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(Gençler bölümünün) model ve düşüncesi "birlikte takılmak" üzerine kurulu

Böylece 11-19 yaş arası gençler geldiğinde

bizler sürekli masamızda oturmayıp

buradaki koltukta onlarla birlikte takılıyoruz

Kütüphanenin diğer kısımlarından oldukça farklı.

Yetişkin ve çocuk kısmında

sadece aradıklarını bulmalarına yardım edip geri çekilirken

burada gençlerle birlikte olup

beraberce neler yapabileceğimizi öğreniyoruz:

Sanat projeleri, video oyunları, yapbozlar, yazma gibi

Ayrıca buradaki mekanları olabildiğince interaktif yaptık.

Örneğin bu tahtaya gençler

diledikleri şekilde yazıp çizebiliyor.

Haftada bir bu tahtayı temizliyoruz.

Gönüllü çalışmalarımız var

buraya sürekli gelen çocuklara mesajlar bırakıyoruz

Örneğin şurada Jeep isminde bir gence

pazar günü yapılacak Sanal Gerçeklik programında

yönetici olacağı hatırlatılıyor.

Mobilyaların sabit bir yeri yok

gençler yerlerini değiştiriyor, biz de olduğu yerde bırakıyoruz.

Dolayısıyla burası onların tasarrufunda.

Playstation 4 and VEU

Bunlar açık olduğumuzda bir hayli yoğun oluyor.

Kütüphaneciler "Sataşma Yasak" kampanyası başlattılar.

Onlara birbirlerine saygı göstermelerini

öğretme çabamızın bir parçası.

Bu bizim için önemli bir husus.

Tabii kitaplarımız da mevcut.

Kütüphanecilerimizin farklı uzmanlıkları var,

bazısı en okunası kitapları bulup tavsiye ederken,

kimisi müzikal ses kaydı ve enstruman çalmada diğerlerinden daha iyi,

bir başkası ise fotoşop ve dijital video gelitirmede daha becerikli.

Şurada tasarım atölyemiz var.

Buradaki malzemeleri kullanarak

bize sormadan dilediklerini yapabiliyorlar.

Sadece kalem, boya, ya da örgü ve dikişte

gerekli malzemeleri bittiğinde gelip bize soruyorlar.

Dolayısı ile burası kendi kendini idare eden bir mekan.

Arka tarafta dört adet MAC bilgisayar var.

Çoğunlukla film izleme ve oyun oynamak için kullanılıyor.

Şu çalışma odasını bir buçuk saatliğine rezerve edip

isterlerse ders çalışıyorlar,

ya da sadece sesten uzak kalmak için kullanabiliyorlar

Elektronik aletlerini bağlayabilecekleri düz bir ekran

ve ayrı bir beyaz tahta mevcut.

Tabii ki daha fazla takılabilecekleri mekanlar...

Çoğu genç kendi özellerini korumak için görevlilerden uzak burada takılmayı tercih ediyor.

Burası altı yaşa kadar olan çocuklara ait.

Erken okur-yazarlık kabiliyetlerini geliştirmeye çalışıyoruz.

Bilfiil okumayı öğrenmeden önce

Anlatı Kabiliyetini anlamaya merak uyandırmak gerek.

Buradaki herşey interaktif ve ailelerin çocuklarıyla birlikte etkinlikler yapmasını sağlıyor.

Her üç ayda bir odadaki tema değitiriliyor.

Her bir alanda yapılabilecek etkinlikler hakkında tavsiyeler var.

Örneğin mutfak alanında gerçekleşen etkinleri yapmak ve konuşmak

şuradaki erken dönem okuma-yazma yeteneklerinin gelişmesine katkıda bulunuyor.

Hikaye okuma etkinliklerimizde bunun öneminden oldukça bahsediyoruz.

Burası yine aynı yaş grubu için.

Çocukların birbirleriyle etkileşim halinde ve beraber vakit geçirmeleri için tasarlanmış.

Bu kitapları çocukların erişebilecekleri şekilde ayarladık.

Onlar da karıştırdıkları için kitapların bir düzeni yok. Bir şey baktığınızda aramanız lazım.

Burada Ipad'lerimiz var. Her seferinde bir oyun oynuyorlar.

Diğer fonksiyonları aktif değil.

Bu bilgisayarar ise yaklaşık iki düzine eğitimsel oyunlar içeriyor.

Aslında burayı yapabilmek için gerekli fonu oluşturmak yıllar sürdü.

Diğer oda da bebekler için küçük bir bölüm var

ama yeterince iyi olmadığı için kullanışlı değildi.

Sadece bebeklerin ebeveynleri ve yaşıt arkadaşlarının girebildiği bir oda istiyorduk.

Abiler ya da ablalar bu odaya giremez,

çünkü daha büyük çocuklar koşuşturuyorlar ve çabuk sıkılıyorlar.

Dolayısı ile bu bölüm yürüyene kadar bebeklere ait.

Yürümeye başladıkları zaman buraya artık giremiyorlar.

Tüm etkinlikler bebeklerin erken okur-yazarlıklarını geliştirmeye yönelik.

Okumaya hazır olduklarında ihtiyaç duyacakları vasıtaları kazanmalarını sağlamak hedefleniyor.

Okumaya başladıklarında gerekli gereçlere sahip oluyorlar.

Burayı tasarlamadan önce bebek odası olan diğer kütüphaneleri de dolaştık.

Örneğin şu tırmanma gereci, motor becerileri geliştirmek için iyi.

Burada ise emzirme köşemiz var.

[Burada emzirmek memnuniyetle karşılanır]

Hemen bitişikte ileride özel bir emzirme alanına çevirmek istediğimiz

içinde lavabosu da olabilecek bir odamız var.

Indiana'da ziyaret ettiğimiz diğer bir kütüphanede böyle bir emzirme odası mevcuttu.

Burası program odamız.

Her yaş için değişik türlerde programlar var.

Çoğunlukla hikaye okuma etkinliklerini yapıyoruz.

Kültürel programlardan bahsetmiştiniz.

Indiana Üniversitesi'ne yakın olmamız büyük şans.

Değişik öğrenci gruplarıyla ya da diğer gruplarla kültürel programlar yapıyoruz.

Örneğin güz ve bahar döneminde Bloomington Yerli (Kızılderili) Topluluğu geliyor

ve kültürel programlar yapacaklar.

Açık Kalplilik Seferberliği olarak (OpenHearted Campaign)

-bildiğiniz üzere- çocuklar için bir etkinlik yapılmıştı.

Bahar döneminde Mekke'ye yolculuk ve Hac hakkında başka bir kültürel etkinlik olacak.

Ayrıca Ortaçağ döneminden bir gezgin, İbn Battuta hakkında bir programları da olacak.

Akşamları Özbek dil programımız var.

Bunların hepsi gönüllülerin yürüttüğü programlar.

Biz sadece ihtiyaç duyulan gereçleri temin ediyoruz.

Ama asıl programları yapan bu toplulukta yaşayan insanlar.

Genellikle 12 yaşa kadar olan çocuklar için programlar yapılıyor.

Bebeklere yönelik olan etkinliklerde halı üzerinde otuyorlar

Sunumlar için kullanılabilecek projektörümüz var.

