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Hollywood loves nothing more than Hollywood. Like a doe-eyed child staring at itself in the mirror, Hollywood is obsessed with anything that glamorizes itself.
It's a gross masturbation, a constant insider celebration of what the insiders do. This is never not more pronounced than awards season where lay people willingly stop what they are doing to hear people in such extreme circumstances of wealth and beauty prattle on about how important their work about themselves is. It's madness that they've gotten so much power, respect, etc. for literally canonizing the act of canonizing themselves.
Granted, I used to fawn over the industry. It's easy to fall under the spell. I used to lay lie awake at night hoping to be baptized into the culture, sucked into this bizarre, vain universe. However, after approaching the borders of Hollywood—and literally living in Hollywood for nearly a decade—you see that it's all a locked gaze at itself. It's self-pleasure. It's that story about Marilyn Manson sucking himself off brought to life. It's the most important thing in the world until you actually look around at the world itself.
This is all to say that the Hollywood—Movies, in particular.—is in love with work about Hollywood. This is nothing new nor is it surprising. As Oscar nominations close today and nearly a week after La La Land—A throwback golden age musical about making it in Hollywood today as a white person.—swept the Golden Globes, let's examine all the times a Hollywood film about Hollywood, media, etc. won the top Oscar honors. Hollywood loves itself. Here's proof.
In the past twenty years, half of the films that have won Best Picture were about Hollywood in some way. They were about performance, about the city of Los Angeles, or about media in general. Yes, there have always been self-glamorizing features like Hamlet in 1948, The Greatest Show On Earth in 1952, The Sound Of Music in 1965, Rocky in 1976, etc. but things have gotten more and more pronounced as Hollywood has been able to give unto itself via rewarding people born into and around the industry. While every entry may not seem directly about Hollywood on the surface, believe me: they are. Thus, gross yourself out with Hollywood self-pleasure by raking the fruits of self-congratulation.
2015: Spotlight
A movie about Boston Globe writers uncovering a molestation cover-up. This is a more complicated entry as the film glorifies the work of media's frontliners: journalists.
2014: Birdman
The most disgustingly masturbatory in recent years, this is a film about an actor finding himself back in acting. Are you fucking kidding me?
2011: The Artist
Get this twist: it's a silent movie about…the golden age of Hollywood! Made in 2011! No one is talking about this movie five years later, proof of how much of a pat on the back it was. Jean Dujardin is nowhere to be found and Uggie is dead.
2010: The King's Speech
Like The Artist, this was a movie set in media's past about proto-Hollywood (Radio.) set in a far away land (London.). How inventive is this?
2008: Slumdog Millionaire
A boy wins a television show contest. Also in India. Proto-La La Land with a few twists (Bollywood).
2005: Crash
A movie about cars, set in Hollywood, featuring characters based on Hollywood industry types. Literally so close to home, you might as well throw yourself on the 101 for the sequel.
2004: Million Dollar Baby
A rags-to-riches story about sports-as-entertainment success that climaxes with a dramatic Hollywood conclusion of fame and fortune (featuring a paraplegic Hillary Swank, a deliciously disgusting Margo Martindale, and—Ugh.—Clint Eastwood).
2002: Chicago
Hollywood…but in a Midwestern city. And about Jazz.
2000: Gladiator
I'm hesitant to include this one but I am: a movie about a soldier seeking revenge by doing brutal fight performances for a crowd, thus heightening Hollywood's ability to reframe itself via tangential presentations of performance, this time being a film about a man who must perform or die.
1998: Shakespeare In Love
Taking it back to the start, a film about the ultimate theatre nerd who falls in love with Blythe Danner's daughter. Pat yourself on the groin, Hollywood. You did it.


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Time is running out to get posters delivered by Xmas.
Where the five rivers meet in the Cambridge Gulf. Wyndam on the top edge of Australia, one of the very best panaromic sunsets views to be enjoyed in AustraliaTaken on Fuji S2 ProTaken 2005
australia bastion cambridge fiery five golden gulf landscape lookout red rivers sunset ways western wyndham
I'm envious of your travels Joe, you have seen and photographed some beautiful things!
Beautiful sight from there Joe. You have shown it off nicely in a ever so abstract way.
Thanks guy's…this is one very special spot…have a number of views from pointing the camera north,west and south.
You make want to jump in my Rodeo and get out there with my camera Joel, very inspirational!!
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On 18 January the four funding bodies held an exploratory workshop with academics, research professionals, research users and other representatives from the sector to discuss issues around:
- submitting impacts continued from 2014 case studies
- broadening the underpinning research base to include research activities and bodies of work.
Discussion papers and notes from the workshop can be downloaded below.
Download the REF impact workshop - continued case studies discussion paper as PDF (355 KB)
Download the REF impact workshop - research activities/bodies of work discussion paper as PDF (133 KB)
Download the REF impact workshop on continued case studies and research activities - summary as PDF (231 KB)


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Wessex Branch
AreaDorset, Hampshire, and the unitary authorities of Bournemouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Wiltshire, plus the south-west of West Sussex.
NewslettersRailfuture Wessex branch publishes its newsletter usually twice a year.
View our Summer 2018 newsletter (PDF format)
View our March 2018 newsletter (PDF format)
View our February 2018 newsletter (PDF format)
Click HERE for a list of the latest and all previous editions (available to download in PDF format).
Wessex is on TwitterIn addition to the national Railfuture Twitter feed @Railfuture, you can now follow the Branch on its own local Twitter feed @RailfutureWessex.
Current campaigns
Railfuture is campaigning for a programme of incremental improvements to the route between Salisbury and Exeter to increase service frequency and its capacity as a diversionary alternative to the Great Western route. See our proposal for Salisbury to Exeter Route Capacity Enhancements.
See too our work to promote a new station to serve Welborne Garden Village near Fareham, with our campaign leaflet.
Our other objectives are:
- Reintroduce suitable rolling stock to all main line routes
- Strengthen trains which suffer overcrowding
- Speed up services where practicable (for instance, remove 'buffer' time)
- Upgrade service on Portsmouth-Cardiff route to frequent inter-city standard
- Oppose ticket office closures
- Faster trains on the Alton line
- Newer trains and half-hourly service on Island Line
- Support Community Rail Partnerships including increased frequency on 'Heart of Wessex' line
Annual General Meetings
The postponed 2018 AGM of Railfuture Wessex Branch was held on Saturday 7th April at Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Rd, SO42 7RY, just a 5 min walk from Brockenhurst station. The meeting started at 11:00am.
We couldn't get a guest speaker at short notice, but we assembled some interesting video presentations about recent rail developments in the South. Also we had the usual review of our campaigns and activities over the past year, with time to discuss priorities for the year ahead.
Wessex Branch ContactTony Smale, Branch Secretary - wessex at railfuture.org.uk
Rail User Groups in the Wessex regionRail user groups in the Wessex area are shown on Railfuture's Regional List of Rail User Groups.
The Salisbury to Exeter Rail Users Group (SERUG) published its first newsletter in November 2015: click to view or download.
Railfuture - The independent campaign for a better passenger and freight rail network
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Please go to the Join page to become a member of Railfuture.
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Enjoy Photos from the 2017 Thoroughbred All-Star skills competition.
AdverGroup Web Design was a proud sponsor of the 2017 BGRA Baseball Season
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We look forward to sponsoring Buffalo Grove baseball again for the 2018 baseball season!
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We are still in limbo about when we go to Mexico. God has directed our steps to work with someone starting a church in Hidalgo, Mexico, not far from Mexico City. Its a great place to get started there, as we will be involved in a brand new church plant, and we are beyond excited about this development! We can study Mexico City also, and find a good place to start in the City as well. Location will be very important when we do go into the City itself.
Without going into long detail, we are waiting on some things, and will head out as soon as we can. It won't be longer than the end of this month.
I'm in a state of great anticipation! Pleased at seeing the Lord's hand in our lives, and gearing up to do a lot of work also.
Please keep praying for us!


