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catboygretzky · 3 years

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best stucky fic recs pwease

Okay, disclaimer, these are all like five+ years old (which is the best Stucky era, imo) and definitely not the only ones I enjoy; these are just a few in my bookmarks on ao3.

In no particular order besides the order I bookmarked them and under a read more because there's a shit ton of them (really, it's a lot):

- hold me until we crumble; Not Rated, 23k

“Sam told me you were watching Antiques Roadshow,” Natasha says, shaking out her hair. “I assumed it was a national emergency.”

- despite the threatening sky and shuddering earth (they remained); Explicit, 72k

“They really didn’t want the mask to come off.” Hill thumbed through the scans, and pulled out a film that she then handed over to Sam, face mostly expressionless but for the flat line of her pursed lips.

Sam accepted the film and held it up to the light, angling so both he and Steve could see it, squinting at the outline of the Winter Soldier’s skull, and the blips of unnatural white that showed up, God, in his brain, not to mention about half his teeth, plus the mask, with its thin protrusions—

“Those are pins,” Steve realized. He looked over at Hill. “The mask—it’s nailed to his face.”

Hill’s face was as unmoved as ever. “Like I said. They really didn’t want it coming off.”

- family means no one gets left behind or forgotten; Teen, 11k

“Why did you think I wouldn’t like you for being gay?” Steve asks gently.

“You’re Captain America.” Eli’s got his teeth clenched and is resolutely looking ahead. “You stand for truth and justice and the American way. You stand for American morals. You stand for…” he shrugs awkwardly. “Not people like me.”

Steve blows the air out of his cheeks slowly, trying to figure out how to keep the anger out of his voice so Eli doesn’t think it’s at him.

Or, Steve comes to terms with his new world, and gains some children in the process.

- Mistake on the Part of Nature; Teen, 1.3k

Steve takes in Bucky's betrayed look and Sam's confusion, follows Sam's gaze to the pile of mangled fruit in the trash can. Sudden comprehension fills his face.

"Oh," he says. "Bucky found out about bananas."

In which an American icon is mourned. But probably not the one you're thinking of.

- Swear Jar; Teen, 1.5k

Bucky isn't the only troll in the future.

Steve has a Swear Jar and he makes the Avengers pay up every time they cuss.

- Barnes & Rogers and the Goddamn Truth; Not Rated, 19k

There are three well-known facts at Shield High:

1. The history teacher Mr. Barnes is a stone-cold terror, and it’s not even because he only has one arm. 2. The other history teacher, Mr. Rogers, is a mysterious enigma, and it’s something to do with the body of a Greek God and contradicting stories of his past. (They’re all rumours, anyway.) 3. Mr Barnes and Mr Rogers hate each other.

Bucky wouldn’t have it any other way.

- perfectly right wrong number; Teen, 32k

It all starts because Steve is too dumb to handle his smartphone.

A wrong number AU in which Bucky Barnes doesn't enter Steve's life (meaning: Bucky wasn't born until the eighties, but Steve is still Captain America) until Steve accidentally dials the wrong number. Wherein there is a lot of texting, some advice via Natasha and Darcy, a bit of pining, and a first date in an amusement park. Oh, and on top of being a disabled veteran, Bucky is a professional catwalker. Literally.

- The power of the right shirt (a.k.a. God bless America); Teen, 1.2k

"He just…" Phil trails off, mouth gaping. He is staring at the field outside the house, eyes glazed.

Clint sighs. "Yeah, he just ripped a log in two with his bare hands."

- To fill it up with something; Teen, 21k

A fateful encounter with Dr. Strange leaves the Winter Soldier transformed, and Bucky Barnes reunites with Steve Rogers in a most unexpected way.

“Steve brings the puppy inside, into the apartment that doesn't quite feel like home no matter how much he's been trying. He isn't used to being alone. Before the war, he always had Bucky, and his mother until her death. During the war, Bucky was there, too—and the rest of the Howlers, of course—but Bucky always meant home. (And well, maybe Steve's already got a name for the puppy in mind)."

- build it bigger than the sun; Teen, 10k

“Yeah, because nothing says heteronormative like living in Dupont Circle for two years and wearing skin-tight shirts to hit on hot airmen when you go running in the morning.”

“Look, I know you’re being sarcastic but I really don’t get how no one picked up on that.”

Steve and Bucky try to work out their relationship. The Avengers keep getting in the way.

- Memories Circle (Like Birds of Prey), Teen, 32k

Everything seems to be going right, Steve's fighting with his Commandos, they've saving lives-- until Steve falls from a train, is taken prisoner, and turned into the Winter Soldier. Meanwhile, Bucky takes up Steve's mantle as Captain America, and thanks to Zola's experiments, he gets dropped into a whole new time, only to cross paths with a Steve who doesn't know who he is anymore.

Essentially, the events of CA:TFA, mild mentioning of Avengers, and CA:TWS but with Steve as the Winter Soldier and Bucky as Captain America

- The Gentleness That Comes; Mature, 9k

Steve Rogers never really views the things he had to do to get by before the War with any sort of shame or embarrassment. People ask him for his opinions on modern issues in interviews, but Steve has gotten good at talking around those types of questions. Fury insists that there's no way to answer them without casting a shadow of controversy across the reputation of the Avengers, and that's the last thing Steve wants.

But then a sex tape is released featuring Tony Stark in bed with another man, and Steve can't stay quiet any longer.

- salt for the sea; Mature, 7.5k

Natasha comes home with intel regarding the fate of the Winter Soldier; Steve leaves to go and avenge Bucky Barnes.

“It's a list of everyone who was involved in his death, and a rough timeline of everything that happened beforehand,” she tells him.

“And the notebook?”

“I explained what they did,” Natasha says, “The blank pages are for you to explain what you do to them.”

- Lone Cat and Samurai; Teen, 8.4k

"We lost Kitten America sir!" Junior Agent blurted out. Then turned an unlovely shade of purple. "I mean, Captain America. Who’s a kitten. Because magic. Sir."

- Waiting To Prove You're Not Alone; Explicit, 41k

Months after he woke up on the banks of the Potomac, when a reporter mistakenly assumes Steve would disapprove of homosexuality being as accepted as it is in the modern day, Steve accidentally snaps and unleashes his real opinion on the matter... and with that, a secret he's hidden for over eighty years.

When that secret comes looking for him in New York, Steve can only hope that he can get a second chance at saving his best friend, even if it means keeping his heart in check.

“Yeah, back in my day it wasn't tolerated, and because of that I knew from the minute I figured it out, that I’d never get to tell my best friend that I loved him, and sure enough, he died without knowing that I’d been in love with him for a decade."

- I'm Not Sick (But I'm Not Well); Mature, 30k

Steve Rogers doesn’t meet Bucky Barnes in the 1930’s. Instead, Steve meets him April 17th, 2012.

Well…sort of meets him.

In actuality, Bucky had almost hit him with his truck.

Or: The fic where millennial Bucky Barnes nearly runs over a freshly thawed national treasure, and what Steve Rogers did to adjust to modern NYC during those two weeks before the events of The Avengers.

- pure as the driven slush; Explicit, 11k

He should have worked it out sooner. But then, Steve always was a sneaky little bastard—had to have been, just to survive this long.

For the SteveBucky Fest prompt, "Steve is quite experienced while Bucky's never gone beyond second base with anyone".

- Let's Be Exposed and Unprotected, Explicit, 5k

Bucky’s pretty sure he should be into getting fucked through the floor while walls explode around him like in that Mr and Mrs Smith movie that Clint loves. But he likes it like this. He likes being on his back with Steve looming above him, big and naked, blocking out the rest of the world.

- Man of Steel; Explicit, 6.7k

It’s like Steve looked at his metal arm and thought ‘Challenge Accepted.’

- 5 Times Steve Got Arrested and 1 Time They All Did; Teen, 4.9k

What it says, 5 times Steve Rogers ended up in jail (with and without Bucky) + 1 time all of the Avengers got arrested with him.

- the best of you; Teen, 16k

Bucky is on a mission when he gets the call.

They tell him that Steve has been compromised.

[The story wherein Hydra captures Steve to create a new weapon. Bucky, alongside the rest of the Avengers, come together and work through the fallout.]

- pull apart the dark; Teen, 79k

Steve's unending faith in his best friend was beginning to look less like hope and more like fantasy. When they'd caught the Soldier – in a fire fight that still gave Sam nightmares – the only thing the man seemed to recall was how to hit exactly where it hurt.

Four months later, Barnes still refused to speak English. Refused to heed anything but Steve's voice.

So, all in all, it was not a great time for Hydra to attack New York. All in all, Sam really wished they'd just killed him, instead of turning Captain America into a baby.

- Not Another Supersoldier Fantasy; Explicit, 8.9k

Bucky finds a popular sex toy modeled on Captain America's own anatomy. Well, isn't this just perfect? Because even after all this time, he still hasn’t seen Steve’s supersoldier cock. But apparently in this day and age anyone with $29.95 can get a decent replica. The unfairness of this is of galactic proportions.

- the blood of the covenant; Teen, 7.5k

Steve has a "thing" for hot water.

Or, Sam Wilson adopts Steve Rogers.

- Mighty like Love, Mighty like Sorrow; Teen, 19k

After freeing himself from the Russians' mind control, Bucky is left at loose ends, drifting through the decades. Still, he's in no hurry to take up Nick Fury's offer to once again fight the good fight -- especially not when Fury has the nerve to put some imposter in his best friend's old suit and send him out to fight against Chitauri.

- Read Me Like a Book; Gen, 1.5k

In which Bucky accidentally becomes a book collector, because when the universe gives you a million biographies about your boyfriend, you go bookcase shopping. And then he finds out about The Grenade Incident, and the boys actually talk about it like actual adults. (Somewhere, Sam sheds a proud tear.)

- the broadest stroke of color; Gen, 16k

Sarah Rogers always loved Steve's hands.

"Your hands will do a lifetime's work," she'd say. "Remember to do the work you can for those you love."

Almost a century later, Steve does just that.

[The story wherein Steve draws comics for Bucky to help him recover his memory. Through a series of events, the issues are leaked, and Steve finds himself reviving the Captain America comics. He still isn't sure how that happened.]

- If You're Loved By Someone (You're Never Rejected); Teen, 9.4k

You’re fifteen when you realize why you stare at Bucky’s lips more than normal when he laughs and when he says your name. You lean into his shoulder when you walk next to him and when you’re sick you don’t fight off his soft hands. You tease him, he teases back and being around him is so easy you forget what it was like to live without him. You can’t remember life pre-Bucky and it scares you.

- Unusual Weather; Explicit, 8.7k

Bucky’s been at the Avengers Tower for three weeks before he finally gives in to Steve’s gentle coaxing and Stark’s cheerful waving of fistfuls of circuits, and lets them scan the arm.

It doesn’t go well.

- this city bleeds its aching heart; Explicit, 35k

The one where Steve and Bucky pose as a happily married couple while on a mission for SHIELD, to catch an international arms dealer hiding in a suburban neighbourhood.

- Good Boy; Explicit, 13k

Bucky is still adjusting to life with the Avengers, and Steve is willing to do whatever it takes to make him feel comfortable. Increasingly, though, what seems to make him comfortable is strangely intimate.

Surprise, Steve! You're a gentle dom and Bucky wants to be your pretty pet!

- Brooklyn; Teen, 8.8k

"Captain America, what's your stance on gay marriage?"

Everyone knows that, by now. Everyone but Bucky.

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the baby asks you have been answering are so cute!! so i have to ask-- what do you think t'challa and his queen are like preparing to welcome a little panther to their kingdom?

Oh, how wonderful! I’m excited to do more T’Challa content, and hopefully I do right by him and his canon!

(Again, I refer to my original disclaimer on my first T’Challa post, wherein I state that while I am white and cannot, in any way, speak to the black experience, I want my Black Panther content to be explicity inclusive of black readers, who are usually negelected in the fic community. I hope my work pays its dues to the important and necessary presence of black readers and creators, and that they feel represented here! I’m also dedicated to doing my research and doing it well, so if there are any inaccuracies portrayed here, absolutely tell me and I’ll work on amending them.)

So, without further ado, here we go!

I researched birth rituals from a number of the tribes that contributed to the design and culture of Wakanda. The two that stood out the most were the Zulu tribe and the Himba tribe, who both have very strong ritual histories for birth culture.

For the Zulu people, especially Zulu traditionalists, no marriage is truly permanent until a child is born. While Wakanda has moved into a more progressive understanding of marriage, one that includes validation that, yes, a marriage is permanent, binding, and important, even without the prescence of children as a possibility, birth and childbearing are still seen as noble and important tasks, and, if willingly carried out, should be respected.

