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Industry News goes up on the Web at www.onlinemag.net as soon as it is written,
approximately one month before the print issue mails to subscribers.
Embracing the enterprise
and turning its back on searching the free Web, Northern Light will
no longer provide its full search engine capabilities to just anyone. On
the Web, you will still be able to search Special Collection, the fee-based
portion of Northern Light's content, and recent news. Northern Light subscribers
will have Web search access under the new program. According to CEO David
Seuss, reached on his way to catch a flight to Chicago, ad sales for the
public Web site have been flat. "We have a high quality audience," he said.
"They are on a mission to solve a business problem. They don't click on
ads." Although Seuss sees a "booming demand" for Northern Light services
such as taxonomy building and content integration, he doesn't think the
advertiser-supported business model is viable. "This is the second year
in a row we've had enterprise subscription growth. That's why we need to
focus our resources and investment on that part of the business." Seuss
thinks the Special Collection is close to complete when it comes to English
language periodicals, but plans to pursue content in other languages. This
may well explain the announcement that Northern Light will be providing
multiple language support for In-Q-Tel and its government clients,
such as the CIA. (www.northernlight.com;
Search engine developer
Jeeves has acquired the technology assets of Octopus Inc. and
plans to use the new products to extend the search capabilities of its
enterprise software, JeevesOne, to let users find information stored in
back-end databases. Not only does Octopus use natural language searching,
it also ties into authentication services, so that only authorized people
can see sensitive data. With this acquisition, Ask Jeeves accelerates its
transition from a public Web search engine to an Application Service Provider
(ASP) providing question and answer services for clients such as Nike,
Ford Motor Company, and RadioShack. The only question to put to AskJeeves
now is, "When will your acquisitions affect your share price in a positive
manner?" (www.askjeeves.com).
With so many people interested in reading The New York Times, NewsEdge should be pleased that it can now offer the paper electronically on a daily basis across its product lines. Content will come from New York Times Digital and will be full text. Archives will extend back 90 days. This addition of the New York Times material was doubtless facilitated by the fact that NewsEdge is now a Thomson company and Thomson negotiated a similar deal last year Dialog and DataStar. (www.newsedge.com; 718/229-3000)
Online Services
Under an agreement with OCLC, Ingram Library Services is adding evaluative content and bibliographic records to WorldCat (OCLC Online Union Catalog). As part of the agreement, Ingram is supplying descriptive content to enhance WorldCat records in OCLC FirstSearch; providing catalog information for creating new bibliographic records in WorldCat for Print-on-Demand titles available through Ingram affiliate, Lightning Source; and providing approximately 3,000 cataloging records per month to be added to WorldCat for newly released titles Ingram sells to libraries. (OCLC: 614/764-6189; www.oclc.org;firstname.lastname@example.com; Ingram: www.ingrambookgroup.com)
The MLA Directory of Periodicals is now available at no additional charge to subscribers of the OCLC FirstSearch service's MLA International Bibliography database. The directory is updated every six months and provides a listing for many of the journals and series indexed by the MLA International Bibliography. The listings offer editorial and subscription information, and include indexes to editorial personnel, languages, sponsoring organizations, and subjects. (OCLC: 614/764-6189; www.oclc.org; firstname.lastname@example.com)
LexisNexis and Knight Ridder have formed an interactive-content alliance, under which Knight Ridder Digital is syndicating its content available to LexisNexis users, and LexisNexis is powering access to 17 Knight Ridder newspapers in 28 markets. LexisNexis customers now have access to the Knight Ridder publications, many with same-day or within a day of publication availability. (LexisNexis: www.lexisnexis.com; Knight Ridder: www.knightridder.com; www.knightridderdigital.com)
Factiva Learning Programs (Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company) include industry-leading etraining, online tutorials and product demos, Web-based seminars, reference material, and classroom training for corporate users. The programs come in several forms, and are intended to provide product-specific training customized according to user requirements. (646/742-3405; www.factiva.com)
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) has designated Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) as the single point of online public access to government-wide federal procurement opportunities exceeding $25,000. As of October 1, 2001, the FAR requires agencies to use FedBizOpps to provide access to public notices of procurement actions over $25,000 currently required to be published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD), plus associated solicitations and amendments. Effective January 4, 2002, the Department of Commerce ceased publication of the CBD through the U.S. Government Printing Office. Agencies are to now recognize FedBizOpps as the official source for all procurement information and notices to be published under 41 U.S.C416 (a) (2) (B) and the Small Business Act. (877/472-3779; email@example.com)
Search Engines
Corbis, a photography and fine art image provider, has added a new search filter to its search engine to help users search Corbis' licensed content for images created for commercial or editorial use, or both. The service also now offers the Corbis Sygma Collection of news photos. This collection includes editorial pictures from the past 30 years of international news coverage, searchable in English and French. The collection also includes the Kipa collectionfocusing on cinematic, television, productions, and people, plus sports images from the Tempsport collection. (800/260-0444; 425/641-4505; www.corbis.com)
Social Sciences & Humanities
Users searching the Internet Database Service (IDS) from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts can now link search results to full-text documents available through Project MUSE from Johns Hopkins University Press, PsycARTICLES from the American Psychological Association, and Ingenta. With these additions, IDS users can also link from search results to full-text articles from more than 7,500 publications available from other services such as BioOne, CatchWord, EBSCO Online, E*Subscribe, Highwire Press, IDEAL, Kluwer Online, Information Quest, LINK, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, ScienceDirect, and SwetsnetNavigator. (301/961-66700; www.csa.com)
FIZ Karlsruhe has added ADISNEWS (Adis Newsletters) to its STN Network, providing access to global biomedical and healthcare issues. ADISNEWS offers information on all aspects of developments in drugs and drug therapy from 1983 to the present. The database is produced by Adis International Ltd. It draws on the Inpharma, Reactions, and Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News newsletters, which monitor journals, meetings, conferences, and symposia. ADISNEWS records include bibliographic information, full text of reports, references to documents cited by the newsletters, indexing terms, chemical names, and CAS Registry Numbers. (+49-7247-808-555; www.stn-international.de)
TOXCENTER (Chemical Abstracts Service)a new database of bibliographic toxicology information from pharmacological, biomedical, and chemical literature published worldwideis now available STN International, STN on the Web, and STN Easy. Available information includes the toxicological, pharmacological, biomedical, and biochemical effects of drugs, chemicals, and foods, plus methodology, industrial hygiene, and legal issues and standards. Patents as well as scientific literature are covered, with data derived from CAplus, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, and IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts). CAS Registry Numbers appear in each of the four file segments, providing links to additional records in other STN files. Over 2.2 million unique substances are represented. TOXCENTER will be updated weekly, and CAS is planning enhancements with data licensed from other sources. (614/447-3600; www.cas.org)
Business & Finance
In keeping with efforts to add new content to its coverage of public and private companies worldwide, SkyMinder has announced new partnerships with ORT and Global Securities Information (GSI). GSI provides legal and financial securities information to law and accounting firms, investment banks, corporation, and the business press. It provides the entire feed from the EDGAR databases daily for user access. The SEC forms are indexed by company and are available for the 14,000 U.S. Public companies incorporated in the U.S. ORT (Reuters Group) offers credit reports on 3,2 million French companies, plusthrough a concession from the RNCSa comprehensive balance sheet database of all 750,000 of those filed by companies legally required to publish. Additional information includes financial analysis, shareholder information, and opinion from the banking sector. (813/636-0981; email@example.com; www.Skyminder.com/gsi-ort-e.asp)
FT.com (Financial Times) has launched FT Pro as a personalized global news search and monitoring service for North American executives and corporations. It provides tailored news, commentary, and analysis, as well as information on customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. Several multinational corporations, government agencies, and European associations have already registered with the service. North American customers now have unlimited access to FT Pro, with pricing based on an annual fee determined according to the number of company users. (212/641-6611; www.FT.com/FTpro/info)
