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Robert Mapplethorpe's Proud Finale
The tragic news that Robert Mapplethorpe was sick with AIDS coincided ironically with the zenith of his critical acclaim as a photographer. His controversial portraits of the beau monde and the leather-bar underworld unflinchingly confronted the era of dangerous sex. Here, as he courageously orchestrates his own exit from the world stage, he talks to Dominick Dunne.
By Dominick Dunne
'No one expected him to live for opening, and there he was, on a high," said Tom Armstrong, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Whether the artist would or would not be present was the question that occupied the minds of all the people involved, in the days preceding the highly publicized and eagerly anticipated vernissage of the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer who took his art to the outer limits of his own personal sexual experience, at the Whitney last July.
For nearly two years the rumors of Robert Mapplethorpe's illness had been whispered in the New York art and social circles in which he moved as a celebrated and somewhat notorious figure. The death in January 1987 of the New York aristocrat and collector Sam Wagstaff of AIDS had brought the matter of Mapplethorpe's illness with the same disease out into the open. Mapplethorpe, the principal inheritor of Sam Wagstaff's fortune, had once been Wagstaff's lover and later, for years, his great and good friend. The inheritance, believed to be in the neighborhood of $7 million—some say more, depending on the value of his art and silver collections—made the already much-talked-about Mapplethorpe, a famed figure of the night in the netherworld of New York, even more talked about, especially when the will was contested by the sister of Sam Wagstaff, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson IV of New York. Mapplethorpe has never avoided publicity; indeed, he has carefully nurtured his celebrity since his work first came to public notice in the mid-seventies.
That summer night at the Whitney Museum, there were sighs of relief when he did arrive for the opening, having been released from St. Vincent's Hospital only days before. He was in a wheelchair, surrounded by members of his entourage, carrying a cane with a death's-head top and wearing a stylish dinner jacket and black velvet slippers with his initials embroidered in gold on them—a vastly different uniform from the black leather gear that had become his trademark. For those who had not seen the once handsome figure in some time, the deterioration of his health and physical appearance was apparent and shocking. His hair looked wispy. His thin neck protruded from the wing collar of his dinner shirt like a tortoise's from its shell. But even ill, he was a man who commanded attention, and who expected it. A grouping of furniture had been placed in the center of the second of the four galleries where the exhibition was hung, and there he sat, with his inner circle in attendance, receiving the homage of his friends and admirers, a complex olio of swells and freaks, famous and unknown, that makes up the world of Robert Mapplethorpe. His eyes, darting about, missed nothing. He nodded his head and smiled, speaking in a voice barely above a whisper. "It's a wonderful night," person after person said to him, and he agreed. He was enjoying himself immensely. On the wall facing him hung Jim and Tom, Sausalito, his 1977–78 triptych of two men in black leather, adorned with the accoutrements of sadomasochistic bondage and torture. In the photographs, Jim, the master, is urinating into the willing, even eager, mouth of Tom, the tied-up slave. "Marvelous," said one after another of the fashionable crowd as they surveyed the work. "Surreal" was the word that came to my mind.
However much you may have heard that this exhibition was not a shocker, believe me, it was a shocker. Robert Mapplethorpe was described by everyone I interviewed as the man who had taken the sexual experience to the limits in his work, a documentarian of the homoerotic life in the 1970s at its most excessive, resulting, possibly, in the very plague that was killing its recorder. Even his floral photographs are erotic; as critics have pointed out, he makes it quite clear that flowers are the sexual organs of plants. But the crowds that poured in that night, and kept pouring in for the following three months that the exhibition remained up, had not come just to see the still lifes of stark flowers, or the portraits of bejeweled and elegant ladies of society, like Carolina Herrera and Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis and Paloma Picasso, and of artist friends, like David Hockney and Louise Nevelson and Willem de Kooning, which are also very much a part of Mapplethorpe's oeuvre. They had come to see the sexually loaded pictures, freed of all inhibitions, that were hanging side by side with the above in the galleries of the Whitney, like the startling Man in Polyester Suit, in which an elephantine-size black penis simply hangs out of the unzipped fly of a man whose head is cropped, or the even more startling Marty and Veronica, in which Marty makes oral love to a stockinged and girdled Veronica, whose upper body is cropped off at her bare breasts. Mapplethorpe was a participant in the dark world he photographed, not a voyeur, a point he made clear by allowing a self-portrait showing his rectum—rarely considered to be one of the body's beauty spots—to be hung on the wall of the museum, with a bull-whip up it. The Mapplethorpe sexual influence is so great that in the otherwise scholarly introduction to the catalogue of the show, Richard Marshall, an associate curator of the Whitney, made reference to this same photograph as the "Self Portrait with a whip inserted in his ass." That night, and on two subsequent visits to the exhibition, I watched the reactions of the viewers to the more graphically sexual pictures. They went from I-can't-believe-what-I'm-seeing-on-the-walls-of-the-Whitney-Museum looks to nudges and titters, to nervous, furtive glances to the left and right to see if it was safe to really move in and peer, and, finally, to a subdued sadness, a wondering, perhaps, of how many of the men whose genitalia they were looking at were still alive.
"On the opening night this amazing strength came to Robert," said Flora Biddle, the granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum, which her grandmother started. "At the end of the evening he got up and walked out, after he had come in in a wheelchair."
Later, Mapplethorpe told me his feelings about the opening. "It was pretty good. I kept thinking what it would have been like if I'd been feeling better."
"You've become really famous, Robert," I said. "How does that feel?"
"Great," he said quietly, but shook his head at the same time. "I'm quite frustrated I'm not going to be around to enjoy it. The money's coming in, though. I'm making more money now than I've ever made before."
Today Mapplethorpe charges $10,000 for a sitting. His one-of-a-kind pictures sell for an average of $20,000 each. A Mapplethorpe print from the Robert Miller Gallery, his dealer in New York, starts at $5,000.
"I seem to read something about you every day in the press," I said.
"I do love publicity," he replied. "Good publicity."
In a sense, Sam Wagstaff created Robert Mapplethorpe, but anyone who knows Robert Mapplethorpe will tell you that he was ready and waiting to be created. They met over the telephone when Mapplethorpe was twenty-five years old and Sam was fifty. "Are you the shy pornographer?" Wagstaff asked when he telephoned him. Robert had heard of Sam before the call. "Everyone said there was a person in the art world I should meet. So Sam came over to look at my etchings, so to speak."
At that time the totally unknown Mapplethorpe was sharing an apartment in Brooklyn with the then totally unknown poet and later rock 'n' roll star Patti Smith, who has remained one of his closest friends. Although he was, in his own words, "doing photographs of sexuality" with a Polaroid camera back then, he did not yet consider himself a photographer. The Polaroid camera had been purchased for him by John McKendry, the curator of prints and photographs at the Metropolitan Museum. Mapplethorpe had become a sort of adopted son to McKendry and his wife, Maxine de la Falaise, the daughter of the English portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, and was taken about by them into the smart circles of people who later became his friends and patrons. Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe became positive influences on each other's lives. The handsome and patrician Wagstaff, who graduated from Yale and once worked in advertising, had long since moved away from the Upper East Side and New York society world of his birth into the bohemian world downtown. A former museum curator, he had become more and more of a reclusive figure, involved with a group devoted to self-fulfillment called Arica, and sometimes, according to Mapplethorpe, observing whole days of silence. Wagstaff encouraged Mapplethorpe in his photography, and Mapplethorpe persuaded Wagstaff to start collecting photographs. "He became obsessed with photography," said Mapplethorpe. "He bought with a vengeance. It went beyond anything I imagined. Through him, I started looking at photographs in a much more serious way. I got to know dealers. I went with him when he was buying things. It was a great education, although I had my own vision right from the beginning. If you look at my early Polaroids, the style was then what I have now."
Richard Marshall states in his introduction in the catalogue that Mapplethorpe "did not feel a strong ideological commitment to photography; rather it simply became the medium that could best convey his statement." Explaining this, Marshall said, "He wasn't a photographer who found his subject. The camera became the best way for him to express himself. Before that he was into collage, drawings, et cetera. He took up the camera to play with, and found that it was what he was looking for."
Barbara Jakobson, who was one of Mapplethorpe's first avid supporters as well as an old friend of Wagstaff's, said, "When I become enthusiastic about an artist, I do not keep my mouth shut. Within five minutes the jungle drums are beating. I like to see people I admire succeed. That was when our friendship started. Robert really saved Sam Wagstaff's life. At the beginning of the seventies, anyone who knew Sam said that he was virtually a recluse. Robert is the one who got him interested in collecting photography. Sam revolutionized the way we look at photographs. When he sold his collection to the Getty Museum, his position in photography was forever assured."
Mapplethorpe does not stint in his acknowledgment of his late friend's patronage. "I was a real hippie. Sam was a real hippie too. Financially he certainly helped me. He was very generous. We never actually lived together. I had a loft on Bond Street which he bought for me. He had a loft on Bond Street too. We were lovers as well. I think if you're going to do a story, you should get all the facts. It lasted a couple of years. Then we became best friends. I even introduced him to James Nelson, who became his boyfriend after me." He paused before he added, "He's sick at this point too."
"With AIDS?"
"Yes. He's going through all his money. He's spending like crazy. He rents an apartment at Number One Fifth Avenue, where he and Sam lived, but Sam's apartment in that building has been sold."
Shortly after we talked, Jim Nelson died. Nelson, a former hairstylist for the television soap opera All My Children, inherited 25 percent of Wagstaff's residuary estate, and Mapplethorpe inherited 75 percent. Nelson, aware that he was dying, wanted his money immediately, so Mapplethorpe, through their lawyers, bought out Nelson's share. As Nelson's life neared its end, he fulfilled a long-held dream and rented two suites on the Queen Elizabeth 2, one for himself and one for a companion, and sailed to England, where he stayed in a suite at the Ritz Hotel, and then took the Concorde back to New York. He spent the last day of his life making up a list of people he wanted to be notified of his death and another list of people he did not want to be notified, one of these being the person who told me this story.
Barbara Jakobson said, "It was great to observe Robert and Sam together. Sam got such a kick out of Robert, and Robert allowed Sam to be indulgent. Sam was a Yankee with cement in his pocket, but he was very generous with Robert. Sam always meant for Robert to have his money. I was very unhappy over the publicity about the will after Sam died."
Another close woman friend of both men, who did not want to be named, said, "Robert was looking for a patron, and along came Sam. Sam made Robert's career. He showed Robert this other way of life. Robert was into learning more than anyone I ever knew. When Robert met Sam, all the doors opened for him. Sam was his sugar daddy in a way."
Most of Wagstaff's money came from his stepfather, Donald Newhall, who left him and his sister shares of the Newhall Land and Farming Company in California, which later went public. Over the years, Wagstaff sold off some of his shares to buy his art, photography, and silver collections. In his will he left bequests of $100,000 each to the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and the New York Public Library, as well as $10,000 and the family silver to his sister, Mrs. Jefferson, and $10,000 to each of her three children.
"She's enormously rich," said Mapplethorpe about Mrs. Jefferson. "She didn't need the money."
"Then why did she contest the will?"
Mapplethorpe shrugged. "She needed entertainment," he said. In the long run, the litigation never went to trial; Wagstaff's sister decided against proceeding with the suit on the day of jury selection. Several subsequent lawsuits over Wagstaff's million-dollar silver collection, in which Mapplethorpe charged the New-York Historical Society with "fraudulent conduct" in obtaining a five-year loan of Wagstaff's silver as he lay dying, were settled out of court.
Mapplethorpe's lawyer, Michael Stout, who handles many prominent people in the creative arts, said about him, "Robert is the most astute businessman of any of my clients. If there is a decision to be made, he understands the issues and votes the right way."
Although I had known Sam Wagstaff for years, my contact with Robert Mapplethorpe was minimal, no more than an acquaintanceship, so I was surprised when he asked for me to write this article, and more surprised when he asked to photograph me. Two years ago, right after Sam Wagstaff died, when the rumors of litigation between his family and his heir over his will were rampant, I had thought of writing an article on the subject for this magazine. Mapplethorpe, however, let it be known through his great friend Suzie Frankfurt, the socialite interior decorator, that he did not wish me to write such a piece, and I immediately desisted. Later I saw him at the memorial service for Sam that was held at the Metropolitan Museum. Already ill himself, he made a point of thanking me for not writing the article.
I had met Mapplethorpe for the first time several years earlier, at a dinner given by the Earl of Warwick at his New York apartment. Although Mapplethorpe was then famous as a photographer, the celebrity that was so much a part of his persona was due equally to his reputation as a leading figure in the sadomasochistic subculture of New York. Indeed, he was the subject of endless stories involving dark bars and black men and bizarre behavior of the bondage and domination variety. He arrived late for the dinner, dressed for the post-dinner-party part of his night in black leather, and became in no time the focus of attention and unquestionably the star of Lord Warwick's party. He was at ease in his surroundings and, surprising to me, up on the latest gossip of the English smart set, telling stories in which Guinness and Tennant names abounded. When coffee was served, he took some marijuana and a package of papers out of his pocket, rolled a joint, lit it, inhaled deeply, all the time continuing a story he was telling, and passed the joint to the person on his right. It was not a marijuana-smoking group, and the joint was declined and passed on by each person to the next, except for one guest who, gamely, took a few tokes and then passed out at the table, after saying, "Strong stuff." Unperturbed, Mapplethorpe continued talking until it was time for his exit. After he was gone, those who remained talked about him.
Like everything else about Robert Mapplethorpe, the studio where he now lives and works on a major crosstown street in the Chelsea section of New York, which was also purchased for him by Wagstaff, is enormously stylish and handsomely done. In 1988 it was photographed by HG magazine, and Martin Filler wrote in the accompanying text, "Mapplethorpe's rooms revel in the pleasures of art for art's sake and reconfirm his aesthetic genealogy in a direct line of descent from Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley through Christian Bérard and Jean Cocteau." There are things to look at in every direction, a mélange of objects and pictures, but everything has its place. Order and restraint prevail. "You create your own world," said Mapplethorpe. "The one that I want to live in is very precise, very controlled." It fits in with his personality that he pays his bills instantly on receiving them.
Each time we met, we sat in a different area. In the back sitting room of the floor-through loft space, the windows have elegant brown-black taffeta tieback curtains designed by Suzie Frankfurt, which seem both incongruous and not at all incongruous. Frankfurt, who maintains a complicated friendship with him, said, "Robert lives in the middle of a contradiction—part altar boy and part leather bar." That day he was wearing a black dressing gown from Gianni Versace, the Italian designer, and his black velvet slippers.
At one point he went into a paroxysm of coughing, and from the look he gave me I realized he didn't want me to see him like that. "Would you excuse me for a minute," he said. I got up and went to another part of the apartment until he called me back.
"Oh, I'm so sick," he said. "I've been throwing up all night. The nights are awful."
"When did you first know you had AIDS?" I asked.
"It was diagnosed as AIDS two years ago in October."
"Did you suspect beforehand that you had it?"
"Every faggot suspects beforehand."
He said that he had two nurses on twelve-hour shifts that cost him a thousand dollars a day. "But I'm lucky. I have insurance." He has been on AZT almost from the beginning. He worries constantly about friends who are less fortunate, specifically his black friends. In a conversation with Marlies Black, who assembled the Rivendell Collection of modern art and photography, which contains the largest selection of Mapplethorpe's work in the world, he once said, "At some point I started photographing black men. It was an area that hadn't been explored extensively. If you went through the history of nude male photography, there were very few black subjects. I found that I could take pictures of black men that were so subtle, and the form was so photographical." Now, musing on that, he said, "Most of the blacks don't have insurance and therefore can't afford AZT. They all died quickly, the blacks. If I go through my Black Book, half of them are dead."
When I sat for him to be photographed, I was nervous, even though he had asked me to sit. It was on a day that he was not feeling well. He had not slept the night before. He coughed a great deal. His skin was very pale. We sat on a sofa and talked while Brian English, his assistant, set up the camera and chair where I would sit for the picture. Although ill, Mapplethorpe kept working most days. He showed me pictures he had taken a day or two before of the three-year-old daughter of the actress Susan Sarandon, and he had arranged to photograph Carolina Herrera, the dress designer, as soon as he was finished with me. I was talking about anything I could think of, mostly about people we both knew, to postpone the inevitable. Finally, I told him I was nervous. "Why?" he asked. "I just am," I said. "Don't be," he said quietly. I was struck as always by his grace and manners, which seemed such a contradiction to the image most people have of Robert Mapplethorpe. Finally Brian placed me in the chair, and Robert got up and walked very slowly over to where the Hasselblad camera was set up. He looked in the viewfinder. He asked Brian to move a light. He made an adjustment on a lens opening. "Look to the left," he said. "Keep your head there. Look back toward me with your eyes." He was in charge.
Another time, I remarked that he was looking better. He told me that he was finally able to eat something called TPN, a totally nutritious substance which gave him 2,400 calories a day. "I don't actually eat. I'm fed mostly by tube. If I hadn't found this, I'd be dead by now. I couldn't keep any food down." And then he said a line I heard him say over and over. "This disease is hideous."
"My biggest problem now is walking. I have neuropathy, like when your foot's asleep. It's constant. It's in my hands too. If it weren't for that, I'd go out." His eyes moved toward the window. "I'd like to go to Central Park to see the new zoo. And I'd like to go back to the Whitney to see the show. I hear there are lines of people to see it."
He was born in a middle-class suburban neighborhood called Floral Park, which is on the edge of Queens, New York, the third of six children in a Catholic family of English, German, and Irish extraction. His mother is a housewife. His father does electrical work. He went to a public school in Floral Park, but he would have preferred to go to the Catholic school, which his younger brothers went to. Although he now says that Floral Park was a perfect place for his parents to raise a family, early yearnings in nonconformist directions brought his family life to a halt. "I wanted to have the freedom to do what I wanted to do. The only way to do that was to break away. I didn't want to have to worry about what my parents thought. When I was sixteen, I went to college at the Pratt Institute. That was when I began to live elsewhere."
Except for his brother Edward, the youngest of the six, who was at the studio each time I was there, he has not been close to his family for years, although he said that they are "closer since I told them I was sick, which was not too long ago."
"Did your parents come to see your show at the Whitney?" I asked him.
He shook his head no. "They intend to," he said. Then he added, "But they have come to see me here."
While still in school, he began living with Patti Smith, whom he met in Brooklyn. Maxine de la Falaise McKendry remembered that when Robert first met Smith he kicked a hole through from his apartment to hers so that they could communicate better. "Patti and I built on each other's confidence. We were never jealous of each other's work. We inspired each other. She became recognized first. Then she had a record contract. She pushed ahead. There was a parallel happening to each career." Patti Smith, who is now married with two children, lives in Detroit. "We talk to each other all the time," he said.
'S&M is a certain percentage of Robert's work, and necessary to show to give a representation of his work," said Richard Marshall. He told me that when they put the exhibition together there had never been any idea of censorship, or any reservation about including offensive material, although, he added, "there are some stronger pictures which do exist, some more explicitly graphic pictures, the, uh, penetration of the arm." What Marshall was referring to was what Mapplethorpe calls his fist-fucking file. "Call Suzanne," he said to me, speaking of his lovely young secretary, Suzanne Donaldson, "and ask her, if you want to see the fist-fucking file, or the video of me having my tit pierced." When certain of these photographs were shown at an art gallery in Madrid, the gallery owner, who has since died of AIDS, was sent to jail.
"There were some letters of protest about the show, but not in great numbers at all," said Marshall. "We did put up signs in three or four locations, warning parents that the show might not be applicable for children."
Flora Biddle concurs. "I went on a tour of the show the night before it opened with the Whitney Circle, which is the highest category of membership. Richard Marshall talked about the pictures to the group, dealing with the pictures you could call the most sexual, and spoke beautifully about them. The people in the Circle were attentive and open to them. Afterwards, people came up and said they thought it was so wonderful the Whitney was hanging this show."
Barbara Jakobson said, "Sometimes I'd drive downtown in my yellow Volkswagen to have dinner with Robert. Then, later, I'd drop him off at the Mine-shaft, or one of those places. God forbid he be seen having a woman drop him off, so I'd leave him a block away. I had no desire to see inside, but I once asked Robert to describe what it was like, in an architectural way. He said there were places of ritual. He told me how the rooms were divided, without telling me what actually went on. Once he showed me a sadomasochistic photograph. I said to him, 'I can't believe that a human being would allow this to be done.' He replied, 'The person who had it done wanted it to be done. Besides, he heals quickly.' Robert would find these people who enjoyed this. The interesting part is that they posed for him."
When I discussed this conversation with Mapplethorpe, he said, "I went to the Eagles Nest and the Spike to find models. Or I'd meet people from referrals. They'd hear you were good at such and such a thing, and call. I was more into the experience than the photography. The ones I thought were extraordinary enough, or the ones I related to, I'd eventually photograph."
"Were drugs involved?"
"Oh, yes. I've certainly had my share of drug experiences, but I don't need drugs to take pictures. They get in the way. However, drugs certainly played a big factor in sex at that time. MDA was a big drug in all this. It's somewhere between cocaine and acid.
"Most of the people in S&M were proud of what they were doing. It was giving pleasure to one another. It was not about hurting. It was sort of an art. Certainly there were people who were into brutality, but that wasn't my take. For me, it was about two people having a simultaneous orgasm. It was pleasure, even though it looked painful.
"Doing things to people who don't want it done to them is not sexy to me. The people in my pictures were doing it because they wanted to. No one was forced into it.
"For me S&M means sex and magic, not sadomasochism. It was all about trust."
"If his S&M work were heterosexual, it wouldn't be acceptable," I was told by a world-famous photographer who, because of Mapplethorpe's illness, did not wish to be quoted by name making critical remarks about him. "The smart society that has accepted this work has done so because it is so far removed from their own lives."
Even before the AIDS crisis, though, Mapplethorpe had begun to move away from the S&M scene as subject matter for his photography. One of his closest associates said to me, "Robert had gotten more and more away from being a downtown personality. He had been observing the uptown life for some time, and I think he wanted to become a society photographer. Once, leaving someone's town house on the Upper East Side, he said, 'I wouldn't mind living like that.'"
Carolina Herrera, the subject of one of Mapplethorpe's earliest and most celebrated society portraits, has known him for years, "long before he was famous." They met on the island of Mustique in the Caribbean in the early 1970s, when Herrera and her husband were guests of Princess Margaret, and Mapplethorpe, along with his English friend Catherine Tennant, was a guest of Tennant's brother Colin, who is now Lord Glenconner. Tennant remembers Mapplethorpe at the time wearing more ivory bracelets up his arms than the rebellious Nancy Cunard wore in the famous portrait Cecil Beaton took of her in 1927. When Mapplethorpe took Herrera's picture, in a hotel room in New York, he had only a minimum of photographic equipment and no assistant. Herrera's husband, Reinaldo, had to hold the silver umbrella reflector for him. Mapplethorpe photographed Herrera wearing a hat and pearls, against a blank ground, and since then his style in social portraiture has remained as stark as in his nude figures, mirroring the sculptural influence of Man Ray more than the ethereal settings of Cecil Beaton.
On Friday evening, November 4, of last year, Robert Mapplethorpe gave a large cocktail party at his studio to celebrate his forty-second birthday. Incidentally, November 4 was also the birthday of Sam Wagstaff. Birthday celebrations have always been important to Mapplethorpe, according to Barbara Jakobson. She remembered other birthday parties in the past that Sam had given for Robert. " 'Sam's going to give me a party,' Robert would say way in advance."
At the peak of the birthday party, nearly two hundred people milled through the vast studio, among them the film stars Susan Sarandon, Sigourney Weaver, and Gregory Hines, all of whom had been photographed by Mapplethorpe. In the crowd were Prince and Princess Michael of Greece, the Earl of Warwick, Tom Armstrong of the Whitney Museum, gallery owner Mary Boone, Bruce Mailman, who was a managerial partner in the St. Marks Baths until it was closed down in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, and Dimitri Levas, the art director and principal stylist on Mapplethorpe's fashion shoots, who is said to be one of his heirs, as well as well-known figures from the magazine, gallery, auction, and museum worlds. And collectors. And people who were just friends. Inevitably, there were men in black leather, some wearing master caps, standing on the sidelines, watching. Everyone mixed.
Everybody brought gifts, wonderfully wrapped, and soon there was a mountain of them on a bench by the front door. Bouquets of flowers kept arriving throughout the party, including one of three dozen white roses in a perfect crystal vase. Waiters in black jackets moved through the crowd, carrying trays of fluted glasses of champagne. On several tables were large tins of beluga caviar, and Robert kept leaning over and helping himself.
Although there was certainly a sense that this was Robert Mapplethorpe's farewell party for his friends, there were no feelings of sadness in the studio that night. Robert, continually indomitable, provided his guests with an upbeat and optimistic celebration. He looked better than he had looked in weeks. He sat in his favorite chair, missing nothing, receiving guest after guest who came and knelt by his side to chat with him. Toward the end of the evening, he stood up and walked.
"This is Robert. This is his life. Everybody beautiful. Everybody successful," said one of the guests whom I did not know.
"Robert has style," said Prince Michael of Greece, surveying the event. "Personal style is not something you learn. It's something you have."
One of the most frequently asked questions these days is where Robert Mapplethorpe will leave his money when he dies. His lawyer, Michael Stout, refused to answer that question. But it is known that the photographer has recently set up the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, with a board of directors. Besides specific bequests to friends, the foundation will probably give money to the arts as well as to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), an organization with which Mapplethorpe has been associated since Sam Wagstaff's death. In a letter he sent out asking friends and acquaintances to pay $100 each to attend a private viewing of Sam Wagstaff's silver collection prior to its sale at Christie's in January, he wrote, "I have asked AmFAR to use the funds raised from this benefit to support community-based trials of promising AIDS drugs, a pilot program which will greatly increase patient access to treatments that may help extend their lives."
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"Non nobis Domine: Not unto us, but unto God be the glory."
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Fine Arts Education is an valueable part of our school's curriculum. The arts allows children to express themselves aesthetically. Fine arts support a balance between the intellectual side of the brain and the artistic side of the brain. As a universal language, music and art can be interpreted and understood to some extent by all.
Through art and music education, teachers and students can come to identify their talents and gifts, and respond to the beauty of God's world. It is through the arts we learn to appreciate the creative talents of artists in many places, cultures and time periods.