Bilgisayarlarını buradan bağlayabiliyorlar.

Yine duvardaki posterler ve dekorasyonu sürekli değiştiriyoruz.

Buraya canlı hayvanları ile gelen aileler bile olmuştu, buna da açığız.

Teşekkürler.

For more infomation >> MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY - Duration: 10:16.

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Bob Hope, a model for public service in Hollywood - Duration: 2:51.

Probably the most important legacy of Bob Hope was his public service work. He

was really the model for public service in Hollywood. What he said to his fellow

Hollywood stars was, "You're famous. You have an obligation to use your fame to

do good to work for causes." I've been associated with Community Chest drives

for the past 10 or 12 years, and I know the importance of this particular

project. I know it embodies many many charities and I know you can't do a

nicer thing in your life ladies and gentlemen. Just contribute to this

community chest and also enrich your own community; there's nothing better. Thank

you very much. That work he did, that obligation he felt was an excellent

example for people in our business. Where he stood, he made it very easy to

understand that, and he made us all very conscious that that was there as part of

this gift you've been given of success. Many years he did from 100 to 150

benefits a year, and they were benefits for all kinds of things.

He used to always say to us, "You don't have to be a comedian, you don't

have to be anybody special you can always give back." The United States

government gave the USO that duty of serving the boys in our armed forces.

Your share, though contributed impersonally in dollars and checks, is

transformed by the USO into an unforgettable service. I don't say you

must give until it hurts. I say give until it wouldn't hurt you to look a

bedridden veteran in the eye. Synonymous with Bob Hope when I was growing up was

USO and entertaining the troops.

What the hell do you mean get out of the way?

I'm the star. Everybody in my generation knew that he entertained the troops and

he invented entertaining the troops. What I didn't know was how much of his career

he devoted to it after WWII. Bob thought his mission to bring laughter to

the Armed Forces was over but in December 1948 President Truman asked him

to return to Germany to entertain Airmen taking part in the Berlin Airlift. Two

years later he visited troops during the Korean War, and by the mid-1950s he had

started an annual tradition of traveling somewhere in the world to entertain U.S.

forces every Christmas. This is very nice of him to give me this. Would you like to

play the back nine in Beirut? From Vietnam to his last Christmas show in

1991 during Operation Desert Storm, wherever our fighting men and women were

in the world, Bob Hope and his troupe were there.

For more infomation >> Bob Hope, a model for public service in Hollywood - Duration: 2:51.

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Day in the life of a Certified Public Accountant CPA Strength Vloggy Vlog / Elevation Powering UP - Duration: 16:04.

yo yo yo CPA strength here back my best vlog for sure that's right

how bosses do this shit yeah let's go see what time is it 6:30 in the morning

got your office like 20 minutes ago I can't seem to do much not only want to

turn off that little so that gutter slim

oh one of the things I had a freaking vacuum man got vacuum look at this

we got freaking but it's for my clients I haven't drink in like five years I

don't know that double double black Johnnie Walker if you go if you're going

down over here at the office yeah that's enough for now

this is crazy so yeah I can't get going today

you got the busiest day dude well I just gonna try to take you

through like some different points of the day hope you and hope you hope you

guys like this hey what's up I'm back baby

it's 816 in the morning so I've been up for three hours so far today this pretty

typical day I'm trying to get my schedule for next tax season together

like wake up time eating scheduled lifting schedule working schedule

YouTube schedule all the schedules

so I think let's see when I've put my ears today is some tiro and gutter slim

music for like 10 minutes or 15 minutes and now and then so for the past like

two hours I've been listening to motivational motivational videos and

that's what I've been putting in my ears today I also typing up for three hours

so far today and I've probably only got about a half an hour or an hour of work

done which is like gosh I feel like I'm not going hard enough and it's annoying

me because I know like I keep on thinking of you know changes seasons and

like you know way it waves or whatever it's like nothing's gonna be the same

forever so it's 8 o'clock 8:15 I'm gonna I just took some caffeine

another dosage of caffeine I'm trying to get my caffeine made up with sleep and

so probably the next thing I'm going to do is what am I going to do

oh I'm gonna work for like three hours and then I'm going to I don't have a

protein shake it like ten then I'm gonna go then I'm going to go to the gym at

eleven leave it office at ten forty five

seconds me about two and a half hours to just grind out I got to do some door and

CPA LLC stuff there I'm just going to do some quick book so I just feel like

getting caught up on QuickBooks with my companies and for some reason said I

don't know why so yeah so I'm gonna work on so I'm just

gonna try to bust but and listen to motivational speaking tripe listen to

some gutter slim I've been on him lately and the outs not make this too long so I

make this nigga bloggy blogg so we have two clips in my office so the next clip

after the gym it'll be about noon after the gym all

right tell them tell later let's get some work done trailer park all right

I'm about to go to the gym now it's almost 11:00 of the morning of course

did not go as thought the last three hours for two and a half hours but it's

cool talk to on my besties in the phone he's moving down here at a Laura Nell

for a year like a mile away from my office so it's gonna get cray-cray that

180 life Sun also helped a client get a getting a house or getting a house when

I got two clients currently looking for houses and I just love helping the

clients out and it's even better because the two people in question I answer back