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Monday, October 26, 2009
It Is Finished...
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
~Luke 10.41-42
When, as a child, I had the rare privilege of visiting Chuckey Cheese, my favorite game involved a foam hammer and a bunch of alligators in a Louisiana swamp. Remember this one? You slotted your token and their heads began to pop out of the water in dizzying succession. The more heads you hit, the faster they kept popping up and down, and the longer the game went on...
I got a rush out of it every time.
Twenty-odd years later, I realize I have adopted this attitude toward daily household chores.
Like most people, I get satisfaction, even a certain sense of security and worth, out of crossing things off my to-do list… I often loathe "mundane" tasks - like bed-making, dishes, and gathering all the toys back into the toy chest… And yet they give me a fleeting rush of satisfaction, a momentary assurance that life is "okay" and "under control."
A lot of days I wait until the last possible moment and then make a game of seeing how quickly I can "get them out of my life:" Eight minutes until Daddy's home! And, GO!
But just like the alligators, they keep coming back. Every morning the bed sits begging to be made, the sink quickly fills with dishes, and before I am even dressed the toys have once more been scattered across the living room floor.
I aspire to be like Mary; and yet I identify with Martha… with that persistent voice that always tells me if I just finish X then I can sit down and rest at the feet of Jesus. But X will always be there. In fact, the moment I hammer it back down three others crop up in its place.
So what must I do? I have tried either extreme: ignoring the daily tasks entirely as well as throwing myself into them so wholeheartedly that I have time for little else... Neither works… both ultimately leave me feeling undone …
I have come to realize that God made life to be constantly filled with this kind of endless 'clutter.'
I believe He made it this way for at least two reasons: first, to make me dependent on Him; and second, to reveal my desire for completeness, wholeness, and perfection. What I really want, after one of my harried, crazy cleaning binges, is to be able to say, "It is finished…forever."
And perhaps therein lies the secret, the deeper/truer reason behind and answer to all my frenziedness. For there is One who has finished for all time the most important, life-giving work – and that is the work of salvation. Christ accomplished this on my behalf and those three words – IT. IS. FINISHED. – were not only the last he uttered on this earth, they are the reason that I can be free to go about the daily tasks of my life... with my hands engaged but my heart at peace… "Always working but always resting," as Tim Keller says in his great sermon on rest.
I should still seek to do my best. But I can be at peace even in the face of those tasks that remain perpetually 'unfinished' – like laundry, dishes, bed-making – because my worth and security are no longer contingent upon my perfect completion of these things.
Perhaps most exciting to me, I can free myself to spend time doing things that might otherwise seem reckless, like spending the whole morning in my scrubby clothes on the lawn … with my Bible and a can of bubbles open, while Audrey does circles around me.
I can be grateful for the enormity of what He did at great cost to Himself; and what little, by comparison, He requires me to do.
Posted by HM Baker at 2:42 PM
Labels: home life, Motherhood, Musings
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- Joseph Anfuso said...
Love this, Heather. Well said.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:45 PM
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Travel Photography: Gear & Workflow
MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 3:08:40 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 3571.4 MB
MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 3:08:40 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 3571.4 MB
Shooting on the road, whether it's on vacation or on assignment, introduces a variety of considerations for photographers of all levels. How do you store the shots, back them up, edit and enhance images in the field, and then merge those images with your master library at home? In this course, Ben Long addresses these topics and more from the perspective of several field-shooting scenarios, including city vacationing and backcountry hiking.
The course takes a look at the hardware and software issues behind field shooting: assessing storage and backup needs, evaluating GPS geotagging options, surveying power and charging issues, and more. After discussing each of the components, Ben shows how they fit together in different field setups, ranging from an extravagant laptop-based system to a no-computer setup that backs up photos to a compact digital wallet device. The course also spotlights some workflow strategies to consider when you get home, from transferring photos to merging them with a larger photo library.
Topics include:
- Selecting the right gear, from cameras to bags
- Bringing the right battery and storage equipment
- Packing your camera bag
- Getting to the destination with heavy equipment
- Unpacking and setting up the gear
- Geotagging photos on location
- Downloading manuals for convenient access in the field
- Wrapping up a shoot
- Unpacking and transferring images to an editing workstation


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Rest is Holy Spirit Directed Activity
God didn't rest because He was tired. God rested because His work was finished. In this classic sermon from 2005, Joseph Prince reveals the principle of the Sabbath. When we do things in our own power, we can get tired quickly. But Holy Spirit directed activity is always refreshing.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
— Genesis 2:1-3 (NIV)
This full sermon is split into three videos that play one after the other.


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There are a lot of tools out there that deal with designing and coding for the web and sometimes it's hard to figure out which product is the right one to choose. Well, I decided to list the items that I use with detailed explanations of why I like using them.
I think it helps when you see software in action and get an honest review before making a purchase. So this page will be updated every so often when I've found a program, book, or tool that has helped me with my coding and designing projects.
NOTE: Some of the links below contain affiliate links where if you purchase a product through these links, I will receive a commission…with no extra cost to you! Please do not feel the need to buy any of the items I have listed below if you don't really need it. Thank you for your support!
Adobe Systems
Adobe is the leader of everything that deals with graphic and web design/development, as well as video production. The following programs listed below are what I use on my projects.
Adobe Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver is a very powerful program that assists both designers and coders in developing a website. The software makes it easy for you to add, remove, and modify the contents for your site. Watch this video to see how Adobe Dreamweaver can help you with your website projects go to my YouTube Channel to see it.
Adobe Photoshop
The name itself says that Photoshop is a photo-editing program where you can, of course, edit photos, create multilayer web designs, create textual effects, and much more. Watch this video below to find out more on what Adobe Photoshop is and how it can help you with creating web and graphic designs or see it here on my YouTube Channel.
Adobe Illustrator
If you are an aspiring logo/graphic designer, Illustrator is the tool of choice for you. This program will help you take your sketches and turn them into clean, digitized designs that can be used for both print and web use. Watch this video below to see how to use Adobe Illustrator for your graphic design work or head on over to my YouTube Channel to view it.
Domain & Web Hosting
In order to have your website visible online, you have to have a domain name (a link that represents your website) and a hosting provider (a place for all of your files for your website to be stored so that all of your images, text and videos will be seen). There are tons of options out there but the one that I have used for years is Godaddy.
Godaddy is one of the largest domain and hosting providing websites around and I have been with them since 2007. Their support team have been very gracious and helpful during the times I have had to call and they send out multiple discounts for their services on a weekly basis.