I am the firstborn in my family and have two sisters. One sister is two-and-one-half-years younger than me and the youngest one is twelve years younger. I am third generation Apostolic through my mother's parents. My dad came into church when I about six years old.
I was baptized in Jesus' name when I was ten years old and received the Holy Ghost on Memorial Day when I was twelve. We had been in revival and back in the day we didn't usually have revival services on Monday night. We had a church picnic earlier that day and everybody was so excited about the revival they decided we needed to have service that evening. Two of my best friends and I received the Holy Ghost that night.
My favorite Scripture is I Timothy 3:16: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." I think it's a favorite because that's one of the first passes of Scriptures my Dad taught me.
I started playing the piano when I was around three years old. Of course, I don't really remember it, but my parents said I used to sit and watch as someone pumped the pedals on our old upright player piano. They told me that one day I told them I could do that, and I did. I actually don't remember a time when I couldn't hear a song and sit down and play it—chords and all.
When I was older I tried to teach others to play and realized that I needed to learn good music terminology and basics in order to communicate with other musicians and teach properly.
My favorite part of the project was just arranging and playing the songs. I had a ball!
What is your favorite song to play? Why is it a favorite?
I really enjoyed playing the song "When I Reach that City on the Hill." I think it's my favorite (on the new project) because I used to play it for one of my best friends, Donna Jacks, who has now reached that city! On the slower project, "Down From His Glory" was my favorite to play.
The best advice I've ever had was: "You've got to keep your spirit right!" It made such an impression that my friend Deborah Jones and I wrote a song, "Keep My Spirit Right!" which Deborah recorded.
In addition to music, I love to travel and enjoy cruising, Hopefully we will travel more extensively when my husband retires.
Is there an instrument you wished you knew how to play?
I wish I knew how to play the harp! I did play one at the home of a friend, and I think I could if I had more time and opportunity to learn the mechanics of the instrument.
I wouldn't want to live without the Lord, my husband Mark, my church, ice cream, and chocolate!
A special shout out to my pastor, Ken Dillingham, and his wife, Stephanie, and our "girls" Audrey and Avary!.