Certainly, for the royal family, there is an expectation to carry on the line. There is no immediate pressure, necessarily-- it’s not as if Queen Ramonda was breathing down T’Challa’s neck to have children-- but it is an honor to uphold the royal lineage, and an honor that T’Challa does not take lightly. He’s known ever since he was a child that it would be his responsibility to take the throne and, yes, to one day pass it down to a child of his own, should fate be permitting.

So, yes, even before he was married, he made it very clear to his beloved that he anticipated children in his future, and wanted to be sure that she anticipated that, too. He understood if she didn’t want that for herself, or couldn’t, for whatever reason, and was ready to handle whatever happened next, for better or worse. But he was immensely pleased (and secretly giddy) that she, too, wanted children, and was ready for that stage to come in their future together.

Once married, T’Challa became very, very excited for the prospect of children. He may seem calm and collected, and that’s because, in many ways, he is: through years of practice and a naturally level head for leadership, T’Challa can keep himself in check and in line. But every time he thought about his child, the offspring of his love to a woman who fills his heart with overflowing joy, he would start smiling, even in the most serious of situations.

Sometimes Okoye would catch T’Challa staring wistfully out a window at the Wakandan skyline and wave her hand in front of his face, breaking the reverie.

“My king? Is all well?”

“Mhm, yes,” he’d mumble dreamily. “I was just thinking about... little socks.”

“...Little socks?”

“Yes, you know,” T’Challa would say. “As in for babies. I wonder if M’Baku has any good seamstresses, what with his having so many children and being in the cold climates...”

He gets daydreamy about the baby. It’s just a fact of life.

Similarly, it’s also a fact that in the Himba tribe, there is a belief that a person’s life does not start on the day they are born, nor when they are conceived, but when they are dreamed up inside their mother’s mind.

The Himba believe that once a woman begins to want to have a child, she should go away from her village and sit under a tree, meditating until she can hear “the song of her child”. After that, she can return to the village to go and conceive her child, though the child is already made real in her mind. It’s a truly beautiful sentiment, and one that is surely still intact in Wakandan culture.

For T’Challa’s wife, she began to think about having a child pretty early. Now, it wasn’t a truly settled idea, but more of a sudden burst of thought, like a little bubble popping, especially in the months before the wedding. “One day, you’ll be having a baby with him,” her mind would say. “One day, perhaps very soon.”

She didn’t let the thoughts solidify too quickly, since there was so much to deal with, but after a while, she began to seriously ruminate on the idea. And once that rumination took place, she knew that the spiritual conception was already beginning, according to tradition and to her own heart.

She probably went to talk to Queen Ramonda in private about the feelings, and about how Ramonda had handled the thoughts when it was her time. Ramonda was very supportive and warm, encouraging her to take the time to go and meditate, to listen for the song of her soon to be child, should all forces work in their favor.

So she did. She took a day away from the royal duties to go and rest in a field alone, sitting under a broad tree and watching the grassy plains before her rustle in the wind. She waited and quieted her mind, letting time roll past without concern. It took a while, a long while, of concentrating, then losing focus, then trying to concentrate again, and just when she was becoming frustrated with herself, she felt a wave of calm come over her.

And in the wind that whispered through the grass and the fronds of the tree up above, in the sounds all around her, the ones she observed in her silence, she could hear a melody forming.

That was the voice of her child, calling to her, telling her things would be alright, and that they’d be here to see her soon. They were beginning their journey from concept into conception.

When she came back to the palace, T’Challa found her and asked her where she’d been.

“The Dora said you’d gone out by yourself; no guard, no communication...” he mumbled, hands clasping her cheeks. “I was worried.”

“Don’t worry,” she said back as she pressed up to kiss his forehead. “I have some very, very good news.”

T’Challa tipped his head sideways like a curious kitten, making the confused but intrigued face his wife has learned to love, to giggle at.

“A little panther sang to me today,” she said, taking his hand.

It took him a moment to understand, to put together the solitude, the quiet, the singing... and then his face broke into a great, big, gap-toothed grin, the light inside of him beaming out and shining in his eyes, wonder surrounding him.

“Really, my love? You-- you’re ready? They sang?”

She nodded, and he gripped her waist, an unsuppressable laugh of joy bubbling out of him. Then he lifted her and spun her around, uncaring of what anyone else saw or thought.

“Our baby,” he breathed, glowing. “Our baby!”

“Our baby!,” she echoed back.

Both of them were overwhelmed and warmed to their cores by the moment, because there’s something indescribably beautiful about excitement for the future, and the promise of facing that future hand in hand with someone beloved. T’Challa was, quite frankly, moved to tears, thinking of his child’s spirit visiting his wife, telling her that it was time for them to come into the world.

When they were in private and able to be emotionally intimate, he expressed the depth of his joy and his tears came without shame, and she cried, too, both of them swept up in the love that they were able to experience together. Knowing that before them lay a lifetime spent together, but now with the inclusion of a new life, one made with their love, made with the reality of their union.

It’s a wonder beyond comprehension, and neither of them needed to explain away the feelings. They just lived them, experienced them, and let their hearts guide them where they needed to be: together.

In the following months, there’d be much preparation, gearing the kingdom up for the arrival of a new royal. There would be so much excitement in the kingdom, since the royal family is beloved and respected nearly universally in Wakanda! Even M’Baku would come and pay his respects, bringing gifts for the new baby.

“Hopefully this Udaku will be able to hold up in a fight,” he bellows, chuckling at his own joke, standing next to piles and piles of rich furs, handmade baby toys and ceremonial tools, and more gifts than is probably necessary. He just really wanted to show off what a good dad he is, and make a splash to show that none of the other gift-givers respect and honor T’Challa and the new baby as much as he does. That cheeky man.

Shuri is delighted, too, to start developing technology for the new Udaku baby. Not exactly smartphones or tablets for baby to play with, but something more useful, more constructive. Those arenas of vibranium sand that can form themselves into moving models could be revamped, Shuri imagines, perhaps as a changing and shifting play-pen for the baby... T’Challa insists that she not experiment on her nephew or niece, but she assures T’Challa that she wouldn’t be experimenting on the baby.

“Just experimenting with the baby,” she laughs. T’Challa finds it a little less funny, but still smiles. He knows she’ll care for that baby and protect them with her life (not that he’d ever allow harm to befall either of these, his prized people).

To come would be a great many celebrations; many of the tribal cultures use song and dance to greet and celebrate the arrival of a new baby, and so nearly every tribe in Wakanda would have a separate celebration to pay homage to the new royal-- for example, the border tribe might bring woven blankets made to honor royalty, like Basotho blankets. For the more religious cultural aspect, there would certainly be the praising and thanking of Bast for the gift of the baby, and praying for safe passage and protection during their lifetime.

But most importantly, there would be the gathering of family to bring this child into the world and to let them know how loved they are, how honored, how cared for. That they will be descended from kings and warriors, but also from parents who love one another and their child with all their hearts and souls.

So, in short, T’Challa and his queen would be the most loving parents in the world, and their preparations for the little panther’s arrival would, without a doubt, reflect that love.

(Here are some of the sources used to find historical and cultural information for this post. Here is an article about the Kamba tribe, one about the Zulu tribe, and the Himba tribe, and a list of some of the tribes referenced to and from in the film Black Panther!)

#this turned into more of a worldbuilding exercise in birth rituals in wakanda hshgkhg?#but i hope i still accomplished my main goals which were #1) to remain respectful to the original source material and cultures #2) to spread warmth and love through the writing #and 3) to spread BabyFever Joy!#anyway #messages #long post /#original #black panther #marvel #gif warning /#t'challa #t'challa udaku #baby talk #goddd this isn't even Half of the stuff i have in my BrainZone but i gotta trim the edges ghkhgkhg #Anonymous

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All right, I wish to see a show of fingers: what number of of you will have unfriended any individual on facebook considering they mentioned anything offensive about politics or religion, childcare, food? (Laughter) And what number of of you already know as a minimum one individual that you just restrict on account that you simply do not wish to talk to them? (Laughter) you already know, it used to be that with the intention to have a well mannered dialog, we simply needed to comply with the recommendation of Henry Higgins in "My fair girl": stick with the climate and your wellness. However these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, these topics — (Laughter) aren’t risk-free both. So this world that we are living in, this world wherein every dialog has the skills to devolve into an argument, the place our legislators can not communicate to at least one one more and where even the most trivial of issues have anybody combating both passionately for it and towards it, it can be not natural. Pew research did a be trained of 10,000 American adults, and so they determined that at this second, we are more polarized, we are extra divided, than we ever were in history. We’re much less likely to compromise, which means that we’re now not listening to each other. And we make selections about the place to are living, who to marry and even who our pals are going to be, based on what we already think.Again, that means we’re not listening to each other. A dialog requires a balance between speaking and listening, and somewhere alongside the best way, we misplaced that steadiness. Now, part of that is as a result of science. The smartphones that you just all either have to your fingers or close enough that you just might grasp them fairly swiftly. Consistent with Pew study, a couple of 1/3 of yank teens ship greater than a hundred texts a day. And lots of of them, just about most of them, are more likely to textual content their friends than they’re to talk to them nose to nose. There’s this best piece in the Atlantic. It used to be written by using a high school trainer named Paul Barnwell. And he gave his kids a conversation project. He wanted to coach them the best way to communicate on a certain subject with out utilizing notes. And he mentioned this: "I came to realise…" (Laughter) "I got here to appreciate that conversational competence possibly the single most overlooked talent we fail to educate. Youngsters spend hours on a daily basis enticing with strategies and each other by means of displays, but hardly ever do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications competencies.It would sound like a humorous query, but we must ask ourselves: Is there any 21st-century skill more main than being capable to maintain coherent, positive conversation?" Now, I make my residing speaking to men and women: Nobel Prize winners, truck drivers, billionaires, kindergarten teachers, heads of state, plumbers. I talk to humans that i like. I talk to men and women that i don’t like. I speak to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal degree. However I nonetheless have a great conversation with them. So i’d wish to spend the following 10 minutes or so educating you the best way to speak and how one can hear. Many of you have got already heard plenty of advice on this, things like seem the person within the eye, believe of interesting subject matters to discuss upfront, seem, nod and smile to show that you’re paying concentration, repeat back what you simply heard or summarize it. So i need you to omit all of that. It’s crap. (Laughter) there is not any cause to gain knowledge of the way to exhibit you’re paying concentration in case you are in fact paying concentration. (Laughter) (Applause) Now, I in reality use the particular identical talents as a respectable interviewer that I do in usual life.So, i’m going to educate you how one can interview persons, and that is sincerely going to aid you study the way to be better conversationalists. Learn to have a dialog without wasting your time, without getting bored, and, please God, with out offending any person. We have all had relatively first-class conversations. We have now had them before. We all know what it can be like. The kind of conversation the place you walk away feeling engaged and influenced, or where you feel like you’ve gotten made a real connection or you’ve been perfectly understood. There is not any intent why most of your interactions can not be like that. So i have 10 normal ideas. I’m going to stroll you by means of all of them, but honestly, when you simply pick certainly one of them and master it, you can already enjoy higher conversations. Quantity one: do not multitask. And i do not imply just set down your cell telephone or your pill or your vehicle keys or something is to your hand.I imply, be present. Be in that second. Don’t feel about your argument you had together with your boss. Don’t suppose about what you are going to have for dinner. If you wish to get out of the conversation, get out of the dialog, but do not be 1/2 in it and half of out of it. Number two: don’t pontificate. If you wish to state your opinion without any possibility for response or argument or pushback or progress, write a web publication. (Laughter) Now, there may be a rather just right motive why i do not enable pundits on my show: considering the fact that they may be quite boring. If they are conservative, they are going to hate Obama and meals stamps and abortion. If they’re liberal, they’ll hate huge banks and oil organisations and Dick Cheney. Utterly predictable. And you do not want to be like that.You need to enter each conversation assuming that you have some thing to gain knowledge of. The famed therapist M. Scott p.C. Stated that true listening requires a surroundings aside of oneself. And sometimes that means setting apart your personal opinion. He stated that sensing this acceptance, the speaker will emerge as less and no more prone and increasingly likely to open up the interior recesses of his or her mind to the listener. Again, assume that you have whatever to be taught. Invoice Nye: "every person you will ever meet is aware of whatever that you don’t." I put it this manner: everybody is an informed in anything. Quantity three: Use open-ended questions. In this case, take a cue from journalists. Begin your questions with who, what, when, where, why or how. For those who put in a complex question, you’re going to get a simple reply out. If I ask you, "were you terrified?" you are going to respond to the most powerful word in that sentence, which is "terrified," and the answer is "yes, I was once" or "No, I wasn’t." "were you irritated?" "yes, I was very angry." let them describe it. They’re the ones that know.Try asking them things like, "What was once that like?" "How did that believe?" considering then they could ought to stop for a second and think about it, and you’re going to get a way more exciting response. Number 4: waft. That means ideas will come into your mind and also you must allow them to go out of your intellect. We have heard interviews frequently where a guest is speakme for a few minutes and then the host comes back in and asks a question which seems adore it comes out of nowhere, or it can be already been answered. That implies the host most often stopped listening two minutes ago seeing that he concept of this really clever question, and he was simply certain and decided to assert that.And we do the distinctive equal factor. We’re sitting there having a dialog with any individual, after which we do not forget that point that we met Hugh Jackman in a coffee store. (Laughter) And we discontinue listening. Studies and suggestions are going to come back to you. You must let them come and allow them to go. Number five: If you do not know, say that you don’t know. Now, persons on the radio, peculiarly on NPR, are far more mindful that they’re occurring the file, and so they’re extra cautious about what they declare to be an trained in and what they declare to know for certain.Do that. Err on the aspect of caution. Speak should not be affordable. Quantity six: do not equate your expertise with theirs. If they’re speaking about having misplaced a family member, do not talking in regards to the time you lost a household member. If they may be speaking concerning the predicament they’re having at work, don’t tell them about how much you hate your job. It is not the same. It is not ever the identical. All experiences are individual. And, more importantly, it is not about you. You don’t have got to take that second to show how mighty you might be or how much you have got suffered. Anyone asked Stephen Hawking once what his IQ was, and he mentioned, "I haven’t any concept. Men and women who brag about their IQs are losers." (Laughter) Conversations usually are not a promotional possibility. Quantity seven: try to not repeat yourself. It can be condescending, and it is fairly boring, and we tend to do it a lot. Principally in work conversations or in conversations with our kids, we’ve a factor to make, so we simply keep rephrasing it again and again.Don’t do this. Quantity eight: keep out of the weeds. Frankly, humans do not care concerning the years, the names, the dates, all those important points that you’re struggling to provide you with on your intellect. They do not care. What they care about is you. They care about what you are like, what you will have in customary. So fail to remember the details. Leave them out. Quantity 9: this is not the final one, however it’s the primary one. Pay attention. I can’t inform you how many fairly most important humans have stated that listening is perhaps probably the most, the quantity one essential talent that you just might strengthen. Buddha mentioned, and i am paraphrasing, "in case your mouth is open, you are now not studying." And Calvin Coolidge stated, "No man ever listened his means out of a job." (Laughter) Why will we now not pay attention to one another? Quantity one, we might as an alternative talk. After I’m speaking, i am in control. I do not have to hear some thing i am now not interested by.I am the middle of attention. I will bolster my own identity. However there is another reason: We get distracted. The usual man or woman talks at about 225 phrase per minute, but we are able to listen at as much as 500 phrases per minute. So our minds are filling in these different 275 words. And look, i do know, it takes effort and vigor to clearly pay attention to anybody, but when you can’t do this, you’re no longer in a dialog. You’re just two individuals shouting out barely associated sentences within the same location. (Laughter) You have got to hear to at least one another. Stephen Covey stated it very fantastically. He mentioned, "Most of us don’t pay attention with the intent to fully grasp. We listen with the intent to answer." yet another rule, number 10, and it’s this one: Be temporary. (Laughter) (Applause) All of this boils right down to the equal normal inspiration, and it’s this one: Be interested in different men and women.You know, I grew up with an extraordinarily famous grandfather, and there was once style of a ritual in my house. Humans would come over to speak to my grandparents, and after they would depart, my mom would come over to us, and he or she’d say, "do you know who that was once? She used to be the runner-up to overlook america. He was the mayor of Sacramento. She gained a Pulitzer Prize. He is a Russian ballet dancer." and i form of grew up assuming everybody has some hidden, robust factor about them.And honestly, I feel it can be what makes me a better host. I keep my mouth shut as more often than not as I most likely can, I maintain my intellect open, and i’m always all set to be amazed, and i am under no circumstances upset. You do the identical thing. Exit, speak to individuals, hearken to folks, and, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed. Thanks. (Applause) .