After evaluating the Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) product family over the past year, Micromedia has instituted several changes and enhancements. Indexing of all regional newspapers was discontinued in January of this year. At the same time, all titles in the CBCA database were indexed. In 2001, 21 Canadian titles were added to the database, and during the first quarter of 2002 additional new titles will be added. (www.micromedia.on.ca)
Business Monitor International and Economist Intelligence Unit have signed agreements to have their content available through Gale Group's InfoTrac databases and online Resource Centers, increasing coverage in Gale's Business & Company Resource Center. These new agreements add 90 magazines, newsletters, and other publications to the thousands already available through Gale products. (248/699-4253; www.galegroup.com)
The NewsEdge Corporation's Editor's Picks daily news service will be featured on the Lycos Small Business destination of Terra Lycos. Lycos Small Business users will now receive news and information from more than 150 varied topics for small businesses. With Editor's Picks, NewsEdge editors review the news day and night, and sift through stories to select the most important information for small business owners. (NewsEdge: 781/229-3000; www.newsedge.com; Terra Lycos: www.terralycos.com)
Delphion and PATOLIS Corp., a spin-off of the Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO) and the first privatized company of a Japanese public organization, have announced an agreement under which PATOLIS will use Delphion's solutions to expand its online patent information service, PATOLIS-web. With Delphion's solutions, the PATOLIS Web site is being enhanced with ecommerce services, additional patent collections, and advanced research technologies, giving users the ability to better research, analyze, and explore all the patents impacting their global markets. (Delphion: 630/799-0630; www.delphion.com; PATOLIS: www.patolis.co.jp/e-index.html)
TRADEMARKSCAN Japan (The Dialog Corporation), the first Japanese trademark database designed for use by trademark professionals outside Japan, is now available for online searching and document retrieval through the Dialog service (File 669). The database is produced by Thomson & Thomson, and currently contains more than 2.5 million active and inactive Japanese trademark registrations and applications, updated monthly. Users can search TRADEMARKSCAN Japan without having to know Japanese. Entries are both translated and transliterated, displaying the trademark as filed plus the phonetics for the trademark. All records are displayed phonetically in Roman characters, regardless of their original character set, and non-Japanese trademarks are restored to their original Roman spelling. (800/3-DIALOG; 919/461-7354; www.dialog.com)
Five practice-area-specific sections are being added to lexisONE, LexisNexis' Web-based resource for solo and small firm attorneys. The new sections are Business Litigation & Bankruptcy; Criminal Law; Estates, Trust and Tax Law; Family Law; and Intellectual Property Law. Content for these sections will be derived from more than 2,500 LexisNexis domestic and international news sources. The new areas will be accessible from dropdown menus within the Breaking Legal News section of the site. (www.lexisnexis.com; www.lexisone.com)
Thomson Corp. is expanding into Latin America with its legal and regulatory business, and recently solidified its position in Brazil by buying the country's largest electronic publisher, Sintese, for an undisclosed amount. Sintese publishes summaries and full-text cases, legislation pieces, and doctrines on CD-ROM. It also produces more than 200 legal books. Thomson perceives Brazil's 20 million Internet users as a waiting market for Internet-based information services, and plans to quickly expand Sintese's customer base by developing more CD-ROM and Web-based products to be marketed throughout the country. (416/360-8700; www.thomson.com)
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has improved organization and retrieval of the technical content in its ACM Portal. Response time with searches is reduced, and users can execute complex queries across both the fulltexts from the ACM Portal's Digital Library and bibliographic sources from books, journals, proceedings, and theses included in the Portal's ACM Guide. Users are also now able to retrieve documents in PDF (95% of the articles), HTML, Postscript, and other formats. Additional features includes distribution of queries evenly across multiple servers to prevent server overload, and a "fuzzy search" feature that helps users find content despite misspelled search terms. (www.acm.org)
Bibliographic and abstract information from Chemical Abstract Service's entire Chemical Abstracts (CA) collection back to 1907 is now available for searching through STN, SciFinder, and SciFinder Scholar. The CA And CAplus files now include 3.8 million records from CA issues prior to 1967, with the pre-1967 scientific literature including studies in fields other than chemistry. The project to add material from pre-1967 CA issues to CAS' online databases began in 1999. Users can now use STN or SciFinder services to search this literature via words in the abstract text and title, the publication title, author names, publication year and more. (614/447-3847; www.cas.org)
Alliances & Deals
ProQuest Company's Information and Learning unit has acquired SoftLine Information, an online database producer for libraries and educational institutions. SoftLine's database are now available from ProQuest and offer more than 500 newspapers and magazines from ethnic, minority, native, gender, alternative, and independent press. Titles are organized into five specialized databasesEthnic NewsWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch History, Alt-Press Watch, Gender Watch, and Diversity Your World. The databases are subscription-based, with Web-based delivery to library users. (800/521-0600; www.proquestcompany.com)
LexisNexis has formed an alliance with WhizBang! Labs, an information extraction products and services provider. LexisNexis will use WhizBang!'s Extraction Framework to deliver current information to LexisNexis Advertising Red Books and Directory of Corporate Affiliations (DCA) users. WhizBang! Labs' extraction technology integrates proprietary software products that automatically find, classify, and extract information from a variety of unstructured sources such as corporate intranets, extranets, Web pages, and document databases. The Framework combs these sources for information relevant to content within the Red Books and DCA databases. (LexisNexis: 301/951-4603; www.lexisnexis.com; www.redbooks.com; www.corporateaffiliations.com; WhizBang!: 801/319-8584; www.whizbang.com)
LexisNexis and DolphinSearch, Inc. have announced an alliance whereby LexisNexis will market DolphinSearch technology to its customers as a standalone knowledge-management solution and as an optional add-on component of the LexisNexis Portal. DolphinSearch has developed and patented a technology that reads text with human-like understanding by learning the meaning of words based on the context in which they are used. The technology has been incorporated into intelligent document retrieval tools for the legal industry. DolphinSearch enables all software applications used by a firm to share knowledge, so that each application need not be searched separately. DolphinSearch is said to know what all the documents are about, where they are located, and which are relevant to a current matter. (LexisNexis: 937/865-8844; www.lexisnexis.com; DolphinSearch: 805/585-2102; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.dolphinsearch.com)
Interactive consumer health information developer, A.D.A.M., Inc., has acquired Integrative Medicine Communications, Inc., a privately-held provider of science-based information on wellness and alternative medicine. Under terms of the transaction, A.D.A.M. will issue 470,000 shares of its common stock for the outstanding shares of Integrative Medicine. The company expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings in 2002. Integrative's core product, Access 2.0, is a peer-reviewed information database on conditions and treatment modalities as well as herbal, supplemental and conventional medicine remedies that provide a foundation for users for dialog with their healthcare providers. (http://investor.adam.com)
Access Innovations, Inc. has partnered with RedDot Solutions Corporation to offer its specialized Data Harmony software suite with RedDot's Web-templating interface and thus provide a tool for enterprise-wide content management. The tool will let users who may not be familiar with HTML, add, edit, and approve content quickly. RedDot's solution is browser-based and operates independently from a company's server. (Access Innovations: www.accessinn.com; RedDot: www.reddot.com)
The Dialog Corporation has appointed Chris Naylor Chief Financial Officer, where she will serve as Dialog's senior financial officer, managing all the company's financial activities worldwide. Prior to joining Dialog, Naylor was a Vice President for West Group.
The Dialog Corporation has also appointed Liz Blankson-Hemans to head the launch of the Quantum2 professional development initiative for information professionals in Europe. Blankson-Hemans joins Dialog from Clifford Chance, a leading law practice, where she was Manager of the firm's Central Information Services division.
In conjunction with the launch of its Graduate Education Program, The Dialog Corporation has appointed library training specialists, Allison Evatt and Heidi G. Porth, to serve graduate library schools as field training consultants.
Meg Bellinger has been named Vice President of OCLC's newly-formed Digital & Preservation Resources division, taking on a broader role in addition to her current position as President of OCLC Preservation Resources.