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Candidate Full Name:
John Fritchey
US Congress
5th Congressional District
Email Address:
Web Site:
Campaign Name:
Fritchey for Us
Campaign Office Mailing Address:
1511 W Barry Ave
Chicago IL 60657-3105
(773) 472-8683
Question 1
Please tell us about yourself, your background and why you believe you are qualified to hold this office.
Answer 1
I am running for Congress because I believe in the power and importance of public service. I grew up in Chicago and attended the University of Michigan and Northwestern Law School, both on a hardship scholarship. After law school I became an Illinois Assistant Attorney General, then won a seat to the General Assembly in 1996 at the age of 32. For the past 12 years I have been a leader in the fight to make government more open and accountable, to represent the citizens' voice in decisions that impact their jobs and pocketbooks and to expand access to affordable health care. Thanks to my efforts, the DLC has twice named me one of its nationwide 100 Rising Stars to Watch and in addition to endorsing my candidacy in this race, IVI-IPO has recognized me with its Best Legislative Voting Record award.
Question 2
Please tell us your general views about the role of government and some of the most important things you would like to accomplish in office?
Answer 2
Right now, restarting the economy is the most important role of government, whether at the local, state or federal level. In Congress I will also focus on ensuring accountability and transparency in government, and enacting comprehensive health care reform so that all Americans have access to affordable, quality health care.
Question 3
The current economic crisis is squeezing the middle class. What should Congress do about it? What specifically would you do if elected to Congress?
Answer 3
Two immediate priorities for the federal government are stimulating the economy and easing the pain of those suffering in this recession. I support stimulus through tax cuts, benefits expansion and infrastructure spending. We should expand protections like heating assistance and unemployment benefits to struggling Americans, but we must also spend to restart overall economic growth. I was disappointed to see that only 60% of the funding in the current bill will enter the economy within 18 months, and I would have worked to increase that percentage. With both the stimulus and TARP, I believe aggressive accountability measures must be much stronger priorities.
Question 4
What are some of the main things you would do to help create jobs in Illinois?
Answer 4
What are some of the main things you would do to help create jobs in Illinois? I believe a major stimulus package represents the fastest path to new job creation in Illinois. Illinois mayors have already detailed $3B for "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects whose funding will lead to considerable new hiring. At the same time, the stimulus will establish new contracts for services and high-tech infrastructure that ensure new job creation throughout all sectors of the economy.
Question 5
What do you think can be done to bring short-term stability to gas and energy prices? Also, what do you think is the best strategy - to both affordably and responsibly - provide for the nation's future energy needs?
Answer 5
In the short term, we must be vigilantly to prevent price gouging and ensure continued competition in the oil and gas industry. If elected, I intend to work in Congress to move the U.S. aggressively toward a path to energy independence focused on domestic, renewable fuel sources for long-term solvency. In Springfield I supported Illinois' Renewable Portfolio Standard and believe we can work nationally to achieve 25% renewable energy by 2025 or sooner.
Question 6
Is there anything that can be done to make health care more accessible and affordable in Illinois? If so, what would you do?
Answer 6
For 12 years in Springfield I have fought to improve health care in Illinois. I worked to extend coverage through FamilyCare and Community Care, passed legislation mandating that insurance companies cover much needed cancer screenings and sponsored an expansion of the Circuit Breaker program, which provides pharmaceutical assistance to struggling seniors. I look forward to contributing as President Obama takes up the national issue of accessible, affordable health care and support comprehensive reform based on principles similar President's: broaden coverage by expanding the existing system with added quality assurance while using tax credits and cost containment to ensure all Americans have access to plans they can afford.
Question 7
Please state your general views about the war in Iraq.
Answer 7
The time has come to responsibly withdraw our troops from Iraq and I support a phased redeployment that continues the first troop reduction initiated in September 2008. We must fully redeploy as soon as it is realistic, but as President Obama has said it is important that we are as careful coming out of Iraq as we were reckless going in.
Question 8
What are your thoughts on how to deal with illegal immigration? Also, what do you think should be done about illegal immigrants who are already here in the U.S.?
Answer 8
As the son of an immigrant mother and a representative from one of Illinois' most diverse districts, I have been privileged to work in Springfield on legislation that eases the burdens caused by our country's broken immigration system. As a country, we must enact comprehensive immigration reform now. I support a plan that redevelops the application process and preference system to eliminate visa backlog, creates a responsible guest worker program, cracks down on abusive employers, strengthens our borders, includes the DREAM act and creates a fair, respectful path to citizenship for the undocumented individuals contributing in a positive way to our communities. I oppose enforcement-only legislation and legislation deputizes local officials to enforce federal immigration policy.
Question 9
What ideas do you have for improving our education system and for making our colleges and universities more affordable?
Answer 9
I have long been a champion of smarter and more equitable school funding, primarily through my leadership on Tax Swap legislation that will end our funding reliance on property taxes. Nationally the federal government must invest to create universal early education access, and fund its mandates as it continues to foster innovation and demand accountability in K-12 schools. We can ensure much broader access to higher education by increasing the funding and scope of the Pell grant program, and offering tax credits that make the first year of college affordable for all families. In Illinois I worked on legislation that eliminates tax penalties for families establishing college savings plans out of state, and I championed a law that protects struggling families' college savings funds from creditors.
Question 10
What are your highest priorities for protecting the environment in Illinois?
Answer 10
I am a passionate advocate for environmental protection and am proud of my 100% pro-environmental voting record. I have been a leader on the Great Lakes Compact which protects the water resources of the Great Lakes, and the Illinois Right-to- Know bill which keeps homeowners informed of toxin activity in their neighborhood. If elected to Congress I will continue to make environmental protection a priority through greater land preservation efforts, tougher emission standards and a comprehensive plan to move us toward energy independence.
American Academy of Ophthalmology OPHTHPAC
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First, Peggy Noonan weighs in on Obams's growing "political disconnect":
"There's a new detachment between the president and the electorate he won a year ago by 9.5 million votes. The reason: In 2009, the Democrats who run the White House and Congress chose to go down one path at the exact moment voters went down a different one. The voters, frustrated and then alarmed, waited to fire the first available Democrat, and this week they did. Mr. Obama carried Democratic Jersey by more than 15 points exactly one year ago. The Democratic governor lost by nearly five points this week. That is a 20-point swing. Mr. Obama won Virginia a year ago by six points. The Democratic candidate for governor lost by more than 18 points. That is a 24-point plummet."
"A president has only so much time. Mr. Obama gives a lot of his to health care. But the majority of voters in New Jersey and Virginia told pollsters they were primarily worried about joblessness and the economy. They're on another path, and they don't like the path he's chosen. A majority in a Gallup poll out Wednesday said they now think the president governs from the left, not the middle. The majority did not expect that a year ago."
Next, Jonah Goldberg and Robert A. George speak to a far more troubling concern - Obama's emotional disconect:
"Yesterday when the Fort Hood news was breaking, at least a couple of the networks broke to President Obama's remarks at the Tribal Nations Conference, expecting a statement from Obama on the shootings.
What they saw for a few long, uncomfortable, minutes was Obama making routine political introductions and pandering to his audience. Here's how Robert A. George puts it:
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and, inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur."
Indeed, some have even labeled this incident Obama's "Pet Goat Moment."
Whatever is going on, it's clear that a new narrative is being written about Obama - one that is far tougher on him than was seen even a few short weeks ago.


