MUJER NATURAL LA MAGIA DE SER TU MISMA
PIENSA POSITIVO
DILE ADIOS AL TRIGO, PIERDE PESO Y COME DE FORMA SALUDABLE
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¿COSMÉTICOS QUE NO EMBELLECEN? DESCUBRE LA TOXICIDAD DE LOS PRODUCTOS DE BELLEZA QUE USAS DIARIAMENTE
FRESH COUNTER FOOD, P.12
¿TE CANSAS SIN MOTIVO?
Lo que esconde la falta de energía y cómo recuperarla
MARZO 2017 • ISSUE 01 • VOLUMEN 1
MUJER NATURAL LA MAGIA DE SER TU MISMA
PIENSA POSITIVO
DILE ADIOS AL TRIGO, PIERDE PESO Y COME DE FORMA SALUDABLE
Deja de lado el autosabotaje
¿COSMÉTICOS QUÉ NO EMBELLECEN? DESCUBRE LA TOXICIDAD DE LOS PRODUCTOS DE BELLEZA QUE USAS DIARIAMENTE
FRESH COUNTER FOOD, P.12
¿TE CANSAS SIN MOTIVO?
Lo que esconde la falta de energía y cómo recuperarla
MARZO 2017 • ISSUE 01 • VOLUMEN 1
MUJER NATURAL LA MAGIA DE SER TU MISMA
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12 ¿COSMÉTICOS QUÉ NO EMBELLECEN?
Jessica Wilde shares how to overcome writer's block. Story on p. 20
9 AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Katherine Weiss
2 Nota Editorial 7 New Releases
20 8 Young Emerging Writers This year's promising young writers are about to shine 23 INDIE INSIDER: Hidden Bookshops Hole in the wall bookshops are popping all over the Metro 30 NEW BLOOD: Christina Adams Explore Christina's world of magical realism 32 REVIEW: Flesh and Blood This year's most-awaited thriller 40 SHORT STORY: The Buried Key by Alexander Wyeth 43 POETRY: Sweet Serenity by Samantha Adams
20 ¿COSMÉTICOS QUÉ NO EMBELLECEN?
52 COMICS CORNER: Incidental Ideas
Descubre la toxicidad en los productos de belleza que usas diariamente MUJER NATURAL. REVISTA | 2
BOOKISH FEATURE
8 EMERGING WRITERS TO WATCH OUT FOR Get to know eight twenty-something writers who will capture our literary hearts by Alicia Berkeley
20-year-old Marianne Teigen recently published her first young adult novel, and in only a month, it has reached the New York Times Bestsellers list.
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agazines, according to Wikipedia, are publications, usually periodical publications, that are printed or published electronically. The online versions are called online magazines. They are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen launched in 1663 in Germany.
The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim. Magazine Distribution Magazines can be distributed through the mail, through sales by newsstands, bookstores, or other vendors, or through free distribution at selected pick-up locations. The subscription business models for distribution fall into three main categories.
In the case of written publication, it is a collection of written articles. This explains why magazine publications share the word root with gunpowder magazines, artillery magazines, firearms magazines, and, in various languages although not English, retail stores such as department stores.
Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. BOOKISH MAGAZINE | 8
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A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Little magazines or "small magazines", are literary magazines that publish experimental writings of relatively unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook and are often very irregular in their publication.
In publishing, to perform or display a work publicly means to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered. It also means to communicate a performance or display of the work to a place or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place.
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In the United States, publication is defined as the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A performance in public or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.
Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
Q&A: ANDREA STONE Andrea Stone opens up about her writing process, writing tips, and more.
ON HER WRITING PROCESS “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
HER TOP TIP FOR ASPIRING WRITERS
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
HER FAVORITE SUMMER READ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Her writing is phenomenal.
ON HER FAVORITE WRITERS Haruki Murakami, Jodi Picoult, and Michael Cunningham, most definitely.
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PROFILE
POSTMODERN PAINTING. Stella alternately paints in oil and watercolor
STELLA YOUNG: LIFE OF A PAINTER by Samantha McArthur Photos by John Adams
Painting, according to Wikipedia, is the practice of applying paint, pigment, or other medium to a surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. Painting describes both the act and the result of the action. Paintings may have for their support surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate
Take a peek into a day in the life of budding artist Stella Young, and how she improves her craft
other materials including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf as well as objects. Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, gesture, composition, narration, or abstraction, among other aesthetic modes, may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational, photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolistic , emotive, or be political in nature.
“What did I come here to do? I, as an artist, am here to live out loud.” IMPRINT MAGAZINE | 38
PROFILE
“Keep evolving, keep thinking, keep pushing yourself. Stay on top of it.”
DECEMBER 2016
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While a good conclusion is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing often takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. ON TAKING RISKS Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are pushed towards the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized.
Magazines are publications, usually periodical publications, that are printed or published electronically. (The online versions are called online magazines.) They are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. At its root, the word "magazine" refers to a collection or storage location. The emergence of the new media branch has to be seen in close connection with the simultaneous spread of the printing press from which the publishing press derives its name.
STELLA'S TOP TIPS
FOR ASPIRING ARTISTS Stella shares words of wisdom from her years of experience as a young painter.
EXPERIMENT If you're undecided on which path to take, try several paths and then decide which one is the best fit. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
HAVE A CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT YOU WANT.
“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
WORK ON PERSONAL PROJECTS. Simeon Kondev once said, “I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”
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THE BEST HEALTH APPS One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy, says philosopher Alain de Botton by Stephanie Potter
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A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us, said Pema Chödrön.
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If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with, said Deepak Chopra.
PERIOD TRACKER The greatest miracle on Earth is the human body. It is stronger and wiser than you may realize, and improving its ability to self heal is within your control, said Dr Fabrizio Mancini.
Research on this article is done with the help of Heath Thomas, a health technology expert teaching at University of Louisiana.
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INSULIN MONITOR It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live, said Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.
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HEART RATE MONITOR Take time to define what health means to you and what you are willing to do or willing to give up doing to bring better health into your life, said Lao Tsu.
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GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body, said Harry J. Johnson.
SLEEP ANALYSIS Learn to follow the inner self,Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain, said O. Carl Simonton .
TRAINING CLUB Investing in your health now can pay dividends for the rest of your life.What is one easy thing you can do today to live healthier? Lao Tsu asks.