Here is a great training video about paddle technique and the physics of the stroke from the Keauhou Outrigger Club in Hawaii. Let me know what you think.
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1st april : The Rock's Clown de Jean Lambert-wild avec Hossan Leong @ Gardens by the Bay.
The Rock's Clown is an outdoor site specific performance involving an actor (Hossan Leong), a clown (Jean Lambert-wild), a juggler (Martin Palisse), a water pond, a soundtrack, red balls and balloons.
The script, written by Catherine Lefeuvre, will be performed by Hossan Leong while Jean Lambert-wild and Martin Palisse will be playing weird insect-like creatures interacting, juggling, swimming, jesting, etc.
The show mixes poetry, humour and circus. It addresses all audiences.
The Rock's Clown is the last part of the Clown Parleur (The Talking Clown) trilogy. The first two parts, Le Clown des Marais (Swamps Clown, created in Singapore at 72-13) and Le Clown du Ruisseau (The Brooks Clown, to be shot in Singapore) use various ways to question, through poetry and performance, the nature of Jean Lambert-wild's clown, its origins, its language and its emotions.
The Rock's Clown portrays his clown through the mythical character of Sisyphus, used as a metaphor for the status of the artist. The Scarbaeidae, more commonly known as dung beetles, a wonderful insect, dung roller, solitary, astronomer and relentless worker, is the ideal Siyphus of this tale.
It is the first artistic collaboration between Martin Palisse, director of the Nexon National Hub for Circus and Jean Lambert-wild, director of the Limoges National Drama Center.


