I took the rat poison out from under the kitchen sink,
and mixed it in with the coffee.
Aurora's eyes were so pale, they made me think
of the light-blue color, of dead jellyfish,
on the beach, in Acapulco.
"Where are you from?", I asked.
Aurora was from Baja, California.
She grew up in the village of San Ignacio.
Her father worked as a tour guide
taking tourists out in his boat,
to see the California gray whales.
"Look at this.", Aurora said.
She pulled out a piece of cardboard
from under her pile of plastic bags.
It was a collage of a beach, with a whale
on the surface of the water,
and several starfish, and shells,
cut out from magazines, and glued to the brown sheet.
"I cut the starfish from black paper.", she said.
"No magazine in this jail had a photograph of a starfish".
"I like it", I said, "it's pretty.
It reminds me of beaches on the outside of Acapulco.
I've never seen a whale though".
"You have to understand, the first time I was stolen,
I was only 12", Aurora continued
"I was only a small fish,
the kind you always throw back into the ocean,
because it's too small to eat."
"They should not have done that."
"I was the only girl in the village with light eyes."
Her eyes were like the glass
in a glass-bottom boat.
No one could believe it at the ranch.
Who would ever have thought that Aurora,
the sweetest, and most obedient of all,
could have done it, but I did.
I could see into Aurora's eyes,
and down into her body of light-brown sand, and shells.
I killed five men; isn't that so special?
They were gathered at the ranch for a meeting.
It took them two days to die in a hospital, in Tijuana.
The police came and arrested me,
when the doctors proved that the men had been poisoned.
The police tested the coffee cups,
and they tested positive for poison,
and I'd even washed them over, and over, with Ajax.
Everyone knew I made the coffee for the rats' meeting.
Everyone knew there was a bottle of rat poison
in the rats' kitchen, under the sink.
Rats need to be poisoned, right?
Aurora rummaged through one of her plastic supermarket bags.
She un-knotted a bag filled with buttons,
and a stack of nail files that were held together
with a rubber band.
From here, she also pulled out a small pile
of old newspaper clippings.
"Here, read this if you don't believe me.
It was even in the newspapers."
I read the newspaper article,
and then handed the clipping back to her,
and she placed it into the pile.
She was proud of killing those men;
it was her act of justice.
I boiled the water, I added the coffee,
I let it sit.
I placed the cups on a tray with a bowl of sugar.
I could hear the men talking in the dining room.
I stirred the coffee grounds in the pot.
Aurora paused to take a breath.
She only seemed able to breathe out.
She tried to breathe in, not only with her lungs,
but also with her whole body, in heaves, but failed.
"How did you do it?"
"It just took one minute.
It was easy; I took out the bottle of rat poison
from under the sink, I poured it into the coffee.
It was so easy, it was like adding sugar, or Coffee Mate."
I reached over and took her arm.
The surface of her skin felt coarse,
as if it were still covered in beach sand.
I looked into the sea landscape of her eyes,
and saw the whales and dolphins.
So I guess I'll leave it at that,
and ask if there's any questions.
Anybody have any questions?
Yes?
- Hello? - Hi.
- [Woman] Hi, why did you decide
to make it like a fictional book,
instead of like, one of somebody's lived stories?
Or did you just put a whole bunch
of lived experiences together in one book?
- Well, you know, I think I'm, you know,
I think of journalism
as a very serious discipline,
and serious journalists always have
two sources, and has a very
trustful relationship with his or her reader.
It's a completely different world, that trust.
And in fiction, you're able to play, and have fun,
and, I have actually written
journalistic pieces on the subject,
but I would prefer, always, to write a novel,
because, for one, I'm very interested in language.
In many ways, I'm more interested in how something's told
than what I tell.
I think you can see, from the way I write,
that I'm very interested in poetry,
and so, you wouldn't be able
to do that in journalism.
So, that's the choice.
Thank you.
Yes?
- [Woman] I'm really curious about
what happened after you interview everybody,
and does their life got changed,
after you post your book?
- Sorry, I didn't under-- - Published, published.
- I didn't understand the question though.
- [Woman] So, like, you interview a lot of people,
and your putting everybody into the book,
and I'm just curious, is anyone,
like, what you wrote on your book,
their life got changed after?