Online Inc. has
promoted Michelle Manafy to Editor, EContent magazine. Manafy
formerly served as Associate Editor of Online Inc.'s EMedia magazine,
and succeeds Bill Mickey who is joining a private business venture.


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The National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds and Prevent Child Abuse America national conferences are being held this weekend and early next week in San Diego, California.
Jake and Carol got to come with me to the meeting, and we arrived a few days early for a quick vacation. We are having a blast so far, and our room is BEAUTIFUL.
We are staying on Coronado Island at the Marriott Resort, which has a spectactular view of San Diego Bay.
This is the view from our room...
This is just down the hall...
Now, we're off to Balboa Park and the world famous San Diego Zoo. Stay tuned for more updates on our adventure.
P.S. Yes, life is good. :-)

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Scribe Molly Jordan Little 11/3/14 Smith Period 5
Essential question:
To what extent do jealousy and betrayal rule our choices/ lives or affect our relationships?
Final essay due Thursday (printed out, works cited, submit to turn it in)
Copy of Fahrenheit 451 (Smith will have them sometime this week)
Read two short stories (Harrison Bergeron, The Pedestrian),
Watch Videos: A Vision of Students, Machines are Using Us, Did You Know
Fahrenheit 451 1-40 due next Monday
In class we:
- peer edited the intro, first, and second and got one on one help from Smith
Go to link, Click on Writing Reviser (after making account) Create Essay, Paste essay in and submit
- Turnitin.com
- write conclusion
- Othello
- A Long Way Gone
- Lord of the Flies
- create works cited
- Othello
- A Long Way Gone
- Lord of the Flies
- create proper header (includes name, Smith, period 5, and creative title)
Overall today was a work day to work on our essay now due THURSDAY. Period 5 does not see Smith tomorrow because of the testing for seniors.


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The culture wars are spilling into the classroom, where social conservatives are invoking abortion as a battle cry to place more restrictions on sex education.
Texas has lurked at the bottom of all states in preventing teen pregnancy, and what might be awkward for parents to discuss becomes even more fraught in the mix of schools and politics.
Half of the state's 1,028 school districts don't have sex ed instruction, and many of the rest teach abstinence-only.
In North Texas, abstinence-only curriculum dominates in districts that do present sex education programs.
But in a bipartisan poll of registered voters last month, 84 percent of Texans said they favor teaching not just abstinence, but also teaching high school students about condoms and birth control.
If there is such an overwhelming sentiment for more and better sex education in schools, it has yet to be felt in the Texas Legislature.
"The disconnect is very much in the politics. Those cultural wars have just put us behind the eight ball," said Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston.
Ellis again is pushing a bill that encourages schools to offer a science-based sex education curriculum with more comprehensive information.
"I'm trying to give people some cover, for the extent they need it, to come into this century," he said of districts that have been reluctant to adopt sex ed classes.
"Obviously, what we're doing now isn't working," he said.
The latest statistics show that Texas in 2010 had the largest number of teen births in the country — 47,751. In surveys, between 52 and 70 percent of high school seniors in Texas say they have engaged in sex.
But Ellis said his bill faces tough odds because of Republican opposition.
The proposal gaining the most steam in Austin imposes more rules on districts wanting to expand sex ed.
Sen. Ken Paxton's proposal also bars schools from using any material from Planned Parenthood, which provides health care and abortion services.
His bill, which drew dozens of supporters at a hearing last week, requires extra notifications to parents if any materials developed outside the school are used for sex education instruction.
"I am concerned about teen pregnancy, but I'm not someone who believes that abortion is a way to handle that," said Paxton, R-McKinney.
While he said he has not seen any materials or heard of instances in which abortion has been part of classroom discussion, he wants to ensure that doesn't happen.
"I don't want them in there promoting their agenda. I don't want them in the schools," Paxton said of Planned Parenthood. "I don't want them in there building relationships with kids."
Paxton and other social conservatives have long clashed with Planned Parenthood over abortion.
The group has two arms: one for cancer screenings and contraception and the other, privately funded, that is the largest abortion provider in Texas.
Sarah Wheat, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood in Texas, said the Paxton measure makes it more difficult for schools to arrange sex education instruction.
"It's not really about abortion. This bill is about whether our kids in schools, with local oversight, can receive any kind of health education," she said.
She said she doesn't know of a Planned Parenthood representative being invited into a classroom to discuss sex education.
If a representative from Planned Parenthood did go into a school, she said, such a presentation would have been vetted by the local School Health Advisory Council, made up of parents and other community members.
Current state law, changed at the urging of then-Gov. George W. Bush, mandates that any sex education curriculum used in schools focus on abstinence.
As president, his administration funded scores of grants for abstinence-only instruction.
But in the past five years, new curriculum that goes beyond abstinence has been tested around the country with encouraging results.
New Hampshire requires schools to teach abstinence along with comprehensive sex education, including condoms and contraception.
That state has the lowest adolescent birth rate in the nation at 15.7 per 1,000 teens — more than three times lower than Texas.
'Keep It Real'
Currently, the federal Office of Adolescence Health has approved 31 programs that were tested and shown effective at preventing sex and pregnancy, including "It's Your Game — Keep It Real."
Susan Tortolero, who helped develop the program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, said it instructs teens on how to set standards, establish rules and get out of uncomfortable situations.
It helps them, she said, "navigate these difficult, adolescent years."
She said she believes sex education belongs at home, but it's not happening there.
Only a third of parents have talked to their kids before they've engaged in sexual behavior, she said. "For whatever reason, they're just not doing it."
She said one of the greatest misconceptions raised by opponents is that "if we teach them about sex and contraception, that we're giving them permission to go out and have sex."
Instead, she said, "If you use an effective program, it's actually the opposite and you can actually get kids to delay and abstain."
But Tortolero also knows first-hand the fierceness of critics over sex education politics.
When putting together the "It's Your Game" program for use in seventh and eighth grades, the school compiled an advisory board of about 60 experts. Included were two representatives from Planned Parenthood.
Tortolero thought nothing of it until she was invited to the Cypress-Fairbanks school district near Houston, where the "It's Your Game" curriculum was under consideration.
She then learned about websites that warned parents her program was a front for Planned Parenthood.
"People put up signs, emailed school board members and superintendents … to watch out for me," she said.
The school rescinded its consideration and is developing an abstinence-only program.
"What's happening is there is a vocal minority who feel very strongly against these types of programs," Tortolero said.
Anne Newman, a parental rights advocate with the Trinity Legal Center, isn't buying it.
In testimony before the Senate committee considering Paxton's bill, she said UT was partnering with Planned Parenthood to create "It's Your Game."
"They're all working together to promote this type of sex education," she said. "True abstinence upholds a standard. It directs children back to parents; it doesn't send mixed messages."
Teen pregnancies drop
She and others said abstinence-only is working, with Texas seeing a significant drop in teen pregnancies in the past decade.
Indeed, Texas rates have dropped but not as dramatically as the national average.
At the hearing, Renate Sims, a Round Rock mother of five children, agreed with Newman and said "uncompromising abstinence" is the only message children should get.
Pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases aren't caused by "a lack of contraception, but by out-of-wedlock sex," she said.
The Dallas Independent School District uses an abstinence-only curriculum that was developed internally and relies solely on its own employees, said Barbara Johnson, director of Health and Physical Education.
"The instructors are professional employees of the district and are required to attend training provided by the district," Johnson said.
At the McKinney Independent School District, teachers and nurses run the sex education curriculum at elementary schools, while health teachers are in charge in secondary schools.
In Frisco ISD, the instruction is supplemented and taught by personnel from Aim for Success, an abstinence-based nonprofit educational organization.
Under Paxton's bill, parents who already have approved sex education for their children would need to sign another permission slip before Aim for Success, or any other program, could enter the classroom.
Dr. Janet Realini, president of Healthy Futures of Texas, a San Antonio group to prevent unwanted pregnancies, said she believes parents should have the final word over the sex education their children receive.