very quickly and I know they appreciate it so it's awesome off to the gym I will

see you after the gym dang don't you see right

quarter it's a to a whole thing they go beat the

case yo please back baby I use this vlogging every time I like

turn on the camera I usually do yo yo yo but I'm doing or because I'm vlogging

already dead this morning so yes it's about 1 p.m. this is after

after the lifting I finished lifting about 12:20 then for the past 50 minutes

I've been running around I had to go I had to go meet somebody and yeah

by adding with my office first bla bla bla bla bla

you know how it goes grinding grinding so oh what am i I got my lunch back at

the office I will show you guys that I found 25 cents I found wait 23 cents I

think or saw two dimes a Nick freak oh man hey I'm driving with my need in

traffic be

then I already lose oh I already lost the money I found but I found money and

and just this morning I'm a motivational talking I I heard like every time this

this motivational for every time we found money he would he would save it so

that's what I'm doing but I already didn't save this money but I do save

some of the money I find I am rambling I had a good workout today I've been

squatting 20 20 rep squats so yeah 20 20 reps squat 20 rep sets and I started

with 225 and I just been going every day and today was 250 I did for 20 reps so

I'm just gonna see how it's starting to get like little hurt I think I can

definitely get up to 275 for 20 reps but we'll see cuz maybe I can get stronger

we'll just see so I'll keep you updated on that

anyways I'll show you I'll show you my lunch when I get back to the office

juices okay cool

vlogging causes lighting problems man oh dude a girl in lighting but yeah we're

eating some lunch now I do a little bit I'm getting a whole

bunch of subscribers today it's crazy a whole bunch of views and comments and

all this stuff with like it's crazy okay I put out in the universe to myself

and you in the video and universe yesterday it's like well I don't care if

I you know how much money I make on the youtubes it's not my main money thing

and now it seems like I'm gonna be blessed with a lot of you know who knows

so here's my here's my lunch mmm it's just a ground turkey and corn

so we guys don't I'm gonna eat want it want to watch me eat that we do mukbangs

right yeah say I'm just mixing it up this is probably I don't know I gotta do

calories on this I would say like 600 I've had about 500 calories already

today for 400 calorie protein shake and a 100 calorie burn a no I know it's not

a full day eating it's like my full day though so trying to get you know it's

December 5th I'm trying to get dialed in

for taxis and for January February March April trying to be robot so I'm trying

to figure out how I can get the most out of my day work

workwise hit the gym really work and hitting the gym on my - gonna be Mike oh

well and of course YouTube so three things like how I can get those done

enjoy those things a big part isn't a trip my nutrition in timing of things so

I'm really trying to dial in this third year trying to be better than last year

and I think if I try to get more mental clarity I will make more money

so let's gonna be like it's gonna be my best tax season by far you know they'd

be watching son y'all I'm outside right there and I went

to Georgia coast park you guys know it's just well you might know very special

place to me and it's just a couple minutes from my office

I've walked here before but uh look how piece I don't want to drop what if I

drop my camera right now I'd be messed I'd be messed up y'all who goes over the

hoods over the yeah be a mess if I drop my camera I was about maybe not to come

out here to come outside and vlog a little bit outside because I'm tired

it's like 4:30 now so I started the video at 6:30 but I like you 10 minute

walks it just gets my blood pumping and I get to listen to some music and yeah

so what else is further day I got to edit and process this video so that's

gonna be a few hours I got to eat dinner and they're gonna shower and shave and

get ready for tomorrow get a good night's sleep for him I'll crush

tomorrow I did do a couple hours of click books this afternoon a little

power afternoon kind of saw where I was where I need to be for the end of the

year a good thing I look cuz you know I got to make some end-of-the-year

adjustments be a good at CPA

yeah so let's walk let's walk over back here oh my God look because a fishy

right there can you guys see that it's dead fishy

Duncan see that where is nothing good where is that thing oh it is there it

was covered up jeezum crow bars so yeah man we go yeah we're gonna go right

there's a scene the background my audience it's a little time you know I'm

doing good or not but I guess right right here where I'm at right now that's

where my friend got shot like 20 years ago right in the neck died and once we

get to a hundred thousand 100k subscribers I want to do that's gonna be

my 100k like celebration as I went to a name reveal because there's I've done

the Google search on them and there's nothing on this guy's name except like

the Orlando paper and foil or no paper like when it happened in 1994 and I feel

like with a hundred thousand people I'll be

like I just feel like I'll be worthy of telling everybody what he meant to me

and and everything and I don't know why I just feel like for you now it's not

the same like like I didn't do anything to deserve to mmm say who it was and and

you know I'm gonna give some good stories and stuff so as you can see

right here right there's like where their fishing hat and stuff is where I

did my video yesterday and yeah so I'm gonna listen to some more gutter slim

and

go back yeah we're gonna go here yeah thought about doing yeah it's like it's

like ooh it was yeah even though I hold my phone I was scared you know ver the

water I didn't know if I dropped it here I'll be fucked

very liberating just just vlogging just talking the camera outside regardless of

who is watching me so anyways I'll see you later deuces

For more infomation >> Day in the life of a Certified Public Accountant CPA Strength Vloggy Vlog / Elevation Powering UP - Duration: 16:04.

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Selena Gomez Is Public On Instagram Once Again After Making Profile Private for 24 Hours - Duration: 2:18.

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Selena Gomez is public on Instagram once again after making profile private for 24 hours the most followed person on

Instagram has made her account public once again Selena Gomez 25 who has over?

130 million followers on Instagram suddenly changed her account from private to public

fans pointed out the new change in the late hours of December 5

Selena's fans were freaking out when a starlet made her Instagram private out of nowhere if

You didn't follow the wolf singer before she made her account private

Then you had to request to see her account why did Selena make her Instagram private well

No one knows for sure but on December 5th

Selena

Allegedly posted a screenshot of her billboard feature on her

Instagram story and wrote never will I let another human guess my words ever again or invite them into my home

That is so hurtful the most ridiculous part of that is no one knowing my heart when I say things

She made a profile private soon after posting that message. She was recently named billboards Woman of the Year

She hasn't posted since making her Instagram public again

But you can rest assured that she will share something soon

There's a reason why she's the most followed person on Instagram she gained a whopping 24 million followers in

2017 alone the year 2017 has been a big one for Selena not only did she release new music

Debut 13 reasons why break up with the weekly?

27 and reunite with Justin Bieber

23 she also underwent a life-saving kidney transplant in June

2017

Selena has shown she's the epitome of strength and poise no wonder. She's such an inspiration to her 130 million

For more infomation >> Selena Gomez Is Public On Instagram Once Again After Making Profile Private for 24 Hours - Duration: 2:18.

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KDP - Illustrating, Annotating, Translating a Public Domain Book - Duration: 16:01.

Hello viewers, in this video we will see how to edit a public domain work.

Let's go

Welcome to Tech Library TV and

in case, if this is the first time you are visiting the channel

my name is Arun and I am so happy that you are here

You can follow me on Twitter using the handle given on the screen now and

you can also find the facebook page for Tech Library TV, which is given in

the show notes below.

Let's start by seeing some ground rules while publishing a public domain book:

To publish a public domain book, we have to "differentiate" a book.

If illustrating, we must have 10 or more unique illustrations that are relevant to the book.

we will see what these terms mean in a few minutes.

Titles must be changed to show (Translated), (Annotated), or (Illustrated).

you have to declare that you are using a 'public domain' book in the ebook details/content page.

There are some actions which are NOT considered as "differentiations":

It could be "A linked table of contents", "Formatting improvements",

or any article that are

freely available on the Internet. Perhaps, we cannot just pick up content from say, Wikipedia or any other blog

and then copy and paste and show that as if it's our book

so, that's not allowed

And also just remember, to keep the original author name and put your name as the translator option (field)

as in here, the original author name should be under the author name here

and then you can add your name

under the 'contributors' section

as you can see here while adding your eBook details.

Let's now get into the details:

There are three options that KDP provides us with, to differentiate a book: which are

illustrate, annotate, and translate when it comes to publishing books that are in the public

domain.

The most common ones among these three are illustrating and translating options while

annotation is quite ambiguous to explain, if you ask me.

Even Amazon doesn't have a distinguishing metric to show that a book is annotated as

you can see that in the drop-down we don't have a separate 'annotated' option to select.

We have 'translator' option and the 'illustrator' option and there are some other

options over here, that could 'possibly' mean annotation (like editing for example) but we don't

want to work on guesses here as that has the risk of disqualifying the book while publishing

it.

- keep watching the video till the end and we will see a suitable example to learn more about annotations,

so by the end of this video you might get a good idea about what annotation really means.

Ok, so before we get into the details on 'how' to do these, let's first see 'what' these

exactly mean.

Illustrate: here's the dictionary definition.

"Illustrate" means 'a picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc.'.

so, simply put, it means, 'to provide a book with pictures'.

or 'explain or make (something) clear by using examples, charts, pictures, etc.'.

So, this brings us to the next logical question of 'how to illustrate a book'.

we again have 3 options here:

create our own illustrations using a software

or hire a friend or a virtual assistant to create illustrations

or use cc0 (no copyright) public domain images. But just a warning here; this is a risky option)

Let's now see all these three in detail.