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Natali Bravo-Barbee Answers 5 Questions
This is 5 Questions. Each week, we send five questions to an artist featured in Under the Radar, our weekly email highlighting the best art on the ArtSlant network. This week we seek answers from Natali Bravo-Barbee.
What are you trying to communicate with your work?
In my work, I like to think I communicate the importance of time via objects. I am a photographer, and for 20 years I have been capturing and hoarding memories. Snapping photos of precious moments, moments that I deemed as precious. Not everyone agrees in the moment, but I believe the phrase "hindsight is 20/20" is exactly what photography does.
So in my work, rather than creating a still life with these precious objects and then photographing them, I use the actual objects as negatives to create these blue pictures: cyanotypes. In other words, I capture the shadows of the objects. So what I hope my work conveys is that, very much like pictures/photographs can tell a story, so do objects, and it becomes really interesting when the two are combined. The stories I tell will vary from feminist views to immigrant perspectives but they share the same process. My stories are told through a blue filter and lots of lace. A ridiculous amount of LACE. Like lots of it!
Dos Mujeres, 2018, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 15 x 22 inches
What is an artist's responsibility?
An artist's responsibility by my views are the following:
• To research and reinterpret history relating to an idea.
• To question societal norms and challenge them to the point of discomfort.
• To be "Free Thinkers," as Kanye West would say.
• To make with the mind, the heart, and the body and sometimes, all three won't be in-sync and that's ok—just keep on making until something comes from it.
Show us the greatest thing you ever made (art or not)?
Ok, this question made me a little uneasy, and I had to ruminate on it for a few days. Giving a piece of my artwork the title of being the "greatest," see... that isn't something I would do. So I can't show you the greatest thing I have made, but I can show you a particular piece of work, that was quite informative and transformative to my practice and it continues to inform me till this day.
My Panties, 2015, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 18 x 24 inches
This panty piece was the beginning of my autobiographical work. Someone told me during a studio visit that "autobiographical work is boring! You don't want to air out your dirty laundry for the art world to see!" That made me feel uneasy. In return, that's exactly what I did! I took to this historic photographic process (cyanotype) and a pair of my panties and I made this print and hung it in the display box outside of my studio for everyone to see. That moment was extremely liberating. I realized that I wasn't going to shy away from feminist work, let alone let someone tell me what I can and can't say with my art. So, I suppose one can say that the lesson learned while making this piece was pretty "great."
Tell us about a work you want to make but never will:
See, I was born in Argentina to an Argentine mother and a Chilean father. When we immigrated to the U.S., a lot of our history was lost. Since 2014, I have been researching my ancestry and have only gotten so far. With my project Discarded Memories: Rescuing the Forgotten, I highlighted a couple important documents by making large cyanotype prints of them. I scanned the original document, printed a large digital negative from it and turned an 8-by-12-inch document into 22 by 30 inches.
Back to your question, a work I want to make but will never make is a large cyanotype print of my own death certificate. For obvious reasons, it won't be made by me, IF it is made at all.
Don't Let My Collar Fool You, Cyanotype on watercolor paper
Who are three artists we should know but probably don't?
Anna Atkins—the mother of cyanotypes
Annie Lopez—incredible artist that makes dresses from cyanotypes.
Ivan Forde—artist who also makes cyanotype installations
—The ArtSlant Team
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(Image at top: Lace Collar Right, 2015, Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 22 x 30 inches)
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Alachua County uses prevention programs in schools to teach respect and violence prevention, including bullying.
The problem of bullying gained national attention earlier this year with the suicide of a Massachusetts teen after repeated ridicule by classmates. Awareness again increased with cases in South Florida where a teen was beaten and left in a coma after a text message exchange and another teen burned after a fight over a bicycle.
The cases have sparked attention across the country as lawmakers, school districts and advocacy groups work to deal with bullying and put prevention measures in place.
During the 2009-2010 school year ,the Alachua County school district had 101 student referrals for bullying compared to 182 in the 2008-2009 school year and 186 in 2007-2008.
Sharon Spreen, coordinator of the Safe and Drug Free School grant for Alachua County public schools, said while the numbers are declining locally, she'd like to see a larger drop.
"We attribute fewer cases to the issue gaining national attention by the recent suicides and other situations. It's sad that it has to take something like that to cause action; it's unfortunate."
In a 2010 Youth Violence report, the Centers for Disease Control reports that 19.9 percent of students in grades 9-12 reported being bullied at school.
A 2007 report by the U.S. Education Department and the U.S. Justice Department showed that nationwide 32 percent of students ages 12 to 18 had experienced bullying in the past year.
In 2008, the state Legislature passed the Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act, requiring all school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies and report incidents of bullying and punishment of bullies.
The Florida Department of Education began tracking data on bullying and harassment in 2006-07. In 2008-09, the most current year available, there were 5,665 cases reported.
"The increase in numbers for the state was expected due to the increased awareness of bullying behavior and schools taking an interest in working to prevent it," said Brooks Rumenik, educational program director for the Office of Safe Schools.
The Bullying Prevention Project through the state DOE provides resources to help local school districts educate students, teachers and parents about bullying.
"Anyone can become a victim of bullying. Those who fail to recognized and stop bullying behavior as it occurs actually promote violence," Rumenik said.
Rumenik adds that if bullying is not stopped, it sends a message to the bully that they have the right to hurt people and says to the victim that they are not worth protecting.
Spreen said the issue is being discussed even more as computers and cell phones make it easier to bully. Alachua County uses prevention programs in schools to teach respect and violence prevention, including bullying.
"Bullying has always been around, but now it's taking a more serious tone," she said. "And with it being in the national spotlight that helps spread awareness. And the more we talk to students about this the better."
The county's policy is available on the School Board website and in the Student Code of Conduct.
Spreen said while middle schools typically deal with more bullying, it's becoming more prevalent in fourth and fifth grades.
The school district received a grant for $129,000 to provide drug-free and safe school education, which included bullying prevention. Fort Clarke Middle along with Newberry Elementary were able to implement the Olweus Anti-Bullying Prevention program under the grant.
"A lot of what we are doing reinforces the message of no tolerance when it comes to bullying," Spreen said. "And the only way we are going to try to solve it is to make everyone aware and talk about it."
Ann Scott, assistant principal at Fort Clarke Middle School, said the bullying program has helped the students and faculty be more aware of the issue.
A random survey of 500 students — more than half the student body at Fort Clarke — served as an eye-opener prior to starting the program last school year.
"We were surprised by the numbers," she said. "But the survey let us know where the hot spots were like the cafeteria, hallways and locker room."
The survey results showed that in many instances girls were bullying more than boys. However, the survey showed that girls often were more likely to report cases than male students.
Posters outlining the rules against bullying are visible in the hallways throughout the school and displayed in each classroom. Each week during homeroom, students were able to discuss a variety of topics including bullying. Parents also were introduced to the program during a fall open house.
Scott said the entire school staff is now trained to watch out for bullying and students are speaking up as well.
Lynda Schladant, membership specialist for the Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, said girls in the Passages summer program designed to help with the transition to middle school often identify bullying as a key concern.
"Besides getting lost in the new school, bullying is usually one of the top three responses of things they worry about," Schladant said.
She adds that in most cases bullying is still thought of in the traditional sense like taking someone's lunch money or being ridiculed in the hallway rather than cases of cyber bullying.
"Some of the situations we talk about may not have happened to them yet but usually by the first few weeks of school they have, and we give them information on where to go for help at the school," Schladant said.
Under state law, schools are required to provide an anonymous means to report bullying.
"If someone suspects bullying at school, during a school-sponsored event or activity, through school computers, software or networks, or on school transportation, they need to report it," Rumenik said. "It is then the responsibility for those tasked with investigating the circumstances to determine whether or not bullying is taking place and what should be done about it.
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Teen Driving Log Frequently Asked Questions
The Teen Driving Log Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page provides answers and solutions for commonly asked questions and issues related to the Teen Driving Log iPhone app.
I just got a new phone. Can I transfer the data?
Your data file should be transferred when you restore your new phone from a backup of your old device. Also see next question (how to transfer data).
How do I transfer data from one device to another device?
The way to share the data would to be to use iTunes sharing. You would copy the data file to your computer and then back to the other device. You then have to keep track of which device has the most recent copy of the data. Here is Apple's link on how to use iTunes Sharing.
Do you support multiple users?
Not at this time. You can use the notes section to track a second driver. You would be able to sort when you export the log to a spreadsheet.
I can't export my data (email does not work)
If you can't send the email, or you get a pop-up alert saying no email is selected, it most likely means one of two things:
- The email address was typed in incorrectly. If so, enter the correct email address and try sending it again.
- The device you are using (iPhone, iPad, etc.) does not have an email account established to send the email from. To set up an email account on your device: Select the mail option in Settings: (Home Button -> Settings -> Mail). Set up an account. Note that the account serves as your default sending account. Once this step has been addressed, you will be able to set an address (Teen Driving Log App, Settings, Backup, tap to set email address, <enter the email address you want to send your backup to>). Note that the sending account can be the same as the receiving account.
If these steps do not work for you, please contact our support team for further assistance.
How do I print my driving log?
To print your driving log, follow the process below:
- Select the Settings option found in the bottom menu bar
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- Open the email and select the file .csv file and print. If you don't have Excel or similar program on your computer, we recommend using Google Sheets, a free worksheet reader found at: https://www.google.com/sheets/about
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For most spreadsheet readers, such as Excel and Google Sheets, you will need to make the column bigger.
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- Double Click – If that doesn't work, select the right boundary and hold down your left mouse button and drag your mouse to the right.