- Did the book change anybody's life?
Sort of, that?
So, the people I interviewed
didn't actually end up in the book.
So the only person in the book that's based on a real,
real person, is the collage teacher.
So, I invented everybody.
You know, we could have a lot of talks
about the creative process, that has a very mysterious
element to it, where you kind of allow
the unconscious to kind of come in and work.
And the more you write, and the more mature you get,
as a writer, you tend to trust that more,
and control less.
I don't know if that makes sense,
if any of you here are creative writers.
I am not aware of anything specifically happening
in the country, that has created change,
but there's an intense awareness now, of the problem,
and there hadn't been any awareness.
So, now, you'll open newspapers and magazines,
and there will be articles, in Mexico, about the problem.
And, people within the human rights world,
not just the literary world but also the human rights world,
are reading the book,
and referring to it in papers, and things like this.
So I hope that it is making a change, at least,
and a change in the sense that people are more informed.
Yes?
- [Woman] What was the goal for writing the book,
if there was a goal, behind the whole storyline?
- There was no goal at all.
In fact, I'm the most surprised of all
that anybody wanted to read this book.
I'm always writing about the unprotected,
and it took me a long time to understand that about myself,
and to have written enough to see
that that was the course I was on.
So I'm always writing about what hurts, I guess.
And so, I had heard about these little girls in the holes,
and I don't think I slept for three nights, because,
you know, on one hand, I felt like they were rabbits,
and it was like a rabbit warren,
and they were there in the holes
with their little hearts beating like crazy, and
then they were also like, buried alive.
I couldn't get out of my head what they must feel
down there in that little hole.
So that's what made me write the book,
and then when I, my son is always my first reader.
And so, I gave him the book, and I said, you know,
I've written another book; I don't think
anybody's gonna care about this book,
because it's about people nobody cares about.
And then he read it, and he said, well, you know,
maybe, I think people might care about these girls.
Then it turned out that people are caring about this girl.
So I'm very surprised.
I didn't expect it at all.
Yeah?
Well it's sort of a complicated answer, and a simple answer.
I mean, the simple answer is that
there are many Ladydi's, in the Mexican countryside,
especially right after the wedding,
there were a lot of Ladydi; in Spanish, it's Ladydi.
And so, I always thought that was interesting,
that there were so many Ladydis.
And then of course,
I admired her very much; she was the first public celebrity
to touch somebody with AIDS.
And, I lived through the whole AIDS epidemic,
in New York City; I lost a lot of friends.
And I remember that moment.
It was a big deal,
that she would touch and hug somebody who had AIDS,
and we had no idea how you contracted AIDS.
And then, of course, the story of her life,
is the total anti-Cinderella story.
When she got married, everybody thought
it was a Cinderella story, and then it turned out
to be the exact opposite of a Cinderella story.
So, it allowed me to play with that,
in the novel,
and she, Ladydi is so not a princess.
I mean, she's so vulnerable.
So, it's the contrast, it's, you know, symbolic.
It's a metaphor.
- [Woman] Wondering what your thoughts are, about
some different conceptions of what we see, as a family,
through this novel.
I was thinking about the changing demographics,
about how so many of the men had left their town,
and the different kinds of relationships
that the girls and their mothers had.
Sometimes there was loyalty, sometimes there wasn't loyalty.
And also, themes of family, and support in the prison;
what are your thoughts on that?
- Well, you sort of covered a lot.
I think that a lot of the book is about, I mean,
these sub-themes, again, is about,
'cause there's also an environmental sub-theme,
about the use of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides,
but I think, another sub-theme,
is what happens when you lose the protection of men.
A lot of people think, oh this must be like an anti-men,
you know, book, and I don't see it that way at all.
I mean, Rita says, very soon in the beginning,
living without men is like sleeping without dreams.
And I really wanted to honor that,
that the loss of the men was not just any old thing,
that it was a terrible thing.
And there are whole communities in Mexico, there are no men.
That they're just communities of women,
because the men have come to the United States,
usually, or to another state,
but mostly to the United States, and then,
they often have a second family
in the United States.