Number 1.

create our own illustrations using a software.

Inkscape is a free and open source software

that we can use to create our own illustrations to be added to the book.

there are plenty of video tutorials available over here:

That can help you learn how to create your own illustrations,

it might take a week or so to get used to

the software and become proficient in using

it but with practice you can start creating

your own original illustrations to add to any book.

This is the best way to illustrate a book.

Here's a pro tip

This option over here,

has community created Inkscape media that

are in public domain which can be downloaded.

You can go into community and then Gallery,

and then search media category by all, or choose whatever options you want

and choose 'Public Domain' over here.

Number 2

hire a friend or a virtual assistant to create illustrations

The second option is to hire a friend or remote assistant and pay 5$ to create illustrations

Sites like Fiverr.com can help you with that.

This ensures you can have original illustrations

for your book without any further worry.

you just have to explain them what you want; pay them their

fee and you get your High-Quality illustration done.

Here's an example from the Fiverr website

where, this person offers to create

Children book illustration as you can see here and for $5

you can get one-day delivery

with four revisions and a black and white sketch

and you also get the source file along with it.

There are plenty of options similar to this.

That you can find on Fiverr.com website.

The last option is using images from Pixabay.com or Unsplash.com,

for example, that offers copyright free public domain images where you can find suitable illustrations,

drawings to add to your book.

Here's an example from pixabay.com that I found, which has a CC0 Creative Commons license

which is free for commercial use.

And there is no attribution required. of course they will appreciate if you can provide a link back but then it is not required.

But there is a word of caution here

This might not always work as amazon says, as you can see here, 'freely available internet content' is also not allowed.

But yeah, you have this option with that risk though.

And a bonus tip here: learning to use at least one of these three software can help us in the long-run:

Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape - these are all graphics programs that can tremendously help

in creating our own drawings and artwork.

learning these might take time but it's worth the efforts.

If you cannot get Photoshop, GIMP is an alternative open source and free to download program;

similar to Inkscape.

Learning, even just one of these programs, is enough and others are quite similar.

In fact, just learn to use brushes, layers, and color picking tools and basically you can ignore all the

other features, which might seem intimidating for a beginner.

That alone can make you cross 50% of the ocean.

If you are hungry for more: here is a list of 35 free graphics programs that are free

alternatives to other paid softwares.

Now let's see the other option: Translate.

This is a simple and straightforward option.

If you are well-versed in writing and speaking in English and any one other language, which

could be your native mother tongue, a foreign language or any other regional language, then

you can translate a public domain book into that other language

which you are confident in using.

Then publish it through KDP.

This is a time consuming task but it's simple and straightforward.

In this webpage from Amazon help topic page,

there are some translation resources, which are

primarily for people who are authors

who are looking for translators to help

them out. But then you can still use some of the resources mentioned

here, like, from some of their questions that you might

ask yourself before you get into translation work.

For example, how long will the translation take

how much the translation might cost

You could do some research and then find out on your own as to how much of efforts this

might take for you to pickup before you

get into the translation task.

The next option is about Annotation.

Annotate

KDP Help topic says annotations are like

additional content like study guides, literary critiques, detailed biographies, or historical context.

To better understand this, let's see a successful example from Amazon itself

as you can see they can have an example on the Amazon topic itself

Pride and Prejudice Annotated, which I am going to search

and I already have it open over here.

And let's go into this particular option

As you can see, they have

clearly given what 'extra' features they added to this book to differentiate it.

{{Reading text on-screen}}

They have given a tremendous value to this book.

Pride and Prejudice, which is quite a famous book.

And this person has picked up this book and then added

a lot of details that could add value to the readers.

This can show us how annotations can be successfully

implemented.

So, this can be a classic example.

This author, this person, David Shapard has also given another

similar book from the same author, Jane Austen here,

"Sense and Sensibility"; let's see how the customer reviews have turned up.

This book also has 2000 annotations on facing pages including explanations of historical contexts.

citations, definitions, clarifications

literary comments, analysis, introduction, everything

more than 100 informative illustrations.

Although you may not give so much,

you could at least at a minimum should give

10 or more unique illustrations, that are relevant to the book.

Let's see the comments for this particular book, as to how it has been given. As you can see, there are so many good comments.

{{ reading on screen comments }}

So, these are some of the helpful comments because this author has really added

value to this book by providing his own additions on top of the original public domain book.

now let us get inside the book and see some examples.

So, here is the copyright page

and these are the Table of Contents.

See, these are the illustrations that got added to this book; let's see what they are.

There are so many illustrations that the person has added.

to the original book; these are all illustrations

like a drawing or writing table.

let's see the first pages.

this is a first page; let us try and find out if there is any image added; will come from the front cover

there you go, here's an image - did we find that on the illustrations, Table of contents

"A Woman with a book outdoors" - Front page; Yup, that's there.

Here it is.

"A Woman reading a book outdoors"

So this is an illustration added by our author

I think so because we can see there is a reference to this original source of this image

perhaps, this is a public domain image which this author has added as part of the illustration

as you can see, it's written as from the repository of arts, literature, fashions, manufacturers, whatever, and then there

is an year which gives as eighteen fifteen or thirteen; which means it's clearly in the public domain

So this young woman reading book, this illustration is added to this book; similarly there

are so many illustrations as you can see that got added to the book.

Apart from that, let's also check the 'surprise me' section, which may or may not give us more images, as an example.

OK, I am not going to waste any more time on this. You can check it for yourself

if you get an option to do so.

by verifying, see there are some more books over here,

"The Annotated Persuasion", "The Annotated Emma"

These are all quite famous books that got annotated

What's good is that, the comments section, as you can see,

this is the kind of experience

that we want our readers to get

when they see a public domain work that

you have added value using illustrations, or translations

with so much value-added

that can benefit your readers than just simply throwing in few random images and publishing it for money.

I hope this video helped in understanding better about editing public domain books

Please hit on the like button if it did. And subscribe if you haven't already done so.

Because I will soon be doing another detailed video on

how to find public domain books

how to validate and confirm the book is in public domain and

how to insert your annotations, illustrations into the public domain books

and much more

Thanks for watching

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MICHELLE FURIOUS AFTER TRUMP RETURNS A POPULAR ITEM TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LUNCH ROOMS - Duration: 2:24.

MICHELLE FURIOUS AFTER TRUMP RETURNS A POPULAR ITEM TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LUNCH ROOMS

Under Michelle Obama, we saw some of the most extreme government meddling in our food systems.

While many liberals and moderates claimed that this was good for the children, conservatives

responded with anger, claiming that they were taking away our children's freedom of choice.

President Trump apparently agrees, however, because he's just brought back one of every

kid's favorite food choices and put it on the menu.

We're sorry to say it, Former First Lady Michelle Obama, but that chocolate milk you

didn't want kids having has now been given back to the people.

According to the Daily Wire:

Sorry, Former First Lady Michelle Obama, but that chocolate milk you banned from the National

School Lunch Program has been reinstated by the Trump administration.

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday published a new interim rule, due to take

effect on July 1 after a period of public comment, which relaxes sodium limits and whole-grain

requirements on school lunches and also allows flavored milk with 1 percent back into school

cafeterias nationwide," reports ABC.

