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		<title>From &#8216;Almost&#8217; Paper to a Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is &#8212; the book that almost didn&#8217;t make it (see Paper, Well Almost). It certainly looks different from the way I originally intended it to be, but I&#8217;m proud to say it&#8217;s a 100% recycled product made from materials found around my apartment, like the hard back of a used legal pad, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=178&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>History Has Been Made</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<title>Paper, Well Almost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I ended up with resembles cardboard. No, more like thick non-crunchy potato chips that feel like they&#8217;re going to crumble if I try to fold them. Well, except for the blue one that feels like semi-thick fabric that going to tear if I try to fold it. These are the results of my paper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=150&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Creativity: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago it hit me &#8212; I was not being creative. True, I was doing good work, I was being productive, I was working at twice my capacity and spitting out one product after another at work, but somewhere along the way of being productive and efficient, I had left creativity sitting far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=116&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shipbreaking Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never thought about ships. I neither knew or cared about how or where old ships are dismantled. That is until about a month ago when I saw an article about toxic ships. A few minutes on Google and I discovered the horrifying reality of what happens after ships can no longer ply the oceans. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=96&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Okra Art</title>
		<link>http://miniport.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/okra-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime during my kindergarten years, one of the activity books had a project where you cut an okra horizontally, dip it in ink and stamp it on paper. Maybe that&#8217;s where my fascination with okras came from. Anyways, I decided to repeat the feat. I had my ingredients after a trip to Meijer and another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=80&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pocketbook Journeys</title>
		<link>http://miniport.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/pocketbook-journeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the result of a bookmaking workshop that I attended last Wednesday. It was one of the best 2 hours I had ever taken off work in the middle of the day. I got somewhat lost on my way there and then again inside Snyder Hall. I knew we&#8217;d be making books, but beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=49&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Years Ago Today</title>
		<link>http://miniport.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/seven-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven years ago today, I got on a plane from London Heathrow to Detroit. Approximately eight hours into the flight, the captain announced that the US had declared a state of war and the border was closed; he was going to try and land in either Canada or Mexico. But both Canada and Mexico closed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=33&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Okra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole okras, by no means, are pretty vegetables (or fruits, cause that&#8217;s what the are). But, it&#8217;s an entirely different story once they are cut. To me they have the prettiest cross-section of any veggie or fruit that I have seen on my little red cutting board. I like to know the history of food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miniport.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4444753&amp;post=21&amp;subd=miniport&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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