And so, I mean, I wanted to talk about
how that was affecting the women in Mexico,
this loss of men.
And the truth is, in the jails, I mean,
in one of these projects,
the question is: do women have status?
Isn't that the question?
In this project, that one?
I don't know, who's here, who did that project?
Asking the questions?
Who did that?
- [Woman] It was Solay.
- Solay, is she here?
- Yes, I'm here. - Oh, hi.
So, everybody who you interviewed,
had quite a positive response.
You know, my experience is not so positive,
and so, for example, to go back to the jails,
one of the things that just shocked me, and
I remain shocked, was that the man's prison
is right next door to the women's prison, in Mexico City.
And on visitors day, sometimes I would go on visitors day,
sometimes I'd go during the week, but,
on visitors day, nobody went to see the women.
I mean, nobody.
And there would be great queues, and lines, you know,
of people, to see the men.
You know, and they all had Tupperwares
of delicious things to eat, and you know, a nice shirt,
and all this stuff for them,
and the women, you know, there'd be a grandmother,
and maybe a daughter, but I mean,
it was so striking to me,
how the women had no value,
and no status, and then if you're a prisoner,
then you have none at all.
The women were always shocked that I would come back.
They're like, you came back.
They couldn't believe I would come back, you know?
So then, since this book has had this incredible fortune
of being published all over the world,
this is true everywhere in the world.
I mean, so much so, that it would be an incredible,
I would love if I had the time to do a huge study on this,
and it would be so easy, 'cause you would
just have to take the logs, of visitors day,
in prisons all over the world,
and see how many women are being visited, and how many men.
It's shocking, I mean, even in a country like Finland,
where I went to present the book,
they were all like, yeah, nobody goes to visit the women.
So, I don't think we have,
we have a lot of work to do, on our status and our value.
- [Woman] Since you published the book,
did you have any threats, since you brought
so much awareness to everyone?
Like, in Mexico? - No.
I mean, I did leave for those two months,
when the whole thing about the ranches came out.
I had threats when I was President of PEN Mexico,
because we have a terrible problem
with the killing of journalists.
In fact, just in the month of March,
we already had four journalists killed, in Mexico.
It's just really a tragedy.
So yeah, there, I had things happen,
but it had to do more with,
with the PEN work, in Mexico.
- [Woman] Thank you so much for your visit.
When you wrote the book, did you write the book first
in English, or Spanish?
And the second half of that question is,
well, it's a comment,
it's so poetic and beautiful.
Do you think it reads, I haven't read it in Spanish,
so I wouldn't know, have you gotten any feedback
about how it reads also, in Spanish?
- Well, I was very involved in the Spanish translation.
It was sort of more like a transcription.
So, even though my credit isn't on it, I was on it.
And in the English, it's hard to see one's self,
but for example, in the reviews of the books,
a lot of people have talked about the quality of the English
having a kind of undercurrent of Spanish.
It's hard for me to see that; I'm completely bilingual.
So I'm not so aware of it.
But, people have detected that.
- [Woman] Yeah, we have time for one more.
- [Woman] I wanted to ask about the ending.
Because you, the ending is very uplifting,
or, I don't know,
almost like there could be a sequel.
But, can you speak about the ending, and
why you decided on that ending?
- Well, the great, sort of, mystery, to me,
is that people have different feelings about this ending.
So I don't really wanna influence anybody.
I didn't write it with that intention, I promise.
For me, it's very clear, what the ending is.
But, not everybody agrees with me, so,
I'll let you have your ending.
But I will say that
I haven't written a sequel, but I've written a diptych,
and it's, Lynn mentioned, that it's called Gun Love,
and for those of you who remember the book, or,
I don't know if you remember, there's an American girl
in one of the heroin towns, in Guerrero,
and they talk about how white she is,
and like, she's not
(speaking in Spanish) she's like,
really white, white.
And, the drug trafficker brings her the reindeer,
and the north pole, and the fake snow.
I don't know if you remember all that, but it's her story.
So, it's a diptych, so, Prayers is the Mexican girl's story,
and Gun Love is the American girl's story,
how the American girl gets to Mexico.
What many people don't realize, is,
how many U.S. guns go to Mexico.