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NTEU informed FDA that several supervisory groups in the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) have not been reimbursing employees properly for the use of their privately owned vehicles (POV) while on official business in accordance with the CBA and federal travel regulations (FTR). We learned that some supervisors have granted employees approval to use POVs, however, they have stated that the Agency would not pay for mileage used while on official business and improperly denied the reimbursement that employees are entitled to under the contract and law. This practice is also evidenced by the POV Use Request Forms that employees have been required to complete and submit in various ORA office locations whenever they opt to drive a POV to perform official duties. These forms contain an option to deny any reimbursement whatsoever for use of a POV for official business, which violates the CBA and FTR. These forms were also not negotiated with NTEU, and we expect the Agency will soon work with the Union to correct this.
Per the CBA and FTR, an employee using a POV is entitled to either the full mileage rate or the established lesser mileage rate where a government owned vehicle (GOV) was available. The current 2017 POV Mileage Reimbursement rates is $0.535 (if use of a POV is authorized or if no Government-furnished automobile is available) and $0.17 (if Government-furnished automobile is available). When a POV is used in lieu of a commercial carrier, the employee is entitled to be reimbursed up to the constructive cost had the common carrier been used. These rates vary from year to year. For a list of previous years, please visit this GSA web page.
NTEU is working with FDA to set up a process whereby employees who have been improperly denied reimbursement for use of their POV on official business can receive proper reimbursement. Employees should be able to seek reimbursement for POV travel expenses, including interest, for up to six years from the time of the travel in accordance with the Back Pay Act. Therefore, and in order to rectify this mistake, if you believe that you were not reimbursed properly or not at all, please prepare to file your POV use reimbursement claims by securing any supporting documentation (e.g., POV Use Request Form, Travel Authorization, inspection reference, local voucher, supporting e-mails, etc.).
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Dear Life Coaches (AKA: Moms and Dads),Did the title of this email catch your attention? I'm hoping you haven't heard that statement in your own houses, but I'll confess I've heard it in mine from time to time. I also confess I said something like that to my own parents when I was in elementary school.By now you have all seen the "Long Term Relationship" graph that we use in class from time to time, and you are familiar with the idea that, if we are in something (almost anything, really) for the long haul our emotions will experience that familiar ebb and flow... I like it, I love it, I hate it, I can take it or leave it, I love it, I hate it, I'm bored with it, I like it again etc. I look at piano lessons as a way to teach my kids how to get familiar, even comfortable with, that cycle and learn the value of sticking with something through the good, bad and ugly times.It has been on my mind to write this email as a means of encouraging you for at least two weeks now. Why? Because this tends to be that time of year where we are all getting a little weary. We see June approaching and we are ready for a break from all those winter commitments; our kids sense spring in the air (even in Socal, land of perpetual summer!). Also, I have 8 students currently in Foundation 4, and that tends to be a milestone for many students. Pieces are a little more challenging, new tools are being mastered, and we are balancing longer playlists with numerous projects. Helping our kids adjust to these changes needs a little extra tender loving care.So, what helps me as I coach my kids through the tough patches? Here are a few things, that may help some of you as well:1. I remember the Big Picture.Before we ever started the boys in music lessons Bart and I had decided that, along with solid academics, our kids were also going to learn to A) swim B) play piano C) be reasonably comfortable speaking in public. Other activities they chose to explore were up to them, but these were non-negotiable. When complaints arise, since quitting isn't an option, we search for other creative solutions.2. I remember I am giving my kids the gift of music.Some gifts are easy to give. When we gave the boys certain Star Wars lego sets at Christmas it was very easy. They knew exactly what they wanted and the boxes were even easy to wrap! In contrast, the gift of music is much more complicated. There is a time commitment for all of us. There are also times when I have to confront, insist, plan rewards, and give consequences. But, unlike the lego kit, this is a gift that will last their lifetime. I do not know what form it will take, but I am convinced it will be lifelong.3. I try to be a problem solver.Sometimes I just have to be the strong one, put my foot down and say "I know you don't like it but you are doing it anyway," until the boys are mature enough to do this for themselves. But other times I have needed to listen, find out where things were breaking down and help them come up with a plan. This may involve talking to their teacher, too.My next email on this theme, will cover a few specific ideas that can help at home.For now, I want to say a huge thank-you to all of you, who are doing a fantastic job giving your kids the "gift of music". If you related to this email in any way, I encourage you to hang in there! You just never know where that gift will be used in your child's future. Check out these possibilities:Neil Moore: required by his parents to take lessons and practice 20 minutes a day for several years. Ended up creating a whole new approach for learning piano, accordion, and soon guitar as well!Stephen Harper (prime minister of Canada): after a stressful day at the "office" comes home and unwinds at the pianoJordan McConnell: wanted to quit guitar in elementary school, currently on tour, playing a guitar he built himself, in JapanShirley Brewer: at age 88, with vision and hearing impairments, can still enjoy sitting down at the piano to play her songsMe: If you had told me in 7th grade I would one day be a piano teacher, I would have rolled my eyes and said "Never!"Have a great weekend, everyone! Hope your pianos are singing today!Julia Brewer
Thanks, Julia!


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Sometimes my days are so busy and rushed.
I fail to remember how thrilled I was when the LORD fulfilled a wish and
fervent prayer of mine, one I had petitioned for many, many years.
I promised myself when I brought our little blue bundle
home from the hospital, that he would never be
"the interruption" in my life,
but that raising him in the LORD would be my priority.
Here are some of my tips for keeping my promise to myself always at the forefront of my mind:
***Touch your children as often as possible.***
A little stroking of the hair or a snuggle on your lap as you type helps a child feel likeyou're engaged with him/her while you interact.
Teach him how to do something unusual, like sewing.
Always smile at your children when they approach you.
and whisper the nickname in the child's ear when you hug him/her.
Right Now our son's favorite nickname is
It will change from time to time, but for now he lights up and smiles
when I call him my "Kimba".
Time is fleeting, and these days with our young children will soon be gone. Take some time to reflect on how you will demonstrate the love you feel for them. The rewards will benefit beyond your expectations.