Last weekend I migrated my PC (gentoo and Windows XP installation) to a new mainboard and cpu. The mainboard is an EVGA nForce 750i SLI. I would like to be able to see the different temperature readings and maybe fan speeds. Software manipulation is not neccesary, I just want to see at least the temps.
lm_sensors detects a Winbond w83627dhg chip, but when it tries to load the according module w83627ehf, I get the well-known "conflicts with ACPI region..." message in dmesg (http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3#Mysensorshavestoppedworkinginkernel2.6.31).
The solution (kernel parameter "acpi_enforce_resources=lax") does not work - same message. I do not even know if this would be save, I never used this mainboard before.
I can get the module to work with the kernel parameter "acpi=off". Then the module reports 3 different mainboard temperatures (temp1, temp2, temp3) and 5 fan speeds. One of the temps is spooky: 90.0 °C.
I confirmed this with windows: SiSoft Sandra Lite reports MB temperature to be at or over 90°C. The only values I ever saw are 90.0°C, 92.0°C and 94.0°C. Maybe the value is doubled somehow? 45-47 °C would fit perfectly with the other two sensor readings. The biggest heatsink is hot, but not too hot to touch it, even for a long time.
Is it save to disable ACPI with "acpi=off"? Or will it melt my hardware in the long run? Will fans still be regulated like they are now? The graphics card driver has an acpi use flag, how will this affect the self-regulation of the graphics card (GeForce GTX 460, =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.52)?
What can I do about the excessive temp reading? If it is true, something is wrong with the hardware. If it is wrong, could a bios upgrade solve this?
Can you see the temperatures in your BIOS ? What does it show ?
BIOS does show only one MB temperature, which is around 30°C after a cold start, slightly higher after reboot.
The problem with sensors is that you never know which are active unless manufacturer provided the exact specs how did it wire the chip on a particular board.
It often differs from board to board even for slight change in the board model number. Among them voltage is worst - almost impossible to guess without a detailed reverse engineering.
Overall, the usual way (and not too satisfying) way is just to ignore what seems sensless.
ambient temperature). Look what sensor type is shown - in my experience CPU is typically thermal diode, while the other two - thermistor.
few degrees higher than CPU temperature reported through w83627dhg chip.
I can get the module to work with the kernel parameter "acpi=off".
reason you cannot use the sensor module in the first place.
Thank you for your tips, I will live without the ability to read the MB temp sensors for now. Any chance there will be an ACPI compatible module for the w83627dhg chip, like CONFIG_SENSORS_ATK0110 for Asus Mainboards?