"No one is advocating that we provide education for young people whose parents don't want them to have it," she said. "But if the minority of parents are preventing the majority from having what they want for their kids, then that's not fair either."
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AT A GLANCE: Sex ed restrictions
Texas standards for public school sex education:
The course must be abstinence-focused.
The program's scope, materials and presentation are reviewed by a local School Health Advisory Committee, comprised of parents and interested parties.
Once approved by the SHAC, course information is sent to parents, with details made available for review.
Parents may opt their children out of the program.
Under a Republican-backed bill:
Nothing and no one associated with Planned Parenthood can be used in sex ed classes.
If materials or instructors from another third party are to be included in a classroom presentation, parents must be notified again two weeks in advance.
Parents must sign another consent form to allow their children to attend.


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There's a potential Lancashire derby in the first round of the FA Trophy after AFC Fylde were drawn at home to either Chorley or Skelmersdale
The tie will be played on December 12, while Chorley and Skem stage their replay on Tuesday night.
If Chorley win the replay, then it will mean three meetings between the Magpies and Fylde between December 12 and January 2.
AFC Fylde and Chorley meet in National League North on December 26 and January 2.
AFC manager Dave Challinor will be an interested spectator on Tuesday night for the replay at Skelmersdale.
Challinor said: "I had been planning to go to the match anyway to have a look at Chorley, who we play over Christmas and the New Year.
"It could mean that we play Chorley three times in the space of three weeks."


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Office Assistant
Location: New York, New York
Reports to: Office Manager, New York
This role needs a dynamic self-motivated individual. There are endless possibilities for growth in the company depending on your strengths, abilities, and willingness to participate.
The Security Engineer is responsible for designing, evaluating and testing the security of systems to ensure that the systems and data integrity of the organization is being maintained and is up – to – date.
- Greet and welcome guests
- Switchboard answering incoming calls and relaying to correct team member or take messages where necessary
- Accept and sort mail and packages and deal with courier incoming and outgoing
- Maintain records of suppliers, services, team travel profiles
- Ensure meeting rooms and office remain neat and tidy
- Assist with the coordination of meeting arrangements, luncheons, logistics and pre-meeting preparations
- Assist with work and personal errands and tasks as needed by the Group Exco
- Keep kitchen area under control and maintain grocery levels of all items
- Assist Office Manager with organization, special projects, and other support needs for the team
- Liaise with London Admin Team with regard to team travel and relevant needs for accommodation and office access in both centres
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with all internal customers and suppliers
- Assist with updating internal spreadsheets
- Take charge of any additional projects and responsibilities assigned by the Office Manager
- Strong organizational skills and ability to successfully manage tasks
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good relationship building skills with ability to interact with different people at all levels across the business and externally
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills, client service oriented and resilient
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- Proven skills in google docs and apps
- Knowledge of Salesforce or other CRM software would be beneficial
- Skills in social media applications such as Twitter, LinkedIn and others as determined by the team
- Strong administrative and analytical skills


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I'm "working" on a pretty massive iOS review at the moment (in the sense that it threatens to consume 20-odd hours of my life). All going well, the beef should be served on Thursday.
In the meantime, here's a quickie to keep things tiding over (that's what she said). Ever heard of Super Hero Matching?
If you've guessed that Super Hero Matching involves matching pairs of cards with little superheroes on 'em, you've just earned yourself this many bonus points: none. The clue was in the title, and – even more obviously – the screenshot above.
And, uhm, that's pretty much all there is to it. Super Hero Matching remembers your fastest time, which opens the door for "Try to beat my time – I DARE you," type shenanigans.
But otherwise, Super Hero Matching is utterly bereft of alternative game modes, levels, power-ups, settings, options… You name it, Super Hero Matching doesn't have it.
Interestingly, I've just noticed that Super Hero Matching seems to have disappeared from iTunes – both here and in the US. That might have something to do with blatantly – and presumably unofficially – featuring superheroes from the world of Marvel and DC.
Among others, there's Thor, Hulk, Batman, The Flash, Daredevil, The Punisher, Wolverine, Spiderman, Captain America, Green Lantern, and Clark Kent. They look pretty cool, in a sort of cartoonish South Park type way.
Super Hero Matching was free, with ads, and would provide a fun distraction for kids. Er, if it was still available.
- Looks good
- Kinda fun spotting superheroes
- It's free
- Nothing at all in terms of options
- Seen it all after a couple of minutes
- Uhm, not available any more
Summary: Super Hero Matching is/was an oddly endearing card matching game, cheekily including superheroes from the Marvel and DC universes.


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Varga And Others v Hungary. Prison Overcrowding and the European Convention on Human Rights
The issues that arose initially in this judgment related to whether prison overcrowding and poor conditions in which prisoners were held constituted a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights[1] in respect of these conditions amounting to degrading treatment and whether Hungarian national remedies available in respect of addressing potentially degrading treatment of prisoners were sufficient to provide an effective remedy for these individuals as required by Article 13 ECHR.
Mr Varga and a number of other connected applicants[2] were all current or former prisoners within Hungary. During the course of their imprisonment, each was held in very small prison cells measuring around 25 square meters with a number of other prisoners providing often less than around 3 meters square living space per prisoner.[3] Furthermore, privacy was extremely limited within this confined space by the fact that toilet facilities were within the cell and separated only by a curtain.[4] In addition, Mr Fako asserted that he was only permitted to shower once a week, that the temperature within the cell often rose to 40 degrees centigrade and that the cell was infested with bed bugs, lice and cockroaches.[5] The applicants also asserted that they were permitted very little opportunity to leave their cell for exercise.[6]
National Law
National law was important in this judgment in relation to the application under Article 13 ECHR and provided that, in the first instance, a prisoner who wished to raise concerns regarding the manner of his treatment should refer the complaint either orally or in writing to the head of the prison where he was being held.[7] Additionally, inmates could refer the matter to the public prosecutor in charge of their supervision.[8] Most importantly in this context, the legislation provided directly for the size of living space each prisoner should have[9] and provided the public prosecutor with powers to rectify any issues that may arise.[10] It was also relevant that under the Civil Code that was in force at the relevant time, an individual was able to seek compensation from the Government in respect of any infringement of personal rights if they were considered to have caused the individual to suffer damage.[11]
Article 3 ECHR
The Hungarian Government contested the applicants' assertion that their detention amounted to degrading treatment under Article 3 ECHR.[12] The judgment does not specifically set out any arguments put forward by the Hungarian Government in this respect, save to state that the Government did not dispute the factual nature of the complaints made.[13] What the judgment does do, is deal with the general principle under which a breach of Article 3 will occur specifically highlighting that overcrowding that provided an individual with less than 3 meters of living space, prevented individuals from moving free between items of furniture and did not provide each prisoner with a single distinct sleeping space gave rise to as strong presumption of a violation of Article 3.[14] The judgment also stressed the impact of the cumulative effect of the conditions in which a prisoner is held.[15]
Following these general principles, the Court had little difficulty in finding that the treatment of all of the applicants fell short of the standards required by the Article and as such, found that in the case of all of the applicants the Hungarian Government's treatment of them constituted a violation of Article 3.
Article 13 ECHR
In dealing with the asserted violation of Article 13, the Court began by setting out the general position in Article 35 ECHR that applicants must exhaust all domestic methods of resolution before bring the matter before the Court.[16] The Hungarian Government put forward two arguments in respect of asserting that no violation of the Article had occurred.