This means 1% chocolate milk can make it's way back to schoolchildren's lunch trays

by July.

"This is not reducing the nutritional standards whatsoever," said Agriculture Secretary

Sonny Perdue back in May, when the changes were introduced.

"I wouldn't be as big as I am today without flavored milk."

In a statement released on Thursday, Perdue said, "Schools need flexibility in menu

planning so they can serve nutritious and appealing meals.

Schools want to offer food that students actually want to eat.

It doesn't do any good to serve nutritious meals if they wind up in the trash can."

Mrs. Obama championed the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act which passed in 2010 during her tenure

in the White House.

The flawed initiative intended to reduce obesity rates in children, ran into numerous problems

when implemented, namely wasted food (students were mandated to take one fruit or vegetable,

whether or not they actually planned to eat it) and pricey budgets.

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The Making of a Con(Temporary) Black Public - Duration: 42:27.

THEASTER GATES: I found these wooden boards.

There were 5,000 of them.

And in a way I treated the wooden boards the way

I did ceramics, that I would just kind of iterate over

and over their use, stacking them as architectural forms,

thinking about them as conceptual forms.

This became a performance space where

I invited other amazing artists, including this young man named

Dawoud Bey, a photographer mainly but also

a percussionist.

And I basically temporarily rented

a space in the middle of the fashionable area

for grunge artists.

Can you guys hear me?

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

THEASTER GATES: Oh, you want some lights down.

All right, turn the lights down.

So I created this space because, at the time,

there were no museums interested in what I was doing.

But I really wanted to share this work.

So I saved up some money, rented a space temporarily,

and made my own exhibition--

seemed reasonable.

But the exhibition was part my work, and then part a platform

whereby other people's works might be shown.

Performance might happen.

Dinners might happen.

And it was like the beginning of a first pivot in the way

that I imagined my ability to create my own space,

convene a group of people who were

interested in similar things or maybe even dissimilar things,

and then maybe upend the art world so that I didn't imagine

that the only experiences that I could have

were museum experiences, but they could

be my own autonomous creation.

It is reasonable to say that the context of my making

also included the fact that the world around me

was in considerable disrepair, that there

were beautiful buildings unkept, unoccupied, not fully

owned by anyone.

And my studio was becoming a kind

of pristine place for beauty.

And I was already asking that question of,

how can the things that I do inside spill outside and maybe

have impact somewhere else?

And so for the price of something

cheaper than an exhibition at a museum,

I was able to acquire a building,

redecorate that building, gut the building.

And it was this building that, in some ways,

started to make space for me in the contemporary art world.

There's a gentleman by the name of Francesco Bonami,

an Italian curator-at-large who was doing projects

at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

He came over and I showed him this building.

[PHONE RINGING]

There's so much going on.

I showed him this building and there was nothing in it.

It was just gutted.

And he liked the building.

And he said, "Well, what are you doing?"

And I had one image of a Song dynasty

vase projected on a glass lantern slide projector.

And I said, "I can't afford to do anymore

so I've just been sweeping the building

and projecting these images."

And he invited me to be in the Whitney Biennial.

One building became three or four.

And some of these things I've talked about before.

We started to use the buildings as the only real amenity

in this neighborhood.

I was really just trying to say, OK,

I don't want to have to go to another neighborhood

in order to see a good film.

Maybe I could get a film projector,

rent a 16 millimeter film, and screen the film for myself

first.

And if I screen it for myself, I could invite some people, maybe

even my neighbors, maybe even my neighbors who

are not necessarily interested in art

but might like a good film, or might

like a diversion from their day on a Friday night.

These are my neighbors.

When I say my neighbors, these are not necessarily

my friends or my homies.

They are just people who live next to me

for whom my day-to-day reality needs them.

I need them to look out for when the parking inspector comes

and he's about to give me a ticket,

I want them to call me and say, "Hey Theaster,

the parking inspector's coming.

Please move your car."

When I didn't have an oven, I need an oven.

I want to use the oven.

And so we started hanging out, partying, barbecuing.

It was great.

We created this space called Black Cinema House where

we converted the first floor of my house into a cinema space.

We tried to do it really nicely.

But nonetheless, it couldn't fit more than 40 people.

It was just the first floor of an apartment.

I lived upstairs.

This became really tenuous, because Black Cinema House

started to take on a life of its own.

So people had access to my house.

They would come over early in the morning.

"Mr. Gates, we want to prescreen the film

that we're showing tonight."

So I moved Black Cinema House.

As this work started to grow-- let's say we're at like 2011,

2012--

the University of Chicago finds out

that I'm doing this work on Dorchester.

And then the university asks, hey,

can you do the work that you're doing in the hood over here

for us?

This building-- that's so cool.

This building here, the university owned it.

And they owned it for maybe seven or eight years.

It's in the middle of an all-black neighborhood.

If you go east across Washington Park,

this is where the University of Chicago is.

And on the west side of the park is a largely black

neighborhood.

The university thought that in the future

it might grow and expand and it would need these buildings

eventually, but they wouldn't need them for about 50 years,

they imagined.

Well, what do you do with these buildings in the 50 years

before the university needs them?

And so the local politicians really

wanted something that would benefit the community.

The university, of course, would want something

that benefits the university.

What's the compromise-- the arts--

the arts-- the arts--

culture-- the arts--

the arts.

You know, it's nonjudgmental.

It's nonpolitical.

If there's a problem, you can blame the artist

and not have to blame the institution.

Even when you lose or you fail, you win.

This is great.

And so I said to the university, why not the arts?

And they said, OK.

Now maybe a first or second kind of theoretical proposition,

we know sometimes that governments value the arts even

when they don't value art or artists, that developers

and construction moguls and money

people, corporate headquarters, value the arts,

even when there is no place for an artist to live

or for an arts organization to have

affordable space for their small entity,

but they want the activity, they don't want necessarily

the people.

In a way, artists are like unwanted people,

useful until they want to be at the party on the same terms

as everyone else.

I've experienced this.

Anyway, we built this space for the arts.

And we were able to say to people

who live in Washington Park that the residencies

and the exhibitions that happen here, the food that will

be served, it's all for you.

And this was a real breakthrough for the university

that a thing could be for a community that is not

the university community first, and that as a byproduct

of building it, the university will also benefit,

but that there could be a consideration of others

in advance of the university, and that that

might be something that actually works well

within the rubric of education.

But always with these--

the crime lab, the social lab, the urban lab--

all of these things are imagining our communities first

as places for testing, for occupation and research,

but never for friendship or for love or for partnership

or co-advancement.

It's always like you become a number in a survey.

And I think that Washington Park and black people who

live around the university feel this all the time,

whether it's talked about or not,

and that maybe we find really romantic words

to hide this fact.

Anyway, I found myself deeply now advancing in my art career,

and then advancing as this kind of trickster,

moving between arts administration

and the creation of the arts--

political-- and then being an artist,

maybe even attempting to be subversive,

so much so I don't know when I'm being one or the other--

that I was fully an administrator.

I was fully a politician and fully an artist,

and I was not always sure of myself.

The development bug hit me, and I

started thinking that maybe there

was a way that this brain--

it's a fairly small brain--

that the brain that I had for space

could be useful not only for my own personal pleasure.