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With the approval of Measure BB on Nov. 6, the Desert Healthcare District will more than double the size of the community it covers and create two additional board seats.
Some 77.98 percent of the voters, or 20,408 approved the expansion while 22.02 percent, or 5,763 voters did not, according to unofficial results from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.
As a result of the healthcare district expansion, the board is expected to appoint two new directors from the annexed area in January, increasing the board from five to seven members.
Expansion also requires redrawing the District zones to incorporate two new zones. The process of transitioning from five to seven zones is expected to get underway in 2019.
Measure BB to expand the healthcare district was authored by Democratic Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, and supported by Democratic U.S. Congressman Raul Ruiz and state Senators, other Assemblymembers and local elected leaders.


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Palestinian Diaspora Delegation at Bethlehem University for a Visit
On Wednesday, 11 July 2018, the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation "HCEF" brought a delegation of Palestinian youths living in the diaspora for a visit to Bethlehem University.
The program, known as "Know Thy Heritage", celebrated the return of 14 Palestinian youths living in the diaspora from 7 different countries – Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Honduras, and USA. They joined 10 of our ambassador program students to discuss their roots, their feelings on return, and their hopes for the future State of Palestine.
The delegation was welcomed by Brother Peter Bray, Vice Chancellor, Brother Denis Loft, Vice President for Advancement, and Ms. Amjaad Musleh, Guest Relations Officer.
The delegation was accompanied by Sir Rateb Rabie, Executive Director of HCEF, and Mr. Nicola Kawas, program coordinator at HCEF.
Brother Peter told the delegation that Bethlehem University provides quality education to its students in a safe, caring and predictable environment despite of the ongoing challenges and difficulties in order to build a greater Palestine.
He added that one of the greatest challenges here is to keep hope alive. He also dared the group to share back their experience here in Palestine to their people back in the diaspora emphasizing that this will help connecting both the local community with the diaspora.
The delegation discussed with the student ambassadors how Palestinians living in the diaspora remain attached to their national roots. They also talked about how to bridge the divide and strengthen ties between local Palestinians and those of the diaspora. They shared ideas on how to help mobilize the media and globally disseminate better information about Palestine.
Rasha Eliesa, KTH Delegate from Denmark said: "Although we have not been raised in Palestine, we did not feel like strangers. We felt like true Palestinians, we were welcomed with open arms and open hearts."
A campus tour followed the discussion.
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State Treasurer Michael Frerichs said that while it is legal for some people to use cannabis in Illinois, it remains illegal for the cannabis dispensaries providing the service to use a bank or a credit union for their businesses.
"This defies logic and that's why we're here today," Frerichs said at the press conference. "They have the inability to use a bank or credit union for basic services."
Frerichs said the banking industry has not kept up with rules.
"The industry made $136 million in 2018," Frerichs said. "That's $136 million ripe for theft. We need to make it legal for them to use banks and credit unions and level the playing field."
Frerichs said that at a state level, he and his colleagues are planning to introduce legislation.
"There needs to be no more worry that banks will be closed for giving the dispensary down the street a checking account," Frerichs said. "At a federal level, I'm working with treasurers in other states, both Democrats and Republicans to encourage federal regulators to not punish the legal cannabis industry."
Frerichs said this is not a radical idea.
"This is working together to provide access and equity, Frerichs said. "Standing beside me are people that typically wouldn't support this and we're here today for a common purpose."
Frerichs said the goal is for dispensaries to be able to write a check, deposit money or take out a loan.
"If we don't make these changes, we invite crime and theft," Frerichs said.
Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) said the collaboration is indicative of what is needed to help the industry grow and develop.
"Prior to last year, about 85 percent of our cannabis industry was banked with a single bank in the state of Illinois," Cassidy said. "As the Trump administration ramped up threats toward the legal cannabis industry, that bank got nervous about potential backlash and informed all of these businesses that they would cease to have a banking relationship with them."
Sen. Toi Hutchinson (D-Chicago Heights) said the goal is to help regulate an industry that is already operating in the state.
"In order for us to be in line and up and running the safest and most regulated system we can in Illinois, we need to do this in advance of when the federal government gets this right," Hutchinson said. "We need to do this for the state of our own businesses. We're blessed in that this is an industry that wants to be regulated."
DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said the State's Attorney Association supports legislation that advances public safety.
"These businesses are doing business on a cash basis only," Berlin said. "When we're dealing with that much cash, the opportunity for crime rises. We need to do everything we can at a proactive basis to reduce crime. Operating by using checks is a much safer way to do business."
Illinois has seen the marijuana industry's laws change in recent years. Last year, lawmakers voted to expunge records of individuals who were convicted of marijuana possession prior to the decriminalization law in 2016, according to Illinois Policy Institute.
Others are worried about the safety concerns surrounding the booming industry. Studies have shown in other states where marijuana is legal that there is an increased number of impaired drivers involved in accidents, according to Prairie State Wire.
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AM Technical Profile: WVOK
Day: [map] [bird's eye]Just off Cheaha Drive in Oxford, at the western terminus of Edgewood Drive, between Friendship Road and AL-21.
Night: [map] [street view] Just east of Talladega on AL-21, next to Pine Hill Memorial Park cemetery.
Day: 2.5 kW
Night: 22 watts
Day and night: 1 tower
Owned by Woodard Broadcasting
The Confederate Broadcasting Company (W. K. Johnston, James Hemphill, Ned Butler) were awarded a construction permit for a new station in September 1955 in Talladega. When it signed on in 1956, the station launched as a 1 kW daytimer on 1580 kHz, as WJHB. The station's studios were on the south side of the square in downtown Talladega at 104 South Court Square, while the transmitter was nearly two miles north of downtown on Alabama Highway 102. The transmitter was a Collins 20V.
The license was transferred to the Tallabama Broadcasting Company in 1962. They changed the calls to WEYY, and in 1964 moved the studios to 146 North Court Street.
Through the 70's, the station had a Country music format with ABC network affiliation. The station moved transmitter site to a location in the 1020 Anniston Road, just east of town (the currently-licensed night site). When that facility signed on in 1971, it was with a Collins 820D-1 transmitter. The station spawned an FM companion, WHTB on 92.7 MHz, in 1972. In 1975, the station got a bump in power to 2.5 kW, but still as a daytime only operation, with a CCA AM-2500-3000D transmitter. After ownership of the company moved from Albert Rains to Jimmy E. Woodard, the company name changed from Tallabama to Woodard Broadcasting Company. The studios moved to the transmitter site in 1977.
The station was granted a major modification in 1985 to relocate to the nearby community of Oxford. That site, with transmitter off Choccolocco Creek south of town, signed on in 1987. One year prior to sign-on, the call sign changed to WOXR, but the station's Country music format remained. The studios were at 1606 South Hale Street in Oxford.
In the early 90's, the station dropped Country for Easy Listening. In the mid-90's, the studio location was at 90 Friendship Road. The station appears to have gone back to Country music towards the end of the decade, but it was not to last…
The station's format flipped to Urban Contemporary in August 2000. The call sign changed to WARB at this time.
In September 2002 the station took the famous (in Birmingham, anyway) calls of WVOK, to go with their Oxford-area FM sister station. Around that time the format changed to Oldies. Later, they picked up Scott Shannon's True Oldies channel. The True Oldies Channel format was killed off at the end of June 2014; the station has most likely picked up the "Good Time Oldies" format from Westwood One.
The station's licensed night facility, shown above, is not actually used; both day and night service are from the day coordinates.