In the first instance, the Government asserted that the availability of compensation within the relevant Civil Code provided the applicants with an effective remedy in respect of any harm that they may have suffered.[17] Despite the Government citing authority for when such a remedy had been effective,[18] the Court did not accept that this single example demonstrated a practice that was sufficiently settled to provide an effective remedy.[19] Indeed, it was pointed out that domestic law had previously been held to only provide for desirable outcome rather than a binding obligation.[20]
Formal Complaints
The Hungarian Government went on to assert that the formal complaints procedure described above, provided sufficient redress to individuals. The court acknowledged that this was theoretically the case, in that individual prisoners could obtain an injunction from the public prosecutor requiring their conditions to be materially improved,[21] but found that this approach would be practically ineffective. This was because, in an already overcrowded prison system, the rectification of individual issues would impact detrimentally on other inmates and ultimately, it would be impossible for the Government to deal with numerous complaints because of the nature of the overcrowding problem itself.[22] In addition, the Court found that the Government's failure to demonstrate how the complaints procedure on an individual level could be effective, meant that the Government was in breach of Article 13.[23]
Article 46
In the light of the nature of the issues raised by the violations, the court found it necessary to instruct the Hungarian Government to put in place measures to rectify the general prison overcrowding problem and provide proper redress to prisoners.[24] It was considered that the Government should be able to demonstrate that procedures were being put in place within 6 months of the judgment.[25]
Article 41
The Court found that the applicants were entitled to compensation and costs.[26]
Little discussion is required in respect of the substantive violation of Articles 3 and 13 here, the facts being sufficiently clear to demonstrate the reason for the violation. It is of note in respect of Article 13 however, that some degree of remedy is not sufficient to meet the requirements of the Article if it cannot be demonstrated that the remedy is not readily available in all circumstances. What is most interesting in this judgment however, is the approach taken by the Court under Article 46. In this respect, it was made clear that an individual approach would not be satisfactory and the Government must take steps to address the overcrowding problem as a whole. The Court's express view was that the only effective manner in which to deal with these violations would be for the Government to introduce measures to reduce prison sentences.[27] It is clear therefore that the court will not shy away from requiring substantive changes to national law to be implemented in order to avoid violations of ECHR.
[2] Mr Lakatos, Mt Toth, Mr Pesti Mr Fako and Mr Kapczar
[3] Paragraphs [7] – [12]
[4] Ibid
[5] Paragraph [11]
[6] Op cit at n 3
[7] Decree no 6/1996 (VII 12) of the Minister of Justice on the Rules Governing the Enforcement of Imprisonment and Pre-trial Detention, s 6
[8] Ibid, s 7
[9] Ibid
[10] Act no CLXIII of 2011 on the Public Prosecution Service, s 22
[11] Act no IV of 1959 on the [Old] Civil Code, s 84
[12] Paragraph [67]
[13] Paragraph [79]
[14] Paragraph [74]
[15] Paragraph [72]
[16] Paragraph [44]
[17] Paragraph [51]
[18] Ibid
[19] Paragraph [53]
[20] Paragraph [54]
[21] Paragraph [62]
[22] Paragraph [63]
[23] Paragraphs [64] & [65]
[24] Paragraph [106]
[25] Paragraph [113]
[26] Paragraphs [118] – [125]
[27] Paragraph [109]
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Self-reliance salad
Well, sadly, it wasn't really. The greens were foraged from a nearby park, but the snails were bought in a can from a store, and the potatoes were from our CSA.
But what I'm thinking is that this could be an almost wholly home-grown and foraged meal, once our small potato patch is ready, and once I get a bit more organised, protein-wise.
I'd been thinking about how Sandra said that she feels more secure now she is producing her own eggs and has a homegrown source of protein.
I totally understand that, and wish we had enough room to legally and ethically keep chickens. We don't though, and we're not planning on moving anytime soon. So what are my options for protein security? Growing mushrooms, and gathering wild snails seem like good possibilities, and I'm looking into both of these.
Sharon Astyk's latest post, a recipe challenge, galvanised me to think about all this further, and so yesterday I made this warm salad. (I love warm salads.) I'm about to go post it on her comments section.
At least one other NZer has posted some lovely food suggestions there. If you are keen too, I think there is about one more day to go.
4 comments:
- Ruth said...
Hi. I knew some people who had a 1/4 acre suburban section with house etc, and they created a chook tractor - a little one for 3 chooks - for their gardens....it looked ridiculous though and I don't know if ethically ok...but ours seem to be happy and healthy - although they're in a big chook tractor. But you could let them go foraging.. I know some other people who have a little back yard and they keep chooks in a fenced off enclosure during the night and let them free range during the day and they get 2 eggs per day from their 2 and they fence off their vege garden. Depending on the size of your garden, could chooks be a possibility if you got creative about how you were going to have them?
- October 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Johanna Knox said...
Hi - yeah, you're probably right about creativity ... Maybe we could effectively create more land by building several-storey structures ... hmm!
ATM we have the grand total of 25-30 sq metres of backyard that's not already used up as vege garden, but we have a few more parts of that earmarked for veges.
If they free-ranged up to the left of us, that takes them up into a dog-walking park, and if they freerange to the right of us they might get into scraps with the neighbours chickens - lol. (The neighbours have more backyard space than us ...)
- October 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Nikki said...
Hmmm, maybe you could encourage the neighbours chickens to free range your yard and lay eggs on your side of the fence! LOL
- October 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM
- Johanna Knox said...
lol - well - when one of their chickens kept escaping last week, they did very kindly say we could keep any of its eggs if we found them. :)
A bit later I did find two eggs up in some long grass beside our section, but they were VERY old and rattly!!
- October 21, 2008 at 5:27 AM


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Friday, January 20, 2017
Doll Store, Kagoshima
I didn't realize it before, but there's a Japanese doll showroom fairly close to me, located between the aquarium at the bay, and City Hall. I discovered it the same afternoon that I took the cloud/contrail photos. It was close to closing time, and I had to get back to the English school before my break ended, so I didn't go inside. I may try looking around inside some day when I have more time.
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My 3rd grade classroom at Glengary Elementary is participating in the Inventor's Challenge sponsored by the Imagination Foundation and AT&T Aspire. We launched the challenge by brainstorming What If's and actually presented them in the January #PasstheScopeEdu event on Periscope. Here are some slides on our Inventor's Challenge if you want to take a peek.
A few weeks ago the challenge launched, and we began the process of inventing. I would like to highlight one story from our first day of inventing!
I was sitting at my desk, and I overhead one of my students say, "Hmmm…how can I attach this?" I looked over and saw CR trying to attach a blown up fold-top baggie on a white t-shirt she had decorated. I asked her what she was trying to do, and she told me that she was trying to get the shirt to fly so people wouldn't have to be stuck in traffic. I wished her good luck with the invention.
Next, I noticed she realized the fold-top baggies were not keeping in the air, so she went and got ziplock baggies. She was super excited to fix the issue of air escaping. She blew them up and started thinking about the placement when another student started a discussion with her about helium gas. Knowing she didn't have access to helium, she moved on to a different idea.
Again, I heard her say, "Hmmm. How can I attached these?" I looked at her and saw her trying to figure out how to attached small flat batteries to the shirt. I asked her what she was trying to do, and she went on to tell me that she was hoping that the stored energy in the battery to help give the shirt the energy to fly. She also had part of a circuit board that was from a DVD the some students had disassembled earlier in the year. She was trying to figure out how she could connect the energy to the board to see if there were any motors, as she thought that could be part of the solution to make the shirt fly. She tried and tinkered with it a bit, but our Passion Time ran out without much progress.
As her teacher, I was able to witness many curricular connections through her tinkering. CR was able to compare baggies and find one that sealed in air better. She learned about the difference in gases…and the capabilities of helium. Her knowledge of batteries having stored energy was evident, and she realized that the circuit was in need of power in order to do work. Since we were at the end of our unit of Energy and Matter, I was able to see that CR had acquired knowledge from our unit. I was able to assess her without giving a test…just through questioning her while she played essentially. Though she may not be successful making a shirt that flies, she has shown me success with her problem solving, her ability to redesign, and her basic knowledge of energy! I believe we can do a lot more assessing through play if we pay attention to our kiddos and engage with them! I challenge you to pay attention to play and see what skills you can assess. I bet there are many!
Here is a quick video with her reflections on her flying shirt invention.