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ELECTRIC BLUE

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Kim Wood on David Bowie

There are roughly ten blocks between the theater where David Bowie watched rehearsals for Lazarus, and the studio where he recorded Blackstar. In his last years, we both lived between them, on opposite sides of Houston Street.

My side is the Bowery, known in real estate speak as NoHo (North of Houston). On the street where I live—a two-block stretch of 3rd Street known as Great Jones—is a chandeliered butcher shop occupying the spot where Basquiat worked, and died, of a heroin overdose. Twenty years before his time, Charlie Mingus’ heroin-addicted presence on this corridor is said to have birthed the term jonesing.

I’ve passed a decade in Brooklyn, but never before now lived in Manhattan and love being a downtown kid, stepping through the door and onto crowded streets, passing CBGBs—now a skinny pants boutique I’ve never entered—on my way to buy groceries, or borrowing books from a library branch housed in the one-time factory of Hawley & Hoops’ Chocolate Candy Cigars—that Bowie lived above, in a modern penthouse perched atop the turn of the century brick building.

For twenty-four months, barring the occasional trip to Central Park, I’ve lived below 14th Street and in this time Bowie loitered here too, sipping La Colombe’s double macchiato, fetching chicken and watercress sandwiches at Olive’s, or dinner supplies at Dean & DeLuca. One day I’d catch him on the street, I figured, hailing a cab or taking out the recycling in his flat cap and sunglasses, and when I did my well-worn New Yorker discretion would be jettisoned as I tried, and likely failed, not to cry.

I didn’t, of course, know that for most of the time we were neighbors David Bowie was dying. Today I walk the familiar stretch of blocks to his building, eyes tearing, I tell myself, from the frigid, bone-dry air. At the front entrance, a group of fans stand gutted, surrounded by news trucks, generators, vulturing reporters.

A growing pile of daisies, tulips, roses, daffodils leans against the wall, along with a few photographs, a pair of silver glitter heels, a Jesus candle with Ziggy Stardust face. Tucked here and there are handwritten notes: Look out your window, I can see his light and We are all stardust and Hot tramp, we love you so.

Everyone here, news crew aside, feels known somehow, the mood is gentle, polite, quiet. Too quiet, I realize, when someone plays “Life On Mars?” from a tinny smartphone speaker. As the closing strings swell, a woman turns to me to say through tears, “I love this song!” All I can do is nod, “I know!” and take comfort among fellow kooks.

A pair behind me wonders aloud about a “world without Bowie,” and while I know what they mean—the way some people feel like a force and invincible—you could argue we’ve been living in such a world for a long while. David Jones-ing.

Three days earlier, on the night of Bowie’s 69th birthday, I danced in my kitchen to the foppish, falsetto, “‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore,” delighting in his rude lyrics and wild whooping. Later at a dinner hosted for the birthday of a friend, I commented on Bowie’s continuing fixation upon mortality, but also his energy, sly humor, return to form, exclaiming, not tentatively, “Bowie’s back!”

I was thrilled he’d finally slipped the ghost of what he called, “my Phil Collins years.” In one of the endless interviews now flooding my screen in text and video, he explains, “I was performing in front of these huge stadium crowds and at that time I was thinking ‘what are these people doing here? Why did they come to see me? They should be seeing Phil Collins.’ And then that came back at me and I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’ It’s a certain kind of mainstream that I’m just not comfortable in.”

Like the divisiveness of fat and skinny Elvis, there were those of us who fancied ourselves glittering, androgynous, apocalyptic half-beast hustlers who bought drugs, watched bands and jumped in the river holding hands, and there were others, contentedly jazzin’ for Blue Jean.

When, in your Golden Years, your mentor of not only music but all things relevant—art, clothes, books, films—enters his Phil Collins Years, suddenly high-kicking in Reeboks and staring in Pepsi commercials, how not to feel betrayed?

I took it personally, coining the unforgiving term David Bowie Syndrome. As a burgeoning artist, I feared (a scaled-back version of) his creative arc with my whole heart—reaching the greatness of Bowie’s 1970s only to follow it up with Let’s Dance. To say nothing of Tin Machine. Like many old-school fans, I’d stopped tuning in to modern Bowie to keep my vintage Bowie flame flickering.

In my most youthfully caustic moment, I joked that Bowie’s personal Oblique Strategies deck—that famous stack of cards, creative prompts such as Ask your body, Abandon normal instruments, and Courage! allegedly used when Bowie and Brian Eno recorded Low and Heroes—should be made up of cards that all read, simply: Call Eno.

Unfair, untrue. Kindly allow this counterpoint mea culpa admission: I secretly love the ham-fisted, cringtastic video for Dancing in the Street.

On the third day after Bowie’s death I step outside, wondering if I’ll still hear his presence hum. Just feet from my front door I’m greeted by his face gracing one of two large posters advertising Blackstar. Well hey there, Mr. Jones.

They’re wet with wheat paste and like a teenage fangirl I consider stealing one, but then notice a smaller poster hung next to them, featuring the Sesame Street characters peering out joyously, encouraging me to attend an event entitled… Let’s Dance!

I accept Bowie’s cosmic joke, had it coming I suppose, and briskly hoof it to Union Square where at the farmer’s market I find apples, apple cider, cider doughnuts and not much else. My gloveless fingertips smart as I pocket change and consider the possibility that the visitation was an invitation to dance through the sorrow. A bit maudlin perhaps, but then, so was Bowie.

When I return home the Blackstar posters are gone. In under an hour someone has pasted them over with clothing and gym ads—leaving all the posters on either side for the length of the street untouched. Like Steppenwolf's Magic Theater, the message—whatever it was—had appeared and just as quickly vanished.

My feet walk me to Bowie’s memorial, which has exploded in a heap of bouquets, black bobbing Prettiest Star balloons, cha-cha lines of platform heels, disco balls, eye shadow, quarts of milk, British flags, drawings and paintings of Bowie’s many incarnations, fuzzy spiders, bluebirds, boas, vinyl copies of David Live annotated Forever in thick silver marker.

A giant orange tissue paper flower hangs from a nearby tree, electric blue eye at its center, petals edged in lyrics: Give me your hands, because you’re wonderful! Let the children lose it, let the children use it, let all the children boogie.

Here and there are tucked personal notes: You taught me that weird = beautiful, and: When I was a teenager I wished I could check off “David Bowie” for both my gender and my race. I still do.

“Taking away all the theatrics…” Bowie said, “I’m a writer. The subject matter…boils down to a few songs, based around loneliness, isolation, spiritual search, and a looking for a way into communication with other people. And that’s about it—about all I’ve ever written about for forty years.”

Perhaps, then, my “Let’s Dance” visitation was an anti-message, a warning against wasting creative juju by pandering for cash. Of course, Bowie made not a dime (relatively, and thanks in large part to shifty management) from his artistic era I find most inspiring. The seed of the fortune that brought him financial security was that very song. So what then?

When I return home, Bowie’s spot on the wall has been papered over yet again, all white this time, as though to say, as he has when pressed to interpret his lyric’s meaning, “nothing further,” “you figure it out,” “space to let.”

I rise before the sun, pull on bright turquoise tights and red clogs and walk the cobblestone of Lafayette Street in the dark. Collar up, breath ghosting, I feel as I secretly do in all such moments, like the cover of Low, or The Middle-Aged Lady Who Fell to Earth. Car headlights slide over me as I approach the memorial that is, it appears, being dismantled.

I quickly make the photograph I awoke imagining: my platforms meeting Bowie’s shore of flickering candles, cigarette butts, stray boa feathers, sea of glitter. Beside me a sweet lone man sorts out the dead flowers, shuffling handmade things to one side, candles to another, not tossing it all as I first suspected, but tidying up, preparing for another day.

What drew me into this frigid darkness, half dressed in pajamas? Perhaps a need to meet Bowie toe to toe, promise to honor the contract, all in, heart wide, funk to funky.

Put on my red shoes and dance the blues.

“I don’t think (the act of creation is) something that I enjoy a hundred percent. There are occasions when I really don’t want to write. It just seems that I have a physical need to do it...I really am writing for myself.”