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Dan Wills: Fractal Columbus
halleyDetailTwoPointNine... by Dan Wills, 2008
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Like a needle in a haystack, or a glowing needle in a fractal formula, is the rumor of a continent over the horizon or the possibility of some new and intriguing fractal artwork out there, somewhere, on the internet. My impression after browsing over Dan Wills' Picasa web gallery is that he's someone who excels in searching out new kinds of fractal imagery.
All done in Ultra Fractal, Dan's artwork stands out from the usual UF type of artwork in it's pure fractal simplicity. This is fractal art in it's most authentic and engaging presentation --snapshots from a New World.
butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova... by Dan Wills, 2008
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This second image I chose for it's naturalistic look and for the subtle, but impressive coloring. You can really see here the wide variety of fractal forms and seemingly endless unique details to be explored. I don't know why more UF artists don't produce work like Dan has done here. Maybe they need a Columbus to tell them it's there first? Well, let's continue our voyage...
The next image I found to be really something worth writing home about. It's from his superpositions collection (the first one was from the ultraEpsilon, and the second from the butterflyLaces). The hazy appearance to all the images like this one add a realistic touch, and in a 3D sort of way. The Julia things look like they've been frozen into the larger fractal shapes. It's an interesting mix of what you'd expect to be very standard, even dull, fractal themes but yet the result is a new hybrid thing --a super positioning, as the gallery title suggests.
butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova... by Dan Wills, 2007
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Is work like this too simple to be worth drawing people's attention to? Or, rather, is it too fractal for most people in the fractal world today? We can add photo-imagery and luscious, de-luxious, rendering layers and create ever grander and more lavish recipes, but none of that beats plain old, hard-core, fundamentalist fractal imagery. Why work like this has sat in obscurity like it has is yet another testimony to how new and still growing the fractal art form is.
butterflyPhoenixDoubleNova... by Dan Wills, 2008
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This one ought to be enough to start a whole new legend of El Dorado. They're out there. Maybe you can track down Dan and beg him to give you a copy of his treasure map, that coveted parameter file, that made this image. Nice coloring. Subtle, but attractive and still natural looking. Another good example of the complexity of "ordinary" fractal art.
I expect to see more work like this, simple and powerful --spawn of the math-machine-- fractal wonders. And it won't be because it's promoted or given Olympic gold medals. More will be created because there's plenty more New Worlds out there beyond the horizon and artists like Dan Wills and others will gladly go there, even in obscurity, and bring back snapshots to the Old World because it's just a natural thing for them to do --explore. Fractal art is like that.
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Andrew Carnegie: A Destitue Man to Billionaire Philanthropist
Life as a Minor
[1835] Andrew Carnegie was a phenomenal man. He was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, and spent the first 13 years of his life there.
[1848] When Andrew was thirteen, he and his parents, Margaret and William, decided to take their lives to Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
- They migrated because their family was poor. His father was a hand-loom weaver, but business wasn't good at the time. They also suffered from widespread starvation.
[1848] When arriving to America, and at the mere age of 13, Andrew began work as a bobbin boy. His duty was to change spools of thread inside a local cotton mill. He did this for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
- He got paid $1.20 a week, for 72 hours work-time
- Andrew's father worked at a separate mill, but later earned money by weaving and peddling linens. His mother made money binding shoes.
Andrew Carnegie's Career Begins
[1850] Andrew found a job as a telegraph messenger boy for the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company. Weekly, he made $2.50, but the job also came with the added benefit of free admission at the local theatre.
- In less than a year, Andrew was promoted to the post of operator.
- Andrew Carnegie was a hard worker. He often memorized the buildings and the faces of important people around town. These social skills allowed him to get connections in the city.
- On Saturday nights, Andrew would visit the library of Colonel James Anderson. Carnegie would borrow books constantly, and had a passion for economic and cultural development books.
[1853] At the age of eighteen, Carnegie was hired by Thomas A. Scott as secretary/telegraph operator, at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, making $4 a week.
- Andrew was very ambitious, and an excellent worker. He flew threw the ranks and eventually became the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Division.
- Carnegie learned much about management and cost control here. Also, he learned a lot from his boss, Thomas.
[1855] Carnegie was given an investment opportunity from Thomas Scott. He initially invested $500 into Adams Express, and it was secured by a mortgage his mother put on their home, which itself was worth $700. This investment opportunity was one that would change their lives. He began a steady growth into thousands.
- Carnegie received shares in T.T. Woodruff's Sleeping Car Company, as a reward for holding shares that he bought off Scott.
- The Civil War was going to be an opportune time for Carnegie's success. He'd soon start his journey to millions.
Andrew Carnegie Is A Millionaire
[1860] Before the Civil War, Andrew Carnegie was still working with Thomas A. Scott as superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. During this time, he merged T.T. Woodruff's company with George Pullman. Pullman was the inventor of the first sleeping car, and it was used for transportation involving distances over 500 feet. Merging these two businessmen provided a pretty penny for them, as well as Carnegie.
[1861] In the spring of 1861, Andrew Carnegie was appointed Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the east.
- At this time Andrew's boss, Thomas, was the Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Military Transportation
- Carnegie opened rail lines into Washington D.C. After the defeat of Union Forces at Bull Run, he supervised the transportation of the defeated forces. This rendered the telegraph service efficient for Union causes, and eventually helped lead to the victory of the Union.
[1864] At this time, Carnegie decided he was going to invest $40,000 into Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Petroleum from the oil wells sold well, and after one year, he received over $1,000,000 in cash dividends.
- Since this was a time of war, there was a high demand for iron products; i.e. cannons, shells, and gunboats.
- Carnegie, with the help of others, established a steel rolling mill, and control of the steel industry became the source of Andrew's bountiful fortune.
Andrew Carnegie changes from Railroads to Ironworks
[1865] After the Civil War, Carnegie decided it was time to leave the railroad business. He would now focus all his energy on his iron trade. After helping develop several iron works, they would form The Keystone Bridge Works, and the Union Ironworks, located in Pittsburgh.
- He still had close ties with Thomas A. Scott and the railroad company
- He used this connection in order to receive contracts for the companies he ran, as he would produce the rails for the railroad company.
[1886] After Carnegie's mother passed away in 1886, Carnegie married Louise Whitfield, whom was more than 20 years younger then himself. In 1897, the happily married couple had their only child, Margaret. She was named after Carnegie's mother.
Andrew Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry
[1886] Andrew's continuous reading and learning helped him develop the Bessemer Process for steel making. This greatly reduced the costs of manufacturing steel, and was much more efficient. Immediately after, the price of steel would drop due to Carnegie's findings.
- Bessemer Steel was a big deal; it became used for railway lines, and girders for large buildings and bridge.
- The second innovation Carnegie contributed was the use of vertical integration.
[1888] By this time, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of many things: pig iron, steel rails, and coke (fuel). He also purchased his rival's company, Homestead Steel Workers, which came with many benefits.
- An extensive plant attributed to iron and coal fields
- A 425-mile railway
- A line of lake steamships
[1892] With the launch of the Carnegie Steel Company, Carnegie combined his assets with those of his associates, making his business even greater, and without a doubt, the greatest steel company in American History.
Carnegie's Empire consisted of:
- J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works
- Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works
- Lucy Furnaces
- Union Iron Mills
- Wilson, Walker, & County Iron Mill
- The Keystone Bridge Works
- Hartman Steel Works
- Frick Coke Company
- Scotia Ore Mines
So far, have you learned anything?
Andrew Carnegie Sells His Company Shares; Becomes Billionaire
[1901] At this point, Carnegie was at the age of 66. He was considering retirement. Preparing for his end, he reformed all his enterprises into conventional joint stock corporations. John Pierpont Morgan was America's most important financial deal maker, and banker. He recorded Carnegie's success, and saw his techniques that improved profit. John saw a fortune in an integrated steel company that would cut costs, improve employee wages, and lower price of steel to consumers in the market.
- In order to do this, John needed to buyout Carnegie, and other large influential steel owners at the time.
- John and Andrew came to an agreement on March 2, 1901. Carnegie's share of capital from the sale was $225,639,000. (Presently, this amount of money is roughly $6,331,430,340.)
- Carnegie received payment in the form of 5%, 50-year gold bonds. After selling his company, it was combined with others to form the United States Steel Corporation.
Carnegie did it. He was officially a multi-billionaire.
Carnegie's Philanthropy
Carnegie, in his later years, would become a worldwide known name. He is still known to this day for his huge donations and philanthropy work. Just as he changed his own life, he changed the lives of millions. He mainly focused on providing capital for thoughts of public interest, as well as social and educational development.
- Carnegie bought Skibo Castle in Scotland, and used it as a home away from home. Otherwise, he resided in New York.
- Established libraries in the United States, Canada, Britain, as well as other english-speaking countries.
- Established the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, which within a decade was full of wings containing libraries and offered much to scholars.
- Opened the Carnegie Library in his hometown, Dunfermline.
- In 1885, Carnegie gave $500,000 to Pittsburgh in order to build a public library.
- In 1886, gave $250,000 to Allegheny City, in order to build a music hall and additionally, a library.
- In 1886, Carnegie also donated another $250,000 to Edinburgh for a free library. Altogether, he funded over 3,000 libraries across multiple english-speaking countries.
- In 1899, he donated £50,000 to help establish the University of Birmingham.
- In 1900, Carnegie donated $2 million to start the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. (CIT)
- In 1902, donated an additional $2 million to establish the Carnegie Institution, located in Washington D.C.
- Additionally donated $10 million+ to these schools within the span of the rest of his life
- In 1901, he gave $10 million to start the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. This provided money to many universities and helped expand scientific research within these schools.
- He donated large sums to Dunfermline, his hometown. Additionally, he established the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, to benefit the people of this city. A statue now stands to honor him.
- In 1913, he donated another $10 million towards the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust.
- Funded construction of over 7,000 church organs. He greatly appreciated music.
- Donated $150,000 for a Pan-American Palace in Washington
- Opened pension funds for former employees and professors.
- Opened a safe where most of his fortune was stored.
Among these things, Carnegie donated much to education, and the prevention of imperialism. He just loved helping others.
The Death of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie passed away at the age of 83 on August 11, 1919. The cause of his death was bronchial pneumonia. He died in Lenox, Massachusetts,
By this time, Carnegie had donated $350,695,653. (Presently $4.8 billion.) He was buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, located in North Tarrytown, New York. At the time of his death, his last $30,000,000 was given to foundations and charities that Carnegie supported.
Andrew Carnegie was a phenomenal man. Throughout his life, he accomplished many feats, and for a point, controlled the steel industry. He was hard-working and self-motivated. Carnegie had a passion for literature and learning. He is a man that dedicated his amass fortune to the needs, education, and advancement of the world.
Carnegie is a name we will never forget, with a respect that will never die.
11/25/35 ~ 8/11/19
Truly a remarkable life. Thanks for sharing the details of the life of this enlightened man. Great hub!
Read the Book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It echoes much of what is already here. Carnegie was an amazing man I read about when I was a kid, and he blew my mind. That one broke Scot could travel from poverty to riches beyond all imaginings... it was beyond my own imagining. It laughed at the poor lepers in my head, and I swore I would never be poor.
Great Hub! Going to tweet this one! Cheers!
An interesting story about an interesting man.