If you would like more information how your students or your child can participating in the Inventor's Challenge, check out www.imaginaiton.is.


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Today we will see about Lakme absolute bi-phased makeup remover review. I have been using Maybelline makeup remover for a long time, so I thought of giving this one a try as it claims to remove lips, eye and face makeup.
|Lakme Bi-Phased Makeup remover
Rs 210 ( 50 ml )
Product Description :
This Bi-phased makeup remover has a unique formula that gets activated by simply shaking the bottle. The oil helps in lifting the makeup and water helps in refreshing the skin. It gently but thoroughly removes all kinds of makeup even long wearing and water proof lip, eye and face makeup leaving the skin soft and smooth.
Rinse with cold water, Keep cap tightly closed after use.
Ingredients :
Aqua,cyclomethicone, isohexadeane, butylene glycol, sodium chloride, dimethicone, caprylyl, glycerine, fragrence D-panthenol, disodim EDTA, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, phenoxyethanol, DMDM hydantoin, idopropynyl butyl carbamate.
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|Lakme Absolute Bi-phased Makeup Remover
This Lakme makeup remover comes in a spray type bottle, the packing is quite sturdy and travel friendly. It is a bi-phased remover, so it has to be shaken well before using it. As it comes in a spray type bottle we can control the quantity of product dispensed, so no wastage of product. I spray the remover on a cotton ball and use it all over my face to remove the makeup. It removes face and lip makeup quite well with in a few wipes. It does not irritate skin or break me out.
|Lotus Kajal 2 swipes
|Kajal completely removed with in 2 wipes
When it comes to removing eye makeup this one has disappointed me, it stings my eyes whenever I use it, So I am using it to remove my face and lip makeup only. It works well on water proof makeup also. It leaves the face oily after using it, so I recommend washing the face with face wash after using it, as Lakme claims washing the face with cold water alone is not enough.
Pros :
- Sturdy, travel friendly packing
- Removes makeup efficiently with few swipes
- Small quantity is only required
- Affordable
- Easily available
- It does not irritate skin
Cons :
- Stings eyes
- Makes skin oily, so it should be followed by face wash
Final Verdict :
Lakme makeup remover does a good job in removing face and lip makeup. But if you have sensitive eyes like me and planning to buy it only for eye makeup removal, then it's better if you avoid it.
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This week's MoF intervention in the FX markets, while not quite unprecedented (trailblazer Hildebrand aside), was certainly sizable, surprising, and potentially sustained - no matter how many times we were told by Mr. Azumi that he was 'watching' closely. Our question, and one discussed in a Bloomberg story this evening, is it possible to change the course of USDJPY via intervention - and perhaps more presciently (given growing global interest in capitalist/Keynesian spending escalation), was the expected $512bn loss that the country faces on these FX positions alone worth it? Tohru Sasaki, of JPMorgan's Global FX Strategy group, address his concerns at both the unilateralism and the worrying perspective that the Japanese might try to emulate the SNB - which he sees as almost impossible to achieve - especially since the ceiling on CHF leaves JPY and USD as the only anti-cyclical currencies.
"It's difficult to change the trend of the currency market. Even if the action can stem the currency's gains temporarily, the yen will eventually appreciate."
We speculated yesterday on the coincidental 'pegging' style of the intervention yesterday both to CNY and USD (obviously intertwined) specific levels with the view that perhaps a slow and creeping anti-Bretton Woods broken Nash equilibrium was happening as currencies were getting 'fixed'. Sasaki, of JPM, notes four reasons why this is unlikely to be successful/possible - although losing $512bn is always an incentive to double down?
JPM - Will The BoJ Tag Along With The SNB?
Conclusively, we do not think this [setting a ceiling on USDJPY] is possible for BoJ. We would put the probability of similar action at less than 5%. Here are the reasons;
1) Japan's FX policy is conducted by MoF, not BoJ. In Japan's case, MoF issues T-bills to finance JPY through the market which they then re-sell through the FX market. Therefore, if MoF conduct unlimited intervention, it means that the Japanese government debt may increase unlimitedly - something that the Japanese government really needs to avoid.
2) Because of this difference, it is difficult for Japan to conduct intervention in the forward market as the SNB has done before. If such action is to be perceived as a FX policy, it should be done by the MoF. However, MoF intervention in the forward market should affect interest rates and liquidity in the money market, blurring the border between FX policy and monetary policy. If forward market intervention is perceived as monetary policy, theoretically, the BoJ could carry this out. Even still, given the ample liquidity in the JPY funding market, it is difficult for the BoJ to justify the rationale of intervention in FX forwards.
3) If BoJ starts taking responsibility of FX intervention policy, BoJ can take the same actions as the SNB. However, the government is not happy with BoJ's losses caused by JPY appreciation. Even now, BoJ holds JPY5 trillion of foreign currency assets on its balance sheet. This is separate from MoF's official foreign reserve, which is more than JPY100 trillion. While MoF's official foreign reserve is currently suffering about JPY40 trillion of unrealized losses, MoF is not required to materialize these losses on its special FX account. However, BoJ will need to record the losses in the P/L, of which would eventually result in the reduction of government revenue. Indeed, BoJ has recorded JPY481 billion of losses from JPY appreciation in FY 2010. Due to these losses, BoJ's current profit decreased by JPY312 billion to a mere JPY54.2 billion during this period. As a result, the transfer of BoJ's profit to the national treasury also decreased by JPY305 billion to JPY44 billion. Given these conditions, there is no incentive for the government to let BoJ take FX risks instead of MoF.
4) Market size of the two currencies are completely different. According to BIS's Turnover survey, total daily JPY turnover in the FX market (including spot, forward and FX swaps) was USD694 billion in April 2010, which is about 3 times larger than that of CHF (USD238 billion). Although BoJ's balance sheet is about 6 times as large as that of SNB's, it is still risky for the Japanese government to conduct such a huge operation, especially more so until they are fully convinced that the SNB's bold action is successful even in the medium-term.
And so we are left with a major currency pair (USDJPY) that has retraced 38% of the initial intervention already, but has 'been' stabilized at around 78.2 (or 12.3 CNYJPY) for the last 43 hours does start to raise eyebrows - although as we noted - implied vol (chart above), which dropped dramatically (on expectations of a peg) has started to leak higher once again.


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Bosch, Susanne (2011) Is it possible to teach public art? Setting the scene. In: Život umjetnosti (Life of Art) THE PARTICIPATORY IMPERATIVE, art mediation, the art of mediation. Institute of Art History Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 66-78. ISBN 0524-7794 [Book section]
PDF (Chapter from magazine 'Život umjetnosti' (Life of Art)published bilingually twice a year by the Institute of Art History in Zagreb)
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Art in the public sphere is probably one of the oldest art forms in its incarnation as commemorative culture or representation of power. In her essay "For Hamburg: Public Art and Urban Identities", art and architecture critic Miwon Kwon discusses the three phases of the paradigm shifts that have taken place over the course of the last decades in art in public spaces: from an art in public places, typically modernist abstract sculptures situated outdoors that are supposed to 'decorate' or 'enrich' urban spaces; via an art as public spaces that aims to promote the increased integration of art, architecture and environment, and for which artists work with those responsible for urban planning on continuous city-development projects; to an art in the public interest (or "new genre public art"), which deals more with social issues than with the architectonic environment, preferring to work with social groups to working engage with professionals, and which works towards the development of a political awareness in society. [1]Art in public spaces that involves people in the creative process through participatory methods is not actually a recent phenomenon. Art movements at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, for example, supported social reform. Stella Rollig describes the role of artists in the Russian revolution of 1917 as designers of a new society. To this end, life and art were merged in order to "break from the indifferent autonomy of the nineteenth century's bourgeois salon art". [2]Participatory art explicitly situates itself where art leaves no doubt as to its sociality: whether with an object or without, it is always about an interaction between people via an artistic process or product.Participation as an art form is currently subsumed in the discourse of socially engaged art, activist or dialogical art, art in the public interest.Nowadays, many of these projects are situated where the meaning of a democratic public as a social and political form is in need to be formulated. The discussion about the teaching of this art form is more recent: how does one prepare artists for this type of work? This text will provide a critical contextualisation of this issue, with reference to two existing Master's programmes (MFA Fine Arts, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and MA Art in Public at the University of Ulster, Belfast).[3] [1]Miwon Kwon, For Hamburg: Public Art and Urban Identities. 1997. See online http://eipcp.net/transversal/0102/kwon/en [20.1.2011][2]Stella Rollig, Between Agitation and Animation. Activism and Participation in Twentieth Century Art, 2000. See online http://eipcp.net/transversal/0601/rollig/en [30.11.2010] [3]The author worked on both programmes and is herself a practising artist in this field.