In San Diego, they did this study, a few years back,
that was just so chilling, that if guns
were not going to Mexico, which is,
you know, legal guns, illegal guns, straw guns,
47% of all gun dealers in the United States
would be out of business; that's almost 50%
of the business, is going to Mexico.
And nobody talks about this.
And, I just think it's absolutely terrible.
On the border, on the U.S. side of the border,
there's 8,000 legal gun shops,
and many more thousands of illegal shops,
and illegal dealers, and that story is never told.
So, Gun Love will tell that story.
- [Man] Alright, I think we're adding Gun Love
to the list, we might invite you back next year.
We'll keep you posted.
Everyone give a round of applause for our guest author.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
(inspirational music)
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Video: Storage ideas for spring cleaning - Duration: 2:41.
JENNIFER: WELCOME BACK.
IT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD TO DO
SOME SPRING CLEANING.
BUT WHEN YOU PUT THE THINGS YOU
WANT TO KEEP BUT HAVE NO REAL
HOME IN YOUR HOME?
NIKKI PLACE FROM IKEA IS HERE
WITH HELP.
>> IT IS SPRING, SO WE ARE
GETTING READY TO GET RID OF
MAYBE THE WINTER DECORATIONS.
WE HAVE ORGANIZE EVERYTHING, BUT
WE DO NOT HAVE TO ORGANIZE
STYLE.
WE HAVE A DIFFERENT PATTERN
PAPER BOXES OR THE NATURAL
MATERIAL BOXES THAT YOU CAN PUT
YOUR DECORATIONS AWAY IN.
IT STILL LOOKS NICE, AND IT
KEEPS YOU ORGANIZED.
JENNIFER YOU HAVE A GREEN THEME
GOING ON HERE, TOO.
>> YES, GREEN IS THE COLOR OF
THE YEAR.
IT IS ALSO A FUN COLOR, BECAUSE
IT IS VERY VERSATILE.
YOU CAN MIX AND MATCH IT WITH A
LOT OF THINGS YOU HAVE AT HOME.
THIS MATERIAL HERE IS ACTUALLY A
CURTAIN.
IT IS A FUN, BOLD PATTERN THAT
CAN EASILY CHANGE THE LOOK IN
YOUR HOME I CONSIDERING THE
TEXTILES.
JENNIFER: A KIND OF REMINDS ME
OF THE 60'S AND 70'S, A LITTLE
RETRO.
>> WITH A PILLOW, YOU HAVE THE
PATTERN ON ONE SIDE AND A
DIFFERENT ONE ON THE OTHER.
IN EASY WAY TO CHANGE UP YOUR
SPACE IS TO ALSO BRING IN FRESH
PLANTS.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A GREEN THUMB
, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS ARE
BEAUTIFUL AND CAN LOOK VERY
REALISTIC SO YOU ARE NOT COME
FROM ISAAC ON STYLE.
-- YOU ARE NOT COMPROMISING ON
STYLE.
LACEE: THESE WOULD BE --
JENNIFER: THESE WOULD BE
ABSOLUTELY PERFECT TO BRING INTO
THE HOME.
SO I HATE TO ADMIT IT, I WAS IN
AN IKEA FOR THE FIRST TIME A
LITTLE WHILE AGO.
WHAT YOU HAVE GOING ON IN THE
STORE RIGHT NOW?
>> WE ARE TRYING TO BE MORE
SUSTAINABLE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF AMAZING LED
LIGHT BULBS TO CHOOSE FROM, BUT
WE ALSO HAVE A SMART LIGHTING
SOLUTION.
WE HAVE A REMOTE WIRELESS
SELECTION.
NO WIRES, NO ELECTRICIAN, YOU
JUST PLUG IN AND PLAY.
YOU CAN CONTROL THE LIGHTS IN
YOUR HOME TO CREATE A WARM
ENVIRONMENT OR A COOLER ONE
DEPENDING ON ACTIVITIES THAT ARE
HAPPENING.
JENNIFER: IN IT IS SOMETHING YOU
CAN DO ON YOUR PHONE NUMBER
WHERE YOU ARE?
>> YES, AND YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT
IN STORE OR ONLINE.
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