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Photo: Molly Wiedemann Outside of a rarefied top tier, it can be extremely hard to make money in creative fields online. Writers are continually asked to work for pennies or, even worse, “exposure.” Artists may have it even worse. Clients want to pay a paltry sum for work that can take hours — and is…
Cosby Potter, 2, sits on his father’s shoulders during a “day of action” to celebrate graduate students and draw attention to demands Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, near the columns on the University of Missouri campus, in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/The Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that graduate students who…
So this was the first sunset I captured in 2012. It cost me $6,612 to take this photo. more $12 in gas to go from work to this spot and then home. The camera I took this with cost $2500. The lens was another $1600. The Singh Ray Reverse Neutral Density filter was $210. The…
Published on Aug 19, 2016 Kubo and The Two Strings is a miniature masterpiece you MUST experience in theaters. Read more on Geek.com! http://www.geek.com/review/moviebob-r… Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License Source: MovieBob Reviews: Kubo and The Two Strings – YouTube
Photo Anne Frank, left. At right, Rouwaida Hanoun, a Syrian 5-year-old who was wounded during an airstrike on Aleppo last week. Credit Left, Anne Frank Fonds — Basel, via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating…
The new Mary Jane is Black (maybe) – guess how that’s going over with The Internet?https://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 IN BOB WE TRUST: New episodes, new look, new topics. Subscribe to this channel for more each week! MUSIC:“Heroic Reception”, “Night on the Docks – Trumpet”, “Reformat”,”Zap Beat”, “Eighties Action, Black Vortex, Full On”Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons:…
The death toll from a shallow magnitude-6.2 earthquake which struck central Italy early Wednesday morning rose to 247 amid frantic efforts to dig out residents still trapped in rubble. More than 4,300 rescuers worked through Wednesday night and into Thursday in the hilltop towns and villages that were devastated by the quake, Italy’s Civil Protection…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by just one percentage point in Missouri, a state the Democrats have won only twice since 1976. A new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday shows Mr. Trump with 44% to Mrs. Clinton’s 43%. Democrats have won the state only twice since 1976 — Bill Clinton won in 1992 and…
When will this election end? The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation. Source: The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation
Although the planet, lost in the glare of the star, cannot be viewed by current telescopes, astronomers hope to see it when the next generation is built a decade from now. Photo Proxima Centauri, which is in the constellation of Centaurus 4.2 light-years from Earth. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA And the planet’s proximity to Earth…