Before Blackstar, the last time I know of Bowie creating under extreme duress is when making the album Station to Station—which coincidentally also opens with an epically long titular song wherein a man yelps from the darkness, singing with pride and pain about a fame that has isolated him beyond measure.

As the Thin White Duke, Bowie sings with bitter irony, It’s not the side effects of the cocaine! I’m thinking that it must be love! It’s well known that Bowie, living for a year (1975-1976) in his despised, self-chosen, wasteland of Los Angeles, had fallen victim to a kind of Method Writing, unable to escape in life the character he’d crafted to hide behind on stage.

Subsisting on a diet of cocaine, chili peppers and milk, he grew paranoid, hallucinating, allegedly dabbling in Black Magic and storing his jarred urine in his refrigerator. I was six years old at the time, living less than a mile from Cherokee Studios where Station to Station was in session, and smudging my mother’s brand new Young Americans vinyl with powdered sugar fingerprints.

He said of the following album, Low, “It was a dangerous period for me. I was at the end of my tether physically and emotionally and had serious doubts about my sanity. But I get a sense of real optimism through the veils of despair from Low. I can hear myself really struggling to get well.”

It’s the pale, shimmering hope that makes Low my favorite of all of Bowie’s offerings, but for Station to Station’s Duke of Disillusion it’s too late—for hate, gratitude, any emotion. It’s not, however, too late to lay himself bare in the work: there’s no reach for sanity, just a man collapsing while still directing, as the camera rolls.

Blackstar has been called a gift, and on “Dollar Days,” a song that describes his effort to communicate in the face of death, Bowie breaks the fourth wall to address this directly: Don’t think for just one second I’ve forgotten you/I’m trying to/I’m dying to(o).

I believe as an artist he had no choice, no other way to confront his circumstance other than to talk himself through it, put it in the work.

The profound generosity of Blackstar, and a vast swath of Bowie’s creative output, is that in this most intimate conversation with death, god, time, himself, we’ve been invited to listen in.

What makes a good death? Bowie withdrew from the public in the last decade and was characteristically silent regarding his illness, in this tell-all age (that owes him not a little for its status quo “tolerance” of Chazes and Caitlyns). He was also, in his time post-diagnosis, compelled to make his most raw and exposing work in years, and between the play and album, likely spent a long part of each day in their pursuit, while presumably also tending to his needs as a father, husband, friend, man.

In Walter Tevis’ book The Man who Fell to Earth—the basis of Nicholas Roeg’s film that inspired Bowie’s production Lazarus—stranded, despondent space alien Thomas Jerome Newton records an album called The Visitor: we guarantee you won’t know the language, but you’ll wish you did! Seven out-of-this-world poems! Newton explains it’s a letter to his family and home planet that says, “Oh, goodbye, go to hell. Things of that sort.”

Bowie’s seven-song swansong, Blackstar, is rather more generous, and from a writer notorious for lyrical slipperiness, layered meanings, a cut-up technique (copped from Burroughs) that spawned lines about Cassius Clay and papier-mâché, its text is frequently plain-spoken and direct.

Even my favorite frolic sounds a combative calling down of his illness, time: Man, she punched me like a dude/Hold your mad hands, I cried/She stole my purse, with rattling speed/This is the war. It would not be the first time Bowie referred to Time as a “whore.” (see: Aladdin Sane.)

In the title video’s most vivid sections, Bowie becomes god—less vengeful than dismissive—singing, from heaven’s attic, a swaggering takedown of Bowie himself: You’re a flash in the pan, I’m the great I am. (From Exodus: And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.)

His button eyes in both videos suggest a puppet, and so the presence of a puppet master, but I don’t read these images as signs of deathbed conversion. Bowie was a spiritual seeker who borrowed magpie style—in this case from Egyptian, Kabalistic, Christian and Norse iconography—to create a language to give voice to his fears and dark entries.

“If you can accept—and it’s a big leap—that we live in absolute chaos, it doesn’t look like futility anymore. It only looks like futility if you believe in this bang up structure we’ve created called ‘God’.”

In his last gestures Bowie answered not God, but himself, regarding the way he’d lived, and in particular, as an artist. The pulse returns the prodigal sons suggests that the characters he inhabited—some regrettable, but not irredeemable—are with him as he assesses the intentions behind, and perceived short-comings of, his creative offerings: Seeing more and feeling less/Saying no but meaning yes/This is all I ever meant/That's the message that I sent/(but) I can’t give everything away.

In his almost unbearably haunting last video, it seems we’re finally invited to meet David Jones, or Bowie playing Jones. Jones the man lies in bed, clutching a blanket with those mortal, frightened hands. Nearby the writer manically, fretfully reaches for immortality, while Bowie the performer, dutifully dances to the end.

“There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing.” “You present a darker picture for yourself to look at, and then reject it, all in the process of writing. I think that’s what’s left for me with music. Now I really find that I address things to myself. That’s what I do. If I hadn’t been able to write songs and sing them, it wouldn’t have mattered what I did. I really feel that. I had to do this.”

This morning I remembered where I'd seen the writer's austere, black and white striped costume before: the program for the 1976 Isolar tour, wherein Bowie self-consciously poses with a notebook or makes chalk drawings of the Kabbalah tree of life. Isolar is a made up word—and name of his current company—said to be comprised of isolation and solar.

I love this costume—a kind of artisan worker-bee uniform. There are satin kimono-sleeved ass-baring rompers for when its time to present the work, but when making it, roll up your revolutionary sleeves and get to it.

1976 saw the success of Station to Station, the premiere of The Man Who Fell to Earth and the recording of The Idiot and Low. It was not the most grounded time for Bowie personally (to understate it), but arguably his most vital creatively, and this nod to the continuum of creative spirit seems to suggest that the artist dies, but through the work, like Lazarus, rises again.

So what, then, is a Blackstar? Perhaps a marked man, a sly reference to Elvis’ song of the same name whose lyrics include, Every man has a black star/A black star over his shoulder/And when a man sees his black star/He knows his time, his time has come.

Although Bowie did not, as rumored, write “Golden Years” for Elvis, he did find (somewhat bashful) significance in their shared birthdays, took pains to catch his concerts, had his white jumpsuit copied to wear while performing “Rock and Roll Suicide,” modeled his own costume in Christiane F after Elvis’ ensemble in Roustabout, and perhaps his Aladdin Sane red/electric blue lightening bolt was inspired by Elvis’ signature gold one. Which is to say, he likely knew of The King’s “Black Star.”

Blackstar could also suggest the theoretical transitional state between a collapsed star and a singularity—a state of infinite value in physics, a metaphor for immortality.

I’m not a gangstar/I’m not a film star/I’m not a popstar/I’m not a marvel star/I’m not a white star/I’m not a porn star/I’m not a wandering star/I’m a star’s star/I’m a blackstar.

“Sometimes I don’t feel as if I’m a person at all...I’m just a collection of other people’s ideas.” Is Bowie simply claiming his right to throw off all mantles?

The car crash that is the documentary Cracked Actor opens with a reporter asking, “I just wonder if you get tired of being outrageous?” “I don’t think I’m outrageous at all,” Bowie throws back, miffed. The reporter persists, “Do you describe yourself as ordinary? What adjective would you use?” Bowie searches his brain for an appropriate response to the inane question and finally lands upon: “David Bowie.”

Or perhaps, as Isolar suggests, a Blackstar is someone hidden in plain sight. In an interview that seems more therapy session, with Mavis Nicolson in 1979, mostly drug-free and grounded Bowie speaks of the appeal of life in Berlin, whose physical wall seemed to mirror his psyche. Without referencing himself or the characters he’s inhabited, he describes an isolated figure who finds no home in the world, but instead creates “a micro world inside himself.”

When Nicolson suggests that as an artist Jones must keep himself from love, he rejects the idea outright, but when gently pressed about the demands of relationships in actual life and not “from afar,” he concedes, extending his arms before him like a shield, “No, love can’t get quite in my way, I shelter myself from it incredibly.”

The moment is so resonantly raw that the two break into manic humor, shifting to the story of his eye injury in a childhood fight over a girl, wherein he laughs and says, “I wasn’t even in love with her.”

In “Lazarus,” the dying Jones sings: everybody knows me now, and perhaps that is so, as much as it ever could be for a man who spent an artistic career in self-sustained exile.

And why shouldn’t David Jones have been—with the exception of a few deeply druggy years—free from the curse and blessing of being Bowie? What are we owed by our artists?

Blue, blue, electric blue, that's the colour of my room.

The Bowie song that forever circles my brain describes a writer waiting for the muse, describing the loneliness and blessing of the electric blue of creation. Vishuddhi, or the electric blue throat chakra of Hindu tantra, is associated with the vocal cords, communication, creative expression, one’s inner-truth.

For sixteen months I lived in Berlin’s Schöneberg quarter, around the corner from 155 Hauptstrasse and the apartment that song was composed in and of. I’d pedal my bike past and nod to the ghost Bowie inside, still wondering and waiting for the gift of sound and vision.

It’s the seventh day since Bowie’s death, the final day of shiva I’ve sat beneath his window. I’ve never much understood funerals, always felt they were for a “living” that didn’t include me, but this has been different.

Over this week I’ve shared glances with occasional bleary-eyed oldsters coming or going from where I’m headed or have just been–there have been no young folk to speak of and no platform boots necessary to recognize the kooks.

Today, from a block away, I spy a pair of women making the pilgrimage. The taller of the two—who for one moment I mistake for Patti Smith—has Smith’s hair, a floor-length bright blue shearling coat and an armload of exquisite orange, flame-tipped roses.

Trailing my comrades I think of Smith’s line in Woolgathering when, upon being given a dandelion, she asks, “What could I wish for but my breath?”

At Bowie’s door the energy feels less personal, dissipating. After the roses-bearers depart, a lone woman and I stand shivering before the diminished pile of offerings framed by narrowed police barricades: plastic-wrapped bodega flowers and a few handmade items, the most prominent being a cigar box shrine with a Halloween Jack eye patch and what seems a bunch of random stuff tossed in. The woman plays “Starman” on her phone, and rather than poignant, it’s just sad.

A years later follow-up to his first solo release, “Major Tom,” “Starman” takes the isolation of planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do and turns it into an anthem where a cosmic DJ messiah tells us misfits not to blow it, ‘cause he thinks it’s all worthwhile.

The 1972 Top of the Pops performance famously featured Bowie’s flirty finger wagging at the viewer, and casually intimate embrace of Mick Ronson, which blew the minds of much of Britain and beyond and marked Bowie as a more than a one-hit wonder. I silently give thanks to many, including Bowie, not to live in a world where a rock and roll arm thrown over a shoulder can cause a stir.

Over the song’s fade out the woman shrugs and says something about bears—at least I think that’s what I hear. I smile and nod remotely, then realize she’s drawing my attention to the carefully rendered Ziggy Stardust teddy bear—complete with lightning bolt and guitar—hanging from the police steel.

This bear abrades me for no good reason. A few young women pass by on their way into American Apparel. “That was David Bowie’s house,” one says over her shoulder, and the other makes an “awww” sound like she might at the sight of a teddy bear, or the memorial of that musician guy that died the way people do—other people, older people. As they pause to take a selfie in front of Bowie’s memorial offerings I turn and nearly sprint downtown.

I learned in this week of Bowie Internet inundation that he trailed these streets too, often at dawn, in solitude, but right now I need Chinatown’s chaotic, smashing life. I’ll buy those killer clementine from that vendor on the corner, I think, and eggplant, scallion and ginger for supper.

I weave among cardboard boxes of dried silver fish and lotus root, tourists linked arm-in-arm in matching New York pom-pom hats, Chinese grandmas pushing plaid shopping carts in (Harold and) Maude braids. A man exits a hallway, arms loaded with red-ribboned funeral flowers. A chef in a paper hat leans against a wall, smoking beneath a pumpkin-sized, spinning dumpling.

Beneath crisscrossing wires strung with giant, glinting snowflakes, I warm my hands on a cup of milky tea and wonder when we’ll get winter’s first snow. Glancing up to cross Mott (the Hoople) Street, I wonder when the city’s details will cease to conjure Bowie.

I tuck dragon fruit into my sack, humming “Starman”—whose chorus melody is plainly lifted from The Wizard of Oz’s “Over the Rainbow.” Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly/Birds fly over the rainbow./Why then, oh, why can't I?

In performance, Bowie sometimes coyly sung a mash-up of these anthems of longing for belonging. On “Lazarus” he sings, seemingly of his death, This way or no way/You know, I’ll be free/Just like that bluebird/Now ain’t that just like me.