I was making mini [TURKISH] and bath houses, film screening

spaces.

But maybe there was something that I

could do that was a little bit more ambitious.

And this was a 36 unit low-income housing project

that had been abandoned because lots of violence

happened there, because people from varying

different locations were brought to this place.

They didn't like each other.

They were from different territories.

And they would shoot each other, kill each other,

sometimes killing others in the crossfire.

It was shut down.

And then I asked the Chicago Housing Authority

if we might turn this into a kind of mixed-income artist

community.

So we did that.

I did it with the help of a local developer.

And the space that we carved out, this art space,

I decided that I would, pardon the word, curate--

please, I'm not a curator--

but that I would be really intentional

about the programmers and the programs that happen.

So that developers all the time in these low-income projects

have a community space, but there's usually

no one to really sophisticatedly run it.

So then it has some cupboards, maybe a stove, a refrigerator,

and a mop, and some folding chairs.

And that's the community space.

But what happens if you get the baddest black yogi in Chicago,

right, and say look, we will pay you and subsidize your fee,

but you bring the people and you teach them

how to be in their bodies.

And so very quickly we had this 75 person loving, you know,

black in their bodies.

These sisters were in here, and everyone's doing Downward Dog

and they're doing their Standing Trees

and their Crouching Tigers.

And then we started getting brothers

to come because they were interested in the activity

happening there.

I know that this is not art, what I'm talking

about right now, perhaps.

I keep wanting to point instead of scroll.

But there are other buildings that I

couldn't salvage, that even in my god complex,

I couldn't save them all.

And so as St. Lawrence was being torn down,

I was trying to figure out, what else could be done?

We started talking to the demolition company

and asked if we would be able to, as they were demolishing

the building, could we create a work program

on top of that where we would clean up the bricks,

palletize the bricks, and then make them

available to do other things, like maybe

new sacred spaces around?

Or these men and women could resell the bricks

and make some cash.

We ended up getting the brick and the limestone, the marble,

the slate, the steel, the wood.

That inspired me to then start making brick art.

I became really curious about, what could I do?

And I started making handmade bricks and kind

of having a conceptual response to this real thing that

was happening out in the world, that I needed to respond

to myself because there was no way that I could bring St.

Lawrence Church into the gallery,

but I wanted to talk about these things.

And there I was starting to make a kind of echo

between the things that were happening

outside the studio and things that I wanted people

to know in the art world--

in the world, , maybe in the world of art.

And so the more that I made these handmade bricks

under the auspices of a thing that I called

Soul Manufacturing Corporation, I

was prophesying the possibility of a company

on the South Side run and owned by black people

that would have the ability to manufacture

a thing from nothing to something,

and that the world would want this.

These bricks were heavy and imperfect, but cute,

conceptual, and that these palletized breaks would

help me pay for the kiln, which would allow me to make more

bricks, travel to real brick manufacturing companies,

get to know people that would then be invested

in the idea of potentially being a brick partner with me

and my crew.

Scroll.

We had a lot of wood.

There's a lot of teenagers.

And it just got to the point where

it was more fun to just look at a problem,

think about the problem in relationship

to the people who were adjacent, and then try to make something

maybe more poetic happen.

And so at this point it was like, it could be anything.

It could be anything.

It could be the creation of wood sculpture for other people

and we become fabricators.

It could be projects for me.

Or in some case we would go out and say,

of the storefronts that are on Garfield Boulevard that

don't have signage or maybe need menus in their restaurants,

could we just have some service projects

where we use the wood that we have to do this?

So we had our high schoolers would then

go fishing for new ideas, new problems to solve.

It was really cool.

I don't actually know what the next slide is,

so I'm just kind of having fun riffing this.

The city called me one day and said

that they had a problem of these 90,000 trees

that had to be torn down.

And I've been talking about this quite a bit.

But I think that this project is one

that I'm really proud of because the city wanted me only

to take two or three trees and make some art out of them.

But they still had 90,000 trees.

And so I told them what you need is you don't need an artwork.

You need a mill.

And so with these same brothers and sisters,

we decided to find some millers, introduce them

to these young people, bring the temporary mill outside.

The city dumped 3,000 trees and they

were like, all right, well if you think

you can do this, go for it.

And they dumped some trees.

And over the next year and a half,

we ended up creating a kind of milling situation

where now we can mill about a hundred trees a day.

We probably do 25 because, why hurt yourself?

We have some fun and take a long lunch.

But it is really exciting now to see some of these old--

I hate to racialize everything, but I'm sorry,

in my country things are racialized,

so please forgive me.

It's amazing to see these old, white, unioned carpenters who

are maybe retired working with these young, black students who

have maybe never thought about the idea of design

or urban planning or architecture or finish

carpentry as career paths or something like this,

and to have them in kind of deep dialogue.

And what we're finding is that you

can't be what you can't see.

You can't be what you can't see.

So it's like, a brother's out there milling

or a sister's out there milling and she's like,

"I really like this.

I never knew how a two by four became a two by four, how a 3

by 16--

I've never seen a piece of wood so wide."

Because some of the trees, you can see some of these trees.

Some of them are huge.

And so it's like you run it through this saw,

or you run the saw through the tree, it's like butter.

It's like bzzz.

And then you cut these slices and it's

like the board is this wide.

And so then we get to talk about raw materials and economy.

We talk about how the sawdust becomes a byproduct.

The bark becomes a byproduct.

All these things then we're making our own pallets

and our own A-frames, and we're making

a pellet that become fuel for our wood-fired kiln.

And all of a sudden I'm back at ceramics, which is great.

We're growing things.

And people eat it, along with Jays barbecue

chips and Powerade.

So I had a different PowerPoint, but Aditi

is very convincing in terms of the things

that I should talk about.

So I'm going to talk about what she wants me to talk about.

OK, I'm going to go forward.

This building I now call it the Stony Island Arts Bank.

It was called the Stony Island State Savings Bank, then

the Southmoore, than Guarantee Bank.

And in that bank, the partitions between bathroom stalls were

made of this kind of marble-like material--

almost marble.

And the city of Chicago was going

to get rid of-- they were going to tear the building down.

I asked if they would give me the building.

They said that they would give it to me on the condition

that I would do what became about $550,000 worth of repairs

before they would give me the deed.

It was said that the building was given to me for $1.00,

but nothing is ever given to a person for $1.00.

If anyone tries to sell you something that seems like it

has more value than $1.00 for $1.00, don't take it.

But I thought that this building was

the last of a particular kind of building in my neighborhood.

This is 68 and Stony Island, 12 blocks further south

of the University of Chicago.

It may as well be a plane ride away

or a universe away, that people are often

told when they join the faculty or staff or even

young students, don't go past 63rd Street.

And I am five blocks past 63rd, which

means I am in the lower levels of hell.

Nonetheless, the building was a beautiful one and kind

of worth saving, I thought.

It was not in such good shape, but it was at this point

when the windows were put back in the building

and they were no longer boarded up,

and we had done a first cleaning of the building,

people started to drive past and slow down.

They would drive past and slow down.

And then over time, people would slow down and if I was outside

they'd say, "Hey, my dad used to bank at that building."