Whether your hypertension leads to your CKD or it's merely a side effect, it is important that you learn more about the condition in order to control it.
A healthy blood pressure is 120/80 or anything below. The top number is the systolic pressure, which signifies how hard the heart is beating to push blood through your blood vessels. The bottom number, the diastolic pressure, represents the pressure when your blood vessels are relaxing between beats.
If your top number gets above 139 or your bottom number above 90, you are said to have hypertension. A systolic pressure between 120-139 or a diastolic pressure between 80-89 is known as pre-hypertension.
High blood pressure is no joke even for healthy people. When your blood has to be pumped harder through your body, your blood vessels must stretch in order to allow the increased flow. Over time, the stretching weakens the blood vessels, including those in the kidneys.
When you have chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure can quicken the deterioration of your kidney function. Therefore, you will want to learn how to control your blood pressure in order to slow the damage being done to your kidneys.
Thankfully, there are many ways you can help to keep your blood pressure under control, even if you have chronic kidney disease.
Monitor your blood pressure. Since high blood pressure often has no symptoms, you will want to keep a check on yours more often than your doctor visits. Purchase a quality blood pressure cuff and check it daily at home.
Record your readings in a notebook so you can later show your doctor any changes. If you notice an increase in either number, especially if it's over 120/80, be sure to consult with your doctor.
Change your diet. The foods you consume can play a large role on your blood pressure. To help control your blood pressure, you will want to cut back on high-sodium foods. This will also help with kidney function. Cholesterol, saturated fats, and simple carbohydrates (chips, crackers, etc. that turn to sugar in the body) should also be limited in your diet.
Go for a daily walk. Walking is a great exercise for most people with chronic kidney disease. Light exercise helps improve blood circulation, which in turn lowers your blood pressure. Walk for 30 minutes at least four days a week to see the most benefits of being active.
Take medication. Sometimes, it's difficult to control your blood pressure with the home treatments listed here. If that's the case, you will likely be prescribed blood pressure medication. There are special medicines for those with CKD called ACE inhibitors that may work great at controlling your blood pressure as well as protecting your kidneys.


The commission consisted of the design of a new English Manor House on a secluded 24 acre plot of land. The property included water features, rolling grass areas at the front and a steep section of woods at the rear. The project required the procurement of permits from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Conservation and a variance from the Mendham Zoning Board of Appeals.
The stately Colonial Manor is entirely clad in Pennsylvania stone, has slate roofs, copper gutters and leaders, and lavish interior finishes. It comprises six Bedroom Suites, each with its own Bathroom, plus an apartment over the garages, and eight garage bays. The house was designed with energy efficiency in mind, and incorporates the highest R-value insulation throughout, low-E, argon-filled insulating windows and patio doors, a geothermal HVAC system, and energy-efficient appliances.


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Louis G. Conforti became a Director of Washington Prime Group Inc. on May 27, 2014 and served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from June 20, 2016 until October 6, 2016 when he became Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Conforti served as Principal/Executive Director of Colony Capital, Inc. as the Global Head of Strategy as well as focusing on publicly traded investing from April 2014 until June 20, 2016.
Mr. Conforti was Managing Director of Balyasny Asset Management LP ("Balyasny"), an alternative investment manager firm, from December 2013 until April 2014. Prior to his service with Balyasny, Mr. Conforti was Global Head of Real Estate for UBS O'Connor, the alternative investment management division of UBS AG, a financial services firm, from October 2008 to November 2013. During that time, he also served as Senior Portfolio Manager of O'Connor Colony Property Strategies, a
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Mr. Conforti also served as Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Investments at the hedge fund firm of Stark Investments from January 2005 to October 2008. His predecessor real estate hedge fund, The Greenwood Group, was acquired by Stark Investments in January 2005. Mr. Conforti served as Co President and Chief Financial Officer of Prime Group Realty Trust ("Prime"), a publicly traded office and industrial property real estate investment trust, from June 2000 to October 2003; as its Executive Vice President Capital Markets, from June 1988 to November 1999, and as its Senior Vice President Capital Markets, from June 1998 to November 1999. Prior to his service with Prime, Mr. Conforti worked at the investment banking firms of CIBC World Markets and Alex Brown & Sons within their real estate investment banking and capital markets divisions.
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Computer engineering is the hands-on side of engineering that gives life to engineering projects. While there is a lot of overlap and similarity between engineering and engineering technology, the difference really happens on a simple and foundational level: engineering is the theoretical and conceptual piece of the science, while engineering technology is the application and implementation of the same science. Engineering technology professionals can be found in any industry that there are engineers, from healthcare to aerospace. Professionals are often referred to as technicians or technologists, and typically put science to work in an industry that really appeals to their interests, skills, and personal goals. Careers in engineering technology can be accessible with everything from a vocational certification to a 4-year degree, and are truly customizable to suit the unique lifestyles and needs of professionals. If you're interested in working hands-on with the science that brings our society to life, then you may want to consider a path to engineering technology.
Engineering technology professionals work in almost any field imaginable where there are engineers, mechanics, or other types of technology. They typically work under the supervision of engineers and may work in groups to bring together specific projects within a department.
Mechanical Engineering Technicians - These professionals bring to life the ideas of mechanical engineers, designing developing, testing, and manufacturing mechanical devices. Most mechanical engineer technicians need some level of postsecondary training or an associate degree in engineering technology. They are among some of the highest paid technicians, making more than $54,000 on average each year.
Environmental Engineering Technicians - Environmental technicians carry out the plans of environmental engineers. Most employers will prefer environmental technicians with an associate degree. Although they are not as well paid as some other engineering technology professionals—making just over $49,000 on average annually—they are expected to be in incredibly high demand in the coming years, and the path is ultimately rewarding in many ways.
Industrial Engineering Technicians - The purpose of industrial technicians is to assist industrial engineers in devising efficient systems that integrate workers, machines, materials, information, and energy. The field of industrial engineering technology isn't expecting to grow the demand for professionals in the coming years, but the pay is almost competitive with mechanical technology at more than $53,000 annually. Like other technology positions, industrial technicians usually only need a postsecondary education or associate degree in order to be competitive.
Regardless of whether you're interested in putting your hands-on skills to use in protecting the environment, improving healthcare services, or building more powerful and efficient engines, there's a unique path to engineering technology that's perfect for you.
Careers in engineering technology are for professionals who are ready to put their skills to use in a hands-on setting, who have the analytical and problem-solving abilities of an engineer combined with the eye for detail and technical skills that are required for bringing science into reality. Professionals who want to succeed in engineering technology should be prepared to work in team settings and have the communication skills that it takes to follow directions and collaborate across specializations. They must be the types of critical thinkers who are also extremely observational, and who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty bringing products to life.
Careers in engineering technology are great for professionals regardless of their educational background or level of experience. Careers can start straight out of high school, and for more experienced professionals, advanced positions can be made available through flexible online training and certification programs. Some professionals may be excited to find a job opportunity that offers to compensate them for getting their degree or certification. Otherwise, many positions are available with only a vocational certification, postsecondary training, or associate degree.
The most prestigious engineering technology degree programs are programmatically accredited by ABET, and there are additional certifications available to engineering technology professionals through the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET).
Our cost rankings reveal that the average cost an online master's in engineering is just under $28,000. Keep this number in mind as you research programs. Click on a program to see tuition, accreditation, and admission information. The cost estimated includes all fees but does not include other costs like textbooks or certifications that you might attain after graduation. It's critical that you look into the options that will prepare you to explore your interests and goals in a budget-friendly environment.