Blackstar begins by naming the Norse village of Ormen. In Norse mythology, the rainbow bridge that connects this world to that of the gods is Bifrost, which translates as tremulous way. Tremulous—as in trembling—as Bowie does so heart-wrenchingly as he backs into the armoire and out of this world.

When he heard the call, David Jones, who could walk the streets of Manhattan undetected, slipped over the rainbow and into his own imagination.

But with generosity and courage it seems he did not fully recognize, David Bowie spent his life pulling back the curtain on the Great Oz, showing the man, his frustration and fallibility, questioning art-making and then making it anyway.

I fear in the end he imagined himself “a very bad man but a very good wizard,” when in fact the opposite was true. The droves of people gathered at his front door and around the world may have found the masks fascinating, but only as much as the man, and heart, behind them.

I imagine catching David Jones wandering past shop windows plastered with red New Year monkeys, beneath golden, swaying lanterns. I would thank him for Ziggy Stardust, whose hair my mother copied and Scary Monsters, whose poster graced my eleven-year-old bedroom wall. I’d say thanks for Low and Hunky Dory, which got me through hard times. Thanks for The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Hunger, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke. Thanks for Diamond Dogs, Heroes, Lodger, Station to Station. Thanks for creating a soundtrack for my life and the lives of my favorite people.

Thanks for being a fierce, literate libertine, giving permission when I so badly needed it and inspiration always. Thanks, from the strange kids, for saying, No love, you’re not alone! You’re wonderful!

On the afternoon of January 10th, in what I later learned were the last hours of Bowie’s life, a double rainbow drew me from my desk and to the window. It arced across the skyline and ended at the Empire State Building, so strikingly that fire fighters in the station across the street took to the emergency dispatch microphone to exclaim to the neighborhood, “There’s a rainbow!”

As the first snow falls over Chinatown’s back alleys, I think: rainbowie!

There’s a Starman, over the rainbow, way up high, and he told me—let the children lose it, let the children use it, let all the children boogie.

Kim Wood's writing has appeared in Out Magazine, McSweeney’s, Tin House's Open Bar, and on National Public Radio. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and is a MacDowell Colony fellow. She is working on a book, Advice to Adventurous Girls, based upon the unpublished archive of a 1920s motorcycle daredevil. Her documentary film on this subject has screened internationally in festivals and museums including Sundance and the Guggenheim, where it double-billed with an episode of ChiPs.

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How to Download the Android O Public Beta

The Android O Developer Preview became made available on 21 March 2017, however now not endorsed for the majority. Now, even though, you could download and install the public beta on any well-matched Nexus or Pixel device. Also see: Android O today’s information and rumors Should I installation Android O? If you are curious, have a compatible tool and are moderately techy, then why now not. You can get an amazing have a look at what is in store for Android later this yr, and if you do not love it or locate it too buggy you may certainly revert in your previous OS. Before you begin you should take the important steps to make sure all your data is subsidized up.Will my phone or tablet run Android O?

The Android O Public Beta can run on simplest positive Google devices

Those devices are: Google Pixel Google Pixel XL Google Pixel C Google Nexus 6P Google Nexus 5X Nexus Player How can I download and set up Android O? A public beta of Android O is now available to download to compatible devices. Also see: What is Android Go? Downloading Android O is simple with Google’s Android Beta Program. Any devices enrolled in the program will get hold of OTA updates to the modern day Android working systems wherein available.

• To enroll in the Android Beta Program, open the browser on your like minded Nexus or Pixel tool and head to g.Co/android beta. You can be requested to sign into your Google account. • Scroll down the page and you may discover a heading ‘Eligible gadgets’ with any well-matched Nexus devices which might be additionally signed into your account indexed under.

Is It Illegal to Download Free Music?

The Confusion Surrounding Music Copyright Law

Because there are such a lot of different ways to get unfastened song off the internet, there has grown to be lots of confusion and conflicting views as to what is the prison and what is not.

“OK, so it’s unlawful to burn a replica of a CD and distribute it. So are you telling me I can’t burn a mixture CD and provide it to 3 of my friends?”

“It’s unlawful to download unfastened songs of peer-to-peer websites and servers, but can I download a track from my friend over Dropbox?”

These sorts of song copying and distribution depart many feeling that the legal guidelines are vague and outdated, in order that they simply retain on downloading track illegally.

The increasingly popular technique of “YouTube to mp3” in which you clutch the mp3 report from a video someone posted of a track has only brought to the hassle.

Is that illegal too?

Let’s take a look.

The FBI Warning

You understand how when you’re looking a film on a DVD (for those of us who nonetheless do that) and at the display comes that acquainted “FBI WARNING” that tells you the material is copyrighted and it’s unlawful to make unauthorized copies of stated fabric of any type… And so on.

Well, no matter what a few outdated articles may say, this copyright (or internet piracy) law additionally applies to music.

What does that suggest?

Redistribution of any kind, without the artist’s consent, is illegal. And in case you take part through knowingly downloading song this is being disbursed without the artist’s consent, you are participating in the unlawful pastime.

This article at IBM in comparison using these third-party websites just to tear tune from YouTube, like “the usage of cassette tapes to file songs of the radio”.

And peer-to-peer servers as well as different websites that do not even technically host the documents on their website, are nonetheless taking part in this illegal activity, and inside the future, copyright agencies will continue to be cracking down on this hobby.

Why We Love the Android TV Box

Getting your first Android box is a very thrilling second

If you are like us and enjoy looking the first-class Movies, TV indicates, and video clips, until you get an Android container, you haven’t any idea what you’re lacking out on.

Being able to open Netflix to trap up in your favorite show, then pause to open a browser and have a look at the contemporary soccer rankings is simply so cool. An Android TV box within the UK additionally offers you a choice for watching live TV consisting of the BBC and ITV the usage of loose to view services which may be set up through Kodi XBMC.

Not best can you operate your Android TV field in the UK, however, it’s so compact you may take it abroad with you. Having get entry to for your favorite Movies and indicates while you’re away is simply some other wonderful purpose for proudly owning an Android TV box with XBMC.

People of every age enjoy the alternatives that an Android box opens up

Downloading and playing the trendy Android video games for kids, or following top notch content for Mum on Pinterest, it has all of it.

Another excellent feature is being capable of wipe the box down and begins once more within the space of short time. Updating the field additionally typically happens mechanically with a number of the better manufacturers having OTA update provider, downloading the state-of-the-art firmware construct at once from their very own servers.

Imagine a machine wherein your youngsters can play irritated birds on your TV, you and your pals can watch the brand new movie and for dinner parties, you could play your preferred Spotify playlists directly from you home theater audio system, all remotely controlled out of your linked smartphone!

Once you use an Android TV container in the UK it becomes quite obvious which you do not need to depend on owning a DVD participant, a TV subscription box or another form of the participant to get the content you need. With quite a lot each Movie and TV show each created both to be had from a low priced subscription service or through one of the masses of accessories in Kodi XBMC, owning other equipment will become unnecessary. This gives you the threat to have your TV area litter free, with simply one Android box sitting nicely geared up to play.

Christian Students Belong In Public Schools

The public colleges want Christian students

But most effective the one’s college students who are nicely educated. Christian students need to be inside the public schools standing up for what they recognize to be actual, backing up their arguments with proof and witnessing to both their fellow college students and faculty alike. But so one can make that occur they may need education. Only the ones infantrymen who are skilled for battle need to burst off to struggle.

The church makes an awesome effort to ship missionaries at some point of the sector if you want to spread God’s word. But at the identical time, we are ignoring certainly one of the most important undertaking fields in existence these days. At a public faculty, for the primary 13 to fourteen years of a young person life, they are immersed in a naturalistic environment. Those students inside the public schools who do now not recognize Jesus Christ want missionaries just as tons as any African local. I consider that the children of Christian parents have to receive proper schooling and attend a public faculty.

I did no longer always experience this way

My spouse and I home-schooled our personal kids. And I become as soon as a trainer at a private Christian college. At one time I concept that it became pleasant to teach a baby in surroundings where Christ is Lord – either at domestic or in a Christian school. But I now realize that there may be an enormous distinction between schooling and schooling. I now accept as true with that those conservative method of education clearly violate God’s phrase. The Bible states that we are to be a light on a hill. By withdrawing unto ourselves for our youngsters’ schooling, whether or not at home or in private faculties, we’re in reality placing a basket over that mild.

What the Church needs to do, both its leaders and its participants is to educate up a child inside the way he needs to cross, and whilst he’s antique he’ll no longer go away from it. We should usually be prepared to give a solution to all people who asks for a reason concerning the hope this is in us. But that is exactly where we permit our youngsters down. When it involves technological know-how I am afraid that maximum of us have no answer.

We stay in an age of cause. Like it or now not matters are one-of-a-kind now than they had been in the past. Today technological know-how has replaced God as a source of fact for many people. It goes to take the effort to provide a motive for the hope this is in us. The wish that this world so desperately wishes. Every Christian discern wishes to make the effort, and make the effort, to grow to be knowledgeable in the technological know-how.

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Racing Is Better When The Competitors Hate Each

The Nineteen Eighties and ’90s competition between Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz turned into one of the greatest in the history of motorbike racing. With his warm lapping days in the back of him now, he as a substitute runs the MotoAmerica series, in which he wants to see the same fierce aggressive strength in up-and-coming riders. And it’s beginning to appear like he’ll get his wish.

MotoAmerica is in its 1/3 season because of the successor to the antique AMA Pro Superbike championship with Rainey at the helm. The series heads into its 1/3 of 10 rounds at Virginia International Raceway this weekend.

At the final spherical at Road Atlanta, the races featured a couple of lead changes, tough passes and harm feelings. That pleases Rainey—and he wishes more of it. “This ain’t no love fest,” Rainey instructed me. “We love rivalries.”

The Rainey-Schwantz competition began inside the home U.S

. Collection and then moved to the 500cc World Championship. Even although the two riders patched up their frosty relationship in the direction of the end of their careers, you could nevertheless tell how they enjoy their victories and rue their defeats in opposition to each different.

Today, Cameron Beaubier, 24, has been the big name of MotoAmerica thus far, winning the primary two seasons ruled by his Yamaha crew. But Suzuki has selected the U.S. Collection to expand its new GSX-R superbike, and previous Moto2 champion Toni Elias of Spain has received 3 of the first 4 races this yr.

Rainey is thrilled that Suzuki is pushing the envelope and that

Honda is also getting back into the fray and growing its new CBR1000RR SP2 in MotoAmerica. Rainey stated Ducati was additionally seeking to placed a race crew together, however, ran out of time earlier than the season got underway.

Even though one of MotoAmerica’s predominant targets is to foster the skills of U.S. Riders, Rainey says he has no hassle that a Spaniard has dominated the season to date. To Rainey, that is just the mission that Beaubier—or every other American rider with worldwide aspirations—wishes to prove their mettle.

Horse Racing: How Not To Have a Get Something For Nothing Attitude And Learning Profit mapping

How not to have a get some thing-for-not anything mindset in racing is an essential lesson for all gamers in the game. Not each participant has this sense or wondering sample. But it is excellent to be reminded. If you want to make cash in the game as a player then it’s necessary that allows you to see that there’s no loose lunch (so to talk) in racing. Most gamers will trivialize this and downplay this to the track of: “how I lost my financial institution roll on the races” or “I went to play the horses but the horses performed me”. Why?

Because racing’s no push over the game and also you ought to have your act together to make money through the layout.

That way to examine superior profit capping and superior handicapping. This isn’t a philosophy being given to you within the sense that you can have a rebuttal or debate and notice matters the alternative manner and win the argument. Trying to get-something-for-nothing in racing is one of the first painful matters you will analyze and to never try and do it. Racing has taught many gamers (many players) the mistake of such questioning. It takes cash to make cash in horse racing and there’s no credit score line from the tune. If you play the game you will spend money despite the fact that it is ten cents.

Racing inside the United States is ready 85% legitimate and approximately 15% corrupt.

Even the corrupt are not searching out something for not anything and you shouldn’t both. If you sense you’ll win the pick-six clean and get $100,000 in a breeze you are going to be taught a lesson in humility. Money may be made in racing through design and no longer only via success however you must work for it. This approach that the participant has come to the game in a sensible kingdom of thoughts. That doesn’t mechanically make the game an easy win.

Who Are Phonak’s Main Competitors?

Phonak is a leader in hearing aid era. The business enterprise is founded in Switzerland and has been in business for over sixty years. They do not let technological barriers get in the way. Instead, they find solutions. Their aim is to carry the gift of sound to all people.