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George Clooney Donates $1 Million to Counter War Crimes and Corruption in Africa
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The Clooney Foundation provides the lead gift in the "Making War Criminals Pay" fundraising campaign launched today for The Sentry – an expert team of policy analysts and financial forensic investigators.The campaign seeks to triple The Sentry's capacity to "follow the money" and track downwar profiteering networks in Africa.
The Terrorists' Treasury: How a Bank Linked to Congo's President Enabled Hezbollah Financiers to Bust U.S. Sanctions
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The same banks used by kleptocratic governments to divert state assets can also be used by terrorist financing networks. This is what has taken place at one prominent bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Individuals and entities subject to U.S. sanctions, in connection with Hezbollah, used the bank to move money through the international banking system, despite several warnings from bank employees that doing so could violate U.S. sanctions. This was not just any bank. BGFIBank DRC, the institution that processed the transactions, is run by President Joseph Kabila's brother and has been mentioned in a recent scandal in Congo involving the alleged diversion of public funds from state-owned mining companies and the national electoral commission.
"Leaders of the SouthernAfrican Development Community assembled for a summit Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo decided not to examine progress by Zimbabwe's national unity government and discuss issues that continue to trouble power-sharing in Harare, but will hold an extraordinary summit in a few weeks focused exclusively on Zimbabwe."
"A member of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party has been beaten to death by soldiers for playing a song praising the premier, his Movement for Democratic Change said Tuesday."
"Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called Tuesday on southern African nations to step up monitoring of his power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe."
"A Burmese court today offered a glimmer of hope that the country's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, could be set free after it accepted an appeal by her lawyers."
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Office Politics...
Gastro-elitist fuckwads, just 'cause I'm only a temp DOES NOT mean I lack the same base-desire for a lunchtime Pizza as the rest of you. Perhaps if I was even asked, they would find this out. You'd think it was the Domino's run of the Templar Knights or something.
Is anyone else currently lamenting the hierarchical hypocrisy of their workplace?
The anal fallout must be immensly discomforting...
...for your colleagues. Good work though.
Working through Agencies...
...always sucks big-time. It's practically complete guess-work as to whether they're going to pay you on time/at all. Reed Managed Services are particularly shite.
Im out of the back massage circle now
and i dont know why :( My back really hurts too.


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ALASKA, P.E.I. – The O'Leary Fire Department and West Prince RCMP responded to a brush fire in Alaska, P.E.I., just before 5 p.m. on July 11.
The brush fire turned out to be small and the fire department was able to extinguish the fire with minimal damage caused.
Police investigated and a male was arrested for arson and uttering threats to damage property.
He is scheduled to attend court in August.
The RCMP are reminding the public the weather has been dry this summer and brush fires could potentially get out of hand.
The province has a fire weather index and the public should check if there are bans in place here.
If anyone has any information about any illegal fire activity in West Prince, contact the RCMP at 902-853-9300.


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Spilled water on MacBook Pro, backlight won't work.
I spilled water on my MacBook, and turned it off immediately. When I tried to turn it back on, the screen is black(although the computer itself boots up). Also, the LED flashes three times. Is there anything I can do to fix it? Or if not would it be possible to hook it up to an external monitor, or somehow access the hard drive to recover some files?
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Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011
Paris Portfolio
The Paris portfolio on my website has just been reorganized and new and previously unseen photographs have been added. Click HERE to view the updated portfolio.
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Mittwoch, 9. November 2011
Review in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reviewed my newest book ZNZ: Zanzibar. It was published in the U.S. weekend print edition (August 20-21) as well as online. It's a really great privilege, since the Wall Street Journal reviews only one photo book per week.
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New Work: Sydney
This Winter, I spent some time in Sydney to capture this beautiful city. Please click here to view 13 new photographs including numerous nocturnal shots of Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge. Enjoy!
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Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2011
Solo-Exhibition in Graz, Austria
I'm pleased to announce that the Atelier Jungwirth in Graz is currently showing more than 40 of my original prints in various sizes in their wonderful gallery space. The solo-exhibtion kicked-off Saturday, October 1st, and will run thru January 15th, 2012.
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Donnerstag, 18. August 2011
New York City
The New York City portfolio on my website has been reorganized - and fourteen new photographs from my most recent trip to NYC early this summer have been added to the portfolio. Click HERE for more.
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Donnerstag, 4. August 2011
"Group" Show in NYC
I'm pleased to announce that several of my photographs from both the Zanzibar and Jet Airliner series are included in Bonni Benrubi's "Group" exhibition. The show runs thru September 10th, 2011. The Bonni Benrubi Gallery is located in the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street, just a few steps from the Fifth Avenue, in New York City. For more please visit www.bonnibenrubi.com
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Dienstag, 2. August 2011
Jet Airliner @ Hamptons Designer Showhouse
Two 40"x40" Jet Airliner prints are part of the 2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse in Bridgehampton, New York. "The Hampton Designer Showhouse, now in its eleventh year, is a showcase for America's premiere design talent. Approximately 25 top interior designers and decorative artists will turn a lavish shingle style home into a decorating masterpiece." The Hampton Designer Showhouse is on the market for $6.45 Million.
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Montag, 11. Juli 2011
Jet Airliner in PHOTO+
Korean photography magazine PHOTO+ recently published a feature (8-9 pages) focused on my Jet Airliner series, along with an interview (in Korean).
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Jet Airliner @ Art Hamptons
Jackson Fine Art from Atlanta exhibited a 60x60 inches (150x150cm) Jet Airliner Print at this year's Art Hamptons in New York.
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Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011
Portfolio "Latin America"
I have just added a new portfolio to my website - "Latin America" - it is a work in progress, and currently the portfolio has photographs from Chile, Peru and Ecuador taken last year. Enjoy! Click here to view the new online portfolio.
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Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011
New Book "Zanzibar" - now available!
My newest book ZNZ: Zanzibar is now available. The book is absolutely beautifully printed in duotone on finest matt art paper. The first (and only!) printing is limited to only 1,000 copies. The Collector's Limited Edition of ZNZ: Zanzibar includes a signed/numbered book, as well as a signed silver-gelatin print of the cover image - housed in a custom-made clamshell box. The Limited Edition is limited to just 50 copies. For more infos please click here.
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Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011
Jet Airliner - Part Trois
The third part of my Jet Airliner project has just been released - please click here to view the series.
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Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011
Art by Genevè
Swiss AD-Galerie again this year exhibited several of my prints at Art by Genevè in Switzerland. April 28 - May 3, 2011.
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Dienstag, 29. März 2011
Snow Capped Central Park
New photographs from a snow capped Central Park taken in January have just been released on my website. Click here to view the New Work from New York!
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Mittwoch, 23. März 2011
New Work: Singapore, Zanzibar, Istanbul
It's been quite a long time since my last new work announcement. Today I'm happy announce that my website has recently been updated, and three new exciting portfolio are now online: "Singapore", "Zanzibar" and "Istanbul". Beside the new sets, the following portfolios have also been updated with some new photographs: "Paris", "Florida" and "California". Click HERE, Enjoy!
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Mittwoch, 9. März 2011
Jet Airliner @ Armory Show in NYC
Austrian gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska exhibited two big Jet Airliner prints at the highly successful Armory Show in New York last week (March 2nd-March 6th, 2011). Jet Airliner #01 in 60x60 inches (150x150cm) and Jet Airliner #22 in 40x40 inches (100x100cm) were on show. www.thearmoryshow.com
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Samstag, 26. Februar 2011
Solo-Exhibition in Bonn, Germany
I'm pleased to announce that the Rheingalerie in Bonn, Germany currently has numerous photographs in the various print sizes on show. The exhibition runs from February 25th until April 8th, 2011. For more please visit www.rheingalerie-bonn.de
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Samstag, 12. Februar 2011
Jet Airliner @ Bologna Art Fair
Galerie Ruzicska from Salzburg, Austria exhibited two big Jet Airliner prints at the Arte Fiera Bologa 2011 in Bologna, Italy, January 28-31. 40x40 inch prints of Jet Airliner #23 and Jet Airliner #27 were on show.
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Desiring University, Cultivating Humanity
12 November 2009 (Thursday) 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Is it possible to develop, starting in the very first week ofuniversity life, a student culture of sharing and mutualsolicitude, spaces for discussion, communication anddialogues, where decisions that affect life of self and otherscan be subject to processes of reversibility, self-criticism andchange? Can the future of our young be freed fromcalculation, interest and predestination–and from fear of theunfamiliar, the unknown which often freezes the mind andimmobilizes the body? These are questions that preoccupythe modern university as a social institution, questions thatimplicate all of us, young and old. We can pass them over insilence, but each student incarnates a response. If we stillbelieve in possibilities, not givens, if we still hold doggedly tothe image of the free–and new– man and woman, we cansay, unreservedly: It's up to you.
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Senator Joe Biden, Delaware
Legally dead since '93. Since then, his political carreer has been a series of wacky Weekend at Bernie's style hijinks.
Retired Army General Wesley Clark
I like Wes Clark, but he has a habit of telling stupid people how stupid they are, so he's unelectable.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York
Will the Olive Garden Nation vote for Hillary, or will she drive them into the arms of John McCain? Or worse...Jeb Bush? She drove her husband to show his junk to Paula Jones, so I'm not optimistic.
Senator Christopher Dodd, Connecticut
He looks like the guy who gets kicked out of a strip club for finger-banging the older, coked-out "dancer" who only gets day shifts.
Senator John Edwards, North Carolina
Remember 2004, and how much Edwards helped John Kerry in the South? Yeah.
Thanks for nothing, Gomer.
Former Senator Mike Gravel, Virginia
And by "former" I mean WAY FORMER. He lost his reelection bid in 1980!! Last year, he lost the Condo Council Chairman election at a retirement community in Boca Raton, Florida, so I don't think he's going to be our next President.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio
Yes, this is the guy featured in my bad toupee post. He may be elected King of the Keebler Elves, but that's about it.
Senator Barack Obama, Illinois
As smart as Bill Clinton without the ethical baggage, he's almost too good to be true. I'm worried the Swift Boat Veterans will accuse him of war crimes.
Governor Bill Richardson, New Mexico
Hey, it's your crazy uncle, the one who let you drink Mad Dog 20/20 when you were fifteen and has a secret stash of Flemish snuff films.
Reverend Al Sharpton, New York
Is this Al Sharpton, or SNL's Tracey Morgan as Al Sharpton? Does it matter?
Former Governor Tom Vilsack
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Johnny Wilkinson, Neuseeland
Me and my mates went on a skiing trip all over the south island with a Wilderness campervan. Gigi helped us book it and it was cheaper than any other websites. Very good service. 10 out of 10 from us. Ta
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A little while back, I asked what you needed to move ahead with your writing business. I got quite a few answers that fell into four categories and I decided to go ahead and create some resources for those topics.
The first of those ebooks is ready — consider it an end of the year gift. New Ideas on Old Topics will help you find new ideas to write about, especially if you write about the same topics on a regular basis. I wrote it with bloggers and freelance writers in mind: if you write about a specific niche, this ebook will help you keep coming up with ideas, even when you're feeling burnt out on the topic and blocked.
It's sixteen pages long and I don't think it's a particularly long read, but I tried to fill it with information you can immediately use. I also included several worksheets that should help you speed up the process of finding new ideas to work on. It's up to you, of course, but it's worthwhile to print out at least the worksheets so that you'll have them close to hand while you're working.
I'm pretty excited about this ebook. I know that I would have been able to skip a lot of banging my head against a wall trying to find new ideas to write about if I'd known these techniques when I started writing. So, please, pass this ebook along to any other writer you know who needs it.
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Veterans of President Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns are signing up to help a Democratic group supporting a potential Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
The Ready for Hillary super PAC says it has hired a Democratic firm called 270 Strategies to oversee grassroots organizing, volunteer training and recruitment. The firm was started by former Obama campaign aides who oversaw the president's campaign in 2008 when he defeated Clinton in the Democratic primaries — and his 2012 re-election.
The pro-Clinton group does not have direct ties to the former secretary of state but is trying to lay the foundation of volunteers and supporters to help Clinton if she runs for president.
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Ocean City, rebounding from a cool summer and a rainy Labor Day weekend, unveils an ad campaign today, telling potential visitors "The Coast is Clear" for an autumn escape to an uncrowded resort.
The campaign is the first created for Ocean City by Richardson Myers & Donofrio Inc. (RM&D) of Baltimore, which won the $1 million advertising contract in July.
Until late October, television viewers in Baltimore, Washington and south-central Pennsylvania will see a series of five quick-hitting, 10-second commercials touting the charms of Ocean City in the off-season, according to Chuck Donofrio, executive vice president of RM&D.