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"mad props" invitation #6
When visual artist Caspian Carter submitted his first invitation to Gaga Stigmata back in September, politely asking Ms. Gaga to please piss on him, I was amused and intrigued. While we'd been garnering great creative work for the site, much of the artwork—poetic and visual—that had been submitted at that point operated either as creative "defense" of Gaga's project, or as holographic, near-homage. Carter was doing something different, riskier—he was playing with the high art/pop border in a most Gaga fashion, but his project wasn't ultimately about explaining Gaga. It was about performing what Carter calls an "aesthetics of vulnerability." This echoes Gaga's aesthetics of life-on-display, certainly, but in an open-wide fashion that courts the sort of embarrassment, failure, and categorical confusion that many of the very best works of art invite; the kind of embarrassment, failure, and categorical confusion that Gaga herself invited when she first strutted onto the scene, totally pants-less.
I asked Carter if he would be interested in continuing his project mad props on our site in weekly installments, either until Gaga answered his plea to be pissed on—in which case he must spill the pee for us—or until he felt he had no choice but to issue a statement explaining himself. As Gaga has yet to respond to Carter's request, you will find below a conversation between Carter and myself about mad props. Carter and I began our discussion by re-hashing the impetus of the series. I also asked him to frame some of his artistic influences for Gaga Stigmata's readers.
Caspian Carter: If I remember correctly, I sent you [Kate Durbin] the first image/invite and then you asked me if I would want to do a series, which I thought was a great idea. This project was something that I was kicking around in my head for a while before submitting it to Gaga Stigmata. It began with the goal to invite a bunch of famous female artists/theorists/pop icons to piss on my tattoo. There were several contextual problems that kept popping up with the thought of such invitations. When I saw Armitage Shanks I felt like Gaga handed me the context needed to pursue the project. I had been a fan of G.S. for about a year and decided that your commitment to criticality would help feed the project's goals.
Gaga's "Armitage Shanks" project
In terms of the photos, I was specifically thinking about Mapplethorpe (invitation #2), Rrose Selavy/Duchamp (invitation #3), Chris Burden (invitation #4), Trixter Discourse (invitation #5) and Joseph Beuys (invitation #6) and Tracey Emin (invitation #7). In terms of the invitation/performance request I continue to think about Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and a lot of Miranda July's work. Vito Acconci is always circling in my head. I am also really interested in the work of Shilpa Gupta, Chu Yun and Liz Glynn—not sure if there are really any explicit threads to these artists but they certainly inspire and shape the way I think.
Miranda July's "One Pose Per Second" video
Kate Durbin: It's interesting that you want(ed) Gaga to piss on your tattoo--one of the things I noted as the project unfolded was that your tattoo was always visible. Being as it's on the underside of your arm, this meant that you were often raising your hands up in an prostrate way, or like you were at a concert rocking out.
I'm curious to know what were some of the contextual problems of inviting other female artists to piss on you, that you felt were alleviated when Gaga created Armitage Shanks? Was it primarily the direct Duchamp reference and Gaga's own irreverent toilet humor (Gaga wrote on the urinal: I'm no fucking Duchamp but I love pissing with you), or something more, perhaps something related to what you perceived the reception of the project to be?
Caspian Carter: Most of the problems in the beginning were located within the tension between sincere critical engagement and complete dismissiveness through a process of reduction, seemingly violent and sexual in nature. I was finding it difficult to balance that tension. There are all sorts of structural dynamics at play between a white male aspiring 'artist' requesting that established/famous/successful female artists piss on him. However, power is still intimately linked to sex/gender and authorship and I was finding that my imagined propositions were collapsing into privileged solicitations or exploitations. This risk of collapse is important to me and I equate it to an ethics of vulnerability but it is important to me that the viewer and propositioned be given enough traces or clues to recognize and participate in that struggle.
Duchamp's "fountain"
Gaga's Armitage Shanks provided me with at least two really important pieces of context. The first, which is obvious, was an explicit link to Duchamp's fountain, and therefore to my body. This however would also be present in an invitation to Sherrie Levine or Elaine Sturtevant, and although I hope to someday invite these woman to piss on me (a save the date of sorts?) it is important to me that my work strive to extend beyond aesthetic discourse and insert itself into the realm of popular culture. So the second contextual offering by Gaga was her monopoly on pop, as well as her constant shifting between discourses (political, aesthetic, social, etc.). Her extraordinary fame forces the sexual tension implicit in my invitations to be understood not only in terms of the male gaze but also in relation to complex notions of celebrity worship. Your Free Bitch Feminism: The Post-Gender of Lady Gaga piece has since got me thinking even more about Gaga's ability to piss the gender right out of me.
As for the location of my tattoo, Meghan [Vicks] brought up that it is in the same spot on my arm as Gaga's Rilke tattoo. I did realize that before the invitations went out and I enjoyed that connection, however, the placement for me was more about the perception of the tattoo which is contingent upon the student raising and lowering his hand/arm. The perspective shift that occurs is also similar to how Duchamp flipped the urinal. I'm also a fan of constraints.
Jon's tattoo and Gaga's Rilke tattoo
Kate Durbin: I, too, am a fan of constraints. I'm also highly interested in how projects evolve over time, when artists open themselves up to audience response and interface variables, such as the Internet. What you said so beautifully about the tension between dismissiveness and critical response seems particularly apt here. I remember when we first started talking about your project, and I posed to you that you might continue it indefinitely on our blog, we both were excited and unsure as to how Gaga Stigmata's audience would interact with the work (though I think we both knew that some people would be, ahem, pissed!). This of course is particularly interesting as we have a wide audience made up of scholars as well as everyday Gaga enthusiasts. There's even a good chance Gaga herself has seen it, since I am fairly certain her Haus reads our blog. So, like Gaga's pop/art, your work was read by a much more varied group than, say, by an art crowd in a gallery who would instantly be applying a framework to it and therefore not truly become vulnerable themselves as viewers. And so what I'm wondering is if your aesthetics of vulnerability applies to the audience/viewer as well? And if so, how so?
Caspian Carter: I am interested in developing relationships that hinge on a level of vulnerability. Therefore, yes, I hope that the viewer thinks about her or his vulnerability in relation to both my work and its reception. Travis' comment articulates this very well, "I agree that there is a level of awkwardness here that is hard to stomach. Embarrassing beyond words. An abject transmission, returned from the toilet of the blogosphere." Certainly here the awkwardness is directed at me, the pathetic, half-naked, hand raising 'artist' trying to be seen: i.e 'look what I can do.' However, the viewer is implicated on all sorts of levels. To be cognizant of being asked to look requires that one see oneself (not) looking. And thus, the awkwardness or vulnerability becomes one way in which the viewer may accept or reject this piece. Side note: For the most part, I rejected Lady Gaga until seeing the Bad Romance video.
Kate Durbin: You mentioned to me that you didn't want to frame the piece too soon, as you wanted it to remain dismissible and therefore sincere. This ties in again, I believe, to your aesthetics of vulnerability. Once one has framed the work it no longer seems sincere because the vulnerability has been removed from it. However, invitation number 5 featured a bag of Trix cereal. I thought this was an interesting move--it made me think immediately of Meghan Vicks' work on Gaga as Trickster of American Pop Culture, and I wondered if you could expound upon your trickiness as it relates to your vulnerability, as obviously the two things appear to be in some conflict. Or perhaps you won't want to, as that might reveal too much of your magic bag!