The company has created Hear the World, a nonprofit division dedicated to raising cognizance of the importance of hearing and the impact listening to loss has on lives. The dreams of Hear the World consist of erasing the stigma that a person with listening to loss need to be visible as handicapped and wiping out negativity approximately wearing hearing gadgets. They also are striving to show humans that hearing is a valuable present that ought to be included and to encourage listening.

Wide assortments of models are presently on the market.

The Canadian based business enterprise, Unitron, have become a part of Phonak in 2000. The merge of the two most important listening to aid producers has allowed for an even extra variety of products. It is not the best brand in the marketplace, even though. A knowledgeable audiologist or hearing useful resource company may be capable of healthy a person who has the skilled hearing loss with the suitable device for their specific state of affairs.

The Lyric is one in every of Phonak’s most popular models. It remains inside the ear 24/7. It calls for no coping with and nobody except the wearer and his medical doctor wishes to comprehend it’s there.

There are dozens of listening to useful resource businesses within the global. The industry pumps millions of dollars into research and the trying out of recent era each yr. Phonak has much competition. ReSound, Oticon and Starkey are some of the other large hearing useful resource manufacturers. Each enterprise has an extended listing of fashions and is in a consistent race to perfect technological advances.

The Intiga is a heading device made through Oticon.

It’s high velocity processing chip and wi-fi technology work with the brain to boom listening to and filter out pointless background noise. Even humans with handiest minor hearing loss record tremendous improvement even as wearing the tiny unit.

Starkey listening to aids are custom made. The brand is a leader in a waterproof generation for listening to aids. They provide a wide range of digital, invisible and wi-fi fashions for each adult and kids.

Resound is but some other listening to useful resource maker. The Resound Alera improves listening to in even the hardest of listening conditions with the middle generation that includes surround sound. The Resound Unite offers a line of hearing accessories that include microphones, smartphone clips, faraway controls and TV streamers designed to enhance and increase sound pleasant.

Bring Out Your Best By Living In Heaven Every Moment Of Each Day

There is nothing else it may be however the pleasant in you, due to the fact that is the entire message of spiritual awakening from the concept of time.

The word what’s Heaven or wherein is Heaven suggests that somewhere out of doors folks will welcome us at some point, or invite us in as a just praise.

Bringing forth your Best

Your authentic free will is the Kingdom of Heaven that is you, due to the fact you are what God created. There is not anything else however you.

When we don’t forget what is Heaven, we may additionally photo streets paved in gold someplace past all of the galaxies, or a puffy purple cloud upon which we journey, or any of the various other legendary illustrations that sell the supernatural.

We’ve all wondered, what’s Heaven?

And we’ve got all heard it said: “May the Kingdom of Heaven be yours.” Most people have never honestly considered what this indicates, apart from picturing Heaven as a few vicinity ways away.

Miracles display us that every herald of eternity sings of the quit of sin and worry. Each speaks in a time of what is ways beyond it.

Instead, permit’s take the fantasy out of the image and keep in mind that the Kingdom of Heaven is you, due to the fact it’s miles inside you.

Heaven Is Yours

What is Heaven is that acknowledgment of being greater, that you inwardly experience you could be while you contain your self with a willingness to forgive.

The ego in every people regards any hobby of our spirits, and the spirit itself, as the enemy, and every ego has its own conflict plan.

The ego must have you on its side, believing in separation, in order for it to remain separate, and to retain to train its separate methods for the generations to comply with.

Heaven is that essence of our minds completely linked collectively and then welded by using our Guide, the Holy Spirit, with His easy verbal exchange, till all minds are gapless. You, because the Kingdom, have created a spirit, and regardless of the ego you have not stopped growing.

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Your Android Phone Has a Built-In Childproofing Feat

The Importance Of Cell Phones Feat In Modern Society Childproofing

The characteristic is referred to as display screen pinning, and it’s been hiding in Android’s settings menu considering that Lollipop. (Look under “Fingerprints & protection.”) Flip it on, after which you may “pin” a single app to the display whenever you want.Here’s how you operate it: Little Madison desires to see herself in all the Snapchat filters, so you open Snapchat after which hit the little square button that shows you all of your open apps. At the bottom nook of every app is an icon with a little thumbtack or a down arrow. A faucet that to pin Snapchat to the screen. Whilst the display screen is pinned, the child can’t get out of the app with the standard lower back, home, or overview buttons. (That’s what the rectangular button is known as.) This selection is also available if you need to keep a sure display open But worry which you would possibly bump a button with the aid of coincidence.

The way to un-pin a screen relies upon in your tool. I have a phone that desires me to preserve down the back button, and some other that desires me to keep down the back and overview buttons collectively. As soon as your child is old sufficient to seize on (or, worse, read the little message that pops up whilst they are trying to hit the house button), they’ll be able to un-pin the screen. However that simply brings you back to the lock screen—so if they don’t realize How to unencumber your cell phone, all they are able to do is cry and hand the telephone again. Good day, that’s higher than deleting your email.

screen pinning is likewise on hand if you have to hand a smartphone to a nosey co-employee or to a cashier who wishes to scan a discount on your cell phone. One warning: if you use Smart Lock to unencumber your smartphone each time you’re at home or in a range of a positive BlueTooth tool, then Once the display screen is unpinned the character can get right of entry to something they need.

The Importance Of Cell Phones In Modern Society

Mobile telephones have turn out to be a necessity for many people for the duration of the arena. The capacity to keep in touch with family, enterprise pals and get admission to to email are just a few of the motives for the growing importance of Cell telephones. Present day technically superior Cell telephones are able to not handiest receiving and placing phone calls, but storing facts, taking pics, and can even be used as walkie talkies, to call only some of the to be had options.

When Cellular telephones were first delivered to the public, they had been cumbersome, highly-priced, and some even required a base unit that had to be transported together with the phone. Exact reception was a first-rate hassle and in fashionable, early Cell telephones could handiest be utilized in positive places wherein the signal was especially sturdy. As Mobile telephone generation superior, the tough in using them became much less of a hassle. Today, Cellular cellphone reception has improved greatly due to the use of satellites and wi-fi offerings. As Mobile phones improved and became easy to apply, the significance of Mobile telephones multiplied for this reason.

Mobile telephones are the appropriate way to stay connected with others and provide the user with a feel of security. Inside the occasion of the emergency, having a Mobile phone can allow help to reach you speedy and could likely keep lives. But, the importance of Cellular phones goes manner past personal safety. Current Cell telephones are able to internet get right of entry to, sending and receiving photographs and documents, and a few Cell telephones are prepared with GPS technology, making an allowance for use in maximum places around the arena and allowing the Cell phone to be observed or the person positioned Inside the event of loss or emergency.

Mobile cellphone reception has turn out to be dependable and of high high-quality due to advances in wireless technology. wi-fi carrier providers provide notable applications and promotions for Cell smartphone customers. Locating a reliable carrier company is now not an difficulty for Cell cellphone customers. The growth of the wi-fi carrier issuer enterprise offers Mobile telephone customers a preference and the elevated opposition has caused a drop in expenses of wi-fi Cell phone carrier. The importance of Cellular telephones is going way past the capacity to make or acquire phone calls. Cellular smartphone users can right away send statistics to the home or workplace, check for crucial e-mail, use their Mobile phone as a PDA or calendar, and shop pix which may be easily transferred to a Pc or computer laptop.

Mobile smartphone manufacturers have produced a wide range of Cellular phones, which sell for expenses that range from very cheaper to over one thousand dollars. The available options give customers the choice of buying a simple Cell telephone to use surely for making calls or choosing a complex, technologically advanced Mobile phone that could carry out as many or even more obligations that a domestic laptop. Over the last decade, the increasing significance of Cellular telephones has made them nearly a need for most people. Even remote and underdeveloped international locations have a few get entry to to Cellular smartphone generation and wireless offerings.

The significance of Cellular phones has improved the opposition Inside the wireless carrier issuer industry, making Mobile telephones very affordable and very smooth to use. Cell phones have become nearly a standing symbol in addition to the ease and protection that comes from proudly owning them.

Get Confidence To Start Your Dream Business – Tackle This Feat First

Do you dream about starting your own business? Does that fill you with anxiety? Is there a voice in your head telling you to play it safe? After all you’ve got responsibilities.

I get it. I worked and collected a pay check for years until I finally took the plunge and started my dream business-and not without great anxiety. I started out completely on my own as an executive recruiter and then built a personnel firm from scratch, with a partner, into a two-office, twenty-employee firm-not counting all of the temporaries we had out on assignment.

Sure, it takes guts, determination, and confidence to get started. There is one goal I tackled that mirrors the same traits needed to start your dream job. Achieving that goal gave me the confidence to successfully launch my dream job. What is it? Train for and run a marathon. Here’s why.

1. You must have a burning desire to do it.

No one tackles a marathon (that’s 26.2 miles) unless they have a dream to complete one. It’s just way too long. If you want to start your dream business, then it needs to be a burning desire in your core. Don’t go about it half-heartedly. A dream turns an enormous task into an exciting challenge.

I wouldn’t have made it through the training for my first marathon without taking a marathon training class. I followed a plan written by running experts and did the long training runs with a group. I wouldn’t have made it as a solo recruiter if I hadn’t learned my craft thoroughly, first with a large recruiting firm, and then with a small, entrepreneurial firm. I knew exactly what to do when I plunged into my own dream business.

3. You must believe in yourself.

The confidence to run my first marathon came from the positive affirmations I got constantly from the marathon trainers. They assured us if we followed the plan and completed the miles, we would complete the marathon. Both our body and mind would be trained. When I started my first recruiting business, I believed, from the depths of my soul, that I could do it.

4. You must have stamina and perseverance.

The marathon training plan was six months long, peaking at 45 to 50 miles for the week including a 20-mile training run. The weekly miles and weekly long run increased steadily throughout the training. Talk about fatigue. Learning how to manage that schedule increased our ability to complete the marathon distance. On marathon day, it’s very important to pace yourself or you might deplete your body. That means you might hit the wall and finish in severe agony, or you might drop out from exhaustion. Expect the same experience the first six months of operating your dream business. Pace yourself and manage your fatigue.

5. You must see the finish line.

When I stood on the starting line of my first marathon, I have to admit, I felt high anxiety. All those self-doubts emerged and circled around in my head. It took a conscious effort to switch my thoughts. After all, I had done all of that grueling training. I wouldn’t give up now. I visualized crossing the finish line. The same experience happened when I signed the lease on my first office. All those fears and self-doubts surfaced. I remember thinking about my billing goal and how much fun I was about to have being independent and free. My success mirrored my visualization.

Childproofing the Bespoke Woodwork in Your Home

Childproofing

As any parent will tell any future parent, having children will change your life.

They’ll instantly become the most important thing in your world and certain things will never be the same again.

This includes making changes around the home that weren’t necessary before.

Whereas your custom wood doors were designed with looks and durability in mind, these solid slabs of hardwood now need to be made safe for little fingers.

But it’s not just the custom wood doors in your home that have to be considered.

Once children begin walking, there’s no stopping their curiosity. Your bespoke kitchen cabinets will also become potential finger traps, and glass panel doors can get the better of even us grown-ups from time to time.

While some prefer to make certain areas of the home off-limits to their children, their curiosity shouldn’t be stifled unless absolutely necessary.

Let them wander as much as possible. But keep them safe with these tips.

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Tips and tricks to master Gboard, Google's super smart Android keyboard

Kind smarter Gboard is extra than just a keyboard. It’s some other hub for Google to offer its advanced search and synthetic intelligence services and have them actually one touch away on any Android device.

Packed into Aboard are a ton of improvements that will help you Kind higher

Even as it really works just first-class out of the container, you’ll get a higher enjoy in case you dive into some of its customization options to make sure the whole lot is set up for the way you want to Kind.

in case you need a little assistance, right here are 10 recommendations that will help you write quicker, make fewer errors, and discover simply the right GIF.

VR Box Review – Google Cardboard Headset

The Google cardboard headset is the type of a do it your self-package that has been introduced in the yr 2014 by using Google. The kit has been bought via Google recently via its play save. It’s far available for $15 and is simple to get assembled to resemble a headset of virtual reality. It’s far a simple viewer technically, especially because it is easy to apply and is a standalone tool. It calls for iOS or an android phone to accumulate its display and processing electricity. It’s also easy for use, as soon as the cardboard package is being brought, users would clearly fold it, slot it inside the smartphone a good way to discover a variety of cardboard video games. This virtual fact or a VR box is to be had each at Apple’s App keeps and Google play shop and It is now viable to attempt the simple VR demos free thru the Google cardboard app for each iOS and Android. The setting of the cardboard is to be managed via the card app.