Your supervisor just came to you with a great idea for a new collateral piece. Now what? Where do you start? Do yourself – and your designer – a favor by asking these 10 questions before embarking on any design project. It will save your company valuable time and money.
The very first thing to decide when considering any design is budget. Budget will determine everything from the size, shape and weight of your project. That annual report your boss wants mailed to customers? Consider splurging on great photography to create an online annual report rather than purchasing expensive postage for mailers.
As a general rule, items such as brochures, mailers and posters need three to five days for design and another week for printing. However, large projects and custom pieces often need up to three weeks for design and two weeks for printing.
Take a moment to envision your target audience. Is this project for a younger or older audience? Male or female? Adjust details on the desired outcome. A brochure for a senior living community might require a large font, while a fact sheet for the zoo would include bright colors and graphics.
Design should ideally adhere to an organization's established brand standards. Your designer will need this road map to ensure they use the right logo, fonts and colors.
What is the desired result of your design? Clearly defining a call to action provides the designer creative freedom to artistically illustrate an emotion or idea. We often see this rule play out in political ads which use colorful graphics in red to encourage a "no" vote.
Will this design be created for print, web, email or a mobile app? Each medium has rules. Knowing the intended channel immediately gives the designer an understanding of the size of their canvas and how to format color (see #9) and fonts (see #10).
Choosing the style of a design is relatively easy once audience and purpose are determined. Should the piece be formal and elegant or artsy and whimsical? Should the finished design be sleek and glossy or plain? It's important the look and feel of the design match the overall message.
Knowing your budget will help determine whether to hire a photographer or buy stock images. Limited budget? It's time to get creative with use of color, shapes or readily available photos.
Color affects mood and tone, so it's important to understand the research of color psychology. To really confuse matters, there are also Pantone colors and web-safe or HEX colors.
Side note on color for print vs. web: Designers work with color modes referred to as CMYK and RGB. Anything designed for the web (or anything with a screen) is in RGB (red, green, blue) mode. Anything dealing with printed material is in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) mode.
Finding the right font is challenging, but it's often the final touch that brings the piece together. When selecting a typeface for young children or the visually impaired, sans serifs are preferable. Its simplified letterforms are easier to recognize.
Additionally, not all fonts work well for web or email. Each computer has a different operating system with certain fonts installed. There are a handful of web safe or "universal" fonts that should be on every computer – so the way it's seen on the screen is the way your audience will view it as well.
Asking these 10 questions before every design project will ensure an efficient and cost-effective product. By thinking through the logistics (printing, paper, distribution) and desired results you can avoid costly revisions or a failed campaign. The last thing anyone wants is to spend weeks fine-tuning a beautifully designed piece and then find out you can't afford to print it.


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Google Maps Pedometer
Posted on July 12, 2005 July 12, 2005 by Eric
I'm too cheap (and don't do enough cool outdoorsy stuff) to buy a GPS unit to track how far I've gone when biking and running and stuff like that. So I was excited when Brad pointed to a tool called Gmap pedometer, which combines a nifty interface with the GPS information contained in Google Maps to let people track how far certain routes are.
For instance, I can now say that my typical jogging route is closer to six miles than the five I thought it was. Which is good to hear, because it takes me around 45-50 minutes to run it, which I thought meant I was running 9-10 minute miles, but means I'm closer to 8 minute miles. (Since I broke a seven minute mile when I was 9 years old and about 4'2″, and could comfortably maintain a 7 minute mile pace for 12 miles when I was 12 years old and 4'10", the thought that I was 50% slower despite having legs 50% longer was a bit distressing).
Other nifty things I discovered while playing with the tool:
My bike route from the BART station at Millbrae to work is about 5 miles. Since I do it in 20-25 minutes, depending on how I hit the traffic lights, I'm making relatively decent time, considering it's a mountain bike and all.
My typical bike route up to Skyline Boulevard is also about 5 miles. Except that it's all uphill, so it takes more like 50 minutes.
The one time I biked from work in San Mateo all the way back up to the Mission district in San Francisco turns out to be a little over 20 miles. I think I did it in about an hour and 40 minutes, so a steady pace of 12 mph or so, which isn't awful, considering it was mostly upwind and there were a few hills at the end to contend with.
Anyway. Way fun tool. Hours of entertainment. At least for a geek like me.
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It *is* extra nifty… I wonder how well it will scale to all the publicity it is getting?
Heh. If they get slammed too hard by it, they can always sell it to Google or something. And it's a bit late now to worry about that, Jill, after you've told a well-known blogger such as Brad (and via him, me). 😉
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GILLS OPEN STATE OF THE ART GYM
Chairman Paul Scally unveils new gym facility at MEMS Priestfield Stadium
Gillingham Football Club opened its impressive new gym facilities for the playing squad on Wednesday afternoon.
In front of Sky Sports News cameras Gillingham FC players were able to enjoy a recovery session following a tough trip to Birmingham City in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday evening.
The refurbishment project, which began two weeks ago, has seen the gymnasium space transformed with a range of new, state of the art equipment tailor made to aid players' requirements throughout the season.
The Gills have got off to a great start in the 2015/16 Sky Bet League One campaign. Currently unbeaten in the League, Justin Edinburgh's energetic young side now have facilities at their disposal to further strengthen their training regime.
The investment is something Chairman Paul Scally hopes will aid the players as they seek to achieve promotion this season.
"We have never gone to the extreme of having a gym to the level we do now. This is an extremely professional and international level gym and when you look at our players, that recognises the fact we need to push them on now, both mentally and physically to the next level."
The Chairman added, "All the players are priceless because they're very important to what we're trying to achieve. We're trying to achieve promotion to the Championship."
The Gills are next in action at MEMS Priestfield Stadium on Saturday 5th September. Please click here to purchase tickets.


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Jayasree, it's the 50th day you left us!
Now that we realise you are resting in his abode with much peace!
The grief still lingers in our hearts.
Though you had lighted fond memories like an ever glowing lamp..
Indeed we will miss her, she was such a nice and a very gentle person.
May her soul rest in peace !
Lovely tribute Bharathy, I am sure she is happy wherever she is.