These would be like old Jewish men and women.

"My dad used to bank."

And then I'd see a brother.

A black man would go by with a funny hat on.

He would say, "Hey, when I was young,

the honorable Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

used to own this bank, and they used to bank here."

And all of a sudden just from cleaning up the building,

there were all these stories waiting to happen.

Like in a way the preservation was

a trigger for this other spiritual activity,

and that if someone would just like,

[CLAP],, just make the first strike,

then all these other things might

happen, that it was a tiny demonstration of care.

It felt like the building was a painting.

Cars which slow down the way you'd

want to slow down at a painting, and just kind of observe,

just kind of be present with it, and maybe

be greater because you're standing

in front of the painting.

I like this.

But this is what the building looked like on the inside.

And so I would bring people in.

And I'd be like, "Oh my God, I'm so excited.

This is going to be the library.

And down here we're going to have our music thing.

And over here, the vault, we're going to like, I don't know,

have raves.

And it's going to be awesome."

And it was hard for people to see.

And I realized that maybe this is where maybe I

am really an artist or just really crazy,

where I had to both speak it into existence

and maybe see it.

But because it was difficult for other people to see,

it was hard for them to want to also offer their support.

It was just a difficult time trying to convince people

that the thing that I saw in my mind might be realized,

and that in a way this was not a blank canvas,

it was like negative blank.

It was blank negative.

That first to get it--

you all know what I'm saying.

But at the same time that I had acquired the building

for $1.00, I was starting to collect these other things.

Now I should say all these things were made possible

because I have an appetite for junk

and other people's problems.

I have an appetite for other people's problems.

I love material culture.

But I mean, I could find more tidy culture.

But I think today we went to--

how do you pronounce it, "Se-squee-ti"?

AUDIENCE: "San-skreet-ee".

THEASTER GATES: "Sans-skreet-ee", yeah?

I mean this is bad.

Like I have bad English already, so forgive me.

We went to Sanskriti, and there's

a space called the Museum for Everyday Things--

Objects.

AUDIENCE: Art.

THEASTER GATES: Museum of Everyday Art, nice.

And I think that I was maybe in dialogue with this,

but I didn't have a name for it, that I

wanted to convince other people that the everyday things

of their lives had value.

And the way that I was going to do this was I

was going to take those everyday things

and put them in such a nice case--

I would just clean them up and just

put them there and then change the light,

just shine the light.

And that thing that we didn't pay a whole lot of attention

to, like the shoes we used to wear

or the glasses our grandfathers and grandmothers

had or the skillets and the pots and pans

and the knives, or the little colonial

objects that we made to make fun of the white people

when they came, that all of those things would have value,

and that I would collect them wherever they were.

And then the bank would be the repository

where people might deposit their cultural goods, let's say.

While this was happening, things started to be donated to me.

So this beautiful woman, Linda Johnson Rice,

told me that she had some books.

She knew that I liked books and she had some books.

And she gave me a lot of books.

And we ended up creating this library, which

is essentially 26,000 books about the black experience,

1850 to 2000, thereabouts.

And it's become kind of the heart of the building.

In a way, nothing else needs to happen in the building

except this library exists.

And it becomes a kind of declaration.

It's its own manifesto that black things matter.

And these are books.

They're just everyday books, some Zora Neale Hurston,

some Toni Morrison, some James Baldwin,

I mean, just everyday things, things

that other people have in their library,

even if they don't read a lot.

And that maybe if they see that same book in my library

and they look at the dignity and the aesthetics of this library,

that they would go home and imagine

their books differently, that they might even

read as a result of the library being sexy.

Or maybe they just want to be in the library more

because the library's sexy.

And they might even invite someone else

to be in the library.

They might even change their behavior,

because the library feels good and makes them

want to be a better person.

This is maybe now when art meets something

like the divine for me, that one would be changed

as a result of the encounter.

So we started having shows, important artists

doing great things.

And I was trying to figure out--

I spent some time studying in other places,

and I was really deeply trying to consider, what could I

contribute to the conversation of preservation,

or maybe conservation?

And in the US, if there is an old house--

and very old, like 80 years would be old in the US--

the house is old, the roof caves in.

And then the house no longer looks old.

It becomes a new house.

They change all the clapboards.

They change the door.

And they say this is the same period door,

but the thing is new.

But there's no trace.

There's no trace of anything old.

And they've painted it lily white.

So it's a new lily white building,

which sounds like America to me, kind of a new lily

white building.

America's a new lily white building.

And so I was really committed to allowing some of the decay--

it's OK.

It's OK.

Just roll with me--

allowing some of the decay of this building to be evident.

But when people would come in, they would say--

they could say two things, either,

"That looks like a stain.

Why didn't you paint it?"

Or, "That's really beautiful."

And they were trying to imagine, what's

the difference between beauty and the stain?

And is it possible that sometimes the stain

is adding value?

Maybe some might say you become even more aware of the beauty

through the stain because of the whiteness of the plaster

adjacent to it, that it's actually

the finish of the plaster next to the stain

that makes this thing even more beautiful.

If it's just the stain, just deterioration, uninteresting.

Just the lily white house, uninteresting.

But when those things come together, maybe something new

happens, I'm proposing.

Not theoretical-- wherever the building failed,

we needed new drywall.

It became white.

Wherever the building was surviving,

we stabilized the things that were there.

So we found ourselves with a home.

And then we found ourselves with things--

well, a white home for black things.

And I'll stop right there.

I'll just stop.

I'll stop.

I'll stop ladies.

I'm sorry.

But I'm going to just talk about some of these black things.

So Linda, in addition to giving me her books,

there were all these other periodicals that were there.

Johnson Publishing produced Ebony magazine, Jet magazine,

a magazine called Hue, Negro Digest,

which was the black version of Reader's Digest.

Ebony was the black version of Life magazine.

And one might ask, why do you need

a black version of a thing?

Why would one make a new--

if there's already the thing, why

do you need a black version of the thing?

And this is where John Johnson was genius.

The truth is, Life magazine was not the American experience.

It was only the white American experience.

It's a truth.

And say if I were an aspiring middle-class dentist in 1943,

the only aspiration I would have through Life magazine

would be a white aspiration.

In fact, I never saw myself, so I may not

know that there are other dentists who

look like me in other parts of the country.

John Johnson was attempting to unify these parts,

to let people know that they weren't alone

in their loneliness, in their stewardship,

in their academic pursuit, in their intelligence,

in their mobility.

And so Johnson mimicked--

he appropriated the Life magazine structure

for black people.

And it was like, why stop at black America?

Let's do it in Zimbabwe.

Let's do it in South Africa.

Let's do it for the Caribbean.

And he was trying to have more and more

specific stories that would help people

understand that they were part of a diasporic aspiration.

Ebony magazine was about aspiration.

Anyway, I had these things and I'm not a librarian so

I decided to try to, I don't know, make some art out of it--

mix them up, change the colors, put them in things,

hang them, do things.

And it didn't work so well, that those things really

wanted to be a library.

And they really needed an archival care.

And so we got more and more serious about it.

And I found myself kind of falling in love

with houses for books.

And I just kind of keep making them over and over.

The books were going well.

And then we started getting records.