VR field evaluates: The VR container is a solid plastic model of the Google cardboard headset featured with completely adjustable eye lenses.

Lenses: the lenses appearance simply as children’s binoculars and It is viable to alter their function within the dimensions, intensity, and width relying on the video or the utility. Every software on the Google cardboard features a different discipline of view and customers may regulate the headset for exceptional applications.

Consolation

These headsets are to get rammed in opposition to one’s face tough and hence are required to be secure. The VR container feels so relaxed compared to the authentic cardboard headset and if wanted additional padding might be used in the surrounding vicinity for people with a ridged nose.

Cell phone holder

The telephone holder has to pad on both its facets wherein the cell phone receives held in place. The holder has holes on both its facets to allow the consumer to add charger and headphones so that when the tool is in use, there would now not be many disturbances to with power and consumer could get immersed inside the VR container tons longer. The slider fixes into the headset with a click and it does not slide out on its personal. The VR holder has a line marker to help customers enter the smartphone and consequently gives a high fine to the set with nil clumsiness.

Extra than playing video games, the headset works wonders in looking films. customers have found it beautiful to look at 3D movies with the set, that is a good deal, a great deal better than the cardboard set. The head strap is really comfy and the padding around the eyes helps to use the set for long hours in looking films.

Seven Android Apps You Should Install on Chromebook

Chromebook is known for its simplicity, velocity, and protection. However, it has did not prove its really worth as a working device because of its loss of guide for Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and numerous different packages.

There was massive news for the Chromebook users closing month when Google introduced that its miles making Android Play Save available to Chrome OS. This indicates the Chromebook users will be able to run all of the apps available for Android phones on their machines,

Right here are a number of the apps that you have to installation to your Chromebook system.

Skype

Although you could deploy or emulate Skype in your Chromebook gadget the use of the ARChon approach, it’s far a piece complicated technique and no longer a great alternative for the everyday users.

With a Skype Android app hooked up to your machine, you could, in the end, sigh a breath of comfort.

Snapchat

Snapchat is an exciting image and video sharing app, with almost 100 million daily customers. Having the software established for your Chromebook machine, you could keep tune of your friends and proportion something returned.

Smule Sing

Smule Sing is a cell karaoke app that permits you to sing your favorite songs with audio results. The app has extra than 50 million global audiences and deserves a place within the listing of Android apps you must set up on your Chrome system.

LinkedIn Pulse

Pulse is another exquisite app that helps you to get the everyday information published by way of your expert world at a single location. The app has 230 million English-speaking customers, and both readers and authors are its beneficiaries. Around 50,000 articles are posted on Pulse every week.

Kindle App

Kindle app is a tremendous app for every reader. You do no longer need to personal a Kindle device to get greater than 1,000,000 books at your fingertips. Surely deploy this app and pick the books you need to examine from the Kindle Store.

Serval Mesh

Serval Mesh is a unfastened app that creates a verbal exchange community between close by devices, even within the times of a catastrophe while cellular networks fail. This app permits the customers to make personal calls, text messages and proportion images, videos or any other documents.

Periscope

Periscope is a progressive app that helps you to broadcast live video to the arena. Your fans might be instantly notified approximately whilst you may cross stay, and they are able to touch upon your broadcast and send you hearts to expose the affection for it. you could also proportion your Periscope pronounces on Twitter.

The Best Workstation Keyboards And Synthesizers For Hip Hop

Are you a manufacturer who needs greater sounds? Are you a musician that feels restrained with the VST’s or keyboards you presently have? We all had been there and most musicians nevertheless are, as being a musician, I’m never glad about what I have. I always search for what’s new, or what’s better than my current setup!

Let’s assume you producer hip hop beats/RnB tracks and you need to step outside of the container and get a few new sounds and test a bit, and absolutely a whole lot of hip-hop producers produce the identical sounds and the whole thing is starting to sound increasingly alike. The reason to that is, most producers use VST’s! VST stands for “Digital Units” and are sounds which are crafted from your laptop instead of from an outside sound board.

The trouble with the usage of VST’s is that everybody has the

Equal Devices and no longer loads can have enough money a $3k keyboard computer like the Roland Fantom, but folks that own those keyboards typically have a tendency to supply a much better composition than those who use preset sounds in Fruity Loops.

If you are geared up to take your manufacturing to the next level then right here are a few exceptional keyboards for you! We could start on the top, with the Roland Fantom X6, that is a full laptop keyboard with drum pads for sampling and sixty-one semi-weighted keys. that is the proper keyboard for a critical and properly established manufacturer! If you have a one on one consultation with an artist, they may stroll in and know exactly what keyboard you’ve got in front of them and without delay will be inspired!

Let’s go to something a touch much less luxurious,

The Yamaha MO6 or MO8, the only distinction between the 2 are one is sixty-one semi-weighted keys and the opposite is absolutely weighted 88 keys. Now, this exceptional keyboard is very popular inside the hip hop global, producers like Timbaland, Scott starch and Eminem have produced hit records using the sounds of the Motif! This keyboard is a touch bit older, however, you could find one for under $800 online almost anywhere now and this still produces some fantastic sounds! Hook this up for your DAW and lay down tracks or prepare the information at the keyboard laptop without a laptop!

Now, staying across the $1k fee range,

We could flow over to Korg’s line of keyboards. Beginning with the Korg M50. This keyboard has some tremendous sounds that could work terrific for R&B and even hip hop! One aspect approximately this keyboard is that it is extra on the experimental side, greater of the sounds are leaned in the direction of techno etc. and will require an innovative thought to put together some hip hop beats but ultimately, you will have a few sounds that nearly no hip hop producers have.

In case you go along with the Motif Keyboards from Yamaha,

You will find some of the most diagnosed sounds from early ninety’s data or even statistics from these days which is a high-quality thing but for someone who wants to be very unique, going with a Korg M50 nearly is a guarantee that you may have unheard sounds, and the drum kits in this element are amazing! Thick, smooth and real sounding kits may also make you that much more original, thinking about most hip hop manufacturers use the equal kicks, claps, and hats this keyboard will allow you to step outdoor of that “comfort sector” We all fall into.

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The Art of Blogging: Starting And Creating a Shared Story

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The Art of Blogging: Starting And Creating a Shared Story

Here’s what you need to know about starting a Blog

– In case you don’t apprehend the technology, you would possibly sense actually stuck. However, the technology of starting a Blog has without a doubt end up very clean. With both WordPress or Blogger, it only takes 2-3 mins to create a Weblog. Assistance is to be had; attain out and get it!

– Past the technology, you might freeze up whilst it is time to hit “Publish.” If that is you, pass back to those questions: What’s it you need to mention to people? What do you understand about how to say it? Being clear approximately those questions will assist you to arise the heart to hit the “Publish” button.

-Take deep breaths, and take quite a few breaks. Running a blog is a human revel in. You might be going too ways, getting too annoyed, or having a gradual connection that day. It is smooth to get so annoyed which you do not move again. Walk away and are available returned later in a better frame of thoughts.

Guidelines on Having an Incredible Weblog

– Right here’s what blogs need to attention on a Story that can be shared, that engages humans, and they want to go out and tell others about. Never forget about this simple principle.

– The Weblog is your the front porch. You beautify it, deliver out the furniture, and create an area where you may invite people to come in and spot what you are doing. They may come from social media, and you can ship them again out to different locations. However there’s a comfort level whilst someone has a pleasing-searching Blog with constant content material on it, and readers realize they are able to pass there. That’s what they are going to bookmark.

– Consider your Weblog in terms of a heat greeting. Maintain the focal point for your viewer, your consumer, your reader. This will make it tons less complicated to make selections. What is their enjoy?

– New bloggers generally tend to start off by way of seeking to present themselves. This wishes to seem like me; I need people to realize who I am. That is a herbal vicinity to begin. But It is a whole lot greater powerful to Think of who your potential readers are. How do they feel while they come Here? What can you’ve got on your front porch It’s surely attractive on your target market?

-Any other mistake bloggers make is attempting to be “too Ph.D.” of their Blog posts. Blog posts should not be the period of quick stories. Long posts like that are not getting to the factor or attending to a name to action for the reader. the brief is almost usually better. you may Submit your brief tales on Kindle!

-Writing is setting apart, However, Blogging is even greater so. Discover an area wherein you could communicate with actual humans maybe even in individual!-approximately your Blog. Meeting in character facilitates to normalize the generation. Suzanna Stinnett, founding the father of the Bay Place Bloggers Society, has found that people who attend their meetings are experts at something and they are starting to recognize the cost of sharing that understanding. They realize approximately Blogging, they have learned about it, studied it, heard about it, and looked at it online, However, when they come and sit with a group of human beings and soar the thoughts off each other, It’s one-of-a-kind. They have got the a-ha moment: “Now I apprehend why I want to do that type of Weblog”, or what a class is, or how the to enjoy is for my readers. A-ha moments manifest greater in individual than they do on-line.

Some How-To’s of Blogging from

– A few entry stage Blogging platforms encompass Blogger (from Google), Tumblr and WordPress. BABS’s Suzanna Stinnett favors WordPress because it gives “quite a world,” and the learning curve is short. However, she also sends loads of human beings to Blogger (that’s owned by means of Google), because she thinks it is able to be even less difficult, and it has A few advantages. On Blogger, It’s less difficult to get recognized in Some methods, due to Google. you have equipped get right of entry to, and the connections are extra seamless, while you need to herald video (Google also owns YouTube). “Click on, Click, and you’ve got were given your Blog set up.” And there may be energy in having a Gmail account, which you need for Blogger. Google+ is also entering the image, and It’s Another pretty seamless manner to put up a post and hyperlink it in your Blog. there may be a high search engine ranking there.

-However, do not be too worried approximately how you’re being determined. Your content material is what’s truly going to nail your discoverability. constantly cross returned to the simple principle: having a Tale that may be shared.

-The Blog is where it all goes down. If you’re asking, Am I able to just use Facebook as my Weblog? the solution isn’t any. Instead, begin with a simple Blog-maybe simply publish once a month. This way, you have got a core little global which you personal. You don’t personal your Fb international. You cannot truly dictate your reader’s revel in on Facebook, the way you can for your Weblog.

Blogging Advice for Writers & Authors

– Anybody has a unique manner to produce their cloth. you can do a book of interviews: cross backward and forward between interviewing human beings on your enterprise and speaking about what you do. Or, if you have clients, think about case studies; human beings are very interested in case studies. Some other choice is to use your Weblog to build up a collection over a time frame, knowing that this is going to be a book going back and turning your Weblog posts into an ebook can work very well.

– Authors’ lives are very interesting to readers, so authors have a side. Biographies are famous. Stinnett lately found out that now that authors are having possible, the clean achievement with their systems, they are doing two things: 1. Hi, I’m the author of _______, and I have something to say. 2. I got up this morning and needed to take my dog to the vet. If you’ve posted writing that people like, the readers are already there, and they need to understand approximately your real life.

We have a sturdy gadget that writers, enterprise people, and marketers can use to get the word out about what they’re doing and to Put up books. Amazon/Kindle has grown to be the king of the e-book global. CreateSpace (an Amazon corporation) will without problems take you into the self-publishing world, people may be capable of shopping for your book – printed on demand and shipped to them by means of Amazon directly to the reader (and they even take care of the credit score card processing). All you have to do is write it! We’re in a whole distinctive vicinity than we have been ten years in the past.

– quite a few humans are studying on their smartphones, even when They’ve tablets as a choice. The phone is so easy, and It’s already in your pocket. It is clean to pick out up wherein you left off. You need to be thinking about the shipping of your e-book in very simplified forms, for all of the exceptional readers and for the cell. this is a crucial aspect of creating your content material.

– if you have the video for your Weblog and you will convert the Weblog into an ebook, you have to reflect consideration on what you will do with the content material in that video. We’re close, However now not but to the point where It’s seamless to consist of multimedia to your e-book-It is nonetheless experimental. So think about how now not to lose that content inside the transition.

– eBooks can be pretty brief. 30 pages is a good period.

Creative Advice for Small enterprise Proprietors & entrepreneurs

– A key element in social media is to create an area people can come to and sense like they belong. Then they’re invested. you may flip a consumer into a supporter. there is a huge difference: investment in your success. they’re going to carry their family and buddies alongside; they’re going to construct your community for you.