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The modern method of 'cello playing dates only from about the last third of the eighteenth century. While the great Italian masters had developed the art of the violin before the end of the seventeenth, it remained for the Frenchman Jean-Louis Duport to bring order and system into the method of the 'cello. These etudes are written to improve finger agility and bowing technique for the intermediate to advanced cellist.
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UI "study": a showerMay 29, 2011 on
How hard can it be to figure out how to use a shower? As I found out in my recent trip to the United States, it can actually be quite hard :-) This is a small post about the shower I had to use, pictured below, and some suggestions as to how to improve it.
Note that I'm not a UI person by any measure, but I know what I find confusing and I thought it would be a good exercise to think about why it was so hard for me to figure out how to use the shower (I was relatively close to giving up and calling reception, and for a moment I thought there was something wrong with it).
You can see a picture of the shower controls below. As you can see, there are two things you can manipulate: a big handle in the centre, and a small handle below. There is a label "OFF" at the top, a blue "C" (for "cold") at the left, a red "H" (for "hot") at the right, and "HI - TUB - LO" and "LO - SHR - HI" at the bottom.
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My first attempt was to "use the affordance" of the shape of the big handle and pull it up, towards me. That didn't work. Then I tried to turn the big handle, but for some reason it only moved counter-clockwise (?). That was alright I guess, because I wanted hot water. So I turned it just a bit, to get hot water, but not very hot. What I got instead was very cold water. That was pretty surprising, but then I thought that it maybe needed a couple of seconds to reach the right temperature, so I waited a bit. The wait was very irritating because the shower head was fixed, so it was quite hard to stay away from the cold water.
I gave up on waiting, and after a while I noticed that the thing that was pointing to the "C" and "H" wasn't the handle itself, but the mark on the opposite side on the handle, so I was doing the exact opposite of what I wanted. Then I tried to turn it the other way, but it wouldn't let me. That was very confusing, and meanwhile I was trying to fiddle with the small handle. It was strange because the labels surrounding it seemed to suggest that the small handle controlled the water pressure, but the truth is I didn't have to turn it to get water, and to stop the water completely I had to put the big handle on the initial position.
After a (frustrating) while I figured that I could go with the big handle from very cold to cold to mild to a bit hot, what I wanted in the first place.
In summary, these are the things I found confusing and I think should be changed:
The big handle should be a simple circular knob, because the only thing you can do with it is turning it.
Having all labels in the same area is very confusing, because it's not evident which labels belong to which handle. In particular, that the labels for the small handle "break the continuity" of the labels for the big handle suggests that the big handle should be moved both ways, and that it can't be moved "through" the bottom part.
I find it amazing that you have to go through "very cold" and "cold" to reach "hot", why not have "mild" as the default position in the centre, control the pressure only with a different handle, and let the user go from mild to "a bit cold" and "cold" or from mild to "a bit hot" and "hot"?
"Water pressure" has a clear, necessary extreme (ie. "no water") and "temperature" is basically only a gradient: why does the handle with a clear "end position" control the temperature, and the handle with no "end position" control the pressure? Sure, the small handle also controls whether the water comes out of the shower of the bath tub, but surely there are other, better ways to solve that.
Personally, I find the mental model of the other showers I have used much simpler (either two knobs, for cold and hot water; or two knobs, one for pressure and one for temperature). But then again I might be biased because I've used them all my life :-)


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Family of four commit suicide in Jaffna
October 27, 2017 03:48 pm
Four members of the same family including three children have died and are believed to have committed suicide by consuming poison at their residence in Ariyale,Jaffna.
The deceased have been identified as mother (28) daughter (4) and twin sons (2).
The debt- ridden mother had added poison to ice cream and served the three children and had consumed it herself, police investigations revealed.
The husband of the woman had also committed suicide one month ago due to his inability to settle debts, investigations revealed.
The victims were rushed to hospital by neighbors,however, all four of them died on admission to the hospital, according to police.