This is a collection of albums from the Frankie Knuckles

Foundation.

Frankie Knuckles was an important house music

DJ, died 2 and 1/2 years ago and needed to create an estate.

His friends who were caring for his things

needed to create an estate and didn't know how.

And so we worked out a way of making

an estate for his things.

And the albums are licensed to us for the next 10 years.

So when you come to the Arts Bank,

we try to play house music all the time.

Do you guys know what house music is?

So who doesn't know what house music is, no offense?

So house music is like club music.

And in Chicago, it was music that

was really the origins of which were in the '70s disco

movement.

So I have some favorite songs--

(SINGING) burn baby burn, disco inferno, burn baby--

car wash, working at the car wash yeah--

real funky, real funky.

And that music, disco music, would then

be combined with what became kind of more like just beat,

just beats, just rhythm, jungle house, Detroit techno,

and so and so.

So we party and we read, like you guys.

That's what I hear about the [? Delhi ?] Center, that you

party as hard as you read.

Here's a good example, just this here.

When you're working out the costs of the renovation

with your construction crew and they're telling you, "Theaster,

we can gut the whole building for $75,000.

But if you want to do this selective remediation,

it's going to be $150,000 to $250,000.

It's just harder to do.

It would be easier to just go in and take it all away."

But these moments became opportunities

where I could teach a team of people how to plaster,

and that we could commit to a kind of plastering

that would have been the plastering that

was done in 1923.

A little more lime, maybe there's

a little bit of hay in the plaster,

making a stronger, more fibrous body

that would help it last through rains and the bad conditions

that this building went under.

And so I thought, no, let's do the selective remediation.

And then instead of your plastic contract,

my guys will do the plaster.

And I was creating a problem within a solution, which

means more time and more money.

But the problem was one that was manageable,

and we could say, hey, we need a team of men and women

who are interested in plastering.

We have three months to train you before we get to the point

where we need to plaster.

Then we have eight weeks to get the plastering done.

If it goes beyond eight weeks, then I

got to let my general contractors do it

because we'll be behind time--

but looking for problems that people in my neighborhood

could solve.

The bank has never been broken into.

There's never been any defacement.

Bad things happen around us all the time.

But the people who protect the building now

are the people who laid the plaster

during the bank's development.

And even if they, for reasons of the building's architecture--

which feels colonial in a particular way,

or at least exclusive.

Even if they don't immediately feel like the bank is theirs,

there's something about having worked

in the bank that makes them feel like they're part of it.

Even though they go in and the art looks weird,

it's like, well I did the walls on the third floor.

I buffed the floors.

And not to be pejorative, but to say

that in a place where class dynamics are complicated,

even if everybody in the neighborhood is black,

those become the moments that call us back

to a place that says, you built it, therefore you're welcome.

Or you're building it and you're welcome.

Some brothers-- it's good to have

some brothers in the pictures.

They were building the library.

Says Gaylord and brother Mike, some glass

slides from the University of Chicago that eventually became

one of the cherished things.

Gaylord's very handsome.

He's an urban planner.

He'll be on my next trip.

That's Devin.

He's smart.

But all of this construction is really

just trying to get to the care of these objects.

There's a kind of co-working between the objects

and these little things.

Beautiful images of people in a space where

people can get down, do their little dance classes,

build things.

Aditi mentioned that the Obama Center's near me

and I'm working with them.

These things that are in pink are

buildings that we worked on over the last six, seven years.

And it represents about a mile, mile and a half.

And we're really proud.

Where it says University of Chicago here,

Stony Island Arts Bank, University

of Chicago, the library is going to go somewhere in between.

The Obama Center, that's what they call it.

They don't call it a library.

That's important, because the same people

who told me that the bank wasn't worth investing in--

they called it an albatross.

I didn't even know what albatross met.

They were like, "This is an albatross."

And I was like, "Whatever, you're an albatross.

Yo momma an albatross."

They now call me a real estate mogul.

They're like, "Oh my God, Theaster, your timing

was brilliant.

How did you know that the wind would sway the Obama

Center toward Jackson Park?"

And I mean, this is where it gets spiritual again,

that when you commit to the thing

that you're supposed to do, sometimes it works out.

That's nice.

Now I'm just bragging.

This is just like, I'm just bragging.

This is my last slide.

All of these buildings were abandoned.

All of them were valued less than they

should be because they were in the wrong neighborhood

at the wrong time.

And with some concerted effort, people now

want to live there again.

Thanks very much.

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Public School Services - Duration: 1:16.

CRISTY: We started private therapy, with physical therapy,

at nine months.

And then we continued through till about,

I think she was about two, when the physical therapist

suggested we start speech therapy.

And the speech therapist, right before she turned three,

had suggested that we be-- not really suggested,

it was more of a question, has she

been evaluated through the school district.

And my response was no, she's not five.

And I had no clue that she needed-- that she even

could qualify for the school district.

I thought you needed to wait until you were already

in the school district.

Having somebody to tell me no, she does qualify.

You should go be evaluated through the school district.

The school district can offer free assistance,

really helped us.

I think it's important that parents know if somehow we

can get the word out to parents that there is assistance

for you through the school district between the ages

of three and five, that it will make a world of difference.

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2017 Iowa Public Health Heroes Award Recipient Denise Wheeler - Duration: 0:57.

Family planning is about health promotion. Regardless of pregnancy

intention. So if someone is planning a pregnancy it's important to manage

chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and

mental health issues before conception or in the interval between pregnancies

and that helps optimize pregnancy outcome for people who don't

have chronic health issues. They will still benefit from the education, the

health education and the screenings that are done in reproductive health

environments or by family planning providers. All of that helps people be

able to take care of themselves in their family, have the healthiest family

possible, contributes to healthy neighborhoods, and communities and

improves the overall health of the population in Iowa.

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UM professor seeking public records pertaining to budget cuts - Duration: 1:33.

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2017 Iowa Public Health Heroes Award Recipient Julie Stephens - Duration: 0:39.

My role and Emergency Preparedness supports the public health system in

response so the preparedness part is very important because if we have the

connections prior to disaster, it assists in the actual disaster. You know we know

who we are we come to the table to drill, we have each other's contact information.

I assure that our partners, to include those outside my County on neighboring

jurisdictions and others in our state have 24/7 access to Linn County Public Health.

Which is which is key if needed outside the normal business hours.

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Department of Public Health reports regional flu activity - Duration: 0:27.

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Public visitation scheduled Wednesday for Mariah Woods - Duration: 0:39.

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2017 Iowa Public Health Heroes Award Recipient Linda B. Kalin - Duration: 1:07.

The poison control center in Iowa is

available 24/7, 365, for all Iowans whether it's a parent whose child

inadvertently gets into a medicine, or household chemical, to an emergency room

who requests a management and helping take care of the overdosed or poisoned

victim. We partner with Public Health on many levels.

And the most notable in

terms of our partnership is probably the data collection and our public

partnering in these public health efforts in preventing poisonings from

occurring in the first place. Whether it's drugs of abuse or it's currently

the opioid crisis maybe, the laundry detergent packets that are so harmful

for children. Being able to track and monitor public health threats and

basically with the goal that will improve the lives of Iowans and protect

the health of the people in Iowa and also the community as well.

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