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MoI Council Discusses Services of Traffic and Licensing Sector
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, May 14th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
The Ministry of Interior Council, hosted by UAE national Al Muta'ared Saif Al Afari at his residence in Al Ain, tackled the services and challenges of the traffic and licensing sector. The council highlighted the Ministry of Interior's efforts in implementing the best practices in the traffic sector in a bid to achieve the highest levels of traffic safety on the roads according to the finest international standards.
This council is part of the awareness councils organized by the Law Respect Culture Bureau in cooperation with the Security Media Department at the Security Support General Directorate at the General Secretariat of the Office of His Highness Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior. The council discussed the most important challenges faced by the traffic and licensing sector, notably young people below the legal driving age, driving without driving licenses; excessiv ... Read more »
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Excel Dryer Gives University of Reading Green Light to Save Energy
Independent research leads university to discover that the new XLERATOReco® Hand Dryer uses 55 percent less energy than the UK blade-style hand dryer, representing an annual savings of $2,155.20
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. - Wednesday, May 11th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The University of Reading has long been at the forefront of sustainability research and initiatives to mitigate its own environmental impact and reduce its carbon footprint. The London-based research university has made a number of changes to its existing campus infrastructure to ensure its facilities are environmentally ready for the future. In 2011, Dan Fernbank was brought in as the Energy Manager at the University of Reading. He had previously spent four-and-a-half years working for the Carbon Trust in a variety of roles and establishing a national carbon reduction program for schools. Fernbank has led several highly successful sustainability initiatives at the university, the most recen ... Read more »
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ADP Kicks off Human Resources Director General's Shield Championship
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, May 12th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
The Abu Dhabi Police Human Resources Director General's Shield Championship, supervised by the Sports Activity Section of the National Teams and Competitions Branch, at the General Directorate for Strategy and Performance Development, kicked off at the Police Staff Stadium. The event includes nine sports championships, and will see the participation of female staff of the Abu Dhabi Police.
The competitions of the Human Resources Director General's Shield Championship are divided into two categories: the female staff category that includes the road race tournament, bowling and walking; and the male staff category that includes the road race tournament, walking, beach volleyball, bowling, seven-a-side football tournament and the cultural competition.
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MoI lecture to raise awareness on the importance of preserving official documents
As a part of the initiative "My Documents, My Responsibility"
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, May 11th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
The Ministry of Interior, represented by the General Directorate of Naturalization, recently launched a new initiative under the theme "My Documents, My Responsibility" at its Abu Dhabi headquarters. Launching the initiative aims to promote communication and sustainable relations with the community to achieve the MoI's goals and values, notably boosting the public's trust in the efficiency of services provided to them.
To achieve this goal, the MoI organized a host of outreach lectures about the importance of preserving official documents, at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture. This aims to spread awareness among staff members and promote the culture of preserving the national identity, by emphasizing the importance of official do ... Read more »
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Rimini Street Launches Support for SAP HANA Database
Company expands support offering for SAP product lines, continues strong momentum in its SAP support business with 30% year over year global revenue growth
LAS VEGAS - Monday, May 16th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading independent provider of enterprise software support services for SAP SE's (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation's (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion, Oracle Retail and Oracle Agile PLM software, today announced the launch and immediate global availability of maintenance and support services for SAP HANA Database, including related HANA platform components. Rimini Street also announced continued strong momentum in its SAP support business with 30% year over year global revenue growth for the 12 month period ending March 31, 2016 compared to the prior 12 month period. With the expansion of its por ... Read more »
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ADP Educates Society about the Dangers of Narcotics
The Anti-Drug Section at the Abu Dhabi Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) organized an open exhibition at the Deerfields Town Square Mall, in Al Bahya, Abu Dhabi.
Educational brochures and posters were distributed to the audience during the exhibition. These publications tackled the reasons for the spread of narcotics; the psychological, social, health and economic impacts and advice for families and children about how to avoid bad company. Educational videos were also screened at the exhibition.
Colonel Sultan Suwayeh Al Darmaki, Head of the Anti-Drug Section at the CID, explained that the objective of this humanitarian initiative is to highlight the social aspects of the dangers of narcotics and the consequent problems. "This goal is achieved through direct meetings with the attending young people and their guardians, because family is the first line of defense against ... Read more »
Ministry of Education Delegation Reviews Best Practices at MoI Strategy
A delegation from the Ministry of Education reviewed best practices in policies and strategies adopted by the Ministry of Interior. The delegation was headed by Dr. Fawzia Badri, Educational Consultant at the Minister of Education's office, and Iman Al Hosani, Head of the Excellence Section
Colonel Faisal Sultan Al Shuaibi, Deputy Director General of Strategy and Performance Development at the Ministry of Interior, said that the visit falls in line with the strategic cooperation and partnership between the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Education. The work team briefed the visiting delegation about the strategic planning, and institutional performance management processes of, as well as the policy adoption mechanism, which are the main pillars of the Ministry of Interior's strategic plan.
For their part, members of the visiting delegati ... Read more »
Al Ain Social Support Celebrate World Health Day
The Social Support Centers Department at Abu Dhabi Police, represented by its center in Al Ain, celebrated the World Health Day, in cooperation with Al-Madar Medical Center.
Colonel Ali Al Badi, Director of the Social Support Center in Al Ain, said that the event aims to raise health awareness and the importance of undergoing regular medical check-ups among employees. It also aims to promote the medical culture and introduce the preventive measures to protect community members from diseases.
The ceremony included a variety of events; including workshops and medical examinations for the center's employees, such as blood and blood pressure tests; as well as clinical examinations for bone diseases and neurological disorders. A number of dermatologic consultations were also carried out at the event.
The Ministry of Interior, please click HERE ... Read more »


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This week, it's especially difficult to make the pick for my Music Monday post because there are so many great choices. You can check out all of them on my Music Pinterest board.
Scottish electro band Chvrches covering my (probably) favorite song from last year "Do I Wanna Know?" by the English guitar band Arctic Monkeys.
While I love the original version more, I personally find this song especially well suited to exist with a female voice and a slightly different mood. It fits the idea of a conversation between two people, who may be thinking, feeling and expressing the same thing without knowing yet that the other person does feel the same.
This cover version was recorded as part of a series of live recordings (and cover version, specifically) called "Like A Version" at the Australian triple j radio station. Check out more of their videos on their YouTube channel (including a great Arctic Monkeys session).


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Q: Laying out UITableView contents The title itself might a bit misleading and I believe the problem is best explained with an example.
Take Facebook's feed, for instance. Every item consists of the following:

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*Header (user's name, etc), static height

*Main content (text, attachment), dynamic height

*Footer (number of likes and a couple of buttons), static height

At a minimum, the main content has one of the following:

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*Title, optional

*Textual preview, optional

*Attachment (of variable height), usually an image, optional

So, a few possible combinations of parts:

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*Title

*Title, text

*Title, text, attachment

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*Text, attachment

*etc

I've come up with two approaches:
1. Sections for each post, cells for parts
Note: the UIKit-provided header and footer wouldn't do, as I need specific spacing between each item. Therefore, I'd use these to get the spacing needed.
Also, I'm using RxSwift. This approach breaks the simplicity of data binding to the table view, although there's always a more complex alternative.
2. Multiple cell types
Not sure. Separate cell type for each possible combination of the above? Seems like an overkill.
3. Single cell type
The easiest approach. But, considering all the optional parts, there's quite a few constraints to switch and tweak (depending on the attachment height). UIStackView is not an option evidently, since the attachment must take the whole screen width, whilst the other parts use custom padding on each axis.
I'm looking for an outside perspective here, mainly from those who happen to have solved a similar problem in the past. An example of code would also be lovely (especially if it's scalable).
Target: iOS 13+.
Will AutoLayout perform alright in each of these?
What approach would you use?

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