Invitation #5
Caspian Carter: Typically, people go to galleries explicitly to look at (and judge…and sometimes to even purchase) art. Because the internet does not have such a clearly defined purpose—in relation to the viewing, judging and or purchasing of art—questions concerning the telos of these images may begin to surface for the viewer. Is it sheer self-promotion? Is he some pervert looking to get off on the idea of Lady Gaga pissing on him? Is this a joke? etc. And although, I think these questions are present regardless of where these images are seen, they certainly risk more immediate and anonymous dismissal on the web. This anonymity is something else that I link with vulnerability. The viewer may or may not care about the images, yet s/he finds her/himself (not) caring in relation to a direct address to someone else (unless you are reading this Miss Gaga). It is a message in a bottle to Gaga, intercepted by the viewer. And it is a love letter of sorts or something else entirely. And we are embarrassed for reading it. And we are embarrassed that anyone thought it worthwhile to put something into a bottle and throw it in the ocean. And yet the moment we read the message, we are immediately faced with the desire to make it about ourselves. As noted in Vanessa Place's WAT IS GAGA (Sept. 20th 2010): "No guises but reality, no reality but the imaginary, no imaginary but the symbol, and the Symbol is of the Imaginary. Because, the truth is, I don't exist either. Not really."
For me, doing a series of images was important. Repetition helps to validate the project in some ways. As the images accumulate, they request more and more attention and therefore the call to be seen/heard is intensified. Regardless of the telos, pathos begins to play a factor and various other relationships may emerge. Patterns occur, or at least the desire to locate patterns, from week to week. This accretion over time is somewhat different than say walking into a gallery and seeing a bunch of 'finished work'. I am not opposed to gallery shows at all; however I imagine if these images were to appear in a gallery, their pleas for piss would be fixed (possibly explained on a placard). It was really important for me present ideas as 'openly' as possible before framing them. And if it is not entirely obvious, I am still hesitant to map out a singular reading. Placing them on the web afforded the potential/threat for viral expansion. At least in theory, any one of the viewers could have reposted/reblogged the images. And in reposting/reblogging the viewer tacitly agrees that s/he cares and therefore assumes the power to reframe them however s/he wishes.
Again with the tension… who the hell cares?
I have been thinking about notions of the Trickster for about two years now and much of my work engages with parody and play. It would be weird for me to say I wanted to be a trickster but tricksters have historically functioned in really powerful and ethical ways—not so much by answering, but rather posing or revealing (reveling in?) questions. I agree with Vicks' analysis of Gaga as a trickster. My explicit use of the Trix box in number five was an attempt to pay homage to this placeholder in our society. It also functioned as a means to give some theoretical traction to any viewer concerned about my lack of critical commitment. An armnote perhaps, another part to the (w)hole.
Kate Durbin: I like what you say about the potential for/threat of viral expansion that exists when this work is placed on the web. The reactions to the piece in Gaga Stigmata's comment boxes have in effect spread much like a virus. With the first few invitations, there were occasional expressions of confusion along the lines of "you call this crap art?" punctuated by mostly silence, as if the virus were spreading silently beneath the surface. But then with your sixth invitation, an eruption of anger was directed your way. On the one hand, viewers felt the project was too hip art-elitist for them, yet on the flip, entirely too base and childish. Meghan Vicks pointed out that this anger, oddly enough, sounded a lot like Gaga's critics. "It's childish!" "It's derivate!" "It's not real art!" One woman even called the series chauvinist, though other commentators were quick to point out that it's really much more in line with male abjection than chauvinism--the male abjection of, say, an American Apparel ad. The commentator retracted her statement after that, but I am certain she was not the only viewer who saw a guy in his trendy underwear asking Gaga to piss on him and thought: "asshole."
However, it also seemed that the fiercest anger came from people's frustration that the piece had continued on for so long, that it just wouldn't fucking go away, like a kid who keeps begging and crying for candy in a grocery store, saying please over and over, embarrassing and yet somehow implicating all the other patrons. What did you feel when you experienced all the loathing directed your way, some of which even became bizarrely personal? When were first talking about you writing a critical piece to go with the invitations after the fact, you called it an "apology." If you were to write an apology for your piece, what would you say?
Caspian Carter: Yes, the sixth invitation did get people talking which ultimately made me really happy. When the first negative comments were posted, I was a bit bummed, especially at the ones that were attacking me instead of just the work. But these reactions were anticipated and like you said they might have been that which encouraged the silence to break and an interesting level of 'critique' to emerge. When Vicks pointed out the correlations between Gaga's critics and the angry comments things definitely shifted. The value of words being exchanged became simultaneously more and less arbitrary. I had hoped that the title mad props would encourage this shift as well; that is, by locating anger and insanity and (colloquially) extreme support all within the propositions/invitations.
I love your analogy of the child in a grocery store. I imagine the situation even further in my head. The parent of this annoying child, face turning red, turns and shouts, "Johnny, you are really pissing me off!" All of the implicated viewers forced to face their new reactions, different levels of implication and different forms of embarrassment. Then, picture this, little Johnny responds, folding his arms calmly and forgetting about the candy; "Well, mother/father, it is certainly better to be pissed off than pissed on." The conceptual is childish in its rejection of the material.
I was excited when abjection entered the conversation. Certainly the piss element of the project is congruent with what has been called abject art. However, I struggle with the concept of the abject being attributed to any specific identity category. Identities are symbolic, whether they are marginalized or not. In which case, abjection—as a space between the subject and object—seems to be necessarily defined by a paradoxical dis/belief in the subject/symbolic, a reaction to the traumatic realization of our object-ness. As expressed in one of the comments. "This picture is a lot like someone walking up to you and just looking you in the eye blankly. You wait, you say something, you wonder what's going on. You get frustrated because this behavior implies or requires explanation, and you don't know how to provide or acquire it. You're clearly being addressed but you don't know the code." And as Barthes reminds us, photographs are without code, (mad or tame). Thus, to take a self-portrait is to un-know oneself, to become 'object'. And to become object is to become celebrity, which is to say, to become the highest form of a symbol (American Apparel model or Lady Gaga, the difference is in the degree of success). This is, I think, what the Gimme Some of That Bad Girl Meat Dress! discussion (Sept. 22) is about.
I am interested in interrogating the 'codes' of masculinity, the 'codes' of advertising, the 'codes' of marginalization, the 'codes' of art and the 'codes' of celebrity. I am also interested in interrogating the 'codes' of interrogation. In such cases, failure is always inevitable, yet the inevitability of failure is never incasing, only incased.
In terms of my apology, I was thinking more of a defense or justification of my actions rather than saying I'm sorry. But I think that there is something in this relationship that highlights the level of responsibility that I hope to assume. I am certainly not sorry for doing this project; however, I am sincerely sorry if it caused anyone any real trauma.
Serrano's "Piss Christ"--a trauma-inducing work of art that did indeed get pissed on.
Kate Durbin is a writer and performance artist. She is the author of the poetry collections The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009) and, with Amaranth Borsuk, Excess Exhibit, forthcoming from ZG Press. She has written several chapbooks including Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), FASHIONWHORE (Legacy Pictures, 2010), and Kept Women, forthcoming from Insert Press. She is founding editor of the journal Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga. She writes about celebrity style at Hollywood.com.
Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles. He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation. His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.
Kate Durbin is a writer and performance artist. She is the author of the poetry collections The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009) and, with Amaranth Borsuk, Excess Exhibit, forthcoming from ZG Press. She has written several chapbooks including Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), FASHIONWHORE (Legacy Pictures, 2010), and Kept Women, forthcoming from Insert Press. She is founding editor of the journal Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga. She writes about celebrity style at Hollywood.com.
Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles. He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation. His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.


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