– A Weblog post may be about your workforce, your customers, or your network. Use the social networks to meet and greet humans and convey them in. decorate you are the front porch! Your virtual presence is as important as your bodily building and the things you build.

– entrepreneurs have a unique form of magnetism. You create interest: Will this individual be able to pull this off? And you have a whole lot of explaining to do, that’s certainly an advantage in social media. You often should create new words, because you have to do a number of instructing. If you may actively present your Story and permit human beings to feed in, you may succeed, because masses of people need to feel like they contributed to a mission, like a number of their intelligence is in there. entrepreneurs need to be actual and human, However, it must not continually be fantastic. you could write, The whole thing blew up nowadays. We are taking the time without work and going to the beach. This honesty facilitates to create human interplay and make humans feel like they’re a part of some thing.

– all of it is going again to Developing a Tale that can be shared. Small enterprise has the hardest job, due to the fact your product won’t have a completely thrilling Story to it. But there may be a more vital question: what are you doing That is engaging? Larger organizations create their own location within the community via giving back, and you could do the equal thing on a smaller scale.

– Do something with youngsters, or assist the network in Some other way. It is a win-win: you are building up a community, and now you have got a Story you may proportion. you can communicate about how you are seeking to do higher inside the world. This gives your employer greater meat; It is a competitive aspect.

– This time in social media favors small corporations. It is sincerely greater difficult for large businesses, having five,000 followers on Facebook is not surely social media engagement, It is simply brute energy advertising and marketing “Be a part of Us”. The assignment for huge organizations is that there’s so regularly no real man or woman there, and nothing or no one to have interaction with. It’s difficult to jot down a Story-We care, and We are doing this for our network-when they’re so eliminated from their network, because of their size. For once, you small business Owners and entrepreneurs have a bonus. Use it!

– Social media is driving us towards a better global by way of prompting us to reflect onconsideration on how we are inside the world. We will try and be higher within the international, and then We can inform human beings approximately that.

The Art of Blogging – The Takeaways

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Millenial Mentality.

The Millennials, myself included, are deemed to be the successors of the business world in a few years’ time. It is up to us to how businesses will be running and I am quite sure that it will be very different from the traditional way of doing business. The Millennials are known for their different kind of lifestyle from other generations and how it will eventually change how the world is.

Here are three issues I found interesting that my generation is facing today in their workplace:

1. Technological Dependence

One of the major differences from the Millennials and the other generations is the accessibility of technology today. The emergence of countless gadgets especially the smartphone and the Internet has taken the world by storm and changed the lifestyles of the people. The Millennials are most affected by this and it has changed their mentality towards working. The constant checking of the Social Media, the countless hours of using the computer or smartphones, and the basically the dependence on technology to live their daily lives has somewhat destroyed the essence of living. Socializing, face-to-face communication, have diminished and seem to be secondary already because of the more convenient alternatives. Although technology is created to make life easier, being too dependent to it may cause severe problems and will hinder individuals to learn personal skills that are necessary in the workplace.

2. Instant Gratification

The mentality of the Millennials are quite different from other generations. The rapid advancement of technology has really paid its toll making Millennials want instant gratification in everything. The mindset of receiving satisfaction in everything they do is already instilled in every Millennial. They all want instant satisfaction in what they do and they always look at the short term picture of things. This is evident in the Social Media wherein users always look for likes, shares and other forms of attention.

3. Non-traditional style of working

With all things considered, it is safe to say that Millennials are different from other generations because of the way they think, live and work. All of this is accounted for because of the environment they are exposed too. Such as the culture today and the factors they are exposed to. Millennials are more comfortable in non-confrontal communication meaning, they like communicating through the use of technology rather than personally seeing the person. They also tend to focus more on the present or the short term benefits rather than the long term ones. Commitment seems to be a huge problem as well as loyalty as they tend to move around companies after a year or two only.

From these issues, it has given me realizations at how my generation has so much to offer as many individuals have untapped potential waiting to bloom but would need the right guidance and motivation. Here are some things that could help Millennials maximize their full potential:

1. Give recognition

Like any other person, being recognize is a great feeling. It motivates, excites and puts a person in the right track whenever they know that they will be recognize. The short-term mindset of this generation is because of their hunger for instant gratification. Giving them recognition in the things they do keep them motivated and going in their jobs. It also allows them to be loyal and committed to what they do. Providing them an environment where they feel successful will surely push them to their limits.

2. Communication

Communicating is essential in doing business but what is important is two-way communication. Feedback plays a huge role here as managers and executives should learn how to listen from lower management. Millennials want to belong in an organization and they would want to have a voice in everything. This allows them to be part of the success of the organization because of their potential inputs and ideas.

3. Adjusting helps

Whether it be the company adjusting for the new Millennials or the vise versa the generation differences must be given consideration. I know that many huge corporations cater the needs of the Millennials now with amazing facilities for people to use such as playrooms, sleeping rooms, etc. Making the workplace less like a workplace may help motivate and change the stressful environment helping Millennials. On the other hand, Millenials should also be ready wherein they will adjust and learn new skills in order to survive in the workplace. They should be able to go out their comfort zone and try new things. Overall both parties should be ready to help each other develop and be better. Loyalty, commitment and unity comes a long way in the business world today.

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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

#Celeste Headlee #conversation #listening #ted talk #ted talks

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Tech Troubles: Unintended Consequences of Gadgets

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – With almost all and sundry, ninety-five% in line with the Pew Research Center, proudly owning mobile phones, the generation is seemingly right here to live.

With almost everybody’s hand packed with a cell telephone, a few experts are warning of the unintentional outcomes, which include listening to one’s surroundings.

“Distracted Driving, checking your mobile phone, it’s going to be a hassle.” said John Marshall, Colorado Mesa University Vice President of Student Services, “But the opposite half of the communication is pedestrians.

A document from CBS News, with facts from the Governors Highway Safety association, pedestrian deaths are the better than at any factor in extra than two a long time at near 6,000 in 2016.

The price of the boom is also appreciably higher; from a term of 2010-2015, pedestrian fatalities rose 25% as opposed to the total variety of fatalities rising 6%.

CMU has constructed any go walks across its campus, considerably on 12th Street, with buttons for avenue crosses and lighting fixtures to alert automobiles, and on Orchard Avenue, wherein simply an island on the median is supplied for pedestrians.

Tech Gadgets That Should Be Wireless Other Than the iPhone 7

With the wireless revolution in mind, right here are some of the tech gadgets that also deserve a wireless remedy, not just for the sake of making your iPhone 7 experience extra streamlined, however to in addition strengthen the wireless revel in schedule and ultimately cross all out wi-fi in all of the devices that we probably could for our convenience.

Wireless Charging of Laptops and PCs

If its smaller counterpart which is the smartphones are capable of doing it, how a great deal greater can the laptops and laptop computer systems? Standard computer systems have a size that tech innovation may want to without difficulty take advantage of. So, there is certainly no reason why it shouldn’t happen sometime soon.

Apparently, a tech corporation, in the end, paid interest to that lengthy-past due technological development and has taken the first step in making wireless charging for desktop computers and laptops to manifest. A budding tech corporation named WiTricity is going to release its wireless charging era starting off with Dell laptops. Basically, Dell laptops commenced this tech revolution in computer charging, but, it did not benefit as tons media mileage as the iPhone 7’s airports or the wireless charging capability of the modern-day smartphones. The wi-fi charging for laptops is in a form of a charging matt so that you can handiest transmit the battery’s charge if the laptop in located on it. Pretty just like the wireless charging feature of smartphones.

What would be truly floor breaking though is if they make the wireless charging functional even at a distance, just like how the Bluetooth audio system and headsets work.

Wireless External Hard Disk Drives

External tough disk drives have been one of the arsenals to combat inadequate storage area in your laptops or desktops. Most specifically to folks who run around with Macbooks or Ultrabooks which handiest consists of a restricted quantity of garage area, now not sufficient to bring a whole movie collection with you. Though outside hard drives have remedied most of our garage area struggles successfully, what higher manner to make the revel in lots better than to have it finished wirelessly.

My Passport Wireless is a next step in the evolution of the outside tough drives that we use these days. From the call itself, it could sync, transfer, and have your PC read files from it with no strings attached – actually. This kingdom of the artwork outside hard drives makes use of the contemporary wi-fi technological mediums that are referred to as the Wireless N and MIMO generation.

Wireless HDMI

Watching a movie from a smartphone or a laptop has already incorporated wi-fi generation into the experience for pretty a while now. With that in mind, it’s approximate time that we also get our fingers on a Wireless HDMI. This is basically the replacement of the HDMI twine that we commonly use today for our DVRs, Blue Ray players, or gaming console. This era comes in a form of an adapter, which you can virtually plug into the HDMI port of the tool wherein you want to have your show projected. That adapter will then transmit a sign to successful wi-fi gadgets inclusive of your smartphone, DVR, PC, and the likes. Simply sync with it and you are properly to go.

The Law of Unintended Consequences – Moralizing

Don’t judge me, but

A lot of guys moralize.

(Hey! It rhymes! So it must be real.)

Some men are into sports fishing. Others insist that you behave consistently with their rules. Usually without explaining why.

It’s all peer strain and no substance.

They’re telling you what to assume and a way to act. Is it to your advantage or theirs?

Does moralizing work? Sure.

And in case you had a goldfish brain, you would hold to pretty much something that constantly worked for 30 seconds, right?

Here’s the horrifying thing… Ah, we will come to it quickly sufficient.

Now in case you’ve observed me very long, you will word I don’t cast judgment very regularly, although it actually “works.”

Especially on the internet. Outrage drums up web page-views and ad banner sales.

Obviously we humans are drawn to individuals who are absolutely confident and positive of themselves. It rarely topics whether they’re proper or incorrect. Right?

Well… Is it proper?

Oh. Now ya ask.

No. It’s not. It’s WRONG!!

And you cannot do it and do not allow me to trap you letting all of us else getting away with it, both. Or else there may be CONSEQUENCES.

Big Boys’ Toys – Why Men Love Gadgets

From sports cars to spy cameras, power tools to wireless power gadgets–guys love technology. Most men have at least one high-tech obsession. It could be the latest gas grilling equipment, a cutting edge fly rod, the newest graphite golf clubs, computers, electronics–the list goes on and on. It’s obvious that guys love gadgets–but why? Here are just a few possible reasons.

The “Wow” factor

Let’s face it: a shiny new techno-toy is cool. From the latest plasma screen TV’s too slender, stylish mobile phones, a beautifully designed machine is sure to catch a guy’s attention. Many gadgets are designed to maximize the coolness appeal: electronic card shufflers for the card shark in your family; sleek Mp3 players and mobile phones that look good out on the town; computer speakers that look like contemporary sculpture. The “wow” factor is elusive, and it’s usually a combination of style and function.

It’s all about status. Cutting edge technology is a status symbol. And even those of us who insist we don’t care about such things get a secret thrill from owning the latest and greatest. Those gadgets cost money, and they send a signal that the owner has it to spare. They also give the impression that the owner is educated, trendy, and plugged-in. Most social species have ways to determine status among their members, and human beings are one of the most complex social species in the world. Techno-gadgets are just one-way guys can display their status among their peers.

They make guys feel like kids again

Most guys start their love affair with gadgets at an early age. Little boys love remote control cars, video games, kid-sized tools, and more. A new gadget can make a guy feel like a kid again. Playing with high-tech toys is something that never changes. It’s engrossing, fascinating, and fun–just like it was when he was a kid. Most guys get just as excited now when they’re given a gadget for Christmas as they did when they were much younger. No wonder gadget gifts are a quick and easy way to a man’s heart.

Believe it or not–they’re practical. Gadgets let you do things you couldn’t do otherwise. A cutting-edge laptop can let you do everything from recording your own music to building your own e-commerce business. A feature-packed cell phone lets you check your email, play your favorite music, and even download a movie or television series in addition to keeping in touch with your friends. A well-made power tool lets you build anything from furniture to sailboats to motorcycles from the ground up. Guys love gadgets because they don’t just make our lives easier–they make impossible achievements commonplace.

Entertainment value

Technology doesn’t just improve our lives–it also makes things more fun. Entertainment technology has come far in the past decades, from early radio and television to cutting-edge plasma screens, video games with astonishing graphics, and more. No matter what you like to do for entertainment, technology takes fun to a whole new level. And it’s everywhere in our culture–almost everybody has a television, a radio, a CD collection, a computer, and many other gadgets. Today, even our most simple and familiar toys have been given a technological overhaul: dolls walk and talk; teddy bears play songs and tell stories, and toy cars have remote controls.

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